fc'F0R GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
W. FDfTCHKB AUSBOK, EDITOR.
C T. W. AUBBON, BUSINESS MA1UOEB.
VOL. III.
PLYMOUTH, N. C.; FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1892.
NO. 46,
Published by Roanoke Publishing Co.
The average duration of human life is
, laid to increasing' at the ratd of tea years
each century. " : '
It is said that the salo of the average
novel docs not exceed "1000 copies, and
that publishers regard themselves as un
usually fortunate when called ou for a
Bocond edition.
1 The Chicago Times notes that rural
delivery of the mails is being generally
supported by the different farmers' organ
izationjy ,The Grange has taken special
interest in it, and following the' action
of the National Orange the various State
Oranges have indorsed the measure.
Governor Knapp, of Alaska, calls at
tention in hit annual report to the slowly
developing cod fishersies that promise to
become an important industry." Two
San Francisco firms have gone into the
husfnoofl Axtensivelv. And thnir ratr.h ii
: valued at more than $500,000 annually.
There are immense banks off the Aleu-
.. tian Isles where the fish abound, and the
fishing grounds have never been half
txplorei. 'It ? is not improbable,'
presets the St Louis Republic, "that
Alaska will soon furnish all thev codfish
this country will be abhv to consume."
There are great evidences of progress
In the make-up of dairy schools at the
- present time, the American Dairyman is
gratified to note. Minnesota is coming
forward with a-beauty, while many other
States can boast of excellent work done
in this line. This branch of the dairy,
the school, we consider the most prom
ising of any. If the young people can
be made to take a live interest in these
schools, there is no telling how high
they will push the science in the future. ;
The children of to-day are the men of
to-morrow, and if we can put the
knowledge we now poss3ss in the heads
of our children,' then their children will
be prepared to carry forward the science
to its utmost limit. . - '
A philanthropic French gentleman has
bought in the neigborhood of Paris a
large piece of ground, on which he in
tends to build a new sort of . charitable
lnatilnMnn. iehlr.1i will trn bv thn namn
the Hospitality of Work. There genu
ine workmen who are in distress because
they are out of employment will be
given work to do, and be paid daily for
it, food being also provide 1 for them at
very reasonable rate. The founder used
to waste a good deal of his money in
amateur charity, but he was cured by an
experience. lie found a ' wretched
woman shivering beneath a few filthy
rags in a box in a garret, and opened his
heart and purse to her until he discov
ered, to his infinite wrath and disgust,7
that the garret was a theatrical property,
bo to speak, for wringing the hearts of
the benevolent, and that the shiver
ing outcast actually lived in great com
fort with her husband in a snugly fur
nished room on the first floor. This
object lesson opened his eyes effectually,
and hereafter ho will help only those
who help themselves.
The Great Western Railway Company,
of England, figurss id another curious
suit. - All trains on that road are bound
by a castiron contract to remain for ten
minutes at Swi: Jod, in the interests
chiefly ef a refreshment bar. The other
day, however, a train only waited seveu
minutes, and in consequence a Mr. Low-'
enfeld was left behind. Thereupon Mr.
Lowenfeld ordered, a special train to his
destination, and gave in payment there
fore a check for $160, which he stopped
at the bank. As a matter of course the
company sued for the money, and Mr.
Lowenfeld in his defense argued that
they had committed a breach of contract
in leaving him behind, and that they
ought to be held responsible for the ex
pense -which he had incurred through
their negligence. Mr. Justice Mellish,
however, held that it was unreasona
ble to allow a passenger to put the com
pany; to an expense to which he would
not think of putting himself if ne had
no company to look to." Would Mr.
Lowenfeld, he asked, have ordered a
special train if he had the least idea of
paying for it himself? He thought not,
and ordered the defendant to pay the
$160. At the same time it was clear.
he said, that the company was respoosi-1
ble for the cost of the journey of Mr.
Lowenfeld from Swindon to his destina
tion, and for minor incidental expenses,
for dispatches, etc. He -thought $15
would about meet the requirements of
the occasion. An easy calculation will
-h?w that Mr. Lowenfeld lost his trub,
) '8 Owe, his tempt r, as 1 $115.
