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Ul STAfi DA RD. LMUJKST PAPER -PUBLISHED IX COXCORD- THE STAHDARD.L WE DO ALL KINDS OF JOBfWOBZ: - IX THE XEA TEST Mil XX ER -AKDAT THE LOWEST KATES. nn AND ARB. roN TAINS MOKK RKADING " MATTKli THAN ANY OTHER PAPER IX THIS SECTION. V O E T 11 Y . Let the Itatriiirs I' lay. MAKY IXULIS. ()h ! let tho bairnies play themscrs, I like to Lear their din ; I like V) her each restless foot Come tippin' oot and in. I like to see each face sae pay ; The' mind me o' my ain y young daVS Oli ' let the bairnies play. Oh ! diniia check their sinless mirth, ()r mak them dull and wae Y gloomy looks or cankered words, Jiut let the bairnies play. AuM douce wise folks should ne'er forget They ance were young as they, As iu o' fun and mischief too Then let the bairnies play. And never try to set a lieid WY auld age grim and gray Upon a wee Baft snawy neck No ( let the bairnies play. For oh there's mony a weary nicht An' mony a waefu' day Before them, if God spare their lives Sae let the bairnies play. ' Brief HUlory of Sugar t'reck Church. Mecklenburg Times. This church is situated about three miles from the centre of Charlotte, on the county road leading to Salis bury. The present house of worship, is the fourth erected by the several generations of Presbyterians who have worshiped there. The first house stood about a half mile west of the one now used, and a f w v..h!s east of the "old" grave-j ;ir!. tho oldest burying ground con-! luvU-d with any church in Mecklen- j burg county. In that "M log house, assembled j from Sabbath to Sabbath, many ( h Toic and Colly people, for the, worship of the Cod of their fathers, une or the worshipers coming long distances-. Manv of th.m sleep in this old graveyard, without a stone to mark the spot, me.i and women whose names are written in Heaven. Much of the early history oftugar Creek is lost beyond recovery, as no records were preserved for the first sixty years of its existence. The year the Church was organized is not known, but as early as lToo, it had become the meeting place of a congregation composed of settlements which had been made on every side; and for a distant of ten mile or more, the pious population came regularly to this place of worship until other churches were organized more easily reached. The name of the church at first was Sugaw, the Indian name for the small stream on the head waters of which the Church was located. Rradock's defeat took place in 1755. In consequence of that disas trous event, the western portions of j Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia ! were left exposed to the ravages t-f the Indians. K-.v. Alexander Craig head, then preaching at a point on the Virginia frontier, exposed to the frequent and murderous inroads tf the sa ages, with many of his people, fled for safety to various parts of the country, leaving behind much of their possessions. Mr. Craighead continued his jour ney until he reached what is now Mecklenburg county. It is probable that he began his ministry at Sugar Creek in the latter part of that year. He was the first settled minister in western North Carolina. The Kv. Hugh McAden, the great grand father of the late It. Y. McAden, and Dr. J II. McAden of Charlotte, was sent out by the Presbytery of Hanover, to visit and preach to the destitute congregations in North Carolina. His tour extended into the upper part of South Carolina. In his journal of that visitation, so full of interest, of hardship and faithful work, we find this entry: "October 17th, 1735. Went on to Mm. Alexander's and tarried till Sabbath, the l.)th, and then rode about twelve miles to James Alexan der's on Sugaw Creek, and preached." Up to that date, there is no account of any other minister hay ing preached there. Yet there are reasons for thinking it quite probable that others had visited the congregations settled at that time, between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers. Mr. Craighead served the church till hi3 death, which took place March 17CG. He was buried in the old graveyard, and for more than one hundred and twenty years noth ing has marked the grave of that great and useful man of Cod, except two trees. When he wus buried the coffin was carried on two sassafras ths, and as the grave was being '"'I' d, the poles were 6et in soft earth, "e at the head and the other at the fM. These took root and grew. The writer of this sketch, visited the grave a few years ago, and found one of the trees living, and at that time was about one hundred and fifteen years old. The other tree had died, and the decayed trnnk yvas on the ground where it had fallen. VOL. IT. NO. 28. A movement is now on foot to erect a suitable monuniont to perpetuate a knowledge of the resting place of him, whose name history will not allow to be forgotten. His preach ing was in keeping with the ardent spirit of the man ; and was well calculated to awaken the careless, and to animate the zeal of Christians. He was an ardent friend of liberty, and his patriotism had much to do in fostering the bold and fearless spirit, which found expression in the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde pendence, of May 20th, 1775. In a