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The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
Tbey Eat a. Dickens Told Them.

a good story is told at one OF the ho-
tells here about some OF the English d.
vines who are in the city III attendance
upon the Methodist ecumenical council.
It was noticed that at the hour set down
for dinner on the card posted in each
room giving the rules of the house these
English preachers would gather about
the doors of the dining room and when
they were opened would make a wild
rush inside, and to seat themselves hasti-
~ at the first table they reached and to
begin to eat as quickly as possible.
The landlord was puzzled to know the
cause Of this strange conduct on the part
of his foreign guests. Inquiry developed
the fact that these reverend gentlemen
had before coming yer posted them
selves on American customs by reading
Dickens american Notes" and "Mar-
tin Chuzzlewit." The scene in the latter
descriptive of the effect Of the hotel din
ner gong causing everybody to quit
whatever he was doing and make a rush
for the dining room lest he should fail
to get any dinner they took as gospel
truth and were governing thsir own con-
duct accordingly. : Washington Cor.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
EASY Enough.

Julian Mitchell, the stage manager,
a ~rehearsing a company Of variety
people who had waxed ambitious and
planned to go forth into the fowery
fields of polite farce. Among them was
q knockabout team, of whom was
cast to play a gilded youth who figures
prominently in the piece. His ideas on
corning the proper performance Of the
role were supremely weird, and one after
noon Julian overheard the following con-
versation between the portrayer of the
modern swell and his partner:
"Say, Billy, l amt got no use for these
dood parts. Ican't get no conception Nv
'em."
Come orr. Cuff shootin's dead easy"
Ever try it,"
"Sutinly. Kelley amt in it with me
when it come to wearin dress props"
"Well, the games q dead hard one for
me-"
Nix. All We got to do is to renem-
Der you're a gent what's wearin gents
clothes and lettergO!'-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
Recinnin- by Her Time.

''IIo1. the baby, please; I'll be back in
Just o minute" said she. Ten, twenty,
thirty minutes passed. Baby awoke and
yelled as if seven ghosts were after it.
Taking the child, he went to find his
wife.
'She isn't here" said the neighbor.
"She has gone to the dressmaker's. But
she left her parasol here and said she'd
call for it in just a minute. Have a
chair"
"Thanks" Baby screaming, head
thrown back, face red, eyes shut, back
stiff, kicked off one little red shoe and
made its mouth and hands go. Half an
hour, no wife. He carried the baby to
the dressmaker's, where he was told:
Your wife isn't here. She has gone
pattern here and said she'd call for it in
just a minute. Be seated"
Thanks"
He trotted the screaming child on his
knee, laid it on it's back, rolled it over
on its stomach, tossed it in the air,
stuffed a handkerchief in its mouth and
hummed 1--WE Won't Go Home Till
Morning" He asked for a rattle box,
but the dressmaker got mad and said
she wasn't married. Half hour, no
wife. He took the child to the milliner.
who said:
"Your wife isn't here. She has just
left for home. On, what q cute little
mouth; that child has been crying!"
"Hain't it," He started for home and
met his wife on the street. Tossing the
child into her arms he strutted away,
muttering:
I'll be back in just a minute"
"Chicago or New York time, DEAR"
Your timer he Numbered.
That was two years ago and she hasn't
seen him since Chicago Herald.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
= Brother,

According to an Atlanta paper a
seedy looking man, not quite fifty and
wearing a discouraged and colorless
SLOUGH Gt, with a suit to match, stood
before the bulletin boards in Atlanta the
other day to get a glimpse of dispatches
about the death Of Charles Stewart Par
nell. The man was John Parnell, a
brother of the Irish leader, who has
spent the latter years Of his life tending
fruit trees On a little farm seventy-fve
miles from Atlanta. 81 cannot believe
that he is dead" said he. The only
thing that makes me believe the report.
is the statement that he died suddenly.
There were twelve children in our fam
lily, six Of whom are dead, and every one
of the six died suddenly. Our sister
Fanny, who died last, was found dead in
bed. Charles, and in fact all Of Us, are
subject to attacks of nervous prostra-
ton, and if he is dead this must have
caused his death. He loved us all, and
but a short time ago he wrote me a moss
affectiOnate letter."
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
The Sweetest Visits.

There is a pleasure in little, ''scrappy,"
unexpected visitings with friends, which
is often wanting from the planned and
rounded comings when the fire is bright
and the cake basket ready in the closet
We are never conscious of a warmer,
more living nearness to a friend than
after we have unexpectedly CHANGED upon
him in the street and had a few minutes
OF that havorsome chat which chances at
SO much and grasps so little, or after he
has dropped in, for an unauthorized
half hour, at a time when we had no
reason to look for him.
Why is it that the longer, more
ordered hours of meeting leave, on the
the whole, an impression less vivid and
less warm? Perhaps because we have
lived he visit once, in anticipation, and
the reality has some faint fatal suspicion
Of %staleness? Certain it is, the scrappy
hours are sweetest.-Boston Common
wealth.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
Lord Castlereach's Ghost.

