the m
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.WTLTCESBORO. N. 0.
German wQmeu,bave been appealed
to . bjr the International ' Woman's
League for Peace in Paris to- help
them in bringing about a general dis
armament.. ' ,'
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Henry Watterson," editor of the
Xouisville Courier Journal, is going
to write a life of Abraham Lincoln
from the standpoint of an ex-Confederate
who admire ilw cuius of the
martyred Fresident.
- Four professors of the University
of California, after listening, as judges,,
to a public debate on the New Wo
man movement, -voted solidly against
the New "Woman, deciding that the
movement "is not for the best inter,
ests of the race-"
' Alphohse Daudet, the . French .nov
elist, has been sorely troubled, by his
uncomplimentary remark about Eng
lish women. -. He declared the other
day that he had decided to say noth
ing" about women in the future, be
cause this "sex, usually called feeble,
has too many defenders when at
tacked' The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has asked all the important lines
using Pullman sleepers to join in a
request to the Pullman Company to
reduce the price , of upper berths
twenty-five per cent, below the price
charged for- lower berths. Pullman
cars are run on. 127,000 out of 173,000
miles of road in this country.
Feminine caprice in dress has ruined
many a flourishing industry, and now
the Calais lacemakers are the sufferers.
The present faiicy for thick heavy,
guipure laces prevents sale of the fine
delioate fabrics wrought in the neigh
borhood of Calais. Calais manufac
turers have distributed their lace free
to Parisian shops, but customers will
not take it up.
The truth of the adage that an hour
of sleep1 before midnight is worth two
hours after midnight is questioned by
Di. E. P. Colby, who states that' he
made some study of the subject while
in naval service during the Civil War.
The ship's company on shipboard '
officers and men alike stand four
hour watches day and night, with the
interpolation of a dog-watch of two
hours to change the time of -each set
of men on successive days. These men
are therefore obliged to get their re
quired sleep very irregularly, but in
more than two years of observation
Dr. Colby could never discover that
the watch officers and men wereiot as
fully refreshed by their sleep as were
the medical and pay officers, who.
stand no watch, and have hours as reg
ular as any householder. In the varied
industries of our cities, where many
workers are employed at night and
must sleep by day, further evidence
could doubtless be found that the time
when sleep is obtained ha, not the in
fluence upon health and longevity for
merly attributed to it)
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i Tennessee has planned and is now
constructing ah industrial exposition
of interstate and international scope
to celebrate the one hundreth anni
versary of- her admission i nf.ft .Via
Union, to open at' Nashville, the capi
tal of the State, September 1", 1896,
and to continue 100 days. The plans
call for twenty main buildings to be
'grouped aronnd a lake, a military
plaza, and a reproduction of the Par
thenon at Athens, standing snow white
and alone in the middle upon a high
terrace. In the main exposition
buildings Tennessee will present in
classified form under ' appropriate de-,
partments the evidences of her re
sourceful mines, her fertile fields and
her numerous mftnnf.p.fnrpiR' Sh in.
vfc o very , omer .ocace ana j. ioreign,
land to come and place its exhibits
. side by side with hers, and will make
no. charge for the- space occupied.
,Th4 management to which has been in-
. trusted the. details of the fair desire
: that the. most unique and '. the most
complete exposition possible may re
sult from their labors. For Tennes
see's part more than 1000 prominent
-men and women scattered throughout
the State are said by the managers to
be working earnestly and patriotically,
; and without salary, preparing exhib
ii&F For other States, -free -space in
large buildings for "exhibits' and sites
for individual edifices are dffered, and
the management will render all assist--ance
to such commissioners as are, ap-
- pointed for the successful perform
ance -of their dutiesi' "Tennessee,?
' say the managers, 'is in earnest j and
; she will prove again . by. her exposi
tion the fitness of the term 'Volunteer
"State.'" -..'r 'v: 'J:
EAUrjFUJL. HANDJI. -
as I remember the first fair -touch ' ' .
Ot those beautiful hands thatjlovo so much,
I seem to thrill as I then was thrilled
Kissing the glove that I found unnlled; ,
When'I met youraze and the queenly bow
As you said to nie laughingly, VKeep - it
, now!" . . . 1
And dazed and alone in a dream, I stand
Kissing the ghost of your beautiful hand.
When first I loved in the long ago,
And held your hand as I told you so-
Pressed and caressed it and gave it a kiss, -And
said, "I could die for a hand like this!"
