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VOL I. Wind? .of Home. O, winds of home, that from the westward Start, ' And blow acrpss the highlands of my heart, Do ye 4'message bear, Upon your wings of air, From her with whom my being forms a O, winds of home, I know what you would say; That she is true; and waiting the dear day When by her side once more, All grief and longing o'er. Together we shall journey on life's way. O, winds of home, your message fond I hear; ."- None other's words could sound so sweetly- clear. They etho, in my heart f, . And now, Keore we part, Be this my answer, as JEbu westward veer: Tell her, though I have roved from her afar, Her love has shown above me like a sta And now its holy ray " Bhall light me on my way To her and home where all my treasures are. When I behold the daybreak of her eyes, Then new white dawn within my soul shall rise; t And peace and rest are mine, True love and joy -divine, To be with her till earthly daylight dies. " O, winds of home, turn back your wings of air, An1 1. 11 4-1 1 - A.1 J. 1 bear! , And all across the sea, Your voice shall sing to me Of her whose gift of loving makes life fair. .George Birdseye, in Detroit Free Press. A DOCTOR'S STORY. On a fine summer day in the year 187 ,"I was proceeding by. the southwest ern railway to visit a friend and former patient, a resident of Portsmouth, Eng land. It is not often that a medical man gets a holiday, and but for the kindness of a fellow-practitioner, in taking my practice for a fortnight, I should not have had this opportunity of enjoying the sea breeze. The train by which I started was an early one, and, having procured my ticket, took my place in a second-class carriage, ana m my cigar, lor it was a smoking carriage, On entenng it I was surprised, and I think, naturally so to find the further corner of it occupied by a lady.' "Oho I" said I, inwardly, "some Am rican demoiselle who desirei to indulge In a cigarette." On observation, however, it appeared tome that the features of my fellow traveler did not bear upon them that impression pf cuteness which marks American nationality. She had soft brown eyes, a full, round face, and a profusion of chestnut hair. She was dressed in a plain traveling suit, bound "with white braid, and wore a straw hat. "Maybe, a German," I soliloquized "they are terrible smokers." But again it occurred to me that pos sibly the young lady might be neither American nor German, but had got into the carriage without noticing that it was one reserved for tho use of smok ers. Under thu impression I bowed slightly to her, saying: "I fear my cigar may annoy youl Perhaps you are not aware that this is a smoking compartment?" "Ob, yes," she answered, with a slight Gorman accent: "yes, yes, yes. yes 1" ' ,. , There was something peculiar in her slow, deliberate utteranco and the four times repeated monosyllable. A dreamy look, too, in the speaker's eyes, as if her mind was preoccupied. However the train was now in motion, and I had nothinnr for it but to ATlsrnnr! mirafilf in my corner, look out of the window, and take a bird's eye view of the sur rounding home-tops. For a short time this was Well enough ; but I began at last to weary of the mo- uubuujr ui buvu au amusement we Englishmen, as a rule, are so reserved and unsociable that we shrink into our selves, and every fresh addition to the occupants of a railway carriage or an Omnibus is received with black looks and a sort of a tacit intimation that he has no right to enter. Now, I am free to confess that, whatever my failings, want of sociability is not one of them ; and I determined to try to engage my companion in a little conversation. There could be no impropriety in a man of my age (I was 38) endeavoring to be guile the tedium of a lazy journey by conversing with a fellow-traveler, a school-girl and certainly not out of her teens. It was, therefore, with an almost paternal feeling that I addressed a! m.a1i ' A 11 f her. "Thero are not many passengers by this train," I remarked. "Two thousand and three," was tho answer, that not a little startled my equanimity. I looked at the speaker expecting to find a mischievous smile dancing in ; h.er ejM or lurking at the corners of f jagr mouth. .Nothing oi the sort. She ; was perfectly serious, even stern, and ; her eyes had still the same dreamy, far- iway look in them. ""Very absented-minded, flpve, I thought to myself. or else in However, I j 1 think we shall have a fine day 'Jet our journey," I ventured to remark. She turned upon me with that fierce, despairing, yet restless look that we see in a trapped rat. "How you talk, talk, talk!" she said indignantly. "But" "Are you mad?" she screamed in tone of such, intensified shrillness and with, such an