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YOL. 1.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY
NO. 6
AH OLI TEAM MM0.
r OLIVOS VIRNU BOUIM.
By chill p
A toady i
wm tlorlng 10 me ioiiiii ’«;
I Iot#J thy raaclo, thua I a*ld,
Whan o’ar thy parch the leave* wara spread ;
Sweat wai thy aong, b it sweeter now
Thy carol on the leaflet baurh,
Slag, little ()|r<l 1 thy note shall cheer
The aadneai of the dying year.
The blidd>ng April bow ore a
Kor peea tta jotefta tones a« _ .
Ifhen April *ound U into May;
■one nui/ meiapn Mugs unseen ;
With anawerina notes the wo sUead rung,
And *•?• ry tree-top fonnd a tongue,
How deep the ha le, the grove* how fUr!
Sing, little bird! the woods are bare.
The bird' hare left the ehtveriug pine*
To flit among the trelltaed etnas,
Or fan the air with eoented plumes.
Amid the loes-alrk orange bloom*,
At morn the ruonir
From drieau L. rda the cionds that rise
... ... * of sacriflcn.
Fast, fast the lengthening shadnwa creep,
The singles' fowls are half asleep.
The air gr iwa chill, tlio setting son
May leave thee er' thy song la done,
The polae that warm* thy breast grow cold,
Thy secret die with then untold;
The llnrerlngsuris .-t still is bright—
Bing, llttlo bird! 'twill soon be night.
[Translated from the French.]
THE DESERT OF ICE;
OB,
A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE.
BT JVIM
CHAPTER I.
ABANOOIfBD Of THI XOB.
That wm a bold purpose wbioh bad led
Captain John Hatteraa to the •xtreme
north in order to reserve to England, bin
native land, the glory of the discovery of
the North Pole.
On April 6, 1860, he had left Prinoe'a
dock, Liverpool, with a picked crew, to
make hi* way to the P »le. Hia vcasel,
the Forward, was a brig of 160 tons,
wbioh had been transformed into a aorew
steamer, and was armed with one Oannon
on the forecastle. On Janaary 1, 1801,
the Forward lay fast in the ioe of the
Arotio regions in latitude 80 deg. 15 min.
and longitude 07 deg 35 min., this point
Sieving been reached by Captain Hatteraa
on bit adventurous voyage when caught
by tbo ice. •
At the time this story opoaa—February
24, l8Gl-*-he had just returned from an
excursion, with three companions, to a
point on the coast of N ew Cornwall, 300
mile* diataut, whore he had gone to en
deavor to obtain fnel for bia suffering
crew. Daring hia abseuea he had left the
Forward in oharge of the vessel's boat
swain, Johnson, an old end faithful sailor.
Of his companions, two bad returned
with him—Dr. Clawbonny and Bell, the
ship's carpeuter; the third—Simpson, a
harpooner—had pariabed on the journey.
Bat, thua returning to his ship after bin
painfnl journey of a month and a half
across the sea of ioe, what did Captain
Hatteraa in the diatanoe aee ? The For
ward in flames and. exploding almost be
fore bia eyes!
Johnson came running to meet them.
His story was a brief one. Richard Shan-
don, the captain of the crew, and the rest
of the crew, had fired the ship, and had
then taken up their march toward the
south, leaving Johnson, who had refused
to accompany them, to his fate.
This was the terrible catastrophe that
greeted Hatteraa on bis return. The in
trepid sailor had parformed all that was
within human power to perform. After
having struggled during nine months
against currents and against tempests;
overoome mountains of ioe and shattered
ioebsrgs; suffered the terrors of a winter
unparalleled in the northern regions for
itaoold; summed up in bis expedition
the deeds of his predecessors, and re
written, as it were, the history of polar
discoveries ; after hiving urged his brig
into unknown seas; and Anally, after hav
ing accomplished half of the task he had
set out to porform, he saw his great pro
ject suddenly overthiown! The treach
ery, or rather the disparagement of his
crew, wearied out as the men were with
toil—the criminal folly of a few ringlead
ers—had left him in a fearful oondition.
Of eighteen men who had left England in
the brig four only remained, including
himeelf, and these were abandoned with
out resources ou an icy desert 2,500 miles
from their oountry!
The destruction of the Forward bad
deprived them of their last means of ex
istence. The mutineers had taken the
aunoh wi'h them on their journey to
Baffin's Bay.
In spite of all these difficulties tbo
eourage of Hatteraa did not give way in
preeenoe of the calamity. The compan
ions who remained to him were the best
of his orew—men of the heroio type.
When the extent of the disaster was
known to him he called on the energy and
■oience of Dr. Clawbonny, the devotion
of Johnson and of|Bell, and flualiy, on his
own faith in the enterprise. He dared to
apeak hopeful words in this de«porato sit
uation. Ho was .listened to by his brave
companion*, and the past record of these
resolute men was aufficient guarantee for
their oonrage in the fatww.
