North Carolina Newspapers

THE STAN DR. LAIMJKST PAPEK -jri?LISHl-:i) IN COXCORD- eoNTAINS MOKE BEADING MATTER T1IAX ANY OTHER l'APER IX THIS SECTION. POETRY. Dimin Rc fine Sweet I If ye wadua hae rac rcolin Doun the village street, Drunk wi' love pray hae some feelin- Dinna bo sao sweet ! If ye wadna hae mo linger, Fou-like, at your feet, WorsLippin' j'our little tiuger, Pinna be sae sweet ! If ye wadna hae me hover Round the mercy seat ; If yo wadna hae a lover, Dinna be sae sweet ! 11 ye wadna haunt my fancy, Pinna be sae nf-at -J i : : 1 1 a bo yoursel', my Nancy, Dinna be sae sweet ! Boston Globe. HKtorlc llnchrlorn. SOMK FAMOUS MKX WHO XEVER MARKIED AND YETWEUE HAPPY. There seems to be a unanimity of sentiment that whether marriage is a failure or not, bachelors most cer tainly are. At the best they are regarded as very selfish and useless members of society. Defenders and admirers of single women are not wanting. Their goodness and use fulness are fully appreciated by a large number of people. But the poor bachelors have not a single advocate. Oh, it is pityful ; Near a whole cityful, Friends, they have none- 1 do not wish to encourage celi l..t, y or to disparage matrimony, but lather to speak a few words of de fense and comfort for the unappre ciated bachelors. Some people think to frighten men into matrimony by telling them that no mail ever re mained a bachelor without sooner or later regretting it. Such people forget that grand old bachelor St. Paul, who does not seem to deplore his situation when he says: "I would that all men were even as invself. It is sood for them if thev abide even as 1." We offer for the consideration of those who regard a bachelor life as always a failure or wasted existence a few prominent names from the past and one or two of the living who have honored the bachelor state : Michael Angclo, Bishop Ken, Ber ridge, Cowper, (Irey, David Hume Horn Tooko, John Randolph, Wash ington Irving, Dr. Muhlenberg, Baron Humboldt, James Buchanan, Samuel Tilden, Thaddeus Stevens, Vice-President Wilson, Alexander Stephens, John G. Whittier and l'liilip Brooks. These men could not all be reck oned as saints, but they will compare favorably with an equal number of prominent married men. A hasty glance at the lives of some of them will prove interesting. As wo, in our own imagery, "rise (Hi the wings of faith within the veil and see the saints above," we thank (Jod for the life of that dear old bachelor, Isaac Watts. We are indignant even now at the heartless woman who could disturb the peace fulness of his serene countenance by her cruel speech, "she loved the jewel, but could not admire the casket that contained it," referring to his diminutive stature and delicate appearance. Tliis gentle soul was not indift'uvnt to such a speech, for on one occasion when entering a public meeting someone contemptu ously said: '"What! is that the great Watts?" he cpiiekly retorted. Were I so tall to leach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must bo measured by my soul ; The mind's the standard of the man. By ihe way, it i3 not to the credit of women that so many great and good men have been, in vulgar par lance, jilted, and often for very frivolous reasons. From youth to hoary age we all sing the immortal doxology, "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow," written by the bachelor, Bishop Ken. Bes ridge was a quaint genius, who would fut all our modern humorous preachers in the shade. He could have resisted a whole army of leap year privileged maidens combined, lie completely silenced a very wealthy lady who proposed to him in the name of much higher authority than a leap-year privilege. She told him " the Lord had revealed to her that she was to marry him." lie replied : "Madam, in that case God would have given me a similar revelation ; on the contrary, he had always warned me not to take a Jezebel in this place." Yet this odd bachelor preacher was not of the sour grape order, for his hymn for marriage occasions is about the only one for that special purpose in most hymn books. Washington Irving was disap pointed in love in early life. Jt was years before he recovered. He said he would not offer the dregs of affection to any woman. How many widowers hold such a noble senti ment? Later ou in life he wrote, M the purest love in the world is free VOL. II. NO. 2d. from all sensuality and self-interest." The children of his widowed sister were for years dependent on his care and bounty. In the future many a struggling boy will be glad that Isaac William son lived and died a bachelor. 