The Thanksgiving Turkey.
'My itcxi," Huid Miotic** Fox,
•You're CIUIIIMV ** XN OX,
Tl* now ThHiikHgiving limo,
Tin* merry toll* wU chime;
liut we tuu> ditii vM,
While Ikdib v.il curve
A Jim in- turkey on In* Initio;
thet hiiil, ii you ere nlii*.
You're HO luxy,
For piny so ernxy;
N- fpitne you ovci lnotjuh*-
No chicken ever cuiifchl.
For t* time ol 11 u • 1 .muk giving
Or for our dully living.''
Young Foxy frit ijuito xad,
When rnllod a clutmtv loci
An ♦ jiixt nt night,
With nil hi* might,
fir run to Funnel I>olihVn yard,
And found the tuikey oil Inn gu ml.
Without n word,
He choked the bird;
Then proud y dung Idtii on hi* heck,
And took lor home the nhoriwt track
"(lIMKI boy, my son* You are no ox;
I'm proud of you," mud Minim**® Fox.
"Oi name and fnuie vou lite the winner,
And wo have got I'll oik^^iring dinner;
While Farmci I>:IM niui ln three tun.
Must dine U|* i nil ancient hen."
BEHIND THE CHIMNEY.
A niAN'KSIII VI Ml STORY.
It was Thanksgiving foremen, and
can it I*-? Yes. it wa tliirty years
ago! Lou Hempstead and I had visit
ed the pantry to see the |i-s which
had baked the day before in th
big stone oven.
"There's mince, apple, and pump
kin'" said I,ou, in a voice full of r> lish.
"And two little turnovers!" 1 ex
claimed, quite sure in my own mind
who would eat tin m.
Then we came back in time to watch
grandmother :ts she turned the turkcv
before the tire. The fireplace wa
built of great stones, and was so deep
and broad that many a tine I ha I sat
In one corner of it on a little stool
watching the log'* burn and crumble
into coals. Hut this day the Pre was
too big and hot, and the long crane
hi Id throe or four iron pots, all bub
bllng and steaming, ready to cook the
vegetables for dinner. There was .1
tin "baker" before the lire, and in that
Lay the turkey in a pan. slowly brown
ing. and smelling so good, we little girls
thought.
Father and mother had gone to
meeting to hear the Thanksgiving ser
num. and Aunt Ann was busy setting
the table in the "keeping room."
I<nu and I stood" by the lire till our
checks grew too rod and hot to bear it
any longer, and then we ran ofT to
play. There was a tall chest of
drawers in the keeping room, and in it
was one little square drawer which
had lost its brass handle rhis had a
fascination for us because it was hard
to open, and because it held odds and
ends. After several trials we got it
open, and rummagixl among the but
tons and spools and things, till we
came across a Wooden ball, carved
Willi a jm k "knife, and inside it a
second ball | artly done.
"Oh, how pretty!" I cried. "May 1
have it. Aunt Ann ?"
bhc looked at the ball and shook her
bead.
"Put it bark. Maidle," she said
"Your grandmother thinks all tin
world of that. Giles began it before
be went to sea."
I could remember my I "neb- < lilcs, a
tall. Mr >ng Isw of seventeen when he
went to sea. That was more than
two years before, and they had not
beard from him for a year. I knew
grandmother felt anxious about him,
and that tears < ame into tu-r eyes when
be was mentioned, but 1 wa- a
thoughtless child, and had not taken il
to heart myself.
"When he comes home he can make
another," I said.
"I'd put it right back. Maidie," said
Aunt Ann, as she turned awav to get
out the best spoons.
lint I thought I would play with II
a little while lirst. and I kept it in my
band when we shut the drawer.
Then Lou and I went up garret to
Ind the kittens. There they were.
Utile heaps of fur. asleep in the dusty
aonshine. We roused them up for a
Iridic, and made thetn beg and hold
out their paws. '1 hen we wanted
something they could roll about, and I
put the little carved wooden ball down
on the floor, only meaning to leave it
there a minute till Lou got a spool out
of her pocket.
Hut the kittens were so full of play,
they sprang at it as quick as a flash,
ami rolled It along the floor towards
the lioard partition. I ran after them,'
and caught them both, but I eould not
ffnd the ball.
