Bloomington Telephone, Volume 14, Bloomington, Monroe County, 31 May 1889 — Page 3

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Hammond Leader savs he "saw one four and a half inches in diameter'

A Woman's Charity is a new Boston club. A Belfast (&) -woman has entered a machine s hop to learn the trade. John C. New was lately gold-caned by the fif ty-eighfc printer of the Indianapolis Journal office. The Duchess of Cambridge used to pay Sig. Tosti $1,500 a year to entertain her with music an hour every day. All domestic animals were fond of John Bright. He cared little for dogs and horses, however, but was greatly interested in cats. Oscar Swixey, while plowing near Atlanta, 6a unearthed about seventyfive human skulls. No one has been able to account for them. In Oregon the public lands still undisposed of aggregate 60,795,360 acres; in Washington 44,796,160 acres. Much of it is said to be of the very best. James Kjsjpaxh has all along claimed to be an Irishman, but somebody hunted up his genealogy a lew days ago and nailed hn to the broadside of a Welsh cabin.

Mhe. Peionard, who was Lord Sackville's cook, is now in charge of the White House cuisine, and one of her old associates manages the Presidential laundry. The Czar of Russia has issued an edict forbidding members of his family to contract morganatic marriages. Hereafter they taust take their matrimony straight The London Lancet recently contained the following advertisement: "Home wanted for homicidal lady in house of medical man. Address, stating terms,9 eic A Nurbemhero -manufacturer has inTented pencils in blue, black, and brown, for writing on the human skin. They are for use in anatomical and clinical demonstration.

Both France and England have decided that the female sex has not the necessary intelligence to make proper use of the ballot. And still American girls ran alter those fellows. A certain per cent of electors in any community wil be corrupt at election time, no matter how the voting is done. Men can be bribed not to vote at all, as well as to vote any Articular ticket.

It is atsserteii that Count Herbert

Bismarck's recent visit to England was for the purpose pi proposing marriage to a relative of the marquis of Londonderry and that lis proposition met with a refusal 1 A max was arrested in St. Louis the other day who ftfui 194 door mats stored away in his ban, every one of which he had stolen and parried home. He said he intended to start a bench show of rugs pretty soon. Dr. Beonard, the French scientist, is opposed to the use of electricity in capital punishment as being horribly agonizing and uncertain. "Cut their he&ds off," says the kind-hearted doctor, "and be done with it."

A Frekoh scientist says that, allowing five acres for each inhabitant, Europe has room for 115,000,000 more people, Africa for 1,336,000,000, Asia for 1,402,000,000, Oceanica for 515,000,000 and America for 2,000,000,000. A Civil Engineer who has been inspecting the water powers of Massachusetts &ays there are no less than thirteen dams in that State liable to give way at any hour and cause great loss of life and destruction of property. E. Morris, of Evansville, Ind., claims that his dog found a two dollar-and-a.haif gold coin in Independence and brought it home to him. How he knows thas the dog found the money in Independence has not been explained. They have a jail in Missouri which a grand jury has condemed thirteen different times, and out of which every prisoner who wanted to escape has gone, but the county won't make repairs. The supervisors argue that jails are relics of barbarism. Probably the most expensive carpet ever manufactured is that owned by the Barahajah of Baroda. It took three years to make and cost $200,000. It is made entirely of strings of pure colored pearls, with the center and corners of diamonds. The interesting discovery of a number of oysters growing on a piece of bark has leen made at Fort Wrangel, Alaska. They are suppose4 to have been propagated from oysters thrown overboard from the California and Oregon steamers. The strawberry crop of Louisiana is this year remarkably fine. From Hammond, Loogipohoa Parish, there were shipped between April 12 and 17, 1,240 bushels. A loal from that place says "the berries, mfljty of them, are four inches ia diameXr. The editor, of the

