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E. F. YOUNG, Manager. "llVlLl AND LET ElVE." s C. K. GRANTHAM, Local Editor.
VOLUME L . DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THUEst)AY. APRIL 9, 1891. NUMBER 7,
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I.ix al ii-t iO ffiits a line. ,
as sfrmi'f-f ('-' '''.
A child in Kuglaud stole a piece of
literature valued at le than one shilling
and ya.s sentenced to three months in
jail. Then, when a hostile mob advanced-
upon the temple of justice, the
sentence was anuulled a-id the child
;et free
A writer iu the Southern Far hi makes
a strong argument in favor of female phy
sicians for. women. He says that certain
Specialties were in the hands of women
practitioners in all countries and all ages
until comparatively recent times. In
support of hi position he ouote? from
the Old Testament.
According to the St. Louis ilepoblie
the . Japanese Consul at San Francisco,
'al., appeared before the Trades Council
to ask that no boycott be made on the'
Japanese houses. lie said that Japan
ese workmen would never affect Ameri
can labor, and that instead of sending
their earnings home they -spent tbein
with C.iucaian?.
Th- Philj-.lelphia Inquirer is' scared
nnd is trying to scare others over the re
jHrted discovery of bacteria in; imper
fectly refined sugar. -j declares that
samples show. an analysis "that 250,000
of these dangerous creatures are con
tained in .some qualities; but whether
this is the census of a pound, of a ton or
of a cargo is not stated. . '
- The farmers. fn the 'Northwest who
burned nearly all their hardwood timber"
v, hen clearing laud have now cause to
regret it. A Michigan paper gives a
-i--e in point. A rnau at Rive.ton is
selling hardwood logs to milt men at
good prio-s. and supplying what? is un
marketable to his neighbors who have
cleared otT their land and arc forced to
buv fuel.
I The Atlanta Constitution learns that
"the .Mormons in Utah are still receiving
new members from all over the world.
They stick to their old-time religion and
live up to their faith as closely as the
Fedei tl authorities will permit. They
haveiio intentieu of moving to Mexico,
and instead of abandoning their missiou
nrv work, they are pushing it more ac
tively ;han ever. They expect several
l irge parties from the South,
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The New York Sun believes that no
one in New York who has not been out
in the far West can understand the lone
liness of those Minnesota farmers who
have written to Mayor Grant to fend
them women for wives. There are re
gions on the plains in this country and in
Canada where men go mad from lack of
human neighbors, where kittens can bt
sold for j? 5, where almost the only wo
men are Indian or half-breed squaws, and
where bachelors tame wild birds and try
o tame wolves for company
Says the New Orleans 2fete Delta:
From all over the section of Louisiana
which is devoted to the cultivation of
cotton comes the news that the planters
are preparing to decrease the acreage of
.that staple and diversify their cropsto a
greater extent than heretofore. This de
termination i?the result of the low price
for the fleecy staple the present season.
This ls a who move on the part of the
planters, as .,thing tend. more to keep
the farmer poorer than the one-crop sys
tem. If the low price of cotton has had
the effect indicated above, it has at least
taught the planter a wholesome lesson. -
.- According to London Truth the order
against extravagance in the German Army
has red to the resignation of nearly all
the wealthy officers, and the Emperor
now has no regiment at Berlin or Pots
dam which can afford to entertain "dis
tinguished foreigners" in the old fashion.
Formerly, a foreign guest who had vis
ited the barracks of a crack regiment
was invariably invited by the officers to
dinner; but now there are no entertain
incuts, and the Emperor has' tardily dis
covered that tte had better not have
meddled in ,the matter, for all'thc Rus
sian. Austrian and Italian-visitors leave
Berlin exclaiming at the poverty of Prus
otii -rs, to the iniiuite mortification
yl ilite Majesty.
OUR SPRING-TIMES.
When spring comes to seek her own
Do they all rise at her words?
Is the little fledgeling's tone
Hvreet as was the parent bird'b?
When once more the streamlets roam
Do the robins all come home?
Ilere's a nest upon a bough,
But there comes no bird to claim;
Has she made a new nest tow
If from some far land we came
"We should all the home nest know,
Even were it fillel with snow.
