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' . j- ' ;'.-'. 'r"'''TT'-"' ' ' ' "' iWCT&tf5Sliiw iim mf feJs- y''--: J'-'-- i' .j,. -j'" , !'. '. ..-.( -,:... v. ,:.- .,.. .j '--" I-- v:. i fc'""',MM"'T'jy' f ' I- 1 i i' :.' -'-".;' ' " 'v ' : -t- i I - . ' . - . ' - ;:V I : f . I . ! - . : , f; - K I . : I . ." ;: .- ) ' . ' ; : . v-.,.- -. i - -i . j' . . - --. ,. ' . . . ; , . . . v.. -. t BLOUNT & MOORING, Publisher,. ' 'j. i I , I j . 1 . - 17AT ' tt " ' I . : P : . I' -. . ' ' ' ' 1 : t ' ' : 1 : E. W. MtjORINCEd.tor. ' my - - n - .wx lit. i irrknTroTTTT t t-i ii TTbere It TeffterdATf Mother, rrme Uubo I want U know Which puzzle and ocmfuae mo io. To-day is pnwent, aa yoa aay; ( Bat UJl me, where ia yeaUrday? ' ' . i ' - "I didnotaeeftaaitwent; . j I only know how it wma apent I In play and pleaanre, though jn raia; I Tbn why wonTt it come back RRnin T j " ; "To-day the tun ebincs bright and c'.ear; Bnt then to-mdrrow'a drawioe near, ii To-day-oh, do not go away! ' f And v aniah like dear yesterday. " Tit when the ton and all the light f Haa gone, and darkness bring the night, It aeema to me you tteal away f And change your name to yesterday . "And will all tame be jnet the game ? ! To-daythe only name remain ? And shall I always hare to say, To-morrow you'll be yesterday ? ' ' ! ' ' - ' . '. "-ji " 1 wonder when we go to heaven. ; II there a record will.be given Of all oar thoughts and all onr ways Writ on the laoe vt yeterdays T 1 jSD AY, MARCH 3, 1881 NO. 25. " II. so, I pray liod grant to xne That mine a noble life maybe; For then I'll greet with joyous gaze The dear lost face of yesterdays. A DUEL OK A WEDDING. I am an ardt-ut admirer ot femaft beauty. I ought to have been an artiat or a sculptor but I am neither. I was bookkeeper for Brown & Co., 1 wholesale dealen in hides and tallow. Henry Uower, a young man of very "lively dia poeition was employed in the same omce. we boarded and roomed fetber. .. j :' One night Henry and 1 attended one of the lyceum lectures in W . Wo had hardly been ii the hall five minutes I .Delo to- I can give you reference aW to mV a . ...... . cuaracter," i answered. zee. LLat'a nvui Unf m. McDcugal, which way are you goinr I inen I'm going up. I don't think we'd best travel together, i There's the tram starting now. Good-bye, Air. AfcDougal, I wish you success, and for my sake don't spoil your character." jio get to M . which, by the way, is a rather put-of-the-way place, aimail,' one-horse town, with one tavern, two churches and a .poorhouse, I had to leave tne cars at T- . and then take a a ir: to M five miiea ZFZZ fiTe gone by the stage, T , , iy ieaves- once a day, U v ur-j in me morning. So when j the cars stopped at U -1 took rny carpet-bag in my hand, and t out upon the platform. ' , There was quite a large number of people at the station, but I took no notice of any of them, except a tall brawnvman, in a brown overcoat and slouched hat, who started for 'me as soon as I stepped off the cars. I was about to move away, when too slouched , hat laid his had heavily on my shoulder. J " fcontG a' villain !n 'SirP" ' ; VJ repeat it-youV? ft villain lw A miserable scam p said a corpulent gentleman, coming forward and uonwliWa a. ii ,i- u !. .:. , uerueiy. ; ' .- - Wow. I felt that I was a match for th latter, but as to the other one. I didn't doubt but what he might work me up iuiu uoe strings in less than three miE Qtes i f . I ri "Choose, " saidti a kick with his bod: Til mar marry "All right" And the captain returned the pistol The elder Mr. 1 carnage; but bef& tremble he returned 1 be captain hell seated between the son, I rode away, of people on the warned not to sh was healthy for mil We rode at a snujrC miles I should thtik I tain arew rem beliLrE white house, that t surrounded by a hij h was a gravel walk' uri ouuDcrwai iarge cue the front yard. g uere we are,",bai a: j . li ii v n nwn inii - m . follow. i The door orjened Jnl it, and, who should fd but the Identical your- made snch