THE MIDDLFJiURGII POST.
T. D. 1IAP.TER, Ennom aro r'iu
MIDItLKBL'lia, PA.. JULY 25, lM.
The rattle industry of the United
State represents the immense capital of
fl."'UMH).(IO(.
I'ndcr tiie sctptre of the Czar of I5us
sit live thirty -eight dilfcrcnt nationalities,
each speaking its own language, which in
foreign to nil ollii rj.
According to the I'ruirir Farmtr ''the
Farmers' Alliance in actively at work in
tiie Wct and South fighting obnoxious
trusts iiik! other monopolies."
TM.- X".... .1. It M .... ,
i i' .n ii fv hi i inn muics i r 111 l nice j
ntnl religion prejudices are milk inf po
litical conditions in Canada that appeal
t tlirenteti the disruption or the Dominion."
The Chilian Government has engaged
many railway engineers frn this coun
try for tin) building of it new roads
some 'J.'ilO t ii i It-ji in length from cons
Sties to the interior parts.
A project m being considered for ndd
in',' '.'.'iO.Oihi acres to the irrigated urea in
Kuypt, the water being taken from a
point v high ii on the Nile that tlx
canals shall never run lrv.
The Prince of Thurn ntnl Taxis hn
taken place among the comparatively
limited numlier of royal patentees. Thi
ft) t -r ri ntr pot Mate has inventeil yet
another methoil of making p:.ier.
Miss V.. A. Southworth. who has bee
made assistant mycologist at Washington,
is saiil to he the lirt woman to reeriveun
appointment I i a scientific post at Wash,
ington. Hit speeinlty is fungoid growths
UP AND DOWW,
TTo'm op to-day on fortune' hill
And free from every sorrow.
But In tha wheel of good And 111
All may bo changed to-morrow
We're up and down a time flies !
Jfow rtuv, now hnrd"!it lalxr
2io milH in.ilre ran safely frown
Ur lift lowly neighbor.
Riches takn whiRs the man of woaltU
May meet with sudd'Mi liww,
While lie whoso only store Is health
May rido behind his horses.
Then do not slight tho toiling poor,
For labor ne'er disgraces,
Ami though your fortune seems securo
Some dny yen inayehango places.
Coil help usall we'ro poor at best
Dependnnt on each other
Though crown-d with cn.se or sore dis
tressed Weak moil Is tit ill man's brother.
Then when on fortune's top we stand,
No 111 our state attending.
Let us extend a helping hand
To thoso about descending.
-Planet S. Uniilh, in Sew York Wttkly.
THE LAST HOUR
As u New York W'ortti correspondent,
looking from the vantage ground of the
i
Idiimu.s of Panama itself, sums it uy . I
that 20,0'itl livctnnd f'Jllll.noil.OIKt havt
been thrown unity on the grand Dcl.es
'cps linc
Jerusalem seems now to be si rapid"
growing city . This is due to the glial
number of .lews w ho are Hocking tht-rt
yearly. They now number .'iO.OUit more
than the Moslem ami Christian population
combined.
A shoemaker named John Ilynn, 01
Joliet, II!., has won the international
prize, of ijalMl olTercd by n boot and shot
journal of Huston for the best essay on
boot ami slmcmnking in nil its branches,
l'.vcry State in the I'nion contested fot
the pric, tilso Camilla, Xc'.v P.runswiek,
Mid Nova Scotia.
In Hungary the whole system of rail
ways is to be divided into fourteen ones,
ntnl within any such .one nil the fares an
tube eipial; the rait s may be guessed
from the fact that the third-class fare it:
the outer zone is four florins for limit
than .101) kilometre- i. e., about si. f!7
for about o20 miles.
'i'ho redurtion ol the death rate Tn
Kughmd nnd Wales from 'JD.ri to IS.S,
which has hi ell effected hi-tvtccti ISM anil
ls7 by the progress of sanitary :-cience,
means a saving per annum of liS, 1 7.),
tlin. This, it .'this, is the money wortL
of that nmouiit of human life, at u:i aver
ugc value of !j7'.)5 per life.
The year 1SS',) is the fiftieth anniversary
of the establishment of the penny post ill
Knuhi'id. It was in iSUil that n com
mittce of the Iloil " of Commons reported
favorably upon Sir Rowland Hill"'
Krheme for tho establishment of clien)
postau'e. The bill received n majority ol
KM) vote ami hiviimo n law on Auifus
V, ls.'i'J.
