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TEE POVETRY TAM).
rooms To Be Remesdisseein.
When your bens get sore feet, or have
bumble foot, it means that your roosts are
too high,
Use pure-bred mita always. A mongre1
deem:4 pay and Pews loss of time.
Feed pbur sparingly, as it will cause
rheumatism, or leg wealenees. Never give
it in damp weather.
Never bring a hen from another yard into
your own, or you may introduce lice and
diseage. Raise them,
Giving water to °Melts so as to allow
them to get their bodies wet is certain death,
as dampness is fatal to them.
A mixture of two parts lard and one part
kerosene oil will remove the rough soabby
formation on the lege of fowls.
Always have your nests removable, and
keroeene the roosts, (under and upper sides),
once a week,
Mating for the show room and mating to
produce show birdare different.
Qlteup egg fowls are mostly ground oyster
shelle, and the benefits are only imaginary.
Don't buy them.
There is more in the management than in
anything else. Everything depends on the
poultryman.
Give the hens leaves, out straw, or dry
dirt, end scatter the grain in it, so as to coin -
k
pel them to work, The good scratcher ie
always a good layer.
Broilers usually begin to come into mar•
ket about January 15. The highest prices
axe in April and May, for chicks less than
two pound e weight, sold dressed, and they
sometimes reach 60 cents per pounds.
Pallets do not fatten as readily as hens.
It requires a little edema to feed Brabmas,
Cochins, or Plymouth It Joke to prevent them
becoming too fat. The more active the
breed the less liability „to fatten. _
When you find a dead hen under the roost
the cause is apoplexy from over -feeding.
When your hens gradually droop and die,
remove the cock, as he is the cause, especi-
ally if he; is heavy, If a hen has the blind
staggers she is too fat.
When chicks grow very fast it sometimes
causes leg weakness; but in such cases 'they
have good appetites, and it is not necessarily
fainl. Bottom heat, or feeding sulphunwill
also cause leg weakness.
When chicks droop, look sleepy, have a
rough appearance, refuse food, and do not
grow, look closely on the necks, heads and
vents for the large body lice --not the little
red mites.
For warts, sore heeds andskin diseases,
rub once a day with a few•drops of the fol-
lowing e Lard, two tablespoonfuls ; cedar
oil, one teaspoonful ; carbonic acid, twenty
drops.
Disinfect the entire premises when dis-
ease appears, with Douglass Mixture, Which
is made of two gallons water, one pound
copperas, and one gill sulphuric acid.
The reason the hen that steals her nest
away hatches well is that she is not too fat,
and every egg has the same vitality, but
when persons put eggs under a hen the eggs
are usually of all sorts and from anywhere
they can be gotten. .
To feed young chicks, give nothings for
thirty:six hours. Then feed bread, crumb-
led, made of corn mettle three parts, mid-
dlinga one part, grdnnd meat one part.,
Cook well, and feed every two heurs, clean•
ing away all that •is leff over. Mix the
materials with milk if convenient, but if
not, mix with hot water, before cooking.
Feed no eggs, as they cause bowel disease.
A3 soon as they are old enough keep cracked
•corn and wheat before them. When two
weeks old feed on a mixture of ground corn
and oats three parts, bran ono part, ground
meat one part, with a little salt and ground
bone, the whole well wielded, and feed four
times a day. Give all the drinking water
they wish, but only the beaks must get
wet. Give milk and also, chopped fresh
meat three times a week. Chopped onions,
mashed potatoes, fine-ohopped clover
(scalded) or any variety, may also be fed.
That is the Hammonton method.
When young chicks are feathering rapid-
ly, feed chopped meat once a daye A pound
for fifty chioks 18 suffieient. Avoid draughts
of air on them.
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PEARLS OF TRETIL
Good wetohing drives away ill•luok.
Every good deed will have its blessing.
In prosperity, prepare for secheesge ; in Pk
versity, hope tor one,
One of the greatest of faults is to believe
°mei self without faults.
No gifts, however divine, profit tilde
who neglect to cultivate them.
Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like
hales unopened to the site.
He that buys what he does not want will
soon want whet he cannot buy.
