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GRAHAM, N. C.
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k REV. D.A. LONG, A. M.
REv.W- \V. BTALEY, A. M.
KEV. W. 8. LOM4, A. M.
MISS JINN IE ALBRIGHT. *
Opens August 26th 1878, and closos the last
Friday in May, 1879
Board $3 to #lO and Tuition $3 to $4.50
month.
i Knitting Cotton & Zephyr Wool, at SCOTT
& DONNELL S.
■L \ Iwcttegs, Checks Br Yarns, at SCOTT &
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El J-ROADS
You are hereby notified to return your road
I', orders on the first monday itu October 1878,
with the names of hands on your road endorsed
on the same.
By order of tho Board of Commissioiiers for
Ihe county of Alamance T. G. JteLEAN
Bept- and 1878. > . 3 Clerk.
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Graham N C
Dealers in
' DRY GOODS. OBOCKBIK*
UABDIVAKE, HATH, BOOTH
JrMHOBH. NQTIONH, IRON,
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RETI'BS SWKIif tllKA.fl UETIIBK.
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O Hiram Ulyssos, come tiaek io your ho no,
For the clock on the steeple strikes two;
No longer ,vith Kaisers nr 1 Ilospodars roam,
For your subjects are waiting for you.
Oli! pause not to drink Bayard Taylor's best
beer,
Nor gaze on the Sultan's great bed;
Tho sutlers and whisky thieves shout—do you
hear? •
•'A crown tee have made for your head!"
Come home, come home, come home!
Sweet Hiram Ulysses, come home!
Ben Butler is cocking his eye at poor Hayes;
The fraud trembles down to his shoes;
Jolln ifhci mail, the brazen, stands struck with
nmisrc; -j
Key writes, lest his office he lose;
'•ln vain did we steal the-clectoral vote,
vain did we swear truth away;
The party is dying, while you, are remote,
In short—there's the dickens to pay!"
Come home, come home, come home;
Sweet Hiram Ulyases eoaie homo!
There's a horse in the circus for you and Colfax
The lioise that yon rode in the Southfc
The man Key stands ready to leap on your
backs,
And /here's whisky to put in your mouth.
Then, Hirain, King Hiram, come o'er the blue
wave
To the land of the free whisky ring;
We've played out poor llayes as our very best
knave,
And now you ttiust trump as our king!
Then come, then come, then come,
King Hiratn Ulysses, come home!
TAiqiNOA PltliTTV TYRANT.
She was a tall, fine looking, dark
eyed girl, who stood bedside the gate,
spitefully kicking tho lit.tle pebbles with
her pretty, slippered foot, and now look
ing defiantly np in the stern face of the
i good looking young fetlow, leaning' over
the fence, a loot or two away. His
brows were drawn into a frown, and his 1
lips compressed, but he tried to make
the tones quite steady, in which he
said:
'Very well, Lida, make your choice
now.'
'Oh ! it's como to that, has it?* asked
♦lie girl, with a scornful toss of her pret
ty head.
'lt has. You've played fast and loose
with nie just as long as, a fellow with
my manliness can stand it at all. I've
let you toss me about as you please, like
a baby would a ball,,and now it's got to
quit. If you choose to go to the circus
to-night with Jiui Thompson, it's all
right.'
'Jim Thompson's a gentleman!' snap*
ped Lida.
'He's a tipsy booby!' retorted ilie
young man, hotly, ant], as the sequel
proved, not very wisely. For the girl
turned instantly anil answated: 'YVIiaU
ever he is, he don't call other people
names! I'm going right to answ«r his
note and tell him I»'ll go, and you can go
where you please. Bob Lewis J'
£ Stop one moment!' the yotfng man's
voice recalled her, as she was abruptly
leaving him. -That's yo*r choice, is it,
Miss Wheat?'
'That's, my choice, JVfr. Lewis/ It
that's all you have to say, I necd'nC 1
wait.'
'That is not all. I should like to say
good bye, if you please. To-morrow
you will find me far enough from here.
Indeed! Might one ask whefe you ins
tond to go'?
