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"Oar Ambition is to make a Veracious Work, fieiiabie in its \ f Statements, Candid in its Conclusions, and Just in its Views."
VOL. J.
It i 3 now an imperial regulation in
Brazil that persons who die fiom yellow
'ever shall be cremated, the state bear
ng the expense.
There are about 300,000 people en
in keeping bees in Nortli America,
~ 100,000,000
m l the honey product is
oouncls, valued at $15,000,000.
Humane owners of old dogs and
horses in New York City, fit spectacles to
; he eyes of the animals. An old dog, re
inveiiated by a pair of spectacles, will
show pleasure by unmistakable signs,
,„<! nH sometimes, when lie loses his glasses, '“
* . ha -
will pick them , up and , carry „ them to
master to be readjusted.
Prominent women in Washington so
ciety employ private secreturies in the
Jifiicult task of meeting many social
duties. Widows in reduced circum
stances, lady clerks who a»e posted on
matters of etiquette and newspapet
writers act in this capacity, and initiate
new comers into the social life of Wash
ington. _________
They have exhausted about every
notable in Europe in the way of cen
tennial anniversaries, aud now they have
raked up Beakels. What! never heard
3 { Beakels! Well, Beakels lived five hun
dred years ago, and it was he who intro
duced into Holland the art of salting
and packing herriDgs. He died in 1387,
but he is going to have an anniversary
fete just the same.
Another man who is “the image ol
President Cleveland” exists in the per
son of Colonel Lovering, who recently
run for Governor of Massachusetts
igainst Oliver Ames, remarks the Graphic,
and his picture has been talysn to be
placed beside that of the President. A
resident of Washington has a photo
graphic group of half a dozen men who
closely resemble the Executive.
More than $10,000,000 worth of oys
ters were shipped from Maryland to all
parts of the world this season. Over
50,000 persons are employed in the in
dustry in the State, and it supports be
sides 1,500 schooners and sloops. To
enforce the law for the regulation of
these vessels the Slate maintains an
“oyster navy,” consisting of five steam
ers, six schooners and eight sloops.
An Englishman named Hughes, ren
dered splenetic by unrequited love,
committed suicide at Bologna in the
most determined manner, He drank a
small bottle of whisky mixed with
strychnine, then locked the doors and
windows, made a fire of charcoal, anu
finally cut the artery of his left wrist. A
loaded revolver which had been lying
on the table became superfluous after
t hat.
A Washington correspondent who re
and sat in apew directly iu front of the
Hresident’s says: “I sat near Mrs.
“’i Clevpland and during tiie sin-in'- I
could hear her pure, fresh 1 voice joining
m every hymn that was sung. She has
a trained soprano, which she uses with
urn out affectation anecrauon, and anu apparently appaieuuj with wi real
enjoyment,uttering each word distinctly,
sothatthesong becomes a recital.”
Aa the Boston Herald notices, tiie
value , of , the . insured , property . destroyed - |
m the recent fire on Broadway, New
York, represents a sum "nearly equal to
what is paid by all of the property owner,
of Yew ’ Yuri- ' ,-irv .f for six months’ insur
ancepiotection, so that, as the , Herald „ ,.
aclds, “the outlook for profits in the in
suraace business duirng the
J vear ‘ V in Yew York and “ in “ the ?! other
9r cities oi the country • no p,
is
ly encouraging.”
The Baldwin locomotive work-, in
Phiio/ioini P1W ■ i S j , e,,r f.svrxzxri /Mxf
’ {
M ....> , locomotives, f . the greatest num
her ever turned out by any shop in the
same time. Three thousand*men worked
sr--t lts »i."» r m , v ,mcmo T
iou„
time. If stretched in a straight line the
Sr*? - mce they weie established T'-- h ,“‘ir- m 13-B the
works have turned out 3,955 loco
motives.
