The tribune. (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, August 25, 1875, Image 1
VOL. T.?INTO. 40. BEAUFORT. S. C., AUGUST 25, 1875. $2.50 PER ANNUM.
Hardly Earned.
To bor hamble room at last returned,
To seek for the rest so hardly earned.
The poor little teacher has come.
8he has patiently worked the long, long day,
To read and to epell ehe ban taught the way,
And unraveled many a sum.
She has guided the strokes of tiny hands,
Tracing winding rivers through foreign lands,
Till all the lessons were said ;
And the evouing hour is here once more,
That comes when labor at last is o'er,
The weary struggle for bread.
The heights of kuowledge are hard to reach,
And the tiny heads that she trios to teach,
How stupid they sometimes seem !
Her heart is weary with toil and caro.
And the aching head lies helpless there,
Watching tho firelight's gleam.
The shadows fall on the tired eyes,
The hand of sleep on her eyelids lies ?
Thero is rest for tho toiler now;
Tho cheerful kettle its story speaks,
xiio nroiigm plays on tlie pallid cheeks,
l'caco falls on the care-worn brow.
No friond or lover is waiting near,
No lips to kiss her, no voice to cheer,
Only tho angel of sleep;
Ho comes to ipiist tho sorrowful moan
Of the woman heart that is all alone,
Ami his gontlo watch to keep.
CHIPPY THE CABIN BOY.
Whatever were liis real name, sir, said
tho old sailor, as ho settled himself back
comfortably in liis chair after lighting
his pipe, I never knowd; but the purser's
name w# knowd him by were " Crippy."
Wherever the old man got him I don't
know; some said as how he como of some
asylum or other, and some said ho wore
a illigitimate sou of tho old man by
some stewardess that he'd had with him,
but that I don't bolievo, cause I don't
believo it's into any man to treat his own
flesh and blood as I seen that boy treated;
but, anyway, ho were a most iniserble
loolcin' wretch when I lirst laid eyes
on him, which were when the old man
came 011 board in the arte moon, and we
got uudor way and towed down and
anchored in tlio Horseshoe, cause the
wind was sontheost and dead ahead. She
were a big lump of a bark, bound from
Now York to Rio, and I had shipped into
her cause I were hard up aud times was
hard, and 1 were glad to git a chance to
go auywkeros, and I didn't know notliin'
about this here old man; his name were
Thompson, and he were a infernal rascal.
I took my bag and hammock aboard
of her, alongside of the dock, and me
and another chap by the name of Tim
Walker was the ouly two that went out
into the river with lior; but durin' the
day the other live was brung off?there
was only seven of us afore the mast?
and along about four o'clock the old man
came off, and ho brung this atomy of a
boy with him, and we got the anchor
and towed down into the Horseshoe,
where we anchored at a little harbor
arter six o'clock.
If ever there were a human that looked
as if he'd j ust departed from a irravevard I
it were thin hero Crippy. He were oh
thin as the leaf of a psalm book in the
first place; he hail red hair, which probably
had never beon combed since the
day ho were born ; one of his eyes was
clewed athwartships and the other were
troubled with somo kind of diseuse
which kep' it a-runuin' all the time, the
grime from tlio eye constantly plowin' a
iarrow in the dirt ou that cheek, which
give it a kind of a streaked appearance
on that side, oontrastiu' oddly with the
plaiu dirt of the other cheek. His nose
were short and turned up at the end, and
his mouth were so wide that when he
opened it the top of his head seemed to
be an island. Two of his front teeth
had been knocked out by the old man in
one of his tantrums, and he had one
upper tusk that ought to have been
knocked out, 'cause it stuck right out,
and no amount of lip would cover it.
His clothes were the cast-oft' dunnage of
the old man, and fitted him like a
purser's sliirt on a handspike. His
breeches, beiu' a good deal too long, was
turned up at the bottom ; his weskit
roachcd well down amidships, and the
toils of his claw-liammor coat was only
jist clear of the duck when ho walked.
