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l)c tfljatljara Xittoxb. IWtai II. A. LONDON, EDITOK AND PKOrillETUIt. HATES ADVERTISING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, One square, one mscrtion Ono square, two insertions One square, one month Lot - 2.60 $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly In Advanct. For larger advertisemcnta liberal con racts will be made. VOL. XV. PITTSHORO', CHATHAM CO., N. CM MAY 25, 189:5. no. :$.). A Dentil and A Lire. Fair young Hannah, Ben, the tunbtirni fisher, gayly woosj Ilali' and clever, For a willing heart and hand he alien. May-lay skies are nil aglow, Anil the waves tire lnughing to! For her wedding Hannah leaves her window and her shoes. Mar in passing; Mid the apple houghs a pigeon coos. Httniinh shudders, For tho mild soiilhwcster mischief brews. Itnund Ilia roeksuf Marblchead, Uiilwnrd hound, a schooner sped. Silent, lonesome, llannnh's at the window, binding shoes. Sailing away ! Loiiing the hreatli of the shores in May, Propping down from tho beautiful bay, Over the sea slope vast and gray ! And the skipper's eyes with a mist arc blind, For ft vision come on the rising wind Of a gentle face that he leaves behind, And a heart that Hindis through the fog hank dim, Thinking of him. Far into night He watches the gleam of the lessening light Fixed on the danger us lRlau.1 height That bars the harbor he loves from sight. And he wishes, at dawn, he could tell the tale Of how they weathered I he southwest fl.i!e, To brighten the cheek that had grown so palo With a wakeful nlglit among spectres grim Terrors for Ji in. Yo-heive-yo! Here's the bank where the fishermen go. Over the schooner's side Ihey throw Tni klc and bait to the deeps below. And Skipper Hen In th water sees, V.'lmi its ripples rurl to the liht land breeze, HniiK'thing thai stirs like bin apple trees, Anil two soft eyes that beneath them swim, l.lfleil to him. Hear the w ind roar, And the rain through the slit sails tesr and pour! "."lend)! we'll send by the ape Ann shore, Then hark to the Itcvi rly bells once more!" And "Oh man worked with the will of ten; While up in the rigging, now and then, The lightning glared in the face of Hen, Turned to the b'uck horizon's lim. Scowling mi him. Into bis brain Tturned with the iron of hopeless pain. Into thoughts tint grapple ami eyes that strain. Tierces tin- iniinorv. cruel and nin Never again shall he walk nt ease I'ndcr the blossoming apple tri es That whisper and sway to the sunset breeze, While soft eyes float where the sen gulls skim. lazing u illi lilui. How Ho y went down Never was known in the still obi (own. Nobody guessed how the fisherman brown, With the look of despair that was half a frown, Faced his fato in the furious ntght Faced the mad I illnws with Winger white, Just within hail of tho beacon light That shone on a woman sweet and trim, Waiting for him. lieverly hells Itins to the tide as it ehhs and swells! His was the anguish n moment tells The passionate sorrow death quickly knells. Hut the wearing wash of a lifelong Woo Is left for the desolate heart to know. Whose tides with the dull yean come and Sro, Till hope drifts dead to Its stagnant brim, Thinking of him. 1'oor lone Hannah. Pitting at the window binding shoes, Faded, wrinkled, Sitting, stitching, in a mournful muse, llright-cycd beauty once was she. When the bloom was on the tree; Spring and Winter, Hannah's at the window, binding slices. Not a neighbor 1'ussitig nod or answer will refuse To her whisper: Ts there from the Ushers any new?' Oh, her heart's adrift with one tu an endless voyage gone! Night and morning, Hannah's at t lie window, binding shoes. 'Tis November. Now no tear her wasted cheek bedeffg. From Newfoundland Not a sail returning will she lose-, Whispering hoarsely, "Fishermen, Have you, have you beard or Hon'' Old with wat' hlng, Hannah's at the window, binding shoes. Twenty Winters Jtleixh and tear the ragged shore she views. Twenty seasons .Never one has brought her any news, still her dim eyes silently Chase the white sails o'er the sea. Hopeless, faithful, Hannah's at the window, binding shoes. I.uey l.arcom. SAVED BY A CALF. "The wliolo course of my lifo was changed, iiinl my love' young dream destroyed in less than a minute by n calf, mid a foiiunnto thing it was for m" srid the wife of u prominent citizen of Lycjining county, Penn., now visiting friends in this city. My father was the leading business man in a bustling lumber village, ami there, woro thrco gins of us, a sis or older and ono younger than I. Father was kind and indulgent, but very level headed, nnil had been a widower for somo years. When I whs IS a good looking young chap fr tit somewhere down the Susquehanna imiie to clerk in father's store. 