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ITITSBOHO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, MAY 17, 1883.
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Her Kin?.
Bha Bal AM f rami her king a jet,
Ihagoldeu data glide by;
Tbev bring no sorrows u forget,
Nor any rauae to 8i(.h
No heart fur tier devotion made
The paa-iomite summers lirii.,
Ur banned she walk-), and unufliayed-
Sho lia not f Min. I lier kicg.
Men bring iheir irlce, ami I heir goM)
She tarn in tcoi u awnv.
The. man must b ol dirk-rent mold
She ewears he will obey.
Th ugh pour in lionor and in lauds,
li t'i in it rarer lliicg,
Tl led by (iol alone, he si in In,
Wueu she will own her kiie.
Hut when he como, u come he will,
Strung to support, aril panil,
With eui plication that aliall till
Her wiul, like her command;
frhu ll place her I and in li a, and lake
Wlial Yr this world -nay tiring,
I'ioii I ami cinleiit) d for his ke,
Whom slio I. ali ciow-ncil hur kin.;!
Temple Bur.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE
i'he sun hul gone down in a rod
river of threatening cloud; the storm
which had been im nding for Home
days had broken at last, iq a wild
whirlwind of snow and tempest; and
Mrs, .Abraham Ackley Lad just put tho
tca-kcttlo on ftir the evening meal,
with Abigail, her daugMer, stirring u
sauccpanful of mush on the stove, and
Maria, her nieee. bard lit work, stitch
ing the upper parts of chvap cloth shoes
for a manufacturer in the neighbor
hood. For tho Ai-kleys were a thrifty
family. Nothing was lost, nothing
wasted, not even that slippery commod
ity time.
The Ackleys were a feminine house
hold that night, for Abraham himself,
the grizzled head of the family, had
gone to the city, to put. in a el. tint for
a pension, wh'ch, according to bis ideas
ought to have been paid half a century
back, to some old lJewlutiounry ances
tor m- other.
"I ain't to be done," said Abraham,
winking his watery blue eyes, "not
even by the I'nitcd Mates government
itself!"
So it had happened that. Abigail
had foddered the rattle, fed the fowls,
and locked the barn door, coining; in,
all powdered over with snow, her middle-aged
nose bfiie with cold.
"Never mind, girls," said Mrs. Ark
ley, with a subdued chuckle, "when
we inherit yo;:r fimsin Jones' proper
ty we shan't none of us have to work
no more. We can b.'t ladies, and set
up in sage-grorn dresses, playin' with
peacock-feather fans. Did you get the
best chamber remly, Marier?"
"Marier" gave a grunt in the affirm
ative, as she bit off the end of her
thread.
"I. didn't light tho fire yet," said !
she. "Thought it warn't no use bum-
In' up good hickory logs, until we J
knowed we was goin' to want "em."
Scarcely was the sentence well out
of her mouth, when a tattoo sounded
loudly on the warped panels of the un
palnted front door.
"Land's sako alive!" said Abigail,
dropping the wooden spoon into the
mush-pot, while Maria straightened
herself up with a jerk, "it's Cousin
Jones already!"
"Quick!" said Mrs. Ackley, in a
shrill stage whisper. "Put the mush
in the closet, and fetch out tho cold
chicken and raspberry presarves; and
the best cups, Abigail, and tho threc
tined forks, and the tablo cloth with
the border of daisies."
And she turned to tho door, with a
flaring, home-dipped candle, in her
hand.
"Is this Mrs. Abe Ackley's?" de
manded a shrill voice. "I was told
she lived half-way up Pino Crags."
"Ain't this Mrs. Jones?" said Mrs
Ackley, in her softest accents.
"That's the ticket!" said tho
stranger. "Do open tho door and let
me in. 1 ain't no burglar, nor yet a
sneak-thief."
"I'm delighted to see you," said Mrs.
