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W. E FURP, Publisher.
VOLUME I.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
One tomato farm at Key West, Fla.,
has 12,000 plants.
Four hundred inmates in the Alaba
ma insane asylum.
New Year’s day Georgia had $971,-
488 21, in her treasury.
Voluntary donations to the Unjverei
y of Virgin a since ISOS'foot up $440,-
000.
This year’a hay crop in Augusta
county, Va., is estimated to be worth
over £IOO,OOO.
Maury anty/feti. hrmkef debt,
and her wjfrrlnts lire Woftly itn#tj|-h|a
cents on the dollar.
The license to sell intoxicatiing spir
its within the town of Jasper, Ga., has
been, raised Jo SI,OOO.
One hundred thousand young Cali
fornia salmon have recently been placed
in the waters of Georgia.
Bets of £">00 have been made jit Au
gusta, Ga., that tais year’s cotton crop
will be at least 6,000,000 bales.
The-residence of Hon. Ben. Hill, at
Athens, 'Ga., has been sold to Prof.
Speer, of the University. It originally'
cost $30,000.
There are seventeen tobacco factories
at Pe ersburg, Va., employing about
3,5C00 hands. The gross annual pro
ducts amount to about $3,200,000.
The city of Fayetteville, N. C., fol
lowing the example of Memphis, has
had its municipal existence teiinitiated
by a state law in order to escape from
the clutches of the mandamus movers.
Chattanooga Times: As things are
now going, the south will in the vear
1900 support her own markets with
every grade of cotton goods, and with
every form of iron and steel, line cut
lery included.
Dr. Barksdale, of the Virginia lunatic
asylum, reports the case of a negro lu
natic whose brain weighed seventy’
ounces' This is believed to be the lar
gest brain on record, except that of Oli
ver Cromwell.
In Mississippi there are 108,040 horses,
115,600 mules, 273,250 oxen,
cows, 220,330 sheep and 1,739,600 hogs,
with the following average value:
Horses, 57 73; mules, S7O 89; oxen, $7 69;
cows, slz 00; sheep, $2 57; hogs, $2 70
The black confluent small-pox is ra
ging at a great many points in Texas.
It is said to have been first introduced
by exiled Russian Jews. Be that as it
may, it is very obstinate and fatal, re
quiring the greatest care to keep it from
spreading.
A gentleman largely interested in the
proposed canal, near Macon, Ga., states
that the project is not abandoned by
any means. At the proper time the
whole project will be brought promi
nently to the front. He is of the opin
ion that tlve enterprise will only cost
about $450,000.
It if: generally conceded, says a FlOri
da exchange, that the brown or rusty
orange, is much the sweetest, and can
be kept longer than the bright fruit, but
by not a unusal perversity of taste,
the brown fruit is depreciated in "North
ern markets, and sold at hall' the price
of fair fruit.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: There
are $2,25 ',OOO acres of government land
in Alabama, subject to entry under the
homestead and pre-emption laws, and
the entering of land was never brisker
than at present. Hundreds of acres are
being sold on the cash basis system ol
$1.25 per acre, particularly in sotne Of
the counties of the state.
The total receipts of the city of At
lanta from all sources during 1881, was
$480,518 97. The city debt is $2,196,-
200, and the expenditures on account
of interest and einking fund, $193,573,
leaving a balance $286,915,97 for' ordi
nary expenditures. The city h w no
floating debt, and can not. as the state
law stands, increase its bonded debt.
The Baptists ministers of Richmond,
Va., have resoluted against the bill be
fore the legisfafwre ef that state, to re
move the political disabilities of per
sons who have, in recent years, violated
the law against dueling. They say:
“We look upon the proposed action as a
violation of the spirit of the - constitu
tion and the laws of the state, as an in
sult to heaven and an affront to the
rporal and Christian sentiment fnf the
Virginia peopled’
Fernandiua, (Fla.) Mirror: A few
days since we were on the north shore
of Orange lake, in what is known as the
island, once designated as Townsed Ter
ritory, from its isolation. Five years
ago, no public road passed through it,
no rail or water communication came
within twenty miles of if. While we
wtre there within twenty minutes’ time,
we heard the puffing of trains on the
railways, the whistle of a steamer and
of three steam saw mills, and realized
the change which has been made and
which is going oa all over Florida.
An amusing incident occurred at Fin
eastky Va., during the last term of the
Botetourt county court. A jury was
empaunelled to try one Bolen, charged
THEf 1 JACKSON NEWS.
with an assault on J. G. Sperry, the
latter testifying in the case. After two
days deliberation the jury returned into
court with a verdict of manslaugher.
