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Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12
BUTTERCUP.
She Visits and Causes a Disturbance in
the Sunday-SchOol.

She Visits and Causes a Disturbance in
the Sunday-School.
1t was pretty church, and all
about 1t were fields of daisies, and
sweet-smelling clover. Now when
Buttercup went to this church, she did
not go to the regular service, but to
Sunday-schoOl. Buttercup was large,
yellow cow, who belonged in field
next to the church, in which she ought
to have staid. There was plenty of
mice grass there tor her breakfast, din
ner and supper. But Buttercup, like
q good many people, wanted a change,
and when she saw all the boys and
girls going into the church door, she
thou hit she would like to go. She
tried all the rails of the fence till she
found one that was loose. Then she
jerked her head up and down, till she
unfastened it so she could crawl
through On her knees.
The Sunday-school had begun by
this time, but Buttercup did not mind
that She walked into the church
quietly, and as the children and their
teachers were all singing, no one
noticed her at first. The children
were sitting in the pews nearest the
ichancel, SO Buttercup got half way up
the aisle before any one saw her.
Then one little boy turned his head.
He was SO frightened his hymnal fell
on the floor; and he cried out: ''Oh.
see the cOwr' Then it seemed as if
every body screamed. One of the
teachers got on top of the little cabinet
organ, and two or three stood up on
the seats.
Buttercup, however, paid no atten-
ton to them. She saw nice red apple
sticking out of a boys ocket, and she
thought she would like to have it. The
boy, who was Jack Nichols, did not
know what she wanted, so when she
came near he jumped over into the
next pew and knocked little Daisy
Einlay's hat of, and that made Daisy
cry.
What Buttercup would have done
next ] don't know; 50 many people
cried A:Shoon' and there was so much
noise, she might have got frightened
herself, and frightened COW can do a
great deal of damage in a church; but
Miss Lloyd, who was the superinten-
dent. called to every one to be quiet.
Then two or three of the bigger boys
said If they had stick they thought
they could get her out But Miss
Lloyd spoke again:
'-N there is any boy here whom the
COW Knows" she said, Il think she
would follow him out, and that would
be better than trying to drive her:"
''She's my grandfather eow," said
Bruce Smith, "and l guess she will
follow me-" So he Wen: in front of
her and called ''Brttercup, Butter
cup!" and. sure enough. she went after
him.
Now the yestry door was open and
Just opposite that was another door
opening out on the grass. As soon as
Butteccap caught sight of the nice
grass she ran out and began to nibble
the fresh bits around the doorstep
Then. as much as to say goodbye, J"
she kicked up her feet, tossed her head
and trotted off to her own tield-LittLe
NcH dad ,HIomen.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12
RICE-THROWING.
The Dangerous Side of an Ancient and
Popular Wedding Custom.

