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II. V. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, RATES $ 2.00 f 1.00 50 Transition. 'Tis said, in death, upon tho face Of Age, n momentary trnco Of Infancy's returning graco Forestalls leeay; And hm in Autunni's dusky reign, A lirth of blossom seems again To llu-h the woodland's fading train V it li dreams of May. - John l. Tabu in Independent A PROMPT SOLUTION. V.Y KM MA A. oiTEll. It wa the typical country store. TliiTc xvt re soap and pins, and needles ;;i.l letter-paper, and hack-combs and piper collar, and suspenders, in glass . '.ies in the front, and crockery and i u'.ico, and tinware and overhauls, and ouhide boots disposed on the shelves and butter and dried beef, and buck wheat and kerosene, and molasses and duMi. in friendly confusion in the rear. It motly variety was, indeed, a neces sity. Lamphier' s was the one store of l . ionvill.'. If h unpliier's was the typical country stor Lottie Lunphicr wa? not the typi eal country storekeeper's daughter. So .lohn Siockham, Vr. Lamphier clerk from th" next town, h id thought, when he first saw her tripping into the store one morning, after a spo.d of thread and a pour.d ot ci IU'l' she washer father's housekeeper. She had seein.d to John, in her crisp, pink calico, ar.d her natty straw nat, the nio: j..ii!itily-xty!ish girl he had evi r se.-n, a well as the vncttiest. Th it w :is four months airo. Lottie d.'-.vn to the store frequently. Of I i u:. it wa a necessity that she should; ! - - .nu-t Ui:iir wa always needed at the ! house. (Yrtaiulv John was far too mod- ! ct to drni that his presence could li've the remotest influence on her com inir :ind u-"inu's. llttt he h id not neglected his oppor tunities. II; had talked to her as he tied up her sugar or rolled up her lining iiitnbnc and smiled at her from over the ken s !ie can and the molasses Irsr ivl. and Lottie had not been prudishly laekwud in responding. The first siji.w found them very good friends in deed. The one M t on this extremely pleas ant eon-.pani mship was 3Ir. Limphier. "Whether Mr. Lamphier was guilty of the notion that his clerk was an unde sirable party, and therefore a, dangerous companion for his daughter: or, whether lie was vss.'se 1 of an ignoble fear of the loss of a good housekeeper; or whether In had merely developed a trcak of the unreason and contrariness not entirely unknown to elderly gintlc in n who are undergoing their first t"n h s of rheumatism, and feeling the r.( ( of an older piir of glasses what Mr. Lu.'.phicr's motive was was doubt lu!. I'lH he was plainly opposed to Johu N"ckhim's growing admiration for his i tty daughter. The sf .,u, which took place one siDWV I) cniber morning had come to j a rommo s one. Lottie came down to the store at a q'lart'.-i to nine. It was earlier thin generally c:un, and tin fact ac count ed f.,r th- biaelxiicss of Mr. Lnm pliier's frown. II- r i.ew brown dres w.is extraordi narily -tyli h and I (, mini.', and John Stnekham hiirly l,h,h ''l with delighted admiration at the si-Jit of h-r. Lotti.; h , 1 nothing to j,,.t ,t :l poind of rice, and it was imposed., to l . very long about getting that. Hut Lottie was a young person of ways and means. "Ojod-inorning, Mr. Stockham,'' she called out. cheerfully. John was replenishing the fire at the back of the store. ' f iood-inorning, Miss Lamphier," he rcjoinc.1, with subdued enthusiasm. Mr. Lamphier's sharp eyes were upon him. and he did not venture to join her. "Whit are these, pa?'' cried Lottie, immediately. "Do come and .show me how they work, Mr. Stockham." They were patent mouse-traps. It was improbable that Lottie was ignorant f their function, or that John Stock ham believed that she was; but he got himself to the front of the store with alacrity. "It's lovely weather, Mr. Stockham," !ttie observed, forgetting thc mouse trap. Elegant!" "Is it?" said John, not brilliantly, but ievolodly, looking his admiration of Lottie's bright eyes and red cheeks. "Oh, yes; thc snow's a foot deep, and I had to wade; but I like it." '"Do you like walking alone by your- If?"' John ventured. "Oli, well, I suppose it would be l'leasanter with somebody along," Lot lii responded, with hr eyes on a row of tovj-polish boxes. i should say so, decidedly," said lohii, growing bolder. ''Stockham!'' Mr. Lamphier called, snappishly, "please attend to custom ers'' The "cu-tomers" consisted of old Billy Murdoek, who came in regularly to sit over tho stove, but never bought any tl.iug; but John went back obediently. There was a period of silence, and t'-n a clatter from the front. "Ob.goodness!" cried Lottie, in atone One copy, one year -One ropy, six months . One copy, three months vol. x. of horror. "I've knocked down a box of curtain-fixtures. Mercy! do help me to pick them up!" Johu rushed to her side. He did not know whether she had knocked them off purposely, though he hoped she had. Lottie knew; but she looked quite in nocently regretful. They groped about together for the missing curtain-fixtures, among the empty boxes under the counter. Oc casionally their hands touched each other. "We'll never find them all," said Lottie. "I hope we won't. I'm willing to keep on hunting," John rejoined, with a sly, shy glance at the pretty face near him. "I've got a lot of things to do at home," said Lottie smiling back at him. 