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A VOL. I. " An Anklet's Soa Tto& daylight approaches; oh, oome wttn ee, cornel , la wetwoods the partridge is beating bis firum "Whit wreathings of vapor ascending from where The lake like a mirror &es placid and fair. Away with all sorrow, A truce with all care, l?.ise np and follow the sun, and we'll reel The thrill of the rod and the pulse of the " reel'. - Th scent of the clover is deep on the breeze, The sunlight is "red in the tops Jthe trees, The young day .waken3, a brash of surprise On her face arjcF the tears of dew in her eyes. Come out -on the mountain-wide, over the crest, To the labehere a boat, like a steed in un ' . .rest, Lies rocking and chafing as 'though it coaU feel The life it the morning frcca bow unto keeL The tun is raising; oh, come, come away ! "Where the cedars are heiavy and waters are ray! v ' The screams of a fishiiawk sound faintly ' rfrom where "TheUilies are raising gold caps to the air. Away with all sorrow, A truce with'Cll care ; " "With hand-net and basket, oh, follow and ! feel ... ' P " Iho thrill of the rod and the pulse of the t". rfcelv Wild wood's Magazine. MOWED IN. "CbpitaVAl .Row for your story, IFrcd." ' Four members cl tho Bicycle Tour ists' Club wera relating their adven- tares of tho past season, and the one ;last addressed, a tall, handsome athlete, laughed slightly as be knocked the ashes from his cigar before replying. "A droller adventure than mine, boys, never happened. ThereV the pa thetic, the ludicrou?, the tragic, the sentimental, all combined, in this story of mine, and it's true, every word of it. It happened, let me see, just : six weeks ago today. " " - -p"I went with C.ark and Anderson, ypu know, up to ' Bothlchoni; from there to the White Mountains; then to Lancaster. "Now just before starting mother i fiaid to me, coaxingly::. '.; " 'If you go as. far as Lancaster, don't forget that Jaaet Harding, the only cousin I have in the world, livos in the next town.' r "" 'All right,' Irepliel. 'Janet Hard iag lives in the next town to Lancaster. I'll remember.' "Janet Harding uamarxied would have been bad enough, but with a hus band, two giddy girl?, and an over grown boy of 17, could I stand it? Mother 'thought I could, and mother rules cur house. ',."' "When we started on our bicycle trip to Dixville Notch I planned to see the Hardings; bowl leisurely up to the door, introduce myself to Mrs. H., joke with the girls, and then proceed; but man proposes, etc. "A3 luck would have it my bicycle broke down and I had to leave it at the Falls, a little village five miles from Lancaster, for repairs. Clark and An derson went on without me to North Stratford, where I was to meet them by train, J and I proceeded on foot to the Hardiag-farm, some two miles from the . Falls. - "The farm, a smooth interval dotted ith fields of ripening grain, cud the Jarge verandahed' bouse, and rreat roomy barns clustering about it, but not too near, all bespoke plenty, com fort and hospitality. i '-Hospitality, did I scy? Well, I .. shan't take it back, although I found the door locked and not a living thin? ia sight except an old white hen. Mark the exception or thit hen plays g important part in my adventure. "I noticed her, and in particular marked ths proud, complacent step, the 'conceited 'car-car' she uttered, a3 she looked at me knowingly from the cor- ner of her eye. Little did I thinks but no mutter. Ycu will see by and by the golden thread that binds all the points together. "Well, here W3 were, the white hen . and I, lut Janet Harding was not. nor the girl?, nor tho boy, nor Mr. Harding. "I decided to go to the bain and lie down on th3 hay, tho new-mown hay, and await their coming. "For me to think, is to act. A few minutes later I had c'.imbed to the mow and ensconced myself under a brace in the corner where tho afternoon sua glinted through a long crack, making slanting dut-beamsacros3 my breast. "I made a few verses as I lay on the fragra:;t hiy, but I didn't poetize long. I fell asleep and I dreamed, and my dreams grew thicker and blacker and heavier, until at last I dreamed that " Janet Harding and her whole family were seated on my stomach, and oh, tb.3 t pressure! I groaned and waked my t elf up, but I wasn't much better off then, for Egyptian darkness reigned about rae, except for the crack where , the light still sifted through. "Where was I? What was the matter? I couldn't think, the horrible pressure was so maddening. All about, arouad, above, wai packed piles of oats, not shelled oat?, you know, but oat3 before they are threshed, on the stock, or wliatever you tall itv White I wa3 