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l)r l)atl)am Hecor& II. A. TOIVDOTV, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. l)c Chatham Becarb 11 BATES or TERS OF SUBSCRIPTION, DOLLAR PER lEfiB Striclly "n Advance. TluMliylilit approaches; oh, com with mo, -tllIH'! wet xls tl o partridge is beating liio tlnrn, White wmitliings of vapor ascending from w hero The l:iko like a mirror lies placid and fair. Away with all sorrow, A truce with all care, P.!m' up n:ul follow the suu, and we'll feel Tbi th: il! f the rod ani the pulse of the iv i: uvut of the clover is deep on tbe '11 v.jTili.it is red in the tops of the trees, 'i'li y. in ; day awakens, a blush of surprise On li s- f m1 tho tears of dew in her eyes. 0:n ;;' u the mountain-side, ovVr the T) ;!. ! a'.e whoro a boat, like a steed in un- nv-t, I.i.s r - a i;; and chafing as though it could iVd The 1 f? of tha morning from bow unto keel. Tho mid is rai.in;; oh, com, come away! Where the c.-dars are heavy and waters are Kiay! The scream? of a fish-hawk sound faintly freni where The lilies are raising gold caps to the air. Away with all sorrow, A trut'e with all care; With hanj.net and basket, oh, follow and fool The thrill of th? rod and tho pulse of the reel Wil 1 wood's Magazine. MOWED IN. "Cipital, A. Nr.v for your story, Fred." Four members of tho Bicycle Tour ists' CIuj wcrj relating their advea turcs o." tiio past season, and tho one list aJiIresvtl, a tall, handsome athlete, leu ;h.'J, s'i;htly as he knocked tha ashes Iron his cijar before replying. "A Urol cr adventure than mine, b.iys, nsv.-r h ppeaed. There's the pa thetic, the ludicrous tho tragic, the sentimental, nil combined in this story of mine, and it's true, every word of it. It happened, let mc see, just six weeks ago todny. "I went with Clark and Anderson, you know, up to Bethlehem; from there to tin White Mountains; then to Lancaster. "Now j it beforo starting mother said to me, conxingly: " 'If you go as far as Lancaster, don't forg t that Janet Harding, tho only cousin 1 have in the world, livei ia tho next town.' ' "AU ri rlit,' I replie !. 'J met Hard huf liws ia the next town to Lancaster. I'll remember. ' ''Janet Harding unmarried would have been bad enough, but with a hus band, two giddy girls, and an ovor growa boy of 17, could I stand it? Mother thought I cculd, and mother rules our hi use. "When we started on our bicycle trip to Dixville Notch I planned to sec the llardings; bowl leisurely up to the door, introduce myself to Mrs. II., joke with the girls, and then proceed ; but man proposes, etc. "As luck wruld have it my bicycle broke down and I had to leave it at tho Falls, a little village five miles from Lancaster, for repairs. Clark and An derson went oa without me to North Stratford, where I was to meet them by train, and I proceeded oa foot to tho .Harding farm, tome two miles from tha Falls. "The farm, a smooth interval dotted with fields of ripening graiD, and the large veraadahed house, and great roomy barns clustering about it, but not too near, all bespoke plenty, com fort and hosj iiality. Hospitality, did I say? Well, I shan't take it back, although I found the door locked and not a living thin" ii bight except an old white hen. Mark the exception for th it hea plays an important part in my adventure. ''I noticed her, and in particular marked th? proud, complacent step, tho co .edted 'car-car' sho uttered, as she looked at mc knowingly from the cor ner of her eye. Little did I think but no matter. Ycu will sec ly and by the golden thread that binds all the points together. "Well, hero wo were, the white hen a:il I, lut J met Harding was not. nor thegirU, ror the boy, nor Mr. Harding. "I decided to go to tho barn and lb down on tin hay, tho ncw-mowa hay, and await their coming. Tor me to think, is to act. A few minutes later I had climbed to tho mow ;id ensconced myself u.idcr a brace in tl'o corner where tho afternoon su i glnt.-d throu ;h a loag crack, making slanting du t-b-ams across niy breast. "I inadj a few verses as I lay on tho frannt hay, I.ui I di In" t poctizj long. 1 fell asleep and I dreamed, and my dreams grew thicker and blacker and h'.avicr, until at lad; I dreamed that Janet liar ling and her whole family were seated on ray stomach, and oh, tin lrvs,urcl I groaned and waked my "J'fup, but I wasn't much better off then, for E.yptian darkness reigned out me, except for tho crack where the light i-till sifted throu rh. "Where was I? Wh .t was the matter? I couldn't think, the-horriblo pressure v is so m iddling. All about, arouid, j: bore, wa pucked piles of oats, not s'adlcd out, you know, but oats before they me threshed, on the stook, et