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1 \ ' liL'i""".'""; . Oldest Newsoaoer in the Wvomiog Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1890. A Weekly Local and Family lournal. (EE IN THE FAB NORTH I cunt) uagitats, one wouia naturally uongratnlate the American people on the Chance may Boon have to hear a person who is qnite prepossessing, having Veins also with dark bine imported blood into them. Mrs. Bowles has a great field before her. She can lecture for some of the young local societies who have been so bitterly disappointed in Holmes, Beecher and Ingersoll. Taking her sweet, flute like voice in a shawl strap, she can go from point to point, emitting her lecture on "Society and Common Sense" to a lost and undone world. „ SMITH'S SURRENDER. wnlctris tno oasis of so large a number or figures of speech as water. A poor argument "won't bold water;" a babbler is a "leaky vessel"fishing in troubled waters" is another name for getting into difficulty; "still wat& runs deep" is a hint that you/ quiet and d&nure person has more in him than the world supposes; strong dislikes art compared to his satanic majesty's antipathy to "holy water;" if a man is in a bad predicamtut he is in "hot water;" disappointment is "a wet blanket;" when a lover gets "the mitten" "cold water is thrown on his hopes;" th« hungry man's "mouth waters;" the strengthless are "weak as water;" sometimes it "rains" blessings; when an orator begins to be tedious we say he has "run dry;" new* Is always "afloat;" speculators are often "swamped;" many people find it impossible to "keep their heads above water," and very often, in the absence of data for conjecture; w» are "all at sea."—New York Ledger. A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD. However n is not an unusual thing t» he»r of the m image a lady who has pasted the ibret-quarter coutury mark Yet, how cap a motnar, weak, dispirited, enervated and torm-med by t iseasfs c Dmnr.o-i to her sax. hope to become a happy wife and tnothfr? Of course she cannot, yet by the magic aid of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Piescrip ijo, all tbwe ob»tacl -s are swept away As a powerful, ii vigt r ting tonic, Dr. Pi reo's Favorite Prescription impD.rts »tien*th to the while system, and to the womb and its »p.DendHgpp, in p&it'cular. FDr overworked, "worn-nut'' "rue-down," debilitated t acbers, m 1 iuers. dressrrakers, sesmetresses, "nbop-jiirl-'," house keepers, Duraing mother', and feeble women genera'ly, it W the greatett earthly booD, being uuequaled as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. A JAPANESE NOVELIST. health ia a most marvelous way. It allays irritation and eubdues the worst lingering coughs. Guaranteed to benefit or cure in all ciaes of diseaces (or which it h recommended, or money paid (or it returned. NOT IN* HIS THOUGHTS. HUtory and Wonderful Wealth of a Mine In Ceutral Queensland. Bis Workshop and the Tool* with Wlilch Be Paints HI* Stories. There Ia No Time While In Battle to Think of Outside Matters. An ex-captain of volunteers was entertaining a few friends in an office on Larned street with some of his army adventures when a new arrival listened for a moment and then interrupted him with: "Excuse me, captain, but how ia it when a man is in battle?" "How do you mean?" "Does he have time to think of outside matters?' HE PUGET SOUND COUNTRY JUST LAST FIGHT OF THE WAR, TWENTY- Such is tho title which has been justly given to tho great Mount Morgan gold mino, situated in Central Queensland, which is pay-1 Ing at the rate of over a million a year in dividends. The history of the mine, which has only been fully developed during the last year, is a curious one. The original selector of the freehold portion of this wonderfully i nch property, consisting of 640 acres, was l one Donald Gordon, who paid flve shillings an acre for it, and utilized it as giazing land 'or his cattle. It is particularly haftl to believe in a Japanese literature. One can accept the letter characters over the tiny shops as being in some fashion significant, but to understand the portrayal of virtue and vice, of mighty deeds and sublime scenes, of joy and despair, by a set of crossbones playing cricket is beyond the Occidental intelligence. And the idea of these solemn lines taking it upon themselves to convey modern fiction to this quaint little public in flapping cimono and clattering geta, that warms itself over a hibachi, and sits all day on the floor of its curious domiciles, and goes bareheaded about its business in the streets, is more exceedingly queer. ABOUT SUITS HIM FIVE YEARS AGO. MIXED LINEN. iplntioni of Alffcrlta Bowie*—Some Advice to Theatrical Amateurs—Scenery At Palmetto Ranch, Texas—Colored Troop* The Unhappiness That Desalted from ■ of the Sixty-second United State* In fan t- "No good luck stirring but lights on my shoulders," said Horace McVicker the other day. "Frank Goodwin, manager of Clara Morris, is an old friend of mine, so when he came to town for a two weeks' stay I asked him to come down and stop at my house. He did, and the second day he was there dug out about $4 worth of laundry work, which had been accumulating as he traveled, and asked ray wife if he could have it done in the neighborhood. She—building more wisely than she knew—told him she would send it to the laundry with my own bundle, and did it. The result was that eight shirts and a lot of underwear and handkerchiefs, and collars and cuffs, and «ocks and night robes came back with my full name on them in indelible ink. My wife sorted Goodwin's clothes out and put them aside for him and then told me of the error of the laundry folks in putting my name on Goodwin's togs. Laundry Custom. in a Famous Tunnel on the Northern Paolfic Railway—A Night of Suffering. ry Fired the Last Shot—Klrby Smith Fight* Alone Beyond the Ml**l**lppl. -{Copyright, 1800, by E. W. Nye.] On the Northern Pacific. The star of empire never did a better Idng than to take its way westward, id especially over this road, as it has xlged the blockade most effectually id is really the whitest route to the Dast Having paid full rates, I feel perctly free to say this. On the 13th of May, 1805, twenty-five fears ago, the last gun of the civil war was Sred. The first gun was fired at Sumter, on the Atlantic coast, the last one near the Boca Chieo strait, in the southwest corner of Texas. I would be glad to subscribe for a box, poor as 1 am. If I could Cause 4 notes above Second C with Ease and Equality, where only one had grown before, I would not remain longer in obscurity. I would 6oar above mediocrity and do much good. She says it is by no means a Dry or Prosy lecture, but conveys many grand ideas to the lofty minds. She might have trouble, however, in getting enough lofty minds at some points to pay her bills. Lofty minds do not always attend a lecture of this kind, but frequently stay at home evenings and read the county paper. If we could only make an appeal to the Lofty Mind that would jerk it from its lair on nights when lectures all lit up with Fire and Pathos are to be heard, it would be a good thing for all. A correspondent of Tho Sydney Morning Herald, who visited the mine some lime agot told the readers ot that journal how, returning from tho mountain, he stopped at a wayside inn, where "a tall, weather beaten, grizzled looking man" took his horse to a wen to drink. "Well, hardly." "Just has his mind occupied by what is going on around him?" "Yes." There were four Confederate armies In the field at the beginning of April, 1865, besides detached commands under Gens. Sam Jones and M. Jeff Thompson. The four were those of Lee, Johnston, Taylor and Kirby Smith. April 9 Lee surrendered to Grant, April 26 Johnston surrendered to Sherman, in North Carolina, all the forces east of the Chattahoochee; May 4, at Citronelle, Ala., Gen. Richard Tuylor surrendered to Canby all the remaining forces east of the Mississippi. The Confederate command of Sam Jones still held together for a time after Johnston's army had laid down their arms. But Jones, too, surrendered to a detachment of Wilson's cavalry at Tallahassee, Fla., on the 10th of May. Gen. Sam Jones died in 1887. At the time of his death he was a clerk in the war department at Washington. HARD TIMES IN THE CONFEDERACY. I know they do though, not because they have conveyed any to me, but because I have a Japanese friend who is a novelist, and tonight I sat and watched him decorating the fortunes of his heroine for a long time. Hi« workshop has no Grub street suggestions in it. Shall I describe it to you? It is a little room, a very little room. "Six mats" is its Japanese measurement, and a mat is about six feet by four. It is full of the soft, dull light that pulses from a square white paper lantern; the low, bright wooden esiling gives back a pale brown gleam hert and there. There is a silvery glint in the frail paneled walls, which I have learned not to lean against; and in a warm, gray shadowed recess a gold Buddha crosses his feet and stretches forth his palms, smiling gently upon the lotus which he holds. In another recess stand the curious vessels of iron and clay and bamboo for the tea ceremony. My novelist has often told me the story of the tea ceremony—bow it was invented 300 years ago by a wise man, whose name I could not possibly spell, who thought that the Japanese were declining into luxury, to gratify the soul more and the senso less. "Was that the way with you?" Striking Picture of the Exhausted Condl- "Yes, I suppose so." In the past three months I have pretty ell done the boom towns. It is a good ibject to study. For several years most 1 kinds of stocks, especially horned neks, have failed to declare dividends, ■ailroads especially, owing to close com- THE PETERSBURG SORTIE "This was the original holder of the freehold, who parted with it to the Morgans. He said he had always believed the mountains to be of ironstone, and never knew of the fortune that was so long within bis grasp. In olden days he used to sell the pumicestone looking quartz in Rockhampton, to clean the hearths and doorsteps of the houses." tion of the Troop*. "For instance, while you were fighting at Gettysburg you didn't let your mind wander back to me, did you?" "No, sir!" Ctii. Gordon's Account Showing the Brav- In his book, "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government," Mr. Davis makes the statement that owing to a surplus of cash unused from previous appropriations and on hand in tho fall of 1864, no appropriations were deemed necessary to carry the treasury over until the spriug of 1865. The matter of lack of supplies was investigated during tho winter, and in a secret session of congress at Richmond the following exhibit was made of the coudition of Lee's subsistence department: "That there is not meat enough in the Southern Confederacy for the armies in the field. That there is not in Virginia meat and bread enough for the armies within her limits. That the supply of bread for those armies to be obtained from other places depends absolutely upon keeping open the railroad connections of the south. ery of Desperate Men. Tho confidence of the besieging army at Petersburg in 1865 was not due to lack of vigilance nor to uusoldierly apathy. The Union troops occupied more than three-quarters of a circle around Petersburg, the intrenchments being about sixteen miles in length, compelling Lee to spread his men over the ground in a very weak line. It is true that the gap still held by the Confederates gave them avenues of communication with their capital at Richmond and with their depots of supplies at Danville, Lynchburg, and points in North Carolina; but as the season for the spring campaign was at hand it was known that Union armies in the rear and on the flanks of Lee would soon close these avenues, and then the chief forces of the Confederacy would be surrounded. There had not been a sortie during the siege of Petersburg. The Union lines had closed In upon the enemy's works with steady progress and the "last ditch" seemed to have been reached and the baffled Confederate army settled in it to dio ingloriously. "Exactly—all right—I didn't anppoae you did. You went away owing me $10; you know, and I didn't know lDut it bothered you. All right—all right—it's outlawed now and I shan't ask for it. Go on, captain, and tell 'em how you won glory and renown and didn't think of me."—Detroit Free Press. If Gordon sold the freehold to tho Messrs. Morgan for £640, or £1 an acre. They discovered gold in 1883, and in that year formed a partnership, in which they held half the mine, while Messrs. T. 8. Hall, W. Hall, W. H. D'Arcy and W. Pattison, who are now four of the principal proprietors, held the second half. The Messrs. Morgan subsequently disposed of their share to these gentlemen for £93,000; and in 1886 the present company was formed with a capital of £1,- 000,000 in 1,000,000 shares of £1 each, of which 7s. 6cL per share is paid up. "This gave me an idea, and the next day when Goodwin and I were standing in a crowd of fellows at the theatre I saw a handkerchief sticking out of his side pocket and said: The Coant and the Collector. Collector—I have called to present vour bill. In fancy I can now see Mrs. Bowles dressing in the baggage car, as the train is late, and as she arranges her toilet behind the peanutter's Wti trunk, softly saying over her crisp little piece lit up with lire and pathos. Later on I see her trying to find the stage entrance to the rink. It is locked. It always is locked. After twenty-seven Scene Shifters and Narcotic Supes have gained entrance they carefully lock the door, and while quenching the fire with their salivary surplus they read "Punko Pete, the Dire Disemboweler of Dead Man's Gulch." Little now remained of the Confederate armies anywhere, nothing at ali east of the Mississippi. JefT Thompson's independent command surrendered to Gen. Dodge's force May 11 at Chalk BlufT, Ark. There was left only the Confederate army of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in Count—Bill? Vhat eez zat? * Collector—Your account. Count—Oui, monsieur; I am von count, as you zay. " 'That looks like one of my wife's, Frank!' 