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GIBSON. mm FAST A ND I.OOSB, O bird, that lov'st the All on a rammer day, When the warm breeze flits fret That makes thy nesteto bs On its green branefi asway Bird, when the sunbeams flee, And green leaves from the tree, What dost thou then! Oh, say, j "I fly away." O tree, that fair canst be But on a summer day. When the bird clings to thee In thy green lovingly, And thou and he are gay Tree, when thy green leaves flea, And the bind flees from thee. What dost thou then? Oh, say, "Alas! I stay." New York Tribune. Drama of Dunstable Farma BT DORA REED GOOD ALE. Having no special interests of my own, and being of a somewhat observant habit of mind, I was last summer a sympathetic spectator of the little domestic experi ence which I have called here the drama of Dunstable Farms. I may even say that I was a humble participant in it. The heroine but stop! the minor characters should appear first. Now Patty, it must bo confessed, is a minor character. Enter Patty, then, first, with her apron on, and her hair rolled up smoothly under a round white cap not pretty at all, but wholesome and pleasant to look on, and as satisfying for a long journey as a lot of brown bread. Dunstable Farms ; you may have heard of the place, where the family has flourished and spread like a banyan grove since William Dunstable planted himself here in, I don't know what, year of grace. All the land hereabout waa bought of the Indian tribes, the old deeds signed with their "marks" being still m the family archives, so that it is the Dunstable boast that their acres have never been owned by any white man bearing another name.. Hither, to 'recruit," on a notable morning in May, when the roads had re covered from the prolonged state of pros tration which afflicts them in early spring, came I a spinster, reader, but not too old a one to find young people congenial. Patty met me at the station. Patty drove me home and unharnessed the horse, and afterward set the table and brought out the sweetmeats for sapper. Then she superintended the carrying of my trunks up a flight of back stairs which seemed designed for the shaft of an elevator. Patty was the active, the serviceable, the delightful ; there were fire in the fam ily now, she said her father, her mother, herself, Norah tbe cook, and Stephen the hired man. I was to tbe the only boarder. This Stephen I immediately ; seized upon as the villain of my piece, chiefly because of his rough, shaggyihead and his solemn, inscrutable visage, .which looked as if he were revolvingfthe dark eat designs, although I could hear of none worse than a great thirst for I learning. It was a democratic household ,j and Ste phen had hi seat at the lower end of the table. He and Mr. Dunstdble of tcu paused to discuss the care of1 the live stock and methods of tilling. But I soon learned that there vw as an other daughter, Eunice, the sixteen-year- old, and the clever one of the family. There was always one head-piece among the Dunstable kin, said Patty, ingenu ously, and she furtherfinformed me that it was odd that Eunice! should have come into this family inheritance, because their own father was not the bright one of his generation; but Eunice took after he: Uncle Erastus, she s'posedj, who studied at AlHldlefield College andnvent into the ministry. It was an understood thing that the most intelligent one, boy or girl, should have good advantages,, and when Eunice carried off the prize at a spelling-match, while still a small creature in pinafores, and in the district school outstripped all the cousins- growing up at Dunstable Farms, a family conclave was held. One uncie contributed a heifer, another a sheep, they were land-poor, these Dun stables, and sawVvery few present dollars m the course of a year, and the girl was sent fifty miles away to the Young Ladies' Seminary. This was two years ago, ana next year sue would graduate. I must own that my feelings received a shock on first seeing this bright one, this Eunice, some threeveeks later, when Stephen lifted her and her trunks .from the ample farm-wagon. Whatovei the original material might be, tht veneer of boarding-sehool life was dis played to perfection. She wore a white hat with some "style" about it, indeed, but a very Objectionable style, as it seemed to me, and a pair of kid gloves at least two sizes too small. She could not have handled a fork in those gloves, nor have held up her skirt, much less hei umbrella. Now-Patty's best gloves were of gray cotton, with lace-work wrists, and sometimes, I ought to add, she won them when she saddled the horse. It was hard to understand