asleep I had been movftdia, and that's all there was toitexcept that I couldn't move hand norj foot. Two or three loads must, have bee a thrown on top of me, trod down, and clinched, so to speak. "Well, I tumbled ground a bit and got my harAh free and poked the grain away from my face a little. I was ia a corner, as "I told you, under a brace, ami this gave me a change for my life that aad the 'crack which gave rae a breath of air -la the hot, stifling plac?. Iowa's vast as effectually emersed as were the monks in olden times when they rere walled up in their living toaabs, for no amount of strength served to lift the burden a partitle. Ey and by something fluttered at my feet aid rose up and cackled. "It was tho white hen. '"I knew her and she knew me, but Oaless you, she didn't want anything of me nor my -company. I cculd-seo that. 03ut she couldn't get out? Ohl but couldn't sto? She cocked h'.T.head im pudently to one side, stepped daintily tb a tiny aperture about half as big as her head, and I saw at a glance that she meant business. The less -sense the more instinct; I saw thattthe creature would get cut somewhere. - "Why not use her for a carrier pigeon and thus establish communication with the outside world? I couldn't dare .to die here and be pitched outto the cat tle by forkfuls, or put rfchrough a threshing machine, although I might deserve such treatment, and 3 couldnit get out myself. "I tore a leaf from my note book and' wrote -something like'this: Come to my rescue. I am btrried fathoms deep in oats, northwest corner, of the barn just opposite the house. My bice necktie is thrust tbrough-the crack. Perhaps you can see it. ;X am mowed in. Tour relative, Fred Ixgersoix. 'Ttied the note to tha hen securely with a portion of tho necktie, the rast stepped -forth, 'one foot up, the other fcot down,' carefully, conscientiously, as a hen docs, and by and by a faint rustling-spoke hopefully 'of her progress to my 'waiting heart. Meaawhile I was a prey to asious thoughts. "Suppose she should never reach the light, but, perish ia her peiiious jour ncyj. become hemmed in and unable to go any further; suppose , she should lose the letter ia her pa-sage but a 'tiiumphant cackle assured me that the white hen had reached tho barn floor, and blessed sight! a little later I saw her through the crack .-walking proudly away from the door -with tha letter plainly ia view. ' Just then two young lalies clrcva into the yard. Pretty? Weil, ' I guess so. You don't often see handsomer f'irl3 than Janet Harding's. One was dressed in seal brown, the other in navy blue. "'Do look at that hen!' cried Seal Crown. 'I do believe it's a billet-doux from your 'William. ' If it i?, now, I'll clap my hand3 hard, just so, and I'll say, 'Billy; do send me one, too.' "'One, two; and will it take two to satisfy you?' said Navy Blue, laughing at her sister's saucy f.;ce. I laughed, too, and fell in love with her then and there. "They lured the hen toward them with a handful of corn. Seal Brown swooped down and loo3enedh3 letter and read it. "I saw cli this through a crack in the barn and heard them make merry over the distress of their city cousin. . vWel'to make a long, story short, the girls duj me cut, for the men were ia the meadow after moro oats. It seems thtt they were in a great hurry to get at the oats, and the hired msn mowc-d away. Probably the first fork ful covered me and that was doubtless rut on without looking. Nobodv knew just how it came about. When I came to view I did the best and the only thing I could do I laughed and the girls laughed. It was a lulicrous introduc tion to the family but it served its turn, i found the girls no less cbarmiag than pietty ; II irry, a fiae lad home from college; Mr?. Harding, a lady in every sense of the word, and Mr. Hirding, ahrewd, corpu'ent and good-natured, and that is all." J "AllT' they echoed. "There ought to be a wedding." "There is to be a wedding," said the other, cooily. : "Which. Navy Blue or Seal Brown?'' "Navy B:uo.'V; "When are' you to be married?'' "N-ver, perhaps." "Why, I thought ycu said there was to be a wedding!" "So I'did. Navy Blue is to marry her William." "And you are ia a Brown study still," said one slyly. Fred actually blu?hed. "Yes, the most puzzling study of my life, and the most interesting," an I ha walked away. "Hard hit, isn't he?" The rest nodded. Hartford Times. One of the commonest of illusions 13 to imagine that tho present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day ia the year. SALISBURY, A QUEER INDUSTRY. Trading in the Beasts That Live in Menageries. Hunting Parties Sent Every- where Jtv Search of