awful, hungry look in her eye that tho truth flashed upon me like an inspiration. - , She was mad! , Medical man as I am, a feeling of hor- ror overcame me when 1 reflected that i was shut up alone in the carriage of a j train, traveling at express speed, with a j lunatic True, I was a strong man, she , only a girl. But it is inconceivably what extreme strength i3 possessed by many of the insane. I have known a woman thus afflicted to require two,and even three powerful men to restrain her during one of her paroxysms. However, I endeavored to keep as cool as possible, as I looked the young girl steadily in the face. She looked at me for a moment or so without quail ing; then she sank back in her corner, resumed her apathetic posture, and sat gazing out of the window, with the far away look in her eyes, as if no such per son as myself was in existence. "Poor girl!" I thought; and I began to wonder who or what she could be, and how she came to be traveling alone. Could she have escaped from an asy lum. If so, how came she to be pos sessed of sufficient fund3 to procure a railway ticket? I had some experience in ' 'mad cases, " and I knew that the most outrageous ones are those where the patient main tains an even suilenness of demeanor The girl's case did not seem to me to be one of them. On the contrary, her sudden change of mood when I angered her seemed to indicate it to be a case of temporary aberration of mind, and con sequently a curable one. I looked at my watch. In a quarter of an hour we should be at Basingstoke. I was in the very act of returning my watch to my pocket, when my com panion, with a mocking laugh- the pe culiarly metallic ring of which it is quite impossible to describe literally hurled herself upon me with overwhelm ing force, broke the watch from its chain, and sent it spinning through the window. In another second she was endeavoring to force herself also through the window. Then commenced a terrible struggle, of which I even yet shudder to think. My muscles wero strained to their ut most limit of tension, the perspiration poured down my face, and my arms felt as if about to bo wrenched from their sockets. And all this to restrain one of the sex commonly called tho "weaker" from self-destruction. . All this time the poor girl uttered no sound that could give warning to the guard or-our fellow passengers of the terrible struggle for life or death that was going on withia a few yards of them. As for my own voice, the extra ordinary, physical effort I was making to restrain the would-be suicide entire ly prevented my making the slightest use of it. But just as. my powers were failing me, and I felt that I could no longer prolong the struggle, the train began perceptibly to slacken speed. "Thank Heaven I Basingstoke at last" What followed is easy to relate. Of course, assistance was at hand, and the unfortunate young ladywas removad to a place of safety. From letters which we found on her, and some articles of jewelry, which we ad vertised, we speed, ily discovered her friends. Naturally I, a a medical man, would not lose ' sight of her till T had discovered them. The patient proved to be a member of a German family, naturalized in Eng land, who wa3 subject to periodical at. tacks of mental aberration, but had never actually been in tho asylum. During the attacks, which invariably came on without any warning, so that it was difficult to watch her, she was seized with a restless desire to wander over the country, and, it appeared, had merely selected the Southwestern line because it happen ed to be' tha nearest to her own home. She had been so long without an at tack that her, mothers and sisters had on the previous night ventured to go to an evening party leaving Lotta fast ' asleep in bed at home. During their absenco she eluded the vigilance of the servants got up and dressed herself, walked about for some time, and took a ticket for the early Portsmouth mail at least, that was what she imagined and told us ! on her recovery. Her mcmory,howevcr, was very imperfect, but the poor child must certainly have walked aoout the streets for some time prior to the depar ture of the express. It was natural that under the circum stances I have already stated that I had had considerable experience in such cases her friends should a3t me to en deavor to effect a cure. I undertook it and entirely succeed ed. And also I undertook and succeed ed in something else. It is my wife who is looking over my shoulder as I write, and who say3: "My dear, the maddest act of all my life was when j But here I stop. SALISBURY, MAKING STRAW HATS ! An Industry that has Attained Immense Proportions Crude Foreign Processes and Skilful American Methods. The manufacture of straw hats, though aot peculiarly