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VOL. XVII,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
NY LITTLE LOVE AT SCHOOL.
How patiouUy I waited when
My little love w*s lntr;
But, then, how bright the smilo she gnvo
1 held bark the gate.
She passed, and where ahu walked the
l.e«t half it* glorious aheeu—
At leant it neeiucd so to these eyes,
That saw in her their queen.
My glance wm sometimes on my books—
My thought* on her always,
Ami in my silly head I dreamed
M Of happier luture days;
Of castle* built in fairy realms,
Fortunes by genii brought;
Of present facts and present cares
Thwro was not room for thought.
Wo grow; our paths diverged; sho went
_ Away to distant lam!.*;
W 'd, but, obedient,
Obeyed my fate’s com mauds.
Now where is site, and where am If
limitun knows, I cannot tell
Of her. I’m married; children four,
Can sho have dons as weiif
O, childish love! Can after /ears
Konew that spotless flamef
Can manhood, wit It its passion fire,
lie reason, cold and time,
Restore that dear i’iato.iic time
When soul uud heart were pare?
Why should such hoavens fade awayf
Why can they not endure?
(Translated Iron the French.]
THE DESERT OF ICE;
A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE.
BY JTTJiES VERNE.
CHAPTER XXI.
THE OPEN BEA.
The next morning Johnson and Bell
carried the camp effects on board the
launch. At 8 o’clock the preparations for
departure were completed. As they were
about to leave this coast the Dootor found
himself *thinkiug of the travelers whoso
tracks they had seen in the snow.
This inoident gave him serions thought.
Were these men endeavoring to reach the
North? Had they any means at their dis
posal to cross the Polar Sea? Was it
likely that they would be met with on
the new route they were about to take?
For three days pust no sign of the
presence of tlie36 travelers had been seen,
and oertainly, whoever they might be,
they had not reached Altamont Harbor.
Thiet spot was still virgin of the tread of
human feet.
Nevertheless, urged by his thoughts,
the Dootor wanted to give a last glance
at the country, and he ascended an eroi-
nonce about a hundred feet high at the
most. From that height his gaze could
take in all the southoru horizon.
Having reachol tho top he put on bis
^yo-glass. What was his surprise when
he discovered that nothing oould bo seen
—not in the distance, but even a few
yards distant! This circumstance 'seem*
vory strange to him. He looked again,
and at last ho examined his eye-glasses.
Tho object-glass was missing!
“The object glass!” he cried.
The sudden revelation that was pre
sented to his mind may be surmised. He
uttered a cry loud enough for his com
panions to hear, and great was their aux*
iety when they saw him running down
the hill toward them.
“Well! what can be the matter now?”
said Johnson.
The Doctor, out of breath with his ran,
could not at first ntter a word. Finally
he managed to say:
. ‘ ’The tracks—the footsteeps— the de
tachment!—”
“Well, what now?” asked Hatteras.
“Those foreigners here?”
“No, no!” exclaituod the Doctor. “Tho
object glass—my object glass!”
And then ho showed them his incom
plete oye-glaRs.
“Ah!” exclaimed the American, “you
lost yours?”
“Yes!”
“But thoso tracks?”
“They were ours, my friends!” cried
the Doctor. “We went astray in the fog!
We tnado a circle and walked in onr own
footsteps!”
“But those imprints of shoos?” asked
Hatteras.
“That was Boll’s shoes—nobody but
Bell’s, who, after his snow-shoes were
broken, walked all day iu the snow in
Lis shoes!”
“That is perfectly true,” said Bell.
No evident war the mistake that they
all burst out laughing, all except Hatter
as, who was not, however, the least hap
py man in tho party.
“Haven’t we been stupid!” said the
Doctor, when the hilarity had ceased. “To
think of the ideas wo had! Foreigners
•on this coast! Come, we must reflect
hero before speaking, that ia evident.
Now that wo have been relieved of our
anxiety in this matter, wo have only to
start.”
“Forward!” criod Hatteras.
A quarter of no hour later later each one
had taken hid place on board the launch
which, with its mainsail set and its jib
sail hoisted, sailed away rapidly from Al
tamont Harbor.
This sen voyage bogan on July 10. The
travelers wero now vory close to the Pole,
They were distant from it exactly 17;'
milos. Unless land should be found at
this extremity of the globe, the trip by
aea would be a very short on e.
Tho wind was not strong, but it was iu
their favor. Tho thermometer marked
50 degrees above zero, and the weather
was really warm.
No injury had been done to the launch
during its transportation on the sled. It
was in exnelluut order, and it obeyed the
helm pei’it oily.
