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GUT.
THE LAST CALL,
I Lave come to call on Kitty,
Eut that damsel isn't in
"'Gone to granima's on an errand,"
tavs her sister, with a grin;
Then this miss, half girl, half woman,
"With a wholly tomboy air, '
Seats herself and disconcerts me
With a long and awful Btare.
Does she know what I am tbinkiqsj
As I fidget 'neath her look ?
Can this dani3el read my feelings
From my face as from a book ?
7'lien she knows what I have come for,
( ornprehends the state I'm in,
And the pleasure it affords her
Quite explains that horrid grin,
'"i'y yr.ii want to see my sister,"
Say.-: to me, by-and-by,
Wi'Ji a hilly little snicker,
And a twinkle in her eye.
Vm, I want to neo your sister,"1
Is my answer, low and faint,
A i:d my wits and words forsake m
r She's enough to vex a saint).
' Lots of fellows come to see her''
Lover's heart arrayed in crape),
And the grin with which she says it
Would do credit to an ape.
'Hairy Jones was here last evening,
And In staid, and staid, and staid.1
'li. th-.- clietrfsil information
furnished by this charming maid I
' vjjcit they said good night I saw 'em"-
Here fche giggles in delight.
; J yu.i ever ki.-s my sister
W h.-n you think you're out of sight ?'
Oh. tlx awful thought that stabs me
T.i the hea.t does Kitty Green
Let M'ine other fellow kiss her
v.'hiu she thinks she isn't seen?
' Tlifie (o i es Kitty. Oh, good gracious !' '-
With her hand unon her mouth
To l:e t-p the laugh that shakes her
A earthquake docs the South.
I'uDiiny Brown is coming with her,
To i't yon wish you had a gun ?
My ! when I have beaux, like Kitty,
Won't 1 have a lot of fun !"'
Ik. irtk'ss wretch, to laugh at anguisl
' h as wrings a lover's heart !
I -.hi and ho:ie are in a struggle
I tarry or depart ?
I'o bew itching Kitty love ine.
As she led me to believe,
t)i is she a flirt, ele!ighting
i i:d, IMc'i, Harry to deceive?'-
"Oh, r.iy goodness! did you see that ?''
Cries this e'amsel, wonder-eyed.
Ne t a word have I to utter
1 onLt ha; conquered, love has dieel.
Wbi-re's my fancy for her sister'
It has vanished in a trice,
I'm- i'ehin.l the lilao bushes
Tommy Brown has kissed her twice.
"I i :r.st gf," J say: "good evening,"
And I make a swift retreat
Te i le music of a snicker
That is anything but sweet
An 1 I cross the thr sholJ, conscioui
f a nameless little pain
Is i! wrath, or is it sorrow?
Tj a giggled "Call again."
Harpers Weekly.
A Mexican Bandit,
EDGAR WOODhad
2.000 biker dollars in
M s ton dollar rolls nicely
packed in a valise
with a few toilet
articles, and 12,000
in bank notes anel
bills of exchange
snugly" sowed intc
a thin belt worn
person .
In an outside
b-lt. elegnntlv embroidered, he wore a
r : V i 1 i l i.
nijiviiMj jeweieu ieuiei, wienuuieii iu
1 be useful as a weapon sit long range, iu
tli.' !i;u).l of a self-coIlceteJ man resting
'ind. r -:ife shelter.
J As to ( thT peisonul furniture, hip
J eon:!', ul able , figure . was adornetl with a
tint- gold watch, possessing a national
I H'i'u tiit ion fer beauty an el value through -I
fut the pu!)liei of Mexico, and a hat
I coven d with geld lace and bangles that
J made it the envy of all the beaux in
I town.
I Under these conditions Mr. Edgar
J Woo l entered the ten -mule stage that
$ stoo l in the patio of the Hotel Iturbide,
J f r si trip down the country to pay off
."',00 laborers a month's wages.
The stage started. The, wealthy con
. tractor was alone that morning. "This
month, ho consielered, "will cost mp
S20,OW, for which outlay the Govern
ment pays me 8100,000, which is 80,000
' clear gain. In two more I shall be in
good trim, and I shall ask olel Juarez
for Emilia. I think she admired me
last nioht when I said my adieu." And
- lie lo ked at his pistol, his fine watch
and elegant hat, and a rifle ball whistled
through the conch window, followed by
, a commanel of "Pararse!" (halt).
There is no discussing such an order
given under such circumstances.