American, says the New York Commercial Advertiser, has at tamed immense proportions in this country. Over in Brooklyn, in seme of, the quiet streets botween the city hall district and Broadway, are a number of straw hat manufactories, some of which give employment to more than 200 hands, besides a lot of the most insren ious and skilfully devised machinery. Most of this machinery is of American invention. With it ten times more work can be turned out by the skilled operative than by the old hand process, and yet better wages made at less labor. The straw hat of civilization is nearly a century old, and its manufacture was not begun ia Brooklyn to any extent until about eleven years ago. The raw material is all imported, and, in fact, reaches the manufacturer here in a con siderably advanced stage of preparation. It comes from China, Japan and South ern Europe chiefly. Years ago, when straw goods brought higher price?, braids woven: with Tuscan straw and that from' Bohemia and Switzerland, were exclusively used, but they are now employed only for the finest grades. The cheaper qualities for the masses, such as the "Mackinaws," are almost entirely made with the straw braid im ported from China. This wa3 found to be less expensive than any other, be cause the cost of living among the pro ducers amounts to almost nothing. The Leghorn hat is made entirely in Italy, and only the finishing is done in this country. Chip and Panama hats, although sold under the general de- 1 AS . 1 - . nomination oi straws, are made in fact from entirely different ma terial. The chip is so called because made from the splints of the Lombardy poplar, out of which the sap . has been dried by burial in the ground for three years a precaution taken to prevent it from turning red which happens when dried in the air. The Panama ia made from the immature leaves of a palm tree indigenous to South America. The district of China where straw braid is made lies in the region of Canton and many millions of people are employed in its production. Living principally orr fruit3, which the soil of that country naturally yields, and with no inclination to do more profitable work, it rs often the only occupation that all the members of the family en gage in. The average wages earned are a penny a day. When the .species AV vonr a-m 4- J C 1 J.1 wucttb ujcu iur making straw has attained its full heighCT V before it is quite ripe, it is cut down, left on the grouad and allowed to bleach in the sun. This process being completed, the. stalks are bound in sheaves about a foot in cir cumference and then drawn out as wanted. After severing them at the joints into strips four or five inches in length, tVy are Put into a kind of a sieve and sorted in equal siz3S. Those at the top being finerj have a greater value than the lower or coaler ones. These pieces are in turn separated and tied into bundles of convenient size. Those of good color are laid aside for bleaching, while those spotted or dis colored are dyed and used with the bleached to make variegated braids. The solid colors are all dyed in America to suit the leading fashion. The bleach ing is done by inclosing the stalks in a box with' burning brimstone. The plaiting, next in order, is done mostly by women and girls, while the straw is in a damp state, and after the i braids are pressed flit they are put in rolls of 60 yards, packed in bales and ready for ex portation. Encouraged by their gov ernment, the Japanese, with their char acteristic energy, have recently begun this industry. When the rolls reach the manufac turer in thi3 country, the braids are slightly moistened and then sewn to gether, beginning at tho crown and working round until the whole is fin ished. On the top floor of the straw works are the sulphur rooms, where some of the hats are bleached. It is found that nature or science has pro vided nothing so powerful in this re , gard as tha sun, and all the sulphur baths and other processes of are not comparable with a bleaching sun bath. Ladies often feel disappointed because their straw hats turn yellow, bat this ii the natural result of sulphur-bleached goods. ' Such a thing never happens after sua bleaching. When practicable and the weather permits this latter pro cess ia uaad at all the works, ana on a fine day rows of hats may be seen on the roof undergoing whitening by the oper ations of the sun's rays. After bzinz dipped in French glue they are placed in a drying room, where the tempera ture is about 115 degrees and where the moisture is extracted by means of large trapidly revolving fans, driven at high speed. This leaves the hat in a very pliable condition. V JST. G., THURSDAY, The blocking process is next in-order. Looking at a numbered tag which has been previously