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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WJKLE & CO., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1870.
VOL 111. NO. 19.
TIMELY TOPICS.
The manufacture of iron in the weal
fa rapidly ^increasing in amount. In
Chicago alone there are two of the ten
Bessemer steel works in the United
.States, and these made 85,000 tons of
the ‘291,000 tons of the Ilessemcr-stcel
rails manufactured in this country last
N atpiialimh of the Meteorological
society of Scotland noticed last year that
herring* in fresh water rose to the sur
face only when the temperature had fal
len below twelve degrees Keaumur.
Fishermen now, when they do not find
the fish near the surface,drop their ther
mometers until they fall to the required
|K>int, and lower their ifetn in accord*
ance, with great, success.
1.1 KITTEN A NT-Coi,ONKI. JoHN N CSV-
TON, who has had charge of the Hell
(Jato improvements, fa a native of Vir
ginia, and was graduated at West Point
in 1812. He was second in his class, en
tered tho engineer corps and was assistant
engineer in the construction of Fort
Warren in IK-lfl. He constructed the
defense' of Washington, and took an ac
tive part in the battles of South Moun
tain, Antiotam, Fredericksburg, Gettys
burg, soigo of Atlanta, etc.
The American tour bids fair before
long to be as fashionable with Europeans
as the European tour with Americans.
Hotel-keepers no longer look with speech
less nwo at an aristocratic autograph on
their register, but call a Ik>1I boy to take
his lordship’s valise up to eighty-three
with the siune magnificent indifference ns
if he were Mr. Smith of Mr. Jones. Dur
ing this centennial year carls are in fair
supply, and continental counts and bar
ons ure too common for notice.
Thebe are about seventy-five religious
newspapers in this country, having a
united circulation of some 5O0,D.0O. The
Catholic papers have more than one-third
of this, the Irish World and Boston
Pilot printing as many as any four other
religious weeklies. There are four Ob
servers, six Christian Advouatcs, four
Presbyterians, three Churchmans, two
Registers, two Watchmans, and one Tele
scope. The Hebrew papers are $5 a
year and have a total circulation of
10,000; tho other papers range from,
*2.r>0 to IN-
A WIDOW ill Poughkeepsie has oh
tained damages, under the civil damage
law, from a liquor seller at whose bar
her husband became drunk five times
• list before dying of congestion of the
brain. The jury gave her $800 instead
of tho $5,000 she sued for, ns he was a
rather poor specimen of husband. The
civil dnmage law is theoretically a jier-
fcct law, and ought to lie enforced a
good deal oitener than it is. Temper-
ance tocietics, instead of wasting their
breath in singing and exhorting, could
do much practical good by finding cases
in which families have been ruined by
liquor dealers and then "going” for
damages.
France launched her most powerful
iiou-clad last month, the Redoubtable,
at lioriont. This vessel, which has been
three years building, is three hundred
and fifty feet long by seventy feet l>enm.
She has an iron rum at the bow weighing
thirty tons, and her armor plates weigh
twenty-four .ons each. Her armament
fa eight pivot guns, capable of being
pointed in any direction, and her decks
are bomb-proof. Her six thousand horse
power engines work a screw twenty-one
feet in diameter, and there are smaller
engines for working the helm, the wind
lass and the pumps. The displacement
of this monster war vessel when fitted
for sea is estimated at nine thousand
M it. EzeKIKI.’scoIIosshI statue ot “ Re
ligious liberty ” is nearly finish, and
will sik)u l>e shipped from Rome to the
I’nited States. It was ordered by the
Jewish order of R’nni B’rith for present
ation to our government as a ccntenrial
offering in commemoration of American
tolerance. Its princi|>al figure is a fe
male nearly eleven feet in height, repre
senting America, clothed in a simple and
classic costume, and bearing upon her
breast a shield with the stars and stripes
in relief. Her left hand rests upon a
bundle of tightly bound rods, suggestive
of the union of the state*, the scrolls of
the constitution, and a wreath of laurel.
The light arm is extended forward in
forbidding gesture, as if commanding no
approach from aught that would in
fringe upon the liberty of her people.
On the right, and partially sheltered by
America, stands a nude boy, symboliz
ing faith, with his head and one hand
lifted appealingly to heaven, while the
other sustains a vessel in which is shown
the undying flame of religion. On the
other side, and at the feet of the central
figure, is an eagle with talons buried in
the neck of a monster serpent, Intoler
ance, whose body is coiled partially
around the bundle of rods, andjextends to
the rear -*f the group, finally protruding
from beneath the flowing garment of
America. Italian journals speak of it in
terms of the highest praise.
LATEST NEWS.
4UI TII Attn WMT,
From the Mississippi jetties the latest
report is thnt thw south pass jetty chnnurl
huii now a depth of twenty-two nml one-
fourth feet, and thnt the bar does not build
up iu advance of the consti notion of the jet
ties, ns was thought probable.
Tho Echconcc, C»n , Baptist association
have deferred the mutter of denting with
members who have joined the grange until
next year, in order to give the members time
to withdraw from liie grange.
