North Carolina Newspapers

H A. ROSCOTVER, Editor, HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BT OALW.n If. P. DAYIS, Publisher. VOL. I. NO. 30. GOLDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1888. Subscription, 01.00 Per Year. THE LAST POSSESSION. U !(' i.h iic over, my coffers arc bare; .1 ly sorrow tlie paths that I try; ...... ' ,i 1 1- in ss ainl daylight are riddled with care, . i vi s jKrp at me, haughty eyesstare, l'liantoms reply. -' "v he draws near who was far from nil there "Love, it ia I." All for him who should seek me of old- All would he mine had you looked on me soi !. sed in the trappings of heauty and gold i s eould humble and pleasures gro eold- Jiij was the show. :mie and fame are hut heavy to hold, Sweet to hentow. ope has pine over my coffers are bare; llomrliss, foivaken, unvalued am I; N.il,.l the heart you would win of despair i the : i I" i w.w so priceless. I swear Ha .-red and shy ! All that is left m'. " y freedom is there; jh other, good-bye. ora llrwl Uoodale. LITTLE WASP, CTIZS&w O you think a coquette Hv FT Nsl! '1 ever be truer V V f : j Tlii.s remark was ad E V ) Itl t Pi rcsscl to me ly an j f---jj pm oia school fellow with i3ff wllom I kept up a ' "Do I think a co- ijiitaie rail uo truu i xo : but Ijittle Wasp can." "liut a greater llirt never liveil !" cried !'iY eompanioii. "She talks to all the l.'i.iows ahout, ainl I dare say half ol them think she is in lovo with them, it 4 as 1 u he said, clashing the ash from his cigar against the five barred -;!! over whi'-h we were both leaning. "1 don't thiiik Little Wasp a coquette, In the real and title sense," I observed. "She t :il l fc to every fellow, I know, but sin- hehav-s all tho time as if uneon jvimis that she's doing anything out of tho way. Ji-.tt then Ameiicun girls are not like English gills." " !h "re again," said Jack, facing lotmd and looking at me as if I were his I i; leiet enemy instead of the most for I t :ii iug friend in the world, aud indeed I h:;d proved myself this; for had I nol lisloiicd to his meandering talk aboul Little Wasp lor hours together, and lie or pronounced myself bored? II will he judged, from this that I was not .n? of the Lidy's favored gentlemen: nnd indeed I was not. I got none of hvT smiles, and a great many of those sharp little answers which had gained her her nickname; answers which, corn ing through less beautiful lips, might have exasperated si man. But her inno cent air and exquisite loveliness made everything sho did or said appear right at tiie moment. It was afterwards, upon rellection, and when her face was not th.ire to bewitch one, that one called, her cruel and unfeeling, and all sorts of other names one would have been ashamed even to think in her presence. But F am digressing. I had spoken of her being American, and Jack had turned upon me angrilj with: "There again ! she and her moth er have come from no one knows where, :md :ire no one knows who; and here am T, b 'longing to one of the oldest families 1 1. re I interrupted him. I had. no particular ancestors to trace my descent from, and no coat of arms to brag about; and as I knew by heart all Jack's ances tors as far back as Adam, I did not want !o hear any more of them; which Little Wasp would have said directly was jeal ousy. "All right, old fellow," said Jack. I'm n t going to give you the tree this time, nnd you come of a better stock than I do or you wouldn't be what you are." I was consi deralny mollified by this remark, and relaxing the severity of my coiitonanee, said: "You were about to l,s..n, " '"Yes," said Jack, "I was about to ob serve that 1 am ready to die for that Kill." "In whieh respect," I replied, "you re not so distinguished from your fel lows as by your tree." "Very likely," he answered mourn fully. '"P.ut after all, the question at i-iie is, which of us is she ready to die for " How I remembered that remark latei on, when I knew the end of the story! "Li! lie Wasp die!" I said, laughiug. "She'll live her summer day life and then jest disappear, to make war and anai'cliy in heaven once more, the little witch ! One cannot think of Little Wasp dvintr." "Weil, then, whieh of us will she live for." asked lack, with some asperity. "! wonder how many of the fellows kae a.