THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. 111. NO. 12
THE
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A copy of the first edition of the Eible
as translated by Miles Coverdalc (1035)
wa9 sold in London a few week* ago for
S6OO. At that it was a “grubby” copy,
and the map, title page and first few
leaves were in fac*simile. Perfect copic*
are unknown.
At Yalcartier,Canada, recently, a blaz
ing meteor, probably ten feet in circum
ference, descended from the sky. After
touching the earth it assumed a strange
appearance, creating terror to the mind
of the country pecple, many of them
conjuring up the worst fear* and look
ing forward to the speedy disolution of
the universe. Just previous to this oc
rurrence the sky lowered and the beasts
of the field sent up distressing cries,
bringing credulous persons readily to
their knees in a supplicating posture.
There are various methods of amu c
ment in different parts of the world
among different people. For instance,
one of the pastimes among the convicts
in the Georgia prison camps that affords
amusement to the “trustys” is for one of
them to take a three or four mile run
early in the morning to keep the blood
hounds in training. The trusty is al
ways perfectly willing to make the race
if paid for his trouble by the bosses. The
only danger connected with it, says the
Georgia paper from which the item is
taken, is lhat some thoughtless person
might take a shot at the running negro,
thinking that he was making his escape
from the camp.
A New York correspondent details in
terestingly an operation performed upon
one Jerry Larkin who had been the vic
tim of a gas explosion. His body was so
badly burned that his life was despaired
of, hut with infinite oarc every burn was
healed and a thin film of skin was in
duced to coat it, except the upper part
of the right arm, which was ulcerated.
All other treatment failing, the physi
cians resore 1 to the experiment of sup
plying the ilesh which had sloughed off
with flf»sh fro i» a Newfoundland dog.
The experiment has proved successful,
and the arm is gradually regaining the
strength which it seemed at one time
bad forever left it with the sloughing
away of the biceps muscles. Before th':
operation was performed Jerry could only
raise his hand to his face with the g;eat
est difficulty, but tan now raise weights
and continues to improve.
The question is: Is the cortical struct
ure of your bra’ll like a V or W? Accord
in" to the Hritim Medial Journal , M.
Duval (l.ircctcu of the Laboratory of
Anthropology; has leceutly given to the
rocie.#of Anthropology at Paris a de
tailed de cripti >n of the external config
uration of the brain of Gambetta. He
draws peci d attention to the fact that
the co tical structure in the neighbor
hood < f IToca’s (oavolution has become
markedly augmented. Usually this part
of the biain a-Mimes the form of an
M. the iwo vertical limbi or sulci inclos
ing u snialP valve like portion in ihe
shape of aV. in the brain of Gambetta,
however, us his been noted iu other cates
as well, this Y-shaped portion ha- doub
led on itself and assumed the form of a
W instead of aV. When we recall the
fart that Broca, in li.s memo n. Attrib
utes to thi* part of th-; cerebral cortex
Heft or right sided, according an the iu -
divid* a! is • right or left handed) the
function of Articulate language, tli?-un
usual development of this convolution in
Gambetta Mid • -flier.-, lonhms, to a «*er
tain extent, this opiaioi now generally
accepted.
CHARLOTTE, N. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1886.
HUMAN NATURE.
When one has growing crops or flowers
That need the rain,
He welcomes then refreshing showers
That comes amain.
Despite some other folk may sigh
To take a jaunt.
He then can air philosophy,
The others can't. •
But should it hap the rainy day
Is one he’s set
To take an outing, then he’ll say:
“Plague take the wet.”
—Drake's Magazine.
AMONG CANNIBALS.
“What do you suppose that little billet
of wood is a piece of?”
The question was put by an old sea
captain with whom I was voyaging
down the Atlantic coast a few months
since, and in whose good opinion I had,
by some lucky accident, made my way.
The piece of wood which he presented
for ray inspection was discolored and
: weathered, yet looked to be remarkably
■ fine grained. I took it in my hand, and
I then instinctively, after a moment or
• two, smelled of it There still pertained
! to it a faint fragrance.
i “Why, Captain, this is sandal-wood,”
I I said.