VOL. X. wh-attsver you call it. While I was asleep I had been mowed in, and that's all there was to it, except that I couldn't move hand nor foot. Two or three loads must havj been thrown on top of me, trod down, and clinched, so to speak. Well, I tumbled around a bit and got my hands free and poked the grain away from my face a little. I was ia a corner, as I told you, under a brace, and this gavo me a chance for my life that and the crack which gave mo a breath of air ia the hot, stifling plnci. I was jast as effectually cmersed as were the monks in olden times when they were walled up in their living tombs, for no amount of strength served to lift the burden a particb. "By and by something fluttered at my feet aad rose up and cackled. "It was tho white hen. 'I knew her and she knew me, but bless you, she didn't want anything of me nor my company. I could see that. But she couldn't get out? Oh! but couldn't sho? She cocked her luad im pudently to one side, stepped daintily to a tiny aperturo about half as big as her head, and I saw at a glance that she meant business. The less sense the more instinct; I saw that the creature would get out somewhere. "Why not use her for a carrier pigeon and thus establish commu icatioa with the outside world? I couldn't dare to die here and be pitched out to th3 cat tle by forkfuls, or put through a threshing machine, although I might deserve such treatment, and I couldn't got out myself. "I tore a leaf from my nolo book and wrote something lik? this: Come to my rescue. 1 1 m buried fathoms deep in oats, northwest corner of the barn just opposite the house. My blue necktie is thrust through the crack. Perhaps you can see it. I am mowed in. Your relative, Feed Ixgersoll. "I tied the note to tha hen securely with a portion of the nccktL. the rest fluttered from tho barn, and Biddy ttepp:d forth, 'one foot up, the other foot down,' carefully, conscientiously, as a hen does, and by and by a faint rusting spoke hopefully of her progress to my waiting heart. Meanwhile I was a prey to anxious thoughts. "Suppose she should never reach the light, but perish ia her perilous jour nry, becoma lie nmed ia and unable to go any further; suppose she should lose the letter in her pisage but a triumphant ciccle assured me that the white hea h id reached the barn floor, asd blessed sight 1 a little later I saw her through the craclc walking proudly away frcm the door with th3 letter plainly ia view. ' Just then two young la lies drove into the yard. Pretty? Well, I guess so. You don't o'ten sec handsomer cirls than Janet Harding's. One was dressed in seal brown, the other in navy blue. "'Do look at that hen!' cried Ssal Brown. 'I do bclijve it's a billet-doux from your Wi.liam. If it i, now, Til c'ap my hands hard, just so, and 1 11 say, 'Billy; do send me one, too.' " 'Oac, two; and will it take two to satisfy you?' said Nuvy Blue, laughing at her si.-tur's saucy f ;ce. I laughed, too, and fell in love with her then and there. "They lu-cd tho h;n toward them with a hand.ul of corn. Seal Brown swooped down and looieacd tha letter and read it. "I saw all thn throu jh a crack ia ths bara and heard them m ike mjrry over the distress of their city cousin. "Wtl1, to make a long story short, the girls du me out, for tho men were in the m-adow after mor3 oats. It seems that they were la a great hurry to get at the oats, and the hired man mowed away. Probably the first fork ful covered me and that was doubtless put on without looking. Nobody knew just how it came about. When I came to view I did the be3t and the only thing I could do I lau;hel and the girls laughed. It was alulicrous introduc tion to the family but it served its turn. I found the girls no less charming than pretty; Hirry, a fiae lad home from college; Mr.. Hardiag, a lady in every sense of the word, and Mr. Harding, shrewd, corpulent and good-natured, and that is all." 'AU!'' they echoed. "There ought to bo a wedding." "There is to be a wedding," said the other, coo'ly. "Which. Navy Blue or Seal Brown?" "Navy Blue." "When arc you to be married?" "N'.Yer, perhaps." "Why, I thought you said there was to be a wedding!" 