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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-21
IRON FOUN RS.

IA 5O0l4 10; spot Rio quiet; No. Z 17ls61t7Mc.
Sugar, raw, quiet and easy fair refining
1l-16c; refined duh and easy; off $40
Lice; standard A, 4ls@4 5-l6c; cut loaf
4ls6n4 7-i6c Freights to Liverpool quiet and
weak; cotton 9-6id; grain pad.
Chicago, March 20.-BusinesS in wheat was
principally local today and was confined to
IT ,nSactiOns by room traders and scalpers.
The range of prices was narrow, May selling
between 5Sc and $3.50 and 5Tl6c. closing at
81 Is G5Sc, n net gain OF &c Tor the day. Corn
was moderately active, and SvmpathiZed
of the session. May corn huctUated
between 37&d36Bc; closing AT the
outside gain of half for the day. Oats dis
PLAYED more activity within the last fifteen
trade In that grain for month Shippers
were good buyers during the early part of
the day and when an effort was made by
shorts to cover the market was found TO be
which carried prices q C higher in almost as
short time as it takes to tell it, The close
was with net gain of 2Hsc
Provisions exhibited much frmuess
and for the most part OF the session. Yards
reported a light run of hogs and steady mar
ket which was the main reason for the good
feeling In product When meat weakened
showed sympathy, and prices eased of. At
the close, May pork was SC higher than at
the same time yesterday. May lard 2lsc
lower and May ribs unchanged, There was
fair cash demand for meats.
Chicago, March 2O.-Cash quotations were
as follows: Flour was quiet with prices
steady and unchanged. Wheat-NO spring
SIC: No red 563 Q57c. COrn-NO. 2 3d. c.
Oats, No. 2 3Oa3O4c. Mess pork. per barrel
SO s5l5Sl0 S713. Lard, per 100 pounds, So G2ia
GlSG %. Short rib sides IS 62la Dry sailed
shoulders So O0Di6 p. Short clear sides IS on
@Si %. Whisky distillers finished goods
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Per steamship City Of Birmingham for
New York roo bales upland cotton, 100 bales
sea island cotton, 800 bales dOmestcs and
yarns. 24U sacks cotton seed hulls, 1870 bbls
ros II. 50 bbls spirits turpentine, 1928 feet
lumber 50 bbls pitch, 1s9 bD!s cotton seed oil,
% turtles, 5,G79 pkgs fruit, 2.Ss2 pkgs vege-
tables $40 tons pig iron cases eggs, 46 re-
frigeratOrs berries. 5 bbls fish 100 $50
shingles, 200 sacks rice chaf, 300 stoves, 2
bbls terra pins, 1877 pkgs mdse.
Per Norwegian bark Kamfjord for ST.
Petersburg-2,5 so lales cotton, valued at
SS9 952.
Per schooner Harriet C Kerlin for Phila-
delphia-9.5G 6 crosstes, measuring $500 feet
II. Hurd.
Per schooner Oscar c Schmidt for Phila-
delphia- 4J6600 feet pitch pine lumber
Georgia Lumber Company.
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Tytee, March 20-Passed out. U s supply
schooner Pharos from Dawfuskie and Hilton
Head. 9:;Op m.-Wind Sc; fresh fair.
Beaufort, SC. March l9-Arrived Port
Royal steamship Aurelia from London.
Georgetown, SC. March 20 Arrived, schr
Edgar Ross, Quillian, Charleston.
; allied, schooner James Young, Barbour,
Curacao.
Boston March 49, Arrived. schr Viola Rep
pard. Hutchinson, Brunswick.
Passed hlghlight, bark Henry Lttchfield for
Boston.
Baltimore, March 1s-Arrived schr Mar
garet May JARVIS, Charleston.
Jacksonville, Fla, March 20 Cleared, schr
Robert w Daisy, Hunter, Philadelphia
Charleston. March 20-Arrived, bark Maria,
lSpl, Pou, Havana; schr Susan n Pickering
Haskell, Boston; government steamer
America.
New Orleans, March 20-Cleared steamship
WaXelman, Liverpool; Ell Rio, New York;
Clinton, 3luehelds
Port hads March 2O-Sailed. steamship
Breifond, Bocas del Zorro; Spizzati, Cuba;
Pallas Liverpool
Mobile Ala. March cO-Arrlved steamship
Oubah lNorl .Bornhoidt, Montego Bay steam
ship Valencia [Aml. Miller, Tampa Bark
Stanhope lBrl, Norton, Cardenas.
Cleared, bark Jas l. Pendergast [Brl, Sa-
vannah.
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10 I'd dW " dUVC.
GOVT NOM NAM -