It would be hard to picture the scene
that followed. The bar was convulsed,
the “dead man” smiled audibly, Judge
Palmer looked on for a moment in mute
astonishment and then hid behind his
uewspai>w. A
Richntont!, (Va.) State: It is impos
sible for the south unaided to educate
all within her borders. White she asks
no exemption from all just obligations,
this duty off ee education does not rest
on.her exclusively. l>r. Bams in 1879,
said there were 2,000,000 <U" children
in tin. Southern States, without the
means of instruction. Increasing efli
ciency of school system is dailv furn
ishing additional means, bnt -the latest
reports of state superintendents show a
wide difference between the number of
educatable children and those in actual
attendance at schools.
A writer describes a Christmas din
ner at a country house near Richmond,
Va., during the war: The four gentle
men were in uniform, and the three
ladies were in homespun. They had for
dinner a S3OO ham, and the last turkey
on the plantation, value $175, with SIOO
worth of cabbage, potatoes and hominy.
Cern bread wrs served, made of meal at
SBO per bushel and salt at $1 a pound
The dessert was black molasses at S6O a
gallon, and after one cup of tea—real
tea, worth SIOO a pound, treasured for
the occasion as a surprise, and not sas
safras—there was coffee at discretion,
made from sweet potatoes cut into little
squares toasted and ground down.
Memrdiis Appeal: Mr. May, a young
Shelby county farmer, has been success
ful in the .manufacture of ensilage’, a
species of food for caitle, that in winter
lakes the place of the clover of summer
and is more nutritious. The method
adopted by Mr. May was simply, to cut
the nea-vine down, chop it aud press it
into a pit forty feet long, ten feet broad,
and ten feet deep. In this pit he made
fifty tons of ensilage, with which lie
proposes to fatten fifteen head of cattle
for three months. Mr. May’s example
should stimulate every farmer in this
section of the country. Immense quan
tities of hay and corn are sold in this
market every winter, the money paid
for which might be put to some other
use, if only ensilage were made for cat
tle. The best stockraisers recommend
it, and the practical farmers at the
west are loud in its praise.
Know Yonr Business Ttioroiighly.
A young man in a leather store used to
feel very impatient with hi* employer for
keeping him, year after year, handling
hides. But he saw the use years after
when iu au establishment of hie own he
was able to tell by tlie touch the exact
quality of the goods. It was only by
those thousands of repetitions that tho
lesson was learned; aud so it is with
everything in which we acquire skill.
The half-informed, the half-skilled, in
every business outnumber the others,
dozens to one. Daniel Webster once
replied to a young man who asked him
if there was any room in the legal pro
fession. “There is always room at the
top.” The better your business, the
better your chance to rise. You can
gßther much information by making a
wise use of your eyes and ears, and per
haps be able to surprise your employer
in an emergency by stepping into the
“ next man’s ” place, and discharging his
duties satisfactorily ; so, learn your busi
ness.
We would guard the young against
the use of every word that is not strictly
proper. Use no profane expression,
allude to. no sentence that- will put to
blush the most sensitive. You know not
the tendency of habitually using inde
cent or profane language, it may never
!>e obliterated from your heart. When
you grow up, you may find at your
tongue’s end some expression which
yon would not use for any money. It
was used when quite young. Good men
have been taken Bick aud become deliri
ous, In these moments they use the most
vile, indecent language imaginable.
When informed of it after their restora
tion to health, they had no idea of the
pain they had caused. They Lad learned
and repeated the expressions in child
hood; and, though years had passed
since, they had been indelibly stamped
upon the heart. Think of thus, you who
are tempted to use improper language,
and never disgrace yourself or your
friends.
Had a Hallucination.
They were sitting beside the grate
when all at once she looked up and said:
“ Richard, do yon believe people ever
labor under hallucination ?”
“Of connse they do," he replied.
“ I was jttst rending of a husband who
went to bed supposing he had 820 in
his wallet, but on awakening in the
morning there was but 818. He at once
charged his wife with robbing him, and
a separation resulted. Wasn't it awful ?”
“Yes, rather.”
“If vou should suspect me of getting
up in the night and going to your wallet
that would be awful too, wouldn’t it?”
“Not any tooawfnl, for I haven’t had
a cent in it since I can remember,” he
said as he turned to hit paper
Tffat was alf she wanted So know. She
-rot up that night and went through the
hiad pocket of his pants, and next morn
ng he had a hallucination that he was
84 short— Detroit Free Pre*x.