'That the moat must be obtained from abroad through a seaport That the transportation is not now adequate, from whatever cause, to meet the necessary demands of the service. Leaving Rockhnmptou soon after 0 o'clock iu the morning, the traveler is deposited at a roadside station at about 7, and a rough breakfast is to be obtained at a country inn from which the coach starts for Mount Morgan. Wo were about to enter the principal room in which breakfast was laid out, when one of the assayers, who was employed at the mine, informed us in an awe struck voice that "the directors" were there; ami as the directors of the Mount Morgan in.ne were evidently too great to bo contaminated by the presence of ordinary mortals, we betook' ourselves to a humbler apartment, where we enjoyed a poorer but cheaper fare. We then started in a light four-horse coach, holding tight people besides the driver, in which we were jolted along the roughest of roads through "paddocks of over I',000 acres, with parrots and cockatoos shrieking among th« branches of the gum trees overhead." "Then I pulled it out and looked it over and showed him my name on it. I didn't reproach him. I just gave him a significant look and tucked the handkerchief in my pocket while everybody gave poor Goodwin the laugh. He blushed and told me afterward that he didn't think it was treating him right to give him that sort of a deal before folks. Collector—Yes, I know; but I want you to pay; pony up—see? Count—Pay? Pony up? Collector—Yes, your account, you know. Lou isiana and Texas. Smith, in Often have I seen bim conduct this grave function, I tasting first, as a foreign guest, the bittei ness of that powdered politeness that went from lip to lip and last to his. The (pecial bowl of the tea ceremony, fashioned by the hand of the wise man himself gone back to clay so long ago, is more precioua than rubies. It is of the coarsest mold, and there are even stones in it, but one can see quite plainly about it the finger marks of the maker, with their delicate curved line of wrinkled skin, and the impress of his thought in also there. And on one side, where the clay is broken away, the place is made whola again with pure gold. 1875, became pro- "That the supply of meat to Lee's army is precarious, anil if the army fall back from Richmond and Petersburg there is every probability that it will cease altogether." The hard times in the Confederacy were known to every Union soldier who came iu contact with the enemy on the Petersburg lines. There was regular communication between the oppnc*pickets, a.id there was an epidemic of c.eaertious from the Confederate ranks, which alone would have encouraged the Union troops to believe that the bottom was dropping out of the Confederacy. The stories which these men told of the state of affairs in Dixie more than confirmed the suspicions that were awakened by their action in deserting their colors. Their stories briefly were that the whole population of the south had given up all hope of success and wanted the end to come soon; that ouly the leaders who feared for their beads w£re holding out; that the friends of the soldiers in the field encouraged them to desert, and that all of them would desert as soon as opportunity offered, except property owners; that the property of deserters was confiscated and their families turned adrift; that men who remained in the ranks would not fight any more, and that all of the Bring, or nearly all, on the picket line was done under the orders and direction of the officers, and they in some cases handled the guns themselves; that many soldiers when compelled to shoot were careful not to hit the target They laid great stress upon the fact that the southerners would not fight again. Circumstances might compel them to remain in the ranks, but nothing could induce them to do battle with their old time ardor. The condition of the men who came into the Union camps as deserters attested the truth of all that was told over the lines of the forlorn aspect of things in Lee's camps. A deserter's first act on finding himself in the hands of the enemy was to appeal for food. Occasionally they were too modest to throw themselves boldly upon the mercy of an antagonist, but their famished faces, and their hungry eyes, wandering wistfully to the camp chests and sometimes resting upon a refuse bone, led their captors to offer food the moment they had secured their prisoners. Of ton these mon were barefoot and some of them had worn their trouser.i legs off half way up to the knees. Such absolute distress among so large a number of men is seldom witnessed. And this was not oonflned to the men who came in as deserters. Every night Confederates came to the Union camps, wading through swamps and risking their lives where the pickets' bullets flew, in order to get bread and meat which their generous foemen kindly gave out of an abundance.— George L Kilmer. fessor of mathe- matics in the Uni- Although it was believed at Union headquarters that Lee would make an effort to join his forces with Glen. Joseph E. Johnston's at some point ' south of Petersburg, the probability of his doing so by breaking Grant's hold on the Petersburg lines seems not to have been taken into account. Sheridan, who was marching from the Shenandoah Valley to Petersburg, was close to the Appomattox onlhe 84th of March, and Glen. Grant issued an order for a movement by the left flank around Lee's right, with a view to placing a barrier between him and Johnston. The campaign was to begin on the 29th. Sheridan's cavalry column was to letyd, and the Second, Fifth and Sixth corps, already on the left, would follow. On the night of the 31th Gen. Meads, commanding the Army of the Potomac under Grant, was at the headquarters of the latter at City Point, where also President Lincoln was staying on a visit with the purpose of reviewing the army. At headquarters, everywhere, preparations were going on for the movement of the 29th, and the troops, excepting the pickets and trench guards, were resting quietly in their camps. A couple of hours before daylight Gen. Parke was aroused by the noise of a battle on his front, and after learning from couriers that the enemy had broken through he telegraphed to Gen. Meade, at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, the facts. He received the reply that Meade was at City Point, and that he (Parke), being senior, was in command of the army. On attempting to telegraph to City Point he found that the lines had been cut by the enemy and communication was broken. Gordon's blow had been delivered with surprising swiftness and success in the midst of a heavy morning fog that aided his men in the initial stroke. Count—Oui, monsieur; I am von count, as you say. v e r s i t y of the South at Sewonee, Collector—Well, here's your bilL Count—Bill? Vhat eez zat? Collector—Your account. Hunting through the alley for the door, she steps in a mortar bed with her dress suit. I then hear her make a few selections, causing 4 notes above second C on third floor. When she goes in at last I hear her heart fall as she sees a few beetling browed men with their hats on, who have come because they owned a vacant saloon in which lithographs had been inserted in exchange for tickets. Tenn. Smith was a dauntless soldier. "Next day he was on the stage during a rehearsal, and I put Miss Morris up to ask him for his handkerchief, which she did in an off hand way during some stage business. Frank promptly complied, and Miss Morris looked at the handkerchief a moment afterward and said: "I STOPPED THERE ONCE." Count—Oui, monsieur; I am von •etition and the great monumental folly nown as the interstate commerce law. A native of St. When the account was sued for the count had a counter claim against the collector for assault and battery.—New York World. legislative joke with whiskers on it* a ' Dcal gag to get votes and break up busiess, have made dividends small. What re are pleased to call politics in America i really the funniest and still the most erious thing in the history of the repubic. How best to be re-elected is the Teat qneetion of legislation, not how •est to deserve it. The country and the tate may go to grass, but the fall eleciona must be looked out for. Augustine, Fla., he nos graduated at (Vest Point in 1845, KIRBY SMITH. Mid served gallantly in the Mexican war. Next we find him fighting Indians on the frontier and receiving the thanks of the Texas legislature for his services. At the outbreak of the civil war he was a major In the regular army, but resigned his commission to go with his state when Florida seceded from the Union. He was speedily promoted to lieutenant general in the Confederate service. There was nothing in the room an hour ago except my novelist and bis table and his tools and me. He sat on the floor in a flowing garment of brown silk lined with blue, his legs disposed comfortably under him. I rat there, too, with mine contorted under roe. It takes time to adapt one's muscles to the Japanese point of view. It is a laoquered table about a foot high—such a won derful table! For it has stood before the altars of dusky Buddhist temples, and upborne the curling incense of many generations—gen- " 'This seems to be yours, Mr. Mc- Dislnherited. Vicker.' took it, located my name in the corner, walked over to Goodwin and showed it to him, and stuck it in my pocket, and walked away without a word, but with expressive looks and 'business' of pained disgust. Then the company laughed at Goodwin, and he fled. Lawyer—You are one of the heirs contesting this will? Again I see her tossing on a hot pillow, afraid to see the morning and the papers. Finally she nerves herself and buys them. A sob arises in the throat of Mrs. Bowles as she discovers that only one of the papers speaks of her lecture, and that one says: After a drive of between two and three hours through the bush, including the tremendously steep ascent of a hill known as the Razorback, up which every particle of machinery for Mount Morgan had to be brought, we reached the newly formed mining township. Scattered about among the trees were tents of various descriptions, bark huts, huts of corrugated iron, and wooden houses. In a central position were two hotels, some stores or general shops, a church in process of con(truction, a school, and an Odd Fellows' hall. There are already about 5,000 inhabitants, and the object which has attracted them all is a conical shaped hill about 500 feet in height above the water level, and with notb ing, so far as outward appearances are concerned, to distinguish it from numerous other well wooded hills which surround it. Witness—1 am. Lawyer—Oae of the provisions of the will says that any heir who contests it shall receive uothing. I started out to say, however, that the tew northwest, and especially the Puget ound country, is the great country, lalf a dozen cities are growing up like tsparagus in the moist London air of the ound. The prosperity of one does not inrt the prosperity of another. The more msmeas there is for the sound the better it s for all. Nearly all the transcontinental oads are already there. Five railways it least are represented, and Asiatic trade *ill soon torn that way. The Northern Pacific, with its Wisconsin Central, nakee a direct connection with Chicago, ind so successfully competes with any Smith led the advance of Bragg's army in the campaign in Kentucky in 1862 and approached within a few miles of Cincinnati. In 1863 he was placed over the Confederate department of the trans-Mississippi. He speedily made Galveston a famous blockade running port, and thereby communicated with Richmond and sent great quantities of cotton abroad. In 1864 he successfully opposed the expedition of Banks up Red river. Witness—Yes; but we have one gate left open bj which to enter into the property. "Mrs. Bowles, the misguided lecturer on 'Society and Common Sense,' appeared in her other drees last evening before Eli Pangborn and Seth Bloom inthai for an hour with a composition which would scare a horse to death. Mrs. Bowles has a good lithograph, and when yon say that, yon have said it. "That same evening I was with Goodwin and another friend in a candy store, and as Goodwin took out his handkerchief to wipe his lips after a drink of eoda water I gave my friend the cue, and he caught Goodwin's hand and the handkerchief and said: erations that lived and prayed and clattered away into an obscurity deeper than that of the temple, though the great bronze feet of Buddha behind the altar stirred never a hair's breadth from that place to keep them company. The lacquer is sc honest and so old that it has turned a mysterious greenish brown, and over this runs a sparing deeign of wild roses in deep cut gold, turning down the claw feet of some imaginative monster which support the massive slab. Lawyer—Humph! What gate is that? Witness—The surrogate. Lawyer—The witness is disinherited. —Chatter. You are joking. Kir by Smith remained in command of the trans-Mississippi department till the close of the war. Even after the surrender of Lee he proposed to continue the war west of the Mississippi on his own account. He roused Texas by his appeals. He had with him still 20,000 men. To these be issued a general order from Shreveport, saying that the hopes of the Confederacy now hung upon them. He declared that success was sure to crown their efforts finally. "You possess the means of long resistance, you have hopes of succor from abroad. Protract the struggle and you will surely receive the aid of nations who already deeply sympathize with you." 14 'Hello! Are you living with Horace?Then and Now. 1Ci'1 "P. S.—She can get extra copies of this issue of the paper for advertising purposes at five cents each. We do not know whose lithograph she is using." "Goodwin said he was, and wanted to kDow why. At tho foot of the mountain is one set of works, which are duplicated about half way up it Some 200 feet from the top a tunnel runs in for about 700 feet, when it is met by a shaft, down which the stone is sent It is then brought through the tunnel in small trucks and shot down a slide to the upper works, while a cable tramway supplies the lower works. At the top of the mountain is a regular quarry, where some five dozen men are occupied in blasting and quarrying the stone. Fifty-two feet have already been cut away, and they arc now working at a second bench. My friend's writing materials are as idyllic as his surroundings—his paper is delicately tinted yellow, with blue lines running up and down. His inkstand is a carved ebony slab, with one end hollowed out for water to rub his cube of India ink in, tend holds the four or five daintily decorated bamboo branches which ore his pens. Naturally, he does not write his novel, he paints it Beginning at the end of the whole, %t the left of every page and at the top of every line, straight down between tho two blue parallels his small brown hand goes, with quick, delicate dark touches from which are springing the woes of O-Mltsu-san, or Miss Honey Sweet, and the heroism of Matsuo-san, or the Strong Pine Tree.—Cor. London Athenaeum. " 'I see his name on your Anon I see her also walking down the street enjoying her bright new lithograph, which carries a "end" of tobacco in each eye, or wears bright red whiskers and a purple noee. Mrs. Bowles has a bright and beautiful experience ahead of her if she only knew it. Lofty Minds ire not thirsting for scathing lectures on —that's all,' he said, and laughed. "At this I grabbed the handkerchief, looked it over, located my name, pointed it out to Goodwin, and jammed it in my pocket. Then I fell to wagging my head ominously and pulling at my mustache agitatedly. m either road is poor enough, I think ind the corporation that banks on it news is doing a poor business. A tun lei especially is a disappointment. Yot alk about the tunnel for days before yoi jet there, and when you arrive how soC yon are. The kerosene lamps smoke al the way through, and the young ladj who sat near you before you got to the tunnel goes over and sits in another seat. [ think the tunnel is very much overestimated; also open to criticism at both ;nds. ital road. The scenery "Of course," says Gen. Gordon, "It was a most desperate and almost hopeless undertaking, and could be justified only by our desperate and hopeless condition if we remained idle. We all recognized it as the forlornest of forlorn hopes. Let me particularize a little more. The obstructions in front of my own lines had to be removed, and removed silently, so as not to attract the attention of the Federal pickets. Grant's obstructions had to be removed from the front of Fort Stedman. These [cheveaux de frise] were of sharpened rails elevated to about breast high, the other end buried deeply in the ground, the rails resting on a horizontal pole and wrapped with telegraph wire. They could not be mounted nor pushed aside, but had to be cut away with axes. This had to be done immediately in front of the guns of Fort Stedman. These guns at night were doubly charged with canister, as I learned from Federal prisoners. The rush across the intervening space between the lines had to be made so silently and so swiftly as to take the forts before the gunners c. uld fire. The reserves had to be beaten or passed, and the rear line of forts taken before daylight. All this had to be accomplished before my main forces could be moved across and placed in position to move on Grant's flank, or rather left wing."