The Wahpeton times. [volume], December 26, 1889, Image 2

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ivaaeheff" Fort Laramie slnoe the boll.
,dsy* As Spring begM bee regiilfcr
battle .with a Wyosaibgwinter "We be
San to'look for'Paymaster Esehol,tlnd
Idsescprt The snow had' aU melted
away and. thoground was in reason
ably good: shape for wheeling, whea
pne morning as the bugles sounded
reveille the regular watchers on the
Outer walls dlsoerned a group of dark
pbjects on the mountain road, and
iromptly spread the news that the
long-expected "cash wascomin1." Up
fat the 'officers1 quarters we saw (he
jcaptains studying the moving figures
jwith afield glass, and knew they were
as anxious as we to greet their salaries.
Suddenly.,?* as we. watched .first the
group on the mountain road and then
the group at the quarters, we were
conscious of .a commotion. The com
ing caravan seemed thrown into •con
fusion. Little clouds of dust were
tossed in the air-r-no, it was not dust,,
it was smok^! There was a fight! The
officers were half wild. In a moment
bugles sounded "boots and saddles"
for the cavalry when our orderly ser
geant called quickly the names of
twenty men in the infantry company.
|Urwe hurried along% a little irregu
larly, I fear, we strained oureyes to
ward the pass, two miles away, but
feould see no sign of life there. We
had gone almost a quarter of a mile
when a detail of cavalry dashed past
and galloped tor th^ hills.! We saw
them gpfct the summit of the pass at
tSfc swtaging gallop, and then a signal
flag Wl the watching officers at the
a fight. Eschol wounded.
jS |*V JUffiB&k liicM ambulance." '"The plod-'
Hfltag Infanttymen read the signals and
$%"'• really envied the cavalry boys, who
a m-A.v.'-.-- teemed ina &tjr way to sow some life.
Arrived at the pass we foutf the an
ibuLuiee Overturned, a. Quantify of gold,
silver and. greenbacks scattered about
jon the ground, the horses gone, and
M*jor JEsphol lying with a-cushion
-under hie bead wheretbe oavairyiaen
'had left him. He had been shot ia the
.? shoulder.and -ibthe thigh. The ambu
ir Jlanoe from &e fort reached him almost
4f sooa as 'we did, and brought the
the rlverand pre
.yent the Escape of the robbers there.'
W* peached :ithe river's
ledgawhen weheard shotafirpd to the
north, and instantly each man secreted
g| himself, hiding his blue uniform in the
gray, mask of sage bushes and rocks.
A motnent afterward lour men came
[galloping over* stony ridge to the left,
•wo of them leading extra horses and
i|01 riding pell mell. They did apt
mean t0 £T089 the shallQy water, but
Chose the level ground along its bank
and dashed down stream,
"TentionP' came in guarded tones
from' the sergeaatincommapd. "Brown
and Elllottrtake the first man. Graves
and Goodiag the second, Smlith and
Sogers tl* third, and Pll (he
fourth-Alter we shoot,- every man fire.
^Etoadjjr!"'''''
are, intensely «zeiting
'"f'PVif pen plui{([inirv down. toward
each with tools o( desperatioa on
«e^ faee, each urging his horse' to
.ter apeed^yet waU)hing ^e ^ea«li-
"Alpk^aald fisngeaqjt EOggias,:
TBsy almost o^peUte, to us
»w. «»4 Iess thaa two htmdrM yards
Jwtbelwe they came abreast
:jfro|*, ^miftnder.:. It. «r&s' not
j}#! J: «aw» designated resppnded wHk a shot,
\SpaA the#
:t^e
'«rhpl« p^-fiy. sprang to
®»o hlMoctost man alone
1'J -foil. The secofld and third horses
^4 'were hit and showed iti 'The- leader,
dasSing foUow.eqiial toanysurprlsa
jfate held for him, TjDsd i^ his stirrups
^•hd h'url«id a parse of defiance at us,
struck his spurs again and again,
held hit course unflinchingly. An
Wlar Vol ley'followed. Tiiie' aecond
fnan fo^ from his saddls t^e third
•pnMgJfQ ttM». ground and tried i* «s^
I «ape onfoot, botwas wounded anfthad'
I 1%'to aive up. The very demon of chance
fiii ^:thon(^,'«oaiMd: to hfcve a' special fate
of the band.' A
hundred buUets whistled past him, but
to take effect As he
lipp^fjiac aramd the head in. .the river
Ipl^nro hundred yards feiow he turned in
& 40s saddle aad ntlseda huge wallet,
£V%rtoich we bOlieve was JUled with our
th.,r- ,Cr'a
llffel^ 'Jfyi f**- half across'
•**»ming strug
tVng.. .fhoy «*ept UP the hank and
horses, but
Long Bill Nolan started
lg® §4»wnthe stream at a dead run. He
(found a kniU which gave him one last
ct thf fugitive, and -he sent an
|1'M|mMiee of good Missouri load after him
£w/iynrds. A seeond shot, and then
•hW, and Nplan. .fairly- sereamed
Wm^oth .^dee of |he stream the soldiers
-^'^iMUfrlfd, and- .when nearly, to the spot
he** the detperfdo lay, we'heard ah
sbpt mid wondered no bullet
ll#-:fh|stt«d aear us. We .-thought he wu
'»w'l 3"*^ and went forward with
flara^.^Pi^sontly we saw him
apd -dead in a shelving
«...