The following obituary notice in the
Savannah N’ows tells the story of the terrible
fatality of the epidemic in that eitv: Died,
in this oily, of tho prevailing epidemic, yel
low fever, August 28, Edward Lee, aged 9
years nml 10 months. September 15, fun
Florence, aged 13 years and S mouths. Sep
tember 19, Mary Lillian, aged 4 years and 9
months, beloved children of Edward \V. and
Mary A. Drummond. Also, on the 27th of
September, their father, K. W. Drummond,
in the thirty-ninth year of his uge, leaving a
broken-hearted wife and one son 0) mourn
their lots.
At Reaver, 1 tab, on the 10th,Judgo
Iloreman passed sentence on John 1). Lee
fur participation iu the Mountain Meadow
massacre, nineteen years ngi . In doing so
he called attention to the atrocity of the
crime, the iunhility heretofore of the author
ities to procure evidence. The conspiracy
to murder was so widespread that I.<-e was
finally offered up as a sacrifice to popular
Indignatiou; hut others equally guilty might
hereafter expect punishment. The prisoner
having the- right under the laws of tho tdrri.
tory to choose death by hanging; shooting or
beheading, nml having chosen to be shot,
was sentenced to ho shot to death Janunrv
2(5, 1877.
The Texas legislature appropriated
$8,000 not for Horry’s portuil of Lee, us lias
gone the rounds of the press, but for two
pictures, one of which is that of "Lee at the
Wilderness," a historical painting and not n
portrait.
The Howard n»soeintion has a dis
patch from Dr. .1. 11. Bruns, of Brunswick
(in , saying that the epidemic there may lie
considered at uu end.
While riding home on a canon that
hud been used M.» celebration hear Augus
ta, (in., John T. Perdue was jostled off and
had ids head crushed by a wheel, nml Deter
Mastering received severe bruises. Mr. Per-
due was the husband of “ Jennie Woodbine,”
the Georgia poetess.
The old court-house iu Rappahan
nock, Vn., iu which John Walter, Robert
Wure, John Shackleford nml James Green
wood were iu 1774 arraigned for preaching
the gospel contrary to the law of the colony,
bus been purchased, and is to he converted
into a Baptist house of worship.
The mayor of Brunswick telegraphs:
"Thanks to our generous friends throughout
the union, we announce that we ’think we
have enough supplies and monev to carry
us tlirough the epidemic."
Many lives were lost by the burning
of the steamboat •Southern Belle. Among
those known to he lost ure Win. Van Pliul,
Mr. Drcse, Miss Fannie O’Conner, nn 1 an
other Indy, all of Baton ltouge; Mr. Frank,
of Port Hudson’ Mr. I^ugiiui, also Frank
nn employe, nml the steward and his crew. I,
fa supposed that nearly all of those who were
-leeping in the nftcr-purt of the boat were
burned to dentil, as after the fire had once
got fairly under way it was almost impossi
ble to get nt the bow of the boat, the only
way of escape to tho shore. The cargo con
sisted of from 600 to MOO hales of cotton.
The boat w.-s new, and valued at $15,000 nml
insured for $30,000, mostly in New Orleans
companies. Mr. I'.. Herbert, the pilot, held
the bow of the boat against the bank until
all who could had escaped; he then leaped
from tin* pilot-house to the lower deck Hiid
It fa said that the managers of the
Forrest Home for notors, in Philadelphia,
hare received hut one. .application for ad-
mis bon— this from an elderly lady in Maine.
(Inly sixty mile* from tho city of Now
York farmers are feeding their fruit to their
live stock, there being no profit on it when
shipped to the metropolis.
Messrs. Tiffany A <’«)., of New York,
hnvc removed from the mniD building ut tho
eentcnninl exhibition almost their entire ex
hibit of precious stone ornaments. They
comprize a diamond neeklace, a pair of soli
taire ear-rings, a peacock’s feather contain
ing the celebrated “ Brunswick ” straw col
ored dihinnnd and over six hundred fine
white diamonds of smaller size, and many
others, all of which were valued nt $147,M00
They were removed it is said, on account of
the obstruction in the passage ways in the
vicinity of the exhibit by risitors.curlous to
gaze on so much value in so small a space.
roiiEiunr.
It appears from a compilation recently
made by an Edinburgh journal thnt one-sev
enth of the land iu the United Kingdom, ex
cluding that contained in the metropolis, is
held by five hundred and fifty-four peer*,and
the aggregate of the laud »o possessed is one-
twelfth ot that in the kingdom. One peer
has estates in each of the great divisions of
England, Ireian 1 and Scotland, and more
than one-fourth have estates in two of the
three divisions. Nearly nil those peers in
cluded in the five hunrlred and fifty-four
have respectable incomes, ano several have
upwards of $1,000,000.
The Paris exhibition may not l»e held
after all. Paris tradesmen are byTso means
as anxious as they might be to have it take
place, for the reason that’those not already
well established and advertised, would have
to do the latter at great cost. One -wcil
known firm on the Hue de la Pair,considers
that they lost 33,000 francs at the exhibition
in 1807. They sent several valuable and
beautiful specimens of their work, which,
not being sold, had afterward to he remade,
andthe expense consequent thereon involved
the above loss.
