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And daoe when X aaked him to ahow me how To write a oompoeltlon, -' He aaid, Phe-e-ew I IThen will yon : Acqnire one acqnlaition? f 1 8tUI, he helped me all the aame ; He couldn't well refuse; , . v - ' 'But the other day I heard him aay: i; Mab'a alwayp jot the Mnea." .And when I asked him, Unntlngly, I If he had " anakea in hia boot," I He gve a amlle that could be heard a mile, ;: And played The Old Man'a Drnnk Acaln " eat Ma flute. ' Oh, If X juat knew a tingle boy - ho had one grain of aenae, i' . I'd give him my doll and pretty Poll, I And push him through a hedge-fence. TUB HISTORY OF PAPER, Preceding the use of papyrus by the" nans, records 'were kept and cor despondence ..carried' on by inscribing on Vlay bricks, metal plates, ivory tablets 'tc.; tlie matter to be preserved or com ruunicated. This -was the common method of Egypt at th'e time of the exo : dus of the children of Israel. Stamped upon a clay cylinder, an Assyrian ac- I -count of the deluge has been found, and fja similar cylinder in the museum of the' : East India Company contains a portion ' '- slof the" annals or decrees of Nebuchad 1: nezzar. . ' . . ' " 4 I I According to authorities, papyrus, a 1 reed -which could be unrolled intc sheets, began to be of use as paper 3,-i ;551 years before Christ, and thencefor-j I Jwari, for 3,000 years or more, papyrus jf Jtvas the only paper. The prophet Isa-j . ;';! Mahpeaks of this material -when lie savs; in chapter xix., "The paper reeds by ' A ;the brooks and everything sown by tke. ;f jbrooks shall -wither, be driven away and : -be no more," a prophecy that has been I piterally fulfilled, for the papyrus plant, once abundant enough to be the -world's , kfonly paper; is found no nioie anywhere. V - The use of parchment began SOO years ; before Christ, -and, had tluii origin:, ' j Ptolemy III., of Egypt, heard that a ri-' ff val JKing was beginning the formation of f jr ii"i'i3-is equal his, -which: cuiislrlgd" V 1 4 thousands of volumes of books written v j I on papyrus. To prevent the success of ; ;. V. ; the rival, Ptolemy stopped the exporta-; ;: I .tiori of papyrus. The rival then had j j recourse to parchment, the prepared r' i ' i ; ;r hAtus ui ammais, ana inus . parcnmeni. .g came into use. As late, however, as the twelfth century, papyrus was used, fa Papal bull, dated 975. written on 3 1 ' - ... - . ' . . Ueum of the Louvre, Paris. The books of ancient Home were written on papy- rus by slaves educated for this business, j Europe learned the'art of paper-mak- jing from the Saracens, or Arabs, in the I seventh century, and they probably .jr learned it trom tne Ulunese. lne pro. ! cess ;that the Saracens brought to Spain 1 after their -conquest in 704 had been in vogue in China over 1,000 years. The process was Bimpiy Dealing 10 a puip, in 1 l j . a - ' " V ' ? mortars, of vegetable fiber, and then : tv drying it in sheets. The Chinese make I paper the same way to-day, as they are -'opposed to the use of labor-saving ma- ; chinery. The only machine admittecl '; ft to the Flowery Kingdom is the Yanke ; seeing machine. '.. , i The use of paper for documents uegan about the tenth century. The use of 11? rags for paper-making began in the j ; I eleventh century, prior to that cotton, j flax, etc., being-used. The earliest rec- ; ''f ordof the building of a mill for paper- : mjiking is 1370, the mill being erected s in -Germany. The mill was, .however, " only for reducing the fiber to pulp by j- "stamps run by water power, and was in I no way rlike our modern mills. In 1588 . -1. a German made ; such : good paper that .'" Queen Elizabeth knighted him and gave ! him ajmonopoiy of gathering rags in the : .kingdom for ten years. , ; The real value .' of paper-making began to be best appre f ciated when the art of printing was dis- covered in the fifteenth century. Had printing been discovered earlier there ISvould have been little use for it, as "I ieither the bark nor straw paper of the ! Chinese, the papyrus of tho Egyptians, inor the parchment of the Greeks would I I nave been sufficiently plentiful for the demands of the printing press. Ger- i &any, .using cotton, flax and rags, and -flier water and wind power for their re- duction to pulp and -fiber, was ready for the printer and his press, and these fade possible the