TACTS AND riHUKlIH.
Pliiliiilolnlitii nmnnfiu'ttirml $10,
OOW.OOO worth of ttmbrollim lint spur.
The poi)uliitto7i of Atliuns, Aln., !
8,000) and it valimlioii $8,OO0,O0O-u
DioiihiukI lo each inlmuitmit.
It Is cHlimutuil tlmt thoro nro three
tliuAsiunl imlustrliil ostiiulhliniuittfl In
llio Hopnbllo of Mexico wlioro ak'uni
power is ttsod.
Grlllln, Ga., litis tlio ltimOHt punch
orchard in thu South, eoiituiiiiiitf At), 000
Iroos and covering most of GU0 aoros.
On tlio sumo farm aro -1,000 grafted ap
plo trees and 5,000 pear trees.
Four thousand of tlio Shstrploss
family hold n reunion rocently at the
old Sharplofl homcHtead near Water
vlllo, Pit. Thoy woto doseondants ol
old John Slmrplcss, a Quaker who lived
thcro 200 years ago. An artist photo
graphed tho family in groups of 1.00C
oaoh. Philadelphia Press.
Tlio valuo of property in tho United
Stales Is held to be fully 50,000,000,.
000, making it the richest country in the
world. England, tho next richest, has
.911,100,000,000, and Trance comes next
With 117, 200, 000,000. The average lo
every inhabitant In England is about
$I,.J00 and in tho United States but
$1,000. Chicago Herald.
Tlio animal production of Canada
nmlt is about (5(5,000,000 pounds. Ol
tills nearly 2:1,000,000 pounds aro ov
portod to tho United States. Tho imports-
almost wholly confined lo liritish
Columbia barely oxoeod l.0,000
pounds. In Toronto alone there are
1,800,000 gallons of beer browed, while
tho capital employed amounts to $D,
000.000. Tho manufacture of poaeh-baskols
lias become an Important industry.
Yours ago tho baskets were nmdo by
hand, costing from Jfi to 110 cents, and
the loss of any considerable number of
them was a serious matter. Hut tho
establishment of great factories, re
quired by tho growth of the poach
trade, has reduced the price to a mod
erate figure, varying from to 8 per
100. Along the Maryland railroads
thoro aro now eight or nine basket
factories, eaeli making from 2,00 to
1,000 baskets a day (luring tho busy
seabon. Tho bottoms ami hoops are
made of Maryland pine, and the slaves
from tho Delaware gum tree. Chicago
Times.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Love reckons hours for mouths, and
days for years, and ovory little absence
is an ao. Dry din
Tlio proper way to chock slander
is lo desplso It; attempt to overtake and
refute it, and it will outrun you. Ucorgt
Eliot.
A thick corn-husk is not a sign of a
hard winter, as some folks think. It
makes no dillereiico lo corn-husks what
tlio weather is. Detroit Free Press.
Yes, siiVsays tho oldest resident,
" tlio first trip I nmdo from Lowell t
Hostou was over the old canal, and I
worked my passago on tho canal-beat."
Worked" your passage P HowP" in
quired ids audience. "I led Hie horse,"
solemnly remarked the ancient mariner.
Togg lias got an idea at last, and he
Miys there's millions in it, as it meets a
long-felt want. It is nothing less than
a revolving house, which is lo turn upon
n pivot, so that the best rooms shall al
ways face tho sun in winter and bo in
tlio shade in summer Togg has a groat
head. New Haven ItegisUr.
A student of human nature was the
Yankee hchoolm'am who undertook tin
euro of a school out Wo"t, where hot
predecessor, a man, had been tossed
through tho window by tho rebellious
pupils. She got along spleudidl ; and,
when asked how sho managed it, re
plied: Oh, easily enough. I thrashed
the littlo boys and mashed the big
ones."
"I declare, Julia," oxelaimod
Mrs. Marrowfat, as her eldest daugblot
seated horsolf at tho breakfast table,
"your lips aro all broke out in a rash."
"Yes," returned, Julia, with bashful
candor, and a heightened color that
looked as if tlio rash,, was spreading all
over her face, " Charley has begun to
let his mustaelio grow again." Brook
lyn Eagle.
A coachman calls upon the doctor
Ui nsk what otwi bo tho matter with
hint. " My good man," said tins prince
of hclence, " you' vq got dropsy -that's
what ails you." "Dropsy! What's
thalP" " It's a morbid collection of
lluld in tho borous cavities within tho
body in your easo, 1 lake it hydroperi
toneutu caused by cirrhosis of tlio liver,
but eurablo by paracentesis," I
know, but what, is it in English?"
