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pie at alL let it be a plum pie. Remove FUN IN COURT. Keeping Grocery- In a town up the Hudson twe farmers ernment and the Governments of Great" Britain and Germany. Our Cabinet offi THE CRESSET. the pits, and unless the juice is thick A Witness -who Gave Proof Positive that had an itching last spring to go into JT.

A. JORDAN ft ds. Prop'. trade, and after canvassing the subject for a spell they put in $1,000 each and opened a grocery. Trade was dull, both He was a Son of Freedom.

Elbert 8onth. The present Judge Hutchins, of the with sugar make it so, adding a very little flour, well mixed in so that not one lump is left. The crust for a plumb pie should be delicate without being rich this can be accomplished by working the shortening into the flour deliberately CLAY CENTER. KANS. Superior Court of the northeastern judi ZEPHYRS.

cial circuit of Georgia, is the son of Nathaniel Hutchins, so well known by many of the older citizens of Elbert as one of the cleverest men and ablest jur cers receive $3,000 a year. In England $25,000 a year is the Balary of the seven leading Cabinet Ministers. At Berlin the Chancellor of the empire and Prime Minister receives 14,000, with a house and an additional $5,000 a year to keep it in order. The Secretary of State's salary is $12,500, with a free house. Our Ministers to London, Paris, Berlin, and St.

Petersburg receive $17,000 each. The British Ambassador at Paris, receives $50,000 a year, and the German Ambassador at London and St. Petersburg receive $37,000 each. Our Minister to Turkey receives $7,500, the British Minister $40,000, and the German Minister Our Minister to Vienna is paid $12,000, the British Minister $40,000 and the German Minister $30,000. Our Minister to Rome receives $12,000, the British had large lamjlies and they nnaiiy concluded to dissolve partnership.

In this frame of mind they consulted a lawyer, who asked "What is the value of the stock on hand?" "About $1,200." "And how much do vou owe "About $400." "Very well, I see my way clear. Mr. Smith, you will draw out the good will for your share, and I'll throw in a barrel of molasses for your family. Mr. Brown, you take all accounts, and I'll throw in a keg of pickles." "And what's to become of the store?" "On, you'll assign all the goods to me for my trouble in paying the debts and giving you legal advice." Those farmers sometimes stop to think with the hands.

Bake with two crusts. He Had Traveled Before. Carson Appeal. A lot of Boston tourists were traveling in a sleeping car, also a Nevada traveler. In the morning, when the porter went round to collect his assessments on boot blacking, there was a great commotion among the Boston tourists.

Some paid him a five cent nickel, and those who had no nickels were compelled to yield up short bits. All the while the Nevada man, dressed in ordinary Jclothes, sat reading his newspaper. When the porter reached him he looked up inquiringly. "Did you black my boots, sir "Yes, sah." iimk's bevkkgk. When I was ten and she fifteen Ah, me! how tair I thought her, She treated with disdainful mien The homage that I brought her, And, in a patronizing way.

Would of my shy advances say "It't really quite absurd. you see He's very much too young for me." I'm twenty new, she's twenty-five Well, well! how old she's growing, I fancy that my suit might thrive If pressed again; but, owing To great discrepancy in age, Her marked attentions don't engage My young affections lor, you see She's really quite too old for me. Century Magazine. A deer child A fawn. A prima donna is a sing-ular creature, Minister $35,000 and German Minister $25,000.

Our Minister at Pekin receives $12,000, the British Minister $30,000 and the German Minister $45,000. Our Minister at Stockholm gets $7,500, the British ists in Georgia. He was the predecessor of his son on the same bench now occupied by Colonel Hutchins, of Gwinnett, and was popularly known all through the upper portion of the State. During the progress of the Superior Court at Carnesville last week this amusing incident occurred, which was related to a New South scribe by Senator Phil Davis: Colonel Thurmond, of Athens, an attorney, had an instrument of writing in court, the validity of which needed to be proven and which could only be done by the owner of the signature found thereon swearing to the same. The witness was called, and an old gray-haired man, who had lived over threescore years and ten, took the stand, and Colonel Thurmond handed him the paper and asked "Is that your signature, sir?" The old gentleman looked at the paper closely, and said of it as they lean on their hoes and rest Minister $15,000 and the tierman Minis- ser $10,000.

