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PROFESSIONAL CARDS. R. 11. JONES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTGN, GA. Special attention to the collection of claims, [ly SHANNON & WORLEY, ATT OENEYS AT LAW, ELRERTON, GA. W" ILL PRACTICE IX TIIE COURTS OF the Northern Circuitand Franklin county g@“Special attention given to collections. J. S. BARXETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HLBBRTGK, GA. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBEKTON, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. nevl7,ly A. E- HUNTER, M. ID. PRACTICING PHY SICIAN Office over the Drug store, ELRERTON, GEORGIA. WILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL cases. [Ang22,6m ELRERTON BUSINESS CARDS. L!GHfCARRifIGES&^BUGGIES. J. F. AULD Carriage Manufact’r ELRERTON, GEORGIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST PRICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE OE 27 YEARS, He hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete any other manufactory. Good Buggies, warranted, - $126 to $l6O R EPAIRING AND BLACKSAIITHING. Work done in this line in t very best style. The Best Harness TERMS CASH. My 2 2-1 v J. M. BARFIELD, the heal live Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store, ELRERTON, GEORGIA. SSTCaII and See Him. T. M. SWIFT. J. K. SWIFT. TIIOS. M. SWIFT & CO., Dealers in HUM MIMl! At the old stand of Swift & A'rnold, BLBBRTGS, GA. TD ESPECTFTLLY SOLICIT A CONTINU AL ance of the patronage hitherto awarded lie hotis , promising every effort on their part to merit the same. jan.s THE ELBERTON DRUG STORE H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. Has always on hand a full line of Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines Makes a specialty of STATION RY A ™ PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES Plain and fancy, just received, including a sup ply ot LEGAL CAP. CIGARS AND TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. NEW STORE! NEW GOODS! I. G. SWIFT, Will keep on hand FLOUR, MEAT, LARD. SUGAR, COF FEE, HAMS, CHEESE, CAN NED GOODS, &c.&c. And other articles usually kept in a first-class Provision Store, which will be sold Cheap for CASK and Cash Only. F. W. JACOBS, HOUSE & SIGH PAINTER Glazier and Grainer, ELBERTON, GA. Orders Solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed. CENTRAL HOTEL MRS. W. M THOMAS, PROPRIETRESS, AUGUSTA GA SEND 25e. to G P. ROWELL & CO., New York for Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing lists of 3,000 newspapers and estimates showing eost of advertising. Iy THE GAZETTE. New Series. A BAPTIST BROTHER GIVES HIS OPIN ION ABOUT THE PRESBYTERIANS. A lady correspondent of the ‘'lndependent” gives a sketch of a sermon she heard in Geor gia nearly a half a century ago, from which we give an extract: The preacher was apparently about fifty years of age, large, muscular and well proportioned. On entering the pulpit he took off his coat and hung it on a nail behind him, then opened his collar and wristbands, and wiped the perspira tion from his face, neck and hands. He was clad in striped cotton home-pun, and Ins shirt was of the same material. lie had traveled several miles that morning, and seemed almost overcome by the heat. But the b ethren sung a couple of hymns while he was fanning and cooling off', and when he rose he looked com fortable and good-natured. He preached there once or twice before, but to most of the audience he was a stranger. Hence he thought it necessary to announce himself, which he did as “Old Club Ax Davis, from Scriven county, a Half-Hard and Half-Soft Shell Baptist.” “I have given myself that name,” said he, “because I believe the Lord elected me, from all eternity, to go ahead in the backwoods and grub out a path and blaze the way for other men to follow. After the thickest of it is cut away, a good warm Methodist brother will come along and take my trail, and make things a little smoother and a good deal nicer. And after all the underbrush is cleared out and the owls and wolves a skeered back, and rattlesnakes is killed off, a Presbyterian brother, in black broadcloth and white cravat, will come along and cry for decency and order. And tbey’li both do good in their spere. I don’t despise a larnt man, even when he don’t dress and think as I do You couldn’t pay me enough to wear broadcloth, summer nor winter, and you couldn’t pay a Presbyterian brother enough to go without it in dog-days. “God didn’t make us all like, my brethren ; but every man has his own spere. When |God has a place to fill, he makes a man