Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

e e arrb Ii etatb. TRI-WEEL J'1''.W k3R . . ETME 819.ETLLSHED 184!) NOW AND THEN A MAN IS USEFUL The "sturdy oak and clinging Tine" are out 0 fashion now: The modern maiden stands alone, with triumph on her brow. She bufrets bravely with the world, she fares as best she can. And gayly makes her way through life without the help of man. Her broken yoke of servitude she tramples 'neath her ft-ot. Her ancient tyrm nt she defies, and finds her free dom sweet. Yet sometimes when the road is hard, and things look rather black, The independent woman's thoughts insist on harking back. The sheltered life seems very fair amid earth's crowning ills, &fnd restful the old fashioned plan-a man to pay the bills! A TRIP TO GOTHAM. I'll tell you what it is, Gill," said the elder of Farmer Grimes' sons to his brother, as he rubbed his honest, toil hardened hands together, and looked with pride at the double row of butter firkins which had been brought up from the cellar, preparatory to being sent to market, -we might just as well take a run down to Gotham ourselves, and sell the butter, as to send it to Warner & Wait. They've lined their pockets long enough with commissions from us. Besides, we've grown up like a couple of dolts, without seeing any bigger sights than a circus now and then. What do you say?" "It's a tip-top plan," answered Gill. "And then we can get handsome keep sakes for the girls, and mother shall have a silk dress that will stand alone." "The girls" who were thus to be re membered were the soon-to-be wives of Gilbert and Joshua Grimes. "I shall get Clara an accordeon that will beat that confounded old thing of Mary Green's all to blazes," said Gill. "And Jenny shall have a chain for the watch her Aunt Polly gave her. But we'd better see what dad says about our going. So "Daddy Grimes" was consulted, and his consent obtained. "The butter was theirs," he told them. "They had worked hard for it all summer, and he wanted them to make the most of their labor. But," he added, after a moment of reflection, "you'll have to keep your eyes about you. Every other man in York lives by his wits. Take care they don't bunco you out of your money. Have Susan put pockets in your shirts and keep your greenbacks in them; and be sure you don't tell anybody how much you've got." "Oh, we'll be enough for them, dad. Won't we Gill?" said Josh; and Gill answered, promptly: "You bet." The next morning two tall, muscular, sunburned, but by no means i li-look ing, young men took their seats in the "express" for New York, duly im pressed with the importance of their first trip. After a somewhat lengthy silence, during which the two amused them es;ves by studying the faces of their fel low passengers, one of them purchased a morning paper and ran his eye over the market reports. "I'll tell you what it is, Josh, we'll have nearly two thousand between us. Butter is thirty-five cents, with an up ward tendency. Won't dad and raother be surprised?" "Hush!" said Josh, giving his brother a nudge with his elbow. "That red-headed fellow behind us is listen ing." After their arrival in New York the two brothers concluded to finish the day in "looking around," determined not to fail through haste to realize the highest figure for their butter; besides they could stroll around and see the sights ist as well before the sale, said 11, as afterward. "Yes, and enough sight safer," ded Josh, "for somehow all these tchaps seem to know whether a fel is fiush with money or not." Gill and Josh followed the mt ving wd into Broadway, and when they t tired of walking--Gill all the while keeping hold of Josh's hand for fear of losing him-they took a drive in the park, and when darkness settled over the great city they dropped in at the first hotel they found and registered their names. "Did you see that red-headed fellow '-that chap that came down behind us on the cars-watching us all the time we were eating our supper?" whispered Josh, as he drew his brother into a cor ner. "~No,"~ answered Gill; "but we are in a regular den of thieves, LI do belive, that white-haired rascal overthere-see, he's looking this way now- never took his greedy gray eyes off me all the while I was at table." "I must give that red-headed bird to' unerstand that we haven't sold -nur butter yet," and Josh moved toward the individual with red hair, to whom he rather maladroitly intimited that as prices were low he hadn't yet sold his merchandise. "We're safe enough for to-nigh', I guess, and to-morrow we'll find other qluarters," said Josh, as he and Gill took possession of the room assigned them for the night. But ten o'clock the following night found