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' 4 ""Writ TnniW&tloW oily on one - ! - ; f A Family Sewspaper; Hcvte4 to m fotcresti and GfBfral litws : TEKMS $2.00 IVr Annum. KUBLISHD EUTHERFORDTOS;, N: Ot EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. & 5 " -'--'' 1- . j t-4 . I f4-4 V A 3 11 M r, -8 - sr. IS -i';i.."f :'..:fe -: 3-ir- ii 3 $$-4- 3 ' 3.. Ivl ' m - . " Whmt didat Oioa My to HpplnM t I saw keC at'tfay ke.'' I " TbU I eld to HappineM, ' Thou comest all too late ; ) Kay ! I cannot lei Qc lnv M"hor these gravcvwe gro-trtng f reen. . - ' :- -n f -.- 5. " Is't meet, rthou thysel aball uj, That where my dead repoe . . Thou Bhoaldst hold thy .reveli ga f, Thou EhonldBt wear the rose? ! Nay J, J iirotlstthefn, ij Where thei graves axe growingigreen.' . : - i : 1 ' ' " Turned she round a Utile spaoa, Smiled and aoiily said, ; '. 4 1 would even ask aplaoej r There aHithy hSMl ' To plant flowers; EBjprti.and roaa, Hoklag felf theu tot ijjiob "Bo ahe entrance galasdat Jaftt; -Howcm?ftl Bnwf 1 j . ' Buch request t My tears fell fajt, r BatBhewonhearrayr --"" y ' And the rare, tipnpringing flowi . M'reathed to glorioaa summer bowers. " She has won my grief from ppt Wherefore, tUen, compiain ?' . SlaiJe mj place of graves to be f Eright with hope again, t And, obeying each behest, . Joyfully I eerve my guest." nOW. TWO LEARNED A LES SON. Betty Biglied. Now why she should have sighed at this particulfir moment no one oa earth could tell. And it was all the more exasperating because John had' just generously put into her little, shapely hand a brand-new 0 bill. And .";herbegaii the trouble. . jl " What's the .matter ? " l said, his laeo falling at the faint Boujid, and his inouth clapping together inlwhat those who knew him but .little called an " ob tttinato pucker." " Now, Avhat is it V Betty, who had just begun to chango . the sigh into a merry little laugh rip plingall over the corners of he red lips, stopped Budtienly, tossed her head and, with a small jerk noway sent out the words : qonciliating, ' "You needn't . Insinuate, ij John,- that "I'm always troublesome ! " , " I didn't insinuate who's talking of insinuating?" cried he, thoroughly in censed at the very idea, rind, backing away a few steps, he glared down from his tremendous height in extreme irrita tion. " It's you yourself that's forever insinuating and all that, fhd then for you to put it on me it's really abocjia ablel" j! , r . The voice was harsh, aad the eyes that looked down into her3 were not 1 pleasant to behold. ! ' ' - "And if you think, John Feabody, that I'll stand and have suei things said to me, you miss your guess-r-that's'all !" cried Betty, with two big l-qd spots com ing in .her cheeks as she fried to draw her little erect figure up to its utmost dimensions. "Forever insinuating '. I guess you wouldn't have sail! that before I married you. Oh, now jyou can, of course I" -' t: "Didn't you say it iirsfi, I'd like to know?" cried John in greaf excitement, drawing nearer to the smal creature he, called "wife,' who was gifzing at him with blazing eyes of indignation j " I ' can't endure everything I " j "And if you bear more1 than I do," cried Betty, wholly beyond control now, "why, then I'll give up," and she gave a bitter little laugh anil jjossed her bead Rgain. And here they were in the midst of a quarrel ! These two who, but a year be--lore, had promised to lovef and protect &nd help each, other thrcugi life ! "Now," said John, andi he brought bis hand down with' such a bang on the table before him '. that Betty nearly kipped out of her little shoes only she controlled tne start, for sh would have died before she" had let (John see it, ' we'll have' no more of this nonsense 1" His face was very pale, and the lines around the mouth so drawn tlistt it would have gone to any one's heartto have seen ' then expression, i " I, don't know how yoij will change it, or; help it," said Betty, lightly, to con ceal her dismay at the tiiri affairs had taken, "I'm sure!" and she; pushed back the light, waving hair fromjher forehead with a saucy, indifferent gesture. That hair that John always smoothed . when he petted her when 'tired or dia - heartened, and called her 'f;child." Her gesture' struck to his heart as he glanced at her sunny locks and the sool, indiffer ent face underneath and before he knew it he was saying ; "There is no help for itlbow, I sup pose." - j ' i! 4 "Oh, yes, there is," said j Lelty still in the cool, calm way that pught not to have deceived him.1 But men know so little of women's hearts, although they may! live themfor years in closest friendship. " You needn't ry to endure it, John Peabody, if you don't want to, I'm siu-e I don't care !" ' " What do you mean ?" Her husband grasped hr arms and compelled the merry browiieyes to look up to him. ..