1 was it romantic fl)ij, irul fell in love with the good- looking clerk, or thought I did, find ho fell mi lovo with mo. That young nan, it sccmod to mo (lion, was the bravest, most ainb'tiom youth that ever lived. I see now that it was only check nnd brag, lint ho was my ideal of n lover, nnd I believed it wu impossible fur mo to livo without hi in. "Father wasn't long in discovering tho very tender relations that hud cotno lo exist between mo and his Bclf-assertivo young clerk, mid ho culled mo to him one day nnd told mc that he was sory to soo that I was such a silly girl, and that I mint get over it nt once, and thou iu formed my bravo and steadfast idol tiiat nt the end of tho month he could go hack homo. Of course my heart was broken. Lifo had lost nil i s cliaim. I felt I was tho victim of a stern and unsympathetic parent's cruel will and I wished that I were dead. '.'Now, although this lover of mine wns clerking in my father's store fur $20 a month and his board, his father was a rich lumberman, and ho was the only son. When I was nt the hoiglit of n:y misery over the paternal inter ference thnt had ritfll-d ihj course of my truo love, as I think I was in tho habit of calling it, my idol and 1 met ono evening, quitu by chance, of course, at the hotiso of a neighbor of ours, nml what did my bravo knight propose but an elopement, and what did my romantic soul do but prompt me to agree to tlio proposition on the spot. 'There was a railroad station eight miles distant. The last tni'ii for any wliero left that station nt 7 o'clock every evening. All we had to do was to drive to tho station, get tho train, go lo tho county scat, only an hour's ride, get married, and bo happy over after. Wo fixed on a certain night this was along toward the middle of December and got everything ready for tho elopement. It was n good liour-uud-u-hulf drive lo tho station over tho sort of road wo had to travel on, ami ho wo wero obliged to tnko an early start. The winter had been very mild. There wus no snow. It was just beginning to get dark when I stole to where my valiant lover was waiting for me with a horse and wagon. I knew that the chances were all in favor of my level-headed father discovering the w hole plot heforo wc could reach the station, and I was sure that he would bo on our track with a horse a good deal faster than tho ouo wc had lo depend on. Ilut 1 hud no fear that he would ovet haul in. "Hcforo wc hud gone one-quarter of the way night had set in for good, but there was a moon, ami that helped us along amazingly. Wo had got within a mile of tho station and had good reason to believe wo wero snfo, when suddenly the horso stopped with a snort of terror, reared up, nnd tried to turn in tho road. A cut with the whip straightened him up, but he kept on snorting and showing evidences of terror. 1 looked up the road and dis covered the cause of all this. An i in incuse hear stood on its haunches nt one side of tho road growling nnd snarling and showing a disposition to advance upon u. When my brave lover saw the savage boast he rosa up in the wagon, gave a yell, nnd gasped : 'Oh! Jennie, let's go back." "1 forgot nil about the bear. 1 gRil in nina.emcnt nt my gallant knight. lie was ns pule as a sheet. The lines hung loose in bis hands. I seized thorn, jerked thorn away from him, took the whip, nnd, as 1 li-.-ld the horso from turning round, ordered tho eowardly youth out of tho wagon lie crnwlod out of tho back end of the wagon, and toro down the road as fast ns his legs could carry him. 'Then I whipped tho horse with nil my might, and ho sprang forward and whizzed tho wagon past tho growling bear so close that it almost knocked tho ugly beast over. 1 drovo on to tho station, had tho horse put out, and went in the little hotel thero to wait for father. My love's young droain was gone as if it had never been. Te" minutes af.cr 1 reached tho station tho train came and went. Ten minutes later father came tearing on horseback up to the door. 1 mot him. Father," said 1, '1'vo been saved by a calf.'" Then I (old him nil about tho ad venture on the road. Saved by a ealfl' ho exclaimed, 'You mean saved by a bear.' " " 'Not at all,' I repliod. 