North Carolina Newspapers

mini, , i.iV ,V- 1? I'i i -.' Fi: $l)c Cljatljam tUcorfc, 11. a., ioisuorv, EDITOK AM) Pltol'itlLTOK. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, RATES ADVERTISING One square, one inertion 'One square, two wscrfinns ( ne sqimrc. one month - 1.00 2.50 One "'iy "nc ear One copy, six months . One copy, three months $ 3.dll $ i .no .'in jk For I firmer aJ vert isenients IiIhi.iI con- ' tracts will tie m:ile. VOL. VII. PITTSBOKO', CHATHAM CO., N. C NOVEMBER A, 1881. NO. Patient With (ho living. Sweet friend, when tlinii unit I lire Ron llcy.iiul enith's venvy l ibnr, When siiuill shall lie our need elinco Frnir. cnmi'mle or Irom neighbor, 1'iikm'iI nil llie sliil'e, llm lull, llie chip, Ami ilniut with nil tlm Mulling, Whnl tender I ml It li:dl we hnve gurnet AIh-, Iiy "imply ilyiiiK. Then lip- too i lmiy nl' Hear i nisn Will tell "in merits over, Anil eyes Inn Mvil't nur limit." to ceo Shiill no ilelWt iliseiiver. Then hnmls 1 1 jut would not I ill it stone Where Moiie were thick to cumber Our steep hill-puth, will scnttei t1.iiver A Wive, mil' pillnwe I slumber. Mi-eel friend, pcivlmncc liolli llion nml I, lire luve b past er.;i in", SIhmiI'I Ink- llie earnest Icsmiii home lie : iciit nil Hie living. Tuiliy ' repressed loliuko limy Mivo Hut- hliuiliii". leni lo-iuiirrou' ; Tlicn piiticnee e'en when keenest e.lg M y whet it inniiclcss sm iim . "I'ieny to lio dentin when I lentil's silence shiime our rlninnr. Anil ens"; to .lis. t i n the hem Tliroiili iiifiiinrv'tt niystie lnomnr lint wisn il were tor thee nml me, lire luve is past forgiving, Tn tnku the tender Usmiii honiii He piilieiil with I'm living. .Mimjinnt K. Sunyslc QUITS. "There, I think, thut will do. lie .v ill ne'er he able to recognize the tiamlw i-tl itij;," iiiul Nannie L'ayiiioml del. I at iirui's length for inspei tion the letter tiho hail heeti writing. After -lowly waving it to ami fro she put it into the envelope ami, with a laugh, wrote: Mr. Siil hi I Munn, til!ii:.i III', 'Hl- "Surely my pathetic appeal woiihl touch it heart of stone, ami I have very little reason to think Mr. Moore hard tiearteil," thought Nannie, while a fainl blush crept into her fare. Nannie li'ayuionil was visiting her school friend, Kate Moore, The for tner hal been making a prolonged trip through Furope, ami, on her return, whs spending a little time, in New York before going to her southern home. While at school Nannie had formeil a strong friendship for Kate, Imt had not met the rest of the. family. I tn the steamer she had often speeiihited ns to what Kate's home would he like. She knew that Mis. Moore had died when Kate was hut it child; that Mr. Moore had been very sueeesslul in business; and that hisson, Sidney, was mi editor on tint stall of a prominent magazine. Conscqucr.tly, ho must be very li'iirucil, very near-sighted, and quite old. So often had she pictured him to herself that, he became a reality. At dinner, on the clay of her arrival. Late said: "Nannie, I want to intro i mi e you to my brother." Nannie looked up at the handsome m ill who was entering the room, and. ii'ter greeting hiiu. turned ipiiekly to her friend i;nd said, with comic dis may; "Why. Kate, you told ine he was mi editor!" Mr. Moore was very much amused at Nannie's evident surprise and em I arassiucnt, and bantered her about it mercilessly. Several days later Mi. Mo.' re was telling Nannie some of his experiences lis an editor; anion;.' which he men tioned the numerous letters that he re ceived frmn people who offered to give him their history, provided he should write it up for the magaine, they hav i .iff the pecuniary help and he the el 'ry. lie then added: "If these peo ple would only become stenographers or type writers they might be of some use to a magaine. Why, only to-day 1 advertised for a stenographer." Nannie immediately conceive.! a Hi lieine by which she would punish him for the discomfiture he had caused her on her arrival. She would answer tin advertisement. He had told her what kiudof letters were most effective, a ,d