Ps 06 ably the youngest lawyer in the State of Georgia, or perhaps in the country, is Arthur Edge, of Douglasville. He is 17 years old, and was admitted to the bar in January last, and on the 1st of April married Miss Ella James, a young lady of 15. One of the most accomplished young ladies of Selma, Ala., was hailed on the street by a bystander, who very politely knocked a rat of her bustle, where it was enjoying a delightful ride. As the varmint struck the ground, and the lady saw that it wa actually a live rat, she bad a livelv foot race for some distance. D. F. Jackson, who lives near McDonough, Ga., killed an American eagle with an old-fashioned flint and steel musket which his great grandfather used to turn loose on Britishers. The bird measured seven feet from tip to tip, and was seventy yards distant from the marksman. The old gun ought to have kicked" vigorously when used in the destruction of the great Bird of Freedom. George P, Rogers, baggage-master of the New London Northern Railroad, stopped his train at Yantic, three miles above Norwich, Conn., the other morning, long enough to run down into the woods and kill a six-foot black snake, which latter he huug up in the yard office at New Loudon, so that people might inspect it The snake had evinced a ferocious disposition before it died, and met Mr. Rogers half way in the woods. Here's a brand-new story told by Senator Tom Cooper, who heard it in Washington : Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, and. Senator Beck, of Kentucky, are not in love with each other. Hoar is crusty and Beck is prosy. Not long ago Beck was making a speech in the Senate, and was rather more long winded than usual. Somebody said to Hoar: u Beck is making an unusually long speech." "Yes," said Hoar, "that's his way of resting his brain." Gophers are so numerous in Dakota that they are a great nuisance to farmers. Frequently the little animals get in a field and spoil a day's labor of the husbandman by digging up the corn which he has just planted. A South Dakota man has hit uppn the expedient of smoking his seed corn, and he says the gophers won't touch it. He puts it in a sack, hangs the sack in the upper part of a barrel, ihen builds a smudge in the barrel and smokes it just as he would a ham. Senator Spooner has a 7-year-old boy who is a musical prodigy. He has an exceedingly sweet voice. He can hear an opera once, come home and repeat every air in it. He inherits his love of music from his mother, who haa a very sweet, well-cultivated voice, and he has entertained her friends often with his singing. Among his toys he has a miniature theater, and when he has seen a play or heard an opera, he reproduces it a!; home, with his mother as an audience. At North Foster, R. L, James Greene's small boy, Jiinraie. went down to the maple grove for a bucket of sap, but came flying to the house in a moment, crying: "Oh, pa, the woods is full of snakes; one big idler chased me clear up ter the pastur' bars. Jiminy, he's a cracker James Greene, Sr., took down his double gun, loaded with wild goose shot, and followed Jimmie down to the maple grove. He shot three blacksnakes, none of them less than six feet long. Another reptile got away. Says the Atlanta Journal: "Mr. S. C. Cobb writes from Tampa, Fla., to the Fensacola Commercial that Dr. Veiie, of the Chicago Academy of Science, has found genuine crocodiles in the country below Tampa. The exact locality is not given, but it is stated that it took many days to cut the way for the doctor's boat through the shrubbery interlacing the water-ways. He brought to Tampa one living specimen, one dead one, and eleven skins and skeletons. The crocodiles thus found are said to differ in several particulars from . the alligators so common in Florida." , A correspondent of the Wichita, Kan. Eagle asserts that the Cherokees sold the land known as the w Cherokee outlet lying between Kansas and Oklahoma to Albert Pike, for the Southern Confederacy, during the civil war. He therefore argues that this body of land, being the property of the Confederacy, became the property of the United States when the Confederacy was annihilated. In 188G, however, a lot of land speculators, without authority from the government, attempted to condone the treason of the Cherokees through a treaty, which the Senate ratified, The Eagle's correspondent says Secretary Browning held that the treaty was void,

l and that all the lands included in the

"outlet" are really public lands. When Shall We Look Upon His Like Tom I've lost my dog, Dick. Dick Carlo, you mean? "Yes; I tell you there weren't a great many such dogs as Carlo in the city." u You're right, (significantly) aI don't know but you might include the whole State."

