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CHARLES
HERALD.
Published Every Saturday, in a Rich Sugar, Molasses and Rice Producing Country.
VOLUME
XL
HAHNVILLE, LOUISIANA,
SATURDAY,
AUGUST
1883.
NUMBER
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'HE INQUISITIVE FISHERMAN.
Once there was a fisherman
>> ho went to catch some fish;
He took with him a basket
And a little china dish.
1 11 use one for the fishes,
The other when I sup;
ror, if they meet iny wishes,
I 11 cook and eat them upl"
He fished and fished the whole day long-,
From morn till late ut night;
He baited hooks and watched his bob.
But could hot get a bite.
He then threw' down his rod and line,
And vowed he *d go below.
To find out what the reason was
The fish had used him so.
The fish all gathered round him,
Each wagging his own tail,
T roin the little polly-woggy
I To the great gigantic whale.
)me fish were looking scaly,
And some exceeding thin,
ut all wore glad to see the man,
And offered him a fin.
They said: "We have no china dish,
Nor basket snug and tight;
But we are very prudent fish,
Who think bcforo»wo bite.
We do not need to cook our prizo
Ere we sit down and sup."
And so, boro re his very eyes,
They uto that fisher upl
—St. Nicholas.
"MUCH ADO," ETC.
A True Story*
Papa, I want to go to Hartford with
, !" called out little Lotty Park, as she
her father open the door to go down
I rs, for it was almost train-time, and
Park was station-agent at West
ring.
Not to-day, Lotty. I can't go till
ttioiTow; you may come along then,
i nmma says so."
tie next morning, Lotty was duly
< sed in her prettiest clothes, and
lting like a dolly, only far sweeter
! prettier than the best of dollies,
ent down to the platform, for Mr.
s house was the upper story of
cturesque passenger depot,
ore long the train came screaming
issing in from the west, and Mr.
locked up the office and came out
ere Lotty stood. Tom Scott, the
ige-master on the train, looked
! the sliding door to see Lotty, for
wtn he was always prepared with a
flqr, an apple, a bit of candy, or
sen other dainty', for he loved the rosy
litjthing dearly, and all the more that
liiiwn little girl lay asleep in the
»Slim graveyard.
1. Park swung Lotty up into Tom
Sets arms. "Here!" said he; "check
thliit of baggage through to Hart
fort
Cehing her, with a laugh and a
kishe sat her down on a big trunk
anipvo her a cooky out of his dinner
pail
Ji then Mr. Park caught sight of
the |-y man on whose account lie was
goiifn to Hartford. Mr. Coe was a
inanicturer in Waring and there had
beenrouble about his freight rates,
whiifilr. Park had to go into the office
of tHoad to see about; he had not got
nil ttnformation lie wanted, for Mr.
Coe id been West, but here he was,
just pie back, on his way to the
Wari station, half a mile below
WestJaring.
Sojr. Park talked to him all the
time ie engine was taking in water,
and tti got into the car and sat beside
him, |1 talking so earnestly that he
got ojat the Waring station, quite
forge^ of Lotty, Hartford and every
thing e, and followed Mr. Coe to the
wagofirhich was waiting for him in
his easiness to fully inform himself
about js matter.
Tlielatter of car wheels called
him bt in a moment; the train was
off, oflfeyond his reach, but it would
go ear down to the'Tuck Junction,
a few Is off, and stop there, accord
ing tqiw, to cross the other track.
Mr. PS tore after it like a crazy man,
caughts foot in a rail, fell, scrambled
up andshed on, but all too late!
The tin hissed away far ahead of
the frac follower; there was but one
thing tjo: telegraph to the next sta
tion, Ei Hartlaifd, to have her put off
there q sent back on the next train.
He p back to the Waring station,
but thaelegraph operator had gone
home dinner, and he had to hunt
him upld get the key ; but now the
tjain wbverdue at East Hartland, he
must sill to Parsonsville.
This tage happened to be a mile
fim ittatjl and before the opera
tor' coupqnq up a message the train
had go I Jffr. park could have cried
if he liaieen ft'woman ; being a man,
he cxpifcd his distress otherwise, but
quite asrcibly. The next thing was
to signajampton.
"Ask Inductor Cone to stop train at
B. BrooKding; fetch girl Tom Scott
has alont'
The tq in from Waring went on to
a siding fet before" ÿoii reached Hamp
ton, andliited for the Hartford train
ten mirys. At Hampton the tele
graph oditor was also gone to dinner.