Ackley. "Do pray walk in, and lot the
girls take your things. Marier, Abi
gail, this is Mrs. Jones, as you've
heard so much of. Your room will be
warm d'reckly. We've set great
store by your comin', I do assure you."
"You're very kind," said Mrs. Jones,
shaking the snow off her shabby
shawl and pinched silk Ixinnct. "1
ain't no beggar; I ealr'lato to pay ray
own way."
The threo women smiled obsequious
ly. They had been given to under
stand that Cousin Jones from New
York city was very eccentric that
she particularly disliked any allusion
to her relationship, and fiat there was
no accounting for her various peculiar
itles.
"Of course," said Mr. Ackley,
'that roust be as you please."
"I don't choose to be beholden to
any on?," sti.'i'y added the new-found
relative.
.."Of Ootirne not," said Maria, help-
ing her off with her rubbers. "Uncle
Abraham will be so sorry that he isn't
here to welcome yo.i."
"I can stand it, if he can," said tho
old lady, wanning her gaunt hands
before the cheerful blaze. "Eh, do you
live as high as this every day?"' as she
saw the liberal preparations for supper.
"We aro economical people," said
Mrs. Ackley, apologetically; "we raise
our own poultry, and Abigail picked
tho raspberries last summer on the
mountain, and rbanged olf eggs for the
sugar, at Martin's grorery store at the
cross-roads; and the tea was a present
from old Captain (Jreer, who is in the
Chilli trade, to pay Ackley for breakim
the roan colt. So you ao.i " "Yes, I
see," said Mrs. Jones, nodding herhea''
jerkily, like a mandarin somewhat out
of order.
"Managing people, you be! You won't
never come to be boarded out like town
poor, I reckon!"
"1 hope not," said Mrs. Ackley, de.
voutly.
"The idea!" said Miss Abigail.
"Well, things is ordered differently
in this world," observed Mrs. Jones.
''It's up-hill with some and down-hiil
with others, lint I guess I can get
along with you! "
"My son will bo up to pay his re
spects to-morrow," said Mrs. Ackley.
"Jle lives a little beyond here."
"Ah!" said Mrs. Jones.
"He hasn't been real successful in the
world," added Mrs. Ackley. "He
married a schoolma'am, and they've a
little family, un 1 Ackley's bad to set
down his foot, as be won't help him
any more."
"Every one for himself. eh?" said
the old woman, with a chuckle.
Mrs. Ackley nodded. She had
ventured upon this coulident ial family
communication as a sort of hint to
Cousin Jones, not to lend money to the
impecunious Abraham, junior. If
there was money lloating around in
the golden atmosphero that surround
ed Mrs. Jones, why should it be given
over into such velvet-like hands as
those of Mrs. Abraham, junior.
"Perhaps," suggested Maria, sweetly j
"Mrs. Jones would like some hot j
buttered toast?"
"Well, since you're so pressing, 1 am
rather partial to it," said Mrs. Jones.
"And," added Abigail, jealous lest
she should be outdono in these, sweet
deeds of hospitality, "there's a very
good meat pie in tha pantry which I
made myself, if "
"Meat pie," cried -the old lady.
'Meat pie is a relish for anything
going. I don't, know when I've put
my teeth into a good neat pie before.
Bring it on, young woman bring it
on."
The three Ackleys looked on with
beaming eyes, w,iib Mrs. Jones ato
and drank like a half-famished lion
ness, and aftoiward they conducted
her to the bed room, where tho tiro
blazed brightly on tho painted, red
brick hearth, n:i I the patchwork s lk
quilt -.Maria's ow n woik -was laid os
tentatiously nrrost the foot of the bed.
And then they all came down stairs
closed in solid phalanx around the fire,
and looked at ono another with mean
ing in their speculative eyes.
"Queer, ain't she V" said Maria.
"Dressed exactly as if she came out
of an old rag-ha V commented Abigail.
"Hold your tongue, girls!' said Mrs.