In one of the standard British bio
graphical works may be fa1nd the story
Of Lord Castlereagh and tine ghost. 1t
seems that when quite a young man
Castlereagh commanded IL militia regi-
ment III Ireland. One night he was sta
toned in q large, desOlate country house.
The bed upon which my lord reposed
was at the end Of a long, diIapidated
roOm, while at the other extremity a
great fire Of wood and turf had been
prepared within a huge, gaping, cid
fashioned fireplace. Waking III the mid
die Of the night, Castlereagh lay watch
ing from hispillow the gradual darkening
Of the elnbers on the hearth, when sud
denly they bIazed up and a naked child
stepped from among them upon the
floor.
The figure advanced slowly toward
the drowsy but thoroughly puzzled gen
eral, seeming to grow with surprising
rapidity at every step, until, coming
within two or three PAGES of his bed, it
had assumed the proportions and APP
pearance Of a ghastly giant, pale asdeath,
with bleeding wounds across the brow,
eyes seeming TO glow with rage and de-
spair. Lord Castlereagh said that he
leaped from the bed and confronted the
figure in an attitude of defiance, where
upon it retreated before him, diminish
ing in size as it withdrew, in the same
manner that it had previously shot up
and expanded.
He followed it, pace by pace, until
the original childlike form disappeared
among the embers. This story Lord
Castlereagh told and declared to be true
in every particular at a party in Paris in
1915 when Scott was among the hearers.
st. Louis Republic.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
Basil's Forge.

From reportsi it would appear that the
site of Basil's forge at Grand Pre- is no
longer a mystery. Mr.. w. G. Archi-
bald, while cutting away a sandy knoll
about two miles west Of the village Of
Wolfville, came upon what is supposed
to be the remains of the ancient black
smith shop, under about four feet of
soil. Foundation stones, charcoal and
Stag were discovered in large quantities,
SO unless the Acadian Grand Pre- could
boast Of more han one smithy, this is in
all likelihood the spot where Basil lived
and worked. It looks as though Wolf
vile was the heart of the ancient village
of Grand Pre-. -Nova Scotia Bulletin.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
The Field for the Inventor.

Ia the realm of machinery and manu-
facture the inventor is yet but entering
upon his infancy. Many millions of dol
lars have been reaped and are to be &C
cumulated by the inventor in machinery
who understands the complicated needs
Of humanity. The central idea in this
work is to reduce labor, expense and
time to the lowest point, and SO to econo-
mfZe in the use of material that there
will be no absolute waste. To enter
upon this field of invention one cannot
trust to accident and happy luck, but he
must first thoroughly ~acquaint himself
with the laws of dynamics and mechan-
les, so that he cal appreciate an i'm
provement when it is suggested to his
mind.-GeOrge E. Walsh in New York
Epoch.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
MirrOrs of the ISraeIites.

The earliest mirrors of which mention
is made in history We're in use among the
Israelites in the time of Moses. That
gentleman, as recorded in the Bible,
commanded in a certain emergency that
these articles should be transformed into
wash basins for the priests. They were
made Of brass. Doubtless similar uten-
sils Of this and other materials were in
use long before that. At that same
period black glass was employed for the
purpose, as well as transparent glass
with black foil on the back. 1t is re-
lated that the Spaniards found mirrors
of polished black stone, both convex and
concave, among the natives of South
Star.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
Successor to the SPOT,

Those little beauty spots on ladies
wells, which were supposed to look like
patches of court plaster on the fair skin,
have found a successor at last. The spot
fashion had its drawbacks. The veil was
liable to twist around, and no matter
how carefully that spot was located it
was almost IRE to work around so that
1t cam on the tip of the wearer's nose.
Its successor is a dainty spray of flowers
or a leaf worked on the gauze. One is
supposed to come opposite each cheek
New York Herald.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
Did Not Know What Was Going On.

