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Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-18
STRANGE STORIES.

4 cigar dealer in Mannheim, Pa, has a rooster which can Gntis shoestrings.
 A ringed snaks about three feet long vas captured alive over four miles out at sea oH the English coast.
 Two old women recently fought In the streets of Guadalajsra, Mexico. over the love of man 50 years of age.
 There Is home for cats at Twelfth and L0mbard streets. Philadelphia It Is re- ported to be aowing success
 William MeClosky. who recently went insane at Rockford. Ills, imsgiues that be has poisoned his mastsche-
 Chicago boasts of the most economic young lady in the west. When she washes her face she always laughs SO as not to have so much face to wash.
 4 bridge gave way in 6irard. Ala, and 6 mule team, a load of lumber and the driver fell through. q distance of twenty feet NotEing suffered damage except ths bridge
 4 conductor on the West Sbcrs road xas importuned by a woman passenger te stop and back the train inorder that she mighs Look for the false teeth that had fallen Cut wEs4s she was mapping oa toe window ledge
 There Is an old iady named Nancy Brown, living close by Birmingham. Ala siio has never been sn that town. and who has never ridden on railroad train iH Der life She has lived there for ferty seven years. and Is % years old She Is veil aiE. but dresses with tbo greatest simplicity August Fonda. a lawyer vas walking oD be railroad track at Biloxi. Miss ~rhes tho engine struck him and threv AiiI eo . considerable 9issarscs- Ele supposed that be ~Es killed. but two physicians, sffer 5 long and careful exeminatloa. found that hr. Fonda was not hart in the isxst. aud, after soms difficulty, succeeded h coz viaeiag hin os tlss fset
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STAGE TALK

Jane Haaing made her stage debut at the age of years.
 Salvinis next American tour will begin at Palu5er's. New York. Oct 2. 1S59-
 Charles coghlan viii this year accoa- pauy Mrs. IAngtry ss Der leading sup port
 Ellen Terry has built a new London house which has eos1 sl00. GOO She xill move into 1t when she returns from the continent.
 The new eaiifornia tbsater ia San Fran cisco wiB be opened on May fs, lss9 ghea Booth and Barrett begin a four weeks engagement.
 Henry Irving. who anticipates another American tour next season. will bring over people and seenery for one play only -.Mscbeth Last season, oB his owR authority, his actual nightly expenses ay- e-Aged sI. zoo
 The projected tour of Charles Wynd- ham h America has been abandoned for this season. the proposal having been made SO late that ]. was impossible te se sure the dates wanted ar Wyndh2p may eame next sSassn-
 Parline Lueca. in an interviev in Vi enna, declared that tie American tosr o1 which she starts in November will close her career on the stage. and that abe has bought villa at Gmunden. where she la tsrds to este 5iish school for oPeFs singers.
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z.rre css.n. ln K.n,nssr.

Locking SSIt tsss tsss-sfs ssssss windows Tie cabins, i0unEiRG in the doorways, isfzdng over the low frame fences gHtli- sgipg int9 quickly forTniUg, quickly dis sJlking grunps in the dusty streets, tllCy swarm; they are here from rRIlkwhite through all deepening shPdes tS glossy slaekEess; oct0Fo0ns, quadFo0ns, mulst' es, some with large, liquid, black eyes. refined features, delicate forms working, Y,rssiping. higgiinR over prices around d Ysget1ble cart, discussing Last nights siIurCh festival, today's funeral or BeXt Eeel s railway exrurSl,n, sleeping, plan eing bow to get work and lguW to escape it From some unseen old figure in liam. kgs ant tssrtlssEs ssss=e&ass t4lsa gEsls.:.!i in the rear Of & eabla, comes a croonel ssng of iRdesCTibabie p8thUs, be!siud H !n closed frout shutter. q AOoTiSh bued SuJroso in gsy lnen Jhrugns his banjo in measure of ecstatic Eaysty, preluding the more passionate melodies of the coming night. Here 8 fight; there the sound of the fiddle and the rhythmic batting of hands Tatters and silks faUut them selves side by side. Dirt and cleanliness He down together. IndGience g0es hand in hand with thrift. Superstition dogs tlIa slow footsteps of reason. Passion and self control eye each other all day long across the narrow way. h there IS any where resolute virtue, all round 1t is weltered muck of low and sensual desire. One sees ali the surviving types of old negro life here crowded together with and sOntrasted with all the new phases Of "colored'' life, sees the transitional stage of a race part of whom were born slaves and are now freemen, part of whom have been born freeInen but remain so much like slaves.
 1t cannot fail to happen as you walk along that you will come upon some cabin set back in a small yard and half hidden, front and side, by an almost tropical jungle of vines and muitifOrm foliage; patcaes or great sunnOwers, never more leOnine in tawny magnifiCence and guu loving rep0se; festO0Bs of white and purple morning glOries over the windows and uE, to the low caves; around the porch and above the doorway trellis Of gourd vines swinging their long nscked, krotesque yellow fruit; about the entrance flaming hollyhocks and ether brilliant bits of bloom, marigolds and petunias- evidences of the warm native taste that stil distli4 yUishes the negro after some centuries of contact with the old, ehas+- sned ideals of the AnglO-Saxon. -JRLuef Lase Allen in The Century.
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rhs Nunhsr ef the stars.

