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V T- r ' .if ' 1 - .; .1 , : i: - " .'''.- i . ' ' .' .' 'li - . . . t : .. . '! 1 ) J 4 ! . 1 c riiJfi 1UKHAMVVIEKL,Y 6KLOBJ2, WEDNESDAY; JUNE 8 sday; JUNE s I , -. I 1 - S i t ! : 1 is i ;,." '. in. J -t I1 l ! i 7 i 4 i r i - x iy A GENERAL Professor IJuchanarTs School Closed ? Yestrda Two Medals Were Awarded t J .; Who Are Happy. Mbe IJoys NEGRO ESCAPES FROM OXFORD JAIL People ITho Come and Co BHef I L : t . I I revi ties of Interest to All Readers ! of The Globe. From Fil4av's Dailrj Prof. Buchanan's school closed jitter day one Ql the most prosperous! tana satisfactory terms in the hist ory o i popular school. The examinations were vat only friends and "natrons cf'the . f i . J invited to be present atits close. i . i . ii exercises were heldt at the academt, and I I v the capacity of the. building was t2rxed by those who were! there because Ithey were Interested and not attracted mi rely by Idle curiosity. ' . From the openingj to the lose th ex ercises were lull or- interest, trie rro- gram being such as tto please both riupil anl parent, speaker and and spectator. The declamations, were especially well delivered, and revealed the fact ; I ' ' thcrc 'were some coining orators in hat Pur ham who would tears come and t . : . . . heard t from a the Of these, Matter Luther Markhara was voted the medal 1 1 in the intermediate class, Thomas Cole, of C'lle's Mil the honors In the senior. w Idle! Mr. , carried off I i t The audience wa3;well entertained,pnd much pleased with the performance throughout and in fessof Buchanan on , labors in the past conirrauiiatinfr iro slating Pro cess oft hi the sue expressed the ope that lie might continue Ion J' n J)urliam and keep up the good work of sh ping the vounjr idea a wbrk much needed in tbtrcj this city where there are so nianyjboys to be educated and trained for th real business of life. IS ! ' I. ' i And Colonel Buchanan states fonn- dcnlially to The (Jlorp hat hp ) has come to stay. i POLK OUT. He 1.4 Too, Holy to Lduger Run Dili- rial l'aper for he Howlers i I The following interesting from jirvbiui-ut i uih. i",fi7rrctiaSrman !1. TH- . J fjthe executive comrUceif the state alliance ia, lias just iecn rcteiveci Jrtstfr- Economist toes to prels.t -It needs no explanation .( ; X" M.VY ol, Hon. S. B. Alexander, pres dent xecu- , . I tive board North Carolina state alii- ance: Deau Sin am) JiCOTHEll I avincr learned that 3-our executive board a its rccnt session in Ralai gh,N..,expMsed its dissatisfaction with the attitude bfjthe Progressive I armer ni its last preceding issue toward the people s pa,rty, I Lereby tender the resignation ot.thai paper as the otlicial organ of tie state alliance of North Carolina.' While it will remain as . . .Jij 1 " i 1 4 -true au loyai 10 iuq alliance orgica- tion and its principles as it has cveribeen, It cannot anil win not uc circumscnpeu in its advscacy of the methods fvhich only can bring relief! to our sul people, and which h4ve been so whclmingly endorsed ty them. In ering oyer sevcrinir its otlicial connection whlthe state alliance, it in no measure abates its allegiance to the principles of our joriler, and will ever stand ready and willing to extend its full and hearty co-operation to all the officers and th brotherhopd for promoting and maintaining the ririnci iJcs which we have espoused, irater I. Fxaj PolI,! 1 1 nally yours. Editor Prog rressive Farmer, 4 WITHIN OUR GATES. I Stutleiit.4 and Faculty Ftom Trinity . Visit Durham For a Day of Sport. i About 140 students, besides; the faculty and other visitors from Trinity college, Iligli l'omt ana ejsewnere nrrivcu mis morning on a special aQd arc to-day en- joyirif a grand pic nic with barbecuje ap- pen daze at Trinity parkj. The party was met atlthe 1: f epot by the f Durham band and escorted by citizens 1 j 1 to the pari, where hii was made rraay in" Lnticipation of their , visit. fajor Guthrie made a cold . water speech be- tween showers. Major Guthrie was 1 responded to by