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' . . ' - - - . e V- . - " v; - :.r: . - - - - .... ". "v r; -' -' "- - . .' '. .- . .. : A Presage. I have a friend, a dear one. Her name but why I confess? Ton very rarely hear one - More fascinating guess! Her merry voice is sweeter 4 Than any rillet's flow; i Her laugh has more of metre Than any song I know. Her lovely eyes that lighten When robins softly sing Are like the skies that brighten At daVn in early spring; Her cheeks his brain is duller Than dunce's who'll not own They're all the pinky color Of apple bads half blown. You wili agree it's pleasant That such a' one' should send Each year a charming present To me, "her dearest friend." And this year I've a presage It makes my pulses start That with a tender message She'll give to me her heart. JJistell Clinton in Harper ' Magazine. 4 A NICE OLD WOMAN." BY FLORENCE . ALLEX. '- "Oh dear!" It was a pretty . little face which, was . all puckered up into such a lot of wor ried little wrinkles ; pretty in spite of. the shadow of cafe in the fair blue eyes, and the tired drop as the corner of the girlish mouth. Toe ' owner of the face and the wrinkles. and the blue, eyes and the mouth in question, was a jslight, rather delicate-looking girl of about 18 who stood, attired in a faded calico dress, in the "doorway of a small woodT colored coi (ago (or "cabin", as theyhnore truthfully call such edifices in the mountains) looking out at the sunny slope of the road before her. Uwo fresu-faced smiling Zlxl XJi!I own age had just gone by, stopping to say a pleasant word or two aa they passed; and the sight of. their .pretty, though simple, lawn dresses and' float -ing ribbons had brought,ag they de- parted, those worried wrinkles "to the face that should have been as bright as theirs, and the impatient" exclamation with which our story begins to her generally uncomplaining lips. v As a general thing Phrosy Miller (she was Euphroyne by rights, through the instrumentality of her father, who had found the name in his somewhat limited reading, and had delighted ini jTcftyg'tn quire around up to Loren's 3raWn sweetneyw1 -arrrery- cheerful and contented girl in spite of the troubles and hard Work? that lifld come into her young life so early; .but, just at, present, there was something especial upon her mind, and that was thVplc "5it was to be in just four weeks from today, anJ all the girls were going; and she, who had stayed at home so much and so patiently for the last year, felt ai though she rea'ly must go, too. But how? That was the question that brought the worried little wrinkles to trie front bo conspicuously. All the girls were going to have new lawn dresses and fresh ribbons for the occasion, and ildQ up' her b'.ue mu?lin as best she could (and she wa? something wonderful in the laundress line all her neighbors Bftlrf 1 IT WAlilrl Yh I A ALT otitt TsrtTrr hnf old and faded ; and her Tibbons- well, her small stock thereof had been . cleaned and dyed and "done over" so often that they were merely a travesty upon their kind. Of course a new dress and the requisite adornments . would cost very little; but, as Phrosy said tersely but for a nickel apiece and one didn't have .. the nickel, where would be the comfort" cf itr - Money had - been vej tight in. the r Miller family ever since Mr. Miller's long illness, ending in his death, had put iii 1:111. 1 ..u .-ill ' , wo iiinu uousexioiu. unuer a xuau 01 nuivun(UlU illi 1A13L, Mill y V'Vl" helming. " Ben Miller a wild and. feckless young fellow he had bsen while his father was -well and strong and able to care for the mother and sister had steadied down wonderfully and taken the burden Of ex istence on his shoulders patiently and manfully. Mrs. Miller and Phrosy had .. .JPCOnomized in every way, even to the extent of taking some of the many wood choppers about as hoar ders, 'and they had worked early an late and sewed and ' I denied themselves aatil the debt was paid, and the future began to looka.ljt J, tie brighter. Then fate frowned on them nce again, Mrs. Millar, a large, heavy down the back-steps one day. made a mi6sten and fell, receiving an ininrv tn -.. , . " j j ..