Ackley. "(ieniuses aro always eccen
tric! And Cousin Jones i. worth a
cool forty thousand dollars!"
Early the next morning, long before
daylight had irradiated tho sullen
darkness of the wintry horizon, and
Mrs. Ackley was doing her best, in
curl papers and a dirty tlannel wrapper,
to make the kitchen liro burn, an old
hox-slcd stopped at the door, and in
came Abraham, junior, browu-faced,
good-natured and smiling.
"Well, mother," said he, "how's the
folks?"
"They're all well enough," said Mrs
Ackley, who always entertained a
secret fear lest Abe should want to
borrow money of her.
"Father got home yet?" said Abe,
"No!"
Mrs. Ackley was blow ing desperate
ly at a crumpled bit of paper which ab
solutely declined to ignite the kindlings
adjoining to it.
"That's you, mother, to a 'T'!" said
Abraham, good-hiunoredly. "You're
too economical ein to burn enough
wasie papers! Ooodnoss knows, they
don't cost nothin'!"
"Humph!" said Mrs. Ackley. "1
know some people as ain't economical
in nothin'!"
"And that reminds me!" said Abe,
skating easily away from the subject,
"Fm going down arter my boarder!"
"What boarder?" said Mrs. Ackley,
sharply.
"Didu't you know?" said Abe.
"Me and Jane Eliza, we've bid for one
of the town poor. It ain't much pay,
to-bo-sure. The selectmen are real
close this year, on account of the Town
hall havin' cost such a sight o' money.
Hut it's belter than nothin'. And the !
old woman will be company for Jane .
Eliza and the children. It's old Hul- t
dah Jones, y hi know t'appen Jones' '
widder, down in Frog Lane."
"Oh!" said Mrs. Ackley.
"I expected her up last night," said
Abe, drawing on" his blue yarn '
mittens; "but I guess she found the
weather one too many for her rheuma- I
tiz; so now Fm goin' arter her, with
an arm-chair tied into the box-sled!
And, by-thc-w ay." fumbling in his
coat pocket, "here's a letter I got last
night, tiuess it was meant for father,
but I opi ned il by mistake."
"Who's it from?" screeched Abigail,
who bad just cnme down stairs, half
frozen, from her tin less room, tying
her apron strings us she came, while
Maria was visible, twisting up her
back hair in the distance.
Your rich cousin, in New York,"
said Abe. "She ain't comin'! She's
M tha'a
made her mind to rent a furnished j
Hat in New York, where she can be
near her doctor and her favorite clergy- j
man!"
"Nonsense!" said Maria. "That's
only a practical joke, as somo one is
tryin' to come on us. Cousin Jones is
here a'ready."
"Asleep in tho best chamber, where
I'm goin' to light a lire at seven
o'clock," added Abigail.
"What!" roared Abraham.
"(iirls!" shrilly exclaimed Mrs. Ack
ley, "it's a dreadful mistake as we've
all of us hiade! This old woman ain't
our Cousin Jones at all. It's the town
poor as Abe has took to board! old
Cappeu Jones' widow, from Frog
Lane."
And she struck an attitude in front
of the stove like Medea before the sac
rificial Haines.
"And we gave her cold fowl and
raspberry-jam," cried Maria, "and the
w hole of the meat pie."
"And my choi'-cst linen sheets, and
a lire in tho best chamber!" groaned
Mrs. Ackley. "My goodness me! how
could we be such fools?"
"!o and w ake her up at once," said
Maria to Abigail. "Tell her Abe Ack
ley is here, to lake her where she right
ly belongs; a;ilaA Iter how she dared
to impose upon decent i pie like us?"
'It ain't her fault !" sighed Mrs. Ark
ley, "It's ours. (ioodness, what
idiots we've been!"
