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COQUETTES. A BLESSED INVENTION. I ALL SORTS- a barber, made a good deal of money oft ’ what he advertised as his ‘ spirit ’ The genial Will Wilson, came into A young man biting bis mustache Married Flirt—A Frodusl or Summer our office last week looking as bloom Decoratiu« with Fire ▲ Weird Expert* hand. He hung up in a dark room a is a case of "‘down in the mouth.” Thrilling Stary <•>»» *• I’rabably Kverla.tfngi [ gigantic hand, just like that one lying ■ng as a June bug. ence in a Wise Man’s Studio—Mysterious Always out of order—Twenty-two Stolen, Sold on the floor there, and covered it up “See this?” he said, as belaid on Shapes, ete. caped From with a curtain which he could roll up letters of the alphabet \ow is the winter of her discontent ‘“«Polished mahogany office desk a It must be a poor singer who instantaneously by pulling a small glorious summer to the married little instrument made up of a coil An awesome mystery has for some cord. Then, when he got bis custom cau’t make his “board” from the of brass wires with spikes and a There arrived in Ka\ spiral spring. "Guess what it is, old time been perplexing the good people 1 ers into the room, he could reveal it “timbre” of his voice. days ago, a young neg; i at will, and I believe he set some of Conjugal jars are forgotten, marital boy.” When people are compelled to use who reside in the vicinity of No. 719' . Ilf« snuff, they certainly are put to the Mattie Young whose stk wry w banished, household woes “Guess!” we said, as we poked it Sansom street. Philadelphia, and a | them almost out of their wits. "But,” continued Mr. Maxwell, as forms as weird a romance as is often re hushed. In fact, connubial cares about gingerly with our pencil stub reporter of the Timex of that city has he bandied a newly-coated crucifix pinch. Watering the stock of a leather found outside the pages of lurid fic ‘We couldn’t give you a name to it enerally are put away in camphor, in had an unusual experience in solving reverently, “the most dangerous trick making company is a new form of tion. The object of the girl’s visit to twelve thousand years.” t0 speak, to be resurrected, unfor- Will compressed the wires bv lay it. He called upon the occnpant of was one that a well-knowu Philadel hide-draulics. Kansas City is to hunt up her mother, unately. fresh hh ever in the fall. ■ng a book over the top, and the the premises, a Mr. J. R. Maxwell, phia professor played on a party of The young woman who eloped Sarah Young, from whom she has ladies during a night boating excur Though, like death, she has all sea- moment he let go out darted a dozen who was found busy with an extra- sion on Lewis’ Lake, in Luzerne with an unknown man was reported been separated ever since she was a sharp as fish-hooks. .. .... ... , ,, as Mr.-iouely missing. nu for her own, the married flirt has pointers “Now, can you see what it’s for?” ordinary collection of plaster-of-l’aris county. Before setting out he paint year old, and who, she has been in The physician is a sympathetic jeized upon the heated term as her “Not any more than we can fathom ! «rocifixes, hands. Madonnas, glass ed a skull that was used for anatomi man. Whenever he touches the pulse formed, is now living in this city. cal purposes and then hid it in the ¡special and peculiar opportunity. As the existence of flies or the fiends | boards and busts of Greek and Roman Having heard something of the ledges close to the water's edge. He of an invalid, he feels sick also. in army with banners, she goes forth who steal our pungent paragraphs.” I philosophers. . The walls were huug then connected it with the boat by a A contemporary asserts that the girl’s history, a Time» reporter yes ^ 1( *-you, said Will as he turned | ••• •• * jonquering and to conquer. While the wood box over to make a seat of [ with black and white crosses, some cord. When the rowing commenced latest thing out is a bad husband. terday went in search of her. After her undulating laces and cool muslins —we mean, as he reposed on the | with the Savior hanging thereon and everything went well, the ladies were What about the gas in his wife’s passsing up a narrow alley, across a modestly invite, her feathers and fur damask cushions of our rose wood | some without, while on benches there laughing, the gentlemen were enjoy room. back yard and up two flights of ing cigars. When the tension