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CHA.RI.OTTU MESSENGER. BATIJRDAY. - JAN "• ISBB - MIUBHIKS. St. Michael’s (P. K.) • M-urcli, Mint St. Services al 10 ». in. uinl s n. in. Sunday school at 4p. in. Bov. I*. P. Alston, pus {or. M K. Clmroli. llraliiun Street. Scr riePN at :i p. 111. and 8 p. in. Sunday school at 10a. in. Rev. E. M. Collett, pastoi. First, Baptist Church. South Church St. Services at 11 a. m.« ]>• h». and Bp. in. Smiflay-school at 1 p. m. Rev. A. A. PowßLfs. pastor. Kbcmezcr Baptist Church, East Second St. Services at 11 a. m., p. in. anil Bp. i. Sunday-school at 1 p. in. Rev. Z. iauoiiton, pastor. Presbyterian Church, corner Seventh ..ml College Sts. Services at 3 p. in. and .s p. mi. Sunday-school at 10 a. in. Rev. 11. I* Wyohb, pastor. Clinton Chapel, (A. M. E. Z.) Mint St. Services at 11 a. in., 0 p. in. and 8 p. m. Sunday-school at Ip. in. Rev. M. Slade, pastor. Little Rock, (A. 31. E. Z.) E St. Ser vices at 11 a. m., 8 p. in. and 8 p. in. l’ov. Wm. Johnson, pastor. 1 If your paper has a blue , cross mark, it will be stopped :ei till you pay up. Wo cannot continue to send it to you without some money. Pie;.sc pay up and let us continue it to you. LOCAL. AXXOTJXCEM ENT. Happy New Year to all. This weak lias given us 'delightful woatlier. Our emancipation celebration was the best ever had here. Livingstone College has nearly 180 students. They have room for 300 or more. There seems to be more vacant busi ness houses in this city now than over before. What is the trouble. lie sure to read all of our letters. They are all good. One from Fay etteville, New England, and Lumber ton. The New Year brings many changes, but E. 51. Andrews remains at the same old stand and sells furniture cheaper than over. Minister Taylor spoke at the Court House on Thursday night He talk ed principally about Africa. He is making a tour of the South. If you would keep up with the' times you must read this paper and to do so, you must pay for it in ad vance Send in your money. Miss Lizzie Kelsey of Chestnut Grove S. C. passed through the city for Livingstone College Thursday eve ning, also her cousin Miss Walker. It is reported that a white mail was lynched by colored men and a few white men at Central, Ga. the other day for an outrage on a colored wo man. For a real good bargain in dry goods, ladies or gents furnishings, you should not fail to go to Hargrav es & Alexanders while they are clos ing out. Mr. Tillman Scott died last Tues day from the effects of a fall oft' a freight train on the Air Line road. He leaves two or three small children without a mother Rev. C. It. Harris of Salisbury preached for Rev. It. 11. Stitt last Sunday night. Rev’s Rives, McNeill and Holmes were present also. The had weather prevented a large gather ing- / Elder Rives held his first quarterly meeting at Moore’s Sanctuary last Sun day and reports a pleasant and suc cessful meeting. Rev. P. J. Holmes is in charge of this work and getting along nicely. Those who expect to read the Mes- SF.xnK.it after today must call at this office or send in and settle for the pa per. The paper must be run by your money and can only bo done so by your paying in advance or at least what you owe. Mr. Albert Rrcwington son of Mr. IV. It. Rrcwington of Fayetteville, left a few weeks ago for California, going by the way of Raleigh, and Hampton Va. He goes to lake a personal view of the long talked of gold country. Grace Church made a very line ef fort the first Sunday on the year. In spitc of the had weather they raised $65.81 on the building fund. A uia- jority of the members could not get out and the collection will be contin ued tomorrow when all the friends art invited to help make out the hundred dollars. Among the many visitors in our city during the holidays were Mr. and Mrs. C. 11. Harris, of Salisbury; Misses Rosa E. and Della 1) Richard son, of Wadesboro. Miss Delia Toole was home from school. Mr Joe Smith Cato Thomas Tbos. Weddington, Albert Torrence, Rufus Hyatt and others came in from the South. Our Christ inns. A portion of our holidays were spent on the railroad. In Wilming ton we spent two days very pleasantly. It is always pleasant for a young man to visit Wilmington, and meet such amiable young ladies as Misses Sa rah Taylor, Maggie Whiteman, Lula Smith, and Emma Hooper. At Clarktou wc were entertained by lion. John Newell. His two daugh ters, sliss Lucy and Savana are intel ligent young ladies. At Elizabethtown wc had picnic of a day and night 51isses slary Shaw, Anna and Lizzie Russell, Anna Mur chison and the Sheridans made it pleasant for us till leaving time. . AVe spent only a few hours in Fay etteville, and