THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER
VOL. 111. NO|7
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A correspondent says that Ireland has
more than twice as many policemen as
England, in proportion to her popula
tion, and nearly three times as many as
Scotland. It costs $7,500,000 every year
to keep the peace in Ireland, as against
$1,700,000 in Scotland, and $17,000,000
in England. The Irish police, as a rule,
are very tall men. They wear helmets
and clothes of olive green, and aroarme<?
with rides, short swords and clubs.
Country people can make their own
barometers if they have no other use for
their wells. In the Swiss village of
Meyriugen some disused wells have been
hermetically sealed to servo as barom
sters. On a fall of atmospheric pressure
air escapes through a small hole in the
well cover, blowiqg a whistle, and thus
giving warning of a coming storm; but
when the outside*pressure is increising,
the air, being forced into the well, causes
1 different sound, and announces the
probability of fine weather.
The cotton goods industry offers, per
haps, as striking an illustration as any oi
the apparent displacement of labor, .a
Delaware house considering that the dis
placement has been seventeen per cent,
outside of motive power. By a hand
loom a weaver used to weave from sixty
to eighty picks per minute in weaving a
cloth of good quality, with twenty
threads of twist to each one-quarter
square inch. A power loom now weaves
180 picks per minute of the same kind
of cloth. Even in power machinery a
weaver formeriy tended but one loom.
Now one w aver minds all the way from
two to ten looms, occording to the grade
of goods. In a large establishment in
New Hampshire, improved machinery,
even within ten years, has reduced mus
cular labor fifty per cent, in the produc
tion of the samo quality of goods.
Dr. Burg 'raeve, a learned professor of
the University of Ghent, has just pub
lished a remarkable work in which he
endeavors to prove that anybody who
will take the trouble to follow his in
structions may become a centenarian.
His system is me ely a system of reno
vation, and is simplicity itself. The
great panacea for all ills which he pro
fesses to have discovered is salt, the ra
tional use of which, he says, is a sure
preserver of life. He alirras that good
health is not a matter of chance or con
stitution. The laws which regulate hu
mau life are calm and regular phenom
ena, and all we have to do is to take care
that they shall develop themselves with
out obstruction. According to his
theory, salt is the great regularizing
agent. If the blood be too rich, salt
will clarify it; if the blood is poor, salt
will strengthen and furnish it with the
necessary elements. Dr. Burggraeve
quotes several examples in support of
the sovereign virtue which he attr butes
to salt. Formerly, in Holland the
greatest punishment which existed for
offending soldiers woe to give them un
saltcd bread. After a few months of
this regime the culprits almost invari
ably died. In Saxony, at the end of the
last century a terrible epidemic reigned
solely through the want of salt. The
Dutch savant furthermore assures us that
salt Is an infallible cure for conaumption
and cholera. (The Russ an peasants once
saved themselves from a plague by put
ting silt in their milk.) He estimates
that the quantity of salt which every
adult in ordinary health should consume
daily ?• two thirds of an ounce. In con
elusion, ho asserts that if the world
would only take salt, centenarians would
become almost us common as new-born
babes.
THE REAPERS.
When the tired rearer*, with fragranl
sheaves,
Coma out of the corn, ns the sun goes
down.
And the sky is rich os the falling leaves
In crimson and purple and golden brown
I sit in the mellow aud marvellous eves
And watch, as the loom of the sunset weaves
Its cloth of gold over country and town.
And I think how the r ummers have come and
gone
Since we saw the shuttle across the blue
That wove the colors of dusk and dawn
Whou the musk of the sleeping rose 3 flew
On the wings of the south wind over thi
lawn,
And the evening shadows were longer drawn
And the sun was low, and the stars wer<
few:
When Love was sweet in the lives we led
As the leaven that lives in the lattei
spring
To grow in the flowers, the books we read,
The romp and rush of the grape-vim
swing,
In words and work, to be filled and fed
On brooks of honey and wasted bread,
And sung in the songs that we used U
ting.