After giving heed to the eaergetio
word* of the Captain, the Doctor, deair-
K one of gaining an esaet knowledge of the
aUnflHee, left Me eeaspaniona, who were
, ". 1 at a distance of five hundred
^ ^ and directed hie
the oataetropbe.
of tha Forward-
had bean so dear to
i equipped with
The violates of the ex
plosion of the powder magaxine wan tes
tified to in the distorted blookn of ice,
shapeless ruins, blackened and calcined ;
in bent bars of iron ; pieces of rope still
burning like artillery fuses, and iu a few
columns of smoke, blowing fitfully across
the icy waste. The foreoaatle gun*, which
had been hurled several yards, rented on
a pieoe of ioe ns on a gun-carriage. Por
200 yards the surfaoe of the ice was
strewn with fragments of the wreok. The
brig'n keel lay under a mass of ioe, while
the ice-blocks, partly melted by the beat
of the fire, had already regained their
granite-like hardness.
Dr. Clawbonny then began to think of
bis ruined cabin ; of liis lost collections ;
of his precious instrameotn, now broken
to pieoes, and of bis books that had been
reduced to ashes. With a moistened eye,
he contemplated this great disaster ; bis
thoughts dwelling, not on the future, but
on thin irreparable misfortune which so
direotly affected himself.
He was noon joined by Johnson. The
old sailor’s face bore the traces of late
sufferings, for he bad struggled against
his revolted companions in defence of
the ship which had been confided to his
charge.
The Doctor gave him his band, wbioh
the boatswain sadly pressed in his own.
“What will become of us ?” said the
Doctor.
“Who can foresee oar fate ?" replied
Johnson.
“Above all," returned the Doctor, “do
not let us give way to despair. Let ua be
men."
“Yes, Mr. Clawbonny, ’’ answered the
old sailor; “you are right. Great
solves must be taken in moments of great
disaster. We are in an ugly fix, and we
must try to get out of it."
“Poor ship!" exclaimed the Doctor,
with a sigh. “I was attached to it. I
loved it as one loves his fireside or the
house in uh ; oh one has passed his entire
life; and now not a piece of it remains
that can be recognized!"
“Who woull have thought, Mr. Claw-
bonoy, that this collection of beams and
planks could be so dear to us 1"
“And the launch—where ia it?" asked
the Dootor, looking aronnd him. “ Even
the launch did not escape destruction !’’
“Yes it did, Mr. Clawbonny; but Shan
don and his followers, who abandoned os,
carried it awayjwith them 1"
“And the life-boat ?”
“Broken in a thousand pieoes! See
here: these few plates of xino, still warm,
are all that rounius of it."
“Wo have nothing bat the Haikett boat
left, then
This was a sort of India robber boat,
made in the shape of a garment, and
which is inflated at the will of the wearer
“Yes," returned Johnson ; “thanks to
your idea of taking it with you on your
excursion with Captain Hattoras.
“It is very little," remarked the Doo
tor.
“The miserable traitors who have fled
and left us hero !" cried Johnson. “May
heaven punish them as they deserve !"
“Johusou,” the Dootur repliod gently,
“we must not forget that suffering has
bitterly tried them ! Only the best peo
ple know ho j to contiune to be good in
misfortune, and under circumstances in
which the feeble yield! L*t us pity our
companions in misfortune, and not enrse
them !"
After those words the Dootor remained
silent for some moments, and looksd with
anxious eyes on the snrronndiag scene.
“What has beoome of SimpBon ?’’ aaked
Johnson.
“It is a mile back on the ronte by
which we came."
‘Under Simpson’s care?’
‘No, my friend! Simpson—poor
Simpson—has fallen a victim to fatigue."
“Dead!” exclaimed the boatswaiu.
“Dead!" returned the Doctor.
“Unfortunate man!" oried Johnson
And yet, who knows whether we may
not have cause to envy his lot!"
‘But for a dead man ghom we have left
behind," observed the Doctor, “wo bring
a dying man."
“A dying man ?"
“Yes—au American whom we fonnd ly
ing helpless in an old anow-honse. His
namo is Captain Altamont. Two oom
panions wero lying near him frozen to
dtath."
“An American! ’ exclaimed Johnson,
reflecting on what the Doctor bad told
him.
“Yes; everything leads to the belief
that this man is an American andacitizen
of the Uniied States. -He was the com-
xuander of a vessel uained the Porpoise,
which has been wrecked nomewhero in
these latitudes. We could not obtain any
account of himself from his own lips, ai
he was too weak to speak, but on an en
velope lying rear him in the snow we
read these words: ‘Captain Altamont,
ship Porpoise, Now York.’ The question
is, what was the Porpoise doing in theio
Arctio regions?"
