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DAILY SOUTH KE
NTUOKIAN
MEACHAM & WILGUS, Publishers.
HOPKINSVILLE, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1S84.
NUMBER U.
V
I.'
DOT CANDIDATE.
Who tsh dot (lake iut pjr iter lisnd,
J'lld KIK-nkBM) HWllll nine unit lilnud,
Vuii urges mn to Join liln band?
Dot caiic.l luto.
"Who Idta dot (treats me very whvood,
Vii on dp oornrr of ler atrecd
habbcn lust awhile to moot?
JJot oaudlduU).
Who lub dot slngln' awful mj,
Jum like a lark all of dor day,
Mid airy wIiikb would fly awuyr
Dot oandldato.
Vho lh dot oovers lib hi hrad,
J'nd wishes bo van only dead?
or odder man hat vln, you bed
DutcaiKlidnie.
It'urmUum Herald,
THE BLUE CHAMBER.
A small party of ladies and gontlo
muii engaged in conversation wero s t
ting after d nnorln tho spacious grounds
of an ancient manor.
'I he doors of the mansion stood wido
open. The evening breeze whispered
and rustled through the branches of
the huge lindens, the shadows grow
longer and longer, ink-black beneath
the leafy roof of boughs, lighter on the
patches of turf.
It was a mild summer evening, still,
yet full of strange, mysterious sounds;
the soft brfzo I oatod into the doors,
bearing wmi it the heavy fragrant e of
tlio (lowers. In tho gathering diuk tlio
members of the gro ip could scarcely
oe each other.
Conversation languished, passing
from Biilijnct lo suliject: no one seemed
inclined to enter upon a lengthy discus
sion. Suddenly one of the party began to
relate an miecdotoof a ghost he Imd
seen on an evening like tins. The plan
was Slice ssful. .Several tales followed;
but the young daughter of tlio house,
Anna, continued to ask for more. It
was so amusing to hear those marvel
ous stories imagine the white and
black spec ers, moving noiselessly in
dense shadow or da.zl'ng moonlight,
feel a strange horror chill Tier blond and
then lean again-d her mother, finding
safety In her embrace. Mio uould not
endure Candidate Hoist's way of taking
these stories; lis scornful comments
toro ugly rents in the dreamy ved lu
which she wrapped herself.
lie was a medical student and had
witnessed many similar things in the
hospital. It wasowliig losickncss acting
Upon different Individuals. Kit her the
patient, when his imagination wai ex
cited, mistook a towel, on which the
m ion wan shining, lor a phantom, and
the shrieking of the wind In old houses
for ghostly crios and the clunk of chains,
or the whole affair was pure hallucina
tion. A person in a healthy, normal
condition never saw ghos s.
The whole party opposed his v'ew.
Tliere was surely some truth at the bot
tom of all these tales. The o was a
thousand things which could not be ex
plained by natural causes.
Anna was warmly se onde.l by
Hoist's younger bro'thcr Hector, who
had arrived at the hou-e with him
this morning; though I e was iullucnced
more by coiirtesy to the pretty younj
girl than because he fell any tear of
ghosts. He could not bear to have his
brother appear to place himself in such
contemptuous opposition to a pair of
such beautiful bright eyes so he fought
a stout battle against his own convio
tions. "Tho history of such things," said the
Candidate, "is contrary to sound sense
and reason. They are mis Tiblu relics
of the darkness of the Middle Ages,
which can only check progress. It
would bo an utterly idiotic proceeding
for dead folk to walk abroad and terrify
tho living. Tradition carries such tales
from generation to generation, and if
not tiihjccted to severe scientific criti
cism' they retain their vitality and ure
believed. It is the same kiud of super
stition as that which makes simple tolk
afraid to sit thirteen tA table. In nino
ca es out of ten, nothing happens, and
there isn't even ono person who thinks
of the matter. In the tenth, perhaps,
fine of tho company dies, which is cor
tfinly in accordance with tho course of
nature. Instantly it Is said: 'You
remember; you remember, we sat thir
teen at table that day.' So the super
stition obta'ns nourishment for a long
time. No, thank (Soil, tho fresh broo.e
of knowledge will sweep away all suoh
things like dank, unwholesome fo s."