at Maxton met the ever pleasant Miss Carrie Miller and the Rev’s Champlin, and Blaylock who are among the good friends of the Messenger. Wc had a huge time. Barbers Moving, John Henderson has moved in with Anm Rudisill, next door to his old stand. The firm name is now Hen derson and Rudisill. sloore & Sum ner have moved their shop to the south side of Trade street, opposite their old stand. Charlotte Light Infantry. The adjutant-General of the State was in the city to inspect the colored military company. They turned out 30 men in arms and uniform and passed a creditable inspection. They arc now a part of the regular State militia, and entitled to the §3OO al lowed each company by the State. It is known as Company 15., N. C. State Guard. / Minister C. li. ,1. Taylor. This distinguished gentleman spent Thursday in our city at the Virginia House. He has resigned his mission to Liberia, but we suppose he will be well cared for by the present adminis tration. Mr. Taylor, like many other colorel men, is a great talker. He has been made prominent by the col ored press in their efforts to belittle him. That only tends to strengthen him with his friends. He gives ut terance to some good ideas as to the deliverance of Africa. This is the Last. We failed to get our new subscrip tion book ready for this week, and many will get this paper, whose time is out. We give them a blue mark again and beg them to send in what they owe us. We cannot afford to send the paper to them without the money, and if wc could, we should not, for each should bear an equal burden. Wc know you mean to pay us, hut good intentions will not pay our bills Send us the money for the time you have had the paper and then renew for the year. Trouble at liiilillc University. Wo are informed that the students at Riddle University are having no recitations this week. They feel that they have been mistreated by the fac ulty. In short, ail but a few of the boys seem to be on a strike. It seems that the trouble arose in this way : A difficulty occurred between one of the students anil a professor, in the lattcrs room ; the student seems to have got ten the best of the Professor. The faculty held a meeting and expelled the student without a trial. The boys think the youug man should have a hearing and asked the faculty to re open the ease, the faculty refused to hear any statement from them, and sonic say, Dr. Johnson says ho will •resign before he will yield to nig gers.” It is hoped that matters will be settled satisfactory to all concerned. Jt4f‘ lf you would keep up with the times, you should take this paper, read it, write for it, and help make a good history for your race. Erring Preachers. It lias been published that a Catho lic priest, and recently a professor in the college at lieltuont, Gaston county, was arrested mid lined a few days ago, in Atlanta, for being drunk and boisterous. We dislike to heaf of the fall of any man, and wish we could sec the white press of this country treat all men with fairness. Had this been a colored man, we would have seen full head lilies, “Nigger preacher drunk,” or some sucit ridiculous allusion to reflect upon the entire race. The sins of white people cannot be hid by their efforts to expose ours, and wo know as many of them go wrong in the great and small evils' as of us. This poor priest is to be pittied as well as other white and black preachers hero in Charlotte who have been caught up with iu their sins. Pitty the fallen and weak. PrrsitlingEldcr’s Appointments. Charlotte District.— lst Round. Little Rock—December 1-4. Rockwell and Joncsvillc—Dee. 9—ll. Torrence Chapel—December 10—18. Riddle—December 23—25. Moore’s Sanctuary—Dee. 30—Jan. 1. Clinton Chapel—January 5-9. China Grove—January 13—0. Pineville—January 20—23. Grace Church—January 2G--29. HenryviHe—February 3-0. Trinity—F ehruary 10—13. Kings Mountain—February 17—20. Monroe—February 24-26. Redding Spring— -March 2—5. Rock Hill—March 9-11. Matthews—March 16—19. Mowing Glade—March 24—27. R. S. Rives, P. E. Fayetteville District. —lst Round. Fayetteville—December 8-11. Manchester—December 17—18. Jonesboro—December 81-. January-l. Lillington—January 7—B. Oak Grove—January 14-15. Haywood—January 21—22. Johnstonvillc—January 21-22. Glover’s Grove—January 28-29. Gee’s Grove—February 4-5. Egypt—February 11—12. Carthage—February 18-19. New Zion —February 25-26. A. M. Barrett, P. E. Raleigh N. C. Wadesboro District— lst Round. Flat Rook—January 7-8. Lethec—January 14—15. Jordan’s C. Manly — January 21—22. Green Lake—January 28—29. Chesnutt —February 4-5. Hallie’s Grove—February 11—12. Roper’s Grove—February 18—19. Bennette’s—-February 