THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. 111. NO. 35
THE
Charlotte Messenger
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AT
CHARLOTTE, R. C.
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«pwially in the Piedmont section of the
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Address,
W.C. SMITH. Charlotte NC,
An lowa punster is to be punished on
iccount of a legal complication with
lis word play. The punster** name
a Steers and he owns a farm ia lowa. A
ew days ago he obtained nloan of SIOO,
md gave as security a mortgage upon
' ‘fiVe white Steers on his farm. ” Then ha
rest to Kan las, and when the holder o(
he mortgage went to the farm to look at
he five white Steen Mr*. Steers ihowed
her five children. The outraged
mortgage holder has secured a requisi
:ion from the Governor, and the old
rteer will be brought back to lowa and
ounished.
Spain, w hich is not usually reckoned
tmong the first of European nations in
caval matters, at present possesses th«
'nstest steamer in the world. The name
if this smart vessel is El Destructor, and
>he is a torpedo cruiser which can steam,
with her full armament on board, at the
■ate of twenty three knots, that is, al
most twenty-seven miles an hour. Among
aer other accomplishments she n able
:o turn quite round in a space of four
ir fire times her own length while going
it full speed. The Spaniard can run
104 miles at full speed without requiring
fresh coal supply. This formidable racer
was not built in Spain, but on the Clyde,
-he is only the first of a fleet of simili)
auisers ordered for Spain.
Quail have multiplied so in California
that they are a nuisance. When the
game law was being discussed in the
Assembly the other day Aasemblyman
Young aaid that there “was*revolution"
in hia county (San Diego) against quail,
which eome down in swarms upon vine
yards and destroy them. Owners of
vineyards have persona employed to do
nothing else than kill these birds, which
he declared have become an intolerable
nuisance in this county. He recited an
instance where a swarm of these quails
ate up the pasturage that cattle fed upon.
His constituent* demanded that a remedy
be provided. The bill was ao amended
that quail may l« killed between March
! and September 10, while during the
grape season they may be also trapped.
The sou of a prominent man in public
hie has just returned to Washington
from a year's experience in the cattle
bus ness in Utah. “I raised a company
here, mainly among my friends, and we
invest'd $.50,000. It took $30,000 of
that to buy our range, $5,000 to get me
'ut there, and buy our outfit, and the
teat we put into cattle and expenses,
principally expense:. My cattle men got
into a row with a neighbor and hia men
ran our cattle down into the canyons.
Than our foreman took it into his head
to .us us for hi* pay. and although I had
made an excellent report lo the com
pany, romehow things went wrong. My
report stated that we had enjoyed an in
crease in our herd of 110 per cent., and
that was the case. I don't know that any
of our men stole aay calvei from our
neighbors. I don't know that our
io«i had more than one eal f apiece, but
aomehow we found on our round-up that
we had 130 per cent, increase. Iti* ia
what broke u< up. Cattlemen are used
to to and 90. and in rare cases 100 per
cent, increese, hut they could not stand
120. The cattle aaeocietion in that dis
trict held a meeting and passed resolu
tions that it was impossible for any herd
to inerrase at such a rapid rate, and,
calling upon the delegate in Congreea
from l iab to inrestigste the ease, wound
up by giving me three daya’ time to gel
out pf the Terri'ory. lam now going
down to past a civil aervica examina
tion."
THE LITTLE BLACK-EYED REBEL.
A boy drove into the city, hia wagon loaded
down
With food to feed the people of the British,
governed town;
And the little black-eyed rebel,'eo cunning
end no sly,
Wei watching for hia coming from the cor
ner of her eye.
Hia face was broad and honest, his hands
were brown and tough, *
The clothes he wore upon him were home
spun, ooarse and rough;
But one there wee who watched him, who
long time lingered nigh,
And cast at him sweet glances from the cor
ner of her eye.
He drove up to the market, he watted ia the
line,
Hie apples and potatoes were fresh, and fair,
nod fine
Bat km- and long he welted, and no one
came to buy,
Save the black-eyed rebel watching from the
corner of her eye.
“How, who will buy my applasl” he shouted,
long end loud:
And, “Who wants my potatoes?” he repeated
to the crowd:
But from all the people round him came no
word of reply.
