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VOL. XVII.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, MAY
AN ANNIVBIUIAmr.
In a cl)ami or old tn l oaken,
Jn • fuint and falteriug way,
lift If a doftru word* * ftero spoken,
" * yearn tn-di.y
Just oU l
What was boui.il and wliat was broken,
l*et ft wonmirH couicionce say.
Haifa riocon words excited,
WhispHrcU by a lever's side;
liatf delighted, half affrighted.
Halt ill iduaaure, half la pride;
* nd a maiden's tro.li is plighted,
And a Inloo lo\o-knot is tied.
Has a maiden not a feeling
That cnii swi ll Mud siugand sour
Canto not o’er her spirits st> tiling
liing i
Barely half a doion glunceR,
Half iu earnest, hull iu mirth—
Fite, or six,~ur st-ven dances—
What is Hiich a wooing worth!
Courtship in which no romance is,
Cannot give a true-love birth.
ti is wot at sight;
'fisawued; ’tia not a (lower
That arises in a night.
Lightly ii tho promise given,
Lightly in the love-kuot tied;
And tho uititl redeems the
Living at her husband's aids
And li-r heart—it is not b.okon.
Itm it is not iu its pride.
ken
RhonhaU ttmt her Inert concealing
WaiiL'a it did uoi know « f yore;
911 utiy the truth revealit.g,
K- a! lovo is souicthing
—Chamber»' Journal.
iTraiiHlateJ iroia the French.]
THE DESERT OR ICE;
A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE.
GY JOI.E8 VERSE.
CHAPTER XVI.
T11R NORTHERN ARCADIA.
On the S>!)tU of May, for the first time,
the »un did not set. Its disc barely
touched the horizon, and then imme
•diately began to rise; the time had arriv
ed vhen the day was twenty-fonr houra-
tong.
Next day the snn appeared with ■ mag
nificent halo, n luminous circle brilliant
with all the colors of the rainbow. The
frequent appearance of these phenomena
always drew the Doctor's ettention. He
never forgot to notice the dste of their
comiug, their dimensions and their as
pects. The one he observed on that day
presented in itR elliptiosl form features
that were little known.
Boon all tho noisy sort of birds reap
peared; finckB of bustards and wild geese
ooming from the distent regions of Flori
da end Arkansas, filed in the sir north
ward with astonishing rapidity and
^brought back the spring on their wings.
'The Dootor succeeded in bringing down
sa few with his gnn, ss well ae one or two
early cranes and even a solitary Btork.
Under the sun's hast the snows melted
everywhere. The salt-water, spread
About the icefields through the breaks in
Ills ice and the seals’ air holes, hssteaed
the decomposition. Mingled with jho
sea-water the Bnow made a sort of mix
ture which the arotio navigators oall
Uriah. Large ponds wpre formed in the
load districts adjoining tho bay, and the
Aoii freed from bdow, seemed to spring
ap like a product of the northern spring.
The Dootor now began to plant anew.
Soeds were not wanting, and besides, he
was surprised to see a sort of grass grow
naturally among the rooks, and hs ad
mired that creative foroe of nature which
needs so litllo to make it manifest itself.
He planted cress, the young sprouts of
which, three weoks later, bad grown to
nearly an inch in length.
The hesthor also began timidly to show
its litilo flowers of faint rose-color. In
fact, the flora of New America wee very
feeble. Yet this rare and backward veg
etation gave pleasure to tbe eye. It wee
all that tbe weak rays of the snn could
produce, the last souvenir of Providence,
who had not forgeten altogether these
.distant oonntries.
At last, the weather became really
warm’. On June IS, tbe Dootor fonnd
that the thermometer marked flfty-soven
-degrees above zero. He hardly believed
hie eyes, bat he was compelled to yield
ito the proofs. The oonntry was nnder-
igoing a oomple change. Innumerable
noisy cascades fell from all the heighta
■which were reached by the sun’s rays.
The ice began to float abont, and tbe
grest question of the open sea was soon
to be decided. The air wsa filled with the
sound of avalanches which rushed from
tbe tops of the hills to Hie bottom of the
ravines. Bad tho cracking of the iee-field
produced a deafening noise.
An excursion was made as far as John
son Island, which w-s in reality only a
■a nail island,arid and barren, bat the old
boatswain was not the loss delighted to
bava given his name to these few rocks
lost in the eea. He even insisted on cat
ting it in n high rock, aud in doing so be
nearly broke his neck by a fall.
Daring these exoarsions Hstterss had
oarofnlly surveyed the lend ss far as a
point beyond Gape Washington. The dis
appearance of the enow greatly modified
the appearance of the country, for ravines
and cliffs showed themselves where the
white carpet of winter had seemed to
cover nniform plains.
