Newspapers / The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, … / Dec. 16, 1887, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
ft THE DEMOCRAT. ; Hi WE MUST WORK FOR THE PEOPLE'S WELT ABE. SUBSCRIPTION: fl.BO PER YEAR. W. II. KTTCHIN. Owner. SCOTLAND NECK. X. C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER If.. lSbT. Xl'MHEIJ . VOLUME IV. z t : hi 4 1 J 1 J a f it Joy and Sorrow. f?iVt-ie"- : ' vS L'Ult i.S srfl.V. And somebody's l;'--tJ'! ls,,aJi For lights be-on bright ae,o,s the way, And a 1i u- with '-rnpe is clad! Sa.liK ;mi i la-In-s-. "r ,iv J-, 1 1 -rs side by sM' , ! ;u o: c a l:f r 1 i'-r. And tr;- wreathing of a bride. iuaght. vas are tilled with mirth, I'.il faces t '-nl iu prayer. And h'-art-beside tho cliry hearth A-.- n:.-hjl ly .stout despair! A'.). iT'itv ft: i 1 joy and ho;? no 1 hv thinae-t wall, A;: 1 ":i v o;i hearts which never ope, N. eba-t!y shr.dows fall: " I honeht.s .f the funeral train (' ;i;c to the festive thrones; .v !. that joy will dawn again, To st rie-n s.uls Ik'.'o:is. The t'.r is i- a sunny sea To tie- i : 1 1 rt : i of joy and mirth; lag o:,ly the frost and its memory ( '. to st rn-kc:i oi '(.- ;f cart lil S-.!:;-l;o.IV. h .'(!' is gay. A i!-1 somebody'.-, li-art is sad, 1 s bright a ro .- the way, . ...'.( a . a a a a ( ; ov.i . r wit h i r si c is ad . 1 -!: ha-.-s e'er : i " t . J it- sale by side; ii! - an 1 a s-i'.il I ii tear, :h. y an ulii. 1' i:iggs in St. Louis Magazine. I. i A BUNCH OF BANANAS. I V W A11.A K I'. I'KKI). I. prin f-oss. if -" 1. ' i ! i i leaned forward eageriy v. h..t tiie wrinkled oi l hag had : v. I hutuee -tcih r -again scrutinized I .a ace H'iere iicr, ana little palm extended kci ;:t tin i:i I ,rr brow m, leathery hand. Sh- will he a princess, if Again she i .;. ; i:.e " paused with evident re- -Speak Sarelv tl commauded Senor Valdez. e power of your evil art has v.ot do--, rtc I vdi. I; you can look i.ito th- future, toil me what is to befall my daughter, th" hot T In i line." '1 'he fortu.a-t : l. r threw her head !;: k with a proud air. She was a very I i v. oiuan. There wire people in San Bias who remembered her when she ci;::e to the village- tliree score and ten years before, and even then her hair was :ray and lier face wa wi inkleil. She chiiiiicd to be c::sider:ib!y over a cent ury old, and no one disputed her ward. "Senor, Valdez," said the brown faced Mbvl, turning her fierce black eves tu.l u;io:i 1 u;io:i him. "I knew vour ! father, and his father before him. For three generations I have been at the c rad'e of every new -lorn babe in the village. 1 have foretold whatsoever there was of good or evil in their lives. II as any one ever said that Perdtta made a mi-lake or math' false predictions?" "You misunderstand me, Perdit i,'' was tho humble reply. "It has unnerved me to gain daughter and lose a wife, all iu one bitter-sweet hour. My heart is tilled with mingled grief and joy, and 1 am impatient to know the future of mv last hope, the heiress of the most mag nificent estate inMexicj. Will she live or die: Will she bring jo or sorrow to my house r Perditu dropp'd the tiny hand of the pretty child, and haded her eyes with her hand. " I see, " she murmured, "the proudest 1-eauty that ever brought cur gallant cava'i-rs to her feet. Her gifts of mind and peis .ii are the wonder and delight of her father and all who behold her. Something tells m .' that sh 5 will be a princess if she lives to see her lSth birth day My eyes have folhnved her through lw-r Infancy and childhool, and down to the night before her fateful day. Be yo -d that I e.v.mot see. I know that she will be princess, if she is alive on tier iMh birthday. But I know nothing lie ! e. " rely puzzled, and uncertain whether to be Valdez hop- ul or despondent, Senor Perdita a lsursjof gold and ismi-scd her. II. Seventeen yea.! -; had rolled away. A republic had gone down in a sea of blood and an empire had risen. Maxi , rri i lian was on the thr ri"; the beautiful : Carlotta had surround d herself with an imperial court, rivalling the brilliancy of the one at