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According Ts to a Massachusetts paper,
Cane Cod -Y t slowlv washing ®. g awav J and
‘
drifting -Irift- into the sea. It is believed . , to
be only a question of time, and not so
remarkably far distant, when the whole
of Cane p Corl hiimv jeiow WoUAppi will ill drift uri
into the sea and lose itself. Less than
one hundred years have passed since a
lighthouse was placed there hv the Gov
eminent ' h original «v 5 u-i purchase in tn
uded , a plot , of land ten acres in extent.
me present time this inclosure em
braces barely six acres.
GRAYS STATION, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1888.
GREATNESS.
jj ema y q e g rea t w ho proudly rears
For coming years strong pyramid;
But greater he who hourly builds
A character by noble deeds.
g e ma y q e W j a9 whose mind is filled
With all the wisdom time bus gi>
Who sees and does his duty well
Is wiser in th ® si 2 ht of Heaven.
It may be grand to deck the walls
With pictures by rare genius wrough
Greater it is to line the soul
With tiuls a " <1 S el) “ «* ‘‘.ought,
He may be great who can indite
Songs that shall every bosom tin-ill;
He who kn6w * to ,nakt ’ J*j' !i£e
A poem grand is greater still,
,, SVl((V , .. ..... ....
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TROTTY’S JOURNEY,
V.V BACHF.J, CAUKW.
Subdued joy pervaded the Hotel l.om
bardia, at 1- lorence. beeause it was rii
niore.f abroad that Miss Hoseicaf’s pug
Trotty was in extremis. lie was not an
attractive animal mentally or physically,
and had endeared himself to no oue save
his lovely young mistress. His figure was
ruined through overfeeding; he had lost
one eye in a bygone tussel with a butch
er’s cat, and the other optic glared at the
world with a sinister expression from out
the black patch upon his countenance,
Had lie not mouthed Ma or Winkham’s
Tired slipper under into-an unpleasant pulp, and
Miss Hileherton’s lied, there
to snore lie and had frighten that Indv into
spasms? also snatched a biscuit
out of tiie hand of infant innocence—-the
mother of said innocence passing a sleep
less night wondering if it were not well
to send for Pasteur, to be quite sure that
the bite was no more than biscuit.
For all these misdemeanors, Miss Hose
leaf apologized with a grace so charming,
that the malcontents were seen to stop on
the stairs to stroke Trotty, and tell him
he was a dear little fellow, so he was—
the same quadruped which they had erst
while apostrophized as a hideous, squab
legged, But how overfed, could vicious-ternpered brute.
with Doris they do else than melt,
Roseleaf'g sweet eyes caress
iug them from under the shade of her
big tossing-pluiued hat, and the
pink on her cheeks deepening to a warm
sunset rose at praise * of her ill-favored
pet !
* * * * * * *
“Yes, Doris is so foolishly fond of the
dog. I’m obliged to put up with him;
but lie is a great nuisance, to be sure,
particularly for the Tyrol in traveling. When Wli
start next week there will
be the usual harrowing scene—the rail
the way people refusing to let Trotty go in
carriage with us, Doris iu tears, and
at last a fee to par, or a bribe, that
really breaks my heart. We cannot M
ford sueli foolish outlay. I wish some
thing animal; would he happen to the wretched
Iu the above has words, lived quite long enough."
Mrs. Roseleaf had
bc-en wont to express her chief grievance
to a mixed audience for years. Now
tliat stiff destiny, seemed in the shape of cramps the heels and
a neck, close upon
of Trottv. Mrs. Roseleaf inwardly re
joiced, but maintained a hypocritical at
titude of unconcern in the presence of
her daughter.
“J believe it would be well to send for
a veterinary doctor; lie could give poor
Trotty some chloroform, or something Doris,
to end his sufferings ” she said to
and. in an aside to a friend, added: “I
surelv done for once and for ail ”
A few hours la:er, as Mrs. Roseleaf re
turned from a walk, Doris met her with
a radiant face, crying: “Oh, im.miiui,
Tr<mv ,,.- - s ch fitter! Going to re
C0V( !tnd be bet ter and stronger than
eve; before, the doctor savs.” '
“What doctor?”