-kel her V' I replied with great calmness. "If you mean business, must say you're taking it uncommonly cool. Somebody will be carrying her oi)', sling and all, while you are thinking about it. There was Captain Esher loiind there to-night as I passed the g ite." "Look here," said Jack, "J'll go io and there to night, and the old one's ho anxious to many the girl off hei hands th;d she won't deny me admis sion; and it'll be a bit of a test when I t. llherJ sail so soon for Melbourne. P.v ihe way," he said, breaking oft sud denly, and lo, iking at mo with a whim .;!;! ! p'.::..'euieiit on his face, "I hope the old one won't want to be iiicludedin the bargain." ' ( i. that point I can set your heart at rest,' replied. "The old one has car ried otV her own prize. Thomson told me ah. ut it. She's going to be married (jllieii " i much the better," said Jack; "a al if you'll excuse me, old fellow, I'm on'." "Always the way," I said to myself, where the girls are coucerned. Never so much as asked how I was going on; i:ever asked if I'd got the appointment and be hanged if I'll tell him without. I'll just present myself to see them ofl when they sail, as of course they will. Little Wasp, for all her baby looks, will know better than to throw over a mar of his property and position." And truly I was trying as hard as I could to think her mercenary, though I have learned how desperately I must have been endeavoring to quench something bo much warmer for her in my heart. 1 would go and see them o.T, and ther j when tho man should call out, "Al visitors on land !" I should just itic' There, and let them find out I had taker my passage. . - :I wiis disappointed at this piece o! diplomacy, for Jack came up to rnj lodging very late in the evening, audehT looked so buoyant and happy, that j knew it was all settled j and win shouldn't it be ? (this latter a little ad monition delivered internally, to sonic part of me that would sigh in thinking: of it). "Yes, it's all right, old he said: clapping me on the shoulder, which It little resented, for the weight of his fist was iif.t light; "and sin? has eared for nit all along and thought I was ne ver goinj te ask her." "The deuce she has," I paid, sticking a knife into a loaf of bread in front ol me, for I nad been eating my supper. lie looked a little surprised at my expression, but he was to full of hiV, own happiness to notice me much, am: rattled on, seating himself upon the table in a manner which would havt alarmed my landlady could she havt seen him, for that article of furniture' was none i the newest nor the mosl modern. It was round, and stood upon a centre pedestal and had a great ten dency to lurch; and I had diseovere ? three different catalogue numbers ol sales upon it underneath, lint I an: digressing. "I want but one thing to complete my happiness," Jack said; and the tablt creaked under him, and caused the cheese to run a race with the knife alonj the dish. "If only you could get youi appointment aud go with us." Now was nty time. 1 looked up witl an injmel air. "I got the notice that was appointed this morning." "Why in the name of all the god didn't you tell a fellow if" "I should like te knaw what chance had," I replied. 1'or the last six months there has been only ono subject of con versation between us, and Little Wasy has " Here he interrupted me. "Look here, old fellow," he said; w must drop that absurd nickname. Hei real name is Ellen." "Abserd !" I ejaculated. "Little Wasr is Little Wasp and can bo nothing elst to any of us w ho have known her. TJul of course," I added with some dignity, "she will have a new name to be eallet by soon and I shall use that." "Nonsense, old fellow," replied n3 friend, ''we are not going to make a stran ger of you, and you are welcome to caL her Ellen like me." I thanked him with a little of a sneei in tone, I am afraid, aud respecfully de clined. "As you like," said Jack, giving the table a fearful wrench. In fact such was the danger, I was compelled to remon strate, and suggest that there were chains in the room, even if not of the most de sirable shape and softness. "Ah, to be sure, I thought it was rick ety," ho said, descending from his percl: and seating himself next upon my camr stool, which collapsed under him, result ing in bursts of laughter from both oi US. "It's only getting my hand in for the TJay of Biscay; and hang it, if I care foi anything," he said, seating himself witl: some care in my arm chair, "now that angel has linked her lot with mine." "What are you calling her an tinge, fov 'c" I said. Somehow I could not beai to hear him run on. "I'll allow she's a very pretty little sinner." "Sinner ! ' cried Jack, knocking down my cigar-ease from a cup