North Carolina Newspapers

atotisjww,a haiham Record. H. A. LONDON, Jr., BATES OP ADVERTISING. KDITOl: AN!) HtOI'RIKTOR. On. ftipisre, one insertion, One square, two luiu-ruon,- . One square, one inuiith, tl.M l.M 2.10 Tiinrtiiitniti -wiwrfiM irtfriTTWHiiniiniii (Mi mtaut. mm TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Oho " y, imc . r, - - ... f.'.OO Ollf rn) IMMlit'.M ... l.m Onm-opy , time unitih-, .30 HuuintHHtin l 1'i'ttfeMHionnl furds. VOL. II. PITTSBORO CHATHAM CO., N. C., MAY (J, 1880. X f J I Fr lurg?r iidvritiwiueutj lllxral tontrarts wis E. C. HACKNEY, Attorney at Law, ash mm o, x. c. Practices in tho Supreme and Federal dims of the State., nud the Superior Courts of Cuuth.im, Ritidolph audOail lord. Associate Counsel - Col. James A, Graham. Col. Graham will regularly attend the Superior C'jurU of Chatham Couuty. f Attention glveu to Collectious in all parts of the State. " JOHN M. MORINC. Attorney at Law, .UiiilniinvUlft Chatham Co., N. C. I II M M llI.Nrt, Of Chatham. AIJ'RED A. HOIUNO, Of Orange MORINC & MORINC, A. ttornoy . t Zjaw. imuiia.m, y.v. All business intrusted to them will receive prompt attention. H. A. LONDON. Jr., Attorney at Law, l'lTTSBOUO', N. . jySpecial Attention Pnid ta Collect ina. W. E. aNPKP.SOIf. 1'r.aU.at. P. A. WILK7, C.i bier CITIZENS NATIONAL BANE, KAI.F.Is.H, . '. J. D. WILLIAMS & CO., Orooere, Commission Merchants and Produco Buyers, FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. Certain and Reliable! H0WA1MVH INFALLIBLE WORLD RE NOWNED liEMF.PV FOR WOKMS L now for sale by W. 1,. IOndnn, in l'itteboro'. All til' s i whu are annoyed with those Pasts arn sdviied In cull snd get a packago of this vsluaul-i remedy. This compound is uo hnm hng, but a Kratid siiccus. One agent wantod in every town in the Htato. For particulars, a lilinvs! enclosing 3 cent stamp, Ir. J. M HtlWA Kt, Jit. Olive, Wayne comity, N. ('. lOO Buggies. Rockaways, Spring Wagons, &c. made of the l ist material and fully warrant ed, to be hold regardless of cost. Parties in want will e.m-ult ttae-r own interest by exam n.iiiR onr stork and prices lxfnrobnyins.au no sro determined to sell and have rnt down onr price" "o they cannot be met by any other bonne in the mate. AIko a fnll stock of. Ilmxl Inclo llnrnons KF.I'AIKINO done at bottom prices, and in best nitnu-r. Hcnd for pre and cuts. A. A. McKETHAN" A SONS, Fayottoville, N. C. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO., OF R VLFKill, . CAR. F. 11. CAMERON. rrt,i lcnt. W. E. ANDEK80N. Vict Vj. W. II. 1IICK8, fre'y. Ths only Home Life Xnnranco Co. in the Stats. All Its funds loaned out AT HOMF.. and among our own people. Wo do not send North Carolina nioueyabroad to build up oilier Btates. It is one of the most successful com panies of its ai;o in tho Uuitcd States. Its as. set are amply sufficient. All losses paid promptly. Eight thousand dollars paid m tin last two years to families in C hatham. It will cost a man aged thirty years only Arc cents a day to Insure for one thousaud dollars. Apply for further Information to H. A. LONDON, Jr., Gen. Agt. PITTSBOKO',.N. C. READ NOKTIl CAROLINIANS AND OTHERS! THE CELEBRATED Liquid Enamel Paint i MANUFACTURED BT NEW JERSEY ENAMEL PAINT GOmTANT, Has been sold in vonr State EIGHT YEIR3 Thousands of gallons having been disposed of. iu uo case has it failed to give satisfaction. Tbe tluest public buildings in Baltimore; are painted with this elegant Paict, among wbioh arc The Carrollton Hotel, The New American Office, The Armstrong, Cator & Co's Building, The Hurst, Furnell & Co's Building, The Trinity M. E. ChurchSouth. And oilier PRIVATE CTEHCES AH 0?er the Country. Mixed Ready for Use. Any One Can Apply it S.mpla card by mail on application. C. P. KNIGHT, Sole General Agent, AND MANUFACTURER OF Roofing Paper, Building Paper & Roofing Cement, No. 93 West Lombard Street. Baltimore, Md. WILL YOU SELLTHE FARM ? Chapin's Farm Agency, it A LEIGH, N. C. Dr. A. B. CHAPIN. Manager. NORTH CAROLINA. BRANCH OF GEORGE H. OHAriN'8 FARM AGKNCY, BOSTON, MASS. Speoial attention given to the sale of Sorth Carolina Ileal Estate. No charge made until a eale is effected. All property plaoed in onr hands for sale will be advertised in tbe popu lar work, Tba Booth Illustrated, free of ex pense. Tbe Charleston News and Conrier says: 'Everybody baa heard of fleo. H. Chapin's farm agenoy, and few are unacquainted with the success wbiob bag attouded its operation..' The New England Farmer nay.: 'Geo. H. Chapin has advertised his farms to the amount of 950,009 during tbe past year. We commend bim to our readers.' The Aiken. 