—George L. Kilmer. " 'Upon my word,' said Goodwin, who was greatly embarrassed, 'I didn't know anything about it. Really, I had no intention" society. Lofty Minds might like tc you, Alfarita, if yon have killed sev» Thereupon mass meetings of Texatis passed resolutions to fight on. Information was received at Washington that Texas was going to continue the war even after the Confederacy had surrendered. Gen. Sheridan was at once sent to New Orleans with a large force to vanquish Texas. see ral iOUl. Private Hunks—By thunder! that's a The preponderating stone is a kind of black ironstone, with no appearance of gold whatever, yet it yields as much as five or six ounues to the ton. Some of the stone is reddish, and looks as if it might contain copper, while here and there is a bank of yellowish sand which yields eleven ounces to the ton. Formerly the ore was treated by the ordinary battery and quicksilver amalgamation process, but the gold is so finely distributed through the stone that most of it was lost, and the tailings are being treated with very satisfactory results by the chlortnation process, which is now in use at the mine. Under this process the ore is first crushed by powerful machinery and reduced to fine sand. It is then roasted in furnaces, and when cooled is placed in the c hi or i nation barrels and subjected to the action of chlorine gas, which dis9o) res the gold, and it flows out in a fluid, the r Dlor of sherry, into large vats. " 'I don't want to talk about it,' said I, hotly. 'Only when we get home I want to look over your linen. I don't mind accommodating a friend, but I do object shame, an' hog's got away, too. 1890. "===&* Private Hunks—Yes, boys; those were great days. That ragged break In the old musket shows the power my muscle* had in the Army of the Potomac. I did that braining a colonel over the breastworks of Petersburg.—Judge. The One Break in Hit Record. There were, however, some Union troops already in Texas, and there was fighting before Sheridan reached New Orleans. CoL Theodore H. Barrett was in command of * small force at Brazos Santiago, on Brazos Island, in the golf, twenty-two miles northeast of Brownsville. In Barrett's command was the Sixty-second United States colored infantry his own regiment I learned with great sorrow this spring that the hotel at Wallula had been horned. I stopped there once and suffered all of one night. I remember especially the other occupants of the room. They had not registered, but they were there. They were not transients and they did not have to register. A friend of mine who was a good man also ■topped there. He could not sleep, so he put in the night killing insects. In the morning the chambermaid found on the wall, pinned up like a motto, these words constructed of deceased bed bugs: Armenian Colonists in Persia. to being worked.' The deputation of Armenians which visited the shah to ascertain if an emigration of members of that race would be acceptable to Persia have reported favorably to their oppressed brethren at home, but these latter will meet with almost insurmountable difficulties in escaping the grasp of their Turkish masters. ' The Ottoman officials have been accustomed for so many years to consider it as a duty as well as a privilege to rob them that they regard with consternation the prospect of losing what they deem their legitimate prey. Every olDstacle will be thrown in the path of the emigrants, and they will need all their traditional cunning to transport much property with them. Obstinately Christian as they have remained through centuries of persecution, they do not] care to take refuge among those of their own faith in other lands, partly for climatic reasons, but principally because among the ignorant and sluggish Mussulmans they have had more favorable opportunities of gratifying their ruling passion—money making—for the sake of indulging which they will run nearly every risk and submit to every humSSSon.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "One or two friends had dropped in meanwhile, and they joined in the general grin at Goodwin. "That night when we reached home I pretended to have forgotten all about it, but Goodwin hadn't, and, going to his room, he dragged out his laundered clothes and looked them over. Then he bounced into the sitting room where I sat and said: May 11. 1865, Barrett sent a detachment to the mainland to capture horses for hit car* airy. On the morning of May 12 these attacked the Confederate camp at Palmetto Ranch and captured it Then they fell back towards Brazos. On the morning of May IS CoL Barrett re-enforced the party with 200 men and himself took command. The Confederates bad again appeared in the vicinity of Palmetto Ranch. Barrett advanced against them on the 13th, skirmished with them and pursued them several miles. Then he stopped to rest his horses a mile from the ranch. Here he was unexpectedly attacked the same day, May 13, by a large Confederate force with cavalry and artillery under Gen. J E. Slaughter. Anna Dickinson's Bravery. It was in one of the coal mining towns, aud a crowd of rude, turbulent men had gathered to prevent Miss Dickinson from speaking. At she stepped upon the platform she was greeted with hisses and screams, and as she advanced to the front the tumult increased. She did not shrink nor show one sign of fear; her eyes burned with a new light and her face paled a little, not from fear, but from excitement. With an undaunted air she stood there, with her head thrown back, her eyes blazing, one arm behind her, in the attitude all he? admirers knew to be her own characteristic, stood waiting for the tumult to cease. Suddenly one man, more reckless or more inflamed with anger than the rest, drew a pistol front his pocket and fired. The shot cut off a lock of her curly hair, but still she never flinched. The look of contempt deepened on her face, Sid the firm lips closed more tightly. For a moment there was a dead silence, then a voice cried out: " 'Gimme back my handkerchiefs. Every blessed piece of linen I've got has your name on it. The laundry folks did it, and I've been yielding up handkerchiefs to you at every jump. Give up!' THIS INDEED IS HELL. He was a good man} but he was thoroughly sincere. He was what you might call an outspoken man, and said what he thought at all times. He was an eccentric man also. An Englishman once naked him about our constitution. "I am told," said he, Mthat God is not in your constitution." "No," said this plain man, "he is not in it." It was slangy, but expressive. By the way, theatrical managers and lecture bureaus have some queer experiences also. The following is a true copy of a letter sent to a manager this year, the name alone being suppressed: It is then placed in charcoal filters, and the gold adheres to the cklrcoal beds, which are subsequently roasted Ux a reverberatory furnace until nothing is loft but an ash containing 75 per cent of metallic gold. The works, which are lit throughout by the electric light, are kept constantly going night and day. Nine hundred men are employed, and work in three shifts dt eight hours each. The expenditure in wages is £100,000 per annum; 4,000 tons of firewood are burnt per month, and the output of gold is about a ton per month If the works were stopped for a single day it would mean a loss to the shareholders of £4,000. —London Times. "I gave him a gleeful laugh and fled. And now he refuses to eat at the same table with me."—Chicago Mail. ENJOYING HEB LITHOGRAPH, husbands and escaped. If you had done as much in the elevating business as Sitting Bull, you migjit do well, but, having done nothing worse than to assassinate the English language, a good lithograph alone will not crowd your Halls with Lofty Minds. There will be nights when two or three lofty minds will be all you can scare up. After a period of incubation which has been spent in educating public opinion in the matter of the hygienic iniquity of the present system of interment, the group of sanitary philanthropists, with the Duke of Westminster at the head, who have taken up the ungrateful task of bringing the necessary reforms to pass, have at last decided to seek the indorsement of their contentions by the legislature. The object sought is, failing the effective embalming of the body, the prohibition of leaden and other solidly constructed coffins, the effect of which is to indefinitely retard complete decomposition, and so prolong the period during which the dead are not only aesthetically objectionable, but are an indisputable source of danger to the living, wicker work or papier mache receptacles alone being used. This is merely a sanitary precaution of an elementary kind; and whatever the immediate fate of the movement may be, it must sooner or later Impose itself. The idea of cremation is daily being received with more favor in England, and the suggestion of Sir Spencer Wells that in future only properly cremated remains should be admitted to funeral honors in Westminster Abbey and other national mausoleums, has met with general approbation.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Burial Reform in England. Leather. "There's a lot of money in leather." "Is there, now?" "Yes; purses are made of leather, ain't they?" "Oh, I see! It's great as a fertilizer, Mamma—You must put an end to it at once. It was now Barrett's turn to retreat, for he bad no artillery, and the Confederates largely outnumbered him. Concealed by the chaparral, they at one time succeeded in flanking him, capturing forty-eight men. Barrett fell back fighting, as the Confederates had done before him on the forenoon of the same day. The retreat was admirably covered by the colored troops of the Sixty-second United States infantry Penelope—Surely you would not have me decline a man who saved my life! too." "A fertilizer?" "Certainly." Mamma—He may have saved your life, my dear, but from what I know of him it is the only thing he ever did save.—Life. Dr. Edward Walther, of St. Paul, Minn., recently discovered one of the very few silver dollars of the year 1804 in the possession of an old Norwegian living in the southern portion of Minnesota, and purchased the coin of him for (150. About a dozen of these coins are known to be in this country, two of which are in this city, two in New Mexico, two in Boston, one in Baltimore and one in the Davis collection, in New York. One Dollar Worth SI,OOO. Your books also must have been published very surreptitiously indeed, for I have not saw any of them. Possibly you have the same man who imagines that he is publishing a book for me. If so, I beg your pardon. You could commit almost any kind of a crime ana then, if you let him publish it, your secret would be safe. "Why! what can you raise with leather?"The Highest Bidder. As She I* Writ. "Who was the highest bidder on that picture?" said an auctioneer to his facetious son. " March 22 1890 "Major Junius Brutus Pond Union Square New York This running fight lasted three hours, till sunset, then the Confederates ce&aed pursuit The last shot in the war was a volley the colored troops of the Sixty-second discharged at their pursuers. This last fight of the war is known as the battle of Palmetto Ranch. It was fought not far from the old Mexican war battle ground of Palo Alto. In Vienna they know how to write English. The Viennese are going to have an agricultural exhibition, or, as they call it in the English programme which has just been published, a "General Rural and Forest Exposition in the year 1890." The following are some of the exhibits as set forth in the programme: h Produces of agriculture and forest culture, of garden fruitvines, and hopculture, of chose and feshery, also of fowel, oaes and silk breed, &c. 2. Beasts as: breed mart use , and lussury beasts—viz: horses, oxen, sheep, swine, fowl, dogs, game, fishes. The exhibition of hearts, of garden and fruit culture take place in several series, those of the latter being made known more lately. For all sorts of objects of exhibition prices of about v. A. flor. 60,000 mill be given, consisting in medals of honour, distributed honour prices, medals, in money and honorable ocknowledgmonts. For special accomplish- collaborators of the exposers special prices will be given."—St. James's Gazette. "AhI but she's a brave lassie; let's hear what she has to say, boys." "Welts!"—Chicago Ledger. In a second the tide was turned. There was a responsive cheer, that was given with as much heartiness as had characterized the hisses before. Glories of America. "Mr. Blanks." "How much?" "DeahSik—i Wish to inform you thati am a Writer, Lecturer, and Musician i Have wrote A lecture entitled Society and Common Sense it is not wrote mearly to Show of an Elocutionary Power but is ment to Do much good Among People in the High & low class off life claiming more congeniality and Socialism than at present "Great country ours," remarked Cadbury enthusiastically to his foreign visitor. "Look states and cities; look at the size of our railroads and hotels." "Well, I think he's about six feet three."—Washington Poet. She stood conqueror in this curious and dangerous conflict of wills. One who heard her says that she spoke as though she was inspired, and she carried that audience of men with her.—Boston Herald. Charles E. Osborr., of No. 1,421 Fairmount avenue, said yesterday that he attended a sale some few years ago in this city when one of these coins, in good condition, brought $1,002.50, and within a year he had an opportunity of buying one for $1,000. There are numerous bogus coins of this date which are made by skillfully cutting out the figure S in an 1803 dollar and neatly plugging It with a figure 4. Some of these frauds are so neatly executed that it requires the aid of a powerful microscope to detect the deception.—Philadelphia Record. You will find, if you persist in lecturing, that some people will be disappointed in you, but remember even great men have disappointed also. Speaking of Dr. Holmes, one of his audience said there was no use talking, he'd rather read after Holmes than to set under him. "Ya-as," interrupted the importation, finding himself on soliCl ground, "and look at the size of their bills."—Philadelphia Times. J nT'"'"'! INDIAN S Y E,W iE wi E xipo^ BycaCKicIjnBrirog 14. m Sure Death. "Do you hunt, doctor?' "No, I am not an expert in handling the gun." "But you might prescribe for the game."