Tho death of Mrs. Hnyes leaves bin
live women living whoso hiLsbands ver
at any time I'risidents of tho United
States. These are Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Polk,
Mrs. Crant, Mrs. Cmrfleld mid Mrs. Cleve
land. There lire two other women still
alive who also acted as mistresses of the
Presidential mansion Mrs. Harriet I.nni
Johnson and Mrs. McKlroy.
The English company who ure work
1ng the Nacooehee mine in Georgia took
out the other dny u nuj,'i;i't of f;old wci";h
inf 1 :j()U penny wei'lits, and valued tit
25(10. Not loni; atfo they took one nu
j;et that weighed thirty pcnnywei,LrhtM,
and another of fi07 pennyweight. Suel
tinils as these, niuses the New York Sun,
nru calculated to make a fellow f ;el riel;
vtroaks run up and down his buck.
The Oriental Conj,'ivss which is to tnl:
place in Stockholm, in September, will 1
of unusual interest. Five hundred foreign
member huvo iinnounced their intentioi
to take jiart in the proceedings. Dcjaila
tions, single members from Persia, Arabia.
India, Kgypt, Jujinn, China, etc., will at
tend, and many renowned savants of tlu
far Fast are expected. King Oscar it
houorary Prebideut. Scverul fetes wiil
bo given in honor of the strangers.
r.Y kavii) Kt:n.
"Now, Mis4 M'lynnrd, you're polnjr to
behold n wonder. Ashley Melincourt's
to join us to-ni'ht, and you'll meet a
man who has traveled nil over the world
without learning to drink or smoke, and
has never gambled or made lovo in his
life! You must hide your literajy fame
tinder it bushel now, .for he detests re
viewers." Time, three o'clock on a line summer
tifternoon; place, the veranda of it ipniint
little hotel in one of the most pictur
esquely old-fashioned of l.reton coast
towns; subject, the addition of a new
member to the pica-taut little American
puity already located there.
"Well, I'm "Jad the catalogue of Mr.
Melincoiirt's perfections has one (law in
it, "says the young lady, with it curl of
her pretty lip which many of In. r admir
ers knoiv to their cost. '-Of course its a
dreadful sacrilege for any lady to meddle
uith literature; but I must be content to
ri -k bis displeasure, terrible us it may be.
After all, it will be less insutfirable than
the stories of how many tigers he shot in
Indi i, and how many days he wuit with
out food in the desert, and the fever he
had in China, and the dinner the Ameer
gave him nt Cabul. I suppose soum critic
has told him the truth on that score, and
hence his enmity to theiii.''
"No; there's just the mystery they've
nhvnys spoken well of him hitherto; and
as for talking of his travels, that's cvaet
ly what one can never get him to do.
However, when six o'clock comes, you'll
be nble to judge for yourself."
Six o'clock ciiiue, and with it the ex
pected guest u phort, sipiare, bearded,
sunburned man, with the grave, self
contained look of one iicetistomeil to face,
unaided, every form of dilliculty and dan
ger, lie spoke little and seemed to follow
the conversation with it ipiiet, ntteutivo
vigilance indescribably provoking to
Laura Maynard, because, as she after
wards said, it was "just like a school
teacher watching for somebody to make a
mistake."
Dinner over, there was a general move
ment to the veranda, to watch the moon
rise over the sea; and the influence of the
hour trave a romantic and s.':i:i-;.istiea
east to the talk which at length tijrncd to
the transmigration of souls.
"It's it pity such a thing cannot be,"
aid Melincourt. Inst think of the ad
mirable changes we should behold! Our
ciistom-liou-.e otlicers should haunt every
harbor as sharks; our policemen prowl in
the darkness as wolves; our bankers u"k
their neighbors' blood in the form of
leeches; our polil icians chatter and grim
ace in that of monkeys; and our critic
transformed to frogs, croak, amid con
genial Mime, against everything higher
and better Ihvi themselves."
'You don't favor the critics, I s:"e, Mr.
Melincourt," said Laura, tlnshing with
indignation.