The total number of stars one can see will depend very largely upon the eleas- ness of the atmosphere and the keenness of the eye. There are in the whole e. lestial sphere about 6,000 stars visible 10 an ordinarily good eye. Of these, how ever, we can never see more than a frac- ton at any one time. because a half Ot the sphere Is always below the horizon. If we could see star in the horizon as easily as in the zenith. a half of the whole number, or S,000, would be visj- ble on any clear night. But stars near the horizon are seen through so great thickness of atmosphere as greatly to Ob- scurs their light, and cnly the brightest ones can there be ssen. As result of this Obscuration, it is not likely that more than . q eco ssSEs Czsa 5s taken i1 ss ss szi- gle view by any ordinary eye. About 2, 600 other stars are So near the South pole that they never rise in ourtlatitude. Hence, out Of 5000 supposed to be gisi ble, only 4.o00 ever come within range of our vision. unless we make journey towards the equator. E. 5 Holden in The Century.
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crr.tar,Irs.Ien Of Carbon.

Attempts have been frequently made ts srystallfze carbon 90 as to form the dia- monds but, though carbon can be crystal Hzed, 1t always appears ia the finished state ss graphite (black ieadl, and boI the diamond. These two forms are the most common, and, in fact, the only two where carbon Is known to be erystaIlized A discussion by Mr. L. Fletcher on nodule of carbon from meteorjte, which fell in western Australia, develops the discovery of carbon, blaek, and possessing all the attribates of graphite, but cryssaliized fn s4dan eabss- No such precedent has been established, and therefore this may be re- garded e c taird crystal form for carbon. The discovery has particular interest, Rs this form has Deyer been oh1.rved oa ar terrestrial specimen Of carbon, but on
 ln this nodule of extra terrestrial origi
 Chicago Tribune.
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The 1npuiss to Write.

As to authorship itself. believe a writer should have . natural impulse to write, just as the bird has a natural de- sire to sing. This impulse cones from a grea. variety of motives. IT iii msre sentiments CT a petty ambition 10 ses bis name in print, vny, he viii write bis book, the public vii give it's verdict and there will soon be an end Of it. Among all this throng of writers one viIl bs found here ard there who will keve the power to tzteress, win and hold sn audi snce. Nc ore ca3 p.ck cut the man CT woman vfso vii do that; the svritsEs tisenss.ves do not know llosz it vii be: they must make the triaI before they can know whether they win Euceeed or not. Young writers should rely on the liter ary judgment of heaest friends, and nos ask busy authors with whom they sra not acquainted to eriticise their ulanu- scripts, as many of them now do.-E. P. RosiE The Epoch
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Cossnrfioa snrr tn shnu-

''Is there any powder which can be'ppt on so as not to shoT?'' asked, when the Alack robes had 6uttered away.
 II never saw any which I could not Ie5ect," was the reply.
 ''ls the use of cosmetics increasingly vas the question put to the proprietcr.
 Certainly it is. D" he said. 'tAH sorts of women use complexion remedies. We don't have much to do with the stage people, who have their own ways of making up, but every oti,er sort of zo- uan comes here. Tn the winter we make gp even buds in their firs1 season, when they haven't bloom enough for a baIl room. The washes and channels come in play then. In summer women who have been shopping step in to get dash of powder So as not to 20 home to dinner in a precipitation Some times one of cur attendants is sent for post haste to a fashionable watering placs to make up a regular customer for a hop or to repair damages after a yachting day in file wind Shop girls make up quite generally. don't believe tlleir esil- ployers require it, as some say. but they powder and rouge as much as society folks, No, we don n's often use cosmetics on children though once in a while thers Is call fer that sort of thing in prepzra- ton for child's party or ball There is one Little tot of 6, whose mother Is a rich widow, and terribly disappointed because the child hasn't inherited her beauty. who is brought here to be made up about as often as chiIdrrn's festivities go oa.p- Eliza Putnam Heaton.
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The yinsyarss O. France.

