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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-3-5, Page 6Astronomy out of Season. Be discourses on,astronomy »ith very best. intention. And discloses many matters I've not pre- viousiy known; But for some a p' caul te4801)51 am not he elitted to uteet on. 1 sl,ou:d much , re!erthe gtriot with Matil- da all a.oue. It iii well, of course. to know about these Fula jects: the rroa<rzety Of telling which lSaura and the distancq to the moon Is t bw ht ns: it gives a certain standing in society; But somehow, on this evening, Eve a great dcetre to spoon, The balmy air inodorous with perfume of the flowers: And the moonlight on the terrace is most 'e.puti:u1 to sec"t But Professor is excited and 1 know he'll talk for hours. White l'fatilda's in the garden, t suppose, expecting me. o moon! Q stars!. 0 roily -way! I care not for your density: your perigee and apogee pus>essIto charnts for me. look down, lookdfrom .own in pity froyour *rent, Vast immensity. Arad Vit study you mere fu:'r when I've grandsons on my knee. maimmapiimmeempingpmpos TIE DOSS 11'Assk.wW' . Norman ileydole will never be able to te.1 just whet he thought as he sat with the driver on "the o.ztsitle" and eoacued away down tin; tlaugeroua road aloe;: that part of the Rocky mount:ties. Norman knew this driver, having seen him call at the home for or with p:tssen ers; and the driver hate wit, a stage d'river's horsey olrserve- tious reasuvee the young mane and put him down as a •"lti;,•h-toney. 'way - up young, feller.,, ..Goin' to kulletige, young ging?" queried the driver, as the team was eloteett down to cunei a grade "Not yet," Norman respoutietl, -Gen' down to the bay?" ""aloin' to be one o' them spry youug feliers what skeets 'round for a bro- ker's efll, e, p'ltaps?" "I do ns.:, know what I shall do is San Francisca Pus going to seek my fortune." Tee ;rowing day, warned with the cloudless slay and strengthening sun, suggested to Norman to thaw ssir his overcoat, and as he was doing so the driver remarked: "D'ye allers go heeled?" "Very seldom," answered. Norman, piaeeve his hand u}ton his hip, as if matting sure that tltc matter of belt' g "'heeled" had not been displaced by the change of his dress. "1 used to pack ono a' them things," said the driver, "but tain't no use to ppaek'em if yo don't use 'em. I've heard lots a' talk among passengers about fight, but it takes the sand to fight singe robbers. D've reckon you'd stand in if throe or four masked men was to come into the road ont o' these yer bushes, with cocked double- barreled shot -guns drawed on us, and. holler to us to 'halt and put up yer hands?"' "I think I should," said Norman. ""Well, you wouldn't. ]let yer life ye wouldn't." "Perhaps not," said Norman. At this moment the stage was wind- ing slowly up the graded side -hill road, out of the canon, toward the open up- land country. Up the hillside the slim red branches of the =drones and the white stems of the buckeyes shone out among the live oaks and straggling pines. The situation and the conver- sation, in some way. had caused Nor- man to rest his hand upon his armed hip as he looked quietly about him. Arriving at the edge of the woodland, the driver was about gathering his lines more firmly in hands for a speed- ier gait, when, as if by magic, there appeared in the road three men, with guns and masked faces, one of whom a shouted: "Halt!" and then added. looking through the holes in his rude in ask at Norman: "Hold up your hands." To which Norman replied by putting a bullet - hole through the mask immediately above the two holes which had eyes be- hind them. "Drive on," said Norman, quietly but firmly, as he sent a ball in danger- ous nearness to the head of the masked fellow in front of the horses. "Drive on quickly!" and again he fired upon the fellow in front, while a load of buckshot went singing over his head from the fellow on the right. For the next mile the driver had business on his hands—his team was "running away," or at least believed they were. Norman quietly watched the road to the rear, while the driver kept an eye to the fore,.but neither said anything to the other. By-and-by, as they neared the station, whore a change of horses should take place, preparatory to entering upon a more inhabited country, the driver succeeded in slow- ing his team to a trot up -hill. "Are you hurt?" asked Norman, still keeping his eye. upon the rearward road. "Dum if I know. Hain't had time to find out, but there's a place on top of my slouch that burns red-hot, 1 can't slack up these lines to prospect it." "Let me look," said Norman, taking off the driver's hat and feeling his crown. '"There's no. blood, and I think there's no .new' hole in your`hestd." Norman next examined ;the' driver's hat, and holding it beforethe eyes of that worthy, pointed to opposite holes across the crown. "I knowed it was a closecall," said the driver. "Ain't you hurtnowheresP". "Not much," said Norman; "there is a wet place on my shoulder, but it does not feel very painful. Can we not stonow and look after the people inside?" "No -can't hold 'em," meaning the horses. "Holler over the side to pem," meaning the passengers. "We'll soon be in town.".