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VOL. I.
We av* told that the wolves devour
twenty thousand Russians a year.
The Japanese students at Cornell Uni
versity have a way of cooking English
sparrows so that they make a very palat
able dish, and the Japs like them so much
that they make a standirg offer of three
cents apiece for all the sparrows brought
to them. ’
The Portland Statesman speaks of
Oregon as the land of “tlie big red ap
pies.” The San Francisco Alta suggests
adopting the name in place of “Web
foot.” “The Red Apple State” sounds
appetizing, and is full of the sentimen
tal memories dear to people who love
the king of fruits.
It is said that one effect of the Em
peror William’s death is that fully 30,000
Germans who tlc-d to England to escape
conscription during the Franco-Prussian
war will now be at liberty to visit the
fatherland without being arrested for de
sertion, as their offense was only coeval
with the Emperor’s reign.
Says a Washington correspondent;
“There is no reason for the absurd re
ports that Chief Justice Fuller will have
to shave off his big, beautiful white
mustache in order to meet the traditional
wishes of the Supreme Court. Mr. Jus
tice Matthews, Mr. Justice Field and
Mr. Justice Lamar, of the present Court,
all wear mustaches.”
A great prodigy of memory was Daniel
McCartney, who died in an Iowa poor
house last winter. He could repeat 200
hymns verbatim, and remembered what
he had eaten for breakfast, dinner and
supper for forty years back. He could
raise any number under 40 to its sixth
power instantly. And even if given a
number above 40, as for instance 89, he
would give it its sixth power, 496,981,-
290,901, in a very few minutes.
i Flowers are making gardens of the
pavements in New York, announces the
i raphi Women seem to be wearing
them more than ever. At four o’clock
in the afternoon on Broadway the pink,
yellow and white blossoms will lend to
tbe promenaders a festival air. There
are torms of extravagance which every
body tolerates, and buying flowers isono
of them. A florist asserts that he did a
business of $47,000 last year in bouquets
and boxes of loose flowers. When to
this trade is added the dinner and call
orders the business of this one man must
be easily over $100,000 per annum. It
may be safely assumed that more than
a million dollars are annually expended
for flowers in New York City alone.
S=!
The United States Treasury pays $52,
000 a year >for reporting the debates,
whether Congress sits for one month or
for twelve, as the official reporters, like
most of the clerks, are paid by the year,
though they seldom do more than twelve
months’ work in tlie twenty-four months
“(it make up a Congressional term. Over
$!■>«. 000 are appropriated for clerks to
committees who have about the snugest
places in Washington. One’s day’s time
each week would in all fairness suffice
for the performance of their duties, nnd
that only when Congress is in session.
^ ben Hie adjournment takes place the
good clerks go home, and on the first of
every month the Sergeant.-at-Arms for
wards a check for the salary due him,
just tlie same as if lie were engaged in
the Government service every working
da v ia the year. It requires $681,000
-
to keep up (Be annual pay roll of the
o fleers, clerks and messengers that stand
about under tlie dome of the Capitol to
do the bidding of our 401 working Con
gressmen.
Another idol is shattered in the person
°f Miss Minnie Freeman, the Nebraska
school teacher, who was reported at the
time of the great blizzard in January last
to have saved her pupils after a difficult
and heroic struggle. It appears that
the story was an entire fabrication, and
Wa ’ telegraphed by.her lover, a telegraph
operator, to an Omaha paper. The facts
m the case are that, instead of tying her
pupils together and accompanying them
wine, two of the large boys escorted her
° me , aQ d say she would have perished
. f tbe
! y ba d not done so. Notwithstand
ing the situation, she continues to re
c ‘-i'e money which the stories of her
heroism had prompted kind-hearted in
G'iduals to send her. The Nebraska
* " ' Journal suggests that she would do
—Uemely graceful thing by turning
er the contributions she has received to
tne unfortunate teachers, Miss Royce,
Miss fihattuck and Miss Lena Weffalse.
really performed heroic deeds on
inis occasion, Such an act would be aH
the more appropriate because Miss Free
aan i s T icB and well, while the other
•eachers named are p<- and suffering
from their injuries.
GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1888.
A STREAM THAT FLOWS FOREVEH.