It was not possible for Mr. Wood to
Bay just how lie looked, but he felt very
'pale, when a pleasant, gentlemanly
voice at the window inquired: "Havel
the honor of addressing Senor Edgaro
Wood.'"
- "That is my name, sir."
"Ah, Don Edgaro, I am sorry to have
to molest you in your journey, but won't
Jou ilo me the favor to alight for a mo
.Mlr" -V' t theie ouo quality
7hwh that geatlemaa prided km
:ii ut his
ygr:- iv 14 ' l
more than on another it was the 6upe
riority of his manners. He was known
as the polite American of Mexicoj and
bo, when addressed a Bimple request in
such courteous terms, he was fain to
comply.
He therefore alighted, and tried to do
so promptly, but his motions were not
eo graceful as usual; there seemed a
tremulous excitement, almost a stagger,
in his movements, when he looked
about him .
Four men, armed with cutlasses
rifles and revolvers 6tood ready to re
ceive him. The upper half of each face
was covered with a black mask. They
were evidently natives, save one whose
head, broader than the others fit the
temples, and ruddy face below the
mask, ending in a thin, frouzly, tow
colored goatee, eeemed to indicate an
Englishman. Mr. Wood, noting him
carefully, thought he had seen him be
fore, but failed in any attempt to place
him.
"Senor Wood," said the spokesman,
advancing, "I am pleased to greet you,
and regret that you are not able tb re
ciprocate the cordial sentiments I enter
tain for you. I must say, Amiguillo,
you wear a charming hat, and such
things are so common to you that I am
sure there will be no objection to an ex
change. See what a poor thing I wear,
ana so un suited to my years and posi
tion in society ! It fits well, too. And
also, Senor Wood, you are said to pos
sess an excellent watch; that, sir, would
be an extremely convenient article to
have in my profession, that I may be
prompt in meeting the stage, and thus
avoid tiresome watching. I will accept
it, with your permission."
Mr. Wood was rapidly learning to
adapt himself to circumstances. He
knew he must submit to being stripped,
so, handing over the watch with the best
grace possible, he said, with a smile and
a bow, 'May I present you with a pis
tol, as good as there is in the republic,
except your own ?"
"Ah, senor, now you flatter me; I ac
cept it in your name, Amiguillo. And
also, senor, I admire your coat; let us
exchange. Your trousers, too, will fit
me nicely, ami your boots, even a little
large, will be better than these. Have
the goodness to be seated on my old
coat, and we will assist you in removing
them; Aye are experienced valets."
To have observed the face of Mr. Ed
gar Wood now, you would have thought
he was engaged in a frolic. He used to
6ay, in telling this story, that he felt all
through the performance as if he were
being joked by a friend.
"Anel now," continued the ladrone,
"we will trouble you, Senor Wood, to
pass out your valise, if you will be so
obliging.""
Mr. Wood hesitated for the first time,
and looke'l around, but thero was no
mercy; the muzzles of three pieces
looked into his jyes, while" he replied:
"Very well, gentlemen, if you insist."
He handed out the heavy valise, which
was taken asido by the Mexicans, while
the English-looking thief kept guard at
the stage door. When the precious
cargo was removed to a short distance
from its owner, the sentinel muttereel to
him in English: "If you give me 82,000,
unseen, from your belt, j-ou can have
the rest; otherwise, I'll fix every dollar
you've got."
Mr. Wood felt sure he had somewhere
seen the face, of which the mouth and
chin were exposed, but if he suspecteil
the truth, he kept it to himself, and
quietly hamleil over the mpnej to the
man.
In a few minutes the nearly empty
valise was returned, anel the party bade
the traveller adieu, and wished him a
safe journey. In his disagreeable fix he
could only ride till lie met the return
stage and c;o with it to the capital, un
der the shelter of a shawl lent him by a
sympathetic laely among the passengers,
with whom, at noon, he - entered the
patio, from which lie had so exultingly
sallied in the early morning. The idle
populace, as usual, rushed in with the
stage, and witnessed the discomfiture of
the American, as he darted across the
pavement to the nearest entrance of the
hotel and made his way to his room.
When Mr. Wood emerged therefrom,
he niaele his way to the English bank, to
deposit the papers saed in his belt, and
there encountered the second surprise of
the day. The teller who received and
credited him with the amount was the
counterpart of the English' robber of the
morning; bat he had no beard, nor
couhl Wooel recall that he had ever seen
him adorned with that symptom of
manhood. It was impossible that he
should be a ladrone his position in the
bank, his easy, self-possessed manner,
not brazen, but natural and innocent.
No, it was a mistake.
