the carolina watchman vol vii.-.third series salisbury n c march 23 1876 no 24 published weekly : j j br une r proprietor and tallica . xhgs k bruxer associate editor k*tf»-of mbriuniin weekly watchmax a.ryrvii o.iviweiu ad vaunt 2.(0 j ji in i us '•"•> co-lies to anv address 10.0 advert isi g rates : ij go care 1 inch one insertion 100 ',, •• iwo " 1.s0 n _& for '• greater number of insertions icriif special notices 25 per cent more • r'.'ul.ir i k'l'i'liseiiients heading notice . „.„ er line forea'cli and everv iftsi rlinn mill stones ! of anv -'■ l ' desired cut out of tbe best qnuite in th state may bc obtained on liort notice also window and door ills pedestal for monnmente ci address jht phillips salisbury 16:tt more beautiful than ever is the pew jewerly just received at bell tt bro's consisting of gold a n d s i l v e r w a tc ii es gold ant plated chains bracelets ladies sets gents buttons pin's and studs 18 z engagement eutgs&c we have made in the handsomest niauiier hair chains haiu iewei.uy diamond and wedding ring's rpectal attention giving lo the repairing nd ticiiiiii of line walchea and regulator all wiiiciies repaired by us are warranted 11 ill'llltlls otii.'i 1 ilc>nr iliove national hotel see lign ul l;ir watch ami pea salisbury dec 2 1873 tf ii 1ri ware when \ ou want hardware ti ou fi&urpp call on llio undersigned at no 2 guniu plow i a at we li silisbury x c.,mav ij-tf garden seeds just arrived the largest & best assorted lot op garden seeds ever brought to the salisbury market seeds consigned to country merchants on liberal terms come and sec us ill is fi barker h'3iii druggists valuable land for sale the undersigned is authorized to sell pri tely three valuable traits of land situa ted in jit ullu township liowa co lie onging to the estate of the late dr o p houston the said tracts briefly described s ibi ii ws : 1 one tract of 500 acres more or leas adjoining the lands of w a poston phi alexander and others on which there is u k cl dwelling and out-houses and the soil is well adapted lbr cotton and grain 2 another tract of ibs acres more or taki adjoining the lands of m w goodman joseph brown and others thi tract is fy productive and a large portion of it is tf i"y heavily timbered 8 another tract of about 80 acres ad joiaiag the lands of j l freeze and others eoimiiatii almost entirely of woodland and meadow terms of sale reasonable apply to the undersigned at mt ola p ©•, rowan co . n c s c rank in hu 10 1870 14:8ui seal of professional con f1dence looking over he slfijpp 175m commis sion report lo see what mitre could be f.-uiid about president hawkins and his chat ham road i read ihe following questions and answers never before published in the newspapers : | kxamlx.vno.v of col j m nicck question did yon receive anv bonds lauilmrized lo be i ll d lo lhe chatham load l r lhe purpose t.f delivering lhe j same lo st s linbli.-ir ? answer at that i know about lhe bonds of lhe chatham toad is what i lean d as attornev for lhal mad under lhe seal of profes.rional confidence q im « bat cases were you employed and for w hat purpose ? a — i iiiidersto.nl lhat i was generally lhe alioruey of lhe road q — \\ bat compensation did you receive | oi ) our services .' a — 1 had a iue pass over lhe chatham and ii.l.-igh a gaston mads at one lime mc bailie and myself weie paid j dolly sdqtf i remember no other com leiisniion q — was gen lilt let id employed by lhe hal ham load lo procile i hi passage of a bill through ihe legislature or was here any understanding heiuecu him and ihe officers of ihe road in ihai catler { a — all lln information 1 received iu thi matier was in the way of a profession al capacity q did yoo give nr pay or put under the control of ghu lit i it field any bonds of the chatham mad for any purpose / a — the information which would be embraced iu ihe answer lo ihis question would be such as leached me in my pro fessional character as attorney of the chatham road oh golly ! oh good gracious ! turner a prediction the president gloom g and despondent — ilu shadotc of impending disaster from the baltimore sum washington march 9 — the develop ments of the last we.