( the } vet ' vou said we oueht to
lm<1 ilhn come wll ik you
were awav and he must be a wonder- Vaved
ft,IK clever man-he has certainly
Trot tv’s life. He asked tif teen francs,
but I had to u'ive ^'Vour him twenty ,mr*?and a* you had
? I
couldn ( a „ k jiim fur’five francs change.
Mamma, 1 don’t believe that vou are one
bit glad that poor Trottv is better!” and
tears welk-d over in the lovely violet
eyes * which worked so much havoc in the
. ,- u
“Yes—-yes, eliiid. I'm very glad,” but her the
mendacious old lady auswered,
looks bob d her words. “Twenty franc.
more paid for making the dog's life
surer than before, and I believed he
would he dead to-night. Ah, me! and
that dreadful journey thoughts. impending.” was
the burden of her
“Mamma,” sfl-id Doris one morning,
breaking in upon her parent’s perusal mak- of
a briHeu.t idea lor
j n „ the journey easy for ns all. Miss
Willis to':d me she gave her cat an
qu “ aAUis ’
thought he was luncheon.
( . an sc . a ,. ce 'iy q e induced to mistake him
for luncheon.” deceived.
“No, they will be otherwise
Trottv is l0 be given a big powder be to
keep him quiet, and he is then to
dicsscd as a baby, laid on a pillow, and
with a vail over his face is to cross the
fronlier _ H el - k shall carry him.”
"Doris, do you think I would ever
consent to tuch a preposterous idea? It
isn’t respectable. What would people
6av au( j think! Put such uonsen-.e out
o£ - hea j a t once, I beg of you.” the
“Not a bit of it, mamma dear;
idea is too excellent a one to let slip,
You will be of mv opinion quite, when
a! | on . e< j nmrself time to reflect,
r fhe 8twint0II ,« uurse is going to lend
1Ee a p ve tty pillow with lace and em
broidery, and one of their baby’s dresses,
and a cap. Your ehuddah will do to
wrap around his body. Tina will dress
him and tie him on the pillow in quite
the orthodox wav. It will be great ftm;
Perk's face will be a treat when she hears
she has got to carry Trotty masquerading
as a baby.”
Poor Mrs. lloseleal's face was clouded
and sad. She knew perfectly well that
Doris would carry her point—she al
dreadful ways yielded results to might the child: follow and what this
not
last thousands escapade! of others, Hut in this instance, lady as
in the weak old
decided there was nothing to do but to
make the best of a bad bargain, and she
look a limp interest in the preparations
for what seemed to be a uio-t novel un
dertaking.
* *
“There is another blessed infant to
make soliloquized the night hideous for somebody,”
lishman. peering- a good-looking forth young window Eng
from the
of a carriage at the Florence Station.
“The train seems very full; I’m afraid
we can’t have a coupe to ourselves,” said
Mrs. Roselief, regretfully. “There is
oue compartment with only a vouug
man in it; shall we go there?”
“Yes,” said Doris, promptly.
man will not notice- anything odd in the
conduct of my baby, and will not wish
to kiss it, as soma silly woman might.”
—-I “By Jupiter! they are coming and'no in here
take!” am exclaimed an unlucky dog, mis
Air. Harold Lyman,
the young man alnvidy mentioned.’