"You are all full of water insjilo."
"Water? Oh, that's nonsense." (H
tleets a moment.) "That scoundrel of
a s iloou-keoper must have watered his
liquor, and yet ho swore to mo he
didn't." Chicago Times.
A Chase for a Kulir,
'I hero was a funny chase for a baby
at Tlaiiivillo, (Joint., on Wednesday
morning. A woman stopped irom a
train a momont to question tlio ajjont,
and tho train pulled out suddenly with
out hor, canning oil Iter baby. Her
frenzy moved tho good ticket agent to
telegraph to Bristol and order t he baby
returned. Tho train dropped tho infant
nt Korostviljo, and a good man footed
tl thither and -lugged 'tho-baby Imok to
Tlaiiivillo. Tho mother, moantitno
giown impatient, had gone to Torost
villo on tho engine of agravol train. tSo
baok went tlio good man with tho baby
to Torostvillo, there to loam that tho
frantic mother had returned to Tlaiii
villo. Tho man thou telephoned to the
woman to sit still half an hour, which
iKho did, and got baok hor infant.
Springfield (Mass,) llcpublican.
Tho rhino.
Tho old idea was that a piano was
bought and brought to tho ltotlso Willi
much bruising of its beautiful' legf and
much iniilllou profanity on vtho part of
tho draymen, to be tilayod on What
superlative notiHonso! What a stale and
preposterous suggestion! What a rollo
of barbaric ignorance! A piano to bo
played on I Go to.
Thank tho stars tho dayH of suoli Htu
pidity aro over, and tho true, sole and
natural use of a piano It becoming
generally understood. A plnno Is put
into a 'house for tltoso simple pur
poses and none other. Tls top Is de
signed as a pin 'o for a photograph al
lium, a brilliant lamp-mat ana a vaso of
flowers. Its rack is intended as a rest
for art oiicn book an open book cov
ered with pictuios of farm, and fencs,
upon which are perched innumerable
black birds. lis stool is placed thoro
for tho nervous young man In company
to sit on and whirl, and writhe and
wriggle. Its richly carved logs aro
sprawled out for near-sighted and awk
ward people to run against, and upon
being solicitously asked by tho hostess
if they aro hurt, to reply, with tho hot
tears of anguish gushing into their
eyes: "Not in the least; only justgrazed
it."
Such are tho legitimate uses qf an
able bodied anil well-limbed piano in
its various parts ami proportions. As a
whole the piano serves two other and
nobler purpo-ies. The one is it imparts
character, statelinoss and an air of
alllnoiico to a household establishment.
Tho proud-spirited host points to the
rosewood Instrument and seems to say
to his assembled guests: "You behold
that majestic instrument. It is grand,
square and upright. Is it not symbolic
of its owner is he not griind, square
and upright?" Uf course nobody can
play on it not one of his quartet of
daughters but it is to bo remembered
that it was not put there to play on, and
who would ask its owner to put it to per
verse use?
But after all tho real mission of a
piano In tlio house is this a place for a
young lady to sit and idly turn tho
leaves' of a blackbird book, and a some
thing for a young gentleman to hang
over and now and then breatho softly
in tlio young lady's ear lo let her know
that ho is growing weak, but ho still
lives. It is an affecting sight to observe
a young man hang over a piano. Tow
young men know how to hang over u
piano in good form. One must not
bend too low, as if ho were looking for a
lost sleevo button or a nickel, nor yot
lio too rigid and inllexib'o, liko a wood
en .soldier on a wcalitor vuiio. A com
promisoof those nttitudes'wlthnlittloob
liquo leaning toward the stool and its
occupant is about tlio correct thing in
piano hanging.
Now and then by way of novollj' nn
attempt is made on a grand social occa
sion to actually play the piano. A dis
mal young man loads an exhaustive
young lady to the piano. An awful
silence jiorvndcs tho drawing room.
The somber young man slowly lifus tho
lid, as if lie was about to view there
mains of the last relative ho had on
earth. The young lady wildly runs hor
lingers over the keys thoro is a sob, a
wail, a vociferation of violent grief, a
ory of comfortless despair nnil all is
over. Tito young lad' sinks upon tho
nearest sofa. Tho young man lowers
tho lid, turns away liis head and is soon
no more.
