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THE FLOWN BIRD, L - -
The maple's leayes are whirled away ;
The depths of the great pines arestlrrad;
Kight settles on the sullen day, "
As In Its nest the mountain bird.
My wandering feet go up and down,
And back arid forth from town to town,
Through the lone wood and by the sea.
To find the bird that fled from me ;
I followed, and I follow yet
I have forgotten to forget
My heart goes back, but I go on.
Through summer heat and winter snow ;
Poor heart, we are no longer one,
But are divided; by our woe.
.. Go to the nest I built and call
Bhe may be hiding after all
' - The empty nest, if that remains, '
And leave me In tbi tonglong rains ;
My sleeves with tears are always wet
I have forgotten to forget.
Men Inow my story, but not i
For such fidelity, they say.
Exists not--such a man as he
Exists not in the world to-day.
,If his light bird has flown the nest,
Bhe is no worse than all the rest ;
Constant they are not only good
'To bill and coo, and hatch the brood;
He has but one thing to regret i
He has forgotten,, to forget.
All day I see the ravens fly,
I bar the sea-birds scream 11 night ; .
The moon goes up and down the sky,
: . The sun comes in with ghastly light ;
. leaves whirl, white flakes around me blow
' Are they spring blossoms or the snow 1
Only my hair? Good by, my heart,
The time has come for us to part ;
Ee still ! . You will be happy yet
For death remembers to forget.
Translated from the Japanese,
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THEIR SECOND YOUTH.
The Lady Annabel sat in a small room
in her father's castle, looking out of a
window which overlooked a wide land
scape. Her maidens . were in a little
group at the other end of the apartment
" busily j engaged at their embroidery,
laughing and chattering and whispering,
just as they might were they alive now
for this was many years ago and they
are all dead and buried. The Lady
Annabel took no notice of them ;
she was thinking. At last she looked
' up and yawned "Oh, I am so sleepy
and thirsty ! Mabel, bring me some
water." j
Mabel obeyed and a? she received the
cupagam, she said" Your Ladyship will
not be sleepy to-miorrow !" "1
"Docs not your Ladyship recollect
that to-morrow is Jour Ladyship's birth
day? and "
" My birthday ? Oh, yes, so it is. I
had forgotten all about it. We are to
have a merry time of it, I believe ; but
' I am sure I feel in no humor for merri
ment now. Lay down your work, girls,
for a little while and take a. stroll'in the
"garden."
Whenshe found herself alone, the La
dy Annabel walked up and down the
small apartment, then stopping before
the looking glass -she said : "My birth
" day 1 Am I indeed twenty-nine to-morrow?
Twenty -nine ! that sounds old!
It is ten years since my father came in
to' possession of this estate, and every
one of those J ears ha ve passed one. just
like another. I feel no older than I was
then. I look no older." And she looked
again into the mirror. ,
"".' I am no older in any one respect.
How I wish they "would let my birthday
pass by in silence, and not distress me
by publishing to all the assembled
crowd that iho Lady Annabel is now
twenty-nine I
Her reverie was here disturbed by the
haty entrance of her father.
" Why, what makes you look so down
cast, daughter ? For shame I go down
and assist in the preparations for to
morrow's feast, instead of moping here.
Bat I must not forget to teil you I saw
my neighbor L this morning. We
passed through his grounds, and he
joined our hunting party."
At this the Lady Annabel's color
heightened visibly.
"He says he expects his son back in
a few months ; and he and I were set
tling, that as our estates touch, and as
he has but one son, and 1 have but the
daughter ; but I hearvmy men;
. they have brought home the stags ohe
. of them" "has such horns ! You must
come down after fcwhile and see them."
So saying ho left her.
"And Jasper is coming home," con
tinued the Lady Annabel to herself
1 " How well do I remember the first
time I saw him it was-' on my birthday 1
I w&'j 12 years old, and, althoughie
". was just my age, I was a tall girl and he
1 a little boy. I refused to dance with him
because he was a whole! headshorter
than. I but if my father and his have
such plans for us
At this moment her companions re
" turned, and, quieting their laughing
v countenances, sat down again to their
embroidery.