Tbe house and the store-houses several
*liiues threatened to melt sway, and it was
necessary frequently to pat them in good
condition. Fortunately a temperature of
fifty-seven degrees is rare in those lati
tudes, its average being hardly above
freezing point.
Towards the 15tb of June the building
of the launch was far advanoed and the
boat prosontod a shapely appearance,
While Bell and Johnson worked at it, a
few bants were undertaken whieh proved
J0rj enooessful. They succeeded in kill'
, log a few reindeer. These animals are
very difficult to approaoh, bat Altamont
pnt into praotioe the method employed
by the Indians of bis own oonntry. He
crept eloeg the groand, piecing hie gnn
end his erms in suoh e manner as to rep
resent the home of one of these timid
qnadrnpetls, end In this way, having
oome within shooting distance, he was
enabled to kill them.
Bnt the game ebove ell others—tho
mask ox, many herds of whioh Parry had
fonnd at Melville Island—did not seem to
haunt tbe coasts of Victoria Bay. A long
exenreion waa therefore determined on,
es much for the pnrpoee of hunting this
preoions enimel es to reconnoitre the re
gion lying to the east. . t.
Ustterse did not propose to ascend to
the Pole by this pert of the oontlnent.
bnt the Dootor wee net sorry to have aa
opportenity to form a ganeral idea of the
country.
It waa therefore determined to jonrney
to n point to tho east of Fort Providence.
Altamont was one of the hnntlng party,
and Duke, as waa to be expeoted, accom
panied them. * —
On Monday, June IT, the weather be
ing delightful, the thermometer marking
forty-one degrees, and in n pare and
oalm atmoaphere, the three hunters, Hat-
tens, Altamont end the Doctor, each one
armed with a double-barreled gun, a
hatchet and a enow-knife, and followed by
Dnke, loft Doctor's House at 6 o'clock iu
tho morning. They were equipped for
an exoanion which might Mst for two or
three days, and they carried with them
provisions for that length of time.
At abont 8 o'clock in tho morning Hat-
teras and his companions had made a dis
tance of abont eight miles.
Not a living thing had thoy met of
whioh they oould make a target for their
guns, and their hunt seemed to threaten
to become a mere purposeless walk.
This new region presented to tho eye
vast plains whioh were lost beyond llie
limit of the vision. Rivulets whieh had
sprang into existence the day before flow
ed in every direction in great numbers,
and vast ponds, motionless as pools,shone
like mirrors nnder ]tbe oblique rays cf
the snn. The bed of dissolved ice left a
soil belonging to the great division of
sedimentary lends due to the aotion of the
wetore end so largely spread over tbe sur
face of the globe.
Bnt, although he did net have a chance
to hnnt, tho Doctor had no time to play
the geologist. He oonld piok up hie goo-
logioel foots only while in motion, for hie
companions walked rapidly.
Still he studied the physical peculiari
ties of the groand and apoko as mnoh as
he could; for bed it not been for him an
absolute eilenoe wonld have prevailed!
among them, Altamont having no incli
nation to speak to the Captain, who had
no with to apeak to him.
Abont 10 o’olook the hunters had ad
vanced twelve miles to tbe east; tbe sea
was lost behind tbe horizon, and tbe Doc
tor proposed abalt for breakfast. This
meal was eaten rapidly, and at tho.end of
n half honr the maroh was resumed.
As they walked on they saw that the
enrfaoe began to descend in gentle slopes.
Certain masses of snow preserved from
the thew gave to it a fleecy appearance,
and tbe plain looked like a sea with the
waves breaking into foam nnder a stiff
braezs.
Tbs oonntry presented an unvarying
aeries of plains without vegetation which
bad never known the presenee of a living
creature.
“Decidedly,” said Altamont to the Doc
tor, “we are not fortunate in onr hunt. I
see plainly that this region offers few re
sources to animals, bat the game of the
Atotio regions hia no right to be fastid
ious, and it might have shown itself more
complaisant."
“Do not let ns despair,” laid the Doc
tor. “The summer season baa hardly be
gun, and if Parry foaud so many differ
ent animals at Melville Island there is
no reason why they should not be fonnd
here."
And yet we no longerarein the north,”
replied Hstterss.
“Undeubtedly, but the north is merely
a word in this matter; it is the oold bolt
whioh mast bs considered; that is to say
that immensity of ioe in the midst of
whioh we wintered with the Forward.
Observe that in proportion aa we ascend
we place e greater distanoe betwoen our
selves and the coldest part of tbe globe.
We should therefore find beyond ttiia
tract what Ferry, Ross end other naviga
tors fonnd on the other side of it.”
