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' Iho newspaper law says il imv poison orders lim paper discontinued, lie must pay all urreuges, ortho pub lish,.).' mtiv continue to seinl it until payment is made, ami collect the whole amount. Also u nct'oii lor fraud cun ho inst'nutcd Against any poison, whether ho is responsible m a limincial view or not, who rel uses puv for his subscription. AnV person who takes a papei regularly f om the postollleo—wiieih cr directed to his nmno <>r nr.otli r'-', ror whether he hus Niibseibed or not s responsible tor the amount. '1 In) courts h ive l c'nlul that P fusing to lake newspapers i r pmio l ieuls Trout the post 'fliee, or remov ing an leaving th in unealled for is pnma liicio evidence of iutennition al fraud. Andre’s Prophetic Poem Daring the years 1771) ami 17SII Ander was on duty in New York, cnni took a lending part in the social life of that City. 1I accompanied Sir Ilonry Clinton at the cqituro ol Sto ny Point, June Ist, 177!), and wrote as uid-de-camp upon the ghissic of Fort La Fayette the terms of capitu lation conceded to the gpun-iou. He kept a careful diary and freipiem ly wrote squibs in prose and >yti-o l',,r the loyalist papers, and,in Augu-t, 1780, composed at Elizabethtown a burlesque poem entitled ‘ Iha Cow Chase,” in three cant >s, amounting to ueveity quarirains. Tiie subject was the attack made by Gtii Wayne upon a block house near Ball's terry, two or three mil'S below Fort Leo, in oi d. r to drive in some cattle iroin Her gen N 'ck. l>v a singular eo incident the last canto of this poem was print ed in Lliviiigstan’s Gazette, Sept. 2.5, 1050, the day ofth • poet’s capture at Tarry lown. The last stanza is as follows: Ami now I liiive oVtsctl my epic sli'iiin; [ treiriLle us I show it. Lest this si mo warrior drovor, Wayne, Should over catch the poet. It, happened, nit gulariy enough, that. Gen Wayne was the command - or of the post at ''.’apan at the time of Andre’s execution The original of t ie ‘'Cow Chase ‘ is still preserved, in Ander’s nittograj h,and underneath the above quoted lines an American pon has added 11 to coarse commenta ry: When ttie epic, strain was snag. The poet ’oy his uecK wnshuug. Equal to the Emergency. A father started for the west from zVarylnnd, with his daughter, to get her away from the young jnun whom she wanted to Many They stopped at Harper’s terry to | change trains. The lather lolt the girl in the waiting-room, wh le ho wait out to mail a postal-card informing his Wile that too jour ney was proceeding sat : s'acior>. When lie returned site was g l n> , and whon heio md lur halt an hour later she was done married to her 'over.wholiad to lowed close behind, with tho license and preacher. OV HR- CON FID EEC E. Don’t be over-confident, young man. Don’t carry your pet hobby too far. Take not - ol the shomhrs and logs ot a man before yon h.iSr linn. Out here on West Hid there is a gout that for t re long years lias butted everything nod everybody the broad empire of Burlington coni I cc Id send again-t [pin. lie n'o the circus posters 1) fore the paste was dry, and when the advance agent re monstrated, the gout just S’ood H]\ j end crowded the rash man clear through the bill staid. He once up sot a hay wagon; jammed his head through the end ol a wood shed and battened an officer up against a brick bouse. Ami one day ho wondeicd down into a saw mill and baited tho flywheel. Only one**. Whenheemne down his neck was bent, lie couldn’t make a dent in a sack ol mca 1, now. Young man, be content with reason able victories. Some day you, tio may run against a ily-wheel.—Bur lington lJawkf-ye YOU WILL NOT HE SO Hill For being coin tooiis to nil; For doing good to nil men; For speaking ovill of no one; -—wr hearing before ji dging; For thingitig before speaking; For holding an angry tongue; For being kind to the distressed; For asking pardon for all wrong; For being patient toward every body; For stopping the ears to a tale bearer; For disbelieving most of the ill rc • ports. Hayes is said to have laid by over one hundred thousand dollars of his salary as LTes.dent, fill IF, A. SINGLETON. FA A-I'mi>'r. VOL G. IT MIGHT II AVK HEKiV. BY It. 11, IIKNIIY, OK MIOOKIIVVEN, MI-1. It mh/lit. Ituve b fi f"n! Tlioho words so full of ur'ailing, To tlioiismi.lH Urea the tlio time-worn mourn ful si rain; Shutting out present joys while wildly gleaming Como bv-ijoue lionrs, to rocli tho fevered bruin. “11 might have b'en”— the child says to its mother, With eve* raised unto tho azure sky -If ho had lived my darling title brother Ho mortal would bo liappior than 1. We used to gather wildiiowets by tho brook- And climb together up tho mountains blow: Our little boat stands filled with withered leaflets— „ 1 cannot row it o’er the waters now, “it mio/it have beni /” In sadnesns K.ghs toe maiden, Whilst musing o’er fond hopes which now are dead; 81io feels a careless word has le.t hfospnr- A wiV-Tivd mockery, whence joy h is fled. She seeks tho giddy throng her brigat eye beaming, , Spent s not of burning, eager thoughts within; Skilled well is she in power of joyous seem ing, . But on the heart is traced H might have bt-n ! 