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Another of Little Johnny's Stories

A ole cat she had 2 kittens, one was
a nice feller, but the other it was no
count, sore eyes, and one day vile the
ole Cat was gon the rats thay found her
bed, and thay ct the vel kittin up. Wen
the ole cat she come home and see how
it was she was in nifty bad way, and
she sed: "The best is always took
youngest; if that little feller had been
spared he wud ben the splendidest rat
ter wich was ever seen. Things is or
dered with great injestice in this world"
Nose, wich is our cat, she don't have
no kittins, but he is pretty good at line
by the stove, and wen you rub the
wrong way in the dark he strikes fire
like he was flint. Billy he asst my father
elf Noses sparks was lecktrisity," and
my father he sed: 81 CESS so, Billy, cos
I've observed that wen you tired on his
tail he is litenin!" One day there was
a otfie storm. thunder and litenin, and
next day ole CATER Peters he cum over
to our hous, and he sed to my Uncle
Ned, ole CATER did: Edard. its sol
lum thot that in the midst of life we are
ded. he'd nifty narro escape yister-
day from bein killed by litenin, yes, in
deed, a little more an you wud never
seen ole CATER any more in the fesh.''
Then Uncle Ned sed: "In the bones,
CATER, in the bones," cos CATER aini
fat, its just the other way. But Gaffel
he sed: The litenin hit a tree over on
Missis Doppy' ranch, and Missis Doppy
is my doater." Then Uncle Ned be
sed: {" Bless my sole, wot drefle close
call! If I was you Ide have Missi:
Doppy sci that ranch and bi other ont
further away" An ole Gaffer sed ht
had been thinkin of that hisself.A But
my father he says he don't think that
will hellup matters, cos the poetry mar
says the king of shadders loves shin
ing mark, and altho Missis Doppy has
got red he'd, CATER haint got no hail
onto him, and he mite mebby get lics
on his own account.-San Francisco
| ArQoasauts. 1- f.'s+
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The Late Asa Packer---A Poor Boys
Success i'm Life. @

A dispatch from Philadelphia an
noun ces the death of Judge Asa Packer.
Mr.. Packer was born in Mystic, Conn,
a little village lying midway between
New London and Stonington. From
there, when about 16 years of age, he
journeyed on foot, with all his earthly
possessions done up in knapsack on
his back, to Susquehanna County, Pa,
where he apprenticed himself to his un-
Gle, a carpenter. In two or three years
he had mastered his trade, and came to
New York to work at it; but the city
was not to his taste, and he returned to
Susquehanna County. At the age of %
he married Sarah M. Blakelee, the pref
ty daughter of farmer living in the
neighborhood. For four years the pair
earned only scanty subsistence, young
Packer working small farm and doing
odd jobs at his trade. At the time OF
the openin. of the Lehigh Canal, in the
spring of 1888, he became a canal boat
driver. With his earnings h, grad
ual1y was enabled to buy inter-
ests of his own in a number of
boats, and retaining these, he gave up
driving, and opened store and boat
yard. Afterward he contracted for the
building of locks in the upper Lehigh,
and soon his fame as a contractor be-
came great throughout the region. In
1888 he built boats at Pottsville for the
transportation of coal to New York di-
rect. In 1840, leaving his boat building
business to his brother, Mr.. Packer re-
moved to Mauch Chunk, and for many
years engaged in the shipment of coal.
In 1852, be alone began the building of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad. In 1855,
when it was completed, he was all but
ruined, but, aided by Commodore Stock
ton, he survived his temporary embar-
easements, and his road rewarded him
to that extent that for many years he
has been accounted the richest man in
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Packer was twice
elected to Congress, and served under
the administration of Mr.. Pierce. He
built for himself a beautiful residence
at Mauch Chunk, which was his home.
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Intellect in Brutes.

Nature has opened it pages to q dis
cussion of this subject, and invited cor
respondents to forward their expert
ences. Among other items l find the
following: The late Mr.. Dawes, the as
tronomer, gave a bunch of keys to his
dog to carry. and arriving home forgot
to claim them. Some hours afterward
he recalled the circumstance, and spoke
to the dog, saying: "My keys, fetch
me my keys" The dog looked at first
puzzled, and then bounded off to the
garden, his master following. He went
straight to the root of an apple tree,
scratched up the keys and carried them
to his master. 1t is suggested, the dog
reasoned thus: My master has given me
the keys to hold and has forgot them
l can not carry them all day, but must
put them in safe place, where I car
tind them again.
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How Games Travel.

