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ST. CHARLES HERALD.
Published Every Saturday, In a Rich Sugar, Molasses and Rice Producing Country.
VOLUME XI.
HAHNVILLE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1883.
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AN IDLE IDYL.
Just then upon a goldoji flower
A butterfly alighted,
And waved Its wings about as though
Exceedingly delighted.
And sott should have been. The day
Waft very warm and sunny,
And all the Insects whirred and whizzed,
They found such lota of honey.
She slyly caught it in her hand,
And while it gently h tiding
He languidly approuciicd and gavo
Her an aesthetic scolding.
"How can you so? Fie! let it go.
The gem of flying thtngletsi.
A lesson bearing everywhere
Of Beauty on Its wingleta."
"Oh, certainly. I'll aet it free,
Tf it will give you pleasure
To see it fly," she said, and soon
Off flew the airy treasure.
A few moments after. He sat hr ninth the hor.-.y
sucMe vine. She regarded him from the steps
of the poiVh.
"üehold ! how amber grows the grasa,"
He murmured. "Soon the reaper
Will come," when on his ear there fell
A many-legged creeper.
Upon his feet he quickly sprang.
And to the ground he dashed it.
"A horrid caterpillar! Oh!"
Ho shudd'ring cried, and smashed It.
Ah me! ah woe! How could you so?'*
She sighed. "The wretched oiiuiol!"
It was of some bright butterfly
A daughterlet or sonlet. "
—Margaret Egtinge , In Harper s Magazin».
' ANNEXED BY THE TSAR.
He was a huge dog, and lie stood by
he kennel, in old Dr. Gorham's back
ard, in an attitude of deep meditation,
-'here was one subject for dog-thought
lying right before him, and another lay
1 nly a yard or so beyond the first.
The one was an empty "muzzle" that
ay upon the grass, close by a couple of
veil-picked bones. The se /ond was an
tpially empty steel collar, with a
trong chain attached. The end of the
ihain was hooked into a staple at the
lide of the kennel door.
Tsar was a dog to look twice at. His
'ather had been a Siberian bloodhound
inti his mother an English mastiff, and
Dr. Gorham would have trusted him to
pull down a wild bull or to ring a
îhnrch bell, if he could once have seized
with his massive ijaws the nose of the.
pne or the ringing-rope of the other.
Tsar made no audible remarks, but
[ here was no difficulty at all in divining
iis meditations.
"They have fed me an hour before
undown, for some reason, and now
hey'vo gone off and neglected me. No
mzzle, no chain, no master around,
nd all the country left open to me. It
a state of affairs to which I am not
ustomed at this time of day. If there
ere another bone with meat on it, I'd
ow exactly what to do."
He put out a great paw and turned
muzzle over. Then he walked for
ai and smelled of the helpless collar.
;n he peered solemnly into the ken
11 There was a mystery about the
'Ne matter, and it seemed to suggest
•Ht to the front gate. That, too, was
w.open, as a witness to the haste re
Mfl by the summons of the last pa
ri* and Tsar could therefore walk
°'kl look up and down the shady
UAr an explanation of his own case.
RJd not see any, at first, for there
■^Ailing to be learned from a flock
°M, three hens and one stray calf.
' i h y pig that was rooting under the
wah. ee p a j ( i him no manner of at
tend
"drugged his broad shoulders to
roa Ai about the collar, pawed his
nost - moment in memory of his
d turned for a look at the
ire it was, with a very dingy
on one post, whose faded
. _ 'Dr. Heber Gorham," and
with j-new tin sign on the other
Post-fee bright, fresh gilding an
>. Heber Gorham, Jr.," as
atients.
:ht, and it occurred to
wWbl be good for his
the suggestion
f hTout With dignity, as
_ his sizdy Und no voice
,ousp recalled him, as he
marchjvaÿ down the road toward
the sea, sniff of salt air would be
just th^g for his digestion, after the
hearty hr he had eaten at the ken
nel.
The sfref fretting vor y ] ow toward
the hori and yet, away down there
on the rat the head of the cove a
curly-hel young lady of nineteen,
or tberetts, was still seated, bend
ing overwrtfolio spread across her
Jap. Frtime to time she cast anx
ious glan from the lines she traced
upon theiet of Bristol board under
her handshe more and more shadowy
island, otthere in the mouth of the
cove.