In W illow Brook I cast my hook,
And long I stood and waited;
But not a trout could I fling out
Though well my liook was baited;
Nor did complain, while yot no gain
Repaid my slack endeavor;
I only sought to take a thought
From the stream that flows fore
But I was told by one not old
(I wondered he should know it),
The hook must skip, and bob, and dip
And so, and so, you throw it,
And many a trout was hurried out
To pay his deft endeavor—
I only sought to lake a thought
From the stream that flows forever.
His trout now dead, had others bred,
For life is ever flowing:
This willow spray, unfurled to-day,
Six thousand years was growing.
The ripples glanced, and tripped, and danced,
M itn steps that lingered never;
While yet I sought to take a thought
From the stream that flows forever.
The brooklet drains the hoarded gains
The mountain-hand secureth;
Each drop is dead that fills its bed,
The stream alone endureth.
Be world on world to darkness hurled,
Succession endeth never;
Jehovah’s thought hath all things caught
In the stream that flows forever.
—.4. E. Allabcn, in Overland.
A “TERRIBLE MISTAKE.”
'
salary, and for re^ons , with , LTeh ta... W S ^ >OU kS ’
are acquainted, seek another l" vIknIckee, position
President Drovers’ Dank.
Phtadelphia, Dec. IS, 1887.
How many times John Jones had read
this note he could hardly have told,
Reasons with which I trust you are ac
quainted.” lie, the cashier of the Dro
vers'Bank, dismissed for reasons with
which he was acquainted. What did lie
mean ? What were the reasons, and why
was he supposed to be acquainted with
them? These were some of the ques
tions which he was putting to himself as
he sat in his l oom almost stupefied.
He did not fear inability to procure
another situation. John Jones was too
well known and had been too faithful in
Ins services at his bank to fear that; but
why was lie dismissed?
Well, he couldn’t find out until the
next day, unless, to be sure, he called
upon Mr. Knicker at his home, and that
John couldn’t do in the state of mind he
was in just then.
The feeling of injured innocense is
not John altogether finally unpleasant after all, and
curring dispersed the constantly re.
out. I-Ie questions, would and prepared to go
go and see Beth nis
Beth, and together they would talk over
the matter, and he would decide what.
to do.
John Jones had been sick all day A
blind headache had begun to bother him
before he had left the' bank the day be
fore, aud had grown constantly worse all
that night until when morning came he
was unable to go to his business The
headache was forgotten now occasion
a throb of pain would make him wince
physically, thoroughly but his thoughts were too
occupied with that unac
countable note to'realize the min
He soon left the house and decided to
walk up Chestnut street and thence to
see Beth. He saw no one, did not even
feel the exertion of walking until lie
brought who up with a bang against a gentle
man lection, lie was mechanically going in the opposite di
and started but did apologized
on, soon the same
thing again, and saw he was unable to
think about the present, even enough to
dodge his fellow pedestrians. He called
a cab and gave the driver orders to take
that thejUtiad Parted hfw" Jroused'bv
the sudden pulling up of the vehicle and
the opened man, clambering down irom his’seat,
the door and stood waitin'*- for
him to get out. He did the'driver so and started
up to ring the bell when called
after him. He had forgotten the man’s
fee. He paid him, and then pulled the
bell.
The door opened and lie passed in, not
speaking him. to the servants who admitted
lie seated himself and didn’t
move for three or four minutes. This
time it was the servant who aroused him.
“ Who do you wish to see. sir !”
John then noticed for the first time
that he had never seen the man before.
He turned to him, and the man started
back and asked him if he were ill. John
paid told no attention to his question, but
him to teii Miss Hughes that Mr.
Jones was in the parlor. Then he set
tied into his former position aDU did
not move again until Mr. Hughes en
tered and said :
“ Well, sir ?”
John looked up and asked for Beth.
“ My daughter is engaged at present,”
said Mr. Hughes. ’
Beth engaged when he, her betrothed
husband, was waiting to see her ? That
was very strange; he couldn’t
gtand it. Bnt he said; “Very well, I
; will wait.”,
“Miss this Hughes evening will and be requested unable to see
you me to
give you this package. I am sorry, Mr.