-her side which made 'her utterly help- . ' . Til... 1 . V " J . ... iSa. Bince xnen i'lirosy aau iouna lire ' harder than ever. Additional doctor's bills piled in upon jthem; Mrs. Mi'.lfjr helpless as a baby and." so nervously irri- iatie mat Keeping iwaruers luu-cr ai . an impossibility even had Phrosv been . able to do the work. -: So it wc that "ivery cent that came into the'family had be earned by Ben ; and so it "was that cw lawn dress, so ardentTy.desircd, Jto be among the impossibilities ice, for Ben's , wage were small dhere were? at least- a dozen .dollar. - : , - v hought' altogether too md kind-hearted .himself so much ilid mother from 'ns by telling that oney, v v-sn'.t guess." Ana, sighing heavily, Phrosy turned to enter the house in answer to a fretful call from within, but as she did so her eyes fell upon the clothes-line- in the side-yard.t '";r-vv---- ; 'In one minute, mother, u - she said cheerily. ."Til just bring Ben's shirts in asJ come by, they're all ready to raw-starch and I caa iron them - by w the supper fire." " : y ; How white and clean and sweet they werel As Phrosy gathered them into a stiffly awkward bundle in her arms she could not help bending her head to '. in hale Jbe 4 'smell of outdoors" (as she called it) that came from them. "They smell different from Chinese washing," she thought There's one thing certain, poor ai we are Ben's shirts are always the nicest done up in town,0 and then as that thought passed through her mind it.left an inspiration behind it. '. . That night after Supper, when Ben1 was resting himself from his' day's labor by Sputtering" around the chicken house and -back-yard generally, and Mrs. Miller was chatting with a neigh bor who had opportunely- dropped inj Phrosy, pleading an errand at the store, slipped away from them all and pro ceeded to put her inspiration to the test of practicality. ' - "It might be a -good idea,", said kindly Mrs. Jenk'nto whom she had gone in her emergency, "but- there's so many o' them plagusy Chinese around that it brings prices down dreadful, and most folks don't care how a thin is done so it is done cheap. " "But my thing ' don't smell of opium and nastine3s as the Chinamen's! do," averred Phrosy stoutly, "ther must be some one who would ratnep things little higher and have nice. ' Such folks is scarcer than dia monds in dust heaps,?' was the senten tious . reply. "I 4-ou'd myself, of course, but old Jlh'am Gilman has kind of got a mortgage on me, &nd fhoMgh she's failingdreadful and don't send things home fit weeks, I kinder can't all at fnna " . to be seen some go back on her "Of couree not," assented Phrosy unhesitatingly, "that isn't what I want at all. But- see here you, ask Joe to mill and I do believe he'll find something for me. I don' t care to say a word to Ban or he'd fly all to pieces nor you needn't tell Joe who it is that wants the things just let him say Someone .who'll do tEem the best they can be done and needs the money!' " "All righV' .said Mrs. Jenkuis, T11 keep it as still- as m'ce, whether it turns out well or not. You come by tomor row night and I'll tell you the verdict." And so, fuU of hope3 and fears and fond imaginings, Phrosy went home. The next night Mrs. Jenkins met her with her broad face beaming. "I've got six for you," she said, delightedly, , "and six times two bits is a dollar and a half ! you are in luck, Phrosy I 'Tain't one of the mill hands either, but a young felTow tha has bought out the old Bradbury ranch. He's been up to the city for lhe last week and more and come home with about a carload of dirty things -its been that hot up there, Joe says, "tEat you can't keep nothing decent two minutes, and old Mrs. Bul- galtliat cooks up there don't know beans about doing up, so the grist naturally come3 to your mill, and I' m glad of it for one.". v 'And I for two," answered Phrosy gleefully, and then, with a light and thankful heart she took possession of her somewhat bulky bundle and went merrily homeward. .' The next day six white shirts fluttered upon the Millers' clothes-line; the next day- stiff and shiny and odorous only of Heaven's pure breezes they went to their owner, and Joe brought back to hi mother in return tha silver which looked to Phrosy brighter and better than silver ever looked before. He brousrht something els , too, an over- grown bundle of shirts which had evi- dently seeo sorrow and had not lived the live that aristocratic white shirts