“It came here to perish," answered
Johnson. “It bore its crew to their
death, as all meet their doath whose dar
ing leads them under skies like these.
Bat, Mr. Clswbouny, the purpose of your
expedition at least was attained ?"
“The discovery of the coal deposit?”
“Yes," returned Johnson.
The Doctor shook his head s\dly.
“Nothing?" askod the old sailor.
“Nothing! Our provisions gave out,
and we were broken down with fatigue
before onr j mrney’s end. We did not
even reach the coast desoribod by 8ir Ed
ward Belcher!"
“So there is no fuel?" aaid the old
tailor.
“No!"
“No provisions ?”
“None!"
“And no ship in which to return to
England ?"
The Dootor and Johnson were allent.
It required an undaunted oonrage, in
deed to look this terriblo situation in the
faoe.
“At any retd/’u
“there is no doubt about the position in
whieh we are placed! At least we know
what to expect! But let us hasten our
pace; the temperature is freezing, and
we must build a Know-house."
“Yes," replied the Doctor, “with Bell’s
assistance this will be easy. Then, after
that, we shall go iu euarch of the sled,
bring the American back with us, and
then take oounsel with Hatteraa."
“Poor Captain 1" exclaimed Johnson,
who forgot for the moment his own trou
bles, “how he must suffer!”
The Dootor and the boatswain returned
to the spot where they had left their oom-
pauions.
Hatter as was standing motionless with
his arms crossed—an old habit of his—
silent, and looking into space as if to
forecast the future in its de^lhn.
His faoe bad re-mmed its habitual reso
lute expression. What was this extraor
dinary man thinking about? Was his
mind occupied with reflect ions on his
desperate situation or on his ruined en
terprises ? Was he tbinkiug of retracing
his steps, since all conHpired against his
attempt—mao, the elements ?
No one could deteot his thoughts.
They did not betray theraselvos in any
outward sign. His faithful dog Duke was
standing by his side, braving the icy cold
of the weather.
Bell, Atretcbed ou the ioe, unde no
movement. He seemed to be without
life. Indead, his insensibility might oont
him his life, as he ran the risk of becom
ing frozen into a solid block of ioe.
Johnson shook him vigorously, rubbed
him with Know, and finally succeeded—
not without difficulty, however—in arons-
ing him from his torpor.
“Come, Bell, courage!’’ he said to him.
“Do not al ow yourself to be overcome.
Rise, for we must ooniult together about
the situation; and besides, we need a
shelter. Have you forgotton how to
make a snow house? Come, Bell, and
assist me! Here is an iceberg waiting to
bo hollowed out! Let ns work! Tnat
will give us what we ought not to lack
here—courage and good hearts!"
Bell, somewhat recovered by this time,
allowed himself to bo led by the old
sailor.
“In the meantime," continued the Ut
ter, “Mr. Clawbonny will please take the
trouble to go os far ns where the sled is
and bring it back with the dogs attached
to it. ”
“I am ready to start," answered the
Dootor. “In one hour I Khali bo back."
“Do you aooompauy him, Captain ?"
added Johnson, dueoting his steps to
ward Hcitterns.
The Captain, although lost in thought,
bad heard the boatswain’s question, for
he repled in a geutle voice:
“No, my friend, not if the Dootor will
please to lake that oharge on himself. It
is necessary that Rome decision must be
reaohed before the day's ending, aud I
must be Alone to reflect. Go. Do whut
you think beat for the present. I am
thinking of the future. ”
Johnson, re-joined the Dootor:
“It is strange," he suid to him; “the
Captain seems to have forgotton all feel
ings of anger. I never knew his voice to
be so calm.”
“He has regained his composure—that
is all," returned the Doctor. “Believe
me, Johnson, that mau is able to save us!"
With these words the Doctor drew his
wrappings around his head as comforta
bly as he ooald and, and with his iron-
tipped staff in hand, walked away in the
direction of the fog, which, under the
influence of the moon that was shining
at the time, was rendered nearly lumin
ous.
Johnson and Bell wont—to work at
onoe. The old sailor kept up Boll's spir
its with liis remarks, although the latter
worked iu silenoo. There was no build
ing to be done; all that was needed was
simply to hollow out a largo block of ico.
But the ice was hard, aud this faot made
the use of the knife paiuful; on the other
hand, however, this very hardness gave
them assurance of the solidity of the
dwelling.
8oon Johnson and Bell had progressed
so fur that they wero enabled to work un
der sholter in the cavity they had w ide,
while they threw outside the pioces that
they out away from the compact muss.
Hatteraa walked about at intervals but
he never went farther than a certain limit
in the direction of the hcoug of the ex
plosion; it was evident tint he had no
heart to go to the spot where lay whut
was loft of his unfortunate ship.