Jlis dismay was pardonable. He was
escorting sister's from Floneace to Verona his
Montefiore, baby, the very lier juvenile Contessa
as well as stolid Abruzzi
nurse; the woman to return at once to
her mountains so soon as she should have
laid her young charge in the arms of her
successor at Verona. The baby’s mother
was ill of measles ait Floremce, and to
escape infection, the little isontessa was
hastily under dispatched to its grandfather’s
brained the guidance of its railier scatter
young uncle. The baby was a
sleeping brazen-lunged like young fiend of laced six months;
that an angel on a pillow
at moment, but. anon she would
awake and rend the air with her yells,
To escape this, Mr. Lyman had feed a
perfidious left guard for him, for and the adjoining coup "his
vacant now behold
privacy invaded by another squallfiug
torment. lie fumed and fretted, in
wavdly for a time, and then found some
solace in watching the movements of
lamp. Doris, in She the light of the half-vailed
took the baby from the grian
Abigail, hugged him to her breast,
kissed bun through his white gauze vrail,
and hushed him to sleep on her soft arm
sweetest rest in the world,
mother, “Impossible mused that Mr. that girt is the himyelf; baby’s
’ Lyman to
“end yet, why not? She is very young,
4)114 that kind ot exquisitely pr-st^y girl
generally marries young. Lucky chap,
her husband! It must be her baby—
gj I )e r | s s don oilsppng t coddle in that and pet wav. other 'ihe peo- old
dame has grandmother plainly" written
ou K;r countenance and in Her fussy
manner, ami 1 heard the young lady
^ -saged party °? e then-maid, “mmita-. Tb*e ot -course.” vinegar
vl is
lhus Mr. Lyman mused on in a way
‘ caused him an anoyance he could
11< ? t understand, why should he care
“whether his pretty traveling companion
was married a dozen times or not at all?
would never see her again after that
J,l e£ journey. What an extraordinary
. et 11 54
d ul , not stirred^or T as ’j lifted WO 10fa its .'' s now .
though had been laid up vo«:e,
it by itself on the
nut I rotty, a long and sign slight from figeting the of somnolent his
a eor
E u e ." t kj ody, removed the young
h-eghf , man s dawning doubts and
c “ used Koseleaf to redouble her
. . disguised
attentions to Her pet.
Presently everybody a v iolent jerk of -he train
threw into everybody; else’*
arms - Mr. Lynrnu found hirnselt closbly
clasping both of Miss Roseleaf’* hands,
aud “ ssunn S h er tllnt 4llere «»t the
‘f^t danger though , he know no more
tban d, ^ w liat the was length the ol trouble. tne A
g uar running train,
orjim <3deu out some restored trifling cause for the
« u through stop, soon sm-omty.
All this commotSon the re
markable lutant uttered not a sound nor
moved as much as a huger. Lyman ic
fo-vod to hazard»remark that would con
vtnee him whetbm- or not his fair com
l ,anlou W!IS 11 e -mother ol tliis stolid
' ’
“The-ib-your ., baby , , is unusual ,, y
good; docs ,t never cry? ” he managed to
en ” I ? cla1( *
His charming Lynun nttghbor , . , s race broke
. mtosini.c-. s face lei I--yes, only
°° 80 ,ad,ant :it P rmo
of herdardn--
with 8 °° ’ 10 > oun k lad , .. y
said, , with a blush blush
a
Mr. Lyman somehow did not seem to
< i ! tr'in had-tortl'd 11
wl k h t hemidi ^^- ipio the 1
a *
Trot tv’s fit lnck
“ i' 8 & Vl< li
w,H;,nb,H'iinnilmii!« , would like u l- , ,F' llra a n
'
o;‘ ( B , ,
b( p'.u f t j 1( . envious ' ir me* s 2t the I.nft- “
.uch inw
„ nd “ ori °" fl ' 1L ee ti ’ n g * J iournevs 1 ’.w,! where one ° ° lost
4 . f Ll, ^ « rst t t kr
' t m 5.,- ev( . r „; r , ,
j f hja phawe } or f life was really , very
hR1
'
Larly dawn at had veroua; here the silly
boy and girl took who leave traveled ten hours
together of each other for
ever, they supposed, of all and both looked
urieved out proportion to the oc
casion. Mr. Lyman saw his little niece
aud her nurse installed by- the door of
the waiting-roomi. and then went.out on
the platform to lume and fret because
the Montefiore carriage had not come.
ours, “ 1 hat said baby Doris looks to her about mother, the age dt-sig- of j
tinting istence the she littleeontessa, of whose ex-|
had heard nothing from its |
Unde. “Pern gauze vails are evidently the i
proper thing, too. Pork, tve will put
1 rot tv 'in ihe bench on the- other side of ■
the door.beside that very safe-looking old
dame who is half asleep, and then I want
you to come with me to the toilet-room
to mend the flounce I tore getting out of
the train. Mamma will keep an eye on
Trotty.”