There ara blue eyes that we miss
In th flush of violet time;
Something lacking in the bliss
Of the bird-bells' sweetest chime;
In the heart are many spots
b'acred to forget-me-not.
If perchance youth com eta back
. Through some treasure on your knee,
Still the heart will prove a lack.
Lovely though the child may be;
For if it so needeth you,
You still net d your mother, too.
Sometime will the far-off springs
Come back with these later ones;
There will be no missing wings.
There will be no missing tones,
All the joys, but dearer grown.
Of the spring-times we have known.
Mtirif A. Mason, in Frank Leslie's.
THE TRAVELING RING.
At the uuearthly hour of 3 a. m. the
discordant Alpenhoru wakes the guests
of the Hotel Rigi-Kulni to give them an
opportunity for seeing the sunrise.
The hotel is on the very summit of the
mountain, and in front of it stands a
platform.
You can see the sunrise as well and
oeuer ironi ine winaow ot tour own
room, but there is an
extra charge con
nected with the use of the aforesaid
platform, and you would feel as if you
were swindling the management out of
the admission fee if you were to see the
spectacle from any other point of ad
vantage than the one provided for the
purpose.
But this is neither here nor there.
Miss Viva Merrick, of Chicago, hur
riedly donned a morning gown and
hastened down stairs at the sound of the
horn.
Ragged patches of mist rose lazily
from a lake of bluish fog that filled the
valleys ; rugged tops and sharp crags rose
in' bold outline, like coral reefs upon a
sea of floating dampness.
Everybody, including the young lady,
felt uncomfortable.
The greenish half light that precedes
day would make the rosiet complexion
appear pale, dull and lifeless, and rob
any face of its beauty; it was therefore
quite unselfish in Captain Percy Demp
ster, R. E., on leave from India, to offer
his greatcoat to Miss Merrick as n pro
tection against the icy wind that blew
sharply from the glaciers. But he was
a gentleman, and would have done as
much for any lady, young or old, pre
ferably, of course, the latter, otherwise
he would have tendered his coat to the
young lady's aunt first. "
As usual, everybody felt better as
soon as the first rays of the sun had
gilded the edges of the long-stretched
clouds, i
As, the. captain looked for his overcoat
he could not repress the ejaculation,
"By Jingo, what a pretty picture!" and
he dropped his single eyeglass to see
better.
Frau Professor Holtzhackc-r began to
rhapsodize, "Yes, cet, ces wonterfool,
v. onterfool, shplentif, grossartig, wirk
lich gar zu nett!" because she thought
he meant the .sunrise. But he didn't.
Miss Merrick's head just peeped out of
the captain's" greatcoat, her cheeks all
aglow with the rosy light of the newborn
day. Her eyes shone and sparkled with
pleasure, and the crisp morning breeze
scattered a few stray locks of golden hair
that had found their way from under the
dainty traveling cap.
Greuze or Fragonard or Jacquct couid
not have wished for a better model.
If there is. any man who finds fault
with the captain for taking advantage of
the coat incident to introduce himself,
then let his neighbors watch that man.
It was not accident that placed Demp
ster at the ladies' table at breakfast, but
the "Herr Ober-Kellner" (head waiter).
Consideration two francs.
Miss Merrick'c vivacity and t sprit formed
a refreshing contrast to the primness of
her maiden aunt, and the young officer
found her more charming as their ac
quiantance progressed.
What difference does it make whether
one goes from Luzerne to Interlaken and
thence to Zurich, or vice versa? Hardly
any under ordinary circumstances. But if
it is a question of keeping in the com
pany of a clever little lady by reversing
a proposed route it makes all the differ
ence in the world.
And that is why the captain feigned
pleased surprise that the intended line of
travel of the ladies should coincide with
his own plans, which it did not.
But, as everybody was pleased, it did
not matter that he changed his route.-
The summer passed very agreeably to
all, and Telt a deep impression upon the
captain.
First he dropped his single eyeglass for
good, in deference to the common sense
ot Miss Merrick; next he abjured brandy
and soda as a concession to the aunt's
temperance principles; then he became
soutarv and taciturn when the- young
lady was not around, and, ultimately, he
. contracted the danserous habit of look
ing' at the moon long after everybody had
gone to sleep.
No one could have called Miss Merrick
& flirt, but womanlike, she thoroughly
understood the subtle art of keeping her
adorer in hot water by being alternately
coy and cold.
