North Carolina Newspapers

a THE ST&UD&RD. THE STANDARD, HE TANBARB. THE VERY BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. Rates of Advertising; One square, one insertion, 1 00 Orie square, one month, I 50 One square, two months, 2 00 One equare, three months, 2 30 One square, six mouths, 5 00 TEKMS ONE YEAR, CAS: IN ADVANCE, SIX MONTHS, $1.25 .75 VOL. II. NO. 12. CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1889. WHOLE NO. 64. One square, one year, 9 00 IEDMONT AHMJNE ROUTE P RICHMOND AND DANVILE RAILROAD. Condensed schedule in effect June 21th, 1SS7. Trains run by 75 Meridian Tiuio. Da.l.. No. 50. Daily No. 52 4 30 pm 6 57 pm 9 42 pm 11 00 pm 3 CO am 5 10 am 7 15 am 2 30 am 4 24 am 5 45 aui 5 20 m 5 r am 9 42 am T8 10 m fl 45 am 3 12 am 4 Ojj an. 7 40 am 6 30 am .9 50 nm 10 16 am 11 18 am 12 1 J pm 4 31 pm l 10 , m 11 23 pm 12 pm 12 40 pm 3 37 pm 4 48 pm 9 40 pm FOt l'ulJOVND. Leave New York 12 13 pin Philadelphia 7 20 am r.ahimoie 9 4." am Wasdimon 11 24 am Charlottesville 3 40 y in Lynchburg 0 50 pm Ar. Danville S 30 pm l.v. Hichniond 3 10 pm liiukeville 5 17 pin Keysville 5 57 pm Drake's Branch 0 13 pm Danville B 50 pm A r. Greensboro 10 3G Lv. Goldsboro 2 40 pm Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill IlillsborO A r. Greensboro Lv Salem 5 00 p m G 04 pm t") 20 pm 6 37 pm S 35 pm 7 LO pm 10 45pm 11 15 run 12 01 inn 1 51 am 7 2$ am 9 15 am 12 2g am I 10 am 1 55 a n 4 40 am 5 50 am 1 1 00 pin Greensboro High Point A r Salisbury Statesnlle Atheville Dot Springs Lv Salis-buiy Ar Co- cord Charlotte 'prtanbug Greenville Atlanta NORTHBOrXP. ""Daily. No, 51, Daily. No. 53. Leavo Atlanta Arrive Greeuville Spartanburg Charlotte Concord Salisbury C 00 pm 7 40 am 1 06 am 2 VI am 4 50 am 5 4:) am 6 J2 am 1 51 pm 2 53 pm 5 30 pin G 30 pm 7 03 pm 11 40 am 1 23 pm 5 56 pm 6 33 pm 7 13 pm 8 13 pm 8 40 im 12 31 am 10 50 i).n 3 10 pm Lv. tllot Springs 8 03 pm Asheville 9 w pui Statesville Ar. Salisbury Lv. Salisbury Ar. Hijjh Point Greensboro S;ilem Lv ( lieensboro Ar Hillsboro Chapel Hill Durham Raleigh (ioldboro Lv. Greensboro 3 30 am 4 37 am 6 '11 am 7 32 am 5 00 am 11 40 am 1 :0 am 1 1 55 am fl 15 am 12 33 am 1 13 pm 4 10 im 8 03 am t4 30 am ! 55 a in Danville 0 4. am Drake's Caueh 12 25 pin Jveysvnle Burkeville Richmond Lynchburg Charlottesville "Washington Baltimore Philadelphia New York 12 4D pm 1 2 j pm 3 30 pm 11 40 p:u 2 25 pm 7 35 pm 8 50 um 3 00 am J 20 am 1 43 am 5 00 am 12 55 am 3 05 am nm -o an. 10 47 um iKj-tt paj 1 LO pm Daily. tDaily, except Sunday, w.nvivr ri Fnwr httEiiNCt car seumce. On trains 50 and 51 Pullman Buffet between Akntal Ne, Keeper 101 K. On trains 32 and 53 Pullman BuftVt Sleeper between Washington audi r ' - '.: ". .. I Jioingoiuery ; m aiuKum auu -iu-gusta. Pailnian sleeper between Richmond and Greensboro, Pull man sleeper between Gieensboro, and Ralaigh, Pull.iian parlor ear between Salisbury and Knoxville. Through tickets 011 sale at pricipal stations to ail points. For rates and information apply to anv agent of the company, or to Sxi. Hass, J. S. Pott. Traffic Manr. Div. Pass. Ag't. W. A Turk, R chnioud, a. Div. Pass. Ag't, J as. L. Tavlou, Raleigh, N. C. Gen. Pass. Ag't. Valuable Land Sale ! Uv virtue of a decree of the Superior Court in the Special Proceedings of Win. M. liarrier, administrator of llenrv Plot!, deceased, vs. A Waynes Plott, G. F. Plott Old others, I. as Commissioner, will sell Hi public auction, in front of the court hoiw door in Concord, on the first Moti lity in March. I'sS'.t, sa one o'clock, p. m., a tract of land situated in No. ! town ship. Cabarrus county, containing about H acres, adjoining the lands of llaynes Plott. .lames' Kauli, Martin Furr and Jeori'e Plott, 1 lie same being the place u I on which said Henry Plott resided at the time of his death. Terms of sale. One-third cash, bal ituce 011 six months time, with H per cent iiileie-t per annum from day of sale, secured by good bond. Title reserved unlil purchase monev is paid in full. Win. M. HAKKlEU. a.lmr. &com. Uv W. (J. MEAN'S, atl'v. This 4th day bf February, I'.). The nfcxt session of this Institu tion opens Monday, Aug. 12 th., 18ss. Having secured the services of competent teachers, the Princi pals offer to the community the advantages of a first class school, and ask a continuance of the same patronasre so liberally given in the past. Tuition in Literary Depart ments 81.50 to 3.50. Music S3. 