“Well, anyhow,,' said Altamont with a
sigh of regrg', “up to this point wo have
been playing the pert of travelers rather
then that of hunters.”
Patience," returned tbe Dootor. “The
country is gradually ehanging its aspect,
end I shall be greatly surprised if game
should fail ns in hollows where vegetstiou
has had means of springing np.”
“It roust be confessed,” replied the
AmorioaD, “that we are crossing a coun
try as much uninhabited ps uninhabita
ble."
“Oh, to say ‘uninhabitable’ is to eay a
a great dealt” answered the Doctor. “I
do not believe in each a thing as an unin
habitable country. Man, by dint of sac
rifices, after the application for genera,
tions of tbe resources of tbs scionoo of
agriculture, wonld end in fertilizing a
oonntry like this.”
"Yon think so?” said Altamont.
“Undoubtedly! If you should go to
the celebrated oonntries of tbs first days
of the world—to tbe spot where once was
Thebes, or Ninovah, or Babylon, iu thoHc
fertile valleys of onr fathers—it wonld
seem to you impossible that men conld
ever have lived in them, and even the at
mosphere hat deteriorated since tbe dis
appearance of human beings. It is tho
general lew of nature whioh renders an
healthy end barren the countries in which
men do not live sa well as those in whioh
men no longer live. Yon most know
that it is man himself who makes his
eountry by his presence, by hie customs,
by his industry, end, even, I will sty far.
ther, by his breath. Little by little he
modifies tbe exhalations of tbe soil end
tbe atmospheric conditions and be makes
healthy even the air that he breathes! So
therefore, I great that there may be un
inhabited places, lint that there are unin
habitable places I will never admit.”
Thus conversing, tho hunters, trans
formed into nainralista, walked on stead
ily, until thoy reached a sort of valley at
tho bottom of whioh flowed a river al
most free from ice; its southern exposure
had cause ! a certain sort of vegetation
to grow ou its banks.
The soil there manirested a tendency
to fertilization, aud with a few inches of
mould it would have ptodnoed vegetation
readily. Tbe Dootor oalled his compan
ions' sttontion to (huso facts.
“Sec," ha said, “could not a few ontor-
prising colonists, in cose of necessity, es
tablish themsolvsa in this ravine? With
industry and porseveranee they would
make quite another place of it—not equal
to tbe fields of the temperate zone—I do
not say tlin'; bnt at least a presentable
country. Hallo! unless I mistake, I see
over yonder n few fonr-footed inhabi
tants! Tho cnnnihg creatures know where
to find the good places.”
“Faith, Ih'cso are polar hares!” cried Al
tamont, cocking bis gnn.
“Wait!” criod tho Doctor—“wait, mad
hunter! These poor animals ore not
thinking of flight! Let them aloue; they
are comiug towards us!”
In fact three or four young bares,
frisking amid tbe small tnfis of heather
and tho now mosses, were advancing to
ward the three men whose presence they
did not seem to suspect. They ran with
pretty, artless grace, which did not suc
ceed, however, in moving Altamont to
pity.
They wore soon jumping about between
the Doctor's legs. Carousing them with
hia liuiul, the Doctor observed:
“Why shoot what comes to ns to be
petted? The death of these littlo crea
tures can be of no uso to ns,”
“You are rigid, Dootor,” replied Hat-
term-; “.heir lives must, be spared.”
“And must we spare these ptarmigans
which are flying toward us,” oried AHa-
mont, “and thsse sand-pipers whioh are
advancing gravely on their long stilts?”
A wholo plumed tribe was coming iu
the dircotion of the hunters, nnsnspicions
of the danger whieh the Doctor’s pres
ence had averted. Evan Dnke, restrain
ing himself, looked on admiringly.
It was a curious and touching spectable
—that of these pretty animals which ran,
leapt and flew about without fear. They
porcbod on tbe guAd Clawbonny't shoul
ders, nestled at his feet and offered them-
eetves to nnoceuatoimd COMMA They
seemed'to do all that they coaid to wel
come to their haunts these unknown
guests.
Tho nuuiorous birds nttering joyous
cries called to one another, and others
eime from various partB of the ravine.
The Doctor, surrounded by thorn, looked
liko a real bird oharmcr.
The hunters continned on their way,
ascending tho moist banks of the stream,
followed by this familiar band, and at a
turn iu the valley thoy saw a number of
reindeer browsing a few linebens half
buried nnder the snow—animals charming
to look on, graceful and quiet, with their
denticulated antlers which were borne as
proudly by the females as by the males.
