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R. H. COYAN, Editor and Proprietor. We Proudly call ours a Government by the People. Cleveland. TERMS 02.00 Per Yea r. vol. n. WADESBORO, N C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1886. NO. 19. i Tcrmsi-Cash in Advance. One Year - - . . . o on Six Months Three Montha $1.00 - - - - - 50 ADVERTISING RATES. One square, first Inserton Each subsequent insertion . . Local advertisements, per lint 3T"Special rates given: on appllcatlo LOO 50 10 for Advertisers are requested to bring In "thoir n-irertisements on Monday evening of each week, to insure insertion In next issue. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. John D. Pemberton. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. XW Practice in urts. the State and Federa JAMES A LOCKHART. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO. N. C. tW Practice at aft the Courts of the States ft. LITTLE. W. L. PARSONS i LITTLE & PARSONS, ATTORNEYS AT TLdAJW, WADESBORO, N. C. Collections' Promptly Attended to. II . PI. 13 o Few DENTIST, WADESBORO. N. C. Office over G. W. Huntley's Store. 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B., Principal, ' ?" Tle "Fall .Session begins en the 3d of "gut and runs through five months. T LI HON, PER MONTH." r ! unary. : '"! mediate, Vlvnnred t2.00 2.50 3.00 Board from $3 TO $10 per month. For furtb?r particulars address the Prin :pa). WI A. MURR, MlWrFACTCRER AXD DEALER IN Stores,- Tin-ware, Sleet-Iron AXD HOLLOW WARE. WADESBORO, N. C. HOTELS. When you go to Charlotte be sure to . all on S. M. TIMM0NS, ! FOR Fine Mountain Whiskies IN THE Old Charlotte Hotel CHARLOTTE, N. C. YARBROUGH HOUSE, KALEXGU, N. C. TRICES REDUCED TO SUIT THE TIMES CALL AND SEE US. ?HYCrtb. Around the ben With Id's car and flapping sheet I float And, hopeful, o'er the shining vista gloat, A current-borne creeps slowly on my boat Around the bend. The water's surface will be smoother there, The arching bows will frame wide views more fair. My white-bleached sail will bathe in purer air, Around the bend. No rudder will I need my skiff to guide, Nc tempests o"er my sky will wildly ride No rival keel will graze my vessel's side, Abound the bend. Down Time's broad stream I feel my life bark swine The future will but 4And an my ways Wjtn songs of praise trill J ring. Around the bend. Around the bend My boat goes on with jarrings much the same, Here beat the storms that up the river came, The view is change! in naught except in name, Around the bend. - My life is still the same unrest for me, My course is not more bright, nor quick, nor rree, The joy I fondly hoped I cannot see, Around the bend. Charles Horeau Harger, in the Current FAIK AND FICKLE. j "She is the most beautiful woman I i have ever seen." "She is handsome, certainly." "How oddly you say that, as though you bogrudged it to her!" I "So I do." "Why, what has she done to you?" : shrinking with a pretly affectation of terror from her companion, who has sud- j denly grown much too grave for a ball- , room, as he scowls at the graceful back I of the lady they are discussing. "Did Bhe break your heart, Captain Lawrence; ; or has she poisoned your best friend?" "That is just what she did. I do not meaD, of course, that she put poison in meat or drink for him," correcting his vehemence with a rather bitter smile, as ; the laughter dies out in the pretty eyes uplifted to his. "She did a thins mucb mora safe for herself, and quite'as deadly I for him; she poisoned his heart and hi mind until Eut it is a woman's privi lege to be fickle :"s it not, Miss Smart? and quite the man's fault if he takes her fickleness too seriously.'' "I shall not resent anything you ma say of women apropos of Mrg. Hamilton',- the girl says, gently. "You have suf I fered so much for your friend, that you have almost a right to be unjust to the' rest of us." "Let me tell you about her, and you will reali '.c that to see her here to-night, with everything that a vain woman cap desire, from a rich husband to a dress from Worth, is enough to make me cyn . ical even to you." "Please telim-." "We will go into the conservatory, then; it is quiet there, and I should be sorry, if the band were to cease suddenly, to be heard by half this crowd, bawlin.2 poor Fairfax's story, as' I should be obliged to bawl it here." "I must go back more years than I shall presently care to remember.for the time when I first, knew Fairfax was when we were at West Point together he and his sworn chum Brooke in the class next to mine. Fairfax was from my State, and our people were oi l friend. lie was 'the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.' A better son, a braver sol dier, a nobler fellow, than .rack Fairfax never lived. Brooke I only knew slight ly, but ho . was handsome as a young Apollo: all I ever heard of him was to his credit, and Fairfax