The dispatches indie ite that BuMia fa
r cuce forget it by «tny or night.
I fonreil to trust IiIiii ; I tbouglit my lorn
is morn Hum tits, ntnl I straw nml pruyed
Amt all tho time I was mtro nfrniil.
tin boro with
Its kept Pnt U h " ln
herself not unaware that a slight movement a IiRNNom in trvmti.mj.
t,n WlU “* ke Wo,k f «r the vast! M .- frlcm , went over t^Tonc day;
armies of Europe. This great northern pow-1 My thoughtsfull ot tho saddest mins
*'• Cre,*»re.l tor w„r. She ha. been
for years preparing for tho speedy transpor
tation of troops throughout her immense
area. In Russia proper railroads have been
constructed rapidly and advantageously.
There are lines oompletcd.to tho extent ot
fifteen hundred miles. She can put nt once
iu the field 1,5 0,000 men, and in an emer
gency would find no difficulty in arraying
2,000,000 snldierH against her enemies. The
so-called Russian "volunteers" in Herein
nro undoubtedly under official orders. In
Russia Tohernnycff is regarded ns a great
boro, a champion of Helavlc populations,
and he fa clearly the agent of the Russian
government. Tho czar’s proposition that
Russian troops shall occupy Bulgarin, and
that the Austrians shall occupy Jlerzcgo-
vlnia and Bosnia, thus treading severely on
tho Turks’ corns, may be taken ns a broad
challenge to anvbody who wants to "main
tain the integrity of the Ottomnn empire"
to prepare for a war of largo dimensions."
In Cuba tho whiter enmpn^u is open
ing with fair prospects for tho insurgents,
who were recently so daring as to enter
the city of Eiis lumas, and hold possession
of part of it. The troops upon whom the
Spaniards rely to conquer this wily eiy my
are for the most part dUuffocted, having re
ceived no pay for over six months. The
captain general has even declared that no
more soldiers should he sent him, unless ho
receives money lo pay thdui. Ueu. Jovel-
Inrs's willingness to return home indicates
still further tho gloominess of the Spanish
Ho patient la^to In tentloriicas;
' rpt my frleml on the far oil sen,
showed us U>th how the 1 aid! conhlhlcss.
A ml I think when 1 see tho farm end
• f thov who nro nnxlons Riul lull ot ( «re,
If they trnstixl the l«inl jin would make themglnd,
I nr tie loves to answer his chlliben's prayer.
THE IJTES.
A special from I-n von worth to the St.
l.ouis Globe-Democrat says roporta re
ceived there indicate that there are learn
of a general uprising among tho Ute In
dians in Colorado, as the warriors of that
tribe have been for some time in a doubt-
Ini attitude, and some fear of an out
break 1ms been fell, in Now Mexico. Tho
Indiana of that tcction have made sev
eral warlike demonstrations, and have
collided with the United Slates troops
more than once. From information re
oeived from New Moxleo, it is extremely
nrolmblc that the Indians will indulgo
m it general insurrection ns soon ns op-
portunity offers, as they are without
doubt one of tlie most treacherous tribes
on the continent. Sheriff Richard doles,
of EaPlatte county, telegraphs front
Parrott City to dov, Routt, asking for
assistance, saying that tho Utoa
number fully two thousand, and are
about to make a raid. I'ol. Hatch, coin
mantling tho New Mexico district, also
telegraphs tu Gov. Routt from Santa Fe,
saying that If ho so authorized him he
would issue arms to tho eitizons, as the
inlinbilnntsof LaPlatle, l.as Animasand
Parrott ('ity wore afraid of an immediate
outbreak. ^ Gov. Uoutttelcgrnphod Gen.
Pope at fort Leavenworth, informing
him of the state of affairs, and asking
him to authorize ('id. Hatch to issue
anus to the citizens, but received a reply
lo the effect thatonly the presidouleotild
authorize him to do so. < Jen. Pope stated,
however, that Col. Hatch had enough
troops at forts Union, Wingate und Gar
land to suppress the outbreak should
any occur. This
stands at present
i tho way the matter
A dispatch from Constantinople says
the following are the conditions oil
which the Porte expects un armis
tice: That Sorvia ho prevented from oocu-
pyiog positions now in possession of the
Turkish army; that the introduction of arms
and ammunition into Herein nml Montene
gro he prohibited; that the passage of for-
tdirn volunteers into Turkish provinces be
positively put a atop to; that Hervla and
Montenegro be prohibited from giving any
assistance to immigrants to adjacent prov
inces. 'Ilie Porte proposes that the armis
tice shall extend to the fifteenth of March,
1877, and requires the powers to appoint
delegates for the settlement of details. It
hits ordered Turkish commanders to come to
an understanding with these delegates and
with .Servian and .Montenegro commiiudcrH,
tin* line of deniarkation between the oppos
ing armies to be regulated by tho positions
they now hold. Turkey, however, is
to evretmto her positions in Sorvia If fc
engine* lint to occupy thorn. j •
A Berlin di«,mtch «ny» Iho uld report J Wnlts.