Mr. Charles Lee Rape r, The party re- turned home this evening. WANTS IT EREJ Cul. Ilnrk Itlackure!l Still lnit I 1 . Keeley Should C)me Here. That Col. Buck Blackwcl), who wcrit to tJrcensooro to aiiend ine neciey uaruc cue, writes Col. C. T. I Ing to ram-the business until fair weather. ostlev that ow- was postponed He Is still enthusiastic undn thd sub- ject of removing: the iastitu to Jjur- ham. He says that thpre are nowj sev- cnty in the institute and many others at the woman's home. Hje predicts that 200 Wjill b in regular I flthat 5 !, e ' and sthool These Hue COLLEGE FUN. Concerning a New Book Which Has Jds Keen Published. : f A very interesting volume called the Ilellcnian has ust been published by the preek letter fraternities at the University It Js elegantly t rated ; and is printed, bound and illus full of most amusing col lege jokes and interesting college statis tics. It is dedicated to President Win Eton, who is in full sympathy with col lege" wit and humor. The editor in chie is Mr. J. Crawford Biggs. The Univer sity collors are white - and blue. The University yell is : 'Rah ! 'rah ! I 'rah White and blue ! Vive la ! Vive la! N C. U. I ' The average age of students in the University is! 19 years and 9 months; atjrage height 5 feet, 10 inches ; average weight 150 pounds: The favorite study is mathematics. Fifty-eight per cent pre fer jbrunettes! to blondes; sixty-six per cenf carry watches; the, choice for next president is Cleveland ; two per cent wear eyeglasses; twenty-three per cent own dre3s suits; the favorite poet is Tenny son; favorite novelist, Scott; tVventy-five per bent havq been engaged ; sevent3F-two per cent live in towns; the most intellec tual man, Biggs, of. Oxford ; the. most popular man, Hoke, of Raleigh; the naruesi wording man, iavi3, or laruoro; the handsomest man, W. 'W. Efavies; thq best athlete, Mangum ; the best orator, F. Harding, of Ureenville; thirty-seven per cent play baseball, forty per cent football, sixty-six per cent tennis; forty-four per ceatj visit in the village. Among the faculty the students vote President Win ston the most intellectual man. Prosessor Alexander the most popular, Professor Hume the hardest worker, and Professor Venable the handsomest. Twenty-nine per cent of t he students play on musical instruments thirty-four per cent are at the University "on their own hook." ! The jest prospective lawyer is J. S. Hill, of Duplin; the best doctor, R. II. Johnston, of Tarboro. s I The book contains handsome full page engravings as follows : liie twelve ed itors President Winston, the pins and devices of each of the twelve fraterni- ies, the Phi Hall, the Di Hall, the Chapel', the Glee club (sixteen members,) the Old East building, the Library, the South building, the German club, the Library interior,) the 01d.Wrest building, Memo rial Hall, and the foot-ball team. 1 There are very many mosthumorou3 woodrcuts, illustrating many phases college" life. The name 'of lxj.r&rmlies at the University j.-. Delta Kappa Epsilon estaed l8ol)Phi Gamma Delta ISol "jBeta Theta Pi 18o2, Phi Kappa Sigma, Rlfrmn' Alnhi 'PnoJInn 1S.7 V.Pn Psi 1 R."iS A.lpha Tau bmega 1879, Kappa Alpha hfiSi Phi'np'lta Thata. Sirma Xu 1888. Sigma Chi 1889. There are also a Man ning Legal club, a Glee club, a German club, an Athletic Association, a Driving Irliih n DndR club, an Eatiner club, a I 1 T. -- - o .p,aPhPior's rfub. a Bicvcle club, a Choir. L Chess club1, a Whist club, three Knights of the Rounft Table, and a Masher's club All. the various 6rcranizations are de- scribed with' some fun and humor min gleil ljistory. Eech class has ; its own history statistics and wit. There i3 racv tjiarv and a most rare aud en- I j0yable lot of 'college "cuts,1' all free Mances-: ACCUSED OF ASSAULT. t jfr. su etser Siys the Doctor Caught Him t'nder the Chin. . New. York! Sun says: Dr. Thomas II, Burchard, son of the late Rev. Dr. Bur- tuus1hard, of -'Rum, Romanism, and Rebel lion ; notoriety, was arraigned in tne Yorkville Police court yesterday charged with