• Norman leaned over the side of the coach. and asked: "Auy one hurt in- side?" "I believe not," answered a bearded rough. "No, sir; nobody hurt," said a pleas, Ant female voice, "but oh! so terribly frightened." The stage drove up to the /mole of the little country inn with feminine. canting horses. The passengers &rot promptly out. Norman got quzetty down from his high seat, and entered the inn without seeakiug to soy one. Curly told his story plain enough, without unusual exaggeration as to his own part in it, but with great praise for the eQurnge--"sand" he called fe— ed the "young feller." Aeeording to him, the robber on the left fell dead at the first fire, and he was satisfied that : the robber in front was wounded. "Is the young feller hurt any?" asked the barkeeper: "He thinks he is in the shoulder," answered the driver, "Where is lie?" and the driver started toward the door as if to look ltim up. t "Gone down town long 'go with the lan'lord," said the barkeeper. "Well. I'll wait for him, if it's a week. You needn't bring out no team till he conies baek—not fer me to drive -ter I don't move nary a tirst step till the young teller gives his orders. Tie's my boss. He's the boss passenger that ever went over this line. ' By and by Norman returned, coming up the street with the landlord on one surto of him and tete village doctor ou the other, all eonversing pleasautIy, and as they stepped upon the inn poreh the driver accosted Norman. ."Weil, boss, shall we roll out?" "As soon as you please. I am ready," answered. Norman. ,And the renown of that "high toney, "wway-up young feller," the first of his kind that old Curly had ever seen, spread :dl over the Rocky iuounta:ns from the hour, next day, when the grizzly bead body of the great bandit, Cooke P.zan, was found at the very spot where he had sprung upon the stage. WIT AN.D itittllt)Ii The Rev. Joseph Cook calls 1►iui ctli le pandenominationallat. ,11 be had had time, Joe would have used a longer nerd. "Oh, mamma," said 6 -year-old Ben- nlo as a brigade of Brenzeu geese emerged front the lake and waddled up to the bank, "'look at those hens with indict -rubber feet." Do cats reason?" asks. a writer is natural history. We don't know wheth- er they reason or cot, butler pure, un- adulterated argumentation they take the cake.-.-Burlingloa. Free Press. "Pa, what is that you've got?" "That is a peach -basket, my daughter," "stint it cunnin,? Will you give it to me when you are through with it?" "What do you want to do with it, my dear?" '•I want to use it for a thimble case for my little doll." Citizen (eaamiuiug last summer's flannel shirt)--"11iv own fault—my own fault b'"iovel Mighter known it. Didn't put in enough insect -powder. Moths ate up all the insect-powder— nothin' more to eat—began on the shirt—'course they did—can't blame 'em," First New Yorker—Oh, there's the dinner -bell! Haw I do dread that hot dining -room. Second New Yorkor-- Hot? Well—yes--I suppose it .is hot in some places. But come to my table if you want to be cool. There are six Bostonians there. It is like dining in a refrigerator. A young widow, in erecting a monu- ment to the "dear departed," cleverly availed herself of the opportunity to inscribe upon the tomb: "Sacred to the memory of Mathusin Bexuchet, aged 68 years, regretting the necessity of parting from the most charming and best of women." Paterfamilias: "What is included inyour curriculum?" Young Hopeful: "Our what, pa?" Paterfamilies: "Tete curriculum of your college." Young Hopeful: "Well, to tell the truth, 1 don't knot. You see, being the stroke - oar and the first -eleven Captain, I have not much time for botany." Fishing at Geneva Lake: wise—.1 thought I heard you say to George that you bad plenty of bait, and here we are way out without any. I think it is too bad. Husband—Well, I did have lots of it, but somehow I forgot to bring it. It won't take us long to go back after it. Just then George came up and said confidentially: "Tom, where's the bait?" and Tom said: "In a jug under the front seat in the boat. Get what you want quick, and I'll keep the old lady in conversation up here." "Oh. Charles!" exclaimed the young wife, "yqu've been drinking! I amen it on you'r breath." "No, I haven't, my dear. You're mistaken. I only fol- lowed