00 to $1.00. For further information ap Hy to Misses Bessext. t Fetzer Principals. NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE. Next session begins, tl e first Von d iv of September. Location healthy 1 ei ms 1 moderate. For catahmgue fr paiticulars, ad dress, Rev. J. G. SCHAID, Pres't, Mt. P.ensant, N. C. August 3, 18m EERLESS DYES lo Your Own Dyeing, at Home. Tli y ill dye everything. Tln'f uresolJ every a !n!-. l i n e IOC. n i n-k.i.e. I'ney have noequai I'll .Stiwtli, liriffhtnest, Amount in Pnokaifiu ii t it 1' irn, ss of Colnr. or rm:i-li liujj Qualities, '11,,-y .':, u,.t crock or omut; in cjIiih. i' or sale by l or sale at 12 FETZEPiVS DRUG STORE, and D D. JOHNSON'S DflUG STORE Concord Fern LADIES Problem At the ruins of Fersopolis there are two upright columns, the higher of which is is 04 ft. the lower 50 ft. Between these on a right line is an ancieut statue, the head of which is 97 ft. from the top of the higher column, and 86 ft. from the top of the lower, and the base is 76 ft. from the centre of the base of the lower column. How far is it, from the top of the higher, to the top of the lower column? Dextka. The Word Method. In these day 3 of progress and rap id changes, there is a tendency in adopting new methods to run to ex treme?, and by thus allow ing the "method'' to run away with them, those w ho adopt them, lose sight of and fail in accomplishing the desired end. There has been a good deal of dis cussion pro and con in regard to the merits of the "Word Method.'' There are some who do not see any advan tage in it and discard it altogether. There are others on the other ex treme who use it to the exclusion of any other, as though they could ad vance pupils with only an inciden tal knowledge, as it were, of letters and spelling. Th" best way is a combination of the two. There is no doubt that the word method has merits which can be used to advantage. One advantage in its use is this: Take a child who knows nothing at all about his letters, and there are 26 single letters, characters for him to learnwhich are hieroglyplics to him. conveying no moaning whatever to his mind. It is almost as easy for him to learn as many short words so that he can name them at sight. With this little stock of words at his 11 45 am i command, it will be be no trouble 50 ! for, him to read short seii 10 20 pin ! 1 23 am ! tences, and in a few days he 15 con- 1 45 illil I cciiiiN nnd liroild flf the f :! -f f ll :l t he can read. One half the battle , has been won; you have the child in- ! tore, t.'d, he feels that he has enter-' 1 -i . 1 r .i. i :. 1 eu uie uoiuuiii ui leneie, uuu msieau i e i ;n r 1 f lu.incr a liivsteriwii wilderness ot - ! whose nature he had not the faintest j ; , , j conception, it is a source of pleasure) ! ! -ii c t -. t .. ' to him sunn v because of the fact; I . , , , , ... , . ,. that he feels that he is progressing. hen he knows some words, be- , Mvi aJJi new one dailv r,..uln ally unfold to him the elements of different words. This is not a diffi cult matter, if your words have been well chosen, for there are many ; short words in the pronunciation of i which all its letters are used, e. g. bad, cat, do?, etc. In this wav thei letters will be gradually mastered, and as soon as he will be able to use them intelligently. In this way the bane of a teacher's life will have I ee;i accomplished with pleasure to teach er and pupil, and at the same inie the pupil will have made some prog ress, the simple knowledge of which fact will aid him materially. Tcnclilns Long nnd Khort Ii vision. Long division should be taught before short division, for Yvhen a pnpil has learned long division, the teacher has but to mention short! The year 1S1G was known th-ough-division, show how an example is j out the Eastern states as "the year worked and the pupil understands j without a summer." Farmers of it at once. In long division the ! ew England calls it the year of form is the difficult thing. Give a J "eighteen hundred and starved to series of examples each representing j death." It is said that the winter a step, and see that the pupil is j previous w.s open and mild, much thoroughly familiar with each step: like oar present winter in Ohio; netore going to t.'ie next. 1 lie arbitrary matters about long division must be told. Do a great deal of work with divisors containing but two figures, and a way to pas to divisors of three or more figures will now readily suggest itself. Shaw's "School Devices." Horace Mann, in his report of the schools of Europe, sayss "Where I found the poorest schools and teach ers, there I have found an offensive ,, -in;. 