-k have produced more eflect upon ihe president lhan any thing which has ever happened during his terra of office it is plain now to perceive that beneath his imperturbability ; there is an uneasiness and a disquiet ; which have never before troubled him since lhe fall of belknap he his seen i bur very few visitors outside of senators j and members and the business he has j wiih ihem be despatches as soon as pos i sibb he has n fused since last tiiurs | day to see several distinguished visitors | an air of gloom ami i.e pmidency seems io hang around lhe white house wheu the president got s put he keeps his eyes downcast and does iinl seem to care to recognize any one willi the very few persons lo whom he talks confidentially he admits that he is not iu a very happy ira me of mind ue seems to realize what was paid by one of his friends uu ihe day of belknap's resignation that the bottom has been knocked clean out ofthe third leiui whether he sees iu belknap any signs of impending disaster to himself is known only to himself but il is begin ning to be whispered around that the very offence of which belknap stands convicted in lhe eyes of lhe world will be brought directly home to the presi dent it was said to-night by a person supposed to be well informed lhat within three mouths jen grant would be con victed and removed from office by the vote of a republican senate ocr platform repeal ihe resumption act it is im practicable repeal the xitioual bink act and issue greenbacks as the circulating medi um issue bonds bearing six per cent interest interchangeable for greenbacks in sums large or small establish f'i ee banking with uniform rate of interest abolish lhe internal revenue system and let lhe tax levied for revenue puipo ses be collected by the stale officers as ihe stale taxes are collected and paid into ihe united states treasury abol ish lhe navy yards and let all work be done on contract by responsible parties abolish lhe indian bin eau treat the red man honestly and let him take care ol himself make a one term nineiidment to lhe constitution and in ike caesarisra impossi ble cm down ihe president's salary so as not lo make money au object in seeking tin ollice xo more laud sub sidies to railroads but let lhe sales of public lands be devoted to a sinking fund io meet interest ou public debt — gl't'cns boro patriot marrying in russia the ladies in russia are very anx ious to marry because thev have no liberty belbre marriage they are kept constantly under the maternal eye until given up to their husbands and then they take their own course aim ist aa soon as a girl is horn in the better rank of society her parent he gin to prepare the dowry she must have when she goea to her husband she must furnish everything for an outfit in life even to a dozen new shirts for her coming husband the voung man goes to the proposed bridle and counts over her dresses and examines the furniture and sees the whole with his own eyes before he commits himself to the irrevoca ble conduct with more apparent deli cacy ; but the facts are ascertained with accuracy the business being in the hands of a broker or notary the trousseau is exposed in public before 1 the redding dav tlio more can fully llio ei re uih stances atti'iuling iho reported resignation of mr sriii-nck as minister tn england and its acceptance re examined ihe more susphhm does tlie whole business ap i pear mr schenck left london after i announcing offer bin own name in t lie i i public press liiht be was going home on j a leave of absence lo confront charge made agaiiikt iii m . under cover of his diplomatic privilege be w rt s enabled id avoid arrest by referring tlie b.ii.iff who served ili u,it io l,rd derby yet lie was lianily safe at sea before his succes sor wits ii..inina'ed by pie.-ident giant in pi ice of uohert 0 schenck resigned lie cmild not have resigned on he ocean j llieli f.ire eii her bifl statement alleging u leave iif absence or •]„• officially alleged ! resignation is false there is a lie uttt some where congress should insist upon having all the facta in ibis disgraceful | affair with dales and papers as the case now slands it appears that there has j been evident prevarication in regard to i he iii'-ans used lo get schenck away ' li'in a country where if he remained ia | office his longer presence would have i caused intolerable scandal lo our govern j in-'iit while if he had resigned lhe pro i tectiou of bis diplomatic privilege he ! would have been in danger of iinpiisoi ! inent as a swindler — n y sun llfe — the evening of every man's | days is coming on apace i'lu day of life will sunn be spent the sun though ! i it may be ur in mid heaven will puss ! j swiftly down the western