—Puck. , Say Well aud Do Well] A Painful SpeU. "Bringing up the customs of our Forefathers the Example of Noble Statesmen the Wrongs that is Daily inflicted on the Hireling class of labor with much comment on the struggles to Attain Society with many grilling and startling Fact* and laughable Anecdotes It is by nC means a dry or Prosy lecture but conveys many Grand ideas to the lofty minds it is also alike lit up \4|th Fin and Pathos and just Spice Enough too Season It i can see no reason why it Should Fail to please or Draw crowded Houses A short time before Dean Stanley's death he closed an eloquent sermon with a quaint verse, which greatly impressed his congregation. On being asked about it afterward, he said it was doubtful whether the lines were written by one of the earliest Deans of Westminster, or by one of the early Scotch Reformers."Does It hurt, my dear papa, to have a mustache?" Said sweet little Alice one day, As her speller she closed and gazed into my face Having now given a very thorough account of Puget sound, I will close this letter, hoping, however, to Add still more facts at another time. At the Musical*. In a puzzled, inquisitive way. "Why, no," I responded, caressing her hair; "Why utterance to such question maker1' "Weil, you see," she replied, in an innocent "In one way the word spells *mmt-achc.'" —Epoch.' Penelope—Isn't it detestable to hear a man keep time to the music with his feet? I must this afternoon go and pay for a bright new floral autograph album with a music box in the hind part of it, which volume was sent to me for my indorsement, and pending my signature the said album was stolen from my room. It is pretty tough, to say the least. Writing an autograph is a trivial affair, but to become the custodian of a valuable collection and then have to replace it, signatures, music box and all, is not what it is cracked up to be. An interesting experiment in jumping a torpedo over a boom has been carried out in Porchester creek by the officers of the Vernon. The boom, which was twenty feet in length, differed from the usual spars which are used for the defense of harbors against torpedo attacks, in that it was six feet broad and surmounted by a number of spikes, which it was supposed would receive the boat and hold it a prisoner. A first class torpedo boat, which had been strengthened for the purpose, was selected to attack the boom. Having worked her engines up to full speed, she made a dash at the boom at the rate of about twenty knots. At this speed her stem was lifted out of the water almost as high as the boom itself, which sunk on impact, and before it could rise to the surface the momentum of the craft had carried her over. It was subsequently found that neither her cutwater nor propeller had suffered in the least, nor had a single plate been bulged or started. The result of the experiment points to the fact that either the booms must be duplicated or that they must be supplemented with nets, with the object of entangling the screws of the attacking enemy.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Torpedo Maneuver*. Our Moon. Jack—Oh, the music probably appeals to his sole.—Munsey's Weekly. The dean had come upon it by accident, and feeling that it expressed with singular felicity the true Christian proportion between doctrine and character, between good words and good works, he used it to poiut and adorn his sermon. Readers of The Companion may be glad to add it to their collections of good words: A widespread legend of great antiquity Informs us that the moon is inhabited by a man with a bundle of sticks on his back, who hat been exiled thither for many centuries, and is so far off that he is beyond the reach of death. This tradition, which has given rise to so many superstitions, is still preserved, under various forms, in most countries; but it has not been decided who the culprit originally was and how he came to be imprisoned. Dante calls him Cain; Chaucer assigns his exile as a punishment for theft, and gives him a thorn bush to carry, while Shakespeare loads him with thorns, but by way of compensation gives him a dog for a companion.—Chicago Ledger. Mo Fwlglit Bates. Always Going Bound. •. Haven—Gimme a ticket an' a lial will yer? Officer—What is going on round he»«? Small Boy (disappearing)—The earth. •"-Boston Herald. The Summer Novel. Alas! my summer novel—I mourn it with * tD2gh. Tbe day I rashly bought it a friend was starving by. Forthwith the book ha borrowed to be returned that night; and since thai fatal moment it ne'er has blessed my sighfc He lent it to his cousin, and she enjoyed tk, so she lent it to a neighbor, who kept it on the go, and lent it to her uncle,who lent it to his girl, who lent it to her teacher, who with another whirl sent it unto a nephew, who lent it to a friend, who sent it to a room mate, and oh I where will it end I Throughout this maddening business one" hope alone I see—mayhap in all this lending It may be lent it to me.—Bloom ington Eye, THE LAST BATTLE QROUHD. Spring Style* Abroad. He was a Kaffir bold. "I will give you a Brief Sketch of my own Life and hope yon will not considei me Egotistic "I am a young widow A Lady of Cult oxe Education and Refinement ano Wealth i would like to here from you, your "imiimr of Doing bisness, What salary you would pay to such a person and if you pay traveling expenses Hotel bills or Furnish Lithographs or circulars ok Door Tickets also will be pleaseA to hear from you soon on the matter If yon do the Advertising yourself i will give you a History to Copy from. Adress "Mrs. Altarita. Bowles " Alick, Indiana. "P. 8. I can give yon Reference in Regards of Standing if you Wish. But even Kirby Smith had now given up the Confederate cause. His army broke and scattered through Texas and Louisiana, plundering as they went One band forcibly entered the state buildings at Austin and seized the contents of the treasury. On the 26th of May, at a point a few miles west of Shreveport. La., Kirby Smith formally surrendered what was left of his command to Oen. Canby. After that, except scattered depredations by bushwhackers, there was no more fighting. The war was ended at last Say well is good, but do well Is better. Do well seems spirit, say well the letter. Say well is godly, anil helpeth to please; But do well lives i?odly, and gives the world ease. Say well to silence sometimes is bound. But do well is free on every ground. Bay well has friends, some here, some there. But do well is welcome everywhere. By say well to many God's word cleaves, But for lock of do well it often leaves. If say well and do well were bound in one frame, Then all were done, all were won, and gotten were gain. She was a Zulu maid; All his deep love he told As o'er the sand they strayed. Pleasant their lives must be; Theirs was simplicity. This interesting series of articles on Puget sound will be continued next week. There was no guile. Plain in their happiness. Simple their style of drew, Shown in no fashion book; All he wore was a look Brimful of tenderneas— She wore a smite. •j 1 Downing street, London, was named after an American from Salem, liass., a fact that (s not generally known. P. S.—Any one returning a bronze plush autograph album which plays "Little Annie Rooney" to my address will never regret it. The album, besides my name, contains those of Dr. Talmage and Steve Brodie. B. N. Eliza Abchasd Cosher. Rainfalls. —Youth's Companion. Mr. to Painesville, Cheap Canaries May Be Good. It is said that 610 inches of raia fell in oot year at Cherrapongee, tropical Asia. Two hundred add fifty-four inches of rainfall has been recorded in one year at Mahabuleswher, in the western Ghauts of India. At Vera Cruz, Mexico, 378 inches of rain has fallen. In Matoula Gaudeloupe, West Indies, 393 inches hare fallen. At Sou Louis de Maranham, Brazil, 280 inches have been recorded. At Sierra Leone, tropical Africa, 313 inches have been noted. The annual rainfall in the British Islands, among the mountains, is 41 inches; on tho plains, 35 inches; 45 inches of rain falls on tho west side of England, 37 on the east side. Eighty-two inches of rain falls on parts of tbe west side of the Scandinavian mountains, and only 31 inches at Stockholm, on tho east ride. The amount of rainfall at. Boston is 39 inches; Hanover, N. U., 88 inctxCs; New York, 30 inches. A Quick Wltted ltoy. lady tJihsra. Manager—Why have you run our telegraph lines round Philadelphia 0t directly through? Assistant—TVe authorities said it was against the law to run anything through the city.—New York Sun. Nothing Faster Than a Walk. "The demand for canary birds has increased enormously of late," said a well known New York bird fancier. "But the regular dealers do not find much profit in handling the ordinary yellow singere; thej •ell comparatively few of them, and it doe* not pay to keep them long in stock. The street competition is too great. AVe must charge at least $2.50 for any bird that can sing at all, while a canary that at all events looks as though he might warble if he tried, may be purchased at a street corner, from a man who raises his own birds in a tenement house, for about seventy-five oents. "Sometimes a dealer who has too large a stock on hand employs a peddler to offer the poorest of the lot for sale on the sidewalk. Birds bought from such persons aro pretty certain to be dear at any price, but if you are a good judge of a canary a bargain may often be picked up on tho street. Your beet plan, if you are buying from a peddler and are doubtful of your own ability to make r good selection, is to stand before the little wooden cages until you see a bird singing strongly and well. Then ehoose him; but keep your eye cm the dealer, for many of them are as adept as card sharpers at changing a good bird for a bad one during the process of wrapping up the cage."—Hew York Sun. Loss of life was doubtless prevented by the prompt action of a little 9-year-old lad, Norman Smith, at Kingston recently. While playing near the West Shore railway track he discovered a mass of rock which had slid down over the south bound track in Fitch's cut, just after the watchman had passed. Seeing the Hudson River express rounding the curve some distance above, he made frantic efforts to warn the engineer of danger. The train was stopped just in time and was switched on the north track. Other trains were detained for a time. A private car, with P. W. Clement and family on board, was attached to the train. A purse of money was quickly made up for the little fellow. —New York Tribuue. An opportunity for the extension of woman's field of employmont has been suggested in New York, where it is proposed to employ women as ushers in tbe theatres. The plan is favored by many prominent actors, especially those who have seen its operation abroad. In Paris the ouvreuse, or female usher and box opener, is a regular attache of every theatre. Her duties are precisely those of the usual American male usher, though in some cases she may be entrusted with other work about the theatre that is here done by men. If the plan is a success at the theatres of the French capital there is hardly a doubt of its success here. The Paris theatres are the best managed in the world, and the audiences are the most exacting. — New York Letter. Agent (who fails to see the boy)—One ticket '11 carry you, friend. We don't charge by weight.—Judge. Probably Not. "A B 99 x nave given a fictitious name and ad* dress, because it would be hardly fair to boom the lady through these columns without the consent of the editor. Mistress—Mary, why did you not answer the door bell a short time ago? Didn't Expect Callers. Difference Between Uooh and Senate. Impicune—Here is a book published as by "Washington Frothingham and Charlemagne Tower" — Frothingham wrote the book and Tower paid the bills. Poeticus—By Jove! I wonder if Rothschild or Vanderbilt would collaborate with me on a book of poems!—Puck. "Yes, I like it better in the senate than I did in (he house," said Senator Dixon, of Rhode Island, the other day. "Existence is more restful here, as one might say. In the house there is a continual scrimmage, and the individual representative is fairly lost in the crowd. Here it is like a small and Tery select club, where every one knows everybody else, and all are on a footing, the friendliness of which is independent of party differenoes. A member of the house, as a rule, is acquainted with only a few of his colleagues, comparatively speaking."—New York Tribune.The Culture of Foreign Birth. Servant (a recent acquisition)—Faith, mum, my friends do not know I am here, and so I didn't expect anybody.—Boston Budget. Miss Inkwire—And how did you like Paris, Miss Tripper? Miss Tripper—Oh, it was delightful! X met such charming and cultivated people. Why, even children of three years ipeak French.—Judge. She also adds: "I am an American by I Birth with the Blue blood of Irish nobility in my veins and in appearance quite prepossessing My Occupation is A Music teacher of Piano organ and Voice I am blessed with a high soprano Voice causing 4 notes above Second C,with ease and Equality My Voice is full and Rich in volume with a sweet flute Like tone, and will fill any house or hall I have Wrote Several Books both verse and Fj0"? Namely love in a Cottage Oast »drift Starlight Bess on the Waves Vaiting & Return When Carrie Married Jake My friends advised me write to your address * see what inducements you would hold out in regards to my lecture on Society and Common Sensf. * - ■■„ 'i . "A B " Looking over this little wayside tJoletf# sweet fnrfln The Reporter's Metamorphoela. First Week Employed—II Second Week—I and the Editor! Third Week—The Editor and I! Fourth Week—The Editor I—Lawrence American. Uarned It When Too Late. Rev. Dr. Primrose—Honesty is the best policy, my friend. Filial Emulation, hat's so, then \ mrb*. .c me off any marry me? know whether M or not. Be- rs- F&llahan—Now, this, Tarawj. pmD three nun- you wor your fftUMrf hiago Trtixm*. lmtolhte&k K*** «' J Pretty Good Kvldence to tbe Contrary. Convict—I know it Dude (between puffs)—Aw, excuse me, but does my cigarette smoke blow in your face? Dirt, Debt and the Devil. Rev. Dr. Primroee—If how did you get in here? Black ouDx with a doad finish is nsed for mourning. It appears in the double violets, pansies and butfercups that are ao perfectly reproduced Nil enamels. Diamond center* and used in the same manner od the black jewelry as on the colored. New Maaralnft Jewelry. A distingushed divine calls those three D's Dirt, Debt and the Devil, an unmatched trinity of evil. If a man would be happy he must avoid all three, and ai studiously k«ep clear of Disease—another D you peter ire This calls to mind still another D: a "G. II. D in fact, Dr. Pieroe's Golden Medioal Discovery, the unfailing remedy for consumption wh'ch is luDg scrofula, in its early stages, as well as for chronic catarrh in the head, and bronchial, throat and lung affections pe ier Dlly. It is a nutritive, tonic and blood-purifier, and builis up the strength and tieah of thoee who are reduced below the usual standard of Convict—Because I didn till it was too late.—Life. Th* Bona Wae on the Rsomis"I don't care for sausages today." "Why notr "There's a red haired girl in tht room."—Puck. FitalUeu OIotm. Mrs. Hurt Dn, wife of the vice president, who has the credit of being always the most perfectly gloved woman of any assembly, wears the mousquetaire, and says she never wears them above the elbow, as no device can save them from untidiness if they end anywhere on the upper arm. They are supplied to her by a Paris firm, are suede and very light tan in color. Mrs. Morton considers the most glorious toilet ruined if the gloves are not faultless i* tone and fit Irate Individual (decidedly)—I gueas not; you're Btill alive. — Philadelphia Press. Courting In the 8b Alfred—Please don't pu longer, Katie. WiU yoc Katie—Alfred, I b&rdlj I love you well enougL aides An old beggar iti seated in a doorway with a placard hung about his neck inscribed "Blind from birth." Another mendicant passing by reads the inscription and comments thufl; "My eyel didn't he begb the bit TimUlT " From • Professional Standpoint. ISqSsSas..., To lovers, as the hour* steal by How low the gas may ohaaee to be. A Lady's Chance* of Marrying. Every woman has * chacfce of "catching a husband," but it is conceded that young ladies between twenty and twecty-flve years of age are more likely to draw the matrimonial prizes. Alfred (looking at his the last train in is doe in ntes. Yea or Katie-Y*Alfi5dJ-e Water ae a Figure of Speech. Probably there Is nothing under the sua
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Title | Pittston Gazette |
Masthead | Pittston Gazette, Volume 41 Number 27, May 16, 1890 |
Volume | 41 |
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Title | Pittston Gazette |
Masthead | Pittston Gazette, Volume 41 Number 27, May 16, 1890 |
Volume | 41 |
Issue | 27 |
Subject | Pittston Gazette newspaper |
