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JsX. ILLEDGEVILLEr
Tueidaj, February 14, 18 7 1;
WHITELEY’S ADMISSION.
A dispatch from Washington brings
the intelligence that Whiteley, defeated
Had, in the second District, armed with
credentials from Bollock has been sworn
into Congress. This is only another of
the upright honorable, aets of which
“our” Governor is guilty. Tift, Demos
craf, was fairly elected, but Bullock re
fused to give him his credentials, while
Whiteley was passed without difficulty.
Col. Tift will of course contest this
fraudulent seating,-sand if thero is any
show for justice and reason, Whiteley
will be kicked out of doors.
The election in Paris was to have
taken place on the 8th ultimo. At
last accounts the bitterness of faction
seemed to threaten a riot, as to whether
Gambctta and the Government will con'
sent to the election as Favre and the
German authorities prescribe, has not
been decided.
We confess that our sympathies are
with France. We loved her in her
glory, we love her in her shame, but
we dare not hope that she will be able
to drive the invader from her soil.
rather than the knights of Gibraltar ] but that he is the mam spoke bv
The Battle not to the strong.
The Atlanta Constitution, the chams
pion of right, the David of the Demo
cracy against the Goliah of Radicalism,
is arrayed against twenty-three Demo
cratic papers so called, and tbo whole
Radical press on the Proclamation ques
tion. The Constitution shows plainly
the inconsistency of professing to be
Democratic, and at the same time help
ing Bullock squander the State funds by
opening tbeir columns to his advertise
ments.
Some of them cannot see it exactly
in this light, and consequently the war
of words about to ensue.
Some papers, heretofore strongly con
demning Bullock, have been quietod by
a goodly dose of Proc., and the Comti
fution is left almost entirely alone to
fight the battle of right. “Go on'* we say.
gallant Coustitu/ton; strike your Hercu
lean blows at the highway robber, Bul
lock, and his followers; and may your
circulation be tripled and quadrupled, to
that evary one may aee the exposure of
the villainy that ia practiced in high
places.
The Atlanta Sun still cherishing
malice against us for publishing its
meanness, villainy and rascality, resorts
to personal abuse of ns ins-cad of fairly
answering our statements.
As far as the removing of the capital
is concerned, we did not advance any
new ideas with reference to it. The opin
ion of many eminent men is that the
capital will be removed, and for the very
reasons that we gave before, the learn
ed (?) Editor of the Sun to the contiary
notwithstanding.
The Sun need not trouble himself a-
bout our abilities either as a financier or
embassador; we can manage our own
affairs without the aid of scoundrels and
lhieves; and that is more than the Sun
can truthfully say of itself.
When in a discussion of any kind, one
of the parties leaves the topic of discus
sion and begins personal vituperation, it
is a clearevidence that he acknowledges
himself beaten, and turns from argu
ment to abuse, to conceal his mortifica
tion at defeat.
The Sun is in league with a band of
thieves and scoundrels, and ‘‘birds of a
feather flock together.” It is useless to
argue with those who are hardened in
crime, as well as lowering to the respec
tability of those who engage in the dis
cussi n with such.
The Sun is beneath the notice of a journ
al that desires to maintain its influence
and respectability; therefore we will no
longer disgrace our columns by mention
ing its name; neither do it e wish the time
honored name ef “Recorder” to be pollu
ted by being taken in the mouth of the
Sun.
If this little scalawag sheet, is not
more respectful to its betters in future,
it may meet with something similar to
that which its twin brother the Era has
several times enjoyed publicly on the
streets of Atlanta at the hands of certain
gentlemen.
A short time siuce one T. R. Mills ad
dressed a communication to Gov. Bui
lock declining the position of District
attorney. His reasons were that the
Judge under whom he was to serve was
a disgrace to the judiciary of the State.
Gov. Bullock in his reply states that
Mills applied for the position of Dis
trict Attorney through this very Judge,
whose appointment he considers a stigma
upon Bullock and an outrage upon the
people of Georgia. We confess that
Bullock places the gentleman in an un
enviable fix. Bullock goes farther; and
attempts to vindicate his action in ap
pointing this imbecile, yellow nigger to
the position of Judge. He asserts that
he is a man of “fair education, excellent
moral character, and far more than or
dinary natural ability,” a statement
which is partly invalidated, by a letter
which Bullock appends to his own.
