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The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
Yerx Ynnng. Tnd.ed.

"He lived bachelor until he was 90 and then married a woman young enough to be bis daughter"
 Daughter? Why, she was young enough to be his second wifer'-Detroit Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
Suicide Increasing Abroad

Suicide is alarmingly on the increase in France and noticeably increasing la England. The law of England consid- CTS an attempt to commit suicide a fel. Ony
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

Mature abhors vacuum" was the reply of a physician to the inquiry of one wishing to know the cause of rush of blood to the head.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

Much of the artificial coloring of foods is traditional and not meant to de- ceive. Thus candies are colored obvious ly to please the eye and add to the at- tractiveness of the confectioner's show case, and likewise butter and mustard are colored with no intent to spoil their nuritv
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
MANILA's STREET CARS.

All Cars Used in That Ci%y Are of
 American Manufacture.
 All the street cars in the city of Ma nila were made in America, says the Street Railway Journal. The open cars are 13 feet 6 inches long over dashers and have seating capacity of twenty passengers.
 These cars are drawn by Philippine horses, which are about the size of
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
An Experienced Man.

Dempsey enlisting? Get out, you harpy! What could you do in sel diering?
 Dugan-Sure. I'd be the very man fer wan nv thim mortar batteries I hear about. l can shling mortar wid the best av himLVim.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
A Sure Remedy.

"My sister has lost her voice and we've tried every doctor in town"
 That's so? Then try her with mouse. ."-Chicago Record.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

Considering that the Don has been forcibIy ejected from the West Indies, In this case one moving Is as bad as
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

There will be a new performer at the next concert of the powers" and he will not play second fiddle, either.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

The earliest mysterious disappear ance after the outbreak of actual hos tilities was that of the bullet-prOof- cloth man.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
EOrebodiugs.

Jimmy, did you tell your sister I was heref'
 'Yes, Mir. Tanks, an she said she'd felt all day that somepin' awful wus goin' to happen"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
EVERY SATURDAY

Only one side of the moon ever Is seen. It is the same with the honey moon
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

Judging by the prices Hooley paid, England may be right in holding its House of Lords dear.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
OUR BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DO-
 INGS HERE AND THERE.

Jokes and Joke1ets that Are Supposed to Have Been Re scntIy BOrn-Saylnss and Doings that are Odd, Curious ana LauChable-The Weeks Humor'
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
RuiIt unon A Rowldar.

There is village in England built upon an enormous powder of chalk. This powder is half mile long and must have been carried coastward dis tance of 25 miles by some great iceberg. It was dropped to the bottom of tho glacial sea, where it became partly GOV. cred and surrounded by blue gray bowl der clay
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

Possibly the Idea has got abroad among poets that the sea waves are sad because the whole oceans blue.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

McQuirk-Do yez go up de ladder all day, Mike? McGuire-No. Oi come down sometoimes.-Detro Free Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

There is reason to believe that Capt. Sigsbee understands the naval business from Maine to Texas.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
The Ring.

MOther-What was going on in the parlor last night Madge?
 Madge (shyly)-Only the engagement ring, ma.-BostOn Traveller.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

But very few men would strive to achieve fame if 1t wasn't for the sake sf pleasing some woman
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
TIle Sirn.

''Ma, the minister is coming"
 What makes you think so? Did you see him.?
 "No, but saw pa take the parrot and lock 1t up in the stable. Boston Tray eler.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
Both Anxious.

Mrs. Younglov George, there is a telegraph messenger coming up the walk. Do you suppose something has happened to dear mammal
 Mir. Younglove-Im Ill afraid not.-SOm- erYille Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

The bonds of friendship could not be more popular than Uncle Sam'A
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
A Sufferer;s ODIuion.

'Who was 1t said All the world loves a loverr"
 "1 dunno. Some blamed fool who never lived next door to where there was an 18-year-old girl with a steady fellow, f guess. s."-Cleveland Leader.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
Impressions of a Great Man.