'So I did. Navy Blue is to marry her William." "And you aro in a Brown study still," said one slyly. Fred actually blushed. "Yes, the most puzzling study of my life, and the most interesting,'' and he walked away. "Hard hit, isn't he?" The rest nodded. Hartford Timc3. One of the commonest of illusions is to imagine that tho present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart tnat every day is the best dn in the jean Delusion ot a Hemp Eater. A writer in St, James Gazette gives the iol lowing description of bis marvel lous sensatim while undor the influence of Indian hemp. A friend of ours told us of his experience with the potent drug ia Washington during the war, when ho took a quantity in an experi mental way. In his case ths hallucina tions as to time and distance were very similar to those given below. It is not an experience to bo desired. The rooms seem to turn round; the people near appear to rise to tho ceil ing; the pulse beats with extremi rap idity and tho throbbing of ths heart b3 comes impossible, foronecaanot recol lect anything the ideas seem to slip away. In another ten minutes the characteristic indications of hemp-eating appear. Every object around at tains a monstroui size. Msn and wom en seem of Brobdignagian proportions, the cushions upon which one sits seem fit for giants, aad any trifling obstacle in tho way when you attempt to walk appears so big that you fear to step over it. The room in which you may bo sit ting seems to stretch beyond the range of sight, and oac fancies the street out side is receding before one's very eye. All sense of time is lost now, and when he is spoken to tho hemp-eater fancies there are long and apparently senseless intervals between the wordu His owa attempts at speech arc similarly marked ; the syllables come slowly, laborioudy and minutes seem to elapse between the beginning and end of a word. Ia this stage it i3 usual to partake of more cof fee, whic'i changes ths nature of the sensations. A whiff at the narghilo that always cccompanics the beverage, and the body seem3 to rise into the air and float about, though inexplicably enough the feet keep firmly pressed to the ground. Then one's legs and arms appear to drop eff, and life and sensation concen trate themselves, to one's thiukiug, in the back of tho head, which feels full to bursting. Gradually strength leaves the smoker; the pipe slips from the nerveless fingers; the will altogether fails, and the body scenas to rise and float away ia 6pac '. A heavy, dream less slejp usually succeeds such aa in dulgence in the drug, and as a rule the novice awakes none tho worse for the evening's experiment. A little lemon juice removes any sensation of nausea or light headache that may ensue. PeronilIcatiou of the Kninbow. The rainbow is one of the atmos pheric phenomena that hava been most generally personified. Peoples of al most every part of t'.ie world have mule ol it a living and terrible monster whoso most venial offense is that of driakinj; up the waters of springs ad pond. This belief is found among tha Burmese, Zulu', Iadiins of Washington Territory, ancient 3I .xicaas, and Finns, and exists among the popular fancies of the S avs and Germans, and some of the French populations. Tin Zilus and Karens ol Burmah imagine that the rainbow spreads sickness and death. The Karens, when they see one, say to their children: "The rainbow hai come down to driak; do not play, for ftai that harm may conn to you! ' Very singularly, too, the street boys ia Volhynia run away, cryinir, "Run, it will drink you up!" Ia Dahomey, the rainbow is regarded as a heavenly serpent, Daub, which insures happiness. The mod.-rn Greeks hold it to be a beneficent but jut and severe hero; thjy 6ay that any one who jumps over a rainbow will change six at once; Lut this saying which is also current in Alsac?, is only a picturesque way of in dicating the impossibility of transform ing a man into a woman, or a woman into a man. The Dclians offx-r-'d cakes to the rainbow, and the Peruvians put its image on tha walls ol their temples. The Caribs considered its appearance on the sea a favorable presage; but oa the eaith its i .fluencc was pernicious, and they hid from its view. It was personi fied by a viper. Popular Science Monthly. A New Mexican Parrot Miss McCutchcon, of Socorro, New Mexico, has a parrot that rings to the accompaniment of a piano almost per fectly. A party of friends were recently gathered at the residence of thi3 young lady, when, for ih: amusement of the circle, the parrot was brought into prominence. The bird, as soon as it was brought into the room, commenced to whist b a popular tune. It whistled this tune over and over again, until one of the party suggested that the tune be changed, whereupon the parrot stopped quickly, and, casting a look of contempt at tha youncr man who made the suggestion, cried : ' Chest nuts 1" Misunderstood. Atr.imp called i t a house, and when the servant opened the door, re quested something to cat. The woman replied by wliistling for the dog. "You misunderstand me, mum,'' hastily remarked the mendicant. "nw so?' "I asked that you should feed me, not the dog," was the reply, as tha trmp quickly dashed through the gats. -Youth's Companion. PITTSBORO', CHATHAM