brief sketch of the church we must withhold much of interest that might be written in regard to the character, influence and works of Alexander Craighead, the first minis ter of;, Sugar Creek j not. only, but whose ministry reached and influ enced other communities surround ing this mother of Churches; and which, about the time of his death, were organized under the names of Providence, Steel Creek, Hopewell, Centre, Popular Tent, &c. From these churches gathered a large part of the delegates who composed the convention ; men w ho framed, adopt ed and signed that remarkable docu ment, "The Mecklenburg Declara tion." The chairman of the con vention and of the committee of public safety, Abraham Alexander, was an elder of the church at Sugar Creek ; and of the signers of that declaration, nine were elders of the Presbyterian church, descendants of , men who in Scotland had contended for civil and religious liberty, and 1 who sought in this unsettled wilder ness a refuge from oppression. in tiie same okl graveyard is j found it monument (near the gate, or w here the gate was,) of Mrs. Jemima 1 Alex. Sharp, born January iuh, 1727, died September 1st, 1707. She was a sister of John McKnitt Alexander, : secretary of the convention in Char lotte, 1 775. In the southwest corner ' is the grave of Jane Wallis, who died ii; the eightieth year of her age. She was the mother of Uev. James ! Wallis, minister of Providence church. His father's name was Ezekiel Wallis. He was the first, so far as known,who entered the minis- ' trvfrom the families of Sugar Creek; he was born 1?G".J, was ordained by Presbytery of Orange in 1712, and installed pastor of Providence, und remained in that charge till his death in 1810. In the middle cf the yard is the crave of David Uobinson, the father of Key. John llobinson. D. D.. who was born January 8th, 17oS, was educated partly in Charlotte, his classical course was completed at Winr.sboro, S. C He was licensed by Orange Presbytery, April 4th, 1703. His worth a3 a man, as a teacher and as a minister of the gospel, gave him an influence that few could command. Excepting a few years spent in Fayetteville as a teacher of a classical school, and pastor of the church, his whole ministerial life was confiued to Poplar Tent, as its pastor. His valuable life ended in 1843. He was a man of commanding presence and courtly manners, feat less, and vet kind and -en tie as a preacher often rising to an overpowering eloquence. His life was a blessing to the country. He still lives in the streams of influence set in motion while he lived, and in the valuable lives of many of his descendants, among whom may be mentioned his aged son, Col. IJobin son, of poplar Tent, an elder in the church his father had served ; in his 1 T r ir granuson, itev. j. . ltooinson, a valuable minister in Monroe, N. C; and another grandson Dr. John It Irwiu, of this county, a valuable citizen and a skillful physician. A .Soldier's Presentiment. Heidsville Review. At Smith field, Va., in the spriug of 18(52, just before the Thirteenth North Carolina took boat for York- town to join McGruder, a tall, broad- shouldered, manly looking soldier from Rockingham county, X. C, who had been' standing sentinel at the Sniithfield wharf, and with whom "Capt. Jack" Thomas, who kept a drinking saloon near by, had made a favorable acquaintance, was preparing with the rest to step on board, when old "Capt Jack" call ed him aside and presented him a half pint flask of the best old brandy iu his house. The soldier corked it tight and remarked that he intended to keep it till the day he was killed or if he should be spared, he would carry it home at the end of the war. He did keep it all through the cam paigns of '02 and '63, taking it home w ith him on furloughs and bringing it back, until July, '63, at Gettysburg, he met Capt. H. R. Guerrant one morning, just before his regiment made the fatal and bloody charge Capt. Guerrant was then acting as brigade inspector and said to him that the time had come for him to open that brandy, for he felt that he was going to be killed that day, and he wanted him to take a drink with him. The captain reasoned with him against such an idea, but agreed to sample the brandy, for he knew it was good. The soldier insisted he would be killed and there iu the road uncorked the flask and they drank. In half an hour afterwards the thir teenth went in, and he was killed in the charge. Cien. Fit shark Lee, Present Gaveraor of Virginia. The special invitation received by Gen. Lee to be present at the obse quies of ' Gen.' Grant shows ' well how time has eradicated the scars left by our late war, and is evidence that the old sectional feeling of the South has so far disappeared that they can mourn over the death of their conqueror. General Lee is a grandson of the famous " Light-Horse Harry" Lee of the Revolution and a nephew cf the late Robert . Lee, the Southern military chieftain. He graduated at West Point in the class of 1856, and entered the regular army as a lieu tenant in the Second Cavalry. For three years preceding the rebellion he was on duty on the frontier, and once, in an encounter with the In dians, was desperately wounded, in the chest. At the