As the old man came over the side, ho
waited until this Crippy caiue over, and
then, fetchiu' him a wipe alongside of
the head which made the poor boy stagger,
he pitched a bundle of papers to
him, tell in' him to stow 'em away in his
room, and to see evorythin' to rights
tliero, "and mini you, young whelp,"
says the old man, "if I find anythin'
wrong tliero when I come below, you'll
catch it; so mind how you draw your
hair strokes."
I had tho watch from ten to eleven,
and along about quarter-past ten, as I
wero sittin' on the windlass end smokin',
I lioord the most onarthly screechiu*
aft, and I crocs alone for to sen wlmf. w?r?
the matterT The bark had a half poop
trunk cabin, and gittin' on to this, I
looked down the skylight and there saw
this hero Orippy strapped down to a
settee, and the old man a-givin' it to him
with a small cat which he had made out
of ratlin stuff, and it wero him a
soreochin' that I had heard. Well, sir.
of course, it weren't no business of
mine ; lxtys aboard of a ship must be
tlogged, if von ev# expects to make anytluu'
out of 'em, and thia.here particular
bjy seemod to belong more to the old
man than to tho ship ; still, I must say,
I felt a good deal like goin' in and hollerin'
"enough " to tho old man, 'oause
it scorned to mo ho wero a-givin' him a
little too much, no matter wliat ho had
dono wrong. Well, artor wlialin' him
till J^o got tirtvl, l!i : old man wont and
turned in, leavin' the poor boy strapped
face down to the settee, and there he
were when I were relieved at eleven
o'clock, and there he remained, I were
told afterwards, till the steward turned
out in the mornin' and loosened him and
set him to work. He could scarcely
stand up when the steward cast him
loose, 'cause he were stiff from remainin'
in one position and sore from the
wallopin' he'd had, and so tlio steward
he had to cuff and boat him a little to
make him more spry.
Well, sir, we got under weigh next
day with a crackiu' breeze from nort iwest,
and in two or three days was
out across the Gulf and into fine weather.
But their weren't no fine weather for
us aboard that hooker; it were work all
day and miserable grub and constant
abuse from the officers. I come early to
grief, cause I weren't used to such treatment,
aud when the second mate give
mo a clout side of the head for to moke
inn move luster, 1. jist nauis on ami lets
him have one atwixt the eyes that laid
him out senseless for a time. Well, the
mate ho came for'ard, and I jist told him
for to keep his hands olY of me; that if I
had done any wrong I'd go in irons, and
so he put me in irons, and I were locked
up in ono of the staterooms. I weren't
kcp' long though, cause I were in the
second mate's watch, and there were only
three of us, and takin' me out left but
two, and the second mate had for to do
my share of the work, which he didn't
like, so he got mo let out after twentyfour
hours. The old man, he says: "?I
ought for to keep you in irons to the end
of the v'yago, and then hand you over to
the consul, but as I needs your sarvices,
I will let yon turn to if you will promiso
to behave." Says I: "CaptainThompson,
I lias been into ships to which this
hero bark ain't fit to bo nothing but a
jolly-boat, and I has always behaved myself
satisfactory. The work nhrmr.1 <>f
this crnft is hard and humbuggiu", and
tho grab is poor and abuse frequent;
all that I can stand, and moan to, till
sioh times as I can change, but blows I
won't stand, neither from you nor your
oflieors, and if you chooses to lot me out
of irons onto them terms well and good,
I'll do my duty; and if not, not." So
on that I were let out of irons, and
though the second mate gave me nil tlio
dirty jobs to do that ho could think of,
he didn't never strike mo no more.
