The Sully County watchman., December 08, 1883, Image 5

About The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894

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SQUIBS.
Judge no man bj his disappearance.
Uneasy rests the hen that hears a
"coon."
Bread in the bone—a dough-faced
skeleton.
Two San Francisco women are at
law about a wedding dress, each
claiming it and the testimony is so
mixed that the Judge can't decide,
l^et him try Solomon's scheme with
tke women and the baby. Let him
threaten to spill a plate of soup or a
dish of ice-cream on the dress the
woman who screams and rails him
"a moan old thing" will be the real
owner.
How a woman who can keep on
talking while she twists up her back
hair and has her mouth full of hair
pins is a mystery not yet explained.
She—"I am fond of poetry." He—
are you, indeed? So am I. Do you
like Burns?" She—"No, indeed they
are so extressing. But, then, I am
not Biu«h troubled with them, as Ma
does all the cooking."
A physician said jocosely to a po
liceman one evening, "I always feel
safe when I see a policeman in the
evening, for there is no danger about."
"Yes, safer than I feel when I have a
doctor about was the bright retort.
"Yes," the tall, thin passenger ad
mitted, "a crying baby is indeed a sore
trial. But then you must remember
that the baby cannot swear, and when
a human being is being dandled up
and down on the loose end of a two
inch safetr-pin, it's got to do some
thing, and if it can't swear it must
holler." And the jury was only out
about about two minutes, and then
came in with a verdict for the defen
dant.
"I can't lire without her," he said
to his legal adviser, "I am sure that
way down in her heart she has a little
feeling- for me. I am going to test
her." He pulled out a pistol and
said: "I am going to her with this
and say, 'Here, snoot me down I
don't care to live any 'longer.' "You
had better not," said the cautious legal
advisor "she might pull the trigger."
"I don't care for that said the heart
broken husband "I don't care for
that I have tilled the weapon with
blank cartridges."
The ruince pi* Kraeeth the festive board
Masking it.s juices rare.
And tb« mouth of our Imby waters ttw white
H«- viewetb the treasure there
The doctor wmiluth a wan sail
Ktitile
An 11 ravrth a (TiiohIIIm moan,
And tin- luiirhli- man gofih out into his yard
And |)ul siicth up a stone.
And the undertaker mournfully aata
"What wl I his mcaHtirw bet"
While the xextou labels aupot ''reserved"
Odder a willow trea—
"My poys," said a German sergeant
to a squad of United States regulars,
"I vish you to understand dot I am
von of de |w»st-liearted vellers in de
vorld. Don you believe dot?" "Oh,
yes, sir," answered the members of
the squad. "Dot'sall right. I'm von
of the pest-hearted vellers in the vorld
except veil I'm on duty, and ven I'm
on duty I'm a beast. Isn't dot so,
poys?" "Yes," faintly replied the
crowd. "Dot's all right, too. Und,
now, shust remember, poys, I'm al
vays on duty."
"How did you like iur discourse,
this morning?" asked Parson Goode
nough of Deacon Lightweight, the
village grocer, as they walked home
from church last Sunday morning.
"Too long, brother too long,"replied
the frank deacon "I believe in nav
ing everything short." "Yes, I've no
ticed that in your weights, deacon,"
said the sarcastic parson.
"Mr. Crimsonbeak, will you show
me your ekickens if I come down to
your house some day?" asked little
Johnny Yeast of that gentleman the
Other evening, when he and his wife
were calling at the Yoast residence.
''Why, Johnny, I don't keep chick
ens," replied Mr. Crimsonbeak, gently
patting the boy on the head "what
made you think I didf" "Why,when
ever 1 hear mamma mention your
name, she always calls you the hen
pecked husband but I can't see kow
you can be lieu-pecked if you don't
keep any chickens."
A Reminiscence of the Heine
ver
They call the large ante-room in the
White House, at the head of the stairs.
