The National tribune., 1885-12-10
SHUT-IN SOCIETY.
THAT HORNETS NEST.

THAT HORNETS NEST.
Walter Kaher: Come here and bathe your swol-
len ears IN cimphor while blow a puff of smoke
from my cigar into that - hornets nest" think
il Is time some one was taking your part. Homer
Corse tried his hand but unfortunately he is on the
wrong side. All, guess he wants to be popular
among the ladies. You need not fear him, however;
for " drones never sting. Now, girls, word for
you. agree with Walter in every point. All girls
practice lacng, be it tightacing not And that
not all. They cruelty punish their feet with shoes
two numbers smaller than their feet. They have
varons articles OF apparel which unlike any
thing the earth. above the earth or beIc.~ the
EARTH and which neither adds TO beauty or comfort
nor anything else except extravaganza. l know
whereof speak, for my mother is a dressmaker
and gets the fashion from all parts Of the
country. But don't they love to dance! They will
skate all day and dance ali night for whole week
and then go home and be sick two or three months
and their parents have to take OF them and pay
the doctors bill, while if young man should do
the they would call him a worthless dissi-
pated wretch. OF course, the boys are mean too :
but Eve ate the first apple. know are per-
feet angels, but that does not keep them from sim
ming Angels sometimes fall Now. I'll draw my
cap down over my eyes and go away By the way,
| 1 think the hornets" will soon be ready to
| :. hive."-Joe. F. Dyer Whitesburg. Tenn.
The Curious Corner.
ANSWERS to questions will not be published with
in two or three weeks after questions appear. So
all Will have chance To send replies, and receive
| honorable mention with number answered.
i. What sentence contains every letter in the
| alphabet except one? 2. How many OF the 26
| Bsrons who signed the Magma Charta could write
| their names ?-Hugh G. Henry, Rochester, VT
Where and by whom the first Baptist society
formed in the United States Carl Roberts Wash
| ington, Iowa.
PATIENT GLEANERs.
Carl Roberts, Washington. Iowa, S. William r.
Breidenthal sumner, ILL.,, 3; Mary Grace WASH
burn, Richteid Center, o., /; Hugh Henry, Roch-
ester, VT, 2; James Il. Alger Swampscott, Mass, L.
Columbus used money given him by Isabella TO
| advance his discoveries.
ST. Peters AT Rome is the largest building in the
world
The highest lake is Sirillol source of the Arnoo
| IN Asia, 10, GOO feet above the sea.
The most elevated city is Potosi, Bolivia, 10 800
feet above sea level.
Mt. Everest is the highest peak % 002 feet high
Faneun Hall, Boston. is known as the cradle of
liberty, because the reyoutionsts held their first
meetings there.
Franklin said America must light the lamps of
| industry and economy.
Julia Ward Howe wrote "The Battle Hymn of
| the Republic" at Washington during the war 1t
| Is said she penned IL with her eyes shut. The
night before she had been riding in the country
| near Washington, and her party had narrowly
escaped being captured by party of Confederates
| As they came into Washington they sang John
| Browns Body" ian old Methodist tunc), and the
| tune kept ringing in Mrs H6we's head all night
| When she awoke, before daylight she began to
make 10 it, and in fear that size would forget
them she wrote them of, according to a habit she
| had formed TO save her eyes without looking ct
| the paper.
State rights besides slavery, caused the rebellion