the Tuillories; Bazine's h 'i ns covered the land, and it seemed the u-urp' is had come to stay. Among the Mexican hidalgoes who raided aiound the imperial standard, the wealthiest and most influential, was un doubtedly Setior Valdez. "The prediction js coming to pass," the senor would frequently say to him self. The republic is dead, and we have a ce.urt Kita is tii m swarming with princes. -t beautiful woman and the richest j. (.;,-,.. s jn Mexico. Why ' !'id she not b a princess Old Per- id a told the truth." Kin was pre.v-nffd m court, and even the e:: i-re-s looked at her in delighted admiration. "Your daughter will be a princess!" sh" whispered to Senor Valdez, who at that moment was locking at his gold-lac- 1 coat tails in a mirror. "She has the nob'est blood of old S; aia in her veins,1' replied Valdez. j i viid y. "Tliat does not need to be said," an swered the empress, taking the girl by tho hand and leading her to a quiet cor ner of the salon. The Scnorita Valdez had been educat cd by the best European tutors that her father's liberal oilers could secure. She v,ns mistress of every accomplishment t Carlotta mada no secret of the fact tha she liked her better than any of the ladies around her. 'She w ill be a princess '.'' old Valdez would repeat a hundred times a day. The senor moved to the capital, and established himself iu a palace, lie raised regiments for Maximilian, loaned the croverument monev, and lived on a lavish and extravagant scale. In his round of pleasure and excite ment Valdez came near forgetting a very important matter. One night it came upon him with a shock. "By all the saints!'' lie exclaimed, leaping from his bed. "In one week from to-day Kita will be eighteen! "What did the old witch say.' Iler words all depended upon an if. My daughter will be a princess, if. Ah, that if! I must see to it at oice. If any danger threatens Uita it is during the present week.'' The senor hastily dressed himself and ran into his daughter's room. Rita was sleeping quietly, and her face wore the glow of health. Valdez examined the fastenings of the windows, and then retired locking the door and taking the key with him. The next morning lie told Kita of hh fears, and secured her consent to remain indoors for several days. "We must run no risk," the old man said, as he stroked her head altection-atelv. III. On the morrow Iiita would be eighteen. Valdez passed the day in a state of dazetl illumination. lie refused to let his daughter come down stairs to breakfast, for fear that she would trip. "No coffee, my dear," he said, "A glass of lemonade is more wholesome. Heavens!'' lie shrieked. "What is it':'' asked the astonished girl. "There is a lemon seed in the glass," said her lather. "You might have swal lowed it." Hit a laughed. It was such a trifle, she told Ik r father. But Valdez would have his way. He Doured out another rdas-, and examined v(tv n;irtiole of food that came, into the room. He prohibited meat, because it might produce fever. He was just as particular about every thing, and before the day was over Iiit a grew so nervous that she did not much care whether she lived or died. Before night the windows were se curely barred, the room was searched to see that no acsassin had concealed him self, and finally at a late hour Valdez ! told his daughter that he was afraid to I give her any supper. I 4 'The truth is," lie said, "lam afraid I of poison." 'May I have a few bananas?" pleaded tie Sf, norita. i "Bananas," shouted her father. "Why i of cours-'. They cannot hurt you. Yes, you shall have a whole bunch." He gave his orders, and in a few minutes the tempting looking fruit was brought into the room. Valdez kissed his daughter, and locked her in. He did not tell her of his purpos : but all night long he paced the hall in his stocking feet with a pis tol iu his han I. The tirst glimmer of dawn came through the windows of the palace. "Kita's eighteenth birthday!" said the happy father with a smiling face. "She is safe, and what is more, she will be a princess !" Gradually the servants Vegan to stir, and the