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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-12-20
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Wendell Phillips always puts Q
nickle into the organ-grinder's hat.
Patti has S3OO,OOO worth of dia-
monds. all of them given to her.-M.
Y. Sun.
John Mccarthy has lived for ninety
years in Muncy, Pa, where he was
6orn.--Ptttsburgh Post.
--Swinburnc, the poet, will read his
poems in this country at "a dollar a
read. "-CGcGgo Hcrdid.
Henry Ward Beecher says that his
recent trip West and South has made
him feel n years younger BROOKLYN
Eagle.
1t is related by John Il. Cough,
the lecturer, that when a boy, alone.
friendleSs and penniless in New York,
he sold his knife to buy postal
and letter paper with which to write to
his parents.
Miss Rebecca Boone, who died re-
Gently in Norristown, Pa. aged eighty
eight, was cousin of Abraham Lin
coin, and the daughter of a cous' n Of
the famous Daniel Boone, of Ken
tucky.
The first religious newspaper pub
lished in this country was called the
RcljgtOus Remembrdncer, and the first
number was issued September 4, 1918,
by John w. Scott, of Philadelphia, and
was Presbyterian in sentiment.
The wife of w. II. H. Murray has
returned from Europe with a diploma
from the Vienna Medical College both
as Il physician and surgeon. being. her
friends say, the only woman in the coun-
try with this certificate. ..-BoSt0H Post.
Mr.. p. T. Barnum, the great show
man. lectured before the students of the
Bridgeport (Conn.) Business College re-
Gently, and declared that it was the last
lecture he would ever deliver, as he was
feeling he reed of quiet in the declining
years Of his life. c.-HaHjord Post.
An enthusiastic contemporary SAYS
Mrs. CORVALLIS West has a rich com
pleXion, a fine suit of ripping brown
hair, Irish eyes, small stature and adj
mirable figure. She dresses startlingly.
rides dashingly, talks entertainngly, and
loves practical joke. Gosh!-N \.
Graphic.
- Cordelia StOker, of Southern Utah,
attained her hundredth year a few days
ago. She belonged to the Methodist
Church until her ninety-tifth year, when
she embraced Mormonism. She greeted
fifty grandchildren on this occasion.
She has 214 descendants in Utah.-Uen-
rer ITibune
Mr.. NJ. f. Bell, the new Supervising
Architect of the United States Treasury
Department. was torn in chester COun-
ty, Pa, and now lives, with his wife
ard five children. in modest style, in
peS MoiueS. In. He is 4 boyish-looking
man, of quiet manners. and is an active
member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. - ChicoqO Jouyndi.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-12-20
BROOKIIAVEN MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY. DECEMBER

most familiar of American figures. The
engineer of the Virginia wilderness, the
leader of the Revolution, the President,
the man, are known to all men; they
are everywhere beheld and revered.
But here, at last, upon the scene of the
crowning event of his life and OF his
country's life-herc, in the throbbing
heart of the great city. where il will be
daily seen by countless thousa nds-here,
in the presence of the President of the
United States, of the Governor of New
York, of the official authorities of
other States, of the organized body
of New York merchants who, as in
other years, have led the city in so
many patriotic deeds upon this spot
lead now in this cOmmemoration of the
greatest and, finally, of this vast and
approving cOncourse of American citi-
zcns, we raise this calm and admonish-
ing form. Its majestic repJse shall
charm and Subdue the multitudinous
life that heayes and murmurs around it,
and as the moon draws the swaying
tides of ocean its lofty serenity shall lift
the hurrying crowd TO unsellish thoughts,
to generous patriotism, to a nobler life.
Here descended upon our fathers the
bcnediction of the personal presence of
Washington. Here may the moral
grandeur of his character and his life
inspire our children $ children forever!"
At the close of Mr.. Curtis Grafton the
vast assemblage united in singing:
praise God from Whom All Blessings
Flow"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-12-20
Temperance Items.