loved him as as. David loved Jonatlan. I always use old comparisons from preference, von understand ; they have all the force of long naoit a? wen as 01 innate appropri ateness. "I left the Point, of course, ayesr b: fore they did, and was ordered to one of those places of exile to h:ch our gov ernment consigns her young officers, ap parently to give them the fullest oppor tunity of rusting out the education she has just given them. The next year, by a rare stroke of luck. Fairfax joined us at Fort . I never knew so happy and so hopeful a fellow. No duty was too trivial to interest him, no succession of monotonous days dull to him, for everything, litt'.e or great, was a prepa ration for the life before him the life that" was to be so long, so full of happi ness, of work, and of success. Good heavens! when I tbink what that'boy was and hoped to be,aud of how wretch edly it all ended, I wonder that civiliza tion is so much stronger than nature within me; that, instead of humiliating that woman before her courtiers with the story of her treachery, I only abuse he'r to you. "The world was a very fair place to Jack Fairfax just then,, and men and women nobly made in God's image, but far above the ordinary level of humanity he placed Fritz Brooke. He hoped to be a good and successful man himself, but he had not a doubt that Brooke would excel him. 'You may laugh at me, Lawrence,' he used to say, rather hurt at the amusemerit with which I re ceived some of these eulogies. 'The world will know that fellow some- day as I know him, and then even such a doubting Thomas as you are will be con vinced. He used to b:re me a little with this perpetual panegyric. Not that I had anything against Brooke, but that, like the Athenians, I was tired of hear ing Aristides praised. 'A year passed; Fairfax got his first leave, and went . home for two months, leaving such a blank behind him that we rather wondered how we had endured lifer before he joined. When he returned, the rumor of his engagement to Mi&j Chester preceded him, and I prepared myself for a new course of raptures, whh the variety of having 'her' for a subject instead of him.' To my surprise, he talked very little about her. . Theiweet est and truest of women loved him, and v. as to be his wife next year, and though absence from her wa hard to bear, yet a fellow so unutterably blest as bo hd no right to complain Tim was all he said. But if he had been happy before, he was as radiant as sunshbe now. Bad tem per, discontent, gossip, could no more exist in his presence than fever or mala ria in the sweet sunlight and fresh air of the prairies. The only shadow on -his content was some slight anxiety about Brooke, from whom he had only heard indirectly for several months, as that brilliant young officer had been sent on some scientific expedition to China or Japan. "The following spring was that of the French Exposition, and Miss Che ter went to Pans with her parents. It put six months more absence between Fa:rfax and his 'lady-love'; but he abused his selfishness roundly for his disappointment. The autumn1 came, they returned, p.nd, better still, Brooke crossed in the same sttamer with them, for he also had been in Paris for several weeks on business of the scientific expedition. Fairfax was to see his two idols at once, and if ever I see again a man as madly happy as he the night his leave came, I shall believe him what the Scotch call 'fey,' and expect some calamity to overwhelm him. The next morning he was officer of the day, and I was not surprised at hearing noth ing of him but toward evening his orderly brought me a note of two lines: " 'My engagement is at an end. "Will you make this known, as I do not wish to talk about iU' "I did what he asked me, and, to-the credit of human nature, in that dull gar rison, where every new subject was a bcon, not a soul ever asked him a ques tion or uttered a word of sympathy. He did not become cynical or have brain fever, as-heroes do in nove's under such circumstances. He looked rather badly, andwent abcu1 his duties more quietly; that wa3 all, except that Brooke, to my surprise, became as much a tabooed sub ject as iliss Chester. I was rather curious a3 to the cause of that silence, but de c"dcd that such a death-blow as one b lief had received was quite naturally, if unjustly, rather chilling to the other. Xone of our orfic?ra knew Brooke, so I did not discover the real state of affairs for months. "Fairfax gave up his leave, and the wint r qrept by, its usual monotony va ried toward spring by rumors of Indian outrages, which increased in horror and extent, until in May, to our grent pleas ure, we received orders for a summer in the field against them. It was the first bit of active service thit had come in Fairfax's way. as well as mine, and it roused him out of the quiet, reticent fel low he had become into