a man who owed our firm $10 into a saloon in order to get it, for ho is tough pay; and while in there he was taking a drink, • and I suppose probably I inhaled some of the aroma rising from the liquor. .That is 'what you smell." "Oft! I am so glad it is only- that, for I feared you lied been drinking. "—Kentucky Slate Journal. City man—"Tramps! Pshaw! If I :lilted in the country I would soon get rid of them." Suburban rosident— "Youthink sof' Well, how would you manage it?" "Easily enough. I would just.keep a lot of work on hand, and whenever tramps asked we for food.I would tell them to earn it" "But they can't work without tools:" "Cele tainly not. I would furnish tools, of course. Just try it." "I have tried it." "Alt! Didn't the tramps go off P" "Yes, and the tools, too." Talking with a friend the other day about the tricks of youth and the dime ly remembered slipper. he said that he recollected one day when his mother was siek and his prim old aunt came to preside over him, the older brother and the table. ' Having teased his aunt past all endurance, she tapped his sconce, when he called her an old fool. At the supper table his father was informed of his inpudeuee, and Will was told to go to the head of the table and tell his aunt lie was sorry. He went and, fulfilled tate command, wall hanging head, by saying: "I'm sorry yoie ro an old fool, Auntie." He este tits supper. but meant well. How the Queen W*'ttes. A few days ago I saw a Tong letter written by' the queen two or three months back. I should like to have wade a copy of it, for the homely, mo- therly words would have gone straight to the hearts of all who read it. The theme was her majesty's last great sor- row,and it brought the "unaccustomed brine" to my eyes. as I glanced at the composition. The queen does not now write in that One running hand which characterizes so many of the royal au- tographs, but has adopted a much rounder style. This letter was evi- densly written in a great hurry; still there was no blot or erasure. What *truck me most was the extent to which the queen unbends when she is I writing to a sul-jtrct about one so dear 1 to her as her lost son, Her majesty writes almost as affectionately to the children of those whom she has known intimately as ro rho weathers of her own fatuity. GOLDEN CREAM, LA CRSMS D'OR. Thobest preparation known to soienceiorbeautityint the Trade Ma k. COMPLEXION ONE SINGLE A1'PIICATION is warranted to Beautify the Face and_give to the Fadedor Sallow Com- plexion a Perfectly Healthy. Natural and 'Youthful Appearance. It Conceata A'frinkles. Natural,_ Crow's Feet, and the Evidence of Ago, baying the Skin Soft, Smooth. and White. mptatpdrlltany address. Postage stan Address Sent to CREME D' OR, Drawer 2,678, Toronto P.Q. Ask soar druggist for it. Wholesale by all wholes. sale drugvzats. But-dack'.. BLOOD BITTERS. Cures Diz tness, Doss :of :lppetite, Indigestion, Biliousness, .Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Affections of the .Liver arta Kidneys, Pimples, Blotches, Boils, Ilumors, Salt Rheum, Scrofula, Erysipelas, and all diseases arising. from Impure ..Blood, -Deranged Siomaelt, or irregular action of the Bowels;. Where We Got the ',Cue," The game of billiards was invented t about the middle of the sixteenth eon- tury by a London pawnbroker panted WVi1141iu Kew. In wet weather this pawn broker was in the habit of taking down the three balls, and with the i, yard measure pusldng them, biillard fashion. front the counter into the !stalls. Its t:nze the idea of a board with side pockets suggested itself. A bbrek- letter mane ierips says; ",ll:titer iVAI- Iain Kew did make one board whereby A gauze is played with three, balls; and n14 the young Hien are greatly recre- ated the vat, chiefly the young clergy- , uzeu front St. Panties; hence one of ye strokvs was named a 'cannon,' having been be one of yo said clergymen in- vented. The •rams is now known by the name of " Zzii-yard." because lane or or hide, Kew di I first play it with a ward-azu"asure, 'faro stick is now called :t 'ken,' or "kite.' " it is easy to understand how "bill -yard" has been modernized into "billiard," and the transformation. of "kcw," or "kuo" into "cue," is equally apparent. tienerat Butler's return to the assess- ors of Lowell shows that his income from his professiou is $100,000. His horses :znd yacht. America are valued. at $80,000, and his realestute in Lowell at $60,500. A Patterson silk mauufacturer has taken out a patent for a process by which cotton and silk threads may be twisted about light wires, to produce the effect of an ostrich feather or plums, for ladies' hats and other purposes. A thought suggested to the Rochester herald by the topic of the hour: "Every young woman should