took An unpopular tutor — The tooter on rows waft a warning and her rib sofa, “did you ever in blind confidence were bottles of strange compounds place upon the twine the skull began | rickety stairs, the girl was found the clarionet lying on a bed in a colored boarding tons rustle defiance. She is a coquette rest your beloved tile on the hat j and a mass of miscellaneous tools. to move out of its hiding place. The I A vest as is a vest—The harvest. stand of a country hotel and find that house kept by Wiley Wier, the house uncanny object was noticed first by “ There are rumors, ” said the re- gnied cap-a-pie. Early rye-sirs—Topers. by a mysterious dispensation of Prov fronting on Main street near Fourth, one lady ami then by another, and a But there are coquettes and co idence it had gone, while in its place I porter, “that singular doings take The tailor's apprentice, when com but having no front entrance. Miss fearful silence settled upon the party. quettes, and the married flirt is not was a greasy, napless, fitless head ! place here, and some folks are even At length one lady made out that the mencing his trade, finds there is Young at first declared she was suf be mistaken for the si ngle specimen covering as old as the hills of He superstitious about them. ” objeet was an illuminated skull, and truth in the text that “What a man fering such bodily pain she could of the same species. From the tops bron?” hardly sit up. “I was shot by the Mr. Maxwell, who was in his shirt as she could not tell by what mysteri sews he shall also rip.” of her abnormally long gloves to the “Alas, we did!” we sighed. A magazine only differs from a Cuban soldiers,” she declared, “and ous means such a dreadful-looking sleeves, replied; "There is nothing Itips of her preternaturally short slip “Well, here you behold an antidote this wise With one you I carry in my body seven of their pers she is tui generis. Even such to all such future afflictions. I call supernatural in anything here. Step thing was following the boat steadily sword in have to cut its leaves while bullets.” Then, without much hesi (light things as the heedless wave of a it the Magical, Tragical, Melo-dra- ! with me into the back room for a mo and silently, she fainted. Then all generally tation, and requiring very little ques the other generally leaves its cuts. the other ladies took to screaming hand, the freakish fall of a fan show matic Hat sneak exterminator. I’vp ment” tioning, she proceeded to give the and fainting, and the professor saw A stranger in Boston, seeing the The reporter did so and found him (her for what she is. The giddy girl applied for a patent and expect to following account of her very extra that things had gone a little further places of public resort full of young | self in a den in which he could not 'recognizes her with envy and anguish, make a mint out of it.” ordinary experience: than he expected. The skull was cut men, night after night, asked if this ! see his hand before him. the elderly dowager with discreet de “I was born at Nashville, Tenn., “How does it work?” adrift and the boat was rowed back was the land of midnight son. “Would you like your photograph testation. ' Both mother and daughter and though I am unable to ceunt or “Why, you see I wind the thing to the hotel, where the females were A gallant railroad engineer met a (know her and fear her. She has up. These claws all pile up in a i taken?” said Mr. Maxwell. The re- restored only with the greatest diffi girl in the morning, courted her all reckon time, I think I must lie about marred many a match, destroyed many bunch. This wire sets round the 1 porter having no objections, Mr. Max culty. 16 years old. When I was something In fact, the lady who first an air castle, ruined many a season. leather lining of the hat. The well lighted a magnesium wire and made out the skull showed decided day, and in the evening married her. more than a year old 1 was stolen by That was a sort of locomotive spark. placed him between it and an ordi If genuine cursing, not loud but moment a man puts it on his head Robinson's circus. They made a symptoms of losing her reason, but “Pa, rogues always fall out at dancing girl of me and I got so that (deep, could kill, she would have been the spring is loosened and all these nary-looking glass board that seemed she recovered ultimately. dead long ago. But she is perennial. prickers drop on to hie cranium like like a stray transom window. When “The compound,” continued Mr. night.” “At night? How do yon I was a good performer. We went She pervades all places, and spoils all the toe-nails of a mad cat when she’s the light expired and the room was Maxwell, “is used for many purposes know that’” “Because, pa, when to Cuba finally, and after I had been plans She gets a new zeBt from the clawing on to the window curtains.’’ once more in total gloom, that ordi already, and it will continue to be rogues fall out, honest men get their with them about seven years. I should nary-looking piece of glass shone out think, I was put tip for sale on the disappointments of others, and, like “It must hurt?” more so. By the way, that dark room dews.” the vampire, feeds upon the heart The difference between a bakery block at Havana. Henry Grannison, “Hurt?” You bet. First time I ' with a pale blue glow, resembling a where the images are would be a bad blood of young hopes. No summer tried it, thought I’d died with laugh weak electric light, and in the center place for a man to awake in after a and a printing office lies in the fact who owns a coffee plantation about resort is without her. From the hotel ing. I was at the New House, Dan of it, in sharp black silhouet lines, spree.” that in the former the pie is formed, eight miles from Havaua, bought me, of high degree to the meek and lowly ville, and I set the trap nice and snug stood a profile of the reporter's face. while in the latter occasionally the and I went to his place as hiB slave. -------- ------------- The whole process occupied about two They have no mercy on their slaves camp meeting she is omnipresent just before I went to dinner. form is pied. The Indianapolis baggage-smash in Cuba, and I was treated like a The trail of the serpent is over them “Weren’t you afraid of seriously minutes. Mr. Maxwell went into the ers complain of hard times, owing to “ You ’ ve got a new hat, I see, ” front room and returned with what the regulations of tho railway com brute. When 1 first went there I injuring somebody?” all. said one man to another, who was | The married flirt is not only mul “Not much. The man who will looked like a stucco bust of Madonna. panies. “All there is left now,” says noted for his love of the flowing was branded on the back with eigh titudinous, but multifarious. She is' steal a hat isn’t fit to live. Besides, | There was nothing about it remark-' one, “is the roping of trunks at bowl. “Yes—hie—got a new—hie— teen names, and as often as the scars [of all ages and degrees, of all classes I don’t put it in his hat but in mine, | able, except that the white veil was a twenty-five cents apiece, and we are hat; but it’s got the—hio—same]old would dim I wsh branded again. Ths names were Spanish, and included I and conditions. One season she is and if I choose to go about with | shade whiter than the face. that for all there is in it. brick in it.” Mr. Maxwell ignited another mag working the name ojmy master and his slaves. I languid and languishing, another she barbed spikes in my head-gear it is We come at the traveling man with “I need have no more fears from “I was made to plough, like a horse. is fast and furious. Now she is de nobody’s business but my own. This nesium wire and held the bust before the remark, ‘Better have that trunk that quarter,” is what the storekeeper I it for a few seconds. Then the room roped,’ if is is not strapped, be the They would hitch three women in mure and devote, and again she is is a free country, sir.” was left once more in Cimmerian dark- trunk a good or inefficient one. If n remarked as he threw the counterfeit • harness, and make us drag the plow [flighty and frivolous. You like her "Certainly. Proceed.” twenty-five cent piece in the fire, I limp and lymphatic, and are surprised “Well, when I got into the dining uess, but when the reporter turned fellow hesitates, and is somewhat which had come back to him several along, one of us carrying a regular j towards Mr. Maxwell he beheld a j bit in the mouth. The food they to like her better brisk and soubret- i room I was disappointed to find only green about traveling, we tell him times. ' gave us consisted of cats, dogs and 'fish. One day she is shrinking and one stranger present, and he was an weary, wan face shining with a bright that the trunk will be carried at A Cincinnati paper says: “The grasshoppers, and they made us pick skittish, the next she is audacious and ] elderly gentleman of great respecta- ness that seemed supernatural, while owner’s risk if not properly roped, around the head lay the folds of a aud if that does not bring him we women of this country succumb to tobacco worms and eat them, too. impudent. She takes her cue from j bility of appearance. black veil. The pale, shining hunt a weak place in the trunk, or style and grandeur. One of them We were sometimes whipped as often Cleopatra: ‘‘Age cannot wither nor “No go, this time, I murmured as thick custom stale her infinite variety.”