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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A pair of slippers-Two cells. Z

| a pair OF SnpperS-iWo eelS. -
| A Greene county (Ga.) child hastwo
tongues. I. .. ..
Recipe for making your own eye
water-Stick your finger in it,
There is enough untitled cotton land
in Texas to supply the world.
Before 1870. there were in Paris thirty
nine clubs. Now there are seventy.
English sparrows have driven the
squirrels from Court square in Memphis.
Vanderbilt will have over S600,00s
worth of pictures in his new Filth ave-
nue. house. ~ ~; ~
Twenty per cent. of the cattle that
run on the Western plains die during
the winter.
The total loss of life among sailors In
British ships from " accidents" In 1875
to 1873 inclusive, is l0,63S.
While thousands of men, women and
children bathe in the Great Salt Lake
yearly, accidents from drowning ars
unknown. & ~ ~
Which is the most home abidinglst-.
ter in the alphabetp w, beeaufett is .
never out of town and always 70 tue
front in work. ~ Z. - -
Much machine-b betting is now made
in California from the entrails OF sheep.y
It is said to be far stronger and mora
durable than that made Of hemp.
Full many gem OF spurious ray serene,
The spotless spirits OF hotel clerks DO bsarf
Full many a simple ignorant tardine
Believes them purest stones OF value nfs'
And that's where they're fooled.
In England there are at present about
1870 generals holding honorary colonel
cies of regiments, costing the country
nearly$l !, loo, 900 q year and doing not one
hours work from year to year for their
pay. -
The little girl who was disappointed
because her name could not be foun9
in the Bible says: "Never mind!e i
will be such q good girl that II eYer
another Bible is written my name snall
60 into it."
The visible supply ofpetrolsum Is the,
largest known in the history OF the !:
600, 600 barrels, and, with production
trade, being estimated at 8. OO0, GOO 20 l0.
largely in excess Of the Consumption, It
e steadily increasing.
~. .frfsestimneeda tttns- there are about
2, ,OoO, 900 beehives in the United States,
each yielding on an average about
twenty-five pounds of honey and
revenue of about $4,000, 900, and, IN
addition. the industrious bees supply us
with "a. 600. 600 pounds ofwax.
On the Susquehanna, near Lancaster
Pa, q woman was seen rowing. accom-
.,anied by two little children: When IN
the middle of the river the boat upset.
While swimming she held the little ones
clinging to her back. It was a desper.
ate situation, and just as she was about
touching the shore, one OF the babies
rolled away and was drowned.
One of the most curious facts about
the census in Columbus, Ohio, is q col.
ored enumerator who, being run over
by the cars several years ago, came out
Of the doctors care with both arms ann
out ated at the shoulder. he learned TO
write legibly by holding his pencil be-:
tween his teeth, and as an enumerator
recorded on an average 200 names day
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CourtshiD for Cash.

4 case that has lately been before me
courts shows with peculiar force the
mistake that men and women make OF
going into courtship on business princl-
ples. The bridegroom thought his
bride was wealthy. The Lady had SINH
lar fancies about her suitor, while a
strong backing by families and friends
was not lacking. Then all parties found
themselves mistaken, and the expectant
couple discovered they did no llove each
other, and the public, which always is
ready to sympathlze with the silliest
pair of genuine lovers, laughed as they
read the story and declared that the
disappointed couple was served exactly
right. There are plenty of such cases
that do not get into the papers, but hey
all end the same way, and there is no
known methoI of avoiding unpleasant
results. After all sham sentiment is
rubbed off of love and marriage the
truth remains that no man and woman
can live happily together unless tina,
mysterious attraction called love exists
and that in life contracts formed upon
any other basis the money that is gainec
by either partner from the other canno
purchase exemption from livelonl
misery.-NeW York Herald.
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Self Helm.