‘ ‘Right you are, my lad!” he exclaimed.
| “And I keen it because it is a piece of a
rib of the shallop in which ray old father,
who followed the seas before me, escaped
from the clutches of the man-eaters down
in the South Sea.”
I “How was that? ’
“Just three-quarters of a century ago
! the brig Hobart, Amos Meservc, Captain,
Cadwallader Jones, mate, Seth Putnam,
carpenter, and a crew of twenty-three
men all told, sailed from Massachusetts
Bay, with a cargo of hardware, dry
goods and other commodities, on a
trading voyage to the Indiau tribes of
Ihe northwest coast of America.
“The long voyage around Cape Horn
was accomplished with no more than the
ordinary hardships and dangers of the
passage in those early days, and by bar
ter with the Aitaz/.arts and other North
west tribes, a fairly valuable stock of
furs was obtained. These latter, how
ever, were, a few weeks later, sold out
right at one of the fur-trading posts,
near the mouth of the Columbia, and
thence the Hobart ‘ailed for the South
Sea to procure a cargo of sandal wood,
then a commercially valuable product of
this vast and little known quarter of the
globe.
“Weeks lengthened to months, and
found the Hobart still pursuing her long
voyage into the trackless Southern Pa
cific. A large group of islands, proba
bly the King-Mill, or Fiji, was v sited,
bat owing to the intractable and treach
erous character of the natives, only part
r>f the cargo of the precious wood could
be procured. After some weeks’ delay
and several skirmishes, the Hobart con
, iinued her southerly voyage.
“Scurvy, meantime, that dread foe of
ill the old navigators, had attacked the
crew: five men were lying helpless in
their bunks, and the teeth of two others
had fallen out.
j “A worse foe, too, than scurvy or
treacherous natives had attacked the ad
| venturous brig. Near the mouth of the
| Columhia the Hobart had run through
what old mariners termed a ‘worm-sea,’
% tract of the ocean infested by the
roredo, amarine borer-worm, which rap-
I idly perforates the sheathings and tim
bers of a passing vessel, and having once
effected a lodgment, continues its mis
chievous labors until the hull is honey
ombed, and sapped of strength to resist
the strain or stress of weather.
“Shortly after putting to sea the last
time, the brig was found to be leaking
. dightly, and a close examination proved
what several of the old sailors had repeat
edly maintained for a number of weeks,
that (lie worms had eaten out her tim
bers to mere shells. The leak down in
the hold, under the tiers of sandal wood,
increased day by day, till at length a
panic fell on the crew ; and from hoping
at first to be able to make their way to
Australia in her, the distressed mariners
now thought only of getting t » land,and
beaching ihe brig before she should sud
denly go down beneath their feet. Par
ticularly were they alarmed lest heavy
weather should set in. For two days
land had occasionally been in sight, low
lying on the western board The course
of the now water-logged brig was
changed in that direction, and during
the night they slowly drew in toward a
long, mountainous coast.
“The description corresponds to the
fsland of New t aledonia, which, as most
reader- know, lies in the southwestern
part of the Pacific, six hundred miles
sast of Australia, and nearly seven hun
dred miles north of New Zealand. Iu
lorm the island is long and narrow, its
length being two hundred and twenty,
and its average width forty miles. At
this time the inhabitants, several negroid
j tribes, were cannibals and savages of the
most intractable character. But of this
fa't the crew of the Hobart had no
knowledge, and were at first of the
; opinion that the country was uninhab
ited. for they saw no signs of humau bc-
I
“Like most islands of the South Pa
cific, New Caledonia is encircled by a
barrier reef, a little off shore, on which
the o can surges beat continuously. But
an opening was discovered in it, through
■ which the Hobart was taken, and in the
lagoon of smooth, shallow water inside
the coral wall, the distressed brig, after
her thousands of miles of ocean pilgrim
age, let go her anchor. The sick and
weary sailors abandoned the pumps, as
ter a week of ceaseless struggle, and
slowly the vessel settled, till ner keel
rested on the coral ledges At tide the
water was within a foot of her deck ; at
ebb the sailors could descend between
, decks.
