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VOL. I. SALISBURY, K G, THUKSDAY,- APRIL 26, 1888. NO. 30. ;'. .The Mlrasow 1 Tkay teuus'that. when weary travelers . deern ? They viaw through quivering beat across 1 thexand Great rocks for shadow in a weary land, And clustering palms, and fairer yet, the gleam ' "Where smiles in light to laugh in sound the stream. k- This is a work of tame enchanter's wand, But that reflected here true, visions stand Of far-off things that -close beside them seem. So, worn with life's hot march, when near at hand A happier world we see upon us becm, Where death and parting need not be our theme, None there by toil foref ought, by grief un- Prophets of Science, hush your stern com mand. ' Oh J tad us not t hold it all a dream. The Spectator. BED AND WHITE. lSr "E. A. CUSTER. "now's Northwestern thi3 Uncle Zeke?'' asked Dick morning, Spriggs "Slumped oil six points, blame it 1" CCowling viciously over, his paper at the eSeak brought by the waiter. Ezckiei Spriggs laid down his paper, and picking up his fork, stuck it iato the meat As he withdrew it and saw the rich, red juice ooze out, his face , brightened. Spriggs was somewhat of an epicure. "Six point's a pretty big drop," said Dick, possessing himself of the paper and alternating between it ' and his breakfast; "hpw d'ye come out?" But Spriggj was busily engaged in tearing off huge pieces of ' steak aad chewing them with much the same ex pression that a chicken exhibits when taking a drink of water. Business was business, tut breakfast was breakfast Just then, aad while Dick chattered and tead extract?, Spriggs turned hi3 eyes to the ceiling at every bite and gave himself up to soulful enjoyment of what was before him. Dick' skimmed lihtlv over the news, took a cursory glance at the editorials and paused at the lower -corner of the. page, then he read aloud: "Possibly the reason why, when a red headed girl appeal's on the street, a white horse soon makes its appearance, will have to .be 6Qught for in history. Away back in the early Greek and Esyptian days, red-haired girls were justly prized above all" ' "Whadz that?" interrupted Spriggs. PTiSSa was a bachelor and though rich was not especially addicted to the fair flex. Dick leaned thoughtfully back in his chair. "It's a dod'gasted funny thing, Uncle Zeke, but it's a fact, never knew it to fail; straight as a string, too." "Well what is it?" " 'Why, don't you see, the saying is that where ever you see a red-headed . girl there is always a white horse in sight. I believe it now didn't at first Why only last Sunday night I went to church with Mm Amtin you ought to see her, Uncle Zake -" Dick paused "with a piec3 of steak half-way to his mouth and gazei yearningly at the blank wall. "Well, as I was saying, I went to church; coming out I saw di rectly in front of us a girl with hair just about eg red as you find it. One of the rules of the gims i3 that you1 must always go somewhere thit ii ac cessible to the horso after seeing the red hair, so I mad ,an excuse about a short cut and dragged Mabel out the side door. I thought I had the white horse sequence dead this time, but just as wo came out the door suro enough the in evitable white horse came trotting round the corner. There wasn't another four legged animal in sight and I didn't see any the whole way home. Tve tried it every ehance and newer knew it to fail." Spriggs grunted an inaudible response .. and rose from the table. By noon he had forgotten all about it but the sigit of a red;haircd girl brought the subject to his mind. In spite of its evident ab surdity there was something odd aad uncanny about tho notion and Spriggs almcst unconsciously began to scan the passers-by. Turning the" corner ho came plump against another maid with fiery hair and sure enough there, hitched to a post, was a rathrr scrawny but an unmistakable whito horse. This was the beginning of his downfall for there and then ho determined to see exactly what was in the saying. Now Spriggs was nothing if not methodical. A long life of singl3 blessedness and business training had made him so, and ha en tered into the investigation in somew hat the sam-j manner as he would some great business .question. The major part of the next day wa spent in keeping tally .of the horse3 that passed his officq. window; and tho fol lowing day in an extended hunt of red headed girls without regard to their so- called accompaniments. The result was that while one horse in every fifteen - was white, only one female in thirty-one had red hair. A series of afternoon sit tings at his club window brought out ttho remarkable fact that for every seven women that passed, two horse3 .were in fiight. This was to be the basis of the (test. Spriggs reasoned that the chance against