Jones, but I must beg you to discon
tinue your calls.”
Great God 1 What did it mean ? John
was thoroughly, painfully wide awake
now, and sprang to his feet.
“ Bertha can’t see me, and you ask me
to discontinue my visits ? Please tell
me why ?”
He was now standing perfectly straight
and gazing composedly but intently at
Mr. Hughes. understand the
“I trust that you
reasons, Mr. Jones, as well as I do,” said
Mr. Hughes, with a peculiar look.
Almost the identical words Knicker
had used in his note. John turned with
out a word and left the house. He did
not night put on cold. bis overcoat, kUhoilglt liis the
liis was and walked. He tipped hat realized over
eyes He now
how sick he was. His head throbbed
until lie thought it would burst. What
did lie care? It oven made liitn smile a
little to think of it. He pulled liis liftt
down hurt hard, so hard that its tightness would
him. He wondered if that
make his head ache any harder. He
wondered if liis head could ache any
harder. If it could he should like to
have it. He didn’t notice where he was
going, by but. suddenly surprised hituself
ing unlocking the and door of liis house, Ah! go
up stairs sitting down.
there was the afternoon paper. He
would read the accounts of the misery
of others and smile to think how much
more miserable lie was than any of
them. He picked it up, glanced it
over, and was about to lay it down
again when his attention was arrested by
this headline:
“A BANK IN A HOLE.”
DROVERS DEFRAUDED BY AN OLD EM
PLOYE.
M hat , was that. . , . I lie Drovers , Bank _ ,
defrauded. B hy, he used to be cashier
at the Drovers Bank. tV hat a long
time it seemed since he had stood at the
cashier s desk, and yet it was only yes
teiday. He didnt care now about Mr.
K nicker s note Beth s message had in
flic ted a so much deeper sting that he
had almost forgotten the note, but he
would read the article, and he thought
he should feel pleased to learn that
K ” had h ? ctt ch eate i
‘ I Ins morning when , 1 . \ . Knicker, . ,
the 1 resident of the Drovers Bank,
reached the office, he found a note tell
ln S b,m that Ins cashier, John Jones,
andwouldbeunable to be at
desk to-day Mr. Knicker is a very
careful man in business matters, and he
decided to take the duties of cashier
upon himself until Mr. Jones was in a
condition to relieve him. He, accord
jngly, * or vv01 unlocked ’h- Soon the Adam, vaults Mealie and prepared & John
S0I l presented a check lor a large amount
and > ll P ou referring to the record of
yesterday’s business, Mr. Knicker found
that a package of ten $1000 bills had
.® n deposited. He those immediately bills cash- de
? K C< ; t° use one of in
ing the check, and. going to t he vault,
removed the package supposed to con
blln them. In counting the money, he
found nine $1000 .bills and a $100 bill.
Hn investigation it transpired that the
last person who had handled the bills
xvas.John into Jones, the hands the cashier. of the cashier, Before
passing bad
, f’ 10 > however, been handled that by
)Ul subordinates, who reported
there were ten of the $1000 notes m the
P ac ket when they saw it. It then went
to ’* one ; s > an d one of the clerks hap
P enei , ’ to be standing near by, when
J° u cstookit. The clerk noticed par
ticularl y that Mr. Jones seemed to find
it; ail ri 8 ht - but that instead of pinning
the ,ltt;e sl .‘P of .P a P er with the am0,mt
marked on it, which it is customary to
P laco arond packages of money, he with
drew one of the bills a,ld laid the others
loose 011 hls desk - Thc c!erk was then
oalled to some olh " r P art of tlle room
at ' d coin ,* ive 110 f ! lrtbcr information
0lhcr evidence . conclusively , shows that
notwithstanding Mr. Jones’s previous
and lnt ”g nt y bc the has y“Med to temptation
gone way of many others. It is
mentioned incidentally that that very
morning Mr. Jones had said he was in
« reat ne cd of * 000 i the exact amount
extracted , from the package Mr.
fn, ' ke ''- in consideration of Jones s
for ' ncr uprightness and stnc t discharge
of W ‘ ,r0se " ut c
Joh n rCad m is ° nce * twice, . hree times, ..