Crank s Rest. There is hardly an hour
of the day when this room is free from
wild lunatics. It was to this room
that Guiteau used to come. It is a
strange fact, which has never been
published, that Colonel Crook, who
signs land patents for the President,
was so struck with the antics of
Guiteau that he made a little sketch
of his head in his note-book upon the
13th of May, preceding the assassina
tien. Colonel Crook says that Guiteau
came to his desk on that day and bor
rowed two or three sheets of paper.
He was very impudent and very in
dignant because Colonel Crook gave
Jiim plain paper instead of the official
Colonel Crook said very short
You can take that or none."
X'IiTmi (iuiteau said, with a thump on
his breast: "Perhaps you don't know
who I am." Dashing down his card,
lie continued: "1 am one of the men
who made General Gartield President."
The Colonel was so struck with the
appearand' and pretensions of this
tramp that he then and there made a
little sketch of his face. He wrote
under the sketch, "Charles Guiteau,
of Illinois, one of the men who made
General Gartield President." By the
iide of the sketch he wrote: "This fel
low put on more airs than is usual for
a man who is begging for otliee."
When (airfield was snot Colonel Crook
turned to his book and found that the
lissassin and his impudent caller were
the same. The little pencil sketch
which he had made was used after
ward to make a sketch for the Graphic,
bs access to the assassin was for some
time dunied to all outside jKiople.
Rob Ingersoll's Mail.
Washington Post.
It is ft noteworthy fact thai an Am
erican citizen who is unfortunate
enough to aoquire anything like no­
toriety is certain to be inundated with
floods of letters. Out of the entire
number received there is hardly ever
one that has the slightest interest or
value. Colonel Ingersoll receives
every day enough letters in the way
of advice, suggestion and argument
to make tho fortune of a junkshop. I
was in big oflice not long aso when
he received a brief note from an Ohio
man covering ninety closely written
pages of foolscap, pasted end to end.
so as to make a long roll. The writer
desired to have a little friendly argu
ment with the Colonel and hit letter
was the first installment.
A California Bandit.
Bati Francisco Chronicle.
Wells, Fargo A Company are re
joicing over the capture of a highway
man named "Black Bart," who has
robbed more than a score of stages be
tween Shasta and Calaveras, always
single-handed, and always being suc
cessful. His latest exploit was rob
bing a coach near Coppcropolis, in
which he secured $4,000. He left be
hind, however, a handkerchief with
a Chinese laundry mark on it. by
which he was traced to this city and
captured. His striking peculiarities
were a passion for writing doggerel
verses and pinning them to rifled ex
press boxes, and liis great seeretive
ne,?s, never admitting any one to his
confidence. The rewards etl'ered for
capture amounted to nearly $15,000.
Although he roblied more than twenty
coaches, he obtained no more than
$.'5,000 from them all, until his latest
crime was perpetrated. His recent
plunder he delivered up to the detect
ives. His plan was to 1 i e here quiet
ly until he was out of cash, and then
rob a stage. He had no vices, and his
only passion seemed to be for dia
monds. He was a very prosaic robber,
despite his tendency to drop into
poetry.
Dtngerons Pottery.
Chaiultera' Journal.
Communication has lately been
made by M. Puyrusson to the Acade
my of Sciences in Paris, calling atten
tion to the danger to the public health
by the use of pottery which has been
finished oil* with a glaze, in the manu
facture of which white lead is used. It
is desirable this form of gla/.e should
be replaced with one made of silicate
of soda and borax, as it has been
fround that the acid of certain veget
ables, and even of milk slightly turn
ed, is suflicient to dissolve a portion
of lead from tho surface, if left in the
vessel several hours. This has been
the origin of several mysterious cases
i)f illness near Beauvais, with symp
toms of slow poisoning from ap
parently unknown cases, few people
imagining that their sufferings were
caused by the earthenware in general
use. M. Peyrusson is of the opinion
that if glazed vessels ar placed in
water kept at a heat of 100 for half
an hour or so, they lose their danger
ous properties, and are no longer
acted upon by the acids contained
in so many articles of food in daily
use.
