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I'll Not Confer With Sorrow, ' " I'U not confer with sorrow - , :'v- Till tomorrow ; t 9- But joy shall have her way jr-".-' This very day. So, eglantine and cresgea For her tresses ! '' Let care, the beggar, wait . Outside the gate. ' Tears if you will but after Mirth and laughter ; Then, folded hands on breasfc And endless rest. THE OLD SILVER WATCH ' Charles Eames stepped into the office -f his friend Bowle3, editor of the GlenVville Courant. . "How arc you, Karnes ?' asked the editor. - ' "I ought to feel happy, I suppose," said the young man, a little ruefully, "for Pvc just received notice of a legacy." , "Indeed,-1 congratulate you." : "Wait till you hear what it is." V'Well, what is it?" "My aunt Martha has just died, leav ing fifty thousand dollars." To you? I congratulate you heartily." "No ; she leaves it to a public in stitution. She leaves me only her silver watch r which she has carried for forty years." ; "How is that?" '-Shejlidn't Jipprovo of my becom ing an artist. She wished me to be a merchant. If I had consulted her melius, J. aiiuuiu, uuuuinaa, iiaYC uucu her sole heir. . This email legacy is meant more as an " aggravation than anything else." ; . "But you can make your own way." "I can earn a "scanty living at pres tmt. I hope to do better by and by. But you know my admiration for Mary Brooks If I had been Aunt Martha's sole heir, I could have gained, her father's consent to . our marriage. Now it is hopeless." '1 am not so sure of that. This legacy may help youl" "An old watch? You arc joking." i-'Not if you will strictly observe my directions." "What are they?" V - ; "Simply this: Agree for one calen- "- tier month not to mention or convey the least idea of the nature of your aunt's legacy.' I will manage the rest.' "I don't at all know what -you mean, Bqwles," said the young artist; 'but I am in your hands." ; "That is alkl wish. " Now remember to express surprise at nothing; but let matters take their course." 4 J for manv 5James is re- lorted to h& yt fifty thousid dol-1 lare." "Really," thought the von., w" anybody would naturally suppose paragraph that I had inheri- icu my uuuryi . Jm . yr. He put on his 7h$&ld dow& the street. He met EzekieT:QQs, president of the Glenville National Bank. ; Mr. Brooks beamed with cordiality. "My dear sir, permit me to con gratulate you," he said. "You have5 read the Courant?" said Hames. ? ,'Yes' and I am delighted to hear of i iionfii'iv ." your good fortune. Can I 'speak 'to vou on -business a moment?" v "Certainly, Mr. Brooks." "YchiLll excuse my advice, but 1 know yoiisxpiiot a business man, while I am. My .young man, do -you" want to make some t money?" "Certainly, I should be glad to do o." , i 'James Parker has five hundred shares of the Wimbledon Railway. It stands at fifty-six, a figure much be low its real value. But Parker is nervous, and 'wants ' to sell out. I want you to buy out his entire stock." "But Mr. Brooks" "I know what you would say. It may go down but it won't. 1 have advices that a speedy rise is almost pertain. Buy him out, and you'll j&ake a handsome thin of it. rBnt how shall Liind the money?'' VOf course vou haven't received yolr legacy yet. I know there are de lays. No trouble about that. Give your note on ninety days, and I'll in dorse it. You 11 sell out before that lime at a handsome advance." "I will place myself in your hands Mr. Brooks, but you must manage the business." "Certainly; I shall only want your signature when the documents are made out. By the by, come round and dine with us, or have you another engagement?" i Another engagement? If Eames r.ad had fifty engagements he would have broken them all for the privilege "of meetincr Mary Brooks. This was Ite first time he had been invited to the "capitalist's table- The fact is, nntil this morning Mr. Brooks had scarcely vouchsafed him more than' a cool nod on meeting ; but had changed, or appeared tof and his behavior al TV. f i.-. tered with it. Such is the way of the world I v It was a very pleasant dinner. The young artist remained afterwards. "I have an engagement, Mr. Eame3," said Mr. Brooks, 11 a, meeting of the Bank Directors, but you mustn't go away, Mary will entertain you." j The young man did not go away, and apparently was satisfied by the en tertainment he received. He blessed his aunt for her legacy, if only it had procured him this afternoon's inter view with the young lady he; had ad mired. But it gained him more. Every four days he received a similar invitation. He could not fail to see that Ezekiel Brooks looked with evi dent complacency on the good under standing between his daughter and himself. j "What will he