1 Many great men complete their best efforts and triumphs before marriage. The married life of a large number like Milton, Wesley, Whitefield, Bulwer, Byron, Dickens and Charles Sumner added nothing to their laurels. Our divorce courts seem to indicate that ordinary men do not fare much better. The trouble is not with matrimony, but that there is an awful lot of misera ble, selfish, unhappy people in this world. They think that marriage can take the place of change of heart aud character. Poor fools; the traits that make them miserable single will make them tenfold more unhappy married. Reformation should begin before, not after, car riage. Our bachelors are not useless en cumbrances. There arc very few of them without some one dependent on their bounty or kindness. Many an aged mother thanks God for her bachelor son. Too often a wife and children are an excuse for cruel and willful neglect of helpless parents. Many a son is unable to support both wife and mother, and the only refuge for the parent is the Poor House. A Xortu Carolina Policy for Korth Carolina leopl. There is a very decided movement of young men from North Carolina to the Northwestern and the South western States. Very much more brain aud energy are departing from than coming into our State. It is the fashion to cry ont against this movement, and to advise our young people to stay at home and help build up the State. It was al ways said that North Carolina was a good State to get away from, and 6he has, under that idea, been drained of a large proportion of her best population. North Carolina oujrut to be a good State to remain in, and to come into. We certainly have enough work here for all hands, and our re sources are said to be almost bound less. The State most assuredly needs the best effort and service of all her sons, for she is far behind in the race of States. But the question that generally confronts a young man is : " Can I remain here with advantage and profit to myself?" The traditional policy in our State has been to discourage, repress and depreciate our young men. If we have honors and emoluments to be stow, we are at pains to find outsiders upon whom to confer those favors. Particularly is this the case with positions involving high intellectual and scientific training. We pursue the policy of decrying out our own, that we may give high place to others. We have sent off our young men to become iu other States, Presi dents of the Republic, Governors of States and territories, Bishops in the churches, and characters of distinc tion in all the walks of life, few of whom could ever have risen above mediocrity had they remained at home. Young and ambitious men are aware of all these things, and many of them are induced to part com pany with a people whose policy is such as to make it a sacrifice to re main among them. We do not ad vocate the depopulation of the State, nor advise the young and ambitious to leave it, but we do insist upon a better North Carolina policy for the state. We urge the young men, coming upon the stage of action, to demand for North Carolina a North Carolina policy, in every thing that concerns the people or relates to the public welfare. Wilmington Mes senger. Nye's Joke on II13 Host. Some time ago Henry Guy Carlton, who is an epicure as well as an author, gave a dinner to Bill Nye, in which the leading dish was a large pompano, brought by rail from New Orleans. Through somo mistake the ice gave out on the journey and the fish ar rived in New York in very bad con dition. The cook was a stranger to the Southern delicacy, and imagining that it was a game fish in both senses, cooked aud served it. Each guest took one bite and became hor ribly silent. Carlton, who had not tasted it, asked the company : "How do you think that was brought on here ?" intending, proba bly, to explain the refrigerator ser vice between the gulf and the me tropolis : Nye looked up very solemnly and answered: " I think you brought it on in a hearse !" The Execution by Electricity. Louisville Courier-Journal. Tracy C. Becker, in New York, with reference to electricity as a lethal agent, has surprised a great, many people. Hitherto the opinion' has been quito'general anloifgthe masses that electricity was quite certain to kill when applied in cur rents of sufficient strength. ThiB investigation, however, has shown that the experts are greatly divided in opinion on thjs point. j Counsel for Kcmmler, ' the first murderer sentenced to be executed by electricity, contended, on appeal, that the law providing for execution by electricity is unconstitutional, acyn traverTing that provision which forbids the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment. The determi nation of this question involved the further question whether deati by electricity is a cruel and unftsual punishment. This, being a questioui of fact, was referred.to Mr. Becker to be settled by testimony. ?' j The