Well, sir, it would take mo too long
for to t<;ll you of all the cruelties I seon
practiced onto this Crippy. The old
mnn seomed to be delighted if he could
only torment this poor dovil. He wero
mortally timid, and they used for to
make him go out onto tho end of tho
spanker-boom when she were pitchin',
and ride it for hours. They called that
" ridin* St. Anthony." Sometimes in
very light weather they'd head him up
in a barrel, cuttin' a hole for his head to
come through, and then ballastiu' the
barrel and chuckin' it overboard, a-makin'
believe tlioy was a-goiu' to leave him
for good and all, and then*, arter leaviu'
him away nstern, the old man would
lower a boat and pick him up. Sometimes
when she'd be goiu' two or three
knots the old man would havo a whip
rove at the main yardarm, and ho would
bond tho end of it onto Crippy jist under
his arms and run him out over the
1-TaM firfif. Ink ln'm ilrni*
four timeH into tlio water, and then lie'd
run him about half way up to the yardarm
and leave him swingin'. It weren't
that there were any thin' very bad in these
deviltries, except for the mortal terror
they gave to the lad, and his screecliin's
were jist awful to hear at these times.
I don't believe any lickin' the old man
ever giv' him were half a-s bad us these
flights that he got.
Well, to cut this here short, we got to
Rio at last, arter a very long passage,
wliieh I thought would never end, ami
arter dischargin' we hauled in abreast of
the coffee warehouse for to git our load
of coffee. I determined that I wouldn't
go no further into that craft, but as Rio
are a bad place for to run away in I had
arranged it with a old chum of mine
aboard of the bark Margaret, what had
got her load and were bound to Baltimore,
for to stow mo away aboard of
her. The night I went aboard of her I
had the anchor watch from twelve to
one, and I got all my dunnage into my
bag and wore jist a goiu' over the side
with it when who should appear before
me but this hero Crippy. " You're
goin* for to run away," says he. " O,
take me with you, Tom; take me with
you, for God's sake!" Aiul the little
atomy flopped down 011 his knees on the
deck nfore me, as if I'd boon his guardian
all my life. I were completely took
aback, for it were one of the old man's
rules that this horo chap weren't never
to speak to ns chaps afore the mast, and
this here mite had nover had so much to
say to me aforo. However he got to
know I wero a-goiu' I can't say, but here
ho were down on the deck afore mo a
besoeohin', and I toll you what it is, sir,
I jist felt that I'd stand to that boy till
the last drop of my blood if necessary.
If I couldn't stand that craft, how much
more oouldn't he, tliat had so much
more to bear? And I says to him:
" Take you with mo ? Of course I will,
my boy; and I'd jist like to see the mau
as would try for to stop me," and I felt
uncommon liko whalin' somebody jist
then.
Well, sir, wo goes aboard of the Margaret,
and we finds my chum, who were
a-waitin* for me. Ho wero rather took
aback when he seed Crippy, but I tolled
him enough about the boy for to make it
right, and we were stowed away snug
down into tlio fore peak. I wero told
arterwards that the old man had all the
police of Rio at work for to hunt us up.
He didn't care so much for mo as for the
boy; ho wanted him, and promised somethin'
awful in the way of whnlin' if ho
caught him, which he novor didn't do no
?oro. Tho day ortoj: wo got to &oa I
como out ami I goes to the mate and
says I " I'm a stowaway aboard of your
ship, sir, but I'm a good sailor man, and
can am my grub. I've got a chap with
me that won't eat much, even if he can't
do much work, and I'm willin' for to do
his share of work as well as my own.
We've left the bark we were in because
she were a hell afloat," and I ups and I
tells this mate of the way I'd seen Crippy
abused. Well, would you believe it,
sir, I actually struck a soft spot into this
here mate, and he cottoned right to that
boy at once, and says he: " You've
done jist right, my man, and I'm glad
for to have you aboard; I'll take that
boy aft and let him take care of my
room, and that'll be easy work for him."
The next time I seed Crippy, sir, I
hardly know'd him. He'd got his face
washed clean, and the iuato had rigged
him out complete in a set of his toggery.