board near his elbow with magnificent indifference. "J like that ! She who is as stainless as Here I interrupted him. "Don't gc on," I said, "I know the rest; and you know we've all been so used to talking ol her lightly" ("and thinking seriously,' I added mentally). "Ear too linhtly," said Jack with asperity, "and I won't hear any more ol it. She'll he Mrs. Pcrcival in a few elays' time; and if that captain shows his nose near " "Don't threaten," I said. "The land lady is always listening at the door, and when I open it she's always just going to knock. Besides, it would leiok like distrust to be behaving in that manner, aud I don't think that's fair to her, coquette though she has been." "Well, it can't matter much, for we are all going away," said Jack, rising and lighting up. The scene had changed; and I, who thought myself practical, and free of sentiment, while others made love, or fooled, as I termed it, around me, was now feeling as I leaned, not against a five-barred gate this time, but against the poop of a vessel with the raging Bay of Biscay all surrounding us, that I had a great deal of sentiment, in me after all; and indeed there Is nothing like a great storm to bring out the true woman in a man, which is there sure enough if it can only bo roused: just as my poor Little Wasp proved there was plenty of the man or manly courage in a frail, sweetly nature-painted little woman. She was with her husband below now, cheering and consoling him, I was sure; for she w ho had on coining on board shuddered only less blaek beetles might be in the cabin, was now strong and firm and even cheerful since the captain had told us he feared we could never weather the gale. There were many passengers on Ixmrd. I don't know the number, for I could never read tho newspaper accounts." But Ellen Pcrcival, in her blue serge, was hither aud thither, consoling mothers, comforting children, aud even 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii ii 'i 1 1 ? taking off little trinkets for them to play with. And how those children played on the verge of eternity ! They were not terrified, the majority of them; and if they were, Little Wasp with her 2ii tie voice, which had no .sting now for any one, coaxed them into happiness, and hid away in her own great tender heart all she must have been feeling then. "Have you np fear?" I said to her, aa a lifeboat was launched and was seen to go to pieces instantly in that terrible sea. She was standing with her husband's arm about her as I spoke. "Jack is here," was all her reply. The battered crew of the lifetoat, res cued all but one, persisted that they would make no further attempt. They resisted the captain's command to launch the iron pinnace, which would hold fifty souls. No, they would go down with the old craft, they said doggedly. And now, to make matters worse, hall the crew, who were Malays, refused to. do anything, and went to their berths, and it became necessary for the passen gers to take their places. Jack and I were strong, and we went to the pumps. The storm continued with redoubled fury. The water was rising rapidly in the cabin, anil there the stewardess helped the parents to place their children higher than the water, thus putting off by so little the inevitable. It was now resolved that the pinnace should le lowered by means of the davits. But only three of the passen gers were willing to enter it when launched. They had leen terrified by the fate of the lifeboat. I was one of the passengers, and I almost feel guilty in writing it, seeing they were not the other two. Few will believe how great a sacrifice I made for the old mother at home de pending on me. To have died with her as he did would have seemed bliss to me. But my life belonged to my old mother at home. "There is little chance for you in the boat," said the captain to the first mate; "here there is noue. You have done your duty, God speed you. Do what you can for the little craft," and the two shook hands as for eternity. The pumps had been abandoned, and Jack with his arm around his wife stood near and heard. "You will go, Tom," said Jack, "you have your mother. We," he said, glancing with a kind of rapture nt the wistful little face leaning ngainst his pea-jacket "we will not be separated." I still hoped, as I said "Good -by," that they would join us; but the crew,, findiug the passengers held buck, hael come on to the boat and taken their places, at which the captain smiled grimly. He smiled even more, as