North Carolina Newspapers

1 v.. lic pcajile'tf press, L V. & E T. BLUM, .... PUCI8HER8 AND PROPRIETORS. JOB PBINTING U ssppusd with all atrimrr malarial. la folly prepared to do work wtta NCATNE8S, DISPATCH, an at m VERY LOWEST PRICES TERMS: CASH IN ADVANCE, Oas Oo r year, . . i'TTYT"; . . .CM " " months, .75 ?j m . .......... ji Qevoied fa gatifics, gtftntttre, grinJhtre, i$ j$rltis gtiA general $n(oTma8i. r B nn to (At. as a trial Wlbrs tract! n wllh u;M elas. VOL. XXXY. SALEM, N. C, THUESDA Y, JULY 7, 1887. NO. 27 V (V i t f " t The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette face tiously savs: "Many persons, including some of our own correspondents, sare determined that the English sparrow 'must go, The chief fault with him, w(p have thought, was that he did go everywhere he had a chance." The story of Ireland is best told by the following figures furnished by Mulhall, one of the most reliable statisticians of the day. -He says that during Victoria's reign there have died of starvation in Ireland 1255, 000 people-, thcre.have been evicted for non-payment of rent, '3,365,000; and there have emigrated, 4, Mj Colman, United States Commis sioner of ; Agriculture, speaks hopefully of the new method of obtaining sugar from sugar-cane by diffusion. On return ing from a recent trip to Louisiana to in vestigate the operation he is" convinced that the process will prove successful. Cane which under ordinary circumstances and methods will yield eighty pounds of sugarto the ton yields 140 pounds under this process. SOME DAY. Some day I shall be dead; Some day this tired head, . With all the anxious thoughts it now doth know, Shall be laid low. This body, pain-racked, ill, Shall lie at length, and still, Under the clover and the wind-swept grass, Nor hear you pass. " That were indeed strange sleep: When even you might weep j And come and go even you unheard of me As bird or beo! I Nay, sweetheart, nay! believe There is no cause to grieve; One so wayworn, so sore opprest, Is glad to rest . " Perchance when that release Hath wrought its spell of peace, O'er this unquiet heart long vex'd with woe Hearts-easo may grow. Who lovv i me will not weep When that I lie asleep, But rather joy to think such sorrow may Have end some day. i Helen Hunt. A Providence man is issuing some tens of thousands of fac-similcs of the Vicks burg daily paper which was issued by Grant's soldiers after the capture of the city, having already been put in type by the regular printers. It was printed, as Southern papers were in those days, on the plain side of Wall paper. This would rot be worthy of note but for the fact that in a quarter of a century or less the ( people who find these forgeries in their attics will be claiming that their fathers were at ' Vicksburg, and got one of . the only dozen or two copies of the CitUcn which were printed. ' TEUE AS STEEL. in im Every year yiereases the importance of the. cotton production of Mexico, es pecially in view of the fact that vast tracts of land hitherto inaccessible, and rendered unsafe through the presence of hostile Indians, are being opcncd'up to immigration by the railroad. At present it is cultivated in only twelve States, and the amount produced is not sufficient for home consumption, large quantities being imported from the.United States. One district, -containing about 1.200.000 ' - o lying partly in Coahuila and Du-' and the next acres, rango, produces a perennial cotton plant, which does not require to be planted oftener than once in ten years. A newspaper printed at Dolores, Ar gentine Republic, which is situated near the volcanic region, gives an account of a mysterious shower of stones which fell near that city a few weeks ago. The stones are said to have fallen as thick as hail,' aid varied in size from a pebble to a very respectable boulder. Incalcuable damage was done to the crops, tall trees were shivered to "atoms, barns and out houses were demolished and many domestic animals were killed. In some localities the ground was covered with the bodies of wild geese and hawks, which appeared to have been killed dur ing their flight in the air. Several per sons were struck and badly injured while at work In the fields; and in the fcity it self, which missed the violence of the - ehower, one dwelling was wrecked. The stones are said to have fallen continu ously for more than a minute. "I do wonder why those little savages are allowed to make a coasting hill ef the public highway r grumbled an uncom monly pretty girl, as she hesitated great perturbation half wy up the proviseu suae mentioned. It was an irregular and rather precipi tous cross street of a suburban village n w'as treacherously icy and swarming with juvenile coasters, one of whom had carried a strip of silken ruby flounce with him as he darted past her. "It is quite too bad! and my very nicest dress, too," she complained, men tally, as she stopped to draw back and pin together the damaged bit of drapery. In the annoyance of the moment she did not reflect that something more un pleasant was quite possible if she were not vigilant. She Avas quite too engrossed to hear boyish shouts of warning in the road above her, or to see an agile figure that was springing affrightedly toward her. A big sled, freighted with half a dozen reckless urchins! had started down the tempting descent; on the classy track it i i i .. " uau uucome paruv unmanageable: in a second more it would be upon her unless she heed those warning shouts or a miracle interposed to saxe her. Before she really had time to compre hend her peril or understand the sudden, shrill vociferation, there was a wild w hirring in the air and a tingling shock. instant she felt herself Sacha braid I wanted at the store? or id you forget your errand, and stay all this time gossiping with that simple old Mrs. Merron?" The rose tint deepened to crimson on Dodo's pretty cheeks, but she did not choose to explain what had deterred her at Airs. Merron s cottage on the hill. "I couldn't get the braid, Greta; they don't keep it," she answered. "It is a bonnet braid, anyhow, and that wouldn't do for your dress." 