'll might have bvc.t/' a proud youth sai.'.y nmnnurs. ‘ Yet she is false, and I, too. must forgot; Sho shall not know the power she has gain ed o’er me— My wild, deep love for her o mnot be met! i.nd thus two hearts were barred from out each other, That night two barks we re drifting o or the sards Of life-long sorrow; can tin-'lw another Greater Ilian this—the sundering of hearts' bauds? The man of niidd e-ngo dreams by his fire side Of fon l plain wrecked npon life’s troubled wave; Of bright hopes, knowing but an hour's cre ation. Then to sink into nu early grave, Tho gloomy matron, seated bv tho window. Struggles with her rebellious thoughts within; She. too, istliiDkingof life’s joyous promise. And sadly mariners, “Oh, il might hew bom F In youth are bound rho summer s wreaths ot roses. But years tiring on the cloud and rushing slot ins; Time’s hand the worm among the bud dis closes, The petals fall and only leave the thorns. The air is full of whispers md upraidings Of aspirations crushed, of dou‘ t and sin; Ah, well for they who never line'' tlnUeoli-one lJ.op in thoir souis, alas! It might, have been ! But this is not all; thank God ! tin t; is auothei World belter than this checkered life time, far. Where friend shall meet with friend, where sister, brothel Shah dwell in the holy land b. yon 1 the stars. There we shall sip the sweets of joy for." er; There we shah know no more doubt or sin ; There our heart strings never more shall cpii ver With these upbraiding words, "ll might hath: it tit !" About Hailing Eggs, There is an objection to the com - mou way of boiling eggs which peo ple do not understand —it is Ibis: The white, under three minutes rapid cooking, becomes tough and indigesti -le, while the yolk is loft out. Wiimi properly cooked, eggs are done evenly through like any other food. This result may be obtained bv putting I lie eggs i )to a di.-h with a con r, as a tin pail, and then pour ing upon tln'in boiling Lot water, two quarts or iroi'e t > a dozen eggs, and cover and sot them away from tho stove for fifteen minutes. ’l’he heat of the water cooks the eggs slowly, evenly and sufficiently, and lo ho a jolly like consistency, leaving tho | center, or yolk, harder than tho white, and the eggs taste as much richer and nice us u bosh egg is nicer than a stain egg. No person will want to cat them boiled after trying this method once. Eaton ton Messenger: Tho South ivied to whip tlie North in war, ami failed; tho South tried to whip the North in oolitics. and failed. There is one infallible way by which tho South may wh.p the North, and that is by building manufactories, and supplying the wants of the Southern people at lioirio. No blood need bo sited in this fight—not a drop. The South may have a bloodless, etlecUi. al victory. Tho old town ballot Athens took lire on tho afternoon of tho 9'hinst.. and was burning in quite a lively manner when extinguished by tho fire companies. BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., DECEMBER 22, 1880. THE OLD TIMES. fltr. A'*pn‘iil lin'ftWi'itfuiift Mi lOi < T,il Clominnuion on tlii'C.cmii nv Moiintiibi-lli'inorimi oF tile Wu l*—Among Uw O'il Tuvviis ol' Ueoi - in. “Don’t look back—let the dead past, bury its dead.” Thuds what they say now, and they want ns to keep moving nnd shove ahead and shout, “Excelsior!’’ as we clmfb up the mountain. A feller advised nr; to quit romancin' about ihe past,and let the cussed old war alone, am! quit ptvnchiu’ about (he old planta tions, antj confine my random :e --murks strictly to business. lie said something about Lot’s wife looking buck and turning lo a pillar ol salt. Well, 1 suppose she d'd, but there was lire and brmstone, too, a few years ago, and we didn’t lock back, either, but that's all over now, and wo have got to a faio place, and I reckon we can talk over tho old times onoa or twice in a whil-, can’t we? I've seen a picture of a feller c'imb ing up the r igg and edge of a steep mountain with a Hag in his hand, and shouting excslsior as ho riz up on the crumbling rocks, and I al ways thougut he was a tool, for a ft— or tie got io the tho top I kuowed M' eonldent git down any ittore and would just perish to death on the pin do of glory Now its well lor a man as travels through this valno ol tears to ,-top occasionally and look back lo see bow far he has got, ami if there is a mountain to climb he had (letter take a ladder along so that lie can get down on the other side. 1 iuve to iook back over chtqnred 1 fo and in sweet memories hvo over the past and in past trea- uro up of it and lament the bad of it. Mem ory was given to us for some good purpose, and 1 have no respect for a man who wants to blot out some thing behind him nnd keep rushing aniji i in a wild hunt for fume or fort une. ‘‘Stop poor sinner, stop and think,’’ was one of tho first hymns I ever learned, and it, fits us now as W' I! is it did tut'ti. 1 thought of itpis the cars swept along the base on the big■ Kt'itio Mountain, and as I looked Uj'on i's barren ami majestic sum mit, memory carried mo back to the nays of my gushing youth when there was a lofty tower up there, and my sweewtheart and I mounted its spi ral stair and sat together at tho top in sweet communion with nji>ureand ourselves, and as I looked into her nazel eyes it seemed to me wo were a little neater heaven thanl have ev er been since. It was a glorious hour, bat it could not last for there was a storm impending and the lightning Hashed and the thunder pealed, and we harried down to a S'l’e retreat. Not long afterwards tho storm came, and the winds blow and beat upon that tower and it toil. Just so it is with ou" life and our am bition. The mountain's top is gtand and cbnrming for a little while—but it is bleak and cohl and dangerous. Our softest refuge and happiest re treat is down among tho humble (lowers that blossom at its base. Covington’s a nice old town,adorn ed with evergreens and inviting homes.and' a contented people. It’s a town of mcmurics, too, for 1 found the old soldiers there, who loved to t.uk about the war audits many curi ous scenes and incidents. Captain Pace showed me the crgmal parting adress which the officers of the Vir ginia army prepared to send General Leo immediately alter tho surrender. It was was written hastily in camp at Appomatox upon confederate pa per,and is a model of tender, touch ing love,revere nee and admiration lor the grand old captain.' It is not known who wrote it, bat it has the genuine autographs of Longstreet, Gordon, Pendleton, E. P. Alexander -A- DBMOCBATIO NEWSPAPER, C, A. Evans, J. Lowe. LV*' nd Johnson and Gem ral Ransom. This paper was entrusted to Captain Pace to*obtaiu tho signa tures g. iwrally of the army officers, but the confusion following the sur render and Hio speedy dispersion of the lorees prevented him from do ing so, and ho has* Him paper yet. Ho " ill send to the Georgia liislo. ienl so ciety very soon. lie told me about the bravo and lie?y Mahouu; how ho trembled with the uttermost anguish and defiance, altd nyt vously clit'eh od the hilt of ins sword as he stood and witnessed the great commander make tho surrender of his army. But time in a wondesfnl doctor, and the genet al seems quite pac'iio now. Well, that’s i ighl and 1 think with Major Wa Unco that tiie general will stand upon honor and principle and never forsake his people. Like Cous in John Turaslicr, I’m not going hack upon a brave soldier about a little uiaiter of polities for the time may t ome when we will need ’em again. The best fighters are the best , ponce makers anyhow. Some of those Ox ford boys came over t > hear me dis course upon Dixie, and bad liked to have tismped my show. They had on pa.Vobo.ird standing collars about a foot long, with a deatfi’s bead on one side and a mot'o of sic semper tyrnn i,and ontho otlu-r tt big bsbboon and B 3 in ribas nniini. * They were very respectful in their deportment and dident charge anything, so the au dience had no reason to complain. 