8. C, Review says: 'No one has done more than Geo. U. Chapin In the canse of Bouthern immigration. Onr villsge is thronged with Northern people in search of Bouthern homes, end good sales are being made. The 'South Illustrated' is doing a great work for us.' The New York Tribune, the Boston Herald, Jourual, Traveler, Globe, and Advertiser speak iu the bignest terms of Chapin aJ'arm Agenov. N. B. SMALL FARMS (particularly) are wanted at onoe. onioo Fisher Bntlding. RALEIGH, N. O. T. H. BBI86S & SONS, Briggs Building, Raleigh, N. C. HARDWARE. WG0N& BUGGY MATERIAL, SASH, POORS, BLINDS, TAINTS, OILS, COLORS, rum, WINDOW-GLASS, Steam Kngines.Helting, LIME, CEMENT, TL ASTER, AN MILL SUPPLIES. Correspondence solicited. JACOB S. ALLELE. FHED A WATSOK, of t'hmtbam. JACOB S. ALLEN & CO., RAI.EIC.H, N. C, Building Contractors ana mannfaotnrors of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mould Ings, Brackets, and all kinds of Ornamental, Hcroll and Turned Work; Window and Djor Frames made to Order. W Oive us a call before ordoring. Shops located on Harrington street, where it crosses the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad. Steamboat Notice I Tbe boats of the Express Steamboat Compa ny will ma as follows from the first of October nntil farther notice: Steamer D. MVRCBISON, Capt. Alonza Gar rison, will leave Fayettevilie every Tuesday and Friday at 8 o'clock A . M., and Wilming ton every Wednesday and Satnrlay at 8 o'clock P. M. Btaamer WAVE, Oapt. W. A. Robeson, will leave Fayettevilie on Mondays and Thursday, at 8 o'eioek A. M. , and Wilmington on Tues days and Fridays at 1 o'clock P.M., connecting with the Western Railroad at Fayettevilie on Wednesdays and Satnrfays. J. D. nil.I.IAMHJL- to. Agents at Fayettevilie, N. O. THIS! (J row lug Old. As we grow old our yesterdays Seem very dim and distant ; We gropo, as those in darken'd ways, Through all that is existent; Yet far-off days shine bright and clear With suns that long have laded, And faces dead seem strangely near To those that lite has shaded. As we grow old our tears ore lew For Iricuds most lately taken, But lulls sh fulls the summer dew From roses lightly shaken hen soino chance word or idle strain, ho chords of memory sweeping, Unlock tlie flood-gntcs ol our pain For thoso who taught us weeping. As wo grow old our smiles are rare 'To those who greet us daily, Or, il some living laces wear 'i'lin looks that lienmcd so gail From oyes long closed and we should smilo In answer to their wooing, "l is but the past that nliines tho while Our power to smilo renewing. As wo grow old our dreams at night Aro never ol tho morrow; They come with vanished plcasuro bright, Or dtu k with olden sorrow; and wlie.i we wnkn tho mimes we say Are not ol any mortals, But ol those in some long dnad day Parted through life's sunset portals. If. t'. Cameron. THE HERMIT. A PATIIF.TU' TAI.F. Ol MININO LIKE. Away up on the main range the Sierra Mail re of thellocky mountains, twelve thousand feet above tho sea rests a little mining camp of some twenty or twenty-five roiifli log cabins. Right on the edge of timber line ! Tall, spruce pines below; bare, japged rocks ubove. North, south, ctist and west huge peaks tower in their massive grandeur and rear their stony heads to the rising and setting sun, and seem like grim rid sentinels keeping watch over the little basin in which are the cabins, collectively known as Mineral City. The mountain sides are seamed and ribbed with the rich silver veins of San Juan, and scores of cuts, shafts and tunnels echo daily to the clang of drill and sledge as the hardy miners delve after the metallic treasures of these great storehouses. Near the hhtcksiuith shop, where the not unmelodious ringed drills and picks being sharpened is heard all the day and far into the night, a little cabin stands unobtrusively upon its rocky founda tion. There is an air of neatness about its hipped roof of nicely split "shakes " and its carefully hewn door that speaks well for the patience, taste and skill of its builder. In fact, the cabin is pointed out as a tine specimen of frontier archi tecture. The solitary owner and occupant of this little building was known through out the camp as " the Hermit." Not, bo it understood, because of his imitating those poor old beings of ancient story who dwelt iu caves and lied at the ap proach of any one, but simply because lie was a taciturn, quiet old fellow.wrho worked his mine alone, and, when join ing the rest of the men about the tire in the saloon, always sought a corner and rarely, if ever, took part in the conver sation. He was vastly