'A bonnet braid ! dear me I How stu pid a dressmaker can bel" Gr.etcb.cn ex claimed, impatiently. "But if she will only have the dress finished somehow by the time Mr. Lestrange Rets herel won't grumble about minor blunders. And now, Dodo, do be obliging and help me with the trimmings of the ancient ball gown." i "It is too ancient to be rejuvenized, Greta: it ought to be replaced by anew gown altogether,'' said Dodo, looking with decided resistance at the task sug gested. "It depends on vou. Dodo, whether we, any of us, ever have anything new again," sighed a faded little woman from her invalid chair before the fare. Dodo looked distressed, and all the lovely color suddenly paled from her pretty checks. . "Oh, aunty, how does it depend on me?" she faltered. although she guessed what the aliusion meant. is this?" he finished in BUDGET OF FUN. little love, what surprise. For Dodo had suddenly flung herself face downward on the sofa, and was cry ing as if her heart would break. i "And it was the mortgage which had come between you and me, David," she cried, with a nervous laugh mingling , with the sound of tears." I would n t marry you just because poor aunty wanted your help about it, and I tried to hate you, and " "And you couldn't, "he interrupted, in a voice shaken with its sudden deep glad ness, as he took her in his arms and kissed the wet eyes and quivering lips. Ana so uaviu canyon won nis Dnae. Greta became eventually the wife of x elegant Mr. Lestrangc, and regards herself as the most fortunate of women. 2fev York Journal. niaOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCEa uatner Confusing The Same Old Place Wanted a Change Early Marriage What the Gun was Good For, Etc 'You WORDS OF WISDOM. In a barber shop. Customer say the black horse won?" "Yes. sir." "Whyr a man just now told me that tne bay horse was beaten " "Er sir?" Detroit Free Pre. are" violently whirled aside by a strong arm which had seized her as the sled flew past. - rrt. m ' f i -i . . iiie ague ngure oi a maniy peacstnan, whose affrighted gestures she had not no ticed, had flung himself between her and death, or.worse, and she was safe. As she struggled to her feet a cry of gratitude and pity quivered from her startled lips. She fully realized what her peril had been and her pity was for her handsome rescuer, who was lying stunned and Clocks, says the New York Times, are now not only useful but very ornamental, and so very cheap, too. A very pretty antique pressed r brass mantel clock, (American make),? with a deepened cathedral gong of a far-away sound, can be had for $10. A good-time keeper, nickel-plated, costs bu 00 cents,. The prices have this wide range, and 'selec tions can be made from varied thousands of office clocks, alarms, cuckoos, halls, and striking or silent recorders of the flight of precious hours. Clocks that tell the state of the weather and are also calendars; clocks that tinkle the half hours and chime the full ; clocks that work like watches or swing the faithful pendulum, and, in fact, clocks of all kinds, matching all dispositions, are abundant and cheap, and there seems to no excuse for even the occupant of an cast side flat not having one. These Yankee clocks are appreciated abroad and below, for the exportation to Eu rope, Mexico, and South America rnwu ber a thousand a day. C The Grant relics, which have been for several months safely guarded in one of the private rooms of the National Mu seum, in Washington,are now on public exhibition. Recently two handsome ' plushed lined cases, filled with articles from the collection, were placed in the north hall of the muscra, near the main entrance. They contained the presenta tion swords; gold headed cane caskets, medallions and many other costly and elegant articles presented by different people at different times to General Grant. Many of these articles are souvenirs of his trip around the world. There is bruised and bleeding before her. ' Oh, what can I say to you? what can I do?" she faltered, in a distressing voice, as she bent over him. His handsome features were alarmingly pallid, and there were tiny drops of warm red blood staining the frozen snow which pillowed his fallen head. But the bright dark eyes unclosed .with a flashing smile which was delight fully tranquilizing. "Say only that I have made a charm ing friend," he smiled, as with a wince of pain he uplifted himself to a sitting posture. "I am not badly hurt. I have a surface gash on my cheek, I think, and i have a notion there is a sprained limb. 1 shall not be able to get to my destina tion that's certain." he added, as he made an heroic attempt to stand upright, only to sink back again with a sup pressed groan. ! Just then the big sled was hauled back up the street, i the reckless coasters all penitent and terrified, and eager to render every service. A helpful idea brightened the girl's anxious face. "It would be an hour before proper assistance could be brought to you here," she said, in her quick, sweet, girlish voice. "But there is a dear, motherly old lady living in that little cottage at the top of the hill. Let the boys put you on the sled and take you up to her. She is my friend and she will do whatever I wish." And so a few minutes later the injured young gentleman was snugly ensconced on a cosey lounge of the cosey little cot tage and a physician had been sent for. "Ah, you will be "all right again in a few days," the doctor said, cheerfully, "Only you must keep yourself perfectly quiet, and not try to exert yourself in any way." i "I can reconcile myself to the situation easily if you will promise to cheer my imprisonment occasionally," the -gentleman said, with one of his flashing smiles towardthe pretty girl, who readily, prom ised what he seemed so eagerly to desire. And that was the beginning of pretty Dorinda Grey's acquaintance with the handsome young stranger whom she had exalted to a hero a king among men. He had done only what any other man would have done in "similar circumstan