Our Minister at Lisbon gets their aching backs, but they cannot make it clear. Catching Fish with Dynamite. Atlanta Constitution. "You did a splendid iob: never had $5,000, the British Minister $20,000 and The narrow weigh fourteen ounces the German Minister $9,000. my boots blacked so well before on this line.

Here's $3." When the porter pocketed the nionev the Boston people looked ut astonished, to the pound. To be certain of petting a bite when you go fishing, take it along with you. In studying the book of nature, the best reeding will be found in the swamps. A Marvelous Invention. London Times.

and presently it was rumored about that Steve Williams, an ex-convict, and two other darkies at Old Town, Jefferson county, concluded they would try to catch some fkh. They had been fishing in a certain hole, and having had good Applications of electricity are not only John Mackay was aboard or Enoch Strother was out on a campaigning trip, making rapid progress in every part of In a few minutes the Nevada man and The modest young woman who "turned all colors" has given up the business ow Europe, but also in the Southern Hemis luck they thought they would try a new the porter met (by chance) in the smok ing to the multiplicity of new shades. phere. There come, indeed, from Otago, I ing room. cut on the fish with dynamite.

"When sloes my sleeping ticket run Steve took the dynamite in ms hand out?" New Zealand, details of an invention as marvelous as any yet recorded in the annals of electrical science. "Your time was up, sah, at Ogden but and commenced to light fuse with a match, but the wind blew out, as he thought, the first match, and he tried a second match on it. The other two if you wants to ride to Reno, boss, it's all right, sah." The Rev Mr. Gilbert, of Christ Church, in a recent address told his audience that ihe traveler gave the darky a drmk Wa'al, 1 11 tell yer, lzegitting old, and my eye-sight are not so good as it wunst was, but if somebody will loan me a par of specks, praps I kin cipher it out." A pair of glasses were furnished him, and he looked at the document again. "Well?" said the lawyer.

The witness continued to peer at the paper. "Very well," Colonel Thurmond said again, waiting for the witness to decide. "Wa'al," said the old man, "that ar is my fist." "You can come down, sir," said the lawyer. But instead of "coming down," the old out of a black bottle, and the porter it is now proved to be possible to convey winked consecutively for nine seconds bv means of electricity vibrations of drkies came to his assistance with their hats to ward off the wind. But while they were working with the second match the first took effect, and the cartridge of of dynamite burst into a thousand pieces.

Steve's left hand, in which as he drank the traveler's health. light not only to speak with your dis- Six dollars saved. Economy is the road to wealth. tant inend, but actually to see mm. ine electroscope the name of the instrument he held the cartridge, was entirely torn off, and his right hand was badly lacerated.

One of the other men received a severe flesh wound in one arm. The third which is enabled to do tnis was tne very latest scientific discovery, and to Dr. Guidrah, of Victoria, belonged the proud distinction of being its inventor and perfector. A Devil's Den. Boston Globe.

Five miles west of Great Barrington is man turned his eyes on the Court, and 1. I Two men were blown up by dynamite, and a cruel joker who saw them ascend remarked: "There they go two for ascent." "De downfall ob a hypocrite," says Uncle Mose, "is enjoyed by all hypocrites demselves ef da doan b'long ter de same church." Five minutes walk to kirk Makes her sick it's awful work An that is why she seldom heeds the bell. But let her young man call And invite her to a ball You never saw a girl so strong: and well. A Florida alligator culturist has over 1,000 little reptiles in stock to fill spring orders from the North, and he laughs at men who waste their time in congress at $5,000 a year. It is said that "if you play on an cordion near an oyster, the oyster will open its shell." Whether this is because it wants to listen, or is looking for a chance to escape is not known.

The Epitaph, of Arizona, tells of a dear little boy who, when told, upon his first day at school, that the first letter in the alphabet was called said to the school ma'am "How the devil do you know?" man was hurt on one hand, the course of the material passing just over the back auer gazing at nun ior some time, ne said Mr. (jilbert stated that a trial oi this of his hand. the little township of Alford, whose inhabitants are engaged entirely in farming. A reliable gentleman from there "Jedge, is you old man Nath Hutchin's Dr. J.