say?" thought the young man, "when he finds out what sort of a legacy I have received from my aunt?" J Occasionally, too, he felt nervous about his hasty assent to the proposi tion to buy 400 shares of railroad stock at 56, when he hadn't. $50 ahead. He reckoned up, one day what" his' pur chase would amount to, and; his breath was nearly taken away when he found it amounted to twenty-eight thousand dollars! Still, it had been in a man ner forced upon him. He asked no questions, but every now and then the old gentleman said, "All going well! Stock advancing rapidly." j "With that he was content. Indeed; ho was so carried away by love of Mary Brooks that he gave little thought to any other subject. One day Mr. Brooks came up, his face beaming with joy. "Wish you joy, Eamesj," he said, "Wimbledon's gone up like a rocket to par. Give me authority, and I'll sell out for you." The artist , did .so, hardly realizing what it meant till three days' after, he received a little note to thisi effect : I Dear Eames : Have sold out Your five hundred shares of Wimb'edon at 101. So you bought at 55. This gives you a clear profit of forty-five dollars per share, or twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars: You had better reinvest your surplus. Call at my office at once. Yours vejry truly, Ezekkl Brooks. Charles Eames read thisj letter three times before he could realize its mean ing. Could it be that without invest-, ing a cent, he bad male oveT .'twenty ; thousand dollars? It must be a dream, he thought. j But when he called at the old gentleman's office, he found it was really true. "Mr. Eames, how about his money? Shall I re-invest it for you?" "Thank you, sir. I wish you would. I should like a little in hand, however." j "Certainly. What will answer?" and the old gentleman wrote a cheque for five hundred, dollars, and placed it in the young man's hand. It was more money than -he had ever before possessed at one time. vThis was" convincing, proof of the reality of his good fortune. The! next day he went tpj the city and ordered a handsome suit Of clothes a a fashionable tailor's. The fact was his old coat was" getting threadbare, and his" overcoat decidedly seedy. Whjfle he was about it he bought a hew Ucbat and boots, as well as iother needed articles, and etill returned with money enough in his pocket to make him feel rich. He changed his boarding-house, engaging a handsome room at a much nicer boarding-house. "It seems to me you are dashing out, Eames," said his friend tie editor. "You know I've had aijcgaey," said Eames, laughing. "I begin to think you have," said the editor. When Eames appeared on the street in his new suit it was a confirmation of the news of removal to a his inheritance.' His fashionable boarding- i i ,i t r i nn.,ni:n i f liwusc was auuniuiiai tumn uiaiiun. xi was wonderful how he ipse in the es timation of people who had before looked upon him as a shiftless artist. AH fit onco it occurred to him. "Why shouldn't I propose for Mary Brooks? With twenty thousand dol lars I could certainly support her com fortably. There was k very pretty cottage, and tasteful grounds, for sale at five thousand dollars J This would make a charming home. One morning with considerable trepidation, young Eame3 broached the Bubject to Mr. Brooks. "Xo one I snould like better tor a son-in-law, if Mary is willing," was the prompt answer. Mary was willing, and as there seemed no good reason for waiting. the marriage took place within a few weeks. "Charles," said his I father-in-law, after the young people; returned from their wedding journey, "it is time for me to render vou an account of vour money affairs. I have been lucky in my investments, and I have thirty-one thousand dollars to your credit, or de- ducting the amount paid for your house, twenty-six thousand dollars. By the way, have you received your aunt?s bequest?" "I receiyjed it 3;csterdav,'' eaid Charles. "Indeed!" "Here it is," 6aid the young man, and he produced a battered silver watch. "Do you mean to Bay this is all she left vou?" asked hiis , father-in-law, stupefied. ' Yes, sir." ; Ezekiel Brooks whistled in shee amazement, and his countenance fell. For a moment he regretted his daugh ter's marriage, but then came the thought that his son-in-law, through a lucky mistake, was really the posses sor of quite a comfortable property which under his management might be increased. So he submitted with a good grace, and is on the best of terms with his daughter's husband, who is now in Italy with his wife, pursuing a course of artistic study. He treas ures carefully the old watch, which he regards as the foundation of his ."prosperity.