slie could not doubt but that he would give her appeal some attention. Mr. Moore began receiving inuuiiier n bl-.i answers to his advertisement. One aspiring stenographer assured him that she was very pretty, and could play on the piano. . Another said that she could not write very well, but would soon learn. I 'no uiuruintf Mr. Moore came up to the desk of another editor, and exclaimed, triumphantly: "I have it, Frank! Just the kind of girl one likes to help, too." "Nonsense, Mm re. You're entirely t o sympathetic, You have been kept in a state of chronic disgust all the week by the epistles you have received ami " ".lust read this letter yourself," and he handed it to his friend: r tiik F.mtoh ok Mauazinf: hear !Sir 1 saw your advertisement in a New York paper ami hasten to answer it, hoping that 1 may obtain a hearing. 1 fear that I am but one among many applicants, but it ia so important that 1 should have work tint I must not lose the slightest ihance of obtaining it. I have met with severe losses in friends and means, hut I will not inlliet upon you my sad pc.soual history. It is sulli.'ient to say that cirnumst inees make it necessary for me to support myself or become de pendent on charity. This fact gives ine no claim upon your tin)", but, in view of what might happen, I have perfected myself in stenography, and think 1 can hcnestly say that i could do the work you rnpiire. 1 am, very respectfully yours, Mviiv lit v Kits. "Hy .love! Moore, you have iiub e I been successful. 1 envy you the opportunity to -r such a girl a chance." "She's a trump! '., v letter interest! I me immensely. Then." he added, see ing his friend's look of amusement' "you cannot doubt her ability. ( Mi, by the way Kate wished me to ask you to dine with us on Sunday. Miss Kay inond is visiting her, you know." "Thanks. Tell Miss Moore that it will give me great pleasure to accept, her invitation," and Frank Hunt pass ed oil' in search of some dilatory artist, leaving his friend to congratulate him self on tin success of his advertisement. That evening he told Miss Itayiuoiid intent ion of giving the place to the girl who had so strongly enlisted bis s mpathics. "You had better ausw r immediate ly, as, no doubt, the poor girl is anxious to hear from you." said Kate. "I intend to write some letters and yours can be posted with mine, this evening." Nannie and Ka'e exchanged signifi cant glances. Later in the evening the l wo girls held a council of war, and Kale tri umphantly prodiKcd her brother's let ter. Nanuie sei".l it and hastily tear iiiv it i. poi read: Ih.m; Mi- I! i i l.: I received vniir letter in answer to my advertise ment, and would le pleased lo have you rail on inr."Miiinl.iy morning. Yours truly, smn Mni;r. "i;" cried Nannie, dam ing around the room with the letler in her hand, "to think that an editor could be so awfully fooled! What do you think of iiiv answer. Kale?" The girl had sea'ed herself at a t ible and was care fully writing in her assumed hand: To Mi:. smi v Mum;!-, Maga zine, City: "lie will get that on Saturday, April Fools' hay, you kn -w. Ilrigli oho, Mr. Sidney Moore! Now we are ipiits!" Saturday evening came, and with it Mr. Hunt, Alter a little pause he ex claimed: "Have you heard about Moore's .stenographer?" "(h. she was to call to-day. Tell us about her!" cried the two girls. "Instead of the visit Moore was so ardently expecting a message boy came, bringing a most touching l-ilhl imir, in the fairstenographer's handwriting, reminding him that it, was All Fools' lay, and tin he was one of the fools. You can imagine his disappointun nt." I had every reason to be disappoint ed." said Sidney, "due does not often find such a girl as this promised to be. I'.y joe! I'll lind nut who she was. if." "Why. Sidney.". said his sister, "what difference can it. make? To be sure it is rather annoying, but then you can easily lind some one for the place. Nannie, won't you play that nocturne I heard you practicing b -.lay?" Sidney immediately forgot every thing and hastened to the piano, so slight a