The San Saba Weekly News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 8, Ed. 1, Friday, January 8, 1892 Page: 2 of 4
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N
xIftyscrcn out of ninetyseven high
tchooi principals ia Michigan arc vromea
From the figures of the new United
States Census it appears that tho mort-
gage indebtedness in Iowa amounts to
520 for every family
The Chicago Seies calculates that
thirtyone thousand individuals own all
the wealth in America The other
04000000 odd it adds go shares on
all the poverty
It is computed that although the
United States have contracted forty per-
cent of all tho railways in the world
fully onethird of the money invested in
these roads belongs to Great Britain
The capital invested in electric roads
is now at the end of five years 50
000000 Horse railroads have been In
operation for sixty yet marvels the
Chicago Pott the investment la them at
present day is but 5S000000
Tho fact that the insane population of
Massachusetts i3 increasing at the rate
of 200 a year emphasizes the demand
declares tho New York Commercial Ad
tcrtistr for greatly enlarged accommo-
dations for lunatics in that State
J
our dilereat mountain peaks in Idaho
rom thirteen to twentythree feet
lower by actual measurement than they
were fifteen years ago and it is believed
that this tcttling is going on with many
others Tho idea is that quicksands
have undermined them
The French Government has decided
to cultivate tho issonadra guttapercha
trca in Algeria The tree has been all
but exterminated ia Singapore and un-
less a Rood substitute is found our sup-
ply of guttapercha for telegraph and
other electrical purposes will soon come
to an end
Frofcisor ThcmasD wight of the Har-
vard Medical Sehool in a discussion of
WhatisRighthandness says in Scrib
ner Tho most perfect ambidexter I
ever knew whose skill in writing and
drawing with either hand is proverbial
has declared that be cannot drive a nail
carve or whittle with his right hand
3Ir Pillsbury of flour fame it is
reported has together with a Scotch
capitalist by tho name of MacDonald
purchased 2000 acres in Minnesota and
will devote the same to tho cultivation
and growing of flax Tho same gentle-
men are also absut erecting the Minne-
apolis Linen Mills which are calculated
to jive employment to 2000 hands
Young Bulgaria is determined not to
ibc behind the age There has been a
Tremendous row at a grammar school
in Philippopolis because of the dismissal
of a master who was allege to have
given teaching that was not approval by
his superiors Tho boys rebelled and
fought the police with stones and re-
volvers but were happily brought to
submission by the appliances wielded by
the city fire brigadeT
High German officials arc making n
campaign against superfluous verbiage in
the reports of their subordinates In the
Danzig district the local police and city
officials have been ordered to drop from
the official vocabulary the phrases most
obediently most respectfully and
most sincerely The customary I
havo the honor to report etc with
which all documents from lower officials
have begun since Frederick William I
has alio been drepped
According to the Mew York Independ-
ent tho hatter and pottery and glass
making industries have been recently in-
vestigated in some of the States The
results it says show much shortening
of effective working life in these occupa-
tions Too often manufactmcrs are slow
to introduce such appliances as diminish
dust or counteract injurious processes
Often too the workmen aro sot ready
to avail themselves of improvements
W need more stringent laws on this sub-
ject
An Interesting experiment as to the
northeast extension of the gulf stream in
the Arctic regions has just been made
notes the Atlanta Constitution On July
31890 a message was placed in a bot-
tle and dropped overboard oSE West
manna Island Ireland The message has
just been returned to the writer at Liver-
pool having bem picked up in the Nofs
f jord Lodofen by the steamer President
Christie on January lath The bottle
traveled 890 miles in six and a half
months
A report ofabandoned farms in Massa
chossctts forms an interesting feature in
the twentyfirst annual report of the
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics The
number of such abandonments has reached
MM of which CS3 are without build-
ings The aggregate acreage is 120309J
and the assessed valuation isl07C32S
Farms with bnilding3 aggregate C6C50
acres the total valuation of the property
being 31013 while the farms without
buildings aggregate 5885Si acres and
are valued at 3S6309 The report
shows that tho abandonment has been
almost entirely confined to the western
half of the Commonwealth
Mrs Isabella Bird Bishop the author
of Unbeaten Track in Japan has re-
turned to England after a futile endeavor
to visit Lkassa the capital of Thibet
By bcr late husbands will Mrs Bishop
was requireu to establish a hospital in
one of the remote coiners of the earth
> nd he bequeathed a large sum for this
purpose It was on her return from
founding this hospital in Cashmere that
Mrs Bishop made the attempt to pene-
trate into Thibet as far as the holy city
of the Buddhists No violence was
offered her but sho was assured that
every official who assisted her would be
executed1 and every district that received
her fined to that the reluctantly rellQ
quirted Uer design
IWCONQUEriEDi
High o er the citys roofs a stormblown
gull
Driven landward from the se
Battles against the winds without a lull
Yet inland farther ever back
Helpless is tossed with flying rack
Eur mejsonger of constancy to me
I Joy to seo him facing ocean still
As beaten souls through storm and night
May changeless face tie hidden light
Ey heavensent power and strength of stead-
fast will
it ADeW HotceJrinYouths Companion
A LITTLE CHILD
by iielen fobrest okaves
It was a cheerless September afternoon