Description | The collection contains the archive of the Pittston Gazette, a northeastern Pennsylvania newspaper published from 1850 through 1965. This archive spans 1850-1907 and is significant to genealogists and historians focused on northeastern Pennsylvania. |
Publisher | Pittston Gazette |
Physical Description | microfilm |
Date | 1890-05-16 |
Location Covered | United States; Pennsylvania; Luzerne County; Pittston |
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Full Text | 1 \ ' liL'i""".'""; . Oldest Newsoaoer in the Wvomiog Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1890. A Weekly Local and Family lournal. (EE IN THE FAB NORTH I cunt) uagitats, one wouia naturally uongratnlate the American people on the Chance may Boon have to hear a person who is qnite prepossessing, having Veins also with dark bine imported blood into them. Mrs. Bowles has a great field before her. She can lecture for some of the young local societies who have been so bitterly disappointed in Holmes, Beecher and Ingersoll. Taking her sweet, flute like voice in a shawl strap, she can go from point to point, emitting her lecture on "Society and Common Sense" to a lost and undone world. „ SMITH'S SURRENDER. wnlctris tno oasis of so large a number or figures of speech as water. A poor argument "won't bold water;" a babbler is a "leaky vessel"fishing in troubled waters" is another name for getting into difficulty; "still wat& runs deep" is a hint that you/ quiet and d&nure person has more in him than the world supposes; strong dislikes art compared to his satanic majesty's antipathy to "holy water;" if a man is in a bad predicamtut he is in "hot water;" disappointment is "a wet blanket;" when a lover gets "the mitten" "cold water is thrown on his hopes;" th« hungry man's "mouth waters;" the strengthless are "weak as water;" sometimes it "rains" blessings; when an orator begins to be tedious we say he has "run dry;" new* Is always "afloat;" speculators are often "swamped;" many people find it impossible to "keep their heads above water," and very often, in the absence of data for conjecture; w» are "all at sea."—New York Ledger. A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD. However n is not an unusual thing t» he»r of the m image a lady who has pasted the ibret-quarter coutury mark Yet, how cap a motnar, weak, dispirited, enervated and torm-med by t iseasfs c Dmnr.o-i to her sax. hope to become a happy wife and tnothfr? Of course she cannot, yet by the magic aid of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Piescrip ijo, all tbwe ob»tacl -s are swept away As a powerful, ii vigt r ting tonic, Dr. Pi reo's Favorite Prescription impD.rts »tien*th to the while system, and to the womb and its »p.DendHgpp, in p&it'cular. FDr overworked, "worn-nut'' "rue-down," debilitated t acbers, m 1 iuers. dressrrakers, sesmetresses, "nbop-jiirl-'," house keepers, Duraing mother', and feeble women genera'ly, it W the greatett earthly booD, being uuequaled as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. A JAPANESE NOVELIST. health ia a most marvelous way. It allays irritation and eubdues the worst lingering coughs. Guaranteed to benefit or cure in all ciaes of diseaces (or which it h recommended, or money paid (or it returned. NOT IN* HIS THOUGHTS. HUtory and Wonderful Wealth of a Mine In Ceutral Queensland. Bis Workshop and the Tool* with Wlilch Be Paints HI* Stories. There Ia No Time While In Battle to Think of Outside Matters. An ex-captain of volunteers was entertaining a few friends in an office on Larned street with some of his army adventures when a new arrival listened for a moment and then interrupted him with: "Excuse me, captain, but how ia it when a man is in battle?" "How do you mean?" "Does he have time to think of outside matters?' HE PUGET SOUND COUNTRY JUST LAST FIGHT OF THE WAR, TWENTY- Such is tho title which has been justly given to tho great Mount Morgan gold mino, situated in Central Queensland, which is pay-1 Ing at the rate of over a million a year in dividends. The history of the mine, which has only been fully developed during the last year, is a curious one. The original selector of the freehold portion of this wonderfully i nch property, consisting of 640 acres, was l one Donald Gordon, who paid flve shillings an acre for it, and utilized it as giazing land 'or his cattle. It is particularly haftl to believe in a Japanese literature. One can accept the letter characters over the tiny shops as being in some fashion significant, but to understand the portrayal of virtue and vice, of mighty deeds and sublime scenes, of joy and despair, by a set of crossbones playing cricket is beyond the Occidental intelligence. And the idea of these solemn lines taking it upon themselves to convey modern fiction to this quaint little public in flapping cimono and clattering geta, that warms itself over a hibachi, and sits all day on the floor of its curious domiciles, and goes bareheaded about its business in the streets, is more exceedingly queer. ABOUT SUITS HIM FIVE YEARS AGO. MIXED LINEN. iplntioni of Alffcrlta Bowie*—Some Advice to Theatrical Amateurs—Scenery At Palmetto Ranch, Texas—Colored Troop* The Unhappiness That Desalted from ■ of the Sixty-second United State* In fan t- "No good luck stirring but lights on my shoulders," said Horace McVicker the other day. "Frank Goodwin, manager of Clara Morris, is an old friend of mine, so when he came to town for a two weeks' stay I asked him to come down and stop at my house. He did, and the second day he was there dug out about $4 worth of laundry work, which had been accumulating as he traveled, and asked ray wife if he could have it done in the neighborhood. She—building more wisely than she knew—told him she would send it to the laundry with my own bundle, and did it. The result was that eight shirts and a lot of underwear and handkerchiefs, and collars and cuffs, and «ocks and night robes came back with my full name on them in indelible ink. My wife sorted Goodwin's clothes out and put them aside for him and then told me of the error of the laundry folks in putting my name on Goodwin's togs. Laundry Custom. in a Famous Tunnel on the Northern Paolfic Railway—A Night of Suffering. ry Fired the Last Shot—Klrby Smith Fight* Alone Beyond the Ml**l**lppl. -{Copyright, 1800, by E. W. Nye.] On the Northern Pacific. The star of empire never did a better Idng than to take its way westward, id especially over this road, as it has xlged the blockade most effectually id is really the whitest route to the Dast Having paid full rates, I feel perctly free to say this. On the 13th of May, 1805, twenty-five fears ago, the last gun of the civil war was Sred. The first gun was fired at Sumter, on the Atlantic coast, the last one near the Boca Chieo strait, in the southwest corner of Texas. I would be glad to subscribe for a box, poor as 1 am. If I could Cause 4 notes above Second C with Ease and Equality, where only one had grown before, I would not remain longer in obscurity. I would 6oar above mediocrity and do much good. She says it is by no means a Dry or Prosy lecture, but conveys many grand ideas to the lofty minds. She might have trouble, however, in getting enough lofty minds at some points to pay her bills. Lofty minds do not always attend a lecture of this kind, but frequently stay at home evenings and read the county paper. If we could only make an appeal to the Lofty Mind that would jerk it from its lair on nights when lectures all lit up with Fire and Pathos are to be heard, it would be a good thing for all. A correspondent of Tho Sydney Morning Herald, who visited the mine some lime agot told the readers ot that journal how, returning from tho mountain, he stopped at a wayside inn, where "a tall, weather beaten, grizzled looking man" took his horse to a wen to drink. "Well, hardly." "Just has his mind occupied by what is going on around him?" "Yes." There were four Confederate armies In the field at the beginning of April, 1865, besides detached commands under Gens. Sam Jones and M. Jeff Thompson. The four were those of Lee, Johnston, Taylor and Kirby Smith. April 9 Lee surrendered to Grant, April 26 Johnston surrendered to Sherman, in North Carolina, all the forces east of the Chattahoochee; May 4, at Citronelle, Ala., Gen. Richard Tuylor surrendered to Canby all the remaining forces east of the Mississippi. The Confederate command of Sam Jones still held together for a time after Johnston's army had laid down their arms. But Jones, too, surrendered to a detachment of Wilson's cavalry at Tallahassee, Fla., on the 10th of May. Gen. Sam Jones died in 1887. At the time of his death he was a clerk in the war department at Washington. HARD TIMES IN THE CONFEDERACY. I know they do though, not because they have conveyed any to me, but because I have a Japanese friend who is a novelist, and tonight I sat and watched him decorating the fortunes of his heroine for a long time. Hi« workshop has no Grub street suggestions in it. Shall I describe it to you? It is a little room, a very little room. "Six mats" is its Japanese measurement, and a mat is about six feet by four. It is full of the soft, dull light that pulses from a square white paper lantern; the low, bright wooden esiling gives back a pale brown gleam hert and there. There is a silvery glint in the frail paneled walls, which I have learned not to lean against; and in a warm, gray shadowed recess a gold Buddha crosses his feet and stretches forth his palms, smiling gently upon the lotus which he holds. In another recess stand the curious vessels of iron and clay and bamboo for the tea ceremony. My novelist has often told me the story of the tea ceremony—bow it was invented 300 years ago by a wise man, whose name I could not possibly spell, who thought that the Japanese were declining into luxury, to gratify the soul more and the senso less. "Was that the way with you?" Striking Picture of the Exhausted Condl- "Yes, I suppose so." In the past three months I have pretty ell done the boom towns. It is a good ibject to study. For several years most 1 kinds of stocks, especially horned neks, have failed to declare dividends, ■ailroads especially, owing to close com- THE PETERSBURG SORTIE "This was the original holder of the freehold, who parted with it to the Morgans. He said he had always believed the mountains to be of ironstone, and never knew of the fortune that was so long within bis grasp. In olden days he used to sell the pumicestone looking quartz in Rockhampton, to clean the hearths and doorsteps of the houses." tion of the Troop*. "For instance, while you were fighting at Gettysburg you didn't let your mind wander back to me, did you?" "No, sir!" Ctii. Gordon's Account Showing the Brav- In his book, "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government," Mr. Davis makes the statement that owing to a surplus of cash unused from previous appropriations and on hand in tho fall of 1864, no appropriations were deemed necessary to carry the treasury over until the spriug of 1865. The matter of lack of supplies was investigated during tho winter, and in a secret session of congress at Richmond the following exhibit was made of the coudition of Lee's subsistence department: "That there is not meat enough in the Southern Confederacy for the armies in the field. That there is not in Virginia meat and bread enough for the armies within her limits. That the supply of bread for those armies to be obtained from other places depends absolutely upon keeping open the railroad connections of the south. ery of Desperate Men. Tho confidence of the besieging army at Petersburg in 1865 was not due to lack of vigilance nor to uusoldierly apathy. The Union troops occupied more than three-quarters of a circle around Petersburg, the intrenchments being about sixteen miles in length, compelling Lee to spread his men over the ground in a very weak line. It is true that the gap still held by the Confederates gave them avenues of communication with their capital at Richmond and with their depots of supplies at Danville, Lynchburg, and points in North Carolina; but as the season for the spring campaign was at hand it was known that Union armies in the rear and on the flanks of Lee would soon close these avenues, and then the chief forces of the Confederacy would be surrounded. There had not been a sortie during the siege of Petersburg. The Union lines had closed In upon the enemy's works with steady progress and the "last ditch" seemed to have been reached and the baffled Confederate army settled in it to dio ingloriously. "Exactly—all right—I didn't anppoae you did. You went away owing me $10; you know, and I didn't know lDut it bothered you. All right—all right—it's outlawed now and I shan't ask for it. Go on, captain, and tell 'em how you won glory and renown and didn't think of me."—Detroit Free Press. If Gordon sold the freehold to tho Messrs. Morgan for £640, or £1 an acre. They discovered gold in 1883, and in that year formed a partnership, in which they held half the mine, while Messrs. T. 8. Hall, W. Hall, W. H. D'Arcy and W. Pattison, who are now four of the principal proprietors, held the second half. The Messrs. Morgan subsequently disposed of their share to these gentlemen for £93,000; and in 1886 the present company was formed with a capital of £1,- 000,000 in 1,000,000 shares of £1 each, of which 7s. 6cL per share is paid up. "This gave me an idea, and the next day when Goodwin and I were standing in a crowd of fellows at the theatre I saw a handkerchief sticking out of his side pocket and said: The Coant and the Collector. Collector—I have called to present vour bill. In fancy I can now see Mrs. Bowles dressing in the baggage car, as the train is late, and as she arranges her toilet behind the peanutter's Wti trunk, softly saying over her crisp little piece lit up with lire and pathos. Later on I see her trying to find the stage entrance to the rink. It is locked. It always is locked. After twenty-seven Scene Shifters and Narcotic Supes have gained entrance they carefully lock the door, and while quenching the fire with their salivary surplus they read "Punko Pete, the Dire Disemboweler of Dead Man's Gulch." Little now remained of the Confederate armies anywhere, nothing at ali east of the Mississippi. JefT Thompson's independent command surrendered to Gen. Dodge's force May 11 at Chalk BlufT, Ark. There was left only the Confederate army of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in Count—Bill? Vhat eez zat? * Collector—Your account. Count—Oui, monsieur; I am von count, as you zay. " 'That looks like one of my wife's, Frank!' 