Nolan had hit him in the back,
he «o|p#. was probably fatal, but
^I^Ko who had ospiared thousands of dol
f.p in cash almost at the gates of a
\kfour ,«ppaw p«ft would take' no
^Wlninnade a prisoner, and
.^d«A )w pwn jifo wlth a r»-
Meaning of ths
Staa
n& Strips#
'low sfthsCOMagss Thst'Bavs IssaKsds ia
it, Sums tks Ossicn wss Iint'Aio^ttd~
Ths tisldiseoBiat Orowdsd.
It it thirteen years since there have
been any alterations in the United
6tater- flag. The admissloa of Colo
rado ln.1876 increased the number of
etars 'tb thirty-eight The addition of
four.tthrs for the new states, .recently
admitted, will aot interfere 'With the
symmetry of the 'flag, says the New
York Mail and Express, Had the orig
inal intention, of congress (of. adding
a star and stripe iter every new state)
been carried out our flag would now
be a«urlou8 combination.
When the colonists first came to
America they brought the flag of Great
Britain.
When the colonies began to rebel
against the pressure of British laws,
they constructed a plain flag without
the bars or crosses and placed upon it
a rattlesnake cut into thirteen pieces,
representing the thirteen colonies, with
the motto in large capitals, "Unite or
Die." But after the thirteen colonies
became more united and determined to
resist British tyranny, they placed a
well-formed rattlesnake on the flag,
with the new motto, "Don't tread on
me." Benjamin Franklin on being
asked the meaning of that emblem,
wrote as follows. "On inquiry and
from study I learned that the ancients
considered the serpent an emblem of
wisdom, and, in some attitudes, of end
less duration. Also, that countries are
often represented by animals peculiar
to that country. The rattlesnake is
found nowhere but ini America. Her
oye is exceedingly bright and without
eyelids—emblem of vigilance. She
never begins an attack and she never
surrenders—emblem of magnanimity
and courage. Her tongue is forked as
the Ughtning, and hqr abode is amOng
the impenetrable rocks."
The next form of the United States
fisg was the stars and stripes. The
proportions are perfect when properly
made, the first and last stripe being
red, with alternate stripes of white.
The blue field for the stars is the square
of the width of seven stripes. On
June 14, 1777, the "Continental Con
gress resolved "that the flag of the
United. States be thirteen stripes,-alter*
nate red aiid white, and that the union
be thirteen white starpon a blue field,
representing ai new constellation."
The stars of (he flag represent the
idea taken from the constellation Lyra,
which signifies harmony. The blue of
the field was taken from the banner of
the Covenantors of Scotland, likewise
significant of tho league and covenant
of the United Ooloniles against oppres
sion, and Incidentally involving vigi
lance, perseverance and justice. The
stars were disposed In', a circle, sym
bplizing the perpetuity of the uhlQn,
the circle being the sign of eternity.
Both the thirteen stripes and the stars
showed the number of the united colo
nies and denoted the subordination of
the states to and their dependence up
on the union as well as equality among
themselves, The whole was a blend
ing of the previous banners, 'i namely,
the red eol'or, which in' the days of
Boman glory was the' signal of defi
ance. denoting daring, and the white
purity.
On January 13, 1791, by an act .of
congress, the flag was altered to fifteen
red and white stripes and fifteen stars,
there haviag been two new states
added to the Union, and the flag thiis
altered and' enlarged was' the one
borne through all the contests of the
war Sof 1812. On April
4,
1818, con­
gress again changed the flag by re
turning to the original thirteen stripes
and fifteen stars, .as the adding of a
new stripe for each additional state
would soon make the flag too un
wieldy..
Now a new star Is added to ithe flag
on the Fourth of July following the
admission of a new state into the
union. The perfect flag, with Its thir
teen stripes of white and red, and its
blue field, with lts fifteeit white stars,
was unfurled for the first time at the
battle of Saratoga, October 7,'1777. by
Benedict Arnold, who bore the flag'
during, that important, engagement.
After his desertion of' the American
army he carried his' uniform and the
same flag to England, where' he died Id
poverty and distress in the year 180L
t',w
Tea Chswing.