Which showed that she liked him, or land Samarkand and Tashkend and even
she would not have teased him. i to Teheran goes to Herat, and that is
At Scheveuingen, in Holland, the ! why there is always such a thieving rab
whole affair came to a climax. ble there in spite of a strong British gar-
It wax during an early rooming stroll ; lison.
down to the beach. They sat down in a I And one fine morning somebody
oaple of those old wicker work chain. snatched' the Persian's leather poucii.
Fur ttwluk tiiey u.-i usvU the morsels of I The merchant tel up a great hue and crjt
gossip that are repeated every season
about somebody or other.
Suddenly both grew silent. He began
to draw figures i'a the sand with his cane
and she beat a tatoo with her dainty
slipper while gazing out upon the sea
and the outgoing fishing boats in aa ab
stracted manner.
The captain spoke first. "A.bout a
year ago,? he said, "I picked up al ring
in Simla. India, which bears on its inner
surface the initials 'V. 31.,' which are
your initials." Miss Merrick listened in
mute surprise, which changed to aston
ishment when the captain took a ring with
two dinmonUs from his pocket. He
next took her right hand, which hung
by her side, with his other hand. Hers
was a very pretty hand, and the most
pleasant thing about it, to the captain,
was the tinniest suspicion of a responsive
touch.
"What he had to say ai he placed the
ring upon her linger was so interesting
that she did not interrupt him.
They returned to the hotel long after
breakfast time.
Before entering, the captain said: "By
the way, darling, why did you look so
surprised when I placed the ring upon
your finger? I should think that you
.must have expected something of the
kind all along."
Miss Merrick had forgotten all about
the incident in -the pleasurable excite
ment of the captain's proosa. But
now she took the ring off her finger,
examined it carefully, and spoke; "Per
cy, dear, don't be offended, but this-has
always been my ring. I lost it five years
ago in Newport, R. L, and I can tell it
to be the same ring by a. tiny flaw in one
of the stones, aside from the initials."
And now comes, the strangest part of
this narrative, to wit: The story of the
wanderings of Miss Merrick's ring. It"
took -two years to ascertain all the facts
about it, but the captain insisted upon
establishing a clear chain of evidence,
which "would begin with Miss Merrick
and end with himself, or rather with
both. j
The loss of the ring had first been no
ticed by the young lady on her return
from a shopping tour in Newport, where
she was spending the summer. Sshe
would hardly have suspected that the
elegantly dressed man who had assisted
her into her carriage had deftly slipped
the ring off her finger while doing so. It
was Handy Bill, probably the most ex
pert pickpocket and sneak thief in Amer
ica. Mr. Twygg, the celebrated detec
tive, happened to see the theft because
he had been watching the man. Unfor
tunately, Mr. Twygg's business in New
port was of so delicate a character that
he could not allow his presence to be
come generally known by arresting
Handy Bill, and thereforcrrlid not molest
him for the present. Some two weeks
latter an opportunity offered for a con
fidential chat with the thief, the outcome
whereof was that he delivered the stolen
ring to the detective and left town the
morning following.
Mr. Twygg carelessly put the trinket
into his pocket and returned to New
York.
One day not long after a Russian de
tective called at the office of his Ameri
can conterree. Paul Sergiloff's mission
to the United States was to deliver cer
tain documents to the Russian Minister
and to gather information concerning a
Nihilist agitator sojourning iu Canada.
It so happened that his first point in
prospect was Newport, Where the Rus
sian envoy was spending part of the sum
mer. As Mr. Twygg searched for a match in
his pocket with which to help the Rus
sian to fire for his cigarette, he felt Miss
Merrick's ring. What could be more
natural thau that he should ask his visitor
to deliver it up to its fair owner, or that
Sergiloff should courteously assent?
But Miss Merriek had left Newport,
and in Ihe excitement incident upon the
recept of a ciper telegram recalling him
to Russia at once, the Russian forgot to
i eturn the ring to Twygg, and carried it
with him to St. Petersburg.-
One morning they found him there,
dead, in a narrow alley.
A bullet wound in his temple showed
the manner of his death, and the cause
for it was evidenced by the circumstance
that the entire front of his vest had been
partly cut and partly torn away.
