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UKNKRAL XEWB.
Mr. James rernlcrgast fell dead utl
dentlj at Louisville, Ky., Oclobcr 15th.
Apoplexy was the cause.
The Eagle I) tillcry at Evansvillr,
Ind., was burned October 15th. Loss
heavy and but partially insured.
On the lGth of Octoler, Nehon Cool
was sentenced at Jamestown, X. Y., to
be hanged on the 2Cth or November, for
the murder of Charles "Whlmple In
March last.
W. E Creary, of Michigan, has been
promoted from utssUtaut to just master
of the Uriittd U.tcs Eenate, and.C C.
Joacs, ot Minncsotu has bem uppointci
assls!a(ff'peatnstcr.
Maj. Edward?, one of the editorial
duelibts, was arrebted in St. L'utp, Octo
ber ICth, under the Missouri law, lor
sending a rhid'cngc. The arrest was
made to head oil the indictment in
Winnel ao county, Illinois'.
Johu T. Huff-, cashier of the Firtt
KfllioLal Bank of Tiflin, Ohio, commit
ted suicide on the evenirg of October
15th, by shooting himself through the
heart. It is believed that irregularities
Jvavc existed for some time in the bank,
and its affairs are being investigated.
The Director General ol the Centen
nial has suggested to the Secretary of
the Interior the propriety of providing
for a representation at the exhibition of
those organizations formed during the
late war, for the purpose of mitigating
the sufferings of the sick and wounded
on the battle field.
The sale of the. Moundale herd of
Short Ilorns at Thompson Station, Clark
county, Ky., was well attended, and the
prices good. The aggregate was 53.80.
Xhe herd consisted of 80 cmales and 10
males, making an average of (GOG for
the females, and $915 for the males, the
tern males bringing $0,150. In all there
were one hundred and seventy head
sold, aggregating 177,000.
At the sale of Short Horns at Gales
burg, 111.. Oct. 17th, Mr. Barcjay, of
West Liberty, Iowa, bought seven head,
paying therefor $2,21)5. Mr. W. P.
Young, of Jit. Pleasant, Iowa, bought
twelve head for $2,830. 8. W. Jacobs
bought five head for $2,575, paying for
one cow 1,150. Itob't Miller, of West
Liberty, bought four head for $1,G10.
J. S. McCaughan, of Wintercet, Towa,
bought one for $525. Alex. Charles
bought onJ for $2,000. And II. G Lit
tle of Giinnell, bought one for 240.
A correspondent referring to the sales
of pure bloods in the Blue Grass regions
of Kentucky, states that never before iu
the history of ShortJIorn cattle has there
been so large a crowd and so interesting a
aalo as the grand one at Vinewood. The
"North, South, East, and West, were repre
sented in full lorce, while Great Biituin
was not wanting in spirited bidders.
Ladies, of the fairest and noblest that
the Blue Grass affords, were present iu
profusion. The repast was sumptuous
and abundant, aud well accorded with
Mrs. Groom's noted cuisine and hospi
tality. Forty-four native cows and
heifers brought $58,210, averaging $132,
and 20 imported ones, 51,225, averaging
2,561; total for cows, 109,435, and
average $1,710. Four native bulb sold
for 1,715, averaging 420. and five im
ported ones for 12,300, averaging
3,40; total for bulls, 14,G15, and
average 1,557; total for 73 animals,
$183,450; grand average, 1,691. With
the exception of the New York Mills'
tale this is considered the greatest ever
Made on our continent iu point of num
oera, total aud average, ana places Mr.
Groom in the topmost rank of Short
Horn breeders, '.whether English or
American.