The Dangerous Side of an Ancient and
Popular Wedding Custom.
Opinions differ among the learned as
to why rice, of all things. is thrown at
'two young lovers lately we'd" Some
regard it as a feigned hostile attack.
in which light they also regard the
throwing of old shoes. But there is
evidence to show that old shoes are
thrown on other occasions, merely for
..luck." and where there is no survival
Of an attack. Thus it is recorded in
..Great Expectation" that Joe and
Biddy threw an old shoe after Pip when
he left them to seek his fortune. As to
rice-throwing, again, the custom can
not be earlier than the use of rice in
this country. Now the author of a
French work on '.The Kingdom of
Macassar," published at the end of the
seventeenth century, found that rice
was thrown out of the back windows
of the house all day during marriage
in Macassar The bride and BRIDE
groom were not petite 1; the object was
to d stract the attention of the envious
evil spirits. Left to their own devices,
the evil spirits might have played all
sorts of practical jokes, might have
carried the bridegroom Off bodily
to the chamber of the Princess Of
Persia, or conveyed the bride to the
arms of the Prince of Bagdad, or
of hump backed groom. How the
rice affected the demons is not very
obvious. An acute observer has divided
the practices of savage religion into
..spirit-scaring" and ..spirit-s9uaring."
Were the Macassar bogies scared or
squared, frightened or bribad. By the
showers of rice? This is a question
for Mr.. Herbert Spencer; but either
hypothesis is more plausible than the
common idea that rice is an emblem of
fruitfulness, and secures an abundant
crop of olive branches.
symbols and ceremonies are apt to
glide into realities, and realities into
symbols. The symbolic rice in Beth
nal Green was lately thrown with such
hearty good will that it nearly put out
the eye of one OF the bridegrooms.
..He was led to surgery adjacent and
will now have to pass in the ward of
a hospital what would otherwise have
been his honeymoon" Perhaps this
well-directed and CALLING FIRE of rice
was kept up by an unsuccessful rival.
who may be congratulated on the in
genuity of device which has hithsytO
escaped even the villain of fiction. 1t
Must become plain. however. even in
the parish of St. James the Less, that
friendly congratulations may be better
expressed than by shower of danger
ous missiles. We are sorry to harrass
any trade; but surely the local grocers
may ask themselves whether it is well
TO keep parcels of rice ready packed
for the occasion" as They'd at present.
Distress is already prevalent enough at
the East End: it can not be nitigated
by encouraging weddings among
amorists WHO are unable or unwilling
even to pay the entrance fees. Posi-
bly, the rice throwing has local cx-
PLANTATION. 1t may be intended to
the well-meant kindness of
the vicar. and to discourage those
whom his expansive generosity allures
into marriages of i'm. .,royidence. Lon
don Saturday Reriew,
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Talmage has preached thirty years
and has lost but one day, and that
through sickness twenty-four years ago.
-Brooklyn Eagle.
Representative Symes, Of Colorado,
has such q heavy voice that he Is
known among the Indians of his dis
trict as Talking Thunder.-Chicago In
ter Ocean. Q
An English dramatic critic, writ
ing Of Irving as Mephistopheles and
Miss Terry as Marguerite, says that the
lattsr's face IS as full of heaven as the
former is of the other place.
I'm the death of Mr.. Edwin p.
Whipple Boston loses truly original
man, and one whose most brilliant side
never shone in his writings. He could
never pen down in black and white
those flashes of wit which corruscated
in his conversation and made half an
hour with him an epoch of exhilira-
ton. Boston Beacon.
Mrs. Mary B. Willard. of Evans
ton. ILL.,, and late editor of the Union
Signal, the organ at Chicago of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
is now residing in Berlin, Germany,
where she has opened home-shool
for American young ladies for in
struction in the German and French
languages. art, literature, music, ETC.
Chicago Journal.
"A correspondent of a Boston
paper asked for selection of ten
choice books and received the follow
ing reply: First on the list the Bible.
then Shakespeare. Longfellow's poems,
Tennyson's poems, 1.-The Language
and Poetry of Flowers" Daring
Deeds of the Blue and the Gray" the
works of William Carleton, Don
Quixote." 1.-The World of Ice," 1.-The
Dead Alive"
Frank Mayo. the actor, who has
made fame and fortune as Davy Crock
EFT, has most extraordinary aversion
to the play. and declares that he will
not appear in it again. unless COM
PEELED by poverty to do so. Mr.. Mayo
wants to be tragedian, and is, in
deed, un excellent actor. but the critics
always insist that his Hamlet and
Othello talk like Davy, hence his dis
gust.-N Y. San.
"A reporter fresh from England was
recently assigned by the city editor of
a Boston paper to report lecture.
This IS the way he ''fixed" a quotation
from Tom Moore: '.The reverend gem
tleman announced it as his opinion
that the world is in the nature of feet
ing show, given for the delusion of man,
and proceeded to remark further that
the smiles of JOY. as well as the tears
of woe, shine deceitfully in the one
case and flow deceitfully in the other.
There is. he said, nothing true but
Heaven"
DR.. Munford, proprietor of the
Kansas City Times, who was shot in 4
street-car and badly wounded the 9TH
er day by an infuriated lawyer, has had
some experience in the same line. He
entered the Confederate army when a
youth, and in one of the battles of the
Southwest was terribly wounded. For
years he was no better than a living
skeleton, but good nursing and surgery
saved him, and he finally took up jour-
nalism in Kansas City. He bought the
Times when it was in bad way tinan-
cially, and he has built it up to a profit
able property.-Chicago Tribune.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

A MAN must not expect to live in clover
simply because he marries grass widow
ABOston Bulletin
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

