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Car OLilNA UNTAINE VOL. VIII. MORGANTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1884. NO. 51. EK gus sport.- witching gowii Willi u ruffle up and down On the skirt. She is gentle, she is s" y; Bm there is mischief in her eTt She's a flirt! She displays n tiny glove, And a dainty little love Of a shoe ; And she wears her hat a-tilt Over bangs that never wilt In the dew. Tis rumored chocolate creams Are the fabric of her dreams But enough! tnow beyond a doubt Tirnt she carries th -m about Iu her muff. AA'ith her dimples and her cnrls . She exasperates the girls Tat belief; They hint th.it she's a cat, And delightful things like that In their grief. It is shocking, I decl ire! But what does Dollie cara AVhen Uie beaus Come flocking to her feet Like the bees around a sweet Little rose? -Sir.tuel .Vinturn I'eck, tn the AJathatta.it THE LONG PACK. High tip among the hills, on the ..agon road that runs through the acita pass, is a small tavern, much "re juentei by commercial traA-elers and which bears the odd title of "The Long Pack." 'Docs that mean a long pack of iirds?" inquired a traveler, glancing it the swinging sgnboard, which also rMir seated the Aveather-worn picture of something faintly resembling a sol tlier's overgrown knapsack. "No," replied the gray-haired land lord. "It means a peddler's pack. Xow-a-days they call them sample cases. I believe," pointing to the baggage of several commercial drummers that stood in a corner. "You see I have a good deal of that sort of custom. I try to make the 'road boys' as comfortable as possible, for I was a little too hard n their fraternity once." "How was that?" "Well," said the mountain womtace. A ho had waited until his daughter, a '.tuxom matron, h id left the room, "it 4int a very pleasant story, but I like tell it sometimes, just to remind my. ! elf that the worst thing that a man can hive in this world is a hot, obsti nate temper. You see, I came to this coast soon after the gok" fever broke out, and settled doAvu in the Santa Barbara A'alley, below here, ranching. I wa3 a widower eTen then, and had Iu ought Avith me from the states my only child a daughter, past seventeen. -he Avas a pretty girl, if I do say it, and being as good as pretty, you can imagine I was quite Avrapped up inher. Of course, I Avas anxious to keep her with me, and if not that, at least I looked for her to do something better than to fall in love with a peddler." "And did she?" "Yes; you see, in those days, thfe country was full of young fellows who had struck out for themselves, and were trying to get a start by carrying knick-kna k3 around from one mining f amp to another. Some of them Avere 'ively chaps enough and well educated, but I was fresh from the states with a 1 the eastern prejudices, a d it al most ('rove me will when Ne Je tcld me she Avanted to marry a you i g fel low who brought his pack throu our district a good deal oftener than '-he trade seemed to require. I was a hot tempered fool in those days, so I storm eel, threatened, locked Nellie up for a week, and sent word to her lover that I had loaded my gun for wildcats and peddlers." "What did Nellie do?" "You might have guessed it" stran pr. One day when I came back from a cattle sale she was missing. I chased her a couple of days, but they had taken to the tall timber and it wa3 no u e. After a while I got a letter irom Frisco, and I wrote back saying that I disowned her, and that he had better keep out of the range of my dear rifle." hat did you do then ?" ".Suffered, mister just suffered. I knew I was wrong, but I'd have died rather than give in. For four years I lived like a toad in a rock hating the whole Avorld. All the pleasure I had avus in watching for peddlers. The number I cha:ed off the ranch dnring that time would astonish you. One evening, after a terrible rainstorm, one t the tribe came to my house and ask ed for shelter for the night. . lie Avas a thin, weak looking fellow, with his face covered with a huge ragged beard. He carried on his back an enormously long and heavy pack, and seemed so exhausted with his tramp through the mire that I hadn't the heart to do more han order him off the pla eV "That was pretty hard," said the listener. - :t;bj- "I suppose ii was. The peddler denied all broke up Avhen he found I Wouldn't give him even a bunch of: straw in the stable, and no other house within twelve miles.' Instead of com plaining, however, he merely begged' that I would