-' -i '"lean go back to mother's," said Betty, provokinglyj. "She wants me any day, and thei pm can live quietly " and live to suit yourself, and it will be better all around." ; ; : Instead of bringing out a violent pro testation of fond affection and remorse, which slip fully expecteil, John drew himself up, looked at her ! fixedly for a toHg, lotag minute, then, dropped h arm, and said through white hps very slowly r " Yes, it may be as you say, better all around. You know best ;" and was gone from the room before she could recover from her astonishment enough to utter a sound. With a wild cry Betty rushed across the room, first tossing the $10 bill savr agely as far as she could throw it, and, flinging herself on the comfortable old sofa, broke into a flood of bitter tears the first she had shed during her mar ried life. j i "How could he11 have done itoh. Wha? have John, John !" The hixd twittered in his-little cag over in the window among the plants. Betty remembered like a flash how John and she filled the seed-cup that very morning, how he laughed when she tried to put it in between the bars, and when she couldn't reach withonj; getting upon a chair, he took her in his r great arms, and held her up, just like a .child, , that she might fix it to suit herself, j And the "bits" that ho said hi his tender way, they had gone down to the depths of her foolish little heart, . Eending her about her work singing for very gladness of spirit. And now 1 Betty stuffed her fingers hard into her rosy cars to shut out the bird's chirp- "If he knew why I sighed," she moaned. "Oh, my husband I 'Birth days nothing will make any difference now. Oh, why can't I die ? " j How long she stayed there, crouched down on the old sofa, she never knew. Over and over the dreadful scene she went, realizing its worst featnres each time in despair, until a -voice out in the kitchen said, " Betty ! " and heavy foot steps proclaimed that some one was on the point of breaking in upon her unin vited. Betty sprang up, choked back hei sobs, and tried with all her might to compose herself and remove all traces of her trouble. j . The. visitor was the worst possible one she could have under the circumstances. Crowding herself on terms of the closest intimacy with the jretty bride,! who with her husband had moved into the village a twelvemonth previous, Miss Elvira Simmons had made the very most of her opportunities and by dint of making great parade over helping her in some domestic work, such as house-cleaning, dressmaking and the like, the maiden lady had managed to ply her other voca tion, that of newsgatherer, at one and the same time, pretty effectually. She always called her byi her first name, though Betty resented it; and she made a great handle of her friendship on every occasion, making John rage Vio lently and vow a thousand times the "old maid" should walk! ! But she never had and now, scenting dimly, like a carrion after its prey, that trouble might, come to the pretty little white house, the make-mischief had come to do her work, if devastation had ndly commenced. Been crying !" shG said, more plain ly than politely and sinking down into the pretty chintz-covered rocking chair with an energy that showed she meant to stay, and made the chair creak fear fully. "Only folks, do say that you and your husband don't live happy but la 1 1 wouldn't mind I know 'tain't your fault." - Betty's heart stood still. Had it come to this 1 John and she not to live happy 1 To be sure they didn't, as she remem bered with a pang the dreadful scene of words and hot tempers; but had it got ten around so soon a story in every body's mouth ? "With all her distress of mind she was saved from opening her mouth. So Miss Simmons, failing in that, was forced to go on. "An' I tell folks so," she said, rocking herself back and forth to witness the ef fect of her words, "when they git to talkin', so you can't blame me if things don't go easy for you, I'm sure ! " " You tell folks so ? " repeated Betty, vaguely, and standing quite still. "What? I don't understand." " Why, that the blame is all his'n," cried the old maid, exasperated at her strange mood and her dullness. "I say says I, why they couldn't no one live with him, let alone that pretty wife he's got. That's what I say, Betty. And then I tell 'em what a queer man he is, how cross, an' " "And you dare io tell people such things of my husband ? " cried Betty, drawing herself up jtp her extremest height, and towering so. over the old wo man in the chair that shefjomped in con fusion.at the storm she had raised, and stared blindly into the blazing eye and face rosy with righteous indignation her only thought was how to get away from the storm she had raised, but could not stop. But she was forced to stay, for Betty stood just in front of the chair, and f blocked up the way, so she slunk back into ihe smallest corner of it and took it as best she .could. My husband I cried