something like the enthusiast we all regretted We were to bs largely re'nforced before leaving Foit by some lejjiments from other departments, and much interest was of course felt as to the strangers, or old ac quaintances, who were to be such close comrades through the chances of our first Indian fights. " 'I se.e we are to have Brooke with uV I said, congratulatingly, to Fairfax one night. " 'So I hear, he replkd. so brieflyand with such a change of color that for the first time a suspicion of the truth flashed upon me, and I began to divide my w; ath against Miss Chester with Brooke, and to be rather anxious as to what would hap pen when the two men met. The night the reinforcements arriver"1 the officers dined with all of us at the post com mander's, and he, of course, introduced to each other all who w-re strangers. When, in taking Brooke about the room, he came to where Fairfa- and I were standing, my friend, saia, quietly: 'I beg your pardon, Colonel, but even In your houss I cannot speak to Lieutenant Brooke.' "There was a moment's silence through all the confusion of voices; everybody seemed to have heard tho:e words, and to wait for the rep'y. Brooke, who had grown very pale, answered, with consid erable dignity 'Lieutenant I airfax has reasons for his words, which, though they are unjust, I will not dispute at present.' "The next afternoon we left the fort, and for some days the whole command kept together; but toward the latter part of the week the General decided to send a scouting party across the river along whose course we were marching. Two officers we e to go with this detachment, and Fairfax and I esteemed ourselves very lucky to be chosen. We were to march after supper, 'but the stream being swollen by recent, rains, and rising rapidly from hour to hour, as mountain torrents do, the scouts and soldiers, who were not so well mounted as Fairfax and I,' swam across at once, while we waited for the arrival of a? courier, who was momentarily expected. He arrived while we were at supper, and immediately afterward we 6hook hands with our com rades, and rede down to the stream alone. On its brifk, to my surprise, Brooke was waiting. He rode up to Fairfax and held out his hand. " 'Fairfax, he said, and his voice shook like a girl's, 'you sent back my letter last year rnread, and you refused to hear me last night , but for the sake of old times you must hear me now. You must" putting. Ms "hand on Fairfax's bridle as he turned the horse's head away. 'You an J I hae been too much to each othr. Jack, to let eren the womnn we j both love stand between us now, when ' any day may be our last' ,! " 'It is not she who stands between j us,1 Fairfax said, bitterly, 'but your own ' tna:he:y.' "I a-n no traitor!' Brooke cried, pas sionately. 'Before the God we may either of u tavc to meet at any moment I never knew your engajctaen : to Rose Cbestif until after out omc iac w nt.' "Yoti lier Fairfax rcp!:ed, with the dend'y coldne s of nc wh i h-ul wo: n out all the passion he cou'd fe 1. 'And jom are a coward, ?ir, to put th? bhirnc of your own falsehood cn the woman you say you love.' " 'What' Miss Chester did was done at first 6imply from a rush de :re for anvisc- . . . ment, afterward for love of me,' answered, haugbtilw 'That I endur such words as you have used must prove' to you the depth of my rcgr- t for the ;n I jury I unknowingly did you.' "He withdrew his hand from Fairfax'?.; bridle, and turned hn horse's head j toward the camp, while, without a word, 1 we rode into the river. It had risen greatly in the lat hour, and ihough rar row, the current was so swift and strong that we had some trouble to j,et cu.' horses across. Ju:t as we reached tht jhore a noise b'.'h'nd made us look ac.jn3 j Brooke had followed us, after all; hi i horse had managed same'.ow t throq I him in the water, and now, riderless, v.a' I iwimming towaid us. j " 'My God!' I heard Fai fax mutter ; and the next instant he had dismounted, j and was pulling off his boots and coat. j " 'Let him alone!' I cried, eagerly; 'he can take care of himself.' " 'He cannot swim,' he answered, shortly, and sprang into the river. "Five minutes after, while he was swimming about where Brooke had gone down, he uttered a kind of cry and sank. Of course half a dozen of us were in the ter at. once, but the current was stronger than we, stout swimmers though we were, and it was not until late that night that the detachment sent back by the General found the bodies, washed ash re almost side by side at a bend in the river's bank. There was a bruise on Brooke's temple, where his horsi had kicked him as they struggled in the water. He must have died instantly before Fairfax was out of his saddle TMere was nothing about Fairfax to show what had caused so good a swimmer to sink so suddenly, but I Are you one of those Christians, Miss Stuart, who think