them in the same room; and they had sold their butter. ''They were as safe there as they would be anywhere till they got out of the city," Josh had finally concluded, I and, besides, the hotel was neasr the de pot, and they wished to take an early train for home. After ineking sure that the window blinds were tightly closed, and the door locked and bolted, the two sat down before the table and divided the pro ceeds of their butter between them. "Neaily a thousand apiece." said Gill, exultantly. "This will give us quite a start. It's three times as much as dad had when he and mother got married." "I don't just like the way that r headed fello-v maneuvers, I wonder what he's lopping around here for, anvhow?" said Josh, as he bestowed his money in his wallet. "I don't know," replied Gill; "but if he puts his freckled face in here, he will never curl those red locks of his again;" and the young man sportively pointed a bright new revolver at the door. "Yes, ,e're good for a dozen like him," said Josh, as he drew a mate to Gill's pistol from his pocket. "Thank fortune, mother and the girls don't know what a strait we'er prepared for. The sight of these pistols woul-l scare them into fits," and Josh crept into his bed, and Gill was soon sound asleep in his. "There, it is twelve o'clock," mut tered Josh, as a neighboring clock struck the hour, "and I haven't had a wink of sleep yet. and no livelihood of getting any either. There! what is that? Some one is cerzainly sawing a aole in the door;" and Josh raised imself on his elbow, and listened to the well-defined sound which had dis turbed him, while great drops of sweat oozed from his forehead. "We shall be murdered Gill and I! h, don't I wish I had been at the North Pole before I came to this in Fernal city! If I could only wake Gill without that red-headed villian-I know it's him-hearing me." Then Josh bethought him of his means for self-defense, and crept :utiously and noiselessly out of bed. How his limbs trembled! He had I carcely strength to stand. Seating, himself on the edge of his bed, he. groped for his clothes, and began to dress. He knew he was doing a dastardly thing in not waking his brother, but for his life he dared not utter a whisper, d his legs he was sure would refusa .heir office did he attempt to move. At length, after what seemed a full aour of mental agony, Josh became tware that some one was treading 0 stealthily over the carpet. It was 9 itchy dark, but intuitively the young man felt that the foot-steps were ap roaching. Seizing his revolver in his trembling a ingers, he hastily discharged it not I >nce merely, but several times in quick I muccession. There was only a slight I roan, and Josh was on the point of ring again, when the room rang with :he report of a weapon not his own. kgain and again ihe report shook the C vindow, and caused to sbake and trem- C )le every fiber in Josh's body. At length, forgetful alike of his 1 noney, which he had placed under his illow, and of his brother, who for ught he could tell might be dead or lying, Josh rushed for the door, ex ecting every moment to feel the steel )f the burglar assassin against his ;hroat. He found the door still locked and )olted. The intruder must have en :ered by the window. How Josh wish d for the strength of Samson to enable him with a single stroke of his arm to carry away the obstruction. How :ould he, trembling in every joint as 2e was, and expecting every moment to >e seized in the stout arms of the red 2eaded villain, ever get tne door un 'astened! But it was accomplished at last, and then, suddenly recovering his onted strength, he darted away, bare eaded and bare-footed, as he was, own the three flights of stairs, and >ut on the street, shouting "Murder!" is he ran, and followed by half a score >f inmates of the house. He soon outstripped his pursuers, nd ran till he reached the depot like >ne gone wild, determined that the first train should take him homeward. His money was gone, and Gill was n all probability killed. He must re turn to his parents with the sad intell gence, and then come back for the body of his hapless brother. He leaned against the oak paneling f the ticket office, determined to be the first to secure a ticket. He had stood thus but a few minutes when he felt his knees knock together, and the breath came thick and fast from be tween his ashy lips, for the form of his murdered brother had entered the His face was pale and haggard, his eyes wild and preternaturally bright,i md there was a wound on his cheek rom which the blood had flown co piously. Josh was filled with superstiti us awe, and who would not be wheni the evidence of things supernatural ex- I isted before his very