assaulting Lawyer William Sweet ser, of Dougtierty, Melville & Sweetser. Lawyer Sweetser was not in court and Dr. Burcharii was parolled for examina tion next Tuesday, l ater in the day Lawyer Sweetser told how it happened. "There is a certain man," said Mr. who ha3 been a patient Sweetser, of DrJ Burchard, and who is also a. client of mine. Dr. Burchard has been trying to collect a bilf from him, and wrote a letter inviting the man to call on him. He went to Dr. BurChard's house at 7 East Forty-eighth street last Thursday. fter some talk the man refused to pay the bill. There were hot words, and I reminded DrJ liurcnard ttiat we were in his house at his invitation. Dr. Bur- cbard seized my client by the throat and Pstarted to kick him off the porch. He called me vile names. I may have said something sarcastic, and I did remark that there would be a rebellion, but 1 did not know how much rum and Romanism there might be. ! ' 4,lf rancrht me under the chin- ; "With his fist?": - . ' u Yes, withjhis fist, and I jvent into the street. '1 1 don t care to say mucn aoout ithintiithe case comes up in court;" j 1 When questioned at his house about the affair, .Dr. Burchard, who is more than six feet jtall and strongly built, said only: 'file is !too small a puppy for me to talk about." IN. GOOD-SHAPE. The Koad AVurker are Making a Thing .: of lteautjf out of Alston Avenue, j RoadCommissioner Walker is making Alston avenue Joom up in great shape these days. That is the best drive near the town,-and will( some day be a beauti LIVE LOCAL LINKS. -f- The Day's Record of Current ErenU , ' I i : the City and Vlcinityi 1 I ? The St. Cecilia; society is getting ready for another cottcert. A Shelby firm s making j3,000,000 used at Ashevilje in :;''i-:'.v:..Jv' V-V vitrified bricks, to be' street paving. Tne date of the Cumberland fair has been changed from November l to in clusive," to Xovemberj 15 to 19. i , ; ' ""i '. .- Work on Alston iavenue still goes on and Colonel Walker is proving himself a road artist as well as a Yammist CpL W. T. Tiarbee says that Dr Tyre does not agree with him in all things, but then perhaps the doctor is not toWame. - Reuben Rink is doing a find piece of work on Col. J. S. Carr's Durham resi- dence, the appearance of already greatly imprqved. x vrhich is t j N Durham is being well represented across the pond this summer, amd others still will go later. Professor- Vernon Darnell will make one , of the party and will remain some time in Germany, where he will devote himself to h'e study of music, perfecting himsell in his favorite art. I i j ' State Chronicle says : Revqnue Col- lector wnitciias advices oi. tne seizure by deputy collector: Sam Jones of an illicit distillery of 100 gallons papacity. It was owned by J. A. P. Johnson and was inChatham "county, very pear the WTake line. At the same place Jones seized 2,200 gallons pf beer. Colonel Bun Wrbitted, who com plained yesterday of j that tired feeling, says that when Colonel Tennyson wrote about spring, a young man's fancy and other things, he failed to solve the prob- em of a disordered liver or to state how much patent medicine a man must con surrie td the square inch in order to raise a fancy. Judy Uurris, a young woman, was placed in jail in Stanly county Thursday. Sometime ago she and! AJex. Wfiitley left that county together for the wesi. Whit- ey was;accused of the murder! of D. B. Tucker, and the return of Judy Burris gave rise to suspicion; and the char made against her, thejew&ftTCsJ place hjejMn peculiatK-ae circumstances.' ; ..t The Raleigh Visitor spriiigs this chestnut : Cannot sonie frientfput us on iyg the proposed Baptist Female college to be located in Raleigh ? We are frequently asked about it, and are compelled to decline: answer: ing, because we don' know. jOur col umns are open, and we are confident the theme would be an interesting G" The' Seaboard Air-L ine chased fourteeri acres of land at! Hamlet, a correspondent of the Wilmington Star reports,;on Which it will build a cotton