that God forbids the joy of heaven to those for whose patience the misery of earth has been too great?" "What do you mean?" Belle Stuart ask, rather breathlessly. "I mean, that though no one else has ever suspected it, I have a conviction that Fairfax could have saved himself if he would, but that wh?n he realized that Brooke was dead, and had died in the effort to win a word of kindness-from him, the moment's despair was too strong for his endurance." " 'Greater love hath no man than this, tnat a man lay down his life for his fiiend,' " murmurs Belle Stuart, present ly, with a little sob. "He died with his friend, because he could not die for nim and those are God's words." ( A little latter she is waiting alone for Captain Lawrence, who, not a little re morseful for having saddened her, has gone to bring her a glass of water. There arc tears in her eyes still, half of pity for the story she has just heard, half of joy for the story which she knows she soon will h?ar. There is a rustle of soft draperies, and from behind some tall plants comes the beautiful woman who had been Rose Chester. She com?s c!o?e to Miss Stuart, with a look in her lovely 1 - i miserable eyes that the girl will never forget. "You wept just now for them," she utters, passionately. "It was all my fault, all of it; but, oh, girl! pity me! pity me!" Then in a moment she is gone, ana through the silence tJirobs and thrills a "Waldteufei'' waltz, with all its love and longing and despair. Nellie Mickubi: hi Ifa -pcr's Weekly. Jinrikisha Men. A jinrikisha man is a sort of man horse, who put himself between.the thills of a two-wheeled vehicle in Japan, and draws passengers long distances with re markable speed. A Japan correspondent of the New York Tribune writes: The jinrikisha men of Japan are a pa thetic class. Their lives are limited to a few years after they begin the business, and yet their ranks are kept full by new recruits .Their queer little ways are a constant source of amusement and sur prise to the new comer. When A had been here but a few weeks, she called a jinrikisha one morning, as she wanted to go to the opposite 6ide of the bluff, more than half a mile "off. Previously she had made the same trip in a brougham on fine mornings. She was no sooner seated in the jin rikisha and well tuckedup in her lap robe, than the little Jap was off like a shot without asking or being told where he should take her. A- said to her self: ' . "Well, now, this is queer! I wonder if you know where I want to go? Yery well, you can go ahead, and I'll see ; I shall not volunteer any unasked-for in formation now!" ' The little man apparently needed none, for he continued on a fast trot. A 's wonder increased momentarily;, the" fun became exciting; she laughed quietly to herself. At last he stopped, dropped the thills, and relieved her of the lap robe with an air of absolute assurance that she was where she had planned to go and she was. Not a word had passed between them. LADIES' COLUMN. - Professional Nurses. ' There is a fine, large, red brick build- i inir at the foot of Fast Twent-sixth lrpifc and opposite Bellevue Hospital which is ckUed the "Training School for Nurses." The institution has been in existence sev eral years, and it does a vast amount of good. It is under the charge of Mrs. 8. Perkins, an attache of the Bellevus Hos pital. Women who desire to become trained or professional nurses must undergo in this institution a - thorough course of training, which is confined to lectures and to practical work. Cjnsiderab'e care i a rslrAn in 4-Via eal antiAn A 51 rf 4-Am f . . . trainintr The wnmpn mnfif h tpmnor i ate, cooi-neaaeq, ana sympathetic, ior I frequently the very life of a patient will depend upon the judgment and kindness j of the nurs3 in attendance. A cruel or j careless nurse could undo all that a corps j of the most distinguished physicians might do for a patient. J, The time necessary to train a nurse for her duties depends largely upon her in- ! telligence. Some would require a year's training, while others become proficient in far less than half that time. A giddy, frivolous,or nervous woman is altogether unfitted for the position, and no amount of training would bring her up to the required standard. A large number of these trained nurses readily find places in hospitals, private and public asylums, nurseries and lyinor- jn institutions. Their position is of the ! most trying character, and young women want to et an easy ijving ought i never become nurses. j Nurses must be prepared to woijk day ! or night, week day or Sunday. They ! are oppressed with a constant sense of j responsibility, and there is hardly any j bright side to their life unless the knowl- ! I edge that they are doing good and re- I lieving suffering serve3to gladden their j heaits. They are constant witnesses of j disease, aony and death. 