The newest thing In the way of a
light genteel stimulent that I have
seen used Is.tea. The leaves are taken
dry, just as the stores sell them, and
chewed in the mouth, the pulp being
thrown out afterward like an old quid
of tobacco. It is a woman's habit
and haa taken the place of chewing
gum to a great extent, but I have seen
one or two young men experimenting
with the' tea and it may get to be a
regular fad. I tried it but I think no
man who uses tobacco can get any
Stimulant out of tea. It's rather harm
less, and the stimulating effect Is ob
tained much more quickly by chewing
it th$n drinking it Those I have
seen using it coniume much more of
it, too, than they would if they drank it
Marrying for Xonsy.
The man who seeks a wife for the
purpose of securing the means of liv
ing without working does not merit
the respect of the meanest person that
walks about the earth, says the De
troit Free Press. His intentions are
so manifest that they deceive no one.
He plans his attack with the ingenuity
of a general. His is an aggressive
courtship, and a hypocritical one as
well. He cannot afford to let the
flame flicker for a moment He must
act the role of deception continually.
If there should ever, come the mo
ment when a feeling of self-indepen
dence and self-respect enters the young
woman's, mind, his hopes in thai in
stant may be shattered beyond redemp.
tlon- There Is the necessity of ever,
present caution aod a constant re-
&nr Borne 8peoialiatt Gst Birsau* Fraa
Ssmoving iltaUhis Iran the Smss «U
forma of People Who Wast to Is At*'
tracMvs ia Thair Fstsoaal Appsaraaoss—
The Treatmmt
A man on Statu street, in Chicago,
has an extensive office' and calls him
self a dermatologist, or skin physician.
This man is consldered the best of- hit
kind, and his large clientele seems to
make the olalm good. One of his tpe
clal holds on reputation Is hts skill in
removing whiskers and mustaohes4nm
ladies. It may sound like a fib, but
the books of the doctor bear out his
assertion that he has successfully
handled some five hundred cases of
this kind during the past six months.
"You didn't think there were so many
bearded women in town, did youP" he
said to a Herald reporter. "Yea, Chi
cago Is a great place for ladles with
more or less developed mustaches and
whiskers. Maybe it's tne climate, for
all nationalities are represented on my
books—with the Irish leading, how
ever, and the French-Canadians a good
second. My treatment necessitates the
specific handling of -each separate
hair, and that Is how I know that I
have removed from 800 to 1,000 hairs
from the faces of a number of ladles."
The treatment followed for the re
moval of what for a man is held to be:
a* ornament, but in a woman a defect,
is by electricity. A very flne needle,
which is connected with the conductors
of an electric battery. Is inserted into
the hair follicle, thus destroying the
root No pain is felt, only a slight
tingling'sdhsatlon, and no scar remains
when the^ operation is properly per
formed. Each follicle Is separately
treated, and ,this requires considerable
time and skill on the part of the prac
titioner., From four to six sittings of
one hour each aro generally required
to make entirely away with a'feminine
beard of moderate dimension^. To re
move wrinkles is another task the doo
tor has set himself. Wrinkles, he has
ascertained, are caused by a lack of
fatty substance or adipose tUsue In
the skin.' A preparation of his Inven
tion, being nothing more nor less than
medicated sweet oil, when applied
thoroughly to the wrinkled skin by
means of a massage treatment requir
ing delicate manipulation, will chase
the wrinkles from anybody's brow.
"Of course,'.' he said, "It is only
relatively young ladies that care about
the 'removal- of wrinkles, but it is
strange how soon they will appear on
some. The youngest wrinkle I've ever
handled was twenty-five years old—I
mean the youngest person with
wrinkles and she was a beauty, all but
the wrinkles around her eyes. She had
passed through a great deal of trouble
und was just getting over grieving for
a lost husband. She's married again
since then. Most of the ladies with
wrinkleii I've treated were between
thirty and forty."
Moles are treated with electricity
and subsequently by the application of
a salve which extirpates them gradual
ly, very much as a corn salve does a
corn. Warts are removed in a similar
way, but they are more easily removed
than a mole. The redness of a nose
caused by the enlargement of the tiny
blood vessels, Induced by an excessive
circulation of blood In the face, may
be cured by dividing these small blood
vessels by electric needles, thus causing
a lesser flow of blood through the af
fected parts, and then treating the nose
with cooling preparations. Of course,
to prevent a recurrence of the trouble
it is necessary to stop the primary
cause, such as the excessive use of
liquor, derangement of digestion, eta
.Freckles and "moth patches" on the
face are the consequence of too much
iron in the external tissue of the skin,
and the cuticle cannot exude it through
the pores. It is advisable for such
persons to leave out all Iron" from their
diet and the removal of such blemishes
of th6 skin is effected by applying
bleaching liquids and certain oint^
ments, doing this without injuring the
skip. Birthmarks, If large and un
sightly and on the face ..or neck, ape
another kind 'of disfigurement against
which the female mind rebels, Some
Of these marks are of a sufficiently ag
gravating type to fully justify tho
annoyance and grief felt at their pros*
ence, as In the case of a teacher in one
of the West Side public schools, who
had a fully developed scarlet birthmark
In the shape of a pumpkin On her chin.
