Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1888, Page 16

| { 1 ] Broken she became vaving it mever recover her reason. However, she i has not lost fuit iu the belicf that her lover 89c 4 picces fine quality Black Satin Rha- dama, bought at a closing out price, on sale next week at 89c¢ yard. Would be cheap at $1.25. SURAH MLKY al8c 22 pieces All Silk Surahs, all colors, also evening shades. Your choice Mon- day, 58c yard. DRESS GOODS i5c¢. 150 picces fine 36 and 40 inch Dress Goods, in Plain Cashmeres, Fancy Plaids ana S All colors, Just to reduce stock, 15¢ yard. Bennison Bros|Bennison Bros THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. JUNE 3, 1888 -—SIXTEEN PAGES. BENNISON BROTHERS A SMASH IN PRICHS! or 6 Days You Gan Buy FirstClass Dry Goods, Garpets, Etc. ‘ AT ALMOST ANY PRICE. Safin Rhadama SUNUNBRELLAS| [OMESTIN. | $2.00. Monday morning we will place on sale 50 Ladies’ 24-inch Sun Umbrellas at the low price of SATIN PARASOLS $1.00. Monday we will offer just 100 Ladies’ \tin Pirasols at the” mdiculous low price of $1.00. Children’s Dresses $1.48. Children’sChambray Dresses in Pink, Light Blue, Navy Blue, Brown, and u mmed all around the bottom of the rt with embroidery and embroidery cuffs and collur. These Dresses are in 1,2 and 3 years only, and at this price is indeed a great bargain. $1.48 each. LADIES’ JACKETS $3.50. 50 cs’ Black Stocl Jackets, tailor-made, coat b sizes—32 1o 44—at the low prie regular price $5.00. nett Street in all Domestic Sateens, 6¢ Yard. Extra Quality Lonsdale Mus- lin, 8c Yard. 100 pieces 36.inch Batiste, beautiful patterns, 10 Yards $1.00. inkle Seersuckers, 50c. Yard French Sateens, 25¢ Yard. 12 yards C Special inducements in foreign and domestic Wash Goods. FRENCH WOVEN CORSETS "ZC. di French Woven Cor- nd colol For one day, e pair; worth $1.50. LADIES’ CORSETS 39c. adies’ Corsets, and white, 50 dozen 1. sets, in white Monday, only 5 dozen 1 m colored your choic Bennison Bros in all sizes, Monday only, NAHONEY'S CRAZY FAMILY. Twenty-Two Insane People Under His Protecting Wing. DOMAIN OF CRANKS AND FOOLS. A Man Who Walks Continually—One Who Will Not Get Out of Bed— Poets and Love-Struck Maidens, A Curious Lot. Of the scventy-two inmates of the poor farm under the humane charge and kind con- sidoration of the superintendent, John J. Mahoney aud his good wife, twenty-two are bereft of reason and have been pronounced incurable by experts on insanity. Asa con- sequence they have become a charge on the county which will have to provide for them untal such time as they are summoned to the realms beyond by the messenger of death. The providing and caring for these unfor- tunates is no light or easy task, and while the majority of them are docile and harmless they require a great deal of watching as there is no telling at what moment they may become violent or attempt an_escape. How ever, no unnccessary restraint is placed upon them and they are allowed to roum at will over the large and spacious grounds which 8t this time of the year are beautiful in their firosa awa d, und shady foliuge. Mr. Ma ioney has continually in view the comfort of bis patients, una everyching about th institution is as neat as a pin and ever works with clock-work regularity. Among the insane people some queer subjects are disclosed, and their hobbics and hallucina- vions take various forms. Bverybody has heard of Snyder, the walk g Yankee from somewhere down in New England, who dicd recently, For a numbe of yours previous to his death Snyder was not known to keep his pedals still for u mo ment, either by day or night. On him there is an almost exact counterpart on the farm, the only exception being th ocoasionally sit on his cot and star vacant space, He is the son of a very prou inent Omaha family, and a fow years beeame imbued with the idea that he was cut out for the greatest pedestriun of the times. His sole wmbition was to break the six days o u-you-pleuse record, und he has been undertuking the great task, course of six hundred fect s traversed daily by him from day break until dark, rain or shine, and his only inter missons are when he'stops to cat bis meals, at which he is prompt and regulur and con’ sumes as much us three men. Another one of his hobbics is that there is a superfiuous. ness of flesh growing on Lis nose, and he will stand for an hour at a