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THE exercises of this institute will be resum
ed on Monday, January 27th, 1873.
Spring term, six months. Tuition, $2.50,
$3.50, and $5 per month, according to class—
payable half m advance..
Mrs. Hkster will continue in charge of the
Musical Department.
Board in the best families can be obtained at
from $lO to sls per month.
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THE GAZETTE.
§, gmaitl at (greats, fatlepeiitlrut ga All Shings—grrstd ©xclusirrht to the gafmsts of the Commuuitit.
New Series.
Above the Arctic Circle.
Dr. Isaac J. Hays delivered the second
of his course of lectures descriptive of his re
searches and adventures in search of the
open polar sea before a large audience in
New York recently. The glaciers and ice
bergs of Greenland were vividly described.
All the interior of Greenland, the lecturer
said, is ODe vast field of ice, which gradual
ly and imperceptibly moves downward to
wards the sea, the centre moving somewhat
more rapidly than the sides, and by the
fractures thus created, giving to the ice
those fantastic shapes which from time im
memorial have been at once the marvel and
admiration of explorers. When the glacier
reaches the sea, it passes on as before over
the inclined plain beneath the surface, until
so much of it is immersed that it is no long
er able to resist the buoyancy of the water,
and breaking from glacier, with a roar that
can be heard for miles, the iceberg rises to
the surface and floats away, sometimes as far
as the coast of Newfoundland, while the
glacier continues its ceaseless movement
downward to form new icebergs from age to
age. The masses of ice thus detached of
course vary in size, but in all of them there
is seven times as much ice under water as
appears above the surface. From the deck
of his vessel Dr. Hayes once counted as
many as 500, some as large as the hall in
which he stood, others as large as Trinity
Church, still others as large as the city ot
New York, and yet others twelve times as
large as New York. One in especial rose
317 feet above the surface, and he comput
ed its weight to have been not less than
twenty-seven billions of tons.
With regard to the miduight sun, Dr. H.
related an incident, which, had he not actu
ally witnessed it himself, might possibly
have been received with incredulity by his
audience. As he traveled northward the
days gradually lengthened, until darkness
ceased altogether, and the sun was never out
of sight. The passengcis on board the ship
were much incommoded, and were obliged
to create artificial darkness by drawing cur
tains all around them when they desired to
sleep. The dumb animals on board were in
a pitiful state of consternation; the dogs
howled unceasingly, and evinced a desire to
bay the sun. But the most remarkable ef
fect was created upon an old rooster, the
the last of tlieir stock of fowl, whose life
had been spared in consideration of his age
and consequent toughness. This venerable
bud, day after, watched the heavens, but
found no opportunity of heralding the ap
proach of day with his wonted crow. His
mind at last gave way, and one morning, in
full view of the astounded voyagers, the un
happy bird flew upon the rail tf the ship,
stretched his ncek toward the sun, and giv
ing the merest apology for a crow, sprang
into the ocean and was seeu no more.
In 1859 Dr. Hayes' first expedition sailed
northward, and breaking through the ice in
Baffin’s Bay, penetrated as far as latitude
75, this up to that time being the furthest
point ever attained by explorers. On the
icebergs which he encountered polar bears
were very numerous. These animals, he said,
are far from being the ferocious monsters
which voyagers are so tond of depicting.
They are, in fact, very timid creatures. As
an instance of their cowardice, he related
an account of his suddenly meeting one in
the middle of an arctic night, that is to say,
broad daylight. Without a moment’s hesi
tation the doctor turned and ran, never
stopping until his bre th was utterly ex
hausted j he then looked behind him to see,
as he said, how long a lease of life remained
for him, and to his unspeakable relief saw
the bear was running also, but in the opp>
site direction.
Avery perilous adventure through which
he passed during this voyage was listened to
with breathless attention. The ship was ly
ing in a large natural bay or harbor, close
to a glacier; one day a terrific roaring star
tled every one on board. An immense ice
berg had parted from the glacier, and risen
to the surface so near the ship that the first
of a succession ot waves which it created
carried the vessel, dragging her anchor, en
tirely across the bay, leaving her within a
few feet of the rocks on the opposite side.
The wave recoiling threw over the deck a
volume of water that swept before it every
thing not made fast, and forced the crew to
hold on for their lives.
