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•Ceer. •( «•« Federal CUtttrMweat.
I THE EXECUTIVE. ,
Batherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, President of
''wtm' 1 ! 18 Wheeler, of New York, Vice-
PrMideDt of the United States.
THE CABINET.
William M. Evarts, of New York, Secretary
of Ohio, Sec'y. of Treasury.'
rwe W. M. McCrary, Secretary of War.
Biclwrd W. Thompson, «f Indiana, Secre
tary of tho Navy. .
Carl Shun, of Missouri Sec'y. of the Interior.
Charles Devens, of Massachusetts, Attorney
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Ge0(!nl1 ' THE JVDICIARV,
m SCPBEME COUItT OF THE UNITED
STATES.
Morrison R. Wait, of Ohio, Chief Justice.
Nathan Clifford, of Maine,
Noah H. Bwayne, of Ohio,
Samuel J. Miller, of lowa,
David Davis, of Illinois,
Stephen J. Field, of California,
William M. Btrong, of Pennsylvania,
Joseph P. Bradley, of New Jersey,
Ward Hnnt, of New York, Associate Justices.
OUK STATE GOVERNMENT.
KXEECUTIVE DEPAIITMKNT.
Thomas J. Jarvis. of Pitt, Governor.
Dawes L. Robinson, of Macon, Lieutenant-
Governor.' . "
W. L Saunders, of New Hanover, Secretary
of State.
John At. Worth, of Randolph, Treasurer,
Donald W,,B#iu, sf J Wake J ChieKClerk.,
T C. Worth, of Raßaolph, Teller.
Dr. Samuel L. Love, of Haywood, Auditor.
Thos. S. Kenan,*of Wilson, Attorney-General.
John C. Scarborough, of Johnston, Superin
tendent of Public Instruction.
John?ton Jones, of Burke. Adjutant-General.
J. McLeod Turner, Keeper of the Capitol.
Hherwood Haywood, of Wake, State Libra
rian.
JUDICIARY,
BUPREMK COURf.
W. N. H. Smith, of Hertford, Chief Justice.
John H. Dill&rd,, Thos. 8, Ashe, Aseociates,
W. H. Brig ley, of Wake, Clerk of Supreme
Couit.
1). A. Wicker, of "Wake, Marshal.
mOFESSIONAL CARDS.
JNO. W. GRAHAM, J AS. A. GRAHAM,
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Practices in the State and Federal Conrts.
WU faithfully and promptly attend to all busi
liw Intrusted to liim.
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ATTORNEY,
ORAHARE, N. C.
will attcnffregnlarly the Buperior Conrts of •
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Mph,an4the Federal courts at Greensboro.
*tieati ß,en W hlm faithful
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at liaw,
GRAHAM, V". C.
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Prompt and earefnl attention.
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OVPICBSAfI
h ffreemtoro.
Practices in'all the Courts.
Graham, Monday, Tn\day and
lad aSnSfc Greensboro, Thursday Friday
y t4
OrJVV. Griffith
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GRAHAM, N. C., \
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Albright, . Dr. J. A. Albright,
ALBkmilT 8c ALBRIGHT,
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Holnunvum a ' , h, s home and the latter at
***». Cha " km county, N. C.
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LITTLE DPK JJ fintiToaE^T/
Little Dutch Gretehen came over the sea
With an aunt in place of her mother,
As like,' so little Dutch Gretehen told me,
"As like as one pea to anoTTier."
Littlo Dutch Gretehen fell sick on tho way,
A-3ailing upon the water;
The captain camo down to tho cabin each day,
And called her his patient Dutgli daughter. .
Little Dutch Grctcheus took pretrtls and beer,
Hoping she sosn would be better,
And. at last when the end ot the journey was
near,
Dutch Gretehen sent homeward a letter.
"I'm better," Dutch Gretehen wrote first on the
Page, N
"And my aunt is'as kind as my mother;
But never a prison bird shut in a cage,
Longed more to give one for tho other, i,
"There's a look, and atone, and a tenderer way,
A bosom more gentle to lie on,'
And. mother, a love that will never grow gray,
And a heart that Is blessed to die on.