CO., N. CHILDREN'S COLUMN. jtlutton Ilrn. There was a very greedy boy They called him Glutton Ben; His appetite was large enough For half a dozen men. One Christinas night he ate and ate From eight o'clock to ten; . And when he crept to bed, folks thought He'd ne'er get up agaia. A dczen yelling savages Rode o'er the mountain crest; An eagle from the 6ky swept down And bore him to her nest; w And then a doughty drayman dumped A hogshead on his breast; Twas thus the horrid nightmares Broke in urxm his resr. His face grew pallid in its pain, His legs they were up-bent; The doctor fe't his throbbing pulse With attitude intent. "A surfeit of plum pudding, this," Was his blunt comment; He wrote out a presc-iplion And then away he went. --Harper's Young People, ma-iwt-ir Equat e Cat. John Maxwell of Itondout, N. Y.t is the owner of a dark gray Italian cat that not only jumps in the water and swims along tho docks in search of rats, but is a successful fisherman. The cat has been known to crouch on the gun wale of a Dclawc.ro and Hudson canal boat for an hour or longer and watch for a fish to appear near the surface of the water. One day the piscatorial feline took into Mr. Max well's store at different times an eel, a catfish and a yellow perch. The eel wa3 about eighteen inches long and the perch wriggled ia the cat's mouth. Kingston Freeman. A Dog- WLo &toI ?ivrpaicr. "A paper cairier came to me one day and told me that somebody was steal ing the papers left on a certain doorstep every morning before the subscriber got a chance to sec them,' ssid a Chicago policeman the other day to a Tribune reporter. "The gentleman living in the house had, it appeared, hauled the car rier over the coals and accused him of not giving him his paper. . I concluded to watch the house aad see who it was that was stealing the papers, for I was satisfied that fhe carrier was telling the truth. Tl.c next morning I saw the carrier throw the paper in the yard, and I concealed myself on the opposite side of the street to await developments. In a few minutes I saw a big black New foundland dog climb over the fence from the adjoining yard and pick up tli3 T aper in bis mouth. He then ju a p d over the same fence and ran through tha back yard. Tho next moruiag I waited for the canine thief, and gave him a reprimand wi".h my club, and ever after that he let the papers alone." II ow a Tout! ln-JroM. A gentleman sends to an agricultural paper aa amusiig description of "How a Toad t ikes off his Coat and Pants." He says he has seen one do it, end a friend has seea another do it in the same way: About tho middle of July I found a toad on a hill of melon?, and not want ing him to leave I hoed around him; he appeared sluggish and not inclined to mov?. Presently I observed him press ing his elbows against his sides and rubbing downward. He appeared so siagulcr that I watched to see vhat he was up to. After a few smart rub3 the skin began t burst open straight along the back. Now, s?id I, old fellow, you have done it; but he ap peared unconcerned and kept on rubbing ui.til ho had worked all his skia iato folds on his sides and hips; then grasping oao hind leg with both his hands, ha hauled off one leg of his pants tho same as anybody would, then stripped the other hiad log ia the same way. He then took his cast-off cuticle forward betweea his fore legs in to hi3 mouth and t wallowed it; then, by raising and lowering his head, swal lowing as his head camo down, he stripped eff the skin underneath u -.til it camo to his fore legs, and then grasp ing one of these with the opposite hand, by considerable pulling stripped off tho skin; changing hands, ha stripped the other, and by a slight motion of the head, and all the while swallowing, he drew it from the neck and swallowed the whole. Tho operation seemed an agreeable one, and occupied but a short time. A Crab-Catching A pel "That's a lone fishermm," said a New York bird dealer as he pointed to a Java ape. "It is the best crab catcher known.' "How does he manage togct the crab?" asked the Telegram's menagerie critic. "Catches 'im with his tail. He is the only kind of ape that has, a long tail. When it sees a crab tha ape backs up to the hole where the crab has disappeared, thrusts his tail into it and awaits events. The crab, feeling somewhat angry at the intrusion, nabs the tail, the ape leaps forward, and before the crab can s' "Jack Robinson" it finds itself on dry land with 800Q miles of terra firma under the apo, who soon chews up the crab and then tackles ; tho next hole on Its list. C, JUNE 14, 1888. A. QUEER INDUSTRY. Trading in the Beasts That Live in Menageries. Hunting Parties Sent Every where in Search of Curiosities. rhe expenditure of hundreds of thou sands of dollars each year in the pro curement of wild beasts, birds and rep tiles seems like the wicked extrava ga: ca of some magnificent potentate, but when it is incurred in the coursa ol trade it furnishes food for thought by tbe philosopher, talk by the moralist and amusement and instruction for the multitude. Mr. Iteiche, a New York dealer in wild animals, has been inter viewed on this subject by a Graphic re porter. 