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1. la writing to U>U often on traainoai jour auae aad Pont offion add row ’ ■ V 2. Bnainnw Int er* and •ommuni«a> iioiM to bn pubilatSVd ebould be written on separate sheets, and the o> j«ct of each clearly indicated hr neoeaearj note when Kquirad. ^— 8. Article* for pnblicatlon should be wmtep. in « e'ear, legible band, and on only (,ne side of the psi;-'. 4 All changes in adTerUsoments must reach u? on Friday, i f>Ae *»toiJoV[ rBooO YiG VOL. NO. ,‘U t- OUB JUVENILES. The Baby't Prayer. “ Lord b’ess papa, mamma, Daisy,” Tha baby prayed to-day, “Kitty, Boso and old brack Thomas— What else I’all I my T I can’t flqk of nullin' mo-ah (StpojSd^Hrto p’ayl). • Buah ’ for what I'd ilka to know, now. Ton old Mamma Gray T Ain’t I p’ayod, an' p’ayed, and ‘p'af ad Time ’ll time again T I’t» fergnt tha way to and It— Why don’t yon tell m#ven? Tor whose take, mamma—aayT I'm ao—a’ecpy—oh, I 'member— For Flty’a sake, Amen 1" Who ohtdea the child 7 I klaa and hnSh. Silent I Join the group down-etelm Tbet net aad lia«er by the fire * To langh at Baby'a prayen. “ And whSt did Baby eay Vvnight T" Hut low I answer, wlUi rrara brow: “She prayed for Boer, and yon and BARNWELL C. H. S. C. THURSDAY. JULY 21, 1881/ . '< " -i . SM.W ,* iWKinoB: 't iVki . i 1 Bow fan Uat mood Ike eluldhaa drawn And rrpaa td apoe a mualnf heart I Amid the happy! - 1 ait hie on. ai art •Aa4Wy*.«*. ' Tm. again he caught twenty-eight in a morn ing ramble. At the end of a month Ralph had stocked his room with about 700 of the insects, and, what is strange, no one, not even his close friend Frank, knew of the soheme. Ralph reasoned that he would prove his idea by experi ment and then burst upon the world. He would send telegrams to the city newspapers announcing his great dis covery. He would receive oongraWla- tiona from the Preeident Ho would be made a ‘‘ Ph. D.” by some university. “A * Fh/k.’ at 141” said Ralph, «that’s worth working for.” . But his spiders didn’t spin. TWy stowed themselves away in the corners and drew themselves up in balls when ever he approached. Then fights be came frequent Then some of tbo .smaller ones began to disappear. Then Ralph discovered that the creatures were eating one soother. “To be sure,’ thought Ralph, blushing, “I’m a ninny not to have thought of It; they must hare food, of course.” 1 So Ralph bar gained with his mother to empty the fly-catcher on tha kitchen table every day. Whan the fliea were let into the than was immediate change hie of the colony. Old brown- Mona to sweep the ev with their of silk. They •, .''AF’ftriG _ The Americana are an Inartistic people, but Italy will one day take art to America. That will help America to be artistic.—Signor (7., in on Italian journal. Oh 1 indeed, you are only too modest, Signor. Italy has done it already. Mod em Italy is doing her very best for ns now. Why, were you at this window, Signor, you would confes* that in all America we could«not get up a family party like that one on the other side of the street. We haven’t native talent for it. It comas direct from Italy. JjJTV - There is the Signora, a stout woman, with fine breadth of shouldor^a jello*- handkerchief on her handsome black head, and a calm and happy expression of countenance, thumbiuga tambourine. Now aha pauses.dproys in a momeUkdi- Two ui down In th. morning tlm«, On. to (tag and on* to spin; All the men M»ten*d to the long mbllnxt, , But no” no Uataned to th. dull wheal’t dl» !-■..i 1 a lim . ft j • The linger .be set In a plaMant nook. And utng at nllf* that was fair anA fw*at; While th* eplnner amt with * (teadfut look, Ruatfy plying bet band* and fast Tb* finger tang ca And eU men Uatened raaeta her belt, Down in ber h**rt i But lo! on the morrow I • Am Me “■ Kil l eet etan. thread I” iptnner rang. r> 0 if thaw But tar o'er let la emblaaonad la :iaaa of gold. jrXTTB. many people not $2 & Year. fiU ?