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r THE TRIBUNE. > w VOL. I.?NO. 50. BEAUFORT. S. ., NOVEMBER 3. 1875. $1.50 PER ANNUM. The Baby's Hand. * What ie it the baby's hand can hold ? Only one little flower, do you say ? Why, all the blossoms that ever blew In the sweet wide wind away from the dew, Ad<1 all the jewels and all the gold Of the kingdoms of the world to-day The baby's hand can hold. What is it the baby's hand can hold Why, all the honey of all the bees. And all the valleys where summer stays, And all the sands of the desert's ways, And all the snows that were ever cold, And all the mountains and all the seas, The baby's hand can hold. What is it the baby's hand can hold ? Tlio baby's hand so pretty and small? Why, just what the shoulders of Atlas bear, Bonding him down in the picture there (Now all I can tell you is surely told)? But that iB the world? Well, that is all The baby's hand can hold. How in it the baby's hand can bold The world ??yes, Bnrejy I ought to know 1 or oh, were the baby's hand withdrawn, Down into the dust the world were gone, Folded therein as yon might fold The sad white bud of a roee?just so? For the baby'e hand to hold. OUR FRIGHT. Down East, where I nsed to live, the boys hod a way of earning a little pocket money every fall, by gathering and selling hazelnuts. The hazelnuts which grew thero, like those en the St. John's and the St. Francis, were much like " filberts," and fully as large. Our way of gathering nuts, however, was a peculiar one, and as I think now, a very cruel one. We did not pick them up, one by one from the ground, nor gather them in the burr from the bushes. We had what we considered a much bettor way. w e useu to wait iiu aoout tn? twentiotb of October, and then rob the squirrels' nests ! Not the gray squirrels, for there wero vejy few gray squirrels in that Northern country ; nor yet the red squirrels, for these latter never lay by large hoards of food for winter ; but the thrifty little striped squirrels, or " clappers," as we called them. The region around was unsettled, and for the most part covered with forest. While trapping one autumn, three o us ?boys of twelve or thirteen?had discovered a famous place for hazelnuts. It was on a small river, called Lurvey's stream, in an unsettled township to the northwest, which the people designa:ed as No. 17. Seventeen was the number it bore on the survey map. From the farms where we lived, up through the woods to Lurvey's stream, the distauce was about five miles. The place where the hazels grew was in a valley, between two mountains, in a sort of natural meadow or interval, with grass ' and bush clumps. The hazel bushes grew along the stream, overhanging the bauks. It was a lovely wild spot, a quiet nook of nature's own making, walled in on each sido by high, spruce-clad ridges. The valley was narrow. From the bank of the stream back to the foot of the ridges, it was nowhere more than seven ?i. A* m ui cikui luun?ui ia-li uut iuure iuuu iour. Just at the foot of the knolls, above high-water mark, the squirrels used to dig their holes and locate their storehouses. JRougli boys as we were, we had a keen sense of the beauty of this seclud od valley. It was a place to which we ' delighted to come. For more than four years we kept the locality secret, so as to enjoy a monopoly of the trout, partridges and nuts ; for this natural interval, half open aud sunny, swarmed with partridges. On a bright autumn day, the grass would be alive with them. Trout and partridges were worthless to us, save to eat; but the hazelnuts sold for four and live cents a quart. Naturally enough, we valued the nuts highest. All through August and September, the busy ahipmunks worked. In October wo dug them out. Tho striped squirrel digs a hole in the earth?generally in a bank and on dry ground? from two to ten feet in length, and at the end of this tunnel it hollows out its capacious granary. Usually, the squirrels go deep enough to get below the frost; and in here, comfortable and oozy, they pass the winter, when snow is deep pn tho earth above. Sometimes, when there comes a " thaw," , with warm weather and rain for a number of days, a few of them will venture . out, but not very often until the first ?i A :i U1 zipi II. We used to setoff for Lurvey's stream after nuts, armed with shovel, hoe, crowbar, a two quart measure, and one or more meal bags. There was no trouble in finding the squirrel holes. We could see the squirrels running back and