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HUMOROUS.

Good Point.-Stammerer "Now-
now-now-" Sympathizing Listener
"Yes, that's true. There is certainly
no time like the present."-Harvard
Lampoon.
Doctor (entering the room of an
ague patient)-"Well, have you taken
the medicine l left?" Patient-"Not
yet, Doctor" Doctor -"How's that?"
Patient-"Why, am only following in
structions on the bottle. Shake we'll
before taking and l haven't finished
shaking yet"-With The Wits.
81 can't see how you can make so
many beautiful poems," said the little
pork packer. to the poet II can't see,"
said the poet, chow you can sell so much
pork The distribution of genius seems
to be capricious and uncertain; but let
me tell you, my friend, that you weren't
in the soup when inspiration was ladled
Out."-Puck.
Mr.. Gumpy-"What is the matter
with you, Miss Alice? Did some one
kiss you while you were going through
the tunnel?" Alice-'No; and that's
just what's the matter with me, I'm
blushing to think how unattractive l
must be getting. That's the first tunnel
I've come out of unkissed since was
fourteen years old. They say the road
is full of tunnels, too. Oh, dear! what
a trial this day will e."-Texas Siftings.
-Traveler-"Oh, kind sir, take all,
take all, but leave me this, my pocket
Bible, parting gift from my mother
when was boy" The Highwayman
las he gathers up very poor haul
keep your prayer-book an be gone. "
The Traveller (ten minutes later)-
''Well, that was pretty close shave.
If that chap had known that Bible COW
cred two thousand dollars in bank notes
he wouldn't have been so quick to let
me keep it."-Town Talk.
They Were Both Happy.-"Hello,
Ben! just back from the Christmas
festiyities? What means that stupen-
dous smile that bursts from the laven-
der calyx of your new suitP" II am
very happy, dear Tom. Congratulate
me, old fellow. Miss Ida Emeline Fan
tickle has just accepted me. But now
| look at you, you seem to be overflow
ing with happiness" 81 am, dear Ben.
Please congratulate me, also. ] just
this morning received a letter from
Miss Fanfickle releasing me from my
engagement brakes Magazine.
Brought Him to Time.-"You are
not going to stay down town late to-
night, are you, John?" mot very late,
Maria, I have to help put a man
through the third degree at the lodge.
I'll come straight home as soon as il is
over" kindly, but firmly)-"If you
can repeat the password, six slim
slick saplings,' distinctly when you re-
turn home from the lodge, John, the
outside guardian will admit you, and If
you can't you needn't ring any alarm
at the outside door. You'll stay on the
outside ali night, my dear" John came
home early.-ChicaR0 Tribune.
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a CONFUSION or tongues.

The prohibition of the use of the Ger
man language in the courts of the Baltic
provinces by the Russian Government
has created great confusion of tongues.
The majority of the population on the
Russian side of the Baltic knows little
or no Russian at all, and the scenes Ia
the courts, where the peasants seeking
justice and the lawyers pleading their
clients cases are unable to communicate
their grievances to the learned Judge
who knows no German, are any thing
but pleasing for those concerned. One
barrister, on being required to sign an
oath, demanded that he might be al
lowed to study the document with the
aid Of dictionary before he put his
name to it. This request. however,. was
denied as 'unseemly and impudeAt.' -
The judges themselves are In an
awkward plight, being ordered to go to
abe Baltic provinces from their posts in
other parts of Russia. sometimes at only
a moments notice, and there seems to
be as complete chaos as Is possible :
Chicago Herald,
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DRIVING TWO OXEN,