' LOVE INDEED.
Our love if done!
I would not have It back, I nru ,
I would not have my whole year May!
But yet for our dead passion's sake,
Kiss me once more and strive to make
Our last hiss the supreme one;
For love is done.
Our love is done!
And still my eyes with tear are wet
Our souls are stirred with vain regret ;
We gaze farewell, yet cannot speak,
And firm resolve grows strangely weak,
Though hearts re twain that onca were
one, vi A "
Since love is done.
But love is done!
I know it, tow it, and that kiss
Must set a finis to our bliss.
Yet when I felt thy mouth meet mine
My life again seemed half divine,
Our very hearts together run I -.
. .- Can love be done?
Can love be done?
Who cares if this be ma 1 or '"wise?
Trust not my words, but re id my eyes,
Thy kiss bade sleeping love awake;
Then take me to thy heart; ah I take
' The life that with thine own is one.
. Love is not done!
Toronto Truth.
NAPOLEON'S WOOING.
BT GEOBGE A. HARRIS.
own
i vw supper over a biasing
f ood fire one hot
i t W E evening in July, Na
il IZK. ttWWXi twleon Crowe felt
that he . was icdeed
born to misfortune
Klike the sparks that
flew upward.
For forty years he
bad tilled the stony,
stubby little farm
which at its best had
never yielded its
owner more than a precarious living, and
now at the age of sixty he was alone in the
world, having a few months previously
buried his third wife.
Whether it was owing to an inherent
delicacy of constitution, a lack of ap
preciation and tenderness on his part
or a too continuous diet of stewed yellow-eyed
beans and pork, we are unable
to determine, but for some mysterious
reason Napoleon's wives refused to thrive
on his hands, and drooped and pined
away, one after auother, until he was al
most convinced that in his case marriage
was a failure. ; v:
- That he had been his own housekeeper
for a period of seven months, every room
and closet in the dreary old farmhouse
bore evidence, and the numerous ' scars
on his hands and arms, testified to the
burns and scalds he had received during
his cooking operations. .
For Napoleon was peculiarly unfortu
nate in his culinary experiments. If af
ter serious reflection, he decided that he
could afford a small roast for the Sunday
dinner, to which he invariably invited
his old crony, Jotham Sparks, that roast
so tenderly watched and jealously
guarded for hours was in the end tem
porarily forgotten,' while Napoleon was
grappling with the biscuit problem, and
burned to a blackened crisp. .
He baked beans without pork, forgot
to put the meat in his soups, or the salt
and pepper in his vegetable hash ; left out
the sweetening from bis apple pies, the
Bait from his butter, the eggs from his
custards, and wondered why he had no
appetite. ,c ,:
After a multitude of disastrous tailures
similar to the , ones we have recorded,
Napoleon resolved he would, from mo
tives of economy and otherwise, confine
himself exclusively to a diet of flour bis
cuit, hot from the oven, alternating with
such relishes as molasses, fried pork fat,
and the unsavory production which once
in four weeks be churned, and spanked
and patted with his big, hairy hands,
and designated as"butter."
. Three times a day regularly, Napoleon
produced a small wooden dough : dish,
and after mixing together sour milk,
saleratus and flour, toiled and sweated
over the sticky mass until it went into
the oven huge, unsightly lumps of spot
ted dough, and came out the same.
It might have been the legitimate re
sult of eating his own hot biscuit, but
within a few weeks he had develoyed in
to a gloomy pessimist. He neglected the
poultry and stock, allowed the weeds to
flourish in the garden, and seemed to
have lost all interest in life.
. Everything went wrotg with Napoleon.
The old cow ran dry three months earlier
than usual, and the two-year-old heifer
choked te death in her stall. As a
natural sequence, his groans and sighs
became louder and more frequent,
Thirty hens and two roosters cackled
shrilly from morn till night, and though
he crawled under the barn on his bands
and knees, and climbed ladders to the
highest scaffolds at the risk of breaking
his neck, not a solitary egg gladdened
his anxious eyes.