Betty, dwelling with pridon the pronoun at least, if they were to part, she would say it over lov ingly as much as she could till the Jast moment; and then, when the tur.e did ae, why people should know that it wasn't John's fault "the best, the kindest; the noblest husband that ever was given to a woman. I've made him more trouble than you can guess ; my hot temper has vexed him I've been cross, impatient, and " x " Hold I " cried a voice, "you're talk ing against my rwife ! " and In a moment big John Peabody rushed through the door, grasped the little woman in his arms, and folded her to his heart, right before old maid and all ! : "Oh!" said Miss Simmons, sitting np straight, and setting her spectacles more firmly. , "And, now that you've learned all that you can," said John, turning round o her, still hold ing Betty, " why vou may go!" : The chair was vacant. A dissolving view through the door was all that' was to be seen of the gossip, who started np the road hurriedly, leaving peace be hind. I Betty," said John, somelhalf hour afterward, "what was the sigh for? I don't care now, but I did think, dear, and it cut me to the heart, how you might have married richer. I longed to put ten times ten into vour hand, Betty, and it galled me because I couldn't." Betty smiled and twisted away from his grasp. Running into, the bedroom she . presently returned still smiling, with a bundle rolled up in a clean towel. This she put on her husband's knee, who stared at her wonderingly. " I didn't mean," she said, unpinning the bundle,4 "to let it out, now, but I shall have to. . Why, J ohn, day after to morrow is your birthday ! " "So 'tis!" said John. "Gracious! has it come round so soon ?" "And, you i dear boy," said Betty, shaking out before his eyes a pretty brown affair, all edged with sfrk of the bluest shade, that presently assumed the proportions of; a dressing-gown " this is to bo your present. But yoi must be dreadfully surprised, John,- when you get it, for oh, I didn't want you to know !" ' ; John made the answer he thought best. When he spoke again, ho said, perplexedly, while a small pucker of be wilderment settled between hi eyes : "But I don't "see, Betty, what this thing," laying on finger on tho gowa, "had to do with the sigh." 'That," said Betty, and then, she broke into a merry laugh,1 that got so mixed up with the dimples and the dancing brown eyes that for a moment 6he could not finish. "Oh. John. I VTas worrying so over those buttons I They weren't good, but they were tho best I could do, then. And I'd only bought 'em : yesterday. Two whole dozen. Afnd when you put that $10 bill in nty hand I didn't hardly know it, but I suppose I did give one little bit of a sigh, for I was so provoked that I hadn't waited buying them till to day." ; Jchn caught up the lfttle woman, dressing-gown and all ! I don't think they have ever quarreled since at least I have never heard of it. miArs GO ISO TO StAKE POLYGA MY A FAlLVItE. A man stepped into a Mail street bar ber shop to get shaved. While the bar ber was passing the steel over his face, the man began to shed tears. This attracting the attention of the proprietor of the shop, he directed the manipulator of the raz jr to sharpen the implement. As the shave continued the man's tears flowed unceasingly, and the barber con tinued to whet his .tool, occasionally changing razors, and striving as diligent ly as possible to ameliorate the suffer ings of his customer. " Wo are using the best razor in the 4 shop, sir," said tho man with the lather i cup. " Your face must be very tender. 1 Does it pain you much?" " A razor pain me ! Do you suppose S that a. man that has been through the war shrinks from physical suffering?" "Then what the deuce have you I'bcen blubberm' about?" queried the 'boss. "I got to thinking over bad news '! from the East. Another mother-in-law ;comin out . next week to Bpend the j winter. Here's the money for tbe j shave." 1 " I shan't charge you a cent," said I the barber, sadly. "I never bleed a man's pocket when his heart's bowed I down. Come in occasionally, . and I mingle your tears with mine. I've got j some mothers-in-law myself. Eour, by I thunder!" j " That's what's goin' to make polyg tamy a failure in Utah," said the tear j ful man as he slammed the door. Salt j ZAfre Tribune.' I . - I The Min ing Record makes a point, I thus : "In' the standard dollar about 13.06 per cent, more silver is given as the i legal-tender equivalent for 100 cents in Jgold than'is given by France, Holland, i Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain in their Bilver circulation, to the ! extent of about $1,000,000,000. By what nrK4". 