tl c gray sky hanging close to the salt
marshes that seemed to close up the
horizon and tall reeds swaying in the
moaning wind
A single sailing boat was heading for
the open sea and Miss Nancy Dear-
born resolutely digging for clams on the
beach looked out toward the dull flat
landscape with a shudder
Her niece Fanny Sweet was with
her Both were dressed in strict accord-
ance with their employment in calico
gowns with knit worsted jackets and
scarlet shawls tied ojrer their heads
Miss Nancy was tall and gaunt Fanny
Sweet Sweet Fanny as the girls of
the neighborhood jokingly called her
was small and round acd rosy
The wind which turned Miss Nancy s
nose to a tine purple only added n
fresher glow to Fannys peachlike
chcckSj so unevenly ctocs Dame Nature
dole out her gifts
Acd as the two women dug diligently
in the wet sand and piled their dripping
trcasurctrovc into the splint basket be-
side them a brisk dialogue went on
I for one shan t consent to it said
Miss Nancy Its bad enough for you
to many a fellow like Asa Litchfield
with nothin but a mortgaged farm and
his own two hands when jou might
have Hebe Holt with the whole rubber
factory at his back
Fannys checks were real peony color
now
I wouldnt have Hebe Holt she
cried not if he had ail the money in
the
Thatll do curtly observed Aunt
Nancy I heerd all that aforo no
need to repeat it Its bad enough Im
savin for you to make such a choice as
that anyhow but when Asa has the im-
pudence to ask you to take them two or-
phan young uns of his sister s to bring
up into the bargain I say thats the
last straw on the camels backl
I like children Aunt Nancy I
Get out sharply retorted the old
woman Children I meddlin torment
in little things I dont blieve theres a
creetur livin that really likes children
If Asa was to bring you a pair o young
rattlesnakes or a pair o catamount kits
in a basket youd say you liked cm 1
But Aunt Nancy
Will you let mo get a word in edge
wayst ieremptorily demanded Miss
Nancy I never see such a one as you
be to talk What I want you distinctly
to understand is that I draw the line at
them young uns and I refuse to give my
consent
They have got to be provided for
Aunt Nancy
Well where s the poorhouse and all
the asylums were tiled to pay fori
Asa never would allow
Neither will I said MtssDearborn
unearthing a whole colony of different
sized clums A I wont hear onoher
word Im sick o the whole busi-
ness A brief silence ensued during which
Miss Nancy dug assiduously onnnd
Fanny followed suit as well as she could
stopping ever and anon to brush away
the tears that blinded hct vision
We dont seem to hev much luck to-
day observed Miss Nancy Needle
Beach aint what it used to be for clams
Id like to get enough for supper tonight
and a br ilin for breakfast tomorrow
inornin and a mess to send to Widow
Clements and My lawsl what a gust-
o wind thatere was I guess Fanny
wed better strike work if its blowin
up from the east like that There goes
my headshawl Quick help me hoist
the basket outer the way o that big tidal
wave I aint made no mistake in the
almanac hev I I dont understand
thisFanny
Fanny Sweet abandoned the basket of
clams to its fate and clung to her aunt
while at the same time she tried to drag
her shoreward
Aunt Nancy she shouted in the old
womans car its a squall I knew
there was a black cloud coming up but
1 didnt think it would reach us so soon
Let us run let us make haste to the
Smuggler Hole Quick Aunt Nancy
Never mind the clams and the spades
Its beginning to rain so terribly
Miss Nancy Dearborn was a woman of
genuine courage and spirit but the
black sky the rising surf and the howl-
ing of the wind terrified her into rapid
retreat
Oh why didn t we keep a watch on
the clouds she bewailed herself hold-
ing desperately to Fannys arm while her
gray hair streamed wildly from her un-
covered head and every step in the wet
sandbecamcagreatcrdifiiculty Whats
goin to become of us The last equi-
noctial they bad on Needle Beach lasted
three days and tore away
Ibis wont List three days Aunt
Nancy said Fanny cheerily as the
dragged the old woman under the shel-
ter of a ruinous log hut built up against
a beetling rock where according to the
voice of popular rumor smugglers bad
once made merry rendezvous and where
the back mouth of a cave was said to
lead to the bones of drowned people in-
numerable But I shouldn t at all won-
der if we had to stay here until the tide
made it unsafe to go back home to-
night Dont fret I ve got some gin-
ger cookies in my pocket and there s al-
ways dry wood up against the rock And
besides she added with a laugh I
know where Asa Litchfields fishing
friends keep their matches in a little
cubbyhole in the rock We can make a-
fire and eat out cookies and Why
Aunt Nancy what s the matter Why
do you scream bo
For even as the two women pushed
their way into the hut a little childwith
long yellow locks Hotting around her
like a seasprite came running to them
Docs it rain said she But its
nice and dry here And Johnny is com-
ing back when he s caught some fish
And Ivo got a basket of lunch here
see
Mercy on us child who be you
said Miss Dearborn staring ia amaze-
ment
I m Daisy musically answered the
spriteDaisy
Daisy who
Johnnys Daisy laughed the child
a chubby fouryearold tot Johnny
left mo here Hes catching fish Hell
bo back soon
I hope to goodness nothin happened
to him said Aunt Nancy with a groan
Whats his ether name child
Just Johnny said Daisy with 8
puzzled lifting of her eyebrows
Is he your brother
Dally nodded
Im nil Uttla wy said she con
And where do you live
In the city tobesure
What city
Daisy stamped her small foot
The city said she Dont you
know Tho city where every one else
livesAnd
And then she snugged up to Fanny
and laughel aloud to see the flames burn-
ing upward through the network of
driftwood which tho girl had artistically