"es, would pooplo must bo pardon
ed," the mistress of the house gently
interposed; "wo don't como so much
In contact with the fresh broe.e of sci
ence as perhaps we ought. V e 1 vo,
they say, wholly in tradition, and this
thrives nowhere so well as in an old
manor like vuis. It is very did cult to
release ourselves from tho ideas in
which we were reared, and which our
ancestors believed. I am far from
what is called superstitious; I have
never been in , contact with these
strange spirits yet not for all the
world would I sleep in the blue
chamber."
"I he blue chamber!" cried the whole
party in tones ot ostonishmont
'Ifi'S, we havo here, as in so manv
old manor houses, a room that is said
to be haunted. Many hundred years
ago a man was murdered there, and
since then ghosts have taken' possession
of it. The servants talk of strange
sounds and sights; none of them like
to pass it after dark."
1 was sitting thinking that I should
be delighted to occupy a roal haunt id
chamber." sa d Hoist quletiy "it is a
sin to have it remain u mined forever.
Perhaps I can help dispsl this foo ish
superstition, for I am oonv;noed I shall
slop undisturbed."
' At first the mistress of the house
'would not listen to such a plan, but
when the whole party urged and Anna
. elasred her arms beseeohingly around
- her neck she at last yielded.
Anna thought the scheme Wonder
fully interesting.
"It is really terrible that you dare
vonturo. Candidate Hoist," she said,
"but I hope you will look really fright
enod when you come to breakfast in
the morning."
After supper the whole party went to
the "blue chamber," which meantime
had been put in order to receive the
guest Every corner was examined
with the utmost care.
The atmosphere was somewhat op
pressive, thou;h the windows were now
opon. The room was seldom ventil
ated, and the half moldy air took tho
liberty of settling in tho furnituro and
curtains. It had evidently always
borne tho n;.mu of tho "blue chain
tor," although the thick carpet was
now faded 'Iho furnituro was very
scanty, but what articles remained
were old- ashioned. While time had
transformed everything else in the an
c'oit manor, making the Hi f carved
chairs give way to comfortable arm
chairs, and the old chimney pic es to
tile stoves, this room seemed to have
prescr ed Its former appearance. It
was delivered over to the spirits of the
past; no one hud attempted to drag it
into the posont. An article that did
not contribute least in enabling it to
retain its ancient charaeior was the
htijie, exquisitely carved four-post bed
stead, which occupied a large portion
of the room. The apartment was the
last in one wing of tho manor, looking
out upon tlio grove, but so near the
ground that a person, by tho display
of some little agility, ruijjil climb up.
"It is not impossible," sa d 'Hoist,
after a thorough examination of the
chamber, "that the nocturnal noises
mentioned may havo beeu made by
vagabonds who settled themselves he e
for a comfortable night's rest, Victor,
do mo the favor to et my pistols; thoy
are In my traveling satchel; but don t
meddle with the triggers, they are
loade I."
ictor went away with a light, and
soon after brought the pistols to his
brother. The latter primal them
freshly, put on new taps and laid thorn
on tho tab e.
"Now, good night, ladios and gen
tlemen, 1 wish you all as comfortable a
rest as 1 cxi ect to have niyse.f."
"(iood night, wicked freethinker,"
said Anna, half admiringly. "1 hope
you will have dill'orcnt opinions in the
morning. '
As they went out Victor whispered
to Anna: "1 11 answer for it that ho
shall be thoroughly frightened."
The door was locked and ( andidate
Hoist rema ned nlon i in tho blue cham
ber. The sound of footsteps and voices
died away: be listened at tho door but
all was still.
