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THE WAYSIDE ANtiEL.
BY JAIfB RLLICS.
Death! we onos held thee for the king of ter*
▲ bloodless thing, compact ef bones and dust,
On all life’d fulrsjt g <ld a oaaksrir>K rust ;
Bat since our Lord has died we see thee truer;
Thou a familiar presence now art grown.
And ms Love’s white-winged messenger art
known.
Sometimes thv feot
And In the dawn^ _
la thy deep bosom lulling tenderly
A sleeping child, while life falls off, and sorrow,
As from the pendant, slackening finger tips
The blue bel s, or the fading primrose slips;
Heavy wlili proclous dows by sad eyes shed.
at noon thou
Or through the rlponlng
goest,
Leading with pious csre some aged feet
Back to ihelr home, fresh youth and spring
timo sweet.
The reaper, as thou passost, stays hl« reaping,
And leasing, (eels thy broath, like so!test air,
Blow oool upon his brow and lift his ha r.
Or by some wayworn form we see thee bending,
Giving a draughttfrom they oool pitcher s
brink
Of tbo*e cold wells that quench to them who
drink,
All mortal weariness, an 1 thirst, and longing ;
And st -aightway the lame feet g.ln strength
to go
A vaster way, whore swiftest thought la slow.
Angel beloved or all tho broken-hearted !
8 >en through thy vailol 1 burning pallia show
gray,
Like a fonot’en lamp surprised by day;
Life's dull leaved book gilds as we softly close
It,
Sorrow runs to thine
And with hor land ..
And love before thee keeps his garments
us,
Dike that faint, huoless evening sky we see,
-kv v
That has the promise of tho stars to be.
[Translated from the French.]
THE DESERT OF ICE;
AJOURNEYTOTHE NORTH POLE.
BY JULXS YBBKB.
CHAPTEB III.
MARCH OF HEVRNTSEN DAYS.
This new incident—these first uttered
words of Altamout—had completely
changed the situation of tho shipwrecked
men; a moment beftro ttiey had fouud
themselves beyond uli poasiblo suocor
withont any serious hope of reaching
B.-ffiu’s Bay, threatened with a failure of
their supply of provisions during a jour
ney in itself too long a oue for their fa
tigued bodies, and now, leas than four
huudrod miles from their snow-house, lay
a ship which offered them vast resources
and also, perhaps, the means whereby
they could crntiuue their bold march to
ward the Polo. Iiatteras, the Doctor,
Johnson, and Bell began to experience
hope after having beau so ready to de
spair. Tho sentiment that controlled
them was u joy bordering on delirium.
But the information furnished by Alla-
. moot was still incomplete, aud after a
few minutes devoted to repose the Doctor
resumed with him that conversation which
had proved so precious. He framed his
questions in such a way that it was only
neoessary for Altamont, in reply to move
his head or his eyes.
Ho soon learned from Altamont tbAt
the Porpoise was a three-masted Ameri
can ship, from New Yoak, which had been
wrecked in the ice, w.th provisions and
fnel in quantity aboard. Although lying
on her beam ends, she omit have resisted
the pressu u of the ice und it was possible
that the chrgo might bo sav*d.
Altamont and his crew had abandoned
her two mouths previously, taking the
lannoh with them on a sled; their idea
was to roach Smith’s Strait, meet some
whaler in that region, and so return to
America; but by degiees fatigue aud
sioknoas overtook these uufortuuale* and
they fell, oue by one, on the way. At
last ouly the Captain aud two of the sail
ors remaiuod out of a crow of thirty men,
and if he, Altamont, survived, it was*
indeed, by a miracle of Providence.
Hatteras desired to know why the Por
poise had gone to so high a latitude ?
Altamont gave him to understand that
he had been carried by the ice without
being able to resist it.
Hatteras, still anxious as to his purpost
questioned him regarding his business
there.
Altamout replied that he was attempt
ing to make the Northwost Passage
Hatieras no longer insistod, and he tsk-
ed no more questions of this kind.
Then the Doctor spoke.
“All our efforts now,” he ssid, “should
be to find the Porpoise. Instead of ad
venturing toward Baffin’s Bay, wo oau
reach by a much shorter rou o a ship
which will offer As all necessary resources
for winter quarters.” ,
“There is no other c.,arvj left open to
us,” replied Boll.
“To this I add," said the boatswain,
“that we should not lose an instant. The
length of our journey must bo oalculated
by the time that our provisions will last,
coutrarv to the usual custom, and we must
take our dopartme as soon as possible.
“Yon are right, Johnson,” replied the
Doctor. By leaving to-morrow, Tuesday,
February 20, we must reach the Porpoiso
by March 15, or run the risk of perishing
from starvation. What do you think of
it, Hatteras?”
“Intus make our preparations imme
diately” replitd the C»pUin, “and let us
star^ Poruap.i the joaruey may bo a
longer one than we suppose.”
“Why so?” asked the Doctor. “This
man seems certain of the locality of his
ship.”
“Bu/,” returned Hatteras, “suppose
the Porpoise has moved from its posi
tion^”
'<Trao, that might have happened,”
themselves had been victims on a previous
occasion.
But Altsmonf, who has an attentive lis
tener to this conversation, made tho Doo-
tor understand that he wished to spenk.
