The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 25, 1891, Page 2

i ae SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Richard (:. Moulton, of Cambridge | "Jniversity, England, is in this country studying our institutions. ley College girl trifle over —The average Welle: weighs 119%. pounds, and is five feet two inches in hei —Columbia College has led estate of about twenty acres in the best part of New York City, worth now $10.000,- 000, and likely to double in value in tb ext decade. —There is a Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor in the Wisconsin State prison, which has more than a hondred members, and work.—Boston Journal. The Board of Education of Denver. Sol., has directed the school principals 6f that city to fly the National flag on the schools on fifteen ysof the year ancluding the iegal holidays. The fund voluntarily contributed and bequeathed in the British Isles to the work of foreign missions for 1559 vas $6,500,000, of which more than half } + was given by the members of the church of England. —The receipts of the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church for the month ended the Ist of November, amounts to $200,194, a gain of $66,755 over the receipts of the same period of the previous year. —We know personally, says Educational News, one county the Alleghany mountains in which there are forty teachers “boarding round,” and many of them receive not more than $12a month. Of those who fwoard themselves, many receive but 821 4 month. —According to an official report the number of orthodox cloisters in Russia ts 673, namely— 429 monasteries and 204 aunneries. The former control 60 (Sishops’ houses, 4 cathedrals, 405 clois- ter buildings. The total number of monks is 6,050; of nuns, 6,249; of male novices, 4,711; of females, 16,682. —Mount Holyoke College has just es- tablished a literary course, co-ordinate with its classical and scientific courses. ‘Teachers’ students desiring to pursue their special branches are admitted to the regular work in the study chosen. There are already about seventy-five students in the college classes, though it is little more than two years since the new charter was obtained. ~—Rev. Dr. P. Thwing, writing in “The University Magazine” on Japanese students, alludes to their wonderful power of memorizing. ‘Il heard of one Japanese student,” he who ¢om- mitted to memory seven chapters of logarithms, and would have done more in the same line if he had been allowed to. The modern curriculum, while it still gives up a large portion of time to the laborious memorizing of Chinese ideographs, includes philosophy, mod- ern science and other studies that Hroaden all the faculties. It is said 50,- 900 copies of American school books are introduced into the government schools every year.” —The Boston Journal of Education has an interesting article on the pro- pvortionate number of men and women employed as principals in city schoc Boston heads the list with fifty-thre men and one woman. Newark has fif- teen men and no women. Cleveland heads the other list with thirty women and no men, St. Louis is the most evenly divided, with thirty-five men and twenty-three women. Chicago has forty men and cight women. Minneapolis threatens to rival Cleveland, having but four men and twenty-two women. New Haven has eight men and two women; Davenport, seven men to two women; Fall River. two men to five women: while Portland, Me.. has three to four. BEARDING THE LION. 3 Case Where Jian W to Must A good story is told of the general manager of one of the } st railroads that run out of Boston. ‘The gentleman in question is a man of the greatest in- tegrity, but that he is net only blunt and ‘brusque. but profane es well. is well known. A gentleman who had started a woolen mill in a town through which the railroad runs called on Mr. Blank, with a view to getting some reduction in freight rates, for he knew that he should have oc jon to use the road as a@ means of transportation for his wares a great deal. He found the general manager in his office and said, introduc- ing himself: “I have called to see about getting a reduction in freight rates, Mr. Blank, and think I ought to get it, for I intend shipping — “Blankety dash your dog-blamed old freight!" interrupted Mr. Blank. ‘Who wants the double dashed-to-blazes-and- back-again stuff. any way? It's no use to the road, and we don't want the blue- blanked freight! If you can’t pay regu- lar rates you can—" “Is that so?” inquired the manufact- urer; and then seeing what sort of a man he had to deal with he continued, departing altogether from the polite language he had used at tirst: “Who wants to ship freight over your blim- whanged old dash-be-blizzard of a whang-clankety railroad any way? Your cars are nothing but a string of dash-all-double-leaded coffins, and 1 wouldn't trust a blue-streaked, e-pluri- bus-unum, bankety-blue-blimmed cent with it! You can take the Here he was interrupted by the general man- ager, who calmly and quietly said: “Sit right down, Mr. -—! We'll talk this thing over!” In less than ten min- utes the manufacturer had got what he wanted, and when he left the office had made a friend of the general manager. "The latter had found a man who could outswear him.