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A FAMILY OBNIDB,
Fortunate is (ho family that is'withont
its 'black slice])," but blessed is (lie tuini
ly that is without a genius.
It not iinfroqnently happens that the
poor'black sheep' has been dyed his Plu
tonion hue by malice or ignorance, and
that after leaving the uuapprcciative told
for new and more congruiul pastures,
his wool is washed as while as snow by
those who more properly value him.
But the;family 'genius'—oh, well! we
have all inet a specimen here or there,
and are almost ashamed to c nfess that
in not a few instances we were sadly dis
enchanted.
Nancy Develin was a family 'genius.'
The divine seal was set upon her the mo
ment sh6 came int) (his cruel, censorious
world; the divine afflatus was heard in
the fb st faint cry and seen in the far
away gaze ol her wondering eves. As
suredly she was a marvelous child, and
surprising possibilities lay before her. It
is not strauge, consideiing that tho world
is proverbially blind to genius, and espes
cia'ly family genius, that she was given
a most uupoetic and
name.
However, the misfortune i vas a]leviat
ed a lew years later, when the genius
discovered that 'Nancy' was convertible
to 'Anne.' and that 'Do Volin' was tho
proper and aesthetic form of tho prosy
cognomen'Develin,'so hencefoith she
was known as Anne De Velin.
The gifted girlhad many taletttg, un
doubtedly, although the simple people
among whom she dwelt did 1 not always
recognize them, lint she was admired
and flattered lor more prosy considera
tions. She was the ouly child ofa wealthy
bjit practical and unlettered farmer, who
waa fondly indulgent toward her iu all
things.-She was really ii bright and pretty
girl, tairlv educated and accomplished,
and her wardrobe was expensive and
stylish.
At eighteen, Anne Do Yeliu was high
ly d.iteatisfied with a country life, and
yearned to know something ot the gilded
world wherein dwelt men who were not
all boors and women who were not all
drudges, and where on the wings ot
genius she might rise to that dazzling
station she felt she was fitted to adorn.
•Nan ain't good for much at hum,' said
the maiden aunt, who was housekeeping
for Anne's widow ed father, 'and I reckon
never will be. Sho was born for tho pl
anner, aud the books with tho yaller kiv
ers, and them ar things she paints and
call pictures; but that is about all, I guess,
seeing she kinder hankers fur it, you'd
better let her go to town.'
'VVhat kin she do there?' inquired the
practical farmer.
'Wall,'urged the aunt, 'she thinks she
might git somethin' she calls fame from
her varsos and pictures; and the gal's rale
handy at 'em, and she's purtv, In, and
knows hew ter rig herself in them ar far
belows of hern like a rale princess born to
'em*'
'Uoll darn the varses and the pictures,
and that ar other thing she'll get. Fur
my part, I don't value uotliin (hat hain't
a good square money valur. I allers said
it, and 1 say it yit. But the gal kin have
lior way, and she's set on it, aud ye kin
write to Aunt Crowly and tell her Nan
is comin'. If there's anything in tho gal
she'll have a right good chauce with
Annt Crowly. But I reckon she'll be
glad enough lo git back to the farm agin
arter a spell. Her wisdom teeth ain't
out yit, and the sooner they be the bet
ter.
Anne De Velyi was in an ecstacy of
delight. Iler Aunt Crowly was a gay
and fashionable lady, and had spoiled
the girl bv profuse compliments. Anne
had yet to learn that the praise and flat
tery of a summer guest, are not always
sincere, however agreeable they may be;
, and she had never yet visited Mrs. Crow
ly in the city.
I wonder what Joe Sanders will tbink?'
thought Anne, when she kn6w olie was
really going. Sbe rather liked Joe San*
ders, who was a sensible and flue looking
yonng landholder, and who adored her.
Him sbe bad never considered boorish,
nor was hia persistent devotion obnoxU
oas to her, although be was not at all the
sort of a gentleman sbe wanted for a
lover.