thing could not worry him, and he thought again and again how sympathetic and lull of pathos washer rendering of the muic. Alter she had finished, Mr. Hunt asked Kate if she would look at the proofs of some picluies tiiat he had just received, and they went into another room. "Mr. Moore." said Nannie, "1 have learned the aecuiiipaniiueut to the si ng you asked for last evening. Would you like to sing it now?" and she played the opening chords of "My tjueen." There was that in his voice and glance, as he sang tin- words, that deepened the color in her cheeks and rendered uncertain the touch that was usually so true. Then, as if yielding to an impulse that could not be longer restrained, he said: "(, Nannie. 1 can not wait in sus pense. The words will tome. In you I have found my ijueen." The music grew contused and Kate whs heard saying rather loudly: "These are wry interesting, Mr. Hunt. I wish that you would tell me the story they illustrate." "Mr. Moure," said Nannie, hanging her heail rather guiltily, "I have a confession to make. Will you promise to forgive nie?" "I will promise anything if you will but give me a chance!" ho answered promptly. "I am the stenographer!" Then she added quickly, seeing his incredulous look: "I did it to punish you for laughing at me, and at my unsophisticated ide of editors." "Indeed! Well it may all turn out far better than 1 hoped. You know my heart was set on getting that very girl ami a hundred fold more so now. I wish to offer her ;t different po- itior - that of private set ret.iry and gen-r.il manager! Will you be I he power, not behind the throne but upon it, my ipleell ?" "If I should ever try to exert any ol the sovereign powers that you suggest you might remind me thai you made your royal offers on April first"' "Well, then, in plainest I'.nglish, wiM you h; managing editor as far a I am coneerin d?" "No, but I may try to he assistant editor a little. Indeed, I think I will be the girl you had set. your hear: i: getting. I told ymi the truth when 1 said I had perfected myself in stenography, thanks to papa. 11- said that we girls must be able to take care of ourselves if he couldn't take care of us. Ymi may talk as fast as you please nml I will give you back every word just as ymi : aid it, with the t's crossed and i's dotted. Try me!" "I'll take your word for it. I'll take your wnid lor everything, even on April first I say. Hunt! "Hunt!" he called, and his friend and Kate entered the tonm. "I have the best of the )'..(' after all. I have si cured that si i no-i aphcr!'' Mr. Moore and Nannie exchanged glances of intelligence and the former said: "You have the pr.i.if of a short poem in your pocket, sit down with your back to the audience, and don't !o.i around, mi your honor." Nannie produced from her pocket a sm i'I nnie honk an I pencil. "Now read." he concluded, and Mr. Hunt tea I i he brief in rapidly. "Now, Miss Mary l.'ivcrs, it's your turn," and Nannie laughingly read thu poem aloud from her notes. Hunt looked at the blushing girl and his friend's excited and happy face and said, "I congratulate you! No one ever turned his First of April experi ence to better account. I'miliiK s. lini , . 1 Popular Fallacies. It would add many years to the av erage longevity of our species if w could free the next generation from the curse ol the following fallacies, which are fit her direct sources of dis ease or add an iiiiih ssary burden to the cares and Iroii'les of domestic life: The idea that cold baths are healthy in winter and dangerous in midsum mer; that rain-water is more wholi. some th. in "hard" water; that bed rooms must be heated in cold weather; that the misery of everlasting scrub bing am! soap-sud vapors is coinpen s.ited by i he comfort of the lucid in tervals; that a sick-room must be kept hermetically closed; that it pay.'