fa revived that the czar thinks of abdicating i ll «t’“bHc«ii.^
if u war is decided upon. Tho Russian ml- Thfi wails of Mormon womeii&ontlnuo
dctiUtin Austria ami Uermnijy* who are Bo. f W/fift- from, ^HlV'Lilia* GJ,ty ^through
blu fo serve fif thV nniiy have been ordered , * rl *nipotw of nccttsioim! rorrrsnon-
borne. Tho Black sea squadron is ready to I ? 1 cn J tH, l T,loro WHH 0,,,:0 u prevailing bleu
lurry 100,000 iiitn tana Hi.' nortli.rn to that till.' women were pcrfrctly content
western slu.r. w r.f ll... A I . I . . I mul** r tllO <1 Oil)III1111Ol) ol UlO HuilltH, 1111(1
ont.-.;.o "o. 1 I„. ,„y.' l'rubably they were «. happy n,
iin I 11 hi.ui got eminent Ims bueu nskod by married women usually arc, and would
Bushin to co operate. Persia, iu obedience,' huvo remained ho had it not been for the
is sending troops to the Turkish frontier. ollort« ol correspondents to unsettlo
The reserves nro being called out in some t.f them. Agitation appears to have made
the western provinces of Bushin. Troops ^ ,c,n "8 misflrflblc tut their worst cne-
havo been moved toward the northern and i c “ l, ld "dsh them to he. Their
eastern frontier of Galeein. Twenty tlmt.. j W tM ,invo M ?‘ ,, . lcn [ c,I | 1,1 tho } l,oor y
...» b. it... ... t* ti * | man at,a time, and thnt a yian has no
ug in IIUMla l o am . heso measures are k llhinc . Krt lo j OV o many women an he
believed to |£ intended lo force Austria and can. This wrecks the penco nf ovory
1 orkey to oonoede the Independence of the polygamous household. Multiply tho
southern Sclavnuinns Vithout war. ' trouble one woman can make in a home
—— — I when she sets about it by five, or twenty,
Cnti.se ortho Yellow Fever In Sa van mill, j or thirty, as the case may bo, and an «p-
Marunnaii n.-w« J proximato estimate of tho domestic woo
Hr. While, think* l hnt the prwnt cpi-: ; ,f "• ^ l T '">
'lernie i« (linhren. in vory mn.ly <-»cnti ,U lot• »tan.l thnt H.,.t ol
from yollow fovor.,," .hit foyer iuut licrr- i """« l "r P i V ',' r ' ""•' l , ll r l ; , ," k ",r 11 l Kll W 1 :
loforrr noino nruler hi. oiwprvn-1 f| ro|. r."t of tlm Mormon rrr i rt
lion. Tlmt it | S mixed largely with tho i A wn , u ffiT 1 ! r0
When
typo Of malarial favor, ami 'mw'imilllt^ I Jf’.ISTf" »? h tf orai "S“
to what wna known voarraL-o in (Jlmrloi. 11111,1 tllc wl '" kn "' v 11111 loiril.lo
ti - tho nock firm.' Hoi.xatlklio'd is , dt ' lld ' Tll °
tlmt rdinnrv Iroalmont for tho y.l- I M, ; rm ". n "ro hog.nning to talk if
low frvor rrannot lio purouod with oliocl u "‘ ,"" d M ,ll “ l "'T r >'
in tho firm now ravaging our oily, ,„„1 P" rol « ion f " r Uio inell, but mighty
that the good rom,It following tho ql.l- ,'“ pd ™ ll !? "™e n wl>" *• nol la-hovr,
nine treatment nuned generally hy .ho nny . n ' rmJ tlmt 11,0 ,dd l° v <; roii.iiinH iimt
nrofirmirm indienlea tlmt malaria rntrrra i l ‘ lr ' ,, . l h' "» '’.or when tho new love
largely into tiro diagnosis of the disere-e ' , , , l " , . l “ > llm T 1 J" 11 : lhl '" r y
The doctor, alluding to tier sanitary erne : L X, V?J""V
rli.ion of .Savannah,Haiti thnt ho fimud the ' e “' ®. nl ”y t0 "'.' r I|U "'
cny propurromnrknhlycIoaM,..otl.i.ignp- in . ’ ", 8 0 18 , d ", tv !j ,,,l,ld > 11
parontly presenting itself to account (Fr i’ 0 "™ 1,10 J».n.ly, »bo iloca
ti.o toxic poison hy wbiel. tho city was i wlt ! ,0Ut ,l whimpor, lmt often hnds
envolojs d. 'That the suurceof lids no!- j 8,d ""' ln 8 cup of <•« rt pulson. Seven,
son wasnot found in the Hpringfield iijnn- ^ , UW M * ,n '° reported, and
lotion, on the western part of tin, oily, i '"F'l" tl ".“ nre instinctive y
but tlmt from an examfitatlou of BiblJ« | °PP" wtl 1,1 polyRimy, which is n» death,
canal he was Hatfaficd that that
reservoir of the poison which bad devas
tated our city. Jt was in a very foul
condition—the numerous bars formed by
the action of tide and water created so
many reservoirs, n« it were, for lhe jk/i-
Hon: theextremehotweatherexpcrienced
in July and August had acted as a gen
orator, and the east winds had scattered
the jXMnon to every part of t he city. I>r.