Curiosities. The expenditure of hundreds of thou sands f dollars each year in the -pro-' curcmeat of wild beas-ts, birds and rep tiles -seems like the . -wicked extrava gance of some magtiificant potentate, but hen it is incurred in the course of trade it furnishes iood for thought by therphilosopher, talk by the moralist and amusement tmd instruction for the multitude. Mr, Seiche, a New York dealer in wild animals, has been inter viewed on thb subject by a Graphic re porter. ; 'We send opt some half ! a dozen f expeditions every, year," he said, ' to different parts of the world. There are three point3 ia Africa-to which we send. ; ' Oae goes to the north of Africa and theac3 to tht iatenor-as far m circum stances may d .ct te. Another goes to Cape Town a.nu whence northerly by ox teams into the intarior as far towards Rider Haggard's land of story as may be. The third goes to tb.3 west coast and through Li oeria. Then we send one to P-i.ra and that goes to any point in South America that seems most de sirable. Another goes to Australia and New Zealand. Then we send parties out for walrusses and sea lions towards the South Pole. They sometimes catch a polar bear, but not often. . "It would be almost impossible to say what is expended in the pursuit. The entire capital invested is turned over as frequently r.3 possible. Sometimes we. have money lying idle for a tini", .and sometimes it all invested in the different coniitiraeats that are coming home. It would be cq-ially-hard to es timate the profits, for, of course, the business is full ol accidents. We are liable to lose the beasts that have cost us tho most, and we may get very hijh prices for some that have cost com paratively little. There wa3 one hippo potamus that our hunter, Lohso bought for $(J8 from some natives on the Settite River in A'rica. The ani mal was only a faw days old when ho bought it and it was kept for some time before it was' sold for $-20,0.00. O" course'the diflercace between the two sums was not ail or nearly all profit, but they are illustrative. "Necessarily our hunters run into all sorts of danger?, not only from th&.wild beasts themselves, but from tno natives in some of the wild countries, they have to explore. They are trained me, though, and seldom come to utter grief though some of the men they employ are frequently killed. Ia Africa tluy will have sometimes a party of 200 or 300, or even 500 natives employed in hunting the big game. Their 6tories of adventure are as thrilling as these in . any book of travel, tut the professional hunter is not often a professional story teller, and the stories that you find ia books are generally told second hand. "What do wo do with our good3 when we get them? They are, the most of them, taken to Germany, to our headquarters at Alfeid. There they are kept for a time if they arj out of coaditioa in, any way, or if they hav3 to b3 accli mated. From Alfeid they ztq shipped to one of our distributing depots." We have several places in different parts of the world similar to this one. You may call them salesroom?. Then we send direct fo our cu.tomer3. "Who buy them? Oh, circu3 people, city governments and private collectors. Of course, the circus people are the largest buyers. They use up a . great rnaav animals. That is, their curiosi- 1 . . i ties die faster than thay would if it were not for the constant travel. They .are cared for as well as . possible, .but of course the lite is hard on thorn. Then there are public and private zoological gardens which we supply, and multi tudes of people buy ail scrta of pet3. .Here, for instance, is a pet that wou'.d be appreciated by a great many." And he reached down iato the barrel, the bottom of which was covered with young al!i.jatcr, which were squirming j and straddling around ia two orthice i inches of dirty water. Picking one of j j thes up by the head he held it in hi ! hand and poked it to show that it was ! soft. b:ing" newly hatch d. Then he j tried to sec if it would bite him, asd ! finding it wcu'.d not put it carefully 1 back among its brethren. Willing to Sell. 