Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 190, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 29, 1888 Page: 3 of 8
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their bands with the shells denoting
infalli-
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ward bread, meat.
with objectionable guests.
The
bottom but no top limit to rates.
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But in what respect does
you
dissipation in
Fulton, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas
make calipers of their finger
and
thumb and
from one to the other, detect a difer-
tiie "aid
dium.
old Mose, “I hope you am prosperin’
Whar did yer get de licker?”
A Canadian Opinion of the Situation.
Canada feels that since the United
State has stood treat so long it might
have stood the treaty.—Lingkamplon
excep-
Amran
the
the
the line
dogs.
G. E
i Belt
Rison
as he
acci-
Both
1 He
r and
could
uffer-
is re-
kson,
they distinguish in that wav not mere-
ly eggs which are decidedly bad, but
those which are just barely beginning
to lose their freshness.
I may not be much of a corre pomlent,
but he turns out some brilliant letters.
— Merchant Traveler.
“Dat am one ob de lierbilities what
goes wid der liquidashun."
Frank Holl and the Prince.
The remains of Frank Holl, R A.,
were laid to rest at Highgate cemetery
lae Broadway Dog Dealer.
Every day a sad eyed man strolls up
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, and
udge
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, and
tim-
h ho
it the
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ninor
judge
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ob de preferred creditors and git some
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Whit
unced
nsane
is a
ty.
A Select Party.
I will engage to entertain at dinner,
at a round table live feet in diameter,
all the American novelists who make
more than a thousand dollars a year
out of the royalty onany one of their
novels, and give them all they want to
eat and drink, and three of the best
cigars apiece afterward, and a hack to
take them home in; and I will agree to
their putting up their feet on the seat
in front of them.—Julian Haivlhtrnc,
in Delj ord's Magazine.
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Den you kin count on
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I’ll iino dat meetin’
The only canine pets which the fair
mistresses have not wearied of and
discarded are the terriers—the Skyes
The kind of Bell It Was.
Scene—a real estate office, with a
ence in width between the two ends
which it is difficult to measure by any
other means.
There are men employed in factories
where dried yeast is made whose bus-
iness is to put the yeast into packages
weighing a certain amount each. It is
on a table in front of them in a large
plastic mass, and there are the scales
for weighing it- But the men do not
use the scales. They simply separate
from the mass with their hand a lump
of it and put it up, and you may
choose at random and put it on the
scales, and it will weigh exactly the
right amount, the scales beam just
excess in width of some cards over
others at the end of the pack will be
double the variation in any one card,
which would facilitate cheating, a very
minute variation being perceptible.
The men who test these cards for this.
your youtl, and expect the fruits of
ago will be a good constitution, elevat-
forfeit a thousand dollars to the home
for imbeciles if twenty-live dollars does
not liquidate the bill and leave enough
over to buv a cloth copy of each of
the works in question, with the author’s
autograph on the fly leaf. One hack
would be sufficient, and would allow of
Sleepine
nzr On to
ttiink anvmorgstosrespas- l migt’Wl auB.
and plant in your bosom the seeds of
virtue.
Among his personal friends was
i ob do assets, or I’ll bust de jug.’’ —
‘ 'lexas Sifliogs. •
the condtion of the egg just as
bly ami much more quickly.
leave your royal highness alone and
go and meet the princess?” The prince
laughed, and in his easy, natural man-
ner quickly replied, “Why ladies first,
of course. By all means go and meet
the princess. I can take care of my-
self.”—London Ugaro.
i was drawn this season on
The landlords would hardly
difer from you, while
seeds of idleness ami
ing now for these once pampered dark
iugs. Foodies, he adds, he would not
course last
There is a
“Sir,” he said to the old man, “for
months I have worshiped your daugh-
ter with a passion which I had every
desire a v rtuous and happy life.
Visited by Indians.
Writing from Hollywood, N.
year, and certainly not the season be-
fore, but they saw the dog craze wan-
ing, and they hoisted the warning.
“No dogs need apply.” — St. Louis
Globe- Democrat.
More Titan Most Correspondent 3 Po.
The artist who puts up gilt signs
bell conspicuously displayed. Enter
MeSwilligen.
MeSwill igen— Is that the bell of the
ball, Charlev?