Johnson was at tho holm. The Doctor,
Bell, and the American sat as best they
could among the cargo, some of which
was placed on deck and some below
4*ck.
Hatteras, seated at the bow, gazed to-
~ ward that mysterious point in the direc
tion of which he felt himself drawn by a
power which he could not resist, as the
needle is drawn to the magnetic pole.
Should any shore present itself to the
gaze he wished to bo the first to sight it.
indeed, this honor belonged to him.
He observed that the surfaoe of the
Polar Ocean was composed of choppy
waves, such as are seen in inclosed seas.
In that he saw the indication of land not
far off; and in this matter the Doctor
shared his opinion.
It is easy to understand why Hatteras
desired so eagerly to find a continent at
the North Pole. How disappointed would
he hAvo been to seo the nnseizablo aea
extending in the spot where a tract of
laud, however small it might bo, was noc
essary for his purpose! In fact, how
give a special name fo an ocean of whioh
tho limits wero unknown? How to plant
amid tho waves the flag of his country?
How to take possession in the namo of
her Gracious Majesty, of a part of tho
liquid element?
Thus, with compass in hand, Hatteras
devoured with his eyes the Approaches to
tho north.
Up to the horizon the sea spread unin
terruptedly, and was confounded in the
distance with the pare sky of those lati
tudes. A few ice mountains, floating
seaward, seemed to leave the way free to
theao daring navigators.
The aspect of this region presented
bouio strange features of newness. In
their nervous and exoited mood oould the
travelers retain iu their mind the im
pressions created on them? This ia a
difficult matter to decide. . Still tho Doc
tor in his daily notos has described tho
singular appearance of the ocean. He
speaks of it au Penny spoke, according
to whom these Countries presented an as
pect, “offering the moat striking contrast
of a sea peopled with millions of living
creatures.”
The liquid plain, colored with the
vaguest shadows, showed itfelf
strangely transparent and with an incred-%
ible scattering power, as if it wero com
posed of carburet of sulphur. This tran
sparency enabled one to see through it
to immense depths. It seemed as though
the Polar basin were lighted from below
like a gigantic aquarium. A few eleotri-
oul phenomena, produoed in tho bottom
of the sea, doubtloBa, illuminated the
most distant portions of it. As for the
launch it seemed to be suspended over a
bottomless abyss.
On the surface of these wonderful wa
ters birds flew about in innumerable
flocks, resembling large and dense storm-
clouds. Birds of passage, birds of the
the shore, swimming birds—-they pre
sented iu their numbers specimens of tho
great aquatic family, from tho albatross,
so common to southern regions, to the
penguin of the Arctic seas; but hero they
wero of gigantic proportions. Looking
at them, the Doctor found his science as
a naturalist at fault. The names of these
prodigious species wore unknown to him
and he surprised himself by dodging at
times when their wings beat the air with
indescribable strength.
Homo of these aerial monsters spread
wings of twenty feet from tip to tip. In
their fight they covered the launch; and
there wore among them, in legions, birds
tho names of which never appear in the
Index Ornithologies of London.
The Dootor was stunned and stupefied
to find science of so little use to him.
Then, when his gaze, tnrning from the
wonders of tho air, sought the surfaco of
the peaceful ocean, he saw creatures of
the auirnal world not less astonishing,and
among others, jelly fish, tho breadth of
which was thirty feet. They served ns
the general food of the inhabitants ol the
air, and floated like diminutive islands
amid gigantic sea-weed. How astonish
ing! IIow different from those other
microscopic jelly-fish seen by Scoresby
in the seas of Greenland, and of which
this navigator remarked that to count
them 80,000 people wonld need to have
been occupied, day and night, since tho
croation of the world.
When the gazo penetrated below the
surface into the transparent waters, the
spectacle of this element, filled with
thousands of fish of every kind, was not
less supernatural. At times these animals
plunged rapidly into the depths of the
liquid mass, and the eye saw them gradu
ally diminishing, dwindling iu size, and
finally vanishing like phantasmagorical
spectres; at times issuing from the depths
of the ocean, they rose to tho surface,
growing larger as they approached it.
Tho marine monsters did not seem to
bo in the least alarmed by the presence
of the launch; passing it they caressed
it with their enormous fius. Under cir
cumstances iu which professional whalers
would have been, with good reason, tor
rifled, tho travelers did not experience
even the consciousness of a threatening
danger, and yet a few of theso inhabi
tants of the sea attained formidable pro
portions.