Anne De Velin's ideal lover was not
broad shouldered and muscular, and
bearded like a turk, bat be was tall and
shapely; he was dark eyed, aristocratic*
ally pale, and bad a gracefully ' curved
moustache. He wore elegant clothes, a
diamond on his white hand, and a pink
bud in bis buttonhole, and was as unlike
Joe Bandera as a prince is unlike a plough
boy. And this was the sort of Borneo to
whom sbe oxpected to play Juliet, In the
new, grand eity lite before. But she was
quite too much of a coquette to part light*
ly with Joe Sanders.
'I realjy can't see what yoa wanf to gg
GRAHAM, NO, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20 1879 *
to the city tor. Anne,' he observed, very
soberly.
The girl twisted a sbowy amethyst ,QJI
her plump finger, mid looked as a family
genius is supposed to look when talking
with an interior sort of person, who is too
Inpelessly stupid to comprehend her no*
ble aspirations.
'Well, yon see,'she answered \*ith dig
nity, 'I was not bom for tnis kind of
lite. Something higher and sweeter is
n 'ccFsary to one like me. You men here
sow and re ip, toiling on and plodding on
year after year, never thinking of tho
beautiful things you might give to iho
world by a stroke of Iho pen or the pen
cil. Joo, lite is a grand glorious thing if
lived asitought to be. O, how I despise
these poor, unrefined women, who ate
content to drudgo like oxen, with no
rest and no amusement. A little gossip
ping, a little church going, and a great
deal of soul-crnshiiig work is enough for
them. 3ut one like me, .Too, must have
something different.' />
'Ah, indeed ; that is if, is itr rotnrned
the young man. eyeing the pretty egotist
with an amnscd smile. 'VVhnt do yon
mean to make your life, Anne? What will
yon be?'
'1 mean to be a great and famous wo
man,'shs asserted; 'I have not vet de
cided hotf. Perhaps 1 shall bo an artist
or a prima donna.'
'And perhsps you will be my wife,'
wag the thought that he did not utter.
'After a few days of pleasant prepara
tion, Miss Anne De Yeliu became the
guost of Mrs. Crowly, who received the
girl affectionately enough, but not with
the manner ot one who realized the aus
picious presence of a family gonitis. Anno
soon learned that her rohitivo cared a
great deal tor social pleasures, but did
uot appreciate her marvolous talents in !
the least.
'You sing on the stage? What an ab
stub child you are!' she cried, laughing
heartily.
•I have been told that my voice is very
fine,' persisted Aline, much nettled at (he
critical and incredulous manner of lier
aunt.
'Of course you have a fine voice,' said
Mrs. Crowley soothingly; 'but not nearly
fine enough (or a'pnblis singer. Besides
you would be obliged to study for years
to perfect it.
Anne's face grew hot. and angry tears
gathered in her eyes.
•You had better learn to dress well,
the first thing you do, Anne,' continued
Mrs. Crowly, seeing Ihe girl's agitation;
'1 want you to look very nicely at my
party to-night. Fred Filch is coming!'
'I am glad of that,' Answered Anne,
with charming frankness. 'I think Mr.
Filch is really Ihe only geutleman whom
1 ever admired.'
His dark eyes could look unuterable
love, and the touch of his White hand
was mesmeric, aiut every accent of his
voice was ns thrilling as a caress. Miss
Anne Dc Velin loudly believed that she
had found favor in his sight, and she de
termined tu sacrafice ambition for love,
as the most heroic thing she could do,
considering how persistently blind her
friends seemed to be to her genius.
She had known Mr. Filch some months
when Mrs. Crowley gnvo another paity
to which he was invited.
'Dear Fred will certainly propose tos
niSht,' she thought, as she made her toi
let lor tho event.