White thinks it would he suicidal policy
to disturb one spadeful of earth at tli’o
present time, and was very emphatic in
the condemnation of any measure which
looked for relief from the influence of
the toxic poison by attempting to clean
out the canal. He is satisfied that it
would result most disastrously.
Felling
of (lie .Mammoth Tr
Ravnrd Taylor, in his interesting work
entitled 11 Home and Abroad,” thus de
scribes the felling of one of the largest
specimens of the f?ierra Nevada :
“After a st adv labor of six weeks the
tiling was done, lmt the tree stood un
moved; so straight and symmetrical was
its growth, so immense was its weight,
and so broad its base, that it seemed un
conscious of its own inhabitation, toss
ing its outer branches derisively against
the mountain wind that strove to over
throw it. A neighboring pine of giant
size was then selected, nml felled in such a
way ns to fall with full force against it.
The top shook a little, but tho shaft
The Mortality of Savannah During i «tood as before; finally the spoilors suc-
Se tile in her I ceeded in driving their wedge into the
, . . , * (cut. Gradually, and with great labor,
During the month of September the | on ,. H i ( l e of the tree was lifted; the
number of deaths in Savannah from all mighty mass poised fora moment, and
causes was seven hundred and thirty-1 then, with a great, rushing sigh in all its
fi ve. Of there five hundred and thirty- boughs, thundered down. 'I he forest
eight were caused by yellow fever. Tim was ground to dust beneath it, and for
number of dentin caused each day by I n mile around the earth shook with llm
tne infection was as follow.-: j con ,. uw .j jn ."
••h-l::;:::: in !■»}' i " 1,1 IMI ‘ ;*•! The mere felling of it cost, at Califor-
‘i i.f.'i it ii., k-'t i!::::::: I Ilia prices for wages, the sum of $550.
Ml, \ f .[; ^ ‘J The smooth top of the Htunip of the tree
;jj‘ ’’ r i ’• which Mr. Taylor saw fall is a floor nine-
jWj! i .is r.lj] 'A Uy feet round.
TauE happincsa is of a retired nature
i; and an enemy to pomp und noise; it
arises, in the first place, fr<
ient of one’s self," and in the next, from
te conversation and friendship of a few
companions. False happii
A curious feature of she health of the
city is found in the fact that, although
the colored population is within a thou- loves to be in a crowd, and to draw the
sand or two. of the white, only one him- eye of the world upon her. She does not
'■red and fifty-four negroes have died receive any sitfafaetion from the app
j during September, or a little over oue-! which die gives herself, but from tli
* fifth of the whole number of deaths. | miration which she raises in others.
Touting the Souse or Touch.
UbiiiMcIu'b Flvo Son sob of Mini.
For this experiment two persons are
required, ono of whom tests tho sense of
touch of tho other. For this purpose a
pair of comnaHses is taken, whose points,
somewhat blunted, nro placed at a cer
tain distance from each other on a part,
of the skin of the other person. Tho lat
ter must then say, with closed eyes,
whether he loels the contact of two sep
arate points, or whether both seem to he
merged Into one. Tho result of this ex-
|>crimcnt upon the less sensitive parts of
the skin is very surprising. If the points
are placed on t he forearm in the direction
(•fits length attho distance of 1.58 inch
the sensation is a double ono, but so soon
as the distance is reduced to 1.18 inch
the contact is felt as a single jsiint, and
the person experimented on feels consid
erable surprised on opening his eyes when
he sees that two points have been
touched instead of one. Tho tip of tho
tongue is found to be the most sensitive,
the two points being extinguished when
only .0894 of an inch apart. If tho points
of the compass be placed on tho cheek
near tho ear, ho that both can bo clearly
distinguished, and then brought slowly
over the skin to the lips, a sensation is
experienced ns though the points were
being separated from each other. The
skin of the hack has tho dullest sense of
touch, since when the points arc at a
distance of 2.11(1 they nro still perceived
as a single touch. It is quito astonish
ing how greatly the distanco between the
two points must he increased un thobnek
before we nro clearly conscious of a
double impression. Weber explains
there facts by assuming tlmt tho termi
nal limits of a norvo fibre are much
smaller than sensory circles, ho that the
latter always contah$a great number of
isolated nerve fibres. If two terminal
limits are excited, and if a certain num
ber of isolated fibres unexcited lio be
tween them, the impression is only ii
single ono. A curious illusion of touch
is seen when (he fi«st and socotid fingers
and a |»ea is picked up between them in
this unnatural poison. The impression
is particularly strong that the hand
is holding two pons, ami tno illusion
is especially powerful when tho pea Is
rolled back and forth between the ilngorH.
Fall Fashions lu Paris.
I .my 11. l(o()|H)r.
What are the fall fashions to be? is
ono of tho interesting questions of tho
hour. Very unbecoming lo stout people
is the natural response to begin with.