"So mother, I've said to the captain to-night.
To Bremen I'll sail back most gladly,
To tell you, if changing one's mother is right,
It's a trade that will cheat a child sadly,"..
And little Dutch Gretehen went home o'er the
sea.
And gave back her aunt for her mother;
"For they are not all the same," said Dutch
Gretehen to mo,
Though like as one pea to another."
Hifli-onyuio* Pop aud (he Babr.
[From Harper's Monthly for June.]
'Now, Onymus Pop,' said the mother
of (hat gentle boy,'you jes take keer o'
dis chilo while I'm gone to da hangin'.
An' dont you leave dis house on nO ac«»
count, not if the skies tall an' do earth
opens to'Bwaller,her up.
Ilieronymus grunted gloomily. lie
thought it a burning shame that he
should not go to the hanging; but never
had his mother been willing that he
should have the least pleasure in life. It
was either to tend tho baby, or mix the
cow's food, or to card wool, or to cut
wood, or to pick up a chicken,or to wash
up a floor, or to draw water or to sprins
kle down the clothes—always something,
when everything else tailed, she had a
way that Beemed to her son simply de
moniac, of setting him at the alphabet
To be sure she did not know much of
the letters herself, but the teachiug j was
none the less vigorous.
•What's dat'Onymus?' ehe wonid say,
pointing at random with her snuff brush
to a letter.
a snifl.
'ls you alio'?'—in a hollow voice.
Woe be unto young Pop if he /altered,
aud said it might be a Z. Mother rdp
kept a rod ready, and used it as if she
was born ior nothing else. Naturally he
soon learned to stick brazenly to his first
guess. But uafortunately be could not
remember from one day to another what
he had said; aud bis mother learned, af
ter a while, to distinguish the forms of
the letters and to know that a curly let
ter called Son Tuesday could not pos
sibly be a squre headed E on Thursday.
ller faith once shattered, 'Onymus had
to suffer in the usual way.
The lad had been taught at spasmodic
intervals by his sister Savannah—com*
monly culled Sissy—who bad went to
school, pat oil airs, and was always
clean. Therefore Hieronymus hated.her.
Mother Pop herself was a little -iu awe
of her aocomplised daughter, and would
ask her no question*, even when most in
doubt as to which was which of the let
ters G and C.
*A pretty thing 1' sho would matter to
herself,'if I must be a learnin' things
from my own was de most coK
icky baby I ever had, an' cos' me nn
beerd of miseries in the time of her teeth
in. , '*
It seemed to Hieronymus that the ells
max of bis impositions had come, when
he was forced to stay at home and mind
the baby, while his mother aud the rest
of thein trottefofl. gay as larks, to see
a man hanged.
It was a hot afternoon and the unwil
ling nurse suffered. The baby wouldn't go
to sleep. He put it ou the bed—a feath
er bed and it would not go to sleep, as a
proper baby shonld. He did everything
to sooth Tiddlekins. (The iufant had not
been named yet, and by way of affection
they addressed it as Tiddlekins.) He
even wont so far as to wave the flies
away from it with a mulberry branch for
(he space of ten minutes. But as ft still
fretted and tossed he let it severely alone
and the flies settled on the little black as
if it had been a licorice stick.
After a while Tiddlekins grow aggros*
Wve, and began to yell. Hieronymus
Who had almost found consolation in the
\ntemplation of a bloody picture pasted
oVfho wall, cnt from the weekly paper
o\ wicked city, was deprived even of
thfeolnce. He picked np «do imaerbal
littl screech owl,' as he called it in bis
GRAHAM, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1880.
wrath. He trotted it. He Bang to It the
soothing ditty of— • *" '
'•'Taint neVe* gwino to rain no mo":
Sun shines down on rich an' po'."