ought to live. "These belong to the mill boy3," he explained, , "they got a sight at the others and nothing to do but they must send these down. They're a pretty hard lot;" (meaning the shirts and not the mill boys "but I gue33 your old woman can get 'em clean, mother." And his mother, chuckling a little as she thought of "her old woman": took the bundle and informed her son that anything of the kind was welcome until further orders. ' That week, in the neighbors' estima tions, Ban Miller fairly - blossomed with shirts, for the number of those useful and ornamental garments that huh g on the Millers' line was something" abso lutely unprecedented. : "Thirteea shirts for one poor wo rk- ingman is the worst I-ever heard 1" as severated tha woman ,n?xt door, whose propinquity gave her,; in her own estif mation, a right to criticise tha Mdlers with more frankness than "I wouldn't slave myself to death for the sake of Ben's vanity if I was his sister!" I But Paro?y smiled serenely. VI don't call Ben over vain myself,' she answereu, "aai I'm sure 1 am not slaving -myself to death or near it for any one, and as long as I'm satisfied I don't see. what difierenc3 the size of my washings ought to make to any one else." And with this the officious rid would-be. inquisitive neighbor was - to retire discomSted. Phrosy went to the picnic under Mrs. Jenkins' protecting' wing (one of Mrs. Slillex'i nrhilom cronies consenting glad ly teniae and spend the day -with her) and she had on a fresh pink lawn and ribbons to match and looked for all the world like a peach-blossom, i - The picnic was near the "pld Brad- bury ranch" and its new owner a tall. Bun-burned, masterful young . fellow with a plain, sensible face and a pair of eyes that seemed to Phrosy the kindesl that, she had ever seen made them wel come to his home and was as hospitable as a true Calif ornian always is; and some way Phrosy was shyly conscious, after , the first, that those kiai eyes looked a trifle more kindly upon hei than they did upon some of the more noticeable girls. Phrosy was always one of the useful ones, and when it fell to her lot to oversee the arrangement of the lunch her new acquaintance very quietly dis engaged himself from the others and devoted himself to her assistance, and Ben Miller, looking oa from a dis tance, saw and approved. "Phfosy's worth her weight in gold," he said to. himself, "and Dal ton is just the kind of a 'fellow that she ought to have. I'd give four bits to have it turn out that way.'' That night Plirosy c:me home tired bu radiant John Daiton naa nar- y,coi hh Jiis two-horse team and J jv - i brought part -of the picnickers down -to the village hirnse'if, "j ist to be socia ble," he ha 1 said; and he' had invited her to sftTesido Iiim on the front seat, and he had, moreover, told Ben that he was coming down to play him a game of checkers now and then when the tvenings got a little longer. "What wonder was it that the world seemei rorse-colored to Phrosy? and what wonder was it, that when John atton not waiting for the evenings to , "a v i lengthen perceptibly-mafle his. appear- ance in ner nome auu, ua "'""-'"s friead-J with her mother, proceeded to devote himself especially to that lady's daughter, that she thought hertel f the happiest girl in the world. Only one thing shadowed her heart. Supposing that he should be angry when he found out that the shirts; which still came, through Mrs. Jjnkins, to that mysteri ous "old wemw" were her task, and that he was making love to his washer woman? That fear made her almost cowardly after she began to feel that she was growing to care for this quiet, had never y one else oeiore; anu al though she knew that she must tell him some day, she put that day off as long as possible and grew, girl-fashion, as nervous and feverish and miserable as possible over'her innoc3nt little secret, until .even her mother noticed that Phrosy "was "fretting" as she called it, and wondered thereat. One day, John Dalton brought mat ters to a focus by simply "and seriously asking Phrosy if she could make up her mind to come to him, and let him take care of her as he hai longed to do ever since he first met her. "I think that I fell in love with you at first sig'it," he said, in his" straight forward way, "and ever since then I have been hoping that you would let me make things easier for you some day. Do you care for me enough to be my wife, Phrosy?' Pvor Phrosy! she blmhed and hesi tated and then put out her hands like a frightened child. "I I am afraid I do," she faltered, "but first I mu3t fell you aboutabout the shir ts !'' John Dalton was mystified, but cer tainly there was nothing about shirts that could separate them. He prisoned the pleading hands lovingly and smiled down into her blushing face. 