Bullock cau not wipe out the stain
of this infamous deed. It is but anoth
er in the long catalogue of injuries,
which he has inflicted upou the people
of Georgia. What a Government! He
is a disgrace to civilization.
Those Proclamatins
Why do some of our Democratic breth
ren direct such a continued fire at the
Atlanta Constitution? The only reason
we can assign is this: the Atlanta Con
stitulion is opposed to Bullock's extrav
agance on the way of pi oclamations,
and condems those democratic papers
who accept the printing of them.
We think we see a decided change
in the tone of certain Democratic (?)
Journals in our State. Some, not long
since, dropping, venom, and now distill
ing honey. Some not long since, loud
in their denunciations of the slightest
inaccuracy, now maintain an unbroken
silence while Bullock robs the State
and divides the spoils with them. If a
contemporary should see fit to speak of
such conduct in such terms, as if de
6erves, they set up a howl about the
courtesies, and proprieties of Journal
ism, and declare that you are prostitu
ting the profession. Now our convic
tion is, that language cannot be too
strong, if it bo employed to expose cor
rnption, and we shall never scruple to
use harsh words if the necessities of
the case demand it.
The money these papers receive for
proclamation j rioting, if it has the ef-
foct to trammel them, (and it evidently
docs,) is as much a bribe, as if it "had
been given them specifically to refrain
from abusing Bullock. We adtiseour
brethren to think upon this matter.
TIIE WAR AND ARMISTICE.
The Prussians it seems, do not strong
]y anticipate that their terms of peace
will be accepted by the Bordeaux Gov
ernment. Consequently they have made
a new levy of 300,000 land wehr
and propose to overt-un the whole of
France, and subjugate her by a “savage
and relentless campaign.”
The resources of France are about
exhausted, and further resistance is fol
ly. The army of DeChanzy is disor
ganized. Bourbaki’a commnnd, shiver
ing and starving is hemmed in by the
narrow mountain gorges of Switzerland.
Fridherbe has not recovered from the
defeat he suffered at St. Quintine. Paris
has fallen with 300,000 soldiers, and an
immense amount of war material.
Gambetta, the sublimated enthusiast,
may be insane enough to counsel further
resistance, and France may yet contin
ue the struggle, but it can only end in
her further defeat and humiliation.
BL'LLOCK A?iD THE LEASE.
The editor of the Chronicle ij S'.nti-
ncl offered a day or two since that he
had the highest authority for stating that
Bullock had an interest in the lease of tbe
State Road. If this be true the whole
transaction is a legal nullity, and Bul
lock will be held up to everlasting
shame. The Atlanta Constitution, how
ever, is of the i pinion that the report is
nothing more than idle gossip, without
any foundati^i in truth whatever. It i6
to-bo he hoped so.
From Hancock.
(fOMMUXlOATtO )
Trtlolnljam and the Knlghli of Jtrielio.
In all ages, in all civilizations and
in all countries mankind has been prone
to follow too much the devices and de
sires of their own wicked hearts,—and
appetites given them for the purest, no
blest and grandest purposes, they have
debauched until oft times they be
come only thirsty and craving lasts.
In nothing perhaps has this truth
been more painfully exemplified, since
the time of the first settlers in this wick
ed world to the present hour, than in
the passion for strong drink. Unlike
the Beasts of the field, man cares not t<>
nse without abuse the kindly offerings
of our mother earth, but gorge himseff
he must—get drunk he will. Happily
this dark side of our common nature is
relieved and illuminated by the unsel
fish and self-sacrificing efforts of many
good Samaiitans, who have labored
and are laboring to redeem the drunk
ard and bankrupt the liquor shops.
From time to time in our history these
efforts of old Father Mathews’ diseiples
have appeared as it were, spasmodical
ly—becoming now so successful and
popular that a “drinkist” must needs
go into a dark closet, lest he be seeu
of men, and be arrained before a stern
and overpowering public sentiment:—
and yet again they appear to be whip
ped out, “horse, foot and dragoons” by
kiug alcohol and his hosts, and they
retire in disorder to reorganize their
forces, and after years perhaps of pa
tient waiting, renew the fight under
new names and better auspices. Among
the most modern of these noble reform
ers must be ranked " The Knights of Jer*
icho.” Why tbe Knights of “Jericho”
or Kamschatka does not clearly ap
pear, at least to the uninitiated; nor is
it pertinent. Suffice it that they are
true Knights, panoplied from crown to
toe in the armor of good intentions,
and waging a relentless crusade against
vice aud error—lager beer aud mean
whiskey. All honor and a hearty God
speed to these true philanthropists un
der whatever name they advance to tbe
rescue; for surely never before were
tbeir knightly services more needed
than now in the cause of human suffer
ing.