There is no one dee who lute the power to
be so much your friend or so much your
enemy ae yourself.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and
whoever procures it at the expense of ten
thousand desires makes a wise and happy
purchase.
It is a good rule' to sojourn in every place
as if you meant to spend your life there,
never omitting an opportunity of doiug a
kindness or making a friend.
There is no real success in any pursuit in
life without hard work, It is not luck, but
toil, not chance, bat well -directed labor,
that makes life a success,
Never be discouraged by trifles. If a
'spider breaks his thread twenty times ho
will mend tt as many. "Perseverance and
patience will accomplish, wonders.
The droppings are worth 50 cents per hen
a year. The best way to preserve them is
to clean out the house every alternate day.
Mix one bushel dry earth, one bushel drop-
pings, and half a peck of kainit (crude
German potash salts) together, and put
away, in a dry place. Kainit can be bought
by the bag at any fertilizer store, and is
not only cheap, but of itself a good pdash
fertilizer. In the mixture it forme sul-
phates, and fixes the ammonia. If it can-
not be procured, use dry land plaster instead,
but kainit is much better.
The advantages of an incubator are not
that they? are always better than hens, but
that with their aid you can hatch at any
time yon prefer, and strike the market at
the right time, hence an incubator chick
may be worth four hatched under hens be-
cause he brings a high price.
More chicks can bo hatched in winter and
raised in brooders, with onetenth the labor,
than with hens. An incubator is as much
a necessary part of a poultryman's Mita at a
reaper and binder is for a wheat -grower.
e have raised chicks in brooders to weigh
two pounds (when forded in feeding) in nine
weeks, but ten to twelve weeks in the aver-
age time. Our brooder turkeys weighed
five pounds when four months old.
Death at Bay.
Many inetauces are on record where death
has seemingly been held at bay by the desire
of the [dying person to see once more some
absent friend who was hastening to see the
sufferer. The le -test story of such a death.
bed scene denies from the Aroostook Pioneer.
A young man named John Harley, who was
married lest fell, contracted a severe cold
while river driving that terminated in run -
mottle,. His wife was in Minnesota, where
he Intended to join her as soon as he got off
the drive. A telegram was sent to her
and she arrived in season only to 'see her
husband alive, he seemingly having fought
against death to see her once tnore. As she
entered the room ha rose in bed and remark.
t"ed 1wanted tO BOO you and am new will-
ing to go," After times few words were
spoken, he fell non the pillow, turned upon
hie tide and expired.
Courtesy does for human intercourse what
salt does for potatoes. Little civilities give
a relish to social associations, and when
practised they beget that habit of courtesy
which is a second nature.
When you go in debt you give to another
power over your liberty. If you cannot pay
at the time you will be ashamed to see your
creditor; you will be in fear when you speak
to him, you will melte peoe, pitiful, sneak-
ing excuses, and by degrees come to lose
your veracity.
Every human soil has a germ of some
flowers within, and *ay:would open if they
oould only find sunshine and free air to ex-
pand in. Not having enough of sunshine is
what ails the world. Make peoplehappy
and there will not be half the quarielling or
a tenthpart of the wickedness there is.
Revenge is a momentary triumph of which
the satistaction dies et once and is succeeded
hy remorse ; whereas forgivenese, which is the
noblest of all revenges, entails a perpetual
pleaeure. It was well said by a Roman em-
peror that he wished to put an end to all
his enemies by converting them into friends.
Every schoolboy knows that a kite would
not fly unless it had a string tying it down.
It is just so in life. The man who is tied
down by half dozen bloomingresponsibilitiee
and their mother will make a higher and
stronger fight than thebaehelor, who having
nothing to keep him steady, isalways flound
ering. in the rnind. If you want to ascend in
the world, tie yourself to somebody.
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THE EOARITES.
One or the Nese Outrider riceti sus ree.