A dhpa'ch from Cheyenne of October
16th, sass: Prof. Waltir P. Jcnaey,
Hjief of the Geologist expedition, to tin
.Ack Hills, aBd his assistants, returned
here to-day, liaving spent five months iu
the Hills and made quite a thorough ex
amination of the whole country avc.
mapped it fruui Belle Fouchc to the
soath fork of the Cheyenne river, re
ports gold fields extending 40 miles
orth from Harney's Peak, and 20 miles
wide, that contains gold in quantities
that will pJ from three to five dollars
par day to the man, and that there are
bars on numbers of streams that will
pay much more than that. The water
sapplies are ample for working pur
poses and the fall is sufficient to carry
the water from the top of most of the
bars aad allow the tailings to be readily
disposed ot. The gold is coarse, scale
gold, easily separated from the gravel
aad saad. The Prof, has with him an
oaace ot coarse gold that tveo men ob
taiaed om Spring Creek with ten hours
labor. A away of this gold shows it
to be 9.40 fiae, worth 19.43 in coin to
the oaace. Prof. Jcnacy corroborates
flea. Custar's reports of the Hills, and
says they will support tkousaads of
ariaari wkea. the Government opens
them to settksMat. The valleys are all
adapted to agricvltmre, aad the kills aad
caaroaa to stock raisiag. The raiafall
is ttJmtifal aad timber abuadant. Hk
report will be made from -New
before CoBgress meets.
Tennessee Pirmlrs.
Orate ut an Kxtiact Ksre of l.illfiti-tiatift-CurleHa
lllarovrrlea la Hit Ta
nnf MoiiBlaliiH.
Haywood, in his very interesting his
tory of Tennessee, tells of a race ot pig
mies which existed huudreds of years
ago in the vicinity ol McNinville and
Sparta, where their ctrncterWs are yet to
be found, though many of them have
been torn up by te plow of the indus
trious farmer of the present day.
At the request of Prof. Henry, of the
Smithsonian Institute, John It. La I lard
left here latt Sunday morning, to. see
whether he could not unearth a skeleton
to be placed on exhibition at that insti
tution. Monday, he went to Hickory
Bottom, five miles out from Sparta, and
examiued, on the farms of 3Iessrs.
Spei.ce and Wilton, about twenty graves,
all ol which had been previously opened
and everything they contained taken
out. Mr. Wilson, one of the oldest
citizens in that locality, informed him
thatgiuvcs were first discovert d ia 1820.
The early settlers found them to average
22 L by 14 inches wide and 12 inches in
depth. The graves arc formed ot sand
stone rock, which is found, not in the
valleys where the graves are located, but
on the top of the mountains. From all
that could be learned, this race of peo
ple must have lived at least three or four
centuries ago.
Thursday morning, accompanied by
Dr. J. W. Sawyer, Mr. Lillard went to
Dyle's farm, and bc3idc the grave out of
which Haywood obtained a skeleton
during his researches, he obtained the
bones of a pigmy. One ot the graves
had as a head stone a limestone rock, a
thing unusual. By this particular mark
it Is presumed the remains must have
been that of a noted person of the race.
In the one in which he obtained the
fragmentary portions of what was left
of a pigmy, Mr. Lillard found remnants
of pottery which show signs of having
once been filled with charcoal. This
grave had never before been opened
Frcm the manner in which the remains
lay it is fcupM)sed the body must have
been interred in a sitting position.
The measurement of this skeleton is
twenty-six inches in height. The thigh,
arm, ribs, and, in fact, all the bones are
small, the full set of teeth showing at
the mc time that they must have be
longed to an adult. The thigh bones are
a little larger than a man's forefinger.
Mr. Lillard shipped the bones, on his
arrival here last night, to the Smithso
nian Institute.
He also brought with him a beauti
fully polished stone pestle, used by the
Indians, pel haps, centuries ago, in
pounding "their corn into meal. It is
the best specimen of such implements
that we have ever seen. NaiJtville
American.
Backward, 1Mb Backward.
Backward, pin backward my skirts in
their flight, make me small again, just
for to-night; I am so weary, and my
skirts arc so long, sweeping the pave
ments as I walk along, gathering dirt
from out of the street, looked at by
every one that I meet; mother, dear
mother, I know I'm a fright, pin back
my skirts, mother, pin 'cm back tight.
