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DIRECTORY-
STATE GOVERNMENT.
James >l. Smith, Governor. -v
N. C. Barnet, Secretary of State.
J. W. Goldsmith, Comptroller General.
John Jones, Treasurer.
Joel Branluun, Libr|rian. /
John T. Brown, Principal "Keeper of the
Penitentiary. -
Gustavus J. Orr, State School Commis
srener. I V J MJ./ • >’‘
J. N, Janes, Commissioner of Agricul
ture.
Thomas D. Little, State Geologist.
JUDICIAL.
. 1 BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT.
Noel B. Knight, Judge.
<O. D. Phillips, Solicitor General.
• Jgtfdfag Court.
•*-«hsßoic<e—Fourth Monday in Febru-
Mgy, and first-. Monday tn August.
Cobb—Second Monday in March and
Dawson—Third Monday in April and
oseond Msunflay in September.
Famkin— Third Monday in May and Oc-
Jan Mr. . . ’• ’ ’
Forsyth—First Monday in April and
fourth Monday in August,
Gilmer--Second Monday in May and
October.
Lumpkin—Second Monday in April and
Mrefe Monday in September.
—Fpurth Monday in Mafch and
day in August.
s—Fourth Monday in April ami
TowNS--M<>nday after fourth Monday in
May and October.
Union—Fourth Monday in May and Oc
tober. "iti-.ii 1 ,i *T-/> 1 roi) !
COUNTY OFFICERS.
C. M. McClure, Ordinary. Regular court
first Monday in each month.
J..W> Mwbon, Clerk Superior Court
„*M, P. Morris, Sheriff.
jf G. Gramling, Deputy Sheriff z ,
John G. Evans, Treasurer.
Wm. N. Wilson, Tax Receiver.
Joseph G. Dupree, Tax Collector.
Wm. W. Hawkins, Surveyor.
n 'Wm. Rampley, Coroner.
COURT—CANTON DIS.
Joseph E. Hutson, J. P.
It F. Daniel, N. P.
H. G. Daniel, L. C
TOWN GOVERNMENT.
W. A. Tenseley, Mayor.
J. W. Hudson, Recorder.
James H. Kilby, Jaliez Galt. J. M. Ilsr
4la, J. M. McAfee, Theodore Turk, Alder
»M.
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
James O. Do*d«, President. , <,
James W. Hudson, County School Cpm-
Fros. James U. Vincent, Examiner.
Jrfaaph M McAfiw, Allen Keith, Jowph
J. Maddox, John R. Moore. .
Meeting* quarterly, in the court-house.
4MKROKKE TEACHERS' ASSOCIA
m !•>! (:> .T|fXN.
A JammGi Dpwda,.President.,
M. B. Tugglfl, vice-PreM lent. ’ *
* C. M. MrCW. Secretary. s
* Jewj AtlaWay, Treasurer.
John D Attaway, Censor .Morunt.
Prof. James U. Vincent, Association Cor
respondent. 11 <* *
Mt-giiUr meetings avery second Saturday
in each month, at 10 a, m.
jh I o s i z :n r i
r Baptist Church, Canton Ga., time of
service fourth Sum lay in each month.
Rev. M. B. Tuggle, Pastor.
M. K. CKurchl thn« of service, preachers
to charge
Rev. R R Johnson, first Sunday.
* Rtr. B. R liedl>e«Tf, second.
Rev. J. M. Hardin thlWl *
, A MASOJHC- >
Canton Lorane, No. 77, meets first and
third Monday nights in each month.
Joaenh M. McAfee, W. M.
B. E. Ledbetter, Secretary.
Sixes Lodge, No. 382, meets first and
third Saturdays, 2 p. in.
C. 8. Steele, W. M.
D. W. i'utniau, Bttcaetary. d j
GOOD TEMPLARS.
' Carton Mmik Me« lift, meets every
Saturday, ft price w < « .
JabwtWt, W. G. T
W. H* Guppage, HecnHMV.
i... W j.M> i V*f*v--? 1 ■' fi».- ‘• f e?f
.vv-ia.4 L, ■■
Danton Grange No. 235, Canton Ga.