-Yankee' Blade. ; A Famous Goose. An interesting relic is preserved in a glass case in the Coldstream Guards' orderly room at Whitehall. It consists of the head and neck of a goose, around which is a golden collar with the inscription "Jacob-Secoud Battal ion Coldstream Guards." Beneath it are the words: "Died on Duty." In 1838 a rebellion broke out in our Canadian possessions and two battal ions of the Guards were sent thither to assist in quelling it, the battalion already meutioned being one of them. Both corps occupied the citadel of Quebec, and in their turn supplied the guards which were ordered to be mounted in different parts of the town neighborhood. Near one of these guards was a farmyard which had suffered much from the ravages of foxes animals were at that period a great pest to the colonists; and as the farm in question had been suspected of being the meeting place of rebels, a chain of sentries was placed around it. . - . One day the sentry whose duty it was to watch the entrance to the farm had his attention attracted by an un usual noise, and on looking toward the spot whence it proceeded, he be held a fine goose fleeing .toward him, closely pursued by a. fox. I lis first im pulse was to have a shot at the lalter, but this would have alarmed- the guard and brought condign punish ment on himself for giving a false alarm. He was compelled, therefore, to remain a silent spectator of the scene, while every step brought the Reynard nearer to hisprey. In the height of its despair the poor bird ran its head and neck between the legs of the soldier in itp frantic en deavor to reach the refuge which the sentry-box could affovd, and at the same moment the wily fox made a desperate grab at the gooe, but too late, for ere he coul(Tget1a feather be tween his teeth, the ready bayonet of the sentinel had r-assed through its body. The poorgoF, by way of showing its gratitude, ) preserver, rubbed its head 'ag-J f his legs, and made other equal! urious demonstrations of joy ; nor yild it ever be prevailed upon to quit fee post, but walked upi and down dijfter day with each suc cessive sentry that was placed there until the battalion left Canada, when the goose as bipught away with it as a regimental pe to England. Cham ber's Journal. An Old lok Maker. Hiram Camp, president of the "New Haven (Conn.) Clock: Company, has been in the clock-maf.insr business for over sixty years, all the time with one concern. He probably knows more about the history of clock manufacture in this country than any other man in the Nutmeg State, which gave birth to the business a hundred years ago, and has monopolized it to a great extent ever since. In the days of wooden clocks tire manufacturers made up a few at a time and peddled them through the country, and the filling of an ordr for a hundred clocks would have been considered the work of an ordinary lifetime. Now the companies in Con necticut and other parts of the country turn out over two million clocks a year. Warm Salt Baths are Refreshing. A warm salt bath is very refreshing,' to any one suffering from the exhaus tion of travel or of a long shopping expedition which is as trying to mind and body as anything that can be undertaken by a woman. Away from the seashore a very simple sub- stitute for sea-water is a cup of rock- salt dissolved in warm water and added to the bath. When the salt is irritating to the skin take a warm bath and spohge off with a mixture of violet or lavender water and alcohol, about half and half, and rub briskly with a warm fric ion towel. Such a method prevents the exhaustion and danger-of cold which follows a warm bath. Ten Cents a Bay Without Board. California miners who have returned from China declare that the Jig in mines, of the richnessf which many surprising stones have been told, are ordinary quartz mines. They arc all operated by Chinese, who have learned front fore?gn miners how lo run - stamp-mills. The ore runs from $25 to $50. The price paid for labor is ten cents per day without board. New York Tribune. Privation. , Mr. Phileas Fogg (in the west). I suppose you meet with a good many hardships out here on the plains? Lariat Luke. Hardships? I should ;sav so ! V hy, pard, I've sometime been obliged to chaw smokiu ter-' backer! Puck. A SHIP'S LARDER. THE MOUNTAINS OF FOOD USED ON AN OCEAN STEAMER. Beef, Butter, Bread and Vegetables by the Ton. . In the busy season the City of Paris carries about 550 first cabin, 250 sec ond cabin and 650 6teerage passen gers. There are 400 in the ship's company, including doctors, printers, boiler makers, six bakers, three butch cooks, hydraulic, elec ers, seventeen trical and other ensr5crs to the num ber of thirty-tivo, 148 stewards and eight stewardesses. So there may be about 1,850 