Save the black-eyed rebel answering from
the corner of her eye.
For she knew that 'neath the lining of the
coat he wore that day,
long letters from the husbands and the
fathari far away.
Who were fighting for the freedom that they
meant to gain or die;
And a tear like silver glistened in the corner
of her eye.
But the treasures—how to get them) crept
the question through her mind,
Since keen enemies were watching for what
prize* they might find;
And she paused a while and pondered, with
a pretty little sigh;
Then resolve crept through her features, and
a shrewdness fired her eye.
Eo she resolutely walked up to the wagon old
and red,
“May I have a dozen apples for a kiss?” Bhe
sweetly said;
And the brown face flushed to scarlet, for
the boy was somewhat shy,
And he saw her laughing at him from the
comer of her eye.
“You may have them all for nothing, and
more, if you want,” quoth he.
“I will have them, my good fellow, but can
pay for them,” said she;
And she clambered on the wagon, minding
not those who were by,
With a laugh of reckless romping in the ccr
■or of her eye.
Clinging rouad his brawny neck, she clasped
her fingers white and small.
And then whispered: “Quick, the letters!
thrust them underneath ray shawl!
Carry bacJc again this package, and be sure
that you are spry!”
And she sweetly smiled upon him from the
corner of her eye.
Lond the motley crowd were laughing at the
strange, ungirlish freak;
And tLo boy was scared and panting, and so
dssbed he could not speak.
And “Miss, I have good apples,” a bolder lad
did cry;
But she answered: “No, I thank you,” from
the corner of her eye.
With the news of loved ones absent to the
dear friends they would greet,
Searching those who hungered for them,
swift sbe glided through the street;
‘There is nothing worth the doing that it
does not pay to try,”
Thougbtthe little black-eyed rebel, with a
twinkle in her eye,
Will Carleton
CHANGED HIS MIND.
Mrs. Hyde kept boarders. Mr*. Hyde
was a little, dried up widow, with a
constitutional toothache and a mild,
meek way of taking the world as it came
to her. For fifty years she had battled
against misfortune, until the warfare
had become second nature to her.
“Hut there’s one blessing I have lo be
thankful for,” she would say. “Air.
Marvell has kept true to me through it
all as the needle to the pole.”
From this it need not lie inferred that
Mr. .Marvell was a lover of the little
widow. Far from it. He was only her
best boarder—the boarder who for half
a scored yo>ranad occupied her “first
floor front,"and paid hisbdla as regular
ly hi the Saturday night came around.
He was a bachelor, as may lie sup
posed—a man who was as lull of whims
sod caprices as an egg ia of meat, yet
who carried a kindly heart in his bosom
beneath it all.
But on this especial Friday morning his
eye* blazed wrathfully—the tip of Ins
nose hung forth a crimson flag of indig
nation, as Mrs. Hyde came meekly into
hia presence.
"A month's warning, ma’am." was all
that be said.
Mrs. Hyde caught at the nearest chair
or support.
“Mr. Marvell!” she gasped.
“Now, ma'am, it isn’t at all worth
while to go through any scenes,’’ said
the bachelor, callously. “I am n prnc
tlcal man. as you ought to know hy this
time. And I’m rot in the habit of wsst
ing word*. Put up a hill. Advertise,
bet your room as soon you can, for I
move out to-morrow, although as a tokaa
of respect for your many good qualities
I shall pay my bills up to the first of
June.”
"La, Mr. Marvell!” faintly ejaculated
the widow. “How can I possibly have
offendedt”
“Ask your own conscience, meaty!”
•ternly retorted Mr, Marvell.
CHARLOTTE, N. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1887.
1 ‘Because if it’a on account of Patty
and her babies— ’’
"It ia precisely on that account,ma’am.
I was waked last night by the screaming
of a child.’’ 6
“It’s cutting eye-teeth, poor dear,” in
terposed Mrs Hyde.
