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CEDARTOWN
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W. S, D. WIEE & C0„ Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY S, 1S75.
VO LUMP' I. NUMBER 47.
TIME
LY
TOPICS.
Duep.v Vic.
will"
be fifty-six oi
the
24th of next
mouth. Fat, fair,
and
fifty-six.
News from
all c
ver Arkansas
to
the effect that
tho
prospect for a
fine
wheat crop was
u _ 0Vt
r bettor.
Ex Hknator
Nyk
of Nevada,
in
tho Bloomingd
tie a
yluni, affected
with
softening of th
bra
n, and it is thought
will not reoovo
The president having tendered
the
position of attorney
general to .T
tdge
Edwards Pierr
pon
, of Now York,
that
gentleman has
jtod it.
Tin* statistics show that there 1ms
boon n steady drclino in the manufac
ture and use of lager beer in this coun
try during tho past two years.
Thkhh appeara to be a sharp contest
between tho cities of Cincinnati and
Louisville as to which shall have tho
western connection of tho Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad.
Tup. New York city postoflloo is sell
ing over $1,000 worth of newspaper
stanfps alone a day, and tho postmas
ters say thia is a sure barometer of a
Tub pa’rous of husbandry have a re-
markable predominance in the legisla
ture of Oregon, seventeen of tho thirty
Donators and fifty-four of the sixty rep-
lontatn
> belo
' to tho orde
In tho great fire at Oshkosh, Wis.,
tho other day,sixty-nine business houses
and about five hundred dwelling honses
were destroyed. The total Iobh is put
down at $2,500,000, and the insurance
will amount from $800,000 to 81,000,000.
Brooks
id I)i
the
charges to grand jurors in North Caro
linn, declared tho criminal features o
tho civil rights act unconstitutional, ai
no law could say men nro social!’
Tin: Florida i
has dosed
tin
ling hoini
wamp fev
this country. The stenmahip Nova Sco
tia,which arrived from Liverpool at Bid-
a few days ago, reported oxpori-
cueing great difficulty in getting
through, aud a largo number of ships
o soon frozen solidly in tho ico-fioldR.
» presence of such great quantities
oo in the North Atlantic at this sea-
of the year is unusual, and it will
crptibly alTeot onr climate for several
ks at least.
ons O. Wiurrittn, the qualter poet
i wrote Barbara Friotcliie, is out in
a letter against the savagery of war be-
rcen nations. lie thinks the canton
al a good year to inaugurate a ne»v
vilization in this respect, aud settle
disputes by arbitration. Tho j
the
or Id
threatened by
the
hurdles, ami he says it i
the Christian church to a
of its awful resp
after tho dreadful oxpei
, it fails to pei
a high time for
vakou to a full
.mobility. If,
ienco of 1,800
the necessity
to get out
of the way of the
said that R3,000 visitors have wintered
in Florida, spending there at least $8,-
000,000.
The time between Now Orloanw and
Vera Cruz is to bo shortened to two aud
a hnlf days, by omitting two or three
HtopH of the steamers. Tills ia dono to
oncourngo traffic between Mexico and
the United States.
A mr.n substituting lici
hihition in respeot to the s
eating liquors has just
branches of tho legislature
which is the fourth state v
legislative measures have !
within a few weeks.
Hu
el to K i
uso for pro
le of intaxi
lasRod both
.f Michigan,
red
f shaking itself dear of tho barbarism
of war, it has small claim upon the
world’s respect and confidence.
Con. I)k Vam.ikii, bond of the HwisB
school of aitillery, figures out tho an
nual cost, on a peace standing, of the
armies of Oorruany, Russia, France,
Austria and Italy at 8l.B2t.T60,000.
Thia is allotting only 1,500,000 to Rus
sia, her Asiatic forces being excluded,
as not likely to participle in n European
war. The aggregate forco of the live
powors named is 0.500,000 men. The
annual expenditures of Um-sls, Ger
many and Franco for their maintenance
averages $050,000,000, while those of
Austria aud Italy are $100,000,000 per
annum. What a horrible drain on the
productive industries of au overcrowded
continent.
LATE NEWS SUMMARY
EAST.
A ring has been formed in New Yorl
to control tho production nn.l price of potro
slaty funds
■tilty. Tina
tmltoUgypU iut>ii^t bfr,\, *
Otllfl
implo’
•oUtivo
dopKitinonl
under penalty of removal.
The president has appointed Lieut.