eyes? "He has come to punish me for leav ng him to such a fate, and I deserve it," thought Josh, as he placed his bands over his eyes and shut out the But ghosts are not wont to converse wvith mor tals, and Josh's hands came Iown, and the paleness left his cheeks ms he heard the words: So you got away, too, Josh. It seems to good to be real. 1 felt that the ellow's revolver, or worse still, a chance ihot from my own had killed you. I 3on't see how you could get away, and [not know it." Josh opened his eyes very wide at ;his, and seizing Gill by the hand he Iragged him at a break-neck pace back :o the hotel. They were closely followed ya couple of grim policemen, but the )rothers knew little of the duty of hose functionaries, and cared less- a "My money! Gill, my money! Hurryr Llong, or some one will have it." t "Uld Red-head has got it, and mine :0, you may be sure of that. He i ouldn't wa~ste so many shots on a :ouple of wretches for nothing." And 3i sighed as he thought of his lost noney and how the wedding of himseltl nd Clara Danvers would have to be pstponed inidefinitely in consequence >f the robbery. Lhe hotel stairs, three steps at a time "we've been a couple of fools, and the only wonder is that we aren't both a. lead as hammers. There was nobod) in the room but ourselves, and we werE pelting away at each other." With this Josh led the way into the roon they had occupied, to find it filled wvith people, several policemen amon ,he number. The majority were intent ) examining the ceiling, which wa narked in six or eight places by bullet aoles. Only one ball had entered the , ?laster below the ceiling, and this wac robably the one which had grazed 0 lill's cheek. Humiliatin to the brothers as the onfession of their not over-valiant C onduct was it had to be made in order t hat they might remain possessed o1 t heir liberty. The money was found, t indisturbed, beneath their pillows. f tnd early in the morning Josh and \ ;ill took their seats in the cars foi c iomc. "Confound it all," said Josh, as he f Olanced at the patch on his on his r nother's cheek. Mother and the f irls won't rest till they know how t ,hat piece came out of your cheekand L ['d rather be whipped than tell them; 3 rennie is such a tease." b "They'll never find it out by my tell ng," sa.d Gill, emphatically; but for hat Clara coaxed the whole story from iim that very night, as they walked inder the elms which grew by her ather's gateway. Before the two sisters went to skelr hey had. their laugh together over thE b udicrous affair, and Josh never heard z he last of the red-headed burglar: and ii ill Daddy Grimes had so say to produce p t charming color in each of his boys I aces was simply--"Rats!" LABOR'S FIRST STRIKE, Tat Tyler Headed the First Great Protest of the Masses. The first labor strike was in 1381, a hen Wat Tyler at the head of 100,- t< 00 peasantry marched into London, a a ked the houses of Parliament, in- C aded the tower and told the nobles I ho bad fled there for refuge that o: he time had arrived when a serf was S s good as a lord. Before that time a abor meant abject slavery, and sich a thing as a strike had never been orn in the brain even of the Anglo- p ;axon, the first race in history to en- a oy free labor. ir In London Wat Tyler's great army d, if peasantry met young Ji hard II h in the banks of the Thames and de- a' nanded freedom fon the serfage of n ,he soil. That tremendous conflict, C hich freed labor and created a rid- at e class in England, had its begin- pI ing in luxury and extravagance. p, hen Edward 1I was reigning the ai lack plague broke out and carried iff so many victims that crops weref. eft unharvested. When it had liited ,he barons found that they could not B1 ontrol free labor because they would iot pay the prices. Then followed ne of the bloodiest wars between bi abor and capital. it Ai out this time there appeared ;h ohn Ball, a "mad prest of Nent." )f le made speeches from the pulpit of -E Imost every church in Kent. and his -th peeches were of the most socialistic haracter. The goverument could not prevent mmense crowds of peasantry from locking to hear Ball. He uttered his rhyme, that flew from mouth to nouth through the kingdom: when Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? That was the watchword of labor. nd it sumomoned to arms the lower lasses of England. One hunded housand peasants marched through santerbury, looted the palace of the ch-bshop and opened the jail t.oors pon "Mad JohL- Uall." and then turred on to London, where they net Vat Tyler, a soldier, and placed ur in leadership of the army of a.or. Richard, only 16 years or age, had ust come to the throne. lie met he army andi made a