The dress she chose for the evening
was the most expensive slie had over
worn, and would have been a charming
affair if worn by one ot an opposite style
of beauty. Miss De Velin was highly
pleased with her appearance as she weut
down to tho parlor and eusconscd her
self snugly in a curtained niche where
she could'walch the guests unseen until
Mr. Fred Fitch should arrive.
Presently he cani«) and leaning on liis
'arm was a lovely woman. They stopped
by ihe window where Aline was sitting,
so close that she could huvo touched the
dazzling jewels the lady wore.
'1 wonder where Mrs. Crowley's liltle
rustic is to night?' observed )Mr. Fitch.
Havo you met her, Maud? No? Well,
sl eis a curiosity. Yon ought really to
see her and hear her talk. It is better
than a comedy. She thinks herself u
genius, yon know—fancies she sings
like an angel and paints like a prodi
gy-'
•Is she really talented Fred?, inquired
(he lady with polite iiidiflerence.
'Talented?, he laughed,6he is one of
the most ordinary girls I ever met In my
life, bnt her style aud self conceit are
stunning.'
•I suppose you found her tiresome,
did you not?' observed the lady earless
ly.
Unpleasantly so,' he returned, more
seriously. But of course one has to
treat her nicely, although no doubt she
mistakes one's courtesies for the partial
attentions of a most tofatttated admirer.
Really, Maude, I have fancied at limes
that she believed 1 loved her.'
I hope you have not trifled with her,
Fred? said the lady.
J assure you I have not, answered he,
very gallantly. J coula not do that, ess
pecialy as lam promised to your fair
self, sweet ma belle Maud.
They moved away presently, and then
poor Anne slipped unobserved out of the
grand parlors.
She sobbed a little when she at length
reached ber own room. Her last illusion
was gone, but had left her much wiser,
and much less burt than might be sup*
posed. She was only eighteen, be it re
membered ; mid, after all, her fancies had
not been more extravagant tlian thoseof
many others who. nufortuately, for lack
of this sort of salutary lesson, have re
mained tools to iho end ot their lives.
And she was. quite certainly, not too
much ot an idiot to know how foolish
she had been, nor lo feel a wonviiily, re
sentful desire to confuse the elegant and
vain M. Fred Filch wiih soino- pretty
and seemingly ingenious sally of -strat
egic wit. She thought of manly, noble
Joe Sanders, ami smiled contentedly as a
bright plan suddenly took shape aid
form in her giddy, egotistical brain, so
rudely slung to defensive action. She
sprang to -her fctit, and hurriedly flung
aside the golden tinted silk, tho crimson
carinations, and tho sol of rubies Itorow
ed from her indulgent Aunt Crowley
all of which tinerv had become to her. in
her abruptly awakened sense of tuste I
and discernment, correctly and odiously
unbecoming and incongruous Then
still smiling wish a strange and new loel
ing ot satisfaction, she put on a plain
pretty, dress of white cashmere, arrange
ed an exquisite affair of soil black luce
about her neck and shoulders, fastened a
palo pink rose in her dark fine hair, and 1
so went again down to the elegant par- I
iors.
'Auntie, please do introduce me to
that beautitul young lady whom Mr.
Fitch is entertaining,' she solicited, slip*
ping to iho side ot her relative at a mo
ment timely chosen."'
'Certainly, my dear child,' complied
Mrs. Crowley, ul the same time favor
her niece wiih a glance of sincere but
surprised admiral ion. 'Really, Anne,'
she whispered, you ate looking remark
ably well this evening. What fairy
heli>ed you to dresswith such exquisife
simplicity?'
The compliment was very gratifying to
Anne, but she had no time to respond,
for Mr. Fred Fitch and his, stylish be
trothed wero very iieui. And that gaU
lant young gentleman was somehow very
attemiye to Anne during the evening
that followed. Ho thought her very
pretty and graceful iu her simple dress,
and lie began vaguely to wonder it she
were really quite as much of a country
simpleton as he had supposed her to pe
albei her new fnood, that was charming
ly naive and shyly coqnettish, puzzlod
am l piqued him.