'We send out some half a dozen expeditions evry year," he said, to different parts of tha world. There are three points in Africa to which we send. Oac goes to the north of Africa and thence to tin iaterior as far as circum stances may v ct te. Another goes to Cape Town aua theuce northerly by ox tcam3 into the interior as far towards Rider Haggard's land of story as may be. The third goes to the west coast and through Liueri a. Then we send one to P .ra aad that goes to any point in South America that seems most de sirable. Another goes to Australia and New Zealand. Then we send parties out for walru33cs and sea lions towards tha South P.de. Thev sometimes catch a polar bear, but .not often. 'It would be almost impossible to say what is expended ia tha pursuit The entire capital invested is turned over as frequently as possible. Sometimes we have money lying idle for a tim, and sometimes it is all invested in the different consignments that are coming home. It would be equally hard to es timate the profits, for, of course, the business is full of accidents. W e are liable to lose the beasts that have cost us the most, and we may get very high prices for some that have cost com paratively little. 1 here was one hippo - potamus that our hunter, Lohse Louirnt for if 00 irom some natives on the Settite River in A'rica. The ani mal was only a few days old when ha bought it and it was kept for soma time before it was sold for $20,000. O course the difference betwoea tha two sums was rot all or nearly all profit, but they arc illustrative. "Necessarily our hunters rin into all sorts of danger', not only from the wild beasts themselves, but from the natives in some of the wild countries they have to explore. They aro trained men. though, and seldom coma to utter grief though some of the man they employ arc frequently killed. Ia Africa thty will have somDti:r.e3 a party of 200 or 300, or cvea 500 natives employed in hunting the big game. Their stories of adventure are as thrilling as those in any book of travel, but the professional hunter is not often a professional story teller, aad the storic3 that you find in books are generally told second hand, "What do we do with our goods when we get them? They are, the most of them, taken to Germany, to our hea l quarters at Alfeld. There they are kept for a time if they are out of condition in any way, or if they have to ba accli mated. From Alfeld they tto shipped to one of our distributing depots. We havo several places in different parts of the world simi'ar to this one. You may call them salesroom. Tuen we send direct to our cu tomers. "Who buy them? Oh, circus people, . city governments and private collectors. 1 Of course, the circus people are the largest buyers. They uso up a great many animaK That is, their curiosi ties die faster than thay would if it were not for the constant travel. They arc cired for as well as possible, but of course the life is hard on tham. Then there arc public an I private zoological gardens which wo supply, and multi tudes of people buy all sorts of pets. H.to, for instance, isa pet that would be appreciated by a great many." And he reached down iato the barrel, the bottom of wliich was covered with young alligators, which were squirming and straddling around m two or three inches of dirty water. Picking one of these up by the head he held it in hii hand and poked it to show that it was soft, bing newly hatch d. Then he tried to sec if it would bita him, and finding it would not put it carefully back among its brethren. Willing to Sell. That is a dangerous lookiug dog you havo there, Deacon. Aren't you afraid he will injure somebody?' "Well, yc3," replied the deacon un easily. "I haven't much confidence in the animal. If you hear of anybody i who wants a good dog, let me know, and I'll sell him cheap." Life. : ' . Out of Practice. Woman (who has - given something to eat to a tramj): You have a very awkward way of eating, man. Yes, ma'am; I guess it's cause Tm out of practice. iLile NO. 41. An Old Trick Bcvired. 