'Never mind the shirts," he said, "Ben must get some one else to do his up for the future; and, as for me, you'll never have any trouble about mine, for there 13 a nice wu wumau wuo uoes mine Up like new you couldn't " get the job away from her if you wanted to, mj dear." Phrosy's face was a sight to see now, between laughing and crying, cmbar- rassment and half-frightentd amuse- ment "Oh, John Dalton 1" she said, pushing him away very feebly, -you'll never want to marry me now, for it isn't "Ben's shirts I am thinking of at all it's yohrs; and I I never meant to deceive youat all, but I wanted a new dress so badly, at first; and then, after wards, it was such an eaiy way to earn a iittic, au4. xu udjju aiuug au. release don't be angry, and pleas3 don't lauh but Tm the 'nice o'.d womui,' John, and I am very sorry i r Phrosy 3Iier is Mn. John Dilton now, and is ai happy ns possible in Lei i . ' , 1 lovely nome, wnere ner mother has grown strong. and well, and where Beu has always a room and plac j of his own. She doesn't "do up t shirts at all now, for the babies caim her attention; but as her husband's linen i J al Ways im maculate it is to be supjOsed that some uiww ijv,t uia n uiuau litis D3en found who gives satisfaction in that line. The HAi$ea) tfo. The Boys Are Attached. Tee L iwreace churches have a system of interchangeab le girls. When one church give3 aa .entertainment cach oi the other churph.es lends a girl or so to help the festivities along. This secures the floating trade of a dozen or so young men who are attached to no church but' who are attached to the girls. Xaw rente' (iTajt.5 JwrnaL ; - -, " - manly, young fellow as she carea.ior au w m I I . A I '4 1 I 1 f viif -w y- - ' ! - A GLASS FACTORY. How the Glass is Melted, Rolled and Blown. Liability ofi the? Workmen to ' Burns and , Blisters. . Entering a gloss factory, the first ob ct which attracts attention is the great central furnaces in which the glass melted. The most unobservant person will haveWiced that ordinary ghwa presents iftelf in three aspecU-1 brown, green and stainless white or flint glass. The former, tints ate due to the presence of W oxide in the sand, chisone of the principal ingredi ents. When colorless glass is desired the iron has to be eliminated, or the color masked by suitable means, and it is a noteworthy fact tfcat a proportion of iron m the sand too small to be in dicated by the most delicate assay wdl impart a distinct hue to glas. Differ ent metallic oxides impart different hues; thus tin or arsenic will, render the product white and opaqul; gold will give a ruby red; copper, . in the formlack oxiJe with a little iron ore, will yield an emerald green prod uct; cobalt-oxide a blue ; manganese a purple; oxide of uranium a yellow, and so on. It follows that where colorless glass is desire! the greatest care has to be taken to insure the me of sand in which the metallic oxides referred to are distinguished by their absence. The furnace takes up quite a lare part of the room in a glass factor is circular in form, to enable the opera tors to approach the pots from air sides. As these melting pots are of lare size (some are 55 inches in diameter) and have to withstand continnmiw Which will Afisiltr t1 . . .. men iiuu or sieei. it followg ftafc have t well-kneaded, tempered an I annealed fire-c'.ay. There is a glorious uncer tainty about the life of a melting pot. It may give way and break up in eight bours or it may last for months. Ia my case the sides wear through and get thin, m the lapse of time, from the ab sorption of the clay iu to the vitrified molten mass within. Just so lono- a . o . good pot can be pa'ched up and forti fied it is kept in use, but when a pot has to be removed, no matter under what cacumstanee3, it means a hot, hard day's work for all hands. The first thing is to dislodfre the