North Carolina Newspapers

t i ESTABLISHED ZNT 1825. GREENSBORO. "NT. C. THTTRRTf a:v- .TrrNTtf 91 1 ftfta I I I I i i r I r, 1 mmmmmmmm . I 4 I i I Tir 0 rw 1-!W: ai hkmUm 75 frr ntH at l ifTua mWri m im ail mm. AttTtii Rtru : 0 lack l int: trtWl M raaMi-Mt (j fprul rmtm im edv t jonar b. bussxt. Iditor and Proprietor. UREEX5E0EO, IN. C, JUXE n. ISO. ; - We shall next bear of Vic toria's abdication. '-The Prince of Wales Is a "jolly dog," and will, no 'doubt, stir up tbe old fossils as rnever before 1 Those who are anxious to jee the future great men of the i Bcpublic can find many of them j among the stupid fellows who are graduating at the tail cuds of their rli-ws. ' j - We hare received the Gar- field momonal address "by lion. ! James O. Blaine, Feb'y 27thf 1S32," f with Mr. Blaine's compliments. The address is conspicuous among the ablest memorial pa pen ever i produced on this continent. The boom in Confederate UmU continues. There have been sales in Bichmoud at auction of North Carolina war bond a(fi p.r 1,000, and broken are constant buyers of all classen of Confeder ate coupon seenriticj. Tlie house of Tho. Branch & Co. has boughl over JtK),OOO.00 worth of these se-curiti. When South Carolina pities New Kngland for lack of prosperity in manufactures, as compared with the South, the oldest inhabitant may well ierniit himself to be as tonUhed. The Charleston Xetci d; Courier repeats the observations of a Boston newspaper about the de pression in Massachusetts, and theu says : "In the South a very different condition of things pre vails. All of oar manufacturing and other industries are flourishing. Our cotton mills, especially, are doing a wonderfully successful and increasing business. The old mills now running on full time are crowd ed with orders, and in all parts of the country new.factoriea are going uphile others are projected and are sure to bo built.7 , . 1H IT A TILDUX BOOM f Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Comrirr-JourMlj writes from New York as follows : I have been spending a few-days at Grey stone with Governor Til J en. and not merely because his old friend in the West and South have an ever-present persoual interest in him, but because his name is at the moment upon the lips of poli ticians of every class all over the cuKintry, I propose to give the readers of the Corin--7airjwJsome -articular account of him. When I parted from him a year ago I did never expect to see him again. Indeed, I was so skeptical of the stories concerning his resto ration to health as to feel a delica cy about intruding upon his priva cy. He was good enough to send for me, and I went over to Gramer ey Park in a somewhat sorrowful, sympathetic state of mind. Mjr surprise alfnoat exceeded my grati fication. The old house is under going reconstruction and enlarge ment on a magnificent scale. But the old library is still tbe same, lieing held from the hand of dc spoiling splendor for the last, I take it. as a tribute of affectionate .remembrance of old times, old riendsand old books. There I found the Governor. If an appa rition bad stood before mo I could rx have been more astonished. The days of To-'G-T seemed to haveoome back. His low voice was fonnd again. His eyes were brigbtaud bis cheeks rosy; bis in tellect as sinewy and clear and bis wit as incisive as they were when le made nothing of riding Black ;toue to Harlem and back,or driv ing the Kentucky bays from Gra tiiercv Tark to Grcystone. He took tne ail over the new house, fxiint ingout the various changes, ex plaining his general design and dis cassuig architect are and architects with characteristic intelligence. He quite Ured rae out a favorite and malevolent way Imi has of punish ing bis friends climbing long stairs, meandering through laby rinths ofdeeoratireart and thread ing the tapestried and frescoed maxes of corridor aad chamber. On current affairs bo talked with his usual pungency and candor. When endurance bad ceased to be a vir tue, I said : '-Governor, don't yon fiink we have bad enough of thisr' He smiled, and in bis dry, bair sarcastic way, replied : "ir you are tired, we will go down stairs. At Greystone bis life is of tbe simplest and busiest. He has a Xarm bard by, and no end of pigs, ipoultry and blooded stock, ur course, I had to be dragged oyer tbi farm, and the devices wliicji the old geutleman put slyly forth to trap me into some unguanleU treason to the butter and eggs or my blue-grass country were many and ingenius. I stood my ground like a hero, but it must be owned that the Governor's farming is, like everything he undertakes, thor oughly well-done. I asked him ir he tried to make, any money out or it. "Oh, no," said he, it is easier made some other way." While at Greystone not so mucu as the shadow or the ghost of a politician crossed the threshold or appeared upon the grounds. Sur rounded by bis nieces and bis books, the old statesman philoso pher was as unreserved in bis con versation as he was and always is aimnle and cordial in bis bospitaii told mo luai me uousciioia Lad got through over 200 vol . - - ww a o winter, lnouovcrnor is a vora- cious and versatile reader, no less man an attentive and wtso obscrv. er or anairs, and we talked of eve jmiug i rum xnomas aiempis to Acomas A. liendnck. n t-.