forth, or our dog would find the entrance to a nest. The nests contained from four quarts to half a bushel of the nuts eaoh?ordinarily, from seven to ten quarts. I recollect that in one nest we found ? eleven two-quart moasurefuls?all the work of one little creature, of not more than two ounces' weight. Ned said it was too bad to take them all away from him. He was right, and I am sorry to reoord the fact that we took any of his store ; but we left about two quarts, and thought then that we were acting very generously. Two nuarts of nuts were worth ten cents; ana tenoentswas quite an item with us in those days. The fourth fall we bad a rather die agreeaoie aaventure wnue we were on our annuAl nut gathering, and bj it the whole neighborhood learned of our ( ' hazelnut plantation. On the morning of the twenty-fourth of October, we haa gone to dig out nqnirrels, and took with i ing a sharp lookout on all sides. But wo saw nothing of tho animal ; and reached home about nine o'clock in the i forenoon. On the way home we had decided not to say much about tho fright we had i received. But wo told Tom's older > brother, Addison, and another young man in the neighborhood, named Dan March. They langhcd at us at first, but finally said they would go back with ' us in the afternoon, and take their guns with them. But they was sure it was a bear we had seen, i So after dinner we all live set off, and i reached onr camp of the previous night flirnn rv'nlnnlr O? * I ub Tom's gun to shoot partridges. We had also five or six steel traps that we intended to set for mink on tne stream. Onr purpose was to stay out two days and nights, get all the hazelnuts possible, and catch trout for food. We arrived at the stream about ten o'clock in the forenoon, dng out three squirrels, and then began to shoot partridges, so as to have a stew for supper that night. Ned's dog, "Rover," would scour through the grass, among the hazel clumps, and start up the partridges. Tom could then shoot them almost as fast as he could load. I do not think we were more than an hour shooting thirteen ; and we should have shot more, but Tom's powder gave out. In the excitement, he had shot his powder-horn empty before he knew it. Then we turned our attention to fishing. The stream abounded in crookf and bends, with deep holes under the banks, which were well stocked with speckled trout. Grasshoppers served for bait, and we were not long pulling out as many as we thought we should use that night. Ned caught one that would have woighed nearly two pounds. That was certainly one of the best places for hunting and fishing that ever wat> found. The locality wo chose for our camp was well up the valley. A groat rock ol many tons weight had some time rolled down from the mountain, and stopped a few yards from tlio bank. Hero we built an open shed-camp, between this big stone and the stream. First we put up some poles on crotched stakes, then covered them with flat hazel-boughs and long dry grass. Our tire was placed in front of this " shed," between two stones, and close to the water. Wo began to get our supper by four in the afternoon ; for we had had no dinnor, and were hungry as bears. It takes Borne time to dress and cook partridges, and fry trout. Night, too, comes on early the last of October. So it was dusk before we had our stow half done. The camp fire brightoned, and the light gleamed in a ruddy streak across the stream. Crickets sang and chirruped in the dry grass, and the mauy wild sounds of the forest came to our ears from the mountains on either side. Here an owl was hooting, and there a raccoon gave its quavering alto cry. Presently Rover growled and dashed off down the bank amongst the hazels. Then we heard him barkiug excitedly. "There's something round here!" said Tom, setting the spider of trout off the fire, and getting up to look about. Ned was splitting wood a few steps away. He stopped and came up to the fire. "It'sabear," said he; " and wehaven't 1 a grain of powder !" We were not much afraid that bears would come very near our tire. But as wo stood there, we heard the twigs snap, and saw Rover running towards us, barking and growling furiously. Tom caught up the crowbar, and at the same momeut I heard a queer snuffling noise, such as a wild animal makes when eating fresh meat, and saw, not three rods oft', a large, dork-colored creature stealing up towards us through the bushes and grass. It would be false to deny that we were badly scared. Rover, in his