aboard. . Notwithstanding the fact that many of the passengers are seasick from the time they pad Sandy Hook until Fast net is sighted,! they manage to con sume in one trip something like 13,000 pounds of fresh beef, 3,000 pounds of corned beef, 4,000 pounds of mutton, 1,000 poundsj of lamb, 2,000 pounds of veal and pork, 15,000 . pounds of bacon, 500 pounds of liver, tripe, and sausages, 200 J hams, 300 pounds of fish, 20,000 eggs, 17 tons of potatoes, 3 tons of other vegetables, 3,G0O pounds of butjer, COO pounds of cheese, GOO pounds Of coflec, 350 pounds of tea, 100 pounds of icing sugar, 150 pounds of powdered sugar, 670 pounds of loafsugar, 3,000 pounds of moist sugar, 700 pounds of salt, 200 pounds of nuts, 560 pounds of dried fruit, 20 barrels of 'apples, 3,600 lemons, 20 cases of oranges and other green fruit in season 30l0 bottles of pickles, 150 bottles of ketchup, sauce, and horse radish, anl lj)0 cans of presei vcs. There are also quantifies of poultry, oysters, sardines, canned vegetables, and soups, vinegar, pepper, mustard, curry, rice, tapioca, sago, hominy, oat meal, . molasses, condensed milk, "tinned" Boston beans, confectionery and ice creanji. Fifty pounds of ice cream are served at a .single meal in the first cabin. Thirty ton ji. -of ice are required to keep the great storerooms cool. Eight barrels of flour are used dailv. The bakers are busy from dawn of day. They make- 4000 delicious Parker House rolls i-or breakfast every morn ing. Thirty eight-pound loaves of white bread jind 100 pounds of brown bread are baked each day ; also pies, puddings, cakes, etc. Eight barrels of common crackers and a hundred tins of fancy crackers are stowed away in the storeroom, to gether with 100 pounds of wine and plum cake, not a crumb of winch is left when Liverpool is reached. Six thousand boltles of ale and jortt-r4,-200 bottles f -mineral waters, 1 D0 oocues ox wine, ana more or ardent spirits are drunk inside days by the guests oftbiJmgi ing hotel. AboutJooo cigar!, on board, but many more are sm&jtedf Two hundred pounds of toilet soip is supplied by -the steamship company. One of the odd sights to be seeh 6n the double-decked lnman pier pon after the arrival of the "queen of the ocean greyhounds" is the great e tacks of soiled linfen which are being assorted by about a dozen stewards. Here is the wash lisjt for a single trip : Nap kins, 8300; tablecloths, 180; sheets, ."600; pillow cases, 4400 ; towels, 16,- 200. and doizens of blankets and coun- terpanes ivithoimh the list is very short, it red uires four !an?e two-horse trucks to carry the wash to the lnman Company's steam laundry in Jersey City. In less than a week it is back in the, lockers ibf the linen rooms, which are in charge of a regular linen keeper. There is no Avashing done aboard. Many of the ship's company have their washing done in New York, but the orcater number have it done in Liver pool. Pcav York Sun. A )iamond-Set Tooth. A short Lime ago a lady with a bad ly decayed upper lateral incisor en tered a H. Paul (Minn.) dentist's office, and, after examination, the doc tor informed her that the only means . of saving j;he tooth would be to sub stitute a gold crown. In a joking way he referred to the diamond story, and laughingly suggested that there was anexc2iient opportunity 10 iry me ex periment in her case. To his surprise his patien, who proved to be an ac tress, assented. Dr. Ellis procurred a small-sized brilliant, and embedded it in the gold crown which he built on the remains of the natural predecessor. The actress is delighted with the re tnlt, and declares that the next gem inserted shall be a carat in weight. The stone is rot conspicuous, and might escape notice altogether, a though a jray of artificial light makes it sparkle in a way likely to arouse curiosity.! The actress is the nearest actual approach to the little girl in the fairy stoiry from whose mouth gems dromoed (whenever she spoke. It is 1 1 . . hardly probable that any euch fashion will become general, although an in spection jof the jewelled incisor shows that the effect is far less startling than would be expected. Pioneer Fres Heetingr His Indebtedness. Creditor May I ask whether you ever expect to meet your indebtedness? Hardup Meet it? Why, grea Scott, man, I meet it every time I go into the street 1 Don't you throw it into my .face often enough? Bazar, j - 3SS oi x ; v HistorVof the GaUows. Evidently thff stout arm of a tree served as the jforimitivo gallows, and such was in se at a very early period in man's history. In the book of Esther wc' read that Hainan was hanged on the tree that had been pre pared for Mordecai. In more recent times,in ancient ballads and accounts of the