'Thati3 a dangerous looking dog you have there, Deacon. Aren't you afraid he will injure somebody?' .''Well, yes," replied the deacon un easily. "I haven't much confidence in the animal. If you hear of anybody who wants a good dog, let me know, and I'll sell him cheap. "Life. Out of Practice. Woman (who has given something to eat to a tramp): Ycu have a very awkwarerway of eating, man. Yes, ma era; I guess it's cause Tm.out of practice. Life. N. C, THURSDAY, An QidTrkk Revived. "Tha 'oil trick of painting dismonda so, as tomak&yeilow stones resemble the vnost beautiful blue white is -beiag e tensively carried ea by a ftn ia our (town,' says a H-ansas City jeweler. "The fraud is aciever one, nd not only imposes a the inexpert, but is calcu lated to -deceive even the connoisseur. "The trick ii verv sinfole. Alt thit i i? needed, is a yellow diamond the yel lower the better and a common indeli ble bkiepenci. After letting ths dia mond, you pencil the Stone ail arena d its surface, upper and lower sides. Then rub the stone with a piece of cotton or linen, in order to equalize th3 distribu tion of the -color, and you will find the yellow stone transformed iato one of -a perfect bluish tint. la. tnis manner it -13 easy to make a i :,50 stone appear worth $200, a3 even a j magnifying glass fails to show that the j stone has been colored; although if washed .in. alcohol, turpentine or ben zine it, of -course, returns to its original yellow tint j "This 'trick is. Icing p'ayed daily ia Ivansas City. The agents-;' of the mm who is thus transforming cheap stones to gems of apparently great worth are j all around town, and some of them are even-working neighboring cities. "People who have recently bought diamond at a bargain should plunge them into a benzine or alcohol bath and then rub them with a toothbrush. Their eyes may be opened to the real yalue of their purchases. Jeweller s Weekly. A Wind Scourge. -The mistral is the northwest wind which is the scourge of the South of France in Winter and Spring, The icouutaia raage of the Cev;nne3 be 4sg covered .'with snow and the shores oMhe Mediterranean being many de gree? warmer, the icy-cold air rolls down the slopes of the mouritdns with terrific violence, and, invading Provence and -Lanwueloc,- destroys the vineyarJs, uproots trees, throws down buildings, and i3 so intensly dry that it withers every green thing. 'According to Stra bo the melamboreas precipitated men from their charriots and stripped them of their arms and vestments. Locally the spying is that the three -plagues of the country ere., the Parliament, the mistrai, and- the Daraace. Like our j own east wind it does some good as j well as a great deal of mischief, as it j readers the air more salubrious by dis- j peiling the noxious vapors from stag- j nant. waters .and marshes. In ancient i times it vras personified as the most j dread,d of the gods of the district. The -conditions of atmospheric pressure favoring the mistral are a high ba rometer over Europe and a low ba rometer over the Gulf of Lyons. The biss a similar , and' excessively cold northerly wied in the Swiss and French Alps. Longman's Magazine. The Favorite Color. It. i3 a curious circumstance that red, the unseen color of so many, is tho favorite color, and may be called the king color, cf the normal eye. It was especially so in aacient times. - If we examine the Bible we shall find that the Hebrews scarcely ever use color as an epithet, as we do when we say "the blue sky," "the purple hills." They say, iideed, "the Red Sea;" but blue i3 scarcely mentioned as seen in nature, osly ia the "blue and purple and scar let" of the tabernacle harjgiags, or the high priest's robe?, or the pavement of the king's palace of "red and blue and black and whi:e marble" in the BeoL of Esther. Yellow, excepting as a sign of disease, is mentioned but once or twice: "her feathers like yellow gold." But red is largely spoken of as in later times, and perhaps a? incorrectly, for we did not invent, we oaly inherit, th expres sion, "red gold," "red wine," one of these being merely orange, and the other a ruddy purple. "B:d hair" is a modern, or rather mediaeval inaccur- Bey; 'rei cow' we got from the ancients, s. These epithets all appear to certaii fancy for calling things show a red as the more kingly and costly color. Good Woris. A Remarkable Tree. A Neva J a paper describe a remark able kind of tree whuh is sail to grow in thst pirt of the co :r.try, and which certainly possesses qualities of great val ue nccordiag to the decriptiDn. The trees do net grow large, a tree with a truak about a foot ia diameter btin-'- rrueh above :he average. When dry, the woo l is abont a hard as boxwood, and being of very fine grain, mighty no doubt, be used for the same purpose. It U of a rich red color and very heavy. When well seasoned it would be a fine material for the wood cirver. In the early days it was u?el for making boxes for shafting, and in a few instances, for shoes aad dies ia quartz batteries. Ued a3 a fuel it creates intense heat. It burns with a blaze as long a? ordi nary wood would last, and then it U femd aim-) t unchanged inferx con verted into charcoal that lasts twice as long S3- ordinary