built up on the smokeblackened hearth
Is the creetur a fool observed Miss
Nancy
I can say Mary had a litttle lamd
said the child suddenly smiling up into
Mis3 Nancys perplexed face and
Twinkle twinkle little star
dare
yes I say said the an
cient spinster irritably rubbing the side
of her nose But wheres tho use o
teaching a child such jinglcjaogics as
that when she can t tell her own name
nor where she lives Ive no patience
with folks Fanny that fires blazin
up real good now Put the little mito
in front on t Shes fairly blue with
cold and Ill open the basket and see
what there is for her to cat
But the child offered her poor rem-
nants of dry sandwiches and bakers cake
to the two women
I Im not hungry J said she with
a quivering lip I wish Johnny would
come back
Fanny and her aunt exchanged pity-
ing glances and the latter cuddled little
Daisy close to her in the cheerful fire
shine
Dont be afraid Daisy raid she
Well stay here with you Itll be fair
weather pretty soon and then well all
go home
The storm raged pitilessly until sun-
set Black waves roared hoarse winds
whistled and sheets of spray came fly-
ing up the beach like spectres
Asa Litchfield in his stoutcovered
wagon came for the two women as soon
as the tempest had abated sufficiently for
a horse to make any headway against it
I reckoned likely youd take shelter
here said he I am awfully worried
about you
He looked down at the child who lay
sleeping ia Aunt Nancys lap
And what aro wc to do about the
little un said he Where does she
belong Why nowhere said Fanny
Aud she told the strange history of
the little waif
Asa whistled under his breath
Theres been two wrecks below
said he One was an orangeboat from
Florida Cut to splinters on the rocks
but the cappen an the crew managed to
get ashore all right Tother was a lit-
tle sailboat flung up on Rossiters Reefs
like a sheet o paper with a yellow
haired young chap all tangled up in tho
riggin
Miss Nancy mechanically stroke
Daisys flaxen locks
Dead whispered she
Dead nodded Asa Litchfield
It must be Johnny said Miss Dear-
born her old lip quivering Dont let
b t know
Asa turned away with alump in his
throat
The wagons ready said he And
if we calculate lo get ahead of the tide
wed better be startin pretty lively
Aunt Nancy let me take her said
Fanny
The old woman drew back
No one shant touch her but me she
muttered almost angrily
And Fanny said no more
Little Daisy slept that night in a trun
dlebed which had been Miss Nancys as-
a child and Fanny Sweets afterward
And as the old woman sat reading her
chapter by the fire and heard the wind
shriek downthe chimney and thejvaves
thuulcr along the beach she wnispered
many a secret prayer
And toward daybreak when the gale
Ihook the looselyfitting fiont door like
touch of a human hand she got up and
creeping out into the hall softly opened
it
Ef thats you Johnny said she
you needn t worry no more She shall
be took care of 1
And after that strange to say the
wind suddenly went down and the door
shook aud trembled no more
With sunrise the great storm as it
was afterward known along the coast
seemed to abate its rigor a little
Aunt Nancy was up bright and early
cooking ham and eggs and frying frit-
ters for breakfast The fragrance of the
coffee already filled the room when Fanny
Sweet came in
Yes I know said Aunt Nancy as
she saw her nieces eyes turn toward the
open bedroom door beyond I know
jest exactly what you re thinking of and
you may as well know what Ive made
up my mind to do Im going to keep
that pretty little girl and adopt her for
my own
Ob Im so glad cried Fanny
bursting into tears she scarcely knew
whyYes
Yes I be said Aunt Nancy flour-
ishing the tin skimmer I never had
no one not even you Fanny when you
was a little chick and your mother died
take holt o mt heart as shes done I
know Im an old fool and I know folksl
laugh at me but I dont care twopence
for that I mean to keep her And
Fanny
Yes Aunt Nancy I
I was sort o thinkin when youre
married to Asa Litchfield and have them
two little gals come to live with you
theyll be lots o company for Daisy
Fannys eyes sparkled
Ye sald she they will
And Fanny
Yes Aunt Nancy
Why couldnt they come here right
away rather sheepishly questioned
Aunt Nancy and stay a spell with me
Daisy 11 be lonely jest at first and
Fnnny threw both her arm3 around
Miss Dearborn
Yon arc the dearest aunty in the
world said she Now I feel free to
tell you that A a wants me to be married
right away and Kitty and Rosy shall
come here while we are gone to Bridge-
port for our wedding trip
So the arrangement was made They
never knew what Daisys other name was
nor whether the fairhaired boy who per-
ished in the great storm was in reality
any relation of hers But at all events
she was never claimed and her little life
brightened into a sunshine that cast
equal light on Aunt Nancys fading
down hill of existence
I always knew there was a warm cor-
ner in Aunt Nancy s heart said Fanny
But I never could tell quite how to
reach it
I guess tho Lord understood human
nature bettern we do said Asa Litch
field in his slow way when He took
a little child and set him in the midst of
them Saturday Sight
A Wonderful Phenomenon
The cells of the smallest plants as
soon as tbry have assumed the green
color assimilate their food from the at-
mosphere or rather from the carbonic
acid in the atmosphere and from water
This is ono of the most wonderlul
phenomena of organic life and our
greatest chemists have striven in vain to
imitate tho process Should tbey ever
succeed they would as remarked by the
celebrated botanist Ferdinand John
solve the first great social problem that
iitb bread frobism OTiw j Zimh
WORDS OF WISDOM
Little troubles are the most deadly
The right kind of sugar never sours
Love is always willing to be crucified
Dont do anything that will wound
your conscience
There is no such word as light in the
blind mans dictionary