And cut of the shadows they come to me,
As flowers of the spring come, year
year,
The lovers we had when to love was free
The stars were few and the skies weri
clear,
And we knew it was happiness just to bo,
Through the sheaves of the cloud-land fail
to see,
While the weary reapers are drawing near
Though the red and white roses have los
their l-aves
In the ashes of summers of long ago,
They come, through the mellow and marvel
lous eves,
With the harvest of love that we used t<
sow,
As rich as the garlands the sunset weaves
When the tirei reapers with fragran
sheaves
Come out of the corn and the sun is low.
Will Wallace Harney , in Harper's,
LOVE CONQUERS DEATH.
BV JENNIE T. ARNOLD.
“Cholera,” says Zicmssen in his “Cy
clopedia of Medic&lPr&ct.ce,” “is as ole
as the human race in India.” From itz
birthplace at the mouth of the Gangci
and Brahmaputra it has marched forth
•vvith giant -trifles to the four quarters o:
the habitable globe, leaving desolatiot
and sorrow in its track.
The first world-wide epidemic started
in Jessora. India, in 1817, and having
slain over 600,000 victims in that coun
try alone, it marche i slowly through
China, Persia and Arabia, through Rus
sia, 1 rus-da aud Germany, gaining new
territory each year, until in 18.31 il
crossed to England and overleaping th<
sea appeared .June, 1852, in Mont.eal and
Quebec. Before the end of that sum
mcr it was claiming its victims by' hun
dreds in all the prin ipal cities of the
Eastern aud Middle States.
During the prevalence of the epidemic
in Boston occurred the incidents I arc
about to relate, all of which are well
known to persons now living, the only
change being jn the names ot the princi
pal actors, the circumstances being per
sonally known to me. James Ammer
min was the junior partner in a wet'
known Boston dry goods firm. He was
twenty-eight, with a wife but no chil
dren. Each of his partners had families
of three children, and when, in the firsl
few weeks of the epidemic, all who pos
sessed sufficient means fled from the
plague-stricken city, he felt it was but
doing his duty to urge his partners tc
leave with their families, while he re
mained for a week or two to attend tc
the closing up of business.
lie tried to induce his wife to accom
pany them, or go to her own home away
among the New Hampshire hills, but she
persistently refused to go.
“When you can go, James. lam ready,’
was her firm answer to all his perma
sions, “but not until then.” So they re
mained a week or marc inter their friendt
had lei t.
The death-rate increased rapidly, and
on the t nth day the cholera flag waved
its dread signal from the house opposite
James Ammerman's home.
“Pack everything necessary for our
journey,” he said to his wife the morn
ing after the flog appeared. “I will
close up business to-day, and to-morrow
morning we will take the first train foi
New Hampshire.”
All of Mrs. Ammerman s servants, ex
cept her chamber girl, had fled at the
first approach of the dread disease, bul
faithful Kate Sullivan was bound to her
mistress by strong ties of affection and
would only leave when the family did.
‘•An’ sure it’s mCseif.” she said, “at
will stay with ye until ye’re out o’ t K «
city sure.”
j y night everything was packed, the
upholste:cd furn.ture covered and all io
rcadincsi for the journey in the eaily
morning.
Mr. Ammcrman returned at fl o’clock
as usual, but the quick eye of his wife
detected a change in hi* app aram e.
“I have not been feeling well all day,’’
he admitted in answer to her anxious
questioning. ‘ Homeway I feel weak and
stupid and a littc chilly. “It’s nothing
serious,” he added, reassuringly. “I’ll
lie down for a while and I presume I
shall soon feci better.”
Mrs. Ammcrm irn hastened him to bed,
made hot applications and administered
warm stimulant*, but the chilliness in
creased and a'/on sharp, ugoui/.ing cramp*
seized him.
Kat e was hastily dispatched for th<
fam ly ph sit-inn. who was soon by th<
sick man's l>edside.
He mad* his examination with a grave
CHARLOTTE, N. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1886.
face, but one that betrayed no emotion
of hope or fear to the aniious wife.
“Is it cholera! ” she nsk< d at last, pro
nouncing the dread word with a shudder
and waiting ia an agony of suspense for
the doctor’s reply.
