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§— f nrasoiiPTi*! utu g“« yiwrj. m Bix month*, 75 Thre* month* 40 L*w DmUIoh, h Any psnon who Uku a paper regular* ly from th* poitoffice— whether dlreoted to hi* name or another 1 *, or whether he he* mb- ■tnbed or not—lareaponaible for the amount. A Ifaperion order* hi* paper diaoontinued ha muat pay all arraaraae*, or the publisher may oontiQue to land it until payment i* the whola amount,whether iha pabdria taken from thaoffloa or not; 8. The court* hare decided that refuiin* ta taka nawipaper* or periodical* from th* poetoffloe, or removing and leaving them unoalled for i* prime facia evidenoe of in- natiotnel fraud. HEWS GLEANINGS. TJiere are 8,45<> masons in Alnbama. Jacksonville, Ala., linB excellent water- work*. Aberdccu lina the largest hotel in the State e? Mississippi. Alabama ranks fifteenth in the pro duction of iron. There are five hundred Sunday-schools in Mississippi. There are 1,100 miners at Pratt Mines, Ala., 175 being convicts. Birmingham's (Ala,) assessments for 1881 double those of 1880. The Texas and Pacific railway traek Is now laid 202 miles west of 1 tall as. A * large furniture factory is being successfully operated imWireve|K>rt, La. Macon county, AMmnmn, is out of debt, no one in jdff, and the sherifi apends his time fisjnng. Cattle, in considerable numbers, are dying below Chattanooga. Tennessee, of some unknown disease. Enough sweet potatoes will bo made in Florida this year to supply the Uni ted .States. A mammoth hotel is to be erected at the Hot Springs, Arkansas, by a cbm pany from Maine. Six hundred new horses and mules are required to supply the demand at • Abbeville, S. O;, every vear. £ Twenty-nine hundred and fifty pgrl- cultural Hons have been filed in Fair- field, S. C. The members of. the broken bank at Aberdeen, Mississippi, have been indic ted under the new statute which makes it a penal offense to receive money on deposit in a bank when in a failing con dition. The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and Mes senger reports the arrival of u member of tho fish commission with 1,800,000 ahad, which were promptly placed in Ocmulgee river. .Knoxville (Tq$n.) Tribune: United Senetor, Rowell E. Jackson, of Teupereee, has pqr^iased the elegant r^J^gnce .of )V. B,$ljiiw, on Vermont ivveu^ie. Washington* at . a cost of ♦2&Q00. • . • , Clafiin University, at Orangeburg, S. C.V is for colored students exclusively. • and is supported by the State. Connec ted with it, by special act of the Legis lature, is a branch cf the State Agricul tural College nnd a Mechanics' Institute, the university as a whole tyting directed by^co-operatiug boards of trustees. The university has three departments—col lage, normal school and grammar school. The total number for 1880-81 numbered 388. Connected with the university b tho Baker Thcologica’ Institute, whore young men are trained for the ministry. General Francis A. Walker, superin tendent of the United States census, telegraphs to the Enquirer-Sun, of Co lumbian, Ga., that a clerical error has been made in the population of Colum bus. Tt should be 10,123. Tho Enquirer- Sun says that this is correct according to t|ie returns made by the enumerators, but adds: “We are confident that it Vails short of the population of the city by more than two thousand inhabitants. Within three-quarters of a mile of the court-house there is a population of not less than twenty thousand people, but we can not claim them, oven though nearly every one is directly engaged in business in the city.” THE BUTLER HERALD. W. N. BENNS, JAMES D. RUSS. Editora. « LET TUi-.HE 15J: T.KJIIT.” Subjcription, $1.50 in Advanc*. VOLUME V. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 14. 1881. NUMBER 37. tMT. A BOY. lo went from the old home he&rthatooe, Only elz yunra ego, A laughing, frolicking fellow, It wouludo you good to know. Since thrn we have not aco him, And wo uy, with nameless pain, The bor that we knew and lured ao We shall neroraee again. One bearing the name we gave him Gomes home to us to-day, lint,this Is not the dear fellow With a , ] * he who bikes by tho hearthstone The lost hoy’a olden placo. We min (he laugh that mnde musie Whererer the lost hoy went. This man hna a (ratio inoal winsome, HI* eyes have a grave intent: “ ' iw lie is thinking and planning 'ay In the world of men, i cannot holp but love turn, re long for our boy again. Wn know Who cl , With hints of the vanished boyhood > *-• lost, thoughtful face; tea back the longing henceforth must min, my from tan I Forever with a kin. s place, ne vainsf tlmiurli And yet comes For the hoy i Whom wo sent away from ISe hearth) THE NEWSPAPER. Matrimonial Methods. To *how that tho habit of declaiming again ah the booutitudes o! matrimonial life andjjrotesting that tbo nation is to be ruined jf a period is not put to fash ion is no new tiling, we extruot tbo fol lowing fropa the Connecticut Herald, printed in the