How q Wisconsin Farmer Lost an Even
Thirty-Seven Dollars.
We were sitting on the veranda of a
village hotel in Wisconsin when a man
drove up with yoke of oxen and en-
tered the hardware store opposite.
THE OK is a curious animal, when
you come to study him." observed the
agent of New York hardware house.
''Yes, and it is quite knack to drive
a yoke of them," replied the drummer
from Philadelphia cloth house.
"Pooh!"
Don't you believe ftp"
Nav! Anybody can drive oxen"
''They can, Ell? I'll go you five that
you can't drive that yoke around the
square without an accident of some
Sort
'Doner'
And we went over and told the farmer
what was up, and promised him the
stakes, no matter who won. He looked
rather anxious, but finally consented,
and the drummer took the CAD, stepped
to the shoulder of the nigh OK, and
called out:
Gee up, boys-come along now!"
They looked at him in establishment,
shook their heads, and the farmer called
out:
Look out little for that off OK. He's
bin sort O sneezy all day."
'Oh, I'm onto him. Gee up, l saw"
He touched the off one with the CAD,
and they moved off at fast pace. We
followed, of course, and they proceeded
fairly we'll to the first corner. Here was
where they were to turn to the left, and
the drummer called out:
"Gee there, boy-whoa! gee!'
But they didn't. They put their
heads down, elevated their tails. and
started for the country on a wild run,
and in three minutes were out of sight.
The farmer received the $40, and
then he started after them. We did not
see him again until dark. Then he
came in on foot to hunt us up, and saw:
Boys, it was kind in you to give me
that $40, but when 1 came to figure up
damages | found myself just S37 short.
That ere partner of yours had better
let oxen alone after this, and try hogs
or geese. IN V Sun
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taken the team and '.lit OUT Mrs.
Freeman was distracted and rushed in
the direction her husband had taken.
For several days she wandered in the
wilderness, and when searching party
found her she was almost, if not quite.
q maniac.
Time has not entirely obliterated the
affects of those terrible days and nights,
and the stamp of her suffering is in the
woman's face.
The sporting men believe the account
of her suffering and are most liberal
patrons. At all events, she is entitled
to the scanty livelihood she earns upon
the streets, and should not be scoffed at
by those ignorant OF her history. 1t is
said that Cad" Freeman is now in New
Mexico and that fortune has favored
him of ate.-Sacramento Call Letter.
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ONE WoMAN.s HISTORY.
From DianOnded Ease to Peddling Paper
on the Street.