Tho young sea-calves played together;
the narwal, as fantastic as tho unicorn,
armed with his long, straight, conical
horn, a wonderful tool, with which it
saws tho ioo-fields, pursued tho more
timid cetaceans; innumerable whales,
blowing through (heir blowers, columns
of water, filled the air with a peculiar
whistling sound; the ice-whale, with its
slender tail and wide caudal fins, rushed
through the waves with an incredible
swiftness, feeding in its course on fish as
swift as itself—on codfish or mackerel—
while the white whale calmly swallowed
mollusks as quiet and indolent as itself.
Deeper still were to be seen tho fin
backed whale with its pointed muzzle,
the Greenland whale, the great sperma-
cetti whale, a spocics spread throughout
all Ik* seas, B.viinming amid shoals of
ambergris, or engaging in Uomerio com
bats which reddened the ocean over a
surface of many miles; the pbysales, cyl
indrical in shape; tho large tegnsik, of
Labrador, the dolphins with sword-like
fins on their backs, the entire family of
seals and walruses, the dogs, the horses
the sea-bears, the lions, the sea-elephants
—all seemed to be browsing on the damp
pasturages of the ocean; and the Doctor
contemplated these innumerable animals
with as much ease as he would have done
the orustaceans and the fish through the
glow ill the Zoological Garden.
What beauty, what variety, what power
in nature! How strange and unreal did
all seem iu these regions surrounding the
Pole!
Tho atmosphere acquired a supernatu
ral purity. It might have been supposed
to be overcharged with oxygen. The
travelers breathed with a ’delicious sensa
tion this air, whioh bestowed on them
a more vigorous life; without seeking
to know the cause of this result, they
were a prey to a veritable oomboation, of
whioh no idea oan be given, and were
oven enfeebled; all their funotions—pas
sional, digestive, respiratory—were per
formed with a superhuman energy. Ideas,
exaggerated in their brains, developed
themselves until they assumed sublime
proportions; in one hoar they lived the
existence of an entire year.
Amid all those astonishments and mar-
13 tho launch sailed peacefully before a
moderate wind, whioh the large alba
trosses at times made stronger with their
vast wings.
Towards the evening Hatteras and his
companions lost sight of the coast of New
America.
The houis of the night come to the
temperate zones os to the equinootial
countries; but here the sun, lengthening
its rays, marked a circle rigorously paral
lel with that of the ocean. The launch,
bathed iu its oblique rays, oould not es-
empo this luminous ceutre, whioh ohanged
its position with the movements of the
boat.
Tho animate creatures of these hyber-
bos oan regions nevertheless felt the com
ing on of the eight, just as if the radiant
orb had disappeared behind the horizon;
the birds, fish, and whales, disappeared!
Whither? To the depths of the sky ?
To tho depths of the sea? Who could
tell? But to their cries, thoir whistlings,
to the shuddering of the waves agitated
by the breathings of these marine mon
sters, soon succeeded a motionless si
lence. Tho waves slept iu an uncon
scious undulation, and the night resumed
its tranquil influence under the twinkling
glances of tho sun.
Sinoe ita departure from Altamont
Harbor the lauuoli had made a degree to
the north.
The next day nothing was visible on
the horizon before them, neither the high
peaks, that announce land from a dis
tance, nor those special indications by
which a sailor knows that he is approach
ing an island or a continent.
Tho wind, without being strong, con
tinued favorable. The sea was not rough.
The flocks of birds and the multitude of
fish mndo their appearance, as on the
day before. The Dootor, leaning above
the waves, could see the whales leave
their reposo in tho deep and asoend by
dogrecs to the surface. A few icebergs,
and here and there straggling blocks of
ice, wero tho only objeots that broke the
ocean’s intense monotony.
But tho appearance of ice in either
shape was infrequent, and it conld not
embarrass tho progress of a ship. It
must bo observed that at that time the
launch was ten degrees above tbe oold
belt, aud from the point of view
tho parallels of temperature it
was as if it were ton degrees
below it. It is not at all surprising
that at that season the sea should be open
it should havo been also across the
Buy of Disco, in Baffin’s Bay. Thus,
during the summer months, a vessel
thoro would havo been free in its move
ments.
This observation has a great practical
iporiance attached to it. In fact, if
ever whalers should be able to asoend to
the Volar Sea, either by way of tbo seas
of North America or by the seas of
Northorn Asia, they are assured of being
able to obtain a ready cargo, for this
part of the ocean seeius to be tho uuiver.
sal nursery for fishes—the general reser
voir of whales, seals aud of all marine
animals.