Ileformation. . ! i The rag engine, by which the raw ma- "i irrial is reduced to pulp, is a German vent ion less than 200 years old. As lte as 1756, in tilis land of ingenious workmen, rags were reduced to pulp by tj stanips .or in mortars. In 1798, Louis Robert, of France, invented the so-called I Joardrinier machine. .He had so little iCQnragement at home that he took his : Jivention to London, where he interest I .1 tht Fourdrinier brothers, wealthy I Jtioners, in his work. In 1804 tiiese ft 'irrinie3. purchased the patents and feeriniented with them at .'a cost of ifl vO-jO. ; Their experixaents ended in ? ros?nt Fourdrinier machine of our I IJll!s"a mahinethat has made possible If f,ft fenornabus paper ' industxy of the f vi;ld, an. industry of which Pliny wrote n. A - H.OW HTPHICRSON JDIEJK Gens. McPherson and Logan, who had been to Gen. Sherman's headquart ers (before Atlanta), rode up to the rear of the Seventeenth corps and! dismount ed in a clump of trees in front of an open stretch, which had probably been a jSald, at one iime3Cki wan-about 10 o'clock. Shortly after they had dis mounted picket firing began on tne left and apparently to the rear of the main line. After listening to it for a few min utes, McPherson said he would' go out in that direction and see what it meant. -Calling to Capt. Kilburn Knox, of his staff; to follow, he mounted " Blackie," his favorite ,horse, and galloped down the lane or narrow road, running in the rear j of the Seventeenth corps, at an angle of 45 degrees from the main line, toward the point where the .firing was heard. Gen. Dodge, commanding the Sixteenth corps, had been ordered to the left,; with instructions to form at right angles with Gn. Blair's line, but he had not had time to get into position, conse- quehtly the firing could not be on his I skirmish line, which led to the conclu- H 'ill i. 1 "I : ; sionj that something unusual was going on. Hood's tactics being well known to McPherson, he was on the lookout for dashes, hence his anxiety. It was not more than fifteen minutes after McPher soa and Knox, accompanied by their or derlies, had dashed down the lane until "Blaokie," the General's horse, came galloping back with a wound in the shoulder, from whioh the blood waa pouring in a perfect stream. The cry wasinstantlv raised that "the General has Jbeen shot" Closely following the horse came Capt. Knox and the two or derlies. Knox dashed up and in an ex-, edited manner exclaimed, " He is dead. Get an ambulance quick," Gen. William E. Strong, now of Chicago, and Capt. D. H. Buell, ordnance officer, started at . once with the headquarters ambulance down the lane, followed by several of the 1 mounted men. Buell rode ahead and skirmished with the rebel pickets,; keeping them back until Gen. Strong got the body into the ambulance. They -drove back with all speed to where, Gen. - : Logan and the other officers were. Dr. Hewitt hastily opened his coat and dis- covered that the bullet had passed di rectly through his heart, killing him in stantly. The body was taken at once to Gen. Sherman's headquarters, from where it was sent, in charge of Gen. McPherson's ' personal staff, to Marietta, where it was embalmed and sent with the) same escort to the home of his aged mother at Clyde, Ohio. Capt. Knox, who accompanied ! the General," said they had gone but a short distance down the lane when .a shot was fired from an ambush, taking effect in tfiei ' shoulder of the General's horse. Thpy reined up, but had not time to turn until another was fired and the General fell heavily to the ground. He neither spoke nor moved a muscle. Aft!er the fatal shot several skirmishers made -their appearance, one of whom rushed np and took off the General's waist belt. As soon as he retired, a member of the Union pioneer corps ran iup and rifled the General's pockett, tak ing! a pockVbwk containing about $700. Pittsburgh Telegraph. ?t: Tjte proportion of men to women who commit suicide is as four to one. 1,800 years ago : "All the usages ot civ ilized life depend in remarkable de gree upon the employment of paper." The: brothers Fourdrinier reaped no ad vantage from their invention They spent their entire fortune and died in poverty, the eldest In 1855, aged 90 years. - - The first paper-mill : in the 'United btates was established in German town, Pa. in 1690. The first paper company in