Another of tbe Wu'i Strange Stories.
The suit of Joseph Troop brings out c
most remarkable story. Thir ty-one years
ago Troop was married to ilim Elizabeth
Carter in Ohio. Four weeks after the
wedding Joseph weut to the front as a
soldier. He fought for four years, and
finally was hit by a Confederate bullet
and was left for dead on the field. News
of his supposed death reached his Ohio j
home. t ' j
Nevertheless, he ' recovered after sev-1
eral months' suffering in a hospital, and
In 1866 he returned to Ohio to claim his
bride. But she had left and could not
be found. He hnnted for her for months
. and years, and finally heard that she was
de;id. Meanwhile ho had met another
charming young lady and the two were
finally married. For twenty-threo years
they have lived together, and in addition
to accumulating a handsome fortune
they have been blessed with several sons
and daughters, one now of age.
A week ago, while at the state reunion
of soldiers at Grand island. Troop was
introduced to a widow by the saino
name. A few minutes conversati- ' '-levelled
the fact that the grayiiair: y
was his bride of over thirty years ..y.
The old soldier was dumfounded, and
hurried to liis Lincoln home to bear the
tidings to the mother of his children.
He assured her that nothing blit death
could part her from him, and 6ent word
to his long lost wife that he would have
to 6ue for a divorce from her. Cor, St.
. Louis Republic.
SuvmI from Suicide bjr His Ij;.
Au intelligent pet dog owned by Louis
Schmidt, of Camden, has prevented him
from committing suicide.
Schmidt is just recovering from a seri
ous, attack of typhoid fever, which left
him very nervous and subject to fits of
melancholia. He was seized with one of
these siells Monday night, and while his
wife was asleep he stole to the kitchen.
. Here he procured a rope and making
a noose tied one end to an iron hook in
the walL Then procuring a chair he
adjusted the rope, and kicking away the
chair swung himself off, as he thought,
into eternity. But, unknown to Schmidt,
his faithful dog had followed him, and
instinctively knowing something was
wrong the intelligent animal went back
to the bedroom whining pitifully. Final
ly he awoke Mrs. Schmidt by tugging at
the bed -clothing and rubbing his cold
nose iu her face, and she followed the
dog down stairs as soon as she missed
her husband. .. ,
There he found him hanging from
the hook. She managed to cut him
down in time to save his life. Philadel
phia Times.
Slta Had " Trust In ltauUn.
Over $ 7,000 iu greenbacks has been
found hidden among a lot of rubbish in
the trunk of an eccentric widow, who
pent her summer in a cottage near
Stoniugtou, Conn., and who died re
cently. Always on leaving Stonington
at the end of the season she left the.
trunk with a friend, telling him that it
' contained nothing of account, but that
she didn't care to liave burglars rum
maging through it, which would be the
case if she were to allow it to remain in
her cottage.
After her last visit the trunk was
stowed away iu the garret of the friend,
and he thought nothing more of it until
sometime after her death. His mind
then happened to run on the old box
and he opened it, finding the money. It
is supposed that she accumulated it
from allowances made her every now
and then by relatives. Philadelphia
"Ledger. "
Wonderful Pigs.
Joseph Stevens, an Oxford fanner, has
a bow and four well grown pigs, which
run in an orchard where, the limbs of
the trees are quite low and laden with
apples. The old.- ow springs, up and
catche u limb and shakes it, thuB bring
ing down the apples, which she and her
family quickly devour. After getting in
this way all she can reach, one rig
climbs on the mother's back and reaches
a higher limb, which she shakes vigor
ously, bringing down a fresh enpply of
fruit. Worcester Gazette. .
, Valuable llrr.
The Atreets of Helena, Mob., are not
exactly paved with gold, nor can one
pick np a livelihood in nuggets from the
roadway, but cellar digging is apt to un
cover enough gold to pay for the labor,
and sometimes quite a part of the cost
of the house. In digging the founda
tions of a business block there tlie inter
ested parties are faking out $100 per day
in pay dirt, and do not eeem to think it
a very remarkable find
Transcrii.
either. Boston
yiKifjimliilnl Objection.
1 uotioe by the papers," said McCor-
kle to u chance acquaintance in the
street car, "that one man has saved four
teen lives this past summer in. the surf
at Atlantic City."