'Ngver mind that; perhaps you will
heap to-morrow." vVe may never meet
again. Will you snake hands for good
bye?' . t
'The girl's heart throbbed hard,but the
too was proud and too angry to show, her
feaJmgs. She held out her han(] at once.
*€ertaily; good-bye, M» Lewis; a pleas
%Jjt trip to yo.i,' Bob Lewis pressed her
band hard, and looked firmly in her
face, but he said simply 'good-bye, Lida.'
One instant—then he dropped her hand
r and turned away. As she reached the
- door she turned and spoke once more to
I him:
•Oh, Bob!' p
'Weill' He turned back quick aslight
ning. 7"
'You'll bo apt to see Jim Thompson
rtp town. Would you kindly tell him
for me that I accept his invitation aDd
will go with him to.night?' Bob's face
flushed, and he ground his heel hard into
the sidewalk, as the willfull girl thus
cooly added insult to injury; But he
knew she did it purposely, meaning to
aggravate him, and he determined she
should miss her point. . ~
'Certainly, anything to obligo you/
GRAHAM, N. C-,
he answered, with a coolness equal to
hyr own. He walked rapidly away, anil
Lila went into the house to' spend' an*
uneasy day. For she did care for Bub
Lewis, and she knew she luid treated
him shamefully. She uiJ not b°liove he
ready meant to go awny, hut fho was
half afraid, aud when evening came she
was more than half tempted to write a
note, excusing herself to Thompson, and
telling Sob she would go with him.
But a girl's pride kept her from it.
'l ! ve got myself in'a scrape now, and I'll
go through it,' she said, as she dressed to
go out. 'He'll be sure to come around
to-morrow, and I'll ooax him to make
up. It's fun to play ofT on these fellows
once in«*i while!'
But when Miss Lida entered the bril
liantly lighted circus tent th&t ni^ht,
I Jim Thompson's arm,' and
•caught a glimpse of Bob Lewis, stern
and gloomy, sho didn't think it quite so
funny.
'Good gracious/ I/e looks as if he
might do something awful!' she said,
mentally. 'He fairly Bcarts me! I'll
send for him the first thing to-inorrow
morning, and straighten things up with
him."
She could not eujoy tlie circus at all.
Slie protended to be in great glee, and
laughed and flirted as gay as the gayest.
But not even the stale jokes of'the most
renowned jester and clowu of the arena'
conld win a real hearty laugh trom her.
But then, neither Tim Thompson nor
Bob Lewis knew her fine spirits were
feigned. Neither did they know that
she eried bet self to sleep after she went
home.
The next morning the'first news that
Lida Wheat heard w*w thaf Boh Lowis
had joined ihe circus and gone off with
the troop! *
'I don't believe it!' in cons
iternation. I
'Well, you may,' said her little broth
er Frankie. 'I was up at tho depot, and
I seSh him get on the train with my own
two eves! Reckon I could tell you some
thing, too, Mißsy!'
'Oh, Frank do then!' pleaded Lida,
now pale and scared.
,'What'll you gimme?'queried thesute
'Oh, anything!'
'Gimme a nickel?'
'YesT Tell mc, quick!'
'Hand her over HMt I No pay, no tell I*
declared Master Frauk, extending a
somewhat dirty jftuv.
Iu despair, Lida went quickly to her
purse; took out the promised nickel, and
gave it to the rapacious urch iu.
'Now, tell me I' she cried.
'Well, sis, I was standin' ou tho plat
form to see'em pull out» and when I
seen Bob Lewis a gittin' on, I hollers out
'Hallo, Bob! goiu' to leave?' And he
jsaySj'Yes I am. Tell your sister I'll
never troublo ber any more.' So that's
all; I'm a-going to buy some marbles, yr u
bet I'
He ran off, and poor Lida sank back
into her chair, palo and faint. She did
not £ry —she only sat still and thought a
moment, deeply. Then ber plan >was
made.
She jumped up quickfv"and put on ber
hat and sacque. Not saying a word to
any one in the hoAre, she went into the
street. The first person she met was
Jim Thompson.