bright sunshine bathed the walls in a Hood of glory. Senor Valdez quietly unlocked the door to the well-guarded chamber, and stole in on tip-toe. In a moment the wildest shrieks and cries rang through the palace. The servants rushed to Kita's room, and the unutterable horror of the sight lie fore them struck even the boldest dumb. Senor Valdez lay ft ret died on the lloor in a dealh-l;Ke swoon. On the bed lay Kita, her face whiter than the snowy pillow. There was a horrible, brown, hairy something on her throat ! One of the women approached gently, and tore the ugly thing away, and killed it w ith her slipper. It was a tarantula, and it had done its deadly work only too well. Kita's throat bore the mark of its poisonous sting. The servants understood it all when they saw the bunch of bananas in acinar by the bed. The tarantula had crawled out during the night, and had stung the lovely victim to death wdiile she slept! Valdez recovered consciousness, but it was only to be driven from the palace to the asylum. To tho day of his death he remained a gibbering maniac, without the faintest gleam of sanity. Perhaps it was a blessing to have his mind so com pletely wiped out. WhcH the Empress Carlotta heard of the death of her favorite sh at once dis continued her court entertainments for the season. The empress felt the shock so severely that it is believed by many in Mexico that her subsequent lu-ntal troubles rc;diy date 1 from the death of the unfortunate Kita. Atlanta Consti tution. Mulirooin-(;roviit:r in Illinois. A company was recently orguniz-jd in the city of Chicago which h i ; ieu sed live acres of the tunnels of the Utici Cement Manufacturing compmy for twenty years for the production of mushroom?. Tues day, II. S. Weaver, sup:rintend'jnt of this new industry, left for France in the interests of the organization and wl 1 bring back a supply of mushroom spawn imb: dled in rich compost, a handful of which spawn or seed would be sulhcient to p'ant acres. There are several gen tlemen interested in this new industry, which is surely a novelty in this j art of the state, or probably in the United States, for that matter, for, as far as known, no such large company exists iu this country. The method of raising this cryptognmic plant as pn,po-ed in the tunnels will doubtless be interesting to our readers. There are num bers of these subterranean cham bers owned by the Utica Cement Manufacturing Company, but only a few of them will be used at first in the mushroom industry. The soil or manure will be brought from Chicago by the carload and made into bids in the tunnels and the spawn set therein. A crop can be grown every twenty four hours, and two crops if desired, ns all that need be done is to clip oil the head and the fringe will, inside the next twelve hours, produce another mush room plant. The experiment of growing this delectable article of food has been tried in English mines, but with the im purities of the gas, air, etc., it was not possible to obtain success a id the at tempts proved fai.ures. rihe air of the tunnels is not impregnated with foul odors, is of an even temperature, and the entire conditions are su h that a failure cannot possibly result. The com pany at first proposes to put in sufficient beds to yield 100 !udie!s per day, which sell in the Chicago market for 30 cents per pound. -La Salle (III.) Press. (Jiwer Indian Customs in IJrazil. The Indian prayer meet ings in the country arc rather a singular admixture of superstition and devotion. A doll is dressed in silk clothes, with candles on each side, a good bit of tinsel work about it and a ribbon tied about its waist. It rests on the table. Eight or ten Indian men stand around; one has a large drum, which he beats continually. The women sit on the lloor, while the men sing prayers to the faint, the women responding. They commence praying about ? or 8 o'clock and keep it up two or three hours. Then the women with their little children khs the ribbons, asking favors of the saint. The men then go through the same ceremony. The saint is then locked up