The Greensboro patriot [July 23, 1879]

              Ttt£ PATRIOT,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
GREENSBORO, N. C.
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DUFFY, Publisher and Proprietor.
•#"Al il-crt wtU ro-
A I'nor Little Mother.
-. little 1H.1V crcjaod in black and rod
rlittlsi hil.lreo safely iu their bed.
: .r ll.PT
bad,
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-"- ttngle
-. i, . I ; I then ■ field of
I : -l Rent ilying
I::t a red, rod
. and reposej
• red and sweet
md bar and un-
:.:^ag the garden
githc: to the little danie'o
came creeping from ont tweet
w mint t!.i:iling 0:1 'be merry
. I and.
raid langbed loftl.r, aha wa- BO full
f,
get and clcr and loud
ti '■ '- '' sway Lome!
' DO fire and your children
mother ia terror wild and
the bill and grassy glade and 11. Id of
i red.
ig, her anxious spirit
I stai in breathless fear sbe
I —!,
trenail snugly tucked
•' end sleeping, with tho
' rat-heed:
—St. Nicholas.
Girl front the Poorhouse.
■ he wasn't morc'u
k her fre>m tho poor-who
i be WSS. Her
" I '■ Ibe in my mother's family
I. Q in ime wssSally
good, smart girl,
rriblj fond of dressing up and
an.nii.l; sort of ambitions to be
y, tLongU her father was a
tard and she hadn't a cent in the
I medal t.cwingand
She nia.Io my mother's
nigh on to f< or years,
I sewing for tiio boya, and
.lo the homework. I was
I when she named that Ned
; she was married,
' I ■■' 10 one knew, for
We only knew that she came to
:.' away,
' r ■ little mite of a
! I. M ither
.
. bnl she Raid
ilcaj
•' keep her
. My ia tli . ha 1 care
. with fourteen of
! as together,
r thing a bed
Sally was all
. Elbe staid
■ " t stay no
I.
those things; and when my baby died,
she | ii'. li'lle bits of white flowers all
r-.nL.il ita head and all round its little
breast, and kept the honso qniet, and
looked so geutlelike that something
peaceful came over me as I sat alone in
the chamber with the little cctlia, and I
stopped c.-jiug, and clasped my hands
over the pretty little fac;, and prayed
11 )d to forgive me for murmuring, and
make mo fit to meat my innocent babe
in heaven.
After that, Netty was born, and my
husband bonght more land, and had
hired men to work for him, and I'd a
great deal of care, and Nell was always a
help. The fall the baby was born wo
hired another girl and kept her right
along.for Nell was only a aiip of a thing,
though hand* and willing, and not fit to
bavo all tho care of so muib work. My
family had got to bo a groat one, 'speci-ally
after John had took Levi's boys to
teach farming to. Lsvi's boya came from
the city. They were slender slips of
lads. Lovi had lost two of consumption,
while they were at college, and he was
bound he wouldn't lose the lant two;-
fo he just sent them cut to John to have
a year's pood hard work on a farm.
The next tnrnmor after they came ont
comes a Mr. Washburn ol Boston to get
board with us and read Latin with Levi's
eldest boy, Henry. He wanted board in
tho country because ho was a little out
of health; and he attended to Henry's
lessons iM-eanse ho was a friend of Levi's.
I was a little struck np by his coming,
for he was a flue appearing man, with
tho city look, as if ho was nsed to be-ing
waited on. Not foppish and silly,
but grand, like a real gentleman. It-it
he put me at ease, for he said, right off:
'Don't incommode lonraclf or alter
your arrangements in the least for me,
Mrs. Hatch, for if I had wanted toe ac-commodations
of a city, I ihonU have
stayed in tbo city.'
With that he sits down to tho supper
tablo and eats hominy and milk with the
rest of the men; and then goes ont in the
stoop and sits down on tho step; and
Jowler went and put his head on his
knee—a thing I never knew the dog to
do with a stranger before.
Well, I considered Mr. Washburn one
of tho family, right off. He made hay,
and worked in the field with the rest of
tho men, and got as brown and healthy
as any of them. It was good to seo him
laugh—ho had such white teeth, and his
eyes—just tho brightest hazel yon cvir
saw -sparkled BO I Ho was real well
educated, yot tho furthest from putting
on airs among common folks of any one
I over saw.
Ho took notice of Nell. By-and-by
she told mo that he had lent her some
books to road. I was willing enough
that sho should read if she could only
timl the time, but I didn't want her to
neglect her work, and I told h"r so.
Did I ever neglect my work?' she
asked, pleasant enough, yet growing a
little flushed up.
'No, Nell,' said I, right cff. Ton
never did; but you know how much there
ia to do this summer, and I naed all the
help I can get.'
As if I hadn't enough to do, my two
nieces came up from Andovor, Jim
Vinal's daughters. Bright, pretty look-girls,
bnt I never was less glad to see
them in my life; for they needed more
waiting on than some folks, and made
considerable confusion.