No answeamo back till Mr. Park was
ready toispair, then it said : "Both
trains gobeforc your message came."
There is but one thing left to do
now ; hemst telegraph to Hartford,
and anoir message spun along the
wires: !
"Ask Ce to fetch the little girl Tom
Scott took out on the evening train."
The aver that came back was
dreadful tlio anxious father.
"Tom 4tt left train at Wintonbury.
No child Aboard."
To be SI ; Tom Scott's old mother
lived at \Vonbury. Onco a week he
stopped ofiie train at this last station
to see heitnd took the return train
there, for 6 was very old and infirm,
and latelyd been dangerously ill.
But "Nqhild on board ! '' What
could thisean? Had Lotty.run into
the next < to find her father and
slipped unyi between the cars, while
careless T»stepped off'at Wintonbury
and thougkio more about her? 01»,
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poor Lotty! was she lyingon that ghastly
track that had slaughtered so many lie
fere lier? Mr. Park shuddered and hid
his !u a ' in his hands; he was not an ini
a,in itivj man, bulcverythingthatcould
possibly happen to his darling ran
through his mind; may be she had fallen
from the door of the baggage-car and
been lost in the woods, if she escaped
uninjured. Perhaps she lay in that cold,
black river the train crossed so many
times, which only a few months ago
had engulfed a score of others, each
perhaps as dear to some one as Lotty
to him ; and all because of his own
carelessness ! How could he have for
gotten her? What was business of any
sort compared with Lotty?
He was not habitually a praying man,
but with the instinct that drives many of
us—most of us—to an Almighty power
for help when trouble and danger press,
he lifted up a fervent prayer to God to
help him ; to bring back his lost Lotty.
Poor man! he dare not go home and
face his wife, who was feeble always,
and now worn out with the care of a
sick baby. Ho could not bear to think
ofj going to her with the truth of the
case—which he could not know himself
until the evening train brought out Tom
Scott; and he would not go to her with
a dreadful uncertainty.
There was nothing for him but to wait
at the station till the train came in.
His brother George was in the ticket
office at West Waring, tilling his place,
on the supposition that he and Lotty
had gone to Hartford, so he need not go
hack there.
It was two o'clock by this time; in
fifteen minutes the milk train would
come along. There was just a chance
Lotty might have been put on to the milk
train from the platform at Bright Brook,
which was a flag station close by the
siding, when Tom Scott found her
father had not come aboard.
Why had he not thought of this be
fore? A wild thrill of hope ran through
his heart, he could scarce wait for the
train to come up; why should he? he
could run down to the Tuck junction
and get on the cars there; so ofl' he went
again at full speed, and boarded the
train the instant it slowed.
"Is my little Lotty aboard?" ho call
ed eagerly, turning a white, worn face
and hungry eyes t*iv^rd Conductor
Smith, who stood in the caboose door.
"No, sir; nobody but them you see
settin' before you," smiled the con
ductor, quite unaware of the agony his
answer gave the expectant father.
Mr. Park dropped into a seat that was
luckily vacant close beside him. There
was no child there, but a small boy of
about Lotty's age—a hoy as black as
black could be, who turned and looked
at him with a grin.
Mr. Park laughed; he was so tired,
so anxious, so cruelly disappointed, that
he laughed aloud, but it was a laugh
worse than a cry.
Everybody turned to look at him, but
the train stopped, and being close to the
door, ho got out first, went over to the
freight station, sat down on a cheese
box, and leaned his head against a
beam, entirely worn out.
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The freight-master asked him some
trivial kindly question, hut the poor
man shook his head silently ; he could
not speak ; so the other went his way
and let him alone. He saw that some
thing was the matter he could neither
meddle with or help, but he told his
wife that night that he did wonder what
ailed Park ; for he never saw such a
face in all his life as his was that day.
It seemed as if the afternoon never
would go by ; he heard three o'clock
strike from somebody's house near by,
and as the minutes wore on he thought
that the clock had inn down, hut he
pulled out his watch and it was a quar
ter of four. Almost time for the West
ern train to come in ; then arose the
question in his mind whether the sus
pense would be shortened if he got on
that train and went down to East. Hart
land to wait for the evening train out.
