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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, IS7(i.
VOL I IT. NO. 17.
TIMELY TOPICS.
lr is a sad story that Terry's march
might hnve Ikvd traced by empty cham
pagne bottles.
Disraeli thinks that social trials
await England, so that it will take the
united patience and virtue of thceountry
to meet them.
A remedy for ivy |>oison, which many
people contract from handling poisun
ivy at Um season of the year, is given by
an agricultural paper. It is simply bath
ing the effected parts in water in which
a small piece of lime has been dissolved.
I me Amazon river is navigable for
three thousand miles by vessels of large
size. It has four tributaries, which are
united by n network of natural canals.
Two thousand miles from its month its
channel has a depth of three futhoms,
and for two thousand six hundred miles
there occurs no fall to interfere with the
smooth passage of shipping.
There is gratuitous and obligatory
instruction in nineteen of the Mexican
school*. They have 8,103 schools, and
309,000 pupil. The instruction con-
sists of reading, writing, Spanish, arith
metic, grammar, the system of weights
and measures, “morality and politeness.’
In addition, they teach in nearly all the
schools the duty and rights of citizens.
In (he recent outrage on the French
t atholic mission in China several
priests and attendants were murdered,
and property to the amount of sixty
thousand dollars destroyed. The French
minister is taking active steps to punish
those concerned in it ; and between that
and the difficulties with England the
China outlook is somewhat grnvc.
IlriTAiiO Bill, the Indiun scout, who
lias reached hiahome in Rochester, N'. V.,
speaking of Gen. Crook's and Terry's
difference in temperament, said to a re
porter a few days ago: “Ocn. Crook
slept on his blanket, made his own coffee
and Eiiled his own bacon. (Jen. Terry
had u hod brought with him, a portable
cooking range and an extension table.
We could not travel fast enough to
catch the Indians, as we would break
the dishes."
Bayard Taylor, writing to tho Cin
cinnati Comincrcinl.vrrn; The orthodox
element has been largely represented in
Prof. Huxley's audiences here. It is
more than a personal triumph for him -
it is a triumph for science—that (’bicker*
ing hall, which will seat 1,200 persons,
has been crowded for three nights at the
prices paid for the ‘.Mighty Dollar’ or
the ‘Black Crook.’ There is hope for the
future, whciioncol the greatest scientific
men of our day attracts as much interest
as the coarsest farce or ballet."
The yellow fever appears to lie in
creasing at Brunswick, Ga , and the
destitution is bee lining terrible. At
Savannah tho disease holds its own, and
a few cases are retried at New Orleans,
hut there is nlways a little yellow fever
at New Orleans at this season of the
year. Other southern cities are taking
the necessary sanitary precaution*, and
if wc should have a good frost, not an
improbable thing at this season, the
ravage* of the scourge would Iks arrested.
'I he following anecdote of honest Thsd.
Stevens Mines from tho Baltimore Ga-
zette: "He was employed to defend two
bank officers indicted for conspiracy.
When the trial was opened Mr. Steven*
rose and, addressing the court, said: If
it please your honors, presuming there
are different degrees of guilt attached to
the prisoners, my clients, I move they l>e
Died separately. The motion was
granted and so recorded. Waiting some
time for Mr. Htevens to go on, the judge,
at last becoming impatient, Mid im
petuously: ‘Proceed, Mr. Stevens, pro
ceed.’ Stevens "rose deliberately, and
said: ‘Did your honors ever hear of one
man being tried for conspiracy?’ Then
waving his hand to his clients, he said :
‘You can go home; you can go home.’
And they did go home. The jury were
discharged and the court adjourned.
And for this piece of legal strategy Thad.
Stevens received $6,000."
PnoFEftsoR Huxley, the distinguished
scientist, who lectured in New York
Monday night, is described by the New
Vork Herald a* an elderly gentleman o.
medium height, with the stoop of an
habitual hard student and a step which
indicates want of muscular firmness—a.
man, in short, whose mind has overtaxed
his body. His face is good, hair dark
brown, unsprinkled with signs of ap
preaching white; beard gray, consisting
only of idc whiskers of the English cut
brov ample, but not immense; no.se
I win ted and projecting, and his general
air and address more like that of a not
very well fed evangelical clergyman than
of a strenuous intellectual athlete who
is shaking the old beliefs of two con
tinents. Huxley is not to pleasing in
manner as Tyndall. The latter has the
stronger and clearer voice, an easy erect-
ness of bparingand speaks without notes;
while the former bends forward restlngly
upon a small reading desk, as if for sup
per:, during iit§ gwtter. pan ot hU
lwtnrti
LATEST NEWS.
worm ASM* WEST.
Savannah had received money contri
butions amounting to $3(5,31-1.88 up to tlu>
twenty-fifth.
There ure six hundred convicts in tho
Mimiissippi penitentiary, nnd of the number
five hundred and thirty-nine nrc Africans of
the male persuasion.