“And this morning, on making in
quiries,” relentlessly went on the bach
elor, “I learned that you had actually
taken in your widowed niece and her
twin babies. Twins, ma’am! One
would have been enough—too much, in
fact—but wheft it comes to twins—”
“Patty had nowhere else to go, air,”
said Mr*. Hyde, apologetically, “and
she’ll be useful about the house. Patty’*
a good girl, sir! ’
“Idare aay,” said Mr. Marvell. “But
1 can’t stay in the same house with twins
—so, ns I betore reinai kid, put up a bill
aa aoon as you please.”
“Please, sir, lil put Patty and the
children on tho top floor, where ihey
can’t possibly disturb you, if—”
“I toll you once for all. ma’am that 1
can’t tolerate children, and I won’t. Will
you be kind enough to Icavo me now?”
Eo Mrs. Hyde went down stairs to
burst into tears, back of the pantry
door,.where Patty Smith, with one twin
tied in the high chair and the other
swarming over the floor, like a magnified
beetle, was beating eggs for tbe dinne*
custard.
“Aunty, what's tho matter?” de
manded Patty, still whisking vigorously
away at the custard.
“ He’s going, my dear.”
“Who? Mr. Marvell?”
“Yes.”
“Well, let him go, aunty,” said
I'atty, cheerfully. She aas a dimpled,
pretty, little lady, with pleasant, black
eyes and black hair, parted low on her
forehead—not quite twenty, in spite of
her widowhood and her twina! “It's
n cheerful room-you'll soon fill up tho
vacancy.”
“ But not wi a such a man as Phineas
Marvell,” groaned Mrs. Hyde. “Oh,
Patty, you don’t know him!”
“I know he must be a crusty old
piece, aunty, or he never would object
to the dear, darling little babies,” said
Patty, with a loving glance at the twin*.
“Don't fret now, there’s a dear! It’ll
all come right, see if it don’t. I’ll write
an advertisement myself, and take it
down to the newspaper office this very
afternoon!”
So Mr. Marvell packed up hia gooda
and left and Mrs. Hyde cried.
“It seems such a pity,” said she, “af
thr ten years I”
“Don’t mind it, aunty," said the
courageous Patty. “ I’m sure he must
be a selfish creature, or he never would
serve you so.”
Hardly a month had elapsed when a
aour-visaged woman came to the Hyde
house and requested an audience with
the mistress thereof.
“Y’ou know old Marvell, I suppose?"
said she.
“I know Mr. Phineas Marvell,” an
swered Mrs. Hyde, with dignity.
“Well, it’s all the same,” retorted sh*
of the acidulated countenance. “Ho’s
boarded at our bouse three weeks and
four days. He’s down with the small
pox.”
“Oh, my!” ejaculated Mrs. Hyde.
“Poor dear soul." And who takes cars
of him?”
“That’s just the very question,” said
the visitor. “I can’t. I’ve got my own
family, as never has had the smau-pox,
to think of—aod the other boarders has
all cleared out, and the doctor don't
know of no one as would be willing to
undertake the risk. P’raps you could
come:"
Mrs. Hyde visibly recoiled.
“N—no!” she answered. “I would
rather not. As you say yourself, it's a
great risk to run, and ——”
But Patty Smith, who had listened in
silence heretofore, stepped forward.
“I’ll go, aunty,” said she, "if you’ll
take care of the twins. I have had the
small pox. lam not afraid of it.”
"But. Patty, I thought you disliked
Mr. Marvell to much?”
“I diri,” said Patty, with a Bmile and
a shrug of her shoulders. “But it isn't
worth xAilc to think of that now. lfc
is sick, and solitary, and he is a fellow
creature. That is enough.”
And Patty packed her little bundle,
kissed the poachy, unconscious cheeks ol
the twins, and went on her mission.
What a disconsolate scene was that
in tho midst of which lay Mr. Marvell,
tossing on a bed of sickness! A tireless
grate; undraped windows, through
which the sun beat with merciless brill
iance; dust in every spot on which dust
could possibly light, and pillow and bed
linen a week old.
“I'll soon s-t all these matter!
straight,” said Patty, moving around )
with tho quick decision that wits natural 1
to her. And within half an hour the j
scene had assumed a moro home like j
look, even to the staring, unconscious j
eyes of the delirious man.
“Whoareyou! Anangel?” hen-keJ, |
lowering his voice to n whisper.