Lulu MOREHOUSE, ten years ago one
Of the prettest, most accomplished and
most popular young ladies of South
NOrwalk, Conn, went to ruin from a love
she gained for intoxicating liquor, and
died few nights ago at cheap hotel
at New Haven from her debauches.
TIE sALOoNIST insists on making
drunkardS by law, and then tells us that
we cant make men temperate by
law" We are going to continue this
war on rum till all are convinced that it
is rs practicable to close a drunkery by
law as to open it. And when we stop
the cause, the effects will cease.-Ohi0
Good Iempiar.
THE prohibition question has been
brought promptly to the front by the
Ohio election, and it will not easily be
showed again into the background. The
moral sentiment of the country inclines
strongly to prohibition, while the min
istry as body is the stay and buttress
of the movement in every considerable
campaign made on that issue. -PhtLa-
delphia Press.
THE Scientific american narrates the
following incident, upon which COM
ment is unnecessary. 1t carries its own
moral I'm one of our New England
cities few days ago three wretched
trampS were brought before the Police
Court as vagrants, having been found
in an intoxicated condition in barn
where they had slept the previous night.
On examination it was found that each
one had been former resident of the
city and was well known. One of them
! ho1 hnnY, 80 NHO
perintendent of the foundry department
of an extensive and widely-known man
ufacturing establishment, receiving
salary of $4,000, and having a pleasant
home occupied by wife and children,
and being a man once esteemed and re-
spected by all who knew him. The two
others had been workmen under him,
whom he had discharged for neglect OF
their work for drink, and he himself
was finally dismissed for the same
fault"
A LARGE NUMBER of citizens desire,
and many are determined to restrict the
management and sale of intoxicants.
Tens of thousands of intelligent women
have reached settled conclusion to re-
duce the traffic and its results to the
most narrow limits possible. The army
of such opponents of a most injurious
business is steadily and rapidly increas-
ing. The conviction is becoming more
general among men of every shade of
religious belief and political opinion
that the most prolific source of poverty,
idiocy and insanity ought to be under
the utmost restraint; that the needless
and unjust imposition upon the whole
community of the cost of the pauper-
ism. crime and mental disorder pro-
duced by indulgence in Intoxicating
drinks ought to be and must be reduced
to The smallest possible amount. The
greatly-increased attention given to the
cause of Temperance and to legislation
in its favor in Great Britain has added
to the numbers and strengthened the
resolution of the Temperance host in the
United States, = Gristian Igteitigegeer;
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-12-20
HUMOROUS.

An honorable vice-A Vice -Presi-
dcnt-N y. Commercial AdrcrtiScr.
The little ones are the most highly
gifted people about Christmas time.
What relation does the doorstep
bear to the door mat? It's n step
ather.-DetI'0H Fost
"A Batavia On " man dislocated
his Jaw by yawning. The ladies in the
neghborhood were in, talking bonnet
to his wife, and the man got tired.
A German dermatologist says that
badness is catching. Yes, gentlemen
with bald pateS complain that they catch
it from all quarters.-BoSton Transcript
When is door not door? When
it is jar Oh, o;that answer belongs
to the first decade of the last century.
Nowadays door is not door when it
is a negress- an egress. The Jtdge.
-''Why Is a young lady's age, after
she reaches twenty-five, like a floral
wedding bell?' asks an outsider. And
he saws it is ''because it is never tol d."
but that is libel. el.-NOrristOUn Herald.
Somewhat to himself: ''Can you
tell me-" asked Cortland man of his
tailor, how you came to get this coat so
tight?" "Oh, YES, sir. The fact is,
you were tight when l measured YOU. y
-Marath0n Indepcndem
=" Johnnie, did any one have the
Group in your house last nightp"
Dunno! What made you AK me?"
"Well, saw light in the house long
after midnight" :" "Oh! that's my
sister! She has something down in the
parlor awful late every night, but l
don't know whether it is the Group or
not. - YOnker'S Gazette.
An observer says: always stand a
wet umbrella with the handle down;
one trial will convince you of the rapid
itv with which it will drain, and your
umbrella will last longer if dried quick
lv' We tried that once-tried it in a
barber shop. We are fully convinced
of the rapidity with which it will drain,
and if the present possessor will kindly
advise us how it is lasting We will
speak at more length of the test.-Ihe
Tudge.
The other day a gentleman arriv-
ING in Paris at the Lyons Railway Sta
ton got into cab and told the driver to
take him to the Rue Milton. After a GER
tain time the cab arrived at the Rue
Lord Byron. .'What is the number?"
asked the coachman. The gentleman
put his head out of the cab window and
said: "Why, this is not the Rue
Milton!" ''Ah!" said the coachman
after a slight pause, that's true; I've
made mistake in the poets!"-Le
Clarion.
How Reporter Lost His Grip-A
Dull sickening Thud once Entered a
newspaper Office and Complained to
the Managing editor that he Had been
Badly Treated. "And how SOP" in
quired the Editor. ''In your account
of last Fridays hanging" explained
the Aggrieved Thud. ''your Reporter
made no Reference to me, Although i
was with the Doomed Felon when he
Fell" "Your Complaint is a reason
aole one," Quoth the Editor, and he
Discharged the reporter Forthwith
Chicago Ners.
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NUMBER A.
IF1THER. BEWARE!