and puts him in it When lie wanted General Jackson, he made him, and set him to fightin’ Injuns and the English ; when he wanted George Whitfield, he made him tor to blow the gospel trumpet as no other men ever blowed it; and when he wanted Old Club Ax Davis, he made him, and set him to grubbin’ in the backwoods. “But my shell isn’t so hard but I can see good pints in everybody; and as for the Presbyterians, they are a long way a head of us Baptists and Methodist in some things. They raise their chil dren better than any people on the face of the earth. Only a lew days ago a Methodist class leader said to me ‘Brother Club Ax, I was born a Methodist, 1 was raised a Methodist, and by the grace of God 1 hope to die a Methodist; but, thank God, I’ve got a Presbyterian wife to raise my children.’ And I believe, my brethren, if the Lord should open the way for me to marry agin, I’d try my best to find a Presbyterian wo man, and run my chances of breakup her into the saving doctrines of feet-washin’ aad immer sion afterward ” Just at this point he was interrupted by two spotted hounds that had been continually run ning up and down the puipit-stair. One of them jumped upon the seat and began to knaw his coat tail, in which was something he had brought along for lunch. Hu turned slowly around and took him by the ears and tail and threw him out of the window behind him,, as easily as if it had been a young kitten. The other took warning, and got out as rapidly asjpos sible, though not without howling and yelping as if it had been half killed. He then turned to the audience, and said, smilingly : “St. Paul exhorted the brethren to ‘Beware of dogs.’ I wonder what lie would do if he were in my place this morning. It appears that lam ‘com passed about with dugs,’ as David says lie was.” He had scarcely commenced preaching again before there was a terrible squealing and kick ing among the mules and horses that were tied to trees close bv- He put his head out of the window, and said : “No harm done, niv brethren. Just a creatur with a side-saddle on has'broken loose. Will some brother head the animal, for no sister can walk home this hot day.” Quiet being restored be continued : “Well, my bre liren, I will now try to say what I allowed to about the Presbyterians. “As 1 said before, they raise their children a heap better than we do. They behave better in church, and keep Sunday better, and read the Bible and learn the Catechism better than ours do. I declare, my brethren, their children are larnt that Westminster Catechism by the time they can begin to talk plain. “It ain’t three weeks since I was out a cat'lo huntirP—for two of my yearlin’s hau strayed off —and I stopped in at old brother Harkey’s, on Mud Creek, and took dinner. He’s a deacon in the Presbyterian church over thar. Well, ns true as 1 stand here, my brethren, sister Harkey had her little gal-a-standiu’ right before her, with toes just even with the crack o’ the floor, and her hands was a bangin’ down by her side, and her mouth turned up like a chicken when it drinks, und she was puttin’ this question to her out o’ that Catechism : “‘What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?’ “Now, the question itself was enough to break the child down. But when she had to be gin to say that question all over (for that’s the way it was in the book) ami ilien hitch the an swer to it, and which, all put together, made this : ‘The benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification are peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and per severance therein to the end.’ I thought the child the greatest wonder I had ever seen in all my life. She tuck it right through, too, with out balkin’ or missin’ the first word. And she spoke so sweet and she looked so like a little angel, that before I knew it the tears was a run ning’ down ray cheeks as bigas buck-shot. I’ve seen the day when 1 could have mat.ld and split a thousan’ rails quicker and easier than I could learnt that tiling, and said it off like she did. “Now, my brethren, that child didn’t under stand or know the meanin’ of one word o’ that. It put me up to all I knew to take it in myself. But just let that Presbyterian young un grow up, and every word ot that Catechism will cotue back to her, and her character will stiffen up under it, and she’ll have the backbone of the matter in her for life. “Now, I can’t put thingsinto my children that way. Nothin’ don't stay, somehow. It’s like drivin’ a nail into a rotten log,” This last remark I never forgot. For thirty years afterward, as would I stand at the