excitement, fairly backed into the fire. All three of us jumped to the other side of the blaze. The animal was crouching close to the earth, and crept forward as if about to spring. It then raised itself quickly, and seizing the string of partridges, which Tom had hung on a bush a little back from the fire, turned and ran off with them. That was evidently what it wanted?we thought it snrely meant to jump at us. " He's gone !" exclaimed Tom. " But what was it ?" Wo had never seen any creature like it before. Though as large as a very large dog, it did not look in the least like a bear. Besides, it had white on the under parts of its body, as we had all throe seen when it reared itself up. It was much larger than an otter or a lynx, both of which animals we had frequently seen. It did not look like the description wo had heard of the cata mount, either; yet we hod never Been a catamount, and feared it might be one. Aa quick as ihe animal ran away, Rover darted after it. We could hear him barking in the bushes at a little distance, and concluded that the creature had .stopped to eat the partridges. It did not seem to trouble itself much for the dog; and Rover clearly did not dare to spring upon it. We did not oat much supper after that. Rover's actions showed plainly that the beast was prowling about, and not far from our camp. Ned was so afraid that it would smell the trout and come into the camp, that he threw those vn hod not. ooolrod hn/?lc into t.bn nt.room They floated down, and presently we heard something splash heavily into the water below. We suppose it was the animal jumping into the river after them, as they floated past. Rover continued to bark in the woods for more than an honr. Then he came back to us for a few minutes, but soon ran off again and continued to bark at intervals. We did not dare to go to sleep. About midnight, the dog came back to the camp again, with his back to us and his head pointod in the opposite direction, making a great outcry; but the animal did not oome out in sight. Towards morning Ned and I went tc sleep, but Tom kept watch. Altogether we passed a very unoomfortable night. Glad enough we were to see daylighl again. As soon as the sun rose, we gathered our things and waded the stream to the other bank, then set off for home, keep we found tracks in the mud on tLe bank of the stream, near where tho partridges l had been devonred, as large as the palm of a man's hand, with marks of claws. And close by our camp, where we had i cleaned our trout, there were more of i the tracks, as if the creature had eaten i up the refuse after we had left in the I morning. "When thoy saw these tracks ; the older boys changed their minds, aud i said it must have been a very large ; wood-shock or lisher-cat. To lure the creature, several part- 1 i ridges were shot and hung up ou the i bushes a few rods from the camp ; and Addison caught a string of trout, some i of which he hung in the same wayi ! Now that we had the older boy? with I us, and the guns well loaded, we felt t veiy much braver, and ate our share of i tiout aud the potatoes we had brought and roasted. As soon an it. i dusk, we got under our shod and sat i quiet, keepiug Rover with us. Save the lonely hooting of the owls and the chirp of the crickets, no sound was heard till quite late in the evening. Then Rover J growled, and we saw the hair begin to rise on his neck and shoulders. "Whist!" muttered Dan. "He's coming, sure!" ; A. few minutes later we heard twigs snap. Every gun was now held ready. A little after, 1 heard the same snuffling sound that we heard the night before, and soon saw the creature creeping ' toward the partridges that were hanging ! from a bush. The boys all saw it. The animal raised itself stealthily, showing the white on its breast and under parts. Dan fired, and Addison, too, at almost the same instant; and Tom let his gun ' go somewhat at random. I recollect ' hearing a harsh snarl, but saw nothing : more of the animal, for there was a ' great smoke. Wo heard it rush through 1 the brush. Rover dashed after it. 1 Away they went up the side of the mountain. Then we heard Rover bark- > ing loudly. " He's run him into ? hole," Dan said. And as soon as the guns could be j reloaded, wo followed the noise made ] by the dog. We found Rover iu a great crevice, or i cleft, in a ledge which overhung the f side of the valley. Addison thru- t in a ] pole, and we throw in stones. It seemed \ \ to be the month of a den into which the ] creature