2Tew York j Journal. ' ! About Stockings. The first silk stocking made in Eng land were knitted by Queen Elizabeth's silk-woman, Mistress Montague, who presented her Majesty with a rair of black silk ones, which she liked so well that she kept the donor- knitting silk stockings as long as she lived. Before the end of her reign stockings were made of silk, jarnsey, worsted, crewel, or the finest yarn or thread that could be had, and Stubbs remarks that the ladies were "not ashamed to wear hose of all kinds of changeable colors, as green, red, white, russet, tawney, and else what not, cun-t ningly knit and curioasly indented in every point with quirks, clocks, open scams, and everything else accordingly." The fashion thus introduced by royalty was soon adopted by the under ra.nks. The first peer who indulged in silk stock ings was that William Herbert called the "proud Earl of Pembroke." Prouder than ever, we can fancy him, in the dsys of trunk hose, long-wasted doublet and huge ruffs, appearing at Court In his new fashionable knit hose, and perhaps dancing a measure with the "virgin '. queen," her head covered with feathers, : her feet glittering in gold and silver cm ! broidered slippers, wearing her black siik stockings. King James I,, it is said, not only I wore silk stockings, but was so fond of I them that he lowered his kingly dignity so far as to ask one. of his courtiers to i lend him a pair. I That was royalty going a-begging with a vengeance when we read in a let ter still extant of how the King asked the loan of the "scarlet hose with he gold clocks" on one occasion, when he desired to give the French Amba?sador an "extraordinary idea of his magnifi- cence." It was a fancy with some lovcr3 of the . olden time to have stockings made from I their ladies' hair, they desiring, I sup- pose, t3 have their feet as well as their j hearts to be entangled in the meshes of : their mistresses' tresses. Philadelphia i Press. Fashion Notes. Crepe fans powdered with spangles are very effective in the evening. Cashmere, camel's hair, serge and su rah are used for traveling costumes. High linen collars and pique neckties are worn with tailor-made costumes. Silk gloves have chenille figures in bright colors embroidered on the arm. Tricotine silk is exceedingly effective and comfortable for dresses and jersey bodice3. Sash pins and slides are made an eighth of a yard wide. They are dainty for children. Tucks, through which colored ribbons are run terminating in loops, are a favor ite trimming for mantles, thin aprons, overdresses and even chemisettes. The favorite shades for gloves for -evening wear are putty and tan color. fFor wear with tailor-made costumes there are gloves of corresponding tint. Traveling dres:e for young persons are made with postilion bodice, kilt plaited skirt, short apron drapery in front and long straight drapery at the back. , Half-inch stripes of red, ecru and blue are shown for skirts of tennis dresses of which the overdress and waist are of plain blue, with collar and cuffs of the Btripe. The very prettiest hats of the season are now offered. The high crowns turned up on one side and trimmed with crepe lisse, flowers and ribbons are very attractive. . , CASTLE 'GARDEN. WHERE 153IIGKA.XT FF.OM THE OLB WORLD AIIRIVE. Scenes of Hu morons and Pathetlo Character How Emigrants are Received People in Variegated Array. A New York correspondent of the Al- any Journal says: Tr.e interior of Castle Garden is like a scene from comic opera. Everything is forc'gn. It is a great emi circular structure with as litt'e use itM ornamentation as a Kama barn. :The floor is divided into compartments by low railings, and in each of these is a lunch counter, a few benches, and a desk that looks i ke an auctioneer's stand. From one compartment, or pen, to another are passage ways Just wide, e .ough to admit one person at a time. When a fresh lot of emigrants arrives the (tc -ks are moved up to the railings by these passages and all the people have to pas? through and answer the questions of the inspector. The process is rapid, forat. this stage all that is learned is the emigrant's name,- his occupation or trade, ' etc. If a man is able to take care of himself he cva readily sho w it, and when there is ar,y doubt about it the inspector does not attempt to settle it but passes t';e man along into one of the neighbor ing pens, there to wait a further and closer examination. If in this examina tion the emigrant cannot show that he is prepared to make hi3 living without be coming a burden to the community, he is taken uo to Ward's Island to stay until the vessel on which he came is ready to return. He is then put on board and jets a fiee pass to his native land. There aro ilwajs immigrants in the t,krden. They are usually waiting for the departure of a train for ths West. 5cme of them are expecting relatives to call