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Permanent "t . , and wil | ioUt . »,jouiticatlon as
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ordered out, mul charged accordingly.
° iorins—Cash on demand
Job Printing.
to do ai I kinds of Job Work,such
Wt f C <’!re tars Hand bills, Posters, Ate.,<Ste., ou
as cards, Cu ta , vcry lowest nriecs.
short notice, and at JA^IEB DKLA.N KY,
JAMES W. ANOKHSON.
fltofessioaal (CnrH
j c morris,
Attornoyat
CONYERS, GA.
VVM W. CLARK &J- PACc.,
" e' ei \ . partnership, and will transact all
HA \ b,formed » l“t th F m iu the counties of
business eiitru e Gwinnett, Walton,
Morgan, 1 “ lh ’ c District Court of the United
,ute. e a* Mi Special attention given to eases
in Bankruptcy. w \y ci.aiik,
3 j M pack.
A . JOXS2 »,
-ry -gs TO" W *
~ CONYERS, GEORGIA.
, , „,,,{ pie iared to put up work in lus
'' 1 Uv; | fee s oonti 'cnt from his knowD Ige
~ then who may i* vor 1,,m
.ItillN S CARROLL
D E N T 1 s T p
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
F.lleJ, or New T»etli Inserted,in
best Style, and or. Reasonable Term.
OSes R.arefß. Kintv's Storc,-l lU'
lAM E > H Lio\ \ .
Watchmaker & Jaweler,
East side of the Square,
o kokgi a,
- ,a: e 1.0 Repair Wat.hes.Cl.cks
B ‘| Jewels tilth* best style. Pari leulae al.en
f ti“ a to repairing. Watches injure, by in
con ete.il workmen. All work warianted.
TUHt9 AP REPAiil£3.
PR ,1' WILLIAM FisnKU will
j«gi£|pa, I, vole his SATURDAYS is I'onnijt
fjfj flanl Repairing Pmifs. H- wit!
vi-it D ili'S ia the co'fbtry, and convenient
,ts on the Raibßoal for that nurpoe*. ■*
... e experience will enable him to give salts
| fa.-li ... to hia employers. Charges reason ,ble.
it* s permitted lit r fer to l’r*-id mil Oi r.
< ,» ngion, (3a., April 8. 1868.-20.f
PRS.
a ■ \ V’i .(i a-S'.giiitcd liitumelveK in <i‘» I’i aO-
Sii cr MEDIG N . and SURGERY, offer
il t ,.ji- |> o essi in il service* to tbe oi izens o(
's-w I '* Ttr*M h.»V« ’• »l OIH ®° n
Vast side of the- t-ijttaiv. (next door to S<
lirwm.d’» -tore,! an I -«e proptF-J to attend to
sP ca - pro riptl v 'I hey have also * caicfolly
■e 1-ci.ed » so.'lirent oi the
Very Best Medicines,
~n.| wi'l give Ihe r personal at tent urn id t°"
pn in ling Prescription*. f° r Phy sic! ins and
otiie* H.
Special attention given to Chronic Diseases
it niJit Dr. Deakino wi! l he found at his
resid nee, and Dr PlilNCt.s at his r .nnis iimn -
diatety ov. r the Store of C. }i Sasunits & 1,1,0 ;
»atty 15, -sis
BOOT & SHOE SHOP.
a would resprotfully inform the citizens .---Va
1 of (’ovingl on and surrounding roitnSri
hat lam no-.v prep .red to make to order sit.
800 T S AND SHOES
• f the finest quality. As s work nothing hut
i;„ Best Material, I will guarantee satisfaction.
Shop over !!. King’s Store.
• au4ly .lOSKi'It BARBER
.1 0s E r 11 V. T ! N S LE y,
Watchrn q ker & Jaweler
Is folly n epare 1 t o ftep-tir «\ aU-hes. Clocks
itiij Jew Ij, in i ie, besL Sty U, short uo i<‘e,
All Work Done at, O U i‘n<H-s, «:i*l \\ arrurvud.