4.. 1,,. t itfQ1. . , , ,, . , methods, and Edward Everett, in ,', . one ot Jus lectures on education, savs : u 11 11 11 ii" uesa iu ucai ui ucitv-i "i ne worst teacners are, as a ruie, j those who are most satisfied with , themselves and their methods." Jo-i seph Payne, the eminent educator, , , , , . and teacher of teachers at the Col - lege of Professors, London, says : "A teacher who ignores the labors of; great men, and thinks himself too' j wise to learn from them, evinces no i thing but his pi ido and ignorance.' Franklin savs -1..A pci ienee ieeo3 1 i dear school, but fools will learn in no I ' 1 i other, aud not even in that. Teach- ' ' h er's Institute. The State University of Oregon jhas 150 women students A Broken Vine. The following lines were written by Rev. Chas. Wolfe, the author of the burial of "Sir John Moore." If I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee; But 1 forgot, when by thy side, That thou couldst mortal be. It never through my hand had passed The time would e'er be o'er, And 1 on thee should look my last. And thou shouldst smile no more. And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought 1 will not brook, That I must look in vain: But when I speak thou dost not say What thou ne'er ieft'st unsaid, And now 1 feel, as well I ma', Sweet Mary, ihou art dead. If thou wouldet stay e'en as thou art, All cold and all serene I might still press thy silent heart. And where thy smiles have been; While e'en thy chill, bleak corse I have, Thou seemst still my own. But there I lay thee in fhy grave And 1 am now alone. I do not think, where'er thou art, Thou has forgotton me; And I, perhaps, may soothe this heart, In thinking, too, of thee: Yet there was round thee such a dawn Of light ne'er seen before. As fancy never could have drawn, And never can restore. Date ofXotable EviuiU, The reformation began in 1517. Magna Charta w as signed in 1215. The Suez canal w as '. opened in I860. The first watches were made in 1476. Organs were first used in the year 755. " The war of the Roses occurred in 1455. The first musical notes were used in 1338. The first newspapers were printed in 1494. The first post-office w as establish ed in 1516. Daniel Webster and llenrv Clav both died in 852, Printing was introduced into Eng land in 1474. Moan of Arc, the sainted maid of Orleans, died in 1431. The first cotton was raided jn the United States in 1621. Aaron Kurr died the year before Queen Victoria's accession in 1837. 'pi 11 . 1 t- 1 1 he oldest citv in the I nited States. St. Augustine, was fonp,b..l in 1563, Shakespeare died in 1616, fmr years before the Pilgrim fathers landed on Plymouth Ruck. J ue iiioucrii neeuie came 11110 use The modern needle i , ' 111 1545. and live Years later the ; 1 first knives were used in England. , 1 Imi wa' 1,1 v IU,1'l.IU the "sixth -century, but it was not in- Printing was known in Chin: ! trod nerd into America until 1530. Alaska was purchased from Russia in ixi;7, just sixty-three years after .Jefferson made the Louisiana pur chase. The piano was invented in 1710, the lightning-rod came 42 years later, and gas was used for light in 1 :.. Coaches were first used in England : in 150;, and the telescope was in- vented in l.V.io, three years after the execution of Mary Stuart. The first telegraph line was open ed between Haiti more and Washing ton in 1S44. The first photograph j had been made 42 years before. The first American library Yvas j founded in DJ'Js, and only four years later public schools were established. In just ten years enlightnient attain ed the point of printing the first newspaper advertisement. 