Charles Hendrick, of Dos Arc, Aik.,
was Kiintched by (lie strong arm of tho law
from h twenty minutes sleep witli his bride
and sent to the penitentiary for swenrang
falsely about tier age.
At Powhattnn, Ark., one day last
week, Mrs. Morrison aimed a blow with a
hntchct nl the head of “old man Scott,” her
stepfather, and killed tier mother, nil old
woman eighty years old.
Savannah (Ga.) News: There arc
now more than six hundred lunatics in tho
state lunatic asylum. The institution is
greatly crowded, and there are between sev
enty and one hundred applications for the
admission of patients, for whom the author-
ities are wholly tumble to provide room.
Captain I\ E. Murphy, died near Mo
bile Inst week, of apoplexy, whilst taking a
hath. When the war commenced, he was
commanding the receiving ship Pennsylva
nia, at Norfolk, hut resigned and entered
tho confederate service. He commanded
the Si lnyi in the naval engagement below
Mobile, where he was 'wounded nnd cap
tured by the federal forces.
Dispatches nnnottnee the sudden death
nt Galveston, on the twenty seventh, of Gen.
Hrnxtoti Hragg. Ho was Imrn in Warren
county, North Carolina, in 1815, and gradu
ated at West Point in 1817. 11 in curliest
military reput lion was gained in the Mexi
can war. “ A little more grape, Captain
llrngg,” making Ills name a house hold word
throughout the union. In 1X55 he retired
from the array, llis services ns a confeder
ate leader are still fresh in the mind of the
country.
The Chcrokoes and other civilized In
dians of the Itidinn Territory are greatly ex
cited over the proposed removal of the
Sioux into their country. They ray the gov
ernment is again preparing to violate the
treaty stipulations by removing these In
dians to their country without their consent.
They characterize the notion of the commis
sion, in agreeing to give the Sioux homes in
the territory of Oknlnlioma, ns being similar
llio the one made by Satan on the mountain
1800 years ago. There will he n united and
solemn protest made by all these people
against 'he consummation of the alleged
outrage against the rights of the civilized, ns
well as the Sioux tedium.
It has boon ;>ermahently settled that a
cantoncinent will be established at old Fort
Iteiio this u inter,consisting of four companies
of infantry— two of the Fourth, Captain voii
Herman’s, from Fort Bridge, and Captain
Bisbee's, from Fort llartsiifl': one of the
Twenty-Third from (’amp Brown, ami Cap*
tain P< Hock’s company ol the Ninth Infantry
from Fort Laramie; the latter will he per
manent commander of the cantoiiument.
Gcnoral Merritt, who in now in the vicinity
of Dendwood, has been ordered to scout
across west to the Little Moon, on his
south. By the time lie reaches Platte,
about two weeks, Crook is expected to have
a fresh comunnd ready to take the field In
person for a vigorous campaign. General
M'KenzIe, with the Fourth an I olliercavalrv
will probably compose, the expedition.
The desperate war that lias been waged
lor the pant two or three months by the
trunk lines of railway to the interior from
the Alautic seahord does not abate. The
New York and Erie, the New York Centriil l
the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore und Ohio
and the Grand Triink^Canadn railroads have
reduced their charges oil some of the classes
down to ten cents per 100 pounds to Chica
go, which is said to he the lowest point ever
reached. What action the New York Cen
tral w ill Lake is not yet known, but it is gen
erally expected that they will make a simi
lar reduction.
New York is getting its full share ol
centennial trade. The hotels arc literally
crammed, the various places of public amuse
ment, night alter night, have every sent oc
cupied, the horse cars nnd cnbmen arc taxed
to the utmost of their ability, nnd the mer
chants, wholesale ami retail, for once, admit
that ttiey have as much business as they ran
well attend to. Many of them nrc obliged
to keep open their stores untill late in the
evening to accommodate customers. Never
since the war have tho streets and avenues
presented so busy an Appearance. Broad
way looks like the old times, and the boule
vards up town, ns well as the parks, are not
less full of life nnd animation.
rORRIUX.
There are seven hundred working
men's clubs in England, with an aggregate
membership of 120,000. They are said to he
the most powerful adversaries of the gin
shops thus far discovered. The club rooms,
of course, are kept open on .Sundae,'and thus
meet the licensed victuallers on their own
Austria's fear of losing tho Hungarian
portion ot her not well contented empire
leads her object to the crowning of Milan ns
king. The net would look to the Magyars
on the other side of the Danube, In Hun
gary, ns the much talked of Helnvic empire
was really in process of development, nnd
they would, with their nnti-seluvic procliv
ities, undoubtedly prepare for a death-strug
gle with both Russia and Austria, both ol
which powers they dislike, although permit
ting themselves to nominally incorporated
in the Austrian empire.
Tho Jewish Herald states that the last
four or five years lmve witnessed n return of
the Jews to Palestine from nil parts, hut
more especially from HusnIu, which has been
altogether unprecedented. Tho Hebrew
population of Jerusalem is now probably
double what it was ten years ago. Great ac
cessions will continue daily; and whereas,
ten years ago, the Jews were confined to
theirowu quarters in Jerusalem, the poorest
nnd worst, they now inhabit all parts of the
city and are always ready to enter every
house that is to he let.