The deed was done by Nihilists anx
ious to secure certain papers that Berg-doff
was supposed to carry in his inner
vest pocket.
A few months later the murderer and
some brother Nihilists were arrested and
underwent the farce of a Russian trial
for political offences. The murderer was
hanged and his comrades went to Si
beria. To one of them he had given
the ring before being executed.
What fearful ,days and weeks and
months of weary travel those were for
the unfortunates destined for the lead
mines !
The exile who had the ring concealed
in his boat managed to escape between
two stations.
No peu can describe the adventures
and hardships of the fugitive journey
through a country ,in which the natives
hunt escaped exiles as they would wolves;
no word can do justice to his sufferings
as he traveled alone through fhe vast
solitudes.
On the edge of the Khirgiz-Steppe he
joined one of the large caravans of es
caped convicts that contieually travel
eastward.
It is easy for an exile to obtain assist
ance in Samarkand, or, for that matter,
mot anywhere in Central Asia, although
1 it is, or rather wa3 extremely difficult for
In Samarkand the ring left the hands,
or rather the boot, of the owner, and
was traded for an outfit that would dis
guise its wearer into a dervis.
The new possessor of the circlet ;w3 a
Persian merchant traveling to Herat.
Evervbody from, Khiva and Buckhara.
and the thief was captured after a lg
chase by a young mule driver from Jel
labad. t
Overcome with joy at th return of tfa
valuables the Persian presented the yonog
fellow with the ring. , .
Would it be possible for a good-locking
mule driver to wear a diamond rfyg
without exciting comment sometimes.
Mrs. Dudley was the first European
lady who saw ii , , and told young Ain-brington-about
it. Two days later die
pretty widow wore it."
Oid "Indians" will remember the scepe
up Simla way that terminated 'the ifi
gagement of the two. ' - I $
Ambrington received hi letters ad.
presents back. They made nearly a car
load. He reciprocated by-packing ij-er
tender missives, etc.. into, in envelot5c.
.'
Ainbington always was a lool. and wilh-H
in three years after coming into
estate he had acquired the reputation tbf
being the most gullible spendthrift in the
service. But he had had a most sincere
admiration for Mrs. Dudley, .who vhs
really a charming woman. Her, actions
in public were, however, such, occasion
ally, as to give rise to' unpleas&t
remarks. But she was simply thought
less. - ? -One
day Captain Dempster made a 'Re
mark to Ambrington to the effect that
the latter was neglecting a sweet giilTin
England for the sake of a woman w$o
could not begin to compare with her. '(
Ambrington was nearly drunk at tie
time, and he made a scene. Next morn
ing his friend received his deputies, aiid
they met early on the following ' daty,
pistol in hand. There they stood faciyg
each other, each ready to kill the othfr.
One, two, three fire ! ' ij
Two shots rang out almost simultatiM
ously, and Ambrington reeled and -feVJ.
They thought at first -that he had b4n
mortally wounded, but he wasn't Te
bullet had squarely hit a ring in h'is
wat 'h pocket, and had driven it into bis
chest with such force that it broke ofie
of his ribs and imbedded itself in t-ke
muscles. t '
Of course after one of the combatants
had been hurt they were in honor bouid
to be good friends, in token wherfVf
Ambrington eventually gave the lingo
Dempster. f1,
liss Merrick, or rather Mrs. Dempst'ir,
has an extraordinary influence over hirji,
and even expects to make something jiit
of him eventually Pittsburg Bulletu
Remarkable (ironp of Mines,. "'"if
A group of old Spanish or Aztec miifes
has recently been discovered at jjaa
Placitas, about twenty miles from' ih
buquerque, New Mexico. An extensive
system of underground work has be,en
brought to light. The mineral discjv
ered, .whilc not of the highest grade;is
rich enough to pay handsomely and nis
generally from $50 to $60 tothein.
But what is more interesting is the f(ct
that tnese explorations have developed
unmistakable evidences that the workjim
these mines, which was performed, Jo
body knows how many centuries ajo,
was brought to a summary conclusion jjy
an earthquake or general upheaval of
some sort. Not only all the mine work
ings, smelters, furnaces, etc'.,. wjre
buried under some fifteen feet of earjjh,
but there has also been found on fhc
same level the ruins of what was oncein
aqueduct for briuging water to the camp
from a source about ten miles distant.