'The Voir Without n Summer."' ' some snow 111 November, hour 0 to speak of in December, January or February, Christmas and New Year's were very warm, March and ! April cold and in May ice formed : an jncn thick on the streams. Buds j alKl flowers were frozen. The corn crop was ruined, and all vegetable products failed. July 5 ice was a half-inch thick throughout New England, New York aud Pennsylva nia, and in August ice was frequenc- Iv seen There was great scarcity c 1 i , v 101 nioi.sioiis iiirougiioui new r-ng- i , . , , ,,, w , I land until the crop of 1817 began i . . ,. , , , . ; to come in, amounting to almost to a famine. Fortunately the hay crop, as usual, was good, consequently s;tn"l: diil not snfT.-r There whs ici . in vvery month of that vear. , ..." A , n"s ,,0"r,K V beard over seven and a half i feet long is worn hv Louis Cowlon, ai m.-chaiiic. sixty-three years old. i vine Monllucon, France. M. ( , 1 1 i : t nil nil hail to ue when twelve! 1 , t years old, but soon gave up the razor, . , , " , and at fourteen was made conspicu- picu ous by a beard a foot loner, lie is; less than live and a half feet tall, I and coils his beard round his neck, 1 WHY DO WE KIIAIiE HANDS? The rnmp-IInnille Protma am I'niieo- ttitrjr and Disagreeable One. London Queen. Why do we shake hands ? No one appears to know. It does not mean much, if anything. Who has not suffered from tha strong aud hearth grasp of, let us fondly hope, ardent friendship, when our perhaps ringed hand is wrung w ith the fer vor of enthusiastic gnshingness or affection by some Hercules in dog skins, w ho forgets he sometimes goes near to smashing the fragile aud confiding fingers rashly for the mo ment placed at his mercy. Why are we thus compelled to suffer from our friends ? Who has not suffered from the man Avho, when you meet him, holds your hand as if it were a pump han dle for ten minutes, and will not let go ? Who has not suffered from that other w ho will not hold on at all, but allows you to do the shaking process for him ? Who does not know the man who simply seizes your hand to throw it violently awav from him in apparent fury? Who! does not fear the soit of spasmodic hand shake who pushes you baek-j wards and forwards, to him and j ti l il I 4 1 W1J1 lllllJj t4Q 11 11V niiv JiV)l 111 you perpendicularly through ? Who does not try tu shun the man who works vour arm round as if you were a barrel orgau i Who is U1 acquainted with the man with the clammy hand, who, as a rule, w ill not wear gloves? Why must we shake hands with him? Yet we all do it ; we dislike it ; we dislike it very much, even ; he .i;iiL.. ; fi,.,t ;t ,v..iv distasteful to us; yet, meet him to morrow, and out comes his hand once more to engulf your own. and make you wish you had gone where ever you were going by another route. To sit down calmly to write of "shaking hands" is so enormous an undertaking that one won ia re - I .nil-.. .i1,m.w ft,,-. ,-.iwo ,.-i, ... 1 qnne almost tnrce Minimes where - 1. .... . . . : m to express all there is to be said on this subject. When one thinks that not only every country in the but nearly every county 111 that country, has some special and distinguishing method of salutation on meeting friends and acquaint ances, it seems absurd even to at tempt it. We are credibly informed that hand shaking, which is supposed to be-a proof of friendly feeling, first came into fashion in the time of! Henry II. Up to that time our an- j eestors were more affectionate in their greetings than we, their colder natured descendants, embracing and; kissing each other in the same fash ion as our neighbors on the other side of the channel and in Italy are accustomed to do at the present moment. The historian yvIio is pleased to date the commencement of hand shaking in place of oscula tion and embracing about Henry II.'s time is perhaps in error, as it is more probable the close embrace of acquaintances began to be discontin ued later on, perhaps when tobacco was first introduced into this coun try. This certainly seems a probable surmise, as even in our present year of grace a man who has been smok ing a c heap cigar or a rank pipe is certainly not the most enibraceable object in the world ; and only think what the tobacco of Raleigh's, time must have been like! Jtowever, whether Henry II. did or did not be gin the fashion of "shaking hands" it is now rapidly becoming oerdone in England. The fine "fletir des pois," the "creme de la creme," quite too-too people do