But all was in vain. Finally, in des
pair, lie undressed Tiddlekins. He had
heard his mother say, 'Ofn and ot'en
when a chile is screamin' its hrct away,
'taint nothin' ails it cep'eti plus.
But there were no pins. Plenty of
strings and hard knots, but not a ytn to
account lor the autics of the unhappy Tid
d'ekins.
How it did scream! It lay on the stiff
ly braced knees of Hicrouoyinus. and
puckered np its face so tightly that it
looked as if it had come tresh from the
the wrinkle mould. There were no tears
but slurp, regular yells, and rolliugs ,of
its head, and a distracting monotony in
its performances. •
'Dis here chile look's if itsgotde meas
les,' muttered Hi, gazing ou tho squirms
ing atom with calm eyes of despair.
Then running his fingers over the nock
and breast of the small Tiddlekins, with
the air of one who makes a discovery,
'lt's got do heat I Dat's what ails Tids
dlekins!"
There was really a little breaking ont
on the child's body that might accoaut
for all its restlessness and squalls. And
it was snob a hot day 1 Perspiration
streamed down his back, while its bead
was dry. There was not a quiver in the
tree leaves, and tho silvei-opoplars showj.
Ed only tho leaden 6ide. The sunflowers
were droopiug their big heads; the flies
seemed to stick .to the wiudow-paues
and were too languid to crawl.
Hieronyoius bad in him the]
of which philosophers aro made. He
said to himself, 'tain't notbin' oat heat
dat's do matter wid dls baby; bo of cose
he ought to be cooled off."
But how to cool him that was tiie great
quesiiiu). Hi knitted his dark brows and
thought intently.
It happened that the chiefcst treasure
of the Pop estate was a deep old well
that in the hottest days yielded water as
refreshing AS iced Champagne. The
neighbors all made a convenience of
Pop's well. And half way down its
long cool hollow, lmng, pretty much all
of the time, milk cans, batter pats, fresh
meats, and all things that needed to be
kept cooljn summer days.
He looked at the wretched, hot,
sguirming black baby on his lap, then he
looked at the well; and, simple, straight
forward lad that;he was, be put this and
that together.
'lf I was to hang Tiddlekius down do
well.' he reflected, "twouldnt be no mo'
dan three jumps of a flea before he'd be
as cool-as Christmas.'
With (bis quick willed youth to think
was to act. Before many minutes, ho
had stuffed poor lillle Tiddlekius into
the well bucket, though it must be men
tioned to his credit that be tied biin in
securely with his own suspenders.
Warmed up with bis exertions, content
in this good riddance of such bad rubs
bish as Tiddlekius, Hieronymus reposed
himself on the fealher bed, and dropped
off iuio a sweet slumber. From which
he was aroused by the voice of a small
boy,
'Hello Hi! I say, Hi Pop I Whar is
yer?'
•Here 1 is,' cried Hi, starting up.
•What you want?'
Little Jim lingers stood in the doors
way. -« ,
•Towser's dog,' be said In great ox*
-citeineut, *aii daddy's bulUpupis gwiue
ter have a fight this eveniu'. Come on
right quick if yer wauls ter see the fun.
Up jumped HI aud the two boys were
off iike a flash.
Not one thought of Tiddlektn* in the
well bucket.
In due lime the Pop family got home,
and mother Pop. fanning herself, wad
indulging in the moral reflections sulU
able to the occasion, when she checked
herself suddenly, exclaiming, 'But, land
o' Jerusalem! whar is Onyinus and the
baby ?'
'1 witnessed Hieronymus,' said the] el
egant Savannah, 'as 1 wandered trom
school. He was with a multitude of boys
who cheered, without a sign of deliber
ation, two canine beasts, that tore each
other in deadly feud.
'Yer don't mean ter aay, Sissy, dat
'Ouymns Pop is gone ter see a dog
fights
'Such are my meaning,' said Sissy with
dignity.
"Den foAar's de baby?"
For answer, a long low Wail smote
upon their ears, as Savannah would hare
said.