It were rather largo for Crippy, but it
done better than the rags he had been a
weariu'. The boy got to bo a great favorite,
both with the mate and the old
man; he were such a willin' chap, and in
consequence of my bringin' him I had
good, easy times of it, and when wo got
to Baltimore the old mail offered fqr to
k.ep Crippy and make a man of him;
but the lad had suffered so much at sea
that he were determined he would
starve to death on shore afore ever he'd
go on blue water agin; so the old man
he shoved him off onto a parson in Baltimore,
and hero I lost sight of him,
'causo I shipped in a brig that were
goin' to Montevideo for hides, and went
away to sea.?New York World.
In the Harvest Field.
The most frequent imprudonco in tlio
harvest field is the constant drinking of
cold water fresh from tlio well or spring
in copious draughts. This induces excessive
perspiration, which in its turn
produces excessive thirst, and tlio result
is a serious weakeuincr of tho nervous
system. Life, even without labor, becomes
a burden when every pore gives
out a stream. Tho salts of the blood
are rapidly washed in the flood of per
spiratiou, and tho system is depleted of
that which it can spare the least. This
can be obviated by simply avoiding exccssivo
drinking. A man may rido upon
a reaper or follow it binding for ten
hours without needing to drink more
than twice, if ho will simply determine
to do so. Wo have done this repeatedly
without drinking, except at meal times.
It is well to avoid tho use of tobacco
while in tho flold, and by all means no
drop of spirituous liquor should pass
the lips of a harvest laborer in our climate
while ho is in the fleld. If one
must drink, cold coffee or tea without
sugar or milk is tho best. This can l;e
drank when moderately warm without
nausea when water cannot. Hot tea or
coffee after dinner is both cooling and
refreshing. At least two hours' rest
should bo taken at noon, and from halfpast
eleven until half-past one is the
best interval. When the body is heated
by Labor it is perfectly safe to cool it by
pouring cold water upon the wrists, by
which the temperaturo of the blood is
slowly lowered; but it is not safe to cool
tho body by sudden exposuro to cool
air in a shady barn or a collar. Such a
course would bo the greatest imprudence,
and almost certain to result in disaster.
To cool off slowly is safe, and if one
should expose himself to cool draughts
he should put on extra clothing and
walk about meanwhile. At night, after
the work is done, and before retiring to
rest, the whole body shonhl be bathed
in water slightly tepid, or at least as
warm flm air. aiul nui'A KAnn niwl flmn
briskly rubbed dry with a course towel.
This will briug comfortable and restful
sleep. Then a clean undergarment
for the night should bo put on, and the
day-worn garments placed to air and dry
ready for the next day. Cleanliness of
person is one of tho best preservatives
of health and productive of the greatest
comfort in the harvest season.
A Cheap Fashion.
I observe, says a Paris correspondent,
that white, and if not white tho nearest
approach to white, is everywhere the
rage. White veils, white bonnets, white
dresses, white flowers, white ribbons,
white fans?all must be white. Fashion
has not been so lightly inclined for very
many years past. The black that was so
universally patronized lost year and the
year before last is entirely discarded
now?black barege, black grenadine is
no longer seen, unless, of course, in
cases of mourning?and the lighter the
hue of your dress the better. All sorts
of cheap cotton materials, cheap in themselves,
but excossively dear if mado up
by tho fashionable dressmakers, are
enormously worn. There is a particular
style of coarse linen known in Paris as
Oxford, which is sold thore at five sous
tt yarn, una huh is mo sum which nil
Paris is trying its hardest to buy in
great quantities, and make up into most
elaborately trimmed seaside dresses.
One of the most elegant women iu
Paris nppoarod nt a garden party tho
other day in a bewildering costume of
Oxford, and she was telling every one
who gathered about her to ndinirc its
multitudinous developments of frill and
flonnco that it cost her seven francs and
a half only ! She had bought the stuff
at tlvo sous a yard, and her maid had
made it instead of the dressmaker.
