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UNFINISHED BUSINESS. BY JENNIE JONES. All went well in our lodgo that even ing, until it was announced, “Wo will now tako up the ordor of unfinished busi ness. ” Then thore was a notable lack of intorost, and every one seemed busy in whispering to his neighbor, and what ever was the subject of his conversation it was very evident tnat it did not per tain to the “ unfinished business" before tho house. No ono seemed to know just where tho lodgo had loft off, or where it designed to begin; tho circum stances had changed, and that whiefa iiad once given intorost to tho subject was past, and in a measure forgotten. And I am quite certain that a great deal of the unfinished business will remain unfinished still, to tho end of tho chap ter. In every turn in life it is the same. How much is begun but never finished ! And it is not that which is begun but that which is completed that constitutes our success. No matter how brilliant the beginning, only the thing in its completeness will bo accepted by tho world. Sometimes an unfinished poem or sketch, or a partially completed drawing, contains touches of genius not found elsowhcre, but they never live and are loved like those which are rounded and complete. When wo see a person who is full of brilliant beginnings but of little perse verance, we see one that will, in all probability, pass through life a disap pointed and unsuccessful man or wom an. Another, beginning in a smaller way and apparently with loss prospects, by steady perseveranoe, will eventually accomplish that in which the other has failed. It is not genius, hardly is it toil; it is not luck, but a persistent “ stick-to-a tiveness” that is the surest to win suc cess in this life. TALK OVER WHAT YOU READ. Nearly forty years’ experience as a teacher has shown mo how little I truly know of a subject until I began to ex plain it or tench it. Lot any young per son try the experiment of giving in con versation, briefly and connectedly, and in the simplest language, the chief points of any book or article he has read, and he will at once see what I mean. The gaps that are likely to ap pear in the knowledge that he felt wits his own will nc doubt be very surpris ing. I know of no training superior to this in utilizing one’s reading, in strengthening the memory, and in form ing habits of clear, connected statement. It will doubtless teach other things than those I have mentioned, which the per- Bons who honestly make the experiment will find out for themselves. Children who read can be encouraged to give, iu a family way, the interesting parts of tho books they have read, with great advan tage to all concerned. Mora than odo youth I know has laid the foundation of intellectual tastes in a New England family, where hearty encouragement was given to children and adults in their attempts to sketch the lectures they have heard the evening previous. The same thing was done with books.— Christian Union. DRAINS AND DUSINESS. Men of practical talent are now sought for in country and city. They are wanted everywhere and will bo called for hereafter more than ever. Where are these men to come from, these thousands of Major Generals in commerce. Now is the time to train young men for business pursuits, for the great avenues to wealth, and dis tinction and, power which wealth con fers. We are preparing young men for the army at West Point, for the navy at Newport, for the learned professions at various universities. This is well. But where one is wanted as a graduate ot these institutions a thousand are wanted in the great army of busi ness. Parents, as you value the happi ness of your sons, give this matter a careful consideration, a thorough busi ness education will ever be a blessing to your children. —Burlington Hawk-Eye. A young man in Georgia has taught the public a lesson in respect to the danger of hasty generalization. AVhen Tanner triumphantly fasted for forty flays the conclusion was jumped to that the limit of life under priva tion has been very much understated. Acting upon this assumption, the Georgia man. Tuck Jackson by name, refused food, expecting, no doubt, he would live forty days, at least. But alas ! for the force of Tanner’s ex ample. He died on the seventeenth day, Chas. G. Faikman, editor of the El mira CN. Y.) Advertiser, recently mar ried Mrs. Welthy Whittett. Now J. Lewis W T hittett, step-son of Mr. Pair man, becomes his son-in-law by marry ing Miss Hattie B. Fairman, step daughter of her mother. It will thus be observed that Mrs. Whittett has no father-in-law, and Mr. Whittett, who married his step-sister, has evaded the complications arising from having mother-in-law. We record the fact, on the authority of the Journal of the Telegraph, that there are now in working condition 97,- 568 nautioal miles of submarine tele graph cables. During the past year 11,083 miles were added. The Engineer ing remarks that the cables