"Fan me J" cried Mother Pop. "Dat's
Tiadlekin's voice.
"Never min' about fannin' nimmj"
cried Weekly, Savannah's twin, a youth
of fifteen, wbo could read and waa much
addicted to gory talea of thunder and
blood; "let's fin' de baby. P'r'ape he's
been murdered by dat ruffian Hi, an'
dat'a hi* ghos* dat we hear* a callin'."
A searon was instituted —under the
bed, in the bed, in the waah-tub and the
Roup-kettlej behind wood-pile, and in the
pea vines; up the chimaey and in the
ash- hopper; but all in vain. No Tiddle-
5 kins appered, though still they heard
him cry.
"Shade of Ole Hickoryl" cried the
father Pop, "wliar, whar is dat chile?"
■ Then, with a sudden lighting of the eye.
1 "Unchain ke dog," Baid he; She'll smell
i him out."
t There wan a superannuated blood
hond pertaining to the Pop menage that
■ they kept tied up all day under a de
lusion that he wan fierco. They unchains
ed thin wild animal, and with many
kicks endeavored to goad his nostrils to
thoir duty.
It happened that a piece of fr&nb pork
hung in the well, and Lord Percy—so
■ was the dog called—was hungry. So
i he hurried with vivacity toward the
i fresh pork.
"De wellj" shrieked Mother Pop,
tumbling-down all in a heap and look*
ing somehow likaTurner's "Slave Ship,"
as one stumpy leg protruded from the
wieck of red flaunel and ruffled petti*
■ coats.
"What shall wo do?" said Sissy with
a helpless squeak.
"Whj, git him out," said Mr. Pop,
who was the practical one of the gfami-
He began to draw the well bucket
aided by Weekly, who whispered, dark
ly, "Dar'l be anudder hangin' in town
befo* long) aud Hi toon 1 1 miss dot
in'."
Soon appeared a little woolly bead,
then half a black body; the rest of him
being securely wedged in the well bucket
- »He looked like a jack-in-the-box. But
was cool, Tiddlekins was, no doubb of
that, s
Mother Pop revived at the of
her offspring, still, liviug and feebly
sucking his thumb.
"Ef we had a whiskey bath toj.put
him in!'' she cried.
Into the house flew Father Pop,
seized the quart cup, and was over to
the white house on the hill in the wink
of a cat's eye.
"He stammered forth his piteous tale,"
said Savannah, telling the story the next
day to ber school mates; "aud Judge
Bouibon, and Miss Clara came over to
see us resuscitate the infant."
Mother Pop had Tiddlekins wrapped
iu hot flannel when ho got back; and
with a never-to-be*sufficiently admired
economy, Mr. Pop moistened a rag with
"the best of Bourbon," and said to his
wife, "Jes rub him awhile, Cynthy,
an' see if dat won't bring him roun'."
As she rubbed he aosent«tnindedly
brough the quart cup to his lips, and
with three deep and grateful "gulps the
whisky bath went to refresh the inner
man of Tiddlekins* papa.
Then who so valorous and so affec
tionate s8 he? Dire were his .threats
against Hieronyqaous, deep his lamenta>
tions over his chilJ.
"My po* little lammie!" he sobbed.
"Work away, Cynthy. Dat chile mus'
be saved, even if 1 should have ter go
over ter de judge's fur anuddei quart o'
whisky. Nuthin' shall bo spared to
save that precionsest kid o' my old
age."
Miss Clara did not encourage his self
sacrificing proposal;but for all that, it was
not long before Tiddlekins grew warm
and live, and winked—so that good old
man declared—as be lay on bis back,
placidly sucking a pig's tail. Savannah
bad roasted the ashes, and it had been
cut from the piece of pork that bad shared
the well with Tiddlekins. The pork
belonged to a neighbor, by«the-way; bat
at such a time the Por family felt that
they must dispense with the vain and
useless ceremony of asking for it.
