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CORNELIUS WILLINGHAM, Editor.
For the cause that need* assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that we ean do.
CARTERS VLLE, : : GEORGIA.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
North Carolina has 96 counties.
The school fund of Kentucky is sl,-
600,000.
Key West, Fla., shipped 900,000 cigars
last week.
Apricots sell in Lake City, Fla., at $8
per bushel.
Pensacola, Florida, [is to [have anew
hotel, cost SIOO,OOO.
Wilmington, North Carolina, has a
population of 17,506.
North Carolina has a commissioner o
immigration in England.
New Orleans is to have a school for
the training of women nurses.
North Carolina has 221 Masonic lodges
at work with a membership of 8,199.
Six hundred thousand oranges will be
shipped from Enterprise, Florida, this
fall.
Monticello, Fla., lias shipped this sea
son 503 barrels and 29 crates of Irish
potatoes.
A green turtle, weighing over 400
pounds, has been captured off the Flor
ida coast.
One hundred children work in the
Mavsville, Ky., cotton mills for 75 cents
to $1.25 a week each.
The Association of Atlanta Preachers
have signed a respectful protest against
the issuing of Sunday papers.
Mr. Matthew Berry, near Ramer,
Montgomery county, Ala., is sending to
the high school his eight children.
Six thousand cans of oysters wenTre
cently sent North in one shipment by
the canning establishment at Newbern,
North Carolina.
One hundred and two thousand, eight
hundred and thirty-five pouudsof straw
berries have been shipped from Chatta
nooga this season.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Con
stitution says Savannah is the modern
Sodom and has four hundred bar-rooms,
or one to every twelve adults.
Such a severe storm prevailed in Lee
and Sumter counties, Georgia, that in
one place, for nearly a mile, you could
walk on the trees that had been blown
down.
In Harris county, Ga., dinner-horns
are said to have gone out of fashion.
Provisions are so scarce that when a
horn sounds all the neighborhood re
spond to the call.
Charles Johnson, of New Orleans, the
convicted ship-burner, says that a num
ber of business men, cotton brokers
chiefly, were “interested” with him in
his business—the ship-burning business.
Nine spongers came into Key West,
Fla., last week, after a nine weeks
cruise, and sold their sponge for $2,511.
The Adventistr of Granbury, Texas,
have erected a large tabernacle for the
purpose of expounding their doctrines.
A number of young men from Greene
county, Ga., started down the river in a
canoe about six months ago to try the
novel business of trapping beavers. The
voyage was very dangerous, but success
ful, and each man’s skins netted him
S7OO.
Two little boys, Clarence Gross and
Willie Dominy, were wrestling in Dub
1 in, Ga., and fell on their sides. Willie
got up, leaving Clarence on the ground.
The by-standers noticed that he did not
stir, and approaching they found he was
dead.
Mr. J. W. Slaughter, near Pineville
Georgia, was having a well dug on his
place, and when about twenty feet deep
a well-preserved oak leaf was found firm
ly imbedded in the chalk. When about
fifty feet deep a live snake of the black
species was found.
“The Atlantic and Gulf Coats Canal
and Okeechobee Land Company” is the
dignified title of the organization which
proposes to reclaim the Florida Ever
glades. The company will have a cap
ital of $10,000,000, and will build a
canal to drain Lake Okeechobee, east
and west, and also a canal 300 miles long
along the east coast of Florida. Colon
ists from Europe are to be settled on the
lands. Sugar and indigo are to be
grown on the reclaimed lands. The
company held a meeting at Philadelphia
last week.
Opium Smoking.
San Francisco is not of the opinion
that the article in the new Chinese treaty
prohibiting citizens of either country
from importing opium here, and vessels
flying the flag of eithtjr nation from
carrying it, will destroy the trade in this
article. Opium smoking, on the Pacific
coast, is not confined to the for
American youths have acquired the
habit. Says one of the importers : “The
Chinese will get it, if it is on the top of
a the earth.**-
DOVTtliARtt POWLf
Think not that atafengfa lies fa the hifc tfmind woM,
Or that, the brief and myst nee be *mk.