'Tin trimming a new hat " "You cculdn't improve on that one," Johu put in, with another admiring glance. "And if I'm going to have rice-pudding for dinner it ought to begoiugon," said Lottie, musingly. Hut she kept on feeling aimlessly about for curtain fixtures. "I'd be glad to walk home with you if my time were my own," said John, wist fully. "You've never been to the house, have you?" Lottie queried. "You've never invited me," John re sponded, with gentle reproach. "Not that I'd dare to come if you did," he added, with a faint motio l of his head toward Mr. Lamphier. Lottie sighed. "If you could get an evening off," she suggested, timidly. "Pa isn't home till half-past ten or so, and "' John turned a radiantly-grateful face I upon her. "You know I'd be delighted, Miss Lamphier," he almost gasped. "I'd" "Stockham!" Mr. Lamphier's voice was alarmingly near. "I want that box f spices opened immediately." Mr. Lamphier's head projected itself over the counter; he glared down at the startled pair beneath it. John looked at Lottie. There was a daring light in his eyes. "I'll come this eveuiug." He formed the words inaudibly with his lips, and hurried away. Mr. Lamphi-.T slapped the package of rice on the counter, frowninglv. Lottie brushed off her dress, read- justed her veil, extracted a piece of citron from a jar and nibbled at it, and went out, with a parting smile for John Stockham. It Lottie put on her best dress, and her prettiest ruchings, and her silver hair-pin and bracelets, that evening, after her father had oaten his supper and gone back to the store; and if somebody knocked at the kitchen-door about eight; and if the kitchen resounded for two hours thereafter with pleas mt chat, and harmless badinage, and light-hearted laughter if these things occurred, sure ly it was nobody's business. "I don't need to tell vou how I've en- joyed the evening, Mis Lamphier," said John Stockham, earnestly, as he rose at la-t, lingering!-. "I know I shouldn't have come; but 1 couldn't help it and I can't be sorry I did." "Certainly not," said Lottie, with pretty warmth. "1 should like to come again," John pursued; "but of course this nn't the way" "1 don't care so now!"' sail Lottie stoutly. "If pa will be so unreasonable, I don't know what e'se we can Good ness! what is that, Mr. Stockham?" She sniffed thc air apprehensively. John sniffed, too. "It's smoke!" he declared. "Mercy! where?" cried Lottie. "We'll have to investigate," said It John, taking up the lamp. They went into the back entry, was blue with smoke. Lottie gave a little scream. "Something's pfire," said John Stock ham. "Don't be alarmed, Miss Lam phier," he added, solicitously. He opened the wood-house door. They wen choked by the rush of smoke and hot air. Their startled gaze revealed one side of the wood house alive with licking, darting flames. John Stockham's practical mind worked quickly. "Where's the sink Miss Lamphier?" he demanded, "and a water pail. Two, if possible. We'll have to work to stop it. Is's got a good start." They did work. They rushed to and fro with heavy pails of water, half blindcd by the smoke, hot from the flames, dripping with spilled water. At the end of a confused fifteen min utes, they sat down, exhausted and diz zy, in thc doorway, and surveyed the scene. One wall of tho wood-house was burned black. At one point the flames had burst through, and the moonlight came streaming in. It shone on the recumbent form of a red-faced, blowsy, and obviously in ebriated tramp, sleeping peacefully on a pile of kindling wood. It shone on a dirty clay pipe thrust into a little mound of shavings, which still smouldered. It shone, furthermore, on Mr. Lampshier, standing in the wood-house door and staring in. PITTSBORO', Lottie was more than equal to the oc-1 casion. She was not a person to let t golden opportunity escape her. She rushed over to her father and clasped both hands around his arm, witb a tragic little shriek. "Oh, pa," she cried, "just look! Jusl think what you've escaped ! The house would have been burned down in an other minute in one minute all burned down ! Mr. Stockham has saved it. If he