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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-29
ATLANTA constitutional

1--WE had better understand each 9th.
er," he said deprecatingly,a s he shambled
into the editorial room, before we be
gin. I'm a book-agentl"
Unmindful of the groans that met this
statement he went on:
"Pn not q white-haired philanthropist
from New Haven, who has come South
through sympathy for your stricken peo-
pie. Tn a fair, square, bald headed book.
agent"
Encouraged by the reception of this
frank avowal he took a seat, aud drop
ping his feet in a waste basket, said:
I'm not a retired clergyman who seeks
to scatter religious instruction while he
builds up his worn out frame in your
balmy cline. I'm not an apostle of art
who has consented to seek your benighted
region. and educate your people by part
ing with a few picture books in parts.
I'm not a temperance lecturer from Pan
gor who pays expenses by dispensing of
literature on commission while he regen-
crates the rum-sucker. I'm not all Of
these-nor either. I'm an u~nmodifed
book agent, with none of the corners
rounded, running on cheek in pursuit of
tin"
Here's candor at least" remarked the
young man who writes the puffs of hard.
ware stores.
eyes; candor at best. I'm not a gild-
ed sham. You don't pick me up for q
prince in disguise or art or morality 60
ing incog. | do not fly the skull and
crossbones hid behind a holiday flag till
I've grappled and boarded you. "Pve
got the regular old Deaths head nailed
to the mast, and I'm a pirate from keel
to center board, and if you don't want
that sort of company blow me out of the
water"
He had the whole force on deck at this
point.
"Pve got no of-hand preamble to my
bloody work. do not lead you through
the fowery paths of ease to where I've
got the trap sprung. / do not beguile
with anecdote, inspire with eloquence,
sootbe with persuasion or pique with To-
cal gossip. | was not directed to you as
a leader of culture or a person who'd be
likely to buy. won't show you a list of
high toned decoys who have put their
names down to get rid of me and to draw
you in. don't show the work I'm
selling, and Eve never been able to learn
the idiots ~soliloquy that explains the
pictures"
Here he paused while the manager
called for the cash boy.
gsvLotf- olo,,s A. = -
business. The books right here-ffiy
parts, fifty cents a part, plenty o pictures
and big type for the reading, written by
some body or other and means $40 clear
money to me every time l work one off
Do you take, or do / go?"
By this time eleven copies of the first
part were ordered, and the eleven able"
resumed their work, while the Office boy
indites this tribute to a man who aint
ashamed of his little racket
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IN. Y. Tribune.l
Invisible friends gathered around the
bedside of the dying man." said a Texas
preacher, while delivering a funeral dis
course over the body OF a man whom
death had rescued from the torments of
delirium tremens. Next day the paper
had it:
Invisible fends gathered around the
bedside of the dying man."
The family of the dead man could not
be persuaded that it was simply the re-
suit of q printer dropping an r, and
were with difficulty restrained from
precipitating another funeral on the
community.
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colbert A. Pierce, in The current.l

colbert A. Pierce, in The C~urrent.l
Scargill declared that an Englishman
is never happy but when he is miserable;
a Scotchman is never at home but when
lie is abroad; and an Irishman is at peace
only when he is fighting.
In a similar way we may say that an
American is never at rest except when
he is at work.
To drop paradoxes, the busy man in
our country is the happy man, and never
80 happy as when he is busiest.
/ remember reading somewhere that in
Persia, l believe it is, when one sets out
to buy a rug or a piece of tapestry on
which he has set his heart, he is expected
to spend a fortnight at least in the pur-
chase. At the first visit he simply saun-
tiers in, exchanges solutions with the
'~ebopkeeper, casts a careless glance over
the shop and departs. The next time he
looks at a rug curiously, but with no
show of interest in the article as a would.
be purchaser. The third time he ex.
amines the article on which he is intent,
and the fourth time inquiries the price,
which is fixed by the shopkeeper at
about ten times its real value. At the
succeeding visit the price is reduced q
trife, and so on until a fair figure is
reached, and the trade is consummated.
There are many countries on the globe
where such dallying would be regarded
as q waste of time both by the seller and
the buyer, but it is in America where
the transaction would be most ridiculed,
and where anything approaching such
haggling would be denominated the
veriest t~omfoolery.
The American type is not fixed, it is
in the formative stage, but 30 far as it
has got ii may be denominated q type of
frankness, of promptness, and of indie
pendence.
The genuine American is not a syco-
plant.
He is not a hypocrite.
He is not afraid of "Americanisms,"
or ashamed of American customs and
American
He does not ape social forms solely be-
cause they are foreign forms.
He is not afraid of being singular be.
cause he is natural.
He rather glories in the fact that the
American way is distinctive, and not a
mere imitation of older customs, and.
finally, be believes in a free ballot and a
fair count
/ read an article not long since from
the pen of an eminent philologist who
aabored through seven pages of a maya
zine to prove that an expression which
had been denounced IS an Americanism
in England was right and allowable, be-
cause Il was an old English term in use
by standard authors in the last century.
He proved it, at an expense of diligent
research that would have done honor to
= student intent on solving the true
Tceolneo1 ~ angles Of tho pyrsmids
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lChlcago Tribune.