"Politics," said Senator Sorghum, "has made me what am."
 ''No," said the near relation, who doesn't always express himself clearly, politics has made you what you ain't, but what people think you are. Wash ington Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

He-Do you believe there is any thing in the theory that one becomes what one eats?'
 She-Well, yes. I'm beginning to be- lieye that there is nave noticed that you seem to b. particularly fond of squash Leader.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
The Chenrfn1 Idiot.

"I sec" said the elderly boarder, that the paper says the foe retreated doggedly. I wonder what sort of re- treat that wasp
 Presumably" said the Cheerful Idiot, they took to their parks. Tn dianapolis Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
Correction.

The rollceman-What's your trade? The Suspect ironworker.
 'Is that so? I'll see what you know about 1t. used to be In the trade my self"
 1T mean in a ndry'-Indanap oils Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
What a IliRer.ncn-

She-I really think t was bad taste in you to drink sc much wine at the dinner last eyening.
 He-Oh, 1 suppose So. But really didn't realize the bad taste till I awoke this morning. It was something horri- ble.-Detroit Free Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

D6dtH ny IHtIF OWn Han '. The number of suicides in Europe averages 60,O00 a year.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
Al Bond off Sympathy.

Instead of ridiculing those Span ish soldiers who surrendered at Santi- ago." said the bOarder who Is always in arrears, i've ought to extend them our sYmpathY."
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
His Lack of confi4snc.

"Is Hipkins selF-made maar
 "Of course. Anybody could tell that" |" "HowT
 Hes afraid to. drive oFrt without hev- ing his coachmaD il intend ance for fear somebody will t ae 8 host ler."
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

Newfoundland dogs, and 1t was, there. fore, necessary to make them extreme ly light and at Che same time of the re- Quired strength. The street railway company is known as the Transytas 0e ESlipinas.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
He CouIdn,t Stand 1t Long

She-I will consent to be your wife, on one condition.
 He-Name it..
 She-That you will stop smoking. He-An right; but let's make the en- gagement very short,
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05

Tt has been learned that they had to worry along for days at time with out getting anything to eat"
The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-05
Becoming Converted.

If he can't play ball, he can see 1t Enquirer.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15

Active preparations are being made among the mail clerks to petition Con gress for better protection. Those who have the matter in charge are consid- cring various suggestions that may take the form of recommendations. One re- form that will probably be asked Is that the mail coaches be placed after h. stead of before the baggage cars, the through baggage coach, which Is usual- ly unoccupled by baggagemen while the train is Ill motion, to take the place next the engine, now invariably as signed to the mail coach. It Is also probable that the government will be asked to supply its own cars and to make them of stccl. and without plat forms, which facilitate the telescoplng process and Its frightful results.
 There certainly ought to be some way to lessen the danger to these clerks, who are of so much service to the public in facilitating the rapidity of mail distri- button, and whose compensation Is small considering the danger they ell counter. Doubtless the railway man agers themselves would be ready 10 co- operate with the government in secur- ing better protection. both for the clerks and the mnlls-the latter often being de stroyed in WrcckS by the burning de bris. As an economic eXpedlent alone 1t would be the cheapest, since It would save the companies from many costly damage suitS.-Kansas City Journal.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
Blind peODle.

So far as the most recent statistics go, the known proportion of blind peo- pie Is about one in fifteen hundred, which would give total of one million blind in the world. The largest pro portion is found In Russia, which has in Europe 100000 blind In population of 0G millions, or one in 4S0. Most of these are found in the northern prov inces of Finland, and the principal cause is ophthalmia, due to the bad ventilation of the huts of the peasantry and the inadequate facilities for treat ment. There is q great deal of blind ness In Egypt due to blowing sand.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
Causes a Great Deal of Trouble.

There are not many nations In Europe rich enough to treat themselves to n traitor like Captain Dreyfus, who is assuredly the dearest object in that line that has ever existed We might, perhaps, have four heroes for the same price. The government machine, with ranged matters that 1t costs us S12000 year to maintain In a distant islet man who has been degraded public ly for treason. If he lives only twenty years, which would not be extraordi-
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
Not Good at Arithmetic.