There was a time when any one of
our portly progenitors could safely hide
away under his vest each day at dinner*
from two to four bottles of old Sherry,
Port or Madeira, washed down may be f
with a pint of “Otard”—then sweetly
slumber and in tbe morning feel like
silk velvet; there was not a single head
ache in a hogshead of these spiritual
comforts of the olden time. But alas!
these innocent gifts of a benificent
I ruviJence have passed away from among
the children of men, and there is left
only the blessed memory thereof, caus
ing tho mouth in vain to water, and tbe
eyes to weep over their departure. And
in their stead what have we? Let the
unhappy consumers of modern “tangle
foot,” of “pine top,” of “sheet lighting,”
of “bust head,” of ‘'Benzine’’ and of
“Dutch swill” pause in their mad caree r
and answer this momentous question.
But let us return to our “knights"—
these valiant sons of Jericho sworn to
do or die against this bydra-headed
Gorgon. What fact can prove more
welcome to their pride or more gratify
ing to an appreciating public, than the
astonishing success.achieved by a chap
ter of their order, recently organized in
oar community. Starting some two
months since with only a corporal’s
guard of |tried veterans, tbeir rol-call
is now answered to by scores of reform
ed and resolute conscripts—young men
in tbe hot flueb of youth, who have been
snatched like “brands from the burning.”
Middle aged men just beginning to ap
preciate that their stomachs may not be
lined with zinc, and coppor fastened,
and many an old hard case, iu whom
the grocery men appeared to enjoy a
prescriptive right of possession, have
looked arms with their regenerated
brothers, aud shoulder to shoulder, cold
sober, arc marching on to new vic
tories. For still is tbeir work not all ac
complished in cur midst,—yet are left
a few tough “old sots” who grimly smile
defiance. These must likewise be cared
for and taken in out of the wet; bat how?
Ah! there is the rub. The usual argu
ments of rhetoric and example oft
times fail sadly in their oases; they can
not be captnred by an open assault in
frout—they must be flanked. If it was
allowed a humble subaltern to soggest
strategy to knights so chivalrous, we
would in this connection venture to rs
call to their minds the old adage abon*
preaching to a dead male, and to assert
our conviction that thero is but little
utility in plastering an “old brick” with
soft sawder. If you hold up to his gaze
the horrors of strong driuk and elo
quently dilate upon the taste of well
water, he will quietly tell you in reply
that he has experienoed all aboat the
first and is afraid to commence exper
iraenting with the latter.
The best plan, perhaps, is to lie in
wait and some morning early catch him
after he has been somewLat “lop-eared’
all night. Succeeding in this, at once
baptise bis “parched brow” with cold
water, pouring a little of the same, jast
a little, down his blazing throat, and
then before be shall have recovered from
the novel aud delicioushappiness caused
by this treatment, march him np to
your great Mogul and he will swear to
anything; aye and stick to it too so long
as he sticks to you. If unhappily he
should fall from grace and desert his
colors, follow him ap with the same tac
tics,—biing him back to the fold, and
in good time you will have weaned him
from his temptations, even as a babe
weaned from toe strong a taste for fresh
milk. O.
For the Recorder.
AN IMPENDING EVIL.
Whatever may he thought of the
negro’s status, either as office-hold
er, juror, voter, soldier or common
laborer—it is very plain, from his
present qualifications, that in the
latter capacity alone, can he or will
he be of any material benefit to so
ciety for many long years to come.
Indeed, as a laborer petted, humored
and deferred to (?) as he is, simply
lor the sake of his vote, it is ques
tionable if his usefulness is not work
ing a greater harm than would re
sult ivere he out of the country altogeth
er ; unless he could be induced to
contribute to its real necessities, by
steadiness at work and conforming
to a unifonn tariff of wages. A'
present, he is but antagonizing the
Railroads and Agricultural depart
ments of the whole South—lessen
ing the products of the latter, in a
ratio, that mus' be felt in every oth
er branch of our industries, It is
which the Railroad managers be
come of themselves the unintention
al instigators to the unreasonable
and damaging effect, which is al
ready of sufficient magnitude to ex
cite alarm for the future well-being
of the entire field of Southern Agri
culture. Nor do we wish it to be as
sumed, that we charge any wilful
or premeditated action, on the part
of the Roads, to bring about such a
collision—the bare reflection that it
would be suicidal to their own pros
perity, stifles even the possibility of
any truth for that assumption. Nev
ertheless the antagonism exists—or
probably it may be said to have
commenced only recently, and only
from force of circumstances—but it
is all the same in its untoward and
crippling influences, upon the vital
prosperity of farmers and planters.