True to his promise tbo Doctor soon
returned. He brought buck with him
Altamout, who was lying ou the sled atul
wrapped in the folds of a tent. The
Greenland dogs that dragged tha sled,
thin, weary, aud famished as they were,
coaid barely 'draw their burden uftnr
them, aud in so stutV6<l u c mditiou were
they flhat they were gnawing their leath
ern bits. It was indeed time that this
company, men as well a* dogs, Hhoutd
have both food and repose.
While the house was gradually being
hallowed out of (he ice, tha cavity be
coming det-p-jr with each few minutes
that passed away, tha Doctor, poking
about here aud there, had the good for
tune to find a small stove which had been
scarcely injured by the explosion. The
pipe attache! to this stove, though bent,
could be p it iu shapo easily. The Doctor
held it aloft and exhibited it to liis o<
panions with an air of triumph.
At the end of three hours' time tho
house of ioe wm ready for iu ocoupsnts.
The stove was put iu it and was stuffed
with splinters of wood, and soon it wm
roaring and diffusing a welcome heat.
The American was oarried into the
dwelling and was laid nnder a pile of
oovenngi in the part farthest from the
entrance, while the four Euglshmeu took
poeitiens near the fire. The laet remain
ing food that the sled oonUined—a few
biaouita and some bot tea—served to give
them what oomfort oould be derived in
Hatteraa did not
speak, and each one of bin companions
respected bia silence.
When this repast was finished the Doc
tor motioned to Johnson to follow him
outside.
“Now," he said to him, “we are about
to make an inventory of what remains to
us. It is neoesssry that we should know
exactly the state of our riches. They are
scattered about in every direction. We
must collect them. The snow may fall at
any momeut, and then it would be im
possible for us to find tho alightcei ves
tige of the ship."
“Then we have no time to lose," re
pliod Johuson. “Food and wood—these
*re what possess an immediate impor
tance for us."
“Woll, let eaoh one of ua look ou his
side," returned the Dootor, “In this
way we oau search over the whole radius
of the explosion. Let us begin at the cen
tre and theiioe we will reaoh the oiroum-
ference."
The two comrades went forthwith to
the bed of ioe that the Forward bad occu
pied, each carefully examining by the
clouded light of the moon the remains of
the ship. It was a geuuine bunt. The
Dootor brought to his task the passion,
not to Ray the pleasure, of a buntor, and
his heart throbbed violently when he dis
covered some chests nearly intact; but
most of the chests were empty, and their
splinters were soatterod about the field.
Great hud been tho violenoa of the ex
plosion. Many objects that the ship had
contained were now only du-*t and ashes.
The largo pieces of the engine ley in
spots, broken or twisted. The brokeu
btudes of tho screw, thrown a hundred
fool from the ship, had deeply penetrated
the hardened snow. The bent cylinders
hud been torn from their axles. The
chimney, split its whole length, and from
which still hung ends of ehAins, seemed
half erusUed under au enormous block of
ioe. Nails, hooks, the iron work of the
rudder, the copper shea thing, All the
brig's rneUl bad beeu bu.l-d a great dis
tance like so many grape shot.
But this iron, which would have made
the fortune of an Esqiumau tribe, wm of
no use whatever in the existing circum
stances; that wbioh was rno-tt to be looked
for was provisions, aud the Doctor made
few d scoveries in this lino.
“Tuis looks bad," he said to himself;
“it is dear that the steward’s room, situa
ted near tbo powder in tgazine, must have
been entirely deatroye-l by ti;o explosion,
And what oscaped tho flumes has ffeeu re
duced to crumbs. It is a serious o ise, and
less Johnson has boon more successful
f . 'ulh ive been, I do not know what
«.d become of ns."
However, in widening the oirole of hia
researches, the Dootor succeeded in gath
ering a few fragments of pemmican, a
preparation of condensed moat—altogeth
er u <out fif-.ocn pounds-— and four stone-
wu bottles, which thrown to a distance
on • yuie soft snow, had escaped breakage,
and still held five or six pints of brandy.
Further off he pioked np two
paokages of scurvy-grass seeds; this oaoie
good season to compensate for the loss
of the lime juice, so efficacious wherewith
to combat the scurvy.
At tho expiration of two hours the
Dootor aud Johns.m rejoined eaoh other.
They, compared the exteat of their dis
coveries, whioh were, unfortunately, of
but little importance iu tho matter of pro
visions, and - which consisted only of a
few pieoes of salt meat, fifty pounds of
pemmican, three bags of biscuits, a small
quantity of chocolate, brandy, and about
two pounds of coffee pickod up grain by
grain ou the ico.