- fully observed that the rhiet m. tion he hal beard to the election of Aiiijuo 10 me spcatcrsblp was that in some recent volumes pub- AivuvKi uj one .Mr. roude there was a suspicion that he bad mistreated nis wire. iiero I must stop. I know that tne public is more enrion to larn what are 3Ir. Tilden'a views of po litical affairs, current and prospec tive, I have little doubt that if I bad the right to speak I could, by iauaiauy reporting him, make my seu at- once entertainincr and in structive. But the opinions of eve ry nan are his own, and his bouse is sacred. I never knew a man more entirely frank in bis inter course than this sage of Grey stone, but I am not bis mouthpiece, and it is not for me to come all the way from Kentucky to New York to do that which which be is so much better able to do for himself. I can say, however, for myself that nothing passed which leads me to modify the opinion I have so often expressed, that no )ower on earth could induce him to accept the presidency. t The Speakership. tOstVs Letter. ' The opposition to Mr. Randall originated after he was first elect ed Seaker, when be did not give Mr. Cox, Mr. Morrison and other gentlemen the positions they were n titled to on the committees. A man must suffer for what Le does in a passion. Band all had no busi ness to overlook these men, and they are doing their best to make it hot for him. But I take notice of the fact that Randall is too much of a quantity for any new man to beat him like Carlisle. Of course, Mr. Carlisle may yet be elected, but the drift does not seem to be that way. and I observe that the Keening Pott here, which is controlled by three free traders, begins to take water on 31 r. Carlisle and point out the fact that the extreme anti Randall men are so alarmed at Randall's strength that they are willing to drop Carlisle, and even take up Cox. whom they do not desire. Cox's strength lies in the support of the e w 1 ork delegation. 2 ew York has a big delegation, and very much of it is Democratic Perhaps Ohio, for the sake of old times, will come to Cox, although I fear that J. G. Thompson pulls a good many strings with the Ohio delegation, and has always been on good terms with Randall. Where, then, is Mr. Cox's strength to come from f It must come from such votes as he can personally control by his magnetism, and from the element hostile in any event to Randall. The latter cle ment has always been more obsti nate than numerous, ilr. Cox's friends have never been most aumerous when be was running for Speaker. We will, therefore, suppose that Mr. Randall is elected Speaker of Congress: what influence is that to have on further dissensions in the Democratic party f It seems to me that all the States now op posed to Randall will go Demo cratic Any way, while the States in favor of Randall must continue Democratic to get the Presidency. It would take an extraordinary campaign, for instance, to make Mr. Morrison's State of Illinois Democratic Without a Speaker that New York State and her in dustries can trust, the Democracy cannot carry New York, while there are already very strong signs of a complete fusion of the Republi can party with no man omitted from influence in it but Mr. Conkling, who seems to have sieved him sell like a small shot through all the different sieves in the shot-tower and to have got to tbe political bottom at last. There is really no Stalwartisat in the country but Conkling and his little friend. Boss Cameron. I hear that Cameron can be cordial, too, but be bad the idea for years tkit nothing could be accomplished in this world with out a club. Of course, the Speakership con test is largely a matter of trade about the committees. Randall has the advantage in that trad o be cause a large percentage of old con gressmen are coming back. It is among the new congressmen main ly that the opposition to Randall is seeking votes. Suppose Randall is elected, will there by any rebel lion in tbe Democracy T I think not. But I think that if Randall is beaten, except in a very square and fair way, there will be music Khermaa Oaclater. (WMhlacto LvUarJ General Sherman is the champion kisser of America. He never kisses boys or babies, but he lets no pret ty girls escape. If he bad but de voted himself to the babies" as he bas to their big sisters be might have been President before this. A lovely girl with ripe, red lips, who bas known the General all her life, was suddenly seixed by the gallant hero, about noon the other day, right in front of the Ebbitt House, and smartly kis ed square on the lips. She didn't mind the kiss, of course, but she didn t like the publicity. She frowned fierce ly on the General as she thought of the picturesque scene of a mo ment before, and then said sharply, How dare yoa, General, treat me o V Tut, "tut, child, said the crixxled veteran, "I'm old enough to be your father; yes, your grand father. Don't let's have any fool ishness over a' little matter like a klss And the frown passed away in a smile. A near fnend of the General estimated' recently that the General bad had a hundred thousand kisses since the war, "and the old gentleman says" he continued, "that when be is about to die be wants the eight prettiest girls in the neighborhood to gather oVonnd him and kiss bim to death. Ho wants a taste of heaven before he dies." Q.aea Victoria AMlratWa, The Washington Sunday Herald Bays : A representative of one of the 'prominent Ruropean powers tells me that a very serious event is impending in England, which is the abdication of the Queen. The reasons given for this unexpected course are Her Majesty's fast fail ing health and Increasing unwil lingness and sometimes an inabil ity on her part to perform the du ties incident to government. - "For some years the Queen has been a mild believer in spiritual ism. She thought