Thornburgh, a brother of Congressman Thorn-
bnrgti
f tho l»i
. Mu;
adtor,
tho army to flllvacancioH; also/ Benjamin
Uonlev as poitmador of Atlanta, lla.
The postmaster-general has issued an
order cancelling all awards and contracts here
tofore tnado in favor of Jerome .1. Htmls. Pat
rick Lang bill', Jno, W. Dolanoy, Win. Weiss
and Wm. O. hidings, those being tho names
cent ai nod in tho proposals fraudulently Itn-
poaed by tho complicity of clerks.
By t he new postal arrangement a with
Japan, postage on news
chaudisi
n ho prepaid to their deatinatioi
t of July. Newspaper postage wll
nts for a sluglo paper, if not ovc
in woighb and on other matte
for eacli two ouneoH or a fraction,
ntnissionera of the Freedman’
iave threo hundred thousand do'
i United Statos treasury. It went
hundred thousand dollars in ban
THE HERON.
BEHIND THEIR FANS.
nnoz.
largo number of do!
or tho debt<
iHtimoiu
irs h
bought in th
Ion lias boon ralsoil that tho com-
tho power to acquire real
that thoir duty iH to realize money
distributed among tho depositors.
ie depositors nro selling thoir bank
n oonts on the dollar. The attor
l lias decided Unit tho commission-
onic«
the
lonths
nose have just booi
li anniversary of the
, of tho rising sun in
, the llrst emperor, v
president of the
the Philadelphia ox-
on Saturday. Five ateaiuora left New
York for England and I’rauoc, carrying
177 cabin and 585 steerage passengers.
Tho steerage tourists were mostly re
turning immigrants, however, going to
take a look at fatherland.
A Nk
Onus
espondeut of tin
Now Y'ork Times stated that if iiffai
in Louisiana become settled, a foreign
company, with a capital of $20,000,000,
is ready to eome ami purchase 4<H).(H)0
or 500,000 acres of Inml in the state aud
setllo upon the purchase industrious
English ami Germnn agriculturists.
It is not much to tho credit of the
new Bessemer steamship, which is de
signed to prevent sea sickness, that on
her recent trial trip between Eogland
and Franco she only made a speed of
twenty miles in seven hours Most
peoplo would not object to bo a little
sea-sick, in crossing the English chan
nel, if they make the trip in two hours.
Boyntou, the swimmer, crossed in f
much shorter time than the Bessemer
The imposing ceremony of placing
the red hat on the head of Cardinal
McCloskey, took place in Ht. Patrick’i
cathedral, New York, yesterday. The
novelty of tho event—tho first of th'
kind in this country—attrac.ml a large
number of ecclesiastical dignitaries j
from far an 1 near, ami 'probably not
onc-twentioth of the people who desired
to witness the ceremonies wore accom
modated.
The newspapers in California evi
dently do not lack faith in tho bonanza
of silver, " Our bonanza” is still their
theme, aud they point with pride to the
fact that since January 1, the sum of
$2,484,000 has been paid in dividends,
all of which was taken ontof the ground
in two months. This is said to be the
yield of the “eon-olidated Virginia”
mine alone, so there must be *' millions
Dispatches from
A Ht. Paul dispatch states that
ing Indian nows isobtaiued
.',1 from all parts of I'rn
al Vutmnaoi
•orlng pant
Ofcro May III). Tho |>a
Tho proclamation <lo<
Shedding tho blood of formor Companions
brothers.
Advices from Bolivia stato that
the 18th nf March Inst President Proton left
Input for Qruoro, taking with him one half of
battalion No. 1 of tho line, the other hnl
eg in Viachla. The rebel citizen
/.. wlion they thought tho prosidou
fire to tho palace.
id took four girls pr
SOUTH
The trustees ef the Bouther
nvo awarded to tho Baltimore !
any tho contract to build tho brid
id twelve hundred
ompnny ot al.
,e, hut failed to do so
i are complaining
dented destruction of
cattle by the hi
Tho court of clttimshnsinado a decree
n accordance with the opinion herotofori
lorc-d in tho Arkansas Hot Springs case.
rioa ; boo how tanned ho is. Well, my
dour ho is a lion.”
‘‘Then ho is an attaoho ?”
"Oil, how stupid you are I 1 say ho
is a lion becauso ho fought like it tiger,
and ho ”
“Thou nay ho ia a tigor, and lmvo
dono with it.”