• v-il w ATomnrw In toe early history of Laiayrtte card- Oases of sunstroke become playing was more than an smusemonU- quent in town and country with each suo- with a good many tt Was "business.” ceoding summer. Prostration from tha Tlie founder of Lafayette, "Old’’ Dig- affects of the heat of the sun ft by, was for many years toe most noted limited to human beings. During tha card-player on too Wabash. There ere past few seasons oases have been corn- many anecdotes of him that have been mon among horses and oxen, and even handed down and era worth pr< stirring, among milch cows. That* ft also a large ■ ’ Tweyi nytajggfy-. i» ’ alaftfmftwdftt titr tkal ftppear taluele row ket, ebari table, Meanwhile the head of the family, the Signor, hitches along with an organ, grinding out popular airs, and canting at ““ K^ ‘ evil eye. 1 T During tha recant yean the the average boy sad rfrl anything of so little W afford s day’s fun If the old settlers ace to be believed, "Old Dig” and the tote Judge Pettit had many a Italy tussls the card- table. Op one occasion the two sat down- early in the forenoon at their ffi- vorite game of 7 old sledge,” |5 a game. About 4 o’clock in the afternoon, when Pettit was about $70 winner, he an nounced to Digby that he must quit " What are jwu going to quit for ? ” , ", , , i " I want to go and take care of my haems” replftd Pftfth. In thoee days every lawyer]kept e ijliottor—’ there ft eeesoely "t < Judge toahei incr and mortality, aside ; aro plainly aHnbut- ft in trade to know what s variety oomm.cce. JTo ! torse to ride the clrouft. I go without my dinner,” the ■utuiued, " but Pm my hone just to i Jou at I I Of sunstroke, that see ptofniy to to the effects of the heat of tog sun daring the hottest ‘poi tiou pf the diy. Travelers observe of-door labor is performed In mofit other countries during thft^nftriod. la all tropical and fifmirftoplcal region* it ft as commof to rest for geveral hotrs dur ing Um hottest. portions of the ft. 0l oftht. Farm ftbopam geosMBy sloap alter they have aaifto thf newt steel. To make up lor too time ’l&t. they ootanatron work earher m th* meen- inft and cowtmsH iater at mgkO. Even in (hoeeeoawtriee ia ftsrope w|cr-the nearly oftilkr to oir*. and the msae s« the peeptoi are ft OnKtfllOfl, VIMS IAdOT V tmitoo Of *e ftp eommuniestioa will he wablHbef i aceompanted by the aaftfi and ad* of the writer, not aetomailly for pbUofitinn, bat at a goaran'.y yf good TaUC rfQFLE, *Ainw#il a /Lt »• o. • srtr ft too forte of h*hft>”« tab m* It Is the wife of s bridge-buHder whe MD the A COXJUOW without the milk Inside of ft. It is supposed that th# skirt of sfoe- «ii ft • m A bAbT, joking sboui her uMM| was s i Ac«M>,Uiag»f three gsesf Uaeft ft. ■ fc«rAJUl. uf Iforto: bftdft ooA«toft '•fgMaftftl li'&ftiftmttwm tot "I like a pretty wild Ufa His body wai bell, hie eyee were Mul his tour wings Tbeffy was! a thing of the color of a blut- like bite cl amber seemerl to be woven "I’ll catch the little beast,” Ralph whispered to himself. He gave his rod s savage dip, as if to drown the dragon, but the gay eroature darted up and away like a cherry stone shot from the knuckle of the thumb. This incident and ether similar ones that followed caused Ralph to think whether or not he could put to use any of the fine things of the insect world. He probably would have given ovsr the disagreeable task had not a spider swung himself boldly from a high limb to the fishing rod. "I’ve got something, shy- how,” said Frank, and, though ho shiv ered at touching it, he held the spider between his thumb and forefinger