had probably gone. . But. it was i too dark for us to see distinctly, and ] after groping around a while, wo went j back to our camp ; but the dog would f not come away. i For my own purt, now that the excite- i ment was over, I was soon asleep uuder *] the shed, and slept soundly till sunrise. When I waked, Dan and Addison and Ned were just coming back to the camp. They had been to the ledge into which Rover had chased the animal. There were spatters of blood, they said, all along 011 the grass and leaves, and on the rocks at the mouth of the den ; but they could hear nothing of the creature, and a smoke which they had made in the crevice liad failed to drive it out. But Addison and Dan were as much at a loss as we had been as to the kind of an animal it was. They had never seen anything like it. It hod a broad head and short ears, not in the least like a lynx or a wildcat. Thon, too, its color was different from that of any wild animal we had ever seen in that section. So it remained a puzzle to us, as boys, what it could be. Since that time, howover, I have seen what Canadian hunters call a carcajou, or glutton, also sometimes called a wolverine ; and, from what I reoollect of this creature, I have no doubt it was a t carcajou. 1 The carcajou, or wolverine, is com- f mon in the northwestern States of this ] oountry and in British America, about i Hudson bay ; but I have heard of only f two or three instances of its being seen 1 in New York or New England. The Hudson bay trappers say that it will eat a deer at one meal, and that it! often comes fearlessly into their huts 1 after gamo or fish which they have j taken. During the winter season it is ! said to come around the fur forts, and , to dig through the snow to get the old ' boots and moccasins which have been i thrown ont? Youths' Companion. \ Bound to Beat. 1 She was an elderly lady, and us she seated herself on one of the stools in a Nevada store and asked to bo shown Rome " calikcr," she romarked that wnen sue was a ? gai nne tnougnt.slie J was poworfr' luoky if she got twelve \ yards in a diess, and she thought it a I ? singful " wasto of stuff to put in more; i bnt sue had just "heorn" that Mrs. X. i i was agoin' to hev forty-two yards in her 1 i new caliker, and she hoped that there ; i might be a cloud burnt in seventeen i minutes if that air woman should stare i > round at her in cliuroh and make re marks about her olothes. "You kin just i out me oft* forty-three yards, and I'll ] i hive it made pin-back fashion, with an 1 overdress and a souare mainsail, and a I flyin' jib and a back-action ; then I'd jist > like to see that stuok-np Mrs. X. put on i airs over me." All About Advertising. Of course all newspapers want advertisements, just as all merchants desire to sell goods?just as all manufacturers desire orders for their wares?just as all farmers desire customers for their produce?just as all laborers desire a position in which thev can get an equivalent for their labor. The solicitor for advertisements is not in any sense a different man from him who waits upon you for au order for goods, and yet he is generally considered a bore if he asks for your advertisement. You look at him as though you were about to confer an immense favor if you yielded to his request. You don't advertise as though you were investing in something that would prove advantageous to yourself. You seem to think that when you pay for advertising you are donating to the 1 newspaper man. You do other things to i bring your name and business before the publio?you ornament your place of business to attract customers?you hang out an expensive sign, and arrange your wares attractively, and hire men to ask people to buy your goods. But when you are invited to make your wishes known through the best end cheapest medium in the world, you begin to wonder how you can get rid of this newspaman Triflvanf. oKanlnfaltr lrinlrin/* out of your establishment. Here you make a great mistake. Because you don't hear from an advertisement as soon as it is inserted is no proof that the advertisement is doing no good. One seldom hears any good of himself. To prove how much effect notices of oue's business are, note how sensitive most men are in regard to what is said of them iu the newspapers, especially if the notice is not altogether complimentary ; note, too, how jealous are many about what is said favorably of another in the same liuo of business. Thus do men tacitly adroit the power of good and evil of notices