Vorily, tho day of superstition and
mistaken ideas is over, and piano play
ing has pas.sod away with tlio many fol
lies ami tonnes or our purblind mid un
cultured ancestry. New London Tele
gram. How Tarantulas Tight.
There was recently received in Don
vor, for storo exhibition, two full-grown
tarantulas, ono of tho jirown and tho
othet of tho black variety. Tlio brown
ioiiow was caged in a common cigar
box and tho black ono in a glass jar.
As thoy could not bo exhibited to ad
vantage in contrivances of this kind,
ami as thoy were not vor, pleasant
company to have running iiGottt looso,
a box almost two foot square with a
jlitss top was procured, on tho bottom
of which a layer of sand was spread to
tnako tho animalsleol at home. Tho
cover was then drawn and tho two
spiders pitched into it front their sepa
rate cages. No sooner did tho ono dis
cover tlio other's presence than they
rushed ut ouch other as viciously us two
panthers, and immediately closed in
deadly embrace. Thoy came together
with a bound, and then twining their
long hairy logs about each othor tolled
over and over in the sand, biting eaeli
other savairelv. and then tujririnir with
all their might .vfif endeavoring to crush
each other by sheer muscular power,
incredible twit may sooni, this sort of
warfare was kept up for six hours,
during most of wliiult time it could not
bo soon that either was gaining tlio
slightest advantage, as neither showed
any sign of disposition to end the tight
except by the death of his adversary.
At last tlio black otto rolled over dead
on tho sand whilo tho victor immediate
ly proceeded to roup tho spoils of his
long batllo. Soizmg his vanquished
enemy in his stout horns, or pincers, or
whatever contrivance bo has for that
purpose, bo rapidly toro him limb front
limb, and coolh, proceeded, in tlio
cannibalistic lasltiou to make a meal of
hint. In u very short time nothing was
loft except a little pilo of logs anil
plocos of shell to mark tlio spot whoro
otto tarantula had fallow and another
had dined. Denver Tribune.
Ada Wordon, twelve yoars old, who
foil a distance of sixty fout recently at
Boston, has astonished tlio doctors by
getting well. Her mother bollovos that
faith and prayer did it.
llKIiIUIUUS AM) EDUCATIONAL.
At homo tho Moravians numbor
only 20,00'J; but thoy have gathered 73,
000 heiitlionjinto Uicfofil.
Tho'oldctt Tre.obytcrlan Church In
tho world, tho Wiihlenshin, sends out
moro missionaries from Iter highland
valleys than all her ministers at homo.
Three thousand five hundred church
es have been built in tills country dur
ing tho past fifteen years, and more than
ono for ovory day In tho year during tlio
last twelve months.
A candidate for a teacher's corti fl
oat o in tlio recent examination at El Do
rado, gave on a reason for the length
ened days of summer that they were ex
panded by tho heat. Of course thoy
contract in tlio winter. Leavenworth
Times.
Hev. Miss Anna Oliver says that tho
ideal Christian woman its tlio salvation
of tho Church, and expresses the belief
if women loso faith in tlio Church and
Christian religion in its general outlines
tho wliplo fabric of modern theology
will fall apart.
A Hindoo mother, after listening
hour after hour to the lady missionary
as sho explained tlio way of froo salva
tion, exclaimed: "Tell mo more." At
hist when tlio long talk must close tho
old mother drew from under hor veil
tho thin, gray hairs, saying: "These
hairs have grown white waiting for
such words as those."
Tho industrial schools aro
having
tlio In-
an apparently good eiloot upon
dians. I ho rod men nave
bejrun to
work well and to take a prido in their
work. General Armstrong behoves
that within livo years, with tlio 100 In
dians at Hampton, Va., and tho 5100 at
Carlisle, Pa., and others under inlruo
tion elsewhere, all the shoos and har
ness needed on the plains can be made
by tlio young men at homo. Chicago
Journal.
Mr. Spurgeon, whilo in Scotland,
recently preached in the grounds of
Beumo're. A tomporary pulpit was
erected on tlio lawn, and Mr. Spurgeon
addressed an open-air congtogittion of,
nearly fi.OOO people, who had come in
from "all tho country side," many per
sons having walked over ten miles ex
pressly to bo present, for the uuslero
Puritans of this part of Scotland would
regard driving on such an occasion us
it " Sabbath desecration " of the most
heinous nature, AT. T. Post.
