The Oswego Courant from Oswego, Kansas • 5

DEEP WATER RESOLVES. THE MANCHINEEU The Poloouu riant uf th Bahama as A It I'm by I ha Mrdiriu Men. Duuilt-y Well, vou're a lucky man. I have. Wow'.

-Veu; York Sim. A writer in the Philadelphia Stu-s states that the ducks iu the Chesapeake do not scare lit a ljat during "the close seasou" that is. during the period when duck shooting is prohibited. sources tip to June 1SS9, as follows: Resources, 57, 2Ho.09S.y2; liabilities, IM5.02, wtth individual deposits. But three other states in the union.

New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, make a better showing. Scott Smith, a well-to-do Topekaa who about one year ago sold out bis business in that and went to California, with nearly $30,000 in cash, which he invested Muc stale and Six Territories Ltwlare fur Harbor on the Northwest Coast of the t.ulf of Mexico. Denveh, Sept 1 The resolution adopted by the deep water convention as reported by a majority of the commit tee are a follows. STATE NEWS. Manhattan is to have stove works.

Sell's ciscus will make the tour of Kansas. Wellington indulges in barbecues on Sunday. Hutchinson wants to rob Newton of the Santa Fe shops. War at McPherson between the white and colored folks. Hessian Hies swarm at Atchst obscuring the vision.

WIT AND HUMOK. The family skeleton are now nn exhibition at the Imtliinsr beach. Martha's Vineyard Ihralit. Ladies' dresses can how be made of paper, but out- inust feel cheap in paper cover. Jt is better to be bouud in muslin.

Sew Orltiins I'i'Hy'Oir. Ldith Goiug to many Link Walton? Why, 1 thought you liutel biin' Maude So I do; ami 'that's why 1 want to claim family privileges. J'ltck. The West Indies abouud ith shrubs and plants of mediciual properties, not a few of them tieiug highly poisouous. writes Mrs.

Blake iu the Siiutetitth Century, and in the use of these the obeah men are proficient. In most of the islands the manchiuecl(hipponiane) grows in more lc abuudauce. The tree is so poisonous that it is not con They evidently keep au almanac and consult it. If their meat be as tough as the statement they should never be shot at auy season. Stu-ark Journal.

"Isn't that beautiful?" said a young traveling man to Mrs. De Porque, as the orchestra finished playing the Marseillaise. "There is something so hekeas, It is the sense of the states of Tex, Colorado, Kansas, Ntbrufcka, Missouri, low Arkansas, California and NeVMda, and ot thd territories ol New Mexico, Wyoming, tah, Arizona, Dakota and ludiau Territory, iu con veil in climate and sand, failing to realize his expectations became despondent, and on his way back to Kansas, a Lama sidered safe to take refuse from the sun or storm beneath its brauches i i i ii tLnrllOU tiiMtmuieu Hliwuivr. uuuer can ui aud when it is desirable to destroy he A(1" 8. governor I of the slate ot Colorado, that tree it is usual to make a circle ot tire around the trunk and bum it down, so as to avoid the risk of cutting it sublime and soul-stirring altonl that grand old air." "Yes," responded Mrs.

De Porque, languidly; "but you Junction, New Mexico, committed suicide. Moral: Stay iu Kansas and you will neither lose mind or money. Arkansas City Travler: John Irons, of Silverdale township, tells us be raised bushels of wheat on his farm this year and it is the best ever raised in the tirouse valley. Last spring his wheat crop did not look very well, so he took a should have been wit It ine to Pans and A melon feast attiarden City is called a "reehercee soiree." The office of the Kingimtu Courier is to be sold for debt. The maple worms are bad at Atchison.

Wichita is busy explaining her heard it played iu Freuch. Merchant Truceler. the continental, agricultural, uiin i iug, uiaiiutaeiuritig and stock I interests of ai! that part of the I'mled Slates lying west of the Mississippi river, and the commercial aud uaval advantages of the uew country generally, demands a permanent deep water port ou the northwest coast of the Gulf of Mexic. Therefore be it HksoHEii, First lhst tho senators aud representatives iu congress from the stales herein befoie referred to, aud the delegates from the territories herein set forth, be aud are hereby most earn We all grumble at the shortness of time, but we should scorn to look at the uni tiiiii.il who should filler to give us si months. Butuit ('oin)min-u-eulth.

riiysician You ished me to call, madam. What is the matter? Lady (reclining 1111 sofa) -Nothing, doctor; but that is just what alarms me. t'li ycndc Mat Iter. Keturned travelers say that it is utterly impossible to get a drink of liquor in Maine except for'-nicdicinal. mechanical, scientific, or other purposes." Soun rcille Journal.