for them, aad as they wait they wan tier about in pairs or groups, or loll on the benches just like the choristers in an opera. The difference is that the chor isters are usually arrayed in their best gogrns and so present an attractive spec tacle of ga ly trimmed shot dresses, Inight faces and and ft geneial air of fes tivity, n the a ai drsi the short dresses tre to be seen ar.d all tha unique styles of lrifiarel known to Enropean peasantry, but the fine Colors are in the huge bun dle on the Poor, if present at all, and ihe faces bear expressions of fatigue and naduess. Wf 'men stalk. about in skirts that reach just, below the knees, the limbs being. protected from riew and the weather by heavy leather boots like those worn by Maine lumbermen. Many of the men. wear knee breeches and caps with feathers. Varied are th? emotions expressed by the people congregated in the garden. Watching them from the window in the secretary's office, which is one story above the floor, I saw a woman suddenly leave the lunch she was preparing for herself and several children ; and rush across the steps with' arms outstretched and mouth wide open in an exaggerated expression of joy. She ran full tilt into the embrace of a man who had just entered, and they hugged and kissed each other and danced up and down extravagantly for three minutes. The children came flocking about, some a little shyly, as if they were only fclightly acquainted vith the stranger or were only distant relatives. He gave-j them ail hearty paternal gs-sctings and j tfcey returned to the lun(hand ate to- j gether. It were easy snugh to build j up a pretty romance nbout that scene, or about the young comple in another pen who sat with their frms about each jther's waists and railed and smiled. But what of the sen ftJs of moaning and riolent weeping from people in a room ai joining the reception hall, if the rough garden can be so dignified? Simply a family of deluded Russians wh thought they were-coming to a country where bread crew on the trees, and houses were waiting tor them. The interpreters have told them their fate, that the must return by the steamer that brought them over, for they have not a dollar among them and know no trade. They have a remote chance left to remain, for if any one appears during their stay at Ward's Island, who will guarantee their support j or otherwise assure the commissioners ! iVmt. itipv w-'ll not become bererers. thev t CO - will be allowed to find a home in America. Immigration societies under the auspices of different nationalities are Constantly on the watch to see that no woithy mau gets treated unjustly through carelessness of the officials or from ths immigrant's inability to cxpla'n his con dition. ' The officers of these societies co operate with and assist the commis sioners in the discharge of their duties. It does not seem probable therefore that any cases exist where injustice has been j done by returning people to their native COUnt! 163. ) 'ragged Into the Air by the Teeth. At the Pare Leopold, Brussels, recent ly, Leona Dare actually performed the feat of holding on by her teeth to a slins suspended from the car of a baloon as it rose in the air. The balloon, of 33,316 cubic feet capacity, ca-Tying in its car the impresario, Spclterini, and the French aeronaut, Lachambrc, rose at quarter-past six; and it was only when Leona Dare could no longer be distinguished except with the aid of glasses, that she drew herself up to the trapeze and entered the car by a trap-door in the bottom. The balloon descented safely on the estate of the Comte de Beaufort, at Linden. Lon don Era. t is estimated, that -about 100,001 Species of flowering pianU arc now Known to botanists, but a more complet exploration of the globe may largely in crease or.even doable the number. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. Cows may haTe scarlet ferer. It at tacks cows with fresh calres before others! Coupling cars is a duty in which, ac cording to Prof. Arthur L. Hadley," there are 15,000 persons injured every year.' Of ancient Persian pa n tings there are now no remains or information. The walls of the. buildings were no doubt plastered and colored. The Wars of the Roses lasted thirty years from the first battle of St. Albans to the last one on Bosworth Field, and in that time there were twelve battles fought Dr. J. S. II. Fogg, of Boston, has a complete set of the autographs of the signers of the Declaration of Independ ence, having paid $50 for one signature aft f ra.Ti the fly-leaf of a book. The ancient Briton, before the coming of Julius Caesar, were very clever at bas ket work. They could even make boats of wicker, covered with the skins of ani mils, and very good wooden boats also. John Spaulding, , of Louisville, Ky., owns a big m 'stiff. Not long since she captured a d killed a eat, the mother of three