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VOL# 3# Maiden’s Leap Year Psalm of L’fe. 'fell WO toot in idle jingle "Marriage is au *rtlo dream !” the girl is dead that’s single, Aad girls are not what they seem. l ife is real! Life is earnest! Single blessedness a fib! •‘Man thou art—to man returnest !” lias been spoken ol the rib. Life is long and youth is fleeting, And cur hearts, though light and gay, Still like pleasant drums are beating Wedding marches on the way. Lives of married folks remind us |L We can live our lives as well, And departing, leave behind us Such examples as shall “toll’’— Such examples that another, Wasting time in idle sport — A forlorn, unmarried brother Seeing, shall lake heart, and court. Nouns of Multitude. A little girl was near the picture of a number of ships, w hen she exclaimed, See what a flock of ships!’ We cor rected Iter by saying that a flock of ships was called a fleet, and. a fleet of sheep sag called a flock. And hera we may add, for the benefit of the foreigner who is mastering the intricacies of our lan guage in respect to nouns of multitude, that a (lock of girls is called a bevy, and a bevj of wolves is called a pack, and a jack of thieves is called a gang, and a gang of angils is called a host, and a host ot porpoises is called a shoal, and a shoal of buffaloes is called a troop, and a troop of partridges is called a covey, and a covey ot beauties is called a gal axy, and a galaxy of ruffians is called a horde, and a horde ot rubbish is called a heap, aud a heap of oxen is called a drove, and a drove ot blackguards is tailed a mob, and a mob of whales is tailed a school, and a school of worship peri is called a congragalion, and a con gregation of engineers is called a corps, and a corps of robbers is called a band, and a hand of locusts is called a swarm, and a swarm of people is called a crowd, ami a crowd of gentle folks is called the elite, and the elite ot the city's thieves and rx cals are called roughs, and a mis cellaneous crowd of city folks is called ibe community or the public, accordingly as they are spoken ot by the religious community or tlie secular public. A Few Southern Tacts. Alabama and Tennessee manufacture iiiore iron than any of the southern "tales east of the Mississippi. Tennes see lias about 1,700 miles of water navi gation, and about 1,300 miles of railway transportation. Tennessee has more ex tensive coal fields than any state in the Union, Pennsylvania excepted. Tenues see produces profitably a greater variety of crops than any state in the Union. Georgia, Alabama or Tennessee have mure extensive deposits and beds of iron linn any of the slates of the American 1 nion. None excepted. Teunesseee lias mote extensive beds of marble of greater variety of co or than any state in 'he Union. The copper deposits in Ten uessee are more extensive and valuable •han those of any other section in Amer ica. Money in a Hollow Tree. A month ago, perhaps, a man by the name ot Jeffries, in company with his htnily | was out in I lie woods hunting nuts, at Palmyra, Missouri, when one ot 'f'e girls saw something that attracted f"'r attention in a hollow tree, and called lo her mother to come and look at it. Mrs. Jeffries made some examination, *nd soon found it to be an old paint keg. Lpou taking it out, there was found within it an earthen jar containing $583 S°id and silver. They did not know w hat to do about it ; but concluded to W P d u iet and wait tor developments, lowever, some ot the children mention 0 it at school, and thence it came to the oars ot Isaac and Jacob Johnson, who >V ne once to see Jeffries, and soon j'd him that the treasure belong .*•) to jj u ’d that they had hid it ithere .^ e Porter*’? raid into Palmyra i„ }S72, jading rl they * l,l "°t go to 'ook ,for i,t fof time a "d when they 4-4 v.epc enable i° hud the place of its oonoeqbyeptj pay th<? y ever been able to find it *pce. e keg had baen pushed bp it)to the •follow of tree an J p ro pp. ;( J op i,y a ’flttoh, t 4 the course of the four teen y e?V¥ eipcp elapsed, rotted off apd the treasure gown, and thus it was ’ ,ou '“i by accent. The Johnsons made “ Present of to the Hub? girl wlio ’ho will say it jyas not khwp enough, } ' ®te JifliHtldk’ ißcgtslrr, He Couldn’t Linger. • A great many strapped printers are on the road now, and scarcely a day passes hut one or more ot them strikes us for a job. Those from the West say that bus iness is dull in all the towns out there, and those coming from the East have the same tale of hard times to tell about the eountiy they have passed through. One of them limped into the office the other day, and propounded the old, old question : ‘How’s work V ‘First rate,’ said one of the proprie tors ; ‘never was better.' ‘l'd like to get in enough to "get me something to eat,' said the tramp, as he gulled his coat down over one shoul der. •More work here than we know what to do with,’ continued the proprietor. ‘Well, that’s what I'm atter,' said the tramp, as lie threw the other shoulder in view. ‘But’—and the tones of the boss were as sad and plaintive as the moan of a lost child—‘there’s no money.’ Like a startled mud turtle ‘juking, into its shell, that printer shot back into his voat, and a sigh—, ly of regret, somewhat of rebel—escaped him. lie was sorry to be disappointed, and glad that he had been made acquainted with the situation before he |had wasted any ot his energies in any uncompensating labor. ‘lf you ain't got any money, bow do you pay your hands T’ he asked glancing around at the hoys, who were pulling out with as much energy as if they were working in a silvei mine. ‘We pay them in real estate and town lots, sir,’ replied the boss who happened to be in a communicative humor. ‘My partner and 1 run the paper, not as a money making institution, hut as a me dium through which to disj ose ot a quantity of land which we could not get off our hands in any other manner. When we find a printer who is willing to work, and lake his pay in the tree son of Missouri, we employ him; other'vise, uotsoever. The tramp looked puzzled and dis tressed, but sail! : >1 don’t care about settling down just now and becoming a landed proprietor. I'm poor enough already. 1 don’t want any mote ot this country than 1 can conveniently carry around with me. I m 100 teeble to grow up with any consider-, able amount of it. Good day, sir. ‘Hold on,’ said the proprietor. ‘Don’t tear yourself away from a bon mza tie fore von are acquainted with its resour ces. There is an opportunity ofteied you to acquire distinction, if not wealth. Do you see that young tellow over there by the window V ‘The one with a far-away, vacant look in liis mild blue eyes ?’ ‘Yes. Well, that young man has just about completed Ins apprenticeship, and I’ve made him out a deed to one hundred town lots in consideration of his services. You can see them from the window. Half of them are on the bar and the other half in the liver, hut they will be valuable in a century or two. The press man owns half that bar, and the jours can each point with pride to the mighty Missouri, and say it rolls and surges over their posssessions, guarding and enrich ing them. You see that man over in C* the corner V That long, sad, consumptive looking being V * ‘Yes. Speak low. I gave him a deed for one thousand acres ot land, in pay ment for three years' work. It was swamp land, in Linn county, and be has just returned from a visit to it. lie is working this week for a lot iu the ceme tery. His place will soon be vacant, and you may have it on the same tetms, it yon like.’ The tramp moved uneasily about and finally went to the window and gazed out over the town. Presently he called the proprietor to him and said : ‘I haven’t long to tarry. Something seems to call and beckon me away. Hut I don’t mind working a couple of hours for that corner lot over there the one with a saloon on it. ‘l’m truly sorry,’ said the boss, ‘but I that lot last week to the boy who carries capers- Theie’s a lot right back of if, with a nice cellar on -would not Ah# suit you ?’ ‘No, l believe not, I guess 1 can t lin ger with you, however much as I m.g . desire U>. J have a presentment that I am not long for this world, and I fain would lay my childhood- Farewell, old man- Your kindness bis moved me. I’m homeward bound. He bounded down stairs, and eoutmu- Jed his journey into the East.— f J ? CONYERS, OA., THURSDAY, JANUARY IN, 1N77. A Quaker to His Watchmaker. I herewith send send my pocket clock, which greatly stamleth in need of thy friendly correction. The last timu he was at thy school lie was in nowise re formed, i'or in the least beneflttcd there by ; for I perceive by the index ot his mind that he is a liar, and the truth is not in him ; that his motions are irregu lar and wavering; that his pulse is some what slow, which betokeneth not an ; even temper ; at other limes it waxeth sluggish, notwithstanding I frequently urge him; when he should be on his duty, as thou knowest his name denoteth, I find him slumbering, or, as the vanity ot human reascii phrases it, I catch him napping. Examine him, therefore, aud | prove him, I beseech, thee, thoroughly, that thou mayest, being web acquainted with his inward frame aud disposition, draw him from the error of his way, and show him the path wherein tie should go. It grieves me to think, and when I ponder thereon I am verily ot the opin ion that he is tout, end that the whole mass is corruption. Cleanse him, there* lore, with thy charming medicine, from all pollution, that he may vibrate and circulate according to truth. I will place him for a few days under thy car™, and pay for his board as thou requirest. I entreat thee, friend John, to demean thyself on this occasion with judgment, according to the gitt which is in thee, and i rove thyself to be a workman. And when thou layest thy correcting baud on' him, let i* be without passion, lest thou should drive him to destruction; Do thou regulate his motion tor a time to come, by the motion of light that rulelh the day, and when thou findest I him