The next day was one of unusual fes-
tivity. . By mid-day the hall wa3 crowd
ed with ladies and gentlemen of high de
gree, from far and .near. The musio
wo a srtA on1 rlo t oirt rr onrl ff 0QT .1 Ti T "WfLS
the order of the day. The Lady Anna-
bel, contrary to her expectation, was be
guiled by the joy she saw on every face
around her, and entered with great vi-
TTonifir infr cvprv (snort, that, was irr-
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1 posed. No laugh so loud as here nd
movement bo full of glee. Late at
night, when the guests naa aepartea,
Bhe threw herself, flushed and excited
into a large chair in her own room, and
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began to loosen the rose from her hair.
So it is all over, and 1 have been hap
py very happy, indeed I have only the
recollectipn that it was my birthday
would intrude itself upon me. to damp
my enjoyment,' every now and then. I
heard several people ask if it were true
that it was my twenty-ninth birthday
they did not know it was my twjenty
ninth. And that odious Miss What's-
her-name actually said I looked ;very
well for that, very well, indeed. I
should be glad, I know, to see her look
half so well, though she was, as she
says, a baby when l was -almost grown
up. Twenty -nine ! twenty-nine 1 Oh !
I wish I was not .so old 1" and, covering '
her face with her hands, she burst into
tears. '
Let us pass over a few months. The
neighbor's long-expected son has come
home, and Lady Annabel is in a state of
anxiety, for her heart is tnwvtoher first
ove, despite her twenty-nine years. Her
father and his neighbor are a great deal
together, looking over papers and in
specting boundary lines ; but, contrary
to all expectation, the neighbor's son
turns out perverse, as neighbors' sons
are apt to do. and begins a flirtation
with a little girl of - sixteen, -as poor as a
rat. His father frowned, Annabel's fa
ther frowned, and Annabel she remem
bered her twenty-nine years.
This state of things continued for
some months, in spite of various remon
strances on the part of one father and
polite speeches on the part of the other.
In vain title deeds were shown him in
vain the contiguous estates were talked
over and walked over. Jasper remained
immovable, I
At last, upon being formally and rig
orously appealed to by his father as to
his intentions concerning Lady Annabel,
he obstinately refused to enterj into any
engagement with her whatsoever, alleg
ing as a reason that she was too old to
be bis wife, and adding, she might be
informed of his having said bo, for aught
he cared.
Two days after he put the finishing
stroke to his disobedience byj eloping
with the before-mentioned little girl of
16. !
All this was conveyed to the Lady
Annabel by her offended and indignant
father. And now, indeed, was she un
happy for she really loved this man,
and knew herself5 to have been loved by
him some years before.
"Too old for him, indeed ! too old for
him ! God knows my love for him may
Jbe older than it was, but it is only the
stronger, the more enduring. Cruel, cruel
Jasper, to cast me off thus ; and for
what ? because I am 29 ! Surely I am
the same that I have always been. And
he reproached me with the years that
have taken away none of my beauty ;
he might as well lay to my charge ihe
age that passed before I was born."
But so it was, in spite of ali her grief.
It was then as it is now, as it always
has. been and always will be man
speaks, and woman abides by it. The
Lady Annabel pined,51 and grieved and
wept in secret ;. and talked and laughed
and jested about the elopement in pub
lic ; and for a while no one knew that
hers was a heavy-laden heart.
Tears do a great deal of mischief in
the world. In the Lady Annabel's case
they, did a great deal. They took all
the luster from her bright eyes ; they
washed away the color from her cheeks,
and rolling down they wore for them
selves channels in her smooth skin, so
that by her 30th birthday people began
to say, "the Lady Annabel is very
much faded" "the Lady Annabel is
not quite so j-oung as she was " and
one little lady, the odious little lady, as
Lady Annabel had called" her a year ago,
was heard to eay "I did think she
wore verv well, but I don't think so
now. To be sure, poor thing, she is
getting on pretty well."