A Georgia lady, while engaged in
the pursuit of ner domestic duties,
encountered a mouse in the tlour bar
rel. Most ladies, under similar circum
stances, would have uttered a few
genuine shrieks and then sought
safety in the garret but this one ]os
sessed more than the ordinary degree
of genuine courage. She summoned
the mau servant and told him to get
the gun, call the dog and station him
self at a convenient distance. Then
she clambered upstairs and commenc
ed to punch the flour barrel with a
pole. Presently the mouse made his
appcaranccaml started across the floor.
The dog started at once in pursuit.
The man fired and the dog dropped
dead. The lady fainted, fell down
stairs, and the man, thinking she was
killed and fearing he would be arrest
ed for murder, disappeared and has
not been seen since. The mouse es
caped.
The Mississippi is a good instance of
tho variations through which some
names have passed. Its original spell
ing and the nearest approach to the
Algonquin word, "tlie father of
Waters," is Meche Sebe, a spelling still
commonly used bv tVe Louisiana
Creoles. Tonti suggested Miche Sepe,
which is somewhat nearer to the pres
ent spelling. Father I«ival still further
modernized it into Michispi, which
another father, Labatt, softened into
Misispi, the first specimen of the pres
ent spelling. The only changes since
have been to overload the word with
consonants. Marquette added the first
and some other explorer the second
"s," making it Mississipi, and so it re
maing in France to this day, with only
one "P-" The mau who added the
other lias never been discovered, but
he must have been in an American,
for at the time of the purchase of
Louisiana the name was generally
spelled in the colony with a single
At St. Luke's Hospital, New York
is a girl who has had a new scalp en
grafted on her head. She was em
fler
iloyed in a button factory and had
entire scalp torn from her head by
an accident. It has taken six years
to replace it, and the ordeal has been
a severe one. The girl, it is stated by
the house mother, has suffered more
than and three persons in the ever
this hospital. Bits of llesh the size of
a grain of rice were cut from the arms
of physicians, nurses, or whomsoever
would volunteer, and these were
plunged into the row head to root and
grow. Frequently these grafts would
not take root, when the process was
rejM'ated. The girl supplied from her
own limbs many hundred grafts. It
has required 14,203 of these to cover
her head.
"Jftkey," cried Mrs. Rosenberg, as
she discovered twetny-flve letters in
lier son's bureau drawer, "here vas
till dese letters 1 gif you since last
spring to put der mail box derein! Vy
for haf you forgot demf" "So hellup
nie. 1 don't forgot em!" replied Jakey.
"I been ratten, for dot two oent poet
age."
DEATH OF WASHINGTON.
Did lie Blaed to Death, or Die of IffedUh
elne or of the DI*es*»»A Curious and
Antique Document.
The Hon. E. E. Chapin, of this city,
has a copy of the Dartmouth, N. H.,
Gazette, of the date of Monday, Jan
uary 27, 1800, which contains a large
amount of interesting matter relating
w.iich had occurred on the 14th of
December, 1799, at Mt. Vernon, Vir
ginia—six weeks previous to the date
of this publication. The sheet before
us contained Gen. Lee's funeral oration
on Washington, and also a statement
of the physicians of Washington re
garding his illness, medical treatment
and death, which is of the highest in
terest. This statement is under date
of Alexandria. Va., Dec. 21 1790, and
is entitled: "Particular Account of
the Illness and Death of General
Washington." It is &k follows:
Some time in the night of Friday,
the 13th inst., having been exposed to
a rain on the preceeding day. General
Washington was attacked with an in
flammatory affection of the upper part
of the wind pipe, called in technical
language, cytianrfw trarhealin.
