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The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-06-02
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Love, hope, fear, faith-these make
humanity.
FIuoucy is too frequently mistaken
for ability.
People who never have any time are
the people who do the least.
He who can take advice is sometimes
superior to him who can give it.
Economy is nothing more than good
sense applied to the affairs of every day
life.
You cannot get wit or wisdom in a
college, but you may learn there how to
use it.
The hardest thing to lose sight of is
poor relation; we often have to hunt up
ourrich ones.
The talent ofsuccess is nothing moro
than doing what you can do well, with
out thought of fame.
Thrift of time will repay you in after
life with usury of profit beyond your
most sang uine dreams.
Good breeding consists in having no
particular mark of any profession but
general elegance of manners.
Doing any one thing well--even sit
ting stitches and plating friIls-puts
key into ones hand to the opening of
some other different secret; and wo can
never know what may be to come out of
the meanest druggery.
The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-06-02
Remnrknhle Colncidences.

Ga December 8, 1864, a boat crossing
the Menai strait was suak, with eighty
one passengers on board. only one
escaped and his name was Hugh Viii
liams On December 8 1886, another
boat was sunk under the same circum-
stances. 1t had sixty passengers on
board and all were lost except one--his
name was Hugh Williams. o. August
3, 1920, the Bri.toI Mercury records
another such accident There were az
that time twenty-five passengers on
board; only one escaped, and, wonder
full to tell, his name was Eagh Williams
-IEsStern Argus.
The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-06-02
HELEN OF TROY.
BY OLIVE GREEN.

Helen of Troy bent over long table
in the city of her nativity and ironed,
ironed, ironed; hour after hour, all day
long, silently pushing aside with red
and swollen hands the polished white
cuffs which found their way to every
4 part of the civilized worlI.
\ For the modern Helen was a "Troy
!. Laundry Girl"
Had you told her that the work done
by her hands was actually sent not only
to every part of her own land, but to
Europe and the islands of the sea, she
would have stared duly at you without
in the least comprehendiag the scope of
her work.
For in the curriculum OF the school in
which her education had been shaped,
the only geography knowa. was that Of
the streets.
The whole world outside of Troy was
labelled and set aside as "Unexplored
Territory"
The thoroughfare on which stood the
tenement in which she was born, was of
that order common to our older cities,
in which the proportion had long since
been lost between the number Of inhabi-
The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-06-02
Wears a Ring On Her Thumb.

A rich Philadelphia woman, noted for
her wealth and ecccntricity, having ex-
hausted her finger space in displaying
her jswels, wears a striking ring on one
of her thumbs. Strange as this APP
pears, it is only going back to an old
fashion. Two or three hundred years
ago it was the fashion to wear ring on
the thumb, and the signet ring was
VOTE On the thumb by the nobility at a
time when tho fingers were devoid Of
ornaments. Il Philadelphia Times.
The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-06-02
Visited His Grave In Her sIeep.

A young lady Of Atchisoa had q very
curious experience recently. A young
man Of whom she was very fond died
several weeks ago. and the ohaer night,
while sound asleep, she aros fom her
bed, dressed and went out to the Gene
terry. When she awoke she was lying
on the young naa's grave, and she was
so frightened that she jumped The fence
and ran to farmhouse IN the vicinity.
The farmer hitched up a team and took
the young woman to her home. Il Kan
sas City Star
The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-06-02
Manuscripts in shacl,Ies

St. Paul Cathedral in London, has
relic of the ancient monastic library; il
ia vellum folio in Latin, with its old
chain attached. The library Of Wells
Cathedral was chained in former days
and some Of its volumes still retain tho
rings to which the chains were linked.
In 1881 Sir Thomas Lyttloton be-
queathcd to the convent OF Hales- Owen
a book (which / wull be laid and
bounded with an yron chayne in some
convenient parte within the said church
at my costs so that all prcests and others
may sc and rede it whenne it pleaseth
them Fox's Book Of Martyrs was
often chained in the churches. Many
OF the rare tones of the Oxford Bodleian
Library used to be chained, and when
James l. visited it he declared that
were he not king he would desire no
other prison than to be chained with so
many good authors. When John Sell
denis books were given to the Bodleian
in 1869, over e25 were spent in proyid-
ing them with fetters. Not until the
latter half Of the last century did the
Bodleian Library shake off all its
shackles. - Pcnman's Journal.
The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-06-02
Effects OF Good Literatnre.