This time the Lady Annabel entreat
ed her father to omit the usual merry
makiner. bhe Bpent the aay alone in
her own room.
" Thirty years old ! How it dis
tressed mo a year ago to think, I was
29. -I have no such feelings now. Jas
per wan rierht when he said I was too
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old for him. How would my careworn,
sorrowful face look in company with his
blooming appearance? They talked of
a ball for 'to-night how my heart
shrank from such a thing ! I at a ball I
No this dimly-lighted room suits me
better. "Jasper was right. But then, if
he had still loved me, would my youth
and beauty have gone so soon ? Per
haps no but they are gone. And what
is left, to me ? ' A dull, joyless life of re
gret" Bat she was wrong she was not quite
as old as she thought. A few years
passed away. Her violent sorrow be
came changed by degrees into a melan-'
choly, and then into a gravity. They
rarely saw her laugh,' but she was,
very often cheerful. She had put away
her ornaments her jewels it is true,
but her attire was always becoming and
elegant. Her father's dwelling contin
ued to be the resort of his j numerous
friends. She mingled with: them but
seldom, and smiled when the odious lit
tle lady, now Mrs. Somebody, talked
about old maids, Meanwhile Jasper was"
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never heard of his angry father having
refused to correspond with him. He
seemed to be everywhere forgotten, and
he was every where but in one place.
But grief will wear itself out. After
a while Annabel at first listened, and
then joined in the ; conversation of her
father's guests, and found herself by
degrees returning the interest evinced
for Iter by a country gentleman of some
property in the neighborhood, about ten
years older than herself. She was now
35. . ?
The next thing was a wedding at the
hall, and no one seemed in' higher spirits
than the bride herself, decked in the
ornaments which had laid in their cases
or five years. . Annabel was young
again. i .
Let ns pass over five years of quiet
domestic happiness for, although her
eelings toward heri husband were very
different from those! called forth by her
first Icve, still she !was attached to the
worthy man.
Her black dress and ugly cap, no less
than , her slow gait and saddened air,
showed her to be a widow. Lonely and
desolate since her bereavement, she has
again taken up her residence with her
father, and inhabits the same little room
she formerly did. i
A few months more, and her father's
death increased her seclusion. She has
no relation left on earth, and earnestly
and bitterly does she pray that she may
die, and leave this world of sorrows.
She receives no visitors, and never ap
pears abroad only now and then, late
in the afternoon, when the weather is
fine, her tall, closely-veiled figure may
bB seen walking fslowly through the
shady walks about' the , castle, and the
village, children coming home from
school peep at her through the hedge
and whisper : "It is only the old lady
taking her walk." ! t
Wo said visitors -were. never admitted
there, and they were not. So much the
greater then was the surprise of all the
servants when, one day, a fine-looking,
middle-aged man was "seen in the large
parlor in converse . with their mistress ;
this was repeated so often that at last it
became quite a customary thing. She
took no more solitary walks ; her black
veil was laid aside f her close cap again
gave way to her , glossy nair glossy
still, though streaked witb gray. Her
youth was coming back for was not
this Jasper the Jasper of old her first
love ? Poor Jasper ! he had been un-
liappy in his marriage, and "upon his
wife's death had come home with his
son after long years spent in poverty
abroad.
"Jasper," said Annabel, "the world
will call us an old couple. : It is true
years have passed over us. We have
been old, both of us, but it was sorrow
that made us so, not time. Sorrow has
left us how, and tikne has brought us to
this, our second youth. Is it not so ?
For, although they speak the truth when
they say both of ui have gray hairs, yet,
if they could but? see our hearts, they
would say there is youth yet in them
as in the dav when I would not . dance
with you because you were a head short
er than I, or the day when you deserted
me because I was too old for you."
