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THE JOURNAL. 'aylorsvillc! A man. with an artificial face has besa attracting Bunch attention at aa 5i$laak rrcateriiis place. Ee had aa artifcial icheek, eye and palate,tted -by a surgeoa of Bristol. Ee eats without the sEghtert fdifScultji and speaks distinctly T V The metric system is slowly, but surely, becoming established throughout the civilized world. The English-speaking countries, however, are slower in adopt ing it than those of other lands, and, in our own country there is as yet compara tively little use of the system- excepting in scientific circles. That it is extend ing, however, is shown by figures pre sented at a recent meeting of the French Academy of Science. Countries repre senting 302,000,000 of people have adopted it a gain of 53,000,000 in 3ars. - en IThe ISTew York Journal of r Commere, iwhich favors industrial schools, says : of :ihose institutions : 1 They might well bs ifounded and conducted at t the expense jof the several trades. It would pay enor inousiy to the trades if they had schools (io "which girls and boys were educated for iVh laTvir in insp trfdp The TPPTllaT jcoorse to the door of any industry, any fjvorkshoD. would be through a school. iThe result of such a system would be a constant supply of skilled workmen, any one of whom at the age of eighteen would earn higher wages for himself and more profit for his employer than is now earned J by the average workman of forty. In jdustrial education instead of the present diffuse, inapplicable and useless sort of icducetion would thus be a blessing to the laborers and the laboring classes first, to the capitalists and employers next, and so to the whole community. And the la ."borer who" had been educated to his trade jand had pursued it conscientiously would be infinitely better fitted to represent hi3 ifellow-citizens at the Capitol than are mine-tenths of the men now sent" to Legis latures and Conarress. One educated, skilled, and able mechanic is worth more io his "country than a hundred half-edu-jcated lawyers, physicians or other pro fessional mn.,, , The Providence Journal oDrserves tnat 'the petition for the coinage of a half cent piece, which is being prepared for presentation to the-next Congress, may not be supported by any urgent necessity, tut it eannot be denied that the request has some elements of reason. It may be said, of course, that we have tried this thing once and gave it up, and it is quite true that the old half-cent, begun to be coined in 1792, was discontinued in 1857 without any remonstrance from the people. . But though the people ap- parenxiy conseuieu iu iw uiituuimucuic, they have gone on persistently xecog- Bizing in trade the half-cent value, anditj may well be argued that values which play a considerable part in business deal ings ought to be represented in a com bination of coins. A half -cent certainly be a great convenience in many jdnds of business, and it might do some thing toward promoting the exercise of economy. Indeed the tendency of narrowing profits, which is everywhere easily traceable, must mean -the more j general use cf the smaller fractional coins ; and it would not be surprising if the half eent should before Aong come into com mon demand for the same reasons that have brought the one and two-cent pieces into use in sections of the country :where until very recently they were . Some interesting statements regarding, ihe extension of thearea of , cultivated land in the United States are presented in a recent report of the statistician of the Department of Agriculture, says Brad street's. It appears that the . area under the four principal arable crops corn, wheat, oats and cotton increased from 12S,000,000 acres in 1879 to 159,000, C00 acres in 1S85. This represents an xpansion in nine years of the area under these crops of 31,000,000 acres, or an ex tent of land more than equaling the en tire area of the three northern New England States. The increase'; in the area under corn, oat3 and , cotton is greater than the total area of the State of Ohio. This striking result leads the statistician to make the further calcula tion that if the increase in all tilled and grass land has been in the same propor tion as that in the four crops mentioned, we have now a total area of improved lands in farms of 356,000,000 acres, ps compared with 285,000,000 acres -in 187S, or an increase almost equal to the total surface area of New England, New York and New Jersey, equaling the entire area of improved land in 18S0 to Ahe