Fight your own battles, asking favoIs
of no one, and you will succeed far
better than those who are ever turning,
first this way and then that, for a little
help. No one can ever help you as you
can help yourself, for no one will have
the interest in your affairs that you, OF
course, feel. The man who pushes on
through thick and thin with unflagglnog
purpose and indomitable courage, IN
nine cases out of ten makes name and
place for himself which people honor
and admire. The old motto, "There is
no such word as fail" should be I'M
pressed upon the young. Life's ways
are rugged and iull Of thorns. and it is
only the brave in heart W no can hope to
battle a way to fame and fortune. he
who waits for others to push him will
find himself passed on the road by those
who push themselves. People who have
b, en- bolstered up all their lives, are like
reeds in an emergency. No one can lean
upon them, and if they cannot find n
prop for themselves, down they 60. and
cannot help themselves up again, but
must wait for some friendly hand to
raise them. These "boosted "people
never accomplish anything in the world.
They are not trusted because they do
not trust themselves. It is of little con.
sequence to the world if they sink or
swim, and even mans best friends
grow tired of helping him over obsta.
cles he ought 10 surmount alone: line
man who learns to conquer clrcum.
stances is independent of fortune, and
will receive more smiles than frowns
from the tickle goddess.
The ambitious and industrious mar
has little patience with, or regard tor
the man content to remain at the bottom
of the ladder all his lite. The man whG
keeps his wagon wheel in the rut all tht
way to town, simply because it is TOT
much trouble to getit out, is apt to az
complish as little good to mankind al
the one who expects to be " boosted
along through life. Both belong to tn
same family, and merit pity rather thai
| ranrnaoh. ,..-s sss-r
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"That you hated Mr.. Arle. On. l
don't bear you any grudge. I am very
glad you did not know to whom you
were speaking, for, had you known, l
should not probably have learned what
my agent was about. l did not even
know that the mortgage was due; or, II
he told me of it, had forgotten it. But
it is all right now, and there is no rea-
son whatever that you should marry the
SQUIRE" with a merry laugh:
Then he went away, and left Katie,
with a radiant face and a very light
heart, standing by the gate:
When the squire came the next day
for his answer, he received it from Katie
herself, and it was very decidedly in the
negative. -,
Disappointed and chagrined, the
elderly lover went home to pour the
story of his sorrows into the ears of his
guest, George Arle, who sincerely ad-
vised him to transfer his affections from
the childish Katie to the practical Han
nah, who was in every way fitted to rule
his house with judgment and economy.
The squire's thoughts were driven
into a new channel, and ne was not
slow to see the soundness cI the advice
offered him.
The result was that three months had
scarcely elapsed before Hannah was IN
stalled mistress of the Davis household,
she having no scruples on the score OF
her admirers advanced years.
The three months had not proved
uneventful to Katie, who received calls
from George Arle whenever he could
spare day from his business in the
city. Standing together one evening IN
late October under the old apple tree
by the gate, the young man suddenly
took in his both the small brown hands
of his blushing companion.
Katie" he said, trying to look into
the blue eyes which were perslstentiy
averted, "tell me, dearest, do you still
hate that MIR. Arlep"
There was no answer, and George
raised with one hand the dimpled chin
until he could at last see into the shy
blue eyes. What answer to this ques-
ton he read there, he could best tell;
but it must have been the one he
wanted, for soon after there was aquiet
wedding in the village church where
Katie had worshiped since her child
hood, and the blushing girl became the
wife of him she had once mistaken for
the souire's hired man. She thought it
q blessed mistake now.
Before they left the village George
Arle placed in his brides hands deed
of the old farm, with the remark:
"Give it to your mother, Katie. 1t
will be a gift which cannot fail to re-,
mind her pleasantly of the little girl
who persuaded the squire's hired man
to help her chase the rooster, and in so
doing sealed her fate forever. That old
gray rooster little knew how he would
help us to q lite together by running
INTO that tclover-feld-bless him!"
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Artificial Ice.