The dermatologist removed the ob
noxious fruit at otffe brief sitting. J'
lbs. Xaeksy's Parrot
Mrs. Mackay, the "BonanzaQueen,"
has, writes the London correspondent
of the Manchester Courier, provided
during her abscnce the public of
London with a gratuitous entertain
ment of the most diverting nature. At
her open window in Buokingham
Palace Gate is a wonderful green par
rot which attracts hundreds of people
every day to hear him talk. The
crowd one Sunday was so great that
the policeman had to request the peo
ple to move on. "Move on," echoed
the parrot to the Intense delight of
the mob. 'Polly, what la it o'clock,"
asked a man. The parrot pretending
to look at the clock, cried out in
answer, "Half-past fi," and he. was
right "How old are .you, Polly?"
"Don't know how old are you?" was
the answer, which of course provoked
great merriment, in which the !parrot
joined. Asked what day of the week
it was, the wretoh hopped about
screaming, "Sunday go to prayers,
Ora pro nobis," and'foil into a parox
ysm of laughter, which was quite
contagious.
SO
At the club: WO|^!*!l~^Do you huow
that our friendJBI^hf is going to
marry Miss B1
cream of that
Bilkins-r-lftj
any thing
cream of
F5
L*iJ
m:He't got the
ft fhy.' If- shtfs
be'U fiad her
1 Times..
WOCNDEDtHXWDKATHJ
Bid Jnotitot of PonectY Baid Into The
?i.y:^| (Hty ofXoojpbJa,
Suing ths Attack a Toang. Weaftn, Un
known, I« fkot Throagh^fke Sxpirts in
a SoMior'i Arms aadls Barled as the Rlt
Few stories of the wmt more pa
thetle than this, from the Chicago
Herald: In the summer of 1861 we
had returned from a scout through the
interior of Tennessee, -and had gone
into a hospital lylag'^ejiwiBen *Elmwood
Cemetery and the Pigeon Roost Road,
near Memphis. This hospital was tour
headquarters and where we always
repaired to recuperate our waning en
ergies. The hospital Was upon an ele
vation,- and from it we oould -overlook,
the country all round.
In the morning just before daylight
the rattling of musketry was heard
further up the road. This was attrib
uted to the hundred-day men, who
were in the habit of firing off their
guns In volleys for their own amuse
ment, and we continued our morning
nap. How long We slept I know not,
but we were suddenly and rudely
awakened by the terrible clap of a ten
pounder not far away, and the rattling
of musketry was ominously close,
which alartped *us greatly, and we
sprang from our cots and ran to the
tent opening, where we were, surpris
ed to see blue coats ruhning helter
skelter through the woods and down,
the road.
Looking in the direction from
whence the shot came we saw the bat
tle line of the Johnnies jWfr oOming
over the hill. Wee ran inib tho tent,
and hastily picking up oilr clothing,
ran down the road- badly demoralized.
Confusion reigned suprem^. Every
one was panic stricken, and had but
one object in view that
morning,
and
that was Fort Pickering. The only
plucky stand made that morning was
by a one hundred-day regiment of
Illinois troops. They had formed Into
line and received the shock of Forrest's
charge like a solid wall, and were only
forced back by overwhelming numbers,
stubbornly contesting the ground pa
they fell back. They continued re
treating and fighting until they reached
the old female college. Taking pos
session of it they held' It although It
was riddled with solid' shot Forrest
seeing the attempt to dislodge them
futile, left them and continued his
march through the city,
What Fprrest's object was Ini march?
ing through Memphis this bright sum-
mer morning I could never fathom, tin
less it was apiece of bravado. There
were enough troops lying:in and about
Memphis to have annihilated his whole
army, if consolidated.
About 100 yards in advance I saw a
woman rush out of a/tent and into the
road, gunning, for dear life, with her
long yellow hair floating behind her
like a ray of sunshine. She was both
young and pretty. It made my heart'
ache to see'her among the riide men
and before the deadly mlnnie balls. I
increased my speed and had almost
gained her side,t when there suddenly
appeared a bright red spot on the back
of her nightrobe. Almost instantly it
became a large blotch, and the baok
of her garment was soon pne mass of
blood. She began to stagger, and I
placed my arm around her to keep her
from falling. She was overcome with
terror, and hardly realized the calam
ity that, had befallen her. She
asked: "Oh, my! am 1
hurt? Oh, dear!
am I wounded?"
I said: "I fear you are."
Again she said: "Oh, please don't
leave! Please don't leave me!"