electric light "companies'"1 are not favorably disposed , toward the new method of execution, and haw been represented by attorney at the investigation. Their experts, also, iu their testimony, -have, done what they could to, discredit, electricity as a lethal agent' Theyl can not,, of course, deny that it kills, but tlvey- maintain that it is nob certain and not always painless. When'it fails to produce instant death, it is likely, they say, to cause intensegony. by burning and violent mujcrtlar con traction. There is, besides, a possi bility of resucitation in cases where, to outward appearance, death ha oc curred. ' , Elbridge T. Gerry was Chairman of the Commission upon whose re port the New York Legislature passed the act providing for Jexecu- Iu his testimonv Uf , 1 .,r..,... I,.. o..;.M;...f 1.., ... , ' and his associates Dr. A. P. South- , , , . ,,.vll, ol Mott ,.r If.il 1-1-1,1 r,-m- :i-.i....rr...,-.. f i-;n ing, and in his investigations . , , he had consulted seven hundred authorities, i Their objection to hanging was the liability that the "neck of the criminal would not bo broken. They thought there were four modes of execution preferable to the. rope, viz: the guillotine, the garrote, hypoder mic injection of some poison and electricity. They rejected the guil lotine, because it involved effusion of blood and had disagreeable associa tions from its connection with the horrors of the French revolution. The garrote, they thought, was dis credited by its use in Spain and her colonies. They looked upon the hypodermic injection of prussic acid with some favor, but the dangerous character of the acid was an objec tion. Mr. Gerry himself favored the adoption of the hypodermic in jection of morphia, but yielded to his associates, and to they, finally agreed to recommend electricity. The commission sent. out a "circu lar of inquiry to prominent men judges, medical men, electricians-basking their preference touching modes of execution. They received two hundred replies. Eighty-one persons favored hanging;' seven ty five, including Thomas A. ."Edison, electricity; the rest scattering ' Dr. Landan r. Gray,. a':'jr6fes3or in a New York medical college, testi fied that electricity is not 'a certain mode of killing. Hetoldof a young man struck by lightning, who had all his clothes torn off aud was thrown six feet, and yet was not killed. He quoted a German phy sician who says that some men have a resistance equal to 550,000 ohms, while others have not more than COO. As to morphine, he expres&etf the opinion that there are some men whom morphia will not'; kill.. He knew meu going around practicing law who consume thirty grains of morphia every day. The testimony before the referee has been of so conflicting a charac ter that itis doubtful whether the court will support the constitution ality of the new law. Ir, has been argued, with some ingenuity, that under the new law, as untie r the old, the punishment is death, which is not a cruel or unusual 'punishment, and that the mode of inflicting death does not enter into the cohetiUitioual question at all. If the court had taken this view of the subject it would hardly have sent the case to a referee to ascertain by testimony whether execution by electricity is a "cruel and unusual punishment.'? The appellant has' unquestionably made a much stronger case than was expected in advance, and the result is awaited with considerable interest The investigation has had the fur ther effect of confirming an impres sion already widely prevalent, that anything whatever may be proved by expert testimony. CONCOllD, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1889. MIam Emma Eninew, THE NEW AMERICAN SINGER. The great event of the musical season in Paris has been the debut at the Grand Opera of our country woman, Miss Emma Eames. This young lady was born at Boston, and had the great advantage of having a mother who was a good amateur musician. When she discovered that her , daughter was gifted with a splendid Voice she took great care in training it, and later on carried her to Paris, where she was placed iu the hands of that distinguished teacher, Madame- Marchesi, with whom she inade rapid progre63. Her musical education finished sho went to Brus sels, hoping to make a debut in that city. Several times she might have appeared in minor roles, but the famous director of the Conservatoire of .Brussels, M. Gwaerf, dissuaded her,' saying that she ought to make her debut as a prima donna and no thing -else. -She was then engagec at one hundred dollars a month at the Opera Comique in Paris, where she waited month after month, learning now this opera and now that one, working all the time but tin flifinm nf cincrinrr w.ia orivnn )irr I -'a'"e e,v" At last