INHERITED PERILS,
, Foremost among the perils of life, in
all its stages, but especially in its early
6tages, are the inherited. We may safely
say that no one is! born free from taint
of disease, and we may almost say with
equal certainty that there is no defiua-
able disease that does hot admit of being
called hereditary, junless it be accident
ally produced. To what is known as
specific disease, the disease of diseases ;
to struma, or scrofula, and its ally, if
not the same, tubercular affections ; to
cancer, to rheumatism and gout, and to
alcoholic degeneration, the grand per
lis" of life are mainly due. v These are the
bases of so many! diseases which bear
different names ; these so modify dis
eases which may id themselves be dis
tinct. that if they were removed the
dangers would be reduced to a minimum.
These diseased conditions do not, how-
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ever, exhaust the list of fatal common
inheritances. On; many occasions for
several years past ;T have observed and
maintained the observation that some
diseases, as communicable, infectious or
contagious, are also classifiable under
this head. . I am satisfied that quinsy,
diphtheria, scarlet fever, and even what
is called brain fever, typnoid, are often
of heriditary character. I have known a
family in which four members have suf
f ered from diphtheria, a parent having
had the same affection, and probably a
grandparent. I hive known a family in
which five members have at various
periods, suffered from typhoid, a parent
and a grandparent having been subject
to the same disease. I have known a
family in which quinsy -has been the
marked family characteristic for four
generations. These persons have been
the sufferers from the . diseases named,
without any obvious contraction of the
diseases, .and without having any com
panions in their sufferings. They were,
in fact, 'predisposed to produce ihe poi
sons of the disease; in their own bodies,
as the cobra is to produce the poisonous
secretion, which, in its case, is a part of
its natural organization. Dr. Kichard
ton, in Frcwer'a Magazine.
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SMITH WANTED If HAT i MX BR
rjome years ago an Austin merchant,
whom we will call Snutli because that
was and is the name painted ti his sign
board, sent an order far gopfs'to a New
York firm. He kept' a vefr extensive
general store, had plenty of ioney, kept
all his accounts in a pocket memorandum
book, and didn't know the d$Ference be
tween double entry book-keej$ng and the
science of hydrostatics. I . lj ;;
Among other things he ordered was
12 gross assorted clothes-pin' j' . '
12 ditto grindstone 1 i
When he ordered the grindstones, he
meant to order an assortment of twelve
grindstones. The Bhippingerk of the
New York firm was astonish when he
read the order. He went t j the man
ager and said i i
' For He aven's sake I wh(t do they
want with twelve gross, . 128 r. grind
stones, in Texas? " The ms&ager said
it must be a mistake, and lf graphed
Smith : I 4 i
" Wasn't it a mistake ordering so many
grindstones ? "
Old mah Smith prided himself oh never
making a mistake. He had &oj copy of
his order to refer to, and, if i& hacl, he
would not have referred to it,',becauso he
knew he ad only ordered trilye grind
stones. So he wrote back : X i k-
"Probably you think yovf know my
business better than I do. Igalways or
der what I want, and I w.pnt what I
order. Send on the grinds towes. "
The New York firm knew $4iith was a
little eccentric, but that he Iways paid
eash on receipt of invoice, ar was able
to buy a dozen quarries-fuf off grind-j
stones if he cared to induce in such
luxuries, so they filled his cfer as writ-
ten, and chartered a schooner, - filled her'
full of grindstones, and cleared lier for
Galveston. They wrote td; Smith, and
said that they hoped the consignment of
grindstones, by schooner world keep him
going until they could chapter another
vessel. Smith sold grindstojjea at whole
sale, and at low figures on long time for
some three years afterward -Now, when
Smith's wicked rivals in business want
to perpetrate a practical j$ on an in
nocent hardware drummer, wkj iell him
that he had better not fceglfM to call on
Smith, as they just heard he old man
say he wanted to order somnjore grind
stones. When the drummer calls on
Smith, and, with a broad b$q lighting
up his countenance, says, Mr. Smith,
I understand you are j noting some
grindstones," there is a pa if ul tableau
that the reader can better jnigine than
wo can describe. Texas Si$ikfja.