'I protest. Mr. Fitch,' said Anno, with
an arch uud saucy smile, wheu . his soft
flattery became' somewhat profuse, I
ittuat not listen lo such nonsense.
'Why must you not?* ho asked ten
derly.
'Because.' she returned demurely, (ho
dear fellow who is to be my husband
would certainly object if he knew it.
'Ah indeed/observed Mr. Fred Fitch,
dropping tho little brown baud; and
Anno smiled and mentaly blessed the
woman wit that had,{jelped her to nou>
p'us him who had ridiculed her.
She went home the day, quite
convinced that she preferred Ihe rustic
life she had once thought so prosy aud
inferior. Joe Sanders, the sensible,aud
faithful, met her at the station.
'Has my little girl come back to bo my
wile,' he asked, lovingly, reading (aright
iho expression ot her tired and wistful
eyes.
Anne's answer must havo pleased bim
mightily, for he kissed her then and
there, regardless of the gapping crowd.
Her father was delighted.
'1 Kuowed how it would be,'he declar
ed ; 'cause the gal was bright aud hand
seine, the rest cf yer made her b'lievo
she could beat all creation at the big
things them can do as was born to 'em.
Manv iu the gal as would mako a right
smart and happified wife as has been
poked into cilitied ways for nuthiii' but
misery. But 1 tell ye rale genius is allors
satisfied withAjie life the good Lord per
vides. Kiss mo. my little gal, and God
bless ye.'
A FLIRTINfI CIKI, WIIX CUBRIT,
_ (Forneys Progress.)
Seen? in a theatre. Heated in the or
chestia a lady anil gentleman; the form
er much enamored of the latter, itt fact
desirous of winning bim ( The lady,
however, haa flirting tendencies, and in**
dulges them with a handsome party in
the circle. The escort is not unobservant
of this little play, and finally asks
smilingly, "Do you know that gentleman
with whom you are flirting?"
An embarrassed negative is the re
ply.
"Thsn excuse me a moment."
The escort immediately crosses .the
theatre, puts a similar question to the
other conspirator, "Sir, are you acqnaint
ed-with the lady at whom you have been
smiling this last half hour?"
"No!"
Would you like to be?" pleasantly.
Very much surprised, "Certainly."
A moment later the escort introduces
the not altogether comfortable pair.
Tnen the mild expression leaves the
insulted gentleman's face, and he says
sternly.
"Now, sir, you may accompany this
lady home!"
With a bow he takes his leave, and
the woman who loves} him never bears
his voiee again.
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A San FrancUco man named Howland
has invented a machine that will tell
to within a small amonnt the quantity
of gold a person has about him. When
this machine collides with an editor it is
so hard worked that the |>eniparation
rolls off its face in big drops, and it falls
exhausted in two boars. The inventor
should build one of forty horse power
for the special use of newspaper qien.
ANOTHER OR BIT INVENTIVE TBI.
IIJIPIi.
[Philadelphia Times.]
The .naniffacture of ice was properly
considered a great inventive triumph,
bin a discovery has recently been made
which leaves this far in the shade.
This is nothing
refrigeration which iniolvvs the use of
no ice at all. The system has been put
into practical o]teration at Boston, and
is already a great success. Ammonia is
the chemical agent depended upon, and
by its use the air in a large six
story granite building is kept nearly
down to the freezing point event
in dog days. The building was first
rendered impeveriotis as possible to
outside atmospheric changes, and then
intricate mai binary was introduced by
means of which the heal and gases are
drawn off, condensed and purified and
retained to do the work of refrigeratiug.