'That the moat must be obtained from abroad through a seaport That the transportation is not now adequate, from whatever cause, to meet the necessary demands of the service. Leaving Rockhnmptou soon after 0 o'clock iu the morning, the traveler is deposited at a roadside station at about 7, and a rough breakfast is to be obtained at a country inn from which the coach starts for Mount Morgan. Wo were about to enter the principal room in which breakfast was laid out, when one of the assayers, who was employed at the mine, informed us in an awe struck voice that "the directors" were there; ami as the directors of the Mount Morgan in.ne were evidently too great to bo contaminated by the presence of ordinary mortals, we betook' ourselves to a humbler apartment, where we enjoyed a poorer but cheaper fare. We then started in a light four-horse coach, holding tight people besides the driver, in which we were jolted along the roughest of roads through "paddocks of over I',000 acres, with parrots and cockatoos shrieking among th« branches of the gum trees overhead." "Then I pulled it out and looked it over and showed him my name on it. I didn't reproach him. I just gave him a significant look and tucked the handkerchief in my pocket while everybody gave poor Goodwin the laugh. He blushed and told me afterward that he didn't think it was treating him right to give him that sort of a deal before folks. Collector—Yes, I know; but I want you to pay; pony up—see? Count—Pay? Pony up? Collector—Yes, your account, you know. Lou isiana and Texas. Smith, in Often have I seen bim conduct this grave function, I tasting first, as a foreign guest, the bittei ness of that powdered politeness that went from lip to lip and last to his. The (pecial bowl of the tea ceremony, fashioned by the hand of the wise man himself gone back to clay so long ago, is more precioua than rubies. It is of the coarsest mold, and there are even stones in it, but one can see quite plainly about it the finger marks of the maker, with their delicate curved line of wrinkled skin, and the impress of his thought in also there. And on one side, where the clay is broken away, the place is made whola again with pure gold. 1875, became pro- "That the supply of meat to Lee's army is precarious, anil if the army fall back from Richmond and Petersburg there is every probability that it will cease altogether." The hard times in the Confederacy were known to every Union soldier who came iu contact with the enemy on the Petersburg lines. There was regular communication between the oppnc*pickets, a.id there was an epidemic of c.eaertious from the Confederate ranks, which alone would have encouraged the Union troops to believe that the bottom was dropping out of the Confederacy. The stories which these men told of the state of affairs in Dixie more than confirmed the suspicions that were awakened by their action in deserting their colors. Their stories briefly were that the whole population of the south had given up all hope of success and wanted the end to come soon; that ouly the leaders who feared for their beads w£re holding out; that the friends of the soldiers in the field encouraged them to desert, and that all of them would desert as soon as opportunity offered, except property owners; that the property of deserters was confiscated and their families turned adrift; that men who remained in the ranks would not fight any more, and that all of the Bring, or nearly all, on the picket line was done under the orders and direction of the officers, and they in some cases handled the guns themselves; that many soldiers when compelled to shoot were careful not to hit the target They laid great stress upon the fact that the southerners would not fight again. Circumstances might compel them to remain in the ranks, but nothing could induce them to do battle with their old time ardor. The condition of the men who came into the Union camps as deserters attested the truth of all that was told over the lines of the forlorn aspect of things in Lee's camps. A deserter's first act on finding himself in the hands of the enemy was to appeal for food. Occasionally they were too modest to throw themselves boldly upon the mercy of an antagonist, but their famished faces, and their hungry eyes, wandering wistfully to the camp chests and sometimes resting upon a refuse bone, led their captors to offer food the moment they had secured their prisoners. Of ton these mon were barefoot and some of them had worn their trouser.i legs off half way up to the knees. Such absolute distress among so large a number of men is seldom witnessed. And this was not oonflned to the men who came in as deserters. Every night Confederates came to the Union camps, wading through swamps and risking their lives where the pickets' bullets flew, in order to get bread and meat which their generous foemen kindly gave out of an abundance.— George L Kilmer. fessor of mathe- matics in the Uni- Although it was believed at Union headquarters that Lee would make an effort to join his forces with Glen. Joseph E. Johnston's at some point ' south of Petersburg, the probability of his doing so by breaking Grant's hold on the Petersburg lines seems not to have been taken into account. Sheridan, who was marching from the Shenandoah Valley to Petersburg, was close to the Appomattox onlhe 84th of March, and Glen. Grant issued an order for a movement by the left flank around Lee's right, with a view to placing a barrier between him and Johnston. The campaign was to begin on the 29th. Sheridan's cavalry column was to letyd, and the Second, Fifth and Sixth corps, already on the left, would follow. On the night of the 31th Gen. Meads, commanding the Army of the Potomac under Grant, was at the headquarters of the latter at City Point, where also President Lincoln was staying on a visit with the purpose of reviewing the army. At headquarters, everywhere, preparations were going on for the movement of the 29th, and the troops, excepting the pickets and trench guards, were resting quietly in their camps. A couple of hours before daylight Gen. Parke was aroused by the noise of a battle on his front, and after learning from couriers that the enemy had broken through he telegraphed to Gen. Meade, at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, the facts. He received the reply that Meade was at City Point, and that he (Parke), being senior, was in command of the army. On attempting to telegraph to City Point he found that the lines had been cut by the enemy and communication was broken. Gordon's blow had been delivered with surprising swiftness and success in the midst of a heavy morning fog that aided his men in the initial stroke. Count—Oui, monsieur; I am von count, as you say. v e r s i t y of the South at Sewonee, Collector—Well, here's your bilL Count—Bill? Vhat eez zat? Collector—Your account. Hunting through the alley for the door, she steps in a mortar bed with her dress suit. I then hear her make a few selections, causing 4 notes above second C on third floor. When she goes in at last I hear her heart fall as she sees a few beetling browed men with their hats on, who have come because they owned a vacant saloon in which lithographs had been inserted in exchange for tickets. Tenn. Smith was a dauntless soldier. "Next day he was on the stage during a rehearsal, and I put Miss Morris up to ask him for his handkerchief, which she did in an off hand way during some stage business. Frank promptly complied, and Miss Morris looked at the handkerchief a moment afterward and said: "I STOPPED THERE ONCE." Count—Oui, monsieur; I am von •etition and the great monumental folly nown as the interstate commerce law. A native of St. When the account was sued for the count had a counter claim against the collector for assault and battery.—New York World. legislative joke with whiskers on it* a ' Dcal gag to get votes and break up busiess, have made dividends small. What re are pleased to call politics in America i really the funniest and still the most erious thing in the history of the repubic. How best to be re-elected is the Teat qneetion of legislation, not how •est to deserve it. The country and the tate may go to grass, but the fall eleciona must be looked out for. Augustine, Fla., he nos graduated at (Vest Point in 1845, KIRBY SMITH. Mid served gallantly in the Mexican war. Next we find him fighting Indians on the frontier and receiving the thanks of the Texas legislature for his services. At the outbreak of the civil war he was a major In the regular army, but resigned his commission to go with his state when Florida seceded from the Union. He was speedily promoted to lieutenant general in the Confederate service. There was nothing in the room an hour ago except my novelist and bis table and his tools and me. He sat on the floor in a flowing garment of brown silk lined with blue, his legs disposed comfortably under him. I rat there, too, with mine contorted under roe. It takes time to adapt one's muscles to the Japanese point of view. It is a laoquered table about a foot high—such a won derful table! For it has stood before the altars of dusky Buddhist temples, and upborne the curling incense of many generations—gen- " 'This seems to be yours, Mr. Mc- Dislnherited. Vicker.' took it, located my name in the corner, walked over to Goodwin and showed it to him, and stuck it in my pocket, and walked away without a word, but with expressive looks and 'business' of pained disgust. Then the company laughed at Goodwin, and he fled. Lawyer—You are one of the heirs contesting this will? Again I see her tossing on a hot pillow, afraid to see the morning and the papers. Finally she nerves herself and buys them. A sob arises in the throat of Mrs. Bowles as she discovers that only one of the papers speaks of her lecture, and that one says: After a drive of between two and three hours through the bush, including the tremendously steep ascent of a hill known as the Razorback, up which every particle of machinery for Mount Morgan had to be brought, we reached the newly formed mining township. Scattered about among the trees were tents of various descriptions, bark huts, huts of corrugated iron, and wooden houses. In a central position were two hotels, some stores or general shops, a church in process of con(truction, a school, and an Odd Fellows' hall. There are already about 5,000 inhabitants, and the object which has attracted them all is a conical shaped hill about 500 feet in height above the water level, and with notb ing, so far as outward appearances are concerned, to distinguish it from numerous other well wooded hills which surround it. Witness—1 am. Lawyer—Oae of the provisions of the will says that any heir who contests it shall receive uothing. I started out to say, however, that the tew northwest, and especially the Puget ound country, is the great country, lalf a dozen cities are growing up like tsparagus in the moist London air of the ound. The prosperity of one does not inrt the prosperity of another. The more msmeas there is for the sound the better it s for all. Nearly all the transcontinental oads are already there. Five railways it least are represented, and Asiatic trade *ill soon torn that way. The Northern Pacific, with its Wisconsin Central, nakee a direct connection with Chicago, ind so successfully competes with any Smith led the advance of Bragg's army in the campaign in Kentucky in 1862 and approached within a few miles of Cincinnati. In 1863 he was placed over the Confederate department of the trans-Mississippi. He speedily made Galveston a famous blockade running port, and thereby communicated with Richmond and sent great quantities of cotton abroad. In 1864 he successfully opposed the expedition of Banks up Red river. Witness—Yes; but we have one gate left open bj which to enter into the property. "Mrs. Bowles, the misguided lecturer on 'Society and Common Sense,' appeared in her other drees last evening before Eli Pangborn and Seth Bloom inthai for an hour with a composition which would scare a horse to death. Mrs. Bowles has a good lithograph, and when yon say that, yon have said it. "That same evening I was with Goodwin and another friend in a candy store, and as Goodwin took out his handkerchief to wipe his lips after a drink of eoda water I gave my friend the cue, and he caught Goodwin's hand and the handkerchief and said: erations that lived and prayed and clattered away into an obscurity deeper than that of the temple, though the great bronze feet of Buddha behind the altar stirred never a hair's breadth from that place to keep them company. The lacquer is sc honest and so old that it has turned a mysterious greenish brown, and over this runs a sparing deeign of wild roses in deep cut gold, turning down the claw feet of some imaginative monster which support the massive slab. Lawyer—Humph! What gate is that? Witness—The surrogate. Lawyer—The witness is disinherited. —Chatter. You are joking. Kir by Smith remained in command of the trans-Mississippi department till the close of the war. Even after the surrender of Lee he proposed to continue the war west of the Mississippi on his own account. He roused Texas by his appeals. He had with him still 20,000 men. To these be issued a general order from Shreveport, saying that the hopes of the Confederacy now hung upon them. He declared that success was sure to crown their efforts finally. "You possess the means of long resistance, you have hopes of succor from abroad. Protract the struggle and you will surely receive the aid of nations who already deeply sympathize with you." 14 'Hello! Are you living with Horace?Then and Now. 1Ci'1 "P. S.—She can get extra copies of this issue of the paper for advertising purposes at five cents each. We do not know whose lithograph she is using." "Goodwin said he was, and wanted to kDow why. At tho foot of the mountain is one set of works, which are duplicated about half way up it Some 200 feet from the top a tunnel runs in for about 700 feet, when it is met by a shaft, down which the stone is sent It is then brought through the tunnel in small trucks and shot down a slide to the upper works, while a cable tramway supplies the lower works. At the top of the mountain is a regular quarry, where some five dozen men are occupied in blasting and quarrying the stone. Fifty-two feet have already been cut away, and they arc now working at a second bench. My friend's writing materials are as idyllic as his surroundings—his paper is delicately tinted yellow, with blue lines running up and down. His inkstand is a carved ebony slab, with one end hollowed out for water to rub his cube of India ink in, tend holds the four or five daintily decorated bamboo branches which ore his pens. Naturally, he does not write his novel, he paints it Beginning at the end of the whole, %t the left of every page and at the top of every line, straight down between tho two blue parallels his small brown hand goes, with quick, delicate dark touches from which are springing the woes of O-Mltsu-san, or Miss Honey Sweet, and the heroism of Matsuo-san, or the Strong Pine Tree.—Cor. London Athenaeum. " 'I see his name on your Anon I see her also walking down the street enjoying her bright new lithograph, which carries a "end" of tobacco in each eye, or wears bright red whiskers and a purple noee. Mrs. Bowles has a bright and beautiful experience ahead of her if she only knew it. Lofty Minds ire not thirsting for scathing lectures on —that's all,' he said, and laughed. "At this I grabbed the handkerchief, looked it over, located my name, pointed it out to Goodwin, and jammed it in my pocket. Then I fell to wagging my head ominously and pulling at my mustache agitatedly. m either road is poor enough, I think ind the corporation that banks on it news is doing a poor business. A tun lei especially is a disappointment. Yot alk about the tunnel for days before yoi jet there, and when you arrive how soC yon are. The kerosene lamps smoke al the way through, and the young ladj who sat near you before you got to the tunnel goes over and sits in another seat. [ think the tunnel is very much overestimated; also open to criticism at both ;nds. ital road. The scenery "Of course," says Gen. Gordon, "It was a most desperate and almost hopeless undertaking, and could be justified only by our desperate and hopeless condition if we remained idle. We all recognized it as the forlornest of forlorn hopes. Let me particularize a little more. The obstructions in front of my own lines had to be removed, and removed silently, so as not to attract the attention of the Federal pickets. Grant's obstructions had to be removed from the front of Fort Stedman. These [cheveaux de frise] were of sharpened rails elevated to about breast high, the other end buried deeply in the ground, the rails resting on a horizontal pole and wrapped with telegraph wire. They could not be mounted nor pushed aside, but had to be cut away with axes. This had to be done immediately in front of the guns of Fort Stedman. These guns at night were doubly charged with canister, as I learned from Federal prisoners. The rush across the intervening space between the lines had to be made so silently and so swiftly as to take the forts before the gunners c. uld fire. The reserves had to be beaten or passed, and the rear line of forts taken before daylight. All this had to be accomplished before my main forces could be moved across and placed in position to move on Grant's flank, or rather left wing."