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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-2-25, Page 7DrA41* 01( A BITEGLA33. lie ruts inown the Rick Naomi el Earth al Fast as Be Snot tent num. N! Pollard was arrested at Pittieburg the other night for burglary. In hie peeket Wel found a queer diary and book of refer. enoe. The rutted of the writer mooned to run on the rich rhos of the earth. Die- mondi turquoise, tuid gold mines ere jum, bled upourmuslywitlithereeiciencee of many rioh men, both native and foreign. The volume, an eeeinee7 looking account book, is prefaced with the 'statement; I have thooght it nem/wary to write my name and address, taking into oonelderation the uncertainty ef human life. 1 was born in Burgeasville, Oxford twenty, Canada (the present reeidence of my father, Alfred Poi. lard), in,the year (9th of Match) 1886, and was ohrfitenecl Norman Clatk Pollard. This la followed by insertions to the effeoe that in the valley of the Santee River, in Peru, is a great graveyierd, very ancient, Also, t44/ etement that Mu Nelly Harr!. on goes do ' oston once a month from New York. A Peritonea experience ia related aa follows : In the year 1885 it became necessary to go to a hospital. I found that the different nations were repreaented as followa ; Ire. land, 18; America, 8; Germany, 5; Eng. land, 1; Sootland, 1 ; Canada, 1; colored, 1. The rioheat man in the world la Han Qua, living in Canton, China, Frankfort.on the -Main has more rich peo- ple than any other city of the earne size. John W. Clark, Third and Market street:it, McKeesport, has a very old book, if he has not &spend of it. Gold and silver bought at 1,642 Ninth avenue'third flat, New York. Just beyond the Lorimer /street bridge, in Denver, le a:them for the manufacture of tools. Human hair, bought at 60 Market street, New York. George Kobrick, a very rich man, lives 01% Ktiobley Mountain, Mineral county, W. Va. Tejinoo is the diamond ffeld of Brazil. Twenty-five milea from Santa Fe, N. If, in the Calif° Mountains le a tarquoine mine. In the empire of Anam the Emperor keepo his money and treasure in hollow logs in a pond with alligittors. The auth orities think that Pollard is wanted in the east, hut not so far east as all that. German Superstition. As a rule Germane are not gamblere ; but they play sometimes, and when they play they like to win, so there are charms that secure their summate Here io one of them in rough outline. It la by far the worst and most blasphemous we have ever heard of in Central Mermany—a distinct piece of witchcraft, as it seems to tee. To the words of the charm, distinctly noted down at the time, we regret that we cue not refer. The receipt without them stands thus: Catch a toad on Muster Sun- day morning before sunrise, take a piece of soft wood—pine &o., not beech nor oak— en the toad, and then nail tire upon it in the forte a little larger the wretched iotie of a oroes, hang ton an isolated pole to. ward the sun, thus gradually changing its position with the progress of the day : keep sprinkling it every now and then with water, for if it dies before the sun sets your labor has been in vain. If, when the sun goes down, he is still partially alive it is enough ; take him to the nearest ant -hill and bury him in it. On Whit Sunday dig him up. If no one haa disturbed the hill you will flnd the bones quite Mean and white; put them in a little bag, hang it round your neekeiend you will always win in games of aeWgce. This charm is, of course, a violation of every law of laurnan- ity and religion; a giving one's self tit the devil even more formelly than if one Maned a contract with him in °nee own blood, If we could reproduce the words to be need at the different houre it would be eoen, im- perfect as our account ever then woilld be, what mysteries are caricatured, and there- fore violated, The man who employe auch means, simply semi, " I shut myeelf oat of the fold of Christ ; 4111 want is to win at cards." The charm was prcemved by an old man who had served in the ware 1813 and 1812. Another man, a comrade of his, whom he had carried wounded off a battle- field, had given him, when on the point of death, his " lucky bag," and told him how to make a new one. The veteran did not know from what distriot the man he had eaved for a day or two had conic; hia knowledgeof the cherm itself was evidently inadequate ; he protested that he had never tried it: but the bag and the bones were there, a little blue ailk bag, worn and fray- ed, ' with a name worked upon it that looked like Eliza— a gbh; name who was young some 90 years age, we may suppose, and who put a ring, or perhaps a few gold- en pieces, her scanty earnings, into the bag, and gave it to her lover before he went away. It was full of a toad'sbones when 'we saw it. Dreading Dead. Kaunitz, the Anetrion Minister, who died, in1714, had euoh a dread of death