different from the rest of his fellow laborers. He never drank ; he never swore; but in his quiet, unob trusive way would sit and gaze intently tit the lite, unmindful of the stories, the hearty laughter, the social drinking and the absorbing games of cards going on around hhn. Tall he was, with a dc cid 'd stoop in his shoulders ;v a long beard, plentifully streaked with gray, anil a pair of wearied, restless, nervous, yearning eyes, that somehow appealed to the rough but good-hearted miners. Mail came twice a week in Mineral City, and the saloon was the post oftice. Regularly upon the carrier's nriival the hermit would join the crowd and listen with an eager, expect ant air as the cuperscriptions of the various letters were read out by the saloon-keeper, and then, when the last missive had been reached and either claimed orset aside, he would lower his head and slowly slip away to his seat at the corner of the fireplace, with never a word. Every mail that went out carried a letter from tho hermit, al ways directed to the same party, and every month he registered one to the same address, which the boys shrewdly guessed contained such money at the poor fellow was able to scrape together from the scanty yield of his mine the Alice. The boys had often debated upon writing a ;lctter to the hermit, for his continual expectation and his regularly bitter disappointment touched them, but they argued that it would not be what he wanted and so the idea was abandoned. Several of them asked the postmaster to lay aside their letters without reading aloud their addresses 'hat the contrast might not be so pain ful to the hermit, and none of them gave vent to any joyful exclamation when the mail brought them favors, as was their wont. The old whisky keg. it the corner of the fireplace, was al ways reserved for the hermit, and 'erne when he might he never found it ivcupied, or when sitting there was he 'ver .'crowded. And so these rough frontiersmen showed in various ways their sympathy for their lonely and ilent companion, of whom they knew nothing save what his pinched, care worn luce and yearning eyes told. One ilny the tieiil eaiiie in and the 'ii'iuiit W:iS lint there. This -i. i ii usual that it led to eoiiMderalie emulation among the boys. Then It .ney, whoso lead lay near the Alice, remembered that the hermit had not Ven to work that day or the day be fore, and when night came on and the keg In the corner remained unoccupied i he boys concluded that investigation was necessary. "l'ards, I reckon the hermit may be :i lectio off and might kinder need help," said (leorgia, "an" it sorter strikes me we might call in 'an see." As this met the approval of all tin men Georgia and Roney c n-ied up tu the hermit's little cabin. A dim light crept around the edges of the old flour sack that acted as a curtain for the lit tle square pane of glass constituting a window, and. after consultation, the two messengers concluded to tase n peep before making thoir presence known. Georgia put his face to the glass and peered intently within. The hermit sat m the earthen floor enveloped in a torn and miserable blanket. His hat was off and his long, gray hair was tangled find unkempt. His eyed, which Georgia ould plainly see, as he sat nearly fucing the window, combined with their usual pleading expression a sort of feverih trlitter, and the whole attitude of the man was one of despair. In his hand lie hold what appeared to bp a photo graph and an old letter, and he never moved his eyes from them. The rest of the room that came within (Jeorgia's field of vision betokened cleanliness, but at tho same time ex treme poverty for even that rough coun try. Georgia withdrew his head and his companion took a look, after which they both softly retreated some little dis tance into the timber and paused. " Well?" said Uoney. " Blamed queer," said Georgia. " Kinder sick looking, eh?" Georgia nodded his head thought fully. "Let's see the boys about it," said Roney, and then they both retraced their steps to the .saloon. Tne boys listened with interest to the report and pulled their beards and scratched thi ir heads in attempts to ol tain a solution as to what ailed the her mit. Many and various were the ex planations given, and then they decided that Georgia and Roney had better go back and knock at the door anil inquire, at any rate, if anything was wrong; so thereupon tho two once more started up the trail. They knocked firstsoftly and then louder but elicited no re sponse or caused any show of life with in, save the extinguishment immedi ately of the light. " No use," whispered