Bo smooth was the lagoon that there
was little fear of the vessel breaking up
at once, and tho attention of the crew
was first turned to o’>ta : ning a supply of
fresh food from tho shore. \he hulk lay
at a distance of three or four cable’s
length from the beach. A range of green
hills rose to a height of a thousand feet
or more not far inland, and the sailors
felt sure that they could distinguish
breadfruit and cocoanut trees.
-i.t their earnest entreaties, Captain
Meservc allowed a boat’s crew to go on
shore during the afternoon, taking sacks
and axes for collecting cocoanuts, bread
fruit, and cabbagc-hcad palm buds, these
latter particularly for the men sick with
scurvy. The boat party consisted of tho
mate, Cadwallader Jones, the carpenter.
Seth Putnam, and Charles Frost. Job
Freeman. Solomon Swift, and five others,
ten in all.
“They pulled ashore, beached the boat,
and soon disappeared from sight iu the
forest, and they had been absent an hour
perhaps, w hen Captain Meservc, who felt
a certain degree of uneasiness, saw a
smoke rising from the top of one of the
hl*ls two or three miles back from the
\va r er. But whether it had been raised
by. natives, or by the men themselves, ho
f*»t by no means certain. It added to
hi* aeeasiness, however, and a close
watch wai kept, yet nothing further was
seen t*«l near sundown, when loud shouts
and yells were suddenly heard not far
inland.
“A few moments later, three of the
sailors were seen to (merge from the for
est, running for their lives, closely pur
sued by a crowd of wild-looking black
natives. The sailors,as they ran,shouted
for help, and made frantic gestures to
their mates on the brig; then coming
where their boat had been left, they en
deavored to launch it and push off, but
were immediately struck down by volleys
of stones and • pears, and murdered there
under the very eyes of their shipmates,
who were powerless to render them he
slightest aid, for there was no time tc
launch a boat, even had the brig's other
boat been in a serviceable condition.
“The Captain at once got out all the
spare cordage, however, and set to work
to raise a protective netting of it all about
the bulwarks to the height of six or eight
feet,and all the ship’s cutlasses and mus
kets were got ready for as good a defence
as possible.
“But the natives appeared to have no
canoes prepared, and after dancing and
shouting for a time, went away, carrying
off the bodies of their victims.
A night of gloom and most dismal
forebodings for the future settled over
the stranded vessel. Fearing a surprise,
a watch of three sailors was set. The
hours of darkness wore on till past mid
night, when a splashing of the water
close alongside so alarmed one of the sen
tinels that he fired his piece, but imme
diately heard a voice saying:
* “Don’t shoot us. Throw us a line.’
“It was the voice of Wal Jones, the
mate; the sailor Swift, was with him,
and on being helped on board, they gave
the following account of the fate of their
companions:
“Disappointed in finding palm-nuts or
fruit, they had gone inland for a distance
of several miles. Finally, they found a
group of cocoanut trees, and set to work
felling them. Several had been cut
down, when suddenly a lar"c party of
blacks came upon them, and without a
moment's warning, rushed forward to at
tack them, uttering the most frightful
cries. The mate, who was not wanting
in courage, called out to the sailors to
stand fast and defend themselves with
their muskets and axes; but frightened
by the suddenness of the onslaught, six
or seven of the men ran away.
“A part of the natives gave chase, and
.seeing the futility of making anything
like a successful tight, Jones, Swift and
the carpenter, Putnam, in turn took to
their heels in a different direction. They
ran for some distance through the forest,
and came presently into an open tract
in which werea number of grass huts and
several women and children.
“Putnam here tacked in another di
rection, and became separated from his
comrades, who ran straight on, past the
huts, into the forest beyond them. But
here in the edge of the forest, amongst
underbrush, they espied an old hut, the
thatched roof of which had fallen in;
and hearing at the si\me instance the
shouts of their pursuers, who were out
stripping thorn on either hand,arid being
much out of breath, they crept under the
fallen mass of thatch,and lav still.
“The ground being dry their feet had
left no tracks ; and the natives in pursuit
probably made sure that they had fled to
a great distance. Several times they
heard savages run past the hut, but no
one chanced to examine the old thatch
heap.