To whom can this be true, wheonee has beard
The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak,
tVhen want, or woe, or fear is at the throat,
So that each word gasped out is like a shriek
Pressed from the sore heart, or strange, nWd.note
Sung by some fay or fiend ? There is a strength
Which dies If stretched too far or spun too fine, •
Which has mere height than breadth, more depth
and length.
Let but this force of thought aud speech be mine,
And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase,
W hich glows and burns not* though it gleam and
thine; , „
Light, but not heat—a flash without a blase.
Nor is ft roete strength that the short word boasts
It serves of more than fight or storm to tell
The roar of waves that dash on rock-bound coasts.
The crash of tall trees when the wild winds swell,
The roar of guns, the groans of men that die
On blood-stained fields. It has a voice as well
For them that far-off on their sick beds lie,
For them that weep, for them that mourn the
dead, ,
For them that laugh, and dance, and clasp the baml;
To joy’s quick step, as well as griefs low tread.
The sweet, plain words we learnt at first keep time,
And though the theme be sad, or gay, or grand,
With each, with all, these may be made to chime,
In thought, *r spe.*ch r er song, or prose, or rhyme.
A Ludicrous Elopement.
It’s hard for a “country jake” to con
vey to his Susan Jane the exact situation
when first the arrow is lodged in his
heart. The attitudes and awkward com
binations of personal presentation are
painful to an outsider, to say nothing of
what he suffers. See him cross his legs,
first one on top and then the other, and
then see him shoot them out in front,
and run his hands in Ills pockets; then
he draws in his feet, doubles them under
the ohair, pulls his hands out of his
pockets and drops them down by his side,
stretches, yawns, blushes, and almost
dies trying to say it. Poor follow, it is
martyrdom while it lasts, and when he
does “get his mouth off,” it’s like put
ting a beggar on horse back; he just
canters off to paradise with a happy-go
lucky indifference that is enviable, bar
ring an obstruction on the track, and
then over on his head he tumbles, when
cruel parents intervene and refuse to
ratify.
A ludicrous case of this sort of agony
occurred near the place of my nativity
about twenty-five years ago, in which I
had my sympathies so roused that I was
moved to lend the hero sonic assistance.
His name was Joe, and his girl’s, Mar
tha Jane, to whom he had surrendered
his entire heart, stock, lock and barrel—
without reservation of any kind, which
she gushingly reciprocated by adding
her entire stock in trade in the partner
ship proposed. But the old folks de
murred—refused to ratify—threatened a
war of extermination—banished Joe, and
belied Martha Jane, besides several otlie'r
threatened acts of dire hostility. In fact,
Joe and Martha Jane had the biggest
spider put in their dumpling ever known
since Adam’s and Eve’s apple. sci*apq.
Their hearts all but “busted”—but they
didn’t.
The parties were neighbors—lived in
sight of each other—Joe on the hill aud
Martha Jane in the bottom. ' When
Martha Jane came forth to nourish’
her young fowls with a preparation of
ground corn and water, she would cast
her loving eyes upward and rest them on
Joe, who would from above look down
affectionately on his Martha Jane, and
they would sigh and swallow great hunks
of grief a* big as apple dumplings.
Joe was so badly off that I was sorry
for him, and when he called upon me to
assist him, I proceeded at once to the
prospective mother-in-law (more or less)
with my eloquence, “from whom I
proceeded from whence”—not running,
but my time was good. I reported pro
gress, and begged to be excused. Joe
got worse and worse; threatened to
commit—well, to steal something, and
did make divers efforts to steal his girl,
but the old folks slept on their arms.
Joe was getting terribly bad off; he said
ho must have her; that I must steal her
for him. I tried to prevail on him to
bide his time; but, no, have her he must,
and I must do the job for him; he know
I could do it if I would, and ho wanted it
done right off.
When I found Joe couldn’t wait, I con
sented to try my hand. I was about
Martha’s age, aud the thought occurred
to me that I would dress in woman’s
clothes and let Joe steal me, and see if
it would “sorter” cool his ardor. I con
fided my plan to some of the boys, and
they approved it and promised their as
sistance. We concluded that \v* would
let the old man, Martha Jane’s father,
ink) the secret, and arrange for him to
pursue us with his hounds, of which he
had about a dozen, when we made the
attempt, The old man entered into the
affair eagerly, for he despised Joe.
