North Carolina Newspapers

THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. YOL. IV. NO. 4. THE Charlotte Messenger IS PUBLISHED • Every Saturday, AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In the Interests of the Colored People of the Country. AMo and well-known writers will contrib uto t<' its columns from different parts of the country, and it will contain the'latest Gen eral News of the Thk Messenger is a first-class newspaper ami will not allow personal abuse in itw col umns It is not sectarian or partisan, but ind«*}*endent—dealing fairly by all. It re serva* the right to criticise the shortcomings of all public officials—conunending the worthy, and recommending for election such men as in its opinion are best suited to serve th** interests of the people. It is intended to supply the long felt need of a newspaper to advocate the rights and defend the interests of the Negro-American, especially in the Piedmont section of the Carolines. SUBSCRIPTIONS: (.Iftrays m Advance.) 1 year* - - *1 50 S months - - - 100 0 inontlw - - 75 3 months - - - TO 2 months - - 35 Single Copy - 5 Address, W.C. SMITH Charlotte NC An experiment in co-operation will by tried by the Knights of Labor of Glen wood Springs, Colorado, and will bi watched with interest. A tiact border ing on Grand river is to be settled and tu.ned into farming land, where fruiti and vegetables may be raised. Canning works and other enterprises are to bo es;ablished in time. The colony will pay its officers no salaries, and all dis putes are expected to be settled by the decision of the Beard of Arbitration with* out going to law. F. O. Krelschmer, of Pierre, Dakota* said recently to a Chicago reporter: “The warpath is a thing of the past. It makes the people living on the borders of the Sioux reservation smile. The Indian docs not want to fight. Ido not believe twenty bucks could be found on the Sioux reservation who would take the warpath. They have Sitting Bull as a living example. Last summer I made a trip overtiie Big Sioux reservation alone, slop iu Indian tepees at night, and 1 had no more fear of danger than I have here in Chicago.” Tl.o editor of the Western Electrician thinks the Edison photophone possesses snob vast possibilities and its achieve in* nt has awakened an enthusiasm which has not been manifest since the intro duction of the telephone. It may, he thinks, serve a thousand different pur poses. It may aid the business man throughout the working-hours and cha:m him in his leisure moments. Em ployed as it can be for both pleasure and bu-iuess, it may revolutionize life in both these aspects. The Medical Record says: “A large fortune awaits the man who will devise a remedy which will keep flies from wor rying the horse in summer, and at the same time not kill the horse. Carbolic acid washes, the aromatic oils, especially pennyroyal, and various other drugs, to say nothing of mechanical appliances, have all been used, but with only tem porary benefit. The oil of bay is said to be particularly efficient, and to be exten sively used in Switzerland and the South of France.” But, adds the Epwh, the first thing for us to do is not to dock the horses’ tails. Short tails may look very “English, you know,” but the practice of taking away from a poor horse the long tail which it uses as a fly switch is none the less cruel and Hell ish. and probably found its origin in the laziness of grooms. I 1 1,1 The New York Herald says that “the fact that leprosy exists in the Baltic provinces and that emigration from those province* is unrestricted brings iiome to us a crucial question. Khali we not resist the introduction of the leper in 4ho United Mates? And in asking this question might we not likewise enter fully into this whole business of imigra tioo. Why should the shores of the United States be the dumping ground lor every nation? The emigration busi ness is ;»large one, but it is almost en tirely under foreign flags. We are only concerned in it so far aa to find homea, •employment and protection for those who come. It it not to diminish our hospitality to aay that none shall come who are diseased, criminal or paupers. Leprosy once surely earthed here and it would be ineradicable. The true way ia to keep it out, and while doing that *we might keep out other things which w# welcome ia our all too eaay way.