Little I dreamed love's fullness yet ; -Had
to ripen when eyes were wet,
And prayers were vain in their wild demands
For one warm touch of your beautiful hands.
Beautiful hands! O beautiful hands!
Could you reach out of the alien lands
Where you are . lingering, and give me to
. . night 1
Only a tduch-r-were it ever so light
My heart were soothed, and my weary brain
Would lull itself into rest again:
For there is no solace the world commands
Like the caress of your beautiful handsv
James Whitcomb Riley.
"IT."
OING 'into my
wife's boudoir,
after a tempor
ary absence from
home on (busi
ness, , 1 - discov
ered her upon her
knees before an
arm-chair, upon
which sat a small
boy with very
large, round, sur-
. prised eyes. She
rose, came rust
ling towards me,
and greeted me
with neither
more heartiness nor more formality
than was then her wont. "There it
is I" she cried, pointing to the child.
''What do you mean?" I asked.
She was crouching again in front o
the little one, holding a biscuit close
before hie eyes, and, turning naif to
wards me, she said :
"Why, don't you know we read
about it in the paper the other day ?
Isn't it nice?"
I remembered then that a few even
ings back she had thrust a newspaper
into the circle of light beneath my
lamp; ana had said, pointing to an ad
vertisement, "There I just read that I"
It was the well known "petition to the
charitable a despairing cry from a
stricken heart, from a mother, offer
ing her child for adoption by well-to
do people.
"What do you think about taking
it? she had asked, and I had only
given her baok the sheet with a shrug
of the shoulders.
"But Martha, what is the meaning
of all this?" I cried, with a sharp note
of indignation. "You can't have
really"
"Certainly I have, as you see, she
replied. "And it belongs to me. I
have made a bargain with the unhappy
mother, and made her a solemn
promise, too, that it shall- be well
taken care of. Y.es, that it shall 1"
She took the little head, with its
light brown, silky, curling hair, caress-.
Jingly between her hands.
"Eh, little one? You shall have a
good time, sha'n't you?"
Not a feature of the little, delicate,
rather sickly, face changed; but from
the bowshaped month came one of
those curiously deep child-sighs. I
foon gave up all serious protest against
the arrangement, and, indeed, for
years eich of us had been in the habit
of going our : own way. ,
Our marriage was not happy ; any
thing but happy, in fact although we
had not married for love. The union
had been arranged by our respective
fathers amid the clink of money on the
exchange. She .had wrenched her
heart away from another's--in mine a
silent passion still glowed ; but figures
were mightier, and we fully intended
to be obedient children. At first each
of us was. a dumb reproach to the
other, then followed wretohed days of
declared war, till at last we settled
down to a polite but colorless peace.
And yet she was pretty and good,
she had brilliant parts, and other peo
ple went so far as to call her "a per
fect angel." , How about myself, then?
well, I don t think I was exactly a
monster. Analysis revealed the ex
istence T)f the finest rainbow colors,
yet the sun was iaokmg. We had
been married six years and had no
children. Welly, and so the child was
her property ! What was more, she
had given the mother 1500 guldens,
the value of some jewels which she
had sold secretly and in haste.
"Why did you tell me about it?" I
burst out at this intelligence.
"Because it would have been too
late if I had waited till you came back
and I wanted to have it for myself
alone 1" she said, defiantly. .
My norses, my dog her canary, and
her goldfish I' That was reasonable
enough. But that she should wish
also to have her child all to herself
it was really a little too much. The
thought worried me daring two days.
On the third, when she had driven
but, a muffled woman desired an inter
view with me. It was the mother of
"her, child." Like a shadow she stole
through the door, and pleaded with
law, half stifled weeping, "to see her
marling once: again she could not
part from him like this." ,)
Iimmediately opened my cash box.
"There, my . good, woman," I said,v
'take this -you have not been paid
enough." Then she broke ' into wail
ing sobs. I must not condemn her un
til I knew the extent of her misery.
She had another, child, a poor, help
less cripple, and she herself was ill and
had not long to live. What would be
come of this unfortunate being when
she was gone? Well, she had thought
to herself the sentence was interrupt-
ed by a violent fit of coughing she
had thought, as Imade out the broken
words : "I will sell the bealhty child
that the cripple may have something
to live on when I am dead." Ah, she
was not to be condemned we rich folk
have an easy code. . i v :
When my wife came back I told her
about my, visitor. - "I gave the poor
thing exactly the same amount as you
nad given ner, ; saia. "o now, you
understand, the child belongs to both
of us."