After we had fixed all the preliminaries
of time, place and manner of proceeding,
wo adjourned to meet the next Sundav
night and have the chaso. We met ac
cording to adjournment at the time agreed,
and a woman hitched mo up in some of
Lev gear, with a parcel of things tied
round my waist —I don’t know what
they all were, but I know the outside
was calico, and it was in two pieces, one
was the tail, which was tied on first, and
the other was a sort of jacket with sleeves
to it, of some dark sort of stuff. Ihese,
with a white sun-bonnet, and a blue veil,
and some cotton stuffed in judiciously to
give me a gushing make-up, having been
provided as indespensable to my toilette,
I was ready and willing to be Joe s—for
a time. ,
When we arrived near Martha Janes
house, the old man was waiting for us.
We arranged that ifter we had got about
a quarter of a mile off, one of our party,
(who remained behind for the purpose)
should notify. Joe tliafc we had Martha
Jane, and when Joe came tearing by the
house, the old man was to give him a
salute from his old double-barrelled shot
gun. Very soon here came Joe full tilt
down the hill towards the creek. Bang
went the venerable shot-gun, and away
went Joe. and soon came the old man on
his sway-back horse, with his hounds
and shot-gun. and accompanied by his
son.
Mitch ellville was the objective point
of the expedition, and it was about fivo
miles off. The boys got Joe’s arms from
him to protect his girl, and prevailed on
him to rush ahead, pay the toll-gate fees,
proceed on to MitchelWille and have the
license ready, so as to have no delay.
Accordingly, Joe went off at a lope, paid
the toll for us, and gave strict orders not
to let Martha Jones’ father through; but
when the old man came* to the gate be
just jumped old sway-back ever it,
and on be came, bis bounds in ftlU cry.
The way he '‘got up ahd got” along that
pike was a soeni not to be forgotten.’
The fuss he made aroused everybody en
route.
T Oflar crowd cc*6isteAo! five, .beside?
Joe, Bead we arrived at KltdhellviUe about
10 p. m. Joe wa the*©, and as soon as
I had dismounted, no was at my side and
led me up to the door and rattled it so
that the startlod Justice opened it at
once, but, upon seeing, as he supposed,
a female, closed! it to arrange his toilet.
Meantime, the old man and his hounds
could be heard nearing rapidly. I wliis
pered to Joe I wanted to retire around
the corner of the house to arrange my
dress, and he said, excitedly, “Bein a
hurry, the old man will soon be here. ”
I did make haste, for no sooner had I got
around the corner than I darted through
a gate, ran down the side of a fence,
crept through ail opening into a back
yard, and hid behind an ash-hopper.
When the Justice had got clothes-on,
he opened the door to tell us to come in,
but, of course, I wasn't there, and Joe
was running frantically round the house
looking for his girl, while the old man
and his dogs were coming nearer ewery
minute. The Justice came chit and Joe
yelled for his Martha Jane, but she came
not Then the Justice called o*ut: “Don’ 4
bo alarmed, madam, come in; you sihan’t
be hurt,” and essayed to assist JSoe to
find her.
By this time the old man, Ins sofa and
the hounds had charged into towm and
were almost at the door. Accord ing to
previous arrangement a sham row • it once
began between our boys and the pursu
ers, and so well was the tiling dome that
the citizens (for every man, wonuan. and
child in the village was up) pitched in to
prevent what they thought woivld be a
sanguinary affray.
The burly Justice, seeing the turn af
fairs seemed to bo taking, and excited
beyond measure, moitnted the horse
block and commanded the poace so vo
ciferously as almost to be heard in the
adjoining counties of tiiis State and
Kentucky. This restored qmiet, our
boys professing to be law-abiding citi
zens. The old man also simmered down,
though he insisted that ho had the right
to boa little out of humor at the boys
for robbing him of his gal, and kept lin
gering round and “cussin’ ” a little on
the outside. , • > ’ ’A
After the row had been squelched, the
women of the village organized a
search for the lost maiden, with a view
of shielding her from the wrath of the
irate old man.