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INMA-RUBBEH OATijjtRiyO.
When the hunter has foufidf a : rubber
tree, he first clears away aspace "from
the roots, and then moves & k in search
of other?, returning to come)icelopera
tions as soon as he ha . maAed Jail the
trees in the vicinity. He firtjof all digs
a hole in the ground hard fyjj and then
cuts in the tree a V-shajjKj incision,
with a machete, as high as fee fcan reach.
The milk is caught as j it Jfciudes and
flows into the hole. As soda as the flow
from the cuts has ceased tKplree is cut
down, and the trunk raised i from the
ground by means of j anfinprbvised
trestle. After placing ;lar$of leaves to
catch the sap, gashes are cutfiroiighout
the entire length, and the rialj carefully
collected. . When it first exudes the sap
is of the whiteness and consistence of
cream, but it turns black Jjnj exposure
ijs felled with
rubber, it is coagulated: byjdihg hard
soap or the root of the)inechvacan,
which have a most rapid Option, and
prevent the escape of the witer: that is
always present in the fresh ajp.Vi- When
coagulated sufficiently th ;liubber is
carried on the backs of ihtj. hunters by
bark thongs to the banks $pi the river
and floated down on rafts. The annual
destruction of rubber treesrij Columbia
is very great, and the industry must
soon disappear altogether -unless the
Government puts in force, ajj law that
already exists, which compels the hunt
ers to tap the trees withoutuuttrng them
down. Hi this law were strictly carried
out there would be a good opening for
commercial enterprise, for fubber trees
will grow from eight to trl inches in
diameter in three r fonrii years from
seed. The trees require ifjjt fittle at
tention, and begin to yield Returns soon
er than any other. ThosU ' that yield
the greatest amount of rubber flourish
on the banks of the SimnVand Aslato
rivers. The value of the. fjjrude India
rubber imported into the Spates annual
ly is about 10,000,000. 1
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An amusing incident occurred at the
Pension Office the other $ay. One of
the examiners, in lookhiover .the pa
pers of an applicant for a psion, iound
that it was indorsed by Rutherford B.
Hayes, of Fremont Ohio.f As: is cusj
tomary when the charactfj; 'of : the per
sons indorsing the claim re unknown,
the Postmaster of the towj"! is written to
for information. The exansner evidently
did not know who Rutheijord B. Hayes
was, as he wrote to thejPostmaster at
Fremont, Ohio, making : 3$he usual in-
quiries. Greatness disa;
jwith un-
usual rapidity.
General Hews.
THE UGLIEST OF ALL RACES,
The ancient Huns seem to have been
the ugliest of all the ugly races of Cen
tral Asia ; and the homeliest individual
with one exception was probably the
"Vejled Prophet of Bokhara," Mullah
Bou Said, the repulsiveness of whose
features was so overpowering that he did'
not dare to show himself without a mask,
for which he afterward substituted a ',
golden veil, whence his surname, Almul.
kana "The Veiled One." Yet, his
biographer, Bou'Chaldir, assures us thai
an elder cousin (of Almukana, who
proudly disdained to hide' his face, ex
ceeded him not only in erudition but also
in ugliness. This man, called K jfta Ben
Lukas, and famous as a philosopher and1
grammarian, must actually have been
the ne plus ultra of homeliness. He
was an accomplished teacher of lariguaj
ges, but the only pupUs he could procure
at the Lyceum of Bagdad were adult
males, of exceptional fortitude, all othS-j
ers being overcome by ihe terrors of his!
presence. When Almohadi, the Caliph'
inquired after the best teacher of the.