let him leave his pack, Avhich he said contained goods of Aalue, under shelter from the rain. I finally consented to this. So, as I had swoi one of his trade should never cross my threshold, I carried his pack inside, while its owner limped off to crawl under some bush or other." "Didn't you feel mean?" " "Yes, mean and bitter at the same time, for something about the man re minded me of Nellie's husband a little. However, I locked and barred all the doors and windows, as usual, for some road ascents had been around those parts about that time, and had stood up and robbed several ranchers; and, as I told you, I was all alone. Some how, I couldn't go to sleep when, after hat, I went to bed. After tossing around for aAvhile, I got up and sat by the fire, brooding OAer my trouble, and trying not to think of the poor devil shivering out there in the cold and rain somewhere. I looked at his pack sit ting up in the corner, and Avondered what mde it so long. As I Avatehed it I fancied I saw it move." "Saw it move ?" "Exactly, I wouldn't believe my eyes at first, but after watching intent ly for a while, I distinctly saw the front of a hand pressed against the canA'as from the inside. Like a flash then I understood the whole thing. The ped dler was one of the road agent's gang, and, knoA ing I had considerable money about the house, they had adopted that plan for smuggling one of their crew inside the house. Alter 1 had gono to leep, the felloAV inside conM let in the rest and finish the job. .r walked quietly across the room, to k my gun from the antlers, knelt down a few feet from the pack, aimed square in the center, an ! pulled the trigger." "Go on," murmured the listener, with a shudder. "But the gun didn't go off," contin ued the lan Uord, clearing his throat "The nipple Avas rusty and wouldn't work, so 1 laid down the rifle and got an axe from the kitchen. It had been newly ground that day, and Avhen 1 lifted it over my head, I counted upon cleaving that -pack, robber and all, clear to the floor. Just as I raised the axe and braced myself for the bloAV, I I saw a ghost" "A ghost?" "Yes, sir. The pack opened, and I saw sticking out of its top the curly yellow head, blue eyes and rosy cheeks of my Xellie when she was a little tot of four. The shock staggered me so that I sank on my knees. I wiped my eyes, and wondered if 1 had not gone crazy. " I was almost certain of it. when the ghost stretched out a pair of chubby Avhite arms, and said: " 'Deevnin, dranpa!' " "Ah!" said the guest, with a relieved sigh, "I begin to see. And what did you do then?" "1 don't exactly know," said the landlordj softly, "but if there is any thing that will bend a stiff, stubborn neck quicker than the arms of a little child, I'd like to know what it is. I put the tired little prisoner doAvn by the fire, opened the door and held out my arms." "And the mother " "Yes," nodded the landlord, "they were both there; and. mister, I- guess that's the end of my story,", and the old man wiped his eyes. "You must excuse me, stranger, but that was a wet evening, and somehow I haven't got quite dry since." San Francisco Post. Partridge Against Snake J. II. Fry, a New York traveling salesman., while trout fishing in Pre si ton, Perm., heard a commotion in the bushes near the creek, and cries such as made by young chickens when they are lost. He peered through the bushes, and saw a hen partridge and a large black snake engaged in fierco combat, Huddled together a short distance avvay Avas the partridge s brood, peeping in terror. The partrid e attacked the snake with her beak and feet, and struck also blows Avith her wings. She moved with such rapidity about the snake that, in spite of the quickp-jss with which this reptile is en abled to throw its folds about anything it attacks, the snake was foiled in all its attempts to encircle the bird, which seemed to be seeking to blind the ser pent by striking at its eyes. ' - In its efforts to get the bird within its coil the snake seemed to glide over and under her - like a .flash, but, no matter which course it took, the par. tridge never failed to slip away from it and and deliver a telling - blow upon it. Once the snake retreated . several feet as if flying from the bird, and the latter followed it closely. ' Suddenly the snake turned and rushed back at the paiftridge with its head raised more than a foot in the air. The bird dashed forward to meet the serpent, and de. Jivered a blow with its beak Avhich struck the sna'fce square