"It's gone through that hole in the
boards," said Lou, w hen we had search
ad behind boxes and barrels in vain.
"Let's go around and get it," I re
plied.
The Imard partition separated the
great dark space which waa nearly all
•arupied by the chimney, built of huge
rough * tones, whose foundation rest
ad on the solid earth, far below, but
which, though lessening in siz to
wards the top, was still so large there
by the garret stairs that it seemed like
a stone tower. On either side, be
t ween the chimney and the garret par
titions, was a dark, narrow, cavernous
space, where the projecting stones
made a foothold, and where broken
chairs hud been stowed away, making
a sort of barricade. The darktie.-s
was almost blackness as we looked in
from the t< p of the stairs.
"Your aunt Ann will scold if you
lose that ball," said Lou Hempstead.
"You don't know, she isn't your
aunt; you're only third cousin!" 1 re
plied on the defensive, but secretly
uneasy.
1 peered into the dark opening until
my eyes became used to the gloom, and
I could see, past the broken chairs, two
or three pus es of hoard resting '>ll the
stones, and at the very farthest part al
most was something that might be the
hull.
"1 see it! I'm going in after it 1" I
exclaimed.
"Don't you do it ! You'll get killed !"
said 1.011.
"Hut I pushed in by the chairs and
reached the lirst board safely. There
1 stood, leaning against the chimney,
till I could see belter, and then 1 peer
ed along on tin-next liourl. Yes, that
surely w.is the woi MII-ll carved ball a!"
must at the end, half under a cobweb.
1 took a step or two farther, and set
my foot on the second board. Then I
liHikisl mi ami down into what si eiu
ed an abyss of darkle --, but tar below
wis a little gleam of light. lor an
instant I stood wondering what it
could be, and then I took another step
reaching my hand to gra-p the ball.
The board tilted under my foot. I
fe't myself dipping in'• > the h rror of
larktu I lic.xid Lou scream, and I
<-liit-ln-1 despairingly at the rough
stones beside me. in that wav 1
•
steadied myself, ami tlnn I -hut my
eves till 1 got confidence enough to
steprautiuu-ly backward and mover
my fo ding on the first plank. It vv.i
sueh a relief when I felt l.oii Ileiii|>-
stcad catch hold of my dress IN bin 1.
"I'll hold on and pull, Maidie'" she
-aid, in n terror-stricken voice; but by
that time it was easy work to crtvvl
, 1 ;e-t the chairs back to the stair-top
' again.
"Hut the ball is lost forever now!" 1
-aid. ruefully, for even a-s I slippi-l, I
had 1 card it bound off among the
stones.
"Never mind." said Lou.coniforting.
I>-
"But I 1/0 mind." I replied, "for I
shall have to tell grandmother, and
that will make her tlunk of I'nile
i.ib-s, and she'll cry Anyway.though,
1 won't tell her till after dinner," 1
added.
J.Oll smoothed my dress and hair,
and then we went down -airs. No
bndv had missed us. and Aunt Ann
was ju-t setting the chairs around the
table.
"Dinner's almut ready to take up.
girl-," she said, "and, Maidie, there's
your father and mother coming now."
The chicken-pie, the biscuits and
butter and jelly, were already on the
table, and we ran to tie- kitchen t-> see
Aunt Ann take up the turkey and
grandmother dish the vegetable*.
"The turnips are ma-hed and the
onions are seasoned." said grand
mother. "I'm just going to take up
the JH it itoes. For mercy's sake, Ann.
what's this?"
"I don't know," said Aunt Ann; "it
isn't a jsitatn!"
Wo pressed closer.
"(Hi! oh! it's the wooden hall!" 1
cried. "It's the wooden ball! I hst it
down behind the chimney, and it fell
into the potato-pot!"
I looked up and there was a little
open space where the chimney stones
above projected unevenly against the
boards of the kitchen w all. And that
was where the light had crept through.
Grandmother said afterwards that she
left tho lid off the potatoes just a mo
ment while she went to the dresser to
get some salt to throw In. so they
would b iil white.
Hut at the time of the discovery, all
she said was, "Giles' hall! I'oor liny!
where is he now?" In a trembling
voice.