No coverings, no mattresses, no cloth
ing oould bo found, tho fire having evi
dently devonrel them all. To sum up,
the Dootor and tho boatswain had gather
ed provisions to last three weeks with the
utmost frugality—little euoagh to rostoro
to strength tho weokeued men. Thus,
after running short of coal, owing to ad
verse circumstances, Captain Hatteraa
•aw himself oa the eve of failing in food.
As to the fuel furnished by the remains
of the ship, the pieces of its masts and
its kwol, this might last, also, about three
weeks; but the Doctor, before contem
plating its use for the purpose of warm
ing the house, asked Johnson if the frag
ments they had found would serve to
build a small vessel, or at least a launch
“No, Mr. Clawbonny," replied the
boatswain, “we must not dream of any
snob good fortune. Thero is not a piece
of wood intact whioh may be used for
that purpose. All this is only good to
warm as for a few days, and after—”
“After?" repeated the dootor.
“Wo shall be in the hands of God!"
repliod the old sailor.
Tuis inventory having been concluded,
the Doc or and Johnson wont for the sled.
They harassed to it, willy-nilly, the poor
tired dogs, returned to the soeuo of tho
explo-tion, loaded the sled with tbe re-
maius of t£o cargo, so rare and yet so
preoiou*, and carried them to the snow
bouse; tbeu, half frozen, they joined
their companions around the stove.
[to aa cusr.auto.]
JiUlIk
—An exchange s«iys: “A little girl in
Milwaukee distinguished herself the other
day by lighting a fire with a roll of paper
she had seen her father stuff away iu an
old corner of his bureau. Tbe roll con
tained something more thsn $1,100."
Every time we g* o *w to stuff away rolls
of p*per containing more than $1,100, we
look aionnd to see that all the little girls
of whom we are suspected of being the
father are nowhero in the neighborhood.
—A little five-year-old boy, in Indiana,
Mid to a judge who had called at bia
father s: “Are you going to your store ?"
“I haven’t got any store." “Are you go
ing to your mill?" “I haven’t got any
mill." “Are you going to yoor shop ?"
**I haven’t got may abop." “Well, then,
bow do you make money f” *M make It
by my brains." “Well, my papa aMkte
money, end he han't get aay Mate"
•Miss Alice Viokery (saya the London
Medioel Record,) the first end only regis
tered lady pharmaceutist iu England, hM
just paased honorably, in company with
lira. Algernon Kingsford, the first year’s
examination of the Hohool of Medioine of
the OalTaiwUy of hda .
—Tbe Emperor of Germany has pre
sented hie portrait, life-size, to King
Victor Emanuel m a Christmas gift. It
was painted by Karl Arnold, and repre
sents the Emperor m atanding before a
chair of state in a general's uniform, with
the riband, chain, and star of the Italian
Order of the Annunziata.
—M. Pierre Larouase U dead at the
age of 57. He was a lexicographer and
author of many books of education, but
more oelebrated by the publication of his
“Grand Diotiounaire Universal du Dix-
Neuvieme Siecle.”
—Mr. F. G. Heath, author of “The
English Peasantry," is writing a plea for
the more extended cultivation of ferns,
under the title of “The Fern Paradise,"
whioh will inolude descriptions of ram
bles through the lanes and woods of De
vonshire.
—The Pope bM taken up a project
whioh he formed many years ago of plac
ing twelve statues round the cupola of 8t.
Peter's, in accordance with the idea of
Michael Angelo. Twelve sculptors ere to
be oharged^aoh with the execution of a
statue.
—MM. Siraudio and Jnlea Noriao are
concluding a comedy in three sets, whioh
is to be played at the Palais Royal at tbe
eud of the winter, under the title of “La
Fills d’Olyinpe."
—Sir Charles Lyell hM been eleotel
Foreign Member of the Royal Ao*rl«iuy
of Turin, iu the room of the late Perpeb
ual Secretary to the French Institute, M.
Elio di Beaumont.
—M. Oretineau-Joly, whom death is re'
ported at the age of 71, was a well known
French hia'.orical writer.
—Mr. Elihu Burritt, the well-known
liuguist, is teaching Sanscrit to a olaas of
young ladies at his home in New Britain,
Connecticut.
—The Rev. John Cur wen, the origina
tor of Tome Sol-fa mode of incsioal no
tation, hM been publicly prcbeuted with
a testimonial—a purse containing a solid
proof of tue interest taken by the donora
iu bis work. He intends to devote tbe
money to tbe eatabliaameut or a college.
At tbe same time Mrs. Our won wm pre
sented with a portrait of ber huoband.
Tbs Antiquitz of Ibon. — According
to tbo Iron Age, a wedge or plate o( iron
baa been touud imbedded iu tbe maionry
of tbe great Pyramid, tbe ludica’Lious be
ing that it must have beeu wrought in
tbe age of Cheops, placed by some au
thorities m far back aa 5, DO yoais ago.