one of the passengers went over the side of the vessel with a black bag carefully held, tf) think ho should care for his possessions at a moment like this. There was no time tf) lose, for the good ship was settling fast. We had some biscuits and a compass, but no water. ' 'There is room for one more. Fetch a lady," saiel the mate as Ave were about to cut ourselves free of the ship. I immediately regained the ship to look for Ellen and her husband. "There is room for one lady," I said hurriedly. "Go both of you and care for my mother for me." They shook their heads, both of them, and Jack said, "I could never face your mother with such a tale; but," he added with a sudden heroism, "it is tho mo ment to tell the truth. Tom loves you, Ellen, I have seen it all along. Take her," he said to me, "marry her and make her happy. It is so dreadful for such a sweet young life to be broken off." I felt myself choking, but I needed not to speak a word. She laid her soft cheek against his, and clung to him so desperately, with a face so full of radi ant love, it was answer enough. Jack looked at me with a happiness I can never describe. "You see a coquette can be true," he said, and these were his last words to me. The moments were so precious, I had only time to fling myself over the side and into the Intat, for the ship was set tling down so fast that the boat if not cut away immediately would be sucked down. Ellen Pcrcival I see now as I last saw her, standing on the deck of that doom ed vessel, cheerful and like herself even in such an hour, sometime peering for ward through the ghom to anxiously watch our venture through the dashing foam and spray, sometime gazing at her husband in a sweet, contented way; and that I might see her more plainly, the sun shone out for a brief moment amid angry banks of black cloud, and lit her face with a sort of chastened glory. It may sound strange, but I never saw more perfect happiness than w as in the face of both those two at that moment. It was but a moment, for the bow of the ship rose right out of tho eea, and the sudden rush of air from below flung all the passengers forward together. It was nil over now the once mighty craft sank suddenly and completely, and around us was the raging sea. It matters little to tho reader how I escaped, and the rest of us. We were picked up by a ship after we had en countered some privations, and it was long before I could reconcile myself to life after that last adieu to Little Wasp. Jeaxnie Gwxnnb Bettani. A AVEiiL-ExowN old Philadelphia gos sip was counting on her fingers the other day some of the fashionable people whose marriages wore the result of run away matches and in not a singlo in stance had they tamed out well LADIES' COLUMN. Mrs. Astor's Lmces. Speaking of the fat thit the lacea owDcd by the late Mrs. Astor have been pre cnted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Commercial Ad vertiser says: The feollection is of great variety and extremely valuable. Mrs. Astor was very fond of laces, and her wealth enabled her to gratify this expen sive taste without stint. As a result she gathered together during her life a great tna-iy of the rarest and finest specimens and designs, many of them being master pieces and from the best makers of Eu rope. The collection comprises many old pieces of lace of historic association, which of course preatly enhances their interest and value for the purpose to which they are now to be put. These laces include all those that Mr9. Astor wore, beside what she merely collccteel from her lovo of lace. Their exact value is not known, but the collection is cer tainly worth a large sum. Chicago's Petticoat Palace. Central Music Hall block might very properly be called the petticoat palace ot Chicago. Largely owned aud entirely managed by a woman Mrs. Carpenter a greater number of, women paw through its doors each day than any other building in town is honored with. In and out Ihey go all day long, and ranging all the way from the beautiful and enthusiastic young girl, who is in dulging in the dream that her voice will make her famous, to the decrepit old woman whom a friend or servant must assist up the stairs to the o!l:ce of the woman metaphysician or Christian hcalei who has undertaken to remove her lameness or her ills. There are in Central Music Hall women doctors, women metaphysicians, women Christian scientists, women dentists, ar tists, milliners aud what-not. It is, too, a great place for fads, novelties, new