DID Not know h Was Going On.
There is a fact about the French revo-
luton more wonderful in its way than
any which can be discovered in old news
papers. 1t is the fact, gathered from
private letters of the period, that in
those stirring times, when all the world
was ringing with the events in Paris,
there were actually people in that city
living in absolute ignorance of the hor-
rors around them. There was no Reign
of Terror for them. They lived veritable
recluses in their quiet suburban houses,
hearing nothing, reading nothing of the
turmoil which startled and terrified the
nations. One wonders much what man
ner of people these oysterlike folks
might be. Nothing sounds more incred-
IDLE today. Yet there are many things
in history not half so we'll authenticated,
though history is curiously silent on so
strange a circumstance.-London News.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
Labor and Expense in Circulars.

just how much the postofice depart
ment receives every year for making
mems lives burdensome with circulars
OF every imaginable character it is i'm
possible to estimate, but if St. Louis is
any criterion it must be enormous. One
firm alone sends out considerably over
1000, OOO a year, and quite a number en-
ploy a large staff of folders and address,
ers, and get out from 1900 to 5000 a
day each during the busy season. If
every II they send to reads the circu-
lars as little as do there is a terrible
amount Of loves labor lost in the work.
Interview in st. Louis GIobe-Demo-
GRAFT.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
THE MOCKING r

There is no other bird sings half like that!
From Eden's bowers it flew,
Out to the world, with wavering plumsae
gray,
With the unhappy twain, that sad day
The rose wept tears of dew.
It is rot nightingale or lark.
Oh, a diviner bird!
In moon tipped forests, sweet with night and
dew,
And sun kissed meadows, when the spring
goes through.
It's voice is ever heard.
It's nests! In breaks where roses blow,
Where honeysuckles roam;
The wind pipes soft around it, and the rain
OF fearful April parts in twain,
Nor damps it's downy home.
Whence cometh it and goeth it?
Born for the souls delight.
No bird that fits through g~lories Of the
dawn,
Or homeward comes, down deepening twi-
light drawn,
Can match it's heart notes slight.
Mark A. Gambler in Atlanta Constitution.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
What the Present Was Used For.

There was once a school teacher who
received from her pupils a most elaborate
jewel casket of glass and silver. Not
long afterward she announced in family
conclaye, THAT thing is horrid, but we
really must use it," "We!" queried her
mother. why how many of Us are ex-
pected to make use of it?' LAS many as
possible, l should say was the limo
cent reply. Isn't it a pickle jar?'-
Youths Companion.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30

The exact nature of the connection be-
tween cyclones and tornadoes is not vet
understood: but the distinction between
them is so clear that nobody SHOULD ever
bestow upon M the name that belongs
to the other.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30

Ra~ttlesnakes are said to have a natural
antipathy to white ash leaves. Some
naturalists assert that a rattlesnake
placed in a circle of half ash leaves and
half hot Goals will cross the Goals rather
than encounter the leaves.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30

Science Ome to the front in the manu-
tacture of grindstones. The best now
made are composed of a mixture of pull
verified quartz, powdered flint, powdered
emery and rubber. They outwear bv
many years any natural stone.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30

The late Banker James H. Mead, of
Sheboygan, Wis, in his will, besides a
bequest of $4,000 for a public library,
left $4,000 for the erection Of a hall
wherein the boys Of ~Sheboygan may in
dulge in innocent sports and pastimes.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
Knew HOW to Wait.

Van Jorkins Ito applicant for position
of butler)-You are familiar with wait
ing?
John Thomas-Oh, yes, sir.
Van Jorkins-Where did you get your
experience:
John Thomas-I was a fashionable
tailor, sir; and l gave long credits
New York Epoch.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30

The government proposes to build an
other timber dock in the navy yard at
Brooklyn, the accommodations of the
other two docks being insufficient. It is
to be about 600 feet in length.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
Male Academy!
A School of High Grade for Young
Men and Boys.

The Session of 1991-'92 will open on
Monday, August 81, 1891, and continue
forty weeks.
Charges for Fall Term of 20 Weeks:
Primary department, $15.GO
intermediate, 1880
Academic, $4,000 to BE-
Incidental fee, %
All bills due at the beginning of each quar-
ter. No deductions will be made except in
cases of protracteds sickness.
The school offers unsurpassed advantages to
young men and boys desiring to prepare them
selves for college or the business pursuits of
life. Especial attention given to Latin, Eng
lish and Mathematics.
Boys entering during first two weeks will be
charged for the term, those coming in after
wards will be charged from date of entrance.
For further particulars. see or address the
Principal, l.. I. BUCHANAN,
Durham, n. g.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30

Arnold 7. jain, who recently died in
Chicago, was the son of Frederick Lud-
wig jain, the founder of the now
famous Turn Vereins and in his day
one of the greatest of German patriots.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30

Experiments at the Illinois experiment
station show that the best fertilizer
known for land on which wheat is raised
is ordinary barnyard manure.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30

DR.. Noah Webster, of dictionary fame,
was buried in the New Haven burial
ground, a short distance from Hillhonse
avenue, and near the center of the city.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30

The average French family embraces
three members, and the average Irish
family five. In England the average
number of members Of a family is four,
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30

Four years agoa strange birthday pres
ent was received by charles Kettleberger,
Of San Francisco. 1t was a coffin, and
the other day he was buried in it.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
WANTED!