hadn't been here and we hadn't smelled smoke and come out here, found tho wood-house all ablaze5, and worked like anything to put it out, just think what would have happened! It was that horrid tramp. He'd got in here some how and gone to sleep smoking, and his horrid pipe had set things afire. I'm so glad Mr. Stockham was here- -ain't you, pa, dear?" Mr. Lamphier looked at his daughter and at John Stockham. and at the blackened wall, and at the serenely slumbering tramp. "Ah, yes!" he responded. "It was fortunate you happened along, Stock ham." There was a tinge of irony in his tone, and some grimness in his smile; but Lottie did not mind that nor did John Stockham. They realized that, by a fortunate turn of events, Mr. Lamphier was de feated, and made to appreciate and ad mit the fact. They cared little for the burned beams ; they were not conscious of theii dripping clothes; the slumbering tramp seemed an angel in disguise. "Well, it's the way to do," Lottie de clared, a few weeks later, when she and John Stockham were safely engaged and Mr. Lamphier had given them his bless ing, and intimated that he'd thought of taking a partner, and that John might possibly do "it's the way to do. If we'd just stood back as meek as mice, and waited for pa to come round and invite you up to the house Mercy! I can't bear to think of it!" Saturday Night. Stories of Cats. A pair of Siberiau kittens belonging to It. T. Wilson of East Nottingham. Pa., have each a blue and gray eye, and one of them has 22 toes. The London Field tells of a cat that got nailed in under the floor, where she was 14 days before released, and had had three kittens. The kittens were well nourished, in good condition, with ' their eyes open. The cat herself was in a state of extreme emaciation. Three cats of Cape Ann clubbed their kittens together and placed them in one nest in George li. Shepherd's stable. There were l:j of them. Some days two I cats would remain at home with thc fam ily while another went for food, and at other times but one remained. A kitten of Portland, Oregon, was seen to charm a rattlesnake. The snake was coiled, and with its head followed every motion of the kitten. The kitten seemed to realize thc importance of the situation, and never allowed her atten tion to wander from the snake. The snake was killed. A cat belonging to a Serautou (Penn.) man, is extravagantly .fond of organ and guitar music, but let her master play on the violin she will dart at him as if seized with a fit, scratch him viciously and sijiiall as though m great pain. As ! li ii "' i , ... i soon as he lavs thc violin down she will i trot up to him, rubber hoal and back lovingly against his ankles and pur con tentedly. Writing by Electricity. The wonderful invention of writing by electricity at a distance of fifty miles is thus described by the Pall Mall Ga zette: "Out of thc top of a box, which is about the size of an ordinary dispatch-box, protrudes what has the ap pearance of a stylographic pen. This, however, is not a pen, but the handle of the 'transmitter,' and its lower end is fixed to a light brass perpendicular bar Any motion given by the hand you hold it just like a p?n to thc handle of thc transmitter is communicated by this 1 bar to two series of carbon diks con taincd within thc box, and, after various adventures among magnets, etc., is carried again to thc top of the box, where it is reproduced ex actly by a small ink-holding pen, whose point rests on a white paper tape. A clockwork apparatus pulls this tape along at a gentle pace ; and after a little practice you find that it is quite easy to ', move the handle of the transmitter so that the pen shall write legibly on the moving tape. Now, whatever is writ ten on the tape before you is written simultaneously a mile off, or it may be fifty miles off, on a similar tape, by a similar instrument at the other end of of the wire. The instrument is very compact, and apparently efficient. ' The inventor is Mr. John Robertson, an American. Transplanting Teeth. Transplanting teeth has long been successfully performed by several promi nent dentists without any proclamation. The process is painful, tedious, and re quires skill and experience. An orifice is bored in the bone, into which the artificial tooth is riveted, the gum soon growing naturally around it. New York Times. CHATHAM CO., N. 0., THE PHONOGRAPH. How Kdison Has Perfected an Extraordinary Instrument. A Machine Which Records and Reproduces Human Speech. To a New York Post reporter Edison, the great inventor, said of hh newly nnishea phonognph: "You know that I finished the first phonograph more than ten years ago. It remained more or less a toy. The germ of something wonderful was perfectly distinct, but I tried