"That i do," she said. "It looks
bigger thahe boat, now, but it isn't
big enougpr the tree. I must make
the tree stier; the cow's back, too—
it's half almg as the island. There
is always faething dreadful the matter
With my tyes." She worked at the
waves for. few minutes. "If I had
time, I'd tto put in the sunset. Dear
me, how li it is! It will be almost
dark when get home. It gets dark
so quicKlt nowadays, after it once
fc;gius." I
She ros« little hastily, but she gave
the island very long, last look, as she
Closed herportfolio—long enough for
a bystand« to have read her name, in
gilt letterspn the leather cover—"Per
cie Lee." tut no one was there to read,
for a lonelie spot than that it would
have been bjd to find, however well
adapted it night be for the making of
marine sketchy.
, Percie was inthe road in half a min
ute more, and sje could but see that the
shadows were lengthening rapidly. She
reflected: "It is lonely for a little way
beyond Dr. Gorlam's, but I won't mind
it from that to the village. I do hope
I shall not me«t Heber Gorham. I
will not speak to him if I do. I won't
/even ace him. He has not called since
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he came back from Europe, and I hop«
he never will again. I detest him."
She said it with needless energy, and
then she began to walk briskly onward.
She tried hard, too,- to persuade herself
that she was only wondering whether,
in her sketch, she had made the horns
of the cow bear a proper proportion to
the upper branches of the tree on the
island. She was really almost thinking
sincerely about the_ cow, and the cow
alone, when she suddenly felt called
upon to exclaim:
"Oh, that dog!"
To be sure, that dog. Tsar was on
the other sido of the road, and he did not
seem to be taking any part'cular notice
of her, but thus Percie truly remarked
of him:
"He is perfectly enormous!"
She forgot about the cow in an in
stant, but she did not speak her opinion
directly to the dog. Neither did she
think of sketching hifn, although he was
certainly worth it. She seemed hardly
to care to look at him.
Tsar, on his part, had taken a good
look at Pereie Lee. He was not mis
taken about her for one moment.
"Very nice girl. Well dressed. Pret
ty, too; but she's out late. Most likely
lier family are friends of Dr. Gorham.
I must have an eye on that young lady.
It is getting dark."
That eye was what startled Percie so
dreadfully a moment later; for she hap
pened to look behind her, and there was
that vast creature solemnly stalking af
ter.
"He is following me!" she exclaimed.
Not a doubt of it, and the fact that
he stopped or went on just when she
did hardly s.eemed to help the matter.
It was getting darker and more shad
owy every moment, and Percie would
have been almost willing to run, if she
had not feared that if she did the dog
would run, too. He appeared larger
and larger every time she glanced be
hind her, until she was afraid to look
again, and her breathing grew a little
hurried.
"Nobody's any business to have such
a dog!" she gasped, in .a whisper. "It's
awful."
"She seems to be scared about some
thing, '''•thought Tsar. "Girls are apt
to be timid. Ah, I see! It's those rag
ged rascals coming down the road. Vil
lainous-looking vagabonds. If there is
anything in this world that I hate, it is
a tramp."
That is a universal sentiment among
dogs of Tsar's social standing; but the
three ruflians who were now approach
ing were either ignorant of that fact or
did not know that such a dog was so
very near.
"Dreadful men!" had been the un
spoken thought in the mind of Percie
Lee, and it was followed by a doubt as
to whether she should ever again dare
to come down to the cove.
"I must sketch the island," she said,
"but I will come in the forenoon."
The three men were walking abreast
now, and they were plainly determined
not to turn to the right hand or the left
for Percie Lee. She had just time to
grasp that terrible idea and to feel.her
heart jump, when one of them actually
spoke to her.
She never knew what he said, and
her only reply, as she retreated a few
steps was an altogether unintended
little scream. It was not a loud one,
and there was more surprise in it than
fear, but it was followed by remarkable
consequences.
Tsar had quickened his lordly pace,
full twenty seconds earlier, ana, for
some- reason of his own, he had ad
vanced a little under the shadow of the
fence: but his eyes had not wandered
from the human beings in the road be
fore him. His head and tail were raised
a trifle, and there was a very peculiar
expression on his broad, hairy face.