! to save foul air for the sake of its warmth; that draughts are morbific agencies; that catarrhs are due to a low tem perature; that even in midsummer children must be sent to be lat sun set, when the air just begins to be pleasant; that an after-dinner nap can do any harm; that the solitary condi tion of the air can be improv ed by the fetor of carbolic a-id; thai there !s any benefit in swallowing jugfuls of nau seous sulplier water; thai rest, after dinner can be shortened w ith impuni ty; that out-door recreation is a wastr of time; that athletic sports brutalie the character; that a normal human being requires any other stimulant than exercise and fresh air: thai me chanical contrivances can compensate for the lack of manly strength; that any plan of study ran justify the cus-! torn of stinting chililrca in sleep: that the lorp-r of narcotism is preferable! In insomnia; that the suppression of, harmless recreations will fail to beget I vice and hviiocrisv; that stimulation is ' 1 i identical with mv igoratiou: that fash- j ion has a right to enforce the wearing ' of woolen clothes in t he dog davs. i ,l o. Suit Air. The way some people talk about "salt air" might lead others to believe that there might be a process invented of extracting salt from the at inosphcre. 1'iiitthis is an abuse and not the proper use ol language, hid sail aeiiialiy exist in the atmosphere mir lungs would be in a pretty pickle. Salt is a mineral substance and exists in air about as much as iron or gold or brick bats do. The "salt air" so much talked about is remarkable chieily as coming from the ocean, where by contact with wave and spray it has been robbed of all its impurities and is simply ocean air. It is contaminated by mine of the impure gases or exhalations from earlh. Iteing at the level of the ocean it is much denser than on mountain tops and coming many miles across tho ex panse of o in it is perceptibly differ ent from the breezes that sweep prairie, forest and ii.ountain. "Suit air" is an absurdity. It is s.mply ocean air. Atlantic city Tim HIS I'KKSKNCK ()F MINI). TIt Curat. Pluol nnrl Cool nr. -.s i n Nevvshi y. He, Sfive-1 Many People's Lives in a Moment, of Great r.-ril. In conversation with a prominent physician the other day the subject of railroad accidents and escapes came up. "I ine of the most remarkable in stances of presence of mind of which 1 have ever heard," said he, "was relal ed to me by Colonel .bdm I). Wick lifTe not long ago. it was on the Louisville ,V Nashville laUroad, near the Miildraugh's Hill tunnel. At that time the science of running trains was h) a "cry elementary state. The prac tice was to run them all one way at a tini". In the morning the trains would be started from Nashville tn Loiii.;v ille, and in the evening they Would be run ba 'k. I'hey Weill in Sections. Colonel Wi-klilfe our even ing was one of a parly of oili cer.san l others who made up a train to Nashville. They were preceded by another train and at, a di-tame of aboiil a mile a tli nl one followed. They pulled mil liinii the depot at a late hour mid made as good tii is possible when fairly on the road. Fvcrylhiiig went smoothly enough till the tunnel was reached, when the lirst train was halted by a signal just before entering. I'pon investigation it was found tha a freight train had broken dow u in the passage. "livery one who has been over the mad knows how steep is the grade of Miildraugh's hill. To climb it the en gineers put on every mince of steam and take off the brakes till the friction js reduced to a minimum. Th- sum mit is bill a short distance from the tunnel and a d 'cp curve m the track hides an approaching train till within a few hundred ynnK l'p this incline, but hidden by the curve, was hoard t he pulling of the third train. The pon ilei'oiH engine was laboring gallantly ami drawing thu long string of ears behind her as easily as a trotter the light sulky uf hisdriver. Tin-summit was reacle d and, w ith a wild shriek of d. light, th- train sprang around the lirsl curve ami darted upon the trestle work. The n omentum gained in tho upward struggle carried it across with race-lmrsi! speed and the track quivered and strctehcl beneath its eager tread, 'the cob! night, air vibrated with the pulling of the engine and the