25-26. Forestville—March 3—4. Rocky Mount—March 10—11 Robeson’s X Roads—March 17—18. This and That. Llmberton, N. C., Dec. 28,1887. Dear Editor: —Permit me to say just a word in your valuable paper. It comes to our house every week, and is read by all the young folks who are far enough advanced to read a paper. Our young ladies who are now off teaching, receive it as a welcome “Messenger” every week—while at homo; and wo shall have to send it to at least ono of them each week. Old Robeson is still struggling with ignorance ; and we can sec many im provements. During Christmas there were fewer under the influence of liquor than wc have ever seen here. You perhaps know that our burg is a dry town. It is true that many of our way ward sons go to Maxton, fa wot town) on “tickler business,’' and some times that business is not large enough, and they go on “jug or keg business,” yet, even then, there is not one fourth of the critter used as was before wc became dry. There was very little fighting or carousing; and so far only one case of cutting is reported, that not being serious. Sunday was the best ob served day for Christmas day ever seen in this place. We have about twenty schools in operation so far, iu the county, and we may add six more yet, for the winter. Our standard is much higher than formerly; and many have failed to secure certificates this fall. Our young pe qde fail to sec the importance of attending some good school until they become thoroughly equipped for the work. Thus every time the hoard moves up. there i- a scale among the teachers. Our own school here in Luuiherton began its winter term December 5. There are now eighty one enrolled, I and still they come. In about one month from now, come down to see us. We’ll show you a huu^-full. School has had a recess to'let, the j children get Christmas out of their ’ bones and to have their good time ( over what Old Santa Claus brought them. Wc shall call them from their J merriment this morning. Did Old < Sandy send you anything ? He sent j me “what the hoy shot at.” Excuse this random latter, and I • will do better next time. Truly yours, Tar Heel. 1 Republican Stale Convention. The undersigned Executive Commit teemen call a State Convention iif tho ; Republican party of North Carolina, ■ to ho held iu Raleigh on Wednesday, , the 23d day of May, 1888, for the purpose of electing four delegates and 1 four alternates to the National Repub- i lican Convention, to he held at Chicago, on the 19tli day qf June, ' 1888, and for tho purpose of nomina ting a candidate for Governor and other State officers and three candi dates for Supreme Court Judges, to : select a State Committee and for tho transaction of such other business as may he deemed proper in tho judg ment of the convention Each county is entitled as delegates in Said convention to twice the number of Representatives in the lower House of tho General Assembly. All persons without regard to past . political affiliation, who are is sym pathy with the principles of tho Re- j : publican party of this State, are in-! vited and requested to unite with tho j Republicans under this call in 'the selection of delegates. J. C. L. Harris, V. S. Li st;, J. 11. Williamson, Geo. C, Scuri.ock, 11. E. Yoi a'ii, If. E. Davis, J. H. Harris, A. V. Dockery, W. C. Coleman. J. J. Mott, J. li. Smith, G. W. Cannon, J. H. Montgomery. E. A. White, T. M. Argo. pAI’E FEAR AND YADKIN VALLEY I RAIL WA Y GO MPA ATT. Taking effect 5.00 a.m., Monday, Dec. 10, 1887. Trains Moving Nonm. Passenger Freight and anil Mail. Passenger ; Lv Benncltsville, 8:30 am 1:30 pn 1 Ar Maxton, 0:lo 3:35 Lv Maxton, 0:57 41:5 Ar Fayetteville, 11:50 S:10 Lv Fayetteville, 12:05 p m 8:20 am j Ar Sanford, 2:17 12:20 p’m ! Lv Sanford, 2:40 1:33 Ar Greensboro, 0:00 7:45 Lv Greensboro, .10:10 a m Ar Pilot Mountain 3:00 p m Passenger and Mail Xo. I—dinner at Sanford. Pass, and Mail, No. 11—dinneratGcrmanton Trains Moving South. Lv Pilot Mountain 4:00 p m Ar Greensboro, 8:40 Lv Greensboro, 10:00 a in 7:45 a m | Ar Sanford, 1:30 pm 2:15 p m i Lv Sanford, 1:50 3:15 p m j Ar Fayetteville, 4:15 7:05 Lv Fayetteville, 4:30 s:3oam Ar Maxton, 0:27 9:00 Lv Maxton, 0:40 9:45 Ar Bennettsville 8:00 12:00 m j Passenger and Mail Xo. 2—dinner at Sanford, j FACTORY BRANCH—FIIEIGHT AND ! ACCOMMODATION. Trains Moving North. Leave- Mill boro, 8:05 a.m. 4:25 pin j Arrive Greensboro, 9:40 O;00 Trains Moving South. Leave (Jreensbeiro, 1:30 p. m. lieave Factory June. 2:30 5:35pm Arrive Mi 11 boro, 3:15 0:15 Frei gilt and Accommodation train runs bet. I Bennettsville and Fayetteville on Mondays, i Wednesdays and Frit lays, and bet. Fayette- j villeand Bennettsville 7m Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays. freight and Accommoduteuitruiu runs but. Fayetteville ami Greensboro Tuesdays,Thurs- 1 days and Saturdays, and between Greensboro and Fayetteville -Mondays, Wednesdays anil ! Fridays. Passenger and mail train runs daily except Sundays. The north bound passenger and mail train makes close connection at Maxton with < 'ar olina Central to Charlotte and Wilmington. 