Work was begun in August on the fair
to which the city of Paris invites the nations
for May I, 1878. The edifice is to he com
posed of the now generally accepted mate
rials of glass and iron, with the exception of
the tw<* extremities, or two grand facades,
will be constructed in dressed stone, on the
grandiose design, ornamented with statuary.
It is to be erected on the grand Champ do
Mars, of which it will occupy two hundred
and forty square metres, or nearly thirty
hectares. One of the facades will look to
ward the Seine, the other toward the milita
ry school, and there will ho the shorter sides
of the parallelogram. There will he no res-
taurnntN or cafes, theaters, concert hulls—in
short, no establishments whatever of u catch
penny nature within the limits; hut every
enterprise of tlint nature may spread itself
on the Trecndero just over the river.
Ml MCI
I.IM.Ol'S.
The largest and handsomest specimen
of corn at the centennial was grown in one
of the river bottoms of Walker county, Geor
gia. It weighs, hone dry, twenty-four
ounces. Both kernel nnd cob are white- (lie
first deep and consiUcrnh'y denied; tho sec
ond comparatively small nnd not remarka
ble for iG density or strength. It would he
quite a contribution to agricultural litera
ture if the growers would furnish tosoutlir
corn growers the particulars of the soil.
nil ring and cultivation of this
ing exhibit of Georgia grown e>
Ntirpris'
Tilt; THO II VST I'll I KM.
In the middle of the room, in Its while coffin, lay
the dead child, n nephew of Hie |x>rt, Near It, in
n great ehnlr, sat Walt Whitman, surrounded by
little ones, and holding n heiuitlfid little girl In Ills
Inp. The child looked curloioly nt the iqx-etacl* o(
death and then Inquiringly Into tho old man's (see.
" You don't know what It Is, do you, my desrf"
said he, “ Wc don't either.”
We know not what Ills, dear, tlda «Wi» so deep
nnd sllll;
1 lie folded hand* I ho awful calm, tlieehrek so pale
amt chill:
The lidsttint «itl not lilt ngnln, though we may rn I
1 he strait r
and call; ^
honit-palu:
Tills Stead to tako o
We know not to wh
it menus, d nr, this dcsolnt
dally way, and walk lit I
other sphere tho loved who
Nor why we’re If ft to wonder ailll;
not knowr.
But Hits wo know
should come Hits tiny
Should route amt ask
us could say.
loved Slid dead, if they
What Is llfot" rot one of
blessed a the thought t
Mint .
Thou might they any—
"—* L —-i...
beloved'. though
o tho qu|uk—this mystery ol
yo wan’d, the mystery of
drath-
Y o mil v sol I
breath.
The child who rulers life t omes not with knowl
edge or Intent.
Ho Ihona w ho enter death must go ns little children
No htng Is known, lint I lolie've tint Got It over
head ;
And ns life Is to tho living, an ilaHti la to the dead.
A DALMATIAN DETECTIVE.
Ten Brooek.
Litilsvillu Courier dournal, Hopt. 27.
Vrhe great rare yesterday of Ten Broeck
againxt time will in all probability ttol
Ih> equaled for many a year to come.
Not only was the time of Lexington nnd
Felloweraft beaten by several seconds in
the wonderful time of seven minutes
16 ; } seconds, hut Ten Brooek surpassed
his own former time, and that of u)|
other horses, on the fractional parts of
his distance, excepting, of course, the
first mile. The first mile might have
been run faster, and tin 1 total time pro
portionately reduced. It was intended
that it should he made in 1:111, hilt the
rider managed his horse cautiously, and
brought him round in 1:62;, and the re
mainder of the distance was therefore
made in less time than had been calcu
lated upon by Mr. Harper. The second
mile was made in 1:161 and the third in
1:10}, making together 3:32}, the fastest
two-mile time on record. The fourth
iniicwnH made in l:60 j, making the last
three miles in 6:23; which is 3J seconds
faster than Ten Uroock’s three miles on
Saturday, which was itself 1 j seconds
hotter than any time ever made before.
As to other pointsof comparison between
Ten Brocck and lijs illustrious grand-
sire, it must be remembered that Ten
Btoeck is four years old and carried one
hundred and four pounds weight, whilo
Lexington was at the time of his fumom
race five years old and carried one hun
dred and one pounds. Ten Brocck’s
average in four miles, made in 7:163, was
mile in 108 16-111 seconds, which is
at the rate of about thirty-three miles
per hour. Those who have noticed the
fences and trees dash past them ns they
are whirled along on the lightning ex
press train, can form sonic idea of the
tremendous pace at which thin noble
animal passed over the course. Yet,
notwithstanding this great speed and the
cflbrt necessary to keep it up for such a
distance. Ten Urocele came down the
home-stretch und under the string with
out any over-effort, nnd afterward walked
about without any signs of distress.
