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Harper's Weekly.
Of CONSENT.
ember night when
-tden.
of those new, un
require the brlght
greehest frames of
make tlioiri - at all
ia the gray, uncom-
or the November
oked dreary enough,
siiey of the now silk
the hciulock woods,
;U Anuo depot, the
Jro a strong family re
lilu'i wooden toyf and
to the left, which re
ughtful looker-on trf a
ation in an unfinished
rid .Mm. Nedley, as she
ler. "A queer place,"
bo was there to meet her
on and a white-nosed old
t nhvays choose where
?," said Phebe; wha was
tc of antagonism td Mrs.
Hampden is good enough
' lilip?" asked Mrs. Nedley.
well," said Phebo, as she
pot boy to hoist Aunt Ned
to the wagon.
rrow wns Airs. Ncdlcy's fa
8w She had paid his bills
Hierintcudod hl,."ytuncsand
I share for Lira in the
-)t," said Mrs. Nedley,
Ind Phebo and I never
together. And I -want
in the world."
, few days a new claimant
Aviiht Ncdlcy's protection
nsideration.
lire, she is no relation to
-Mrs. Ncdly. "Hut her
i my dearest friend, and I
(J adopt her 'for mv sake.' "
as scarcely an hour from the
yiiivh she learnod that Sylvia
a on orphan that she wrote a
,.er to tlio girl asking her to como
J-lnst lor a visit.
you like it, my dear, there need
occasion for your going back," she
. ' '.H o are both alone. Let us be
,)ftniuJi3 to one another."
he had waited and waited and no
Iy had arrived; and whilo she
lited a plan had developed itself in her
hid.
"If she is her mother's daughter she
t't help being pretty," said Mrs. Ned
, "Phil is a handsoruo lad. S'ae
II marry Phil I"
ltd this explains Mrs. Nedley's prea-
K at namuen.
M suppose yon aro still keepinir
e for Philip?" said she to Phebe.
Key drove along in tho chill twi-
Ko," said Phebe, skillfully cuidinir
buihorso down a steep place in tho
boards, eh?"
said Mrs. Nedley.
board," answcied
keeps house for
R), jlm don't
v "His wife
PhiV said Mrs. Nedley.
iv is -married," announced Phebe,
much in . tho ton j in which she
h have said: "It's i i.Ul evening,"
(ji- train is late." .
r married!" repeated the old
-.married! Stop, Phebe; don't
vc a. htcp further! Turnaround at
,ce. Take me back to the station. I'll
tun to Concord."
'iia't you going to see Philip?"
,kp d I'Lobc.
,-vS'ot if he's married," answered Mrs.
N'cdle;, i;l a choked voice,
v ',' He's i got a proper, nice wife,"
deadet 1,'neue. " lou'll like her."
N, I shan t," answered Mrs. Ned-
Ill ; I . r -i -i.i i
ev. ' i junp niarricu. i iieDe, n you
on't turn around, Pll get out and
alk." '
A. M's. Nedlev's will was like adamant.
and Fhcbc Harrow waslorccu tosuccuuibfl
;to it. (
.And so it happened that Phebe auij
the white nosed pony arrived, solitary
'jmd alone, at the little cottage of tlie
i'luill superintendent half an hour late)'.
. I'hi1 dime out into the porch, carrying
a lamp i" iis hand.
i Mrs. Phil ran after him, with r pink
j apron tied around her trim waiat and
her brown fiingo of hair blowirig back
J from her forehead. J
Where's my aunt?" taid' Phil, as
Phebe jumped out. " Didn't shacouits?"
' " Bhe came, '' said Phebe, curtly ; " but
ie's "one Lack again." '
"Gone back, again I" I
"Ye-''. didn't likj it because
ou've mai l :t;il ; bo she's V;one bai k bv
e b;0i wain."
"Oh, rhil!" cried Mrs. Barrow, who
was a round, cherry checked little woman,
with soft, hazel eyes and a mouth like a
rosebud. "What shnll we do? Why
didn't you consult her before you mar
ried me?"
Phil Barrow broke iuto a great laugh.
"My dear," said he, "it wasn't her
consent I wanted ; it was yours."
"Oh! But Phil, she has done so much
for you."