most liberal eeh, oiferingz them their freedom f they would disperse and go home. Wat Tyler, with his l00,o00 1hent sh men, etc., retuained to see the (ing perform his promise. Richard _ reed men right and left. Nearly lo very nobleman in the kingdom had at led to Scotland to escape the wrath w< f this army of labor. The next da) th he boy King, scarcely without a fol- to owing, met WVat Tyler andl his re- th naining army and a scud e ensued in etween Wat T.,1ler and the Lord se dayor of London, in which the Lo C M dayt.r killed the great labor leader TI ith a dager. th A great shout arose from the peas hi ntry: "Let us5 kill too: Our cap- ev ai is dead." Richard bravely rodE C2 th and shojuted: ''I am your cap- co a! Follow nme!" and they .ollowed th um to a man; but after the fall o! co Aat Tyler the King never kept h m vord. A nd ever since that day labo tb nd capital hava been at war in onL vay or another.| or Iou How Caretes!t A new play was running through t be head of Henry J. Byron. the dram- in tist. as he was walking through ye 'all Mall, when a friend -topped him Lb ad said: "I am in grief." "What th it?" asked Byron, mistily. "I lost w, v father last week." said the man-.s Too bad. too bad, "said Byron, with an a air of absent sympathy; "vecry sor- an y." Then he walked on and con- da inued to think about his play. Three is eeks !ater he happened to be again In a Pall Mall. when the samne man of ame up to him and said: "More mis- Ii' :rtune." "Eh?" said Byron. absert . "I have just lost my mother,' ~id the man, lugubriously. "Dear e!" said the dramatist, petulantly; you lost your father only a littleh rhile ago. What an exceedingly care ass man you ar., *o Corot's Odd Price for a Picture. A very amusing anecdote concern ig the brother of the new Presiuent f the l'iench Republic is related by I. Ziemu, the \ enice artist. The rother of M. Casimir-l'erier was on tnimate relations witfl Corot. Ile ame. one da; in 15->. to bee the a:nter Barbizon, just at the mu ,ent when Corot was putting the nishing touches to his -Biblis." a icture which represents nyiplis leeping in a wood His euithusiasm >r this work of art, where the poetry f the sub.,ect was contending with he science of the painter for superi rity, made him wish to nosse-s the anvas. -) oa shall have my pic are," said the artis', ":n one condi ion, and that is that you will pay he butcher's and baker's bill of my riend Millet." "Agreed." replied I. Perier. a 1 ttle astonished at th's u:ious condition. The bilis were ant for to Chailly, when it was >und that the accounts had been inning witn the two tradesmen for illy twelveyea s. The one amounted ) 22,000 francs and the other 24,000 -anes. Per er paid the bills with ut moving a muscle. His C rot cost im 46,000 francs. To-day he would ot take three times that amount ir it, but, nevertheless, during the fe of the painter it was only worth ome 1.300 francs. Chinese Money Orders. Direct exchangze of money orders tweeu the United States and the >lunv of Hong Kong, china, is now i ele: -t. .Money orders issued as Ior iyn nt in that colony mu-t be -signated as "Hong Kong" orders. be maximum amount is $100 arid ust be exiressed in dollars arid ,nts. The advice should be sent, r cert:Ocation, to the exchange of :e at San Francisco, Cal., and the -der should be sent by the remitter the payee. FPng Kocg orde s ay be issu -i to remitters desiring send money intended for payment Hong Kong, changhai, Hoihow, nton, Swatow, Amoy, Foozhow, ingpo, ana flankow. In the case o ders intended for payment at aanghai, the rem tter may elect: hether he desires the order d.awn "Hong Koig" or "Japanese." Postal Union postaze rates (full -epayment compulsory) will here ter be applicable t'> articles maile I the L nited States addressed for livery in Afghanistan, subject, >wever, to additional postal charges destination: which charges can >t be prepaid except by means of bul postage stamps, and are in Idition to the amount of postage -eaid at origin by means or other )stage stamps - whatever that ount may have been. LONG AND SHORT OF IT. g Carter and Little Murphy, Two Fa mous Base-Ball Players. The athlete is born, not made, and s size has nothing to do with his. Ility. This is most strikingly ! own in the accompanying picture midget Murphy and sky-scrapng .rter, the two best base-ball players at have worn the Yale blue in any years. They are the spectacular. V. . XUlt' B'. WA LT1li C'.LTEIR. >g and short of It. A more laugh le contrast in the athletic line it >uld be hard to imagine than when is pair used to walk on the tie d ~ether. Carter is just one foot taller an Murphy. Carter stands 6 feet 4 :hes when he Is not stretching him f, and 5 