converted from the error of his ways, and more conformable to the above mentioned rules, then do thou send him home with a just bill of the charge drawn out with moderation, and it shall bt sent to tiiee in the root of all evil Curious Origin of Words. The derivation ot many words in com moil me io euirous. Probably few have an idea w hence comes the word ‘‘tram way, 0 by which the English denote a horse car iraek. It is derived from the second syllable ot the name Outram. The ancestor of sir James Outram, a very distinguished general who died a few years ago, took a leading part in_ exten ding horse railroads tor drawing coal, etc,, and las roads were called Outram ways, and gradually the first syllable was dropped. Another curious deriva tion is that of the word “ wallop,” mean ing to beat “I’ll wallop you,” is still a frequent expression in rnal England. It arises from a complete naval victory of admiral Wallop, a member of the very ancient family of which the earl of Port smonth—who also has the honor to rep resent Sir Isaac Newton—is now the head. Chedell refuses to marry until he can be sure of crowding all the true happi ness of manage life into one wek. His idea is to marry an heiress or. Monday, have a son and heir on Tuesday, see him baptised on Wednesday, have his mother -in law die on Tuesday, take out letters ol administration on Friday, hnry the old lady on Saturday, and on Sunday take possession of the fortune. A belter plan is to let the mother-in law depart tor paradise before marrying the heir ess. A gentleman had a hoard put up on a part of his land on which was written: ‘I will give this field to any one who is really contented I’and when an applicant came he asked, ‘Are you contented V The general answer was, ‘I am;’ and his reply invariably was, ‘Then what do you want with my field V The following is the answer of a newly married man to the invitation of.a Philu delphia friend, wished him to visit the Centenial ; You are ve'-y kind, hut since I married and became familiar with the injsteries ofa woman’s wardrobe, variety shows have lost their charm for me.’ One San Francisco paper, in the morn - ing, reported the death ot a deaf and dumb girl. Its evening rival, not to be cutdone, gaye her last words. Two years ago a dying wife in lowa named her successor, set the wedding day, and her widowered husband ami the nominee have just been married. At the recent session of the North Georgia Conference a glass of milk punch was placed before one ot the ministers who was known to be a lifelong tee-to taller. The good man swallowed the punch, smacked his lips and sail, “Lord what a cow!” Stick to Your Business. There is nothing which should be more frequently impressed on the minds ot the young men than the importance ot pursuing someone business. The frequent changing froni one employment to another is one ot the common errors committed, and to it may be triced more than omvha't the failures ot men in business, and much of the discontent and disappointment wlich render life uncomfortable. It is a very common tlii'tg for a man to become dissatisfied with his business and to desire to change his business tor some other, which, it seuns to him, will prove a Jinore lucra tive cmp’oymenl; bu- in nine cases out of ten it is a mistake. Look around you and you will find abundant verification of our assertion. There is nn honest farmer who has toiled a few years, got his farm paid lor, but does uot grow rich very rapidly, ps much for lack of contentment mingled with industry ns anything, lie is nol aware of it. lie hears the wondeiful stories of California, and how fortunes may be had for the trouble of picking them up; mortgages his farm to raise mom y, goes away to the land ot gold, and, after tinny months of hard toil, comes home to commence again at the bottom of the t ill for a more weary and less successful climb ing up again. Mark the men in every community who arc notorious for ability and equally notorious for never getting ahead. You will find them to be those who never.stiek to any one business long but are always forsaking their occupa tion just when it begins to be profita ble.—[Scientific American. The Bare Trick of an Indian Con jurer- “lgnoramus,” writing to the London Times from Amblesideon the Slade ease, describes a trick which, when command ing at the fort of Attock, on the Indus, in 1301, he saw practiced by an Indian conjurer. On the mess-taole, on which the cloth was still spread, this man placed a rupee at one corner and the imrratoi’s signet-ring at the other. Then lie repeated a prayer, played on an in. strument, and the ring, “with a vibrato ry motion, keeping time to the music, moved along the diagonol until it reach ed the rnoee, which it clawed—l can describe it by no other woid—and .brought hack to its cwn corner.” 