"She's a good soul, but she's eccentric,"
said tho mill superintendent, "00 iu,
Phebe, and get your tea."
"I'm sure I can't eat a mouthful,"
said Mrs; Phil, despairingly, "And the
biscuits I ntixed myself; and the fried
chickcri, and tho White mountain cake
oh, Phil! oh, Phil!"
"Don't fret, dear," said Phil, . "my
Aunt Nedleyias missed A very good sup
per; that I can1 tell her."
"But I've blighted yoiir future," said
Mrs. Barrow, tragically seizing tho
sugar tongs.
" We'll go to Concord to-morrow and
8"c the old lady," soothed Phil. "She
must surrender if she sees you, wifcy."
Phebe chuckled grimly.
"That's all very well," said she, "but
you forget th ,t an old lady and a young
man dou't lc-.-it at a girl with the same
eyes."
" Ilold vour tonp-ue, rhebc." said the
mill superintendent. " Where's the use
of always croaking?"
And then Mrs Phil began to laugh.
and ' Phebe, who after her crabbed
fashion, was fond cf her pretty young
sister-in-law, laughed also; and, after all
the clrtintjr little supper was eaten and
enjoyed, even though Aunt Nedley'a
face was steadfastly turned toward (iln
cord. y
Her own firesido had never secmcirso
solitary and dreary as it., did upon that
November night.
The maids, gossiping in the kitchen,
were called upon to rekindle the dead Are.
The tea, smojt and half cold, was
served, and Mrs. Nedley was just re
solving to go to bed when Betsey
brought a letter.
"Pcstman, mum; he left it a week
ago," said she. "It had fallen down
back of the letter box."
"Ah," said Mrs. Nedley, fitting on her
spectacles and scrutinizing the seal and
directions, "from Silvi. Gray ! Now I
shall have some one to lova in Philip's
place', " - - -
But she hftd not read three lines before
sho flung tLo letter indignantly on the
sulking tire.
"Married 1" she exclaimed. "That
child ! Is everybody crazy to get married,
I wonder? And she hopes I'll excuse
her, but her husband thinks folly and
nonsense! What is her husband tome?
Betsy, my chamber candle!"
"Bless me, ma'am!" said Betsy.
"What has happened?"
"Everything!" said Mrs. Nedley.
"Don't let me be called before eight
o'clock to-morrow morning. I almost wish
that I could go to sleep and sleep forever"."
And Mrs. Nedley, In the silence and
solitude of her own room, fell to think
ing to what charitable institution sho
could leave her money.
With tho Psalmist of old she could
earnestly have cried, "Vanity of vanities,
all is vanity."
"I loved Philip," sho said, "and I
had set my heart on Silvia and such a
match it would have been!"
She was sitting at her luncheon the
next day, with the cockatoo on one side
of her and tho poodle on the other? when
Betsy opened the door.
"Pleas3, ma'am," said Betsy, "com
pany." "Betsy," said Mrs. Nedley, severely,
"I told you I was not at home to anybody
to-day."
"Please ma'am," giggled Betsy, "he
would come in."
"Who 'would oomc in?" said Mrs.
Nedley.
"It's me, Aunt Nedley," said Philip
Barrow, "andmywife. Don't bo vexed."
The tall young mill superintendent
camo in, with his pretty wife hanging
on his arm.
"Won't you kiss me, Aunt Nedley?"
said Mrs. Phil, putting up her rosebud
lips "for mv mother's sake?"
"Eh?" said' Mrs. Nedley.
"Didn't you get my letter?" said
Philip's wife.
"Letter?"
Mrs. Nedley was more convinced than
ever now that she was asleep and dream
iug. "I wrote you all about it," said Mrs.
Thil. "Don't you know? I am Silvia
Gray. I met Philip when he came out
to Denver to look at the new mill ma
chinery, and he would be married im
mediately. - He said he was sure you
would forgive him. Will you forgive
him, Aunt Nedley '"
"Yes, my dear; I will," said Mrs.
Nedley,,her face brightening up like the
full moon peeping through mist wreaths;
"but why didn't they tell me you were
Silvia 'Gray?"
"Philip wanted to surprise you," said
Silvia, hanging her head.
'Well, he has surprised me," said
A unt Nedley.