Jabei Galt, Master. • .11 ml 1 >
Joanph M. McAfee, Secretary.
Stable I
N. J. GARRISON
Has Opened a Livery Stable In Canton,
*•4 *» prop’«d to furnish Horace, Buggies,
and wagons to the public for reasonable
Compmaatlon. He will also do Hauling to
and from this railroad and - elsewhere for
lh<we desiring such service.
The starting ot.a livery stable in Canton
so only an experiment, but Mr. Garrison
hopes by attention to business and satisfac
chargee to make his experiment a suc
xsmful undertaking. > . tS
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JAMES O. DDWDA,
Attorney at Law,
CANTON, -' < u - GBORPU.
Ilf ILL practice In the Superior Coarte
oi .Cherokee and adjoining counitea.
•’ WRi fiaiUHully and prmuplly attend to the
of all claims put in his hands. * <
Vffire in sh& >2vuri house. Canton, Ga.
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DON'T TAKE IT TO HEART.
There’s many a trouble
Would break like a bubble,
And into the wafers of Lethe depart,
Did not we rqhearse it,
And tenderly nurse it,
And give it a permanent, place in tire heart.
1 There’s many a sorrow
Would vanish to-mor.ow, [wings;
’ Were we got to furnish the
And quietly brooding,
It hatches out all sorts of horrible things.
•iji i<
How welcome the seeming
Os looks that are beaming, [poor!
Whether one’s wealthy, or whether one’s
Eyes bright as a berry,
Cheeks red as a cherry, [can cure.
The groan and the curse and the heartache
Resolved to be merry,
All worry to fierry .. - ;
Across tls fanned paters that bid us
And no longer tearful, _
But happy and cheerful, [for yet.:
We fee! life has much thaj’b worth living
The iStene in the Road.
There was a duke once who disguised
himself, and placed a great rock iu the mid
dle of |h£,r&%d -pear his 11»/* u
JJext morning a peasant came that way
with his ox-cart. “Oh, those lazy people !”
said he, “there is this big stone lying right
in the middle of the road, and no one will
take the trouble to put it out of the way.”
And Hans went on, scolding about the lazi
ness of the people.
Next came a g*iy soldier along. His head
was held so far back that hd didn’t notice
the stone, and he stumbled over it. Ho
Jtegan to storm at the country people arqnnd
there for leaving a huge rock in the road.
Then he went on.
Next came a company of merchants.
Wl«en ? they came to the stone, the road was
so narrow tliat they had tb go off in single
file on the other side. One of them cried
out, “Did aip body ever see the like of that
big st<»ne Ij lheiiholexif the morn
ing, and not a single person stopping to
take it away *?”
It laid* there for three weeks, and no one
tried to move R. Then the duke sent
around word to all the people on his lands
to meet where this rock lay, as he had
something to tell them.
The day came .and a great crowd gather
ed. Old Hans, |lie farmer, was there, and
so were the merehants. A horn was heard,
and a sphuidid cavalcade came galloping
up. The duke got down ftom his horse,
and began to speak to the people gathered
fyerk.
“My friend#, it was J who pyt this stone
here ®very ii&ser-by has
left it just where it was, and has scolded
Ids neiglriior for not taking it but of |he
way.”
He stooped down and lifted hp the stone.
Directly u.iderneath ft was a round hollow,
and in the hollow lay a leathern bag. The
duke h«kd up this bag, that .all might see
what was written on it. “For him who
lilts up the stone.” lie untied the bag;
and turned it upside down, and out upon
the stone fill a boaiitifiil gold ring and
twenty large bright coins.
So flnjv ajt Jb«t the prize bemuse they
had not learned tlie lesson, Qr fermed the
haUt of d iligcncC* * t
’’’vhfyttiW'iT*-
Many men, I belicye, would retain the
warm affection and romantic love of the
women they marry much longer, if they
would express the tenderness they feel
oßcne-.
Wamcn love to hear things talked idxmt.