At midday tho water-line was still
ooufused with the horizon, and the Doc
tor began to doubt tho existence of a
continent in these high latitudes. But
still, on reflection, he was compelled to
believe iu the existence of a Northern
Continent. In fact, in tho first days of
the world, after the crust of the earth
had become cold, tho waters formed by
tho condensation of the atmospheric va
pors must have obeyed the ceutrifngal
force and flowed toward the equatorial
zones, thus leaving the immovable ex
tremities of the globe. Hence the neces
sary emorsion of tho regions in the vi
cinity of the Polo. Tho Doctor fonnd
this reasoning very correct.
And so did it soom to Hatteras!
Tho Captain’s looks sought to pierce the
fog: of the horizon. His gloss was not
removed from liis eves for a moment. He
endeavored to detect in tho color of the
water*, in tho i bnpo of the waves, in the
wbistlo of tho wind, tho signs of aneigb-
boring land. IIi» head leaned forward,
and whoever might havo seen him at that
moment would have admired him, al
though iguoruut of his thoughts, for the
energotic desires and the anxious interro
gations betrayed by his Attitndo.
[to be continued.]
—Tho late Prof. D- was, prior to
his appointment to his choir, rector of an
academy in Forfasbiro. Ho was particu
larly reserved in his intercourse with the
fair sex, but in prospect of obtaining a
profot’Horship, he ventured to make pro-
po .ft!s to a lady. They wero walking to-
togclher, and tho important question was
put without preliminary sentiments or
notes of warning. Of course tbe lady
replied a gentle “ho.” The subject was
immediately dropped, bat the parties
soon met again. “Do you remember,” at
length said the lady, “a question
you put to me w hen we last met?” Tbe
professor said ho did remember. “And
do you remember my answer, Mr. D—?”
“Oh yes,” said tho professor. “Well,
Mr. D—,” proceeded the lady, “I have
been led, on consideration, to obange
my mind. “And so have I,” dryly re
sponded the professor. He maintained
hie bachelorhood to tbe close.
—A game all for-lawn—Croquet.
—“Dappled caudle appendage” is Mr.
Tail's last.
—Title for e five cent savings hank—
The St. Niokle-ua.
-The latest wedding idea is to kdep
the groom’s name a dead seoret.
—The man who threatened to make it
hot for another was a bar-keeper.
—This world would be a sandy desert
of louesomeucss if women wero not priv
ileged to attend auotion sales and pay
more for an old bureau than a new cham
ber set would cost.
—A kiud-hoarted, peaco-loving Balti
more man painted his front steps twenty-
three times trying to get a color to suit
his wife, and then sho decided that tho
firat oolor was the best.
—Does the court understand yon to say
that you saw the editor intoxicated?
“Not at all, sir; only I’ve seen him in
such a—a—a—flurry as to attompt to cut
out copy with the snuffers—that’s all.”
—“Dear me, how fluidly ho talks,” said
Mrs. Partington, rooently, at a tempor-
ance meeting. “I am always rejoiced
whou he mounts tho nostrils, for his elo
quence warms evory cartridge in my
body.”
—“Well, neighbor Kluwmidgf<, how
much shall I put you down for to get a
chandelier for the ohnrch?” Neighbor 8.
“Shoo! what we want to git a chaudyloer
for? The’ hain’t nobody kin play on ter
it when ye git it!”
—An aristocratic New Yorker, on being
requested by a rich and vulgar young
fellow for permission to marry “one of
hia girls,” gave this rather crushing reply:
“Certainly; which would you prefer, the
housemaid or the cook?”
—An old lady, hearing some one read
ing about a Congressman at large, rushed
into the kitchen door, shouting, “8aruh
Jane! Sarah Jane! don’t you leave the
olothes out nil night, mind what I toll
you, for there’s a Congressman at largo."
—“What’s your business?” asked the
judge of a prisoner at the bar. “Well,
s’pose you might oull me a locksmith.”
“When did you last work at your trade?”
“Last night; when I heard a call for tho
police I made a bolt for the door.”
—Inaccurate Euphemism.—Why are
lodgings to let ahuoBt always* advertined
not as “ltooms,” but “Apartments?”
“Apartments” for single gentlemen are
all very well; but surely “Together-
ments” would be more suitable to mau
and wife.
—“Convicts!” said a melancholy atrau-
ger, when he saw some women in striped
shawls sitting at a counter iu a large Phil
adelphia dry goods establishment last
week. “Yes,tried and condemned for want
of good taste and originality,” was tho
quick answer.