gallows, references are made to the "fatal tree," the "gallows tree," the "triple tree," "Tyburn tree," etc. A tree was not, however, always conveniently placed to convert it into a gallows, and thus the introduction Of the simple construction, consisting of two upright posts and a transverse beam, -the principle of which has not been materially altered from its fiist introduction. The gallows at times differed in height, which was increased in accord ance with the hcinousnessof the crime of the culprit. These elevated erec tions were made use of at the execu tions of the regicides in the seven teenth ccnlury, and thus it was that long ladders were required in carrying out the last extremities of the law. When ladders were used the execu tioner mounted one and the culprit the other. The rope having been adjusted to the cross-be-m, the executioner would descend and remove his ladder, leaving the condemned wretch on the other, engaged in his last appeals for mere)'. These prayers were at times exceedingly prolonged, after finishing which the miserable wretch was ex pected to throw himself off the ladder and thus to a certain extent become his own cxeciftioner. 1 Courage, however, would often fail at the last moment, and his prayer would be continued for a long time. When it was evident that the culprit was praying against time, the executioner would stealthily reach the ladder on which he stood and over throw it, and the body would conse quently then be swinging in the throes and 8gonies of death. At one period it was customary to carry out the exe cution of a criminal as near as possible to the spot where the crime for which he suffered w. s committed. Fortune in a Toy. George D. Smith, at present pro- pi ietor of one of the best-known restaurants in Xcw York city, has had an eruptive money-making career. Twenty years ago he smarted in Chica go with a good capital, but no busi ness experience. Two ycai3 later some occ else had the capital and Mr. Smith had learned something about business. j Mr. Smith, when almost at the end of his financial rope, invented the street toy called "Bazouk," which sold at the rate of 50,000 a day when at the height of its popularity. "Mr. Smith cleared $50,000 in a few months out, of this tov. - """ - - , I, " . - . derrveu an i n come oi, $ zowvw;: gale. The restaurant that he started on the profits of the "Bazouk" now nets him $50,000 a year. John Brisben Walker, the million aire magazine proprietor, tried a dozen different roads to wealth with out succors, until as a last resource he went to Colorado, and securing a ranch began to grow "alfalfa" grass on a large scale. The alfalfa netted him large suras, which he invested in West ern lands, which have since made him a millionaire. A. B. de Frcce gained independent wealth as easily as rolling off the tra ditional log. Mr. de Frcce has . a national reputation, won by his suc cessful management of all the large., fairs which have taken place in this city during the past five years. Mr. Yece some years ago was in the wholesale button, business. lie in vented a peculiar style of button which, iii addition to giving him a good sized fortune, brings him in an annual income of many thousands. Xew York Journal. ; Woods that Sink in Water. There are 413 species of trees found within the limits of the United Stales- and territories, sixteen of which, when perfectly seasoned, will sink in Avater. The heaviest of these is the black iron- wood found only in southern Florida, which is more than T0 per cent, heavier than water. Of the other fifteen, the best known is the lignum vita?, and the mangrove. Texas and New Mexico, lands full of queer .creeping, crawling, walking and inanimate things, are tho homes of a species of oak which is about one and one-fourth times heavier than water, and which, when green, will sink almost as quick as a bar of iron. It grows onlv in mountain re gions, and has been found westward as far as the Colorado desert, where it grows at an elevation of 10,000 fet. All the species heavier than water be long to tropical Florida, or in tho wast and southwest. fCommercial Advef User. v An Emperor Shoots Capercailzie. Emperor Frarcis Joseph of Austria has been caperca:lzie shooting. He began to shoot capercailrie forty years ago, and since that time His Majesty has killed G45 of them. He has bagged fifty-six woodcock during his sporting career. Most American citizens know what woodcock is, but nine out of ten of them will have to plunge into the dictionary to ascertain what kind of a creature a capercailzie is. Xew York World. NAVAL FLAGS. THE GOVERNMENT FACTORY FOR MAKING PENNANTS. - Busily Bespangling Our Banner With lour New Stars. Visitors, reporters