The knowing ones were very confident—
many, indeed, so confident that they
hacked their judgment by three to one
that Ten Broeck could not heat the time
against which lie tan. The management
of the race, a Well as the merits of the
horse, came into his calculation, blit
both grounds of judgment they made a
serious mistake, which they are now
doubtless repenting. 'Hie management
was entrusted to Mr. Lewis Clark, the
president of the jockey club, and his
arrangements were admirable, and served
in no am a’I degree tors.ure the favorable
opjiortiinity which the splendid animal
only needed to phiec himself foremost in
Hie list of great racers.
Ono of tho most remarkable of tho
lx) ml on police. is Druskowitz. No ono
looking at tho short, blondc-mustaclird
and rather dandyfied young man would
suspoct him of being thfl cleverest of de
tectives. lie is about thirty-four years
old, hut looks less. His father was a
Dalmatian. Ho himself speaks any
number of languages, and is tuns nearly
always stmt abroad where any case occurs
in a non-English sprit king country need
ing the services of an English detective.
In Louden his special work is among tho
foreigners, whojgo there as fugitives from
justice, it is generally found tlint such
persons betake themselves to special lo
calities. Usually they Ho hiding for a
tew days, hut they soon find it impossl-
hie to remain in-doors any longer; and
so, having shaved off tholr beards, if
they had one, or putting on a false
beard if they had formerly shaved, and
wearing a wig and spectacles. they sally
forth nt night, nnd, being in want of
amusement, they betake themselves to
the Alhambra'. That js.n favorite resort
•of fnrtlgnora lit' 8 tonO&n, find iDrunlu)-
wltz is therefore a frequent visitor thero,
He appears much interested, by tho per
formance, hut his thoughts arc elsewhere.
He is watching some one individual in
the audience, follows him when ho
leaves, tracks hint to his hiding place,
and then sets to work to find out wno ho
to tho man who really is a
ground.
News from Panama states that hii en
gagement, Aug. 21, at I.a*chane , !«, in (he
Canca, betwen the rebels and the govern
ment forces, the rebels lo.-t more than a
thousand killed, while the government
forces lost two hundred killed and three
hundred wounded. The rebels engaged
numbered sixty-five* hundred men, and the
constitutional forces thirty-two hundred.
gallery, in which the king nnd his
attend Hits walked for twenty minutes
without finding an outlet. It seemed,
however, to lead to the castle of .St.
The London Times says the wheat • Angelo. His majesty declined to inves-
crop ot the United Kingdom thi« ye;»r fur ligate the matter, and ordered the trap-
frornabundant This arisen cbhllv from the | door to l>e bricked up. Soon afterwards
fact that the land devoted to wheat is now he discovered a secret door in the wall
078 000 acres less than the average acre ate which communicated with a narrow
of 1874 and the .even preoodine year., Al , leading to tho roof It, too,
oi io/i mm nc « , t, j ^ ^ | was bracked up t> hut since this discovery
critnimd if Druskowitz ho on his trail.
Thero is littlo chanco for him. Drttxko-
wit/, has an extraordinary moral in-
fiueuco over criminals; it is something
liko that of tho rattlesnake upon a bird.
Ho carries no arms, yet ho does not fear
to go up to an armed and desperate man
and arrest him : nr.d. though armed and
lrs|K*rete, ho succumbs. I iruskowitz was
engaged nine yearH ago in a remarkable
ease. In 18(50 Vital Donat, a Bordeaux
wine merchant, went fo Paris and insured
his life for a sum equal to A’6,000.
Shortly afterward ho went to London in
order to escape tho conscquoncca of a
fraudulent bankruptcy. Homo time
later his wife, clad in widow’s weeds,
presented herself nt the insurance office
with the. necessary legal documents at
testing her husband’s death. There was
nothing suspicious In the papers. Never
theless, the company determined to
make some inquires before handing ovor
the amount of insurance. Druskowitz
called in nnd he ascertained that on
December 1, 18(50. someone named Ber-
nandi had called at the register’s office in
Plaistow nnd registered the death of
Donat, nnd it was entered as due to
heart disease. Druskowitz found out
the undertaker who hud conducted the
funeral, and learned that everything had
ix*en properly ordered and paid lor, and
that the funeral Imd been |>oi formed at
Leytonstono by the (/'atholic priest. < )no
tiling seemed strange. The coffin had
not neon sent to any private house, but
direct to the cemetery. Further in
quiry failed to discover any doctor of
the name attached to the certificate of
death. The next step was to obtain an
order for exhumation, and the coffin be
ing opened there was found, not the
l)odv of Vital Donat, hut a block of
lead. Further inquiry elicited the. fact
that Donat had b *»n present at ids owe.
funeral and afterwards gone to America,
whence he supplied his wife with the
documents intended for the insurance
company. Home time afterwards he re
turned to Europe, went to Antwerp,
bought a ship, sent her to tea with a iot
of rubbish, and having previously in
sured her for a large stun, had her
burned. Arrested and brought to trial,
he was visited by Druskowitz. who felt
sure that this was the mutt he wanted.