2d tlooi b’l'*w 'ho * ouri llor.ee. — stf
SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOP.
/'■' T would respectfully inform the
eitirons of Newton, and edjoiuii.g
counties, that 1 have opened a
SADDLE and lIAItNKsS sllUl’
Onn.. tli ;je p b.iu square in -CO VI NGT> ■
" here 1 „ui preps ed to make ’o order, ilalii'ts
K* addles, ,vc , or uepair the same tv’, short, notice
pnd in the best style.
ts JAMES II DROWN
11. T. II KNft V,
S3 IST *3? X ■37 ,
COVI GTON, GEORGIA
>—vll a RKDITED IttS PftICFS, s‘>
■ 'd. - T-y -4 t i.jit all who have been so unf. ri u
' iL’Tr , c) ,, rts fb | o9e th.d. natural Teeth
■m h ive their places supplied by Al t, at v. ry
■«mll cost. Teeth Filled at. reasonable pric-s,
■ tnl wort faithfully executed, .Office north sid.-
01 Square.— 1 2gtf
■HE WATER DR AWE ft.
■Ls *n. if, MaKKs of.Georgia. lute pot
imed the. right for this most valuable
■abur Saving Machine. The best Machine lot
■tawing water from an <<idinary well, with
lope and U mdlass Simple, durable, and cheap
-any child ol six. years can draw it. It erap
ns it sell l.y tilting, and can be.applied to tiny
tell. VV e take plea ure iu jeconiiueuditig it to
lie public, lie has County and state Rights for
“le, anti any business man cau certainly make
loney out of it. Address
lni:i Maj. M. R. MARKS, Atlanta, Ga.
Georgia Railroad
breakfast and Dinner House,
At Berzelia. Ga.,
JKRSONS leaving Augusta by the 7 o’clock
Passenger (Morning) Train, Breakfast at,
er/.eha. All persons leaving Atlanta by the 5
clock (Morning) Train, Dine at Burr Mi a. Per
>ns leaving by tbe Freight Trains can always
't pen,, meals. Tables at 'ays provided with
te best the market affords,
£. NEB HUT, Prp’r
IKON AND HARDWARE.
! ALEXANDER, wholesale and re-
J dealers in Hardware. Iron, Steel, Bolting
loths, and Mill Furnishing Goods, Whitehall St
It. RIPLEY kcejw crockery, chiney. Glass
nre and Lamps, Whitehal street,
This GEORGIA ENTERPRISE:
D!?. O. S. PFi O P H IT!
Covington Ocoroia.
Will still continue his business, where he intends
keeping on hand a good supply ot
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic Medicines,
Concentrated Preparations Fluid Extracts, die.
lie is also putting up his
Xjtj.'37-or* 3**ocaioinos,
FILM . LE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL 11’
Vermifuge, tnfl-niHous B’llSs,
and if any ot'.er preparations,
*y Will give prompt attention to all orders
I’trnn iau notice.
lier.-nft.er NO MEDICINE WILL EE DELIY
ERE'). or SERVICE KEN DERWI), except for
O JS. O EC !
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY G {9ll. fori wi 1 not Keep Books.
‘let. 11 18(17. O. S. PROI’IIITT.
Dr Prophitt’s Liver Medicine.
i Vrt iticat.e of Rev. M. W. Arnold, of Ga. Con.
\ S A VINE used this Medicine sufficiently long
l , test its vi l lne, and to satisfy my own mind
that it is an invaluable remedy for Dyspepsia—
a disease flout which the writer has suffered
much for six years—and being persuaded that
Ini! It cds who now suffer from this annoying com
plain!, would Do signally benefited, as lie has been
i,v its use—we deem it a du'y we owe to this
unfortunate e'ass, to recommend to them the use
of this remedy, wh : eh has given not. only himself,
but several members of hiH family the greatest
r0 ’ : ief M. W. ARNOLD.
Hnil Road Schedules.