the spirit of her -dead husband used to assist her in working out tho questions which perplexed and sometimes an noyed her. Since the death of her favorite servant, John Brown, she has been very much depressed, and finally it was necessary to remove her to Baltimoral, where some of her happiest days were spent with the lover and husband of her youth. I am told that some very pa- thetio scenes took place at her last visit there. She seemed to feel the actual presence of her dead Prince, and talked as though he were by her side. This and other ocenrrepces frightened and alarmed her daughter Beatrice very great ly, and she insisted that some of. the other members of the family should com down at once. The life of Princess Beatrice must be something dreary beyond words. Tbe Information was telegraphed from London by tbe ambass ador of a great power to his sovereign on Wednesday last that the abdication of the Queen of England was impending, and wouldj probably occur very soon. 1 trom any other than tins most reliable source I should doubt it. The Queen bas clung to the visi ble endowments of the throne with such tenacity that she must have greatly changed before the thought was bearable. But the break-down of her health has been followed by melanchollr of the most pronounc ed type. "It seems not to be generally known that the trouble with the Queen's knee comes from a large ulcer of k scrofulons nature that bas formed under the knee-joint, and in spite of all that can be done is eatingits way through muscle and nerve to the bone, and her condi tion is very serious indeed. "The abdication of the Queen and succession of the Prince of Walea as Prince Regent would change the whole condition of En glish politics, - Haw Maaafactarlag Dcvclopes a Plate. - IL. Braam la Raleich 0Wrrr.) One fact carries more conviction than many theories. THE ODKT.T. ILIXUFACTUBIXO COM- PJUCY, of Concord,' is a fact. Facts of this kind are not wanting now, but I propose to comment a little on this one just now. ine investment is 9140,000, and it gives employment to 275 hands. The aggregate popu lation of the families from which these hands come will number, I understand, something over 500, including the older and younger members who are not suited for factory work. Or. we may count on 1,000 increase in population for every $300,000 invested in the manufactory of cotton. In some' lines of manufacturing the number of hands is even larger in propor tion. ; To make this a little plainer, if a town bas one thousand inhabitants, the population can be doubled by putting $300,000 in manufacturing enterprises. These laborers will pay out nearly all their wages, (say at least 950,000 a year) among the grocery and dry goods merchants and at home And thus you see, many of our towns, by starting a iew lactones, have largely inereas ed their population. TOW7? LIFE has not been so populous with Southern people as it always was with those further North. This is not because we are a different race of people, (we are all Anglo-Saxon) nor yet because we have different notions; bnt interest determines the actions of all parties. While it was to the interest of people in the State of New York that three fourths of them should live in tho Tot Venerable Oxlckeua. Eleven years ago General Dar gan, of Wadcsboro, bought a five-year-old hen from a countryman and put her in a pen to fatten, but she began to shell out eggs so fast that the general concluded to keep her for a while, as be considered it a too valuable fowl to kill. She continues to live, is now sixteen, a halo, hearty old ben,, and lays an egg every other day. The next aged ben is owned by Mr. M. P. Leak. It was presented to him when sixteen years old by a lady friend, who declared her intention never to marry as long as that hen lives. This happened nine years ago. The chicken lives and moves and has its being, and the lady still walks in maideu meditation, fancy free. The Ohio Democratle'CoavenUon. Judge George Hoadly, of Cin cinnati, will, according to present indications, be the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio. He will go into the convention with solid delegations from Cincinnati and Cleveland, aud many counties have already instructed for him. including Butler, one of the largest counties in the State. The New YorkJSun expresses the opinion that he will be elected by a large ma jority should he be the nominee, as he is especially strong with the Germans, whose sentiments he has championed professionally in the celebrated liquor cases before the courts. The 6mm rurther says in the event of his election as gover nor Judge Hoadly will loom np as a strong candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for President, for which he iossesses the requi sites of great ability and learning and an unsullied reputation. The Ohio Democratic convention meets Thursday of next week. - ' Tha Doctrine of Chances. CeMsl Law Journal. The invitation' to go to Washing ton with Judge Story did not im ply any promise of attention after we arrived at that city, as he was careful to point out when I re ceived it. "The fact is,n said he, 'I can do very little for you there, as we judges take no part in the society of the place. We dine once a year with the president, and that is all. On other days we take our dinner together, and discuss at the table the questions which are ar gued before us. We are great ascetics, and even deny ourselves wine, except in wet weather." Hero the judge paused, as if think ing that the act of mortification he had mentioned