The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-04
NEWS AND NOTES.

A Portland (Me.) paper reports that a
few days ago a party OF ahont dozen
boys, ranging from nine tn fifteen years
OF age, while playing on tha Portland
and Ogdensburg road, near the city,
bound one of their number and tied him
on the track just before the train was
due. A man discovered the boy and
released him.
A great innovation in the education
of Eastern women is to be introduced at
Constantinople, where day school is 10
be established for instructing girls in
the useful arts and trades. under the
Sultan's especial patronage, The charges
will be merely nominal. =,
When a Piute doctor loses three sue
cessive cases, the Indians Kill: him and
elect another medicine man il: his stead.
This accounts for the fact that all the
Indian doctors have desertedtheir tribes
and gone to dOctoring the white race.
in doesn't make any difference among
civilized people whether the doctor kills
or cures.
A poet sends contribution entitled
"Why do | Liver This is easy to an
swer. 1t is because he sends his contri-
buttons to this Office instead of bringing
them in Observation-Disclosures.
An Irishman put up the following
notice: "Whoever is caught trespassing
upon these grounds will be given forty
lashes on the bare back. Half the penal
ty will be paid TO the informer."
A correspondent of Cincinnati paper
wants to know if there is more than one
religious denomination that believes in
feet-washing. 1t is sincerely to be hoped
that there is.
A. B. Norton, editor of a paper in Tex
as, when young man made a VOW that he
would never shave or have his hair cut
until Henry Clay was elected President,
and he has kept his vow. His beard lies
away down on his breast and his hair
reaches below his belt, and he carries his
mustache behind his ears. He is said
to resemble an ape in the face.
Nine-tenths of the quarrels in this life
would be averted if we would never take
the doubt against charity. Never accept
an insult. Men who go about looking
for men to kick them are seldom disap-
pointed. Men who accept only the best
interpretations of every act are sure TO
have always the best acts to interpret.
A newspaper in Berlin tells its readers
that hotel is to be built in st. Angus
tine, Fla, this summer that will be
three miles long, six miles deep and
seventy-five stories high. Guests will
be taken to their rooms by 500 balloons;
the tables in the dining will be
four miles in length, and the walters
who serve the meals will be on horse
back. There will be a cuspidor in the
office 100 feet in circumference. The
German doesn't often try to be funny,
but when he does, he means business.
The destination Of every piece Of bag
gage which is carried on an American
railway is recorded in a book, and every
time it changes cars q receipt is taken
by the train baggage-master and sent
back to the terminus. A trunk, which
left, say, Broad street, Philadelphia,
year ago, can be traced by the receipts
there through all the routes and through
whose hands il passed to its destination.
Of the three hundred thousand sent out
from there last year, not a single trunk
was lost.
1t is told that on the day Princess
Beatrice was born, the Prince Consort
went into the nursery, where the royal
children were having a royal good time,
"Mamma sends you message" began
Prince Albert, "She is going TO make
you a beautiful present, and wants 10
know which you would pTefer-a little
brother or a little sister" This was n
domestic conundrum, and the pros and
cons we're getting exciting, when the
young Duke Of Edinburg's face sud-
denly lit up with the JOY Of satisfactory
solution. "Oh, papa," he exclaimed,
"do tell mamma If she had just as soon
we would rather have pony"
The man who has nothing to do is
the most miserable of beings. No mat
ter how much wealth a man possesses,
he can neither be contented nor happy
without occupation. We are born to
labor, and the world is our vineyard.
We can find field for usefulness almost
anywhere, In occupations we forget
our cares, our worldly trials and sor-
rows. 1t keeps us from brooding over
what is inevitable. If we have enough
for ourselves, we can labor for the good
Of others; and such a task is oFs of the
most delightful duties wortSS and
good man can possibly engage in.