that everything which might remind him of dying was carefully kept in the baokground. No one was allowed to utter in his nremence the word "death," to mention his birthday, or allude to emall-pox. Ingenione methods were adopted to avoid the prohibited word, while cemmunicatheg the fent of a death : When the referendary Von Binder, for fifty years his friend end confidant, died, . Xaverius Reedt, th prince's reader, expres- hed himself in thi 'Baron 'tinder le no imager to be- tel. The news of t 4 death of Frederick the Greet reached him n Mile way; His reader, with apparent absence of mind, told him thee a condor had just arrived from Berlin at the Prussian arelmender's, with notificiations of King Frederick William, Kartrittz ant for some time dig and motionlese in hie ortmohair, showing no nip of haying understood the hint. At last he roan walked elowly though the room, they said, rairtieg his tame to heaven, "Alas I when will ouch a king again ennoble the Siladem 1" Whcithei Emperor Jeseph died, the valet eetararto Katie z a document, whioh the emperor was to have eigned, with the words, "The emperor eigne no neeee," The death of hie taster, Cenntese Quentenberg, Katintin only knew when he saw hie houaohold in mourning. In like menner he (moo tomained un- acquainted with the recovery of ono of hie SOnfi from a severe illnese, until the °envie- legcent canto in 'tenon to cell on lahm. Kaunite himself had never been to flee him deriug Me ilium. To an old aunt of his he once sent from his table one of her' fevorlee dishes four years after her 'death. The Englrsla MeManid says the malhaped chain rope la likely to become the driving rope el the fattre. t at be reede tfit any hape Of groove and works well over pude ye, while it oet; be put on or ;flattened in a few ininutee and peen:ogles four times the a dvantage of the rouhd rope. LITTLE LAUGHS. A poet writing In pnooee'a MN/n*4M sons, "Gite me the moon and I wfli rue contented." An evident lunatio. . An exchange mike : "'Is cremation beoova. leg popular 1" It may he but we never heard of any one trying it but once. There has been so neuel talk about zero lately thet a good many people think zero means something instead of nothine, Solitude is as needful to the ithnagination as society le wholmome fer the character. Husbends should show this So their wives. An awfully homely man at a tioolable 'where kluging gimes are played looks as louesome as a stray hat in a enovnefierm Young man,remember the worde‘of the late lamentedJesh iiillinge "If your girl can't skate, let her slide." A Waraiug. It le apt to be too late te save s; drunkard when his habits have driven blur Ito mania. tomotti, but a New York paper tells ot a shoemaker in Angelica, of that State, who, minded the warning hi time to eaoliPei GQ ing to hie barn one day, he " sew snaketlis' One WAI a mocked Stick, end the Ober whiplash --hut Mey moved, He tells the rest of the dory ars follows : The oold :meat ef feet came out on nay forehead. I wiped It off with my hancikerohlef, and sat dews on the lower round of the haymow ladder, for I felt faint. Then I oared ;straight ahead at a cern stalk. It moon began slowly to wriggle and ourve 1 With bursting eye - balk and all the atrength of mind I poinenril• ad, Iforoed that thernatalk book from the animal to the vegetable kingdom, and then I itaggered feebly out into the open air. I leaned againet a fenoe, avid for fear I 'Mould A little bay saki he would rather have the 'se more Of theee horrible twisting things, I item:eche than the toothdtehe, became he °lung to a post and closed my eye.. Wann't compelled to have hie ear pulled out. "lime is called, Jim," I said to mymlf. A muff for each hand le the neweat wrin. " Whiskey and you lout company to -day ;'' kle. A two-handed muff haa been ea regle, and soberer than I had been for ninte9 even when eaoh hand belonged to a different months, though with no more strength than person. a baby, I managed to get back to the house. There Was a fight, though 1 I didn't toll Swallow.talls in the Legislature are not nry wife, for I had made a good many BO inimical to the intirreets of the people as promisee that hadn't been kept, and I the `swallowing of cooktaile during the sea - sign. thought I'd go on alone for a while. I got Did it ever happen to 000ur you what 111,1 in the morning, after a terrible night, th the thirst of a chased fox upon me, a tremendous amount of blies is conoentra- Water wouldn't quench it, and I tried milk, ted into the two short aticke of the marriage notioe column? I crept into the milkotoom, slipped a straw into the edge of a cream (levered pan, and When Fogg heard the landlady below stroked out the milk until only the cream stairs pounding the beefeteek, he remarked wae Idle lowered smooth and unbroken to that Mrs. Brown was tendering a bariquet the bottom. The I tried another, and an- te the