eleven cotton States, with the addition of Delaware and Marvland. The figures of the coming census dealing with the agricultural area should present some in teresting comparisons last census year. t. with these cf THE OLD CANOE. fkre the roeis are gray aad the shcra 1? steep, AbA the waters below look dark and deep; Where the rugged pine, in its lonely pride, Leans gloomily over the murky tide; Where the reeds and rushes jure.Ioug and And the weeds grow thick on ' the winding bank; h 'J.i-S- ' Where the shadow is heavy" the ykole day '' through, ' ''".'; -. '''.;. '.""' ( There lies at it3 mooring the old canoe. The useless paddles are idly dropped, like a sea-bird's wings that the storm ' has lopped, " ' ? r And crossed on the railing:; OTJS 'er Like the folded hands when the work ii done, While busily back and forth between ; ,;, The spider stretches his silvery screen, And the solemn owl with- the dull "too- v.-hoo," . . i Settles down on the side of the old canoe. The stern half sunk in the slimy wave. Rots slowly away in its living grave, And the green moss creeps o'er its dull decay, Hiding its moldering dust away, Like the hand that plants o'er the tomb a flower, ; Or the ivy that mantles the falling tower; While many a blossom of loveliest hue Springs up o'er the stent of the old canoet The currentless waters are dead and still, But the twilight wind plays with the boat at will, And lazily in and out again It floats the length of the lusty ehain. Like the weary march of the hands of time, That meet and part at the noontide chime, And the shore is kissed at each turn anew, 3y the dripping bow, of the old canoe. Oh ! many a time with careless hand, I have pushed it away from the pebbly strand. And paddled it down where, the stream runs ' quick, Where the whirls are wild and tha eddies thick, And laughed as I leaned o'er the rocking side, - And looked below in the broken tide, To see that the faces and boats were two, That were mirrowed back from the old canoe. ' But, now as I lean o'er the crumbling side, And look below in the sluggish tide, -The face that I see there is graver grown, ' All the laugh that I hear has a soberer tcne, " And the hands that lent to the light skiff wings ' Have grown familiar with sterner things, But I love to think of the hours that sped As I rocked where the whirls th?ir whit 3 spray shed ' " ' '- crenne oiossom waved or the' grew O'er the moldering stern of the eld canoa. MATTIES CHOICE. If any one had hinted to pretty Mattie Vo61ston that she would ever figure as a i heroine in a story,she would have opened her brown eyes wide in amazement. She was the only child of good old Dr. Wool ston, of Greyport, a thriving town in Yorkshire, and in the circle of local so ciety was considered at once a belle and an heiress. Hair and eyes the color of a chestnut when first the burr uncloses, a complexion as soft as satin and white as milk, with the prettiest rose tint of color on the round cheeks white, even teeth 'g'raGef ul;were atfrac. ftions in appearance of the village beauty. -muu vxhjcc viiu &.uew ooision well were wont to say that her pretty f figure were the least of her a manner graceful and easy, high-bred by intuition of what was dignified and maid enly; she was tht neatest housekeeper in ' 1 and hat3 were the work of her own deft fingers. She had read intelligently, and could converse well. So it ii no matter for wonder that Mattie had niany .lovers. But foremost upon the list, to all appearance, wa? handsome Ned Gordon, who had been tc the University, and whose father shared the aristocratic honors of Greyport with the doctor and clergyman, being the only lawyer in the town. . The clergyman was a bachelor of nearly forty years of age, who had come but recently to Greyport to preside over the church where the Woolstons and ths Gordons had each a pew. He was a grave, reserved man, whose face bore the impress of sorrows and cares conquered, and succeeded by the serene peace that is far above the careless content that has never known interruption. f. He was not a handsome man, but had large, tender eyes under a broad white brow ; and these would irradiate his homely face with a light almost divine, when he preached with an eloquence and simplicity rarely combined ; so that men went from his enure h, slowly and thoughtfully ponder ing upon truths that were but homely,' every-day facts, but suddenly had been Ulumined by earnest eloquence into paths to salvation. One of these men, young, wealthy and full of talent, was Ned Gordon, Mattie's ardent admirer from