When the world cant understand a
man it calls him a crank
One blind man can easily prove to an-
other that there is no sun
Love is the only thing that can lighten
burdens by adding to them
How wo do admire the wisdom of those
who come to ask us for advice
When you want to see the crooked made
straight look at a railroad map
Every man cats but it is only here and
there that you find ono who thinks
A woman can say more with a few
tears than a man can express in a book
If you want to find the most miserable
man in the world find the most selfish
one
A man never finds out how little ho
knows until his children begin to ask him
questions
Knowledge is power but it takes some-
thing more than head work to turn i
grindstone
How much easier it is to be pleasant tc
people of consequence than to those whe
arc no account
If we only knew what our enemies
have suffered it would not lie hard for u <
to bo forgiving
There are two kinds of people in thi >
world Those who have found out that
they are fools and those who havent
Indianapolis Ind Hams Horn
A Mohammedan Bnuco Man
In the East the confidence trie
presents its most picturesque aspect
Among Orientals msn cheats man in ro
taliation for previous treachery and tht
priestly castes and their satellite brother-
hoods or fakirs and astrologers necro
nanccrs and prophets and wonder
workers in a hundred different lines ol
business prey upon the credulity of all
alike The otier afternoon Mis3 Laun
Schirmer I wonder if many of mj
readers will remember this beautiful and
wonderfully gifted singer told me of t
successful trick tkat was played in Con-
stantinople not long before her de-
parture from that capital A holy man
all rags and dirt presented himself it
town and soon alter his arrival it got
noised abroad that he possessed thi
power of commuting silver into gold
The crafty Mohammedan was charry 0
exhibiting his art but finally he visited
a Pashas palace where he received al
the honor due to so potent a person
Bags of piastres were in readiness and
each coin in turn that came into thi
fakirs hand passed out of them gold
The Pasha saw boundless wealth befort
him and had already given instruction
for some one to go to the United States
and buy up all the silver in our country
when the man as though disgusted witl
mundane greed for filthy lucre thus ex
hibited rose from his place and in spitc
of all entreaties retired in high wrath
Time passed and tho fakir was per
suaded to return to the palace On thii
occasion the Pasha was ordered toplactj
his silver in sacks on the backs of camels j
and to send them a ten days journey
stopping on the road only to piay until
the fakirs father
the tomb
I cached
Butil any one said he looks into
the bags before the tomb is reached tht
silver will be changed to copper if tht
Sicks
reach the tomb unopened it will b
Jtoued tobegold F SijiagtU
departed to his own country The Paii
loaifjSyuj camelsSna thcy tarttjil and
hardly a week fiad elapledf when doubt-
ing the honesty of hi3 visitor hi sent
messengers to stop the camels and search
the seeks And when the bags itw
opened lo the contents were copper
Chicago Herald
The Power of Imagination
The power of imagination said an
uptown druggist is past comprehen-
sion Not long since a domestic in the
employ of a prominent family came into
the store in great haste with a prescrip-
tion which called for two grains of mor-
phine in two ounces of aqua pura that
is distilled water the accompanying di-
rection A teaspoonful every hour un-
til the pain is allayed The patient for
whom it was intendcl was the head of
the family who was suffering from a
severe attack of nervous neuralgia
Now it so happened that the identi-
cal family physician who had written the
prescription was behind tho counter
when tho messenger arrived having
dropped in as was his wont on the way
to his office While I was putting up
the prescription we chatted and laughed
and joked and passed the time of day
as only professional men are capable of
doing I filled the bottle corked it
carefully and labeled it properly and
when tho retreating form of the domes-
tic had disappeared out of the store
door returned to my companionable
physician visitor As I did so I saw to
my amazement the two grains of mor-
phine reposing upon tho prescription
scales
Good God doctor I ejaculated
Ive given that girl nothing but distilled
water The morphino is here look at
it What shall I do-
Do ho replied with admirable
sang froid do Why nothing at all
Ill wager you a bottle that the aqua
pura will work as well without the
opiate as with it
Ciilfln the Porpoise
One of the best known characters
about the Hudson is a porpoise said J
E AValtcr of New York who is stopping
at the Southern For twenty years he
has been seen there and now everybody
knows him as Cutfin This name has
been given him by the rivcrmen and
New Yorkers because his big dorsal fin
has been cut half way in some combat
with a rival at sea or by the attack ol
some human foe But Cufiu is now
safe at least from the hands of man foi
he has become a univcral favorite of New
Yorkers and river men who lavish at-
tentions upon him He is so tame that
sailboats can tap a few times with an oar I
and he will c > me to the surface of the
water He will come up within a few
feet of tho boat and a thousand oppor-
tunities has ho given to fishermen and
excursion parlies to kill him but no
mans band is ever raised against this
remarkable fish He is a powerful fellow
fully eight feet long He has been known
when accompanying fishing parties to
swim around and drive fish to their nests
No pilot on the Hudson is better known
than Cutfin and few am more highly track
regarded
Mr Walter was a Captain on the Hud-
son for a number of yearj St Louit
BUDGET OF FUN
IIUMOItOUS SKETCHES TltOM
VARIOUS souncKs
The Iiatcst In Shakes Mitigated
Grief Symbolic Satellites Un-
der Suspicion Anything to