still re quired to complete the telegraphic sys tem of the world are : One across the Pacific, two between the United States and Rio and Valparaiso respectively, and certain minor cables to connect Cayenne, Colombia, New Caledonia, the Philippine islands and Chinese stations with the world’s telegraphic system. WILL W. SINGLETON, Editor <fe Proprietor. VOL, VI. OUR JUVENILES. The Lullaby, 1 Littlo 80-Poop ban lout hor ihoop l” A mother 1b Hinging her baby to ab op, But the tiny flngorM tipped with pearl Bound one anotbor vexatloualy twirl, And foot ho cunning, ho rosy and quick, Are tossing tho crlb-qullt with punch and kick, And wide-awake eyes Jußt tut blue na the sky Are Haying to mamma, “ I'Ll Bleep by-aud-by 1 And you can’t hurt me ono woe bit, Though, trying your b woo tent, you potlontly alt And Bing by the hour benldo mot” “ Little 80-Peop has loat her Bheep I” “ Hurry up, darling I Do go to Hleept Maybe you’ll And In the Land of Dreamt Little 80-Peep by the Rhady Htroaina Waiting for you, with her to go After hor lambiea as white oh snow, Hunting through meadow and glen and doll To find the dear creatures all Hafo and well Out where tho lovely harebells grow. Bleating and feeding to and fro, A-Bwingin’their Uvllh behind ’em!” Lower and lower the shadow dips Over the forehead, the cheek, tho lipa; Lovolit eyes are closed at last; Lullaby, liush-a-by song is past; Baby has gone to the land of dreams, Hunting 80-Pcep by the shady streams. Mother, unwearied, her vigil keeps, Dreaming awake, while her baby sleeps— Dreams which tho future, perchance, may bring To her winsome darling and leave no sting— No waking grief behind them. • t • • • • Silently, tenderly enter thero; God haa answered a mother’s prayer; Baby, onr baby, to-day has gone Into a country to us unknown. There to find, by the shady streams Which border the city where no one dreams, Gifts as costly, as rich and rare, As ever were dreamed in a mother’s prayer I Oh Joe us, who sung her last, sweet lullaby; Jesus, the little ones’ friend, bo nigh To comfort us. left behind her I The Mangosteen, During their stay upon the island of Java, Dr. Bronson and his young trav eling companions took a trip on a rail way from Batavia to Buitenzorg, in or der that they might learn something of the interior of the island. While on this trip the boys observed, among other things, that the trees in some instances grew quite close to the track. Dr. Bron son explained to them that in the trop ics it was no small matter to keep a rail way line clear of trees and vines, and sometimes the vines would grow over the track in a single night. It was nec essary to keep men at work along the track to cut away the vegetation where it threatened to interfere with tho trains, and in the rainy season the force was sometimes doubled. “There is one good effect,” said he, “of this luxuriant growth. The roots of the vines and trees become interlaced in the embank ment on which the road is built, and prevent its being washed away by heavy rains. So you see there is, after all, a saving in keeping the railway in repair.” At several of the stations the natives offered fruits of different kinds, and near ly all new to our young friends. They had been torn that they would probably find tho mangosteen for sale along the road ; they had inquired for it in Singa pore, but it was not in season there, and now their thoughts were bent upon dis covering it between Batavia and Buiten zorg. Two or three times they wore disappointed when they asked for it; but finally, at one of the stations, when Fred pronounced the word “mangosteen,” a native held up a bunch of fruit and nodded. The doctor looked at the bunoh and nodded likewise, and Fred 6peedily paid for the prize. Perhaps we had better let Fred tell tho story of tho mangosteen, which he did in his first letter from Buitenzorg : “ We have found tho prinoe of fruits, and its name is mangosteen. It is about the size pf a pippin apple, and of a pur ple color—a very dark purple, too. The husk, or rind, is about half an inch thick, and contains a bitter juice, which is used in the preparation of dye ; it stains the fingers like aniline ink, and is not easy to wash off. Nature has wisely provided this protection for the fruit ; if it had no more covering than the ordi nary skin of an apple the birds would eat it all up as soon as it was ripe. If 1 were a bird, and had a bill that would open the mangosteen, I would eat not]* ing else as long as I could get at it. “ Yon cut this husk with a sharp knife right across the center, and then yon open it in two parts. Out comes a lump or pulp as white as snow, about the size of a small peach. It is divided into sec tions, like the interior of an orange, and there is a sort of star on the outside that tells you, before you cut the husk, exactly how many of these sections there are. Having got to the pulp, you proceed to take the lump into your month and eat it; and you will be too