Donat was found guilty and condemned
to Imprisonment with hard labor, hut
,, . ,, | the French government claimed him
\ i on lit Emmanuel h arps-AI- . un , !( , r nn extradition treaty, and he was
though \ ictor Emmanuel is physically trier i on charge of fraudulent bank-
vigorous, rising every morning at five ruptf - y .found guilty, and mitenced to
and taking a stroll in Ins garden before i p Cna | servitude for a comparatively
breakfast, he is not without superstition. ;u,. rt n0 rmd
II. hwl not been long in the Quirinal T P _
palace before he discovered a trap-door
•• his bedroom. Itcommunicated with a How They Manage These Tilings in
fused to give even a night’s lodging.
Poor Ho went to sleep in Tsiang’s back
vard, and verv mournful waaho. Sudden
ly a groat bundle of clothes was thrown
out of a window. Thinking there were
thieves in the house, und not liciiig in u
mood to protect the farmer’s household,
ho put the bundle on his hack nnd
trudged down the road with it. Hoon he
heard stops behind him. The iuturiated
farmer? Not so. It was only u protty
girl. Hho joined him nnd walked by his
side without saying it word or looking at
hint. On they went through the dark
night, mile upon mile, nnd just as the
day was breaking they reached the vil
lage inn. Then she looked at him and
shrieked. It was not the young cousin
who had wooed her to pack up her
clothes and meet him at midnight, it
was only poor, lazy Ho. “ Well, well,”
she said ; “there Is no help for It. Wo
must get married as soon as possible.”
Married they were; tho old gontlomnn
behaved nicely : dowry,$300,000 cash.
The Three (Modern) Hears.
As an English steam yacht was cruis
ing in Hpttzhergeu waters one night in
1869, the watch on deck observed three
hears going along the western shore of
tho fiord or narrow hay. The Sportsmen
on hoard, who were fast asleep, were
quickly aroused nnd gave chase in a
boat. After rowing several miles up the
fiord against a strong ebb-tide the party
described the bears seated on a strip of
land—nn old mother with her two cults.
They did not observe tho boat until it
was within fivo hundred yards of them ;
the mother then stood on her Iliad legs
to reeonnoiter, and at once turned tail
and ran oil’at full speed with her young
ones after Iter. They ran so much faster
than the boat, could follow along the
edge of tho ico that it seemed as if they
would get clear off But they by-and-by
reached the end of Hie ice, and had then
to plunge into a space of soft mud, cut
up by the little channels of water, and
with a good deni of rotten ice scattered
about, ns the tide had left it. lloro the
progress of tho boars was at once im
peded. The cubs were tumble to jump
tho channels, but had to sernmblo over
them as liest they could ; nnd the old
bear, after taking her jump, invariably
Mailed tor them and helped them to
scramble up the steep places among tho
ice. The poor young ones were much
distressed and were heard growling pite
ously ns they struggled on after their
dam. The delays enabled the boatmen to
come up with them,nnd tho chase became
exciting, when all at once*tho boat ran
aground in a narrow channel about two
hundred yards front the bears. A long
shot from a riHo stopped tho running
powers of the mother; the sportsmen
then scrambled through the mud and
dispatched her. j Her cubs, covered with
mud and shlvcrlpg with cold, woroJying
nn her body, growling savagely, and
were secured by nooses formed of walrus
lines, which coupled them together like
a brace of dogs, which in size they resent-
bled. The moment they found thorn-
solves hound they ullacked each other,
with great fury, rolling over ami over in
the mud, biting, wrestling, and gr wling
till they gave up tho fight out of sheer
exhaustion. But for her instinctive care
of Iter cubs the old hear might easily
have . got away alto would not leave
them and she wits lost. Their gratitude
if they had any, did not prevent them
from making a hearty meal on part of
her remains, as the party from the yacht
were engaged in the operation of remov
ing her skin. The young hears at length
found their way to tho .Tiudin des
Plantes in Paris: and there, it may bo
said, Nemesis overtook them in revenge
for their unnatural apootites During
the late siege of Paris the exigencies of
the times called for victims, and tho
arctic hears became the food of Parisian
citizens when the commoner kinds of an
imal diet were exhausted. Thus the
four-footed cannibals became the prey of
tho foreigner, nnd no doubt frequently
served lit second hand, as food for Pari
sian powder.
Fashionable English Dances and
Prior to the introduction of the waltz
nnd tho quadrille—and these twin dances
arrived in England so nearly together
that there is wnno difficulty in deciding
which was really tin; eldor-born—the
dances nt Alnwick's had been confined to
tho old English country dnncej colHIionSj
Scotch stej:
reel, the
f IlillU.
Chinese elopements are well managed
None hut the lazy deserve the fair:
there is neither ladder r.or trellis to he
scaled; and the old gentleman is easily
persuaded that whatever is. is right.