Oblige Him Etc Etc
Worse than fevernague quaking
Is the latest in handshaking
On a level with the chin
Is the way they first begin
Then a smile that is so t > pacious
You first wonder is it gracious
Xess or do they mean to eat
You right up there on the street
JWdge
MITIGATED GRIEF
Bounds Ive seen people laugh fill
they cried but I never knew of a fclbw
crying till he laughed
Nephews Guess you never lost a
rich uncle Putt
A FLAK FACT
Wife What a terrible thing it is to
be buried alive
Husband Yes and it isnt such a
deliriously pleasant thing to be buried
dead either Washington Star
INCONSISTENCY
Poet You said the other day in your
paper that povcrtv is not a crime
Editor Well
Poet And yet you decline my verses
simply because you say they arepoor
Puct
CXLY tfAE THING LEFT TO DO
How did you stand tho ordeal of
listening to Doctor Prosys lecture
Stand it Why man I couldnt
even sit it I skipped it in about five
minutes Huntey s Weelly
STMBOLIC SATELLITES
She What a fitting token of mar-
ried love is the wedding ring
He It is A ring has no end and
ir also has no beginning It is absolute-
ly without variety and is much easier
put on than taken off Life
HAD A HOLIDAY THEN ANYHOW
Are you really sick Sonny asked
the family doctor one day
Dr McCartney Im perfectly sur-
prised at your asking such a question I
suppose you forget that its Saturday
was the reply Kite Field s Washington
WELCOME CONTRIBUTIONS
il write for the Century Magazine
now said Scribulus
Ah replied Pcunibs admiringly
Regularly
Yes every six months You see I
only subscribe for a halfyear at a time
Life
QUESTIONABLE CONGRATULATIONS
She Why didnt you congratulate
him just now Hes going to be mar-
ried
nc Well you see I couldnt con-
scientiously congratulate Haines on
marrying any girl that would have him
Mercury
FAITHFUL UNDER ADVERSITIES
Teacher Johnny why is George
Brown absent
Johnny Wy George Brown says
his sisters got a cole but dataint noth
of wiin one omy sister s is got dc smallpox
tother on8 de measles but I come
anc
all the same Life
ANYTHING TO OBLIGE HIM
Gentcraan Im sorry my friend
uut I can tfenothing for you this morn
icg Charity as you know begins at
home
Beggar All right sir AVhats
youraddrcss and when shall I call
TSteFtells Washington
this restaurant
Proprietor Yes sir What can I
Agreed said I And do you ido for you
know concluded the pharmacist the
doctor was right and the patient with
the nervous neuralgia an exceptionally
intelligent and collegebred man was
sleeping as peacefully as a babe after the
second dose of the mixture Faith is
everything where medicine is concerned
Sea Tori Times
UNDER suspicionv
Somebody has picked my pocket
cried theFat Woman
Whom do you suspect asked the
Midget
That sneaking Armless Wonder over
there has a conscious look ou his face I
believe it s him Pud
A BRUTE
You should not criticise meGeorge
said the young wife Kind words
always come back to you Cast your
bread on the waters and it will return to
you You arc mistaken returned George
if you refer to this bread This would
sink at once Munseys Weekly
DIDNT NEED IT
Buy a mouse trap
Dont need it
Mean to say youre without mice at
home
Amounts to same thing Every time
one puts in an appearance the way my
vife screams frightens it to death
Philadelphia Times
MISJUDGED HIS MAN
Number One No gentleman Take
those words back sir I
Number Two fiercely Sir I never
take back what I have said 1
Number One proud but diplomatic
You dont AVell I am sure I beg
your pardon then I had no means of
knowing that Fliegende Hlaetttr
FOOB ATTENDANCE
Grievelcy Arc you the proprietor of
Gricveley who has been waiting half
an hour to give his order Not much
I only wanted to know if there was any
other waiter at this tabic excepting my
eeK Judge
A S KTE STATEMENT
In n Police Court How many times
have you been sentenced before prison-
er
I dont zactly member yer honor
but Im sure the last time was over five
years ago
How so
Cause yer honor I haint been outer
jail since Judae
TINS FOB TEDAGOGUES
Mrs Hicks That s a dreadfully
uncouth trick of yours brushing off the
chairs before you sit down It appears
as though you w ere afraid you would get
your trousers soiled I was terribly
mortified last evening
Mr Hicks Never you mind Mariar
I taught a district school fourteen years
before I married you Pud
TOMMYS CUTTING INSINUATION
Little Tommy was making a dreadful
racket playing that he was a locomotive
letting off steam ringing a bell etc
Tommy said his aunt getting in
front of him you must stop this noise
Tommy stood perfectly quiet for a
minute and then said The engineer is
waiting for the old cow to get off the
Texas Siftings
THERE WERE 50 OBJECTIONS
If any here present said the offlclat
Jog clergyman eau show ti5 esuo
why this man and this woman may not
lawfully be joined togetherlct him sptak
or forever hold his peace
Tho groom Mr Lariat of Arizona
casually laid a pair of large revolvers on
the railing in front of him and tho cere-
mony proceeded Chicago Tribune
GOOD GROUNDS
Do you think you will gain yout
lawsuit asked Gus Smith of Colonel
Ycrger who had been run over by a fire
engine and was suing the city of Austin
for damages
Yes I think Ill csmc out ahead
Has your lawyer given vou grounds
to think so
No but Ive given him grounds to
think so Ive deeded him two lots on
Austin avenue as a fee Terns Siftings
BRiGirr rnosrEcrs
Mr Bullion I notice sir that you
call to see my daughter quite frequently
and as she er appears to be favorably
impressed by you I think I have a right
to inquire concerning your prospects
Young Man I shall be rich some
day
I am glad to hear that
Yes Your laughter and I have
been secrectly married and she has
promised mo half you leave Sew Tori
WeeUy
A MEBCY
Tourist Providence has dealt kindly
with you my friend DoubtIe you
w ould have found it a hard struggle to
get through the winter comfortably had