! I skimmed the grease off the vege- face of that Madonna was something cpme one of our shaky twists on it, has just eloped from New Albany, as three times a day, and we never to haunt one for a lifetime. The next and tell him we will have to mark it Ind., with a policeman. knew what Sunday was. She is also absolutely apostolic; she | table soup. Mr. Maxwell did was to light ‘Bad order,’(and this generally brings ‘•Two months ago, while I was at “My' dear,” said Mrs. Brashbv, is all things to all men, and, although “The elderly stranger finished first. thing the gas and pick up the crucifix from the quarter. We get only ten cents don’t you think I have a very Bmall the house of my master, one of the the danger signals are always out. she and left the room.” floor. Holding it over the jet for of it, though; the Union Railway mouth?” “Small? How on earth, little children got mad; and declared finds a fool every time she takes the "Presently there was a yell in the the few seconds he turned out the light, Company furnishes the rope. This then, does it contain so much I had beaten her. They wouldn’t trouble to open her eyes. [ office which lifted the tiles off the a and there in the darkness shone with costs fonr or five cents, and the other tongue?” was the ungallant exclama hear anything I said, and told me the And then the whole thing is so easy; roof of the house. soft brilliancy a figure of the sus ten or eleven cents goeu into the tion of Mr. Brashby. queen had ordered my throat to be it is a part of the general summer “1 ran out. There was the stranger a pended Christ The dead face, the Two girls were in love with an cut. I begged for time to pray, and scheme—no care, no worry, no fret clawing his ears, trying to pull my muscles of the outstretched arms and treasury of thejpoor Union Railway hat off his bald head, while tears of limbs, indeed every outline of the Company. At Kansas City or St. Iowa man. He loaned his tine sad thoy gave me till the next morning. ting, but plenty of folly. It is no wonder the young girl is anguish as big as Boston beans drooping figure shone forth distinctly Louis,” he continued, “the boys let dle-horse to one of them, and of II Cuba our God is a big snake we trunks drop on purpose to burst she rode past the residence of call Sarah, and we pray to it for distanced. There is no risk, no dan coursed down his furrowed cheeks. amid the blackness, while in an them and get a chance to tie them course the other, who wildly ran out and mercy. I believed I would be killed, ger of failing. Breach of promise “The clerk was paralyzed.” other corner the meek face of the for I had heard of slaves having stabbed the beast with a knife. "Stand still!” I shouted, “lei me spectral Madonna shone calmly down up with rope.” suits are as foreign to the married their throats cut, and I had been flirt’s thoughts as genuine sentiment. help you.” During the recent storm at Asbury I upon the crucifix. “You see,” said She is fascinating, but you cannot call “Then I tenderly loosened the Mr. Maxwell, “all these things appear W here R ich C ats B oard .—A de Pask, N. J,, a lady saw her husband I struck on the bead with knives be her false. She is evidently fitted to spring, got the hat off his head and strange, but the explanation is very partment of the Philadelphia Cat Re upset from a ski fl' in the surf. She fore. So that evening I planned to conjugate love in all its moods and cried, ‘Hey! Scat! There he goes! simple. These Madonnas and cruci- fuge, and one that helpB to support promptly waded out till the water run away. J got a life preserver tenses; but the sense of safety makes Right under the chair yonder! Hit I fixes are simply made of a compound it, is the boarding of rioh cats during was up to her chin and brought her from a ship where I was sent to cairy coal. When night came 1 put the him with the poker!’ ” | her cruel. capable of absorbing light like a the summer months while their unhappy mate ashore. life preserver around me, climbed “For I let on as if it was a rat, and ] sponge and throwing it out again in owners are away. There were re “Tying her bonnet under her chin The Mexican dollar is worth only She tie» a young man’s heart within,” they were both so scared they never [ | a subdued form in the darkness. The cently seventy of these pampered pus ninety cents in Canada, but our over the wall, and jumped into the ocean. I was a godd swimmer and Just as remorselessly as though she found out the ruse.” i invention is a new one. and Philadel sies enjoying the delights of the ninety-cent dollar passes at par. meant to marry him. “And the gentleman's head was phia has the credit of it. bnt experi establishment The quarters pro Our money is worth more becausd wasn’t afraid. But the Cuban soldiers heard me splashing in the water, and Possibly, however, it is a waste of pretty sore, we presume?” ments with phosphorescence are by vided for them include a large pen in of the picture of the Philadelphia “You may •say so. Sore’ When I no means new. Three hundred years the yard, with a number of wide girl which goes with it to every sub they began firing at me. The first feeling to think of the other side. ball struck me in the thigh, the next Both parties probably enjoy the little left that night the clerk was rubbing ago a shoemaker in Bologna racked shelves running around the four scriber. hit my foot and before they quit pretense of sentiment all the more cuticura into the scalp wounds, and his wits to solve the soft mystery of sides, and a little grass plat in the The plaintiff in a St. Louis suit shooting they hit me seven times. from the very impossibility of its there was a roll of liniment lying on phospnorescence, bnt he failed, and center. Most of the boarders are the recovery of money paid for My arms were not hurt, though, and bringing them to the altar. At all the counter for future use, as big as that was one shoemaker who ought to sleek and fat. They live very amica for a sealkin sack avers, in her formal I kept on swimming. Finallv I bly together and indulge in but few events, the thing is likely to last. A a bale of cotton.” have stuck to his last. fights, sjiending most of their time complaint, that the garment “hung reached an island, and I stayed tliere “It is a beautiful invention,” we woman should never be too old to try “Subsequently other scientists took asleep on the shelves. They are fed upon her person in a most ungainly five weeks, living on whatever I to please, and all women love to be moralized, “and should make yon a destroying her peace of mind could. My wounds hurt me terribly, loved. It is more than likely that the fortune. Will, wait a minute, and up the study, until now we have found three times a day, their menu being manner, but as they hurt me worse on land while wearing it.” that we can actually mix up a bril we ’ ll make you right away an esti made up of raw meat liver, milk and sole survivor, Macaulay’s New Zeal ................ „ , than in the salt water, I kept my life ( liant phosphorescent compound that Four sisters are described as fish, and one handsome tabby lives on ander on Loudon Bridge, will not mate fora half column display adver irb light and throw it back naeit in ! an exclusive diet of raw oysters and sleeping in one small t,....... room at a preserver on and swam along ... the only be a female, but a married . flirt. tisement. Discount for cash.”— will absorb j a very mi uch longer time than it took unskimmed milk, her luxurious fare fashionable resort, and without com | shore of the island most of the time, Evansville Argus. —[Boston Courier. to absorb it. This luminous paint is 1 l»eing paid for at an advance over the plaint of overcrowding; but they I At the end of five weeks a ship came ——----- —---------- a preparation produced by the calci regular rates of fifty cents a week.