One morning his friend and sympa
thizer, Uncle Jotham Sparks, called bo
fore breakfast to borrow a rake.
Just" bavin a bite, hey?'' observed
Uncle Jotham, his eyes wandering to the
bare pine table adorned by a tin of steam
ing yellow biscuit.
Ya-a-s,M answered Napoleon in a dis
satisfied tone, l'm tryin' to heat a drop
o" water to make a cup o' tea to go with
them ero biscuits. Won't you hev a bis
cuit, Jot hum!"
rouo
rpcL-'ii Jcthar with
avsatrojiBiiv
alacrity. "Thanky, I've been to break
fast an hour ago. "
; "I know it's late," sished Naooleon.
"but I've had a regular tussle to heat
this dipper o' water. I broke my tea
kettle bypourin' cold water in it when it
was red hot, and I haia't had any tea
kettle -to use all summer. It's ter'ible
hard for a man that hain't never been
used to putterin' rouud the house to do
their own cookin' and housework."
It must be, I vum," said Jo thorn, and
he edged away to an open window to
avoid an offensive odor that arose from a
bean pot on the stove hearth.
V MJotham,' said he solemnlv. "Jotham.
ain't you seen, can't you see that I'm
laiiin' from the crust?"
Jotham shook his head mournfully as
he stooped to light his pipe.
"Yes, Napoleon, I've seen all summer
that you ve been - fauin' you've grown
oia, ana thin, and gray, and bent over,
ana aon i iook mucu nice tno man vou
was a year ago."
"Do you think I'm pinted for the
grave, Jotham?" he groaned.
-ro, saia ne oiuntiy, "out you
won't live six months unless you git
some woman here to cook your vittles,and
do your waahin', and keep the house
wholesome. Why don't you hire
woman, and pay her so much a week."
' "I couldn't afford it; all the income
git from . the farm wouldn't pay her
wages, I think myself, not relishin' my
vittles Iras something to do with my on
happy fselinsV' ; . .
. "You might git merried,' suggested
Jotham.
"Ya-a-s, I've thought o' that. I know
of a smart, likely woman that's wuth
some prupputty that I think would jump
at the chance to git me to-day. She's a
wilder that I courted some when I was
young, and lives on -a farm somewhere
in Stoughton. T4 slick up a little, and
go up and see u she would like to
change her condition, if 't wasn't for the
neighbors talkin. " You know I hain't
been a . widderrer this last time only
about seven months."
"I know, but circumstances alters
cases and if you can't afford to hire a
housekeeper, you had better hunt up a
wife lively. Let the folks talk if they
want to. You hev a smart woman come
here, and scrub and scour, and brighten
up '. things, and cook you three good
tetnptm' meals every day, and you'd soon
begin to fat up, and be as strong and
ambitious to work as ever you was in
your life. Now, I do hope Napoleon,
you realize jest how slim and peaked
you are Iookm , and if you don't want to
slip your wind afore the snow flies, take
my advice, and marry that 'ere -widder
just as soon as she'll hev you," and tak
ing his rake, Jotham departed, , leaving
Napoleon to his thoughts which were not
pleasant by any means.
For, several days after, Napoleon
wandered around in a discontented.
absent-minded way, as though he was
uncertain whether to take Jotham s ad
vice or not.
At length, on this hot July evening
when we introduce him to our readers,
having nearly caused a conflagration by
upsetting a kerosene lamp which ex
ploded in the flour barrel, Napoleon
gnashed his teeth, as he tore around the
room in his efforts to extinguish the.
flames, and vowed he would have a wife
to cook his suppers before the week was
out. -'
"Ain't this a pooty way for a man o'
my years to bo livin' I" he muttered sav
agely, as be vainly tried to make the
lantern wick burn. "There the danged
thing has gone out, and I might as well
give up I've got to set here in the
dark, or else crawl to bed without a
solitary nibble o' nothin' in my poor
slummock, and I'm ready to faint.