WlmV with prlneesso drosses, laced up
the bnck. and with the .darts in front
prolonged the full length ol the skirt for
homo wear and polonaises for the street,
and tied-hack skirls and iicxt-to no pet
ticoats at all llmoH, it will take a flesh and
blood Venus to look well in such a very
close-fitting attire 1 . There will be a cer
tain variety in out-of-door wraps, long
loose sacks, und short half-fitting ones
being shown ns well as tho omnipresent
|M)lonaise. As for colors, the reign of
red has sot in decidedly, and we nro even
menaced with red ball dresses. This is
the natural reaction from the dull (dives
and dusky browns and sickly blues and
pinks that we have worn so long. As to
nonnnts, a lively friend of mine has
christened tho provnilingstylo thoSairoy
Gamp, and certainly it recalls the head-
gear of the romarkahlo remain. A
iKiintcd Tyrolean crown, with abroad
lirim flat toned down at (ho sides and left
to stick up iu front, which front is filled lu
with hrigul-hued flowers or with full
rucliiugs of tulle—such is the bonnet of
the period. Toques, or turban hats of
feathers, will he much worn, especially
hy young girls. Tho feathers most iii
vogue nre cock's leathers, lophophoro and
peacock plumage. Heart draperies will
lie extensively adopted for trimming
house dresses; in fact, they form the
only silk or stuff trimming that can ho
used on the gored princesse style. Tho
latest shade of the fashionable red is a
rich deep cherry color most beauteous to
behold. WreatliH and trailing garlands
of red flowers will he much worn on
while hall-dresses. Tho favorite flowers
are Hlill the drooping, fringe-liko styles,
such ns honeysuckle or fuchinH.
1 ml In u Sweating Trent men!.
fa tlor lo Dilroll I-’roo P/ms.
While coming down’ tho Rosebud,
through the deserted Hioux villages, I
noticed the remains of a great many
sweat or medicine topees, or lodges,
which shows that tho Hioux must huvo
had a great many wounded in the Hose-
lmd and Little Horn battles. Their
treatment for sickness or wounds con
sists almost entirely in the sweating
process, very much like our modern
Turkish baths. Tho sweating treatment
is performed hy placing the patient—no
matter what the disease may bo—under
a small wickerwork frame, covered al
most air-tight with skins. Hot stones
taken from a fire near at hand are, then
passed in to the patient,(who places them
in a small hole iu the ground iu the
centre of tho sweat-house, or tepee. A
pail of water is then passed in ami poured
on tho almost red hot stones, From
this an almost suffocating hot steam
arises, which soon produces a profuse
perspiration. The patient is then taken
out and plunged in the cold running
stream near at hand, or in winter rolled
in a snow hank, the patient nil the time
being in a nude condition. This treat
ment fa, of course, as a rule fatal
curacy, which I bestow exclusively upon
tho poor.’ ‘ Then you have a patrimony,
sir? 1 said the bishop. 'Now, my lord.’
‘ You speak In riddles,’ rejoined his lord
ship; 'now do you contrive to live in
this manner?’ ' My lord, 1 have a con
vent of young damsels hero, who do not
let mo want anything.’ 'How! you
huvo a convent? 1 did not know there
was ono in (his neighborhood. This is
all very strange, very unaccountable,
M r. Curate.’ ' You arc jocular, my lord.'
' Rut come, sir, I entreat that you would
solve tho enigma; 1 would fain see (ho
convent.’ * So you shall, my lord, alter
dinner; and I promise that your lordship
will ho satisfied with my conduct.’ Ac
cordingly, when dinner was over, the
curato conducted the proluto to a large
inelosuro, entirely occupied hy bee
hives, and pointing lo the latter, ol>-
BCrvod, ' This, my lord, is tho convent
which gave us a dinner; it brings mo in
about eighteen hundred livres a year,
upon which I Iivo voiy comfortably, and
with which I contrive to entertain my
guests genteelly.’ Tho surprise and
satisfaction of the bishop may 1>o im
agined."
Tho Centennial A mini a 11 urn Img.
New York Sun.
When the centennial exhibition started
wo heard a great deal about the patent
American system of awards fur excellence
to he adopted at Philadelphia. This
system was the product of the inventive
brains of the officers of the centennial
commission, headed by director general
Goshorn, assisted by (hat eminent statis
tician, Gen. F. A. Walker.
This system has now been f ried, with
results not altogether satisfactory to the
exhibitors or the public—indeed with
results absolutely disgraceful. The
chief peculiarity of the system Is thnt the
awards are not made hy tho judges ap
pointed to examine and discriminate l>e-
tweon the articles exhibited, lmt hy a
few of the officers of tho commission
themselves. Another peculiarity is that
there is no grading in tno awards, no first
or second prizes, no honorable mention,
no different sorts of medals; Jmt all are
on a par. Tho eonseuuonco has been
that the judges, seeing there was no use
iu doing it, huvo exercised littlo nice
discrimination. They had no encourage
ment to weigh carefully and accurately
the comparative merits of the dillereut
exhibits. Therefore the awards were
scattered right and left with a confusion
that turned the whole Imsinoss into a
laughing stock. Tho exhibitors fail to
tiri/.o their medals, and no incentive to
improvement has been offered. They
all iu a lunij) together.
