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VOL. II.?NO. 8. BEAUFORT, S. C., JANUARY 12, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
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To LIsette.
They say that the summer has left us,
That winter is coming apace,
That November's chill touch has bereft us
Of all the year's glory and grace ;
But somehow I cannot believe them,
While one thing remains to me yet?
I suppose you were born to deceive them,
You little spring blossom, Lisette.
For tho breath of the roses still lingers
? About you the whole of the day;
And the touch of your little pink fingers
Is softer than zephyrs in May ;
And your voice has the notes of a starling,
All triokling and tender and clear:
But I dou't think you'll guess yet, my darling
What makes it so sweet to my ear.
Perhaps 'tis because you are merely
A dear little six-year-old child ;
Or perhaps 'tis bocause you are nearly
As tall as a reed, and as wild ;
ui (ioi u?|jb no ior ciioaung tne neuone,
For making na winter forget;
Or perhaps?here's the best of all reasons?
Perhaps 'Lis I love yon, Lisette.
?Batar.
WINE'S WORK.
44 Promise me, Oharlie !"
She was leaning playfully over th
back of his chair, looking down into hi
face. I3y 44 she " I mean Mrs. Oole, an
44 Charlie " was her husband. He ha*
just settled himself for a quiet after-die
ner cigar. But Mrs. Oole had mic
chieviously snatched it from his hand
threatening to withhold it until he gav
her the desired prqgnise. And now sh
laid one hand caressingly on his fort
head, and stealing the other under hi
chin she looked archly yet half earnest!
down into the dark deeps of his eyes, a
she repeated : 4 4 Promise me, Charlie
Now do ; that's a dearl"
44 Nonsense, Virginia 1" And he triei
to put away her hand.
??ov? r.horim i" ???
, W*MMUO i iopuaumuiijr.
" Pshaw, do let me go. You'll chok
mo," lie said, half impatiently.
" And so I will," she oried, merrily
" if you don't promise me, this ver;
minute, not to drink anything stronge
than pure cold water at Uncle Logan'
party to-night."
" Yes, yes, yes! There, now, I hop
I've promised often enough to satisf;
you.
"On your honor f"
" Certainly. Yes, of course I"
' Oh, sir, I thought I could bring yoi
to terms. Recollect, you have said o:
your honor."
And then, while her face grew earnes
iu its pleasing expression, she added: "Oh
Charlie, you do not know how anxious
have felt about this party ever since w
decided to go. They always have sucl
a gay time at Uncle Logan's. And yoi
know, dear, though you would not do
wrong thing yourself, how easy it is fo
your companions to make you go to
far, because you aro such a dear good
natured fellow. But now that you liav
promised me, I feel quite easy. And
dear, don't forget when the young mei
begin to get too gay, come up stairs t<
me and baby."
And he promised.
ftnincr Atif "
w hu oYcuiug party a
Uncle Logan's was no email affair, oon
eidering that it was a good flvc-mili
ride from Qlendale, out into the country
over rough roads, with Maple riverswollen
by reoent rains?to be crossed
For this was in a remote and Beoludet
part of England, distant from any rail
road, and with no town near where i
vehicle might be obtained. Besides
Virginia Gale was a first-rate horse
woman, and feared nothing on her owi
account. That she was thus rather rasl
and foolhardy, will appear from the fac
that she had resolved to encumber her
self with a burden, though of a very in
teresting kind.
Lights were glimmering from the win
dows as they rode up to Uncle Logan'
gute; and the number of horses ant
vehicles already congregated around i
showed that the invited guests of th
Christmas eve party were already begin
ning to drop in. Aunt Lizzie came oat t<
the door to meet them, and took the sleep
ing babe from Virtrie's noor. tir?rl ai-mn
" Remember, C&arlie I" she said im
ploringly, laying her head on his shoal
der as they were on the point of separa
ting?she, for Aunt Lizzie's oomfortabl
room above stairs?he, for the seoiety o
his boon companions.
"Never fear me I" And he went gayb
away.
Alas! for the promise made to th<
fond,credulous wile, sitting up stairs h
the quiet matroply circle, with her bah
on her knee. In less than half an hou
Charles Gale had forgotten his promise
wife child, everything; and again am
again his glass was filled, and nis void
raised in riotous chorus with th<
loudest.