The excitement was over, the baby
asleep, Miss Clara gone, and the Bun
well on its way to China, when a small
figare was seen hovering {diffidently
about the gate. It had a limp air of
dejection, and seemed to feel a delicacy
about coming further.
•'The miscreant is got back," remark
ed Savannah.
"iiieronymous," calls Mrs. Pop, "you
may thank yo' heavenly stars dat you
ain't a murderer dip summer day—"
"A- waitin' ter be hung nex' * wild
grape time," finished Weekly, pleasant*
ly-
Mr. Pop said nothing.. But he reach
ed down from the riantel-«helf a long
something, shaped like a snake, and
quivered it in the air.
Then he walked out to If i, and taking
him by the left ear, led him to the wood
pile.
And here— But I draw • veil.
Hampton told a rather funny but
evidently true story about a Steuben,
ville girl who rode on a narrow gnage
road up In Pennsylvania the other day.
They bad to put her on a nail keg on a
platform car. Sbe sat criss-cross, of
course, and for over ten miles scraped
the bark off the trees on both aides of
the ioad with her feet. A tan*yard
man happened along and got over forty
dollars, worth of new bark that was
lying along tbo road. He offered the
girl SBOO a year and travelling expenses
to travel on narrow gnage roads and
scrape the bark off trees | bat sbe be
longed to a wealthy family and said be
was 'a mean sassy thing,' and that she
would 'tell ber pa on niui.'
ftOIUB IEADINO QUESTIONS.
{Detroit Free Press.)
A young man who looked as if he had
a heap ot things on his mind, but who
straggled hard to appear outwardly calm
put a Ave dollar bill on tho desk of a
leading Detroit lawyer the other day and
said,
'I want (o ask you a few leading ques*
lions:*
'Go ahead,' was the reply, as the mon«»
ey was quickly.f hrust out of sight.
'lf I am engaged to a girl aud I go
back on her what can she do?
'Sao you for broach of promise.'
'but if she goes back ou me what can 1
do?'
•Hnnt np another.'
'Uinl Suppose I bavo presented.' -her
with a $2 tan, a parasol, a pair Of brace*
lets and a ring.
'Then she's so much ahead/
'lf I believe that her'infatuation for
another is but a passing whim, and If
flourish a revolver and tallc of suicide,
what then?'
'Her father'will probably pick you up
and drop you into a mudtpuddle.'
Ural Suppose I had presented •> her
mother witb'a twenty shilling umbrel*
la?'
•Then she'll keep dry.'
'And her an accordeon?'
•Then be will worry tho neighbors.'
'Suppose sir, I had for the sake of
making myself solid with the old man,
presented him with sixteen dollars worth
of watch dog?'
'He'll setihim upon you it you have
any trouble I'
•Ural havel no redre«s?'
'Yes sir, go and lick the prairie ranger
who has stolen away your girl's affec
tions.
i'ii do ur
'Ulad to bear it, I'll defend yottr case
for S2U.
'Urn!'
'Urn 1'
'Come to think of It ho ts a bigger man
than 1 am.'
•Then let him lick you, and I'll make it
coitlhim S6O!
U«t I'll think of it.*
'Una! Office hours from BJa. a. to IS
p. in.'
And the young man troubled with in
ward agitation took himself out.
Anrcifen* fiitntßANCK rL»di,
Tn the blank leaf of an old Irish Bible,
which has been transmitted Irora sire, to
son through many successive generations,
and now appears as the property of
preacher of (Jod'e word
at Broughton, Northamptonshire! Is in*
scribed the following pledge;
"From this day forwarde to the ende
of my life, I will,never pledge an health,
nor drinke in a whole cause, in a glass
cup, bowle or other drinking instrument,
wheresoever it may, from whomsoever It
come—except the necessity doth require
It. Mot my own most gracious king, nor
auy of the greatest monarch* or tyrants
upon earth, nor my dearest friend, nor
all the goulde in the world, shall ever
euforse me. Not angel from Heaven
(who I know will not attempt it) shall
persuade; nor Satan with all hi* old
subtleties, cor all the power of beN
itself shall betray me. By this very"
sinne (for sinne it is, and not a little one),
I do plaiuly find that I have more ofletid
ed and dishonored my glorious Maker
than by all other sinne that I am subject
untoe and for that, and no other respeet,
have 1 thus towed, and 1 heartily beg
my good Father in heaven of bis great
goodness and iuflnito mercy In Jesfts
Christ, to assist main the same and beeo
favorable unto meior wbat is past..