I here wits Ho, the laziest wight of Hang
chow, who lived by odd jobs, and never
could get regular employment,
night, while he was drinking tea
eminent English agriculturists says mat me i W(J are | n f orgn ed that whenever his
grass product of the present ;crop UW0,600,• j fJgty „| oe j >s llt t p e Cuirinnl two htigi
oo) quarters. Deducting 80,000 for seed , j,| a ck dogs also sleep at the fort of tht
will leave 10.520,000 for consumption. This. royal bed. They obev no one but tbe 1 daughters. An old screw named Hsiang,
Will be tbe fourth year in succession in j king, never bark, and would strangle, j wbo overheard the remark, wae so en*
whloh America will be called upon to »«p- i without any parlaying, th« first pereon ; raged by it that he engaged all the labor-
ply wheat for English consumption. »who onterw the room. | on who wove prewnt except Ho, nnd re-
wayside inn, he boasted that ho would
never do another day’s work, unless he
could find a rich employer with pretty
An old screw named Tsiang,
........1 an occasional Highland
dicstra being from Edinburgh.
and' conducted by the then celebrated
Neil (low. Tho graceful minuet, and
the more vivacious gavotte had already,
it would seem, disappeared from the ball
programme.
If (’tint. ( L-onow be correct in assign
ing 1816 as the date at which Lady Jcr-
M»y introduced from Paris tho quadrille
at AI mack’s, why then the waltz cer
tainly preceded it by some two yearH.
ItiTon'unnriHt (-millie. Il VIII11. “ TIlO Waltz. ’
The Planet Hal urn.
An examination of tho planet Hnturn
at tho Dearborn obsenutory, with a
rather high magnifying power, resulted
in tho witnessing of a very interesting
and somewhat rare phenomenon. On
the western limb of the planet, in .’all-
tttdo ‘10° to *16° north from his equator,
there was an enormous protrusion, or
bulging out, IVom the generally elliptic
outline, nnd n corresponding one, though
large, on the northern hemisphere
rv easily noted, even by an tin-
practiced eye, when compared with the
contour of the southern half of the
planet.
The phenomenon is described in the
hooks ns “ the square-should >red aHpcet”
of HntUrn. It appears to lmve been first
noticed by Horachol in the early pai l of
the present century; but that eminent
astronomer was so much puzzled by it
almost to doubt the ovidonco of his
n senses. But it has hoon observed
several occasions during tho lust
seventy years; and astronomers, or some
of them, now think they know what it
means.
Hueli a change of form would be im
possible without a general disruption, if
whut we see of the planet wero a solid
crust* like that ol the earth. But. we
have very good reason to believe that we
only liis atmosphere—very much
) denso or cloud-ladwn than our own.
powe
system (92.4), that of the earth being
unity in each case, we find Hint his aver
age density is only about one eighth part
that of the earth, or three-fomtits the
density of water. The difficulty of con
ceiving how a solid body so vast in size
could be composed of such light material
vanishes If wo suppose that the planet
itself is very much smaller than the disc
wo see, and is surrounded by a very deep
atmosphere. ’This is the view now gen
erally adopted by those astronomers who
reason on the Hunjoct; and It furnishes a
sufficient Oxplanution'of the phenomenon
known us the squuro-Hhnuldcrcd aspect.
Wc do not find it necessary to bcliove
that these occasional changes in tho shape
of Hat urn, great enough to bn visible at
a distance of 8(10,900,000 miles, are
anything more than vast tidal move
ments in his atmosphere, to which the
rise and fall of the waters in tho tides of
our ocoaus furnishes a faint parallel.
And truly a very faint one. Our
ocean tides nowhere range more than a
few yards nlxivo the mean level; whilo
the change in the outline of Hnturn Inst
Tuesday night indicated an atmospheric
tide of not less than six hundred miles.
Tho magnitude of the forces at work on
tlint planet to produce such (remondmts
results, even in his atmosphere, can
H'tireeiy he 1 imagined, much ksi de
scribed.
“Girls, Don’t Do It."
“Don’t do what?" on
will ask. There are a great many things
you ought to do, and a still greater num
ber that you had better not do. Fore
most and prominent among tho hitler is
to reform a drunkard by marrying him.
Depend upon it, if you cannot keep
him tobor during tliOHC days of the
nvorngo woman’s strongest influence
over wayward moil, tho season of court
ship, the chances will he against, success.
