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s•> 1)0 PER ANNUM . mmmrnmat*ttift?jr.s2Sma2Sß\g£ THRSPi^aaißt.* THE ENTERPSISE IS PUI»UB«KD WEAKLY BT , )i: LAN K V & A N 1 > I-: 1 iSO N . ADVERTISING It AT PS c nU urc (10 linos of Brevier, or 8 of Million.) , ,„ e Square, on(j , ngcrtioni 5 1 00 ‘r nC .ncU subsequent insertion, ,J (•oi e.icu t * a^ J r iisoments taken by contract. Permanent "t . , and wil | ioUt . »,jouiticatlon as l f V SnS«*. will be puUlisfied until 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.