burden. other, until the fierce craving was somewhat "Pat, what time is it ?" "Oi don't know, dulled. It wes a household myebery what Mike; but let's guises at it, and then the became of the milk. No oat could lap it, men as ()email furthest off oan go out te the my wife said, and lewie the Bides and cream kitchen and look." untouched, and where did it go? I let them talk, for the struggle was too sore and fearful to be spoken of, end I went on drinking the milk. The road from my house to my shop lay by the groggety. When I bit my gate in the morning, I took the road, and on a dead run, as if pursued, I made the diatance. I ran hard all the way home to dinner, and back after that meal, never, he foot, trust- ing myself to walk or even take to the side- walk for menthe. The euro was slow. I keep all the brakea hard set yet. A single glass of hard older would undo the work of all them, years'but that glass doesn't touch my lips while the memory of those little crawling black reptilem etaye with me "And did yonr wife finally learn what became of the milk ?" he was baked. " Yee," and his voice broke, "1 told her on her deathbed." "'Jinn, dear,' she said, when I had fin- ished, with her ho,ndelimped in mine, 'dim, dear, I knew it all the time,'" The struggle ended In victory, but who would be welling to enter upon a ()puree that would imporie upon life an experience like this? Annt—"Has any OM been at these pre- serves ?" (Dead aflame.) "Have you touch- ed them, Jemmy ?" Jemmy—"Pa never 'lows me to talk at the liable." Boarder—Why is that sprirg chicken like a faverite brand of brandy? Landlady—I am aura I don't know, Mr. Tibbs. Boarder —Because it's old hen, I see. The men who are running a paper in Sbatent Prison will be eaved the bather of applioations for places as editorial writers by greeel college graduatee. A calico party wu recently given in Cin- cinnati. There were few fashionable women preeent owing to their well known prejud- ice against appearing in print. Telegraph boy. in New York turn out te be burglars. Tali is encouraging and a de- cided improvement on devoting four hours to carrying a message twenty blocks. A spring of blaok ink has been disoovered In Arkansea, but as it is not intoximeting, and therefore unfit to drink, the Arkanseeui don't know what to do with it. "Cog hog to rog. Jags le not 100." This looks funny, and it 1. to expert telegraph operators. What tried to go over the wires was : "Come home to Rome. JeFilee is not well." It is stated that Walt Whitman is about to publiehia volume of poetry. We have often wondered why, having secured memo reputation aa a put, he never published any poetry. The following incident happened in one of the public) schools in a neighboring city: Teaoher—"Define the word excavate," Soholar—"It means to hollow out." Teach- er—"Construot a sentence in which the word is properly used." Scholar—"The baby ex. cavaMs when it gets hurt," A professor who got very angry at the in- terruption of a man while he was explaining the operation of annachine in Miaotory, stroll- ed away in a huff, and coked another roan: "Wbo le that iftielow that preteude to know more than I do (About that inatrument ?" "Oh 1 he le the man that invented it," was the answer. A Peculiar Aooident, Henry C. Davis, Resident general pas. eenger meant of the Northern Pacific, who returned M St. Paul a day or two ago from the Pacific coast, tell e of a rather remark. able accident which occurred near Palouse Jtuoction. As the train, west bound, wail paesing Wmehtuena Dile a coyote started enema the ice. A Mr. Mauritz, who oat be- side Mr. Davia in the oar, eaw the animal. He drew his revolver, a 45 -calibre Colt's, and fired at the breast. The ball rtruok the ice and &owed frilly a half mile, etni- e Ceineman woriehret on eeetion 3 in the left ehoulder and leflicting a melons wound. The unfortunate Celeetial was taken aboard the train and eent to Walla Walla for treat- ment. Mr. Mauritz paid all the expenees cionsequent upon the sic:Went. Mr. Davis, on hie return trip, inquired the condition of the Chinaman, whose name he learned was "Who." He was Informed that the wound was not dangerous. The ball bad entored the left ehoulder to the scapule, and then glanced downward four or five inches' into the muscle, where it was cut met. The Chinaman took chloroform as meekly as a child, and smiled blandly after the operation was performed. Minerals up the 0. P. Pb. In the vicinity of Sudbury there have re- cently been great crisooveriee of ore of a high grade. The general ohereeter of the ore is very much like the lodes of Bette City, Montvale, some in Colorado, New Mexico, end other well-defined mining rateable The "mineral belt" extends amour the continent fromNova Scotia and Nowforuidland to Van - waver blond, andthe veins mom it diagon- ally, chiefly at points of change of geological formation. The Iron Island vein, of