kittens, and then, as if conscious of having done an evil deed, gathered hc little orphans to her aide, and has since tenderly cared for them and fed them w!ththe faithfulness of a mother. Far.ni saw many strange sights during hh r. C3nt passage through the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. Of natural freaks and wonders the surtply appears to be con i'je able One of them is a bug which, on being touched, emits a per fume, and two or three of which, carried in his wagon, scented it delightfully for vecks, The national health statistics, prepared lv Dr. Billin.Ts, show that in proportion to the pbpula' ion there arc more deaths from i ncumonia in New York than in any ot her part of the country. Dr. Draper, of the New York Meteorological Observ at ry, attributes this to the presence of ozone in the atmosphere; other authori ties; finding that the air of New York is very deScient in orone, think it due to , the absence of that healthful element. The 4hra e "man alive' originated in Rugiy School, England, and belongs in the vocabulary of public school words. It is an exclamation of impatience: "Man alive, what are you doing that forr" i. e: "You are a living man with your wits about you, haven't you more scnce than to do that?" It is interesting as o ;e of the comparatively few cases in .hi:b, in ordinary English, an adjective follows instead of preceding the substan live. These instauces are often of a re-' ligious kind, as "God Almighty," "Life eternal,'' "Faith unfeigned." Girls of h marriageable age do not like to toll how old they are, but you can find out by following the subjoined instruc tions, the young lady doing the figuring. Tell her to put down the number of the month in which she was born; then to mult ply it by two ; then to add five ; then to mult'ply by fifty; then to add her age; then to subtract 385; then to add 115; then tell her to tell you the amount sh? has left. The two figures to the right will denote her age, and the re mainder the month of her birth. For example the amount is 822, 6he is twenty-two yen s old, and was- born in the eighth month (August). iTry it. A Trick of. Chinese Thieves. When , not playing pool i or under the fuu excitement of tan, lottery or opium, the Chinese hoodlum of San Francisco is looking about for' something to take to his uncle. The police say that nine out of every ten articles to be found in a Chinese pawn-shop are appropriated by Mongolian roughs from the residences or premises of white cpMzens. The reason why they are not restored to their own ers is that their loss is rarely reported, as in most cases the articles stolen and in pawn are of small value. The opera tions of these thieves are not confined to the immediate vicinity of Chinatown, but are conducted in various parts of the city, and chiefly on quiet streets. It is said that of late bed-clothing has been taken to Chinatown in large quantities. Armed with a bamboo stick about four feet long, which may be readily length ened to fifteen or twenty feet by a tele scopic slide, the Mongolian hoodlum makes his way about dusk to a back or side window, which has been left open nt the top for ventilation. The pole is stuck through the window, being stretched out as it is inserted, and by mean3 of a small hook at the end bed spieads, b!ruikets, sheets and pillows are pulled thro-.iL-h the opening. It has sometimes occurred that bed -clothing has thus been removed while the bed contained an occupant who was sleeping soundly. In the case of an alarm the pole is dropped, and. being on the out side of the building, the hoodlum easily make his escape. This , method of thievery, which is a comparatively re cent invention, is mentioned in this con nection to show how adept the Chinese hood I ma. is in the practice of acquiring property which does not belong to him. There are hundreds of other methods employed for the purpose of enriching the stores of the Chinatown pawnbrokers and other receivers of stolen goods. By this means and by his petty swindling at the gaming-table the Chinese hood lum managci to secure a living without work, and enjoys a life of comparative else and luxury. t -n gi , Under the postal telegraph system it England that is to say, management bj the government of all telegraph lines the n imber of messages sent annually has increased from 9,000,000 in 18T0 t 84,000,000 in 1885. . . . . FUN. v A man not necessarily got a cold when he talks horse on the track. Statesman. ,. A lawn party is pleasant enough until it begins to rain. Then it becomes a forlorn party. The sad new has reached us that the infant King of Spain has taken to the bottle. Life. The reason that tramps arc so poverty stricken and wretched is because" they don't advertise. Pitck. "Lunchei thrown in," is a' prominent motto in some localities. Anybody who will take the trouble to watch the lunch counter will admit that they are. Bur- i " lington Free Prat. John, who hates study, but who is kept at a distant academy, threw down a letter from his brother in disgust when he observed that it begank "It is grati fying to learn. Sifting?. , There's popularity for you. High way Jim recently left a Nevada town, and the whole placo turned out to seq him depart." "How did he go?' "The newspaper says 'by rail.'" 