1 used to be a boy mysdl, and 1 thought the like of that was just the biggest thing in tin; world. There’s ■ no malice or meanness in it and the boys have got to go through it just like taking the measles. But they get over it by and by when the beard begins to grow, and then their col lars arc cut down so ns to gtvo their whiskers a more visible showing. Washington is a venerable place, it was laid out in 1780, just one hun dred years ago, and it scents to me they ought to havchi little cmiiennhd. It was the first town jthat was ever named f r the father of our country It was the tho place where the con federacy departed this life intestate. I was in tho very chamber General Hearti's house where Mr. Davis and Mr. Ileagan and General Urccken ridgo held the last Cabinet meeting. What a sad wrt-ek of hope was there! Old Wilkes was one of origiual eight counties ot the state, and embraced a large teririory, ironi which many others have been made. It was or iginally kown as Hornet's Nest, lor the old wings of the revolution made it pretty hot for the lories thero and hung cm up sometimes, eleven on a tree. John and Holman Freeman, two brothers, from Scotlanc, were the leaders o( the rebels and i tide svtiers with wisdom and prndetic The great chair of state in which John Freeman was aoensiomed to preside and which came from 'Scotland, is in General Heard’s house and is in good condition. Judge Junius lli lyer, of your city, married a daugterol John. Freeman. Many of tho decoudants of the first settlers of Wilkes live there yol; and it is assented that there has been less emigration ir m this section of Georgia than fr in any other. Indeed, the last census report j shows a larger increase ol population in tho eighth District than any in the state. Solid wealth nboudsin Wash, jngton, and her people can justly boast of the highest culture and most refined taste and manners, ail ol which is acotdnd with a generous hospitality. They honored me with splendid audience, which 1 gicatly ap preciated, for there was a feller close bv in the street singing a liver pad song by torchlight and trying to convince the crowd they needed Ids pack saddles. I'm afraid I itilctfered with his business, hut that people dident need em. Their livers are all right. Yours, IS mi, A Hr. That Torriblo Child. . A Galveston lady made a l.ic al ter noon cull and Imd uom**’iricd lo slay to tea. The biscuits wore a lit tie heavy, and toe gm-.-t, instead of eating them, shoved t.iem shyly into her pocket, link when urged to try one inure by the lady of the bouse, the guest answered• “They are really delicious, but 1 can’t lake any more ns J ale a late dinner. 1 never relished anything ns much in mv life. ” “Dial’s so, urn,” says little John ‘‘She likes'em so much she put’em in her pocket to take ’em In me ! and cut ’em.’’ On an other occasion there was a gentleman there at supper. Tin;bis cuits wer really good, nnd the get - lemon ate very heartily of them. When urged to take one more, lie replied: “No, I thank you, I’ve eaten three already.’’ “That’s a lie,’’ says Johny, “you ate live; I counted ’em!’’ —Galveston News. A Liberal Editor. We were grived to read the other day of the death •>! one of Michigan’s je’- liest pioneer editors—ahnost the last man of a hand who published weeklies in the State when a coon-skin whonhl pav for a column “ad,’’ and tlnee bushels of corn dumped on ilia office floor steed for a year sub oi iption. Nev er a publisher was more liberal with bis space. It was bald work for him to charge for anything except the tax list and mortgage sales, and he measured short even on them. One day in the years gone by his paper copied an as tack ou a county ofiidal, and old Mark Nvns dozing at his desk when the injured party stalked in nnd began: “You are a coward, sir—a—cow ard !” “Mcbbo I am,’’ was the edditor’s complacent lvply. “Ami I can lick yon, sir—lick you out of your wrinkled old boots !” “I guess yon.could,” answered Mark as be busted the wrapper off his only exchange. “I’m going to write an article call ing you a fool, liar, coward, cur, skin deter and body-snatcher, and go over to loni > and pay five cents a line to have it published I” “11-w ?’’ ipieried the old man as he wheeled around. “Say, let me tell yon something,’’ re plied Mark “I’ve got 200 more eirer ialion than the Banner, and 111 pub. iishyour attack on me for two cents a line mk! lake it out in mill feed ol corn stalks! Don l trot over io lonia when you can help build up ynr own town !’’ Mark would have published it word for word, just as he said, and tbowu in a cut of a burse or a slump-puller free gratis, but tho official cooled’ off.