in one of its' eyes. This was apparent to Fry, who' stood within ten feet of the contestants; by the snake instantly dropping its' head to the ground and rolling it irom side to side as if in great pain. The bird did not lose a second in following up her advantage, but pounced on the snake close to its head, and, with surprising rapidity, inflicted wounds with her beak which seemed to daze the snake, and it glided first in one di rection and then in another, making no further effort to defend itself, and yet apparently unable to find a way to es cape. The partridge kept up its effec tive striking on the neck of the snake until the head was almost separated from the body and the reptile ceased .o move. Fry advanced at this point in the battle, but the bird continued tojtear at the flesh of the snake until he was near enough to touch her, when she became awure of his presence for the first time. She retreated hurriedly to the spot where her terror-stricken brood were huddled, and calling them after her with a few clucks, led them away into the underbrush. Fry examined the snake and found that besides the fatal wounds it had received in its neck, both of its eyes had been put out by the partridge. The snake was nearly live feet in length, and had ifi its atomach the partially digested remains of a large rattlesnake. Dense Population, of Africa. Africa, says an exchange, is not the thinly peopled land that America was before the Latin, the Saxon and the Celt settled there in millions, but is al most everywhere thickly inhabited. We have all heard - so much about the degradation of the negro that we are apt to fancy him greatly the inferior of the "noble red man." - - In certain physical characters the negro of the Soudan and the Hottentot and Bush man of South Africa are below the Indian,, but the first of these are far more civilized than any North Ameri can Indians save those of Mexico and Peru; and the great Bantu race to Avhich the Zulus and the "natives of the Congo and Zambezi basins belong is composed of finely built and intelli gent men. Negro and Bantu alike are uot wild nomads,living poorlv on what '.he soil affords, as do the S nali of Eastern Africa, and the tiibi.of the Sahara, as well as a large part of the natives of the Americas, but are culti vators of the soil, living in A'illages that are often neat and homelike to took at. The population is eren now more than twice that of the two Americas; but the country is cursed with constant war, with domestic slavery, and witha foreign traffic in slaves. The future of Africa is in the hands of the Avhite races. The natives are ready to -trade, and have products of value to exchange. All that is needed to establish Avith them rela tions beneficial alike to white and black is consistency and fairnss in the treatment of the latter by the former. The Hay Crop, George Alfred Townsend says in the New York Tribune: I a as talking to an agricultural implement builder who has been, in the midst of the apparent decline of things, extending his works. Said I: "On what principle do you ex pand your business ? "Upon the in crease in the hay crop," said he. "Hay is Avorth, on the average, probably $10 a ton, and we make, say, 50,000,000 tons of hay per annum." "Heavens! said I, "that amounts to 1500,000,000.' "Of course it does," said the builder; but you must recollect that hay is probably the second crop of importance in this country corn, I suppose, being the first. You can always get rid of your hay, because you can feed it into beef, and the beef can be exported if the wheat cannot; My machinery not only cuts the hay' aDd keeps it turning after it is cut, so that it can speedily dry, but it stacks it at the rate of a ton every fewminutes, the gathering ma. chine1 carrying - the hay td a platform apparatus up which it is carried and put in the stack. In some portions o tin" 3 country hay .commands only $3 a ton, but I think it will average $10 a ton all around, and there is none too much of it. New. York state leads in the hay crop, and Pennsylvania come? next." " . Of Importance to letter Writers. -"Most 'persons have an idea that any jne Avho sends a letter "can telegraph to the postmaster at the office of deliv ery and have it returned to him. Such, however, is not the fact. The post master at the office of mailing is tht only person Avhy can recall a letter. This authority was recently given, the privilege heretofore being exercised by the Postmaster-General. Therefore, i the sender of a