The next day, there being several
Mexican merchants to start for Vera
Cruz, Mr. Henry Yorke, of Wood k Co.,
was dispatched with them in the morn
ing stage. He went well armed, and
had the name of being a fighting man.
But as yet no crowd of Mexican passen
gers had frightened a band of robbers
from its enterprise, anel so, at sunrise,
Yorke discovered two small squads of
horsemen bearing down on the stage
from opposite directions.
"There are six of them," he said,
"and we are nine men, with only one
woman. Are we to fight, gentlemen, or
shall we surrender?"'
"Mexicans never surrender," cried
oue of them. "We will fight to the last
drop of blood." f
"Yes, always," answered the other
eight. ;
"I shall be killed; oh, I shall be
killed:" shrieked the frightened wo
man. "We shall defend yon, senora," they
declared. The horsemen drew near.
All were masked and armed. One party
assed the coach, wheeled, and instant
ly returned. Meanwhile Yorke sprang
from the stage, which had stopped, and,
calling to his fellow passengers to join
him, fired his rifle at the nearest of the
gang and killed him. He then began
discharging his revolver as they closeel
in on him, and looking about for his
companions, discovered them all in their
seats, pallid spectators of his reckless
ness. In another instant a pistol ball
struck him down.
Evielcntly the ladrone had only con
tempt for the Mexican passengers, for
they rode directly forward to the fallen
American, whose body they mercilessly
hacked to pieces with their sabers, for a
warning to all who resisted their rob
b'Ties. The euti: o treasure of Wood & Co, was
l:!;'2 fjom tlif person of Yorke and his
valise j and the passengers, the lady not
excepted, were robbed of every article!
they possessed, even to their outer cloth- j
mg. wnen the laclrones left, their cap
tain opened an embroidered jacket, re
vealing the form of a woman, and cried
out with a sneer; "You are men.
Adios!"
When the stage, returning, entered
the patio of the Hotel Iturbide with the
body of Mr. Y'orke, it was met by Mr.
Wood, to whom the lady declared that
his partner had been killeel by an Eng
lishman of the band, whose lower face
was ruddy and thin, ending in a little
shadowy beard; that he had reached into
the coach and shot Yorke in the back,
through the open doorwav of the oppo
site side, as he was firing rapidly at the
gang, and that as he withdrew his beard
dropped from his chin and she had se
cured it.
At 10 o'clock that morning he went to
the English bank with the Woman and
presented a check for payment. As the
teller laid down the money he saw the
little wad of bearel on the counter,
picked it up, and, looking at it curious
ly, said: "What is this?" At the same
moment Mr. Wood discovered that his
companion trembled violently and was
becoming alarmingly pale, and lost no
time in leaving the bank.
The woman was sure of the identity
of the man, and would listen to no pos
sibility of her mistake. As for Mr. Ed
gar W oexl, he was confounded, but did
the customary thing, and set an EDglish
detective upon the track of Mr. Carlos
Watfils, the teller of the English Bank
of Mexico.
The next payment fent to the line in
charge of a paymaster and a mounted
guard, of whom the chief was one of
the most successful ladronos of Mexico;
he gave safe conduct to the treasure, for
which he was well paid.
Two months passed. No outward
sign indicated any depravity on the part
of Mr. Watfils. He lived modestly, and
seemed a retiring, rather Rtudious man.
His sole dissipation was his horseback
ride eaeh morning and night.
.The time had come for another pay
ment to the men of the contractor, and
again Wood determined to go in person
with the money, anel by stage. This
time he selected a day when a fair com
plement of Mexican men, having com
mercial relations with Vera Cruz, would
travel, and -went accompanied also by
two Americans, armed with rifles ami
revolvers.
The English detective, with a com
panion, both well armeel, rode out in the
same direction a half hour after the stage
left. The road had not been so infested
of late, but the Americans unelerstood
the danger to which they were exposed
in the transportation of treasure, and
made their disposition accordingly. Mr.
Wood and one companion occupied the
front seat of the coach, looking to the
rear. The third man of the party sat
with the driver, being a crack shot with
a Winchester ritle.
When thoy stoppeel for coffee, at 8
o'clock, no one had appeared to molest
the stage or create suspicion. As they
left the little inn the detective appeared
in sight, but the stage made no delay,
anil the party was again on their way.
Sudelenly the inside passengers de
tected the effort of the driver to stop his
cumbrous team, and hearel the voice of
the American by his side to shout to
him, "If you stop I'll kill you; drift: on
and drive harel." Then a rifle shot, and
another shout as he passeel down his
rifle and called for a fresh one, whieh'he
received at once.