"No; I look at theiii ns they are the
hired bravos of literature, ready to take
pay on cither .side, and to stab friend or
foe as their im:.s'.er bids them; infallible
because never owning n mistake; free
from bias, since they never read the books
which they review; showing their learn
ing by misoiiotation ; their refinement bv
biilinu'sgate; and their modesty by felting
themselves up as authorities upon sub
jects of which they know nothing."
The titter which followed this un
coiihciou home-thrust kindled Laura
Maynard's warm b'o id into a lliuiie.
"Mr. Melineour!," cried she, wrath
fully, "you are giving us nn excdlciit
illustration of the dunger of 'setting up
ns an authority upon it subject of which
you know nothing.' I think I may
claim to know more about critics than
you, for 1 liupp-'ii to be one myself !"
Melincourt iinswef.d only by a bow
and nn ironical smile, more galling than
the bitterest sarcasm, as ho arose from
his place and sauntered away.
The three following day wero ho com
pletely taken up with excursions into the
nirroutHling country, that the quarrel had
no chance of proceeding any farther,
but on the fourth morning, the reaction
conscipient upon these energetic amuse
ments began to show itself in a ranging
of chairs along the veranda of the hotel,
and it general production of Tnuchiiiu
novels. Miss Maynard who, (sensitive,
like all clever women, felt tho mere
presence of a person whom she disliked
intolerably burdensome gavo tho go-by
to this impromptu reading-club, ami set
off on a solitary stroll along tho sanil:j
which the retreating tide had left bare.
Tho choice was a good one, for, even
in that pic turesijuii legion, it would have
been hard to And a more charming walk.
On one side lny tho blue, sparkling sen;
on tho other, the long, dark outline of
tho frowning cliffs, dappled every here
anil there with tiny wdiite cottages and
grncn, waving woods. Iletween the two,
smooth as a marble terrace, extended the
vast level of hard, white sand. Far
away to the right, cradled iu u deep hol
low between two mighty rocks, peeped
forth tho white-walled house, the red-
tflffl roofs and quilntly carred clutch
tower of the little town; iind over all the
golden sunshine and the warm, dreamy,
southern iky.
Little by little, as she left the inhabited
region behind her, tho grand repose of
the landscape soothed tho girl's ruffled
feelings, while its beauty pleased her
artistic eye. Hho felt once more, as she
bad done many a time al.tatdy, that the
strongest armor against tho Jctty worries
and vexations of lifo is to withdraw from
them for a time into tho great snncttiary
of nature, in whoso preencc all earth's
troubles look mean mid trivial.
How lung she stood there, drinking in
the splendor of that wonderful panorama,
she could never havo told ; but suddenly
she noticed, with a start, that the sand
was growing wet and oo.y under her feet.
She turned, and wasdisinayed to find her
self completely surrounded by water.
Tho rising tide, pouring through the
lower levels of the bench behind her, had
actually cut her oil f mm the shore!
Instantly a thousand biles of treachcr
ouj quicksands, of furious spring-tides,
of children and even Kr',wn ,nca wal
lowed tip before the very eves of their
friends, came crowding upon her memory.
And even whilo she looked, the and be
neath her feet vanished, nnd nil was
water, water, water, rising higher and
higher every moment.
Suddenly, ns she stood motionless, and
pnnilyzed with terror, n tall figure n
peiirud nt her side, a strong hand grasped
hers, and Ashley Melincourt's voice
shouted in her ear: "Hun, run! there's
not a moment to lose! Hold fast by me,
and run for your life!"
It was n race for life, indeed. Fast ns
they fled, the hoarse roar of the pursuing
tide came closer and closer behind them.
Could they but reach yonder projecting
headland they would be safe; but how ter
ribly distant it seemed! And, long be
fore they reached it, the sea was upon
them in earnest, almost dashing the girl
from her feet. Melincourt snatched her
up in his urins nnd plunged desperately
on, breast deep amid tin; forming waves.
Deeper and deeper grew the water,
stronger ami stronger pressed the current.
Twice he till but fell, where to fall was to
rise nt) more; but at length, by a super
human effort, the rock was gained, and,
laving his charge gently upon a broad,
lint ledge, he sank gasping beside her.
"How can I ever thank you, Mr. Mel
incourt i" faltered Laura, us she regained
her breath.
