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NEWS GLEANINGS.
There are but 795 Jews in Florida.
Arkansas has but eight daily
pers.
West Virginia has a population of
618,467.
The city debt of Memphis is about
$4,000,000.
Texas has nearly 2,400 convicts in her
penitentiary.
The Georgia lunatic asylum is full to
The dogs of Georgia cost mere than
her preachers.
A largo cottonseed-oil mill is to be
built in Madison, Ga.
An unusually rich copper mine has
been opened in Cabarrus count}', N. C.
A fourteen-pound cabbage has been
shipped from Americus, Ga.
Georgia’s wheat crop this year will be
the best raised in twenty years.
The Richmond, Ya., water works are
to be completed, and will cost 360,000.
A gold-fish 101 inches long was recent¬
ly taken from a cistern in Macon, Ga.
• Virginia will conic to the front this
year with a remarkably large fruit crop.
For the first time in seventy-five years,
Putnam county, Ga., is without a sa¬
loon.
Tennessee has 18,000 actos unimproved
land, most of which is covered with fine
timber.
Two hundred and forty convicts are at
work ort*thc Marietta & North Georgia
railroad.
Atlanta, Ga , is to have a watch man¬
ufacturing company, with a capital stock
of $100,000.
A South Carolina lady has made feath¬
er fans of the value of $1,500 for a New
York firm.
Of the 30,000.000 acres of land in
Mississippi less than 5,000,000 are under
cultivation. . . __ ---
^Southeastern Alabama is said to be
improving more than any other porti on
of f the State.
Rome, Ga., has the reputation of bo
Ing the pretiest and most nicely situated
city in the south.
A company has been organized at Au¬
gusta, Ga.., to ‘build a railroad from that
city to Elberton, Ga.
A farmers’ convention in East Ten¬
nessee adopted a resolution ' favoring
compulsory education.
Rome, Ga., has completed the survey
of her proposed canal, and estimates the
cost at $25,009 per mile.
Moss Point, Miss., has a glass factory,
shbe factory, five plaining
fourteen saw mills.
The postmaster at Vicksburg gets the
largest salary of any postmaster in Mis
sissippi. His pay is $2,700 per year.
George Ra'n and Peter Bang, each 18
years of age, are to be hanged at Pas¬
cagoula, Miss., August 4, for murder.
Near Lumberton, N. C., two girls
named respectively Frances McNair and
Jane Kellar fought over a young man,
and the latter was stabbed through tiie
heart.
Southern papers point to the im¬
mense amount of farming machinery
being sold as evidence of the prosperity
of the South.
A rich deposit of kaoline-has been dis
in Macon eounty, Ala. The ma ¬
terial is indispensable in the manufae
’tore of fire brick.
A company lias been organized in
North Carolina to bottle juniper wrrter>
famous as a gentle tonic.. The water is
abundant near Albemarle.
Tennessee has 25 copper furnaces that
turn out 2,600,000 pounds of copper
each. year. The state has also 18,000,000
acres of unimproved land.
South Carolina protects the, birds by
imposing a fine of 10 against every one
convicted of robbing a nest. Thirty
days’ imprisonment can lie added.
A Norfolk, Va., girl became to in¬
censed because her sister gave birth to
an illegitimate child that she strangled
the infant to death. The parties belong
to a good family and the murderess is in
jail.
The A then#, Ga , cottno factory pays
an annual dividend of 12j per cent, hr*
sides putting .a like per cent into a sink¬
ing fund for future repairs and addi¬
tions
$ James Kirkland, of Ix*vy county,Fla ,
met with a horrible* death white out
hunting recently. He stumbled and
loll on a sharp stake, which pierced
• i •
through his hotly and held him until
died.
The Hebrew saloon-keepers of Little
Reek, Ark., refuse to obey the new
day law, claiming that the Christian
Sunday is not their Sunday.
Willie Morris became joyous at f.
Wilmington, N. C., camp-meeting, and
fell over Annie Williams while the bit¬
ter was kneeling in prayer, and broke
her back.
Augusta, Ga., will soon add 46,000
people to her population by taking in
the new factories and Harrisburg, Hick
villc and Bollersville, and the Sibley,
King and Curry settlements.
Thomas F' ifcrsoii, of Weldon, N. C.,
carelessly pointed an “empty” shot-gun
at his three-year-old brother, but it wen
off just the same, and the child was torn
to pieces.
