North Carolina Newspapers

THE REPORTER AND POST VOLUME XI. Reporter and Post. PUBLISHED WEKKI.Y AT D ANBURY, N. C. PtiPPEfi & Mt. cV Propi KAlIS OF MFIIMCKIfiTIOM : (,'tfr Vfir. In utlvanee *i.. r o Six Month* t 75 ItlltH OF AUVBRTINHIU: One Squire Men Hue-* or 1 timo *1 00 K»»r each ati.Ltionil insertion .To Coiiiraeta fur lonpor t uie »»r more m|)mo cru be in:tle in proportion to the above rate*. Transient luDertiwi* will he ex iter ted to remit according to th«M rate* at the timo tliey sviul their favor*. Imra! Nu%* will litrliArgod W|>errent, hlglmr than above rat.* liumne** CiMs will l>e Innerteti at Ten Dollar* ]>er annam. PROFESSIO.YA /. CARDS. ROBERT J>. a 1 unci!, Attorney and. Counsellor,, MT. AIRY, N. O. TYartieos irt the court* of Surry, &tokrs. Yadkin and Alleuliany. 'tP.FS&ARTISIt,' SITTQ 3.Y£x*'.J V-L.-I ir. MT. A4HY y SVKUY CO., N. Practices wliareve.' hU*ervlccs are wanted. /;. L KAYMQRE, ATTOLiN EV-AT LAW Mt. Airy. N. C. Special attention lywn to the collection ol claims. I—l'Jin ii. M. Martin daiTe, WITH ,r:i/. j. c. dulixyx co., SiATIOSEU* AM) ItOOIiSIU.I.hIiX' WAItKHOVSK School J look $ ti S(Hi'ialht. _/n Stationery I all kind*. Wrapping |>;»i»cr. Twines, lion: * Hoard*, ]'u|mt iiliuUm B2W. UAI.TI OItKST., HAf T!UoKK, JYD J. . !1 AHRIBON, WITH \.L. ELLET & CO., Y GOODS & NOTIONS ! U, 12 As 11 Twelfth Btree'., .1 r'rr, i ..V \\ ITKISS, f . .I,™- Va 15. V. KINO, WITH JOILVSOX; SI TTO. \' S- CO., 131 IV 3 001>N, N »s.!n an«l i?!> South Sharp, B(rret, T w. rom**"*, 4 n M, nt'TOrnf J. If It. UIIAIUtK, O. J. JOHNSON. O. *\ DAV, ALIIEKT JONEfI. Pay & Joxxom„ manufacturers ot UADDLKRY,IIAKNKS*. COI.LAKS,TKt*XKS .No. 3.W W. ItMlitinurH ktrert, Baltltiorr, .V«l. W. A. Tucker, It. C.Smith, S. It. B|>ntjy{iii* Tucker. Smith & Co.. Manufucturlira A wholesale Dealer* in mors , quotes, hats asu caps. Ne. 250 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, JAL " ELUARI, IIITZ j- CO., Importer* & wholesale dealer* in NOTICN's. HOSII TtV.OLOVI S, W HITE AND FANCY GOODS. No. 5 Hano.er strcut, Baltimore. .Yfl. Jj. a /;. /;/> ;. w i in Henry Sonneborn $,• Co., WHOLES.! I.K I'LOTHIERS. 20 Aano>er St.. (bctweonticriuun l.oinhar«l St*) 11 ALT I M* HE Ml). 11. HON N.EHORN , 11. HUM UN K. B C. WAT KINS, W. S. KOIIVKTSOK. O. L. COTTIIhLL, A. ii. WATKfXtt. Cottrell & Co.i lin port*'ra an«l .l»»l»bem ot' 11 AIM)W r AHE. 1307 Main Street, litCHSIOXD, VA. for FatjhnnkH StaiularU Sralc®, ami Ankor Hramt Cloth. Stfifhcn Pu/ne//, L. II Blair 11', 11. MILKS, STEPIIEX FUT.YEY# CO., Wholemale fouler* in Boots, Shoes, and 'Trunks, 1219 Main Street, Stpl. £Bl-Bm. • lilt IIMOS I), VA. VtM. urvIUES, W.I/. ti.DKVIUI'S. 1 IIKIST'N DKVBIKS, .SOI.O.I#I>.S KIMMV.L. MM. DEVRIES * CO., I n»porter* aiwl of FOREIQN AND DOMESTIC DRY COODS AND NOTIONS. 313 llallimorr f-lrrrt, betueen llovanl nwi Liberia, 11 ALT I MO It K. Eutablisctd 1844. S. T. DAVIS WITH T.J MAGHUDF.It and CO. ManufactLrer* ami Dealer* In HOOTS, BIIOJCN AM) ISItHOASS, Sic. No. 31 Sharp Street, liultimore, Md. J. F. YATRS of N. C. with Bay ne, Anderson Bard, Wholesale Grocers,. No, aWJ IVeaa I'r.i't »nl 3-' 8. Uoh'lU J i>!.» . iUI TIM' UK. >:u. I THE I.ltiltm ARK OUT. Tlx- ligfits are out, tlie i)luy is 'lonn, The Joyous happy time has fleil-; 1 sit atone as with tlmrdead, And wish the play were half hegnn. Itefore my musing vision rise Fair phantoms from life's passingstreams And in a sweet, delightful dream I mingle reverie with si^lis. Like wreckers njion youth's golden strand, I.tc of that blissful time— A flower, a lock of hair, a rhyme, A tiny glove from one fair hand. Xav! here are other looks of hair. More fa.led flowers, of glove i a score, Of iainty, sconted not >s sjnna more— My trophies! Alt! I must bewar® I have H.u-il well of every ilish That pleasure spread, within its hall; Mil! now I've bid adieu to all And live on memories—.inl fish. 4, UJc4insfce"£t6rf* * The Philadelphia 7 imlt comes* to the frout with the very biggest snako story of the season. A Pennsylvania minis ter .