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friendship and esteem,”
,plosions can be heard for _milcs.
EX-GOV. HOG’S KISS.
Landed It Fun in a... Mouth of a Miss at '
the Cotton Chopper’s Convention.
If the members of the Texas Cotton
Choppers’ Association can manipulate
the hoe like they can dispense genuine
old-time hospitality they are what Col
Hogg is pleased to term blown daisies.
They gave their first annual celebra-
tion recently. President Tipton de-
livered the opening address, welcom-
ing all in the heartiest manner pos-
sible. The young ladies, he said, were
welcome to the young men and every-
thing else in the town.
At this juncture Colonel Hogg, who
was the orator of the day and occupied
a seat on the platform, made a swipe
at a molasses haired baby whicn was
standing near him. He kissed the
baby on the head and it sounded like
a Missouri mule pulling his foot out
of the mud. ~T'he child glared at him
and passed on, when the Hillsboro
"military band discoursed some excel-
lent music Turning to the News cor‘
responding Col. Hogg nonchalantly
observed, that he loved the little kid
angels like a pup did potlicker.
At the conclusion of Ex—Gov. IIogg’s
address Miss Burton presented him
with a hand-painted hoe, and spoke a
piece. In accepting the hoe the tem-
pest- -tossed executive spoke feelingly‘
as follows:
“By this simple act you have placed
me under still deeper Obligations tc
you for many valued and appreciated
kindnesses. The hoe is the first im.
plement of commerce, the emblem oi
high civilization. The man who uses
a hoe and lives by the sweat of his
brow is too honest to steal, too in-
dustrious and independent to be a
vag or a criminal. He is the man who
makes and maintains good govern-
ment. I thank you from the bottom
of my heart for this assurance of your
and the ex-
Governor grabbed the young lady and
kissed her full in the mouth, while the
great crowd applauded wildly—Gal-
veston News.
WOULDN’T TRUST THE JONAHS.
Too Superstitions to Be llesoueId \Vith
Another \Vrecked Ship’s Crew.
A remarkable story of coincidence
and sailor superstition was told by the
survivors of the John Carey on their
arrival the other day at Auckland,
New Zealand. The John Carey, a
trading brig, ran into dirty weather
and sprung a leak, which at last forced
the Captain and five others to take to
the only boat left uninjured. They
were picked up by the Ladybird, an-
other trader, which next day went
ashort a total wreck. Two days later
a third trader, the Brightwell, hove
in sight, and being signalled by the
castaways, sent a boat to take them
off. The John Carey’s men were the
first to embark, and, going through
the surf, the Brightwell’s boat was up-
set and the occupants were drawn on
board lralf drowned. At this disaster
the Ladybird’s crew set up a cry 01
“Jonah”. The J. C.’s people, they
said, had been twice wrecked, and to
embark with them again was certain
death. And so firm was their faith in
the old superstitution that when the
Brightwell sent a second boat they
actually refused to be rescued, pre-
ferring to stay where they were and
take their chance of ,another Ship
coming that way, to sailing in com-
pany with a crew of Jonahs! Accord-
ingly the Brightwell sailed away with
the six survivors, who must have ex-
perienced lively and varied emotions
when, the very next day, a heavy sea
broke on board, stove one of the boats,
and carriedaway a portion of tht
bulwarks! However, the weather
cleared, and the much-harassed and
lucky-tormented John Careyites were
eventually landed in safety at Auck-
land—Sydney Bulletin.
SMASHING OLD CANNON.
A Peculiar Industry That Shakes the
Schuylkill Valley.
Terrific detonations are heard down
the Schuylkill Valle'yT on nearly every .
week day, from morning until’night
In a secluded ravine near the Reading
Railroad the Monocacy Blasting Com-
pany, is breaking up big guns with
dynamite. It also smashes to pieces
other huge castings, to be sold to
scrap dealers. The noise of the ex-
The
company received two historic can-
nons. To be broken into pieces. They
were brought from the Brooklyn Navy
Yard on special cars and they weigh
96,470 and 95, 625 pounds.
were used at the Vicksburg
Gen. Grant’s forces, firing
1,200 pounds.
