6
OCTOBER.
BY M. W.CUHTIS.
Autumn winds are sighing
Through the forest lone ,
Summer flowers are dying,
Summer days are gone-
Forest leaves are falling,
Withered to the ground ;
Many hearts appalling
With the lonely sound;
Gone the merry birdlings:
To a fairer clime ;
Chilling are the breezes,
Gone is summer time.
Welcome is the fire-glow;
By our own hearthsone ;
Happy while the hours flow ;
Though the summer’s gone -
Scalped Alive-—While Ame
lia Grinnel, a young girl, was
working last week in a shingle
mill, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, un
der a shaft, which was going at
the rate of two hundred revolu
tions per minute, her hair, which
was very long, caught in the
knuckle joint, and in an instant
it was torn entirely from her
head, taking with it all the flesh
and muscles of her head. “From
a line,” says the local paper,
“drawn around from each eye
brow, her skull was left white and
bare, without a trace of blood or
flesh. The strangest part of the
accident is that she felt little or
no pain, declaring that when it
was being torn off all that she re
alized was a tickling sensation in
her head. She coolly walked out
ot the room, and waited patiently
for a buggy to take her home.
Her only regret was the fright it
would give" her mother. The
scalp, with its beautiful long locks
of hair, was curled and entwined
around the shaft at the joint, and
when the mill was stopped it was
taken down, but no one had suf
ficient presence of mind to place
it upon her head. It is nearly,
perfect, and the doctors have de- !
termined to tan it with the hair
on, so that if the girl recovers it
may be used as a wig. The case
is one of the most remarkable on ।
record.
An absent minded smoker nam- J
ed Yancy, undertook to whisper |
something of importance in the;
ear of old Mr. Reynolds, Satur-j
day, but in his abseiit-mindness
neglected to remove his cigar, th.e
fire end of winch was driven right
into the old gentleman’s ear. Mr.
Reynolds jumped straight up in
the air about six feet, and on
coming down split Yancy’s nose
bya well directed blow. Yancy
picked himself up, and started
for home, declaring in a rage that
he’d be hanged before he’d tell
old Reynolds what he was going
to do.
—— + ♦ •♦ ♦
A new name for tight boots—
a corn crib.
How To Break Off Bad Hab
its.—Understand the reason, and
that the habit is injurious. Study
the subject till there is no lin
gering doubt in your mind.
Avoid the places, the persons and
the thoughts that lead to tempta
tion. Frequent the places, asso
ciate with the persons, indulge
the thoughts that lead away from
temptation. Keep busy; idleness
is the strength of bad habits. Do
not give up the struggle when
you have broken your resolution
once, twice, a thousand times.
That only shows how much need
there is to strive.
When you have broken your
resolution just think the matter
over, and endeavor to understand
why itis you failed, so that you
may be on your guard against the
recurrence of the same circum
stances. Do not think it an easy
thing that you have undertaken.
It is folly to expect to break off a
habit in a day, which may have
been gathering strength in you
for years.
A little girl in one of the pub
lic schools being asked, in the
course of her geography lesson,
what a waterfail was, replied, that
it was hair wrapped around her
dad’s old stocking.
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