The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 22, 1884, Page 6

Swordsmen of the Deep. Imagine whales fencing with one an- other for amusement! It seems as if such a thing could not be; and yet there are whales of a cer- tain species w. with one another, but for swords. It is the narwhal of the teeth of Ways grows thro stands out li ch not only fen their use tecth 2@ uarwhal’s 2 to through the dip; tooth that grows out for sometimes this tooth ise feet long mal itself, from d to tail, is seldom more than six feet in jength. Of what use such an enormous tooth is to the narwhal no one knows. Some persons say it is used for spearing fish; others, that its use is to stir up the mud in the bottom of the ocean in order to scare out the fish that may be hiding there; and one man says the tooth is for the purpose of breaking holes in the ice in w for the narwhal, like all whales, is obliged to co to the at intervais to breat Whatever the tooth is for, itis c 1 to be en the another nd away they long tooth charge at each other swords clash together. The ttive as well as froliesome ors tell of ng them cross swords in this way, thrusting and par- tying, and rolling and darting about | with marve ce. The n gray in color, and cove spots. For a valued by the ishes a very fine s used fo: quality of ¢ and its sk ded with both of | om the 1, in St. Nich- —John R. alas for September. a A Home-Made “I see by the papers, father, that all the candidates on other side gota Nemesis, da South | choolboy to his pa. “What isa N | ests, cle? “No, m a Nemesis not li a bicycle. n rides a bieyele, when he knows how, and a Nemosis reverses the operation and rides the mun.” “What is it, then?” “H’m! what is it, Let me see; itisa sort of a moral ghost, as it were, an 2 kicking con- rt of Nemesis father? is it anything like a bi ny thine. t what is it like, father? one. f you want to see one real bad, just you drink four cups of strong cof- tee, alf a dozen links of store sau- sage, and top off with 2 cold mince pie. Do this at 9p. m., and then go to bed at 9:15, and youll sec Nemesises enough before morning to last a life- time. Now run away and don’t both- er me while lam reading the paper.” —Boston Globe. —_——— 2 _ Khartoum, where General Gordon is besieged, is 1,200 miles from Cairo, or 1,377 if a direct desert route is taken in preference to that whieh follows the great bend of the Nile between Abu I want | I must c! | Story last nicht n ete The Cost of Sickness. I think, then, tiat from the sons to be lose in England and year, in consequ = 000,000 wee work as 20,990, would do in a week j Th the min fortic t mere and medi our gre vad law. atesmer ountry than ¢ r Jumes Pag ence Monthly. a? It is f. This yesterd ata ¢ of New Dorp, S idressed to ¢ gether stand firmly bye. 2 you will be as ly g from him as Ih The New Dorp man w v to repeat the lic did not know v few York Sun. sailor’s rep became of hi A traveler @ thing ch: tive sort of busine make up the s¢ famous seas lacking room the crowded tr: of the speculs smen who so largely multitude at the A dozen men, n the smoking ear of in, went to enjoy their cigars in the t gecar. Here was a baby carriage lying on its side, thus bringing one wheel uppermost and horizontal. Not a minute before a broker w sround a spoke. “Now, gentlemen,” he said ‘‘stand around the wheelof fortune while I whirl it thus,” and he gave tho wheel a turn. “It costs you 25 cents apiece, and the man in front of whom the marked spoke Stops takes the pot. Make your game while the wheel is re- Hamed and Korosko. Villard’s Rise and Fall. 1 | One of the most remarkable person- { al movements of the present } Henry Villerd’s résumption of dence in his native land. It said that he will make Berlin h s fut- ure home, and it is probable that he will (to a partial degree at le: t) enter the Government service. His knowl. edge of American affairs would render him of the hichest uso to Bis ck, while he could add to this a ners tive banking business—having the confi- dence of both continents. This pros- pective change shows how easily the best calculations yield to circumstane- es. A year ago Villard was at the head of one of the grandest of Ameri- can enterprises, and felt so assured of Success that he gave that splendid ex- eursion which must long stand un- rivalled. He was then estimated at five millions, and was building a house whose cost was figured at half mil- lion. His name was da 'Y paragraphed and went the rounds of the pres all the applause. due to one who conquered the greatest obstacles and Siven success to an enterprise which, in the hands of Jay Cooke, had proved SO greata failures How rapidly this brilliant was followed by m fortune! of a gene me the sad news ‘apse, and Henry Vill- -ard soon sank beyond hope of Yrecov- ery. His wus the first of that remark- able series of failures which has given such fearful < ction to. the present Season.—N. Y. Leiter to the Troy Times. — += The favorite stimulants of some the great ones of history lows: Bonsnart used favorite drink was gin and water; Pope's, strong coffee; “Mrs. Siddons’, rter; Edmurd Kean’s, beet tea, cold randy; W. E. Gladstone's, an egg | beaten up in sherry; Miss Cately’s, lin- | seed tea and madeira. Disraeli was fond of champagne jelly. Schiller used to sit over a table deeply impr with the smell of dee: . Stimulated sais br. cham) of Te as fol- af Byron's x coffee Ses in t sad cham vd Erskine and John Kem used opium, Wedderburn, the first Lord Ashburton, used to place a blister en his ehest when he lind to make a great speeci New York Dial >< The well at the foot of in the village of C: he costliest gouk § chy | cotton | are piled up in heaps | | work is going on all the year. ; the winter whest is being prepared, to | be followed by the cotton seed for the | tities sent out. During the year just volving."” During the ride of an hour and a half, the impromptu « uot of an instant —New York Sun. ——_—< + = In