Not infrequently leaves aud branches of mauchineel have been vindictively dropped iuto tanks or wells of those against whom certain persons may have a grudge. Anyone who drinks water thus contaminated ill, it is said, gradually waste away, and if the use of the water is continued death is the result So poisonous is the manchineel that during very dry weather it is not safe to eat the "land crabs, which, at other seasons, are reckoned delicacies. Comanche county has liye papers left I out of twenty. harrow and harrowed the entire held. His neighbors laughed at him, but he stuck to his work aud the consequences was he had a uiagnificen- whest crop.

Dodge City is celebrating the opening of a new ailroad. tilen Klder is to have a three story cheese factory costing I'rairie chickens were ripe in Kansas estly rtquesled to procure at ottce a permanent available appropriation ot the amount necessary to secure a deep wa ter Hurt on the northwest coast of the Kd Ho you love me, Lena? Lena ton every 1 think so. I dream of "Do tou realize, young man," he said solemnly, "that when you lie down at night you may be called before the nioruiug dawns?" "No, sir." replied the young man. "I feel quite safe lit night; but when I get up iu the morning I realize that I may be called before the setting sun lights up the western sky," "Just so." "Just exactly so, I'm a base-ball umpire." Sew York Sun. "1 am in terror," sighed poor Mrs.

Goodmothcr, "every lime I hear the bell ring; I know hear something dreadful about Jack. I'm sure he's been into some awful mischief." "What makes you think so?" asked her hus-baud. he came directly home from school this afternoon, sat down and studied his lessons for tomorrow for nearly two hours, mid has been as good as an" angel ever since. Dear, dear, what him that boy been up to, I would A Mine hxploHtoii. Sckantan, Sept 1- A terrible explosion of mine gas occurred at the colliery of the Mt I'leaaant coal company yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, working ruin and destruction iu the mine and causing the death and injury of a number of employes.

I is impossible to learn tlia particulars of the explosion However, during a drought land crabs can not resist a salad of the shiniugever-green leaves, rather like those of the camellia in appearance. The flesh of crabs that have fed ou this tree becomes impregnated with the poison. In proof of the danger of the diet we are told the follow ing story: Not very dream? Lena looking at nijrlit. Kd What is your -I see tim iu Tiffand dull of Mexico, west ol Kl'a degrees west lougilmle, capable ol admitting tho largest vessels, where the best aud most accessible hartxir cau be secured and maintained iu the shortest possible time aud at the least cost. ou Saturday, September 1st.

Clay Center claims to have had a little earthquake Tuesday night. Leavenworth expects the rapid transit before the close of the yesr. diamond rings. Turn. Tommy Filler, who has just begun attendiuir Sunday school, put this per (Second That for the carrying into ef tinent uuestion: "Say, teacher didn't or of the actual damage done, as explor Twenty-nine societies of the Young fect of the foregoing lesolutiou, coin nut-tee to eonsist ot live from each state aud arm in a David lick Golicr with oiu sling?" Si iv llann Si s.

ing parties are hindered from entering the mine until the danger of an after three Iromeach territory represented in tbis convention be appointed If the sweet girl graduate only knew damp explosion is over. by their representative delegations. That it shall be the duty ot said as much as she looks pretty in her "radiialinir dress the man who marries committee to see that the object of these Women's Christian Association in Kansas. I.arned has caught the infection and is going to bore for salt. The Union I'acilic line for Salina to Colby Is to be completed by November 1.

In southwest Kansas farmers are preparing to harvest their fourth crop of Cashier Caught in Canada. New York, Sept 1 Chas Debauni, her could readily dispense ith an en like to know." Burdetlc. resolutions be properly presented and long ago two men went fin a shooting expedition to one of the Bahama group known as Acklin's island. One day three land crabs were caught which were cooked and eaten for supper, each man taking a crab and sharing the other between them. During the night one of the men was taken alarmingly ill, his body swelled tremendously, and before morning he was dead.