Real eslate man—No, Mac, that is
merely the bell which precedes the
auctioneer’s bawl.—Pittsburg Chroui-
' cle.
A Good Chance for a Crippled Masto-
don.
A mastodon’s tusk has been found
tionally heavy, the Kwaja
Not dis trip. You see I has de
rheumatiz, so I jess made mvsef a pre-
ferred creditor ami sines mvsef dem
near Bismarck, Dakota. The owner
can have the same bv proving proper-
ty.—It Chester Poti Express.
this man
sow the
“Huh! hit ’pears ter me dat you am
kinder off de queshun. I means dat
owin’ ter de pressure of creditors I’se
done made a sinement."
“What’s dat getter do wid payin’
me dat sebenty-hve cents?”
“You is de most ignerant nigger
eber 1 seed. Hit means dat de proper-
ty hab done gone inter de hands ob a
receiber for de benefit ob de preferred
creditors, and I don’t pay no muoah old
debts."
•Whar’s my sebent-five cents?”
in unmentionables in polite society. . . . ■ .
They went with fear and trembling. rrmso, 16 " ‘ 15
but a countess, whose will is law and e 0 a
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ill to
each
a
iteer
iouse
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lized
war,
ouri,
e the
ation
For
nor-
ixthe
Mho
f de
and brought for-
pia and cheese, as
strings. People stop him and talk.
The intelligent animals drop down on
the flagstones or grass and wait
serted this season. Moreover, there is
a good deal of human nature among
hunters, and it can scarcely be expect-
ed, after they have spent time and
money—perhaps a good deal of
of both—in discovering for them-
selves choice localities where it is even
vet possible to kill enough meat to
keep tiie camp going, that they should
reveal such situations to any one who
may choose to ask them for this infor-
mation. There are still places in the
Rocky Mountains where fair hunting
have attempted such a
Candahar railway is
prior to Show Sunday, his Royal High-
ness arrived a few minutes before his and kin pav me dat sebenty-five cents
wife, and was conver’sing with Holl ! you has been owin’ me sence de las’
when the princess drove up. Holl [ fourf ob July. »
was in a dilemma. He did not like to ..j ‘ dat de finanshal
leave the prince, and he wanted to CO J , ,,
and meet the exalted lady. With his I sitewashun am more complercated den
characteristic habit of going straight ! eber. Didn’t yer hear dat I had gone
to the point, Holl said to the prince, । inter liquidation?”
“What ought I to do—stay here or “Whar did yer get de licker?”
and their hairy kin. But even these
animated mop-brushes are not as pop-
ular as they once were. Saratoga !
whose decisions are final alike in mil-
linary. civil and ecclesiastical, having
issued invitations to the bishops and
caused it to be intimated that they
need not adopt the address of the
home brethren, their lordships breath-
ed freely, though many did wear the
regulation costume. Will they intro-
duce the home patterns of clothes in
the colonies? Will American bishops
in particular dare to walk the streets
as do our spiritual pastors and mas-
ters, the laughing-stock of many bo-
range presenting difficulties far
greater than any the Russians
have encountered. The present inten-
tion of the Indian government is to
open up communication with Chaman
as quickly as possible by means of a
light mountain railway, and at the
same time to go on boring tunnels and
blowing up rocks for the passage of a
permanent line along which the ordin-
ary locomotive can travel. The cost
of the temporary line will add consid-
erably, no doubt, to the total expend-
iture but the advantages of being in
direct communication with Candahar
at the earliest possible date are too ob-
vious to be overlooked, and when once
the Kwaja Amran range is surmounted
the extent ion onward from Chaman
could be constructed in a few weeks.
Good progress has already been made
with the tempory line over the range.
It will be ready, indeed, by the time
the machinery for hauling trucks up
the inclines is received. The chief
feature of the permanent line it a tun-
nel 2, miles long. Boring machinery
imported from England, is now being
erected, and work will be begun at
both ends. English miners will be
employed. They cost live times as much
as the natives; but English labor,even at
this rate, will be cheaper in the end.
While the operations are proceeding at
the front something has been done to
improve the line to Buetta through
Bolan. The break of the gauge was a
serious obstacle to rapid communica-
tion, and the experiments made with
the “Abt”’ system proved a failure.