Mr. Wooel anel his companions, look
ing from the coach, saw they were pur
sued by eight horsemen, who were now
within 200 yards at the rear. Leaning
from the coach window he cried out to
the driver, "If those fellows catch me
you are a dead man!'' The threat tolel
wonderfully on the speed of the team.
Meanwhile the band approached, and
the three Americans fired together,
throwing tho ladrones into confusion
anel forcing a halt; but they rallied at
once, and six horsemen of the eight were
drawing near when the driver's compan
ion by another shot brought a man to
the ground. At this moment the detect
ive and his guard appeared in the rear
of the banel, and Mr. Wooel ordered the
driver to slow down. The robliers dis
covered the trick, for, turning, they saw
the re-enforcement in the rear, anel lost
no time leaving the road and making off
across the valley toward the mountains.
The stage met no further adventure,
and Mr. Wood was able to return to
Mexico in a week. The afternoon of
his arrival he accompanied the English
bank manager and the detective to the
hospital at Guadalupe, and found there,
to the surprise of the manager, the tel
ler, Mr. Carlos Watfils, suffering from a
shattered leg.
If Mr. Watfils. were tried in Mexico.it
is by no means certain that conviction
could lie secured under its laws. It
was, indeed, a chance if the Americans
might not be made to suffer for killing
men who had not attacked them. In
this view of the case, Mr. Watfils was
sent across the water with the English
officer, and having been convicted in
London of the crime of counterfeiting,
was sentenced to twenty years penal ser
vitude. The Argonaut.
Leap Tear.
"Charley is coming to see me to-night,"
remarked Ella. "I don't know why I
feel so nervous about it, but I have a
presentiment that something's going to
happen."
"Oh, there's no use feeling nervous
alout it if you've made up your mind to
do it," nnswereel Clara. "Very likely
; he'll say yes; he was always eoft. 'Nac
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS-
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Sewi Collected by Wire and Mali From
All Paris of Dixie.
NORTH C'AROMNA.
All arrangements have been completed
for the immediate erection of a cotton mill
at Salisbury. The capital stock is
$150,000.
Davis Brinkley and Charles Lawrence,
young white men of Catawba county,
who are charged with burglary, have
been taken to Charlotte jail for safe keep
ing, rumors being in circulation at New
ton of threatened lynching and 1po
rescue by their friends.
L. L. I'olk, State Secretary of the
Farmers' Alliance, reports that there are
four hundred anel thirty-six alliances in
North Carolina, with sixteen thousand
five hundred members.
The Auditor's report will show that
there are forty-nine railways in North
Carolina. Two of thse are exempt from
taxation.
Near Battleboro, a few nights ago, W.
I. House was struck by the mail train
while he was sitting on the track ap
parently asleep. His injuries are very
serious.
It is learned that several suits for dam
age in large amounts are to be institute!
against the Chester and Lenoir Narrow
Gauge Railway. These grew out of an
accident near Hickory a few weeks since,
wherein the train folf through the trestle
and ail was burned.
William Ellis, a young white man,
has made a confession that he robbed the
postoflice at Floral College, Robertson
county. He stated that he had hidden
the stolen property, money, stamps and
registered letters, in the church near by.
His statement was true, and the property
has nearly all been recovered.
An attempt was made some days ago
to wreck the train on the Scotland Neck
Branch Railway, near Fillery. The
switch leading to the gravel pit was
opened by force, the train ran into the
pit, wrecking six flat cars and two box
cars. The passenger cars did not leave
the rails, but several passengers were se
verely shaken up.
In Winnsboro in the case of the State
versus Charles Veal, charged with as
sault with outrageous intent, the jury,
after a half hour's deliberation, returned,
a verdict of guilty, and the Judge sen
tenced him to ten years at hard lalor in
the panitentiary.
There arc to be many interesting fea
ture's al the Craven county fish, oyster
and game fair, which comes off on the
13th, I4th, and 15th of March. A tour
nament, a street parade of one of the
most efficient fire departments inthe south
anel a glsss ball and clay pigeon sheoting.
Special low rates over railroael and steam
boat lines in the state, and excursion
rates from Hints north have been secur
ed. Joe Horry, a noted negro desperado,
was killed by the superintendent of the
state penitentiary farm, near Columbia.
He was evielently intent 011 robbery, if
not on murder. 3Ir. Davis, the sujerin
tendent, on his approach ordered him to
halt, but the warning was unheeded.
After he was &hot , Horry ran some dis
tance. He was a terror to the ncighlior
hood and his death by violence occasions
little surprise or regret.