He T7 only . uttered , two words: “My God’’
i ’ i * lhn « b f k h ‘ s chair f dh wld ®'
T' n P’f be sa stann S a the wal1 '.
lb ® cl " ck tlcked , awa y on lll , « “ ntc
^ the fi fire grew lower and almost
f tai-ini ied ’JJl e stariwall. T s P uttered and 'Vinallyrt smoked,
s
gr ‘ ldua J became light, and the noise of
tramc , began m tlie street. John moved
uneas, *y> lo°Kctl around the room and got
,!1> ’ 11 is head, he thought, was aching
somewhat harder than on the night be
for ?>. and be bathed, it. I here was a
ycs 1U » hT 110 was sure hl,lc Ms head was'aching was
. harder. What that Why,of
was noise?
course, some one was knocking at his
uoor. lie would open it and see who it
was a messenger boy. He took the
message, opened it, and forgot to read
e was stan ding still and wondering
ll it was foggy outside or if his eyes were
, im '
R - ,, T ^ . ' , ^ - "‘m, sald • to wait ... for an answer ’ „
* , . , ^ _
ah ™
WOul<1 rend rca<i it lb
“Bear John— Como and see me today.
I cannot believe it. Beth .”
Who was Beth? Oh! he remembered
now she was the girl who had prmised to
marry him, the thief. The word, he
thought, and sounded well, so he said it over
over again. Thief! Thief! Thief!
The boy asked for the answer.
“Well.” he laughed wildly, “tell her I
will be there.”
John sat down again, and again began
glaring o’clock at the and wall. John It was nearly 10
now, got up and put
on brushed liis overcoat them and and hat, scrupulously
took cub and went out. Beth’s He again
a went to house.
This time he paid the cabman, and as he
went in was about to speak to the serv
ant when he saw that it was Beth her
self who had opened the door. He,
however, was not at all surpiised, but
said would good have morning done the to her much as he
to servant,
“Oh, John. I am so glad you have
come—why, John, are you ill?”
He laughed and again said good morn
ing- He down preceded in the her into the parlor
and sat same chair he occu
pie 1 the night before. He was laughing
quietly to himself all the time. His head
was aching terribly now, and that was
very funny.
“John, dear >ohn, tell me it . isn . t true.
1 kiicfw it is hot. I was tasty last night,
jOliii; Wolff you forgive me!”
John looked at her, brushed a speck
from his knee, and laughed a little
louder.
“Jdliu, John, Why don’t you answer
me? Why don’t you tell me it isn’t true?
But nd, I won’t ask that, I know it
isn’t.” She throw her arms around him
and sank at his side.
He did not move, but stopped laugh
ing. Oh! how his head did aehe. bio,
it had stopped aching. Where was lie ?
sobblilg. Oh, yes. Beth was with him and was
didn’t Why was but she thought crying? He
remember, that he
was connected with it some way, he
didn’t know how. He lifted her head
from his knee, bent down, and kissed
her. Kissed her many times, and drew
hei' up, folding his arms about
her aud telling her he was sorry. Wliat
he was sorry for he couldn’t, have said.
He got up and drawing her to him,
kissed her again aud said: “Good-by,
Beth.”
Ho could see her lips move but he
did n’t hear anything. He went to the
doo * opened it, and went down io the
street and wondered why the horses and
wagons ijf.itfy didn’t make any noise. How
s everything they went along; how quiet
was. He couldn’t even bear
Bis | 0 wn footsteps. Lie looked at his
Wi ,tch and saw that it was nearly 12
o'clock. The bank had been opened
n e.ifly two hours. He would be late for
Buafuess. ,f{,Bn Well, he would hurry,
had forgotten that lie was no
longer cashier of the Drovers’ Bank, he
only ,1:, remembered that he would be late
i flask Ho reached the bank
wa X ed in took oil his coat and liat, and
st fd t0 g0 behind liis desk. Mr.
Kilter ^ confronted him, and he suddenly
g it all again . The note, the news
p rpjjjg a p er aac | the night before at Beth's.
ieman’, mim benevolent-looking at"him old
„, tot who was frowning
bad branded him as a thief.