THE man who is really always busy nev
er finds much time to tell his friends ho,
busy he always is.-SOAerpiue Journal.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

A NAN in Philadelphia ha. engraved the
Lords Prayer on a three-cent piece. but
Byron wrote q poem on q corsair.-Life.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

WHO was it Anarchist! We won't give
him away this time. but we've got him ON
the sOcial-liSt-StP Paul Herald
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

The cunning thief will enter a stable,
purlcin several sets of harness, and depart
without leaving trace.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

AN Irishman tells of q fight in which
there was but one whole nose left in tn,
crowd, land that belonged to the ray
kettle"
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

''No. SIR" he said to the Captain, II an
not sea-sick but am really disgusted with
the motion of this vessel"
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

If these professional glass eaters are not
more careful, they will soon have panes in
their stomachs.-BostOn Transcript.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

MAMMA" cried a fve-year-old girl, ~
started to make my doll q bonnet and it's
come out palr of pants"
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

CAPITAL exercise-Turning over money
~ o. Picaysne.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

A CRACK yacht does not necessarily leak
~. Y Journal.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

TIE bluntest men generally mske the
most cutting remarks.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

MENTAL gymnastics-Jumping to q col
clusion.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water Druggistssellit.2o it. 2oc.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

sold again-Second-hand articlea.-Bur
Engton Free Press.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

Az ode to goat may be called . nanny
VerSaYy Eoem.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

A WORD and q blow-Gale.-Tezas Sift-
tngs.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

"DID your uncle make you deed for
this farm!" ''No; he left it me in his
will" 81 see; and you toe : the will 70.
the deed. n-BurdettA
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

Dr.. PERcE's "Favorite Prescription" Is
the debilitated woman's best restorative
k0nic
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

As A hair dressing, Halls Hair Remover
has no equal. Ask your druggist for it.
The only warranted cure Tor chills and
fever is Ayers Ague Cure.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12
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Waning down BroadWax iavsry plsaa.
ant vhen. yoa fsel welA and TT
Aevse felt beetsr than w6en his friend osksd
him how h got over tAat ssvers cough Of
s'a "a. = 4 5. diS isp' 11a PG Sis hssad ssad Won.
dered what G. L D. meant He.new Is
did not mean . Good Many Doctors, for
C-K-had tried dozen IN vain. NJ
have 1t, said he, just hitting the nail on
the head, "you mean DR. Pierce,s Golden
q my friend J-S- always dubs II, -
Sold by druggists.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

To SUCCEED in his profession tho physi-
elan must have patients.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

WHEN THE SCALP IS ANNOYED with Dand-
ruff, 0LENN'S SULPHUR Soar will be found
an infallibls remedy. HnL's HAIR ANp
WMsKRR DYE, Black or Brown, Soc.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

BRONCHITIS is cured by frequent small
dose, of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

nv ~ The The fthonsands after % bav;n~ MI been @ emn- ,.
tied by suffering humanity. What q mass
of sickening, disgusting medicine tho poor
stomach has to contend with. Too much
strong medicine. Prickly Ash Bitters ID
rapidly and surely taking the place Of all
this class Of drugs, and is curing all the ills
arising from disordered condition Of the
liver, Kidneys, stomach and bowelA
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

JOIN RUsKIN wants tho sewlng-machins
to 60. Let him put his feet on the troadle
and work it then
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

THERE are instances where quail on toast
has been followed in due time by three
cents on the dollar.-Chicago yovrnd.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

SPEAKING Of military atfaiss, the oil 70
gions seem to be well drilled--Neao Raees
Neps
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-12

We accidently overheard tho following
Jones. Smith, why don't you stop that
disgusting hawking and spittinga
Smith. How can II You know / am o
martyr to catarrh.
j. Do as did. I had the disease in its
worst form but am we'll now.
S. What did you do for it,
j. fused DR.. Eage's Catarrh Remedy. It
cured me and it will cure you.
8. veheard of it, aud by Jove I'll try it
J. Do so. You'll find it at all the drug
stores in town.
An indirect way Of getting . drink OF
water at . cheap boarding-hOuse Is to ask
fcr q third cnn NJ too
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29
MONROE, La. JUN