placed too se vere a tax upon human credulity, and presently added z "What I say about wine, sir, gitcs you our rule; but it sometimes happens that the Vhief Justice will say tome when the cloth is removed, 'Broth er Story, step to the window and see if it docs not look like rain.' And if I tell him the sun is shin ing brightly, Judge Marshall will sometimes reply : 'All the better, for our jurisdiction extends over So large a territory that the doctrine of chances makes it certain that it must be raining somewhere, and it will Ikj safe to take something. EU EflecU of Idleneaa. Extract from Her, Dr. Kinc1 aernton last Sunday. "By much slothfulness the build ing decayeth; and through idleness oi me nanas tho house droppeth through." "In earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest." Idleness, said the preacher, is not only an evil but a sin and a crime against God and ourselves. As Lord Ba con says, "in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." I do not The "Colonels" Maat Go. The editor of the Florida Herald has started a reform movement which has long been desirable, though no one else seems to have had the courage to begin it. He proposes to restore to the civilian ranks all of the spurious ,tcolonels.w We hope the stout hearted editor will succeed. He has begun right oy ueciimng the title or colonel on his own account, but whether he will live long enough to finish j the believe a lazy man can be a healthy job is doubtful, unless some way, vuvuiinuiru iiuiirM breed evil thoughts as naturally as worms are generated in a stagnant pool. Hence arise calumnies and slanders. Most ruined men date their wreck from some vacant hour. An ancient poem which pictures the devil as fishing for men with baits adapted to theirdifferent tastes represents the idler as giv ing him no trouble but as'biting at the naked hook at once. Idleness Is especially the corrupter of youth; as it is the inlet of all temptations. The most miserable being on earth is the young man of fortune . who has nothing to do but to find some new way of doing nothing, and equally wretched is the young wo man who spends herj whole exist ence in hunting fori a husband. Sensible youths will do well to be ware of her. That laziness meets at times with a fit punishment may be seen from the example of the Hamburg Workhouse, where idlers are : suspended in baskets above the dinner table so that they may see and smell the food which they are uot allowed to taste. Remem ber, then, the saying j of C&ssjanus that "The working monk is assault ed by a single devil, j but the idle monk is overcome with devils with out number," and be! certain that the man who finds time hang heavy on his hands has consulted neither duty nor happiness. Recreation is not alone a privi lege but a duty. It is to the mind what whettiug is to the scythe. The man who spends his whole time in recreation is I always whet ting and never mowing, and the man who spends his whole time in labor is always mowing but never whetting. I Relaxation is indispen sable. Lute strings must some times be let down or they lose their sweetue&s; in like manner man's body aad brain must b refreshed or they will lose all their vigor. We Americans are, as a nation, given to overwork. Wo have not yet learned the secret of rest. At this time it is specially well to remem ber that recreation and recupera tion are Kyt idleness and abstinence from activity, but salutary powers exerted in different directions. The only antidote for idleness is work, and weariness can only be combat ted by recreation. Inaction is al ways baneful, a its sole function is to breed indigestion both in body and koiiI. i at present unknown, of prolonging life is discovered. Even if he ex poses one pretended colonel a day, Sundays included, he will need more than an ordinary lifetime in which to extirpate the breed in Florida alone; and what is the rest of the South to do in the mean time f j ' - - ... Hot Weather and Cool Drinks. Jydl anyone ever solve the standing mystry of the drinking habit T Half a year ago all men of inclination were taking brandy and gin at intervals throughout the day for the sole purpose of keeping warm; yesterday the same men were drinking the same kinds of liquor, in the same quant ites, in order to keep cool. Most of them poured ice water into the liquor or! or took it after- their liquor! but! they did the same in the depth of the winter. Can any drinking man tell the public for a certainty whether alcohol makes the drinker cool T If the stuff is cooling, why did he take it in v Inter to make him warm 1 Or if he says the effect is not coolingj but heating,' why do&e he drink it freely wheli themerr enry is in the nineties t If such apparent inconsistency was dis played by a politician there would seem nothing strange about it; but when it is manifested at consider able expense, tbe money coming out of the drinker's own pocket,1 pub lic curiosity is inevitable. ITEMS OP INTEREST. England imported about 250.- 000 pounds of ostrich feathers last year, valued at 95,400,000. i The total yield of the mines in this country for 1882 wad 932,500, 000 in gold and 810,100,000 in sil rer-- !.-': -,(.. j To pay four per cent, on the cost of the Brooklyn bridge about 5a,wu wm nave jto ue taten in dailv. - j The widowvo r:'d Dr. Glenn, the i;great California firmer, expects to IUJS JTCHr C i W,WU I ID III IUG grain crop. j I : ' ? It is said that a fly has sixteen thousand eves. This accounts for ; her carelessness in leaving her specs laying arouna. - J The estimated value: of build.' ing improvement in At lan tin this year, exclusive ofj public buildings, is 91,000,000, and the year isn't half gone yet. I -J.