year 1823: “As it is idle \fl hope for reformation in those who are * possessed with the fashionable mania, aud as the wont of cash seems to be tho obstacle to matrimony, I would beg leave to propose a plan, which may prove beneficial to both aexes. It ia not a new one, but haa been so long out of date that it will at least possess the charm of novelty. Let all marriageable girls, young and old, be assembled an nually at one place. Let them be put up by on auctioneer one after another. The rich will pay a high price for the handsomest. The money thus received should be bestowed as a settlement on the more homely, whom the auctioneer should present m regular order, asking if any one would aocept snob an one with suoh a sum. This plan was prac- f tloed with great sucoess among tho As syrians and several other nations of ’ antiquity, as any one of our ready-made archaeologists will admit. By it the rich will be able to support their bar gains, of course, and the second-chop wiveii—to use a flowery and oelestial * Miom—will bring something to support 'theft husbands and their own extrava- § auco; no one being obliged to accept a amsel if she has nothing but love and duty to offer.” i> fifklah Jnsn, KUHnr nflhs rinpdoodlr. Draws m r«w Kkctrhr* from Malar*. | Prom the Steuben* tie Herald.] The editor of the livening Flapdoodle sat in his sanctum tho other morning, just before lieginning ltis day’s work, and thought he bad brought ltis paper about as near perfection as possible for an ordi nary-sized town dose to a half dozen big citios, nnd lie was wondering how ho muh( further improvo it, when ltis cogi tations wore interrupted by mi acquaint ance coming in. “Hello, Mr. r^ Msors,” he facetiously said, “writing up editorials with the ■hears, oh?” The editor tried to smile at the old joke, and the visitor went on. “I toll you what it is, Jones, you have a pretty good papor, but what do you want in a town like this with long editorials ? Give us short ones. You can’t mold publio sentimont, you must simply echo it.” Then bo left, aud Jones told his associate not to write any long editorials that, day, as ho proposed, for onoe, to make tho Flapdoodle just to suit every subscriber who wanted a change. In a half hour along came a wicked fellow who talked newspaper a long while, and then said he didn’t see any ttso of Sunday reading, nor any other religious matter in a pa por, and if it was his ho would bounce it all. The editor said nothing, but when tho man went away he told his Sunday editor not to Bond any matter for that day. Then J ones rested and thought for a few minutes, and a pious old party dropped in. As he know a good deal about the business ip its moral aspect, ho talked along, aud at last said that no newspaper could be deoent which ad mitted to its columns any sensational matter, any advertisements other than the most high-toned, any slangy squibs, or anything which oould not be read without a blush by the most capriciously fastidious. Jones was silent, but Inter be went and ordered all that matter set osiclo. So far, JoneB thought he was getting things to suit pretty well, and then another man came in, and like tho others, knew all about the business of editing a paper. Ho was a city politi cian, aud said, “Mr. Jones, you don’t have enough politics. Why don’t yon throw out those farm notes, and kitchen receipts, and odds aud ends of old nows, and telegraphic brevities which wo get in the other pa pers and givo us politics? That’s what tho children cry for.” Again was Jones silent and later gavo orders for tho ox pulsion of all this objectionablo matter and wonted for the next one. Ho camo pretty soon, and ho hod a coffin for a coat and a shroud for a handkerchief, aud ho smelt like the dust which blows off of askoloton. Said lie, “Jones, I like your paper, but what do you run that funny business in it for? It’s silly, stalo, and flatter tliau last yoor’s ale with the bottle left open. What does a man want to laugh for ouyhow? This is a vale of tears and wo should always remembor that in tho uncertainty of lifo death may cut us off with an idle laugh upon lips. ” “That’s so,” groaned J ones, out every line of fun right out,” and off ho burned and out went all the funny business. A* he went home at hoc met a lady who said she didn’t what they wanted to fill a paper full of politics for, because nobody rood that. “Don’t they?” said Jones, “then out she goes,” and when ho got back it (ill wont out. “I’m bound to plenso ’om all” said tho editor, “If I have to buy a now of- fleo. ” Bight after dinneraman of business proclivities come in and said he didu’t see any use of “these silly little per Bonals and them short local items that didn’t amount to anything anyway.” If It was his paper he would have some thing of a higher nature or let tho place go bore. Jones listened and told the foreman to whack out all that sort of stuff nt once. Then he felt easier, till a lot of pretty girls came in, and, after making a purchase, asked him what a newspaper was filled full of advertise ments for; nobody over read them, aud "* ’ going to stop taking 7" A bionifioa*? but melancholy com ment upon the value of the work actual ly accomplished by the much valued Boston sohools is found in the fact that a 9JI prominent lawyer who wished a copyist, u recently was forced to reject a largo number of applicants who had grodunted Troth onr high:school, for the simple . -reason that qot one of them oould spell .cpthJpqh words even tolerably.