ces. He had simply snatched her away from the track of the flying sled. . He had perceived no risk to himself, no sacrifice ; he had been safely beyond any collision with the coaster it was his own awkward stumble on the treacherously glassy incline which had caused his mis hap. The peril was over when he had slipped upon one of his heels and fallen. It might have happened just the same even if he had not hastened gallantly to the rescue of a distractingly pretty girl. But three were trifliner little truths iwhich he did not deem absolutely neces- a I rv to reveal. It was too pleasant to "I think you will never quite forget the hours which we have passed together here," he said, with seemingly a regret ful glance around the room, and at moth erly Mrs. Merron, asleep over her knit ting before the fire. "They have been hours to be remembered by both of us." He had bent over he,r until his dark mustache brushed her forehead; he "had clasped both her hands. There was the tenderest significance in his musical tones; the fascination of what seemed tenderest love glowed in the brilliant eyes. Dodo trembled. She had made him her hero undoubtedly ; but in that in stant her whole being recoiled from him. Why, she could hot have explained ; she only know she was aroused somehow to a true knowledge of her own feelings. He had charmed her fancies for the mo ment, perhaps, but no love sweet and supreme would ever thrill her soul for him. f "I ought to have gone before," he continued, uneasily, as if he were dread ing some reproach from Dodo herself, "But 1 was hardly presentable with a puffed and purple bruise decorating a goodly half of my countenance. And my destination is nearer than you guessed, Dodo; my dear little girl, you and I are to meet again, and often." Dodo noticed the uneasiness of his tones, his entire changed expression, and with a sudden quick instinct she grasped the truth. You are are Mr. Lestrange ?" she grasped, with a strange look in her big brown eyes. "Yon are my cousin Greta's promised husband." He bowed m a manner so conscious . and embarrassed that all Dedo's honest little soul arose to hot indignation against him. He was no longer a hero in her sight. He was an insincere, shallow trifler, who had amused himself with her simple blushes at his practiced flattery. Such sublime audacity, such consum mate falsity, stunned her. With a look of withering scorn she turned and left met ad- for- in- the It is a good rule to be deaf when a slanderer talks. Those are the most honorable who the most lawful. Inordinate demands should be with bold denials. No man should so act as to take vantage of another's folly. We are sure to get the better ' of tune if we do but grapple with her. Cleverness is a sort of genius for strumentalitv. It is the brain of hand. The vulnerable point of one's character j is much more speedily discovered by our : inferiors than by our equals. Real friendship is a slow grower, and , never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit. Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it, for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every single action of our life carries in its train either a reward or a punish ment, however little disposed we are to admit that such is the case. The man who Is suspicious lives in a constant state of unhappincss. It would j be better for his peace of mind to be too trustful than too guarded. j , An animal when it is sick craves for solitude ; whereas the human being, on the contrary, is only happy when he can 1 make his sufferings public. The true "grand dame" displays the same manners in her toilet room as in her saloons, and the same courtesy toward her servants as toward her guests. Work, savs one who is accustomed to it, is the true philosopher's 6tone, j The Same Old Flace. " Are you going to take in any of the vaienng resorts this summer c" asked a well known landlady to her milkman. " Oh yes, I have always taken a little recreation every summer and I always derive pecuniary as well as healthful benefits by taking in those resorts every summer." " Where do you expect to go this sea son f" asked the lady. "Oh the same old watering place tne town pump." Larl I'rclzel. asked a the market person in- Wanted a Change. "Got the cholera in town?' Nankin farmer who was on yesterday. " Wny, ncl" answered the terrogated. "Heard so out at my place yesterday, Heard there were twenty-six cases. "un, mats au nonsense. Are your neighbors much excited!" " Not a bit. We began down there with the measles and whooping cough List October, and we are now tapering ou with catarrh in the head and a ring ing in the cars. Lxcitcd? Why, I come in to get a c:lse of cholera for a change!" Detroit Free Preta. either. It was twenty-six years ago, at the Profile House, in the Franconia mountains. Barnum was feeling pretty smart in those days, and he had been playing his jokes and cute tricks rather freely about the house. A lot of guests sat on the piazza of the hotel. Among them were Commodore Vanderbilt, n ill- lam II. Vanderbilt, another of the family, Governor Gilmore's son, John Hyde, the artist, Barnum and a number of others, including myself. Young Gil- more was a lively young chap then, but he has deteriorated and become a minister since. Gilmore put up the job and let us all into it. lie twisted the talk around to physical prowess, and got Barnum to brag about how fast he could run. Across the plateau in front of the hotel was a rail to which horses were tied. Gilmore proposed that we all start from the piazza and run to the rail and that the last man to touch, the rail with his hand pay for the drinks for the crowd. Everybody agreed, and we got into line, all except the Commodore, who sat on the piazza and gave the word. V. l . was lively and conhdent, and waited impatiently for the word. The Commo dore said "go r and away went the greatest show on earth like Jumbo in a sprint race. He took the lead right away. Everybody else pretended to run for all that was in them, but took care not to get ahead of P. T. The showman