“No,” she answered, smiling in spite
of herself. “I’m Patty.”
“Don’t leave me,” he urged. “It's sc
dreadful to l.e left alone.”
“No," she answered; I won't."
Phineas Marvell lay ill for a month— I
and with alow recovery came a sense of
all that Patty Smith had done for him.
“I ll tell you what,” said the doctor, j
on the day that he made his lost proses
sional visit, “if it hadn’t been for Mrs. J
Smith you would have been snugly
stowed awsy between four mahoganj
boards by this time, my friend.”
“I know it.” Mr. Marvell answered.
“Well," said Mrs. Hyde, when at lasi
Patty returned home and bugged tbe
twins within an inch of their lives, “1
hope the poor, dear gentleman is better.''
“Oh, he's all right now!” said Patty. |
“He's coming back to-morrow or the
next day. Is the room all ready 1”
“All ready,” Mrs. Hyde answered.
Mr. Marvell returned the nett day and
once more took posicesion of his old I
quarters.
“Mrs. Hyde," said he, with a little
embarrassment, when that lady came up
stairs to inquire his wishes in regard te
any early tea, “there’s something I, per
haps, ought to mention to you,”
“Indeed, sir!” said tho wondering
Mrs. Hyde. “What is that?”
“I'm going to be married!” an
nounced the bachelor, with infinite
•hcepishnoss.
"Married, sir 1 You? Dear, dear! Thes
you’ll be leaving me, again, I shouldn’t
. wonder.”
“Not ncceesarily, Mrs. Hyde. I dart
say you and my future wife will get
along very comfortably together.”
“Indeed, sii!”
“For I’m going to marry—Potty.”
"Patty?” echoed Mrs. Hyde.
“Yes, Patty:”
“And how about the twins?” demand
ed the amazed matron.
“Tho twins, Mrs. Hyde, are the
dearest little creatures in the world. ”
And, improbable as it may seem, Mr.
Marvell really looked as if ho believed
what he said?
It was all true. He did marry Patty
—and he was proud of his pretty, ener
getic little wifo, and still more "proud,
strange to say, of the Twins 1
“I wouldn’t believe it unless I'd ha
seen it with my own eyes,” said Mrs.
| Hyde. “He as never could endure chil
dren afore I But I'm as pleased ai
I Punch, for Patty’s fake!”
And Patty and her middle-aged hus
band were serenely happy together.
The OrlofT Diamond.
Thia magnificent gem, which in „„
rough state formed the eye of an idol in
a temple near Trinchiifopoli, was stolen
by a Frenchman, who escaped with his
prize to Persia, and who, fearful of being
discovered, was glad to dispose of his
ill-gotten gear for a sum of about £2,000.
The man who bought the stone, a Jew
ish merchant, sold it to one Shrafras, an
Armenian, for. £12,000. Shafras had
conceived the idea that by carrying the
•tone to Russia he would obtain trom the
Empress, Catharine tbe Great, a princely
sum for it. How to travel in safety
with the stone, the theft of which had
of course been discovered and pro
claimed, became a grave consideration,
it was too large to swallow, and no mod.
of concealment presenteJ itself to Shaf
ras t|hat seemed secure from discovery.
The way in which he solved the problem
was remarkable, lie made a deep in
cision in the fleshy part of his left leg,
in which he inserted the stone, closing
the wound carefully by sewing it up
with silver thread. YVhen the wound
healed, the Armenian merchant set out
on his travels quite boldly, and although
more than once apprehended, rigorously
searched, and even tortured a little, he
was obdurate, and firmly denied having
tlsi stone in his possession. Having at
len'gth reached his destination he asked
from the Empress the sum of £40,000 for
the gem, an amount of money which
Catharine was unable to raise at the
moment. We next find the Armenian
at Amsterdam with the intention of
having his diamond cut. Here the stone
was seen by Count Orloff, who deter
mined to purchase it for presentation to
his royal mistress, the Empress Cathar
ine. The sum ultimately paid for the
gem was about £(10,000 sterling in cash,
together with an annuity of £SOO and a
patent of nobility. Shafras flourished
exceedingly and died a millionaire.