It w r as not long before I was discov
ered by one of them, and she, with
another, made a dash at me. I scuttled
off as fast as I could, but I hung my
in my town. calico and m*de a per
fect * ‘slinckinA of it in my liaste.- _lt tore
nearly off at ihe waist and split in two,
and bv the time I got to the next fence I
had a trail two y ards long. I had great
trouble in climbing that fence (I can’t
see, liow a Woman cm climb a fence, no
way); irf faet, I half climbed and half
rolled over, burst th o strings round my
waist, ran out of all the balance of my
lower female harness, threw my bonnet
back on my head, ran ed the yell, and
almost ran over some more women who
w v Cre looking for me, and I heard one of
them say.J as I passed— “Lordy, Kate,,
what was that?” I tfbdn’t stop to ex
plain, but made good m*y escape.
Joe was not to be thus outdone. Ho
persevered, and in a short time succeeded
in getting away with tkte right Martha
Jane, and the two were .made one. But
Mrs. Joe would never speak to me after
wards, for the reason, I suppose, that I
came so nigh beating her out of a lius
baud.
It was tlie nearest I ever came to being
married, and though Joe-—doubtless in
• litigated by his wife—gave me a terrible
thrashing* somo eighteen months after
the escapade, I never rec.dl it without a
hearty laugh.
The Postal third Fiend.
“Tliere is anew kind of fiend in exis
ence,” said a post-office detective recent
ly to your correspondent; “the postal card
fiend, who came into existence with that
species of epistolary effusion. The
nuisance is a much greater one than yon
can imagine. No obo who is not con
nected with the service can imagine the
number of scurrilous cards sent out.
Ladies come to us—some of them be
longing to the first families in our city—
w ho are almost heartbroken over the open
missives they have received. They do
not want to expose the matter—r-qften it
is the result of some family feud—and So
all we can do is to stop the cards here,
while the villain is allowed to go free.”
I have heard of a case lately where a
young wife was assailed in reputation by
a former lover —rejected of course—who
kept just within the boundary of the law.
Tlie insinuating language was sufficiently
veiled to keep the young husband un
easy, while it ate deep into the young
bride’s heart. It will kill lier, as she is
dying slowly of the inward wound. Of
•course ten years in prison would be light
punishment for such a fiend, but these
people always calculate upon an unwill
ingness to prosecute on account of fears
of publicity.— N. Y. Cor. Philadelphia
Record.
Suicide ami Its Causes.
A scientific person in Switzerland, who
fins written a book on suicide, its causes,
peculiarities and significance, denies the
point whichßicliard Grant White makes,
that the inclination to self-destruction
increases with education and refinement,
and claims that moral conditions influ
ence suicide more than social or econom
ical conditions. As for religion, Protest
ants seem asyet to kill themselves oftener
than Homan Catholics, and still more
frequently .than Jews, in the countries
where the three religions are repre
sented in proportions of any importance.
Density of population is without any
appreciable effect; but suicide is more
frequent in cities than in the country.
So far as individual influences are con
cerned, women kill themselves three or
four times less frequently than do men;
suicide increases with age to the extreme
limit of life; marriage exerts a very
marked preventive effedt, while celibacv
and widowhood favor suicide. In
quiries iuto the motives of suicide
have not brought satisfactory answers,
for it is hard to get at the truth told
about them, and official reports must be
accepted with reserve. In France,
higher,, more .geqerojif motives are at
tributed to wpomiji men.— & ew
York CoittneMal ' '’,
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Wax? titter to speak of stock
'report*! Jittery *Mkl know* fchh teptkt
does not come from the stock, but from
the barrel.
SOUTHERN ’TOWNS.
The Washroom Floors DewloKd Sloee
th* Wor—lron Bfnnafhetnros.
IGath’s Southern Letter.J
The average Southern town which has
grown up since the. war, surrounding a
railroad station, consists of two to five
drinking saloon, a few stores and a series
of cabins or shanties of planks or logs,
set hither and thither, without much
reference to a town in the future.