boyhood. He had left her in sobbing pain of love to go to a boarding school, had felt his heart torn when college took him again from Slattie, - and had become more devoted . than ever when he came home "for good," to find her grown to womanhood, fairer than ever. He had been wont to say of himself, when he considered the. subject at all, that he "was not a bad fellow, as fellows go," being simply an idle hanger-on to his father's wealth.1 a iftsii!tnrv Ktwlftu of musty law-books when the mood seized him, floating carelessly down life's . stream doing no especial harm, by the way, but assuredly doing no good either. Of his personal responsibility in the scheme of creation, he had never thought until the Eev. Harvey Stiilman was ap pointed vicar of the fine old church at v ut, where Ned's fine tenor was qt.te a feature in the choir. It must be confessed that, under the dull prosy preaching of Harvey Stillman's .prede cessor, the choir seats had been a srather- ing place for much quiet flirtation &mou2 the belles and beaux of the town; and "XecTs chief magnet was the certainty of sitting near Mattie, and hearing her clear sweet soprano join his own voice. t But before Harvey Stiilman had been a month at . Grayport, Ned was uneasily ' conscious that many, of his worsls were as dagger thrusts at his own aimless, use less life, and waking to this conscious ness, he also awakened to another disa 'greeable fact--camely, that r JIattie.- was siso perceiving Tnat .me was a more earn ;est, real things than she had before pic tured it to herself. ; v , .. She had never been a drone in the hive, but she had become more actively useful outside of her little house-world, riaiiing ' in a quiet unostentatious way, among. the poorest of her fathers pa tients, doing good in an humble spirit, out with a sincere desire to help, as far as jjossible, those who needed her gentle ministrations. Ned loved her more than ever for the gentle self-denials she practiced so quiet ly that only those who were benefited knew of them, but, to his great dismay, there came a little gulf between-himself and his love, widening so . gradually he could not tell where " it had commenced or would end. For the first time since he was a mere boy he saw that IXJLattie gave him only the warm rnenasnip or years ot urotnenyj and sisterly intercourse, where he had given the first and only love of his life.' She seemed drifting from him, absorbed in her new duties and leaving but little margin of time for the recreations they had shared for years. He was appalled by the fear of losing hei, and yet she kept him from telling b,er either his hopes or his fears. "She thinks I am an idle, good-for-nothing fellow," he thought, "and I never get any chance now to tetl her I .mean to buckle on my armor, too, and do my share of work. I am studying hard, and father will give me a start in my profession, that can be made a corn fort to the afflicted and a light to the down-trodden. I mean to be all even 3Iattie can wish me to be, but I can't get a word with her now. Last evening she was with that poor dying child of Cross man's, .and to-day she is trying to com fort his mother. The last time I called she was at the National School, and when I do see her she is not the careless, merry hearted Mattie of. old. She thinks I am the same, though, and despises me for an idle good-for-nothing." Some such pondering was in Xed's mind, when, driving his phaeton up the main street of the town, he overtook the Rev. Harvey Stiilman going in the same direction. He "reined in at once. ' 'If you are go! ng my way, Zvlr. Still will you let me drive man. ne sc. you to 'your. destination "I am afraid I am going von,'' was the'replr. "I r.m too far on my for way to H;;wson".s V;lace." "How fortunate I met you! It is fully. three miles. Get in, and Black Prince j will soon earn' you there.'. "But you?'' j 3Iy time is vours. Bo not refuse me The clergyman accepted the invitation, : and before he fully perceived what he was saying. . Ned was making him a con fidant of all his perplexities and resolu tions, till even his love story came out in' earnest words. Led on by the quietly' expressed sympathy in all his resolves to enter upon a noble and more useful life. im- petuous Ned, by a sudden inspiration, said i "If only Mattie could know how much it would help me to feel sure of her love? I: cannot say if she . ever cared for me as I care for her; but if I could believe she would be my; wife- wiien I deserved, tier, it would stimulate me as no other hope on earth coud do." ."You