wood. For fuel a cord of it brings about the same prico as a ton of coah Uafortuiately it burnt out stoves faster than any kiad of coal. JUNE 9.8, 1SSS. ?ZARLSOF THOUGHT. ! He that lives with cripples learns to limp. Truth and oil, always come to the sur face. . .. J Oae enemy is too many, and a hun i -dred friends are too few. There are some things that silence alone can answer. . Small idea3 and lame words make a I painful combination. It i3 mind, soul and heart not taste or art that makes men great. : If you would know what i3 said of you in your absence, .consider what ia said of others ia your presence. Never speak well or ill of yourself. It Weli, men will not believe you; if ill, they Will believe a great deal more than you say. , Vanity and jealousy are the two weakest passions in Jha human heart, and, Strang?, to tell, they are the most common. - Some thin g3 after all come to the poor that can't get in at t!e doon of the rich whose money somehow blocks up the entrance way. " If we could read the secret history ol our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful and worthy are the things we call books. Time is the greatest of tyrants and extortioners. As we go toward age he t; x:3 our health, our limb3, cur facul ties, our strength and our features. Where there is abuse, there ought to be clamor; because it is better to have our slumbers disturbed by the fire-bell than to perish amid flames in our bed. Library Cranks. In making a tcur among the promi nent public libraries .in New York City recently a Sun reperter picked up some curious information concerning the cc centric people who frequent Gotham's big storehouse of knowledge. Said on o librarian: "Of all cranks the library crank ia the most unendurable. He h the high est type of his specie3. There is one man who frequents I might say, lives in this library who is in my estima tion the bo? s crank. Every morEiifr, in r;iin' or sunshiae, ha can be found pa tiently waiting for the janitor to ti.row open the door when he ru-hes ia as though his life djpended on his - haste, and making for the shelf on which wo keep "Burke's Peerage," lus it to the table and is soon apparently absorbed in its contents. He has continued to do i this every day, excepting Sunday, w.hei the library is closed, for over two years. He always reads the same b;ok, seldom changing his position during the entire day, and pause3 only at noon time, when he partakes of a luncheon connot ing of an apple and a sandwich. Ho ia the first to appear in the morning and, the last to leave at night. Where or how he lives I do not know. -He is quite harmless, however, and as he seems to be as much of a fixture as the table he sits at, and interferes with no one, we never disturb him. He was here every day during the blizzard week and seemed to be totally unconscious of the great stcrm. We will soon have to tuy a new copy of the 'Peerage,' as he ha3 worn the book quite thin and rag ged by his constant u age." ; r A New Style or Stationery. ' "What are tho fashions in note paper now?' asked a reporter for the Ntw York Mail and Express of a stationer recently. - "This i3 a very popular style,' said the stationer, as he printed to a strip of pap:r two or three feet long and four inches wide. "Great Scott I exclaimed the re- j ..Yc s, sir, you ve hit it. It i called i , R .t , Tf . . a Brrall Eprce and looks very neat aTterwards. Aacter style is the size ard shaped business letter paper, anl it U placed in long, narrow envelopes. L tdies use envelopes to appear as much like a busi ness letter as possible.- The ragged- edcd paper i- very popular, and so i "pa-; er cut into q :are sheets. In fact, anything o il of the regular style can be u;ed now.'' Irish Slatton. f The wettest, ter.dcrest and mot : palatable mutton in the world ii that j raised in Ireland. The sheep grow laiger i than ours, thev feed on bttter nuctni aad their meat"is whoilv free from that j strong, "ab eepy taste which make3 ours so disagreeable to many palates. No American who hss eaten the mutton served in the Irish hotels will take any other kind of meat while ho stays there. The English mutton, though better than ours, 13 far inferior to the Irnh. American mutton is sold ia the Ereg'ish. Irish and Scotch market?, but it brings frcrnfthree to four pence lea a pound than the native' product?, and no one who cm offer 1 the latter will take the former. Boston Globs. Delusion of a Hemp Eater. A writer in St, James Gazette gives the following description of bis marvel lous sensatisn while uader the influence of Indian hemp. A friend of ours told us of I113 experience with the potent drug ia Washington