Wforpia Railroad.
E. W. COLE, General Superintendent.
D \y I’issßNflkHTbai.n (Sundaysexcepted,)leaves
Ammsta at (1.00 am ; leave Atlanta at 7 am; ar
rive at. Augusta at 5.80 p m ; arrite-at Atlanta at 4.20
'' N,'ir, lt -r Pasrrnokk TitAtN ’.eaves Augosta at 10.10
p.m ; leaves Atlauta at SAO p m ; arrives at Augusta
at 1! 00 a m ; arrives at Atlanta at 7.45 a in.
Passengers for Milledgeville, M'ashington and
Athens, (la., must take the day passenger train from
Ammsta and Atlanta, or intermediate points.
Passi-ngerf fi.r West Point, Montgomery, Selma,
and intermediate points, can take cither train. For
Mobile, and New Orleans, must leave Augusta on
Night Passenger Train, at 10.10 p. in.
Passei. 'crs for Nashville, Corinth, Grand Junc
tion, Memphis, Louisville, and St. I.ouis, can take
either train and make close connections.
Tnnorart TtctckTs and baggage checked through
tn 1 lie above places. Sleeping ears on all night pas
senger trains.
MACQ.Y & AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
F,. \V. COLE, Gen’l Sup’t.
Leave Onmak daily at 2.40 p. m.; arrive at V.illcdgo
villc at ti.2o p. m.; leave Milledgeville at 5.30 A. M.;
arrive at Camak at 8.55 a. m. . _
Passengers leaving any point on the Georgia K.
R by !)av Passeucer train, w ill make close connec
tion at Carnal; for Milledgeville, Eatonton, and all
intermediate {mints on the Macon & Augusta road,
ami for .Macon, passengers leaving Milledgeville
at 5.30 A. m., reach Atlanta and Augusta the same
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
11. T. Peaks, General Sup’t.
Special mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at
3 55 a in, arrives at Kingsville at 11.15 a m ; leaves
Kingsville at, 12.05 pm. arrives at Augusta at 7.25
p. m. This train is designed especially lor through
travel.
The train for Charleston leaves Augusta at i a nt,
and arrive? at Charleston at 4 p ni ; leaves Charles
ton at 8 am, and arrives at Augusta at 5 p in.
Nicht special freight and express train leaves Au
gusta (Sundays excepted) at 8.50 p m, and arrives at
Charleston at 4.80 a m , leaves Charleston at 7.30 p
in, and arrives at Augusta at 7.35 a in.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC U. R.
Oampbeu. Wau.acb, General Superintendent.
Dailv passenger trftin. eveept Snndav, leaves At
lanta at 8.45 am, and arrives at Chattaiuxega at 5.25
P m ; leaves Chattanooga ;U 3.20 a in, and arrives at
Atlanta at 12.05 p lit, , _
Ni -lit ex|iress passenger train leaves Atlanta at i
]t in,"and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 ain ; leaves
Chattanooga at 4.30 pm, and arrives at Atlanta at
1.41 a m.
MACON At WESTERN RAILROAD.
F„ R. Walker, Gen’l Sup’t.
Pay pasgeuger train leaves Macon at 7.45 a m.aud
rrives at Atlauta at 2 p m ; leaves Atlanta at 7.15
am, and arrives at Macon at 1.30 pm.
Ni'dif jiassenger train leaves Atlanta at 8.10 p m,
an ’d arrives at Macon at 4.25 ft m ; leaves Macon at
K ;;0 p in, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 a m.
Hotels, . t ,
PLANTERS HOTEL.
GEORGIA.
wTEWLY fttrnishcd and'refitted, unsurpassed by
mv Hotel South, is now open to the Public.
T. S. NICKERSON, PropT.
I.atc of Mil’s HHuSc, Charleston, and Proprietor of
NtnkMSoa's lloicl, ColumH.i, S. C.