think. she loves you'''' The Rev. Harvey Stiilman s very lips were white as he asked the question. "I did think so once. Now, I would give all' I own to be sure of it.' There was much more to the same jaur po3e, till Ned, with a sudden gleam of hope, asked the clergyman to plead his cause. "No one has so much influence as you have. She looks up to you as to a father," said Ned, never seeing how hia listener winced at the comparison; and if you were to tell her how her love would aid me, she might believe I do not has alwavs mean to be the idler she known." ; "I will see her," was the grave reply. "If she loves you, she shall have the happiness of giving you the encourage ment you desire." But when the drive was over, and the clergyman entered his study, the quiet gravity of his face broke up into an ex pression of keenest suffering. He had borne many sorrows in his life. Death had taken his nearest and dearest ; pov erty had laid her heavy hand upon him; temptation had assailed him, only driven back by prayerful struggles. He had hoped to find in Greyport rest, after a long battle in life. His living promised him an easy competence and some leisure for studies he loved, without neglect of his higher duties. But before he had been in his new home many weeks Mattie I Woolsion's sweet, earnest face, her ren j tie goodness, her unobtrusive, sincere 'piety had wakened in his heart an emo 1 tion he had never hoped to experience. ' Love had been a far off possibility for hap pier lives, and he had not perceived that it was seeking entrance into his own till Ned Gordon roused him to conscious ness of what his deep interest in Mattie signified. : . He loved her, and he had undertaken to; plead the cause of another to her! Thought became such torture that he re solved to have the dread mteview over, to know the worst at once. He found, Mattie in the parlor of her father's hand some house, and, fearing for his own strength, told his errand gently. The girl looked at him with white cheeks and a startled expression, as if ,: she had received a sudden, unexpected blow where she had looked for kindness. Her great brown eyes had a hunted, pite-; She struggled for composure before she trusted her voice to speak, and it was low. and tremulous when she said: "Since you are Mr. Gordon's ambassador, tell him, from me, that he has my most sincere . eood wishes for his success in his new tife, He has no warmer friend, no more: earnest weil-wisner than myself. But 1 can never him., . .We be ' his' wife. I do ncrt love have been like hrcthpv -n.T sister since cnilahood and I can eive him " my sisterly affection, nothing more." -'.11 think he is sincere in his resolution to make, his life more earnost and useful than it has ever been," the Rev. Eearv Stillrriaa said, ids .',owri pain' urging' him still to 'plead Ned's cause. & "I hope' he wiir persevere in hisresolve.-: He may make a noble man." " "But his love" "I can never return," she said reso-' lutely. "Pray leave me now. I I am not well." '", ' ; '; He left her. Only a few feet from' the door he turned and retraced his .steps. He had satisfied his conscience; haj pleaded the cause of the younger, hand somer man. Faithfully he had placed be fore Mattie all Ned's pleadings, all her influ ence might do for him, and he had won only a steady refusal of the suit he urged. Now he set his teeth hard, and went back. Now he would risk his own fate ! But at the door he paused, for Mattie had thrown herself in a deep . arm-chair, and with her face hidden, was sobbing with a perfect passion of grief . Was it for Ned? Did -she alreadv re pent her decision? Irresolute whether to retreat or advance. Harvey Stiilman stood in the doorway till Mattie neither seeing nor hearing hira, felt she was not alone, and looked up. In a moment she was on her feet, and for the first time the clergyman saw her eyes flash with anger, "Why do you come back?" she - said. "Have you not sufficiently humiliated me "I!" he cried: "I humiliate you?" I "What else is it to come to me to plead Mr. Gordon's love? Is he an idiot that he cannot speak himself, but must make my name a byword by prating of his love to every stranger?" 