Willie (reading aloul to his sister,
"Children who hope to become noble
men and women should always be duti-
full and obliging treating their elders
with respect. They should"
Sister-"Willie, mother just called
to you to bring in some chips"
Jaw, hang the luck. Why can't sho
do it herselfr Il Lincoln Journal.
The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-06-02
The Chinaman's Dcvot on to Rice

A Canton correspondent says hat the
Chinaman's devotion to hi, rice is as
great as an Englishman' to his dinner.
and at their regular times for chow
II in the morning and in the after
noon---nothing can take him away from
his bowl OF rice. AS all the city life Is
al fresco one secs miles OF fee ling
Cinnamon if he progresses throu II tho
streets at their meal hours. In each
open room or shop the scene is the same
"a circle Of dirty hcathens gathered
around table shoyellng tho rice into
their mouths as fast a3 chop-stlcks can
play, the edges Of the bowls being held
to their mouths merely as a funnel to
direct the stream Oae can stand in
the shops, yainly waiting to purchase,
and surly Chinaman will only come
forward when he has finished his bowl
Of rice, and has sublime indifference
to trade, profits and cheating when it Is
his rice time.
The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-06-02
The Old Farm. House on the Hill


Boast not of Queen Anne cottages,
Nor of summer villas gay,
Nor yet of stately palaces
Where marble fountains play;
The architect ne'er yet designed
And design he never will
A pile that can compare with the
Old farm house on the hill
The millionaire in mansion grand
Owns pictures old and rare,
And all the luxuries of wealth
Has gathered round him there;
In spite of all his bric-a- brac,
And store of wealth, he still
Oft thinks of the low, gabled-roofed,
Old farmhouse on the hill.
He backward glances and he sees
His mother as she sits
Near by the hearth and croons to him
And deity mends or knits.
Again he hears of "Sinbad" bold,
And rafting "Jack and Gill;"
The while the shriil wind whistles round
The farmhouse ON the hill
lie sees his father grave and stern,
But ever good and just,
Again his fav'rite maxim hears,
"In heaven put your trust
And cen old Rover seems to hear
A-whiring at the sill,
That he may join the group within
The farmhouse ON the hill.
He sees the kitchen fireplace wide,
The rafters smoked and grim,
The earthern dishes on the shelf,
In just array and trim.
He sees, around the table old,
His bl others, Ike and Phil,
And little Jane, who sleeps near by
The farm house on the hill.
He hears his mothers parting words,
''My boy beware of SIM"
When about to quit the homestead for
The city S snares and din;
And she opes the oaken chest of drawers
And, from its cunning till,
Hands him a boolI-and so he leaves
The farmhouse on the hill.
He sees himself struggling clerk,
A Junior for term,
He rises higher and becomes
The head of great firm;
He grinds out station, rank and wealth
From traffic's ceaseless mill,
Yet signs for quiet days and the
Old farmhouse on the hill.
Again he sees wrinkled face,
A silvery head of hair;
Again he sees a slender form
In high-back rocking chair.
Again he views, with shining eye,
The rustic bridge and rill
That murmurs thro' the valley by
The farmhouse on the hill.
Once more by tremulous lips is he
Affectionately kissed,
Then darkened is the scene as by
A rolling cloud or mist;
But thro' an opening in the cloud,
Ere yet his dim eyes fill,
He sees The country graveyard near
The farmhouse on the hill.
Boast not of Queen Anne cottages,
Nor of summer villas gay,
Nor yet of stately palaces
Where fountains splash and play
The architect meier yet designed
And design he never will
A pile that can compare with the
Old farmhouse on the hill.
-[Arkansaw Traveller.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1888-10-24
The Mortgage.

A mortgage is a queer institution.
1t makes u man rustic and Keeps him
poor. 1t is strong incentive to ac-
tion, and a wholesome reminder uf the
fleeing months and years. A mort
gage also represents industry, because
it is never idle and never rests. 1t Is
like bosom friend, because the great.
er the adversely the closer it sticks to
a fellow. 1t is like brave soldier, ii
never hesitates at charging nor fears
to close on the enemy. 1t Is like the
sandbag of the thug, silent in its ap-
p,ication, but deadly in its effect. Like
the very hand of Providence, it spreads
all over creation and its influence is
everywhere visible. 1t is like the
grasp of the devil fish, the longer it
holds the greater the strength. No
matter how hard the debtor works, the
mortgage works harder still. l, makes
fellow sour, cross, selfish, unsocla BILE
and miserable, aud rarely does him
good, except To exercise him.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1888-10-24
Prudence. Prudence.