o, let that glass alone. father,
Or else. before you dhnk.
Pause for n single moment
just pause awhile and think:
To those who fOidly love you.
To thOsc VINO bCaF your name,
You are bringing pain anl sorrow.
And cursing them with shame.
O, let that glass a'onc, father.
One moment stay your hand;
Consider, till its contents
You clearly und nd"rstanl;
LOOK at the liquid fire,
And by its ulster learn
How deadly and how c ucl
Its fatal furics burn.
o, Let that glass alone. father.
Turn for a little while,
Look on its helpless victims
The mothcr and her chill d;
The wife whom you have promised
To cher sh aud to love,
And thar pure little being
Fresh from the Hand above.
q. let that 9lass a'Cnc. fatherI
Think not, as others do.
Thai tha' which ruins IN lions
Contains no harm for you:
But know that he who ga hers
\ s'rpent TO his breast
Will learn the cruel nature
OF his unholy guest
Mss Sarah {. King, in MOni'Or-JOtTRIl.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-12-20

In the New York Court of General
Sessions Judge Cowing was addressing
the jury on larceny case, when a
mouse crawled up his trousers leg and
caused the Court to rise from the bench
with more haste than dignity. The
mouse then made precipitate retreat,
and, after several court officials had
chased him. the little fellow was killed
by daring reporter.-M. Y. Tribune.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-12-20
ONE CHRISTMAS MORN.

1t was twenty years ago, and yet when
Tor moment as if some one had stabbed
me.
was guilty without crime. Doing
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-12-20

Among the assisted immigrants
who reached Castle Garden recently
was a three-year-old gentleman from
Ireland, named Slattery. None of his
kith or kin were with him. He will
grow up with the country. Y. Her
I'D
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-12-20

William Hughes affirmed as he
was dying in Philadelphia that he stols
a street car cash box. for which Will
lam Willoughby bad served four years
ip prison. -RhliGdetBhia Press,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-12-20

The Cleveland Anti-Mormon League
mas branches in Missouri, Indiana, Ore
gon and Colorado. Cleveland Leader.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-12-20

Marriage and death notices, not exceeding
six lines prblished free. All over six lines
will be charged for at regular advertising
rates.
sSrNn advertisements due when inserted,
unless otherwise agreed upon.-gg
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22
Eggs as Food.

Eggs, at average prices, are among
the cheapest and most nutritious arti-
cles of diet Like milk, an egg is a
complete food III itself, containing
everything necess Try for the develop
ment of perfect animal, as is mani
tested from the fact that chick is
formed from it. 1t seems mystery
how muscles, bones, feathers and every
thing that chicken requires for its
perfect development are made from the
white and yelk of an egg but such is
the fact, and it shows how complete q
food an egg is. 1t is also easily di-
gested if not damaged i'll cooking. In
deed, there is no more concentrated
and nourishing food than eggs. The
albumen, oil and saline matter are, as
in milk, in the right proportion for sus-
tanning animal life. Two or three
boiled eggs, with the addition of slice
or two of toast will make a breakfast
sufficient for man, and good enough
for n King.
According to DIR. Edward Smith, in
his treatise on Food" an egg weigh
ing an ounce and three-quarters con-
tains 120 grains of carbon and ia
grains of nitrogen, or 1925 per cent.
of carbon and per cent. of nitrogen.
The value of one pound of egg as food
for sustaining the active forces of the
the body, is to the value of one pound
of lean beef as 1874 to 500. As flesh
producer, one pound of egg is about
equal TO one pound of beef.
A hen may be calculated to consume
one bushel of corn yearly, and to lay
ten dozen or fifteen pounds of. eggs.
This is equivalent to saying that three
and one-tenth pounds of corn will pro-
duce, when fed to hen, five-sixths of
pound of eggs; but five-sixths of a
pound of pork require about five
pounds of corn for its production.
Taking into account the nutriment in
each and the comparative prices of the
two ON an average, the pork is about
three times rs costly food as the eggs
while it is certainly less healthful.-
Boston journal of ChemiStlU.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22
A Rabbit with Snow Shoes On.