Such, in brief, is the story of the Orlofl
diamond. Chamlere’s Journal.
Jay Gould's Detective.
Directly opposite Major Dougherty’s
front windows is the little barber shop,
over the railing of which some few years
ago Major Eelover flung Jay Gould.
Helover is about four times as big
as the little Napoleon of the Street—
he is like an ear of corn to a single
oat in comparison. His temper is as
great as his bulk, and had been aggra
vated beyond endurance. The incident
made the fortune of the Dutch barber,
and did not, particularly damage Gould
or Selovcr. It resulted in Jay’s gather
ing unto himself a big private detective,
who togs along close to his coat tails
every time he steps out upon the street
now. It is said that Gould lias not
spoken to this shadow since the first day
he mot him, and. looking up into bis
face, said; “Good morning, sir.” But,
aside from a small salary for “looking
on,” tho man has had several successive
Christmas stockings plumped with Santa
Claus reminiscence plums. It is better,
then, to be a protector of the Gould
form than to dwell in the tents of the
police.-- New York Star.
The Shah's Summer Life.
8. G. W. Eenjamin, our late Minister
lo Persia, says in the Inter-Ocean: Dur
ing the summer from May to September,
inclusive, the Sliah passes from one 1
superb cgmntry scat to another and takes
long expeditions into the mountains. He
is then accompanied by a number of his j
wives. All these resorts are beautified
by lanks or artificial lakes acres in ex
tent, inclosed by masonry and shaded by
dense groves. I remember a tank that
was surrounded hyaline of small houses,
exactly alike, and each containing one
room. These were intended for the fa
vorite wives, while above towered the
pavilion of the Sh»h in three lofty sto
ries, elegantly decorated. When the
buildings ara insufficient to accommo
date all the wive*, whether of the Khah
or hia ministers, at these summer resorts,
it is notunusual for the ladies to ocru
py tents in the grounds, white their lord
reposes luxuriously under the shelter of
a solid roof. HUB, one rarely hears the
women of Persia complain. With them
ignorence ia blits.
The fastest steamer in the world ie
owned by Spain. The name of thie smart
vessel is the El Destrictor. She is ntor- '
pedo cruiser and can eteam with her full
armament on board at the rate of twen
ty-three knots,or twenty-seven mile*, an
hour.
FISHHOOK MANUFACTURE,
ONLY TJWO PLACES IN AMERICA
WHERE HOOKS ARB MADE.
Hand Work Succeeded by Machin
ery Thnt Turns Out 80,000
Hooks a Day—The Process.:
For many years Rrooklyn was the only
city in America where fish-hooks were
made. In fact, to-day there is only
one other place in the country. Much '
curious information has been prerented :
by differ, nt writers concerning fish
hooks, tracing their uso to the times of
- prophecies of Amos and to the still
more remote writing of the Book of Job,
in both of which they arc mentioned,and
they cite their use by the Apostles. In
Bohn's late addition of “Walton’s Com- j
plete Angler” are described tho ni e dif
ferences of form and qualities of the
Kirby, Limerick, Kendal and sneck
bend hooks, and long shanks are recom
mended for hooks that arc to be dressed
with long-bodied flies, as the dragon fly,
the stone fly and the spider fly, any su
perfluity in length being easily nipped
off. The first improvement in the con
struction of the fish-hook from the old
conventional style was made about thirty
years ago.
Fish-hook makingin the United States
was first introduced in Brooklyn in 1844
by Job Johnson, and wns carried on ex
tensiveiv by him until the year 1867,
when Ihe business was turned over to
John W. Court. Mr. Court told an
Eagle reporter some interesting facts
about the manufacture of the little in
strument.
“I came to this country from the vil
lage of Rod itch in Worcestershire, Eng
land. In this town there are many fish
hook manufacturers, and when a mere
boy 1 started out to learn the trade.
