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THE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1891. JENNY LIND AND CRISI. A PRETTY STORY TOLD OF THE TWO FAMOUS SONGSTRESSES, Somewhere in the 40's Grisi and Jen ny Lind were singing in different then (res in London. Those who went into ecstacies over Grisi'a "Norma" where the next evening enraptured with Lind's "Casta Diva." Great wan the rivalry between them. Finally Queen Victoria, deeming it a shame that two such gifted women should be separated by a mean, unworthy jea lousy, requested both to appear at a court concert. Of course they both came. The queen warmly welcomed them to gether for the first time. She gave the signal for the concert to begin. Jenny Lind was the younger, and it was arranged that she should sing first. With perfect confidence in her powers, she stepped forward to begin. Chancing to glance at Grim, she saw tho Southern woman's malignant gaze fixed on her. The Gcrco look almost paralyzed her Her courage left her, her voice trembled, everything grew back before her and she almost fell. By tho greatest extrim of her will, however, she managed to finish her aria. A painfnl silence followed its conclu siona silence that told of her failure. She caught a triumphant expression on Grisi's face. Despite the clearness of her senses she quickly realized that failure meant lost glory, disappointed hope, the destruction of happiness, grief and mortification to her family and ber friends. Suddenly soft voice that seemed to como from Heaven whispered to her. "Sing one of your old songs in your native language." She caught at the thought like an in spiration. The accompanist was striking his final chords. She stepped up to him, asked him to rise and took the vacant seat. Softly her white fingers wandered over the keys in a loving prelude, then she sang. It was a little prayer which she had loved as a child; it belonged to her childhood's repertoire. She hadn't sung it for years. As she sang she wan iio longer in thg presence of royalty, but singing to loving friends in hor father land. No ono present understood a word of the "prayer." Softly at first the plain tive notes floated on the air, swelling louder and richer every moment. The Binger seemed to throw her whole soul into that wierd, thrilling, plaintive "prayer." Gradually the song died away and ended in a suit sob. Austin there was silence the silence of admiriig wonder. The audiiMieo sat spellbound. Jenny Lind lifted at last her sweet blue eyes tu look into the scornful lace that hud disconcerted her at first. There wan u fitrco expression now; i nut cad a teardrop glistened on the loDg black lashes. After a moment, with the impulsive ness of a child of the tropics, Grisi cross ed to Jenny Lind's eidj, placed her arm about her and kissed her warmly, utterly regardness of the admiring audience. Milwaukee Wlcon$!n. LONE STAR PHILOSOPHY. A kind word is a good deed. Hope is a great foretuneteller. Politics is a loafing and fishing busi ness. Tho truest friends have suffered togeth er. You cannot pay an honest debt with dishonest money. It does no good to take a stand and then run off with it. Kentucky is still a Bourbon Democrat. We should smile. No man will ever keep his per capita voleu be has a head of his own. Some wise man mar admit that he is a fool, but no fool will ever do it. It is quite natural that the vain young bride should be proud of her surname. The candidate is fond of the voters who will do the rest after ho touches the button. The wages of indolence must be paid even by the dead beat who never pays anything else. DuekUeu't Arnica Save The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores.Ulcers, Salt Rheum.Fever Soies.Tettcr, Chapped hands, Chilblaius Coros.and all skin eruptions, and positive ly cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. ' For ale by dru-jsists at Weldon, Brown ACarraway, Halifax, Dr. J A McGwigan, Enfield; V. M. Cubeu, WelJun. A LEARNED LIZAED. Remarkablo IntoUIgenco of Priest's Pot Saurian. tha I.tttla Crmtare's Life Saerlflead In It! Effort tu lUmalii with Its TVall-ireloved !