The camp of Las Plactias is ou the east
ern slope of the Scandia Mountains, abut
twenty miles from Albuquerque, a.id
promises to become one of the most in
teresting fields of archeolpgical researfyh
yet discovered in that country. Chirfyy
UeraU. ' 1 '
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Longevity of Toads. ' 4
Some toads have a peculiar gift pf
long life without sustenance ofany kiqd,
and with a very small supply of air; liffit
the alleged instances of their bejW
found embedded in solid stone or j,he
heart of a tree, with no possible cotin
munication with the external world, tre
declared upon good scientific authority
to have doubtless arisen from errorof
observation. Experiments in connectn
with the so-called antediluvian tofds
show that toads cannot usually survive
even a year when deprived of food and
air. The toad has been known to l;ve
thirty-five or forty years, and it is
thought to attain a considerably greater
age; it has been so far tamed as to cbfoe
and feed from the hand, and it seems, "to
be capable of attachment to man.' vFr0m
their fondness for insects toads make Ex
cellent traps for use by the . En
tomologists, who may thus procure rnre
beetles and nocturnal insects which t ey
could not otherwise get, as the toads ;jnn
easily be made to disgorge thein.
Gardeners often put them into hot
houses to destroy ants and other inserts
and larvae. St. Louts Republic.
The Yalne of Sleep.
General Lord Wolseley, England's
leading soldier, is a man of simple aid
absteminous habits, and is an emphatic
advocate of sleep. When he is his own
master he goes to rest between 10 and
11 and is up before 6. He is a sood
sleeper and can sleep at almost any time
and under any circumstances, which jj,
no doubt, one great secret of succe.4,
for in war, as in politics, the. man w;io
cannot sleep might as well , retire frtjm
the running. "You cannot put in yanr
time more profitably than in sleepingj,"
Lord Wolseley siys, and the sayingr:is
one that may well be taken to heart Ljy
all hard workers. As long as you ctn
sleep you can always renew your
strength. It is when sleep fails tfcat
your balance at the bank of life is cKit.
off. Best Things.
A City Paved With Gold. Yjj
"This is the city of streets paved wfih
gold," - boasts the Folsom (Nev.) Tele
graph, "as is proved by the fact that. n
Monday morning after the big rain, sev
eral specimens were picked up in tio
streets where the rain had washed awjy
the mud and gravel. ; One' nuggitt,
found in front of the Telegraph Build
ing, was valued at $9. After erCfJ
heavy rainstorm there aie searchers for
the precious metal' and good finds are
ported. " tj
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
ST0BIE3 THAT ABB TOLD BY THE
TUN NT OF THE PRESS. ,
The Maid of the Meadow A Matter
of Proof Very True She Named
the Day, Etc.
like summer cloud she flits
Across the meadow sweet;
. The daisy blossoms kiss ,
Her pretty little feet, j
And merry sunbeams play -t
Around her shadow shy.
While birds sing on her way
In shrub and tree top high.
She tarns with pleasure rife,
'Tis nothing but a ruse;
For she's a thing of life.
The springtime calf turned loose.
The Continent.
-JXY TRUE.
What have you 'got to plant to get a
family tree, anyhow?" asked Wagg.
"Ancestors," returned Wiggles. New
Yorlc Sun, ;
A MATTER OK FKOOB.
He (rejected) "Would you marry me
if I had a million?"
She "It would depend on the evi
dence." Epoch.
XOXE OFTKEM GOT AWAY.
De Ruyter "What do you think of
my little volume of fugitive verses?"
Reeder "I think you made a great
mistake in recapturing them."- ruck.
SHE NAMED THE DAY.
He (awkwardly) "Ah, Miss Mabel,
I hope you understand my feelings!"
- She "I'm Sure I'm quite in the
dark!"
He "Then (desperately) suppose we
strike a match!" Life.
VISIBLE EVIDENCE.
Little Boy (in the menagerie) "Say,
pa, is that parrot there the wife of the
other parrot?"
Little Boy's Father (sadly) "Yes, my
6on. Don't you see how much larger
her bill is." Clothier and Furnisher.
e THE VEUDICT OF EXPERIENCE.
"Remember, Tommy," said his father,
addressing the youth after the failure of
one method of discipline, "there are
more ways than one to kill a cat."