time and go through & variety of wotions with his hands, always being careful, however, not to touch s face. A favorite companio of this pedestrian is & young woman who disports herself on the sward in the vicinity of his hallowed ground, but he never notices her does she him. o look @t thew it would not_strike the ob server that they were cognizant of each other's presence and, though they have bee daily companions for montks net’ & word has been exchinged between them. He keops right on in his lonely tramp, while she sits in profound silence and looks atten tively off down the road in evident_expecta tion of the arvival of some one who never comes. Disappoiutment in love is her mal aday, and sh , comes frog a bighly co nected and wealthy fawmily of this eity.” Hor Drother is estimated as belug worth §10),000, and the poor unfortunate's reason was de throned by a scaliwag who proy marey ber. Aftor the solemn pledg 2, and will she was will some day return aud keep good bis Ppromise W warry he August Lijdol preseits a remarkable case of abscat-mindeduess: He is an old soldicr, fought and bled for his vountry, and.is the Dasinst aud viost faithflul wan about the ed to | August is ambitions, When idle he 15 uncasy, and gets the His purticular weakness is absent- mindedness, © and he keeps the attend- ants of the dining m in contimual hot water by every little while insisting that he has not yet had his breakfast, dinner or wer. He has heen known to 8it down and ake of a b meal, get up, go out and return in a fer conds and loudly dec that he had forgotten to eat. When peisua- sion fails to h > a convincing effect, the at- tendants tell him fo strike the pit of his stomach with his hands and hie will find that he has caten his 1 August will then do s0, and with t ‘By gosh, T did cat Tots, didn’t 1" will skip'out and busy him self'in doing chores about the favm. “Doe’ Rogers is anothic ual. He has been an in velve years, but no one can convinee him of t fact, In hisopinion he has only been there a short time, and insists that the pres- ent calendar year is Issd. “Doe” s something of yoct, and mever grows tired celing off some of his home spun_ compositic His pocm on Keokuk, Ia., is well worded andfuil of humor and pathios,but his effusion on “Snows hair dye' takes the cake and knocks the efforts of modern writers of quack nostrum advertisements clean out. The doctor coni- od the above for a St. Louis drugiist way in the dim past and was rewarded w u suit of clothes, individ farm for peculiar of the w*a The doctor has a warm place in his heart for a fellow unfortunate, who is quite calist and a devotee of profanity of uo eve day order. This particular man is the brothe inlaw of an ex-mayor of Omaha and hus been a charge on the county for a number of years, He has an undying attachment for an old hat, tattered und torn_and stained discolored by long years of ser sionally to hicar him give vent to his choice vocabulary d hear him test his lunes hi seub his hat from bis head, This he considered an o procedure and insists that if he loses t can_never replace it, as one could not be found or made that Would fit his head, which he imagines is us the ¢ globe, AU times he b s much per ut the dilatoriness displayed by his brothe in-law in not coming out to settle a board bill which he owes Mr. Mabos The poor fellow imagines that he'is indebted to M Mahorey in the sumn of $250, and promiscs overy duy to pay #100 on uccount, which he thinks he has séwed up i bis pantaloous. n, the policeman of the cranks, is in a sore state of body and min d is much disconcerted unless it becom generally known among his companions that his signal of authority was ruthlessly taken from him by & city copper upon a recent visit 1o the city. 1 wis the possessor of beautiful star, most_artistically carved from an oyster cun, but one day in one of his wandering moods he str into the it It was unfortunate day for Ross, for a polic swoop d down upon him badge. Crest-fallen and de to the farm, and it becawne whispc among the cranks that he been de throned as a policeman and eould no longer bull-doze them when they felt like patting a carmine tinge on the premises. 