got there in great style, put his hand on the rail, and turned around in triumph. There stood the rest of the crowd in line behind him, not one of them touching the rail. When he heard the Commodore roar, he took in the situation. He was the only one who put his hand on the rail at all. Barnum set them up, but he was so mad that he couldn't tell a plausible fairy tale for a week. Xew York Letter. Shanghai. QUEER SCENES IN A LEADING CHINESE PORT. Its Foreign Population The Wheel barrow as a Conveyance Chinese Theatres and Actors Serving Tea and Watermelon Seeds. Early Marriage. Constance is a very young, but she is quoting than most also better worth whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheelbarrow or a set of books, digging, ditching, or editing a newspaper. Horn-Books. One of the rarest, and certainly one of . the most interesting, books in the library of the British Museum is what our ances tors called a "horn-book." It was, in fact, their primer, the ordinary means by which they began their education ; and down to the reign of George II. must have bceu very common, for we see by an entry in the account book of the Archer family that one was sold in 1780 for two pence. At present there is no book more diihcult to obtain. The one in the British Musenm was found a quar- grown people. Her envy was somewhat j aroused by the fact that a wedding was I about to take place in the family of her . little playmate, and that the playmate , thereby had the advantage of her ; so she remarked, very complacently, to her 1 little friend's mamma: j "Mrs. , did you know that I was engaged to be married?"' "Why, no, Conny. Is that so?" "Yes, ma'am; I'm engaged to Fitz Ward" (small boy of her acquaintance). "He doesn't knojv it, but I've got to ex plain it to him." "Well, Conny, do you expect to be married soon!" "Vell, I hope so. Ihetact is, 1 m tired of being spanked, and I think we'll be married very soon." Harper's Maga tine. What the Gun Was Good For. "Yes, gentlemen," said one of the few yet unboycotted liars of the Bohemian Club, as he finished a snipe-shooting story; "that was the most remarkable gun I ever saw. Wouldn't take a thou sand dollars for it." "It's nothing to a gun I used to own, taid an cx-champion prevaricator, waking 'It was simply impossible It splendid collection of Japanese coins, ipse as a wounded hero, and to have his one scries of seven pieces, old Japanese gold ' coins of huge size, being valued at $3,000. There arc also invitation cards, menu cards, and reminders of en tertainments given in his honor, engrossed on gold plates. One invitation card to a masked ball, given at San Francisco upon General t Grant's arrival at that city, on his return f 10m his famous tour, is en graved on solid gold, and was inclosed in a silver envelope, with the address en graved upon it. In the right hand corner ia a tn mnt stamn. and in the left the psual: "If not delivered in ten days re -turn to," etc. The articles shown, be sides their historical interest, are qf great jnriobio valve mporary confinement enlivened by the visits of his graceful and interesting new acquaintance, j For his own sake he pre ferred not to spoil her little illusions on the subject. And so Dorinda went homeward, tak ing with her the image of an elegant fig ure and handsome countenance of a fasci nating young stranger, whose tones were like music, whose smile was like a flash of sunlight, whose brilliant black eyes had gazed admiringly, almost' tenderly, into her own. Her own great brown eyes were bright as stars, her cheeks flushed with a curi ously wavering rose tint, as she at length entered the fine old yellow stone mansion at the further end of the village street. "What on earth has kept you so long, Podo?" queried a tall and stately young him in utter digust. "I pity Greta, cross and selfish as she is," Dodo thought, as she went slowly up the steps of the old yellow stone mansion. As she entered the pleasant family sitting-room Greta pressed rudely and sullenly past her and tripped up the stairs. Mrs. Gray was weeping almost convul sively in her invalid chair before the fire. "What has happened, aunty?" the giri queried, anxiously and affectionately. - Dodo was sincerely attached to her invalid aunt, whose trials had, indeed, jheeii many and grievous.. xttis that mortgage," was the piteous answer. "There is to be an immediate f enclosure. We shall be absolutely homeless; there won't be $100 left after the sale. I don't care for myself, nor so much on Greta's account she can earn her own living if she chooses ; but there are the poor children Tommy and Willy 1 What will become of them?'' Dodo stopped and kissed her aunt in gentle sympathy, but she was silent. "Dodo, I can't ask you to do anything that might make you unhappy," the weeping woman resumed, "and it seems cruel to remind you that I have been like a mother to you. But, my dear, if you only would consider everything and then decide to do what I would like. And David is waiting for you, dear, ne is in the parlor now." Dodo's pretty face flushed with a sud den sense of her own lack of feeling for others. She had not considered every thing as she might have done that was certain. . Mrs. Grey had indeed been like a mother to her. In her orphaned and pen niless childhood she had been taken into the family as one of their own. She had shared and shared alike with them in everything; no hint of her dependence had ever been permitted to pain her. Even the selfish and sometimes disagree able Greta had treated her entirely as a sister. And when the dear, kind uncle left them she mourned him as one who had been to her like an indulgent father. The flusbrhad vanished from her pretty cheeks; her face was pale and her large brown eyes very serious as she opened the parlor door and advanced rather tim idly toward the gentleman waiting for her. ; The serious eyes dropped and her voice choked as she glanced at the earn est face and fine Saxon-looking figure of her patient, true, old lover. How could she have tried to shut her foolish heart against