Prussian language, the name of Benj
Lukas was mentioned among those off
the highest merit, but when further in-:
quiries proved this wort by to be identi-j
cal with the formidable licentiate of j
Bagdad, Almohadi, who wanted the in-i
structor for his own son, was earnestly
advised to alter his choice, as a Princej
of such tender years would surely sue-;
cumb to nervous prostration atthe first
grammatical interview. " The Caliph!
naicuiea these fears and ordered the?
grammarian to report at his court ; but no!
sooner had Kofta Ben Lukas made his'
salaam to the Commander of the Faith
ful than he was presented with a purse?
of 450 golden denarii and offered fifty
more if he would leave the capital b
iore night, he had been summonedt
through a misunderstanding, they told
him, and the Caliph did not wish it to'
become publio that by his mistake an
illustrious scholar had thus been foolishlyj
uircrrupreu in nis studies. ;
THE FREEZING CURE.
By means of freezing parts may be;
rendered wholly insensible to pain, so
that slicht surgical operations may be
easily performed. When the freezing is,
long continued the frozen parts msy lose;
their vitality entirely, which will cause
them to slough away, By these means,
excrescences, as warts, wens and polypi,
fibrous and sebaceous tumors, and sveh
malignant tumors, as cancers, may be
successfully removed. Small cancers
may sometimes be cured by repeated
and long-continued freezing. Theiri
growth may certainly be impeded by
this means. A convenient mode of ap-
"plication in cancer of the breast is to
suspend from the neck a rubber bag!
filled with powdered ice, allowing it toj
lie against the cancerous organ. Freezj
ing may be accomplished by applying a-
BPrav of ether, by means of an atom-;'
izer, or by a freezing mixture composed
of equal parts of pounded ice and salU
of two parts of snow to one of salt.1
Mix quickly, put into a guize bag, and
apply to the part to bo frozen. In three
to six minutes the skia 'sill become5
white and glisteniug, when the bag
should be removed. Freezing should
not be continued longer than six min
utes at a time, as the tissues may b
harmed, though usually no harm results
from repeated freezing, if proper caro is
used in thawing the frozen part. It
should be kept immersed in cool water!
" or covered with cloths kept cool by frei-
quent wetting with cold water, until th&
natural feeling is restored. Felon?
may often be cured, especially when
they first "begin, by freezing two or
three times. Lumbago and sciatica; as
well as other forms of neuralgia, ae
sometimes almost instantly relieved by
freezing of the skin immediately above
the painful part. ' We have cured soirie
of the most obstinate cases of sciatica
by this means, after other remedies had
failed. Dr. J. II. Kellogg, in Physiciah.
PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURE.
The 'Committee on Agriculture, to
whom had been intrusted the querjy
from Indiana : " Are we advancing in
agriculture?" reported that they had;
spent seven weeks in investigating the;
matter, and were quite ready to answer
in the affirmative. Among other . in
stances of progress in agriculture might
be mentioned that of hoeing corn. A
dozen years ago the plan was to leaii
the hoe against a stump in the field and
go off fishing. It is now done by giv
ing a chattel mortgage on three steca
and hiring a neighbor to do the work.
Ten years ago turnips were heaped; up
in the barn or cellar and supposed to be
food for only cows and calves. To-day
thev are carefully wrapped 'in tissue pa
per, laid in bureau drawers and are con.
sidered a fit diet for even a Senator.
When wiped off with a dish-cloth and
scraped with a butcher knife, they furn
ish a very bracing and enervating diet.
Progress had been made in .plowing,,
dragging, reaping and many other par
ticulars, and the committee felt, safe j in
saying that the time was not far distant
when a farmer could sit in an arm-chair
in a lager beer saloon and raise sixty
bushels of wheat to the acre. Prdcccd
ing8 of the Lime Kiln Club. ; j ;
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THE PARROT WONDERED.
Two sailors went with j a tame parrot
to a show in Tokio, where a Japanese
was giving an exhibition of slight-of-hand,
interspersed with acrobatio feats.
At the end of each trick the sailors
would say: "Now, isn't that clever!
Wonder what he'll do next?"