in the public prints, and yet these same men will cry out: " Well, I don't see as it does me any good to advertise.". This theory that advertising is simply conferring a favor upon the editor of the newspaper is the Billiest of notions. One might as well say ho buys his groceries at Smith's just to patronize him, or his dry goods of Brown just to keep him from starving, or gets shaved at Thompson's because he wants to encourage the tonsorial art. It's all bosh. You trade where you can get tne oesc return tor your own good, and not from any desire to sustain your newspaper.?Hubbard's Advertiser. Promised Land for Women. Olive Harper writes of domestic life in Greece, that in one respect it is the promised land for women ; for the husbands, in devotion to their wives, are themselves their only parallel. She lays : A Greek man is only content when lie can lavish upon his wife all the lux uries in the way of dress the female neart can desire. He is only ha^y alien, in company with his wife in the louse, in the garden or on the promelade, she is the best dressed of ail the 'air. With the Greek husband there is 10 grumbling consent to bestow upon pou enough to buy a pair of boots, while le spends ten times that amount with liis friends in champagne suppers; no ong-drawii visage as he doles out a stingy sum, while delivering a solemn ectiire as to female extravagance. Not i bit of it. On the contrary, the Greek liisbaud does not lead his wife through ay-streets for fear of dry goods stores ivlieti she wishes to go out for a little valk. He leads her, on the contrary, aast the most fashionable stores, and observes with the eye of a critic, all the ^4?1 J - 11? 1- I-* - - icn otjrico, uuu is itituiy, mules, really mil truly willing to spend liis money for lis own wife. Even for fear that she iliould not be considered so lovely as ! some one else, he goes to a perfumer's, le buys cold cream, rice powder, definite pinks for cheeks a little blanched by 1 he stem realities of motherhood ; he 1 mys n little black for eyelashes, to ! irighteu eyes that have become some vliat dimmed by tears, perhaps, or rigils over sickly babies, and he not 1 mly gives his full and free consent to ' heir use, but he himself will artistically tpply them, and afterward comphment ' lis wife upon her beauty till her heart j iwells with lovo that he knows so well low to retain, fresh as when the first 1 rows were plighted. Yes, of a verity, he Greoks are bad men, but good hus- ! lands and tender fathAs. A Worthy Association. Gouverneur Eemble, who died on the lixteenth of September, at Cold Spring, tf. Y., was ouo of a class of men who iu his country aro quite rare. To fine tbilitics and culture he added inventive 1 i : * - ' ouuiuro nuu uunuiona utpHUUJ OI it HlgQ irder, His house was for over half a sontury proverbial for its hospitality, md hia guests wero among the foremost n the oouutry in social, political, literiry, and professional position. He was : >ne of the sevon surviving nominees of ! the Tontine association. The slinro on lis life was purchased by his father at ' the formation of the association, iu 1 1792, whon ho was only five years old, the compact of the sharchbldcrs being that the propertv of the association ihould bo divided when the number of nominees, originally two hundred, had t>een reduced to seven. This occurred a year or two ago, and suits are pending Tor the division of the property. His ihare cost 8200, but is worth 8150,000. It has been owned by different persons, rod the holders have been paid their proportion of the inoome of the association every year. Mr. Kemble's death leaves only five nominees living. William Bayard, who was one of the seven survivors, died a few months ago, aged eighty-eight years. Mr. Warner Tries It. Mr. Warner, a respectable and law- ' abiding citizen of Baker street, rode home in an express wagon the other day having a hand fire extinguisher and the driver for company. ? " What's that thing ?" asked his wife, in contemptuous tones, as she opened , the hall door*. "What's that? Why that's a fire extinguisher?best thing you ever saw ?meant to have got one a year ago." " Jacob, you are always making a fool of yourself," she continued, as she shut the door. "Every patent-right man gets around you as a cat lays for a mouse." ' "Does, eh? If you know anything at all you'd know that every store ana office in Detroit has got one o* these. They've saved lots o* buildings, and may save ours." "You throw it on the