'The old trick of painting diamonds so as to make yellow stones resemble the most beautiful blue white is being ex tensively carried oa by a firm ia our town." savs a Kansas Citv iewcler. "The fraud is a clever one, and not only imposes on the inexpert, but is calcu lated to deceive even the connoisseur. "Tho trick is very simple. All that is needed is a yellow diamond the yel lower the better and a common indeli ble blue pencil. After wetting the dia mond, you pencil the stone all around its surface, upper and lower sides. Then rub the stone with a piece of cottoa or linen, in order to equalize the distribu tion of the color, and you will find the yellow stone transformed into one of a perfect bluish tint. "In this manner it is easy to make a 0 stone appear worth $200, as even a magnifying glass fails to show that the stone has been colored: although if washed ia alcohol, turpentine or ben zine it, of course, returns to its original yellow tint "This trick is being p'.ayed daily in Kansas City. The agents of the man who is thus transforming cheap stones to gems of apparently great worth are all around town, and some of them are even workinjr'neighboriag cities. "Poople who have recently bought diamonds at a bargain should plunge them into a benzine or alcohol bath and then rub them with a toothbrush. Their eyes may be opened to tha real value of their purchases. Jeweller's Weekly. A Wind Scourge. Tho mistral is the northwest wind which is the scourge of the South of France in Winter and Spring, The rcouataia rauges of the Cevenne3 be ing covered with snow and tho shores of the Mediterranean being many de grees warmer, the icy-cold air rolls down tha slopes of the mountains with terrific violence, and, invading Provence and Languedoc, destroys the vineyards, uproots trees, throws down buildings, and is so intensly dry that it withers every green thing. According to Stra bo the melamboreas precipitated men from their charriots and stripped them of their arms and vestments. Locally the saying is that the three plagues of the country arc the Parliament, the mistral, and the Durance. Like our own cast wind it does some good as well as a great deal of mischief, as it renders the air more salubrious by dis pelling the noxious vapor3 from stag nant waters and marshes. In ancient time 3 it was personified as the most dreaded of the gods of the district. Tha conditions of atmospheric pressure favoring the mistral are a high ba rometer over Europe and a low ba rometer over the Gulf of Lyons. The biscis a similar and excessively cold northerly wild in the Swiss and French Alp3. Longman's Magazine. The Favorite Color. It is a curious circumstance that red, the uu3cen color of so many, is tho favorite color, and may be called the king color, cf tha normal eye. It was especially so in ancient times. If we examine the Bible we shall find that the Hebrews scarcely ever use color as aa epithet, as we do when we say "the blue sky," "the purple hills." They say, iideed, "the R;d Sea;" but blue is scarcely mentioned as seea in nature, o: ly in the ""blua and purple and scar let" of tin tabernacle hangings, or tho high priest's robes, or tin pavement of the kiug's palace of "red aad blue and black and whi.e marble" in tha Book of Esther. Yellow, excepting as a sign of disease, is mentioned but once or twice: "her feathers lika yellow gold." But rod is largely spoken of as in later times, and perhaps as incorrectly, for we did not invent, we only inherit, the expres sion, "red goia,' Tea wine, one of these being merely orange, aad the other a ruddy purple. "Red hair" is a modern, or rather mcdiscvai inaccur acy; "red cow" we got from the ancients. These epithets all appear to show a certain fancy for calling thing3 red as the more kingly aad costly color. Good Words. A Remarkable Tree. A Nevada paper describes a romirk able kind of tree whih is sai 1 to grow in that part of the country, aad which certainly possesses qualities of great val ue according to the description. The trees do not grow large, a trea with a trunk about a foot in diameter being much above the average. When dry, the wood is about as hard as boxwood, and being of very fine grain, might, no doubt, be used for tho same purpose. It is of a rich red color and very heavy. When well seasoned it would ba a fiae material for the wood c irver. In the early days it was mel for making boxes for shafting, and in a few instances, for shoes and dies in quartz batteries. Used as a fuel it creates intense heat. It burns with a blaze as long as ordi nary wood would last, and then it is fou id alm t unchanged inform con verted into charcoal that lasts twice as long as ordinary wood. For fuel a cord of it brings about the same price asa ton of coal. Uafortuiately it burns out stoves faster than any kind of eo&L ADVERTISING One square, one insertion $1.00 One square, two