Mother, dear mother, the days are so
warm, and I'm tired of this dress I have
on; it is so clumsy and don't fit me
right, pin it back, mother, pin it back
tight; now I'm ready, don't I look
sweet? smiling on all I happen to meet.'
I'm in the fashion, so that is all right,
pin back my skirts, mother, pin 'em
back tight.
Methcr, dear mother, I know it's a
sin, to wear dresses that show off one's
limbs, but what is a poor girl going to
do, if the world wears 'em too, it is only
those who arc thin that arc afraid to
show off a form that is not well made;
you may laugh, but you know that I'm
right, pin back my 'skirts, mother, pin
'cm back tight.
Where 11 Came From.
A Detroit girl picKcd up a new beau
the other evening at church, and when
they reached her father's gats he ac
cepted her invitation to go in. He was
perfumed to kill, and it wasn't long
before his musk reached the back room
in which the old folks sat. The old man
was heard stubbing around, muttering
and growling, and presently he opened
the door and passed out and walked
around the house. He 'came back after
snuffing around 'for a few minutes, and
pounding oa the parlor door he inquired :
"Evangeline, where's that piece of
candle!"
"I don't know, father; why!n she in
quired in return.
"There's a skunk or something or
other under the addition, and I've got to
hnnt him on or we cant live here over
night."
The young man didn't stay long after
that.
"Pa," "!d tittle Jiamie, "1 came
very near getting to the head of my claw
to-day." "How u that my son?" Why,
a big word came all the way down to
me, aad, if I only comld nave spelled it,
I womld have gone clear np. "
PERSONAL.
The Duke of Portland is one of the
wealthiest of living peers; his daily in
come is estimated at 1,000.
Mr. Jackson, a Colorado banker, has a
gentle side to his pecuniary soul. He
will wed Mrs. Helen Hunt, the poetess.
The original maid of Athens is now
living, aged 75. She has still the relics
of her former beauty; but her name,
alas! is Mrs. Black.
Harriet Hosmer will contribute a
group representing (mancipation to the
women's department of the Centennial
Exhibition, the largest ideal work the
has executed.
Miss Sarah II. Brayton, M. Dn has
received the appointment to the chair of
Materia Medica and Therapeutics In the
New York Frte Medical College for
women.
Mr. Alex. U. Stephens says his chief
object in coming North this winter is
"to do toot! in bringing alKiut a better
state of ft cling and a better understand
ing between the people of the different
sections of our great and common coun
try." The Crown Princes) of Germany is
Colonel of a regiment of hussars. In a
review recently she appeared at the head
of her cavaliers. Is there a woman
anywhere who would not consent to be
a Crow n Princess, since such are the re
wards of the onerous position?
Joaic Mansfield is cutting a great
splurge at Frouville, France. She lives
extravagantly, and receives many visits
from noblemen. It is to be hoped that
no French novelist will put her in a book
as a type of American womanhood; yet
such things have happened.
Massachusetts is putting in claims for
both orator and poet at the Centennial
Exhibition. The Springfield Republican
has reason to believe that the choice for
orator will fall upon Charles Francis
Adam3, and that for poet on Mr. Long
fellow or Mr. Lowell.
A movement is on foot in Pittsburg to
erect a monument in memory ot Stephen
C. Foster, the composer, of "Old Folks
at Home," "Old Dog Tray," "My Old
Kentucky Home," "Come Where My
Love Lies Dreaming," and other popn
lar airs.
Joaquin Miller's novel, "One Fair
Woman," no allusion to Minnie Myrtle,
is announced in London.. Joaquin
must be prepared to have all his female
acquaintances, save the designated fair
one, cut him after the appearance of the
book.
Emperor William of Germany sleeps
on a narrow bed with one mattress, and
rises every morning at G. His city resi
dence is not at all grand or sumptuous,
but in the country he has many magnifi
cent palaces. He is a grim old soldier
that Emperor; but they say he has a
tender heart.