(! Muater. Upon the office table of a prominent physician of this city, says a New Or leans correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, lies a little gTeen lizard with bright bead eyes, which guards the papers on tho desk and Is the subject of a little story the doctor Is very fond of tellinp. "That tiny creature," tho doctor said, "which is the object of ono of the silliest and most groundless prejudices the human race cherishes from generation to gen eration, was tho devoted and solitary friend of a dying man, showing an in telligence and love which would be con sidered remarkable in a dog. "It wao while spending a month in the little town in Las Cruees, N. M., that I mado tlio acquaintance of a Catholic priest, Father Mintcr, who was dying of consumption and no longer in service, but lingering in that warm climate hoping to so prolong his life. Ho had no relatives in this coun try. Ho was a man of intelligence and wido information, and I found his .society most pleasant Visiting him one day, I was startled to see a littlo green head peeping at me from under ithe priest's pillow. Following my gaze, the father held out his hand to the lizard, which snuggled in it like a kitten. " 'My only friend,' he said, 'and the learned and accomplished M. Vert Mr. Green. Now you must show the gentleman what you can do, Mr. Green.' "ne hero produced a littlo ladder made of straw, which the lizard mounted at a word of command and then descended, carrying off the ladder on its back to tho box in which it was kept. Then, being bidden, it brought out a miniature wine glass. 'M. Vert has bad habits,' said the father. 'He is a toper,' at which the littlo creature pretended to drain the glass, and when its master continued: 'He can't walk straight,' began to wobble from side to jside in a way that made me laugh most heartily. 'There is but one end for drunkards' produced a sudden flounce over on its back, a stiffening of the 'queer little feet, and the poor toper was presumably dead. Only one twlnlr ling eye kept watch on us to see what effect the scene would have. Father :Minter pretended to weep, when M. Vert jumped up, and, running to him, .crept into his hand. " 'Now, you must tell us the dearest country iu the world, said the priest ' "One rap of the tail shall mean "No" and more than one "Yes." Now, then, Germany?' Tho tail gave a vigorous rap. 'No? Then perhaps Turkey?' Another single rap. 'Well, say France? No? Then perhaps England?' At this the lizard rolled over and repeated the lying dead performance, but when its master called: 'How about Ireland? it turned a?ain and beat a regular tat too with iti tail. 'So that's it. M. Vert. , But what have you to say of the United States?' The lizard expressed its en- ! thusiasm by turning a slow and most imprcssivo somersault That ended the performance. Had I not witnessed it I should not have credited it but Father !Minter assured me that it had not been the trouble to train tho littlo creature that it was to teach tricks to :i dog. "The lixard mado iti home some where outside the priest's window, but spent most of its tune running or sleep ing on its ledge and would often Ih; for hours watching its friend. W hen he grew too weak to play with it, it would creep into his band and never stir until he would command it to go home, when it would start perhaps a dozen times, only to return and try to steal back to him. The day th priest died it could not be induced to leavo him for a mo ment, and when lie had breathed his last I had to remove the poor thing from his cold fingers. I meant to adopt the lizard for my own, but it fell a vic tim on the day of its master's funeral to the foolish prejudice 1 spoke of. An attendant, seeing the little creature crawling about the couch where its dead friend lay, knocked it off and killed it with broom, but I had it pre served." A Gl ova Ixaeribad. People who know about gloves use a complicated vocabulary. They call the piece of leather a glove is made out of a trauk. The side pieces to the fingers they call fourchettcs, and the little pieces that join the fourchettcs to the gloves they call quirks, or sometimes gussets. The binding