Sho went back to Hampden with the
mill superintendent and his wife, and
slept in tho pretty pink and white bed
room which Silvia hail prepared for her
with so much pains; and she praised
Silvia's chicken salad and prune pies,
and she even condescended to approve
of Phebo's half-completed silk counter
pane; for life was all couloir de rose for
liei now. '. Marion Crawford.
Taking a Thumb Oath.
Iu the council chamber of an old Ger
man town, famous for rare aud quaint
memorials of the very long ago, Li pre
served with wondrous care a very singu
lar bit of gold smithery. It is ";he
liurgered crystal," an enameled relic
buxwith a lock crystal upon the top,
aud uuon this the burhcr of Luueburc
j placed a thumb when required to take
I m oath, llarpvr't Jjatar.
V QUEER GAMBLING SCENE.
riSIT TO A CHINESE GAMUT Cr HOTJSI
XXT OAWTOW.
Retting- on a Flirht lietween Two
'r ket In n Porcelain Howl
I light of the uamnilen,
A writer in an English publication dc
icribing a visit paid by him and a com
panion to a gaming house in China, says:
I'reccded by Whang, whose long black
lad and dnrk dress gave him the appear
ing of a huge tadpole, we set out one
evening after sunset to visit one of the
most fashionable of the thousand and
one gaming houses with which Canton is
infested. After about fifteen minutes'
Jmart walking; we arrived at a low nar
row door In a dark narrow street, into
which we , Stooped and Squeezed our
selves, ttnd keeping close it) our conductor's-
"tall," entered a small rocfrri lit by
thrco lanterns' as largo aS regimental
double drums, and of the same shape,
and seven or eight oblate spheroids,
which were dangled about in the hands
of tho gamesters' attendants, and by
some of the sporting gentlemen them
selves, so anxious were they about the
game. "Tseng tow ke!" cried our con
ductor, which being interpreted, means,
"Clear tho way !" But we checked his
rudeness, and declared we only camo as
visitors, and did not intend to bet.
In tho center of tho room was a round
tabio, ornamented at the edaes with a
richly carved ivory rim; in the center of
this table was a large porcelain bowl, of
a delicate white color, veined and
clouded with pale tints of purple; round
this bowl were assembled some fifteen or
twenty Chinese gentlemen, evidently in
a state of intense expectation and impa
tience. At opposite sides of the bowl
stood Chinese attendants, who acted as
backers of the respective combatants,
each being armed with a straw. The
play was now ordered to begin.
Two other attendants immediately
made their way through the crowd, each
with a little carved ivory case having a
gold top of open work liko an aromatic
Bcent-box, Out of the cases were pro
duced two largo crickets. These fight
ing insects aro regularly trained for the
contest by a variety of curious processes.
They are of a dusky color, with strong
legs and thighs, thick bodies, and broad
bull-heads, and have mouths that bite
like the front claw of a little crab. Tho
combatants were placed at the same
time on tho inside surface of the bowl.
and, sliding down quickly, camo against
eacn other, neaa loremost, with a dry,
crisp, cracking sound. But they imme
diately drew back, and began to
manoeuvre in the nir with their front
legs. At sight of this great applause
was elicited from the company.
The gamesters, however, soon became
too impatient to bear this display of
science, and the backers were ordered
to make them "go to work." These
gentry accordingly advanced their
straws, and stirred, and turned, and
poked the crickets, till the poor
creatures became so exasperated at what
they evidently thought to bo the strong
provocation given by each other, that
they reared themselves on their hind
legs, and danced, and bit. and wrestled
with their front legs, and pulled and
scratched, and tore, and rolled over and
over, and jumped up and down, and
slid about, and bled and foamed at the
mouth, until pieces of skin and joints
of legs were strewn quivering over the
bottom of the bowl.
These Chinese gentlemen were all ex
cited to tho highest degree; They also
capered, and slid, and jumped up and
down, and pulrod and scratched, and
squeaked and screamed, and frothed at
the mouth, whilo their eyes were all like
glittering beads. Tbey betted for fly
cakes cakes in which small black flies
are baked byway of currants; but the
thing hazarded is only nominal, gambling
for money being contrary to law. These
nice cakes, however, are privately un
derstood to represent money.