compress. Superintendents Monicure and Smith have made a survey of the prem ses and selected a suitable spot to place the plant. Their intentions are to have the plant in operation by the fall. The plant issnow at Norfolk awaiting ship ment, f . ' j j ' The State Chronicle says : It is the desire of the committee on the collection of exhibits for the World's fair at Chi cago that in the North Carolina depart ment there shall be ar admirable display of - the ! choicest pres erve, pieties, etc. For these special jars, af beautiful shapes, will be furnished 'by the committee. There are some notable housekeepers in the state, as all knowjand here -is a great opportunity for them to show tjieir skill. ;: ' ' 1 : ' - There are now 76 convicts near Fay- etteville, working in a deep- railway cut ting at; Hone Mills. Tnere are lOU at Rock Mount, but in a few days some of these will be sent to Ilope Mills.: There are 03 at Castle Hayne, of which number 20 die phosphate and the others work on a farm which the state has leased there. There are about 100 at (work on the canal at Great Falls, on thelRoanoke river near Weldon. In the penitentiary there. are about 140, All the others about 700 in number, are on thejbig state farms near Weldon. . ( The jury at Greensboro has found Charles Blackman ghilty of ifemur der. The Record says that while the iury was out Blackman showed for the first tinie slight nerv anxious, expectancy, striving hard to unconcerned. ;The conceal it and appear verdict gives universal satisfaction; and shows that a Guilfojrd jury is able to mete out justice to her criminals without resort to judge Lynch, which was at pi e time threatened, cauing Sheriff Cook ko removel the prisoner) to" Davidsdn county for safe-keepings peal in this case. There will be no ap- JwXge Goff, of the United States cir cuit court, is at Wilmington holding court for the disposal of some important cases. One of these is the application hr an in junction by W. sJ.O.B. Robmson, re ceiver of the First National bank of Wil mington, to restrain that cityifrom the collection of taxes on stock of the said bank, and another ii the "seed Ipw" case, wherein1 Ferry & Col , seed dealers, of De troit, Mich., contestithe constitutionality of the law passed b the last legislature, requiring all packages of seed's sold in the state to; be marked br labelled j with the i . has pur- A C LUB FOR M0TJIEHS THEf HOUSEKEEPERS' ORGANIZATION i OF COCOANUT GROVE, i '. Florida Women Who Have an Interest- ! IngiWayjof Securing Celaxation from Their Home Duties Some Rules and j Objects of the Society.- " j i Away down on the east coast of" Flor ida, 300 miles south of St. Augustine, is tlie pretty, little settlement of Cocoanut Grove. ; It ia situated on the banks of Biscayno bay, one of the loveliest sheets of water for winter cruising and fishing thaf it- is possible to conceive of for those Who are not afraid to go beyond the daily mails and telegraph wires, for at present there are no railroads or steamboats, not even a wagon road, con necting us with the outside world sail boats only, but plenty of those, and good ones, foo, which is very necessary, as the nearest market or jsource of supply js Key Y est, loO miles to the south. Of course there is a hotel, postoffice, stora x and bunday4 school fouildin wliiph, with the Biscayne Bay Yacht clnb house, the various winter residences of the northern yachtsmen and the pret- iy nt we nouses oi ine pmeappie growers and- cocoanut planters of the keys, each "built according to its owner's fancy or means, ana set m tne midst of cocoanut, limerange, banana and guava trees, form a mpst attractive picture, to which may be added the ever changing life of the' i bay, theScoming and going of the yachts, the arrival and departure of the mailboats and freight schooners. But if the place is attractive, very much more are the people who have helped make it, and this is especially so of the women, whose husbands and. sons are the spongers, wreckers, carpenters and boatmen of the reef , when not