THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER
VOL. 111. NO. 21
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Church-goers in many Maine towns
ifty years or more ago, both male and
©male, used to walk barefoot to church,
an y ing with them their shoes and stock
ugs which they would put on before
?oing into church. The Lewiston (Me.)
Journal remarks: “A stern economy
was observed by the men and women who
aid the foundation of Maine's prosper
tv That i* why wc are not obliged to
zo barefoot now.”
A calf was killed and the hide taken
Mr in /ionsville, Penn., in the morning.
Hie skin was taken to Charles Burkhal
:ers's tan: cry at noon. By evening of
ihc same day Mr. Burkhalter had it all
a-.ned and promptly handed to a shoe
maker. By next morning a pair of boots
was completed and put on by the owner,
•o that what was on living flesh of a calf
me day was a pair of boots the next. It
was, without doubt the quickest tanning
)n record. Mr. B. is able to tan any
sheep skin in fifteen minutes, leaving the
wool all on This is his own invention,
ind he says there is no other man living
hat knows how to do it.
The census of 1880 made it out that
50,155,783 persons inhabited the United
States. The increase of population for
the ten years previous to the taking of
the census had been about three per c.nt.
The increase for the ten ycirs previous
to 1870 was a good deal less, the Civil
War having so prostrated the country as
to make it much less inviting to the im
migrant. The Treasury Department's
recent statement showing that the in
crease since IStO has been 8,200,000 peo
ple proves that the tide of incoming res
idents is as great in proportion as it eve:
was, and in actual numbers lar greater.
Business in New York's great financial
center, Wall street, would be paralyzes!
but for the loaning system in vogue
there. Comparatively small brokerage
concerns re juire as much as $1,000,000
at a time to do their business. They put
up stocks and bonds as collateral. The
rule is to advance money to the extent of
about three-quarters the market value of
the securities pledged. If the prices of
securities decline, the banks cither re
duce the loans or require an increase in
the collaterals. The system of certifica
tion makes it impossible to work off n
bogus che"k. Loose money is never used
in a transaction Everything is “done
on paper. 1 * The banks adjust the balances
of the brokers and their own balances
are in turn ad justed through the medium
bf the clearing house. It is really sur
Arising how little actual money is used
in the street. About all the money that
is seen in the office* is to pay clerks and
for the personal use of members of the
houses. Messenger boys and office boys
run around nil day with checks for hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in theii
hands. Thieves do not snatch them, foi
they would be of no moro use than sc
Vouch blank paj»er. Not a dollar could
be secured on them. Such a thing as s
Jobbery is never heard of in Wall street
nowadays That, if any place, ought to
be a thieves' paradise, but I do not know
a place where gentlemen who help them
selves to other people's property will And
poorer picking.
THANKSGIVINO,
’ On the old hearths to-day the old fires burn,
And Love shines warm within the dear old
eyes,
And cries a little as they all return—
The boys and girls to get their pumpkin
pies.
Old chaps mayhap the boys are; and the
„ girls--
If they were younger, say <it ’neath the
rose.
Fierce, fierce Time’s blinding tempest beats
and whirls.
Swift, swift pile up the dreary winter
snows,
: But on the old hearthstone love undarkened
glows.
f At the old table set in the same old place,
Sit down and make a feast of noble cheer,
5 Your heart repeating some old boyish grace,
Your lips had all forgot this many a year.
’ sgme simple verse perhaps your mother
taught
I Iu the sweet twilight of those vanished
days
, When earth was wholly heaven to your
thought,
Which danced and dreamed along the flow
er-soft ways.
And like a bird’s song all*your heart was
praise.
j Still with praise for all life’s gifts
I Unto the Giver give thanks to-day;
Still life is good; still in lone winter drifts
Lies hid the promise of the May.
Still day brings work and night brings rest,
I Still Earth stints not of her store,
Still honest hearts are happiest,
And Love is still Heaven’s open door.
For the babe new born, for the bride new
wed.
For wisdom and length of days,
For the love of the living, the peace of the
dead,
To-day give thanks and praise.
For all things thanks; all God’s great hand
bestows,
j The wreath of cypress and the wreath of
rose,
But most for love that aye undarkened
glows!
—New York Sun.
A FAMILY FEUD.