— De ll oil Free I’l ess. A BUSINESS D All KEY. An enterprising darkey of a calcu lating turn ol mind, says a Florida paper, called on a gmitleimm who owns a garden iu the cry of T'ailc hassce and represented that the gar den was gras<y, which, it left to go to seed, would render it impossible to *r-t>w wgit tiy.es on the spot next year and pioposod to cut it. down (or n ci:■•min sum, which tho gentleman agreed to pay. 11c then went to the gentleman who had recently rented the premises and made the flame popnsition, which was agon accept ed, tin 'a'tor not knowing, of couse, that the owner had agreed to pay for the work, ns the darkey had studious ly keptOint to himself. Aft-r cut ting Ilia grass and collecting pay from doth gentlemen our hero pro ceeded to the owner of a cow, sold tho grass for double what he charged lor cutting it, pocket and fo r times as much money as the work was worth, and went on his way humming a bym tune. Now, who says the Afri can isno.t a progressive race? aa’ncal sunsmirrioN. $2 00 Epitaphs. • Here lies .Tnlin Altoni.v. lio reeeiwd il thump Hi;;h! “11 the teivlle ul. ti'.im tile |> I'isll pump Here lays John, wit!i Mary Ills tu iile - They livrdnitil they liuiyeii while liieywasalile And at 'ast was chimed to knock umlei tho tn' do. Seiircnstic P|iitlinplis>, not neemn ria'ly involving a pan on the name, uro, we Hii.-'peet, seldom to b! found really engraved on toinb-iomp; and ' y in some cases written by robi i ions of tho doc used. It Drydeti ;o ally wrote ih* epitaph on liis wile at tributed to him, io must, indeed, have felt ami owed her but little af fection: Here lies my wife; Here Jet he lii ; She's now at rest, and so am I. One Mrs. Saute gave occasion, we are tola, to the following: Here tics, cut down tike unripe fruit, The wife, of Amos Duncan Slmto, Mw died of drinking too ranch coffeo, A tiny Dummy ei"litt.on forty. Jan. Wyatt, of course, took no part in I lie concoction of this effusion: At rest beneath this church -yard stone Lies slingy Jimmy Wyatt. tie and ed oneniornin:'just at ten, And saved a dinner by it. The ocupati.'ii of a dyer has sug gested many e fit nils of an obvious character, such as: He dyed to live, and lieu to die. Also: “* He died himself, and dyed no more. So many jokes have been fired off at Iho late Sir Willi in Curtis —an Al derman distinguished for defective education and had gramma—that wo need not led surprised at an epitaph couched thns: Hero lies William Curtis, Our late Lovd Mayor, Who Ims loft this here world, And gone lo that there. A useful hint is wrapped up in the following: l>icd <>f tijiii shoes, January 1839. —Chamber’s Journal. HOSTOS FOUNDED ON A COLD BED. zlu artesian well is now being su k in Boston, w!ii> It according to tho American Architect, seems to have at least one peculiar feat turc, the well has been driven rather more than fifteen hundred feet without reaching any consid erable spring, although there is a consfaiitc modente flow of water into it, but it seems that at •> dio tanco ot fourteen hundred feet from the smi'ace a stratum of gold hearing quartz, twenty feet thick, was reached and pierced. As the city is itse f situated on a mass of diluvial clay and gravel, although siirrondeu on all sides, at a distance of a few miles, by granite and porphyry formations, it might naturally i>e inferred that the auriferous veui would crop out somewhere a out the edge of the ba-in, and as ‘bonanzas” twenty feet thick are not only rare but valuable, possibly further attempts mat be made to trace the course of the deposit. Vv’u are not inform ed, adds the editor, whether the material brought up by the auger proved to be very rich ii the pre cious metal; probably it was not, but no surprising results could be expected Loin a random incision into the me!;. Whether anyone succeeds in making any profit out of it or not, the thought that Bos ton, alone ot large cities, rests upon a plateau ot go and ore may at least serve to gratify the vanity of its inhabitant s. TOSi A Kin 1 UVUiu Wlt ITIKG IIV EF - FACE VULE. It is said that pencil drawing may be rendered inetfacable by this simple process: Slightly warm a sheet of ordinary drawing paper; tin t) place it car'dully on the surface of a solution ol white resin in alcohol, leaving it there l ug enough to be cine thoroughly moistened. After ward dry it in i current of air. Pa per pepared in t bis way has a very smooth surface. lit order to fix the drawing the pap r is to be warmed for a few minutes. This method may prove itsclul for the preservation of plans or designs, when the want of lime ur any other cause will not al low the drough suian to reproduce them in ink. A simpler plan than the abovi, however, is to brush over the bock of the paper containing the pen cil sketch