He would know sooner, but what would
he know? Was a horrible certainty
easier to bear than suspense?
Some men would have accepted the
alternative at once, but he shrank from
it, partly because he was weakened and
worn with the terrible strain of the last
few hours, and actually felt unable to
make the exertion ; partly because, like
more than half the other people in the
world, he wanted to delay a shook that
was probable as long as it could be
done.
The train steamed in ; he heard the
hotel-porters crying out their short,
sharp invitations ; he heard laughter,
the buzz of tongues, the driving off of
carts and carriages, the clatter of an
unruly horse's hoofs, and the objurga
tions of his driver, hut he never lifted
his weary head.
His thoughts took a now turn ; he
went back to the day Lotty was first
laid in his arms, a little, helpless, fret
ting baby of a day old. But how proud
he was of his girl, even from her baby
hood ! how he had watched every new
trick, and laughed with delight at her
broken baby-language I how scared she
was at the locomotives the first time he
took her down on the platform, hiding
her fair head in his breast and sobbing
with terror !
Poor little soul ! lie wondered if she
had been frightened when she fell off
the train, or if she had been spared that
terror by instant death. He shuddered
at the idea, and made a great effort to
controT himself, and dispel the dreadful
fancies that haunted him. He got up
and walked up and down the freight
depot, then lie went over to the waiting
room, picked up a New York paper
somebody had left behind; and sat reso
lutely down to read it. There was a
j great deal of news in that paper, but
I he never knew it. Ail he saw was —
" Lotty! dear little Lotty! lost Lotty!"
I The words seemed to dance up and
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down the columns everywhere. A boy
came along with apples; he bought one
of them and tried to eat it, but it choked
him.
Time would fail me to tell of his efforts
to make the day fly; it only crept the
slower. His very agony wore itself out
at length; he was dull and dumb, like
one who walks in a bad dream.
At last the half-hour after live came,
and he rose from the box where he had
been sitting on the street side of the
station, and went round to the railway
platform where the ears would come in.
The wind was in his favor; it blew
from the southeast. When he had
stared at the clock-face in the waiting
room, through the window, at least fifty
times, and counted out ten minutes, he
heard a distant shriek of the whistle,
and his heart . tood still. Only ten
minutes more! for the train was due at
5.50 p. M.
But what minutes! Ten? there were
ten hundred of them at the least! and
then — there it came — slowing care
fully up to the platform, and there was
Tom Scott's pleasant face, and his ath
letic figure at the door of the car, ready
to hand out trunks.
"Tom! Tom Scott!" cried a strange,
hoarse voice, as a man pushed fiercely
through the astonished crowd to the
baggage-car, "where's my girl? where
is Lotty?"
"Lotty!" ejaculated Tom, pausing in
the act of sliding a big trunk to the
platform.
"Lotty! why, man alive, where do
you s'pose she is? to home, aint she?
where she'd oughter be."
"Did you feten her—send her,I mean,
on the 2.10 train?"
"Bless your crazy soul ! I never took
her! When I see you didn't get aboard
this noon I jost took an' dropped her
into George's arms—he stood there
alookin' on; and sez I, 'Take her hum,
George; he ain't a-going to-day, as I
see.' So he ketched her and went off
with her. Didn't she kick though?"
And Tom Scott laughed at the recollec
tion.
Mr. Park would have liked to knock
him down on the spot; but the relief,
therevnlsion, was so great he had scarce
strength to drag himself up into the car.
A few pants of the engine, a stiort tug
up the heavy grade, aud they were at
West Waring station, and there, run
ning across the street toward the sta
tion, rosy, dancing, smiling, camo Lost
Lotty.— Hose Terry Cooke, in Youths'
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Where Bears Were Thick.
Said Major Jim: "B'ars will leave
when you make it too hot for 'em, sir.
when I was doin' business for old
Jedge Smides, down in Madison Parish
—plantation lay right on the river—
Mississippi River you know—one night
I was sittin' on my gallery smokin', sir
—everything jest as still ns er dead
mule, sir. Well, first thing 1 knowed I
heerd a kinder noise way up 'cross the
river, and it sounded sorter low like at
first, and then it kept gittin' louder and
louder, twell I couldent stand it no
longer, sir. I jest jumps up on my
feet and I says: 'Oldooman, old ooman,
a hurricane's comein', sure as you're
born,' Says she: 'Major O.'—she al
ways called me Major O. when she
wan'tin a hurry—'how in the name o'
sense can a hurricane be a comein'
when there ain't a cloud in the sky?'
