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PROFESSIONCAROS. 11. fil. JONES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, lISSRTON, GA. Special attention to the collection of claims, [ly SHANNON & WORLEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, EL.S2ERTON, GA. ILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF V the Northern Circuit and Franklin county RST'Special attention given to collections. J. S. BARNETT, ATTORNEY at law, ELBSSTOK, GA. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAY, ELBEKION, GA. JT7 ILL PRACTICE TN SUPERIOR COURTS VV ■•; i Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. ncvl7,ly A. IN HUNTER, M. ID. PRACTICING PHYSICIAN Office over tko Drug Store, ELBEMTGU, GEORGIA. NT J ILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL VV cases. [Ang22,6m 'eF;:r:ert ; ois business cards. "~Tr.T.IioWMAN & CO-, REAL ESTATE AGENTS ELIIEIITOJ GA. WJ ILL attend to the business of effecting * V ah--: purchases of REAL ESTATE 03 Agent;:, on REASONABLE TERMS. . 1 Applications should be made to T. J. BOWMAN. Scplb-tf a DagesYbuggies, J. W. A.TJTYD E 7, EET QN, R O JJCIA. W! Tll <■; (>0 D\V X )RKSIKN ! LOWEST PRICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, axd an experience OF 27 YEARS, Uc Uope| byjionest r.n-t fair dealing to compete .... any otlici- ala rm factory. Tagg; - 1 V’rr'-vfnd, 1 - $125 to $l6O IICPAIRING AND BLACKSMITHING. V.’.,; ;, done in tills line in t Very best style. Tlio Heßf Harness TERMS CASH. .1 y 22-1 v j. Mo B iRFIELB, .... • 'A r" • /■ ••- ,^r-- V->: v.■ • ,v, r ' ' a '' A, -■ ; ■... MR-riUD V... A v /u^ v, - A' , - r ' THE REAL I,IV E f TAILOR, Up-Stairs, over Swift S Arnold’s Store, ELBERTON, GEORGIA. f M il and See Him. THE ELBERTON DRUG STORE H, 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. Has always on hand a full lino of Tui’o 'Crags and Patent Medicines SIATSONERY a 13 i?■ JJl?Tttvft |7 i p \r x JbiJ\r U lVllxxi 1 Anew assortment of ■writing paper & envelopes Plain and fancy, just received, including a sup ply ct LEGAL CAP. ~ CIGARS AND TOBACCO ~ of all varieties, constantly on hand. W. C. PRESLEY, ‘harness imp, ELBERTON, GA. i\ Will make first class harness to order, war si ranted, ml at prices to suit tHe times. Will he glad to show specimens of his work I to parlies, and no harm is done if ho work is I wished. I Re pairing ID one Promptly. O. OHEDELj PRACTICAL JEWELER, h Will visit 81AII TWIT 1,?., ■•• the Ist Tuerday 7.. in September, and also court week in Septem ber, for the purpose of doing such work as the good citizens of Hart may favor him with. Or ders may be left with G. W. Seidel, Esq., tin til his arrival. August o,—-it. F. W. HOUSE l SIGH PAINTER Glacier and Grainer, •T ELBERTON, GA. Orders Sclicitcd. Satisfaction Guaranteed CBCTRAL HOTEL MRS. W. SI THOMAS, PROPRIETRESS, AUGUSTAGA ESTABLISHED 1859. IsTew Series. GONE FOR THE SUMMER, New York Era.] My wife has gone away for the sum mer and left me in full charge of the house. T like it $ haven’t had such a riin of liberty since we were married. I hope she's having a good time, for I can now exercise my rights as the head of the family. Can’t do it when she’s at home; she'll not stand It. She has rules, and makes everybody about her toe the mark. But I've got her now, and am having things my own way. This morning I came home quite early. It was 2a. m. ; I’d been to the club and got caught in a rain. For half an hour I couldn't find the key-hole, which must have got mislaid. I felt for it every where, and even got down in the yard and examined every brick, but couldn’t find it. I was in the act of called one of my neighbors, and asking him who had carried off my front door, when I hap pened to find it and got into the house. In the dark I kicked over a spittoon, but luckily didn’t get any of the tobacco juice or my boots. I hung my overcoat and umbrella on a prong of the chande lier, let them drip on the parlor carpet, went up stairs, and turned in with my boots on. I thought it wasn’t worth while to pull them off, as I would have to get up in eight or ten hours any how. If my wife had been at home, she’d have had me looking an hour for the boot-jack, and I would have lost that amount of rest, wnich my system so much needed. Besides, she’d have made me give a full account of myself, which I don’t like to do. I never did believe in praising my self. It’s better to let others speak of one’s virtue. I can now wear a shirt a week, and it’s nobody’s business. I don’t see how I ever did get along With that woman. The idea of having to put on a clean shirt, black my boots and brush up my clothes every morning is simply ridiculous. It is a miracle to me how I ever did it and attend to my other affairs. I now read the morning paper without being forced to see'anyhmpatienfrwoman standing with the one hand looking very miserable, and finally telling me