Two of the finest glaciers the lecturer
saw he christened after Prof. Tyndall, in
compliment to that great scientist for bis Al
pine researches. Among the interesting fea
tures of his leeture was the exhibition of
some exqusite photographs ot Arcticscencs
reflected upon a curtain on the stage. One
of these was a gigantic rock on the coast
of Greenland, which was in all respects sim
ilar to that on which the ill-fated Atlantic
ELBERTON, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23,1873
had struck, and it was a matter of surprise
to Dr. Hayes, in view of the "nature of the
coast, that so many of the Atlantic’s passen
gers were saved. Melville bay was the high
est point reached in this expedition. In con
cluding his lecture Dr. E ayes said that this
trip might be made by any gentleman during
the summer months in bis yacht. Noble
sport could be fouod in shooting polar bears,
and the trip would be no more dangerous
than crossing the Atlantic. At the first
blush it might seem that sailing these tre
mendous glaciers and icebergs was perilous
navigation, but Tt should be borne in mbd
that at the proper season darkness never
hides them, and hence danger from this
source need scarcely be apprehended.
For the Gazette.]
READY.
Mr. Editor: I have ofttimes heard of
little souls, but never kntw their diminu
tiveness uutil 1 discovered the manifesta
tions of one in your incorporation, which is
so microscopic (if I have not erred in my
mathematical calculations) it would find as
wide expanse of water to swim across in a
mosquito’s bladder as a wiggle-tail would in
the great specific ocean. Do not ask uie
who possesses the gem, but put on your
glasses and look for yourself. Should you
fail to make the discovery, just lend me
thy ear and I will whisper the initials of the
one who has ihe dear little thing.
Ii is better that thou shouldst receive an
insult fiom thy brother than for thee to give
one unto him. But thou shouldst be slow to
do either. Let good sense govern thee in
all such matters.
Never strive to pull down thy superiors,
but ever strive to pull up thy inferiors, and
my word for it thou wilt be raised higher^
Before thou shouldst oppress the oppress
ed, theu hadst better in poverty languish
and die, lor the bed of ease bought by thy
brother’s rest is not a couch ou which thou
canst dream in sweet repose.
If thou hast not truth in thy tongue, in
dustry in thy museks, nor charity in thy
heart, thou hadst better take strychnine ana
stop thy breed, for, my word for it, the
world can do better without thee and thy
offspring than it can with thee and them.
Examine thyself, my friend, and see if thou
shouldst take a dose.
Mac., which way wilt thou ride on the
iron horse —up or down? When will we
hear the whistle? Will Gabriel blow it for
us ?
All is not gold that glitters, nor is all
flesh that sticks out behind ; for when that
something fell tho other day, and ceased to
rebound and quiver like a thing of life, I
looked, and behold, that lady's bump was
gone. As she walked from it, curiosity at
tracted me to it, and before I could decide
whether it was a canary cage or rat trap, a
boy snatched it up and exclaimed, “This is
sis’s beau-trap,” Heavens! how scared I
was; for if the thing had clasped me with its
iron bands I might have been a prisoner for
life. I was always too fruid of snakes to go
where the weeds shake. I will not be so
venturesome again.
A RAID ON MEXICO.
An article in the Advertiser of Saturday
morning, which alluded to the warlike prep
arations going on near New Orleans, has en
abled us to lay before our readers some fur
ther and interesting information.
On yesterday afternoon we received a visit
from a gentleman of our city whose atten
tion had been attracted by the article re
ferred to, and who gave us the following
items:
On Friday morning last he had an inter
view with a gentleman—late an officer of
one of the United States volunteer corps —
who had just arrived from New Orleans.
Before leaving that city he stated that he
had been approached and offered a command
in an expedition then being organized to
move on Mexico.
He was told that the advanced guard was
to be composed of five thousand men, com
posed of Texans and others, and was to be
commanded by James Longstreet, late of
the Confederate army, now of the Kellogg
militia. He was further informed that the
United States Government knew of and
sympathized with the movement, and would
aid it in every way possible. He was also
told that enlistments for tli6 purpose were
oeing made in Mobile and other points in
the Southwest, and expressed some surprise
that nothing had been done in Savaßnah.
Our informant is a gentleman of intelli
gence and reliability, and his statement is
doubtless correct in every particular.
If there is such a movement on foot, it
must be made public in a short time, and it
is nol unlikely but that the fitting out of
monitors at New Orleans, and the presence
of military men of high position in that vi
cinity, may have more significance than has
been attached to these facts. Grant may
desire to relieve h-is embarrassment at home
by gobbling up Mexico. If so he has start
ed in a bungling way. Texans, some of
them, area pretty rough and reckless set of
fellows, but they are proud and plucky.