a. trow m heart the night of tae iin, giving me J" A grimly as he case. Iwent after the had ceased to in, and then c lather and were plenty 1; but I was I knew what for about two dthen the cap- ge two-story ear the road, fence.. There e front door trees stood in captain, get- mng me to we reached into my arms lady who had ion upon my tureinW . "Will you explain vonrselvwi iwm- tlemen P" I asked, trying to smile. . f f8 I will," answered the big one, puuing great stress on tne Willi" "CerUinly," growled the cornulent gentleman, with a grim smile. gnflCue. uiUwtijg uu nmmg With ii'.'B. His companion loliowea us om dsck of the station, where we were out ox sight and hearing ol the rest of U Ndw," said the tall gentleman, turn- ing and confronting me, " i n mwoauce myself. I am Captain Augustus J5oy- -L. . . . . ' i t T 1 ton. This gr ptieman is my lamer, oun Boyton. Do you know us now?" Well, really," I replied, wondering in my1 own Wind what the deuce was toming; "really, I don't know any h ing more about you than what ypuVe just told." I ' ; . 'Hush!" said the captain; and he bent down and hissed in my ear, "lam Carrie Boy ton's brother." "And I am her lather," growled John Boyton. l ' " Ah, realty, do you say so i ; i cuum )t help smiling, the whole affair of the ladies upon the front seat. She was a little to theright of me, but as ine was talking very earnestly to the lady next to her j her face was turned tow ard us; and susceptible aa I am, I could not but be impressed with the beauty of it. 1. - Indeed, I couldn't withdraw my gaae from '.the beautiful young lady before me. She had golden hair, and her bluest of eyei swum fiillof love and sweet ness. Her nose was small and straight, and she had just the prettiest dimple amone the blushes on either cheek. And then such a mouth! What red lips! teeth of warl. Hashing between the roses. Her forehead was smooth and broad, fend her neck, I saw, aa the fur cap drooped low on her shoulders, was white as alabaster, and, smooth as n ar blel In briet, I did not hear a word of the lecture. 1 A month passed without my seeing anvthina of the beauUtul stranger. But about that time I received an invitation dhe, lowering his voice to a horrid Oh, J ohn ! I knevlyou would be true," she cried ;"and tu captain snick- erfd as he led the way Into the parlor. But once there I succided in convinc ing mips Boyton that! was not Mc Dolan. Her father apdogited, and so aid the captain and the Ashot of all was that I consented to stop Iver night with them, and I am happy to state that 1 passed a very pleasant eVening indeed i learned, too, that thii John McDo- ian, for whom I had beea taken, was gentleman of wealth and leisure, with only one fault, and that was-promising to marry every pretty woman that he became acquainted with Then I told rie?TBepeciaT in McDolan's shoes. And well, my dear reader, I did about a month after ward. We had a great wedding, and Clara Segard wap ;one of the bride maids, and Henry Bower was grooms man. And I am very well satisfied that McDolan took the up train instead of the down. i i -Advice U Teang HashaBds The Rev. C. C. Goes, during a lecture m new lors? on p'lhe Honeymoon, and How to Perpetuate It," said : Look out for your habits j voting man. Don't get into the habit of neglect ing the little courUsies of lite in your home. Just see ths young men in a bobtail horse-car sit forward on the edge of the seat, and when a pretty young woman enters the car they watch for the first chance to put her fare in the box. Why don't you watch just aa eagerly to wait on your wife t Again, my young husband, you and your wife must cultivate mutual confidence. Distrust of each other is the bane of human society everywhere. Of course, yon and your wife ought to hold different opinions. I was forty years old before,! married: my wife, and I knew a thing' or two before I knew her. When we were married we did not empty out our brains and become fools. When she comes to vote I want her to vote on the side