fire, don't you ?" she asked, in sarcastic tones. i He carried it up stairs into a oloset without replying, and she followed on and asked " Does it shoot a fire out ?" "If you don't know anything I'll learn you something ! It is foil of chemicals ; yon strike on this knob on top and she's all ready to* open this faucet and play on the lire." She grinned as sho walked around it, and finally asked: "Do you get a horse to draw it around ?" ' No, I don't get ahorse to thaw it around. You see those straps ? Well, I back up, put my arms through them, and here it is on my back." " I see it is," she sneered. '' And can't I run to any part of the house with it?" he demanded. "Bee ?seo ?"? And he cantered along the hall, into the bedrooms and out, and was turning the head of the stairs when his foot caught in the carpet. He threw up his arms and she grabbed at him, and both rolled down stairs. He yelled and she yelled. Sometimes he was ahead, and then she took the lead, and neither of them had passed under the " string " when the extinguisher, bumping and jamming, began to shoot off its charge of chemicals. " You old I" she started to say, when a stream from the hose struck her between the eyes, and she didn't finish. "What in?o-u-o-h !" roared Mr. Warner, as ho got a dose in the ear. They brought up in a heap at the bottom of tbe stairs, the stream playing into the parlor, against the hall door, nud up stairs by turns, and she gasped : " I'll have you sent to a fool asylum I" " Who's a fool!" he roared, dancing around with his eyes full of chemicals. " I'm fftilltirnr !" nlm onnoal-o/1 i " And I've broken my back I" be < shouted. It was a sad bouse when those two < highly respectable old people got so 1 that they could use their eyes and dis- ] cuss matters calmly. Aud sho doubled < up her list aud hoarsely said : " Take that investigator, or extin- ^ guislier, or whatever you call it, back down town and tell everybody that you | are a lunatic J" ^ And he said : "I know more than all your family put together!"?Detroit Free J*resa. < Making Horn Combs. I Upon entering the factory where horn ! combs are made, says a correspondent, the first sight presented to view was the . pile of horns in the rough. The odor , was not pleasant. A man sat in front of a cutting machine. He had leather pat- ! terns of the size wanted, and would wrap it around tho horn and put it under \ the cutter. One horn makes two pieces of different shapes, both of whicn are large enough for two combs. These 1 pieces are thrown in one pile and the < odds and ends in another. Those de- 1 signed for combs are subjected to a pro- * cess through hot oil, which softens the ' horu, so tliat it can be reduced from a * round to a flat shape. Then it is laid away to dry and season. After that it is t cut the right length, allowing an inch < for shrinkage. The machinery is exact, 1 and beautiful for cutting the teeth in the < comb. A man stands by the feeder. I The strips are laid on a part of the ma- i chine, which is heated by steam. 1 *i? i ? " ?? uiiu tun Hum MiriuM are worm mey are placed between the two horizontal ( b:rs of the machine, whioh ban sharp ( knives, and also a dial, upon whioh are , numbers. These numbers represent the ( number of coarse teeth, which are the first ones made on the oomb, and then it , gives a little turn backward, or a skip, ; and proceeds to make the fine teeth. When the horn is taken ont you can scarcely see that any impression has 1 been made, but if you pull the two ends the combs separate, for there are two, 1 the teeth of which were interlaced. The ' combs are handled many more times be- j fore they are finished. What They Live Ou. " What do yon think of this matri- ' monial business, anyway ?" said a free- ' and-easy young man on a Chicago street 1 car to another at his side. " What ? you mean thqt whioh the 1 papers are talking about so much?married people living on $1,200 a year?" in- ' quired tne other. " Yes, that's what I mean," said the 4 first speaker, " do yon think they are oorrect in saying that a man can live on 1 that amount ?" I "I do," was the reply, "in fact I ( know from experience that they oan. I'm a reporter myself," the speaker ooa- < tinued, "and live on $860 a year?$7 a i week." i "lis that so?" exclaimed the other. < " Why, I'm a reporter, and live on $8." i He Yielded. "Tom, .you shall take a wife." Now lore - forbid !" 'I found you one last night." "The deuce you did !" ' Softly?perhapa shell please you.