sky and disap j j pear vv iuti shall light up man's path j when the sun of life is gone down ( lie i j must travel on to the next world ; but what shall illuminate his footsteps after j ■ the nightfall of death amid the darkness of bis journey what questions more important more practical mnie solemn \ for each reader of our journal lo ask him j sell / that is a long journey to travel without a friend yet every man must j pei orui it the tini is not far distant | when all men will begin the journey j there is au evening star in the natural , world 1 18 radiance is bright and beau iiiul and cheering to the benighted travel er but life's evening star is a good hope i of heaven lis beauty and biillancy are | reflected from ike sun of righteousness j whose blight arrays light up the evening , i of life and throw i heir i alliance quite across ! j the darkness of lhe grave into lum a , ! ia i's laud ii has illuminated ihe foot j ; sieps ol many a weary traveler into eternity it is of priceless value a thousand words cuinol purchase il ; yet j il is offered without money and without price to him who will penitently thank ' ! fully receive ic an oli hidin3 place from the philadelphia press — a few j weeks ago jacob kliuck a farmer near ! ! f.ix chase was sawing down a large ' chestnut tree when the teeth of the saw j ! came iu contact with some metallic sub ; i stance fe.uing the presence of soii | thing explosive he directed the woikmen , i i saw on the other side nl lhe i ree : i they did so after the iree had been felled a gold watch two gold pencil easea ! and a gold chain were found embed ed in lhe wood eighteen inches from the etir e face they were wrapped in a boiled ; sock the tree was sawn off close lo the ' ground and ihey had evidently been hidden a the junction of two roots and the wood had grown over and enclos'-d them the watch was old-fashioned j having a case which could be detached aud was inscribed with the date 1740 one of lhe pencil cases was provided wilh a pen tlie other had only a pencil and was minus lhe seal tin chain was long and was intended to pass around the ' neck of the wearer there was also a gold waich key wliich hov ver did not i fit the watch the tree had attained a great age being about six feet in diaine ■ ler an old ui insi.ni once stood near by and it is supposed that lhe articles in j question were buried during lhe war of ihe revolution the watch was until ! jured except lhat lhe hands were rested j off the under has had it repaired and will exhibit it to any who are curious to see such a relic he lives about a mile above the fox chase on the couniy ; line till dog and the hakkit sir walter scut lelu ita of one of his doffs thai it one dav furiously attacked the baker and was with great difficulty \ called off uul as the deg obseived the baker coming ever day lo leave bread lor the family he began to regard him in ' a favorable light and in time the dog and ! the baker became great friends one day j sir walter was telling somebody how lhe dog had attacked liie baker aud imme ! diately he began the story the dog skulk i ed into the corner of the room turned bis ' face lc the wall hung down bis ears and lowered his tail and displayed every sign of being heartily ashamed of himself hut when sir walter came lo lhe end of lhe story and said : but tray didn't -| | bile the baker the dog lurned round in a moment jumped and frisked about and i was evideuily resorted to his own good opinion to iry the dog s oil repeated ihe story in different tones of voice and in ihe midst even of other conversation but it was always the same directly he be gan the dog crept into the coiner but when he came to but tray didn't bite j the baker he always capered back again in triumph the elmira advertiser says a doe tor in that place removed a tape worm | from a lad that was ninety-six feet long and had over eleven hundred j joints well a boy a long as that ought to have eleven hundred joint • — ctitxt herald help your wives farmers are two apt to forget the inconvenience they are subjected to in the discharge of their duties indoors they remodel anil repair their gin houses stables and farm implements as often as their own convenience and profit indicates and buy new imple ments in the same way they see the importance of all this as thev enjraire in their daily vocations are thev as anxious that their wives should be equally accommodated in their house hold duties