(Shrugging hor shoulders) "and
that at tho hattlo of Rapata- -Batata—
or Putarii—I ean’t remombor oxaotly
what, but it was a frightful battle -
whore the Arabs bit. tho dust - That’s
it, word for word, as napa road it aloud
tho other day out of tho paper.”
" Why did they Into tho dust?”
‘ Why, because they woro so angry.
Yo
Well, i
ed his men over six longitOH
ml arrived nl Lnp&z Just as
ho defended the government
ndod.
Rules of tho Road.
Tho groat loading rule is that no ono
has the right to bo in tho middle of tho
road, except when no other person is
present to claim his right to the uso of
ono-half tho highway, which claim ho
has precisely tho same right to assort
when traveling in tho sarno direction
that he has when ho moots another.
This is tho law of ovory state in the
union, and, so far as wo are informed,
of every civilized country ; and all per
sons violating it nro liable for all dam
ages resulting from thoir conduct.
When teams moot, tho American law
ia that each, turning to the right, shall
give half the road. The custom
tho law of England require team
;urn out to the left as expressed i
>hl doggerel:
•aradox quite ;
lhat tho
The
idly
•Ur«
nd po
property ho taken,
receiver to bo apjointed by the court ol
who shall take charge of the same for
congress shall by law direct that ti
shall bo disposed of. Tho receiver i-
bo appointed until a final decree is rr
and ho ia not to take po-M ssion of t
erty until it has boon adjudicated
supremo court to bo tbe property
In ridit:
■ drivin
to tbe
[f you keep to tho right, yoi
In passing, tho per
lilies ha
i died dur
A despatch from Moihphis, says
Complaints are pouring in from all tho sur-
-ounding counties of the fearful destrnction
if horses and muioH by buffalo gnats. Many
imall planters, especially colored ones, are
----- 1 ruined by having their only horses or mules
NrWKRorHlumbor-yards,framehouses, Jtlllod sod being unable to replace thorn at a
careless use of fire and a high wind did j time when they are so badly needed. Tho
the business for Ohkosli, Wisconsin, j Ledger publishes a letter from a planter near
on Wednesday. The loss is over $2,- | Macon, Faye
000,000. This is the second great fire j j ew * ^
which the Oshkosh people have expo- I ^ * j WC r,t -lowntoray farm yesterday
rienced. Last year wsitddeu conflagm- j ,ij„tant six miles, and counted thirty-seven
tiou licked up fcix hundred houses and j dead on the wav. I have lost four on my farm
other property worth $800,000. This j and Dr. H
last catastrophe is overwhelming, and ! lont ** ,li K
much steering will result.
It reqnircsno profit to predict a cold I of the crop planted, as they have is
summer as long as ilie North Atlantic j repine the stock
is tilled with immense fields of floating j MISCELLANEOUS
ice. Tne effect of this glacial propin- i The secretary of. the treasury has
quity will be sensibly felt throughout J aeued a circular prohibiting the clerks and
ad. It looks like
i ill bo c
front is re-
e<l to turn to the left, so as to allow
the person in the rear, who is traveling
at a more rapid pace, to pass by on his
right.
Where teams approach at right an
gles, or intersecting roads, it is the
duty of the person who, by turning to
tbe right, would pass to the rear of the
other team, to pull up, and allow the
other to pass.
In wide streets in towns and cities,
o general principles should always
ibserved, though, from the necessi
ties of the case, persons are less strict
keeping on the proper side of the
street, being frequently obliged, with
proper care for the rights of others, to
pass to the other side to avoid a crowd
or other obstruction.
A person with a light vehicle meeting
or desiring to puss a heavily-laden team,
especially if the latter ingoing np a hill,
will generally turn out without requir
ing the loaded wagon to give half the
road, but the law imposes no such obli
gation in any case, and u
curastancesrequireseacb to give half tho
road, unless by accident or some oh
struction it is found impossible to di
If a person happens to bo in th
wrong place on tho road or street, a per
son coming in collision with him is not
entitled to damages if, by the use of
ordinary and reasonable diligen
could have avoided it.
e, he
THOM Tin: FRENCH OF uostavk
Lust, evening 1 was guilty <
shameful action. I hid behind a cur
tained door and listened to a conversa
tion, and, what makes it st ill more un
pardonable in me, I cannot help telling
m what 1 heard. It was this.