Taken at its best the lot of a theatrical
super is not a particularly desirable
one, nor is that of the captain" to be
regarded in a much more eDviable light.
Some shows require as many as a hun
dred supers.
These men and boys are engaged by a
man who is known as the captain of the
supers, for which service and title he re-
ceives no remuneration from either the
theater or TIE managers of the show. He
engages his supers and is allowed for
each twenty-five cents per night, and of
this he pays out twenty cents to such az
need the money, but there are many
youths whose means do not require them
to collect this handsome diurnal stipend.
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Alma Tadema said a good thing the
other day. 1t was at a dinner party,
when the guests were talking of the ex'
change Of genius between England and
America.
For every actor, singer, lecturer, OIL
person of note sent here by England the
United States made a return. There wa.
Booth for Irving, Mary Anderson fol-
Ellen Terry, Patti for Nelson, as really
Patti belonged to us first; Joe Jefferson
for Sothern, and so on. Alma Tadems
said, England is one ahead of the
United States. We sent Oscar Wilde
over there but she had no fool to send
back"
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A FOLK-sONG.

The doors are shut. the windows fast,
Outside the gust is driving past.
Outside the shivering ivy olings.
While on the hob the kettle sings.
Msrgery, Msrgery. make the tea,
Singeth the kettle merriiy.
The streams are hushed up where they
flowed,
The ponds are frozen along the road,
The cattle are housed IN shed and byre,
While singeth thu kettle on the fire.
Margery, Margery, make the tea,
Singeth the kettle nerrily.
The fisherman on the bay in his boat
Shivers and buttons up his coat;
The traveller stops ut tire tavern door,
And the kettle answers the chimney's roar.
Margery, Margery, make the tea,
Singeth the kettle merrily.
The frelight dances upon the wall,
Footstepsa are heard In the outer hall;
A kiss and a welcome that ill the room,
And the kettle sings in the glimmer and
gloom.
Margery, Margery, make the tea,
Singeth the kettle merrily.
Nv. W. Campbell. in the Atlantic
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THE GHOSTLY


solemn sanotum.
ime-The dusk Of morn.
An attic room
Wrapt all in gloom.
Save where one beam was born5
From the crescent moon
That night to fall
Over a spectral form
On the sanctum wall.
Fierce roared the winter wind,
And with each shrek
Slow rose and fell
In grotesQue swell
The ghost, which seemed TO speak,
For u swung.
A hoarse and weird croak
Within the room
The silence broke.
~step-wide opens the door;
It's he-the editor.
Two piercing cries,
He silent lies
And senseless on the floor.
When he Rwoke,
There, stiff and tall,
A towel clean
Swung on the wall.
-fNew York Star.
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A Mountain That Moves.
Reese River ReveiIle.l