letter desires to inter, cept the missiA'e or have it returned to him. ho must apply to the postmastei ai the office where he mailed the letter. AMONG THE It H UXK A It OS. Their Iiove Faast and Method of Cele brat iu k the Lord's Supper. The church was : divided down the renter by a long table, and this table was divided in the center to allow pas sage between. At ono end the men sat on benches' arranged along the ta ble. The other end ; or division of the table was in like manner occupied by the women. A strip of plank with pegs in it Avas over - the men's table, and was hung full of. their immense hats. A staircase in one corner went up into the loft above, where all the congregation Avho have to come any distance sleep on the floor and in bunks. They bring their bedding with them, and, as they do not insist upon a separation of the sexes, a great many can be accommodated in this garret. People acquaintedwith their habits said that they slept in sackcloth and ashes Avhile here for several nights. A door at the foot o the stairs lea into the kitchen, in which a tremendous the crackled un der a great iron pot, hanging on crane in a spacious chimney that would easilv burn a cord of Avood un cut. From this pot a saA'ory steam escaped and made its way through the open door, pervading the atmosphere with a most appetizing odor of beef. Scon there Avere prayers from first Dne and then another of the men, al ternated Avith exceedingly brief and crude addresses. Hymns were also lined out and sang to very monoto nous tunes. During all the time the men and women at their respective ta bles were embracing and kissing each Dther. It looked rather strange to see two men with Esau-like beards kissing each other. There Avere sever il negroes at the table who were em- Graced and kissed just the same as the jther members, and 'bestoAved their dsses equally as freely. After these addresses, i rors and tiymns had gone on for au hour or more, some of the men and women brought little, wooden tubs and tow Bis. Then one man, or one Avoman, as the case might be, washed the feet of mother, after their boots or shoes and woolen stockings were removed, kiss ing them . both before and after it.' Another, Avith his coat removed (if & man) and a towel about the waist, wiped the feet after bestowing the kiss of brotherly love, as it is called; then gave up the t wi 1 and tub to some one else, who prfoimel the same office tor mi m in tin n. Tins custom, as one of the pre.; chin explained "was to show their humility and brotherly love," and also to follow Christ at the last supper. After thi3 office had been concluded, praying, singing and speaking went on as before. A man how entered bearing a great basket of bread, a slice of which, about nine inches long, five wide.and of indefinite thickness, was laid in front of each person; next a spoon was put to each place; then dishes of soup, with square bits of bread broken in it, Avere placed so that there was one for ev ery four persons; then appeared huge pieces of boiled beef. Everything being thus prepared.one of the preach ers explained that according to their reading of the scriptures the commu nion did not mean simply the taking of the elements of bread and wine, but that the last supper of Christ was a feast, and their aim was to imitate him exactly. After a blessing" had been asked in the ordinary Avay, with all standing around, they began to eat heartily. Without waiting to clear up the table they proceeded to com plete their communion, by taking the latter part of the feast This consist ed of what appeared to be unleavened bread, made into long, thin' strips, eight inches long, an inch wide, and about the thickness of a newspaper when folded. An explanation of the eeremony was made by a ministei, and a sort of informal blessing of the ele ments was pronounced. The slices of bread were lying in a napkin, while the wine was in two patent medicine bottles labeled "liver corrector." ' The bread was distributed, one per son taking a strip with two of his companions, and breaking it into three pieces, thus again following out their idea of a preservation of the trinity, as they do on every possible occasion. The wine or "liver corrector" was next poured into thin cups, and like wise distributed, both among women and men, as the bread had been. Dur ing and after the ceremony there was much kissiug and embracing, and af ter the communion singing, praying and speaking were again resumed. Washington Star.' - The Olive. There