sewed inside, the work man 'places the hat on the proper steam heated sectional expanding metal, block and presses it into the required size and shape. This blocking machine was in vented at the straw works. The hat is then placed on solid metal dies corre sponding in size to the blocks above mentioned, and subjected to a power ful hydraulic pressure, which gives it its proper form.' If for men and boys, the sweatband is then sewed in. and meanwhile ther' lace tip for the inte- rior of the crown is prepared by an ; ingenious machine which has an attach- ! ment for cutting it the exact shapa and ' size, as well as for sewing. Putting on' the band, the only process requiring j handiwork in the making ot these j goods, is the la3t operation, and the hat j is finished ready for boxing and ship ment. : Emperor Frederick's Banker. In 1770 Rev. Moritz Speyers was at the head of a band of Lutherans in Dessau, and by frugal living had man aged to save up considerable moey; all of which was in silver coin. The Rev. Moritz Speyers was unlike a great many modern preachers, in that he helped his flock as he helped himself. Living at the time in circumstances so humble that they were nearer poverty than comfort, wa3 ayoung couple named Cohn. They had not been married long, and the young husband had lost all he had. Still he worked and worked, and finally he and his wife made enough to live comfortably. Young Cohn was naturally sharp and shrewd, and was always looking out for a chance to in crease his few coins. The chance pre sented itself. All he needed was $2,000 worth of German mqney, and he said his fortune would be made. He would be wealthy; but a poor man, unknown and comparatively friendless, had but little chance of raising $2,000. He had one hope, das pastor, and straightway he called on the Rev. Mo ritz Speyers, Would he lend a poor man, without any security $2000? He would, certainly, but Herr Cohn must come with his wife and take it away. The next day Cohn and his wife came with a handcart and took tho silver. They were safe because they lived in Dessau, and Dessau had no aldermen then. That was Cohn's opportunity and he prospered. Ten years later he repaid the loan with interest. Still ha prospered until he was appointed bank er for a district, then for a duke, and then kings, and finally the late Emperor William gavo into his keeping all the royal treasure. . When he died, his son, the present baroh, took his place. Mr. Albert G. P. Speyers, a broker of Exchange place, , is a grandson of the Rev. Moritz Speyers of Dessau, and when he went to Berlin a few years ago the papers announced;, his arrival. J 'Shortly cftT T - felH!3LUlil3r Biron Coka called on him, jSttfr dress, and" thanJcea. mm for the great kindness his grandfather had shown to the baron's father. New York World. Feeding Cows in Finland. To any one who could be satisfied with an unvarying diet of fish and black bread, accompanied by the best cream and butter that can be found anywhere, it would be easy to satisfy his wants in any part of the country. How the cream and butter come to bo so good ia a mystery to me, for assuredly the Fin nish cows aro the worst and most scan tily fed of their kind. What other cow that respected herself would be satisfied with hay soup in which the water formed so unfair a proportion to the hay? The most meagre-looking hay, mixed with the dried branches of alder, simmers in a huge iron pot, and one see3 the poor beasts dipping their noses into the unsavory broth and fishing out its sodden contents with the evident relish of hunger. It was complain sc to me by a resident in the country tha. cows could not be induced to look upon sawdust as the staple of their food. How far he had seriously made the trial I do not know, but should he ever suc ceed, there will be a rich prospect for Finland in dairy farming. Murray's Magazine. Fainting Baby's Face. A letter from Paris informs us that the doctors are again at war with silly mothers belonging to the fashionable circles. The latest fanaticism of La 3Iode is to app'y the horrors of face painting to little children. In the pub lic gardens babies of three years old may now be seen whose eyebrows have been blacked or dyed by their senseless mothers. Other anxious parents, dis tressed at the vnlgarly ruddy and rustic hue of their children's cheeks, carefully powder them before sending them forth to meet the gaze and criticism of the world. Little coquettes of ten years are hot permitted to go abroad until the regulation black stroke has been paint ed beneath their eyes. The doctors warn the mothers that when the chil dren thus barbarously treated reach the age of sixteen they will have a colorless and ruined complexion, to say nothing of the injury to health, which is an ar gument less likely to produce much effect. Pall Mall Gazette JULY 26, 1888. 