4Ti 1y-v f-tiA TTaio Wvlr 7Vi7i- ,iuv. wiivivi Vj vv ls-lVJ 4.1tt ks. a. --'-' i une and the Evening Post newspapers j characterize that dollar as underval ued?" , i 1 Tkose who hare read tS lae census eportaof the, rapid destruction of the j timber, in the great lumb&ng districts, ! and .nope on thfi maps t e location of i forests distant from navigable streams, will see at a glance that irthe iiear fu ture lumber must .largely increase in value from necessary incase of cost in procuring it. Men rau;d in woody countries seem to cultiva& an enmity to trees and the destruction from? the ax, from carelessness and jdm fires can scarcely be overestimated It has been the history of thj jtfest aj Northwest, There are millions of aer which have been denuded of their fcestsTto make way for farms, where to-(Qiy single trees that were then sacrificed gwoukj sell for more money than an(- acre of the ground. It may be said that this was a necessity, which is doubtless, true to a certain extent ; but that j&ecesjsity does not continue.. The man wZjq owns a forest should guard it and reasonably Expect in the future a rich reward tpt, his care. It would seem as if the tii&&; ad arrived when tho United States -ioul4 imitate something of the wisdom: the German empire in protecting its timber, and, as well, replanting large disct 3 not other wise used. Germ any hacted far more wisely in this matter than j$her European countries. Italy, Spaing Austria and Russia have allowed iheHlestruction of millions of acres of ast fine forosts as ever grew, and are now jyingthe pen alty of gathering their lumbfer - from mountains and places diflcullj,;! to reach, or importing from otherjraore favored countries. The Gulf States and Oregon and its adjacent Territories are yet rich in fine timber. That tre should be somesure means of protecting it from needless ravage and f destruction no thinking man can doublet- tcr Ocran. HOW MILTUX CAMfT 2G WHITE VARA DISK ltfilj A 1 ED." It was at the time of Ipse grfat pLtguo that the pott of f PaivUie LoU" took up his abode at ChaJwnt, and it was through the Iv the in8trumei?ahty 61 a com mon friend of his pjul-NV'lliam Ponn's that tiiis retreat was fl4"ted J Thomas Eilwood, the Qunker, bii mudS. Milton's acquaintance in LonJasome years be fore, when hunted oufifcf house aud home by the Bucks Justices,1 and read .Latin to him in his lojlgmgsf-in Jewin street. When the plagfte grew fierce in the city '"the blind poefVethought him of his one-time secretaiyjand -asked him to find him some retreat in his neigh borhood. Eilwood took tliw "pretty box" for-him ; and it jis here that he suggested to him the id&i of - ' Panuliso llegained." Milton Tjad ; handed him the manuscript of " Partidise'fLost," to pass his judgment on',' " I pleasantly said to mm, jmiwoou relates in ins " " 4 Thou hast 'sjiwl mheh here of "Life. paradise lost, but whalliast ithcu to say qi paradise iouna .' lit niaije me no answer, but sat some itime ia muse : then broke off that dv-coursjS and fell upon another subject. , 'After " the sick ness wasiover, and theeity well cleansed, he returned thither ; Land when after ward I went to woit on : him' there he showed me his second poeni, called Paradise Regained,' aral iu a pleasant tone said to me, 4 Thi-id owing to you, for vou put it into civ luiad by the question you put to.me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.' " Alfred T. Story, in Jfarfccr's Ma.'uzin When they shall havps'made the long and wearisome journey! froni;. the Sibe rian river where the rbavc landed, the survivors of the Jeanncfte wiljL'bo warm ly welcomed home. That jdurney may not be tho most perilous part of their trip, but it will be one 'of great length and of but slightly mitigated fatigue. Two routes are open to; them, une a six weeks' sledge journey up tho river to Irkutsk. Thence , in 'another: six weeks (they may reach St. Petersburg, - or they may strike for Chnla. $.t is a -matter for rejoicing .that they have been spared ;. but, notwithstanding all the expendi ture of enersrv and , money, all their - . " -i- -..--, r , ' trials and adventures, 'tfaev r,eturn with out adding an iota to the geographical knowledge of the northseasVJThe north pole is still wrapped in impenetrable ice, and continues to be asBmcb.of a mys tery as at any time siuqe thei'active navi gation of the north- opmhienced. It seem3 to be high tinieto quit an enter- nrisa which, promisnifir nothing but a t- , !'.-?..... " barren discovery, costs' so greatly in men and money and"' sliipsj The cost of the Jeannetto cruise ! fell not alone upon the projector, Sr.J Bennett. The whole people shared iii'thel expense of the search expedition , directed to be made by Congress. ' hereJiWill always be found adventurous isonls feady to dare a polar voyage and hope I for? 