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iTi-Tf Person Go. Courier. Published Every Thursday " . BY NOELLSBKOS. Rcxboro, N. C if fERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: On Copy One Year - t - $1 5t Oue Copy Six Month " - - - . ? Remituue1- mu-t be made fey Register Letter, Pmt Office Order pr Postal Note. : i Xl a constitutional and not a local disease and therefore it cannot be cured by local ap plications. It requires a constitutional rem edy like Hood's Sarsaparilla, wnicn, worimg through the blood, eradicates the impurity U1UUU. eritUlWlMiGa wiw uufiuiu 7 rolca causes and promotes tat disease, ana s r . : mmIU a ."l ""fT1" ' . :v effects a permanent cure. . Thousands , ol people testUy to the success of Hood's 8ann:'J:'ji3'.iroU aiid.saidr ' 5 ? " ' 71 . - Mima as a remeay ior caiarrn wnen outer preparations had failed. ; Hood's Sarsaparilla also builds up the 'whole system, and makes ' ' you feel renewed In healuX.awl Btrenfl;:- " r.-l used Hood's SarsaparQU for catarrh, and received great relief and benefit from it. The catarrh was very disagreeable, especially In the winter, causing constant discharge from ' my nose, ringing noises In my ears, and pains In the hack of my head. ' The effect to clear 4 .cay head in the morning by hawking and spit ting was painful... Hood's Barsaparilla gave me relief Immediately, -while in time I was " entirely cured." I am never without Hood's Barsaparilla in my house as 1 think it is worth Its weight in gold." Mss, .g..B. GraB, 1028 JEIghth Street, N.W., "Washington, D. C ! Hood's Sarsaparilla Cold braU druggists. $1; six far 55. prepared only fey C 1. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, LoweH, MaMb kIOO Doses One Dollar PES . O..AL JC. BJRQOKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW Rexboro, N. C. - Tractioes whereTer his iervices are r-equired. Prompt attention given to tbe eolleciion of Winstead, W INSTEAD Junius Parker & PARKER, Attorneys at Law, Roxboro. N. C. Promptly attend to all basines theoi. entmstPfi to Sov 6 tt. Strarhorn. Roxbore, X. I. M. Warlick. . Milton, N. C 'TRAYHORN & WARLICK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice in all the contta of tlie State antl in the feUoral cunrts.' Maaagemeat of chutes strietlv attended to. SpMial xtteulioa given to oases in Person ami Caswell coHniiesi- - - A. iV.UraUH. it. Y. Wia.tou G RAIIAM & WINSTON, - , ATTORNEYS T LAW, Oxi rl. N. C. Practices in "all 'he conrt of the Stale. Ilan- lle money and invest the (cian- in :.-t IstMort- l rag Real Ktate ecurity. Seltie tsiatt-s and j investigate titles. , N J LOSifoKIJ, ATTORNEY AT LAW. RojAtbro, K. CT S. MKKUTTT, ;" ATTORNEY AT ; AW. nd Notury Put-lie. Roxboro, N. C. t. t ahl earnst Mttention given to .all lniin'si'entruted t lim- W. K1TC1I1N, " ATTORNEY AT LAW, . RoxB R . N. C Praeticas wherever bit services are required. Practicing Physlpian, Roxboro, N. C. OIer his. professional services to tbe peof le tit KoxDoro aL-d sorronnJ-ng country. 1'rac iret in ail the braneea of medicine. J.O-4-lv D R. C. G. NICHOLS . Offers His . . E0FK8SI0XAL SEttVICKS'to I PEOPLE f Jtoxboio anfi eurromiding country Practices in all the branches of Medicine. - OR. C. W. BRADSHER XENT1ST, Oners his services to Ibe public. Calls promptly attended to m Person and adjoining comities. Anv one nisbing work in U19 line, br writing him at Busby i'ork, J. C.i. will be attended ai once. . . , . . , ATTENTION! - H:iv!m; Jeifcd H"veral rooms in the Pas bniViing an3 fitted tfiem up witw luda and o'Ucr room fuiOitiirf, vvt offer to the pubue , Redding for 25 cents Each. Partifc'i trareiling, wi'.l tave money by ca'iiup; on us, as we To not charge but HALF PRICE. We also keep a first-class restaurant which is kept on the ' . EUROPEAN STYLE. Ha's 23 cents, nt any hour from 6 a in. to 9 p. m. . We l$t op. fresh Beef. Pork, Mutton, Limb. Chicken, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys Birds, . Ega, trcfili 'i;Fi6ht.Rabbit8 and all kinds of Vsgfr--1able, ia fact everything that is kept in Rogtaur&nt. Try xls W g-t the pris? by all whe . Ptp with us fr keeping thebesU;ble ever kept in Roxb',v-. " I ERSIAN BLOOM, B-t CcmplesioB Bi.ii- - ttnw. Skin Ooraud BleuUsh Kradiostor knmil a taow wc nai paocaoe, . AOdreM as boots - JW AOUOMi- W LL BUOS!. Proprietors. VOL. 6.. JEIOXBORO; NORTH CAROLmA THURSDAY: DECEMBER 12, IN A FAR COUNTRY. Some Strange - Tilings ? That Happened After Railway Accidents. There was once, a Far Country, a 'jreat distance from "this," which was 'uled over by a wise and just Caliph. And it was so that there- occurred a - .erious railroad accident in this eoun . .. , . w,iwVw "rV - "vr cir ?; - vi - uu. to mt;u lafuws. -. ttjijj mo day thei-e came w; the . palace of the - - Calipu a director of the Kulroad ou- 'which hapwtied tins accident, and af- - ,,:?r bowjusj to the ground he lifted up -un. nioot wiseana lusi jaiina. io u the-;au iiils spread out on ; us tramps bad-?, itiled out the spiKes with their teeth,' .T but we know-, it nokt Of a Sertainty :the rails did spread on Beholdj it was