A THANKSGIVING DAY STORY.
The houses were just alike; green
shuttered and white; only one story
high, but occupying much space on the
ground. “I’ve no eye for these city
buildings,” remarked Mr. Browne, one
of the owners, when the plans were be
ing made out. “Poor looking, built
high up in the air for want of ground to
build them out broad. Air is cheap,
and land is sometimes very dear, so they
, run them up as far as they will stay with
out tumbling. Our 3 shall be on the solid
gronnd, then the first gust of wind will
not pick it up and carry it otf.”
i What Mr. Browne said Mr. Snow
agreed with always, so nil the living
rooms were on the ground floor, and all
the chambers in the wings that were
; built out on each side. Motherly look
■ ing houses that could hide a score of
children under their great wings, and
yet there was only one child belonging
1 to each—a boy in the Browne house and
a girl in the Suow house.
But a cloud no bigger than a man'*
baud was gathering over the two house
holds! It began about a remark that
j Mrs. Browne heard that Mrs. Snow made
about the ‘ ‘e” at the end of her name—a
remark that threw some doubt on Mrs.
I Browne’s ancestry; and it grew and was
added thereto by rumors of what .Mrs.
j Browne had said about Mrs. Snow's
1 family. Mrs. Snow declared she would
; have no insinuations about her ancestors,
I i and then Mrs. Browne retorted that there
; was nothing in a name, any way. After
i that all speech ceased between them.
The high fence that had been put up
; j between the two back gardens by Mr.
■ ; Browne to train his currant bushes
against, was added to by Mr. Snow and
extended between the lawns now to pre
j vent Mis. Browne from pecpiDginto Mrs.
i Sdow’s kitchen.
The wicket that had been made in the
garden fence to enable the two house
holds to run across lots, was closed up,
and a black currant bush nailed against
it. Thus all communications between
the two houses was stopped, for the
f houses were so low and the fence so high
| that one could not see into the other’s
i yards.
The children went to the samo school
for a time, but when one day Janie Snow
was compelled to stand beside Raymond
Browne and hold the book with him, that
was more than the wratby mothers could
stand, and so each child was sent to a
! private school, and thus even the chil-
I dren were prevented from any inter
! course.
Seven—eight years—and the breach
I grew wider between them. Janie went
! to a boarding-school in a distant town,
i while Raymond went to an academy. In
| the vacations each came home, but they
, never met, oveept at an occasional picnic
lor part ,'. The houses had been newly
I painted twice in the years; the wicket
1 was all grown over with currant bushes,
and the foncc itself was adorned with a
. barbed w ire on t|ie top.
Raymond entered a business lollcge
I the second year of his absence from home,
1 and in the spr ng be obtained a situation
as book-keeper in a wholesale house.
When he came home for his vaention ir
: the autumn Janie Snow was home too,
and they met. It was awkward, “ex
; cessively so," Janie remarked after
| ward.
He had been home only a day when she
! discovered, and made up her mine that
1 she could show him a maiden out of New
i York who could dress stylishly even if
| she was out of the world.
Meantime, the youth, feeling an ardent
' desire to impress his fair enemy, decided
| to walk past her house once or twice and
| let h< r know what it was to see a young
man from the world. He arrayed him
■elf in hi* s.iefest coat, selected the
CHARLOTTE, N. C. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1880.
seventh of the nine hats ,
which was as broad in the crown as my I
maiden's was point'd, and grasping a
cirgarette as fondly bitween his teeth as
she held her sunshade, sullied out of the
side door. It was awfully warm, and he
was taking n deal of trouble for nothing,
perhaps. If lie only could discover if
she was in her hammock, as usual. Mis
erable old houses, so low; beastly fence
so high! Yet stay, there is a single hole
in one end 01 the feuc •, and he can peep
through that; so, jumping up on a box
he cautiously reached his optics up to
the aperture and saw—what? Ilad a bit
of the celestial sky suddenly been nailed
| to the other side, or what did it all )
j inean? It was easily explained. The
i two people had each looked through the j
| knot hole together, and the brown eyes
; had gazed into the depths of the blue j
I ones. .-a I
j. The blue eyes, with a woman’s quick
j perception, instantly divinca the situa
! tion and fled, while the brown ones, with
duller comprehension, remained station
ary ♦ill thev took in what it all meant.