1toss labe long and hard to disabuse the minds of Lis ! fellow constituenis that s still a | full-tlodged policeman, but the fly ones could not be made to swallow it Finaily an agroe- ment was struck up that the oncs who were cognizant of his dowufall were to be afforded unrestrained libertios, provided they kept the fact to themsel The conipact was duly sigued and scaled, and Ross now has to domineer over those Who huve not been let into the secret, He feels Lis loss of authority very koenly, but if a stray oysier can gots within his clutehes he will again become knight, and promises to get evea with his persecutors. In that event it is expected he will sentence several of them to death. Ross And, Mary Nelson is a regular tor:boy, and has more fun than anyone. Her Lair is tiery red, aud she has the strength of a Sumson, Mary's particular specialty is that of a ballet dancer, and to watch her go through the movcments would make a Lorse laugh. After balancing herself on her toes, she will give issue to a rogular Commanche whoop and break off into » waltz that, while it .is not graceful, 15 suflicicnt ‘o attr tion. Mury has “ Lad tewper, things dow’t just please her ihu duu./h.b up | tity of air ¢ FINE CARPETS Less Than Jobbing Prices. Smiths or Hartford's $1.25 yard. Body Brussels, $1 yard. Tapestry Brussels, 50c¢ yard. Tapestry Brussels, 65¢ yard. xtra quality Tapestry, 75¢ yard. We. shall” also continue the sale our Special Ingrains at 56c a yard, the best ever shown at the price: Good Ingrains at 223c, 86, Hemp Carpet, 15c pard, 4 Stair Corpet 15c yard. SPECIAL SALI Moquettes, 45c. OoF Jap Mattings. 1,000 Fine Hassocks, 25c; worth 50c. 20 Pieces 36-inch Floor 0il Cloth 26¢ Yard, WE EMPLOY ONLY Bixpert CARPET LAYERS £nd Make a Special- ty ot Fine Work. Lookat Thi! Ypsilanti Dress Stays, all sizes, celors, lc each, Pins, 2 papers for lc, Embroidery Silk. 4¢ dozen. Dress Braid, 22¢c roll. Black Pins, 2¢ hox, Elastic End Dress Stays, 5c set. Dress Buttons, 2¢ dozen. Tinsel Cord or Kismet, 4¢ ball, Silk Veiling, 8¢ yard, Silk Ruching, 9c yard. Ladies’ Bordered Handkerchiefs, 2 each, Elastic Webbing, 2%¢c yard. Safety Pins, 2¢ paper. Tourist Ruching, 2¢ yard, Corset Lac:s, 4 for lc. Knitting Cotton, 32sc kall. Hose Supporters, 8c. Needles, 3¢ paper. Silk Arasene, 20c a dozen, Silk Chanille, No. 1, 20c dozen. Qurtain Scrim, 9. 100 pieces fine Curtain 20c; our price next week Serim, worth s yard. LACE STRIPE WHITE GOODS bc 50 pieces Lace Stripe White Goods, never sold less than 15¢; on salo Mon- day, 6e yard. - WHITE GOODS 10c 150 pieces fine White Goods,in fancy stripes, checks and plaids, never sold less than 20c to 35¢ a yard; on sale Mon- day, 10¢ a yard. TABLE LINEN 48¢c 10 pieces Unbleached Table Damasks, 60 inches wide, on sale Monday 48c a ':\rd; worth 7ie. KD GLOVES, bac. 70 dozen ladies’ all kinds, Monday, Prime Kid Gloves, and ends, ull colors, on wpair, odds LADIES’ LISLE GLOVES 10¢ 60 dozen ladics’ Lisle Thread Gloves, blacks and colors, 10c a ir. Chilirens” HOSE 12:0 6 dozen childrens® full regular mada Hose, Derby ribbed, Monday 12¢ worth 33c. pairy her fists 1d expresses the whole cttlement, desire 3 1 out Tom Lathrop, whom everybody is well acquainted with, is 4 sad W forme A better man never s cab of a locomotive, and his exploits engineer on the Union way do not need He is now a and sits all day long on a through the motions of an engineer. e an old picce of hoard serewed to the ber and this he. refers to as the le With his y ings, Wying in Omaha k of hls in the as_an Pacific ~ rail- referenco. driveling _ idiot, beneh and goes by reversing the ley An 0ld Trish woman fia shoes for ne her bare feet winter she positively d to wear covering for ption, and when would give as an_excuse pennane not worn a pair of ., and gocs in ays last her ey post ed that she was doing She insists that she 1s the mother k, and says that if she should put o1 he would disown her. She is very pious and the walls of her room are covered with religious pictures thut she has cut from Catholic works. Mrs, Bellovick's msamity takes a curious form, und she is inflicting an awful punish- ment’ upon herself. Attired as a sister of merey she sits crouched down ina corner, continually moving her lips us if in prayer and fixmg her eyes on the ceiling. She has been an inmiate of the farm for the past_cight months, but in all that time she has not left her crouched position, or slept in a bed. Noris it known that she has spoken aloud word. and all efforts to prevail upon her to be