(joint; to tho window ho stood there
a few minutes looking at the grove
The soft night brcoe stirred the leaves
and branches. Ouly the nearest trees
could lie (Unity distinguished, lieyond
all was dense, impenetrable darkness,
for there was neither moon nor stars in
theskv.
it's re:illy very rare to bo freo from
Madam 1 .1111:1." said ho, "she is so fond
of intruding ami playing the spy on
sensible folk, spi:e of drawn curtains.
For the rest, this is an uncommonly
comfortable room. Probably not one
of the whole party will have so good a
bed to lie in as mv lu ky self.
"So a man wa 1 murdered hero, and
for tho saku of this legend the room has
now stood empty hundreds of years. If
one could stv a few blood stains or
similar horrors - but there's no trace of
anything of the sort. What matchless
power superstition has, even in our en
lightened days! 1 shall consider it a
good deed to drive it from this com
fortable stronghold..
Lighting a cigar, he paced to and fro
smoking, then walked around the bed
and closed his eyes with a half shudder,
"How timidly tho young girl, Anna,
is pressing her pretty fa.'e nguinst the
pillow at the thou. lit that any human
being dares to sleep In the blue chain
ber. She won t even venture to put
out 111:1 uigiib lump lor iciu 01 seeuig
the frigniiui win e 6 nape that must
speedily come up hero and destroy
me.
While thus soliloqul in? ho un
dressed, opened the canopied bud. and
resolutely e .tiiigulshcd the lamp.
Thoro was no sound In the room;
only it seemed as though he could hear
a rustling noise like crieketsnnd a nivs
terions ticking, as ihoit'h the famous
deathwutch was under the carpet. He
lay listening a moment, heard the night
wind sigh through the trees and the
great clock of the manor strike eleven,
then ho .ell asleep.
At the end o. an hour he suddenly
started up in bed, having heard a sound
like the upeuing ot a door. A strange
shuddering sensation ran through his
limbs as be stared liedly into the
room and beheld a white form moving
stowiy towaras me oeu.
Terror overpowered him, but the
next instant he rega ned his coolness.
and shoi.ted in a iirm voice, "Who's
thcreP"
Mo answer, but the shape renamed
stand nr in the middle 01 the noor.
"Who's t ere ' Answer, or as sure
as I live 111 lire," Iij oalled a.ain,
cocktn; his pistol.
He was once more the f.ulot, cold
blooded physician; he had surely hard
the oreaking of a door: it must be a
man, .a rascal, a murderer perhaps, but
no spectre. '
"Yet, spite of ths pistol's warning
snap, the tlgure did not tujve '
"VVho goes there?" be called again.
fctill no sound disturbed t e silence
of the room. .
The physician' r-Lretched out his arm
ana nrea.
A flash of light illumined the dusky
I chamber aud the r port shook the old
J tapestry. Scarcely fid sound died.
away when a burst of discordant, jeer,
ing, fiendish laughter greeted him. and
something hard struck his forehead.
It was the builot.
Seized with terrible dread, he fired
the other pistol at the - motionless white
form -again the frightful laughter
echoed through the room aud the bui
lot full heavily back on his own breast.
With a loud shriek he sank down on
the bed.
The form glided noiselessly out of the
door.
Early the next morning, while Anna
was watering her flowers, Victor came
up to nor.
'Where is your brother:" she asked
"He isn't up yet, poor fellow. He
has had a terrible fright."
"v aal was it.'
"If you'll pronrse to keep silence I'll
toll the whole story. To revengo my
self on him I clayed. ghost, first taking
care to draw the bullets from his pis
tols that he might not use the weapons
recklessly. rapped in sheets I visit
ed him and threw the balls back at his
head when he tired." -
Nothing could be better!" exclaimed
Anna "but promise me not to speak
of it Your mother might be vexod
and ho himself must not be unde
ceived." "Trust mo; I'll bj as mute
as the grave. ' The physician, did not
oiiib; breakfast waited in vain. At
last some of the gentlemen went to
wake him. Ho lay with his head
strulchud over the edge of the bed; his
mouth was wido open, his eyes were
starting from their sockets anil bis hair
was as white as chain. Life had van
ished.' His discharged pistols were
found by his side. One week after Vic
tor was taken to the insane asylum.