M. Kellv amputated the left arm wonderful instrument had taken place at idelbourne in the presence of some forty scientific and public men, and that boy?" "lie was my father," answered the of Williams between the wrist and elbow, and cut two fingers off the right hand. The wounds of the other men were Court. states that while an old fanner was out hunting black snakes Sunday he made it had been a great success, sitting in a dark room, they saw projected on a large disk of white burnished metal the race "Wa'al, give me yer hand, Jedge, kase loved yer daddy, and I is awful glad dressed. The report of the explosion was the discovery ot a wonderful cave in a limestone ledge.

The cave has been heard six or seven miles. course at Memington, with its myriad of to see his boy a-followin' in his christened Devil's Den. active beings. Minute details stood out Since its discovery parties have en He Didn't Know. The Court gave the old man his hand, deavored to explore it with lighted torches.

They could only go in a few A special officer was telling in Judge with perfect fidelity to the original, and as they looked at the wonderful picture through the binocular glasses, it was difficult to imagine that they were not ac Allison's court yesterday of his own and and after shaking it heartily the witness stepped from the stand and started out out of the court room. When he had gotten out of the bar, and was about rods when, owing to the poisonous gases, the torches began to burn dimly, and in one case where a man ventured too far ahead of his companions he was rescued an associate officer's stealthy pursuit and arrest of a man who was engaged in tually on the course itseli and moving among those whose actions they could so completely scan. midway the hall, he turned abruptly about, and said in rather a loud tone of voice "Where do you retreat to in the Sum picking pockets: "After we had followed him awhile," The Green-Eyed Monster. The real cause of the virtual separa- the officer said, "he tumbled to us." mer?" they asked tne old soldier. Ana the colonel replied "Retreat? I never retreat I always advance into the thick of fighting.

I summer in a New Jersey boarding house." "That is a professional phrase that "Here here's them ar specks, if any of youns Avants 'em." The court room was in an uproar of laughter, but the old man never smiled, as he returned the glasses and left the house. don't know the meaning of," said the ration between Mme. Sarah Bernhardt and her husband has come to light at last. It was very simple, being entirely with difficulty. So far as known the cave is large, with rooms and passages, and it is thought that by making the mouth larger the gases will escape and the cave can be explored with safety A sound as of running watetr indicates a small river or spring in it, and it is thought that a Btream from the well-known Frying Pan spring on the hillside opposite there, lost under ground, runs into it.

court ingenuously. "You will have to make it clear to the jury." the fault of the green-eyed monster. "Well, how is Jenny to-day? Is she any better?" "Nae better, mem, nae better." "Does the doctor give you no hope of her?" "Oh, no, mem." "Does she know of her state "Oh, weel she Sarah was jealous, and with good rea "Well, I mean he caught on to us." "Caught on?" "Yes that is, he well, he piped us." "You mean that he discovered you, son, wnen nrst tne Deauteous Jacques (whose real name is Aristides) went a- does, mem. She's deid!" suppose," said Attorney uranam, wooing he promised his gifted lady-love "That is," replied the oihcer, with an An Army Divorce Scandal. Washington Cor.

Philadelphia Times. to be the most adoring and faithful of Tom rittman says, somewhat sarcastically, it may be, of a hard hard drinker, that "he unhesitatingly put an enemy in expression of relief, "he tumbled that we were on ta mm." j.rhiiadeipma limes, husbands if she would only become his wife. "Only marry me," he declared, "and I will never look at another pretty actress again, never, never, never!" And, his mouth to steal away his brains but A Syndicate. Texas Siitings. A divorce granted a few weeks ago in Philadelphia was in three days followed by a marriage in Baltimore.

It has caused genuine surprise and much comment in army circles here, as few even the enemy after a thorough and protrac ted search, returned without anything. like the title of a recent novel, so they Flying Down a Flume. Chico Record. Riding down the Sierra Lumber Company's flume in a box is a dangerous way of traveling and it is a great wonder that more accidents do not occur. It is rapid transit and a "tenderfoot" never undertakes it unless he is accompanied by some one who understands how to manage their craft as it dashes down the steep incline in the rapid waters.

A telephonic dispatch to the Record from China Switch, a station along the flume in the mountains, says that John Molder, a laborer on the flume, met with a frightful accident at Smoky Flat He was coming to Chuo in a large pine box, which was heavily loaded, and "Sir," said a suspicious-looking indi We're sitting on the stile, Mary, where were marred. vidual on Congress avenue, accostni; But M. Damala did not keep his prom we sat so long ago. Ah, then your hair was black as iet, but now 'tis light as of the most intimate friends of the officer business man. "In New York eleven men ise by any manner of means.