New York March Colour dull, steady;
winter wheat. low grades. 81 0OllS2 49, pat
ents 80 lU0S3 35 Minnesota clear g 500
81 30; superane Il 15U 81 10; Minnesota pat
ents 50 75llSl 80; low extras g. O51S2 -:
southern -four dull and steady: common to
fair extras e 0OG83 90; good to choice ex.
tras IS l0lSi 20 Wheat firm and quiet; No.
. red in store and elevator, G0A@61I4c;
adoat 81 MGg69c options fairly active, 1sU4c
higher with the close steady and trading
local but active; No. , red March GOl4c; May
6l5sc, July b}@sc. Corn quiet and strong. No.
., 4Oi9N4OA c elevator; 45laGG454c afioat; OPP
tons I4IB3ic higher, closing firm with trading
dun; March 44c; April 42yrc; March 424QG42B,
Oats quiet and steady, options tirmer; March
No. white April $3.50; mixed western $50
36c white western 3Sd40ae. hay dull:
choice steady; shipping GOOSE; good to
choice 750S5c. Beef dun and steady; family
Sl2 00I&ll %; extra mess IS 0Od8S 50. Beef
hams quiet at $40 0jItSl6 so Tlerced beef
dun and steady, city extra India mess. SlS %
M$20 co. Cut meats dull and easy; picked
bellies 6'sN6Ac picked shoulders obMtc;
p killed hams 9ll9esc; middles nominal Lard
81 95 city So 37R; futures nominal: refined
quiet; continent 81 49, South American 81 IS:
compound - S71z0S6 %. Pork quiet, steady;
mess Sl2 00d8l2 50; extra prime Sl2 000
&l2 30 Butter in moderate demand and
about steady; state dairy, new l402lc
state dairy, old, l2al6lac; state creamery
new, 22fc; western dairy, new, l20l5c; west
and rolls l0Gl5ci Elgins 22iac. MOlasses-
foreign nominal. New Orleans open kettle
good to choice 3O13sc, quiet and steady. Pea
nuts steady. Conee options quiet. 10 points
up 70 10 points down; March l6 90: May IS 30:
July 10 35Gl5 10; September II 80; December
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Steamship Nacoochee, Smith, New York
G G. Anderson, Agt.
Steamship DCssoug, Doughty, Philadelphia
&C @ Anderson.
Bark kamfjord INorl, Hansen, st. Peters
Ourg- Richardson & Barnard.
Schr Oscar c Schmidt, Bacon, Philadelphia
- George Harriss & Co,
Schr Harriet c Kerlin, Dutch Philadelphia
Harriss & Co.
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Per Central railroad, March 20
2 l49 bbls. rosin. 20 bblS. mess beef cars
hay. 321 cases spirits. l0i wagon parts, cars
meat, 70 tons pig iron. rolls leather, 1 car
coal, PA bales doms, / empty drum, cars
wood, l43 pkgs. mdse. IA doZ. brOomS, 10 cars
blocks, 100 bbls. oil, cases boots and shoes,
car oats 80 bales broom corn, / bdl hides,
car beer. Is cases whisky, bdls empty
sacks, car stone, bbls. whisky, 9 pkgs.
hard ware, horse, 2la bbls whisky, 2 boxes
potatoes 400 bags grits p pkgs. furniture,
bDls potatoes, 80 Dbs. -Four ] Dbl empty
bottles. - boxes soap, 200 2llD. sacks -four,
Dbl min water, 50 stoves, l4l sacks peas. 50
pl<gs II. II goods box music, IL bbls, hams,
Is cases eggs, box shrubs ! 45i bales cotton.
Per Florida Central and Peninsular Rail
road. March ~. II crts. cabbage,
bbls. oranges, 10 bbls. rice, boxes
clothing ] boxes bands AS boxes tobacco. 4
car load wood 10 bills whisky. 25doz. brooms,
box cigarettes. % kegs h. shoes, ] car hay
! cases cigars. 40 boxes rims cases eggs, !
box beeswaX, I dl. blows, % kegs spikes, IL
bbls piaids, box h. socks, bdl. beds, bdl.
rails 200 Bbls rOsin, IL bales checks, | box
domestics, boxes sheetlng, ! box drills,
2.sGs ties bbls. syrup Dbl candy, basket
candy 81 bales cotton, o pkRs household
smoking tobacco, II boxes oranges, l box
hardware, crts. vegetables, 2 cars lumber
] cwt. hams, cars cotton seed, buggy, l set
wheels pair shafts
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway.
March 90 cars lumber, car plOw castings,
] car whisky. / car corn, cow, 10 boxes hooks,
boxes btuuIuBt - DoAtn tloAAtl5 3 7 VA Dpohot
/ bale rubber hose 10 sacks dis bone, bum
per aad rigging, bag bacon, 40 sacks meal,
/ bdl hides. IS ags peanuts.
Per savannah Florida and Western rail-
way March 20 SO bales cotton, car oats, IL
cars coal, 50 barrels -four, ] car chops, cars
hay cars corn, 1 bicycle, % casks whisky,
mules / car lime, / car wood, ! sewing ma
chine. l64 Dbls rosin $40 bbls spirits turpen-
tine. % cars lumber. 10 cars rock, bbls tai
low pa empty barrels 50 bbls oil, q hdls
hides I refriReratOrs berries, 4yJ6 boxes fruit,
~ bbls fruit, 242 pkPs mdse, 355 boxes yege-
tables, $40 bbls vegetables, IS sacks potatoes,
bbls potatoes.
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For additional shipping news
see other columns.
Notice to Mariners.