it not been for the beneficence that caused
that large metorite to fall where you
could find andscll it to those scientists
for 800
Farmer Wal yas Auits a mccy
too that all tho fools haint dead yet
If they wus the time I spent in quarryin
out and smokin up that rock with
powder would a been plumb wasted
Life
MIROVED niS OrPORTUNITT
Well good night Miss A said a
young man the other evening to a
Dwightville girl whom he was visiting
1 think its better for me to go I feel
certain that if I stay two minutc3 longer I
shall be indiscreet enough to kiss you
Weftgood night Mr F replied
the gir9VOh by the way she added
I wa Hbshow you my new sachet bag
bcforo Lgo It will only take a couple
of nijTnuteo
It h only pecessary to state that the
young nidu in question is the possessor
of a bright intellect aud quickly cm
braced the situation aud wc can further
assert that the girl was in it Bing
hamton JLpubliean
Is Greenland nn Manil
Engineer Robert E Peary of the
United States Navy proposes to solve
this question He has secured leave of
absence for eighteen months with this
object in view Mr Peary proposes to
start on his expedition from St Johns
Newfoundland about May 1 His idea
is to go North as far as a whaliug steamer
will carry him and then strike for the
North Pole on foot across Greenland
I shall travel on foot he said to an
interviewer as I did four years ago
walking at night when the sun glares the
least and sleeping in tho day The
sleeping bags in which one may rest
comfortably arc big pouches of water
proof sealskin lined with reindeer skin
and provided with a flap to pull over the
head Wc shall take pemmican liard
bread baked beans condensed milk
cranberry sauce and compressed tea A
spirit lamp will boil them My associ-
ates have not yet been picked out but
they will be selected with great care H
feel I auii i the threshold ofWccss ao > l
though I know there is a sentiment
against far North explorations because
of the many disasters I do not propose
to be disappointed for disappointment
not hardship broke the hearts of many
explorers I prefer going on my own
account because under Government di-
rections Congress generally requires too
many restrictions Whether Greenland
is an island or a vast continent will be
ono of the things 1 hope to discover
The fact that Mr Peary has the cour-
age and enterprise to launch out into
such an undertaking proves that heroism
is not yet extinct Military prowess and
the success connected with war arc by no
means the only measures of true heroism
We arc not disposed to decry such an ex-
pedition became the dollars and cents
are not visible or any great gain to com-
merce or business If there shall result
a gain in selfdenials endurance self
command hardihood and all the quali-
ties which go to make up the conqueroi
of natural difficulties true manhood
the cost of the expedition would doubt-
less be justified even though no great
attainments were reached either for sci-
ence or commerce neroism is a goodie
itself Farm Field and Stockman
Electricity In Agriculture
It has long been a problem how to ap-
ply electricity to the growth of plants
Use of the electric force for such a pur-
pose is still in the experimental stage
but enough has already been done to
show that there are possibilities in the
caseIn one series of experiments as re-
ported in the Ironmonger the seeds o
benns sunflowers and winter and spring
rye were used The seeds were soaked
electrified and immediately sown The
planU were more fully developed their
leaves were larger and their coloi
brighter than those grown from non
electrified seed but the yield was not
affected
In another scries of experiments plates
of copper and zinc about two feet by twe
feet six inches were buried nt the end ol
the plots and connected by their uppei
faces the effect being to establish a cur-
rent through the earth The result wa <
a hrgcr crop and vegetables of enormous
size In the third series electrical collectors
were mounted on insulated rods and con-
nected by wires tho effect being to ob-
tain a highly electrified atmosphere
Seeds of rye corn oats barley peas
clover potatoes aud flax were used
This form of application increased the
yitld of seed an average of onehalf anc
that of straw onethird while the ripeta
ing was more rapid
It was also found that potatoes growl
by this treatment were rarely diseased
and as the beneficial effects of electricity
on vines attacked by phylloxera have al-
ready been observed it is possible thai
means have been found of combating
the microscopic pests which attack veg
ctablc growth
Sponges Bore Into Shells
It is well known that certain sponges
boro into shells In a case observed by
Mr V Jennings on tho coast of Nor-
way and reported in Suture the cpongt
had penetrated the shell of a Lima dis-
solving the pearly layer and encroachins
on the animal instead of boring into thi
shell only Tho mollusk had rctaliatec
by depositing fresh layers on the intruder
and the struggle had gone on until ths
the chambers were several times the nor-
mal thickness of the shell and wen
roofed over by a thin curved layer o
secondary shell substauce whilo th
points at which branches had be
pushed farther in were represented
thick conical projections Y < Tori
frfindtnU
rOF0LAR SCIENCE
In tho new discovery for photography
in natural colors when the prints are
viewed by transmitted in place of re-
flected light each color is replaced by
its complimentary one
A Swedish engineer claims to have in-
vented a new machine for making horse-
shoe nails out of iron rods the machinery
making 110 strokes per minute each
stroke producing two nails
Scientific men say that the earths age
i3 about half a million years for the nebu-
lar and stellar periods and about 23
000000 of which 15000000 aro past
for the period of organic beings
Cork covering for steam pipes has
proved very successful in England and