in a box, and dancing commences and lasts the rest of the night. Frequent potions of whiskey are imbibed by the men, colfee and wine by the women. When the men become too drunk to dance longer they retire to their hammocks and sleep until sober. Pittsburg Gazette. Practice. A Texas parent had a son who took piano lessons at Professor Zweihcer's house, but was supposed to do his prac tising on the piano at home. The parent had a suspicion that the youth did not practise much. One day he said: "Tommy, do you practise regularly on the piano when I am down town?" "Yes, pa." "Every day?" "Yes, pa." "Ibwr long did you practise yester day?" "Two hours." "And to-day?" "Three hours." "I am glad to hear that you practise so regularly." "Yes, pa." "And next time you practise be sure you unlock the piano. Here is the key. I locked the piano and put the key in my pocket a week ago." Sif tings. A Severe 3Iental Tax. "Bobby," said his mother, "I told you not to forget to bring up tliree scuttles of coal before you went to school, and you only brought up two." "I know, ma, but I forgot the third one. Three scuttles is a good many for a little boy like me to remember." New York Sun. Hoth Tired. "I've been making mince pies," said a w ife, as the after-dinner coffee was brought on, "and I'm very tired." "And I've been eating mince pie," remarked her husband, "and I am tired, too," and he bowed his head upon tho table. New York Sun. A New Process. Patron It's astonishing what a num ber 01 new artistic designs have been invented lately. " Poor Artist Y'es, indeed, sir. I have ofren drawn on an empty stomach, Thl Bits. LOBSTERS. Some Facts Concerning the Warriors of the Deep. Their Voracity Leads to Their Easy Capture. During the early period of its growth, says the Baltimore Sun, the lobster cists the whole of his shell frequently in the se.-Ond year every two months but as its size increases a new dress is less often required, till at last, when arrived at the fullness of physical dignity, its armor grows as it were rusty, and becomes coated over with parasitic shells. Dr. Beard tells us that "the lobster only increases in size during the short period of molting, but this increase is so great that it is almost as difficult to be lieve the cast off clothes ever fitted the large fleshy mass lying languidly beside them, as that tho gigantic genie ever came out of the jar the lid of which had been in an evil hour removed by the Arabian fisherman." When the pea is sufficiently ripe the lish has the power to place her eggs un der the protection of her over-arching shell, where they advance gradually to maturity, one lobster producing from 20,000 to 25,000 eggs each season. The spawn is thus carried by the mother till nearly tit to commence independent life, and when cast oil it soon gives birth to the young lobster, which grows rapidly, but pases through many changes before it assumes the form' and color with which ordinary observers are more familiar. Enormous as is the increase from a single female lobster, their numbers are considerably diminished by predatory fish, which devour them with great avidity and relish, but we arc told that the mother protects her progeny to the utmost, and by no means ceases her care with the deposit of her spawn, but con tinues it in a very pleasing and interest ing manner longer than in most animals of a far higher grade of organization. Many fishermen assert that they have frequently seen during the season the obi lobsters with their young around them. "Some of these infants have been noticed at six inches long, the old lobster with her head peering out from under a rock, the young ones playing around her. She appeared to rattle her claws on the approach of the fishermen, when herself and young family took refuge under the rocks; the rattling was no doubt to give the alarm. This is told by old and experienced men, with out the slightest concert or question of collusion. "The lobster's home," says Dr. Peard, "is in the purest water, beneath which he walks through brown and tangled forests of palmy weeds, a warrior