There was no love of tramps in it at
all.
"Oh now, we hain't hurt you. You
needn't squall."
That was what the second of those
three ruflians began to say, when an
awful, wrathful, roaring growl, as of
warning, sounded from some deep
jawed cavern among the shadows at the
right of Percie Lee. It was followed,
in one long, elastic, power-expressing
bound, by a huge dark form that in one
second more was crouching in front of
her.
The first and second tramp upset the
third, and tumbled over him, so sudden
was the retreat they made, while Tsar,
for their special benefit and more at
length, repeated his growl, with a sup
plementary snarl that sounded fearfully
like the announcement of another
spring forward.
The remarks made by all of those
vagabonds, as they scrambled to their
feet, were in a manner complimentary
to Tsar, although not intended to be
so.
Percie Lee stood behind her protector?
and she could not see, as they did,
the white rows of gleaming teeth and
the fierce green light in the threatening
eyes. .She could perfectly understand,
however, that there was an enormous
amount of very good dog between her
and any further approach of ruffianly
insolence. She was almost astonished
at the sudden feeling of security which
came upon her and at the entire ease
with which she began to btisathe again.
Tsar did not spring. He did but
crouch in that picturesque attitude until
the nearest tramp was fifty yards away,
on a steady run; and then he stood
erect, sending after his enemies one
deep, sonorous "Woof-oof," to keep
them company.
"Good dog! good fellow!"
"Ur-r-r-r, was the gentle response
of Tsar, and he even wagged his tail,
moderately, but he did not condescend
to look around. He walked slowly on
up the road, and it was now Percie s
turn to follow him.
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T do not think I had better leave
her," said Tsar to himself; "not even
when we get to our house."
It was not until they reached the turn
of the road, away beyond Dr. Gor
ham's, that he at last stood still.
Percie wished very much to pat him,
but she could hardly muster courage,
and while she was hesitating there
came a sound of wheels, and a light
buggy pulled up in the middle of the
road.
"Dr. Gorham!"
"Percie Lee! Is that, you? I declare!
Miss Lee—and that great brute—it's all
my fault. Did he scare you much,
Percie—Miss Lee?"
"Is it your dog, Heber —doctor?"
"Tsar! Come here, sir!"
"Oh doctor, don't scold him. He has
been taking core of me. There wero
three of them."
"Dogs, Miss Lee?"
"No, sir; tramps. Dreadful-looking
they snoke—he is a splendid dog,—
beautiful."
"He? Ah,—well—it's a good thing
he did n't take hold of one of them.
There'd have beed a tine surgical case
prepared for me, in no time. But how
did he happen to be out? Unmuzzled,
too. I remember, now. All my fault."
"I guess he must have been left out
to take care of me, doctor."
"Ain't I glad of it, though! Now.
Miss Lee, you must step right into my
buggy, and let me carry you home.
Tsar, go home, sir!"
He turned to obey, but a small, white
hand was on his head as he did so.
•'Good dog, Tsar: thank you, sir."
It was odd, indeed, but something in
that remark seemed aimed at the dog;
and it must have hit him, too, by the
proud way of his walking off; but some
of it went further. The young physi
cian assisted Percie into the buggy, and
drove away; and it was quite a distance
around the corner of the main road that
they passed a dimly discernible and
quite breathless group that leaned
against a fence. Nobody going by in a
buggy could have heard them mutier:
"Tell ye what, boys, that was the
awfullest dog I ever seen."
"Guess we won't try that there road
again to-night. He's loose.
"All them sort o' dogs has got to be
killed off, or the roads won't be safe."
Perhaps, but at that moment Tsar
was reentering his own yard, for he
went straight back to h's quarters. He
stood for a moment turning over his
empty muzzle with his paw, and then
lay heavily down. He thought he un
derstood the entire matter, now.
'Heber Gorham knew that that
young lady would be in need of me.
It's all right, but I doubt if I did my
whole duty. Unmuzzled, too. A lost
opportunity!"
As to the tramps, yes, but not as to
all other parts of his performance. He
hardly knew how it afterwards came to
pass, but before long he discovered that
lie had formed a habit of going down to
the cove with Percie Lee, to see her
take sketches of islands, trees, waves,
cows, and other matters and things, and
of remaining till Heber Gorham, Jr.