AT. I'. Graphic.
Owls.
Owls were never an epicurean feast.
but Southey once had an owl roasted
for dinner, for himself and Mr. and
Mrs. Wordsworth; I give the sequel in
bis own words:
Wo agreed tliore could be no pre
text for making owls game and killing
them as dolicacios; but if ever you eat
one, Dy ait means try 11 DOllea, wan
onion sauce."
Au omelet made of owl's eggs is said
to bo a cure for drunkenness.
At ono time the workmen on the
ashington Monument were a good
deal annoyed to find that a plumb line
that r. ached from the top to the bottom
of the shaft was frequently meddled
with. At la-t it was found that an owl
had taken up its abode in a part oi the
shaft that afforded a shelter, and in
passing in and out it had disturbed the
line.
An owl was once beguiled into a
Georgia conference meeting, intent on
securing a rat that had run into the
room to escape from so persistent an
enemy. La ed by tho light he sailed
around a few times and flighted
upon the bald head of an old
man directly in front of the
speaker. It is hardly necessary to say
what was the next move . but tho pres
ence of the owl may have callei) to the
preacher's mind the presence of Isaiah,
who, when he foretold the dcsolat on ol
Uabylon, declared that the house should
be full of do e til creatures, and tnat
owls should dwell there.
An owl one; seriously disturbed the
mourners at a funeral at Becchwood,
Ontario With tender care they had
placed the remains in a tomb, and were
turning away sorrowiug, when they
heard a moan that seomod to come
from the collin. Hurriedly they broke
tne casket open, only to hod all quiet
within, and then it wa disco ered that
the noise they had heard came from owls
at tho far end of tlio vault.
Dodsiey thought, it worth his while
to writo an ode on the death of an owl,
and hiooinlield made the bird the sub
ject of his muse. Many persons bo
lieve that an owl will keep his eyes so
intently nxed on a person walking
around him as to wr ng his own neck
o f, and it was not until some, lack
eyed observer discovered t.,at whon the
owl had turned his head half round, he
whisked it baok through the whole
0 rclo with the rapidity of lightning,
and f iced again the person who wat
eperimenting on him. tromd.net
Journa'.
Wealth of the Ocean.
Sailing in the John Williams north
east of Lord Howe's Island, at dawn ol
December lUth u:t.. tho ocean swarmed
with small tish resembling sprats. Sea
birds hovered above, . gorging to their
hearts' content. hortly afterward
shoals of bonito (Thynnus pel amy s)
came along in hot pursuit W ith half
a ilojon pearl oyster hooks, and no bait
whatever, in less than an hour we
caught one hundred and s xteen
bonito, the greater part of which was
salted down. Throughout the day we
were slowly sailing through a count
less multitude of bonito. After Cap
tain Turpie had desired the tishors to
cease their occupation (as our salt was
done), one or two lurtivcly and cruelly
anused theuisolves by catching these
tine tish and throwing them back alive
into the ocean. We might easily have
caught a couple of thousand before sun
set throughout the following nignt
the sea was illuminated; for as (he
bonito rushed through the water near
the surface they became phosphor:
cent a sight never to be forgotten by
those who witnessed it, '1 oward day.
break, however, a strong breeze sprang
up, and we saw no more of those mov
ing masses of tiro. The bonito belongs
to the mackeral family. It is usually
th rty inches in length and twenty
iuch s round, and or a steel-blue color,
with four stripes along each sido. The
flesh is of a a irk color, and proved an
acceptable thange of diet to ail on
board, -ir W. H'w t tii.L
Sold b; lh Leading Deilrrii Eterj Citjaid Towa.
His JEWELRY HOUSE Is ahead of anything in the business. He
has the largest stock of the Latest Styles, and the finest quality of
goods, and lower prices than any other house. His workmanship cannot
be excelled, and his experience has been nearly a quarter of a century,
SIGN-'BIG TOWN CLOCK,"
Main Street, Opp. Court House, HOPKmsVILLE, KY1
Wah Lee Tow's Bride.