busy for the next quarter of a minute to say anything. “Hip! hip! hurrah! It melts away in your mouth like an overripe peach or strawberry ; it has a taste that is slightly acid—very slightly, too—but you can no more describe all tho flavor of it than you can describe how a canary sings, or a violet smells. There is no other fruit I ever tasted that begins to compare with it, though I hesitate to admit that there is anything to surpass our Ameri can strawberry in its perfection, or the American peach. H you could get all the flavors of our best fruits in one, and then give that one the ‘meltingness ’ of the mangosteen, perhaps you might equal it; but, till you can do so, there is no use denying that the tropics havo BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA„ SATURDAY. JANUARY 15, LSSI. the prince of fruits.”— “The Boy Travel ers in the Far East." Tatty' t Scare, When Patty was a very, very littlo girl, she ono day took it into hor curly head to run nway. Her mother was busy at work and did not miss her until she hod boon gone some minutes. Then she looked out and saw Patty’s pink dress, like a little flow er, moving along slowly away down the dusty road. There was no one to send for the run away, so the tired mother had to leave tho broad burning in the oven, and the baby crying in tho cradle, and start out herself in the hot sun. There was an old man coming along the road toward Patty, an old man that she knew very well, but was really afraid of him. She need not have been, for he was kind and ploasant; but ho was a queor, simple old man, and everybody called him old Daddy Morse. Patty was so afraid that she turned out of the road and went along close by the fence to get by him. He saw the littlo girl was running away, however, and, in the kindness of his heart, he went and picked Patty up to carry ner back, and save her mother the long, warm walk. How frightened and angry little Patty was! How she did kick and scream ! The old man hold on all the same, and tried to soothe her by gentle words; but he might as well have talked to a tlj under-shower. She screamed as loud as she could till she met her mother and found herself safe in her arms, and even then she sobbed and cried for a long time. Her mother talked to her about run ning away, told her it was naughty, and that Daddy Morse was very kind to bring her back, but Patty still sobbed and sighed, and could not get over her fright. She shut the outside door, and stood by the window watching in fear that the old man would come again. Pretty soon her brother Allie came whistling across the yard. Patty opened tho door a little crack. “M’in, Allie,” she said, in a trembling voice. “ Man bile ’ee !” Then her little kitty came around the corner. “M’in, kitty,” she called. “Man bite ’ec!”— Youth’s Companion. DIO FA RHINO. A correspondent of the Si Louis Re publican tells of the wonderful farming operations of Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, of Colusa county, Cal. The farm consists of 65,000 acres, 45,000 of which are in wheat, and has 175 miles of fence. The acreage yield is 25 bushels in favorable seasons, and tliis is considered a favora ble one. Of this year’s crop Dr. Glenn says, although lie has on hand 350,000 sacks, each holding 140 pounds, he thinks they will not hold his wheat He has his own machine and blacksmith shops; boring, toning and planing machines; buzz saws, etc. He manu factures his own wagons, separators, headers, harrows and nearly all the ma chinery and implements used. He has employed 50 men in seeding and 150 in harvest, 200 head of horses and Holies, 55 grain-headers and other wagons, 150 sets of harness, 12 twelve-foot headers, 5 sulky hay-rakes, 12 eight-mule culti vators, 4 Gem seed-sowers, 8 Buckeye drills, 8 mowers, 1 forty-eight-inch sep arator, 36 feet long and 13J high, with a capacity of 10 bushels per minute ; 1 forty-inch separator, 36 feet long; 2 forty-feet elevators for self-feeder, 1 steam barley or feed mill, 2 twenty horse-power engines. The working force to run the separator is 66 men, 8 headers, 22 header-wagons, 100 horses and mules. The average run of the machine is 1,800 sacks, containing 2fc bushels each, per day. The utmost ca pacity of the machine is 3,000 sacks or 7,000 bushels per day. The harvesting force cut and thrash simultaneously, and in fifteen minutes from the time the header begins in the grain the wheat is in the sacks. Ip you want to keep your boy at home, make it pleasanter for him than the street. Chalk a hop-sootch in the hall, put a hogshead of molasses on tap in the kitohen, have a dog fight in the back yard, make a “bully slide” on the cellar door, have a hand-organ and monkey in the reception-room and a German band on the stairs, hire a “Geevus" to be chaffed, let the boy chalk callers’ backs on the Ist of Janu ary, throw his base-ball through the windows, ring tbs bells, and run away, and “plug” the cook with fish-balls Sunday mornings; but