His companion experienced no ill effects; it therefore seems probable that one of the three crabs must have been poisonous, but ou a remote tropical islaud some two or three hundred miles from a doctor a post-mortem examination vigorously urged belore congress, and to the absconding assistant cashier of the that end aud with a view of co-operation Hints For Voting Housekeepers. Park National Bank, who stole $110,000. and concert ol action, the cnairmen oi the representative committees shall be and are hereby constituted and created Glycerine does not agree with a dry skin. If you use powder always wash it off before going to bed. a committee.

Third That the states and territories alfalfa. Sorghum cane has done remarkably well in every part of the state where it was planted. was arrested in Canada last night by Detective Sheldon of Inspector Byrnes stall' at little way station known as Stantadt Junction, within two hundred feet of the American line. Extradition papers are on the way from Washington to bring him here. When you give your cellar its spring cleaning, add a little copperas water and commercial bodies represented in this convention approve the idea of se curing deep water on the gulf coaHt of Texas by a private capital and they do cyclopedia.

Journal of Education. In the Sunday-school: Teacher What did Pharaoh do? Small boy (iiiipetuoiisly) I know. It busted pa all to sticks last night. I heard him tell Mr. Jones so.

Washington Crdic. The old gentleman was tired out, so he went to the cellar and turned off the gas. "George, dear," said the girl, "I guess we will have to call the game on account of darkness." -Time. Policeman (to citizen clinging to lamp post) Don't you want a cab, sir? Citizen Yesh ottishor, if yon can (hie) tin' one that ain't turned (hie) upshide dowu. Sew York Sun.

The Farmers band of Queneino, would be impossible, aud no positive certainty could be arrived at. As the poisons used by the obeah men are vege by George M. tiray, was started las week with a capital of iffiO.uoO. hereby respectfully request, ine members iu congress to labor in this behalf. RaraIvaiI.

Thnt a eotiv of the foreffoinc table aud can be gathered everywhere The Canton Carrier and Wiudom Re and salt to the whitewash. A little ammonia and borax in the water when washing blankets keeps them soft aud prevents shrinkage. Sprinkling salt on the top and at the bottom of garden walls is said to keep snails from climbing up and down. For relief from heartburn or dyspepsia drink a little cold water in iu the bush, aud as the negroes are extremely averse to speaking on the subject, it is difficult to obtain positive irairie FirH. IIklkna, Mont, Sept 1 A disastrous prairie lire is raging in the ranges in northern Montana, extending from Marias river to Sweet Grass Hills, a distance of fifty miles.

The winter range cord, both union labor papers, are to be consolidated and moved to McPher evidence about the matter, but there seems a very general belief in the son. resolutions be ti ansmitted to the president, and that he be requested to make in his annual message to the congress of the United States such recommendations with reference to the making of a deep water harbor on the Gulf of Mexico coast as shall seem to him proper aud A new is called "My Mother's The section forman in the vicinity of West Indies among those whose opinion Hand." We suspect it is the sequel to of the Benton and St Louis Cattle Company has been destroyed with a largo amount of hay. is worthy of respect, that the process of "putting obeah" upon a man is not always a purely spiritual weapon which has been dissolved ateaspoonful of salt. For hoarseness, beat a fresh egg and thicken it with line white sugar. Eat of it freely aud the hoarseness will The reliance on the powers of the bush Major Buddy's Wonderful Perform ance.

Newtou have organized a Furomeu's lodge. A one bandied pound Kansas water melon is bound for the Cincinnati exposition. Five iiien have already been nrrested as accessories to the KaHsabaum cattle swindle. doctor is almost universal among the Northwest Wheat. Sr.

Sept. 1-The weekly report from the northwest was received at Manitoba general office yesterday. They black people, who greatly prefer him to the authorized practitioner. In some cases the remedies prescribed are sim report them an average yield of about "Mamma's Slipper," and when introduced among the children "there's music in the heir." Surristotvn ller-aht. Old lady (to boy who is tying a tin kettle to dog's tail) Little boy, don't you know that it is wicked to treat a Iioor dumb animal so? Little boy himb? Jest wait till I let him go! Time.