Alas! “mamma’s* eyes saw only the
land of dreams while her daughter and
miiid were absent.
Tbe baby eontessa becoming parti
culurly fretful, the nurse bethought her
self ol apossible pin. or too tight string,
and carried the baby off to Toilet-room
No. •>, to investigate.
At this juncture the Montefiore
There liage drove up in a tremendous hurry.
was not. a moment, to lose. The
Signor Conte hud been telegraphed
to go to his son, who was very ill, and
it was only bv u miracle that they had
wrong out the time to come for the
tessina. The Signor Conte must have
the carriage iu twenty minutes, without
fail, '
“Go,” said Mr. Lyman to the foot
man. “and take the baby from the nurse;
she is waiting nt the door. You need
have no words withher, as she has been
don’t paid and dismissed. Make haste, and
wake the child.”
To the great disgust of the affectionate
uncle, the new nurse lmd not been able
to come in the carriage for the baby, and
he must have a tete-a-tete drive with it.
Fortunately, it. was not far. While the
man was gone for the babv, he busied
himself arranging a bed of shawls in the
grandfather carriage, big ‘to enough for the infant’s
“There, Ihope she repose will comfortably sleep,” said, on
lie
giving Ids work a final pat.
The footman dashed into the waiting
room, cast a hasty, comprehensive
glance about, and then gathered up the
unconscious Trottv as the milv infant in
the room. He quietly withdrew him
from the partially overhanging draperies
of the snoring old woman at Ids side,
•whom he took for the nurse. “Madonna
mia! what a fright the old girl will have
when she finds the baby gone! It serves
her right, though; she ought, not to go
to sleep at her post, and l have no time
for
Mrs. Hose-leaf, on the bench opposite,
continued to sleep the sleep of the just,
and Trottv was borne awav.
her “Asleep, down gingerly, Carlinoi That is lucky. Hut
All my boy, on these
shawls. right. Avmti!” and the
Count’s Porri.igo dsudted’fuf Word.
Before the rattle of its wheels died
awby the there began nu animated scene iu
toilet waiting-room adjusted, at Verona. Doris, her
where she had sought left her out the but cozy nest her
pet, to
horror the bird was flown. Then arose
tears and lamentations which would have
melted granite. Where was he, her
darling, if the whole her world beauty ? She did riot cure
only let knew he him, was a and dog— he
some one return
should have any reward he asked for.
Somebody testified to having anti seen a foot
man, in livery, come iu take away
the baby, or" dog, or whatever it was.
hopeless “A case than of abduction, then, aud more
ever!” wailed Doris. The
imperturbable baby sleeping: Abruzzi nurse, with her
blinked stupidly sweetly as an angel,
at the excited people
around her, understanding or caring
nothing about their evident distress.
She only wondered vaguely why
Signor Conte’s carnage was so slow in
coming
Presently Harold Lyman, with a face
as white as a ghost, dashed into the
room. He carried a lace handkerchief
in his hand, and went straight up to the
weeping Doris, saving: I*believe “Madam, is this
vour property ? it is, for I no
ticed the same name on vour portman
the train.” “
teau in
( l Yes, it is mine. It was round iny
darlingTrottv’s neck. Is he still alive?
p r3 y, pray don’t tell me he is dead!”
•-Very much alive, mv dear voung
j.uty, and ! an. here to beg you to come
and claim hirn. He is nuite too
for any of us to manage.” Then turning hi!
to the nurse and a baby on whom
eves had rested for a moment with j n .
tense relief as he entered the room, he
said to the woman, with flashing eyes:
“How dared you disobey me and go
wandering important off and losing yourself at the
most moment? Your stupid
ity has nearly been the death of us ail.