The Savannah News calls attention to
the fret that the execution of two white
murderers recently in Georgia, shows
that hanging white offenders for murder
is by no means played out in the Empire
State of the South.
A peculiar accident caused the death
of Richmond Pitts, at Cedartown. A
stick ot wood fell from a wagon ou
which he was riding, and catching be¬
tween the spokes in i f s revolution,
knocked him off. The wheels then ran
over his neck, breaking it.
Mississippi has a-new law which re
-quires all agents for fru't miseries situa¬
ted out of the State to pay $5 license in
every county in which they do business
and give a bond’and surety that the
vines and trees sold will come up to the
representation of the vendor.
A mill owner in Clinch county, Ga.,
has found that the sawdust and chips
from his taw mill yield fourteen gallons
of spirits of turpentine, three to four
gallons of rosin and a- large quantity of
pine ta? per cord. It i» extracted by a
sweating process, and the nev. lv-diseov
e1tfJ9*tufitry will be generally worked
by mill men.
Laborers at work on a railroad near
Jacksonville, Fla., moved a large flat
stone while grading, which discovered a
hole leading into the earth. A long
pole failed to touch the bottom of the
pit and a man was lowered into it with
fifty foot-rope, but this also failed to
find bottom. While he was being pulled
up he dlscoved the skeleton of a man
lying in a niche in the side of the cav¬
ern, which bad apparently been there
for ages, as the Pones crumbled to dust
as soon as touched. The pit is to be ex¬
plored. _____________
Full of “Specs.”
The real old-faslrioned Yankee is still
a fixture among ns, though some writers
would make us believe that ho has been
dead for years. There was a genuine
specimen in the Erie depot yesterday, inter¬
and he was explaining to several
ested “Father-in-law parties: lives here in Jersey
City, and I’m on a visit like. Thought
I’d bring along a few traps and things
and get up a dicker or two. Any of ye
like to invest in that ?”
He put out the model of a rat trap and
said: .
“This trap not only catches the var
mints, but it chokes ’em to death, throws
the body out of that back window, and
then resets itself. In the top is an alarm,
to go off any hour you want and wake
up the family. Here’s an apparatus on
this side for grating spices. Any of you
like to buy county he rights?” then plaoed before
No one did, and
them a vessel, about which he ex¬
plained: “This is how water-pail. By plac¬
a
ing this iron cover on the bottom it be¬
comes a kettle. By inverting the cover half¬
you have a spider. The pail is a
bushel mAsure to a grain. Once around
it is pounds, exactly a and yard. I sell Its the weight county is exactly rights
two
for $50 each.”
The next was a boot-jaok, which could
be transformed into iii e-tongs, press
board, stove-handle, nail-hammer had and
eoveral other things. He an auger
which bored four holes at once, a gimlet
which bored a square hole; a washing
machine which could also be made to
serve as a tea-table, and one or two other
things, and as he reached the last he
said:
“Gentlemen, I am full of speculations,
I’ll invent anything; you want. I’ll sell
anything I’ve got. I’ll take pay in nny
thing you have, and I’ll give every one
of you a eim”ee to make a million dol¬
lars. ”
Safe a Light .. .. _ Railroad ,, . Cara.
on
It is proposed to forbid the use of oil
on railway cars for light. This is wise,
Many y set ious accident* have resulted
from this habit. Ga» or the electric
light will serve. The railroad bnt companies when life
mtv object to the expense,
mid safety are concerned the question of
expense would not be considered. The
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rvary co mfoi* so# eouvenienoe
York Herald,
WEST BOWERSVILL-i, GEORGIA. JUNE 24. 1882.
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TOPICS OF THE DAI. ..
Sergeant Maso* ia making shoes at
Albany, N. Y. -
The net debt ot New York, June 1,
was $97,592,052.
Mexico has repealed the duty on ex¬
ports of gold and silver.
Pams i» counting on 100,000 Ameri¬
cans visiting that city this summer.
Garfield's biograpy is selling in
England at the rate of 2,000 a month.
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Mrs. Garfield has been elected to
succeed her husband as a trustee of
Hiram College.
The present Chief Justice of Alabama
used to set type on a weekly newspaper
for $5 per week.
Ex-Senator Blaine is interested in
the grtat coal monopoly in the Hocking
Valley of Ohio.