- j . j - "Were it left1 to me.'' said Jef ferson, "to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I tate a moment to! should not hesi- ' Talmage on Gnats and Camels - j- The interior of Talmage's Taber nasle resembled a vast flower-garden, Sunday,1 when Talmage, the sun-flower of the group, bowed his head for the congregation. ' ) After the opening chorus he came on the sta ere and announced j Woe be to ye who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." I I prefer the latter.?' See the eternal unfitness of things, says tho Oil City Vtrrkk. A silver dollar of 1804 was recent ly sold for 9704,j bile j the silver dollar of the preseut day is worth about seventy-eight cents. This is progress. , T.; '-j. U ..J.'. ..j I A school ha$ been opened in St. Louis by a p'iil of the Russian Professor Mezzeroff for instruction in the art of making dynamite ma chines and other destructives. Fourteen young men, it is said, have been enrolled ! as pupils. , A Detroit tailor foil sjyrtly advertise: "Persons leaving the city for the summer fresorts can have their statements! of account promptly . forwarded by 'leaving their addres. State to what street and number last postal ekrtl was sent." ' A number men have been thieving. W hile rulilig Out from Boston they "ragged" 4 ,ot f signs on the w;,y, being about to carry off a tobacconist's Indian as a policeman appearedJ Their car riage was full of barber poles, gilt waccnes, grocers' signs, and so on. Vinnie Ream Bfoxie, the noted Learning to Sew To be handy with the I needle, is one of sterling accomplishments of every educated t woman. - To be able to take the "stitch in time," is iworth 'I all the time and trouble that are required to learii the art. . Like walking, readiug, and many other things (which we come to do without speciaHhought the learn ing to sew is a slow process, and should be begun while the child is still quite young. The girl should not only havi the use of the thread, needles and patch work,! but be in structed how to take this stitches, turn the ; corners, and do various; things connected with needle worki' We are ; including the boys In our remarks, because they need to learn to thread a need general sewing. Men times so situated that depend upon themselves for their necessary; sewing. Even if it is;an age of sewing machinesi it is best that all children should learn) to use the simple,! common old fash ioned kind, 1 which can never be wholly superseded. The aniuse- fjent and occupation that sewing urnishes little folks a (lord suffi cient reason why illl mothers 8iould see khat-their girls.f-jind boys too, learii to .sew but i the very practical i)se of the needle in the principal reason, e, and j do are many they must after life after alii is Old Sejctloual IJneiGoue. r 1 of I Harvard fined fresh - !$20 each for He said that the scriptures were proverbs . of compact wisdom;: i P f 1 knowledge in chunks; river in ja 3-tX ; " ii la Behalf of Frogn. towns and cities, it was a fact that at least nine-tenths of our 3orth Carolina people lived in the coun try. That was our interest in slav ery days. It is our interest now to live much more largely in cities. If for every man that now lives in towns, fire more shall move in from tbe country, we would then bav left perhaps a larger country popalalion in proportion than the State of .New York. The plain, good country people feel this in stinctively, and heuce they -are coming into the towns rapidly. Every town in this State well loca ted and well governed, is growing, and In the next ten years can have five times its present population. ' LAZY rEOPLE in tho country may become very good, industrious town citizens sometimes necessity compels them so to be. People poorly adapted to farm life often make very good operatives in factories. To make a man industrious, there is nothing like having bim properly placed. Anglo-Saxons are not lazy people naturally, as compared with other Etople; and there is in all proba ility no hardier race than our own yeomanry.'' Aroused to highest ac tion (as during tbe war) our hardy muscles and active brains must soou build a great State.. Muscle is now alive as well as brain, about which I may write- some other time. v As a result of this activity and of co-operative effort, you may ex pect great" rapidity of growth in our principal cities and towns. God designed men to live largely in cities. Only wild men and wild beast can live entirely alone. U. K. District Attorney Speaks, The Kronomle Value of lnallage The economic value of ensilage has beeu strikingly illustrated by an English agriculturist's experi ment reported in the Agricultural GazetU. In his case a crop of oats mined by the wet season was sav ed by ensilaging it, the oat sheaves having been 'in a thoroughly sod den condition and tbe corn in them so generally sprouted that appar ently all was worthless except for manure." The process of ensilage consisted in putting the oats in a silo or pit, and adding about three hundredweight of salt to thirteen tons of the green fodder. When the pit was opened last mouth, af ter having been closed nearly eigh teen weeks, the temperature was found to bo 110 degrees, the mass was in good condition, giving a fra grant odor, and was readily eaten by horses and cattle: The theory of the process is that when green soddes is placed in a. water-tight pit under pressure heat is generat