1 SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Instantaneous photography by IVi magnesium flash has been applied to study of the pupil of the eye as it rests in total darkness. I According to Richard A. Proctor, the scientist, there are twenty-six miles ; of sweat tubes in the body of an ordi nary man, and an average theatre audi ; ence perspires a ton of water every hour. . Praf. Leclerc, writing in Cosmos, maintains that odors are due, not to the emanations, as such, of so-called odor iferous bodies, but to the vibratory movement among such emanations, due to processes of oxidation. Scent, on this theory, is analogous to sound. The latest medical theory is that thero should be only two really sub, stantial meals a day, breakfast and din ner. A solid and highly nutritious meal should end it. The people who take a rapidly eaten lunch are apparent ly excused for tlretr supposed unhy gienic proceeding. There are already about 10, 000 elec tric motors in U3e in the United States. They are used for running sewing ma chines, printing presses, ventilating fans, dental instruments, street cars, for coal and ore haulage in mines, for pumping water, washing bottles, and for many miscellaneous p'urposes in tna- chine shops, shoe factories, book bind- i enes, Knitting worKs, etc i M. Faye, the astronomer, has drawn the attention of the French Academy of Sciences to the apparent geological law that the cooling of the terrestrial crust goes on moro rapidly under the sea than on the land surface. From this he ar gues that the cimt must thicken under oceans at a more rapid rate, so as to give rise to a swelling up and distortion of the thinner portions of the crust; in other words, to the formation of moun tain chains. Both in China and Japan, soapstone has long been largely used for pro tecting structures built of soft stone and other materials specially liable to atmos pheric influences. It '.has been found that powdered soapstone in the form of paint has preserved obelisks- formed of stone for hundreds of years which would, unprotected, have long ago crumbled away. For the inside paint ing of steel and iron ships it is found to be excellent. It has no anti-fouling quality but is anti-corrosive. By means of a bath consisting of 800 grains of acetate of lead, 600 grains of hyposulphite of soda and one quart of water, it ia said that eleven, different colors may be imparted to well-cleaned copper, and eight to nickel -plated ob jects. After the salts are dissolved, the solution is heated to boiling, and ftrili metal is afterward immersed there in. At first a gray color is obtained, and this, on the immersions being con tinued, passes successively to violet, maroon, red, etc., and finally to blue. Mr. John Aitken, a well-known in vestigator of the atmosphere, has re cently made a series of experiments on the number of dust particles in ordinary air. So far his results show that out Bide air, after a wet night, contained 521,000 du3t particles per cubic inch; outside air in fair , weather contained 2,119,000 particles in the same space, showing that rain is a great purifier of the atmosphere. The air of a room was. found to contain 30,318,000 particles in the same space; that near the ceiling containing 88, 346, 000 particles per cu bic inch. " Quicksand is composed chiefly ot small particles of mica mixed largely with water. The mica is so smooth that the fragments slip upon each other with the greatest facility, so that any heavy body which displaces them will sink and continue to sink until a solid bottom is reached. When particles of sand are jagged and angular any weight pressing on them will crowd them to gether until they are compacted into a solid mass. A sand composed of mica or soapstone, when sufficiently mixed with water, seems incapable of such consolidation. The electric lighting of the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg, Russia, appears to have given rise to some unexpected and undesirable results. According to the electrician, the sudden change from the sunless days of the northern winter to the blinding light of the banqueting halls, aided probably by the artificially heated and drier atmosphere of the rooms causes the leaves of the plants used as ornaments to turn yellow, dry up and fall off alter being exposed to the light for a single night The rapid ity of the injurious action and its amount is ia direct proportion to the in tensity of the i'lumination, since plants partially shaded from the light, or . in niches or similar places, were found to remain uninjured. A Spider Kills a Bird. Johnnie Appleby of Pend erg rasa, Ga., saw a cat-lird dart down for some thing, flutter and