When 1 had finished I camo to Brooklyn
and worked for Johnson for a time and
then I began lor myself. I hammered
out fish hooks by my hands in a bumble
little shop not far from here, and con
tinued to do so until a few years ago,
when my inventive genius forced me to
experiment. My labors were rewarded
by Ihe succe-sful invention of a patent
automatic fish hook machine, which
makes eighty-five hooks, of any si !c, per
minute rrom the common wire as fed
from a reel. In olden times the hook had
to he handled many times before com
pleted First the wire was cut to the
right lqtigth for the size needed; then
we cut the barb on, and tbe next thing
was to anneal the book, then forge it on a
drop press, next shear it on the same
press, then grind the point, shape it, and
after that eye or flute it. The i the hook
wai ready for tempering. These were
all done with hand machines. I came to
the conclusion that it was a slow proce-s
and invented the machine I have referred
to above, which combines all of these
hand machines into one. lam now at
work upon a machine expressly for trout
hooks, that when completed will 1
turn out hooks at the rate of
150 per minute. At present we make
about 80,000 hooks per day or a total of
21,000,000 per year. The method of the
automatic patent machine is about as fol
lows : The wire is taken from the coil
the same as received from the mill and
run through a revolving straightening
machine, composed of pieces of steel
screwed in zigzag shape, which acts as a
friction on the wire and straightens it.
Then it is drawn cn to a lnrge wheel five
feet in diameter (the process being the
same as winding cotton on a spool) from
the last end of the wire and is taken and
put into the machine by an automatic
feed by two rollers any length you want.
Then it isshearedoff,transferred and the
eye is put on. It passes on and the barb
cutter puts the barb on; then the forging
dies mice hold of it and flatten the point
out; it still travels on and the chipping
dies trim the blott off at an angle which
leaves a ragged point. It still travels
further in the intricate machinery, when
the rolary mills take the rough edge off
the hook and then the other mills, made
V shape, file on the sides. After that it
is transfeircd to be shaped and then it
is finished. The machine is the simplest
in construction of any in existence and
the only one of its kind in the world. I
make quite a specialty in shark hooks and
have recently turned out the largest one
ever known to be made. It was made
outofs-’-th steel wire and is 2 feet in
length—ls inches when shaped. The
bend is 4 1-2 inches in diameter and
the barb is 3 3-4 inches deep. I calcu
late that the book is < apable of hold
ing four or five tons and can got away
with a pretty good shark. Sailors used
to visit my shop frequently and spin
yarnß while purchasing books, but now
they do not buy direct from mo. I
ship tbe greater portion of the larger
hooks to Glosta, Newfoundland and |
California. — Brooklgn Eagle.
*
Bill Arp and (he Cow.
I turned the cows out, and as old Ileaa
was a little slow in going, I just caught
her by the tail and gave her a switch
with it to hum her up a little. I’ve j
been feeding ola Bess off and on forfiv*
years, and I thought that sho honored
me and respected me, but suddenly, in i
the twinkling of an eyo and with malice
aforethought, sho raised her hind leg
and let fly st me with all her might. She -
hit me on the shinbone, and you might
have heard the collision for SO yards. It '
hurt so bad I let go her tail prematurely :
and hollered. It was a cowardly act ol |
hors, but nevertheless I shall ever here
after let those cows’ tails alone. I
thought from the report that the bone
was brokon, and I took on powerful and
let Carl help roe all the way to the house,
but when 1 examined I found the bone
all right and only the epidermic cuticle
abraded. I've lost confidence in cows.
They have no gratitude and no emotions
of an exalted character. They are not ,
fit for pets. A horse belongs to tho no
bility, but a cow is a scrub. She has
about as much affection as a mule. She
is a machine to manufacture milk, and
that if OlL— Atlanta Constitution,
Terns. $1.50 per Annum. Single Cop; 5 cents.
A MIRROn.
Life'* pretty much what we make it,.
It's only a looking glass true,
And reflects bock shadow for shadow,
The very image of you.
The good deeds will always be smiling,
The bad will look vicious and vile,
The face you behold in the mirror
Is only yourself all the while.
And the longer the shadow’s reflected,
The deeper the impress will be.
It shows for good or for evil,
As it sends back the features you see.
You’re only to take the world easy,
Mingle alone with the good to be ha-1.
And the fare you seo in the mirror
Will always be happy and glad.
—Nora F. Iligginton.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The ragman’s business is picking up.
It only takes half a hog to make its
forequarters.— Ooodall's Sun.