hills echoed and re-echoed the shrieks of llm whistle. The tiaiu was imt two minutes' distance from the second section when first heard. Tho horror stricken passengers in front were i:. night in a trap. The rear train had been totally forgotten and if was now bearing down upon them, bringing deatii and torture nearer and nearer. "At that awful moment a newsboy, with a great bundle of papers, dashed like mad through the car to the rear. The men yielded an inst int passage ami he was but a iiioiuetil in reaching the rear platform. I low he managed it no one knew, but In had whipped mil a match and ha ! a bundle of papers in ll. lines jusl a- the headlight of th- advancing en-iue appeared around the curve. His entire stock ll. lined up, and he wav ed and shouted, his face mi l form lit upaspei ha;i.s was Casablanca's on tha' fat il day at Tra falgar. The engineer sin him just in time, lie reversed his i ngitn- and put on the breaks so rapidly Mial bis train simply humps! agaiid the one in front. The pluck and presence of mind of the hoy ha I saved ..cores of lives. "About live minutes alter the pas sengers realize I that they w-re saved, a collection was taken up among the ollicers and the newsboy was made richer by $..ii. I wish that I could recall his name, bu' it is doubt fill if il will ever be know n." - .miirii i unt il r-J 'mi nml. How ('lay Took llefeal. The following interesting incident was related many years ago by Mrs. Robert Todd, of Kentucky, the step mother of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, ami has never before been printed, accord ing to the st. Louis illolit'lii mm rut; The Todds ami Clays were always on intimate terms, and in is wei iviug near each other in Lexington, Ky. Henry Clay and .lames K. Folk were then rival candidate, for the Presidency, the chances, as was gene rally supposed, being strongly in favor of the great Whig leadei. As it turned rut. however, the contest was much closer Mun had been anticipated, and finally advices from other states showed that tint result hinged upon the vote of New York. There was no tcl-graph in those days, and news had to come ny the slow course of mails. The New York mail was due in Lex ington about in o'clock in the evening of a certain day, and it was known would tell the story of a victory or de feat. As it happened, a young lady relative of Mr. Clay was to be married on the same evening, and insisted up on his presence, though under the cir cumstances he would much rat bet have remained at home. Mr. and Mrs. TocM attended this memorable wed ding party, which was not lar.re, and composed ul most exclusively of the family connections ami intimate friends- all ardent Whigs, and of course deeply interested in the pending political event. As the hour for the arrival of the mail approached, Mrs. Todd saw two or three gentlemen quietly leave the room, and knowing their errand watched eagerly for their return. When they came in she knew by the expression of each rolliilcnaiieo that New York had gone heinocratic. The bearers of the bad tiding consulted to gether a in-incut in a conn r, and then oneoi ihem advanced to Mr. Clay, who v. as standing in the center of a group, and handed him a paper. Mrs. Todd, a wai e of what it contained, fastened her eyes upon him. lie opened the paper, ami as he read the paragraph which sounded the death knell of his p'lliliral hopes and lifelong ambition, she saw a distinct, blue shade begin at the roots of bis hair, pass slowly over his face like a cloud, and tl.cn disap-p-a . Without saving a word upon the . subject whi-h must hilvo mollop i li.'c l ill! his thoughts, he laid down the paper, and. turning to a table. Idled a glass wiih win-, and, raising it to his lips Willi ;i p'cnsant smile, said: "I drink to the health and happiness of all assembled here." setting down the glass, he resiiin-il th- conversation as if nothing ha I occurred, and was, as usual, the life and light of t he compa ny, lint Mrs. Todd said that as soon ;is the contents of the paper were known "a wet blanket fell