how any seem to, despise the farm, but professed an ignorance of things pertaining to il which, it seemed to me, could not be genuine. She Would dislike Stephen, supposed, as a common farm laborer, and he would find her fine-lady airs ridicu lous. Alas, that even at thirty our wisdom is baffled by these young folks at even turn! Miss Eunice treated Stephen with good-natured indifference, while he, like the the perverse fellow he was, chose tc treat her from the first as a kind of di vinity. She was given to studying geometry, and biology, too; she spent whole fore noons over the microscope, dissecting not only plants but fishes and mice, al though Patty on no account would have permitted her to joint up the chickens for dinner. She was not an idle girL but full of activities rathert and yet she did nothing at all to help in the house, except to trim over all Patty's bat and remodel most of her dresses. Stephen spent his evenings, alone and remorse, in the kitchen, for Norah ally sat in the porch ; he was working at his books, they said, though how he could study after from ten to fourteen hours in the field was a mystery to me. One evening, when the lamps had been lighted, Norah came in, a sheet of brown paper, covered with diagrams, in her hand, to say that Stephen was "wantin' to know if Miss Eunice wouldn't just cast an eye over that, for he couldn't mek out the throuble at all, at all." Patty looked up, apprehensively, 1 thought, for Stephen's requests some times verged on the audacious, except that they were made with so much solemn unconsciousness ; but Eunice took the paper obligingly. When she saw what it was, her face lighted up. She bit her lip over it a few moments in silence, and then rushed out to the kitchen. When I followed a little later to get a glass of new milk they were sitting at the well-scrubbed table, with a battered geometry between them, both heade bent, both faces shining with eagerness, and both tongues murmuring something about the maximum of isoperimetrical polygons. That was the beginning of Eunice's interest in Stephen. The girl thought so highly of intellectual force that all hei good will was gained when she found some one who had, alone and unaided, almost overtaken her in her favorite study. Every night afterward she in sisted on helping him, and did it with only a trace in her air of the' beautiful patroness. Certainly a teacher like Eunice must have put a new meaning into the dog eared volumes. She found a place for Stephen now at our picnics and other frolics, plannings things so gracefully that her father never seemed to miss the time of his foreman, and leading Stephen to talk of himself with the kindest ma ternal sympathy ; he was only two yean older than she! Nor was this all. Early and late, in season and out of season, Euuicc urged on us all that the boy should have better opportunities. He was ten times as clevei as she, shedeclarsd, though nobody be lieved it; it was a pity and a shame that he did not go to school, and something ought to be done about it. Mr. Dun stable told her that Stephen's father had been the skipper of a sailing vessel, and was lost, I believe, on the high seas some where between here and China. "Haven't you ever seen those outland ish knives of Stephen's, with the queei ficcrers on cm? That s about all he left an him, I reckon," said goad Mr. Dun stable. The next time Stephen passed, he was called up to display these wonderful weapons, which he brought forth directly from an inside pocket, thereby reviving my theory as to his dangerous character, which waa beginning to waver. We were sitting at the time out under the copper-leaved birches with a young heiress, who was boarding down in the village. She was a collector of curios, and took a great fancy to these knives, which were beautiful little tovs of Indian or Chinese workmanship. The delicate ly-curved two-edged blades were thrust into short leather sheaths, and the round handles of ivory carved over with drag ons. Afterward, and certainly not with out a mental reservation for the owner's own benefit, she offered Stephen twenty five dollars apiece for the two; but Stephen, to our surprise, refused to sell them, saying that, bis father had given, them to him and he would never part with them. Eunice was at no pains to conceal her vexation. ' Meanwhile I began to suspect that all was not right with Mr. Dunstable's own financial affairs. He had always been the unthrifty one of his family, with an un fortunate tendency toward "spekilation." He was an old man now, and somewhat broken down, so that the management of the place was left more and more in tXe hands