-aw a shake between thirty and for ty, feet long and as large as a man's body. It was followed by a train of snakes. It lives in an abandoned colliery. The minister's name is Rev. Alfred 11. Rossitcr. Wo quote : "The monster moved very leisurely and stopped every few minutes to raise its head several feet above tho ground and utter a peculiar whirring souud. As Mr. Rossiter was on the opposite siiia of the raviuo and within three hun dred years of the snakes he had an ex cellent view of them. The snakes dis appeared in the black mouth of the May flower tunnel, and the astonished wit ness drove here with all speed to tell his remarkable story. His hoarers were inclined to be skeptical at first, but his manner was so earnest that an armed party, headed by Cr.ptain l'anicl Derr, went to Carey's patch in >icare!i of evi dence corroborative of Mr. llossiter's •'.atement. All their doubts vanished when they crossed the raviue below Ca rey's patch and in the mud found the trail of the huge reptile. The trail was a trifle over thirteen inches wide and the impress in the mud an inch deep. The hunters followed the trnil of the serpent up to the mouth of the tunnel, where they held a caucus and decided to reiurn to Miuewille and sotid to Shenandoah for "Rattlesnake Tun," on old man who had for years earned a liv ing by killing snakes for their oil. I'avid W. Williams saw tho serpent, ilisstory is very wonderful, and without indorsing it wc copy a part of it. "The snake came out of a 'cave-in' about the mouth of the Mayflower tun nel and coiled itself oil a little plateau near by. He says it is about thirty five feet long, nearly two feet thick and covored with black, red and green scales, each ef which is as large as the palm of a man's hand. Its head is adorned with a yellow crest and its eyes are large and fiery. When Williams first saw the snake he for safety, clambered up Sugar tuaii's old breaker, fifty yaids away, and from that structure looked down on tho monster. Its bead was held erect, and Williams insists that its hissing could have hecn heard a quarter of a mile. A few minutes after the big snako made its appearance a perfect ball of rattle snakes came rolling out of the tunnel. This strange ball was composed of some thirty or forty rattlers, each measuring from three to fire feet in length, and so twuitcd and twined and locked togothor were they that it appeared as though tlioy would never bo able- to separate themselves. They got apart, however with remarkable celerity and quick ly ranged tflemsolves in a twenty-foot circle, in tho centro of which, with herd creet t glaring eves and rising crest, was coiled the"king snake" as people here call it. The pcrfeot silence which lasted a moment or two after the circle was formed was broken by a rattling chorus, iu which every tail was used vigorously. This strange music had a wonderful effcot on the king snake. Its eyes bccamo frightfully enlarged, the yellow crest swelled to donble its fornior size, while its head and that portion of the body that was upright swayed to and fro lu perfect timo with tho rattling. The most remarkable thing was that ev ery snake stopped rattling at the same instant. C. W. Hollowcll, of Pasquotank coun ty, has sold his crop of Irish potatoes at $5 a barrel. He had 1,400 barrels. The narrow gauge railroad will be flnishe 1 to Lenoir in time to ship off the present wheat orop. Mr. George T. Jones, of Goldsboro, made $201.07 from an acre of straw , bcitics. DANRURY, N. C„ THURSDAY, JUNE 29, IS West Vlrjlnlu. The people of Pocahontas county are inuch cnoouraired in their railroad spec ulation* over tho favorable Kurvey re cently maile by the Richmond and Al leghany '.lilroad from the bridge at Mar tin's Hott im Uj> Sumy creek to the head of Williams river. Major McKendree found the distance from Mailin's 15ot tom to bo thirteen miles, and the grade less than eighty-five feet per mile. Coal ia mot wit|i before the head of Williams riv«r (which is a branch of Gauley) is reached, and in profusion from there to Kanawha Valley. Should the Rich mond and Alleghany railroad select this route, starting, say, at Covington, Va., tlicnce