The latter gave his attention to the Amer
ican, and after full fifteen minutes of cir
cumlocutions aud hesitations in his state
ments, Altamont made it certain to his
mind that the Porpoise, which had been
wrecked on a coaat, could not possibly
have become disengaged from the rocks
l which she had struck.
This news brought calm to the miuds
of tho four Englishmen; aud yet it took
from them ull hope of returning to Eu
rope, nn! ess Bed could succeed iu build
ing a small vessol with tho remaius or the
Porpoise. However that might be, what
was most demanded was to reach the
sceuce of the wreck itself.
The Doctor asked a last question of tho
American. Had he—Altamont—found aw
open sea in latitude 83 degrees, to which
he had penetrated?
“No,” replied Altamont.*
There the conversation ceased. The
preparations for departure began at once.
First of all,Beil and Johnson turned their
attention to tho sled. It neoded a thor
ough overhauling. As there was no laek
of wool its uprights wore fixed iu the
most solid inauuir. Their excursion in
the sled to the south had taught, thorn
ceriaiu lessons and by these they profited
in their repairs; knowing now the weak
eidss of this venicle of transportation,
with the anticipation of meeting heavy
and frequent snow-storms, the runners
were raised higher.
Inside the sled Bell arranged a sort of
oouch, covered with the cloth of the*tent
and destined for the American; the pro
visions, small in quantity, unfortunately,
would not greatly increase the weight of
the sled; but, on the other hand, they
completed the cargo with all the wood
which they could curry with them.
In arranging the provisions, the Doc
tor catalogued them with the utmost ex
actitude, and tho result of his calcula
tions was that each one of the travelers
should limit himself to three-quarter ra
tions for a journey of three weeks. One
entire ration was reserved for each of the
four draft dogs. If Duke should do his
share of the pulling, he woald have a
right, also, to Lis fnll ration.
The necessity for uleep and rest, which
made itself folt imperatively from seven
o'clock in the evening, interrupted the
progress of these preparations; but be
fore going to sleep the wrecked men gath
ered around tho stove, in which they did
not sparo tbt* fuel. The poor follows
treated Ihomselvoa to a luxury of warmth
to which they had loug beeu unaccustom
ed. Some pammican, a few biscuits and
several cups of ton soon put them in good
humor, joined as their influence was
with that hope which had come to them
so suddenly and from so long a distance.
Work was resumed at 7 o’clock next
morning and by 3 o’clock in the afternoon
nothing more remained to be done.
Darkness was already coming on. Since
tho3l8t of January tho sun had made
his reappearance above tho horizon, but
his light was feeble and of short dura
tion only. Fortunately the moon was to
rise at 0.30 o’clock, aud, in a clear sky,
its light would suffice to make the route
clear. The temperature which for sever
al days Lad boon lowering sensibly had
attained thirty three degrees below zero.
Tue moment for departure came. Alta
mout welcomed with joy the idea of set
ting out ou the journey, although tho
jolting.of tho sled naturally would add to
his suffering*; he hnd made the Doctor
understand that on the Porpoise would
be found the auti-soorbutio remedies so
necessary for the cure of the scurvy from
which he suffered.
carried to the slod and was in
stalled therein as comfortably as possible.
The dogs, Duke included, were harnessed
and then tho travelers give a last look to
that icy bod where once had lsin the For
ward. For an imtant, evidences of an
intense angry thought were apparent on
the features of Hatteras, but he soon re
covered bin self-control, and the small
eompany, the weather being very dry,
plunged into the mist of the north-north
west.
Each one assumed the plaoo which he
had boon accustomed to tAke during their
excursion 1—Bell lea ling and indicating
tho route to be followed; the Dootor and
the boatswain, at the sides of the sled,
watching aud pushing as occasion de-
mini (1; Ilatlensiu the rear, rectifying
the route und kcepihg the tded in a
straight I***© with BjII.
T .e proto n of the party wae very
rapid—the low temperature rendering
ttij ico h ;r l nnd affording a smooth sur-
(d’jo alo.jg which the runners glided with
ease. T;.e live dogs had no difficalty in
dragging uf.tr them this load, whioh did
not woigh ovt-rhOdpounds, and yot men
and dogs a’iko breathed rapidly and wore
compelled to pause ofton to regain thoir
breath.
About seven o’clock the reddish disk
of the moon struggled through the mists
of the horizon. Its peaceful rays light
ened the night and threw out a brightness
which the ice rollsctad. Toward the
northwest the appoarance of tho ice-field
was that of au immense white and per
fectly level piaiu. Not an undulation,
not a heuuuock was to be seen, ’ibis part
of tho sea seemed to have been frozen
over as rmoothly as a lake without rip-
plea.
it was nn immonso uo.-.ert, llat and
monotonous.
This was the impression produced by
this spectaole in tho Doctor* mind and
this impression he cominuniosted to hia
companion.
“You are right, Dr. Clawbonny," re
plied Johnson; “it is a desert, it ia true;
but ws need have no fear of dying here
of thirst! ”
“Au evident advantage 1” returned the
Doctor. “Yet this immensity totisflss
tarred the Doctor.