—Buxton Courier, tbo paper if he was going to fill it up that way. Jones told the young lady he would havo a paper to suit every one, or rather made after the suggestions of every one, and ho hoped she would not find fault. Then ho went and or dered out every ‘ad.’ and smack and smooth, and waited tho next man. He camo along pretty soon, and said he could stand anything but poetry, aud that was bis abomina tion in a nowspapor, and it never ought to encounter the columns of a local jour nal, because it was meant for magazines, aud that sort of papers. Jones took it in, and went out ana ordered all his fine poetry knocked down. Then he waited again, and a woman came in, and paid the fashion notes wore no good, because tbo magazines had them all in greater quantity, and another thing she didn't like, was tho markets. “What good was them I” she said. “ I don’t know,” he replied, “ so I’ll throw ’em out.” “ I hope you will,” she answered, and went away. In ton minutes tho markets and fashions were on the standing galley. Jones began to look around, and as lie wss studying, a small boy said to him that “marriage and death notices was mighty thin roadin’,” and Jones slung them clear out into the corner. After this change he went over into ths count ing room, and an old man was there waiting to pay his subscription. “ It’s a good paper, Jones, but in this place you only want to take notioe of local affairs, and let all the miscellaneous and general business go," and—then Jones gave the old fellow a receipt and rushed back and took out all the miscellaneous and gen eral matter that was left, and as he took out the last handful a friend came through the office and oritically examin ing his surroundings, said, ‘ ‘ The Flap doodle is a good paper, Jones, but I do think you have the Ugliest head on it I over saw. Why don’t you change it? I’m certain I never would let suoh a head appear on a paper of mine.” “All nghfc,” said Jones, and off camo the head. “Now, Mr. Foreman,” he con tinued, “lookup the forms and send them down to the press room.” The forms were duly looked and went down, and the paper came out and was dis tributed as usual. The next morning, the politician, and the solemn man, the friend, the school girl, the woman, tho small boy, and all the rest of them were standing around the Flap* doodle office with blank sheets of pnpor in their hands; not a line, not a word, not a sign of anything on it but colnmn rules, with nothing between. “How is this?” said eaoh to the other, “and where’s that fool oditor, to impose on tlx in this way ?” While they were thus talking, the devil came in with a letter from the editor, which the old man read to the crowd. It ran as follows: “Dear friends, you all think yon know how to ruu a newspaper, and when you oome to me with your suggestions I hate to tell you differently, so I havo fol lowed your advice and you boo what yott have as tho result. If you will bo kind enough to blind your own business half as well as I do mine, and try to think I know a little something, while you don’t know it all, I will give you a good newspaper, and whenever I don’t give you your money’s worth, then como and tell me so. but don’t come telling me how I Bhould do my work, when I nave dovotod years to it, and you have novor given it an hour’s study. “I am yours truly, “Hezexiah Jones, "Editor Flapdoodle Tlion those good people looked at their blank paper and their blank faces, and not one said a word exoept the pro fane man, who romarkod, “Damme, the editor is right; let’s go and mind our own business,” and Jones crept out from behind the counter, aud that evening issued a tip-top paper, chuck full of all sorts of personal nnd local items, and news, and everything, and there peace in that town for the space of a long time. A Prosperous Section. Wo are reliably informod that in the section of our county known as Bull Swamp, proper, there is not a man within ton miles who gives a lien on his crop. Farms aro run on a cash basis or on the personal credit of tho farmer without re sort to lien or mortgage on any property whatever. As a natural consequence of this state of things improvements and progress aro everywhere visible in fences, bouses, fields, stock and home premises. Tlio two races live and work m perfect accord, and colored laborers are not ttn- tly known to live for a series ol years in the employment of one man. In this wav home oomforts and values aro accumulated until the prosperous laborer finds himself able to secure a homo of bis own. There is not a trial justico or a bar-room in the whole soction nor will tho citizens suffer one of these uuisauces to exist among them. Thoro is no ne cessity for the tho one and no patronago for tne other. It is believed that the citizens of this favored section will pe tition tho next Genoral Assembly to pass a law prohibiting tho sale of liquor en tirely. This is certainly an excellent record for Bull Swamp, financially, and morally.