A Chicago poet upon hearing that
Mile. Nilsson was about to erect cow
sheds upon her Peoria lots, burst forth
into the following verse: "Christine,
Christine, thy milking do tho morn ami
evo between, and not by tho dim religious
light of tho fitful kerosene. For
the cow may plunge, and tho lamp explode,
and the Hro fiend rido tho gale,
and shriek the knell of tho burning town
in tho glow of tho molton pail."
SEA SERPENTS.
Thp tirent I'robiiblllty llint 1 lio Storlm
ulioiit TIm-iii art* Not nil Sailor** Yum*.
Tlio Philadelphia Frcninf/ HuUrtin
publishes mi account of n sea serpent
seen by u gentleman whom it describes
as " well known ami reliable.'' His story
is fliat while the steamer Roman was on
her way from Roston to Philadelphia,
and was near the lighthouse on the extremity
of Cape Cod, he and others had
their attention called to what they at
first supposed to be a shark, as a small
but short dorsal fin appeared above the
water, but afterwards had reason to believe
was a sea serpent. Being attacked
by a sword fish, it raised its fiat and tortoise-like
head fully ton feet out of the
water, thus giviug the party an opportunity
of observing it moro closely. It
had a dorsal ami several lateral fins,
looked slimy, and was covered with largo
and coarse scales. About four weeks
before this occurrence the animal had
first been seen near Capo Cod, and several
whale boats had been fitted out to
capture it. They estimated its length to
bo about sixty feet, but tlio pilot said
that it had run alongside of the Roman a
few weeks previously and that then its
length was thought to be at least one
hundred and twenty feet.
This account, which is evidently given
in good faith, recalls the numerous
stories of enormous sea serpents which
have long formed a largo part of the
stock of the old salt when spinning yarns
in the forecastle, as well as of others
who are naturally supposed to adhere
to the truth moro closely than sailors do.
But tlio testimony which should lead to
tlio beliof that sea serpents do in reality
exist is not to bo cavalierly set aside except
for very much better reasons than
have ever been brought forward. It is
not contrary to experience that enormous
marine animals should exist ; wo
know that they exist now, and some
gigantic fossils show that at ono period
of the earth's history they abounded in
great numbers. There is much direct
testimony to their oxistenco in modern
times. On August 6, 1H1S, II. M. S.
Uaulalus, on her way from the Capo of
Good Hope to St. Helena, eamo across
a sea serpent. Captain McQuliao and
tlio officers observed it with glasses at a
distance ot six hundred feet and distinctly
traced its eyo, mouth, nostril, and
form ; it resembled an animal of tho
lizard typo rather than a serpent, and its
movement was Htendy, rapid, and uniform,
as if propelled by this rather than
by undulating power. Tho size seemed
w# iiu uuunuuun, uuo iia vmy 21 part 01
tlie animal was out of water no correct
estimate could bo made of its length.
On the 12th December, 1857, the ship
Castilian, bound from Bombay to Liverpool,
ami being twelve miles from St.
Helena, passed a sea monster which is
thus described by Captain G. H. Harrington,
Mr. W. Davies, and Mr. E.
Wheeler, the three chief officers of the
ship :
While myself and officers were standing
on the leeside of the poop, looking
toward the island, we were startled by
the sight of a huge marine animal, which
reared its head out of the water within
twenty yards of the ship, when it suddenly
disappeared for about half a minute
and then made its appearance in the |
same mauuer again, showing us distinct
ly its neck and head about ten or twelve,
feet out of water. Its head was shaped
like a long nun-buoy, and I suppose the
diameter to have been seven or eight
feet in the largest part, with a kind of
scrou or nut 01 loose sum encircling it
about two feet from the top. The water
was discolored for several hundred feet
from its head, so much so that on its first
appearance my impression was that the
ship was in broken water; but the second
appearance completely dispelled
those fears, and assured us that it was a
monster of extraordinary length, which
appeared to be slowly moving toward the
land. The ship was going too fast to enable
us to reach tlio masthead in time
to form a correct estimate of its extreme
length, but from what wo saw
from the deck wc conclude that it must
liavo been over two hundred feet long*
* * I am convinced that it belonged
to the serpent tribe; it was of a dark
color about the head, and was covered
with several white spots.