things, progressive of all sorts. On the various floors of the handsome building may be found, besides the mind healers, women doctors of the old schools, a woman manTcure and chiropodist, mas sage practised by both scxec, a school of languages in whick Volapuk is taught, ocean brine bath, Swedish movement, compound oxygen treatment, a diamatic teacher, and, a one might easily suppose from the number of women who fre queut the building, a millinery store, a candy shop, and embroidery bazaar and a photograph gallery. C'A iatjo He raid. Dairy Schools for Girls. In Germany and Denmark specially, and also to a limited extent in France, there are specials schools for training girls in dairy work and all matters per taining to farm work. The large -t school of this kind in Germany is at Bad en, it tho Grand Duchy of Mccklcnbmg Schwcrin. It owes its existence to pri vate liberality, but it has a subvention from the State of 325 a year. The samt training is also given at Hcinrichstal, in Radcberg iu Saxony, where ten to twelve young women arc taught th theory and practice of butter and cheese making. The practical instruction i given by a mistress, and includes tech nical management of a dairy, including book-keeping: feeding and management of cows; fattening calves and pigs; in struction in cooking; housekeeping in general; management of poultry accord ing to their season; management of the kitchen garden. At Hildesheim, ic Hanover, another dairy school of a like nature exist', with a grant from the Ag ricultural Society of Hanover of .225, which stipulates that six pupils shall be provided w ith board, lodging and teach ing for a whole year at 18 each. The pupils give their services in the day until I o'clock, after which hour they arc taught housekeeping. The heavy part ol the work is done by servants, but if the pupils do not know how to perform anj description of dairy work they are taught it carefully. In the afternoon the pupiU are taught reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography, etc. ; ic fact, all the elements of a general edu cation, as well as sewing. Bio-jk'yr Citizen. Fashion Note. Stiff English felt hat? in sailor shape and small felt po'es are shown for misses and girls in their teens. The finest artistic judgment and taste I is demanded and displayed iu the coloi ) combinations of indoor toilets. The wide embroidery on the back ol gloves gives place to that which is nar narrower and less conspicuous. The pretty sashei of Beugaline with Cowered designs arc particularly pretty with gowns of gossamer stuITs. Polonaises of embroidered muslin wiL have apron fronts, with lapping surplice waists and much ribbon garniture. White embroidered muslins run very much to flounces, with insertions of vary ing widths for their other trimmings. As the season advances tho skir.s of dresses ate b-ss lunched at the back than heretofore and are laid in wider pla ts. Embroidered muslin gowns are in the hands of dressmakers, who are making them up for the spring and summer trade. Silver gatve has rwed itself so stylihh ani n;ulw that oiher metal fabrica ars bcinj Jatro4'i,eil 17'uh good efface TELEGRAPHIC TICKS- THE SOUTHERN STATES. News Collected hr Wire ad Mall Frra All Part f Dixie. KORTII CAROLINA. Charles Harringtop, son of James Har rington, was found dead in the woods near his home in Johnson county. Considerable damage is reported as done to the fruit crop in the Piedmont section by the recent cold snap. Peaches are said to have suffered badly, and it is evident that three-fourths of the entire crop is killed. - - The large two-story dwelling of Mrs. Caroline E. Cherry, near Greenville, was destroyed by tire, and Elisha Johnson, a colored preacher living ia Halifax coun ty, has mysteriously disappeared. See ing some fire in the woods, he went last Friday to look after it, and has not since Ir'Cu heard from. News has been received at Raleigh of the death of I?ev. Dr. Matthew T. Yates, in China. He was the oldest of the Bap tist missionaries, having been in China forty -two years. His age was seventy. Last Septemlier he had a paralytical stroke, from which he never fully recov ered. He iutended returning to North Caroli-ia next June. Dr. Yates was born in Wake county, near Haleigh, and graduated at Wake Forest College. He was looked upon by the IJaptists as one of their leading preachers. At Ashville, ; C. D. Higgins was arrested, charged with attempting to kill the conductor of a Pullman car. The conductor ordered