This is the neat little title which goes
before the name of the King of Burmah.
"His Great, Glorious and Most Excel
lent Majesty, who reigns over the King
doms of Thanaparanta and Tampadipa
and all the Umbrella bearing Chiefs of
the Eastern Country, the King of the
Rising Sun, Lord of the Celestial Ele
phants, Master of the many White Ele
phants, the Great Chief of Righteous
ness, King of Burmah."
A FennUIn ef Death.
Ou Nebow ridge, in this county, about
four miles from Jacktown and ou the
farm belonging to Henry Miller, there is
what is called a gas spring. This is
probably the greatest curiosity in Penn
sylvania. The water is cold, but babbles
and foams as if boiling; but the greatest
wonder is the inevitable destruction of
life produced by inhaling the gas. No
living thing is to be found within a cir
cuit of 100 yards of the spring. The
very birds, if they happen to fly over it,
drop dead. We experimented with a
snake of the copperhead variety on its
destructive properties by holding it a
few feet above the water, it stretched
dead in two minutes. We stood over it
about five minutes, wbaa a dull, heavy,
aching sensation crept over as, and our
eyes began to swim. The gaa which
escapes here is of the rankest kind of
carbonic acid. It will kill a human
being in twenty mUutetr-JtauZtiif Eatfe.
The Ohio legislature k reported to
stand as follows: Senate ' Baynblicaas
31, Democrats 16; Hosjat Bepablicana
to, Democrats 46. Tie majority for
Hayes in the State is 5,007, if the vote
claimed as fraudulent in Ferrysbarg be
rejected; bat if it be coaa4ed, his ma
jority is 4,753. Cary for Untenant
Governor is beaten by abomt 13,000 ma
jority. A meeting of the Execnthra Commit
tee of the 8tato Bar Asseaiatiea was
held ia Das Moines, Octpher 14th, at
which a committee ttm pasisHil to
forth next
of the
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aa that the next
s leant twe slays.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The French election haij been fixed for
Deccm!er 20th. ?
On the 16tli7'of,Octo5erthe Prince of
Wales embarked on his visit to Iadia.
A special to the London Standard says
thnt the Turks now hold the district of
Zubec, the last
refuge
;of the insur-
gents. I
The Timit ol India, says there are
20,000 people rendered feomeless by the
floods in the neighborhood of Ahmeda
bad, in the province of Guzerat
A force of 2,000 InsuTjJpnU .have been
defeated by the Turks, f&Q killed.
The rest took refuge in Montenegro.
The 17 villages hitherto strongly insur
gent have submitted to Turkish au
thority. It is asserted that in consequence of
the Pope's intercession the Emperor of
Gcrinsnyjias remitted one year of Car
din il Letiochowski's term of imprison
ment for resisting the Prussian Ecclesi
astical laws, and that full pardon will
probably follow.
The London Morning Echo publishes
a special from Paris saying that the
popularity of il. Thiers is causing some
uneasiness to the MacMuhonites. Poli
ticians have been reminded that the
presidential competition has been ad
journed until 18S0.
At Toronto, Cinada, October lGth, the
trial of Arthur Davis acd wife, for the
murder of Miss Oilman by malpractice,
was brought to a close by a verdict of
guilty against both. They were sen
tenced to be hanged on the 8th of De
ectnbea.
The Indians recently surprised and
attacked Canclu Galve7, on the Chu
gurague, in Daricn, and killed over fifty
and dispersed tho entire camp of 800
men. This death blow to rubber gath
ering in Darien cuts off the Isthmus'
supply, and the market of Panama wd
suffer very heavily.
Cement?.
A good rubber cement may be pre
pared by dissolving one part india rub
ber in two parts linseed oil, and adding
to the solution a sufficient quantity of
bole, 6ay aboufllifecvpsr&.