up Jackson river to the mouth of Rack creek, ther.cc up Rack crcek*-to Little Rack creek, thence across Al!e- YTwtry ujjuntain and donn Knapp's creek to" Marlin's Rottom, it would place Williams rtVer coal and the immense iron mountains known as Brown's and Heav er Lick mountains within twenty miles of each t t'ler. And it is seldom that two such industries as eoul mining and iron mining are carried on so close to each other. The engineers of the road, now under Capt. Stack, are vigorously prosecuting their survey down the Williams river, and will go down to the mouth of the Gauley. To which tho Alleghany Tribune (Covington, Va.,) adds : As to the ne cessity of opening up the territory alhid ed to by rail, there call be no doubt : and that this can be accomplished at a comparatively small cost we also think quite probable. The instrumental sur veys now being made under the superin tcndcncy of Maj. McKendree will dctcr timc this point in the course of a few weeks at farthest. Indfccd, that tho Gauley river coal fields, said to be as extensive as those of New river, will be opened up by rail in the near future, is a foregone conclusion. Tho Ohio Central railroad from the west and the Richmond and Alleghany from the east are approaching the Gauley re gion as rapidly as possible and the "mis sing link" in this system will goon be forged. To state the matter plainly, the Ohio Central railroad, beginning at To ledo, is equipped and in use as far. east as Corning, l'erry county, Ohio. The distance from Corning to Point Pleasant, on tho Ohio river, is fifty wiles, and the grading of this part of the road is nearly completed. The bridge across the Ohio at Point Pleasant, which is under con tract at one million dollars, is progress ing rapidly, some three hundred men being at work on it. From Point Pleas ant to Charleston, a distance of 02 miles, the grading is done and the track is n>w bcir.g laid. And those in a posi tion to know iuform us that by the first of September tho Ohio Central will have trains on it from Toleilo to Charleston— -210 miles. We also understand that this road has secured tho right-of-way and arranged the damages up tho Kan awha river to the "Falls," or mouth of Gauley, a distance of about 30 miles cast of Charleston. This would make the distance from Toledo tc the mouth of the" Gauly rivtr two hundred and seventy miles. As is kuown, the Richmond and Alle ghany road is completed from Richmond to Clifton Forge, in Alleghaay county, a distance of about 220 nnlos. The ap proximate distance from Toledo to Rich mond is >2"> miles, and if wo deduct the distances finished or that will be finished by the first of September, wo find the "missing link" to extend IGS miles; beginning at Clifton Forge and ending at Charleston. Tho completion of this "link" is all that is necdod to make one of the best paying roads in the country. It will open up the cxhaustless iron lands in James River valley and the rich coal measures of Gauley aud Kanawha river valleys, and throw them closo together. The filling of this gap is a neuossity, and the surveys upon the Gauley which are now in progress point to the fact that it will be done. From Clifton Forge to tho head streams of Gauley there will be no difficulty. Col. Kupcr has examined the route and finds the grade all that could be desired. The "link" will be forged, and that shortly. Eve/y day tho Democratio prospect in Pennsylvania looks better. There is no comfort in this for Republicans. The Republican party can carry the State this year, but not on the basis of the old Convention. ~~i "7 ~r, Prof. Kennedy, of the Goldsboro Graded Sebool, is one ot a family of twenty-six children. The ancient ell, a measure, was the . length of the arm of Henry 1. Hut Aabtuued or New Jerncj'i j Much fun is made of Rhodo Island,! becanse of its small territory ; and much sarcasm lias bccu spent on New Jersey ' because it taxes its railroads for every stranger passing across the State. Hut il is pleasant to know that BOIUG citizens ! arc proud of New Jersey birlh. There was an amusing