Tula wakes the use of iron about 2,600
years more aaoiem than it m auppoaod to
be, aud affords opportunity for explaning
tbe cutting of the aharp aud woii defined
hieroglyphics on porphyry, granite, and
other hard atoues employed in the con
struction of Egyptian pyramids, temples
aud tombs, iio* tbeae oould bavo beeu
out before tha ege of iron has been a
puzzling question to many. Further in
vestigation way show irou to have beeu
in nse 6,000 years ago.
—Mr. Hind, of Nova Soolia, oalls at
tention to the fact that the equatorial
bulge of tbe earth's surface way have
been much larger in earlier geological
epocha than at tho presaut day, aud that
Captain Clarke's and General Huhuberl'a
investigations, according to which Ine
earth's equator ia an elltpso and not a cir
cle, favor the idea that in these earlier
epochs this elliptioity must have assumed
the nature of a gradual change in tbe
figure of tbe earth, in virtue of wbioh a
vast equatorial undulation baa progressed
with extreme slowness in an easterly sad
westerly direction.
Bumso.—The Scientific American says:
“Sumao ia largely used iu tanning tbe
fioerkiuda of leather, e p .ciully iu tbe
mauufaotnre of hard-grained moiocco
and similar goods. It is also employed
as tbe baae of tn*uy oolora in calico and
delaine printing. Probably tbe consump
tion of this article throughout the coun
try for All purposes Aggregates more th.<u
20,000 Urns,of which about two-tbirds are
imported from Sicily, not because as good
uuwao cannot be grown in this country,
bat because until a few years ago, our
people did not know ita value, or in what
way to prepare it for tho market. The
sumacs of Virginia, Maryland and Ten
nessee in pariionUr, ere said to be tbe
best in the world, end even their worst
articles have been officially pronounced
by experts to be better than any import
ed from Sicily. Almost every farmer baa
a clump ef these bushes. They are oull-
ed by some •*shoem»ke;" by other*, “red
shoe make." Probably many farmers
may have tried to kill them by cnttiug
down. If they have, they know how dif
ficult a task it is. It grows like asparagus
—all the better for being out; and when
ones started Upon a lot and cut nuos a
year, it is as easy to cut os to M
only trouble ia ourmg it prop. u
most be done with ell the oare that is
given to tobaooo or hope. Exposure, af.
ter cutting, to e heavy dew, injures it.
and e rain storm detracts materially from
its value. It ia out when in full leaf, and
when properly dried ia ground, leaves
and etelke together. An aora in full bear
ing will prodaoe not leee then three ton^
end when fit for market it ia worth from
$80 to $1OO per ton. The “maenfaotar-
erw," ee the oarers ere oaJied, pay about
ANIWRBfl TO OOBBUPamiTfl.
Harry. —Latitude and longitude era
both fixed by astronomioal calculations.
Longitude is arbitrary in ita initial.
Maritime nations reckoning from their
oapitola, though Gveanwieh time—tbe
same m London—ia now in general use.
Tha determination of latitude by a heav
enly body whoa# declination at the aqua-
established ia an easy matter.
Longitude is more difficult to reckon—
seve in obMrvetoriee—though with the
average time of three good chronometers,
set to tha time wheo tha raa eroaaae the
meridian of aay Washington or Paria, and
oounting 860 degreM to tha twenty-four
hours, tbe position East or Waal can be
made within a few aeoonds, al leaat. Tha
moat accurate method ia by tha obaerv-
anoe of oeleetiel phenomena, anticipated
and compared with tha known period of
oommeuoement at the initial point.
/.—The Hpertaoa, whose oountry wea
Laconia, endeavored to oonflne themselves
to a sententious brevity in speaking and
writing. Heooe, tha term Leoonio bee
bean applied to this style.
B. B.—We think a re later of aneodotea
may be good oompeny, but it shows ques
tionable ability, even if done well. If
d jus habitually, La Bruyere says: “It ia
a proof of medioonty of iutelleot to be
addicted to relating stories."
R. T. —We appreciate the ohereoter of
men you describe, but you mast not
make him a model. Ha who uavar talks
of anything without trying to catob tta
ear of the more ignorant knows bat little.
A few encounters usually pump him dry«
and you sea hia depth. It suoh men took
haif the pains to be scholars that they do
to bide their ignoranoe« their shallowness
would never be discovered.
Km i opuli, ShaJupeare. —Tha follow
ing is the corieot quotation:
*• Ad b'bitxt oq xiJJj sod ae-iar*
11 ,.Ui ba tb >t < uilileta >-d the vulgar koert.