What is the condition of our farming
prospects to-day, compared with
what it was a few years ago? La
bor, negro labor especially, is ten
times more difficult to be got, and if
secured at all, the disadvantages are
double those which incommoded the
planting interests just after the war —
then negroes, it is true, were wild
and defiant, under the belief that the
Radicals at Washington, would sup
port them in comparative idleness,
only to get their voles, and furnish
each man with forty acres and a
mule to make the bargain good !
Probably, they are convinced by
this time, what such slang was used
for. Hut, on the other hand, what
cause or causes, have produced the
accumulation of trouble—nay, acui
al failure, to farmers in procuring
labor, that is now being felt? We
say emphatically, it is from the in
creased demand which Railroad
Conductors and Railroad Superin
tendents, have within the last few
months, made upon the rightful la
bor that is due to the plantations and
farms; and 2dly, from the higher
wages which they are enabled to
pay without corresponding loss to
their nett profits; and 3dly, the
temptations to the negroes to be up
on Roads, rather than work in the
hack country and away from the
conveniences of association with cit
ies and mixed populations! The
farmer who desires^G, 12 or 15 hands,
has no chance toengage lliem against
the prices paid by Railroads, who
can easily advance upon what the
farmer can afford to offer, and just
as easily refund the extra amount bv
increasing ireight charges! We ad
mit, to a certain extent, that this is
all fair-play and legitimate, but it
will, if not remedied, prostrate much
of the Agricultural facilities to the
benefit of Railroad monopolies; and so
far from there being a clash between
these two arms of our sectional pros
perity, there should exist the closest
and most implicit confidence and
co-operation in each others objects.
We believe, too, that Farmers and
Planters are willing to have such an
alliance, and must think it passing
strange if from mistake, misconcep
tion or inadvertency, the Officers,
Contractors or Superintendents of
Railroads allow a counter-feeling
to govern their course. Further,
company, as it were, with white la
borers and train-hands, and hired or
bought negroes to supply their plac
es—which, we thought, was a mis
taken step—politically, socially and
financially—nor did we reckon amiss !
It lost us a power that we now feel
and regret, but are helpless to re
place. We trust, however, no simi
lar scheme may be attempted that
will operate to drive off or keep away
the white immigrants who, other
wise, it is believed will seek a home
amongst us.
But, to bring the matter down to
the compass of a few words, we feel
certain that when Railroads—and
they are almost as thick as planta
tions and we admit, quite as depend
ent—deem it to their interest’lo sub
tract from the plantations and farms
and our numerous necessities, the
labor of the negro instead of giving
the same employment to a white
mac.—we say not only to them, but
to all others who have interests in
what the farm and plantation pro
duce?, “you arc paying dear for
your whistle, and are virtually muz
zling the ox that treads out the corn.”
It is respectfully suggested to the
delegates from Baldwin county to
confer with their brother delegates
from other counties in the approach
ing Slate Agricultural Convention,
to be held in Macon on lhe22d inst.,
and obtain, if possible, some action
that will bring about a suitable mod
ification Ibr these threatening and
clouded aspeects of our farm and
home circles.
IMPARTIAL.
5,490 Newspaper Offices.
The following table shows the number of
different offices from which newspapers are
issued in the United States and Dominion of
Canada. From some of these as many as half
her published beii
g in
the vicinity of7.000.
State. Number.
State. Number.
Alabama,]
74
Ohio, - 376
Arkansas,
44
Oregon,
22
California,
144
Pennsylvania, 513
Connecticut,
59
Rkode Island,
20
Delaware.
13
South Carolina,
54
Dist. ef Columbia,
19
Tennessee,
80
Florida, »
to
Texas,
93
Georgia,
97
Vermont,
42
Illinois,
42G
Virginia,
94
Indiana,
241
West Virginia,
51
Iowa,
217
Wisconsin,
174
Kansas, -
«6
Arizona, 1
Kentucky, •-
yf
Colorado,
Louisiana,
76
Dakota.