upon every body," ami in half an hour all the guests had departed with heavy hearls feeling that gallant "Harry of thr West" hud fought his last Presidential battle and lost the pit.' forever. A ( iciir D'alene Town. We quote from an article by Fugeiif V. smalley, in the ' ii'ur;, on the rise and di'cliiie of the recent Idaho mining 1 craze. A umre unattraetiv e place titan : Murray I have seldom seen. The tree have been cleared away, leaving a bare , gulch into which the sun pours for six. ' teen hours ;i ilav with a fervor which seems to be designed by nature te' make up for the coolness of the short j '.I uly nights, when li res are needed.; stumps and half-charred lugs eiieiuu- j her the st reels, and serve as seats for i ; the iiiltubilanls. Chairs can only bf found in Lie principal gambling cstab j lishtnents. F.vory s ml building is ji ilrinking-siloou. Newspapers sell lot j : "Iwo-bils" I t Went V-live cents apiece. 1 Hesc -nding the hii; into the town, we j ' encountered a procession of perhaps j ; three hundred men, marching after 1 ' long hoard box. It was the funeral ol j a printer who had been shot by hisem I plover, theleditor of a local journal, lot I demanding bis pay. The propriety ol lynching the editor was discussed j alter the funeral, but as -the judge of the district was expected next day te j hold court, it was decided to let thr law take its course. The town was full nl men out of employment and out of money, who hung about the saloon. and cursed t he camp in ail sty les of profanity known to miners' vocabulary Nevertheless, gold was being shipped out every day by Wells. Fargo Co.'? express, and new discoveries were con stantly reported. All the facts point fdtoa tich auriferous region. Tin linn who were making money kept quiet, worked early and late on theii claims, and let the talking of the town be done by t hose w ho hiid licit Imt tin: means to open claims, nor to live on while holding them. feminine lletcclives. Female spies on erring humanity iire its ubiquitous as llies here now, says a New York letter. Somehow, it seems rather a strange and unfenii nine occupation for a woman to serve in the role of a spy , yet there is scarce ly a store in the city where dry goods iire sold but employs a corps of female detectives. As a rule, women scent a clew more readily than a man they are sort of intuitive spies not it very flattering characteristic, but neverthe less true. And when a woman detect ive catches her victim she is ii, variably more pitiless than a male ollicer would be. A woman who becomes a detec tivenuist necessarily relinquish all fem inine individuality, as the experience she must unavoid ibly undergo in such capacities gives her a coarseness of manner not calculated to inspire re spect, such as a modest, lady is wont to receive. The sharpest female detec tives are employed in the custom house; they are expert physiognomists that is, they can invariably read the smuggler's guilt on his or her face. A Vex an. who raises gnats for their flesh, says that kid steaks are more delicate than vension. YANK 1. 1 ! Mllniil.MAXM ii i m ol- nt i-1 f St(ii .-' I "l 'I 'i ii-. One Pawenger Who Suoce'-iliy ft '''el Her IY'ip i'ty. A California stage robber t -"; ! - 'hi Iiilinoroii. incident: "I had a cousin' operating on the Yos"iini" rut I o.er near where I was rounded up, who took inor" pleasure in th- bn-iness Ihiin any man I ever heard of. II en joyed th" Inn of the tiling, ami he nft en used to say to met hat, as bet vvi en robbing a stage and going to a min trel show he would take the former every time. Now, that, you see, w as beei.i.so absolutely there was no danger in it. He was mi experienced man and knew that the thing was safe. 1 beiiev-that if, wkeii he was going through a st.igi load, somebody had lired oil ii gun hf would have fainted away, nut so much from fright as from .u'-prisc. "My cousin was consideie I a very good man in his day. lie bad an an of authority about him, and a voice Mint ciniid be h-anl a mile in the mountain air. When he said Hands