Through a long range of country there
are no fences on the side of the railroad
track. The trains are kept constantly
whistling to avoid running over cattle or
mules. This is the case within sight of
Montgomery, Ala., where there are some
16,000 inhabitants. Occasionally one
{bids a steam saw-mill put up since the
war in the midst of the wood, sawing out
lumber. The rivers are full, almost to
the level of the landscape, in high water,
and they are principally efficient as to
flooding the surrounding bottoms and
creating new soil for agriculture. Alto
gether the most hopeful country in the
South, for various occupations, is along
the mountain lines of Alabama, Tennessee
and Georgia, where I saw a number oi
iron furnaces, and in two or three cases
cotton mills, built by Northern capital
in a perfect manner. One of the furnaces
which gives the name to the railroad
station was called “Stonewall,” after
Stonewall Jackson. The ext was called
“Tecumseh,” after Gen. William Te
cumseli Sherman, and is operated by ex-
Senator Warner, of Alabama, who was
on Gen. Sherman’s staff. Warner got
into the traiu at his station and talked to
me as far as Rome, Ga., and said to me:
“There are just four towns in the South
which are picking up rapidly—Chat
tanooga, Rome, Atlanta and Birming
ham, Ala. My biother-in-law, Justice
Woods, of the Supreme Court, is inter
ested with mo in the Tecumseh furnace.
We worked along for some years during
hard times without much returns, but
we are now making money, and so are
the furnaces generally in this section, of
which there are a dozen or more. All of
them are charcoal furnaces, and two of
these are said to be the largest charcoal
furnaces in the world. We have orders
for iron a long way ahead. The ad
vantages of making iron here are cheap
ness of materials and of labor.
He said that they paid about one dol
lar a day for labor, and paid about forty
or fifty cents for cut wood per cord. I
rJso understood him to say that the ma
terial entering into a ton of iron procured
on his land cost only about sixty-five
cents. I presume he meant without la
bor. This was disputed by Mr. Folgen,
who thought Warner must have had saiid
six dollars and a half, but I am pretty
mire he said sixty-five cents. Warner
said that the present Governor of Ala
bama was a pretty fair man, and that,
while the State was not improping much,
industry would soon start up. A bank
had just burst at Rome, Ga., and Sena
(tor Warner was just going up to seo
what had become of SB,OOO of his furnace
money deposited there. Throughout
the South there is a rising opposition to
any more State banks, and a general op
position to my further noise about what
is called “States’right.” I have shown
you in another communication how the
exasperation against “States’ fights,” so
called, has broken out among the most
dogmatic soldiers of the rebellion, who
want a better living for their families and
loss political theory.
She Was a-Wasliing.
They bad an assault and battery case
on trial in Justice alley, says M. Quad,
and one of the witnesses for tlie plaintiff
was a colored woman. After the usual
questions bad been asked she was told
to tell the jury what she know about the
case. She settled back and began :
“ Well, I was a-wasliin’ out my clothes
when ”
“ Never mind the washing/’ said the
lawyer.
“But it was Monday.”
“ Can’t help that.”
“But I always wash on Mondays.”
“ Never mind that. Tell the jury what
you know about this affair.”
“ Well, I was a-sudin’ an’ a-sudin’ my
clothes when I seed ”
“Can’t you let that washing alone?
We all know that you were washing/*
“ Yes, sah. I had fo’ten Shirts, free
tablecloths, twenty-four collahs and
twelve towels in the wash, an’ I was a
; lihs ii’ an’ a-rinsin’ when de ole man he
yy
“Say, Mary, won’t you tell the jury
w hat you saw ? ”
“Yes, sali; 1 was a-wringin’ an’ a
w ringin’, an’ I had my sleeves rolled up
yy
“Mary, I wish you’d hang that wash
ing up to dry.”
“Yes, sah. De next fing arterwring
ill out de clothes is to hang ’em out, an’
J was a hangin’ when ——-”
“I guess you can be excused,” said
the lawyer.
“Shoo, now! Jist hold on till I git
dat washin’ in an’ part of de shirts ironed
' an’ I’ll tell you jist how dat fight began
I an’ de name of de party who was
knocked ober de ash-heap an’ frew de
alley fence! Doan’ git a poo’ woman
way off down yere an’ den refuse to let
her airn her witness fees.”
The Imperial Crowns of Russia.