S'posel'll put up with this any longer!
not by a jugful I If . the sun rises to
morrow mornin, it u see me streaKin
for the Widder Spooner's I Let the
neighbors talk if they want to, what
they say don't put slap-jacks into my
mouth, or mend the big holes in my
stockin's. Yes-sir-ee," and he snapped
his fingers defiantly. "Let 'em talk; I
don't civ dang. ; If Eunice Spooner
will hev me, we'll be merried short-off;
that's flat."
The Widow Spooner was in her straw-
berry patch pulling up the weeds, and
she was about to throw them over the
fence as little Kit tie Henderson came
rushing around the corner.
"O. Aunt .Eunice I" she exclaimed
breathlessly: "Mamma sent me over to
borrow some cream of tartar, and don't
you think the awfulest looking old
tramp has followed me way through the
woods, and bo's sitting down on the big
rock in the lane now I . Oh, dear 1 I
daren't go home, what shall I dot" and
Kittie began to cry.
"Tramp, hey!" said the widow,
coolly, "that's nothin' new. I've been
jest pestered to death with tramps this
summer. There was two called here last
night, and they was jest as sassy as a
lord, and wanted me to give 'em some
supper, but they didn't git any, jest the
same. You wait a minute till I can look
after my bakin', and I'll go home through
the woods with you, Kittie. I never see
the tramp yet I was afraid of."
with Kittie folio wing close at her
heels, Mrs. Spooner proceeded to the
kitchen, where, thowing open tho oven
doors, she displayed a pair of beautifully
browned chickens ; which, sent forth a
most Appetising odor . t : w
"There, Kittie, jest look at my fowls,
ain't they doin' lovely? I've been doin'
lots of cookin to-day, and I do wish
some interestin' cor.pany would happen
akr,;. I've tad i' aa of a stranger all
the afternoon; two chair backs got to
gether, and I bumped my elbow ag'in
the pump handle'' ' -
At that moment there came a loud
knocking at the door. Kittie gave a lit
tle shriek.
."It's it's him, auutie !" she gasped.
"Ifs the old tramp." ,
"Is it?" said the widow; brtfsquely.
"Jest let me git my weapons ready, and
I'll soon start him goin."
With a saucepan of. boiling hot water
in one band, and a fire shovel in the
other, Mrs. Spooner advanced boldly to
the door.
In the semi-twilight stool a seedy
looking individual, wearing a siouch hat
and covered with dust.
"Could you ahem give -me "he
began in a hesitating manner, then hastily
retreated a few steps as he caught a
glimpse of the war-like implements ia
the hands of the widow.
"Yes, I'll give you, cried the widow,
"a good whackin' with my -shovel, and
a scaldin' to boot, if you ain't off my
premises before I can count ten. You
great, lazy loafer. "Ain't you ashamed
round trampin' and beggin' your livin'?
Why ain't you workin' on some railrcai,
diggin' ditches, you shiftless hulks?'
; . .. ' 'I I hain't round beggin no livin',"
stammered the man, his eyes firmly riv
eted on the widow's weapons. "I ain't
no tramp neither I'll have you to know-
I" ;-,
"Oh, no, you're no tramp, none of
'em is, you're a bank president most
likely. Come, git; put yourself I"
. "I won't stir a blarsted peg," he splut
tered.' "Yju can't drive me till I've
had a chance to tell you who "
"I can't, can I! We'll see about that,
you wretch. Follow me with the tea
kettle, Kittie, I'll scald him to death.""
. Mrs. Spooner's appearance as she
screamed out these words was more that
of a modern Amazon than a staid elderly
widow, and with a smothered shriek the
man fled precipitately before her, never
pausiug until he ignominiously tumbled
over a rock-heap by the roadside.
There, Kittie," exclaimed Mrs.
Spooner, as she came into the kitchen
flushed and triumphant, "I've sent him
about his business. .I've learned by ex
perience that soft words don't count with
the tramp gentry, and I guess this per
tickler one won't visit me ag'in."
"Why. auntie," said Kittie, staring
hard out of the window, "he ain't gone;
he's sitting down by the barn now."