'If Jerry hadn't been a calf and the biggest kind of a calf, that bear wouldn't havo been any more than a stump in my way. 1 was saved by a calf, I tell you, nud I want to go home!' "My gallant lover was never seen around our iicighboi hood ngai.i, and somehow or other, father always seemed to think nioro i f me after that than ho ever had before.'' New Vol k Sun. The Carnival in Kio Do Janeiro. Thero aro two totally distinct sea sons at Kio, whon tho town presents nn altogether different appoarnncc ; tho summer, which lasts from October to April, nml tho winter, from May to September. In tho summer, which is tho n u l u in n anil winter in Europe, when 1 1 io sun pours down into the narrow streets, Rio is anything hut an iigreeuldo place. The heat has driven nwny tho rich nml leisured classes, the great merchant-', the diplomatic, corps; in f ;ict, all of any position or fancied position hasten to the suburbs on tho breezy heights overlooking tho city, or to tho little country towns in the neighborhood, such as lVtropolis and Thercsopolis, whilst others take refuge on the islands of the bay. The town becomes a perfect ca'dron ; but this docs not prevent .i great ex citement over the Carnival, which is an institution to which tho Flumiucn scs, or river folk, arc particularly de voted. This relic of the old hcalheii Saturnalia is fast disupwrai iug from Europe; and now that Italy is a united kingdom, it is no longer properly kept up even in its former headqi a-ters, Koine and Venice. At Kio, however, Carnival-lime livelier than ever, mid there nre so cieties for celebrating it in grand style. Shrove-Tucsdny is kept in a most characteristic manner, nnd is dis tinguished not only by tho richness of the costumes mid the originality of tho vehicles iu the procession", but by the absurdity of the caricatures in what may justly be termed an open air re view of (lie chief events of tho pre ceding year. Iu tho time of tho empiro the ministers of lljin Pedro defrayed tho expenses of the Carnival, nud though a republic has now been established the old customs are kept tip, and the revolution arc spared no moie than were their predecessors; moreover, liko t In-ill, they arc the first to laugh at the ridiculous caricatures of them selves nml their actions iu these witty exhibitions, in which full scope is at' forded to the imaginations of (ho popular pools of Kio. Harper's Week I v. A lluiuhle Ilee Chased by n Humming lllril. An observer writes that he s satis fied that there is just as much rivalry between humming birds nnd bees in their quest for honey us thorc is be tween members of tho human race in their struggle for the good things of life, and describes u recent quarrel that ho saw in a Portland, (Mo.) garden, wimic a humming bird with nn angry dash expressed its disap proval of the presence of a big bumb! bee in the same tree. The usually pugnacious bco incontinently fled, but ho did not leave tho tree. lie ilnshed back nnd forth mnoiig the branches and white blossoms, the humming bird in clo-c pursuit. Wheic will you find another pair that could dodge and dart equal to those? They wero like flashes of light, yet tho pursuer followed the track of the pursued, turning when the bee turned. Iu shoit, the bird nud (ho boo controlled the movements of his eyes. Tho chase was all over in half the time that i; has taken to tell it, but the excitement of a pack of hounds after a fox was no greater. Tho bee Osc.iped, I Ho bird giving up t lie chase nnd alighting on a twig. It couldn't have been chasing the bco for food, and there is no possiblo expla nation of its unprovoked attack except that it wished to have till the honey itself. rCliiengo Times. 31 ay Displace (innpovtiler. A commission of (ierinau arlillory experts has been testing nt tho Jtictcr borg a new explosive which is intend ed to replace, ultimately, gunpowder iu tho tiermau ai my. Tho cxplosivo is a brown, fatly subslancoof the con sistency of frozen oil when exposed (o ordinary tcinj eraturo. It retains this consistency up to 112 degrees Fiihrcheii. A shock or a spark docs not set it oft". When ued in guns t No explosion is obtained through contact with another chemical compound. Thecxplosiou isulmost unaccompanied by smoke mid the detonation is incon siderable. Tho recoil is very slight, even when tho heaviest charges havo been used. The explosive