broken fragments of the pot, or the whole affair bodily if not broken, by battering-ram blows directed with a gigantic crowbar Into the interior of a furnacs heated like unto that into which Shadrach, Meshech and Abednego were cast in the days of old. When the work is com pleted the new pot, already annealed and heated to whitene.s. has to be placed in position, and as the pot and contents may weigh many fiSiadrei pound, the ordeal is necessarily a severe ane. Burns and blisters are every day occurrences in a glass fictory. It is a busy scene, this interior of a glass factory in full blast. About a hundred hands, men and boys in nearly equal proportions, are employed. First an operator sticks the end of a long iron tube into a glowing white hole and draws the instrument forth with a glistening gelatinous looking mass at the end. He rolls this mass actively for a few moments on a flat slab called a "marver." The marver is placed in a slightly inclined position on a wooden slab, and the rolling of the glass on the surface, easy as it look'', is quite an art. While'the gins is still in the soft, nastv rrmrtitinn ihc onerator blows it slightly and guides the lump into the interior of a mold closed by a treadle blowing it all the time. The trans- 1 j 1 t I formation is almost instantaneous, and I when the nresaure on the treadle is re- leased the tube is withdrawn, with a "full-blown' bottle at the end 01 ir. 1 0 ?i As already remarked, this bottle mould . . A V A OQ TT is an American invention, a"- ing in the case of cheap goods is very great. The bottles are annealed a process of re-hcating and gradual cool- ing and finished off at the ncks, etc., by manipulation at the "g'.ory-holes" Bmailer fu;naces. In another part, of me visitor witnessed the miking of carboys, or the huge jars employed to hold ac:ds and l quorsin bulk, the nnai ,un this instaiice alo boiag given by press ure in-a suitable mold. The carboy, before being taken to the anneaung furnace, dctachei irom rod by a dexterous flip en the eckh j. "t f, whlCll CU" vu. i" knife or a file inW ns II a WIUilV 15 tlCJU'J were mcd. A ilar Periu"" " .,1)ri3fy workman, who, hibited by a neig'i00 r i Z tbe "gathering cf before expand ng 0 . .. . . M,il17 examines 11 molten glass into a caibo,, . . critically to detect flu audiscernibk to .a r- ' n flaw, p,c,cd ou : .u. cj:rjot , tool, just as a : 1 i cfnnC i'1-' rem mas u Chronicle. amp or enerr- dough. -lSan-Fraac'c 1 straisW Tip' Little Brother-Ci'i t J011 walk straight, Mr. 3fansl? Mr. Mncrle Of course I can. Why o - do you ask! ' nothin'; only 1 v Little Brother 0 wak hA she'd niaa' J . A straight when she .marrte ' ma said she a neip . v -hodical. She The hen is -or0ing. lays out her work eve? Old Songs. , ; Over and oyer again, V - In every time and tongur " In every style and strain - ..; ; Have the world's old songs been sung; Since the sigh from the soul was stirred, Since the heart of a man was broken, Have the notes of despair been heard And the rythm of pain been spoken. The sor.t; that you sing today, Sweet on the printed pages, Was sung in the far away, In the'youth of the worn-out ages; The charm of your3love-born tune, The gems that your Unes uncover, "Were set in some savage tune By the heart of some pagan lover. The fancies that fill your rhymes, The visions that haunt your lays", Are the spectres of olden times And the ghosts of forgotten days; Ye players on notes of woe, Ye dreamers of love and sorrow, Tbey sang in the years ago ' Tha songs you will sing to-morrow. But what if the rhymes are new, And what if the thoughts are old, If the touch of the chord be true And the flight of the singer bold! Let them come to us still again, To-morrow and yet hereafter, Fresh as a morning's rain, Old as the sob and the laughter. HUMOROUS. A flourishing man Th-j professor of penmanship. "Are these your paternal estates?" ,lo, they ara my aunt hills." Why not ca'l a ball oon a tramp? It has no visible nuan? of support. First Cucumber Vm in bad shap?. Second Cucumber You do look seedy. The eagle is dear to the American hearjt, but the double cajle is twice as dear. The monkey goes to the sunny side of the tree when he wants a warmer climb. The sentence "Ten dollars or thirty days'' is another proof of the truth of the Adage that tim'j is rmney. Tho Philosophsr at the Boarding bouse 1 -Mrs. Brown, am I so very large today, or is it tli3 slice of bread that is so smiill?'' " ' Yvrtf know men who ins'st at every point upon b' ating. their way through life, but -wo observe that they all draw the line at a ca-por. " Stanley h.n taugit the Africa-issotne-thing about exploration, but he has not taught them how to spell. The names of some of the places he has visited would break a R vssian's jaw. - JIotv the Trout Was Caught. 