At a fair lately held at Madison, a goose was voted the most popular dude of the town. Yes, there is a great deal of cruelty visited upon poor dumb animals out West. Sew York Tribune. "What are you doing now, Boozby?" "Teaching school." 'Teaching school! Why. vou can't spell a word of two 18 bushels of wheat for the central and northern portions of the state, and about 15 bushels of wheat in Dakota and the extreme west.

The harvest and the Kort Scott is the second town in the state to send women to the rock pile. Lawrence was the lirst. The School children of Kansas get but 40 cents apiece from tho state school soon be relieved. If quilts are folded or rolled tightly after washing, then beaten with a rolling pin or potato masher, it lightens up the cotton aud makes them seem soft and new. Chemists say that it takes more than twice as much sugar to sweeten preserves, sauce, if put in when they begin to cook as it does to sweeten after the fruit is cooked.

Tar may be removed from the hands by rubbing with the outside of fresh orange or lemon peel and dning immediately. The volatile oils dissolve threshing is nearly all completed throughout Minnesota and is progress Some interesting things are remembered by Sherman's Atlanta campaign veterans in connection with Lieutenant Bundy, commanding a battery of artillery- -now kuown as Major Bundy, aud one af the editorial riters ou Deacon Shepherd's New York Mail and Express. Lieutenant Buudy had a tooth for a good toddy, and one morning at Kenuesaw Mountain, had sampled some "Diamond B'' commissary, with some other officers, and reached his battery in excellent spirits. Soon Colonel (icary rode that way. and, observing the Lieutenvnt, grulliy addressed him like this: "Lieutenant Bundy, you aredrunkl" Bnjidy answered back as quick as a ing rapidly in Dakota While the wheat in the northwest locality has been somewhat damaged by frost it is not uearly so bad as was at first expect pie.

if not efficacious. A dose of sea-water is considered benelicial to a broken arm, aud to hold salt iu both hands is reckoned aeertaiu remedy for various ills to which flesh is liable, aud is also held to be of use in warding off ghostly enemies in the shape of evil spirits. Singularly enough, I have kuown the same shield against the power of darkness used by peasants in the west of Ireland. It is common, when the bush-doctor is consulted, for him to announce that the patient is suffering from au ailment caused by the presence of a beetle or a spider iu one of the limbs. The doctor proceeds to extract the intruder by-sucking the affected limb, producing the creature from his mouth at the end of the operation iu proof of his efficacy.

fund. Large quantities of Kansas wheat are bought by Texas millers aud shippers south. A remedy for chinch bugs sow a bushel of salt and one of lime to every acre after the grain is sown. The increase of the railroad assess ed, and owing to the fact that the farm the tar so that it can be rubbed on. I ers gel about the same price this year syllables." "I know that, but lick any two pupils can l.in- for JJo.

2, northern, as was received last year tor No. 1 hard, it is anticipated that they will be better of tbis year than Mollis or auy summer Hying insects may be enticed to destruction by a bright tin pan half filled with kerosene set in a dark corner of the room. Attracted by the bright pan, the moth will meet his death in the kerosene. It may be worth knowing that water in which three or four onions have ment in Kansas this yearover that of last. The most favorable reports come from points on the Watertown, Aberdeen aud Ellendale branches.

Several elevators along the line have commenc ed receiving wheat now. Spools of cotton, buttons, nails and so forth are sometimes alleged to be the cause of the illness, aud are extracted iu a similar fashion. Iu his character cohl Journal The man who makes an investment for the purpose of getting something for nothing generally succeeds in getting somethiug. In addition to getting left he usually gets a little, experience. Oil City Blizzard.

Hanover Squeor It, would be a good thing for that young Jack Dorr if the conceit were knocked out of him. Park Howe Ureal Scott! There wouldn't Vie enough of him left to hang clothes on! Buck. Citizen (to stranger) You seem to be in trouble, friend; I notice tears in your eyes. Stranger It's nothing last year is a little over $11,000,000. A music teacher at a salary of per annum isemployt in the public schools of Wiufield.