I confess I was at last so absurd as to
become excited myself as the fight went
on, and made several bets of ten cakes,
with the understanding that my cakes
meant ' dollars. My friend, Captain
Bowling, in order to prevent me being
" done," hedged all my bets. I felt cer
tain as to which of the crickets would
win, for one of them had by this time no
atom of wing left, and scarcely half a leg
to stand upon, while the other had one
ragged wing quite entire at tho shoulder,
and three good stumps of thighs.
My bets had by this time amounted to
one hundred dollars, Captain Bowling
having carefully " hedged " to the same
amount with different sporting gentle
men in the room. No sooner, however,
had I mado my bet of the last ten cakes,
than the cricket which was reduced to a
mere trunk, and which, of course, I had
betted against, bit the head of his adver
sary completely off ! There lay the van
quished cricket, and there lay the head,
with the mouth opening aud thutting.
I have not tho slightest idea how it was
done. It all seemed fair enough, and, I
may add, with shame in my participation
in it, barbarous enough bad as our
cock-fighting. But how did it happen
that my cricket lost? Surely some black
leg longtail must have dono tho deed
with an invisible pair of nippers.
llowbeit, I paid the hundred dollars.
Captain Bowling then went laughing
round the room to collect his bets, which
would just have got the money back
again; when suddenly a servant rushed
in as pa'.e as ashes, and cried out that
tlireo mandarins aud a troop of soldiers
were about to surround tho house.
Down came the hirce lanterns from the
ceiling out went those iu the hand
smash went the porcelaiu basin aud
amid the scrambling rush of the crowd
and the crashiug of china under foot I
Was pursued about in the dark, first one
way, then another, till eventually I
fought my way out into the street, by
some other door thau the one by which
I tad entered, tind" fell over thcrprostratn
body of Captain P'w,lifig,-whoi was lying
with his head in a broken' fanterrf, bt
not hurt, with the exception of si few
pretty severo bruises.
The Tip or the Tongtio.
In civilized life we find everything
ready labeled and assorted for iis; wo
comparatively soldom require to roll the
contents of a suspicious bottlo (in very
small quantities) doubtfully upon tho
tongue in order to discover whether it is
pale sherry or Chili vinegar, Dublin
stout or mushroom ketchup. But in the
savage state, from which, geologically
and biologically speaking, we have only
just emerged, bottles and labels do not
exist. Primitive man, therefore, in his
sweet simplicity, has only two modes
open before him for deciding whether
the things he finds are or are not st rict
ly edible. Tho first thing he does is to
stiiff At them, and smell being, as Mr.
Herbert Spencer has well put it, an an
ticipatofy taste, generally gives hiin
somo idea of what the thing
is likely to prove. Tho second thing ho
does is to pop it iuto his mouth, and pro
ceed practically to examine, its lurtner
charecteristics. Strictly speaking, with
the tip of the tongue one can't really
taste at all. If you put a small drop of
honey or of oil of bitter almonds on that
part of the mouth, you will find, no
doubt to your great surprise, that it pro
duces no effect of any sort; you only
taste it when it begins slowly to diffuse
itself, and reaches the true tasting re
gion, in the middle of the distance. But
if you put a littlo cayenne or mustard on
the same part, you will find that it bites
you immediately the experiment should
be tried sparingly whilo if you put it
lower down in the mouth you will swal
low it almost without noticing the pun
gency ol the stimulant. The reason is
that the tip of the tongue is supplied
onlwith. nerves which are really nerves
of ttch, not nerves of taste, proper;
they elong to a totally different main
branch and they go to a different center
in the brain, together with the very
similar threads which supply tho nerves
of smell for mustard and pepper. That
is why the smell and taste of these pun
gent substances aro so mucjfr alike as
everybody must have noticed: a cood
I sniff at a mustard pot producing almost
tho same irritating effects as an incau
tious mouthful. Cornhill.
Making Leather From Catfish Skin.
"When I was shooting on the St.
Francis river in Arkansas, some years
ago, I discovered that cattish skin made
good leather," said Jacob Trungenwalt,
tho fishing tackle maker on Third street,
yesterday, "and 1 havo manufactured it
ever since. I hoard a story when I was
there about a big cattish which had
broken all the nets in the neighborhood,
and I laid for him with my gun beside a
pool which he frequented. I stayed there
all day and was leaving at moonrise,
when I throw the remnants of somo
canned salmon on which I had lunched
into the river. SuddenlyJ saw a huge
black shining object rflll half out of the
water. My heart leaped into my mouth.