The crown of the Czar of Russia is in
shape as much a miter as a crown ; it
thus suggests the double function—at
once the head of the church and head
of the state —which the Russian Em
peror is supposed to exercise. It is sur
mounted by a cross formed of five beau
tiful diamonds, and supported by an im
mense uncut but polished ruby. The
ruby rests upon eleven large diamonds,
which in their turn surmount rows of
pearls. More magnificent even than the
crown of the Emperor is the coronet of
the Empress, which is supposed to pre
sent the mostbeautiful mass of diamonds
ever brought together in a single orna
ment. In this constellation of glittering
stones four large diamonds of tfle purest
water are especially remarkable; the
other diamonds, some sixteen or ’eigh
teen in number, are of secondary at
tractiveness* and there are beside seventy
or eighty diamonds which would have
to be placed in a third category.
A curious use was made of the mar
riage ceremony*in Oincinnati the other
day. A young girl having put he* fab*
'fant to.death was, at the suggestion of
her lawyer, * married to her lover, who *
Nras the only witness against her. the
*t*wQ being the iifcaifca ~wu.4e--
prived of its only evidence.
The Brief and the Diffuse.
Brevity is not only r the soul of wit,
says the Galveston News, but, ordinarily,
the mark of good common sense. Al
most all good things, however, may be
carried to extremes, and when newspa
pers not only become sententious, but
undertake to make a single word do duty
for a paragraph, they often become as
unintelligible, or are liable to be inter
preted in as many ways, as the oracles
of the weather prophets. Some of the
papers have fallen into the hiabit of drop
ping into monosyllables, tfrhich are un
intelligible except immediately where
the facts referred to are already known
—asl , *tain, ,r “wind,” “dry,” “sickness”’
“a Ehan dead,”, aud the like phrases,
which would barely answer as head lines
in most cases. This is a Mttie too much
of,the style which logicians call calegor
matic, when a single word is capable of
doing duty for a sentence, predicate or
proposition, as distinguished from the
ten categories of Aristotle, where the;
substance, quality, quantity, relation,
action, passion, time, place, situation,
and habit of the thing described were
given or understood. But there is no
style so curt as to lie objectionable as
the habit some people have of drawing
everything, under and above the earth,
past and present, into every incident
the} undertake to relate until the reader
or listener loses all idea of the subject
supposed to be in hand, and like the old
man who was tired of waiting for his
wife to finish counting the beans, calls
on Gabriel to blow his horn and end the
trouble. Widow Bedott gave some ad
mirable specimens of. this diffusive
style, and the central City Item adds the
following:
“I seen you looking for an item last
week,” said a freckled man with small
watery eyes, dashed with blue, to our
local. “Do yer want one now ?”
He was cordially answered in the affirm
ative, and gave in the following testi-
mony.
“Ike Bolivar and me had a narrow
escape from a horrible death, which was
prevented by Joe Moran, who first went
to Pike’s Peak in ’56, and afterward mar
ried into the Runnels family as lived
down by the ford in Steuben County,
York State, where Hi Griflin used to
have his blacksmith shop—-and a cussed
poor man lie was to shoe a horse—no
better’ll a saloon bummer anyway, and
his poor wife—married one of the Plat
ter gals—who first gave the sack to Job
Duncan, who run raffs down the Alle
gany, and in winters saved shingles and
fiddled for dances. Yes, and he was a
boss to rassel—seen him stand all day
Fourth of Julies in a ten-foot ring and
flop the best man that tackled him, but
he never laid up a cent, and seemed to
alius take the world just as easy as lying,
for he was just what Aunt Susan Parker
called shiftless, and a liklier old maid'n
Susan didn’t bind a shoe in North Ad
ams, Mass.—place where she was raised
—and smart? why her and “Doc.” Ram
say—alius called him “Doc.” ever since
he sucked the rattlesnake pizen oute’n
Jake Biglow’s leg—her aud “Doc.”
could hoe a row of taters in one time and
two motions and lay the last weed on the
left side to wunst. Thar was a brother
of Susan’s who peddled corn shellers,
and afterward growed Injun seed for a
big firm in Sandusky, Ohio—well, his
name was Wash. Parker—married into
the Biles family dowhi in Tioga County,
Penn.—got into a scrape, though, with
another gal—.” The local gave the nar
rator of this lucid and closely connected
sensation one ghastly smile and fled.
