TIIE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY, AlKJUST 6, 1891.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
After ruvnehiiiK' two hours uiul fif
teen minutes in Cliattanoopa one warm
nic;lit recently Rev. Sam Join's iisliol
permission of his I'onrt'vration to taWe
off liiscout, which was readily granted.
Sara liernhnrilt's tips completely
astounded boll-luy. and servants of the
California lmtt'l. To the waiting maid
who attended her the divine cavo tun
twenty -dollar pieces, and on the eareon
who served her meals she conferred
four twenties.
Miss Isabel llapood, whose excel
lent translations of Tolstoi and other
'Russian novelists have won her well
deserved fame, is a tall, tine-looldnjr
woman, with rray hair and a winnintr
timile. Her voice and manner in con
versation are delightful, and make her
a great favorite in the social circles of
!Xew York, which is her home.
Henry Labouchere says: "1 write a
detestable hand. Hut I would advise
evsn those who do not make an illegible
scrawl for their signatures to adopt my
(plan. It is to have my name print ed,
with my address, at the top of my let
ters. I am sure that I spend an'hour
every week trying to decipher signa
tures, and all those who receive many
letters must do the same.
The Imperial library of St. Peters
.burtf has acquired a collection of -J, TiT:,
-npraved pictures of historical person
ages from the time of tirecian antiquity
down to the beginning of the present
century. This collection completes th
t of engravings which the library has
accumulated. It is especially rich in
the pictures of the German notabilities
of the last five centuries.
The young king of Spain, who has
just completed his fifth year, is begin
ning to ride on ponies. His activity,
wilful disposition and inquisitive cu
riosity make him a sharp contrast to
his more tranquil-minded sisters. In
two years his majesty will have a sep
arate household, and already he has
shaken off the attendance of his Aus
trian nurse, showing a preference for
male attendants.
Ellen Terry played for several years
under the management of Charles
Keade, whom she characterizes in one
Kentenee as "dear, lovable, aggravating,
childlike, crafty, gentle, obstinate and
entirely delightful and interesting."
During the progress of a play Mr.
lleade would sit and watch her and be
tween the acts send her little notes
pointing out what he deemed the de
fects and merits of her work.
Emperor William, to the surprise
of many people, has appointed Prince
Albrecht of Prussia, at present regent
of Brunswick, the successor of Count
vou Moltke as president of the national
commission of defense. The prince is a
cousin of the late Emperor I-'rcderick.
lie is the handsomest living member of
the Ilohcnzollern family, lie is one of
the tallest officers in the army, being
.almost six feet six inches in height.
HUMOROUS.
"Ah, my little boy," said the con
deseendinggentlcman. ;::,! what might
your age be'.'" "It might be g,,i,r ,m
forty," returned the polite boy. "l,;;t it
ain't." Ex.
--Hicks "It's loo bad we are not
family of Esquimaux." Mrs. ;,-U
"How would that benetit us any?"
Hicks ".Johnny furnishes blubber
enough for the whole familv." X V
Herald.
An Incentive. Invalid Wife 'Til
have to ilje. George: goi.d-by"" Hus
band "Oh, don't, l.ia. Think of an
other woman to be brought in over
,-our children !" Invalid Wife-' I'll get
veil if it kills me Epoch.
An Epitaph.
He thought ir vv:i-ti't In t i .!.
Aid lie l,i..l;t-.l n.t.i tli,. ami;
He saw the bullet eniniii.
Hut he hadn't time to run.
- Brooklyn Eagle.
After the I. list Act.-Sig. Ham
"Did you see how long I paralyzed the
audience in that death scene? I'.v
George, they were crying all over the
house!" Stage Manager yl.s They
knew you weren't really dead." Peo
ria Herald.
Mrs. Tcmperton -Iletiry. father
wrote me yesterday that he wants to
get a typewriter. What is the best
kind, do you think?" Tcmperton (ab
sorbed in newspaper! "I like 'em about
twenty-four, with dark blue eves."
Daily Continent.
Tender Consideration. Mrs. Watts
"Mrs. I'.riggs and Iter husband seem
to be such a happy pair." Mrs. Potts
"Yes. They are so considerate of ea -h
other. She tells me that they had been
married three years before 'either one
knew that they were both fond of
onions." Indianapolis Journal.
Teach -rs in the public schools have
very frequent illustrations of peculiar '
association of ideas in the minds of
their pupils. At a r. nt examination
in geography in one of the public schools
the teacher asked: "What valuable
things are taken out of the earth?"
Much to her amazement one young
hopeful immediately replied: "( lams
and mummies.:" Boston Times.
She Wasa plain, matter-of-fact kind
Of girl, and didn't take any extraordi
nary interest in art. As she walked
past a piece of statuary the young man
who was devoting himself to her said:
"Isn't that a fine piece of work? ,Iust
notice the pose and the general air of
it." "Yes,-1 she replied, after gazing at,
it a few moments, "he looks like n per
fect gentleman, too." Washington
Post.
"Florry, dear," faltered the Wash
ington youth, "I I couldn't summon i
courage to tell you what was in my
heart, and I wrote it. You got my let
ter, didn't you?" "Yes. George, I got
it." "And you read it, didn't you?"
"Yes, I read it. In fact, I-I read it !
over twice." "And now, Florry," he
said, growing bolder, "I have come to ;
learn my fate." "The best I can prom- !
ise you, George," said the blushing !
daughter of the distinguished congress- I
man, withdrawing her hand from the !
ardent grasp of the infatuated young !
man, "is that 1 will advance your letter
to a third reading to-morrow." Hart
ford Courant. '
TRAPPING THE RHINOCEROS.