'Jhe discov ery which seems to "fee7 denied to man ; but the gratification of their wish for fame and adventure,! stlwajts barren of substantial results, is tiX cos-jjly. for long continuance. Exolaut is reioicirig over the recovery of her great surgeon," ftir Jwnes Paget No member of the heiding art ever stood higher in the estimatio of his country men or of the proifeoril which he adorns. " tb. '(4 AN AtkQTIC TRAGEDY. With Horn sound begins the interest in Spitsbergen, as the place was the scene of as cruel a tragedy as was ever enacted. The story has in it all the dra matic elements of a thrilling novel o the old school, and finds a fitting do-, nouement in the mines of Siberia. On one of the innermost islands of Horn sound, a few years ago, were found a heap of nine skulls, said to be those of a Russian crew murdered by a party of . English whalers. These murderers were' never discovered, but another and still more remarkable discovery was made in tho year 1853 by a Norwegian sea Cap tain, near this place, and it is of this that I intend to tell. It is the common-' est occurrence for ships that venture up; here to lose one or more men a trip, and so when the other members of the small crews say five or six men return, home and report that they have lost! comrades, no particular attention is paid to the news beyond the little circle wid- j owed by the lost men. " i It happened somewhere about 1849 that the crew of a Russian whaler made their way back to Archangel and reported , that they had lost their Captain and two men on Spitzbergen through an acci- i dent, details of which were given. The: Captain and his men were mourned, and; in a little while the affair was forgotten. In 1853, however, the Norwegian Cap tain in question, while out hunting for ' reindeer, found three hitman skeletons, and beside them a gun from which the; stock was rotting. " On the barrel of the ' gun were scratched a number of inscrip tions in Russian, which the Norwegian i was unable to make out. He brought the gun home with him, and sent it to: Archangel, where it was found to con- tain the history of the Captain and the two men, previously, reported as having '. been killed by accident. The inscripv tion told how the owner of the gun and his two men had been basely deserted by the others'of the crew, for whom they were out procuring food, and left to die of exposure. Those of the crew then alive wera arrested and sentenced for life to work in the mines of Siberia. I. - . . ! The poor Captain and his men must ' have suffered terribly, for, from the dates on the guk tho last of whch was March 3 it was learned that they had survived a greater part of the winter. WAXIED TO SEE WE SUQW. A low moan caused the city editor to look up from the work of writing a no tice of Col. Bumper, who had pierely called to announce his arrival, declaring that 44 these newspaper fellows will find ; it out anyway." Another low moan, like the moan of a wounded dovej j " Can I do anything for you, madam ?" She removed a tattered shawl and hand- j ed the scribe a paper, which in bad chirography stated that Mrs. Millripple j was a poor widow with six children. " Ij am sorry tnac your nusDana is aeaa, j madam. Died of yellow fever inj Mem phis several years ago, I Buppofee ; or it t l i - i was probably recognized as a St. Louis! man and shot?' 4 4 No,, sir," she answered, with a sigh,; " he was killed by a mule." 44 You draw a large draft on nty sym pathies, madam ; but I am moreyless. You have heard of Stanton's moneyless man ? Well, that piece of poetic litera ture was dedicated to me. " j You mistake me, sir. I do nbt want money." I 44 Then you want bacon and flour ?" 44 No. sir. I am poor and my chil-s dren are in need, but I do not want any thing to eat." . ; 44 Want to get a relation out of the penitentiary?" j : 44 No, I have no relatives there' 4 4 Then what can I do for you ?" 4 4 You see, we are denied much , of this world's amusement, being so poor. There's going to be a man hung next Friday, and I want tickets of admission to the jail-yard. Give me the tickets and my poor children will sing your praise, i We have missed all the thea ters, and, as Friday will be my son Jim's birthday, and as I am too poor to give a suitable entertainment, I thought I'd take the children to the hanging." Lit tle IlockArk.) Gazelle. j The call of Thurman upon the Senate was charaiteristically heralded: 4A noise like unto a clap of thunder at sea was heard in the Senate chamber to-day. Davis, of Virginia, sprang to his feet in amazement, Hoar trembled, and Test laughed. Beck looked as though he had heard that noise before, turned ius head toward the Democratic cloak-room, and leheld ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman, with his old bandana in one hand and-a gold snuff-box in the other. Beck told Davis not to be alarmed ; it was nothing but Thurman blowing his nose ; and the Senate proceeded to business," . - s The dogs having learned, perhaps from the wolves, that sheep are good eating, it has become necessary now to protect the sheep from the dogs. Down in Jer sey the farmers use goats for that pur- nsf Two coats can drive away a j: v " dozen dogs. A few