The Government officials were loath
to have the guns destroyed and of-
fered them to a number of Grand
Army posts, but the necessary ,ar.
rangements could not be made to have
them accepted. The company has
broken up many defective cannon
bought at gun works. It also smashes
nearly all the condemned guns for
the War and Navy departments. The
siege by
shots oi
dynamite is fired by electricity and.
a few men do the work—New York
Sun.
Chinese Husbands Preferred in Hawaii.
There are in the United States 40,000
native-born citizens of Chinese par-
entage.
25,000 to 30,000 Chinese, and their
children are entitled to the rights of
citizenship. The school census shows
1,500 children less than 17 years oi
age of Chinese parentage, and this is
probably a very incomplete census,
owing to the difficulty of obtaining
from the Chinese. In the Hawaiian
Islands there are 21,000 Chinese. Many
of the Hawaiian Chinese are married
—-most ofv them to Hawaiian women—
and in this population of 50,000 there
would be not less than 20,000 families,
The children of the Hawaiian Chinese
are half Hawaiian. The Hawaiian wo-
men prefer Chinese to Kanaka hus
bands—The Augonaut.
The g1. .111,
In San Francisco there are-
I MR. ELKIN’S- QUEER FOWLS.
A Cross Between Minorocas aim a Bird
from the Falkland Islands.
R. I... Elkin, a prominent farmer
near Lancaster, N. Y., has devoted
several years to raising domestic fowls
of different breeds, and has now on
hand a few fowls which are attracting
of their unusual color, size, and form,
and their aptitude to imitate, which
makes a near approach to intelligence
and bids fair to dispense with errand
boys, shepherd dogs, and telephones.
They are a cross between the Minorca
and a fowl which was sent him by his
friend, Col. John Mills, now United
States Consul at Falkland Islands,
which in many respects resembles the
parrot, though not so clumsy.
The fowls weigh about three pounds,
have sharp claws, a long beak, slight-
ly carved, large yellow eyes, a white
crest, dark green plumage, and an in-
telligent expression. They fly rapidly
and although domesticated they have
a tendency to roam for hours at a
time. He calls them “minims” be-
cause of their size. From the time
they come from the shell they are
easily handled and are fond of hu-
man society, always manifesting a
disposition to imitate human action
and make articulate scunds approxi-
mating the language of the parrot.
They are non—sitters, but their eggs
will hatch in fourteen days. They
will only roost in trees or on the roof
of a house. On the approach of a
stranger they make a shrill clatter
like the guinea foul, and when any-
thing unusual is about to occur they
make a loud noise, which sounds like
the words “Look out!” Their timely
warning is invaluable in many in—
stances. If a dog or any other animal
ventures into their inclosure he meets
with such a reception as to insure a
speedy departure, with no inclination
to return. The sharp curved beak
and sharp claws have inflicted many
wounds on intruders.
Unerring instinct seems to give
them as accurate idea of the time of
day, and when the regular routine of
farm work has been performed in
. sight of them they seem to realize any
delay in the same work on a succeed-
ing day Mr. Elkin’s bluegrass past-
ure in which his milch cows graze
contains about fifty acres and extends
up to the barnyard. I-Ie asserts posi-
tively that the cowboy, who always
fed them after milking, was late com-
ing from the field one evening last
week, and he saw two of the fowls fly
away in the direction of the cows, one
of which was lying down. They lighté
ed upon her and induced her to rise
by a gentle touch with their claws.
The same inducement was applied to
the whole herd until they were march«
ed to the milk pen. These acts are
the result of observation and the fowls
bid fair to become more valuable'than
patch.
Neighborly Thoughtfulness.
“John,” she said thoughtfully, “to-
morrow is the birthday of that little
Jones boy next door.”
“What of it?” he demanded.
“on, nothing much,” she replied:
“Only I happened to recall that Mr.
Jones gave our Willie a drum on his
birthday.”
“Well, do you think I feel under any
obligations to him for that?” he asked
irritably. “If you do you are mis-
taken. lf I owe him anything it’s a
grudge.”
“Of course,” she answered sweetly.
“That is why I thought that perhaps
you might want to give the Jones boy
, a big brass trumpet. ”
‘ The most resourceful woman in
the world!” he exclaimed, delightedly.
And the Jones boy got the trumpet.
'l'old Him the Truth.
“Simplex answered an advertise-
ment in which somebody offered to sell
him the secret for preventing trousers
from getting fringes around the bot-
tom.”