black board trying to fix rules and principles in the mind of a dull pupil, this remark would come back to me with its peculiar pertinency. “I tell you, my' brethren, lie continued, “if our children had a little more Catechism, and the Presbyterians a little less, it would be better for both. ESTABLISHED 1859. ELBERTON, GA., OCT’M 25, 1876. “Then we don’t pray in our fanrlies like they i do. I know their prayers are mighty long, and they pray all over creation : but, after all, it’s the right w-ay. It’s better than prayin’ too little “Now, my father and mother was good Bap tists, and raised their children to be honest and ondustrious; but I never heard one of them iray in my life, and I was most a grown man pef'ore I ever prayed a prayer myself, and it was I bn this wise : “There was to be a big meetin’ over in Elbert | county, and I knowed a pretty gal over thar that ; I wanted to go to see. So I borrowed a little ! Jersey wagin’ which was a stylish thing in them | days and went over to her house and stayed all j night, and engaged her io ride to meetin’ with i me next day, which was Sunday. ; “We went and had a glorious time—and I j may as well say right here that she was aftei j ward my wife—but a cornin’ home I met with a ] powerful accident that I've never got over to ! this day. As i was a cornin’ down a hill, some part of the glarin’ gave way and let me and the wagin on my creator's heels ; and bein’ young skeery and not much used to W'heels, she w rig gled and kicked and tore from one side of the I road to the other, till I was pitched as much as ten foot, into a deep gully, and it’s a miracle of mercy that my neck wasn’t broke on the spot. “Expectin' to be killed every miuit, I thought I ought to ask the Lord for mercy. But, as I had never prayed in all my life, I'couldn’t think of the first thing to say but the blessin’ my fa'lier used to ask before eatin’ when we Lad company, and which was this : -Lord, make us thankful for what we’re about to receive.’ “Now, nay brethren, do you ’spose any Pres byterian boy was ever put to such a strait as that for a prayer? No. He would have prayed for himself and gone off' after the Jews and the heathens, while I was a huntin’ up and a-getiu’ off that blessin’.” THE CIRCUMSTANCES ABOUT COOLEY’S CAT. San Francisco Call ] There came a bigexcitement over at Cooley’s, on Tuesd y, about their cat. They heard the cat howling and scratching somewhere around the house for two or tliiee days, but the}’ could not find her. Cooley use to get up at night fairly maddened with the noise, and heave things out of the hack window at random, hoping to hit her and discourage her. But she never seemed to mind them, and although eventually he fired off pretty nearly every movable thing in the house, except the piano, she continued to shriek and scream in a manner that was simply appalling. At last, on Tuesday, Cooley made a critical examination of the premises, and, guided by the noise, he finally located the cat in the tin water spout, which descends the north wall ot the house. He thinks the cat must have been skylarking on Hie roof some dark night, and accidentally dropped into the spout. Cooley tried to shake her down by hammer ing on the spout with a stick ; but the more he pounded the louder she yelled,and tlie two noises roused the entire neighborhood, and attracted’ the attention of the police. Then he procured a clothes-prop, and ascending to the roof, he endeavored to push the animal out. But the stick was not long enough to reach her. All it was good for was to make her howl mote loudly, and it did that. At last Cooley concluded to take the spout down and coax the cat out. When lie got it on the ground he peeped in at the end, and could see the animal’s eyes shining like balls of fire far back in tlie darkness of the hole. After shaking her up for a while without inducing her to move, he made up his mind that -he must be jammed in the pipe and unable to budge. Ho wanted to cut the pipe open, but Aleck Jones said it would be a pity to spoil such a good spout for a mere cat. do Cooley finally determined to blow her out with powder, lie procured a small charge, and pushing it pretty well in with a stick, he ••tamp ed'’ the end of the spout with clay and lighted the slow match. Two minutes later there was an explosion, and the tamping clay flew out and struck Aleck Jones v ith sonic violence in the stomach, curling him up in the grass flat by the pump. When he recovered his breath lie got up and said: ••Hang your old cat! It’s an outrage for you to be endangering the lives of people with your diabolical schemes for getting at a beast that ought to have been killed long ago.” Then Aleck sullenly got over the fence and went home, and tlie cat meanwhile kept up a yowling that made every body’s hair stand on end. Cooley- said lie made a mistake in not placing tlie butt of the spout against something solid. „vnd so, after put ing in a couple of pounds of powder, he turned the spout up and rested the end upon the ground, proping itagiinst tlie pump. Tiienjhe lighted the slow match and the crowd scattered There was a‘loud explosion, a geneiai di.