The night waned and the guests begai
to disperse. Virgie sat in the dressing
room all ready for the ride, holding u
her lap what seemed to be a huge bun
die or shawls, but which was in realib
little Charlie, who lay curled up in hi
warm nest fast asleep, with one littli
fat thumb in his mnntn
" I wonder what makes Charles m
late," she said, at last, impatiently.
44 Aunt Lizzie, will yon please send to
him, and say I'm waitingf"
He came at length. But the firs
words he spoke tola her all. She knev
at once that he was intoxioated, thong]
to others only a very slight exeitemen
was all that appeared unusual abou
him.
Oh 1 the shame 1 She hardly dare*
speak to him. All her thought was t
get him away before he betrayed hi
oondition to other eyes.
44 Give me the child," he said.
And as she did so, she felt that hi
arm -was unsteady.
" Oh I I dare not trust the bab;
with him," was her thought, but she wa
silent.
She could not bear that those aroun
should know the mortifying truth.
"I do wish you would stay all nighi
Virgie," spoke Aunt Lizzie, renewin;
her entreaties. "It is so late, and it i
growing oolder."
Virgie thought of the dreary flv
miles' ride with a. drunken husbandand
then the river i She had before re
fused to stay, but now she thought bet
ter of it.
" What do you think of it, Charles
Hadn't we better stay t" she asked, pei
'' suasively.
But liquor had made him sullen.
" No, we must go home," he said
surlily.
She knew it would avail nothing t
argue thd matter with him, but only lea<
to a painful exposure, so she commenoe<
paying her adieux.
By dint of gentle coaxing she induoei
him to give the babe to her before the;
started.
As they rode away, Uncle Lagai
shouted out to them:
"Look out for the river !"
Virgie's heart was too heavy for i
reply ; but Obarles shouted back wit]
maudlin cheerfulness :
e " All right!"
s As they rode on she saw that he wa
d sinking into a drunken stupor. Oh
d if they were only safe at home, how gla<
l" she would be. And then she though
of the river yet to be forded ; and ever
L? breath was a prayer. She determine*
6 not to let him have the ehild when the;
0 came to the crossing, but to trust to he
own arm and courage to carry hersel
3 and the babe through. She hoped h
7 would not think to ask her for the child
3 and was nerving herself for a refusal ii
' case he should, when they came in sigh
of the water,
d The moon shone down, making it al
most as bright as day. Virgin thankee
Heaven for that! But she shuddered a
6 the sweep of the waters fell on her ear
and she saw it foaming white in th<
> moonlight, as it swept on in a stron)
7 current.
r Charles roused himself.
8 " Where's the boy ?" he asked.
" Never mind, dear I he's asleep, an<
6 I don't like to disturb him. I can carr
7 him over. I'm strong enough for it."
" What is the woman thinking of
You carry him over, indeed ! Give hie
to me."
a " But, Charles, you are not in a oon
a dition to hold him. I shall be thankfa
if you can guide your horse over safely
' as you are.
> "Ha! What do you mean by that ?'
d She made him no answer.
8 " Do you take mo for a fool?" ho said
a roughly and angrily.
a " Now, Charles, don't do so! Yoi
a know your arm is very unsteady, jus
r now. It is indeed!"
u "Ah, I understand you now. So
" madam, I suppose you think I an
0 drunk ?"
* Again she was silent.
1 "Give me the child 1" he said, fieroe
5 ly.
" Oh, Charles! For God's sake"?
"Give him to me, I say! Do yoi
* think to brave mo so? Give him her<
' this minute."
9 Resistance, she knew, was useless. I
> would only serve to infuriate him, one
" what will not a drunken man do ?
? Uncovering the little sleeping face
* she kissed it once?then drawing th<
" thick shawl which enveloped the litth
a figure, she covered the face again anc
l? gave him into her husband's arms.
H "Charles! For the love of Heaven b<
a careful."
J "Don't be# fool!"
* So they plunged iu, and she did noi
take her eyes from the other two unti
they had nearly reaehed the opposite
bank. Then her horse stepped on t
stone, and, slipping, nearly precipitator
uwr iuui 1110 water. wiien her attentior
| was again free they had reached the op
1 poeite bank.
8 "There he is I" said Oharlea, tri
nmphantly, as he placed the bundle ir
1 her arms. "What a simpleton you wer<
to think I could not bring him ovei
safely."