Goveror Crittenden, of Missouri,
lias been made an LL. D. by the Mis¬
souri University.
Vrnnor, Tico, and Couch, a trio of
weather prophets, all predicted execrable
weather for Juife.
At Tombstone, Arizona, a purse of
$2,500 lias been raised to pay for Indian
scalps at $10 apiece.
Costa RrcA-has accredited a lady—
Madame Beatrice—as her Envoy Ex¬
traordinary at Washington.
Nearly all the creditors of tho busted
Mechanics’ Bank, at Newark, N. J.,liave
been paid and the bank will reopen.
A bill to forbid publishers and agents
of school books serving on school com¬
mit tees has' passed tho Rhode Island
Senate.
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The census returns of Japan show a
population of 85,353,991. Of these 18,-
423,271 oro males and 16,685,720 are
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The Chicago Jrtfcr-Ooean has discov¬
ered that the man who pays fifteen cents
for a drink of whisky is swindled a clean
ten cents’ worth.
Tiie Ancient Ordflr of United Work
men,. in annual sossion in Cincinnati,
decided! to hereafter receive no members
who are over fifty years of age.
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The world moves, An oil pipe lino
has been laid across tlie Caucasus Moun¬
tains to deliver petroleum at a shipping
point on tho coastof the Black Sea.
Alexander in. has presented the
German Emperor with tlie horses which
were drawing the carriage of his father,
the Czar, when ho was assassinated.
The Spirit of the Times says James
R, Keene offered fifteen thousand dollars
for Henlopen, winner of the Juvenile
Stakes, at Jerome Park, which was
declined.
It is conceded by those who ara
posted on Congressional matters the
present Bession, that the member who
has tho strongest lungs is the greatest
statesman.
Says a cotemporary : Stories used to
begin : ‘ ‘Once upon a time there lived—”
Now they begin : «t < Veugoaneo, blood,
death,’ shouted Rattlesnake Jim,” or
words to that effect.
The entire expenses at Yorktown cele¬
bration—per bill audited and allowed by
Congress—amounting over $7,000, was
for fine old wine and whiskies, cigars
and fine-cut chewing tobacco.
Intelligence from the South Coast of
South AmericiT is to the effect that
Ecuador is in the throes of revolution,
Pent in anarchy and disorder, and Chili
smitten by epidemics and cursed by
brigandage.
An ELECnffo light wire,buried beneath
an asphaltum pavement at San Francisco,
somehow lost its insulating envelope
recently, and tho result was tlie asphaltj elcctrie
fluid found its way into the
which was soon in a lively sizzle an!
fume.
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Mb. Obobob to, E<« th.
well-known writer on co-operation ami
kindred subjects,has been commissioned
hp the British Government to visit this
cmintryunhO if Panada and report upon the
chances offered he 0 jn^hnwit work
ing people. Foreign Mission
The Presbyterian in the
Board has ithafnow spent #592,000
yonr . accepted thirty now
; nifwionariM mo9 tly young If men. Ex
. • *** „„,v this
year, it asks for an additional $100,000 mn
■ ™ ~ t r*rz'*—
Some German nowsrmpers are vener
able with age. The Frankfort Journal
k
isdit>l -a years old, the Magdeburg Zeitung
if 253 years old, ami ninety-eight others
over 100 years old, and most of these
p pers are no more like a real live Amer
kpu sheet than they were 100 years ago.
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The Memphis Avalanche keeps tho
cueket of Judge Lynch’s court, and
states that since January 1, sixteen per¬
sons have been hanged by mob law in
tb) South, nineteen in the North and six
ill"' the frontier States. This urobably
cJjfv’s the executions by duo process of
( anon Fahtirb, who preached in West¬
minster Abboy a vermon on Darwin, took
tins appropriate text; “And ho spake of
trims, from tlie cedar that is in Lebanon
even uujto tho liysop that springeth out
of the wall; ho spake also of boasts,
and of fowl, aud of creeping things, ami
of fishes.”
Bradstrert’s roport indicates a de¬
crease in the acreage and a reduced
in the production of cotton, Tho weather
has not been favorable to the growth of
the plant in considerable areas of tho
©fintry, and tlie domoralizatlbn of labor
in the flooded districts has retarded
planting.