opposite to me, mOXS OF UtTEREST. California has now seven legal holi days. Admission day September 9, hav ing recently been added to the six already existing. jy The tea crop of India this year is esti mated at 7oaooo,ocp pounds, nearly double the yield of 1878. j Ten y ears ago it was only 14,000,000 pounds. It is better to praise a man for his vir tues, although they may be few and his faults many, than A condemn him for his faults and forget his virtues. A lioness kept in confinement at the Dublin Zoological! gardens was the mother of fifty-four jcubei and she sue; oeeded in raising fifty of them . A family never becomes extinct in Japan. U there are no male descend ants, a young son pf another family is adopted, and takes the family name. Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, takes a deep interest in M. do Ivsseps' ranama because if she votes just as I do what's canal scheme, and was one of the first theuse of her voting P She might have to subscribe to the stock. ' Money xx4 as well voted through me as we do placed in'it will reap fortunes," she tells now) But don't fight. Husbands and I her friends. wives do fight and bite and claw each other, and pull each other's hair, and all about a little thing that they would be ashamed of if tney hadn't got heated. Cultivate the habit of cooling down. Finally, be honest and upright with your wife, young husband. You ought to be honest in courtship, but if you have had an outside for your girl to look at, and you have all the time kept a bit and bridle on your passions only to be a brute, after marriage, then you have deceived her. Be as innocent to your wife as though she .was little baby. You wouldn't hurt a baby. Stand up for your wife if any one says anything t Jier.4 knock him down, well, Mrs. Uni ted States Senator togan superintends her husband's correspond ence, dictating toa stenographer for. hours at a time. She also assists the senator in collecting materials for re portA and addresses General Garibaldi's health has been entirely restored, by his residence on the Genoese coast. He;' frequently visiu the. villages along the shore in a canoe or -small boat. I His friends believe that he will live ten years longer, atleasU I The bonanza kings' of the Comstock mine, of Nevada, are assessed as fol lows: James G. Fair, $42,800,000; Jas. C. Flood, $36,550,000 ; J. C. Flood a Uo re- not aeemed so ludicrous. Mlive my gards; to Carrie." Ha! you laugh at us, do you, vu- Ixxk 'ere," lain Pi" cried the captain. - .-.I . I - I. to visit my friend Mrs. Segard in U She is a widow of forty j and is the mother of !a certain Miss Segard, familiarly called Clara. I knew that Mrs. Segard had tried to bring about a marriate between Clara and myself, and 1 believe 1 was not much opposed to the match. Clara was a good girl, every body said; a very pretty brunette, with fiaihmt: black eyes and hair, but her lorm was short,thick and dowdish. I admire a handsome form quite as much . as a handsome face. I I might have married ki think I ahould. but lore litUe aflair which' happened t U-. Th moraine 1 ataxted for JM . OW whisper. lok at tnese." I did look; for just then ne arp from the pocket nf hia brown overcoat a handsome case, and opening it, disnlayed a pair of splendid silvei-niounted duel ing pistols. , " Take your choice. A cold tremor ran through nu frame. Was I to be murderedf Choose quick," urged fthe captain. Sir," saidti. in a trf mulous vojee. while the cold drops 01 perspirauon stood out upon my brow, . there mu- musi be sb-me mis-toke. I'm boox keener for BfcWn & Co., dealers m hides a i .nKi'. rv latner waa nonon POPULAR SCIENCE Platinum is the heaviest of metals. ' -A series of experiments described in a German chemical journal indicate that the mellowness of old wine is not so much, due to a decrease in the propor tion of tannin which it contains as to an Increase in the proportion of giyoerine. Gold is the most ductile and the most malleable, iron is therxost tenacious and