Bitter Recollecton.
Asad looking man vent Into a chem
ist's. ‘*C»n job gl** s*e," ke ukid,
“something that will drive fro m my
Mai the thought of sorrow and bitter
recollection f” And the druggist nodded
end pat him up a little doee et quinine
and wormwood, nod rbeubarb nod ep
> aom salts, and a dash of castor oil and
gave It to him, and for six months the
nan could not think of an jthug In the
world except new schemee forgetting
the taste out of her mouth.
A Loudon dispatch from Vienna
sajs that it Is reported the powers have
addressed a collective note to Greece
demanding the wlthdiawal oflier naval
and military forces from the Island ot
Crete withiu forty-eight hours, lalhng
which, tha port of PUraeus will be
blockaded and general hostilities com
menced.
k toothless Family.
A queer temllT was found near Lapse,
lud.. the other day. It consists of a
fomtlT without a tooth. James Leonard
i* the Gather. He is paet fifty years of
ago* and has passed this much cf hie
life sound and healthy, without the as
sistance of a molar or aven a baby
tooth. Nona ever grew. Twenty years
aco ha married a woman who had as
fine a set of teeth as could he found.—
She attll possesses them. They hed
soar children, all oTwhom are foil grown
and perfect in regard to health, but
who, ilka their lather, never had a tooth
in their bead. Their gums, however,
come down much further than hi ordi*
nerily the case, and are is bard and
firm as a bone. No member of this
finally ever lays awake at night with
.tha toothache.
The Small Boy,
An exchange says that n teacher in
a school in ona of tha Was tern cities
was trying to impress upon the mind*
of tha smallest class in arithmetic the
table of United States money. She
first asked the children how many
dimsa made a dollar, and they readily
answered ‘ ten.” To her question of
how m ny cents made a dims she re
ceived tha earns reply, trim then Mid:
•‘Now, children, I am going to ask
jam e more difficult question. Can any
one tell me how many mills makes
cant?”
At first there was silanes, and than a
•mall boy near the foot hah) op hie
band, and on being told to give the an
swer. Mid;
‘‘Mt papa says bow that McKinley
i* sleeted not a damn min will make a
cent.”
A Contested Htoolton Cate Decided.
A contested election case of long
standing—Quinn vs. Lattuaora—was
finally decided fry the Sopreme Court
lest week, Judge Fumhe* writing the
ileriefon.
The action was brought hr quo war
-*• to for tha purpose ot trying the title
’« the office of clerk of the Superior
court ot Cleveland county, revolting
from the election of 1894 Quioo is a
populist and Lsttimore a democrat.
Tha Judgment of the conn Is that
Qolan was duly elected to the office of
clerk of the Superior court of Cleveland
coaaty. sad ie entitled to the same,
aad the fern and emoluments thereof
from tha first Monday in December,
18ty4. aad for the next lour years than
next ensuing.
Fcroe cfHafclt. -
A laughable story is told of an old
miser, who, being stthe point of death,
resolved to give all Me money to hie
nephew at whose bands he had expet 1
euced tome Uttle kindness. “Seas,”
Mid he, for that was bis nephews name,
‘•Bam. f am shoot to leave the world,
and to leave you all sty money. Ton
will then bays fifty thousand dollars.
Uuly think! Yes. I fool weaker and
weaker. 1 think 1 shall die in two
hoars. Oh, yea, Sam, I*m going! Give
aw two per cent, and you may take the
now,”
Hr. SI John Dead.
A private telegram Informs us that
Mr. Va. P. St, John, the patriotic
Now York bank president who resign
'd bis highly salaried position rather
than yield hie convictions on the sub
ject of free coinage, and afterward* be
came treasurer of the national silver
party lu the lata campaign, died sud
denly Monday morning—Fayetteville
Dr, Eng an formed wiper
iu tendon t of the North Carolina Insane
Asylum, bkiow assistant physician of
Colorado Asylum. His hMtth la rs*
• torsd—News and Observer. I
•
Things Worth Knowing. -
Congress baa appropriated $850,000 for
the free disuibutiou of seeds.
Tha debt of the world amounts to tha
enormous sum of $22,000,000,000.