I had keen at tho hall about half an
hour when 1 saw in a corner of the par
lor, through tho door which lends Into
tho conservatory, a little group of three
young girla arrayed in billows of white
muslin, who woro talking behind their
funs with so much animation that it
was impossible not to notice them.
Tlteso three girls had reached tlint.
age when young women’s hands nro
slender but still rosy,when their forms
have still that charming delicacy which
some people call thinness and others
youthfulnoHH, and when their move
ments have that excessive supplonoss
which is like awkwardness, hut wliioh it
would he tho height, of art to imitate’.
Leaning back with easy grace in thoir
nrm-ohairs, which were drawn up close
together, they were laughing unrestrain
edly. Already women and opquottes,
they would from time to time strotoh
out.’ thoir woll-glovod hands and pat
thoir ample draperies with a thousand
little gestures. They were already
mistresses of tho art of looking at
things without Booing thorn, of laugh
ing when they were not amused, of
showing their white teeth while smooth
ing thoir gloves at tho wrist, aud while
modestly looking down of giving a vi
bration to thoir voioos like the striking
of glass, which cannot fail to nttruot
attention. They had, too, tho triok of
stopping short iu the midst of a move
rnont and posing that yon might hoc the
turn of a shoulder or a graceful arm,
and of turning thoir profile to you to
show a pretty nose, of catching up
thoir skirtu and turning away with a
movement liko a frightened dove till
the oar alone is visible, aud replying,
"Ob, how you frightened* me I''when
you lmvo sittfl iloMiing ♦*> *>»•*» bnfc
"How do you do ?” Then Choir way T»f
prattling unceasingly without rhyme
reason, or wlion both ideas and words
fail them of exclaiming, "Oh ! oh 1 oh 1
yea, indeed !” while stroking their hair.
Ah, dear little creatures 1 I love
thorn just ns they nro, so knowing and
so pure, So gracious and so skillful. I
really love those littlo angels who make
their ontrnnoo into the groat world be
tween two polkas—who go to a ball
instend of going to bed—who broke
thoir doll into pieces two days ago, and
now think of painting themselvos under
tbe eyes like mamma—who know to a
lotiis tho prloo of eashmore shawls art
connoisseurs in diamonds, look men
straight in the oyo, are nil worn out
when Lent comes, and who during holt
day week, after devoutly nibbling a bit
of salmon sahul mn off to thoir religious
exercises in boots with tassels and with
their lmir powdered. I love those littlo
painted lambs as one lovea.roues iu De
cember or groen peas in the middle of
Jaututry. Thoro is simplicity even iu
thoir excessive self-possession -some
thing, ut any rate, which reminds one
of green apples whioh ono longs to
taste.
They nro alroady women—in foot,
they were whop they wore born—but
still one guesses at their motives, reads
their little thoughts ; sometimes, too,
ono finds a clue which is like u revela
tion. They nro—
But pardon me, young ladies ! I nm
afraid I am going too far ; perhaps as
you turn over these pngOB yon will ro-
call the gontlomnn who was looking at
you so attentively the other evening.
‘Perhaps you will recognize yourselves,
however imperfect tho sketch may be,
and then— But it is too late now not to
tell you all.
I slyly opened tbe library door, and
turned to the left, f made rny way to
the conservatory, and stationed myself
directly behind you, near tho door, in
the folds of the curtain, and thoro I
hoard it all. I did oven more thou that;
in ooming away I snapped off a branch
of camellia. What follows is merely
tho work of a reporter ; if memory or
skill is lucking forgive mo and \ will do
better another time.
" No,” said tho .youngest, looking at
her pink satin slipper, "I mean tho ono
with the decoration in his button hole ;
don’t you see him ? Ho is standing by
tlepiece, by tho side of the big
bald man in white waistcoat.”
Why, tho big bald man is not a
colonel -no indeed. I know him very
■II ; he comes to see papa. It's Mr.
Thingamy- some queer name. After
ovory visit of his wo find two castors off
the easy chair. Mamma says he’s clover,
papa says he's not; as for mo, I think
he smells of pomade.”
"Where*does he put his pomade?
He lias hardly three hairs on liis hoad.”
" Yes, but they curl, my dear. I am
sure ho ought to wear a little crimson
velvet cap with tassels. Dear mo 1 how
I do hate a man as fat as that 1 Papa,
who is slender in oompar/Bon with this
bear, seems to me a little—when he is
shaving . Woll if it was not papa,
I should like to plane him down a
littlo.”