"Time enough for that yet?" answered
Ashley, with an affected gayety which hu
was very far from feeling. "The first
thing to be done is to get it safe place,
for th" tide will soon overtake us here."
Wet and exhausted as they both were,
that upward struggle over tho slippery
rocks, thickly coated with sou-weed, was
n long and perilous task; but the roar of
the advancing tide from below spurred
them on, ami the top was reached at last.
Then it wild cry burst from Laura's lips,
when even her iron-nerved companion re
coiled in dismay. They were standing
upon tin island !
There was no room for tloubt; one
glance made the whole truth terribly
clear. Their sheltering crag was but nn
isolated fragment of the main clilT, di
vided from it by n hideous chasm nearly
thirty feet in width, through which the
waves were already leaping high mid
fiercely. They hail escaped sudden de
struction only to feel the lingering agony
of being devoured inch by inch; lor u
moment's inspection showed them that
every flood-tide covered the rock to the
very summit.
"It seems hard to die so soon!" mur
mured the girl, piteoiisly.
"Hard for you,' said her companion,
simplv. "No one will care when I urn
gone."
And then both were silent; but their
hands met, and did not part again. Cut
oil from the living world by fast-approaching
death, they felt the need of
clinging to something in that grim isola
tion of the grave. Parted in life, they
were drawn together ns life ebbed away.
All at once Laura uttered it wild cry
the cry of u sudden revulsion of hope, fol
lowing up utter despair.
"A boat! about! We may be saved
yet !"
"Thank (Sod!" ejaculated Meiiucourt,
fervently, r.s the Hitting sail ciiu;;ht his
eye.
Instantly his powerful voice was up
lifted iu a shout that inado the air ring.
Twice the hail seemed uuhetd-'d, nud
their hearts died within them; but the
third time came a faint answering snout,
nud the boat, veering suddeuly, made
straight for tiie Hpot where they stood.
Then Laura's firmness gave way at last,
and slid sank helplessly upon her com
panion's sustaining arm.
Half nu hour later, they were safe in
the boat; and the sturdy old Breton fish
erman, having made the lady comfort
ttble in the stern-sheets, w ith a spare sail
by way of u cushion, went forward to
the bow (blessings oil him for a consider-
ate old fellow!) and busied himself with
the management of the bunt.
".Miss .Maynard," said Ashley, solemnly,
"after what we have passed through to
day, there can be no reserve between us.
I owe it to you to explain my rudeness
the other day, by showing you that my
hatred of critics and criticism is not
without cuui.e. Two years ago, a dear
friend of mine died very suddenly, ami
left his widow almost starving; and, un
happily, 1 was quite unable to help her,
except by writing a book which might, 1
hoped, yield money enough to keep her
from absolute want. I had to write it in
it desperate hurry, of course, ns my kind
crilict were good enough to remark; but
still, 1 think I might have savd tho poor
woman if one of those 'slashing articles'
iu tho New York Umpire had not ruined
all!"
"Tho New York Umpire!" echoed
Laura, iu a voice so unlike her own that
it made him start. "What was your
book billed? tell me quick!"
" 'Withered Leaves.' "
Laura uttered a stilled cry, and, burst
ing into tears, seized his hand in both her
own.
"Oh, Mr. Melincourt, enn you forgive
mel That horrible review I wrote it 1"
Melincourt looked at her in silent
amuzeinent.
"I wrots it," she repeated, with t
woman's Impetuous eagerness to atone for
any injustice; 'but oh, Incrcr dreamed
how could It what harm I was doing
never! neverl And to think how I
enjoyed writing it, Bnd read bits of it to
my friends, while nil tho while Can
jou ever forgive met''
'My wife and I never had but on
quarrel," said Ashley Melincourt, some
years later; "and that, luckily, was be
fore our marriage, over a book of mine
that she cut up. She'll hardly cut up
sny more of them now, though, for I
make her the heroine of every ono I
write I" Frank IxtlieU Monthly.