I was sure she was going to cry, and
I felt so had I ran out past mother,
wo wa* talcing her lionnet off.
th. uigh the door and down to the
ga And I leaned against It and
cried myself, for what with the terror
and excitement and reaethm of the
whole thing, 1 was all unnerved. I
did not hear a quick step that came up
i the road, nor see the tall young man in
■ blue who approached me. till 1 felt his
hand on my shoulder, and looked up
to nu-et his bright eyes shining down
upon my tearful ones.
"Aren't you my little niece?" he ask
i ed. gaily.
1 "Oh, I'ncle Giles! I knew you
i wasn't drowned!" I exclaimed; and
- then he lifted me on his shoulder and
I took me to the house In triumph.
Then my dear, precious grandmother
had no need to shed any more tears, '
except for pure happiness, and the; day I
was a day of thanksgiving Indeed. — '
Youths'! 'om/ianimt.
A ({I I Kit lIUtHATION.
.% •• Old Sen rnitUlii'a llotiar Ifttillf Out
l Mii|vrrrka.
There is a queer little nook down on
the coast below >anta Barbara, into
which a reporter found his way a few
days ago, it is the wreck of a vessel,
|trrhed high anion;,' the sandhills ii|nm !
the I'alos Verde* ranelio upon the
shores of >an I'edro hay. It is tint
lioiii" of a vivacious, eccentric individ
ual, an old salt named Captain.). I',
.lanes, who ho.i-.ts of having met and
vanquished, single-handed, the repriv
sentativis of the lllost powel fill
monopoly on the Pacific cutest. "Come
and see iny miiseum," said .lanes to
the reporter, who was weather hound
on San I'edro wharf, with the mercury
stea lily crawling up above the one
hundredth decree. "Jt is a ipiccr i
place, hut I ain't ashauieil of it, and its
cooler down here; beside, I want to
show you my lawsuits. I have .
twcnty-cight of them, all of them nail- (
isl upon the wall, and ea h one repre
sents money."
The "queer place" was found hi a
dry arroyo, or sandy guleh. upon the
north side of >an Ihslro harisir. It is
a handsome, sipiare house, with a
piazza extending all around it and a
tlagxtafT surmounting the whole. \t
a distance it presents the appearance
of a ta-ty little hotel and o\. r the top
can he seen pa,nte I upon the -.tern of
some wrcckisl ship the words "Ocean
Villa." It is only when one enters .
the neat little enclosure about the
house tha' i' trie- cha a tcr is oh- r -
able. The li .use and its w hole sur
roundings are made up of portions of
J wrecks. The garden feme, the plants,
the ornaments nil around bear tha
.gri- ■! the se.i. I he hou-' is a co'ii
hitlat.on of bulwarks, hulk lie, elI"- k
ers and cabins Th<. prinripal room
is the cabin of >:ue lir-t class ship;
the r.x'.ii above it is the cabin of a
bark. The kitchen i the galley of a
wrecked merchantman, and each and
all of tie many u;>artnicntx ar- citle r (
" abuts, w !o-elho'ises or sik;ng g.illeys
trans;, rr—l from some dismantled
craft wrc kc' ujm.h the I ay. No tw <
r'Miins are alike mu all are construct
"I so as to pr -. r.c their original up
! (-.trance on tie shij. they Wife built
upon. Nitiio ar- sini-s 1,• l in nitural
wimnls atul s..uic are <eiled with wi*l
of the most expensive char.e'er.
It is, in fact, a house mile up of
wrecks gathered together by Captain
.lares, :ts a waterman on the sou h ;
- -.it during ten year; Tleprin pal
portions of the le.iise are fr m aw reck
of tie A b-l.teb-C.Mipcr, which was>a.st
ashore during a *oiitliea-ier alsnit
three y.-iirs ago. The interior walla
are covered with marine curiosities
gathered by sailors in all portions of
ttie world. The collection of hand
work made by sailors is perhaps the
best on this Coast. The modi-Is of
ships and quaint • art ,ngs are splendid.