the imp?; .siblo with it, and when the electric light business assumed com mercial importance, I threw everything overboard for that. Nevertheless, the pnonograph has been more or less con constantly in my mind ever since. When resting from prolonged work up on the light, my brain would revert almost automatically to the old idea C .1 ..... - - oincc me light has been finished, I have taken up the phonograph, and aner eight months of steady work, have made it a commercial in vuDiion. aiy phonograph I expect to see in every business office. Their opera tioi is simplicity itself, and cannot fail. mi ine merchant or clerk who wishes to send a letter h is only to set tho machine in motion, and to talk in his natural voice and at the usuil rate of speed into the receiver. When he has finished, the sheet, or 'phonogram,' as I call it, is ready for putting iuto a little box made on purpose for the mails. We arc m ik ing the sheets in three sizes one for letters of from 803 to 10)0 word , an other size for 40)0 words. I expect that an arrangement may hi made with the postolR .e authorities enabling the pho nogram boxes to be sent at tli3 same rate as a letter. ine receiver of a phonogram will put it into hi? apparatus and tho mes sage will be giveu out more clearly, more distinctly than th? b-st telephone mes CM r 8ClK- 1,lc ton of the voice ; 'n .thc two lmaiphs which I have I UU1M1L'U II so perfectly rendered that j ne Cln lllstlI! between twjnty dif- ferent persons, each one of whom has said a few w )rd On tremm loin ad- I fir. .,., .' . II. .1 il. I , , . I ,.iu.a-i: i, wiu iae toner may be re peated a thousand times if necessary. The phonogram does not wear out by use; moreover, it may be filed away for a hundred year and be rci ly the in stant it is needed. If a man dictates his will to thc pho rograp'i, there will be no disputing the authenticity of the docu ment with thos3 who knew the tones of hii voicj in life. Th3 co?t of miking the phoiogram will hi scarcely more thau the cost of ordinary letter paper. The machine will rea I out thc letter or message at the same speed with which it was dictate. 1. "I have experimented with a device for enabling printers to set typa directly from the dictation of the phoaograph, and think that it will work to a charm. It is so arranged that the printer by touching a lever with h'n foot allows five or ten words of tin phonogram to be sounded; if he is not satisfied with the first hearing he can make it repeat the same words over and over a rain un til he has them in type. For busy men who dictate a givat deal for the press, I am sur: that the phono-'ra-di will be a .A 1 "c a uui -vnV Hirer a very Ull.e experience. "For mu-iciansthn ponograph h go ing to do wonders, owing to the extreme cheapness with which i cm duplicate phonograms and the delic cy with which the apparatus gives out all the musical sounds. In the early phoaograph of ten years ago, which wa? a very imperfect and crude affair compared to that of to-day, it was always noticed that musical sounds cime out peculiarly well; the machine would whistle or sin far better than it could talk. This pecu- nanty ct the phonograph remains. I have taken dnvn the music of an or chestra, and thi result is marvellous: each instrument can be perfectlv distinguished, tho strings are perfectly distinct, thc violins from the cellos, the wind instruments and the wood are per fectly heard, and even in the notes of a violin the over-tones are distinct to a delicate car. It is going to work won ders for the benefit of music-lovers. A piece for any instrument, for the piano, or for au orchestra, or an act, or the whole of an opera, musical instruments afld voices, c in be giveu out by the phonograph with a b?auty of tone and a distinctness past belief, and the dupli cating apparatus for phonogram is so cheap an affair that the price of music for the phonograph will be scarcely worth considering. As thc phonogram will be practically indistructible by ordinary use, such music can ba played ver and over again. "My first phonograph, as you remem ber, consisted simply of a roller carry ing the foil, and provided with a diaphragm-point properly arranged to scrape or indent the foil. The roller was turned by hand. In the new instru ment there is far more complication, but altogether different results. My pro pelling machinery consists of a small electric motor, mn by a very few cells. Strange to say, I have found more diffi culty in getting a motor to suit me than any other part of the apparatus. I tried DECEMBER 1, 1887. various kinds of clock-work and spring motors, but found them untrustworthy and noisy. The motors I am now mak ing are absolutely steady and noiseless. There is no part of the apparatus, the