Tits Mormon* had an idea that Presi
dent Tavlor was stealing from them, and
when he got a hint of it he replied :
“Let me see the man who said so and
I’ll hang bito inside of an hour! ” That
Mttlad the question of hi* honesty.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, WE.DNEBI)AY. FEBRUARY % \m.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Oscar \Vbj>e writes for a guinea a
lino for Our Continent.
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Thr, “hoy preacher,” Thomas Harri
son, is saving souls in Cincinnati.
Tub jails are full of convicted mur
derers, aud hangings are a rarity.
Vf.nn'or does not like to be classed
with Mothor Shiptou, but it oan’t be
helped. _
To settle the Cannon-Catnpbell con
test, Utah will probably hold another
election.
Guitbau says public opinion is change
iug. He puts it wrong. It wants a
change.
The iron-producing interests of the
South are shaping thomsolves into a
monopoly.-
A great boom has struck Richmond,
Indiana. She is to have a $200,000
opera-house.
The author of “ Fool’s Errand ” has
started a paper in Philadelphia called
Our Continent.
The census shows Paris to have a
population of 2,225,900, au increase of
237,000 since 1876.
A new law in Kansas forbids any per
son to many within six months after
procuring a divorce.
Now that smallpox is rife, it is but
reasonably precautionary on the part of
every one to be vaccinated.
The report of finding a boat of the
Jeannette containing corpses is dis
credited in official quarters at St. Peters
burg.
Judge Porter has been a power in
tho Guitean trial, and for that will be
deservedly remembered by a grateful
republic.
The National Temperance Society is
advocating tlie appointment of a com
mission to inquire iuto tho liquor traflio
of the United States.
Op the population of London, 3,620,-
000 are vaccinated and 190,000 are not.
There were 1,532 deaths from smallpox
in that city the past year.
Mr. Lawes, a prominent English
agriculturist, has sot aside $500,000, the
interest of which is to be used in carry
ing out agricultural experiments.
Among members of the Lower House
of the Tennessee Legislature are a whito
man and a negro who held the relation
of master and slave before tlio war.
Something is always being laid at
Beecher’s door. Lust week it was au
infant only two days’ old, and he very
properly and promptly had it sent to
the City Nursery.
Manufacturing paper from palmotto
is one of the new enterprises in Florida.
Twenty mills in all are shortly to be
erected by a company in sections of the
State where pvlmetto is abundant.
Prop. Williams, of Yale College, re
cently received a dispatch from tho in
terior of China which had been sent the
day before, traveling within twenty-four
hours the distance of 19,000 miles.
The rage in cirous circles the coming
season is to be “ the handsomest woman
in the world. ” Every circus will have
her. Barnum has already published his
offer of $20,000 for a famous beauty.
The members of the new Chinese
Legation at Washington wear their na
tive costumes on all occasions, and at
tract considerable attention on the streets
and elsewhere, by their startling com
bination of colors.
John latdor, President of the Mor
mon Church, has taken up) his abode in
the Gardo House, at Salt Lake City, tho
magnificent structure which Brigham
Young built for his favorite, Amelia. It
has been luxuriously furnished through
out.
Tire two heaviest taxpayers of Boston
are Moses Williams and Joshua M.
Sears, tho first name being assessed for
83,300,000, and the other for $3,244,000.
And yet we never heard of these men
before. Riches and fame don’t always
go hand in band.
Attornf.? O-ENRRATi Brewster is said
to put on more style than any other
Cabinet Minister who ever courted the
smiles of fashionable society. His
“turn out” is as gorgeous as that of
any English lord, and his personal ward
robe correspionds with it.
PRonicrriov has moved on Congress
in a body. On the 11th inst. every mem
ber of the Senate had a memorial to
present from his constituency, asking
for a law to prohibit the manufacture,
sale or importation of alcoholio liquors
throughout the national domain.
Justice is always expensive "where
there is a high state of civilization. On
the frontier, where churches and courts
are unknown, murder trials are,of short
duration and to the point, and cridK^less'
t)evoti?d to iho Intei'owi ot Jackson and .Units Oonntv.
frequent, to the population, than where
the country is dotted with courts of law.
Gbrmant has 8,250 co-operative asso
ciations, of which 1,895 aro loan or credit
societies, people’s banks, etc., 674 in
dustrial societies, 643 stores for the sale
of goods, and 36 building societies.
Ami yet Germany is repined to be about,
the hardest country on the poor there Is
in the world.
When the weather iu the Middle aud
Western States is very moderate, mer
cury in Dakota Territory is generally
below zero, but up to the middle of Jan
uary the present season it seems that
they have had nothing up there but
“continuously warm Heath er'v—not even
an ordinary snow.