—A colored preacher remarked: “When
God made de fust man he sot him up
against de fence to dry.” “Who made
de fence?” interrupted an eager listener.
“Put dat mau out!” exclaimed the proach-
er. “Such questions as dat ’stray all do
th’ology in the world.
—This notice appears in one of the
London morning papers: “Mr. Peter
Tate has loft his homo, liis wifo aud
children would be thnukful to any one
who oan givo information of his wherea
bouts. lie is subject to fils, aud resem
bles the Gorman Emperor.”
—A Cincinnati reviler of Louisville
saym “Louisville car-drivers arc an ema
ciated sot, all from excessive blasphemy.
It is rarely that a Louisvillo girl drops
her foot upon tho tail-board of a bob-tail
car without lifting the front wheels off
tho truck, and this wears on the driver.”
English tourist (in Ireland)—“Toll
me, waiter, at what hour does I he first
train leave for Clonmel?” Waiter— “Is
it the fnrrst thrain, sor? I’m not rightly
share. Tho noiu thrain used to leave ut
half past noine, but fail it goes at tin
now, and there's no first thrain now at
all at all. But I’ll ax ut the bar, sor!”
—“Did you like the seruion, love?”
asked a pious wife of a heathen husband
on thoir way home from church. “Well,
my dear, to tell the truth,” bo said, “I
didn’t pay much attention to tbe sermon,
but, from the sweet expression of the
parson’s faoe, I should say he wus a mau
who wouldn’t have to bo asked twice to
take a drink.”
—A western editor exclaims: “Boston
needn’t attempt to sell any of her ‘shirt
bosoms, warranted not to rumple,' in this
locality. Not much! Tho sigh, the ex
clamation, tho sweet tremulous accent,
the delicious fragrance of her hair and
breath—all those may pass away in a mo
ment; but tbo rumpled shirt bosom re
mains ever with you as a present re
minder of past joys.”
—This is a passage from a Boston re
porter’s account of a mooting of the Rad
ical Club: “Then a matron mado for
kisses, in tbe loveliost of dresses, and
with eyes that shone more brightly than
the diamonds that sho wore, spoke in
tones of lute-like sweetness, words of
such exceeding fitness, phrases of such
happy neatness, that we clapped our
hand* for more, ss with gruco she loft
the floor.”
—Borne of tbe company at toa with a
Danbury family, spoke of the excellence
of the houey, whereupon tho head of the
house, who stands in reputed dread of his
wife, feelingly said: “Honey is the most
delirious of delioaoies. It is the nectar
of the beautiful flowers, sipped from the
brilliant petals by the never-tiring bee,
and moulded into a glory that would
tempt the god of—” “Ephraim!” enun
ciated hia wife, with stem solemnity,
“have you been drinking again?”
Ephraim groaned.
Tbe light at lionet how bright It
Wh. u evening shade* around ue fell;
Aul from'the lattice far it gleam*
To love, ami reel nuU coin fort all.
When wearied with the toll* of day,
Aud atrif • for glory, gold or fame,
How Hweot to deck the uuiol way,
Where loving lip* will lisp
Wh"H through tho dark aud stormy night
The wayward wanderer homeward fliee,
How cheering 1* the twinkling light.
Which tlir -ugli the forcet gloom he eplee.
It is the light ut homo, he feel*
That loving heart* will greet him there.
And aoftly through hi* boei.m ■teal*
The Joy aud love liui banish care.
The wonry Inburer to greet,
Wheu tho lough toil* of day are
Bad I* tho mini that Uom uot know
Tho t leasing* that Hh boaias impart,
Tho chcoiful iiopt * and joye that flow,
Aud lighten up tbu heaviest heait.
PREMISING!!.
—Roses do not bloom so profusely.
—The latest gag—a pill at bed time.
—Two hot sea-water batha aro being
built at Cape May.
—Gen. Rosoorana ia scrambling aweng
sotuo Nevada mines.
—A Leominster, Mass., factory makes
80,000 apple parers a year.
—Senator Thurman will address the
Alabama Grangers next fall.
—Intellectual bar-keepers have started
the little game of spelling for drinks.
—Lovers of punch will be distressed to
learn that a new and fatal disease has at
tacked the lemon piaut.
—Tho exodus of fashionable families
has commenced in earnest. The warm
weather hurries up things generally.
—The losses sustained by the Massa
chusetts insurance companies whioh were
rendered insolvent by tho groat Boston
fire, awouuted to $32,400,(KM).
—A suicidal idiot at La Salle, IU., ex*
hibits his morbific imbeoility in ohewiug
aud swallowing broken glass, and homi
cidal idiots pay money to see him do it.