Roney, and without further word they left the little cabin and its solitary and eccentric oc cupant and joined their comrades. The next day passed and the next and the hermit gave no signs of existence. That evening the mail came in and among tho letters was one, in a woman's hand, for John Harruer, Mineral City, San Juan county, Colorado. There was not such a pcisonage in the tounty, si tar as the boys knew, hut Georgia sud denly suggested that it uiU'ht he for the hermit. This seemed most probable and he was deputed to carry it up anc, deliver it, if correct. As before, all the knocking failed to obtain nn answer, and Georgia, after a moment's hesitation, put his shoulder to the door and with as little noise as pos sible burst the wooden button off thai served as a lock. The next in.-tant and Georgia was in the room. The hermit lay extended upon the flour, his face flushed and hot with fever and his long, thin lingers nervously srasping and re taxing again the torn blanket on which he tossed. " What's the matter, old pard?" s- id Georgia, as hp raised the old man' head. The fevered eyes slowly turned to ivard his face, '.he emaciated fini: i opened and the poor, lonely old folio" paid huskily : " Don't tell her!" "Who tell who?" "Alice poor little thing she don't know." " Thinking of his folks in the States." muttered Georgia, and then tenderli and carefully he lifted the sick man it: his arms and strode away to his own eahin. The news of the hermit's sickws spread through the camp and blank) t tnd food camo from all quarters for hi use. The store was ransacked lor tin hist that it could afford. A terrihli slaughtering of mountain grouse took place that rich broths mizht le made for the invalid. One man traveled six teen mi.ee to Silverton to secure a can of peaches, and the men almost fought in their anxiety to act as nurses ami watchers. Georgia thanked the boy. but kept them away, admitting only oik or two to aid him in tho care of the old man. But despite all this attention the old fellow sank and sank, and it soon became evident that the mountain fever had one more victim. One night Georgia sat smoking his pipe and musing. The owner of the letter had been found, for in hi ravings the old man had often men tioned the name of Harmer, but the boys feared lest he should die before reading it, and this perplexed Georgia suilly. What was he to ilo with it and might it not contain matters of unpen ancc? Had the old man any friends or relatives livin r, btmI where were they to lie fount!? AH these things and mativ more came Hitting through his hraip. :nd he did not hear his patient slowlv raise himself in bed and stare nbont him. The old man looked the rniun over and then his eyes nted on the bnriy form by the tin'. "Georgia," he said. In an initant Georgia sprang to hi; b et am' has'i lied to the bedside. "Why, pardncr. yer yr getting bet ter, ain't jou?" The old man smiled wearily. "Tell me all about it." lie said. Georgia briefly r counted the story of his iilnei.s, touching but lightly on wh'it he had done and laying great stress on the interest of the men. " But, now, old man, you'll soon be up and among 'em." he concluded, with a cheerful laugh. "No," said the old fellow, with the same weary smile, " but but I thank you." " Oh, nonsense that's all right you're only a leetle shook up, you know it's nateral after being as fur down us you've been. 'Xou'li soon be all right cheer up. and don't let yer sand run out; besides, I've got a letter for you." " Letter lor me?" and the old man's face lighted up w ith an eagerness that sent a tremor through Georgia's' honest neart, lest the missive, after all, should not be for him. Ho got it, however, and pave it into the treroblinir leinuV " Yes, yes," said the old fellow, " it's hpr writing, I know like her mother's oh, how long it has been coming but now" and his poor weak, shaking hands vainly strove to open it. n Let me,"said Georgia, kindly. The old man let him take the letter, and then said suddenly, but ina low. even tone: "Hold on, Georgia." Georgia paused. "Georgia," said the old fellow, looking him steadily in the eye, "you've been kind to me very kind and I've got nothing to show for it nothing but con fidence. I'm going to tell you some thing, Georgia, and then then you ean read that letter and you'll understand all the good news it contains." He paused a moment and closed his pyes. Then he continued ; "Georgia, I was a likely sort of n young chap years ago not such a good-for-nothing galoot as I am now, and I married, Georgia married the best girl in old Pennsylvania. I was mighty