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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1 or oh, were the baby's hand withdrawn,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.
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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
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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
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