Pilot charts and all photographic informa-
ton will be furnished masters OF vessels free
of charge in United States Photographic Of
flee in the custom house. Captains are re-
Quested to call at the Office
Reports OF wrecks and derelicts received for
transmission to the navy department.
SCALES Ensign u 5 N. In charge.
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Steamship Nacoochee, Smith, New York
c G. Anderson.
Steamship Dessoug. Doughty, Philadelphia
&C G Anderson.
Schr Benjamin A Van Brunt, Pearce, Nor
folk; coal to G Taggart vessel to George
HarriSs & Co.
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Steamship City Of Birmingham, New York
Schr harriet c kerhn, Philadelphia.
Schr Oscar G Schmidt, Philadelphia.
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COM NJ ERclAL.
OFFICE MORNING NEWS,
Savannah, Ca, March 20, 1894.

SAVANNAH MARKETS.

Tho condition Of the local spot market is
.,,obanged. The tone continues steady but
t-a7sactions are limited and business is quite
5rr The entire sales OF the day were S7l
lies. On change, at the first call, at 1880
o..rock a. m, the market opened duu out
steady and unchanged; the sales being ~
raIzs. At the regular midday call there were
s1Jes reported to the amount OF 81 bales the
81 80 remaining unchanged. At the third
- T,s, call. it was dull but steady and un-
o-,r,ed with no sales. The official quota
ions are as follows:
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FruLt and vegetabIe Tarket.

New York, March 21-Palmer, Rivenburg
& Co. quote: Oranges Indian and
Halifax rivers. fancy e. 75Gl4OO: other
brights selected, g.. 25lt2 80: lines s.. I262 "a:
russets. fancy S2.OO@2.37; lines, 81 .75a2 Oh;
mandartns, Sl5CN 10; tangerlncs, S2.OOa3.50;
grape fruit, 82.0OU3.OO; strawberries l5030c
beets, S2.O0n3.00 cabbage, 75cgl0O; egg
03 co. lettuce, si.5Oll2.0J: squash, ~ GOAL 50;
tomatoes si00Q2 50, cucumbers, 3.OOai 90:
celery. 6OcGDSi.O0 bunch"
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Steamer Alpha. Daniels. Beaufort and
Port ROyal-C Ii Medlock Agent
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Rice