In medication, as in aught e!ae, pru.
dence should be our guide. Yet
thousands cast it to the winds. Every
new nostrum finds its patrons, the
medical empires Of every false school
have their gulls. Every change in The
gamut of humbug is rung successfully
for Il time at least--the notes being
furnished by the credulous. In happy
contrast to the many advertised i'm
posiures of the day stands Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, now in Its third dec.
ade of popularity, approved and re.
commended bv physicians, indorsed by
invalids everywhere. 1t is an ascer.
tanned specific for and preventive of
malaria diseases, chranic indigestion,
liver complaint and constipation,
checks The growth nf rheumatism and
neuralgia, is peerless invigorant and
useful diuretic Nervous people ben.
eft by it.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1888-10-24
Caiffornfa.

| California is the second largest
State in the Union area, 1S8,081
square miles
| Length, ITO miles; breadth, $50.
Gold discovered 1913.
Admitted to the Union September
0, 1850.
The estimated present population is
1, 100000.
Ranked first in 1880 IN wealth per
capita.
Ranked ninth State in aggregate
wealth in 1880.
Twelfth State in manufacturing i'm
portance, 1880
Fifteenth State in agricultural pro-
ducts, 1880. .
Net debt OF State, $354, 500.
Number of newspapers, nearly 500
Gold and silver product in 1887,
$50, 100000.
Total gold and silver product since
1S4s, $763,9S6,954.
Orange product Of coming season
estimated at $l,25O, 900 boxes.
| Hep product, 4,500 900 pounds.
Wool product, annual average for
ten years, Al, 100000 pounds.
Wheat shipments, annual average
eight years, 100000 centals.
Flour shipments, annual average
tiye years, 100000 barrels.
Barley crop, annual average three
years, 100000 bushels.
Quicksilver product, average annual
output eight years, $4,000 TASKS.
Grape brandy, product in 1887, $780,
900 gallons.
Raisin product in 1887, 100000
boxes.
Wine product, annual average five
years, 100000 900 gallons.
Vegetables shipped to the East in
1887, 0O,0O0spounds.
Canned goods shipments, 50,OO0,0OO
pounds
Nut crop of 1887, 100000 pounds.
Dried fruit shipments, 100000
pounds.
Green deciduous fruits shipped East
in 1887, 35,343,OOO.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1888-10-24

The Candelaria Republican dele
CATION met in Edwards Hall, Candle.
laria, October 9th, and nominated the
following township officers: For Jus
tice of the Peace, G. A. Howard for
Constable. Vim. Sproule; for long
term School Trustee. Owen Pierce; for
School Trustee, short term, Thomas
Edwards and j. w. Goodwin.
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27
SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.

The Litchfeld Northwest Sunday school Un1on will celebrate it's twenty fifth anniversary in the Methodist church, Falls Village, on Thursday, June 18th. The order of exercises is as follows l: 10:00 a. m., devotional 1O:15 8. m., business and reports from schools II 80 a. m., historical address, by Henry Norton, Goshen 1900 m., inter- mission and collation. {; 100 p. m., responsive service, led by Rev T. H. Baragwanath, Canaan 1:2O p, m., address,: theme-the Sunday school, first, of the past, Hiram Eddy, D. D., second, of the present, Rev B. N. Lewis, Sharon and Hon A, M Card, Sharon; third, of the future, T. l.. Norton, Lakeville. 2:4O p. m., prayer meeting, led by Rev J. c. Goddard, Salisbury; 300 p. m., discussion topic the work of the Sunday school in the community, opened by 0. B. Foote, North Haven 400 p. m., dismission. All Sunday schools in the towns of Canaan, Cornwall, Goshen, Kent, Nor folk, North Canaan, Salisbury, Sharon and Warren are embraced ia this Union, and it is hoped each school will be fully represented on this important occasion.-[ New Milford Gazette.
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27
NORTH K ENT.

MT Randolph Fisher received tele- gram last Saturday announcing that his son, Rogers was very low and to come at once. The next day he went down to answer the message and found another telegram saying he was dead. The funeral was attended at Mansfield, at o'clock Tuesday. He was taken to New Haven and buried in the Ever green cemetery. This sudden death causes much sadness. He leaves wife and one child, also father, who has left his New Haven home and taken up his residence in Kent to care for his wife's father and mother initheir declin- ing years, winch speaks for him 8 noble deed of love. While in conversation with the mother few days since, she remarked: "An own child could not do more for us than Randolph Frisbie has done these past six years, and she hoped he would never want for any of the good things of this life or of the one to come. A very pretty wedding occurred at the residence of William B. Ives, his eldest daughter. Lillie B. Ives was married to Samuel Waldron, by the Rev D. s. Porter. Mrs Merwin D.. Rowland, who has been in feeble health for years IS failing rapidly :. Mrs Reuben Eaton is very low with typhoid pneumonia.
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27
OLEOMARGARLNE.