the sequence were about two to tntf fox according to his observations, -. II I. I -I I .11 I-,. I .11.1 in tho ordinary day's ran, there were twice as many red-haired girb as white horses. This of course did not, allow for unusual occurrences or for night travel, when there were fewer horse's on the street. At the end of the first .week the result was: failures, one; verifications, forty eight. Spriggs did not quite believe in the thing yet, but the next week was even more convincing. The record. stood: failures, none; success, seventy four times. By thi3 time it had be come not a definite test to prove the truth of the saying, but , a wild hunt after an instance where a failure could bo recorded. Night after night Spriggs prowled around tho streets peering into the faces of the pedestrians and frc quenting localities where there would be little likelihood of finding quadru peds. The fever had grown to such an extent that he was forced to admit to himself that there must be something in it while he professed to believe that the truth needed further investigation One day Dick dropped in and taking Spriggs aside, with much hesitation ana stammering, confided the fact that he Was engaged to bo mairied. "It's Mabel Austin. Uncle Zske. a beautiful girl " "Light or dark?" asked Sprigg3 with a quick look of interest. ' "Well, I guess you'll call her a bru nette, for she has the loveliest black hair in tho world: but I have promised to bring y ou to sec her tonight. Say I A you'll go, Uncle Zeke I'll call for you at 8, shall I?" It had b2en manv vears since boiicras had jrono out calling and he was loth to beodn now. when he needed all his O F time for his investigations; however, he promised and sent his nephew away rejoicing. Snrics found Mabel all that Dick had claimed for her, v and wa3 , wel pleased with hi3 bov's choice; yet tho evening dragged somewhat, and his dress suit made Uncle Zeke overly con scious of his society shortcomings. He was standing near the window for a moment alone, when he heard his name called. Turning quickly, he saw Dick approaching with a vision of loveliness on his arm. One look was enough, and the next instant Spriggs had wheeled about and jerked aside the hangings. Trotting slowly past, and directly under the street lamp, wa3 tho inevitable white horse. - . . Then he remembered that Dick possi bly wanted to present him, and, drop ping tho curtain in great haste, he con fronted the pair. Tho vision- had a cold and haughty look, and Dick was clearly embarrassed. Spriggs appreciat ed his awkward o ition fully, and with a great effort made himself exceedingly agreeable. Indeed, in his abject hu miliation he was so devoted that Dick was led to whisper to his fiancee; "Your sunny-headed friend seems to have caught Uncle Zeke hard." When Spriggs went home he sat down and went over tho events of the evening. The vision jvas certainly handsome- and could talk as few women were able, but he shuddered at hair. It was an Nevertheless, he sion to call the thought of her unmistakable, red. had asked permis and it had been graciously granted. Spriggs called and then called again. In a short time his leisure houn were about evenly divide! between his investigations and the vision. Spriggs was struck hard, so hard, indeed, that when in her delight ful presence he almost forgot his hobby. He invariably hired a white horie, how ever, when he took her out driving. Once he had the temerity to try a bay horse, but he never rjpe ited the experi ment. He was uneasy tho whole time, for while his heart aad soul were with his companion his mind and eys sadly missed the familiar sequence. One evening as matters were ap proaching a crisis, Spriggs found him self seated in close proximity to his inamorata. He had fully made up his mind to settle the matter at once and have done with it. , There was just enough of manly conceit about him to make him feel assured that his suit would not be unsuccessful, but it wa3 with considerable trepidation that he approached the subject. The conversa tion had drifted, as lover's talk invari ably will, to the personal, and Spriggs was expatiating oa early struggles and ambitions. "I had a hard time when I was young," he was saying. 'My nature was not one to make friends readily, aad female friends were exceedingly rare. Indeed, my mother was the only woman with whom I felt really at ease Then, as my business grew, I had so much to attend to that social pleasures were almost unknown." There was silence for a moment; both intuitively felt that the time wa3 al most at hand. The vision, was seated facing the deep bay window with her head jut touching the curtains, while. Spriggs sat so thit his back was to wards the street. He generally sat that way when in her company, to avoid the temptation of looking out when he heard a horse passing. Then Spriggs meditatively resumed: "Until lately I thought that I should always move' along in the'rut I had alien into, but now I am bold enough fc5 hope for something infinitely better." As Spriggs in his earnestness leaned. 