The other nurse has gone into fits, and
if *he dies, her blood will be on your
soul!”
“It was a pin, Kcocllenz,” the woman
unmoved.
, |.q vi . , n - !lluLeM later, Mrs. Roseleaf,
Dorris, Mr Lyman and the real baby
were packed into a carriage and were
spinning aloug to the Palazzo to which
'frotty had been conveyed.
Never in all her life will Doris
aspect ?,f rliin-s as she was ushered
ss
extreme ..*/%/, barking furiously at a
than touch him. If is cap was rakishly
careened to one side, lie hud torn his
lacc dreis for « and alt, and his shawl
traded sideways oo Hi-carpet.
rushing ‘| r otty, forward. dear Trotty!” cried Doris,
Benignity sinister and pleasure softened Trot
t y’s eye: slowly his tattered
beatific draperies swayed to and fro with the
wagging of his tail. He started
toward his mistress, bill tripped ignobly
in his petticoat and rolled over. “You
darling, you shall not Ire a baby any
more!” aud she tore oft the garments so
much the worm for wear, und allowed
Trotty to appear iu the dignity of his
own coat.
This interview, very painful for all
persons concerned, tave one, was ended
as soon as possible, and the Roseleaf*
were driven back to the station, there to
guards begin their usual their pleading wills the
to allow dog to accompany
them.
Before bidding them adieu, Mr. I.yman
managed w ith considerable rine.nu- to find
out where Mrs. Roseleaf and her daughter
were Oddly going to spend the next six weeks,
chance enough, lie appealed, quite by
of course, at the same place a
fortnight later, and somehow found it
necessary and expedient to go to there
sort next selected by them.
It so turned out that when Doris re
turned in the autumn to the “Loin
bardia ” she did have a handsome ad
mirer to flaunt in the faces of the other
girls. wonderfully
*■ lie is devoted. When
is the wedding to be?”
•• ] u May, Mrs. Host-leaf told me. She
is heart-broken at the idea of losing
Doris, but it is the only way she can be
rid of Trottv—and this thought consoles
her.” Trank Ledie's.
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The Punctilious M.xit-an.
clad l J oor, iu Imlf-slaiveu, lllllt dirty, m serably
r *t5» sc » reel y cover their
nakedness, the poor Mexicans still prae
tii e al1 unfailing courtesy that 1 have too
often found lacking among our parvenu
aristocrats, sitting aloft on their money
bags. This is practically demonstrated
wherever in Mexico Americans do eon
gregate. A little group will be gathered
011 will, a und corner, public American carrier*, what rushing you
an comes
i>» st - A block away can be read in his
eye the intention to rush through that
group of low-born mortals. Does he
scatter them in catapult fashion really t
Ah. no! A heavy leathern cushion, on
which the carrier supports his burden,
strikes him somehow carelessly, but
with almost force enough to knock him
breathless. The nguador slops sumo
water out of a brimming chococol over
his shoulder worship’s will be natty black garments, and blue and for his
a
fortnight from lire force of his collision
with the sturdy mozo. he By
into lhe gutter
to pass
raging. They look at each other eom
plamitty. grin silently, and fall into
place agaig as another gringo approaches,
Hut this one did not come to Mexico
the J ny before yesterday. He slacken?
his pace slightly as he comes near them,
perhaps hand touches his hat, perhaps and waves
Ids in loken of greeting, says
cheerily: "(’mi su lie ncla"—“By hat your
leave.” The ranks fall open, a or
two is snatched off, with "Base listed,
»**»<> miu>“—“Pa-s, my masler” -and
perhaps a sandaled foot is thrust out
mb away a splotch of mud on the puve
merit that might soil the shoes ot tlii*
courteous foreigner, traits the
When such exist among
superlative lower classes, it cun readily be seen what
polish the higher. of manner must pre
vail among It cost, me no
little mental self-flage yourself” lntion to learn tn
say “Pray should cover to a gentle- and
man who pause to greet me,
I remember more than one pung 1 have
felt at having left this to he said by iny
escort to men whose silver locks streamed
in a bleak wind or were moistened by a
soft rain, yet who would not replace the
hat without instigation.-- .Sun Tm/icixt
C/truniete.