Reader, that was Impossible. Had
a thousand deaths Stared me In the
face I cpuld not have deserted.
:this
wounded and helpless girl.
I- took her in my arms and., the
nestled to my breast like a weary
«hlld.1 Her heart was fluttering like a
wild bird beating its wings against the
bars of a cage. She was crying softly,
and mingled with the sobs occasion
ally I heard the fragment of'a prayer:
Every moment she would open her
eyes and look at'mo«ih a.d&zfed way^
as though just Awakening front a terri
ble dream.
The line of battle was fast approach
ing. I knew -the desperate' character
of Forrest's men, and feared for my
life. 'I had crossed the opening, and
entered tho wood. Not fifty yards
afttiy'came the enemy directly toward
me. As I looked into' their fierce, set
faces ja chill struck my hearti and
stood like a criminal awaiting. his
doom. I neither looked for nor ex
pected mercy, for: mercy, was seldom
shown by these half-wild and savage
men., -i-%
Tramp, tfamp, tramp. They were
coming on until we were almost
abreast' I, could- feel the' bayonets
pierce iny flesh. A young officer,
sword in hand, was coming directly
toward me. Now ho .is within a few
feet of me, with his naked sword aloft.
With a wave of the sword the lins
opens and passes/and we are in the
rear and free from danger from the
spiteful mlnnie ball..
I breathe a great sigh of relief and
lay my helpless burden upon the
ground, and with my blouse make a
pillow and place her head upon it
Falutly she whispers: "Water! water!"
I place my canteen to her lips. A few
swallows, a gurgle, a rattle, and she
falls back into my arms dead. A min
nle ball had- passed through her frail
body.
Who and what she was to this day
remains a mystery that I used all my
ingenuity to solve.
In 1871 and 1879 I was in Memphis
and visited the lonely grave, each time'
rebuilding the -mound. This exploit
was the saddest experience of my life.
PUGNACITY IN WOMAN.
A Refined Lady Whot Cot Under
the Control of a Pugilistic fpirlt.
The gentlest woman in the. iarorld
seems to have a surreptitious desire to
see a prize-fight, says the San Francis
co Chronicled It is not m^ra adrnira
ation of the 'male figure, because a
Jb
-ity. isuaaffiud
it Is the In lira^iafemi iil of aUimman
not
sit out a priio-fighti W tte/ Ooidd bu[t
even to them thera' lt deiolded foeilng
of dissatisfaction ovsr a draw. Iwori
der If. the. future woman wlll go to
prize-flghts if we are only reaching
that point, in pur civilization where,
like the old Romans,^we -will crowd
the amphitheater to see* gladiatorial
combats to the death? We are not
mucliC ahbid1 ot those 'Old days any
way, and I suppose human nature is
reallj not,a whit low brutat' boWever
oonventionallty has made' lis' appear
hicken-hearted. Amid the audio nces
at the Roman amphitheater were
mothers-whose -love for their children
was as mothers' love :1s. to-day. They
only did not ounslder gladiators men—
merely animals. Well, perhaps, if we
analyze our feelings. We don't look up
on prize-fighters as soul a They are
fighting machines, and as such they
give a fillip to the blood and a
little jump to the nerves. But I
know a lady whose curiosity! as to
prize-fighters was uncomfortably grati
fied. It was at a spiritualistic seance.
She -is a refined, sensitive, educated,
womanly-woman but she went to a
spiritualistic meeting at a medium's
establishment There were several
othbr ladles there, and suddenly she
found herself attacked by a curious
nervousness, which developed into an
insane desire to tear the Psyche knot
off the back of the woman's head in
front of her. The sensation then be
gan to increase in volume and change
in character. She felt Inclined to
double her fiat and hit out from, the
shoulder. It kept Increasing until
she could no longer resist and she
rose and strode acrosB the room, and,
banging her fists on a tablle, called out
In a decidedly masculine tone:
"Oh! I would just like to clean this
room out! Wow!"
Then she came to her iseihses, and,
with many blushes and much con
fusion, began apologzing to the
company. They did not seem at all
moved or surprised.
••Don't apologize, Mrs.——. It's
nothing," said thej medium. "You
were simply controlled by Yankee
Sullivan."
HISTORICAL.' '-"t'l
Vermont was fint explored In 1609,
by. Cbamplain, a French officer, after
whom Lake Champlain. was named.
Twelve hundred, years ago kerosene'
was known to the Japanese, but. the
method of refining it so as to be avail
able'for domestic use is but a dozen
years old.
A lode of the rare and precious
metal uranium has recently been dis
covered at Cornwall, in Englaiid. A
century ago the existence of this
metal was hardly known.
The first railway sleeping car of
whioh there Is any authentic informa
tion was used on the Cumberland Val
ley Railroad between Harrisburg and
Chainbersburg, in 1836.