in full panoply, ever ready to do battle with all comers. It is here in rocky ground and in the fastnesses such localities afford to a creature so frequently defenseless he feeds chiefly on the aquatic vegetation which surrounds him, chopping up his salad with the large claw, little con fcious how his example may be followed by man at a feast at which he may be the principal invited guest. Lobsters and crabs varjr in their tastes. Lobsters will be attracted by almost any description of offal, the more putres cent the better: the crab will refuse to enter if the bait is not sweet and fresh. Dr. Blakey says the lobster is consid ered an unclean eater, and is often called the scavenger of the seas. He is a fierce marauder, pouncing on de ;d or living substances of all kinds. Heap pears to have a powerful sense of smell although no distinct organs for this of fice have yet been detected. His car nivorous voracity leads to the anima.'s destruction. Baited traps made of strong twugs, like the common wire mousetraps, are lowered into the water and marked with a buoy, and these be come the most effectual means of cap turing this epicurean cr ustaccau. IJorine: a Square Hole. A man has spent fourteen years in solving the problem of boring a square hole, and he has succeeded. A company is organized to put his invention on the market. It is simply an oscillating head with chisel edges and projecting lips, which cut out the corners iu ad vance of the chisel. The balance of the machine is an almost exact counterpart of the old-style boring machine. It will cut a two-by-f ur mortice in from four to five minute-- and do it with perfect accuracy- that a carpenter cannot com plete in less than half an hour. Hal ifax Critic. Care of Canary IJinls.- A writer on the care of canary birds says that a :nw apple, cabbage leaf and 1 plantain should be provided. Aim to j give one or the other of these things ! It Couldn't Help railing, every day the year round. O ca-ionally j "Pat," said a 1 American to an Irisli give a piece of bread soaked in miik, j man w ho had lately landed, and who but never cake or candy. Once a week i was staring at Niagara. "Pat, did yo:; give boi'ed egg mixed with cracker, j see such a ia 1 as that in the old coun Never hang any birds in a draft or the 1 try?" wind, and never set them out of their! '"Faith, and I niver did: but do ycr cage. In moulting time give a dusting ! -'', shouldn't it full? What's to of c-.yeune pepper to their egg and j previr.t its failin' l That's what I'd like cracker, or bread and ruilk The (iame of rro?resiTo Observation. " Progressive Ol servati n" is t!e; nsme given to a new Boston g.,m' th .t has been taken up w ith interest in o i tl circle. It has an advantage over "d-e;-key jarties, " and progressive euchre m that it teaches something useful. The hostess provides five table, at each t f which are seated f ur or live pwe, or even more if desir 1. Table No. 1, or the "head" table, represents the sense of sight, the highest sense. Table N . 2 is touch, No. :j hearing. No. 4 sn.c'.l, and No. 5 taste. There is a teacher for each table, and the teacher is M'.pph.d with a variety of objects suited to the use of the table. For instance, the teacher at the sight table holds before each player in turn a collection of small object on a tray, and after the lapse of half a minute takes away the tray and aks the player to name the articles. Or the teacher gives each person a single article, and after a short inspection calls fur answers to all the questions that can be asked about it. Score is kept by the teacher, and the player making the least mistakes progresses to the next table. At the close of the evening the phiyi t who has made the most "progressions" is awarded the prize. The variety of objects for the several tables is only limited by the teacher's ingenuity and the resources of the house. At the "touch" table the players close their eyes and depend on the sense of feeling alone for their impression of the1 article given them. This is not so easy as it may be supposed. For the "hearing" table