United States !*3otel.
ailanta geohoia
WHITAKER A SASSERN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passen
ger Iteoot, enrner Ahihmiia and Prior
Tm E. RI CAN h o t e l,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA. GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot. i
WHITE ,fc WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
U'. f>. WiLEy, Clerk.
Having re-leased and renovated the above
Hotel, w, are prepared to entertain guests in a
most satisfactory aimer. Charges fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to please. |
Baggage carried to and from Depot free of charge
FARE Pv EDUCED
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL is situated on
Broad Street, Central to the business por
tion of the City, and convenient to the Tele
graph and Kxpvnefc Offices. The House is la>ge
and commodious, and has been in novated and
newly painted, from garret to cellar, and the
bedding nearly all new since the war. The
rooms are large and airy ; clean beds, and the
fare as good as the country affords, and atten
tive and polite servants.
CtiAKGm.—'Two Dollars per day.
Single Meals 75 Cents.
I I ope to niyiit a liberal shatc of patronage
from the traveling pnbdc.
Give me a trial and judge for yourselves.
S. M. JONES, Pi opr.
WWI. H. GOODRICH ,
SASH, SLIJ3DS, AMD DOORS,
On hand, and mhde to Order.
886 m Georgia.
COVINGTON, GA., NOV. 13, 18G8.
Falling Lcuvis.
They are falling, slowly falling,
Thick upon the forest side,
Severed from the noble branches,
Where they waved in beauteous pride.
They are railing in thu valleys,
Where the early violets spring,
And the birds in sunny sporting time,
First their dulcet music sing.
They arc falling, sadly falling,
Close beside our cottage door ;
Pule and faded, like the loved ones,
They have gone forevermore.
They are falling, and the sunbeams
Shine in beauty soft around ;
Yet the faded leaves are falling,
Falling on the mossy ground.
They are falling on the streamlet,
Whore the silvery waters flow,
And upon the placid bosom,
Onward with blue waters go.
They are failing in the churchyard,
Where your kindred sweetly sleep,
Where the idle winds of summer
Softly o’ei the loved ones sweep.
They are falling, ever falling.
When the winter breezes sigh,
AVhen the stars in beauty glisten
Bright upon the midnight skv.
They are falling when the tempest
Moans like ocean’s hollow roar,
When the tuneless winds and billows
Sadly sigh for evermore.
They arc falling, they are falling,
While our saddened thought* still go
To the sunny days of childhood,
In the dreamy long ago.
And their faded hues remind us
Os the blasted hopes and dreams,
Faded, like the falling leaflet,
Cast upon the icy streams.
The Golden Side.
There is many a rest in the road of life,
If we would only stop to take it;
And many a tone from the better land,
If the querulous heart would make it 1
To the sunny soul that is full of hone
And whose beautiful trust ne’er faileth,
The grass is green and the flowers are bright,
Though the wintry storm prevailetb.
Letter to hope, though the clouds hang low,
Ajpd to keep the eyes still lifted ;
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep thro’,
AY hen the ominous clouds arc rifted !
There was never a night without a day,
Or an evening without a morning ;
And the darkest hour, as the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many a gem in the path of life,
AYli ich we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jewelled crown,
Or the miser’s hoarded treasure ;
It may he the love of a little child,
Or t. mother’s prayer to heaven,
Or only a beggar's grateful thanks
For a cup of water given.
Better to weave in the web of life
A bright and golden filling,
And to do God's will with :i ready heart,
And hands “that are swift and willing,
Tljan to snap the minute delicate threads
Os our curious lives asunder,
And then blame heaven for the tangled ends,
And sit and grieve and wonder.