A Moorish Dust-Man.
Two things are de rigueur in all books
of Eastern travel; first, the witty disser
tations on small vermin, without which
no regular book of travels in any latitude
can be considered complete; second,
loathsome pictures of the general filthi
ness of Eastern towns, where we are led
to believe that sanitary precautions are
absolutely unknown. Will it be credited
that one of the first things to catch my
eye, as I looked down into the narrow
street of Tetuan from my bed-room win
dow that morning was a downright
Moorish dust-man? There he was, in
flowing robes and white turban, driving
his mule before him, with its capacious
basket paniers. He lifts up his voice in
dismal howls, till the maid-of-all-work
comes forth, bearing the daily ashes of
her house in a large wooden box, which
the Moor empties into his mule paniers
with lofty dignity, and passes on to the
next door. In fact, that peculiarly
excellent system known to modern Eng
lish sanitarians, if my memory serves
me rightly, as the Preston Pall Systems
is in full swing in Tetuan, and has been,
no doubt, for centuries. The dead dog,
and festering vegetable refuse (in the
sacred interests of truth, I am forced to
make these unsavory allusions), which,
according to the best authorities, ought
to litter the narrow slit of a street below,
are as non-existent as the sickening
odors which ought to, and undoubtedly
would, accompany them if there; and to
sum up, this most thoroughly Eastern
town of Tetuan is positively a place to
live and flourish in, not merely a hotbed
of plague and typhoid. Full of satisfac
tion at this interesting discovery of the
Moorish dust-man, I was composing
myself to await further revelations of
Eastern life, when a heavy bundle of
fire-wood projected from the housetop
directly above me came whizzing past
my nose, and induced me to withdraw’
hastily from the window. It was the
Jewish handmaiden sending down a
morning’s supply of fuel to Juanita, the
cook, who stood expectant below at the
house door.— Temple Bar.
A New Pure for Smallpox.
A Sister of Charity connected with St.
Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, Philadelphia,
has discovered a specific for the preven
tion and cure of smallpox. There is
nothing miraculous ftbout Hie remedy,
like the waters of Kfioek ami Lburdes,
but it is a compound of medicinal sub
stance®, tl|#c hitf o| which are digitalis,
aud silfpn&t# of"fine: The doleis'a tea
spoonful taken every hour for twelve
hours. Some astonishing pares have
been ■find nurses who have
never nad the disease have watched with
the worst cases without experiencing any
unple^a^.'effects. 7 'fie L
aiHifd with
jugs* bottles, pails, cups, pitchers and
ffvery kind of vessel for holding liquids,
and the whole force of Sisters is kept
constantly busy preparing the medicine. <
—New York Commercial Advertiser.
| INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.
Young meii may be too fresh, but egg
—never. t
We have no objection to a mans bor
rowing trouble; but we want liim to keep
it to himself after he has borrowed it.
Buffalo Courier.
“Women are either thinking
nothing or else thinking about something
else.” This passes for wisdom because it
was said by Dumas.
Since 1866 nine thousand divorces
have been granted in Italv, Milan being
set down for no less than three thousand.
Since 1870 Rome has had six hundred.
An exchange remarks that gout, which
is becoming quite fashionable, will never
affect the editorial profession, as cracker
and beer lunches never produce so high
toned a disease.
When Philadelphians see a man with
a Hack eye, bhfidy nose, and generally
larrupped appearance, they point to him
and whisper: “ He’s a statesman. '
Boston Post
A church never splits on account of
its numerical strength. It is only when
two deaoons can’t decide which one is to
boss the sexton that nend is found for
another building amiminister.— Detroit
Free Press.
, According to Professor Swing, “the
coming man will be temperate, chaste,
merciful, just, generous, charitable,
large-hearted, sweet-tempered,
a good neighbor and faithful citizen,
What a nice time the coming woman will
have.
A writer in the London Truth says
that the “fifteen puzzle” was worked out
in Hutton’s “Recreations Id Mathemati
cal Science” more than fifty years ago.