she is going down town and wants that paper. Auy one, to look at the house now, would know there’s no woman about, everything is so quiet and>comfprtabie and handy. If I want toulo a little figuring, I don’t have to hunt fora pencil, or pen and ink, but I just sit down to one of the tables and do it with my finger, and there’s no body to be eternally widdinga dusting brush around my head and telling me to get out qjfcffhe way until the house is cleaned up. These are considerations that every married man should ponder over. But when we ponder and resolve, what good does it do 1 That’s the ques tion which is now agitating the Ameri can people. What good does it do? Not a bit. If these women can't have everything just their own way, they swoon off into hysterics. Asa conse quence, we have to pay a fifty dollar doe tor’s bill, and stay in the hottse all day fanning them and promising in the end “we may be happy yet,” before they show any v disposition to compromise. Our wives are petted too much. And this reminds me that mine won’t yield to any other treatment. I undertook to prescribe a more stringent remedy for her one day, but it threw her into a fit more like jitnjams than anything I know of. She broke every plate in the house over my head, and then I bad to kiss her before she would promise not to do it again. That’s what makes me say she is set in her ways. There, too, are the piano and 'guitar, which she kept going from morning un til midnight, filling the whole neighbor hood with discordant music. Both are as mute as the bird-cage which was va cated last week by a sfcrategetic move ment of the cat. The 200 pots of flowers she left me to cultivate I don’t think will produce much of a crop. They’re nearly all ripe now, and there's no sign of a flower yet. I have watered them twice since she left, but it did no good. I reckon they miss her and are pining away because she ain’t here. In this respect they do not resemble me to any alarming extent. The stove and pipe have assumed a beautiful red tint, and the pots are bringing forth a fine crop of white-look ing vegetable mold, which I haven't learned the name of, but she ll know it when she conies. The dishes don’t look quite as bright and clean as they might but the flies are bad this year, and if I were to wash them every two weeks, they wouldn’t present a respectable ap pearance. Notice to the Editor.— Please sup press that article I sent you about my Spell of Single Blessedness. The old woman has got back. A tarred rope is about one fourth Weaker than untarred white rope. Tarred hemp and manillia ropes are of about equal strength. Wire rope of the same strength as now hemp rope Will run on the same sized sheaves ; but the greater the diameter of the latter, the longer it will wear. One wire rope will usually outlast three hemp ropes. Running wire rope needs no protection ; standing rig ging should bo kept well painted or tar red. + <£?>. There was a girl at Cape May last week who weighed 800 pounds. Fact. It was four barrels of flour.—Phila. Bul letin. You’re getting along stavingly, without the cooper-atioa of any one. If you have any more like that an oz ’em. [Morristown Herald. This completes the column. ELBERTON, GA., SEPT U 1876. Z THE FATAL PRIZE FIGHT. The prize fight which occurred Thurs day morning rear Pennsville, N. J., op posite New Castle, Del., resulting in the dhath of one of the principals, was oao of the most brutal events of the kind ever known in this country. The sur roundings and details were simply shock ing. The principals were James Weeden and Phil. Coster, otherwise known as Billy Walker, and the stakes were S4OO. Both Urn pugilists wore young men, re siding in the old Southwark district, Philadelphia, from which city the con testants and over a thousand spectators departed Wednesday night cn barges and tug boats, landing early the follow ing morning on the Jersey shore, the fight beginning at half past six o’clock in the morning. Seventy-six rounds were fought, re suiting in the defeat and death of Wal ker. When fourteen rounds had been fought Sheriff George Heins, of Salem, arrived, and ordered the men to stop, but the crowd completely prevented his interference with the sport, heaping upon him a volley of abuse and compelling him, by their superior numbers, to leave the scene. It is believed that had he attempted to have exercised force ho Would have been pounded to death, if not shot down instanter. When the sheriff left round fifteen was commenced, and continued up to seventy-fifth, which was the beginning of the end. Weeden started at once and peppered Billy in the face terribly -with both hands, and he could not respond; though he had not been so weak apparently as this state of affairs would denote. His only return to Weeden’s savage work was a feeble attempt with bis left, which landed on Weeden’s right should er. Then