Other Kansas towns might profitably follow suit. A doctor at (Jlasco was bitten on the finger by a rattlesnake. He made two deep cuts with a Knife, ligatured the wrist, and sucked the poison out. Noble Prenlis settles the question as His Skull Crashed. Cuicauo, Sept.

1. It. W. as wizard the obeah-man is in request Van Ant- to guard the crops of pineapples or been boiled, applied with a gilding brush to the frames of pictures and chimney glasses, will prevent Hies from lightiug on them and will not injure the frames. A long-handled brush, long enough to reach the ceilings, is as important to a good housekeeper as a good broom, "if the walls aud ceilings are liirhtlv brushed before the room is wery, a Cincinnati detective, was found orauges from the hands of the spoiler, the ships from storm aud shipwreck.

and the crew from deatli and disaster lying at the corner of Lake and Franklin streets at 3 o'clock Friday morning with his skull crushed in. It was learned that Van Antwerp has been following Frank Kline, alias Julius Hueston, a notorious Not a sclioouer leaves the port hut has Hash: "Colonel Geary, you are a liar!" Here was a situation. Geary was about to put Bundy under arrest, saying to him: "You are so drunk you don't know that gun from a hollow log." "I don't eh! I'll show you whether I do not. See that bunch of robs over pointing to a group of Confederate officers taking au observation from an eminence half a mile away. "Just watch me scatter Seizing the tail of a gun he jerked it around, got the range, adjusted everything to his liking, aud gave the order to lire, exploding a four-inch shell right iu the midst of the group of Confederates, who hastily retired to cover, carrying with them their wounded.

Colonel Geary withdrew his offensive remarks, complimented Bundy on his skill, aud rode away. Lieutenant Bundy was au expert artillerist and could laud a shell about where ho wanted to. The writer had often heard it said, by Federals who ought to know. a bit of obeah attached for good luck to wheather or not Quantrell was killed by remarking that if he were alive he to the mast, while beneath their shirts swept, the paper will keep clean and a string of charmed twine preserves fresh much longer. the men from danger by laud and Ingrain carpets, worn beyond repair, water.

Vacant houses are also pro should be cut into lengthwise strips, train robber, for several months, and only found him that night. When Van Antwerp attempted to arrest Kline the latter struck him with aouie blunt instrument, fracturing his skull and made eood his escape. The 12th of July last tected from intruders during the ovvn- er's absence bv the obeah-man. To weuld be running for office over In Missouri. Thirty years ago, Colonel J.

L. Barnes superintendent of the Southern Kausaa railway, ran the first Pullman sleeping car out of Chicago ever built by George M. Pullman. An inkstand is on exhibition at Topeka over which has been formed three eights of an inch of lime, sand and other matter, the result of two weok's soaking iu effect this police duty, a bull is rolled and woven the same as a rag carpet. It is unnecessary to sew the ingrain cuttings, weavers generally preferring to overlap the strips as they weave.

Mats and carpets assume quite a Persian look when made in this way, and serious, Kir. I have a case to plead in court tomorrow, and I'm practicing ou my speech before the jury. Epoch. Customer (to Mr. Isaacsteiu) That's a poor fit, Isaacstein.

Mr. Isaacstein Ya, dot vas a miserable lit, Veu I mek clothes to lit, my front, I lose dot high-doned Fifth av'enoo sthylo gus-tom, and dat vas my specialty. Saw York Sun. The lens of the Lick telescope magnifies times. It is a blessed thing say, a telescope; isn't that something to talk through? Seems to us we've heard some men who talked through a thing something like that Burdetlc.

If Germany, Russia, France, or any other power wants a war, hy don't are durable. Sew lork Mail. up containing a few rusty old nails and some pieces of rushes, and laid on the threshold of the cabin; ou seeing this mysterious ball, no negro dares to enter the house unlawfully. A rudely carved head, fastened on a tree, is a secure guardian for cocoanutor orange grove, while a horn with a cork on it Van Antwerp attempted to arrest Kline in and was badly wounded by a pistol shot. Van Antwerp was taken to the county hospital, where he now lies in a critical condition and will and will probably die from bis injuries.

Lively Live Stock War. St. Louis, Sept. 1. Further complications in the live stock war between west Culinary Saws.