If the barber stands at the head ol
his profession, the chiropodist stands at
tho foot of his profession.— Carl Pretzel.
“Where is the ideal wife?” asks a
prominent lecturer. In the cellar split
ting kindling,most likely.— Philadelphia
Call.
The man who was born with a silver
spoon in his mouth is now looking about
for something to eat with the spoon
Lowell Citizen.
If any dime museum wants to coin
money it should exhibit a wife who ca-.
make as good pies as mother used to.
Neu> Eaten News.
Only one thing is needed to make th
toboggan an enormous success, and ti: 1
is, a patent arrangement that will cauv
it to gravitate up hill eh-Life.
Sam Jones refused to address a gather
ing of newspaper men at Boston, hi
work appears to be exclusively among
the sinners.— Pittsburg Chronicle.
Why womeu kiss each other is
An undetermined question,
Unless the darlings would by this
Give man a sweet suggestion.
— Sijtings.
There are two things in the world th -t
I can’t understand; one is, that you catch
a cold without trviog; that if you let it
run on, it stays with you, and if you stop
it, it goes away ßurdette.
Henry Ward Beecher says money is not
necessary to happiness. Os course not.
Neither is lemon juice necessary to a raw
oyster, but it adds mightily to its succu
lence.—Baltimore AmerUan.
As life is full of ups and downs, this thought
Must comfort all;
Who’re on the ladder s lowest rung: they’ve
not
Got far to fall.
—Boston Courier.
“There is no business in the world,”
says the Bulletin, “which can be carried
on successfully in the face of a loss of 50
percent.” How about driving a water
cart, old man ?--.Sa» Francisco News Let
ter.
In the opinion of scientists there will
come a period when the earth will cease
to revolve on its axis. To tbe man, how
ever, who, on going home at night, has
to wait for an opportunity to catch his
bed as it passes him, it will continue to
go round. —New York News.
Modern Miraelea.
Neurypnology, or the science of nerve
sleep, is the latest medical discovery in
Paris, and a school of physicians ia
growing up which treats diseases upon
this principle. The cable brings inter
esting accounts of the experimentsof Dr.
Charcot, a scientist, who looks like the
first Napoleon and lives in great luxury
in one of the most superb houses in
Paris, as a man should do who accom
plishes the miracles accredited to him.
The experiments of Dr. Charcot, we aro
told, prove as perfectly practicable the
transmission by magnetism from one per
son to another of certain nervous phenom
ena, such as dumbness, paralysis of the
legs and arms, violent pains and coxalgia,
and the final elimination of the evil from
the original sufferer. The cures have
been numerous and are indisputable. lie -
ports of this character are almost in
variably exaggerated, and it would not
be necessary for Dr. Charcot to accom
plish more than three or four important
cures in order to have hia fame spread
widely. Still, the evidence is well
founded, and physicians liks Dr. Ham
mond and others in this oountry believe
that everything related is quite possible.
The matter is interesting and important
from the weight it bears upon the ques
tion of the future of medicine.
In the past it was deemed vitally neces
sary that, in the treatment of disease,
there should lie plenty of drugging. Re
volting concoctions even as late as two
centuries ago were administered. Then
came the sickening masses compounded
of herbs and the like. Since medicine
became a real science, however, the ten
dency has been more to dispense, as far
as possible, with indiscriminate dosing.
The first manifestation of this was the
homeopathic system. Now the best doc
tors give very little medicine, and there
is a disposition to dispense with it alto
gether. Tho modern tendency is clearly
In the direction of curing diseases, par
ticularly those of nervous character,
wholly without drugging, and hones we
have the faith treatment and similar va
caries. These may be false and absurd,
but they illustrate the growing con
clusion that nature can, almost in tha
majority of cases, be left safely to her
self. With good nursing and some ob
vie us and simple aid* she will da what is
necessary of her own free will. It ie
found that the majority of people who
die et an advanced uge were in the habit
of taking very little medicine. The ex
periment* of Dr. Charcot, as described,
arc very interesting. The possibilities of
magnetism, etc., are yet to be seen. We
arc probably just on the threshold. Half
a century more may show woadera in
deed. —Baltimore Nows,