“They lay ttcre till night fall. Mean
time from the shouting, cries and songs
which came to their ears from tho direc
tion of the group of grass huts which
they had passed, it became evident to
them that some kind of orgy was in
progress. At length, night having
fallen, the mate ventured to look out
from under the dry grass, and saw that
large fires were burning in the open
space, around which the natives, to the
number of a hundred or two, were
dancing and shouting.
“Probably no description, however
graphic, could convey to the inind of the
reader even a faint conception of the
horrible impression made on those two
poor fellows by the rcene which they be
held. On large stones,upon which were
spread broad banana-leaves, lay heaps of
smoking humau flesh. With strange,
wild gestures the blacks, rushing for
ward , seized the flesh with both hands,
and devoured it with horrible gusto.
“But, a* can easily be surmised, tho
two hDrrified spectators did not long
wait to see tnis revolting banquet.
Creeping nohelesssly away through the
forest they made a wide and silent de
tour around the huts, snd at length
retching the beach (and being unable to
find anything of the boat), swam off as
related above.
“Captain Meserve and the mate, who |
had thus fortuitously escaped, now took (
counsel as to the best course to pursue, j
One of the sick men had died fluring the ;
night, and three others lay ill. This, I
with the eight lost on shore and the j
previous loss of a man. reduced the ac- j
tual force of the crew to eleven. The j
only avenue of escape open to them lay j
in constructing a light craft out of the
upper works of the brig, and thus reach (
ing the settlements of Europeans on the j
Australian coast. The loss of the car
penter rendered such a task doubly dif
ficult.
“Parties of blacks appeared on shore j
several times during the day, shouting, |
gesticulating, and holding up fresh j
skulls. They appeared, however, to .
have no means of putting off from shore, j
a fact which the distressed crew of the |
Hobart observed with a renewed sense J
of safety. A most vigilant watch was ]
kept, however, both by nichfc and day.
“Meantime the keel for a shallop
twenty-eight feet in length by eight feet
breadth of beam was laid, and the task
of building this miniature ve-sel began
in earnest. Sandal-wood was used largely
for the ribs, being a kind of timber
| which the dreaded teredo had seemed to
! avoid. For sheathings they ripped up
I the deck*. Fortunately they had plenty
! of stores and of water on board, the bulk
of which, by the captaiu's order, had
been got on deck befo. e the hold filled.
“For three days they wrought on un
molested, though the savage?, like packs
of wolve?, often saluted them with wild
cries from the shore. They were not
to be allowed to thus quietly pursue their
labor long, however, for while hard at
work on the afternoon of the fourth day,
an unusually prolonged shouting on
shore attracted their attention. Fifty or
sixty natives were running along the 1
beach making a tremendous uproar, i
Suddenly one of the sailors shouted:
“ ‘Cap’u, we’re took. Look to sea.’
“Out near the entrance into the little
bay, were five immensely large canoes
coming in, full of natives, and paddled
at speed. Each canoe contained from
twenty to thirty warriors. They had ap
proached within a mile of the brig, and
already a hideous fanfaronade of conch
shells, drums and outcries was audible.
“Is it any wonder if, for a moment,
; the hearts of the castaways failed them,
| and that they believed that their last
| hour had come? But ’twas only for a
i moment. The true New England cour-
I age revived in them; and very quickly,
but with a grim determination, they
I looked to their weapons, and piepared a
j sell their lives at a dear price.
1 “Captain Meservc showed himself a
, good leader. He first stationed his little
i party in two3 around the deck. There
I were three loaded muskets for each man,
also a cutlass and a long boarding pike.
“ ‘Stand well back from the netting,
j my men,’ the Captain commanded.
J ‘These fellows have no cutting weapons,
but only spears and clubs. Stand well
hack. Use your muskets first, then your
pikes when they try to climb over. Don't
mind their noise.’
j “Such was the speed of the cances
that these simple preparations were no
more than completed, w hen the savages
were close aboard. The canoes were
each from forty to fifty feet in length,
and had both the stem and stern curling
upward to a height of ten or twelve feet,
surmounted by a hideously carved effigy
of some idol or hero.
“As they closed in, the yells both
from the crowd on shore and the canoes
rose to an almost deafening pitch; and a
shower of stones was hurled over the
netting.