0?isGoldard of Eist H;ll, walke 1 into Blakesley Ponn., the other day to have his oxen shod. While wait ing lh the blacksm'th shop, the brawny young backwoodsman told this fish &tory, . declaring that Jack IIayner r-fdr a who wassvith-him when. -fee f ,,.1 the trout, would swearWfery word of his statement. Fer months God dard had tried to land a wily old trout that lurked in ono of the deep pools in Tobyhanna Creek. : Hs had angled, he said, with flies, grasshop pers, worms, minnows and other,kinds of bait, but he couldn't get the big trout to notice any of them. He had scen the cunning speckled 'fellow time and again and he wanted him evero much. Oae day in July he caught a little deer mouse in the pasture, and he stuck his hook ihrmgh the loose skin on the mouse's neck and threw it into the pooL It was a lively swimmer, but it tola t swam six leet before the trout gobbled it with a dash that sent, hi snout out of the waier. That was an unfortunate move for the trout, because w thin fiv-j sec onds Goddard had h'm flopping on dry land, with his hat over the fight ing beauty. The trout weighed two pounds and fourteen ounces, Goddard declared. The Triumphs of Surgery. A remarkable instance ,of surgical progress which occurred in1 the practice of Prof, von Bergmann of Berlin the other day is reporled. The Professor had two patients who were simultane ously broug'it to h:m for operations, one requiring amputation of the thigh at the hip joint, the other needing a portion of the humerus removed on ac count of the bene being., extensively diseased. The first operation to be done was the amputation, and imme diately afterwards the surgeon pro C2eded to excise the diseased portion of the humerus. The result of this latter procedure was necessarily to make a gap in the bone, but a piece of the thigh bone was taken from the limb which had just been amputated and fixed in the gap, by whic'.i the con tinuity of the humerus was completely restored. Perfect union took place, and the patent recovered with a useful arm. Pali Mall Gizitts. A Toiie'iin? Episode. . A statue com:r.t in 'rating a touching little episode in the life of tl.c lute Gor man emperor, F.e ler ck, is abmt to be erected at Kaiserslauten. VYaea Fred erick was crown princo he visited oae of the orphan asylums of that town. Among the children wa3 ' a sic'cly and sad-faced little biy. : Frederick noticed him, took him in his arai; and tiereu -' on agreed to become his godfathar. The child, to whom a caress was a stranger, appeared somewhat frigSleied at first. bulrsoon got oyer hw d fliiulty and b:- iran' to til a v with the Prince s . melaU and dscoratioaa. The sta'ne in qaai tion will represent the Princ3 with a baby in his arms, . and the youngttsr tugging at his cordons an I crosses. USEFUL CROWS. Utilized in Omaha as Scavengers and Weather Prophets. Recognition of Their Services by the Authorities. ; An article has been going the rounds of the press regarding the great scav engers of Omaha the crows. The ar ticle is correct but it does noftell one-J half of the peculiarities of the situa tion, The home of the crows, or to put it mre correctly, their roost, is on "the island," a sandbar of some thirty or forty acres located about one mile north of the city. It is cut off from the river by a changa in the channel, jand although on the west side'of the river, it He3 within tha Iowa boundary. This island is covered with a thick un dergrowth and b willow and water birch trees of several years growth. Here the crows have been congregating for a number of years past. During the daytime there are but few to be seen about the island, except a scattering con tingent seemingly left behind to act as sentinels. But from sundown to sunrise there aie thousands upon thousands of thtm on the island, and urttitthe shades of night iinally closj