ataFeieIS, observing tnc likeness OF
children's games in Europe and Asia,
have sometimes explained it on this
wise: That the human mind being
alike everywhere, the same games are
naturally found in different lands, chill
dren taking to hockey, tops, stills, kites,
and SO on, each at its proper season.
But If so, why is it that in outlying bar
Darous countries one hardly finds a
game without finding also that there is
civilized nation within reach from
whom it may have been learned! And
what is more, how is it that European
children knew nothing till few centu-
ries ago of some of their now most
popular sports? For instance, they had
no battledore-and- shuttlecock and nev-
er flew kites till these games came across
from Asia, when they took root at once
and became naturalized in Europe. The
origin of kite-fying seems to lie some
where in Southeast Asia, where it is
sport even of grown-up men, who fight
their kites by making them cut one an
others strings, and fly birds and mon
sters of the most fantastic shapes and
colors, especially in China, where old
gentlemen may be seen taking their
evening stroll, kite-string in hand, as
though they were leading pet dogs. The
English boys kite appears thus an in
stance not of spontaneous play instinct
but of the migration of an artificial
game from distant center. Nor is this
all it proves in the history of civiliza-
ton. Within century, Europeans be-
coming acquainted with the South
Sea Islanders, found them down to
New Zealand adopts at flying kites,
which they made of leaves or bark cloth,
and called manu-, or "bird," flying
them in solemn form with accompani-
ment of traditional chants 1t looks as
though the toy reached Polynesia
through the Malay region, thus belong
ing to that drift of Asiatic culture which
is evident in many other points of South
Sea Island life. The geography of an
other of our childish diversions may be
noticed as matching with this. Mr..
Wallace relates that being one wet day
in a Dayak house in Borneo, he thought
to amuse the lads by taking piece of
string to show them cat's-cradle,"
but to his surprise he found that they
knew more about it than he did, going
off into figures that quite puzzled him.
Other Polynesians are skilled in this
nursery art, especially the Maoris of
New Zealand, who call it maui, from
the name of their national hero, by
whom, according to their tradition, it
was invented; its various patterns rep
resent canoes, houses, people, and even
episodes in Maui's life, such as his fish
ing up New Zealand from the bottom of
the sea. In fact, they have their picto-
rial history in seats CRADLE" and
whatever their traditions may be worth,
they stand good to show that the game
was of the time of their fore fathers, not
lately picked up from the Europeans.
In the Sandwich Islands and New Zea-
land it is on record that the natives
were found playing kind of draughts
which was not the European game and
which can hardly be accounted for but
as another result of the drift of Asiatic
cultivation down into the Pacifc.-The
Fort,aaghtly ReUieU.
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Circus Lemonade.

Circus lemonade has always been
known to be the most poverty stricken
decoction that ever lemons lent their
name to. A little acid, some red color
ing matter and free swing at a city
hydrant has made the fortune of many
circus lemonade venders. When our
rural friend comes in from the country
with his "girl, to revel in the delights
of the circus, they fall a natural prey to
the lemonade man. That persistent
fiend, with his tray of red glasses, steps
over the heads of peaceful citizens,
while his stentorian voice proclaims his
mission. He descends alike on the just
and the unjust. Every one looks on the
lemonade when it is red, and that's ten
cents gone, never to return. Having
started out on day of wild dissipation,
the visitor stops not half way, but squan-'
ders his substance in riotous living, rev.
cling in the ruby liquid. He desires
that his affianced will not think him
mean, and she does not. But the PEN
atty comes afterwards when the biting
acid gets in its work. Last winter Sc
cret society was formed and the organ
ization spread into every city in the land.
The most horrible oaths were taken
with clasped hands over bottle cork
ed) of sulphuric acid Oh so -,
while red light streamed over the ter
rified candidate. The members of this
society were to spread themselves
around in the circus crowd. When a
lemonade man appeared, the nearest
member was to hold up two fingers,
which was one of the signs of the mys-
tic order. When the lemonade fiend
approached, the member, in making
change, would drop fifty cents on the
ground and tell the fiend that he might
have it for the trouble of picking it up.
Once down under the seats the two ju-
nior wardens would seize and gag him,
and pass him to the Grand Outside
Plenipoie ientiary on the outside of the
tent. j. closed carriage, rapid drive.
and a plunge in the river would finish
the operation, the terrible symbol II Z
so being the only phrase used du
ring the transaction. The Grand Wor.
thy Secretary made an estimate of the
number of lemonaders they could gel
away with every performance, but un.
fortunately the thing leaked out, ane
the great circus now approaching De
troit announces that "No lemonad,
peddlers will be allowed under the can
vas. ."-Dstroit Free Press. ~.
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The Poetry OfIrOn.