^‘It’s a lie! it’s a lie I” he shouted,
Great God, how his head ached. Well,
bn bad told Mr. Knicker that it was a he;
^ c0lll(1 now
He took down his coat and hat, put
them on, and went out into the street,
jj ow . was this? This wasn’t the city
street he had just left; this was the old
grass-grown lane running before his old
borne. How the sun shone! IIow tlie
birds sang! There was the yard with
the old farm wagons and haystacks
standing at one side, and yes—ves—
there was the old tortoise-shell cat sun
ning himself on the fence. silver, There stand- were
the old milk pans, bright as
j n a row on the grass by the kitchen
door . But best—far best of all—there
wag Bis mother who had lain in the
churchyard up on the lull for ten years,
Bolding out her arms to him. old mother!”
»<o mother! O, my dear
All was black,
there When John regained around consciousness him, but
were many faces
the light was so dim that he couldn’t see
whether he knew them or not. He
heard some one say, in a soft voice: “He
has opened his eyes. Then one of the
faces leaned forward and kissed him. It
was Beth.
“John, John, don’t you know me?”
John lifted his arms and pressed the
sweet face to his breast.
“John, here is Mr. Knicker come to
tell you it is all a terrible mistake.”
John didn’t look at Mr. Knicker, but
kept his eyes on the sweet face close to
him. His hand gently smoothed her
hair, and he kissed her lips.
“Beth, my darling Beth, how I love
you. Of course I forgive you, and we
will go-His voice sounded strange
and weak. IIow hard it was to talk,
“We will go and get married, won’t we,
dear? Why, there is mother. Mother,
this is Beth. We are going to bc
mar--”
John Jones was dead.— Inter-Ocean.
Grant’s Luck in Selling His Book,
Leonard Swctt told an interesting
story tlie other traditional day, illustrative of Gen
oral Grant's is good called luck, shrewd- as
W ell as his lack of wliat
ness in commercial dealings. When
o ra! ,t was engaged in writing his had me
! n ° irS Company, which
been publishing some of his war articles
in thc CerUun/ Magazine , offered him
| 10 ,000 for the publisher, manuscript of had his his book,
"Webster, the also eye
on ^Be alert for the forthcoming work,
and one dil y ca iied on the general to m
( , n j re about it. Grant was seated at his
desk, about to attach his signature to
the Century Company's contract, which
lay before him. It had apparently never
occurred to him to ask more for his lite
rary production. Webster intimated
that he would like to make an offer.
“If it would not be impertinent,” he
said, Century “I would like to inquire how much
the Company agrees to pay you
“Ten thousand dollars,” General Grant
said.
“Then I wouldn’t sign the contract
just yet,” said Webster.
“Why not?” $50,000.
“Because I will pay you
General Grant opened his eyes with
amazement. It had not occurred to him
to set so high a value on his work; he
had not thought of dickering beyond
the first offer. But he did not sign the
contract.
Afterward Mark Twain, Webster’s
relative aud business partner, called and
told thc offered general that none of the manuscript publish
ers had him what his
was worth. “I will give you $100,0 10
and a royalty,” he said. So Webster <fe
Co. became Grant’s publishers. The
firm has grown rich out of Grant’s book,
and Grant’s familv has been paid over
$500,000.
in “And Grant’s book,” said Mr. Swett,
conclusion, “will become a classic
more valuable than Ctesar’s Commenta
ries. I consider it the greatest achieve
ment of General Grant’s wonderful life
to have written such a work with death
locking Times. over his shoulders. — Chicago
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Be ehccrful. A light heart lives
long.
The most profound joy has more of
gravity than gaiety in it.
Shame comes to no man unless ho
himself helps it on the way.
Kemember, every moment of resist
ance to temptation is a victory.
The end of man is an action and not a
thought, though it were the noblest.
Work and play are necessary to each
other, but they should not be mixed.
lie who buys hath need of a hundred
eyes, and he who sells hath enough of
one. .
One may live like a conqueror, die a king,
a magistrate, but he must as a
man.
Nothing is so contagions as example; much
evil we are without never cither much good or
imitators.
Wickedness may prosper for a while;
but, in the long run, he who sets all
knaves at work will pay them.
A man of strong character always
make enemies, but because a man has
many enemies you cannot be quite sure
that he is a man of strong character.