her contract was cancelled, , , . , , and she signed an agreement with " ithc' (,r:llul Opera, where she made i ner nrsc appearance as ".J uneiie in ,, ' , T ir uounou s nomeo ami .juueiie. ner debut was triumphant. The fresh- J noss of her voire was only equalled I by the excellence of her method and and her splendid actintr. As for her j beauty there was but one opinion th next morning. All the papers spoke of her with enthusiasm, and Miss Eames was immediately adopted as the charming idol of the Parisian musical public. She is tall, slender well-proportioned, very supple and lithe in her movements, and carries herself with a queenly elegance. She has a beautiful American head, fine, pure ami clear-cut UKe a cameo, crowned with a mass of brown, crisp hair ; her eves are blm-grav and her complexion i simply admirabl America may well be proud of the new debutante, who is destined to become a splendid star in the operatic firmament. How a Italeitfh Grutlcumii Lost Ills . Corn Crop. Daily Call. Somt things may Ik bad, yet fun ny. This is a very funny thing. Some' days ago Mr. W. C. Stronach found in his .immense grocery store a lot of Bologna sausage which was not like it was when it first arrived in fact Mr. Stronach's conscience would not 'permit him to put it out to his customers, but there was so mu$h of HVhe sighed to think of it, he sighed to think of throwing it all away. Finally the happy thought struck hini that ho might make fer tilizer of it. He had it hauled home, and put some around every stalk in his favorite and most luxuriant corn patch. Having done this he doubt less congratulated himself on the scheme of making useful what seem ed to be worthless. But the eud was not yet.' Six colored families live in the vicinity of the corn patch. Every family owns from four to six dogs of all varieties and sizes. Every, morning those dogs get to gether, by- common consent, and either catch a rabbit or scare one nearly to death. They got after one yesterday morning and the poor, terror-stricken "molly" ran through the corn patch in desperation. The dogs came in after her in high, uproarious, eager glee. But there was a sudden hush. The hare stopped in aston ishment and wondered if it was pos sible the dogs didn't want her. They had smelled that Bologna sausage around the roots of the corn stalks and began to scratch for it; and they got it, but they tore the corn all down just ruined the patch. And how those dogs think that there is Bologna sausage under every corn stalk that grows, and they make nightly raids into surrounding fields aud tear down several acres of corn. There. arc some direiul. rumors ;afl.oat to the effect that dog hide will be cheap in this section pretty soon. WimmuP i mm' V Curiosities of tit Pntcnt Oftlce. There have been. 300 patents granted for the . slot-machines anid 200 are pending. . , , , , i The canuou plough is a presuma bly convenient . implement, for .enb- soiling and warfare on the front let, for as the. plough-beam is hollow and joaued, it cau easily b wheeled and fired, killing .the, Indians. or( the horses whichever . happens, to be in pie way ; but the, ( sam inspired genius has patenteel the pistol pocket book; when the innocent and-uu-suspecting burglar, asks yon for your pocketbook, you carelessly take It out and empty its contents into his abdomen. . There is a claim in the Patent Office for a patent on, the Lord's Prayer the specification bing that the repetition of the same, "rapidly and in a loud tone of voice," .will cure stammering. Among odd inventions are " chick en hopples," which walk the chicken right out of the gardeu when she tries to scratch the " bee moth ex cluder," which automatically shuts up all the beehives when the hens go to roost; the "tapeworm fish hook." which speaks for itself : ihe "educational balloon," a. toy ballbon.! wuu a map oi uie worm ouiiineu on its surface; "siife-hill annihila'o"j" stilts to fit on the down-hill legs of a horse when he is plowing along a side hill ; and the " hen surpriser," a device that drops the new-laid egg through the bottom of the nest, with tne intent to beguile and wheedle the hen into at once laying another. One of the latest patents is an automatic bathtub, which starts the hot and cold water at a given mo ment in the morning to which it has been set, maintains exactly the right temperature of it by gradual ing the How of the water, rings a bell when all is ready, and two minutes later suddenly drops the sleeper's pillow about a foot and turns him out. The " illuminated cat " was devised by a genius. She is built of paste board and made luminous with phosphorus, and she sits in the cor ner the live-long night, and fills the souls of rats and mice with terror. There is a tremendous