Between 1811 and 1846 there were
several reported appearances of this
monster in the seas fronting the United
States and Canada, and at about the
same period a similar creature was seen
near tlio Shores of Norway, considered
as identical with ouo depicted in Ponftippidan's
"Natural History of Norway."
Twenty years before such a serpent
had been repeatedly seen on the
coast of the United States, aud also
about 1806 and 1818. The accounts
given of such sights are consistent, and
thero soems to be no earthly roason for
rejecting them, except bocanso they
sound like sailors' yarns, which aro no
tougher than travelers' tales, such as
that of Du Clmillu when he told of the
discovery of that remarkable animal, the
gorilla, and was generally disbelieved.
Strictly speaking, the existence of enormous
marine "serpents" is not improbable,
and this last report of one
seen will add to ho credibility of tlio
older accounts.
The Modern Gkohob Wahhington.?
Georgo Washington couldn't toll a lio,
and that's what ails tho average Vicks
burg boy. The other day, wheu ouo of
them accidentally broke a pauo of glass
in a store window, it was touching to
see him walk bravely into the store and
up to the merchant, and say : " Mr.
Blank, I broke a pane of glass in tho
window tliero, and you can charge it to
the old man's account! Put it down as
a pound of saleratns, and he'll never
)uio\y the difference}" i
Anxiety wiili a Substantial Foundation.
A young lady in Virginia writes the
New York Ledger n long, confiding let- nl
ter, expressive of deep anxiety springing at
from a source which is not only rational
in itself, but which must be applicable 8j
to many cases besides her own. She is ^
in love and is engaged to Vie married, tl
Her suitor desires that the marriage
should take place tho coming autumn. ,
She has no well-grounded objection to y
this except one : She is afraid her futaro
husband will bo disappointed when he ^
finds out how littlo she knows about
housekeeping ; * and " sho sensibly
adds, "if I think ho is dissatisfied, of
course that will blight my happiness.
There is nothing," sho continues, "to a
prevent our being married at any time, ^
with this exception."
Wo think this is an obstacle of a very fe
serious character, and, as against an im- vi
mediate marriage, is sufficient. No young tl
woman ought to got married until she w
tinderstands every department of housekeeping.
And there is no exouse for y
any one not understanding housekeeping 8(
in all its branches. The only thing in w
tho way of learning is indolence ; for Bj
one opportunity or another can always
bo found or made.
The advice wo give to our correspon- 11
dent is appropriate to all other young
ladies similarly situated. It is to learn ,c
all about housekeeping as soon as possi
bio. It in a kind of knowledge of which
every one may well be proud. There is
no art in which woman can be more use- rc
ful. fc
Nor is it to be looked upon as a mere- 1*
ly humdrum, matter-of-fact business, by. 113
any means. Far from it. Thero is good ej
nature, amiability, generosity in a good
dinner ; and there is rest, thero is quiet, af
thoro is peace, thero is contentment in a tt
well ordered house. gi
Wo would say to overy engaged young fc
lady: If you wish to retain the love and af
admiration of your future husband, one
important stop toward it is to excel in t
housekeeping. _ rc
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Eggs and Financial Wisdom.
{ Sho said sho'd take a dozen of oggs,
but while tlio grocer was counting them
out sho asked the price. Ho told hor Ul
and she shrieked :
"Seventeen cents?" ^
"Yes, ma'am."
" Why, that's outrageous !" - ^
" Well, it's hard time6 and everything ?
is up."