"Why, how you talk, lias he had
impudence to come back here? Well,
now you jest wait; I'll start mm out oi
my door-yard, or I'll know the reason
why!" . . 1
With hurried and determined steps she
took her way down to the spot where a
forlorn-looking figure was seated on a
huge: bowlder, sorrowfully rubbing his
knee-joints. - ;
"Come," said she, "what in the world
do you mean by ' hangin' round here?
Why don t bless mv soul this am t
it can't be Napolecn Crowe?"
"Yes, it s mc, said Napoleon plain
tively;
"Took to trampin' round the country,
and scarin' little girls? You !"
"It's a danged mistake," said he. "I
hain't trampin' round no country, nor
scarin' no little girls either. I wasn't
never in this place before, and I didn't
know fur certain which house you lived
a " ; -
in, and so i was goin to inquire u you
could give me any idee of where the
Widder Spooner lived, and you come at
me with a fire shovel and a buckec o .
bilen water." ' ' , i-
"Why didn't you tell your name?"
"You didn't give me no chance, did
you? I tried to tell you my name, but I
couldn't get a word in edgeways. I ex
pected a different welcome from you,
Eunice, beta's we was alius such good
friends, and I'd walked fifteen miles to
ask you to marry me."
A warm nush rose to the widows sun
burned cheeks. If it was a person on
earth who had always held a warm cor
ner in her heart, it was Napoleon
Crowe. - - ' . V
"Napoleon," hazarded she, "it was a
dretful misunderstanding.
(iI should hope it was,I swan," sighed
Napoleon, still rubbing his .bruised
knees'. " L
"It was all Kittie's fault; she told me
there was a tramp at the door, and I was
that mad and excited I never took a
good look. You've no idee how I've
been pestered . with , thumn , sassy
tramps, Napoleon."
"1 don't doubt it.Eunice. You naan'c
ought to be livin here all alone."
"You hain't goin, Napoleon. Do
stop and have some supper-"
'Do you really want me too, Eunice i v
"Of course I do. Napoleon, and we'll
have roast chicken anil crean biscuits."
"And you'll hev me, Eunice!"
"I will,Napoleon." Yankee Blade.
Bees Guided by Colors of Flowers.
Because some one cut the petals from
a blue lobelia, and then found that the
bees did not visit it afterwards, though
there were honeyed secretions in the base
of the flower, the opinion has been ad
duced that bees are guided to flowers
solely by color in cases where flowers
have no fragrance. But most American
observers know that bees visa flowers
that have neither color nor fragrance. In
the lobelia case' the bee probably took
Ihe flower for a dead flowtr, which it
knew from experience it was useless to
visit. Bees are sensible creatures. New
Orleans Picayune.
It is customary in Sweden to htng the
doorkey up outside the house to eijow
thr,t the family is not at home,
WARFARE ON THE BORDER.
HOW THE EANOEKS PROTECT THE
INTEBEST3 07 TEXAS.
Hardy, Courageous and Thoroughly
Able to Handle Predatory In
dians and Frontier IlufAans.
J EFERRINO to the noted Texas
Rangers, the New York Tri-
bune says The present bat-
talion da.es its history back to
1871, when Richard Coke was Governor
of the State. Texas was then overrun
by Indian marauders, - desperate border
ruffians, and cunning Mexican bandits.
These law-defying people were numeri
cally strong, and life and property were
not secure in any part of the k State.
Ranches within half a mile of large towns
and cities wero lawlessly attacked and
robbed. The regular State troops were
too cumbrous a body to prevent such
raids, for long before they could move
upon the enemy they bad fled to other
parts of the land. There seemed to be
only one way to solve the difficulty, and
that was to organize the companies of
Rangers. This was done immediately,
and the Legislature of the State appro
priated $600,000 for the purpose, upon
the recommendation of the Governor.