In England, the practice of erecting
vaults in chancels and under the altars
was begun by Lanfranc, Archbishop of
Canterbury, when he rebuilt the cathe
dral In the year. 1075.
Water mills were, known on the old
continent at the end of the sixth qpn
tury.' They existed In England before
the Conquest, and were applied to
other purpo&s besides that of grinding
corp. -.-
George Satid (Mmo. Dudevant) was
the great-gr^qddaughter Of the celer
brated MarshaVSaxe, Who was himself
one of, tiie 862 natural children of
Frederick August, king of Saxony and
Poland.
Bats!
'*Grandpa, what- makes a cat"tread
,softly?" asked Uttie Toipmy Findout of
his aged relative aa the pair sat down
to improve their minds when the even
ing lamps were lighted.
*'It is a faculty provided by. an all
wise creator, my«' son, which enables
the cat to walk softly," replied the old
man as he laid down his paper and
beamed on' the youthful Beeker after
knowledge^
"All members of the cat ti^bo are!
endowed with a noiseless tread wh^ch
greatly-facilitates their capturing their
prey. You have doubtless noticed
that the pedal extremities of the feline
are furnished with soft, velvety balls
or coverings instead of hoofs. These
balls extend below: the claws, which,
are drawn up yhen not in
1
use, en­
abling tiie cat to walk across aboard
floor without the slightest noise."
"0h, that isn't what makes a cat
tread softly,'-'.said Tommy, when the
old man had finished.
"No? What IS' it then?" asked
grandpa.
"Rats," replled ihe boy, while a
liappy, h^ppy emlle lit up his ingenu
ous facie.
Shortly after that Tommy .went to
hod and. the sound, of solving was
^oard tar into the night ". 'r.
A Cheap PTeioat .'
Charley wanted to give Clara a
Christmas present, but could not make
up bis mind as to what it should be
feo the next time he1 called he frankly
told her" of the difficultly under which
he was laboring. "Want to make me
a present, Charley?" Clara exclaimed
in well-disgulsed astonishment "Why,
Charley, you forget yourself!" He
took the delicate, hint and o.ffpred.hlm
self then and there.
x. [.
tf. I
In flood Company.
He: "Do you believe there Is any
truth In the-adage that a man is known
by the company be keeps?" She:
"Certainly we see Its truth illustrated
evei^r day." He: »«I believe in it
myself, and, I intend to apt upon it"
She: "A wise resolution, if it is good
.company you intend to keep.". He:
••Tho-v veryr. rbest ^hat,.^ !to say,
if I can get into the .company
I would lilto to keep. The fact is, I
want to keep your opmpanyt" Then
she smiled a sweet smiler and said it
could no doubt be managed.
fA-is.',*
C'.-: A-.-'
Reofeovei.
tlle,'and«(r»^
At tbewe da^'^^M* poMlitdiil^to '-'tta
vogue It lie Inihxty to nd lulpofal nian.'
V8W- Ji
The ralsla cnlUvmtors appeartoba engag
ed chiefly ip raistn theprloeof their product
Just now. '-fr
An exchange says: "ThedcvU ia bn«y
in Chicago npw ?'. Pray te)l wheat he is not
busy there, v., -.-.7!
An oosan eaWe iast* tor aboot twelve
years. Replacing-one ia attended, wlth con
siderable eost
Tfa newspapers of Italy-are raiatns aab-.
scrlption tp erect an^onviment to (jplumbus
on American soi}.
The debt of the city of Paris amounts to
790 franes for evflfy. nun, wopuu'. and child
within the,city limits.. j..
Women have been admitteel to ihe bar In
all the New EnRlmd atatea except New
Hampshire and Vermont
Dr.. J. T. Chase, of Hailowell, owns the
first tall clock ever brought to Maine. It
still rune and keeps good time.
From observation one would conclude
that the foreigner his no particular uae for
galvanized sheet-iron cornices.
French-Canadians assert that a majority
of their fellows in Canada are in favor of
annexation to the United States.
uathsays: Men who live only in town
leave no footprints on the brick." It is the
country home that lasts and tells.
Tanjore, in southern India, has a plague
of monkeys, but is quite free from dudes.
New York City wants to trade plagues.
John Binkley, of Reading, carries his
helpless mother, weighing 300 pounds,
around the house an if she were a baby.
The oldest cat in Massachusetts. is dead.
It was owned by Colonel Richmond, of
Freetown, and was in its twentieth year.
A feminine resident of Caribou, Me.,
harvested forty acres of grain without uny
help from the masculine sex, She used a
machine reaper..
William Sprague, was governor, of Rhode
Island and afterward United States sena
tor, is now living in poverty. He'was once
worth $10,000,000.