'Ahe conjurer declined to sell his secret, ll the affair happened just as it told, it is surely as likely that the mail was wliat is now called a “med’Utn”—what ever that may he—as that he had any mechanical secret for making a ling dance and “claw,” without any visible link between him ami it. His recitation of a prayer might either have keen done to impose upon others, or from his own prolound belief in the existence of some unrecognized quality in himself. Hut it is as idle to try ard conjecture the ex planation ot anonymous stories referring to a distant date, as to credit with any unusual power persons who will not give the only sufficient test in their power that they are not merejugglers. Economy on the Farm. Economy in all things is as commend able in the manager as it is beneficial and desirable to the employer ; and, on a farm, it shows itself in nothing more evidently or essentially, than in not suff ering the provender to be wasted, but, on the contrary, in taking care that ev ery atom ot it be used to the best adi vantage : and. likewise, in not permit ting the plows, harness and other im plements of husbandry, and the gears belonging to them to he unnecessary ex pressed, trodden under toot, run, over by carts and abused in respects. More good is derived from attending to the minutiae ot a farm than strikes people at first view, and examining the farm yard fences and locking into the fields to see tlirt nothing is there but what is al'owed to be there, oftentimes is the means ot producing much good, or at least of avoiding much evil.—[George VY ashington. A Lexington man went home the other night and found the house locked up. Getting iu at the window with much dif ficulty, he found on the table a note from his wife, saying, “1 have gone out to spend the evening. You will find the door key under the door step.” ... ii ■ • When you enter or leave a room, be careful to leave the door open. There is noibing like ventilation—and besides there is no better way to find out wheth er the owner is t* good Christaiu or a piofane monster. Money one Hundred 1 ears Ago. One hundred fears ago, students at Har vard College paid their tuition with live- , stock m.d piovisions. The currency I ot the Pilgrim* was the first issue ot pa- ( per money in ill's country. During the | war of Queen Anne, a paper currency j was established, known as Queen Anne's war currency, which soon became worth less. In 1765, Virginia issued a paper currency, previous to which the clergy were paid In tobacco. In 1715, Jolm Coleman established a bank in Massa chusetts, with land for capital, and be gun the issue of loans. Other colonies followed and the amount of loans by the colonus finally reached to millions, which the mother country paid off at reduced rates to save the credit of the co'onies. In 1775, Congress issued paper money to the amount of $800,001), to be re deemed in three years in coin. The colonies or States also issued paper mon ey, and soon the whole volume of State and National currency amounted to $12,- 000,000. This money was taken with out much question ut fits), and those who refused it were stigmatized as un patriotic; but in the following year it begun to decline, ami in 1780, it was worth almost nothing. A barber-shop iu Philadelphia was plastered all over with Continental money, and dogs were tarred, stuck ' ver with the same shin plasters and let cut to run the streets tor the public amusement. To Itoberl Morris is due the salvation of the Revo lutionary army. lie lent his private fortune and credit to the government, and when all his money was gone and his credit had teen liberally used, Wash ington said lie must laise more mon*>y to carry out a war ineasuie, the perfec tion ol which only waited for the money- Moiris, therefore, issued his own notes for $1,400,000. Washington gained the battle of York town, and Cornwallis surrendered, Every one of these Morris notes were subsequently redeemed. In 1782, the Hank ot Nor'li America was] established at Philadelphia, with a cup- i itai ot $400,000. This was the first hank of the National Government 1 The date ot the first silver coinage was I and of the fir-t gold coinage 1794. Amusing Advertisements. The following are some oddities in ad vert-ising, compiled by an exchange : Two young women want washing. Teeth extracted with great pains. Babies takfii and finished in ten min uies by a country photographer. The next appeared in a London news paper tinder the head of ‘For Sale’: Pianolorte—cottage—seven octaves — the property of a lady leaving England iu a remarkably elegant case on beauti fully carved h'gs. And what does this mean ? Business Chance.