The most remarkable curiosity of all is
a large star formed out of legal docu
ments from the courts and sheriff's
; office, and naibsl upon the wall. I
"Those papers." said Captain lanes, in
explanation, "are my lawsuits. I keep j
them on exhibition like an Indian does
his scalps. Those are suits I have had
brought against me by the Southern
Pacific and by General Phim-as Ban
ning to drive rnc away from this spot. (
I hate defied them all and have 1
wliipjss) Vm I atn here yet and
there's my l>ats, those three little
i sloo|s anchored in front of my house.
1 own this land antl the water front,
and all I have about me is paid for.
When me and my wife came here w-e
bad not a dollar, and wo lived In a lent i
made out of an old sail. Vow lam
independent and next month shall
starv a newspaper, the .Son Pnlrn fihip
i ping tiujelt*. I am no scholar, never
went to school; I atn a sailor, but I
have made up my mind to grow rich
with San I'edro."— Santa liarbara
( ''al .) lwUjvniimt.
Position Is Kverythlng.
•■What do you think of my picture?"
asked an amateur of an old artist as he
held It before him.
The old man looked at it a moment
and replied:
"Stand a little further off." The am
ateur backed away with a gratified
look. "A little farther, please." The
I amateur hacked over near the open
( door and the old man kept his eye on
( the picture. "Still further—another
( step or t4o, please." Hy this time the
> amateur was out in the hall etill holding
( up his picture. "Now shut the door."
Tba amateur obeyed. "There," tloat
ed the voice of the old fellow over the
transom, "it looks !>etter In that post*
tton than In any other ; please keep It
I so until I get the door locked." And
. the amateur didn't get down stain
soon enough not to hear the chuckling
laugh of the old gentleman on the In
r side Merchant Traveller.
' HCIKNTIFIL' HUKAPM.
1
I By careful measurements, Prof l>.
P. JYiihiillow has determined the root
and the leaf an as of the Indian corn
! plant to be approximately equal.
The lad observations indicate that
I wo are distant from the miii about
!1'2.7<K,0U0 miles. These arc figures
obtained as near as may be from the
observations of the last Venus tran
sits.
Prof. P. Parsky lias cxporimcntisl
with Hiilpliiiiic acid as one of its
sodium compounds for manuring
clayey soil. Both were without action
upon moi-t -oils, and caused a r< duc
ti.iii of the yield of a dry soil.
Were a man weighing IVI pounds
endowed with the strength of a
beetle, some time ago exhibited In lr.
Tie bold at a sejentitle meeting, lie
should be able to move IfW.IKMI pounds'
or nearly l'kt tons. The insect weighed |
two grains, and tinned 2.M0 grains.
Tinec the eonstruetiun of railways
in Italy malarial disea <• has ln-come
more prevab-nt and more severe than
before. It is so| | osi d that this effect
1 is due to the infim-ncc ■ xcrted i-y the
numerous earth cuttings neo sary for
tin- lay ing of I ra- ks, and to tin greater
use wati-r.
The introduction of tri< i'y as a
übstitute for lamps and candle- - n
I" ard ship is making raj.id progress-
Ther* is one source of afcty in this
to the shij. and the J a-si-ngers All
light- an- put out at 1! o'clock After
this time people may talk in tin dark,
but tin re is n . p.. . i.ility of r<"kl"-s
ll of lights and lamps.
Tin- hen lias in her oviiri-in r-und
nuiulsTs. in- r- than ti") germs, which
de\ clop gradually ami ar* -icocs*i vely
laid. Of tin-*- Osi tin hen will lay
twenty in her lirst y. ar, bin in ln-r
second and 114 in her third. In each
one •-( tin following f> ur years the
number of eggs will 1- d n unshod by
twenty, and in In r ninth year sin will
lay at most t<n eggs. In order to ob
tain from them sufbeient j rnduct to
cover tin i-xjmlisc of abiiientat ion.
tin y -hollld let be alb'W is) to lix C over
( four years.
A Wound Prom a Stag's Horn.
Throughout the West Highlands, a
wound from a stag's horn is la-!ie\i>l
to be very danger- us It is difficult to
cure, and often causes extreme debility
and had health. < hum k'-ej-ers, forest'
ers, and tln-ir assistants dn-ad it ex
treinelv, ami say that a dog which re
reives such a w.iun-1 usually dies from
, gangrene or mortification of tin-sore,
however slight it may m--hi at first.