a musical instrument may be used and the test given on a note or combi nation of notes; or a number of thin glasses may be used in a like way, the player being asked to give the number of a particular sound which is given alone after being struck in a regular succession. For the ta-te and sme'l tables the kitchen can be drawn upon, and such things as Hour, meal, powdered maccaroni, corn starch, granum, and others, whose tade and smell in t : c ...w state are either not very pronounced or not familiar, are good for the purpose. The game is not so much like "child's p'.ay" as may be thought. True, it had its origin in the "plavs" of kinder garten, but, as developed and enlarged, the idea proves very well adapted to the entertainment of grown people, who are rational enough to like a little sense with their fun. Minneapolis Tribune. Sino'iing Vn'ler Water. "Do you know how that trick of smoking under water is done?' show man the other day. "You'll - c it tried in the swimming tanks. It looks strange, I admit, to see a man go under water with a lighted cigar iu his mouth, smoke calmly at the bottom, and come to the surface with the ci ;ar burning as nicely as if he were smoking in his easy chair. It is a trick, but it requires practice. I used to be quite proficient at it. Just as I threw myself backward to go down, I won 11 flip the cigar end for cud with my tongue and upper lip and get the lighted end in my mouth, closing my lips water tight around it. A little slippery elm juic ; argle d hef eiore going in prevents any accidental burning of the mouth. Going slowly down back ward, I would lie at full length on the bottom of the tank and blow smoke through the cut end of the cigar. Just as I leached the surface again another flip reversed the cigar, and there I was smoking c ihii'y. The reversing is done; so quickly that nobody notices it."---Philadelphia Call. Iliillels Witho.it Billets. The question has cften been raised, what propoition of balls, t x-hanged by hostile armies, will hit their mark and kill. Difficult as it istosolve it exactly, some approximation may be arrived at from the number of balls estimated at 20,000,000 which were fired by the Germans in the war of lsTO-71. The French army lost, in dead and wounded about 140.000 men. According to this, only one ball out of 1 l:i tired hit its man, and assumirg that on an average only one man out of seven hit was actu ally killed, it would s- ( m that only one rifle-ball in S."m proved fatal. If it is fur ther considered that the number of men wounded and killed by the guns of the artillery are included in the above esti mate, it may safely b said that not over one rifle-ball iu ptoO fired proved to be fatal. Boston Beacon. Japanese Agitators. Young men clad in thr' garments for merly worn by student; have been numerous in the streets of O-aka. Japan, lately. They lecture in out of the way corners, and even iu crowded streets when no constable is at hand, upon political subjects an 1 lr. iu-:::t!y urge lr. qll' me uoetrmes 111:1-. - ;i: s the life-blood of the News. p-.e." ( I tor know. ' M IKNTU IC SCKArN. ( y of molten iron, ro .sting f .cver.il tor.-, ti . d dnri: g . has ! en ft e :' It h.:d a Ii -w A i.etto'.eUnl Mr. W. liamsev. hil i- oe-n to I"? in corn ret ion minister T war os for a com- he'd i:: St. Pcttr ith which the Bu ;n ( if :t JrU0 o' oo j'otjr pact v.d pr.u th- tl battery f r electric lighting with incandescent l.ttnp. If tow !:. wen- hud nut w ith the stieeti in the diagonal d ire 1 1 ions northeast and southwe-t, r.oi t h e-t and -oU'.heat, and th- ",!; -dsir.i'.'g into ail the rias sense i time during tvety day in the year, the ! effect would be t het ring and sal ut.iry. j . Disa-fers to eyesight are evidently j mote eomm-n than is gem rally ?up- 1 iM'cd, iud-dng from the statement , that more than " '. ' glass eye i are inad annually in Germany and Switzerland. An artificial eye seldom i lasts mere than five years, the secre- ; tion of the glands turning it cloudy. ; The Swedi-h count. M. B j -rust j ma, suggested more than forty year ago, in ; a book on " The The'gony of the Hin doos," that, as both pole mu-t have j been cooled to a suitable temperature at , the same tim -, the earth might have j been peopled from the north pole with j its white races, and from the south pole j with its colored races. ; Observations made at the late South Kensington Aquarium upon the effect of temperature on fish, show that the dog fish, mullet, conger, skate, flounder, lass, cod, trout, cattish, pike, and carp are extremely hardy, and can exist in a temperature ranging from .'