feet 4 Inches is the best rphy can do without French he-ls le long pitcher weighs 170 pound, e little shortstop 125 pounds. Tihe. stories of this pair are knowr mc Sry "heeler" or college base-ball. rter bas p'ayed ball ever since he ild walk. When he came to Yalo, ree years ago, he showed that lie :d play any position ,n the dia >nd, and was tbe best catcher on e field in his first year in college. est year he made a wondlerful rec I as a pitcher, having more str Ike ts to his credit than any twirler in e country. Little Murphy also made the nine ris freshman year, and pias ed four irs, first in the center field and en shortstop. He was captain i-f a Yale Club in his .uaior year, and 5 one of the most brillant colle;c rtstops in base-ball hi tory. C rter d Murphy are probably the tal!est d shortest players in the field to y. Carter lives in Brooklyn, an~d a son of Walter S. Carter.the promu ~nt lawyer, of the New York tirmn Carter, Hughes & Kellogg. Mu: phy es in New Haven. and is a brother Miteur.phithe athjeic trainer )OSTATINOBLE has been badly ken up by an earthquake. Turkey ithe eu.tan have long needied a I d shalrina 11n. MUSIC IN HIS HEELS. Stood on His H.inds ann Performed "Home, Sweet Home" on the Organ. This is Colonel Julian R. Larke, a ournalist and veteran of the Crimean war. Col. Larke is a gray-haired nuan, full of reminiscences and very fund of music. He often plays the zrgan for secret so::ieties. Recently a big society gave a swell reception, and the Colonel furnished the organ music. After the wine had been tlowing steadily for an hour, an:I the banquet had disappeared, a veteran amused them all by walk.ng on his hands. The Colonel was seated at the organ trying to find the lost chord, but he stopp d the search lung enough to gaze at the hand-walking feat. "You can't beat that, Colonel," some one said In jest. "Oh, can't I? You don't know me. I am an athlete," he replied, mod est:y. 31uch badinoge followed, and finally the Colonel said If someone would blow the organ p d ils for him he would show them a trick be used to do in England. The pedals were worked and the Colonel leaped into the center of the room as ;agile as a squirrel. 1ising nimbly on his hands, his feet in the air, he walked (,uickiy to the organ ard to the astonishment of every one played "Home, Sweet Home," with his heels. As an encore lie played "W.ll Never Get Drunk Any More." Still stanling on bis haLsis he walked to the center of the room and turned a half dozen handsprings. TRE VETERAN AT THE OROAN. Considering his advanced age and the fact that his body is filled with leaden tullets, it was a most wonder ful feat WHY WIVES ARE NEGLECTED. Sometimes It Is Because They Are Care. less and slovenly. "I am not at all surprised," said a bright woman, "that some men fInd ott.er w( men more attractive than their wives. In this age or progress and newspapers women who do not live up to the times must expect tc be eclipsed by those who do. 'The 'Hannah Jane' theory set forth in arleton's poem Is exploded. "The occasion for my disgust is that twice within the last week I have met wives who did not care for the frivolities of life, and whose husbands I did not blame for casting sheep's eyes' at m. re attractise women. The first woman came intc the dining-room of a hotel In a Western city. She evidently boarded at the place, and it was a really good hotel. Every ,ther person in the lining-room was well dressed. 11er husband was well dressed. She act ally wore a wrapper, one such ais I' s sold in the stores at ninety-eight ents apiece. It was of a dull pea t o -k-reen color, with yellow ringe I iz it, and intensified her sallownes. her skin and hair had a n, giected ook, the latter bru-hed bark so ightly that two thin places near her emples were plainly visible. Her hole appearance was of the 'don't are' order. The sooner she drops away from this mundane sphere the etter it will be for her husband. hese eyes wandered often to tre ables where sat other wonoen, who vere 'fixed uip.' "The other case was that of the 'resident of a great trades' union, ith whom an interview was neces ~ary. 1lls home was tought toward ~vning. It was a neat br~ek ht.use, I he front close'ly sht upl, ani I it ar't .:lily beenme a neceessity for the co: rr'soni ent to att:ick the kitchen n'or berore' she found any one. 