nearly pure speedier iron, is at right angle° to thou bearing copper and other metalo. The Sud• bury vein has been located from lot 5, front of 64, to lot 3, front of Snider, a distance of nine milee, on width eight rich ontorops have already been opened ; and on a side vein them of Manny, Falooner, and McCort - mill have boon slightly tested, the latter at Me urethan extromIty being very rich in native copper and peacock ore. It here thrum eoutineeet into the main lode, the moot southerly point of which abounds in native oopper, grey ore, and porno (speaks of geld. The oolered rotten quartz, abounding along the whole of the veins, will probably prove at least an rich as in Montena. The peecont- ago of copper in my teleoted 'madmen:I ranged from 14 to 75 per cont. iron, 50 to 60 par oat, sulphate antimony, and some silver, with traces of Drunk and gold. No tliorortgle tate haee as yet been made. ft is proposed, on the Initiative of the Municipal Council, to hold a baby show in Paris. The object of the exhibition is hui monitarian and ocientific, Each exhibitor will have to fill up a Het of qnestione tend int, to throw light twat the influeeee of denfiartgitineetts marriage& the hereditary patch:ate client°, and different niethode of musing, and will be asked to mad in with the exhiloit photegisplee ef ancestors or an costral picture(' and of near relatives, Tho ages of the exhiblte will range from end to five Veva, Too Frank. The Rev. Mark Pattizen, who died a few months age, and who wan a typical English- man and sobolsr, was enoe appealed to by a volatile American girl, as to whether he thought she could write a book. 61 had to disappoint her, poor thing!" he writes. "1 told her she VitiB the most ignorant woman I had ever met." Another young woman who had written some clever essays was astoniehed by his unasked criticism to the effect that he "con- sidered her oonvereation extremely feeble." While he wan dying he comforted his weep. ing wife with the remark, - 40h yes, my dear No doubt !no doubt But you'll soon marry again. I've arranged that you ehall be comfortable until you do." The lady soon, by the way, fulfilled his prophecy. The terrible frankness is the trait whith molt widely separates tbe Engliehman from hie American cousin. The American is more sensitive and:quick in sympathy. He In, too, tainght ceneideration for hie neigh- bor. from his wadi°, and however caneld he may be, learns to keep silent conoeruing unploomant truths affecting himself or others. Bat if the Engliele boy finds a hole in his poorer schoolmate's shoes, he will harry him incermently wieh chaff about it A noted English author, while travelling through this country, appeared at a large dinner given in his honor In a flannel ehirt and business suit. Glanciug round the table, he muttered,— Ain evening dress 2 The custom at home. Quite so 1 quite so 1 But I did not know that you dressed like gentlemen here." Canon Kingaiey while in this cenutry etunned the chairman of a literary club, who was eveloaming him to a reception in enmevrhat florid terrain by searing at him and curtly saying, "1 consider your re- mark in very bad taste." Then, turning hie back on him, he walked away. Truth requires that we should keep our own hearts pure and upright, and our words honest; but it does nor bend us to drag the covering from off our neighbor's wealenens or to jeer at the mole on his facia. The Expulsion of the Poles. By an order which went into effect recent- ly, the alien Poles cf Prnesia were expelled from the kingdom. These people ere na- tives of Rueeran and Auotrian PoJand, who settled in the neighboring Prussian terri- tcry without becoming German citizens. By the laws of tbe German Empire every sub Jett minable of bearing arms is required to wren seven years in the standing army. This duty the Pelee escaped by refusing to become naturalized, and the Prussian gov- ernment decided that they should ro longer enjoy the advantages of a citerenship vehoze burdens they would not share. The eXpulsion of the Poles WU 9.000MDKIIl. ed by great loss and ouffering. Many of them were old and poor, and had lived long tboir adopted' country; bat the order was enforeed against all alike. Whole families reentered their native loind homolees and portniless. Committees were formed in the oitiee of Ruceitet Poland to relieve their dim Mused countermen, Xn Auntrian Polaucl the action. ef Prurient provoked an intense 'The Sacred Mite Elephant. feelleg of hoetility to Germany. German shop.keepere Were boycotted and Gamete A correspondent writes from Mande/ay labotere diemiseed. The Russian Czar is juet after the deposition of Thebaw "Next nixed a demo° commanding all unnaturelized morning Pobtained admiesion to the palace, Pruemiane to leave his dominions at °nom and for several home wended my way Even in Germany the action of Prank, through the endleen eumemsion of