"'Corse?" replied Tommy, "there has
terbe, else she wauldn't be killed."
Mtrcury.
, ABOVE REPROACH.
"If you insist on breaking
our en-
casement, Miss Ficken.
shall make
your letters public."
"You are welcome to do so, Mr.
Scamper; there is nothing in them that
I am ashamed of, except the address."
Brooklyn Life.
LITTLE MINNIE S THEOUY.
' Littte Minnie "Whsn was it, mom
mer, that you had lour eyes!"
Mommer "Don't talk nonsense, Min
nie; I never bad fout eyes."
. Little Minnie "Then, why does every
one say I got my eyes from you?"
Chicago Neics.
TIME TO UO.
Mr. Staylate "I hear your mother't
step on the stairs, and I shall be. able to
bid her good high t."
Sleepy Beauty (wearily) "It can't be
mother. She's a late sleeper. Probably
it is the girl coming down to start the
fire." York Veelly.
" A NIGHTMARE.
Cholly Bullseye "Did you ever dream
of me, Miss Bell?" V
-4?fii8S Minnie Bell "Yes; two nights
running; and the third "
Cholly Bullseye "So delighted! And
the third?"
Miss Minnie Bell "I (ook an opiate."
Puck.
CONSOLATION.
"And she rejected you?"
"She id. And I was told she wasn't
hard to suit, too."
"Oh,well, don't be disappointed about
that. The fact that she rejected you
doesn't disprove the statement that shei
isn't hard to suit." New York ContiA
nent.
QUINTESSENCE OF ECONOMY.
Cautious Investor "But is the man
agement of the C. Q. & D.R. R. econ
omical?"' Broker "I should say so! Why, they
buy all their rails in winter and lay them
in summer, when the heat expands them
about a quarter of an inch." Harper's
Baear.
A LOGICAL SEQUENCE, j
A tramp, putting his head inside
the
door of a grocery, asked : ,
'Pleaee, mister, gi' me a piece o' paper
to wrap su'thin in."
A peice was given him; the door
closed, but in a second opened again.
"Please gi' me su'thin' to wrap in it."
Judge.
A WOMAX, AFTER ALL.
, Visitor to Menagerie (to manager)
"What was the occasion of that unearth
ly scream I heard - just now somebody
being murdered!"
Manager "Oh, no; that was only
Mile- Zoosophy, the lion tamer; a mouse
ran across the floor and frightened her."
If unset' $ Weekly.
AS INSULT.
Charlie "What an annoying thing!
Blank, the tailor, has offered my account
for sale."
Amy "And I suppose it was bought
by somebody who will force you to
pay!"
Charlie "No. Nobody would make
him any offer for it." Munuys Weekly.
ON THE OF A FB.HCIPICK.
Passenger (to train-boy) "You prob
ably did not know when you put this
book in mj lap, that I was the author'
Train-boy "Did you writ thai
book!"
Passenger "I did.n
Train-boy "Then you had better keep
mighty quiet about it. I just sold a
copy to the man back of you." Life
SHE FOCXD A REDEEMING FEATURE.
He "I knowr Miss Kajones, that it
looks like great presumption for me to
speak of love to. you. I have neither
youth nor good looks. v I am poor, un
educated and have no influential friends.
I have nothing that can attract the ad
miration of a young lady."
She "You are mistaken, Mr. Whack
stcr." I admire your magnificent nerve.
Chicago Tribune.
TOO FRESH, EVEN.
Lictle Edith (on Miss Oldgold's lap)
"Why, Miss Oldgold, you'ra not very
old, are you?" '
Miss Oldgold (blushing violently)
No, indeed, . child ; but why do you
ask?"
Little Edith "Ma said you were old
as. the hills, but I don't b'lieve it, for I
lubbed my hand on your cheek just now
and the paint is still fresh." Jfuntey's
Weekly.
A MOTHER S EYES.
"Mistress "Do you like children?"
Domestic "Depends a good deal on
the children, mum."
"Well, yes, I presume it does. Where
did you work last ?"
"With Mrs. (Joodheart, mum. She
had only one child." , -
"Oh, well, if you could stand that
horrid little1 brat of Mrs. Ooodheart's,
I'm sure you' will not object to my six
little' darlings." Good Neus.