even then you will have to engage a circus to drive through the premises two or three times in the season to “make it pleasanter than the street.” AN UNEXPECTED COMPETITOR. Several men swam the Mississippi river, above New Orleans, on a wager. A reporter of the race says : “ None of them seemed to be putting forth much effort till it was discovered that an alli gator had struck out from shore as a competitor, and then—well, every man did his best to keep the alligator from carrying off the stakes. Devoted to the Intereete of Marion Count; and Adjoining Seotions. SOUTHERN NEWS. In North Carolina there arc 207 tobacco factories. Fine specimens of pure plumbago have been found in Cherokee county, Ga. Key West yields aliout $21,500 per month to the internal revenue fund. Real estate in Lafayette, Ala., is as sessed $114,175 and personal property $112,175. The revival at the Baptist church at Durham, N. C., resulted in forty-seven conversions. It is proposed to scale the city debt of New Orleans to the extent of fifty cents on the dollar. Lands in Montgomery county, Ala., have more than doubled in price within five or six years. The building of the Library Associa tion, at Thomasville, Ga., cost $3,000. It has 2,000 volumes. It is against the law in Fort Smith, Ark., to carry a pistol in any other way except in the hand. In Perry county, Miss., John A. Syl vester planted a poplar tree near an ap ple tree, and the poplar bore apples. In some instances in Grayson county, Va., five and six persons of a family died of diphtheria, and in one instance an en tire family. Some thirty families from Michigan, New Jersey and Florida, are locating in North Georgia, on the line of the Atlan ta and Charlotte road. William Lockridge, of Highland coun ty, Va., says that he has killed in his time as many as 1,500 deer. The old man’s step is still firm. The receipts of the State of North Car olina from all sources during the year ended September 30, were $546,796.* 4, and the disbursements were $462,720.34. The Supreme Court of Mississippi de clares that eighteen million the dollar, including three mills for State tax, is the utmost limit to which taxes can he laid. About sixty Swiss colonists, the men being j enerally possessed of means, ar rived at Mount Airy, Ga., Saturday. A colony of Armenians are expected iu the spring. The entire amoun t bv war of taxation in North Caoolina is $2,082,7* 0, of which the counties spend two-thirds, the schools one-sixth, and the State the remainder. Walnut furniture has been" received rom Chicago and put iu place in the new post-office at Atlanta, Ga. The old furniture will be used to furnish the . post-office at Macon, Ga. The dueling hill has been passed by the South Carolina Senate, with an addi tional section providing that it shall not effect indictments, pow pend ing or offenses committed before its passage. Three men sit in the United States Sen ate who were Governors of Southern States when the war broke out, and re mained in office by re-election at its clos e Harris, of Tennessee; Vance, of North Carolina, and Brown, of Georgia. The flat lands on the Escambia river in Santa Rosa county, Fla., are alluvial deposits from the rich lime lands of Ala bama, and it is thought that they will make the largest possible crops of rice for hundreds of yea s without any ma nure. Two bells found by a diver between Fort Sumter and Fort^Moultrie, taken from the wreck of a vessel of about 350 tons burden, bear the date 1374, and must have been cast nearly two centu ries before the discovery of America. There is an extensive deposit of kaolin, or porcelain clay, in South Carolina, near the Georgia city of Augusta, of the finest quality, equal to the demands of a hundred years. It is said to have been used to adulterate flour, being soft, white and free from gravel. Old Poldo Lamar, in Alabama, is dead. He was positively known to be 110 years old. But according to his statement of his asre when he came to this country from Africa and his recollection of war times long ago, he must have been 125 years old. He was able to go about where he wished until about a month ago, when he fell in the fire, since which time he has been confined to his bed. The South Louisiana Canal and Navi gation Company in less than twelve years, beginning about six miles west of lort Livingston, near the Southern entrance toßarataria bay, has cut a fine canal, westward, nine miles long, forty feet wide, and six feet deep at low tide, cut ting into Bayou’Lafourche about twenty miles above its mouth, and extending nearly three miles farther west, into the back waters of Timbolier bay. This gives safe and easy inland navigation to Bayou Terrebonne at a point about twen ty miles from the gulf. Washington has had a building boom this year. So far 625 new buildings have been erected, against 511 for the same period last year. A large number of public men are building handsome resi dences at the capital. Till! EAST