— have to go outside to HirnultaneoUH I along, bound for Galveston, and I A.W0MAN WHO BORE NINE CHILDREN AT Every one who has traveled over nation of certain substances, and al i | Philadelphia Record. ly put on their hats, as the area of [was taken aboard. When we reached THREE BIRTHS- the Eastern Railway remembers the though phosphorescent in its quali wide brimmed millinery exceeds that Galveston I was put in the hands of 'A number of charitable ladies dark and grewsome tunnel through ties it contains no phosphorus. I aome colored church people and a» I from Philadelphia and New York, which the trains pass after leaving will show you here a sign labeled A FIFTEEN-HUNDRED-FOOT WATERFALL. of tho apartment. had heard that my mother lived in Northampton, Mass., has a woman spending the summer at Island Salem. The other day a little girl, ‘Danger’ in big letters If that were A recent discovery on the head of who cares for a husband who has not Nashville I was sent there; At Nash Heights, a lovely summer resort cn who was traveling to Maine with her exposed to the sunlight it would shine the Cowlitz river establishes the fact ville I , found that my mother bad a iiiijikoii for lor »r • r or iee<i feed himself Tom’s river, N. J., are actively en mother, passed through it. and was all night. How invaluable would that Washington Territory can now been able to dress or She does — all the ’1« to KatiM«» City. and so I got L--- ------ —. g" gaged in raising donations of money greatly awed and alarmed at the such an article be in railway stations boast of the grandest waterfall in the several years. Delp to come here. and clothing for a Mrs. Johnson, re blackness into which she was sud or at rail crossings of any kind? If known world, its height being 1,500 work for a large family, has an excel Though the girl is evidently quit* lent vegetable garden which she siding in a small cottage at that place, denly plunged. “Oh, dear! where such a sign had been used in the Ring feet. The Nooksack Indians assert ignorant, and is filled with supersti manages by herself, and also has who has just given birth to the third are we going?” she whispered, as she Theater in Vienna when the gas went positively that waterfalls higher than tions which may piake portions of set of triplets. The latest arrivals are closely clasped the maternal hand. out the people might have been able the tallest fir, pine or cedar tree are large broods of duckH and chickens. her narrative very fanciful, yet she A tailor’s goose—The dude. three chubby, crowing children, the "We are going through the tunnel.” to see tneir way to the various exits to be found on the extreme lieadwa [xissesses a good deal of natural in wry pictures of health, and all girls. replied the mother. “There is no and the terrible loss of life could not ters of the Nooksack river, in this A frame of mind—The skull. telligence, and her strange story is The only way that they are distin danger.” As suddenly as they bad have happened. county. As that section of the county The weigh of all flosh—Sixteen in some points corroborated by her guished from each other is by their dived into the gloom they emerged condition. She talk- Spanish fluently, “I have had some amusing experi has never yet been explored by white ounces to the pound. clothing, which some of the ladies into the sunlight again, when the encee man, there is no good reason for theatrical i an< * , Mn , yH IR ,I1UC*‘ easier for her to with the introduction of the Light-houses, from a tunouivm had mischievously marked “Faith,” child asked. "Mamma, what is a compound, and I will never forget doubting the statement. From the point of view, always indicate break 1 ---- ” ■*- ‘---- ”«•’ .’ English ” Her -------- wounds have 1 , , ! nzxi hoalnri nnu “Hope” and “Charity.” The parents tunnel ?” “It is a hole in the ground,” one Irishman whom it frightened comparison givon by the Indians 1 not got untirolv entirely healed, and anaPi sheet m ers ahead. are both large and well-formed per said the mother. The child looked nearly out of his wits. I bad adver- these falls mast be at least 475 feet plains continually of the pain they “I have a bright prospect before | give her. sons, and Mr. Johnson is employed as a out of the car window with great [ tised for a canvasser. One day a red-1 in height, which would lay over the me. ” said the loafer. “ You always laborer on a neighlxiring farm. The surprise and interest depicted on her 1 headed man burst into my front room, famous Snoqualmie Falls, of Kings It is the girl’s intention to remain •ix other children of Mr. and Mrs. face, and said, “Then is this the bot I and. finding nobody there, scrambled county, by at least 200 feet. —[Port | will have,” remarked Fogg. “I don’t in this vicinity till her mother baa think yon will ever catch up to it.” Johnson are all stout and healthy, tom of the