There was talk of a regular set-to having taken Maj. A. H. Nickerson were aware represent two hundred million dollars, tow 'Tis thus the chemist's wizard art with changes queer confounds us, and place on the stage of the Ambigu during "Is that SOY" a rehearsal between Mme. Sarah and a that he had any desire to be divorced from his first wife.

She went to Europe mockB when memory brings the light of "Yes. Now in Austin the wealth is fascinating and talented little actress of other days around us. three years ago with their child, and not quite so much concentrated. We will assume that twenty of us represent one that theatre wherein two sets of blonde "You made a little mistake in your correspondence between them of the tresses got very violently pulled. hundred thousand dollars.

announcements yesterday, sir Very most amicable character is known by At all events Sarah decided that her likelv. It is impossible not to make certain of their friends to have been "Yes." "We will also assume that you and I are lord and master was doing no good in mistake sometimes. What was it?" "You said me and Lizzie Pipkins were Paris, particularly as a member of the two' of the twenty." company of the Uymnase, whose special bothered, when we are not bothered at ty, by the way, is much beauty the all. We are betrothed, sir. feminine division.

And so she paid hi: debts and shipped him off to Tunis. She is well rid of him, for he is suffering from an incurable form of mental and moral A Galveston child, lime unariie, was having a wordy war witli the nurse. His father sang out: "Now, Charlie, are you disease he is a fool. Yes." "Well, then, how would it be if I wanted to draw out ten cents from the capital stock of the syndicate would you let me have it Fifteen Sisters. Washington Letter.

Quite a number of Washington society people attended the wedding, at Frederick City, Maryland, Mr. Donald New York lawver. and Miss iroing to be quiet, or shall 1 come with kept up until within a year. No one in Washington knew of his divorce until the news of his marriage to Mise Carter, in Baltimore led to inquiry, and at first many of his most intimate friends refused to believe that lie was married. The whole affair is regarded as very mysterious in Washington, lie was retired a year or so ago, at his own request, on account of wounds received during the war.

He was stationed in Washington for nearly four years, beginning in 1878, and was a prominent member of the Army and Navy German Club, and frequently seen in society until his wife went to Europe, when he gave up attending parties almost entirely which switch?" "Never mind the switch, papa; lie Couldn't Answer. responded the youngster "I guess I can its weight broke down the flume, throw- ing him to the ground, a distance of over ninety feet. Molder was found some time afterwards by some flume men. He was unconscious and his friends think he can not live. Cattle Kings of Atlanta Constitution.

Henry R. Harris, lately Lack from a trip to Texas, whore he has some extensive landed interests, told me how be found things in the Lone Star State. He said: "I saw in Fort Worth an old fellow that didn't look as if he had a dollar that was one of the cattle kings of Texas. lie had lately sold his herds to a company of capitalists for They had net yet made the payment and were already offered $2,000,000 for the same "Do vou keep overcoats here?" he ask set her right without your neip. ed as he stopped in front of a clothin A Boston man, who had his nose mashed over his face during a personal store.

Wflsnn Ritchie, a daughter of "Of course vhalk right in. I haf dcr best assortment in der hull State." "I want to ask you a "plain question. Judge Ritchie, one of the leading Democrats of Maryland, and at one time a Congressman from that State. Miss Ritchie h.ns fifteen sisters, who, like her, have and I want a square answer." "Certainly." "Have you an overcoat for "Vhell, you see you was thought due to great circumspection on his part during his wife's absence. She was nearly related to the California historian, Mr.

Bancroft. A Georgia Trapper. the reputation of being the handsomest ladies in that State. Miss Emily is the first of the sixteen sisters who has "Nevermind, now I want a square answer to that question. Have vou an unpleasantness in a Chicago bar-room, was told by the doctor that it was a case of simple molecular disintegration.

"Thank you," he said "I begin to feel better already that sounds so much like home." "It is really quite amusing," remarked a New York dude after landing in Philadelphia. "I am used to being admired by the women, you know, but to-day, as I came down the steps of the Broad street station, a dozen men began exclaiming, 'Hansom, hansom, in such a loud tone of voice that I could not help overhearing." A number of fashionable young ladies and gentlemen of Louisville engaged in a fox hunt last week. They had an ex overcoat for "Vhell-', "Stop Answer me yes or no." Debt Collecting. Waycross Reporter. Captain Stair, while fishing in Loot's mill pond a few evenings agp, was approached by Amos Keetcr, who presented to him a bill.