'They srfy Bob lett with the circus
troupe this morning,' Jim told lier after
they had exchanged good moruiugs. r
'So I heard. Winder if its true?'
'I believe at. The wagons went be
fore day, but t)io actors went over to
L town 011 ths train. They show
there to night.'
'Do they? Well, food-bye, Jim, I'm
going to stop hcra at Jessie's.'
She went into a pretty littlo bouse,
where lived her intimate friend, Jessie
Jager.
'Come, Jess, got on your hat quick 1'
she cied. 'You've got to go over to
L— town to day, with me, and we've
only got time to catch tho eleven o'clock
train.'
•Well but what for?' said Jessies
'l'll tell yon on tho way. You must
go, its real impoitant, Jess! Come, hurry
up! We'll come back to-day.'
•If I must, Tmrist,' said Jessie, hastily
beginning to brush her hair.
Lida had eonsins in L town.
She went to their home, accompanied by
her triend, Jessie, as if sho had merely
come over on a visit, a while, she
told one of her cousins, asho# 7 of fifteen
that Bob Lewis was there, with the
circus, and she wanted to see him. If
he would find Bob and brlug him to
TUESDAY OCTOBER 22 1878
her she would givo him money to go to
the show. "
Weil pleased, tho lad went on hi*
errand and an hour later. Bob Lewis
was in Lida's cousin's parlor, asking tor
her.
'lie didn't a»k for anybody else,' said
the young glr! who let him in. 'You go,
Lida, rti'd the rest of us will stay out
here LJ see the procession pass and, hero
the band play.'
That was just what Lida wnuted. Sho
hurried into the parlor, s.
'Oh, Bob, what are you doing?' was
her greeting. if
'Talking to von, 1 belie "e,' said Bob,
smiling, yl didn't expect to see you
Inyo " -A
'I came oh purpose to see you!'
snitl Lida, blushing red, but determin
ed.
'You did? lam snprised! What can
•oil wis!: of me?'
Oh, Bob. I want yon to lorgivo no
and make friends, and not go off with
the circus.' *•
'1 can do the first thing easily, Lida
if you enre anything for mo. And the
last, 1 never had any idea of doing.'
Didn't you couio with thoso circus
fellows.'
'On the same train, yes. As one of
hem, why no certainly not. What put
hat info your head?'
'Everybody said so, and" Frank gave
me yom message, and I thought '
'lf you thought I mean to get away you
were right. 1 meant lo stay here to-day
settling a little business matter, aud then
1 was going out of tho State to stay
for good,' said Bob, very gravely.
'1 thought I had driven you off, nnd I
couldn't bear the idea!' began Lida, and
then she broke completely down. Bob
took up her-words.
'I was going on your account, Lida,
l»jut, if you'll promise to quit flirting, and
marry me beloj-o long, I'll go home and
slay there. Will you, Lida?'
Well, it was provoking—but Lida
knew she mjist givo up now or never.
And so—well, the circus passed just
then, and what with the band playing
and Ilw crowd making a noise, oi course
I couldn't bear the rest!
But wive 11 Lida ami Jessie went home,
Bob wolit too. And tlicro is to a
Wedcttpg protty soon, and Bob says 'ii
Lida/tToh't behave herself afterwards,
ho'll just truvcl off with tho first circus
that comes along,'
TUB TAUiEDT MAN AND WOMAN
IN TUt£ WOBIiD,
Tho taHest man is Capt. M. V. Bates;
the tallest woman is his wife, formerly
Anna Swan. Capt. Bates was born in
Hopkins county, Ky., his parents being
of ordinary size. He continued to 10 •
main with bin parents, who were farms
ers, doing the ordinary labor of a small
farm, until attaining his majority, at
wUich time he concluded to see some*
thing of tho world. Proceeding to Cin
cinnati, thence to New Yoric, be was
finally induoed to proceed to Europe for
the ptfrpose of exhibiting himself. In
conjunction with Miss Anna Swan,
whom he rnec\here, they travelled o*er
Europe. They were married at Martin's
Church, London, England, June l?f
1871. They were, by request, guests of
tho received* frfcm her Ma
jesty watches and jewels as souvenirs.