are not the labors of the wife or daughters often increased more than double for want ofa cook ing stove a better pump or cistern or well fixture easier access to the kitch en pantry and wood house have husbands and fathers seriously con sidered these points are they de termined to impose unwise hardships upon their wives and daughters — vie think not it is only thoughtless ness on their part will not every delinquent husband arouse himself on the subject and show the world that he duly appreciates the relations of his affectionate companions and aid them to the extent ot his abilities in their household duties — farmer's vindicator secoxd-hand clothier's trick j — here is a trick of one pfoursecond hand clothes dealers he shows a hesitating customer a pair of panta i loons which he says has been made by j a fashionable tailor for a wealthy gen tleman who brought them back after wearing them once as they did not fit him the customer pivots himself around before the mirror examines the length of the legs sounds the depth of the pockets and closes the bargain when well out of sight ofthe clothing store he examines for the first time an article which as he revolved be fore the mirror his hands hud encoun tered in oue of the pockets yes the customer had said to himself that's a pocket-book i know by the feeling of it mr must have left it in here the night ho wore the pants the reader can supply the further details of the story a 25 cent paper-lined pocket-book proved the means of selling a 2.50 pair of cotton satinet trouscrsaataprofit of 4.25 — san francisco paper what one can go through the worcester spy tells this extra ordinary story : a taunton man of forty-six has had a checkered career he has been shipwrecked once nar rowly escaped baking in a railroad accident has been runaway with times innumerable was shot in the neck at gettysburg h-td a taste ofthe horrors of libby prison fell overboard from a whaler and being picked up left two fingers in the mouth of a shark was drafted twice had the right arm broken in two places during the new york riot stood on a barrel with a halter around his neck in au alabama town at t'nc outbreak ofthe rebellion from sunrise to sunset in 1863 was crushed under a falling building du ring a california earthquake and was without fond or drink nearly fifty hours and when homeward bound from the mines of the white pine region narrowly escaped lynching through a mistake in person amid ail he preserves his equanimity and refuses to believe that luck is against him birds foreknowledge an eminent european orni i holngftt hi j'l.n given to the world the resoiltj of big ohservai iuna concerning the influence of epidemic upon bird lo which he inn devoted tbe lust thirty years of his life lli ftaieineut fortified by numorous ref erences to fuels are peculiar and deci dedly iiiteienling the chief oi his eon elusions i ih.it birds hke the sparrow and swallow and others of various speci s will leave any chy that is threatened wilh an epidemic as cholera for instance and return onlv after the disease shall have abated the author himself observed this in st petersburg and uiga in 1s4s in w'ei-i j-rus«i.i iu 1s49 iu hanover iu j ls.ou and agiiei in galicia in 1s72 in eveiy instance lhe sparrows suddenly disappeared from lhe streets roof's and t:ees of lln city nud a few days there after ihe disease broke out wiihin sev era days af.er the epidemic had ceased the birds reappeared 1 1 j v • 1 1 -; communi cated observations t the oilier ornitholo gist he was gratified to find lhat the same coincidence had also been observed by tin in and numorous instances were given by iinu concerning the fact .<.-»-. mr jefferson davis's speeeh on the mexican war to the veterams at new orleans was welcomed with great ap plause the speech was almost wholly historical the only sentiment in dulged iu was as follows there was a time when to be a veteran of i mexico was to possess a passport j throughout the laud it is not for j me to abuse the course of the govern j ment but as the friend and comrade j of these veterans tu proclaim the in-j justice oi which tliey have boon the victims —^ a — a sermon from a pair of boots there lived forty years ago in berlin a shoemaker who had a habit of speaking harshly ofall his neighbors who did not feel exactly as he did about religion the old pastor of ihe parish in which the shoemaker lived heard of this and felt lhat he must give him