She bit her lip. 1t is all the same
to me, ". she observed, after thinkinc
for a moment ami kissed the little one
with a vehemence that sounded like
challenge.
Oar child, forsooth ! I hardly ever
got a sight of it, and all the changes
oar estaoiisnment sunered on nis ac
count uapjjoiiBu. t ib were away over
my head1. Sometimes, in more than
usually important matters, my consent
was grudgingly asked, "We need
T 1 1
nurse ; j. nave aireaay secured one
I nodded mutely.
"V - x u i -rrr .
ur n wouiu oe, we must arrange
a nursery it is too warm for the
child up there."
Again I nodded, without a word
the workmen (were already busy in the
passage. There was nothing to be
done, for was it not all for our child?
We two seldom talked about him.
When we,did we always spoke of him
as "It." But I was all the more con
scions all day long of the presence of
this It in the house. "Hush! not so
much noise; It is asleep. It must
have its dinner. It must go out. It
has hurt itself.' The whole house
hold began by degrees to revolve round
It. This nameless Neuter annoyed
me.
"It is absurd;, he must have i
name," I said at last.
"I quite forgot to ask the mother -I
mean the woman his name," an
swered my wne. "onesaia sne was
coming again, but she has never been ;
I suppose she is ill. Well, I shall call
It Max. Max is pretty and short,
don't you think so?"
"fl'm," said I, between two puffs of
my cigar. "Fritz is a nice name
too." -
"I can't have its name changed about
for what everyone thinks, she an
swered, shortly: and going to 1 he door
she cried, "Is Max up yet?" Our
child, indeed !
On one occasion, however, I did
assert my dud share in our child. At
lunoh time It was having dinner at
a little table in the adjoining room.
In the intervals of our scanty,
flickering conversation we heard his
merry babble, accompanied by the
rattle of his spoon. My wife had not
a moment's rest ; she was perpetually
to and fro between our table and his,
to see if the soup were not too hot,
or if It were not perhaps taking too
much.
"Wife," 1 said, quietly, nut very
decidedly, "from to-morrow It shall
have its meals at table with us. it is
two years old quite old enough. "
From that time It dined with us.
Sitting up in its high elbow-chair like
a Drinoe. close beside my wife, the
two opposite seemed like a hostile
party. The poverty-stricken, yellow-
ish pallor of me little lace naa given
place to a delicate, aristocratic bloom,
and the round cheeks above the stiff
folds of the dinner-napkin looked
prosperous" and cherubic. Bravely
did it work away at its soup, and
when it was finished the little,
round fist grasped the spoon on the
table like a sceptre. My wife and I
had exchanged a few words and now
sat silent. As the silence was pro
longed, the great eyes seemed to open
wide and wider. x They gazed at my
wife, gazed at me, in astonishment,
almost uncannily comprehending, like
the eyes of a grown-up person who
felt that all was not as it should, be
between us. I confess frankly that
those eyes confused me, and that it
was a . relief when Eriedrioh entered
with the next course. And I know my
wife felt the same.
It was the same thing next day.
The big, wonderfully blue eyes always
seemed to be gazing a sort of reproaoh
ful question at the pauses in oar talk,
and, absurd, as it may seem, we two,
man and woman, felt ashamed before
the child. Thus it happened that by
degrees our talk became more ani
mated; we explained and elucidated
the opportune lispings to one another,
and even sometimes laughed heartily
together over the little one's stumb
ling efforts at talk.
r Her laugh was as clear and pure as
a bell. How was it I had never
noticed it before? It happened often
now that as I bent over my writing
that ringing laugh seemed to sound
clearly in my ears, as though borne
from afar.
With the first spring days It carried
on its doings in the garden, of which
I commanded; a view from my seat in
the office; and she was generally there
too. I heard the patter of the little
feet in the gravel, and then her step.
Now, as she made a snatch at it, its
chirping voice vied with the chorus of
sparrows now she held it, and I heard
the sound of kisses.
How could I work with such music
going on? I had opened the window;
a warm balmy air streamed in, and a
butterfly strayed on to my writing
desk. Then she appeared from be
hind a green-besprinkled thicket,
dressed in dazzling white upon which
the - sun poured a flood of golden
light ; only her face was in the red
colored shadow of her parasol. ' Slim
and graceful, she came towards me. 1
must have been blind ! Why, the
aunts and cousins were right she was
beautiful ! A charming smile Jit up
her features ; certainly at that mo
ment she was rand the happiness came
from "her child." ,. ' '
A voice within me said, perfectly
distinctly :
'You are, a monster." -
, I got up and went to the window.