Mrs. Bates, formerly Miss Anna
Swan, was born in Oolchester county,
Novia Scotia; is 28 years old, weighs 413
pounds; is 7 feet 114 inches high. *"
Mr. Bates is 7 feet 1 inches high,
weighs 478 pounds, wears a N§. 9 hat, a
25 collar, and als boot. Both art .well
formed, well proportioned, good looking
and highly cultured.
They are tho largest man and . woro&n
that live. In fact there is no authentic
record of any human beings ever having
tho enormous height of these people.
They returned to New York for exhibi
tion in February last and will shortly
make a tour of the West.
"Ever of Thee I'm Fondly Dream
ing," was the burden of his song in the
honied days of courtship, but he found
out, mighty shortly after marriage, that
he must wake np and scratch around to
keep the kettle boiling.— Breakfast
Table. 8
James Monroe, it is said, when elect
ed President, had only one electoral vote
against him. That was cast by a New
llamshire elector who wanted no one
but Washington to bo unanimously
chosen in tho history of the country.
Mr. Haves is an ohl-timo Tree Boiler,
lie believes in froe speech, free soil, free
passes and tree lunch.' Ho .doesn't like
10 nse Tilileu s money too freely.— Wash.
l'ostUcrn.
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The Mniiilnvy Effect ot Roit»cirork I'pon
[Popular Stfenco" Monthly.]
Many of the illj'ttiid diseases prevalent
nmopg women in our day are no doubt
traceable to the sedentary mode of life
common among them. Tlio progress of
modern industrial art haw doncawny with
much of the fronsehold drudgery to which
women were formerly subjected. and the
roml! is, in too manv cases, .want of mf.
flcient occupation for needed bodily oxs.
ercisc. The fruits of tiiis state of tilings
are strikingly exhibited by certain obser
vations of tho late Mr. Itobcrtsp« r
Chester surgeon. wb»r*HJiis practice iTs a.
specialist for' foniwT
that
ei' all their household work tlrtNsowdß no
trace of cei'Uin complaints;
complains begin to make their abear
ance in women with 0110 servant, become
pronouncccl in woman who have two
servants, and worse still with those who
have threo servants, and so on. He
showed statistically that the deaths from
child-birth were four times greater in the
caßo of women with four servants than
those with uonc.
;V'Al.Kin« CAHEt OP I'IiVER,
One of the mnst Horrible fraturra of the
Epidemic in Ihe Nonllicru Cit'ca,
(Indianapolis Hcrtfd.].
A New Orleans physician, in a private
letter, writes us that ho to lows tho old
treatment in yellow lever and has had
over a hundred cases, with only sixteen
deaths. Two of the latter were •'walk
ing cases.The term is a technical one,
understood in yellow fever districts. A
"walking case" is a patient who lefuscs
to go 10 bed-and keeps his feet* until
ho drops dead. Sometimes t.io" walking
case" manifests the most abject fear, and
again ho displays tlio co'irago and itidif
tbronce of a spy led out to execution.
SSmetimes tlife "walking" is confined- to
the patient's chamber and then again ho
roams the streets, with the seal ot death
oil his brow, the dreadluj plack vomit
oozing from his lips—an object of horror
to all whom lie encounters. This stalk-,
ing death is not an uncommon feature of
lite in Now Orleans during the preval
ence of an epidemic. Many who passed
through the fearful ordeal of 1853, in
AVhich nearly eijflil thousand victims per
ished, will remember the case of John
(J , a Memphis printer. JIo was a
man ot splendid physique and hand&oinc
presence, bill an un'fommato love affair
had made him rock less. He developed a
"walking case" of yollow lever, and for
two days and nights toamed the stredts
and freqHentod the drinking-housea of the
city, in spitfe of all lift friends could do,
Anally falling on tho street and dying bo
fore hcconld be conveyed to his lodgings,
ile would wipo the black vomit from Ins
lips, hold up ttie handkerchief, critically ex
amine the horrible exudation,and remark
with feiim humor didn't
agree with him that morning. Death is
dreadful at best, but no disease presents
so great a hori'or as a "walking case" of
yellow fever.