* 1 WASHINGTON, D. C. IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE. What Our Lawmakers are doing at the National Capital. Debate on the iron schedules of the tariff bill prevailed in the House Tues day. The post office appropriation bill with Senate amendments was submitted with a recommendation that the amend ment appropriating $800,000,00 to pro vide a more efficient mail service between the United States and South and Central America and the West Indie*, and the amendment fixing the rate of postage on seeds and bulbs at two cents a pound, I be not concurred in. The House went into a committee of I the whole on the tariff bill. Mr. McMillan moved to strike out the clause, Imposing a duty of sll a ton on slabs and billets of steel, and to re-1 store the present rate of 45 per cent, ad valorem. Agreed to. Mr.McKinley moved to restore the existing rates on bar iron. Motion sec onded but lost. On motion of Mr. Breck enridge, of Arkansas, a duty of four-tenths of a cent per pound was imposed on iron or steel flat with longetanal ribs for the manufacture of fencing. The committee then rose, a conference was ordered on the river and harbor bill, and at 5 p. m. the House adjourned until Monday. The Senate will not meet for several days. Monday—The passage of the Senate bill amending the Inter State commerce law' was the chief feature of the to-day’s proceedings in the Senate. The Senate then went into secret ses sion, and at 5 o’clock adjourned. House. —Mr. Cannon’s free sugar amendment to the tariff bill was defeat ed, as well as several other propositions looking to a reduction of duties on sugar. A heated debate arose in the discus sion of an amendment offtrel by Mr. Webber, which was rejected by 65 to BG. On motion of Mr. Mills the duty on molasses hot above 56 degrees was fixed at 2 3-4 cents per gallon. Considera tion of the sugar clauses was at an end. the tobacco paragraph was left open for future action. Mr. Brown, of Virginia, offered a reso lution releasing the Committee on Edu- I cation from further consideration of the | Blair Educational bill. Referred. Mr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, intro duced a bill, which was referred, to increase the ppnsions of all survivors of the war of 1812, where names arc now on the pension rolls, from $8 to sl2 per month. The House ats p. m. adjourned. EXTRAVAGANCE. The total cost of the Republican Na tional convention, it lias been ascertained, was $30,000. A deficit of S7OO exists, but will be readily subscribed. The three largest items of expense were $7,000 to to the Auditorium association for hall rent, $2,700 for electric lighting, and $5,000 for entertaining members of the National Committee. WASHINGTON NOTES. In the Senate Mr. Daniel introduced a bill directing the government bureau to prepare exhibits for the Virginia expo sition, beginning on the 3d of October. It appropriates $20,000. The President to-day sent to the Sen ate the nomination of Col. Thomas L. Cosey to be Chief of Engineers, with the rank of Brigadier General. FOREIGN NOTES. Election riots have occurred at Berne, Belgium. The gendarmes fired upon the mob. Many persons received bayo net wounds. Queen Victoria was recently made a Colonel in the German army. The Prince of Wales has long held this rank, and now the Duke of Edinburg has been made a General in the same organization. Eviction notices have been served on thirty tenants on Vandeleur estate in County Clare, Ireland. Police and mili tary, armed with battcriug rams, will assist thee victors if necessary. An Arkansas Town Burned. Tweuty-two business houses and resi dences in the town of Paragould, Ark., were burned on Saturday night. The heaviest losers are Berlcy Bros., dry goods. Loss $20,000; insurance SO,OOO. W. H. Maxey, grocery, $5,000; no in surance. Ilobinao block, SO,OOO. Total !Gass $02,000; insurance light. The World’s Supply of Cotton. New York, July 7.—The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 1,406,- GBO bales, of which 909.989 bales are American, against 1,744,058 and 1,07b -558 resjK*ctively last year; receipts at all interior towns, 4,103; crop iu sight 0,- 853,840. Switzerland’s Milk Cow*. Switzerland has 060,000 milk cowa, all of native breed, and divided into two sharply defined races, the brown and the spotted. The former color varies from deep fawn to mouse gray,the latter shade 1 cing held in the most esteem. The brown race ia short-horned and considered a* the original type. It corresponds to the remain* found on the sites of the Hoiqan cities of the third century of our era. The skulls of this i ace, furtrv rmore, ere identical with those found in the Swiss lake dwellings. The spotted race, peculiar to Berne and Fribourg, is believed to tie of Scandi ii'MiS origin.