Plat in America,
A Zoar (0 ) letter to the Worcester Spy
says :—This settlement of 'German mystios
and loommenists, holding all property aim.
lutely in common, is a complete little king -
dont in itself, The Zsaritee own 7,000 agree
of lend in one tract, of which hell is under
cultivation, while the remainder is heavily
timbered with valuable walnut, oak and pine
trees. Their original purohase hero was
10,C00 acres, but 3,000 havo been sold from
time to time at a great Advance toner first
coat, Every article, implement or achine
that is used, wrought with, eaten, drunk or
worn by the Zoarites is produced in Zoar,
as are also the materials of which it is coup
posed. The only exception to this rule are
coffee, tea, sugar and spices. The shod the
Zoarites 'wear are made by their own shoe.
maker, from leather prepared by their own
tanners, from hides taken from their own
cattle. The coal that warms them and
cooks their food is dug in their own mines
,and is burned in stoves cast in their own
foundry, from iron sthelted in their own
furnaces, from ore found in abundance on
their own lands. The clothing that covers
them is made by their oveh tailors, from
oloth woven in their own mill from wool
sheared from their own sheep. The beer
they drink is brewed in their own brewery,
from malt made by their own malts-
ters and hops grown en their own lands.
All manufacturing id Zoar is done by
water power. Steam is scarcely used at all.
The Tuscarawas River, by means of dams,
is made to flew with sufficient swiftness and
volume to supply thirty or forty horse-
power to ea"h of the Zoarite manufactories.
Nearly all the machinery used was made
in Zoar by Zoarite meohanics. One of their
principal preclude is flour, of -which, after
supplying their own wants, they ship large
quantities to Pittsburg, Cleveland, Wash-
ington and Baltimore. One of the chief
places. of interest in Zoar is the great collec-
ion of im mouse barns, in whioh the milk
cattle are kept. A considerable portion of
the Zoariteswealth is invested in their
live stook, and they have devoted much at-
tention to determining eehatu are really the
best breeds. They ' lihve experimented
largely with the Holstein, the Jersey, the
Alderney and the Durham, and are now in-
clined Lo favour the last named, though all
four varieties are wen represented in their
herds. Every sanitary and convenient de:
vice that modern ingenuity has been able
to suggest is utilized in the construction
of these cow stables. The stalls extend in
long rows on either gide of a. broad aisle,
and the conditions for light and ventilation
are of the most favourable kind. Already
the cows are out at pasture, and it is a rare
sight to see the mild -faced, patient creatures
come filing in at eventide in a seemingly
interminable procession, each one knowing
her accustomed place, and ring voluntarily
FOR SUNDAY CONTEMPLATION
Ambition brealvetee ties of blood and for-
gets the obligationOf gratitude.—Sir Walter
Scott,
e"I am. bappy, .because i have the entire
possession of my faculties, a persistent love
of labor, the control of my will and con-
science, admiration for what is fiae, indulgence
for what is silly, and severity tor myself."
[D tunas.
To be,called is to be favoured with spiritual
helps and privileges, and invited to enter in-
to the full blessing of which they offer the
means. To be chosen is to be found faithful
in using opportunities when thus presented.
— [N. L. Frothingham.
Culture is the acquainting ourselves with
the best that has been known and said in
ehe world.—[Matthew Arnold.
When death, the greater recognoiler, has
come, it is never our tenderness that• we re-
pent of, but our severity. —George Eliot.
There is no darkness but ignorance.—
[Shakespeare.
Prefer truth before the maintaining of an
opinion.- [Sir Philip Sydney.
So great is my veneration for the Bible,
that the earlier my children begin to read
it the more confident will be my hopes that
they will prove useful citizens to their coun-
try. and respectable members of society.—
[John Quincy Adams. •
Man is unjust, but God is just; but just
tice finally triemphs.— [Longfellow.
To be a great man is necessary to turn to
account all opportunities.—[Rochefoucauld.
A picture is an intermediate something
between a thought and a thing. - [Cole-
ridge.
Who partakes in another's joys is a more
humane character than he who partakes in
his griefs.—[Lavater.
He who has no opinion of his own, but
depends upon the opinion and tastes of
other, is a slave.— [Klopstook.
Fling away ambition; by that sin fell
the angels; how can man then, the image
of his Maker, hope to win by it? —[Shakes-
peare.