(Sigqed) R. BOLTON.
"BBOOOHTOH, 10 April, 1637. •»
liiMtollilSlhMtailtlii.
(Washington Post.)
At the flag room of the war depart
ment, a few days since, three men called
and one of them asked to see the corps
flag of Gen. Stonewall Jackson; It was
banded to him. In silence be bekl it for
some time, then on his knee* be carefully
spread it on the floor. .When one of his
friends asked him what be was doing,
be answered tears streaming down from
his eyes "Can't the father look at the
son, oir the eon at his father? This 'flag
my father held when be fell upon the
battle field; this flag my brother held—
be, too, died {I also carried itl" where
upon he raised his bands to lleaveu and
poured out a most lervent prayer. His
friends bad bard work to get him to give
np the flag, but when rolling U up (it
was so worn) a small pieoo fell out, the
officer in charge picked up the piece and
gave it to the man, and be departed. It j
was a small act, yet as the officer in
charge was an ex* Union soklier.it show - j
ed a noble feeling, and bow one soldier
can appreciate the reverential love for a
bit ol bunting, showed by another, even
when fighting on opposite skies.
•The circus is coming,' remarked Mr*
Goodiugton, laying down her paper,
'with no end ot trained horses and camels,
hypotbenases and other dedlaene of the
forest and jangleu How well i re mem*
ber the first time Daniel took mo to the
circus lAs we entered the tainted en
closure I said to him, 'How terribly the
wild animals growl don't they?* I was
almost frightened to death, Daniel told
me it was only the vendoos ot peanuts
aud prize packages playing their rogav
tlon.'
Not long ago, in the court or appeals
an Irish lawyer, while arguing with
earnestness of bis cause, stated a point
which the court ruled out. 'Well,'
said the attorney, 'it It plage the coort,
jf lam wrong In this, I have another
point which is equally as conclusive.'
NO. 20.
Gleanings.
-'"' ' i '
There is nothing so eflcclive iir bring,
ing a nwti up to Ihe scratch as a healthy
and high spirited flea.
The man who never smelt powder la
the fellow who never got tils »ro*e close
to a woman's fchfecit. •.: t .
Thoee who give not till tHy dl« *how
that? they wonld not then couidthey keep
it any longer.
To the anxious candidate' £|nck tto -
beam from thine own eye ere thou
ricst aboUt thy brother's boort,% ( ,q
In ihia oleomargarine contest pie Hew
York Commercial in glad to bear that
the goats are not ilcflued' as belonging to
any ot the accepted butters. ~ . r
The perception of the beautiful U
gradual, and not a ligbtenfrtg revelation;
it requires not only time, but touiu
study. «.
Every thought a Itlatt expresses is a
seed falling|on the soil of some heart. U
may take root aud grow. ' Wbat shall
the harvest be?'
Marriages in May are said (o be un
lucky ; bnt then so am thofc* til June.
July, September and io fact atlithe other
mouths. —_
A street-car motor to be run-by quick
silver, Is being made at Auroia, llfcg
800 pounds ot quicksilver are requir
ed.
It is said a coon can be taught by leav
ing whiskey in its vicinity, but the ever*
age hnnter wonld rattier diink tlie whis
key aud take bis chances on the coon.
One reason why t*a ivtlie has no schools „ 9
is becanse all the scboohna'ams who ' g«»
there tlnd husbands between thedej-ot
and the hotels, and don't, care e eeftT
wbother sobool keeps or not. '
'Yon can't bring docency out of dirt,'
•ays a modern philosopher. Can't eh?