him out. Higgins, struck at the conductor, who knocked him flown, Higgins sprang up and shot twice at the conductor, the bullets strik ing in? car ana frightcnin&r the passen gers. The trained moved off, but Hig gins began Tiring promiscuously into houses near by. He was arrested after a chase and desperate fight. Details have lcen received at Italeigh of a most horrible story, the scene of which is an illicit distillery on Dames creek, on the line between Mont gomery and Randolph counties. A young man named Andrew Collicott had been to the Steel gold mine, and imbibed too freely of whisky. Upon returning to tl e distillery he was soon envolved in a drunken stupor, in which he remained unconc'ous for some time, Some one, attracted by his pietous cries, went to his assistance, ami found him in the still house with almost his entire body, from the waist up roasted. Physicians who were summoned think the injuries are fatal. It is stated that hi injuries - are the result of the brutality of a party of gamblers, who had gathered at the still for the purpose of winning Collicott's money. The gamblers findiig him too drunk to resist poured whiskey on him, and set him on tire, taking his money and afterwards claimed that it had been burned. hOlTII CAROLINA. New rails have lcen ordered for the Barnwell Railroad. Only ixtccn acres of land were sold for taxes at the last salcsday in Orange burg. The Barnwell R:filroad during January cleared $1,C83 above all expenses. All the piers for the Three C's bridge fiver the Catawba river have been fin ished. Col. Eugene B. Gary, of Ableville,will soon have ready for publication a book on criminal law. Dr. C. II. Green, Jr., of Sumter, has eteived an appointment of the surgical department of the Chambers Street Hos pital, of New York city. During the twenty-three days of Jan uary that the Blaekville, Alston and New berry Railroad was in operation its re ceipts amounted to $1,680.92. William Pleasant, colored, while try ing to get on the up train while in mo tion at Reynolds Station, fell and was instantly killed. A iietition, which is numerously signed by the most influential and conscientious citizens of Beaufort, has been circulated and will be sent to Governor Richardson asking him to commute the death pen alty apKiinted to be executed on the Gth of April against Si Robinson, for the homicide of Bailey. The mental condi tion cf the unfortunate condemned would seem to Ik? a sufficient reason for the ex ension of the sought for clemency. Both evening tr. ins on the South Caro lina Railway were thrown out of time on account of a terrible fire along the track, and in the surrounding woods a few miles below . Windsor. The fire was raging for several miles along the track, and hundreds of cords of wood were burned. The heat 'vas so intense that for a considerable distance the steel rails were twisted so as to render it impossible for the trains to pass over. -The whole community turned out to fight the fire, but could do but little against the heavy gale that was blowing ah day. The sec tion hands along the line have lieen tele graphed for, and the damage will be re paired as soon av(ss"e- , .eoim;ia. Atlanta claims a imputation of GG,C00 within the ciy limits. . Thomasville has 1,500 visitors, who spend an average each of $3 a day in the town $4,500 per day f 32,500 per week $135,000 per month 1140, 000 per season of fcur months. At Macon the large number of visitors to the jail to see Tom Woolfolk is daily on the increase. It i3 reported that a Northern capital ist will build a $150,000 hotel in Ba'n bridge this year. But a few hi ndred dollars in postoffice receipts is needed to ensure Athens Jaw ing a free delivery system of mails. The annual report is not made until April ant' tucr j u every probability that the receipts will reach the neceparv $10,000 J-notcli b that-time.