Ninety-five per cent of tin-plate is sheet
iron. Five-sixths of the Welsh product
la exported, and the United States cbnsumes
three-fourths of it
One little Akron boy who was proud of
his latest acquisition surprised his mother
by saying: "I'm going out of doors to show
God my rubber boots."
Samuel Moss, Essex, Mass., has been
hungry all the time for thirteen years. He
drinirs three quarts of water per day and
eats hearty meals every hour.
The society for prevention of cruelty to
animals in Switzerland has resolved to
banish cats from the republic
on the ground
that they are killing off the birds.
According to a London daily there, are
about two thousand five hundred building
associations, with over six hundred thousand
members, in the United Kingdom.
The Australian'legislature has passed a
law taxing all married couples living with
their mothers-in-law $900 if residing with
the husband's mother-in-law, and €120 if
with'the wife's.
According to an official report }ust issued
of the 39,478 people whose marriages were
registered in Massachusetts last year, 093
word-men and 245 women who had reached
their fiftieth year.-
Gerald Evans, an undergraduate of Ex
eter college, died in the college from blood
poisoning, brought upon bim because while
playing foot ball he had received a alight
scratch on the face.
L. C. Beecher, of Woodbridge, Conn.,
planted a hiil of pumpkins last spring.
From that hill be gathered seventeen pump
kins aggregating 686 pounds. He has sold
them all at 1 cent a pound.
Men who are urgfng the bankrupt law
should remember.that it is more important
to prevent bankruptcies than to administer
them. In this as in other things, "Pre
vention is better than cure."
Beware how you say "fle." When Bis
marck was huffy the other day, he said,
"Thfe man is lmputent who says He' to me."
Even the chancellor may learn before death
comes that hla word is not Infallible.
With a .view of testing a new tooth-,
pulling machine which he was about to
parohase a Williamport dentist allowed
himself to be operated upon, and the tower
partjof his face was pearly torn away..
The margarine- act in England seema to
have had a salutary effect upon, the adul
teration of butter, for j. Carter Belli the
Cheshire county analyst, says that'of fifty
one samples only one was adulterated. .'
Just before his death M. Augier said:
"What a fine thing is old age. One is' sur*
rounded with care,' attention and respect
But what a pity it lUsts *6 'short a time."
The successful always want life prolonged.
Whiie fishing near' slaughter Beach,
Del., a few days ago, a party of young
men of Mllford caught a veritable sea
devth It was nearly ft feet in'leiigth,'3 feet
7 inches'in width^ and' had iur immense
head.''
The greatest beer drinkers are those of
Munich. They drink 492 litres- per thesd.
per-year, against Vienna's 861, Berlin's 240.
and Paris' 22. This costs the Munich in
habitants on an average of |30 a head an
nually. .. ...
During .1889 slightly over a hundred
million dollars', worth of gold has been dug,
from the earth on,the four continents. The
largest quantity came from Australia,
California and South Africa. Africa
looking up.
There is no telling whlen the great ^eatUfP?
dral of Cologne will be completed!'' The'
bronze doors are nearly ready. A foreUm
letter says "the doors present the four ages
of mien, the foUr seasons and tits wise and
foolish virgins."
A Watsontown, Pa, man saw advertised
**A Sure Cure for Drunkenness." He for
warded the necessary dollar, and raoeived
by return maU, written on a valuable
postal card in beautiful violet ink, the
magic words: "Don't Drink."
Just what a full-grown black bear caado.
in the way of hugging was demonstrated la
Maine a week or two ago, when Bruin
seized a barrel of beef, gave it a' aqueeze
and cruahed it to pfecee. It was estimated
to bo a aqueeze of two-hone power.
For two years paat them haa been an
Insurance company against burglaries flour
ishing In London. According to the regu
lar rates you can insure the contents of your
residence, or the damage to it through
burglary, or any special article yqp desire.
A greut scandal exists at Bologna in re.
gard to its staple, sausages, which have
lately been fraudulently made of diseased
horse meat, mixed with pork. Foreign im
porters refused to take such stuff and the
city's brand in thia specialty now atanda.
below par.
Tolatoi ia now engaged in writing' a
criticism of dogmatic theology and pre
paring a new harmony of the four gospels.
In literature Tolstoi belongs to the school
of realism, and in theology he follows the
same systems. He believes in the library
teachings of Jesus.
The beard of Henry S. Cook, a tailor of
Norwich, Conn., is as long ash3 ia- Mr.