Somehow Mrs. Bnowand Mrs. Frowne
did not hear of this meeting. It would
have been rather a delicate matter to ex
plain the reason they had in spying, so
nothing was said.
Several days passed and no other en
counter 01 sign* ui t-uc enemy, so .»anie J
ventured out one day to the office. As
she came back and into her own gate, j
what should she see on the front veranda 1
but a large turkey oiling its feathers and :
seemingly quit-* at home. It belonged I
! to the Brownes, Janie knew, for she had j
often heard its rattling call during the I
summer, and once or twice had seen it j
eating from Mrs. Browne’s hand. But j
the idea of its venturing here was too
much, and with a vigorous flapping of
, her skirts she hustled it off the steps and
1 out of the gate.
The turkey would not stay at home, j
When Janie went into the house, back it
came and cnsconed itself on the frame
work of the hammock and greeted her
with a subdued rattle when she came out
for her usual swing after tea. Again she
; put it out, and yet when morning came,
1 there it was in the same place, placidly
oiling its feathers as before. What was
waree, Janie's pet kitten was missing,
and the small help insisted that she saw
it on the steps of the Browne residence.
All day she waited its appearance, but
when night came it was stiil missing.
In the Browne house came a strange kit
ten, but not so strange that Mrs. Browne
did not know that it belonged to Janie
Snow; and from the Browne house the
pet turkey had disappeared; Mrs.
Browne's help suggested that the Snowa j
\ had killed and eaten it.
Another night and day, and the turkey
stayed on. At sunset Janie found it re
posing calmly in a hollow it had made n
her scarlet geranium bed. .and her wrath
was aroused. Something she would do!
She would climb up by dint of the posts
and throw the beastly thing right over
the fence. If it caught on the cruel wire
so much the better ; so, seizing the tame
bird under one arm, she started for the
fence, climbed up the posts, and holding
the turkey high above her head, pushed
it over with a vigorous “There now,”
when right over her shoulder descended
a white kitten from the Browne yard.
A few minutes before it had been dh
covered sleeping on the top of Raymond’s
best light hat; and obeyiug the iupulse
o! the moment he had seized the inno
cent creature, climbed up the fence and
thrown it over. It was wrathful in each,
but considering how they had been bred
' —with a hatred of all that the other
owned instilled into them from their
youth up—it was scarcely to be wondered
at; hut it was funny, to:*, and they both
laughed heartily each side of the fence,
as the kitten lighted with a mew and the
turkey with an ominous gobble. “It is
so absurd,” Janie thought, “for us to
be enemies when we are so near to each
other ; and such grand times as wc might
have! **
The next day was set apart for the
gathering of the currants, but Mr. and
Mrs. Suow were suddenly called away.
The currants must be picked, so Janie
volunteered, and carrying a large tin pail
started out. It was slow work. The
bushes w'erc so prickly and the currants
thumped down one at a time in the pail,
S and to Janie it seemed a hopeless task to
think of covering the bottom even.
“It’s awfully silly for us to be mad,”
said a voice from the top of the fence;
“and I coull help you with those cur
rants if wc weren’t” it added, as Janis
glanced suddenly up.
“So you could,” she said demurely,
entering into the spirit of the fun, and
deciding it was awfully silly. “Let’s
play wc are friends. But how can you
get over?”
“I can't, ” replied the youth, “but I
can come through. I have my little
hatchet here, and that wicket is only
nailed up slightly; I'll pull the nails out
if you say so.”
The maiden consenting, there were
presently f ur hands pic king instead of
two, and it was wonderful how quickly
the pail tilled.
They talked it a!l over and concluded
it had assuredly been absurd and wrong
for both houses to he thus at arms for so
many years and both agreed that it
was much better to drop the final “e’ than
have disputes and hard feelings over it <
The wick t opened to let the youth j
through again iut» his own garden, and j
Janie went to the house in tone to
her parents, who praised her diligence. I
but asked no questions as to whether any I
one had helped her. “If tin y ask i!
shall tell them . I shall not volunteer the j
truth, though,” she said to herself.