A Telephone Millionaire.
Alexander Graham Hell is a very rich
mail, and so are all his relatives. While
, r,ch «’ ^. a nnot W he h “ derived f "‘ u » ,“ of his ie present vw ?
much doubt. . Should the decision of
in
,tle I nited Stales Supreme Court be ad-
40 Btdl 4, *e people of tlie country
'T' 11 8« 4 cheaper , telephone service, and
1 de < w els ” ’ l great monopoly will be
no longer , stuffed full to overflowing,
Bel1 » ", llaadso ' nc ‘ ?" lld,, » n - " nd «'*
‘'.'xury <> f ‘lie , handsomest house
in nashin^ton, He is lor well-built which man, lie with paid
a
4, licdt 4ialr " ,ld 4,0, " d ’ i ufl4 beginning to
turn gray, and lias a young-looking
face.
J ...... ot las home superb
,»
) ,lt ? r (, oluis, laic pamlmgs and soft
simound you on every side,
The furniture ol the house, a^marvel of
taste and richness. Ihe library, which
adjoinsrihe ul main enhance, is a model ol
J|; s k, | < ;"' ,s t -n' ,Nl n -‘*n f "‘I’?
Jderary pioduetions. I lie biiidin i r
‘hebooksis otthelughest perfection,
you almost fear to touch (lie covers.
Many ol the cliairs are of carved candle
'Y 00 ®’ ls ' Jeil 18 il deal mute al
though she , ; can who converse understands with her bus
hand readily, every
m oveinciR of j lips.
She wits rich before she married the
magnate, , 11 he lia mge y
’X to her ofiarge ^ bkeks of teLhone *
f f «*
Bell s hou«^ j '1.1° U a litBe Ule cotla- cottage' e where he “
eac !? es * ( / ®“ e f-, 'wonderful’discoveries „ il.
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’1 he membership Ihe the L'uion ( bib of
New York City, says Sun, is limited
to LOW. It is full, and there are over
500 applicants waiting; for some of the
old men to die, to resign, or to be ex
pelled • I he yearly average ol vacancies
now is tksty-live. fourteen If it keeps at that
figure for the next years it will
be that long before some of tho present
candidates will g«-t in. But the aspirants
realize ilos, auu heruicallly wml.
Fathers who want thesr sons to
have 1 hern proposed here almost directly after
they arc born. 'I are many young
sters of leu arid twelve years put uji
whose names will be leached, at the
present ate. just about when they be
come of aae.. and whim they will bo
eligible. the English 1 Ins nomination cu-tom. of babies i
after
NO. 23.
MIRAGE.
Clear -liming t hrough the swimming air,
Across a stretch of summer seas.
Far. lofty peaks glearu white and fair.
The heights of the Hesperides.
O far-off peaks! O happy isles!
1 sail ami sail and long for you.
And still th’ enticing vision smiles
To lure me o’er the waters blue.
Below those fair and gleaming heights,
Ne’er shrouded o'er by drifting snows,
Lie gal-item lilted with rare delights,
And there the golden apple grows.
J sail and sail and long lor you.
But never come to those fair isles;
Still stretches wide the bounless blue,
Forever still ihe scene beguiles.
l ie-limbed iho-e lofty mountain heights.
I'm- utt beyond the smiling sens,
L’nreached that garden of delights,
i’ntroddeu the Hesperides.
—KJitlt Sessions Tupper.
PITH AND POINT.
A hard ( use—Scliweizer base.
'1’he path of duty Through the Cus
tom-house.
The poet who itches for fame should
use a pen that scratches.
“You are chokin’ my lingers,” com
plained a little tot, to its mother, wiio
was holding its hand too tightly.
A New Yorker can go to the Hockv
mountains and tackle bears cheaper than
he tan ou Wall street .—LauimiUe Demo
crat.