Massachusetts was granted a patent in 1728. The mill was started in Mil ford in 1730. It was run with varied success for some years, and then ceased operations. In 1760 a Bostonianrgot a furlough for an English soldier who un derstood paper making, and the mill was again started. In 1776 the Legislature passed resolutions for the appointment of suitable persons in each town to re ceive rags, End the people of the State were urged to save their rags for paper making. In 1779 Zenas Crane, of Wor cester, journeyed to Dalton, and there began the' business which his sons and grandsons are still engaged in in the same town ; and his ' fellow-pioneer, David Carson, has also descendants en gaged in the business and owning the original mill site. The address took up the art of paper making from this time to its present perfection, describing the process,' the inventions, improvements, etc., and the importance of paper making in an edu cational view. The different materials used, the many and various paper prod ucts, from boats to eollars and from car wheels to petticoats. Holyoke is now tne great paper-manufacturing center of this State and of the United States, the mills of tjiat city having a capacity of 150 tons per day. '1'he laily production of paper, in the United States is estimat ed at 2H000 tons, of which 150 are for writing purposes. About 4,000 tons of fiber are used daily to produce the paper; made-. Paper Trade Journal. history or a' spy a. Vill S. Hays, of Louisville, Ky.f has made a small fortune by writing songs. Among hia popular compositions are ; "MollieDarling,? " Norah O'Neai" and! "Evangeline." But he got no money! from the latter, though it gave him a! start in his business. "Just before the! war," he says, " 1 was with some young visitors up in Oldham county, Ky.j Among them wasjj a beautiful girl who resembled the ideal pictures of Longfel-I low' 'Evangeline ' so, closely that I called! her by the name, j We danced at an out-! door frolic one evening, and soon dis covered that four of us could sing to-; gether. We tried popular quartettes,: and got along so ' well that we became enthusiastic. About 2 o'clock in the morning we started to walk home. The' night was as brigiit as day, with the full moon hanging in the sky, and as we walked we sang. We sat down in a nook; to rest, and ' Evangeline '. began to sug-i gest other songs to sing. I'll write a song,' aaid I, 1 if you'll promise to sing it before we go home.' This was agreed to. On the opposite side of the road was a white plank fence. . Where we! were sitting a party of negroes had been! roasting ears of ?orn, and the charredj sticks lay all Wound. With them t wrote the first vrse of the song on the! top plank of the!fenoe, and the notes for! four voices on the four planks beneath.! Then we stood foff and sang it. - The girls were delighted, and insisted onhavj ing a chorus, so I wrote the chorus on Hie planks. . Well, we sang it over and ever, and went home singing it. Next morning 4 Evangeline ? came down stairs humming the ahj, and asked me to write it out and finish jit. I told her I couldn't do it, but she might go down and copy it off the fence. She took an umbrella; and sheet of paper, and soon came back with words andj music. Then she in-; sis ted on having another verse, so I wrote another verse, on condition that I was to have a kiss for it, and she to have the music" J 1 Hays sent the composition to various musio publishers, but couldn't sell it, and it was at length made public by the voice of Campbell, the negro minstrel. Threw hundred thousand copies have' bees, sfcld-but the kiss was the only pay the author has received. THE DAXCB OF DANCES. Scotch reels and country dances .were the fashion in 1814 ; then came the quadrille in 1815, and, then the waltz, j the pioneers whereof were Lord Pal-j merston, Mme. de Lieven and the: Princess Esterhazy. ' ' No event, " wrote Baikes, " ever produced so great a sen-j sation in English society as the intro-l duction of the German waltz." Up to :that time the: English country dance, Scotch steps, 'and an occasional High--land reel formed the school of the dancing-master and the evening recreation of ; the British youth,j even in the' first cir- cles. But peaces was drawing near ;. foreigners were" arriving, and the taste! for continental customs and manners! became the order