“It may be only cholerine,” was thr
guarded answer, as Dr. Tyler dealt out
his medicine. ‘‘Give him this every hall
hour and I will ca'l again in an hour or
two.”
When he made his ne :t visit at 10
o'clock there remained no longer a doubt
of the nature of the disease.
The wife needed only the evidence ol
her own senses to conv.ncc her that the
dreaded foo irad entered her household.
AU through the long hours of that sad
night .-ho watched beside her husband,
lighting the advance of the de-troyer
with every means at her command:
Katie, in her faithful devotion, standing
ready to second her every wish.
But notwithstanding their united ef
fort the work of death went steadily on.
As the morning began to dawn his bands
grew icy cedd, the pulse became weak,
thready and hardly perceptible at times,
his breath short, confined and incom
plete. the respirations increasing to over
thirty a minute.
Occasionally, when she could raise him
for an instant from his semi unconscious
conditon, he answered her inquiries in a
vo’cesoweak and hoarse that she hardly
recognized it.
The i.y chill spread gradually ovei
fare, body and limbs, and when Dr.
Tyler came at 7 o’clock be found his
patient lying with collapsed features,
hollow checks, deeplystinken and closed
eyes, giving no evidence of conscious
ness save a groan of pain from time to
time as the sharp spasms seized him.
The doctor's quick eyes detected th
signs of speedy dissolution and gently
broke the dread intelligence to the
anxious wife.
“But I will never give him up until
death is really here,” she said resolutely,
though her hea t grew heavy with the
errible fear that all her efforts would be
tseless.
With renewed energy she chaffed th#
ce-cold limbs, applied, anew hot wates
lottles to sides and feet, but all in vain;
he limbs grew colder, the features, the
vhole body, more collapsed and the
yes more sunken; the weak pulse crept
lowly up the arm to the vitals; the
icart beats grew fainter and fainter, the
ireatli shorter and more labored, until at
1 o’clock it stopped, and the devoted
vise was atone with her dead.
As the sad truth was forced upon her
he sank upon her knees by the bedside,
ler head resting upon the cold, lifeless
land of her husband which was clasped
istween her own. For a few moments
.he lost sight of everything save the
ense of terrible desolation wh'ch filled
ler heart. At last through the open
vindow was borne to her ears the rumble
>f a cart down the deserted street, and
he call of the dead-bearers: “Bring out
four dead!”
The sound roused all her dormant
mergies, aad a wild hopc-sprang up in
ler heart that life might not be quite
sxtinct in her husband. Springing to
ier feet she rang the bell for Katie,
yho responded to her summons.
•‘Don't let him in,” she cried, ex
litedlv. “Tell him he is not dead. I
enow he is still alive, aud they shall not
lake him. I can revive him if they will
inly give me time.”
Katie looked from the cold, rigid body
if the husband to the white, agonized
face of the wife, and feared that grief
lad driven her mistress insane, but she
abeyed the request, and the death cart
passed on its rounds.
Mrs. Ammerman had by thi» time be
:ome thoroughly possessed of the idea
;hat there was life still lingering in the
ipparent y dead body of her husband and
the thought of having him taken away
for burial wa-too terrible to contemplate,
(f she could only gain time she felt sure
she cou d revive him, though why she
should so strongly hold to such a belief
-:he could not have explained; but hope
she did, and proceeded to renew all the
effort# which had previously proved in
vain.
With the tnergy of despair she worked
nn, and again the dead bearers entered
the room.
“We must take the body now,madam,”
the man said uho appeared to be in au
thority. “We can only hope to stay the
epidemic by the prompt removal of the
dead and a thorough disinfection of the
bouses. ”
“But he is not dead,” she persisted.
“See!” holding a hand mirror over his
lips, “there is a little moisture.”
The man looked closely and shook his
head.
“Your hopes deceive you," he said
kindly; “he is surely dead, and we must
take the body.”
With a wild cry of agony she fell on
her knees, beseeching them with tears to
give her just one half hour more.
The men gently put her aside, trying
to reason with her on the necessity of
their course, but she only plead the more
earnestly. At last, finding reasoning
vain, they attempted to lay bands upon
the body, but thrusting them aside ahe
threw herself down beside her husband,
ind claspiug him in her arms declared,
with an agonized vehemence that awed
the men:
If you take him you shall bury me
with him. I will not let him go!”