-.tribution ot fragments of tin around the yard, and then out from the uper-end of the spout there sailed something biack. It ascended, it went higher and higher, and higher, until it was a mere speck. Then it came sailing down,down, down, until it struck the earth, It was the cat. singed off', burned to a crisp, looking as if it had been spending the summer in Vesuvius, but apparent ly still active and hearty, for as soon as it alighted it set up a wild, unearthly screech and darted off' for the woodshed, where it countinued to,howl until Cooley went in and killed it with his shot gun. It cost him S4O for his new spout, but he says he doesn’t grudge the money, now that he has stopped that fiendish noise. PLAYING WITH FIRE. If the Republican leaders Lave not lost their senses they will make haste to warn Governor Chamberlain, of South I Carolina. He is playing with lire. He I is evidently stilling up trouble in order I that he may have an excuse for calling J on the Federal Goverment to interfere |in the election. Fortunately this is a | trick which has been played so often in j Louisiana, in Mississippi, in Alabama, and elsewhere in the South, that it is now understood in the North and if the Northern Republican leaders are base enough to play in Chamberlain s hands to allow him to use them for his pur poses, in the hope that his victory will help them—if they do this they will be tween now and November cause a revo lution in public sentiment against them all through the Northern States. This is not Mexico. The war ceased eleven years ago ; and all sensible men in the North believe that it is now time to let the Southeni States manage their own affairs, and believe this because they see that wherever Federal interfence has not been caused peace has come at once -New York Herald. Something about dogs—fleas. SAREPTA ASSOCIATION. We are indebted to brother W. C. Howard, the excellent and beloved clerk of this Association, for additional facts to those given in our last issue, relative to the proceeding^of tlie meeting of this venerable body. The session held at Candler’s Cieek church, Jackson county, on the 2Gth, 27th and 28th ult., was the 77th anniversary, the Association hav ing been organized in 1799. W. B. J. Hadman, Harmony Grove, was elected Moderator, and brother Howard, clerk. The high estimate in which brother H. is held by his brethren is shown by tiie fact that he lias been elected to this responsible office continu ously since the session at Hartwell, in 18G8. The session was very well attended Oy dele gates, visitors and the people generally, from the surrounding country. Avery good Chris tian spirit prevailed among the brethren. The membership agregates about 4,979. Of this number, only 250 are blacks. There are forty—one churches regularly repre sented in the body. These are located in Elbert, Oglethorpe, Madison, Hart, Banks and Jackson counties. Tlie extent of territory is about sixty milc-s in length, and about forty in width. Three hundred and fifty—two persons were baptised within tlie bounds of the Association during the past year. Interest was manifested in Mission and Sab bath-school work, and the temperance cause was commended and encouraged. The Association resolved to contribute to tlie education of two young men in its bounds, who arc impressed to preach, and who need aid in procuring the education needed to fit them fora successful prosecution of tlie holy calling. [’lodges were obtained at the meeting amount ing to $135, and bale of cotton tor this purpose. The names of these young men arc .T. J. Beck and James Willis, of Elbert county. Brother Thos. B. Moss, the very efficient Treasurer of the Association, wlto lives at Lexington, Ogle thorpe county, and who is one of the foremost educators in Georgia, is to be their preceptor. The next meeting ot the Association will bo held at Sardis, Hart county, five miles east of Hait well, beginning on Friday before the fourth Sab bath in September, 1877.