Oscar Wilde ueems to be the boom
for the present, and it is singular how
tko rosthetie crowns his every move. His
arrival in this country was January 2,
or 1882-2. Ho talks in rhythmic chant,
accenting every fourth syllable, thus :
* I came from England because I thought
America was the best place to seo. ”
Business seems to bo pushing in
Nevada. Says a Nevada paper: Not
withstanding the absence of bonanzas,
nearly 1,800 miners are at work on tho
Comstock at present, representing a
monthly payment of nearly a quarter of
a million dollars. Tho miners in turn
give employment to many in tho mills
on tho Carson River, in Gold Hill and
Silver City.
The Cincinnati Gazette states the ease
briefly as follows : If Congress will ad
mit to seat in that body a delegate from
Utah who admits that ho has several
wives and believes in and practices tho
doctrines of the Mormon Cliurel), it
might as well stop talking and legislat
ing against polygamy. A man who de
fies law should not have a seat among
iaw-makers.
Miss Ida U human, a Now York belle
who, a few days ago, recovered damages
in the breach of promise suit against
Mr. Henry 11. Moyers for $1,750, has
married Mr. Cohen, one of tho witnesses
in tho ease. Ida is charged with daring
everybody to kiss her on New Year’s
day, and that was one of Mr. Meyers’
reasons for not wanting her lor a bride.
Her kisses were too abundant.
Idaho ooutalnn 35,(YD inhabitants.
Its gentiles or anti-Mormon residents are
frontiersmen of the better class. Un
fortunately the Territory lies immediately
north of Sait Lake City, and tho Mor
mons, finding themselves rather cramped
in Utah, have marked out Idaho for
thoir own. This is an imperative reason
used by the Denver Tribune why Con
gress should not delay the Mormon
question.
Dr. Buss thinks $50,0U0 would bo
about right for his services as physician
to President Garfield. Tho services of
Drs. Agnew and Hamilton lie reckons at
$25,000 each, aud Reyburn, ho thinks,
ought to bo satisfied with SB,OOO. Dr.
Boynton and Mrs. Dr. Ed son ho consid
erately allows SI,OOO each, although per
haps Mrs. Edson did raore real service
and suffered more anxiety than the whole
lot. Yes, Dr. Bliss is i groat main
The printers in the Government, Print
ing Office are being meanly treated.
Notwithstanding they get a higher price
for their labor than is paid for similar
work iu any offico in tie civilized world,
they still ask for more. Bo long as they
aro so modest about it, we do not see
why tho Government should not ho
willing to divide the pjofits with them—
or it might turn the institution over to
them and make it a stock concern for
that matter, and then allow them an
annual appropriation Insides. The boys
should be treated on tip square.
Human nature is hard to understand.
The wife of Henry Kirk, of Madison,
ludiana, a virtuous aid handsome wo
man of thirty years, was recently called
upon by a young Pennsylvania jewelry
mender, of good address uni oily tongue,
Mr. Kirk was absent at the time. The
young man was so excessively po
lite and irresistibly fascinating that
Mrs. Kirk was comph t ly captivated.
A few days after the event she became
wildly deranged, constantly repeating
the substance of the -conversation, and
her husband has been compelled to send
her to the Insane Asylum.
There are Incidents which, when we
read them, seem really to be so r xhiter
ating that one almost becomes intoxi
cated with the “spirit cf Approval,”
if that wore possible. A young lady in
New York City, who was accosted by a
weli-ilressed man in an insulting man
ner, accepted the offef of an old woman,
who was grabbing in an ash barrel close
by, to “ cover him with ashes for ten
cents.” The man was pelted with hand
fuls of ashes, covering him from head to
foot, before he could escape. The old
dame was rewarded with a quarter.
She should have had, at least, a dollar
for such appropriate services,
Ly i.i ijaid to be a ' ct capable of d-ro
ot. Nation that- t-w* iwAieer marriage*
r.-d in divorce to o:.e 'inter marriage.
Hence probtfily (he wisdom of society
~p evinfthj; Jyte-P- \> - vunge the muiry
ing season'—A’em .*: -•’ Ktar.
The Early Kings.
I believe, upon a good deal of evi
donoo, that nuciontKings were itinerant,
traveling, or ambulatory personages.
Whyu they became stationary they gen
erally perished. The primitive Kings ot
communities confined within the ’.vails,
like the old Athenian aud the old Roman
Kings, soon dropped out of sight. Per
haps, as Mr. Grote has suggested, thoy
lived too much in full view of their sub
jects for their l.nmble state to command
much respect when the belief in tlicir
sapredness lind been lost. But the more
barbarous King of communities spread
over a wide territory was constantly mov
ing about it; or, if he did not, he, too,
perished,, ns did the Kings called the
nos faineants of the Franks.
If I were called upon to furnish the
oldest evidence uf these i.abits of the
ancient King, I should refer to there
Irish records, of which the value is" only
beginning to be discerned, for, whatever
may be said by tho theorists who explain
all national characteristics by something
in the rage or the blood, the most ancient
Irish laws and institutions are nothing
more than the most ancient Germanic
laws and institutions at au earlier stage
of barbarism.
Now, when Englishmen like Edmund
Spencer first began to put their observa
tions of Ireland into w riting—at the end
of the sixteenth century—there was one
Irish practice of which they spoke with
the keenest, indignation. This wits what
they called the “ cuttings” and “cosher
ings”of the Irish Chiefs—that is, their
periodical circuits among their tenantry
for tho purpose of feasting with their
company at tlio tenant*' expense, It
was, in fact, only a lato survival of com
mon incidents in tho daily life of the
barbarous Chief or King, who had no
tax-gatherers to collect his dues, but
went himself to exact them, living
as a matter of right, while he moved, at
tlie cost of his subjects. The theory of
the Irish law was, though it is impossi
ble to nay how far it corresponded with
tho facts, that tho Chief had earned his
right by stocking tlio clansman’s land
with cattle or sheep.
We find a 1 uglily glorified account of
the s une practice iu ancient records of
tho life mid state of t-lioso Irish Chiefs,
who called themselves Kings. “The
King of Munster,” says the “ Book of
Rights,” “attended by tlie chief
Princes of bis Kingdom, began his visits
to tho King of Conuauglit, and presented
to him one hundred steeds, one hundred
suits of military array, one hundred
swords, and one hundred caps, in return
for which the King was to entertain him
for two months at his palace at Aimehmi,
and then escort him to the terri
tories of Tyrconnell. Ho presented to
tlie King of Tyreeinx ll twenty steeds,
twenty complete armor, and twenty
cloaks, for which tho King supported
him and the nobility of Munster for one
month, and afterward escorted him to
tlio Principality <>f Tyrone.”
Tlio King of Munster is then described
as proceeding through Tyrone, Ulster,
Meath, Leinster, and Ossory, every-"
win re bestowing gifts on the rulers, and
receiving entertainment in return, I sus
pect the entertainment is of mere
historical reality than the royal gifts.
The practice, however, described with
this splendor by Iho chronicler or
bard iu plainly tlio same as tho out
ting and coshering which Spencer and
others denounce as one of the curses of
Ireland. Sir Henry S. Maine in the
I’urt uifhthj lie view.
Timber in Europe.
Sortie European countries are Almost
is bad off, as far as supply of timber in
vmceriHid, as is the United States. Ac
cording to a French agricultural journal,
rile oak of Sweden and Norway in
ibout exhausted, and they are compelled
to buy their wood in Poland, and tho
pine is being rapidly removed. The
forests of Russia, along the shores of the
Baltic, in Finland and in the Southern
provinces, have bleu so rapidly thinned
that tlio forest area of the empire is now
only one-tenth. The forests of Germany
are well cared for, and there are now lit
that empire about 31,09*1,900 acres of
forest (over half of which are iu Prussia,)
valued at about $409,000,000, and pro
trying an income annually of nearly $50,-
900,000, The greatest effort is made to
preserve the forests of Germany and to
increase the forest acreage ("about $500,-
900 being annually expended in replant
ing by the State,) and the imports exceed
tho (rtqsirts by over 2,000 tons. There
aro about 43,900,000 acres of forest in
Austria. Austria, however, has so reck
lessly cut her forests that she is obliged
to buy most oi her tiirtber in Bosnia and
Montenegro. Brirvin, Roiimaitia and
Portugal have good forests, lint the fine
forests of Italy and Hpnin are so situated
that they eainiot reach a market when
- lit. It would seem that- the United
States might profitably follow the exam
ple of Germany and save her forests.
South Australia is at present engaged in
ibis work and planting trees on an ex
tensive seal to.—Boston Globe.
He Had Ihine ’em Often.
Over in Jersey the manager of a
combination was applied to by a lanky
legged chap for all engagement. The
fellow, who looked lugubrious enough
to pi avc been the shadow of a badly
acted Hami t, stumbled across the stage,
and unjoihtiug himself, collapsed into a
choir.
<• Well, what’s your line of business? ’
p,em and the manager.
“ Not particular -anything thatpays.”
“ Ever been on the stage ? ”
“ Often ?” remarked the aspirant,
throwing a quid of dog-leg at the heal
f the lug fiddle, and his left teg over
hi. i glit knee at oue and the same time,
“Li ye ’pose you can do the landlord
,ii tic Lady of l.yonx ? ”
“ y, s, sir-ree—l've done all the land
- i'h in Camden.”
An yet tlie aspirant wasn't engaged.
“ I didn’t call, because when I piassed
the house I noticed there was no light
in the piarlor and I thought you wore
out, ” apologetic illy observed the simple
minded Chicago man who hurl an api
piointmeut with a Cincinnati merchant.
“ Never be such a fool as that wain,”
angrily resjiowkd the disappointed pork
pucker, “you ought,£b have known it
was only one of ivy gala receiving com
pany.”
Despotism of Fashion,
An eminent. English writev rays that
Americans enjoy Inks real liberty, outside
>f political rights, t-lihu the people-wt
any country in Europe, lie siys vie
accept onr fashions in everything from
Europe in n blind and slavish ncqini s
copco in marked contrast-with our jeal
ousy of political interference ami des
poil-,in. Even iu politics, ha says, tlie
.sahie disposition ia apparent, for a third;
oi'i independent party, is impossible, iu
Germany anil Franco there are hinny
parties, but iu great., tree America there
is only room for two. Independence in
thinking is rare, and more rarely takes
shape iu notion. The aesthetic craze ha
nql.dereloped any American standard ot
taste. From somewhere comes p .uiodi
cully a decree it ■ fashions, against which
no American woman dare to rebel,
However il-t-Miited to c.liiiiato or com
plexion, tlio style is inexorable. Lin
contest, is simply aa to preeodeli ,i in
acquiescence. No one dares to revolt.
Thus upon the American people are
forced fashions iu dress for me::, women
mid children, house furnishings, and
even house arehite, ture, often nioiyt pre
posterous and barbarous. Tin: curt
wheal style of bonnets occurs as one
of tho abominations in dross, u
flagrant violation of good taste as well
as of the rights of other,-, in public
assemblages.
lint somebody must originate these
never-ending novelitks. Some brain
lias been tortured somewhere to invent
somethingsturtliug. The wonder is Unit
the decree is accepted so uncoiopluju
ingly. However preposterous or ab -urd,
them is no remedy. It is this meek
subaorvienco of Americans to the behests
of fashion which male-s the birth and.
growth of any real standard of taste im
possible. Tho spirit of discontent and
rebellion must precede every snee ssl'nl
revolution. As in China, the inherited
spirit of obedience stand.-, squarely in
tlio way of every effort at progress.
There was a people once who had, in
dress and architecture, a standard which
has passed unquestioned. It did not
lluetiiato at the bidding of millimrs or
! clothiers. It had a foundation bohnv
the question of dollars and ei- Nothing
more plainly evidence's our singular
| backwardness in sonic of th -• higher at-
I tributes of civilization tliltn the I ct that
! we must, dress at the dictation of on i
imperious and invisible tyinnt whoi-<
j exact, location, tenure of office, ov t xn lit
lof power'no otic knows. Tin v ■ are an
| lions yet which have a national costume'.
| Any one who lias over attended a. Kir at
j Buda-Post.h Ims soon m n and women
from provinces dressed in most grotesque
I outre fashion, but just as their anet iters
I have dressed for ages. Tho effect is
j striking, novel aud sometime, beautiful
1 It is a question whether their never
j changing fashion is morn hdttiiial (o tin
I growth Of correct tasie than onr river--
changing styles. About iih inuoli lllmly
and discretion is allowed in one its- the
other. They accept their gianitji ii'ent"’
clot lies because they were 11..- fashion,
mid we often do the Same tiling bi-eau e
they will be. Tlio authority in equally
shadowy alid doubtful in both mirtH. A
woman on tin: Danube Im . no more no
tion of making a dress to net her in
dividual taste anil complexion, sluice or
stature, differing from nor set, than one
lu)m The goddess there is us fixed and
Changeless ns Brahma, line, like the
Romans, wo naturalize all the eoih no
injitter how inconsistent, only • lipnlating
.that any new ones shall comn ill like
forms, lndiana gut. is',lnn null.
Tho Egg Story.
It would violate nil president if the
Story of Columbus and the egg were to
be spared the. readers of till, vo! nti v It
is bristly as follows : Boon after his
return to Spain hi’ dined with Cardinal
do Mendoza, art eminent, clergyniHii with
a talent for dinti'Ts. An objectionable
young man wlm was present, and who
undoubtedly had taken mor > champagne
fbun was good for his fellow diners,
asked the Admiral if he did not llmity
tluit if iio had not. discovered the N'-w
World sonic one else would lmvo very
sliortly discovered if. Ho was unques
tionably an impertinent young man, but
lie was undoubtedly right in im inning
that, sooner or later the Atlantic would
have been crossed, even if Columbus hod
never been born. Historians telt ns that.
Colltrribliß, in reply, asked tie- young
limn if be could stand iih egg on its little
end, and when the young man, after
rudely inquiring What Columbus was
giving him, was 1 constrained to admit
that he coilhl not perform the font ill
question, the givst explorer simply flat
tened tie- little end of the egg by knock
ing it against till) table, and then easily
made it stand up. 'Tlie whole company
instantly burst, into team, a id exclaimed
tit til Columbus wen tie-, greatest unit
noblest of mankind. If this trick ot
flattening an ,-gg was really regardqjl ns
a brilliant repartee, by which the imper
tinent young man ought to have been
utterly withered up, it gives us a melan
choly view of the state oi the art of
repartee among tlie Spaniard a The real
facts Of -the case an: probably tlie.se ;
Cardinal do Mendoza, tlio dinner and tho
impertinent, young man doubtless ex
isted in the manner spocidh and, aud the
impertinout young man, in an advanced
state of champagne, probably Said some
thing insulting to tlio Admiral, The
latter, disclaiming to notice tho affront
by words, and reluctant to cause any
unpleasant scene at the Cardinal's table,
I merely throw an egg at file offender's
bend, and pursued tin conversation with
| bi-i host. Subsequent writers, d'te r-
I raile d to give a profoundly sciclititto
! character to everything tie- Admiral did,
I built up fiozn this slight basis ot fact tlie
egg-balancing stoiy. in point of fact,
I any one eon balance an egg on its- little
; aid by the exercise of a little care and
I patience, and it is rather more easy to
I do this with an egg that, ho* not been
Ift rttened than with one that has.— W. L,
| AUlen’s Christopher Columbus
A GiiiDKD youth, who bad uc t with
misfortune: . rut* rcii a foertli-c! :.i V '*
taurant. ii* th. enoouuh.ued a waiter
whom lie had formerly seen in the luxu
rious e*tflblß / hmvnt:-> wWrti ho hime if
had Ars.ciuojit.cd. "What! ” said the
whiter, “dii vr.u -dine Bert*, sir?
“Weil,” retnri.i i the other, gloomily,
“you wait her. , iioikt you? ” “It is
truuf nr,” rep,ii',d Uw waiter, with euii
saiious dignity; 1 1 hut I do not eat here,
Si .M/j M.SU nor Aunt at.
NUMBER
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
“Julius.' fleifle her t” Biifif Bamb#, m
Ixilius was contemplating a fat pullet in
he moonlight; •
Dow C-sri o'troubles colrm bunched, like
ailefy. i ■ : -.‘/ina .1. ;
Tits only thing in this country that is
let. injured by lmttpi& is applause.
VVur.N you see an not committed are
hnl not necessarily au nigh witness?
“ iiusnwo and wife,” says some sage
Mtrnou, “ should no inoro struggle to get
tii’ last word than they should struggla
’6r the possession of a lighted bomb.”
They don t, Tlie wife goto it without a
druggie,— The, Judge.
“IJ.vvr. One Little Kiss for Papa,” ia
ho title oi the latest qoiig. It thw ra
nt q-k is mil v-u at a Chicago girl with
!imr' steiulv henux the old mini's chances
trepieiiy Him. —Chicago Tribune. .
“What a contradiction a watch is!"
said Timmins. “How so?” asked Mrs.
Timmins. “Wiry, bocauso it always
tee I*, perfectly dry, although it con*
itantl.) bus a running spring inside.”
Winn the “mming man” shut the
loor aftor him ? ’ He will in this office,
>r tho going man will go out of the
window.- —JiOunU Citizen.
Ri.oxdi: —“ They say Carrie is en
gaged.” Brunette —“Engaged ! why,
-In- married a mouth ago and has just
■mod for a d.vorce.” Blonde—“How
romantic! Isn’t it splendid?” —Boston
Transcript.
“Yes,’' said the Denver editor, “I
think I must have got out a very reada
ble paper tlua morning. I’ve boon licked
by three prominent citizens to-day, an
other chased ino with (logs and a gun
and the police had hard work to kerip a
mob from wrecking my office.”—Chi
ougn Tribune.
I >n. J > - bus a bright little girl, about
four yours'of age, who is very fond of
dells ill and lie buys anew one for her
nearly every day. Ho brought her a
now- olio tho other ovoniug, but it did
not. appear to take her fancy at all.
“What, don’t you like the now doll?”
lie asked, after watching her a few mo
ments, “No; J.’s tired of stuff dolls,
1 want a real meat baby,” sho replied,
iriicrttly.-r-y/n) Judge.
“ 1 can well remember tlio time, ” uai<?
Mrs. Marrowfat, loaning over tlio fence
.ail, ill conlid nti.il conversation with
it i neighbor next door, “ when Bimp
-on's Win* was glad enough to get a jila.u
wo den shawl to wear. Now she always
appears in a sealskin siicque.” “All,
y .I forget,” was tho reply, “that Mr.
Kiuipafiui’s brother has become a bank
cashier.”
A Detroit man calls his wife Vesu
vius, because she is a holy terror, Chaff.
A Burlington man calls his wife Coto
paxi, because she spits lire and won’t
lava tlye neighbors alone.— Burlington
A". ./. Jinterjn-ise. A Jamestown man
calls his wife a fool because she has not
/H im thing sine the winter bonnet*
buy.- made flu-ir uppoaftuieo.— Tender.
A tliibunvflln man cilia his wife after
In: gets iqi and builds a lire, for sho
won’t g-. tup in tlio cold. —BhtbenvUle
lb rgt%
Darwin acknowledged hunse If iuat*h
ml wlu'ii Ids little niece asked him,
s rioitsly, what, a cat has that *o other
niiirrtal ban. Re gave it up afior mature
dejiber,ition, and then tho sly pirn*
answered “kittens.”
Hausaok .Fiiitz, of this city, is uo
a*. Clietc. I b' say.: Up row has a “good
qii'dity of home mute qdsstchos, with dor
dog coll,i i'S nil picked owid. Dry vasb
rhsi' utterly p.y gosh agnoplertf litmus,
ant Von pet my lift* if J dold you so I
bit - mini tint off." —Larntie Hill Bge.
'I lie Oneida fomfcutility.
The Oneida Oommuhrtfy is a commun
istic sore ty on Oneida Creek, in In-nox
Town - tip ‘Madison County, N. abont
ivlii-li ninth has been said and written,
and which lias mine remarkable feature*,
iln founder of tbo organization was
John Humphrey Moves. Tie was boro
at Crattloboro, VI., September ", 1811,
■ and graduated at Dartmouth College,
ul, i: hi::’, vly twenty yenrs rtf age. At
first be studied law, but ho soon forsook
Bbielisbme and turned bis attention to
theology-, studying at Andover mid New
Haven, and w|is license 1 to preach when
ho war twenty-two years bid. lii 1.834 lie
rietic il what lie named a “second
cojivVd-ion,” and made at once an at
tempt to found a eommilnity at New
Haven, which, however, was unsuccess
ful. Three years Inter be organized the
existing association, at I’utnev, VI., and
the. nnjntbors removed to the present
lo ulity tit 1817. The Community on
Oneida Creek lias a lino estate am-unU
n.ills min *sen''if*otorio, and is reported
to be in n prosperous condition. The
cardinal principles of the Community art
four in number: rei o;.filiation to God,
salvation from sin, recognition of the
brotherhood and equality of man and
woman, arid the community of labor and
its fruits. The last-named principle
anibraces a schemo fry which all the male
and. ail the female members of the Com
munity are held in a sortso to be married
to each other. This lorn led to the elmrgo
b< iug made against them of being “free
jovt is, ' imt, say,, one writr r, tic system,
ii regulated by the “principle of ajrra*
pltfiy,” and controlled by that free pub
lic opinion which constitutes the supreme
govi i-i/meat Hf the society, “isfnrfroiß
|,i mg amenable to the reproach of im
-11-it’iility m any ordinary reuse of tin
word."' These “ Bible Communists," t*r
they are styled, reject all mb s of Oonduet
except those which eaoh believer formu
lates for himself, subject to the free
criticism of his associates. They hold'
that the Mosaic law and ordinances wer
abrogated by the second comiug ol
Christ, which Mr. Noyes place* at T.
\ V. D., and at which time the reign o
! nit) Was concluded, and trne believers
have since been free to follow the indies
tiojis of tim Holy Spirit in a:l thing*
nothing being good or bad in itself.
Dr'iit'i samples o{ victuals analyzed
by 11,6 lb-rim authorities. forty four
proved adulterated. • Green tea
dyed and mixed with Hewers of nay,
e r )C()!l iih potato and corn flour. There
will be more rigorous penalties.
Osr. must set to work betimes to keep
one’s self free from passion.