activity in the toy division of the Patent Office, especially in automatic toys that can walk and talk. There are whistling tops, dogs that jump and bark, cackling hens, kicking mules, fighting roosters, "very exciting," the patentee casually remarks; fun ning cars and locomotives, a scissors- grinder, a horse that walks naturally along the ground, aud a baby that creeps on all fours with wonderful vraisemblance. Washington Corres pondence Cleveland Plain Dealer. ThoroDgblj Recognised. , San Francisco Argonaut. A Virginian was showir-g a com pany of Northern meii over a battle field, when one of them' said1: "I am reminded of an incident' which occurred here I had charge of a gun over there near Fort Morton. One Sunday, while there was no firing going on and we were all loafing about, I saw a man come over the hill by the cemetery and down across this slope toward the rear of the Confederate lines. 1 His comfortable and serene manner-ir ritated me. I determined to sod how: close I could come to ' hitnj and we all chuckled at the idea of scaring the life out of him. I took good aim and landed a shot about six feet from him. You ought to have seen him jump. He was the most de moralized Jonuy Keb you ever saw. How he did run, and how we laughed to see him." , ". So 'you are the man that fired that shot, are you ?" said the Vir ginian. "Yes; do you know. -any thing about it ? Well, yes, I think" I do," was the reply. " I was the fellow you shot at. I was a lad coming with something for my father, who was in the works. I didn't suppose there was a Yankee fool enough or mean enough to shoot a cannon at one little fellow carry ing grub to his -father. But you don't exaggerate the 6car& I didn't grow another .inch in a year. m ; . Making Up fok It. " Please, sir, give me a stamp," she said at the post-office window the other day. "Here it is, little girl," said the clerk as he raked in the two pennies and passed it out. She took it and walked directly to the mailing boxes and dropped it into one of the slits. "Here what did you do that for ?" called the clerk.' ' ! " Please, sir, but I dropped a letter in yesterday without auy stamp on it, and that'-e to make up for it." Detroit Free Press. ( mm-m The post of honor ia the posf of duty. 0 4r'l' The t'ulteU Mate Finer. , At the beginning all was chaos in the, flag business of the Involution. Each, colony used its own flag till the regular armies were formed ; then' special army flags were used, and by and by a sort of uniform became " apparent. " Finally, after much discussion, the Continental Congress on the 14th of June, 1777, passed this resolution. Pesolved, That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes al ternate , red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white, in a blue field, representing a new con stellation. This was' confirmed by the first congress, under the constitution, but the( admission iuto the Union, after the establishment of the present government,, of Vermont and-'Ken-tncky as new states caused the num ber of stars and stripes to be increased to fifteen eacli, and the subsequent addition of five other States led to the following enactment, which is yet in force, approved on the 4th of April,' '18lS?;i" ' An act to establish the flag of the United States.- ' Be it enacted by the senate and house oi representatives of the-United "States of America in congress assembl6d,:jThat' f rom and after " the Uthay;ff Jaly-flext the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be twenty stars, white in a bin field: ' ' ; :Sec.'-2. Arul. be it future enacted, That on the admission of every new state into the Union one star be added to the nniou of the 'flag ; and that such addition shall take effect on the 4th .day of July then next succeeding such admission. So their really isn't much law on .the subject, aud if you want to use a flag with only, the original thir teen stars on it, no one's patriotic feelings will br hurt. And where ever an American sees this gloricus ensign of his country, the stripes recall to 1m mind the birth of the republic, with the events that sur rounded it; the star suggests its wonderful development in size, iu resources and in power; and, in homage to the national grandeur and protective authority which it represents, wherever he beholds it whether in mid-ocean at the head of a passing ship, or waved aloft in the streets of foreign lands he lifts his hat to it with a patriotic feeling of filial love and pride. A liEMAKKABLE Dream. Belief in dreams has received new adherents in Lincoln county, Me., owing to some strange circumstances attend- ing the finding of the body of El- bridge Call Thc account is given by the Bath Times as fellows : For three or four days three or four hundred people had been diligently scouring the woods and examining the. ponds', in the vicinity, when a brother-in-law of the missing man in whose care Call's motherless child had been left, dreamed that he had found the body of Call drowned under a bridge. After telling his wife' and others" of his dream he started to follow lown;a creek not far from his farm, oyer which his dream had located a bridge. Upon arriving1 in Dresdeti1 he sought his intimate friend and'ftrother-in-law, Mr. 