1 Trains on Factory Branch run daily except ' Sunday. ' W. JO. KYJ.F, Genera! Passimger Age lit j J. W, FBY.Gon’l Snot. 131 Vi) K r J'ANT XOTIC it To all the Colored Masons in the United States. Tho Masonic Fraternity will at once j see the utility, of having in their pos session an Annual Masonic Directory that will give the name of every Grand Lodge, Chapter, Cojnniandery or mem bers of the Consistory, Town, City or State iu which they are convened. And the name and rc.-ideneo of each and every individual member. Such a book published annually, will be invaluable to cveory member of the Fraternity. The publisher 'earnestly requests that the Grand Secretary of each and every Lodge, Chapter, Conimnndery ‘ and Consistory will please forward to me, on a Postal Card his name and address, as I wi: h to forward each one of them a printed letter: desiring of them to accept the agency, and guar anteeing them a royalty on each book, something to their financial and person al interest. Address Hunky li. Griffin, “Boston Advocate,” Boom ■> • .11, 05 Hanover Street, 80.-ton, Mass Sunday Promenade in Wellington. Usually Saturday is tho great “show day” of Washington, though the great pedestrian parade always takes place Sunday afternoon (or “evening,” an they call it here and in the south) on (Connec ticut avenue, at from 3 to 5 o’clock. Then the world of fashion appeal’s ; on that beautiful avenue. Carriages, ! grooms, glittering harness, liveries, i clanking silver chains, village carls, j coupes, and oven bi- and tricyles are abau- j doned, and the great swell, official, diplo- , malic, home and foreign, blooded and j shoddy, and old family and nouveau j riclie, newcomers and old timers, blue ; blooded and no blooded, beau monde and j hoi polloi, walk up and down Connecti- ! cut avenue and exchange bows and 1 greetings, cold stares, or “hovdies,” as the case may be. It is a great eight on Sunday afternoon, when the American aristocracy and tho aristocracy of foreign legations # and the Amorico-European hybrids get out in style: on Connecticut avenue for the weekly Sunday afternoon stroll. It beats “Unterden Linden” by a large majority. The Misses West, daughters of the Eng lish minister, appear with a small “but tons” tugging at the leash of a couple of beagle hounds chained together; and half a dozen dudes who have just got through with their demi-tasse of case noil* and their Chartreuse at Chamberlain’s, and tackled their cigarettes, are dragged aloe;;' by their enormous St, Bernard dogs and Siberian hounds, while the ir reverent remark, “Where is the dog going with tho dude?” A young- lady from Scott circle, who is very plain herself, attracts attention by leading at the end of a ecuriYt ribbon a bluck-und-tan terrior, which is about as I .; c . a cockroach, with legs like Vi;;t. ig needles and tail like a Limerick •ii: h luv»i: a: l sore eyes. A tall young .lady. F; ■ daughter of a cabinet officer, w: iks all .: with her sinewey left hand gripped upon the silver rivet studded col hr of a I ig Newfoundland dog, while in her right site carries a laced rawhide whip with a silver handle.—Cor. Cincin nati Commercial Gazette. One of John Maraliatl’a Descendants. The <!e.-:cendants of Chief Justice John Mar: hall arc a sturdy race. Ono of t hem, bearing the great jurist’s name, owns a farm in Virginia and runs a sawmill thereon. lie got down in the buzz saw pit not long ago to fix a loose screw. Suddenly lie felt something moving be hind him, and ho threw his arm up and felt the saw cut through above the elbow, almost from skin to skin. Raising his head, ho struck tho saw, which cut a groove right through his hair, over his foreltfad and face, and down into his throat. When he was taken out his face was one mass of bleeding flesh. They laid him on the grass and brought a surgeon. While the latte:* was running across the fields to the spot where the men had left Marshall lie | heard his voice saying, as well as the ! wounds would permit: “Shove this stuff | away from my eye so that I can see | whether it’s hurt.” They did “shove tho stuff” away from his eye as carefully as ! possible, and he gave them one ghastly j glance and then murmured: “It’s ail ! right; I can see.” It took the surgeon ! an hour and a half to dress all his wounds. 