Job neon and Bell said nothing regard-
«. - ■“» - «*
must be far distant fnm any land. Gen
erally the approaches to coasts ere mark
ed by a multitude of mountains of ioe,
and uot an ioeberg is visible around us. ”
“The mist is very thick ou the horizon
and obHourcs,” returned Johnson.
“That is true; but sinoe our departure
we have been making our way along a flat
field of ioc which threatens never to come
to an end.”
“Do you know, Mr. Olawbonny, that
this promenade of ours ia a dangerous
one. One grows accustomed to it and
therefore does not tbi.-ik of it, but it is a
fact that the frozen surface on which we
are wilkiug Lhu% covers a bottomless
gulf ?”
“You are right, my friend, but We have
no reason to fear that wo will be swallow
ed up. The resistance of this white
crust formed by the coldness of thirty-
three degiees is considerable! Notice
that its tendeucy is to become thicker
and thicker, for in these latitudes anow
falls nine days out of ten, even in April,
May and June, and I estimate its greatest
depth to be not far from thirty or forty
feet.”
“That is reissuring," replied Johnson.
“In fact, we are not like those skaters
on the Serpentine, in llydo Park, at Lon
don, who fear each moment that the frail
surface of the ice will break under their
feet; we havo no mibh danger to dread.”
“Is the resisting foroe of ioe known?”
askn 1 tho old sailor, who was always eager
to instrnot himself when in the Doctor’s
company.
“Perfectly,” answered the Dootor,
“What ia there in the world that will (id-
mit of measurement that is unknown—
except huuiHU ambition ! Is it not ambi
tion, in fact which is urging us toward
that North Pole which man wishes to
know all about? But to return to your
question—this is what I can answer. Ioe
two inches thick will support a man; at a
thickness of threo inches and a half it
will support a man on horseback; five
inches of ice will support an eight pound
er cannon; eight inches a battery of ar
tillery with carriage and horses attached,
and finally, ice ten inches thick will sup
port an army—an innumerable multitude!
On the spot where we are now walking
oould be bnilt the Liverpool Custom
House or the House of Parliament in
London.
“It is hard to understand such a power
of resistance,” said Johnson; “but a mo
naent ago, Mr. Clawbonny, you spoke of
the average fall of snow in these coun<
tries as being nine days of snoifr out of
ten days. Tho fact is plain and I do not
dispute it; bat wbcuce conies all this
snow, for the seas, being frozen, I cannot
see what can originate the immsnss
quantity of vapor whioh forms the
clouds.”
“Your observation is a sensible one,
Johnson. According to my opinion most
of the Know or rain that we receive in
these polar regions is formed from the
water of tho seas that lie in the temper
ate zones. There may be a flake which,
first a simple drop of water from some
river of Europe, ascends into tbe air in
the form of vapor, takes tbe shape of a
cloud, and finally comes to this region
and condenses itself. Therefore, it is
not impossible that iu drinkiug this anow
we are drinkiug of the rivers of oar own
country.”
“That must be it,” answered the boat
swain.
At this moment the voice of Hatteras,
rectifying the mistakes of the route inado
itself beard, and the conversation was in
terrupted. The mist was becoming
denser aud this fact rendered it diffioult
for Bell to keep a straight line.
Afte having marched fifteen miles tho
little troupe stopped about 8 o’olock at
night. Tho weather was still dry. Tho
tent was pitched; the stove was lighted;
they took supper; and so tbe night pass
ed away quietly.
Hatteras and bis companions really
were favore 1 by the weather. Daring tbs
following days tbeir journey was mads
without any difficulties arising, although
the cold bee line extremely violent and
tbe mercury froze iu tho thsrmomster.
Had ths wind added to the freezing tem
perature not one of the travelers could
have held out against each a cold. On
this occasion the Dootor confirmed the
justico of the observations of Parry dur
ing bis expedition to the Mellville Island.
This celebrated seaman reports that a
man suitably clad can walk > bout with
iwpuuity in the coldest weather of those
regions, so long es the air is still; but let
tbe Slightest wind blow nnd au agonizing
pain is felt in the face, accompanied with
a headache of extreme violence, which is
soon followed by drntb.
The Doctor, therefore, was not withont
anxiety, for a simple gust of wind would
havo frozen them all to tbe marrow of
their boues.
On March 5 he witnessed a phenome
non peculiar to this latitude. The sky
was perfectly clear and was brilliant with
stars, whan suddenly came a heavy fall of
suow without the slightest appearance of
a cloud; the coustollati >us shone through
the Know-flukes which fell on the ice-field
with a beautiful regularity. The snow
lasted for two hours, and then ceased
without tho Doctor’s being able to find a
reasonable explanation of its fall.
By this time the lost quarter of tbe
moon had vanished, and during seventeen
hours of the twenty-four tho darkness
wai profound. The travelers were forced
to tie th'-inselves to each other witha long
rc-p j s; as not to bacome sep ir.ttoJ, aud
it W4a fouud almost impossible to follow
the indications of the compass
march.
And now these brave men, although
sustained by a will of iron, bagan to ex
perience fatigue. Their halts became
more frequent, and not an hour was to be
lost for tho provisions were diminishing
by degrees.