Teach self-denial, and make its prac
tice pleasurable, and you create for the
world a destiny more sublime than ever
issued from the brain of the wildest
dreamer.
Those who, in confidence disregard of superior the
capacities or attainments,
common maxims of life, should remem
ber prudence; that nothing that can atone for and the irregu- want
of negligence knowl
larity long coptinued will make
edge useless, wit ridiculous aud genius
contemptible.
A Clown’s Expensive Fnn.
The Russian clown, Turoff, of tlie
Petcraberg Ciniselli Circus, trotted a
well-trained and knowing-looking liog
out into the arena, and caused it to carry
and fetch sundry objects in obedience to
his orders in the most approved canine
insisted style. The audience was delighted, and thc
on an encore, whereupon into
clown threw a paper rouble note
the arena and ordered tlie pig to fetch it
to him. Piggy trotted up to tho note,
sniffed at it disdainfully, and finally,
notwithstanding the vituperations and
objurgations of the clown, deliberately
turned its back upon the note and trotted
away. On seeing this, the clown
shrugged the exclaimed: his shoulders, “Well, and addressing all,
pig, after you
are not to be blamed 1 If a man like
Wishnegradski (the Minister of Fnanee)
is unable to raise the rouble note, surely
one cannot expect a poor ignorant pig,
like yourself, to do so!” The Minister
of Finance was indignant, and on the
following day the clown was summoned
into the presence of General Gressei,
chief of the city police, and ordered by
him to jail for a period of three days,
waited On emerging until from night, prison, when the General clown
one
Grosser, with his family, was present at
tlie performance in one of the boxes. As
soon as he saw the chief of police, tho
clown drove a whole troupe of trained
pigs into the arena, and made them squat
down all in a row on chairs. Thereupon
he explained imprisonment, to tho he public had attempted that, during
liis to
pass away tlie time by learning German,
and then, with the object of showing tiie
audience what progress he had made, lie
turned to the pigs, and addressed them
in that language. Commencing with tho
smallest pig, lie exclaimed, as he ten
dcrly patted its snout: “You are only a
little pig, but you,” he added, to the
next bigger), one, “aregresser and you,” (thc German patois the
for turning to
third, “are also grosser, while you,” big
turning to the fourth, “are a very
pig.” The audience fairly roared with
laughter, but General Gresser considered
that he had been grossly and publicly in
sulted, The and immediately the left the build
ing. same night heard clown was
arrested, and when last of, poor
Turoff was on his way to Siberia, where,
at hard labor in the salt-mines, he will
have time to reflect on the folly of pok
ing Agonaut. fun at the chief of the Czar’s police.
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The .Making of Glass Tubes.
“IIow is glass tubing made?” said a
Mail and Express reporter to a large New
York dealer.
t - Well, it will not take very long to
tell you all I know about it, but its
manufacture is surprisingly simple. The
glass blower takes a small quantity of
melted glass from the pot with his
blowing tube, rolls it cylindrical slightly on a
marble slab to give it. a form,
he then adds a small quantity of glass
from the same pot, and blows the en
larged mass while the rolling cylindrical. it, taking
great pains to keep calibre shape required,
If the tubes of large are
the inside diameter of tho cylinder is
enlarged and the glass is allowed to cool
slightly before drawing. For tubes of
very small calibre, such as thermometer
tubes, the internal diameter is decreased
atid the glass is used very warm.
In making a piece of glass tubing the
assistant places a ball ot glass agamst the
end of the glass cylinder by aid of his
blowing tube. Now the men, each
holding an end of the glass cylinder by
means of their blowing tubes, begin to
separate, walking backward. The
cylinder is thus lengthened, and at the
same time made smaller in diameter,
When the tube has attained the right
size it is generally too warm aud soft to
admit of laying it down without destroy
ing its shape; When it is it then sufficiently cooled by cooled, means
of a fan. is
it is laid upon a series of equidistant
parallel blocks of uniform length, where
it remains until cool. It is then cut
into lengths with a diamond or file. If
the tubes are changes required to resist great
pressure or of temperature, they
are annealed, linseed by plungin them into
boiling oil, and then cooled.
NO. 37.