1 1 pulled myself together and held my
gun in readiness. lhere was anothet
splash, then bang went my gun, and
floating in the pool I saw the big catfish.
He was dead, the bullet having gone
through, his head. He weighed 100
pounds. Well, sir, I had him skinned
in no time, intending to stuff the skin,
but the fellow I gave the job to made a
botch of it, and brought me the skin
beautifully tanned instead. A happy
thought struck me that I might profit by
the accident, and I started and have since
successfully carried out a catfish skin
tannery. Wo make use of it for every
thing, from shoo laces to slippers, cabas,
pockefbooks and fancy pocket case cov
ers." The leather is light gray in color,
very soft, and Mrs. Trungenwalt says,
"tougher than the hide of a badger."
Philadelphia I'imei.
Don't Use Big Words.
In promulgating your esDteric cogita
tions, or articulating your superficial
sentimentalities and amicable, philo
sophical or psychological observations,
bewaro of platitudinous ponderosity.
Let your conversational communications
possess a clarified conciseness, a com
pacted oomprehcnsibletioMS, coalesce-ut
consistency, aud a concatenated cogency.
Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent
garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine
affections. Let your extemporaneous
descantings and unpremeditated expatia
tions have intelligibility and veracious
vivacity, without rhodomontade or
thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid
all polysyllabic profundity, pompous pro
lixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial
verbosity, aud vaniloqucnt vapidity.
Shun double entendres, prurient jocosity,
and pestiferous profan.iy, obscurant or
apparent. In other words, talk plainly,
briefly, natutally, sensibly, truthfully,
purely. Keep from "slang;" don't put
on airs; say what you mean; mean whit
you say. And don't use big words!
Journal of Education.
A Fortune In Celery.
Fiftecu years ago Lendurt De Brazen,
a Hollander, was a poor gardener near
Kalamazoo, Mich., trying to make a
living off of somo marshy land ho had
purchased. After other things had failed,
ho experimented with celery and is now
a rich innn. What was a dozen years
ago a swamp is to-day a vast celery field,
lx-sido which a bundled aero lot is but a
garden. The shipping season begins in
July, increases until the holidays, then
gradually decreases uutil the crop is dis
posed of in ths spring. Fifty tons daily
are now being sent out, and the crop of
IStji will reach 5,000 tens. Twenty
thousand stalks are Taised upon an acre,
of ground. Tt U said that 2,000 persons
iu that locality aro engaged in this in
dustry. ih iluldplriii Jdsjer.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR W0tf,
Chestnut and mushroom are tho new
fashionable colors. t
in tire English civil service there are
8,200 women clerks.
Sixty-four women etrg-raveTs sarn their
livelihood in England.
Jerseys will bo in greater dcmttxl trt-an
ever this coming spring.
' There aro fifty new shades of brown,
almost as many of green.
There aro 7,162 women missionaries
and preachers in England.
Ten thousand five hundred women
bind English books and 2,303 assist in
printing them.
The newest crepe lisse neck plaitings
are bordered with . very small beads in
pearl, gold or crystal.
flold jewelry set with small stones is
fashionable. These stones are usually
incrusted in a rough surface.
There are 347 female blacksmiths In
England, all of whom actually swing
heavy hammers and do men's work.
A silver cream-colored necklace, for
visiting toilet, has different animals'
heads in raised filigree on its coin drops.
A number of New Haven women have
been selling their hair to raise money for
the necessaries of life. Their husband's
have none to sell.
Mrs. Harriot Smith, of Tuckertown,
Fla., has proved that women have a soul
above the fashions. Sho is making
money by running a large sawmill.
The English clockmakers produce tho
most accurate timekeepers, the French
tho finest decorative clocks, and the
American manufacturers tho best clocks
for a moderate price.
Changeable brown agates, called tiger
eye, are much used for ladies' umbrella
handles. For gentlemen, buckhorn
mounted with silver, or silver chased
with hawthorn blossoms, is preferred.