happy too happy, partner that's what made it so hard when she died. W had one child a girl and we called In i Alice my wife's name. She was a wet little thing when her mother died ami so very, very pretty. It was hard line: on '.i c, Georgia, and somehow I got to drinking. I know it did mo no good and I know it wasn't right, but a ni: n don't reason much when he's dosperati like, and so I drank and drank. I sold out everything and put my little girl my little Alice with my wife's brother He had a family of his own and what could a lonely broken-hearted man lil e me do for a dear little girl? Georgia, i! they'd come to me and talked gooil anc gentle they could have made a man ! me, but they didn't. They wouldn't ! i me come into their house, and they s i : that I'd killed my wife by drinking Georgia, it was a lie a lie. I never drank a drop till she died, and I wouldn't have done it then it I'd had any one to sympathize with me. But I hadn't; I was alone in the world alom with my great grief, and " and the olil man's voice broke, and his poor, thiti hands went nervously over the blanket, while two tears stoic from his hot eyis. and trickling down the pale, pinchi cheeks lost themselves in the gray hairs of his brtird. "Well Georgia," he said, presently " they got an order from the court giv ing the guardianship of my child m Alice to her uncle, because they saiii I was unlit to take care of her. Georgia, if but one kind word had been said only one I wouldn't have been tin fool I was. Well, I left and came WiM. I stopped drinking. Ihav. never toucher1 a drop since Alice was taken from nn You believe me, Georgia?" "Yes," said Georgia. "After awhile I wrote to her unci) and I told him of my new life and askei him if I couldn't tit least write to little girl. That was in 'K7, ar.d s!n was ten years old. lie took no notice of my letter "' " lie's u "broke in Georgia, but suddenly cheeked himself before con eluding. "Then I thought perhaps he hadn't got it, so I sot my money togethet and went Kast. But he had, Georgia; In had. It was no use, though. He wouldn't believe in me and wouldn't let me see my little girl. He said ie should ucver know but what he was her father, at least until she was of age. I tried the courts, but I sp"tt all my money without changing the decree. Then I gave it up and oame back West again. I gained one thing, though. The judge said that when Alice was twenty-one she should be offered the choice of coming to me, her fat her, or remaining with her guardian. I had to rest satisfied, and I worked and worked to get money for my little girl. I scrimped some, Georgia, hut ther 's nearly twelve thousand dollars in the bank for her now," and the old man's voic and manner were full of pride. " She was twenty-one last June, and I've been waiting for her letter. I knew it would come. Oh. Georgia, if she only knew how I worked for her; how I have waited, all alone, but still working ai,ii :u,iht, 1'iit she has writ ten now, and to-morrow. Georgia to morrow, or nxt day, I must start K:ist. We shall b. verv, very happy together, and but rend the letter you know ail now," and the lids closed again over the fevered eyes, and the poor old mau softly murmured, " little Alice, little Alice." Georgia tore open t.ie envelops arid unfolded the lr tier, and the old man feebly drew nearer in joyful, happy eagerness. "My uncle," read ("rgia, unstead ily, " has informed ms ol your rela tionship to me. I have only to say that I recret that the man whose habits killed my niolle f should nisi) bear t he title of my father. I sin viely hope that the Almighty will pardon when w cannot. A i icf II rmf.r," Georgia turned toward the old man "My God," he said, "the hermit 1 dead." I'lal'idclfihia Times. WHAT IT COSTS. Krarly Two lliinilr.it J'oumla of Ilorse flr.li C'onniiiiiril ICvery IVrek ly tli J.lfiii.,Tlir-l-s niil I'siif liei-Hnl the I'hit adrlphla no -1 lir lllrt of the Other Aiilm.l.. Visitors to the Z tologieal Garden have noticed down in the lower end ol the grounds, a little to the right of the place where the polar hours are kept, a line of low, rambling buildings built against the fence which separates the grounds from a long el rip of land lying between th'! Ki'd ns and the New York branch of the lYimsylvunia, railiotul. Tho last of these buildings is a good deal better than the rest, h.ing a tail, close, frame shanty of nine boards and having a door to it. The others, smaller, more uneven and without any doors, are nothing more than mere sheds or s'alls. Always in front of them will b seen n pile of clover hay, with a ha'! a dozen, more