As the men stepped back she renewed
her pleadings.
“Give me only one-half hour. If
there are no signs of life then I will ask
no more.”
Reluctlantly the men yielded, and left
her aloue once more to her hopeless
task.
This time she saturated flannels with
hot mustard water, and enveloped both
body and limbs; then commencing with
the purple nails ahe rnblied each finger
vigorously downward to (tart the con
gealed blood. Every few moments she
put a few drops of brandy in his month,
and raising his head applied etrong harts-
horn to his nostrils. Five—ten—fifteen
—twenty minutes passed. One ten min
utes left of that precious half hour
whi h meant life or death to her. She re
doubled her efforts. Another five min
utes passed—still no change; the face
seemed even more death-like, the icy
limbs more rigid. She raised h:s head
upon her arm and adm’nistered more
brandy, then applied the bottle of harts
horn to his nostrils. She glanced anx
iously at the clock—only two minutes
more, and far down the street came the
rumble of the death-cart, and like a death
knell rang out the sclema cry: “Bring
out your dead.” She ra sed her pallid
face to Heaven with an agonized cry.
“Oh, my God! my God! save him! I
cannot give him up.”
The head resting on her amt fell back
ward—the bottle shook in her trembling
hand, end a quautity of the hartahom
was spilled on the deathly face; a por
tion of the fiery liquid penetrated the
nostrils. There was a sudden, sharp,
convulsive movement of the dead man's
limbs, a cry of pain, and as the dead
bearer’s entered the room he sprang to a
sitting posture, gasping for breath.
The wife turned to them a face trans
figured with joy. “See!” she cried ex
ultingly, stretching out herhand toward
her husband. “I have conquered tteatn:-
and fell unconscious acro-s the bed.
The reaction in the sick man's case
was complete; a peedy convalescence
followed, and a week later, with his de
voted wife, he was safe among the New
Ham pshire hills—saved by a 1 o»e stronger
than'death.— Detro t Free Prttt.
Some Anecdotes of Stonewall Jackson.
In the October Century ia a collection
of -‘Personal Reminiscences of Stone
wall Jackson,” from which we quote as
follows: “Talking with him once about
some subject of casuistry or prevarica
tion. I put the question direct to him:
‘Did you ever tell a liel’ Pausing, as
was his invariable manner before giving
a categorical answer, r.s if for an intro
spective review of his consciousness, he
said:
“ ‘Yes; but only once, so far as I can
remember. 1 was leading my men
through a rank chaparral, infested by
Mexican guerrillas. The balls were fir
ing incessantly, and the broad leaves of
the tropical plants were being riddled
through and through. They became
panic-stricken, and, notwithstanding my
repeated order for advance, they hung
back. Stepping some distance in front
of them, into a narrow pass, where the
bullets were whizzing round my head,
and the foiiage was being cut to ribbons,
I called out: - :
‘“Follow me, men! Don’t you see,
there is no danger!”’
“He never posted a letter without cal
culating whether it would have to travel
on Sunday to reach its place of destina
tion, and if so, he would not mail it till
Monday morning. Still further did he
carry his Puritanical observance. Un
numbered times have I known him to
receive important letters so late on Sat
urday night that he would not break his
fixed resolution never to use his eyes,
wh ch were ve;y delicate, by artificial
light; he would carry the letter- in hia
pocket till .Monday morning, then rise
with the sun to read them.
“In the winter of ’Bl-’63, while Jack
son’s forces were at Winche-ter, he sen:
a brigade to destroy the canal leading to
Washington. The'expedition proved a
failure; and he attributed it, in some
measure, to the fact that Sunday had
been needle-slv tr-spas ed upon. So
when a second expedition was planned
he determined there should be no Sab
bath-breaking connected w.th it that he
could prevtnt. The advance was to be
made early on Monday morning. On
Saturday he ordered my husband (Col
onel Preston, at that time on his staff- to
see that the necessary powder ■*** in
readiness. The quartermaster could not
find a sufficient qu ntity in Winchester
on Saturday, but during Sunday it vn
procured. On Sunday evening the fact
in some way got to Jackson sears. At a
very early hour on Monday he dispatched
an "officer to Shepherdstown for other
powder, which was brought. Then sum
moning Colonel Preston, he said, very
decisively:
“ -Co.onel, I desire that you will see
that the powder which is used for this
expedition is not the powder that was
procured on Sunday.’ ”
The Edible Snail.