The process goes on all the whilo and
I the air is constantly changing, hut the
' machine is so nicely arranged that the
temperature is kept at the uniform point
of about forty degrees. A curious
feature of the performance is that the
absorption of the heat, gases and moisture
constantly accumulates a great qr.antity
of snow in the machine room every day,
and he novel speotacle is presented of
men shoveling up snow from the floor
of a building outside of which the
thermometer stands among the nineties
and spreading it out on thetoof to melt,
in the midsummer sun. The building is
kept nesrly full ol perishable provisions,
a hundred thousaand packages of butter,
three hundred barrels of beef and thirty
five hundred dozen of eggs being among
the present utock on hand, and the pro
duce and commission 'houses which
patronize it report their goods are kept
better than in vaults filled with ire.
Indeeed the experiment has proved so
successful that it is expeoted mammoth
refrigerators of this sort will soon be
troduced in all the large cities, and there
seems to be no reason why the system
cannot be applied lo ocean steam-ships
in which case meats and other perishable
merchandise could be transported across
the Atlantic more successfully than
heretofore. There ought also to be a
hint in this discovery for the application
of a system of artificially cooling dwelling
houses in the hot weathor. There is a
chance here for some inventor
BECOMING BICII BV ACCIDENT,
The Pittsburg Telegraph tells this
story which it says is reliable: "During
an excursion from this city to Niagara
Falls, and while at Cleveland, sn incident
occurred which will never be forgotten
by those who heard of it. The Kennard
House at that city was crowded with
guests, when an ecoentrie and witty
druggist ofJSuiithfidd street appeared
late at night at the hotel office and de
manded a bed. JThe clerk replied that
there were only two vacant beds in the
house cns wl erein »i>aqui r-ed a Pittsburg
morning newspaper man, who were
with the excursion. "To tell the truth,
they are both pretty drunk, so you may
take your choice as lo which room you
will sleep in." The druggist said that
on general principles he would take his
; chances with the evening journalist, as
they excelled the morning men in more
ways than one, and he would doubtless
be quiet all night. He went to bed
and was soon sound asleep. The
journalist, however, awakened about 12
o'clock, and, thinking it a long time
between drinks, dressed himself, un~
conciously,in the druggist's clothes and
sailed out to make a night of it. Ever
and anon he muttered as he treated all
present, "Funniest thing lever heard of.
When I went to bed last-night, I only
had twenty five cents to my name, and
now I've got over a hundred dollars
(showing a corpulent roll of bills) and
I'm bound to spend every cent of it be
fore morning." He did.
f,ITTI,B JOHNNY ANECDOTBR,
[Ban Francleco Argonaut.]
Gotes bnts, and Uncle Ned he said:
"Johnny, one day there was a gote in
tie field, and it took after Bildad,
which you better x plain to yure butted
readers is the new dog. Bildad he ran
toward a hi fence for to git over, but the
gote it cot him and butted him cruil on
the tail, and he whirled over and over,
and lit on the other side of the fence
but didrnt kno it cos he was bewildered
and scrambled hack over the fence agin,
lifely as he cude, and the gote it let hioi
have it a other 'irue, and wocked aw»y.
Bildad he was astonish dog, ani shuke
his hod, much as to say, 'I never Fee so
many buttigotes, one in evry feold!' "
* At a legal investigation of a liquor
seizure the judge asked an unwilling
witnessW hat was iii the barrel that
Son had?' The reply was: 'Well, your
onor, it was marked 'whiskey' on one
end of and 'Pat Dully' on the
other euoTso that I can't say whether it
was whiskey or Pat Duffy was in the
barrel, being as I am on my oatb.'
When an honest ben is the
foundation for a family and the
work, some absurd rooster if {eaoy to
do the erowing.
NO, 24
Gleanings.
it doesn't du to bofc squint-eyed at a
ronn with a bisiol in Tcxu*, unless yoti
prefer to look like a porous plastnr.
AI (red: yoar poem must lay'' over, It
haviuy some minor defects. For instance*
gorge does'nt rhyme with morgue.