up and down the opening for the buttons and button holes is the slit welt, and the top welt is the piece which is added to the top of the glove. When they get to talking about gloves' seams tlicy make a num ber of nice distinctions in stitches. They call it an in-seam when the edges are turned in and sewed through the lnsldo. They talk about a prick seam when one edge is lapped over another. Of tenest of ail they speak of the over stitch when the edges of the leather are sewn through and round. The welt scaa Is like the ln-scam. except that it has a third piece of leather in the middle. A 8Tt-Tn Fly-WhaaL We read in aa exchange of a novel fly-w her L The hub is of cast iron, and In the place of spokes two disks built of steel plates are bolted to the hub. The wheel so mado is about twenty feet in diameter, and around the rim sevrnty tons of steel wire aro wound, each strand being under a tension of fifty pounds. The strength of such a structure is immensely greutcr than that of an ordinary cast-iron wheel; in fact, it is difficult to imagine such a wheel bursting. The outer fibers of the wire rira would probably part first and thus rrive warning of the coming ducjer. At nil events, this particular wheel, twenty feet in diameter and weighing seventy tons, is run to a speed of two hundred and forty revolutions per minute, so that the rim travels ail ever twenty-one seconds. ADVERTISEMENTS. CT cSV LIPPMsN BROS., Prssrlelers, Driggliti, Llppman's Black, MVANMAH. 8A. For Sale by W. M. COHENi apr23 lj 'Mil V A pamphlet of Information and h- Oht.ta TatMiU. Oraata. 1 radfti Maria, Copmctita, tent lnt.,yi'2. ..301 Hraadioay, THE NEW YORK WORLD Never orows. For what it has done it aiks no favor and and no consideration. That is ancient history to be forgotten. It Inoka onlv to the future to the work to be done. Our hopes and fears, our joys and sorrows are before us not one behind. InTHEWORLD'8 wotk for 1891 every American eitiien n vitally interes ted, and not one no matter what his politics may be can afford to be without its weekly edition, which few not an equal on earth as a newspaper. Nine men out of ten know this to be true. Every tenth man should send to day for a specimen copy, that the knowledge may be universal. Subscribe at nnce. Three monfhs costs only 2.1 cent, and by every week's delay you miss -iiiL'tliinj worth inn" than the subscript n pri'v I'.'f ik yar which is only one d.-l Addreas THE WOULD, New York. lilt NEW ADVEHTISEMINTS. TO BE Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic will cure any case or Neuralgia. Money will be re funded if it fails. TPVP Q A T TpT)VW' M. COHEN, Weldon, J. N JL' VXt kJX I J I 'i XJ JL sep 18 ly. Cover Your BuildinGs with N. A. HAT.DE RMAN& CO'S. IRON R SMOOTH, BRADED. fjS or T OlV' fa- pj.' CORRUGATED JttX 1 Correspondence solicited." Jan 1 lm. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROANOKE NEWS, THE ROANOKE NEWS, THE ROANOKE NEWS, !k hi Advertising Medium. F0R25 YEARS It has regularly visited its subscri. bers, giving weekly the CURRENT NEWS OF THE DAY. NATIONAL, STATE & COUNTY. During that time it has built up an enviable reputation for fairness by fairness, in all QlVim THE JEWS. Its subscription list is growing but it must grow faster, and no pains will be spared to accomplish this re sult. 8 Pages 48 Oohass-A Woek. PRICE AYear In Address: i SOLD. of Malarial Fever Price 50 Cents. BROWN, Halifax, J. COHEN.Enficld Send all orders to J. NORFI.KET HARR1SS, TV '' ,i,t't y ' Panacea Springs, N. C. fffifa Wholesale and Retail fflCd' DM,er aDd General things and by Advance. Weldon, N. C. SIM NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. &W.R. R. BRANCHES. Condensed Schedule. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Ko 41, daily ex Sum Dated Juie7tk,l91. Leava Weldon II Mr I UP M a Ar Rocky Mount.... US " - 1 7 14. " IT Tarboro .. Leave Tarboro...... I II7" . 10 Mill ArrtTWIlMm. . I IIS m 1 7 00 .... I75S Lear Wllsos 'i do " ArrlveNlma SS0 " Arrive Fayetteville, 5 30 " Leave GoldBboro. ISIS "1740" I4 ' Leave Warsaw 4 10 ". S4 Leava Magnolia .... 