The following is taken from the Ba-
on Rouge Capitolian Advocate of the
26th inst, and is significant in itself.
The race for Congress in this district
will undoubtedly be an exciting one
and the successful candidate will have
to run lively to get there first:
"Wo take pleasure in acknowledg-
ing the call, yesterday, of Judge John
Young, of Claiborne. The Judge has
entered the contest for the Congress.
ional nomination in the Fifth District,
and will break a lance with General
King when the time comes. He is
conscious of the fact THAT Gen. King
and himself will not be allowed to
fight it out themselves. There is any
quantity Of Congressional timber in
that fortunate district. Judge Young
will doubtless be formidable compel.
itor in the race"
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

A mysterious attraction at an ice
cream festival in a Methodists church
at Allegheny city; Pa, was termed
the "humaniphone," and an extra
charge was made for admission to the
place of performance. On entering
lthe room the heads and shoulders of
pine young ladies were visible above
screen extending the whole lengh OF
he room. They all wore masks and
from their necks hung suspended a
cord on which was printed musical
note: 1t was played by a young lady.
With a wand she walked back and
forth and each young lady uttered a
different note as she touched them. In
this novel manner were played "H Home ,
Sweet Home," "Yankee Doodle" and
other melodies.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

Hon. Warren EustOn informs the
Capitolian Advocate that there are
six vacancies at the Peabody Normal
School at Nashville, Tenn, to be filled
from Louisiana this year, and that
applications to fill these scholarships
will be received at the Office OF the
State Superintendent until August 10.
and that examination papers will be
forwarded to applicants on Septem-
ber 10Th. Mr.. Easton will cheerfuily
give any further Information to per-
sons applying.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

WILMINGTON, ILL.,, has had a little
sensation. A special from there states
that the funeral of julius Luther was
an event of interest. For more than
two years he had been suffering, and
a few months ago a spiritualist doctor
operated on him and relieved him Of
a red snake about IS inches long. His
relatives refused to allow post NOR
tenn examination and sought TO battle
the skill of resurectionists by using a
metallic casket with spring lock.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

The Greenville, Miss, Times of the
25th inst, gives the following lnfor-
nation regarding the compress now
building there: "The entire building
will be 400 feet front by 21O feet deep.
The storage part will be divided
into eight compartments, with fire
proof brick walls between each, with
a capacity of 1900 bales. Thus total of
10000 bales can by close packing be in
creased 25 per cent. The foundation
for the press to rest on is 8 feet deep
and comprises 10000 brick"
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29
NATCHEZ' OFFER DECLINED,

The citizens committee agreed that
Natchez would give the Fort Scott,
Hot Springs and Natcheza Railroad
100000 in 5 per cent thirty year
bonds, payable when the road is built
from the Arkansas line to Natchez, or
$500, 900 If the road will establish their
general machine shops here. This was
not accepted, but it is as much as
Natchez can or will give. Natchez is on
an air line from Fort Scott to New Or
leans, and this route would be by far
the cheapest to build. Natckes Banner.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

The Picayune says: "When critic
picks up writer on Typographical er-
ror, it shows he can find nothing else
to condemn, and such an error is alb
solute|y nothing to the writer. Pick
ing out such mechanical errors to crit~
icise is not an evidence Uf great
mind on picker"
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29
Certain PrOhibifiOnisfs

Certain Prohibitionists in Iowa
seems to have adopted the motto OF
our esteemed cotemporary, the Toledo
Blade, and are making strenuous ef-
forts to puiverize the rum power. AT
Clinton, in that State, on Monday,
four "saloonists" were shot in fight
by Prohibitionists. This is a very
aggressive policy, but the still unpul-
verized saloonists threaten to hang the
Prohibiti0nisls who were so handy
with their guns-N. Y, San.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

While at Concordia Tuesday a plan
ter was heard to remark that the
morning glories had SO completely
took the crops that you could catch
hold of vine at Concordia and shake
every stalk of cotton to the Washing
ton county line -Gree''oilte, Mss,
Della RPUielC,
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

Now that Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleve,
land has been superseded in the
White House by Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land, she has been induced to enter
the field of journalism and it is cur
rently reported that see will take ed
itorial control of the Literary Life, a
Chicago publication.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