An i:nitlnK Scene in the llrt nf an
African .ImiKle.
An African rhinoceros ha-' no more
lense of tear than a rock. The ele
phant will run away when the odds am
ugainst him. and the buffalo will calcu
late his chances before an attack, un
less come upon too suddenly, but the
rhinoceros never stops to reason, and
whenever anything moves he makes a
rush to destroy it. That is why it is
comparatively easy to catch him iu a
pit.
An African traveler, telling of his
adventures, says:
"We were on tha far side of the pit,
anil, as soon as we saw the beast, we
sprang up and waved our arms to at
tract him. He accepted the defiance,
lowered his head, and as he came for
us he made the ground tremble. We
pretended to run away, and the old fel
low was on the brink of the pit before
he suspected the job. we had put up on
him. He uttered a loud 'Woof:' and
next moment landed square on his head
in the bottom of the pit. breaking his
neck with a cack which could have
been heard forty foils awav.' l
Of another occasion, he writes:
"Some ten or twelve of r.s were re
turning from a bee hunt one day, and
we took a path that bad been made by
big game on their way to water, at the
end of which we had digged u pit, cov
ered with light canes. At this time,
not a rhinoceros had been -ecu in our
neighUuiiooil for a month: but. as the
path was a long one and walled in with
thorns, we took the precaution of send
ing the three men who had 1 lie honey
on ahead.
"Wter they had been gore about ten
minutes we were ready to move. We
sat just at the entrance of the path,
with open ground on three sides of us.
To the left of us was the exleii' ion of
the thicket. had been carrying a
smooth, white stone, which i hail
picked up in the bed of a dry creek, mid
I now gave it a fling into the thicket.
The results were immediate and unex
pected. The stone had hardly fallen
when there was a 'woof and a great
crashing, and all of us knew that a
rhinoceros was charging us.
"Our way lay up the path, and it so
happened that 1 was the last one to
enter it. The beast was not yet in
sight as I turned to flee, but before 1
had gone urn- hundred feet he was out
of the thicket. 1 kett close to the heels
i (! the last native, but had not run a I
hundred yards when I realized that the j
j rhinoceros was gaining o:i me. '
j "The path was peril:. ps six feet wide, j
with no possible chance to escape to the !
right or left. The thorn hushes would :
let tM'iiing but a rhinoceros or elephant i
pass, and the elephant will not crash f
' into their, except w hen hard pressed. !
" e were nearly half a mile from the i
pit, and it was our only hope of safety
as we ran. Fortunately for us nothing
had disturbed it, and. when I crossed it,
the rhinoceros w as not over ten fee! be- '
hind me. Indeed, as I went off the j
; covering at one end. he crashed through
it at the other.
"lie went into the pit with a loud
mort. .in, I then wc saw v. Ir.t we had
not before suspe. ;ed a second beast ;
hearing down in t he w ake of the irs!. ',
"lie made uoeiV.Tt tocher; his speed,
aid went in on top of the other with ::n :
uvful crash, lie got wedged in by the i
head, leaving his hind legs kicking in
the air. and we killed both animals !
with our spears."- Golden Days. , j
WISHED HE WAS A DOG. i
rile lt;ul liltle lint I mncl Mint Itruti-H i
err H url h More I li.lti II... 1
Ouite a gnu,., ,,f people gathered !
about a famishing little dog that had I
! ragged himself out of the way of the
crowds on Madison street, lie was
sue'a an abandoned looking creature
that the bad little boy. who had no
ticed him lirst, toid the elegant woman,
whose pity was touched, that the dog
had been locked up in a basement till
he was starving to death. The ele
gant woman look her gloves and
stooped down to the famished animal.
She sent a young man totlie restaurant
for a cup of milk, trusting the money to
him will t a li, ought of Ids deceiving
her. .she had nor coachman
called. and win n he st ru .- si
through the now augmented crowd
she sent him after a cushion. A tali
man pushed his ping hat on the back of
his head. and. crowding (he bad little
boy away, lifted the dog forthe elegant
woman and ec!i ed her expressions of
pity. Another man opened his lunch
basket anil offered the best ,,f his din
ner for 1 he 1 it t !e animal, though it liad
now grown b. weak to eat even a
mouthful. A policeman pushed the
people right and left and offered to
cany lite canine to the elegant woman's
carriage.
"I'll take it myself," said the well
dressed man. and he gathered it up in
his arms. The cn-wd opened a wav for
him. and followed down the street, a
score of them :n,.-.., i.slv ,,, offering food
drink or money The carriage rolled
away in a moment, ;m,i hundreds ,,f
blessings follow ed t he elegant woman
whose heart was touched by the suffer
ings of even the meanest of animals.
"By cripes." sai.l t10 bad little boy,
"I wish i :: ,U g." Chicago ileraid.
Not I i to the Tlmr.
Amy Why have you dropped Miss
Elder's acquaint .men?
Mabel O, I w as comneled to. She'is
beyond redemption.
Amy What, is the trouble?
Mabel She persists in saving "well
dressed" instead of "smart ly gowned. '
J ury .
Utile I'.r, tlicr'n Aid.
Little Girl iread.ng) 'Nature un
adorned is ad . I-... I the must.' What
does that mean?
Little Brotln . i.rtcr deep thought)
t guess it means a roast chicken is nicer
than it. chicken wif its feathers on.
Good News.
A I.liin" Cvampip.
.Mr. Stanford Koj lc, Jr. They say f
pweat man's so;, ncvah inhewits liis
fawthah's abl'itics. Now, 1 am a "-we.it
man's son.
Miss Kecnc I inferred as mij.-h
Puck.
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