Their hair, fleecy in appearance, was be
ginning already to change from the
whiteness of winter to the gray and
brownish hno of their snmmer garb. They
wore not, apparently, auy more frighten
ed or less tame than tho hares aud the
birds of this peaceful country. Such
must have been tho relations of tbe first
man with the first animals in the youth
of tho world.
The hunters walked among tho animals
without a single step being made by (be
latter towurds flight; and on this occa
sion it was all the Doctor could do to re
strain Altamout's instincts. The Ameri
can could not look quietly on at this mag
nificent game without feeling an intense
desire to shoot. Hattoras looked much
moved ut these gontlo animals which
came and rubbod Ihoir noses on the
oiolhing of the Dootor, tho friend of ail
living crosturos.
“But I say,” said Altamont, “did not
wo como hero to huut?”
“To hunt tho musk-ox and nothing
else!” replied Clawbonny. “We would not
know what to do with this game. Wo
havo provisions in abundance. Let ne
enjoy tho touching speoteole of men
mingliug in the sports of those timid an
imals and inspiring not the slighest fear
in them!”
“This proves that they havo never seen
mon,” remarked Hattoras.
“Evidently,” replied the Dootor; “and
from this fact wo may deduce the conclu
sion that llieso animals are not of Ameri
can origin.”
“And why so?" asked Altamont.
“Had they been born on tho northerly
lands of Amoricu they would known what
to think of the two-legged and two-hand
ed animul called man, and on seeing ns
they would not havo failed to take flight.
No, it is probable that they came from
the north, thnt they aro natives of those
unknown countries of Asia whioh mon
havo nevor approached, and that they
have crossed tho continents near the
Foie. Thus, Altamont, yon havo no right
to claim them as your compatriots.”
“Ob,” repliod Altamont, “u hunter does
not look so closely as ail that, and game
belongs always to tho country of him who
kills it!”
“Come, calm yonrHelf, my brave Nim
rod? For my part I wonld refrain
through all my lifo from shooting a gnn
rather than to throw this charming pop
ulation into terror. Look! even Dnke
fraternizes with these protty animals. Be
lieve me, let ns he good when we can.
There is slrengh in goodness!"
“Very well,” returned Altamont; “bnt
I should like to nee yon with your good
ness for sn only weapon amid a pack of
wolves and bears!"
“Oh, I do not pretend to charm fero
cious beauts," replied tbo Doctor; “and
besides, boars and wolves would not oome
to ns as do these hsree, those partridges
and these roindeer.”
Why not,” asked Altamont, “if they
had aaver seen men?” ,
Because those animals are naturally
savage, and beoatue ferocity, like wick
edness, breeds suspicion. Observation
has proved this faot to be as true of men
as of animals. Wiokednesa implies sns-
picion, and fear comes easily to those who
may inspire it themselves.
This little lesson in natural philosophy
ended tho conversation.
All this day was passed in that ravine
whioh tho Doctor proposed to eall the
Areadie of the North, to which hia com
panions made no opposition; and the
night having oome, aftora supper whioh
had cost the life of not one of the inhab
itants of this spot, the three hnnton ley
down end alept in tho hollow of a rook so
atrangedan to offer them a oomfortable
shelter.
[to bi continobd.]
IK Most lleitdly Disease.
Tho most deadly acute disease from
which the people of (ho Uoited Btates aro
to-dig suffering in pneumonia. Thera
ate not less than 2,000 cases at tbi> honr
in New York alone. Many are nearly
down with it who do not suspect it, and
those can bring it on by n single sat of in
discretion. Ten minutes on a street cor
ner in the cold wind; s gists of brandy or
whisky; late honrs and exposnre at night;
an evening in a badly ventilated church
or thoatre—any of these may permit the
latent dtso..so to manifest itself.
The disease attacks tbe lnngs, bnt is
not, ss generally supposed, a speoies of
hasty consumption. There ie very little
expeotornlion in pneomoniu, and in many
oases none at all. The oold settles on
tho lungs, the sir passages fill np with
mucus, and death is due to the impossi
bility of breathing, or to the weakness
which tbe disease brings on, as cautions
dieting is necessary. When the trouble
in the lnngs is overoome, the patient is
often left in so low s condition that it is
impossible to make him rally. It is a
rather singular phase of this deadly dis
ease that the percentage of eases is as
four to one in favor of man. Women
very seldom Buffer from it. This mey be
due to the greeter exposnre to which men
are subjected, and the more sedentary
life of tbe women, who do not anffsr
from snob constant changes and such
shocks to tho tangs. The best preven
tive against pneumonia la to keep the,
mouth closed when going from a hot placet
tu s ooM, wed brent he th—gh tbe ness .i
It comee like a flash of lightning; there
is no preparation or means of averting it.