'qrwardhis quick ear heard the distant pit-a-pat of a trotting horse. His fir3t impulse was to turn and look out, but with a mighty effort he restrained him self, and, leaning still further, he groped blindly, excitedly for her hand. Nearer and nearer came tho norse, but Spriggs now had a firm gras,p on her hand. t "I do hop for something infinitely better, and and- " . "Well." softly breathad the vision, while her glorious, eyes gazed dreamily past him into the deepening night. "And and now it all rests on a single word. Can you will you dear Miss Lucy--i3 that a white horse?" , i Dick Spriggs said the other day that if he did not read the papers for him self every morning he would imagine from Uncle Zeke's appearance that Northwestern had slumped off about COO points, Detroit Free Press. A Man Attacked by Squirrels. Col. J. L. Culbertson of Edwards- port, Ind., tell3 this story of his expe rience in 1854 or thereabout?, the time of the great migration of squirrels from tho east to the west. The Evansville Courier, which publishes the story, says that the colonel is a gentleman of "un questioned truth and honesty." He was a young man then, and one day took his. rifle and went about a mile from town to hunt. He was going through the woods when he met the army of squiri rels. They became so thick around him and seemed so fearless that he stood in amazement. Finally he struck one with a stick. The squirrel uttered a sharp squeak and instantly myriads of gquirrel3 from all directions rushed to the defence of their associate and at tacked Mr. Culbertson, who kicked them off and clubbed at them with his gun. They climbed up his legs, jumped upon his back, and on top of hi3 head. He fought desperately, lut the more ho succeeded in hurting the louder the chattering and screaming around him became, which only brought greater numbers of the infuriated little animals to the attack. They -bit hi3 legs and arm3 and gashed his face and neck and lacerated his hands, fairly scrambling over each other in their fierce assault. He dropped his gun and retreated as fast as ho could, fighting desperately as he went. Blood streamed down his face and neck and hands. They bit him through the ears, and held on until they actually tors their hold loose. He got out of the woods, and still, scores followed him and clung to him until they were pulled off by the clerk add others in a store iato which young Cul bertson rushed for assistance Some of the friends who helped to pull off the squirrels, and who saw him come into town literally beset with them, still re side at Edwards port. I1 friends washed his wounds and staged the flow of blcod which trickled down his legs and back and gushed from his face and neck, and, with good care and atten tion, he slowly recovered. The American Mule. No monument has yet been erected to honor the memory of the American mule. He is not a bad subject for treat ment in bronza. His colossal ears, huge frame and expressive countenance would make up extremely well for let us say---a pedestal in front of the War Dept.; nay, why should not at least one coin of the ItepublicHbear his image and superscription, as was suggested in the following eloquent passage from the Fourth of July oration of Mr. George W. Peck, delivered at La Crosse, Wisconsin,- in 1878: 1 'The . bird that should have been selected as the emblem of our country: the bird of patience, forbearance, and perseverance, and the bird of terror when aroused, is the mule. ' , There i3 no bird that combines more virtues to the square foot than tho mule. With the mule emblazoned on our banners, we should be a terror to the foe. Wo are a nation of uncomplaining hard workers. We mean to do the fair thing by every body. We plod along, doing as we would be done by. So doc3 the mule. We, as a' nation, are slow to anger. So is the mule. As a nationr we can occa sionally stick our ears forward and fan flies off our forhead. So does the mule. We allow partie3 to get on and ride as long a? they behave themselves. So does the mub. Bat when any nation sticks spurs into our fliuks and tickles our heels with a straw, we come down stiff legged, in front, our ears .look to the beautiful beyond, our voic; ii cut loo3e and is still for war, oar subsquent heels play the snare drum oa anything within reach and strike teror to the hearts of "all tyrants. So do?3 the muljl" A Carious Fact About San Francisco. A curious fact about San Francisco is that it is about half way along a line running from the easternmost point of land to the westernmost owned by the United States. By drawing a line from the western end of the Aleutian Islands to the eastern end of Maine, it will be found that the XJoldca Gate on the Pacific is in about the middle of it. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. The value of mineral wool as a non conductor of heat is shown to exceed that of more solid matter, such as as bestos, cement, kaolin and magnesia. Dr. Murry of the Royal Society of Edinburgh estimates the -mean height of the land of the globe to be between 1900 and 2100 feet, the latter limit be ing probably tho more nearly correct Humboldt's estimate of the mean height of the continents was 1000 feet. i The usefulness of tungstate of soda in imparting the quality of non-inflammability to various materials is now largely utilized. Cloth, when soaked in a solu tion of this kind, say of twenty per cent., and allowed to drv. will not burst into flames when brought into contact with fire. Charles Barnard, florist, economist aad one - of. the editors of the Century, has made a wonderful invention. It is an arrangement for the protection of plants from frost, and like most wonderful in ventions is very simple. In a test in February the temperature beneath it was 65 degrees when the thermometer outside stood at 82 degrees. ' The manner in which the spruce and pine forests of Norway are being exter minated is becoming so serious that the government is called upon to put a stop, by legislation, to tho deforestation of the country. Apart from the wanton exhaustion of this commercial wealth, it is maintained that wholesale felling has the effect of changing the climate in the forest localities. Fish parasite3 seem to pre"fer theres piratory cavity of the star-fish, but sometimes find a leS3 favorable' habita tion, as in the interior of a peail oyster buried in mud. They feed upon small animate brought to them by the water, and do not injure the creatures that give them a home. . ' Tho well-known vvintergreen plant is blessed with an abundance of names, among them being checkerberry, box berry, grouseberry, partridgeberry, deerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, red berry, groundberry, hillberry, moun tain tea, redberry tea, ground ivy, and ground holly. . Among the almost numberless meth ods off removing particles from the eye, the following is recommended as an efficient means: Make a loop by doub ling a horsehair. Raise the. lid of the eye in which is the foreign particle; slip the loop over it, and placing the lid in contact with the eyeball, with draw the loop and the particle will be drawn out with it. The average weight of the brain of man apparently bears a definite relation to tho climate, a higher brain weight being found in cold than in warm coun tries. In proportion to their stature the Lapps have the largest heads in Europe, the Norwegians next: then come the Swedes, Danes, Germans, French and Italians. In the Arab the head is found to bo smaller than in any of these, while in the far north there exists a people known as the Chugatshes, who possess remarkably large heads. Experiments have been recently made by W. Fossek on the quantity of car bonic acid in an unvcntilated school room before and after the meeting of the class. In three determinations made before the pupils entered, he found the air to contain respectively 0.078,0.092 and 0.088 per cent, by vol ume. After three hours' occupation by the class of fifty -eight scholars, it con tained 0. 620, 0. 637 and 0. 557 per cent., or between seven and eight times as much. Besides this, thero are the bodily exhalations, which are still worse than the cirbonic acid. The practical lesson taught by these facts is," that wherever school accommodation is at all limited, the pupils should clear out for a run between each lesson. A Child Thrown to Wolves. , The severe- cold of last winter brought out large packs of wolves all over Hun gary. An Hungarian county judgj re turning home from Gross wavdeia in sleigh, recently, was beset by a ravenou3 pack, which terrified his horse and cau3edliim to be throwa out of the sleigh. The coachman, without heed ing his master; drove madly on, and the magistrate was completely devoured. Nothing but a few bones'and pieces of cloth were found on the road when .search was subsequently made for him. Another horrible case i3 - reported, namely, that of a peasant who, pursued by wolves, flung his boy, aged 13, out of the sleigh to these animais, and thereby saved himself. ,Oa' reaching his village this wretched man su rendered himself to the police, Lon don Truth. - . A Grateful Pigeon. During-the passage of a merchant ves sel from Plymouth England, to Groen ingen, Zealand, recently, a pigeon fell exhausted on the bridge of the