the love of one all noble and loyal ever she wondered. But she meant to be frank with him; 6he would confess all her folly she would even tell him about that dreadful mortgage, and then, if he loved her no longer, she could not blame him. He misinterpreted the agitation of the palo face, and checked the confession be fore it was begun., "I am not here to hurry your answer, Dodo!" he said very gently. "You shall up just then for a bird to get away from that gun ter of a century ago in a deep closet, built ' made the closest and most regular pattern in the thick walls of an old farm house in j you ever saw. I traded for a fifty-acre Derbyshire. It is said a laborer engaged j lot." in pulling down the walls of the ancient i "To Bogardus, eh?" said the other fin- house recognized it as that from which . ished cquivocator, sarcastically. his father had been taught to read. Upon the back is a picture of Charles I. on horseback, giving some approximation to its date. It is a single leaf, containing upon the front side the alphabet, large and small, in Old English and Roman letters, ten short columns of monosylla bles founded on the vowels, and the Lord's Prayer; all set in a frame of oak, now black with age, and protected by a slice of transparent norn, jience tne name horn-book. ' nvi i .1 1 v : i , Si. mere is a nanun? uy uwu iu uum n, and in the handle a hole for a string, so i'. could hang from the girdle. A picture of 1720 represents a child running in leading strings, with a horn-book tied to her side. A cheaper kind of horn-book had the leaf of printed paper pasted upon the horn, and perhaps the greater number were made in this way. If so, it is not singular they should be scarce, for they would be very easily destroyed. Shcn- stone writes in 1742 of Books of stature small. While with pellucid horn secured all To save from fingers wet the letters fair. The alphabet upon the horn-books was always headed by a cross, and so was frequently called the Christ Cross Row, or, in common speech, the Criss Cross Row, this being the title under which a very worn specimen is catalogued at Ox ford. Christian at Work. No. to Simpson, the big wholesale druggist. He used it to shoot holes in porous plasters fifty at a clip." And then nothing could be heard ex cept the scratching of the other man's pen as he wrote out his resignation. The Wasp. An Unexpected Suggestion. "Say, Gaddersby," said Mr. Smith, as he came into the fish store with a lot of tackle in his hand. 'I want you to give me some fish to take home with me. Kind o' fix 'em up so that they'll look as if they've been caught to-day, will you?" "Certainly, sir," said the grocer, "How many?" . "Oh, you d better give me three or four bass. Make it look decent in quan tity without appearing to exaggerate, vou know." "Yes, sir. But you'd better take white fish, hadn't you? ' "Why? What makes you think so?"' "Oh, nothing, except that your wife was down here early this afternoon and said said if you dropped in with a fish pole over your shoulder and a generally woc-bc-gonc look, to have you take white fish if possible, as she liked that kind better than any other." Mr. Smith took white fish. Merchant Trateler. . Night In a Gjpsy Camp. Edgar L. Wakeman gives, in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the following de scription of night as it is spent in a gypsy camp: i "As a gvpsy camp has no load of hate, or greed, or strife for social place, or un- holy pleasures, as in your world, to scourge his moments which God and na ture give to rest, the evening time is ever a pleasant part of his daily experience. for he has cheery sound and sense, his fricndi, his family, his. horses and dogs, with love and content about him. This camp by evening, and indeed all evening gypsy camps where there is a goodly number of these tawny people in one band, is weird and romantic, and yet strangely snug and heart-holding to the sense. In the open air, as we are, there is still a sense of being shut in and pro tected by the very dark around and about. Here are a dozen tent fires, and one great roaring fire around which we all gather at will. All these make a good deal of light.' Then against the trunks of some great elms are fastened several flaring cressets. Looking above or about, the eye meets an almost palpable blackness which, while shutting out the very stars, seems to panoply the spot, while the rich new foliage of the branches are set in the ebon folds like wondrous fluriture of pale green. "Here are groups at cards; there old tales are being, retold with some great flourishes and variations by the story teller of the band : over here are a num ber of middle-aged men lying carelessly about a fire, smoking and leisurely dis cussing the morrow's affairs ; meddlesome old spae-wives are everywhere descend ing like grim propriety upon merriment and cheer, but everywhere tolerated with winsome respect and good humor; old men and dogs are constantly sallying out among the stock and to environs of the camp; sturdy women are humming old tunes while making things snug atxut the tents for the night ; here and there is genuine love-making by gypsy swam to gypsy lass, but always under tne eye oi the mother of one or the other which custom is almost savagely' observed among gypsies for a gypsy -anaiden is never out of range of her mother's eye ; all about are little collections of lads at various mischievous devices, for gypsy children are precisely like your children ; while over here by the big fire, we who can dance, or care to, have bribed freckled-faced Joe,' the tinker, to tre mendous work upon his greasy violin, and are pounding away upon the tender green sward with such genuine vigor as you 'never saw equaled in your whole civilized life. Then the fires are 'banked' for the night, and we go to our separate tents it has always been my good lucK to sleep with the tinker, with several dogs and a mule's nimble heels for guardian angels and you would first know the royal good in sleep if you could get as close as we to the true breast of mother earth, with but a few sheaves of sweet straw or some aromatic cedar branches and a travel-work blanket be tween." Hovr to Tell the Age of a Horse. The age of a horse is indicated by the teeth in the following manner. When the colt is three years old it sheds four of the front teeth, and permanent teeth take their place, two above and two be low ; the fourth year one more tooth on each side of the permanent teeth is shed and new teeth are substituted; the fifth year four more teeth are shed and re placed, and the horse has now twelve permanent front teeth. The next year the tushes or canine teeth appear in the horse, but rarely in the mare. From six to eight years the front teeth arc grow- -w . 