“But not till the canoes came so neat
as to almost touch the side of the hulk
did Captain Meserve give the word tc
fire. Thirty-three heavily loaded musk
ets were then discharged, with terrible
effect. Yet for some minutes the conflict
raged fiercely, the blacks trying first tc
pull aside the netting, and then, failing
in that, 10 clamber over or break the
ropes. Some were even seen chewing at
the tough hemp lines with their white
teeth. All these naked fellows offered
fair targets for the sharp pikes; and the
•cold steel’ was put to them without
mercy.
“In fact, the savages elated by their
easy victory over the sailors on shore,
had counted quite without a knowledge
of the resources of the whites. Their
first rush was tremendous; but suddenly
finding that they could not pull aside the
netting, and panic stricken at the havoc
the bullets aud pikes were making, such
of them as were not shot or thrust
through, leaped back into their canoes,
and giving vent to wild yells of fear and
astonishment, paddled away as fast as
they could
“From forty to fifty, Captain Meserve
estimated, of the attacking party, were
either shot or transfixed by the pikes.
A sudden silence fell upon the yelling
crowd on shore. The canoes made off,
aud showed no disposition to renew the
attack. They bon* away a part of their
killed and wounded; yet numbers of
black fellows were tumbling about in the
water alongside; and several day? after
watd their bodies rose to the sun ace and
floated about the bay.
“No further attack was attempted;
although three of the sick men died of
tlie scurvy, from their inability to pro
cure fresh food from the land. Twenty
eight days were occupied in building
the shallop. At length it was launched,
rigged and provisioned. The money and
other valuables from the Hobart were
transferred to her; andjustat daybreak
one morning the cmdaways set sail, and
after a tedious but otherwise uneventful
voyage of twelve hundred miles, made
Sidney harbor, on the Australian coast,
and landed at this then recently settled
colony.”
Chinch spires and school-houses nwe
arisen where these sailors were hunted
like beasts, that their flesh might be
eaten, and civilization lias clothed these
savages like men. The old habits of 1
these islanders will one day seem myths
to the passengers of the swift ocean
steamer#;— Youth** Companion.
A Night Among Lions.
Dark as the night was, all were busy
around the little encampment, if 1 ex
cept the dogs, who seemed to be pos- j
sessed of such timidity that neither words
nor blows could drive them out from
the shelter they had taken between the
wheels. For some minutes all had be
come quiet, and I commenced to hope
that it had been a false alarm, w hen a roar
so loud and close as to awake the echoes 1
of the surrounding koppies broke the
monotonous stillness of the night, Such
a roar I have never heard previously or
since; let him that likes say "hat he
may, it made the earth tremble. To the
reader it may appear impossible that any
animal can produce a volume of sound
that almost rivals the thunder in its
density; but let me assure him, if he has
heard & mature male lion, in the full
vigor of his life, give utterance to his
wrath, he will agree with me that there
are sublimity and grandeur in the j
voice, which, if they do not equal the
depth and power of thunder, very nearly
approaches to it.
If quiet had comparatively reigned be
fore, now all was excitement. To and
fro the bullocks rushed, trying to break
their rheims, the horses reared and
pulled upon their halters as if determined
to strangle themselves, or upset the
wagon, while every native who was not
armed seized a fire-brand and shouted
and called to my animals to endeavor
to still their fears. So intense
was the darkness that nothing could
been seen, yet William fired a couple of
shots in the direction from which he im
agined the sound proceeded. The blaze
and report of his heavy elephant gun,
one would imagine, would have driven
off anything in the form of a quad uptd;
but not so—the lion roared again at even
shorter distance Jhan at first, causing the
bullocks to become frantic with fear,and
therefore to use their utmost power and
strength to break loo?e.
I thought I could trust my rheims, but
alas! I was in error, for one more vio
lent struggle than had previously be n
made took place, and they gave way,and
the who’e team went down to leeward a
if they were stampeding before a forest
fire. As the method (for it certainly is a
preconcerted and arranged plan»adopted
by lions when about to attack a span of
cattle may not be known generally. I will
briefly attempt to describe it. Lions, as
a rule, hunt in family parties. A very
old male, not unfrequently incapacitated
from taking an active part in pursuing
game, is generally to be found at the
head of this coterie, and on him devolves
no unimportant part of the programme
adopted by them when a trader’s or
traveler’s cattle are resolved upon as the
victims of their ferocity and power.—
Popular Science Monthly.