"Yea, and it does seem as if people
- ought to mind their own business."
"Are you alluding to me'f
"No, to the life savers. You see, I am
an undertaker." New York Epoch.
A rare reptile, a white rattlesnake,
was exhibited at a fair in Clarion coun
ty, together, it is said, with a photo
graph of the snake's eye, in which can
. be distinctly seen the likeness of a far
mer who narrowly escaped death from
the reptile.
A new type of .drawbridge is being1
built in Chicago to. span the Chicago
river. By a folding instead of a swing
ing process no central pier is needed, and
. greatly increased facilities for navigating
the narroW river are obtained.
Western farmers are now' urging the
trial of a modification of the rain pro
ducing system to see if mists cannot be
formed at times which will reduce the
radiation of heat from the earth and
thus save the crops from frost.
Professor Chaplin, the new chancellor
of Washington university, is professor
of civil engineering at Harvard. He is
forty-three years old, a native of Maine,
and a graduate of West Point
ABOUT MOTHER GOOSE.
THE AUTHOR OF THE OLD RHYMES
STILL A MATTER OF DOUBT.
One Authority Places Her in Bovton, bat
Documentary Evidence Goes, to Show
That Gol.lniuith Wrote the Jingles for
Children A Bit pr History. ,' T
The question. Who was "Mother
Goose?" arises periodically in various
journalistic query departments, and in
recent years has generally been answered
in one way. In fact, the tradition of this
venerable character's Boston origin is
now so ingrained, as it were, into cur
rent belief that very few dispute it. The
6tory is that Mrs. Elizabeth Goose,
widow of one Isaac Goose (or Vergoose),
was the mother-in-law of Mr. Thomas
Fleet, a printer in the early part of the
Eighteenth century in Boston.
She seemed to have been a troublesome
mother-inLlaw, too, for her' multiplied
improvised songs to her little grandson
greatly annoyed the printer. Fleet. He,
however, found his account and revenge
by finally collecting them and making
the book known as "Mother Goose's Mel
odies." This accords substantially with
the reply the New York Ledger gives as
to the authorship of the Mother Goose
jingles. .
But it is probably one of the cherished
myths, flattering as it is to local pride,
when, like that of the William Tell leg
end and many others equally dear, the
solid verdict of history does not, in my
opinion, serve to sustain. There" never
was, I think, any just foundation for it.
While it is possible that Mr. Fleet, of
ancient Boston fame, may have issued
a "Mother Goose" book, no copy of such
an issue can be found, nor can its
former existence be proved. If he did
print such a book he merely reprinted
one that was imported in his time.
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.
According to the best accounts that
we have on this subject the first look
bearing the Mother Goose name was by
Perrault, a French author. This was
titled, "Contes du Terns Pasee de Ma
Mere L'Oye." The first English trans
lation of this was by Robert Samber.
Very soon, as Mr. Welsh's catalogue
shows, it appeared in Mr. Newbury's
list of publications in London. He says
the seventh edition was printed May 16,
1 1777. Thomas Carman entered for copy
right ."Mother Goose's Melody or Son
nets for the Cradle," and was brought
out in Worcester, Mass., by Isaac Thorn- j
as. Carman was Newbury's stepson, :
who formed a copartnership as his sue- j
cessor iu business with Francis New- j
bury, the original Newbury's nephew, j
It was from Mr. Newbury's efforts, !
therefore, that "Mother Goose" got its j
circulation in English the Newbury I
once celebrated story of "Goody Two ;
Shoes. " Both these books appeared with
out recognized authorship; but there is
.Very strong evidence ' for believing that
the "Goody Two Shoes" was written by
no less a personage than Oliver Gold
smith. The facts supporting this as
sumption it would take too much space
to relate here, but they seem, in addition
to internal evidence, to make out a very
plausible cue?..
.-It is belieyod also by Mr. William IL
Whitmore,- - a' noted Boston historical
scholar, that Mr. Goldsmith had a hand
in the "Mother Goose" book likewise.
The stories of this fable, like Topsy, have
grown in number from time to time, .
and some of those from the Newbury
press were no doubt additions, and pos
sibly additions from Goldsmith's own
muse. A curious piece of evidence on
this point is furnished by Mr. Whit
more, who saysr "Forster, in liis 'famous
'Life of Goldsmith,' gives proof that
Goldsmith was very fond of the chil
dren and was familiar with nursery
rhymes and games. He writes that Mrs.