is something peculiarly mild ii graceful in the appearance gf the live-tree, even apartffrom its associa- trons. In ancient time?, especially, the olive was a tree held in the greatest venera- tiop; for then the oil was employed in pouring out libations to the gods, while the branches formed the wreaths of the victors of the Olympic Games. The Greeks had a pretty and instructive table in their mythology, on the origin of the olive. They said that Neptune having a dispute with Minerva,as to the name of the city of Athens, it was de cided by the gods that the deity who gave the best present to mankind should have the privilege in dispute, Neptune struck the shore, out of which sprung a horse; but Minerva produced an olive tree. The goddess had the triumph; for it was adjudged that peace,of which the olive is the symbol, was infinitely better than war. to which the horse was considered as belonging.and typify ing. Even in the sacred history, the olive is invested with more honor than any other tree. The patriarch Noah had sent out a dove from the ark, but she returned without any token of hope. Then "he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive-branch plucked off: so Noah knew that the water3 were abated from the earth." . The veneration of the olive, and also the great duration of the tree, appears from the history of one in the Acropolis at Athens. Dr. Clarke has this passage in his travels,in speaking of the Temple of Pandrosus "Within this building.so 'ate as the second century, Avas preserved the olive-tree mentioned by Apollodo rus, which was said to be as old as the foundation of the citadel. Stuart sup posed it to have stood in the portico of the Temple of Pandrosus (called by him the Pandroseum )f rom the circumstance of the air necessary for its support which could here be admitted between the caryatides; but instances of treesf that have been preserved to a very great age, within the interior of an edifice in closed by Avails, may be adduced." A Spanish Breakfast. The day opened for us, not earlier than 9 o'clock, Avith a characteristic Spanish breakfast an unctuous,abun dant meal that Avould haAre made the goA'ernor of Barataria smack his thick lips, but seemed rather oppressive to our. less .-robust appetite.- A. "teg-of mutton, cunningly stuffed with cloves of garlic in every fold and cranny, and a thick sopa or soup, of the consisten cy of porridge, and yielding, on rough analysis Avith a spoon, eggs, bread crumbs, minced meat and flour, made up the solid body of that breakfast. Refreshing liquids were conspicuously absent, so Avere butter and coav's milk, for the herds were up mountaineering for thesummer season on the highland pastures around the Maladetta, and milk, beyond the niggardly supply from the town goats, was not to be had even for distinguished strangers We had wines of two kinds.one sweet, the other fennel-flavored, and both abominable, and chocolate, of course, was not wanting, very rich and aro matic, no doubt, but no more entitled to rank as a liquid or a stimulant than molasses. The meal on that morning, as on every succeeding one, and as the dinner every evening, Avas wound up with cheese and a plate of sugar al monds, doing duty for the postres or after dishes of Spanish gastronomy Antonio always directed personally the operations of the serving-woman dur ing meals, and the superb air with which he AA'ould order on the lump oi leathery Spanish cheese and the hand, ful of sweetmeats, with an imperious "Los postres, Theresa!" was gene- rally too much for our gravity. Dinner was made up in much the same way as breakfast, and the only striking variation on the first day's menu we had in the course of our weeK's stay in Venasque was an occasional olla Irish stew, Avith the potatoes left out a dish of stewed izzard or Pyrenian chamois, and two trout as large as a dudgeon, which an enterprising Span ish youth had discovered in theEssera Garlic apart, however, the food wag good and clean, and the never-failing attention of Antonio and his household made us all confess that the garlic and wine, with human kindness, were better than the proverbial stalled ox without it. We got rid of the garlic f for all that. It was a delicate thing t manage without wounding national sentiments, but we carried our point smoothly enough by setting down our distaste for the vegetable to a defect in our insular education. unsiey i Magazine. Impossible.