—Kentucky’s “Mammoth Cave” not
having been “entered” according to an
aot of Congress, Colorado has pUgariaed
the title for a monstrous cavern of its
own invention.
—Intellectual Nantucket, Mass., uses
its reading room as a fish market, tho
counectiou between the two kinds of
food for thought being obvious to all dis
ciples of Agassiz.
—Tho steamers Alert and Discovery
have left Portsmouth, England, bound
for the north pole. They aro the carriers
of the beat manned and beat supplied
Arctic expedition that ever set out. The
curiosity and admiration of mankind wiU
follow them.
—There in a hardy fellow in Gaen, iu
Normandy, who 1ms twice saved tho lives
of men in the water at the peril of his
own. No notice was taken of these
evofits. B it rr< cntly he saved tbe life
of a half drowned cat, and tho “Soufety
for the Protection,” etc., lies given him
a silver modal.
—Grenadine vails are very long, and
aro arranged iu the fashiou adopted for
tulle vails last summer. The middle of
tho vnil is passed smoothly over the faeo,
the ends aro orossed behind tbe head,
then brought to the front and Usd under
the chin. Blue, cream oolor and white
are most used.
—Those who expect to be occasionally
visited by (hat lively and ingenious ani
mal, tbe mosquito, ought to be grateful
to us for informing them that a perfumer
in London has invented a new aud agree
able soup whioh is said to possess the
quality of driving away nil manner of
flying, buzzing aud biting creatures.
—In tho Cautou of Glarus, Switzer
land, thero ate twenty-three licensed
medical practitioners. Of thoHe twenty-
one have struck, and declare they will no
longer practice without some changes iu
thu law aud some sanitary regulations.
It is said that the undertakers are alarm
ed at the possible effect on thoir industry.
-An actor engaged at one of tho Bal
timore theatres, while going through a
performance recently, was taken sudden
ly with parulyuia of thu throat, accotnpA'
nied by swelling of the lips, tongue and
salivary glands. Tho physician who at
tended him said that he had been poison
ed by cosmetics used in coloring bis lips
and chocks.
—Decoration day seenv* to have beeu
more generally observed this year than
ever before. Tbe observance of it was
at least general enough and hearty enough
to show that the custom, m itself a very
graceful one, of decorating tbe graves of
Boldiors, bos commended itself to people
who arc not given overmuch to outbreaks
of sentimentality.
Valuable Interest Bales.
For finding tho interest on any princi
pal for any number of days, the auswer
iu each cabs being iu cauls, separate tbe
tho two right baud figures to express it in
dollars and cents:
Four par cent. —Multiply tho principal
by thu number of days to run; separate
the right hand figure from tbe product,
and divide by 8.
Five par cent.—Multiply by number of
days, and divide by 72.
Bix per cent.—Multiply by number of
days, separate right-band figure and di a
vide by 6.
Eight per cent.—Multiply by number
•f days, and divide by 45.
Nine p i cunt.—Multiply by number of
days, separate right-hand figure, aud di
vide by 4.
Ten per cent.—Multiply by number of
days, and divide by 35.
Twelve per cent.—Multiply by number
of days, separate rigkt-haud figure, and
divide by 8.
Fifteen per cent.—Multiply by number
of days and divide by 24.
Eighteen per cent.—Multiply by num
ber of days, separate right-hand figure
and divide by 2.
Twenty per cent.—Multiply by number
of deys uod divide by 18.
Vblooitt and Duration of Lioht-
wm.—A large flash of lightning,dlstinotly
aeen often leaves upon the mind an im
pression that it has lasted fully a second
or more, but it ie proved that aneh is not
thefaot. Its velocity is at the rate of
288,000 miles per aeoond. The utmost
duration of e flesh from beginning to
end is estimated not to exceed (he six
tieth part of a aeoond, though retained
upon the retina so muoh longer. This
may be proved during e storm on a per
fectly dark night by setting e wheel to
work ao rapidly that in a steady light its
■pokes appear to blend and beoome indi
vidually invisible. It being dark, and
the wheel rapidly revolving as Above,
when a flash of lightning ooouro the
wheel will appear to the eye motionless,
every spoke being distinctly aud sepa
rately visible and still. This was first
observed by Wheatstone, and is recorded
by him, in conjunction with other simi
lar experiments, as conclusive proof that
the duration of the flash is excessively
brief.