They like to hear a husband say that be
lovcS, ro’et nftd over Htttin. Tlwy like to
have bip| yill them, in plain terms, that he
misses them when Urey are absent. They
kfcecompliments that ootne Blt>m ’he heart
Ivoweycr ffee they msjß*be from vanity.
And a lldWpraisef of dress, or face, w ban
ner, is a mighty c<yutbrl 10-mae who has giv
en herself to one man for Her life time.
It is said that women have more imagi
nation than men, but iu matters of love I
sekreriy tliiirlt that *ll is so. Man will |e
in w.unun s love with fur less visible
tokens of it lhaa is necessary to prove his
tenderness th htm Bbe wants more speech
es and longer letters than he does. The
moment of ppomise gnj vow must be stfjS
plemented by many fond wools scattered all
through her iifc, etee grieving doubts creep
Into fjef soiil? A term of endearment, a pet
name, some lit'.le token that she is to him
what w other woman is, will make fjer feel
than the mewi
shows other women that he esteems her and
values her society, jealousy can never pois
on
There is a great dual of talk about wo
men “loving forever,” however the man
theylove may .turn out. It is true in one
sense ; he may be a rascal to other folks and
not alienate her tenderness; but once con
viace aay high sjarded woman that her
husband Is tafse If her. that be lores her no
hanger, haw a "reman tic friendship"—the
»uFSt of all till taiions —with another wo-
in place of sere comes emqtipn
I too cold to be called hate, acd then puts a
isUvugcr barrier bvlwcvu them than aagcr
Virtue a,nd Intelligence—The Safeguards of Liberty.
CANTOX, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1876.
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can raise. Silence is apt to foster the doubts
that bring this feeling with it. Often just
saying, “You are better, sweeter, dearer
than any one else,” would save her. But
man, after his boyhood, rather sinks from
wordy love-making. He thinks that Ins
wife should take his affection for granted
even if he sits in the corner whispering to
; Miss Flin with bis back turned to her all
! the evening, and lets her put on her shawl
herself while he interests himself in Miss
Flip’s boa.
Little works, little deeds, a little thought
fulness, would xvard off many of those
“separations” which blight so many lives.
Truly, these come of greater things, but lit
tle omissions often lead to them. By his
neglect he spoils his temper, and the spoilt
temper drives him from her at last, anil
turns her first foolish suspicions into reali
: ties.—[New York Ledger.
The Necessity of Labor. —Labor is •
man’s great function. The earth and the
atmosphere are his laboratory. With spade
and plow, with mining salts, furnaces and
forges, with fire and steam, amid the noise
and whirl of swift and bright machinery,
and abroad in the silent fields, beneath the
roofing sky, inan was made to be ever work
ing, ever experimenting. In all the worlds
of philosophy, in the universe of intellect,
man must be a worker. He is nothing, he
enn bo nothing, he can achieve nothing, ful
fill nothing, without working. Not only can
he gain no lofty improvement without this,
but without it he can gain no tolerable hap
piness. 80 that he who gives himself up to
utter indolence finds It hard for him, and
is obliged in self-defense, unless he be an
to'th) something. The miserable vic
ftmttof id?enei*» are driven at last from their
chosen resort, and compelled fe work, to do
something ; yes, to employ their wretched
and worthless lives in killing time. They
must'hunt down the hours as their prev
Yes, time, that mere abstraction that sinks
light as the air upon the eyelids of the busy
and the weary, to the idle, is an enemy
clotheU with gigantic armor; and all the
difference between them and others is, that
they employ Jheir activity to no
end. They find indeed that the hardest
work is to do nothing.