It wa« marvellous how often the two
met after that, and with no planning
father. And how sensibly they talked;
tot despite Raymond's brief and stvli-h
dress there was sound sense under it all,
and it would get the upper hand in the
end. And the days grew to weeks, and
the knot hole in the fence grew very
large under the frequent u-c of a jack
knife; and the leaves fell off the currant
i bushes and left the wicket exposed to
view, it Mr. Bnow or Mr. Browne had
chanced to pass that way. »
And Thanksgiving was only one week j
off; too near, decidedly, lor the youth
and maiden had determined to bring the ,
family leud to an end on that day, and j t
as yet could devise no method. 1
“That turkey helped make us ae- 1 1
quainted; it certainly ought to have a , 1
hand in this some way,” said Janie.
“Cook and eat it all round,” suggested
the young man. % , c
“But they wouldn’t come,” said Janie, i
“I have it, though, if we only can make t
it work,” and forthwith she proceeded to t
explain. $
It was a perilous plan, and would
j never have succeeded or met with the f
least approval from the heads of the t
j families, only that each was so fond of j
| their one child that they would do any- t
j thing to please them.
So Mr. and Mrs. Snow consented to j
be invited to a Thanksgiving dinner
without knowing who invited or where
they were going; and Mr. and Mrs. J
Browne consented to asking company 1
and preparing dinner with no knowledge f
aa to whom they were inviting, Janie 1
and Raymond arranging it all, and as- J
luring their respective parents that the
guests and hosts would be equally de- .
j lighted to meet. As I said be ore. it
could never have been arranged, had
; not the parents had such loving trust in
i their children. {
1 Thanksgiving dawned fine and clear,
1 and iu the Browne house preparations 1
i were being made for a sumptuous dinner,
i the turkey and a trio of ducks having
| been slain the night before. And at the |
I Snows Janie was repeatedly assuring her 1
I father and mother of the warm welcome s
I thev would receive. *
At eleven they all started for church. £
and ad the Brownes came out of the r *
gate just as the Snows did and walked t
behind them to the vestibule door. The
i minister spoke of thankful hearts and i
peaceful lives as he had never spoken t
before: of thousands who were rich and *
prosperous, am* .uc thousands who were i
homeless and poor. Os the many who f
cherished hard feelings against others, j
and of the joy and gladness that would i
come with kindly thoughts andrecoucil- •.
iation; and prayed that all bitterness and i
wrath and anger and clamor and e it- c
speaking might be put away from them, i
so that they might desire to be kindly
affectionate one to another, tender- j
hearted, forgiving one another. The
hymn was sung, the benediction pro- t
nounced, and then they went home; Mr. j (
and Mrs. Bnow thinking that thev were j
willing enough to make up with the <
Brownes, only they did not want to be- j
; gin it, and Mr. and Mrs. Browne de?id- . j
! ing that they were willing to be friends ; \
if only they did not have to make the j
move. % <
In the Browne house everything was
ready for the dinner aud the dinner ,
ready for the guests; and in the other s
house Janie was explaining that they
| must ask no questions but follow her into |
the garden where they would find their J
ho ts. It had been so long that they had (
forgotten about the wicket in the fence, <
and had no thought of where they were j
going when Janie led them up to it, aud j
opening it disclosed Mr.and Mrs. Browne (
standing on the other side; and Ray- (
mornl stepping up. said
“It was all -o silly aud wrong, and we 1
think it so much better to be friendly i
and peaceful, l ather, mother, this is \
my friend Janie Snow.” 1
Then Janie said ; 1
“You must forgive us, but we knew
yo 1 wouli be glad. Fa her, mother,
this is my friend Raymond Browne; you
older |Kioplc know each other now.”
It was only a second of sileuce, and j ,
then the Snows stepped forward and the
Brownes met them, and all the bitierne-s
of twelve years was forgotten and bridged |
over by the hearty hand shaking and |
kissing that followed.
Then they went in to dinner, buch a i
dinner as it was! The turkey in state at
one end of the table, and the kitten alive
but asleep at the other « nd. The meats
and cranberries were excellent, the pies ■
unequalcd and the cakes and fruit deii- (
eious. The merry speeches were 'cry
merry, and the tears that came to their
eyes once In a while were very ran aor
they came direct from their hearts, and
no one en oyed it more than the youth
and maiden. They are all alive yet, ami j
this year are t > have the dinner at the
Snows. The fence between the la" ns is
taken down, and there is a path to the
wicket in both gardens that looks well
trodden.