Another thing: tho centennial com
missioners wore not hound to give the
awards as recommended hy tho judges.
They did as they pleased about it. II
they didn’t wish to give a man a modal,
he didn’t get it; if they did, 1m got it.
If Ihoy wished to give an exhibitor three
medals, two of them on his own report
us judge, they did it,.oven .in spite of
protest.
Tho exhibition, thorofore.in its awards,
has dune nothing to stimulate cempeti*
lion and encourage excellence. The
whole thing haH been niado jicrfectly
ridiculous at Philadelphia.
• He Noeial.
Men who isolate thomselves from
society, and have, no near and dear
family ticH, are tho most uncomfortable
of human beings. Ryron says "happi
ness was born or twins," but the phrasd,
though pretty and poetic, does not go
far emough. We are gregarious, and not
intendea to march tlirough lifo either
single or double file. The man who cares
for nolxaly, and for whom nobody cares,
has nothing to live for that will pay for
the keeping of soul and bodv together.
You must have a heap of embors to have
a glowning fire. Scatter them apart,
and they will bocoino dim and cold. So
lo have a brisk, vigorous life, you must
have a group of lives, to keep each other
warm, as it were, or afford each mutual
encouragement and confidence and sup
port. If you wish to live the life of a
man und not of a fungus, he social, he
brotherly, he charitable, be sympathetic,
and labor earnestly*!or theygood of your
kind.
Dull Boys.
Don’t be discouraged. Slow growth
is often sure growth. Homo minds are
like Norwegian pines. They are slow in
growth, but they are striking their roots
deep. Some of the greatest men have
been dull boys. Drydcn and Swift were
dull as boys. So was Goldsmith. So
was Gibbon. So was Sir Walter Scott.
Napoleon at school had so much diffi
culty iu learning his Latin that the
master said it would need a gimlet to get
word into his head. Douglas Jcrrohl
was so backward in his boyhood that at
no he was scarcely able to read.
Isaac Harrow, one of tho greatest
divines the Church of England has evor
•reduced, was so impenetrably stupid in
iis early years that ids futher more than
nice said that if God took away any of
his children, lie iioped it would fje Isaac,
as he feared he would never he fit for
any thing in the world. Yet that hoy
tire genius of the family.
To What Rase Uses,
nurllrston Btovkoyo.
ujt i M The practice of using tho portrait of
Ver'med papa of. his country to embellish all
j 10r() j ( .‘ • | manner of business signs has a very do-
— ! elded tendency to lower that great and
The Rlsliop and the Rees. good man in the estimation of tho rising
, , generation. A prominent music dealer
W O fin.] tho lo]lowing good Story in a | thu cH „ who lives on Columbid.tfeet,
foreign journal: A ItciicIi blaliop, very f,„ e ,teel engraving o
being about to make bis .annua vima-, | ti w . and bung It in his parlor, and
tK.n, ran word n a certain cunte.whoio wh e„ the youngest hone of tho family
ecc csins tea benefice was oxtremly r .» m0 borne from sclionl be was told that
tolling, tlmt lie meant to .line with him, ,| 10y picture. The boy's eyes
at the same time requesting that he I * • • • • • ••
would not put himself to any extraordi
xpenso. The curato. promised to
attend to the bishop’s suggests
time requesting that he | "vit!.' nutLi pat ion nml pK
lintiself «nv ||re ; , mt a-hon they led him to see too
treasure his face was clouded with dis
appointment and disgust. ‘Ho I" he
exclaimed, mindful of the pictorial sign
of tho establishment which furnished the
table with its fleshy viands. "Hob ! old
meat market picture!" The moral is
obVious.
he did not keep his word, for he provided
a most sumptuous entertainment. His
lordship was much surprised, and could
not help censuring the conduct of the cu
rate, observing that it was highly ridicu
lous in a man whose circumstances were
narrow, to launch out in such expense,
y, almost to dissipate his annua! in
come in a single day. 1 Do not be tinea-
that score, my lord/ replied the
curate, 1 fori <;uj tu-a ure you that what
you now see is no; the prudence of my
Wk have ready for distribution blank
forms of petitions and •ummons for
county judges, police judges, county
clerks and justices of the peace, required
to be kept by them by act of the last
1< gidature.— Courier Journal.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
A ouiiKR old gentleman being asked
what ho wished for dinnor, replied," An
appetite, good company, something to
eat, and a napkin.” -
There is nothing bettor for fever iu
the feet nf horses than bandages wet with
wafer. It is better than ‘‘stuffing’’ with
filth, so often recommended.
It is said thnt tho bite of a blackbird
will breed a case of hydrophobia, and,
all things considered, no man is safe un
less ho goes down a well and has n trap
door shut upon him.
A nnionT-BYKD little girl un being
tuught hy her orthodox mother that
Jesus was God and tho father, said:
“Why, mamma, how con God h* on tho
right hand of heself.”
The most bitter piece of satire on a
man generally affects him least. It is
written and composed after his death,
and is commonly known ns “an obituary
notice."