It turned ont that Henriette had met
Mr. Washburn in Button and knew him
pretty well. S'ae told me what I had
never known beforo, that he was rich.
She said that she and Kite were going
to set their caps for him.
Well, I thought they did snro enough.
Tho three were always frolioking aronnd
and off—going after lilies, and for ber-ries,
an 1 to the mill pond to boat, and to
Doako'a Hill for strawberries. Mr.
Washburn seemoito like it, immensely.
He was always roaely for a jaunt, and
when I saw the girls e >j ding around
him, I used to wonder which would get
him, and if cither would.
One day something happened which I
remembered afterward, but did not
know what to make of then.
I was helping Nell make np tho bnt-ter,
one day, when Mr. Washburn came
into the dairy, and went out of the door
to tho bench under tho window. Ho sat
down there, with his book, and wo were
going in and ont, Nell and I, when all at
once ho says:
•My little girl?' in a sort of fond way
as if he were speaking to a baby. Nell
wasn't there; she had gone into the
kitchen; and Henriette and Kate wasu't
within hearing; so to find cut what he
meant, I just pnt my head out of the
window.
'Mr. Washburn,' said I. 'Who did
you speak to?'
He was just looking up sort of anxi-for
to tell the truth, Mr. Washbnrn was I Wonderful Pistol Shooting,
making lore to her. It came over me all r„ck ,,. L ,ra-, an American, has ere-of
a sudden to find out that Nell was ated a sensation in Europe by his pre-growing
up, and that she was as good cision with the revolver. Oa one occa-and
pretty as any girl agoing, with some- 6ion ne performed, among other feats of
thing about her that attracted Mr. Wash-1 acco^ marksmanship, ,he following: A
burn. This was the way I found it ont: ' cp o( aQ ordinary musket was placed
Kate came to me one day, and said j npon the neck of a champagne bottle,
she liad something to tell me. She said i and Mr. Lord, standing at thirty-eix
that sho saw Nell, the night before, feet, or twelve paces, with an ordinarv
talking with Mr. Washbnrn jast outside during pistol picked off the cap with-the
door, and that before they came in
he put his armi around her and kissed
her.
'Now, Annt Hatch,' says she, 'some-thing
shameful is going on. That Noll
has deceived you; she is a bad girl, of
course. There is no other way of her
being familiar with a man like Mr.
Washburn. Of course yon won't keep
her, and have her go on in this way.
Bnt the matter will have to be arranged
carefully. It won't do to get Mr. Wash-out
scratching the glass. The same feat
was ropoated, but with the pistol trans-ferred
from the right to the left hand.
Two more cips were picked off with
right and left hand firing respectively,
but in these instances the pistol was
held in a reverse position, with the line
of sight below instead of above tho line
of fire. The next shot was a fancy one,
Mr. Lord standing with back to the ob-ject
fired at, leaning far forward, and
then with pistol pointed bank between
The Genesis of the Mosquito.
A physician corresponding with the
■Scitnl.jic American, says: Forseveral
years past I have noticed in warm weath-er
that
City, Town and County Debts.
The forthcoming number of a maga-zine
will contain some important and
interesting figures regarding the flnan-my
wooden cistern, which is cial condition of the towns, counties and
abevo ground, has been infested with cities of the United 8tatea. In a former
peculiar-looking little red worms. I I article the financial condition of 13(1
have heard many others like myself | principal cities down to 1870 was given
complain cf these worms, and I had ' and the present investigation is brought
taken it for granted that they were a I down to the close of the year 1878, and
inclu lee counties, cities and townsof the
burn into a , crape, because he'll go ] his legs picking off the cap as before.
away, and that will spoil everything;
Henriette thinks he's most ready to pro-pose.
So if you'll just sent Nell np to
Andover to Uncle John's (he'll take her,
for he wants a girl,) she'll be nicely ont
of the way.'
She told mo in the dairy, where I had
been making butter the day Mr. Wash-bnrn
called out so. I was so dnmfound-ed
that I didn't know what to say to
Kate, bnt right off I hears a stir, and in
comes Mr. Washbnrn from his seat on
the bench under tfce vines.
'I beg your pardon, Miss Kate,' says
be, 'I have already proposed to Nell,
and as she has aoepted me, I had rather
have a voice in the matter of sending
her to Andover. I go next weok if the
clergyman of this village will marry ns
first. I take Nell with me. It you will
allow me, I will speak alone with Mrs.
Hatch.'
Kate slipped ont, turning all sorts of
colors; and then Mr. Washburn said that
he loved Nell for hor innocence and
worth; that she was the loveliest girl ho
ever seen; and that they were to be mar-ried
and then Nell was going to school
for a year; and ho would like my ap-proval.
Goodness knows I gave it, heartily
enough, though I hardly knew what to
say—a man like him marrying a girl out
of the poorhouse I
But ho did marry her, and sho went to
school a year, and then they went to his
honso in Boston. It's a splendid place.