of Patty and Stephen, Patty, in- anxious and worried that I guessed, as I fancy she did, that some bad news was coming. At last the blow fell. Of the purse which the brothers had made up to pay for Eunice's schooling, one hundred dol lars had been reserved to cover the tui tion fees in the coming September. This Mr. Dunstable had risked invested, oi what you will, and lost it. Now to go in debt is to go branded, in the eye of a Dunstable. One resource,' however, remained for Eunice. Mr. Dun stable had a colt, raised on the farm, and dear as the apple of his eye because of fond belief which he entertained that it was destined one day to develop "spet3." It was in truth a fine colt, though a little long in the legs and lean in the neck, and given to sundry very lively tricks and diversions. This colt Mr. Dunstable determined to sell. He was young, recently broken, and useless for heavy farm labor. Hav ing raised by the sale of this animal the formidable sum, Eunice's other expenses would doubtless be gradually forthcom ing. When Eunice protested, her father sternly silenced her, declaring that the money he had lost was given in trust for her schooling. Presently Mr. Chichester, a farmer from under the mountain who had long had a covetous eye upon the colt, came up to Dunstable Farms one bright after noon. He looked the animal over, got Stephen to show off his paces how pretty and docile he was that day to be sure! examined his teeth and bis hoofs, and partly concluded a bargain. He was to take him home for a wee a, at tue end of which time, if the animal proved sound and steady, he would pay down the $100. Honest Mr. Dunstable made no objec tion to such an arrangement. He was as blind where the faults of his xavorite were concerned as the most partial of pa rents. Exit Mr. Chichester exit tho colt, quite sedate, at the tail of his wagon. We all lived that week in a vague at mosphere of suspense. I could not but think it ill-judged when, at the expira tion of the time, Mr. Dunstable announced his intention of sending Stephen after tht money, especially as I h?ard him say, a the lad was preparing to set off: "Now, if he should think we wat askin a leetle too much, if the colt's be'e up to his games and he wants ye should knock a bit off from the price, I wouldn't stick but for a few dollars not for a few dollars, Stephen. We could make it up somehow so see ye don't bring back the creatur' " This was putting too much responsi bility on such a young lad. I, for one, was greatly relieved when Stephen re turned at dusk, and much to his own satisfaction and tbe general rejoicing unrolled from his wallet and placed in his employer's hands one hundred dol lars. Mr. Chichester, he said, was satis fied with his bargain ; he thought the colt a fine fellow, although fractious at times. Matters now seemed to settle back into the old grooves, and Eunice began to make ' preparations for school. But several days later she came in from a round of calls looking flushed and dis turbed, and asked if her father could lend a horse the next day. After much wrinkling of eyebrows and counting of fingers the farmer concluded that the sorrel mare could be spared, and Eunice invited me to accompany her, on some sort of a drive, the purpose of which she did not announce. I accepted, because I was quite willing to study the girl. Our drive took us through a part of the region unknown to me hitherto, and brought us at last to the gate of a farm house of prosperous appearance when Eunice drew up and asked me to hold the reins while she went in . A few moments later she came down the gravel walk ia a somewhat agitated way and with eyes sparkling. As soon as we were fairly started she turned to j me, saying obruptly, "Mr. Chichester gave only fifty dollan for that colt!" "Only fifty dollarst" I echoed, as tonished. "Yes. And Steohen sold his knives to make it up to a hundred. "What? Oh, I see! But how did you know?" "Why, when I called da M3 Willough- by yesterday, she said something about her good fortune in seaariog those Chinese daggers. A sort of suspicion passed over me. I asked her when Stephen had sold them, and she said it was Tuesday, she believed. He came in Just at dark, looking 'pale and odd,' and toW her ho had reconsidered, She gave him the money." "Yes, but about the colt? Did she I know about that ?" "Of courss not. I came here to ses Mr. Chichester. I lookel him straight in the eye and asked what he paid for it. He said 'Fifty dollars' before he thought, and then clapped his hand upon his mouth. 