"Well, you haven't asked me to
breakfast," said Abraham, junior
waggishly; "but I guess I'll stop for a
bite and a sup, arid take the old lady
up to our home arterward
Iain t a
good plan to travel on an empty
stomach such weather as this!"
And the bew iMiTed Mrs. Jones was
whisked away on the. bo-sled before
she knew the rights and wrongs of the
case, leaving the Ark ley family discon
solate "I never was so fii-tnok in my life
before," said Mrs. ArMey.
Hut Abe, ji,'iiiir. regarded the matter
as a stiipendniiN
"Old Mis. .I.iae. g. t a lirst-class
meal and night's lodgin' O'-e gratis
out of mother," said he; "ami I don't
remember w hen anybody else has done
as much."
At Sea in a It.isket.
It was upon September 20, 1S54, tho
Arctic, belonging to tho now extinct
Collins line, sailed from Liverpool t
New York with more than 2(10 pas
sengers on board. The voyage was
safely accomplished until the Arctic
got within sixty-live miles of Cape
Race, w hen she was run into by the
Vesta, a small iron steamer owned and
manned by Frein limen, and of about
100 tons burden. Within four hours
of the collision the big vessel disap
peared beneath the vaes, and the lit
tle vessel w as speeding on her way to
ward the French coast, where, uncon
scious of the mischief she had done,
she arrived in safety about a fortnight
later. About forty of tho Arctic's
crew and passengers were saved in a
boat, and a few morn were picked up
from rafts and bits of the vessel, among
the latter being Captain Luce and a
Mr. Smith, then a resident of the state
of Mississippi, but subsequently a
wealthy (llasgow merchant. Mr. Smith
was saved upon a raft of planks,
lashed together by himself, on the top
of which he tied the basket lined with
tin, into which unuadied plates were
put during the saloon dinner. Upon
the edge of this bas'.i-t, with his feet
at the bottom, Mr. smith sat for two
nights and nearly threo days, bailing it
as it filled froai time to time. It will
be beard with little surprise that for
many years Mr. S nith preserved this
much- alued historicid basket as a
trophy in his drawing-room at (llasgow,
and showed it to his friends as the
vehicle in which he had tloated iion
the waves for fifty or sixty hours. The
basket was coijct nled in the center of
an ottoman made purposely to hold it,
and was only revealed w hen Mr. Smith
was surroiimb'd by a few congenial
friends.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Advice is seldom welcome.
Thost
who need it most take it least
As every thread of gold Is valuable,
so is every minute of time.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversit
is the only balance to weigh friends.
The more we do, the more we can do
the more busy we are, the moreleisuri
we have.
Knavery is supple, and can bend,
but honesty is firm and upright and
yields not.
No principle is more noble, as ther
is none more holy, than that of a tru
obedience.
He who is the most slow in faking
a promise is the most faithful in the
j performance of it,
Never let vour zeal outrun voui
I u...:, 'ii, .. i i.. i.,.
viMitjij. ov luiiuci ia iiiv iinuiau,
..
the latter is divine.
Duty cannot be neglected without
harm to those M ho practice as well as
to those who suffer the neglect.
Precept is instruction that is w ritten
In sand, and washed away by the tide;
example is instruction engraved on the
rock.
Whoever has a contented mind has
all riches. To him whoso foot is en
closed in a shoe, is it not as though the
earth were carpeted with leather?
Try to repress thought, and It is like
trying to fasten down steam- an ex
plosion is sure to follow. Let thought
bo free to work in its own appropriate
way, and it turns the machine, drives
tho wheels, does the work.
Cuvnlr.
There are many people who pretend
to like caviar, and it is possible that a
few may have forced themselves to
relish the intensely salt or rancid prep
aration of sturgeon eggs called by this
name. We believe the "delicacy" first
came from Russia, and we can imagine
that a native of Siberia, half Indian
and half Esquimaux, might lind caviar
a delightful change from whale's
blubber and decayed seal. We have
tasted caviar, and think that old rusty
mackerel brine is nectar beside it.