lip!' hands went up, ami nodriver ever hired move a peg when he heard him remonstrating. Yet he was down-d once, ami by a woiua;1. ton. lie slop pel ii stage load of people from New Fllirland and there Whs a si houhna'aiii in the crowd who wore speeia-l'-s a:id whowa-i a good deal more angular, than any of the women I hey raise out here When h deml 'hands up' he didn't notice that sh- rclus-d to ob-y, because she w.is down at the foot of the hue, and he iiidu'l pay much atten tion to her anyway. As h" proceeded along the line, working the diflcrent victims as he w-lit al-u:', he noticed that her arms were I ehind her and t i;it she win a slender old girl. . "So be said nothing until he came u her. Then throwing all Ills povv, r ink his lungs he yelled, 'hands up!' Weil, she put hi r bands up. she had one ol those Cape Cod umbrellas, .vi.h whale bone ribs as big as your linger, am! w hen she raised her hand she ciut' he i that umbrella with the grip of ibath and down it en n my i ousin's lu ad lie hid me he saw double f r a week after that, and that for the time beinj, he was nearly knocked out. "It vv as ;i mighty ticklish moment. Now, here was a woman who had imt lost her self-possession at all, and if tht men at the other end of th- line had had an opportunity to think tor a mo ment they would have been on top ol ine- 1 should say on top of my sin - before he could get out of the way. "Hut he was a clever chap. He ii-t drew a big gun and sailed up to the other end of the line, looking very fero cious, and muttered something to the men about never robbing a woman. They took a tresh fright ami did not iimh r.stiind lully what had happened. He then gave the order to mount ami covered the crowd as they got into the coach. The schooliua'ain was the la-t one in and she was llie only one w ho was not robbed. Now, I'll bet those fellows felt cheap when they heard bet story, and found that she had not l".-i anything." The New liival to t lie Din mind. The new precious gem discovero I ii couple ol years ago in a mine about fifty miles distant I nun Hriik'ew iter. N. C. iind known as the lliihh niic. is said t be almost equal to the dia ml It is placed next to it. ami. at pro-cut, superior to it on account of its :.. irci ty. This gem is of a clear, beautiful grass-green tint, sparkle- like a dia mond, and is very hard. liny vaiy, wli-n cut. from a I raci ion ol a .arat to about six or seven carats, an I the demand f-r them a sjl.!"' to.! for a ca1 at stone is tar greiter than tie Supply, and it conies chietlv tiom Furope, though many .vcalthv prisons m New York i;ml New .leisey have bought them. W. F. Hidden, a ymiuu. enthusiastic student of geology and luincrology. of New Jersey, vent dow n to Westt rn North Ca- dina Home years ago. am! in prop- ting tours over the mountains in. in, I the now celebrated gelll. which, by a friend, was named "lliddeinte'' tin stone seems to have made moi , mi. prcssion in Furope than in this coun try, judging by the demand the niiere-t manifested. They are found encysted in hard rocks that run in Il.it veins Mius evincing the stability of the formation and its permanency. The gems are concealed in poek-: , ; , ;,, . of stones, lining the sides, :v ; have lobe crushed out. Hundreds ol stones may lie crushed before a p, ck.-t n Vound, and the number of , ; , in nich pocket varies, sometime, as tiany as eight gems, varying in ire found in a pocket that i . t m o. Aiaybe$50 woith of gems or t irorth, in one pocket. .nr ti . .. , )'iiiiti-lriiitirriit. There are lH.CMMi more women t h.. vnn in lioston. The Henri or llie City. fun you not fuel llie pnUe "I trullie bent. Here where shrewd ( ii'inii'-n'e rent's the pl't ed ftonie of her vw-t temple, mul ini'ii s lontster roiim Amid III- liu-lliiie I, nl iii.'tiii.-liinl M rent? Here lniiie.-t IihiIit met keen iivmief meet Ami -periilalivc p i inn tiii.ls n home, f 'mil m the eliii. i iii nii'l mi-table l.iain, It, .rn,. IV.iai will! W'M" when the wili'ls nr lleel ' lii s. like ihe-e men liti'l no -weel repose, llllouell .