A new jabot is of point d'Angleterre
and is a combination of pale crepe shirred,
the lace foiming Vandykcd points and
embellished with pale pink satin bows
here and there. It is wider and squarer
than the jabot of last year.
It is said that a lady in New York has
a dress of spun glass, trimmed with cut
crystal beads, the glass being in the
palest amber tone, in exact coloring of
the hair of the fair wearer, who is very
young ind exceedingly beautiful.
An elegant headgear for a matron is
of point de Venice lace caught into a
rosette at left side by a cluster of sunset
rosebuds, and a plain but deep band of
the rich lace forms the cap, which is
wired into a diamond-pointed shape.
White satin foulard," brocaded with
gold-colored buds and leaves, is not a
bad substitute for white satin wrought
with gold, especially when made up
with panels and fan plaitings of gold
colored satin and a ruffle of gold satin
around the entire skirt.
At a recent sale of fans in Madrid one
of ivory, painted by Watteau, which for
mqrly belonged to the Princess Adelaide
of Savoy, fetched $750. A fan painted
by Boucher sold for $950; and another,
painted by Lcbrtin for the Dutchess of
Medina-Cell, brought $ 150.
Brown velvet is much favored by the
London dressmakers as a trimming for
the yellow illusion evening gowns now
so fashionable. It makes a hem more be
coming, even to brunettes, and removes
the slight suspicion of gaudiness which
always clings about a yellow dress.
A new, useful aud unique style of
jewelry has come into fashionable wear
called English crape stone on account
of its having tho light and wavy appear
ance of crape. It is now the most popu
lar, being largely worn by peoplo in
mourning, in place of jet, as it is both
elegant and inexpensive.
Onion sociables are the latest fashion
able novelty in Wyoming Territory. Six
ladies take an onion with them into a
room, and one of them takes a bite out
of it. Then a young gentleman is ad
mitted, and if, after kissing all he fails
to tell which of them bit the onion ill
the girls are obliged to kiss him.
The colors for spring bonnets are six
shades of brown, from deep to light
Havana, thre shades of ecru, several
shades of bluish drabs, decided straw
yellow, Leghorn yellow; cardinal, cherry,
and coquclicot; a newchade of absinthe,
said to be an exact imitation of the in
toxicating bevorago when mixed with
water. The light pinks, blues, and
staple shades of spring are included in
all assortments. .
Miss Maud St. Piere, who is known as
tho "Southern Coal Queen," is the happy
possessor of !300,000 acres of mining
lands situated in Tennessee, Alabama and
Kentucky. She overlooks 22,000 acre3
of mineral wealth from her mountain
homo in Tenuus-sce, superintends her
workmen in a great degree, and still she
is not strong-minded in the general
acceptation of the , term. She merely
demonstrates woman's right to make
money if she can.
In Sweden young girls place under
three separate cups a ring, a coin and a
piece of black ribbon. If the ring is first
accidentally exposed slu! will be married
within a year; if the money, sho will get
a rich lutbaiid ; if tlio ribbon, she will
did an old imiid. It is a favorite amuss
nient among tho young girls iu Russia to
conceal their finger-rings in small heaps
of corn on tho lkior. A hen is brought
in, which at once begins to peck at tho
tiny heaps of grain. Tho owner of tho
fire! ring exposed to view will, accord
ing to popular belief, be married before
her coaipauious in the experiment.
Tho attendance at some of tho leading
colleges for the current year is as fol
lows: Michigan, 1,554; Columbia, 1,530;
Harvard, 1,322; Yale, 1,070; University
of Pennsylvania, 1,014; Prixiceton, 52 1 :
Obeilin, 1,474.
HOE OUT VOUR ROW.
Iff! summer day a farn's bT
Was irmng out ths corn,
And moodify bad listened long
To hear the dim- horn.
Ths wslcome blast irm heard at last,
And down he dropped Ms hoe,
But the good man shouted in bis ear,
"My boy, hoe out your row.
Although a hard one was the row,-
"to use a plowman's phrase.
And tM boy, as saiIots have it,
Begliimf.f flow to ''haze;"
"I can," he sal nd nurofully
Again he seized tfc hoe,
And tho good man sm'twl to see
The boy hoe out his ro
The lad the text remembered,
And learned the lesson well,
That perseverance to the end
At last will nobly tell
Take courage, man; resolve you can.