How tho Czar Enjoys Himself.
In tho meanwhile the Emperor enjoys
himself after his stylo at Totorholl', de
fended on ovory side liko a fortress, but
occasionally openly showing himself to
tlio enoniy tho public. The Empress
is slowly recovering from hor confine
ment, but the nervous prostration still
remains, and it is said that it is largely
for her sako that the coronation has
been left in its present uncertain condi
tion. Personally sho is averse to its
celobration, ami shares tho view of sev
eral of tho Char's advisers, that if ho
can rule Kusshi without a crown as well
as with ono why should ho run tlio risk
of a coronation P Tho Czar lias been
amusing himself of Into with a sloop,
propelled by electricity, which arrived
at PetorholVa short titno ago from Cron
stadt. where it had been constructed for
the heir-apparent. Quito a flotilla of
gunboats and torpedo cutters is main
tained at Petcrlioff to guard thu palace.
Great changes aro being made in tho
personnel of the Iinporialiiousohold, and
it is stated Unit, for the future tlio main
tenance of tlio servants of tho polaoo
will only cost 13,000 a year, instead
if nearly 100,000, as in tlio tinto of
tlio Into Emperor. Economy and
simplicity characterize not only tho
eourso ot life at Peterholl, but also tho
ontiro higher administration of tho Em
pire. Tho ostentation that markod ev
ery movement and act of tho Into Czar's
brothers, tjio Grand Duko Constantino,
of tho navy, and tho Grand Duko Nich
olas, of tho army, has boon replaced by
tho austere simplicity of tlio present
Czar's brothers, Aloxis and Vladimir.
Tho parasites of tho hito court are hav
ing a terribly bad titno of it now. No
tuoroy is shown thorn in tlio reorganiza
tions that are daily taking place, and,
us might be expected, their opinion
of tho Czar is a very bad one and goes
to swell tho popular clamor against hint.
The Winter Palace is under repair and
many suits of apartments aro ordered
to bo furnished afresh. A fow weeks
ago a deal of old lumber found in ono
of tlio garrots of tlio piihico was sold
for 2,000 rubles to a doalor in curiosi
ties of tlio Novsky Prospect. Tho rub
bish filled several wagons, and although
not one-half has yot boon properly ox
aminod the dealer has already netted
20,000 rubles by tho sale of two valua
ble pictures lie found tho first day
among it. St. Petersburg Cor. London
Post.
A Dilemma.
An Austin boy had the bad habit of
reading alter he went to bed, and leav
ing tho candle burning, much to tho
alarm of his parents, who wore afraid
ho would set tho liouso on lire. As tho
boy did pretty much as ho pleased, his
father told tho colored boy who waited
on tho table to go up into tlio son's room
after he had gone to sloop and put out tho
light, which nrograniino was carried
out for soerai months. Ono night,
howover, tho parents of tho boy woro
aroused front a sound slumber by tho
boy calling out:
"Boss, oli Boss! what am 1 tor do?"
"Merciful Mososl what has hap
pened P"
" Do boy has dono "
"Merciful Hoavons! has ho set tho
house on fireP"
"No, but ho put do light out hlssalf.
I want to know what I'm gwiuo tor do
about it?" Texas Sitings.
A Koiminro of Atlanta.
Onco upon a tlmo, and not very long
ago at that, a young man of Atlanta
foil in love with an Atlanta girl. This
happens every day, and, ns also hap
pens, tho girl foil in lovo with tho young
num. Somehow or othor tho parents of
tho girl frowned upon tho union of theso
two liearts that beat as ono, and thoy
continued to frown until tho young peo
ple, thrown upon thoir own resources,
olopod, as young people will do, and tho
parental frown alluded to instead of
becoming a smile and a benediction in
tho presence of the Inevitable, widened
and deepened into bitter disapproba
tion. Tho father and mother sot great
storo by their daughter, and thoy wero
overwhelmed with grief when they dis
covered that for tlio first time in hor lifo
site had disobeyed them. They did not
seek her out for tho purpose of bestow
ing thoir forgiveness.