they clinched and Weeden gave Walker the back heel and fell on him, the crack as ho struck the ground seeming like that of a whip. Walker looked very stupid as he was roughly taken to his corner by his seconds. His face up to this time had not looked so terribly bad, but suddenly it seemed to grow shapeless and became badly dis colored. His eyes had been nearly ed and, his lips greatly swollen, and his left cheek was in a poor plight, but nov/ they were all much worse. Weeden showed the cut under his right eye, the gash over his nose or rather to the right of it, his damaged car and his lumpy left face, but it was not discolored to any extent. At the end of this round Wee den’s friends were wild with joy. On the 76th and last round Walker had not recovered from the fall and pun ishment of the last round, and he came up staggering. To show his bewildered state his hands were open and hanging by his ride, though instinctively he clutched them for an instant, but did not bring them into position. He should not have been sent up s by his seconds in this terrible condition. Weeden, per ceiving bis plight, rushed at him with Lis whole might, smashed him with his right and loft with the force of cannon balls, -and, then catching him, flung him down and again fell on him with his full weight. A cry went up to heaven from the more tender-hearted at the cruel exhibition, while Weeden’s friends cheered him until they were hoarse. Referee Gorrn ley called ‘“time” for the next round and Weeden responded, but poor Walker still lay on the ground anti was insensi ble, wholly oblivious of where he was and what he had been doing. So Collyer threw up the sponge in token of defeat, and then Madden and he picking up the still insensible Billy, laid him in some brush wood, awaiting his return to con sciousness. It was now fifty five min utes past eight, the fight lasting just two hours. ♦ • SHE KNEW THE BEAST. “You see this boss, don't you ?” called out a woman about forty years of age, as she drove up to a Grand River Avenue blacksmith shop yesterday. The Smith came out and replied that his sight was good. “I want a shoe on that hind foot right at once,” she continued, and she jumped down and had the horse almost out of the wagon before the smith readied the curbstone. She led the beast into the shop, sat down on the bench and pre pared to take a smoke, and as the black smith took down the shoe she observed, “No fooling, now. I want that shoe to stick to that foot for a whole year. You can’t impose on mo ’canse I’m a -wo man.” After the hoof had been prepared the horse suddenly became restive, dancing around and bothering the shoer so that he could not proceed. “Toll don't seem to have had any ex perience with horses,” remarked the wo man, as she rose up and laid her pipe aside. “I know this beast from Ban’l to Bersheba, and yon jist git back a little.” The smith retreatod a few feet and the woman caught the horse by the bits, gave him a two-hundred-pound kick in the ribs and yelled : “Whoa! Charles Henry—git around there—stand over and take that— and this—and somo more 1 Now come up and toe the mark!” Charles Henry kicked the anvil off the block as she kicked his ribs, but she kicked the hardest, and when the horse shoer stuck his head into the shop, the horse was half over a bench, but as quiet as a lamb. “Now, purceod,” said the woman, as she picked up her pipe. When a boss goes to fooling around me and aching for a row, he’s laying up sorrow for bis gray hairs ! ’ —[Detroit Free Pixc-ss. WAITING FOR THE STAGE. [From tlie YAemitc Correspondence of the '-Louisville Courier-Journal.] We were fill sitting oh the veranda telling jokes and conundrums the other evening while we waited for the evening stage, whose passengers we always view with interest. Mr. Winslow told a yarn of appdmii'J9e editor that was not bad. In Ciamu.tali he was met by newsboys yelling, “Here's your Courier!, Take a paper, air! “Go off! I make those papers,” ho said, annoyed. “Come along. Bill,” sung the boy at the top of his voice, “that’s the reason we can’t sell ’em.” Mr. Strouch told of a story he once heard of Nc-ifie Butler, who was visiting at a house where he was given a Turkish pipe, called hookah, to smoke. When the smoke wreaths were curling thick about the room the professor suddenly propounded the theory, “Why is this pipe like a cow ?” The answer heintend was. “Because it is a hooker.” He was astonished to receive the prompt reply, “Because there is a calf sucking it.” Mrs. Tarbox related a witty retort of Robert Brockenridge, the doctor, to Poinda*ter| a lawyer. Breckenridge, speaking mirthfully of his profession, said: “Yoff know the fool of the-family is always made a doctor.” Poindexter, I’’bowing 1 ’’bowing his head in the direction of the doctor said pointedly: “Yes, i never have know an txiv; Ron.” After tho laugh had subsided, Breck