sceno on board the Louisiana mailboat the other day. j There was the usual conglomeration of ] passcneers in the cabin just before the boat landed, and amid the general hub bub of conversation a man remarked in- j eiduntally, "Now in New Jersey, where 1 I livo"— Instantly an old man, who sat moodi ly and silently pondering by tho stove for some time' sprang to his feet and ex claimed— "flifrenger, art )ru f.i., New Jcr* soy V* Yes." u "An' vriilin* to acknowledge it > ( 'Ycs, sir; proud on't." Hurrah ! Give us your hand !" cried the old man, fairly dancing with exulta tion. "I'm from New Jersey, too, but ncvor felt like declaring it afore. Shake! ! I'm an old man, I've travelled, long and far: I've been in every city in thcWdst —steaiuboated on the Ohio and Missis sippi—been to Califomy, over the plains and around the Horn ; took a voyage to Liverpool ; but in all my travels, hang me if this ain't the first time I everlioord a man |acl;nowl«dge that he como from New Jersey. The New York court of appeals was called a few weeks ago, to consider one of those mysterious eases in which a man lives two lives ; is at one home believed to be single, while in another he dwells with a wife aud even rears a family. The question iu the preseut instance arose when the hero of the romance, u man of 70, fell suddeuly dead with pa ralysis. During his lung iifo he hud maintained au abode in Joralemon street, Brooklyn, had oonducted a re spectable and prosperous business, had acquirod money aud invested it in valu able lands, aud in all theso doings bad been known to his blood relatives and a circle of friends and acquaintaces as Jacob Badger, and had been by them believed to b« a bachalor. But bis death brought forward a claimant to a widow's share in the estate. This claim ant showed, by proof sufficiently clear, that for more than thirty years preceding his death the deceased under tho name of John Baker, bad maintained a home with her as Mrs. Mary Baker, in fti &c --dougal street. There he had lupporteo her as his wife, had iutroduced her as such in tbc neighborhood aud been rec ognized ax her husband by her relatives, had paid her bills and expenses and nursed her when ill. Strange as it may seem, the Joralemon street wituusscs testified that he was not • often enough absent at night from his bachelor home with his sister there to excite any sus picion or comment, and tbo Macdougal street witnesses swore that he was sel dom absent at night from tho household he supported among them. The Salisbury IVaicAman vouches for the truth of the following snake sto ry : An extraordinary incident happened recently at the house of Mr. I'ctcr Roucchc. Ho was sitting on the back piazza, rcadrag, while his little son less than two years old, waa peering arouud iu the front yard or front piazza, 110 heard tho child laughing and presently the little fellow came running through the house in great glee, having in his hands a copper-head snake, lie had grasped it with one hand about three or four inches bolow the head,* while ho held its tail with the other hand. The reptile was wriggling to get away, but tho child was too well pleased with bis plaything to let it go. The father was greatly astonished and alarmed, but made a lightning dash at the snako and sent it out in the yard. It was about '2O inches long, and, as is well known, one of the most dangerous serpents of this country. A few days ago a crowd of boys wero out together near Bayboro, l'amlioo county, when two of them engaged in a fisticuff. After the fight the other boys organized a court, appointed a judge, sheriff, clerk, jury, etc., and tried the two boys for fighting. One of them was found guilty. The sentence of the cvart was that he bo tied to a tree and whip ped by the sheriff, which sentence the appointed sheriff is said to have execut ed promptly and with great deference to the court, and without muoh sy?:ipathy for the young criminal. Rev. Thos. Rood, of Calvert, Texas, i is in jail for robbing a grocery. llorrowcd Ilcrself Out. It often happens that the loan of some