Ooe may go to bedJiealtby to all appear
ances, and wake up with the disease in
full blast. Then it is simply s question
of conatilntion. Msdioal skill avails but
little, and phyeieians pursue but one
course—to keep tbe patient in a warm,
equal temperature; to give remedies as
much aa possible to clear the lungs, aud
to keep np tbe proper animal heat. The
patient ordinarily partly looses conscious
ness on tbs third day, snd the crisis is
reaohed on the seventh. If not dead
then, there is a small chance of recovery,
and all depends on tbe streneth of the
patient.
Pneumonia is far mors fatal with ns
than it was years ago. We may attribute
tho inareasod mortality from this diHesse
to s multitude of oaueea. Alcohol gives
the disease more viotims than all else.
Other eanses are steam-beating devices,
bad ventilatioa and tobacoo smoke. The
devitalized heat of the steam pipes is
most injurious to tho lungs. The action
of the heat on the iron ooils sends of a
deleterious gas, whioh seriously impairs
the lnngs, and renders the inhelation of
oold air positively dang-rous. Tobacco
smoke dries np the mucus membrane of
tbe throat and air passages, snd dispols
their healthy action. Alcohol destroys
the powers of the stomach and so lessens
vitality that a simple “cold" speedily be
comes pneumonia. These oansos, added
to the absurd custom of bundling np the
throat while leaving the feet nearly with
out protection are sufficient to account
for the enormous mortality from this dis
ease.— llalVt Journal nf Uealth.
Contentment and Good Looks.
Wbat is female beanty? In what dooa
it consist? It is not in pearl powder, nor
in hair dye, nor in jewelry. It oannot be
got in a bottle or a box. It is pleasant
to be handsome; bnt all beanty is not in
prolHuoSs. There is a higher beauty
tbut mtkos us love people tendorly. Eyes,
nose .'.air or skin never did that yet;
though it is pleasing lo see fine features.
What yoo are will make your face over
for you in the end, whether nature has
made it plain or pretty. Good people ere
never ill-looking. Whatever their faoea
may he, an amiable eipression atones for
all. If they otu be cheerful also no one
will love them the less becanso their fea
tures are not regular, or because Urey aro
too fat, or too thin, too pale or too dark.
Cultivation of tbe mind adds another
charm to their faces, and on the whole, if
any girl is desirous of being liked by the
many and loved by the one, it-in more in
her power than she rosy believe to ac
complish that object. Cosmetics will not
accomplish it, however. Neither will fine
dress; thongh a woman who does not
dress becomingly wrongs herself. Foreed
smiles and affected amiability will be of
no ftvt.il: but if she can manage to fool
kindly to everybody, not lo be jealous,
not to be cross, to be bappy if possible,
and to eneonrage contentment, then
something will como into her face that
will ontlast yonth’s roses, and gain her
not only a husband, bnt a life-long lover.
—A bereaved female, who has read ev
ery word of tbe Beecher-Tiltoa testi
mony, and lost bar faith in mankind,
pensively observes, “It's s real oomfort
to be s widow now.
—Carpels are bought by the yard and
worn by tbs foot.
—Something abont dogs—Fisas.
—Btaviug business—making barrels.
—Generally speaking—Women.
—The-dnty on tobacoo—To smoke it.
—An executive office—the hangman'a
—Tbs seals of good breading—B natu
ral.
—What bolds all tbe snuff in tbs world?
No one nose.
—This is mildness—the real mildness—
o-tha-resl mildness.
—Uneasy rests the head that wests •
lost year’s bonnet.
■The Digger Indians never laugh.
They era grave Diggers.
—The home oirets — Walking around
with the baby at night.
—When boys reach a spanking sgs
they sea their “palmy” dayA
—What is better than a promising
yonng man? A paying one.
—“Raising the wind" is now ealled
elassieally, 'Exciting the flnonoiol ®d1us.'
—There are two things a woman cannot
do—poke a fire and sharpen a lead pencil.
—Thera la something very pretty In
the new styles of ladies gloves—ladies’
bends.
—The Bessie Tnmer bonnet is very
smart and will stand the Grossest examin
ation.
In Lowell a familiar proverb baa
bean changed ao aa to retd: “Tho labor,
or is worthy of his higher wag.a."
-An impndent adventurer having mar
ried an heiress, a wit remarked that the
bridegroom's brass outshone the bride's
tin.
—Mrs. Partington, reading of the
strike of the wire drawers, remarked:
‘•Ah, me! what new fanglad things won’t
they wear next
—A pious man who can drive a balky
born tan miles without being eat book
ten years in hia religion, is ripe anongh
for a batter world.