the commotion about the place is exceedingly .grea. As sooii as daylight appears the noise begins again, each particular crow seem ing to clamor his very loudest as if with the object of reducing Ids' neighbor to silence. ; Then as the sun uprears his head over the Iowa bluffs the roost breaks up into small parties of about a score, which start off in all directions to foragS. Some of the crows spend the day. in the back yards and alleys of the city and even in the streets of the quieter parts an I make away with all kinds of edible refuse. In fact, they arc the most careful scavengers the city has, and the local authorities have rec ognized their servictfi in this particular by placing on the statute-books: a law making sacred the life of the crows and upheld ng thuir "caws" in letter as we'd as in spirit. Others tf the crows visit South Omaha with ihe sains intent. . The packing-hou-c there, however, turn out little, refuse, as pretty nearly everything excepting the horns of the steer and the squeal of the pig is utilized on the spot. Other parting of birds invads the sur rounding country for miles around, to come back again at night to their favor ite roosting-place. ; Jir; Hi'.L an old character who lives in a small house on the northern partojt tne island, nas loypd Ai&k h; iufre-f CFt T?h" lS!aersistetft study of srhf' - nabits; and instincts has convinced him that the crow is the most compe tent and reliable weathar prophet in ex istence. Hill told the writer a shor; time ago that he could tellVwhat the weather was going to be twenty-four or forty-eight hours ahead , as easily as though he had the full Signal Service reports. In fact, he says he has surer information than the Signal Ssrvice men,' for they frequantly err, while his crows never fail to tell the truth. "Why," said he, "every time we have a cold east storm you will see these crows rise up iu a body a-id take themselves over the hill yonder into the sheltered Papio valley, and they will rtmaln there until the' back bone of the storm is broken and then come back, tel ing me that clearing weather is at hand. If there is a cold sleet or snow storm com.ng from the west or northwest, they will move across the river and take up quarters on the east side of the Iowa bluffs. The other day, bafore we had ths frost, I noticed the crows fluttering around in a peculiar manner, and just before syaset they moved over to tha sw'amn alon" Cu!-oft lake. I I at once knew that thqre w;.s going to be colder wea'her, . and that the crows were sc-ekin a warmer placj near the water. ' They have plenty of other ways of telling me what to expect in the way of weather, and really I have got so used to them that I would be lost if they were to niovo their qmr ters." The o'.d man is likely, however,! to lose his pets, as the island, which has never been built up, because of the fear that the Missouri river might some day take a notion to return to its old chan cel, is soon to be occupied by railroad yards.' A' Y. Tr iune. A Correct Diagnosis. - It is told of a Pi'tsburg doctor, who savs he can diagaosc ai moats by exam iaing a singh hair of tin pitieir, that two yjung m2j, as a j :;e, took him - a h;hir frou a by h rs-. The doctor wrote ariescription, and said hij fec was 23, as the case w8 precarious. They were staggerc I, but paid the fee, and after they got cut laughed all the way t) the apothecary's: The lat'.er took the pre.criptio.T a-.il read in amaze ment;' "Oae Lushel of oats, fcurquar.s of water, siir v. ell, and give three times a dav, ani turn the animal out fn passl ' Thea the j ,kcr3 stopped l& ing. Od City Biszard. AXevr Version. "Did the animaU.all fall to pieces in the ark? asked T.mmy Tubbs of hi , Sunday-school teacher. v' . f. Tommy," replied the ai tonished teacher. "Why do you ask? 