onridge,- bosriug in like manner to the lawyer, saij£ with a slight pointing ges ture in hi*direction, “I haye.” Whiigthe laugh at this sally was con vulsing XiXparty I suddenly thought of a letter jMpy had intended to write to a Poind and I asked her abruptly if she had; written; “No,’ r said she. “Why not ?" I persisted. “Because, like the Irishman, I have changed ujjy placae of residence, raid don’t know whejre a.lcUer might reach her.” GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNGTUA. w: -1 W. W/yL,' thegegrrespondent of the vtmri. Tfopcr date of the 6th, writing frd'h’tlm White Sulphur Springs, says';- Perhaps in no comj a-y of its size'can be found more old West Pointers and army officers th in arc now seated around the fire here to-night. Ti. intelligence of the death of Adjutant General Rich ardson was received with great sorrow in this circle. The importance of an Ad jutant General in Virginia has been eon ceded. Someone asked Gen : N Joseph E. Johnston, who is her , if ne would take the place of Adjutant General of the State, and I learn thal ’ replied that be would gladly take it, rod further said that he was very anxious to get hack to his native and beloved State, Virginia. This intelligence was soon known, and 1 learn that it has already reached Virginia. To have Lee’s great lieutenant at the head of the volunteer military of the State, would ba to make that force supe rior to any other. The last of that trio of splendid sol diers, Lee, Jackson and Johnston, I can imagine the enthusiasm his very presence would create at the head of the Virginia boys, as the military instructor and dis ciplinarian of the sons, of his old sol diers. I can imagine the sudden filling up of the ranks, the new awakening of the military ardor all over the State among the young men; the crowds of battered old soldiers who, with tear twinkling eyes and voices hoarse with emotion, will thank God that the old hero, grey-haired and grand as he is, the picture and quintescence of the soldiers' ideal, the pine tree standing alone and arrow like in the forest, that band of Virginians will thank God that their old commander is restored to his proper sphere. It will be anew ora in the mil itary history of Virginia. It seems to bo the general opinion that his Excellen cy, Governor Kemper will honor the State and himself by conferring this slight token upon the old leader; that the Legislature would u nimously rati fy such action, there can ba no doubt. i.. Gen. Jeff Thompson, whose death we i announced yesterday, was born at Har per’s Ferry, Virginia, in 2 826, and about Lis twentieth year he v . i engaged as a, civil engineer on the Hannibal and St. Joe railroad. He was afterward mayor of St. Joe. His career, a the command er of an entirely indepan; mt brigade of cavalry during the war is well known. He was the very personification of ec centricity. After the wnv lie resided in Louisiana,' where he accepted office frefti the dominant party, He had been in feeble health for several months, and his death was not entirely unexpected. i,— A curious calculation has been made in the printing office of Paris newspa per. Assuming that r. ■ compositor handles 24,000 letters i Ay, and that his hand moves one fo >t ■ each letter in taking and setting th ,io, it will be seen that his hand trav* ' . >OO feet, or nearly ten miles a day, and in the course of the year, including ‘- \ -g, travels fully the distance -from : to New York. The third congressional district eon vention was in session man forty minutes. They met, o.\t. I noun-' Dated Phil Cook by an w in ions rising vote with great enthusiasm, and ad journed. He who would in business rise, mast either bust or advertise. Yol. V.-No. Si. THE SCIENCE 0E PHRENOLOGY. They had a lecture on phrenology in Norristown last week by a traveling pro fessor of that science, and part of it was quite entertaining. He had on the stand several plaster heads mapped out in town lots, and after he explained what they meant he invited persons in the audience to come up and let him fetl their bumps and explain their characters. Several times lie Lit pretty accurately, and excited fa considerable amount of applause, but after a while old D. step ped up for examination. He is an absent minded man, and he wears a wig. "While dressing himself be fore coming to the lecture he had plac ed the wig on the bureau and aecident |ly tossed his plug of tobacco in it j When he put the wig on it was just like | him nt t to notice the plug, and so when i he mounted the platform he had a lump j just over his bump of combativeness as big as half a hen’s egg. The piofessor fingered about a while over D.’s head, and then said : “We have here a some what remarkable skull. The perceptive faculties somewhat strongly developed ; reflective faculties quite good: ideality large ; reference so great as to be un usual, and