It, is said that the iiinn who invented
Yolapuk got the his Wild idea from hearing Red
fSliiit, of West, show, try to
speak French.-— TUI-HU*.
The perforations nt the stub end of a
check, my dear boy, indicate precisely
where the cheek won’t tear when you
pull on it. — /V, U-iilelhhitt Call.
A Texas woman has invented a pie
safe, hut that is not what this country is
aching for. hour. A safe Miniieapotii pie is the howling Tribune.
need of the —
Arknnsnw swain (calling on his girl)
—“What makes the house shake so,
darling?” Girl — “It’s pop, up stairs.
He’s got, the fever ’n ague agin.”—
Jtjpocli.
Ulobson, who never goes out or comes
in without falling over an in antique calling jar his or
piec e of bronze, persists
wife’s collection “break-your-back.”--
Tn e Trent.
Minister .dining nice Rule .with the family)— church
“You were u noticed boy iu
this morning, Bobby. I you kept sir;
very quiet and still. ” Bobby “Yes,
I was afraid of waking pa up.”
“Does your mother wear felt slippers?”
Hskcd an old of a little boy where she
was visiting. “Yes, ma’am, she do.
I’ve felt ’em,” answered the small hoy,
significantly .—Detroit Tree /‘rear.
“What part of the fowl:” said Adolphus lie
Vera, you.”
“Whatever you like—that suits
He'd been very attentive to her for a year,
Ho slit- gurehim u w iug-mid he Tid-BUo. flew.
~
A suicide who killed himself with a
revolver said iu his note: “I know it is
foolish fo commit credit suicide, but please public rco for
that I get witli the
knowing that it was loaded .”—lioston
Gazette.
(t la all very well
For people to tell
Of the land of tliu lotus and Hazard,
But it shrivels us all
When down from Bl. Haul
CoineH tho blast of iis blustering blizzard.
—Buffalo Teprenr.
A prominent institution of learning
sent out circulars asking what honors its
graduates had attained in life. A bright
lady graduate responded: degree “At gradua- Since
tion I received the A. M.
graduation I have transposed the let
ters.”
The Maimfnetlire of Imitation Gems.
A New York jeweler tells a Mail and
Depietr reporter that imitation gems
“come from Obcratein, in Germany.
^hc entire town is supported by the
niauufacture j,'" 'fixed of such gems. How are
upf In various ways. This
Station diamond is only quartz, audit
], a8 keen boiled in some chemical tlrnt,
will make it. look brilliant for awhile,
but it soon wears off. If you bundle it
m , u; h it will not look so lustrous. Dia
mond , ft|e „ J( . hardl , Ht atoll( , s t0 bucC es8
f tl tiy imitate.”
“What other gems are manufactured
ch , p. liskcd , he reporter. H
(>f the easicst ig the emcraW .
Many stones you think rubies are only
re d spinal, and lazuli is only dyed chal
cedony. Chaleedonv is the usual base
of false onyxes ami agates, which arc
most counterfeited. Ihe stones are
boiled in some coloring matter and then
.ubjeotrf to inlenao whole heat. The Some color of
permeates the stone.
the familios at Oherstelu have one secret
ssjss into the Zircons, srrs which
same gems. are
hornet ma laid o.ar a topaz, so that the
whole appears to be one gem.”
An Agricultural Plaint.
on. j 9 t me drink from the moss grown pump
That was hewn from the pumpkin tree,
Eat mush and milk from a rural stump,
From form and fashionifree;
Nfc»-gutho"-<l mu-sh fiatu the mushroom
And rnilic from the milk-weed sweet,
with lueioas pineapple from the pine—
Buch food os the gods might oat!
All , tlMm thud,-dry-maid Uj lbtt whitewashed dairy i’ll turn
when hastening hies,
Ue.<- ruddy an 1 golden red butter to chum
From the milk of her l.ut'erllies;
And 111 rise at morn with [he early bird,
of grasshoppers —.3. out IF. to Post, gram, t'a Tid-Bilt,