—Beston Traveller ™ e Than Ee Au Incorrigible Child. It is a little hard sometimes small children to be humane. girl stepped purposely upon a beautiful eaterpillar on the porch and todeath. Her aunt took her in hand. “Dorothy, dear,” said this relative, holding her by the arm, “don't you know that God made that caterpillar?" “Well,” said the child, looking up archly, ‘don’t you think He could make another one?” —Old Homestead. is doing good | to teach | A little | shed it | | PERSONAL AND LITERARY. — stank antograph- “fused his autograph to the j the pages ft Unite ‘ cate of cremation, It will af- ts his share und then £500. he As many Iss. when the edition of his | with bi tron watt That is to sa Ps Were so prone wk of m " 1 of to his disparag | Was ne duaent. —It is said that asked Robert Brownin ing of one of his pc <u certain person sto the mean- The poet ms. arted to explain and said its meaning so and Then he stopped not ¢ said: “I am the ain Browning so- plaining and what I meant. A ciety. It knows. To-day looks like aired | and with the in his life cam- paigns. His manr : dis tinguished, and he has the air of com- mand, which is not astonishing, for he is a born commander. The Home f tropical still in m mn more nes de face —and ading Union has more than 6.000 abers scattered about the world, some of them in Turkey. They take certificates. not of knowledge ac- quired, but of read, and the courses of reading which the union ar- ‘m to be very pleasurable ex- ercises as well as productive of an quaintance with the best things in glish literature. —Miss Lillian Baird, aged nine years, is becoming famous a, the youngest books problem composer in the world. She has a fine instinct for chess. whi has been cultivated by much practice and an herc lit posing. I talent for problem com- er first: problem, composed before she was eight. has been printed in about twenty chess columns in En- gland, Germany and America! —Great care has to be taken now movements. seended backward ‘ with the cbony stick in constant demand, but even in her own apartments Her Majesty about as little as possible. mo An alert devoted Scotchman is her personal at- tendant and is never out of the hearing of the little table-gong which the Queen strikes whenever she requires his se ices. rv Her Majesty does not walk a sin- d unnecessarily gie 3 Rudyard Kipling is not yet tive and twenty. In appearance he is short, stout, pale-faced, brown-mustached, In- dian-born man, with keen blue eyes and a resolute face. on which time and incident have prematurely trac tell-tale marks, though a b« at times breaks through melancholy expression. He wears a pair of spectacles with divided lens, which, together with a searlet fez, give him a somewhat cynical look, and calls himself “the man who came from no- hi almost “To owes sorry to he. i ard gave | such a) be Humorist—"Oh [ didn't mind. It sug- gested several jokes to me.” —Yankee “Thithe et me lithen to yo" wir sten to iy g. Ethel?) W you mean’ “Cauthe. Mumma. she thaid it tellth the thtory.”- Weekly. —A man who for large sums was Dr To a girl proposed marriage by Ir. But she, nothing rash, Keplied without ¢ He ne'er could be hope al to gr. —Washington Post. —Frightful Scandal.—**Dreadful sean- dal about Dr. Puix. “He claims to bea helor. but he'd buried nineteen wive ble’ “Yes, isn't it? Other men’s wives. I mean, of course.“—N. Y. Herald. ~ An Interruption. Tommy Bing ter had a beau last night, and I as peeping through the keyhole look- ing at them when macame along and stopped me.” Willie Slimson—-What did she do?” Tommy Bingo—‘She took a look.”--N. Y. Sun. —One of the most dreadful forms of White Caps is said to be that which ap- pears toa man at the top of the stairs with a light in its hand about 2 a m.. just as he has succeeded in lassooing the keyhole in its wild ‘ht and got the door open.—Philadelphia Times. —A boy of the period, who understood his own value and knew whut was ex- pected of him, when asked what was his duty to his father and mother, an- swered smartly: “To take them out for a walk on Sundays, and not let them know how much more I know than they do."—Chambers’ Journal. w —The Rising Generation.—Mother— papa, go at once and beg his pardon.” Johnny—‘That would be against my principles. I have my own rights, and I think Lamthe best judge of what a man’s dignity will permit him to do."