vessel. The captain carefully fed and tended the bird, and it became quite at homew When the captain landed on reaching port the bird flew near him wherever he went, and even entered a coffea house with him. Nor did its gratitude wane, fprlt is still the captainVconstant con p anion. - OCEAN OIL WELLS. Wliere Oil Abounds Under the Waters' of the Pacific. "Some. Submarine Springs That Have Been Encountered. With the pilot chart for November last there was issued a statement rela tive to the possible existence of sub marine oil springs as indicated by vari ous reports received from shipmasters on the Atlantic and in the Gulf of Mexico which, in view of the possi bility of their commercial value, c made the matter of general interest. Mention was made in this connection also of a well known spot near Sabine pass, on the gulf coast, called the "oil pond," whero small vessels run in and anchor during heavy weather, the water there being comparatively smooth owing to a quantity of oil or oily mud, which rises to the surface. It was also siid that no such reports had been received from the Pacific coast. Since then,however, as a result of the interest elicited by the announcement, several reports have been received which are incorporated in the monthly report of the hydrographic office for February, briefly as follows : The attention of the hydrographera was first called to a letter from Thomas K. Griffin, of Sxn Francisco, published jn tho New York Maritime Register, in which he states that submarine oil springs exist on the Pacific coast. The most pronounced is off what is known as "Coal Oil Point,'' about one and a quar ter miles west of Goleta and ten miles west of Santa Birbara. Mr. Griffin sup plied information from several masters of vessels who have cruised in those waters, and their reports are so clear and consistent as to leave 4ittle room for doubt of the existence of such subma rine oil spring3 off that coast. Captain Van Helme3, of tho American steamship Los Angeles, say3 that when a vessel passes through the region of this spring tho smell of oil is so strong as frequently to cause nausea among the passengers and crew, and in certain spots the oil can be distinctly seen bub bling up on the surface. Captain Wallace, of the American steamship City of Chester, Captain Ingalls,- of the American steamship Santa Rosa, and Captain Alexander, of the American steamship Queen of the Pacific, testifiy that there are other similar spring3 on - the Pacific coast f though not so pronounced as the former, Captain Wallace locates the largo spring about eighteen miles west of Santa Barbara, Cab, and states that the sur face of the ocean is frequently covered for miles with tho oil. He has also seen oil floating on the water to the north of Capo Mendocino, from three to five miles off shore, and thinks there 13 another spring there. Captai Plumber, of the American steamship ypsy who has sailed seventeen years in these waters, confirms the above statements, and says the belt of oil above Santa Barbara can be seen the darkest night when sailing through it. A very full and interesting statement has also been received from Captain Goodall of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, who refers to the fact that Goleta Point is known to .masters of steamships as "Coal Oil Point'' on ac count of the oil breast of it rising from the bottom of the sea. On a calm day the water is covered for miles with oil, bubbles of which can be seen rising to the surface and spreading over it Al though it doss not seem to smooth the water Jike . animal oil, yet, on a windy day, yOU caQ see a slick of oil on the surface. This spot is so well known by shipmasters thatthe smell of the oil is U3ed as a guide in'foggy weather, the petroleum smell being so strong that a captain can never mistake his position when off that point. Captain Goodall says also that he. has1 noticed a small flow of oil from the bottom of the sea off Cojo Poin t near Point Conception, but there the amount of oil is very small It cannot b3 seen bubbling. up from the bottom, but is often visible oa tho surface, tho odor being very per ceptible. Bitumen is known to be generally dis tributed through the coast ranges to the southward of San Francisco, arid pe troleum wells and tar springs have been found at places. It seems probable, therefore, that the oil -bearing strata crops out here and there at the bottom of the sea off the csast, or else that the oil escapes through the crevices in the overlying strata and rises to the surface. Such submarine oil springs are known to exist at certain other places, the bay of Cumana,: Venezuela, for example, where petroleum 4sc3 and spreads- upon the surface ; and it i3 said that, off the is land of Trinidad, West ladies, there are r submarine volcanoes, which oc . casionally boil up and discharge a quantity of petroleum.