the act of Allah r-rr trowed his beard ..cai that the rails spread. ; But Allah good. Mesrour," he continued, uraing to his executor, 'behead this nan at the' fourth hour without fail." And it was so that at ten ijjinutes after the fourth hour his body was de livered to his friends. - And the next month there was an other grievous accident" on another o;id, "whereby more .true believers .vere cut off, even as may be the eue . sies of the prophet. Aiid tljjS day .'jJowing the president of the road ux lred at the palace gate and was .. . Mited by a siave. And when he couie into the presence of the .ipu lie projiratetl liiruself and said: "'There is but pne God, and Mahomet is his Prophet! Most wise and just Caliph, we have had an accident on the Damascus Short line, aud many true Mussulmans are slain. Allah is good l Behold, "there was a washout, and our engineer wist it not, but plunged in at .the ssiow rate of sixty Christian miles to the Christian hour. See, I weep that such things should ber - ' "Indeed f answered the mighty Ca. liph; "so there was a washout'that ye wot not of. I suspected as much. Mesrour, when the faithful go to noon day prayers,- behead this man who was ignorant of the washout." And, behold, the true believers were even then passing to the noonday prayers, autf- Mesrour took the presi dent to his studio and finished up the job in time for late prayers himself. And ou the tenth day of the eighth month, on another road, there was still another accident; and a score of true followers of Islam bit the dust. And the next day at the ninth hour after uiidntght the board of directors, and president, and a general manager or two, and three vice president knocked and . prayed that they might make speech with the most wise and just Caliph. And he suffered them to enter and they fell on their faces and worshiped hira, .and then the presi dent said: "Commander of the Faithful, Ma homet is mighty, and thou art his true vicar earth. By the beard of the Prophet there has been trouble with the Mecca limited. Great Caliph, many of thy subjects are no more. Thus it was; The locomotive was a new one and it became frightened at a bicycle and snorted a couple of times and jumped into the ditch. Truly we knew not that it was one of these skittish locomotives. Oh, mighty son of the Propbet, we rend our garments that it is so. But the ways of Allah are Mys terious!" 'Mesrour," said the Caliph, it seems to me that I have kcard'this story be fore." "You have, son of Mahomet." "The engine shied on them well, you know the old prescription give 'em the same razzle dazzle 'em !" And the great Caliph, who was wise and good as he was great, took up the blessed Alcoran and read its words, but era ho cSuld finish a page they were razzled. For Mesrour never let business ac cumulate ou his hands. : Aiid it .happened that there were never anv more accidents in the land of the Commander of the Faithful even unto this day. The other railroad folki took the hint. But in closing it should be said that this is a very Far Country indeed, be ing a great - many days -journey from this country. -New York; Tribune. An Ancient TuVk. Those who are anxious to remain in the flesh beyond the ordinary dura tion of this mortal life will be inter ested in the habits of the old Turk who has i-ecently died at Haddabta, aged 130 years. ' Old Hadji Soliman Saba had seven wives, all of Whom died before him; he was the father of sixty sons and nine daughters, who have also gone the way of all ilesh, and the year before his death he was thinking of marrying again, but coujd not obtain the necessary funds to buy a bride, baba was a rarmer unto his life's end ; his diet .consisted mainly qf barley bread, beans (vegetarians, take, note !) and water, and only twice a Vear. on ' Irish festivals, did .he ' eat meat. His- clothes were even more simple than his diet, consisting of a shh't onlv,- and when he traveled a pair of trousers. His bed was. a mat-! tress and a straw mat, and .it had f pever been -a "bed of sickness"" till three days before his death. Pall Mall Gazette. - "",..,.; Tearing History to Tatters,,. . The Magazine of American .History presents historic and incontrovertible reasons for believing that the Declara tion of Independence was not signed by any one on the Fourth of r July 1776, except .by John Hancock as pres--ident, and y Charles Thompson as secretary j .-that the engrossed copv wmcii had .peen mace onthe fourth - , i a . " j 1 iiii tt rrnr r u riij un it i t t r trr tr na ftv 9- :w. 4Uy ...cw, iy "uoiicituuugui,, signed generally Aug. 3.; that the ap-? proving vote was not Jinammous-on July 4, but was approved by Several; July 4 and approve"' is pot among the signers enrolled: - "at . at least - one- eighth of Iho signt-s "were not even members of congr on July 4 1776. Sd history gets pu ed to 'pieces; and facts displace some veryjpleasant and romantic fictions. SL . Louis Globe Pemocmt. J - - Mosie anti-Love. Haydn, whoso pious habit ; of. in of rev to.poa. ' tailed, scribing bis scores , withr bits erent Latin, Will jf go down - terity. and who, if... this would v always- bo held sacred ! for his oratorio "TheCreation1 'even he fell in love with Mll. Roselli.de- i- - - - - - .. - r - . r, . 