What a fine day 1" I said.
The prosaic words fell oold as tha
shadow of a-heavy cloud upon a sunny
landscape. She made some reply
which I did not hear, but the happy ,
light had vanished from her face.
Then she lifted up the child, which
stretched out its arms to her and ca-
ressed it before my verv eyes."
It was then that the first feeling of
jealousy awoke in me. KeaJ jealousy,
though of so odd a kind that J was not
quite sure as to its object. When It
called her "mamma" a stab went
through my heart, and the , caresses
with which she overwhelmed the ,ittle
one put me beside myself. I was jeal
ous of both of them ! I wan sore at
having no share in the drama, at not
making a third in the bond, and re
sdlyed to take steps to gire myself a
olaim to il. Alas, I thought drearily,
the child wa afraid of me ; and as for
herself, I had kept her, as it were by
force, at a distance, through long
'years.
One day at dinner there was a pro
found silence after a skirmish of words
, a painful silence. I stared down at
the painted, flowers upon the Meissen
plate before me, a pucker of anger
upon my forehead ; but all the time I
felt the great, eyes of It fall upon me
and hers too. The rays from those
four eys seemed to burn .upon my
forehead. Suddenly the silence was
broken. "Pa-pa I" And again, louder
and more confidently, . "Pa-pa 1"
I started. It was bitting there gaz
ing at me in terror of theu storm its
word would call down. She nad turned
scarlet and her lips trembled. No one
but herself could have taught him that
'papa." My heart was warm within
me why did I not spring up, and
with a word, a touch, cancel for ever
those dreary six years? The right
word at that moment would have done
it, but I was under a spell. I did not
say it.
There was no doubt that with young
curly-head a new spirit had taken pos
session, a spirit which made me a
stranger in my own house. The rooms
were illuminated even when the sun
without was hidden by clouds. The
faces of the servants, even intimate
objects, seemed to reflect it ; only I
was left untouche J.
I became more and more wretched
in my solitude. My jealousy grew
apace and filled me with mad thoughts.
I would oppose the little tyrant ab
surd idea ! I would set before her the
choice between him and me ah, but
which way would her heart have gone?
At one time I thought of taking steps
to trace the unhappy mother, and to
enable her by a gift of money to take
back her child. Yet, behind my wife's
baok, that was too mean.
I could not work I looked troubled
and confused, and when people asked
what ailed me 1 pleaded indisposition.
But the sunlight would not be wiped
out, and the spirit of love was stronger
than I, and drove me forth.
"I must go on my long journey,
Martha."
My voice trembled as I said the
words, and my wife observed it.
Something like a tear of pity made
her eyes bright.
She held the little one towards me
as I was going. "Won't you say good
bye to oar child, too ?" she asked, in a
gentle, persuasive tone.
I suppose I took him upto roughly,
for he began to cry, t,nd fought
against my embrace. I put him down
and hurried away, I wandered hither
and thither about the world, and to
my first companion ill-hnmor-r7
another soon joined himself, who in
formed me straight that J was a fool.
I heard it first as a whisper, but the
words grew louder and more mocking ;
what a fool I was I At last I began to
read it in the newspapers. I saw it
written on the blue mountains; it was
borne to me in the shriek of the en
gine. Yes, yes, I quite believed it
enough! But why did I not turn
round at once and go home? Ah, the
fool had to work out his folly before
all could be set straight.
At last, full of tumultuous feelings,.
I returned home. A solemn still
ness reigned in the house ; every
sound seemed subdued and mysterious.
My wife came towards me, her eyes
red with weeping. "It is very ill--dying!"
she sobbed. I tried to calm
her, but her fears were only too well
founded. Only a short respitefof hope
less anxiety I Through the last night
we both sat by his cot, one on either
side, and each' of us held one of the
little hands. How the pulses beat and
throbbed ! Quick j sharp, fever beats ;
and every beat was an admonition:
"liove love be good." Together
we felt the measure and understood
the exhortation. Our eyes met through
tears, and the look was as a sacred
vow. Words would have been sacri
lege. Then we laid It to rest in tne
warm spring earth.