'Hold on!' he said; 'I promised fie young fellow not to mstiou tic price.' It is sot to strange that Stephen had to seas down. Mr. Ohiehsstsr tan the colt can jump any fence on the place, and made kindling wood of his best phaeton the first time he drove him. He will have to bs put in the hands of a regular trainer." "But I think it was very unwarranta ble in Stephen," I protested. "It was certainly unwarrantable in him to put me under such obligations, I think," said Eunice. The tears which ran down her pretty cheeks were tears of mortified pride. I was not surprised that the girl should take it in this way, knowing that it often requires a more generous nature to accept a favor than to render one. Eunice had played the part of the fair b;nefac tres? so well that her self-love was natu - rally wounded. Therefore. 1 was scarcely less astonished than was Stephen when, on reaching hone, she walked straight up to him in the yard, with both hands held out, and said, simply, "0 Stephen, I know all about it." The school-books rested that night while the boy and girl sat on the door step outside, and snatches of their con versation eame in through my open win dow. "But I wanted to do it," I heard Stephen say in his serious way. "Why, Miss Eunice, what did I care about them?" Afterward came Eunicejs fresh, un mistakable voice, "Yes, Stephen, I will accept it that Is, -for the present.' This seemed to bo satisfactory, and concluded the interview. Last week I received the following characteristic letter from Patty : "Du.xstablb Farms. January 13th. "My Dkar Miss Fultox . You asked ms to write to you after the holidays were over. We all spent Christmas Day at the home stead and had a real family party. Eunice was at home, of course, and what do yon think? 8be had actually bean teaching In the night schools and brought back that Kty dollars that Stephen lent her. ntaph M going to take it and go in the high school this term. Eunice likes teaching to man, and says she intends to devote her life to it bat she may change her mind. I think it won derful, though, how much rood she did Stephen. I never saw any one improve as he has. "By the way, we hear bow that the colt b going to be a great troter. Patty's ortho graphy was not always faultless. However, perhaps it is just as weS that we've got him off from oar minds. And yon know he did act awfully. "Father and mother s;nd their respects. We hope yon will come here next summer. " Affectionately years, "Pattt Dwxstabue." So ends the drama. Patty is not yet promoted from the farm-house kitchen. The heroine was not miraculously cured of her follies; and the villain turned out to be the hero. Youth" t Companion. " G ranger isin g." Most of us have heard tbe term "gran- gerisiog, ' out lew at us Know sxacuy what it means or how it originated. To "graogerise" a book is to take it to pieces, inlay the leaves on larger sheets of paper, and hunt up prints illustrating the text which are bound up with it, and thus a single vol- ume is extended into two, twenty, or it may be o hundred. Somewhere about the year 1750, the Bsv. James Granger was unhappily seized with the idea of writing a History of England with the special view of its being extra illustrated by the insertion of prints, principally portraits, or "headi," os they were then called. The book took, and those who bought it set to work to collect print for its expansion. There are numerous examples of grangerising in the British Museum and in private collections. Grangerising has its use, but the most dreadful example of its misuse is the re sult of the labors of a shoemaker, John Bag ford by name, who projected a His tory of the Art of Printing, which was to be grangerized or extra illustrated with the titles of rare booker This wretched man prowled about for years in public and private libraries both at home and abroad, tearing out and pock eting the title page of every rare book he came across. After years of labor he succeeded ia filling no less than forty large volumes now in the British Mu seum with stolen titles, representing the mutilation and pecuniary destruction of thousands upon thousands of biblio graphical treasures. Yea, verily, the world would have profited greatly if John Bagford had stuck to his last. Paper and Printing Trade Journal. Tim art rttwvi " In a second-hand book store on Grand avenue, Detroit, is shown a copy of the London Time containing the first report of the battle of Waterloo. It would be difficult to find a basis for a more inter esting comparison between tiler gazette of the time of Wellington, Blneher and Napoleon and the newspaper of to-day. The report simply records the defeat of the French by the allies "with great slaughter," and states that 341 pieces of