from DlalnOnded Ease to Peddling Papers
on the Street.
The people of the capital city have
recently become familiar with the fig
ure of an old woman, who may be seen
on the streets every day engaged in
selling newspapers. She always wears
an old scarf tied about her head, long
cloak which gives evidence of many
years service, a dress badly frayed at
the bottom of the skirt and rough shoes.
There are people in this city who re-
member that only twelve or fourteen
years ago she wore silks and satins
and diamonds. She was then in Truckee
and living in gorgeously FURNISHED
apartments. She was known as the
wife of Cad" Freeman, faro dealer
well known in Sacramento. 1t was the
popular belief in Truckee at that time
that Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman were worth
$50, 900. Reverses came, however. Some
Of the Fly boys" ''got in" against Free
mans game and passed in their checks
for thousands.
The dealers sack was growing small
and he and his wife finally pulled up
stakes" and came to Sacramento. Free
man made an effort to retrieve his fort
unes; but his bad luck followed him and
nothing came his way. The Truckee
''Hoodoo, " which had driven Joe Potter
TO the Black Hills and to his death,
seemed TO haye clinched to Freeman
and he could not win a bet. He was
worse than four-time loser.
The great Northwest was then COM
ing into prominence and the tide of en-
igration was setting in that direction.
freeman thought that change of resi-
dence might change his luck, and he
went to Washington Territory, accom-
paniud by his wife.
1t was the same old story of hard luck,
and 1t is stated that Freeman finally got
down to the financial bedrock. 1t is
also said that he became morose and al-
imagined that the woman who had chung
to him through thick and thin was the
cause Of his iIl-fortune.
Atan events, the story goes that Free
man determined to get rid of the wona-
an. He had not the heart to harm her,
it seems, and it has been told the writer
that Ae hired pair of horses and a
buggy. and, accompanied hy Mrs Free
man, set out upon journey oyer = rafe-
ly-traveled mountain route.
One night the two stopped for lodg-
ing in lonely cabin in the mountains
When morning came Mrs. Freeman dis
covered that her husband was miss
ing from the experiment. to which they
had been assigned. Inquiries developed
that be had arisen before daybreak. had
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are nine Baptist churches in
Denver, with a total membership of
nearly 1900, and all of them have set
tied pastors.
Kansas City has eighty-four churches,
representing twenty different denomi-
nations, besides numerous small socie-
ties that are without regular places of
worship.
The athletic fame of American uni
versities has attracted notice from the
French Government. They have sent
Pierre de Coubertin to study athletic
systems at Yale, Harvard and other col
leges for the benefit of the French uni
versity.
Miss Mary Louise Baldwin, a young
colored teacher, has been appointed
principal of the Agassiz public school,
at Cambridge, Mass. Miss Baldwin is
highly educated and has had several
years training in different grades of
the school to whose head she is now
promoted.
"A rather remarkable testimony to
the excellence of mission schools is
given by recent great representative
meeting of Moslems in India, at which
it was resolved that in all places where
they had no schools of their own the
young men of their community should
be sent to the missionary schools rather
than to Government schools. This was
by vote of ITO to 30.
The Churchman saws concerning
carrying the higher criticism into the
pulpit: The clergy are not sent to
teach criticism. 1t is we'll for them te
study it, especially if they can study il
profoundly; but to repeal at second
hand the supposed results of criticism,
which are not and can not yet be final,
is to incur the tremendous and unchar.
liable risk of injuring immortal souls.'
Cambridge does not believe in the
color line. 1t is well known that the
Harvard class of 1890 has chosen a col.
ored man as its class-day orator; and a
few days ago colored woman, who has
long taught in the public schools, was
promoted to the principalship of one Of
its best schools, which bears the name
OF "Agassiz." Let the college towns OF
the South hear the message which the
oldest college town of the Nation would
send.
"A Presbyterian church in Melbourne
has introduced some innovations into its
services, which, although happily blend
ing patriotism and pietv. would startle
the sober-minded Scotchman at homs:
The choir, composed of gentlemen
wearing the Highland kilt and girls at.
tired in the costume of the Lady of the
Lake, sing their hymns of praise to the
music of the bagpipes. The ingenious
parson who contrived these effects has
his reward in greatly enlarged congre-
cations.
When the present Free Baptist
Church was building in Gardner Elder
John Stevens, with no less dignity, as
sisted the workmen in laying the foun-
dation. One day while digging with his
brethren in the trench he was ap-
preached by a well-known physician,
who remarked: "When your house is
finished, parson, you may possibly be
bothered to fill it; though suppose you
preachers can get folks into the church
easier than you can get them into
Heaven. YES, said Elder John, paus-
ing in his labor, 1.-The clergy can only
point the way to Heaven; when it comes
to getting people there they're obliged
to fall back on the doctors. Lewiston
(Me.) Journal.
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old before she found in her writing a
solace for bereavement and sorrow.
! In the country the farmers wives are
interesting themselves in temperance
and politics The general circulation
of the newspaper has been godsend to
them, and they have been quick to act
upon its suggestions, and SO broaden
and brighten their lives.
The days have passed in which women
are to be wives and mothers. and moth
ing more. Their duty in that direction
will always be paramount to every other
consideration, but for the cultivated and
active mind it is not enough. Knowl-
edge and wisdom confer power, and
power in either man or woman will find
fitting scope, as water seeks level. The
education of women within the last
twenty-five years has revolutionized So
ciety, and the blessings which have
come with it are not only permanent,
but they will be increased.
The ultra conservative who can not
adjust themselves to the new conditions
may well say, with the doughty Sir An
thony Absolute: ''All this is the natural
consequence of teaching girls to read. -
But what is done can not be undone.
and no feminine human being in possess
sion of her faculties will give up one
inch of the solid ground which has been
gained.
Old age, instead of being full of ter
rors, so far as women nowadays are con-
cerned, ought to be anticipated with
| pleasure. No one stops to ask the age
of an interesting person, and with the
full opportunities which our times and
our country afford no woman of average
intelligence has right to be uninter-
esting, though she may have passed the
| allotted three score and ten.-Mary ii.
Krout, in Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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THE CAVALRY HORSE.
He Must BE the Friend and Companion
of the Soldier.

He Must BE the Friend and Companion
of the Soldier.
Physical fitness is closely related to
mental fitness, for that horses have
minds, affections and memories no one
can deny, and all who have studied
them will bear testimony to the effects
of ENTERTAINMENTS and kindness upon them,
not only in the performance of their
work, but upon their durability. Horses
kindly treated will do as much, if not
more, service in given space Of time
than those which are harshly used,
while they will certainly last very much
Longer. With unfeeling treatment and
bad management horses can be worn out
in a very short period; whereas, under
the opposite conditions their lives might
be most usefully prolonged to more than
twenty years. Therefore it is that, in
order to assist in insuring the physical
fitness of their troopers, soldiers should
be continually reminded of the
great Importance of kindness to their
animal friends and companions. HUI
mainly to animals is a sacred duty i'm
posed upon all of us; to the soldier it is
this and something more, for his life
may depend upon the reciprocal feeling
of affection existing. between himself
and his steed. In the words of an old
cavalry soldier: '"Fhe rider must live
only for his horse, which is his legs, his
safety, his honor and his reward. :"
Soldiers should never be deprived of
their horses, if possible, IL they have
taken care of them, but they ought TO
be encouraged to form friendship with
them, or even to imagine kind Of pro-
prietorship in them. Officers and men
should learn as much as they can of the
care and management needed to keep
their horses in the best condition for
work and how to preserve them from
injury. Military Society
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URBAN POPULATION.
The Growth of Cities Compared with That
of the Whole Country.