There is wonderful fascination about
iron work and iron workers. Novelists
have made them the scenes and heroes
of their stories; poets have made them
the themes of deathless song. We sing
of the forge of Tubal Cain, and Hector
swore "by the forge that stithied Mars's
helm," but the other trades are passed
over.
When did poet, in lofty numbers,
sing the carpenter lathing back room
on the second floor?
Who chants the brawny arms and the
thrilling deeds of man climbing four
story ladder with hod of mortar?
Does any body stand with rapt emo
tion watching painter putty up nail
hole?
Iwould not exchange my one hour at
midnight in the iron works at Ashland,
KY, for a whole week of watching a
man mix mortar with hoe. Why,
these iron works surround the Ashland
ers with enough romance to last West
ern community at least six weeks. And
yet, suppose there are people about
here WHO never saw nail made in their
lives. have known times, in my own
eminently useful and highly ornamental
career, times when I was trying to nail
front gate to leather hinge, when ]
wished there had never been nail made
any where by any body. And I watched
them as they fell from the ponderou;
machines, fast as rain drops, and il
seemed to me, as l watched them fall
that could hear the dull, treacherous
thud of the hammer on the human
thumb, the low wall of woman's an
guish, "the big, big D" of a strong mar
in his agony. These strange weird feel
ings and fancies rushed into my minc
like torrent. stopped and picked VI
a brand new nail, as memento of my
visit.
Then laid it down again. Sadly, bu
not slowly. l have an impression,
know not where I got it, that new-lait
nail, like a new-1aid egg. is warm
And that it is far more perceptible Il
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A Remarkable Ship.

For the last six years the Rev. G. M.
Ramus, rector Of East Guildeford and
Playden, England has held his invention
of the polyspheric ship at the disposal
of the Admiralty. This vessel, it is cal
culated, will skim the seas at the rate of
forty miles an hour or more. The word
{" skim" discloses the secret of the idea,
for the invention is mainly based on the
fact that if vessel can be made by the
mere force with which it moves to ride
over the waves instead of driving
through them, there is pytnaa facts evi-
dence to believe that a much higher
speed than any thing yet reached will be
achieved. The principle of Mr.. Ramus's
invention consists in making the bottom
of the vessel a series of inclined planes.
In 1872 Mr.. Ramus made model hav-
ing its bottom composed of two paral-
lei and consecutive inclined planes, or
the vessel may be described as made up
of two wedges, the thick ends of which
are placed abaft the thin ends. There is
thus in the center Of the vessel ridge
where the thin end of the sternmost
wedge abuts against the thick end of the
foremost. Amy floating body thus shap-
ed must, when driven forcibly through
the water tend to rise, and if the speed
is high enough it will rise on the sur
face instead Of driving through the wa
ter. These facts were demonstrated by
some rough experiments made in the
presence of credible witnesses. The
propelling power in these experiments
was six ounce rocket. In one trial the
model, weighing three pounds three
ounces, ran distance of 105 yards in
three seconds. In another it ran 480
feet in four and one-half seconds the wa
ter being rippled by strong breeze but
in spite of this the deck was found to be
dry. The principle underlying these
models may be taken advantage of to
construct wedge shaped ships, for it has
been demonstrated that the resistance
to such vessels, which at first increases
about as the square of their velocity de-
creases as the speed is augmented, until
after a certain period there is no further
increase of resistance. Given the re-
quired machinery, then for propelling
the-polyspheric ship, and there seems
every probability that speeds OF forty
miles an hour or more can be attained
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PITH AND POINT.