America's Great Suceess.
bixty millions of people enjoy already
tho incomparable advantages which our
incomparable institutions offcrto one and
all, but hundred millions of pcoplo
could now bo sustained without increas
ing the area of a single farm or adding
one to their number by merely bringing
the product up to tho average standard
of reasonably good agriculture, ami then
there might remain for export twice the
quantity we now send abroad to feed the
hungry of foreign lands. The Empire
of Germany, together with Holland nnd
ISelgium hits about tho samo extent of
territory as the State of Texas, and the
good land of the farmer is no better
than in the latter, nnd, while the popu
lation of Texas is not over 2,IMIII,0m), the
population of (Scrutiny, Holland and
Belgium exceeds fiO.OOO.OOO. France,
with an nrca of 132. 000,1)01) of acres ami
3S,000,0()U of people, has less land than
Iowa, Kansas nnd Nebraska, and yet
these three States only have a population
of about 1.000,00(1, and the largest jior
tion of their land is as fertile as that of
France.
A like comparison might be made in
reference to other parts of the United
States and other nations, showing the
same results. The four States just men
tioned do not count more than six mill
ion people, but they could easily sustain
a population equal to that of tire.tt Brit
ain, Germany and I'lanue put together.
There can be no doubt of the agricultural
capabilities of the United States to main
tain u population greater than that of any
other equally large inhabitable portion of
the globe, and tin re is no doubt that the
American race is destined to exercise the
commanding influence in the world's
future. AYhen Napoleon I. drew up his
troops before th" .Mamelukes tinder the
shadow of the great pyramids, pointing
to the latter, he said: "Soldiers, remem
ber that from yonder heights forty cen
turies look down upon you!" Ameri
cans may justly and proudly, from the
pyramid top of opportunity, look back
on four centuries and stretch out their
anus into the future with power to mold
the destinies of unborn millions, for they
occupy tint (Sibrttltar of the ages, which
commands the future o! the world. Mail
and Erprtt.
Tho Caifew in New York's Ccpltul.
There is a custom in Albany, N. Y.,
which has been maintained for two hun
dred years, which, I presume, isn't
known in any other city of its size iu tiie
Union. The curfew tolls promptly, t.nd
to the hnlf-eighth of a second, at 1) each
night. The City Hall tower has a decp
sotinding bell, connected by elec trie wire
yU Dudley Ohservatory, ami it stnkes
a stroke ol one nt 1) o'clock night and
morning. All the private clocks and
watches are set by it, and it is a curious
revelation to the theatrical companies
that visit there to see nearly everybody in
the audience pull out his or her watch at
apparently a preconcerted moment nnd
look at it. The c licet is very novel. It
nearly iqiset John McCullougli and Mary
Anderson when they played there to
gether some years ago. McCullougli had
just seen tho uir-drawn dagger, and lit!
thought the audience were going to linn
the chestnut bell i on him. The efTcd is
also very funny in the churches. But
the same bell also tolls tho tire alarm,
and, by numbers of strokes, signals the
district where the lire is. It if customary
on these occasions for the good pastors to
remark: "If anyone feels :. lied by that
warning, there will lo no oojeetion to his
now withdrawing," and there havo been
occasions whim tt number do so. Attn
Yurie t-tiir.
roruLAii SCIENCE.
Heaviest Corpse on l!:ii'!i.
Elmini, X. Y., recently had one of thb
heaviest corpses ever heard of iu that of
John L. Lawes, who carried t10 pounds
of human flesh over to the majority. Mr.
Lawes was it very fat man.
Lawes was forty yearn of age. It is
only within the past three years that he
has acquired this mountain of flesh. He
used to be n blacksmith, and was a slight,
delicate thing of two or three hundred
pounds, Then he began to gain from five
to ten pounds every week, until he had
progressed to a dime museum magnitude.
His appetite increased with his avoirdu
pois. Two or three pounds of beefsteak
was the merest "snack" to him. Toward
the cud of his life he spent most of his
time eating.
Ho got so fat that of late ho could
neither lie tlowu nor walk, nnd he re
quired constant attendance.
Under the circumstances it would seem
as if death must havo been a relief.
Still, the huge man was of the happiest,
best mittired disposition iu tho world.
Ho positively enjoyed showing his im
mense proportions to admiring beholders.
Xeio York World.
Some Very Large Boards.
A lumber-pile made of boards, each lOo
feet long and Ar. fei-t in width, would be
an unprecedented sight iu tho Fast, but it
gentleman recently returned from a visit
to the coast of the north Paciliu Ocean
says that piles of lumber such as that art
common at tho mills on Puget Sound.