RIVER BRIDGE. The first consignment of 5tee1—27,460 pounds—for the superstructure of tho East River bridge has been received, and rapid deliveries are expected from this time on, the Edgemoor Iron Com pany having put its full force upon this contract. The guys of the superstruct ure, manufactured by the Roeblings, at Trenton, of Bossemor steel, have also ar rived. Tho Cambria Steel Company, which furnishes tho steel, lias about 1,000 tons ahead of the Edgemoor Com pany. Col. Paine reports that the steel has all been tested and is of superior quality, ths strength of the steel trusses l>eing six times greater than is likely to be required. The last structure to be razed to make room for the New York approach will soon be oleared away. Thus far the bridge has cost $14,000,000 —of which sum $3,000,000 went under water and $4,- 000,000 went for real estate, to be cov ered by a mile of costly masonry. In the profile drawing of the completed structure the lofty towers sink to com parative insignificance. The projection carries in the observer’s mind a sense of length rather than of height. Tho su perb arches at Vandewater and Rose and William and North William streets, the massive anchorages at Franklin square in New York and Main street in Brook lyn, and the airy bridge over Pearl street become, says a oritical observer, more conspicuous in the picture than are the towers, which are so imposing as seen at midstream on the East river. It is calculated that with the greatest possible weight on the bridge and in the hottest of August days, with the tide at its highest, there will be 135 feet 6 inches in the clear between the lowest point in tho bridge, midstream, and the surface of the East river.— Scientific American. FARM SCENES IN NEW ENGLAND. The cider mill challenged the boy’s attention in the fall, when apples were brought by the cart-load and dumped in huge piles on the ground, then carried in large baskets to the hopper, to be con verted into pomace. The steady old horse turned the creaking mill. When the pomace was put into form and pressed the sweet juice ran out into tubs that invite sampling. Cups and glasses were a barbarism ; the only proper instrument for tasting and test ing was the long, bright straw. No cherry cobbler was ever so delicious as that new cider. It was good sport to hunt hens’ oggs, in obscure manger cor ners, or high hay-mows, or in the tall, standing grass ; to see the swarming bees settle on a limb of the near peach tree, and watch the process of hiving them ; to ride on high loads of fragrant hay ; to trap the sly woodchuck, and see his grit as a prisoner; to follow the harvesters afield, and stack the clean oat-sheaves in “ shocks,” and to see the same oats fly from under the alternating flails. About the best fun of all was in the huskings on the great barn floor. Here were at once activity and repose, indi vidual excellence and social enjoyment. Every man has his stories to tell. The gray-haired grandfather recounted his early exploits, and told how his nimble feet used to trip those of heavier and stronger wrestlers. ‘ ‘ Stand up a min ute,” he would say to his best hired man ; and, taking him by the collar and elbow, he would illustrate his youthful “science,” and send his man tottering across the floor. Hardly less was the sport of shearing time, when the boys were allowod to hold the big shears and trim the sheep’s fleecy legs. The shear ing was preceded by a general sheep washing, at the bridge on the nearest cross-road. It was “high jinks ” for the boys to stand waist-deep in the water, pass along the swimming sheep, and give the larger lambs a useless bath by them selves.—Martin Kellogg , in September Californian. Canada has definitely offered herself up to the capitalists. She has definitely agreed to turn over to a syndicate the new Canada Pacific Company, in per petuity, that portion of the line which has already been built and all informa tion in its possession, and will grant sub sidies in the form of $200,000,000 of Canadian Government bonds and several million acres of land along the line of road for the sake of its completion to the Pacific coast. In Maine they have about as close a “comer” on doctors as Chicago ever got on pork. One law forbids a man practicing medicine without having dis sected. Another forbids his dissecting anybody but criminals. A third has abolished capital punishment. So that the number of doctors is limited to the number of persons who happen to die in prison. Longevity there, it is said, is becoming absolutely appalling—to the undertakers. It is really getting tiresome to hear so much about “the biggest crop” ever known or heard of. First it was the wheat, then it was corn, afterward oats, apples, potatoes, and almost everything else, until now we heai from the cran berries. “Never was there anything like it.” AMOUNT OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.25. A TROUBLESOME BOV. BY 808 