I was in it once, but I deolarn to good-ness
Nell ain't no more put out in it than
she useel to be in my kitchen. Sho's
just as quite and gentle and pretty-ap-pearing
as over she was; and the girl's
got a baby now, that's as pretty as a
picture
So I says—as I've always said—that
it's what's in a person that makes them
noticed. Mr. Washbnrn would have
married Henriette, if ho hadn't found
Tho last of tho six shots was made sit-ting
in a chair, again with back to tar
get and leaning back until the target
conld be seen by the head and eyes bent
back. 11 is a favorite fe at to suspend
his watch—a fine imported piece, cost-ing
$250—and pnt shot after shot
through the loop at thirty-six feet. A
match or wooden toothpick laid across
the opening of the golden loop is cut
cleanly through, aud though tho watch
has been under fire scores and hundreds
of times, it still ticks on toward the day
which may come when a bullet, a frac-tion
of an inch ont of the way, may
scatter the works in a shower of wheels
.and pinions.
In shooting at the word of command,
as in dueling, where the seconds cry
out, 'Are you ready ?' ■Beady f 'Fire I—
one—two—three,' the shooter being re-quired
to Bhoot between the words 'fire'
and 'three,' Mr. Lord, with a dueling
pistol, at twelve paces, struck down six
three-quarter inch bullets hung np by
threads. Hueh an adversary on the field
of honor wonld satisfy the chivalric
yearnings of about any mortal. At tho
word 'ono' Mr. Lord fired ten consecn-tivo
shot. iuto a 11 -inch circle, same
distance.
In Paris, where fantastic shooting is
very much in vogue, he is known as 'Le
eliablo Americiin." He has timo and
again, at fifteen paces, put one-hundred
shots consecutively into a space of an
ordinary playing-card. On a recent
date, as showing his ability for long-rango
firing with the pistol, ho struck
two caps out of three shots at a distance
of sixty feet. As the ordinary musket
e.ip is about one-eighth of an inch
across, the mere seeing of the mark was
somewhat of a feat, but to see and hit as
well was something entirely beyond the
common. Yet it was done before a large
number of marksmen. With a Stevens
specie* of earth worm. However, last
snmmer I procured a glass jir and
sprinkled the bottom of it with a very
smalt qnantity of sand and o'.ay. I then
half filled tho jar with clear fresh water
entire country. The municipal debt ol
130 cities was found to be in the year
187G, $61i,378,'jt«l; in 18GG, §981,319,,.
K)0. The assessed value of the propcr-and
after putting a dozon of those worms ty of the same in 1876, was 86 175,082 -
in the jar I tied a piece of cloth over the '
mouth and placed it in a light, airy
place. The worms were from a half to
three-fonrths of an inch in length, of a
bright red color, and had rather a point-ed
appearance about tho body. They
would crawl on tho bottom of tho jar,
swim through the water by a rapid
bending of the bo<ly backward and for-ward,
and occasionally como np to the
surface of the water and float. 'Within.
twenty-four honrs after placing them in
the jir I noticed that they had all gone
down to the bottom of the vessel and
had enveloped themselves separately in
a kind cf temporary shell made of earth
and sand. In a few days after this I
saw one of these worms crawl ont of bis
temporary house at the bottom of the
jar and swim to the snrfaca of the water.
158; in 1866,33,461,619,881. Ann ml
taxation of the same in 1876 PI 12 711 -
275; in 1866, SCI 060 914, 'population
of tho same in 1876, 8,676,349; in I860,
5,919,914. Increase in debt, 200 per
o?nt; in taxation 83 per cent.; in valua-tion,
75 per cent., and in population,
only M per cent Tue municipal debt
alone of 131 cities, representing a popu-lation
of only 8.5701,219, exceeded in
balMM byoverS12S,OOO.OOD thee: uity,
town and city indebtedness of the entire
country in 1870. In six years the in-debtedness
of these cities had exceeded
by over •816,000,000 the bonded and
floating indebtedness of all the towns
and cities of the United States, which in
1870, according to thecensm, amounted
to $515,810,000. From eleven States
complete rclurns havo been obtained.
Here, after twisting about for a few se- j These States aro New York, Massacbu-conds.
he raptured a thin membrane that
enveloped his body, and came cut a full-fledged
mosqnito ready for business.—
setts, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin.Minnew-ta,
Kansas, Missouri, Connecticut, Geor-gia
and Rhode Island. Iu these the total
I noticed many of the other worms go- aggregate local debt in 1878 was $51(1,-
Iprol I Ij ,; np
rn;bnt
I there was the
of. Hy mother
■- if, herself,
own, I being the
:..- fjnele
the poor-
■■'.'■■
r fell differently alrant
re, I in if there'd been
Besides Aunt Pet-thal
the baby wouldn't live
•"' ■ ';•', ' ■-. an I ire give it
■ 1 lire, and g-ew up a Dae,
. i . y called
i leai .• i to play and work
I . any child, only so queer
wed to sec her, when I
rhoose to see Annt
II by herself, with corn-er,
ckery in.1 whisper-si..-
ire -. i an for dolls.
