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IHICARTSRSTILLKIXPBISS CABTEKBVILLE, GEORGIA. jp elected poetry. THE LOTEB’S SOLILOQUY, I have Id my thought* two maiden#, And t hey dwell not far tpait; There'# a question I’m debating— It la, which one shall have my heart ? One Is Ada Arabella, And the other Busan Jane: One ia poor, but she la handsome, And the other rich, but plain. The maidens both hare fathers On their daughters’ welfare bent; One is worth a hundred thousand, £ Ihe other not a cent. Arabella sports in jewels And their beauty 1 admit; But in Busan’s eyes are diamonds, And she has the gems of wit. 1 hare heard it said that riches Will take wings and fly away; And perhaps that hundred thousand Might on pinions go astray. As there is a wealth substantial, Called the wealth of heaxt and brain, Avaunt! the hundred thousand! I will marry Busan Jane! For with her I must be happy, Though my earnings may be small; 1 can buy my clothing cheaply At the Mammoth Tower Hall; And with what I save on clothing— If there’s truth in what is said— -1 can buy my wile’s apparel, And have something leit for bread. With my Busie for a helpmate, I shall be in courage bold; Bhe will know the heart that loves her Was not bought with sordid gold; And heT lips at eve shall greet me, Breathing Home, sweet home,” so dear; I shall see the pleasant picture When the cherished tones 1 hear, And shall feel that strength to labor, With the health that labor brings, Is far better than the riches Which may to themselves take wings. GIANT BIRDS. How their Fossil Remains were Diieer* ered in Blew Zealand. N. Y. Evening Post. The museum of natural history at Central park has now within its cases a very perfect series of specimens of some of the most wonderful creatures of pre historic life yet discovered by science. These are the moas, or monster birds of New Zealand, They occupy a case in the extreme end of the Geological hall, and owing to their massive proportions, look more like the monstrous remains of different quadrupeds than the sum total of one biped. Even the smallest bones equal or exceed in size the bones of the largest horse. In a recent letter Mr. C. N. B. Munston says that “a leg bone of a moa with a ’arge piece of flesh adhering to it was found some time ago in a cave in the province of Otago, and is now in the Otago museum, Dunedin, N. Z.” This seems to settle the vexed question as to whether the birds are actually extinct or not; but the truth of the statement is strongly contested—Dr. Haast of the Canterbury museum, de* daring with one party, namely, that the creature has been extinct for hundreds of years, and Dr. Hector, director of the Colonial museum, that a few moas may yet exist on the grassy slopes of the southern Alps, between the limit of the bush and snow line. The thought of such huge birds swarming in the low lands suggests the tales of the Arabian Nights, and the “ roc” seems almost a possibility. The moas, however, were wingless, and notwithstanding their enormous stiength were evidently destroyed by man, if we may believe the story of excavations made by Dr. Haast. which resulted in the fine collection now in the museum. The place where the birds were first found was almost inaccessible, and when the cavity now called the Moa Bone Point cave was enlarged by the waves of the sea the estuary of Heathcote-Avon in its present condition did not exist. Close to this cavity on its western side was a hard, delectric lava stream through which the summer road now passes to the sea. Masses of rock were detached by the surf, forming a ridge which gradually loses itself in the sand. The formation of this ridge princi pally took place when this part of the • peninsula was twelve or fifteen feet lower than at present, the upper line ot bowlders being about sixteen feet above the present high water mark. When the land rose again the sea was eat off by this bowlder ridge from the entrance of the cave, acioss which lay a huge rock, protecting it and preventing it from being filled up by deposits of drift sands, now forming on the plot close to it. A second and lower line of bowlders was formed in front of the former, about five feet above the present high water mark, with a small terraced space behind it. Since then other deposits orming in the Heathcote-Avon estuary have created a small belt in front of this last Jine of bowlders, brought into its pr^- ent condition by the action of the open sea. So it will be seen that nature has done its best to protect this treasure. Notwithstanding the constant changes of land and sea, the cave retained its individuality, the huge rocks and ledges thrown across its mouth by the fierce waves completely guarded its entrance, and repelled the invasion of the ele merits. Ihe entrance to the cave in which were found the remains ia about forty feet from the summer road, which has an altitude of 1,859 feet above the high water mark, and is nearly five feet lower, or 1,854 feet above the high water, tak ing the level of the surface as a guide. An opening which is about thirty feet broad by eight feet high, much narrowed, however, by a huge rock, leads into the cave, of which the floor slopes gently down. The cave consists of three corn* partments, of which the first one is by far the largest. It runs nearly due north and south, is one hundred and two feet long by eeventystwo feet wide toward the middle, and about twenty four feet high. From this cave’s termi nation through a small passage a