The prize of SGO, 900 offered some years ago by the French government to any one who should invent a remedy for that destructive diseaSe of the vine, phyiloxera. has not yet been awarded. although experiments with some of the remedies proposed have yielded encourag- irg results. The losses caused by this disease are enormous About one-haIt of the vineyards of France have been totally destroyed by it. Mr. Roosevelt, SaF consul at Bordeaux, reports that the loss caused directly by the destruction of yines is thus far $1, ,440. coo. 600, to which should be added more than $760, GOO, 0O0 expended for wine and dried grapes i'm ported tc make good the shortage, raising the total loss S2, 600, 900. COG. The value of wine imported into France, to be ''doctored'' in various ways for use al home and sale abroad as the product Ot French vineyards, has risen from S1,- s7o, 34S in 1875 to sl09, 900, 900 in 1887. New York Times
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The rurkI.h surtap., Laundrr.

The laundry where all the linen from the DoIpa Bagtche palace is washed L. under the direction of a man, but the work B ali done by women. They have no washboards and rub the garments ii. their hands. They do not boil the clothes at all, and they are white as snow. They wash the clothes through two waters and then pack them tightly in baskets, covering them witA towels, which they strew thickly with wooo ashes and sliced lemons. Boiling watei is then poured over them, and the clothes remain thus all night and in the msrn- ing are rinsed and hung Out--New YoTk Hs-aid
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Poissu from Lead Pipes.

It is claimed to be proven, beyond aJI doubt, that water which circulates or stands in Ieaden pipes CT vessels, not only takes up particles of lead through me. caanical action due to friction. but attack the metal, the result Of this being gener ally lead carbonate. According to the most eminent authorities in this line, minute quantities of lead thus introduced into and accommodating in the system. must rank among the causes of auaTis and defective :==:=:s:=iEion in large tS=zns- New York Sun
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Charles sanusr,s Charming Letters.

Senator Sumner had a happy way ol Eriting to any one whose work pleased him as author, ot atOT, painter, sculptor Oi musician. Many authors have been made happy by his expressions of appreciation. lAIn2fellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Motley. Prescott, ct id genus oEnne, have ts,eu laid under contribution by the Sena- sDy's biogTapheT, and the letters Sumner 'rrote them while hot from their works will make very interesting reading. There are those across the water who can COB tribute to las biography charming lett eEs Of appreciation, and among them Jsen TnzelOw, who received several of great force. lie had an especially warm side for young authors of merit, and many a one of them now of established reputa- ton, owes much to his discriminating praise, and his encouragement to press on, to elevate and purify their taste, and, g"0ve all, ito work, work, work. :" To o.. he wrote: ''Who shall say that the power to work is not itself geniusg'
 It was his way To write to a speaker jnn- nlediately after he had heard or read his speech. Schuyler COlfax came to ihs front in a speech CD the Kansas question, which showed him to be a man of mark. Sumner on that same night wrote him a letter Of thanks, cOuched in such terms that the young orator showed IH to alUIit- ing friends as an evidence that at least one leading man did not deem him too rash. The letter found its way into print, aud soon iB vas regarded as happily vGiciag the views of the party, and Republicans generally indOTsed Summers indeTsement, and Colfax was a made man.
 So thoroughly necessary vas it deemed tn have Summers stamp on q rising Tepu- t;ltioD that he was sometimes irupOTtuned to do for others wh4t he had done for Col fax. 'I,et him." Sumner said to one suiter, make such Q speech as COliax made, and will write hiD such 8 letter as I wrote Colfax. Arnold Barges John son fn The Cosmopolitan.
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Old Women in Cnnada.