.1 deg. to 71 deg. The gurnard, wrasse, bull-head, sole, bream, cray-fish. blennie, perch, dace, tench, minnow, chub, roach, and gudgeon are sensitive to extremes of temperat lire. Perhaps the statement may be of in terest that the little screech-owl is get ting much more common in the 'vicin ity of cities m which the Fnglish sparrow has become numerous, and that the import(d birds will find in tlii- owl as bold an enemy as the spar raw hawk is to them in Kuropo, and ev. ii more dangerous, since its attacks are m ale toward dusk, at a time when the sparrow has retired for the night, and is not so wide awake for ways and means to escape. 1 Pertinently to an expression of doubt by Mr. David A. Wells in one of his articles on M ieo, as to th'' Aztecs hav ing knowiedge or making u-o of metal tools, Mr. W. W. Blake, in the "Ameri- can Ant iquari 1 n, ' exhi bit ion in t h ; of the N-tion-d idols, beads, an me;:l ions as being on A roioeolo gical Booms Museum of Mexico, I engraved chops of of gold; lip-ornaments and other articles of silver; numeious tools, weapons, and ornaments of copper; and "chopping knives" of copper, which are supposed to have been used as monev. Dogs as Sentries. The idea lately taken in earnest in i the German and Kusian armies of using dogs for military pnrp ss has been generally talked of as an innovation. '. This, however, as M. Mcunicr shows in an article in the Kevue Seient itique, is a , mistake. Dogs of war, it appears, were well known to the great nations of an cient times, and Greeks and Komaris ! and Jews and Gentiles made use of the ! fearless, intelligent animal, whose valor is now once again to he put to the test. The Greeks had dogs in every one of their fortresses; and Ih Blaze, one of M. M'-unier's authorities, tells a good, story of an outpo-t occupied by strong watch-dogs only. Opposite Corinth, i facing the sea, such an outpost wa? situated, guarded by fifty dogs. One ' night the enemy began to disembark. The garrison was drunk rmd the dogs had to keep back the agrc-eors They fought like lions, and forty-nine of them were killed. The only survivor, Soter, rushed away in hot haste, gave the alarm in the camp, and the enemy was driven back. The Kounns, as every one knows, were h-ss turbinate on a similar occasion where the geese perform'd the task of the dogs in calling the atf-nt hn of the soldiers to the Gauls scaling the walls ol the Capitol, while the dogs were fast asleep. As a puni-h.nent for the un faithful servants a religious c remony, at which even Plutarch ha 1 still occa sion to laugh on beholding it. w,i-thereafter annually performed at Rome. Its chief features was that "-om. dogs were taken through th" streets with great pomp, whippel at every 'ro-s-rotd and in every public place, and finnily hanged on a cross of the wvd of the elder tree, near the temple of Youth. An Fngageinent Winch V- Kept. "Stone wahs a Nor iron b.r g the stow' j -;. drearv ebs -t it I ! !- f gr of e ;ba' ks in the bank's ti n it v vau.t . "Don't make suat ;i ni hil die of registered boa '." cried tlie oad, ::et to it. ti. greenbacks, ii o.aie vou're not "MniT:' repded "Yi.u can't ge out negf'liai.' engage);! . but I have it with the c I articular little hi-r ta- a. arrow iiighi. "' And it was kept. Tid Hit T-twn tt C3rtir. ' f tj wr U. ( Her tk v. : t ble fa I: f rtV, s:hi)j ;;i :;,rrv :-v An I xsiM pse.k :'.' h-vi : .., M !.!- :; n l :"h -. i'a'. m t! wn.rful l'y ft ! 1 t .. fr,,ns t, wm t- w t'U4' ' ! ' !, Ti tt '.!.r tai-T h'. ---. i.. That ir haunt is? aa I ) i v '.a . That irf.s-t fuson t ie.'Ve , . M.a'! h .! 