While they might be delighted at the pros
pect of using their navy sixes andbowies on
Mexican greasers, they would hardly eonsent
to be led by James Longstreet, brigadier of
the Kelldgg-Pinchback ragamuffins.
Gen. Scott, it is said, marched to the
“halls of the Montezumas” with six thous
and muskets, but that is no reason why
James Longstreet, of the custom house
hummed could repeat the feat.
There may be something in this thing.
We allfiMf*Grant the largest margin for blun
dering obstinacy and stupidity, but wo can
that even he would hope to
capture Mexico with Janies Longstreet,
Field Marshal of the Louisiana nigger zou
aves.—[Savannah Advertiser.
PROPORTION OF CREAM.
Few persons are aware, probably, of tire
extent to which the percentage of cream is
influenced by the conditions of the cow. It
is a curious fact that any excitement to
which the animal is subj acted causes a very
large loss of cream ou the milk. At the
Barre meeting of the Massachusetts State
Board, Dr, Sturtevant of South Farming
ham, said “Under the same feed, and under
the sumo circumstances, the same cow’gfcve,
one day, nine and a half per cent of cream
aud another day eighteen per cent, of
cream.” Thereupon, Mr. Lewis, an old ex
perienced dairyman said : “I can tell a
bigger story than that. 1 have taken a
good deal of pains to test the value of my
milk that I have worked into cheese. I
have graduated glasses for the.purpose ; and
l have found a cow whose uniform percent
age of cream was eighteen per cent, reduced
to six in twelve hours —not from any change
of food, but from a little excitement. You
gentlemen who make butter, be careful to
adopt my advice and always treat your cow
kindly and gently; never get her excited,
because every ounce of excitement will take
from her milk one per cent, of cream. I
have known a cow abused by a furious, bru
tal mijkr-r. and the percentage of her cream
went down one-half. It is astonishing what
an effect excitement has on the percentage
of cream in the milk that a cow produces.—
You will he astonished if you will make the
test, and make it carefully. I have known
a cow, excited from natural causes, to drop
in her percentage of cream in her milk from
fourteen to six per cent, in twelve hours.
So I would again lepeat, whoever abuses his
cow knocks out of" bis milk a large percent
age of the cream.”
It will readily be seen how important it is
t o keep the cow quiet and from fright and
ail excitement. The worry by dogs, the
hurrying ana halloing of boys, when driving
the cows home from the pasture, the kicking
and pounding of an angry milker, or any
similar cause of excitement, will be sure to
reduce the quality of milk to the extent of
several per cent, of cream. This fact is too
well attested by many careful and experi
enced dairymen to admit of a doubt, and
the first object of concern with a butter
dairyman, especially, should be to sec that
his cows are treated with the utmost gentle
ness all the time. The boys who drive the
cows home will make a note of this, and
when the spring comes and cows go cut,
just mark what we say. — Massachusetts
Ploughman.
“How’s Tricks?” —There is a doctor in
this city who has a speaking tube leading
from the main entrance of his building to
his office, wbieh is up just a few flights.—
For several days past a smart young wag
named Swartz has amused himself by call
iug for the doctor through the pipe, ar.d
then profanely ordering him to set out on
an excursion to Tartarus. For some time
this fun was taken in good part, until the
fine humor ot the joke no longer became ap
parent. Accordingly, one afternoon, the
disciple of Esculapius provided himself with
a tea-kettle of water, heated to about 210
degrees Fahrenheit, and waited alongside
the pipe. Pretty soon the old, familiar
sound came up through the pipe—
“ Say, Doc., h w’s tricks ?”
“Tricks is better uow; I guess he’ll get
well ” responded the doctor, reaching out
after the tea kettle.
“What’s been the matter with him ?”
“He got burnt.”
“How
“I’ll tell you in a minute.”
“Oh, you go to ”
The doctor had finished his last sentence
and then let a quart of scalding water down
the pipe. Swartz had his mouth over it,
and when the water struck it he was some
what surprised. Water was apt to surprise
him, but hot water was an unexpected nov
elty.
The man above poured ia the water tor
a minute and then looked out the window.
The smart young man was getting along on
the sidewalk at a pretty lively gait, having
evidently just got up from a sitting posture.
He was trying to yell “police,” but couldn’t
articulate with much success. About half
an hour afterward he found himself able to
speak, and inquired, “Did that boiler explo
sion hurt anybody ?”
[San Francisco Chronicle.
Vol I—No. 52.
HOW A BOSTON REPORTER LOST HIS SITU
ATION.
It is said that in a moment of temporary
insanity a boston city editor assigned a horse
racing, base-ball and aquatic reporter to re
port, in half a column, the Sunday services
at the church of a sensational preacher.