- - - Several large pieces of the monument to be erected over the rave of the late Gen. Robert Toombs have arrived at Washington. It will be a massive and stately shaft, and altogether a fit monu ment to mark the last resting place of that illustrious man. Lumber City has another barrel factory in operation. B. S. Pinkleton was the founder of the first one in the spring of 1887. The new one is supposed to le owned by a syndicate of naval stores commission merchants of Savannah, who proposes to fight the present monopoly in the spirit barrel business. The Presbyterians of Atlanta discus sing among themselves various plans for i establishing in that city a Presbyterian college. The idea seems to be to estab lish at Atlanta a Presbyterian university for the South of such high character as to attract patronage from other States. The matter has gone so far that a meet ing of the Presbyterians of Atlanta and Georgia will be called at an early day to discuss the subject. KORTII. EAHT AND WEST A heavy blizzard is raging in the south east of England. The storm is slight in London. It is reported that the French Govern ment has deciced to cashier Gen. Bou langer. At Cassell. Germany, a snow ttorm has prevailed for three days. Commander Griffin, of the American navy, offers to back Kilran for "500 against Sullivan. At Aberbecn, Miss, Gattman & Co., bankers, have failed. It is believed that the failure is for over $200,000. The Dublin Evening Telegraph says that Mirt&hell has challenged Sullivan to fight ina sixteen foot ring for 1,000 a side. In Spain the storm is very heavy, es pecially in the north, and in the south of Spain floods are doing enormous damage. In central Germany there is complete suspenaion of highway trafllc, and in many districts railways arc snow bound. II. II. Key, representing I). Apblcton & Co, of New York, died suddenly at the Battle House, Mobile, Ala., of heart disease. Domestic Things Made Musical. There is a store on Broadway where almost everything that enters into the household economy of people keeping houses or living in apartments is sub jected through Swiss inveative genius into supplying musical aits. The very chairs people sit on in par lors and dining rooms are made, after two seconds' manipulation, to give forth an air from the latest opera that will keep on filling the room with melody from eight to fifteen minutes. The teapot or coffeepot on the breakfast-table is rendered musical without interfering with its customary duty to fill the cup. The bird suspended by the window resembling a robin red-breast perched in a beautiful gilt cgc will, though not a native of the wild woods, ting quite as well and accurately, inspired by the musical machinery w khin its tiny anatomy. Plates and dishes can be made to play tunes during meal hours and the bou quet of flowers on the centre of the table ean have a bird precisely like one im ported from the Harte Mountains, called a canary, which will sing with sweet and dulcet notes. Billiard balls, painted red, white, and blue, are turned into fountains of music. Ladies toilet cases are converted into music-boxes without in the last degree encroaching on' the space required for perfume and powder-holders and the other requisites of a lady's dressing case. In a glass inside th store is a pair of imitation greyhounds, and a pair of ele phants true to life, and these are simply music-boxes in disguise, and so is the monkey who smokes a ciga ette while he also plays the latest air from one of the minstrel shows. The smallest music-box is about the size of a man's average sued timepiece, and plays an air as clenrly and accurately aa one ten times a big. The price of this is 35 cents, and the next largest, playing two tune.', $1.85. The large boxes, which wind up by a lever and are kept in mot'on by power ful springs, range in price from $15 to $30. Those with bells ini-ight from $30 to $100, according to size: with bells, drums and castanets in sight, $80 to $125. In addition to all the rest of the things made musical are water and milk pitch ers, cuspidors, frames of paintings hang ing on the walls, dolls, saucers, and stands for teapots and dishes. New York Ttlegram. Cariosities of Guessing. Some curious facts bearing on ttit, "Eccentricities of Guessiag' were com municated to the American Association by Professor T. O. MendeDhall. The author had formed a standard probabili ty curve which could be applied to any form of guessing, and which represented the law that governed the occurrence and recurrence of purely accidental things. This standard was seldom de viated from to any considerable extent. He had frequently tested the accuracy of the probability curve by experiment. A. large number of persons guessed at the number of nails of various sizes con tained in a carboy. The lowest "guess was 43; the highest between 3,000,009 and 4,000,000. tight guesses came with in one of the actual number, six falling short, and two exceeding it, while a vast majority came within a few hundred of it. It was 2,551. Many terminated their guesses with the figuro 7; then 3, then came in the order of preferenco. Odd numbers occurred three fourths of the time; and the number of the year was frequently chosen. Popular Scunu Monthly. A Musical Treat. Hostess (to young Mr. Siy) "Ton will kindly favor us with some music, will yoa not, Mr. Sissy" Young Mr. Sissy Well- aw, Ym not quite my usual self to-night, Mrs. Hob son; but I will uw, slag a little, If you like. Hostess (graciously) "Oh, thanks, you are rery kind. Even a little of your 1 tinging, Mr.