M.'D., came to take his plaeu, with or
without a buggy. He failed fully to
understand the business until another
sort of day arrived, when he found him
self called upon, first, to attend a wed
ding, by special invitation of Percie
Lee; and then then to recognize her as
a permanent addition to his own house
hold at the old Gorham homestead. He
agreed to it. He had liked that young
woman from the first time he saw her.
And so, to tell the truth, had his mas
ter.— William O. Stoddard, in Atlantia
Monthly.
Good Advice Promptly Taken.
"Young man'" said a President of
one of the Western roads to a candi
date for employment. "Young man,
I can do nothing for you beyond giving
you a little advice. Do as I did, and
make yourself a self-made man!"
"But how did you do it?" inquired
the job-hunter.
"I started out in life as a switchman
on this very road. I was poor but am
bitious. In order to get mv first start
I married a girl, got her life insured,
started her off on her wedding tour
alone, derailed the train, collected tho
insurance, mulcted the company in
$10,000, and bought a passenger brake
man's place."
"That was ingenious," commented
the applicant.
"Then I married another woman, in
sured her life and one night when the
train stopped to cool a hot box, 1 didn't
flag the freight coming along, behind.
I collected the insurance on her, got
another ten thousand, and purchased a
conductor's sit. From that the rise was
easy, and now I own the road. Do as
1 did. Kely on yourself, and ask no
man for assistance."
"Much obliged," replied the youth
carelessly. "I'll profit by your advice
I know where 1 can get a job on a
newspaper, and I don't know how I
can make a better start than by -pub
lishing your experience. Good morn
ing!"
But the self-made man called him
back, and now the youth is treasurer
of the whole concern.— Drake's Maga
zine.
—Bricks impregnated at a high.tem
perature with asphalt are being suc
cessfully used in Berlin for street pave
ment. By driving out the air and
water with heat, bricks will take up
from fifteen to twenty per cent, of bitu
men, and the porous, brittle material
becomes durable and elastic under pres
sure. The bricks are then put end
ways on a beton bed and set with hot
tar. It is said that the rough usage
which the pavement made of these
bricks will stand is astonishing.
Strange How It Got Out
"Oh! by the way," exclaimed Mrs.
Limbertung, suddenly changing the
conversation, "you know that Flossing
girl? Well, her brother, he that was
sent to State prison four or five years
1 saw them togeéhcr just
lope that nobody 'll know
that lie's been in prison, for his sister's
ago, is olit,
now. I do hope that nob.
a real good girl, and she's dreadfully
anxious that Tom'll do well; and, of
course, if it gets out, you know, that
he's just out of prison, it 'll be almost
impossible for him to get anything to
do. But, mercy! look at that olook! I
declare I didn't know I'd been here so
long. Good-by, Mrs. Smith; now do
call, won't you?"
Mrs. Limbertung is next found at
Mrs. Brown's.
"Oh! that reminds mo!" she savs, in
terrupting Mrs. Brown. "You Imow
that Flossing fellow who got into trou
ble and was sent to State prisonP Yes?
Well, lie's out. He looks ns though he
wanted to do right now, and I hope for
his sister's sake, if not for his own, that
nobody will mention anything about
his past life. It ought to" bo kept se
cret. Both of 'em have suffered enough,
the land knows."
Mrs. Brown promises not to say any
thing about it and Mrs. Limbertung
goes out. On the street, a block or two
away, she meets Mrs. Jones.
"Why, how do you do, Mrs. Jones?
What a stranger you are! I have got
some news for you. Fanny F'lossiug's
brother's got home—what! you neviar
heard of the Flossings? That's funny, i
thought everybody knew them. Well,
you see, Fanny's brother Tom stole a
lot of money, four or five years ago —
yes, and he got taken up and hail to go
to prison—strange tiiat you never heard
of it!—and Fanny's worried herself al
most to death about him—Fanny is that
pale-looking girl in a chip hat you saw
me talking with this morning—and she
says if she can only keep it from get
ting out—it would be awful, you know,
if folks should find out that" there's a
State-prison bird in tho village—she
hopes Tom 'll get something to do. I
pity her awfully-, and I wouldn't lisp it
to a soul, would youP But there's Mrs.