SOTTII CAROLINA.
Cieorgc Sims, who is wanted by the
Atlanta officers far larceny, has been ar
rested at Greenville by Detective Sch lap
back. About six miles freni Abbeville
a negro about twenty-one. years old,
named JaS. Wharton, shejt a small negrei
boy 12 years olel, named Nathan McClin
ton. The ball went in at the right shoul
der, but it has not been found yet by the
attending physician. The doctor consid
ers the wound mortal Then- was 110 ap
parent cause for the shooting A war
rant has boon issued, and it is thought
that "Wharton will lie arrested.
A curious complication has arisen in a
murder case peneling in Lexington coun
ty, in S. C. Dixon Addy was con
victed of manslaughter in killing Jescph
Swygert at a political barbecue in
He appealed to the supreme court anel
got a new trial. When the case was
calleel up at Lexington, it was
discovered that the indictment and other
papers were lost. The case cannot Ik?
tried without the indictment, nor can a
new indictment be written out until a
nolle prosequi be entered and written on
the olel paper itself. It looks now as if
Addy can never be tried again, anel there
is considerable talk about it. Noboely
undertakes to guess w ho abstracted the
papers, but the suspicion is that some
friend of Addy did it to help him out of
his very bad case. His lawyers are men
of high characters, and there is no sus
picion whatever of them .
GEORGIA.
The monument to them memory of the
late Bishop Pierce will be erected in
Sparta on the 1st of next September.
The citizens of Sugar Valley arresteel
Henry Kinnebrew, a negro house-breaker,
nnel brought him to Calhoun 'with a
chain around his neck last week. Their
J experience with a former prisoner taught
them the lesson that it would not do to
trust a prisoner, and hence the chain.
Two miles north of Crayfish Springs,
on the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus
Railroad, Jess McGugin and Taylor
Camp, both colored, quarreled about a
bridle. McGugin got his pistol anel shot
Camp through the heart. Camp died in
stantly. McGugin has skipped the
country.
A little negro girl on Dr. Steve Jack
son's place, in Oconee county, was
burned to death by her clothing taking
fire while in the house. She ran out,
but before the flames could be extin
guished she was fco badly burned that the
died isx a short time.
MH'THERN BRIEF.".
Two copies of the Cleveland issue of
the Sanford Fla. Journal will V printed
on satin, and presented to President and
Mrs. Cleveland as a souvenir of their vis
it to the Gate City of South Florida.
An attempt was made to rob the St.
Louis, Arkansas and Texas express train
at Kingsland, Ark. It is said that the
messenger locked the doors but the rob
bers smashed them in and robbed the
car of two thousand dollars.
A special to the Galveston, Tex. News
from Tenaha says: "Tom Forsyth, the
munlerer of Treasurer Hill, w as taken
from the Panola connty jail by a mob of
two hundred men and hangeel.
Mr. Davenport teacher of a public school
at Rome, Miss., eiellcd one or two pu
pils reerntly.
Friends of the teacher on the one hand
and those of the expelled parties on the
other met at the schoolhouse, and, after
matters wore thought to be satisfactorily
arranged, some ditficnlty occurred. James
Bailey. Jr., fired 6ix charges from his
pistol, instantly killing R. A. Rutledge
and fatally wounding his son.
MIRTH. EAKT AND WKST
The sheet mill f the Reaeling Pa. iron
works has suspended, throwing 275 inon
out of employment.
Smallpox is reported as raging in Ha
vana. Two thousand deaths occurred
from the dreaded disease between May last
and January, 1888.
It is rumored at Washington that fun
eral John Newton, superintendent of
public works, is to be appointed super
intendent of the coa?t suivoy.
Work on tho new gunboat Y'orkton
anel a dynamite crusier, at Cramp's ship
yard, Philadelphia, has progressed so
rapidly that they will be launched with
in a month.
Eighteen men were injured by the ox
plosion of dynamite in a rock cut on
Fourth street, Duluth, Minn.
The roof of a nearly completcel hotel at
Kansas city. Mo., cllapsed and crushed
through eight stories to the ground. One
workman was killed anel about a dozen
injured.
At Salimanca. N, Y., the second larg
est fires that over occurred in the town
broke out at 12 30 o'clock yesterday
mornicg. The builelings burnerl wore the
OjKra House block, post office, Nies's
block and other buildings. Loss, $75,000;
insurance. $35,000.
Five shares of the New York Sun Pub
lishing Company, par value $1,000 each,
were sohl at the New York Real Estate
Exchange for $3,350 each.