Scdden Return of Reason. —Augus-
tus Hemenwav, of Boston, one of the rich
est men in America, who has lately resum
ed bus’ness, after thirteen years of r tire
meet from the world, has had a remarkable
history. When a lad be was se’t to Valpa
raiso, tn manage the affairs nf the late Ben
iamin Bang, and after a few years of im
porting South American products and ex
nnrting American nyinufiictures on his own
hook, he retnrmM k richer than than his
fernier employer. Overwork inqueed a
monoman’a, and he fancied that he could
not meet his IfabifttlCß. But he had sense
'mnngh to take the advice of physicians,
and he retired to Litchfield, Conn., where
r year# he vemainfed tn wfed was
supposed to lie hopeless insanity. A year
and a half asm, his reason suddenly re’urn-,
d, and he ,t<!b*grnphed to his brother, “bring
on your trial balance,” and, sure enough,
lie wa? able to review the history of his
house during his long absence. He is now
at ids and dropped a thon*and
dollar bill into the contribution box on a
recent Sunday. _
New Discovert in Telegraphy.—lt is
Grimed that a new kind of electricity has
been obtained, differing from the old In
several particulars, and notably in not re
qniring for transmission that the conduct
ing wire shall be insulated. While the
teality and valueW this discovery can only
t»e ascertained by further experiment, it
may hcie be mentioned ’.hat there is noth
ing inherently improl>able about it The
■dhferente claimed between th® new and
old te’ettriciries is scarcely greater in kind
between polarize! and non-polarized
light, or between ordinary Iron and that
which has been so changer! b, contact
with platimtm that the-strongest -nitric acid
dteeortry of’
the sort would be of inestimable service in
ctreapening the telegraph, cable rates would
sdnu be permanently reduced, yndtbc un
sightly poles that now disfigure our cities
would quickly disappear.—[New York
Ftibnne. i
Wooden Railways.—Experiments that |
have been made on one of the railways of ’
PeensylvaaH to tret the efficiency of wood
en rails are said to l*ave succeeded much |
beyond the expectation of the projectors of |
the enterprise. The rails are of sugar ■
maple seven inches by four in thickness,
and about twelve feet in length. The ties |
are laid down in the ordinary way, notch-,
ed;, and the rads are Jet into them about [
tour inches. They Xre thin kept firmly ’
with wooden wedges driven on the sides. .
The cost of laying these rails is four hun
dred and fifty dollars a mile. No iron
spikes are required, and the cost of track
laying is about the same as in the care of
trow rads. The highest rate of speed for
locomotives to pas» over such a track with
safety has been fixed al sixteen miles an
hour. It has been estimated that a wooden
track will last, ordinarily, from three io
four years. 7 . •
Strange Japanese Customs Falling into
Disuse,
The Japanese women are unusually small
and dumpy, but are often very beautiful,
with small hands, and are excei dingly neat ]
in dicss and coiffure. Their hair is not, as
is generally supposed, a true black, but is
av« ry dark brown;, in some instances is
pronounced red. Its blackness, and unfor
tunately coarseness also, is promoted by the
custom of shaving the heads of children
from their very birth. It is made to appear
very black and glossy by the use of ungu
ents and bandoline made from a mucilagi
nous plant. Like the ether sex (and this
custom is universal among people p£ every
age in Japan), they b ribe daily Fn hot water,
a public bath costing only half a cent.
Since 1868 the government has prohibited
the promisenous bathing of both sexes, for
merly common. The women above twenty
years ol I, from time immemorial, have
• blackened their teeth with a mixture of gtsll
and powdered iron ; .but Jiie Empress does
not, and many ladies are now abandoning
the fashion. The former custom of married
women shaving off their eyebrows is also
felling into disuse. The peculiar style of
coiffure at once distinguishes a Japanese
maiden, wife, widow! or prostitute; All
women Are carefully educated, fn hous-hold
duties; but the lower classes acquire very
little Book learning, though nearly all wo
men can read and write. The young ladies
of the classes devote much time to
fancy work, their bright cob red robes being
embroidered with gay silks and gold. They
are carefully taught from various books de
voted to the duties of a wife, mother, house
keeper. The three principal duties, as set
forth in a large volume entitled, “Women’s
Great Study,” are: 1. Oliedient to parents
when a child. 2. Obedient to her husband
when a wife. 3. Obedient to her eldest son
when a widow. Half their education is in
books of etiquette. There is no distinction
made between politt-ness and morals. Lying,
cheat’ng, deceiving, slandering and like vi
ces are simply “not polite,” and so are not
permissible. Giris thus scrupulously brought
up make the beat of women and of wives.