a lesson he did ii in this way : he sent for the ehoeiua j ker one morning and when he came he | said to him master uke my measure for a pair et boots wiih pleasure your reverence an swerd lhe shoemakei please to lake off your boot the clergyman did so and the shoe maker measured his foot from toe to heel and over ihe instep noted all down in his pocket-book and then prepaied to leave lhe room but as he was putting np the measure the pastor said to him master my son also requires a pair of boots i will make them wiih pleasure your reverence can 1 take the young man's measure it is not necessary said the pastor the lad is fourteen but you can make my bonis and his on the same last your reverence that will never do said ihe shoemaker wiih a smile of sur piise i tell you master to make my son's on the same last xo your reverence i cannot do it it must be — on the same last but your reverence it is not poss;ble if the boots are to tit said the shoema ker thinking lu himself lhal the old pas tor's wiis were leaving him ah then master shoemaker said lhe clergyman every pair of boots must be made on iheir own lasl if ihey are lo fit and yet you think that god is to form all clnisl tians according lo your own last of the same measure and growth in religion as yourself that wil not do either the shoemaker was abashed then he said : i thank your rever i ence for this sermon and i wiil try to re member it and io judge my neighbors less harshly for the future the baltimore gazelle after graphical ly desciibing the casualties among the members of grant's cabinet concludes with the following report ofthe condition of lhe great butcher himself itsay : the president himself is covered wiih wounds he has she black friday scratch the san domingo gash the leet stockiog abiasion the chorpeuning bro ken nose the boss-sbepberd-ring inci sion the harrison safe-burglary ihitist i the scheiick-swindle bruise the crooked whiskey erysipelas the belknap mortifu eat mn and the babcock tetanus that tetanus or lock-jaw is the most fatal symptom people know thai be wont i speak because he has nothing to say that will help him the great silent man is a man of bandages wounds bloody shirt crutches wooden legs cork arms wooden head and cast-iron conscience there will hardly be enough character left to hold au inquest over hicjacct an instance of the profligacy which ! has characterized the management of public affairs in washington and the contempt of congress which has been shown even by subordinates iu the de partroenls is seen in the reining by gen i liufus ingiillis of a building on pennsyl vania avenue for official purposes in di rect defiance of an acl of congress for this building which exclusive of the ground cost i lie owner less than 4*2,000 1 1 galls agreed m pay a rent of s 1*2.000 per annum bills lo the amount of about s15 000 were incurred against the gov ernment for lining it up — of which sum nearly 5,000 was claimed by boss sliepherd for plumbing gas fining and the like — ind in addition to all this thousands of dollars more were squan dered in extravagant furniture all this expenditure was incurred not only with out auihoiity ot law but iu opposition to a formal prohibition by congress — x y sun a wife starves herself for many ears past there has been i living iu indian creek township this monroe couniy a in uried couple named dicks about a week ago zachariah dicks the husband made a will iu wliich it was provided lhat should he die firs all his property should go lo lhe children | and they weie to provide for their mother i until lur death mrs dicks very sternly ! objected to such a disposition of lhe prop i eriy and demanded that the will be changed but her husband heeded her not becoming convinced lhat coaxing would do no good lhe old lady began to threat en and finally left her husband's roof she never would taste another morsel nf food this threat did not move the old j man but the old lady kept her woid ; for fourteen long days she ate uot a mouthful and only occasionally would she wet her lips with water friends and neighbors called on her often to tr io i ti ii her from her dreadful purpose bul she would not even see any of them she : died al the age of 6o — evening telegram ■■■ how oft the cherished hopes of years when realized turned to ashes in the grasp take for instance the case of the man who after years of la bor was elevated to a country post mastership ouly to find himself