The “poor m ia’s oy-ter is so appre
ciated by our neighbors that Paris alone
consumes same forty-nine tons daily, the
best kind coming from Grenoble or Bur
gundy. The finest specimens are care
fully reared in an rtttryeirre. or small
park, such as the poor Capuchin monk
planned in bygone davs a: Colmar aad
Weinbacb, when th y hail uo money to
; buy food, and so cultivate 1 snails. Put
. the majority arc collected by the vine
| dressers in the even ng from th* a’one
heaps where the snails haveas-embled to
i enjoy the due. The creatu e- are then
! starved in a dark cellar for two months,
and when they hive closed up t e aiier-
I tnre of their shell sre ready for rooking.
1 According to the true Bergundy method
they are hoiied in livi* or six wahrs. »v
--| trait, d from the-he!!, tire »ed with fresli
j butter an 1 gariiv. t en replaced in the
she 1, covered with piraley and bread
I crumbs, and finally simmered in wl.:t
wine.— Cbftmbtr, ■/ mnl
In 1824 1,000 men frrmed the Old De
fenders’ Association ot Baltimore, and on
September 12 of each year celebrsted the
battle of North Poiat. fought io 1813.
Three years ago the association expired
because the uvt resident members re
qu red by the constitution could not be
present at the meetings, of the I.OOt
men but four are alive—George Boss,
aged ninety two. .lames C. Morford,
ninety-one: John Pettscord, ninety-one.
I and Nathaniel Watts, ninety-one. _
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
•
Experiments to determine the depth
to which light the water of
the sea have been made during the pres
ent year by MM. Foi and S rasin iu the
Gulf of X ice. The limit of the daylight
about midday during fine weather was
found to be 1,300 feet.
Cold-air machinery has been success
fully used in the construction of a tun- .
nel at Stockholm by freezing the gravel :
before the excavation and keeping it 1
in that condition until the lining wa9 in
position. In ths way several large
buildings have been undermined.
The “pinhole camera” is a novelty in j
photography. It is a little tin box, two
inches in diameter and three-quarters of
an >n h deep. Simple as the construe- j
tion is. with paper instead of glass for
the negative, and a pinhole in the cover
for the light to er.ter, tome interesting •
wo:k may be done with the instrument. I
Sugar can be made from any descrip
tion of vegetable fibre, such as sawdust,
rags or tow. The process is to digest for
several hours in sulphuric acid ; then to j
dilute the mixture with water and boil
for some* time, when the rags or wbat ■
not will be found to have undergone a
magical change, and to have been con
verted into sugar. A curious fact is that [
100 part- of rags will yield 113 parts of !
augur, the increase in weight being due
to the elements of water absorbed during 1
the change.
What promises to be a useful light for j
industrial purposes, where work has to
be carried on in the open air or in large :
covered spaces by night, is described by
an English paper. The light consists of j
a cylindrical vessel capable of containing ■
thirty gallons of heavy hydro carbon oil. j
Air under a moderate pressure is con
ducted to the cylinder, which is fitted ’
with a special burner bavin* two tubes,
one within the other, leading up to it. (
Such an affair would be useful for night
work on the decks of steamboats.
If it were possible to rise above the at- i
moephere which surrounds the earth, we
should see nothing but an intense and
-harp'y Ue'mil hall of fire, while every
thing else would be wrapped in total
darkness. There could be no diffusion J
of light without an atmosphere or some
similar medium, for it to act upon: but j
if the air about us extended to a height
of 700 miles, the rays of the sun could j
not penetrate it, and we would be left !
in darkness. At the depth of 700 feet in
the oe-an the light ceases altogether,
one-half of the light being absorbed in
passing through only seven feet of the
purest water.