— IHcayun:, CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1888. North, • East and West. One of the large boilers of tne Adelaide Silk Mills at Allentown, Pa , exploded, killing three men and wounding several others. Loss about $15,000. There is a man living in Atlanta, Go., 81 years old, who has never taken a chew of tobacco nor smoked a cigar, never was drunk, never swore, and never mar ried. .nd yet he probably thinks that he “he knows it all” notwithstanding. The revenue cutter Crawford has ar rived at Key West, Fla., having in tow the British schooner Admiral, captured off Towery Rock light, turtle fishing. The factory and warehouse, of the Reading Hardware works, at Reading, Pa., several buildings five stories high, covering several acres of ground, burned . Tuesday night. Loss estimated at $350, 000, with an insurance of several thous and dollars. John H. Loan, book keeper in the Second National Bank of Jersey City, N. J., has defaulted to the amount of $14,400, and left for parts unknown. Buffaloes as Motive Power. A recent consular report furnishes the following queer lacts: “At Ming-Hong, a village some twenty miles from Shang hai, China, there is a bean-cake estab lishment, employing about fifty men. Water buffaloes (bo9 bubalus) propel the clumsy machinery, about thirty being re quired to do what one small steam en gine ould easily perform. Two ponder ous stone wheels revolve in opposite di rections and at the same time have a second motion, both of them being run around astone platform, and at regular intervals,a quantity of beans falls from a hopper and arc ground beneath the heavy wheels. The oil that is expressed finds its way into a reservoir, and what is left is removed and distributed along a circu lar stone groove, about nine inches deep and ten yards in diameter. A stone wheel, beveled to an edge, is run around in this grove and forms a most laborious but etlectual method of pulverizing the beaus. This beveled wheel is dragged around by a blindfolded buffalo. Being blindfolded, he avoids dizziness, which constant traveling around a circle would produce, and is less likely to become in subordinate. “After the pulverization process is completed the pulp is steamed. The fire used in keeping up steam is made with rice or wheat chaff. Handful by hand ful this light article is tossed into the fire, by which means great heat is se cured. After steaming, the mass is pressed into cake-*. r lhe size of the cakes vary from eight iuche* to about thirty inches in diameter, resembling the appearance of grindstones. The press consists of a horizontal frame on which a number of the forms arc placed. Pres sure is obtained by wedges. Farmers* take their beans to establishments to be converted into cakes, and in some localities the b an-cake maker takes the oil for his recompense instead of money. When soaked in water bean cake makes a good winter fodder for cattle. It is also used as a fertilizer. A Curious English Custom. One of the most curious custom* ever heard of was that which was observed on Thursday in the parish church of St. Ives, Hants, England. On a table in the church at the chancel steps were placed six Bibles, and near them a box and three dice. Six boys and six girls, solemnly watched over by the \ icar, the Rev. E. Tottenham, and a crowd of parishioners, threw dire each three times to see which should have the six Bibles. Three went to the boys, and three to the girls. The highest throw was made by the smallest girl, 37. This remarkable custom dates from 1078, when Dr. Robert Wyltle be queathed $250, of which the yearly in terest was to be spent in buying six Bibles, not to cost more than sl.* 0 each, to be cast for by dice on the communion table every year by six boys and six girls of th'? town. A piece of ground was bought witli the money, and is now known as Bible < rchnrd. The legacy also provided for the payment of i*\4o each year to the \ icar—not a very high price—for preaching a sermon commend ing the excellency, perfection, and divine authority of the Holy Scriptures. The will of the eccentric Doctor was exactly observed, and soi 1 more than two hun dred years dice were rcgulaily cast upon the communion table. Lately a table erected on the chancel steps was sub stituted, the Hi diop of the diocese ha - ing contidcre I that the communion table was not for throwing dice. The Vicar’s sermon this year was based upon the words: “ from a child thou has known the Holy Scriptures. New York Sun. New and Important Medical Fact. The Medical Review, commenting on the scientific and profound researches by Prof, fceegen, of \ ienna, and his conclu sion that the sugar formed by the liver is derived from albumen and fat, char acterizes his conclusion as a new and im portant fact—one not in accord with the previously entertained chemical and physiological ideas. Prof. Kcegen’s con clusions, briefly summarized, show that the blood passing from the river contains an infinitely greater quantity of sugar than that entering the organ, that the newly formed sugar in the liver is wholly independent of saccharine food, as well as of the carbo-hydiates induced with the food; that even the liver glycogen is unconcerned in the production of sugar in the liver, and that albumen and fat are the materials out of which the liver forms sugar. The demonstration of this fact was accomplished by bringing to sether5 ether fatty bodies