Qlf.iJlt CL'Iteft FOR WARTS. Superstitious Notions That IrnvaU la tlie Sunny South. "The best cure on earth for a wart, said Capt. Mercer a few days ago, '"is one that an old negro woman told me about a long time ago." "How's that?" "She told me to remember somo morning early, when I wa gathering beans in the swamp, and take a bean leaf and rub the wavt smartly witli the rough side of the leaf. I was to rub the wart just as long as I could stand it, and in a week from that time, if I had not told anybody about it, the wart would go away." "Did you try it?" , "Yes. sir, and that wart went away, too." "I never found but one remody for a wart," said Mr. Oscar Hail. "An old negro woman gave me the recipe when I was a little boy, and it's the only cure I ever found. "She told me to go to the cornfield some evening during the full of the moon and find an ear of red corn. You know the cob is red when the grain is red. I was to shock and shell the ear of corn and then rub the wart with the cob. I was to look at the moon, not at the wart or the cob and rub just as hard and as long as I could stand it. If I took my eyes away Irm the moon it would spoil the remedy. When the wart became sore and stinging I was to throw down the cob, and in five days from that time tli3 wart would be

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"How did it work?" "Inside of five days the wart was gone. I had tried fk'ty remedies to get rid of that wart, and nothing else had ever done any good." "I never found bat one thing that could do any good for a wart or corn," 6aid Patrolman W. (K Cooper. "What's that?" "A snail," said the Patrolman, solemnly. There was an embarrassing silence for a little while, and then the policeman continued ; "Here one time I wan digging potatoes in my garden. My coin kept hurting until just I took off my shoe and lay down on my back in a grassy place in the shade. The corn kept hurting and I was getting desperaie about it when I noticed a snail craw ling along near me. I remembered what a:i old negro told me years before, and caught the snail and began rubbing ;;he corn with it. I broke the shell and continued the rubbing until the pain stopped. I have never been troubled with that corn from that dav to this, anc before that it had troubled me night vud day for months. It's the onlv cure for corns, and it's a mighty good remedy iox warts too," "There's onlv one cure for a wart," said Patrolman Frank Chmtophiue. "What is it?" A darky told me about it. He said to remember somo night when the moon was full and :o go directly west. Then I was to stop, looking at the moon all the time, and stoop down and pick up whatever my hand happened to touch first. I remembered it one night when I was going out Marietta street I stooped down, looking up at the moou all the time, and picked up a small stone. Then I rubbed the wart until it began to bleed and then threw down the stone. All the time I was rubbing the wait I was still looking at the moon. In less than a week from that night the wart was gone. That was a regular seed wart and I had been trying to get rid of it for a long time. That's the only remedy I evei found for warts." Atlanta Constitution.

Beet Sugar. The simple and inexpensive methods adopted in the German factories have made the beet sugar manufacture one of the most profitable industries, and the work goes on day and night, at a prime cost for conversion of $2 per ton of beets, or 1 cent per pound of sugar, not estimating the cott of the beet root, but including labor and all materials used, like coal, coke, lime, charcoal, wear and tear, and interest on ithe invested capital. The monthly disbursements of such an establishment exceed $60,000, and gives employment to thousands of wage-eamer.3 in direct and collateral industries. One sugar corporation in Prance reported a net profit derived from the manufacture of beet sugar a few years ttgo of $2,000,000, and the season did not extend beyond 120 days. Under these new conditions the production of beet sugar in Continental Europe has doubled in the last decade : and, after the home populations are supplied, the surplus isi exported to Great Britain and the United States, reducing the price of sugar in the markets of the world more than 50 per cent. The sugar refineries of this country use the beet and cane sugar indiscriminately in the manufacture of the block sugar of commerce, and the family grocer sells the imported refined beetsugar at a price fxom 25 to 50 per cent above the price of cane sugar. Before our late war Louisiana produced more sugai than Germany ; and although the beet-sugar industry in the latter country was greatly stimulated by the high prices of su:ar prevailing incident to the entire destruction of the cane-sugar industry o.f the United States, yet as late as 1875 the empire produced only 2 500 tons, while for the year 1838 a production of 1,300,000 tons of sugar and saccharine resultants is recorded. A. H. Aimy in Popular Monthly. Night Air Far Better than Foul Air. An extraordinary fallacy is the dread of the night air. What air can we breathe at night but night air? The choice is between pure .night air ifrom without and foul air from within. Most people prefer the latter, an unaccountable choice. "What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully one-half of all the diseases wo suffer from aro occasioned by I people sleeping with their windows shut? .In open window, most nights in the year, can never hurt any one. In great oi:ios night air is of ten the best and purest to be had in twentyfour hours, I could better understand ehutting the windows in town during the night, for the sake of the sick. The absence of smoke, the quiet, all tend to make night the best time for airing the patient One of our highest medical