All the differences have b' en settled,
ami Mrs. Snow says she does not mind
how many letters Mrs. Browne adds to
her name; and Mrs. Browne says she
W'ill not add any but have it simp v
Brown; aud Janie arrived at such a state
of peace and felicity that she remarked
one day that she “would rather change
her name altogeth r than have a quar
rel over it. ’ A remark which occasion'd
so much joy in the heart of the youth
that he made bold to put her to the te-t
on the spur of the moment. And 1
think she must have said the right thing,
for Mr. Browne is t utting up a large
store at tosh the street for Raymond, and
he and .Mr. Snow together are planning
a house that is to be built on tne other
side of the Snows, so alter all the years
-of sullen silence the two families enjoy
1 tach other's society again.
A Layer of Foal.
According to the calculations made by
a scientific writer, lately, it re piir-s a
i prodigious amount of vegetable matter t<> |
1 form u layer of coal, the estim »te being
that it would really take a million yearn
I to form n coal bod H>o feet thick. The
| United States has an area of between
| 100,000 and 100,000 squate miles of c«>al
tlelds, 100,000,000 tons of coal being
! mined from these fields m one year, or
enough to run a ring around th<* earth at
the equator 5 feet wide and feet r
thick, the quantity being • tfti ient to
I supply the wnolo world f»r a pc. tod of
1,500 to 2,000 year . j \
Terns. $1.50 per Aim Single Copy 5 cents.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDCSTWAL
No dictionary in our language gi*w j
the common word dynamo. i>;e ming thf
machiue that generates electric power.
The dynamo machine is the practical ap- j
plication of a principle discovered in ISm. 1
by C. Werner Siemens, at Herltn.
In Franc o electricity has been very suc
cessfully applied to puieling restive and
vicious' horses while being shod. The
arrangement comprises simply aa indue,
tion coil, a dry battery and a device lot
giving a shock' of graduated intensity.
A list of over forty new chemical ele
ments, whose discovery has been sn- |
nounced by eminent chemists since I?T7,
has been prepared by Prof. 11. CT Hol
ton. Nine of the supposed new ele
mentr have been detected this year by
Crookes.
A European horticulturist affirms that
washing before cooking impairs the
flavor of vegetables. Dirt should be re
moved with a cloth or brush,or.if wash
ing c>nno: be avoided.it should be post
poned uni il the moment before cocking
is commenced.
The fraudulent weighing of silk goods
by means of the bichloride of tlu is said
to be constantly increasing. An increase
in weight of from 100 to 13» per cent, is
obtained by this means. The silk manu
facturers of Anv ricndo nol.it is asserted,
resort to this dishonest trick.
The number of glaciers of the Alps is
1,13.', according to Pro lessor lleim. Os
these France has 144, Italy TK, Switzer
land 471. and Austria Their total
superficial urea is between 300 and 1,0 *0
square miles. The longest is the Aletach
glacier in Austria, measuring over nine
mites,and 34n have a greater length than
four mites and a half.
In the latitude of New York,Professor
V*. n I’enhollow has tound the propor
tion of water in trees aud shrub* to vary
according to these general laws; t. The
water in woody plants is not constant for
all seasons, and depends on conditions of
growth. 3. It is in greatest amount late
in May or early in'June, and least in
January. 3. It is greatest in proportion
in the sap wood: least in that which it
older. 4. When plants grow most rap
idly they have must water.
Ballistics, or the science of projectiles,
is to be studied with the aid of photo
graphy. In the intenet of the German
admiralty, Krupp. the caonon-foundet
of Essen, is to employ an expert to pho
togruph pro eetiles in transit, the recoil
of guu carriages, the penetration of ar
mor plates by projectiles, and similar
phases in artillery practice. As projec
tiles have an average velocity of I.SOf
feet per second, the obstacles to be over
come in obtaining satisfactory photo
graphs are very great, necessitating the
must delicate apparatus and the most
skillful manipulation.
It was first observe*! by Ilaliey that the
time of the moon's revolutions round the
earth has for several thousand years beer
decreasing, or her veloeiry has hern in
creasing. This phenomenon remained
for a considerable time inexplicable a*
last Laplace, in i7K7, discovered the
caus" in the varying eccentricity of tho
earth's orbit, which has l»een on the de
crease since about 13.030 years 11. C.