Afterwards, when we sat again at
table for the first time, again there
was silence between us. ' But, it was
another sort of silence to that which
the poor little stranger. had interrupt
ed with his lisping "pa-pa." His
high elbow-chair still stood against
the wall, and on the board in front of
it lay the spoon-sceptre. J ,
My wife held out her white hand to
me across tne taoie. uia you love
It a little, too?" she said, and her
voice shook. .
"My wife, my own dear wife I" I
held her hands. ; .
And then I pointed to the high
chair. "It came to teach us love," I,
whispered. . "
"And when It had done its work It
went back to the angels," she said,
crying. From the German in Strand
Magazine.
Why Men Urow. Bald.
Men become bald more frequently
than women because of the closeness of
the hats they wear, which keeps the
head too hot, induce perspiration and
weaken the hair. --The boys pf the fa
mous Bin e Coat School in London,
who never wear hats, never becoma
bald late in life. Pittsburg Dispatch.
WOBDS OF WISDOM. ;
The man who dies young will'no be
obliged to die old. . , ' C
It is often .a good thing that men do
not practice what they preach.
There is a great deal of common
sense in getting scared in time. ;
The man who assiduously courts
trouble will in the end be married to it.
It is exceedingly bad husbandry to
harrow" up the feelings of your wife.
When a woman is indifferent to the
size of her feet, it is a sign of old age.
What an admirable recipe for hap
piness to I know, how to do without
things. M
A man who is rated as smart in
good lnck is often rated a fool in ad
versity. ' :i. : . j 0.
!Love labor, for, if thou dost not
want it for food, thou may st for
physic. r
It is not necessary to pump some
people in order to get out. of them all
they know.
The people laugh, at everyone'who
makes a fad of collecting things except
the collector of bills.
A man who stud ieth, revenge keeps
his own wound green, which otherwise
"Would heal and do well. J
Whoever tells us of our danger is
our friend, no matter whether we be
lieve what he says or not. ,
Let us have faith that right makes
might, and in that faith let -us to the
end dare to do our duty.
Wisdom is the principal thing ;
therefore get wisdom ; and with all
thy, getting get understanding.
Love is more pleasing than mar
riage, for the same reason that novel's
are more amusing than history. The
South-West.
Hindoo, Fafcirg.
Herr Knhn not long ago presented
a communication on this subject to
the Anthropological Society of Mu
nich He had the opportunity of per
sonally observing two cases as to the
genuineness of which he had no doubt
whatever. One of the fakirs referred
to had been buried , alive for . six
weeks, the other for ten days. The
condition which the fakir "has the
power of producing artificially is in
all respects identical with the catalep
tic trance. The fakirs, who are all
hysterical subjects of a very pro
nounced type, put themselves through
a regular course of training before the
performance, weakening themselves
by semi -starvation, taking internally,
various vegetable ' substances known
only to them, keeping their bodies
motionless in the same position for
several hours at a time, etc.
When the fakir has by these means
got himself into the proper condition
he has only to lie down in one of the
positions enjoined by the sacred books
and fix bis eyes on the end of his nose to
fall into a state of trance. The fakirs
are also believed to use hasheesh for
the purpose of lessening the force. of
respiration ; that bypnotio agent, as
sociated with other vegetable sub;
stances and used in a special manner,
is believed by them to supply the
want both of air and nourishment. At
the beginning of the trance the
fakir has hallucinations, hearing heav-v
enlv voices, seeing visions, etc. Urad
ually, however, consciousness becomes
annulled, the body becomes rigid, and,
as the' fakirs themselves say, "the
spirit rejoins the soul of the world."
British Medical Journal. v '
A Tough Goose.
The manager of a certain cotton
mill in Lancashire keeps some geese
on a bit of square ground behind the
engine house. Last Thursday morn
ing, about 6.30 o'clock, the engineer
went out and left the engine house
door open, and the geese walked in
One of them in some way got into the
fly-wheel, and when the engine started
and the fly-wheel commenced going
round at the rate of seventy-seven
revolutions a minute, goosey could
hot get out again. When - the engi
neer went into the engine house again
he saw the unfortunate bird still going
round, but, thinking that it must be
already dead, did not stop the engine.
Imagine his surprise, an hour and
a half after, when he stopped the en
gine for breakfast, to see the goose
walk out as if nothing- had happened.