Professor Baird says there is nothing
to prevent a fish from living indefinitely,
as it has no maturity, but grows with
eich year, neis authority, likewise, for
saying that carp have attained an nge of
30.1 year-. He al-o says that within fifty
years a pike was living in Russia whose
age. according to tradition, dated bark
to the fifteenth century. The Russian
Minister says that in the Royal Aqu ilium
in fit. Petersburg there are fi-h today
that have been known by the records to
have been there HO years Some of them
are, he says, over five times as large as I
when they were captured, while others
have no; grown an inch in length.
A considerable foreign industry ha
sprung up. consisting in mixing the dust
of coal with an extract obtained from 1
boiling ordinary seaweed or other simi
lar vegetable matter, producing, when
boiled, a mucilaginous or adhesive solu
tion. In the system of manufacture p ur
sued. the plan is to first boil seaweed or
some oth r vegetable pmdu t capable of j
yielding, when boiled, the desired mucil
agino •- or adhesive solution : with the -
latter there i» th-n mixed a certain pro
portion of coal dust, iu '.be same manner
in which cement, mortar, or other mute- 1
rials of thit n .ture arc treated. The
combined substances are subsequently
molded to any re. uir d shape by hand
or by means or a brick-making or ome
similar ap: aratu-. By combining tbe so
lution wuh sawdust, filtering blocks are
formed.
A Story of 8100.
The following story was vouchsafed
by the "urbane aad gentlemanly” clerk
of an uptown hotel By the way, why
oe hotel clerks invariably urbane and
gentlemanly? Why do-mi t some enter
prising young man. w.th a contempt for
monotony and a disregard for tradition,
get up and immort dize himself by being
supercilious and disagreeable? t’negood
ill bred and offensive hotel clerk would 1
relieve the public strain immensely. The '
•Kory is this: »i nan c ter > c ten >ro r > to: 1
Aco ntry guest at a certain uptown hos- {
telry, having a dread of pickpockets and
bunco stecrers, went t«> the clerk and 1
handed him a *IOO bill to be put in the 1
safe. Asking for it next day he was 4
thunderstruck when the functionary to {
whom he had given the money coolly '
denied any recollection of the matter. -
Whereupon the countryman went to a
lawyer. “Get another SIOO bill,” raid {
the'lawyer, “and go. accompanied by a 1
f iend, sack to the hotel. Apo ogine to
the clerk for your mistake, say it was a ]
defect of memory: attribute it to drink 1
deposit the second J
SIOO in the presence of your f.-iend, and I
come back to me.” The mystified rural- 1
ist obeje l instru tions to the eery letter.
“Now, " said tbe lawyer, “go ba« k slone
to the clerk and ask him for the SIOO.
Knowing tint your friend saw him re
ceive it be will give back the second $lt»0 i
bill. Then Use yous friend with you i
next dty. aoprnack the t Ink, a-k h'm '
boldly for that sl< 0, and a- th re was no i
witnc— to your receipt of th * second bill i
he will be for. ed to return the first also.” <
The rose proved corn;.! tely aucrcs-ful. i
The lawjersent his b.ll next day. It naa
for a fee of SIOO. —Arc iort WerM.
A eleven feet in length, weigh. | I
ing HO pound* w»- ce .gii" n nr fim.a.i i ]
nr-h City, t»re., by cnc lad an.
Term s].so per Aim Single Copy 5 cents.
MIDNIGHT AT THE HELM.
~
“What seest thou, friend)
. The frail masts bend.
Thy ship reels wildly on the tossing deep;
Thy fearless ey©3
Regard the skies,
And this broad waste where through white
chargers leap;
Seest thou the foamf’
Pilot—“l see my home,
Aud children on a white soft couch asleep.”
IL
“What seast thou, friend?
The tiller end
Thou graspest safely in thy firm, strong grip:
Thine eyes are strange,
They seem to range
Beyond sea, sky and clouds and struggling
ship,
Beyond the foam.”
Pilot—“l see my home—
Brown cottage eaves round which the swal
lows dip.”
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. “ What seest thou, friend?