How very light it was I Good Heaven I
* She moved it about in her arms, pressed
" it closer, and then nttered an awfu]
^ shriek.
' "My child I My little child I Mj
Charlie! Oh, my child!"
F Both turned simultaneously back tc
the water. The quick eye of the mothei
8 was just in time to catch one last briei
1 glimpse of a little rosy, pitiful, upturn8
ed faoe?and then it disappeared down
r the current, and the rapid waters flowed
i on!
In his drunken unoonsciousnese
8 Charles had let the sleeping infant slide
8 out of the shawls, and nothing oould be
heard above the noise of the waters.
1 He did not know it until the mothei
screamed.
1 There was no help. Qh i it was pitiful,
heartbreaking! Poor young
f mother!
b . * * e
9 The home of the Gales is very still
5 now. Virgie's pale faoe seems palei
yet, from contrast with her black dresa
r The cradle looks so desolate, standing
always back in one corner of the nur
t sery. She never passes it withont hav
_ ing heir heart wrong anew; and she
a will sit for honrs, folding and nnfolding
t the little clothes, and her hands lingei
, lovingly among them. There is a paii
of tiny worn shoes in the drawer of hei
j work-table, and a look of fair, soft babj
0 hair in the great Bible.
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Wives of Congressmen are having
their cards printed " Hon, So-and-So,
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b The Cure for Gossip.
Dr. Holland, in Scribner's, gives us
^ the following: What is the cure for
gossip? Simply, culture. There is a
. great deal of gossip that has no malignity
in it. Good-natured people talk
about their neighbors because, and only
'' because, they have nothing else to talk
? about. As we write, there oomes to us
the picture of a family of young ladies.
Wo have seen them at home, wo have
met them in galleries of art, we have
( caught glimpses of them going from a
* bookstore, or a library, with a fresh volr
ume in their hands. When we meet
? them, they are full of what they have
'seen and read. They are brimming
with questions. One topic of conversation
is dropped only to give place to
another, in which they are interested.
' We have left them, after a delightful
hour, stimulated and refreshod; and
. during the whole hour not a neighbor's
, garment was soiled by so much as a
touch. They had something to talk
, about. They knew something, and
wanted to know more. They could lis'
ten as well as they could talk. To speak
freely of a neighbor's doings and belongings
would havo seemed an impertinence
to them, and, of course, an improI
priety. They had no temptation to ?os.
| sip, because the doings of their neieli
" bora formed a subject very much less
interesting than those which grew out of
their knowledge and their culture.
8 Ant^ this tells the whole story. The
? confirmed gossip is always eitheir mali^
cious or ignorant. The one variety
l" needs a change of heart and the other a
y change of pasture. Gossip is always a
personal confession eithor of malice or
Y imbecility, and the young should not
r only shun it, but by tho most thorough
' culture relieve themselves from all tempe
tation to indulge in it. It is a low,
> frivolous, and too often a dirty business.
a There are country neighborhoods in
' which it rages like a pest. Churches
are split in pieces by it. Neighbors
j are made oneuiios by it for life. In
* many persons it degenerates into a
8 chronic disease, which is practically in?
curable. Let the young cure it while
B they may.
Our "Winter Solstice.
The earth is at perihelion January 1,
I and at aphelion July 1. At the latter
y date the angular motion is least, and, the
earth having completed a revolution on
? its axis, the meridian requires less than
a four minutes to overtako the sun; so the
day is shorter, the sun is fast of the well
i- regulated clock; and tho differences of
il each day will accumulate until autumn,
when the angular velocity becomes
greater than the average. About the
last of October tho accumulated difference
is sixteen minutes, twelve seconds;
, but, as the earth spins along towards
perihelion, the da/ becomes longer,
i daily draughts are made upon this
t ** bank deposit," as we might call it, and
*V?? - ?4.:? -? 41? 1
vuo tiniimiatiuu Ui tliu Willi. UliU I1UOI1
> by the cloek, approach each other. ,
i About the middle of December the surplus
is all " drawn," aud the following
day the sun is slow of the clock. From
- those circles of daily motion, submerged
beneath the southeastern horizon, ho
emerges more tardily than the position ,
i of the spiral would indicate; and the ,
3 same cause which retards his rising,
holds him back at his setting; for is not ,
t our sunset the sunrise of antipodes ?