docs not heat the weapons sutlii icntlv to cause dillicully in the way of rapid tiring, nud cartridges once used mo easily re filled. For the present rifle, model of , I f-i ST., the new compound is not avail able, but if futuro tests be ns satisfac tory as the recent ones it will be in troduced generally in the artillery brunch of tho service. Four models of new army lillos having many ad vantages over tho rifle now in use, havo pntsod successfully the trials of tho small arms inspectors. The in ventor of all tour is Mr. Weiss of tho lira, dvimntte f.ieiorv. Chicago II i ild. ' CIUEDKEVS COLUMN. mamma's ki-si:s. A kiss when I awake in the morning, A kiss when I go to bed, A kiss when I burn my lingers, A ki-s when I bump my head. A kiss when my bath is over. A kiss when my hath begins; My mamma is full of kisses - As full as a nurse o' pins. A kiss when I play with my rattle, A kiss wlcu I pull my hair; She covered me over with kisses The day I fell from the stair. A ki-s when I give her trouble. A kiss when 1 gave her joy; There's nothing like mamma's kissii To hrrown little baby l. y. INtw York Telegram. tii i:v fiAVi: tiik. i;Mi'iii'.ss a ii'moi t.t. When tho little tiorman princess was born last summer, the (ierman empress, in accordance with the na tional custom, gave twenty compleic out tits of beautifully made little baby clothes to twenty poor women. And on the same day the emperor pardoned n number of women convicts. The children of Germany, who dearly love I lie empress for her kindness to them on nil occasions, were busy planning n superb bouquet to be given lo their royal mistress. Wl.eu completed tho bouquet was i early a yard across tho top. it was dome-shaped nnd was composed of ten thousand violets, surrounded by three hundred big roses. From the top of the dome to the out side of the bouquet there extended lield flowers, which gave Hie gay rlh d of ribbons mining the violet. The en tire bouquet wus the work of peasant children, who took this way of show rig their gratitude to their empress. A STIiAM.I". SciMiSI KU Ono night as I lay iu bed I heard a shrill "tweet, tweet," close to my ear. I storied up nnd listened. 1 was rewarded by a series of chirps, fol lowed by a prolonged trill of gicut sweetness. What could it he? 1 was not the pos sessor of u canary, but without doubt somebody's pet bad escaped and flown into my room through the open win diw; ihi warbling an 1 tiilliug still continued, now lit one end of the ro in, now at tho other, sometime close to my bed. I decided at last to investigate. Arising us noiselessly as possible, I lighted the gas and looked around, ex pecting to see a little n ass of yellow down fluttering in the sudden glare. "Tweet, tweet, tweet," came from under the sofu. Ah, tho little rascal, it hud taken refuge there! 1 resolved this time it should not escape me, so providing myself with a towel with which to cupturo the tiny fugitive, I peered cautiously under the sofa. "I.ii!iiiess there, and nothing more." Suddenly 1 felt something brush ngainst by bare feet, then came another outburst of song, us though the unknown little creature wero some mischievous sprite laughing at his own pranks. 1 teated myself on a chair thor oughly puzzled; thero was a moment's silence, then tho singing began again soft'y and sweetly liko the rippiing of a brook in midsummer or the tinkling of tiny silver bells. Nothing more exquisite or dainty could be imagined. I had thought it was a canary, but now I was convinced that it must be a bird of rare species. The sounds seemed to come from tho neighborhood of the gate. I wutchtd intently without making a movement : then I rubbed my eyes. Was I dreaming? I rubbed them i' gain; tho truth flashed upon mo. My songster wns none other than a little irruy mouse seated demurely in the centre of the while fur rug. "Tweet, tweet, tweet," it eaejf, moving its head from otic side lo another, and looking nt mo know ingly from its saucy round eyet, then it ran the length of tho room execut ing a trill of marvellous sweetness, and disappeared into some biddou hole. This was its farewell effort, for al though I waited for nioro than nn hour I did not repeat its performance. The next morning I found a liny gray mouse in the trap. 1 did not know whether it was my littlo friend cf the night before. 