Clkanino Stains. — Mud, especially
that of cities, is a compound of vegetable
remains, aud of ferruginous matter in a
state of blaok oxide. Washing with pure
water, followed, if neoessary, with soap
ing, will take away the vegiutble juioes,
and then the iron may be removed with
oreum of tartar, which itself must, how
ever, he well washed out. Ink stains,
when recent, may be taken out by wash
ing, first with pure water, next with
soapy water, and lastly with lemon juice;
but if old they may be treated with oxol-
io arid. Stains occasioned by smoke, or
by sauoes browned in a frying pan, may
be supposed tp consist of a mixture of
pitoh, black oxide of iron, empyreumalio
oil, and some saline matters dissolved in
pyroligneous arid. In tbia oaae several
re-egeuts must be employed to remove
the steins. Water and soap dissolve per
fectly well the vegetable matters, the
salts, the pyroligineous acid, and even
the empyroumatio oils in e great measure;
the easenoe of turpentine will remove the
rest of the oils and all tbe pitchy matter;
then oxslio aeid may be used to discharge
the iron.
-Pere Petitot, a French explorer, has,
it is said, for thirteen years lived either
with the Esquimaux or with the Indian
tribes nearest the Arotio Ocean. Twenty
times be has traversed the long valley of
the McKenzie, from Fort Good Hope to
the Great Blave Lake: seven times he
visited the Gfceat Bear Lake, and trod
the vast plsins around it. He has travel
ed on foot from the lower Mackenzie to
Fort Bimpson in the Rooky Mountains;
has been far into Northern Alaska; visited
the so-oalled Lake Esquimaux, an estua
ry of the Arotio Ocean; crossing territo
ry almost nnuamed upon I he uisp, and
enduring great hardships and exposures.
During this prolonged Bojourn in inhospi
table climes among savage peoplos, this
brave missionary has accomplished im
mense labors. Ha has traced a map of the
countries through whioh he has traveled,
and has compiled dictionaries of the Es
quimaux language, and of several other
of the Indian tongues. His metrological
aud geologioal observation* upou the ter
ritory between the 54 th pam! lei of North
latitude and (he Arotio Ocean ere declar
ed to be highly valuable, and he roturns
to those regions to eontinue in tbe inter
ests of soienoe and religion bis career of
heroio sacrifice.
Spectra or toe Faint Starr.—Vogel
states that for sometime past ho has been
almost exclusively oooupisd with the spec
troscopio investigation of faint stars.
Among these are some that are distin-
guishod as having spectra which are
sharply defined at the violet side, but on
the red side are broken up into gradually
diminishing bands. These are generally
red stars. By a somewhat careful study
of these speotrn it seems to him undoubt
ed that tlieir disconuity is only apparent,
bring brought about by bright bands of
absortiou which, as we must assume, are
the consequence of the absoption of the
rays of light by the atmospheres sur
rounding these stars. The only rational
classification of star spectra is, aoonrding
to him, into the following three classes:
1. Stars whose temperature is such that
the metallic vapors contained in their at
mospheres esn exert only a vory slight
absorptive effect.
2. Stars whose atmosphere, as in the
ease of our sun, are distinguished by
powerful absorption due to vaporized
metals.
3. Stars whose temperature is so lower
ed that tbe materials which compose
their atmospheres oan combine together.
Id tho latter class Vogel embraces both
tae third and fourth typos ul spectra es-
tabhui od by Sccchi.
—First we had tbe Grecian bond, then
tho Fifth-avenue wriggle, then the Sara
toga slide, and now the salute has suffer
ed an outlandish manipulation, and the
graceful inclination of the head is seen
no more. A wriggle of the chin upward
and outward, with a spasm of the mouth
at tbe same instant, as if some hidden
pulley liko the jumping-jack's were end
deuly twitched, ia now tho only mode of
recognition oudurable in high-toued cir
cles.
—John Bixby, tbe patriotic bar-tender
ft the Central Saloon, has eomposed the
following poem, in memory of tbo late
oelebration and of the “House that Jack
Built.” It is written on the large mirror
behind the bar, and reads as follows;
“God bless the man that owns the land
that raised the goose that bore the quill
that made tbe pen that wrote tbe Meek
lenburg Declaration of Independence.”
Office of Brood atr««t,
~ a«l’« Jowolrj Store.
Will practloo Iu the State ami Fedora! Court*.
L. T. DOWNING,
Attorney and Molleltor.
U. 8. Com'r ami Huglster In Buukruptc). Office
r Brook*’ Drug Stuie, (Jolumbu
R. J. ROMEO,
Attorney and Conuaellor nt Law,
Grocers.