A bustling, surging crowd of several
hundred men, composed of lawyers,
merchants, and even ministers, crowd
ed into Justice Uleeson's court to wit
ness the solemn marriage rites of Wah
Lee Yow and Miss Mary Shafnr. The
Chinaman had procured a license Au
gust 20, but stopped at that stage of his
matrimonial venture before taking tho
final plunge. He had consulted his at
torney, l'etor Zuckcr, of the Board of
Education, and the marital candidate
left the attorney's oflice under his. es
cort and wended their way up Superior
street to Sipiire Glccson's oflico. JKcho
llehley, the alleged war eagle, Charles
Seilser and several others, saw (be
wedding party's departure, and, nois
ing the news abroad, a lengthy and
co'istantly-incrcasing train joined the
firoccssion. The squire stood" the blush
ng couple up be'ore him, and, after a
momentary pause was about to make
them one. Alas, the groom had for
gotten his license, and was obliged to
withdraw and hie to his laundry and
procure it. The self-invited guests
f lacked in closer and,closer during the
ntcrim, and the squire shiolded the now
thoroughly embarrassed bride by es
corting ber to the adjoining oflice of
Attorney Barrett. The crowd, how
ever, was not disposed to be defrauded
of the ceremony, and by the time the
Chinaman had returned with his doc
ument the law otlice was densoly filled
with spectators. Again the courtly
justice loil the bride ana bridegroom
away from the madding crowd.
Thoy inado their way to a corner of
his otlice, and thero and then the twain
were made ono. Wah Lee is a tall,
miHfllA.An'nit f'ploatinl with nn inlnli!-
gent lool, suporior to most of his
brethren. He had apparently not ex
pected the array of lookers'-on that
crowded about him, and while at a
casual glance he appeared cool and
collected he was greatly excited. Noth
ing in the room escaped the glance of
his small, sparkling eyes. Half a
dozen Mongolians were interspersed
among tho audience, and one of them
was, to all appearance, a Chinese
priest. He wore a long black robe, a
white cravat, and a clerical look upon
bis face. It was said t''e marriage
ceremony was also performed by him
in their native fashion. The bride was
attended by another young woman.
Mary Shafor was a young German wo
man, apparently about twenty years of
age. She had pleasing, but by no
means handsome features, and was
dressed ia white. A wreath of orange
blossoms crowned her head and her feet
were incased in a pair of light-colored
satin Chinese slippers. She blushed
prettily as she promised to be Lee Yow's
true and faithful wife, and the bride
groom utteied his promises in plainly
enunciated English. l'etor .ucker
act,oi as best man, and be and Colonel
A. T. Brinsmade signed the marriage
certiiicato as witnesses. As he finished
the nuptial knot the Justice announced
that they were now ready for congratu
lations. Tho bride took this opportuni
ty to greet her futuro lord with a kiss
behind her fan, and Hon. John P.
(reen crowded to the front and wel
comed the Celestial in behalf of the
American people. Other hearty con
gratulations followed, and as Mr. and
Mrs. Wah Lee left the room throe
cheers were proposed ond given for
them with a tier. The Chinaman
kinked his arm In the most acceptable
fashion, and with the bride leaning
lightly upon it they descended the stairs
and passed over to tne Chinaman's
lauudry u niter the Sioss block. A little
later they emerged and proceeded to do
the town afoot. When last seen they
were meandering up Ontario street arm
In arm. In their wake were twenty
five or thirty boys yelling "rats."
Cleveland Lt.ader.
Mrs. Garjield, the mother of the
late President, can bo seen almost any
day walking about the grounds or sit
ting in her arm-chair on the shaded
veranda at Mentor. On Sundays she
is generally at church with other mem
bers of the family, and is able to take
a seat in, or alight from, the family
carriage with little assistance. She has
passed her eighty-third birthday, and
seems to be in the enjoyment of het
usual good health. Cleveland Leader.