" But, girls, I don’t mean tho stoat
ono ; I mean the one by his side, with
an aquiline nose and mustache. There,
he is taking an ice. H« seems to be a
lion. Now he’s blowing his nose ; lie’s
Col. C
" Oh yes, I see. Dear mo ! how hard
he blows his nose I Your colonel has a
cold ; one can hear him fri
ha ! ha!”
"There is nothing strange in his hav
ing a cold ; he has just come from Af-
tliis battle the colonel received
i-lmll or bullet 1 don’t remem
ber whioh—in his left sliouldor, and
they could not extract it, so ho returned
to Franco very ill."
" llow terrible thoao buttles must
be 1”
" It is tho day after the battle that is
terrible. Just think of ill They found
tills poor colonel under a mountain of
dead men at tho very moment the wild
beasts woro going to devour him like
tho missionary in the Propagation of
the Faith. Being swallowed by a croc
odile is, indeed, terrible."
"That’s nothing. When you think
you have before you a man with an iron
rnaohino iu hia shoulder that you could
hardly lift, you can't, help shivering.
Oh, it’s fine to bo a soldier; in fact you
may call it tho noblest profession. To
begin with, every one rnspeets them,
and their life iH lull of triumph."
"Yes, in time of war, but in time of
>ace—in time of peace—well, they talk
./ortho way they got their wounds,
and tho hand plays while they lire at
dinner. It seems the colonel can liuvo
the band play whenever he wants to.”
" Naturally, since it’s his band.”
" Well, all that is very nice, and be
sides that you can make calls on tho
wife of tho profoot, the receiver general
and the bishop.”
"On the bishop's wife? What are
talking about? Ha! ha!" (Him
takes off her gloves aud begins to bite
hor nails. )
" I did not say tho bishop’s wife ; you
are a naughty girl.”
"Besides, it.a only a generals wife
who makes calls on tho profeet’s wife,
like tlint.”
"I only began with tho colonol ; ono
soon gets to bo general. Do you sup
j that Col. O
3 a goucral i
for instance,
?”
> ?"
, and diamouda, too, and she said
As for mo, I would rnthor marry n
general at once.”
" Yon, but a goneral does not got
married in uniform ?
" Why not, if you use him to? That
iH something fine a goneral at tlm
altar. There is nothing more imposing
than tlm military at olmroh. Thoir
S old epaulettes seem to go well] with
m organ. Afcthoohurph of lliu Giu-
mollies there are always one or two ofil-
eers, but they are little ones, and they
do not have tlm same effect. ^
not know 1 waa at tho ohuroli of tho
Carmelites on Advent Sunday? Oh,
thoro was a good father tlmro who
preached ; it was indescribable 1 Why
don't you wear a braid across tho top of
your hood ? My dear child, everybody
wears thorn; won’t your mamma lot
you ?”
" It is not that, but you can t possi
bly make a braid go over tlm top and
then two rolls behind, all out ol your
own hair."
" Woll, you can got false hair, Ha!
Im! what an innocent lamb you are!
You nan get false lmir, my dear child. ’
" Yes, but papa won't let mo ; ho says
I’m too young to begin.”
" What a pity! Ah for me, I had no
trouble about it. Mamma said, * It’s
vexacious, but what can you do, my
ohild ? You can’t go to a ball in n cap;
and so wo went and got two beautiful
blonde braids."
Why two 1 ”
Lot mo finish. Hoe, tlmro is Mmo.
do V coming in ; do you hour tho
liking? Woll, as J was saying,
I had to buy two braids, for tlm very
simple reason that I lost tlm first. It
was very funny. We had hired a coupe
for tlm day, papa having taken ours for
liimself; lie ulwayH does. Wo started
off for tho hairdresser’s in this hired
oarriago. I bought a superb braid, and
they wrapped it up niooly for me. I
got into tlm ooupo aud put my little
parcel up against tho window, you know,
under tho strap that you pull up and
down by. That was all very moe, but
when wo got home, and I was looking
for my parcel before getting out, no
parcel was to be found. 1 mode a great
fuss, and nmminii did too. Only think 1
it had slipped in by tlm glass of the
window, and had fallen into the inside
of tho door. I suppose it’s still there.
Tiior’s no way of getting it again, you
seo, so I had to buy another braid"
ending down her hoad coquotishly),
" which I have the hon >r of introduc
ing to you ; it is thick, of a good color
—one of tlm very best."
"Oh, I. wish J. could have one, hnl
J’m afraid I shu’n’t before I’m married.