Spirits Turpentine-There was a good.
steady demand for spirits turpentine at SOC
for regulars and the Offering stock was alb
sorhed at that price The reported sales at
the Board of Trade were 404 casks at SOC. The
market closed firm.
There is a strong demand for com
mon and medium grades, which are scarce.
Most of the receipts are finer grades which
are i'm slow demand at present. At the Board
OF Trade the market opened firm and IN
changed but closed at an advance in +, T.,
the Board of Trade at the closing of the
market were as follows:
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Ethel-Do you allow Charles to kiss you
when you are not yet engaged to him
Maud-It isn't an allowance. He calls 1t
erquisite.-Raymonds Monthly.
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Arrived Up from Tybee Yesterday.
Bark Catharina [Norl, Garrison, ballast
Master
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ldhHfANTtEss
Per steamship City Of Birmingham for
New York b shey, ID $ Shey w ID Mann,
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Now YORK. March -O.--At The Stock Elk
change to-day the sales OF listed stocks ag-
gregated 100000 shares, and unlisted $4,000
shares
New York, March 20-Treasury balances
to-day were as follows: Coin, SlOi $4,000; cur
rency, S46030O00
London, March 20-The bar silver market
to-day mas been steady, and was quoted at
27lsd per ounce.
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Continued on Page Threo.
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Liverpool, March 20, oon.-Cotton-Mod-
crate demand: freely met; prices easier;
american middling 4'sd; sales, 10000 bales;
American 1000 bales; speculation and export,
2s5OO bales. Futures opened dull; demand
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Petroleum. Oils, Etc.

New York March 20 Cotton seed oil
quiet and weak; crude 26c; yellow 30Hc
New York, March 20.-PctrOleum quiet and
steady; Washington, in barrels S. 90 Wash
ington, in bulk s. 50; refined nominal; New
York. in barrels, s. IS, Philadelphia and
Baltimore in barrels, s. 10; Philadelphia and
Baltimore, in bulk, ~ 6O8S2 70.
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Miscellaneous Markets.


Of Dlg con-. Market is steady. The Board
,iI"oe quotations are as follows:
ard, '.-o Lear rib sides, 77sc; shoulders. none;
slated clear rib sides. 6%c; long, clear.
Ir.r.4 leIlles, 6Bc; shoulders, 7ac; sugar
urea Mans, l2lsc
Ir, ''-- .Ag and Ties-The market steady
uot. os-lng, "a b.. &c; IN, SIC; q n, SC;
/ 5.t..ooS are for job lots; small lots
.,-5. sea island Oagging, l24c. Iron Ties
.o'a; s1q9oc; smaller lots, II 0J6Dl o..
h. .. Market higher; fair demand, Gosh
B. .N' -I4V edge, pc; creamery, 25c; Elgin,
e.Ae.e.Se-Marl1et firm. fair demand; 12G
i ,.nNey lull cream cheese, l3aal4c; 2OD
- aa3' aEess--SuppIy fair. Barrels and barrel
GGa. 'al52 "; per head S0Slac
& Inc market is firm; quoted
he1ta-... Mocha 27lac Java, 5000.
\. D. 3D., 2ic; choice or standard
/ a6 .- ~ e., prime or standard No, 3. pic;
Ed ". standard No. 4, 20lsc; fair or stand
q. W.. %, -oc; ordinary or standard No. 8,
.,. '+Hiioh or standard No. :. 19c.
o,rr- Liult Apples, evaporated 12izc;
u. '' &c, Peaches California, eVap-
|hpa.f. PeJ5ea 23024c: California, eyaporated,
e. '"i 100 ~ loo. Currants, 41aQ5c. Citron,
.o-r D[led aprlcOts, lGc.
Ia. Market quiet Extra. a. o.. family.
50 '1Hey' 10 30; patent 50 1904 rs; straight,
'o y 81. @alal .S half barrel. No. l. 50 50;
\. a' =. ~ NO o, SO 90 Kits No. / 81 4j;
.. 5,-'i NO, 3, 81 w. Goldfish. In bricks
FOX D. noIiCks; &C. Smoked herring per
nuIet baii qt. .'. nerr'ng in kegs, 81 O0; new
Gr-, uaI barrel. "a o.
or,. ~ ~ Corn Market is steady. White
'1D 4O1s' o'c; carload lots, 54c. Mixed
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived Yesterday.