titanium the hardeetjof 'metals in their native state. Titanium, discovered in 1791, U rare and litii used in science orrntistry. j . There is no unifotnity in metals, as regards weight or specific gravity. While platinum and imium, which are the heaviest bodies r own in nature,' are twenty times he ,v er than water lithiuum, potaasii n and sodium are lighter., I I V - When potatoes re bozen the amount of sugar they coiaia is doubled, the starch undergoing corresponding dimi nution, while pai of the protein passes from the coagulble into the soluble form. During tf process 01 rotcmg tne potato loses haliU nitrogeneous cou stifaents and thwhole of the aagar. m - - - - 1 snaai Lmi im mm m a. m 1 - - - ers accompanied me to the depot. While M rTvn A inTf mother was Mary Mo- By passing si through a fermenting t Htiin Jmv ticket I noticed an-I L-f wlndfaiher wai w mmh VL C. Hasen has observed that ""f m . I UJ M.L J I - into the waiting- I .wvnUmnr rrnA father 1 Either th r.nmKr nteast cells is increased room. My first thought was that it k igUT jaa pxonused to do twice or thriceS much as when no air is was my shadow that l saw DeiorM. a o, or taxe one 01 tnese piswia bbbled thror, ana inai aoout twice the quantity viermentea. a. constant ill w. beiht. had a light mmnlpiinn like mine, and eyes of ct,v ochv. and one of) them turned in. just like mine. He had on a tall silk hat. tinted on lone side of his sandy locka. Lnd so did I; and furthermore. . - he carried lu his hand a smaiicarpc bag. with a tag marked "J. McDfUed to the strapf . So did L. ' I looked at him. and he returned the ebmpliment. i v I say. sir." said the stranger, look ing down at thB carpet bag that I heid, and examining; the tag, " are you John McDol&n, or am If" J " My name is McDougal. I hope you are an honest man, for you see if you in ould happen to rob a bank, forge a not, nick tt nocket. or cut fccmebody' jugular, I mighthaye to'suffer, perhaps and: "Oh I help r trv no. vou whelp." and the cap- tainTciapped this broad hand over my mouth. - ' "Choose quick, youngster," said the oldei Boynton: " I wont fight," I cried. "iThen marry my sister, or we'll drag you through the mill pond." It was hoe.n,io reznunau supply of ojgeu is, therefore, very I could nc" viacotri csraged father -'tict tha villain Mo- Dotan. Iflaredi- r.help. What should lXZhrj a voman whom I never saw before, whom I knew nothing about? 1 had hole time to consider. J Life was sweet to me, a ducking was disagreeable, and aa to a duel I should have been a dead man at favorable to fmentaUon. The cable Europe has enabled reorraphersb fix definitely and with almost abeote precision the longitude of six rh on the eastern, coast of South jlerica Para, Pernambooo. Bahia, Ro Janiero, Mrtevideo and Buenos These Observations show that P longitude of the Braxilian coast, as dfrmmed by a French expedi tion twenJyears ago. was atoout two- thirds of hue too rar east. tlphia man has perfected an rhereby sour-kraut can be house without any of the illing it. The invention con- rmali liver-like pad of lim- worn under the ncsa. A Phili inventiof boiled inP inmates i iata of i buigtrcpe Censes Figures. The census returns show that our aggregate population ha advanced from 38.555,963 in 1870 to 50,160,000, in round numbers. The number of States having over a million, inhabitants has riaen from 15 to 19, but there is no eh an re in the relative position of the first eight, which, are New I York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Massa chusetts and Kentucky. Iowa has risen' from eleventh place to ninth, Michigan from thirteenth to tenth. Texas from nineteenth to eleventh, Georgia has dropped from twelfth to thirteenth, Virginia from tenth to four teenth. North Carolina from fourteenth to fifteenth, Wisconsin from fifteenth to sixteenth. The four States that have passed the) million line in the ten years are Texas, Alabama, Mississippi: and New Jersey. The number of citiea having more than 30.000 in habitants has