Mir. Frederick Locker -Lampson, an English poet, In volume of reminis- cenccs entitled My Condolences" tells a curious story of Dean Stanley, an il- luStration of the deans difficulties with numbers. Mir. Locker LampSon, who was n connection of Dean Stanley's by marriage, once told him how the com poser Halles cook had bought lottery ticket with the number twenty-three.
 "I had n dream, sir" said the cook, that made me buy that number. l dreamed the number seven, I dreamed 1t three times, and as three times seven makes twenty-three, I bought that number"
 When Mir. LockerLampson mad con cluded this story, the dean did not laugh, as he was expected to; instead of laugh a wistful look was observed on his face, as If he would like to know where the joke lay.
 Then, suddenly, for he wGs very quick" says the narrator, bis face frightened and he said, but not with out a shadow of dejection: 'Ah, yes, I See; yes, I suppose three times seven are not twenty-threer
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
MISSIONARIES TO ALASKA.
Two Pioneers Who Invaded the Frozen
 North to Spread the Gospel.

Christianity invaded Alaska before gold seekers made that the end-of-the- century Mecca. The Presbyterian Church sent n missionary and lis wife to that frgid land to care for the souls of the grlmy natives long before the yellow metal became the motive of pill grimage. Rev. Y. C. Gambell and his wife went north as missionaries for the Presbyterian Church and as govern mcnt teachers of the natives. It was quite q while ago, when few persons but the totem pole Indians lived In the acquired territory, that MT. and Mrs. Gambell departed for their unpromis- ing field of labor. It will be seen that they speedily adopted the cumbrous and uncouth but comfortable garb of the Indians. Nothing less would make life there possible, even to those born in that land. They believed before go- ing that gold was not the only thing to be found in Alaska. Gold Is nothing to these earnest, faithful laborers in com paIison to human souls. They have lived among the natives long enough to have become contented with their lot and 10 love the people to whom they have devoted their lives. In the course of their ninistrations they have tray eed all through the portion of the ter ritory where the gold finds have been most prolific of wealth. They know as much or more of the customs and hab- Its of the natives than any persons who
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS.
Their Hazards Greater than Any Other
 Class of Public Employees.

The remarkable number of fatalities among railway mail clerks in recent wrecks calls fresh attention to the eX- treme hazards taken by these public servants. It Is claimed by those who have taken some pains to gather sta tistics that the death rate is greater in proportion to numbers than In actual warfare. This seems almost incredible, yet it is apparent to every one who in vestigates that of all the positions in the railway service that of the mail clerk is accompanied by the greatest risk It is generally supposed that the engineer and fireman have the most dangerous posts, but they always have at least a moments warning and are often able to save themselves by jump ing,
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15

nary. he will have cost his country men. reckoning in the interest, little more than $400.000. Never did any man who saved his country cost as much as that.
 It Is also the first tine on record that any human being inspires n great enough interest for people to spend 14,000 francs year merely to learn the condition of his health If min ister happens 10 dream some night that Dreyfus has escaped that costs 1,5U0 francs in telegrams the next morning. If Drcyfus catches cold it takes LOCO francs to announce tbe event to the proper authorities, while if Il German or English vessel is sight. ed sailing past the He au Diable Vt have to pay 2,000 francs.
 Besides this the keepers and watch men on the island are subjected to the most cruel discipline. One has gonC mad on account of the weight of re sponsibility, two men have been de youred by sharks In going from the isl and where the governor lives to the He au Diable to find out how Captain Drcyfus had slept at night, and pale, nervous, restless beings are seen walk. ing about anXiously. with n frightened look, startled and driven out of theiI wits at the slightest sound, having hardly time to eat and sleep; they never take their eyes off n very tran. quill person, who walks his hundred paccs after breakfast. smoking his pipe, with his hands behind his back science, who watch man who has committed a crime.-Paris Figaro.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
SITTING oHURNA IN INDIA.
The Mahratta Method of Settling
 Debts.