ed and fermentation ensues. The oxogen in the interstitial air is speedily absorbed and its place ta ken by carbonic acid gas, so that the fermentation and its accompa nying heat are arrested in the mass of closely packed fodder immersed in a bath of carbonio acid, "just as," to use the words of Professor Wrightson, "a lighted candle ex tinguishes Itself in a bath of choke damp of its own making when burned in a closed vessel." Of course the more perfectly air-tight, the silo is the more perfectly will its contents be preserved. This pit should be cemented so as to be water-proof, and some authorities suggest dimensions of twelve feet width, twelve feet depth and a length proportioned to the amount of fodder to be preserved. There can be no doubt that where the expense of constructing a good pit can be afforded the en silage system will effect a large savin cr of the products of the soil. Xot only can the fodder be The oyster season has ended; the fatal months without the "r" have begun to run their course. Let no he who loves his stomach despair, however, for the juicy, tender, de licious frog has come he who iu France makes his entrance and exit by the light of wax bougies and the Hipping of seductive Widow Clicquot. Thereisaprejudieeainoug some people about frogs as a steady diet. It is uot founded on reason. What animal or reptile so much, resemble man as the frog T Many men and more women think they can sing. They can't. Neither can the frog, though from time, imme morial his lugubrious wail, solemn croak, has been heard at dewy eve by summer boarders. ) Who has not seen men that looked just like frogs beardless, bald-pated. wide mouth, receding chin, promi nent eyes, alderamnic-bellied sort of fellows! Then with their; eyes exercise the electric power,! and what ladies do not t It is a fact in natural history that some men have endeavored to stand the gaze of the frog's eye, and fell fainting to the ground. 1 The frog,too, has been celebrated in song,1 poetry, sacred history and the Koran. Two thousand (years ago Aristophanes brought frog people onto the stage, and a poem attributed to Homer relates of the battle between the frogs and mice. Then, too, frogs gave Moses and hi$ people a good deal of trouble in Egpyt once, which might have all been avoided if they had fallen to -eating them, as we do now. And the Koran relates that when the Chaldeans cast Abraham into the flames the frogs spat into and ex tinguished the fire. Therefore, say s Mohammed, i respect the frog for having saved the patriarch. ; mill-race. - lie described tbe camel as ja great, awkward, sprawling prute, with a back two stories high and a stomach filled with reservoirs, ah article of diet forbidden the Jews and as no good. The gnat was a grub of infinitesimal proportions at the start, and yet man was so in consistent that he would gup down down the "ship of the desert,"whi)e he couldn't educate his s torn ache to envelop the guat. 'j He said that the principal ep pie he should refer to were the min isters of the gospel, who were blind guides of the text. They objected to everything that was not clothed with solemnity, while they them selves did things a thousand fold worse. They always wanted jto see the mouth drawn down instead of up and preached to sleeping con gregations, j It was worse to sleep in church than to smile. j "When the congregation begin to go to sleep,' he yelled, "it is time for the minister to announce the doxology or pronounce the ben edictiou. There is too much solem nity and not enough vivacity in our churches. Christ did not think any more of a minister because he was sol emn. The men who always preach ed solemnity did it to detract the attention of their flocks from their greater sins. Bunyan and esley aud Whitley and South and Jere my Taylor, and even Christ him self, were paragraphers. '; ! A sermon without wit was like a banquet of raw roast beef with out dessert. j . I ! These ministers strained at he gnat and swallowed the dromeda ry. . ! . .' I . ' 1. A man who wasawayjiip 111 the estimation of his neighbors wohld watch forthe boy who' stole ibis morning paiers and when he had caught hiui he would say; "ah, you being a y having ueen born last Thursday n Vasbington. She had been married several years and was quitej welli advanced in years, so that this last evnt in her somewhat! of a sca the friends of the history causes sation among family. j John Leveridge, the oldest law yer in 2ew 101k, . will bo ninety- two years old Septehibef 1. ! He distinctly remembers' the funeral of Washington, witnessing it in com-: sister at the corner and Vesey streets. forcibly impressed 1 by the fact that pany with his of Broadway. I he event waa unon his mini - p ; ; - when he got home he and his sister were soundly mother. spanked j by their evrYork Sun Politicians who are uow skirm- lshiug for a third party for the Presidential contest hive probablv forgotten the complexion of the present Hoiise" of Representatives, which would elect a President in Case of a failure at tho ballot box. Insuch a contingency the vote is taken by States, the ubajority1 6fa Jelegafcion controlling the State. These States are j Democratic : Alabama, J Arkansas,' . California, Connecticut. Delaware, Georgia, Indiana Kntncky, Louisiana,1 Ma ryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Mis souri, Nevada, New (York, North Carolina, . Dhio, ' South Carolina, (Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia :and Wiscojusin--22. I f - j These; States are