1 burled it with honors. In any case, never again was 1 visited by the strange little songster. New York Observer. Hid llimseir. Jinks. "When burglars were in your house the other night did Mrs. Filkins look tin let- tho bed for a mails'" Filkins. " Yes; and found one, too." Jinks. "One of the burglars?'' Filkins. "No; me!" Harper's Hazar. "GRAND OLD MAN." Simple and Regular Life of Premier Gladstone. Plain Food at Hi3 Meals and Plenty of Sleep. Mr. ("iladstone is in the best of health, sleeps remarkably well and, so far from having shown signs of de creasing vitality through an inability to maintain the appetite for food, the right honorable gentleman enjoys bis meals with the zest of a young man. When ho rises he invariably takes a tepid bath, and every morning before breakfast while at Diarrilz lie attended church, und since his return to London has frequently lakon u little walk in tho grounds of Downing street. 1 1 is first meal usually consists of hard boiled egg, a slico of tongue, with tea and toast. After breakfast bo devotes himself to his correspondence, and for several hours is busy with his private secretary and receiving such political callers as may arrive. For luncheon Mr. Cladstone takes cold meat, milk pudding nnd cheese. A' 5 o'clock, if disengaged, ho has nftetnoon tea. His dinners aro se lected to his taste. He Iakc9 soup, fish (if it is to his fancy), but usually dines off one dish, which ho selects nnd does not depart from He is very i ml of rice pudding and prunes and rice, mid upon cither of these, but more especially the former, he would, if tho etiquette, of tho dinner tabic permitted it, make nn entire meal. Ik does not drink collec because it is seldom made to his liking, mil, being astringent, keeps him nwake. While nt Liiarritz a rulo was made thnt Mr. (tladstone should he left alone at 10 o'clock every night. This rulo is likely to be adhered to still, and the other evening, while tho guest of u friend, he left nt n quarter past 10. -ml was in bed fifteen minutes later. Mr. Cladstone has, with very rare excep tions, always slept well, and for sonic time was iu the habit of remaining iu bed until noon. This Was when he felt fatigued or desired to think out some mutter which specially engaged him. Hut nt Itiurrilz he never lay in bed but once, mid that was two slays be f oro the time tixed for his departure, when ho was attacked by a cold iu (lie head, and reverted lo his old rule, kept his bid for twenty-four hours and thus regained his usual health. Since the right houorublo gentleman returned to London he has risen early, and is as vigorous and hearty as his friends could wish. Mr. (Jladstone lives very plainly, his regimen being guided by authority, but his appetite jii London is good. On one occasion at liiarritz lie was linked liow he slept, to which he replied gaily: "Well, 1 have done my nine hours.'' His memory is us kei n as cvor nnd at tho ISiarritz dinner table, as when ho dines at home or with frienls in London, lis was the life of the party. On ono occasi- n,vliin Mr. Tollemacho was present, there was u discussion about classics and Mr. (iludstouc quoted, not single lines of (ircck, but wliolo passages. O i the voyage from Calais the channel was very stormy and Mr. (Fadstone lay down, but did not suffer from seasickness. Tlio re ports of his ill health nnd less n d vi tal!. have caused t he Downing strcc' post bag to be unusually heavy and a great deal of ill-afforded timo tins con sequently been expended in lefiiting these idlo inventions. St. James Gazette. The Lust of Her Itaee. Old Jennie, the lust representative of the famous Kiver Indians now liv ing in this country nnd quite adviinc-d in years, is making a buiial robe, after tho custom of the distinguished members of her tribe, in which lo be laid nwny when the summons shall como and she shall piss to the happy hunting ground, where iho white man is not and firewater is unknown. The ground work is of fine buckskin and is superbly decoiated with the Various kinds of money used by Iho tribe for (,'0 oral ions p ist and richly ornnmontcd in a pleasing nml skillful manlier wiih jewels, pebb'es, beads and other valuables used and admired by the tiibc in the past. Tho robe when completed will weigh ful y fiO pounds, nnd as a relic or re. minder of tho peculiar customs and practises of a nation of peoplo now prneticnlli blotted from existence is most valuable and should bo preserved. With this commendable purpose in view Mrs. Kowena Nichols, who litis been employed by llm world's fair ennmiticc to paint