engaged in truck farming or pineapple raising It is to these women and their club a housekeeper's cljab that I wish to in troduce my reader. A woman's work ing club in every sense of the word, with an attending membership of twenty and a correspondence membership of ten, the latter residents of New York, Boston, San;,Francisco, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Key West. '. ' :: j - . To most of the w;omen born and brought up on the Key! West, and of keys of thQ reef or in English parentage for th6 majority pf the settlers came originally from the Bahamas the ex perience of belonging to a society, ho.ys- cyeij simple, for wpmrg tflsjjr; vVS&"a nov eltyi : Although -oUr club" is now z frequent proud expression among th"!, jand member, in talking it over with her husband, assured him that the f bylaws of her club were as well made and just as bindimr, as those concocted ia the cai7?t-l at Tallahassee. " And fee 'thef atfQio; theTaithful bail of 'Women who 'gather every Thursday afternoon in ' the little Sunday school building, and join heart and hand in helpmg each other to enjoy and im prove, tne two nours a wcck rescued frofd their household cares. For nearly every member is a mother, hot of one, but jin. several cases of eight :and ten 'tAildAifirwith no jone to assist in the daily and hourly work attending such a household , so " that j the first rule made and rigidly enforced, "No. babies allow ed at the meetings,!" is a genuine relief, and gives time and freedom for much that; would be otherwise impossible; ' Sdmetimes the children are taken to a neighboring house; ten or twelve little tots j from one to three years old, and a husbahd or eldest son volunteers to over pee those that are able to walk', in which case; as it dlraws near closing time, one littlp head after another will be seen coming, Indian file, along the! narrow patlj, all of them bareheaded or nearly so, ip search of mamma and generally in great glee at having escaped. Of; pourjse there follows a grand baby show. ! ;Tae originator of ? the club is its presi dent, j Miss Flora McFarlane, of New Jersey, a woman who has prayed her self fin "every way capable; for j the life she intends leading,1 having homesteaded a hundred and fifty "acres of government lands which she has gone bravely to work to clear and improve. I; ! Tie officers of the club are the presi dent, j secretary, assistant secretary, treasurer and caretaker, who has entire charge of the club's workbasket, giving outS the work and collecting materials, such as scissors, thimbles,, needle books, patterns and button box, after each meeting. These meetings occur every Thursday afternoon from 3 to 5. At the organizing of the clnb it was ybted that the time be spent in making useful articles of clothing from material either given to the club (thereupon the president presented a dozen j kitchen aprons) or bought with the club's funds, the ifunds being derived from member ship! dues (which were promptly paid, so that the treasurer found herself busy at once) or gifts. That such articles should bo. sold at each meeting, and to mem bers, at cost price. ; j ' H : That the money received for the first year bi spent in thej purchase of materia als and also in suitable and useful arti cles for a bazaar, to be held at the an ntial meeting for the benefit ! of the church building, That resident mem- bors be elected by means of a vote cast with black and .white beans; distant or correspondence members on the good faith of the housekeeper proposing them. Bright, newsy letters are received from the nonresident members; and all sorts of gifts in the way of household articles, from half ja dozen cup towels to a, bedspread. Harper's Bazar. v :: t . - : Taking l'kotoyraph by Balleen. I ; ii is proposed that balloon photbgra phy! should be used in sieges ' by the be siegers. Ono plan) is to start a small balloon, loadod with a camera, to wind ward of the ' fortress, the plates being explosed by rieans of clockwork arrange merxt or slow matcri. These, of