Robinson over there. She's a new
comer, you know. 1 must speak to her
a minute. Good-by."
"How do you do, Mrs. Robinson.
How do you like Tawkville? You're a
stranger now; but when you get ac
quainted, you'll find folks roil socia
ble. That was Mrs. Jones you . aw mo
talking with just now. I was telling
her about Tom Flossing, a fellow who
has just been discharged from State
prison—a real likely young man. He
stole some money, you know, but that
A
was a long time ago, and before he
came here. So nobody
anÿthing about it. I know all about
it, 'cause 1 lived in Chinehin, where the
Flossings came from, at the time when
he stole. But there's no reason why
anybody in Tawkville should know
anything about it. Because a young
man has gone astray once, that's no
reason why it should be flung in his
face forever afterward; and you know
what folks are. Mrs. Robinson; they'll
never stop talking about it if its once
gets out."
Mrs. Limbertung, in the course of the
afternoon, meets or visits perhaps
score of her acquaintances, and to
every one she relates the story of th
Flossings, and repeats the hope that it
won't get out. The story and the hope
are carried into tho grocer's and the
butcher's, and the hope and the story
are left with tho baker and the dry
goods dealer, and when Mrs. Limber
tung lies down to sleep that night, her
last thoughts are upon the F'lossings,
and her last hope ere slumber over
powers her is that "it won't getont."
A day or two later she meets Miss
Flossing.
"Why, what's tho matter, F'anny?"
she exclaims. "How pale you look!
And, I declare! if you haven't been cry
ing!" .
"I can't help it!" says F'anny, break
ing out anew. "Poor Tom!"
"Why, what's happened?"
"Nothing, only I've tried and tried,
and Tom's tried, too; but it's no use.
Nobody will hire him. Homebody has
been around and told everybody about
him. and it's no use, it's no use!" And
Fanny's tears fall thick and fast.
"It's positively shameful!" exclaims
Mrs. Limbertung, mingling her tears
with I'anny's; "that's what I call it,
positively shameful! I wonder who
could have the heart to do such a thing!
I was in hopes that nobody would hear
anything about it; and I did hope that
Tom-would do well—and I know he
wiilTif lie's given half a chance. You
know 1 always thought a good deal of
you, Fanny, and when Tom st-took
the money, I nearly cried my eyes out,
But cheer up, F'anny; perhaps he'll get
a place yet. You know you can depend
upon me, and if I can say a good word
for him to anybody, you know I'll do
it. There, dear, don't cry any more."
And Mrs. Limbertung kisses F'anny,
and again telL her to cheer up, liefore
saying good-by.
idrs. Limbertung goes down the
street wondering who could have told
it, at he same time hoping—and sin
cerely hoping-that poor Tom will get
a place, and F'anny and he will live
"real happy" together.
But for the life of her, she can't think
"how it got out ."—Boston Transcript.
—The Piute Indians on the Pyramid
Lake Reservation in Nevada have dug
f ve miles of ditch for irrigating pur
Q s this year, and will raise 1,000
tels 'of wheat this summer. A
number of the children are attending
tho boarding fo'.iool which was begun
last fall by direction of the Govern
ment.— Chtcaqo Inter-Ocean
A Thrilling but Somewhat Tough Suak«
Story.
'The water moccasin is dead," said
Lucien Alexander, the well-known drug
gist and snake-fancier. "It died yes
terday, and I wouln't have taken tho
whole Tenth Word with the school trus
teeship thrown in for it."
"What killed it?" asked tho reporter,
to whom Lucien was pouring out his
grief.
"He was scalded to death. I had tho
moccasin ond a water dog in tho same
jar together, but somehow or other they
couldn't get along with each other.
They were continually fighting over the
food I gave them, and yesterday they
concluded to settle tlicir (iitVercm os for
ever. They sparred around hi the wa
ter for a while, neither one seeming to
have the advantage, but finally tho wa
ter-dog executed a flank movement on
the moccasin and swallowed about
three inches of his tail and body. In
stead of the moccasin trying tofreo him
self he laid perfectly quiet and com
menced pumping himself full of wind
like a bellows. As he swelled up the
water-dog backed off, but It was too
late. It was like pulling a boot oft n
swollen foot. Tho moccasin kept on
pumping, and tho water-dog continued
to expand. As he spread out you could
hear his ribs crack, and I expected every
moment to see him fly into a thousand
pieces, but suddenly the swellingceased,
for the moccasin had gone the full length
of his expansive powers, and he com
menced to contract. Reduced to his
ordinary size, the water-dog lost no time
in slipping off, but he was so weak from
the terriblo strain he had reoeived that
for a moment or two he was poworloxs.