tho Table Rocks, has procured a number of sketches of llii- in;eiesti: g subject and will paint a lifi-sy picture of old Jennie wrapped in her gorgeous cei eiiieuls, and thus lifp'-ilv pie rive a cacrcd cttstoin about ! y.iss forever irdo ob livion. Old Jennie was born and raised at the foot of Table Hocks, and during the wars was once captured by the whiles and later rescued by her people. Sho lives about a mile and a half from Jacksonville, up Jackson creek, nud to hear her t-jll,in thatpecii liar and impressive Indian stylo, tho grievous outrages and nameless wrongs perpetrated upon her people anil (heir consequent annihilation from tho face of the earth would touch tho stoittost heart with sympathy and al most make one wish be could face again the brawny braves who fought nud died for this fair heritage, and for which s.id fate old Jennie's heurt goes out in bitter wnils. This paint ing will be a vuluable object lesson ns indicating the fast fleeting cycles of lime and the rapid mutations of human customs and usages and will serve us a insist lilting companion piece to the Table Kocks, w here J. nnio was born ami grew up, chiefly on war-whoops nnd cama, clad only in the free raw material of innoeenco and a copper complexion, happy in her native sim plicity nnd blissfully ignorant of modern civi.ization. Jacksonville (Fhi.) Times. What Hud Itoinls Cost the Country. The Hoard of Trade iu a TciinesMv.' town, ina leccnt nieiuoiial to the Leg islm lire, demonstrated that bad roads were costing the people of that comnion weallli more than 7,hmmhhi .'intiually. Professor W, W. Carson of the I'ni versiiy of Tennessee, after careful in vestigation, found the average cost of hauling to tin' Kuo.wille inaivet by wagon to be 7.'iU per ton uggiega ting I ,'.",(iui) a year on Iho total tonn ige hauled. He maintained dint this hauling em'd have been d mo for half the sum ovei good dirt r ids, an 1 for one--ixth of it over good macadam roads, sav.ng ? 1 .oi'ii.ie.io aniiu illy. Professor Kichard T. II y of the Johns Hopkins University and Secre tary of the American E ouoinie Asso ciation, atl'n ined tint poor roads I ihis country over .?'.' ) a horse, an I l'K.r,-,sor .IciiUs .,f K it. C .Ih.ge, I, I,, thinks l" a horse a bw e-tiiui'e t'-r the lo--. I'Y in apers calculated by Profess,,-Co-. (in for an agi cu Miral experiment stition it i -li u n that on gravel a hor-o wi.l draw one and u half times the load, ami on niir a 'am over ihreo lini-s the h-a I l.e O'l ihaw on a dirt n u I. As to the cost of bad roads in the United Stales, Judge Thaier says: "I have madea raieful compu'alioii from such da'nas I have been iible loooiuin of the cost of bad loads, and I Inn) thoy lax what is understood to be agricultui ul products fully ?:lo,(uvo). 000 annually. I think it a moderate estimate to put the other o ,nti ibuuons to bud roads by the remaining tr.illic of the country at an cqii il amount, making a total of -fJT'i.Oott.Ooii.'' A Iiinl Story. I hope, although the incident may be trival, tb.il the little story may interest your lead is as much us it did myself when I wus listening s iim; nights ago to the little lark of whom my story tells, piping away iu ha ihe poo's call "dulcet Sii aius-' of the most melo dious music. My friend, James Shano.-k, three years ago, caught a joting lark, and it has been pouring out its song ever since then from the cage, an 1 n very sweet note it is. Some little while ago, as the afternoon was sunny, the eago was hung outside iu the garden at that nioinei.i another lark was carolling m 1 1 if air, and Slianock's bird rose from Ihe cage, which was only covered with :i d ie net, nnd in which there most have been a rent, and disappeared in the direction of tho other lark. My friend seeing this, nt once began to whistle, holding' up the cage to attract his pet hack again, and iu a very short time down il c;.lii' to his fli t, and waited patiently while be gently ivp'uced him in his cage. Tnere were three witnesses, I believe, iu this case. The funniest thing, too, is about tho same linn James Shntiock's cat brought him in a little bird qui'e Uolica'ely, nnd waited for him to take it from his mouth quite uninjured, lie is a great bird-lover, and it looks a if tho cat, liko everybody else, knew this fact. Fatal to the Intimacy, Mrs. Smith And bow i your neighbor? Mrs. Krown She's well enough, suppose. I haven't seen her to spouk to for six weeks. Mrs. Smith