The jfew constantly Starring intercourse
between Japan and the Western powers
leads to the hope that some of the refine
ments of Japanese civilization will event
fully reach othei countries.
Church Sociables. —A writer in an ex
change says in regard to church sociables:
The fault !ies in the place. There is a place
to laugh, as well ns a time ; and a church is
not the place where a mnn loves to explode
a r< Cket-lik»‘joke, or where a wng can tickle
the company with the dryness of his drol
lery. As long as religion is preached as ap
plicable only to a certain range of faculties,
it will never elicit the hearty co-operation
of the remaining faculties in man. Our ex
perience has been that a soclalde held in a
public hall or private house is worth ten
held tn the rooms of the church If you
waiit flic people to be funny, to bo joHy, to
!w happy, meaning by these terms what the
average human being means by them,
bring them together in a place where these
exercises do not seem a desecration. Wo
have been delightfully surprised to see how
much good fellowship there is in people if
they onty have an opportunity to show it.
4 matt cast laugh through atube twenty
feet long. No more can you get a good
human joke through a church door. Throw
open the doors of your houses, friends, and
ask all the people to come down and see
you ; throw formality trt the dogs and let
them eome together fn a hearty, off hand
fashion, and your rooms will l>e as full of
the hearty murraunol happy fellowship,as
a grove in sum mer is full of the murmurs
when the wind is Coquetting with the
branches. “Rejoice evermore.**
Growth of Christianity.—Tn con
trasting American Christianity a century
ago and now, we caa not but be struck
with its enormous strength end growth.
In 1777 the number of churches was less
than 9JS): by the census of 1870, the num
I ber was 72,000. Churches have multiplied
nea ly 37 fold; population, 11 fold. In
1870 religion* societies owned $354,000,000
worth of property. The most extraordi
nary iucrease has been among Methodists
and Roman Catholics. The rapid ratio of
■ increase of religious bodies might well
I seem alarming, were It not that the vast
‘ amount of property held by religious or
i ganizations is distributed among
; bodies. A century ago the Congregation- ;
alists were largely in advance; Methodists
t were hardly known in the land. One hun
dred years ago, the more important reli-
. gious bodies wtre reckoned in the following
; order: CongregatiOßalisls. Baptists,Church
’ of England, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Ger
: man Reformed, Dutch Reformed, and Ro
man Catholics; in 1870, by Methodists,
Bip'.istSj Presbyterians, Roman Catholics,
Christiana, Lutherans, Congregational iris,
and Protestant Episcopalians. The zeal of
American Christianity has nowhere ex
pendtMi itself wHh Mich force as it has in
founding schools and college*, and precise
ly al this point the Roman Catholic church :
emerges into significance. It ranks aow as
the fourth in population and second for the
value of church property. *
Commercial and Political Sins.
From a Sermon by Rev. DeWitt Talmadge.
Sin is on every side of us, and it seems
as though it is imposs’ble to find anything
i that is good and true. The shriek of bias*
phemy rolls up from the d<*ns of hell, blast
ing the heavens; the cry of <he lost soul is
heard at every street corner; there is the
cla«b of the decanter and the click of the
gambler’s dice, and everywhere a horrible
wail rises that is enough to make the deni-
Z*rtS of the infernal pit cluse the doors, put
their fingers to their ears, and rattle theft
chains with an utter despair. These temp
tations to Commercial dishonesty were
D®ver so potent as they are to-day, and it
has become almost an impossibility for a
Christian business man to exist, for the Shy
locks of trade fill all the stores and the
great marts. They care only fift their
gains, despise God, and fear only the sher
iff. They think that by an occasional con
tribution to the Lord they can make every
thing right for them in heaven. But they
are rotten through and through, and they
will go down to hell. The whole commer
cial world is iotten. rotten
The- political history of our city, and of
our whore- country, is the history of fraud
and dishonesty. There is not one man in
a thousand of our politicians who is pure
and upright. If an honest, benevolent, and
Christian gentleman steps info the arena
and proclaims his intention to stand on a
pure platform and purify the slums of poli
tics, then he is at once beset by the press,
which so blackens his character that he is
soon led to thiuk that he is better fitted for
Sing Sing than for public office. Oh, what
a creature one must become in order to en
ter the poliiical arena I The respectable
young man who goes from a Christian
home must clasp hands with the lecherous
wretch from the rum-cellar; he must asso
ciate with the lowest villains, chuckle with
them over their coarse jokes, and join in
their blasphemy. The most God-forsaken
people in our city (New York] are the pol
iticians. I can pray for the prisoner in
Raymond street jail, [Tweed] but I don’t
think there is any use in praying for an old
politician. Faudulent election inspectors
sit around fraudulent ballot-boxes taking
fraudulent votes from fraudulent voters,
making fraudulent returns, which send
men to our legislatures that are better sub
jects for the penitentiary or the asylum for
idiots than for 1< gislators.