14 27 "1140 " l4 Arrive WllminKtoa t0 " 9 W J 11 aft' TRAINS GOING NORTH No 14, dally. NOW dally No 4 dally aa Sunday Leave Wllmlnirtoa Ieave Magnolia leare Waraaw Arrlra Ooldshoro. . . . Leara FayetteTllla ArrWa Slma 9UMl4STBB 1S6T," S 10 1111" I5JS 12 Oft I 7 S ' S19" 11 IS ISrtO " ) iKpUn ISA" I its 117 " I . 10 KM ......., 945pm 9S0 " tH " ArrWa Wllnon Lrara Wllnon !8o ArriTa Kocliy Mount Arrlra Tarboro LfaTarboro Arriva Waldos Dally eicept Suaday. Train on Scotland Neck Branch Road learca Wel.ion mf3t p. m. Hall fni J TO nrrire Scotland Neck at 600 p.m. Greenville 6 "0 p. m Kinatoa 7ASp.ni. Returning leaven Kington 7 00, a. at, GreeiiTllle8H)a m. Arrltin a i Halifax 11 ce . 1U., TTCIUWU II R III limn J Local freight train leavtM Weldon Mondays Wedneday and Friday) at 700. m arrirlnf, at Scotland Neek 10 O-'l a. m , Greenville SO I p. aa Kinston 4' p. m Ketnrnin, lenrea Klnstoo Tuesday), Thuredaya and Saturdays at 1000 a. at. arrmnn at ureenrine 1 w noon,.Scotland Naelt 3 10 p. m. Weldon S 10 p. m. Train leave) Tarboro N. C. via Albemarla and Raleigh K. R. Daily except Sunday 4 OS p, a.. Eunday 3(10 p. m , arrive Wlllmton N. C. 6 8S p. m., t nv. m. nymouth 7 .mi. m., 610 p. m. Returning leavea Plymouth daily except Sunday S 0 a. m.Suiiday 9 Of) . m. Willianiston, N. C, 7 40 a. m. 9 5S a. m. arrive To rboro 1S5. m, v n. mi. Train on Midland N. C. Bnaaoh leaves Golds. tmro K.V., daily except SunJay 7 00 a. m., arriva Smithfleld.N. C.,fM a. na. Returning leave Smilhlicld, N. C, 9 00 a. hk, arrive Goldsboro, N C. 10.10 p.m. train on Jasnviiie rirancn leaves Rocky Mount aU 00 p. m., arrives at Nashville 3 40 p. m.. Spring Hone 4 15 P. ni. Returnina- kavea Spring Hope 10 00 a. m., Nashville 10 R6 a. m. ar Rocky Mount II IS a, m. daily eicept Sunday. i rum on uiiniun xirancn leaves viarsaw lor Clinton, daily eicept Sunday at 600 p. m. ami 11 ir a. m Returning leave Oliaton at 8 0 a and 3 10 p. ai., connecting at Warsaw with Noa. 40, 41, S3 and 7. Southbound train o Wilson and Fayettevilltj Branch is No. SI. Northbound is 50. 'Daily ex cept Sunday. Train no. zi snutn win only stop at Rock Mount. Wilson Golrisboroand Magnolia. Train No. 78 maicea dose connection at Weldomv for all point) North daily. All rail via Richmond aad dally except Sunday via Bay Line. Trains makes clone connection for all polnta North via Richmond and Washington. aU train) run anlid between Wilmington and Washington aud bave Pullman Palace tile pen attached. J. R. KENLY, J. F. DIVINE, Hup't Trans General Sup'L T. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Passenger Agent. TLANTIC COAST LINE. PETERSBURG & WELDON R. R Condensed Schedule. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated May :5rd, 1801. No. 23 LMy. No. 27' Diiily., I No. II, I No. 17, fast mail Daily Dally. Leave Petersburg, 10.10 am 3.45 p n Leave Stony Creek, 10.53 am 4.18 pm Leava Jarratts, 11.11am Leave BelHeld, ll.:i()sm 4 49pm Arrive Weldon, 12.10 pm 5.23 p m TKAINS GOING NOKTH. No. 14 No. 78 Duily. Daily. Leave Weldon, MOa-m. 3.15 p.m. I Belfield, 5.45 a.m. 3.52 p.m. LeJnrrntta, 6.00 a.m. 4.09 p.m. Le (tour Creek, 6 19 a.m. 4.33 p.m. Arrive Petersburg, 6 51a.m. 8.13 p.m. AU traini run solid Weldon to Washing ton. i E. T. D. MYCna. T. M. EMERSON, Gea'l Superintendent. Gen. Passenger aft TO THE I'ATRpNS THI ALBEMARLE STEAM NAVIGATION CO nillCk TIMT Between NORFOLK an) VfUIUIV I IITIt EA8TKRNN. CAhOUJI On and after Monday, December 17tk, and intil tnrther notice, the Hteame CHOWAN, Captain Withy, will LEAyE FRANKLIN on Mondays, Wad neadityg and Fridays lorEDENTON, PLY MOUTH and All intermediate points o arrival tf mail train from Portsmouth, saw iai5 A. M. RETURNING iTie "Chowan" will reach Franklin on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 9:15 A. M., In time connect with Fast Mail train from Ralainh to Portsmonta and with Express train for the South. Passengers, by this arrangement, taking the Steamer Chowan at a ty point oa the rirer, will REACH NORFOLK by 11 oclock 1. M., and thus have the entire day for the trans action of btuir is that city. GIVE THIS ROUTE A TRIAL. Respectfully, J. H. BOGART Franklin. Va., Dec. 15. 1888. 8t'
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