The modesty of certain ambitious persona
consists in becoming great without making
too much noise, it may be said that they
advance in the world on tiptoe.— LVoltaire.
I am sure that any man of common under-
standing may, by culture, mire, attention
andlabor, make himself whatever he pleases
except a greait poet,—[Chesterfield.
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IJnj ustifiable Extravag ance.
About the middle of George IL's reign
an Act was passed fixing a scale of fines ior
swearing regulated by the station of tho of-
fender. ,l'hus a eentleman was charged five
*flange; folks of respeotability, but hot
reckoned gentry, two shillings; while sol
diere, sailors and clay labourers were let off
with a shilling an oath. A second convio.
tion entailed a doubling of the penalty; a
third, a treble fine, or ten day's hard labour.
We find three instances of conviotion noted
in the Gentlemansti ltfctocr,int—in one ease a
woman being sent to Bridewell for one:pro,
fate oath; in another a countryman being
made to pay thirty-two shillings for sixteen
oaths; while in the last, the offender, who
Was a tradesman and evidently a very bad
man, was convicted of the flagrant offertee
of extravagantly swearing beyond his means,
by indulging in three hundred and ninety
oaths, and it default he had,to pay in person
and so was lodged in prison.
to it without the slightest disturbance or
confusion.
Oa theenorning and evening of each day
all the young women in Zoar repair, in
merry procession, to these barns ank milk
the cows. As members of Congress some-
times are for a much Jess useful purpose, the
girls are "paired' and to each two are as-
signed eight cows, which they must always
milk. Fancy more than thirty buxom young
millinutids"with the good looks which are
the offspring of pad health, outdoor exer-
cises and good diet, speckling in their eyes,'
lips and cheeke. Each one is tastefully
dressed in vsell.fitting chintz or calico, and
wears a white apron'which, like everything
else about these most attractive young wo-
men, is sorupulously neat and clean. The
girls have the privilege of naming the cows
assigned to them, and the name of each cow
is painted over her stall. These names show
that there is a trace of the romantic in the
minds of the young women of Zear, the bo-
vines rejoicing in such fanciful appellations
as Lily, Maud, Ethel, etc.
Another place in which to see the Zlarite
young woman to advantage is the bakery,
where all the bread and pies for the entire
community aro baked fresh every morning.
From 75 to 100 loaves comprise the average
daily consumption of the town. The baking
is done by men, but each household sends its
young women to the bakery to procure its
supply of daily bread, and carry it home
wrapped in a large, spotless white cloth
which eaoh damsel carries with her.
Besides these quaint processionsof young
women to the cow stables and the bakery,
there is another similar one to be seen in
Zoar on every pleasant day. That is a pro,
cession of girls, ranging from 8 to 13 years -
drawing in an old.fashioeed baby carriage a
younger brother or sister for an airing. As
all property in Zoar is held in common, so
the Zoarities share equally and participate
together in all their pleasures and duties.
Thus even the babies ot the society are
aired" simultaneously in along drawn-out
procession.
For the pleasure of the members of the so.
ciety and their visitors, a miblic garden and
a greenhouse are maintained in Zoar. Both
are of considerable extent, and would be
highly creditable to any large city. The
garden is tastefully laid out, and contains
some noble trees and. elegant shrubbery, A
large and delightfully cool arbour in the
centre is entirely concealed by the latter.
The greenhouse boasts a fine collection of
choice plants and flowers. There is no pro
hibitory "No admittancelor "Hands off'
on anything, and everyone is free to enter
at all times and roam about at will. From
the garden and greenhouse it is but a few
,stops to the picnic ground, a grove of grand
old forest trees, in which the Zoarites havo
placed swings and a covered dancing plat -
torn for the enjoyment of their younger
vtsitors, who, in summer time, wale in large
numbers from surrounding oities and towns),
es well aa from the adjacent country and
picnic here on two or three days of aimed
every weeks,
MISCELLANE0118.
A baby, aged 6 months, named Edwin
Will:L.1'MS lett in his cradle by his mother,
who twee .at 'Sheffield, Fmgland, and was
Worried to death by a Verne ferret kept for
killing rate.