world?” She evidently through to this back room, where I I land (Or.) News. been found, or until it haa been de and are all under eight years of age. thought she had passed completely I was making some experiments. For Tho other day iv an author went to termined that she is not residii residing in HISTORIC DRUMSTICKS The cottagers and boarders in the through the globe, and was passing an instant the man stood aghast, with Dumas to read rl to ‘ him two ; '~7~ tijj« ‘ ' city. (Kansas City Times. playa, j After he read one of them he asked neighborhood have given parlor en through the country of the Chinese the door in his hand, and then he Gen. Theodore F. Brown has in his A ca RIOUS GRASS. tertainments, taken up collections and or some other antipodal race. ( made the sigD of the cross and started possession a pair of drumsticks owned | Dumas; “What do you think of it?” | “ I like the other bettor, ” was the re have resorted to various other means The Mora connty, N. M., Pioneer back into the street, calling upon ! I>y Tom Bradford, son of Judge Brad- ply, after a moment of reflection. of relieving the family, who are poor says: Dr. Sparks has a peculiar grana Heaven and all the Saints to protect What’s in a name? First evening him. These crucifixes are now in ! ford, of Pueblo. These drumsticks in circumstances. A large purse has “What is that you are wearing?” w .,1 bich, — j, perhaps, will some day lie re at the summer resort. “Who lives in J demand among Roman Catholics] were used by the grandfather of J ndge asked Farmer John of bis fair city ’ ceived by the people of New Mexico already been raised. that splendid house?” “Oh, that is : throughout the United States and Bradford at the Battle of Bunker boarder. “Oh, that is my red jersey.” | as a wonderful thing. It is said that [ Hill. They were afterwards used on A contemporary says: “The wed Dr. Jalap’s residence. He is very “All right,” was the reply; “but don’t ding belles, how they ring.” The re wealthy.” “And whose beautiful villa | Canada, and they have been iDtro- I Perry's flagship at the battle of Lake go near my brown Jersey over in that ! it will grow on the dryewt ground mark leaves us in a quandary, for is that just lieyond?” “Dr. Senna I duced among the Goanese of the Bom- . Erie, and they subsequently made field unless you are good at climbing ■ wherever there is an annual rainfall i of twelve inches or more. The root« 1 music at the battle of Lundy’s Lane, now we wonder whether it is the belles lives there. He owns another house [. bay Presidency. sink into the earth from four to seven “There is a colored man who makes j Gen. Brown exhibited these relics at trees.’’ or bells that ring, and if the former, down in the village.” “H’m! As we i feet, thus securing more nourishment “ No, ” said the sail-eyed man, “ I the last meeting of Abraham Lincoln [ planchets that used to be used by whether they ring er wring. Me weie driving along I saw just below know the bride usually has her hand here the most charming place I ever ■ spirit rappers. He gets some of them l»ost, and made an enthusiastic speech, 1 never press a young lady to play than ordinary grasses. Ntock thrives • to well on it, even eating the roots. It Hnged. and perhap . J-e other belles set eyes cn.” “Oh. yes; that belongs l ‘ covered with the compound, and leaves i Cot. J. T. T. Ball, of the Milwaukee upon tb« piano. I tried it ®t the wedding wring their hands be- to Dr. Quinine Richest man in town i the others just as they are. Then he and St. Paul, is supposed to be the I my sorrow.” “Why, what followed?” grows to a height of thirty inches, is canse they are not brides. How is it. —no end of money.” Visitor retires i takes them down Sontfi and drives a ! only survivor of Lundy’s Lane now I asked a half-dozen ■ ager voices. “She : very leafy, of rapid growth, and yields I played,” replied the sad eyed man. five or six cuttings of hay a year. It •nybow’—(Oil City Derrick. to meditate upon the cheerful intelli roaring trade among the superstitions living in Denver. Gen. Bnwn is an “I shall never forget th» lesson I: is a proof against heat, drouth and —- ■ —-------- thority for this last statement. — [ Den ( Colored folks who believe in voodoo ' flood. | learned that day.” It is a bad strike that will not work gence which has b.<en imparted to ’ i*m and fetichism. A friend of mine. ver News. him. but he is not happy. both ways. 1 NEW INVENTION MAR