Tho moccasin took advanlage of this,
and, turning on I he dog, swallowed idra
whole. Then followed one of the most
remarkable occurrences ever witnessed.
The dog. evidently scared almost to
death, began galloping back and forth
the full length of the moccasin. By tho
waving ridges on tho snake every move-'
ment of the dog could bo told* Back
and forth he went until tho friction in
side of the snake must have been terri
bly. for the water began to get warm
from the heat of tho moccasin's body.
Every time the dog would gallop toward
(he head of tho snake; the snake would
close its mouth, causing the dog lo turn
and run away. This performance was
kept up for nearly an hour, during
which time the water grow boiling hot,
and the whole skin peeled off the snake.
Then tho flesh got soft, and the first
thing I knew he went all to pieces like
a chunk of soft soap in a wash-basin.
Tho dog soon shook off' the remnants of
the snake which adhered to him, but he,
like the mocoasiu, was scalded to (loath
also. You see that grease on the tap of
that jar of water? Well, that's all that's
left of my moccasin and watür-dog."
—Louisville Commercial.
It
be
it
as
to
be
of
to
Tabor's Great Poker Game.
"But I was goin' to toll you about
Tabor. If you know him you'd know
he was the best poker player In the
West. We used to play ten cent unto
before he struck Little Pittsburgh, hut
now there ain't none of 'em who can
make tho limit high enough, to make
him lay down If he draws, no matter
whether he (ills or not. Bct'm hlghP
Just let me tell you what I saw him do
in Leadville about two years ago, Home
gamblers put up a job to skin him one
lay, and they asked him to play three
handed. He was right there, for ho
ain't afraid of no man behind a deck,
sold or straight.
"One of 'em dealed, and It was the
Guv'nor's edge. They both kem in, an'
when it kem 'round to Tabor lie raised
it. Then each of 'em raised it back
an' lie gave 'em as good as they sent.
There was no limit, an' tho pot swelled
very fust. .They drawed and tho Guv'
nor look two an' one stood pat; an'
then tho beltin' only just began. They
were heeled putty well, and they
socked to tho old man, but he raised
'em back while his money lasted. Ha
bad #Bö,000 up then, an' one of 'em
raised him #10,000 more. Ho felt in all
his pockets, an' then says he, 'gentle
men, I didn't take muon change with
mu when I kem out tills morning.
You'll have to let me draw again my
bank account.'
" 'What bank do you want to draw
on?" sez one of the men. 'The First
National of Denver,' sez the Guv'nor.
One of 'em slipped out and telegraphed
to the bauk, 'How big is Tabor's ac
count?" The answer kem right back:
'Tabor's got a hundred thousand here.'
'Guv'nor, sez the gambler, you can
draw.'
"Well, what d'ye 'spose he done?
Jest drawed for the hull #100,000 an'
slapped it down under their nose! '.See
that if you want to see my hand,' sez
he. That stumped 'em. They had
$05,000 apiece up, but they couldn't
size up to the other $100,000.
"They never said a word, but just
throwea their hands down and walked
out. As the Guv'nor reached out an'
raked in the pot, he kinder looked over
his left shoulder an' sez, with a wink to
me: 'Prescott, I was up to their game;
I'll larn 'em to fool round with an old
miner. '
"What were the hands all roundP'
"Oh, yes; I came near forgettin'.
Tabor bail three sixes, one of the gam
blers had three nines, and the fellow
who stood pat had four kings and an
ace. But that check was too many for
'em, you see."
When the train eventually reached
Cheyenne the old miner was switching
off to visit his big bonanza in the San
Juan. He turned up on Arapahoe
street, last Thursday morning wearing
the same celluloid collar, the same
threadbare garments, and the same far
I away look in his small blue eyes.—
1 Denver Hews,
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rarest in
SCIENCE AND
-A fie'd of 180
being successfully __
Waverly, Lowndes County,
-A sponge measuring e'ght
circumference has been taken
West, and is said to be the largest
the world.