authorities on consumption and climrtte has told me that the air of Loudon is never so good as after 10 o'clock at night. Always air your room, then, from the outside air, if possible. Windows are made to open, doors are made to shut, a truth which seems extremely difficult of apprehension. Every room must bo aired from without, every passage from within. Sanitary World. Scientific Experiments, An interesting homo-made method of natural decorations consists simply in taking a glas3 or goblet and placing in the interior a little common salt and water. In a day or two a slight mist will be seen upon the glass, which hourly will increase until in a very short time the glass will present a very beautiful appearance, being enlarged to twice its thickness and covered with beautiful salt crystals, packed one upon another like some peculiar fungus or animal growth. A dish should be placed beneath the glass, as the crystal will run over. The color of the crystals may be changed by placing in the salt and water some common rod ink or a spoonful of bluing; this will be absorbed and tho white surface covered with exquisite tints. No more simple method of 'producing inexpensive or beautiful ornaments can be imagined, find by using different shapes and vases and shades an endless varieties of beautiful forms can be produced. The glass should be placed where there is plenty of warmth and sunlight. Another scientific experiment which may interest some of the older as well as the younger members of the family may be made by suspending from the ceiling a thread which has previously been soaked in very salt water and then dried. To this fasten a light ring and announce that you are abou:. to burn the thread without making the ring fall. Tht thread will burn, it is true, but the ashes it leaves are compose! of crystals of salt and their cohesion is strong enough to sustain the light weight of the riug attached to the thread. Another form of the same experiment is to make a little hammock of muslin to be suspended by four threads, and after having soaked this in salted water and dried it as before directed, to place in it an empty egg-shell. Set the hammock on fire; the muslin will be consumed and the flame reach the threads which hold it without tho egg falling from its frail support. With great care you may succeed in performing the experiment with a full egg in place of an empty shell, talcing the procaution, however, to have it previously hard boiled, that you may escape an omelet in case of failure. Another curious experiment is that of putting an egg into a bottle without breaking the shell. Souk the egg, which in u&t be frodi, for several days in strong vinegar. The acid of the vinegar will eat the limo of the shell so that while the egg looks the same it is really very soft. Only a little care is required to press the egg into the bottle. When this is dne fill it half full of water and let it stand. The shell will absorb the lime and become hard agiun, and after the iime water is poured off you have the curious spectacle of an egg the usual size in a small-necked bottle, which will be great puzzle to those who do not understand how it is done.

The Future of China. A prediction is going the rounds oi the papers that a time will come when the hundreds of millions of the Chinese Empire will become aggressive, learn the arts of war by land and sea, raise an immense army, build the greatest navy on the face of the waters, and wage war against the civilized world, especially America. This is putting a raiher low estimate on the great Yankee Nation, for it is intimated that ilia Chinese may be, able to whip us into submission as the Goths and Vandals subdued Europe. Li Hung Chang, the great Chinese Premier, puts another construction on