The (Jermans pretend to love caviar
and Americans who have been abroad
eat it before their friends to show their
acquired taste contracted in foreign
lands. We read in the Ih-itMiv 'V.sw
htrti Ziitiuiij that some (lermans have
been making caviar from the eggs of
the pike, and we wish them success in
j their search after a new source of sup-
ply of delicatessen. Shakespeare
speaks of something which the general
public cannot relish as' being "caviar
to the general." The bard is correct,
as usual. Caviar is caviar, whether
made of triple-salted ranrid sturgeon
eggs or of the ova of the pike flavored
with seal blubber and stale mackerel
brine.
To our friends who hae not yet
met this luxury we will say that at
dinner, aftor the pudding, ice cream,
cheese, nuts, figs and raisins have pass
ed, you take a piece of toast about
three inches square and cover it with
a quarter inch layer of something that
looks like broken rice stewed in coal
tar. On this you put a thick layer of
lincly-chopped raw onion and squeeze
lemon over it. You raise it to your
lips; you bite into it and roll your eyes
heavenward and declare that you never
t isted anything half so delicious before.
At the first opportunity you slip down
stairs and take a quiet drink out of the
kerosene can to get up a proper after
taste in your mouth.
Yes, the Cermans have discovered a
new source of caviar in the pike, aad
don't we wish we had somo of it.
The memory of the caviar we have
eaten comes over us like the recollec
tions of an Arctic explorer when ho
thinks of the train oil he has swallow
ed. ttrml und Stream.
Expecting a Letter.
"I don't see how it is," exclaimed an
fast side man, as he entered the poet
oilice the other morning; "1 can never
get my letters on time!"
"Are you expecting something by
mail?" asked the postmaster, politely.
"Expecting something! I should
think I was. I've been expecting it
for the past three days!" continued the
man, impatiently.
"This is probably what you expect
ed," said the man of letters, with a self
sat isfied smile, as he took a bill from
the man's box and banded it to him.
"Yes," growled the man, taking th
envelope which he supposed contained
he expected letter, without looking at
I; "this was due three days agol"
"Threo days agol" exclaimed the
postmaster, a little surprised. "Why,
your tailor said when he put it in that
it was ilue three months ago!" It did
not take that man long to discover the
true inwardness of the postmaster's re
marks, but when he did he was mad
enough to lick the postmaster and
every stamp in the office. 8tatemmn
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
M. Fourmant has concluded a series
of exact experiments upon trichina in
' n eat. He finds that to pack the dis-
eased flesh in talt for fifteen months
does not kill the pa.asites; mice fed
upon the meat died of trichinosis.
Remains of a mastodon and a num.
her of curious bones belonging to vari
ous other animals l.avo been found
near a salt mine at New Iberia, La
Among them were somo fossil teeth of
horses, and they have been presented
to the Yale college museum.
The post-mortem examination of a
: mulatto who died recently in Cinein-
nati revealed a brain weighing sixty.
' one ounces. There are on record but
' two brains heavier than this - that of
Cuvier, weighing 01.3:1 ounces, and
Abercrombie's, which weighed sixty-
three ounces.
i
Dr. Iteklam considers that headaches
and other consequences of sleeping in
rooms containing (lowers do not arise
; from any special properties of the
(lowers themselves, but are due to a
straining of the nerves of smell in the
presence of perfumes fur an unwonted
' length of time. The effect is anala.
gous to that produced upon the eyes
by an unusual exposure to light, or on
j the ears by long-continued sounds.
: An enormous quantity of w ater pass
es through tho roots of plants. An
English experimenter has ascertained
that for every pound of mineral matter
j assimilated by a plant, an average of
j 2,000 pounds of water is absorbed,
j At the French agricultural observato
; ry of Montsouris it was found that in
rich soil, 727 pounds of water passed
! through the roots of wheat plants tor
! every pound of grain proluced; w hile
in a very poor soil, 2ti'.':t pounds passed
through the wheat roots for each
pound of grain."