of the day. The young1 Duke of Devonshire, as the "Magnus; Apollo" of the drawing-rooms in London, was at the head of! the innovations; and,! as the card-playing dowagers, with their! quadrille, whist and macao, went out,! the young continentalized world came; in with its French; quadrille and German; waltz. The war being over, too, those; young people xlrank champagne, to the1 great horror of the old-fashioned lowers; of old port, punch and propriety. I CHuriaMAJucuioxs. The addresses on Chinese letters an j always translated in San Francisco. Of : the names that the translator turns eat from the curious ittle marks on the en velopes, the Leea are most numeroa. i The superscriptions, after being trass lated', read something after this (ash ion: "Sam Jjeel Uundryman, Then; follows city and State in due order. 'The! Sam Lees are the most numerous ; next come the Hop Lees, then the Wah Lees,' the Lung Lees, the Chung Lees and the! Bung Lees. The Wahs are not far be( hind. The Lung family is not so numer-! ous. The Won Lungs and the Line; Lungs are the most numerous. The! Ylks, too, are quite a oolony. Sam Ling is a prosperous laundryman. The Chin Chins are yet scarce, as are the Chew Chows, number It is surprising to notice the; of QBrians and Onllins and: other Irish names. This is accounted for from the fact jthat the Chinamen ef- ten marry lruxtwomen ana .tase men insxtwc .OBw ) j wives' nami THK SATISFIED BOOT. . t It is happiness! to be in as contented a frame -of mind as was the boy of this anecdote : A small boy was hoeing in a sterile field by the roadside, when a passer-by stopped and said "'Pears to me your corn is rather . r "It's small. il ' Ctertainlyj" said the boy. dwarf corn." "But it looks jailer." " Certaidy; ' We planted the yaller kind." . . . i 'But it looks as if you wouldn't more than half a crop." " Of course' not," said the boy. i I- planted her on shares." fWe j A BAD 8QEXf!.K Mr. Cheney,- a farmer o Indiana, hav ing a married daughter Jiving n Ne braska, was shocked by a telegram from her husband saying that hdr bodyj would arrive, the next evening! The. family was overcome with the. sUdden blow. Hurried preparations for mourning gar ments and the preliminaries; to th fune ral were made, and, on the 4isma. even ing, dressed all in blacky-bey tfent to the station to meet .theprpsej The hearse and two or three !rriages were drawn up in line, and a numerouacfowd, attracted partly by curiot, pertly by sympathy, accompanied the , bereaved household. As the train -approached a solemn silence settled upcin the assem bly, and as it stopped there was re spectful hush until the ceremony of a re ceiving the corpse was concluded.': But the train; hands did not share this feel ing. The baggage-master pitched bis trunks about and swore s as briskly as ever and just as if a part Of his load was tiot of a character to call or decorous behavior. The conduotorcame ; upon the platform laughing and, trying to joke with the. station-agent's daughter, who told him he ought to be a&homed o car ry on that way at such a time, jli the meanwhile the long and. narrow box which so quickly tells its story had not made its appearance, and, after ; pain ful delay, Mr. Cheney stepped fprward and asked for the corpse. i3?he baggage man stared at him as if he'; were-crazy, and, making no reply, went on overhaul ing the trunks, as if it might be under them somewhere. Suddenly Mr. Cheney felt an arm about his neck ancf a kiss imprinted upon his cheek. He looked. It was his daughter. The female mem bers of the family went .into hysterics. There were shouts and tears and laugh ter. The daughter, appalled at the somber dresses, the hearse and cortege, was frightened almost into fainting fit. Bhe eould offer no explanation bf the telegram. She could not ear positively whether in a moment of absent-mindedness her husband had actually sent the dispatch as received, or "whether he wrote it so blindly that, he operator misread it. At any rate, she refused to ride home in the hearse, and took her place in the carriage with the ohief uourners. f REJECTED POEMS . v I The Boston Transcript' gives three columns of "rejected poems" with this introduction: ' 1 " Nothing gives an editof more genu ine pain than to reject poetry, jjid yet the limits of the ordinaryrnewjipaper are such that a great deal' goes into the waste-basket