I Thus the earliest sunset occurs seven or j
eight days before the sun reaches its (
? furthest" declination south. The differ- (
3 ence of time between the sun and clock 1
3 continues to accumulate until February (
1 15, when it amounts to fourteen min- ,
utes, twenty-four seconds; but, after :
3 December 22, the sun returns on the
spiral, and each succeeding day that (
part of the arc above the horizon be- ]
t comes longer.
1 About January 10 his difference of ]
3 declination more than counterbalances
* differences of time, and the sun begins
1 to rise earlier by the clock.
i
Attempts at a Compromise. '
The Now York Sun says that the only j
1 offer of compromise ever made by the <
J old ring of that city that meant business |
" was by Connolly, on the night that he ,
was put iu JLadlow street jail. Connolly |
then had a million dollars in United ;
States bonds in his house, which he
offered to givo np if the suits would be
withdrawn against him. Mr. Wheeler
H. Peckham was willing to accept that
offer. Mr. Charles O'Conor, however,
opposed it, saying that Connolly must
be punished as a warning to other public
thieves. Since then no practioal
proposition has ever been made. It is
true that a proposition was made on behalf
of Tweed that he shonld pay over a
certain sum, and the criminal as well as
the civil proceedings be discontinued.
That of course could not bo accepted.
Three years ago Tweed was worth
$6,000,000, but property has depreciated
so muoh and Lis legal expenses have
been so heavy that it is doubtful if he is
worth one million now. It is said that
' all the real estate he owns would not
, sell for $100,000.
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r The Suez Canal.
The most noticeable foatnre about the i
' statistics of Suez canal traffic is the i
rapidity of its increase. Starting in i
1870 with an aggregate tonnage of 436,- ]
1 618, the number of vessels passing '
[ through the canal reached, in 1873, a l
; tonnage of 2,086,270. Almost from the 1
' first, three-fourths of this trade was i
' represented by British vessels. The i
' canal toll is ten francs, or about $2 gold, '
per ton, so that after making allowanoe 1
for minor charges, it oosts a 2,000-ton '
r ship about $10,000 to make the double :
' trip, through the canal and back. i
THE MAS WHO LIED.
A Ilnndnomr Tnkp-ofl on the Men who I.le
Tor the Fun of Heine Heroes.!
There is a class of men who love to sit
around the stove of a oountry grocery of
a winter's evening and oxchange lies.
M. Quad, the wag of the Detroit Free
Press, hits off this class in the following
svory :
One evening when the winter blasts
moaned sadly across the street corners,
and the captains of the ferryboats wore
anxious looks, seven or eight vessel
owners and " laid up " lake captains sat
around a cheerful base burner in a
saloon near the river. Aiter the usual
amount of growling about the weather
one of them told a story. There might
have been an ounce of truth in it, but
the crowd felt eertain that the one ounce
was offset by twenty-four pounds of the
" awfullest kind " of lying. Therefore
a second man tolk a story to boat it, and
then a third man beat the second.
When the fourth man started out he
said :
oemiomon, i nave also seen tough
times. When I was sailing the schooner
Fortune forty years ago two of us were
swept overboard in a storm on Lake Erie
one black night. A hatch cover went
with us, and it so happened that we
both clutched it. It was not large
enough to support two. I was captain,
ho a sailor. I had a family?he had none.
I shouted to him to quit his hold, and
when he would not, I reached over,
clutched his throat, and held on till his
fingers loosened, and he went to the bottom
of the lake 1 It was twenty miles
off Point Betsey, and with a shrill, wild
shriek, which yet lingers in my ears, the
poor wretch went to his death I May
the Lord forgive me 1"
With his chair tilted against the wall,
a lanky, sunflowerish chap had been
nodding his head right and left, as if
sleeping. As the captain's narrative
was concluded the stranger rose up and
solemnly said :
" I am that man !"
The crowd looked at him in astonishment,
and he continued:
" I landed on Point Betsey next morning
in time for breakfast, and I swore a
solemn oath that I'd lick you for choking
me if I had to livo a hundred years to
do it 1"
" You can't be the man," replied the
captain, looking suspiciously at the
fellow's big fists; "it was forty years
ago."
" I know it was, and for forty years
I've been aching to lick you out of your
boots !"