. : rie 1 pretty soon, and
»h, dear knows.
boys, After Luther
' : .ugh to get iuto
D >n was iu my arms, I
some one to help
isband, mentioned
and bringing her
■'itoff of Nell. She was
old, and a quiet,
ping ronnd with a
.1 many things Aunt
■ so] had herome.
'i>, from 'he first
In bing dishes,
,as well as need ' ously at the window, but when he saw
icr, I thought I. my face looking throrgh tho vines, ho
looked startled.
'I beg your pardon,' ho sort of stam-mered.
'I thonght it v.-a- <o:ne one
else there.
'Kate and Henriette are in the dining-i
in all my lite room,' said I; and with that he whips
lad things to take
teresl her which I in.
it She'd take When Nell came back, I told her, and
• i: in the dev-rway ' sho turned just as red as fire,
children had; 'Oh,' says I, laughing; 'he didn't
1 . tho mean you. If you'd heard the way he I
hi r fingers j said it, you'd know ho was calling some :
cv m lo iked ont in tho
Henriette came ont here; he seems to
take mostly to her, lately.'
If I hadn't had so much to do I should
out that Nell was more modest and prct-1 twel™-inch barrel pistol, distance 125
ty in the kitchen than Henriette was in | !evt< Mr- Lori1 P'cked off a couple of
the parlor, or even conld be anywhere, i tlireo-qnarter inch bullets, using right
- - .. _ . ... »nd left hand in toui. Three consecu-
Heath by Yellow Fever. ,ivo three-quarter inch bullets fell at
A correspondent, reviewing the scenes
of the yellow fever ecourge last season,
says: There is one thing very remarka-ble
in the fatal yellow fever cases that
I have seen in Now Orleans and else-where—
tho fear of death seemB never
folt. Those terrible phantoms, those
heartrending exclamations so common
on deathbeds, are rarely witnessed in
this disease. This first came particn -
larly under my observation a number of
years ago in Opelousas, where the yel-low
fever broke ou t suddenly and with
appalling severity. I was there with a
friend on important business with the
land cflice, and he was among the first
that were attacked. In a few days over
20O_irere struck down. The mortality
wns appalling. I saw many die, and
tho physicians, if any of them of them
aro now living, will bear mo ont in the
assertion that, without exception, the i
patients seemed to welcome death.— i
F.fen tho constitutionally timid viewed j
its approaches with composure. Hits- [ artlst' qmet v' 'y°w that •VJn nre ,or,i
forty-five feet before shots from a largo-sizod
Smith I Wesson revolver, Russian
model, heavy trigger pull.
Taken Aback.
Mr. Millais,the famous-English artist,
and brother-in-law of Mr. Lister Wal-lack
the cctor, tells this good anecdote
connected with himself. He w is intro-duced
to a lady, whom he was to take
down to dinner, but neither he nor
his partner caught tho other's name.
Once seated at tablo tho lady opened
firo with tho usnal stock questions.
'Have you been to the octdemy?' '1
have,'said Mr. Millais, 'And did you
notice that oelions old Millais' pictures?"
'Well, yes; I saw them.' Presently the
champagne came round. Said Mr. Mil-l'iis,
with his best smile, '1 am going to
•sk you to take wine with me, and nrit a
mcro sip, but to drain your glass, to
strengthen yaw ccivos.' The huiy
pledged himaccordiugly. Then said the
ing throngh the same performance with-in
a short while afterward. Somo of
the mosquitoes were mncb. larger than
others, but, as I have already stated,
somo of the worms were also larger than
others.
Some Interesting Facts.
Tho air we breathe contains five grains
of water to each cubic foot of its bulk.
The potatoes and turnips which are boil-ed
for our dinner, have, in their raw
state, the ono 75 per cent., the other
90 per cent, of water. If a man weigh-ing
ten stone were squeezed flat iu a
hydraulic press, seven and a half stone
of water would rnu out, and only two
and a half of dry residue remain. A
man is, chemically speaking, forty-five
pounds of carbon and nitrogen diffused
through five and n halfpailluls of water.
In plants we find water tons mingling
no less wonderfully. A sunflower evap-orates
one and a qnsitor pints of watera
day, and a cabbage about the same , The^^h ^ fl rf
quantity. whea plant exhales, U. 172 al(ont (our '
days, about 100,000 grams of water An fnl, N(JW^„^^a«d 1Vnn.
.a.cre o.f growing wheat, on .this cacu a- s„y,l_v.a,u-i„a ei•gh,,tv.-e-ig:n,t. uBar"l.ey is ,low.
tion, draws and passes out a!*ut ten tons Tll0 , t . eighty-five,
of water per day. The sap of plants is wnile"B „-, a wafi ^2
the medium through which this mass of , „„, owi ,„ d ht_
fluid is conveyed. It forms a delicate ; |ocalities |Le^,,-, „„, RPrmillttte._
pump, up through which the watery , The condition of clcvtfr it v.„ low „,,
partic.es run with the rapiuity of a swift | 0Tertho eoaattJi CI0.,,t in"tho Ne„
stream By the action of tho sap, varions , EngIalld SlateH -aud those boriUriuR ()n
propert.es may be communicated to tho j tl)e 0ult 0, Uellc,_ The , ,m .
growing plant-timber in France, for j good of ,ruit is , Tbo lttte
instance, dyed by various colors being j ,rost8 wero lnta, iu mtmj rpgioBfl- Th„,.