Over in Churchill county, Nevada,
there is a great curiosity, mention of
which we do not remember to have ever
seen in the papers. The curiosity is
nothing more nor less than q travelling
mountain of sand.
The winds have gathered together a
great heap of sand and keep it constantly
moving like an immense glacier. 1t
crawls steadily along over valleys and
through canyons, never ceasing, the
sands making a low musical sound as
they rub against each other, much as
they do around the Sphinx every morning
at sunrise, which gave rise to the legend
that the stony statue was greeting the
morning sun with a song.
But the moving mountain of Church.
i'll contains still another popularity.
While its sides are symmetrically formed
and lay in folds like solidifed waves,
there is no cone at the top.
Instead Of its going to a peak there is
a hole there made by counter winds, and
whosoever is rash enough to scale the
ridge and pass into that hole pays for
his rashness with his life, for the tickle
sands yield beneath his feet, and the
more he struggles to get back the faster
he sinks until he is smothered to death.
having been thus swallowed up, and no
trace has ever been found of them since.
Type Sizes.
Origiaanlly there were but seven sizes.
The first vas called prima, whence the
name primer. 1t is now known as two.
line English. The second was secunda,
now our double pica-in France, great
paragon. The third was tertia, at present
u great primer.
Then there was a middle size, still call.
ed in German mittel, but it is now our
English. After these came the three sizes
on the opposite side of the scale-pica,
long primer and BREWER. In Germany
the names secunda, tertia and mittel are
still retained.
Plea, in France and Germany, is called
Cicero, because the works of that author
were originally printed in it. English
printers so styled it from being the type
in which the Ordinal, or Service Book of
the Roman Church was originally set.
The Ordinal was also at first called the
Plea.
Bourgeoise was so named because il
was introduced into the country from
France, where it was originally dedicated
to the "~bourgeoise" or citizen printers
of that capital.
Brewer obtained its name from having
been first used for printing in the Bre-
wary or Roman Catholic abbreviated
Church Service Book.
Minion is also of French origin, and
was so termed owing TO having rapidly
become a special f~avorite on its introduc.
ton, in that county. La Migone, is "the
darling"
Pearl is of English origin. The French
have a type of the same size which they
call "Parisienne." 1t is a smaller type
than nonpareil, and was thought "the
pearl of all type"
Diamond is another fancy nam given
to what was regarded at the time of lite
origin, as the ultimathule of letter foun
dry achievement.
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Young mother-"Do you think baby
looks most like me or his father, nursef'
Nurse-"Like you, nun Mr.. Jinks
il q mighty handsome mani"
Advertisement -Wanted-A compe.
tent and civil pursemsid.--(San Fran.
o31co Pct
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Weak and Debilitated

GARRISON HOSPITAL, Vienna, Austria
Johann Hof7s Malt Extract has been largely used
In the above hospital, and we c~heerfuly indofse its
we to the medical profession for general debility and
convalescence, for which IL has proved 10 be q most
estimable remedy.
(signed) DIR. LOEFF,
Chief Physician of II. NJ. the Emperor's Carr. Hosp.
DR.. P0RIA5, House Physician.
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MILLIONS Represented I'm the senate.

Millions Represented fn the Senate
The money actually represented upon
the floor of the Senate by ownership and
outside relations of nearly as close a
character would run very high in the
hundreds of millions. / do not think
that it is too much to say that $500, 000,-
600 in the way of private interests are
represented directly upon the floor of the
Senate to-day.
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DYSPEPSIA
F6E

To NJ. ErsSER, ESQ.,, Agent for Johann Hof.s Genuine
Malt Extract, $50 Race Street, Philadelphia.
DEAR SIR: DIR. Z. Wilson Johann
Hof7s Malt Extract az the best and only kind for or
pNrpose. With kind regards, i am yours truly,
CHARLES s. TURNBULL, NJ. D.,
Assistant Professor Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia.
Mr.. NJ. EIsSEB: / have used the Johann Hof's
Malt Extract sent me with very good effect.
LII PEPPE NJ. D.,
Dean Of the University OF Pennsylvania.
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Protecting His Character.