which, if printed,! would furnish unalloyed delight to critical and sympathetic readers. Enough rhythmic sweetness is annually wasted in the office of a literary newspaper? perfume the desert of Sahara. An idea seems to have got about that editors far general do not like poetry. It isa mislake; they do.. iNotning cneers ine eqiionai neart so much as to get five or six poems every morning about the seasons, empty chairs, little graves, ' She is Gdne,! torn-hearts, and such. Even if he cannot use them, they put him in . an agreeable state of mind, and help tone him up for lus day's work; and, then, an editor Jjas nothing to do but to put his heels up on the desk! and read poetry all day. Tfie truth is, so far as they themselves ;re con cerned, editors don't get half enough poetry. They would willing!)! crowd out advertisements to put it in ftf pub lishers would allow, but the sordid spirit of gain heads them off. v 'Every piem that goes into the waste-basket represents a pang on the part of the editor. 5 '' 4 OXM! DOLLAR A WORD POR ITORIAIt. 1 ED Mr. William JNortn, ar quarter of a century ago a New York'5 i journalist of repute, was asked to write an "editorial calculated to inflict damage on coercive teetptalism. He was promised 20 for a suitable article. " Hov long p hall it be?!' inquired North, r As long or short as you please," yras the:-reply; "qualitv. not quantity, ,the object. Thereupon North indited this powerful article : i ' I We had rather see the .whole world; get drunk of its own free will than one man kept sober by compulsion. ' This sentence was printed as , leader in the journal which had-retailed Mr. North, and he was rewarded for his work at the rate of .a dollar a word undoubt edly the highest price eyer pad for a newspaper editorial. Whatever Jnay be thought of the soundness of his argu ment, it had a very unusual merit in. the . l-it.-l.-.l 1 -?t: SxJt 1 promoiuon ooniroversy Dreva During the past fifty years, tieMem-i phis Avalanche thinks, there vihas , not been so long a duration of: extrei&ely hot weather as has been felt m most parts of the country, but especially, perhaps, in the South, since about the middle .of June. The year 1881 will ; long be re membered as the scorching year, when the North was visited by- mop sun strokes and' more storms add whir lwinds. than in any previous yeaf" during the past fifty, when more houses were blown down and more lives --destroyed by tor nadoes than ewr before, sujdf wien !the South was more generally j bur nt up in her corn crops. The Santa Fe New Mexican gives the following particulars of the killing of the terrible outlaw. William Bonny,' known as "Billy the Kid," by ! Sheriff Pajt Garrett, of Lincoln county, New Mexico : Garrett was informed of the Kid's whereabouts while in Lincoln couniy, and arrived at Sumner in search of the outlaw after nightfall. At about midnight he went to the house of Feet Maxwell, accompanied by two men named John W. Poe and T. M. McKinny, whom he had brought from home with him. The two men were told to stand on guard at the gate, while Garrett went on and entered the room of Mr. Maxwell. The latter was in bed at the time, and Garrett quickly informed him of the object of his visit. He had scarcely done so when in walked " Billy the Kid," armed with knife and revolver. Garrett dropped behind the head of the bed and remained there in a croucliinar position. Kid was in his stocking feet, and waa apparently alarmed at having seen the two men outside, for he asked hurriedly of Maxwell, " Who are they?" and repeated the question quickly. Max well made no reply, and the Kid then caught sight of Garrett. He did not ap parently recognize the man, but pointed his revolver at him and asked, " Who is it? Who is it?" Garrett had not had time to draw his revolver, and, finding it had reached a point at which caution or delay would prove fatal, reached round and got it. Kid started back, but for some reason or other did not fire. ; Per haps this was because he had no idea that Garrett was - in that part of . the country, and suspected no harm. What ever his reason was, his delay proved fatal. With his desperate enemy's weapon aimed full at his breast at a dis tance of a few feet, Pat Garrett, with the quickness and precision for which he is famed, pulled down on the Kid and fired. , That shot was the last ; the Kid