—George L. Kilmer. " 'Upon my word,' said Goodwin, who was greatly embarrassed, 'I didn't know anything about it. Really, I had no intention" society. Lofty Minds might like tc you, Alfarita, if yon have killed sev» Thereupon mass meetings of Texatis passed resolutions to fight on. Information was received at Washington that Texas was going to continue the war even after the Confederacy had surrendered. Gen. Sheridan was at once sent to New Orleans with a large force to vanquish Texas. see ral iOUl. Private Hunks—By thunder! that's a The preponderating stone is a kind of black ironstone, with no appearance of gold whatever, yet it yields as much as five or six ounues to the ton. Some of the stone is reddish, and looks as if it might contain copper, while here and there is a bank of yellowish sand which yields eleven ounces to the ton. Formerly the ore was treated by the ordinary battery and quicksilver amalgamation process, but the gold is so finely distributed through the stone that most of it was lost, and the tailings are being treated with very satisfactory results by the chlortnation process, which is now in use at the mine. Under this process the ore is first crushed by powerful machinery and reduced to fine sand. It is then roasted in furnaces, and when cooled is placed in the c hi or i nation barrels and subjected to the action of chlorine gas, which dis9o) res the gold, and it flows out in a fluid, the r Dlor of sherry, into large vats. " 'I don't want to talk about it,' said I, hotly. 'Only when we get home I want to look over your linen. I don't mind accommodating a friend, but I do object shame, an' hog's got away, too. 1890. "===&* Private Hunks—Yes, boys; those were great days. That ragged break In the old musket shows the power my muscle* had in the Army of the Potomac. I did that braining a colonel over the breastworks of Petersburg.—Judge. The One Break in Hit Record. There were, however, some Union troops already in Texas, and there was fighting before Sheridan reached New Orleans. CoL Theodore H. Barrett was in command of * small force at Brazos Santiago, on Brazos Island, in the golf, twenty-two miles northeast of Brownsville. In Barrett's command was the Sixty-second United States colored infantry his own regiment I learned with great sorrow this spring that the hotel at Wallula had been horned. I stopped there once and suffered all of one night. I remember especially the other occupants of the room. They had not registered, but they were there. They were not transients and they did not have to register. A friend of mine who was a good man also ■topped there. He could not sleep, so he put in the night killing insects. In the morning the chambermaid found on the wall, pinned up like a motto, these words constructed of deceased bed bugs: Armenian Colonists in Persia. to being worked.' The deputation of Armenians which visited the shah to ascertain if an emigration of members of that race would be acceptable to Persia have reported favorably to their oppressed brethren at home, but these latter will meet with almost insurmountable difficulties in escaping the grasp of their Turkish masters. ' The Ottoman officials have been accustomed for so many years to consider it as a duty as well as a privilege to rob them that they regard with consternation the prospect of losing what they deem their legitimate prey. Every olDstacle will be thrown in the path of the emigrants, and they will need all their traditional cunning to transport much property with them. Obstinately Christian as they have remained through centuries of persecution, they do not] care to take refuge among those of their own faith in other lands, partly for climatic reasons, but principally because among the ignorant and sluggish Mussulmans they have had more favorable opportunities of gratifying their ruling passion—money making—for the sake of indulging which they will run nearly every risk and submit to every humSSSon.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "One or two friends had dropped in meanwhile, and they joined in the general grin at Goodwin. "That night when we reached home I pretended to have forgotten all about it, but Goodwin hadn't, and, going to his room, he dragged out his laundered clothes and looked them over. Then he bounced into the sitting room where I sat and said: May 11. 1865, Barrett sent a detachment to the mainland to capture horses for hit car* airy. On the morning of May 12 these attacked the Confederate camp at Palmetto Ranch and captured it Then they fell back towards Brazos. On the morning of May IS CoL Barrett re-enforced the party with 200 men and himself took command. The Confederates bad again appeared in the vicinity of Palmetto Ranch. Barrett advanced against them on the 13th, skirmished with them and pursued them several miles. Then he stopped to rest his horses a mile from the ranch. Here he was unexpectedly attacked the same day, May 13, by a large Confederate force with cavalry and artillery under Gen. J E. Slaughter. Anna Dickinson's Bravery. It was in one of the coal mining towns, aud a crowd of rude, turbulent men had gathered to prevent Miss Dickinson from speaking. At she stepped upon the platform she was greeted with hisses and screams, and as she advanced to the front the tumult increased. She did not shrink nor show one sign of fear; her eyes burned with a new light and her face paled a little, not from fear, but from excitement. With an undaunted air she stood there, with her head thrown back, her eyes blazing, one arm behind her, in the attitude all he? admirers knew to be her own characteristic, stood waiting for the tumult to cease. Suddenly one man, more reckless or more inflamed with anger than the rest, drew a pistol front his pocket and fired. The shot cut off a lock of her curly hair, but still she never flinched. The look of contempt deepened on her face, Sid the firm lips closed more tightly. For a moment there was a dead silence, then a voice cried out: " 'Gimme back my handkerchiefs. Every blessed piece of linen I've got has your name on it. The laundry folks did it, and I've been yielding up handkerchiefs to you at every jump. Give up!' THIS INDEED IS HELL. He was a good man} but he was thoroughly sincere. He was what you might call an outspoken man, and said what he thought at all times. He was an eccentric man also. An Englishman once naked him about our constitution. "I am told," said he, Mthat God is not in your constitution." "No," said this plain man, "he is not in it." It was slangy, but expressive. By the way, theatrical managers and lecture bureaus have some queer experiences also. The following is a true copy of a letter sent to a manager this year, the name alone being suppressed: It is then placed in charcoal filters, and the gold adheres to the cklrcoal beds, which are subsequently roasted Ux a reverberatory furnace until nothing is loft but an ash containing 75 per cent of metallic gold. The works, which are lit throughout by the electric light, are kept constantly going night and day. Nine hundred men are employed, and work in three shifts dt eight hours each. The expenditure in wages is £100,000 per annum; 4,000 tons of firewood are burnt per month, and the output of gold is about a ton per month If the works were stopped for a single day it would mean a loss to the shareholders of £4,000. —London Times. "I gave him a gleeful laugh and fled. And now he refuses to eat at the same table with me."—Chicago Mail. ENJOYING HEB LITHOGRAPH, husbands and escaped. If you had done as much in the elevating business as Sitting Bull, you migjit do well, but, having done nothing worse than to assassinate the English language, a good lithograph alone will not crowd your Halls with Lofty Minds. There will be nights when two or three lofty minds will be all you can scare up. After a period of incubation which has been spent in educating public opinion in the matter of the hygienic iniquity of the present system of interment, the group of sanitary philanthropists, with the Duke of Westminster at the head, who have taken up the ungrateful task of bringing the necessary reforms to pass, have at last decided to seek the indorsement of their contentions by the legislature. The object sought is, failing the effective embalming of the body, the prohibition of leaden and other solidly constructed coffins, the effect of which is to indefinitely retard complete decomposition, and so prolong the period during which the dead are not only aesthetically objectionable, but are an indisputable source of danger to the living, wicker work or papier mache receptacles alone being used. This is merely a sanitary precaution of an elementary kind; and whatever the immediate fate of the movement may be, it must sooner or later Impose itself. The idea of cremation is daily being received with more favor in England, and the suggestion of Sir Spencer Wells that in future only properly cremated remains should be admitted to funeral honors in Westminster Abbey and other national mausoleums, has met with general approbation.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Burial Reform in England. Leather. "There's a lot of money in leather." "Is there, now?" "Yes; purses are made of leather, ain't they?" "Oh, I see! It's great as a fertilizer, Mamma—You must put an end to it at once. It was now Barrett's turn to retreat, for he bad no artillery, and the Confederates largely outnumbered him. Concealed by the chaparral, they at one time succeeded in flanking him, capturing forty-eight men. Barrett fell back fighting, as the Confederates had done before him on the forenoon of the same day. The retreat was admirably covered by the colored troops of the Sixty-second United States infantry Penelope—Surely you would not have me decline a man who saved my life! too." "A fertilizer?" "Certainly." Mamma—He may have saved your life, my dear, but from what I know of him it is the only thing he ever did save.—Life. Dr. Edward Walther, of St. Paul, Minn., recently discovered one of the very few silver dollars of the year 1804 in the possession of an old Norwegian living in the southern portion of Minnesota, and purchased the coin of him for (150. About a dozen of these coins are known to be in this country, two of which are in this city, two in New Mexico, two in Boston, one in Baltimore and one in the Davis collection, in New York. One Dollar Worth SI,OOO. Your books also must have been published very surreptitiously indeed, for I have not saw any of them. Possibly you have the same man who imagines that he is publishing a book for me. If so, I beg your pardon. You could commit almost any kind of a crime ana then, if you let him publish it, your secret would be safe. "Why! what can you raise with leather?"The Highest Bidder. As She I* Writ. "Who was the highest bidder on that picture?" said an auctioneer to his facetious son. " March 22 1890 "Major Junius Brutus Pond Union Square New York This running fight lasted three hours, till sunset, then the Confederates ce&aed pursuit The last shot in the war was a volley the colored troops of the Sixty-second discharged at their pursuers. This last fight of the war is known as the battle of Palmetto Ranch. It was fought not far from the old Mexican war battle ground of Palo Alto. In Vienna they know how to write English. The Viennese are going to have an agricultural exhibition, or, as they call it in the English programme which has just been published, a "General Rural and Forest Exposition in the year 1890." The following are some of the exhibits as set forth in the programme: h Produces of agriculture and forest culture, of garden fruitvines, and hopculture, of chose and feshery, also of fowel, oaes and silk breed, &c. 2. Beasts as: breed mart use , and lussury beasts—viz: horses, oxen, sheep, swine, fowl, dogs, game, fishes. The exhibition of hearts, of garden and fruit culture take place in several series, those of the latter being made known more lately. For all sorts of objects of exhibition prices of about v. A. flor. 60,000 mill be given, consisting in medals of honour, distributed honour prices, medals, in money and honorable ocknowledgmonts. For special accomplish- collaborators of the exposers special prices will be given."—St. James's Gazette. "AhI but she's a brave lassie; let's hear what she has to say, boys." "Welts!"—Chicago Ledger. In a second the tide was turned. There was a responsive cheer, that was given with as much heartiness as had characterized the hisses before. Glories of America. "Mr. Blanks." "How much?" "DeahSik—i Wish to inform you thati am a Writer, Lecturer, and Musician i Have wrote A lecture entitled Society and Common Sense it is not wrote mearly to Show of an Elocutionary Power but is ment to Do much good Among People in the High & low class off life claiming more congeniality and Socialism than at present "Great country ours," remarked Cadbury enthusiastically to his foreign visitor. "Look states and cities; look at the size of our railroads and hotels." "Well, I think he's about six feet three."—Washington Poet. She stood conqueror in this curious and dangerous conflict of wills. One who heard her says that she spoke as though she was inspired, and she carried that audience of men with her.—Boston Herald. Charles E. Osborr., of No. 1,421 Fairmount avenue, said yesterday that he attended a sale some few years ago in this city when one of these coins, in good condition, brought $1,002.50, and within a year he had an opportunity of buying one for $1,000. There are numerous bogus coins of this date which are made by skillfully cutting out the figure S in an 1803 dollar and neatly plugging It with a figure 4. Some of these frauds are so neatly executed that it requires the aid of a powerful microscope to detect the deception.—Philadelphia Record. You will find, if you persist in lecturing, that some people will be disappointed in you, but remember even great men have disappointed also. Speaking of Dr. Holmes, one of his audience said there was no use talking, he'd rather read after Holmes than to set under him. "Ya-as," interrupted the importation, finding himself on soliCl ground, "and look at the size of their bills."—Philadelphia Times. J nT'"'"'! INDIAN S Y E,W iE wi E xipo^ BycaCKicIjnBrirog 14. m Sure Death. "Do you hunt, doctor?' "No, I am not an expert in handling the gun." "But you might prescribe for the game."