„The Italian idea of Darwin is as fol¬
lows, from one of their papers: “We
lopm from our English correspondent
that Darwin, tlio famous apostle, ol - the
apes, is dead. In Darwin's opinion men
holy ;v. no^lie creatures of God, made of
and stSril, aud called to immortality
iu another life, ’ but- merely perfected
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That _ _ %
tho dogs of Georgia bt^riumore
th tithe n her of preachers, her wheat aud and that ratsajpm
a corn, are among
the curious Reductions from a talk with
the Commissioner of Agriculture, who
alt.) sees iu 1882 a bad year for cuts,
whose pianos ns rat killers can billy
be filled by black snakes, according to
Congressman Hammond.
jfovEMRNTS are being made in many
tho erection of piominymts {q
Garibaldi, Tho municipality of Genoa
have subscribed 20,000 francs toward the
erection of a monument, and that of
Verona 10,000 francs for the same pur
pofco. Tlio municipality of Rome have
contributed 80,000 francs for the orec
tionof a monument on Janiculum Hill.
A drunk ami disorderly man was sen¬
tenced by an English magistrate to seven
days at hard labor for trying at Leicester
last week to shako hands with the
Princess of Wales as she sat in kor car¬
riage, aud poked him away with her
parasol. He was immediately released at
the request of tho Prinoe aHjoPrineess.
It is hard to heat an English magistrate
in doing wliat ho thinks win please tho
royal family.
There seems to be as little economy
tu the disbursement of public funds in
New York now ns there was when the
lamented Tweed built his court-house.
Tho New York and Brooklyn Suspension
Bridge, which started on a plan of 200
feet abovo low water, aud an estimated
C oBt of $7,000,000, has got down to oqly
J;;£> feet above water, and up to an actual
00at of {15,000,090, and now the New
York Legislature has a bill to appropriate
$1,250,000 to complete the bridge.
Tue trial at New Haven of the Malley
boys and Blanche Douglass, charged with
the outrage and murder of Miss Jennie
Cramer, it is thought by those who have
boon watching the proceedings, will not
result in conviction, but rather in ac¬
quittal—not because the Malleys have
been shown to be innooent, but because
they, have not been indisputably shown
to be guilty of the crime for which they
aro indicted. And yet public opinion
will nevertheless hold them responsible
for Jennie Cramer’s death.
A , XT New York lawyer has - F :
Imps the largest fee ever won -
ruling of the Supreme Court of the
United States, taking off 50 per cent,
specific duty on hosiery and knit goods
importers $11,000,000 of the taxes p e
vionsly paid. The lawyer gets halt—
#5,500,000—a nice contingent fee. The
manufacturers of hosiery in this country
complain loudly of the injustice of the
<l,«ion, U*. olf .,1 *.
froB1 their work.
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quickest . record made . . by
The tune on
a train of improved stock cars between
Chicago and New York is just reported,
T , thhtT speed from Buffalo was at the rate
of* o. tlurty to io forty-five io ^ miles an hour.
The shrink g 7 twenty ^ pounds 1
P«* f 7Z
seventy to one hundred pounds. t AUcst
ear* permit each animal tooecupy a sep
arate stall. Tlie animal.-can also lie
Jsi- ab ont without coming
-a—s- T
and watering the animals without un
loading the facilities are ample.
In ms dispatch to Minister Lowell on
tho subject of tho relations between
Great Britain and tho United States tc
the various inter-ooean canal projects,
Secretary of State, Frelinghnysen, hav¬
ing made his points of opposition ou the
part of the United States to foreign in¬
tervention in tho matter of the Nicarag¬
uan Canal, as being contrary to the
Monroe Dootrino of this country, rests
his case, with an expression of confi¬
dence that the differences between the
two Governments will be satisfactorily
adjusted before the canal will bo biltlt.
It is a serious iufringmeut on personal
liberty when religionists aro prohibited
from exercising the emotional as their
conscience happens to dictate. Tho
other Sunday, in Paterson, N. J., a
gaug of Salvationist were parading the
streets, marking time and singing loudly
the following cuplet:
“Right, left; right, left,
The Lord ia right, and the Devil ia left."
A captain and lieutenant of tho police
force arrested tho Salvationists as dis
timbers of the poaco, aud in court, when
the case came up a number of Hallelujah
lasses wore present, who knelt down in
a circle and prayed fervently for the
sonlsof the wicked policemen who had
arrested their commanders.
W. A. Fenner, writing from Sari An¬
tonio, Texas, says that “among the
noted residents of the vicinity the Rev.