Hawkins says, '1 little thought what 1
should have to boast when Goldsmith
told me to play Jack and Jill by two
pieces of paper on his fingers.' "
INTERESTING HISTORY.
' Air. . Whitmore also adds the following
acrap of history:
Jan.. 29, 1763 Goldsmith's play of
'The Good Natured Man' was produced.
He went to dine with his friends after
it Nay, to impress his friends still more
forcibly with an idea of his magnanim
ity he even sung his favorite song, 'An
Old Woman Tossed in a Blanket Seven
teen Times as High as the Moon,' and
was altogether very noisy and loud. Our
readers will find this identical 'favorite
'song in the preface to 'Mother Goose's
Melody,' page 7, dragged in without any
excuse, but evidently because it was fa
miliar to thewriter."
Mr. Whitmore has lately brought out
j an edition of the Newbury "Mother
Goose," to which he adds twenty-eight
pages of historical and biographical
notes. He has undoubtedly settled the
whole history of this vexed question of
authorship so far as it can now be settled,
and with no little pains to himself, and
has certainly exploded the alleged Boston
origin of "Mistress Goose."
Forty years ago "Mother Goose" was
much more current than it has been of
recent years; but within ten years past a
variety of editions have been on the mar
ket some full and padded with later
rhymes and a few containing only those
Ithat are the oldest and best known.' To
those who are greatly interested in that
form of literature, "Halliwell's English
Nursery Rhymes," edited with minute
notes, as becomes a great Shakespearean
Commentator,' is a book that will richly
repay perusal. It seems to contain the i
'whole of "Mother Goose," and nearlv '
imitators, but it lacks the amusing and two k,"e"" ha.1 recently d,i from what
almost necessary adjunct of pictorial 8edh ? t-fw and .
illustration.-New York Home Journal. na fluently fassed them. Dr.
! Coleman does not doubt that the dipb
Advice to College students. j theria was contracted from therm. Dr.
"Take care of your health,'' President J- Lewis Smith in Babyhood. .. m-
Patton tejls the Princeton boys. "You
may not need binomial theorems, but yon !
will peed your digestion every day. l
wish I had thought of my health. A
frequently recurring headache, a bad ap-;
.petite and sleeplessness are solemn warn- ;
ings that you must heed. Dyspepaa is'
not a thinir to make fun of."
TtfE. ELDER BOOTH AND THE PiATE.
How the Tragedian Saved His Money and
His Life and Made a Friend.
One night in Louisville a number of
people called on Edwin Booth, among
them ' a doctor of local celebrity, who
wanted to place in his hands a valuable
relic that had once belonged to the elder
Booth. . He was shown upstairs by a
little darky, who .. carried something
wrapped up in a newspaper. It proved
to be a wen preserved skull, thoroughly
cleaned and the parts joined by springs
and hooks. . r -
The doctor told us this story of the
bkull, which proved romantic and inter
esting: Many years before Ted's visit the
elder Booth had played an engagement
in Natchez. After the closing perform
ance he was taken down to the river
with his trunk to wait for the upcoming
steamboat. He found at the saloon at
the wharf it rough looking , set of men
who by their talk he decided were
thieves and cutthroats. . -
. Booth had $ 1,000 in his muey belt,
and from motives of policy he invited
the ruffians to take several drinks, which
only served to increase their peculiar
looks in his direction. There was no
help near and escape was out of the
question he would probably have been
followed and murdered.
Selecting the roughest and toughest
man'in the crowd, old Booth called him
outside to say a few words. "Look
here," said he. "my name is Booth; I'm
an actor: you may have heard of me.
I've a thousand dollars here in a belt and
I'm afraid of being robbed. I want you
to take it and keep it safe for me until
the boat comes along." .
The fellow looked earnestly at the" old
man, and then reached out for the belt.