Captain Starr. "My iriendt, 1 can't answer dot vnay. I haf some overcoats und if'T can't sell you one for den maybe I come down to $4. Come in und we shplits del-difference und calls it seven." Octroi' Post. Athens Banner.

Terrell Speed, a trapper who lives near Rome, has been on a trapping expedition down the Coosa river to the Alabama, thence to Selma. He reached Wetumpka with 110 beavers, capturing 25 from there to this point. He has also the pelts of 300 coons, 75 minks, wolves and other animals, about 575 in all, from which he will real herds by a London company. He did not own an acre of land, but simply sold his cat tle mark. The tendency is for outside capital to control the business.

I rode over with a Mobile capitalist who was carrying $200,000 with which he was going to set his son up in cattle. He estimated that the money that is, the herds would double every three years, and that is about the estimate of the best cattle men of Texas. A writer in a Denver paper, the other day, in describing Colorado Canon attempted to say, "Gaze up and down the rocky jaws and you imagine the world lias opened its mouth to eat a planet and grind it with mountain molars." After the intelligent compositor had got in his work there was less boldness in the figure of speech, inasmuch as the world was made to open its mouth "to eat a deeming it a pointed insult, graooea a club, and without stopping to think of the consequences felled him to the ground and left him to struggle alone in his death agonies. Captain Starr is still at large and no attempt as yet has been made for his arrest. The Sweet Tooth.

The use of confectionery at dinners is so fashionable and popular that the best candies are ordered by hotel and large boarding house proprietors for weekly or semi-weekly dinners. This is an innovation, for a few years since bon-bons would not have been a la mode as a dinner course. Strawberry bon-bons containing the fresh strawberry, pistache bon-bons containing the pistache nut, walnut bonbons flavored with vanilla, coffee, strawberry or maple, lemon, orange and mar-rowthe latter made from Italian chestnuts and superfine caramels are now making the dessert courses more anticipated than before confectionery of so elaborate a manufacture was used. citing chase for live miles, caught their prey, and when one of the fair girls came to take the "brush" as the meed of victory, it was discovered that the fox was a yellow dog with a stump tail. Louisville should study up onvenatic pursuits.

A Connecticut woman recently applied for State aid, and the blank was produced and the usual questions asked. She answered them freely until it came to "Your age lave 1 got to tell that she asked. "The blank requires it, ma'am," was the reply. "Well, then," she said, "I don't want any State aid." And she flounced out of the office in high dudgeon. American and Kuropean Salaries.

A London paper has an extended comparison between the salaries paid to Cabinet and foreign Ministers by our Gov- ize about $475. He has been engaged in trapping for fifteen years, and has never been sick during the time. He carries no gun or pistol with him, his only weapon being a hatchet, which he has chained around his waist. A Jilted Lever. A Portuguese of Knight's Ferry fell in love with a pretty American girl recently.

He was cut out, however, by two swains of his own race, which so wrought upon him that he became insane. He fancied that he was pursued by the two favored lovers, and in his efforts to escape he swam several sloughs and reached a ranchman's house, half dead with cold. He has been sent to an asylum, where he will have an opportunity to ruminate cu the of woman. A Stricken Widower. Charlottesville Chronicle.

There is a man in the vicinity of Greenwood now advanced in life, yet actively engaged in business who, twelve or more years ago, after the death of his wife, played the hermit for eight or ten years. lie selected a retired spot under a projecting cliff in the Blue Ridge, near Brown's Gap, and spent several years under it. He then planked up the ends, leaving the front open, where he built his fires. Pluin Pie. Emerson called the perfect plum the of paradise," and if one must eat peanut." Mrs.

Katherine Chase, for so she now signs herself, having finally acted upon the permission of the Courts and the advice of her counsel to drop the name of the man who has tried persistently of late to injure her, is living quietly at her father's old home, Edgewood, busy with the care and instruction of her children A ferry-boat is like a "good rule," because it works both ways. At an elevator in Philadelphia, 40.000 bushels of corn were put into an ocean steamer in one hour lately..