"Boards 100 feet long and six feet wide,
without a knot iu them," ho mid, "are
common cuts from tho gigantic tir tree
of the Puget Sound forests. These treet
grow to the enormous height of 250 feet,
and the forests nru so vast that, although
the saw-mills havo been ripping 500,000,
000 feet of lumber out of them every yeai
for ten yeurs, tho spaces made by thest
tremendous inroads seem no more thitn
garden patches." Detroit Aff.
Electric lighting on man-of-war slilpe
is so great a success that it is now con
ceded no such ship is complete without
.
The first submarine cahlo manufactory
was started in Italy two years ago ; now
it has an output of 10,000 metres iter
day.
An increase in phosphorus In iron has
been found to decrease its conductivity,
nnd the same peculiarity has been no
ticed with manganese.
The critical temperature of recales
cence defines the stages nt which hot steel
when suddenly cooled becomes cither
hard or is annealed.
The shortest time occupied by the tor
nado cloud in passing u given point
varies from "nn instant." to about, twen
ty minutes, the nvcrr.gc being seventy
four seconds.
During the Inst ten years an oculist of
Cronstndt Is said to have treated thirty
rases of photo-electric ophthalmia, a new
disease due to the action of the electric
light on the eyes.
Two traveling platforms of ten tons
capacity moved by electricity nnd
mounted on girders Hre used to curry vis
itors around the machinery hall of the
Paris Exposition.
An English club man wagered $25 that
he could stand for thirty minutes without
moving a muscle outside of those required
for respiration. At the end of twenty
two minutes he fell over in it tit.
The boring for oil in the United States
is not always successful for instance, a
boring nt Southbury, Conn., has lately
been abandoned afer 200 feet had been
explored and $10,000 lost in the under
taking. A fragment of a meteor which recently
fell in Chicago, was, analyzed and found
to contain 711 per cent, of iron, 21 of
nickel. 2 of manganese nnd small uuanti-
ties of aluminium, cobalt, tin. cornier. I
arsenic, etc.
Coal dust triturated into dust ns fine ns
flour has just been tested ns n fuel for
iron-making at the Morehcad Mill,
oliarpsburg, ami found to accomplish as
much in one hour as the gas furnace docs
In an hour and a quarter. Being mine
refuse it costs nothing.
Dr. Imhich, of Liverpool, has come to
the conclusion that consumption can be
transmitted from cows to human beintrs
through milk. His experiments prove
that guinea-pius, r.-ddiits and monkeys,
fed on the milk of tubercuh meows de
velop tubercular disease.
An ofiicial report gives the number of
r.riti.sh boiler explosions for the yearend
ing with bust June as sixty-one, with it
loss of thirty-one lives. More than half
of the explosions were due to the use ol
worn out boilers, seventeen to defective
designs and linings or undue working
pressure, seven to iguorance or neglect ol
attendants, and six to miscellaneous
causes.
Mushrooms are but tender toad-stools
grown where the soil is very much ol
vegetable substance. All such objects
are but the cells of plants in the soil given
a discharge from the ground by a force
of electricity which the enrth discharges
wherever plants or corals are grown. A
form is given the object by it part of the
substance being spilled over the top of a
stalk nnd contracted by the dryer con
dition of the atmosphere. Tl.c .seams iu
the top are but a consequence of the
shrinking of the substance.
Population, Area ami Estimated Wealth
of the Original Thirteen Slates.
New Hampshire, in 177", nearly 140,
1100 inhabitants; INS'), :J10,!1M inhabi
tants; estimated wealth, ."28,000.000;
area, 'JoO!) square miles.
Massachusetts, in 1770. nearly 1500,
000 inhabitants; 1S8."), 1.1) 1 1 .ltis'inhabi
tsnts; estimated wealth, 2,71)3,000.000 ;
area, Ml la square miles.
Khotle Island, in 177G. fl.VOOO inhabi
tants; 1SS., UH1.2S4 inhabitants; esti
mated wealth, 420.001), 000; area, 1250
square miles.
Connecticut, in 177('. neatly 100,000
inhabitants; 1SS0, 022. 700 inhabitants:
estimated wealth, 852,000,000; urea,
1 '.;' I square miles.