If he recovers, the result is almost
equally unsatisfactory; the dog becomes
paralytic in the wounded limit or
ep.leptie, or if he has Iss-n a wise and
intelligent creature, he now lieeotnc*
p< rf'-etiy stupid. The author of
I "Nether Ia-haU-r" wan [*ts nally ac
quainted with a line-b.king young
man. an assistant for<--ter, wh>. in
helping to take a dead stag off a lull
pony's hack, wa- ( üb-ntally w..umbsl
in the leg by one of the tinm. lie did
not think much of the w "tind at the
time. It was an ugly. ragged gash.
! but not deep, and he had more than
i once had iitucli more serious wounds
which had healed at once easily "by
the first intention," as the do tors say,
This wound from the (lea*! stag's horn
would not, however, heal; none of the
salves or ointments or healing tmsliea
i merits of the glen had the b-ast effect
u|on It. It always Ix-eatne the longer
the wrse, and when Mr "stewart saw
tlx* yotiftg man he was on his way to
(ilasgow to sis* if the skill of the
doctors there could counteract the dire
effect of the Rtag'a horn.--( hamt*rs
Journal.
l isten. Boys 1
Wordsworth savs. "The Boris Father
of the Man." and the Cleveland, (Ohio)
Farmer offers this good advice to
aspiring Im>vs:
The highiwt attainment for you, my
boy! Is to he a man. This world is
full of counterfeits. But It Is a grand
thing to stand upright in defence of
truth and principle. When persecu
tions come, some hide their faros until
the storm passes hy; others can le
bought for a mess of pottage. From
such an one, turn away. But stand hy 4
a friend; lie a man; do not run away
when danger threatens to overwhelm
him or yourself. Think for yourself.
Bead good lsHiks and read men's faces. ;
The eye Is the window to the soul; tiaa
jour eyes and hold your tongue. If
op|Mieition come* meet it manfully. If
success crowns your efforts lear It quiet
ly. Do your own thinking and keep
your own secrets, worship no man for
hia wealth nor his linasge. Fine
feathers don't always cover fine birda.
Be sober, lie honest, be just in all your
dealings with the world; be trua They
will sell you for money or popularity;
don't trust them. Wear but one faaa
and Ist that be an honest one,
PKARLH (IK THOUUIIT.
Anger and haste hinder good conn,
sol.
Ridicule dishonors more than dis
honor.
No solitude is so solitary as that of
inharmonious companion ,ip.
One ungrateful man does an in
jury to all w ho stand in m-ed of aid.
Kiridm n is the only charm permitted
to the age.l; it is the cxjiietry of white
hair.
lix|icrii-riee is a torch lighted in
the ashes ol our liojsm ami delu
sions.
There is no greater (b light than t.
la; conscious of sincerity on .-elf-exami
nation,
Ooniparison, more than reality
makes men happy, and can make them
wretched.
j We should seek more of the practical
i realities of everyday life and b-x of
the ether' al.
We must consider humanity - .i
man who continually grows old am!
alw ay, learns.
Wondrous is the strength of cheer
fulness; altogether past calculation It •
power of endurance.
It is so easy to meditate on a far-oil
hcroi-m, so lifSi< ult t cut oft i l.'ti
self-indulgence quite m ar at hand
Losing silver to Hnd Gold.
•"he old and feeble atel the 'll
- li.el almost to lift ln-r into th*
ear. v b hobbled t*i a•- at and (b-js>s
iting her i undle on the tloor, yr' ■ <-i'-1
to fumble in ln-r j> - ket f.-r ln-r fan
Aft'-r m icii searching sh' j r -lm- 1 a
quart- r. w Inch she handed to tia* < on
duetor. lb- returrnsl the (\ange to
her trembling lingers, but 1-'fori -!>'•
could put it Hi h'T pocket, a piece
|r -bably a ditin f< -11 to the lb --r and
was lost oetwe tit! " slat- at lor feet.