For amber and tortoiscsliell, a cement
is made by mixing together equal parts
ot mastic and linseed oil, and warming
gently. This cement should be used
warm.
To unite wood to wood, -a thick solu
tion of shellac in alcohol may be used.
It is well to put a piece of fine gauze cr
crape between the broken surfaces of
wood, and then press them tightly to
gether until the cement becomes per
fectly firm. Another good, durable ce
ment for woodwork is made by fusing
together shellac, mastic and common
turpentine, and adding some broken
isinglass.
For attaching 'small objects to any
thing turned, a mixture of colophonium,
turpentine and yellow max, with the ad
ditievea little pulv
answers mccly-Tj
and holds Weltf
To fasten kntrp;
Handles, we msy us
parts of melted black pit
of fine brick dust. It must
warm.
A varnish or cement to protect wocd
from the action of uiincal acids, alka
lies and corrosive gasc3 like chlorine, is
made from G parts of colophonium and
3 parts of wood tar by heating together
in an iron kettle on a furnace in the
open air, and then stirring iu four parts
of fine brick dust. The varnish is ap
plied with a brush while warm.
An excellent cement for glass is made
by dissolving 1 part india rubber in CO
parts of chloroform, thea adding 34 of
masth;, and letting it digest for a week
at a gentle heat. This cement is also
applied with a brush, and is especially
distinguished by its transparency.
Another cement for glass and porce
lain is made by digesting small pieces
of isinglass iu 16 times their weight of
.water for 24 hours. The solution is
evaporated to one half, strained, and,
while still hot, S parts of alcohol is
added, and at the same time a solution
of 1 part mastic in 0 parts warm alco
hol. One half part of finely powdered
gum ammoniac is tritura'ed in the warm
solution until the whole maxs is homo
geneous. When used, both the cement
and the object to be mcaded are
warmed. This cement is highly recom
mended for its adhesive qaalities.
A small tenement house in Oil City,
Pa was bmmed on the 19th of October.
It was occupied by a family named
Gentry, and the mother was away at the
time, aaviag left threechildren in charge,
who endeavored to kindle a ire with
kerosene. The Ire ignited the eU, aad
the can exploded, boreiag the little boy
so badly that there was no hope of kaa
One of the little girls, IS
of age, escaped withoat mfsjrj,
hat the ether little fid, 4 years eU, wh
ma to a ckect aad skat the
bnmed to death.
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"Oh, my r exclaimed Slyra Randall,
starting back from the currant buh,
where she had been picking the scarlet
fruit, upsetting the pan and nearly turn
bling into the asparagus bed, UI saw a
snake." She had seen one sure cnongh,
and might continue to mc him If she
liked --f or there he lay siuggihly
curled over the top of the currant bush,
basking la the June tun, a Utlic, little
creature, eight or ten inches long, grace
ful as a ribbon and green as an emerald;
a handsome object if one only thought
so. Myra recovered her equilibrium and
her composure in a moment and Mniled
at her fright. The snake was jcrlcctly
harmless, she knew, and as her life had
been spent on these prairies, stretching
away as far as the sight could reach,
snakes were no novelty. "I aai a fool
ish as the boy, who, nfttr being btoitght
up in the o dd, was i rated at an on I, but
I am so nervous ami wrought up alnmt
Tom," she said half to hcrsell as she
picked up the pan and moved off to a
distant bush, "that it seems as if I should
fly to pieces." A few bunches of fruit
were gathered to replace the spilled
ones, but her heart was not interested in
currant jelly, ami, after working list
lessly a few moments, she tat down on
the grag, her hands folded over the pan
in her lap, and her eves on the ground,
lest iu troubled thought. She made a
pretty picture; the June sunshine sifting
its gold throuch the thick foliage of an
apple tree down upon her ; the pensive
droop of the head; the pretty, girlish
face- and figure, with yet a touch of ma
tronly dignity about them, for Tom, the
great, good natured fellow, who never
could say "no" to nny one, and who was
bis own worst enemy, had been her hus
band a year. Tom, who had stumbled
home at an early hour this morning from
the town a new railway station a half
mile away and, waiting only to rid
bimseif of his boots, had tumbled into
bed where he lay. now, sleeping off his
tipsiness, while in ail the glory of June
weather the hours crept toward noon.