course, aire adjusted to the) time which, would elapse before the balloon will reaen tne point or . poinLs where the exposures are to be made. The gas escapes, .and the balloon descends on the farther side of the fortress, within' the besiegers'! : lines. "Nvr York Tc'Tam. RANGE INSPECTORS. Detect ires of the FIin Whose Work Old i j Sleuth Himself Slight Eutj. Cplumn after column has been writ ten about the daring deeds, miraculous escApes and cunning capture of criTni- nals by the detectives of Europe and America. a In thousands of cases the praise accorded these officers for their ingenuity and daring has been deserved; buti there is a class of detectives in this country who risk their lives ofteher. and who must know not only the ways of the highwayman when he is in I the city, but also his haunts and his hiding places and his go-between in the thinly settled country as Well. These men are Ion the go almost j all; the time to day down in New Mexico looking for a horse thief, who is a murderer as well; next Week far across the Canadian j line on the trail of a gang of cattle thieves who have been despoiling the Montana or .Wyoming ranges. It is only in; the past ten or fif teen years that their worth has! been, appreciated 'or their services valued as they should be.; In the . early days of cattle raising in Wyoming and Colorado, whenever the range thieves became too bold,! the ranchmen for miles around would or ganize, get on the track of the thieves, run them to their holes and then shoot or; hang them. After a visitation o? this kind herds would be comparatively, safe f or;a time. Nevertheless - thousands of head,, of cattle' and horses were stolen each' year and shipped1 to Chicago, for which the rightful owners received not a cent. The stockmen of Wyoming or ganized a stock growers association and appointed for each county in the state a stock inspector. Colorado followed suit in a few yers, to be followed later by Montana. The duties! of these inspect ors were not to; look put. for' djseaseil cattle, but to inspect' every carload Pf cattle shipped out of t be state get a list of i the brands, who the consignee was ud report the facts to the secretary of associauon. ; , . There were pf course mistakes made at firstbut of late years so 'perfect has the system become that it is almost an impossibility for a thief to ship a head Pf beef by rail out of : Montana without de tection. Gradually the duties of the in spectors were addeatoji and in -addition to i watching: the shiproinir points thdy have become thief erSiV -FntoiiKj spectors are selectex1 trom "the" bravest. class of wjsi'm men j thoroughly con Y.ecRiit witn tne : country, ana men o intelligence. Their powers in Montana are equal to those of a deputy sheriff anq j their authority is . recognized al over tho state. j . Among the Montana inspectors are men! who could tell some thrillincr ' sto ries of their adventures, not only with horse and .cattle thieves, but with In dians as well. In point of continuous service Inspector W. D.. Smith, now the f representative of the Montana associa tion at Chicago, and whose headquarters wero formerly at Miles City, outranks his associates. He hasS been in the serv ice of the association some eight or ten years, previous to that time being an in specter in Wyoming. I He ja a" typical westerner, close mouthed and; without a particle of fear. ' He waks with a slight limp, and one unacquainted with his history, meeting hiin on the streets of Chicago, would almost immediately conclude ho was a cattle grower of moderate mea'ns, who was satisfied with life,: iattended strictly to his own busi ness and would be the last person one would pick out of a crowd as tho most noted trailer of cattle 4nd horse thieves in lupntana. neiena inuepenaeni;. ; The Wise Lady ot! Kalam azoo. She had come down Sfrom Kalamazoo and was seeking quarters in a Detroit hotelJ . She was about 'fifty and the years!' had taught her! great conserva tism' and caution. '' .. ; V "Is this a safe tavern