outbreak of the war he resigned from the army and followed his State into secession. He fought in the Confederate army throughout the rebellion, acquiring distinction as a cavalry leader. After the war he settled in Virginia as a farmer and miller. In 1875 he en tered political life, and in 1876 at tended the National Democratic invention as a delegate. The next year ne was a candidate tor tne Democratic nomination for governor but yvas unsuccessful. The same year Oen. Jjee attracted general at tention by an address which he de livered at the Bunker Hill celebra tion. His term as Governor of Vir ginia will expire January 1, 1890. when he will no doubt accept the position of Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexiug ton, Va., to which office he has al ready been elected. Wonders op a Mirage. A won derful photograph of an arctio mi rage has just been received at San Francisco from Professor Richard D, Willonghby, the pioneer miner sci entist of Alaska. It was taken at Glazier Bay, and represented a myste rious aerial city. The view is appa rently taken from some spot on a hill. In the foreground is a gravel walk, a stone fence, a rustic seat and child at play. Beyond the stone wall are the roofs of houses with clumps of trees at the sides. In the distance are the half completed towers of cathedral and several tall public buildings, while far away, enveloped in what appears to be a cloud-like atmosphere are tall smokestacks and towers of churches. The style of architecture is decidedly modern. More tnan a Hundred people were were shown the photograph. Some regarded it as a fraud, while others believed it the general photographic result of a mirage. The mysterious town has been named the Silent City, The best informed people in Sau- Francisco say the ' picture may be that of either Victoria, B. C, Ilali fax or Montreal most likely the lat i 1 1 1 -a .. ter, as mere is a catnearai mere re sembling the one in the view. Some photographic experts think that the picture was produced by a trick simi lar to the so-called spirit photo graphs. This, however, is stoutly denied by those who know Professor Willoughby. He was the first Amer ican who found gold in Alaska, and for fifteen years has been a promi nent resident of that territory. The income of a professional rat catcner averages $i,ouu per year, and there are only ten of them in the United States. The average in come of lawyiers is only 1700 per year, and the ranka are overcrowded. CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1889. Why We Arc Bight-Handed. Primitive man, being by nature a fighting animal, fought for the most part at first with his great canine teeth, his nails and his fists, till in the process of time he added to those arly and natural weapons the fur ther persuasions of a club or shilla lah. He also fought, as Darwin has conclusively shown, in the main for the position of the ladies of his kind against other members of his own sex and species. And if veu fight yon soon learn to protect the most exposed and vulnerable portion of your bodv. Or. if vou don't, natural selection manages it for yon by killing von off as an immediate consequence. To the bftxer, wrestler or hand-to- hand combatant that most vulnerable portion is undoubtedly the heart ; A hard Mow, well delivered m the left breast, will easily kill or at any rate stun even" strong man. Hence from an early period men have need the right hand to fight with, and have employed the left hand chiefly to cover the heart and to parry blow aimed at that specially vuluer able region. And when weapons of offense and defeuse supersede mere fists and teeth it is the right hand that grasp the spear or sword while the left holds over the heart for de fense the shield or buckler. From this simple origin, then, the whole vast difference of right and left in civilized life takes jts begin ning. At first, no doubt, the auperi ority of the right hand was only felt in the manner of fighting. But that alone gave it a distinct pull and paved the way at last for the supre macy elsewhere. For when weap ons came into use the habitual em ployment of the right hand to grasp the spear, sword or knife make the nerves or muscles of the right side far more obedieut to the control of the will than those of the left. The dexterity thus acquired by the right see how the word dexterity " im plies this fact made it more natural for the early hunter and artificer to employ the same hand preferentially in the manufacture of flint hatchets bows and arrows, and all the other manifold activities of savage life It was the hand with which he grasped his weapon: it was, there fore, the hand with which he chip ped it. To the end, however, the right hand remains especially " the hand in which you hold your knife and that is exactly how our own children to this day decide the ques tion which is wheh when they begin to know their right hand from the left for practical purposes. A Phyalrlaa'aXlakt Call. Philadelphia Press. A story told of a noctural visit is told with the greatest glee by one of Philadelphia's eminent practitioners as a joke on himself. He had been up for several nights with patients, and one evening went to his couch withthe