Female Subscriber on Her Temper.
She came bounding through the 'sanctnm
door like a cannon brill, and without paus
ing to say “Howd’ye do?” she brought
down her umbrella on the table with a
mighty crash, and shouted :
“I want to stop my paper.”
“All right, madam.”
“Stop it right off, too,” she persisted,
whacking the table again, “for 1 have wait
ed long enough for you to do the square
thing.”
She quieted down for a moment as we
ran our finger down the list of names, and
when *ve go! to here and scratched it out,
she said :
“There; mebbe you’ll do as you ought to
after this, and not slight a woman jest’cause
she’s poor. If some rich folks happen to
have a little red-headed, bandy-legged,
squint-eyed, wheezy squaller born to them,
you puff it to the skies and make it out an
angel, but when poor people have a baby
you don’t say a word about it, even if it is
lhe squarest toed, blackest haired, biggest
headed little kid that ever kept a woman
awake at nights. That's what’s the matter,
and that’s why I’ve stopped my paper.”
And she dashed out as rapidly as slie
came.
Last of the Royal Stuarts—A his
torieal figure has just phased away in Scot
land. Lady Louisa Stuart, the last descend
ant of the royal family of Scotland, having
died at Traquair House, near Peebles, in
tier one hundredth year. Lady Louisa
Stuart was the last surviving representa
tive of a once powerful border clan. She
was the daughter of the seventh Earl, and
npon the death, in 1861, of her brother,'
Charles the VIII.. peer, the ancient title of
the line became extinct. Born in 1776,
she had almost completed ber hundredth
year, and retaining her faculties unimpair- ■
•d, she was able to re r er from personal I
knowledge toevents which are matter® of
remote history to the present generation. 1
Iler venerable age made her an object of
much tender interest and attraction.
A woman in the case ! Was there ever
a case without a woman in it? “What
mighty ills have not been done by woman ?”
Congress ought to piss a law abolishing
women. It might be inconvenient in its
operation for while, but the men would
soon get used to nursing the chklren and
running through the housework, and we'd ,
have less shooting.
An Englishman invented a pulpit
which promises to be popular with congre
gations. Attached to the pulpit is » clock,
i which at the end of the half hour gives an
; alarm, and if the preacher doesn't end with-1
in four minutes thereafter, down comes the
I pulpit with its occupant.
VOLUME I.—NUMBER 25.
Interesting Fa<Jts.
We mirk 13,00ff,00C ROWS in this country,-
keep 8,000 creameries and cheese
and have a cheese and butter product of
$450,000,000.
An analysis of the English clergy list
gives these figures: Total number < f cler
gymen, 23,738 —composed of dignitaries
-172; incumbents, 18,300; curates, 5,765 (■
masti rs in school, 709 ; chaplains, heads of
training- schools, tto , 465; unattached’,•
2,863 ; clerical fellows of universities, chap
lains in In lia, and some missionaries, 484-
Tife editor of a pap r in Salt Lake city,-
Utah, writes that the citizens of that city
“do not appear to lack educational, e* m
mercial, or religious facilities, to enable'
them to con-pete with other cities, and w
1 far as newspapers are concerned there are
' few cities of thirty thousand
which can boast of a larger number. Tw©'
morning and three evening dailies, two*
semi-weeklies, three Weeklies; four semi-*
monthlies, and tWo monthlies —sixteen in !
all—are published here. We have twenty*
seven places of worship, divided among.'
six or seven religions sects, with sittings
' for 25,000 people, and there is as mud
business actually done as in any Easters 1
cities of 50,000 people.