11 ing, and at eignt years are iuugrown ; after which period the wearing down of the teeth alone indicates the age. But this wearing depends upon the feeding; pasturing causes more wear than soft feeding. It is said that after nine years wrinkle appears in the eyelid at the upper corner of the lower lid, and one ' other wrinkle forms every year. This ! we give for what it is worth, having no i personal knowledge of it. lhe age of j an old horse if this is true is known j by observing the number of these wrinkles j and adding nine to it. New York Times. How Type is Made. It takes a great deal of work to make type, says the Atlanta Constitution. Every letter has to be handled by five Getting the Best of the Banana. He was a short man pervaded by a generally rural air, and wore a derby hat that looked like a chocolate drop. He paused near the Post Office build ing in front of an Italian banana cart, and inspected the fruit with great interest, "How's bernanners?" he inquired. '7 tusf lunina in r ritv imid the merchant from Italy earnestly. "Zis ze banana season. All of zem sound and ripe." "How much for the ycller ones?" "Two for five." "Well, give me one," said the short man. He passed over three cents, and selecting a banana began to remove the skin. The fruit was sngntiy overripe, however, and being exposed, a soft spot on one side gave way and the edible por tion of that banana vanished in the gutter. There was an expression of intense sur prise on the purchaser's face. He looked at the emptv banana skin in his hand, and then said to the vender: "I thought you said this was the season for bernan ners?" "So it is." . " "Mavbe that was a last season's ber- nanner." "No. no." said the dealer impatiently, "zat was all rirht. You should have eaten him." "I didn't tret a chance to eat it. Gimme another." The dealer objected, so they com oromiscd on another banana for two cents. The man with a chocolate-drop derby An Indian Scholar's English. The following was written by an Indian scholar in the Hampton school: "One day, bright day, and a little bird happy and stood on a log and sang all day long. That bird doesn't know any thing about cat. She thinks nobody is near to her. But behind the near log one sly o!d cat is watching. She want to eat for supper, and she thinks about stealing all the time. The ld cat came very slow, and by-and-by she go after the little bird, but she does not see him, and sang aloud again. She sang just like this: I always try to do wnai is ngm; when I ever died I go to heaven.' That bird said these all words, and I shall not forget the bird what it said, and these all words it saiu anu ancr iwu mice miuutes go died; that cat jumped and catch and kill, cat up all except left little things from bird, wings, legs, or skin, and that bird is glad to die because she is very good bird. That little Dira nas iasi time sane, and very hanny was the little bird, after that. I think the old cat have good dinner and happy just same as bird was first time. Climate and Seasons In Mexico. A large part of the Republic enjoys the climate of the temperate tone. The low regions are termed the 1 terra iauen- ta, or hot country. At an aiuiuae oi 3,000 feet above the sea-level we entei the Tierra Templada, the temperate country. Extremes here are unknown. This climate extends and is continued from 3,000 feet to 7,000 or 8,000 the of the table land while above A letter from Shanghai to the Chicago Tribune says: The same treaty which ceded Hong Kong to the English and paid $25,000 as indemnity for the de struction of opium and ships threw open as trading ports Amoy, Foo Chow and Shanghai all along the eastern coast. Other cities have been added since that time, notably the great tea emporium Han Kow, 600 miles inland, on the Yangtre Kiang. Jlut the same hostility, which has only yielded under extreme ptessure so as to allow any trading what ever with fore i en countries, has pre vented the establishment of any railroad in China. " A line was laid some years ago, but so unfavorable to it were the natives that they at last tore up the rails and utterly destroyed it. Of all the treaty ports Shanghai is first, situated on the Woosung River not far from-where it empties into the great Yangtze Kiang. Ti i , ? i . . :.u li is largely ioreign in uscuaiw urr, nu its English, French, and American quarters. Like other cities of the East where there are foreign residents, it has splendid clubs. For club life is an ab solute necessity. Absence of theatres, concerts, and other amusements and the abundance of young men sent out from Europe and America to fill mercantile positions erive them a support that renders it easy for them to erect luxurious club-houses and supply every comfort. The local vehicle of the City of Shan- f:hai is the wheelbarrow. Not at all nn ike that which we find-in our own coun try, though it has on top a board ar ranged somewhat like the centreboard of a boat. It serves as a rest for the backs of the two passengers who are generally seen perched upon the barrow, sitting sideways and allowing their feet to hang toward the ground. This instrument of conveyance has,within the last few years. rather lost favor with fore:gners, wno prefer a carriage or the more cay-riding jinriksha, but it probably will always remain the especial delight of followers of the sea. Not at all uncommon is it to see two jolly