He bad drauk too much, tier friends
had warned her w hen Myra first knew
him, but she was willing to try the viry
uncertain experiment of reforming him,
and for a while after their inurringe it
seemed as if she would be successful,
but the new railroad with its evil asso
ciations drew him from her influence and
tor months he had been going from bad
to worse, until Myra was well nigh dis
couraged. A drifting leaf from the
apple tree fell on her hands, rousing her
from the study it. to which she had fal
len, and, startling up, she turned to go
into the house, when the little crccn
snake she had seen before slipped across
the path into the house. A sudden
thought struck her, an inspiration, as a
woman's best thoughts always arc; she
hesitated u moment and then threw the
pan, currants and all, at the snake, stun
ning it slightly, and then, with a little
qualm of aversion, gathered it in her
apron and mn into the home. A mo
ment later she was shaKinTom, auil
lin irim -to gtt ui. "Come, come,
If boon and you have had no
1 should think you would be
this time. Come, I have
ant pie. iou know how
ke that." Tom roucd him-
tat up on the side ol the bed,
Stretching end yawning and rubbing his
blood ebottcn eyes, nc wss not abashed
to meetyalyra's reproachful glances.
After. tlMfirst of these sprees he had
been, bufwc was getting hardened now.
"Put on your ocots and come out of
this close room, dec what a beautiful
day it is." And she flung open the
door and the low cottage windows that
opened on the ground. After a few
more stretches Tom sleepily picked up
one of his boots and inserted his foot
into it, when he encountered something
strange, and drawing it off quickly,
turned it upside down, when a sn&kc
slipped out and disappeared under the
bed. "My goodness, Myra, did you see
that?" he asked, fully awake now. "See
what?" said Myra, looking vacantly at
him. "Why, that snake!"
"A snake," she replied, looking at him
in astonishment, "what saskeP "Why,
that snake that came out of my boot, a
little green snake." "Oh! Tom," she
said, ia ccnsternalion, -you don't really
think yon saw a snake, do you? You
are just trying to frighten me." "Non
sense, Myra, den't be a fool," he said
irritably, "think I saw one, I know I
did, it dropped right out of my boot,
and sneaked away uader the bed wher
it fct now. 111 be bound," and ha m&de
preparations to look. "Ol doat Tom,"
he cried, "eWt yom know its year im
agiaadoa! Doat excite ytwrsalf, please,
that will emly nuke it worse. Oh! dear
what shall I do for him! lie downright
ikt me brmgyowa
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Is the wemm crazy! exclaimed the be
wildered Tom.
"I knew it would cornr to this," he
cried, "but I didn't think it would bv
quite so mxu. The doctor a.id you
would go on until until you saw anaac
and all sorts of terrible thing and went
crazy, anil raved round; but I s
hoping it would never happen, but it
has, it has , and oh, dear, what hall I do?"
Having gotten a good start, the tear
came without any effort, and she threw
herself on Tom's broad brcait in as
abandonment of grief.
"Hush, Myra," he said, (touched by
her tears, as he smoothed her ahiuiug
hair, "it's you that are crazy with bjr-r
rowing trouble, child; I did not imigiae
anything; I saw a snake at plain as I
see you, anil I fell him, besides, with
my foot, the mushy little wretch, lie
must have crept in the hoiuc some way
and got into my boot."
"She shook her hed, her face a! ill
hidden, and said, as though she wished
to believe him, but reason would not let
her, 'How could he get in, Tom, when
I clo&ed all the doors and windows so
the llies wouldn't trouble you? No,"
deliberately, and with a long drawn
sigh, "it was an optical delution, the
result of au overwrought brain, that's
what the doctor said."