WHEN THE NIGHTS ARE LONG.
Esquimau Father "Don't you think
it is about time you meandered to your
own igloo? You have courted my
daughter enough for one spell."
Esquimau Lover "Why, I just called
in to spend the evening."
Esquimau Father- "I know; but you
have been here about three months, and
it is near midnight." I think you had
better trot away home, and call again
some other evening." Harper s Btsar.
SCORNFUL REJECTION.
Recruiting Officer "Brave Stump
Tailed Dog, wouldn't you like to enliit
in the United States Army !"
Illustrious Warrior "Ughl How
much pay Injun?"
R. O. "Thirteen dollars a month."
I. W. "Heap plenty. What lnjuu
have to do?"
R. O. "Nothing but drill a little oc
casionally, put up or take down a tent
Once in a while and do your own cook
ing now and then."
I. W. "Ugh! Heap too 'plenty
work. Injun got squaws to do that.
Injun stay right here and draw rations."
Chicago' Tribune.
HUMANITY AND HYPNOTISM.
Mr.. Upton "I dou't believe that
story about a Philadelphia father hypno
tizing his baby so that it would sleep
while he and his wife went to the thea
ter." i .
Mrs. Upton "Nor j I. No father
would be brute enough to think of such
a thing." j -
Mr. Upton "N-o, of course not."
Downton (the next day) "Say Upton
did you hear that story about a Philadel
phia father hypnotizing his baby?"
Upton "Ye3.. It isn't so."
Downton "How do you knowrs"
Upton-r-"I tried it on -mine and it
wouldn't work." Good Nets.
THE EFFECT OF ILLUSTRATION MARRED.
The visitor from Hawcreek hal been
invited to address the school. '
"lam reminded, "children,' he said,
"of the career of a boy who was oucfi no
larger than some ol the little fellows I
see here before me. He played truant
when he was sent to school, went fishing
every day, ran away from home before
he was ten years old, learned to drink,
smoke, chew tobacco, play .cards and
slipih under the canvas when the circus
came around. He went into bad com
pany, frequentediivery stables and low
bar rooms, finally became a pickpocket,
then a forger, then a liorse-thief, and
one day in a fit of drunken madness he
committed a .cowardly murder. Chil
dren," he continued, impressively,
"where do you think that boy is now?
"He stands before us
children, with one voice.-
!" guessed the
Mercury.
Consnmption Among Birds.
There is a bird's home and hospital on
Oxford street, London, where people
can take their pets to be nursed and
cared for, says a writer in the Pall Mall
Budget. The proprietor says birds suffer
chiefly from consumption and asthma
diseases brought on by the birds being
placed In draughty windows. Consump
tion is helped on by the birds being. in
discriminately fed on all sorts of things
that are unsuitable as food. Birds are
very fond of luxuries, and the more you
give them the more they will eat. When
a bird is going off into a consumption it
is always eating. Ha pointed to one and
said: "He is in consumption, and he
will be like a. ball of down to-morrow-all
puffed out. Physic will sometimes
arrest the disease." "
A Stone Brick.
A distinct novelty in builders' mate
rials, says the Batlroad Jtecord, is a yel
low brick with a rough, chipped front
surface. A building in course of elec
tion on lower Broadway, New York, is
mainly made of this composition and at
tracts such public attention that men
come from afar to see it.' The peculiar
consequence of this breaking up the
faces of the little cubes of clay is that the
effect of brick work is lost and the
building presents the appearance of a
atone structure. This brick, will prove
a boon to those who long for stone ef
fects, and perhaps will help do away
with the horrid stuccoed walla that make
unsightly so many of the street of New
prieaaj.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Berlin will not permit an electric road.
Denver, Col., will have a mineral
palace.
Cork covering for steam pipes has
proved very successful in England. .
Many of the explosions in flour mills
have been traced to electricity generated
by belts.
In Denmark the life-saving stations are
all supplied .with oil for. stilling the
waves in storms.
Anew bag machine both cuts and
sews the bag, ani thus saves the labor of
fourteen operators.
It takes about three seconds for a mes
sage to go from one end of the Atlantic
cable to the other; this is about 700
miles a second.
Iu welding pipes by electricity, it has
been the usual practice to employ inter
nal mandrels . to prevent collapse or
change of circumferential ontline.