and blood with finely ivided liver substance. This being so, the liver is pronounced to be the great laboratory in which food Is changed for the purpose of life, for the performance o! work iiiid the prcd.i:tioi: ;•? Usai THE TWIN STATES. I I NORTH CAROLINA. Winston experienced a devastating storm Monday. A boy named John Hinson, six years old, was kicked in the head by a horse Monday morning, at Shelby, from which he died in a short time. A large ratification meeting and torch light procession w r as held Tuesday night under the auspices of the Shelby Demo cratic campaign club. The Democrats of Rutherfordton have organized a Democratic camptign club with Dr. \V. D. Lynch as President. The Undertaker’s Association of the State held its annual meeting at Ash villc on Tuesday. The Richmond & Danville railroad- is extending the short line from Greens boro through the city of Winston on to Wilkesboro. A voting precinct is to be established in the town of Huntersville, in the new* township of Huntersville, Mecklenburg county. The Mecklenburg county Sunday School convention is to be held in the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion building m Charlotte on August 9th. Mr. Kerns, of Kernersville, while en gaged in painting Mr. Carr’s new resi dence, at Durham, fell from the scaffold, sustaining injuries from which he died in an hour. When the Roanoke & Southern rail road is opened to Winston and Salem another big boom may be expected. Oliver Dockery opened the State cam paign at Nashville, and spoke at Raleigh Friday. W. K. Vanderbilt, who has bought one thousand acres of land near Ashe ville, expects to build a residence on the land and occupy it next summer. Information throughout Catawba. Caldwell, Burke, McDowell and Cleve land counties, point to splendid crop prospects. The weed is yet small, but growing rapidly. Track-laying on the ’Carolina, Knox ville and. Western road has reached a point two miles beyond Greenville’s city limits. It is thought certain that the road will be completed to Marietta, twenty miles, by the last of the month. SOUTH CAROLINA. Chester is to have a cotton mill with a capacity of 300 looms. There is a movement iu progress at Yorkville to establish water-works there. Prof. H. G. Reed has l>een re-elected to the presidency of Walhalla Female College. Blr. John P. Kinard is the only mem ber of the Secession Convention from Newberry county, now living. The total amount of property returned for taxation in Newberry is $3,528,480. Sumter and Clarendon have determin ed to uuite In holding a Teachers’ Insti tute. A Young Men’s Christian Association has been organized at Chcraw with a large membership. Tho Lancaster Guardes are uow regu larly organized as a company of the State militia. A protracted meeting has begun at the Methodist church, at Gaffney City, Rev. Tom Lcitch is there. His fame as an evangelist has preceded him. The South Carolina Railway company furnished free transportation for 200 Sunday School children Saturday, who enjoyed a picnic at Pleasant Hill Mineral Springs. The next session of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Temp lars of South Carolina, will be held in Hamburg, Tuesday, July 17. J. A. Balch, a young white man 22 years of age, died on Sunday from hy drophobia, at Ridgeway, the result of a bite from a cat. A Cheap Tramp in Africa. Dr. Krause, who failed to get to Tira buctoo lust year because he would not pretend to l>e a volnmmedan, dis tinguished hini-e:f on that journey by making the cheapest trip on record. He set out from Ac ra on the Gold coast witli a capital of just $27.50, traveled north to within a short distance of Tim buctoos, and wended bis way back to the coast, happy in the fact that he had found a lever plant that kept him in i>ood health after his quinine gave out. He Journeyed alone, had no weapon of any sort, bcirgcd h s way or exchanged medical ser • ices tor food and shelter, and actually traveled about two thou sand miles, much of it through un known country, it has been supposed that Africa was a poor place for tramp 9, but the exploit of Dr . rause, who, by the way, is a very competent explorer, may Im* commended to the attention of any of the brotherhood who find the pickings poor at home.