-Sissy, poesA-great wijlL W koOF."-iS4 . T1IF JOKER'S BUDGET. IJUJUOUOILS XOTFS FROM Till FUFSHFST SOUKCFS. It Was Licap Year. Why SI niiisl.cfl. He Fcarotl It. Accept. Ing the Situation, Flc, Flu. SO LATE. Eoliert (who was at the office very late last night) My dear, liavo you seen nuy thing of my bin its? SSha (sweetly) Yes, love, they art down hero on the hat rack. , rRETENDISU. As a final 1 loy was watering hie 'horse" (a chair) out of an empty cup his mother t-ugge.sted that sho should get him some "truly" water. "Oh, no," ho taid, with a line sense oi dramatic unity ; "oh, no; a puhtendiu" liorse must drink puhtendiu' water." THE ECROPKAN SITUATION. Foreign Premier Your Majesty, the -people aire grumbling about ihe military taxes. The King What children tho people are! They ought to know that the array rannot live on less it dixjs. "They know that, aire, but' they say the army can bo reduced. Thcywautit reduced one-ha f, if not more." - "Very well. Declare war. ' winter. -; A city girl,writiug to her cousin in the country, said fcho thought it might bo nice enough on a farm iu summertin? , but she didn't imagine it was very pleas ant iu the Winter time when they had to harvest the winter wheat ami pick the winter apples. Sprinyfidd Tttle rrtiph. LEAP TEAR. She sat idly warching the empty oys ter shells ou her plate, while he linished the last morsel of cracker within his teach. "Mr. Sampson," : said she, with a little blush, "do you think that young ladies are justified in taking advantage of their leap year privilige.'" His heart gave one great paddlo rock bound, for she was rich and he was poor, and he loved her Avith that mad passion bo common to this condition of society. He fervently assured her that ho did. "Then, Mr. Sampson," she said, shy ly, "I think I would Uko a dozen more on the shell." THE GOOSE-BRIDE'S LATEST. Goose-Bride Why, Charlie, the ca nary is dead ! lie What did you give it to eat ? (loose-Bride Same as we had; corned beef, cabbage, . and English mustard Tid Bits. KNOWS HIS PLACE. Woman (to tramp, to whom she has given some cold otatocs) If you liko you kin ntep into the cowshed whihi you're eatin" them taters; it's rainin so hard. Tramp Thanks, ma'am, but I'm no dude. NO CAUSE FOB WORRY. Thev were in tho parlor, occupying ono chair with but a fcinglo thonght. They had discussed the tarilT, tho Irish question, tho flloighing, the opera, the weather, and other important topics till aonv rsatiou was about fagged out. After a long panto: "Ducky! ' "Whattyr "Do you think I am making any pro gress in courting?" "Well, I should say you were holding your own." Tableau. SpriufJklnl Union. INDIAN. Misw Piitterson was telling tho little Indian lxy. alxuit the late blizzard at tho West, and how well the Indians had weathered it. One of the little fellows, who hed lieou listening to her attentive ly, d.iMV himself up and grunted lack: "Can't kill Indian, white man die easy." HAPPY. Fi send I hear that you have married lately. Benedict Yes, I am a married man. "Allow mo to congratulate you on the happy event." "Thank you. My wife is a modest little woman." "I should infer so from her choice of a hus band." Tcsai Sifliiyx. BOBROWINO. 1m Wife I declare I am almost ashamed to go to church with this hat on. It is not at all the style. Husband Is this BriJget's Sunday out? Wife -No. llusbird Why don't you borrow hers? A EEMARK. The car had just stopped at the Priests of Pallas Hall, and a large, genial-faced, jovial kind of a man assisted a lady to alight. As the -car skirted again ha rather earnestly remarked : "Now there goes my wife to hear Sam Jones tell her of her faults." Then, after an impressive pause: "Yet when I . -try to tell her of them there is a terriblo racket. I can't understand women." . Kama City Timet. . A CHANGE. , (Grocery Store Hard-faced grocer and poor cbiro boy). Grind: I suppose you feel pretty tired, Tcmmy, after putting in that goal Tommy Yes, sir. , Grinder Well, if you want to haTO a little fun now. you can shovel the snprt t3t!i9 sidewalk, Xif,