Many farmers have noticed in their fields a
large black beetle, with most brilliant dots
placed in rows on his back. Os it Dr. Fitch
says :
“ Its eggs produce the corn grub-killer. It
is a most inveterate foe to the tut worm, grasp
ing the worm in its strong jaws, and, in spite
of its violent writhings and struggles, securely
holding it. When it finds wonns in plenty it
gorges and surfeits itself upon them till it is
so glutted and extended as to lie scarcely able
to stir, for it never knows how to let a cut
worm alone when he meets him. It is contin
uallv hunting these worms, feeding on nothing
else if it can obtain them. Both it and the
golden-dotted beetle which produces it, there
fore, should never be harmed. ’
The North British Agriculturalist attributes
much of the disease of stables to the exclusion
of the necessary quantity of light, a fair share
of which is deemed as essential to the growth
of animals as to vegetables. When stables or
other inelosures are kept in comparative dark
ness, filth is apt to be overlooked, from which
unwholesome gases arc continually exhaling,
rendering the air unsuitable to the demands of
animal life. This conclusion is, in every as
pect, a reasonable one, and should challenge
the attention of every stock grower. Extreme
darkness or garishness—especially in the case
of fattening animals—is to be avoided, as along
this medium line runs the pathway of health
fulness to stable stock, and profit to the
owner.
A good barometer may be made in the fol
lowing manner:
Take a common glass pickle bottle, wide
mouthed: fill it within three inches of the top
with water, then take a common Florence oil
flask, removing the straw covering and cleans
ing the flask thoroughly, plunge the neck of
the flask as far as it will go, and the barometer
ie complete. In fine weather the water will
rise in the neck of the flask even higher than
the mouth of the pickle bottle, and in wet,
windy weather, it will fall to within an inch
of tho mouth of the flask. Before a heavy gale
of wind, the water hes been seen to leave the
flask altogether at least eight hours before the
gale came to its hoight. The invention was
made by a German, and communicated to a
London journal.
From the Berlin Correspondence of the Lon
don Times.
SUN MACHINES.
Ei lesson's New Invention—New Motive
Power—An Interesting Letter from the
Inventor.
The Stockholm AfUmbladet gives publication
to n long letter from Mr. Ericsson, the
well-known inventor ot the caloric machine,
and, if I am not mistaken, originator of the
monitor species of cuirassed ships, in which
a novel apparatus for the condensation of the
sun's rays is referred to. If it fulfills, what
Mr. Ericsson promises it shall tho apparatus,
by supplying anew lorco infinitely greater
than ean bo obtained by steam, will rank
among the most remarkable inventions ever
made. Mr. Ericsson’s letter, which reads like
a fairy tule, is as follows :
During the last few years I have spent a
good deal of time in experiments calculated
to ascertain whether the sun s rays can he so
condensed as to become a practical means of
producing a motive power. Sir John Her
schel'sand N. Pouillot’s well known experi
ments for calculating the iutluenoeof the sun’s
rays, however interesting were yet of little
use to me. Referring as they do to low tem
peratures only, they merely show what quan
tity of ice can he melted or cf water heated
within a certain number of degrees below
boiling point by means of the sun's rays ;
whereas my inquiries were directed to the
investigation of the rays and their concentra
tion on a comparatively small superfine*. I
have also endeavored to discover the best
means of effecting this condensation, and con
structed three different machines, which I call
sun machines, for the creation of my new
motive power. One of these is worked by
steam, which is produced by condensation of
the sun’s rays j the two others are set in mo
tion by trie expansive power of atmospheric
air, heated by condensed rays.