—Large quantities of land are being
•ased in Lima, Livingston County, N.
Y., for the purpose of boring for salt.
It is believed that Lima Is over a rich
salt bed.— AT. Y. nines.
-Parts has an omnibus propelled by
•loetrieity, and its operation is said to
be a complete success. The motive
lower Is furnished bv F'aure acoumu-
ators weighing it,800 Kilogrammes and
giving out a force of seventy-two horse
power.
-Cotton manufactured into duck is
being successfully introduced as !» roof
ing material. Aside from its eheapnesa
it possesses the advantage of lightness
as compared with shingles or slate; it
effectually excludes water, and It is said
to be a non-conductor of heat.—-V. Y.
Sun.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
agricultural implement industry may
be gathered from the statement that
the lumber annually consumed In Chi-
cago alone amounts to upwards of 20,
OUU.IXK) feet. Of this total, about 7,000,-
000 feet are plno. Oak, hlukory, maple,
dm, whitewood, basswood ami Norway
pine are also used to a considerable
extent.— Chicago Herald.
-Suppose wo wish to know the
largest square that can be out front a
circular sheet of given size. To ascer-
tain without measuring, multiply the
diameter by .7071, and we have the size
of the square that will be contained in
the circle. This is a useful rule for all
trades. Ma hinists very often have oc-
casion to use It, so do boiler-makers
and lumbermen.— Scientißc Amir.'can.
-The production of sugar eane is in-
creasing in Mexico. Tho climate and
soil are reported as well adapted to It.
It is stated that there is nothing in tho
form of sugar eane in Louisiana which
can compare with the luxuriant growth
to lie found in Mexico. Many of the
largest sugar district« in MexRsr have
abundant water, which can be utilized
for ma hinc power as well as for Irriga-
tion. As for facilities for transporta-
tion, Mexican sugars are put up In
small packages of oonlual shape, which
are easily trans ported by pack animals
to any
Journal.
distance required.— Chicago
êw stylfe ot stocking jaoalled
vottld rrafe 'been
PITH AND POINT.
A crocodile shuts its jaws with a
force of 1,840 pounds, If you don't be
lieve it, got In and weigh It when it
comes dkfeyn .—Burlington Hawke ye.
-A*'. | fltK „
Voltaire. Sookfates would
a better name. Wo never did admire a
stocking with a tare at the end of it.—
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
An exchange correspondent asks:
"Is there anything that can be burned
to keep away mosquitoesP" Oh, yes.
Burn the mosquitoes. That will keep
them away .—Norristown Herald.
The Concord School of Philosophy
has not yet determined how a woman
should act when her hands are in the
dough-pan and an aggressive fly lights
on her nose,— Philadelphia Bulletin.
- Yes, there is niusio in a bagpipe,
there Is no doubt about that, But the
music gets such a terrible squeezing in
coming through the narrow tubes, Its
agonized screams are the only sounds
which reach the ear.
—"I'm glad Billy had the sense to
marry a settled old maid," said Grand
ma Winkum at the wedding. "Gal* Is
lilty-tity, and Widders is kinder over
rulin' and upsettiu'. Old maids is
kinder thankful and willlu' to please."
-Christianat Work.
—Two women were recently seen
pricing gingham In a shot». One re-
marked to the other on the label to tbo
goods: "Fee the American eagle and
tho motto 'FI plurlbus unuiu;' that'* tho
F'rench for Tn time of ]ieace prepare for
war.' "—Boston Advertiser.
-This 1* the way a moan editor tries
to crush a man who thinks hu possesses
the "divine afflatus:" "An esteemed
citizen, who is sending about fifteen
pages of original poetry every day, is
respectfully informed that if he doesn't
let up, one of his pieces, with his full
name attached, will be published. This
warning 1* given ln th« « fata
famdy and frleud*."
c ial Advertiser,
—"What do I
there for?" asked the vl*
House, looking at t
hangs from
chamber. "It's i
replied the Boston 1
has a sort, of CT"'
the legislators.'
the visitor, "if I
of your laws a ré <
ton man fell into a t
came to, he
gull a cou
script.
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