and examined it closely. Ho saw that the spider’s legs numbered eight, that it had eight eyes and that there were two arms, branching above toe head, also. Then he drew his knife, and, with a sharp blade, split open the spider’s body. "This is what it makes its web from,” he reflected; " it looks like glue, and that’s what it is." Happening to have his school micros oops with him, Ralph tested the fineness of some threads drawn from the gins with the little blade of hft knife. Suddenly springing to hft feet Ralph exclaimed: “ Now I've got it I A new idea! Never thought of before 1 Olorkrml I'll make silk from spider web I ” Two or three days passed, but the eool ft the (towftg VmeU] be could find out el I Ulg dut/POS si Rftpb. flmalted ftuy gloves, climbed th* I into the bani-luft He looked bis spider-room, now filled beta floor to with okjeafy-packed bay, and started as if stung by a bee. His face grew pale in anger. He 1c the joists. Tears ran along to the end of hft nose. A hard choking thing went np and down in his throaA Tbsu a queer smile got into the corners of his mouth. " Well,” laughed Ralph, "it was non sense anyhow, and I guess I’ll go and be a gold-miner.* 1 jtorc. Get hold of the boy’s heart Yondei locomotive comes like a whirlwind down the traek, and a regiment of armed men might seek to arrest it in vain. It would crush them and plnnge unheeding on. But there is a little lever in ift mechan ism that at the pressure of a man’s hand will slacken its speed and in a moment or two bring it panting and still, like a whipped spaniel, at year feet By the same little lever the vast steamship is guided hither and yon, upon the sea, in spite of advene wind or current That sensitive find responsive spot by which a boy’s Ufa ft controlled ft his heart With your grasp gently and firm on that helm, you may pilot him whither you will. Never doubt that he has a heart Bad and willful boys very often have the tenderest heart bidden away hemst incrustations of sin or behind barricades of prida. And it ft your business to get at that heart, get hold of that heart, keep hold of it by sympathy, confiding ft him, manifestly working ofty lor hi* good by little indirect kin In esses to hft ttfi pet dog. See him fit Ms i sent to Bn mis by uae train. At sodden tally changed, with the re sult that, while Robmisteft was quietly interred at Riga, toe body of the un known Russian Baroness was committed to the earth with all the poop and oir- oumstanoe of a public funeral at Moa- oow. The report may be the invention at an onsornpuloos French wit, but the mistake was one which, if toe oofflns not opened, might emily occur.— Pall Mall QaxetU. K 'UrCMKABB or VEAHSIQU TKDSK83. Nearsightedness is increasing in Ger many at an astonishing rate. Thirty eye doctors recently examined toe vision of'40,000 pupils in schools of all degrees. They conclude that naarsightednAsi 1 rarely exists at birth or at less than 5 , * ie r years of age, and ft village schools the nearsighted form only I per oanb of the attendance. In toe city schools they constitute 5 to 11 per rent.; in the schools next above, 10 to24 per cent.; in the next grade of schools, 20 to 40 per cent; and ft toe highest, 30 to50, A physician of Tubingen found ft a body qf 700 theological students 78 per osni m yopio, and Prut Virehow said in toe German Par lii-mnr.t that ninety-five out of every 100 of the medical students are unable toaeewhe*best* for*them. But the German* are nearsighted in far greater propoetkm than any other natkm, for which they have fltiieffy their cue script and print to toank batb rmom m>ni-Br a fca. Twenty miles south of Wickenlmrg, oo the road to Pbcanix, there is burie&a Portuguese in a grars 150 L-ct deep. Eleven years ago the subject of theee remarks conceived the idea of digging a well and starting a station at the point above mentioned. When t)*e well was down 150 feet, and while digging away with a vigorous will, his assistkat, a Mex ican, in towering some poles with which to timber the well, let one of them fall, killing him instantly. His body wss never removed, but allowed to sleep in peace far beneath tha surface of the earth, ft the sepulcher he had built Timw r basi fatjeed tfts walj.