Another point that has often been i'm pressed upon me is that all the old dow. agers in Canada look precisely like Queen Victoria, and this resemblance is aug mented by the ugly fashion in which they dress their hair out of compliment to her majesty. There is much more deferencs in the manner of those in hum bic walks of life toward their suPeriors than with us Polite and civil shop girls are not sn effete institution in Canada, nor are respectful servants unknown. The street car conductor, who touches his has respectfully when you signify your stop to him, was such surprise to me that I did not recover from the shock tor days.-Edith Sessions TupPer.
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AotEu.

 wssA wh&t sad heart. O love. asy The words that cause me bstGsF pAts . iEa w1ai zHi heart 1 so a~aJ-
 Who knoEs. shall return sgafE7 And yeC. Q love, they must be spoken, mo lives are wrecked and hearts ere eEoks And So. sdissz. my love, adaeu,
 Believe me. l can say DO more; Ny fife Is fuii Of love for you-
 it holds within no other iore- Ani yes. O ioye say adsea To keep the world aud give up y0a And many day and Ensny g night. The heaFs viii ache and tears will blLEA For all tly life and sLs delight
 Are ID the world leave behind; arzi sss stilF'a. s4g I0se. any 0HB- llos ths bitter wOrid alone! But you WiiI miss Gas. wal you nots Mayhap as mech as I will you; >Tis not so easy Es you thought
 To say ''Adieu. my love, adieuF For if we stop Co count the cost Without the one the others losEI
 -GSorgs wilmot Harris in Woman
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wn, Get Usea ta Is.

Why that sad expression, dear, p said g bride on the first day Of her wedding trip, as sine raised her head from her hns- bands shoulder, ''tlo you regretg''
 ''Ah, no, daFiing." he replIed fer vently, is was but aeeting expression. You dropped asleep for moment and thought heard just the fainGest snspf eion of 6 snore. "--The Epoch.
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rh. c1onda uar. n-r.

Jimmie had been promised trip into the country.
 Mamma, arc you going outro amees s0dayia
 sNo. dear, I'm afraid t wE1 rain. Don't you sss how s.zek ths clouds ersS's s.Xes" Ereluct.zklyl, s-Ezzs aonsk think sEs7'H lsakgs-Es1slt Fsss psasA.
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cnpld are ,l,e na...

Cupid stoopiag to kiss 6 new blown, aewy rose, was Etuag by bee asleep in its heart. To plese the petaisnt boy Venus strung bis tpw with captive bees nd planted along the stem of the rose le stings torn fr0n them.-The Cos saor.oli+sn
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slro ef rroleeules ar sllrsr.

Applyisg certain rieasurcnerts to a scarcely visible Aim Of silver, Herr Vie her arrives at the conclusion that no less than I25, ,060, ,000 molecules of silver Truxs bs lzia in line to Eneasure n1 saGA Aa<A1ssE TIsyels<. -
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D 4 Vein .s s,ass

Butler. Ga. eiain to have vein of aatural glass. It l. found at depth of 8f7 feet in round, hollow aud very rough pieces, which appear to have come from the fusing cf the sandy soil I,y intense lseat.--New York Sun.
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There are tlirty-seven tunnels of Enors than 1,000 yards iH England, the iongess seing that Of the severn-7, ,se4 yards.
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Ilairty-sVs women srs studsnss In sas keadon sshool q Msstssae Esg w&zz
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-11-18
The Woman VINO Laughs.

For a good every day household
angel give us a woman who laughs.
Her biscuit may not be always just
right, and she may occasionally burn
her bread and forget to replace dis
located buttons, but for solid COM
fort all day aud every day she is a
paragon. Home is not battlefield,
nor life one long, unending row.
The trick of always seeing the bright
side, or if the matter has no bright
side, of shining up the dark one is a
very important faculty, one of the
things no woman should be without.
We are not all born with the sun
shine in our hearts, as the Irish pref
tily phrase It; but we can cultivate
a cheerful sense of humor if we only
try.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-11-18
a Minister'S Recention.

A Methodist minister, now sta
toned here, while relating some
"reminiscences of his early days in
the ministry. said:
@One day while travelling between
stations / so timed myself as to ar
rive at a good brotI er's in the coun-
try about dinner time. l hitched
my horse and went in. Brother H.,
was absent from home, and the wife
and daughters appeared glad TO see
me. We chatted pleasantly for a
half hour or more. / was very hun
CRY, and was sure dinner was being
prepared, as the girls had dropped
out of the room one by one, so l
tarried, but was very uneasy, and
thought the lady OF the house was
becoming so. finally she excused
herself and went out of the room for
moment. A small boy, who had
been running in and cutof thereon
since my arrival, entered, and l
said: Come here, my little man,
and as he came toward me. asked:
How soon will you have dinner
here?'
Just as soon as you go,' was the
ready answer.
81 went. - Washington Star.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-11-18
Want TO be Lei Alone.