in some cases it has been found to make
a difference of 100 degrees to 121 de-
grees from the temperature of uncovered
pipes
It is stated that the muskrat is enabled
to travel under tho ice of n frozen river
or lake for n considerable distance by re-
spiring against tho ice roof where tho
bubbles of gas collect and getting a fresh
supply of oxygen
Small articles made of malleable iron
are now finished aud polished bright by
being placed in revolving drums with
ourricrs shavings from which they
emerge with all of the rough edges
smoothed aud the surface highly pol-
ished
Professor Thomson has recently shown
very plainly that between the carbons of
an arc light there pours a steady stream
of carbon vapor and the light i3 derived
almost exclusively fiom the enormous
heated sutface at which the evaporation
takes place
The effect which living at high alti-
tudes has on the blood of animals has
been recently investigated and the re-
sults show that the proportion of oxygen
in the blood of men and animals acclima-
tized there was the same as that of dwell-
ers at lower levels
A selfacting electrical balance nas re-
cently been invented The object to be
weighed is to be placed in the pan which
closes the circuit starts a motor and
moves the weight out on the beam or the
balance When the equipoise is estab-
lished the circuit is broken
A quart of water recently taken from a
typhoid infected district in France was
found to contain upward of twenty mil-
lions typhoid germs It was the result
of scientific investigation and shows
how extremely necessary it is to destroy
the execrcta of typhoid patients
There arc any number of sweet water
springs in the ocean One of these is
off the coast of Florida in tho Gulf of
Mexico It sends its waters upward iu
such quantities that sailors dip it up iu
the midst of the salt water of the Gulf
Another of these springs is on the eastern
shore of Florida opposite Matanzas
Dr P Morcau of Toura gives s me
very curious information as to suicides
In Europe strangulation seems to havo
the greatest fas in ii sjs pme3
suicide by drow
ing It appear
propensity among
thau among tho inh1
country to throw thi
eight
A kind of moth or Inittsm said to
have becomes so very troublesome and
destructive iu Bavaria tint every possiblo
means his betn taken to destroy it
The most effective mcthnd consists of
attracting tho pest by means of an
electric light in connection with a blow
fan which draws the insects icto the
suction pipe by air draught and results
in millions of thorn being destroyed
An ingenious Wrench engineer bos dis-
covered a device for ascertaining the
speed of a train so that a check can bo
had ou the engine driver as he runs
around curves and other difficult parts ol
the line The instrument is a tuning
fork having a point which inscribes a
carve on a rotating cylinder The
mechanism is set in motion and also
stopped by tho wheels of the train pass-
ing over treadles at known distances
apart
A new apparatus for measuring the
mean level of the sea has lately been in-
stalled at Marseilles France It is bised
on the principle that when a liquid wave
traverses a capillary tube or a porous
partition iu amplitude diminishes and is
retarded in its phrases without the mean
level of the wave changing It consists
of a glas3 tube the lower end of which
communicates by a flexible pipe with a
plunger which is lowered beneath the
lowest water level There arc two cells
in tho plunger the lowest being filled
with sand and open to the sea the result
being that the column of water in the
tubo rises and falls very little with the
tides and the mean sea level can be read
from a graduated scale
Curious Marriage Customs
Among the Russian peasantry a girl
after she is married binds up her hair
under a colored handkerchief and makes
a change in tho arrangement of hei
dress wearing a second petticoat pinned
back over the coarse white linen gown
bordered with icd that falls below her
stout knees
A Turkish woman shows her face to
none but her husband
The Japanese woman scarcely goes out
of the houso after her marriage
The Sudiar widow be she a child of
fourteen years is a drudge a pariah an
outcast from th3 family life
As nations cnvolve from primitive into
civilized conditions the distinctive tokens
of the subordination grows less and less
But there are deji ecs steps in the
status of married wnmpn in tfyjl od
communities
The higher the social position the more
Independent of restraints is the wife the
more untrammcled in the freedom of
her individual life In that which is
called in England high life a married
womans position ii the came the world
over Sew Tori Journal
Origin of tho Word Bronze
From an examination of texts due to
the Greek alchemists extracted from a
document of the sixteenth century Mr
Berthelot came to the conclusion espec-
ially after comparing them with cerain
passages in Pliny the elder that the
name of bronze was derived from the
city of Brundusium the seat of certdn
manufactures in which this alloy was em-
ployed Now Mr Berthelot has found
a text that is more ancient by three cen-
turies for it dates back to the time of
Charlemagne and the indications of
which are still more decisive It is a
question of a MS found in the library of
the chapter of the Canons of Luynesand
reproduced by Miratoti in his Antiqui
tatcs Italia In the Latin text it is ex-
pressly specified a3 Composition of
Brindisi Copper two parts lead one
part tin one part a traditional formula
that has come down to our time It
would then seem indeed a if the word
bronze was uerived from the city
of Brindisi where bronzo was manufac-
tured on a large nrle Ka Genie Cicil
The toad is ooro clean thir the poodle
which some ladles ctress Ho is the
abiding friend or the fermcrand the hor-
ticulturist He feeds upon cut worms
and regards the curculio that inlets the
orchard s ft gr at dainty