Tom paled a little at the suggestion of
her worth. She was so sure, and he had
such fiiith in her; betides, his miad
hadn't teemed as clear as usual lately,
his eyes were blurred, aad thing that
used to be plain were somehow muddied
to his underUading now. But a man
doesen'e readily doubt the testimony of
his own eyes, and he laid Myra down
and began a thorough search of the
room. "You wou't find it dear, "she
said, in a pitying voice, looking at him
with compassionate eyes. "I wouldn't
think uny thing more about it I were you.
Come out and get something to eat.
Your nerves are all unstrung; after that
we will forget all about the snake."
And he did not find it, though he ex
tended his search to the door-yard und
Sower-beds. Du:mg the parley it had
made good it's escape, and neither he
nor Myra ever saw it again.
Hut it set him to thinking. He began
to realize that he had been going to de
struction at a vry fast pace. "Although
this was a little grass-snake," he cogi
tated, "and I knew it was a real live
snake," he kept assuring himself in a
way t.'iat proved he was by no means
certain, "the next I see may be a fiery
one. And the doctor has been expecting
all these things to happen," mused the
honest fellow; "he said son cthing about
it to mc once, but I wouldn't listen, but
it has worried Myra nearly to death, I
suppose. I did not think I had gone so
far, but one slips into bad ways before
they knew it; but there ia one thing I
do know I have not gone so far yet but
that I can go back." Aud he then and
there made a resolution to break oft
from his carousing associates and go to
work on his neglected farm. This was
a turning poiat in his life, and with a
determined heart he took the first steps
in the right direction.
Years later the railway water-tank
and sigual station had become a great,
flourishing town. Like seed dropped oa
the rich prairie soil, they had produced
a growth almost beyond belief, the farm
had long since been cut up into build
ing lots, and 3Ir. Thomas IUadall was
"one of our wealthiest aad most influ
ential citizens." Uc often said as a word
ot warning to young men given to dis
sipation, and an encouragement for them
to reform, that he had once gone so far
as to sec snakes In his 4xta, and had
yet bet n able to break off aad give np
drink forever. Myra never smiled when
she beard this. She remembered too
well the troubles of her early married
life, and besides she had beard him tell
the story so of tea she had almost come
to believe it herself.
A Monkey Stops A BailraM Train.
Wc'lcara from our genial friend, con
ductor S. K. Lawioa, of the Savaaaab
Charleston railroad, says the Savannah
iVVtej, that a day or two since a train
coming to this city was stopped by a
moakcy whilst it rapid metioe. It
teems that the train was bowliag al ing
at the rate of twenty miles aa hoar,
when suddenly "down brakes" waa
sounded, the engine bril ringing vigor
ously at the sasae time, aad the locosao
tlvecame to a stop as the brakessea
sprang to their posts. The condacter
was rather mystiied aad proceeded at
once to iavestigaie the matter. It waa
discovered that a moakey, which waa
coaf aed ia the baggsge ear, had brekea
loose and was amasiag aiamelf swinging
oa the bell-rope, aad the
Uassigneleatoste. The easjlamastoa ef
he saddea stoj
divarssoa
moacey Decease eases a
among tae neaneamara, ami the I " " aaam ma; jt
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Arr thoc xaj- ad ac lorni! In
qulrrd, a la.ly of a jurtnilc suh-ttma.
"No, ma'am. thfjre all tea cent, rv
't plied the innocent ruuagttcr.
Little Harry, five rerolJ. an catWl
to ce the new baby. Af'cr a mo
meat's contemplation, he turaed to hi
expectant papa with: "Wc didn't rienl
that!"
"There, John," ld an UW mother,
"that's twice you've roue home ad for.
got'ea that lard !" "La, mothrt V c
plained joung dutiful, "it wa r- graiy1
that U slipped my mlad."
"U'cm )ou," Mid John llearyrlii?
tear ia Ida jc. "ahc takes
hair ofl to easy that erhapa the dcon't
know Uow it hurt to hare mine pulled
out.