It was very dizzy, but in a few min
utes it seemed to come round, and
started walking up and down and eat
ing along with the others. It is liv
ing yet, and does not look any the
worse for its ride, only that it is.eov
ered with black oil. The fly-wheel is
sixteen yards in circumference, and
goes around at the rate of seventy-seven
revolutions per minute. The: goose
was in ninety minutes, and so would
have, gone round 6930 times, dr. have
trayeled sixty-three miles. -
J. H. Olegg, of Milnrow, near Booh
dale, vouches for the accuracy of these
facts. London Weekly Telegram, i
Bobbed a Stasre .With a Bogng Gnn.
A stage robber held up the stage on
the Ager-KSamath Falls , line near
Keno, Oregon, with a bough of a tree
one day last week. , The district At
torneyand a Deputy Sheriff were the
only passengers. A voice from a
clump of bushes by the roadside called
out "Hey put up your hands and
glancing in the direction of the voice
the driver and passengers saw what
they took to be the barrel of a rifle
sticking out of the bush. They
promptly threw up their hands. Then,
following instructions, the driver
threw out the mail sacks
on
A few rods further on the Deputy
nena jumped off. stole backi and
shot tthe robber.- The man5 had no
weapons and had pointed a stiok of
wood at:, the stage. . But experience
T teaches people in that region not to
question appearances too closely when
they indicate firearms. New. Xork"
i Sun " - -
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13 ew
Drug
. Store.
erry Bfos.,
Wilkesboro, N. C. '
Keep on hand a full line of Fresh
Drugs, Medicines, Oils,' Paints,
Varnishes and Every thing kpt in
a First-Glass Drug Store.
Prescriptions
Carefully
- ' V
Store in the Old Steve 'Johnson
, Building, just opposite the Court
House. '.
Be Snre to Call . and See . Them;
B. JL STALEY & CO -
DEALEB IN
DRUGS
9
PATENT MEDICENES,
: V ; : ... . 1 .
TOBACCO, CIGARS,
Cigarettes, Fancy and
Toilet Soaps, etc., etc.
m a 9 ' ' it " 1 '
' jrrescnptions prompny ana accur
ately filled. Situated in the Briok
Hotel Building. .
OTiFEl UTILES,
A C-WELLBORN. PROP-
Situnted on Main 8treet, eas of the
Court Home. Good horses aBd- new ve
hicles of ail kinds re dy for the accom
modation of the i raveling public. ' Horset
'Carefully fedt and attended to. Qiv
.us a trial and see how we feed.
A U. WELUBORN,
Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
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Attorneys at Law,
WILKESBORO, N. C.
Will practice in the State and Federal
ISAAC C. VELLBOR N,
. Attorney - at - Law,
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Will practice In all the courts. Dealer
In real estate. . Prompt attention paid tc
collection of claims. v
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H. L. Gbxxitk.
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Attornfcyd;. Law,
WILKESBORO, N. 0.
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lections a specialty, i Real estate sold ot
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A Tobacco-Chewing Dog.' ...
A dog addicted to chevying tobacco is
owned by John Holden, a butcher of
Eighteenth and Sigel streets.' The dog is
an improvement Upon the average tobucco
chewer, in thtt he doesn't spit on the floor
of a trolley car. He takes a bit of tiie
weed, and, holding it between his fore
paws, sucks ail tlie substance out' of it. -He
has been chewing tobacco for about
three years. Tobacco is (he first thing he
wants in the morning, and if he does not
get it at home he will go out among tbe
neighbors, who know the dog's habit,
and whine among them until he gets what
he wants. He will hot touch one cut, hisl
Weakness being in the direction of plug
tobacco" He learned to chew when a
puppy, his owner being in the habit of
giving hini tobacco as a joke when he saJ
on his knee. ' ' : . v
)isasters to Swallows. ;
Although swallows are such won
derfully quick-sighted birds, and can
change the direction ) of their flight
with amazing rapidity and ease, it
occasionally happens- that they either
do ' not perceive the danger lying in
their path or are jhot quick enough to
avert It, for I have once or twice, while
fly-fishing I tor - trout, ' accidentally
knocked down and stunned ans wallow.
Several instances have also been , re
corded of: the' poor bird being struck
and killed' by golf balls, and in one
case at least, even by a cricket balL
Petrels and other sea birds have
been known to collide while in mid
air, and drop Into passing boats. Wild
duck are occasionally picked up on
board shipsC that have been . lying at
hnchor all night in some of our large
rivers and estuaries. They strike the
rigging . or 1 funnels during their noc
turnal flights, and . as many as , five
jvere found one morning; on the deck
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