The Growth of Cities Compared with That
of the Whole Country.
Mr.. Albert Il. Hart has an interesting
and instructive article on American
cities in the current number of the
Quarterly Journal of Economics. The
article shows that the rapid develop
ment of cities in this country lies chief
ly within the last forty years. The POD.
ulation of the United States since 1890
has been increased by sixteen times:
and during the same period, taking
8, 900 persons under single local gov
eminent as the definition of d city, the
number of cities has been increased by
sixty times, and the urban population
by one hundred and sixty times. In
1850 the number of cities having an
average population of $4,000 was only
IS; in 1860 the number was 141: in 1870
it was 226; and in 1880 it was ESQ with an
average population of 1880. In 1870
the urban population of the country was
about one-thirtieth of the whole; in
1860 it was about one-sixth; and in 1880
it was nearly one-fourth of the whole.
These figures show a remarkable
growth of cities and city populations, as
compared with the growth of the whole
country. One of the causes of this re-
suit has been the large immigration to
the United States within the last forty
years, and the general tendency of inn
migrants to crowd into cities rather than
disperse themselves in rural districts
and devote themselves TO agriculture.
This rapid increase of cities carries
along with it a corresponding increase
in their political power. and makes the
problem of good city government for
local purposes one of increasing diff
Guilty. The key to the future in respect
to city government, as Mr.. Hart thinks,
is thorough system of popular educa-
ton by which .,rightexamples and right
principles" shall be widely instilled
INTO the minds of children" Our pub
lie school system aims 70 attain this
end, and is the best practical agency for
the purpose. More stringent natural
ization laws. as called for by the Presi-
dent, are also of great Importance
Y. independent
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"A New York Socialist induced q
fortune teller to ''foretell" to q rich
widow that she would be married to q
young man whose description fitted him
exactly. BY and by he came along and
the widow, recognizing her intended
husband, married him. He remained
with her long enough to borrow s., 0OO
and then skipped.
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The Sultan Abdul Hamid lives in a
constant fear of his life as the Gar Of
Russia does When he goes to the
mosque, which he must by the law Of
Mahomet do every Friday, ) body.
guard Of 10000 men. well paid and
therefore loyal, surround him.
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InE EARTH'S GROWTH.
A Constant but Very Slow Accretion from
MeteOric Dust.

A Constant but Very Slow Accordion from
Meteoric Dust.
The earth, travelling in its orbit around
the SUN and onward with the entire So
lar system around some unknown and
still greater center of attraction, is con-
stantly traversing new regions of space,
which it depletes of meteoric dust and
meteovites, thus steadily-no matter
how slowly-increasing in diameter.
Now let this growth continue till the
earth has just twice the attractive pow
er which it now possesses, we should
then have twice the number of meteor
ties and double the quantity of dust
falling annually upon it than now.
Fortunately for our heads the earth
has not as yet attained very formidable
dimensions, but we may look upon it as
an established fact that it constantly
gains in weight and that in proportion
to such gain its attractive power stead
lily increases.
The attractive force of the sun is so
enormous that perpetual hail of meteor
ties and a torrent of dust particles must
rush upon it from all directions, and
some of the foremost observers are now
OF opinion that these falling bodies are
the sole cause of the suns heat.
In the light of this theory our earth is
young and growing and not an old and
dying planet-a planet with future,
which ought to be cheerful news to all
of US, although we shall not live to reap
the benefit of it, and the sun, far from
being on its last legs as an aspiring lu-
minary, is steadily gaining in heat and
lighting apacity.-American Geolorist.
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GRAZING LANDS.


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A Car Load of
GLIDDEN BARB WIRE.
A Car Load of
STUDEBAKER WAGONS,
AGA Lead of
BUGGlES,
SPRING WAGONS,
ROAD CARTS,
CANTON PLOwS,
JOHN DEERE PLOwS.
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CITY PROPERTY.


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Dec 1889 signed Cotton Hosiery Mills
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SUGAR PLANTATIONS.


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