doses of their pe culiar treatment will cure a dog, and he leaves the premises without any more ifs or butts. FVTURB OF THE MOBUQS S1STB.V. In the Century, ; the "Legal Aspects of tho Mormon Problem" are discussed by Arthur G. Sedgwick, who concludes as follows: The failure of the attempt-to break up the Mormon system by Congressional legislation does not, by any means, show that the Mormon system will ultimately prevail in Utah. The operation of nat ural causes is certain, in the long run, to sap the foundations ot polygamy. The railroads have already brought' the erritory into communication . with the rest of the country, and the development of the mines must ultimately bring in a large Gentile population almost alto gether male. A strong tendency in the direction of marriages between Gentile men and the daughters of Mormon par ents, must- spring up. Indeed, this is said t show itself already. ' There is no surplus of -women in the West from which to recruit polygamous households; the births of the two sexes are always very nearly equal, and the Mormon population is no longer being rapidly increased from abroad, as it was in the times of the early persecution of the church. It is now stationary, or nearly so, and being rapidly heinnicd in by a community having a social system which all experience shows is the only one per manently adapted to modern industrial life. As the Territory fills up, and the Mormons are brought more and more into relations with the. rest of ttie world, one of the strongest internal causes of disintegration will unquestionably be the sense of fchame operating upon the yo '.mger female generation. In the nat ural course of things, some of the daugh ters of Mormon householders must marry Gentiles, and others, who do not marry outside the church, will be mada keenly aware tnat iney are surrounaea oy a community which regards their position as a degraded one. As long as they could keep themselves separated from the rest of the world, this Gentile feel ing was of very little consequence to ihein. It did not affect them in their idaily life; it was something remote from them, wliich they did not even need to disregard. .This cannot continue for- 1 i i ever, ana lnaeea a cnange must negin, if it- has not begun already, as soon as the surrounding monogamic Gentile sys tem of marriage has a fair opportunity to enter into competition with its rival. Under these circumstances, there is nothing to bo done with the Mormons Xut to let them alone. Persecution has botu tried, and has only served to strengthen and increase them. Lawha3 been tried, and has proved of no use, because it has not been enforced. From the circumstances ol the case, it can- hot be. ( - - An interesting surgical operation was performed lately at Chicago by Dr. Fen- ger,and Prof. W. K. Harrison, which will undoubtedly prove of especial mter- lest to the medical profession, inasmuch as it is the first successful one of its kind on record in this country. It seems that some two years ago a lady residing in Wisconsin thrust her hand through a pane of glass, cutting off all the tendons, nerves and blood vessels at the wrist. A physician sewed the wound, which in time completely healed. Inside of the last year, however, a deadening sensa tion was felt in the injured member, whicli resulttd in the arm and hand be coming completely useless. At this pe riod the unfortunate lady suffered great agony, and went to Chicago for medical attendance. The two physicians cut the old wound open, and found the me dian nerve completely severed and the ends enlarged, forming, as it were, a neurolemma. The divided parts were joined together, as were also some of the other vessels and nerves at the wrist, and the wound sewed up. Although opera tions of 1 this character have been fre quently tried, where necessity demand ed, never until now have any been known to be successful. A Texas correspondent of the New Orleans Timea-Dexocrat comes to the defense of the Texas 44 cowboys" against the President's animadversions, saying : " They are no more robbers than Ken tucky hog-drovers, Tennessee mule drovers, or drivers ot New' York milk carts. These boys are herders of cattle on the plains of Texas follow that as a calling and, although they often get upon sprees around the doggeries of the town, are regarded as a harmless set- ,9 ' The robbers exist, it is very true, but they are a totally different set from the , boys minding cattle at $15 per month. The stage and train robbers and the bor der bandits never molest the cowbojs, but seem to respect them for thier pov erty, and were never known to make one of them 'stand and deliver." Thibtt-six homicides and eighty-two suicides occurred in ot lxrais during the past year. Of all the suicides, twenty-seven used firearms as the means of self-destruction, nineteen poison, thus. teen drowning, thirteen hanging, and ten used knives. "' One of the greatest pleasures of ehildhoml is found in the mysteries which it hides from the skepticism of the elders, and works up into small my thologies of its own. 1 j TUB PLEASANTRIES. . A coAi fire is a grate comfort but nutmeg is a grater.. 