Now, however, an alignment has been
discovered on which the steepest grad-
ient will not be more than one in
twenty. Along this the rails are be-
ing laid down on the broad gauge, and
the work should be finished in two or
three months’ time.—St. James’s Ga-
zette.
Sowing Seeds of Character.
If you should see a man digging in
a snow-drift, with the expectation of
finding valuable ore, or planting seeds
upon the rolling billows, you should
say at once that he was beside himself.
ed affections and holy principles! If
and he takes du yaller dog. Den
on Tuesday. No recent death has Jefferson, J. Fenimore Cooper, Arch-
created a more painful feeling than bishop Hughes, of New York; Henry
by passing them“along that, in the early prime of his life, of Clav. William Cullen Bryant James
- ■ ........ our most successful portrait painter, i ( . Ayer, George Bancroft and Henry
Beecher.— New Haven Palla-
and mountain sheep may be found, a
great many readers of Forest and
Stream are contemplating expeditions
to the west this year. Such corres-
pondents must remember that the day
of big game plenty in the west is for-
possible to give explicit direction
where game can be found. The west
is rapidly settling up, there are few
spots whege the hunters have not
penetrated, and the larger wild
animals are constantly driven from
hold-keepers were quick to “catch 1 Elizabeth Oakes Smith tells an inter-
on" to the decline in the og fashion. | esting story of her childhood's life in
Last season there were women who Maine. One evening, when her father
brought their dogs with them, and not •
only insisted on having them in their was at sea and her mother was putting
rooms at all hours, but several actually i the children to bed. six tall, blanketed
Prince of Wales, who often visited his
studio in Fitzjoln’s Avenue. On one
occasion, when the Prince was to
bring the Pr ncess to see his portrait.
A Desperate Man.
“Papa,” said a pale but beautiful
girl, “I refused Mr. Sampson last night,
and as he got up to go he said:
“ “Miss Miflinton, your refusal has
made me desperate; all the colors of
my life are changed; look in the
papers to-morrow morning,’ and with
a groan he was gone. Oh, papa,
see what dreadful thing has iaven-
ed. ’ ’
“Was his first name George?”
asked the old man, scanning the pa-
per.
“Yes. papa.”
“H-m—George Sampson. Yes, he has
been sent up for ten days.”
Antographs Value I at $75,00 >,
The late Dr. Edward II. Lefinwell’s
$75,000 collection of autographs has,
for several years,been kept in a cabinet
with other valuable papers belonging
to Dr. Leflingwell, in the rooms of the
historical society at the old state house.
By his will it becomes the property of
a niece.
The signatures consist of the names
of all the people of historical promi-
nence for the last three centuries.
Some even date farther back, as that
of Chistopher Columbus.
There are the names of the crowned
heads of England, France and Spain,
and of all the illustrious authors, paint-
ers, sculptors, generals and politicians.
The name of actors and actresses find
a place in the collection. Although the
collection is made up largely of the
. . , , , names of foreign, celebrities. Dr. Lef-
can be had, but those who know such fingwell did not forget America, and
places do not usually make them among others are the autographs of
public. Forest and Stream. i John Adams, John Quincy Adams,
Roger Williams, Martin Van Buren,
John Trumbull, Zachary Taylor, Wil-
liam Fenn, James Madison, George
Wasbington. Francis S. Key, Robert
lion’s, and great, speaking eyes, is of- i ain’t got nuflin left but a dollar and
fered for half what would have. been half, and I had ter sine dat.
. . . , . • , 1 "Mebbe you sine dat ter me.
considered a moderate price two years
ago. and finds no purchaser. The pug 1
does not ride in milads lap with his
Hie Preferred Creditor.
‘Good mawnin'. Uncle Fete,” said
balancing.
Where large numbers of eggs are
• handled and shipped to market there
is a process known as "candleing"
eggs, which consists in taking them
up in the hands (usually two eggs in
each hand at a time), ami holding
them up before a lighted candle. The
light shining through them reveals to
the practiced eye the exact condition
of the contents. But some of the men
soon got so that they do not need to
the c the mere contact of liepub team.
-----. i . , - I Lierbilities am what yer don't pay de
And and down Broad Way with a collection | ereditors. and assetts am what ver
of dogs held uuder control by long j don’t hab. I pints a receiber, dat’s my
wife, and I makes her a preferred
reason to suppose was reciprocated.”