- Theodore "Marguerite, dearest, as was coming up the street, I met that ugly Jack Strong. He gae m an awful scowl and said if I didn 1 keep away from here he'd blow my brains out." Marguerite "Oh, but he didn't mean lt,: Theo; he isn't such a bad man as that. I couldn't believe t of him. Tne thing is impossible." And it is from such harmless conver sation as this that two hearts ar? wrenched asunder. .BOUXCIXG THE LOAFERS. One of the Ifntles of IXcad Porters in the the Larjce HOtrls. One of the duties of the head porter In the large hotel is to clear the ro tunda, the bar-room and the billiard room of loafers and hangers-on. The act is performed at the Grand Pacific, the Palmer, and the Sherman, twice a day. The porters make their first round at noon. Then is the dinner hour, when many clerks who bri' their lunch clown town and are i proud to eat it in their store or oflk Blip in and spoil the plush chairs Avit. crumbs and bits of meat from sand wiche3. These they masticate casually' as if they had just come from the bar and were eating crackers. "Sample boys" also seize this opportunity, Avhen commercial travelers are liable to be around, to solicit jobs, and hackmen, teamsters, tramps and every species of person embrace the opportunity to 'look in" and see what is going on. The porters make their next round at midnight, and at this time they capture the largest number of fish. Newsboys, tired out Avith the day's AVO' k, their head3 hanging over arms of chairs, asleep; gentlemen not belonging to the hotel, who are paralyzed and likewise asleep; men of no aim or profession, who usually make a bedchamber of a soft chair, and a great diversity of tramps, of all ages, past occupations, and varying mems, help to swell the hoble army of loafers. Whether it is midnight or high noon the head porter is relentless and no re specter of persons. lie is neither tardy nor tender in the manner of his ejection. His motto is: "The Chinese must go," and he carries on his face a clearly Avritten order which reads: "Stand not on the order of your going, but go at once." The loafer seldom fails to read it as he runs, unless he is drunk. In that case he is given a fair opportunity, Avhen persuasion failing he is unceremoniously bounced. "Drunken men give us a great deal of trouble," the Palmer House bouncer told a News man, "but as obstinate aa they are they don't quite come up to the 'sample boys.' " " "What are 'sample boys V " riVMen." whacarrysamp!e-ea?es for the drummers. They are mostly colore0" men tough men. too, they are When you tell them they are not want ed, they say they are waiting for a drummer. The lobby is filled with them half the time. When they get so thick as to be in the way and refuse to leave, we raid them and drive them out. But they come back again sometimes. Then we call the poiice. I have had them draw razors and billies on me and once they take a dislike to a head porter they are very troublesome." Chicago News. What Every Boy Should learn. Every boy should learn to lift hinr 8elf by the hands, and to hold on for some time. It is not necessary to go to a gymnasium to learn this. Boys in the country in climbing trees are soon able to lift themselves by the bauds. It is well to have a pole placed hori zontally, just -high enough to allow the feet to clear from the ground. With this and a rope of a good size hanging down from a secure fasten ing, many useful feats may be learued. The pole or rope may be un der a shed or in the barn. To lift the body by the hands and to move along on the pole, and to hang by one haud, and to swing in various ways, will greatly strengthen the arms and hands. The rope avIII allow of the more difficult feat of climbing it. Learn to climb the rope by the aid of the feet, pressing the rope between them. After this learn to go up, using the hands only. In going down never slide, but go down hand-underhand, otherwise the hands may be badly hurt. One who can command himself while on a rope may at times find the ability to do so very useful It is easily acquired, and the time spent in such exercise is by no means wasted. " Hand Work and Head Work' It has been the fashion to separate hand-work from head-work, as if the two Avere incompatible. One Avas for laborers and mechanics, the other for professional and literary people; one was for the poor, the other for the rich But we are gradually learning that their harmonious union is the only means of the perfection' of either. Bus kin says truly, "We want one man to be always thinking and another to be always working, and Ave call