Many queer stories are told of the persistence and clever devices of the collectors of bad debts; but even pro fesSional hunoriSt would find It hard to invent anything more absurd than the method actually in Use among the MahrattaS-at least, if travellers tales are to be trusted.
 In that couutry-So they say-when q creditor cannot get his money and begins to regard the debt as deSper- ate he proceeds to sit ''dhurna' upon his debtor. that Is, he squats down at the door of his victims tent, and there- by, in some mysterious way, bccohles master of the situation. No one can go in or cut except by his sanction. He neither himself eats nor allows his debtor to eat, and this extraordinary starvation contest is kept up until either the debt Is paid OF the creditor gives up the siege. and in the latter case the debt Is held to be cancelel.
 However strange 1t may appear to Europeans, this method of enforcing q demand is an established and almost universal usage among the Mahrattas. and seems to them q mere matter of course. Even their "Scindiah," or chieftain, is not exempt from 1t.
 The laws by which the 'dhurna' Is regulated are as well defined as those of any other custom whatever. When 1t Is meant to be very strict, the claim ant takes with him a number of his followers. who surround the tent. and sometimes even the bed of his adyer- sary, to make sure that he obtains no moTSel of food. The code, however, preScribeS the same abstinence for the man who imposes the ordeal; and, of course, the strongest stomach wins the day. After all. We have little right to ridcule this absurdity; for our own laws provide. nominally at least, for starving jury into verdict.
 A similar custom was once so prev alent In the province and city of Be mares that Brahmins were sometimes systematically put through course of training to enable them to endure q long time without food. They were then sent to the door of some rich per son, where they publicly made VOW to remain fasting until certain sum of money was paid, or until they per ished from starvation. To cause the death of Brahmln was considered so heinous an offense that the cash was generally forthcoming; but never with out resolute struggle to determine whether the man was likely to prove stanch, for the average Oriental will all money.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
Mental Epidcmics Past and Present

In looking back to the medieval ages We find them to be times in which alb normal social phenomena were dis. played on grand scale-tlmes teemine with mohs, riots, rcvOlts; with blind movements of vast human masses with terrible epidemics that ravaged Europe from end to end. They were fact that whole cities, extensive prov. inccS. great countries, were stricken by one disease. Men went mad in packs. by the thousands. An obscure indi. vidual In some remote country place had fits of mysteries, and soon all Flu. rope was wriggling and struggling in cOnvulSions of hysterical insanity. The dark ages were strange. peculiar@So, at least, do they appear to us who con slder ouserSelves vastly superior to the poor. ignorant medieval peasants burgher. knight. with their supersti. tiouS religious fervor, and recurrent epidemic inSanities. I am afraid, how. ever, that similar fate may overtake us May not q future historian look back to our own times with dismay. and perhaps with horror? He will rep r'Sent our age as dark and cruel-an age of rhe blind, SenSeleSs Napoleonio wars, of great commercial panicS, in. duStrial crises, Black Fridays, CoXey armies, and mohs and craZes of all sorts and iptions.-Century.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
WHlMS OF MlLllONAlRES.
Vast Fortune Enables People to Do
 Queer Things.


 The late Thomas Wlnans, the Balti- more millionaire, whose fortune ran into more than five millions, was q law ish sptndthrift whenever he studied his own whims. On one occasion he paid S1 ,00O to hear Patti sing. It was it. St. Petersburg. and the boxes were dis posed of at auction. Mir. Winans paid S1 .O0O for the first choice. A Russian friend told him that he could have gone to Paris and back and heard Patti Slng there dozen times for the grear sum he had paid to attend only one per formluce. Mr. WinanS replied that he wanted to hear her then, aud would gladly pay the price named rdthe" than wait until Patti sang in Paris.
 Miss Katharine DreXel, a lady who inherited $6.o0O,oo0 from her father, has just taken her final vows is q nun at convent near Torresdale. She is thirty six years of age.
 Miss Alta Rockefeller. an heiresS to the respectable sum of $5U,OuO,0oo, is q young lady of energy and accomplish
 