Black leagues extend
On all sides round about thy bark and thee;
Not one star speck
Above the deck
Abates the darkness of the midnight sea;
The waves’ throats rear”—
Pilot—“l see the shore,
And eyes that plead with God for mine and
me.”
I —George Barlow, in Boston Herald,
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
.A designing man—The architect.
Large revolvers—The earth and moon.
A cool baseball player—The ice
1 pitcher.
The motto of the sheriff: Hold fast
that which is goods —Til-Bits.
Question of the chiropodist—“Do you
: acknowledge the corn?”— Detroit Free
, Press.
Some things are most valuable when
they aro upside down. A figure 6, for
instance.— Philadelphia Call.
“A handsome woman is dangerous,”
says an exchange. Perhaps this is the
reason why so many men court danger.
—New Haven News.
Summer boarder—»“l have heard that
lilk tassels grow on your corn?” Farmer
—“Yes, miss, regular gros grain silk it
is, tco. — Lowell Citizen.
It is*stated that Henry Clay never vtis
:at a loss for a word. From this it is evi
dent that Henry never jammed his thumb
r in a door.— New Haven News.
Mamma (to Noel, who is inclined to
be talkative) —“Hush, Noel! Haven’t
I told you often that little boys shoyld
be seen and not heard?” Noel—“ Yes,
mamma, but you don’t look at me!”
A musical composer writes: “Have
you noticed my ‘March for the Piano-” ”
We have not. When we observe any one
march for the piano we invariably march
in another direction. —Texts Siftings,
“Jesrie!” “Yes’m.” “What are you
! crying for?”. “Laura hit me on the
head.” “Where?” “That’s the matter.
I tried to keep the mark till I got home
to show you, and. boo-hoo! it’s gone
iwav.”— Chicago Ledger.
Wise Matron—“ Yes, my son, I ear
nestly hope you and Miss Blank will
make a match of it; I like her exceed
ingly.” Her Son—“ Rut Miss Blank is
su h a giggler.” “Oh! she will get over
that after she’s married.”— Omaha World.
“What's home rule, John,” asked his wife at
i • tea,
“That the papers talk of soP
John looked as sad as he could be,
And gr« in utter misery,
“I wished I didn’t know.”
Tid-Bi's.
They were speaking of a Buffalo
bride’s trousseau. “Were Ler robes
made in Paris?” one asked. “Oh. no,”
another one said; “they were made in
Buffalo. She takes pride in wearing
nothing but Buffalo robes.”— New York
Sum,
“Excuse me dearest,” he said, disen
, tangling himself. Then he stalked to
the edge of the veranda, and tiercely de
manded: “Boy, what are you lurking
ibout the front gate for at this time o*
night?” “Homin’ papers, sir?” —New
York Sun,
Sunken Treasures.
*n the year 17; 9 th*e I.utine, a Dutch
East Indiaman, founder d off the coast
of Tolland, near 'i c a he.ling, having
on board twenty-five millions of guilders,
almost entirely in gold coin and bars.
Only on ■ sailor escaped, and ho was
afterward able to point out the place of
the wreck. Many proposals to raise the
tie&aurc have been since broached; and
one had so far success in the early years
of this century that about a fifth of the
whole amount was recovered by divers.
Later essays showed that either the sands
had shifted, or the wreck had sunk
deeper. An inhabitant of Tcrschilling
named Ter Mculen is strongly impressed
with the opinion that a continued effort
m st be successful. He has succeeded
in forming an association to undeitnke
the task, and two vessels speeially pre
' pared for the work have gone to Ter
schilliog.
Chivalry in Armor.
War is always brutal, always terrible;
but there stems something almost cow
ardly in the custom or the brave “knights
of old” in crawling for safety iuto suits
of steel ;<nd fron. And the funny side
of it all is that sometimes knights thus
covered with pia e. liko modern iron
clads, would fight all day without being
hurt. Iu one of the Italian battles ot
the sixteenth century, two armies of
knight-s hhc itlic i in the best Milan armor
foucht from ’» in the morning until 4 ia
the afternoon w ithout one valorous war
rior being killed or even bring wounded
—St, NieMsn,