Topeka water. Ex-Governor Glick has the biggest bank account of any in Kansas. He Mirth becomes a feast, After cheese comes nothing. that he bred the shot that Killed uen. Polk Kenuesaw (Atlanta) Gazette.

Itompiug Swallows. They say man is the only animal that can lausrh, but he is far from being the only one that cau cut capers and have a good time says the Buffalo Express. There is a colony of swallows that find a roomy homo inside a stuck full of pins and a bottle of water underneath is a favorite protection against thieves or spirits. It would be a bold evil spirit who would enter the Held so guarded; he knows right well that the pins would prick him and force him to enter the bottle of water; no negro would dream of intruding deposited one milliou dollars in the Topeka banks, for the next payment of pensions, which is to begin September4, Whilesoine men aud boys were tormenting a Polled Angus bull near Fort Scott Tuesday, the auaimal became in ern lines are announced. It is claimed that the Rock Island has cut the rate from Pond Creek to $30 a car, a leduclion of $54, and the cut has been met by the Atchinson, Topeka Santa Fe as far office This they walk up to the Captain's and plank down their money? srrowlinr around like a lot of torn cats broken cornice ou the Noye building is becominsr tiresome to outsiders.

at Washington street bridge, that was Petroit Free Press. Diet cures more than the lancet (iive a loaf and beg a shive. Many cooks ne'er made good kale. Hunger makes raw beans relish well. Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

Great plenty breeds much dainty. Tripe broth is better than no porridge. Where content is, there is a feast. Meat is much, but manners more. Of soup and love the first is best.

He livcth long that liveth well. Enough is a much a vanity. IMack plums may eat as sweet as white. One feast, one house, one mutual happiness. He How in tune do the women con trive to make the flowers on their bon furiated aud while charging upon them, tumbled into a well.

He had to be killed. A Lawrence woman has been arrested for running a joint and her stock was confiscated aud destroyed by the marshal. She was then turned loose on nets staud up sostraiirht? She Why, don't vou know? They are mounted it. The clown. on wires.

He That settles overhead wires must come south as Ponca, I. T. It is said that the losses to the various roads involved will reach $1,000,000. The Wabash Western has retired frem the through cattle busi nessfor the time being, preferring to protect local traffic. A meeting of managers has been called to assemble at Chicago next Monday for the purpose of endeavoring to patch up peace.

Appointed by the Governor. Topeka, Sept. 1 Gov. Martin today appointed F. 0.

Shinn, a prominent member of the Butler county bar, judge within an enclosure where sucli a bot- tie was displayed. When the obcah-inan's charges are high, or faith is weak, occasionally the owner of a throws himself on the good feeling of depredators. I have seen a placard lixed to a post iu a licld of maize on which was was painted the polite request: "If you steal the corn, do please leave, the blades." In the Shadow or Hunker Hill. Modern Bostonian(who has only been over about six mouths, to his friend the condition never to enter the sacred precincts of Lawrence again. A Caldwell hobo enteied a clothing house down there the other day and putting on a hat that seemed to suit him first rate, walked out with the greatest Neither lish nor flesh nor good red herring.

Be content; the sea hath lish enough. He that wants health wauts everything. If wishes were woodcocks, beggars Boston Transcript. "I don't see," said Mr. Maguire, as he sat in the stern of the vessel, "how the Captain can find his way across the ocean.

If he was going the other way all he'd have to do would be to follow that white streak behind there, but in front there's nothing to point the way." Harper's Bazar. Magistrate (to prisoner) The plaintiff claims that you gouged his eye, bit ol'the 20th judicial disttict, vice judge lately observed engaged in what must have" been sport One of them when lirst noticed had a piece of paper about a foot square in his month. He flew with it over the bridge, aud when iu the air dropped it. He at once flow under it and caught it, but let it go agaiu and flew aside, when several others tried in turn to catch it. Sonio succeeded and some failed and they kept at it till the paper had fluttered dowu uncomfortably close to the ground.