'He endured the pain with perfect com j posure. Within a month he was out | again as well as ever. Some one was telling ono cf the old darkies on the ' place, while “Marster John” was still in I bed, what a narrow escape he had had fr- in deatli. “Huh!” said the darky, “take heap more than that to kill Mars John. Why, if you wanted to kill Mars | John you’d have to cut his head off—and I then hide the head.” —Detroit Free Press. Kr.sikm O .icial.4 Not Cruel. It may he supposed that officials who i are capable of treating prisoners in this j way must he constitutionally cruel, cold blooded and heartless; but such a suppo ' ition would bo, in many cases, perhaps I iu a majority of cases, ail erroneous one. i Many of the officials are naturally no ' worse than other men, hut they have ! been trained under cC system which is in ; tolerant of opposition, and especially of ; that form of opposition which in Russia lii called insubordination; they have been | accustomed to regard themselves rather :i s the rulers Hum as the servants of the people; they have not felt personally tho fifll weight of the yoke of oppression; ; they have lieen irritated and embittered II >y a long contest with fearless and im p<! nous men whose motives and charac ters they misunderstand, and whom they g c'il as unreasonable fanatics and ! treacherous a -assins; and, finally, their ! fortunes and prospects of advancement <!- -pend u on the success with which they carry on tills contest. —George Kennan | in The Century. S’- .. ire of Fto Doji! “Children i liould not bo allowed to ap ; pronch strange dog.*.’’ said a physician. | “Some dogs are vicious, particularly where children are concerned, and snap at them without warning. Others doit | from pare nervousness, for a child ap * proachf■« a dog in i: boisterous manner which tho deg doc n’t understand, and | when he resists in the only way nature | Ims given him he is unjustly blamed. The dog is the inu- l devoted friend the | l.uman race has. but it is his nature to !beso to his mastin’, not to strangers. It ; is not fair to put him in a iw-ition where ! ho will be condemned and punished for ; what is not his fault. Let him have jus tice, if lie is only a dog. ’' —Philadelphia Times. Csri.ifj for the Ouinlue Tree*. The price of quinine has been reduced from $0 an ounce to leas than sl. and a dealer any.' that it will remain cheap hereafter. The reason is that the cliin chonn trees are destroyed in taking off : the hark. Formerly the bark was stripped clean and the trees wore left naked to bleed to death. Now when the lark is * removed the trees are swathed with moss, new bark forms on thorn, and, in stead of living to !x*ar ono crop of bark, tliev yield their hark yearly.—Boston Transcript. Diamond ; by tho Ton. Six and a half tons of diamonds— surely <nth Kinbad the sailor never ven tured to compute bis diamonds by tho ton—valued at aixmt JL‘RMM)O.OOO, have, wo arc informed, been extracted from four Afr.c:m mines alone in the course of the last few years.— St. James' Gazette. IN THE FRENCH CEMETERIES. That Favorite Fmblcm, the Evaluating Flower, Superseded by tho Class Dead. The everlasting flower, which used to be the favorite emblem of mourning in the Frencli cemeteries, has now been almost superseded by tho glass bead. At the recent festival of the dead, to every person who carried a wreath of immor telles to the cemetery a hundred carried wreaths of beads. Those who along the shores of the Mediterranean gather the everlasting flowers to be sent to Paris must lx: sorely tried by this change of custom. There is a little town called Ollioules, near Toulon, whose inhabitants, about 3,500 in number, have for many years earned their living by collecting the everlasting flowers on the sun scorched hills and preparing them for commerce. Care must be taken to pick them in tho bud, for if the inflorescence is advanced the seeds will ripen afterwards, and the so called flower, which botanists describe very differently, will fall to pieces. There is still a certain demand for immortelles in Paris, for there are workshops in the Roquette quarter, where women are con stantly employed in making them into wreaths, crosses, etc. This is usually done by fastening the heads of the flowers upon a foundation of tightly packed straw. But, as I have already stated, it is the bead wreath that is now ala mode. The change is not one for the better. The immortelle, although it is one of nature’s sham flowers, is, like the amaranth, a poetic emblem of eternity. That it de cays, those who went to the cemeteries on All Saints’ or All Souls’ had ample evidence, but it