Why, thought you were on tno most friendly terms. Mis. Krown Web, wo used to be, but we'vo exchanged servants. Vogue. The favoiic method of ti.hing in China is with a trained cormorant. Tie Soul of Mini. Hay, in a hut of mean estate A light just glimmers and then Is gons, Nature is seen to hesitate, Put forth and then relrict her pawn; Sav, in the alembic of an eye Haughty is mixed with poor and low ; Soy, Truth herself is not so high Hut F.rrnr laughs to see her so; Say, all that strength failed in its trust; Say, all that wit crept hut a span ; Say, 'tis a drop spilled in the dust. And then say brother-then say man! IDora Jteade (Joodale, in I-iopincott. HtMOKOl'S. Tho roso that all uro praising is now the blind rocs. It is doubtful if a blind man can possess Iho prophetic gift; he is no seer. Men who never (ako a stand any where clso frequently huvj to tako ono in a street car. He 1 thiuk Miss Trill would make tin excellent sailor. She Why? He Sho likes to venture on the high C. Is Miss Trip s girl of moans? Phipps Yes, but what I am trying to dis cover whether it is yes or no she means. This difference still liio-'i rs Among women In all lands: The rich ones ring tle'ir lingers And the poor ones wring their hands. What nonsense it is to say u inmi is inclined to be bald. When a man is becoming ba d it is quite against his inclination. Chipper I often hear people speak about slow poisons. Do you know what theyaie? Lippcr Yes, lnenls sei veil at the average boarding house. Friend doing to try tor a prize es say this term, S.wyer? M-dicalS'u-dent (lowering his voice) Sh ! Yes. (Jot a man hunting a subject for me already. Miss Hart Which do you think is usually the sil icr, the bride or tho giojm? Mr. Oldbulch-The groom, of course. That's how he happens to be n groom. Mnga-emenl times w ill soon be here, Anil now the prudent lover lln.leavors to gt t hack Unit ring. That he may use il foer. Hi Deab me. don't you know, Miss Sweetbricr, that when the ekcirie caw struck me it knocked me silly? She Poor fellow, how long ngo that must have 1 nppened. "This chiekon," said the boarder timidly. "That is a Plymouth Hock, sir, said the frowning landlady. "Ah! Thank you, ma'am. 1 knew it was a rock of some kind." 'Well, my dear, how would Farmer lb-own suit j on for a husband? Ho seems uncommon sweet on you late. Iv?"' "Perhaps so, father, but his bait is so red thnt" "Tine, true, my child; but yon should recollect that ho has verv little of it." (Jueer Diet of U Dog. Mr. Thomas Morgan, of Kentish Town, wondered for a long time why bis garden remained desolate, notwith standing all the pains and seeds ho lavished upon it, and why his neigh bor's dog win always so plump and fat, until he diseovcivd I he cause nnd cll'-ct lo he that the animal was inordi nately fond of tulips, hyacinths, or chids, and other flowers, and was iu Ihe habit of visiting the floncullural preseives and eating up all the blooms he could reach. H-J did not care about grass or boxwo id, or any of the com mon sorts, but the moment bo saw Mr. Morgan plant a black tulip or a rare orchid his eyes sparkled with tho feast in store, nnd the moment the plant blossomed ho devour ed il, stalk mid all. For threo years this went on. The dog was insatiable. He wns a kind of walking botanical garden, and still had always nn appetite for more. Mc Morgan dared not kill the dog, because lie might be hold liable for its value, which, of course, would not bo taken at his own appraisement, so he sued Mr. II all. its owner, in (he liloomsbury County C mi l, for the daniago dono to the gulden.- lmdoii Telegraph. One of Nature's Economics. P.irds with long legs always havo short tniN. Writers n the flight of birds hnvo shown that the only ttso of n bird's tail is to serve as a rudder during the act if flight. When birds nre provided with iong legs these aro stretched directly behind when tho bird is flying nnd so act as a sort of rudder. Nat uro Is economical nnd never provides two oigans for the same purpose, so when tie long, legged birds began to use tlioir legs as s eering apparatus nature cut off t licit tails nu I made tho leg rudder a per inricnry. ( lobe-Democrat. The turquoise was regarded by tho Mexicans as a iniigic s'one, and was wi'i u us an amulet.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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May 25, 1893, edition 1
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