^ c amato art covered to a forty yards, and the Por cave until _ - » depth of over forty yards, and the Portuguese is probably the best-buried man in Arizona. —/Veacott Miner. . .Jig Wxbstbb and Gabe Snodgrass met on Galvonton avenue. Jim was dressed ft the height of style, and upon crosa- e»*minwtowi explained tost he had just been attending his brotosr’s wedding. " Who did he marry f" asked Gabe. "A ’ooman,” responded Jim. "Well, I reckon I knowed dat ar, as a matter of course." " Dar ain’t no matter of course about it ft our famfly,” replied Jim, “ for, when my sister Mouldy got mar ried, I hope I may be shot if she didn’t marry a aum. Hit's a fate, end I'll swar to ft” "■ Two tatereuting problems which have long perplexed the scientiflc world ap pear to have been at last definitely solved by the eminent geologist, Dr. Hahn. f These questions are, first, whether or not celestial bodies, other ♦Jmn ihe earth, belonging to our solar system are inhabited by animate brings; and, secondly, whether toe meteoric stones from time to tone east upofi the surface of this globe emanate from in- esndoeoent comets fronfi^tolcanio planets. That they at no tone formed a part of toe earth itself, has been conelu- sively demonstrated. , 1 ‘ ’ u: j* Dr. Hahn has recently completed 'a series of investigations upon soma of toe might early ft hft Navy. He has a son ft tha navy, Btdge- fty Heft, named for hft mother's fatbsr. Commodore Ridge!ey. The young man has been on a three yuan’ cruise on toe Alaska ft Asiatic waters. Thejnhip roadbed San Francfteoon her homewart voyage about the tilne Jadge Huntwaa made Secretory of the Ifav^, and Me son, heaH&g of hft father’* appoteteatttt,« jumped to tha conclusion that hf wquM be so specially favored, telegraphed ter permission to cone to Washington by rail direct instead of going wilt has ship, which tree ordered to Panama, where the officers were to “bo changed, and coming heme by se* on the fhip which ■ a MBWBBAw ur v iwua^wjwean w 1 * -— huge meteoric stones that fell ftatu the , ^ ofaoen wha ^ to roitove skies In Hungary during the summer of Young Hank was considerably 1866. Thin laminm of these mysterious ^ probably, when hft father, bodies, subjected to examination ^eorotary cf toe Mary, insteed ef a powerful microsoop^ have been founl ^ roqueet, triegmphed him ship and to eon tain coralline and spengeou* for mations, and to reveal traces of the lower forms of AIT tbs organisms, animal and vegetable, discovered by Dr. Hahn in the detieate afrwvt ahavings bo baa thus dealt with imtinfte toe eoaditirm of their par- nt worid ft be one of what ft technically "primary formation.” But the of water ft by toe lift toes toe tiny ‘ ‘ +T Uos eae asri ail bring W tLe gT ff to torn. gmotiag Ipfi _ briefly to ettek by hft ship and ge where I it was ordered until relieved with toe Bomb cf the Ohlneee rimilm ereeaid te be as pointed ee they— r — They cull a blustering, harmless " a paper tiger.” A man who places too high s vaiastern up<<c pare to " a rafi falflng " A a bow ft whft they •*a rotes*.” wtteh wuan eff ril -1H, It np in au nnticccrunUble whiMk TftfitiT paazjed lucn. rSiiS rlamatiou, charge "Look six eenft, jpA can buy "Where!” arid toe felknr; Krtert. 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