Maine,
<0
Idaho,
Maryland,
9t
Montana,
50
Massachusetts,
234
New Mexico,
Michigan,
180
Utah,
Minnesota,
ri9
Washingtan,
Mississippi,
67
Wyeming,
Missonri,
228
New Brunswick,
22
Nebraska,
34
, Nova Scotia,
*7
Nevada,
11
Ontario,
173
New Hampshire,
46
Qtiebee,
59
New Jersey,
K 14
British Celumbia,
2
New York,
478
, New Foundland,
12
North Carolina,
58
Prince Ed. Island,
7
Total,
,,490
Proclamation of King William on As
suming (he Imperial Purple.
Trie following proclamation was
forwarded to the Prussian Diet by
King William, from his headquar
ters, at Versailles, on the occasion
ol the acceptance of the rank, honor
and dignity of the Emperor ol Ger
many :
“We, William, by God’s grace,
King of Prussia, hereby announce
that the German Princes ami free
towns having addressed to us a
unanimous call to renew and under
take, with the re-establishment of
the German Empire, the dignity of
Emperor, which now for sixty years
has been in abeyance, and the re
quisite provisions having been in
serted in the Constitution of the
German Confederation, we regard
it as a duly we owe to the entire Fa
therland fo comply with this cull of
whether or not we are right in ourf^e German princes and free towns,
views, as herein given, is it not prac
lioable, and would it not be better
and mutually favor the several in
terests involved, to have a fair and
settled tariff of wages established
and agreed to, thai will be just to
employers as well as to employees—
to the Farmers as well as to the
Railroad Companies—to the white
as well as to black laborers? Unless
such an understanding and arrange-
ment is made and carried out faith
fully, we feel assured that great
damage and wrong must result to
the main staffs of the larger majority
of our people, and inevitably re
bound upon the heads of every trade
and calling in the country.
We confess we are excited and
alarmed at the failures which Farm
ers have experienced, in obtaining
negroes to work upon their farms,
unless at rates little less than sup-
plying them with the land, houses,
teams, plantation utensils, provis
ions, and a third if not the half, of
every thingthat is made in the year—
and even these rates are not cared
for apparently, as they urge the al
ternative that, “any how, they rather
work for the Railroad, where they
gits every thing as they wants.” We
have said, too, that the requisitions
of the Roads for employees, are up
on the rightful labor due to the wheat,
corn and cotton fields—which is no
less true, than that it claims prompt
consideration. We have not lorgnt-
and to accept the dignity of Empe
ror. Accordingly, we and our suc
cessors to the crown of Prussia
henceforth shall use the imperial ti
tle in all the relations and affairs of
the German Empire, and we hope
to God that it may he vouchsafed to
the German nation to lead the Fa
therland on to a blessed future, un
der the auspices of its ancient splen
dor.
“We undertake the imperial dig
nity, conscious of the duty to pro
tect with German loyally the rights
of the Empire and its members^ to
preserve peace, to maintain the in
dependence of Germany, and to
strengthen the power of the people.
We accept it in the hope that it will
be granted to the German people to
enjoy, in lasting peace, the reward
ol its arduous aud heroic struggles,
within boundaries that will give to
the Fatherland that security against
renewed French attacks which it has
lacked for centuries. May God grant
to us and our successors to the im
perial crown that we may be the de
fenders of k the German Empire at
all times, not in martial conquests,
but in works of peace in the sphere
of national prosperity, freedom and
civilization.”
Ancient and Modem Divisions
of Time.
It is not generally known that, a
little more than a century ago. New-
Year’s was celebrated on the 25lh
of March throughout the Biitish do
minions, including America.
The following enactments, adopt
ed by Parliament, entitled “An Act
regulating’the Commencement of the
Year, and for correcting the Calen
dar in use,” were passed in the
twenty-fourth year ot the reign of
George II. :
“Preamble. — Whereas, the legal
supputation of the year of our Lord
—according to which the year be-
ginneth on the 2-5th day of March—
hath been found by experience to be
attended with divers inconvenien
ces,’ etc.