And strike a vig'irn Wow;
In life's wide field of varied toil
Always "hoe out your rcn"
Dixit Farmer.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
A morning call "Get up!"
The penman's business is flourishing.
The flower of the family doesn't ften
make good bread. Judge.
Remembering the poor is well enough,
but it is much better to give them some
thing. Picayune.
Gentlemen (entering rail car) "Is
this scat engaged?" Self conscious
young lady "Yes, sir, that's engaged
too." Bo.il on Tr'intcriit.
They were talking over an aged mil
lionaire who has on several occasions
given his hens high hopes high hopes
always dashed by hh recovery.
The young couple who before mar
riago thought they could livo on love
are now living on corn bread nd
hominy. Kentucky Stale Journal. v
Policeman: "nave you a permit to
play here?" Organ-grinder: "No, but
it amuses the little ones so much."
Policeman: "Then you will have the
goodness to accompany me." Organ
grinder: "Very well, sir; what do you
wish to singf" Flitijende Biaettcr.
A young lady whose very best young'
man lived over tho wa) with his parents
took a seat by the window one cloudy
morning. "Why do you sit by the win
dow such a chilly morning, Laura?"
asked her -another. "I'm waiting for th
son to come 6ut,ma," sho replied.
"Yes," said he, speaking of the church
choir, "they all hnvcVjood voices, but
they don't know hovvto uso them
together; there's no harmony among
them." "Oh!" exclaimed she, "you are
wrong there. The best of feeling exists "
between them." Boaton Traiueript.
An English magazine contains an arti
cle entitled: "What Dreams Aro Made
Of." As the author fails to mention
mince pie, pickled pigs' feet, fruit cake,
and several other indigestible things, it
is evident he tackled a subject upon
which ho lacks information. Xorrti
toun Herald.
Tho reason farm hands aro so scarce
can be accounted for in tho fact that a
man can't get a moment's rest on tho
barb wire fence now in use. The old ,
rail fence offered some inducements to a
man to engage on a farm, but this barbed
wire business don't give a man any show
at all. 1'ecVa Hun.
She held my heart in a willing thrall,
She held my ring on her linger small,
fcihe held my reKiiect, this maiden young.
And Bhe also knew when to hold her tongue.
Boston Courier.
She held a mortgage on mv li :V),
IStuiueld beside a 1 at cash i : i mi,
Klie held our private residence,
She held mo .underneath her thumb.
Merchant- Travele r.
A pie in 1770 was mado of two bush
els of flour, twenty pounds of butter,
four geeso, two turkeys, two rabbits,
four wild ducks, two woodcocks, six
snipes, four partridges,, two neats
tongues, two curleys, seven bluckbirds
and six pigeons. A pie can now be had
from one slice of dried apple and a little
piece of soggy dough. Such is the march
of improvement. Loiaocilte Courier'
Journal.
Capped tho climax : An Engli-hman,
Frenchman and American were discuss
ing the merits of their respective coun
tries. The American, after listening to
all the others had to advance iu favor of
their countrymen, remarked: "Wall,
yes, I guess they did some tall painting,
but there was a young fellow in our vil
lage and he got a piece of marble and
painted it like cork, and blame me if it
didn't float." Augusta Chronicle.
Fat People in Public Life.
Judge David Davis is heie with his
younu bride, says a recent Waliingtou
letter. Their is about forty years' dit
ference in their ages, but the old judge
has grown th.nuer since his marriage,
though his eye is brighter than ever.
Perhaps tho fattest couilo in our politi
cal history was General Knox and his
wife, who used to be central figures of
court society in Washington's day.
Knix was Washington's secretary of
war, and it is said that both he nud his
v.ife pulled tho scales at full three hun
dred pounds. General Kuox began life
as a bookseller in Boston, aud ho met
his wife in his bookstore, where sho
came to purchase-. Her name was Miss
Fletcher, ami she was the daughter of
the Hon. Thomas Fletcher, the oecretary
ot thi Province. The Fletchers op
posed the mutch, but it finally camo off
aud Henry Kuox soon became more
noted than his father-in-law. He died
at last from his carelessness in caring. A
chicken bone, choked him and he swal
lowed it. Mortification of the stomach
resulted, and he died at lift v-six,