the ambition of China, The New York World reports an interview where tha great Chang gave a more peaceable forecast of the future of China. He predicted in very good English, too that in fifty years the empire will be covered with railways as rith a net; its immense mineral resources will be developed; it will have rolling mills and furnaces, and with its chee.p labor and cheaper products it may do the manufacturing for the world. Since then the ugo slow" element has got the predonderance in China and has converted the young Emperor to the belief that all innovations must be an evil. So no railroads will soon be constructed. This inert policy will work against Li Hung Chang's views, but when all things are ready for is, what can hinder the Chinese from manufacturing and competing in all the world's markets? They can work at lower wages and can furnish raw material and manufactured goods at a figure that will shut off foreign trade from all other countries and perhaps will invade them with their goods. Portland Oregcmian. Lest in New York The other day as I was walking in Wall street I met Grover Cleveland and Col. Daniel S. Lamont swinging along to their offices, writes a New York correspond eat. I hod tho curiosity after saluting them to stop and watch their retreating forms in order to discover whether they were recognized by the crowds they were passing through. They were not. It seems that they seldom are. The only time when the ex-President is recognized ia when he is seated for a number of minutes in a horse car or an elevated train. Then some one ie apt to place his features and whisper the news among the rest. If tho rjde is as long as from Wail street to their hotel at Twenty-eighth street it usually (happens that good Democrats or mugwumps touch their hats or step and shake hands as they are passiag out. Mrs. Cleveland is far freer front this sort of attention. She is not recognized on the streets, and I hear of her being at three places to evei'y one she is mentioned as going to. It certainly is a great town for losing one's self in. New York letter. A sleeping-car trust Confidence in the porter.

About Advertising. The man who is in any k ind of business whatever who ref-.uc to advertise is going to regret it sooner or later, but probably sooner. Not only must the business man advertise, but he must keep cm advertising iiJ he expects to prosper. A single advertisement is not enough. You cannot eat enough to last a year, and you cannot advertise on that plan, either. Advertising pays, and pays well. The surest way to add ia advertise. When a ceitain man was asked how lie was going to manage his business during his vacation, his reply was: "I'll just take my advertisement out of the paper; and there will not be any business to manage.4 A wel-known authority o:.i advertising says : "Tho m m who says he don't believe :.n advertising, is doing just wh at he depreciates. He bangs coats outsirio his door, or puts dry-goods in his windows that's advertising. He has painted cards lying on his counter that's advertising. He sends out drummers through the country, or puts his name o a the wagon that's advertising. If he has lost a cow, he puts a notice in sho postolfice, oi tells his sister-in-law and that is advertising, too. He has his name in gilt letters over well, what is that but advertising? He paints 1m shop green or red; or,-if he is a tailor, he wears the latest style; if a doctor, he has a boy call him out of church in haste; if an auctioneer, he bellows to attract the attention of the passer-by; if a heavy merchant, he keeps a pile of boxes on the sidewalk in front of his doors and all for advertising. A man can't do business successfully without advertising, and the question is whether to call to hi aid the engine that moves the world the printing press with its thousands of messengers that are working by night and by day or go back to the days when newspaper, telegrams, and railroads were unknoMa, Texas Sift" ings. The Most Expenshe LeaUicr. "The most costlv leather in the world, so far an I know," said a dealer in fine skins and leather, "is known to the trade as piano leather. American tanners years s,go discovered the secret of making Knssia leather, with its peculiarly pungent and '.lasting odor; but tho secret of tanning piano leather is known only to a family of tenners in Thuringia, Germany. This leather has but one use, the covering of piano keys. A peculiar thing about it is that the skins from which it is made is procured almost entirely in America. It is a particular kind of buckskin. The skin of the common red or Virginia deer will not make the leather, a species of the animal known as the gray deer, and found only in the vicinity of the great Northern lakes, alone furnishing the material. The German taaners have an agency in Detroit w!iich collects the skins; of this deer front the Indian aud half-breed hunters, who supply the market The hunters are paid an average price of about 20 cents a pound for the green skins. When tho skins are returned to this country as piano leather they cost the piano manufacturer from $15 t o $18 a pound. The world's supply of this itvaluable &nd necessary material is supplied by the Kretzchmar family of tanners, wiio have six establishments in Grerniany, the largest and best at Gem in Thuringia.." New York Sunt Makes No Difference. In a St. Louis newspaper oflice. The city editor, addressing a repoi ter, says : "This man Jones is a real farmer, is he?" " "Yes, sir." "But whv didn't you say so?" "I did." "Oh, you said he was a farmer, but that does not express it." "What, then, would express it?" "Why, you must nay thai? he is an honest farmer." "But he is not honest He charges three prices for withered vegetables, declares that his sour milk is sweet,