tools for which I am now making upon a large scale here, which is likely to get out of order or to work in an uncertain manner. The two finished phonographs are practically exactly what I intend to offer for sale within a few months." Weaving in Biblical Times. There were not many regular manu facturers among the ancient Jews. There are, however, several beautiful allusions to weaving by Job, but this, like spinning the thread, was carried on as a family employment rather than as a regular trade. It is so now among Eastern nations. The loom and the in struments for spinning are of the plain est and simplest kind. Iu the descrip tion of the virtuous women, Proverbs xxxi., 10, to the end we have a full and minute account of the manner in which these family employments were directed by the mistress. Nor was this only in thc families of the lower and middle ranks. In the Greek and Roman his tories we read of the wives of kings and generals being thus engaged. Homer, who lived soon after the time of Solomon, describes two queens Pene lope and Helen employed at their looms. Dr. Shaw found that the women in Barbary at the present day, were the only persons who wove the hykes or upper garments. These were coarse articles and they did not use shuttles, but passed the threads of the woof with their fingers. Solomon's vir tuous woman is represented by our translators of the Bible as having cloth ing of silk ; thc word rendered silk, ac cording to some authorities should be fine cotton cloth or muslin, as they state silk was then scarcely, if at all, known. Aurelian, the Roman Emperor 1300 years after the time of Solomon, refused his wife a silk gown, because it was too expensive. We can therefore hardly suppose that a Jewish woman of the middle class could have such clothinjr Dining On a Picture. The early days of Jules Bastien's career were a time of struggle and pov erty, lie was glad to draw designs for a fashion journal and once he went down to Dumviilcrs and painted forty portraits of thc villagers. The cost of living, small as his expenses were, was a serious matter. For the rent of his little attic study he paid fifty dollars a year. He breakfasted upon three sous' worth of bread and two of coff :e, with milk. For dinner, at a franc and a half, about twenty-seven cents, he went to the res taurant of Mademoiselle Anna, Rue Saint-B-moit. In those early days he painted a pic ture of a peasant girl walking in a forest, in spring, entrapped by Loves who were casting their nets before her feet.. This picture was accepted at the Salon in 1873, through the influence of Cabancl, but it was not sold. It was the first painting that Jules Basticn exhibited, and its fate was a curious one. Kind hearted Mademoiselle Anna understood the needy state of tho young artists who visited her restaurant, and Bastien was her favorite. When he lacked the franc and a half for din ner, she cheerfully gave him credit and finall' accepted this picture in payment for a year's dinners. Afterwards when the name of the artist became famous, she was offered four times the amount of her bill for her painting, but she re fused to part with it, and kept the first work of her protege until her death. St. Nicholas. How Sea Birds (Quench Thefr Thirst. Thc question is often asked, "Where do sea birds obtain fresh -water to slake their thirst?"' But wc have never seen it satisfactorily answered until a few days ago. Au old skipper with vrhora we were conversing on the subject said that he had seen these birds at sea, far from any laud that could furnish them water, hovering aroun I and under a storm cloud, clattering like ducks on a hot day at a poad, and drinking in the drops of rain as they fell. They will smell a rain squill a hundred mile3 or even further off, and scud for it with al most inconceivable swiftness. How long sea birds can exist without water is only a matter of conjecture, but probably their powers of enduring thirst are increased by habit, and possibly they go without water for many days, if not for several weeks. Golden Days. Egypt's Rnler. Thc Khedive of Egypt is a strict mon ogamist. He lives with his one wife and children at his palace at Ismalia, near the Nile Bridsre. Everv lnorninor he risc3 between 4 and 5 and takes two hours' exercise. Between 7 and 8 he drives to the Abdin Palace, where he holds state receptions, receiving tele grams and attends to the affairs of state. Detroit Free Press. At Sing Sing. Visitor "1 suppose the convicts are deprived of their valuables when they anive?" Warden "Yes, but even thc poorest of them have a watch and chain."--Sift- injrs. NO. 13. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Applying certain measurements to a carcely visible film of silver, Herr Wiener arrives at the conclusion that no less than 125,000,000 molecules of silver must be laid in a line to measure an inch. The amount of force exerted by heat and cold in expansion and contraction of metal is equal to that which would be required to stretch or com press it to the same extent by mechan ical means. The Bank of France has found a val uable detective agent in photography. An enlarged photograph of an apparent ly genuine check showed plainly that the amount and the name of the payee had been cleverly altered. Suspected coins are photographed with genuine ones, when the counterfeits are revealed by comparison. An experienced practical builder a ays that mortar in the interior of walls, especially if it be what is called "rich" mortar, is liable never to harden, but to retain its softness for centuries, though this is only the case when the interior of the wall is hermetically scaled against external air. In England, not long ago, a quantity of soft mortar was dug out of a stone wall that had stood for 800 years. It was as fresh as when placed there. In some parts of Germany and Austria natural pumice stone has been super seded by an artificial stone, to which a suitable shape can be given and dif ferent degrees of fineness of grain ob tained, which allows thc stone to be used in all the industries where natura'i pumice stone was formerly employed. The ingredients are white sand, feld spar, and fire clay, mixed in suitable proportions to obtain the desired com position, and the paste is poured into plaster moulds, being finally placed in fire-clay receptacles and baked in ovens. The interesting statement is made in the last municipal reports of the cor poration of Chelsea, near London, that, contrary to what has generally been as sumed in tho relations of occupation and health, the sewermen of that place show marvellous health and vitality, notwithstanding they spend seven hours daily in the sewers, often in cramped up positions, dealing with offensive and dangerous matter. One of the sewer men, who is now pensioned off, is eighty-six years old, and was a sewer man for more than twenty-eight years ; another wdio is yet at work is seventy four, and has followed his occupation more than thirty year3. Beecher's Peculiarities. "There was one peculiar characteris tic of Mr. Beecher's that I have not seen mentioned in the papers," said an inti mute friend of thc great preacher, "and that is his occasional lack of confidence in himself. Time and agdn he has told me that while before an au dience at some public meeting, and while awaiting his turn to speak, he was often almost on the point of getting up and going out. 'As I listened to one and another speaker address the meeting,' he used to say, 'I would think, my goodness, I never can make such speeches as those; I'd better leave here at once.' But when he was once once on his feet, all these feelings van ished, of course, and he felt completely at ease. He was always subject to these times of self -depreciation, both m and out of the pulpit. When he first came to Brooklyn he used to go around the back streets just to avoid meeting people whom he might know. He combined with his wonderful vigor and boldness the shrinking timidity of a school girl." Of Beecher's absent-mindedness, Dr. Scarle, his physician, told this story: Mrs. Searlc was standing at the parlor window one day when she noticed Mr. Beecher go up Mr. Raymond's stoop, over the way, and ring the bell. Be fore it was answered, he came down the steps and continued on his way up the street. Seeing Mrs. Scarle he crossed over, and with a smile said, ' Say, can you tell me where I am going this afternoon?" "Why, you are going to baptize Mr. Howard's child to-day, are you not?" "That's it, that's just it," he replied. "But for the life of me I couldn't recall the fact." "Another instance I recollect," con tinued the doctor, "happened at his house. I was there at dinner. Major Pond was also present; spoke about a concert that was to be held in New York that evening. Mr. Beecher said he would like to attend it with him. 'But you can't go,' said Mrs. Beecher to him, 'you have an engagement for to night.' 'Oh, no, I haven't,' he rejoined. 