—To be disposed of —genuine fried fish business at the West End. Does the genuineness apply to the fish, ihe business, or to the way in which they are lried ? And one’s inind gets hopeless'y dazed over the advertisement offering a large reward for A large Spanish blue gentle man's cloak, lost in the neighborhood ot the maiket. There are others deliciously inconse quent, like the advertisement of a runa way, which furnished this valuable hint for identification: Age is not precisely known, hut looks older than he is. Or the notice of fi shoemaker put on his door: Shall be hack in ten days from the time you see this shingle. Some, however, leave uo loophole for doubt: Babies, after taking one bottle of my sootiiing syrup, will never cry any more. Somebody says editors are poor, where upon a Yankee paper says: ‘Uumhng. Here we are, editors of a country ueews paper, fairly lolling iu wealth. We have a good office, a pastepot, a double-barrel gun, two suits of clothes, three kittens, a Newfoundland pup, two watches, three day and two night shirts, carpets on the floors, a pretty wife, nienty cents iu cash are out of debt, and have no rich relati. ves. If we are not wealthy, it is a I'i'y- When three good little boys get to gether of an afternoon, the. chances are that there will be either a win dow broken, or some stay dog will have a pan tied to bis tail. ■ i - Republican journals aro making sport of the prominent nose of Elector Cronin. A man doesn’t amount to much iu their lines unites it is his cheeks that j is prominent. j It you would keep from drinking so great a quantity of ardent spirit#, eat. Eat more. Eat nutritious food. Kat something whenever you take n drink. The drunk in all cases comes from the stomach lull of whiskey and no food. There is a simple lesson yet to be learned by many, and that is thry do not eat enough of real blood, bo: e, n nr* amt tissue making food. You may half starve to death on nolt-fis*', potato**,, cabbage, turnips, tried liver, slewed kid ney, and a score of otlu r dishes wlncn please the taste, but add little i-r noth ing to (he body tonce. Eggs, ike beat of steak, milfoil, and bread are what one requires tor strength. It is this tinoon- Nuious, ha t-starved eondi iou whi la causes so much craving fora t-inponry increase of Strength, and that is quick est gaiued through a g’ass of whiskey. That, gives for a lew moments a spas modic impulse to the wheels of life, sen ding them w hizzing and spinning around for a few moments; then come# reaction and they turn more sluggishly than evez The best spirits iu the world reside in. good blood, the worst in bad. It is that which sends false inioginntions, suspicions, and despondencies to the brain, ■ - ■■ * • ■■■■- I uteri sting experiments are being made at the Central telegraphic bureau in Paris with n new- apparatus tor produ cing a tac simile of the writing and aig nature ot :in individual sending a dis patch. The apparatus also produce with great exactness, drawings of th# most complicated description. The in ventor is Mr. Lemor. Home year* ago similar trials were mnde with the inven tion ot a Mr. Cnselli, but tbe results were imperfect. If you marry, said a Roman consul to* liis son, let it be to a woman who ha* judgement enough to superintend the getting of a meal of* victuals, taste enough to drvss horse f, pride enough to wash before breakfast, and sense to hold hertongue when sits has -nothitig to say, Gen. Wado Hampton, of South Caro lina, is fifty-six years of age and says he was ellected Governor and intends to be- Governor. - ♦ ■ ' The man who will abandon a friend 1 for an error, knows but little ot human character, and shows that his heart is as his mind is week, A man in England has taken on* a patent for paper bed blankets, person ought to feel comfortable under a quill ot Congressional Globes, with a spread of patent office reports, and an extra thickness of statistics the feet. An Irish emigrant, hearing the sun set gun at New York, asked a sailor; ‘What’s that V ‘Why* that's sunset,' was the reply. ‘Sunset!’ said Fat. ‘And does the sun go down in Amerika with such abang as that T’ ‘Look here boy,’ said a uervous gentle man to a lad munching candy at a lecture ‘you are annying me very much.’ No I ain’t neither,’ said the youngsters ‘l’m gnawing this 'ere stick of candy.’ These who come to you to talk obont others aro the cries who go to others to talk about you. —— •— —— — ■ A lecturer in Missouri, whose subject was ‘The Physical Dog neracy of Woman,’ quarrelled with liis breakfast last Wednesday morning, and had hia nose spread over his right eye by the landlady. At a oamp.meeting last summer, a venerable sister began t’e hymn— ‘My son ho on ihy guard, Ten thousand toes arise.' She began in shrill quavers, but it was pitched too high. ‘Ten thousand —-Ten thousand,’ she screeched, and stopped. ‘Start her at 5,000 !’ cried a converted auctioneer w ho wa- present. ‘Handsome is as handsome does,' said a Ctdoago man to his wife. ‘Yes,’ she replied, in a winning lone, ‘tor instance, a husband who is always ready to hand some money to his w ife.’ Scene : Room of Louisiana investi gating committee. Republican Con gressman—‘What effect did the outrages of bulldozers have 011 the couutrj ; did they not demoralize the country and cre ate lawlessness and riot f itnesa—r ‘Don’t know ’bout that, sir. All I seed is that we kin raise hogs in Felicias* now, an’ we couldn’t before the regular tors ’started.’ B- 0. (swallowing his emotion with a fereat gulp)—‘You can stand aside.’ (The curtain falls.) Leap year iA gone and many a pocr, devil is left to shiver alone NO. ‘ll.