In vain d.d sin- try to timl .t. It j.a m
(sl 10-r to i• tj 1 w, an l, w •(, .i b .
of resignation, lo g.r.ett uji. A tail
man dr--s.-i ttr b.a- k. -at f.i it.,* her,
and Wat* In 1 10-r mt'-ritly a-slo-b-;n<-1
l-ai-k in lo*r s.-at. 111- haml w<-nt t--
hi- jss-ket, then, st s-ping f--rw ltd,
appearisl t" le 1 i.:rig for the 1 .-t
coin, and with an "Ah. here it is
madam," he slret- 10-i In- h.ni l to th<-
floor and raising it ibjs->-itsl tlo
money in her la; lb r-• and imme
diately left the car. The oil woman
la- koned to the conduct r ami, si --w
-ing bitn a five dollar gold j i'-cc,
;isk(-i if he h;el nt gj\en it her ! y
mistake. 11. a--ur--! le ihe had given
lor two dimes. >he e--uld not under
stand how- she ante by it, but a few
of the pa-sengcrs culd, an , a- -lo- put
licr hand to her face to hide the tears
of joy that dimmed 10-r eyes, some <-ne
whisjerisl the strang'-r's name- II- is
one of the best known philanthropist
in New York, a uo- Isr of a fain iy
nob-l for many years far and wide for
its countless g<sl <lesls. A>r Y-,ri.
Tribune.
Composition of the Mad-tone.
>e\ or al instance- of applying the
ma<lstone to j-dsonous snake bites
have lss-n report's! by the Western
newspa]>ers recently, and the t'-stim.-
ny of the patients is that in every < .v
the stone has absorbed the jsiison. It
is a popular ls-lief in some j>rt.s of
the country that a person who
pmauus one of these stones is artned
against all venomous creatures; but
the savants agree that the loadstone j
nothing more than the concretion
foand in the stomach of the deer, and
that It ha- n<> niedi- al properties xvhat
ever. I'rof. Holmes, the Atlantic
CoivHtution says, dissected one the
si/e of a hen's egg, and found its
nucleus to 're a jwrfcct white oak
acorn. It was covered by four layers
of phosphates and carbonate of lime
and iron and some silex. There were
two Impressions, apparently made by
the teeth of the deer Iwifore swallow- j
ing the nut. Acorns are a favorite
food of Carolina deer. In another
specimen I'rof. Holmes found the
nucleus to be a bullet.
Kronen Meat.
Meat Is now frozen in Sydney and
sent in refrigerated chambers by steam
ers to London. The hulk Kira (4e.no
' va is fitted up with the freezing appa
ratus in Darling harlmr and can ac
commodate the carcases of 10,000
sheep or 1000 bullocks. The cold is
produced by compressing air. cooling
it, then permitting It to suddenly ex
paml. In this ways tmnperature of
72 degrees l>elow zero is obtained in a
few seconds. This coid air is then let
Into the freezing chamber where the
carcases hang. A sheep is completely
frozen In thlrty-elx hours, a bullock In
live or six hours. The frozen carcases
are transferred to the freezing rooms
of the Orient steamers and conveyed
to Kngiand, at extra cost for freight
and freezing of 3d. per pound on the
price of tks meat In Sydney.
STORIES OF FORTL'ME.