Hatteras often took the bearings of
the position through hia Inner and stellar
observations. As he saw the days paae
by and the end of the journey postponed j
indefinitely, he sometimes asked himself
whether the Porpoise really existed,
whether the Americans mind had not
keen affeotod by his sufferings, or oven
whether, out of hatred to the English,
and belitving in his own certain death,
he was not endeavoring to drag them
with him to destruction.
He expressed his doubts to tbe Dootor,
who absolutely rejected them; bnt at the
same time the letter understood that an
nnfortnnate rivalry existed between the
English Captain and the American Cap
tain.
“It will bo difficult to keep these two
men on friendly terms,” he seid to him
self.
On March 14, after a tramp of sixteen
days, the travelers had not reaohed a
poiut farther than the 21th degree of lat
itude.
Their strength was exhausted, and they
were still a hundred milee distant from
the ship. In addition to their other snf-
ferings it* was necesaary to reduce eaoh
man to a quarter of a ration per day, so
that the dogs eould have eaoh a whole ra
tion.
Unfortanstely, no reliance eould be
placed on hunting, for only seven loads
of powder and six balls remained; vainly
had they fired at a few white hares and
foxes which by oliance had corao 10 their
way; iu no case had the shot taken ef
fect.
However, on March 16, the Doctor, who
wae the best shot in the party, wae lucky
enough to surprise a seel lying ou tbe ice.
He wounded it with several balls, and
as the animal could not esoape through
its hole, which was closed, it was soon
captured and killed, It was of large size.
Johnson skillfully cut it up, but its ex
treme leanness rendered it of little uso to
the travellers who could not bring them
selves to drink its oil as the Esquimaux
do.
The Dootor, however, bravely tried to
swallow this thick liquid; but notwith
standing his willingness to do so he could
not succeed. With the hunter’s instinct,
he preserved the animal’s skin, withont
much knowing why and placed it in ths
tied.
Ths next day—‘.he 16th—they saw a
few loebsrgs, and sn ths horizsn soms
ice-hills. Was this indioativs of a neigh
boring eoast, or simply the huddling to
gether of the ioe from tho ice-field ? It
was impossiblo to dscido correctly on ths
subjeot.
Having reached oue of those hotu-
mu-ks the travellers availed themselves
of the opportunity to hollow out with the
tr- knife a shelter mom oomfoi table than
'ii it afforded by the tent, and after three
liojtH of hard work they were enabled
finally to stretoh themselves around the
lighted stove.
[to bb oowtinued.]
The Demon Itnalneea.
r J U leading tragedian at a Western
the ur is named Hammer, and he has
gone away now on n sick leave. They
produced a week or two ago a piece enti
tled “The Demon of Hertz,” And Mr.
Hammer assumed the character of the
demon. The young man upon whom da
volved the duty of opening and ehuttiog
the traps was also instructed to flsah crim
son flames up through the bole at inter
vals for the purpose of creating the im
pression that tha infernal regioas were
immediately beneath the atage, end were
io a oouditiou of terrific and perpetual
combustion. He was somewhat inexps-
rieuoed, bat ho eeemed to plunge along
well enough for awhile. In the third act
Mr. Hammer, tho demon aforesaid, had
to go down the trap, and his purpose was
to descend to eternal August with a sar
donic laugh and a fiendish smile npon his
forbidding ooun’enauco. The young me
below concluded that if there ever was
time when a display of diabolical fire
works would be appropriate it was when
the head of the demon was coming home
after a hard day’s work, so when Mr.
Hammer was about half-way down, aud
was laughing his very sardonic best, the
pyrotechnic person let off half a barrel
fnll of red fire, in which the homeward
bound Spirit of Evil was entirely envoi
oped. The rest of the way he went down
suddenly, and then they laid him under
fire-plug while the water played on him
As soon as be was extinguished, he rote
up and sought the fire fiend, and at tbe
conclusion of the encounter the latter was
carried round to Dr. Stone’s office on
stretcher by the carpenter and low come
dian. Mr. Hammer tben went home to
see what his wife would think of him
without eye brows or bair, and tben ho
retirod to tho country for a few weeks,
until they grow again. Tho “Demon of
the Hartz” has been permanently with
drawn.
—In experimenting on the meohanieal
power of horaes, Hanson found that the
farm horses about Paris weigh on the av
erage 651 kilogrammes (1,401 lbe ) end
give ebont 2,500,000 kilogrammeters of
useful work per dsy of tea ~ hours.
Tbe total force neoessary to produce this
useful effect is calculated at 3,870,000 kil
ogramme tera. The total work done is
therefore 102, and the useful effect about
70 kilogreuimotors per second. These
calculations are based on the estimate
that tbe mean effort necessary in walking,
the horse being nnburdeued, is 0.05 of
the weight of the body; end iu the trot
and gallop it ia 0.10. * /
The nearness of tbe civilized world
to the use of uniform weights and meas
ures is fhown by the fact that Frauoe,
Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy,
Switzerland, tbs whole German Empire
and Austria all me the metric system.
Only two great countries stand in the way
of its entire and uuivereal adoption—
Englaud and the United States. Iu both
of these its use is legal, but not compul
sory, end probably they will have to move
together in tekirg any steps. Dr. Barn
ard lately said that the weakness of the
Gladstone government only postponed
bat will not prevent the adoption of the
metiio system in Great Britain.