determination that he would go out that night for no one. About one A. x. his night-bell sounded. "What's wanted T he called down the tube. "Doctor, my wife's ill and she wants you," was the reply. " I can t go. You 11 have to get some one else." "But, Doctor she wouldn't have any one else," "I can't help it She'll have to, for I won't go." "Oh, Doctor, please come. She's very ill." " Well, where is it ?" (relenting a little.) " Out Darby Road." "Then I certainly can't go (decidedly) ; "it's too far." "Oh, but, Doctor, my wife wants you," pleadingly. " Well, get a carriage and I'll go," come the tired response. " Oh, but Doctor, I can't afford a carriage." "Well then, that settles it. won't go without one. Good-night, And the physician returned to his slumbers. About ten minutes later wheels rattled up to his door, and agein sounded the night-bell. "Well what is it?" " Doctor here's the carriage," and the now thoroughly maddened and weakened physician dressed and went with the man. About two hours later, when the carrrage brought him home, much to his surprise he was requested by the driver to "settle up." "Why, the man that hired you paid you." "Not much he didn't. sir. He 6aid that you would when we got back here," said the driver. And the Doctor had to pay for the use of a double carriage from to 3:3u:a. h. The case was one from which he obtained no fee, so revenge is out of question. Don't say " I am a gentleman ;" is never necessary Mt. Pleasant Female E?iKIRsi!SflSiIIIIfff5liill!iiIim ritsPII!lfilIIf!MIliiIIIiiii We are glad to present to building has been recently enlarged and improved, and under the management of Prof. J. A. Linn will continue to deserve the patronage of our people. Taker and Dawaan. Exchange. The tragic fate of Capt Dawson recalls the end of William Taber, of Charleston, once the brilliant and handsome young editor )f the Charleston Mercury, then and for some years at ter one or tne most aggressive of Southern newspapers. Sometime in the late summer of 1857, 1 think, Charleston was shock ed by the death of Taber, as she was shocked recently at the sudden and sad killing of Dawson. In the years just preceding the war, political excitement ran high in the South, and especially in South Carolina, and the Mercury was a political journal that daily added to its warmth. It was owned and con trolled by the llhett family, noted in South Carolina, and young Taber, a relative of the family, was on its editorial staff. He was young, bril iant and popular, a magnificent specimen of handsome manhood and had troops of friends. He was quite .aa amiable and gentle in manner as was Dawson when the writer first saw mm, ana tnougn a man oi courage, was not aggressive in man ners or disposition. But in those days the duello was a recognized in stitution among the young men of the South, and nowhere more strong ly than in South Carolina. At the date referred to there ap peared some caustic communications in the Mercury, aimed at Judge Magrath, who still enjoys a robust and honorable old age, and who was then a candidate for Congress from the Charleston district. These were supposed to have been written by Edmund Rhett They provoked re plies, and finally Edward Magrath, a. brother of the Judge, became in volved in a hostile correspondence with Taber who, through a punctilio of the code, became the avowed sponsor of the article complained of. A meeting was held at the usual place, near the old Washington race course, uespite tne efforts oi mu tual friends and the active and in dignant protests of Dr. Bellinger, a distinguished physician, the combat was forced to the third exchange of fire, at which the handsome and gifted young Taber fell with a bullet in his brain, and Edward Magrath went from what was called the field of honorable combat to a wrecked and wretched life. Charleston and the South were shocked by the tragedy, but those were days in which they were not uncommon. Subse quent to the terrible war which fol lowed young Dawson found his first employment on coming to South Carolina on the Charleston Mercury over which Taber had presided. Stranger still, when at the head of the News and Courier he became renowned and received a guerdon from the Pope for his refusal to en gage in a duel with Col. Alfred Rhett and his earnest and successful attack upon the practice. Taber, young. handsome and brave, fell upon what was called the field of honor in a quarrel not of his own seeking and making. Years after Dawson, who had so powerfully aided in destroying the so called field of honor, met his fate in Charleston, in attempting to defend the sanctity of lus home, Judge Magrath, the innocent author of the Taber tragedy, lives, full of honors, and is the advocate to defend the slayer of Dawson. What strange thing is hie. llow many startling events are embraced within its bounds that make the solid truth cast .into shade all the efforts of fiction ! Which was the saddest fate,- that of Taber or Dawson ? When you assist the needy don o it ostentatiously. our readers an excellent cut of the Mt DlsttlDKuUhed Drunkard. If Providence hospital, Washing ton, could talk, it might tell tales that would shock many a listener. At the same time the story