'Well,' says I, 'there's the deuce to pay
somewhere.' So I picks up my double
barrel and I breaks out for the levee,
and when I gits there I lissen, and I
hears that roarin' 'cross the river gittin'
louder and louder, jest like a nigger
funeral, when they begin to blow the
mud out their biicrs, sir. And 1 looked
where the moon was shinin', and I seen
that whole river turnin' black, sir, and
cornin' closer and closer up to where I
was standin'. Skeared! I reckon I was
skeared. Why, sir, my hair would a
lifted a cotton bale. I would a put up
and dusted, and I did kinder inch back
er little, but 1 dazzent run, sir, with
Susan Ann a standin' there on that gal
lery. There she stood, sir, and first
she'd sing 'Old Hundred,' and then
she'd git down on her marrow bones
and moan out her little prayer, and
then every once in a while she'd holler
out, 'Jim, what is the matter?' as if 1
wouldn't a given six quarts of Dexter's
best jest to a half knowed what was the
matter. If you'd a seed me, sir, a
standin' there bavin' one agur on top
of another faster'n you could count 'em,
and the cold sweat rnnnin' out the holes
in my boots, you'd a knowed, sir, how
happy I was, sir, when I seed some
thin' black riz up out that river and
shuck hisself. I jest up and hollered to
Susan Ann not to becarryin' on like n
mooniack and makin' a durned fool of
herself; but I had jest as well hollered
at a loggerhead turkle, for Susan Ann
and every nigger on that hill had lit out;
for the eanebreak, sir. So I jest stood
there lonesome by myself, and I jest
poured it into them b'ars right end left
when they topped that levee and shuck
thevselves, twell broad daylight, sir. It
looked like the whole world was full of
b'ars, sir. I jest stood in my tracks and
I killed thirty-eight of 'em, sir—the
biggest in the drove, and when 1 stop
ped shootin'there wasn't a livin'soul
on that, plantation 'cept me and them
dead b'ars. Every nigger, sir, littlo
and big, and Susan Aim to boot, was
clean gone, sir. I got some nigger
dogs and I ketched the old ooman down
on Joe's Bayou the next day, but some
of them niggers never did git back, sir,
never did. i r es, sir, b'ars will travel
when you makes ithotfor'em."— Forest
and Stream.
—In the delinquent tax list of Union
Parish, La., published by the Farmers
ville Gazette, every delinquent is ar,
sessed with from one to five dogs.
Rare and Costly Woods*
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In olden times bedstead«, doors and
other furniture were made of solid
rosewood, mahogany, or whatever tho
variety might be, while now the more
common kinds of wood aro veneered
with the more expensive and beautiful
woods. In tiiis way tho same outward
appearance is gained at a much less
cost, and furniture is apparently made
out of woods which arc not obtainable
in sizes sufficiently large to make solid
pieces of furniture. At first t ho veneers
wore sawed, but this method, as tho
wood increased in value, caused so
much waste that machinery was in
vented for the special purpose of making
veneers with tho least possible loss. A
veneer-mill in operation is a curious
sight. The machinery is ponderous
and seemingly unwieldy, but it works
with the utmost precision and nicety,
not varying a fraction of an inch even
when carrying a load of (i,0(K) pounds.
To carry such weight the machinery is
necessarily massive, but moves with the
exactness of a printing press. Tho
wood, before being takeu to the mills,
is put in the sweat room or steam-box,
whero it is subjected to the action of
steam until it becomes soft and offers
less resistance to the knife. The fine
taken in this process varies, according
to tho solidity and firmness of tho wood,
from six to twenty-four hours. After
having been thoroughly permeated with
steam it is firmly fastenud to a part of
the machinery, which revolves about a
razor-like knife that is utterly immov
able. Unless the wood has been steamed
it is impossible to sliavo it into as thin
sheets as desired, for if it were hard
and dry the sheets would bo brittle and
unfit for use.
Tho knife can be set so that sheets of
any thickness may lie shaved off. With
one of those machines wood can be cut
into sheets as thin as tissue-paper, but
when so thin they are not of much val
ue, as tho glue with which they nro
fastened to other woods shows through,
and if used they must be backed with
paper. As many as one hundred ntid
fifty sheets have been cut from an inch
of wood, but for common purposes tho
veneers run about fifty to tho inch.