“Enactments.—That throughout
his majesty’s dominions in Europe,
Asia, Africa, anil America, the said
supputation, according to which the
year of our Lord beginneth on the
25th day of March, shall not be made
use of from and after the last day
of December, 1751; and that the
first day of January next following
the said last day of December shall
be reckoned, taken, deemed, and
accounted, to be the first day ot our
Lord, 1754, and so on from time to
time. The first day of January in
every year which shall happen in
time to come shall be deemed and
reckoned the first day of the year,”
etc.
The act further corrects the cal-
dar thus:
“And that the natural day next
immediately following the 2d day ol
September shall be called and ac
counted to be the I4ih day of Sep
tember, omitting for that lime only
the eleven intermediate nominal days
of the common calendar.”
We believe that in the State of
Rhode Island to this day all farm
and other leases date from the day
of the ancient New Year, namely,
ihe 25th of March.
The ane’ent divisions of the day
differed widely from the customs of
our own lime.
The Chaldeans, Svrians, Persians
and Indians, began ihe day at sun
rise, and divided the day and night
into four part?. This division of the
day itro quarters was in use long be
fore the division into hours.
The Chinese, who begin their day
at midnight, and reckon to the mid
night following, divide the interval
into twelve hours, each equal to two
of ours, and known by a name and
part-cular figure.
In Egypt the day was divided
into unequal hours. The clock, in
vented by Ctesibius of Alexandria,
b. c. 250, was so contrived as to
leglbcn or shorten the hours by the
flowing of water.
The Greeks divided the natural
day into twelve hours—a practice
derived from the Babylonians.
The Romans called the lime be
tween the rising anil the setting sun
the natural day; and the time in the
twenty-four hours the civil day.
They began and ended their civil
day at midnight, and look ibis prac
tice from their ancient laws, and
customs, and riles of religion, in use
long before they had any idea of the
divisions into hours.
The first sun-dial seen at Rome
was brought from Catania, in Sicily,
in the first Punic War, as part of
the spoils of that city; and, after this
period, they divided the day into
twenty-four hours. An officers,
called accensus, at one time proclaim
ed the hours, and at the bench of
justice announced every three hours
ihe time of day.
In the Turkish empire time is
reckoned by certain portions of the
natural day, resembling the ‘^watch-
es” of the ancient Jews and Ro
mans. Public clocks not being in
use, these divisions of time are pro
claimed from ihe minarets.
not meant by this, that lie is doing
„ of his mere individual agency, I lcn linie when Railroads purled
A Nashville lady went ir.to spasms
when the sherifl' read her husband's
petition for divoice to her. She is
inexperienced, and ought to take a
few lessons of some Chicago women.
They don’t spasm much over such
trifles.
A reader writes that lie takes no
stock in the “new woman’s club.”
He says the “old woman’s club” is
enough for him, and frequently too
much.
The Mysteries of the Femin
ine Toilet.—The other day I
heaid of an incident which shows
that even men of society do not un
derstand ail the mysteries of the
teminine toilet. A gentleman, who
devotes a large part ol his lime to
the society of the ladies, and who
believes himself a connoiseur in all
that pertains to them, was much
annoyed by observing that a fair
friend of his, favorably known for
her style ot elegant dressing, would
insist when the weather would al
low it, upon wearing an old shawl
devoid of any claims to beauty or
good taste.
The gallant endured this for a
long while. He walked up Broad
way and Fith Avenue, aud rode in
the Park with his friend, and often
looked at the odious shawl in a way
that he thought would convince her
of Us unfitness lor so elegant a wo
man as herself.
She did not lake the hint, how
ever, but continued to display it on
every possible occasion. He lost
patience at last, and said to her one
day:
‘ May I be permitted to inquiry
why you will wear that miserable
old shawl all the lime? it ruins
your dress. \ou look so exquisite
ly dainty otherwise that I can not
comprehend why you will deform
yourself with such a faded rag as
that. It has nothing in the world to
recommend it; and I believe
if you were to throw it off’ in the
street nobody would pick it up.”
The bright eyes opened with sur
prise, and a strange expression fell
across the pretty lace.