DAN’L R. RISE,
Dealer In Family Groceries, on Bryan street, be
tween UuletUorp* A Jork.ua street*,
r No charge lor dray age. d<-o7
J. H. HAMILTON,
Wholesale and Retail Uracer.
Watchmakers.
C. U. LKUtllM,
Watchmaker,
134 Broad street, Columbia*, Ga.
Watclio* *ud Cluck* repaired in tbo best man
ner and warranted. jail
Tin and Coppersmiths.
WM. FEE,
Worker In Tin, Mkeet Iron, tfepper.
Order* fruui abroad promptly attended lu.
JtT Wo. 174. ttroad Fircot.
Dentists.
W. V. fiUAttM,
Doatfst,
COLUMRI/N DENTAL ROOMS,
Tailors.
G. A. KUCHNK,
Merchant Tailor aud Gutter.
CoMlmuro* aud Vestings.
No. 144 Broad Street
HENRY BELLMAN.
Cutting, Gleaning and Repairing
Douu iu the be*t stylo.
Corner Crawford nnd Kn
Dress-Making.
■HIM M. A. UOLLINUN WORTH,
Brow-Making, Cutting mul lulng. Terms c,l»eo|
Ke*idence and.shop in Jirownovillo.
novlfl
Plano Tuning, Sc.
E. W. BLAU,
Repairer and Tuuer of Plunoe*, Organs
Aucorileun*. Sign Painting also dune.
Oidoi* limy be lie left at J. W. Pumh A Norm
Gun and Locksmiths.
1*111 LI F EIFLER,
ml Itoi'ki-witli, Crawford
JulitiHou'ii curlier, Cujttinburf, U >
WILLIAM lOUOBBit,
Gun and Louk.mltli and dealer iu Cunning Ma*
torJuls. huHt ul Rlrupi-ur'* Conibctiouury
F rosh Moats.
J. W. PATRICK,
Stalls No. 10 and 18, Market Hmine.
J. T. COOK,
Freak Meuta ol All Klnda,
aeptt Stall* Nu*. If. uml 17.
Barber 8 hops.
ED. TERRY, Barber,
Builders and Architects.
J. G. GHALMERB,
House Carpenter uud Builder.
Jobbing dono at short notice.
Plan* and specification, furnished for nil .tyiei
0. W. Brown’*,
Ja!»
ColnrobtiH, Go.
Livery and Sale Stable*.
ROIIERT TIIOMFMON,
Livery, Mule uud Exehuuge Mtnbles-
Oulituobps, Notts or Kahdolfh Hr ft.,
octSO Col ii nit"!*, U*
Tobacco, Cigars, Ac.
MAIER DORN.
If you want to enjoy u good .moke, go to bis
Cigar Manufactory,
Between Georgia Horn* and Muacogee Home
Cotton Factories.
Sheetings, Hhlrtlngs, am) 8ewinw
Knitting Thread.
Card* Wool nn-f Grind* Wbeu' % nd t’o-u
Office in roar of Wlttich A Kiusel’*, Kuiuloiph it.
ja!8 R. II. 0E1LTON, President.
■I/MGOGEE MANUFACTURING CO.
Mar ufactnrer* of
flllgTIVOg SHIRTING 8,
TARN, ROPk, At.
COLUMBUS, QA.
O. P. SWIPf, President,
w. r-on ir t, riwiaw,
W. A. SWIFT, Secretary Treasurer. octSl ly,
tNOI&riMCC PWNf
W ILL practice in the _______
or any where else. All Mad of eolMkn
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chasers to city lot No. 72, <
Crawford streets, the "fomtf
tho old “Uoiumbus Hotel,*'
popularly known as tho
oorner. The lot fronts
on both Iiroad and Oral
could give front on either strsrii
ito.. overhead. The most soil
vuiidlngs
at hand; labor nn<i materials
loti* tho most eligi ‘
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HIS OLD STAND
Crawford Street,
Near Alabama Warehouse,
Where ho will cohtinne to PAY *M
HIGHEST PRICES (or
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Notice.
Opfiob Mobile k Gib Ann ]
Jon* 1,2
o^sy^Tfao Annual Convention of tha I
holders or the Mobile A OJntofijl
road will be held at the Dopot ig < ~
bams, on Wednesday, July 7tb,M 1
A. M., when an election for PifrtkR |g| |
Director? will take place.
Stockholders with their t
passed freo to Oolambaa I
elusive, and return any day \
slve.
Certificates of stock i
Conductor by tho I
their being entitled to j
llics, and a proxy muai
stock and power of J
wilt bo required in both oases.'
By order ,4; f 1
jeltd