'Tid Bits. Oftentimes advertisements are woe- ' , fully lacking in peispicuity: One, in -describing a patent infant feeding bottle closes with: '"When the baby has done drinking it must be unscrewed and laid in a cool place." That is why we sa'd the baby was patented instead of tha bottle. Call. V What is home without a fashion papert j Here we pick up one of these valuable journals, and this is the first item of im portant information.which meets the inV;: quiring eye: "Hair i worn on top of the j v head." So glad to learn so much. We always supposed it was worn on the soles of the feet. B trdctle. Nationalities in Congress. The Washington correspondent of the New York Stnatt-Zeitung writes thus concerning the nationality of the mem bers of the House of Representatives: There are eighteen members who wero born abroad, seven of them being natives of Ireland, namely: Davis and Collins ; of Massachusetts, O'Neill of Missouri, Woodburn of Nevada,, NcAdoo of New Jersey, T. J. Campbell and Dowdney of New York. Two were born in Scotland. Henderson of Iowa and Farquhar of New York ; two in England, West and Spriggs of New York; two in Canada, Gallinger . of $ew Hampshire and Adams of Nei York ; three in Germany, Lchbach of New r Jersey, Gunther of Wieconsin, and Ro- meis of Ohio ; one in Luxembourg, Mullor of New York ; and one in Norway, Nelson of Minnesota. To this' number may be added Caine, the delegate of Utah Tcrri- tory, who is aiv Englishman by birth. .';' Aside from the Pennsylvania Germans, Ermentrout, Sowden, . Negley, Brumtn, Everhart, Storm, etc., all of whom -speak German - more or less correctly" and fluently, thrro arc to be men tioned among Representatives of Ger--man descent who have not neglected; that languago only. Belmont of New York and Kleiner of Indiana. Her-i.' mann of Oregon, the son of a German physician', has almost completely forgot-" r ten his German. On the other hand, 5 there are quite a number of non-German Representativci who know German very well. Henderson, of Iowa, speaks and t writes to his German constituents only in that .language; Adams, of Illinois, having conquered the High German, is now busy withl'ncle Brasig'a Platt deutsch; Pettitour, of Tennessee, is a great Schiller enthusiast, and recites with great gmto "The Distribution of ; the Earth," he being a-poor poet himself. Reed and Millikcn, ofMaine, are aoj$ embarrassed if addresed In German - and Crain, of Texas, La Folette. of Wiscpn- sin, O'Neill, of Missouri, Loutitt,- of California, Hitt, of Illinois, Le Fevre, of Ohio, are far beyond the average yo-; cabulary of "Wie geht's?" and ."Zwei B'er!" Moreover, if one considers that ' among the Congressional (mployes there ' are a number of Germans, and that among the correspondents of the English papers there are several who speak and write German, one may well say that even if the Germans, are not numerously represented in Congress, the German language decidedly is.' f Mexican Vanity. , A Washington letter to the ""Bo? 4 Traveller says : The Mexicans are an ig- norant, bloodthirsty lot, who are never 60 happy as when in the midst of pillages, robbery and' blood shed. They are a vain, conceited people, and have the most en larged ideas of their -own prowess and valor. To illustrate this I will tell you of a certdn incident which happened " only a month or two ago. A young Mexican from the City of Mexico, who is connected with the government, caine to Washington, after a tour of nearly all the prominent cities of the country. I , asked himj whatTmpfessions were of our people. HesaH'he wa astonished -at the strides which the Vn'ted States had made in the civilization and the arts. He spoke particularly of music,N of Which he is very fond, aiid said tint he had the good fortune to be present at " the concerts given by the famous- Mexi can band in New York and Boston. The audiences were evidently cultivated and appreciative, but he was particularly Struck with the fact that !hy applauded in the .right places. Th'.s . h J . s . d ft c-.l to be a most remarkable fact, IcJausc, He said, Mexico was two centuries in ad vance of this coiiniry. Now that man waspcrfect'y reriouv He meant every word he said. You cannot get a Mexi can to believe that his country is not tho greatest, the grandest and., the most in-, vincible nation non- the fare of - the globe. - . .'. 7.
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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