The captain lmd lied, but ho didn't
wan't to own it, and he said:
" That sailor's name was Dick Rice."
" Keroct !" bowed the stranger ;
" that's my name !"
" But he was taller than you."
" Being in the water so long that
night I shrunk just a foot!" was the
cool rejoinder.
" Well, I know you can't be the man,"
said the captain.
" I am the man, and now I'm going to
maul you to pulp ! No man can choke
mo and then brag about it!"
He sailed in and upset the captain,
but was then set upon by the whole
crowd. He got into the eye of the wind
and hung there for a time, but presently
he paid off a little, got the wind on his
quarter, and went at it to lick ten times
his weight in old liArs. He was a very
ambitious man, and those who could get
out doors got out, and those who
couldn't offered him a gallon of whisky
to come to anchor. He furled his sails
on this understanding, and as he set his
glass down for the third drink he wiped
his bleeding ear and remarked:
" When a man tries to sacrifice me in
order to save himself he don't know who
he's fooling with I"
He was the biggest liar of them all,
but he made the most out of it.
A. "Secret History."
The New York Timet says : It is now
mid, by persons who profess to be well
informed, that Tweed has not made his
Bight to a foreign country, bnt is still
within easy reach of New York, and
that he proposes to offer a compromise
af the claims against him, and to divulge
the seoret history of the Tammany ring.
He will give up the names of all who
diared in the plunder, and expose the
men who worked with him and for him
in the days of his power, and who turned
upon him so relentlessly after his
lownfall. This would be a very curious
narrative, and there are many who now
ive in " brown btone houses," and who
nold their heads up very high, who
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niuuiu iu irux Kiiu vruiiiuiuig, II [nej
relieved that Tweed really meant to
jarry out the purpose ascribed to him.
* Wo know something of the men
who acted as the confederates of Tweed;
out it is Tweed alono who can give the
accessary proof of their complicity in
;he ring frauds. Most men would have
nade a clean breast of it long ago, but
rweed has held his tongue. The consideration
which he has shown for his
icoomplices or friends, they have taken
sare not to return. There was a story
in the Sun lately about a " journalist
whom Tweed is said to have described
is a man whe had once levied blackmail
upon him, and who now pursues him
with great show of wrath. Is this a
solitary case? We rather suspect not.
How many lawyers are there about whom
Tweed oould reveal fatal seorets ? How
many large tax payers gave him the
i>eneflt of their countenance and support
in return for having their assessments
reduoed f Hundreds of persons in New
fork city had a great load of fear taken
From their minds when they heard that
Tweed had escaped. Their one wish
now is that he may never be heard of
igain.
An Editor of 1775.
In 1775 tliere were four newspape:
published in New York. Rivington
Royal Gazetteer was the subserviei
tool of the British authorities. T)
Mercury, published by Hugh Gain
was a time-server and trimmer. Ande
son's Constitutional Gazette was boi
and died in 1775, and had no influent
whatever. The New York Journa
published by John Holt, was the sturd
and unpurohasable organ of the Sons <
Liberty. Its editor fled the city aft<
the disastrous battle on Long Islam
and ho was heard of afterward as pul
lishing his paper at one and another t
the towns on the Hudson under ciroun
I stances that would have appalled a lei
I determined man. In the month of Ai
I 1 rmn Lll- ^
gunv, XIII, WLLUt) BC J&SOpUS, U6 prilltC
an advertisement, in which he propose
to take any kind of country produoe i
the way of trade.
His prospectus reads very quaintly
" And the printer, being unable to can
Dn his business without the neoessaric
of life, is obliged to affix the folio?