The AVisconsin Supreme Court has d'
clared inoperative the law enacted by the
last legislature, which permittee! habit
ual elrunkards to be confined in an asy
lum not to excodc two years.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
at San Frane-isco, Cal., the other day.
The shock is also rejorted from several
joints north of that city, where it was
more severe and caused persons to rush
from their houses in alarm.
Governor Green, of New Jersey, has
vetoed the local option high license bill
which the Republicans had passed as a
caucus measure.
IIONOKIMJ A UOOD MAN.
Funeral olMr. t'orcoran-Mr. Cleveland
Attendn the Service.
The funeral ef Mr. AV. W. Cerceran
teiok place late from his residence
in Washington. D. C. In accor
dance with ihe wish of the de
ceased the ceremonies were simple and
devoid of all ostentation. Amorg the
floral tributes was a large pillow sent bv
Mrs. Cleveland. The services were con-
fined to the form laid down in tho Kpis
copal ritual. There was no aeUlrcss.
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Church, conducted the services with the
issistanee of Bishop Parol anel Rev. Dr.
Stuart, of Christ church, Georgetown.
Mrs. Cleveland was present eluring the
services and hor carriage was in long dra
pery, which followed the remains to the
grave. She was escortoel by Secretary
Kndieott anel stooel eluring the services
in the house very near the hrael of the
casket. Chief justice Waite, Se-nators
Barbour, Eustis and many other persons
of note, were assembled in the parlers of
the mansion during the service. There
was a large representation present of va
rious organizations with which the de
ceased was connected, anel which he had J
aideel. Uon the arrival of the funeral
cortege at Hill Cemetary, the casket was ,
placed in the chapel, and it
will be placed in ihe vault, 'next to
one containing the remains of Mrs. Cor
coran. A touching incielent was the
'presence at the grave and the singing of
the chilelren of the City trphan asylum.
Seeing in 1 lie Dark.
The following cases of seeing in the
dark arc well authenticated : Dr. Seiler
relates that a clergyman was one pitch
dark night attacked by a couple of foot
pads. One of them dealt him so violent
a blow on the right eye, that, owing to
the excitation of the optic nerve, he
was enabled to identify his assailants and
bring them to justice. Suetonius,speak
ing of the Emperor Tiberius, says:
"The expression of his face was noble;
he had very large eyes withwhich.strange
to say, he was able to see at night and in
the dark, though only for a short time,
and immediately on waking out of sleep;
they afterward grew dim again.' Cu
menius relates the case of a young fiddler
who received a sudden blow on his right
eye by the snapping of one of the strings
of h:s instrument. lie suffered great
pain, and cn awaking the following
night thebcelroom appeared lighted up,
and he cou'd distinctly trace the pattern
of the wall paper; on closing his right
eye all was dark again; on reopening it
be saw as before. Argonuu.
A new tanning agent, called pyrof us
cine, has been extracted from coal-dust
by means of caustic sod i. The tanning
process is somewhat complicated, but it
is claimed to be fifty per cent, cheaper
than the bark pro-.css, anel twenty to
thirty per cent, cheaper thaa the Alum
process.
WASHINGTON
gossip from uncle sam s' cap
itol What Hr ftasr Law Maker are Doing.
Coogreealoaal aad Other New.
Orders have leon issued for the dis
continuance ef a number of signal ser
vice stations. Pcnsacola, Fla., is the only
one in the South. The remainder are in
the North and Northwest. The scarcity
of money is the cause.
The bill to appropriate an additional
1 75, COO for the Chattanooga public
building has passed the coromitte of the
whole. This gives Chattanooga an ap
propriation in all of $275,000. There arc
now only five public buildings on the
calendar aheael of Mr. Grimes', and bis
will be voted on in the house about Tues
day or Wednesday. Mr. Grimes has
many friends in the house and, this to
gether with the true merit in the bill
makes its passage doubly assured.
The civel service commissioner gives
notice that it will hold examinations fer
applicants for positions in departmental
service at Washington, who, in adelition
to rdinary clerical attainments, have a
knowledge of stenography and type
writing at the following times and pla
ces in the south: Birmingham. Ala.,
Thursday, March 8; Chattanooga, Tcnn.,
Saturday, March 10; Knoxville, Tcnn..
Tuesday. Mcrch 13; Nashville, Tenn.,
Tuesday, March 13; Memphis, Tcnn.,
Thursday, March 13.