With the organization of the Rangers
a new era of prosperity and peace opened
for Texas, and the "Frontier Battalion"
performed 'work that, has not been for
gotten to-day. The remnants of that
battalion are now stationed on the
border, ready to intercept any filibuster
ing party at a moment's notice. The
battalion consisted of 375 men, divided
into five equal companies. They were to
act as special protectors of the State,and
they performed their work so well that
in a few years the Indians were entirely
suppressed, desperadoes Killed on or
quieted down, and the Mexican bandits
driven back over the border line. As
the result of their s work the Rangers
were publicly thanked by the Legislature,
and many private marks of esteem shown
to them. .
Although their numbers have steadily
decreased since then, the Rangers have
become a permanent fixture in the State,
and their services will be needed so lonsr
as the vast stretches of the country are
unsettled and the home of many law
defying persons.,, Each company now
contains about twenty men, but
. there are many auxiliary bands
which can rapidly be impressed into
the service when needed. When on
duty the Rangers are always busy, and
consequently happy. ,. The dangers and
privations of their hard duty are always
preferred to the quietness and inactivity
of the camp. Often they are compelled
to make forced marches of many miles,
and they show their endurance in the
saddle by riding for twenty-four hours
or more at a stretch. They follow the
trail of the enemy through rough, moun
tainous passes, across ilanoand mesa, and
over pathless plains with tireless energy,
until the Indians or desperadoes are
caught. Then with equal disregard for
their own personal safety, they rush into
the battle with the determination to con
quer, and generally they succeed in this.
Superior forces, often outnumbering
their own five to one, are attacked with
the same amount of self -confidence, and
so effectively do they use their weapons
that all fall before them. They have won
a name throughout the State which sends
the cold shivers down the backs of those
on whose trail the Rangers are placed.
The Rangers furnish their own weap
ons and horses, and each one is com
pelled to have a good Winchester, a
Colt's revolver and a bunting knife. The
State furnishes them, when in active
duty, sixty rounds of ammunition for the
rifle and thirty rounds for the revolver.
Tents and food supply are also given to
the Rangers at the expense of the State.
They are not hampered by the heavy
equipments, and at a moment's notice
they can leave their camp and start in
pursuit, of the enemy. A small mule
pack slung over the sides of the saddle
contain about all the necessary equip
ments that they need, and with this they
start out over as dreary and wearisome a
trip as was ever devised by man.
When in camp the Rangers are never
entirely satisfied, and they long for some
exciting revolution which will give them
active service. The State continues to
pay and feed them, but as the men enlist
only for one year it is an easy matter to
decrease or increase the force at will. If
continually in camp, many of the Rangers
drop out at the end of a year or two and
enlist again as soon as trouble is brew
ing. Every man it eligible again unless
he has been discharged dishonorably.
Frequently Rangers are discharged for
the infraction ot some rule while in
camp, but they can join other 'com
panies, except for a few grave offences,
such as cowardice and theft. The Gov
ernment pays the Rangers at the rate of
30 a month lor privates, $35 for corpor
als, $50 for first sergeants, $75 to lieu
tenants, and $100 for captains.
The discipline of the Ranger com
panies is sui generis, and unlike anything
that prevails in the regular State or Gov
ernment troop , camps. In fact,' no dis
cipline or rules exist, it might be said,
and yet every man knows his duty, and
they act together as a unit in battle.
The reason of this lack of discipline is
d-to the lact that every Ranger is an
terienced hunter, scout, fighter and
soldier before he enlists, and, being well
acquainted with the life in the rough
country, they know instinctively what to
do in every emergency. Theirs are no
drills or parades, aad one inspection a
year euSccs, Tfcers are certain iTisipns
among them, and a few rules about act
ing as scouts, guards an4 similar work.
They depend upon each other, and they
are more like a company of old trappers
banded together for mutual protection.
When fighting the Indians they conceal
themselves behind rocks and trees, each
man for himself, and every one for the
whole company. " They cling together,
and yet fight after their own fashion.
The lack of any cast-iron discipline
probably makes thf at more effective in
quick and sudden t lids. .