With each act of the performance
their astonishment increased, and they
kept muttering: "Wonder what he'll
do next?"
i The parrot heard this ; exclamation so
often that he picked, it up off hand, as it
were. ; ' ", s
Presently the Japanese undertook to
keep in the air a number of bamboo
sticks ignited at both ends, but, having
his attention distracted by a movement
in the audience, he allowed one of the
sticks to drop. Unfortunately it fell
upon a heap of firecrackers, bombs, etc.,
which exploded, blew out the. walls,
blew off the roof, scattered the audience
in all directions, and sent the parrot,
minus its tail-feathers and one eye, about
400 yards.
As the bird came down with a flop, it
shrieked : " Wasn't that clever 1 Won
der what he'll do next ? " .
MOW FLOUR IS MADE.
Flour was formerly made by simply
grinding wheat at one operation to the
finest possible flour, and then separating
by sieves the flour from the bran, ne
cessarily grinding in much of the bran
with flour and discoloring it, while much
of the very best material was separated
with the bran arid lost. The latter com
rnon method is to grind very coarsely
the wheat several times, using strong
blasts of air between each grinding to
separate the bran from; the granulated
interior portion, and at last crush it to
the floor, relieved of all the bran. The
new electric method consists in passing
the middlings under revolving hard-rub
ber cylinders, electrified by contact with
sheepskin. The particles of bran fly up
to meet the rubber, from which they
are turned off in a side channel, the pu
rified middling, freed from bran, passing
through rollers to become fine flour.
, It is on record in Germany that in the
past 272 years no fewer than 523 theaters
have been burned down in various parts
of the world. This is an average of
nearly two per year. During the past
century there was a large increase in the
percentage over the preceding time. For
the 100 years the total number was 460,
more than four-fifths of the total for the
272 years. For the period including be
tween 1771 and 1828 the average was
thirteen per annum. Some of the minor
features of these statistics are as follows :
Of cities London, with thirty-one fires,
leads the list ; Paris, with twenty-nine,
follows her ; then comes New York with
twenty -six ; then San Francisco with
twenty-one. While Barnum's place of
amusement in New York has been so
often burned doAvn, Astley's in London
and the Grand Opera in Paris have each
been destroyed four times. Her Majes
ty's, Drnry Lane and Covent Garden
have been three times burned. Numer
ous other London theaters could boast of
two serious fires. On the London list
the oldest theater conflagration is the
Globe's, on Bankside, which was -destroyed
in 1613.
A Cincinnati an who had insured hi3
jife went in swimming last summer, and
was taken with cramps arid was drowned.
The insurance companies refused to
pay, pleading that death was not caused
by bodily infirmities or disease, but was
the result of voluntary exposure to ob-
vious and unnecessary dangers, and that
the nature and cause of death were in
capable of positive proof. , JuSge John
ston, however, said that it could not
have been the intention of these compa
; nies, whose 'principal offices were located
on the -seaboard, to exclude its policy
holders from enjoying swimming and
K bathing, and that the evidence showed
that death was occasioned" by cramps.
Prof. Henry W. Hatnes read a pa
per before the Boston Natural History
Society, a few days ago, in which he
argued that man first appeared in New
England, or at least that there were men
there long anterior to the Indians. He
exhibited a large number of rude stones,
found in different places in New Hamp
shire, Massachusetts and Vermont,
which he said showed by the nature of
their fractures that they were formed into
shape by use rather than bynatural
causes, and he expressed the belief that,
archseologically considered, these imple
ments antedated those j discovered by
Prof. Abbott at Trenton,; N. J.
An Indiana violinist has a fiddle which
was made of wood from the trunk of a
tree found forty years ago six or eight
feet below the Buxface of the ground in
a good state of preservation an4- be
lieved to have existed before the flood..
The belly of the violin was made of this
wood, the back and neck of wavy maple
cut in Philadelphia fifty years before.
It lias all the characteristics of an old
viclin an absence of the rawness which'
characterizes a new one. A , piece of
wood older than Noah would delight the
Bonl of Oscar Wilde and the aesthetes.
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PLEASANTRIES,'
" This is rather up-hill work," said
the patient, when he threw up the doc
tor's bolus.