'Bowman Myers, -and' they both made their 'way to' the little stream from a directly1 contrary direction from Call's home, and under the old country road stone. bridge,, so old that old people say that it was built before their; time,1 they found the body. .-'.'-' Babies in California." At one time a woman could hardly wglk through the streets of San Fraucisco without hating: every O6 pause to gaze on her, and a child was so rare that once in a theatre in the same city where a woman had ! taken her infant, when it began to cry . just as the Orchestra began to play, a man in the pit cried out, Stop thoae fid dles and let the baby cry. I haven't heard such a noise for ten years.' The audience applauded this Benti meut, the orchestra 6topped and the baby continued its performance amid unbounded enthusiasm." , u Can't," is a humbug and a ntrs auce. ' Be loyal to death to thos J who have befriended you. Wishes at least are the easy pleas ures of the poor. You believe that easily which you hope, for earnestly. The only disadvantage of an hon est heart is credulity. ; ,When there is room in the heart there ia room in the house. ' Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything. Gov. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has received 180, sent by the Sultan of Turkey for the benefit of the Johns town sufferers. r v r WHOLE NO. 8 1. A Funny Incident. A funny incident happened re cently on the Providence division of the Old Colony railway, says a Bos ton letter to the New York Tribune. A large, raw-boned, good-natured man entered the car as the train held up at the lioxbury station. The car was crowded and people were stand ing. The new-comer stopped sud denly beside a seat which was occu pied by a young lady, who was buried in a novel, and beside her reposed a pet pug dog. The other passengers had stood from Boston to this point without protesting, but the latest arrival took in the situation at a glance and said mildly: " Miss, I would like to sit down, if you please." . '1 The seat is engaged." -"By the dog?" "Yes." "Has the dog a ticket?" No answer. . . . . . " Oh, I'm sorry he hasn't a ticket, because I'll have to bounce him off the train." And without a moment's hesitation the dog was lifted fcy the nape of the neck to the window and dropped to the ground and the vacant seat was taken by the stranger.. The young woman was paralyzed for a moment. The train was only mov ing slowlyas it left Roxbury and the pug was not harmed, scampering on for dear life. His mistress, as soon as she grasped the situation,1 screamed to the approaching con- ductor to stop the engine so that she might recover her pet. The con ductor was soon informed as to the cause of the sensation and quietly told the young woman that ahe might get off at the next station if she wished to and hunt for the dog. She did so, to the delight of the crowded car. The Boston Boy; at Prayer. There is a smart little boy of the Listener's acquaintance whose memo ry ia a good deal like his trourers' pocket a receptacle for all sorts of odds and ends which are retained with no little pertinacity but in more or less picturesque disorder. Things pop up now and then in an odd way. The other night tbis little boy un dertook to say his prayers before going to bed. He began all right " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should " Here he " got stuck " for a mo ment, and seemed to be groping around for the remainder of the lines. And then, all at once, he steamed ahead: " If I should chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, I pray the Lord my soul to take ! " Boston Transcript. Concerning Garters. It is con sidered bad luck to lose a garter, it being the foreboding of a greater loss that of a sweetheart or friend. No part of a woman's dress is said to have such power iu changing luck as her garters. They should never be left knotted together or thrown carelessly about, either representing enemies who will annoy her. If a young lady sleeps in a strange bed she should tie her garters about the headboard somewhere, at the same time reciting these lines: This knot I knit, this knot I tie, To see my love as lie goes by. Then she will dream of her sweet heart : To make it sure she must tie her garter around the bed poet