have a chance to write ;t letter of acceptance, or, what is bettor, accept orally." Every young man should be a candidate, we may also add. Cucumber, in lieu of ice, is tut in slices and laid upon the heads of fever patients in England. The effect is said to be cool, grateful, and refreshing. Perhaps this is the very best use to which this favorite but unwholesome vegetable could be put. The government has has bad luck with its postal notes. The first were 8o homely that people of taste could not conscientiously use them. and the new ones are so impregnated with arsenic that it is unsafe to handle them, especially with moist hands. Bartholdi wants to have the new statue up so that it may be inaugurated in September, 1885, to commemorate the signing of the treaty of Versailles, 100 years before. He estimates the cost of statue and pedestal when in place at half a million dollars. It is not generally known that the custom of keeping birthdays is many thousand years old. It is recorded in the fortieth chapter of Genesis, twen- tieth verse: "And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birth- day, he matio :w feast unto all his servants." Mozart, who, while he lived, wanted bread, now gets a stone. Vienna is building him a monumueut to cost $50,000, which is much more than he received for the whole work of his life. He died in want, and his uncoflined corpse was thrust into a trench in the potter's field. Florida appears to be the "Land of Flowers" to some purpose. The 17a - timed Druggist says that the manu- facture of perfumes from Florida flow- ers is becoming an important industry, and that a process has been recently devised for extracting the sweet flavor of the cassava plant. A Chinese nut or truit called li-cite is becoming popular. It is the size of a walnut and has a skin about as thick as writing paper. Within is the fruit, which resembles a fine raisin in flavor and consistency, and which contains in turn >a eniall oval seed. They cost 3 cents per pound in Hong Kong, 20 cents in San. Francisco, and 40 cents in New York. In 1854 Mr. Peerblock rescued at Ostende a bather who had been seized with giddiness and was in danger of drowning, and placed him in charge of a doctor,'but being obliged to leave next morning; "never saw him again until a few weeks ago the gentleman publicly thanked him when they met at Ems. The rescued man is now Em- peror of Germany. Advertise in the Exeter TIMES, TRE BANS of TIME Main Street, Exeter. THOS PITTO! Keeps Watches That Are Watches, And are warranted correct for Time, Title, of Railroad Train, and to please the utost fastidious. JEWELERY Tllait is Ela, Rare, Sparkling and Substantial, Suitable for Romans, Friends and Coui2trymen, Lovers, Brides, Bridegrooms, Loving and Love. "Wives, Children, Hus- bands, Etc., Etc. SPECTACLES.--- Scotch and Brazilian Pebble, soft easy and pleasant to tlle.eye, and suitable for youth or age. Give bin] n. call. No tronble to 'show Goods. Watches and. Clocks Repaired and Brought to Time. ES'T'ABLISHED 1072. o_t. .,- SAMWELL AND PICKARD Desire to call the attention of their customers to, and ase their inspection of their large and Complete assortm't of Dry Goods Etc., for the fall trade of 1884. Our stock is, we believe, well assorted and carefully selected. It consists in part of the following : All -Wool Dress Goods, Plain and Fancy Dress Goods, Black and Col'd Cashmere, Black and Col'd Silks, Ottoman Cord Siris. Staple Department. Shirtings, Denims, Cottonades, Table Linens, Table.Napkins, Grey and White Cottons, Skirtings (plain and twilled). Cotton, Bags, 'LACK ANC) COL'D VELVETEENS and prices.riety of shades Your inspection of these goods and prices will convince you they are right, as they have been Imported for this season's trade. Our Millinery Department is still under the care of our MISS McINTIRE, and the stock in this department will—if possible—be more attractive than ever this season, embracing all the latest American. English and French styles of Shapes, the latest shades in Silks, Satins, Ribbons, Flowers, Plumes, Tips, &c., &c. , • In OUR TWEED and GENTS' FURNISHINGS we show choice 'lines of English, Scotch, Irish, French and Canadian Tweeds, English, Scotch, and French Suitings, English and French Trowserings. Hats, Caps, Scarfs, Ties Shirts, Braces, Hosiery, Etc. We have a good cutter on the premises, and guarantee a St in every ease. Our stook of Blankets is very extensive in white. In Furs our stock is complete (gzey and brown) in Boas, Capes, Sets d:c„ &c,;, also Robes in Buffalo and Wolf. Our Boot and Shoe department will be found fully as- sorted in Ladies', Gents' and Children's wear, else a full assortment of Trpnks, Valises:, and Satchels. GROCERIES NEW AND FRESH. SAMW"LLL & PICKARD.