- Commercial Advertiser. Gtandma (coming ia unexpectedly) Why, Tommy, what have you been do ing to Poll! She looks as if she'd had a. conniption fit I Tommy Polly , said something about wanting me to crack" her, and I did. . An Old Weather Ilecord. Mrv J. D. Whitson gives the Chicago Journal these memoranda: 1853, dry summer; . following, winter very cold; ice 24 inches. ' :' ; 1854, very hot summer'; winter; cold est ever known. " ; 1855, average summer; winter in tensely cold. . V 1 1836, average summer; winter very COld. ' " ' ' ' V' ' " 1859, dry summer; winter intensely cold." " ' - 1860, average summer; mildfallf win ter cold; six weeks' deigning 10 March 1. " 1861, hot summer; winter cold ; sleigh ing from December 15 to April 1. 18G3, mild and dry summer; winter cold; thermometer 34 below zero, and cold to February 15. 1866, hot and dry summer; very cold January and February. 1867, 4ry summer and mild fall; win." ter set in December 36, and cold till March 1. 1868, summer hot; severe winter from November 20 to January 10. 1869, summer very dry ; winter from December 1, steady and cold. ? . 1871, very dry fall; winter set in De cember 8, cold to spring. 1874,' dry and mild fall and pleasant; winter set ia November 20, and cold to April 20. - 1876, summer "hot and dry; winter very cold, ice 28 inches. 1880, dry summer; severe winter, December 29 extreme cold, and 5 be low zero in Texas. 1881, average summer; winter very cold, November 29, ice ten inches, and snow from Maine to Virginia, 1882, dry summer; winter cold, De- cernbsr 8, 18 below, severe winter. 1883, dry and hot summer ; severe winter, February 1, 14 below. 1884, average summer; . cold winter, Deccmber 17, 2 below; January 19, 25 to 30 balow. ; 1885, average summer; severe winter, December 20 below. 1886, dry summer; cold winter, De cember, ice 10 inches, January 20 be low. 1887, dry summer; winter cold from December 20, ice 23 inches and . colder weather predicted. - A New International Language. A common language for the whole civilized world has been for several cen turies ono jf the dreams of. poets, philosophers, , and religionists. "It has been one-of those ideas that would not down, but which, in spite of failure after failure has continued to recur at inter vals with new claims for interest as na tions of the "world have been knit closer andn closer together. . Leibnitz tried the task of formulating such a language in tho latter part of the seventeenth cen tury, but gave it up m despair. Bishop Wilkins, Abbe Sicard, Bachmeier and Mezzofanti have at intervals continued to rekindle the world's interest in the scheme. Leibnitz, Bachmeier, and Mez zofanti all hailed from Germany, and from the same philological nation comes the latest apostle, tho inventor of Vola puk. ' ' - Volapuk (pronounced folapiek) is an attempt to invent an international language drawn in part from all civilized tongues. Its grammar i3 almost noth ing, consisting in a few simple rules which have no exceptions or irregulari ties and which, when printed, makes a small four-page leaflet The vocabulary embraces now only a few thousand words, th03e of most common use, but is steadily growing. Interest in this country has hardly been awakened as yet, but in Italy, there are already seven Volapuk societies' and others ia Spain, France, Germany, Austria and lower; Russia, numbering 120 in all. Pamphlet has followed pamphlet, lecture has suc ceeded lecture, and nine periodicals are published in Volapuk exclusively. The inventor is a humble Catholic priest, Jo hann M. Schleyer, living at Constance, Germany, on a pension of $250 a year, who has taken advantage of hU retire-' ment to study more or less thoroughly sixty languages and dialects. Voice. A Fine Dinner. The Ne w York Graphic tells about a fine dinner for. eighteen persons, at which "the center of the table was filled by a large, low glass receptacle some eight feet long, which was im bedded in moss and ferns, and in which swam gold fish and terrapin. In the middle roso a fountain whose spray reached almost to the chandelier. At each lady's plate was a uniquely beauti ful bouquet a palm fern forming the background for a splendid bunch of .La France roses. Each place was desig nated a? belonging to a guest by an ivory tablet, oa which the name was em bossed ia silver. The table wai orna mented with many rare treasures of sil ver and chiaa. .Each salt-cellar was a silver swan, and in each was an 'apostle spoon, Mrs. being the fortunate possessor ol a set oi wioso ucauuiui examples of the skill of silversmiths of the middle ages. Tankards three or four hundred cars old ornamented the occasion, and a Nure mburg d riaking horn of a very curio U3 workmanship ap pealed to a more hardy thirst than gentlemen "at New York dinner partie are ia the habit of exhibiting. M The Little Grave on the HilL ' There's a spot on the hillside far away, Where in summer the grass grows green; Where, beneath a rushing elm tree's shade, A moss covered stone is seen. 