& The artificial manufacture Of ice was
begun at Augusta, Georgia, in June last,
.by q process which experience has
proved to be both efficient and eco
nomical. This process is replete with
interesting details, but may be described
in general terms as follows:
In the first place, the water for max
ing the ice is obtained from we'll over
forty feet deep, and is pumped up by q
large pump into cooler. here Inc
water is cooled by means OF pipes run.
ming through the cooler, greatly reduced
in temperature, and after filtration, IS
conducted down into cans thirty inches
long and twelve square. These cans,
48O in number, all fit into a large tank,
through which pipes containing freezing
mixture run. This freezing mixture is
composed chiefly Of ammonia, and ls
prepared in peculiar retorts by q special
process. The mixture which rms
through these pipes, and renders them
so intensely cold as to freeze the water
in close proximity, does not come IN
contact with the water, and cannot 90
o. The pipes are tight and durable
and the Joints are strongly made, with
q peculiar patent, preventing the escape
of gas ut all. After the water In the
cans is frozen, these cans are lifted out
and allowed to stand on end for ten
minutes, when they are slowly With
drawn, leaving each one a pure, solid
block of ice of twelve pounds.
Besides the company controlling the
above process, and which acted as
valuable conservator to the trade last
year, Augusta has another concern en-
gagged in artificial ice manufacture,
which is turning out the crystal blocks
at the rate of twelve tons per day
Therefore the people Of that city are not
assailed with fears regarding an Ice
famine, and the cry of the ice man has
no dominion over them.
At other points South, notably New
Orleans, the manufacture OF Knock
ice" has received considerable attention,
and q certain brewery in the Crescent
CITY has recently introduced novel ap-
paratus for the manufacture of ice water,
which comprehcnds he essential prin-
ciples of ice-making machinery, Inc
tank in which the water is cooled con-
tains 5000 feet of one-inch pipe, IN
which pure ammonical gas, CONDENSED
by compression into q liquid, IS admit
ted. The latent heat in the water
transforms it into vapor, when 1t aD-
serbs the heat in the water, and is drawn
from the pipes by pumps, and is again
compressed into the condensing pipes
From the condensing pipes it is again
admitted into the pipes in the cooling
tank; where it again becomes a vapor,
and absorbs the latent heat un'il the
water is reduced to thirty three or thlr'
ty-four degrees Fahrenheit. One hun
dred and twenty-six pounds of ammoni-
cal gas is used in charging the apparatus
and this amount will last indefinitely
But there is especial congratulation in
the fact that Northern cities, as well Us
their Southern sisters, are a!itating the
question of artificial ice. Philadelphia
and San Francisco have already beer
moving in this direction, and an ice
making machine is being operated il
New York, with very successful result
it is claimed. Commercial Bulletin.
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A Philadelphian of patient and plod-
ding turn of mind has accomplished the
wonderful feat of writing on two postal
cards the entire Book Of Esther, the en-
tire Book of Jonah and the 23ls Psalm.
On the surface of these two cards ne has
managed to place, in clear. well-formed
letters, although almost microscopic IN
size, no less than 7,ll4 words, composed
of "a. 300 letters.
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There was an exciting wolf chase a
short time ago in Godfrey township
Illinois. The animals had become 30
bold that they appeared in the nelghbor-
hood of farmhouses in packs Of from six
to ten. The boys got together and
started the hunt, which resulted In the
killing of several and the capture of a
large gray wolf.
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Patrick Kearney, the Oregon pioneer,
who in 1862 threw. into the sea bag Of
gold, the earnings of many wears, to
Rescue little girl from drowning, is
now at tie Skaget mines, still bardsat
work He says that he doesn't regret
| The los 81 Che gold 81 q 4 S. =
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The three children of George Comp
ton, aged respectively ten, twelve and
fifteen years, were dro wned on a Sunday
seyeping nenr Shel!.yvi!le, Ill: Mrs.
Compton died from injuries received IN
7jersilugg @ to save the children.
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S763,O9S,575

By this showing of the census the agri-
cultural is twelve times all the other
liked capital. But as the stores and
houses and other means Of commerce
are not given, we may rest on the estl'
mate Of J. W. Johnstone, that nine.
tenths of the fixed capital OF all civilized
countries is in agriculture.
Comparative value of products:
den included| So, ,S25, ,S7e, ,36l
Agriculture (by itseli) ....... 2,447 1928, ,65S
Manufactures :. 81 ,0l6, ,l7S,43l
Mining. ....... 152 2,59S,994
Fisheries ...... l,642,276
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man at Locust Grove, KY, has had
ll,s coffin in his room for twenty years.
but is still a robust man. IS
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These figures suggest, rather than
dequately convey, the present resources
of this country from an agricultural
point of view, and they indicate the in
mense Importance and growing influence
Of our farming ass.-ChrtSttan Union.
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The l50Ih anniversary OF the iounolng
of Baltimore will be celebrated IN That
CITY next DCtober.
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Cider is made in Texas from toma-
toes, and sells at 81 .25 per gallon.
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Help.
The world Is full Of labor,
It tolls in weariness;