For the United States Army, able-bodied.
unmarried men, between the ages OF Il and 30
years. Good pay. nations. clothing and medi.
cal attendance. Applicants must be prepared
TO furnish satisfactory evidence as to age.
character and habits. Apply at Rooms over
Clothing Store, Durham, NC.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
Close Figures in Furniture !

Furniture is either a good investment
or a bad one it is about as easy to make
a mistake as it is to make a purchase.
We believe in calling a spade a spade
every time. This time we have a special
announcement to make and you won't go
far astray if you give it special attention.
We are offering a handsome Parlor Suit
for $4,000. What we have to say about
them can be said in a sentence: In make,
material and cost they defy comparison.
They are finished to perfection and they
are almost as durable as the everlasting
hills.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
WANTED

Factories of all kinds, however small. Lib
ind dcements. Write character of business
and amount of capital could invest. BLACK
STONE LAND AND COMPANY,
Blackstone, Va
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-30
TRINITY COLLEGE.

Winter term begins first week in January,
1885,. at Trinity, Randolph county, n. G.
New Catalogue now in press will be mailed
free Ell application to the President.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-18
Cost of Furnishing food for Cannon.

According to the estimate of French and
German statisticians there have perished
in the wars of the last thirty years 2, 500,-
900 men, while there has been expended to
carry them on no less than the inconceiv-
able sum of SIS, 900, 100000. Of this
amount France has paid nearly $780,
100000 as the cost of the war with
Prussia, while her loss in men is placed
at 155, 900. Of these so, 900 were killed
on the field of battle, $4,000 died of
sickness, accidents or suicide and 10000
in German prisons, while there died from
other causes enough to bring the number
up to the given aggregate. The sick and
Wounded amounted to AT, 424, the lives
of many thousands of whom were doubt
less shortened by their illness or injuries.
According to DR.. Roth, German au-
thority, the Germans lost during the war
10000 men killed and rendered invalid
and $500, 200, 900 in money, this being
the excess of expenditure or of material
losses over the 81, $50, 100000 paid by
France By way Of indemnity. DR.. Engel,
another German statistician, gives the
following as the approximate cost Of tho
principal wars of the last thirty years:
Crimean war, $4,000, 100000; Italian
war of 1859, S3OO,00O,0O0; Prusso-
Danish war of 1864, S35, 900;
Civil War in the United States
(North), S., 100, 100000 (south), s2,.
500, 900, 900; P,usso-Austrian war Of
1866, $3.50, 900, 900; Russo-Turkish war,
1925, 900, 900; South African wars S.
no, 900; African war, sl3,25O, 600;
Scrvo-Bulsarlan war, S176, 600, ,OCO.-
Neao Orleans Times Democrat.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-18
WORDS OF WISDOM.
A mean man is never happy.

A mean man is never happy.
Nothing is eternal that can be seen.
The wheels of time only turn one way.
The man who believes nothing is
nothing.
Love is free, but it takes money to
keep house.
The easiest thing to believe is pleas
ing lie about ourselves.
Fame is shining garment, but it soon
wears cut at the elbows.
People who try to be funny do exactly
what they try to do. They try.
Diamonds please the eye, but nobody
ever gets fat by looking at them.
No man can oppress the weak without
killing something good in himself.
The right kind of success is the kind
that blesses every thing it touches.
People who never have anything to
overcome never amount to very much.
The spider and the honey bee can not
agree as to what flowers were made for.
You can do more good with kind
word than you can with silver dollar.
Those who have never suffered for love
do not know very much about the mean
ing of the word.
The father did not fall upon the prod
igal sons back, as the boy thought he
deserved, but upon his neck.
If we could only get up high enough
to look into the hearts of our enemies
compassion would take the place OF en-
mity.-Lndiaaapolis (Ind.) Ram's Horn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-18
Bride Eleven, Groom Sixteen.

On the steamship Amsterdam, from
Amsterdam, which arrived at this port
the other day, was Malaken Gosn, but
eleven years old and seven months old
bride. Her husband, Yuself Simwan,
sixteen years OF age, and her ON mother
accompanied her. The bride and groom
are Arabs from Mount lebanon, and
were married seven months ago. For
two years the groom had spent his time
in this country and by his industry sue
ceedcd in accommodating little money.
He then returned to Arabia and married
his wife. The bride is certainly most
beautiful person. She has black eyes,
with heavy, dark eyelashcs, rosy cheeks,
black hair and the most symmetrical
features possible. She stands about four
feet two inches in height and weighs one
hundred and twenty pounds. The entire
party passed through the Barge Office
and vera driven rapidly away in q cab
to join friends Of the groom who reside
in the city.-Mw York Mercury.