Animals-are not allowed In sleep
ing cars; but why do the companies
draw the line at this point?. If they in
cluded inse ts, it would please, patrons
better. --4top'?'f Courier,
CALL. JiJNJD SEE
M.D.KELLY
Fitting Stock for Winter.
When stock has been fitted for rough
ing it, which, of course, means feeding
up to meet cold weather, the owner is
in a position to choose between carry
ing over to spring or longer, or send
ing forward to market at any tims;
that is, if he has fed up to such a state
of fatness as will, more surely than
any other, enable tho animal to resist a
low degree of temperature without dis
comfort. If a thick wall of sawdust
around a body of ice preserves it from
melting in hot weather longer than a
thin wall, then, on the same principle,
a thick wall of adipose under the hide
of a farm beast protects the animal
from readily suffering by exposure to
cold, . The sawdust in the one case is
the non-conductor which prevents an
interchange of temperature between the
ice within the wall aud the hot air with
out, while, reversing the order, the
layer of fat under the hide of the an
imal prevents the transfer of cold to the
inner tissues, be'ng a non-conductor,
equally efficient with the wall of saw
dust in the other case. The wall of fat
once placed beneath tho hide' is. if fair
protection be given, somewhat easily
held there; while it is hardly possible
to put on this layer during winter's cold
without extra protection from the low
temperature.
Hence the wisdom of seeing to it
early in the season, while flesh is easily
acquired, that the ga:n is put on which
is jure to be required when the mor
cury falls low down in the tube.
Roughing it is nothing else than insti
tuting a warfare between the tissues of
which the animal is made up and the
elements without. A mon.jut's reflec
tion will convince nny one of the utter
wastefulness of dealing out food three
times a day in such free quantities as
are required if feed is depended on to
keep up the animal warmth, reasonably
comfortable shelter being denied when
the weather is decidedly cold. Dr.
Playfair likened the body 'of a beast to
a furnace in which fuel is consumed to
produce heat, as the principle is quite
like the feeding of farm animals, in so
far as the food is given to maintain the
animal heat. The continued tendency
towards equalization in temperature of
bodies and substances in contact, acts
upon live animals exposed to contact
with the outer air, and hence, when
the temperature goes down there is a
struggle within the body in its effort to
pre; ve its normal temperature. This
eflbu may be aptly likened to that made
to warm a room with a heater, but lit
tle fuel being required when the out
side temperature is well up, for the nor
mal temperature or the animal body is
easily maintained under liko nircum
stanccs without a special provision of
food lor this purpose.
Fitting stock for roughing it is very
unprofitable as a preliminary proocss,
because the term implies . exercise.
Without the out-door exerciso in in
clement as well as in all other kinds of
weather, the term roughing It would
hardly apply. Exercise, in proportion
to its extent, calls for increased action
of the lungs and heart, and this lung
action wastes the living tissues rapidly.
It follows that quietness and seclusion
are the means lo be used for saving the
tissues. Therefore to feed up for ex
posure during winter involves a great
waste during the preliminary as it does
during the final experiences. But in
this day we hope no one will persist in
the heterodox notion that it is, in any
sense, wise to build up during summer
valuable material that is to be ruthless
ly squandered during the cold months.
With flesh producers, the making of
edible flesh is a slow and expensive
procoss, and flesh onoe put on should
In no case be parted with. If domestio
animals could be fattened as rapidly as
the carnivora are when they are, full
fed then the task would indeed be easy.
But the carnivora eat flesh and tissue
having the constituents of their own
bodie ready prepared, while domestio
animals are built up by a slow process
from materials which, while made up
of constituents measurably like the
body, are still, in the main, quite unlike
it. But it is doubtless a wi3e provision
that the flesh counted good for use as
human food is put on bv a slow pro
cess, otherwise it would be flabby and
oily; would shrink in the pot and van
ish before a cold blasts National Line
block Journal,
Antimony and asbestos have beon
discovered in the San Eurido Mount
ains, Utah.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Theodore Tilton is sojourning hi
Paris, where he is engaged in writing a
book. AT. y. Sun.