The snowshoe rabbit is small ami
NAL that has exceedingly-large hind
feet, the toes of which are covered with
long, fine hair. This peculiar forma-
ton enables the creature to travel, in
search of food over the lghtest snow
without sinking. The snowshoe rabbits
are little smaller than the cotton-tail
rabbits of the Eastern States. They
are excellent eating, after you have lived
on rusty bacon for few weeks. | know
of no more deceptive tracks than these
animals make. Judging from the size
the animal should weigh at least thirty
pounds. 1t really weighs about two
Ne1U York Sum.
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showed so much skill that she was called
in to treat the great Minister. From all
parts of North China letters from the
wives OF Mandarins and high officials
are pouring in on her entreating her to
come to them or to send other wise
women from America" Eastern women
of rank die with obscure diseases rather
than submit to operations performed
by male surgeons. An american ply
stefan who spent some time in Turkey
was called in to prescribe for the wife
of the Bey ill with typhoid fever. The
patient was wholly covered with sheet
in which one hole was cut large enough
for him to put his fingers in to feel her
pulse, and another through which she
thrust her tongue.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22
PRISONS AND THINGS.

The Prince of Wales will be ~ years old in
November.
IoE-wATER is sold on Boston streets at
cent glass
A PETERsBURGVa.) young lady was poisoned
by eating ice-cream.
ALEXANDER MITCHELL. of Milwaukee, is
said to be the richest man in America
BURDETTE saws that an Ohio man has his
eye on the probable Victoria vacancy
PAUL DU CHAuLU is so thoroughly tanned
that he looks like a bronzed bust of himself.
MoDJEsKAs husband, the Count Bozenta,
took out his first naturalization papers in
San francisco last week.
The mortal remains Of s. T. Coleridge are
entombed i'm the crypt of Highgate Church,
in London, which crypt is used as a tool
house.
THE Francklyn Cottage at Long Branch, in
which Garfield died, is now occupied by the
owner, who has just completed at)ur round
the world
DAvY CROCKETT and Sam Houston are to be
immortalized in marble by Mr.. OBrien, the
sculptor of Baltimore. The orders for these
busts comes from Texas
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22
BIRTHDAYS Of Our Truly Great.

As nation we pay very little atten-
ton to the birthdays of our rulers and
great men. / say rulers and great
men, because the terms are not synony-
nous. oh, no. There are some Gov
errors in this broad land who would
not be great though they lived thou
sand years and weighed a ton. There
are some members of Congress who
could not tell vaccination scar from a
birth-maril And there are members
of the Legislature who are not positive
just when they were born. Hence,
with US the day of the statesman's birth
is of little Importance, and in how many
instances is it true that the day of the
politicians death is better for his coun-
try than the day of his birth. oh,
vastly better.-R. J. Burdette, ia Phil
adeiphia Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22
INTERESTING.

AU YANG MING, the new Chinese Consul in
New York, spends several hours a day over
his English grammar. He is rapidly master
ing the LANG mage and In confident that with
in SIX months he will be able to converse fiu-
emily
NEW YORK has nine widows none OF whom
has q fortune of less than a million To
rarticularize, tour are young les than
30-and are pretty, three are in Europe at
the present time, and one is engaged to be
married once again.
A GENTLEMAN who recently visited Ex-Gov.
Hendricks nj his home In Indianapolis
found him amusing himself with white pet
mouse He made the acquaintance of the
little creature during his recent Illness and
a strong friendship has sprung up between
them.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22

CARRIE FEM, young woman of
New Haven, recovered from spinal
disease some time ago, is unable to re-
call the names of familiar objects or to
play the simplest music, though she
had been a skillful organist. Having
still her love for music, she has been
relcarning the notes and practicing the
scales. Suddenly, the other afternoon,
while drumming clumsily at the piano,
like any beginner, her musical memory
returned, and she astonished and de-
lighted her family 10y playing her most
difficult pieces.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22