As my space will not permit me to describe
these sun machines and the apparatus I have
constructed for the condensation of the sun's
rays and the generating and requisite degree
of heat, I shall confine my present remarks to
the motive power itself. From my experi
ments I know that the temperature required
for steam engines and caloric machines, the
action of the suti on a superfiecs of ten feet
square, assisted by my apparatus, can evapo
rate 480 cubic inches of water per hour.—
the importance of this fact can scarcely he
overestimated. It improves the presence of
amount of heat sufficient to lift 35,000 pounds
at the rate of a foot a minute, which is rather
more that one horse power. (One hundred
pounds Swedish are equal to about So pounds
English.) As an indisputable proof of the
capacity of the sun to produce heat, this result
is of perhaps greater importance than any
other pliysieal truth admitting of practical de
monstration. If we consider that mean
distance from the centre of the sun to the
superfices of the earth is 214,44 times greater
than the radius of the sun, wc easily find by
squaring this figure that a single square foot
of the sun's superfices must heat 45,984 square
feet of out' planet. In other words, given
equal superfices, the sun emits 45,984 times
more heat than the earth receives. Coupling
this with what has gone before, we may there
fore conclude that tin area of ten squate feet
on the sun's disc is enough to work a steam
engine of 45,984 horse power, which under
ordinary circumstances, would require 100,
000 pounds of (Swedish) coal per hour. This
calculation, far from over-estimating the
amount of heat generated by the sun, falN far
below the real quantity. More than half the
heat is lost during the pint sage of the rays
through the atmosphere and the condensing
apparatus. Accordingly, the actual quantity
of heat generated within the confined area
mentioned is equal to that which would be
produced by rather more than 200,000 pounds
of (Swedish) coal. The human mind can not
conceive the intensity of a process of combus
tion represented by such an extraordinary
consumption of coal; still less can it realize
the nature and immense quantity of the burn
ing material producing this effect. AY hat
must he the sun's fuel, when such an enor
mous heat is being perpetually maintained on
the entire surface of it globe, the diameter of
which is about a hundred times larger than
the earth's. AVTiat lias been said will prove that,
without any very extensive application of the
condensing apparatus, a force sufficient for
practical purposes can bo obtained. Calcula
tions which I have just completed have satis
fied me that if the sun’s rays, now' wasting
their strength on the houseroofs of Philadel
phia, were condensed, they might be used to
set 5,000 steam engines, of twenty horse each,
in motion. That the new force can be obtain
ed without occupying ground put to other
useful purposes,.is one of its remarkable pecu
liarities. To give an instance, let us suppose
a Swedish square mile (equal to 49 English)
covered with condensing apparatus and sun
machines. Let one half the surface be occu
pied by buildings, roads, <fce., and we have
still 648,800 square feet free for our purpose
(two feet Swedish equal to 0,595 meter.) Now i
as my condensing apparatus lias demonstrated
100 square feet to be amply sufficient for the
production of one-horse power, it follows that
04,800 steam engines of one hundred horse
power each can bo worked with tho rays
thrown on a Swedish square mile. Archi
medes, having calculated the force of the lever,
explained that ho could move tho earth from
its position. I assert that by condensing the
ravs of the sun a force could be created that
might arrest tho earth in its course. IV e have
scarcely begun to work the coal fields of Eu- |
rope, and already computations are being made !
in Englaud when they will be exhausted. In j
a thousand years or so—a drop in the ocean I
of time—there will he po coal left in Europe
unless the sun he pitt in requisition. True,
the rays of the sun aro often prevented from
reaching us, hut with such a largo magazine
whence fuel may ho obtained without labor
or transport to draw upon, experienced engi
neers will have no difficulty in laying up a
store against the rainy day. A large portion
of the earth's surface is moreover, illuminated
by an over-clouded sun. The area over which
the sun-machine can work may therefore, be
regarded as cvtially unlimited as thu amount
of force that can ho generated.
A sad affair occurred in Owasso, Michigan,
a few days since. Two Saginaw ladies went
thither to meet their aged parents, whom they
had not seen for years. As the cars from the
East containing the old people approached tho
depot, the mother caught sight of her daught
ers, and in her eagerness to embrace them,
stumbled and fell. Tho cars ran over her,
severing her head completely from the body.
A lobster when left high and dry among the
rocks, has not sense uiid energy enough to work
his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea
to come to him. If it docs not come, he re
mains where ho is and dies, although the slight
est exertion would enable him to reach the
waves which are perhaps tossing and tumbling
within a yard of him.
There is a tide in human affairs that casts
uien into “ tight places,” and leaves them there
like stranded lobsters. If they choose to lie
where the breakers have flung them, expecting
some grand billow to take them ou its should
ers and carry them to smooth water, the chan
ces aro that their hopes will never bo realized.