“What did they tell him?”
“To wear knickerbockers.”—Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Al: the Athletic Games.
She—“What a wonderful jumper
ringing that big gong while he is mak-
ing his jumps?”
He— “That’ s Jerolamon—he’s from
Brooklyn, and he can’t do his best un-
less he imagines'he is getting out of
the way of a trolley car.”——Puck.
A Rude Hint.
Charlie Borern—eDid you know, Miss
Witty, that Ithis is the longest day in
the year? .
Miss Witty—Is it? That’s strange.
I had just begun to think it was the
longest evening.—-—Cleveland Plain
Dealer. .
1 A Distinction.
Jack—Is it true that Tom Dashing
and Dollie Ncwrich are engaged? '
Harry—Well, her people speak of it
as an engagement, while his relatives
call it an entanglement—New York
I Journal.
I
A Shattered Idol.
Alice—What a gallant person Mr.
Dunkley is. He never addresses me
without be'ginning “Fair miss’
Dorothy—Oh, that’s forCe of habit.
He used to be a street- -car conductor.
-—-—Cleveland Leader.
“It’s untrue,” said Willie Wishing—
ton, “that it is impossible for a man
to attain perfection.”
“Who has reached that stage?”
“I have. Miss Cayenne informed
me this morning that I am a perfect
bore.”—Washington Star.
Bill—~“And whatdid the old man say
when you asked'de’his daughter?"
Jill—”Ordered me to leave the house."
“And what did you say?” “I asked
him if he took me for a housemover.”
——Yonkers Statesman.
the attention of the public on_account'
the dog to herdsmen.—Louisville Dis-,
that man is!——-but why do they keep .
THE EVENING GAZETTE
INDIAN INK. .
Consul Fraser.Reports on How It
. Manufactured.
An interesting account of the manu-
tacture of the so—called Indian ink,
which is made only in the Anhui prov-
ince of China, is given by Mr. Fraser,
our consul at Wuku. on the Yang—tsze,
in his last trade report. It is more
correctly called China ink and from
Anhui it goes to every port of China,
and all over the world. In. 1895 about
two tons of it, valued at $2,820 were
exported from Shanghai to foreign
countries. The materials with which
this beautiful black ink is made are.
sesamum or colza oil, or the oil ex-
pressed from the poisonous seeds of a.
tree extensively cultivated in the
Yang-tsze valley, and also well known
in Japan.
fat are added.‘ The lampblack made
by the combustion of these substances
is classed according to the materials
and the grade of fineness, and also ac-
cording to the time taken over the
process of combustion. The paste
made of this lampblack has some glue
added, and is beaten on wooden anvils
with steel hammers. Two good ham-
hers can prepare in a day eighty pieces
each weighinghhalf a pound. A certain
quantity of musk of the muskdeer, or
of Baroos camphor, for scouting, and
gold leaves, varying from 20 to 160
to the pound, are added to give a me-
tallic luster. The materials thus pre-
pared are molded in molds of carved
wood, dried, which takes about twenty
days in fine weather, and adorned with
Chinese characters in gilding. About
thirty—two average-sizedrsticks of ink
go to the pound. The price varies 2s.
or less per pound to as much as £7,
there being over a dozen different
grades. ‘ The superior kinds of this
ink appear to be used in China, and
not exported—From The Manufac-
turer.
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CHARMING THE WILY BULLFROG.
No Need Now to Catch Them with a Hook
and Piece of Red Flannel.
A young man named Thomas Far-
rar, who lives in Shelbyville, Ind., has
discovered a fact in natural history
and an amusing and profitable sport
at the same time. By means of his
device one of the most prized of del-
icacies is cheap in that locality named,
the edible in question being frogs’ legs.
The old method of catching frogs with
red flannel on a hook is now quite out
of date. The young man discovered
that if a strong light is thrown in
their eyes as they sit singing on a
lily pad or a snag, they will sit still
charmed by the glare, and allow them-
selves 'to be seized by the hand of the
hunter. His apparatus when he goes
frog hunting consists of a tin milk
pail with a hole cut in one side and
the handle fastened above it. A
small lamp is carried in the pail, the
chimney projecting through the hole.
. The bottom of the pail acts as a re-
flector, and throws the fatal light in—
Ito the frogs’ eyes. Nothing-more is
needed but a long pair of wading
boots, a game bag and a skin imper-
vious to mosquitoes’ stings, for it is
a well-known fact that where bullfrogs
flourish there the mosquito is largest
and most venomous—New York J our-
nal.
Lake of Ink with Curative Power.
-In the middle of the Cocopah hills, in
Arizona, is what is known as the Lake
of Ink. Though supplied by beautiful
springs of clear water, the liquid of the
lake is black and of an ink-like char-
acter. The temperature varies from
110 degrees to 216 degrees, according
, to the locality, and the water feels
smooth and oily. According to the In-
dians, not only of the vicinity, but far
away, the waters of the lake have
strong medicinial qualities, though
most white people would hesitate to
adopt the mode of treatment, pre-
scribed. The invalid is buried up to
his mouth in the hot volcanic mud for
from twenty to thirty minutes. Then
he is carried, covered with mud, to the
edge of the lake, into which he is
plungedfor from fifteen to twenty min-
I utes, after which he is rolled in a blan-
Iket and allowed to sweat on the hot,
sulphurous sand or rock near by. The
’ cures wrought are said to be wonderful.
1*”
1 —0regonian.
Marylaird’s Strong Negro Man.
For a man to stretch himself flat on
the ground, face upward, and, with
' both hands extended, arise Without as-
sistance and without touching hands or
arms to the ground, is counted some-
thing of a feat of strength and agility,
but there is a Howard county strong
man who can not only do this, but at
the same time lift up a man standing
on the palms of his hands and weigh-
ing 150 pounds. The man is a colored
farm hand, employed by Mr. Charles
H. Rhine on the farm of State’s At-
torney McGuire. He is 20 years old
and weighs 180 pounds. He is the won-
der of the neighborhood. With the
entire weight placed on his hands in
‘ the way described he can get up and
stand erect.—Baltimore Sun.
Colonel Ely of,“ Tennessee.
Kentucky is supposed to be the land
of colonels, but Tennessee beats it in
one respect, for Tennessee has a wo-
man colonel and Kentucky has none.
Colonel Nellie Ely has been made a
member of Governor Taylor’s stafi, and
that gives her the military title. She
is the second woman colonel in the
United States, the other being in
Georgia.
High Value of His Soul.
A professor ofvTrinity COllege, Dub-
lin, overheard an undergraduate mak-
ing use of profane language, rushed at
him frantically, exclaiming: “Are you
aware, sir, that you are imperilling
your immortal soul, and, what is worse
lncurring a fine of five shillings?”—
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A FLY BURIES A. SPIDER.
Marvellous Intelligence Possessed by the
Small Undertaker.
Samuel Simon, Sr., a well known
resident of Neshannock Township,
while strolling near his home one day
recently, noticed a fly about half an
inch long and of a dark blue color, with
a slim body, bearing a large dead spi-
der, says the New Castle, (Pa.) Demo-
crat. The fly crossed his path and laid
his load down. It then went abOut
eighteen inches in another direction
and commenced digging a hole in the
ground. His curiosity being excited,
he stopped and watched the work. Af-
ter the fly had the hole dug about half
the length of himself he went to where
he had left the spider and took his di-
mensions. After going back to the
hole he found it was not big enough,
and commenced digging again. After
taking out a quantity of earth he again
went to the spider and took his di—
mensions. He did this eight times,
and as often enlarged the hole. When
the busy little fellow had the hole too
deep for him to throw the earth clear
out he would go on the bank and force
it back with his feet. After he had the
excavation large enough for his pur-
pose, he went for the spider and took
it to the grave, for such it proved to
be, and dragged it to the mouth of
the hole. After he had the body in
he covered it with fine earth first and
finished by placing a small piece of
cinder on top. When he had finished
the work he flew away. The whole
itime consumed was exactly fifty—five
minutes, as Mr. Simon says he sat
and watched the whole performance.
AN OSTENTATIOUS FU N ERAL.
Grandson of a. Gypsy Dlillionaire the Cause
of So Much Display.
An imposmg "funeral attracted mul-
titudes to a suburb of Baden, Austria,
lately. The obsequies were those of
the baby heir and grandson of the mil-
lionaire gypsy chief Stakiewicz, and
surely no archducal infant was ever
buried with more state.