When in camp to horses find their
own ; feed by rosining over the rich
grassy lands, but tby are so well trained
that they never strsy to any great dis
tance from the carcp. As soon as the
call to arms is announced tho Ranger?
are up and dressed in an instant and in
an incredibly shc-rt time they have
caught their horses and are ready for the
march. The shooting of a gun is always
tho signal for evfry Ranger to get his
arms ready for wcrk. Trials when the
Ringers have net been expecting any
call show that thy can jump from their
bunks, get dressed, and have their rifles
leaded and in position for defending
their camp inside of two minutes after
the alarm is sounded. New York Tri.
bune. "
SELECT SIFTINGS. V
Florida water afford fine fishing. '
A hunter in Maine claims to have a cat
that will stalk grouse.
In China slips of mulberry bark serve
as money in the interior towns. ;
A whale, thirty-three feet in length,
was towed into the port of Santa Bar
bara, Cal., recently.
The Mosquito Indians of Central
America inter their dead beneath the
floors of their huts.
Civil engineers report that Lake Nic
aragua, Central America, is full ol
sharks, and it is a mystery how they have
gotten there.
Birmingham, Ala., has passed a reso
lution taxing and liorising almost every
.trade, occupation an profession in that
city for municipal revenue. ,
Squire Johnson, a Justice of the Peace
at Grayson, Ky., h&i enrolled himself as
a scholar in a country school near his
home. He is forty ears old.
Leprosy is inoreavng to an alarming
extent in Spain. In one village there
are said to be eight families, every mem
ber of which has te dread disease. .' -
A hotel-keeper a tho upper shore of
Lake Michigan proposes to transport his ;
big hotel over the lake on a raft to
Chicago in tima t open in the spring of
1893. - -
A descendant ci General" James Ogle
thorpe, the fouudiir of Georgia, is suing
for a large portion . "of Savannah real
estate, to which he behove himself en
titled. .
Birds have Iiorns sometimes. The
horned screamer (which is related to the '
duck) has a single horn attached to its
skull, springing lrom a cartilaginous base
and curving upward. -
Pheasants first came in to England dur
ing the itomau period; taey aia not
make their appearance in Scotland much
before the seventeenth century, or in Ire
land before the fifteenth. . , ;
Wood cut down in winter is consid
ered more durable than felled . in sum
mer.;; In many countries the forest laws '
enjoin the felling of trees only between
November 15th and February 15th.
Among the weavers employed in a
Biddeford (Me.) cotton-mill is a woman
who stands six ft and three inches, and
is large and strop;; in proportion. She
is more than a n&tch for any man about
the mill.
The Persians a.u of opinion that a lion
will never hurt a person of their re
ligion, which is somewhat different from
that of the Turks. ; They firmly believe
that their lions wpuld devour, a Turk,
but that they thomselves are perfectly
safe if they take cure to let the lion know
by some exclamation of what religion
they are. : "
A Missouri man contracted with a
hotel keeper to furnish a wagon, load of
frogs a week. li appeared on the ap
pointed day with three little fios.
"Where are the rest of thom?' inquired
the landlord. Vhat's all there were in
the pond," the man meekly said, "But
they made so much noise that I thought
there was a million of 'em.
The Orlsln of "Gotham."
Washington living in "Salmagundi,
a humorous work, applied the name of
New York to signify that the inhabit
ants were given to undue pretensions to
wisdom. This definition of the word is
taken from a story regarding the inhab
itants of Gotham, a parish in Notting
hamshire, England, who were as re
markable for their stupidity as their con
ceit. The story relates that when King
John was about to pass through Gotham
toward Nottingham he was prevented by
the inhabitants, who thought the ground
over which a king passed became forever
a public road. When the king sent to
punish them they resorted to an expedient
to avert their sovereign's wrath. Ac
cording to this, when they arrived they
found the people each engaged in soma
foolish occupation, so they returned to
court and reported that Gotham was a
village of fools. In time a book ap
peared entitled Certain Merry Tales of
the ; Mad Men of Gotham.' Among
these tales is the story of "The Threo
Wise Men of G'- iin," who went to sea
in a bowl, New York 1'resu,