second cave is reached, which is eighteen feet loug and fourteen feet wide, and about eleven feet high, its direction being north by west to south by east. At its southern end a small p.assage three feet high by about two feet six inches broad leads into a third or inner chamber which is more than twenty feet lone, with an average width of sixteen feet, about twenty feet high, running, like the principal cave, due north and south. Its floor is about eight feet above high water mark. Near the surface, and trodden in, lay many objects which showed that the cave had been inhabited as a dwelling at some remote time. The entire stratum was removed by a systematic digging of trenches by the natives under the direc tion of Mr. Haast, and among the objects recovered wer§ (1) cockle, periwinkle and mussel shells common in the neigh boring eitaary; (2) a layer of ashes with pieces of flax, cabbage-tree leaves, charred wood, etc.; (3) ashes and dirt beds composed of the droppings of goats which were brought into Canterbury by the Europeans in 1839, and a few pieces of moa bones; (4) a layer of ag* glomeratic beds consisting of rocks that had evidently fallen from the roof. Be tween the layers of shells were found pieces of wood, partly charred pieces of wooden implements of Maori manu facture, plaitings made of phormmm le nax , and pieces of two broken polished stone implements, while close to the bottom of the trench moa bones were found representing several species. Mr. Haast, in noting this, says: “ I could not divest myself of the conviction that in and below the agglomeratic beds remains proving human occupancy would be found. ” In this search human remains were not found, and it was not until two or three strata had been removed that they were discovered ; but at last a Maori skeleton was found a few feet from the southwest wall. The aborigines who placed the body there had dug through the shell bed about eight inches, then through the dirt two inches, and four inches through the agglomeratic deposit. They had then excavated the marine sands for several feet and placed the corpse in a silting position, bound with flax, the face toward the wall of the rock. It was evident that the burial had taken place long before Europeans came to the place. The skeleton, which was articulated by Mr. Fuller, stands in the Canterbury museum and belongs to a man past middle age and more than six feet in height. The ulna of the left arm was broken and was only partly healed when he died; and letting imagination run rife we can suppose that he was killed by the blow o r a moa’s “ hool ” an unbirdlike -erm—but appropriate to the facta of the case. Judging by the molars of this unfor tunate maori, moa on toast was by no means a tender dish, ai the teeth were worn and twisted iuto almost Quilpian ugliness. Most of the premolars were missing in the lower jaw, the alveoli (tooth sockets) being quite absorbed. In the upper jaw, the first moiar on the right side and the first on the left are twisted upward, their anterior surfaces adhered to the alveoli, which were di velooed in a light bony outgrowth. Ow ing to a very remarkable distortion of tne left molar, mastication was performed with its outer surface, which was worn. The condition of this specimen, its evi dent age and that of the surrounding objects point to the truth of the theory of Mr. Haast that the dinoris became extinct at an extremely remote period The bones were iouna in many posi tions. Some in swamps where they bad herded in their flight, and, like the m*- tadon, had been swallowed by the soft ooze that was to perpetuate their name in future ages. The natives now living attribute the first Maori to the Wattaha, the first immigrants who preceded the natives called Ngalimamoe, who pre ceded Ngotekwu, the present inhabit ants. The fact that these remains are assigned to a remote period of Maori occupation by the natives themselves, considered in connection with the great distance between the lower and upper shell beds, goes for to prove that many centuries must have elapsed since the moa became extinct. The fine collection of these huge creatures now at the park represents a variety of genera. They were set up by Dr. Haast and the trustees of the American museum purchased them by telegraph, outbidding the agent of the British museum. It is the most perfect collection extant. Their huge forms certainly tell a wondrous tale of the degeneracy of power in the march of time. AT THE GATK. And where were you just now, Mabel ? Where have you been so long? The moon is up, and all the birds Have sung their evening song; I taw you loitering down the path Bo lonely and so late, Beyond the well and lilac bush, And hanging by the gate. I love to hear the birds, mother, And se? the rising moon; And,-oh! the summer is sweet Beneath the sky of June. My cow is milked, my hens are cooped, And washed are cup and plate, And so I wandered out a whiis, To hang upon the gate. The gate is by the road, Mabel, And idle folks go by, Nor Bhould a maiden brook the glance Of every stranger eye. Besides, 1 thought I saw a cap— I’m sure you had a mate; Bo tell me who was with you, child, Just hanging at the gate. Now you know just as well, mother, ’Twas only Harry Gray, He spoke such words to me to-night, I knew not what to say; And, mother, oh! for your dear sake, I only bad 9 him wait— And mayn’t I run and tell him now ? He’s hanging at the gate. — Harper's Magazine . Hilling a Religion, Dr. Beard in Norlh American