A large number of clergy headed the
procession. Next came a floral car
draWn by six white horses; then the
White hearse, also with six milk-white
steeds, containing the body of the gyp—
sy infant.
The sorrowing clan were clad in ir-
reproachable broadcloth and crape, but
the effect was somewhat marred by an
ostentatious display of jewelry.
The chief, Sarkiewicz, is said to be
inconsolable, as the child was very
dear to him. He is supposed to be pos-
sessed of an enormous fortune, which
he carries upon his person, in notes,
after the fashion of his strange, nomad
clan.
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Siamese Army Elephant Corps.
An English newspaper, in an article
on the Siamese army, says: “In one re
spect the Siamese army is superior to
every other, and that is in its ele-
phant corps. Eight hundred of these
animals, which are stronger, though
smaller, than those of India, are or-
ganized into a special corps, command-
ed by a retired Anglo-Indian officer,
and their heads, trunks and other
vulnerable parts are protected against
bullets by India rubber armor.”
- ‘ Queenly Iudlgnatioh.
Willieboy: “That doosid Jones girl
tried to he sawcastic at my expense,
but I think I made her feel that I was
wespected, don’t you know.”
Hargraves: “Yes. She told me about
it. She said you were positively
rrueenly in your indignation.”
MILLIONS ilN PRUNES.
Magnitude of One of California’s Indus-
tries but Little Realized.
The magnitude of the prune indus-,
try of California, writes apLos An-
geles correspondent of the Chicago
Record, is little realized by the people
in the Eastern States. In a decade
the growing of prunes has gone for-
ward in California by leaps and
bounds, and to-day $20,000,000 13 in-
vested in it—that is, in lands, trees,
irrigation systems, agricultural tools
and packing houses.
Ten years ago the total area of bear-
ing prune orchards in California was
less than 7,000 acres. In 1888 there
were 11,000 acres of bearing prune
trees and about 6,000 acres more of
young prune orchards. There was an
import duty of two and one-half cents
a pound on dried prunes in those days,
and the growers sold their crops on
the trees for sums varying from $35
to $50 a ton. In 1890 ,the total area
of bearing prune orchards was 13,000
acres, and there was an enormous
planting of prune trees that year in all
of the fruit growing valleys of Cali-
fornia, because of the largeVprofit in
the industry. Twelve thousand acres
of prune orchards were set out in
the winter of 1890—91, and 24,000 acres
more were planted in the next two
years. These orchards have now come
into bearing, and the State Board of
Horticulture finds that there are 53,000
acres of bearing prune orchards in
California to-day and about 8,000 acres
more to come into bearing. Conserva-
tive estimates putthe total crop of
California prunes in a favorable year
at not less than 90,000 tons. In a few
years more a full yield of the fruit in
this State will be more than 110,000
tons of green- fruit,—New York Her-
ald. F
TH E MEXICAN SHEPHERO’BOY.
They Control their Flock by the Use of
n Sling.
When going up the valley of the
Rio Grande, in New Mexico, my at-
teution 1.1.25 drawn to the flocks of
sheep or d goats, and their pastores, of
sheplre: (1 boys. These little shepherds
wore neither hats nor shoes. 'Their
snly garment was a tunic, reaching
a little below the knee and confined by
a girdle, from w hich depended a small
pouch or scrip. A quiver, with bow
and arrows, hung athwart the should-
ers, and the right hand held' a sling.
Presently a stone from the scrip was
hurled forward toward the right or
left, to make the flock swerve to the
left or right. It was impossible not
to recognize little “David, the son of
Jesse,” and one might have almost ex-
pected to behold Goliath, the Philistine
coming to defy the children of Israel.
The portraiture of the scene de-
scribed the Book of Samuel was too ex-
act to be ascribed to accident, and, for
the first time it occurred to me that
David bore a sling not for the purpose
of slaying bears or lions—or even
Philistines—but to guide and control
the flock, and that these little shep-
herds of a kindred race, dwelling in a,
country not unlike the pastoral regi-
ons of Judea, very naturally continued
to re-enact the scenes described in
sacred history—Catholic World.
Two Great Classes.
“I suppose the people who bother you .
most,” said the novice in journalism,
“are those who want their names put
into the paper?”
“Yes, with one exception ” said the
editor, “and they are the people who
moSt particularly wish their names
kept out.”—Exchange.
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