-nl'li.l lii-llls illl'l Imi, tlllllllltllf.il lays. With -Itaiin.l Helves l.iillliiie lor the lov of iini l-i.i tin in mi eon-inns iI.imci of hmilier crows' Mil le-ll-.il inpliire piiM llie Ineeil of praise, III lh. mylil's nr iliel.-l-u biinleneil hl'iliu. II iIIiiiiii II ll.ni it in tl.e t'liitmil in.Moitors. j cereal story - A crop report. In business on hsown hook The butcher. Posing for effect A goat ready to butt. Latin is;i "dead language" -when nn inexperienced drug clerk fools w itli it. In the mid-t of all the excitement concerning it th-muth pole remains perfect ly cool. Talk ahnii a man turning a woman's head. It is passing anothe- women with ii new bonnet that does. stooping over to pick up a fair lady's handkerchief locs its joy when it sacrifices a suspender button. Men and horses differ. The latter is wort bless unless he is broke, and the former is worthless if he is ditto. Sometimes vv hen a man falls down h is said to have slipped up. Such, are the inconsistencies of our lan guage. J'h-tin- la ly i-. the one who pre. tends tn iulmir:' her neighbor's bonnet when in reality she r. insiders it a fright. Were you ever i aught up in a sud den squab" ?" a-ked an old yacht-smut' of a worthy citien. "Wi ll. I guess so," responded Ihe'g'io l man. "I have helped fn bring up eight babies." Life j, PI..- ;i harness. There aro traces of ran . lines ..' trouble, bits of go nl fortune, breaches of good man ners, bridled tongue-, and everybody has ;i t ug to pull through. Chapter on Corns. Nearly ever, body in this country has ( nis, young, old, high, low, rich, poor; and there appears to he a special crop of them iit this season of the year. 'I iiis corn ailment is assuming a serious ii peel as the population iscoming to lie full of crippl-s. llovv many men could do ;i day's march, say of twenty-live miles, in th- shoes they wear and imt be roinpli-tely nsi d up at the end of the journey? II ivy is it thai men and w omen may i Advise good judgment in every thing else. ind be a It ogel her list ray in buying, pair of shoes? What is to I lame for all I hose corns and the human misery they email? The responsibility is opially divided between the shoe ii.iik-r and th- wearer. Corns are caused by I i id mn not direct and im mediate, but gradual; and here it is that leather ,: a light texture causes corns. When a man buys a pair of boots or s,..es of light material, no matter how .' ' -propert innate they are. how tighi. t - pressure nt the time is not suilieient to cause jiny direct un easiness, owing to the pliability of the leather. The In it tits the shoe, and not the shoe the foot. Alter ii week or two of wearing tho foot has come in urn tact withth.' .eveial sinuosities of the. shoes Mi- eini il.l. been growing gradually and the cuticle becomes thickened. :ind circulation is impeded and hence the pa u. titling the hard ami thicken. I cuticle restores the cir culation, and gives relief lor llie time only to be aggravated again by friction with some '.in lace. Heavy leather is the best remedy for corns ami for this reason, hav mg a greater power of re sistance th- wearer is at once inado aware of thepressiu, ,.uany particular part of th- foot, and be instinctively throws them oil. when a liner texture would delude him into wearing them, until the gentle, pressi.ro produces a corn. Finn, pliable leather, with suilieient toe room, and to know "where, the slin" pinches," is the panacea for corns, .nnl'iii rrn I'rtxs. A Pithy Flection Speech. "Was ever a terser election speech made than the following?" asks a Lon don paper. The speaker vv ns the lata ! Mr. John Perl, and the occasion aineet ' ing iit Accrington, when Mr. Peel, who wiis always very loath to speak, was iit last prevailed upon to say a few words. "Men of Accrington," he said, "if you are so backward in coming forward, we shall be all behind, as we were before." lie said no more. A clergyman who recently held ser vice in Auburn prison preached from the text, 'tio homo to thy friends." His hearers we 11 willing, but ' couldn't seem to arrange it. 3 i