disease commenced with a violent
ague, accompanied with some pain in
the upper and fore part of the throat,
a sense of stricture in the same part, a
cough, and a diflicult rather than a
painful deglutition, which were soon
succeeded by fever and a quick
respiration becoming still more diffi
cult and distressing. Upon the arrival
of the first of the consulting physi
cians, it was agreed, as there were yet
no sign of accumulation in the
bronchial vessel of the lungs, to try
the result of another bleeding when
about :$2 ounces of blood were drawn,
without the smallest apparent allevia
tion of the disease. Vapours of vin
egar and water were frequently in
haled, ten grains of calomel were
given, succeeded by repeated doses of
emetic tartar, amounting in all to five
or six grains with no other affect
tha* a copious discharge from the
bowels. The powers of life seemed
now manifestly yielding to the force
of the disorder blisters were applied
to the extremities, together with a
cataplasm of bran and vinegar to the
throat.
rotn
night, when, retaining the full pos
i session of his intellect, he expired
without a struggle.
eve!T
During the short period of his ill
ness, he economized his time in the
arrangement of such few concerns as
roquired his attention, with the ut
most serenity and anticipated his ap
proaching dissolution with every
demonstration of that equanimity for
which his whole life has been so
uniformly and singularly conspic
uous.
J. BRAIK, Attending Physician.
E. C. DICK, Consulting Physi
cian.
Testing Milk.
National I.lve Stock Journal.
with great accuracy, whether milk is
relatively lighter or heavier than a
given standard, and how much, if
any, it may be from the standard
but it gives no clew to the cause of
variation. If a sample of milk is
light, it may be from water added or
from feeding suceulant food, or from
being rich in fat. The lacometer is
too easily cheated by skimming and
watering, or bv auiding water aud
salt or water and sugar, to be a reli
able guide either for purity or value.
A convenient and accurate method
of testing the butter-making value of
milk is a desideratum which, however
strong the desire and necessity for it
may be, there is little hope of attain
ing. The hope is the more forlorn
from the fact that there is no certain
correspondence between the absolute
amount of fat in milk, as shown by
chemical analysis and the butter it
will make. The butter may equal the
total fat in the milk, but it is some
times more and at others lees. There
and laborious respiration. The city hall, which is designed to be 5:55
necessity of blood-letting suggest
ing itself to the General, he
procured a bleeder in the neigh
borhood, and took from his arm, in
the night, 12 or 14 ounces of blood.
He could not by any means be prevail
ed on the family to send for the at
tending physician till the following
morning, who arrived at Mount Ver
non at aboat 11 o'clock on Saturday.
Discovering the case to be highly
alarming, and foreseeing the fatal
tendency of the disease, two consult
ing physicians were immediately sent
for, who arrived, one at half after
three and the other at four o'clock in
the afternoon in the meantime were
employed two pretty copious bleed
ings, a blister was applied to the part
affected, two moderate doses of
calomel were given, and an injection
was administrated, which operated
on the lower intestines: but all with-
most impracticable respiration grew
Imorewntriw^widimpcr-lgeven founders. This second wel
uct, till half after 11 on Saturday come was responded to by ex-Gov.
Robie, of Maine. The a
are evidently other conditions than
the percentage of fat whi«hcontribute
to the butter producing capacity of
milk, which are not yet well known,
and which leaves us with the churn
as the only reliable test.
The Washington Monument.
Washington Post.
The masons stopped work to-day on
t],e
to the death of George Washington, the shaft for the winter
... I 1 1 U 1 itU
()f
that iLs conclusion would bo mortal-- aging reports of the status of the or
submitting to the several exertions
made for ins recovery rather as a duty strong as it
Washington monument, leaving
anj
wi i the disease and several hours i purt?ly an agricultural organization
before his
death, after repeated eflorts »},*» U JI. u..
to be understood, succeeded in ex
pressing a desire that ho might be per
mitted to die without further interrup
tion.