1 PJ uis-wuwum uis piety. ,.- jaw ww j ner-porTri. punieo, ana sausnea.aju ffiieri:tUi8.wmms:iand - .ifancies, - whu5h,: UktbesaofUprama don net were hoti-f course, ineipensjyeonesC Good dd hut inconstant Haydn ! It is to be hopedhe stopped -hererthouai. froni tKfaniouscomblimentwh ch imid Sirs. Billinffton. it is to be feared i he possed fheknack of injrratiatiudr "himself into the favor of . the fair sex MaeraHy-Ijoyhblds had.aite Jthe opinion, deed a beautiful picture j list like her; but what a mistake." "Where?" in quired the painter. "Why, you have ' painted her listening to the angels, when you ought to have represented the angels listening to hCT. n : ter By way of extenuation for' Haydn, it must be admitted that all tlje master musicians have been frail in the : mat ter of love and beauty. - Beethoven's love letters constitute quite a study in passionate endurance, and are much more creditable to him than the story of his erasing the- young English musician Brklgetower's name from the dedication of the famous sonata lu A, and substituting that of Kreutzer, a man he had never seen,, because be had -had some quarrel with r Bridge tower about a girl a version of the story, by the way,. Which is not Bee thoven's. Chopin, we know, pined away for George Sand; Dussek was carried off by a Polish princess; Strsr deRa lost hi3 life through .becoming enamored of Hortensia, a strikingly beautiful Roman lady; MarcelJo be came the victim of a hopeless passion for Leonora Manf rotti ; Mark Smeaton, an English musician of the Sixteenth century, paid the block penalty on TowerJiiUfor an indiscreet lingering after Anne Boleyn ; Bellini expired of a broken heai4t'or a sweetheart .whose father would not let her have jhim; Leonardo da Vinci died at the harid of. his mistress; and there are endless other instances not less tragic- others happier in every way arising put of this appareutl V inseparable . union of love anu zinc. mubic. Gentleman's Maga- i'Wben EeneJIek;CrOt Married," ' Benediek, a well known man about town, havinsr resolved to s rnarry. thouorht it wise to-draw a line between the fife he had led and the ' nevf life which opened before -him. Td tltis end lie had invited some" two dozen cronies to a farewell dinner" at an up town l-estaurant. at whicn every one emoved the wines and viands, ana the feast was prolonged to a late. hour. Finally the host arse and spoke,hese words: , .' -.. . .. Gentlemen, the moment has come to deliver tin littio speech that I bare prepared f r tins occa. sion. You wera invited to meet ma Lere tor tae jiurposo of closing an interesting chapter of my life l thauk you for your company and i Lave passed delightful evening. Ba good enough now to give me your serious attention. My idea bein to turn over a new leaf, and not to live 3 a mar ried man the kind of life I lived as an unmarried one, . have to announce to you that from this mo ment the Benedick whom you have known is dead dead and buried. I no longer shall circle in your orbit nor you in mine. Permit me, however, to leave to each one oyoa a little souvenir and to wish that each one of you may, as speedily ati possible, follow my example. My servant will now read yem my last will and testament, fare well. " .-'v ; So saying "Benedick disappeared ; the servant remaininsr read the will as an- nou need. By this document each one reewved some nortion of the frobda of the defunct bachelor. To one be lefl his card table, to another bis side board, to a third his collection of pho tographs. A postscript announced that Benedick; was gointo settle down in Jersev and lead the life of a country gentleman. There he proposed tc spend tne greater part, oj vtne year, visi tins' the metropolis for a month 01 two in the winter, perhaps. - Wb6n be reaches the city he immediately "ar ranges for a sitting at a' fashionable church on the avenue, and vthere he may be seen every Supday with his charming wife. Never, vvas thero a more complete conversion and never was - a penitent more blessed. JNew York Times. . In a Village Burying Ground. A friend of the listener, who lias been paying a visit to stho quaint and salty old ' town of Kitterv, was espe cially interested iu the village burying ground, which is picturesque and even more attractive than most old burying grounds : here in " New Eng land. "Many - of the inscriptions tell. as might be expected, a story of death at" the , hands of the sea, which has even within the present year strewn the . shores ol Kittery with wrecks. Here is one odd epitaph, which, the j Listener has po doubt, has been copied r before, but which for all that ha tan t cies may be- as new to a good many - others as it was to him. It is appended ! to the record of the death of Margaret ' Hills, consort of Oliver Hills (wives and widows- are- never anything -but ? 'consorts" and -'relicts" ota old grave stones), who died in 1803: ' - I lost my life in the raging seas -'A sov'reign God does as ho please : -. -t -.