*' " Oh, of oouree!" "Eighteen." "Alarming!" "Witty." "Nay, that's worse!" "Discreet." "Allshow!" "Handsome." To lure the fellows!" "High bom." "Ay, haughty!" "Tender hearted." " Jealous 1" "Talents o'erflowing." "Ay, enough, sluioe me!" "And then, Tom, such a fortune!" "Introduce me!" Items of Interest. A sleepy old town?A-nap-olis. A slow match?A ten years' engagement. How to get a small quantity of nutmeg?Use a grater. Long range praotioe?Twenty years' sxperienoe as a oook. Kossuth devotes all his time to agriculture and mineralogy. It is estimated that Oregon -will hare 5,000,000 bushels of grain for export this fear. Franoe has 123,000 industrial establishments, giving work to about 1,800,XX) men. The witness who said she was never without some bias proved afterward to t>c a dressmaker. A bird with one wing shorter than the ither?like a bad chimney?is apt to iiAve a defective flew. The stamp duty on patent medicines manufactured in Greet Britain last year uuonnted to over $671,610. A young Londoner recently won atwopenny pot of beer by diving in full dress from the top of London bridge. An English judge has decided that no rooster in that oonntry has a right to jrow at four o'clock in the morning. In the four northwest oountiea of Pennsylvania are one hundred factories, producing 9,667,700 pounds of oheeee. The St. Lotus Republican says: The jeweler who made the welkin nng made dso a specialty of solitaire work in the calaboose. , Hazing has broken out again in Harvard, and many of this year's freshmen have been most cruelly and disgracefully maltreated. A visitor in South Park, Colorado, has picked up a curious pieoe of stone, which, on scientific examination, is pronounced to be a petrified ulnar of tobacco. " " A man recently sent a photograph iard from Hamburg to Chicago by express, which cost him about thirteen dolars, when it might have gone through he mails for twelve cents. A rich vein of petroleum has just ueen discovered at Snelbyville, Ky., and ill the farmers' daughters in the neighl>orhood aro planning European tours, to be accomplished jnst as soon as " dad itrikee ile." There is a period in every boy's life when he's too small to carry a handkerchief and not big enough to wear coat tails, and if hee caught wiping his mouth on the shed door no sensible parent will raise a fuss about it. The president of the New Orleans ? ward of healtli has been threatened with a coat of tar and feathers if he loes not cease sprinkling carbolic acid in he streets of that city. The letter is signed by "A Citizen, President of the Secret Meeting." From the top of the court-house tower in Greenebnrg, Ind., which is one hunired and forty feet from the ground, grows a maple tree eight feet high and iwo and a naif inches in diameter. The *eed was probably dropped into a joint if the stone work by a passing bird. A sea-gull of the largest size reoently iwooped down on a crab in Lake Pontihartrain. imhAddinor Inwtr nave nf bis bill in the crab's back, but the crustacean seized and crashed the upper portion in his strong claws and a boatman rowed ont and caught the crab and the bird. A young man who wore a pair of very dirty gloves to a party, explained honestly and promptly as a reason for doing so was that the smell of benzine used in 3leaning gloves was very disagreeable. Thus will an unselfish man sacnfloe his personal appearanoe for the comfort of others. Much excitement was recently caused among the workmen on the line of the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn railroad, by the disoovery in the soil of a peculiar looking metal, which was prononnoed gold. It was afterward found that the "gold" was onlv the metal composition from the box of a oar wheel, which had been melted by the heat. A tight-rope performer known as A. a WIGDOU1 JJWU, WH1W OAU1U1UUK XXI bho Rtreets of Indianapolis a few days igo, let his balance pole fall from a oon- < siderable height. It passed throngh the roof of a hone car, canning a good deal jf fright among the spectators and a brief suspension of the entertainment. Fortunately the oar was empty, and no sue was hurt. It is related that a Western minister reoentW portrayed the history of Jonah ifter the following style: "I seem to see Jonah passing along the road to Nineveh; I seem to see him entering the ticket office, buy his ticket, and nay for it; I seem to see him walk upon toe vesapl; I seem to see them lift their anohor, uad the stately ship moves gradually out upon the broad Atlantic. '1 '? t>it J