Koumiss.
“Koumiss is fast, becoming the popu
lar drink with Brooklynites who have
large families of children.” said a local
druggist recently to an Eagle reporter,
“Koumiss is made of cow s milk with
the addition of a little sugar. It :s
essential that the milk should be fresh
and pure. It is said that koumiss is a
great cure for dyspeysia. Certainly it
gives relief in that most painful di-ease.
Within a year a number of companies
been* formed in Brooklyn for the
sale of the beverage. An excellent
formula for the preparation of koumiss
was furnished by Dr. John G. Johnson,
of Joralemon street, some years ago.
Here it is:
“ ‘Fill a quart champagne bottle up to
the neck with pure milk : add tw o table
spoons of white sugar after dissolving
tn«; same in a little water over a h )t fire;
; add also a quarter of a two cent cake of
! compressed yeast. Then tie the cork on
the bottle securely and shake the mixture
well; place in a room of the temperature
of fifty to ninety five degrees Fahrenheit
for six hours and finally in the
ice-box over night. Drink in
1 such quantities as the stomach
will require. It may be well to observe
several important injunctions in prepar
ing koumiss and they are: First, to be
sure that the milk is pure; second, that
the bottle is sound; third> that the yeast
is fresh; fourth, to open the mixture in
the morning with great care on account of
its effervescent properties; fifth, not to
drink it at all if there is any curdle or
thickened part resembling cheese, as this
indicates that the fermentation has been
prolonged beyond the proper ti ne.
! “The above formula, I think, is the
best for preparing koumiss. Dyspeptics
find much rebel iu its u*e. I sell al
most as much on draft as soda water. If
piepared in a certain way koum>s will
keep lor a long time. It ha* a delicious
ta te, and is, 1 th nk, the best of all tfie
summer beverages.”
“i-rom what is the word koumiss de
rived ? *
“The word and the drink originated
in Asia, and is largely in use by the
tribes of that country. The Tarta s
raak? it of mares’ milk, which ferments
into a liquor which is very palatab c.
Koumiss, as made in this country, cer
tainly gives great relief in nil stomach
trouble;*, as it is so easily assimilated.”—
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Frofeialoas.
The number of men in the three pro
fessions—divinity, law and medicine—
was in
were ministers, 04.137 lawyers and Bs.-
071 physicians and surgeon*. 12,314 den
tists and 27.700 pharmacists. Hence,
the proportion in the learned professions
»so called) is about one to two hundred
of the population. The proportion of
ministers aud lawyers is very nearly
equal, and is cne to 792 of the popula
tion. The proportion of phvricians and
surgeons is one to 584 and of dentiats
one to 4,000. — Journal qf Education.
Terms. $1.50 per Annm We Copy 5 cenfc
vegetable romance.
A potato went out on a smash
And sought an onion bed;
‘-That's pie for me!” observed th» squash.
And ail the beet- turned red;
“Go way!” the onion weeping cried.
“Your love I cannot be.
The pumpkin he your lawful bnde.
You cartelope with tn*.”
But onward still the tuber came
And lay down at her feet.
You cauliflower by any name
And it will smell as wheat:
And I, too, am an early roee.
And you I've come to see.
So don't turnip your lovely nos?.
But Spinach at with me.
I do not cars at all to
So go. sir, if you plea e*
The modest onion meekly said.
And lettuce pray have pea? .
So think that you have never seen
Myself or smelled my sigh:
Too long a maiden I have b:en
Fcr favors in your rye.
Ah! spare acres*, the tuber prayed;
My cherTT-sbei bride you'll b?.
You are the only weeping mai 1
That's currant now wi.h
And as the wiiy tuber spohe,
Ea caught her bt surprise,
And, giving her sn art: hoke.
Devoured her with his eye*.
—Nancy Nelson Fendte.on.
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HI MOB OF THE DAT.
A big tra le—Swapping elephants—
Si/tiny.
Circus tumblers are afilctei with a
vaulting ambition.— LotreUCitizen.