W. H. Murray, ‘Adriondock Murray,’
as ho is called, is here, a fallen giant in¬
deed, with none so poor as to do him
revercuco. When he fled from Boston
uia fair-haired private secretary, n young
lady, followed his fortunes and lias since
lived with him. Last year her heart¬
broken father oamo for her, and aftor a
despairing effort to get lior to return
with him, which proved ineffectual, the
poor old man, disgraced, broken in
spirits, alone iu the world and almost
penniless after his long search for her,
blew out his brains at. the very threshold
of Murray’s door. Only last Sunday—
Sunday, mark you—I saw him at Han
hands, Pndrq.RprjtqS} ludoadinr, load of cedar with ties his n\yn that
a w agon
he bail hauled from his little place f< i
the street railroad company. Ho was
without coat, vest or oollar, dirty and
unshorn, and it would take a keen eye,
ns a Boston man remarked to me, to de¬
tect in him tho idolized proauher *jf OHO
o' tho proudest pulpits in the Hub.”
They Hugged Him.
Two sprightly and beautiful young
ladies were visiting tlioir com in,
another sprightly and beautiful young
lady, who, like her guests, was of that
happy age that turns everything into of
fun and merriment. and They were constantly fond
practical jokes, of pranks were with each
playing all sorts
other. All three occupied a room on the
ground floor-, and cuddled up together
in bed.
Two of tlie young ladies attended at
party, and did not get homo until 11:30
o’clock at night As it was household, late, they
concluded not to disturb tlm
so they quietly stepped into their room
hrougli the low, open window.
In about half an hour after they had
left for tho party a young Methodist
minister called at the house where lodg¬ they
were staying and craved a night’s granted.
ing, which of course was As
ministers always have the best of every¬
thing! the old ladv put him to sleep in
tlio best room, and the young lady (Fan¬
nie) who had not gone to tlie party, was
intrusted with the duty of sitting up for
the absent ones and of informing them
of the change of rooms She took up
her post in the parlor, and, as the night
was sultry, she departed on an excursion
to the land of dreams.
We will now return to the young
ladies who had gone to their room
through the window. By the dim light
of the moonbeams, as they struggled
through the curtains, the young ladies
wore enabled to descry the outlines of
Fannie (as they supposed) ensconced in
the middle of the bed. They saw more
—to wit: a pair of boots. The truth
flashed upon them at once. them in They the saw
it all. Fannie had set room
^ them a good scare. determined They put
their heads together and to
tum t he tables on her. Silently they they
disrobed and, stealthily as either cats, side of
took up their positions on
of theunconscious parson, laughing and
pAr f pami ng »oh, what a man 1 Oh,
w la t ft man I” They gave the poor, be
wiidered minister such a promiscuous
hugging aud tussling as few parsons are
The noifle 0 f the proceeding awoke
the old lady, who was comprehended sleeping m the an
^joining room. She
B ituation in a moment, and, rushing to
the room, she opened the door and ex
claimed: • Itiaa .
“ Gracious, girls it . is . a man 1
man, sure enough prolonged, 1 consolidated
There was one “Sm the
^ oI through
door, mid idi was over.
The best of the whole joke is that the mm- .
ister took the thing in earnest
He would listen -vaArtSu* to no apologies the M
jam* him and
foldod ys official robes about
silently glided away.
VOL. X, NO. 25.
PASSING SMILES.
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LrrrF.Ra must indicted. lie wicked things. They
are always
Motto for tho milkman—to the pure
all things are pure.
“What is your favorite geni, Sarah?”
Sanili replied demurely, “Agate.” Melo¬
drama.
A couple of soldiers of the Salvation
Army approached a Philadelphia broker
recently and asked: “How is it with
you, my friend ?’’ “ I am short on Read¬
ing, - ’ replied the broker.
V(eat,tiiv dinner, Grp—“Look here—bring
me some old man. The host
you've got. - ’ Restaurateur —"Diner «
(h Carte, M'oicut" Cud —“Cart be
hanged! Dinner a lev carriage!"
They say, “ ’tis darkest just before tlm
dawn,” but the man who got up ot mid¬
night to hunt for a lono match on the
corner of tlio wash-stand can’t see how it
could be any darker.
“I put outside my window a largeI kix
tilled with mold, and sowed it with seed.