on his first day in office confronted by a granger with the perplexing inquiry of how much postage it would take to send a live caff through tho mail — kew york commercial advertiser shott's railroad trip sharing his seat icith a young lady and interviewed by airs shott mr slott hadn'l been out of detroit in ft-ven yen is when tlie oilier day busi ness called liiui to chicago mrs shott ! wanted lo g"o along hut lie said that limes j were loo hard he didn't want to have the i bother of taking caie of her and she was i compelled to remain al home he reach i ed home iu the evening alter an absence j of two d ivs nnd as he sat eating his sup per he observed : i tell you it was a long ride and i'm , glad you didn'i go lonesome was it ?" she asked it would have i een fearful if i hadn't had a young lady in the seat with me he replied what ! a young lady in the seat with you !" thai is that is — you know the cai j was crowded he said and offered her half you seat 1 t — that is she sat down there he ! stammered j ilea shott's ears grew red and her eyes snapped and so it w;-.s lonesome was it ? you didn't speak io iter i suppose ?"' inquired lhe wife why i — i spoke once or twice of course 1 nice young l.idv 1 supposed f well no i can't say she was aud there you sat and looked your sweetest and lil be you passed yourself , off as a single man i don't know as 1 did he replied as he drank his tea did you inform her that yon were ! married und had thiee children ?" she dc j maudi-d 1 don't remember though i piesume j i iid vou presume you did ! well i presume you didn't i know jusi how i you sal up there and pretended to be a • i ich widower and look care of hei sactu-ls and bought f op corn und illustrated pa pers for her !'" mr shott inquired if there was any ; more biscuit it a a nice operation your coming home and expecting to tind hot biscuit for you !"' she went on why didn't you ask if that young lady could make bis cuit ? why didn't she come home to tea wilh you ?" nancy don't bc foolish he observ ed dou't be foolish ! who is foolish ' ilere i was scrubbing around and baking and patching and breaking my back and you were braced up in a seat before a young lany stroking ihose yellow whiskers and talking about your bonds and mortgages and your lonely widower life i wasn't be replied daniel did that giil lide all the way from chicago with you ?" asked mis shott as she toyed with the handle of the milk j.ig did she ? lemme see he mused as he helped himself to the butter you know sho did 1 eliouicd mrs shott if she got off at any of the stations i didn't see her he admitted and there you sat and sat and rode and rode and you paid out the money we need so uuic'i in the bouse for peanuts aud pop corn and juba paeite and picture papers ! daniel let me see vour wallet !" my wallet ?'' y 3 sir voill wallet ;'" what for nancy !" i want to sen you wallet !" it's the same one i always had " you lefl home with twenty-six dollars and i know exactly what the trip cost fare te chicago a::d back be ven teen dol lars hotel bid two dollars i'll all-iiv one dollar more for iucideutuls and now where's lhat six dollars v i — i — he stammered you what ?" 1 met green down by llie depot and lent him four dollars ' daniel shot who is green and where does he live ?" daniel didn't reply daniel shott you've lied to me she exclaimed you didn't want lo take me along owing to lhe hard limes you said i'd bother you if i'd bem along you'd giowled tour times a mile about lhe boih er and expense nd there vou went and j bothered about a young lady and squan dered four dollars on her and here i ve worn those old shoes seven mouths tu save expense !" i'll get you a piar pretty scon he ' replied you will ch ! when f before the foarlfa of july anyhow you can squander four dollars on an unknown giil and make me wait four months for shoes can yoa ?" what unknown girl ?'" daniel shott and lhe milk pitcher came down on '' his head she caught bim by ilia necktie \ and the oldest boy ran nut doors a:i.i yelled fre !" several of the n.