fall apparently life less. The boy found, the bird nearly dead, pinioned by a black spider. The insect had seized it by the tongue as it descended and bitten the end off. The bird died in five minutes from the spider bite. Cincinnati Enquirer, Shadovrlnflr Bank Clerks. There are few tanks in JTew York J that regard their clerks as above suspi- cion. -In these days, when old and trusted employes are making hasty trips to Canada, the bank! think if they are not able to iock the stable door, the next best thing i3 to roll a big stone against it. The stone ia this case is the detec- ! tive. Most of the banks employ detec tives to 'shadow their clerks and study their habits. It U the rule to keep a detective on the trail of a clerk for about two weeks every six months. Where a clerk has been but a short tints in tne empJoy of a bank he is watched even more closely than this. An old employe, whose habits are known to be steady, is shadowed maybe only on.C3 a year. Then a clerk may be shadowed two nights in succession, and not again for some time. " Besides, the clerk may come withia range of the detective's eye when the sleuth-hound is engaged in shadowing some other clerk. So a bank clerk cannot be too par ticular where he goes and with whom he associates, for he never knows when the-eye of the detective is upon him. . Just a little too much conviviality with one's friends may cost him his job or prevent what was almost certain pro motion. There is practically no chance for him to explain or excuse his con duct, for there is probably not a bank President in the city who will admit that he employs detectives to watch his clerks. While the system is an offensive one, aside from the banks being justified in adopting it, it results in some good to clerks. On account of it there are any number of bank clerks who could not be even induced to enter a saloon or a place of questionable reputation. Natur ally, a person feels, to Say the least, un comfortable when he thinks that Ills steps are being dogged. Particularly is this so if he i3 going to call upon his sweetheart, and he reflects that the de tective will pro! ably not be contented until he finds out all about the young lady, and in conse quence imagines that his courtship may become common gos sip about the bank. New York World. How Calico Got Its Name. . The derivation of the word ."calico is very interesting as of such an ancient date in its origin. Mrs. Leonowena says in her "Travels in India" that la the year 1498, just ten months and two days after leaving the port of Lisbon, Yasco da Gama landed on the coast of Malabar at Calicut, or more ' properly Kale Rhoda, "City of the Black God dess." Calicut was at that period not only a very ancient seaport, but an ex tensive territory, which, stretching along the western coast of Southern India, reached from Bombay and the adjacent islands to Cape Comorin. It was at an early period so famous for its weaving and dyeing, of cotton cloth that its name became identified with the manufactured fabric, whence the name calico. It is now generally admitted that this ingenious art originated in India in remote ages, and from that country found its way to Egypt It was not until the middle of the seventeenth, century that calico printing was introduced into Europe. A knowl edge of the art was acquired by some of the servants of the Dutch East India company, and . carried to Holland whence it was introduced in London in the year 1676. It is surprising for grown up children, as well as our young folks, to learn that "Piiny as early as the first century mentions in his natural history that there existed in Egypt a wonderful -method of dyeing white cloth." Calico cannot bo despised when it boasts of such antiquity. The shoddy make-up of the present day may look down with contempt upon the calico dress, but what kind of lineage has it? the calico can proudly ask. A Sure Cure. grim jest book might be com piled from the prescriptions filed away in the shops of druggists, many of them reposing in nmtere loneliness under a disguise of execrable hand-writing. The following has been rescued from an ob scure pigeon-hole and is a relic of the pioneer doctors of fifty years ago: "A Recipe for Armilda Purdy's Lung Com-' plaint. Tako of the bark of wild Cherry, Sasafras, Sycamore, yellow poplar, Dg wood and black oak , a Double handfull of each; take of Sasa pnrila Root and Spignard one handfull of each; to which add three Gallons of water. Boil it Down to ona; strain it and add one quart of Good french Brandy and one quart of Honey, of which take about one Gill three times a day. ThU was tryed by Jonathan Douglas when he Could not Set up and has Cured Several others. N. B. Ii She Can ot take agreeable to Directions. Take what Shs Cin. . . Run Down. " Doctor (who finds a tramp groaning by the roadside) What h the matter with you? . Tramp (dolefully) My system is all run down. Doctor By what? Tramp By a dog. Burlington Free Presa. NO. 43. That Night You and I. and that night, with its perforai and glory !