insertions - - 1.50 One square, one month r 2.450 For larger advertisements liberal con tracts will -be made. .'osts who Only Bead and Listened. When evening's shadowy fingers fold The flowers of every hue, Borne shy, half-opened bud will hold Its drop of morning dew. Sweeter with every sunlit hour The trembling sphere has grown, Till at the fragrance of the flower Becomes at last its own. We that have sung perchance may find Our little meed of praise, And rou id our pallid temples bind The wreath of fading bays. Ah, poet, who has never spent Thy breath in idle strains, For thee tbe dewdrop morning lent Still in thy heart remains. Un wasted, in its perfumed cell ' It waits the evening gale: Then to the azure whence it fell Its lingering sweets exhale. Oliver Wendell Holmes. HUMOROUS. Bank examiners Burglars. Lightheaded The locomotive. A serious case A doctor without one. A sea captain is usually the mainstay of his family. A mule is not necessarily an artist because he can draw. All men are born free and equal, ac cording to law; but all of them do not stay that way. A wedding ceremony shouldn't pass off too smoothly. For instance, there should be a hitch of some kind. The midnight serenader's come His ballad wild to tame, And though old boots around him hum He'll guitar just the same. Old gentleman (to convict) "What is the most objectionable feature you find jn prison life, my dear friend?" Con vict "Wisitors. " "Papa, what is a bender?" "A bender, why, it's what men get oa sometimes." "Does it bend 'em when they get on it?" "Yes, it bends them, and if they stay on too long they will get all broke up." Stranger (to Indiana farmer) "It's a great pity that the crops ia this section have been so badly damaged by rain." Indiana farmer (taking a sun-bath) "Wall, ya'as, mister, but it saves a sight o' work harvestin'." "Dear me, ' said the little Boston boy, after intellectual suasion had failed, and they had spanked him for the first time; "if I had had tho slight est EU3picion that the resultant sensa tion was so poignant, I should nevar have invited the experiment." Wife (who has the foreign-language 'spasm") "John,do you know I'm get ting on splendidly with my French? I am really beginning to think in the language." Husband (interested in his paper) "Is that so? Let me hear you think a little while ia French." Skin-Grafting. Where the skin has been destroyed by burns or other injuries it may be re newed by transplanting small pieces of living skia from other parts or even from the lower animals. Dr. Redard of Paris has thu3 successfully treated a severe burn of the scalp in a child two years of age. The wound measured three inches by two aad a half, over which area the skin was entirely de stroyed. He first tried grafts of frog's skin, but as the3o proved repulsive to the patient he took the skia from be neath the wing of a chicken and in two months tha wound was completely skinned over. The doctor neglects to state whether any feathers- have yet sprouted on the child's head, but unless a natural law is suspended in this case, such is sure to be tho result. What a vista is here opened up! The woman of the future will discard bonnets, since a simple process of skin-grafting will crest her like a cockatoo or adorn her head with a natural growth of the most brilliant plumage of the tropica But how about her appearance when she is moulting? Chicago News. Knowing Turkeys. - Last summer Mrs. Jarnc3 McCennell, of Cadiz, O., had a brood of fine young turkeys caught in a hail-storm, by which several of th'.'m had each a leg broken. The grass being high near the house she could only fiad one of the uafortu nates, which she picked up carefully, and with spliatars placed on each sido of the fracture bound up the broken part. A day or two passed, and sho had forgotten tha incident, when what was her astonishment one afternoon to sec approaching her in the yard tho old turkey with her brood five with bro ken legs. These, under tha leadership of the one she had operated upon, camo chirping up to her and would not lcavo until she had bound each one's fractured leg. w Ear Trumpet for an Ox. A farmer near Chebanse, 111., having an ox that did not obey orders conclul cd that the animal was deaf and bought an ear trumpet, which worked with great success. The animal had lost its appetite, but with its return of hearing i te heartilv. The ear-trumpet is fas- tenedin place by wires around one of i th horns. Chicago Time mm 'rift.-' It?! ft: il'! WW- - Is. -L.it- 1 f-
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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June 14, 1888, edition 1
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