The modern widows cruise is voy- age for husband. New Orleans Picayune.
 It now said that Roscoe Conkling's estate will net from $7OO,O0O to $8O0, GOO, all of which goes to his wife
 Henry Gay has bought the Thayer scythe shop in Winsted and leased it to Noble Bennett of New Milford, for a grist mill.
 H. O. Warner & Sons shipped on Thursday Holstein calf 48 days old that tipped the scales at BIO pounds. Who can beat it?-[ New Milford Gazette.
 The Religious Herald reports, with names, thirty vacant Congregational pulpits in Connecticut and sixteen clergymen "looking for pulpits or supplies
 Philip Fresenius, the well-known New Haven brewer, died last Friday of heart disease, aged 63. He was worth $500, ,OOO, made in his business within 25 years,
 Charles B. Perkins, member of the 1887 legislature from Andover, Conn.,, died at 12.30 p. m. Tuesday, after 8 lingering illness from consumption. He was 2S years old and much respected in the community where he lived.
 Heroine" is perhaps as peculiar a word as any in our language. The first two letters of it are male. the three first female, the four first brave man, and the whole word brave woman. 
 The switch has been laid at the junct- ion of the Housatonic and Derby lines, just below Botsford and it looks as If the task might be completed in good season. Manager w. H. Harris, of Parlor Rock picnic grounds, says that he has dates for the middle of August, the trains to run over the extension. - Newtown Bee.
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27
SOUTH VAN,

Mrs Norman Oakes died on Thursday evening, after only few days confne- ment to the house, although she had been in failing health for some time past. The funeral was attended on Saturday afternoon at the church, the Rev MT Moore officiating, assisted by Rev MT Herman Interment at Sandy Hill. A great deal of sympathy is expressed for the family in their sudden bereavement. -. Sunday evening the large barn on the farm of Henry Weth- erall was struck by lightning and burned, with the sheds adjoining, a large quantity of farming utensils, etc. They succeeded in saving all the COWS except ono. A large pine tree directly behind Miss Prentice's house was also struck, and the shock was so severe that several of the neighbors were un- pleasantly affected, one lady fainting. Mrs Erastus Merwin is steadily improv- ing in health, being able to walk from room to room and occasionally join the family at meals |. :. The Rev MT Her. man gave an able discourse from the text "All shings work together for good to them that love the Lord." The evening prayer meeting was also ob- served, although sandwiched in between heavy showers :. . The month of roses is with us, filled with beauty and bloom, the abundant showers keep everything fresh and green.
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27
SHEEElELD.

A small house on the Silver street road, the home of Mrs Magnion, took gre from a defective chimney last week Monday morning and burned down before help could get there. .. Miss B.
 A. Sage, formerly of this town, is re- elected to the same position as princi- pal of the Jefferson school in Ottawa,
 Illinois, this being the fourth year. ...
 Prof Herberman, of New York, has rented the house of Mrs A. P. Hamlin for the summer, and with his family come this week to occupy it.. The festival held last week for the benefit of the M. B. church was success, netting $81 for the society !. MT Geo. H. Smillie, an artist of New York, with
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27

his wife, three children and nurse, are boarding with w. D. French for the summer. Miss M. B. Beckwith, of East Chatham, N. r., is spending few days at Cyrus Frenchs with friends. :, Last Saturday night boy about 15 years old, who lived with Patrick Hughes, east side of the river. was drowned while in bathing. His body was not found until several hours after =. The trustees of the "Pine Knoll' propose to give dance on the green July 4th .. |. Mrs B. D. Shears and son, Herbert, have returned from the sea shore, where they spent two weeks very pleasantly Last week Tuesday even ing one hundred and fifty of the people of the Congregational church gathered at the parsonage to give the pastor, Rev w. H. G. Temple, surprise visit, it being his 39th birthday. A bounti- full feast was furnished and $152 was presented him as a gift. A pleasant time was enjoyed.
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27
FALLS VILLAGE,