household necessity may be of very great convenience to a neighbor—such j as flour, eggs, matches, tea, etc., but ; how often tlieso articles arc paid back ! by an inferior article, or else entirely forgotten, or perhaps the show of mak j ' n £ payments is gone through with when j a less quantity than was given is return i ed. I remember hearing a story which 1 is so apt to this point that 1 cannot help | but relate it. A plain Friend had for a neighbor, oue who was a constant borrower, and as I she saw tho articles when returned were less in quantiy than she had given, she resolved to put the following plan into execution. She bought one pound of the tea and put it into a separate lox,/ir d when the a enpful it was taken out of this box; when she returned it, it was put back in the same place but a? she always return ed a much less quantiy than she bor ; rowed, the result was m (inie the box I became empty. So one morning when ' she cainc for the usual cupful of tea which she would return after she came back from the store the following con sation took place. "Post thou see this tea box, Sarah Ann!" "Yes." "Well some timo ago I filled it with a pound of the very best tea and 1 kept it specially for thy use. 1 took from it only wl.at I loaned thee, and I put back into it what thou rcturnodst. Now it is empty; therefore I say unto thee, thou hast borrowed thyself out, and I have no more to loan thee. Farewell!" Let us, oh Carolinians ! look forward instead of backward. Lot ill tho pre judices of the dead past be buried in the grave of oblivion. Not any people, no community can materially advance that does not manfully accept the situation aud couragceusly make tho best of it. Ail around us is a magnificent country opening up fields for all our energies and all our capital. Let us stand unit ed in the great work of development, improvement, and building up ? Let us encourage, in every possible way, the cultivated, the enterprising and the in dustrious strungcr to come to onr section aud made it his home. Let us m«M him feel that he is welcome aud that he can enjoy and proclaim and that he cau enjoy utid proclaim his religious and po litical opinions as freely aud as fearless ly as anywhere under the flag. There is room for all;. let them come. We i need them to help us till our lands, build up manufactories and extend our trade. They will be benefited j so will we.— Eliz. City Carolinian. A traveller tells a story about his stopping at a hotel in New York one night, and being kept awake by a man pacing tho floor above. Occasionally be would hear a moan of anguish , and at last he went up like a gold Samaritau, to seo if he could relieve tho sufferer. "My friend," said tho traveller gazing sympathetically at the face of the strauger, "what can I do for you 1 Are you ill 1" "No" "What ails you then f" "I have a noto for ten thousand dollars duo to ir. rrow, and haven't a nickel to pay it with." "Ob, pshaw!" said tho traveller, "go to bed, and let the other fellow do the walking." A Kentucky preacher rose to speak aud opened the bibio. The first verse that nicthiß eye hapjiened to be : "The voice of tho turtle shall be heard ill the land." 'Rrethren,' said he, 'at first sight oue would not think there was much in this text, but, on o, little con sideration, you will see there is a good deal in it. Now you. oil know what a i turtle is. If you've been along by a > pond, you havo seen them sitting upon a log sunning themselves. Now it is said i ! the voice of the turtle shall be heard in ; the land. But* the turtle hasn't any , voioo that anybody evor heard so it i must be the noise he makes in plungiug off the log into the water. . Hence, wo must conclnde that immersion is meant, } » and that immersion will become univer ' sal.' i. _ . i Three hangings thi» week by Judge , Lynch—all negroes and Cur tho same 3 hellish criiao. As long aa lustful ne > groes prowl around bent on "their devil t try, there will be no disposition manifest ■ ed to turn out Judge Lynch and put in 9 another.