A dreamy philosopher has discovered
that mosquitoes nro animated by tho
souls of wicked men who have gono to
their lust account. II this is so a good
many wicked men’s souls are being
plastered upagulnst bedroom wuIIh.
Mokh. CoLOMUiEit, a merchant of
Paris, recently deceased, has left 80,000
francs to a lady of Rouen, for having,
twenty years ago. refused to marry him,
“through which, says tho wi!', "I was
enabled to live independently and happily
as a bnehelor,”
Dr. Holland thinks it does not pay
to ho an author. Very true. When u
man attempts to write poetry who
might he better employed opoiiing
clams, there is some mysterious power
that interposes to keep him pour.
A Nevada gambler said he would
blow his brains out if ho lost his last five
dollars, and when ho lost it ho was ns
good as his word. If he had said: “I
will quit gambling” ho wouldn’t have
had diameter enough to sustain his
resolution.
A NECitto boiiig asked what he was iu
jail for, said it was for borrowing money.
"Rut," said the(luestionnr, “they don’t
nut pcoplo in jaif for borrowing money.”
“Yes,” said tho darky, “but! had to
knock tho man down" free or f'o’ times
before he would lend it to me."
Tommy—who has been allowed a Heat
at the table on tho occasion ot a tea-party,
and is scrutinizing tho engravings on his
tea spoon, which is odd—“Why, mother,
these spoons vere on Aunt Juno's sup
portable tho other night, when cousin
Fred had his party.” A “look from tho
inaternul, and a smile all around.
Tim: New Orleans Hulletin says ho
now thinks it is unsafe to lcavo blotting
paper around tho office. Jlia wife
/Lund this on a piece :
: ouS tseracd
.sevolg lo xob duos lliw I
.eilijW.
“Gimme something to euro a boil,”.he
exclaimed as ho dashed Into a drug store.
“Ah, so you’ve got ono of the things now,
have you V” smiled the elork. “ Yes, sir,
and its just in tho right place.” “Just
in tho right place?” repeated tho clerk;
“why, where is that?” “On an
other fellow,” came tho sweet reply.
Tins German mind is sometimes very
quick to reach a conclusion. Illustrat
ing the opposite of this remark, Mr.
Ferguson told Hans of tho Gorman who
sat 8,000 years gravely contemplating
his toes, and then, rising, said with a
sigh of relief, “Veil, 1 don't see nodings
the matter witii thorn.” “Hah!” said
Jlnns quickly. “How 1 cot you there.
Itvasatam lie. No man ofer lefled
t’Tee t’ousand years, hey ? You must
bln grazy."
A iiUHRAND having arrayed hirnsol
elaborately with gaiters, gnmebng and
gun, nccotnpuuicd'by his faithful dog,
goes forth to hunt, but shoots nothing.
Impossible to return empty-handed to
tho house, ho stops at tho market and
huys-a hare, which lie presents to ids
wife. Tho hare was terribly high—not
alone in price. “Ahj!" said his wife,
with a sniff, “so you killed it? You
were right. It was high time.”—Pari*
Vapor.
It was in the famous old parish of St.
Clements, Ixmdon, that Dr. Donne
buried his wife, ami preached her fu
neral sermon to the text, “Lo, I am thu
man that have seen affliction.” and there
lived the poor widowed tailor, who, con
demned to the gallows for some petty
larceny, an offence which incurred the
same penalty as murder in those by-gono
days, passed tho timo in Newgate, be
tween the day of ids conviction and the
monthly hanging day at Tyburn, in
making nine suits of mourning for his
’ o little children.
My friends,” said a returned mis
sionary, nt one of tho anniversary meet
ings, “let us avoid sectarian bitterness.
The inhabitants of Hindustan, where I
have been laboring for many years, have
a proverb that, ‘Though you bathe a
dog’s tuil in oil and bind it iu splints,
yet you cannot get the crook out of it.’
Now, a man’s sectarian bias is simoly
the crook in the dog’s tail, which cannot
he eradicated, and 1 hold thnt everyone
should be allowed to wag his own pecu
liarity in peace.”
Prince Bismarck would have made
his fortune as an interviewer in the press.
Writing to his wife from a watering
nlnco, he says: “Opposite mo (at tho
table d'hote) sits the old minister ,
one of those figures that appear, to us in
night inures, a big frog without legs, who,
at every bite, opens his mouth like a
carpet-big, from e.ir to ear, so that I, in
a fainting state, have to cling to the
table. My other, neighbor is a Uus.-ian
officer, a decent young fellow, built like
a bootjack, a long, thin body mid stumpy,
bandy legs."
Disraeli once said:—“Tho disap
pointment of manhood succeeds to the
delusion of youth ; let us hopi that the
heritage ofold ago is not despair!” ‘T
cannot nee the wit,” says Iluzlitt, “of
walking and talking at the same time.
When I am in the country i wish to
vegetate like the country.” Not only
nre the southern Himalayas of stupen
dous height, rising to a maxiumum of
nearly 29.000 feet, hut Thibet itself is a
table land, iu uo part of it perhaps less
than 8,000 or 9,000 feet above the level
of the een.