285.528, aud in 1870, 1286,179,060. The
assessed valuation of property in these
States was 81,172,148.179 in 1870, and
10,888,696.616 in 1878. Although bad
enough, the second investigation shows
a better condition of affairs than did the
first The increase in the cities was at
the rate of 200 per cent, and by aelding
in the county and town debts the in-crease
is loss than 103 per cent. Re-tains
from the rest of the States are
incomplete, but aro as complete and ear
rect as it is possible to make them until
after tho ct-nsus of 1888 is taken. The
total local debt of the country at Ihe
cloeeof the year U78 was f 1,051, ICG, 112,
exclusive of State debts.
Official Crop l.'.porls.
The June retort of the ngrienllural
departmou t shows that the acreago ol
oats has decreased about four per cent.
The general average is eighteen, against
103 last year. The condition is unfavor-able
in nearly all sections cf the I'.iion.
rye is
and is
Corn is back-
In five or six
The Last Hours of the (ireat Match.
No such excitement as that which ex-isted
in London the last night of the pe-destrian
contest has ever l>een caused
by a pedestrian contest. West m suc-ceeded
in completing 550 miles in 112
hours, beating the bast record by 7 31G
miles, and won the Astley long-distance
champion belt and a bet of 88,500. Al-though
it has been hare! for Englishmen
to see this famous belt slipping away
from them, they cheered the American
to the echo, and Agricultural hall was
the scene of Ihe wildest enthusiasm.
The performance ia considered tho more
raarvelr.m that the English public had
begnn to lose faith in Weston, and im-agined
that the island could prodneo a
dozen nets** men than he, and that in
tho keeping of 'Blower' Brown, backed
by Rowell, the belt was perfectly safe.
It was Brown who mado tho famous re-cord
of 542 and 5 16 miles, and when
Weaton had scored 613, aud was still
►coring lap after lap with untiring per-severance,
the building fairly shook
with tho tremendous applause of the
multitude who watched tho sturdy walk-er
and the changing figures on tho Mack-board.
A large number of Americans
were presont, and their shouts of en
c iirageme.it and the many bouquets
and baskots of beautiful flowers shower-ed
upon their plucky countryman seeui-od
to infuse him with now lifo; and -n itL
a smiling face he reeled off the laps as
though ho were walking for the fun ol
the thing. An hour later ho had scored
.".ismilo, at 10.15 o'clock CI9 and nt
10 65 o'clock another mile had beer,
added, tho great walk was ended, and
with minutes yot to spare tho scoro of
tho champion pedestrian of tho world
stood 550 miles. Brown's score at this
time was 488 miles, or ninety-seven
miles behind that of Weston, and 89
miles behind that of his own record ol
last April. Westou was also a contest-ant
in that match, and snococded iu
gaining a share of tho gate-money by
covering 150 m.les.
TOM OF UEXERAL IXTEBEST,
mixed with water, aud poured over the
roots of the tree. Dahlias aro also col-ored
by a similar prccsss.
FnglNIi and American Athletics,
It used to bo a favorite idea with cer-tain
theorists on tho ether side of tho
water who were disposed to look con-temptuously
upon the New World aud
its productions, that the air of America j tho Atlantic Stales south ol Virginia
: will be a short crop of apples. Tho av
eroge is low, except in New England.—
The crop in all. the Altantic States is
fair. In the Gulf States the yield will
only bo half of a full crop. Peaches
suffered most from tho frosts of May.—
Iu th<i Eastern States, and particularly
in those where the culture ia a specialty,
tho crop is represented as good, bat in
it
was not coDdnc've to tho development [ is a failure, aud that is tbe ease in the
of a high order of physical manhood, ; States bonlcriug on the Oiio river, ex-bands
and wives, who had many ties to
bind them to life, wero not known to
express regret or reluctance, and in not
a single instance, by either man or wo-man,
was there any indication of terror
or apprehension. Whether calm and
rational or frantic and dclirions, they
usually died like stoics, without a tear.
I have seen so much of tho same thing
in New Orleans, in people of different
temperaments and of very opposite hab-its
and crcods, that I class indifference
to death as one of the characteristics of
genuine yellow fever.
'
ll her. Miles
born, nud then the lit-
I all fiat time Nell
as the Mil. But faithful
e I never .- mid find
Dismantling of a Church.
After the congregation departed from
the Methodist church at Naaneto Hill,
Long Island, on Sunday, thieves entered
and cleaned the building out. They
stole the organ, pulpit, chairs and Bible,
prayer and hymn books frr-m the pnlpit
and pews, and every particle of carpet
there was in the church. The bell
fled, I may vt-nfure to tell you that I am
the odious old Millais.' The lady put
up her hands in horror. 'Good gra-i
eionsl' wns all that sho could find to ex
press herself.