buildingt was moldered herein No sooner had the It is impossible to attempt heretmay detailed Imperial Parliament mumbled than thin detioription of the mingled irniguiAoeriee and qiiesVori ot the treetment of the Poles came Imitator, filth and splendor which I witnem. up. Theteupen Prince Bismarck, who le ed. ' ' 1 leotard rnyeeli in the Lord White both Chanoellor of the German Empire and Elephant house. He had Mere left withoet Premier Of the Iiingdotn of Pruesia, bluntly food or water. The magnificent eilver vem informed the delegates that they had ro tole which held his food had been laying right to interfere In a matter which concern. (AbOtt unprotected. lho royal moneter eti Prumia alone, and was not of national tseemed in e very bad temper Ono Wender). itri ortnnee, The Pelee themselves denote:1- He was thained by the fore feet to AMASSING ecu t110 Pm:Isaiah order ite worthy of A plivie pillar, Union you were told thet he wee beside Einoh =elate; as the peremoution of white you Would not perceive it In the the BruguctOts:and the expulsion of the dueky light he neetned much like any other Moore from Spain. „ elephant, On dome etatnination be Rimmed of light mortise dolor, With largo white There is exported front Afrioit every yea* bloteltes." The renne correspondent des - 1,875,000 pounds of ivory, requiring She orlbes a most diegraceful scene of plunder. :treader) Of 65,0.00 elephants, The crown iambs narrowly Moat& Iltts sled. you Mk me Whether em mee tabus* Arid elk rne wiaetherXw now, wieh you'd tell he different)°, lifor tim sere Mat 1 don't keine. ein just a plata Old body, , aod my brain wine pretitelow,' lo 1 don't know Whether I'm High Church, Asid I don't know whether I'm Low, trying to be a Oleetilsa In the Mein, olktaehtoned way 1,sid down 14 mother', Bible, And I read it every day; Our Wooled lend'. life in the GesPuler Or a comforting Praha of old, or a bia from She tleventione Of the city who** ewes ars gold. Then 1 prow, Why, Tea generally praying, Though I don't alwayo kneel or speak out, But I sok the dear 1,ord, and keep asklug Till I fear Ele ie all tired out. & piece of the Litany somstimes, The collect, perhapt, tor the day, 0:a scrap of sprayer that my mother So long ago learned nie to may. But now my poor memory's failing, And often and Oben I Sod That inner a prayer from the Trayer.book • Will seem to °erne into my mind. But 1 know whet I went, and I an it And I make up the words as I go; Do you think, now, that show' I ain't High Church 7 Do you think it means I am Low? My blamed old husband has left me, 'Ile yesn 10.1100 Med toot him away. knew he le safe, well and happy, And yet when I kneel down to pray, Perhaps it is wrong, but I mover Leave the oin man's name out of my prayer, But 1 Mk the Lord to do for him What I would do if I was there. Of course He oan do it much better; But He knows' and He surely won't mind The wony abouther old husband Of the old woman 1s2s hore behind. So I pray, and 1 pray, for the old man, And 1 am Inc. that I shall till I die. Sonny be that proves I ain't Low Onurok, And may be it shows I am High. Sly old tuberose never a Churohman, But a Scotch Preebyterian loan% ; Still him white head is shining in Heaven, I don't caro who says that it ain't ; To ono of our blessed Lord's IIIAD1101111. That old man was certain to go. And now do you thisk I am High Church tsatre you sure that 1 ain't pretty Low I tell you ir. tun s. muddle. Too much for a body like me. I'll wait till I join my old husband, And then we nal] see what we'll see. Don't ask me again, if you plena, sir; for really it worries memo. And I don't care whether l'in High Church, And I don't care whether 1m Low, 4—.404141110-11 lAnber. Auber, the celebrated French composer, W&5 one of the few people who teem able to pertonn a maximum amount of work, and yet to take a minimum quantity of sleep. His nubile career way eomewhat late in beginning; his first real succese was attain- ed when he was thirty-eight yearn old, but he had won that recognition by yeara of previous labor patiently beetovved. Herein- ly slept more than four hours'and onamde- olared to a friend that he had practically done without sleep since hie twentieth year. It once happened that Sainton, a young vielinist, was invited to play at the French Court, and that he consequently asked of Auber the privilege of rehearsing the music before him. "Come at mix o'olook," said the composer "In the evening ?" asked Saintora. "No, at six in the morning." The young man was punctual, but on ar- riving at Atibern: house he was surprieed to find the compeller alreZdy at work at hie piano. "Ah 1" said the latter, calmly, when Sainten expreeeed his amszement at such hidustrg ; " I have been at work since five o'clock. Indeed, it seems as if this man was incap- able of fatigue. Hie phyeicien onoe inform. ed him that he must leave Paris fon a fort- night, for