North Carolina, in 1880, fifty-four days co the school y | Tennes sixty-eight days. State of Texas the school year was seventy-three days, and the school period on rs—from 38 to 14. —_— OO The Government Seed Bureau. The seed business began small, but last year $75,000 was voted for its sup- port and this year $100,000 is set aside for that purp Formerly the busi. ness was done in the basement of the Agricultural Department, but two years ago a spa Ss buildi was erected for that purpose, which also now shel- ters the Civil Service Commis. ion, so that the applicants for ollice | reasa soft monotone to th drudgery of their examination papers, the centle rattle of peas and beans on the floor below. I went down there the ozher day to find 160 women and 58 men busily em- ployed in putting up the seed. The men get $1.50 a day and the wom- en $1.25. Mr. Longley, the chief, with & manner worthy of an Encl Bishop, preside: Every year he buys tons of seeds. Some come from abroad; the Teater part are grown in this country. @ is constantly on the lookout for new Varieties, which are bought, tried by the department cardene nd if a suc- cess sentout. Two-thirds of the ap Propriation he spends in seeds, th Test in putting them up. Half the wom- en paste together stiff paper envelopes for the smaller kinds, and others new bags for the farm seeds. Then boys with different sized seoops fill them, and at long tables other wom- en gum the envelope flap, or with quick stitches sew the bags. Then they Ke s small grist be sent away. This Now mill, waiting to South. Let me give you an idea o} f the quan- over, Mr. Longley has mailed 3, ee ees, all going free. Of these 2 12,730 are given to the Congressmen, although by law they are only entitled totwo-thirds. Then the Agricultural Department has a cTop correspondent im every county and a general one in each state. The former Sot 395,905 packages, the latter 72,450, while mis- cellnneous applicants received 279,653. 2.733 , find so perfect is the system that great had elapsed | zapped a bit of paper | fact. First a carriace ac set down. from rarest auU Wu uo gets Are ds are of all sort to Peas, beans, corn up in quart sacks, : in tiny env: and potatoes flowers are pu are, the mex whose year as Ween Cairo ane K toum. found ra— Bedor rs alway iast them where no ack is per- nS Of cam- I counted mile on the four hun- 1 up of wells is Hed mo and ry enough It is th is needed, best parts of the t dred on the worst. sof cum- els and oxen pe Yearly. ‘The latter are driven from the Upper Nile, scantily watered once in forty-eight hours on the march, and a large pro- portion of them die on the way. ‘The hyenas and vultures, which are the ly denizens of the atmoor, pick thei bones clean before the next morning, the hides never taints the desert sir.” A corresponde from Ceylon, Gazet. t Pali Mail wart Cumber- who to forge animal be of the No boy ever irst bee with greater carried th ies Beresford off hands; the Prinee ri with it until lage read where i him. Carefully 2 the bottom royal highness but the hor: disloyally de. Whip, and, as a matter of fact, jibbed our tuture kin his p from the de soon h into the diteh, 1% Voice was lie, Char- follow thee! bat ns arrived n 1848, and pee tions, published by the Great Western Railroad, during the year, six y at Great Britain” took four car- ai Yan or baggave car fifty- arter miles in forty- —___ The Vision of a Vicar. A statement by the Rev. A Shaw Page, vicar of Selsley, Stonehouse, Gloucester, in the words of his sister, Millicent Anne Page, is summarized as follows: “I was staying with my mother’s cousin, Mrs. Elizabeth Broughton, wife of Mr. Edward Broughton, of Edinburgh, the daughter ofthe Iste Colonel Bianckley, in the year 1844, snd she told me the follow- ing strange story: She woke one night and roused her husband, telling him that some ing dreadful had hap- pened in France. He begged her to go to sleep ax and not trouble him. She assured} she was not asleep When she saw what she insisted on then telling him—what she saw. i lent, which The field corn Oe is neh of carrion | e Prince of Wales’ ele- | are of my | ats have | never excelled it. On a card of instruc- | eight | 7 | on May 11, 1848. The | not actually see, but what sne she b t 1 ult—a broken carriage, { ‘ | } saw was the re: a crowd colle -E Walton & SEWING MACHINES, before reason of keness replied One of | &, worked by that ruie su much thai it wakes to have anybody Len LiGR s —— 3 Merchant T rs, an Enylish paper freckles will ig these annoying ex, if placed eradicate d blemisnes. DEV TT SIE VEES Alanya A Home-m: UNEQUALED FAST TIMF! aL le Spring-Trap. An ex pcan be mado of a flexi piece of wood, four feet lon e inches wide a s ¥ | by a hal k, which should be | OWTOAD Mississreps fastened xt one end sex irely to a thick board, its middle mly on From St. Loui igie of the up no ountili cord 30 HOURS 3I HOURS TO BALTIMO rO NE in. the strin DAILY Ts? AIns. 2 I BEE a the of the tr: Pp, and potuto or | block of wood, or w ‘forms the target, is thrown into and shot at before it fsil | The wide ard, which forms the | base of th ly to the ¢ | throuch trap, must be fastened firn rou i, t ring long holes PALACE The of t P- | Brom St. per-bugs flew in at the open window per-bug Re and lit on the nileman w. ss Dotis PENG ©A fo New { Without change. NYLE of Ca ng and g of the ear i ‘The snappin unded like the be tting of a thousan sledge- | bammers, and the claw ug caused al- i - The bug ed out by the gentleman arose and yain to get it out with €edie and s hairpin. At last he re- doctor, and while class Ss for anv second-cass 7 don fast expre-s palace sleeping cz id comfort. through with- of pas- Frst and pi | | ; | | } elegant parlc day coaches, all runni i j i to infor- oozing acon (G: 4.) Telegraph. —__— - —____ Prize fights in Cviorado m with some degree of W.W. PEABODY, President and Gen’ mmer. ;. P..T. 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