Then you ntfter looked at the water In? TiV
the laundry tube after the clean i&vhite
clothes were taken oat of it did you?
The newspaper owes its origin to tlfei
cu&toui which prevailed iu Venice in the
sixteenth century of reading aloud tn the
public places a manuscript of the news Of
| the day, preparedJ>j araority.
A young Western lady, who is pa Sly
deaf, is in the habit of answering •/«#'
to everything when e Jtrtntg geuifc
men is talking to ber for fear fie a%M
.propose to her aiAsM iw bear lu v
A West street lady triad to pet e Bw •
bee on the bead last Tuesday. We wilt
aot tell hew the ran when the eritea* »
hive got after her, tiwui everyWiy ,-
knowi bow a wo wan sea*|lßM«- __
" He asked a Ciootanati belts tf there
wm much refine meet end culture lu
that city, iendTSTmaS. 'You an
just bet your boota we're a eaKered
crowd.'
*You ite an ojus, hi (as Id jit. my dear/
said a playful mepiUM} to bar duughter el
a dancing school the other'dar'Oh. mv'
dear Mrs. T —-.'sighed oneo'llec ueigk* »
bors,'what wonl«U J '*lglve*» have you*
knowledge ot Lathi. , t ' .
A Merchant of Portsmoalli', £ngl»rid«
purposely b*ga» Ajtfdp
launched ber on Friday, named her -
the •Friday,*am! «M 0 a I WHtefiM*: for
her named FrUtaffi Slaarsaiaied tt>m
cat
ing, ! i viot iiiwaat'-ra.,..
&&UM
'And HI ' tbls ■ Mppialnow these, i,
*
laid, atMf- i ! tt&eat's thought: f)hi -•
4ear, {nana* what a memory you fcpffe. ;
■' desire saMfbtPhuefcand tMbefafclfe? jV
as? they were walking aiottg fa afcfore, .
•that wbeu i die 1 mav be %uXi in a
plain, tft*in*d pine Cofflu Without ex pen*"' 1
sive trimmings.''But my deer,' said >
ebe, 'bow much mote respectable east
fashionable would bate been' black
walnut and silver I' 'PeMiblft' be sHkt
'but 1 was thinking of that lor you.
The earth turns upon its axle with a
surface velocity of over 1,000 miles at the
equator, while at the pole the rate la re
dudedttaero. A scientific •gunner eays
that, under pirmiM tapoea, heavy
guus with loug ranges have to be cots
ot the earth at the piace?fre(a' which owe
ie flied and the poiet Where the shot lade
which difference may oauee as much as
two yards deflectiou to oae aide or the
other io firing north or south. The
I earth's rotation ia thus actually made
t visible.
Boy—'Stothef ieht theee cherries to
you, Miss Smith.' Mrs. Smith—'Ob*
thank you, darliug I But is not your
mother alridtf she wftl rOb herself?' Boy.
—'l rut her thiuk not, mum; she said as
how they wero spiliu* on the tree ana 'j
wouldn't be good for nothing but awiil ~
by to-morrer. bo she su.l bring you
some mum; you might air weH have
•em as bogs.' Mrs. Qmttfof4&«B«i dear
mother is to thoughtful.' But Mrs.
Smith doesn't eat ttxWe shsrries. As
•he eoiifldentially told Mrs. Jones, win
touched one tof the stingy old thing.'
, A clergyman in Pittriburg lately mar
ried a lady With whom he bad received
Soon afterward, wbllooecapyiegtbe
pulpit,he gave out « hymn, read the
first four Kansas, and was reeding the «
fifth,
iforfYftr tot mrmUlol ktmrl
Hl*
When he hesitated and exdatmsft
the choir will omit tlte s fifth
verse," and sat. dotfu. The cortgroga
tion, attracted by blinpparent uoaftiM*e,
read,the remaioiug llnoa--
Which gives tan thousand blsssttfgs nsw,
And bills bM heye far mors.