—[Index. NO OCCUPATION--A GRAVE MISTAKE. We recently read a sad letter from an ambitious young man. He had been unfortunate, in some respects; but life lay before him and he was ambitious; be experienced, however, a double mis fortune, in this world in which there is so much to do, from not knowing how to do anything. “My father,” he wrote “did not think it worth while for me to to |earn any trade or business.” He had been thrown on his own resources, and although now a man in stature and years, he was a mere infant in his ca pacity to et rn a living. ''"How awkward ! What a misfortune ! Yet such cases frequently come under our observation ; and they lead us to look upon the culpability as very great of any parent who brings up a sc n with out having him practically and thor oughly instruted in some way of earning an honest living. Every man should have some profes sion or trade ; should know how to do something, then, whether he steadfastly pursues it not, he at least has an oc cupation to which, in an emergency, he may resort for the support of himself and others who may be dependent upon him. A pratical knownothing is greatly to be pitied in this practical world.—Led ger. CHEATING THE DEVIL. “Cheating the Devil” was the subject of a sermon in Unity Chapel, Harlem, by the Rev. William T. Clarke. He said that the prevalent idea of Chris tianity is that, an elaborate trick is play ed on the devil in ihe interests of its be lievers ; that one may sell himself to the devil and take pay in the pleasures and prizes of the world, and when sick of the bargain escape from its obligations by repentance, roll the sweet bait of wickedness under the tongue until satiated and then spit out the hook and leave the devil with his rod and line ; buy the devil’s good on a long credit without paying a penny for them, and then take the benefit of the theological bankrupt act, and leave him to whistle for his recompense. This piece of the ological trickery -is a substratum for the frauds of business and the chicanery of politics. Bank directors who have squandered the savings of the poor, Judges who rob the orphans of trust money, municipal thieves, Congressmen and Cabinet ministers whose hands are full of bribes, are following the doc trine of cheating the devil. Even among the educated there are hundreds who , sympathize with the man who always took off his hat when the devil was men tioned, not out of respect but because he did not know'what might happen. The idea that a man can cheat and lie until all virtue is squeezed out of bis soul like the juice from a pressed orange, and then shuffle off all the effects by some process of spiritual legerdemain and | come out heroic, happy and holy is an insult to intelligence. THE CROOK*!!! HIS TAIL. “My friends,” said a returned mission | ary, at one of the late anniversary meet | iggs, “let us avoid sectarian bitterness. The inhabitants of Hindostan, where I have been laboring for many years, have a proverb that, ‘Though you bathe a dog’s tail in oil and bind it in splints, yet you cannot get the crook out of it.’ Now, a man’s sectarian bias is simply the crook in the dog’s tail, which cannot be eradicated, and I hold that every one should be allowed to wag his own pecu liarity in peace ” * > It takes a pretty smart man to tell when he is happy. Vol. Y.-'No. 26. WHAT SMITH’S BOY SAID. A fanffly named Smith has recently moved to Germantown, and Mr. Brown’s boy, on Saturday, leaned over the fonco and gave to our reporter his impressions of Mr. Smith’s boy. a lad about fourteen years old : “Yes, me and him are right acquainted now ; he knows more’n I do, and ho has had some experience. Bill says his father used to be a robber (Smith by the way, is a deacon in the Presbyterian church and a very excellent lawyer,) and he has $10,000,000 in gold buried in his cellar, along with a whole lot of human bones, people he’s killed. And he says his fathers is a conjurer and that he makes all the earthquakes that happen anywhere in the world. The old man’ll come home at night, after there’s been an earthquake, all severed with sweat, and so tired he can hardly stand ; Bill says it’s such hard work. “Ancl Bill tole me that once when a man came round there trying to sell lightning rods, his father got mad and et him, et him right up, and he takes bites out of everybody he comes acrost. “That’s what Bill tells me. That’s all I know about it. And he tole me that, oiico he used to have a dog, one of these ' little kind of dogs, and ho was flying , his kite, and just for fun ho tied the kite | string onto the dog’s tail. And then i the wind struck her and the dog went j