- The iXittery friends they dii appear ( & My remains they burled hera . - - s --r Boston TranscripL ,s " - - Tea' In Eassi 2 The tea generally drunk in Eussia is taken 'without' milk, and -is of a very light color, very strong and full flavored.- The best class of tea found in Russia is that imported overland from J.vUi3t31 A7 ttuuv IJVI WV v amium a a- ?china: and is usually pronounced by ' . thosa who have tasted it as superior - to any tea in the world.. The reason for this state of things is primarily, no doviht lhe fact that the overland jour- t ncy to Russia is soexpensi ve that only - tea of really first rate quality 'can be 1 orofitablv sent by this route. .. Then, a'ain, trie oesi jmna Lea is grown in- land, and too far; removed f rom the T ; coast td find its way readily to the ex port harbors, v Its easiest outlet is r the ' caravan route. San Francisco Argo- naut- .I'.Vi.. ." F ' " HOiE FIRSTr;- ABROAD NEXT. TEACHING PARROTS. Rlfforent Varieties of the Bird mad TVher . , - , They Come From, Asa reporter entered bird fancier's establishment a Tew days ago. hevas j.greeieu. wiur a. series vi jreiuj uxiu soreecties, a dascoraani welcome trom the parrots of all sizes and colors which were ranged round the room and apr peared to vie with each other in mak ing the greatest racket. : - v "We have just receded ia. fresji importation of parrots, add the bird man, appearing from the menagerie room in tne rear or me store, "ana rrom au prospecw mero are a cood many Que talkers ampng.tberri,' v "What varieties have youl" asked the reporter." :.' ' . ' y ' ? , "At the present we nave but three varieties-j-tho double yeilOMheadv tie Cuban and the African gray.! - , '"Which variety leads in intelli gence? asked the reporter. -. -:""! prefer the African gray; parrot, replied the bird man: :yet.the Cuban and yellow heads make excellent talk- "Where does the gray parrot come from?" -: He comes from the west coast of Africa. The colored men take ? the young birds from theirr nests and sell them to captains or sailors -of trading vessels. The best birds come from vessels plying between Africa and Bos ton." "How doer the trip across the ocean agree with them?" - "verviweil. They seem to -tret ac climated in their voyage and generally Tcnow how to talk some when they ar rive." j "How do you teach parrots to talk and, how long does it take one to learn?" j ; - - - "That's a hard question to answer. Different birds vary in intelligence. A bird will get accustomed to a place in about two mouths, and if given a lesson every day. can talk fairly welt! in that tune." ' "Hosv do you' give a lesson?" "The mpmingliours aije the best for teaching; Cover 'the cage with a cloth,, and then in a ; clear voice say a word or short sentence until the bird repeats it. Then commence with an other, and so on." When once it be gins to talk it is only a matter of time and patience before it improves. Ob ject teaching is a good plan," contin ued he bird man. "The parrot needs j omj w mm near a uarwng ug, a - crowing roosier or. a mewing cat a " w n.- " f , " "Suppose you have a bird that can- -talk and; won't talk, is there-any way - .to make it talk? "mere is no method tnat I am ac uuainted with, " 'unless it .be - that of starvation, but that's cruel, and should not be resorted to."-AWashington Uritic. .. TLand and Tree Holdess. The . Aryans are distinctively culti vators of the soU. But it is equally i our impulse to destroy foifests. Our predecessors and antagonist were lov- I ers of forest and hunting.) We call their life wild ; they despite ours as etfeminate. There is som truth on both sides. We are commencing to be . lovers of treea Th e passion will grow ; on us, and Arbor day becoihe a great ' festal .national day. We bad first to 1 develop such men as Barfiram, Mee-j i t-c - ttt-i j ci-Jjj i ' St8! a ."l.-iuL holders to. land and tree holders. : Wo shall live more largely outdoor phys ical Mves. bt Louis Crlobg-Democrat. " A rWlsophtcal View bf.It.;;.--;-"-:".-' iram. who "Well," said Uncle used to belong to a sin mg ciuo in; nis early aays. "i never leard a wo- man play like that worn we beard : m Boston that mght. It ras lust aw- fuL Mv ears ache even now. "Yes, replied his nephew, "she was rather loud, that's a fact. But, then, 1 her execution" - - V. . . j- "George," exclaimed the old gentle: man, as no seized nis. nepnew py uue arm "you don't mean to say that they went so far as that? Well, 'tisn't for me to judge them. I only heard her j once. -t r seems ternble-a woman, too.- But then they bad to. listen to her every night. 