A great variety of modes of testing
milk, to determine its value for pro
ducing butter, have been employed, fbe higher classes the women are more
but none of them have proved to be isolated than in China. In the walled
free from serious objections. The i tewns a curious custom prevails. At
lactometer was thought at one time 9 o'clock on summer evenings, and
to be a suflicient guide, when used earlier in the winter, the gates are
with skill, but it has proved altogeth- 'closed and the women are permitted
er unable to cope the variations which to go out into the streets. Should a
occur. The lactometer indicates
nothing but the specific gravity of
milk, and this single test by no means
determines the butter-making value i females, and should he meet any, it is
of any sample of milk, or its value his duty to cover his face with his fan
for any other purpose. It shows, aud cross the street out of the way of
at a height of
410 feet. At this elevation it is the
loftiest artificial structure on the con
tinent, and with very few exceptions
in the world. It is now almost the
exact height of the cathedral at Ant
werp. It is higher than any speci
men of Moslem architecture, the high
est minaret, that of the mosque of
Sultan Hassan at Cairo, lifting its
highest point only to 2S2 feet above
the pavement. The highest bell-tower
in the world, the Campanile of St.
Marks at Venice, is nearly 100 feet
lower than the present shaft of the
monument. Of the few works of man
which can still look down on the un
finished trunk of the monumeint, are
the two tall chimneys of mannfactur
ing works in Glasgow, one 450 and the
other 460 feethign the great pyra
The mids of Cheops, now 450 feet nigh
St. Peter's at Rome, 455 and the
Gothic cathedral at Amiens, 422. All
these will in turn be surpassed by the
monument until it towers above all
the created works of man. Its near
est neighbor in the air will be the
main tower of the new Philadelphia
feet above the pavement, or only fif
teen feet lower than the monument.
The ascent ot the monument is made
in a platform elevation on which the
marble blocks are hoisted to the sum
mit. The trip is an interesting but
not altogether pleasant experience.
For nine long minutes one is drawn
upward in the cold, dark, damp pas
sage, with nothing to distract the
mind from the moral reflections
which occur to it under such circum
stances.
out any preceptible advantage, the the bed of the foundation was 74,871
Col. Casey, under whose efficient
direction the shaft has progressed thus
far without error or accident, is now
preparing his report covering the
year's work. At this time he cannot
give the result in detail from an engi
neering standpoint. At the conclu
sion of the work last fall, when the
monument had risen to a height of
i-40 feet, the total pressure borno by
i tons, or nearly 92-100 of the total pres
sure to be finally placed upon it. The
settlement up to December 1882, was
on an average about one inch and a
quarter for the structure.
THE NATIONAL ORANGE.
The Seventeenth Annual Meaaton Now
Being Hold at Washington.
A Washington despatch says: The
seventeenth annual session of the Na
tional Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
met in this city this morning. The
proceedings opened with an address
of welcome on behalf of the citizens
of Washington by Mr. William Saun
ders, of tho Department of Agricul
ture, to which B. C. Harrison, of Al
jabama, responded. He was followed
by Mr. John R. Thompson,
t. Speaking, which was painful mont, now a resident of this city, one
the beginning, now became al-
f)f
the founders of the order, who wel
comed tne ffrail«e
in behalf of the
afternoon ses­
sion was devoted to testimony, to re
I ports of otlicers, and other routine
lie was full} impressed at the begin-, business. Thegrange will probaily
nmg of his complaint, as we.l as jn session ten days. The Patrons
kir?l\
?»t-,eeeling stage of it,
Husbandry now here give encour-
t]rr whic^ whije not nuinerically
was
an from any expectation of tlieir ja botttir finuui-iitl isis a.nd gives tla.t
etheacy He considered the operation tering encouragement to its founders
of death upon his system as coeval
as
a few vears ago. is on
otlicers. It is said to be more
than it ever was before, and to be
gaining favor among the farmers.
When first organized many became
Grangers out of curiosity, others for
political advancement. To-day the
order is solely an association of hus
bandmen.