rest and change of amine, He at once set out for the country, remained theft) five days, working from morning till night in hie room and then rushed bawl to the city,ehaving thonght of nothing during his absence but the score which was to fol. low the one he had just finished. He lived to the age of eightynine a young man to the very last, well deserving the title bestowed on him by a French orb - two years previoucly : "that adorable youth of eightymeven." Ho never would admit that he was old. When HOMO one allowed him a white hair on his coat -collar, —" Oh," he saId, " scan old manmust have passed me." "Don't you think," a lady once asked him, " that it is very unpleasant to grow old ?" " V ory," he said '• "but until now it has alwssys been thought the only way of living a long time." He died during the siege of Paris, broken. hearted at being forced out of hie habita and separated from his quiet ways of life. A Woman Kills a Panther. Mr. George Greenleaf, acompanied by his wife, was returning heme from Clayton, in the mountains of Georgia, one night. It was aloont nine o'olock and, as is the custom of the country, they both walked up of one the hills while th e mules an d wagon aeconclecl, their little boy being the driver. Soddenly ruetle was heard in the bushes, and neer- out in the darknens could be aeon what look- ed like two balk of fire. It proved to be a large panther. As if by inetinot Greenleaf opened his knife, and as the beset sprang at him he made a plunge, only to drive the knife into his wife s arm, she having thrown here& upon him at the sight of danger. He dropped the knife and fell uuder the second spring of the panther. The beeet, evident- ly maddened at the merit of blood, wise about to insert Ito teeth into Mr. Greenleaf, when hie wife, who had picked up the knife, acting under the inspiretiou of deeperation, made a clean outeat the beent's throat, The panther gave a pitiful ory, rolled over, and died. The ory reeohed the ears ofsome hunters near by and soon a number of them were on the spot, to find that a woman had ecomplithed what they had been six weeks trying to do, THE LIME -KILN 01117B. The followiug visitor» from out of to werJohae ipz aho litotah.econkr1:::holeit jundagned Eau •este on the President"a platform, Snowb banonColonel High, Prof. Sonflown Geo and Elder Jackson, All but the Elder chewed gum during the entire anion, an aituation. (mph one seemed to therotly evjey thr REPORTS--toxacinapRAL, The Committee on Agriculture reported en the following inquiry from the offiee of the Attorney. General of Ohio "Can we raise a vegotwbie te take the place of the pumpkin 1" The committee had spent aix weeks in making a patient investigation, end had come to the firm oonolualon that there woo no use trying to dieplace the pumpkin in tbe hearts of the Arnetioen pee ple, It landed here almost as 400II as the Mayflower. It had men a band of a few hundred people grow to a nation of 55,000, 000. It had been attacked by bigotry, &Butted by fanatic' and reviled by the aris. tooracy, but it had lived through everything and won and maintained a warm corner in the hearta of the American people. Inven- tive genius had nought a substitute for the pumpkin, but each and every attempt had proved a miserable failure. The pumpkin had cheerfully hitched along and made room for the squab, the turnip, the carrot and the parsnip, but it would give Up DO more ground. The oommIttee reoommencied that the club encourage the growth of pump. kine by colored people throughout the United States and Canada by offering a cash prize. The report was accepted and adopted. and the Secretary was authorized to ofter $5 in cash to the colored man in this country raising the moat pumpkins on half au acre of ground. 1 ,,,, Thz ,Kentrzoky 'Senate hap peeped a bill . ,,0 Jrohibitiog he 'aale of piOole and bowie ah knivel• ' Though 'Monty*/ baa a much larger etipniation than -Toronto, the letter* Oonnseecial l'eavellestes Association' num, bere 2,300, while that of Montreal hive )nly 1,500 member& ITEMS OF INTEUST. NOT A MEMBER. The Seoretary of the Hoop -Pole Branch Lodge, at Halifax, forwarded the following clipping from a Nova Scotia, newspaperi and asked if the person named wee a mem- ber of the Lime Kiln Club: " A living cariosity in the pereen of a colored man, has been giving private exhibi- tions for a coneideration. He in an especial object of interest to the medical profession. He claims to have—and apparently ha,— two movable heart's, which he cen move at will from his chest to his abdomen, and 9.180 a double set of ribs that he can slide down over his abdomen. He is teman of remark- able strength, as he can with ease bend a three quarter inoh bar of iron ever his lett arm by two blows with his right. He has evidently been an interesting aubjeot be pro- fessional men elsewhere, including those at the leading hospitals of