Entering the shop of his tailor the 9th.
er day be said:
'Sir, l owe you 500"
eyes, sir, you do"
"And l have owed il for a year."
"You have"
"And this is the fifth postal card you
have sent me regarding the debt"
81 think it is the fifth"
"Now. sir, while l cannot pay the
debt for perhaps another year, | propose
to protect my character as far as possible.
here are twelve two cent stamps. You
can use them in sending me twelve
monthly statements of account, and can
thus save your postal cards, and my
feelings at the same time"
1t is said that the tailor has credited
the twenty-four cents on account, and
feels that he has secured more of the
debt than he had any reason to hope
TO-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Secretary of the Treasury has notlfl,
ed collectors of customs of the exhaustion OF
the appropriation for defraying expenses al
ter the 31st of May, and warns them not to
make any payments after that date for SER
vices rendered.
Much dissatisfaction has been expressed
in Paris at the decree secularzng the Pan
tbeon to admit the remains of Victor Hugo,
and the French Chamber of Deputies has
adopted motion approving the decree OF
secularization. The communists of Paris
have determined to carry red flags at the
funeral, and the government has decided to
introduce into the Chambers bill prohibit
ing the display of any such emblem IN
France.
Pearre, convicted in Baltimore of feio
NOUS assault upon Mrs. Kirkland. in in Jail
He refuses to see any one and will not tall
about his trial or his prospects. He is treat
ed like other prisoners. His counsel, mean
while, are doing everything they can 10 oil
behalf. The exceptions are being prepared
and the case will be taken to the Court o
Appeals as soon as possible, until which
time bail will be refused.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-29
VIRGINIA ELECTIONS.

The election at Staunton passed off quiet
ly. A small vote was cast, and the incum.
bents, both republicans and democrats, ere
reelected.
In the election in Norfolk the democrats
elected their candidate for city treasurer bv
majority of 1856. The town went republic.
can by large majority at the last election.
The negroes polled small vote, and many
of them voted the democratic ticket.
Returns from the different wards in Peters
burg show the election of Couch, repubIi.
can, over Hinton, democrat, for city treas
urer. COUGHS majority is 1892. 1t is re-
ported that COUGHS election will be con-
tested on the ground that up to few DAYS
ago he was registrar for the Fifth ward, and
therefore an illegal candidate. Hiuton's
name, on the other hand, it is said, does
not appear on the registration books, and
therefore he is disqualified voter.
The republican majority in Winchester is
seventy-two, a loss of nine on the vote of
last fall. The negroes voted solidlv for the
republican ticket.
In Portsmouth there was no opposition
and the whole democratic ticket was elect,
ed except in the Third ward, where three
negro men were elecjed. In Norfolk county
there were considerable democratic gains.
though the county is overwhelmingly re-
publican.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-29
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY ~.

THAT THE links which bound the mem
bers of the democratic party are mucn
weaker than of yore, is proved Dy Ine 'o'0'
in this stronghold, yesterday, when men,
protesting fealty to the party, were Drawn
astrav By the devices of their opponents
who used all the wiles at their command 10
effect breech in its ranks. and were near
succeeding. The price of liberty is etefnai
vigilance, and if the democrats aiio" 'ne"
selves to be turned from their purpose oy
all sorts of side issues they will deserve Inc
fate that surely awaits them. 1t was proven
that with an almost solid negro vote
and they vote nearly as un't-a ie"
dis.ff.cted democrats can always put III
jeopardy the success of their party. having
only lately been disseminated, it is strange
that men who have felt the yoke should
knowingly put themselves in suoJect'on
again. The party should learn of their re-
publican opponents to fight among then'
selves inside the organization. but always
nresent sulid front to the enemy Id al
engagement.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-29
LETTER FROM LOUISA,

| correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
LOUISA, May p, 1885 --Rain rain rain
Surely the old saying that it never rains
but it pours is fully verified this time; for
it has sprinkled, showered, poured and del.
uged. Still We should not complain for
rain is what every tller of the soil has been
wishing for. And it has come, doing lots oil
good and some damage. | hear that some
of the streams in this county have been
higher than ever known before; the low
lands being entirely submerged, and crops
thereon injured to some extent. 1t is rain.
ing to-day, and the heart grows weary ut
the never ceaslng pit-a- pat Of the rain drops
The silvery rain drops may be- poetical, but
they are not enjoyable, except under very
peculiar circumstances.
The wheat crop will he very poor one,
it is said The rain will help it considera.
bly,, but it came too late to repair the dam
age sustained by the protracted drought.
There have been great many marriages
in this county during the past season; but
though the matrimonial cyclone was the
most vigorous and extensive known here
for some time, it did not sweep off all the
flowers.
The commencements of the several
schools are about to burst upon us in all
their glory. Pretty girls, bouquets, ice
cream-all 90 along together with COM
mencements. The girls will be glad, the
boys sorry. don't mean to say the BOYS will
be sorry about the ice cream treating,
mean they will be sorry when the schools
close and the girls leave; because if it would
make them stay we would gladly get all the
milk purchasab BILE and all the ice the Arctic
seas could afford and freeze the Pacific
ocean full Of cream if that would make
them stay.
Some years ago young lady of this place
now married and living in Richmond) per-
formed remarkable feat OF somnambulism.
She had retired aud had been asleep some
lime, when che arcae, went down stairs in.
10 the par'or, opened the piano, and when
she awoke found herself, en- dishabille
playing in the dark. Realizing that she |
vas oft in the Silly night" all alone, she
tipped up stairs and quietly. and quickly,
imagine, retired once more. E.L.B.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-29