■BVEKVDODVBICa AGAIN.
BUcln Stock* Patting
4)nlir«ritiaua on Their Peel Again,
[Special to the Philadelphia Tin;#;.] -3
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—An old army
officer of rank has just returned here
from Sou Francisco, and Pays tllo whole
Pacific slope Is crazed over tlte recent
picking up of the stofck marked. Spec#
ulators have waited'for years for a
market, and a largo number of ihein
were what is known a$ dead broke.
Stocks continued to decliue, dividends
stopped,assesst men ts oogaitand the tails
nres among tho ligavy operators were
countless. A few of the richest weathered
the storm, but everybody felt depressed
and nupreliensfvc. At this time ven>
gcaiKjo was sworn against tho bonanza
arm who has all tho inouey 011 the coast
and Mr. Flood tho head of tho firm was
afrakl to be seen ou tho sucfets. The
tremendous rise in tho Sierra Nevada,
the Utah, tho Justice, Union Consoli
dated and some of the other Nevada
stocks.has everything e-booming In San
Francisco and such wiltL scenes have
iifct occurred there lor many years.
Everybody is rich astin Some inarvoN
ousstories nro told. Ono man who had
been rich met with reverses ana became
very poor daring tho past six months.
Hie. house, his furnitnre, his credit,
everything was gone and ho was, as
usual in such cases avoided by evervb-xly.
When the gigantic rise iu Sierra Nevada
occurred he happened to think that ho
had given his wile a thousand shares of
Ihatsloek vheu it was only worth ft
dollar a share, and he never supposed it
would be worth more. He hunted np
t})e despised stock, sold it for S3OO a
share and pocketed $300,000. Colonel
W. F. Shaffer, of New York, who has
had hard times in San Francisco for the
past three years, being most of llie time
dead Ijrokc, Was put in by a friond, and
is now square 011 Iris feet again with
$30,000 iu the bank, it itr said. Cirttfw iek
of tlie firm ot
kept Willan|'B Hotel here during the
war, who was terribly poor in San
Francisco, was 0110 ot the lucky ones in
the rise. Senator Jones, who notwith
standlnsrthc reports, was not worth
a hiinihed thousand when ho left here
lastJuTy, is now again a n.iHiouairo.
Senator Sharon has also been very fop
tunato lately These are the stofie's that
coino from San Francisco, and
who have been there and watched
the habitM of the people and tho extra
ordinary fluctuations of stocks will not
doubt iho stories, Urge as thoy are.
NO, 33
THE WOiTIAJt WHO WAS AFRAID
Of KISNtD,
A man was once walking along nnn
road, niict ft ftoiniii)alonsf«iwrft»#>* I'fto
>oa !s finally* nniicil, nnd flic tuna anil
woman rcac:iiny: ihc junclloii at tiiemtmi
time, walked on from there together.
The man was carrying atiirge iron kof
ile 011 his back; fn one hand he hold by*
the legs a livo chicken, in the oilier !t
cane, and he was leading a gont. Ju*t
as they wore coming to a deep, dark ra«
vine tiic woman sidd to the man. 'I run
afraid 10 go throng It that ravine with vou;
it is aloncly place, Slid vou ttnghf over
powoVme am) kiss me bv lorco.' -It von
• u!n ?a^,hc ma "> 'J ou
•hptfUlußrshavc walked with nm at all:
iiovrcfMH possibly overpower von and
sfcHfyou byJ'orce when I have this great
kettmon m\\l>ack, a cane in ono band
aiyrNwivo cliicken in the oilier, and am -
!Midnfstfhis abnt? I might as well belied
J/iiHmnir~ffol.'» v
T*Yes,' replied the woman; 'but it yon
smndil stick your canq in the ground and
tie the goat to it. and turn the kettle bot
tom side up, and put Ilia chicken into it. w
tlion yon wickedly kiss me, in
spue ot my resist mice.' 'Success to thy
ingenuity, O womau-t' said the rejoicing
man to himself; '1 should never have
thought of such expedients.'