the United State." Brother Gardner replied that the man, whose name is Rhodes, made application about a year ago, but was rejected by the committee on the grounds that a living curi- osity could not be expected to take any great intereat in national affeirs. Whin) the club were discussing agriculture he would be working his two sets of ribs, and while foreign affairs were the special order of the evening his two hearts would be thumping for an engagemort in a dime muaeum. NO OCCASION FOR IT. A communication from Academy Corner! Pa., announced the fact that Col. Q. Murray of that place he'd started on a leo- tuning tour to the 'West, and that he desir- ed to become a member of tho Lime.Kiln Club. Ho was impatient of delay, and ask- ed that the rules be suepencied in his case, In oaee of his being made a neeraber right off he would take in Detroit on his circuit and deliver his lecture on " The Structure of the Mule" before the club for $13. "1 dean' !gala no 'oaelatin fur any hurry in his cam," answered the President, " doan' eben see any need fur his Martin' out on a tour. If he comes die way eve chall treat him wid courtesy, but we shan't in - gage him to lectur on do ninle, I reokon de aloes' of us know WI FO11011 about de mule as we keer to. If he has cheinged any in de les' twenty y'ars, or am gwine to change any in der nee' twenty, well run our chances and save det $13. CAN'T DO IT. A communication from Highetrung Nye, of Fulton, N. Ye annotuned thee he wee seeking the postmasterehip of Fulton, and wanted all the members of the LitemKiln Club to sign his petition. He forwarded his photograph with his letter, and the picture shows him to be a stumpy man with a bald head and a .oro eye. Waydown Bebee moved that the club of. &belly Indorse the petition, but the Preei- dent rapped him to order and mid: "In de fust place, die club dean meddle wid pally - Make. In de nex' place, spose we need our inflooenoe to git die main 'pointed, an' de werry fuet thing he did was to steal all de istamps an' walk off? What would our feelings be, an' who ot us could ever after- wards look de Preshient of de United Stated in de face t Yon jiet let dat Highatrung in- dividual work his own way. If he doan' git in he will be rio wne off; if be dims git it he won't feel under no obligathuns to die club." CAE/TAL PUNISHMENT. Whalebone Howker wanted to Inquire how many .petitions :for the restoration of capital pumernent in Michigan the club had indorsed. The Secretary hunted up the liet which footed up totthirteen, and etated that two new ones heel reached hie desk that evening. REMITTED. The President then announced that ha had remitted the finesof the following mem- bers: Uncle William Cabiff, flied $8,000 for taking home one of the bear trope without permiesion, Prof, Grommet, Smith, fiood $3,228 for enoonraging a row between Eider. Toot e and Peaceful Jones. Judge Cadaver, fined $2,600 for aciviting Simnel Shin not to pay his pcw rent in e Baptist Chnrch. The individuate above named were all present, and the affair W8.$ a complete Fur - prise to them, All were so overoeme that they cried like obilrirein RESOLVED. Sir Isaim Walpole then introduced a rest). Intion to the effect that the Sometery oor- reepond with the proper authorities In Washington and eimertain if there was to colored soldier' home in thin eountry ; if en where wee it / Helot; *by had ilk element of the war boon Overlooked and rimmed for ? The reeelution wan adopted and the club then went into ,seoret session on the fortyi mmenth degree and excluded all outeklere, A bird in a cage Would heve as good m stern. Most ief my °Yenta, and nearly ell my intense pleastike, have , putted in ren thotiehte, 1 wrote yowled—as I dare tier many have done who never wrote any peetee -every Entity ; at eight years old and ear)ier. But what is lese common, :the tierly fancy turned luta a mill, and remained with nie, and from that cley to this poetry bee been a distinct object with me—en object to read, ti in and live for.--aeg. WEtatetiail, A Norwiola man excavating for a new cellar, found a inne5.1 black walnut; mffin, which he opened. Within war the body of lw black and tan terrier, well pretserved.. the dog wore a :shroud of white satin, trimmed with lace and around he ;emelt was a handsome collar of buff loather and gold, Wiid dogis are doing much damage near the heed of Wind River, Washington Territory. They eosin to be a cross be- twoen the cur and the bulldog, and are very fierce, powerful, ancl intelligent. Their last exploit wits to ohne a man and his team three mike. They have in - created largely in numbere in two years. They tell in Louisville of a citizen of that town who came to NOW YOI k recently and lived at one of the moat expenelve hotels there. He stayed four days and asked tor hfe bill. "Fifty.one dollars," :mild the clerk. Gums agair," eaid the Kentuckian. "You haven't