Oh, thou f a l in .u> 1 With #nat I u i epplaNM
thou boat beavoa with bl<*«oiag, Boling*
Brore ta-'w** what thou woelA'et hava him bal
Aud now, baieg trlataei my Is thine .wa da-
■Ires,
Sam —"A quien no U oobra pa, no trie
can, is an old 8p*nieh proverb, and
meeua: “Ha who hM no breed to spare
should not kaep a dog."
Orim —Luperoalia was a festival among
tho ancient Romans on the 16tu of Feb
ruary in honor of Lupereus, the God of
Fertility. Ho is euppoMd to have been
tbe same m the Pan of tha Greeks.
Homer.—“He ia a fool who cannot be
angry and express it with force; bat
he is a wiso man who restrains indigna
tion when its expreaeion oaunot avail.’
Lord Bacon urns nearly the seme words,
and they are literally a translation of a
French proverb.
Heck, Byron.—Wa oaonot reoall the
poem :
“ Path ip* there'* Bathing—I'll not a«y appala,
Hut radilana u.ore by night, M well os -ay,
Th ia an enormoue room without a eoul
To break tha liralaa* splendor of the whole.”
Li*iie.—Vie cannot tall yon how to
“captivate," bat we can aay the true way
to win tbe love of a good mao is to be
natural. Thera ia nothing so common as
the mask of affectation in voioe, gesture
or dress, and nothing whioh a man or wo
man of sense sees through so easily.
H. L.—Do not be anxious to ahineae
a conversationalist. Never speak nnleaa
you have something to say. Wa know
brilliant talkers m bollew of heart m they
are shallow of brain. Silence in a woman
is not considered a drawback—at lemt it
ought not to be, whan flippancy ia oom
raon.
Afarf.—Th© problem is not difficult,
but to solve it through the paper would
taka too muoh np«oo. We would prefer
your seeing your teaoher, who will, no
doubt, cheerfully explain; but if you
w«>uld prefer not doing so, we will eon
aider it a pleasure and a duty to help you
through. Gome to our office as yoa would
to a friend, who bM often bean in the
same fix.
Marmion writes to My he thinks tbe
Enquum 8oh “the best paper ever pub
lished on or south of Ibis latitude." Oar
friend Msures us of a faot that is known
to every man with braios and without
prejudice who sees our paper.
PBCIIIVOI.
—•The strugglo for existence is m lively
is Canada aa eliewhare. Hays a Montreal
p<ipur: “The utuer evening a little boy
modestly made known to the oarters of a
certain stand on St. Oatherioe street that
he wanted to go for a doctor to attend bin
mother, who was ill. A tremeudous rush
of driver* was made in consequence. No.
I barely got (he lad to hie sleigh,
when No. 2 snatched him away; while
running with tbe frightened youngster.
No. A picked tbe little fellow out of his
arms, plumped him in his own sleigh, and
pulling the blanket off his horae, drove
off. A minute after, however, be was
passed by carter No. 4, who wae driving a
little boy. No. 8, thinking this very
strange, 1 joked aroand for bia little boy,
but in vain. While he bad been polling
off bis horas bLukat, No. 4 had eeourad
the prize."
—Au Albany poat narrates how he
strolled among tha markat carte whioh
congregate upon tbe hill below tbe oapi-
u ** a ! to!; how he fell into conversation with a
The | iufdly Shakerees in charge of out who
This gave him enticing edvioe to join the
Shaker community; how he pondered,
hesitated, and how a tear dropping from
her bright eye turned the conversation to
the following happy result: “Bat thou
wilt go with me ? I oried. Fair virgia,
let us be in holy bonds, by solmen ritee,
our own community. My life, my for
tune, all I have, I Under now to yoa; I
lie# in a thren-atorjr honw, and I nm well
to do. Wilt thou go with mm f—you heel- { ,n $ to M* bourn farther heck off the
I late ? n brown-atone front, yon know— I road » !»*• *ife and
down oame abe from the wag— boa and **
answered me, “I §e.”
IlillL ©.
Attorney aai Owsii
Ooenaiasloaer of Deeds N. .
now Oeor-ia Uoom
IIISIll
nSSwSiMb
rtis ia illtissi^fl,
IAMUKL B. |
—A young man living near 84. Johns-
bury, Vt, who lately reeeived from a
young lady a gift of an alaborata pen
wiper, is wearing it for a necktie, evi
dently misunderetending its nee.
—“My name is Somerset,’’ writes a
pnneter; “I am a mtverahte bachelor. I
cannot marry; for how oould I hope to
prevail on any yonng ladv, pose Meed of
the alightMt notion of delioaey, to turn
a Somerset ?"
—At a printers' featival, lately, tha fol
lowing toMt wm offered: “Woman—
•eoond only to tha Proas in tbe dissemina
tion of oaws!" The ladies are yet uude-
oidad w be bet to regard this aa a compli
ment or otherwise."