5 And they won't have to hear her again. Perhaps it's all for the best, George.1.' Boston Transcript. m a. . i ' ' . V .. -r .i ' i l l- rt o 7 7 nn v T -m r " - Society of Chemical Industry m Eng - lonri stnA 1 oinrrn low rapt woa mitifaii in h iKjTJp.r jtnfiriT.iTr. vnitct nfiinm T.nfl "7" Vu l , " 1 j-V V -ly - L- "i- j- 'a-T rapidity of combustion and rapidity of 'detonation'' of explosives, thata dy-J" namite cartridge 'one foot .in leiigth occupied only one twenty-four-thous--andtli part of a second in explosion. -At this rate" a ton tot dynamite; cart ridges about seven-eighths of an inch in diameter. placed end ' to end and measuring one mile in length," would be consumed in' aboufa quarter xf a second by detonating a cartridge : at - each end; ; while -a similar tram, if simply s ignited,-would occupy several minutes -for: - its combustion. New ? York Telegram; "".. ' - " - Erratic Briefs. ' ,C . Has an attachment for his victim the constable, 1 . " ""-J." . A business that has its ups and downs the driver's. ,; -;--- An asylum for! the " "busted" thoat rical manager a light houserJ- 1- ,. , In Tennyson's "rosebud irarden of r girls," it7 is supposetL' there : were no '.'widows weedSr ; - ' -It was a barber who remarked " that it took everything he could 'rakeand j aw wwi V v v j fcAa J scrape" to make him a Uving.-De troit Free Piess.-; ',Blr Walter Raleish's Repartee. "And what, my "dear fc'ir Walter t queried Elizabeth -"of her courtier, ; "wjiat didst thou think' of thy sov 1 areigu's speech . in parliament . this ; j-morn t -oessjl replied Sir Walter.: "So fine VTT K7, " Z : was it that neither Shakespeare nurt law delaya- Dierberger will always i ill j sen vuuiu Bay . w wj v ; ; heer "Harper's Mszine. 'myself could -say who wrote it "tor Tri Grand Prize of Paris.- - It is .now more - than a hundred years since" the fashion of horse rac--nig was introduced into France from England. "History has.5 preserved -'the name of a French norse named l'Abbie, belonginjVto the Prince of Gaemene, who in 1776 had the honor of beating several opponents that K had been brought over pfrom England. ' The following year - races took, place. at Vincennes, at Fontainebleau, and ; on the Plaine des SablOns,- but the pro moters of . these first essays were only; able to organize.their. nndertaking." ju a "..rudimentary manner ; they 'did hot even lay out a. regular;, course. 5 The revolution .interrupted the races. Napoleon .1 re-established them, but they : only came into nse,': they i began to take considerable developmentonly between Iandl8t0ilfr& In J.8S6 was created the Jockey.clab stakes, or French Derby. ' Old sports men yet remember with -, delight the joyous life they led during the weelr of the Derby.; The Paris Grand Prix, is of a more recent "Sate. .It was found ed in 1863 for three-year-old horses. Since then it has been run regularly each year except' in 1871,. the year of the -Commune. r Twenty-five horses have come off conquerors, in this trial, the most renowned and most numer ously attended race in our country.: Of these twehty-fi ve winners thirteen were born in" France, fen in England, one in Austri and the last 4n- the United States. These results' show that the international character given the race on its creation lias been well ' preserved.""; The ' stakes, without reck oning the increase caused by entries and forfeits." which as a rule amounts to about 40r000f, are 100,000f. Of this sum tlie VUle de Paris contributes one- half and the five principal railway companies the other. : It is a timely generosity, for the receipts which this ; fete procures the town and companies amply make up, on . account of the number of passengers and tne great- ness' of the traffic, for the' sacrifice which they have imposed on them selves. Paris Blustra. '. ' ' . Tlie Jester. There has probably never Jecn any greater degradation ol genius, nor many sights better able to make gods and men weep, than tire old employ ment of the court jester. After th3 custom of having a court fool had jjej sway during many , reigns, the fooj jrraduallv ceased to be the dwarf or imbecile who had been an' object of general ribaldry in the beginning, And became some one superior in intellect. if .not in pei-son, to most of those about him; a man very frequently of un doubted genius, not great f or master ful or well born- enough possibly to direct the Course ol empire or, be the crown's minister, in an age, ' too, of w,arriors, but often fully . capable of understanding aud criticising the de tails of statecraft a man of undaunt ed courag-e, and of the readiest . wit a 7 ZtT?V:J": and the sharpest tongue, yet he was S" iu -"tL? JIr L "u - a?L , - . cap .with bells and ah. ass ears and a cock's comb on it, a stick strung with bells and called a bauble placed in his liaixl, and thus made a mockery of already,- he was further rendered subject to the insolence of everv silly courtier or page who, as the old saying goes, did not know so muuu iu ma w uuu ui as much in his whole life as the other gradually, however,, from this low berinningi?thejcourtfool becameaper- dian ; is now by those that can com mand him; his repartee ceased to be of the ruder and grosser kind, but was a rennea ana amusing- pleasantry, . caustic and . pungent very ; likely. whence he became a person to be fear ed and appeased, while often he was a creature of pure witf and infinite jest. With the advance of ; civilization and the opening of the press to the peoplet "this, class of mind found its Opportunity in print, and the court ' fool ceased to exist. Harper's Bazar. . . Hnntlng Battlesnakes. ,v, Up in .Berkshire coupty, Mass., the rattlesnake i is hunted every summer for Ids oil, which sometimes fetches $2 an ounce Hero is a description - of the way the Yankee "outwits the ser pentt - - , - , . - !'