—Orangeburg (SC.) Demo crat. The Eagle and the Kite. An eagle, overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon the branches of a tree in com pany with a kite. “ Why/’ asked the kite, “ do I lee you with suoh a rueful look?” The eagle answered, “ I seek a mate suitable for me, and am notable to find one.” “Take me,” responded the kite. “ I am much stronger than you. I have often carried off an ostrich in my talons.” The eagle, persuaded by these words, aooeptod the kite as a mate. Af ter the election, so to speak, was over, the eagle told the kite to fly off and bring back the ostrich it had promised. The kite soared aloft and returned in time with a miserable little mouse in an advanced state of decomposition from the length of time it had lain on tho ground. “Is this,” said the eaglo, “ the faithful performance of your prom ise tome?” The kite unblushingly re sponded : “ Yon must know that to ac complish any objeot there is no lie I will not tell.” The only moral to this fable is that the people should not always send to the Legislature the man who talks loudest with his month.— Galveston News, England's Balers. The Norman line began with William the Conqnoror; then comes iu succession the houses of Plautagonet, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, tho Commonwealth, Stnart-Orango, Stuart, and Hanover. William the Conqueror was tho sixth sovereign of Normandy. Henry II, tho first of (ho Pl&ntngencts, was tne son of Matilda of Scotland, a direct descendant ol Edmund II, surnamed Ironside, who was the son and successor of Ethel rod II, born in 989, and King of the Anglo- Saxons in 1016. Henry IV, os tho Inst of tho Plantagoncts (Richard II) left no children, was the oldest son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, fourth son of Edward HI, and of Blanohe, daughter and heiress of Henry Plontagonet, Duke of Lancaster, great grandson of Henry HL Edward IV, tho first of the House of York, was descended from tho fifth son of Edward III, as the Lauonstriau Kings had descended from the fourth son of the same sovereign. Henry VII, tho first of tbo Tudors, was a descendant of Henry V. James I of England, and VI of Scotland, was tho son of Lord Darnloy and Mary Queen of Scots, and bis right to the succession rested on bis descent from Henry VII through his greatgrandmother, Margaret. Charles It was tho second child among sixth of Charles I, and started anew the Stuart lino at the restoration. Mnry, who with ■William of Orange, ruled Britain, was a Stuart, as was also Anno, “the good queen.” George I, of tho Houso of Hanover, was descended on his mother’s side from James I. Tho following will show the length of tho roigns of tho sovefal houses: Team. Tho Norman lino 1000-1154 Plnntagonot 1154-1399 Lancaster 1399-1401 York 14G1-14H5 Tudor 1485-1003 Stuart 1003-1019 Commonwealth 1049-loot) Stuart., j 1000-1088 Stuart-Orange 1088-1702 Stuart 1702-1714 Hanover 1714 The following will show nt a glance the rulers. Thoro were often a number of queens, and, ns space is limited, only tho actual rulers’ names aro given: Norman— William 1060-1087 Win. Rufus.. 1087-1100 Hom y 1 1100-1135 Btenbon 1135-1164 riantagonet— Henry II....1154-1189 Richard X...1189-1199 John 1199-1210 Honry III. ..1216-1272 Elizabeth 1658-1003 Stuart— Jnnioa I, 1003-1026 Charles 1 1025-1049 Commonwealth— Parliamentary Executive... 1649-1053 Edward I. ...1272-1307 Edward II...1307-1327 Edward III.. 1327-1377 Richard II...1377-1399 Lancaster— Henry IV...1890-1413 Honry V 1413-1422 Hour? VI.... 1422-1401 York— Edward IV...1461-1483 Edward V... 1483-1483 Richard III.. 1483-1485 Tudor— Honry VII...1485-1509 Honry VIII..1509-1547 Edward VL..1547-1553 Charles II....1000-1085 JamoH II 1085-1088 Stnart-Orango— Mow to Make Koumiss. As soon as tho cow is milked, take one champagne bottle of milk, and into this put one table-spoonful of white powdered sugar previously dissolved; add one table-spoonful of brewers’ or linkers’ yeast, and shake all thoroughly, but not sufficiently to produce butter. Set the bottle in a warm place, where the temjjerature will be from 8 to 14 degrees lteaumnr, and let it ferment. It is difficult to describe its appearanoe when ready for use, but this will usually occur in two or three days. The cork must be well tied in to prevent it being thrown out by the fermenting liquor. The next making of koumiss may be prepared from the first when it is four or five days old. One-third of a bottle of the old konmiss may be added to two thirds of the new or fresh milk. Befor drinking, shake the bottle well.