Another advantage in this invention,
other than the economy of material, is
tho increase in the size of the sheets
when shaved over those that are sawed.
The steamed sheet is about four times
tho size of the others, because it is taken
from the entire circumference, while, if
a saw is used, nothing can bo obtained
but a transverse section.
Wood known as French walnut is the
most valuable for veneers. It has, how
ever no claim to the name walnut, and
is'only termed French because largo
piantitics of it are exported from Mar
seilles to this country. This wood grows
in Persia, Circassia and Asia Minor, and
is becoming very rare. It is only seen
in tlie most costly furniture, and great
care is taken to prevent its waste. The
grain of this wood is very peculiar, and
presents twists and figures of the most
fantastic and beautiful designs, looking
in many cases like mosaics. There is
no other wood which presents to the eye
such pleasing contrasts and shades of
color.
Next to French walnut, rosewood or
mahogany-is probably the most valua
ble. Large quantities of these woods
aro cut into veneers, and fine pieces
often bring ns high prices as French
walnut. Ebony is a very valuable wood,
but owing to its extreme hardness is sel
dom sent to tho veneer-mill. Economy
lias become necessary, also, in tho use
of our native woods, and burls of white
and black walnut, nsh, maple and cherry
are in much demand. The use of black
walnut as a veneer is in its infancy, but
the wooil has become so scarce that it is
now stretched as far as possible. Pop
lar, ash and oak are commonly veneered
with walnut and other more expensive
woods in the manufacture of all kinds
of furniture. Rosewood veneer is used
largely on billiard-tables and piano
boxes. Much veneering is now used in
the interior decorations of fine houses,
and in giving a hard finish to railroad
ears. Chair seats, ear seats, brush
backs, telephone boxes, cigar boxes,
sewing machines, cases and many other
things which conic under the eye, are
only imitations of what they appear to
be. Business cards have been printed
on veneer, and it lias also been used as
wall paper. From t ho finer French wal
nut burls veneors have been cut which
none but an expert could distinguish
from hand-painting. Table covers are
usually made of these. They range in
price from $25 to many hunureds, and
can be made as expensive as tho pur<
chaser wishes.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
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1'eas in the Fall.
The way to raise the finast quality of
peas is, after the first sowing, to plant
them deep and match them, so that the
soil they root in is always cool anil moist.
In the careless manner in which peas
are frequently cultivated they have very
little flavor and delicacy. It is so with
raising what is called tho snapper
beans. They are seldom planted deep
enough, and as a consequence have no
more flavor than a piece of India-rub
ber and are about astough,but the beans
planted in September, and in due time
arc for sale In our markets, are really
delicious in flavor and fairly melt in
the mouth. This is the result of cool
soil. But were these beaus planted
three and four inches deep, aa we have
more than once suggested, throughout
the season, aud mulched in the hottest
portion of it, we could have, as with tho
peas, these vegetables at all times up to
November in perfection.— Germantown
Telegraph.
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The Soductire ('hioral.
Everybody is familiar with the abuse
of opium in its various forms, from tho
fashionable victim who is a slave to tlio
hypodermic needle, to the degraded out
cast seeking forgetfulness in the Chinese
opium "joint." Of hasheesh or Indian
hemp, little is heard, tlie victims of this
drug being comparatively few in this
country, though its use is common
enough in India and the East generally.
But there is another drug for some time
after its discovery, some fifteen years
ago, considered comparatively harm*
less, and which is just beginning to re
ceive the attention its baleful effeots
merit. This is hydrate of chloral. A
well-known physician of New York
City, in speaking on this subject, said:
"Chloral hydrate stands first in the
list of hypnotics, and to overcome pure
and simple sleeplessness is without a
rival. IV hen it first camo into use much
was expected which experience lias
failed to verify. It is not to any extent
an anodyne; it is simply the best hyp
notic known, and the most deadly. The
opium habit is easlv acquired ; indeed,
to some temperaments its cautious me
dicinal use is perilous, from the readi
ness with which the drug is resorted to
in every trifling illness and the fatal
habit formed. But it ncods no bitter
season of pain and suffering to become
habituated to tlie use of chloral. So
softly, so gently, so gradually docs its
subtle, fatal chain b;nd its victim that
he only realizes its power when too late
to break the bonds which hind him.