The quest on of increasing tempara-
tmre as the mass of the earth is piarced is
one of very great importance to miners,
and Mr. Bobart Hunt has lately under
taken investigations to deoido it. He
finds that tbe increase hes been overesti
mated. Down to one hundred fathoms
the thermometer rises one degree for eve
ry fifty feet. In the second oue hundred
fathoms this rise is only oue degree
in seventy feet. Iu the third hundred
fathoms it is one degree to eighty-five
feet. Thie increment reduces the temper
ature at a depth of one thousand eight
hundred feet to only twenty-eight degrees
above that of the surface, a result Jhat
nearly agrees with those obtained in the
deep coal mines of Belgium, where coal
is raised from a^depth of fonr thousand
feet.
—Dr. Sohlieniunn, tho snccesefnl dis
coverer of Troy’s remains, has obtained
from tha Greek govern moot permission
to demolish a great square lower io the
Acropolis at Athens, it is kaown as the
Venetian tower, and apparently dates
from the fourteenth oentnry. It is eighty
feet high, aud covers 1,800 square feet,
with walls five feet thick. The materials
for its construction were drawn from the
Acropolis and the theatre of Herodes At-
lions. Dr. Sohliemsun pays the cost of
demolition, whioh will be abont £465 or
,325, and in return he has the riola-
sive right for three years to publish any
inscriptions uncovered. The towor oc
cupies a most intorebtiug part of tho Pro
pyl®*, aud it is thought its removal will
bring to light a great number of inscrip
tions, and other interesting objects. Tbe
Athenians manifested great delight when
the work of demolition beguu, whioh was
on the 2d of June.
Bolivia now supplios Urge quantities
of bismuth ore, which is smelted in a re
verberatory furnuoo instead of the iron
tubes usually employed. The ore is rich,
containing 22.8 bismuth, 10.2 iron, 3.5
copper, and 13.5 sulphur, the remainder
being probably mostly silica. It is first
roasted fbr twouty-fonr hours at a dull
red heat, charcoal being occasionally add-
od. The ore is then rein jyed to a revex-
batory furnace with basin-ulmped hoartb,
and betted by a reducing flame for two
hours, after whioh the heat is raised to
whiteness, and iu two hoars more the
charge it fluid. It is then tupped, afford
ing cuetaiio bismuth, a bismuth-copper
matter, and a slag containing the iron.
The metal is not pure, containing2 perct.
of antimony and lead, on equal quantity
of copper and some silver. The antimo-
raony is removed by fusion with nitre,
end the other metals by treatment in the
wet w»y.
trying to do my appointed work. Away
over the sea in Africa, millions are living
iu ignorauce and vice, kuowiug nothing
of heaven, having tio good in their
hearts, living like the wild beasts of the
field. In my poor humhlo way, I am
tryiug to save a few benighted heathen,
trying to redeem a few souls.”
“In whet particular way?" I inquired.
“Partly by my prayers, and partly by
collecting money and buying Bibles to
ebip them, that they may have the Word
of Life. ”
There wee a pause for a moment, jmd
then he laid his band on my arm and con-
tinn ed—
“Young man, the Lord loveth a cheer
ful giver! Out of yonr abundance con
tribute something for the oause of the
benighted. Even though yon are not a
good Christian, yonr good act will be put
to your credit iu that lend where all is
joy and bliss.”
I asked him if ho oould change a $20
hill and give me bask $19.95, and he
tnraed away and seamed weary.
We rode on in silence for about a mile,
and theu he took a striug from hie pocket
laid it on hie knee in a way to mska two
separate loops in it, end then said—
“Young men, thou art a sinner, and
thou wilt not freely contribute to the
oause of tbe benighted.”
“Whioh the same is true,” I murmured.
“On tbo part of the heathen end my
oause, I deeire to bet thee five to three
that thon canst not put thy finger in the
loop thut will catch,” he said, smiling
sweetly.
“It’s tho old string gems—Heen it forty
time'," I answered.
“Solely on account of the benighted
heathen do I wish to bet five to three that
thon onnst uot locate the joker,” ho went
on, producing three thimbles and a pea.
“Played it in the army for four yearn,”
I replied, turning away with a mournful
heart.
“Then you are willing that tlieheAthru
shall struggle on like the beasts of tha
field and birds of the air?” he asked,
putting np his thimbles.
“Yes, truly,” I answered.
“ ’Tis sad that one so yonng should be
eo Binful,” he murmured, and went to the
other end of the car aud succeded in
fleeoing an old man out of $34 and a
watch ou the check game—for the canes
of tho heathen in Africa.
AMIWEIH TO COBBEttPONDENTB.
George.—No; a gentlemen will not in
■nit us, a blackguard cannot. Then even
if the blaokgnard could, he would have to
possess Borne intellectual quality above
the herd. The fellow you refer to is even
below them ; ergo we cannot notice what
never ean be, an insult from such
source.