Home women have succeeded in this
labor of love, but thero tiro 10,000 fail-
tires to one success. It is a field of mis
sionary labor that few ofthetex nrc fitted
to enter. 11'John gel-t drunk once a
month while ho is billing and cooing,
depend upon it he will requiro semi
monthly seasons of Bacchanalian recrea
tion when.ho becomes a benedict. A
man who gots drunk is necessarily a bad
or foolish man when ho in under the ia-
flucnco of liquor, and is very apt to sosn
become a Imd man whether drunk or
sober. Tho romantie idea, that a woman
who cun reform n drunkard is deserving
of a crown of glory, is all tho veriest
bosh. They would ho shocked by the
suggestion that n man who marries a
fdlon woman and restores her to a life
of virtue would bo deserving the praise
of all mankind. The latter would he a
much easier link than tho former, and
more likely to ruocccd. Th** debu-e-
ment in one c i-e i* generally incurable,
and sc nns the. influence of kindness or
affection, while in the oilier the op
portunity toe epefromall e o 1 ''de"rela
tion would in mo.I cases inmio hearty
oc-operuilim with the missionary in such
afield. I'.ut the drunkard, ns is genor-
erally the case, may ho addicted to a
number of other vices, each one of which
ought to he considered as repul-ivc as
that f drinking.
Hi ill, the experiment is tried by new
votaries, who think they can succeed
where others failed. It is a terrible de
lusion. I/Ovc and devotion are power-
jess on a drunkard. Nothing but an
iron will and a firmness that lew women
possess can check tho career of a man
who has once taken hold of strong drink,
jlc must become subject to her will, and
he restrained from his evil courses by a
power stronger than love or kindness.
There are enough men who boevme
drunkutds alter marriage for all reason
able purposes of experiment, without
taking them fully trained in a career ol
vice and debauchery. Therefore, wo
say: ' (.iris, do.t’ldo it!"
Bvron’snpostfophichyinn, “TheWaltz,'
wits written at Cheltenham in the au
tumn of 1812, and published anony
mously in the spring of the following
yenr.
In tho course of time, however, Lord
Palmerston might have been scon de
scribing an infinite number of circles
with Madame do Lic.yen. Baron do
Neuman was frequently seen turning
with the Princess Esterhazy; "and in
tho course >»f limp," the cnptfli" win- THB I>'t>iAN W/tn.--Ill.lnin
elude, iiionsunllv. the ..II/.i,ik nuinm W hinr.l • illu.lrat. .1 the EoH of the In-
having tinned the hcn.li. of eoclcty gun- rtl , iy „ r( ., llar)[ lhnt if l( .„ , 0 |ji ele
emlly, descended to their tcct^, nnd t*te . „(, r y placed in a lino with an Indian nt
waltz was practiced mornings in certain oneen ,j nm j t|,o American people could
.‘?m X "rJZ. I P brought to under.-and tiiat In order
to secure the scalp ol that ono Indian it
ffiiduity.’
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Lit* that lends an easy and credulous
car to calumny is either a man of very
ill morals or has no more sense and un
derstanding than a child.
An act of parliament has just been
printed which enacts that under the
medical act qualifications for registra
tion Hindi ho granted irrespetivo of sex.
“Deal mo three of a kind-ly. Cheer
my young heart. I’ll follow thee blind-ly,
wherever thou henit," is the way n poker
player puts It.
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in
overy place as though you meant to
spend your lifo there, never omitting nn
opportunity of doing n kindness, of
speaking a true word,or making n friend.
A DK.nATi’.U severely questioned ns to
tho reason of his not paying a just debt
replied, “Solomon was a very wise man,
and Samson was a very strong man, but
neither of them could pay his debt with
out money.”
Tim spirit of Izord Byron was intcr-
ewed in New York the other day. He
didn't appear so much interested in the
progress of his monument ns in Mrs.
Stowe’s health. He's waiting for her on
thesldning shore.
"I have no hope of his recovery; I
know his physician very well,” said
undo Diuiiel Drew when asked his opin
ion of Commodore Vanderbilt's pros
pects, entirely unconscious that he was
making a very neat mot.
A Fond has been raised in England
for tho family of John Oldddy, who saved
an express train at tho expenso of his
own life, lie saw a large stone on tho
track, and by a greateflbrt rolled it away,
but could not himsell get off tho track
boforo the engine struck him.
Ukcacnk voii Itoiirlnti til wnrlilly utl'uir.-
Don't In- liniiKlity mill put on iiltn
Wit I. Iinuili'iit prlili' iiiul ftlntlon!
Don't Im promt unit turn up your nose
At |M>or |Hnpl«. In plrtluor (lotlim;
Hut lourii, for tho Mikootyour mind b repoM*.
Tlint won I III In n bilhblo tlint oolites unit m>rs!
Amt Hint nil promt flenli wliorovcr It prown,
I* niihjoct to lirltntlon! - Bare.
Mas. TlLi/OTBON, the dress reformer,
buys: “If I was a betting man I’d lie
willing to hot $1#,0()0 that these dry
eonds merchants hate us beenuso we arc
likely to spoil their business by shorten
ing our skirts.”
A Jeubeyman married fivo wives, and
they wero all red-headed. Ho explains
it by relating tlint the first ono clawed
the spirit out of him so completely that
he didn’t care after that If ho married a
porcupine.
An Indiana man, who saw his wife full
off the bridge into a millpond, never hes
itated a moment about his duty, but
with that noble Impulse so characteristic
of the sex darted down tho road nnd
prevented anybody from coming up to
witness the harrowing spectacle.—Jiroolc-
li/n Arpii8.