ANOTHER so-called attempt to free Cuba
has been made, and, like all the others, has
proved an utter and ignoble failure. This
time the leader was negro, who, with a
force of not more THAI score of his race
made descent upon the Island only
to have them killed, captured, or driv-
en- to the mountains as soon rs they landed.
Filibustering attempts upon Cuba, like the
attempts of some cranks i'll this country to
buy the Island, are doomed to failure. Gu.
ba doesn't want the tilibusters, and this
country doesn't want Cuba
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-29
The Prasident's Visit TO New York

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Tre President
will leave Washington for New York this
evening, accompanied by Secretaries Endi.
colt, Whitney and Lamar, and Postmaster
General Villas. He will be the guest OF
Secretary Whitney, and it is stated goes
only for the purpose of being present at the
Decoration Day ceremonies. 1t is denied
that any conference of politicians will be
held, and it is stated that the President will
decline all invitations and will request to
be excused to callers in order that he nav
get some rest and physical benefit from the
trip
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-29
The Cluverius Trial.

RICHMOND, Va, May CAT the opening
Of the court in the Cluverus murder trial
this morning, Mr.. Evans of counsel for the
defence, announced thatone his colleagues,
Mr.. Pollard, had been taken sick during the
night and would be unable to appear in
court before noon, to which time a recess
was taken by the court.
An order was read this morning changing
the time of meeting of the June term OF the
court from the first to the fourth Monday OF
that month. The reason for this action on the
part of Judge Atkins is that the trial
| of this case, which has already occupied the
whole of tie May term, connot be concluded
| before the commencement of the regular
June term.
| At u o'clock the court resumed ts SEES
sion. Mr.. Evans stated that Mr.. Pollard
was still unable to appear, but that the
aafasss, was ready ~ prsooAd without him
| Joseph 1>--,rr
on being sworn, said he knew Herman Joel
He had jewelry for sale at the store of the
brother of the witness, and also did repair.
ing. Witness did not remember ever hav.
| ing seen the prisoner in the store while Joel
was there. He had never seen the watch
key ofthe prisoner repaired by Joel.
Policeman Walton was recalled, ard
said he was present at the reservoir when
the jury went out there and noticed that
the hole in the fence had been repaired
The witness described the location of the
hole before the repairs and gave some other
details of the surroundings
B. ". Cuvcrius, father of the prisoner, Was
sworn. He said he knew of his son coming to
Richmond on the 12th of March aud that he re
turned on the 14th. Witness met his son at Cen
treville and drove him home. He met his son at
MiIby's store and saw him three times that day
He did not ask the prisoner if lie saw Sir. Pollard
while in Richmond. His sob had 40 scratches on
his hand when he first came, but he did hurt his
hand while leaning against stake fence ut Cen
treyille.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-29
engagement

Now THAT new city government mas
been elected, it is hoped that by the upiteo
efforts of a mayor so we'll qualified Tor the
purpose and council several of'he mem
beers of which, at least, are not disqualnto
some means may be devised by which the
rate of municipal taxation can be reduced
The present rate, two dollars on the hun
dred of assessed value, is too high: would be
too high in city on the food tide OF pros
psrity, and consequently is entirely out o.
proportion in city where business at pre-
sent is at such stand still as it is in Alexan'
dria What Alexandria is most in need g
now is more money, bu; people will mol
bring money here merely for the purpose o
having it taxed.