was to hear on this earth. He fell back on the floor pierced through the heart, and in a moment was as dead as any of the men whom he had served in thd same way, with less justice, and sim ply to wreak a'petty spite or satisfy; his thirst for blood. Garrett and Maxwell jumped' into the middle of the room, which was lighted only b j the beams of the moon, and Garrett had the satisfac tion Qf knowing that he had fulfilled a duty from which most men would; have shrunk in terror,' and accomplished - the task which had occupied his thoughts it t and energies for months. mRATETAMDS WULL 9T BOLD. It is now asserted that the drain of gold is not toward Europe or India, but in the mouths of American people, under the persistent practice of dentis try. So literally is this true that few of our people - can smile without giving surface indications of gold. The facetious mathematician of the ' New York Times surmises that, at the present rate of disappearance, our- gold supply will have been deposited in American cemeteries in not less than 300 years. What then ? Will unfeeling speculators be permitted to organize, for example, a 'Greenwood Bonanza Company," and to publish a prospectus asserting; that surface indications of gold-bearing 'citizens are particularlv rich in its territory; that it has erected a. mill capable of crushing twenty fidl-grown or thirty juvenile jaws daily, and. that, so far as its mining operations! have been conducted, the yield has averaged seventy ounces of gold to every ton bf deceased citizen ? Will decent people be willing to see prospectors digging inr every graveyard in the country, and will mourning friends calmly submit to'-see a rich corpse of a recently dead citizen " jumped " by some ardent miner ? j It is scarcely probable that this viol$on of cemeteries and this crushing j and smelting of gold-bearing citizens will be nermitted. If speculators attemnt anv- thing of the kind, there wfil be endless disputes between mining companies and the heirs of the occupants of ceme teries. The authorities will have to give their whole attention to preserving the peace, and the advocates of the re covery of gold and its restoration to its former place in the currency of .the world will be called "ghouls" by the silver men, which, on the whole, lis' rather a worse word than " Shylocks." The only way in which the disappear ance of gold can be prevented is by find ing a substitute for it as a material for filling teeth. H this is done in' time, gold may continue in circulation, j If it is not done, the j triumph of the silver mine owners is! inevitable and only a century distant.! " y j JTO MORE EXMORTBRS. The "Exhorter" of the Methodist Episcopal Church is Said to be rapidly becoming extinct. The disappearance oi this' order of men is not owing to the want of a field in which they may op eratefor the field was never broader, nor more in need of such a service than at this time but to the decadence, of deep and clear convictions for sin among professed Christians, and the sense' of the fearful danger' incurred by living without repentance' and faith. With ejn reduced to a misfortune, and hell to a myth, the occupation of the Exhorter is gone. New York MethodUU A MVMIOAX, JBX. ar srosn. She's ptf set to whtd wttk la a waa; !An4 bar aheukUn show wall oa a softdlraa, as aha krantfi as n!ht and apraada her sUka, Aadylars with aar bnoatots sad flirta her faa Bar duty this Christian aerer omits ! She makes bar calls aad leeres hex cards. And enchants a airele of batt-fledged wits jAnd slim attaches and six-f oot guards. v Is1 this the thing (or mother or wifet Could lore ere grow oa snob barren rocks t IstbiaaoomptnlflBito take for life T One might as well marry s musical box. Ton exhaust In a day ber foil extent; ;Tts the same little tinkla of tunes always; '" Yon most wmd bar np with a ooapHasnt, To be bored with the ealy airs sbe plays. PJLEAl 8AUTTRIES. FoniiOW the example of trees keep some things in the shade. Munr of the richest planters of . San Domingo live on coffee grounds. Kktzb write the word "finis " back ward. It will, be a "sin if "you do. A pm was never known to wash, but a great many people have seen the pig iron. I ' A bt-ck)ods house advertises, lawn dresses thai will wash. Isn't it the bus) ness of a laundress to washV , ' Thjb hog may not be thoroughly post ed in