A strong-minded woman av that sarn
are allowed to do what they please and
go where they pleasr, when anyone ran
see that the women are utilrermelly "tied
back."
A Brooklyn gi I httly sans "Darling,
I Am Growing Old," with an expression
so pertinent aad forcible that her pre
crastinatiag lover wai brought to time
on tho spot.
"The fashion of putticg welts on the
able of paats ia revived," raja n fiuhloc
ablc exchange; and little Charley aya he
hope the fasbijB of putiing welts en
Uw seats of bois' pants will soon go out.
Cuitomer (to a maparller of Pari)
"Ah there la Huia but 1 do not ace
Moscow." Hhopkcccr (running hla
finger over the map) "Monro wl Mos
cow! It diee not seem to be here. With
sudden animation. Ah! Monnh-ur for
gets that Moscow war ourncd !"
The season hat arrived when the care
ful housewife begins to htittle her flower
garden into the house, preparatory to
having it freeze under shelter, and then
renew her annual vow, that "ahc'll never
try to keep another plant over winter,
no, never 1"
She scut her husband down town after
tome red dyeatoO, and he got cochineal,
which wasn't what ahc wanted. She told
him so and he got mad, and when she in
sisted upon his going ngain he got mad
der which was what she wanted in the
first place.
Said a wife to her hiiUund "How in
it that you can't come home night in
some sort or seawnf The gcatle rj
tort waa: 4'You got me in the way of
It. Ilef ore we were married you used to
throw your arms about tny ncrk at '!
o'clock, and say, 'Dan't go darling, it's
early yet,' b.t now If I hapjtcn to Uy
out till 2 it is a terrible alTtir."
It la related of a Parbirtu portiait
painter that, having recently painted a
portrait of a lady, a critic, who had
just dropped in to tee what waa goin
on in the studio, exclaimed: "it
is very nicely painted; but why did yon
take such aa Uily model?" "It is my
mother," calmly replied the artist. "Oh I
pardoe, a thousand timet," from critic,
in great confusion. "You are right; I
1 ought to have perceived it. She resern-
you completely."
A shopkeeper purchased of an Irih
woman a quantity of butter, the lamps
of which, Intended for pouads, he
weighed la jthe balance aad foaad wast
ing. "Sure, it's yoar own faalt if they
are .light," said Biddy, in reply to the
complaats of the buyer; "it's your owe
faalt, sir; for wasn't it with a pound of
yoar owa soap I boaght here myself that
I weighed them?" Tae shopkeeper hail
nothing more to sav oa tht aabject,
A- nice little boy of aine yar was
taken very aick while visitiag a school
mate ia upper towa a few days siacc.
His friend's mother fouad that he re
qaired aa emetic, aad prepared one for
him. The lad wa"saWtoe: terribly, bat
refared to take the derc, saying that
"Hi mamma would not like it if he
did, as she was a LoaotopathUt, and did
not allow him to take allopathic medi
cine." The lady itcraisted, and told aim
that be might not get well if he did net
take it. Finally the obstiaato yoaag
maa exclaimed: '4WeIl, I'll take the
etaaT, bat I tell yoa one thiaa: I woa't
vomit!"
A farmer living just out of Yicks
barg was readiag in aa agricaltaral
aaaer the other day aa srticle headed,
"Je End to Yoar Cow." He weat eat
to milk with a heart fall of Ha learn,
nadashesat aewa he whispered: "So,
boas, anaael aroaad, ajoed r ream re, hast a
little, there, yea totelBgaat aad aiaeV
I hearted oid baawy." Aaeat twe nam.
atea after that. Me wife heard him y4-
hmf aad wnnsieej, aad aasaaraa to
he called eat: "hViagsne she
ax, Meria,aadtae saadc, aad that ftec
da there, nam tae
that aaet gaa; for I will he daraed if
maa eii aeliiea shell ever ftve to Uek
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