— IVil. Star. »| It is said that the Australian colonics Faro tho richest, per capita, in the world. Among their possessions are 80,000,000 i sheep to a population of only 8,000,000 ' souls. CurtoxttlCM of Trades. The demand for eye stones has fallen off every largely, but they arc still kept and sold in considerable quntities. ■ The eye stono will clean tho eye. There is no doubt about that, but its movements are regulatsd by its shape aud by a form ation on the fiat side or base of the stone, similar to a blade iu a turbine water wheel. The whole resembles a shell just begun—before that cavity was forui od, if shells wore s»formcd, but are not. Tho stone is composed of limestone, and vinegar or any acid by its action upon it causes motion. Tho stones are found in the seashore on tho Pacific coast. Sailors gather tbem by tho quart and vend, in trade centres. The price 13 ten cents. Rlood stones are also called for, not the kind known to seal rings and sleeve buitorf; MiryTnss •rnrrcr-nr l.wids ttf tht> colur of blood, dark red. These aro worn to prevent the nose bleed, although the old plan to prevent, namely, to keep the nose out of other persons' business is in use still and works well. With a string through the glass bead and tho string around the owner's neck, tho liability to nose bleed is removed. The bloodstones, some of them, couie from Germany. Rattle-snake oil will nnlimber joints afflicted with certain lamenesses as no other oils or preparations will. It is called for often and the buyers may get rattlc-jnakes oil and they may not. It is said to be a business of considerable importance in North Carolina to cap ture rattle-snakes and from tjie fat to produce the oil. At all events, rattle snakes oil is sold, and it is supposed to cure marvelously. Skunk oil is another cure-all for certain maladies. "Old Field" I'armliig. From the Orange Connty Observer we take the following' Winter oats not fully headed and will grow over oue foot—now six feet, 8 inches, and 99 stalks from one grain. Red rust proof, 5i feet, and 12S stalks to the grain. Smooth head whoat, 5 feet, 10 inches, 101 stalks to tho grain. Beard ed wheat, (i feet, 42 stalks to one graiu. Grasses, Mountain evergreen, 80 ineliee high. Orchard grass, 02 iuolias high. Luccrn, 60 inches high. White clover, too big and heavy to stand up to be 'measured. 1 also send a lock of wool about 14 inches long from a yearling Cotswold buck, fleece weighed 121 pounds; two others weighed 114 and 10& pouuds. The land on which these crops are growing has becu in cultivation for three generations, ami is what is styled "old fiicld," and is known as "Poplar Hill" farm, owned by James W. Norwood, Esq. Dlttde the Uirlii .Mad. An lowa editor has raised a hornet's nest about his cars and will probably have to leave tho State, all on account of an accident in the "make up" of the paper. It seems there was a concert given by the young ladies of the city, aud the gallant youug editor wrote it up in splendid shape. The same day he had visited a herd of short-horned cat tle, owucd by a farmer in the vicinity, and he wrote up tho cattle also. The eross eyed foreman of the office got the two articles mixed as follows : "The con cert give last evening by sixteen of Storm Lake's most beautiful and interesting young ladies was highly appreciated. They were elegantly dressed and sang in a most charming manner, winning the plaudits of tho entire audience, who pronounced them the finest short-horns in the country. A few of them are of a rich brown oolor, but the majority aro spotted brown and white Several of the heifers aro fine bodied, tight limbed an imals and promise to prove good proper ty* From data derived from the number and capacity of locomotive shops in the country and the nnmber of men employ ed in oach, five men can make a locomo tive in one year, complete from end to end. This is with modern machines, methods and facilities. A vegetable grecu, perfectly harmless, for the use of cooks and confectioners, has been discovered. It is made from the gi ains of raw coffee. The cultivation of mushrooms is a paying branch