Scotch Plow men's Vests.
It has long been the custom of agri
cultural laborers in Scotland to distin
guish themselves by the grandeur of
their Sabbath kirk suits. "Sunday
claes." The vest or waistcoat was es
pecially the cent-T of their pride or
vanity. It had a coiubiiia'ion of all
tho prismatic colors of the rainbow,
the more brilliant prevailim?, forming
a complete aurora borealis. About
forty years ago, in a border parish on
the south of Scotland, the principal
heritor and patron, according to t In
law and custom, was allotted the chief
seat in the gallery opposite the minis
ter's pulpit. He, however, was non
resident and an Episcopalian. He
therefore dedicated his seat to the un
married plowmen of the parish, w ho
for many years availed ttiemsehrs of
the privilege. Cem rally tiieir number
fully packed the seat. So soon a- a
member left the parish, he, of cmir-e.
ceased his seat-possession, and so soon
as he entered the holy bonds of matri
mony he had to provide aceominoU
tion for himself and his wife elsewhere.
as the pew was held to I f the kind
of the "limited (mail i male." Sabbath
after Sabbath the juvenile rustics vied
with each other who could show the
newest pattern in the design ami color
for his chest covering. Often have
clergymen who have never before
ascended the pulpit stair of this parish
been startled as tho opposite gallery
brilliantly flashed on his wondering
eyes. The rustic band got the title of
tho ' robin redbreasts" or "canaries,"
and their seat was commonly know n as
their "nest" or "aviary." A change,
however, did occur. The heritage fell
to a brother of tho late proprietor, who
"knew not Joseph," and was rather
displeased at this weekly display of
foppery. Tho new laird granted the
pew to a new tenant, who had beeomo
possessor of the home farm, and had a
numerous family. It was easy to grant
and possess, but not so easy to annul a
previous grant and dispossess former
occupants. The bovans refused to
remove, pleading a grant with long
possession, even for the prescriptive
period in fact, that they had acquired
both figuratively and literally a "vest
ed interest." The sheriff had to be ap
proached by way of interdict. It was,
however, more by suasion than by
force that at length matters were
peacefully arranged. For many years
the display of colors which once flaunt
ed fiom the gallery ceased from the
memories of the parishioners of Sunny
side. The e; iiiemic which prevailed in
the south spread to other portions of
Scotland.
i Peal very gently w ith those wh are
1 on the downhill of life. Vour own
time is coming to be w here they now
1 are. You too are "stepping w est ward."
I Soothe the restlessness of age by amuse
i ment, by consideration, by non-inter
ference, and by allow ing plenty of oc
cupation to fall into the hands that
long for it. Hut let it be of their own
ehnosing, and cease to order their ways,
for them at though they were children.
TIIE HAIR AFTER DEATH.
Curiouelnatanrraln Which It lla.Urow n
to (irrat l.eulli.
Most people understand that hair
docs sometimes grow after death, but
there are perhaps few who know that
there is a very considerable grow th in
at least one-third of the cases where
bodies are interred in the usual
manner. A story w.; tol l by Ox ar
Wilde at a dinner parlv in New York
which illustrates this fact. When
(iabriel Dante Itossetti was very young
- scarcely more than a boy said Mr,
Wilde, be was deeply ill live with a
oiirig rirl. and, having a poet's gift,
h" sang a poet's love in numerous son
nets and verses to her. she died
young, and by her wish the manu
scripts of these poems were placed in a
ca-ki-t and laid under her lo ad, so thai
even in the last sleep they should be.
as they always had been, kept, bi-neath
her pillow. Years passed by and l!os
setti's fame grew until every line of
his composition became piecious, an I
some of those who prized his writings
most asked hint for copies of the songs
that had been buried. He had kept
no copies, or they bad been loM. At
all events he could furnish none, and
when they asked him to rewrite the
vers, s he declared that he was utterly
utinMo to do so.