BURDETTE. “ I hope nothing will happen to that boy,” tho cross passenger remarked, anxiously, as we were speeding north ward from London. Tho boy in ques tion was about 7 years old. He was en tertaining the passengers by running up aud down the aisle, shouting like a Comanche Indian. He would run to tho rear door, kick tho panels, and shout “Ho !” Then ho would run to tho forward door, kick it, and say “ Hay !” When this performance be gan to grow maddening with the mo notony, tho boy would lond it a variety by pausing to look into some passen ger’s face, while at the same time he would strike at him and shriek, “I’ll kill you 1” It was very interesting, and we all loved the infant. Now and then tho mother would say, “ Sammy, Sam my, dear, yon mustn’t strike the gen tleman ; perhaps the gentleman doesn’t like it.” And then the gentleman would lie like a Trojan, and say, “Oh, yes, he didn’t mind it; he liked little boys. ” And so we were all nervous and wor ried for fear the child might get hurt. We fairly grew wild with anxiety. He stopped at my seat, snatched the lap tablets out of my hands and roared, “Gimmy that pencil!” and when his mother said, “Why, Sammy, I am afraid you disturb the gentleman,” Sammy yelled, “I’ll kill him 1” I was so anxious about him that I watched him all the way down the aisle to see if he wouldn’t fall and break his neck. So we all sat and watched him, with concern written all over our faces. The boy snatched an apple away from the fat passenger, kicked the cross passenger’s valise, made faces at the sad passenger, and hit the man on the wood box twice with a Btiek. Once, and only once, he made an offer to slap the woman who talks bass ; but she glared upon him with a croak that made his hair stand on end, and he avoided her during the rest of the trip. At last, just as he was rushing up to the forward door to kick it, the impetu ous brakeman banged it open to an nounce a station. It cracked that boy on the head with the knob, and the boy acted very much as he would have acted had he been shot with a catapult, and it took all the ice-water in the oooler to cool off his head, and the boy was ef fectually quieted down. And it was really pleasant to see the wearied look of anxious concern pass off the passengers’ faces sifter the brakeman dropped the boy. The cross passenger’s grim face relaxed like a May morning ; the fat passenger winked at the man on the wood-box, who was still rubbing his knuckles with an air of tender interest; the sad passenger hummed a merry little air, and the woman who talks buss gave a cheerful croak that was interpreted to mean laughter. Four passengers whose names I could not learn gave the aston ished brakeman 50 cents apiece. The boy, with Ids head swathed up in wet handkerchiefs, remained comparatively quiet An exchange says that the Key. Mr. Parsons, of Baldwins ville, N. Y., the missionary who was recently robbed and murdered by Turks, was a remarkably quiet and brave man: The following incident is told of him. Some years ago Mr. Parsons, riding alone, unarmed, and with nothing of value about him save a small package of Bibles and Testaments, was stopped by three desperadoes, who commanded him to disburse in their favor. “I have no money about me,” mildly remarked the missionary. ‘ ‘What are you carrying in your package there?” roughly demanded one of the men. “ Only good books,” was the answer; and, taking one Bible out, by dint of exhorting and talking, these hardened criminals were persuaded to purchase and pay for a Bible apiece, they leaving money with him who had intended stripping him of all he had. Mr. Parsons would have been worth $20,000 a year to any insurance company. Memphis, in providing for the drain age of its houses, adopted an entirely new system. The sewers are not more than six inches in diameter, until they have extended snph a distance that the drainage they are likely to receive will more than fill one-half the pipe. They are then increased in size slowdy, but always with the view of keeping them as small as possible, while large enough to do their work. They are used only for house drainage. Storm water and soil drainage are otherwise disposed of. The house drains are uniformly four inches in diameter, not trapped, and, starting clear above the roofs of the houses, arc carried down to the culverts. Presh-air inlets are provided in the streets, so that the house drains and sewers have a constant current of air passing through them. Edwin Booth is to act at the new Princess’ Theater, London. The delay in his appearance was caused by his re fusal to play lago to the Othello of Charles Warner, which would in a meas ure subordinate him to a popular En glish star. CURRENTITEMS. Humobs of the day—Small-pox, salt rhourn, etc. Dammit is a poutoflleo name in Sevier oonnty, Tenn. A Newby-wedded husband says it should bo called “ matrimoney." Home Philadelphians named their Colorado silver mine tho * Scooper," and the name provod prophetic. They have been scooped. No w onder the miser desires to taka his gold with him beyond the gray", when even ‘ ‘ doatli loves a Bliining marc ."