to stop in?" she inquired of the chivalrous clerk, who was at that moment Wearing his ; dia mond pin on his back, or rather the coat for Whose value the pin was collateral. "In! what respect, madam?" he asked "Fire,. of 0Xurse," she said suspicious ly, j ' Ain't anything else to be af eard of, is there?" .';','! . j: i "Oh, certainly not, madam; certainly not' he hastened to assure her. - "And as to fire, our house s abfolutely fire proof, and j even if it was not, we have firejescapes everywhere.". . "Fife escapes!" she exclaimed with a gasp, reaching for her bundles. "Well, if your dratted house I is fireproof what have you got escapes for the fire for? I s'pope youVe got burglar escapes too. I guess 1 don't want to sleep in no taverns like!; this. Good eveniri,' and away she went, leaving the clerk? in a perfect halo of despair and disappointment. Detroit Free Press, r . ' ;i Kxerclse and Pure'Alr. i Exercise, as well as pure air, helps us in pur constant struggle against the poisons that we manufacture within ourselves. . It does this by driving the blood charged with oxygen, by means of the pressure of the muscles called info play, rhore thoroughly jthrpugh the tis suej and thus it would quicken the breaking down of dead tissue into its safe! and final waste products (water, carbonic acid and urea), and shorten the period during which jthe dead tissue was passing through various dangerous forms which it temporarily assumes. From this fact we ' may infer that the than of sedentary life above all others reouires .Miure air. Popular Science Monthly. . I i : v. . j A rneumatie Sole. A pneumatic inner sole for boots and shoes has recently appeared in London. It ik inflated with air ; cjr gas under pres rure, the external protective covering being canvas linen or some other suita ble material that can withstand the pres sure. New York Times. ':'';' Silver-In Soot. ' In an Irish lead mine, whenever the periodical cleaning of the.tall chimney and! the underground tonnel communi cating with it takes place, hundreds of pounds' worth of silver; particles are dis- covered in the soot -bonaon, nt-juus. pearteV- Innocent Trattla. An exceedingly! pretty and graceful young vroman and a little girl of per haps five years of age, boarded a Tre mont street, electrio yesterday after noon, and the car being nearly empty . walked up to the forward end and took a seat ! where thd young miss could watch the xnotorman twist and untwist the brake and turn on and of! tho elec tric current ; i .' She watched him with the deepest in terest for a long time, and when the car started without the aid of horses, or any visible signs of power, sho became deep ly perplexed. I J . . "ilamma," sho said, "what makes thiscarjgd?" ! j "This; is an electric, dearie. Electric ity makes it go. 1 "Mamma," said the little miss, after a long silence, "we learn moron and more'n every day! don't we?" j . "Yes dearie,!! toarnma ; answered,, with a far away look in her eyea. ' I "Did you pass that bad quarter -on thd conductor?" , dearie queried after that individjaal had just gone by collecting j tho fares. Every person in the car 1 heard her and tried hard not to Bmile. "Papa said if the conductor wouldn't take itjyota could pass irn tho contribu tion box next , Sunday. Could you do that, mamma?' I j MflTnrn signaled the conductor just then. ! 'As they were getting , off dearie, was telling mamma that those three red ' haired j women -wero awfully homely, and when the car started off again tho red haired women brushed even redder than their hair, and a strange, undefina- ble constraint pervaded the car until tho last red haired .woman had irot off. which jwals somewhere near tho end of the route. Boston Herald. , Taking Advantage of the Tear. Ovefthe line in Paulding, Oa.,J th ero lived ri widow whose name, wo believe, was Brown. But it is not Brown now. Sho is there no more, nor is she a widow any more forever. Sho was fat and fair, but not forty. About three weeks ago there came along a middle aged widower of