She sat down on a sugar barrol, sighed 04
several times, and asked if eggs were ai
likely to be lower or higher. a
" I don't claim to be a prophet," ho
replied, as ho twisted a sheet of paper n<
into the shape of a funnel, " but I dare
say that they'll be down to sixteen and
one-half cents in less than a week, and tl
perhaps go lower. Trade, which is af
naturally depressed during July and ri
August, is looking up a little. Our ex- lj
ports of gold are now equalled by our fr
imports. The calling in of bonds puts ri
more ready money afloat, and capitalists
are much more hopeful this week than .
last. The crops are about ready to ^
move, navigation prospects are brighter,
and public confidence in financial meas- V
urea is rapidly returning. One thing
moves around another, you see, and ^
though, as I said before, I am not a sj
financier, and my predictions are not entitled
to any great weight, it seems clear
to me that eggs have got to come down.
A great current of eggs is setting toward y
this point from a dozen different directions,
and oven if the calling in of bonds a
and the sale of surplus gold don't pro- u"
duce lower prices, I cannot seo why c'
UglUOM KJIOUUI gO lip.
She reached into the pickle barrel,
nipped a cucumber, and went away won- hi
dering why her husband nover knew tli
anything.?Detroit fVce I'rexx. to
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Fever Diet. pi
Dr. Luton, of Rlieims, states that for K
the last four years be has treated typhoid ..
by an absolute water diet. Nothing
but good fresh filtered water, occasionally
iced, is permitted to be taken. At
lirst, he says, it is taken with avidity, 18
then in moderation, and at last with P
signs of satiety; it is sometimes vomited U1
at lirst, but is soon tolerated; at the be- 111
ginning of the treatment the bowels et
may bo a little relaxed, but they soon ^
become moderate and less offensive, and ^
after a time constipation may ensue.
The duration of this treatment depends c<
upon the progress of the disease; that E
is, between four and fivo days of water II
exclusively may b e required, if the A
fever bo treated as a whole, but three pi
e .1 a? e ?1_ ii - * ? i
or luiu uuys Hiunce ix omy me intestinal g<
element of the disease be considered, ai
A light alimentation may then be allow- E
ed?milk, unboiled, may be mixed with
tho water and given by spoonfuls, and if p,
well supported for a time, to be followed ft,
by broth and soup. Undor this treatment p,
the mortality is very low, no evil results g,
ensue, and serious complications, inclu- tv
ding visceral congestions and bed oores ai
at once disappear. m
di
<>iant Ciitlle Fish.
Homo timo sinco was moutiouod tho 1,1
discovery by tho ltev. Mr. Harvoy, of 88
St. Johns, Newfoundland, of a giant cut- ftl
tie fish oft' tho coast of that island. Wo
now learn from him that a still larger
one was cast, ashore near Fortune l>ay in
Decembor last. Tho largor arms moasured
twonty-six fo?t each, with a circnmference
of sixteen inches, tho short arms
being about one-third that longth with gi
tho samo circumference. No portion ir
was preserved oxcepting tho l>eak and one U]
sucker, which is an inch in diameter, in
Tho fishermen carried it off as food for 01
their dogs. Tho specimens preserved 01
will probably be sent to Professor Ver- bi
rill, of Yale College, for comparison with ei
what ho has of tt o first one, ' ' tl
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Items of Interest.
Fishermen should always take a lunch
ong with them, for they may not bo
>le to get a bite during the day.
Sister Lize sighs many sighs at the
ze of the fliep. Then she shies her
room at the flies, and cries fly flies, and
icy dies in agonies.
A South Carolina woman took a pair
1 No. 7 shoes because she could get
lem for the same prioe as No. 8's, but
ou hardly ever And a woman as sensible
i that.
A Southern farmer said that carpets
oked hondsome on a floor, but he
juldn'i afford to hire some one to carry
carpet out doors every time he wanted
> spit.
So large were the hailstones which
>11 at Oamascns in a tempest which
iaited that city on the 1st of June, that
iree men were killed by them and eight
onnded.
A boy living at Drowned Lands, N.
., gave a horse paris green " just to
se if the animal would die or not." He
as gratified, as the horse lived but a
lort time aftor eating the poison.
If a flirt is a fool who delights in fool)g
fools, and the fool who is fooled by
ich a fool is the fooliahest kind of a
>ol, tlien4ho girl that gets " taken in "
y that fooliahest kind of fool must be a
>oI, indeed.