or chin coal a weak solution of white sheilae in alcohol. The census enumeration thus far completed shows a gain ol 2:14 pe cent over too census of 1870. y Who is the oldest person? nny Djnniiiii. ( Glass Spinning and Weaving. Quite recently a Pittsburg glftas linn lias succeeded, t> u notable dr-* gree, in producing tl'i'oailsi of_ sufficient lineness ami elasticity to permit of ♦licit - being wovyti into b In ics of novel character am! quality. Their success is such ns t> wnriant the assumption Unit garments >f pure, glass.glistoiiingfand imperishable, lire among the possibilities of tli > near lutu'o, Th*’ spinning of glass thread*, of extreme line ness is not, n nnw.pnv ci ss, but, ns carried on t present by lhe firm in question -Messrs Alter*, bury <& Cos,, possesses e<Mis‘d.-ruble interest. From n qtmUiy of glass ’similar 1 1 tlial Imtn which tabic ware is made, ro is o( <l::ss averaging hail' an ineh in diameter are drawn,, to any desired length and various colors. These rods are then so placed that the flame of twogis burners is (Town against that end of tho rod pouted toward Ihe targe ‘‘spin ning'’ wheel. Tho latter is 8J feet in diain tor, and turns at the rale of 300 revolutions per minute. Tho Humes, having played upon the end ol the glass cylinder until a melting heat is attained, a toread of gl tss is drawn from too red and affixed to the periphery of tho wheel, whose face ■’s about 12 inches wide. M tinn is then communicated, and the eht y.-tal thread is drawn from between the gas jets and wraopvd anon tho wheel at the rate of about 7 570 feet per min ute. A higher speed results in n fur or filament of glass, and vice versa. During its passage from the fl uno to the wheel, a distance of live or six feet, the thread lias become cooled, and yet. its elasticity is preserved to a notabla degree. The next stop in Iho process consists in tho removal of the layers of threads from the wheel. This is easily accomplished, and after being cut, to the desired lengths, i he filaments are woven in a loom somewhat rimilar to that used in weaving silken goods. Until within tlis past few weeks only tho woof ol the fabric was of glass, but at present both warp and woof aro in crystal. Samples of this cloth have been forwarded to New York and to Chicago, and tho mannfacierr ors claim to bo able to duplicate la color, texture, etc., any garment sent them. A tablecloth of glass recent'* ly completed shines with a satiny, opalescent luster by day, and under gaslight shows remwKable beauty.— Imitation plumes, in opal, ruby, pale green, and other hues, aro also con structed of these threads, nnd aro WoluV l full.) pretty. The chief ob stacle yet to surmount scorns to lie in the manipulation of these threads, which are so fine that a bunch con taining 250 is not so I hick ns nn aver age sized knitting needle, and which do not possess the tractability of threads of silk or cotton. NO. 10 [The foregoing information is fur nished by a Pittsburg correspondent. A sample of the goods mentioned, a. uiblceloth of glass, is now on exhibi tion in this city. The weaving of such heavy fabrics of glass for ornamental purposes and fer curiosities is no new thing, nor in our estimation, dors comparative suc cess in such experiments warrant the enthusiastic claims of the Pittsburg manufacturers touching the adapta bility of gbios tor wearing apparel.— Unless it is in their power to change the nature of glass absolutely and radically, it does not seem possible for them so to overcome the ultimate bridlenesfl of the separate libers as to make the fabric tit to be brought in contact with the skin. The woven stuff may bo relatively tough and flexible; but unless the entire fabr?>, can be made of one unbreakable fi ber the touch of the free ends, lie they ever so tine, must be anything but pleasant or beneficial, i( one can judge by the finest filaments of glass spun hitherto, besides, in weaving and wearing the goods, a certain amount of fiber dust must be produc ed as in the case of all other textile material. When the softest of veg etable fibers are employed the air charged with their fragments is hurt ful to the lungs; still more injurious must be the spied® ot spun gtass. However, although the manufac turers are likely to be disappointed in their expect, tion ot finding in glass a c heap ami available substitute tor linen, cotton and silk in dress goods, it is quite possible that a wide range of useful application uny lie found Ur their new fabric.J —Scieuliliic American.