Nor is it right they should he. The social cle
ment ought not to help him who makes no ef
fort to help himself.
- ►► 4na—
A Sad Story. —AVltile laborers wero demol
ishing an old building on Twenty-seventh
street, New York, a few days since, they dis
covered, in an old rat's nest, a roll of hills,
amounting to $250. About eight years ago,
one of tho occupants of the house lost the
money. At the time of the loss a young man
named AA'illiam Cummings, clerk in a down
town tea store, was hoarding inThe house, and
as he was the last one seen in the room prior
to the loss, he was suspected of the robbery,
and, on being arrested, was convicted of the
crime, and sent to prison,with character ruined,
and bereft of friends. lie gave way to dissi
pation, and eventually died on Blackwell's Is
land.
The roof of tho post office building, in this
city, which lias j ust been removed and replaced
by anew one, was placed there 62 years ago,
and has never been patched or repaired. It
was, perhaps, the oldost and the best shingle
roof in the State. At any rate, we have never
heard of one of the pine so good and durable.
—Madison Auditor.
The English scientific papers aro criticising
severely our new war steamers. They say
that the entire new steam machinery of the
United States Navy is tho most costly, most
cumbrous, the least efficient, and the most ut
terly ridiculous in the world ; and that no
other Power in Christendom would tolerate
any such blunders in its national engineering
practice.
A t ei.ocipkdks —Nine young men who left
Rouen on their velocipedes at seven in the
morning, reached Paris at nine in the evening.
They performed the distance of thirty two
leagues in eleven hours, having rested three
hours during the day.
Hints to Young Ladies.— l 'AVhy did you
not take the arm of my brother last night?”
said a young lady to her friend, a very intelli
gent girl, about nineteen, in a largo town near
Lake Ontario.
She replied : 11 Bccauso I knew him to he a
licentious young man.”
“ Nonsense,” was the answer of the sister,
“if you refuse the attentions of all licentious
young men, you will have none, I can assure
you.”
“ Very well,” said her friend, “ then I can
dispense with them altogether—for my resolu
tion on this point is unalterably fixed.”
How long would it take to revolutionize so
ciety, were all young ladies to adopt this reso
lution ?
Lenctitt Separation and Return. —ln 1545
John Elliott left his home and his wife, who
had borne him eleven children, in Putnam
county, Indiana, suddenly and iu passion at
some slight misunderstanding that had occurred
between them. After ho had been gone about
two years, his wife, supposing him dead, mar
ried again. Recently Mr. Elliott returned
after an absence of twenty-six years. He bad
an interview with bis wife, and she, without
hesitation, returned to hor first choice. Mr.
Elliott had been to California during his. ab
sence, and acquired a fortune.
In the prison at Bourgcs, France, is a pris
oner aged about forty-years, who lias never
done a Jay’s work, and is now undergoing his
eighth sentence for begging. He has tattooed
on his right arm his summary of his view of
existence: “Tho Past has deceived me ; the
Pi esent torments me; the Future terrifies me.”
A Troy paper published the latest rat story,
as follows :
“The other morning, a gentleman found in
a trap he had set a complete rat skin, and—
nothing more ! The snap had caught the ani
mal by tho nose, and in struggling to escape
he walked entirely out of his skin. Attached
to the skin were portions of the bones of the
head, the hind feet,and the whole tail. Leading
from the trap to a 1-oie near by were tracks of
blood.”
VOL. 4. NO. 1
feiiMfiplb* of Yankee Notions.
AVhccls liko men are often tired, and very
frequently from a kindred eaueo—going round
so much.
Heavy charge of the light brigade—Gttsbiilf.-
When no prognostics of rain can bo observed.-
if we see a lot of young fellows turn into n
tavern, wo may he certain there will ho a few
drops, oveu in the dryo.-t weather.
The question is raised whether the grief of
a mulatto ean bo e msidered yellow pine.