Then they all flew up together and roosted on a telegraph wire to talk it over, their notes being very hilarious and quite different from a swallow's ordinary twitter. An observer who goes to ball games sometimes wondered if they were not canvassing the skill each displayed during his inning "is there anything uew under the sun asked Hollo, as ho closed his book. "Yes," said his Uncle George, "revenue." "It would bo to boiiiu people," said Hollo's mother, with quiet but womanly severity. And Hollo's Uncle George softly whistled a fragment of two or three times aud went out to soo if the next frost had sang fro id possible, lie waa captured by the proprietors and made to give up his booty. Some Atchinson men in 1872 subcribed would bo epicures.

Pheasants arc fools, if they invite tho hawk to dinner. stock to a telegraph company. After Alderman) (iood niarnin', Misbter O'Toolc. Could yoz have the kindness to tell me phwy the shops do be closed ami the flags a-llyin'? Mr. O'Toole It do be the Siviu-teenth, Dennis.

Modern Bostonian The Sivcnteentli, is it? Saints aloivc, do ycz have two Saint Patrick's Days to tho year in Anieriku? hick. paying from 10 to 40 per cent of their subscriptions the company failed. After years of lawing they are compelled to Hamilton resigned. Judge Shinn has been prominently identified with the bar of El Dorado and Butler county for tweuty years, and his appointment is recommended by a large proportion of the members of the bar in the district. He was a soldier In an Illinois cavalry regimeut and has never held an office Kansas, either elective or appointive.

A Fruit Combination. Atlanta, Sept. 1. The tropica fruit houses here have combined and settlers will be unable to get a banaua ex pay 35 per cent more. About $30,000 Small cheer aud great welcome niakcth a grand feast Better an egg iu peace than an ox in war.

Fools lade out tho water and wise men take the fish. lie has eaten up the pot and ask for the pipkin. Friendship and importunate begging feed not at the same dish. Ho that is rich and lives poorly is like an ass that carries gold and cats thistles. Table.

Talk. must be raised In 10,000 from the Atchison men. A little twelve-year-old son of W. Griffey, a prosperous farmer living near Grautville, became tired of this life Sun a piece oil his ear, knocked mm endwise, and then walked up and down his body; what did he do that you should thus assault him? Prisoner Your Honor, he allowed that I wasn't no gentleman. Epoch.

"The Darwinian theory, my dear," said Mr. Knowitall, "is that we are all of Simian ancestry. Darwin believed that Siam was tin; great leader in the evolution of the world." Where upon Mrs. Knowilall and the little Knowi-lalls wondered whence pupa derived his vast erudition. Harper' Bazar.

lb-own (despairingly) Dunilcy, I'm ruined. My wife has left me, my fortune is nicl't iug aw ay, and the Sheriff is up at the house selling off everything but some unpaid gas bills! Duiu-Icv his hand to his face) -Have day, and procuring a piece of rope, tied When Deacon Program visited the theatre for the first time ho was greatly shocked at the ballet for a little while. He thought better of it after a time, however, and whispered to Mrs. "Maria, it's awful, I'll allow ycr; but my! If wo could have sul-hin' o' that hind down to one o' our parish sociables, wouldn't wo draw the folks! we'd wipe out that church delit quiek-er'n scat!" Boston Transcript. a slip knwt, placed it over the limb of a cept through courtesy.

A mouth ago a meeting was called in New Orleans and a trust was formed, composed of six of the strongest fruit houses Iu the United tree In his father's orchard, a short dls killed any of the July roses. BurdMa. Cahappy Papa! When Kalo was very you nt: and mnatl ThusoiiK xlio iiki'cI to el UK whh this: "I do en hailly want doll." Alt I Sew Hint kaiiiiH largo and tall The koiik him rhiilitfi'il to wheedling kiss; "1 do so Imilly wunt a dollar." Tluia. Alphonzo I nm poor man, Miss Do Pink, hut 1 am industrious, honest, and ambitious, and if you you would Miss Do Pink, Alice Miss Do Pink Why, certainly. I haveu't much to give, but you are welcome.

Herein 10 (hiialia World. tance from the house, and placing his neck in the noose, jumped from off' the mb and hung himself. Tub comptroller's report of the condition of the 150 national batiks in Kansas shows their total liabilities and ro- States, with a capital of $18,000,000. has been advanced by London capitalists to build railroads iu Honduras bo as to concentrate the fruit product at some more central point. At a fair held in Madison, a goose was voled the most popular dude.

the triolliiii'lii'1' ItiMun Nn. vou.