benevolence very prominent. SocretiveEcss is small, and the subject, therefore, is a man of candor and frank ness ; he communicates what ho knows freely. We have, also,” said the pro fessor, still plowing liis fingers through D.’s hair,” inquisitiveness not large, the subject is not a grasping, avaricious man ; ho lives liberally, lie—he—he—. Why it can’t be! Yes. Why, what in the—! Munificent Moses! that’s the most awful development of combativcncss I ever heard of! Are you a prize fighter, oh i" “Brize-fighter?" exclaimed D. “Why, what do you mean “Never been a soldier or pirate, or any thing like that ?” “You certainly must he crazy.” “Ain’t you fond of going into scrim mages and rows, and hammering people?” “Certainly not,” answered D., indig nantly. “Well, sir, then your aro untrue to your nature. The way your head’s built qualifies you, I should say, in a special manner, as a knocker-down and dragger cut. If you want to fulfil your mission you will devote the remainer of your fife to battering up your fellow man end keeping yourself in one interminable and eternal muss. Ybu’vo got the awfulest l ump that ever decorated a human skull. It’s phenomenal. What’ll you take for your head when you die ? Gentlemen, this man is liable at any moment to com mence raging around this community like a wildcat, banging you with a club or anything that comes Lundy. It isn’t safe for him to bo at largo.” Then D. put his hand up to feel the bump, and lie noticed the tobacco. He pulled off his wig, and there was the plug sticking behind bis left ear. Then the Professor looked at it a moment in confusion, and said: “Ladies and gentlemen, we will now— the lecture is—that is—l have no more. Boy, turn out those lights.” Then the audience lauuged, and D. put on his wig, and the professor started to catch the late train. The science of phrenology is not as popular in Norristown as it was, and D. still remains peaceable. [Philadelphia Bulletin. - <aaz> * The Washington National Republican contains the following editorial . “Is it not remarkable that the first tremor or doubt of Republican success in Ohio and Indiana to corao to us from any politician off sufficient prominence to deserve consideration should reach us, privately, of course, from Carl Schurz. This man has declared his Republican truths. If wo aro to have prophets of disaster, his lips should by all means remain closed. The Star in reply to the above, published the following: “A report is in circulation that Carl Schurz has written to Ja friend in Washington, a prominent Republican, that the Ger man vote of Ohio is almost solid for Tilden, and that unless energetic meas ures aro taken to effect change of i pin ion in that clement, Ohio will certainly go Democratic. As clilligeut inquiry has failed to develop who the prominent Republican is that received the letter, and as it would seem to be a trifle un likely that a prominent Republican would divulge the contents of a letter mak ing such damaging admissions, it will perhaps bo well enough to wait for more definite information before placing Ohio in the Democratic column on the Strength of the fact by Carl Schurz. In explanation of Carl Schurz’s pro phecies that Indiana and Ohio will go Democratic on account of a defection in the German i ote, it is asserted ho has been requested by competent authority in the Republican campaign committee either to change the tenor of his speeches or to withdraw from the canvass. This request was based upon the fact that his speeches refer ’to this timo and have been confined to tbo discussion ol the civil service question, and that for this grand work ho has resolved to assault in most unqualified terms President i Grant’s administration. As soon as | Mr. Schurz received this intimation or j request, ho became, as it is claimed, somewhat lukewarm, and the charge is directly made that he has made over taros to the Democracy. ♦ * “A Miss Post is Urn reigning beauty at Newport, and the young men want to ] tie to her” This is generally the fate ; of a rail pretty girl, and she has no do- i fence THE OAYE OF DEATH. ' From the Lexington (Mo.) Intelligencer.] | About fifty years ago a greater portion :of the South and West was but wilder | neks. Even in those States tnftt were more or less populated, there were great sections of tho country where there could not be seen any sign of habitation. Away clown in Mississippi there was a scope of conn try, about 100 miles across consisting of a swampy, wild ancldeso late country, then known as the Tucka paw country, in which was no settle ment, and across which was a regular road of travel. Now, in these old-times there was a great amount of traffic and trade between New Orleans and tho Lower Mississippi, and all the upper country mule traders from Kentucky and Illinois would drive mules and , horses and sell them to Southern plan ters and return by