Mr.. Reed, at one time autocrat OF
the House of Representatives, sug-
gests that the people try "letting the
tariff alone" for while.
That is a characteristic PROPOSE
ton. Having secured by means OF
packed committee all they want,
the tax-eaters propose to the tax
payers to "let them alone"
Mr.. Lincoln used to tell story
of his own household which could
be applied aptly to the existing
tariff situation. He heard great
uproar in the nursery, and went on
tour of investigation. There he
found that the younger boy was
crying for a ball that belonged to
the older. "Oh," said his father,
"give him the ball to keep him
quiet" "No," said the owner of the
article in dispute; "I want the ball
to keep me quiet"
Though the Robber Barons, hav-
ing fixed the law to suit themselves,
may be willing to let it alone for a
while, the people who pay these
taxes, who are plundered right and
lett, are not to be quieted with such
a proposition.
Down with the robber tariffl-
Courier Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-11-18
And She kept her word.
But Ethel VIII Have Something to Sa.
About That.


But Ethel VIII Have Something to Say
About That.
She was not quite ready to re.
ceive him, so she sent her little
brother to entertain him while she
put the finishing touches to her
toilet.
The entertainment was lively, if
not satisfactory.
"You are Ethel's beau, amt your
the youthful prospective brother-in-
law began.
"Yes," said the youth pleasantly.
"You have money in the bank,
haven't your"
"Yes."
aAnd it's in your own name, isn't
it2"
eyes"
"And you expect to keep it in
your own name after you're married
to Ethel2"
"Well-ar-yes."
"WelI, Ethel will have something
to say about that"
Ethel's beau began to feel uncom-
Portable.
"You smoke, don't you," contin-
ued the inquisitor.
"Yes, little"
"And you expect to smoke after
You are married to Ethel2"
"Ye-es."
"Well, Ethel will have something
to say about that"
Ethers beau felt more uncomfort-
able than ever.
aYou belong to a club, don't your
pursued the self-possessed urchin.
"Ye-es."
"And you expect to belong to it
after you are married to Ethel2"
81 suppose so."
aWell, Ethel will have something
to say about that"
Ethel's beau was growing red in
the face.
sYou play billiards, don't you2''
continued the boy.
"Yes, sometimes
"And you expect to play some
times after you're married to Ethel2'
al do"
swell, Ethel will have something
to say about that"
"Look here, my young friend,
said the exasperated lover; ave
got an important engagement which
forgot. 1 am going to attend tc
it. You tell Ethel I've gone and
see what she has to say about that.
And he went.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-11-18
Splendid Act.

In the desert of human greed and
selfishncss an act like that of Mrs.
William III. Hazard, one of the prin-
cipal beneficiaries of the decision
invalidating Mr.. Tilden's will, is
like a green and refreshing oasis.
Under that decision she was enti-
tied to half the estate, or some SO,
100000, but being in sympathy with
her great uncle's wishes she has
given over two million to the exec
utors that they may be enabled to
carry out Mr.. Tilden's design of
establishing a public library. 1t
is true that under the will she
would have received only the in
terest on s15O,O0O, with the power
to bequeath the principal, and that
she is, therefore, much better off
than if it had been sustained, but her
generosity in voluntarily surrender
ing fortune of s2,OOO,OOO is so ex-
traordinary as to merit the highest
praise. Probably not one person
in a million would have done the
same thing under the same circum-
stances. Nowadays people not
only hold on to all they have got
and can get lawfully, many of them
are always trying to grab what be-
longs to their neighbors. Mrs.
Hazards selfsacrifice isea "good
deed" that shines out with special
radiance in the darkness of ga
naughty world.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-11-18
The Penalty Of Success.

add you ever see the wife of a
successful MANI" 1 am tempted to
ask when some one points out to
me the shining lights of these two
friends of mine. Not that the men
are brutal, ill-tempered, or except
ionaIly irritable; rather The reverse
is true of them; they are amiable
enough. Yet their unconquerable
self-absorption has made them any
thing but boon companions. Their
hours of labor or of research are
prolonged unreasonably, with in
tervals of moodiness, sometimes OF
utter silence. The bubble they fol-
low is ever dancing before their
eyes; the fury of pursuit is alI-in-aII
and life apart from that has lost its
charm. Their wives share in their
triumphs, of course; and why should
they complaint They do not.
Like tho Dutchman's wife upon her
deathbed, they are resigned because
they have to be. 1t is only between
the lines of their patient faces that
one may read the wish of the heart
for the old days to come back when
things were otherwise.