—“John, I saw yoor ooutin Iasao a few
week* ago, and ha had just received a
fall, whioh out a most horrible gash in bia
arm?" “Ah, poor follow; what did ha
fall on?" “Well, really, I forget now;
bot it ratherstrike* me he fell on Tuesday
morning."
—It is reported that a man went hams
at about 8 o'olock Wednesday morning;
end, using bis umbrella for a billiard cue,
smote his s'ecping wife in the short rib,
crying “Pool!" and sank ino a aweet
•lumber. He bas since explained to hia
wife that women cun have no idea bow
the the oams of business whl sometimes
affect a man’s brain.
—While some negro steambontraen
wars being paid off, the olerk inquired of
eeoh one m he oame to sign the pay roll:
“Will yon write your name, ox make an
X?" The first one aaid he oould write
hie neme, end the pen was handed to hia.
He looked at the pen, ecratiniaed the pay
roll, and hesitated so long that tbe olerk
poked him up. “Let's see," mused the
darkey, m he looked up at the olock; “i.’a
now 10 o’clock, and u I’ve got to meet a
feller at tba Oily Hell at hood, I gneoa I
won't write my naiae, but 1*11 put down
an X."—Detroit Free Prut.
—A lady once oonaulted Dr. Johnson
on the degree of turpitude to be attaebed
to her son's robbing an orchard. “Mad
am," said Johnson, “it all depends upon
the weight of the boy. I remember my
■obool-fellow, DsvU G.trrick, who wm
always a little follow, robbing a dozen of
orohards with impunity; but tbe very
tret time I climbed up aa apple tree—for
I wm always a heavy boy—tbe bough
broke with me, and it w»s called judg-
meut. I nappoue that is why jur.tice is
represented with a pair of scales J”
—An Irishman, arrested for highway
robbery, on being brought before a mag
istrate, asserted that he was more entitled
to be pitied than to be punished. “Pit
ied!" exolaimed tbe justice, “and ou what
account, pray ?" “Sure, on account of
my misfortune." “Your misfortune, in
deed I What! that we have caught you,
I suppose?" “Ob, the jintleman that's
brought me here knows my misfortune
well enough." But tbe gentleman wm m
astonished as the magistrate himself, and
m incapable of understanding tbe cul
prit's meaning. “You will owu, I sup
pose," aaid his Worship, “that you stop
ped tha gentleman on the highway?”
“Oh! yea, I did that same.” “And that
yon took from him £50 in bills ?’.' “And
there your Honor's right again." “Well,
then, you perplexing vagabond, what do
yon mean by your misfortune?" “Sure,
and tha money wasn't in my pooket above
a weak whin tbe dirthy bank stepped pay
ment, and I was robbed of ivery shil
lin’."
—A Lanringbnrg young lady heard her
sweetheart say he would like a dog, and
■o she put one in a bag, marked hia usme
on tbe outside, and early one evening
hired a boy to pat it on the steps of hie
residence. Then she watched from a
friend's window aorona the street to wit
ness the reception of the gift. When the
young man oame home he pioked up the
paokage, and seemed surprised at the
squirming inside. He lead tha inscrip'
tion, and just then a low whine came
from tbe interior. Suddenly he grew
pale, tbeu fluwhed red, aud then threw the
bundle into the street. Tbe young lady,
surprised at his conduct, ran out ju*t in
time to bear him mutter something in
wbioh the word “baby" ooourrsd. He
seemed grout ly relieved when be found
what was iu the bundle; but the Jug rues
on three legs because the other is broken,
and tbe joung lady is unable to under
stand the strange demeanor of her swee*.
heart. No explanation that he baa made
seems wholly pUtuible.
A Mum Willino to Go.—A bad little
boy lit n pack of shooting-crook >r', and
threw them into tbe street to seo them
"go off." One of Ike Batman'i
came along and swallowed them before
they “went off." Tbe mule walked about
fifteen feet, and stepped. Things wasn’t
acting right in-i le. H© began to taste
the smoke of fire-crackers. He l.id hie
left ear around against his ribs and heard
something. It was them craokers having
fun. The mule picked oat sbuut tbree
aud a half miles of straight road, and
started. A uegro met him about a mile
the other side of the alms-house, going
south, white with perspiration, with
alrnsuH of mnoke shooting out of hia
nostrils, mouth aud ears, while his tail
•tack straight np, and a stream of biuo
and green smoke about ten feet long fol
lowed in the rear. Ike found his mule
yesterday morning sticking half-way
through a farm-house near Fodi^r'a Ron,
•till smoking. The man hM got his fam
ily out and put 'em np in' a lot of trees.
Ike banied hie mule home, when he got
oool enough, ou a dray. Tbe man is go-
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