H. A—Thomas Moore wee born in
Dublin in 1779, and died in 1862. Lalla
Bookh is by all odds the bont and most
widely known of his works. It is dis
connected, being a serial of narrations
united by tbe merest prose thread, but it
abounds in rich melody aud gorgeous im
agery. His Irish melodies comprise some
swoetest songs. As a satirist he
was keen and polished. Yet “Tommy,”
as his friends oalled him, forgot his man
ly plebian origin in his love aud adula
tion of the aristooraoy.
Juvenal.—The charming stanzas yon
stud are from Burns’, Cotter’s Saturday
Night,
At length his lonely oot appear* in view,
Beneath the shelter of an aged troo ;
Th’ expeotam todiln, steelier through
To meet their dad, wi‘ fliohterlu noise end
glee.
—Materialized spirits—Frozen whisky.
—A good resort for Soldiers—The Oeh-
non Hones.
—The lest plaoe the people ehould visit
—the shoemakers.
—The financial pressure ia loosening.
Even the days are not so “short” as they
were.
—Hinoe the bard timea struck Nevada
they have rained tha prioe of killing Chi
namen to seven dollars.
—A “please help the poer” box In Phil
adelphia received only four cents daring
the year 1878.
—“Marry a widower! Not I!” said
Matilda. “Babias are like tooth brashes.
Everybody waits their own.”
“The greet need of Cairo,” said a
capitalist, after being taken over the
town, “ie a fine tooth comb factory with
a ratail store in connection.”
There is nothing so lasting as an old
fashioned “nigger.” A colored woman,
one hundred and three years old, walked
from Barks county to Dooly recently, in
order to call on her grandmother.
—A natural interpretation: Sunday
ecbool teacher—What do yon understand
by “suffering for righteousness sake?”
Boy (promptly)—“practisin’ hymns in
the uornin’, teacher, and Sunday school
in the afternoon, and Bible elaas in tbe
evsnin.’
—A rich offloer of revenue the other
day naked a man of wit what sort of a
thing opulenoe was. “It ia a thing,” re-
pliad the philosopher, “which can give a
rascal the advantage over an honest
man.”
—Iu an answer to an advertiaemant by
a lady of the lose of a wallet containing
$100, while on a recent visit to the city,
the received a note inclosing $80 of tb«
money end the eituple words, “Heaven
forgive a poer girl.”
His wee-bit ln«le blinkin' bonnilie,
His clean hearth steixe, bis thrifty lolie’f
smile,
The {toping: infant prattling on his knee,
“OSLT A 1*0OB WOK*VI
AN QUMllLB MISS. OK ARY THIMBhE-BIOOlNO
FOU TUB VOOH HfcATUKN.
—A most wonderful and formidable
volume, which has been twenty yearn in
preparation, has just been issued by an
enterprising London house. It is enti
tled the “Mercantile Directory of tho
World for 1875,” und comprises over
3,000 quarto pages. It oontains a regis
tration of all the principal business firm*,
throughout tho world, and appears to
have been compiled with great cars and
acouraoy. and is brought dowu to tbe
latest possible dsteH. The United Htates
and Territories are well represented. The
volume also oontains a glossary in six dif
ferent languages of commercial terms,
names of tradon, etc., and is so classified
as to render reference easy and ready.
—The N. Y. Herald say* : “General
Bcheuck has introduced pokur into Eng
lish sooiety, to indicate republicanism.
He wants to show that with a fall hand
of Little Emma, for instance, a good
player oan beat queens or kings, and that
one knave may sometimes blaff off even a
royal flash.”
—A great many years ago a man com
ing oat of a theatre gave a boy a past
check. A great orowd of boys have been
waiting around the doors of every theatre
in the country ever sinoe waiting for that
On tho train the other day a very sol
emn looking man dressmi in black and
carrying a hat box, came along and drop
ped into half of my Heat.
“It is a flno day,” I remarked desiring
to bo friendly.
It is a fiae day, bat young mm, how
is it with yonr soul V be replied, rolling
up his eyes aud looking still more solemn
I asked him what he meant and he an
•wered
“Where would y >u go to if you died ?
How does your record stand in heaven ?'
I told him 1 was jogging along pesos
fully like, paying my debts, saving a little
money, und dropping something into tbe
contribution box as it passed,
“That won’t do—ab,” he said, as he
folded his arms aud closed Lis eyes, “You
are a sinner, ah, a baleful Hinner.” There
is no mansion laid up for you in the laud
beyond the ►kies—ah. Do you ever pray
—ah ?’’
“Once in a greet while," I told him.
“lhe devil is iu yonr heart—ah,” he
wsot on. “You pray not neither d • you
sing. Like a flower you snail be out
down, and the atem shall wither and de
cay, and be seen no more among the
fields.’'
“What would you advise me to do?’
I asked, feeling a little weak.
“I am but a poor worm myself,” he
answered meekly, “like unto a puny in
sect.
“A cockroach, for inetanoe,”! put in
as he paused
LIONEL C. LETT, IB.,
Attorney nnd Cnnnenlle* at 2mm*
Commissioner of l>oe<ls N. Y. and other Btatei.
Offlca over Georgia Home Iasnmnee Go.
Special attention given to ooiiootiona.
doe#
JaSO
SAMUEL B. HATCHED,
Attorney at law.
Office over WUtioh * Eluel’s
▲. A. B—
Attorney nnd Cnaneellew at Law,
’raeticei* in Stole and Federal Oowvta la Oeorgta
and Alabama.
