The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-09-30
otinE this innovation in Southwestern society

noting this innovation in Southwestern society
ways.
= Hired girls get very low wages in Canada,
Judging from recent sermon of q Kingston
preacher, in which he pleaded for more pay for
domestcs, saying that many girls work hard, early
and late, for % month, when they should receive
A few days ago the 1f-year-old daughter Of
David Fry, OF Stumptown. Md. was III and slept
66 hours. She awOke, ate heartily, seemed quite
well, and then went to sleep again. At last &C
counts she had been sleeping 80 hours without in
termission.
Alfred Smith. neat looking and aniet. hired
ont as a waiter at a hotel at Lake Elmo near St.
Paul, Mnn. Soon he made second steward
and was doing well, when his roommate reported
Carpenter Rhode Island girl. She disappeared
at once.
"A Dakota farmer. grumbling at the poor out
look for wheat in the early Summer offered to give
To his wife all the wheat he would have over so
bushels. He has just thrasbed u trifle over 1850
bushels, and the wife is going to have new black
silk dress.
"A few days ago two ladies' one Of whom car
ried baby entered Boston carpet store and sig
nihed their desire to look at some carpets. II
very warm day, but the salesman cheerfully
showed roll after roll until the perspiratiou liter
ally streamed from every pore Of his body. FL
nalIy one of the ladies' asked the other If she did
not think it was time to go. Not quite - was the
answer of her companion, and them in an under
tone, she added. L" Baby likes to see him roll them
out and IL is not time to take the train tCdF-
pet Trade aud Rerielg.
There is useful young woman in waIworth
Mass. and half the young farmers in that locality
have turned their eyes in her direction. She
teaches school five days in the week for slOa week
helps her mother to do the housewOriS, and takes
care of theee horses and two cows on the farm
During the Summer she has had exclusive care of
the home garden. has painted the house and
papered two rooms in it, and found time to corres-
pond each week for two County papers. This
Winter she will take up the Chautauqua course of
studies.
1t cost a fashionable lady who was soiournug
at Saratoga this Summer 500 for doctors bills for
attendance a pet dog which was taken sick.
1t is told in Boston that after q most excel
lent young woman had talked earnestly to her
Sunday school class for 10 minutes of the boys,
who had been gazing into her face with the utmost
attention, broke out with: IS say, teacher, you
hain't moved your upper jaw since you ben talk
ing"
A Maine newspaper tells of a peddler that sold
n farmers wife the familiar sign " lei on parle
Francais French spoken herel, assuring her that
IL was the original Latin text for "a God bless our
home;" and the good woman proudly hung it in
the best room.
On Wednesday night last young lady In
Macon danced herself speechlsss. Strange as it
may appear. that very night. and for aught we
know at that very hour, dumb girl in Savannah
began to talk. To a serious and thinking mind
this Is a magnificent example of the eternal equi-
librium Of forces. What the world gains in one
amid the great and the small forces of nature,
whether you apply it 10 an earthquake or a wom-
ans tongue.
"A quick-witted and waggsh Georgia widow,
named Gum, as soon As she felt the earthquake
blew enormous horn that she had in her house
to make her neghbors think the day of Judgment
had come. They thought it.