communicative been of no 1, she showing her dislike of intrusion by beekoning interlopers to go their way and leave her be, J. R. Elliott's case’is’ just opposite to that of Mrs. Bellovick, as he insists on_remaining He entered the farm October 27, , and since that date has not been out of bed or had_ his clothing on. Elliott's lips are also sealed and b will sit for hours, sucking the ends of his fingers, He is an old soldier, served bravely in the late rebellion and b wife and family living in the cast. 184 his Mary Roth Elliot her bed is a fit" companion for She, too, insists upon occupying which she not left for many a_month, saying that she has Jost 1l of hier limbs and she cannot use them is, however, is only a hallucination on her part. as she is in perfect physical health, and could move about if she would only make up her mind to it. She has wasted away skin and bone, resents and repulsive to Larrowing There are a great charactors at the farm, time in the near future umns. mnany more curious nd” they may sou figzure in thi e Wasp Stings. Science: Ttis a fuct not gene known that, if one holds his wisps, bees and hornets can be handled with impunity. The skin becomes sting proof, and holding the inscet by the | feet, ‘and giving ber full liberty of action n sce her drive her wea- pon the impenetrable surface with that lifts her body with ev but let the smallest quan- ape from the lungs and the penetrate at 1 s an ption to this in twenty-five years' observa- tion. 1 have taught young ladies with delicate hands to astonish their iunds by the performunce of tiis feat and I saw one so severely stung as to quire the seivices of a physician, through laughing at a witly remark of her sister, forgetting that laughing required breath. For a theory in ex- planation, I am led to believe that hold- iug the breath partially eloses the pores of the skin, My experiments in that di- rection have not been exact enough to be of any scientific value, but 1 am sat- isfied that it very sensibly affects the ampunt of insensible perspiration. L. WILDER, Mass:; May 7, l YOu ¢ agiinst a forec y stroke sting will have never Someryille THE TALKATIVE GRIPM How the Cables Wear Out in Such a Short Time. A GOOD-LOOKING CONDUCTOR. The Gripman Tells His First and Last War Story—How a Gettysburg Rebel Died. ,'Al there,” exclaimed the gripman as Tur: BEE man climbed on the car for s weekly conversation, ““Well, I suppose,” he added, “‘that you think I am full of information, but Tam not, I am sorry to say. In factI have been taking a short lay off for three or four days. “Confound it,” ejaculated the gripman as he endeavored to stop the car and failed to do so for nearly a block, which made the old woman who was waiting on a corner, nearly frantic, and who, when the car finally did stop came up pufting as encrgetically as an overfed porpoise, “Did you notice how hard that grip stuck to the cable just now and do you know what caused it?” The reporter admitted having noticed something unusual. “Well, I will explain,” remarked the grip: man, *“You seethe average life of a cable is ubout twenty-two months or such a mat- ter, and when it begins to wear outthe strands become detached and catch in the grip. The cable runs through the grip when the car is standing on the track, The con- stant passing of the cable over the large num- ber of pulleys which are placed at intervals along the trench or tube in which it runs wears it out faster than one would imagine, Well, tne loosened strands I have spoken of catehi in the grip and sometimes it is hard work to let loose. In some cases it is im possible and when a thing of that kind oc- curs you usually see the conductor light out for a telephone to inform the engineer to shut down, and he generally gets there in clegant shipe, too, for if he aid not the j are that there would be a general houp.” We keep a man constantly employed at the power house for the purpose of watch ing such matters,” continued the id the moment 4 flaw s disce sces that it is immediately rey cables on Ha and Dodge strec coming etty well worn already,’” contin ucd kb and before the mew Twenticth street extension is opened s now one will be substituted on that line, because the prescit one is »0 worn that a new one could not be spliced to it."