—Turners Falls Reporter. There aro in Philadelplda 434 churches ; in New York city, 354, and in Brooklyn, 240. In no other Amcri can city are thero more than 200. Farmers in Dallas county, Texas, se cure artesian wells, flowing six fee/ above the ground, by boring to a depth of between sixty and Beventy feot. A Cabifornia woman, seven feet tall and weighing 200 pounds, broke her heart for love of a little runt of a mar wearing No. 4 boots and leading a poo dle by a chain.— Detroit Free Press. Insane by over-study of tho Bible, i young man named Pierce, of Theresa, Jefferson county, N. Y., imagining that his left hand had offended, deliberately cut off every finger. Smabb boy (rushing in front of young lady wearing large poko bonnet, and staling her full hi the face) —“ V’ou’vo lost ycirr bet, Charlie; I told yer it wam’t an old woman.” Dogs chased the murderer of their master, at Navasota, Tex., but only held him fast when they caught him. The human pursuers were less merciful,, for they hanged him to a tree. The medical student of Maine must dissect before he can become an M. D., hut tho law provides that no bodies shall be dissected except those of executed crimimds, and another law abolishes capital punishment. At Exeter, England, a young farmer has been sent to jail for a month for shooting a rabbit on a farm of his own occupation, while a man brought before the same bench for brutally ill-treating his wife was fined 5 shillings. The Philadelphia Herald, says that the women of that city are busily en gaged in getting up political clubs, They are about two feet long, and only appear on parade when the husbands of the women came home late at night. An old English miser named Rhodes, who began making money as a rubbish gatherer, and lived and died in squalor, has bequeathed $300,000 between the Royal Free Hospital, London, and the National Lifeboat Institution, leaving his relations penniless. Some philosophical paragrapher has been struck with wonder at the persist ence of mothers in teaching their chil dren to talk, and the equal persistence with which they endeavor, a few years litter, to lxGOp tl irom onoroicing tluiir talents in that line. The word “welcome” on the door mat, or worked in silk floss and framed to hang on the wall, does not always mean that the relatives, even unto tho third or fourth generation, may come in at all times and make themselves per fectly at home.— Boston Qlobe. NO. 19. The tradition that Cologne Cathedral would never be finished took its rise as follows : A young architect in despair at the refusal of his plans by Archbishop Conrad went to the bank of the KLino meditating suicide, when there ap peared the devil himself, who offered him, in exchange for his soul, the plan of the cathedral as it stands to-day. The young man demanded twenty-four hours for reflection, and submitted the matter to his confessor, who suggested that on the morrow, when Satan showed him again the design, he should seize it with his left hand, and, drawing rapidly a relic of St. Ursula from under his robe with the right, strike the evil spirit with it on the brow. This was* done. Satan said : “ That’s a cunning trick of the church, but the design which you seize shall never be finished, and your name shall remain unknown.’ As he spoke he snatched away the upper part of the design. Tho young archi tect died of mortification without recon structing the plan. For years events seemed to bear out the old legend. It is a curious fact that the locomo tive which, with its train, went down with the Tay bridge, is now running regularly between Glasgow and Edin burgh. For three months it laid in the bottom of the Tay, but when it was brought up it was found uninjured, ex cept the funnel, dome, and weather board, which had to be renewed. She ran on her own wheels to Glasgow just as she came out of her long bath. Strange feelings might arise in the trav eler’s breast on learning that his train was drawn by that engine, but there is a locomotive engineer, it is said, in this country running regularly upon a rail way upon which he was one time the cause of a most terrible disaster. A bowlder was recently found on Mount Washington, showing that the mountain was completely submerged during the glacial period, contrary to the opinion hitherto entertained. The bowlder corresponds to the character of the rock on Cherry mountain, ten miles northwest, and 3,000 feet below the sum mit of Mount Washington. It was taken down the mountain, and goes to the Natural History rooms in Boston. The Pennsylvania Kailway Company is adding the artificial decoration to the grandeur of nature by beautifying tlie famous Horse-shoe curve, near Altoona, with flowers and foliage plants. Nast, the caricaturist, has made a fort une of $200,000 by his pencil.