The President has signeel an onler
placing employees of the civil service
commission in tho classified departmental
service. This is the first act of tho Pros
idenl under the new rules anl regula
tions, and it is understood to be prelimi
nary to an order placing uneler civil ser
vice rules the Intcr-State commerce com
mission, the Indian school service anel all
fthcr commissions and bureaus which
wore organized independent of the exec
utive elopartments at Washington, as
contemplated by the new rules.
The will of the late W. W. Corcoran
has been fileel and admitted to probate.
The only public bequests are $100,000 to
the Corcoran art gallery, to which Mr.
Corcoran had already given $1,500,000;
$50,000 to the Ixmi'sc Home, to which
Mr. Corcoran jravc in his life half a mil
lion dellars: $5,000 each to the three
orphan asylums of the district, and $3,
000 to the Little Sisters of the Poor. He
makes many ixuests, ranging from $100
to $15,000,to relatives, personal friends
anel servants. The remainder of the es
tate is left in trust for his three grand
children. The World's Dpest Well?.
The deepest well diillcel in the I'nitod
States is that of George Westinghouso,
at Ilomcwood near the city of Pittsburgh,
which, on Dec. 1, Igstf, had reached a
depth of -l,t18 fect, when the tools were
lost anl drilling ceased. The Buchanan
farm well of the Niagara Oil Company,
drilleel by Frederick Crocker in Hope
well township, Washington county, is
4,03 feet deep.
The Rush Well of the Niagara Oil
Company in Washington county was
abandonee! at 3.300 feet. The deep well
of Jonathan Watson, near Titusville,was
drilled about 2.500 feet. J. M. Guffey
& C'o.s well on the Walz farm at West
Newton, Westmorclaud county, was
drilled to a depth of 3.303 fect. The
well of Isaic Wi.lets at Sargent's Mills,
near Sycamore, in Greene county, was
abandoned at 3,003 feet.
The deepest bore hole in Europe is at
Schladcbach, near Kotschau station, on
the railway between Corbctha and Leip
zig, and w as undertaken bj the Prussian
government, .n eareu xur
fPPra,tBu9 lTls a T'lV,3
1 'I.
rising again to the surface outside the
shaft of the drill and inside the tube in
which the dr'.ll works.
By this method cores of about fifty foot
in length have been ontaned. The aor
, , , . , . . . r v .
age length bored in twenty-four hours is
from twenty to thirty-three fcot, but
under favorable circumstances as much
as 180 feet has been bored in that time.
Other deep holes arc as follows:
TVmmitz, near Wettin
I'rebat-Jesar, Mee-klenburK
Snerenberg, near Zosen
1'nseburjr, near Stassfurt
Lieth-Elmshorn, Holstein
ft.
..3.2S7
. .3,9.i7
..4.17ft
.4,242
4.3IW
4,515
Schlaelebach
-Progressive Age.
Cannibal Island Currency.
Mr. Walter Coote has described forae
curious moneys of the New Hebrides and
the Solomon Islands. Cn one of the isl
ands he noticed a neatly-kept house,
which he was told was the money house.
Entering it, he found a number of maps
hanging from the roof, beneatUwhich
a fire was constantly kept up, under the
effect of which thy lccomecoverel with
a black, glistening coating and adorned
with festoons of soot. It was a man's
business to keep the fire always burning,
and so low as not to scorch the maps. A
well-colored map is worth about as much
as a well-grown, vigoromboar. This is
the strangest of a!l kinds of money, for
it must never be taken from the money
house, even when the title of it istrans
ferreel from one owner to another. The
inhabitants of Kan fa Cm"! Island use for
money, rope-ends, about an inch thick,
and ornamented with scarlet feathers,
which arc worn alout the waist. The
traveler coulel not obtain new ceins of
this kind, but found them current every
where. The specimens he bought were
already old, and the feathers grown
dingy. The money of the Solomon Isl
ands consisted of neatly-worked p'eces
of shell of about the si.e of our shirt
buttons. They arc strung on strings
about four yarels long, acd are distin
guished uneler the name of red and
white money. Dog-teeth a-e of higher
value, and comparable to our gold coins.
They are usually worn on a siring around
the neck. Mr. Coote saw a necklace of
this kind that was valued at about $100.
Marble lings are also worn for orna
ments, and as valuable money.
. It is estimated that pin factories in
New England turn out 10,800,000,000
pins yearly and that other factories in the
States bring the number op to 18,000.
0eo,000 more. This is equal to one trio
a day for every inhabitant Jn the United
THE JOKER'S nUMlET.
A BATCH OF GOOD THINGS TOLn
BYTHK FVXXY MEN.