The man who minds his own business
as he ought to is seldom idle.— Call.
If a watch company should get into
j finan* id difficulties could it do business
I on tick?
A hen io the garden of a woman has
a “shoo” her enough chance of being run
; out. — Picayune.
“Where :;rc the Brill h Isles located.
I John?” John—•• The British aisles are
located in the British churches, of
course.’’ — Si ft if g*.
There are few more pleasant sounds
than the riuging blows of awo Oman's
ax when some one else is wielding the
ax.— Somerville Journal.
Policemen are very impartial
When arrests they are n aking.
They ;.ut men in jail tor sate keepiag.
Ana some for :aie-breaking.
—2 l d-Bits.
‘im looking for employment.” said a
| young man entering a merchant's omce.
“You are, hey? Well, you'll find it in
j the dictionary over there—er - among the
j L's.”— Tid-Bit*.
A defaulting cashier endeavored to ex
| case his financial dereliction on the plea
| that he was only following out the scrip
! fural injunction to ‘'Hold last that which
is good.” —Boston ‘
Her eyes were bright.
Her tace was fair.
Her teeth gleamed out like pear!?;
Her neck was white.
Her wavy hair
Hun£ down in sunny curls—
By why attempt to teil o; all
The charms cf baby'.- big wax doll*
, .l lf whan* Trfnrrlr.r.
The Russians are taking the lead _in
I fiction. It is no trouble for a Russian
novelist to fill a book. When he writes
i the names of five or six of his thane
j ters one volume is completed.— Ark**'**
Traveler.
Nine one-legged men played a game
I of baseball against nine one-armed men
in Southern lilinoi- the other ciay. Ih *
| one-armed m< n had the advantage of be
| ing able to kick against the umpire's de
j cisterns- —Chicago Mete*.
She went adown the garden walk.
Hi* arm was rotim her waist:
“Now don't do that, she bluntly said.
“You know it's m bad ta=te. ’
“I'm sure 1 cannot S3® it
Ho said with some prinaow,
“My band Pm eery trying now.
At making glad wail paces. ’ _
War-hington aud th~ S, % nlnlor?.
Washington, say» Horace L'. ?cudder
in S'. NicAJ"*, had constant applica
tions from person* who wished to wr:te
his life or (mint his portrait. There wit
I a sculptor, named tVngh\ who under
took to get a model of Washington's
face. “Wright came to Mount Vernon.**
-o Washington tells the story, “with the
singular request that I should permit
him to take a mod ! of my face, in pls«
ter of Paris, to which I v nseated w.th
some reluctance. lie oi'ed ray feature-,
aud placing me fiat • n iny back, upon s
c ot, proceed d to daub my face with the
planter. Whilst I was in this led crons
attitude. Mr. Washington tnteredtke
i room, and seeing r y face thus over
spread with the planter, lavoiuntar iy
exclaimed. Her cry excite linme a dis
position to snib, whi.h gvre my meu h
a slight twbt, or cempn sssoa of the lips,
that is now observao.e in the bust which
Wright afte. wa*d made.'* A more suc
cessful sculptor was floudoe, who wa*
commis-ione i by Virgin a to make a
statue of Washington. He also took %
plaster mod A, and the fine statue which
he made stand* in bichmond. A jnr
trait painter, ramed Pine aso paid a
visit to Mount Vernon about this timer
with a letter from one of Washington's
friends to whom Washington wrote dur
ing Pine's visit:
“ ‘ln for a penny, in for a pen ad * w an eld
ftdage. lam so keca.neyed to the ivicbn cf
the painters pencr. that 1 am now altogether
at ll*ir beck, aid s*t. like *: a:-en e on a
monument.' whilst they ar* df. neat ng tbo
lines of my sac? It W a xsrooi aacowg »«*»y
others r.f what haht ard cbtooi can efface
At first I wa* as impatient at the
and a* restive under the operation as a tec*,
uof the saddle. The next tune I vMMM
very relti* tantly. but with lew ikwenrf.
Now no drnv nwm more readily to tba thill
than 1 do to the painter's cfcatr. It am *
ran It to conceived, therefore, that I y«eldrd
a ready obedient to your reqaeet, and to
the views of Mr. Pisa