! “But, say,” continued th engineer, as the train whirled around the orner at Tenth and Dod saw an item in your paper some two weeks ago in which you stated that all the canductors on this Jine were handsome men, Why did not you include the gripmen! 1 tell you we don't tuke a back seav for any of ‘them, with one ianice curly-headed little fellow who bangs lus hair. We allsit down when he is present and say nothiug. ‘I attended Memorial exevocises last Wed- nesday and marched in line with the post of which I am a member. Oh, you don't take that, eht Well, look here,”" and he threw his coat back and displayed @ badge of the Grand Army of the Repul fought in the war and saw sowe y times. I remember one incident in partic It was at Gettysburg. 1was with my re ment on Cemetery Ridge the Johnnies charged on us. Never will I forget that sight. Despite the fact that we were cutting great gaps in their lines, they kept on co Of course, when they saw it was 1o good, they yielded But one fellow, a youns corporal, wouldu't give up, and he kept on charging, and crossed bayonets with me. Poor chap! he's dead now,"” and the gripman heéaved a deep sigh “Did you kill him!". asked the reporter. #Kill him¢ Bless your soul, no. One of the fellows togk him by the collar and drageed him away before I had time. He remained a prisoner about two wontks, and during that time I got quite well acquaiuted. with biw, the versatile grip ling. him sister. to remain up north, He He died about two induced married m, months ago. “HBut sce here, young man, man, *'it's about time that the reporter meandered. and [ will give you something good,” shouted lie, and was gone — - FPANNY KBLLOGG-BACHERT. and " said the g ou skipped, ™ st Letter From the President of the Women's Press Club, Boston. Bostox, May 2 Correspondence of Tur Brx.|—The sh fashion—one of the very desirable ones to follow, by the way —of spending the larger half of the year in the country, and only coming to the city for the “gay season” is rapidly obtaining here, It is an casier fashion to follow in Boston than in most cities, for the suburbs are so ac- cessible that it is an easy matter to huve fine residence anywhere within a radins of cightecn miles, and be able to get to it in a short time scveral times a day. The railway service is admirable, and in direction from Boston the iron lines ate out, muking quick and frequent com- ion between city and suburb. Many familics now spend the autumn as well as summer in their country houses, keeping Thanksgiving and Christmas there and com- ing to the city with the opening year. As you may imagine,the se weeks that intervene bety Lent, are brim full of ga and it has a fashion of stretehing out and _overlapping, especially in families who do not kecp the solomn church fast. The winter thus past has been 1o exception o the rule of gayety. Every day and every hour hus b with some sort of social entertainm; tics, dances, germans, dinners, lunche balls huve been the order of the day and evening, and sandwiched in between cvery thing clse, has been the iuevitable “four to six,” coming as a daily course. This fashion of having a day at home, when one may sc all e's friends who choose to call is a gr 1 convenienc as well as saving of time, und that, in the | whirl of living, is something that well worth considering. In the press of social and other duties one cannot always hold one’s self in readiness to sce friends, and it it is better to have a specified time, when one is sure to be at home 1o sce the hostes this fashion was taken up, it was generally supposed that it would quickly be dropped ain, a8 50 muny other fancics had been, but the convenience and the sensc of this holds it in favo Among the most pleasunt jant *at homes” of the winter have be those of Mrs. Max Bachert, uat the Bruns wit Mrs, Bachert is best known, es pecially to her western friends, as Fanny Kellogg. Though she s Bostonese by adoption, she is western by birth and educa tion, @ fact that she is very proud of. 1 have scen by the papers that Mrs. Bachert is go ing to Omaha th sumumer, and that while there she will receive a limited number of pupils in smging, 1 cannot help cougratu lating Omahia on its good fortune in having this uccomplished teacher even as a tempo rary resident, and 1 sincerely hope the futh crs und mothers who have daughters to edu cate musically will not hesitate a moment about putting them into