during tho war, when he took a quantity in an experi mental way. Ia his ca?e the hallucina tions a3 to time aad distance ware very similar to those given below. It i3 not an experience to be desired. The rooms seem to turn round; 'tha people near appear to rise to tha ceil ing; me pu.se oeat3 witn extrema rap idity aad the throbbing ol thj hsart bJ comes impossible, for one cannot recol -lect anything the idsas seem to slip away. In another ten minutes the characteristic indications of hemp-eat-iag appear. Every object arouad at tains a monstrous size, Min anel wom en seem of Brobdignagiaa proportions, ' the cushions upon which one sits seem fit for giants, a'ad any tr;fl:ng obstacle ia the way when you attempt to walk appears so big that you fear to step over it. The room in which' you may be sit ting seem; to stretch beyond the range of sight, and one fancies tho street 'out side is recrdiag before one's very eye. All sense of time i3 lost .now and whsn he is spoken to tho hemjeater fancies there are long and apparently senseless intervals between the words. HU own attempts at speech are similarly marked ; the syllables come slowly, laboriously and minutes seem to elapse between the beginning and end of a word. In this stage it is usual to partake of more cof fee, which changes th- nature of the sensations. A whiff at the narghile that always accompanies the beverage, and the body seetn3 to rise into the air and float about, though inexplicably enough the feet keep firmly pressed to tho ground. Then one's Ieg3 and arms appear to drop off, and life and sensation concen trate themselves, to one's thinking, in the back of the head, which feels full to bursting. Gradually strength leaves the smoker; the pipe slips from the nerveless fingers; the will altogether fails, and the body seems to rise and float away in space. A heavy, dream less s'eep "usually succeeds such an in dulgence in the drug, and as a rule the novice awakes none the worse for tho evening's experiment. A little lemon juice removes any sensation of nausea or light headache that may ensue. " Personification of the Rainbow. The rainbow is one of the atmos pheric phenomena that have been most generally personified. Peoples of al most every part of the world have made of it a living and terrible monster whose most venial offense is that of drinking up the waters of springs and . ponds. This belief is found among the Burmese. Zulu, Indians of Washington Territory, ancient Mexicans, and Finns, and exists among the popular fancies of the Slavs and Germans, and some of the French populations. The Zulus and Karens of Burmah imagine that the rainbow spreads sickness and death. The Karens, when they see one, say to their children: 4 'The rainbow has come down to drink; do not play, for feai that harm may com? to youl"' Very singularly, too, the street boys in Volhynia run away, crying, 'Run, it will drink you upf" Ia Dahomey, the rainbow is regarded a3 a heavenly serpent, Danh, which insures happiness. The modern Greeks hold it to be a beneficent, but just and eevera hero; thoy say that any one who jumps over a rainbow will change sex at once; but this saying which is abo current in Alsace, is oaly a picturesque way of in dicating the impossibility of transform ing a maa into a woman, or a woman into a man. The Delians offered cakes to the rainbow, and the Peruvians put its image on the walls of their temples. The dribs considered its appearance on the sea a favorable presage; but on the earth it3 influence was pernicious, and they hid from it3 view. It was personi fied by a viper. Popular Science Monthly. ' ; A New Mexican Parrot Miss McCutcheon, of Socorro, New Mexico, has a parrot that sings to tho accompaniment of a piano almost per fectly. A party of friends were recently gathered at the residence of this young lady, when, for hr; amusement of the circle, the parrot was brought into prominence. The bird, as soon as it wa3 brought into the room, commenced to whistle a popular tune. It whistled thi tupe over and over again, until one of the party suggested that the tune be changed, whereupon the parrot stopped quickly, and, casting a look of contempt at tho youag man who made the surge-tien, cried: 1 Chest nuu!" . .. " . .- - Misunderstood, A tramp called at a hoWe,. and when the servant opened the door, re quested something to eat. The woman replied by whistling for the dog. Tou misunderstand me, mum, hastily remarked tha mendicant. Ilrw so?' "I asked that vcu should feed me not the dog,w was the replv. ai the tramp quickly dashed through tha r?atc Youth's Companion. NO. 39. CHILDREN'S COLUMN, GIntton Xl?n There was a very greedy boy They called him Glutton Ben; His appetite was large enough For half a dozen men. ... One Christmas nlcht he ate and at;.