Review, Modern spiritism is an attempt to ap ply the inductive method to religion ; to make faith scientific; to confirm the longings of the heart by the evidence of the senses. In thus submitting spiritis n to the inductive method, its friends for got that to prove a religion would be to kill it—to transfer it from the emotions, where it belongs, to the intellect, where it can find no home. A religion proved dies as a religion and becomes a scientific fact, and would take its place *ide by side with astronomy and chemistry, with physics and geology, in the organ ized knowledge of men. Spiritists would, therefore, have been wiser if they had followed the example of one of the very greatest of experimental philoso phers, the late Prof. Faraday, of whom it was said that when he “ entered his laboratory he shut the door of his orato ry.” The security of religious beliefs consists in their keeping out of range. Religion, indeed, is between two fires; absolutely proved or absolutely disproved it is destroyed; disproved, it becomes a delusion, a negative fact of science; proved, a positive fact, in both cases recognized by the intellect and appealing to it; like the horizon, it recedes as we go toward it—even the attempt to sub mit it to scientific study causes it to disappear. No religion on the globe is strong enough to bear the shock of its own demonstration. That Christianity has not clearer and more precise bisters ical evidence for its claims has been the experienced and oftentimes uttered regret of apologists, and to supplement this defect by toilsome researches has been the burden of the first scholarship in the world; but it is the weakest point in Christianity that it is historically so strong its recent decline among the thoughtful corresponds to the argument ing wealth of the testimony in its favor, and at this hour its hold, in all sects, is firmest among those who are most obvious and most heedless of the argu ment for its divine origin If Chris tianity ever dies, it will be of excess o evidence. Each addition of proof draws b>ood. ___ ..There was a terrible fight at the West Hill school vesterday afternoon Two boys, burning with rage and hate jot od opposite sides of the street and called each otnei “ nigger ” and “ red h*-ad *' till the sun went down. The hoy with the red hair was the maddest hut the cotored boy had the loudesi voice, and was declarer the victor People who live in the neighborhood say it sounded like a con** gre!*sional debate.—[Buriingtor Hawk eye, A Devil-fish Playing Horse. Charleston News and Courier. While Mr. Henry May was out fishing with a party on Thursday morning near Fort Ripley, in the yacht Uncle Peter, aud the vessel was lying at anchor, all of a sudden, without apparent cause, she started off at frightful speed. The cause, however, was soon explained by a huge devil-fish rising to the surface of the water, with the anchor rope fastened to his fins. A small negro fishing-boat The pennies have been collected after a most persevering effort, the wreath has been made and exhibited in London, and now Lord Beaconsfield declines to make himselt ridiculous by receiving it. he even hints that the projector got the thing up to bring himself into notoriety, if not from a more sordid motive. Car dinal Wolsey on his death-bed mourned over the ingratitude of kings; this En glish enthusiast will new be disposed to bring the same charge against premiers, was soon caught., too, by its anchor rope being entangled with that of the Uncle Peter. The fish then went straight for Fort Ripley with both boats, but as he would get near shoal water he would shy off again, and make for the channel. The negro boat soon cut loose, but the Uncle Peter was carried twice round Fort Ripley, and it was nearly an hour before the devil-fish finally let go. The anchor rope was found covered with a thick slime, which could not be removed. There was no harpoon on board the Uncle Peter, otherwise the namesake of his sable majestymaight have paid dearly lor his prank. He Did Not Save tbe Czar. London Truth. As is well known, when the Czar was fired at in 1866 by Karakosoff, in the summer garden, the first officer who came on the scene was General Todlebenl The assassin was gone, but the genera found lying on the spot and apparently insensible, a young peasant whose name proved afterward to be Ossip Ivanowitch. Another young man, an apprentice, who who was there likewise, but was never heard of afterward, asserted that he had actually seen Ossip pull back the arm of the assassin as the latter was firing his pistol, and the former had, consequently saved the life of the Czar. The fact was at once considered proved, and yonng Ossip was lionized into a hero, and in troduced to the Czar, who made a noble man of him under the name of Komks aroff, For a whole season the young fellow, under the guidance of Gen. Tod leben, was the idol of St. Petessburg society. His father, a non-political con vict in Siberia, was recalled, ani after a triumphant journey, admitted to share in the new prosperity of his son. Even tually, when the enthusiasm had cooled down, it was ascertained that Ossip had never saved the life of the Czar at all, and that being slightly tipsy when the event took place close by him, he had simply been frightened by the pistol’s report, and had fainted. The matter was hushed up as soon aa possible —they manage that Bert of a thing very well in St. Petersburg—and the new nobleman was provided with a lieutenancy in the