— Demorest’s Monthly. “Who is going to edit the paper while you are av iy man of the Wee! Tomahawk printing office. “My wife.” replied the editor. Will she—will she stay here at the office and look after things as you do 1 the foreman, with blanched heeks and trembling voice. “‘No. She l stay at the house and send her copy 2 here by one of the boys.” 7 w of a great dread was the t of the about his work with his accustomed cheerfulness. He had feared it would be necessary to have the office towel | washed—Chicago Tribune. Ak a ! a fine, | do | Jewelers’ | “Johnny, you have been very rude to! inquired the fore- | ted from | foreman, and he went | OYSTER SHELLS. The Various ises It has heen « * bushels of o in the United resents amonnti ey 000 that | they had s ) ing upan and wharves. N | one of their in { tensively employ for new ¢ on the bot | bodies of water in whi propagated, thus f | which the + matur ‘lime. pen a inte st for vessels. and into fertilizers. In addition to | this they play an important part in the | poultry d i fered form, they are j those enza | kind The early colonists used nothing but | oyster-sheil lime, and in many parts of | New England there still exist millsand kilns devoted entirely to the industry | of converting the shelis into that ma- jterial. They have been used in mak- ing a hydraulic cement, when mixed withe and manesia. and gave per- feet satisfaction. not only in laying drains, coating cisterns and the like. but also in making garden vases. fount- ains aud other ornamental objects ex- | posed to the elements. That these shells have becn used for fertilizing purposes for hundreds of years is evidenced by the fact that evea obew, in some pertions of Canada, what is called “mussel- mud” is dug out of the remains of extinet © adopted made o the purpose, and spread in j thick the land. This is merely a survival of an old custom, as We are told that in early times they were laboriously dredged out and used r the sume purpose. Mr. ernest Ingersoll, 2 noted author the history of this favorite ayers over states that ny Pamlico Sound. in North Carolina. when the Weather becomes warm and there is no employment for their bouts, the ie men up loads of rough *buneh’ or ‘coon oysters’ and carry them to the farmers to be sold and used as a fertilizer, for which from three to five cents a bushel is pald.” oysters are seldo in immense q Waters, every stake, bit of sa eorthe branches of fallen t loaded down with them. In the Northera aud Easern States the immense mounds, of oyst mussel! shell along the prove mines for agriculturist as a top~dressir neighborhood there are moune rake bow These “coon” itities in Southern s being elam and voatl in wa coast inexbaustible who ase them for th Damari: is which otta, Me., are estimated where.” In manner he is somewhat | t & = et Bes Se TOE ee Foe Ee feet of shells a | ol 7 —- -- the red man’ e HUMOROUS. food. Prior io used jeans be burned, “hic Mhe bicgest epouzes an dlic world pasiewaaniacing 0. aia re found at the free lunch counters.— | story is told by Mr. Ingersoll relative Nas Sittings to the ¢ Was thor 2 Which ers >be an aby found the half of a ut the bottom of the strncture.—Detroit Free | Press. A SATIRE ON TALLEYRAND. }Seme Contemporary Abuse of the French Statesman. Talleyrand during long and varied tieal career was. perhaps. the best- ed man in all Europe. His lame- Ss, of which he was extremely sens tive. afforded his enemies a vulnerable | spot at which to direct their darts—an opportunity of which they meanly took advantage. There is a story that dur- under the Directory, Rewbell, one of the Directors, one day flung an inkstand {at his head, exclaiming: | Miserable emiyrr, your intellect is as greatly warped as your foot.” This incident gave rise to the follow- jing lines—which were published in the Anti-Jacobin: Where at the bloodstained board expert he plies, The ne artificer of frauds and lie He with the mitred crown and cloven heel, | Doomed the coarse edge of Rewbell's fests to feel, | To stand the playful buffet, and to hear The frequent inkstand whizzing by his ear; | While all the five Directors laugh to see The limping priest so deft at his new min- } istry. | But Talleyrand had his revenge. He | lived to aid in the overthrow of the Di- {rectory, as he had aided in the over- | Chrow of governments that had preceded it, and was destined to aid in the over- throw of ‘T governments which were | to come. Louis XVIII. complimenting Talley- rand one day upon his abilities. asked im how ad contrived first to over- turn the tory. and fin: arte. The wily diplomat replied, with charming simplicity: ‘‘Really. sire, I have had nothing to do with this. There is something inexplicable about me jWhich brings ill-luck on the govern- | ments that neglect me."