AIM! wlieu they came to the rnvine ho
stuck hi® catnrht the ground the
goat to it, gave the chicken to the wo
man,.saying, 'Hold it while I cut some
grass for thegoar,' and then, lowering
the kettle from his shoulders, imprisoned
the fowl under if, and wickedly kU«ed
the woman, as she was afraid ho would.
j| 4
FEET.— 'Maybe,' said a husband lo hi 4
loving ipouse, • you would".'! be sohnirdy
disphijTUg those big feet of yours if yon
knew what occurred when I took yo*£
A lOC to be inended.'
•What was it?—lot mo know instant*
ly.'
«Well, the shoemaker took it in his
hand, gazed upon it In silence, and then
burst into tears, and wept as if his lieart
would break.'
«Well, what was the numskull crying
for?—quick.'iet mo know.
' Well, poor fellow, he said he doted on
his grandmother—laii ly doted on her.
She nursod him, you k»ow« becau«o his
mother was tcelile, and so—-well, he came
lo this country fifteen years awo, and first
ho sol up in the vegetable line, and got
along pretty well, aud was about to send
for the old lady, whon hard titnos "cftme,
and he broke, lie went Into the fruit
then, and after that into milk,—into all
sorts of things, you know; but he got
disappointed evety trmo, till his business
fetched him out at last, and he sent right
oft for the old woman. She landed four
weeks ago, but died the v'ery same night.
U was hard, verv hanf, after all bis toils
ing for fifteen years, to get Iter over at
last, and have her die on his hands. He
—lie—he well, he was disgnsted. How
ever, he laid her out, and ho his friends
sat up with hor, and by and by therein*
orv of her virtnes softened his bitterness
and turned it to a tender grief, ft settled
melancholy, that hling about his spirits
formally davs. However, by striving
to keep his thoughts employed on otl.c*
he was finally bcgiitning to re
gain some little of-oi his old time cheer>
fulness, when your shoe reminded him
so painfully of his grandmother's cot,
fi "-' • ,
A flap in the face, accompanied »y
•Take that, you degraded old rnman!'
put a sharp end to the feet story.
OniGINOP CIKTAII* IMWBM
Some of onr flowers came from lands
cf perpetual summer, some froth conn*
* tries ail ice Mud snow, soma from islands
in the ocoan.. Three of our sweetest
exotics came originally from Pern;, the
camclia was carried to England in 1739.
and Mew year* afterward the heliotrope
and mignonette. Several others cam**
ftym the Cape of Good Hope- a very
large calla was found in ditches there,
\ and some of the most brilliiint geranium*
or pelargoniums, which are a spurious
geranium. Tbe verbena grows wild In
Brazi 1. 4he marigold is an African fluwer,
and a great number .*uo trom China and
Japan. Tho little Daphne was cari-ied
to England by Captain ROSR, irom almost
t he'farthest laud ho visited toward the
North I'ole.
Some of these plants are quite
changed in form and aultivation, others
have only become larger and brighter,
while others, despite of all tho car'o of
florists and the shelter of hot Jicrtises,
fall far short of the beauty and fragrance
of the tropica Among improved oftes
is the dahlia. "When brought to Europe
it was a very simple blossom, a single
circle of dark petals-surrounding a mass
of yelloW ouw. Others, with scarlet
and orange petals were soon after
transplanted frOm Mexico, but still
remained simple flower*. Long vrars
of cultivation in rich soil, with other
arts Of skillful florists, have changed
it fo what it now is—a round bull ot
beauty.
A leopard and* fox had a contest as
to which was the finer ereature ot the
two. The leopard put forward his
numberless spots; but the fox replied:
"It is better to have-a versatile mind
than a variegated body."
Every day r.l lengthens the long agt>
fact that Ituthcrford B. Hayes
Is the weakest and most Insignificant
tenant of tho Whito llouso that this
country has ever had.— Boston Pott h