Republican: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kajila-v Maine. Massachusetts. Minnesota. I Nebraska J New Hampshire, ! New Jersey! Qregon,, Pennsylvania, ! Rhode rlsllmd, Vermont, ' Virginia 15. : j . ' ' . : FIorida,fdmded 1, . j The hios!t noticeable fact in this record If is that the! Democratic State,; in elude everjf part of the Union, iind all its extremes. North and SouthL East and West, j This . is the firsts time since the civil war when the I strength of that ; arty has been distributed over so vast an area; (California, Conncc icut. Indiana, iuiciiigan, jVcvada, York, pli$ and Wisconsin for tho- North. . The old a lines are gone. New speak sectional Ye$, I Fork FllrtatloiiK. knife means "I am i. Knife aud To drop your badly bored." I To eat with vour knife means ' am not posted!" I jj i To drop your fork means ''I am desperately injlove.' To wipe your knife on the table cloth means "all righr.', j To stir your cotlee with your fork means "how sweet you are " To .eat your mu i with a fork means "you are very beautiful " To whet your knife on? your fork means "you see I am sharp." To cutvour mouth with a knife niiknn itl om S Iti ral t ffall t " , iuv(uo a. iui luiiuii km To pick ypur teeth with a fork means "1 am 'the ick of the lot.f To wipe your nose on a napkin means "I am making a fool of my self." To drum vour plate with a knife and fork means "I am almost era zy Jconso Who peerles I' little rascal, I've caught you at last. Police ! police P (Several Ealatable and fresh (thus possess ig hicher nutritive qualities than when dried), but much produce, which, if not ensilaged, would be come useless for stock feeding can by this simple process be kept from deterioration till winter. Enthu siastic estimates of the value of ensilage have been indulged iu by some writers. But the most relia ble estimates show that in feeding cattle the gain in favor of ensilage over hay is about twenty per cent., and also 'a large increase in the condition and weight of the ensi lage fed cattle, Bcnclclal Ralaa. Richmond, June 13. The fin rains in Virginia and North Caro lina during the past week have been of great benefit- to all the crops. The putting out of tobacco plants bas been very general and the prospects are that tho crop will How tbe Government Buya. Property. A Washington letter says: "There is considerable sport at the Treasury Department over a draft on the Secretary for $Go,000, drawn bv ex-Senator Tabor. It was pro tested of course. The draft was deposited iu a Colorado bank by Mr. Tabor, who expected in this way to receive the money for a piece of land, recently sold by him to the ! government for the new kept nostnffiee and court house at Deu- - I T . mi a. 4. mill tA flnil. ver. xne iransacuuu ut w w d acted in a differeut way. Before Mr. Tabor can get his money the Attorney General niust notify the United States District Attorney to examine and report to him upon the Senator's title to the property. If correct the District Attorney sends on a certified abstract of the title, mid when received the Attor ney General prepares the voucher. This document goes to the First Auditor who examines and passes upon it to see if the law bas been complied with. Then he sends it to the Pirst Comptroller, who pass es upon it. Next it goes to the Register of the Treasury, who re gisters it, keeps the original and sends a copy to the warraut rooms. Here the warrant for the amount is drawn and this is sent to the TrPMnrpr of the United States. The latter gentlemen makes a draft fnr th n mount upon the nearest started forth to find one, but re turned, when he continued): "These same meii would steal millions without moving an eyelash, and then kneel down in prayer fcnd thank God br the prosperity of the day, aud kiss their children aud hope that they might grow to be as good as their fathers." j The poor thief who would steal a pear from! the basket, perhaps! for the purpose of saving ibis fellow man from a dose of the cholera morbus, would be sent to the Ray raoud street jail or the Tombs and these Christians would anath matize him,! while a man iwho cribbed thousands 01 dollars wpum be sent to the Legislature by the votes of the ieople who strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel. The Church was full of frauds, but there were more and greater frauds outside.. There were so many frauds outside that iti was enough to make an outsider be come a Christian to get out of the bad company, and vice versa.! Most people could see their neigh bors' faults bettea than they could see their owif. They were the watch dogs of humanity, always waiting to have an opportunity to growl, always watching to see if; their neighbors were crooked.; Vultures were always tlie first to scent car rion, audi these ieople were likened unto vultures. They could see fur ther through a keyhole thaniother folks could through 'anj opeujdoor. "I abhor them," he screeched, as he attempted to take a running jump over Professor All's head. "They are the ones who have the most faults, and they find) fault with their neighbor's to ward off To scratch vour head With a for means "I itch for an acquaintaucp wuu you. . r To dip vour knife 1 in the butter means "I ami not very jparticula yon see." I To let your knife slip and splat ter the gravy out of your plate means "1 anj exceedingly happy to be here." ( - j; ' To draw the kuife half way down your throat means UI am enjoying 111 1 OCIl CJ 111") iu". $ A Dragonj A New Y CoL II. Walters, U. a District Attorney, Kansas CityMo., ' au thorizes the following statement : "Sxmxbitax Neutcce cured my niece of snasms." Get at dru crista, itv will be better. Corn $1.50. ' . I a flourishing condition. f m ;--ri .ni tronanrv in favor of Mr. Tabor, last years. tucui iius luwij . . ,. ,i verv mncb in the nast two weeks and it is mailed to his postofflce ad- attentiou from themselves. are always hunting for mud instead of trying to locate the: Rocky Mountain eagle." . and while the crop will not bo as large as that of last year tbe quai ls also in dress after having been sent to Tarifitir Ilmce for ieiristry and it is returned iu due course to office." j I They urtles grand Dr. E. II. Babbitt, Hickory, N. his C, says s "Brown's Iron Bitters give great satisfaction," ' r 1 . Fly Create a Panic. ork special says: bic dracou Lfly, such as children call a darning-needle, flew into one of the. primary departments of the Fifth-Streetlpubli4 school Friday afternoon. .There were 12,100 chil dren in the building. Of these 971 were in the! primary department, on the first) floor hbove the strtiet level. When the (little girjs s4w the dragon jtfy 1 circling j over their heads they frere frightened and be gan to scream. Those (nearest the door ran oui and down the stair way; Thejr cries were plainly heard through the building. At this most of the children in the main recitation room became panic stricken, and, jumping Up, started for the doors, yelling! fire. The teachers trif-d to stop tlieni, but Jat least one hundred escaped down the stairway and out to J.be street, shouting firje at esich breath. As the little ones ran out j their cries were taken up by men and women, and in an incredibly shortv time the street was blocked by a mob 2,000 strong, wailing, crying, shout ing, and trampling on each other iu their efforts to get iuto the schixd house to thjsir children.j Policemeju from the station near by hurried 0 the house, and 15 of them by great labor kept the fran tic parents from getting into jlhe building. A number of .the- men went to tht! assistance of the teach ers. The pupils were most of them ready for a panic., and only the coolness of the teachers and some of the older pupils prevented it. The teachers say this is the second time the dragon ., fly has almost made a panic. The children think it will 8ew!up their ears if it gets a chance to siing them. :'. CoiiKoIadouii Anyhow.' think slie intended it. She saw If was looking vi rv will. and she hhs two daughters j, of her own; Horrid things they a re; too. SI10 cajit kret tlieni off. with kll her moneyt Well, I eauje in; and my hair tookjuie two hours, I -assure you. t liy just as! 1 wanted it, along inyfforehcad. She rushed up to me witjli a fan as big as 4 ; barn ifft door and loom iiH'nee! fan 11 ing her- V. selfasifj he were worked hyfsteam: 'My dear child, how! nice yOu look, jj But how hot it is! Where ;i your t dear sjstir V It was aregtilar bur- f rieanej my hair flew apart in all 'f direction?;. I caught a ; glimpse of p myself ill ii irlass: I kvas a ffriirht. ! N IP ..U'i Si-.!, in i t J- it -ft' s-f " fj'in iin, 111 iiiit Miiir. ave choked the old cat. I meant itj. One; of her daughters had claret punch skilled over iher Jight silk.! It waVjriiiiied That was some; ation, anyhow." I might Lav? been getting!! myself up toy t I could 1 know kIi chariiiiu ' Kepiitatlou. pan estimate the cost of tti I Ms if ..V reputation ! Young man.1 - young woiiian starting oiit in tho$ giddy; Whirlpool of jlife, pause ami consider before the tempter -has jV - ! t aft- j i ' L m ; -J. ' ' iisror hot to Oh.'v: of tik in re- '3 ,v you in bis power. Jle ! only tilied wbo ; has determined yield tq the first temptation uivine, on, gionons legacy stainless reputation! Who deeni i it if lost f Truly does the great; philosopher Of iMH'try say thef j world'sj wealth is aji "trash"iii coin parisoii. I hone" that in Si ll that I concerns a just appreciatioii'of thevi insigiuhcaiico ot human Iifej what- ever niay attempt to threaten or s you heed it not. jveei ai 3 alarui stout 1 abovii Itisb famej dignit, eart 'and a ssteady eye; and - reputation. better than all, keep your tter than gold; Without it - station Grate. . of has n'o ityi !atj !i iMiamaa JefleiStou'ii The! neglected conditloW grave of Thomas Jefiersoii. Monticello, has long leeu the suh ect iof comment, aud the nationals GoverinnCnt has at last erected a inoiiuinent over the resting place of the author of the Declaration of Independence. The iK'ople hava been .making elaborate I p.cnan-; rationf? for tho juiiveiling,' of t lit monument on the Four of .lnljp' next, j It was su ppo.se 1 ,f l :t I hoi? sands would come froni all parts of the country, but, jto th chagrin tf thejeobmitteeof hn-ange'utcntM,tli wholelaffair promr to bv a coin. dete faiuire, and tlie. indication are that thenie i' -nir Wi : hardly exceel the dignit of zii Ordinary cross-roatis gtneting. i a sin.- gio conspicuous s party -lias agreed in a. ..a - - ? pirengiu w vigorously piisli ;ii business,! strength to iiitudv ftrr prpfessiou, strength to. regulate ii household, strength to do a "day abor without physical tpaiu. lo you desire strength 7 fir you are broken down, have no energy, feel as if life was hsudly worth living, ; yqujen le relieved and restorei ' to rollust Lealtli, and strength by taking Brown's. Iron Bitters, a sure ciire for dyspepsia, malaria, weak- .X .i .l tl i .;! ') tiue,,relial)le, nbn-alcoholio tonic., t acts on the blood, jnerves ami att-smiu of eitho to bis lireseutr" muscles and regulates ot the; system. Si every pjtrt ' y : 4 A -i ty. Ono of the young ladies