that his whiskered bu :ter is without hair and" "That makes no difference. He subscribed for ou:r weekly, arid we must refer to him as an honest firmer." Arkansaw Traveler Conclusive. "Now, sir," saia the cross-examining counsel, ''do you, on your oath, swear that this is not your handwriting?" "I in pretty sure it .inV ''Does it resemble your writing?" "Yes, I think it don't." "Do you s wear that it don't resemble your writing?" "I reckon I might." "Io you take your oa;h that this writ ing does not resemble yours?" "Yes, sir." "Now, sir, will you kindlv let me see

j a specimen of your handwriting?"

"No, 1 won't." "Oho! you won't, eh? And why won't vou'" "'Cause I ca.n't writ s1 The Genuine Shetland Pony The real Shetland ony is only thirty or at most forty inches high. Those commonly seen in this country are from the north o:: Ireland, being bred with the horses ;here, and. are larger than the real Shetland, for the ger nine pony is difficult to rear. The country of which he is a native is bare, and the farmer is sharp, and when the little creatures survive the rigors of the . climate and the effects of having but little to e&-t, the farmer values him so highly he oaly sells aim at a high price. It coste a great deal to ship them, and they die on the voyage, all of which goes to account for there being so few of them among us. Factors in Colds. In every cse there are two factors an irritant and a susceptibility of the system. Among the irritants are microscopic genus taken in without, as in influenza, and certain poisons which are developed ::rom nutri;ion or imperfect assimilation within ths body, and which it ia the office of the liver to destroy. Indeed, the effects of the two causes are essentially the same, for i;he germs act by generating ceitain violent poisons, which irritate the mucous membra?: e of the nostrils, pharnyx, lungs, stomach or bowels. Youth's Compan ion.

TABLES OF WEIGHTS ASD 3kS IRES.

Cubic Meaburkh. l,728ebicwe'? 1 cubic foot, 27 cubic feet 1 c ibio yard, 128 cubic feet 1 cord (wood,) 40 cubic feet 1 ton (shipping,) 2,150.42 cubic inches 1 standard bushel, 2C8.8 co bio incites, standard gallon, 1 cubic; loot four-fifths of a buuhel. SunvEYon's Measure. 7.92 inches 1 link 25 links 1 rod, 4 rods 1 chair., 10 square chains or 160 square rods 1 acre, 040 acres 1 square mile. Long Measuris distance, 3 barleycorns 1 inch, 12 inches 1 foci, 8 :feet 1 yard, 5j- yards 1 rod, 40 rods 1 :Ec3 long, 8 furlongs 1 mile. Dnv Measure, 2 pints make 1 qu&t, 8 quarts make 1 peck, 4 pecks make 1 bushel, 36 bushels make 1 cauldron. Liquid, ok Wi k Measuke 4 fill make 1 pint, 2 pints make 1 quait, 4 quarts make 1 gallon, 31 gallons make 1 barrel, 2 barrels make 1 hogshead. Apothecaries Weight, 20 gruna make 1 scruple, 3 scruples mak-3 1 drachm. 8 drachms make 1 ounce, 1? ounces make 1 pound. Troy Weight. 24 grains make T pennyweight, 20 pennyweights make 1 ounce. By this weight, gold, silver aid jewels only are weighed. The ocuo.ee. and pound in this are the jjaunasil Apothecaries' weight. Avoirdupois Weight. 6 dracun make 1 ounce, 16 oui.ces make 1 pound, 25 pounds make 1 q larter, 4 quarter make 100 weight, 2,030 pounds zna:u 1 ton. CincuLAR Measure. 60 secorda make 1 minute, 60 minutes make 1 degree, 30 degrees make 1 sign, 90 degrees make 1 quadra at, 4 quadrants or 360 degrees make 1 circle. Time Measure. K) seconds make 1 minute, GO minutes make 1 hour, 24 hours make one day, 7 days make 1 week, 4 weeks make 1 lunar month, ?JS9 29, 30 or 31 days make 1 calectclcx month (30 days m&k 1 month in computing interest,) &2 weeks and 1 day, or 12 calendar months, make 1 year, KH days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 49 seconds, make 1 solar year. Square Measure, 144 square inches 1 square foott 9 tiqvare feet 1 sqiure yard, 30 square yards 1 square rod, 40 square rods 1 rood, 4 roods 1 acre. Cloth Measure. 2i inches 1 nail, 4 noils 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1 yarcL Miscellaneous.--3 inches 1 paka, 4 inohes 1 hand, 6 inches 1 span, 18 ino iiS 1 cubit, 21.8 inches 1 Bible cubit, l feet 1 military pace. in His Presence. "What's the matter with you, Sihu? asked a justice of tho peace before w bom an old negro had appeared. "I wants a warrint fur de 'reati aa Jviction o' Brudder ;3avey Smitn "What has he done?" "Come a-hittiu me in my presence, dat's whut he's done." "Hit you in your presence?" "Yas, sah, dat's whut he done." "What do you mean by hitting you in your presence ?w "Hit me in de countenance, sah; d it's whut he done hit :ne right here ia de countenance (putting his hand to his face). Hit me away up here in my p res ence.w "Whv did he strike you?" "I ain't axed him dat, an' he ain't iftle