—A confectioner, who, twelve months
ago, taught his parrot tossy “pretty crea
ture” to every lady who entered hia shop,
la now a millionaire.
—Being asked wlwt mads bin ao dirty,
ah enwoabad sties* Arab's reply warn “I
• made aa they tall me, of dost, and I
suppose it works oat.”
—When yon see a lot of lanndry girls
at work, how natoral it is to sxelsim, in
the words of England's post laureate,
‘‘Wring out, wild bellee!”
—A Kansas woman wont into eonrt and
identified four quarts of white beans
which hod been stolen from her and mix
ed with a whole barrel full.
—The model husband of the period la
the man who will hold the baby for a
ooupie of hours every night while bis
wife oatehea np with tha trial.
—Worth's genius does not inspire him
until ha baa mads the third out, aud tha
change ont of ISO yards wonld not make
a spring bonnet for a six-inoh doll.
—There la a lawyer in Akron, Ohio,
who, whan bs wisbe* to quota from tha
Mosaic law, says, “Now, yonr honor, I
will read from tbe Egyptian reports."
—Boon will coma the nights of ster-
gnxiug with your sweet-heart. Bnt yon
should bo osrefnl jo brush the daw from
her lips, otherwise aha may gat the diph.
theria.
—Spring ovoreosts have had a rest this
season.
—Strawberries are rips and cheaper
than usual.
—“She la my mother-in-law, with al|
that the name implies,” said a witness in
an Indianapolis lawsuit.
—Only seven of the sixty-one cardi
nals who witnessed the Pope's elevation
to tho Pontifloal thronv aro still living.
—A humorous apothecary in Boston
■paeeaowaaewf eoep in kisalmp window
with the pertinent inscription,
than dirt,”
—Seven children of one family were
bailed together in Uenseller county, N.
Y., having died almost simultaneously of
diphtheria.
-A man in Newark, Ohio, iaamnrdar-
er because he was too cowardly to be a
thief. He killed a boy who wonld not
steal a parrot for him
—In Clinton, Ind., the woman still
keep np tbe ornoade, and pray out of tha
town every adventurer hardy enough to
attempt to open a saloon.
—H is announced that the Marquia of
Lome and his wife, the Princess Louise,
will make an extended tour tliroagh the
United Btates this summer.
—Tha ottizens of Alta, Utah, no tonger
trouble themselves about going down
atatrs. It is only necessary to tbtow open
their aeeond-story windows and tread ma
jestically over ton feet of beautiful snow.
—A man in Jersey City recently went
to enter a complaint against hia wife, but
whan tbe magistrate esme to fill np tha
warrant, tha man oonld not give hia wife's
name, and stated that he had never known
it.
—An Atchison, Kan., girl ate four
pounds of wadding eake in order that aha
might dream of her future husband. And
now aha says that money wouldn't biro
bar to marry tha man aba saw in that
dream.
—Thera is ^Marionette Theatre in Paris
wherein woodan figures are made to en
tertain Urge audiences of yunog folks.
Another Parisian place of amusamsut la
sailed La Theatre Enfants, the acting
being dona by boys and girU of twelve
years old or younger.
—Unless a Milwaukee girl can take a
briok in each hand and make eight feet
and four inches at a standing jump, (ha
rarely gets admitted into the beat so
ciety.
—A Boston nodertaker was made very
mad reeently by being awakened at an
untimely hour by two inebriated persona,
who wished to order two “beers” for
themselves.
—There are people in Chicago who are
pleasantly referred lo as “eighteenoarat
frauds." They are man who profess
Christianity, and charge ten per eent.
commission on passing maud the plate in
church.
—Tbe Baptists of Gatakill, at oommno.
ion, recently, fonnd themselves without
wins. A thief had somehow stolen it,
and the Recorder adds, “Any man who
would rob a church will slide down hill in
his grandmother’s coffin."
—A Dabnque printer reoeived tbe fol.
lowing note from hia girl: “May 1 git
yanked out of bed at midnite every nite
by a ones like Tbeydore Tilton, and oar.
tied npp a million pare of stares, iff ever
I seas to luv you, Jim.”
—A yonngster after having bad several
teeth extracted was comforted by the den
tist with the sssoranee that they wonld
grow again. With an eye to "the imme
diate future, little Johnny inquired:
“Will they oome again before dinner?”
—All over the oonntry the women are
shrieking for more rights, while in Ghl-
oago the other day Mrs. Ferris took her
old man by tbe throat and flopped him
into tbe olothm press beoanae he told tbe
hired girl she was better looking than bis
wife.