Speaking of Sara Bernhardt'* children
Simon Cameron declares that he can
prove an alibi.
About 9,000,000 tons of coal are
annually consumed in the city of I'JOlU
don.
Too much of a good thing, aa the
kitten said when it fell into the milk
pail.
.Why it it the. merchandise? Recanse
he doesn't advorl-^res. — Yonkert States
man.
More than eighteen thousand persons
live oy rag picking in Paris and t it»
suburbs.
China merchants never have to invite
sea CAptains to dine, as t bey always come
I in after tea.
Many a yonng man who sows his wil«l
oats trusts to the grasshopper of forget*
fulnes to destroy th* crop.— Steubenvillff
Herald.
Nothing surprises a young man more>
than the shape of hia head as he seea it
it for the first time after his hair has
been cropped close.
Two naked cherubs, over the portak
of a new conru house at Rockftwd* -111.,
so offended the moral sense of tW «i*y
they were chiscledoff.
When Patrick was told that the price
of bread had fallen, he exclaimed: ''That,
is the first time I iver rejoiced at the fait
of my best friend."
Father (to sleepy boy); Come James,,
you ought to be up with the lark on
such a boautifn morning/ Matler-oU
fact boy: 'All right; but how'iu I to
get op there?
One of the latest western aotioaa is
tha substitution of bats for pigeons ht
in shooting matches. Would it not 'be
still more .beneficial to substitute
potato bugs.
A physician at Salem, Ind., was act*
dieted to opium eating and his neighbors,
tried to cure him by tying him to *
tree, whipping him severely, and making;*
him take a voir of reformation. -
The girls base ball club is making a.
lively tour of New England. The
spectators tease (hem uun.eroifully,some-.
times trip them irn as they run, and,
even seize and km them.
'Marriage with a tinge of romance' fa
what they call it in Kansas when the,
old man rides after the couple and shoots,
Ibe hat off the bridegroom's bead with a.
bullet from au army carbine.— Free,
The Rockland Cowrvr has named rts
candidate for 1880. He must be a man,
who can design a railroad time table,
that a cominou traveler may understand,
without wrenching his intellect entirety
out of running order.
Vanderbilt controls an aggregate
length of 3,620 mile of railroad, com*,
prising 6,103 miles of track. On these/
are employed 27,706 men, who
iiTround numbers, $1,178,000 A month,
or $14,146,000 a year.
The young lady who doeWt scream,
when a candle bug ctawls down her back
is she who, tyrter in life can spank a baby
till it thinks the day of judgment has.
arrived; then go .smiling to the parlor
and receive her friends with an easy
grace that is as soothing as a dose of
morphine.
It is said that amcng the
spending the summer at Nahant,
wholesalers never associate with retail*,
era, and this unwritten law is carried so,
far that a certain retail merchant- and
family are no welcomed into the circle
in which his son, a wholesaler, moves,
notwithstanding the father furnishes the
money with which the SOn carries oi\
business.
As I hey sat upon the steps on Sunday
evening he claimed a right to a kiss for
every shooting star. She at hrst de
murred, as became a modest inaiden, but
finally yielded. She was even so accomo
dating as to call his attentiou to thei
flying meteors that w. re about to escape
his observation, und then got to 'calling*
him on lightning bugs, and at last got.
him down to steady work on the light
a lantern that a man was swinging about
a depot in the distance were trains were '
switching*
In Was!4»gton x £>. C., a temperance
reformer of pro,muy:*ice makes the yellow
fever ««oourge a, ba*i* for a temperance
argument, lie finds that the total deaths
from yellow fever in the United Sn tea
for the past ten years is ouly 21,000,14,-
000 ofwhom died last yea?. In the same
time,according to a careful and ffrehably
reasonable
have died from iiiteunpevauce, or at the
rate of 65,000 annualfy. This gentleman
proposes to quarantine again whibkey aa
a more deatructivo deetroyer than