The Hindoos, Chinese, and Egytians
were familiar with the puzzle, the square
of sixteen being consecrated to Jupiter.
A man is either a fool or a physician at
forty, and when he is the latter there is
no physician—in this country at least
—who can teach him anything. He
knows somebody’s domestic medicine by
heart’, and imagines- he is suffering foom
every disease known to tine books. In a
medical point of view it is occasionally
not a bad tiling to be a fool.
When a Chinaman dies on t?ie home
ward passage from Han Francisco tc.
China, his remains are embalmed by his
companions, in a simple but effective
method. A gash is cut in his neck, and
an artery opened, and about two gallons
of arsenical solution injected into the
veins hv means of a hand pump. Xho
arterv is then tied up and the body
placed in a box.
The following figures have been pub
lished, giving, it is said, the exact num
ber and nationality of soldiers who were
engaged on the Union side in the “late
unpleasantness; ’
Per cent.
Native Americans 1,523,300 75.43
Gorki an 53,500 8.76
Irish .b.Vb..1.......... 144,200 7.14
British American .-J. 53,500 2.40
Other forcigrcrs.......... 48,400 2.33
English.... 45,500 2.26
Foreigners unknown 26,5p0 1.33
Total number......... 2,018,200
A young Italian-painter, Signor Carlo,
in Paris, lxas been astonishing a select
circle of spectators with some wonderful
performances in the way of rapid execu
tion. A member of the company
chooses a subject, and without a mo
ment’s Reflection, the painter proceeds to
depict it on a large canvas, six feet by
three. In four or five minutes the pic
ture is finished and replete with details.
Of course, being produced at such a
rate, the work leaves much to be desired;
but as an instauce of lightning speed,
combined with a harmonious ensemble,
it is simply marvelous.
Stenography in Old Times.
Stenography is on the ete of being su
perceded by the invention of the piano
tacliygraph. We may first remark that
modern nations are much.behindhand in
the practice of stenography. David, in
fact, says in one of his psalms': Lingua
mea calamus scribes nclociter scribentis
(“My tongue, is the lien of a ready
writer”). The Hebrews, therefore, knew
the art of writing as rapidly as one could
speak. But it was at Athens and Romo
especially that stenography w’as prac
ticed. Xonophone employed an abbre
viated alphabet to write the speeches of
Socrates, whose works he edited. This
w’as 168 years before Jesus Christ. The
Romans, who, with the spoils of Greece,
carried the arts and usages of the Greeks
into Italy, brought back that kind of
writing and vulgarized it among all
classes of the population. Under the
Consulate of Cicero may be seen the
first traces of stenography. The great
orator was himself very expert in the
art, and took a pleasure in teaching it to
a freed slave named Tiron, who w’rote
down his pleadings. Tiron acquired a
celebrity in the practice, and gave his
name to the method he employed, his
reports being called Tironian Notes.
Soon telegraphic signs w r ere alone
used in writing in Rome. Seneeus,
Brutus, Julius Caesar, and many other
illustrious men employed it. One day
Cicero wrote from habit in Tironian
signs to his friend Atticus, who cou\d
not understand the letter. The great
orator then offered to teach him steno
graphy, and he learned it in a very short
time. Augustus gave lessons in steno
graphy to his grandsons. The old sten
ographic method w r as preserved iu
France until the eleventh century, and
letters from Louis le Debonnaire, son of
Charlemagne, in Tironian characters
still exist. In 747 a Benedictine, named
Pierre Carpentier, reformed the Tiron
ian alphabet and published in Latin a
volume on his new method. At present
stenography, which is only practiced by
a few writers, has been modified and
improved; but it does not appear to be
shorter or more simple than that used in
antiquity.-- Qalignani.
A. norpii* of young men went out fish
ing, and, on returning, were going past
ala cm house felt hungry. They
.filled to the farmer’s daughters:
“ Girls, have you any butter-milk?”
The reply gently wafted back to
their ears: .“Yes, but we keep it for our
ealvek.” The boys' calculated that
they had business away—and they
w*nk iMWijf*. It r ■
Some ’persons are bcaraf with a strong
natural instinct to be just. But it is also
a habit of mind which may be increased
vatea.