—Puck. , Say Well aud Do Well] A Painful SpeU. "Bringing up the customs of our Forefathers the Example of Noble Statesmen the Wrongs that is Daily inflicted on the Hireling class of labor with much comment on the struggles to Attain Society with many grilling and startling Fact* and laughable Anecdotes It is by nC means a dry or Prosy lecture but conveys many Grand ideas to the lofty minds it is also alike lit up \4|th Fin and Pathos and just Spice Enough too Season It i can see no reason why it Should Fail to please or Draw crowded Houses A short time before Dean Stanley's death he closed an eloquent sermon with a quaint verse, which greatly impressed his congregation. On being asked about it afterward, he said it was doubtful whether the lines were written by one of the earliest Deans of Westminster, or by one of the early Scotch Reformers."Does It hurt, my dear papa, to have a mustache?" Said sweet little Alice one day, As her speller she closed and gazed into my face Having now given a very thorough account of Puget sound, I will close this letter, hoping, however, to Add still more facts at another time. At the Musical*. In a puzzled, inquisitive way. "Why, no," I responded, caressing her hair; "Why utterance to such question maker1' "Weil, you see," she replied, in an innocent "In one way the word spells *mmt-achc.'" —Epoch.' Penelope—Isn't it detestable to hear a man keep time to the music with his feet? I must this afternoon go and pay for a bright new floral autograph album with a music box in the hind part of it, which volume was sent to me for my indorsement, and pending my signature the said album was stolen from my room. It is pretty tough, to say the least. Writing an autograph is a trivial affair, but to become the custodian of a valuable collection and then have to replace it, signatures, music box and all, is not what it is cracked up to be. An interesting experiment in jumping a torpedo over a boom has been carried out in Porchester creek by the officers of the Vernon. The boom, which was twenty feet in length, differed from the usual spars which are used for the defense of harbors against torpedo attacks, in that it was six feet broad and surmounted by a number of spikes, which it was supposed would receive the boat and hold it a prisoner. A first class torpedo boat, which had been strengthened for the purpose, was selected to attack the boom. Having worked her engines up to full speed, she made a dash at the boom at the rate of about twenty knots. At this speed her stem was lifted out of the water almost as high as the boom itself, which sunk on impact, and before it could rise to the surface the momentum of the craft had carried her over. It was subsequently found that neither her cutwater nor propeller had suffered in the least, nor had a single plate been bulged or started. The result of the experiment points to the fact that either the booms must be duplicated or that they must be supplemented with nets, with the object of entangling the screws of the attacking enemy.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Torpedo Maneuver*. Our Moon. Jack—Oh, the music probably appeals to his sole.—Munsey's Weekly. The dean had come upon it by accident, and feeling that it expressed with singular felicity the true Christian proportion between doctrine and character, between good words and good works, he used it to poiut and adorn his sermon. Readers of The Companion may be glad to add it to their collections of good words: A widespread legend of great antiquity Informs us that the moon is inhabited by a man with a bundle of sticks on his back, who hat been exiled thither for many centuries, and is so far off that he is beyond the reach of death. This tradition, which has given rise to so many superstitions, is still preserved, under various forms, in most countries; but it has not been decided who the culprit originally was and how he came to be imprisoned. Dante calls him Cain; Chaucer assigns his exile as a punishment for theft, and gives him a thorn bush to carry, while Shakespeare loads him with thorns, but by way of compensation gives him a dog for a companion.—Chicago Ledger. Mo Fwlglit Bates. Always Going Bound. •. Haven—Gimme a ticket an' a lial will yer? Officer—What is going on round he»«? Small Boy (disappearing)—The earth. •"-Boston Herald. The Summer Novel. Alas! my summer novel—I mourn it with * tD2gh. Tbe day I rashly bought it a friend was starving by. Forthwith the book ha borrowed to be returned that night; and since thai fatal moment it ne'er has blessed my sighfc He lent it to his cousin, and she enjoyed tk, so she lent it to a neighbor, who kept it on the go, and lent it to her uncle,who lent it to his girl, who lent it to her teacher, who with another whirl sent it unto a nephew, who lent it to a friend, who sent it to a room mate, and oh I where will it end I Throughout this maddening business one" hope alone I see—mayhap in all this lending It may be lent it to me.—Bloom ington Eye, THE LAST BATTLE QROUHD. Spring Style* Abroad. He was a Kaffir bold. "I will give you a Brief Sketch of my own Life and hope yon will not considei me Egotistic "I am a young widow A Lady of Cult oxe Education and Refinement ano Wealth i would like to here from you, your "imiimr of Doing bisness, What salary you would pay to such a person and if you pay traveling expenses Hotel bills or Furnish Lithographs or circulars ok Door Tickets also will be pleaseA to hear from you soon on the matter If yon do the Advertising yourself i will give you a History to Copy from. Adress "Mrs. Altarita. Bowles " Alick, Indiana. "P. 8. I can give yon Reference in Regards of Standing if you Wish. But even Kirby Smith had now given up the Confederate cause. His army broke and scattered through Texas and Louisiana, plundering as they went One band forcibly entered the state buildings at Austin and seized the contents of the treasury. On the 26th of May, at a point a few miles west of Shreveport. La., Kirby Smith formally surrendered what was left of his command to Oen. Canby. After that, except scattered depredations by bushwhackers, there was no more fighting. The war was ended at last Say well is good, but do well Is better. Do well seems spirit, say well the letter. Say well is godly, anil helpeth to please; But do well lives i?odly, and gives the world ease. Say well to silence sometimes is bound. But do well is free on every ground. Bay well has friends, some here, some there. But do well is welcome everywhere. By say well to many God's word cleaves, But for lock of do well it often leaves. If say well and do well were bound in one frame, Then all were done, all were won, and gotten were gain. She was a Zulu maid; All his deep love he told As o'er the sand they strayed. Pleasant their lives must be; Theirs was simplicity. This interesting series of articles on Puget sound will be continued next week. There was no guile. Plain in their happiness. Simple their style of drew, Shown in no fashion book; All he wore was a look Brimful of tenderneas— She wore a smite. •j 1 Downing street, London, was named after an American from Salem, liass., a fact that (s not generally known. P. S.—Any one returning a bronze plush autograph album which plays "Little Annie Rooney" to my address will never regret it. The album, besides my name, contains those of Dr. Talmage and Steve Brodie. B. N. Eliza Abchasd Cosher. Rainfalls. —Youth's Companion. Mr. to Painesville, Cheap Canaries May Be Good. It is said that 610 inches of raia fell in oot year at Cherrapongee, tropical Asia. Two hundred add fifty-four inches of rainfall has been recorded in one year at Mahabuleswher, in the western Ghauts of India. At Vera Cruz, Mexico, 378 inches of rain has fallen. In Matoula Gaudeloupe, West Indies, 393 inches hare fallen. At Sou Louis de Maranham, Brazil, 280 inches have been recorded. At Sierra Leone, tropical Africa, 313 inches have been noted. The annual rainfall in the British Islands, among the mountains, is 41 inches; on tho plains, 35 inches; 45 inches of rain falls on tho west side of England, 37 on the east side. Eighty-two inches of rain falls on parts of tbe west side of the Scandinavian mountains, and only 31 inches at Stockholm, on tho east ride. The amount of rainfall at. Boston is 39 inches; Hanover, N. U., 88 inctxCs; New York, 30 inches. A Quick Wltted ltoy. lady tJihsra. Manager—Why have you run our telegraph lines round Philadelphia 0t directly through? Assistant—TVe authorities said it was against the law to run anything through the city.—New York Sun. Nothing Faster Than a Walk. "The demand for canary birds has increased enormously of late," said a well known New York bird fancier. "But the regular dealers do not find much profit in handling the ordinary yellow singere; thej •ell comparatively few of them, and it doe* not pay to keep them long in stock. The street competition is too great. AVe must charge at least $2.50 for any bird that can sing at all, while a canary that at all events looks as though he might warble if he tried, may be purchased at a street corner, from a man who raises his own birds in a tenement house, for about seventy-five oents. "Sometimes a dealer who has too large a stock on hand employs a peddler to offer the poorest of the lot for sale on the sidewalk. Birds bought from such persons aro pretty certain to be dear at any price, but if you are a good judge of a canary a bargain may often be picked up on tho street. Your beet plan, if you are buying from a peddler and are doubtful of your own ability to make r good selection, is to stand before the little wooden cages until you see a bird singing strongly and well. Then ehoose him; but keep your eye cm the dealer, for many of them are as adept as card sharpers at changing a good bird for a bad one during the process of wrapping up the cage."—Hew York Sun. Loss of life was doubtless prevented by the prompt action of a little 9-year-old lad, Norman Smith, at Kingston recently. While playing near the West Shore railway track he discovered a mass of rock which had slid down over the south bound track in Fitch's cut, just after the watchman had passed. Seeing the Hudson River express rounding the curve some distance above, he made frantic efforts to warn the engineer of danger. The train was stopped just in time and was switched on the north track. Other trains were detained for a time. A private car, with P. W. Clement and family on board, was attached to the train. A purse of money was quickly made up for the little fellow. —New York Tribuue. An opportunity for the extension of woman's field of employmont has been suggested in New York, where it is proposed to employ women as ushers in tbe theatres. The plan is favored by many prominent actors, especially those who have seen its operation abroad. In Paris the ouvreuse, or female usher and box opener, is a regular attache of every theatre. Her duties are precisely those of the usual American male usher, though in some cases she may be entrusted with other work about the theatre that is here done by men. If the plan is a success at the theatres of the French capital there is hardly a doubt of its success here. The Paris theatres are the best managed in the world, and the audiences are the most exacting. — New York Letter. Agent (who fails to see the boy)—One ticket '11 carry you, friend. We don't charge by weight.—Judge. Probably Not. "A B 99 x nave given a fictitious name and ad* dress, because it would be hardly fair to boom the lady through these columns without the consent of the editor. Mistress—Mary, why did you not answer the door bell a short time ago? Didn't Expect Callers. Difference Between Uooh and Senate. Impicune—Here is a book published as by "Washington Frothingham and Charlemagne Tower" — Frothingham wrote the book and Tower paid the bills. Poeticus—By Jove! I wonder if Rothschild or Vanderbilt would collaborate with me on a book of poems!—Puck. "Yes, I like it better in the senate than I did in (he house," said Senator Dixon, of Rhode Island, the other day. "Existence is more restful here, as one might say. In the house there is a continual scrimmage, and the individual representative is fairly lost in the crowd. Here it is like a small and Tery select club, where every one knows everybody else, and all are on a footing, the friendliness of which is independent of party differenoes. A member of the house, as a rule, is acquainted with only a few of his colleagues, comparatively speaking."—New York Tribune.The Culture of Foreign Birth. Servant (a recent acquisition)—Faith, mum, my friends do not know I am here, and so I didn't expect anybody.—Boston Budget. Miss Inkwire—And how did you like Paris, Miss Tripper? Miss Tripper—Oh, it was delightful! X met such charming and cultivated people. Why, even children of three years ipeak French.—Judge. She also adds: "I am an American by I Birth with the Blue blood of Irish nobility in my veins and in appearance quite prepossessing My Occupation is A Music teacher of Piano organ and Voice I am blessed with a high soprano Voice causing 4 notes above Second C,with ease and Equality My Voice is full and Rich in volume with a sweet flute Like tone, and will fill any house or hall I have Wrote Several Books both verse and Fj0"? Namely love in a Cottage Oast »drift Starlight Bess on the Waves Vaiting & Return When Carrie Married Jake My friends advised me write to your address * see what inducements you would hold out in regards to my lecture on Society and Common Sensf. * - ■■„ 'i . "A B " Looking over this little wayside tJoletf# sweet fnrfln The Reporter's Metamorphoela. First Week Employed—II Second Week—I and the Editor! Third Week—The Editor and I! Fourth Week—The Editor I—Lawrence American. Uarned It When Too Late. Rev. Dr. Primrose—Honesty is the best policy, my friend. Filial Emulation, hat's so, then \ mrb*. .c me off any marry me? know whether M or not. Be- rs- F&llahan—Now, this, Tarawj. pmD three nun- you wor your fftUMrf hiago Trtixm*. lmtolhte&k K*** «' J Pretty Good Kvldence to tbe Contrary. Convict—I know it Dude (between puffs)—Aw, excuse me, but does my cigarette smoke blow in your face? Dirt, Debt and the Devil. Rev. Dr. Primroee—If how did you get in here? Black ouDx with a doad finish is nsed for mourning. It appears in the double violets, pansies and butfercups that are ao perfectly reproduced Nil enamels. Diamond center* and used in the same manner od the black jewelry as on the colored. New Maaralnft Jewelry. A distingushed divine calls those three D's Dirt, Debt and the Devil, an unmatched trinity of evil. If a man would be happy he must avoid all three, and ai studiously k«ep clear of Disease—another D you peter ire This calls to mind still another D: a "G. II. D in fact, Dr. Pieroe's Golden Medioal Discovery, the unfailing remedy for consumption wh'ch is luDg scrofula, in its early stages, as well as for chronic catarrh in the head, and bronchial, throat and lung affections pe ier Dlly. It is a nutritive, tonic and blood-purifier, and builis up the strength and tieah of thoee who are reduced below the usual standard of Convict—Because I didn till it was too late.—Life. Th* Bona Wae on the Rsomis"I don't care for sausages today." "Why notr "There's a red haired girl in tht room."—Puck. FitalUeu OIotm. Mrs. Hurt Dn, wife of the vice president, who has the credit of being always the most perfectly gloved woman of any assembly, wears the mousquetaire, and says she never wears them above the elbow, as no device can save them from untidiness if they end anywhere on the upper arm. They are supplied to her by a Paris firm, are suede and very light tan in color. Mrs. Morton considers the most glorious toilet ruined if the gloves are not faultless i* tone and fit Irate Individual (decidedly)—I gueas not; you're Btill alive. — Philadelphia Press. Courting In the 8b Alfred—Please don't pu longer, Katie. WiU yoc Katie—Alfred, I b&rdlj I love you well enougL aides An old beggar iti seated in a doorway with a placard hung about his neck inscribed "Blind from birth." Another mendicant passing by reads the inscription and comments thufl; "My eyel didn't he begb the bit TimUlT " From • Professional Standpoint. ISqSsSas..., To lovers, as the hour* steal by How low the gas may ohaaee to be. A Lady's Chance* of Marrying. Every woman has * chacfce of "catching a husband," but it is conceded that young ladies between twenty and twecty-flve years of age are more likely to draw the matrimonial prizes. Alfred (looking at his the last train in is doe in ntes. Yea or Katie-Y*Alfi5dJ-e Water ae a Figure of Speech. Probably there Is nothing under the sua |
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