AT DAYBREAK
m
Theres not a cloud in all this sky
Stormswept and garnished for th morn
And yondw light among tho hills
Shows whf re tho glad new day is born
And through those fair fields toward the easf
The sun hau oom8 in strength again
With clearer sMnin in hfa rayj
For all the weeping of tho rain
Lift up your eyes before tho dawn
And show mo their unclouiai light
Jfy heaven in their depths of blue
My star through eT y stormy night 1
For you and I together here
Who watt to greet tho roaring day
Know in our hearts that all tho clomli
Of sorrow too havie rolled away
And brighter for the storms oer past
And dearer for unnumbered tears
Wo seo tho oveIight shining clear
Through all tho vista of tho years
Whilo safely harbored hero in peace
Dear happy heart that boats to mine
Loves utmost gift is ours at last
Securo gainst all tho lapse of tlmo
Johw Leighton in Atlanta Constitution
PITH APPOINT
A longfelt want Continual poverty
r Pud
Whoso cigars does Carver smoke
Anybody s Pad
Epitaph on a dead letter It died at
its post ST Joseph Sews
Achilles was ono of the first men to ap-
preciate tr3 disadvantage of not been
well heeled lYastington Post
Some of the smartest men on earth
have not bad sense enough to place a fair
estimate upon themselves Dallas Seus
A man gets too old for a great manj
things but the ability to make a fool of
himself is never outgrown St Jjieph
Seas
Collins What do yni intend to
take for your cold I Rollins Oh
Ill sell it cheap Anything youll
give
Poor old Wixonby He is gone at
last but he died like a hero How s
that From starvatiou Indianapolis
Journal
Since a St Louis justice decided that
a young woman must return the gifts
made by a rejected lover an epidemic of
kissing is said to have struck the youth
of that town St Joseph Sews
First Burglar as the electric light
flashes brightly Hist Let us gp
Second Burglar Anybody onto us
First Burglar No but under tho
words solid gold on them price tickets
is 51 49 writ in small figgers JevceU
ers Wo iy
Cook PJejj gj 1iing on
mind aH H Hb Mary
is Bi you
I w in the
kitchj l Ba Scr
gea pLondon
FuT
I ncle JoA
Wer MwSflle
eft thank you Uij Blh
s your mother Mi Vllc
Ss well too Uncle Josafter a
three minutes pause Uowro your
parents Tale Heeord
What exclaimed tho infuriated em-
peror Do you dare to approach my
gracious presence without knocking your
head thrice upon the huy ground
Ah sire pleaded the trembling cour-
tier pardon me I pray you For tho
moment I lost my head So you
have wretch thundered his majesty
Take him guards and direct my axmea
to find tho villains Jrarf and place it
amonj t5sf royal u2os > = Chicagb
Times
Trick Dogs
Taking everything togetherI think
the poodle is the best adapted for tricks
of any breed of dogs Still I have seen
mongrels that could perform marvellous
feats with giacc and ease For summer-
saults the compactly built terrier is prob-
ably the best breed of dogs I once
knew an artist who had a French poodle
of wonderful sagacity It lived with
him iu his studio and was taught to go
to the door when the postman came and
take the letters from bis hand and de-
liver them to its master One day tho
door bell rang and when it was opened
a messenger boy came in instead of the
expected lettercarrier Without show-
ing the least temper the poodle sprang
against the swinging door and by its
w eight slammed it iu the face of the as-
tonished boy It appears that ones a
messenger boy offended the poodle and
he took this method of ridding the studio
of his presence
Some dogs have a wonderful bump of
locality This is more developed in
omc dogs than in others and thoso thSt
ossess it to a marked Jegree can easily
taught tricks in fetching and carrying
mt would also jcem miraculous I
avc known of a dog going out hunting
with his master They went a distance
of more than one hundred mile
home While they wereithja thc mas
ter lost bis dog andi St home without
him A day laterfhe truint made his
appearance He had boarded a train and
ridden home I myself have lost my
dog in Jersey City and be has got on a
ferryboat by himself and come home
without loosing his way or being helped
A word or two of good advice to con-
clude Do not begin training your dog
to do tricks until he is ten months or a
year old After you have taught him
one trick go on to another but not be-
fore he has mastered it thoroughly In
rehearsing him in his tricks always ob-
serve the same order Do not begin
with jumping today and with standing
up and walking tomcrrow Bo ordcrjy
and precise and so will your dog be
Harpers Toung People
The Best Glasses of American Mate
All the glasses aud spectacles sold hero
are of American make with the singlo
exception of the very poorest and cheap-
est which are imported from France
The latter may be had sold on the spot
SO per gross or fiftv cents per dozen
And they are real bonafide spectacles
The frame is made of hollow wire bent
ia shape bj machinery and left open for
them Suh cheap spectacles cost in the
manufactory iu France about two cents
apiece Such spectacles of course aro
not much good and are about as easily
broken as a raw egg The principle
place of manufacture for our America
spectacles is Southbridge Mass but
there are ether places as well ill iu tho
East though
What is the best to wear viewing
the thing from an optical standpoint
spectacles or eyeglasses
Well said tho veteran optician it
depends on circumstances somewhat
For the eye of course a welladjusted
pair of spcctailcs are the best But with
o person whose time is precious eye-
glasses aro preferable provided his noso
i3 suitable
His nose i
Yes the bridge of his no That
must be so built as to give thejSfsscs a
trm position If his nose be BO or snub
fie glasses will slide and consfantly get
ut of position thus foreverf irritating
e optio nerves and changing hjo ° g
lYisioa Chmi Bird
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