ing prices to his work, viz.: For a qua
ter of news, twelve pounds of bee
I pork, veal, or mutton, or four pounds <
butter, or seven pounds of cheese, <
eighteen pounds of fine flour, or half
bushel of wheat, or one bushei of Ii
dian corn, or half a cord of wood, c
300 wt. of hay, or other articles of com
try produoe as he shall want them, i
like proportions, or as much money s
will purchase them at the time; fc
other articles of printing work, th
priceB to be in proportion to that of th
newspaper. All his customers, who hav
to spare any of the above, or other art
cles of country produoe, he hopes wi
let him know it, and afford him the nec
essary supplies, without which his bus:
ness here must very soon be disoon
tinued." It is gratifying to be able t
state that the sturdy patriot survived th
Revolution, and lived to revisit the city
of which he had been postmaster ii
1775. His patriotio labors and suffer
iujjs justly entitled him to the followini
epitaph : " A due tribute to the memor;
of John Holt, printer to this State, i
native of Virginia, who patiently obey
ed death's awful summons on the thu
tieth of January, 1784, in the sixtj
fourth year of his age. To say that hi
family lament him, is needless; that hi
friends bewail him, is useless; that a]
regret]| him, unnecessary; for that h
merited every esteem is certain. Th
tonguo of slander cannot say losf
though justice might say more." Sue
on epitaph, inscribed over the dust c
an editor, who had also held a commie
sion as postmaster. oDens a wide AaM n
emulation to the journalists and official
of these latter day.?Scribner for Janu
ary.
Poultry at the Centennial.
A delegation of dealers in poultry am
eggs, representing the trade in Boston
Now York, Baltimore, Philadelphia ani
elsewhere, have called upon Mr. Welsl
to ask that five acres of gronnd be se
apart next year at the exhibition for th
display of chickens, ducks, turkeys
geese, pigeons and poultry products, th
delegation at the same time reqnestinj
that 5,000 pens should be furnished b;
the commissioners for the accommoda
tion of the poultry show. It is probabl
that the request of the poultrymen wi]
be granted and that the show will tok
place between the fifteenth of May an<
the first of July.
If the statistics given in conversatioi
by one of the committee representini
the poultry trade be authentio, and ther
is no reason for doubting, this branch o
American trade is of far greater exten
and value than is commonly known
The dealings in poultry and eggs las
year in the United States are reported t
have reached the enormous amount o
$600,000,000, a sum more than half a
large as the total annual imports of thi
?the most extravagant oountry in th
world, and exceeding the value of on
cotton crop. It *.s also stated that th<
eggs consumed in, not shipped from
New York city are equal to ?8,000,00
per annum. At three cents apiece fo
the eggs, estimating the population o
mew lor* at r,uw,uuu, tins would b
257 eggs for each person every year, i
quantity that seems appalling at firs
glance. The statistics of this interest
ing souroe of food supply, which wil
be forthooming at our Centennial exhi
bition, will doubtless be a matter of sui
prise oven to our own countrymen.
A Bad Fall.
Ezra Stiles Goodwin, who has bee:
arrested and imprisoned in Boston to
attempting to blackmail a furnitur
dealer to the tone of $42,000, is oon
uected by blood and marriage with som
of tho oldest families of Massachusetts
his mother being a lineal desoendant o
Peregrine White, the first white chil<
born in Plymouth, while his paterna
ancestor is immortalized in " Yanko
Doodle" in the well-remembered verse
Father and I went down to camp
Along with Cap'n Gooding ;
There we saw the boy* ana girls
Ah tliiok as hasty padding
Goodwin was attached to the Unitet
States navy during the rebellion, ant
has certificates landing his bravery fron
Admiral Farmgut and other distin
guiahed officers. Ho was formerly i
detective on the Erie railroad.
Rbadtno No Vitus.?Mr. James T
Fields visited Pomeroy, the boy murder
?r. in Viin iail rnnAnt v and lunnul
him that he had been a great reader o
blood-and-thunder stories. He had re*
sixty dime novels, all about scalpinj
and other bloody performances, ana h
had no doubt these books had put th
horrible thoughts into his mind wbic]
led to his murderous acts,
#
Items or Interest.
rs Twenty-one Illinois railroads are in
's the hands of receivers,
it An exchange talks of the " gangs of
lords " who will be here next year.
Why shouldn't old clothes be worn in
~ doors! Because they're invariably worn
je ou4?
ly Why is the letter " o " the most ohar[T
itable letter ??Because it is found
i offix... u... *1? * '
hi ? >?"? muj uuiw iu -- auuig gooa."
sr An old maid near Beading, Pa., mari.
ried a tramp, and perhaps that's the
> best use yon can put a tramp to, after
of all.
a" There have been seventy-four mar38
ders in the judicial district including
i* Oarson and Panamint, Nevada, and not
one oonviotion.
jj The existence of the United Order of
American Mechanics is no secret. Its
. meetings are regularly advertised in
' Eastern newspapers.