Hee, thoro is Joanna bowing to us. Oh,
that everlasting dress of hers 1 Doesn't
slm look liko n fright with that pink
pompon in hor hair and Imr red nose?
Hire’s a kind hearted girl, but then that
pink! Fiuk never looks well with light
hair. It always looks to mo like
salmon with white sauce. Hal ha!
Hpeaking of salmon, by tho way, you
left too early tho other evening ; wo
had such a supper, my dear! ”
"Oh, how lovely Juliette looked I
Didn't she? What a lovoly head she
has 1 I would give ten years of rny
life to have a head liko hers. Ton
years, dear me! yes, gladly ; life isn’t
such very good fun, after all. And
how becoming that headdress v
her!”
" It was really magnificent
know it came from Persia.”
Did it, really ? From Porsi
heard it came from—joii know tho
place, ever so far oft', where the colonies
are. And how about her marriage?”
" It’s broken off ; she said no, and it’i
all settled.”
" Bnt tlm trousseau ? Mamma sav
the three cashmere shawls, three won
ders ! Ono had red ground with litllo
figures on it—you know the sort they'
wearing now: that shawl was reully
eloquent. J think that sort of thing
like music, it delights one so."
1 "That was very line—three cash-
8ho said no, and slm wiih right, for
icms ho limped frightfully."
Who did ?”
Tuo gentleman, of eourao.”
But, my dear girl, peoplo always
givo three cashmeros. Only think a
inuto; tlm long cashmere for calls in
winter -well, that’s ono ; then you must
have a square one ; it would kill you to
ar a long eashmore in hot weather:
....J then you could not refuse a third
to go to tlm bath or mass in—well, that
likes threo, don’t you see ? 1 would
not bo married with fewer. No, thunk
, 1 wouldu't go about looking liko a
chambermaid. No, indeed I wouldn’t."
Did tlm gentleman limp badly?
For, after all, ho was a consul."
Oh, as to that, hia position was a
magnificent ono. It seema that in the
untry whoro ho is e msul peoplo nro
rrioti in palanquins.”
“ That's tlm least thing they oan do
for lame people. Ah for me, 1 think
she has done quite rigid. 1 have a hor-
f deformed people; ono is never
that it may not bo something
catching. Do you remember Hister
Adelaide at tho eonvont, who had ono
leg shorter than tho other? Well. I
wouldn’t have sat down iu her ohuir for
a hundred thousand francs.”
What would you have douo if you
had to marry hor V”
illy you arc 1 Don’t look ovor
thoro; I see Al. Pinootto ooming to ask
danoe. Tho move I see of him,
ore I detest him. Jlo is stupid,
fair, his whiskers are largo, ho
t dance in time ; lie has no at
tractions. Don’t you think ho looks
liko tlm Abbo .Tulion, who used to hoar
catechisms, and who wari' ttiwayH
saying, ‘Not another word, my chil
dren’ ?"
ho does look like him, espe-
oially witon ho ia waltzing : ho has tho
eyes. As for mo, I dou’t like u
who looks liko it priost. That is
not saying anything against priests,
my dear. In the first pluoo, a man
might to have brown mustuehos ; with
out thorn lm is not worth looking ut.
Have you scon my brother’s muHtuolios
since lio loft Haint-Gyr? That is tho
kind of mnstaoheH I liko—pointed,
pointed ami waxed. I used to do them
for him last sununor, and 1 fully un
derstand thorn."
"Ernest iH a firm-looking young
man ; and thou lie’s so strong."
"I lotto a Heroulos. M. do Huint-
Flair is not handsome, is he? Well, I
aim see very woll how he faHoinatoil
Adolo witli his pale face, thin hair, and
his look of illness,"
" Your M. do Haint-Flnir looks n
ho woro j net getting over a fever. When
lio is sitting around in the oornors •!
ant always tempted to offer him a bowl
of gruel."
" Oh, that’s all very woll, bnt ai
ilhniiiofcfmi, T don’t «ru any ouo who
eomes up to him. And thou, too, they
say ho writes pootry."
" Htill, J must say I prefer M. do
What an iiloa I M. do P 1 IIo’s
a perfect barrel, and besides lie’s forty-
warm, and will thank Heaven for all
that haa boon dono for them, and will
beg that they may not eateh a horrible
cold in tlm head whioh will provont
thoir going lo tho opera to-morrow.