not indulge iu this practice as much as the upper and lower middle classes, for there every one shakes hands with every one on entering and leaving a room, on saying "good morning," "good night," or "good-bv." What to Head. Are yon. deficient iu taste? Read the best English poets, such as j Thompson, (J ray, Goldsmith, Pope, Cowper, Coleridge, Scott and Words worth. Are you deficient in imagination ? Read Milton, Akenside, lurke and .Shakespeare. Are you deficient in power of rea soning? Read ( hjllingworth, Bacon and Locke. Are von deficient in iudgment and I good sense in the common affairs of life? Read Franklin. I Are vou deficient in sensibility? J Read Goethe and Mackenzie. Are vou deficient in political! j , ., T, i knowledge ? Read J , r, -, .' . ., , . "rederalist, uebstt Montesquieu, the ter and Calhoun. Are vou deficient in patriotism? ! Head Demosthenes and the life of! i Washington. I I2f 5IE5IORUJI, To The Staudaud. Again God has seen fit to lay His hand upon us and take from our midst our friend and brother, W. J. Fleming. Again we have been re minded of the shortness and uncer tainty of life. Only a few short Weeks ago and he was as strong and entertained as high hopes for the fu ture as any of us. What a sad re minder should it be to us, "to work while it is called to-day, for the night of death cometh when no man can work," Jusf verging into the prime of manhood, before the dew of youth had been dispelled by the cares and responsibilities of life, it pleased "Him that doeth all things well" to bear him from the things of time and sense across the dark valley of death to that unknown world be yond the grave. From the harvest field of life he was cut down and we trust he is now safe in the gaf ners above. In consideration of our sore be reavement in the loss of our brother Eumenean and to show our respect ' for the memory of our friend who ! was amonS us for so short 11 time' be irt ' I. That we recognize God's hand ail nis dealings ami that we so 'strive to live and number onr days'' that when life's struggles and war fare is over, we may lay aside our j armor lor a crown aim a peaceful home beyond the skies. II. That we as a society extend our deep sympathies to the aged parents of the deceased, and that we mingle our tears with those of the bereaved familv, and with them 1 "' aunougn -mere s one less at home then now one more 111 heaven.' III. That a page in our minute book be inscribed and dedicated to his memory. IV. That a copy of these resolu tions be sent to the family of thedc- t.A , 1 "'' -I"-- hi 1 lie waiuson .Monniiv, Loiicoru , i t;,,,.- .,,,,1 'i..,r.i i-1 x-i t iii ' lw,,v-' v R. S. Thomiso: C. T. Bkewek, J. P. Wilson-, Committee The ( ousrreatloii Smiled. A story that goes back to meL'tin' house in Wiv-ntham i; of a worthy man named Habbakuk i p.. a resident of the town, and a 1 faithful attendant upon worship, who had been blessed with four wives, one after another. Habbakuk was rigidly orthodox, as his name seemed to demand, and was alwavs in his pew on the Sabbath, lie sat there in his conspicuous pew with No. 4 by his side, on the first Sun day after their marriage. It was a balmy June day, and the zephyrs from the open window toyed play fully witli the bride's white bonnet ribbons and the groom's silken locks. There was a stranger in the pulpit who had exchanged for the day with the venerable Mr. F., the pastor of the church. After reading a few Scripture passages the stranger pro ceeded to read a notice which he had found in the Bible, and which was as follows: "Mr. Habbakuk P desires the prayers of the congregation that the death of his wife may be sanctified to him for his spiritual good." Then, when the congregation was between stupefaction and explosion, the clergyman went on with the service at a rapid rate. He was at a loss to know why the congregation seemed to be throughout the re mainder of the service on the point of laughter, but at dinner Mrs. F the pastor's w ife, explained to liim that Habbakuk P sat three rows from the front in the broad aisle with his brand new wife, and he had read an old notice that Mr. F had probably, been using for a book mark ever since the death of wife No. 3, Boston Transcript. A tiorf cous Figure. Gen. Schofield was the most gor geous figure on