artillery were captured. This is as fat as the particulars go, although there are columns of gush. No detailed account of the engagement is given ; no estimate of losses is made, and four lines Of chalk on a bulletin board would express every- j thing of real value contained in almost 1 ' pgrO pages of print. CKeac Mute. CURIOUS FACTS' ! . The white rose is the favorite flower France - There ore now 70,000 widows in India inder nine years of ago. ' The first settlement of California was it San Diego, in 1763. Engraving on plates and wood began ibout the middle of the fifteenth century. A few days ago 8000 watermelone rere destroyed in a Georgia railroad wreck. It is said that Asm Low, of Springvaie, las the shortest name of any person in Haine. It is not an unusual sight to see leventy-five acres of a California wheat : . leld covered with wild geese. A sign over the office counter in he ending hotel of Leadville, Col., reads : 'Dogs boarded at $40 a month." A census enumerator discovered a f am- ly of ten children in San Francisco, Dal., who were all club footed and knock kneed. In the Sultan of Morocco's stables are Ive horses for his own use and seven) lundred for the use of his family and lervants. There are fourteen pages in the United states Senate. They serve for four years ch, being eligible only between the iges of twelve and sixteen. There are seventeen bathrooms in Mrs. rhomas A. Scott's residence, on South uUttenhouse Square, Philadelphia. The louse contains as many suits as an ordi nary hotel. A very wise citizen of Chicago, who was seeking a boarding-house, went first to a good meat shop and asked the pro- v;- t i,l fe p1""" " - sold the best meat. A horse-tamer advises that a runaway horse be allowed to go fifty-yards. Then tighten the lutes, say "whoa!" and it he does not respond, to give a strong jerk on the right-hand rein, and say "whoa" tgstn. The largest plate of gloss ever cast in the world was drawn from the annealing furnaces at the Diamond Plate Glass fac tory at Kokomo, Ind., recently. It measures 145x195 inches, weighs 3000 pounds, and is perfect in every particu lar. A tradesman named Meek en was found recently in a street of Eastbourne, on the English South coast, with seven long nails driven deep into his skull. He was removed to a hospital in a dying state. The doctors say it is an astonishing case of deliberate suicide. . Mrs. Ambrose Crouch, of South Jack- Mich., has been keeping a tab on her family, and finds that during the Tear 8ne has baked for them 2,163 cookies, 1988 doughnuts, 217 cokes, 36? 81 puddings and 793 loaves of bread. Her family is not large, either, except as to appetite. , 1 - v A newly married Hindoo girl is inter dicted by custom, when living under her husband's roof, from talking to any but her younger sisters-in-htw or brothers-in-law. A suicide has been committed by a little Hindoo wife in a village in Bard wan for the pathetic reason that she could find "no one to talk to or play with." The UiiiversHy of Balin, with its 5000 students and scores of famous pro fessors, has a capital of but f750,000. Its largest endowment, that of the Count ess Rose, is only 150,000. Neverthe less it is the seat of the highest German learning, and claims to have the ablest corps of instructors of all the world's schools. At Mrs. Somebody's suHfptuous dinner party in the suburbs of New York the other evening canary birds were liberated from their cages and flew about the dining-room during the feast, evidently em barrassed, if not scared. Thk "fea ture" comes from London, where Colonel North, the "nitrate king," had it first at his regal banquet at the Hotel Metro- pole. Tht Cats ff Prlsylsv Island?. Iti should not be omitted to state that there are no reptiles of any sort, mosqui tces,or house flies on the Pribylov Isl ands, off the coast of Alaska, although those (Objectionable cieatuies are found pretty nearly everywhere else in tho world. There are not even rote these, though mice hove have been brought in ships and nave propagated enormously. Cats, too, have been imported and have increased to a moat astonishing extent. Feeding upon sealfiesh they have grown much shorter and thicker of body than eats ha tin part of the world; their tails have become abbreviated, and they have multiplied beyond all counting. So se rious has the night concert problem be come on the Pribylov Islands that peri odically the natives make raids upon tho cats, with the result of temporarily di minishing their numbers. It ia said that a night upon St. George's or St. Paul's is one incessant and inexpressible cater- i iranl i flrfnann THmm l vv BBjBjjsjs Twwsywr qwwi