The world Is full Of labor, ~
1t tolls in weariness;
You cannot bear its burden, y
But you can make it Less.
A little child Is trying
To lift q heavy load;
Go help the helpless toiler
Along the weary road.
A poor old friendless woman i
Is tottering on alone; -
Her trembling strength has Jailed her,
Go offer her your own. :
Though little be the action,
Its heart the Lord shall see,
And His shall be the witness !
eye did it unto Me-" -
Charles r. Rfehardion.
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Comparative number Of persons en-
ployed: By the census of 1870 the popu-
iation was %, ,226,945. Employed in all
occupations mem, 10, sos, 1923. Ofthese
5,922, All were employed in agriculture;
6,5s3,45 in all other employments.
Other employments: 1854, ,793, profess
sional and personal; l,l9l, ,238, trade
and transportation; l,707, 42t, manutac.
lures, mechanics and mining; 20,5A
fisheries.
Comparative value of fixed capital:
Farms and tools, etc........ SO, ,60O, ,OOO, ,eO0
Manufactures . :. 1888, ,244,o5
Mining ........... 222,3S4,S54
Fisheries ........ 7,469,575
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Average size of the majority:

The rate of increase has been about
100000 every ten years; hence the estl-
male for 1880,
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The Medical Times anil Gazette men
lions the case of young man who,
while travelling from Paris to Lyons, lit
match by scratching it with his
thumb nail, and a piece of the incandeS-
cent phosphorus penetrated under the
nail and made q slight burn, to which
he paid no attention. But after an hour
the pain became intense, the thumb
swelled, then the hand, and next the
forearm. He was Obliged to alight at
a station on the journey and send for u
medical man, who declared that imme
diate amputatlon of the arm was neces-
sary. The patient insisted on postpon..
irg the operation for few hours until
the arrival of his father, for whom he
had telegraphed. Before the latter,
however, could reach his son, 1t was
too late; the poisonous matter had
gained the arm, then the shou lder, and
any operation became impos sible. He
died in great agony in only twenty
seven hours after the burn. The case
shows the danger of handling phos'
phorus in the manner described.
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Last January a California fruit dealer
took 200 fresh lemons fresh from the
tree and buried them in the gr. und, to
see how they would keep. Four months
after he dug them up and found hem in
perfect preservation, as sound and fresh
and nice as the day they were buried.
Every one knows how potatoes keep
when properly covered by earth
Apples would doubtless do equally well;
and possibly the same method may an
swer for grapes and other more perisha-
bic fruit. 1t would not cost much to
try a few experiments in this direction,
and success could not fail to be advan.
tageOus.
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-07-01
lPafty's swarm.

OSE day Patty ran into the house
with her yellow hair a~tumb!e. and her
blue eyes sparkling with excitement.
"Moiher. % mother e she crie,l. her
little brown hands ~iu;isring ike the
wings Il a bird The bees are
swarming."
Sur r asked her mother. doubt
fully. For. you see. Pats uasthe lels,
bit in the world ike the bog in the IA
bic who cried. Wolf. wolf whom
there was NJ wo,f Not that she msrri
10 be. bat " many tess would fiy aboss.
making suei 4 buzzing in the xarm
spring sunshine. tina; Patty va. often
quite certain that they xers sxarminy
~whenthey hadn't any id@a of II.
And that - ghy Psttys mother
askedber. in tha,dO1b'fuI 1ay. ..SnreT'
Yesm- said Patty. msexly.
Her mother ssepprd u the door.
True enough. there wAs roar Ike tina,
Of 4 YER small wa'er-fali in I'll. ar. and
out over the bee-hiyes aoa;ed q little
black cloui.
II do believe ihey are" she sad.
But ihey re no. al "a yet. yse-..
and will no; begin ~ light Tor Some lit
tie time Run doxn - Sir. JessJps.
Patty. and tell your fsther--no. Ill 90
with q smile -remsmbsrny that Pat.
- had gore for her fa;hsr once before
when the bees we're u, swarming after
az.
May - cut and watch EN-. moth
err asked Patty. dancing hess and Zoe
On the white kitchen for.
Yes; put On Aun, Nabby's shaker
and dOn't 20 too near"
% Patty got MO Aun. Nabby's biz
-haker-bonnet. which an. az much too
izrge that You could no; see her Little
round face, unless. feeling quite sure I,
xas there you stopped and peersi in:
and the brown calico cape alma-,
reached the hem Of her shorf skirsL
Then Patty sent olt into the garden
I'd sal down on 4 COX by tae cucumber
ed
She watched the dancing biack
'Sarnl until her eyes grew heavy. The
TN slions brightly. tie wes, wind bI.~
zSG8' her warm and sof. and ~frazran,
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Personal AND IITrRART.