At last his friends importuned him
for permission to have the original
manuscripts exhumed, lb' eon-ented
alter some hesitation, and all the nee-
I essary preliminaries having been coin
I plied with the grave which had been
, sealed for many years was opened.
Then a strange thin:; was found.
: The casket containing the poems ha !
; proved tube of perishable material and
its cover had rniiu!!' I away. I .
long trcs.-c of tin-girl I. a i grown all--r
death and bail tv, ined an 1 inteitw :ie
among the leaves of t lio poet's paper,
coiling around the written words ol
love in a loving uul iace long after
death had sealed the lips and dimmed
the eve that had made response to that
love.
There is nothing improbable in the
storv so far as it relates to the physical
'phenomenon. That hair gr. as al'-r
: death is too well establir-le d a to. t ti
. be i halleiiged. and is readily enough t.
i be understood by any one who will
give even a little study to its toima
jtioii, it being an appendage t i tin
! human form, and not, strictly speak-
ing, a part of it. It might indeed bt
: a!iuot called a friendly parasite.
! A well known New York under
' taer said: "A gentleman who had
loM bis little boy live or six veais
li-fore came to the establishment when
! I was working and said he wanted
i the remains taken tip and carried ti
; l!oton. He bad moved to that city
! where he had lost another child, ami
i bis w ife was anxious that they shoiilii
I both be buried in the plot he lia.
! bought iii the Laurel Hill cemetery
! This gentleman was anxious to re f !
! himself that everything was done rigid
and went over with me to Creenvv I
! We had buried the child and there wat
! not any trouble about finding the right
i grave and the right coffin, hut he wa;
nervous about it. He insisted oi
having the coffin opened after it wat
taken up and seeing for himself tha'
there was no mistake. I had it done
and as soon as he saw the body be said
'1 knew it; that isn't my boy. Hi
hair was cut short while ho was sick,
and look at. that!" In this cusr then
was a rather unusual growth. I
should say tho hair was a foot long
In cases where the body has 1 n
buried a good many years -say vt bun
drod years the hair is somctiiuet
found a yard long on a man's head
and much longer, of course, on a
woman's."
Another undertaker said that he wa;
employed at one time to remove
great number of bodies that bad beer
buried in a cemetery which hat beei
sold. They had lain undisturbed "I'm
an average of about twenty-live years
and in nearly one-half the cases tin
hair on tint beads of tint men was I ron
a foot to a foot and a half long. Ii
cases of women it was evident enougl
from tho arrangement of their hai
that it had grown a great ileal alte
death. There was no way, so far as In
knew, of determining w hat causes th
difference between cases, some hai.
growing and other apparently no
growing or only growing a little, bu
be said he believed that in cast s o
fever there was apt to be such a grow tli
It might bo supposed that if a post
mortmii grow th of hair is as coi. uioi
as has been indicated mention of th
fact would have been made in the ai
counts that have been preserved of th
remains of noted persons after burial
but the only such instance that is n
called is that of Napoleon I. Of bin
it is said that when his hotly was re
moved from St. Helena to France i
was found that the hair hai grown t
a great length. A'ew York IhraUI.
Cloves remain very long.
Prophecy.
1 have heard it in the forest
Wheie the branches gray and bare,
I nun ilit r-e,n of pines upaiariing,
Stni.il like phantoms in the aiTi
(l.o-tb of Leu my once ao lair.
1 have heard the distant ethoee,
r'uin! und lur, hut wondrous aweet,
Telling li.it the summer cometb
Clowned with ecs'a-y compile;
A ii! earth thrills beneath my l-;e.
1 have aeen tho tidings written
On the lur blue of Ihe ekies;
I have heiir.l the liro. klel Binding
Sol ly 'neath in root ol ice,
Ol the- coining ui)terie.a.