Chloral is resorted to for an ordinary
attack of insomnia, and perhaps small
doses aro taken for a few days, the re
sult being a sound, refreshing sleep
with none of the evil results
common to other narcotics. The
period of sleeplessness past, which may
lie tho rosult of overwork, business
anxiety, or nervous prostration, ths
drug is abandoned and all goes weil for
a time. Sooner or later sleeplessness
returns, chloral is resorted to, kept up
for a longer time and taken in larger
doses. It is again abandoned for a
longer time, only to resurtie its sway,
and so slowly and surely tlie habit is
formed that renders sleep impossible
without chloral, which, like all narcot
ics, must be increased in quantity as the
system becomes habilitated to its poi
sonous effects. Tlie larger class of vic
tims of the chloral habit arc men who
lead sedentary lives and who from
temperament and tho nature of their
work are peculiarly liable to suffer from
sleeplessness. One of the most notable
examples of the baneful effects of the
chloral habit was Dante Gabriel Rosctti,
Who, during the latter years of his life,
was accustomed to take enormous doses,
reaching a total of nearly ISO grains
daily. For many years lie look chloral
regularly, at first in small quantities,
but gradually increased tlie dose until
his power of resistance was gone. His
life was darkened by a power he fought
against in vain. His latter days were
spent in solitude. He became a recluse
and a hypochondriac, filled with
groundless fears for himself, cherishing
unfoundod suspicions against his best
friends and admirers. Dr. Maudsley,
the great English alienist, stigmatizod
hloral as "crystalized hell," and con
demns its use, even in disease, except
to tide over some pressing emergency,
and there is certainly an increasing
reluctance on the part of physicians
to prescribe chloral except in excep
tional cases. Unlike opium, there arc,
as a rule, no unpleasant effects, no
reaction following the use of chloral.
It simply produces perfect sleep, or the
best possible imitation of dreamless
rest, with no headache or sickness as a
reminder that the slumber lias been
purchased and tlie debt must ho paid
for. It is paid later on, and the interest
demanded is health, hope 1 , and often
life itself."
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Hog Against Rattlesnake.
A friend tells us of a fight he wit
nessed, last week, between a rattle
snake and a hog. To use ids own lan
guage: "1 had just started up the steep
Kill beyond Toms Creek, goingto Roans
Creek, when my attention was attracted
to a hog near the road, champing and
walking around with bristles erect,with
two smaller hogs some few feet away
looking on. Reining to a better view
1 saw a good size rattlesnake coiled,
head erect, and his rattles sounding tlie
note of anger. The sow, with head
down and bristles erect, was slowly
walking around the snake, champing
her teeth together and tlie foam run
ning from her mouth. Presently the
snake struck at her but missed his aim,
tho sow springing to one side at the mo
ment the snake struck. instantly tlie
snake was again coiled and his rattle
ringing. Tho sow renewed her circling,
the snake following, with his head al
ways facing the hog. Soon ho struck
again anil fastened his fangs on her
jaw below the ear. She raised her
head and the snake was raised to her.
Instantly she caught the snake in her
mouth, put her feet on his tail and strip
ped the skin up. Renewing her foot
hold on the body of the snake, she took
another pull and tore the snake in two,
and then, tearing off' a part of the quiv
ering snake, she complacently set to
eating it up. Tlie other two hogs now
advanced, but the sow took up the
pieces of the snake and walked off a
I few steps, and set to finishing the feast.
I had seen enough and rode on."
I Linden (Tenn.) Times.
—In Germany, when a youth and his
! girl in a public garden order ice cream
or other refreshments, the youth pays
for his own and the girl's fallier paya
for liers. People who claim that Amer
ica has become Germanized don't know
what they are talking about.— Phila
delphia News.
PITH AND POINT*
—Texas is a great State for ants.
Sullivan ought to go there. Doesn't
tho Scripture say, "Go to the ant, thou
slug-hardP"— Exchange.
—Somebody out West is trying to
find out how many mutes there are in
the country. Wo givo it up. It's a
question of mulo-tiplioation.— Boston
Star.
—Brown, being invited to assist at his
friend Robinson a wedding, said ho
couldn't givo the bride away, but he
eould give tho groom dead away if
occasion required.— Chicago Times.
Those who have lost their money *
in Chicago lard can feelingly say that
their fortune has grown "small by do
g rease and beautifully loss."— ISlts
urgh Telegraph.