'Because, "answered Tommy, i .lhc .preacher said that Noah and the family ent into the ark and that the animals lime :a VmcLmUciL - - rn FIs Smell and Taste! f , .vision and hearing ia fish beitrg thc senses most important, to tnengier in hi. water sports, th6se next nh value are smell and taste. The possession of these by fish seems to; be a disputed -point. They hayeidently taste in a modified degree, as the will reject th6 artificial lure if the barb cf .the hook is not immediate:yimbeddel in their , flesh; but, on the other hand, the': will take a leather or rubbsr "imitation . of the natural bait with as much gusto ; as a live minnow or bug-p-hence tha t question is a see-saw one. ;-''.; ;, Fish, no doubt, in common with " other animals, have the instinct of dan- ger developed almost to the quality of reason; and it h no bar' to the truth of Ahis to argue that, because a fish will taka the bait with a half doza broken hooks in its mouth, it follows, a brutish appetite that is blind to da ger; for, look you, be ye an nugier or u butchery that stomach of yours is death to you every day of your life; that ,r smoking dish, bo it a red .herring or canvasback duck, is causing you to mako rapid strides grave ward, and you know it; ani yet you gorge yourself every day upon jour favorite dish. It ill- becomes a mm to argue that, because an animal cannot control its appetite, it has not the lordly gift of reason. 10 sum up: Can a fish taste? Certainly he spits out' his artificial bait Can a fish smell? Aye, there's the rub; yet why t'.ie anointed lures so prized by old anglers and many modern ones? ' ; , This fact,' however, is Bun susceptible to anger and jealous we have seen them fight, and know how tiger-like in c -mbat salmo and trout are on their spawning beds- New York Nem. 'Spectacles. Spectacle wearers, cspccia'ly elderly people, frequently imig.nc that specta- . cles with large glasses arc preferable to those with smaller glasses. There is but one advantage in using large glasses, which is. when the spectae'e. fraroc docs not fit the face so tint the centre of the Le iscs do not come oppontc to the pupil of" the ees. Three-quirters of one inch is plenty large enough if fchc lenses are set ia a frame that causes their centres to come opposite to the pupil for the following reason: In the first place, the glasses being small, they can be much thinner, a very decided advantagj ; secondly only about one-quarter of an inch of glass can be used, because we cannot. see dis tJj44hxcoija glass, except we look rifaicht thrtuorh. hence all spectacles and eyeglasses should be worn at the same angle that we generally hold the print or the paper which we are reading or writing.upon; thirdly, a great many rays of light pass from behindover our shoulder, fall on the class, fand are reflected m ,the eye, without having passed through tho glass. . A Wonderful Fish. One of the most wonderful of fishes is thi oae bearing, the nam j of the chi asmodon niger, or the great swallowcr. The body i9 eloigated, of ne.irly uni form thickness most of the length of the fish.. The j twsare very long and fitted with sha-p teeth, some, of which 'see n to be reversible. The m inner of feccTing is torasp a fish by the tail and ' proceed to climb over it with its jaws. ) As the captive is taken in the stain pi and integuniont stretch out, the (ended stomach appears a a great The fish, will swallow another one or twelve times his own size, rapacity proves his own destrd sometimes, as the gas formed by process of digestion makei a ballo hi9 stomach that brings the fiih t surface. " As his habitat is suppo- be 1500 feet below the surfaced the only way he came to b3 intr to the public, through tli3 thre mens now on exhibi ioa in thrf urns. The February Flower. There is a pretty litilj wild common to O.eon "and Waf that blooms mich earlier tj other. It is called he 1 .ower." This interostinfr 0 - put, 1uri.11 11s pretty uui early in February, ani in sunf it often anticipates that time, in January. It is found abu that region, but, like the lovf ' of the East, seem somswhar in its choice of a home, la" i.'S being literally carpeted witb ile others near, and seeming eqi' able, present not a single sp Keeping Up With the th0 Freddie E. agel five, O j, habit of ea ing his food 1 tue Repeated scolding failed habit, F-. nalty his mothf t so "Fieddie, fast? ' vhat m&ki with- With a ' ul of ft out stopping for an inst4mam: A $ i r t tic .tory operations, the b!cd : urnm "'Tause I want to s nex t." Detroit TrilunA HeSaTed Himscj .ilaI know I amnj ycti, Erastu. J have Will yotj marry met; Erastus Yes, darli 'ryyou ' .i think if you were tw.ee as vou ara. dt kaauiuo i rfJ V i N
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Jan. 23, 1890, edition 1
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