Mrs, Bachert's Lands. nuy Kellogg, since you know her best by that name, was a fave pil of the lat Madawe Rudersdorft , with Emma Thurshy and y Winant, stand as the best o-day of ull that wond acher's 1 knew Fauny Kellogg when she was Boston, with all the enthu an enthusiastic girl, to study her fession, 1 have known her as stu dent and artist, and 1 don’t know wlhich part of her Ilike the best, her artistic or her womanly side, Intensely in earnest, was one of the best students Madame k dorff ever had, and has become one of Lest exponents of her wonderful method 1 like Fauny Kellogg,” her teacher used to is ufraid of nothing, she stops at nothing, and she works with her braius as well as with her vi p.” That is such @ rare quality in pupils, by the way. A friend of ming, Who was an_earlier pupil of Kuders. dorfl’s than Fanny Kel wnd who has been as wterested in her carcer as 1 haye beer says whell a young persous begins to study as well as brill in siasmn of elosen pr or she usuall ize vocal efforts much of a mental nonentity that was not the ' case with she was a student iz many ¢ for a discussion inart and literature tallk on music, which Her position_as a sing but it is only recently s been wiliing to take “pupils, be she has had so much to dolin’ her pro- fession, that when she had any” leisure she used it for rest. But, in spite of her- drifted into teachmg, taking afow pupils who have been persistent in their desire to study with her, and she has proven herself as capable ateacher s as she was a careful student. She has the best of results in her worl and has imbued her pupils with her own enthusiasm. One or two cases have been specially marked, A lady came to her who had suffered so much with her throat that she was unable to read oreven to converse for any length of time without hoarscness and muscular pain. A course of lessons with Mrs. Bachert 50 hielped her that she not only could read but sing. The method which she teaches, though known oin #this country as the “Rudersdroft method” Because thal wonderful teach first introduced 1t here, is after all tl atural method—the method of common sense, 1t has many fraudulent teachers, but the number of genuine interpreters is small, and of this number Mrs. Bachert is one. 13¢ sides, it is a liberal cducation fora young girl Just to be with her. She is so “culti wed, 5o well - educated, has al positi nd is 80 wiuch of siled woman, in spite of all ss,that is a dolight just to know her, rtainly is & vare privilege to be en' rolled us one of her pupils SatLis Jov Winrg, thinks they will by becoming as as possible. But Fanny Kellogg; ways and was as The minister vainly doth squander his time While seeking W's evils to checlk, When he le s in languuge however sub Jin Pishop of the M. K. church, re cently coined the phrise, *Dreach san ctitics tion Dutnot cranktification.’ “When 1 ook at the congregation,'™ London preacher, **1 say, ‘Where are poort When I count the offortory in vestey T say, *Where are the vichii Country minister Why, my said a the the (na shocked tone of Little boy, whi ¢ you ng oon Sunaay for Little boy (dis. ed with his luck) =" Whales, wister;, an’ Inever kuew 'om so shy.” In Scotland recently & man was fined half a guinea for going to chiurch on Sunday and, while one of ‘the worshipers was hending at prayer, demunding from him two days Wiges all «d 10 be due his son, A delegate Lo the Methodist general confe ence suys that the confercnce has solved every problem thut has been presented to it “This is vretty good evidence that it hasn't tried the hen-aud-a haif-in-a-day-und-a-half problem. Thie preacher turned upside that was handed up and reve “Then he said: “Bradders an’ lection of de suints up in_hebbun am wmilly yuins ane millyums, but the collection of dis congregation am only 11 ceuts, ‘U'ry’er agin, deacon." A New York v eligious paper makes the fol lowing statement: At St Thomas' church, Howestead, Md., Rev., William Brayshaw, roctor, is at ¢ to be reshingled and other wise repaired, and bids in hand; the cost will be some $0. ¢ rector must need a suit of clotiies badly When_Rev. K. reached the prayers he found his watch ab utes slower, and himself as much Lo he expected. Looking at his watch he ex claimed, *I'shall have no_faith in my watch after this! It is not faith, but works. y need 1" was the quick response of