4 cMiss Woolston, you misjudge him and me me most of all if you imagine I de sire to Humiliate you. I, who honor you above all other women! I, who came tearing my own heart to plead , against it for your happiness! Do not judge me harshly, Mattie, for my love's sake !" ; She had so visibly frightened as spoke, such dewy happiness rested in the brown eyes, such tremulous, smiles gath ered around the small mouth, that the Rev. Harvey Stiilman felt his own heart swell with, sudden rapture. "Mattie," he' cried, "I am many years older than you are, and yet I love you 'with all the strength of my heart!" "-And I love you.'' t. Pimply as -a child, she told the truth of her own heart'. He was nor a nwi for any outburst of rapture. Tenderly . he folded her in his arms, saving softlv. ."Thank God, darling.:" " Nobody but Mattie and her betrothed knew, why Ned Gordon resolved to pur sue his studies iri-London instead of re maining with his father in Greyport, but years later, when he came back to the country town to Take his father's prac tice, the Rev. Karvey Stiilman felt, with grateful emotion, that 'the' good resolu tions had not faltered, but h?.d ennobled and purified the entire life of his old ri val, while Mattie gave a cordial -welcome to the pretty blue-eyed wife, who had won Mid kent the heart of her old lover. A Double Set of Twins. Kensington, a suburb of Philadelphia, which has recently become famous for twins and triplets, is in a flutter over the latest arrivals, and is congratulating the latest lucky father. James McCrispin is now the proud possessor of a double set of twins who have all been born within twenty months. The best part of papa McCrispin's double joy is that his first twins were bouncing boys Sammie and Johnnie and the newest arrivals in the household are blithesome girl babies Katie and Jennie who have pretty black eyes like their mother. " The house of the family has been thronged by friends and other visitors since the second pair of twins appeared. McCrispin is a tank-builder by trade, brawny in build. His wife is a buxom young woman. They have been married six years, and have now six healthy children. - The McCrispin family had a remarkable record in the twin line before the latest married member was born. In addition to the quartet in James McCrispin's family bis sister-in-law is the possessor of twins, and a sister is also the mother of two boys who saw the light within an hour oi each other. His grandmother had twins and McCrispin says that he is the young est of a family of twenty-four children. New York Kewt. Birds and the Insects They Pestroy. The following birds are to be classed among the most helpful kinds in the gen eral warfare against insects: Robins (cut, and other earth worms), swallows, night hawks, purple martins (moth catchers); pewees (striped cucumber bugs), wood thrushes and wrens (cut worms), catbirds (tent caterpillar), meadow larks, wood peckers, crows (wire worms) ; blue throated buntings (canker worms), black, red-winged birds, jays, doves, pigeons and chippies (strawberry pests) ; quail3 : (chinch bugs, locusts), whip-poor-wills (moths) hawks, all night birds, owls, etc., tanagers and black winged summer red birds (curculios) ; nut crackers, fly catchers, chimney swifts, indigo birds, chipping and song sparrows, blackbirds, mocking birds, titmouses, vireas, orchard orioles. Gathering Ginseng. People in the vicinity of Phoenicia, N. Y., and the Catskill Mountains are find ing lucrative employment in gathering ginseng. v. The dealers sell the roots to 3Sew York exporters, who in turn ship the product to China, where it holds a high place among medicines aa a preservative cf health. . . . . The roots are being found in abundance, and if prices rule high until the close oi the season the people engaged in dig ging the herb will have made a rouno sum of money. New York Herald. NEWS AND NOTES SOE YF OXEN. Ecru pongee is--used for petticoats. -Most'Eussiia ladies cigMettes-'": Large full sleeves are made W enough to eover the wrists. . js, csnvrorta is about t publish ' ier forty-ninth novel. , -a . .Large, soft silk ties the color of the gown, are being worn. ;' V : . Princes gowns are mde of Lviia silks' aad taia-washing fabrics.- Thore, ii a very successful woman drucimer. in the coffe trade. Pale pink underclothing is now cca--fiioaaliy trimmed with black tece. The parasols carried in ih TTf j .States cost $14,000,000 annuallv. - ,, Insprrions of lace and embroidery are used in nainsook and lawn dresseg. Some of the Paris papersiiave started a crusade against women who smoke. Worchester china is used for holding fruit and flowers in table decoration. Crepe Monsssline de Sole is a new ma terial for afternoon and reception dresses. Fans for mourning art made of black crape without ornamentation of any sort. ' There is an attempt to make popular , again bright and crude tints for dresses. There are said to be thirty' women