1 Thk prop-her time to assist a lady When she is about to faint. iNQuiBrNG Duffer asks : " What iui-'. of liquor will a man get th-unk on quick est?" The kind he ean get hold of. first. : A boot aud shoe!shop hangs out tho sign : " Cast-iron lasts." We all kno w it does, but we don't want any boots made of it. - Therk is one difference at least be tween a dead man and a drunkard, ue takes beer aboard, the other is taken aboard a bier. Mbs. Clauk asks her husband, when he scruples about money for a new dress, how many scruples he has when he wants a dram 1 A Tennessee girl went out for a sail with a man who was panting to die for her. A. squall upset the boat, and he panted for shore and let a negro rescue her. A little girl in a London Sunday school, being asked why God made the flowers of the field, replied : " Please, ma'am, I suppose for patterns for artifi cial flowers." It is mighty hard for some people to get out of a room -after their' visit is really ocr. One would think they had been built in your parlor or study, and waiting to be launched. ' An Illinois girl found that she must either give up her lover- or her gum, and, after one day speint in reflection, she pressed his hand good-by and said she would always be a sister to him. The new rules for playing base ball do not forbid the audience from doubling itself up and fairly screaming, with laughter when the ball hits the umpire directly below the fourth vest button. Detroit Free Press. ; . A medical certificate is among the treasures of the London General Post office, worded as follows : 44 This is to certify that Fattended Mrs . in her last illness, and that she died in conse quence thereof. 44 1 declare, I never saw such a man! You are always getting some new wrin kle." And the brute calmly replied, 44 Matilda, you are- not, thank fortune. If you had a new wrinkle you would have no place to put it, dear."- 44 1 sat, J eukins, cu you tell a young tender chicken from an old, tough one Y "Of course I can." 44 Well, 'how?'' 4By the teeth." "Chickens have no teeth." " Yes, but I have." 44 Good morning." 44 Good morning." 44 What's the matter, old fellow? You look puzzled." 44 Well, I am: I have dined at Y.'s almost daily for the last three months, and I'm hanged if I know what to select for a birthday pres ent for his wife." 4 'Take her hack the spoons and forks." It is a well-known fact that a grind stone sometimes explodes into frag ments. Marble, we fear, is hardly safe for sculptors to use, as we noticed a placard in an art gallery the other day, evidently intended to warn visitors of danger, which read, 44 Parian marble busts." The missing link has at hist been found. Vide the following telegram from Philadelphia : Prof. E. D. Cope, of this city, has secured the skull of an extinct monkey which seems to fulfill in a remarkable degree the condition of the missing link between man and the lower animals. It is not larger than the skull of a small ground-squirrel, and belongs to a species of marmoset It was found in tb.9 valley of the Big Horn river, Wyoming Territory. The professor says : 44 This skull is remarkably similar in miniature, of course to the human skull, t The brain space is remarkably large, vand is, in fact, several times larger than the brain space of any of the skele tons of animals of the same period of time. The characteristics of the forma tion of the human skull are clearly de fined so clearly as to be remarkable. The teeth are almost the same as human teeth, while the jaw has many strong points of similarity. I consider this skull as the earliest indication of the existence of man. It is a new species Of a familiar. class, and has hitherto been unknown to scientists. The connection between man and this animal, it seems si i i to me, must nave been very ciose, ai-, though, of course, nirio men out of every ten would raise a dispute. No animal at that time except this' peculiar species has a head like that of a humanizing, and the brain space, contrasted with tho brain space of other animals, or even of the monkeys of to-day, shows a vast superiority of intelligence. Goethe : 44 He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to in sult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seemsabsurd, but let him con secrate . his energies to the creation of. what is good He must not demolish., but build, 'lie must Taise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
The Rutherford Banner (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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Feb. 24, 1882, edition 1
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