Sjunmivr coining coming, coming,"
Speed (lie news from tree to tiea.
t.'lon.! of heaven hear il onward,
K vri , o il it t.. the i-a.
"Siiiiiinei l-omr!, the earth i fit-.."
('hi. I.. Ilrnl1'.
ii m:m p Ait At; it a pus.
U'.V.IVS
f countenance Th
ii'
I'he blalldc f i ,
i Namiiier,
II -Jh Weld-
urn
loav be a cros.
lip lop." "peak."
ait .
N.
the thrifty fisherman figures
up his net gains,
A man's t ingiie often betrays hint,
but In- alw ays can count on his lingers:
A ma:i has invented a chair that
an be a Ijtis! -d t smi different posi
tions. It is designed for a boy to sit
in when he goes to church. ,
The great question of the day at
: i sent is how to wear a high all-round
collar and till be able to sneeze hard
without ciiU.ng your throat.
One of the sweetest pictures of do
ii i -1 ic economy is a poet blacking a
bite .(oclving so that it won't show
through the fissure of bis boot.
"I le's grown to be a polished gen
tli uian, aiivhow," said an old lady
gaing fondly as she spoke at the shin
ing bald bead of her son, just returned
lifter a long absence.
"Papa." said a lad the other night,
;.!ici attentively studying for some
minutes an engraving of a human
tki !i !i.ii. -how dil this man manage
to keep in his dinner ?"
A hub-chap in (lallatin, Tenn., son
ol a prominent turfman, was asked by
his Mhiiol-teaeher to define "good
breeding." "A mare with two Lex.
in; ten ci. s.ses," was the instant reply.
"Johnnie, how many bones are there
in the human body?" "Whose human
body? MineV" "Yes, yours, for in
stall e." "Can't tell. You seo I've
been eat in' shad for breakfast, and
fl at upsets the anatomical estimate at
olice."
A society has been formed in New
York, t.i l e l.tinvvn as the "Order of
the I.-.-., i i. ." It is supposed to lie an
org.r;. .n to use its influence toper
suade 0. n to wear a tie that th"
woiiieo I 'lUs cannot work up into a
patdiw .'l k quilt.
.lust Like 'Em.
Two ladies who were bound some
where in company yesterday entered a
W I ward avenue car together, and
no sooner w ere they seated than both
made a dive for their purses.
'oli. let me pay!" pleaded one.
"Oh. I couldn't think of it!"
"Oh. do, now; I have just the
flli. Igc."
i "h. but I have tickets."
" cs, but you paid the last time."
- -1 5 i von can pay some other time.
Here -
she w as hurriedly searching through
lu r pin t e-uionnaie, but didn't seem to
lind atix t hiiig.
I t.dd you I had !"
And the second one began a search
in a wild manner, emptving out pins,
needles and buttons, but no money.
"W by' I do declare!" gasped the
til si.
s i .rig. s thing I ever saw!" added
the si coinl.
"I'll pav for both," observed a man
on the - eat opposite, and he marched
up. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I through his pockets and
held out a battered quarter to the dri
ver. I he latter would not take it, and
the man marched out and slid off the
plat lot in in the must solemn manner,
and at the next crossing the ladies said
tiny had taken the rung car, rang the
bell and got off. Jf. html.
An I'nsopli 1st b ated Way.
Any Esquimaux asked to undertake a
journey or perform a labor ho does
not like does not declare that be is not
al home, but ho has a precisely similar
formality adapted to his own circum
stances. He does not like to tell the
stranger proposing to him that he does
not wish to go, or that the pay is not
sufficient, or, in short, that he will not
go; but ho says, "I have no lioots."
This is not to be accepted as a hint that
a pair of boots would bo an acceptable
present; it is merely a polite refusal,
and in strict politeness must be ao
cptcd as unhesitatingly as our own
"Not at home."