tars, scarcely able to main tain their unsteady positions, perched upon a wheelbarrow, each waving a bot tle of liquor in one hand while trying to hold onto the vehicle with the other. The poor cooly struggles along, and certainly earns the very small amount of money that he hallowed to charge. Farther north, in and around Pckin, it is custom ary to rig a sail onto the wheelbarrow and use the wind as a motive power, the man at the handles merely steadying and steering the machine. The Chinese are great theatre-goers, and it would seem that with the good patronage that their, places of amuse ment command there would be some cul tivation of the dramatic art. Whatever may be the Chinese estimate . of their players' acting, to those who have seen that of almost any Europcaan or Ameri can artist it is without any merit. The lines are delivered in a monotonous sing ing style, and the stage settings are of so primitive a character that they add little to the interest of the play. , There is no curtain. The stage is a platform, that stands at one end of the theatre, and there are no flies and but little scenery. The actors enter by a door in the rear and at one side of the platform, and when they should depart betake them selves off either by the same way in which they entered or through a corre sponding door at the other side. Not infrequently the spectators see some one who has been decapitated or disembow eled gather himself together and walk off in a most miraculous and unrealistic manner. There are no women upon the stage, but the make-up of the men who take the feminine characters is so good that they can hardly be dis tinguished from the Chinese belles unon the floor of the house. Talking is indulged in by all, and there is at times the greatest inattention. The main floor is filled with little tables, around which the playgoers sit and drink, and smoke, and chat, and watch, and listen. The stage not only is not fur nished with those fixings which go so far to make a drama a success, but does not seem to be reserved exclusively for the performance. Around the sides are those who have no parts,and,one would think, no business there. Often the curtain across the door of entrance or of exit is pushed aside, and instead of the actor whom the audience may be looking for some child is seen, who comes toddling in and Derhaps right across the stage. Tea boys or girls circulate through the body of the house or across the stage pouring hot water into the little cups, in f. m , - . 1 trie bottoms OI wnicn are a ew m Watermelon seeds seem a favorite accom- Tviniment of the national beverage, for little plates full of them are on every ta ble. The Chinese munch these with the greatest satisfaction. When some actor has finished a particularly long harangue he quietly turns around and drains one of the cups, which a supernumcry standing by bands him. mere is irequcnuy, in troductory to the regular performance, iuirelinz or tumbling, -The plays them selves are said to be, as a rule, quite im moral and the language very low. The dressinirs are very rich, and the beauti fully colored and embroidered silks and satins, in which the better claws of the Chinese clothe themselves, show to great advantage on the stage. LEAVES AND STEMS. A crimson rose that in a garden grew One summer day upraised its fragrant head, And looking proudly round, "What should I do If I were not a lovely flower!" it said. "Sad must it be to fill a humble pUc, . And lire unnoticed throughout all your days Gifted with neither loveliness nor grare. Nor anything that calls for words of praise." Scarce had it ceased to pcak, "hen fro .each side ' , Of the tall bush that held it tenderly. In gentle chorus voice sweet replied: "Oh, lovely flower.no lovely flowers are we. But leaves and . stems, and yet without our id, Onr faithful aid, yon never had been srn: That you might come in crimson robes ar ' rayed. Long have we toiled ia modest dress of green. . . . "Sunshine we stored away to bring you strength. To you we gave the nectar of the showers. And with the greatest joy we saw at length You turn from tiny bud to queen of flowers ; And we are haipv, knowing we've done all. Being but leaves and stems, that we could do, . Although but little praise to us may fall Yes, harpy and content, fair rose, as you, Haryaret Ktynye i Tommy FVopf. . P1T11 AMJOINT. . Base ball batters strike for higher wages. Ficiynne. Nothing so completely unscts a man as to tread upon a small spool of cotton at the top of the stairs. XorrUtotrn Utrald. "Yes," said Fogg, "as a success I have always been a failure, but as a failure I been an unqualified success. Accident Airtr. . When the thermometer begins to rise. And couples court at night upon the stoop. Then we begin again to look for flies la soup. Boston Courier. An exchange in speaking of the perfect woman asks: "How may a beautiful woman acquire the qualities of a noble man! Tint's cay: marry the man. Siftiiigt. A book of rules for playing lawn ten nis has bech published, but it omits the most important rule of all for beginners, which is: First get your lawn. LouU xilU Journal.- Considering how many questions s small boy can ask his mother in a quarter of an hour, it is astonishing how little he seems 'to know when a stranger sks him any. SomerxiUe Journal. Come let us rsine a cheer! The base ball season's here, And everybody's heart with joy is filled, filled, filled. We'll to the grounds away; Our fifty cents we'll pay To watch the game and see the umpire killed, killed, killed. UOMOn. ivuvr. Collector "Mr. Jones, I am sorry to have to ask you to pay this little bill." Jones "Are you, my boy? Well, I can sympathize with you from the bottom of my heart. I'm sorry you have to ask me." IKtUihurg DUpatch. "That new dentist who came to town last week is going to make business hum," said the postmaster. "How soP ask the parson. "Why, he has a sign out, teeth extracted while you wait. He s a rustler. "i-liroouyn tagu. She was a eorrewpoivleot For a paper down in Maine; But now tii'i is dponde nt And will never write sgain. Her fashion piece wss beaded Thus: "For Ladies Wear." But it came out. double leaded. Thus: "Four Ladies 8 wear P OoodalU Sua. have your own time about that, my dar- punch is driven into a piece of polished ling. I have come on quite a diflcrent er rand. I have just learned that your mint has been threatened with some financial trouble, and I have ventured to adinst the matter by buying the mort- crao-ft. I know how hard it would be for her to give up her old home, and how bard it would be for you to see ner in Bueh distress when she has always been such a sood mother to you. And so I ust took the affair in my own hands and ttJ Dersons after it is cast.