“You are jesting are y 0u
lady asked. “You do noirealk- he
like my shawl, do you?” " Jl3 '
“I never was more serious in
life. I thoroughly detests this ^
wbieb-you call a shawl.” llln 8
“Well, then I’ll info rm y 0u lhal
this is a camel’s hair shawl- ,
though I think it in very bad tkteS
speak o prices, it cost W 0Q# “
Stewarts ami is of the finest br„J
to this country.” a 11
The young man was astounded-
but taste was correct. ’
The following
faith” by a victim of a Sea ship:
In case any ol my fried, should
require a restorative during t u
year, I beg to ofTer a substitute t 0ra
sea-trip. 1 have “thought ihe thin,
out,” in moments of dire agony, and
in subsequent hours of blissful re
pose on terra flrma. The advanta'
ges of my substitute are numerous
it is comparatively inexpensive;
involves no care of luomirre- ii
be enjoyed on one s own premises-
and, instead of employing a ship’s!
crew, four muscular friends can put
a patient through the entire course.
First: lasten to your extremitiei a
system of cog-wheels, to be set in
rapid motion by the mainspring G e ,
cond-hand will do) of a steeple-dock
This will simulate the shudder of
the machinery. Mix two pounds of
powdered ipecaccuanha and three
and a quarter pounds of tartrate of
antimony and potash, and take a
teacupful of the mixture every five
minutes, alternating with ihe - same
quantity of tincture of lobelia. This
will simulate the sea-nausea. Close
the doors and windows of your
apartment; kindle a fire, and boil
a two-gallon pot of train-oil, leaving
the cover off the pot. This will ;i m ,
ulate the balmy sea-odors. Then
get four muscular Christians to toss
you in a blanket until you come out f
your hoots, thruugh the legitimate
effect of the internal exhibitions a-
foresaid. You may then safely tell
your anxious friends that you have
been “to sea,” and have enjoyed the
trip immensely; for you will have
passed through all the experiences
of bounding billows. Seizt the op
portunity, and see the enjoyment to
be realized in the proper season “at
sea.”
Lost Arts.
In regard to colors we are far be
hind the ancients. * None of the col
ors in the Egyptian paintings of
thousands of years ago are in the
least faded, except the green. The
Tyrian purple of the entombed city
of Pompeii is as fresh to-day as it
was three thousand years ago. Some
ot the stucco, painted ages before
the Christian era, broken up and
mixed, reverted to its original lus
tre. And yet we pity the ignorance
of the dark-skinned children of the
ancient Egypt. The colors upon
the walls of Nero’s festal vault are as
fresh as if painted yesterday. So in
the cheek of the Egyptian prince
who was contemporaneous with Sol
omon, and Cleopatra, at whose feet
Caesar laid the riches of his empire.
And in regard to metals. The
edges of the statues of the obelisks
of Egypt, and of the ancient walls ol
Rome are as sharp as if but hewn
yesterday'. And the stones still re
main so closely fitted that their seams,
laid with mortar, cannot be penetrat
ed with the edge of a pen-knife. And
their surfaces are exceedingly hard,
so hard th at w hen the French artists
engraved two lines upon the obelisk
brought from Egypt, they destroyed,
in the tedious task, many of the best
tools which can be manufactured.
And yet these ancient monuments
are traced all over with inscriptions
placed upon them in olden time.
This, with other facts of a striking
character, prove that they were * ar
more skillful in metals than we are.
Quite recently it is recorded that
when an American vessel was on
the shores of Africa, a son ot that
benighted region made from an iron
hoop a knile superior to any on board
the vessel, anti another made a sworn
of Damascus excellence from a piece
of iron. .
Fiction is very old ; Scott had his
counterpart two thousand years ago-
A story is told of a warrior who had
no time to wait for the' proper torg
ing of his weapon, but seized it re
hot, and found to his surprise tna
the cool air had tempered his rro n
_ The
which
into an excellent steel weapon
tempering of steel, therefore,
was new to us a century since, rva^
old two thousand years ago.
Ventilation is deemed a very 110
ern art. But this is not the tact, ^
apertures, unquestionably wade *•
the purpose of ventilation, are f 01 ^ 1
in the pyramid tombs ot Egypt-
thousands of years ago the barbaro =
pagans went so far as to veul1 V
their tombs, while we yet scaru.
know how to ventilate our houses.
[Cabinet M“ ker ’
Among the most important di» c °'
eries of the German Arctic
pedilion was a new land, a .
thirty-six nautical miles e a 't ^
Spitzbergen, and situated ^
the seventy*sevenlh degree o ‘
tude. This territory is larger
Spitzbergen, and presents a -
wild and rugged appearance, W 8
filled with almost perpend
mountains and cliffs.
A clairvoyant doctor, of Hard°J^
proclaims his superiority by a j
Using that he “foretell the p as
present,” as well as the iuluie-