nine times. Leisure Hours. The stepping-stones to success are "rocks." The Distriok of Columbia has a debt of $20,142,050. The Lutheran Church has been totally (suppressed in Russia. A man mad with whiskey natu rally uses intemperate language. Charleston had a slight shock of earthquake on the night of the 11th' People who are disposed to com plain never find a lack of subjects. If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own. The man who makes the fewest words go furthest is the telegraph operator. A man in Harney Valley, Ne braska, has been arrested for stealing a frame house. . The Federal Court in New York has appointed Mr. Cleveland referee in an action involving $30,000. Electricity is visible only when it comes in the form of lightning, and then ia zig-zags, in place of go ing straight. The Monte Carlo gambling hell is a great success. The profits for three months are estimated at four millions. A new aud elegant trap is to be erected at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars. And yet the earth under Monte Carlo is sound. THE STA11 DARD. WE DO ALL KINDS OF JOB "WOEK IN THE jYEA tes t ma jyjyek AND AT THE LOWEST RATES. ODDS AND ENDS. A lie is black even if it is a white lie. The " watermelon center " of the world is Quitman, Ga. l The American silver dollar first made its appearance in 1794. A three-legged alligator was shot the other day near Albany, Ga. The first shoe was patented in 1811, by two Massachusetts men. Conemaugh is pronounced Kou-e-maw with accent on the first sylla ble. An earthly treasure A rich hus band, whom his widow has just bu ried. Kind words never die ; but they frequently stay a long time from home. The flood damaged the property of Pennsylvania to the extent of $44, 220,000. Man, with all his wisdom, never knows who is his best friend as well as a baby. The rattles off rattlesnakes fetch $1 a string in the Bnake centers of Pennsylvania. Those who lived on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for thi great est numbers. In the North buds have a covering of air-tight scales, but do not have them in the South. Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world insincerity is the most dangerous. There is a man in Hart County Ga., who spells his entire name with two letters, Bob Bobo. . Four new comets have been dis covered by the . astronomers. This means a good crop jear. John Lawes, the heaviest man in America, died in Elmird, N.Y., last week. He weighed G10. It takes three hundred men to harvest the wheat crop of one ranch in Colusa county, Cal. A hairless calf ia owned by Mr. Frceland, of Howe Township, Dauphin County, Penn. The dragon fly can devour a dozen flies or spiders, and then its own body, and the head still alive. The cattle industry of the United States represents the immense capi tal of one billion two hundred mil lion dollars. It ia industry more than birth that lifts a boy up in the world. A boot black may shine in society if he will stoop to conquer. Ouly the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. I think it must somewhere be writ ten, that the virtues of mothers shall, occasionally, be visited on their chil dren, as well as the sins of fathers. Some horses are full of life and mettle, and want to prance and neigh and snuff the battle afar off; Others seem satisfied to drag carts all their lives. The law of Wisconsin requires that all logs put into water shall be marked. Just as cattle are marked on the plains, s that every one will know his own.. .... Incivility is not a vice of the soul, but the effect of several vices of vanity, ignorance of duty, laziness, stupidity, distraction, contempt of others and jealousy. . : Among the Chinese, should the lily blossom on New Year's Day, it is regarded as a most happy omen, presaging the best of luck to the fortunate owner of the plant. Warden Toner, of the New Castle (Del.) jail, has received a bushel of plug tobacco for distribution among the'prisoners. The donor signs him self : " One who has been there." Up to 1884 the English Fostoffice had issued 31,302,000,000 postage stamps. That would cover 37C2 square miles, and would reach to the moon and back if placed end to end. One Dr. Thenious, of Vienna, has invented a process by which he de clares that good heavy sole leather can be made from the wood of old red beech trees. He has applied for patents. A chick or partridge runs around looking for its meat as soon as it has shaken itself loose from its liviDg prison, but an owlet does not for a month or more know which foot to put out first. The Duke of Portland has decided to devote all his past and future iunings on the turf to the erection and endowment of almshouses for the poor of Welbeck. The scheme originated with the duchesg.