 practical kind. She Is an expert typist, having learned to manipulate the ma chine in order that she might do con tidential work for her enterpriSing father.
 The late MT. Barney" Barnato, the diamond king. whose personal posses sions ran into several dozen millions, went out to Africa with his brother while he was quite T lad, and the two, then penniless youths. who returned millionaires, knew what 1t was to suffer the pinch of poverty. In their early days In South Africa, the broth. CTS used to turn an honest penny now and again by performing coniuring tricks In public.
 The Khedive Ismail was one of the richest men of modern times. During the few days that preceded his official deposition. and after he had received private intlmationS from Constantino- pie of the fate that was in store for him. long trains of ammunition wagons load ed with specie and precious stones made their way across the desert from Cairo to Suez by night. under strong escort of personal guards of the Khe- dive.
 It is estimated that te carried away S25,0OO.0o0 on that occasion, in addi- ton to money and property safely in vested in European stocks and banks, and enormous landed estates. taken
 
 but for which he claimed and received as compensation the sum of S25.000,O00. Ismall also sold his Suez Canal shares to the government for the decent sum of S20,000,0UO.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
Dismal Swamp Canal.

An engineering work which may have considerable effect on coaStwise freights is the reconstruction of the Dismal Swamp canal, which Is design ed to afford q waterway between the north and south sea coasts, avoiding the dangers of IIatteraS. This canal is n historic one, having been begun In 17S1 and constructed in ten years largely by slave labor to the depth of four feet and q width of thirty-two feet. It extends from Elizabeth City, near Norfolk, Va, to the headwaterS of the Pasquota1k river, q distance of twenty-tWo miles, there connecting with nayigable streams which reach the ocean south of Hatteras In its early years it paid dividends of 60 per cent. per annum, and share of it's stock was reckoned to be worth one hearty male slave. The present con tract calls for a uniform depth of ten feet and q width of sixty feet, and the venture Is backed by S9O0,000 of Balti- more capital. The work Is to be com. menced by Dec. 31, 1897.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
It Was Successful.

"Ah, doctor; glad to see you. I've been anxious to hear about that opera ton you were telling me of the other day. How did it come outT
 "Oh, beautifully! It was one of the best bits of work I ever did. Very successful in every waJ."
 And the patient-how did he stand itr'
 "Well, he died. ."-Cleveland Leader.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15

Bingo-How is the new cook doing? Mrs. Blngo-Splendidly. Why, she has only been here three days, and she can already ride my wheel quite nicely New York Herald.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
Italian Works of Art.

Last year Italy exported 2L000 an tlque and modern works of art, valued at S6OO,0O0. More than half of them went to Germany.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15

After a man has consented to take the medicine a woman thinks he needs, she feels that he Is as good as landed.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15

When sick, the best thing you can take Is a rest.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
Even Worse than Death.

Even W Orse than Death. "Why are the Dashleigh girls in mourningf'
 "An uncle of theirs was accepted as a juror last week."
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have visited Alaska. They have In their work lived among the Indians un- til they are thoroughly familiar with the domestic lives of the natives,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-10-06

- o,ir,as There are hundreds just
like them. If this reign OF lhcoIhpe-
tancv insolence and corruption Keeps
IN the property Of the town VIII Kan
10 nothing Decent peOple cannot sldlu
il. ..,a1, that
learned from negro saturday tilae
several hundred South Carolna ne
..roes have come here in the last wv
years He was alarmed. Indeed, ne
faS caus. To be The crowds OF lOdliiiS
degrees that pack the streets or VII
r1jncton dav and night is enough u
convince thinking people that some
hing must be done. 1t would De pSS'
~, the negroes. They will soon be an
jn1olent. worthless. disease-bfetGihs
ace here in the South unlesS there Is q
tlIrn in affairs 1t WOULD be best loi
item. as a whole. If Wilmington We're
uEred from the ScOurSe thdt now
threatens her existence.
With all this there is a lack or en-
thusiasm here on the part OF the pes
citizens of the town. They are TOO con
Fdent that the Democratic party VIII &c
in power this fall. They need to arouse
themselves. There is work ahead fol
trpm | Will venture the assertion tna'
not a hundred good men in the city
know how many negro officers are II
the county \ visit to The custom
house the county court house ana the
CAV hall would open the eyes or many
There are negro clerks IN al thest
buildings.
The danger is to come. If in the ShOr
space of two years this dreadful state
Of affairs has been brought about, VIVA
would two more years add to it:
H. +. {. BRYANT