Cook is a small man, sixty years old. His
beardis jet black and flne and silky, and so
his hair. When he is erect and his beard'
unfurled, he can.step on .six inches of it
He wears :it- ordinarily soiled In^ a wad,.lp,
id is a ii an
to travel with hla elrcna but Cook ft,*?
perous, and does not care to be fra*
ofvl848,
in 156
newed
The first co:
iW
pt
Nni wiat or 1
and
in the pnblic market place.
glad of the apporuunity to,
myself how inch thinga
On begjhUMw Jho cafe the ituct
t(OMmeeid^Ouik CiuniUii. wonld^
be Mpa||^t Imt wo^ld lie,. Bo|i
ahpmlMrof
been fe^oughib to the blqcki
knocl
a bright Ipol
forward and
Tho
called aiHM
crowd to coi
the boy.
tioneer tf
"Gentleriii
boy's father^
Indies, and is a free mra.
to bay the boy and take hinT
to
home to make him free. He
|400, which is all them
:boy, .*m.i
The.
intent of this stfeitoi
evidently to discoui
of that bid. and"
thetic cord in
crowd watched the
minute or two in
auctioneer dwMk9poi|,.tiie l^d?
|400, and was^cmlin&jte out for
third and last tba»,inieii,' firom
outalftrte of f^wcrbwa,' a yoke
"Fiftyl" Eveline WiOirat onoe
ed in the directiOh of the hidde^
was a roughs dissipated,looking
low, atypical slave trader inapper
ance. The auctioneer paused
moment,:lofokcid annoybd, and^hM
repeated bits previous stkteownt eon
cerning the old man, emphadiinfrthe
remark tb'at $400 wa« aH the money
he had. "And now," said he^'l aa
bid four hundred and fifty/1: noma
down voices came''the cry: "With
draw your bidP The auctioneer
awaited the iesuH), The bT"
growled a wirly refnsal. saying
"wanted that boy, and had as
a right to bid'as atiybody." S!
hundred and fifty," came slow!
the lips of the awtiloneer, The
of 4Withdraw'yo|^Udr?were
W^^^Htid tl^idd^ "I witit
drawit."
The ancii
to the.01
twobrtki
his hammer^ -.
v.
Old man.tro.lmyl8^
dowhi" Th%«to#]d
pri^p^ iMM fifHt
thep^tiM)pf^es^alri hu
fromthe stMfawafiiing futd%a||^j
i' Facts Woi^th "'Knowing.^
There eie i,75()langaagies.
Wa^es, wexe&st' xaad^'^a 1479,
A barrel of rice wcrighs'QOOpi^ds.
The average humanlifl^s dlyiears.
A bfeirrd^tBipurweighs 196 pounds.:
A banS^pbrkWdghsaoOM
ThfeftMtateclpen was made ui
A h|utt^Mua^T»»bves 80 mOes
hour.' -:i:--''^ -'V.:r .. :r 'r
The, of silvw
Thefinl
in 1829.
The
in 1880.
.Mi
inlf^j
wan
was
first ciBtme
SpoundsL
-''''doifei*'.
WCnfcI!177l(cotton1
16?
Alb^t: Unr gave the®
wood
Glass windbW wmT first'rlqt
duced into En^and in the
ceittuiy.
dn'.Moif
you will haH
BurftlaHM by&nEIei:
Whfle Messrs. Sanger*s mien
prepudng to leayv Apcrg^gton
Monday moratog, opieof "tha
'phants jgofe«way firom tiie eonUMi^^
ohjitdiieiiij andbbivt open the^oo#»'
ftf a warehouse ol aliMighlM
vbperiit^lil^
'tV^a^wdtBttlogi'
^hahVa^rfty. 1
tbUilactbM
to
^tdtattbb the
in
•siM"
other btQglaiy at
., he fdiMMI away in «hi»
aod fcpcea open a locked-up |_
shop H&li itrab Em
irooli cheese, two
v.--ft®. «ndoth#grocnlMi:
altogether did £10 worth ofd
O Chroptaa
'•.OoodVe
Itbn'teAeBtkatayoungakricetUlla
teena hae f16,000 placed la MsiiidiM^
with as
pkaaaa aad to naeaa
may dictate yM ttis was a littleanptl
oeewred laat waek to Bo* Qrant a
man who ttveaoa VtMStaMA withhla L.
and whole «aployidintlMOfllceaoftlM I
ford Lift and Annuity Insurance Cmi
in this dty. Toung Grant hrid onf^t«n
of tieket M,8Mv which diew th« first
of $800,000 in tb* drs«i» 01
Louisiana fltateLottn? Conpaay^
15th of October. Th* lucky youag
*e?
quMtioMd bra newspaper dhwIL,
phatically dealed hiving won tb* fyTs
bntexpneeed Wtarelfasb^gwfllSrta
erive anrh a eain. Since the iaterwm
newspayr man hu learned that OrmtlL
nerfve th* money that It wasbaid ta hWI
AdanuBspreas CoiaM
in tills dty, and,that two asneraai
poncemen guarded the houee the all
money was bept thereto.. Alkthls «L
lrithout th* knowledge of Qrant'e parent
bflt whM they, too,fonn] oat-how forti
«bej^ bad bwm, immfdiat.