A chemist, even in the streets, is known by
his lineaments.
A hove—tho man who persists in talking
about himself when you wish to talk about
yourself.
The new moon reminds one of a giddy gill,
because she is too young to show much reflec
tion.
If you would look ; ’spruce” in your old age,
don’t “pine” in your youth.
Laugh at no man for his pug nose, you never
can tell what may turn up.
Qoiip suggests hair pins as the only sure
preventive against hair falling off.
It may he a fair question whether a man can
he said to he wedded to celibacy.
Tlio man who showed las grit was in the
sand-paper fine. The man who was caught
napping is supposed to have been a hatter.
True in one sense. A writer may he said to
he more free than a king, inasmuch as he can
“choose his own subjects.”
The object some wives have in blowing up
their husbands is doubtless to have them come
down.
The man who minds his own business was in
the city* a few days ago, hut left immediately,
lie felt so lonesome.
Tho opposite of the seeds of discontent —
caraway seeds.
Peoplo sometimes undertake to go ahead, and
find they can’t go a single foot.
A popular work of art. Drawing one’s pay.
AVhat is more natural than that sentimental
young ladies when they get married should
cease to he pensive and get expensive?
If a gentleman marries, the lady must be won
before they are married—afterwards they are
both one.
Good men to attond auctions —men whose
faces aro forbidding.
Tteginning to Believe.
“Bubbles,”' of the California Golden Era ,
gets off tho following:
I begin to believe, now a days money makes
the man, and dress tho gentleman.
I begin to believe that the purse is more
potent then the sword and pen together.
I begin to believo that those who 6in the
most during week arc the devoutest on Sun
davs. ' ''
I begin to believe that honesty is the policy
to speculate with until you have gained every
body’s confidence then line your pockets.
I begin to believe in humbugging people
out of their dollars. It is neither stealingnor
begging; and those who aro humbugged have
only themselves to blame.
I begin to believe that man was not made
to enjoy life hut to keep himself miserable in
the pursuit and possession of riches.
I begin to believo that the surest remedy
for hard times and a tight money market is an
extravagant expenditure on the part of the in»
dividual—to keep the money moving.
I begin to believe that none hut knaves are
qualified to hold office under Government with
the exception of a few natural born fools and
lunatics.
1 begin to believe that a piano forte is more
necessarvin a family than meat and potatoes.
I begin to believe that a boy who doesn’t
swear, smoke and chew tobacco may be a
very good bov, but naturally stupid.
I begin to believe that if tho devil should
die, one half of world the would bo thrown out
employment.
Tho estimtiied cos’- of conveying a ton of
merchandise a mile on the ocean is from half
a eent to one and a half cents; on the lakes
two cents; on the rivers two and three-fourths
cents; on the canals two to five cents ; and on
the railroads from three cents to thirteen&'knd
one-half conts.
Rubbing a ltorse with water in which
walnut leaves have been boiled will
it is said, prevent his being annoyed with flies.
Avery strong solntiofl might possibly injure
the hair or skin, but wo have never heard of
such a result.
At a marl Sage ceremony recently performed
at Pre Saint Gervais, France, the young bride*
groom complained of drowsiness, and before
the wedding breakfast was over fell into a
sound sleep, from which he was not awakened
during eight successive days and nights.
An old architect in Paris has invented a
universal alphabetical piano, on which children
can be taught instantaneously to read, to cal
culate and to play music. This interesting
nnd ingenious instrument costs only six
francs.
A French chemist claims to have discovered
a method of manufacturing transparent looking
glasses—terms which seem to imply a self
contradiction. Instead of mercury he uses
platinum for back of the glass ; and his
preparation has the virtue of concealing every
,defect in the glass itself. M. Dode says that
his looking-glass may he used for windows, so
transparent is it.
It is said that in Eugland there are many
farmers who more than support themselves and
largo families on tho product of six acres,
besides paying heavy rents. Agriculturists in
Germany, who are proprietors of five acres,
; unport themselves, and lay up money.