New York, iu 1770. nearly SVJS.OOO
inhabitants; 10, r,OS2.M71 inhabi
tants; estimated wealth, 7,011). 000,000
area, 411,170 square miles.
New Jersey, in 1770, nearly 180,000
inhabitants; 1SS5, l,278,o:U inhabi
tants; estimated wealth,l,4o3,000,000;
area, 7815 square miles.
Pennsylvania, in 1770, nearly 400,000
inhabitants; 1080, 4,282.81)1 inhabi
tants; estimated wealth, 5, 31)3,000,000;
area, 45,2 lu square miles.
Delaware, iu 1770, nearly 50,000 in
habitants; 1880, 14ti,008 inhabitants;
estimated wealth, 138,000,001); area,
2050 square miles.
Maryland, in 1770, nearly 250,000 in
habitants; 1880, 1)34,1)13 inhabitants;
estimated wealth, S0'J, 000,000; area,
12,210 square miles.
Virginia, in 1770, nearly 000,000 in
habitants; 18S0 2,131,022 inhabitants
(including West Virginia); estimated
wealth, 1,000,000,000; area, 07,230
square miles.
North Carolina, in 1770, nearly 350,
000 inhabitants; 1880, l,.'ill'J,75()"iuhabi
tnnts; estimated wealth, 440,000,000;
area, 52,250 square miles.
South Carolina, 1770, nearly 200,000
inhabitants; 1880, 5)1)5,577 inhabitants;
estimated wealth, 200,000,000; area,
30,570 square miles.
(Seorgia, in 1770, nearly 75,000 in
habitants: 1880, 1,542,180 inhabitants;
estimated wealth, 554,000,000; area,
51), 475 square miles.
A Poetical Cobbler's Sign.
A cobbler on South Twelfth street,
Philadelphia, has a card on his window
reading as follows :
Here lives a man
That don't refuse
To make and mend
Your Isxits nail sw.es.
His luatlwr is good,
His work Is quick,
His irotlts aretmull
But hs gives no tick,
And wIimi he dies
He fears no c.uU
As he has saved
bo many souls.
SUNSHINE t-A No,
ritpy earns In st sht of a lovely nhor.
Yellow as (old In the morning H,.
ths wit's owe color at noon tt wn '
And It faded not at the fall 0f Bj .
Hear weather or cloudy, 'twnj ail '
fhehnppy hills seemed bathed with thT"'
Its secret the sailors could not UnV-J?
But they called this country KuiuhiJ
tVhat was tho secret? A i:nolth;ne.
I will mnkeymi smile whn or..-'yJj l
touched by t he tender flngnr of prlr?
A million blossoms were nil sl,w
fo many, so ntsny, so ninny anil ,r;',i.
Yhey covered tho hills with a mantle of
Anil th wild be hummed and t he gv.
fanned, '
rUroiien the honeyed fM.lj 0f r ib,v
Land. ' "
if nvrtr the Wd t.u-t-i w.if. I .
" ""i.a.1,
What port deir child, would we ,,..
Ws would sail, end rail till a; j.. w. i .
This falrv land of milli.n e . . '
Yet, darling we'd find. If n- i, ,iier,c,uw
ft tiiniiv mnll tnv.nitr ti!.tnJ,....
f(.s... ...... ....tl.l.... "
PITH AN1 ro"lNT.
The picnic IHIc should .:,- r, : u
Time is money. S.,a'' i .-.r i , ; , .,
beat time.
The language of a u. afm'itv i. !
that goes without savin.;.
What vti it tiv s.
of fours:-. ,nr York .V, .
When it man goes to w-,u i
tatics on ins coai, imi II IK' ;s u J-a'r.'--,
puts oa one.
It may be ililiictlit to bi:;.!-t v:.r.
fit
but it is not so hard to ri nr- :4;i
Air ii York Si r.
The tombstone is about ti.i-
mat can stanu upri .'.u ami in
ut the same time. Ttrrr llr,u r,,
k ii. .11. ...... ......i... : . .. .
il I milium . 1 1 t i i:ui i ( ..-n
i .1 t . .. . . '"
tlisiioncsi occiniM' tie is in Ii i- h.,;,;t
going tnrough tne slivpers. v.,. y,
A'etM.
A tailor being a'.ed if the !.., ,,;.,
vear made him s;-. M.id m. nr.-.:-
clothes of the year are p udi'i:..-
tiflilKj.