'Tis a quiet and unfrequented spot, A solitude lone and wild; Yet somebody's hopes are buried there ' Tis the grave of a little child. ' ' In winter, alas! that mossy stone , .13 hid 'neath a shroud of snow; But i around it, in " springtime, 'fresh and " . sweet, The daisies and violets grow; . And o'er it the summer breezes blow, With a fragrance soft and mild, And the autumn's dead leaves thickly strew That grave of a little child. . , And every year there's a redbreast comes, When the month of May is nigh, ' And builds her nest in th is quiet spot, K 'Mid the elm trees' branches high; With her melody sweet by the hour she v trills,..;, ' " As if by the scene beguiled; Perhaps who knows? 'tis an angel comes To the grave of that little child. Yes, somebody's hopes lio buried there, ' Some mother is weeping in vain. For, though years may come and years may go, ,-. ; -r 'Twill never come back again. . Yet blessed are those who die in youth, The pure and undefiled; . ; Some road to Heaven, - perchance, runt r . through . r : . That grave of a little child. HUMOROUS. The public will eureiy; sour on the vinegar trmr. . . j Old flames frequently get together , and make a parlor match. The parlor i3 probably the most fre quented of all court roc ms. Don't judge by appearances. A brand vucw.vuub may uotsi i who uumuij. It reads a trifle paradoxical to 6ee a cargo of salt cod noticed under the head of fresh arrivals. : . - - The sign "Beware of the" Dog' is not hung up "that he who runs may read," but "that he who reads'may run." It is a notable fact that however cleanly seamen may be on the water they have a decided dislike; to being ..washed ashore. v - - At the club Jones Look at Brown buried in thougnt. Jones Jalgntvii.. ...... " 1 .: '-. ; .-.j . . -r.i - x t v looKinsr lor nice. iat iods couiu do ac commodated if they would apply at a lard rendering establishment. "Papa, where's Atom?" "Atoms? I don't know, my boy. You mean Athens, probably." "No, I mean Atoms the place where everything is blown to." - ""There is something about you, Mr. Becondshelf, which tells mo that you must have had a heart-history !'' and she gazed upon him with intense, soulful eyes. "No, m'm," he said: "I ain't just right there, but it's only cigar ettes. ; '.- ' . ' -' : ;. The Story of a Bare Plant Years aao Dr. Asa Qrav was studvinff in Paris, and in a herbarium thero came across a small, broken and imperfect' specimen marked simply "From Amer ica," which interested him much. From Vi frffmnt 'hafnm Tifm . Tin " structed the whole plant His work was approved Dy tne Doianius aoout nun. and he named the little plant "Shortia Galacifolia" ia honor of Dr. Charles W,i Short, thedbtinguishcd botanist Bat no live specimens of the plant could be found. Years passed, on and it had never been seen. At last a botanist at work in Japan found aad named a plant which ssem'ed to bo of a goaus cloiely allied to the Shortia. Dr. Grav corre- sponded with the botanist, and it wai concluded that the doctor had been in error and had mistaken a specimen of the Japanese genus. So the Shortia was generally le ft ' out of the list of plants by systematic botanists,' Tin -'tnn(r TTAtlT - ti.fi.PT th?il as Dr. Goodale and . Professor Watson were one day ia the library of the TJnersity, they heard a shout of triumph from the herbarium and rushed in to find Dr. Gray waving a small plant about in the wildest enthmiism. "Look at it; What is it? ' ho cried. f Tho two : botanists examined it as directed and recognized the characteristics of the much-discu33ed plant "It is the rl i!. tl it. T: .,1 T"U - DuoriiH, luejr vxciaiiuuu. iuo speci men had been sent by a house ia the " South which mado a business of putting up "medicinal herbs. It had been brought ia from some hitherto unex plored nook in the mountain by ono of their collectors, and seat to tho pro fessor for identification.. It proved in- deed to be the Shortia, which wa there fore once more reiastatei in the floral family, greatly to Dr. Gray's delight. " Dr. Gray afterward viiited tho locality ia which the plant was found, and pro cured a living specimen for thcbotaai cal garden. -New York Tribune. A Unkind Cut. i(l hear that you aro engaged, Ma mie?" . v.v", ;. :' "It is true." ... " . - "Then mother was right" "wnat aoout c "She said you would be engaged be fore leap year f was over. " Bo3t ca Courier. .
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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