the floor of the Sen ate on inauguration day. No one of the gaily attired Diplomatic Corps could compare with Schofield in brilliancy of appearance. He sat with Gen. Sherman in the front row on one of the seats reserved for those who had received the public thanks of Congress. Sherman" was attired as a civilian and looked almost in- , significant besides the golden glory I of his dashing companion. The, Ambassadors from China, Japan, Corea and Turkey looked upon Scho field with admiring eves. He seem- ! ed to represent to them the grandeur ; of the United States. About a dozen women practicre i dentistry in New York I (biKCfce Fni)ertitioii. The Chinese are full of supersti tions and many of them fully believe that the foreigners make medicine out of human beings. The massacre at Tientsin, in 1870, in which twen ty foreigners were killed and among them a number of French nuns, was caused by the report that the sisters were killing children to get their hearts and eyes for medical purposes and the trouble in Corea last spring was caused by the circulation of the stories that the missionaries were grinding up children's bones to make medicine. This report was started by the Chinese, and the latest attempt of the kind I find at Shanghai.. It appears in a tri-mouthly illustrated magazine which the Chinese publish and which sells for five cent a copy, fhis contains a full description of how the foreigners make their medi cines, with ghastly illustrations of the severed trunks and cut-up limbs of human beings. In one cut, men in American clothes are betiding over huge furnaces, in which the heads, and legs of men are boiling, and be side which lie great baskets and tubs of cut-up humans. The men are stirring the steaming mass, and the picture reminds one of the witches' cauldron in Macbeth In another cut is shown the machinery for the grinding up of the bones and flesh. A dozen old skeletons lie upin the floor, and a mm .vith a shovel puts the ghastly mass into the scales for weighing. In another room the med icine is packed up to be sent away, and young ladies in American dress with waterfalls and French heels are busy with it. I asked the manager of the magazine whether he believed in such si iifl!, and he said that he did not know, and asked if it was not really true. Spell In;, It is marvelous, says the New Or leans Christian Advocate, how many persons there are who, reading every day, and writing very often, do not know how to spell a great number of very common words. We never knew how widespread was this defi ciency until we came into the editor's chair. We get communications from all sorts of people from col- ! lege bred men and women and from ! those who never had other than "old ('u' field school"' advantages, and the de one f,irt iii soidlinrr i fomul inliotli cl.-is- ... -x 0 . ses. If we were to print some com munications as they are written, we would call down upon our head the fiercest tempest of indignation. It seems' that people who read much ought to know how to spell by the eye. Books and newspapers thanks to the proof-reader, with a dictiona ry at his side generally have words spelled correctly; and a little prac tice of the eye in looking at the spelling ought to give correctness Some excuse themselves on the ground of inattention. They know how, but they are so occupied with the thought that the spelling is a niii-or consideraton. In answer to this, it is sufficient, to say: A thought worth putting ou paper ;s worthy of becoming dress. Others ay, spel ling is a natural gift, and cannot be acquired by everybody. A writer who has a dictionary can learn to spell any word in the English lan guage. If .a writer has- no diction ary, let him buy one before he writes again. We are inclined to think that a good deal of incorrect spelling Is the result of carelessness; and care lessness in anything unpardonable. These thoughts have come from the fact that we received the other day a communication from a writer who, for a large part of his life, has been a teacher, and has been a contrib utor to the papers, using the word "laity" quite a number of times, and every it was spelled wrong. If we had published it as it was written, the printer, proof-reader and editor would have been pronouueed a "set of solemn blockheads." We