—“I should think yon would bo
ashamed to pitch into that little boy,"
said a pedestrian, as he eanghts big boot-
triaok lieking a small newsboy, “Ye
wonld, hey?” sneered the lad, m ha gave
hia nose a wipe. “D'ye think I’d go for
a big boy and get all pounded np?”
—“Yon may talk,” says tha Milwaukee
Now, “abont marrying an heiress, a hu
man blossom, a fairy, an angel, bnt give
us a girl like Nanay TerwiUiger, of La
Crosse, who ran out of doors the other
night, and straddling a horse, yelled eat:
"Good night, aid man; I’m off for the
spelling match!"
kU'lL HUB,
httslur la family Urotwriuo, on Bryan almet, bo
twooft Ogletborpv A Jftckftou streets.
If Mu chergu for drftfftgft. dvcT
CM Brunt! ilrwt, Columbus, Oft.
Wetchee ftftd Clocks repaired in tha Mi i
nor and warranted. fell
Tin and Coppersmiths.
VB. PEE,
Darker In Tin, kfceet Iran, Dearer.
Urdar* from abroad promptly atlaailfd Iu.
l*t No. 1T4. Broad Ilrwt
Dftntlfttft.
w. w. nusiA
Demtlat,
Oppo.lt. Strapper*, bolldtag, Rasdolph St.
Bpooiftt att.ntluii .Iftm to th* iuwrtlos of Aril*
total Taath, a. w.H so la uparatlv* iMstlstry.
COLUMBUS DENTAL I
. _ W.T. Foot, Frop'r,
its Room Bolldtag, Uoliant Qaaggta.
—A new obair devoted to organic
chemistry is to be eras ted in tha Faenlty
of Balances of Paris.
—A new Sonne of eaontehono baa been
diaoovared in Bnrmah, in a oreeping
plant whose botanical name is Clunanno-
oia ueulonla. Tbe plant la very common
in Burmese forests, and la cultivated by
tbe natives for tha sake of its fruit,
whioh is said to have an agreeable said
taste, and to mature at a ssaaon whan
tamarinds are aoaree.
U. A, KfKHMK,
Merchant Tailor and Cutter.
A full «tock of Franob unit Kn.llib Broadcloth.
CuMlmor*. aud Velina*.
.pris Bo. 1M itroad turret
HENRY BELLMAN.
Catting, Cleaning and Repairing
l*ona In tho boot sty Is,
opr24l Oorn.r Crawford nnd Front Hi,.
Dress* Making.
MIR M. A. HOLLINGIgWWRTU,
Druas-Msklug, Cutting ftftd tiling. Ternscheep.
Jtaslueuee pndshop Id Krowoerills.
—Prof. Baird la to have an entire
building at tne Centennial devoted exela-
sively to an exhibition of fish and fish
suitors. Ha will exhibit upward of 600
plaster casta of food fishes peculiar to
tha eoaata of America. Tha display will
also Inolnds models of every deaoription
of flabtog-amaek boats, seines, nets and
all tha paraphernalia naed in the catohing,
earing for and oaring of fish.
—In tha event of any proposals for leg
islation with regard to viviseatiou being
brought forward, Mr. Darwin, Professor
Huxley, Dr. Sanderson, and other biolo
gists of distinction Intend to petition
Parliament on the anbjeoi. While they
are anxious that useless cruelty should
be prevented, they are extremely desirous
that no obstacle aliontd bs placed by the
action of tha legislature on roseareh and
these views will be emliodiod in the pe
tition.
Plano Tuning, Ito.
E. W. BLAU,
Repairer and Tuner of Piauoee, Organa u<
Aeoordeoaa. Sign Painting alao dun*.
Oidor* ftiftj Ito bo left at J. W. I'umog Murman'i
Cun and Looksmithe.
Seasonable Spring (Mi.'
Ourabla, (m - fltttnf, tew ■
Drees and Walking
Ladlat, Mtaaaa a ad OkMna,
Children aad Infants’ Aakte Ttea mi
Wppmt,
la all t
Oantlaaiaa’B Fins
raMs, i
A SPLENDID
Substantial Work far
AND ft -
Full Stock of all tha sJImsw
to all clam! of hym*
PHILIP EIFLKB,
Quu and LockhWUk, Crawford street, next U
Johuaon'a corner, Oulnoibaa, tia. feft
WILLS * (JUSSIS,
WILLIAM aCUOBKR,
Qua aud Loekamlth aud dealer in tiunuing Ma>
lariala. JCaat of ktrupiwr'i CoufoctJunarjr
caociww.
Fresh Meats.
J. W. PATRICKp
Italia No. 1% and It, Marlnt Bonin.