- The first thins ana me mean annual vcwijcibiuio ui cue cold region is aboutr0 degrees, the ex tremes reaching fron, 5 degrees to the freezing point. The yN .r is divided into two periods El EUio,7drj season, and La Eitacion da las Jffuas, or the rainy season. The rainy season comprises the months of June, July, August and Sep tember. ady in an elegant morning dress of Sevres just took the affair in myown hands WnOiittwi ?TOft7toYttfctfti tflw&wW!is tudeO, Why, Dodo, copper, which makes the matrix.. The matrix for the face of the letter and the mold for the body of the type are put into the type-casting machine, fed with melted metal, and the letters are . turned out one at a time, dropping from the machine like the ticking of a watch. A great deal of work is required in finishing type, and when at last they are apparently all right each letter is examined under a microscope, anc the defective ones, are rejected. ,:i ' f ; ' ..'" the second banana, he remarked : "I ain't agoin' to let no Eyetalyun fruit beat me. Plagued if I don't eat skin and all this time." And he did. Ifew York Tribune. A Joke on Barnum. At a recent dinner, by the way, a story was told of Barnum. "He is a temper ance man now," said one of the party, "but I remember when he drinks for a distinguished didn't dp it out of pure set up the I New Alpine stocks have the shepherd s crowd. He crook and silver bands on whih to good nature J enave name of places yi6itcU. Soag of the Rejected. I will no longer sue my Hoe, My suit is spurned and oft denied. The same slim prude is lovely Prue, And Mollis is nnmollifled. Delia no more with me will deal Although she holds my heart in snare, I cannot make Ophelia feel The darts that she has planted there. Mabel, I'm able to be free From you, no more I am your slave. And Grace, unless you smile on me, I shall go graceless to the grave. My Flora's heart will not o'erflow To my half -erased appeals at all ; And Minnie's most emphatic "No," It strikes me like a niinnie ball. And although Dora I adore Yet she for me will never care; Though Cora pierced my bosom's core She will not heed my sappliant prayer. And Maud is modest when I'm near, My presence she cannot abide. And in regard to Clara, dear. My mind is still unclarined. And Winnie I can never win. And Carrie's heart wont carry me; And Mary, though with constant din I plead, will never marry m. IK, foss, in Detroit Free Pre?. Gypsy Horse Dealers. The main dependence of American gypsies is upon horse trading and deal ing, says an article on the nomad tribes ia the St. Louis Ghjbc-Democrat. Every gypsy map, woman and child is a master, of horse lore and horse care and horse manship. A lad of twelve, or lass of fif teen, is a trader, a jockey and a veteri- narian. A large numocT oi animais uc sides those in actual use always accom pany the band. These are traded, sold or their number added to at a moment's notice. Of the keenness, cunning and wonderful proficiency of this race in dots care, trading and dealing,' I could relate innumerable incidents, uui u is an in teresting general fact in this regard, that gypsies are gradually taking the place of all others as middlemen between the farmers of our country and our final markets. Nearly all the draft horses usea in our large cities are gathered to gether by gypsies from fanners in straits for money, cared for m little time, got into excellent form and' training, and then sent to the city dealer?, who, supposed to belong to other races. are gypsies themselves. no oniy is iu famous TatteraJi oi umaon, wno iur nUhes nearly all the nobility of England p. with thoroughbred studs, a gyp!, but three of the largest horse markets in this country, in Boston, New York and Washington, are owned and conducted by gypsies, while in the smaller cities ot the country these patient, quiet people arc gradually securing property with livery and sales stables attached, to which the thousands upon thousands of animals secured during the summer wanderings are shipped. Every one of these animals is- purchased for the lowest and soki at the highest possiWe price. The gypy is welcomed by the farmer, for the farmer always needs and the grpy always has money, while ine ciiy w wwnuug uwi and more ued to relying on gypsy selected animals. For, while in a jockeying tourney the gyp-y will perform some marvelous swindle, in icgnunaic 1 chases and sales his word snd guarantee arc sacred and inviolable. Senator aad Secretary. Senator Nye, of Nevada, went to Sec retary Stanton one day to make petition for some dead soldiers' orphans. t was in the darkest days of the war. Stan ton said: "I have not time, Mr. Nye, to see what you want." "Suppose you take time, ilr. Secretary." "You are un reasonable, Mr. Nye, in pressing such a thing this time," said Mr. Stanton. "Per mit me to say that you are the unreason able man," answered Nye. "If you were not a United States Senator I should say that you were very impertinent," said Stanton, haughtily. "I you were not a great Secretary of War I should be tempted to say you were making a blame big fool of yourself," replied the old . Gray Eagle, with his eyes blazing. Stan ton looked at him for a moment, and then, softening, said: "Maybe I am, Jim, who knows? Come inside and tell me all about it." ."Now, Ned, my boy, you are growing sensible,' said Nye, and the' business was Quickly arranged-. Ben: TerUp Poore - V ) -V'..