Teach Your Ro)s.
Teaeb them that a trno lady may be
, found in calico quite as frequently as in
velvets.
Teach them that a common school
education, with common sense, is better
than a college cdno.tion without it
Teach them that ono good, honest
, trade, well mastered, is worth a dozen
: beggarly 'professions.'
Tetc'j them ihat honesty is the best
; policy.
Teach them to respect their elders
and themselves.
Teach them that, as they expeot to be
men some day, they cannot too soon
learn to protect the weak and helpless.
and that everything had a tendency t
degenerate over here. These ideas still
lingered in tho Eoglisl. mind oven after
the Revolution and tho war of 1812
Recent events, however, must force cur
English cousins either to give- up thin
idea or to admit that they themselves
have degenerated very sadly. American
mnscle and skill havo triumphed in
every department of athletic competition
until thero scarcely remains any sort of
physical prowess in which John Hull
can claim to be first. Wo have beaten
them at rifle-shooting, we havo astonish-ed
them with the feats of individual
marksmen like Dr. Carver nud Bogar-dus,
wo have shown them a thing or
two even with the sculls, wo have beat-en
their best horses on their own tracks,
and last but not least, we have given
them some new points on pedestriauism.
Weston's triumph is the most humiliat-ing
of all the blows that have been in-flicted
upon the British in their athlotie
prowess, and in point of fact leaves
them without a leg-to stand upon.
cept in a few localities,
havo a fnll crop.
California will
A Sew lilove.
A new glove, lately introduced, dis-plays
a very simple tut clever inven-
".Mes~."
A woman who opeued a small milli-nery
store iu the western part of the
city engaged a painter to paint fcer a
sign. When it came home the other
day she saw that it read: 'Mrss. J.
Blank,' etc., aud she called ou':
'You have an extra "Si-. Mrs., and
you must paint the sign over a rain.1
The painter saw the error, but he
didn't want the j >b of c meeting it, and
he replied:
'.Madam, haven't yon bad two Ins-bands
?'
'Tea, sir.'
'Yon were a Mrs. when you lost the
first:'
'I was.'
'And do yon think a woman can go on
marrying forever and not lengthen out
her title? Mrs. means a married woman
or a widow. Mn-s. meons a womnn who
has been married twice and is jorog
enough to marry again, and only yester-day
a rich old coon was in our shop and
said if he had any idea that you Were
heart-free he'd come up '
'Oh, we'd, yon cau nail up the s'gn "
The Last of u Fallen 11 ■ nasty.
The eon of Napoleon III. is dead,
trapped by 7. ibis in ambush, and his
body pierced by poisoned spears. The
piince imperial, who played at piekiug
up spent bnllets while tho death knell
of the empiro wasscuudinr;, hns full,in u
victim to his own rashness nt the mo
ment when tbo republic declare* itaell
strong enough to intrust its existence to
the keeping of Paii-i. Tbsdynasty thai
was nursed among the mountains of Cor-sica
comes to an end amid tho pathless
wilderneas of South Africa; tho boy that
was born in the purple just as the treaty
of Paris put its soul on the greatness of
the third empire, aud whom all Ihe
world hailed as the assured raresssorto
tho throne not less firm than the oldi s:
in Europe, has gone down with tho last
remnant of tho heritage of tho man of
destiny in a skirmish with nameless sav-ages.
It were tedious to exhaust the
an tit hoses which such a subject t u?gests,
eudless to dwell on the bitter' irony of
(ate which closes Ihe historical episode
Of Bonapartism. For the fate of this
gencrons, brave, and mislest young
man, neither the contemporary annalist
nor the future historian cau have aught
but pity; over the death of the OUSfl
which be represented, of tho hopes of
which he was tho ?ouree and center; no
lover of fre-odoni will drop a tear.
tion, which effectually disposes of the : she interrupted, aud it is there to day
nuisance of buttons coming off, tearing
ou', leaving one worse than gloveless,
under the mos.t exasperating cirenm-imethin
there
ttend to.
i and wash dishes, or
'i berfsoSMif she was
' d start up quick
to her, but I've stood
1 her smiling just as uncon-
1, hie as if she'd some-thieves
crossed the street and stole a
horse an.l wagon aud harnessjo convey
round to the dining-room door, and goes j the plunder away.
The Introduction ol Rice.
Rice was introduced into South Caro
lina by mere accident In 1G96 tbe
master of a vessel from Madagascar
landed r bout half a bushel of an excel-gacs,
he thonght jlant kind' from wl,ich gLxM ***"*?£ >
sprang up an immense source of wealth
both to the agriculturists and merchants j
of the Bcuthern States. Within little j
Teach them that to wear patched
found mnfBed, and from marks upon "ho! clothee is. n0 di88racP. ba' »° weat a ! stsneas. The ii rated,
rope it is thought they contemplated fc
stealing it. Lws about 8100. The
Vicksburg is iu a wretch 1
condition.