one a gentleman and the other an operatorj whereas the workman ought often tAS be thinking and tfTe thinker often to be working, and both should be gen tlemen in the best sense. The mass of society is made up of morbid think, ers and miserable workers. It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy and the two J cannot be separated with impunity. U3IOROU8. The onion peolcd in the kitchen. The organ peeled by note, And the bell peeled in the steeple, When the scston peeled his coat. This is the season when the men have their hair cut so short that their wives can use the top of hubby's head for nutmeg graters. Passenger in a hurry "Is this train punctual?" Conductor "Yes, sir generally quarter of an hour lats, to the minute." In union there is strength. In the union of two souls in matrimony the strength is sometimes on one side and sometimes on the other. A book has just been publishefi treating of the morality of plants. And yet most all plants, as a regular thing, sty out all night, Wnen a young man walks with girl as'thongl: he is afraid some one would see him, the girl is his sister If he walks so close to her as to nearly crowd her against the fence, she if some one els' sister. "Dear George," said the young wife tenderly, as she stroked her husband's Irving bang; "shall I th.g -Some Day?'" "Yes dear," nquVu the heart less wretch; -sonte day when I'm away from home.'' "See here," he said to his cicrk, "I uon't mUd letting ou il a day now and then to atten-. yo.ir gtandlather's funeral, but I think y.. u ought to have he courtesy to end a few ;1' the fish around to my house." "Why didn't I go to her assistance r said the man Avho staid in bed while his wile laid out a burglar. "Young man, I've had a number of tusseles with the old gal, and 1 knew that the burglar had trouble enough without my giving him any." "Yes, you may co:".; again next Sunday evening; but" and she hesi tated. "What is it, darling? Havel given you pain?" ho asked, as she still remained sixent. "Y'ou didn't mean toi I'm sure," she responded; "but next time don't xviav one tf those collara svith the point turning outward." WHAT ELSE COC1.D 1 UO? Her lips were so near Tlmt what else could Idol You'll be an. ry, I lour, IJtit lier litis wero so near Weil, I can"t make it clear Or explain it to j ou, Uut her lips were bo near That what el;.-j could I do? "Papa." asked a little boy, lookinp up from his Sunday-school lesson, 'what are -the wages of sin?' " "Tha wages of sin these days," replied the old man, earnestly, "depend upon cir. cumstauces, and cUd'. oppoi tunities and business capacity. But they run ur into the thousands, my boy, ihey run uu into the thousands." Jtalies. A Philadelphia cleigyman d:viie babies into three classes, viz.: Fir?t, there is the piratical baby with strops cannibalistic propensities, who tears a your Avhiskers and bites you linger. This is the sort of a fellow who goe nto politics. His skin is thick and th' newspapers never hurt his pride. Num ber two is generally a fat baby. He is a philosophic and usually wears a dreamy, 20,000- leagues- under- the sea expression in his eye or contemplatively' sits witli his toe in his mouth. He ii a juvenile Hip Van Winkle and tke things easy. -The third specimen if known as a "bottle baby," a get-as-inuch-as-you-can baby a commercial infant Avith the speculative instinct ot H Vanderbilt or a Stewart. Figs and Sue i m. idoscheles relates a droll blunde: ht made when at dinner in London. "Ton day I was asked at dessert what fruit I would have of those on the tablej Some sneers,' I replied. The compa ny were at first surprised, and thou, burst into laughter, perceiving the process by which I had arrived at the expression. I, Avho at that time had to construct my English out of guide books and dictionaries, had found that not to care a fig' meant 'to sneer at a person.' So Avhen I av anted some fig.. I thought figs and sneers ivere synony mous." Chicago Herald. Five children went hone from a cir cus in Dakota deeply impressed with the feat of descending a decline on a globe. Finding a smooth log lying at the top of a steep hill, they took their places on it in a row and set it rolling. They were all thrown off and run var three being killed. In cases of poisoniag Avith poison Ivy paint the affected parts as soon as possible Avith a mixture of quieklim-: and water. The mixture should stand half an hour after the limo aud water are put together.
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