. 'Choosing a hot summer day, the rattlesnake hunters saunter .' forth. .One man carries a flshpole, another a t . UUIAI IJ - , L1UU M llVUa r - i i i ,i , i f TT 11 Q abbaAJ.C74. VS ikv CbXAU tiUCii J JUS AU VI - I ainary.. picKerei r nooic online enu 01 1 Moving cautiously througlf ; . " .-.l r the grass, so-as noUo distui b the sleep- - ib - snake, who is almost" always f " , unjri in w,rv, loosedp.e of of th6men prods his snakeship' more or - less gen tly with the hshpole, being careru- also to hold the'- hook invitingly near to the, rattler's-. JieatL The , snake wakes' up" angry, makes a dart at the v nearest-. - Irritating v object, jrebich is the hshhook, - and i very :. accom modatingly - allows - the sharp tines to penetrate his jaws Tlie man with the flshpole holds the entrapped rat tlesnake at a safe distance, while his comrade moves, up - and severs the snake's head from his bodv. Tl body isi tlieu deposited id - a bag, and -the. hunters go in search of another snake. "Uhicago Times. ; : Cores the Lawa Delay. -- There is one man iu St. . Louis who appreciates the law's aelays. ' His name - is Dierberger, and in "Slay 1883, he 'Tdehberately shot-and killed a man in a horse car. On has first ttrial he was -promptly convicted 'of murder in the v first degree." The supreme court revers ed the judgment. -There was a new trial and he was sentenced... to twenty 'live jrears' impi-isOrimenLi -That-sentence seemed . too severe to Dierberger.- He appealed, got a new trial," and. was sentenced to ten" vears in prison. ' Bu even this concession did not satisfy -him ' Tlie case was taken, up ""on his renewed appeal, and was compromised oneear in jail and"f l.0)u nne. j script - I . KM.V I.I It V KlVHl JLLa.k3--- J4lStJ 111 1 rail" $f.50lPer Year in Advance; 1889. V : NO. 18 .CHAOS " WITHOUT - THE ' M1RRQR. Hovr Both Men mad -muM.mem ,Xot . v: Witliout - Irfmkinsr Glaaa. . . ' "Do you like this style Ofmural deoorationa, .Edwin!" inquires. Ange Una.in -Punchf alluding to thelooking riasses lwiui wmcn &noQia ner- be ovd , hubby' are surrounued. . 'fYes. my dear, for Ut .enables me to see. at every turn the; face and form.that I . most admire. The sentence was amj biguous . and ? was " misunderstood, of course, by Angelina; but Edwin hit the nail precisely on. the bead. Faw things are more agreeable than being constantly able to contemplate one's own features. - In ; sickness. -one s re flection in the glass provides sympathy and consolation, as well ; as reporting progress; in: health' it provides- com- pany;-What more can a man desire? Take awa v tlfe lookin ff lass'and see f WRar. a DiankiUe becomes I JN o longer can one examine one s tongue ; no lon ger can one watch' the play of one's eatures and discover in them the ever resh beauties so mysteriously hidden f rom; othersj & man ,aonot shave ; , a woman cannot, do jhor hairy the. world becomes chaotic without a mirror. At any irate, .it takes two people to do, wauuuk:: u wuai juiib caum wim li: and, after all, no man feels proper con- whether big tie is straight, and no wo man believes the judjrment of another who tells her, "You're vnot looking quite so well, "my dear, to-night as usual. - Lookmsr : classes have- now become such a recognized mark of civ ilization that a man who finds himself in a hansom cab which is unprovided in this respect feels -himself perfectly 1'ustified in giving, the" driver the very owest legal fare.y-Undoubtedly he is justihed. . mere seems to be scarcely any greater pleasure for a young man man to unve tiown jtlccadiiiy m a good hansom, and gaze first at the fair namseis on tne pavement, ana men into - the little mirror by his "side. Watching this, one begins almost to understand wny - Narcissus jumped into the water which served him as 'a mirror. Milton, apropos oi tnis sub ject, puts t words into Eve's mouth which are as true to nature as they are in themselves expressive:' Aa I bent down to loofi,' Just opposite, . A shape within the wat'ry gleam appeared, - Bending to look on me. I started iaclc. - It started back; bat pleased I soon returned.: Pleased it returned soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love. - .-a - .; 1oubtiess the - "watly gleam was the , first mirror known to mankind. The Jewesses . of old use to ai'range tlieu" sable tiei3ses bv the aid of mirrors of brass. 1 he ciassicaL-jmuror; was a thin, polished, slightly convex disk of bronze' tjilvcr mirroi-s were invented by Praxiteles about three ccntuiies be f oro thou Chi'istian era. . But though looking glasses, made" of glazed plates of hrigut metal were-used as early as 1250,- the modern typo or mirror was not invented till the berinninir. of -the Fourteenth- century, at which date it was manufactured in Venice. 