would call forth his utmost sympathy. The strain of political life and its fierce nps and downs play havoc with nerve and brain tissue. Distingu ished men in political life too often take refuge in drink. They are so numerous in both political camps, in tact, mat Dy a sort of understanding partisan papers are silent on this grave subiect. Persons in glass houses dare not throw stones. A. Liuteii otatcs senator made a pitiful exhibition of himself in pub lie not long since. The explanation of it was that suggested by our head ing. But this was only a surface indication of a mournful current that has been flowing through the capital city from the days of Webster down. When the craving fit comes, on the distinguished men who canuot with stand it often are taken to Provi dence hospital. There they are kept till the maddening appetite leaves them for the time. Then they re turn to their official duties. What the devoted wives of some of these men endure can never be told. They watch their husbands with the ut most care. Beautiful richly dressed women there are whose gayest seem ing moments are sometimes passed in an agony of suspense. When love's unerring eye detects symptoms of the approaching aberration, the care is redoubled. There is a brilliant, charming woman in Washington society whose face wears a set, stem look, strangely at variance with her gay surround ings. Strangers see the look in her portraits and wonder at it. Her husband, high iu office, is subject to terrible attacks of dipsomania. It is said when its premonitions appear she goes with him in a carriage and watches him till she sees him seated in his chair for the day. When his hours are over, she meets hini with the carriage again and drives with him to Providence hospital, whose kindly shelter keeps him safe till the morrow. Once more she comes for him and sees him safe in his seat, only to return in the evening. So she guards him till the attack is over, it is said mat only tnus has a melancholy exposure been avoided more than once. No wonder her face wears the stern, repressed look. The Different Stagea at Wblcb They Entered tbe Game. The Methodists and Baptists have been the pioneers for a century, and carried their religion into the wil derness and established civilization. They drove mules and drove ox wagons and cleared the land, built log churches, and when everything was sorter comfortable the Presby terian came riding up in their bug gies ana rockaways and settled among them, and planted out shade trees and rose bushes and built a church with a steeple, and set up the Shorter Catechism and predesti nation, and moved around as though they were the elect. By and by, when two or three railroads were built, and the shade-trees had all grown up and the green grass was growing all around and around, and the streets were . macadamized, and an opera house built, the Episcopa lians came along in apostolic suc cession, with stately steps and prayer books and Lent and Mardi Gras all mixed up together, and they bobbed up serenely into a fine church with stained glass windows and, assumed to be the saints for whom the world was made in six days, and all very good. Bill Ai pi WHOLE NO. 80, Seminary,. if 2zZ Pleasant Female Seminary. The Weeraa' Marvelana Malar. Savannah News. For some months paragraphs have appeared now and then in the news papers concerning a new railway system by which mails and light freight may be transported with a speed much greater than any yet attained by steam cars, and it was announced the other day that ar rangements were being made to put tne system into operation. Tne in ventor is Mr. David G. Weems, of Baltimore, and the motive power is electricity. About 150 patents have been taken out in the United States and in the other principal countries of the world, covering the vital points or tne system, and among them is one for a principle intended to make it impossible for trains to jump the track, however great the speed may be. The road, as a rule, will be built on the surface of the ground, and will have a gauge of twenty-four inches, but in populous districts it will be elevated if thought desirable. The cost of construction will be about $5,000 a mile. All trains will be operated from geuer ating stations, about 100 miles apart, aud there are means by which the operators are posted concerning the exact position of each train, from the time it leaves one station until it reaches another. A feature of the system is that no attendants an needed upon the trains. For the last year repeated expe riments of the system have been made at Laurel, Md. The expert mental road is a circuit of two miles. with twenty-nine changes of grade, some of which are very heavy. From the tests made, it is thought that the trains can be run on a level track at the rate of three miles a minute. or 180 miles an hour. If the Weems system can be put into successful operation it wil bring about a revolution in railroad matters. People who have witnessed the trials at Laurel are confident that it will be a success. Wamen'a X.lpa. " I judge a man by his eyes, but a but a woman by her lips," said Ben jamin Franklin, who undoubtedly was a good judge of human nature, Abdallah, the Sheik