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Tie GeiMlle Ed®. .■ - m 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 ' '’, . ■-* ■> r:> • - *-• 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.