An old publisher says that not one
book in five hundred reaches a second
edition. A'. Y. Herald.
Clara Louiso Kellogg Eays this has
been the greatest season for the Ameri
can girl abroad that has ever been
known.
Alvan Clark, the telescope-maker
of Massachusetts, though eighty years
old, is still at work. He ana his sons
aro the leading telescope manufacturers
of the world. Boston Journal.
Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the Wash-
intrtou nhilanthronist. is now Howard
of eighty-four years of age, and is yet
strong ana vigorous. He has - grown
somewhat peculiar, however, about his
eating, never touching anything not
prepared by his own cook, or coining
from his own house. If he expects to
be absent from home at lunch time he
carries a hearty luncheon with him,
which he takes out and eats at the
proper time with great relish. H'ost
tnqlon Vo l.
Joe Jefferson, the actor, who ought
to know the etl'ect of the constant repe
tition of one part upon the actor, says
that after playing one part for a great
length of time an actor is apt to forgot
his lines and take up wrong ones. An
English actor who forgot his lines in
this way was blamed by the manager.
"It's very strange that you are not per
fect in that part by this time. You
have been playing" it two hundred
nights." "Uoyou expect me to re
member it forever?" said the actor.
N. y. Urapliie.
Cyrus W. Field is the youngost son
of a clergyman of Stockbridge, Mass.
His brothers, Dudley, Henry unit Ste-
pnen, were sent to college, but (Jyrus,
at an early age, received twonty-tive
dollars and the patenf.il blessing. He
became a clerk in A. T. Stewart's store
at a salary of two dollars a week, and
on entering into business for himself as
a dealerJn paper, his fellow-clerks pre
sented him with a diamond pin. It
took him twelve years to make a fort
une. Mince then he has been a capi
talist and has made several fortunes
say $iO,000,(XJO. iV. Y. Times.
IICMOROUS.
,
In tho Empire of Morocco there is
only one subscriber to a newspaper.
He is the Emperor. As soon as there
are two or three more it is likely some
Yankee will happen along and start a
paper. Hoslon Transcript.
"I laughed," lie said to his wife, "I
laughed until my mouth fairly stretched
from ear to ear. ' "You don't have to
laugh very elaborately to accomplish
that distance," replied the lady, with a
yawn. "Ha! He! Very good, my dear,
very good; capital. Large mouth, ehP"
"No, large ears!" she said, with anoth
er yawn. N. Y. DiaK -
A much-vexed question is now set
tled. For a long-time it has been won
dered why womeu turn around to look
at each other on the street A wife re
torted when reproved by her husband:
"Didn't the woman look nt me?"
"Yos," replied the husband. "All
right then; one good turn deserves an
other." Pittsburgh Dispatch.
A short time ago Jones and Rob
inson were dining out together, Jones
being one of tho most absent-minded
Individuals in existence. Quoth Rob
inson 10 Jones: "I say old fellow, what
do you think? A man asked me tho other
day whether your name was Smith!"
"Really," answered the absent-minded
one: "and was it?" Whitehall Review,
"I wants you to bay me pock dot
$2 I loaned you last spring. Money is
worth twice as much now as it vash !
den," said Mose Schaumburg to Gil
hooly. "Is that so?" iiuiuirea Gilhoo
ly, pensively. "Is it really worth twice
as much now as it was when I got that
$2?" "Shertainly it was." "Well,
then, here is $1. That makes us even,
I believe. Texas Siftings.
Old Mosquito 1 here, now, you
must have been disobeying me. Wnat
mado you so sickP Young Musq'uito
Dunno, ma: I don't do nothin'. Old
Mosquito Yes. you did., Have you
beeu eating anything I told you to avoid
this wea' her? " Young Mosquito No'm.
Old Mosquito Yes, yon have, or yon
wouldn't be sick, Now, mind I will
give you a regular thrashing if you ever
again touch veal or dudes in the sum
mer tiu.6 ?lHlatlelphiq Call,
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