boomin’ down the street, with his hind j legs in the air for about a mile, when j the kite ail of a sudden began to go up, \ and in about fifteen minutes the dog was I about fifteen miles high, and command- | iug a view of California, and Egypt, and j Oshkosh, I think Bill said. Ho came down anyhow, I know, in Brazil, and Bill said he swum home all the way in the Atlantic ocean, and when he land ed his legs were ah nibbled off by sharks. “I wish father’d by me a dog, so’s I could send him up that way. But I nev er had no luck. Bill said that where they used to live he went out on the roof one day to fly his kite, and he sat on the top of the chimbly to give her plen ty of room, and while he was sitting there thinking about nothing, the old man put a keg of powder down below in the fire place to clean soot out of the chimbly. And when he touched her off Bill was blowed over agiu the Baptist church steeple, and he landed on the weather-cock with his pants torn, and they couldn’t get him down in three j days, so he hung there, going round ! and round with the wind, and he lived by eating the crows that came and sat on him, because they thought he was made of sheet-iron and put up there on purpose. “He's had more fun than enough. He was telling me the other day about a sausage stuff’er bis brother invenred. It was a kinder machine that worked with a treadle and Bill said that the way they did in tlie fall was to fix it on to the hog’s back, and then the hog’d work the treadle and keep on running it up and down until the machine cut the hog all up fine and shoved the meat into the skins. Bill said his brother called it j ‘Every Hog His Own Stuffer,’ and it worked splendid. But I don’t know.— ’Pears to me’s if there couldn’t be no machine like that. But any way Bill said so. “And he tole me about an uncle of his in Australia who was et by a big oyster once, and when he got inside he staid ! there until he’d et the oyster. Then he * split the shell open and took half a one ; for a boat, and he sailed along until he ! met a sea serpent, and lie killed it and drawed off its skin, and when he got home he sold it to an engine company j for a hose for $40,000, to put out fires ! with. Bill said that was actually so, he- ! cause he could show me a man who used i to belong to the engine company. 1 j wish father’d let me go and find a sea serpent like that but he don't let me I have a chance to distinguish myself. “Bill was saying only yesterday that j the Indians caught him once and drove j eleven railroad spikes through his stom i acb, and cut off his scalp, and it never hurt him a bit. He got away by the \ daughter of the chief sneaking him out I of the wigwam and lending him a horse, j Bill says she was in love with him, and j when I asked him to let me see the holes j where they drove in them spikes, he said I he*daresn’t take off’ his clothes or he’d | ' bleed to death. He said his own father I | didn’t know it because Bill was afraid it j I might worry the old man. | “And Bill tole mo they wasn't going to get him to go to Sunday-school. Ho says bis father has a brass idol that he keeps in the garret, and Bill says he has made up his mind to be a pagan, and to begin to go naked, and carry a toma hawk and a bow and arrow as soon as the warm weather comes. And to prove it to me he says his father has this town all underlaid with nitro-glycerine, and as soon as he gets ready he’s going to blow the old thing out, and bust her up, let her rip and demolish her. He said so at the dam, and tole me not to tell anybody, but I thought they'd be no harm in mentioning it to you. “And jiow I believe I must be going. I hear Bill a whistling. Maybe he’s got something else to tell me.” [Max Adder. A mother trying to get her little daughter of three years to sleep, one night, said, “Anna, why don’t you try to go to sleep ?” “I’m trying she re plied. “But yon haven’t shut your eyes yet.” “Well, I can’t help it •, um comes unbuttoned.” A DISAPPOINTED MAID. Miss Stokes Considers work very utl lady-like, and kitchen labor perfectly shocking.” But when an industrious and sensible young man began occasion ally to drop in and spend an evening, she very wisely refrained from expressing these convictions, after hearing him oil several occasions severely denounce the frivolity and indolence so fashionable at present with many of tho young ladies tlie of country. Entertaining a high regard for tho i young man, she determined to surprise i him by somejgrcat featof her industry and | perseverance, and last evening as they I were seated together on tho parlor sofa, j