'I am free to-night. , and I think I'll go over to the concert.' While she was trying to convince him that he really had some other matter on hand, a car riage drove up to take him to Iloboken where he was booked for a lecture." In reference to Mr. Belcher's memory j the doctor added: "It was marvellously poor. About the only thing that he could remember, he used to say, was ! the list of prepositions that govern the ablative case in Latin. These he could ! rattle off like sixty, and did so frequent- ! ly." or ADVERTISING One square, one insertion- $1.00 One souare. two insertions - - 1.50 - One square, one month - - 250 For larger advertisements liberal con tracts will bo made. Lnllabys. lie afternoon is fair and still, Unveering stand the village vanes, The sunshine sleeps on roof and sill And glances from my neighbor's panes; A languid sense of slumber-cheer Broods over all things, calm nd mild, And low from o'er the way I hear' A mother singing to her child. A mother's love in measures thrills The silence jf mid-afternoon; The baby's pouting mouth it stills That will not ope to cry or croon; Soft folded to that tender breast The little head lies reconciled, The songs drift o'er its dreams of rest The mother sings unto her child. No other sounds are in the air, And softly falls those drowsy tunes Upon my heart like peace and prayer A lullaby of childish runes; And slumber-strains more low and sweet Have never yet to sleep beguiled, "Rest, little head, and hands and feetl" A mother's singing to her child. A. W. Bellows in Yankee Blade. HUMOROUS. now to serve a dinner eat it. A sick thief should have his disease arrested. Very few persons can hold their own on their -first see voyage. A hotel "beat" that is popular with the patrons the sound of thc dinner gong. The only man that seems to thrive on procrastination is the one that owes his tailor. The snail is a paradox. It is pro verbially slow, yet its pace is without bound. A Cincinnati exchange says that smoking produces selfishness. It is also good for hams. Young man Will you give assent to my marriage with your daughter, sir? Old man firmly No, sir, not a cent. "Why, Nettie, you have put your shoes on the wrong feet." "What will I do, mamma? They's all the feet I have got." The counterfeiter, no matter where he goes, is seldom well lodged. At least, it is believed that, where he is, he has bad quarters. A phrenologist says that fullness un der the eye denotes language. The phrenologist must have run across a man who has told somebody else he lied. Death Comes Like Gentle Slumber. A commonly fatal disease has a cer tain benumbing effect on the nerves, so that the dying suffer very little, writes Dr. T. L. Cuyler. Such has been my observation. "I had not thought," said a certain good man, "that it could be so easy to die." As life ebbs away usually sensibility to pain goe3 with it. So gently did a certain eminent chemist breathe his last that a teaspoonful oi milk which he held in his hand was not even upset the dead man held it still. Death is very often a slow fading out ol the faculties, like the coining on of a tranquil twilight. The sense of hearing sometimes remains intensely acute, so that thc dying overhear a whisper in the room. "She is si iking very fast," was whispered by an attendant in the dying chamber of a goodly woman. "No, no," was the quick response oi her who had overheard the words, "No, I am not sinking. I am in the arms of my Saviour." The sense of sight gen erally weakens in the prccss of dying. A medical friend of mine said to his wife: "Set that lamp up closer to me; the room seems to be growing dark." Such were thc sensations of Dr. Adam, the learned principal of the Edinburg High School, who fancied himself to be in his school-room, and gently mur mured: "Boys, it is getting dark; you may go home." Of deaths on the battle-field a large proportion must be with out severe physical agony, for a gunshot wound is apt to numb the sensibilities. When a bullet pierce 3 either thc heart or the brain there can be no pain.. Probably our glorioxis martyr, Abraham Lincoln, "never knew what hurt him." Drowning is far from painful. Those who have been resuscitated tell us that their sensations were rather exhilarating. A Crane Fishing. A Maine physician says that one daj he saw a big crane standing on a log that floated near the shore on the Ken nebec river. The crane had captured a large bug, which he dropped into the stream, so that it floated down past him, and then grabbed it and again repeated thc performance. He kept this up foi nearly half an hour, and then a pickerel darted up from below after thc bug. This was just what the bird had been waiting for, and thc next moment the fish was down his throat, and he was winging his way slowly up stream. The Biggest Check. In the negotiations made some years ago by the English government for a loan of eighty million dollars the suc cessful contractors were the Messrs. Rothschild. In paying the first deposit toward this amount to the government the check they drew was for the sum of six million dollars. This was proba bly the largest check ever drawn by a private banking house. Detroit Free Pres3.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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