Made a Mistake-Tlie Parbor wa
There A Fatal Delay A Con fla
(ration The Leaf Torn Ont, F.tc.
KlMiE OF THE EVENING.
Old Gentleman (calling ilown th?
stairs) Clara, didn't I hear that young
man go just now
Daughter Yes, papa, you heard hiro
go to the cellar for more ceml. Epo-l.
A srnrnisF.n rARTr.
A few days back a woman rushed oul
of a house into tho street anel informed
a constable; t!t it her husband had elied
suddenly. The officer enteral the domi
cile, examined the " remains," and
rinehel the "body V nse very hard.
The body" reaenteel the liberty, and,
springing from the 11, gave the police
man a bln-k eye. It seems that the
beneeliet had ben playing a triek to
frighten his spouse, and never eon ten -plateel
the arrival of a bey in blue.
J mly.
A r.STAf. IFT,T.
The young man had leen trying to
tell her how madly he loved her for over
an hour, but couldn't pluck up the
courage.
"Excuse me a moment, Mr. Feather
ly," she said, "I think I hear a ring at
the telephone." Anel in her queenly
way she swept inte an adjoining room.
Presently tdic returned, anel then his
mad passion found .a voice.
"I am wrry, Mr. I'eatherly," die
said, "to cause you pain, but I am al
ready engageil. Mr. Sampson, learning
that yon were here, lias urged his suit
through the telephone. N. Y. S'n.
get orr.
He was in a Turkish bath for tho first
time, anel was gazing woneleringly about
him.
"Shampoo, sir f" asked tho attendant.
"My heavens!" he said, "is it possi
ble that there's a barber o hard up that
he'll tie a towel around his h'gs anil
chase a man into a public bath to drum
up traele! No, durn it! I don't want a
shampoo, nor a hair-cut, ner tonic,
neither, nor brilliantine on my whiskers;
and I won't oven have my hair brushed.
Go away ami let me wash."
did wrong;
'Did you never think," askeel the
chaplain, "diel there never como to you
a conviction, in your sinful life of rob
bery, that you were doing wrong?"
"Often there did, boss," replied the
burglar, "many a time it has flashed on
me that I was iu the nursery, where the
first flash of a bullVeye would waken
half a dozen bow ling kielR, when I ought
to have been in the old man'a ticdruom,
a skinnin' his trousers anelgoin' through
the wardrobe anel bureau drawers regu
lar. Oh, yes, I've often felt as I was
doing wrong. But," apoleigetically,
"that was when I was a green hand at
the business, don't you know ?"
HERALDIC.
Designer What will you have for a
motto?
Mr. Briggs (of Chicago, who is in
venting a con t-of -arms at Mrs. Briggs's
i nstigation ) Mot ter?
Designer Yes. What will you say
on the scroll.'
Mr. Briggs Well, I reckon "Going (
Yurrup in June" will hit Maria s well '
anything.
we srrrosE.
Tobacco fctems are now being used in
making paper; on the principle, we sup
pose, that turn about is fair play, all
the straw and old rags having leen util
ized long ago in the manufacture of cig
arettes. ENVY.
Elsie I had twenty-seven offers of
marriage this season, dear.
Ellie From the same man, love ?
Town Topi.
DECEPTIVE APPEARANCES.
Washington Lady (showing visitor the
sights) That gentleman who just sat
down is an old member. The one now
speaking is a neophyto.
Mrs. Allwool You don't say! Well,
now, he don't look a bit like a fighter!
THE LAST.
A shoemaker's wife was complaining
to her husband that his trade was against
her social recognition.
"But, my dear," he said, "you are a
Christian and believe in the Scriptures,
don't yon?"
"Yes, but what has that got to do with
it?" she askeel.
" A great deal, my dear, for the Good
Book says the last shall be first, and all
von have to do is to wait."
She wasn't that kind of a Christian.
Washington 'i itit.
A FRIEKD IS NEED.
Bobby (whispering) Didn't I he
Clara tell you, Mr. Featherly, that she
was sorry, but she really couldn't give
you a lock of her hair?
Featherly 'Sh, Bobby! er yes.
jobby Well, you just wait a day or
two, and I'll get some for you when she
is out.
TWO GIRLS.
Unpopular Girl Did you have a nieje
time at the ball last night?
Popular Girl-rPerfeotlj charming! I
danoed every tot.
Unpopular Girl (vindictively) Well,
I did just the opposite.
Pnrmlar ft'rl How do vou mean ?
Unpopular Girl I et every dance.-
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