Rev. J At 4 prayer meeting in & western town the or uirged the people to stion they would like to & This opled wa old fellow to get up and romar Ko is, ef an Bible whicli hez the fust ten nysis kissed off 'u it is bind down the hat sed the lining sisters, de col rostrum for ttwo Inin wer than ask any que chiapte ing! A great many people are content with a very little gossip, and that little goes a long with them. They remind us of the old colored man in ante-bellum times. His pious wistress, oue bléautifil SybLuth wornisg, when there was preaching in hood, suggested that he should and hew Brother W. preach, splicd, “1 haint forgot what he was dar lust. When 1 fc gwine back und git some “Oh, mamma, mamma Edith, returning from had a real mice time to-di came in and told us lots tie bad | nd he said that me und you and papa were going to heaven and that Tilly ackson und Bill Horner and Mamie Saun- s Was g0 the bad place.” “Why, Sdith, what a Iking about? Do you mean to say that Mr. said that they were going 1o the “Well, no, wanina, he dign’ it out, but Knew who ho was talking about.” The other day, during a revival of religion m a town not far distant_from Smitnvilie, a man got up and said: “Brethren, 1 want'to own up an’ git off my econscicuce, I'm the man that put water i the lard an peas in wsellin’ you nigh on twenty “Halleluia, brothe shouted 1 from the last pew; “I'm the man that furnished the poorhouse with meat, an’ if you git m I'll follow you!" “Brethren,? said a tall man, who been a county ofticial, as he stood up in the middle aisle, “I'm the man that stole the meat that he fur nished to the poorhiouse Let us pray,” A down-east church of the first witer a committee to examine a very eloquent prous divine—that is, to look him ove his fitness to receivea call to its pulpit, The committee went as ordered, attended divine service, heard a grand sermon, and then tele- graphed laconically: “Won't do: has red Baie ! A young minister for rare eloquence lost a eity pulpit lately because his clothes were ready-made: 'store clothes,” youn know! Another in the sume city failed” to piss because he thought a few heathen would reach eternal glory. Hair! store clothes) and theology ! but where was the religion { Ac u nister was invited to dine with a men flock who, thouen well cnough off 0ods of this world, lived sparingly, depriving himself of the ae- tual necessarics of life in his greea for the dollars and cents. When the dinner was served the host smd: “1 can't give you nuthin’ but bucon und greens, parson : it's all 1 can afford th hard times. Wall you ask a blessin' ' The winister responded make us traly thankful for what we.are about to recvive, we expected nothing but pgreens—and, behold! here is bucon ulso, Make us truly thankful! - ave for a New Yor the neighbor- 010 church “Misses,” he said whon I U all dat, I's iimed little school, “we v, Mr. Goodly about heaven und Fast An application cently filed bya for a new locomotive signed for making the fastest time which hus ever been made in the his- tory of this or any other country, says the Washington Post, The bo s rectangular in shape, havin, rge and permanent arca of evaporating sup- face, the 1o be curricd heing 210 pounds pee ineh, which is but one- third of the pr ¢ At its wealest point. The eylind are in the stead of hotween the truck the fire-hox is supported center of vity of dr All the combinations of ct hurmony, and it ily m the time of hour with ten coaches violent strain be per hour This gain in p Ving. patent civilin and tend wils res ineer r de- rear of in- wheels and between the ing-wheels, parts arc in intended to sixty miles an and can without brouzht o nincty-live ith the ud, rformance o pres ent machine is obta by a math, matical construction with reference the distance between rail conters which it is supported, and is the fivst application mude which has embraced and specified every portion of a loco= motive and tender ted mathes matically with refer 10 the limits within which they he ined and sups ported. As a result of exact proportion with reference to such buse, the cost of maintenance will be greatly below the general uvecage of constructions. - Laura Jongs, the Georgia gi vented o new pow and corn-) tobea cousin of Lulu' Hurst, ectric girl, miles Same v the Lo upon constr 1 who has in- anter, is sald the famous