- From eight o'eb ek to ten; .. And when he crept to bed, folks thought J He'd ne'er get up again. " A drzen Veiling savages Role o'er the mountain crest; An eagle from the sky swept down And here him to her nest; Ami then a doughty drayman dumpe A hogshead on his bre?.st; -'Twas thus the horrid nightmares Broke in upon his rest. His face grew pallid in its pain, His legs they were up-bent; The doctor fe t tis throbbing pulso With attitude intent. "A surfeit of pi mn pudding, this, Was his blunt comment; He wrote out a presc-iption And then awny he went. Harper's Your.g Pr ' ' t'" tfaxwfU'i iqunt c Ca. John Maxwell of Rondout, N. .- .. the owner of a dark gray Itnlin that not onlv iuaans in the water aat swims along the clocks in search of rata, but i3 a successful fisherman. Tho cat has been kcown to crouch on the gun wale of a Dclawara and Hudson canal boat for an hour or longer a :d watch for . a fiVh to appe r uear the surface of tho water. O e day the piscatoriil feline took iuto lr. Max well's store at different limes an eel, a catfish and a yellow perch. Tin eel was about eighteen inches lon'j; find thfl perch wriggled in tho cut's mouth. Kingston Freeman. A Drtg- TFIio f.tole .wpajeri. "A paper cairier ccm3 to mo one daj and told me that somebody was steal ing the papers left on a certain doorstop every morning before the subscriber go a chance to see them," scid a Chicago policeman tho other day to a Tribune reporter. ''The gentleman living in th house had, it appeared, hauled the car rier over the coals and accused him ol net giving him his paper. I concluded to watch the house and see who it wai that was s-tea'ing the paper ',, for I wai satisfied that the carrior Avas telliug thfl truth. Tie uext moroing I saw tht carrier throw the paper in the yard, and I concealed myself on the opojite sida of the street to await dc vo-lopmeots. Is a few minutes I saw a big black New foundland "dog climb over tho fenc from the acljeining yard and pick uj the aper in hh mouth, lie then jurp.d ever the same fence and ras through tho bacK yard. Tho nexl morning I waited for the canine thief, and gave him a reprimand wi'.h mj club, aad ever after that he let tin papers alone." Howa Toad railrewm, A gentleman sends to an agricultural paper an amusing description of "Hon a Toad takes off hi3 Coat and Pants." He says he has seen one do it; and a friend has seen another do it in the sama way: ' About the middle of July I found a tad on a hill of melons, and not wand ing him to leave I hoed around him ; hi appeared sluggish and not' inclined U move. Presently I observed him prea ing his elbows against his sides and rubbing downward. no appeared a singular that I watched to see what ha was up to. After a few smart rubs tha skin began to burst open. Btraight along the back.. Now, sr id I, oil fellow, you have done it;' but ho ap-" peared unconcerned and kept oi rubbing til he had: worked all his ekia iato f old3 on hi .sides and hips; then grasping one hind leg witl both his hands, ho hauled off.ono leg ol his pants' thV same" as 'anybody wculd then stripped the other hind leg ia lha same "way. " .He . then took his ca3t-ofl cuticle forward between his fore legs in- . to his mouth - and swallowed it; then, by raising and lowering his head, swal lowing as his head came down-, he stripped off the skin underneath u j'til il came to hi3 fore legs, and thon grasp ing one of these with tho opposite hand, by considerable pulling stripped off thai skin; changing hands,, ho stripped tha other, and .by a slight motion of tha head, and all the while swsllowing, ha drew it from the neck aad swallowed the whole. The operation seemed aa agreeable one, and occupied but a short time. 4 Crab-Catching' Ape. "That's a lone fishermaD," said a New York bird dealer a3 he pointed to a Javi ape. 'It is the best crab catcher known.1 "How docs he manage to get the crab? a3ked the Telegram's menr.gario critic. "Catches j.m with hh tail, lis U tha only kind of ape" that has a long tail. When it sees a crab tha ape bicks up ti the hole where the crab ha3 disappeared, thrusts ht3 tail iato it an 1 awaits events. The crab, feeling somewhat angry at the intrusion, nabs the tail, tho apo leapi forward, and before the crab cansftj 'Jack Robinspn" it finds itself on dry -land with 8000' miles of terra firm lunder ta ape, who soon cht ws up th crab aaa tliC0 tackles the next hole oa its list "--'"1 L- 3a
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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