after the conversation had began to flag* j she artfully allowed a sigh to escape her. “Are you unwell?” lie very tenderly inquired. “No, I am quite well.” “But yon sighed,” he persisted. “Yes; but I suppose it was because I felt so tired.” “Have you been busy ?” “Oh! yes, indeed,” was tho reply, j “Why, would you believe it? I cut out ; a towel and made it all by myself to i day.” j There has been a coldness between ' the parties ever since, tho reason of which she liar, never boon fully able to : explain, but she angrily remarked the | next morning that some men were fool ish enough to imagine that a woman j ought to be able to do'more work in ono day than a fifty horse power steam en | gine. <2l> t> At the recent Anthrnpogieal Congress | at Jena, Privy Councilor Sclmsi’liausen ! read a paper on the color of complexion eyes and hair,. Ho said that blue eyes indicate a lack of coloring which originally proceeded from inferior nourishment, and was evidence of a weaker organization than is possessed by persons of dark eyes. The let* col oring matter thoro is, tho lighter tho lino of the eye, until, by reason of its utter absence, the blood vessels becomo visible, and the eye is red, as is the causo with the Albinos. The fact that people living in the country, other things be ing equal, have light colored eye more frequently than those living in cities is accpunted for by [the inferior nutritive value of the vegetable food of tho former as compared with the moat and beer of the people of the cities. It the ming ling of the blonde and dark typos, the latter usually shows tho greater vitality, and tlie children assume the darker complexion. The blonde complexion usually carries with it a finer organiza tion (and a higher and thinner voice. Of sopranos and tenors, a majority have light colored eyes and a light complex ions. while of most alto singers, and particularly of bassos, tho reverse is true. The fact that light hair and eyes are more numerous in northern than in sourthern countries is attributed to tho colder climate, which consumes the pig ments of those features. Dr. Scliaaf hausen’s conclusions were based on sta tistics carefully gathered. PAYING HI9 POLL TAX. A Burlington man was observed whit tling a pine stick with an air of content ed idleness and a satisfied smile playing around the corner of his mouth. “Haint at work to-day, ch ?” “No,” was the reply. “Made a day’s wages, to-day, though.” “Why, how’s that? How much did you make.?” “Made two dollars and a half, clear gain,” responded the whittlcr, the quiet smile deepening and giving vent to a chuckle. “Wish ’could do as well every day.” “How’d you make two dollars and a half and not do anything ?” said the first speaker. “Easy ’nougb. Paid inp poll tax.” “Paid your poll tax ? How did you make two dollars and a half by paying your poll tax ?” “Easy ’nougb, I toll you. If I hadn't paid it pretty soon it would have cost more, wouldn’t it ?” “Yes, of course it would. But you had to pay two dollars. How did you make that?” “Oh,” said the whittlcr, brushing tho shavings from his clothes, “I borrowed the two dollars.” < ♦ - SOMETHING TANGIBLE, A. near-sighted man out on South Hill went wandering around among his cur rant bushes yesterday afternoon and stooped down and pulled a live Centen nial wasp’s nest up by the roots to seo what it was. He didn’t get it anywhere near the focus of his eyes before he had an idea that it was a flatiron that some woman had set out to cool; then ho thought it might he a concentrated case of prickly heat; and then it dawned up on him that he bad picked up a raw thunderbolt, and finally his heart went clear down in his boots as he realized that he had got hold of the dangerous end of the Hell Gate explosion and pull ed it off.—[Burlington Hawkeye. ♦ * - Cheerful paragraphs like this have been floating lately before the vision of New Yorkers: “Dynamite closely ro sembles brown sugar, for which it is doubtless sometimes sold. Jobbing a spoon into it hard will explode it. In the form of nitro-glycerine it looks like poor butter. Tho only safe way is for boarding house keepers to buy tho best of everything.” * 4* ♦ A subscriber to a South-Western pa per died recently, leaving four years’ subscription unpaid. The editor ap peared at the grave and deposited in the coffin a palm leaf fan, a linen coat and a thermometer. “Why do you use paint 1” asked a vio linist of his daughter. “For the same reason that you use rosin, papa.” “How is that?” “Why, to help me draw my beau.” In what ship has tho greatest Hum ber of people been wrecked ? Courtship-.