and others who attended the McCalla court martial at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, had their attention attracted by great piles of brilliant hued bunting, either spread on the floor or heaped up on the tables of a room just across the hall from the one used by the court martial. It is in this room and the adjoining one that all the flags used in the United States Xavy are manufactured. In the first room, flags are measured, cut and designed, and in the second the work of embroidering and putting them together is carried on. Just now an unusually large force is hard at work, as .all the old flags, which contain but 138 stars, will give way to new ones, to which have been added four more stars, representing the four new states. The new flags are being made under special' orders from the Bureau of Construction and Equipment. The flags that are in a good slate of preservation will not be destroyed, but a . new jack, containing the additional stars, will take the place of the old one. Xot only are United States flags and pennants made at the Brooklyn Navy yard, but the flags and emblems of every nation in the world are also made there. Every United States man-of-war when hhc goes abroad carries with her the colors of every nation that she is about to visit. This is done in order that she may be able to raie the colors of every distinguished foreigner who may come aboard. The flags and pennants of nearly all o'.her countries are more expensive than those of the United States. This is largely due to the intricate devices on foreign flags, such as coats-of-arms. On many flags these devices arc cither painted or slamped on the flag. Xot so, however, with the flags manu factured under the supervision of the United States. -On such flags all de vices are embroidered by hand, and as many of them are intricate to work, they add not a little to the cost. Some of the designs are very handsome, and require no small amount of skill to finish in an artistic manner. There is no embroidery of any kind on the regular Union Jack, but the flags of the ' President of the United Stajtes, the Secretary of the Xavy and theAduiiral are all decorated. 'Pie naval flags of the United States consist of about 30 different designs, including the signal code of our navy and the international signal code. All the work is done by women, ex ' A jike-hsh m water over fifteen, ft cept the cutting and roping. In orJ- ;ji&. . , " , , essary, as on this depends o nnix correct nang or tne nag ana tne swi-M it will have when carried by the breeze, but the wearing quality of the flag will be in a largo measure cur tailed if it is not properly cut. That is, if the material is not cut in a cer tain way, the flag will soon wear or flap itself to pieces. -The largest United States ft g made at the Navy Yard, is 30 feet long and 19 feet wide. The pennants are made in four different sizes for vessels and two for boatp. The former are 70, 40, 25 and 20 feet in length, while- the latter are six and nine feet. One of the curiosities at the yard is what is known as a homeward bound pennant over 400 feet in length. Peo ple who were down the . bay the day of the naval parade will remember that the Boston flew from her mast an enormous pennant. -When a man-of-war goes on a cruise vdiich promises to be a long one, her quartermaster carefully preserves what is knowu as the tale of each pennant which has become too much worn, for further use. These tails are sewed to gether, and the longer the pennant thus made, the greater the length of time it" indicates that the vessel has been at service. It mav be imagined with what feel- ings of pride, tailors, watch a 400-foot pennant flying from the mast as the ship plows her way homeward. The pennant now in the Navy Yard was taken from the Lancaster after her long cruise several years ago. X. Y. News. An Enormous Chain. The big chain that was used in rais ing the-steamer Armstrong was made by the British government for the pur pose of blockading the harbor in the Crimean war. It was sent out to Que bec, Canada, by' the British admiralty, many years ago, to be sold for what it would bring. tSonie idea of its size and strength may be conveyed by the fact that each link of this great chain weighs G8 pounds, and is supposed to have a breakage capacity of 125 tons. Xew lork Press. o Time for Small Finances. Collector Please announce to Pro fessor Penny that I have called in re gard to a little bill that has been run ning. for four months. Servant I'm sorry to inform you, 6ir, that the professor is engaged on an article on "What to Do with the- Surplus," and cannot be disturbed. Munsey's Weekly, The Man Who Heard It Before j Vou tell him a joke you relied on as new, . He smiles in a wearisome way, From a comedy new you recite him a bit, He says he saw that at the play. You give him a story that never yet failed To set all who heard In a roar; He nods half approval and turns him away, And murmurs, "I've heard it before.'