or less, sorry-look in it horses, the -nlc oect! :nits of tin sheds, feeding thereon. An Inspection of these animals will usually siiow a plethora of defects in the way of damaged eyes or spavined Joints or broken wind, all, h: the majority of instances, being the reg ular accompaniments of old age ami being hut another way of describing a horse broken down by W' ight of years and past his stage of usefulness. Occa sionally younger animals may he seen in the stalls, hut these are also suffering from some affliction ot body or limb an 1 stand on the same footing as the rest. These horses, once they get under tin above described sheds, have all om common destiny-they are to be kill)')! and dressed as food for the anim-iis of the Zoological Garden. The amount o! food consumed daily by the animals large and small, is no little. The chid meat-eating animals arc the lions, ti gers, leopards, pumas and hyenas. Al together they consume about 175 pounds )if horse meat a day. Four horses ti ww k is the usual average in keeping up the supply of these animals alone. Next in point of heavy feeding come the ele phants. Their chief food is hay, o which it takes about four timesas much to keep mi elephant as it dues to keep a horse, the elephant eating about 100 pounds of hay every twenty-four hours. And in order to keep up hisnppetite the hay must be the best going, being in var iably timothy of he best grade. Oilier animals that eat hay ari' the giraffes, thi camels, the deer, .chrsi and different animals of tin' eatlie species. Most ',. thi se are fed on what is known as mixed hay, timothy and clover.which is about twenty per cent, cheaper than the tim othy alone. Two wagon loads of each per week is the smioutit used. Kaeh wagon load is supposed to contain 30. 000 wiight.or a ton an-", a half. The price for timothy is .about twinty dol lars per ton. which makes the Ihne tons per wei k equal to sixty dollars. The mixed hay costs in the neighbor hood of eighteen dollars a ton, thtv makinc t.ic weekly cost of that necessary supply fifty-four dollars. which, added lo the sixty dollars, gives the wei kly cost o hay alone in the sum of one hundred and fourteen dollars. The cost of feeding the lions, tigers, leopards and pumas is about twenty dol lars a week. Add to this the one hun dred and fourteen dollars, cost of feed ing the larger animals.) lephants. giraff. s and others, and the cost is one hun dred and thirty-four ilol.ars This does not nearly represent all the animals fid in the garden nor docs it come near be ing the chief item of o:ist. There are hundred and one other creatures requir ing, in many cases, much more delicate am! costly food. The sea-lions have to be fed on fish. Usually fiish and salt mackerel, each animal taking twelve or fifteen to each tneai twi ! a day, and consuming altogether luO pounds offish daily. Next in point of d licate livers conic the polar bears, whose regular diet is brisad soaked in milk, with li-h now and then for u change. The black bears arealso given hp ad. ti0 pound being used daily. Vegetables of almost every sort are fed lib rally to the different animals cabbage, potatoes, carrots, onions and turnips. The elephants are great cabbage raters, in addition to their standard diet, hay. Tlie giraffes, singularly enough, are great onion eaters, while tliP deer and tho goats and animals of the cow species eat carrots and turnips and pota toes. Bran and oats and corn ar aiso liberallv distributed mostlv once or twice a week among the hay-eating animals. The most delicate and expen sive feeder in the place perhaps is the ourang-outang, which gets beef, pota toes, bread and honey. As there isor.ly one in the collection nt present, the cost of keepine this grinning satire on the human species i not multiplied. An other delic.-u y which niu-t not be omit ted in the diet ol the polar bears is fish oil. of which they get sevir.a! supplies a week. After the bay the oats is per haps the next chief source of expense in the way of animal food. As for the fowls, the larger ones are fed o:i corn, while the small biiils are fed on canary seed, and all of them now and then get a small chunk of meat. The cost of feeding the animals alone foots up to ahout $100 a day. All the horses that go to supply the meat-eating aniim.ls are killed on the ground, iu the small slaughter house that stands at the lower end of the row of sheds in the lower part of the garden. I'Uilnil, Iphia Times. It is a time-honored custom in Quincy, Via., to salute a new married couple by firing a cannen. The Rochester Erpre complains that (he mornings get up too early. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. There are about d.OOO.OOO Hebrews in Russia. The Sheriff is an individual of strong attachments. The harsh toned frog is lifting bis barcarole in the marshes. Cider jelly from Vermont ia sold by the backet in Boston. A cat's mouth is like a free show; open to waul. The man who preserved eilence mnit have had a candid tongue. Brocatelle is a stylish and durable new stuff for overdressec The man that is always around the Hub must be a spokesman. Itaby and dark red fabrics havearioh ness that delicate tints lack. If ever a man needed to travel for bis health it is the Czar of Russia. It is not decided in what part of New York Cleopatra's needle will be etnek. Spring poetry is worth more this year than last ; paper has gone up in prioe. It is put up or shut up with the great American nmbrella. It makes Eli Perkins mid to hear an English cockney call him Helie Per kins. A dairyman could furnish clean milk if he would only strain a pint to aooom modato you. A fashion writer says "polka spots may be fashionable, but they are hardly artistic." It is rather odd that the 8mith family have neglected to erect a monument to Pocahontas. The great Chinese motalist is said to have been a great liar. Why Confucius in that way. In Leadville never say "Celonel," but Senator, shove the baoon." Colonels are too thick. Wagner composes in a small, badly ventilated apartment; he never did car" mnch for "air." A poet calls tho humming bird a winged emerald "by swiftness turned to golden mist'" Governor Tabor will put np buildings in Denver, Colorado, requiring five million brick. About as near an approach lo perpet ual motion as can be found this time of year is n baromoter. A venerable Massachusetts matron remembers Ben Butler when he wore bibs and was "spoons" on his pap. "Nasby" has sold his "Widow" for .'50,000. This is the biggest sell on a widow we bave ever heard of. It is proposed to establish a hatchery inS indusky. Ohio, capable of turning out 3U,(i(H),oon fish annually. The boy with his first watch mani lestsan uncontrollable desireto note tlie exact second at which he meets every person upon the street. Turing the period of nearly two cen turies the first bom of the house of Austria has been a girl a singular fact. Lathe Gny of Syracuse whistles for money, and it comes to her. She gives whistling concerts, is young, and looks pretty with her lips puckered. Her per formance sounds like a pioeolo. Judicious advertising has created mauy a new business; has enlarged mauy an old business; has revived many a dull business; has resecned many a lost business; has saved many a failing business; has preserved many a large business, and secures success in any business. The Boston Transcript says that an E ist Boston lady was recently requested by the Board of Health to have traps placed under the sinks and basins in her house, and when an inspector, a few days later, xmined the premises, it was fonnd thas she had plaoed there several rat-traps. Let an honest man jump from an ex press train going at full speed, and the odds are a hnudrad to one that he breaks his neck. Let a handcuffed murderer or burglar or counterfeit feake the same penlons leap, and in four cases out of five he will got off with a few trifling bruises, or, at worst, a sprained ankle. What is the reason T Teople who have a weakness for be lieving that the number 13 is unlucky, says the fndrphndenoc Beige, are requested to meditate upon the following fact, the authenticity of which is vonohed for : A young soldier, Berigieres by name, was born on the 13th of the month of Jannary, 1855. He lived at Brussels in a house numbered 13. On Friday, Feb. 13, 1875, he was drafted into the army by virtue of having drawn the nnmber 13. A lottery ticket was inher ited by him bearing the nnmber 13, which hastely drawn a prize of 200,000 francs. A new rule has gone into effect in the I'nited States patent idl'rie, which is ol much importance t inventors. Here after, no models will bo required to ac company applications for letters patent, examiners depending solely on th drawings in making up their decision. When they are unable, owing to the in tricacy of the invention, to decide knotty point, they arc empowered to call upon the inventor for a model, but, it is estimated, this will not be necessary oftener than once in a thousand oases. This will be a great saving to the in ventor, and is highly satisfactory to the patent attorneys; but wo question whether the model makers have re ceived the news with any great demon traiions of joy. r -- f: