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jjUWIN MAKTIN, Proprietor. Devoted to Home Interests and. Culture. TWO DOTiT.ARS A Year In Adrauc«« VOLUME IX, PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1879. NUMBER 32. BOW A PAPER IS MADE. «Pi»y. kQW is a paper wade?” Tbe question.is easy to ask, But to answer it fully, my dear, ■Were rather a difficult task; . . And yet in a bantering way, A* tlie wlilppoor-will.Bings in tlio glade, I'd venture a bit of a lay. To tell bew a paper is madri. An editor sitf at his desk, And pondeis the things that appear jo be claiming thu thoughts of the world— Things solemn, and comic, and queer— And when he has hit on a theme He judges well to parade, He writes, and he writes, and ho writes, And that's how % paper is made. An editor sits at bis desk, And puzzles his brain to make but "Telegraphic” so squabbled add mixed. It is hard to tell what it’s about. Exchanges are lying around: While waiting" dispatches delayed, He dips, and he clips, and he clips, And that's how a papor is made. An editor out in the town, In search of things that are new— The things that the people have done, Tho things they're intending to do— Goes peering and prying about, For items of many a grade; Ho tramps, and.he tramps, and he tramps, And that’s how a paper is mhde. And all that those workers prepare, Of every conceivable Btripo, la sent to tho printer, and ho Proceedeth to stick it in type. His lines, all respecting his will. In slow-moving columns parade— And he sticks, and he sticks, and he sticks, And that's how a paper is made. In short, whon the type is all set, And errors cleared up more or less. Tie “locked in a form," as they say. And hurried away to tho press. The pressman arranges his sheets. His ink gives tho requisite shade, Then he prints, and he prints, and be prints And that's how a paper is mado. JOHN SHARPE. John Sharpe was an attorney, who lived in my younger days, in the vil lage of Sanderton. Tho reader need not turn to any map slid look for Sanderton. The incidents lam about to relate being true, and some of the parties yet aliye, I have given false names both to persons and places, in order to baffle impertinent cu riosity. In a story of English life when an at torney is mentioned, you are to under stand n man who draws up pleas, and does everything about a case of law, ex-, cept speaking. The oral pleading is done by what the English call a barris ter. But in the American courts, with one exception, the office of attorney and barrister are combined in one per son, It was certainly, so here. John Sharpe not only prepared the written pleadings in his cases, but he addressed the court and jury also, taking charge ol the chse from the issue of the pre cipe to the final judgment by the tbecourt. He was accounted to be an excellent advocate, He was fluent, I impressive. He never rose to eloquence under any cirotl instances, d that about him which com manded attention and respect, and he ™ possessed of a coolness not to be overcome by any train of vexations oc- r By long labor and perse verance he acquired a. competence, and it the time of which I speak he"had re eved from the duties of his profession, *od lived in a neat little framed house oothe outskirts of" the village, sur- voonded by a handsome little garden, staining about ten acres of ground.— o was then an old man, with a bald md, withered face, and thin but active f^n; and used to walk smartly up down the main street of the ton every day about noon. This was for exercise, and to create an ap- Wite for dinner. Gold or hot, rainy e mnny as the day . might be, you msld see John Sharpe leave the front **>r of his house exactly at two o’clock, i his umbrella, great coat or cane, as nmstances seemed to indicate the of either. Three times down the and three times up—thus often no more—and then John Sharpe sld re-enter his dwelling and prepare at sat alone at 'er. He was by no means social in habits and invited no gaests. Nor he usually visitors, but liyed alone 6 a lazy spider, which is the best sim- can find, for a retired lawyer. But last after he had finished his meal, with the cloth removed, a single lit, the fire blazing cheerfully, he blinds darkened, after his ens- lust as he commenced to .sip the . °t his three after-dinner glasses of JT a knock at the door annonneed •A™ 1, As he supposed the comer ^ ^it awhile without great damage, ^ °n sipping his wine, and paid tiofi to the summons. Tho i re peated rather more violent- In a couple of minutes or so af- -*oA Hett T* his bIfl ck maid of- 3 oh’ - l> y> Hetty was a wilh- widow), tapped at the door, and j, 6t • *ke signal with the upper half I ®haipe,” said Hetty, "here’s : ot no ^i t s Swan to see von, wed- % I Hetty ushered the visitor in, and clos- iing the door, left the two together. } The stranger,was a man if appearances j told the truth, somewhere about forty years of age. He was tall, stood qmte erect, and had a swarthy face on which a few wrinkles seemed to have bnrnt in by exposure to the sun of some tropical climate. His small and glittering black eye glanced at everything around, and finally fixed itself upon John Sharpe himself, in an intense and by no means friendly gaze. The attorney did not feel quite comfortable under that steady and Btern gaze; but as the intruder spoke.no word, he begged him to be seated, and filling a glass shoved it over to the opposite side of the table, by way of invitation to drink. The-stranger sat down saying—“I shall not drink with you, sir. I sit be cause I do not choose to stand while I transact business. You have a nephew, I believe?” The attorney nodded assent, ‘‘He is engaged in business as a silk importer in New York?” “Yes.” “And you have endorsed for him to a very large amount?” “Yes—hut I feel safe enough about that. James is a prudent trader-and a thorough business man. I know him well. But why do you ask?” “Simply because your prudent trader and thorough business man has been gambling of late, and has utterly ruined himself. Some of his notes have not been paid, and are protested. The others will not be, for be has not the means.” ‘ ‘I don’t believe it, I have received no notice.” “You will to-day. I know, for I have bought up and hold all those notes. I come to- see if you are ready to pay without a suit,” “Perhaps. What is tho amount?” “Between sixty and seventy thousand dollars. Yon ought to know well enough.” “Why, thotismore than I am worth,” ejaculated Sharpe, starting up. “I knew that when I bought them. I can afford to lose the surplus, so I can make a beggar of you.” John Shaipe felt dismayed, for the look of hatred gleamed in the stranger’s eye showed that he would have no mer cy on his debtor; but his coolness re turned in an instant. “You have some strong motive for this,” said he. “Mere business views could do nothing that I know of to pro voke it, but this seems to be a revenge.” “Sit down again, John Sharp,” said the stranger, “and I will tell you a sto ry. It is very short, but it will explain all. The attorney-resumed his seat, and leaning on his folded arms, prepared to listen. “Some years ago,” said the stranger, “a short time before you retired from practice, you were engaged in the case of Bunbury against Ashford. The de fendant was a widow lady who had a son and daughter. She lived in a splen did mansion, which, with its accompa nying estate, had been left to the son with the provision that if he died with out providing by will, otherwise the es- state should go to his cousin, Andrew Bunbury. The son placed his mother there and travelled to South America. Among other places he visited Brazil, and roamed up the Para. While there he was captured.by a roving baud of wild natives and killed. His effects at Bio de Janeiro were in charge by the American consul, and evidence of his death sent home. His cousin brought snit for the property and gained it.— Yon, merely the lawyer in the Case, volunteered to act as the sheriff 'You went to visit and insult that lone wo man—then snffering with what was pro nounced an incurable disease. You de manded and obtained an Interview.” “All true so far, except the purpose imputed,” said Sharpe, with the ntmost coolness. “You told that woman she must leave that place, although you knew all her personal property had been exhausted by the suit, and that she was at any mo ment liable to die. You stood before her with your hand upon a copy of the writ by which she was to he disposess- ed, and while she, and her danghter, who leaned upon her chair-back and looked deprecatingly at you, pleaded for a little time, you coldly told ‘ them that the law was inexorable. This it was that hastened her death. If it had not been for the pity of your client she would have been turned out of doors' then and there. She died, and the daughter went no one knew whither.” “All of which is not true;” replied John Sharpe, as coolly as before^ •‘I have good evidence.' Your con versation was overheard by a -prying servant, and yonr client lias told me the rest. But the son was not' dead. He had been taken prisoner, but not killed. The cacique or the tribe adopted him as his son, hut still forbid Ms escape. ^ Weli,” replied Sharpe, who There he remained for years. While rat undo. , and who 1 there, in his wanderings, lie discovered helped hinaself to a second i that diamonds in considerable numbers wants so bad to Fee * were found upon a certain branch at j the head-waters of the Para. With the hope of an ultimate escape, he accumu lated a large amount of the finest of these, and kept them concealed about his person. The old cacique died child less, and the American succeeded in command of the tribe. He used his authority to make an opportunity for escape; and with his diamonds, got safe ly to Bio. From thence he came . to New York—from thence here. I am George Ashford.” John Sharpe quietly helped him self to another glass of wino and said: “I saw your father twice. I think you look like him.” “Scoundrel!” cried George, spring ing to his feet, “yon shall not mock me alwaj s. I have the power to make you a beggar, and I will exercise it.” “Possibly,” said Sharpe. “But if you do you will be sorry for it. If you are George Ashford, here is a letter for you. Your mother to the very last per sisted in the belief that you were alive and would return some day. Before she died she wrote that letter, and made, me promise to keepit for’you un til you retained. Take it aud read it.” Sharpe, fta he was speaking, had ta ken a letter from his desk, which he now handed to Ashford. He then sat down and paid close, attention to his wine, He had already drank three glasses; but his coolness was probably feigned, as he now attacked a fourth—a thing unprecedented with him, - George, in the meanwhile, read the letter through, and then over again. He then turned it, looked at the hand writing again and said; “This is a base forgery.” “Nothing of the sort, sir,” said the attorney looking through the wine glass with a self-satisfied air. “That letter was written by your mother the the day before her death. I do not know the contents. All I had to do was to seal it for her, direct it, and at her request, act as its custodian. I did so, though I never expected to deliver it to its owner.” “If this be true, where is my sister? answer that.” “Very easily answered. Y ur sister is married, and lives with her husband and a couple of fine children in an ad joining county. Her house is but a three hours’ drive, and if you don’t ob ject to riding alongside of a man yon have called ‘scoundrel’ and abused slightly, tho ‘scoundrel’ aforesaid will get out his buggy and whisk you over, at the tail of two fast horses, before night. I am always welcome there, and you will be, of course; though I shall be expected and you not.” George read the letter over again—this time with tears in his eyes. ' . . “I will go,” said he, “but I don’t be lieve a word of it.” However, before many hours, he did believe every word of it. It appeared that Bunbury had lied in the premises, and that the prying servaat had been mistaken. The cli ent had ordered Mrs. Aihford’s instant expulsion, bat Sharpe had taken the responsbility of her retaining ossession. He bad not only caused the lady to be carefully attended in her sickness, but had cheered her dying moments by promising to take care of her danghter —a promise he faithfully kept. Mary Ashford, at her own desire, had been removed from the scene of so many painful recollections to another town. There a wealthy and worthy young gentleman fell in love with her, and she, with Sharpe’s, approval, became Ms wife. Her brother found her a blooming matron, who welcomed Sharpe with almost reverential gladness, j and her newly-recovered brother with the utmost delight. As the ruin of James Sharpe had been effected by professional gamblers, paid for the work, the merchant found him self again Jn business, this time with a caution, and John Sharpe was never summoned to pay those notes. My story has no moral 'except to show the folly of judging too hastily; and no merit, may be; but the inci dents it has presented are strictly true. Cotton Wonus. It seems now that cbtton worms have made their appearance in Mississippi and Texas as well as Alabama. If is true,, their numbers as yet are not large, but the fact that they have, appeared at all and so early in the season, will canse no little uneasiness throughout the cotton belt. Fortunately the poi sons that Rave been used for their de struction, particularly Paris green, have proved effectual in the destrnci tion of the terrible pest. And to such conservative forces our planters, in time should begin to have an eye. It is. we believe the third crop of them, if left to multiply without molestation, that “plays the wild” with everything green on the stalks. In the third gen eration they. become an -innumerable' army, as destructive as the voracious locusts of the East or the terrible grass hopper of tae West, only the - cotton worms confine their destruction to their favorite—the cotton stalk.—Montgomery Adveitiser. A HAND UNTRODDEN BY MAN, THE READ STALWART- In one of Ms voyages, while Captain Tripp was master of-the bark Arctic, he reached as high as latitude 73 degrees. In 1870 Wrangel’s Land was dear of ice, and in 1871 Ms ship was within a mile of the shore of that land which no hu man being has ever stepped upon so far as history tells. This desolate island lies to the northwest of Behring’s Straits, ana nearly in latitude 74 degrees and west longitude 180 degrees. It may be aa large as Gnba, or far larger; bnt un like that tropic island, it is given over to icy desolation—and possibly to seals and polar bears. Parry, in "1827, work ing northward away to the east of this unknown land, made his way about 8 degrees farther north; and Bane went up, on the Greenland side, to about 80 degrees; but, though the Pacific side is evidently the right way for a voyage to the Pole, this latitude of 80 degrees has never been achieved in the neighbor hood of Wrangel’s Land, unless by whales, who could not land. Of this unknown land Captain Tripp saw some thing, in that favorable ice season of 1871. With the aid of a splendid glass he got a good view of the land, but was unable to see any human habitations or evidence thereof. No animal life was visible save sea-birds, that flitted in mid-air along the shore. The earth was green, no snow being visible anywhere. A coast-range is visible from the ocean, wMch resembles the coast regions along our own Pacific shore. Shrubs were plainly visible, but Captain Tripp was unable to discover any large trees or forests. Wrangel’s Land runs north west, and, so far as known, extends in definitely into regions never penetrated by man, unless it be the Esquimaux,— The Indians inhabiting that portion of Alaska bordering on the North Pole haye no traditions that any people have ever been seen on Wrangel’s Land, though they state that deer, of a varie ty unknown to Alaska, have been found on Herald Island, in the heart of the Arctic, and from which the land named can be distinctly seen. It is supposed that the animals made their way across the ice from the mainland of Wrangel’s to the island. No clothing, canoes or relics of any kind have drifted from Wrangel’s Land to Alaska, as an indi cation that another race of human be ings existed in the unexplored regions of the Arctic. Still it is believed by those sea captains who have taken close observations that the mysterious coun try alluded to is habitable. The fact that no snow was to be seen, that vege tation looked green and .vigorous, and that mountains loomed up in the dis tance, as sheltering fortress for the val leys, are so many proofs that humanity could find a foothold there. It seems that no whaling captains have ever at tempted to land on Wrangel’s Land, bnt it must be remembered that they visit the Arotic regions as business men, and not as explorers. Captain Tripp says that if the North Pole is ever to be dis covered the discovery will he made from the Pacific side, as navigators can reach many degrees farther north on the .Pa- cigc without snffering the inconveniences from climatic rigors that beset explor ers on the Atlantic. At Kotzebue Sound, at the month of Buckland river, Captain Tripp saw land 600 feet Ligh, beneath' which a stratum of ice was dis- .tinctly visible. At Point Barren the land is only about six.feet above the ice, - all beneath being a stratum of congealed water. How deep tMs stratum is re mains unknown, but it is certain that the earth has gradually formed itself non the ice. There is reason to believe that Wrangel’s Land is of like forma tion, at least along the shore. There is no telling how far the ice body extends inland as a sub-stratum. Two convicts in the Gwinnett county chain-gang ran away with a widow aud her daughter. He has turned np in Iowa, the Gib raltar of Republicanism. He is the knight of the qnilL He runs the news paper know to fame aa the Lemars Sen tinel, and taking np the text, “We are a Nation,” upon which so many of the Republican platforms and politicians are harping now-a-days, he tells ns what it means in vigorous and unmistak able language. Hear: him: “Step to the front, stalwarts, and show what it means to be a nation. “Change the name—call the nation America or Columbia.” “Then abolish the States,,’ x “The moral and political revolution that preceded the war declared this re public a nation—not an Aggregation of States.” “The war confirmed it.” “If this is a nation there are no States.” “If therq are States, then there is no nation.” “The two cannot co-exist.” “Bat this is a nation, therefore the States have ceased to exist.” “Whatever recognition the former States receive from the nation is a na tional menace.” “Therefore, States, as such, must disappear from the nation and the Na tional Legislature.” “The National Senate must either be abolished or transformed.” “The Senate is infinitely more dan- gerons to oar national existence than the mere name, United States.” “The Senate is a tangible concern, and even formidable recognition of States and of State sovereignty.” “So long as it exists in its present form it is a threat against national sov ereignty,” “The great work of Centralization, or nationalization, which is the same thing, imperatively demands the instant suppression of the State as a represen tative of equal rights.” “If we are to be a nation we must dare to be logical-and Stalwarts are log ical.” “With Grant in the White House we would show the Rebel brigadeirs what it is to be a nation.” “After abolishing or so changing the Senate that it did not represent States, we should lengthen the Presidential terms to ten years aEd let Congress elect the President.” “We would abrogate all the so- called constitutions in all the so-called States, change the names to provinces or departments, and permit them to conduct their aflairs under charters granted by the nation.” “No charter would he granted to any State that had participated in the rebel lion during the present generation,” “AH laws passed by these provinces or departments would be subject to ve to by the president and his Cabinet.” “In other words, this great republic would be a nation, with all that that implies.” TMs kind of political doctrine may sound a little odd; but, then, Iowa is a very stalwart State. Repnhlicau party thought advances no faster or farther in Iowa than in many other States, but the Iowa Republicans are an eminently plain spoken people. It will not do for more timid organs in the East to say-the Lemars Sentinel is an insignificant pa per, or that it does not represent pub lic opinion, in its section. The Sentinel is one of the ablest papers in the north west. It has long been a leader of re publican sentiment. It is the month- piece of the party. When, therefore, it proposes to blot out State lines, to re-, duce the .States to the condition of Turkish provinces, to abolish the Senate of the United States, and to make this country really a nation, it ex presses no more than the ill-concealed purposes of the republican leaders. Its aim is identical with that of the other stalwart organs; it differs from them on ly in being more logical, more coura geous and more honest.—Charleston News and Courier. ‘‘Smoko In Asjr Room You Please.’ A lady writes thus very handsomely to a Westem.Paper: * ‘Make jour home a home, and make it one in every sense of the word. My husband is a great smoker; he loves to play cards, dominos and chess; he is at perfect liberty to smoke in any room in the house, and I am always ready and willing to join him in any of the differ ent games. I endeavor in every way to be not a helpmate, bnt a companion to hicq, and the'result has been that I ie minstrel was known from one end of have and enjoy Ms—society^- T' caHriot t * ie country to the other. The same understand why women will run the risk of losing their husbands’ society and love, merely for the gratification of an over-fastidious taste. If they do not like tobacco, did they object to Ms using it during the. days of courtsMp? And if they objected and failed, then why did they marry? If men will not- give up such habits at the solicitations of their sweethearts, it is not likely that they will he persuaded out of them by their wives; therefore, I-think itjunwise for a woman to risk her happiness by quarrelling with tier husband over a ve nial fault, the existence and extent of which she knew and perfectly under- ner. stood before she took upon herself the duties of a wile.” The Origin of Dixie. Some years ago, long before the war, a very musical family by the name of Dixie lived in Worcester, Mass. One of the brotjjiefs WaiSfomDixie, we believe, decided to apply his taleqt in the negro minstrel line. EEft*sooff the'famous Dix- founder of the troupe wrote the cele brated song “Dixie’s, Land,” which at tained such popularity." It was verily the land for him, as he found in the Southern States the germs of the quaint negro song which he had brushed np and placed in liis programme. The South adopted the song and hence- al lowed this gifted minstrel of Massachu setts to give that section of the country a new name which will always stick. Many songs were adopted and section- alized in that way. Oar "own “Yankee Doodle”- was written by an^Englisbinan a3 a satire, but our ancestors picked it up and gave it a home.—Cleveland Ban- The Middle Georgia Argus says there is a young lady at Indian Springs who is so bashful that she fsstens down her window enrtains at night to keep the 1 man in the moon from seeing her. ■ PENAL COLONIES. The arrests of participants in revolu tionary movements in foreign countries has been so great in ’number that the prisons cannot retain them alL This fact and the wonderful success of Eng land’s colony in Australia, is calling the attention of all Earopean nations anew to the question of penal colonies. Aus tralia began its civilized life in 17S8, with a band of seven hundred and fifty English criminals, of the most deprav ed and dangerous character, and to nd herself of whom she adopted the sys tem. One hundred years later the country thus peopled is inviting the world to attend a universal exhibition, and to accept her hospitality. The English people were agreeably disappointed when, a short time after the first criminals were transported, they learned that the new settlers had turned over a new leaf, and had set out to establish for themselves a new home. So successful were these exiles that in very many instances after their^erm of transportation had expired they de clined to leave, and were more energet ic rivals of voluntary comers in their ef forts to achieve success. In striving to establish a reputation that would blot out the record of their past fives, many of them became the most honored and reliable men of the colony in commer cial transactions. In justice to the character and enter prise of the country, the transportation of criminals to Australia was suspended in 1840. Tho result of this action has been entirely satisfactory. The social, political and moral choract :r of Austra lia are little different from that of the mother country, and the percentage of crime is not greater than in England it self. England bos not given np the system, however, and when Australia was aban doned it was transferred to the Anda man Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The number of criminals sent there np to the present time is abont ten thou sand. The French Government; by the law of June 27, 1848, designated Lambessa, in Algeria, a penal colony, bnt it was abandoned some years ago. In May, 1854, Guiana was selected as the home for her deported aud transported crimi nals, and in Ma-cb, 1872, New Caledo nia was added to it, From 1852 to 1870 there were shipped to Guiana over nineteen thousand conyicls of both sex es. It is not reserved for Arabs and prisoners of African and Asian birth.— Two establishments the Government was compelled to abandon, because the influx of prisoners was not sufficient to repair the wastes by death and escape. There are now only four convict stations in that colony—1’ilet la mere, .Les Ilea de Saint, Kourov and St. Laurent de Maroni. At Kouroy there are produc ed, besides cereals and cotton, vast quantities of ground nuts, the oil of which is used in lighting the peniten tiaries. At Maroni, the principal set tlement, are large sugar factories^ and cane plantalions. The convicts have continually Kept the roads in repair, erected all the public buildings, made nearly all the articles they consume, and created an export trade of abont 9160,000 a year. The climate of New Caledonia is de lightful and healthy, and the popula tion is steadily and rapidly increasing; the average annual death rate is about twenty-five to the thousand. At Ya- hove there is a model fort; at the Bay of Prony a great lumber yard for getting oat ship timbers and building lumber; a camp at Faita, Faebo and Foint des Francais. I here are, or were recently, at New Galedonia, abont eight thonsand prisoners.—Cincinnati Commercial. CALIFORNIA POLITICS. The latest mails received in Wash ington from Califonia confirm the sto ry that Mr. Geo. C. Gorham is support ing the Demociatic nominee for Gov ernor in that State. Mr. Gorham it will he remembered, was Secretary of the Senate for ten years under republi can rule, and was Secretary, cf the re publican Congressional Campaign Com mittee daring the Hayes canvass, and a!°o in the canvass of last falL' He has always been classed as a stalwart-fearfer in his patty, and his present course amazes Ms Republican friends there. In explanation, Mr. Gorham says that his support of the Democratic Gubernatori al nominee in no way impairs his stand ing in the republican party in national afiairs. He says he will support the republican nominee for Congress in his district, and that ho is for either Conk ling or Grant for President, He be- lives that"ihe republican party-of Cali fornia is the friend of monopoly, and the creature of the railroad magnates who are oppressing the people of the State. As between the railroads and the people he is for the people, and as the Democratic nominee is the foe of the railroad monopolists, lie will sup port him. Ex-Governor and Ex-United States Senator Cole, another Republi can leader in California, Las taken the same course as Gorham. This news is a great damper to the Republican Cam paign Committee, and they, fear, as a result, a total defeat of their partv in California in the September elections. DEAF PEOPLE’S TROUBLES. One of the saddest features of exces sive deafness is the unhappy mental ef fect it is apt to leave on those "troubled with it.- So frequently is this tho case that it has been said that persons of morbid dispositions are peculiarly liable to this way of looking at the matter^ canse and„effect are ^transposed into something wholly different from their former selves by being deprived of the ordinary powers of hearing. This change is not difficult to under stand when one takes into .account the many trials and deprivations a human person whose hearing is greatly impair ed is called upon to bear. lie is out wardly in no way differed from other people and unless has with him at all times some ugly symbol of bis infirmi ty, like an ear trumpet, strangers can not know and friends are likely to for get that he is wanting in one of the most used powers of sense,*- Of courser, when something is said to him which he does not understand, in consequence of |,the fight careless way in wbich- the gwords are* (.uttered, or because the sounds aro lost to him in the jarring" hum of a generalJ»c onversatkm, it is easy to explain M one’s helplessness and and ask to haveja question or statement repeated. Bat to he thus perpetually acknowledging one’s weakness is exceed ingly distasteful to most persons; the more so as the confession rarely brings with it any satisfactory return. The prevailing belief of those who have not associated mnch with deaf peo ple isjthat to make them hear it is only necessary to raise the voice. This in most instances, is a complete mistake, few men,£and still fewer women,Twho are not professional vocalists, speak plainly when they speak with a load voice, and henee it often^happens that the victim of their kind effoxts is in {no way assisted in the task of understand-* ing them wMle all those who may be near are made aware of his misfor tune. - The proper way is to’^speak slowly and distinctly, for with the deaf the recognition of volume of sound exists, just as a nearsighted man has a percep tion of an object, only in one case aslin the other, .the outlines and divisions are uncertain and^confused. As this is rarely understood, those who are troub led with deafness soon find that attempt* at general social intercourse bring with them more discomfiture than pleasure, and the natural result is to force the sufferer into a kind of mental insola tion,—New York Times. BRIC-A-BRAC. A correspondent says that abroad on the Edinburgh and* GInsglow Railway, at almost every station the station-mas ter has a Btaring or parrot, so trained that whenever^ train draws^.up at the platform it commences calling out tho name of the station most distinctly, and continues to scream it ont until the train.starts. This is found an economi cal mode of informing the pasBengera where they are. The wild English Earl of Rochester, who was nevertheless^ man of genius, oncejfor a wager maintained himself roy ally as a doctor on Tower Hill and made money by some vile compound. Not only citizens and jpoor people came to the noble quack, hut his court compan ions, and it is said hi3 own countess, who consnlted for a lovephilter to re gain her husband’s affections, and -yet failed to recognize Mm under the paint and patches in disguise. Some Chinese fans are hot fans at aiL The “steel fan” is simply a bar of met al, shaped and painted to resemble aa ordinary closed fan and carried some times as a life-preserver, by the roughs, swells, mobsmen and rowdies of Chins, to be used at close quarters with mur- dnrderons effect. Of the same species is the well know “dagger fan,,” which consists of an elegant imitation in lac quer of a common folding fan, hut is really a sheaht containingjwifhin its fair exterior a deadly blade, short and sharp like a small Malay kris, A dust contractor in the days of George IV leftinstioctionBthatthe pro- cessionfollo wing him to the grave should comprise twelve boys carrying links; twelve men carrying dustman’s whips and shovels reversed; a favorite horse, provided with cloth spatterdashes; a dnst cart covered with black baize, the coffin in the cart snrmounted by a very large plume of white feathers; twahre dustmen and brick-makers as pail bear ers, all clad in wMte flannel jackets and leather breeches; the whole wound up by along string of carts filled with dust men, cinder sifters, and chimney sweep- Stcxxisg Success op Talmao*.—A Glasgow, Scotland, dispatch says the enthusiasm for Rev, Dr. Talmsge con tinues unabated. Daring the past three weeks he has let t ired to thousands, and on Snndays he has preached to tees of thousands, in St. Andrew’s Hall. To day he preached to six thousand wor shipers in the City HalL N ec f as in- may be the mother of i tion, bnt laziness is certainly the father of it.