will last a few years without looking very shabby. It, there fore, imposes no great tax or expense upon mourners to put a fresh wreath over the old one as the latter wears out. The bead wreath is without beauty and with out any of that association of poetic and religious idea which gives an emblematic value. It is simply an economical expe dient ; glass beads do not wear out, and when they are strung upon wire that does not rust they remain where they are placed year after year, quite unchanged by wind and weather. The French are practical people, and they appear to have come to the conclu sion that the best emblem of immortality to put upon a tomb is made of glass and wire. The reasoning may be sound, but the taste is detestable. The bead wreath is ;i lamentable invention, oma par with that of tiio metallic flower which is to be seen in a i>ot on many a grave in the Paris cemeteries. The French are un doubtedly a nation of highly cultivated taste; but their decorative sense lias an inherent tendency to break out into vul garity and tawdriness. We see this in their rococo buildings, like the Grand Opera house, where unity of design and nobleness of proportion have been utterly sacrificed to the flashy adornment that the crowd mistakes for art. And yet there is no country in tho world that contains so many superb examples of pure architectural taste as France.— Paris Cor. Boston Transcript. Gas and Sewer Gas. Wo live to learn. Every householder has been worrying himself about the plumbing in his residence, expending money to put the lx?st traps that can be procured under his sinks and basins, making experiments with all sorts of in ventions to consume the foul gases, pull ing his wall to pieces to build air shafts from tho cellar up to tho roof and six feet beyond, and nevertheless living in constant dread of diphtheria, typhus fever and other diseases supposed to be engendered by the escape of the deadly sower gas. And now we are told by doc tors and learned professors that we have been frightening ourselves with ghost stories; that sewer air is comparatively free from noxious gases and contains pro portionately fewer micro organisms than the outer air of the same locality. Os course, unscientific people will be apt to discredit these conclusions and to pronounce them “humbug.” But what arc we to do when those by whom these conclusions are reached offer proofs of llieir correctness? How can we reply to tho matter of fact statements that “scav engers who work in sewers are generally I healthy and long lived:” that “plumbers 1 seldom die of zymotic disease,” and that ; “sewer rats grow gray in their subter ranean quarters?” Such proofs of the nourishing qualities of sewer gas are unanswerable. Yet it is questionable whether they will remove the popular prejudice against tin* inhala tion of the elastic fluids of the house drains, or induce people to abolish traps, ventilators and air shafts, notwithstand ing the long lived scavengers, the healthy plumbers and the venerable subterranean rats.-—New York World. An Imperial Luxury. Tho tracksof the Russian railroads have a width differing from those of the Prus sian roods. The ears of Prussian lines cannot, therefore, run through to Russian lines, and vice versa. That is why every traveler must elmnge earn at the frontier. Whenever the imperial family of Russia passes that point in winter a viaduct 19 built leading from the Prussian carriage to the imperial waiting rooms at Wir ballen, the Russian frontier depot. Such a viaduct is now constructing. It is made of stout wood, covered all over with thick felt veiled under copious folds of rich ear j ito and curtains, lest the sensitive skins of their majesties and their off spring, just risen from the measles, should feel a draught and catch a cold on their run from the Prussian to the Rus sian saloon car.—Chicago News. A Methodical Antliorraa. In her daily life Mrs. Dinah Mulock- Craik was remarkably methodical. Though many of her works appeared in periodicals, she would never under any circumstances consent to a beginning of publication before the work was entirely out of her hand, and, what is very sigu lar. she is said during the whole course of her forty years’ lalxirs never to liavo begun writing anything which she did not carry straight through, and it is be lieved that she has not left behind a sin gle line of unfinished work intended for publication. Indeed, everything she ever wrote with the view to publication has been published.—London News. 111 Europe thrifty trees and good crop* of poaches have been secured from graft* up 'ii tin* hawthorn.
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