Corean Women and Men.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Women in Corea hold a very low
position and count for nothing the
sight of the law. They have no social
influence, ami are not held personally
responsible for their actions. Poly
gamy prevails the number of wives
varies according to the standing and
ftflluence of the individual, but as the
lniddle and lower classes are not well
«tr they have but one wife. There are
no wedding ceremonies, and as soon
as the husband has paid a certain sum
to the father of the bride he takes her
home and treats her as he likes. In
man be belated he will be seen hurry
ing for home with his eyes bent on the
ground, so as not to observe the
the women. Strong affection for their
children is one of the better character
istics of the Coreans, and infanticide
and exposure are almost unknown.
He had been rubbing his back up
against the stone pillar and taking no
part in the conversation, when some
one observed:
"I see that there is a movement on
foot to consolidate the two oil exchan
ges."
"Umph!" was the dry reply.
"One is enough, don't yon think?"
"One is enough for me, if I figure
right. I dropped $3S,000 between
breakfast and dinner, and the only
reason I didn't loose all I had was be
cause it was in a Virginia side hill
which wouldn't hold a mortgage."
"Fashionable society allows people
at dinner parties to eat crystaliz®d
fruit with their fingers," says a fash
ion paper. Ordinary persons eat it in
the usual way, with their mouths, we
presume.
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JEFF DAVIS IN IRONS.
An Bxcltlne Scene Deaerlbed by Ben
Perlejr Poor*.
Boston Bud^at.
"Was Jeff Davis ever manacled?"
asks "a constant reader" of the "Rem
iniscences." He was, at Fortress Mon
roe, on the ground that he had re
fused to eat some of the food prepared
for him, and had shied a tin plate at
the head of the soldier who served
him. This was "revolt," strictly
speaking, but there was nothing to
fear
frnm
the angry acts of an old
man. who was imprisoned in the in
ner apartment of a casemate, with a
guard in the outer apartment and sen
tries lasted on the outside, at the port
hole and at the door. But orders had
undoubtedly been seHt by Secretary
Stanton to put the fallen chief of the
conftderacy in irons if he gave any
prov cation, and he gave it.
Capt. Titlow, who was especially
charged with the custody of Mr. Davis
and who is authority for this state
ment —was accordingly ordered by the
commandant of the fort to place his
prisoner in irons. Summoning a
blacksmith, who was the habit of
riveting irons on soldiers sentenced by
courts martial to wear them, the cap
tain went to the casemate, accompan
ied by the blacksmith carrying the
fetters and his tools. They found Mr.
Davis seated on bis cot, there being no
other furniture besides a stool and a
few articles of tinware. When he
glanced at the blacksmith and com
prehended the situation, he exclaim
ed: "My God! this indignity to be
put on me! Not while I have life!"
At first he pleaded for opportunity to
inquire of Secretary Stanton. Then
his excitement rose to fury as he walk
ed the cell, venting itself in almostin
eoherent ravings. The captain at
length calmly reminded him that, as
a soldier he must be aware that, how
ever disagreeable the duty assigned, it
must be performed, and that, as in
duty bound, he should perform it.
"Noue but a dog would obey such
orders replied Mr. Davis, emphasizing
his determination never to be mana
cledalive by grasping the stool and
aiming a very vicious blow. The
sentries rushed forward to disarm
him, but were ordered back into their
places. Capt. Titlow explained that
such demonstrations of self-defense
were foolish and useless, and that it
would be much better for Mr. Davis
to submit to the inevitable necessity.
But while receiving this advice, he
took the opportunity of grasping the
musket of one of the sentries, and in
the furious endeavor to wrest it from
liirn quite a scuffle ensued.
That ended, the captain took the
precaution of clapping his hand on
iiis sword hilt, as he perceived Mr.
Davis' eve was on it, and at once
ordered the corporal of the guard to
send into the casemate four of his
strongest men without side-arms, as
he feared they might get into the
wrong possession and cause damage.