A large body of antimony, ha been
found in Inyo County, California. The
owner says he has in sight bowlders 6f
the metal weighing from two hundred
to three hundred pounds. It is a val
uable find.
Miss Frye, a school teacher, lias dis
covered a method by which better tiles
can be made than have ever been made -before.
She has a patent and is likely
soon to turn from -school teaching, to
financiering,
.The exhaustive experiments at Salford,
near Manchester, England, with a view
of ascertaining the most efficient method
of purifying sewage,"has resulted in the
recommendation of an electrical system
as the most satisfactory.
Small articles made of malleable iron
are now finished and polishwt bright by
being placed In revolving drums with
curriers shavings, from which they
emerge with all of the rough edges
smoothed and the surface highly pol
ished. - ;
A secret-chemical powder introduced
abroad, when sprinkled over the top oL.
the coal in a newly made fire cements,
the upper part of the fuel together and
causes the coal to burn at the bottom
and throw the heat into the room in
stead of allowing a large part of it to go
up the chimney.
A process has been recently invented
by which iron may be copper, the sur
face of the iron being protected by a
layer of melted cryolite and phoaphoric
acid. It has been found that if the ar
ticle, when immersed, is connected with
the negative pole of a battery, the cop
pering is done more rapidly .
By a new process waste leather scraps
arc steeped in a solution and subjected
to a hydraulic pressure t mould them
into railway brake shoes. The leather
shoe' weighs 4 pounds against 21
pounds for iron, and it will wear three
times as long. Such, at least, is the
claim of the compressed leather men.
. A permanent and durable joint can be
made between rough cast-iron surfaces
by the use of lead to make ft very stiff
pufty. This will resist any amount of -heat,
and is unaffected by steam 'or wa
ter. It has been employed for mending
or closing cracks iu cast iron retorts used
in the distillation of oil and gas from
cannel coal.
High funoels eeem to be growing
more and' more popular among the build
ers at the yards of the British navy. The
Merseo ba? had hers doubled in height,
while thoc of the Blake are not less than
fifty or sixty feet, reaching as far up as
the top. It is said that the result, as
far as appearances are concerned, is any
thing but pleaiog.
Vsni y mm laf.
ine curve oi nenim.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has made
Wend
a discovery.
that of the law of the
curve of health.
"It is a mistake, he
says, "to suppose that the normal" state
of health is represented by a straight
horizontal line. Independently of the
well-known causes which raise or depress
the standard of vitality there seem to
be, I think I may venture to say there is
a ihytbmic undulation in the flov of
vital force. The 'dynamo,' which fur
bishes the working powers of conscious
ness and action, has its annual, its
monthly, its diurnal waves, even its mo
mentary ripples, in the current it fur-'
nishes. There are greater and lesser
curves in the movement of every day's
life a series of ascending and of de
scending 'movements, a periodicity de
pending on the very nature of the force
at work in the living organism. Thus
we have our good seasons and our bad
seasons, our good days and our bad days
life climbing and descending in long or
short undulations, which I have called
t.he curve of health. 'Frqm this fct
"sspring a great' proportion of. the errors of
medical practice. On it are based the
delusions of the various shadowy systems
which impose themselves on the ignor
ant and half-learned public as branches
or 'schools of science. A remedy taken
at the time of the ascent in the curve of
health it found successful. The same
remedy takes while the curve is in its
downward movement proves a failure.
So long as this biological law exist, so
long the charlatan will keep its hold on
the ignorant public. So long as it ex
ists, the wisest practitioner will be liable
to deceive himself about the effect of
what he calls, and loves to think are, bis
remedies." !
A Princely Tip.
A gentleman accompanying two ladies
entered one of the fashionable restau
rant near Madison Square one evening
recently and were unhered to a table.
"Are you the man to serve me?" he said
to the .waiter who came to take his order.
"Yes, sir," was the reply, whereupon a
fire dollar bill changed hands. The
luncheon was admirably served, the glow
of satisfaction never leaving the waiter's
face. Yet most waiters will tell yon that
it is not the occasional large fee from a
stranger which pays him so well as the
steady ten or fifteen cent tip from the
!i!v patron of bis table. That be-
L6mt-; an
actual iacume. Na York