Caucasus. Bonnets With Lightning-Con ductors. In an old-fashioned book we are told that, soon after the invention of the lightning-rod, the ladies of Paris, France, thought it fashionable, as well as safe, to wear a bonnet ornamented at the very top with a thread of bright metal. To this was attached a little silver chain which reached down the back over the dress and touched the ground. It was believed that the lightning would be caught by the metallic thread, and would then be so polite as to run along the chain down into the earth without harming the wearer of the bon net. Domestic Geometry. Courier-Journal, There is one poor boarding house keeper who is going to be just perfectly miserable for the next week at least. She has anew set of servants, and green servants are such a vexation I They haven’t the first idea of geometry, and it takes the average landlady at least a week’s ca*eful drilling to teach them how to arrange the tablecloth in such a scien tific manner that tbe holes will be under the butter-dish, the caster and the coffee urn. .. A little Waterloo Sunday-school miss was asked by her teacher: “ Wha must people do in order to go to heaven ? ” M Die, I suppose, ” re plied the little one. The teacher didn’t question her any further. . .A North Uaroima widower has been arrested while attempting to sell a set of false teeth belonging to his deceased wife’s estate, to procure funds for the purchase <>t a suit in which to marry a second wife. MX SWEETHEART. My sweetheart’s like the sweetest flower Bhe’s like a summer neon She’s like frhe tender air that blows In the sweet month of June. My sweetheart’s like the sweetest soaj That ever yet was sung; Ihe myriad melodies of life Are caught from her alone. My sweetheart’s like the morning star That hides a loving face Upon the bosom of the dawn and ?e caught from her alone. Bhe’s like the harveet moon that shirs*. Upon the ripened fields; Bhe’s sweeter than the sweetest store Theii richest buiden yields. She’s like—oh 1 wicked waste of word* On hei dear self bestown The loveliest of all loveliness— My life, my rride-mv own, .. Necessity may be the mother of in vention, but laziness is certainly the father of it. .. “ You follow the legal profession, 1 believe, sir?” Lawyer pompom: “ No, sir, 1 lead it.” .. Puck says that a man learning to play the cornet interests all hh neigh* bors—-in a horn. .. Summer heat has the effect cf mak ing people in one place want to go to some other place. ..An English sporting nobleman last year paid a bill of SI,OOO for medical at tendance upon his pack of hounds. ..Have you ever thought hew kind t is of the average murderer to forgive everybody before he is swung off? ..Brown: “Gan you break me a $5 bill ?” Jones: “ I should like to break it, but unfortunately I’m broke myself.” .. In order to have the words “ Para graphers’-Association ” convey their full significance, they should be joined to* gether with a high-fun. .. Grandma: “ Yes, children, when I was young as you are I used to walk in my sleep.” Tommy (eagerly): “ Say, grandma, what time did you make V* .. “In the bright complexion of youth we have no such word a 9 pale, ” and she reached for the rouge-box with the clutch of an angel. .Don’t you mean to marry again* deacon Jones ?” asked widow Simpkins. “ No,” growled he, “ I’d rather lose what ribs I’ve got than take any more.” .. A bursting soda water fountain killed a North Carolina man a few days ago. Young women, beware how you lead young men up to a loaded soda fountain* .. The law prohibiting opium smoking in Nevada, under a penalty of SI,OOO fine or two years’ imprisonment, went into etrect the Ist of May. ..When you come right down to “ sounds of industry,” a boy, a club and an old tin pan can do as much business as six carpenters working on anew house. .. When a boy scrapes a little skin off his knuckles while sawing wood for his mother, he makes more ado about it than when he knocks his big toe-nail off in running to a fire. This is reliable*. ...Now the swell In Btyls arrayed Goeth forth to promenade, Bat wilts ’neath the fervor of the eanbeam' glance, And so do hi# collars and his jacket and hie pants. I .. An Albany girl was frightened into convulsions by a brass band, and died Usually the results of such inflictions are not fetal, but tend to produce bad language and insanity. .. Speak of a man’s marble, and ne will glow with conscious pride; but allude to his marble head, and he f a mad in a minute. Language is a slippery thing to fool much with. .. A young man, the other day, got married against the wishes of his parents, and, requesting a friend to break it to them, said : “ Tell them lam dead, old fellow, and gently work them up to the climax. ” .. A lady who had had much experi ence in teaching both boys and girls,, speaking of the extraordinary obtuse ness of a certain pupil, said: “In a physiology class, this young lady of fifs teen inquired, with languid surprise, ‘ls there not a straight passage through the head from one ear to the other?’—a somewhat natural conclusion/* the teacher commented dryly, “if she ever watched the processes of her own mind.” “Which would you prefer teaching,”" asked a visitor, * boys or girls ? ” “Boys, infinitely,” was the prompt reply. “No boy, for instance, would ever have asked such a question as that. He would long before ve investigated the subject with a lead pencil, Not, probably, in his own oars,” she added, meditatively, •‘but in his younger [Scribner for July.