The nuptials of William E. Sheppard and Cora B. Adams will be celebrated at the residence of s. Judson Adams, in the town of Cornwall to-day. Oakley Reynolds, son of the M. D. pastor arrived home on his vacation from school at Pine Plains, Saturday. Postmaster Crandall was quite i'll Sun day, owing to severe cold, and the ex- postmaster officiated in his stead The ladies of the Cong. church have just placed in the church three elegant black walnut chairs upholstered with crimson plush, one for the pastor and two for the deacons. Miss Carrie Hall went to Torrington few days since to take the place of the telephone operator there temporarily, and is now a visiting friends in Winsted. The park has been moved. :. .Colepaugh and the Ford Brothers have stocked up largely with firecrackers and osher articles in that line, in view of the celebration of the Fourth. All can sincerely rejoice over the fine shower of Sunday evening IA great mistake was made in my communication last week in the publi- cation of the notice regarding the ser vices on Children's day, so-called. The notices given were both merged into one article. It is not the printers mistake. He followed copy.-ED NEwsl
 -. The west side of the village now presents a very creditable appearance with the great improvements made on O.: M. Brinton's lot. The barn is finished and adds new lustre in it's coat of French gray paint. It has ceiled stalls and carriage room also ceiled, with harness and feed room below and loft for hay and straw, and 8 nicely fitted up room for coachman above. The yard has been enclosed with new style of wire fence, with turned posts, concrete and gravel walks and lamp post on the corner, and fine lawn, and altogether Mir Brinton, and his daugh- ter Mrs Nelson Brinton, who has had the improvements made, can enjoy the results of their lahors, which has added so much to that portion of the village.
 ..... Under the auspices of the V. |. A. there will be held on the yard of Hon Daniel Brewster, July 4th, lawn festival. The proceeds are to be applied toward the building of concrete walks. As the object is most worthy one any who feel interested can help the cause along by their presence.
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27
SOUTHEIEI.D.

The weather the past week was most lavishly warm, the thermometer rang ing most of the time from 70 to 90 in the shade Mir Woodwell returned on Saturday and preached Sunday after noon. Quite hard shower passed East of us Saturday and on Sunday we had fine shower in the village. |. . X remonstrance to the proposed road from Hartsville toward Ct Burlington is in successful circulation |. . Many of the children here and some others attended the Children's day at Mill River on Sunday forenoon. ... E. B. Grant is on the sick list :. .Gussie Cook arrived home Saturday from Westfield Normal school.
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27
DIED

CoNE-At Chiltonville, Pa., May 5, of Bright's disease, William H. Cone aged 48; a native of New Hartford. and during the war mem- Der of the 8th and 18th Conn. regiments. CAAERoN-At Litchfleld, June 20, Robert Cameron, aged 63.
 RANDALL-At Washington, June 8, Edward V. Randall, aged 52 years and 10 months. CoLBY-At New York, June IA, at his resi- dence, 80 Madison ave-, of heart disease, John Langdon Colby, of Pittsfeld, Mass, aged 63 years. Interment at Greenwood. OAKEs-At South Canaan, June 21, Edith L., wife of Norman Oakes, aged B. HAM-At Clayton. Mass, June 21, Nelson Ham, aged 70 years. See Clayton cor.) KN1cKERBocKER-A Mill River Mass. June "A, Mrs Lucy Knickerbocker.
 MoREHoUsE-At Sharon Valley, June 24th, Chauncey W. Morehouse, aged 68 years. Funeral at his late residence to-day (Wed- nesday) at 2 p. m.
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27
AMONG THE HILLS.

See the morning mists arise, Underneath the Goshen skies, Forest-clad mountains around, Maple tree monarchs abound. Lights and shadows beauties prove,, AS we through the landscape move. In the valleys, brooks and springs, In the trees, the bird that sings, Bounteous Nature spreads her feast For the greatest, and the least. With breezes cool, signing winds, Calm and fevered brows and minds, Night-hawks chant their Whippowill, 3 Other feathered tribes are still. Evening stars, never brighter, Human hearts, ever lighter. Wv. lnaan Mountain, June 22, '88.
Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27

A new time table took effect on the Harlem railroad June A, By the new arrangement two new trains have been added-one north, leaving New York at 3:45 p. m. and one south, leaving Chatham at 8:30 p. m.
 This arrangement will also accommo- date the residents on the line of the Hartford & Connecticut Western road, as train No. 15, leaving Hartford at 6:35 p. m., Winsted 75O p. m. and Canaan at $40 p. m. connects at Millerton with train leaving Chatham at 830 p. m. and arriving in New York at 12. 45 p. m. (midnight.)