“Well?”
“Last night she cruallv refused me.
and in the depth of mv dark despair 1 you , .
1 over estimated mv capacity and this 111 youtl you must shape your charact-
morning was lined $10. er In the word of unerring wisdom.
•Well?”
“I think, sir, that in view of nil the
exciting circumstances, it would be
more than right for you to reimburse
me the line.”—Aew Jori Sun.
Big Game in the West.
To judge b: the letters which come
to us inquiring for localities where big
game. such as elk, deer, antelope, bear
Rhode Island patron was informed
that she would be charged for the
dog’s board a figure at which even
ner extravagant ideas recoiled. Thus
Gulistan-Chamen section of
are always on hand in a New England
pantry. A wildwood appetite is not
delicate in kind, and they soon de-
voured everything in the house, and
the chief stood and serutin zed the
brave, handsome face of my mother,
as if reading her character. She sat
in a high-backed rocking-chair with
me in her lap, and my sister, two
years older, standing behind her, and
the young girl upon a stool at her feet.
Beit remembered that they were three-
quarters of a mile from any other
dwelling, and the night was far spout.
At length the cheit made her to under-
stand that they would give her a dance,
and at once the whole six began going
round the room, keeping time to a low,
measured chant which they hummed,
broken bv notes which seemed a yell,
at which each gave a leap into the air.
The leader held out his band to me,
which I took with a baby giggle, be-
ing a little less than a year old. Swing-
ing me upon his shoulder, the dance
went on with beat and yells, I shout-
ing, and laughing at my best.” They
went off without doing any mischief.'
but it was a fearful ordeal for the
mother.
itself is mote than 5,000 feet above te
sea level, snd the completion of the
line so fat is no mean achievement
According-to the Pioneer there is now
a daily service of trains between Killa
Abdulla and Quetta, caravans from
Candakse and Herat stepping at the
former place to unload their goods for
transpoi: onward by rail. From
Quetta to Candahar the railway will
run in eimost a straight line, and it is
the most difficult sectiou now in hand.
The distance from Gulistan to Chaman,
on the Candzhar side of the range, is
only thirty miles, but the estimated
cost of the railway along this part of
its course is put at something between
£70.000 and £80.000 a mile. The
average cost of constructing the rail-
way to Samarkand has been about £4. -
300 a mile. Of course the outlay on
mutterings, the woman enjoyed the
hop and the terrier took a nap.
1 his season, when the descendant of
Roger Williams put in her appearance,
she found, to quote the affable clerk,
“that the rates of board for dogs had
riz.” This is the convenient wav the
Mr. R ley, of Saratoga, has of dealing
sides the street-gamins?—Pall
Gazette.
place to place. A section which
abounded in game last year may be de-
England Has B Beer*
While Russie w Pmh%
Samarkand, •
The Russians are 1 king ao zucla
about their railway tosenarkanejust
now that the line we aremakig to
Central Asia from tiie Op We direc-
tion attracts but little notiE Since
the beginning of the year the Bnda.
har railway I as been openeu 6 Kiil
Abdulla, just on the Quetta sieode
Kwaja Amran range. Killa Abdu .
took their pets into tiie big dining Indians stalked into the house. “They
One woman, the | gave mother to understand that they
wealthy Rhode Islander. I wanted tire-water,” said the writer.
carried her terrier into the crowded i •To this she firm answer that she
ball-room and deposited it in a chair ; had none—but she would give tnem
beside her. while, of I’60!’1® I something to eat, - ’ ■---'•
stood. Oblivious to the stares and —
THE CANjyAR RAILWAY
funds ter propishiate de rheumatiz."
“Dats kinder curus. When am you
gw in ter pay me dat sebenty-live
cents?”
Skill with Eye and Hand.
We hear a great deal about the
wonderful precision and accuracy of
machinery in these days, and of course
it is wonderful; but the degree of
accuracy to which the human hand
can be trained is equally wonderful.