Az aimir,r II Mr HaNlcy seat ham a
check ~rrcvntly tor tI.t.st
NKs. Dl,k i. giV,ng some household
talks ~ Portland, Ne. before delegated
audiences
GLS.RlL Lsw WALLACE - said -
te wiring a novel having lis s-vur md
IN Damascus
SEuu T. TIosAs. oi T~homs.'"n,
Conn. N. isfuoa. C~lockmAkrr. has
gwen sl.SU fos = free l5rAr at that
place.
BKsr ii,KgE i, /; : reported. much
Iiou!1ei AZ the guest oi Lord Granville.
the Duke Of - AlnaHs And MI
truude.
GrugDE WILLIAM CVEris spends hs
Al Ashhcld. Ma whvrv he
owns \ hnc mansion and does much IL
crary work.
Miss ALCoTr entertained ~ Concord
the other dsy all the women stu tents
q; Boston University aud sc,craioi The
professors.
Nix. EDWIN Arnold. the autnor of
'rThe Light If Asia. D., the s~sH-Iu-law
of the Re, W. II Claiming. the ncPh-
ew Of DT. tnanu!ng
Raw. UKJII GgAyEs. ot Baltimore.
has been lecturing ON Marriage, or.
Cause and Cure OF taiaily Brosi'. n
subject that One home 10 cNert house
hold.
JENNIE JuNS doe, Ter own house
work. and she does i; lu,t a, = ,idy lit
tie woman should She !, born lady.
and the shoidy business never affected
her.
IT is credibly reported that Charles
Reade. the novelist and drtma,ist. has
been converted aui vail conueCt HIM
self with a nou-confurmi,t body. AMI
that this change will affect the lJnc Of
his future literary activity
Jo>EPu SELI.MAN. the New York
banker. left "A will which give, $3.50
tn Il society for Ethical Ia tlrr. aud his
executors are instructed Ia di-irhutc
$3.50 among such charitsbl". hca"ro-
lent and educational Institutions a. they
shall think best. without rCgad iu
creed. race or religion.
ZoLA. the novelist. lives like 70 Brnc-
dictinc. locked into hi >.ui, aud never
appearing in public. lis mode 81 worS
i a very stranSr one. u consists IA
taking masses of notcs IN the class If
society be wishes /, paint then when
his notes are put together. he ,oul-
poses his novel. page by pt.c. never
casting his eve over the back pages.
and thus writ n. about i've a day with
the utmost care.
ApoLrHE D'ENNER1 i. a m%illiOuair.
and the richest French p'aywH,ht now
LIVING. though Sardou and Dumas ne
AN hardly he termed pIupcrS. Bc,iic-
his house in Paris and is country = nee
NJ Antilles. he owns con i'crahc prop
crty in Paris. and has beef lucky IN all
his spccula,ions. His last gr"tir>t
triumph. Les DcUN Orphcl nc,."
brought him in something m"nstrous.
and II is universally TcETct'el that he
has of late abandoned the wiring ot
dramas. i'm which he c~Nccls. and de-
voted his time 10 the writ NJ Of hbIctti
for nnpras
The Red Cloud chief., 1880-07-01
MAIDEN AND WHATHERCOCE.
NAIHEN

NAIDEv.
Wv EATHERrofH. Oh the village spirc.
win Nonr colder. ie Ithcrs all on fire,
lea me, ~hat can you see from your perch
Above tho-e, over the tower oil the church..
wEsTHERCoCK.
j can sec the roofs. and the srrcet- below.
And The people moving to aud fro:
And beyond. without either roof or street,
The great sa Z sea aud the Il rrman fleet.
! can see a ship come sailing in
Beyond the h.=ldiands and harlor Of Gynp.
Ard a Young man standing un tho 10 4,
W nth a si!ksn kcrchicf round bis mock.
Now he is pressing II IA his lips,
And row he is kissing his fingrrtips:
And now he - lifting and waving his hand,
And blowing the kisses toward the land.
Walden.
Al thai Is the ship from over the sca
That l. bringing my lover back to me!
BrinRing my lover - fond and true,
VINO does not change with The wind, like you
~wEATHERCocK.
II i change with all the winds that blow,
IL l. only because they made IN -:
And people wouid think IL wonirUu- sirang,
III i, n Wcaihcrcpck, should not change.
% pretty Maiden, 50 fine and fair.
With your dreamy eyes and your golden hair
" hen you and your lover meet to-day,
You viii thank me Tor looking some othcI
wa.
III. ~. LoBgfclIJ,c. ia rouih's C~omIanion.
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