—Ceptury i a | Nestlers § toth. wood on you in our jaccoun Smixer execution,” said editor number one. “We were on the streets with our account five minttes tafter he was pronounced dead.” “Tut,” said editor number two. ** j had our account e de “We got t on sale n took plac joor after the horse is stolen. What if the thief should repent and bring back | the horse ?—Binghamton Leader. s into | = Z i ster-beds by huge machines caten, but are found | ken log, ! dus localities | farms. In the | ing Talleyrand’s brief tenure of office | ; Bona- | —It's a bad idea to lock the stable | the Work Themselves. » desire to owing is ace, as to brushes, aut any paint shop Do not get them too about six >to mark vd you have enough After bought them soak tt or half a day tthe fall- yare then the most ns, but if you economical to sw the wee ing ow ready f useful for mi buy t in a more able cans will do if the vuld rec: Ish about the hall uer than a darker dust or foot es with any rug. n of prepared of turpentine r you re for quite a Now take fa linea tr small brush and paint of your floor to Then with the round paint ntthe lengths of board with When stopping e the board : thus the Takea | low chair by all means, as you can then | paint your lengths of board with very | little fatigue, me moving the chair when desired. Thisiscertainly not pro- fessional. but it has been tested and found most satisfactory. The flat brush is for the hard oil j tinish. which you can apply as soon as | the stain is dry to the touch. Then | leave it for twenty-four hours at least, | before placing any furniture upon it. | Wax is recommended as the neatest, cleanest and most attractive way to | keep a floor after it has been nished. | Now for the floorsof the drawing aud dining-rooms. For the first, if you do not mind a little trouble, try a border; it has a ve and is not much wor a piece of chalk draw ight line about a foot anda half from the wall: then with the small tover it a broad flat line and ne of equal width against the Now d geometrical tigure— wood. will do—on brown paper | large as the width of your lborder. Cut it out. and with your |ehaik draw lines ound it) at equal distances from each other and 2ect your figures with lines curved j or straight as you like the geemetrieal | figures to be filed in solidly with stain. This border may be put on after the entire floor has been stained. Of course | the border may be made as elaborate us One floor which was done in this way was very successful. The itself os Taw sienna. and the figure on the border done in Prussian blue. If you like | browns, try rawamber for your dining jroom. It will be sure to please you, but it must be well diluted—one gill of turpentine to a third of a pound can of the umber. If you wish it darker, add more of the color. bune. one wishes us Stained woth RESULTS OF COMPARISON. lers Collide and Notes. One was trudging south on North Clark street. his head bowed down and coat-collar termed up. The Other snaking good time in the opposite ction Both scowl erumbling when they collided. | Look out where {Two Discontented T { Comp: were and id you are going!” ex- claimed Gne “Might try it yourself!” retorted the other. Phey backed away from cach other to getafresh start. when One remarked { sareasticail ice time for you to be skating North Clark strect.” ine hour for a respectable man to be out.” returned the other quickly. “Isn't it?” said One gloomil poor man has no show in this world. “That's so.” chimed in the other. “Hardly gets a chance to speak to his | wife and children.” “That's right!” | A-sort of gloomy fellow to be established on the instant—a fel- lowship of discontent. two { seemed “Have get up d One. “Tsuy. have to get up before they're awake and then get home all tired cut and turn in before they're sleepy?” “O, no.” “What?” “Tsay no. Turnin just before they get up. and get up just as they're think- ing of bed again. Hardly get a chance | to see them even.” st getting home?” And you?” ust going to work.” “What business?” vurs?” aper man. There was a moment's pause, ard then the newspaper man said: “Til match you to see who's playing in the hardest luck.” “Go you.” ‘Loser to buy | All right.” As they emerged from a side doora few minutes later the newspaper man said: “Well, good-night.” *Good-morning.” replied the baker. “And now I wonder,” soliloquized | the newspaper man as |tramp north. | to-morrow. W es. rk of one di | some don't get entirely lost in the jecourse of a year. I thought he was {just coming from a tough dance. | Blamed if I could get up at this time ithe mor > Was a round orec.* | George, it’s st l yesterday And each was a bit more conten’ = his lot.—Chicago Tribane. arge brush from smirching: t Points for Such as Want to Do | medium | i for Infants and Children. “Castoria is s> well adapted to chikiren that T recommend it as superior to any cripiacn known to H. A. Aacuer, M.D. 111 So, Oxfor? St, Brooklyn, Castorta curs Sey Soe sro Sour Stomach, cea. 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