The Maurepas, La, Gazette wants
10 Know what the people of Louisiana
have done that they should be af-
fiicted with session Of the Legisla-
ture and forty days rain at the same
time.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

An exchange says: "French women
consider carrots as specific for the
complexion. Carrot soup eaten with.
out meat stock, with brown bread, is
a favorite prescription for clearing the
skim"
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

They do things in hurry over at
Monroe, La. Only the other day a
bank of that city failed, and already
business is begun in newly organs
lied one.--Natches Banner, Jaoae 26M.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

The State Senate by vote of q TO
10 passed the act providing for the re-
moval of the parish site of ST. Landry,
from Opelousas to the town of WASH
ington.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

The wife of Attorney General M. c..
Cunningham, died at their residence in
New Orleans Saturday, aged about 20
years. She was a native of Nachito,
ches, her maiden name being Hertzog
She leaves four children.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

AT Toledo. Ohio, last Saturday,
Harry Wilkes trotted against Rarus
time of ZIG, but failed by one second
masking the mile in 2.l7. The track
was in a bad condition, and in view
of this fact the time made is consid-
cred great performance,
The Daily telegraph., 1886-06-29

new oil mill is being erected at
)feenville, Miss.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-05-19
A Dinner in the Harem.

Let me describe dinner in the harem
when a guest is present, writes a CORE
spondent from Constantinople. Their
tables are always circular, and about a
foot and half in height. They sit like
dolls around them on cushions. The
old, inactive and fat, once down, have
to be pulled up, They serve but one
dish at time, and that in large circu-
lar salver, brass, or sometimes gold.
They have no forks, knives or spoons,
but each dips two fingers of the right
hand into the dish and takes out bit,
the meat having previously been cut into
small pieces in the kitchen. If they wish
to particularly distinguish a visitor, they
select a dainty piece and place it in her
mouth. 1t would be an insult to betray
any feeling but delight at such mark
of favor. A great dish for a feast, and
one which few Christian women have
ever tasted, is that of lamb roasted
whole. After the manner of nest of
Chinese boxes, each smaller than the
other, the lamb is stuffed with a whole
turkey, the turkey with a chicken, the
chicken with pigeon, the pigeon with
quail, the quail with becafica, the
smallest bird known except the humming
bird. 1t resembles our reed bird in
taste, and makes only just one mouthful.
The lamb is roasted over a slow fire,
until it is cooked into shreds and melts
into one, as it were
The Egyptians have no systematized
way of eating, no set time for meals, but
keep up continual munching of sweets,
of which they have great variety un-
known to us, and all sickeningly sweet to
a European palate. They use honey for
sugar. In an Egyptian kitchen there is
a ttotal absence of what a civilized
cook would consider indispensable in the
way of cooking utensils and appliances
There is no dresser upon which to arrange
the dishes; there is no sink, no running
water, nor anything like our cooking
stove or range, but upon one side of the
kitchen there is erected a structure of
masonry which represents great square
shelf with deep drawers the openings of
which are on top. This queer object is
the Egyptian range. The openings are
charcoal furnaces, and, as they are dis
connected, cook can have dozen fires
or only one, as he desires. l have often
been astonished at the excellence and
delicacy of dinner cooked upon one of
these rude ranges.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-05-19
Tools and Civilization.

'In tracing the course of invention
and discovery" says Charles H. Ham in
his new work on "Aanual training,n 4
found that l was moving in the line of
the progress of civilization. / found that
the great gulf between the savage and
the civilized man is spanned by the seven
hand tools-the axe, the saw, the plane,
the hammer, the square, the chisel and
the tile-and that the modern machine
shop is an aggregation of these tools
driven by steam. l hence came to re
gard tools as the great civilizing agency
of the world"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-05-19

Ex-Governor Dingley, of Maine, is re-
sponsible for the assertion that on an
average each inhabitant of the United
States, outside of Maine, drinks $15
worth of alcoholic stimulants every year.
In fourteen States of the Union there are
laws which demand that the effects for
alcohol upon the system shall be taught to
children. A graded system of text books
is now ready representing five years of
experimental study of the subject. Be-
tween thirty and forty different works on
physiology, with special reference to alco-
hol and other stimulants, for school use,
has been issued.