Booth never expected to see a dollar of
the money again; lint was glad to insure i
his personal safety. He slept on a table j
iu the saloon, and was awakened early j
by the custodian of his treasure. ' ' j
"Get up." said he; "here's your
money. The boat's in sight." Booth"
was thoroughly surprised, but of course
delighted. "Wliafs. your name?" he
asked; "1 always like to remember an
honest man's name." The fellow hes
itated, lowered his voice and answered:
"It's Morrill; folks call me the chief of
the. river pirates. You trnsted me and I
appreciated the trust." '
A year later Morrill was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life. When Booth
visited Natchez again he visited the
prison and took Morrill some money and
delicacies. At the last of his visits he
found the man dying of consumption.
"Booth," said he, "I've not long to live;
i should die happy if I had something to.
leave you to remember me by. Yon
have been good to me and 1 cannot re
pay you." Booth laughed and'said, "If
you are 6et on leaving me a legacy, let it
be your head." "'-.
He spoke in jest, but the pirate took it
n earnest, and.on his death it was found
that he had willed the tragedian his
fckull. Booth gave it to the - doctor in
Louisville to put in order, bt. dying
himself soon after never claimed - his
bequest. The physician gave it to Teck,
We used it for Yorick's skull in "Ham
let." V ' --' "
- When on a visit to his mother in Bal
timore, she unpacked Ted's trunk while
be was out. and came across the skulL
Not knowing what it was used for, she
decided to get rid of it with some other
rubbish. So when'Ted came in she told
him how she had thrown that nasty
skull out of the window, and that a coal
cart., passing by. had crushed it into : a
hundred pieces. Interview in New York
Epoch. " - . .:
'Some Familiar Quotations.
Walpole, the prime minister of the
Georges, is misquoted in the expression,
"All men have their price." He never
said so, and entertained no such narrow
views of mankind. Ho was referring to
certain persons, and said. "All these
men have their price." "Money is
the root of all evil" is another misquoted
quotation, and a wide deviation from
the truth. -"The love of money is the
root of all evil" is the correct quotation.
"Love . me little, love me long" is a
household phrase sometimes supposed to
have originated with Charles fteade.bet
cause he wrote a novel by that name.
Those who are familiar with the poets
know that the expression originated
with Christopher Marlowe, and is found
in his "Jew of Malta." It was afte
ward given a new impetus by Robert j
Herrick. Philadelphia Ledger. - j
Teddy Was Surprised. ' j
Teddy, a little three-year-old, was one ,
day following his father about the farm,. H
when he saw a terrapin for the first '1
time.
"Oh, papa." he called, "come and help i
me catch the bug with a shell on his j
back.
' - "Just cut his head off," his father re- i
plied, "and you have him." .
Teddy excitedly hammered away, but
the terrapin, after the manner of his
kind, scenting danger near, diemr to his
heml.
"Well, is his head off?" asked his f&-
j ther.
' "Oh. no," cried the astonished little
tellow; "he lias swallowed his.headl" :
Springfield Homestead. .' ...
Diphtheria Taken from Kitten.
P. C. Coleman, of Colorado, Tex.,
states that after a residence of five years
at Colorado he saw the first case of diph
theria. A child of four years, living
thirty miles distant in the country, and
with do neighbor within six miles, had
diphtheria, followed by paralysis. , The
child was far away from any source of
human- contagion and had rarely Veen
other children , The father stated that
, Timely Teoen.
"That was an appropriate bit of music
they bad at the cattlemen's annual din
ner." .. .
"What was it?" ;
. 'The band played Beethoven s -'Concerto
in Gee.'" Harper's Bazar ' :
. Irish Literature.
It is stated that Sir Charles Gavan
Duffy is engaged on a long cherished
project the preparation of a series of
notable Irish publications somewhat
after the style of Cassell's "National
Library" volumes. -The veteran states
man, though in ' rather weak health; is
still as great an enthusiast in the matter
of popular Irish literature as when, nigh
fifty years ago, in conjunction with
Thomas Davis and John Blake Dillon,
he started the Dublin Nation. London
Star. . . : .. .
""' . : A Curious Hunter. "
Dunbar Jack, who is one of the best
hunters in all the down- east region, is
deaf and dumb. He has a camp near
Beddington. He trapped four bears and
a large number of otters, muskrats and
minks last season. Trapping and hunt
ing is the greater part of his business.
Bangor Commercial. ,.'.
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bottlusuf Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla and have
or.ly liml o'jo attack since and that was on tbe
seco:: 1 ilay after I began using it."
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the ordinary teas exposed in
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