In 1877 Jacksonville, I'.'a., had 1,7
inhabitants; it now I.as 11 I
Tho son of tho late I
Pillow ia writing his
l'hy.
A colored Methodist
ville.S. ('., gavef I lrforchar
itable purposes.
Ihe* are agitating tie it ■! Uio
capital of Loalaian i Iron -K
to some interior town.
The L )i.dou Son.'iy : .
nodec Hi asm 1,861
teachers and 964,721
TI.egovernme.it ha- |
ooutraet for m >w.-
ors for the uso of the I
vations.
While a stesmtag was
river from Sin l\-.ine ■ . at
thirty-poinl salm.m spi .
was ciplured.
The sanitary cm,lite :i of '
T....... is reported by ti.
.1 that ely lo be b
vious tiioe in tweutv years.
It is announced on ex
that Edison has sbsndoi
thoelectric light and adopted I
Wnll.ic.*, of Ausoui i, COM,
Tho clergymen of S
aides! by some of t1
about to Legiu war on :'
munity at Oueida, on aooounl of
free love practices.
A black suake, four fe■ t long, '
cently been killed at OakiOg
II .vre (U -'Irsee, with i
cud. The snake could trav
direction with equal facility.
The temperance m< re
havo taken firm hold of the il
of Bendy Creek, N. Y., for of I
hundred residents i
taken the pledge of I
Tnere ii considerab1 nt iu
the silk msrki t. prie IOI the
rial hiving advuncel I •
pound. The advsaee ia owl ■ ' . t . ■
failure of the French and It
At two u'efook of • M
tho doors of theOouirrc;
ele in Jersey Oity were
all Ihe lights; able:: . A
bn 1 fergot ten toe'•
ship.
As two passenger-! 11. :> I
were paasjxuj down New Yoil
ihey. .;:; i,.i. . : .
of 820 000 done. 'ii. re wa
motion among the ]
none of th'-in were
Half of the- Ii .ir a
Springfield, Miss., ! .
while tho other half .
dark color. The diviel -
beard is iu the mid II
ou the head it i i
nose.
During January
recorded in which any stt
iatored a! the I;-.
England, and daring I
February there wa
her ti,. re were onlj l:
shine.
It is annoo i 0
government has ]. ended to I
permission' I I
' arms, alia
for the adopti ol t
these visits might lea I to
plicati
Russia has soli i
H irrisn b undsry, "
■ion f..: ed to
in soldiers, at tl
ooet, < rove the H
ry !•:, • se' by R .
ene I I
leeg of it.
An eighteen-month i" old •
Or. . .„-. r,:;... .1
blacksmith shoe a hoi .
little hammer and, ei
Ihe legs >.r.-. •
hammering at the
. a . ■■ I np
fact's leg and broke
and then kieked
1 ing of wheat on a I
in Ihe .'.::• ■,!:-.,- r. | :'.
earn'.-1 on !»., or tbn 0 yes
at last sjooonnts, forty vi ■
h :: in th river PI ta with
I- . Tbe country i- '
with emigrants from Italy, !'.
G-.-rmscy, a. 1 pro:, i .
■harp onmpetitor
I with tl ta
John King, who i
' ons 'uewsb'A '.. <
notwithstan
leg", baa j :
Teach them that (1 xl is no respecter
of sex, and that when 11 J gavo the sev-enth
commandment Ho meant it for
them as well as for their sisters.
A XnicM) in Earl] Peaches.
Mr. Ira Clark, at Church Hill, Ml.,
may havo a new variety of peach that
and consists of an ornamental series of wi" Fr0T0 '" bo cf Cf«t value. Mr.
small riveted hooks, which look ex , CUrk plank- -1 an orchard -f II de s Ear- vo- -ol, andIhe nwallowe Iit mixed with
actly like gilt glove buttons. Attached .'7 V*ch™: s,a ° B<xu f ^ orchard ; a tallow candle. The nextday be be, .
to ono side, at tho top, is a tine silk cord.
IVStrange Sights Seea bj l.li.
'Cau a tiling wbioh his no bit more
asked Joseph £"ok of K'i Persons.
'Of conro'j it can,'replied l.li.
'Why last year I saw a wateii spring,
a rope wall;, a horse By, a match box, a
peanii' sturd.a mill dam, an oyster fry,
and a cat fish; and this year,' contin-ued
Eli, '1 expect to see a peaoh
blow, a gin sl.ng, and a brandy smash,
aud—'
'Auylhiug more, Mr. Perkins i'
'Why, yes; I expect to see a atone
Fei c», a cane brake and a bank mo.'
'Did yon ever see a shoe shop, a gum
boil or hear a codfish bawl ?' aaked'Jpj
Cook.
'No, but I've seen a plank wait, a
horse whip, a tree toad, and I would
not be surprised to see the Great Atlan-tic
coast, the Pac'fic slope, a tree l>ox,
an 1 ',
As Mr. Cook left, I'.li told him that be
had seen many mysterious things—that
he had seen a uniform smilo.