tl*>w m Wmirr Well BNAIIIF AN OH Wrll
AND MM oil Wfll M UALCR %Vrll
"Thlk about tumbles in the price of
oil," Hiti'l a veteran operator on the
Bradford Petroleum Exchange to u
newspaper <-orrespondent the othei
lay, "nothing like tic- one of th- win
ier of 1 >-< hat been known in tho
i-iijijern 'lay- of the trifle. Toat was
the winter iha .!<•*,•■ Hcvdrick put
down the up] Farmer*' are! Meehanb *'
"•ell, or rather the company that he
formed p ' ;t >lown, arrl that wa* the
irst company ever ferried to develop
, the oil territory. The welicarne m g<>od
for alxnjt kito barrel* a 'lay, and half
of it couldn't be taken ' are of, but ran
down the < e#!. m a pgular (1 >#L *>j 1
w;t* oil then, an I wan worth fl'i a
barrel. Pitt-burg was the only mar
ket, and we bad only or" way to get
"il there, ami that wa* by running it
in barge* <1 wn the Alb-ghany river
from ' iil (it v. ' course it was neeev
-ury t-i have freshetto tran*j>ort it in
thi* way. The winter that !I<-rdri''k
n k hi* well the river \*a* fro/en
over, but he wa* leiim i to get some
oil to J'.ttsbiirg il<- succeed#*! in
cutting away thro igh, and ran ten
I'iit boats down lie old all his oil
for i a barrel Ihe nevt d a thaw
set in, and in t\v i day* the riv-r broke
up. Then the baa', began to run. and
.n a short time the m wa- ovr
' • '-1. and Hi !'-•* t all a weei. oil
w a v-ihtig at it -.i irrel
"The early day- of oil pro taction
w • r<- attends*) by many <-urious inci
!'n" • Site <d tie- aeerest wa* a
stre.ai fi i< a well owner struck on
the 'TO'k in 1-•> I Jl- had drilled a
w • 11 'low at • the third - in 1. but found
nothing l it water, and th <• ■ days'
continuou rig li >1 to 1 ririg
anything <1 •• t , the surfa .*" he
a 1 ari'l'irifl the well in leg .t. j |,e
next day a ri'-igti r of his. who was
operating on an adjoining b am-, nuns
over to -ee the i.-g well owner,
and info; :ue<l him w.th much ev.to
ne nt. that -jr. tr.e joirn, ng of water
llifl eeiis. 1 at his well great troll! -ft
had resulted at tie other well, which
bad y.- id'-l thirty bare Is of oil a bay
as lung as tie wat< • wa* l-;ngpum} >l,
but up rt t,he • f the water
j' my rig had lied w.th water and
I reduced ri" ni<>re oil
■ ihe re-ult wa- that the man who
ewti'sl the producing well hirssl the
I'-* for" ina'e opera'-t ■ keep hi*
ji ;rn; going, t r which he paid him
#l"a we k. Tie pr luring well wa*
thus rest >r#*d to its former condition
and thing- w rued satisfactorily for
■•ivm, n'Us. when suddenly n<-day the
*•11 that hail been yielding nothing
! it water 1 • gan pumping ml. and the
ne that ha! ye) led >..] n turn Ixv-ame
a water w'lL The changed situation
re*ult<"l iri a law ut. whn h wa* won
by the owner of the well that had first
yielded m thing tot water."
How a Pig Made a President.
About this tune in knot* about the
sunny corner* and around depots and
hotels, when j>litial stories are in
• rder. you w ill occasi nail} hear soma
• •Id stager remark that "a pig onoe
made Andrew .laikvri president" It
w as never my fortune to inert one who
could remetnler how itV*m<* alniut,
but in a copy of the Afn+rinun Trartltr
for 1 lercnilor lit, ],}*. Wing volume
IV., No. -'•<>. I find ali the particular*,
which 1 copy for the Wnefit of the .So
ciety for the I'erjadnation of Old
Morie*.
It appears that away back in the
<arly daw n of the nmeteeenth century,
in the town of Cranston, R 1.. Mr.
SomeUxlv's pig smelt a cabbage in a
neighUir's garden—he rooted through
the fence and demoralized said garden
the gurden-ow ner sued the pig proprie
tor—James Burrill w as the prosecuting
attorney—the prosecuting attorney was
a candidate for the I'nited States
senate— the senator was chosen by the
state legislature—in that Usly there
was a tie, occasioned by the absence of
one of RurriU's party, who staid away
on account of lawsuit aforesaid - the
said tie was unravelled by the casting
vote of the speaker in favor of Burrill'a
opponent, Jeremiah B. Ilowell—Jere
miah voted for the war. which James
would not have done- the war was
made by a majority of one in the
national sen ate that war made Gener
al Jackson popular that popularity
gave Jackson the presidency.— Boston
(Hob*.
Explicit Introduction*.
They tell this story of the widow of
President Buchanan's first Postmaster
General, she hail .een married before,
and ao had Postmaster General Brown,
and each hail a daughter left over v
from the first marriage. Then they
had another daughter. Mrs. Brown
uaed to present them at her receptions
in this way: "This Is Miss Brown,
Mr. Brown's daughter by Ida first
wife; this is Miaa Sanders, my daugh
ter by my first husband, and this la
Miss Brown, our joiat daughter."