'i v.t a ! '. (':'. ' ?: t- fa ! fr ''-I ' t ,-i-t n Ah tha! . n -h i.'. 1- Ah that pv! tu, "i a ' ' ! Ant Wto :::' lav. 1 t'.v I 1 - : i T Shah 2ii4 lit into l '"- w - : i . : V. . 1 -s i. Ill MOKOl S About the first thmj '. t at m ii th sight of hand. A ti rt I ast tail r y e. it .". a! .ty h oi good at figures. Htlf the boys to d;, hi i.tth r be drum maj -r- than pr -.0 "Won by no te r.iti h. " s tic h:i t'b-frvod wlien -he 1 c.p f !; w ' e.i. The only people wh ;te f.vl ! g i -ting into court are i.r.t j : - a:.! folk-. Waiting for a letter th it :.'. . not a c lit aim 't in '-to w.u: sng b-t da- W ward sneeze. A man may ! behind ia ' . k . . ! i-d still show puh. Thi- b so 11 h n wheeling a barrow. The emperor of !u ia p! r. th' net. ( 'an t his !m tic r il r- : : nihilist ic a ti vit y. The infin who ur.ee " 'hub. where are thy charms ;'' v, .. , a 1 i-i'.---man who didn't a I via t i- Old lady 1 in ! rug -t !'.-, -ill !". : "W hat am I to take th - n. h i.t, nonny;" Sonny: " 'I'a i' i i von mouth, mum; tam't to b- nh b a ,,,." When a bov is cm ;h! m : 1 hod, th tir-t tiling he - 1- .. v ..: . - ; follows; "J vva'li't goi;,' I" ! d :o.:.e ol ycr appbs. " Toil li-1 : "You Ian1 a t'.'.e t o-n, i: dei 1 1 '. ' Farmer : Y -. I r . a one of th-- l e-t." T.0.1 i W -a - he1 Iliosf profit able -oil1 . f i e 1'.. Farmer : "i- initio r Bit ills to I ea a.ol C u'h e. I f tea atnl f !b . i . - 1 - h h dethroned from t b ir ;;!; pel ot p!a , it b 1 U , : 1 . . 1 . 1 beverages ma v b i a them. Mate, V. hi ii t h- I -I ! i . a ! ,., I. hot t hr.:gh a sii 1 1 1 o o . - 1 , linn h i i her t h 11 t he M - 1 1 t 1 -i the ( hilM'-e laf in t I;.;1,1-; ! ;. i I ' and the 1 oca phiei ar 1 .1 . p 1 pet i tors. Tie- .e.. lo . f th. - . I e , Mauritius, W t led)' - .eei l,;..d would not giv e up t h k hi .' t 1 1 : best t ea or colfee. '1 1 t :. ; " ' liollS O f J " o j ,!e IV ho 1 1 ! 1 :i n I a O! . ,!, ! the leave., of v.-iviii -! ! -it of piment o, and the p 1 r 1 1 id .o- ! i 1 v . -1 : t bund 1 ed s of n:,- a- p' i t I p! i ' the ingredients uhb h th ho i. . e Seeks for in such be va i v;' I l.e-i of these are the a' k abe 1. ". L. n 1 . present by a proportion ( ab. p .; p 1 cent, in ordinary t ,, and t .i 01 a. 1 (.il vv lii.li give to t ha! aed t . :, . ; , u ppe ltd favor. 'i he ( hi e -e v, ,r. :. ' drink new t a b - au i' :-t . - ' 1 much of the 1 ,tti r i i di :,!. ..nd is sometirin s actually intov..- .' : .'. .B-ei-don Telegiapli. Sliek to the I t. The 1 iflif a! t v wi'li runny a. s h 1 hat they think t h y ktiw I" tt'-r th ..a t ,. writer of the pie e.., or 1 . a t . a a B me, what will please, and - . to..- ao : t 1 with the tet. 'J'lii- l- - h r i ':.! co To such an ;n tor W. . Gi !. it .a,. I, w hiie reh arsing ' Tie M 1 bo "'1 .1 n.u-t read the I in . a ! i. tv ii:;-.'' thern. and make ( !, ec - ' '! think 1 am oi i "t 1 ', to a a b r stand without t'hling iu-," v. as th: resentful reply. You certainly er-," 1 ' .rr. -i th' aiit hor. "And I ought to know, ' - a i the r.c tor. "You ceitai'i'y oagla. ' a a the dry resp.,::s..: hut as Mr. Gilb. rt - ii 1 1. ' h big furtiier. the a to; b an.. . a: r re-en!fu', though oh. oh ; t. li b- a. I afterward that he g..f a. r- ap;h :a-e from rul'ive'-i p .a.'.- ", to the text t h 1 a w hen attenq 1 1 i g '.. it. struggling "itli Mcmon. Pohay w.it -pea-hag 1 : 1 a a- hi- .- aet '- a r. I f ,r ',:'.: ' n, ':-' - :. ; i b'-er; gai a g out of the -. j adow p. 1 pi. a fnhv t li u eht i a i .rt of a : iy. What ;nakes vou 'a 'To .-, b-hayr a h d hi-, an :t. Why, m 1 !o.d v.f tint I a. r-a : . b r to a-i- f r : : . g 1 a 1 I a. r -. to raa. N". Same v, hat IVr-oiial. A :;a:apha. av iii. t a a. hov.- ' I ne.gh or. 'Ah. -aid the h.tb. r. ;. .a h . yoi r !c. ! oa vo..r La k a; iy th;. a.- r-a g "V's." r d t: h a- . .. hi eg inP ally at t a'1 ".a'- v 1 1 aa a i a 1 -1 b rat ia r a . . I ' . h. ,, oniv go o . ,.'-. i 1 -ill in-s. :t7 ii
The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 16, 1887, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75