Then, having kissed tlm littlo gold
medal which protects thorn from firo
and spraining thoir ankles, and makes
ihom dance in t ! mo, they will fall fast
asloon to tlm dim murmur of a waltz,
liko a bird in hia non*.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—It is said that Gustavo I)oro is to
rooeivo $50,00(1 for a series of designs
for a now edition of Hhakspearo.
—When tho stoves nro taken down,
see that tho nipo openings in tho wall
nro protected by good tiu covers. Don’t
stuff rags iu.
—Thoy lmvo got hi t.ow that thoy
blow up whales with torpedoes, and it
won’t lio long before tho women will
get. hold of tho invention and soattor nil
intoxicated husband all over tho coiling.
—Julian Hawthorne, in his "Maxon
Htudios," save: "To bo a thorough
German cook requires ouly a callous
consolohco, a oold heart, a confused
head, coarse hoad, uoarHO hands, and
plenty of grease.”
—A Portland olmp, who during court
ship sent his girl some poetry begin
ning, "Was it a gleam of golden hair?"
was mortified after marriago to boo hor
lmug that " gleam ” over tlm hack of a
olmir.
i responding to tlm toast. "Tho
Queon,” a jolly Englishman at tho Mas
sachusetts Centennial celebration said :
sh to express my satisfaction in
being with you hero to-day,aud my equal
satisfaction in having boou abaont a
hundred years ago.”
—In Prpvitlonoo, tlm other night,
just as Lucy Htono had hurled at tlm
crowd tlm conundrum, "shall women
leave thoir children at homo and neglect
thorn while thoy go to vote ?” a slum
bering infant awoke and gave vont to a
prolonged yell.
faults of onr neighbors with rroodom w
tax not oursolvos, though wo praotloo tlm
WorihMH-o like Iorvoh, and Whoro thoy most
Much fruit of soiiho bonoath is rarely founil.^
—A country youth, who dosirod to
know how to Imcoam riel , sent a quar
ter in answer to an advertisement, and
received tlm following valuable rceipo :
" Increase your recoiptH and decrease
your expenditures. Work eighteen
hours a day, and live on hash and out-
tnonl gruel.”
—•A Hoiitinmntul young man of Chi
cago went to hco IiIh girl Urn othor day,
ami found that Ids lcttors had been
pasted over tlm tops of preservo cans.
Those beginning with "My Darling
Busan” wont over tho priudwiH, mid those
commencing with "My Own Darling
were put ovor tho tipples. Ibis was too
flatteringly sweet to allow tho engage
ment to romuin substantial.
—A correspondent of tho New Yor
Tribune states that tlm tail and a part
of tlm mane and flank of tlm leaden
oquostrian statue of George II*., torn
down by tlm colonists at New York at
thu l>uffm"i"g of Hi" rovolutloniuy wur,
nro lying hull buried iu tho ground ut
Wilton, Connootiout, whither tho ututun
wiih onrriod to Im run into Inillolu for
tho uho of tho oontimmtftl Koldiorn,
—Wm. (lotion Brynnt tornu nil opi-
noutly "till nu if Im --
Oil my, (tear. II mini nun ho
that to bo ftldo to offer a woman
au aecoptablo position. It’s not at all
bail to bo tlm wife of a bankor. "
At this moment tho music began, and
tlm men oumo forward to hhIi my little
neighbors to dunoo. They accepted
languidly, with a half indifferent, air.
The gentlemen placed thoir opora lints
on tlm chairs the ladies had left, and u uu W1J1 „ MUU
thoy nil udvniiood, talking, to join “‘" KV lI.roiJhiBeroniotnthoEoho.the
dunoorH, I followed them with my , na i ot ,.| IU horticopnthio fuir
eyon through tho urowd. fuioli nbnn- [ or no t furninhing tlm
doned liorHolf with olmrming wCd olalmed i
her partner’s arm, turning imr head a po«*U-H}
littlo to ono side, her hair floating on 1 1 - “ Jl '*• |H lruo -
tlm waves of tho wultz. Perhaps thoro
whs exaggerated ease and a trace of
childish awkwardness iu thoir manner,
iu ton minutes thoy came book to their
places, out of breath, but with bright
eyes. They took tin their fans again,
mid while fanning tliemsolves went on
with thoir conversation.
That gentleman dances very woll, but
lie’s a queor oroaturo ; he talked to me
about geography. Do you know tho
principal town in tho department of tho
eastern Pyrenees?”