H. F. ABILL ft 00.,
^BE now reootvtag deny, Iko kata vmtaUM
—The best resnlt ever attained with
any gnn in existence ie said to have been
arrived at a few days ago with a 88-ton
Woolwich gnn, at the proof halts in
tbe Government marshes, adjoining
the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Tho gun
wan being fired to determine the proper
proof charge for guns of its olsss, and
when dineharged with 160 pounds of gun
powder end a 300-pound projootile R re
corded tho extraordinary velocity of 1,.
600 feet per second, the pressure on the
inner enrfaoe of the gnn at the seino
time remaining moderate. This result is
dne to tbe use of the newly designed cu
bical gunpowder.
—It is rather extraordinary that no
small machine capable of oxerting power
cheaply and continnonsly has yet boon
discovered. There ere many obvious
ones for such a machine, but so far the
experiments of inventors have been of
no avail. Hewing maohipes were at ono
time run by oompressed sir in New York,
but aa tbe sir had to be oomprosaed by a
steam engine, it was plainly an indirect
means to accomplish an end. Eleotrioity
has been applied as a powar in all known
ways, bnt tbe expense of xino zs fuel be
ing five times greater than that of onal,
renders this agent unpopular even for
small powers. Hot air enginea are onm-
brona, costly and noisy in comparison
with the power they exert, nnd have no
advantage exoept dispensing with a boil'
er. All the known forces seem to have
been experimented with to litiio purpose.
Captain Ericsson's magnificent project to
oonvert solar heat into a means of mo
tion still remains a problem so far as
praotioal results are concerned, aad tha
only agent available for the purpose men
tioned is the steam angina. A corres
pondent of tbo Hdmtifla Amoriean soya
that la hia opinion there la room for sun-
afaetoreis to introduce small steam an
ginas of one-half to ona horns powar, and
be thinks that there wonld bo ample sale
for thorn for all proposes of modem Ufa.
J. T. COOK,
Freak Meats or All Mloda,
I Bulls Woa. If* ftnd 17.
Barber fthops.
ED. TERMY, Barber,
Crawford Bt., amler lUnkio lions*, Columbus, On.
Builders nnd Architects.
J. in. ClflALMlilBi
Hd«n nnd BnIMar.
Jobbing done nt short notion.
Finns nnd speclflcfttions furnishod fur «li styla*
of buildings ^
Broad Street, next to ti. W. brown
Coluiul
- lie.
Livery and Sale Stables.
ttORKST THOMPSON,
Itivarj, Kale aud KxehMga Mftl>it<
OcurNokFi, Noam or Hamuoldi Sts..
«ct*0 Ouloinl us, fin
Tobacco, Ciftars, ftc.
MAIER DORN.
If you want Iu enjoy a good smokn, go te> bis
Ngar Manufactory,
Betwoen Georgia Horn* and Muscogee Horan.
Cotton Faotorloe.
OQ1.UMUU8 MAXUl'AOTVJKINO CO.,
Manufacture re of
Shestlnfii Shirting** snd Sewing *ud
Knitting Thronde
Cards Wool and Srinds Wheat and Cora*
Offlee in rear of Wltlich 4 Kinsel’s, Randolph sL
JftlS R. H. CHILTON, Rreeldent.
MtJMJOOEB MAimurtBixu ioi
Manufhetnrera of
SHJISTIV08, BIIIRTINSB,
TARN, ROPB, Ae.
COLUMBUS, GA.
O. P. SWIFT. President.
W. A. SW1& Secretary A Treasurer. ec«l ly.
Doctors.
Offoe corner Broad and Randolph atcasfe, lu»w*
Boohlnm oa Varay tMkr^dowa below It. Clair.
of flae groeeitas, ooMtattag tapartaT
Magnolia aad D tad am Rams,
Breekt.it Boson,
Mow York Ioaeorod Moata,
Beef Tsagaas aad Driafl BN*
Yalton Market Corned Beat, .
Uaonad Fralta aad VagatoMaHfaa hWM
Eagllih and Anurleoa PMklaa
Qaaan Olivos,
JottlM of difltaeat vortattaft
o*n tea Qlager (preoorved.)
Ooodaatad MUk,
Ooflkes—Bmrlkd Ntaatal,
HXgan of aUrtytak
Florida aod Now Odoeas Snap.
By All xoodi dallrarad. Ik>m apTtf
MILUNKRY. -
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MILLINERY.
riiuw nite, jdftui
Haul and Imitation
HERRING’S
Patent Champion Safes,
ESTABLISHED MORE THAN A TURD
IDT AOENTUBY,
REDUCED nr
ALSO TWO HUNDRED SEOONMAND
SAFES FOE SALS AT TRET
low moss.
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