MARRYING a woman for her beauty
is like eating bird for its singing.
JOHN G.. WHITTIER writes a poem
entitled "I was a Stranger and Ye
Took Me In;'' but he doesn't say how
much he lost Cincinnati Enquirer.
THE New York Nail wisely remarks
that every man has two roads to happi-
ness open to him. One is matrimony
and the other isn't.
AN Indiana man shaved off his mus
tache, and thereby spoiled his marriage
with girl who thought he looked 'tjust
as handsome as a brigand. - - S'A
AN exchange makes " smiles" rhyme
with "boils." This is ridiculous. A
man who has boil doesn't smile-un-
less it is spiritually.-Norristo,on Her.
aid. . .-.s.. -......... GA. t...-
THE picnic time approaches when
man relapses into barbarism and goes
forth into the forest to devour his food
with q mixture of red ants, decayed
wood and gravel. e
SOME hotels furnish bills of fare in
French, so that many guests will call
for bread and butter rather than make
display of ignorance before an empty
stomach and an lliterate waiter.
THERE is a man on Arbor Hill who is
so internal lazy that his friends say it
is impossible to cut him to the quick,
since he hasn't got any.-Albany Jour-
nal.
'sTHIs is q sad commentary on our
boosted civilization the tramp de-
spondently observed when he found out
that the ham that he had taken from
the front of a~store was wooden.-OH
City Desr ick. a,ni-,z,isg.sz-.-s
ELDER sister Ito. little one, who ap-
pears to take great intesest in Mr.. Skib-
bens): "Come, little pet, it is time
your eyes were shut in Sleep" Little
pet 8 / think not. Mc5her told me to
keep my eyes open when you and Mr..
Skibbens were together" " ''' a's
He was about to kiss her, when sud-
denly he drew back in evident alarm.
"Oh, George, what is itP'' said she,
anxiously. 'Onions," was all the re-
ply he made as he glided on in the
moonlight.-Pyovidence Press.IH.t,,
A LADY was entertaining at dinner a
stranger who had brought a letter of in
PRODUCTION to her husband, and at the
end of the meal coffee was served. The
lady asked her guest if he took sugar
with his coffee; he replied, so never,
madam; that is to say, hardly ever, un-
less the coffee is very poor" A few min
utes later he said: ssWill you please
give me little sugar?''
ANGELINA!" cried Theodore melo-
dramatically, "may l call you mine,
wholly minep Oh, say that may, dear
est" "Well, let me see," answered
the saucy fair one with provoking de-
liberation "I am hardly prepared to
capitulate unconditionally, to sign a
definitive treatya->-surrendering my
autonomy in perpetuam; but | think I
should not object to entering into AMIGA
BILE relations, according you all privi-
leges possessed by the most favored fell
lows" The poor fellow thought she
was making fun Of him and looked hurt.
But she soon took means 20 reassure
him, and a treaty offensive and defensive
was Immediately entered into. And
sealedp Well, rather.-Boston Tran
scTlDt T. q '['t3t
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THE writer of letter in the London
Times points out that an ounce of bread
wasted daily in each household in Eng
land and Wales means about q, ,000, 900
quartern loaves, the produce of $4,000
acres of wheat in a year; while an ounce
a week of meat wasted amounts to some
100000 sheep.
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the case of the nail. 1t may not be so
in every instance. Ipresume there may
be some nails laid cold. But the one l
picked up was not so everlastingly gee
whizzling cold, and I did not investigate
any farther -Burdette's Letter TO Bur-
IinQton Hawkeye. .IF .
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SANTA MONICA is this year to be the
fashionable seaside resort of California.
Senator Jones owns it. He bought &c.
600 acres there in 1874 for $3.50, 600, and
has ever since been preparing it for sum-
mer visitors.
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THE United States steamer Plymouth
at Portsmouth is pronounced infected
with yellow-fever germs, and unfit for
service until it is rebuilt,
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JOHN AUGUSTUS ROGERS, q Ken
lucky temperance lecturer, has commit
ted suicide after six weeks of uninter-
rupted intoxication.
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lssJs1sVglLEI Ig0'TEL.
Rushyille. Lewis Co., W. Va.
WIN. L. WHITE, Proprietor

W WI IL W EFFHEt "F''e'"'
The undersigned desires to inform the
public That he has leased the above Hotel,
and has rcluruishcd and rcfttCd the same.
lie oilers the hrst Of accommodations 10 the
travelling pahlic. Good Stablins and
.ct ua the prcuiis' H., hu m,l. Sp::H
arrangements for travellers md 'crm'tcrs.
lie respectfully invites Il raI from his old
friends and travellers.
WM, l.. WHITE.
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IRRIlAL AND DEPARTURE
OF TIE .NIiLS

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NJ. McWnor'er and ID. IL. Swlsher.
Co0i"'s Settlement District.
5. u. smith and W. n. Wilson,
Skin Creeh District!
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C\vc,Nlt Co\,vts.
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Gilmcr, lllh of March md 20sh Sept.
Upshur, 18th Of May and 9TH fDec.
| Preston, 22d Of March and ID October
Randolph, llth CT May aud 23d Nov.
Tucker, 10th Of April nnd Oct. q.
Barbour. April % and November I'd.
Webster, lGth of June and 9Th Sept
Braxton, 18th March and 18th August
Harrison, 30th May and 30th October
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SoV\N1N No\\EtS.
Lewis. First Monday in February.
April, June. August. October and
Dccculbcr-the june and October
terms for fiscal aud police business
only.
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April. June, August, October and
December.
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