Wednesday, March 81, 1sJt
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New York, March 2O-Riee. fair demand
and steady domestic fair to extra, $50
sac; Japan 41i041ac.
Wool.
New York. March 20.-Wool moderate de-
mand and steady; domestic fleece 20025c;
pulled l6025c.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-01-25
INDOOR GARMENTS.
COMFORTABLE HOUSE JACKETS AND
OFFICE COATS FOR MEMS WEAR.

These May Be Swell Affairs at Fancy
Prices or May Be Homemade at Com
paratively Small Costa Few Pleasing
Garments Described.
The garment which takes the place of
the business or dress coat when 1t is laid
aside for an evening at home is generally
bright or rich in coloring, fancy in the
finish and comfort giving in the fit. Time
was when such garment was looked
upon as an extravaganza luxury INDUCED
in only by rich students, bondholders or
dudes, but lounge coats and smoking
jackets can be obtained SO easily nova
days that the man who does not own one
or more is the exception to the rule.
With view to assisting in the selec-
ton of garment if it is to be pur-
chased ready made, and also to pro-
vide patterns where it is to be made at
home, is herewith appended from the
New York Herald number Of conceits
in way of jackets. robes and coats for
indoor wear. No. is handsome de-
sign in lounge coat made of tricot
cloth. 1t is soft and yielding, enabling
the wearer to loll about without the
danger of marring its beauty. At the
same time it presents by reason of its
superior finish and rich quilting an air
of distinction. Fashion inclines to this
sort of house coat.
AS change from the rounded off style
is the square cut finish of No. 2. The
straight formal cut is robbed of its Sc
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-01-25

using cocoanut shells cut in halves and
striking them upon a stone block, is made
of wooden blocks hewed into the shape of a
horses hoof, with real horseshoes attached
and followed out inside the shoe. 1t is
played by striking the shoes on rock slab
set in a bed of sand.
"'Clog mallets, to initiate clog dance,
are small wooden mallets, with one end of
the head followed and jinglss' set inside
the hollow spaces. A cuckoo is a small
reedlike instrument, with one key to
change the note and a sliding piston to
alter the pitch as desired. A duck quack'
Ia similar to a snoring machine, only on
smaller scale.
IA fine imitation of bagpipes is given on
a solid brass horn with tapsring bore and
finger holes like q hageolst. 1t Is played
upon with an oboe mouthpisce. My frog
chorus which Is not yet complete, Is to be
made on the principle Of a small music
box. 1t will have a cylinder on which are
steel spikes that, as the cylinder revolvss,
will strike metallic teeth like those of
comb, producing the sounds required.
"Of course there are countless other ef-
fects to be produced-bird calls, dog barks.
etc.-but most of them are simple and read
lily understood by all who hear them"
The superintendent Of enc Of the largest
musical supply houses in the United States
says that no outsider can realize how great
demand there 10 for ''drummers' traps"
He declares that few years ago the aver
age orchestra carried no other drummers'
traps than bass drum, q snare drum and
cymbals. Now the man who is in charge of
the drum end" of an orchestra has his
hands full all the time, and he must be an
expert, too, or he will make dire failure.
The instruments of this character now in
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-01-25
QUEER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