fine' mien andr prepossessing appear ance, ! Ostensibly he stopped for ft drink of water at 1 the well. Tho widow, in the goodness of jheart,- kindly gavo him the Water. Her looks pleased him, and at once to business ho went Neither one ever saw the other before.. lie ask- fecfJier if she was married. Sho told him no, t? she was a lono widow. ' WhrPO.n ho infprnied her,' that ho was !a widcwer huntingv for a wife. "Yes, jsirl w-alV inv Hero wo drop tho curtain, in heff pwn language, how even1 we give thoVsult: "U is sunicicnt to say this is leap year, youn'owlr&ti at 8 o'clock that night we 'twain wero made W.' Wo fixed it all . right thero and then. . Tomorrow sho leaves for his home. ' Where it is or what sort it is or ' whether ho his one, sho knoweth not. She says "marpago is a lottery any how" Sho was on pUr streets yester day as gay as! a lark.f Now, who can beat a widow "for business' when sho is in dead earnest? -Atlanta Constitution. Female Jete Notldnsr better firusXratcs tho dullnc kh- pf society in tho Mkldle Ages than tho custom nsed j by all high placed and ' wealthy persons of peeping a proffs sional . jester, nor was it confined to Christendom, ; for wo read that Cort-z found an individual of this profession ' at the court of Montezuma. Our fnol- ern clowns, though yery different from the licensed jesters or old, owo to them, ot course, their origin; but, so far ns 1 know tho femalo jester,,-who wai in , , voguo before tho male, has no prrwnt representative. I . . . Wearo.told by. Erasmus that in ul the gTeat inns on" tho Continent therb was j in his timo a femalo official of this descriptionj who enlivened tho com- pany as sho waited at tablo by witti cisms and repartee. It should bo added, however, that she was generally young and pretty. So late as 183S, wo read in Mrs. I Hornby's ''Travels" that sho found . a femalo jester at Constantinople, who ; was exceedingly amusing. Lond-.- I..; lustrated News. I Animals' I'jet Tlmg Trains, 4Yes, wo have a good deal of txicri- ence with wild animals,'" remarked uit engineer, "but not so thrilling as that of the engineers on; western roads when tho buffalo was common on. tho plains. But there is enough still 'left of wild anim.il life to rnake it interesting. Tho eyes of the wolf, coyote, wildcat, jack raMiit, polecat and other animals look likoa-rcd light! when facing tho headlight Did not these animals quickly undeceive us by turning their heads, an engineer might think his train was being flacked and stop his engine. Tho wolf, wildcat and coyote are quick and jump from tho track, but the jack rabbit is Jes fortu nate. The headlight rfaas a strango fas cination for this animal and often it ii killed.? Denver News. i An Cleetriral t'lncer. An e iecincai uugur.iur sarujii ui i' cI ' has recently been invented. A bulb, at tached, to a long probe, is attacb-d to a ringer stall. Tho bulb is double and the outer skin is flexible. Tho two layers are connected with opposite riolcs of tho battery.X'and wires connect the inner" layer; with the linger tip. Ireuro at tnj point closes the circuit and th elec trical current is tranamittod to a corro iponding point on tho linger. Tho ur- geon I has thus ! a means of feeling. and measuring things which ho can neither see nor reach by ordinary means. Phil adelphia Ledger.! ' . - J j A Sarprld OOlclal.' Tho following fctory is credited to Con grefsman Boutelle', of Maine; ; . There Was once a sccretiry of the nary from ! an interior state. IIo had never seen a shipbefcro arriving in WaAhing ton. Somo, vr'ecki after his Induction into bffice, he visited a hip of war. Af ter landing on the main deck ho looked down tho main hatch and settued great ly astonished "Never dreamed," ho 6aid, f'that tho durned thing was hol low.' , attcncccc by the first of the year of growth of said seed. . t vear ful street. ..r ..' i i . f r
The Durham Weekly Globe (Durham, N.C.)
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June 8, 1892, edition 1
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