'Lon don Globe. . ' . - y The Speed-of Fishes. . The speed of fishes is almost. an un known quantity, being, as Professor G. Brown Goode, of the United States fish commission, says, very difficult to measure. "If vou could cret a fish." said Professor Goode, "and put him in a trough of water l,wo feet long and start him at one end and make -' him swim to the ether -without stoppuigi the information coqjd 'bo easily ob tained, but fish are - unintelligent and Ihey won't do this.- Estimates of the speed of ush consequently are only ap proximated, and more or less founded pn guessing. You can tell, at a glance whether a fish is - built for speed - or not.- A fast fish looks trim and point cd like a yacht. ; Its head is conical Shaped, and its fins fit down close to its body .iiko. a lcnifa blade into' its handle. Fish with large heads, bigger than their : bodies, , and with short, stubby, fins are, of course, built for slow motion. - "" ' I "What are the fastest fishes?" " - -t'The predatory ; fish, those which live oh nre v. aro the fastest swimmers. The food fishes ? are generally "among . the slowest and are consequently easi ly captured.' Their los3 is recom pensed, however, by the natural law, which makes them- very prol ific in re production. . Dolphins r have ; : been kfibwn "to swjm around; an, ocean steamer,- and it is - quite -safe to' -say that their speed is twenty miles -iau hour but it may bo twice as much. Tho bohito is a fast swimming r fish Just what his speed is I-do not know. The head of the. goose , fish is very large-rtwcnty times as big as its body. It moves about very little, and swims at the bottom of the ocean The Span ish mackerel is ono of the: fastest of the ": food "fishes.. Its . body .is cone shaped and " ' smooth J as - burnishecl metal. 'Its speed is; as matchless aa thedolphin, and in motion it cuts the water like a' yacht '"Washington Post. .. . ' " - r '-- - i - : - , i Book Tltlea Formerly and Now. - - " Brevity nowadays seems to be neces sary for a r good title for a book;-and berein lies one striking difference be tween modern one syllable -titles and those of a couple' of hupdred years ago. . Here are a few from the days of Oi-omwell ; , "A Reaping - Hook well tempered for the stubborn . Ears of the coming Crop, or Biscuits baked in the Oven of Charity, carefully conserved for f ie .Chickens of the ; Church,, the Sparrows of the Spirit and the sweet Swallows" of Salvation ;V "A Pair of Bellows to blow otf the -Dust.cast upon John Fry ;" '-High Heeled Shoes, for Dwarfs in : "Holiness , "The Shop of the Spiritual Apothecary." " In 16S3 was -published, "Haee ,et Hie; or,-the Feminine Gender more worthy; than the Mascu line,' being a 1 y indication of ihatingenious and innocehfcex from the biting Sai-casms ; where wit: ihey ar daily aspersed by the ' .'Virulent Tongues - and" Pens of" Malevolent Men ;" and in -1749, "A History of Fitehum Cantum ; or, a Merry Dia logue between Apollo, FociisH' Harry Silly Billy, a - Griifin, ; ' Printer, a Spider Killer, a. Jackass, and the So norous Guns of Ludgate. Printer's Jgstfer. ... ' - "', ' v THE-C0UE1EE"4--", - in the centre-of a fine Cobacoo " grriiag:,aectioD,.makitjg irone"of the bee$ :, advertising medianisor .mercaaiits and . warebouhemen Jnr the adjouipg"countlfli. -Circulaied largely in PeraoHV Granville and ; . -Durham "counties la -K6ftia Chua, and' " ; Halifax county lrrfBia, ,: L -T -i - - JOB M0ILKL -,; of all descripdon neatly executes a anort" -1' notice and t. reasonable - pricesv'W&enda need of work give the .Cobbijeb atrial.;.' 'r XT - lAbouehere Ooea the Blff-roB " ' 'Talking about .boyish escapdea I ' have a vivid recollection," says -Mr." V" Henry Labouchere," "of a day when, - - happening to have more money than ' I knew;what to do with; I determined : todotbejbigtoff.4 . 1 sallied 'forth to the. largest UoteL in.Etoni engaged a"-...;' private room, and ordered ; the waiter "; -to i bring; me aT bowl of punch. The discreet functionary stared, but : brought it ; it was. then my turn to ' s! stare and wonder ' what on earth' I should do with the huge bowl full of ' a 1 fluid . the odor of - which made me feel faint, ,;At length, my eye resting upon a good old fashioned cupboard ; of antique oak. a brilliant idea struck ". me. I opened the door and poured ' r : the whole of the punch into the hase v ment of the, cupboard. ' .Then - after ; " waiting a few minutes to see whether ; the obnoxious liquor would - make in. roads upon the carpet," the "pattern ?t which was that of golden crowns on a -' . royal, blue ground, ; I rang the bell ; again,' and, on the waiter appearing, y in still more authoritative tones I or- 5 dered" another bowLC Never shall fl '. forgets the expression ;of i .liorrified ; amazement , which came over the . man's countenance. The' second po- ' tation wnt the way of .the first that y. is to say,':- into , the cupboard: an.4 " 'Alexander the Great,' after his victory over Darius, could -not' 'have felt -prouder than' I did when I called for ' vthe bill, disbursed ' ft