/. Snoring machine. g. Locomotive machine
and stick. 3. Nightingale. 4. Double box
cuckoo.
not observed that the man who plays the
drums also manipulates from five to twenty
other instruments" most of which would
not be recognized by name by the average
theater goer. These devices are used for
producing sounds which have not been
written into the music by the short sight
ed Individual who did the orchestration.
They are of divers shapes and degrees Of
torturing power, but most of them are
unique in their application, and all of them
are the outcome of great inventive ability
on the part of the man who designed them.
There are some foolish persons who like
music because it is music and who care
nothing about a poor imitation of frog
or a rooster or man snoring, simply be
cause it is introduced into we'll known
melody, but those individuals just now are
unhappily in very emphatic and unmis-
taxable minority. So what difference
does it make anyway The people like this
sort of stuff, and the orchestra leaders very
naturally give it to them. 1t is interesting,
however, to know something of the "fake'
sounds and of the fake" Instruments
which produce them.
The man who knows more perhaps of
this subject than any one else in this coun-
try is Clarence w. Steele, who manipulates
the queer sound producers" in the orches-
ira of the Schiller theater, Chicago Mr.
Steele invents and in fact makes most
of his own appliances. Some of his best
odd orchestral effects were prepared for a
selection entitled IAN Afternoon on the
Midway Plaisance" In a recent talk Mr..
Steele said:
"When the Midway selection was first
ciu ha Sta rt q
Central cattle train The electric gong
sounded as signal for the train to pull
out. That was nothing but an ordinary
gong struck by small steel wires. The puff
ing of the locomotive was more elaborate
continuance. 1t consists of a semicylinder
Of sheet iron about yard in length. Two
wooden handles, in each of which are set at
different angles dozen or more tempered
steel wires somewhat resemb bling a dis
mantled umbrella, are used to make the
peculiar noise of the locomotive putting
Holding one of these sets in each hand,
strike the sheet of iron with each alter
nately, slowly at first and increasing in
speed as the train is supposed to get under
Roadway. The effect is very good one.
1.-The train comes to a stop and then is
heard the peculiar sound of the airbrakes,
the escaping air. This effect is produced
simply by using a couple Of slender brass
tubes soldered together, with pistons,
blowing into them through a whistle at
one end and slowly pulling out the pistons.
The Chinese theater orchestra is initiated
by the use of a real Chinese drum, ordinary
cymbals, clarinets and other instruments
of the orchestra. Music of the Persian the
alter is excellently reproduced by the use of
a musette, an instrument similar to bas-
soon, though smaller, and q tam tam of
my own make This made from the shell
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-01-25
THAT STRANGE PLANT.
The SUAall Boy Tells How 1t Was at La

The susall BOY Tells How 1t Was at Last
Discovered.
'Seems to me I amt ever going to be able
to sit down again with real, solid comfort"
said the small boy as he lowered himself
cautiously into n chair.
"Ouch! There is some folks as can never
take a joke nohow. Yer see, my mother n
sister took it into their beds to start an
herberryum-I guess that's what they called
it. AT emmy rate they got big box and had
it painted all up bright, and they filled it
with dirt and planted seeds.
We'll, l tho't I'd put in few seeds too.
So got an ear of corn and shelled it and
planted six of the kernels in the herberryum
along with the other seeds.
"Bynby, after the ferns and pansies and
that sort of stuff had begun to grow, one
day the six green shoots poked their way
up through the dirt, and when my sister she
seen them-my! wasn't she astonished! She
was tickled. too, AS could be, and she went
and called mother to come and look.
''Well, they wuz both 80 tickled that they
used to watch them shoots every day and
wonder what made them grow 30 fast.
They was pleased, too, as anything, cause
they said they must be something rare.
Mother said 1t must be some queer kind OF
fern, because it growed SO, and sister size
thought it was some kind of grass.
well. when / seen that the shoots was a
growing to look like cornstalks / began to
get scared, cause knew they couldn't be
pulled out without tearing up everything
else in the box, and I knew that if they
were left there to grow they would crowd
everything out. So every time ma N sister
went to look at 'em just lit out.
well, few nights ago we had a party,
and ma was showing her herberryum to
everybody and was awful proud Of 1t and
wanted everybody to notice particularly the
six splendid big grasses that neither she
nor sister had planted, and telling 'em all
as how they must be some rare plants.
II was Affecting uneasy all the time,
though tho't I'd die a-laffing. Bimeby ma
she comes along with old Mr.. Atkins, who
owns big farm out in Jersey, and she seq to
him that they hadn't planted them, neither
sister nor she. and that they must be some
thing uncommon. Old Mr.. Atkins he gave
one look. and then he commenced to laff,
and he LATED and LATED till he liked to
dids. He LATED till he choked, and the tears
run down his cheeks, and he got red In the
face.
"Ma got red In the face. too, and could
see she was mad az ennything.
'Rarsl' seq old Mr.. Atkins an soon as he
could speak. Uncommon You just cum
over to Jersey to my farm next summer,
seq he, and I'll show you acres Of them
rare grasses. It's corn.' SEE he. and then
he nearly had fit.
Ma IN sister were just crazy, and p'r'aps
didn't catch Itch, mol But the wurst OF
it was that it went all over the neighbor~
hood how they had been growing corn in
their herberryum, and when ma learned OF
that, why, caught it again.
'But they had to pull the corn mp and
plant the herberryum over again, that's
one comfort" and the small boy went and
sat down In snowbank and whistled
shriily.-New York Herald