They were ordered to take the prison
er as gently as possible, and using no
unnecessary force to lay him upon
the cot and there hold him down. It
proved about as much as four men
could do, the waithings and upheav
ings of the infuriated man develop
ing the strength of a maniac, until it
culminated in sheer exhaustion.
When the unhappy task was
done, Mr. Davis, after lying
still awhile, raised himself and
sat on the side of tho bed.
i
As his feet touched the floor and
the chain clanked, he was utterly
overcome the tears burst out in a
flood. When he became calm, he
apologized in a manly way to the cap
tain for the needless trouble he had
caused him, and they afterwards
maintained mutual relations of per­|the
sonal esteem and ^friendliness. The
indignity had, however, such an effect
upon Mr. Davis that the physician
called in insisted on the removal of
the irons. Permission to do this was
reluctantly obtained from Washing
ton, and the same mau who had put
on the fetters took them off. This act
did much to restore the deposed lead
ed of the rebellion to the foremost
fiearts
ilace, which he had forfeited, in the
of those who had rebelled.
The imperious manner in which Mr.
Davis had dictated the military ojera
tions of the confederacy, placing his
personal favori es in command, and
liis inglorious flight from Richmond,
which was burned and plundered by
the confederates, while the fugitive
"president" carried away a large sum
in gold, had increased the feeling of
dissatisfaction which had always ex
isted in "Dixie" with Mr. Davis. But
when he was ironed and otherwise
subjected to harsh treatment, the
southern heart was touched, and every
white man, woman and child felt that
they were, through him, thus harshly
dealt with. The manacling of Mr.
Davis delayed the work of reconstruc
tion for years, and did much to restore
thw feeling of sectional hatred which
fair fighting had overcome. It also
gave Mr. Davis an excuse for the con
tinued display of malicious hatred of
the north which he has since indulged
in on every possible occasion.
No Mystery to Him.
IVtroit Fiee Preaa.
A stubbed farmer, who had oome to
market with a load of potatoes, enter
ed a restaurant near the Central mar
ket and called for a dozen oysters on
the half shell. A couple of jokers
happened to be in the place, and,
while one attracted the farmer's atten
tion for a moment, the other dropped
a bullet into
one
of the oyster shells.
The man gulped down one after an
other, until he got the one with the
bullet in his mouth. Calmly and
quietly he bit at the lead with his
teeth—calmly and quietly he removed
it from his mouth and turned to the
light.
"By George! but it's a bullet!"eried
one of the men.
"Probably shot into the oyster to
kill him," added the other.
"Well, that is a mystery!" said the
man behind the counter.
"Gentlemen, that's no mystery to
me." replied the farmer, as ne depos
ited the ball in his vest pocket. "At
the battle of Fair Oaks, over twenty
years ago, I was hit in the leg by that
very bul'?t. It's been a long time
working up, but she's here at last, and
I'll have it hung to my watch chain if
it costs $5."
TWENTY-FOCK HOUR CLOCKS.
A New Timepiece That Don Away
Willi the Old-Faahloued A. n. and
p. a.
New York Sua.
"There is something new," said A
down-town clock manufacturer, yes
terday, as he pointed to a queer look
ing clock, hanging near his door.
"That is a twenty-four hour clock,
and I think the first one in the city. It
marks the hours from one up to twen
ty-four. It has just been finished, and
is the kind which is soon to be adopted
by several railroads.
"The most conspicuous innovating
are in the marking of the dial and the
movements of the wheels which drive
the hands. The minute-hand, instead
of making twelve revolutions to every
revolution of the hour hand, makes
twenty-four revolutions, »ehile the
hour hand passes around once. The
lettering on the dial is in Arabic in
stead of Roman numerals, and the
sfaces between the figures are only
half as great as on the dial of the or
dinary twelve-hour clock. The min
ute hand marks half minutes
whole minutes.