of gardening in Franco, where this is oonsutned evory year, to the value of $1,800,000. A girl in Johnston connty, 12 years i of age, has been a niothor for some time. NO. 3 SMALL OITCS. Tlio earliest known invention of an Knglish double Christian name is a deed of the time of Henry 111. According to Xonoplion, tlia complete accoutrement of a Spartan soldier weigh ed from ninety-five te ons hundred pounds. The first machine for niakiug envel opes was invented hy a brother of Sir Rowland Hill, the inventor of postage stamps. Henry Fitzgiles, aged thirteen years, is a prodigy of Tallahassee, Fla. Ho Is a colored boy and an artist of wonderful merit A Greensboro man has drawn ono of the principal prizes in the Louisiana lottery. Ho has been advised by tele graph of his good luck. In the Kast a man thinks he is serv ing the Lord when he trades his wife for an am, sells the ass for anything ho can g'?t, and goes ou a pilgrinssgt o Mecca. Some one says Pocahontas was a myth. Perhaps she was ; but lie cannot make us believe that John Smith was also myth, because he still lives, and wc have seen him. A Brooklyn man was sent to jail for j kissing his girl goodnight. This should I teach ilrooklyu young men to remain a | couple of hours longer and kiss her good morning. A witty lady who is however, some, what given to exaggeration, was trying to tell a friend what a poor appetite she !ad, and said,"l cat very little ; a flea would be a barbecue for lne." A P|i iladelphia youth who is learn ing to play the cornet cannot understand why people who shoot at cats will be so careless. Half a dozen stray bullets have already come through his window. A insdxal journal devotes a whole column to explaining what cases cold perspiration. Any one who has goue up a dark alley and stepped ou a dog would be wasting valuable time in reading it. A Denver paper professes to think it marvelous that a man whose brains were knocked out is still living. If he were out this way he would not only be Irving, but he would be holding souic important office. There was recently, near Darton mountain, Vermont, a shower of dry leaves lasting all day. They fell froui a clear sky and from a great height. They had probably beou caught up in a whirl-wind. A St. Louis man who was blown twenty feet by the explosion of a keg of powder, was uninjured. It seems that he had been married four tunes, and a little thing like the explosion of a kog of powder was of no account to him. A New York paper is discussing "The Future of American Literature." Some of it deserves eternal punishment, and a great deal of it does go to the flames before it gets into print, we don't caro what Mr. Beocher says. Littlo girl of eight—"l heard tlieiu say that after the divorce ma would mar ry M. Krne.it, that gentleman who always gives us candy." Little boy of ten, with the gloomy cyniuisin of his greater age—"And ho won't give us any caudy then There is said to be a family living in Jamaica, West Indies, iu allien the possession of six fir./ers has hem here ditary for at least four generations. They consider the extra finger it deform ity, are ashamed of it, and always ampu . tatc it. It is reported that liarnum has made an offer to Oscar Wilde for the latter to sit ou top of Jumbo aud ride in the street processions. If, instead of Wilde sitting ou the elephant, Jumbo wore to sit 011 Wilde, the result would be more satisfactory. A certain preacher once took for his text, "Husbands, love your wives." Causing for a moment, he glauced to wards Kmily, (his wife) and began as follows : "Now, brethering, we nartin ly don't levo our wives as we'd ortcr. I don't love Emily as I orter, but if I , was to have another wife, I'd love her better'n I bev Kmily!" "Is it becoming U me, asked she, as she paraded in the costume of ono hun dred years ago before the man who is . not her lord and master, but is her hue baud. "Yes, my dear," said lie-meek ly. "Don't you wish I could dress this ' way all the time 1" she asked. "No, ! my dear," he replied ; "but'l wish-'yott had lived wbea that was the style."