I butchers in the Jewish U -1 J-i WA' lyn. ' Silk gowns in 'black and white most fashionable when designed scrolls. are is ;. Broad brimmed hats of silk mull ara xtremely becoming to certain styles i i ; At a new York wedding the other day .the bride received $1,000,000 worth presents. Batiste dresses, with parasol to match, ynil serve as all-day dresses at the water ing places. : The professional duster has made hej atry into the business world of Xew York city. ! Dotted white muMe, Swiss and veiling gowns are in vogue, along with striped c& barred white Sresses. The Cherokees of the Indian Territorj have erected a new seminary for girls, IThe building cost $200,000. ' Julian Hawthorne's five daughter bear the names Hildegarde, Gwendolen, Gladys, Beatrice and Imogen. Queen Victoria is the richest woman in the British Kingdom. She h3s accumu lated a fortune of $20,000,000. : Handkerchiefs are tiny, dainty marvels of color and embroidery this summer, and .'at the moment they are very cheap. Entire dresses of red sateens trimmed fwith ecru laces, are worn at French icountry houses and on the seashore. ; Seaside parasols are large and mostly in bright colors, sometimes softened with ;covers or falls of ecru and cream lace. : Pale silver gray gowns with panels, surplice, waistcoats and revers, cuffs and collars of tan color, are very effective. Helen Gladstone, a daughter of the statesman, contends that higher educa tion does not unfit women for domestic life. , The woman who contracts to do house cleaning from top to bottom has become a very useful member of society in )New York. Mrs- D. G-. Croly (Jennie June) is English by birth. Slie came to this country with her parents when sha wai little girl. Tfea law passed by the Kew York Legislature require proprietors of stores that employ female clerks to furnish them with seat. Mrs. Mackay, of many millions, ia -said to be fond of gray walking dxeasaa. But for all that gray is very trying to dark pale skins. The white wool veiling gowns, with broche borders or stripes in "white silk, are almost as effective as white silk ones broohe with silver. , When walking out the Empress of Russia always carries a large fan, which seems to screen her face from those who stare rudely at her. Miss Mary Murfree, better known as Charles Egbert Craddock, is petite in, person, with dark hair worn in masses of ringlets over her bro-srg. - Queen Victoria's favorite musical coxz posfti are rendelMO-hii aod guHiran, ao tikalatter'r. "Lot Chord" is the one piec f which she is moat fond. Mrs. John W. M&ckay, the wife of the California millionaire, continues to enter tain on a most lavish scale. Her dinneri are undoubtedly the best in London. "Zazel," who gained renown by being fired from a cannon and making a great leap in the air, is now Mrs. George A. Starr, and is a, teacher of acrobatics. Aew Orleans 2fi productive or many successful working women. The latest report is of two sisters who have gona Into the dairy business and are doing well. The White House cook is now a wo man, Mrs. Cleveland's chaf having been supplanted by Mme. Pelonard, who formerly presided over Lord Sakville's kitchen. Carrick cape is found to be an ex tremely useful wrap. It is made of four cape, oae over the other, each, cape be ing fully pleated, and is finished with a turn-down collar and tied with ribbons. It has been suggested by a writer in Ekrper's Bazar that w era en, take up the bade of upuxdstering. There is nrtxth bout this handicraft tfeet ia oompaiftS with Tmnta's dexterity, MH and itreogth. A Titumlle CPeoa.) paper tdb of a novel -wedding tour. The yocog man, Who could not leave town, purchased $5 worth of tickets for the merry-go-round, and they proceeded to ride to their hearts' content. Mme. Eudoff, of New Orleans, whose husband was a well known chemist and carried on a lucrative business in drugs, became his successor after his death and is now the Secretary or the State Phar- i maceutical Association, hk skirts of a" r!awT Bar.wuOrrte. But S0W o ouicwncre, either A Earpooa in a Whale'g Biul)W : i There has just been ' received J National 3Iuseuin, in Washington J placed in the fisheries section aa ing souvenir of the Arctic whalA T which Captain J. W. Cohins, the"? tendent of that department Per' prizes. It is an. old-fashioned ?QJ molded swivel harnoon. whir i story, as gleaned from the-. pa comnanvinfr it Whllft 111 fho fI-1.Af.lr C V j the ship Cape Horn Pigeon, coniaS ft whale. intl,ftHKho,; r PH belded a in gation this proved to be a harpoon, WtT:' off at the