Office Its Broad . t. f OoUuetme, da. jeS
Mask II. Ulandvoad. Lome F. Oauau.
ULANDFOBD A GABBABD*
Attorneys nnd Ceensellen at Law.
Will practice In the State and federal Oesrts.
Jas. M. ftuassu. Okas. J. SWITV.
BUMEBLL A IWIVT,
Attorneys aud Oouueeliore at Law. Will praetlee
uueeiiore at Law. Will praetios
u the Courts of Oeergia (Ukattahoeehee Oirealt)
nad Alabama. Office over O. A. Jtedd A 0o.’s stdre,
Broad street, Columbne, Oe.
L. T. BOWBMB,
Atenrney nnd ielleltev,
nov20| over Brooks’ Drag Store, Column
B. g. MOSES,
Attorney nnd Onnneeltor et Lew,
leorgla Home Insurance Company 1
oct7 ly] ond story.
Cotton Vectorise.
Sheetings, Shirtings, a
Knitting Thread,
Cards Wool and Orinds Wheat aaAUorn-
OBIoo in rear of Wittleh A Kiusel'e, Randolph it.
J*ia K. II. CH1LTOW, President-
■VMCOttEE MAE UTAGTUBIM CL
MaautecUrers of
iHOTINOS, lEXETUOA
YARN, KOFI, he.
COLUMBUS, 0 A.
O. P. SWIFT, President.
W. A. SWIFT, Secretary A TlWSIW. eetll ly.
Painttn.
—Never juke with a setting hen. She
ie in 'er neet, end hee no time for foo\i>h~
toll.*'
WM. SNOW, JB., A OLi
House and Sip Paiatere,
Old Oglethorpe oorner, (jest north hf poetofloe)
Columbus, Georgia.
Will contract for House
!SSSStfSK?” s ‘‘
reasonable prices, aud
Hoter to Win, rtnow.
Ptw.—John Knox in buried in Glas
gow, in tho beautiful city of tho dead,
oalled the Necropolis.
8. ().—If you want to mine for gold
try tha rich hills of Goorgia aud North
Carolina, we believe they will yet pan
out as rich as the more favored parte of
California.
II.—“Diamond pointed gold pong” have
not, as you suppose, actual diamond
points. We believe the tipping is plati
num.
Manner.—The Moores are not negroes,
but Cauoassian.-t. E'.huoiojists do not
class men by the color of the skin, as yon
suppose, but by the faciul angle, the for
mation of the skull aud some minor
physiological differences.
Virnon.— Metaphysics is the science
of mind ae distinguished from that of
matter. Aristottle is the father of the
soienoe, if soience that eau be called, ou
whioh so tnauy differ, and which is never
exact in its conclusions. The Scotch
have beeu the leaders of mental invosti
gation during the last contury. We ad
vise you to read metaphysical works by
all moans, for while they may not give
you much oxaot inform ition their careful
study will result iu giving you a keen
ness of analysis and a power of logic
insight which it would be impossible
otherwise to obtain,*,and we do uot except
tbe higher mathematics.
Stierry.—It is impossible to give you
tho idea of prosidy yon require without
quoting a text-book. Heroic verse is
usually employed in epic or narrative
poetry. In Euglish, tho iamhio of ten
syllables, either with or without on addi
tional syllable. A perfect iuntanoe is
found iu the following couplet :
“ A heap of dust a loot remains of theo—
’l’is all thou art, aud all the proud shall be."
Nomen.—A fac tsimile. moans an exact
reprodaotion; a copy which cuunet be
distinguished from tho original.
Nora.—You are old enough to judge
for yoursolf. From what you say, the
gentleusau loves, aud es “he is au honest,
able mau,” sad you love him, we can see
nothing iu the way of your mutual happi
ness.
Harry.—There are ao lions, elephauts,
ostriches or tigers iu North America, that
is iudignous to the couliiteut. There are
many animals of the feline gouus, but
none such as you evidently have in your
mind.
MarUn.—It is only a few hours’sail,
but the chauoel betweeu Calais and Du-
vor is unusually turbulent. The tunnel
may auoeoed ; there is nothing impossi
ble, when engineering skill decides the
thing feasible.
Hoot. —Uulywood ie within .the corpo
ra to limits et Edinburgh, and on the side
—There is something grand aud terri
ble in the look of a mother ae ehe hanls
the potato basket oat of tbe pantry,makes
a hurried inspection, • and calls oot:—
“Celesta Jane! every taker in this basket
has been fris.”
—The Canadian Press Association con.
sints of two old compositors and a bald-
headed reporter, but yet there is a good
deal of dignity about their deliberations.
—The other day an aged couple drove
into an Indiana oity just as an undortak-
ing firm was moving into an old church
whioh had been purchased for a shop.
The old gentleman stood up in his wagon,
with mouth and eyes distended, as tho
men nileutly carried coffiu after coffin into
the church. At last be turned round to
his hotter half and gusped, “Sary, by gol
ly, it’s tho cholera; let’s git!” And they
got.
-A traveler in rather a slow coach in
quired of his next neighbor its uame.
“I think, sir, it is called the Regulator,
for I observe that all the other coaches go
by it.”