This is the report he published, and for
which he wait discharged.
“The house met at 10.30 a. m. Prayer
by the chaplain*. The first race was between
the chaplain and tho singers, it being a
pretty even match the two first heats; but
the singers got the best of the last three
heats, and cumo in on the amen two full
lengths ahead, winning the last three heats
and the race. Time 5 04. Petitions were
then presented for forgiveness aud other
matters, and notice was given of special as
signments during the coming week for va
rious objects. The 6iugcrs then sailed up to
the judges stand, aud after getting into po
sition sailed away on the course with all
canvass set and a spanking breeze from the
organ, which drove them along in fine style.
The top-rigged yacht flying the blue pen
nant was well ahead at the stake, aud came
home ahead of all the fleet. The speaker
then took the floor aud announced his in
tention to ask that the resolution of censure
that had been heaped upon Annanias should
be rescinded, and proceeded to read the rec
ords of the case, from which it appeal’s that
Annanias had sold his house aud had not
given all the price to the church. The speak
er then went on to say that no reasen ap
peared on the records for Annanias to give
any, and much less all, of his piopcrty to
to the churih, and tUat hequestiooed if any
of those before him would do any more than
Annanias had in the same place. He
then went on to that Anuanias had
obeyed his wife in the matter, and expressed
the belief that few of those before him could
say as much for themselves. After further
arguments of a similar character he moved
that the character ot Annanias be and the
same is hereby declared A1 by the members
of the house.”
The Heroine of the Atlantic—An
American Girl.— -A Hallifax letter, in
reference to the Atlantic disaster, says:
“One of the romantic incidents of this terri
ble calamity has been the discovery that
one of the men, a common sailor, and one
whose life was sacrificed in efforts to save
others, was a young woman of about twenty
or twenty-five years of age. was
not known until the body was washod
ashore, and tho rude clothing removed pre
paratory for burial. She had served as a
common sailor for three voyages, and was a
favorite shipmate with all. * She is described
as having fewer of the vices incident to a
sailor’s life than is usual, but she was, nev
ertheless, as jolly an old tar as any them.
One of the survivors of tho crew, in speak
ing of her, remarked : ‘I didu’t know Bill
was a woman. lie used to take his liquor
as regular as any of us, and was always beg
ging and stealing tobacco. He was a good
fellow though, and I am sorry he was a wo
man.’ The most singular part of the whole
story is that tho woman was an American,
and was about the only one of that national
ity belonging to the crew. Who she was
and where she was lrorn, and her motive for
leading such a strange life ot hardship, nev
er was and never will be fully known.”
A Frisky Old Pair. —A remarkable
wedding took place at Tolletson, Indiana, a
day or two ago, the happy couple having
passed a collective age of one hundred and
fifty-eight years. The bride, Eliza Steiuecke
by name, was, until the event, a resident of
Chicago, and had passed her eighty-sixth
year. The bridegroom appeared as a strip
ling of seventy-two years. Eliza was mar
ried in the present century at the age ot six
teen, and has dangled a great-great-grand
child on her knees. But time has laid a
light hand upon her, aud she is yet as spry
and frisky as many a woman of forty.
At the wedding she tripped the light fan
tastic with her new consort to the liveliest
galop, and many a miss of eighteen watched
her agile motions with feelings of positive
envy. There was a large attendance at the
wedding, including deputations from all the
neighboring villages. One of the presents
was a gallon mug filled with beer. The
bride took the first swig, and then all the
women present followed her example.—
When it came to the men there was noth
ing leit.
The bridegroom filled an old-fashioned
long-stemmed pipe, took the initial whiff,
and then all the men took a long pull and
a strong pell, each in turn.
The festivities were continued until an
early hour in the morning. The couple
possess a joint capital of 84,000, and will
build themselves a nest for the coming
birds.—[Chicago Times.
A Girl Scalped by Machinery. —On
last Wednesday Julia Dunleavy, a girl aged
twelve years, employed in the Danbury
(Conn.) shirt factory, dropped a spool of
thread beaeath her bench, and reached
doitn to pick it up. Her hair, which hung
loosely down her back according to the pre
vailing fashion, caught on a setscrew to the
shaft which runs the machinery, and imme
diately commenced to coil up. The shalt
was making one hundred and twenty revo
lutions to the minute at the time. An effort
was made to stop the machinery, but was
not successful, and had it net been for the
presence ot mind ot another girl (Lizzie
Brown) the neck ot the unfortunate girl
would have been broken. Miss Brown
caught the head of the victim, and held it
while the shaft mercilessly coiled up the
hair and tore it, with a good share of the
scalp, from the head ot the screaming girl.