The United States last year produced
80,000,000 barrels of terroentsd liquors.
Last year 14,094,918 head of cattle
were delivered at the Chicago etcck
yards.
Philadelphia consumed 1.990.734 bar
rels of beer In 1896, an increase of 176,-
630 over 1895.
Thirty years ago Berlin was smaller
than Philadelphia, and now it la hror
by a half a million.
Tha citizen* of New Hampshire have
raised $8,700 with which they will erect
a statue of Preeideut Pierce in toms
appropriate place.
Surgical instruments art now mads
of wood, which is afterwards complete
ly covered with a layer of nickl*. elec
trically deDoeittd,
Sir John Lubbock who has been con
sidering the ant and its ways for many
years, has ascertained that these active
insects may live to the a«»t ot 15 years.
A Vermont man, who has carried
the mail twelve miles twics a dsy sod
received the munificent sum of 1 cent
for the four years, is to bays s96for the
next four years.
There is at preterit but one living ex-
Prarfdent of the United States, and but
on* living ex-Vic# President of the
United States, and both were recently
at the capltol on the same day.
The Boston library bar 628,000 v«l
--nmes, with 13.000 separata editions of
Sbakespeare's works. It stands second
to the congressional library at Wash
ington in the number of its volumes.
In a recent editorial the New York
World springe a lively aensatiou by
charging that the sugar trust on a cap
ital of only 624.000.000 clears annuallv
something in the neighborhood of $38,-
000,000.
Bom* years ago tbs Rev. Dr. Crano,
the lather of Stephen Crane, the noTel
Ist, wrote a tract on popular amuse
ments lu which ha condemned novel
reading as one of the vices ol tbs age.
Queen Victoria’s apartments in the
new hotel at Cimki comprise mure
than 140 rooms. Most of them have
been euratuouely decorated for royal
occupancy, o uch of the furnltnre bay
ing been purchased in Londou. The
queen’s bed, easy chair an! footstool
were brought from Windsor castle.
The Rhode Island Agricultural Sta
tion, has published a bnllstin giving the
result* oi experiments made by plant
ing potatoes in pots in a greenhouse,
then transplanting them oot of doors.
Another method was to expose small
potatoes as large aa Hsus’ eggs to beat
and light for six week*, to develop s
strong bnd and roots before planting
them. Both plants gave a better yield
especially the last, which melted in s
gain of thirty-two bushels to the acre.
Straight whiskeys make crooked
roads.
When anger arises good judgment
takes a hack seat.
An explosion in n Mu«age factory i*
what produces a meaieoric shower.
A feint heart never woo fair lady,
bet a fault whisper often catches her.
You very often run against man who
are uot so anxtou* about the dollar «>i
thsir fathers as they are about the dol
lar of their father-in law.
It 1* said tb t George Washington
offered himself to five women before he
wae accepted. Ju-*t think how *.hfa
coootry had to go around tagging for a
mother,—Orange iVa] Observer.
Stoieury of Herbert wit
nessed the uul manoeuvres of the
North Atlantic squadrou atCharlesiou.
8. u, Inst week.
Joseph lastge. Turkish Consol Geo
eral at Boston, Mass., fa locked mi in
ll—Tovb. priw., Y..tkV«L£
of embossing over 8290,000. in emote
tioii with she trueueshipoftwoeetMtee
In Msssechueette.
One reason why the people never
pay atleotkm to the eigne sad advsr
ttssmenia daubed on old fences, cubit*
sod bridges, U because they do not
krow bether they are reading advsr
(laments of some firm that is stilt m
business, or one that has been dead
for jeers. Wbeo people read the ad
vertisements of b newspaper that is up
to date they know the advertiser is a.
live and doing bast .ess--Morristown
(Mio.J Press.
We Intend to Make tb “EASTS!! GAEOLIIA HfWS” a FiisUlass Family Paper.
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TRENTON
Hale and Female,
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W. H. RHODES,
Tzlxelyal.
Term of Trenton High School
"
January 27,1897
This School prepares for Collage, or
rives Busins** Education.
Hoard irons $4.00 to $7.00 per month.
English Tuition from $1.50 to $2.00 per
month.
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work In my line, and solicit a liberal
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of
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