-i^li | bors ran over but mrs sbolt met them at the door and said it was onlv a burn ing chimney when ihey askt-u for mr \ sliott she ic marked : mr sln.tt doesn't fed a bit well acid is covered up ou the lounge !" __ a new bedford man and his wife went to a neighboring town lo get lhe body >•! their dead daughter they pu the e.d | fined coi p6e iu iheir wagon and started for home where a funeral was lo beheld but slopped at the tiist laveru and drink their subsequent stops and dranks ca • acily equaled the number of oiliei tavt-rus i on lhe iuuic and live iniiis from home they were so drunk that liny did not no j lice lhe fall of the coffin from ihe wagon i the body was found lyi-g fact diwuwaid u the read at the barnesville o enterprise ofiice once geo macclelland the editor dropjied his rule through a hole in the floor turning to an as sistant he asked : craft why don't you put a little board over that hole i think you are a utile bored over that hole now was craft's witty re joinder what do you think ofthe present jury system inquired a man of an old chicago ex-judge the other eve ning think '.'"' echoed the old man in disgust why 1 think it is get ting so that if a man should plead guilty of murder and try to get hung the jury would somehow or orther manage to acquit him mr william welsh of philadel phia says two-thirds of the money ap propriated for the indians goes to de fray the election expenses of united states senators a eontemporary thinks this an exaggeration but mr \\ elsh is a gentleman of good charac ter and it is hard to exaggerate any thing in these times how much of all the steals went to re-elect grant hours — the day began to be divided into hours from the year 295 b c when l papirns cursor erected a sundial in the temple ol qiiriuus at itonie previous to lhe invention of water-clocks 15s b c , lhe time was called at rome by pub lie criers the chinese divided the day into twelve parts of two hours each the italians reckon twenty-four hours round insteid of two divisions of twelve hours each as we do in knglaud the mras uieraent of iime was alike uncertain and difficult : one ezpedintent was bv wax candles three inches horning an hour and six wax candles burning twenty-four hours those candles were invented by alfred clocks and hour-glasses not be ing ihen k;.own i.i england a d 8s6 — selected gw_jmwbij_wmww_»_»b___wb_wmbwm_|»_mp gleanings what is the next thing to a hen steal ing ? why a cock robin of coure if your wife is good kiss her for re ward if she isn't kiss her for punish ment the son ot a repentant husband after knocking his wife down : com to my bosom my own stricken dear tis little troubles that wear the heart out it is easier to thiow a bombshell a mile than a feather even with artillery capital weather mr jones capital weather my wife's got such a cold that she can't fpeak i like such weather a young man stepped into a bookshop and said he wanted a young man's companion " well hir said lhe book seller here is my only daughter the cantaloupe is a native of amer ica and so cal led from the name ofa place near rome where it was first cultivated in europe it is a carious fact that while the names ofall our animals are of saxon origin norman names are given to the flesh they yield the word biscuit is french for twiced baked because originally j that was the mode of entirely depriv ing it of moisture to insure its keep ing the onion was almost aa object of worship with egyptians two thousand years liefore tiie christian era it first came from india the imelli<r<»nce that mrs belknap wears a no ia boot is received with derisivo laughter by the st loan belle though she sits on her feet now every eh-ii.ee she gets i is said lhat professor giefling nf germany has produced from chemicals influenced by the galvanic battery a per feel e which by artificial ineaui he bud batched tiie chick boa-ever has na feathers johnny don't toot that horn any long or boy didn't do sack things as that a hundred yearn ago y'-u ought to do a they did iini when the old man cam home in the afternoon and found that j uh uny after obtaining historical authori ty had melted up all ihe pewter spoony heirloom candlesticks etc . inn bullets to fight ihe enemy with he was sorry he bad slopped lhe horn madame cynieally observed a gentleman to a leader of fashionably society in washington woman doesn't seem to be as much of a clinging vine as she once was — - that's because of the extreme inse curity of the manly oak she replied have you children demanded a house-renter " yes replied the oth er solemnly six — all in the cenu tery dietter there than here said tlie landlord consolingly and proceed ed to execute the dc>tred lease lu ihu time the children returned from the cemetery whither they had been sent to huvo a nice play but it waa too late to annul the extract