T. H. Stewart of Smvrins, Ga. , owns a
oat with three kittens', .4 youngrabbit was
given her to eat reoently, but trusteed she
adopted it and is rearing it as carefully as
if it had been one of her kittens.
A uew fire eecape in England is &sort of a
chair that slides down ropes, and the host of
a house possessing it often entertains his
guest's by permitting them to take a ride.
At the Italian exhibition in London it is
expected toprove a great riVe.1 to the switch.
heels railway,
The municipal authorities think the cross-
inge are so unsafe in Patio that an English
paper says they have employed surgeons
disguised as policemen for the purpose of
helping the timid people across the perilous
parte of the streets and boulevards, and to.
be at hand in case of aeoldente.
By means of rept improvements made
in the manufacture of rifles, as welly as'120
barrelcan now be rolled in an hour by one
machine. They are straightened cold and
bored with corresponding speed, and even
the rifling is done automatically so that one
man tending six machines can turn out sixty
or seventy barrels per day. With the old
rifling machine twenty barrels was about the
limit of a day's work; but the improved ma-
chines attend to everything after being once
started, and, when the rifling is completed,
ring a bell to call the attention of the work-
man.
Mies Agnes Murray of Bridgeport is an
eccentric woman, to.put it mildly. She is
.very rioh, and spends her money in oddways.
A year agoshe bought a fine house in Bridge
port, paying $35,000, shut it up and has
since then allowed no one to lite in it,
though several desirable tenants have been
anxious to rent it. Her country place is
four miles from the railroad station, and' it
is said that invited guests are permitted to
walk the distanoe, notwithstanding that
there are numerous horses and carriages in
her stables. Miss Murray was a great belle
in her youth,
Lightning recently at Hansville, near
Centralia, Mo., struck the smokestack of a
mill owned by Carpenter Broe. On the win-
dow of the mill the stroke of electricity plain.
ly photagraphed the numerals 1888. Between
the figures was a zigzag line. On the wall
opposite hung a calendar for the present e ear
from which the photograph was supposed to
have been copied.
Chief Superintendent William of the Liver-
pool detective police recently had his house
robbed. The rear of his house is guarded be
a bloodhound, and the thieves, probably
aware of this, entered in the front kitchen
window and completely stripped the drawing
Deep-Sca Soundings.
According to Mr Stalibraas, the history
Of decp.sea sounding might almost be taid
to date from the time of the first Almanac
cable scheme in 1858, but proper attention
has not been given to the subject until quite
recently. Tho work of surveying with e
View to ascertaining the configuration of the
ocean -bed previous to laying a submarine
eable is of vital importanee. Between Cadiz
and Teteriffe alone, a clistanceof abottt seven
hundred miles, e twenty. three eonodings were
taken 08 one expedition, resulting in the
discovery of two banks, two Moral patella,
and four other 'shoal vote. Soma of the
laches near these batiks were renurkable for
theiesteepness.
room and sitting room of all that wee valuable,
such as jewelry, plate, and wearing a epszel,
without interrupting the aleep of the Liver-
pool head detective.
The Commissioners of Glasgo'w have pre-
sented a report., in which they reocomend an
extension of the boundaries so as to include
adjacent counties of. Lanark and Renfrew.
Tne effect will be if these proposals are car-
ried out to increase the population of Glas-
gow by 180.000,bringing up the total to 723.-
995, and in so ctoIng will place the city in a
:position to claim without quostion the dis-
tinction of .being the second city lit the Unit-
ed Kingdom,
A Bangor yonng woman one ,Saturday
evening went into a book store, and asked the
ch rk, whom she knew well to pick her out a
good novel to read next day. The novel was
selected, and the clerk deftly substituted
for it a new Testament, made a neat pack-
age, and thought that he had played a gooi
joke, on the girl, On Monday morning he
heard from the joke. The young woman
entered the store very white in the face and
banged the Testanient down on the counter.
"I'd have thrown that in thedre," she said,
"if there had been any way in which I
could have made you pay for it. I'll never
buy a cent's worth of you again, so there.