According to the United States oensns
sports the average value of the hay crop
ir the five years np to and including
173 amounted to $340,000,000, which is
l excess of any other product of the soil
coept corn.
The Leavenworth (Kansas) people are
flioted with flying snakes, that crawl
trough tho air four feet above the
round. They are little things, about a
Kit long, spotted, with flappers as large
i a man's hand.
A sister of ex-Governor Honter, of
onnessee, fell into a trance so closely
isembling death that she was prepared
>r burial. Upon revival she said she
ad been with her father, who had been
ead many years.
Mr. Cleveland, on leaving the Con-*
acticut House after his speech on woman
iffrago, met a man who said "he
ouldn't vote to make a man of his wife."
tr. Cleveland responded: " I hope
our wife will succeed in making a man
t ?
L JUU.
A party of belated gentlemen, about a
artain hour, began to think of home
id their wives' displeasure, and urged
departure. " Never mind," said one
f the guests, " fifteen minutes can make
i) difference; my -wife is as mad now as
16 can be."
A woman of Indianapolis has shown
lat she could be as murderously brutal
i almost any man. She pursued her
val in love into a closet, shot her fatalr,
and then, patting her revolver glecilly,
exclaimed : "Oh, quiver! That's
glit, die hard ! I enjoy this, I do I"
A South Boston lady -was reoently in rrogated
by a Benedick as to why she
id not get married. She replied: "I
refer to be an old maid." He said he
id not believe it, as he felt sure she
ivied liia wife. " Oh, no 1 that would
0 breaking the commandment?'Thou
lalt not covet thy neighbor's ass.' "
At Dolmen the Germans pointed four
f Krupp's cannon, loaded with balls
int collectively weighed twelve hunred
weight, against a target made like
section of the skin of the best English
on clad, and the cannon were then dislarged
simultaneously by the electrio
ire, and the target was annihilated.
An officer of flic "Frcnrfh armv wnra
is uniform about the streets of Borne
ie other day, and was on the point of
sing mobbed by the indignant citizens
lieu the police took him under their
rotection. That uniform is not very
Dpular among the Romans, owing to
apoleon III.'s military occupation of
ie city.
If men are the salt of the earth, women
o the sugar. Bait is a necessity, sugar
a luxury. Vicious men are the salteter
; hard, stern men the rock salt;
ice family men the table salt. Old
mids aro the brown sugar ; good-naturl
matrons the loaf sugar ; pretty girls
ie fine pulverized white sugar. Pass
ie sugar, please I
A xesident of Pottsville, Pa., has a
nil which has been decided to be a
[obrew shekel of the date of 335 B. 0.
; has on one side a representation of
aron's budded rod, and on the. other a
niwi h ccuser wnxi incense. iub same
?ntleman aImo has an old Saxon coin,
1 Elizabethan shilling of 1591 and an
nglisli coin of 1093.
A young and newly married couple
issed along tho line of the Chesapeake
id Ohio railroad, both traveling on free
isaes. Some years ago the groom
ranted right of way to the railroad
>mpany through his lands on oondition,
nong other things, that when he
arriod he should have two free weding
excursion tickets. i
A Maine man has preserved tho follow
igcurious legal document: "Hancock,
L Novr 11th 1800. Then personally
ipeared Ibrook Eddy of Eddington,
id acknowledged himself guilty of
iving uttered two profano oaths on this
vy, and has paid a fine for the same as
io law directs to mo?O, Loonard,
Listioe of tho Poaoe."
Whilo a party of fifteen men woro euigcd
in running a thrashing machine
i Georgia a heavy cloud and rain oame
p, and a bolt of lightning struck in the
lidst of the crowd, killing three men
utright and injuring to some extent the
it h o party. Two of the men werfl
rothers, and were pending one on
tch sido of their fati^r when killed,
ie father miraculously esriipiitg unhurt,
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