"No, I havo forgotten. Dear mol
how wurm I am 1 I danced with that
partner of yours tho other evening; he
talked about geography to me, too.
Isn’t it strange that some partners al
ways say tho sumo thing ovor and ovor
aguin ?”
" Oil, there is mamma making me a
sign that It is time to go homo. Oh
dear! no, indeed 1 It will be liko the
oilier evening, when wo should have
gone to bed as early as tho lions if mam
ma hadn’t, boon asked for tho Gorman,
Toll your cousin to ask mamma to
dance, and to ask me. I like him vory
much ; ho at least makes you laugh,
oven if you don't understand very woll
what lie is talking rbout. Ho seems
sometimes to bo making fun of you, but
that’s no matter ; lie’s vory nice ; and
then, too, he holds you firmly wliilo
dancing, so that you fool perfectly
fortftble."
Toward 2 o’clock in tho morning,
after having looked through M. do B s
collection of etchings and piayed a game
of whist, I returned to my station be
hind tho throe girls. Two woro bravely
drinking a gla*s of claret, and tho third
a cup of chocolate. They were laugh
ing so loud while, leaning hack in their
chairs, and so talking all together, that
I could scarcely catch what thoy said,
bat I saw by their loosened hair, ana
tho brillianoy of thoir eyes, and thtir
feverish agitation, that, thoy had not
wasted thoir time. Thoir mothers, who
woro quite as animated, lmd collected
togethor, and threo or four gentlemen
had gathered round them saying a
thousand charming hits of nonsense,
Tho gayety had become so fust and
furious in that cornor that I despaired
of hearing any more, so I wont back to
the ante-chamber.
What charming women my adorable
little girls will have become iu a few
years !
Pray do not think tliut tbe fever of
pleasure, that candlelight and lovo of
waltzing will at all impair the solid
treasures which a good education lias
stored up in their littlehearts. This very
night wlion thoy go to bed these throe
little angels will piously fold their
hands boneath the quilt, so ns to keep
I uiivn it you as frankly »h ’twits noughl,
Nano hill a rogue would hoop the thing ho
gavo.
—For tho first time in twenty yonrs
Mrs. Thompson, of New York, scrubbed
out tho city hall. Twenty yours ago
slm married a man who boaatno u mil-
iionare, took the ooutraot, before tho
war, to supply A. T. Htewart marble
for his new residence, was ruined in
trying to live up to it (when a slight
sacrifice by the merchant-prince would
have saved him), and died au insane
pauper, leaving his wifo to resume the
scrubbing business where sho loft off.
—A ouriona letter was received tho
othor day at the pontofflee department.
It enclosed ono dollar, was “ddroBBod
by a lady at Jerseyvillo III., Uaro
of any liar, ravana, portog Co., Ohio,
and contained inquiries rolativo to a
missing husband. The letter was in
tended for "any lawyer,’ but on account
of tho peculiarity of the manner m
which tho writer spelled " lawyer, no
ono of that ilk could be found iu Ra
venna to claim it. The letter was con
sequently sent to tho dead letter ofllor,
—Homo one writing to the Ht. John
(N. B.) Telegraph says tlmt wlnle look
ing down in tho waters of the Bay of
Fundy from tho lantern of the light
house at Digby, N. 8., ft hoight of
ninety feet, ho saw a flock of wild ducks,
known as sheldrake, which suddenly
dived down to an apparent distance ol
fifteen foot, spread ont liko a fan, and
began literally to fly through tho water,
using thoir wings with quick, intermit
tent motion, whiio th ir legs and foot
seemed only,employed forlho purpose
of steoring. In this way they darted
hero and there ofter small fish, whioh
they scorned to catch and swallow with
groat rapidity.
—Professor Btrumpoll, of Loip io,
has written a work on the "Nature and
Origin of Dreams,” in wliioh lie assorts
that "no chain of logical ’atoms can bo
linked togethor while wo dream, no
conclusion can bo drawn,
argument can be followed up, noth
ing now can he discovered. 1 ’ Unfortu-
natoly for this theory, the fact that por
no ns have solved mathematical problems
in their sleep lias been conolusivcdj' es
tablished. Mon who, ufter long efforts,
have been tiuablo to solvo algebraic
problems have gone to bed and worked
thorn out to a successful solution while
asleep. One single fact of this sort up
sets the professor’s theory, lint there
are scores of mathematical students
who can prove that they have reasoned,
drawn conclusions, and discovered so-
i lutions while dreaming.