increased from thirty-six to sixty-four. The number ha vine over 100.000 is twenty against fourteen in J870. New York, Philadelphia and Brooklyn hold their relative position at the head. Chicago has risen from fifth place to. fourth, and St. Louis has fallen from fourth to sixth. Boston has come up from' seventh to fifth, and Baltimore has dropped from sixth to seventh. Cincinnati continues to hold the eighth position, and San Francisco takes the ninth, crowding New Orleans from that to the tenth. Those which have passed the 100,000 line in the ten years are Cleveland, Pittsburg, Jersey City, Detroit. Milwaukee and Providence . Swiss Crini nil Laws. The criminal and prison systems of Switzerland are as diverse as the can tons of which the Confederation is com posed . Within the very wide, limits laid down by the Federal constitution every canton is -a law to itself. While in Geneva the utmost punishment awarded to murder is twelve years' se clusion, the penalty for the same crime in Zurich is imprisonment for life.and in Zug death bj decapitation. In Sch wjtx, the most primitive of the primitive can tons, which recently, like Za. has re established capital punishment, the only jail is an old farmhouse, where prisoners are placed in charge of a rural policeman and an aged man, the latter of whom accrinpanies them on pilgrim ages, takes t htm for walks in the country, and trusu to their honor not to run away. The canton most in advance in ' these matters is probably Yandl whose reformatories and penitentiaries might well serve as a model for neigh boring States. A firm at Winnipeg have received in-; iFtructions .from their London ' agency to MiMc iiicBiauoDiiur ice reception ox sixteen Irish families, to be sent out, with a good Canning outfit, by the Duch ess of Marlborougli, in the spring. ' . They fish now by telegraph in Nor way. Stations have been built along the coast, and during the herring reason which is at' its height for about six weeks, a sharp lookout is kept for shoals. Wherever one is sighted word is sent along the line, and the available fislier mrn promptly gtvecliase. The old way was for the fishermen to cruise along the shore, trusting to they m ight hear to ring. Now,- every luck or the reports. come upon the her j morning during the season, the position of tuc s Lion is wuicfi are watched is nottd and posted at the principal telegraphic stations. In lf311 Holland offered a reward of . 15,000 guilders (nlnut fl;00o) for th discovery of that hich Professor ; Swedish explonT, 1 gotten, but it was pay tue cessful ' promised explorer, northwest pnsiage Nord nskiold, tlie as at last in our day accomplished.' This offer waa lone for- heveT recalled; and it is now probable that liolNnd will reward to the suo little though he dreamed of the poewihility of such com pensation when be started on his enterprise. Official statistical returns o! the Ana- tralian colonies jr 187V show an area of ,2,5eo.2834 ftqaare miles, with a Ppo- lationdf 2,659.779, t and reTeuue of 15,. W7.4S8, of whiih X5,9527.03fi wm raised by taxation. The value of imports was 47,378,7&3. and tfie exports. 4 176, 856; miles of railway open and in use. 4,33Si, and miles under construction, ; i.6.4 1 miles of u'egra'ph linee were worked, and 1,1 miles were in course of building, j Of heep there were 65,9 1 4.236 ; of hoTsos; 1.06 t.MO ; of cattle. 7,878,556; hile of pis there were but a little OYr 822,ond. 77,836,183. The public debt is Jewels in heraldry represent colors. The topaz represents ore (gold) or tba planet 8oL- j : The pearl or cryxtal represents argen. (silver) or the planet Luna. The ruby represents gules (red (or the planet Mars.- The sapphire retrrescnts azure (blue) or the planet Jupiter. : I The diamond represents sable (black) or the planet Saturn. The emerald represents vert (green) or the planet Venus. The amethyst represents purpura (purple) or the planet Mex cr. the first shot. swiag for iu" I
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