"Doro'hy, my love. I think
dreadfully extravagant t-i I. n
things." "Hut, my d ar iiatu-'
dearest, "I had them clc.'ul."
7
"I love ton well," ta- im
"llcar envelope t i ti: ;
In fp.et. it's evident m a'l
That I am stuck on v.
.:.'t
. siii
Mrs. Jones "Your baby I tws
tor its age, don't von tVeik;" X
Urown "Yes, the poor d;.rii:i- :i
on milk which was coti'ieti.ol-tit
why the baby is so too.''
Clerk "Mr. Daybook, I v.o-i'd j
leave of absence this aft rNn..:i t.j Rtr
the funeral of n cousin." Mr. Jhtixv
(next morning) "What was tbfs
John?" Xtio York S'lii.
A private Broadway del Tti.v goo
mlvertises tliat it will ilo "j-.;ii!..:;'.
private detective agency g.-nraiuy
net a new sucker cv.tv tinr it ca
menccs to p. imp. Stir J'.i.v.Vi.
Tramp "Thank ye, nii'aui, f..'s
me the grub, but 1 kin never
a fork." l'arnier'a Wife "W
along, and you'll find a fo:!; n
u little further on." .V )'" Tr
A it. Louis paper dccl::ri tii..: r:
who claims to be n gi-ntli w. ,n.
ver.-e his culls. We me within: W
ly to see how Chicago -will i.-t
this cruel thrust. .).,, e O"'.
Heru is the reason V;ii,n r'.-.r-j
Are iiwuleii nutt-su v ivii ;'in.
Folks Handel it as tlioun i: .u
A wood-pile thv w-i '!.!-.:
rii7.M.'-..'e-' ;-?
Mrs. Gabble What an aMj ,;
ried, unxious.dcspairing look ir.
soul has." Mrs. Dahlde
she's htonned doiutr her own : u
gone to keeping a girl." .V- f
M'trkly.
Of thesiznof her hand y.u nny j"1?
her glove;
f.,t- tli.r iu .i.i.vt.i-1 mi ill'!'
l;,.. , ...... ,.i..., !., ,l-r.:i.
VUI. "U IIW.CI ...it
lovo
Of a maid by tho sij;h of li-r !'""
"Well, sir, what are ymr -r
Mv daughter cant't many a i " .
expect to come into a larae le'tutu "
'Inherited from whom: "
from my cr-r that is to sny. Ir
father-in-law." Timf.
"I have met this man." .!
the other dnv, "in a great ror.
where 1 would be ashamed t ' llf "
And for a minute he could"! urMfN
why everybody laughed s l'r'1':
At'e tors tribune.
Nine of this summer's ur-'"J'i'
Anontx. the aristocratic rl'l!j,;,1
..l.,.l ,,r. irirl and til l
numbered only twenty -ei"'-
spell "pork" with a "ip"1'
MtnneajHiltM 7 riliunr.
Jenny "Here comes .Turk, s1
.:.,i. ...... .,.,, i.i liitwii anil''-'1
in rrttity A lint V "Win! 'e
... . .. 1 i .v. i iiMIK
"l ill strain lies um, r i
I can't trust myself he
nnd so handsome. ),'
Johnson "But can you ru"!j'
culato tho rumor in a roii"''-" .
... , :u uln'tv ii
U till MUU Mill AH"" , 1'
f.....r A.t.,ii "Yi's. I've ton-
J I Iflll I ilUIILIOHU - ' - '11 lit .
my w ife us a secret, and sli" '" '.J
tho sewing society ineenns 1
Omaha World. ,
Te...liimt itr. it I'linillUT'l ''H'
know that these goods are v.b at ;
present f " Drummer !" - k
my word for it, but (proudly) I
CHiicago, and a Chicago niiw "VI
known to tell a lie." (MerrUsntl
Clothier and Furnither.
o. !-. 11. t .1 "I
piranger iiu uumni , ,iF
Will" ,-
Del
how you can sleep nights
that bloody Jake is ro'"'''"?, 'J
loose." Chicago Man "Jake J
unybody uny harm now. lh' 8
a nice position on the pu'11
If eta York Mail and Expro.
Wood can be sawed in veu' (fll;1
two-hundredths of an iuen