'i his any one' hropved to be the wife of he man, a youngz, black-eyed women, ith a neglected c(hild clinging toB er dress. She was by all appear nces a born siattern. The inter ~Iw was short and not interesting. he husband was sought in the oflceer g the tra les union of which he w:as F ~hief onlicer. ie was a grand so - rise, as he was a man not onyo ~rawn and brain, but 'remiarkazbiy ell dressed and thorouzghly inteli-t ent. He s--emied rat her suspici. us. ~ut thawed easi'y under veniJ in- c uence. Th:e truth inadlv rpnl aked ourt that be ra ely got hitn o ntil minight. T rI d not w- adilr.a only wondered that lie ever went ome I d..n toink I would ha'. ~ard to go. "-Cincinnati Tribu.. Swat' and Voracious. The shark is the fastest swinwmer f the fl~h tribe over long distanr s, t Ld findls no (dinicullty in k-eepinzg up ith the .swiftest v. s-ela, swinit: ing nd playing round them aind over on J e look-out for tmorsels, snail or - arge. Ezm's Horn sounmd a UtzO t the Unrecmeid. - O man wh ino's hidCial , - - live low. there i ]or there vwill b trust. N MAN cal ever pray righ who lives wrong I T:iE relig.iol that costs noth in idoes nuot ing Br a blossing and you will be suri to receive one. No wouND hurts like the one in 2icted by a friend. READ the Bible much and you wil ilways Hnd it new. FAULTFINDING is one of the sures marks of a backslider. AN oath is Lhe devil's admissioi that the Bib'e is true. TilE devil tramle: when he find; i good man on his knees. A Goni prayer meeting always be ,ins before the Le rings. WE have no wore right to thini wrong than we have to ao wrong. A WORD to the wise is sufficient but a fool needs the whole book. THE devil leads the man who i; not living for some good ob.:ect. GOD will not smile upon the mat who is frowning upon his brother. Ir alw.:s helps the devil for-, Jhristian to doubt the promises o. 3Jod. IF your prayers get too far apart he devil will get between your sou nd God. WHEN God dinds a man Ile ca rust with money Ile soon tills al is pockets. THE moment a man makes up hi: mind to forsake sin he can count oi od to help. KE:eP the devil away from thc hildren. and he will soon be driven ut of the world. THE best thing to do when you uiake a mistake is to wake it teach ou something. THE man who knows that h!; ouse is built on thesand never likes o hear it thunder. THE Sabbath is not rightly ob erved in the bome where the chil iren hate to see Sunday come. THE man who hates the gospel loes it for the same reason that an ephant strikes at the water which efjects his lace. THE whole counsel of God is not eing declared fiow the pulpit where he most notoriouJs sinner in town an he a member of that church lor ears and be respected. The Dog Laughed. The proprietor of a Third Avenue tore owns a little black kitten that ultivates the habit of squatLing on ts haunches, .ke a bear or a kanga. on, and then sparring with its fore )aws as if it had takea lessons from pugilist. A gentleman toolt into the store he other evening. an enornmo.is black og, half Newfoundiland, ht'f coolle, at, good-natured, and intelligent. he tiny black kitteni, mnstead oi olting at once for s:nelter, retreated few paces, sat erect on its hind eg, and put its "tists'' in an atti ude of defence. The contrast inl ize between the two was intteusely musing. It reminded one of .lack he Giant K'ile; prepiaring to demol sh a giant.. Slowly and without a sign of ex. itabilty the huge dog walked as far s5 his chain would allow himu, and azed intently at the kitten and its dd posture. Then, as the comicality f the situation struck him, he urned his head and sh .uiders around 0 the sl-ectators, and if an animal ver laughed in the world, that dog ssuredly did so, then and there. lie either barked nor growled, but in. ulged in a low chuckle, wtile eyes d mouth beamecd with merr ment. -New York Telegram. An AntomatiC Fishing Net. A net which automatically rises to e surface and thus incioses the hool of tish to he caught has been vented by 31. Trouve, a Fr. uch ectri'ian. The net is weighted long the lower edge and has a pneu. latic tube along the upper, which n be intiate by an air pumnp onl the ore or fishing boat. A lure in the ape of electric lamups submnerged in ie water, or bait, is emnployed to raw the fish within the Compass oif e net, and the air loat is then ied, causing the net to rise to the rface and nem in the i!sh. Tie cs is considered more humane than e ordinary ones, as it does not ighten them nor destroy their eggs. e may add here that at a ~cent meeting of the Physio ical Soc ety of Berlin Dr. embo of St. Petersburg, read a aer in which he advocated cutting e large blooc' vesels of the neck as e most humane mode of slaughter g animals. When this is donie on. msciousness super; enes in a few ~conds. and the movunlents observed re due to cerebral aniemia. Moere er as is well known, the Gewh ot ials wh:ch have bled to death is iost easily kept. -Casselfs MIaga Mo~t Distant. Stickby--Who is your most dis tt xelative, BillY Bill F'rayedout (who is k own to ae relatives abroad)-MIy