FLORENCE MARRYAT says that when
Dickens was writing David Copper
field" and at time when its publica-
ton in a serial form was about half
completed, an American firm procured
somebody to write conclusion, and
thus put bogus book on the market.
This version of the story married David
to Agnes rather abruptly. Dickens had
intended the same thing, but when the
news of this audacious piracy reached
him he forthwith introduced Dora and
made her David's wife with as little
delay as possible.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22

BoSToN possesses a tobacconist who
has conceived plan for the Wholesale
killing off of wealthy idlers. He says ::
did you ever see n workingman smok-
ing cigarette? Of course not. Cigar
cites are smoked exclusively by wealthy
chaps. Now, don't mind telling you
outright what it was that | limited Mt.
I'm cigarette hand. | work in q fac
tory were 800, 900 cigarettes are rolled
every day More than twenty men
among us are Socialists. What would
be easier than for us to put a deadly
poison into whole days batch of to-
bacco? Then away would go thousands
upon thousands of our oppressors at a
puff. Here and there good enough
man would fall, but the great majority
would he the kind that hurt us, and the
kind that the world would be happily
rid of. When the time comes to bring
about anarchy-and mighty soon that
may be, | can tell you-we've got it in
our power to destroy multitudes of the
non-producing classes by just making
them smoke themselves to death. 1t is
perfectly simple and feasible We
know a poison one Whit of which would
be deadly"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22

Two ST. LOUIS teachers, arraigned
for assault and battery, having fiogged
a couple of boys, were discharged by
the Judge with a commentator for
their act. He stated that in several
years experience on the criminal bench
he had found that the boys who become
criminals are the boys who do not get
whipped, and, as a large percentage of
the holder crimes known to the law are
committed by youths ranging in age
from IA to 20 years, he believed it was
better to whip first instead of imprison-
ment afteward.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22

A GENTLEMAN in Cleveland has con-
ceived the idea of establishing bank
which will loan small sums of money at
a moderate rate of interest, and thus
do away with pawn-shops. "The idea
is, he says, "to receive pledges, which
the borrower may redeem at an amount
of interest not to exceed 2 per cent. per
month. In some cases we would only
take l per cent, and sometimes, if the
case should warrant it, we would make
the loan a benevolent one, and take no
interest whatever In some instances
we would take the ordinary per cent
per annum interest We would, of
course, use our judgment in these mat
tiers; but our invariable rule will be
never to charge any more than 2 per
cent. per month. Another great bene-
fit to the poor is our determination to
balance our books at the close of every
year, and if we find that our profits ex-
coed per cent. per annum, we intend
TO invest the excess il coal and dis
tribute it among the worthy poor of the
city"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22

One Chinaman bet another that he
could swim back and forth across the
Sacramento river quicker than he
could. 1t was cold bath, and when
they reached the other side one of them
went into shanty and warmed him
self, but the other started back. On
his way he was taken with a cramp and
drowned, amidst the cheers of those
betting against him.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22

PROF. PARK, of Andover Theological
Seminary, intends obtaining the opin
ion of the Judges of the Supreme Court
of Massachusetts upon the question
whether the new theology" shall be
permitted to be taught in the seminary.
According to the professor, the founders
of the institution established for it a
creed which, like the laws of the Modes
and Persians. cannot be altered, the
four cardinal points in it being the
trustworthiness of the Bible in matters
of religion and morality the total de-
pravity of man in his natural state, the
efficacy of Christ's atonement, and the
doctrine that probation ends with this
life.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22

NEAR st. Jerome, Quebec, 1000
acres of land have been purchased for
the purpose of educating orphan boys
in farming operations. An ecclesiastic-
al order of Frenchmen will supervise
the work.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-22

The Channel tunnel project has been
treated to new figures. 1t can be
built in ten years, thirty miles from
England to France, for 10000, 900,
with an arrangement costing only so,
900, by which the danger of French
army's oozing up on English soil and
Staying the British lion, can be averted.
1t would accommodate two railroad
tracks, and the patronage would need
to be 1000 passengers a day at $1.5O
each, and 54S tons of merchandise, to
insure So, 10000 year, which would
pay per cent. after allowing 40 per
cent. of gross earnings for running ex-
penses