"This clock will do away with the
'A. M.' and 'P. M.,' which sometimes
proves very confusing to railroad pas
sengers.
"You would be surprised to see how
people take to that clock. I have had
any number of offers for it, but I do
not care to sell it, and it is the only
one I have, but I will be able to sup
ply a small part of the demand within
a day or two. By that time every
manufacturer will be turning out
these clocks. They are something
new, and that is all the New York
people want. Without a doubt these
clocks will soon take the place of the
old fashioned time-pieces.
Baleful Effects of Tobacco on Tenth.
Hartford Timet.
ThereMs a young lad in this city
who has a good place and attends
faithfully to his duties. He had one
bad habit and that was chewingtobac
co, in which he indulged more freely
than men who had chewed for fifty
years. Last Saturday a gentleman
offered the boj* $5 if he would quit
chewing for a year. Another follow
ed suit and a third, all signing their
names to a paper, agreeing to give
the same sum. The boy said he would
win the money, washed his mouth
and began right away. Sunday he
felt badly aud Monday he was worse.
Tuesday he shook and trembled like a
man in the delirium tremens, and yes
terday he was confined to his bed
from which he has not yet got up,
and it will take sometime before the
e-llects of tho poison in his system oa"
be worked out.
Water-Resisting Fabrics.
Briefly stated, the process of render
ing fabrics water-resisting, yet not
impervious to air, is as follows: First,
the cloth is put into a boiling bath
composed of yellow soap, three -quar
ters of a pound, water one gallon, and
woaked through and about in this for
about one hour, when it is passed
through a roller-wringer to press out
excess of the liquid, and suspended in
the air for an hour or more, or until
nearly dry. Xext the cloth is put in
i to a bath composed of ammonia alum
live pounds, water three and a half
gallons, and remains therein for from
eight to sixteen hours, according to
nature of the fabrics and the re
quiremeuts. The time of this expo
sure may be considerably lessened Dy
I working the cloth through a series of
rollers, which causes^the discharge of
the absorbed liquid, and admits of the
reabsorptiou of fresh portions of the
bath. Finally, after wringing out,
the cloth is put through the soap-bath
again, and, after rinsing in clean wa
ter, dried.
"No, I am not honest," says Serib
bins "but I am dishonest from the
best of motives. Suppose a 'nan
pays me forty dollars instead of
thirty, and its a mistake he might
never discover. If I give him back
the ten dollars, he will say to him
self, There is an honest person. The
world is not so bad, after all.' This
will give him confidence in mankind,
and the next man he deals with may
cheat him out of his eyes. No, sir, I
i don't want to give any man con
fidcnce it might wreck his whole for
tune. I don't want my fellow beings
cheated, and I must continue to do
nothing that will put them off their
guard.
Master Fred TYnton fell from the
topmost limb of an apple tree. He
was picked up anil carried to the house
in an insensible condition.
After watching at his bedside many
weary hours his mother perceived
signs of returning consciousness.
Leaning over him she asked him if
there was anything she could do tot
him, now that he was beginning to
feel better.
Should she bathe his forehead?
Should she fan him or change his pil
low? Was there anything ho want
edf
Languidly opening his eyes and
looking at her, the little sufferer said:
"Yes, mamma I want a pair of
pants with a pocket behind!"
Ue got them.
An editor out in Kankakee
Onei- falling In a burning passion
With n vexatious rival, he
Wrt'tt
him a letti-riii thisfti?hion:
"You ivr«» an nm-uutli anil rule.
And will be one et«nially"
Than, iu an absent- nun
Jed mood.
He signed it, "Yours fraternally."
-Chicago Newa.
At the largest glue worksi n Wee
tern
Pennsylvania, near the city, the ad
jacent railway station is named Bou
quet. It cost no more for this, and
strangers are just as apt, when the
wind is blowing properly, to mistake
the glue works for a cologne factory.
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