- The scent of the locusts the light of the . moon; . . . .. .... An-J the Violins weaving tho walt2ers a ffcory, Enmeshing their feet in the weft of the - tuna, Till their shadows uncertain Reeled, round on the curtain,' v While under the trellis we drank in tha - - Juno. . , . . Soaked through with the midnighthe cedars were sleeping, -Their shadowy tresses outlined in the bright - Crystal, moon-smitten mists, where tha f ou "tain's hsa.t, leaping . - , Forever, Joreverj forever burst, full with delight And its lisp oa my spirit Fell faint as that near it - Those lovelike a lily bloomed out in the night - , ' ; ' . Oh, your glove was an odorous sachet of, blisses! ' The breath of your fan wa3 a br eeze ol Cathay I And the rose at your throat was a nest ot "spilled kisses! And tha mu3ic-in fancy? I hear it today A) I sit here, confessing Our secret, and blessing i.y rival who found us, and waltzed yo away. . James Whitcomb Riley. HUMOROUS. ianv an English dude possess et sterling worth. - A dentist whon he gets down to busi ness, has; the inside track. Fiy time and the base ball season are very properly contemporaneous. Figures on the corset production; properly come under tho head of stay tistics. A trust company has heard of Milk River, Montana, and wants to skim and fence it in. Why is a bullock a very obedient ani mal? Because he will lie down when you axe him. . Why is a person asking questions th,e strangest of all individuals? Because he's the querist. , ' Men are like sheep: the older they are the more difficult it is to pull the wool over their eyes. When William to the grand stand went, His voice was sweet, of course; . When William from the grand stand came His voice was low and hoarse. . By .the way, isn't it rather rough 0$ the high contracting parties to remark that a wedding went off "without a hitch?" The man who tried to get up a con cert with the band of a hat, is the same genius who, a few days since, played upon the affections of a young lady. "Come hither, my Jane, see, my picture Is here, Do yon-like it, my love? ; "Don't it strike , you?" . "I can't say it does at present, my dear, But I dare ear It will it's so Jikeyou." "Isee your new twousers bag at the knees alweady Cholly." "Ya'as," re sponded Cholley, bitterly, "it all hap pened last night; and bah Jove, Fwed; she couldn't have me after all." Venice guide (to tourist): You will want to see the Lion of St. ' Mark! Tourist: No; the only mark I want inf see is the high water mark. Fm froi Cincinnati myself, and I know some thing about floods. , An Imprisoned Congregation. Some years ago the pastor of a church in a rural district of Missouri shopherd ed a flock some members of which were in the habit of leaving the house while he wa s yet in the middle of. a discourse. This was an eyesore to the visiting incumbent, and when one day a reverend brother . volunteered tp preach for him he felt called upon to. speak of the annoyance. "Oh, T 11 stop that," was the reply. 'Til warrant you that jio one leaves until I'm done." Accordingly, " when he arose to speak he introduced his ser mon with the following! . "My friends, before I begin my ser mon I wish to make a few not irrever ant remarks. You all know that a vessel when full is full, and that .to con tinue to pour into it is folly. Some vessels are capable of holding a great deal, while others, again, are easily filled.. So it is with men's heads, and it is possible that some of yours, may be. come fu'd before I'm through. If so, I, want you to feel at perfect liberty to leave." zTho sermon la? ted ah hour and a quarter, but not a mortal stirred J "Do you know," said a young man afterwards, "I had a team of res ties f young horses outside, bull I wouldn't have gone out to look after them for flOOr' Detroit Free Press. A Prize For Jaw-Breakers. There were 450 competitors for the prize offered by an English journal for" the longest 12-word telegram, and tho winner put in the following, which was accepted by the telegraph officers for transmission for sixpence, , the regular rate: "Administrator -General's coun ter-revolutionaty inter-communications uncircumstantiated Quartermaster- Qea eral's dlspropor tionable ness character istically contra -distinguished uncoa ititutionalista' incomprehensibllities.,, ' A 1 "0
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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July 26, 1888, edition 1
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