Give me the book I bought on Saturday,"
and then she flounced out.
tileultingi %Zeit,* the
Mr, Samuel Os *keit
in8 small pleas ne
tionSideratile, snqy, retro
Thursday with the boat in winds. ise
acmes the Channel to the Frew+ coot%
belongs to Tewkesbury, Gliounestste s
where it l 'doted he is well known,
yonng fellow of
about 30, and resembles in a remarimble
degree the late Capt. Matthew Webb, hthe.
some year; ago swam woe* the Channel.
He come to Dover on Saturday nipht, and
states that his only object was to prove that
the voyage of the Oxford crew 14 mowing
the Channel in an eight -oohed galley was
no great feat Of endurance when it could be
done by one pereon„ .Altogether Mr. Os.
borne must have rowed 'between forty and
fifty miles', and, as a feat of strength and
endurance, it is eertainly a notable one.
The time occupied from start to, finish was
only thirteen hour.. This is the nose
remarkable part of the petformance, as the
voyage was made against a atr.ang easterly
wind,
Osborne states that he launched from
Dover beach at 11 4 M,, there beings fresh
wind at the time. The only refreshments
he took with him were a few bielmite and*
bottle of stout, His intention was to row
straight to Calais, but he found, the tide
drifted him downohannel toward Folkestone,
In creaming he was drifted bickward and
forward, according to the set of the tide.
About 3 P. M. he passed the Ease Verne
buoy, where he sighted a yacht, which signal
led to him, Toward dusk be had reached
the Ridge Bank, or fishing ground, Where
he came up with Folkestone fishing boat,
The wind had *en indeased, and his
little tweiaty-foot punt was pitching
about a great deal, although, with careful
handling, only a little water was shipped. hi
The fishermen told him it was going to be
a rough night, ind advised him to come on
board, as be was then fifteen miles from Ca-
lais and twenty from Boulogne. Osborne,
however, thanked thein for their offer, end
said he intended to finieh his voyage. Ai
there was considerably more wind—which is
always felt more in this side of the Chemed—
the boatrequired very careful handling for tine
rest of the distance. Night soon after getin,
and the remainder of the voyage was made.
by moonlight. Nothing further was fallen
in with, and Osborne ran his boat aground
on the French coat near Wimereux at mid-
night, about two miles and a half west of
Boulogne. Osborne states that be kept up
a steady pull right across the Channel, and
did not feel any the worse for his trip. There
being no one about, Oaberne pulled his boae
up, and lay in it till morning, when he ob-
tained assistance, and had his boat conveyed
into Boulogne, where it was subsequently
placed on board the packet and brougnt over
to Folkestone.
When the matter became known at Bon-
logne it created a great deal of interest in
the town. The boat belonged to a boatman
named 'Newman, who had very little hope of
ever seeing his boat back again. Mr. Os-
borne three years ago performed the feat of
rowing fifty miles in twelve hours, from
Tewkesbury to Gloneester, and Sharpness
Point and back to Gloucester.— [London
Telegraph.
The Druggist's Coloured Jars.
While a reporter was talking with a
druggist the other evening a little fellow,
clad in a blue suit, entered and bought a
postage stamp. After getting the stamp he
said—" Say, mister, what do you put in
them big jars in the window ?' "Colored
water," replied the druggist, smiling, and
when the little fellow had gone he added
—" Every now and then some little child
asks us about those globes." " Well, I am
curious myself. What is the full receipt?"
said the reporter. "Those used by the
better class of druggists," replied the drug-
gist," "are, in reality, composed of mix-
tures of chemicals. Some use bottles of
coloured glass filled with water, but these
do not reflect the light fromtho gas jets as
the chemicals do. For red, the most
common of all, we mix iodine and iodide
of potassium with water. Some add alco-
hol to prevent freezing. Blue is formed
by a mixture of sulphate of copper, common,
ly called blue vitriol, and water of ammonia.