? The girl whom you'woo In your tenderest . tone, Whose heart you are seeking to.gain, Listens coldly to all you may have to pro t ' test, . . j Seeming only to wish you'd refrain. You seek for some phrase not totally trite, And e'en the thesaurus explore, . L ts all of no use, and you bid her srood-by Yu see she has heard it before. How sad it must b'e to go onward like this,. With nothing ou earth, to enjoy, And never make anyone happy yourself And only find thingl to annoy. His life like an orange whose juices arc gone,. 'Tis a dry, etn,pty shell, and nolnore. Alas! he is mifch to be pitied, Jiot blamed The man who has heard it before. Washington Post. HUMOROUS. - A walking match The living skele ton. : ; Deer are not the bravest of animals, yet they always die game. loney talks, sure enough, and peo ple are generally willing to listen to it, too. Gladstone, though not monarch of the forest, is a fell destroyer among trees. The poet's expression, ''Had I the wings of a dove," was no doubt merely a flight of fancy. Customer Is it customary to fee the waiter here? Waiter Yes, sir. Cus tomerThen hand over your fee. I've waited for you nearly an hour. 'Is that cement ny good?" asked a prospective purchaser of a peddler. "Any -good?"' was the reply. "Why, you could mend the break of day with that cement."' It would be an awful strain on a man to be polite through all the worri ments of business if he were not cou soled by the prospect of getting even after going home. Mr. Phunnyman (looking upfroni his paper) "Another cashier with the deposits." .Mrs. Pliunnyman "What was the sum?" Mr. P- "lle wasn't satisfied with some ho took everything." AT. TK CE. The lamb's inside the lion, Fierce wars and wrangling cease, The cat sleeps on the bootjack, And all the wofld is peace. Valuable Hints to Fishermen. Clarence Deming, in a recent article, gives some valuable hints lo fishermen as regards the weather question. lie says that Avhen fishing for trout in swift or rippling waters the weather makes little difference unless it rains. Xor does cloudy weather aid one -.to lSdM 4c0W for this aeeper Ashing, ing, almost as timely as a ciouay one for lake fishing, or for the usually crel the wind-beaten water is tlrt bet . of air whether the day is bright or not. If you happen to know where a large, timid, and sly trout lies in still water,' your time of all others for taking him is during a hard rain which beats the water and prevents the - finny ariitd crat from cither seeing you or feeling the jar of your approach. Alligators to be Protertid. Fashion's mandate t'. at purses, reti cules, traveling bags ami footwear must be made of alligator hide has made alligator hunting an industry in jjoiusiana ana norma, '.ami inc. mon sters are rapidly being eitci ininated. So marked has been this destruction.,- that the Police Jury of Plaquemines Parish, La., have been compelled to prohibit the farther killing. ' It seems that alligatora feed largely on musk- rats, and since the lessening of tin number of the former the rats have increased enormously, and have se riously damaged crop-. The jury pro hibits the killing of alligators in the bayous, marshes, canals or on any portion of the land or body of water J under the peniltv of 2o line and im- pnsonmcnt of not moro than one month for each ofi'en3e Times. Xew York Coffee Making by. Electricity. At a certain Berlin cafe the lighting and ventilation are f fleeted. by means of electricity. In the centre of ths room there are several large glass jar through which passes a platinum wiro " n spiral form. The electricity, on heating the wire, speedily raises Uic temperature of the water in the jars to boiling point and prepares the coffeem the sight- of -.everybody. Lastly, a small electric rail way transmits the cAJt.c to the various tauic3, so that the guCfts may help themselves -to -their liking. A Unique Barometer. An old Belfast (Mc.) sea captain' is credited with-devisinsr a unicr.ie ba- iuuicici. At con bis is -v.'. Urip Ol white pine with a numberOl cross pieces upon it. This is hung on the side of the building, and when damp weather is approaching the barometer bulges out in the centre, while in dry weather the centre 6inks in and the ends come out. , - gone
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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July 3, 1890, edition 1
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