It seems that the practice of scalping it
not peculiar to the North American Itt
di-m. An inquiry put forth in Nature
draws out the following inforination.on thi
subject: Herodotus mentions tliat it wa*«
one of the most characteristic customs oft
the ancient Scythians. It is said that tha?
custom s’ill prevails among the wild tribet
of the frontier in the northern district of
Bengal. The “Friend of India” remarks,
that “the Naga tribes use the scalping
knife with a ferocity that is only equaled
by the North American Indians, and tho
scalps are carefully preserved as evidences
of their prowess and vengeance over their
enemies On the death of theft chief all
the scalps taken by him during his warlike
career are burned with the remains.”
T1 e largest State senates in the Union
are those of North Carolina and Indiana—
-50 members each. New York has 82;
Pennsylvania 83, Massachusetts 40, Cali-,
fornia and lowa 40, Georgia 44,
43. In sixteen States the Senate numbers*
between 30 and 40 members; in nine, be
tween 20 and 30; in five —Delaware, New
Hampshire, Nevada, Nebraska, Oregon
less than 20. The smallest Senate is thafc
of Delaware, nine members, against Lit.lp.
Rbody’s 36. In the popular branches, New
Hampshire leads off with 341; Vermont
comes next with 241; then follow Massa
chusetts with 240, and Missouri with 200,.
In nine States the of tbfo
House is more than 100 and less than 200;
in six, it is the even and symmetrical 100;
in seventeen, it is less than 100. Thq,
smallest House of all is Delaware’s, 21,
A marvelous piece of mechanism hast
just been exhibited st Paris. It is an eight
day clock, which chimes the quarters,plays,
sixteen tunes, playing three times every
twelve hours, or at any intervals required;
The hands go round as follows: One once
a minute, one once an hour, one ones
week, one onee a month, oue once a year.
It shows the moon’s age, the rising and.
setting of the sun, the time of high and
low water, half ebb and half flood, and by
a beautiful contrivance there m a part tha|
represents the water, which rises and falls,
lifting some ships St high water tide as if
they were in motion, and, as it
leaving these automaton ships on the sand.
The clock shows the hour of the day, day
of the month, month of the year, and
the day of the month there is a provision
made for the long and short months. It
shows the sign of the sodiac; it strikes or
not, chimes or not, as may be desired, and
it has the equation table, showing the de
ference of clock and sun every day in thn
year.
The fiber of wood cummon’y termed by
chemists lignine, containing as it does the
principles including the majority of vege
table substances, has at times been utilized
for food. By skillful manipulation a toleie
ably good loaf of bread has beeb made by
Professor Auterith of Turbingen, from
d 1 board The operat’on h described ns
follows: Everything which was soluble In
water was removed by prolonged maeera?
’ lion and boiling; resindus matter was ex 7
tracted by alcohol; and the wood was then
I reduced to fiber, dried in an oven, and
ground as corn, when it had the smell and
: tnste of corn flour. On adding water and
I yeast, and upon being baked, it had
crust, and a much t etter taste than bread
made from bran or husks of corn. It is
I found that wood flour, boiled irith water,
j furnishes a nutritioue Jelly; and Professor
Auterith states that he ate ft fn the form of
soup or gruel, and in dumplings or pan
cake?, which were palatable and whokfe
’so ne. Professor Brande, in his lectures,
! record* an analogous result. Gum and Ba
sra r, be says, may be obtained by the action
of sulphuric acid upon woody fiber, froa|
which substance bread has been made, and
in view of the dose resemblance betwrs*
IhelfoGipcsition nf star/th and lignine, th®
conversion of the latter into bread is by no
' means remarkable.