The "fours of habit," said the gam
bler, softly, as he dealt himself all the
aces, in the pack.
A Boston doctor says high-heeled
ihoes ruin the eyesight, and yet he can
not be persuaded to look the other way.
"At what age were you married ?" in.
quired' one matron of another. "At
the parsonage," demurely answered her
friend. .
The army worm got as far as Boston
when a miss with eye-glasses called it
by its real name. It immediately laid
down and died.
" Taxmaqe On the North Pole " is the
caption of an article in an exchange.
Should think he would resemble a jump-ing-jack
in that position.
'An experienced observer was onca
asked, " What is the art of winning a
woman?" and answered: "About the
same thing as the art of driving .a pig to
market."
) Why does a donkey eat thistles ?'
asked a teacher of one of the largest
boys in the class. "Because he is
a donkey, I reckon," was the prompt
reply.
In the mountains Arabella (whose
soul is wrapped in science): "Charles, '
isnt this gneiss?" Charles (who ia
deeply interested in Arabella) : " Nice I
It's delicious." t '
Some ingenious observer has discov
ered that there is a remarkable resem
blance between a baby and wheat, since
it is cradled, then thrashed, and finally
becomes the flower of 'the family.
The Marquis of Bute started a daily
paper in Wales, and, after sinking about
$400,000 in the concern, shut up the
shop. As a Marquis he is all right, but
in journalism the But9 is on the other
leg. :
A peofessob of French in an Albany
school recently asked a pupil what was
the gender of academy. The unusually
bright pupil responded that it depended
on whether it was a male or femalo
academy. ...
Two WEiiii-DBESSED ladies were ex
amining a statue of Andromeda, labeled
"Executed in terra-cotta." Says one,
" Where is that ? " "I am sure I don't
know," replied the other, " but I pity
the poor girl, wherever it was."
Wmii some one who is versed in the
science of sound please get np and ex
plain why a hotel waiter, who can't hear
the call of a hungry man two feet and a
half away, can hear the jingle of a quar
ter clear across a dining-room ?
"Whebe would we be without
women ? " asks a writer. It's hard to
determine just which way the majority
would drift, but some men would be
out of debt and out of trouble, and a
good many others would be out at their
elbows. f,
Mother seeking a situation as foot
man -for her rawboned son. Lady
" Does he know how to wait at table ?"
Mother "Yes, ma'am' Lady "Does
he know his vay to announce?" Mother
- Well, ma'am, I don't know that he
knows his weight to an ounce, but hi
does to a pound or two."
TABLE ETIQUETTE.
Macaroni should be cut into short
pieces, and eaten with an ven, graceful
motion not absorbed by the yard.
Oranges are held on a fork while being
peeled, and the facetious style of squirt
ing the juice into the $ye of your host in
au revoir. ' .
Stones in cherries and other fruit
should not be placed on the tablecloth,
but slid quietly and unostentatiously
into the pocket of your neighbor, or
noiselessly tossed under the table.
If by mistake you drink out of your
finger-bowl, laugh heartily and make
some facetious remark, which will
change the course of conversation and
renew the friendly feeling among the
members of the party.
In drinking wine, when you get to the
bottom of your glass do not throw your
head, back and draw your breath like the
exhaust of a bajh-tub in order to get the
last drop, a5 it engenders a feeling of
the most depressing melancholy among
the guests.
Ii you cannot accept an invitation to
supper, do not write your regrets on the
back of a pool check with a blue lead
pencil. This is not regarded as rtco
cheL A simple note to your host in
formiag him that your washerwoman "
refuses to relent is sufficient.
On seating yourself at the table draw
off your gloves and put them in your lap
under your napkin. Do not put them
in the gravy, as it would spoil the gloves
and cast a gloom oyer the gravy. If
you have just cleaned your gloves with '
benzine, yon must leave them out in the
front yard.
He did not Trink' lhe Lady Annabel
too old for him now, so the castle was.
the second time iUumihated for a mar
riage, and a second time were the jewels,
taken from their cases.
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