sized my pile yet. I've more money than that." "Did he pop the Twee= last night V' eagerly mired the mother, as the daughter came down late to breakfast. "No, non quite." "What did he say I" "Why, he squeezed my hand twice and oaid he be- lieved I'd make eome man an excellent wife if the fellow ban Beim enough to take me so far that you couldn't visit me one then once in twenty years." Col. W111 8. Bays of ,Louieville, Ky.,. .who was very wall known fifteen yearn, ago as the writer of sweetly sentimental dittiets and who haa done the "River news" for the Courier Journal for ninny years, and hem had a ateamboat named after him has joined a negro minetre/ troupe, and will travel about the country singing hie own songs in the reaketun ofn an aged Kentucky darky. A.. new boy evangelist bee appeared In Louie. His name is Lode Myscrthele mer, and his age ie terentyaero. Hie pul- pit manners are described no unique, etot to any ludicrous. "One moment he is calmly reading a pamege of Soripture and the next will be upon a seat out in the body of the church exhorting the people to turn from their evil ways and be flayed ere it ie too late." "What are your terms ? %eked a reporter of the evangelist. "1 have no tem," was the anzwer. "I require no ealary. The preacher and the Lord attend to that. I go by the sixth chapter of Matthew." Another ;tory of feeling in an amputat- ed limb comes from Byron e N. Y. Four weeks ago Dr. Townsend amputated Mrs. William Goodliff's leg juet below the knee. The leg was buried, and the pa- tient wa,s getting well all right excepb that she constemay oparipleined that a cora on her departed foot pained her ex- cersorively. After three weeks cf this kind of suffering, her hunband dug up the buri- ed ;member, and found that a bandage re- trained hound tightly around the toes, an one of which wars the corn. He removed the bandage, bteried the member in an oaey end comfortable position, and since then Ma. GoodlIff hee had no trouble with that foot or corn. A fire In Portlend, Me., ehe other day, played havoc with a men's furniehing More. The day following one of a gang of men cleaning out the 0011E1F MAW a foot with atocking end thee on eticking from under a Pile ot blackened bricks. The men were much excited, anci decided at once to send for the Coroner. While one atarted for hum?another, bolder than the men, took hold of the foot and pulled It a little. The foot and log readily came out of the pile cf brickn, and his companions :mattered, shouting, " He's pullet?, cff one of hie legs." They mere mietaken. The leg wee Lunde of papier reecho, for the " purpose of advertising istockinge and pat- entygoaurroter: ;1r:claim man is meually sharp aMa bargain when he give.e hie mind to it. A. Waterbury weekly newspaper made an invariable rule to charge $1 cash down for a year's eubooription, and $1 25 when the subecriptIon is in arreare. One enbecriber was three week); behind when he went to renew his eubseription the other day. He offered bus dollar and was told that *L25 eras the price. "I'll atop my paper," mid the subecriber. "Here are twelve mite I owe you for three paperti." After the editor had pocketed the twelve cents the euhroriber handed out the settee dol. ler and mid he gnoesed be'd zubsoribe for a year. He seved just thirteen cente by the operotion. He is 75 years olcli London holds about 300 tone of Turkey box wood, etopped there by table when tbe Yasakee skating -rink boom burst last ' fall. Of this amount fully cno-half is for American account. In May last chnice box wood wee quick at $100, The last sale about two weeks ago in New York, where 20 tone were put up and but flee tone were cold, brought $20 n ton. The belanoe was withdrawn. Tin) toeteine- shell button furore In likely to be a help bo the ovordoeded box wood reerket. Theee buttone are large and this wood gives reedy amietartee to the imitators, One New Jenny roller-altate fectory, that San box wood enough to make 400,000 rollere tend hen now 5,000 rollere now on hand, bee turned tile attention to buttons. The work of defiling a hole through the hill directly over where the Int Nati- °eke miners are trapaeored 18 fie be peogrenee ing fast, . Len weak 110 feet of 0-ineh pipe had been put down. There then re. retained 185 foot to be drilled. The sup- erineentlent thoughts bottom would be reached in abort ten dere When hot. loin renced it will be atooetained for the first time whether that portion of the mineIs ailed with debritt. 11 1* is, there will be. no °thee why buil to clean out the. gangway& Attired if IAD had any idea of ending any of the twentyadX Men alive, the , eupetintendent oda 4,011, no &, thoee mon are deed long ego; eye only Put down this pipe to eatiefy the relatives of the poor unfortanetee. I would be only too glad if the men Were aliVe ; but, under the dirctitnetencotai the 'drilling of a heile le Only a useless taslr,"