THE LITTLE SCHOOL HOUSE.
In the little white school house just under the
hill
Half hid by the maples, and close to the mill
Whose wide spreading branches affords
sweet shade
As we listened to the music the old mill wheel
mado
With its buzz and whirr, its clatter and din,
It marshaled us out, and ushered us in.
A pleasanter resting place could ne’er have
been fouud,
Than this roomy and airy old pleasure ground,
The swallows were nesting under the eaves.
And glimpses of sky shining blue through the
leaves,
Making picture so pleasing on memory’s wall.
That tlie stoutest heart softens as those days
they recall.
The signal for entering now falls on the ear,
'Tis the old school bell ringing, in tones loud
and clear.
To hasten the loiterer that lags by the way.
And bids the busy ones cease from their play.
Refrain from their mischief, laughter and
fun,
Be earnest and studious, for school has begun,
On through the entrance that leads to the
• room,
With never a sunbeam to lighten the gloom,
We enter tho school room so narrow and low.
Through the wide open windows the summer
winds blow;
And tne murmur of voices floats out on tho
air,
As they answer tho roll call or join in the
prayer.
On tho rough wooden benches, narrow and
low,
Are bright faces shining, with health’s ruddy
glow,
Over exercise poring some are earnest intent,
While an occasional urchin on mischief is
bent;
Fearing tho penalty of being detained after
school,
Or committing to memory some unpleasant
rule.
We gaze at the old desks, grimy and black,
And a host of foiul memories carry us back
To the bright days of childhood so happy and
g»y.
E’er sorrow or trouble could drive them
away;
Reluctant to leave it, I pause on the sill,
Breathe a prayer for the school house just
under the hill.
—Good Housekeeping.
PITH AN1J POINT. i
Military measures—Right foot, left
foot.
A headlong man is. not a man with a
long head.
Only a question of time—A fast trot
ters record.
A n ‘ ‘okl stamping-ground”—The
Post-office.
The crow very rarely leaves a place
without caws.
Half a loaf would never satisfy a
thorough loafer.
There is no such word as “fail” among
tho fruit preservers. Their motto is:
“I can.”
Shakespeare was not a broker; but
who else has furnished so many stocK
quotations.
Real estate owners don’t like children,
but they Have no objection to pay rents.
—Boston Courier.
Station Cry: “Will you have a han
som, gentleman?” Pretty girl—-sotto homely
voce: “1 wonder who’d want a
one?”— J‘hiluddphia Call.
In the bright lexicon of youth there is
no such word as fail, but later on, when
the youth gets into business for himself,
then the word shows up in good shape.
She (at the races)—“What’s the
trouble at the judge’s stand, George?” the
He—“There is some dispute over
last heat.” She—“Aren’t their thermo
meters all alike, George?”— Siftings.
There was a young mail this in Japan, i
Who wrote verses after plan;
But tho populace rose, I
As you may suppose,
Ami they willed out tiiat wretched
man.
— Courier-Journal.
A grandma with a small boy boarded
a car the other day. aud the collector
rang the indicator twice. “What s that
for?” she asked. “That’s two o’clock,”
answered the boy. In a minute or two
another passenger got on, and again tho
register rung. “Three o’clock!” ex
claimed tho old lady as she bobbed
around on her seat. “My stars! but
bow time does fly in the city!”— New
York News.
Wandering Celestial Bodies.
Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter,
at the distance of about 250,009,000
miles from the suri, there revolve some
265 little bodies whose diameters vary
from eight or ten miles to 200. Whether
they are, as Professor Young once de
scribed them, parts of a planet spoiled
in the making or not is unknown and,
perhaps, may never be solved. But cer
min it is that there are almost number
] CS s little celestial bodies of this char
acter, whose revolutions around the sun
are Hie performed planets. as unerringly They as those of
larger are called
which planetoids, resembling from two Greek words,
derer. mean a planet or wan
Mis-mated.
Wife—“I hear that young Mr. Sissy
and Miss Gushington are to be married.”
Husband—“Is that so?”
Wife—“Yes, but the union will never
be a happy one?”
Husband — “Why not?”
Wife—“Because he parts his hair in
the middle and she parts hers on ths
side.”— Epoch.