Since that time the moon has heco gradu
ally coraiug nearer to thn earth: and this
wilt go on till .iS.H years after Christ,
when the eccentricity of the earth's orbit
will begin again to increase.
The Language of Monkeys.
In the way of language.monkeys mani
fest their j*as-ion% emotions, desires,
*nd fears, by Cries and gesture', rmphs
i-ed by sigui cagt accents, whi h vary
with the species. Monkey* and children,
together with savages and uneducated
people of civilized nations, manifest aa ]
uclination to mimic tho gestural and
notions of all persons whojt they see.
We think that this trait is especially
prominent in monkeys, but thousands of
instance* might be cited to show that
mankind, old and xoung, share* it with
them. The attitude and the sagacity of
monkeys are so human that some savages
relieve that it is out of maliciousness
hat they do not talk. In fact, a mon
sey might pas* for a dumb man. becau-e
he doe. not articulate the consonants
| Nearly, as we dot but not all men have
this power of articulat ou iuau equal de
-rtc. We have stammerer* by birth and
,by habit Some average trilbe* have a
*cauty al; hahet complicated by clicks
<nd nasal and guttural sounds lhat can
sot be imagined till they are heard. AH •
monkeys have voices, ami many of them
have wry strong ones. Excepting the
solitary anl taciturn orang-outang, the
ipecies which live in Poop* are ehatter
?rs, and keep up a great hubbub The
principal tones of their nuisy and
-apid language, with the fre [Uentrd rep
etitions of the same sounds, may »l»o
be found in the langun-n* of the most
savage peoples. They are. for the meat
part, complex, guttural, and harsh artic
ulations. with few variations Rut the
alphabets of some o the African and
Melanesian nations aie not nr rh richer.
In both, it ia gtnermlly the labiala which
are wan ing. laughter is not wholly
peculiar to men, for some monkey* have
a noisy »nd expansive la- gh analogous
to ours. Look has stated that native* of
the New Hebrides express their joy by n
kind of guttural whistle, analogous to
the jerky, rattling laugh of some mon
keys. Monkey* are also capable of now
ing sorrow anil weeping and it la possi
ble to foil w on their faces the equiva
lents of the physiogoumical change*
which in m<u answers tu the exprr-slon
of hia various emotions Among these
*’e the drawing l a k of the corner* of
the mouth ami the contraction of the
lower eyelid, which constitute the mon
key's smile, and the dep eesi«n of the
eyebrow and forehead in anger.—ftys
-1 ' Jar &inn MtmtUy.
Aging ol the mind is more sure then
that of the body.
|cr!Bes osier s*.
Uke music heard on the still water.
Litre pines when the wind passeth by.
Like pearls iu the depth of the ocean,
Like stars that enamel the sky,
lake June and the odor of roses,
lake dew sod the freshness of morn.
Like sunshine that kisses ths clover,
I-ike tassels of silk on the corn,
lake notes of the thrush in ths woodland.
lake brooks whee tho violets grow,
Uke rainbows that arch the blue heavens.
Uke clouds when the sun dippeth low,
Uke dreams of Acadian pleasures,
Uka colors that gratefully bleud,
Uke a very thing breathing of pureusss-
I ice these is tho love of a friend.
• Wpiitif Conning, in Good f/oussksrp
tap.
IIFMOR OF THE OAT.
When a woman “knits nor brows' 1 tt
I* probably because she is out of yarn.—
/eiw/f Cwrirr.
An artist once painted tho picture of a
jun so naturally that it went oil—the
Sheriff took it Puck. _
‘Til just give yon a few points'’ re
marked the paper of pins ns the man eat
on it.— ifercAont Traveler.
Teacher—“ What is tho hottest pl»ce
in tho United States!” Pupil —“A
hornet's nest,"— /‘.wanton's Journal.
Thcie was a time when a man thought
twice before marrying. Now he thinks
three times after marrying. —Detroit Free
/Sw. ,
General Lcvr Wallace says that when
he i< traveling he ‘ writes on tho cars.”
Next he'll take to whittling them with
his penknife. — Philadel/tkia Call.