Plain bi.chromate of potash in water 'forms
the yellow colouring, and green is made by
a mixture of the blue and yellow, or else
from nickel dissolved in nitric acid. A
pretty crimson colour may be made by cora-
binins alkanet root and oil of turpentine, and
lilac is the result of a mixture of crude oxide
of cobalt and nitric acid, Royal purple, one
of the window colours, is made by dissolving
logtvood or coohineal in ammonia or sulphate
of indigo. Pink is nitrate of cobalt and
sesquicarbonate of amtnonia, and amber is
formed of one Rot of dragon's blood and four
oil of vitriol, filtered and mixed with water.
Of course, all sorts of combinations of these
colors may be made, and other shades pro.
duced,. but those which I havo named are
the prucipal ones in use. Tho first thing
a druggist does on starting in business le to
bey the chomieals needed for his bottles,
They are an important item in the equip -
nicht of hie store.
Why:is a bullock6.` very obedient animal
Becauee he will lie down when you axe him.
• It is stated that words hurt nobody
nevertheless, &mann jawed a thousand
Philistines to death,
"Well, Sir, what does h cs.1.1. spell 14
Boy—"I don't koow." "What have you got
on your head?" Boy (seratching)—"I guess'
it's a untekeeter bite, for it itches like
thunder."
ALIVE IN HER COFFIN.
.i. .-YI-1 .:,
strange Reseereet siren a Young Omuta
"What. as Sappos...,Abe Lea
Mrs. Didie Webb keeps a gro
cinuati, 0.. and is known to hundreds of
people. T go years ago John Webb, a Son
of Mrs. Webb, married Sarah Kelly, a re-
markably pretty girl, to whom the mother-
in-law beceme greatly attached. ' Before the
firer year of their married life had passed
Mrs. Webb, jr., became stricken with con-
sumption. About a month ago the young
lady became anxious to visit her parents an
Henderson County. Two weeks ago last
Tuesday a telegram announced her death,
and the husband started for the remains.
Three days later he returned with the
corpse. The mother-in-law pleaded so hard
for a sight of the dead woman it was decided
to open the ccffin.
'While looking at the 'placid_ face Mrs
Webb became almost paralyzed with fright
at beholding the eyelids of the dead woman
slowly open. Mrs. Webb was unable to
utter a sound. Fnally she fell upon a chair
near by, but her horror was only increased
when the supposed corpse slowly sat upright
and in analnaostinaudible voice eel&
where am I?" At thisah
soreamed.
Friends who rushed into the room were
almost paralyzed at the sight. One, bolder
than the others, returned and spoke to the
woman, who asked to be laid on the be.
Hastily she was taken from the offin
tenderly cared for. The day following eh ea
ba
related, as her strength. permitted, a hs?eties,he
derfel story. She was conscious of all itlitat
occurred, and did not lose con:Miming*
untilpshhi.ewas put aboard the train for
metn
Soon after being placed in her mother -in.
law's home she regained consciousness. A
supreme effort was made to speak while her
mother -in law was looking at he; d in
that instant, while returning to li
again lost track of her eurroundings,
caused her to ask where she was. Mrs.
Webb lived a number of days, when he
again apparently died. The doctor pre.
nounced her dead, and she was owe more
placed in the coffin from which elle had been
taken, and next day was belied.
•
A Lady Who Saw Napoleon.
Lady 13uchan, whose death is recorded
at the age of 90 years, was one of the lase
surviving pereons who had a distinct reed-
leotion of Napoleon the Greet. Her father,
Colonel Wilke, was Governor of St Helmut
in 1815, tat the time of Bottaparte'e banish-
ment. and on the terni of his Governorship
expiring, Miss Wilks was desirous of being
introduced to the ex.ernperor, "'have lung
heard from various quartets of the supesier
eloquence and beauty of Miss Wilke, but
now I .am convinced from toy own tletth
that report has scarcely done het 111111°612st
justice," said Napoleon to bet "You rrt
be very glad to leave this Wand," be ahl,
"Oh, no, sire," was the aosaver, "I am very
sorry to go Away." " Oh i modeinoireelle.
1 wish I could change lanes with yen,"
Napoleon presented her with a gold Iheaseleit
in memory of this visit. Mies Wilk* Mts.
quently inarried the late General Oft
Buchan, whom she long attrvivid,
Why' Is a person Wring gisteititne
st:la:nil:it of individnalls? Bennet W
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