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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.