Flaying cards are required to be cut
vh the sides quite parallel to each
other, because if a pack be trimmed
by the machine slightly wider at one
end than the other, and they become
turned “end for end” in dealing, the
neck decorated with yellow bows—
not this season. He skirmishes
through the alleys and consorts with
curs. He has fallen from aristocracy
to democracv, and the fancier says
there isn’t any market worth menton-
creditor, and she takes de cabin. Den
l makes mr darter Susan a preferred
creditor, and she takes de cow. Den I
makes my darter Sally a preferred
creditor, and she takes de pig. Den
my son Sam he am a preferred creditor.
going out of fashion.” A magnificent
St. Bernard with a muzzle like a
-An
mi-
day
• at
of
vith
last
ily.
ago
oro-
of
in
and
ntil
line
t of
i a
ick.
ned
ank
lets
rtly
and
ck,
and
Dress at the Lambeth Conference.
The bishops from across the seas
not only lacked the violet court dress
in which their English brethren dis-
port themselves, but they had not the
knee breeches and silk stockings in
which, with the exception of my lord
his grace of New York, and a few
more with shapely legs, their lordships
make themselves guys. Grand ladies,
it was feared, who were great stick-
lers for etiquette. might refuse to re-
ceive bishops with the ordinary nether
habiliments of the laity and the infer-
iorclergy. Some prelates, whose wives
and daughters were with them, got
over the difficulty by supplying them
with the correct costumes, but some
sturdy republicans among tiie Amer-
ican episcopate objected to don a dress
which they conceived to be lacking in
simplicity. Two or three mustached
and bearded prelates dared to appear
Here are three different ways in „
which extreme skill of the hands is But the bargain never comes. “Dogs,
shown by persistent training: First, in the fane er reluctantly admits, “are
detecting slight differences in magni-
tude; second, in weight; and, lastly in
texture or character of surface handled.
—American Machinist.
ever past and that it is no longer
Ready Wit
Parlimentory elections usually afford
a good field fol t.e exercise of wit.
While a noble lord was conducting his
canvass, he met a bully, who declared
fiercely that he would “sooner vote for
the devil than for him.” “I’ve not
the slightest doubt my friend. ” said
the candidate quietly, “but in the
event of your friend not coming, may
I count on your vote?” Here is an-
other of the same kind: At an open
political meeting a man cried, “Hur-
rah for Jackson!” to which a bystand-
er retorted, “Hurrah for a jackass!”
“All right, my man,” exclaimed the
first speaker, “you can hurrah for
your favorite candidate, and I’ll do the
same for mine.”
An enviable quickness of repartee
was shown by a French actor when
the head of a goose was thrown upon
the stage. Advancing to the foot-
lights he said: “Gentlemen, if any
one among you has lost his head I
shall be glad to restore it at the con-
clusion of the piece.” Deservedly se-
ver#. also, was the reply of Descartes
to a nobleman, who seeing that he was
enjoying the pleasure ef the table, re-
marked: “I see. sir, that philosoph-
ers can sometimes indulge in good
cheer.” “Why not? ’ ask Descartes.
“Do you really imagine that Provi-
deuce intended the good things of this
earth only for the foolish and ignor-
an t ?’ ’
The tourist, who said to an idle
Sky eman. “Why do you lie there all
day with your hands in your pockets?”
Pnusel haven’t been far enough South
5 learn to put them in other people’s”
Ready wit cannot be said to be natur-
al to youth, for the answers given by
precocious schoolboys are not witty,
being usually the outcome either of
misunderstanding or of “cheek.”
There are exceptions, however, to this
rule. A teacher asked his class what was
meant by “divers diseases,” and was
rather surprised when one of the boys
answered, “Water in the head.” A
little dot of a girl inquired of her moth-
er the meaning of “transatlantic”’ and
was told, “Across the Atlant c.”
••Does ■Irans’ always mean ‘cross,’
mamma?’ she then asked. “Yes,” re-
plied the mother, but don’t bother me
any more. "Then I guess ‘transpar-
ent’ means a cross parent,” was the
conclusion the unconcious young hu-
morist came to as she relapsed into
silence.
The lord provost of a certain well-
known city in the North had a daughter
married to a gentleman by the name of
Baird; ami speaking of names to
several friends, he happened to remark;
“My grandmother was a Husband and
my mother a Man,” those having been
the maiden names of the ladies. “Why,
in that case,” said the celebrated Dr.
Gregory, who was present, “we may
the less wonder at your daughter hav-
ing got a Baird.”—ChambePs Journal.
I Dar. yoi hus tivue ieil tie queshuru
1 agin. I see dat 1 11 hab ter splain.
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