land. Flat-boats by tho hundred, from all the upper country, ! from Ohio to tho Rocky Mountains, ! could be seen descending the Mississip ! pi laden with the most valuable produc j the country could afford. The merry boatman made the forest resound witn his song and revelry. When they land jed at New Orleans, and disposed of I their valuable cargo, they would buy a plug of a mule or “mustang," on which ; they would take their homeward course, I sometimes aloiie, sometimes in squads | of from two to six. ; About half way across this wilderness road, a man by the name of Cregol had located, and built a house for tbo pur ! pose of a stopping placo for travelers, j This place was known by every Southern ; trader, and with Cregol they all had to stop, and they were glad to share his hospitality. In the Course time of the country be came settled. Old Cregol had become immensely rich ; bo waS growing old, but was halo and stout. Not far from the house was a cavo in tho hillside which had never been explored. In fact, no one had ever entered its mouth, as was known. Now, this cavo became an ob ject of interest. Iho dogs, for miles, around would collect at its entrance, and create the most hideous sounds by their unearthly howling. Night and day would these poor creatures keep liji their mournful song. Every person, men women and child ren, for miles, would como tosoothis sad sight. But it was noticed that old Cregol did not go to see this thing. Why did not Cregol gc ? His neigh bors insisted that he should go. No sooner did ho como in sight than t$G dogs, with one accord, which had, here to fore, been perfectly submissive, mo lesting no one, and any one could walk among them, and they would only howl, with teeth grinning, and bristles up, rushed-at him as though they would not let him como near. At length it was resolved to explore the cave, and upon a sot day the neigh bors met for that purpose, and with blazing torches groped their way a short distance on their hands and knees, until they entered, what appeared to boa largo chamber. Thej rose to their feet and, with torches lifted higher, begap to peer through tho darkness. The first object they saw was a blue coat hanging against tho wall of tho cavo. This coat was of tho old French stylo ; mado of blue cloth with brass buttons. Upon passing further on, scores of skele tons were seen, scattered in every diroc ton. Human skeletons, wjj.h clothing of every description hanging to them which the wolves had torn to pieces. Among tho party of explorers writ! a young doctor, -who lived in tho neigh borhood, As soon as the party emerged from the cave, the dogs, apparently sat isfied, ceased then- bowlings and dis persed. That night a negro came for tho young doctor. The dogs had col lected at old Cregol’s and commenced howling. Cregol was seized with spasms, and the negro rushed for the doctor. The next morning, while tho doctor was siting by Crogol’s bed, who was in a deep stupor, the door suddenly flow open, and a tall man, with dark com plexion, wearing the identical coat which the doctor had seen in tlio cavo tho day before entered and passodquick ly and noisolessly through tfle room. Boor Cregol, when tho man entered; rose quickly in bed, and gazed with a wild maniacal stare at him until ho passed out of sight, and then fell back— dead. He had murdered these men for thoir money, and that’s how ho got his wealth. “Suppose, Bello,” said a poor but hon est Chicago youth to a Prairie-avenue girl one day, “suppose that a young man loved you dearly—very dearly—but was afraid to ask you to marry him, may be because he was very timid or felt too poor, or something, what would you think of such a case?” “Think ?” an swered tho girl immediately, “why, if ho was poor I should think that he Was do ing just right in keeping still about it.” The question was dropped right there. A gentleman who had married a se cond time indulged in recurring too of : ten in conversation to tlio beauties and virtues of his first consort. He had, however, barely discernment enough to discover that tlio subject was not an agreeable one to bis present lady. “Excuse me, madam,” said he, “I cannot help expressing my regrets fdr the dear deceased.” “Upon my honor,” said tho lady, “I can most heartily affirm that I am as sincere a mourner for her as you can be.” <gg> +—— - - He bought a cheap coat, and lie ob served next day that it was mado of two kinds of clotb, or else it had faded from sorno previous wear or tear. Ho went to tlio dealer with fire in liis eyes. Tho dealer looked at tlio garment without surprise, and at the Wearer with extreme wonder. “Vy, mine gootness!” ho said, •‘you been wear do goat in do sun ! You dink him mate of shoot iron, boy !” Robert .Browning call3 the British re viewers “chimney-sweeps” in his now poem. When they line at him he had a brush with them and they didn't soot