iittiPtw-nrfrt, iVl. en' had been in the whale over thr On the hinge of the harpoon was 3 juijuunicuers . T. D. " ship Th(W DicKerson and the name of themaW; not so plain, could also be made owi 1 his was the first and only messeO from the good ship Dickcrson, w& sailed from New Bedford, Mass., in 1535 and was lost the next year in the ven waters where the crew of the Cape Hoi Pigeon secured the hamoon t.hirfx- years later. ot. ir,?. rrt ?j 9 Tanning by Electricity, talk about tannin? leathpr iv) few hours by electricity is all rubbii You might as well try to fatten pigst electricity. But leather can be tanned ia a very short time, although a perfect article cannot be produced in less thd xmnaio xs. i .) man asKea me hovv- b; it would take me to tan a goat skin make a pair of boots. I told himit coi 8100 it couldn't be done. That night went to a butcher and bought a goat. At! six the next morning the goat was skinned '1 twenty minutes later I had the hair oif, the hide, colored and in the liquor. By1 noon it was dried, dressed, and dried! again and glazed and ready for the bootl maker, who finished t ie boots by five! o clock in the evening. It cost the Buff faio man nearly 200 after the wine and; extras were paid for. It was leather but it wouldn't do to risk' a reputatioa on its wearing qualities. Atlanta Cm stitution. ' Kat and Poll Parrot. Chris Pharo owns a poll parrot that is a dandy. The other morning a rat, lured by the luscious smells of "the bake shop, left the stenches of the cellar and sewer, and climbin s: ua stairs, made a raid on cream puffs, gorged down a few , . . CJ A J i tarts, mobled the macaroons, and sam pled the pies and gingerbread tbeioTtthia depredations were discovered. X3 was hustled off with a venerean rushing into the room wnere tne v was, succeeded y XIX lilt nrvii Xii. LU X. U in cage Poliv was playing circus with hi e m we ana - tm, ana wien she ejioi x: rat she came down on his back with bo claws and held it firmly to the bottom fche cage. The rat rolled over and twis its head around, squealing like mad as Polly pecked at its e3res and soop hid them both out. The rat jsnappp and tcre out some of Polly's feathers, butslie aeld fast to the varmint and succeeded in kxliing it. Then mounting her perch and ruffling her feathers about her neck, she announced : 'Polly wants a cracker.' Cincinnati Enaiiirer UsIbs a Yriiale for a Target. "Old Creedmoor" is a big whale tnat plays around 'Passamaqupddy -Bay,' about two miles from - town, every summer. At least, it is positively asserted by fish ermen that the same old fellow has made bis appearance annually to feed on the schools of herring that frequent the place in the summer season, and this is how hi got his title. In times ast when some of the crack shots of the Frontier Guards were too tired to walk out to the rifie range they would take a boat, and sailing 'down the harbor at a certain time of the tide, would be quite certain to find his whale ship playing around the bay . Then thej would make use of him for a target, asi part of his big carcass, frequently rose above the surface a long distance off. An ex-member of the guards says yon could always tell when he was hit for he "kicked like a steer. "Eastport (Mt) Sentinel. Two Comparisons. Simon Greenleaf, the eminent jurist, who for fourteen' years previous to hu appointment as professor in the Harvard Law School was a practicing . lawyer is foppish young man named Barren meei: Ing her at a social gathering in th-s citj one evening in early spring, r&markeu w her that he had that day seen in Pe Lag's woods something that remint'd bis of her. . When asked -what it was he "A ereenleaL" '"-And I saw something thi3 morning from my .window that .i minded me of you, remarked Miss Green- leaf . 'May I ask what it was aw the youth. 'An empty barrel V Ton- land Me.) Transcript. ' One Bill From any: A clever scheme long since rac in this country has been recently v duced in Austria. Bank notes of i .3 : om mit infn smaii Sr" and from each note one strips , consecuxive oruci. iuw - .- ened together again, with the result an additional note is thus secured, w all are only a trifle smaller than tae nal. A large number of the shon bills are said to be in circulation Francisco Chronicle. . T TQSr7 T T T?-l., v.ir f)'f Ph delphia, made the first Anienc?.ii blanket yearly over so.uuu.uou two-thirds of those made in States.
The Alexander County Journal (Taylorsville, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 24, 1889, edition 1
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