— "Yes," says Mrs. Parvenu, "we
have taken a sliattoe at Newport on
Maria's account- she's twenty-six, you
know, and we will entertain In as hos
pital stylo as any of the others."— N. F.
Graphie.
—Count Smith put on l clean paper
collar last Wednesday, when the ther
mometer was 104 degrees In tho shndo,
and it meltod round his neck in three
minutes and fifteen seconds. This is
the fastest time mado by a paper collar
this year. —Son Francisco News-Letter.
—A lady stopping at a hotel in Aus
tralia was bitten by a rat, and has sued
tho proprietor of the hotel for #10,000
damages. The bite was not severe, but
her fright was so great that her hair—
hanging on the bnek of a chair—turned
gray before morning.— Norristown Her
ald.
—Mrs. Lovcflowors (from her window,
to now maid servant, who is at work in
the garden): "What are you doing in
the petunia bed, NorahP
• Shure,
I'm pulliii up all tho wild carrots, 'm ;
' I'll have It I
all wed in a mi unit, 'm.
Aro you sure that you know tho weeds
from the young plants? '' " Faith, 1
am, 'm. They smells Jist like tamo
carrots, 'm; an' I »me
soon's I pulls it up.
Bazar.
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— Ifarptr't
— Harper's Bazar is authority for the
dictum that a widow should fie married
in a bonnet. In our opinion this idea
is wrong. By tho time the widow has
selected the style of bounot in which
she wishes to appear at tho ceremony
the gfoom will have lost patience and
gone elsowhoro for a wife. The best
thing for a widow to bo married in is in
a hurry. Unless she has money. Then
sho oan take her time .—Bochester (N. Y. )
Host-Express.
—Johnny had come home from sohool
several times within a month with va
rious bruises on his face and body re
ceived in fights with his schoolmates,
and on the last occasion his mother
threatened him with severe punishment
if lie ever engaged in a light again.
Only a few days after the small chap
appeared with a black eye, and, soared
by the stern ma'ernal greeting, "Well,
sir?" he departed from his usual truth
ful ways, and stammered: "I fell down
and lilt my head on a stone." "And
which got the worst of it P " asked his
big brother. "Oh, the other fellow, you
bet," nnswerwd Johnny briskly. "He's
jone homo with two black eyes."—
T arpcr's Bazar.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Judge Folk, of Brownsville, Tenn.,
tins invented n spiral windmill, which
will run street and rnilway cars.
—An Atlanta (Ga.) man lias invent
ed a wheel for wagons in which, If a
spoke breaks, neither tire nor rim is re
moved to put in a new one. Tlie Inven
tion has been patented.
—Up 4o 1876 tho standard capacity
of freight ears was 20,000 pounds. In
1877 a few were built to carry 30,000,
and since 1879 tho standard cars, both
of the East and West, have been built to
carry 40,000.
A correspondent of tho British
Medical Journal states that he has
found the application of a strong solu-
tion of chromic acid three or four times
by means of a camel's hair pencil to be
the most efficient and easy method of
removing warts. They become black
and soon fall off.
-It has been ascertained by Mr. C. O.
Boutollc that tlie magnesium light, as
used by tho United States Coast Survey,
is an effective night signal for distances
as great as forty-five to seventy miles.
Even tlie ordinary student lamp with a
parabolic reflector may be seen as much
as forty miles away.
-Mr. R. H. Wadlow, a Brooklyn
(Ga.) man, after three years' hard
work and study, has finally invented
and patented a new method of making
shoes. The entire uppers of these shoes
are of one piece, with no seams that
touch the foot. They aro made with
an adjustable instep, and fastened with
buckles of his own invention.
-Tho London Lancet tells how to
cure a bone felon. As soon as it is felt
put directly over the spot a fly blister
the aize of your thumb nail. Let it re
main for six hoars, at the expiration of
which time directly under the surface
of the blister may be seen the felon,
which can instantly be taken out with
the point of a needle.
—Pine sawdust, highly compressed,
has been successfully used to make up
center frames of carriage wheels. It
is said to be so solid that it will bear s
pressure equal to twenty-three tons pet
square inch. As sawdust has also been
used for partitions and bricks, its i
cation to the production of
carvings and mouldings do
to be far ofl'. "" '
new market
hitherto been
product,-