'Why, I've seen a swe-1 fish,' said
Mr. Cook. 'I've seen a hog's skin bo '
too, and oaeo I saw somoalligatoi's hide
shoes. Yes,' he eontiL-.i-d,' 'Mr. P., I
have even hoard thobarkof tree—actual-ly
soeu the tree bark, seen it holler and
commence to leavo. The tree le I I on j - ,
to its trunk, which they wer- trying to .L, ^ m , ,
■eizeit for board.' ( fir() ,,e , ,
pen .ry, and das *e 11
purchase of rare books,
i road ■.',■■
A Drunken Wager Ends iu Death.
Ciehia Lenaborg, of Le Boer e >onty,
UM unesota, wsuh..llot oona a drunken spree n^ ^
ULtlertooa to swallow tbo gluvi coutstiacil I
in a whisky flask. The glao, was p..l- ! 1-r years Hr. i
A littlo girl who had !>een on a rai!-
r *ad train whon an accident occurred was
told by her mother that she ought to
thank God for her escape from injnry
when she made her evening prayer. She
did it in this way: "Thank you Ood, for
not letting me be hurt to-day; but the
next time I go to the city 111 go in a
wagon.'
have noticed what was going on, after ! more than ^? ' felltury ,rom th"' "T i An absent-minded man in Monroe, Ct,
that To be sure I did see" that Mr. 120'C0° barrel8 °' "Ce Were eiP°rted m
; went to chnrch with his overcoat, as he
Washbnrn talked to Nell considerable, | on6 **■■ f™m 8onthS/ro,ina' anJ 18-; < supposed, on his arm; but the laughing
and I saw her reading books which I °°° ,rom Ga?'**~. 5"*™! remnant of the people in church directed his st-knew
he had lent her. And if I hadn't;
000 from Georgia—all from the remnant
of a sea stock left in the bottom of a
which mado her as been half dead with the headache, that 8ack'
•liy was long. She always ! last week, I should have suspected
ut for grass snd flowers and | something from the way Nell looked.
Dry buckwheat draws grease out of
any woolen stuff.
■ with a gilt cap upon tho other end,
which prevents it from slipping from
pesition. This cord is wound in and out
: of the little hooks, which look like a
double row of very pretty littio buttons,
I and closos tho aperture perfectly. It is
j done iu a moment, without trouble or
strain, and the sense of security is de-lightful.
The gloves, as introduced by
i the manufacturers, are very fine and
soft, and so perfectly fitting that the
hand seems to melt in them. They are
really s great boon, and as the cost is
about the same as other first-class
; gloves, there is no reason why ladies
should not reliovo themselves of one of
canto into bearing he noticed that one
limb on c.ne tree bore a fruit different
from the Hale peach, and also from any
other variety he had ever seen. Tho
perches on this H.^b were larger, of eiif-ferent
color, of bttter flavor, and ripen-to
feel the effects of the unnatural foo I
and to writhe an 1 scream in agony as the
glass cut into 1js vitals. II.s sulTcring-coutinued
ur.t.1 the close of .he third
day, when death teiieveJ him. Medical "" r/7DJ''
aid wa.s called in, but for the conre-oniveraally
regarded a I
try on the :
•••■■: n.;
place 1\... a -
weaith. Her | I
ed twelve days earlier tUn any other quenees of such a foolhardy trick there
tention to the fat t that he had taken his
everyday pantaloons, and that tbe BUS- ' their minor miseries, iu theshapo of the
penders attached to them were dangling old-fashioned, many-buttoned, ill-sewed,
ale ut his legs. I at once.
fruit in tbe orchard. For three succes-sive
years this limb has borne this same
earlv peach, ripening aomettmea four-teen
days ahead of Ilale's 1*. trly, and it
promises to do the same this year. Mr.
Clark has Ui lded a number of trees
from this limb, and awaits with much
curiosity to see whether or not these
trees will bear the same fruit tho limb
bears. If they do, Mr. Clark has a very
vain able variety of pea-li.
could be no relief. A post-morte-n ei
amination was had, and tho man's stocn-
KC'J and intestines were found to be lit-erally
ground to shreds. 11 s death left
a wife and nine children iu a destitute
condition.
and
' II r public p
highways, at •1,1" -
. * i.,:--.. .iti oo,
.'. dr. Collins of I
i infusion ol so
mo*-, is a ape line lor I .-
suake*, and to demon1 tral
allowed himself to be stl
Judge Brown, of the common pleas in th'poscce oi tw i
court of Baltimore, decides that drunk- »heu ho immedl a. 1
ennessis not an offense against tho laws ; the mixtnrc and ■ pj ill
of that city and State, and that it must
be codpled with disorderly conduct or
A dainty new salt-cellar represents a infringement of some of the statutes
water lily poised on a leaf. j before the police can take cognizance.
Iu a short time all -
had damppeared. T u
inciiijed to bite a dogwh
agony in less thau two h