sovereign for the-' . punch,-te.n shillings more : for the pn- -vate s parlor, tipped ' the waiter; and p: " -staggered j into the street, fully , perv suaded that theeyes of the whole inn 1 were upon jne,ovnich, in my exultant state of, mind. - were 4 tantamount . to . ; those of all Europe.. I, never went there again." Edinburgh Scotsman.' " . ..The .Terrier and -the llnlldos. I heard a good story a few days ago, v says a " correspondent c of i The i' Boston t Post,- which illustrates 'not only the -intelligence of dogs and their power of 2 communicating with each other, but that the same sort of experiencep which tend, to develop independent and self reliance in human beings ha v -a similar effect with tbem. A' gently man who owns a small terrier and & mastiff found that the terrier, was It) the habit1 of ' going down a" road oi x which he had occasion to pass a hbus where a bulldog was kept who hardS, ever failed to come out and growl aj and otherwise annoy him' But beyond this exhibition of , ijj humor the bulldog's spited. did not g until a, certain day, when" he . bit trJ i terrier quite severely. . The ;nbxt daj' the terrier went up to the mastiff an3v evidently hqd quite an interview wit a him on the subjectof the injury whiGa:: had been inflicted by the bulldog,, njjj at its " conclusion the mastiff ? accorfll. panied the little fellow down the roaja ,: When the bulldog: tiame out, appa ently prepared to renew his assault both the terrier and the' mastiff -a ' tacked him and gave, him a thorourd whippmcr. : the terrier especially playuijj a visor and persistency whi were remarkable considering' the tfcl idity which he had hitherto exhibit m presence of his old enemy. The Effect of Thunder en Dotrs.r - ' An interesting: : story was told -year of a - supposed mad (dog out - Litchfield county that was killed cause of its strange conduct; and af tej ward it was-founcl to have been onrj frightened . by thunder. vIt had ml twelve miles and - then " taken :- to h strange, hoase,, run . upstairs 1 jmd r$ty " fused to stir, and-so was shot . Ifwifi; ; a Scotch : collie,? and - those dogs ar peculiarly susceptible to and ' utter f .r ', cowed by thundcr.V There-Js,one- r4j ' this city not quite so bright as the snn ' shine in fair weather that becomes l v utter imbecile as soon- as thunder ; even a firecracker is heard; . , , , c . y Yesterdav afternoon, amid the Idiav tant rumble of a iar,-away storm, h4l" laid aside his : intelligence and- ra" : wildly off from . home without it . A. "-r long search for him proved futile," duA o in a couple of hours he turned up,' all l u wet and muddy, at his owner's ofBofv-.-ready to be 'escorted" home.; On "the" ' penitential journey t homeward -they f ; ' met another dog, not quite so big ae? ,.! this one, and at sight of the large and , , rufffed collie the strange dog dropped V; flat upon its -belly and ;lay cringing . and trembling, the -victim 6f . abject;, - fear, until the dog," scared' by a crack; t of thunder, had- walked proudly by.' There are all sorts of j co waitls. Ilart- f ; f ord Courant 2 i Tlie Oiling ol YVatrs by Birds. ri ..''.art J .? The English Army andtNavy Jdur 't nal prints a letter from a naval offi ' ' cer; -vho: suggests that ; the ancients.-1-: ; w.bc knew the value of ofling troubled waters, -learned this method from-'-obVy serving : the- sea birds. 'All the "fish eating lirdSj cape pigeons; petrels and ke, & eject oil from the mouth" the like, when captured. in - the soutn Atiau tic and south., Pacific the writer had 1 witnessed -sea birds floating in 1 spaces " of comparatively; quiet water when., . the sea around was rough. The uii-;:; usual smoothness of the water was ev idently due to considerable quantities f , of oil - deposited - by the biros. NoA 3 ' withstanding' ' this testimony,' how -'.'. ever, and occasional letters from ship 3 -captains bearing witness to their sue . ' cessful use of oil in tempestuous seas,'. " there is a certain vagueness about the matter which is unsatisfactory" Some 'attempt ought, The Journal thinks, to be made to elict reliable testimony on'..'' .the subject of -a more extended,' defl jiitfl.anU comprehensive character, tl -: S.'h t .Sometimes tVeot, f'-'-f ; A few days ago, in the trial of a case r; before an arbitrator, Ax-Judge of Prw- bate White ;contrived to 'convey an . unwelcome : idea , in . delicate phraseut -5 He was engaged to oppose the plain. - 'tifTsasc. One witness ' had said, that the plaintiff : ,sometimesn - went to ' ch urch-r-a piece of information evi : i dentty intended to repel some insinuation- bV'the Gx-iudse - touchinir the I plaintiiTf innate and habitual 'piety '1 am crkd." said the iudge., Vto hear that he sometimes goes to cnurch. No -; body, certainly, more needs sanctuaryr privileges than he. -If, however, he,' was ever caught out in a shower ofi divine grace be must have had on 9 strictly water proof garment Haijj; foixl Times, --'-"-
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 12, 1889, edition 1
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