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The Ludicrous in Patents. —Speak-
ing of combinations, he must have come
from Missouri or Kansas who asked for a
patent for a combination of cauuon and plow.
For this purpose he filed three applications,
making the elongated handles hollow, so as
to form two cannon. These were to be
kept loaded till the guerrilus were after
him ; the guerrillas shot down, and the far
mer to go on his way rejoicing.
Another asked for a patent tor the inven
tion-ot the generation ot steam by boring a
hole into the ground till he reached the wa
ters that arc boiled by the internal fires of
earth. He set forth, among the advantages
ot his plao, that there would be no danger
of explosions, all ot which statements are ira
doubtedly true
It must have been a relative of this fast
gentleman, and one eqv.ally well acquainted
with the laws that govern the hidden heart
of this planet, who applied for a patent for
boring the earth for artesian wells for pur
poses of irrigation. He gravely set forth
that he made the discovery that quicksilver
was heavier than the common earth. Ho
therefore proposed to start a hole, and to
empty into- it a little mercury. By the laws
of nature that mercury would be sure to
work its way downward till it struck water,
and the water would then be sure to work its
way upward till it struck air.
A Tribute to the Marriage Tie,—
On this subjeet, the Daily Graphic of Sat
urday has the following ;
“Never was a higher tribute paid to the
marriage state than was given by the mar
ried mcir who were passengers on the wreck
ed Atlantic. The record of their fate is ex
tremely touching. With few exceptions,
they all perished, refusing to desert their
wives aud little ones. Wives begged their
husbands to seek flight from tho sinking
quarter-deck, but they never stirred. Hand
clasped in hand, husbands, wile and child
went down together. In the supreme mo
ment of life, wife and husband forget all
past bickerings, and lost fear of death in
the companionship of each other. They
recked uot of the opinions of the world,
while the waves swept over them and tho
horror of sudden destruction was imminent,
but were simply true to their instincts. One
such fact will outweigh volumes of argument
in favor of free love and easy divorce ”
——
Bue* t® wom a calico dress without trim
mings, it it be paid for, than lo owe the shop
keeper for the moat elegant silk, out and
trimmed in the most elegant manner.
Better to live in a log cabin all your own
than a brown stone mansion belonging to
someLody eko.
Better to walk forever than to run into
debt for a horse and carriage.
Better to sit by the pine table, for which
you paid three dollars ten years ago, than
send home an extension black walnut top
arid promise to pay for it next week.
Better to to use the old canc-seated chairs
and faded two-ply carpet, than tremble at
the bills sent home from the upholsterers for
the most elegant parlor set ever made.
Better to meet your business acquaintance
with a free, “don’t owe you a cent” smile,
than to dodge around the corner to escape a
dun.
Better to pay the street organ grinacr two
cents for music, if you must have it, than
owe for a grand piano.
Better to gaze upon bare walls than pic
tures unpaid for.
Better to eat thin soup from earthenware,
if you owe your butcher nothing, than to
dine off lamb and beef, and know that it
does not belong to you.
Mr. Charles C. Jones will publish this
month “The Antiquities of the Southern
Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes.”
“Mr. Jones,” wo are told, “is now of New
York, but was formerly of Savannah, whore
as President of the Historical Society o 4
Georgia, he achieved a solid reputation.”
His work will be very interesting to the
South. It is devoted “to a consideration of
the monuments, relics aud ancient customs
of the aboriginal population now occupying
that portion ot the United States at present
embraced within the geographical limits of
Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ten
nessee.” It will be illustrated with thirty
one plates from the original pictures ia tho
author’s collection, which have never yet
been used, and by numerous wood cuts.
[Baltimore Gazette.
Everlasting Fence Posts. —I discov
ered many years ago that wood could be
made to last longer than iron in the ground,
but thought the process so simple and inex
pensive that it was not worlh’wliile making
any stir about it. I would as soon have
poplar, basswood or quaking ash as any oth
er kind ot timber for fence posts. I have
taken out basswood posts after having set
seven years that were as sound when taken
up as when they were first put in tfco
ground Time and weather seemed to have
no effect on them. The posts can be pre
pared for less than two cents a piece. I'op
the benefit of others, I will give the recipe ;
Take boiled linse*.d oil and stir in it pulver
ized charooal to the consistency of paint.—
Put a ooat of this on the timber, and there
is not a man that will live to see it rot,--
Cor. Western Rural.