of the Per sians, wno was noteu ior nis wisaom in many things, once gave some ad vice to his courtiers about choosing a wife. "Let her be a woman whose eyes turn not away when you speak to her, and her nose hath no tend ency upward, for the first is an owner of deceit, the second of bad temper but above all, look you to her lips. Choose no woman whose lips droop at the corners, for your life will be a perpetual mourning time, nor yet should they curve too much upward for that denotes frivolity. Beware of the under lip that rolleth outward. for that woman hath more desire than conscience. Select for a wife cue whose lips are straight not thin, for she is a shrew but with just the full ness necessary to perfect symmetry, I have read a number of these wise sayings about lips, aud unconsciously I found myself studying the lips of women, and the result of my . study has shown that the mouth has more to do with making or. marring the beauty of the face than any other fea ture,and the wonderful part of it ia that it is not the pretty mouths that make the pretty faces, nor vice versa every thing depends on the expres sion. Is ever venture to kiss a wo man until you have taken a good look at her lps. The eyes are very well as far as they go, but the eyes tell the tale, after all. , ;.; Life is no chestnut ; it is story that is only told once. ODDS AN-D.JSNDS. A lynching party alwya travels ftt a break-neck speed.' Oftentimes 'the boldest of ven tures is to venture an opinion. The odor of the blossom is ' more: perceptible in wet : than in ' ' dry weather. ' ' - ; ; There is nothing in the language of flowers so eloquent as a pair of pressed tulips. ' 1 " ' If some 'men were half as big as they think they are the world would have, to be enlarged. "None but the hraveat deserve the fair." And even the brave can't live with some of 'enn .; ; ' A 'scheme is'od foot for the hold- ngof an international electrical ex hibition next year in Edinburg. Paper astongh as" wood is said to be made by mixing chloride of zinc with the pulp in course of mannfac- ' ture. He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his own mind. Tea is a strong narcotic and con tains an alkaloid known as theine, which is the .active principle of caffeine. Edison's phonographis"the lion of the hour" in FreucLscientitic circles. Many curious experiments are being made with it. Locomotives to be run by soda are to be introduced in Minneapolis where steam engines are forbidden for street use. W. Shelly, of Milford Square, 111., . has a Newfoundland dog ponderous enough to do all the family washing by a tread power. The wheat harvest in Kansas is said to be the largest ever gathered in that State. Some fields yielded 120 bushels per acre. Iron shaftshave been known to do duty for a quarter of a century, doing good service long after the fissure began to yield. A recent count cf money in the United States Treasury revealed a shortage of $35. The amount counted was 184,000,000. Worth G. Bayley, son of the late Major William II. Bayley, was an nounced as having won the Annapolis cadetship in the competitive exami nation. Secretary Ilarrell, of the Teachers' Assembly, says he can. count sixty nages as a a result of the last session of the North Carolina Teach ers' Assembly. . A Cincinatti man used 1,000 gal lons of water on his lawn last year. His neighbor trusted to Providence to sprinkle 'his, and when the fall came he had the best lawn. Five years hence there will hardly be a place on this earth for the rob ber, murderer or conspirator to set his foot and feel safe. Treaties are ; being made in every direction. One of the sad things connected with the hard times in Persia is the fact that many men with from fifteen to twenty-five wives have had to reduce the number to three or four. A milk white horse that was ridden by General Grant during the war is now owned by D. B. Flint of. Boston. The animal is twenty-nine years old and is frequently used by Mr. Flint An English firm have manufact ured an enormous bottle, measuring ten feet high by four feet in diame ter, which is tojae filled with scent and exhibited at the Paris Exposi tion. Landscape gardeners from N. Y. are laying off the grounds near Ashc ville fcr the $250,000 house George Vanderbilt is going to build on his place there containing 4,000 acres of land. In eighten months Johnstown will not show a scar of the recent calam ity. American pluck has rebuilt a city five times as large as. that in a year. But the lost lives, alas, cannot be restored. The trustees of Miami University at Oxford, O., conferred the degree of LL. D. upon President Harrison, Secretary of the Interior Noble, and John W. Herron, all alumni of the college. John Bright used to say that in one important respect a dog ia su perior to a man. .-When Biaa ia ntterly out of anything ho gives up but a dog simply curls up jwal so continues to mako both enda meet Since the establishment ' of the money order system funds' to the amount $1,700,000 haveaccumnlated for which orders, werb issued, but never presented for payment The postal authorities are now : taking steps to return money not called for to rightful owners, but over $1,000, 1 000 yet remains unclaimed.