are not complaining,but simply setting forth the curious fact that many popular writers are deficient in orthography. Tlie Xcw Cabinet's Liquor. No member of President Ilarr son's Cabinet is a total abstainer, though Wanamaker publicly frowns upon intoxicants, Mr. Harrison likes a swallow of Irish whiskv now ,..11.. ui . , : r aim men, i.ane is a cuiiiiuisseur oi French win. Win i!om t .,.. dinner at which each course has its appropriate stimulant. Tracy is fond of a pint of champagne at lunch, Noble likes malt, drinks and in dulges every day in a bottle of im ported a!v, Milter seldom takes any- thing but rye and seltzer, while Kusk swallows hi coni-iuice plain, Elijah Hal ford has never tasted whis- key, but has sipped champagne now and then on convivial occasions. j New York World. ODItS AXH ENDS. There are 275 lady clcargymen in this country. There are 200 women editors in the United States. Grover Cleveland was fifty-two years of age Jar.j25 . Pope Leo's fainting fits are be-r coming more frequent Love knows no Law savj that of its own sweet will" It costs New lork city $300,000 a year to pay for lawyers' sevices. lhe tannery Alliance have a new sixteen page paper in Washing ton called the National Economist. At Monte Carlo, the gambling centre in Europe,there have been 15 duels and 1G sucides thus farjduring 18S9. A frog sixteen inches long is re pprted to have been captured at Orlando, Fla., during the recent heavy rain. Senator Stanford paid $500 for windows from which to view the in augural parade; Senator Hurst 300 anu Ira Devenport $150. "Rochester, N. Y. capitalists Jhave formed a trust in dried apples." When they water the stock it will swell to immense proportions. A curiously twisted root of an oak tree, exhibited at Punta Gorda, Fla., is said to show all the letters of th? alphabet in its convolutions. There is a house in Atlanta, Ga., made entirely of paper, "from turret to foundation stone." No otl.e:"1 material is used in its construction. There are only five bed-rooms in the Whlto House. Mrs. Harrison wants to know how she is going to make them accomodate her family and kjnncry. A Vermont minister is reported to have preached one huudrod and twenty-one funeral sermons with net re.tu.-us of two barrels of api les and a silver dollar. A banking system -wt's introduced' in the public .schools of Long .-land , City, N. Y., three years ago, and al- i ready the pupils in the nine schools! have $10,7!1 to their credit. A "size". in a coat is an inch, in underwear i- is two inches; iu a col lar, half an inch; in a shirt, half an inch; in shoes, one-sixth of an inch; in pantaloons, an inch; in gloves, an inch, and in hats, an eight of an inch. Gen Lew Wallace prefers to re main an author, and des not want an office. This is a sensible conclu sion. for'Mr. Wallace hasjwritten one book from which he has received more than $00,000 and has been of feivd $05,000 for another book. The New York Sun says that any one desiring to speculate in real es tate ca.i purchase an. acre of land in Wall Street New York, for the small sum of $143,000,000. and is cheap at that. At Brunswick, Ga., Joe Wallace was standing in his back door, w hen he heard a sound like escaping steam. All at once a fountain of hot water shot up into the air and continued to Uow The circumstance is a puz zle to everybody. A boy living near Abilene, Tex., j , ... 1 , , WaS reCeiltlV Olttell by a SliakC, and was soon taken with convulsions. An old Mexican scraped out the bowl of a briar pipe, applied the scrapings to the child's wounds, and the next day the bov was well. Legally, there is no such City as Memphis, Tenn, Some years ago the State Legislature took away its charter and named it "The Taxing District of Shelby County." The citizens are now tired of this cum brous name and want the right to use their old name. A person convicted of any crime in China, except taut of murdering j one of the royal family can have a : substitute to take the punishment ; even if it be death. The rate per ! d of theso substitutes has lately ! been anvanced 20 per cent., and the i blame js aid to the EnSlh. Johnson 0)tv, in East Tenn. is . . luiiiKiiig or cnanging us name to Canieige in honor of Andrew ( arn- J Eugle. 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