Fogg says that when he asked the fu
ture Mrs. F. for her hand he had no
idea it was going to cost him so much to
keep it in gloves. —Dotto i Tmnteript.
Drummer (just arrived) —“Is this a
real wide-awake town?’’ Hotel Keeper
—“You bct'it is! Wait till you hear
tho cats to-night.”— Burlington Free
Pma.
Oystere have only been an article of
diet'for a hundred years, says an au
thority. Wc know better than that.
Why, the joke about the church fair oys
ter is over 1,000 years old if it is a day.
— (iraphie. -. ,
“The loss of my husband completely
unnerved me," said a lady to a neighbor
who had been recently afflicted herself.
“Yes, dear, and the loss of my husband
.'ompletely un man cd me.” —Cart Pret-
HreWjf.
“You know something about music,
don't you, Jogginsi” “A little, Snoop
er." '-Then what does this paper mean
when it speaks of the ‘higher kinds of
musici”' “Must mean upper-attic, I
think.”— Pittdbnrg Itlcgrapi. .
A magazine writer asks: “Tjfhat is
true joyl" True joy is what a woman
feels when a committee at a country fair
dcclarca that her crazy quilt ia prettier
ta in all the assembled crazy quilts of
her neighbors.— Baltimore Ai/uriean'.
She—“Hr, you must not kiss mo.”
He—“ Just one.” She—“ Stop, sir, or I
shall call for assistance.” lie (going)
—“ ’h, very well. Pardon roe.” She
detaining him)—“At the same time I
am sure there is no one within hearing.”
Pkila.Mi>kia Call.
Military discipline at West Point i» so
strict that a beetle may crawl down a
i private’a back when he is in the Tank*,
and he must not indulge in the slightest
evidence of perturbation. He must
simply hope th»t the beetle will crawl up
again. —lhtioit Free Bret*.
A contemporary says: “Wij consumed
much more pig iron the first six months
; of this year than duriug the correspond
ing period of last year. Whatever may
In- said alKiut our esteemed contempo
rary's taste, nothing can justly be urged
against his digestion:— Qrapkie. .
When you tell her she* the sweetest.
The prettiest and neatest
Van! you've met and that the ground she
walk* on you adore. i
ff voo he*w her murmur “rats!'’
Then be very sure that that's
A sign t hat she's no neophyte but has been
there before.
—Boston Courier.
Aa Aerial Cat Fight.
In front of nty cabin, at Marble Gap,
on a high mountain side of the Cbeosh
rang,', are some tall trees with thick
cluster* of undergrowth, in which an
old brindle cat mak"S her habitation, and
where she hu* iai*ed a family of kitten*. /
Yesterday three large hawk* were seen .
flung over the trees, evidently look.ng
lor prey. I'rescntly one wa* seen to dash
suddealy t > the ground, seize a kitten
and ni-.ke ha te for her nest in the top
ol a tall poplar, lho crying of the kit
ten in its aerial flight was distressing and
pitiful, aud the mother, now frantic with
grief, watched t’.e ha« k with a vigilant*
that only nn a a cry cat could command.
When the hiwk went to ita nest with a
sea t forb*r young the cat immediately
ran up the tie,- which was fully forty
to, t to the first limb, and In her desper
ate .tve sprang at the hawk, when a
trarfni fight ennicd, during which the
eat, hawk kitten and .voting ha'* ks were
pte pit.ited ;<> the ground, fighting ami
squalling aa they fed The sudden con
tact with the euth e*us**i each t > brrnk
ita hold, when t o hawk tte<v up, only
to lie shot down by a guard on poat uoar
by. the old rat b ing mistress of th*
situation with a badly lacerated and
broken legged kitten and the y*ung
hawk* on wh'e i to fesat her little f*m-
Hy.—/,'*.•>. g. iA‘. C.) tie rt an A Obterecr
A Peculiar Power.,
“Now. children " said the tea her of
the Infant natural history data after the
preuliaritie. of the,rah had been die
*u«ol. “i* there any other mtmlmr ol
the animal kingdom that poaaree* lha
’ power t« move rapidly ba< kwardl ’
t, “Vcs," said one of the most promising
of the little aeholirs, ' the mule kin do
, it.' —Mea York San.