In tlio course of time a littlo baby was
born to tho young couple a marvelous
ly beautiful child wo luivo boon told
and it grow to bo as cunning as it was
beautiful. One day recently a lady
acquainted with the facts, and intimate
with both families, called upon
tlio young mother, but found nobody
at homo but baby and nurso. An idea
struck her, turn sho lost no titno in
carrying it out. Sho seized the baby and
bore it off in triumph to its grandmoth
er. When sho rang tho door-boll at
grattdmothor's liouso the lady .was in a
tremor, but tho baby was as cool and as
uncouuorned as a cucumber. Perhaps
wo ought not to say unconcerned, for
when tho grandmother opened tho door
tho baby laughed and crowed in hor
face, and was as port und as saucy as
you please. And wouldn't, the lady
come in and vest herself? Well, tho
lady didn't know; sho was just passing,
and she thought sho would ring
and see how all worn getting
along; but in she went, attu
presently grandmother was admir
ing baby as it sat perched, bright and
buoyant, upon tho lap of tho lady. At
this juncture tlio baby displayed tho
most exquisite diplomacy. It boldly
hold out' its dimpled little arms to its
grandmother, and was soon nestling
against hor motherly bosom. It laughed
and crowod and cuddled, and when
somebody nmdo a pretense of taking it
it cuddled the closer. What wonderful
bright eyes it had, to be sure! What a
cunning littlo curl, half hidden behind
its littlo pink ear! What tempting littlo
toes! What dainty littlo hands! Oft, a
wonderful baby altogether, tho grand
mother thought and said.
At litis critical niomont the grand
father nnido 'his appearance, and this
remarkable baby seemed to ttndprstand
its business thoroughly. It cooed and
crowod at the grandfather, found a
place in his strong arms, and hid its
littlo face in his coat collar. Tho grand
father was captivated. Ho tossed and
dandled the baby, and fondled it in a
way altogether unusual. Then the lady
was asked whoso baby it was. Her po
sition was embarrassing. She had no
idea of the result, but she made bold to
tell tho two old people that it was their
daughter's child. Willi this tlio grand
mother foil to weeping, and clasped this
wonderful baby to her breast, and tho
grandfather walked nervously around,
wiping his eyes and wondoring why ho
was so foolishly happy. Nothing would
do these old people but their daughter
must bo sent for, and such another re
union and revival as was held over that
baby has novel before boon soon in At
lanta. That wo'll say and stick to.
A carriage passed in front of tlio Con
stitution ollioo yesterday, and in it woro
seated all the members of tho reunited
family. Tho baby had a front seat, and
it was laughing and crowing and look
ing as pretty as a pink, anil as onto
well as cute as it could look; and if any
reader of tho Constitution is inclined to
discredit this true story, all ho has to do
is to ask tho grnndmother about it.
Atlanta (Ua.j Constitution.
Directions for Making a Shirt.
Tho very first thing to do is to sot
tho linon bosom on tho front. Stitch it
twice across tho lower edge, and cut
out tho nock by tho shirt pattern. Next
finish tlio Duck. If a yoko shirt is to
be made, gather the fullness, and
placing it between tho front and back
of tho yoko, sew tho seam and turn
tho yoke, leaving the seam insido. If
it bo a sack-shirt, iaco tho back for a
depth of twelve inches. Next sow up
tho shoulder scams, always leaving tlio
facing of tho biiDk, or tho lining of tho
yoke, to stitcli down on the right side.
This makes all smooth and woll
finished. Then take tlio sleeves, which
have already had tho wrist-bands sowed
on, but aro still open from wrist-band
to shoulder, sew t hum into tho body of
tho shirt, leaving half an inch to turn
down tor a facing. This makes un
necessary tho troublesomo arni-ho'o
facing and gives tho toquisito strength
and finish. Now comes tlio long ccnm,
closing both tho sleoio and the body,
And almost finishing tho garment. This
seam must bo carolullv rolled. Make
tho narrowest hem possiblo round tlio
bottom of the shirt. Stay tlio ends of
scams witlt tiny gussets or a tape
stit3hed firmly aross. The pattern
ought to bo so perfect that tho nock
will need no trimming out. A circular
baud is the host fitting, and this re
quires a pattern. Komomber that upon
tho set of tho nock-band deponds tho
tit of tho bosom and tho comfort of tho
wearer, and use a tapo tnoasuro that it
may bo neither too largo nor too small,
but just rigid. Shirt bosoms should
always bo lined. Thoy aro somotimos
purchased with a coarse liuon lining,
out tho ordinal1 linon bosom sewed
over tho front, and tho cloth beneath
allowed to remain Instead of cutting
away, is quite as good. Wisconsin
State Journal.
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