c'siu, hn Welltodo, just acros, th - tr et. -Boston Couri, r. Sr*Tr fish eat oysters. News in Briet. -Starfish eat oysters. -The first alphabet had but sixteea Iettcrs. S--Louis XVI was an abominable I glutti- . -The smallest known microbe is that ci influenza. -The best brass band in Australia is coml)sed of natives. -New York City has 81.82S dwellings and 212,766 famiIes. -Paper pneumatio tires are in process ef experiment. -The name "Braz'" means "red wood" or "land of the red wood." -Books were printed in raised char. acters for the use of the blind in 1827. -Camphor should not be placed next to furs, as it will make the color light e:. -Pneumatic tires have been found very serviceable on hospital ambulan, ces. -North Carolina has but 3702 for eigners out of a population of 1,617, -Street bands are not permitted in ermmiy unless they accompany pro, -Anciezit books were sometimes writteu on slabs of wood, ivory or meta-s. -In an Oregon town there is anocto genarian "ho is an enthusiastic rider of the b-levele. The central span of the St. Louis, (.1o.) bridge is 520 feet, the side spans ' feet each. ---An elephant is fifty or sixty years ,ttainivg, maturity, and will live a cen :Liry and alialf. -The works of Aristotle comprised more than four hundrd treatises on vs riii subjects. ! f a snail's nead be cut off and the animal placed in a cool, moist spot a new bead w,11 be grown. - The first Bible printed with a date was inrnished by Faust, the German fatur of typography, in 1462. -The moon is believed to be the only mem ber of the planetary system which is without an atmosphere. -In Vienna, Austria, the organ grinders are allowed to play only be tween midday and sunset. -The Book of Job, written 1520 B. C., describes very accurately several processcs of smelting metals. -- The pricciple of trial by jury was inaugu rated in 468, every accused per sons to be tried by his equals. - Muss grows thickest on the north iside of hills, and a sun-exposed tree has its largest linbs on the south side. -Greenland whales frequently attain - length of more than seventy five feet and a weight of more that seventy -In 1813 William Burton patented a locomotive that was provided with legs and feet behind to push the machine along the track. -Charles Barrow, of Columbus, Ohio, tells of an egg laid by a hen in his employ that measured seven and seven -eighths inches in length. -German civil engineers will erect a monument in Berlin to the memory of Dr. Warner von Siemens, the famous Ielectrician and inventor. --Kid and silk gloves camointo use in Europe about the end of the fifteenth Icentury. At first only princesses and . ladies of high rank were allowed to - wear them. -There is an oak tree on the highs way from Warwick to Leaniington, England, which is said to mark the exact center of England. It is between 3000 and 400 years old. -Hawks have been trained and are in use in the German army to attack and cipture carrier pigeons, and to secure any dispatches that the pigeons might be carrying. -A law passed in the time of King Ed waret III and still upon the English statute brooks prohibits the serving of a dioiner of more than two courses to any one, except on holidays. --Humboldt says that the Baobab trees of Sieuegal are the oldest organic monuments en our planet.. One of them is 100 feet in diameter, and is estimated to be 5000 years old. -H Fennel, of Wilkes, N. C., on his seventy-third birthday, recently celebt ated, cut and shocked forty shocks of wheat from dinner time to night, and wais still as fresh and active as a bor. -A Maine man, a resident of Rock land, says he had suffered two years from the after effects of the grip till lhe was struck by lightning the other day. Since then he has felt himself entirely well. -Sand filtration of water sim11ar to ihe Euglish plan has been tred in Lawrence, Ma., whery typhoid fever has been very prevalent, wi:h the result of general improvements in the publhc health. -The Bihatgur reservoir, a great arti.. ficial lake in India, said to hold about 4,61,000,003- cuoic feet of! water, acts as a feeder to the hira Canal. It is formed by a masonry dam 103 feet high and 3,02) feet long. -John C. HigginE, of Nicholasville, Ken., had 1,250 bushels of wheat in s :eks awaitiu: shipment, and a buyer otT~red him 8650 for the lot which he refused. A few minutes late; the wheat was destroyed by fire. -Artemisia. Queen of Caria, iimer talized herself by the honors she paid to hter dead husband, Mausoleum. She erected fur him the finest tomb in the world, heuce tnenanme maousoleum. -Cvmbals are believed to, be among' the ea'rliest musical inventiont-. 'They were used in Egypt4a least, 4,000y3ears before Chnist. Ci