arithmetic, but when you come to a square root he is there the hog is. V What makes the hair fall out ?" asks a correspondent. Usually it is the prop erty of the deceased that makes the heirs fallout. j A btvbb's mouth is larger than its head, the sea has arms but no hands, and a mountain has a foot but no legs. Queer, isn't it? Bav. Geokox H. Hjepwohth has writ ten a romance entitled "It! " It is in , and the interest is tling and uned. Lowell Courier. A oorbespondent writes : "Will you tell us what Mrs. Langtry's maiden name was?" Certainly ; her maiden aim was to marry Mr, Langtry. ' Mamt a newspaper has been assassin ated in the same way as the late Sultan Abdul Aziz, by means of scissors. New York Commercial Advertiser. A xiiTTLB 8-year-old said to her" mother one day, "Mamma, you married papa so that no one else could get him, didn't you ?" Her ideas of human nature were quite earnest. , : " What is the greatest charge on rec ord?" asked the Professor of History.' And the absent-minded student an swered: "Seventeen dollars for hack hire for self and girl for two hours." . ' I As Arkansas journal says ' that they have in that State a spring so powerfully impregnated with iron that the farmers' horses which drink at it never have to be shod, the shoe growing on their feet "naturally. , 1 Catoht in the act: Clara "O Char ley, you naughty boy I I saw you thrqw your cigar away just as I -came round the' corner," Charley " Why didn't you say you wanted it ? How was I to know?" ... : That genial old proverb manufacturer who wrote, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," forgot to add ;that all play and no work makes Jack a professional sport at 20 years of age, ' and lands him in the penitentiary at 30. Hekst," said his wife, wili chilling severity, "I saw yojk coiwiDg out of a saloon this afternoon." fl Well, my a ' V a' . darling, repnea tne iArtiess man, "you wouldn't haveyouv husband stay ing in ft saloon all day, fiviid you?" Pexsioxans have d'xti&txl. that a man hailing from ft small to in Kansas has two hearts. What a p-idicamenl hewill be in when his girl ass hfcn, " )o you love me with all yt 4srt ?" If will have to say, " WWxh birt?" and that may break the . fg en mt Ph (ladeU phia Sun. Potatoes. Wfca rtld potato begin to lose their favor, tVie rook must sum mon all her skill to ioue for ,the loss. An excellent wayuf cooking them is the following :' Peel ind slice soiae po tatoes and arrange them in -a deep bak ing dish, putting salt, pepper ' and bits butter between eaoh layer.! Fill the of dish with milk, and hake in ft moderate oven until the .potatoes are dsn. A favorite dish in the Went Indies is pre pared as follows ; Two pounds of peeled potatoes are washed and grated ; four ounces each- are added of sugar aad but ter melted ; one teaspooiiful each of salt and pepper; mixed well together, placed in a baking and put i into a brisk oven until done and it shows a delicate brown color. Another mode of prepar ing potatoes by the French, after the potatoes are boiled in their Jackets, is to peel and mash them with I a fork ; put them into ft stewpanwith. some ' butter and salt, moisten through' with cream and let them grow dry while stirring over the fire ; add more cream and con- . . . - , tinue adding for nearly an t hour ; turn them into a dih and brown them on the top with salamander. ! . in compounding dose for his own tak ing, and lost his life thereby. THE PRETENTION OF SUNSTROKE. The following hints for the- prevention of sunstroke are given by a New York , physician : " To avoid sunstroke, exer cise, in excessively hot weather, should be very moderate; the clothing should be thin and loose, and an abundance of cold water should be drank. Workmen . and soldiers should understand that as soon as they cease to perspire, while working or marching in the hot sun, they are in danger of sunstroke, and they should immediately drink water , freely ' and copiously to afford .matter lor cutaneous transpiration, and also . keep the skin and clothing wet with water. Impending sunstroke may of ten be warded off by these simple measures; Beside the cessation of perspiration; the pupils are apt to be contracted, and ' there is v great frequency of micturition. . When there is marked exhaustion, with ft weak pulse, resulting from the cold water application, we should f adminis ter