)8 The St Joseph (Mo.) Herald having
7, read the adjutant-general's report,
r. wishes that the regular army could
f) fight as well as it can desert
)f Maria Davis, charged with bigamy at
>r the Old Bailey, London, was released
a because the first husband, being totally
i- blind, was unable to identify her.
ir Under the heading " Two Oentenl"
arians Gone," the Quebec Mercury ren
cords the death of two veterans, aged
" respectively ninety-five and ninety-six.
,r Over 197,000 trees were planted in
e Minnesota during tho tree-planting sea6
son, by contestants for oertain premiums
. which had been offered to those planting
jj the largest number,
y A Butlander got a tramp to fire off a
[. shotgun which had been loaded nineteen
L. years, and as a reward for his job he had
0 to pay five dollars for burying that
e tramp.
, The Mareohal de Faber at a siege was
a pointing out a place with his finger. As
he spoke a musket ball carried off the
j finger. Instantly stretching another he
y continued his discourse?" Gentlemen,
as I was saying"?
According to a careful calculation, the
forests of our country will hold out only
' seventy years, if we go on using wood
8 as recklessly as we now do without tak8
ing measures to renew the natural
u souroes of supply.
? " It is a settled principle, your
honor," said an eminent lawyer, " that
1" causes always produoe effects." "They
f always do for the lawyers," responded
, the judge, "but I've sometimes known
. a cause to deprive a client of all his
* effects."
A cockney tourist met a Soottiah lassie
going barefoot toward Glasglow.
" Lassie, ' said he, " I should like to
know if all the people in these parts go
, barefoot!" "Part on 'em do, and part
on 'em mind their own business," was
? the rather settling reply,
h Last spring, the St. Paul Pre? offert
eda year's suoscription as a premium to
g the man in each county who should
, plant the largest number of trees and
A cuttings, not lees than 1,000 in number,
~ during the season. Twenty-two oouny
ties out of sixty odd in the State oompet'
ed for the premium, making a total of
e 297,663 trees planted in one year, Mar[1
in county alone planting 42,000.
e One of the results of the Education
3 act in London, which is based on the
American system, is that the attendenoe /
a of scholars uas increased from 180,000 to
g 280,000 ; and this has not been done by
e harshness, for the number of parf
ents fined does not exceed 6,000, and no
t fine has exceeded five shillings. Ike
. firmness of the London school board
t has resulted in saving 100,000 children
o from growing np in ignorance. S?
f A striking instanoe of the laxity of
b Connecticut divoroe laws is illustrated
b by the matrimonial record of a woman f
b in Hartford who has been married four
r times, all of her husbands being yet
b alive. She changed her maiden name
? for that of her first husband, got a dill
voroe and married her second; left him
r on aooount of his attentions to a pretty
* sewing machine girfc and, as soon as dib
voroed, remarried No. 1; lived with him
a a short time, got another divorce, and
t haa now married, for a fourth time, a
'* man who had been divorced from two
wives.
Does Newspaper Advertising Pay f
To this often repeated and important
question the Dayton (Objo)Daify .'bur
nai gives ibe following as an answer :
Q Some months since a gentleman renre- _ ?jj
r sen ting a wealths house in San Franoisoo,
6 California, while traveling in Missouri,
" came in poasesaion of a Daily Journal
8 containing the advertisement of '* The
Trade Engine" manufactured by the
Herrman k Herohelrode Manufacturing
I Company of this city. The gentleman
became interested, carefully preserved
8 the paper, and having oooasian to visit
Ohio a short time afterward, called at
the] office of the above oompany. He
showed Mr. Herohelrode, the secretary,
the advertisement he had preserved, and
made overtures for the agency of his
1 house for the engine in OaUfoomia. His
1 propositions were accepted and the up?
shot is, recently the oompany shipped
- the third oar-load of engines to their
& agents in San Francisco. Thus, through
a small advertisement, a comparatively
. new invention was introduced, and a
L trade that promises to be imrasnen, wen
- secured in the most distant portion of our
a country. It was but by ehanoe that the
f gentleman explained how he became as
i quainted with the merits of the engine
; he advertised, else he would harre rse
mained in ignoraaoe of the onatoaasr the
e advertisement had secured him. Adverh
tisements, as a role, work
they work sorely ana aflhtttfsly.