—It takes twelve cents to pay postage
l an ordinary Wiaoouaiu love-lotter.
—The key to the successful improve
ment of the Erie canal will be fouud io
onlsrging the locks.
—Admire your landlady’s new jockey
hat and feather, if you want a porter
house steak for breakfast.
—A fashion paper asks what in to be
worn at the watering places this summer.
Mr. Quilp suggests clothes.
—Eight hundred Huperflons marriage
able females in Eaatoa, Pa., live a silent
protest against the advice given to yoang
men to go West.
=afcs—55H35
WELLS A CVBTtf,
I Ot AM
iSFg-.
He. 79 Broad St., I
MALMS IV \
Boots wad SIMMS, Leather and Flallaia.
Give prompt aud oarstui attention to orders
■Mil; pay the highest market prise for
N. a.—PlMt«r<n- Hair (Irngt. MJuad.
Crooara.
OAI’L K. MSB,
Dealer in Family Urooeriee, on Bryaa street, be*
tweeu Oglethorpe A Jackson streets.
■gy No charge for dray age. decT
S. H. HAMILTM,
Wholesale and Botail Bros or,
notion of Franklin, Warren A Oglethorpe its.
COLUMBUS DENTAL BOOMS,
W. T. Pool, Prop’r,
Georgia Home Building, Columbus Georgia.
—At forty years of age a man looks
back over his life and wronders whst be
did it for, and then turns wistfully to-
wards tbe future, and keeps ou doing it.
—Never burn kindly * written letters,
the rnuto utterauoes of those afar, yet
doar, whose faces you may never look
upon again. Remember bow many « little
notion iu tinwaro they will procure.
-When a Tennessoe father walks into
a uewKpaper office with a shot-gun ou his
arm, and Nays: “My darter has writ Homo
poetry whioh I want you to publish,”
Low'h a feller going to plead press of mat-
Only a poor struggling wor-rom,” ho j of tbo old to wo at the fool of Arthur’s
wool oa, never aaiudiog me, “yet I am
ter ?
—Benjamin Fraukliu’s autograph has
reaohod Miohigm, and it makes one fee|
lonesome to roo tears trickling down the
cheeks of aged ladies as they gaze upon
tho venerable relic, written on paper
ma le iu 1869.
/
FHNT'i
—Chicago may talk about the homely
women of Detroit, but there is oue
deeming feature. When one of them
gets mired they don’t have to dig up half
the street to get a eixteou-foot sountliug
under her foot as a pry.
—There is a man iu Virginia one hun
dred and seven years old who never saw
Goorge Washington. We can only no-
oount for this upon the hypothesis that
he wah born blind, and sentenced to iu
prisomueut for life for recovering hia
night.
—Tho Ht. Louis Globe thus speculates
on tho obituary of the future: Charles
Pupkor, 3$ pounds; oremlted July 9,
1872. For wife of above see third pickle
bottle on next shelf. Little Tommy;
burnt up September 16, 1862. Jane Me
tilda Perkins, Oot., 1869; put up by tbe
Alden Corpse Cremating Company ; none
genuine without signature.”
—A Texas Grand Jury has reported
grand Juries in general • humbug and
utiisanoe, aud wauls them abolished.
-Bi*.jr.d|Mopt.M.ihta, a ia gwmlg
wll*pd folk, look to 4*talk
Dentists.
W. r. TIUMMJt,
DMtiat,
Opposite Strupper’s building, |
Special atleatlou given to tbs insertion of Arti
ficial Teeth, as well as to Operative Dentistry.
tebZZ daw
Builders and Arotiiteota.
i.«. UUUUM,
H.U. U* ■■114...
Jobbing done at short notloa.
Plans aud ■pecitloatiosa famished for all stylos
t buildings
brood Street, next to G. W. Brown's,
Doctors.
DB. u. B. LAW.
Office corner Brood aud Randolph streets, Bums*
Knsideuce o
Tin and Coppersmiths.
WM.-TBk.
w.rk.r iaVia, ikM 1m, <te»|Mr.
Orders from abroad promptly a
Ja7 No. 174.1
Hotels.
■*'- 4
▲DAM. MOCK.
go to Opelika, be surd to stop at tha
i House, opposite Passenger Depot.
Piano Tuning lie.
E. W. BLAU,
Repairer and Tuner of Pianoes, Orgot
Accordeoua. dign Psiutihg also doo<
Older, may be be left at J. W. raaee4It
Itouk Store.
Livery and Sale Stables.
BOBEBT TUUMPhUE,
Livery, Bale wn<l Ixshssgs Stables,
OeuTBOAPi, Noktu or Randolph Sts.,
act30 Columbus, Oa.
Tobacco, Clears, Itc.
HA1EB DOME.
If you want to enjoy a goad smoke, go to his
Cigar Manufactory,
Detwoen Georgia Home and Muscogee Home.
Sm
Confectioner*.
I. G. BTBUPFSN,
Candy Manufacturer
Ann i>KAi.ss is
kinds of CoshstisMiy upft
SU«k Candy It tomU,
Fall weight guaranteed la siskm$*
PraoUoal Watch maker aad JswslM.
Succeesor to L. Gatowsky,
i