What do you think 'came up ?” “ Wheat,
ordered barley or oats ?” “ No—a policeman, who
me to remove it. ”
Tim discouraged collector again pre¬
his sented friend, that little matter. “ Well,” said
“you are round again?”
“Yes,” says the fellow, with the account
in his liancl, “but I want to get square.”
“Lames and gentlemen,” said an Irish
manager to Iris audience of three, “as
there Tlie performance is nobody here, this I’ll night dismiss will you all. lie
of not
performed, rowy-veuing. but ” will bo repeated to-mor-
1
A little boy entered the fish market
the other day, and seeing for tiie first
time a pile of lobsters lying on the coun¬
ter, looked at them intently for some time,
when ho exclaimed: “Them s tho big¬
gest grasshoppers I ever soon.”
What’s manna, To motheglln, Olo O’MHrgariiiG? ambrosia aud sich
In odor bo fragrant, Olii In color ho rich
Tlum’rt lo of O’AIargnrlne?
TUuU’rt guilt guiltless » of juiaUives churning aud inllk-mAids’ and -lalry-walds’ smiles.
wiles.
Thou'rt guilty of naught but inscrutably ilos,
Ole O’Margarine.
“ If tins coffee is gotten up in a board¬
ing think house shall style have again good to-morrow morning,
I I grounds for a
divorce.” said a cross husband tho other
morning. “I don’t want any of your
saucer, - ’ retorted his wife, “and what
I’ve sediment.”
A ftfflna) who Intelv called on tho
premier found him quiet, but not witht mt
a gleam of his peculiar saturnine humor.
“It is a strange ihing,” said he; “lmt
people keep calling at this house, and
asking child!” after mo—as though I had had a
Mr. Maylum remarked to Erskine that
Iris physician had forbidden Iris bathing
at Brighton.. said .“You Ersldne. are malum pro
hibilum,” Mr. Maylum, “he “Rut,” wife con¬
tinued says my
ma,v bathe.” “All,” replied Erskine,
“ she is malum in se.”
“Ten dimes mako one Now dollar,” said sir.
tho schoolmaster. ‘ go on,
Ton dollars make one—what?” “They
make one mighty and glad the these tcnolior, times,” re¬
plied the boy; who
hadn’t got his last mouth’s salary yet,
concluded that tho boy was about right.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean full-grown having come
to the conclusion that “a man
who throws banana Christian,” pools upon the side¬
walk is no tlio Cincinnati
Commercial anxiously inquires tho banana “ Well, peel
what do you think of
that throws a full-grown man upon tlie
sidewalk ?”
While Bishop Ames was member presiding began < over
a conference in tho west a
a tirade against universities, education,
etc., tllmiking God that he had never
been corrupted by thus contact for with few a minutes college.
After bishop proceeding interrupted him a with the
tho
question: “Do I understand that the
brother thanks God for liis ignorance?”
“Well, yes,” was tlio answer; “you
can rmt ‘it in that way if you want to.”
“Well, all I have to say,” said tho bishop,
iu his sweet, musical tones, “is, that tho
brother has a great deal to thank God
for.”
Curing Sick Headache.
A Vermont correspondent writes Mint
after suffering from sick headache for
twenty years, with frequent attacks of
diphtheria, quinsy and erysipelas, she
lias discovered the cause of ali her troub ¬
les. Eight months’ abstinence from meat
has cured her of dyspepsia and all the
ailments she lias suffered from, and her
health is bettor than it lias been for many
years. On a diet of vegetable# and cer¬
eals with fish and eggs occasionally, she
is well and strong. Happy are they who
find out their limitations, physical, do ruin in¬
tellectual and spiritual, in and vain endeavor not
health and happiness a
to digest something beyond their pow
ora.
The Harp an Irish Emblem,
The earliest records we have of the
Celtio raca g i ve the harp a prominent
ncr thern races of Europe in the earlier
cen turies of the Christian eta, and in the
: opinion of many antiquarians was origi
j aiaong them. The Irish harp was
; often an hereditary instrument, to be
1 preserved with great care and veneration,
„„ a med by the bards and of the historians. family,
alike the poet-musicians
It wafl lollg ,m?,lem. ^ adopted by the Irish as
a natio nal and has been sungof
: by the most accomplished and patnotio
gons o[ i re j au d since time out of mind.
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A California man agrwd to giv. his
s?
was by mixmg brandy , gin, and wharicy
together.