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"What cause did you give lum? "Who give himT "You what cause did you ivo him?" "Give him fur whut?" "For hitting yon. Haven't jtm got any sense ?" "Wall, sah, I doan know; some titles I think I has an' Hometimes I thiakl hasn't. He hit me all de same." , "Didn't he have any cause to hit you?" Doubled up his; fist he did an gin me n spat right yeie in de 'spressicn o de face-" "What had you done to him?" W'y I hardly knows de man. Me9s a brudder in de church, dat's all I knows erbout him. Come er hit tin' ma up yere whar Hook; I doan like it, ih; I ken tell you dat right now. Como er spilin' my face fur de funeral dafa comin oft' dis ebeninV " What I want to know is, what did you do to him ?" How could I do anything ter liim when bof my eyes done knocked inter one?" "But what did you do before he hit you?" "I kicked de triflin scoundrel, cltifo whut I done, but ef you ain't got no law in dis house I'll go summers else. Gxd day, sah," Arkansaw Traveler. What Makes Wrinkles. "It is customary to say that wrinkles comes from worrying, "but the truth ia that most of them come from laughing," says a well-known physician. "To know how to laugh is just as :Im portant as to know when to do it. If you laugh with the sides of your f ce, the skin will work loose, in time, :&d

wrinkles vill form in exact acoordsaca with a kind of a laugh you have. The man who always wears a smirk trill have a series of sinu-circular wrinkle covering Ids cheeks. "When a gambler who has been ao customed to suppressing his feelings laughs, a deepiine forms on each side of his nose and runs to the upper comer of his mouth. In time this lone extends to the chin and assumes the shape oi m hsdf moon. A cadaverous person with a wax-like skin is very ajft to have two broadly marked wrinkles, one running from the jaw and the other under the eye. These meet at right angles at the cheekbones and look as though they formed a knot at the apex. .'ho scholar's wrinkles on his brow, wtrilft the scheming politician's come round Ids eyes, where they look for all the world like the spokes of a wheel. Wanted the Neighbors to See. Mrs Smart How much did you say thi3 carpet was a yard? Clerk One dollar a vard, ma'am, Mrs. Smart W oil, Til take tfcjrty yards?. Clerk Yes, ma'am. Will that bo all? Mrs. Smart No; be sure you do1! send the carpet after dark, ad;foa needn't be particular about wrapping it up.