The other day a would-lie fashionable
lady called at a neighltor's at what she
thought would he supper time. “ Cotfio
lit,” said the neighbor; “we are having
a tableau.” “ I tun so glad,” said tho
visitor, “ I thought I smelt ’em, and I
like them better tlmn anything for
supper.”
A well known American comedian ii
said lo have a habit of Idling his finger
nails. Ho also Ims u small daughter.
The other day " that dear child ” delib
erately pared her fingernails, and, in the
innocence of her heart, approaching her
comical progenitor, “ i’apn!” said she,
“hcre-ate some nails for you to cat I”
A Witsi'EUN paper hits published ono
stanza of sixty three which had been
contributed on that taro subject. “Tho
bit ties of naohor," and promised to give
the other sixtv-two if its readers desired
to see them. "The opening stanza was:
Co HI O wll.lt I Imvi) BMWII,
(ill fl'l'l wllllt I llitvf (fit.
Walk III I hr fluliln nt “iirly itnwn
Amt miii'II wluil I liuvu mu ol t •
The French who settled in Onnndn
formed ono of tho happiest, host-ordered
and most peaceful communities in tho
world, nntl after a history of a hundred
years, and after suffering conquest by
tho English, that community remains
French, still unabsorhed, with a lifo and
a society and a mental atmosphere all it*
A Howard street small boy was so
unfortunate as to remark at tho break
fast table, the other morning, “ Oh, dear,
I'm so sweaty I” quite to tho horror of
a youthful uunt. Being reproved for the
um of so inelegant a term, ho replied :
“Oh,yes, I know nil about it. They Utlk
of n hor.-e as being sweaty; when it is n
man lie‘perspires,’ but young ladies like
you only‘glow.’
CHARLES Dickens said that “the first
external revelation of the dry rot in men
is a tondoncy to lurk and lounge; to ho
ut street corners without intelligible rea
son; to be going anywhere when met;
to he about many places rather than
; to do nothing tangible, but to have
intention of performing a number of
tangible duties to-morrow or the day
after.”
ady wearing a wash-bowl hat, a
patent soring tilter, one. of the latest,
while visiting relatives in tho country,
took a walk ono fine morning. Two ex
tremely youthful rustics who were gam
boling in a field, saw her ns she passed,
and alter staring In astonishment for a
moment, one of them managed to ejacu
late: “Hncnk homo nnd get yor shot-
quit. Bill, that thing’s ’scaped from n
circus.”
The fust party of painted savages who
raised a few huts upon the Thames did
not dream o' the London they were cre
ating, or know that in lighting the. lire
on thi-ir health they were kindling one
oflhegrei.t foeiUoflitne. n * All
of the grand agencies which the progress
of mankind evolves aro found in the
same unconscious way. They are the
aggregate result of countlesssingle wills,
That is the Quehtion.— What wc
kv.nt to know about this tetralogy. Wag
artwork, says the Burlington! outlay.
would require tbe sacrifice of the ten
Mfildier. tincl nn .xwmlHuK,nf MOO.OOO | |, at th-
5.^ 1 ul 1 .y.te : «i5e umaenlinteil l?y Provident* in the
whether the eudp was really worth the. a ,, l v ir(, (J f llie world.
H iwkeye, is, if the Walk ure who he
Hte.h h prominent part where the Nib -|
lungen gets the Tiirnhelm, on the. (h,i ■ Nip.M
e (fuinmening and Brnnnhilde kills the. act of “ Die Wolkuerc
duke, when Wotan discovers that Kieg I emitted dense smoke, and
tried, if we catch the rat, is tho uncle nl' ing a rehearsal one day the singer com
Hit'glinds, the man who played it on plained to Wagner, “ I cannot rimr i
(funding by swallowing the Fa finer of J that smoke," lie obs
Wti'naibi while Alberick hrl 1 his head, | suffocated." But you must,” said Wag-
j n I Fricka wattles the Mine with the j nr r; "I can’t put the tire out. The
' aw nd of Nothung. All this we can un ; smoking and singing must occur at the
i demand perfectly well, but what wo tame time.” “ Well,” replied the artist.
I woot to know U, if Uji* Wulknre U Wn " Ri»be the chluinef sing esu I will
I ion the tynlkure? wW
You must not smoke here, sir!
said the captain of a North Kiverstenm-
•{ had to sing during the first boat to a in in who was smoking among
e” near a lire which the Indict on'he dock. “I intrant'. Ha.
Why not?” replied ^ the follow, opening
dur- ,i I,, .ivv • I. ■ .1 ■
1,h capacious mouth and allowing the
smoke to escape "lowly. “Didn’t you
I shall Lo i sco the notice: ‘Gentlemen aro requested
not to smoke ahnft tho engine?'”
“ Bless your soul! that doesn’t mean mo?
I am no gentleman—never pretended to
be—you can’t make a geu Jetuau ot
nuvhow you can fix it?’ Bo laying, he
puflU] away and took tho wponiiblmy.