stimulants. The free use of water, however, both externally and internal- ly, by those exposed to tne direct rays : of the sun, is the best prophylactio against sunstroke, and laborers or sol diers and others who adopt this measure, washing their hands and faces, as well as drinking copiously of water every time they come within , reach of it, will . generally enjoy perfect immunity from sunstroke. , Straw hats should be. worn, ! -ventilated at the top, and the crown of the hat filled with green leaves or wet sponge. It is better to wear thin flan-' nel shirts, in order not to check perspir ation. We may expose ourselves for a long time in the hot sun, and work or . sleep in a heated room, and enjoy per fect immunity from . sunstroke if we keep our skin and clothing wet with water." . C A COW'S CUD. The situation, the structure and the size of the rumen or paunch poinf it on as the first and general receptacle for the food, which, receives in the mouth only sufficient mastication to enable the animal to'swalkrwit. When swallowed, it is then received by the rumen, and morsel after morsel is taken until this, the first of the animal's four stomachs, is comparatively full. ' A sense of reple tion precedes rumination, during which act the animal generally prefers a re cumbent posture. - It is not to be sup posed that all the food taken is again ruminated; it is only the bulky or solid portions ; that undergo the process. When the rumen is moderately full, it ; will contract on its contents, and first squeeze out the fluid portions, which will pass onward into the third or fourth stomachs, while the solid part will be embraced by the oesophagus, or stomach : pipe, and returned to the mouth. By the term " loss of the cud" is meant a cessation of the chewing of the cud, which occurs as a symptom of most in; ternal diseases of oattla FARMING IN CHINA. True domestic happiness exists in Chi-' , nese farm-houses, for every house is a little colony, consisting of three genera-, tions namely, the grandfather, his chil dren and his children's children. There they live in harmony together; . All those that are able to work on the farm, and if more labor is required the strang er is hired to assist them. They live well, dress plainly, and are industrious, , without being in any way oppressed. The female members of a farmer's house- r hold have much more liberty than those of higher rank.. They have small feet, -;, as usual, but they are not confined to the house or prevented from looking oh . and speaking to strangers, as are the higher classes. If a stranger enters the court of the house unexpectedly he v will see a number of . ladies, both old and young, sitting on the veranda,-all indus- . triously employed on some .work spin- v ning, sewing or embroidering, and one probably engaged in culinary opera- ' tions. They are, however; very shy , with strangers, and fly at the.approach of one, so it is not easy to catch more than a glimpse of their domestic life. i -- - . TO COOK A 'POSSUM. Senator Garland, of Arkansas, was ' appealed to by Forest and Stream lor directions how to cook a 'possum. "Tho bent of my mind," he replied, "is that if you would boil the 'possum in salt and red-pepper water until he is quite ten der, and then brown him well in an old fashioned oven or skillet, wherein around his body ft goodly number of potatoes axe baked and browned, you will have a cish unrivaled and more than Oriental, apd & person who could : not relish it; whether he took the 'possum hot or cold, would have no celestial fire in his soul, nor musio either." As to whether a pos sum is best eaten hot or cold, the Sena tor confessed inability to decide. "Bath er than miss him entirely," he added, " I-would try to eat him in any way I could find him, and, really I am Of opin ion that he is better hot or cold accord ing to the state he is in when I last par take.of him." . . . S!3?e$ii.tot3 : "And so you learn 4ancjBg, Bob? And how do you like vaining?" "Oh, it's not bail I can maaage-yery well myself ; but J thoik a girl's rather in the way I" ' .w . lit ' " !.' t if; 1 -r its? ! 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The Rutherford Banner (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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Sept. 30, 1881, edition 1
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