— New York 8a Lighted by 2000 Candles. The Archduke (’har’ea I.ous, the brother of the ! mpe or of Austria, has been splendidly feted during h»s visit to Madrid. A banquet was given at the fisluce, followed by a reception, both icing in every way worthy of the old reputation of the co rt. of Spain. The hall of columns, in which the banquet took place, was lighted by 3000 large candles, which were in the silver cande labra, and the t.uee-i wore white ostrich plumes and her rweU for the first tiiM since tho King’s death. Jjomlo a World. The value of the annual output of butter in h eland is estimated at not leas than <. A\(KootiU THE INDUSTRIAL SOUTH. Note* of Frotcreiu* in Manufacturing all Over the Southern States. The Bee Bfountain Company, of Le noir, N. C., has been organized to de velope mines, with a capital 'of $5,000,- 000. The Alleghaney Pulp and Paper Company, of Richmond, Va,, ha 9 been i chartered, with a capital of $50,000. The Newberry Cotton Mills, of New-! berry, S. C., are now putting in three j hundred and twenty 40-inch lcoms and ten 36-inch looms. Gustave Newman and August Elbert have started a knitting factory at New Orleans, La. Thc?y will be known as the Southern Knitting Works. The Egypt Coal Company has been incorporated and organized in Wake county, N. C. Its capital is $250,080. Its object is to develope coal mines in Chatham county, also to develope the iron deposits near by. The general office will be located in Philadelphia. At Montgomery, Ala., the Capital City Insurance Company will erect a fine office building, and the Montgomery Real Estate Company want bids for the erection of a seven-story building, to cost SIOO,OOO. A company is organizing at West I Point, Ga., to put up a cotton seed oil mil! and guano factory; capital $50,000. The Brewer Gold Mining Company, of Jefferson. H. C., are building an eighty stamp mill, the largest in the Atlantic gold belt. Three cotton factories are in progress i at Charlotte, N. C., and two at Fayette ville. There are now fifteen factories in construction in the State. George H. Griffin and others, of Ab ingdon, Va., expect to establish a foundry for the manufacture of nut locks. Phosphate beds twelve feet in thick ness have been discovered on iands in the Alligator vicinity, in Florida. A. F. Seifert, secretary of the New York Brewer’s Association, will establish an extensive brewery in Macon, Ga. L. H. White has started a factory at ( Waynesville, N. G., for manufacturing locust insulator pins. Norfolk, Va., claims the distinction of being tne world’s great peanut market. It disposes every year of 2000,000 bush els of peanuts—most of which grow in , Virginia. A cotton mill, with a capital of $200,- 000, i 9 to be erected at Columbus, Ga., for the manufacture of fine graded seer suckers and ginghams. One hundred thousand dollars have been subscribed to start a cotton factory at Eufaula, Ala., and a company has been organized. They will soon con tract for machinery. A Suit Against North Carolina. A suit for $900,000 bremght by Morton, Bliss & Co., against the State of North Carolina, is now pending in the Supreme Court The hanking firm wants the State tO make g6od $900,000 worth of bonds which Morton, Bliss A Co., bought while North Carolina was bein~ run the wild cat government that prevailed SOod after the war. If their $900,000 is good the State will have to pay $115,000,000 more on the same issue of bonds, and as some profound sages remark, “the Re publican* of North Carolina won’t hump themselves in the cause of a man who, may be the means of saddling $115,000, 0000 on the State. ” It is thought that this will dispose of Levi’s chances in North Carolina. Democratic Jollifications. The series of ratification meetings to be held at different points iu the State during this month has bsen arranged on the following schedule: Wilmington, Monday, July 9th; New Berne, Wednes day, July 11th; Goldsboro, Friday, July 13th; Fayetteville, Monday, July lGth; Raleigh, Wednesday, July 18th: Greens boro, Friday, July 20th; Charlotte, Monday, July 23d; Asheville, Wednes day, July 25th. The chairman of the Democratic Ex ecutive Committee of the county in which each one of these demonstrations ' is to be held is expected to take charge at once and proceed with all necessary arrangement.!. Charleston, Cincinnati anil Chicago* Track laying on this railroad has been completed to Blacks, H. C., and it isex expected that Rockville will be reached by September Ist. The grading to Blacks, which i 9 01 miles from the present end of the track at the Catawba river, has been completed, ami the rails for the truck purchased. From Blacks to Ruth erforJton, forty five miles, the road is in operation, and a continous line of road, 290 miles from Charleston to Ruther fordton, is expected to be opened early in September. The locating survey from Rutherfordton through Marion. N. C\, and Johnson City, Tenn., toward* Ash land, Ky., on the Ohio River, is nearing completion, The late Emperor William of Germany had a Yankee streuk of humor in him. It is told that once at a hunt the hunts men laid twenty-eight head of game be fore him, which they »%id he had killed. He smiled aud quoted: “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy *' Adding: “l or is it not a miru ie that I should have killed tweuty-cight lo ad while J had only twenty-live cartridges.” Excavations made in T intzuntzan, In Yacntas, Mexico, in search of treamresro sa d to have revealed a magnifu ent palace, which is an velweological wonder. Terms. $1.50 per Aran. Single Copy 5 cents. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Hum, sweet hum—The beehive. Loud shoes—Those that squeak badly* News of the weak—The hospital re ports. Tho latest thing out—Generally your match. The home stretch—A nap on tho lounge. Two for a scent—A pair of blood hounds. The shades of.night are not fast colors. The morning light fades them.—Dans title Breeze. When the young writer reads the re views of his first work he often finds it is a guyed book instead of a novel.— The Journalist. Luxuriant verdure decks the plains. The clover sweet tho sunshine tosters, And now the browsin ' goat disdains Tomato cans and circus posters. —Boston Courier. Gentleman—“ If ypu will get my coat done by Saturday I shall be forever in debted to you.” Tailor—“Oh, if that’s your game, it won't be done.”— Siftings. Down on the seashore a single wave from a,pretty woman’s handkerchief will, attract more attention than allths waves of old ocean put together. Texas Sift ings. The porcupine is probably the best in formed of all the animals. He can give you more points than you will know what to do with in a week.— Burlington Free Brest. Beneath a ripe persimmon-tree Two learned lawyers chanced to be. ••Climb,” said the first: “I’ll catch—you tossf ’em But t’other shook his head: “ Non possum!” , “ And so the ice cream season is again, upon us, George, she said shyly. “Yes,’*- he responded. “I never pick up a paper! now that I do not expecl to find some awful case of poisoning.”— The Epoch. Etiquctte-rlt is correct to address the Lords of the Admiralty collectively as “My Lords,” but it would be equally appropriate to add: “Ihope your War ships are getting along Punch. / The breezes flit soft on the prairie, The steamers ply free on the main, Maud swings <»n the gate like a fairy. And summer’s come back once again. —Duluth Paragrapher. Hotel clerks are popularly supposed to own the biggest uiamonds in the country, but this is not so. Baseball diamonds are the biggest things just now in the public eye. —Rochester Post- Express. A Pennsylvania man who had a land slide of about a million tons come down on his cow pasture, posted the following sign on the debris: “A new lot just re ceived. For sale cheap.”— Burlington Fret Press. Sir Morel 1 Mackenzie’s work on “Thf . Voice” is a staudaid authority, and yet the distinguished physioiap failed to note one Important fact, which is that the voice cheers, but docs not inebriate. r —New York Sun. “A rose by any other name would smell aa sweet”— 0 A maxim quickened by Shakespeare’* touch, t Alas, that Shakespeare did not tell us if 4 oth°r name would cost aa much! • Y I 4 *DKSS, w fiaid dmitii, with all I force of an original idea, “does not make a man. * “No,” replied Jones, gloomily, as he fingered his wife’s dress maker’s bill he had just received, “ but it often breaks a man.” —New Yosk News. The man who has a brand-new type writer, and leisure, and lots of liuen wove manuscript paper, cannot help feeling thit he has it in his power to make a big literary reputation for him self, if he can only think of something to say. — New York News. There was a young man in Cuba Who was learning to play a tuba, When the frail alto horn Tooted loudly in scorn. And provoked a rebellion in Cuba. r — Chicago News. “He’s no better, doctor. You told me to give Idm as much of the powder as would lay on sixpence. 1 hadn’t six pence, but I gave him as much as would lie on five pennies and two half-pennies, and it’s done him tin good at all, at aIL —San Fraricscio New*-Litter. Heboid him a man o;ice exaltod in station, Os friends and of future ber?ft A few simple words solve tho whole situa tion; He monkeyed with stocks and got left. — Sift i tigs. “I see,” said Mr. Ringfinger, of Phila delphia, “that the tachvglosus liystrix at the Zoo is dead. That is a severe loss.” “Oh, well,” returned Mrs Ring finger, “the Zoo is rich. They can send round to John WanamaKer’s and get an other. I hain’t got nosymp’thy for them folks.”— Ncr York Sun. “1 ne’er will wed a man,” said she. “I’ve only known o month or two; Not til! I’ve had tho change to see Hm character clear through and through.** Her suitor smiled; then answered he The maiden fair in tunes urbane: — “You surely ought to see through me, Since in my breast you've put in a pain.* — Boston Courier. Miss Belva A. Lockwood, in a letter to the New York Sun on the .definition of man, -ays: “Man 1* a comprehensive term, embracing woman.” We may not enthusiastically coincide with Belva on all political points, but when it comes to dictionary definitions we are with her body and soul. W*uh'ngton Critic. A Culinary Affray. Em*—“Look here Co Tee, I’ve settled you boforo, sad I*ll dc it now!”— •Life.