—Jfw York Bun, William III... 1094-1702 Stuart— Anno 1702-1714 Hatiovor— Ocorgo 1 1714-1727 Qoorgo It.... 1727-1700 Ocorgo III...1700-1820 Ocorgo IV.... 1820-1830 William IV... 1830-1337 Victoria...... 1837 Flint-Lock and Percussion Cap. Tho flint-lock musket and fowling- pieco died hard, os will bo appnroufc to all who remembor that in 1807 the Bov. Mr. Forsyth took out tho first patent for a percussion gun, and that it took at least twenty years from that date for the weapon to be gonorolly accepted and employed by English sportsmen, and thirty years from 1807 for it to bo adopt ed by the British army. Such is the in eradicable conservatism of the British nation, and of its Governmental depart ments, that every great soldier who had won his spurs in tbo Peninsular war, in cluding, among many others, the Iron Duko and Sir Charles James Napier, wroto absurd platitudes against “ tho new-fangled substitute for tho glorious weapon with which our soldiers won AJbuora, Salamanca and Waterloo.” The new percussion musket was viewed with such suspicion and mistrust by tho War Office pundits that it was issued, in the first instance, only to one company in every regiment Happily, it had an op portunity of manifesting and establish ing its iucontestible superiority over tho matchlocks pitted against it in Afghan istan and upon the Sutlej; nor wus Sir Charles Napier slow to confess that to the now weapon, admirably handled by the Twenty-second regiment of British foot, and by tho Twonty-uinth regiment of nativo infantry, ho mainly owed his astonishing victory over 85,000 Beloo- chocs at Mesonee in tho February of 1843. The percussion musket was not introduced into the French army until 1840; but Mesauco was it* “baptism of fire” throughout tho civilized world, and it is doubtful whether 1,800 British sol diers, of whom little more than 400 were Europeans, ever gained a more honor able or meritorious victory. Bat, whilo tbo new weapon was slowly making its way us a military small-arm, it was eagerly seized upon and adopted ut a much earlier date by sportsmen, who were quiok to recognize the advantages secured by the rapidity of ignition and certainty of explosion imparted by the percussion detonating cup to the charge of gunpowder within tho barrel. Pilgrims in Paterson. Paterson, N. J., enjoys ono of the most densely populated families in America. Tho City Physician of that place, believing that an opidemio was breaking out in an “apartment of two rooms,” threw aside the official tape and form peculiar to onr City Board of Health, and personuriy visited the scene of his suspicions. Ho found twonty-iwo freshly arrived Hollanders iu “tho two rooms hired for one family,” and mors than that, all the members of it were not at homo at the time of bis call. Ten men were absent looking for work and old acquaintances. Progeny was tho epidemic tho Hollanders bod brought with them, and ns the entire thirty-two were healthy, happy, and able to sit up and take their combined ninety-six daily meals, tho Doctor left them to continue to multiply, increase and perform all the other duties incident to deoent Dutch lifo. From all accounts this exhibition exceeds anything so for produced in the oombined greatest shows on tho earth. —New York Commercial. Mu*. M Anar hop, good Aoul! proposed til distribute Irn. Is among teetotalers, who, sluvri^rote tii bear, are living in htate of spiritual destitution. The Southern Soldier. In the winter of 1863 the First regi me nt of Virginia Artillery was in winter S UArters at Frederick Hall, Va. The econd company of Richmond Howite- ers was camping on the grounds of Dr. Pendleton. Here an incident occurred which illustrates how little regard the volunteer had for army regulations. Lieut. O., of tho Salem Artillery, was a graduate of the Virginia Military Insti tute at Lexington. He made himself quite obnoxious to the boys by his strict military discipline, whether in the field or camp'or in tho winter quarters. It \vm his grwt delight to be officer of tho day, on which occasion he would do all he could to impress the men with the idea that he was au fait in army regulations. One night he rode up to the place wliore tho Second Howitzers were parked and yelled out in a very loud voice, “ Where is the sontinel on this post ?” Tho sontinel was sitting on a ruptured bag of corn, engaged in parching a quantity ol the grain, more for the pur pose of passing tho time away (of oouree) than witli any intention of satiating his appetite (for all good soldiers will re member that an rapetite was an imple ment not marked aown in the catalogue of a Confederate soldier’s acoouter- ments), and be replied; '* It ain’t n post; it’s a sack of corn.” “ Where’s your corporal ? ” “ Bleep, I reckon.” “ Why don’t you walk your post ? ” “ Didn’t I tell you ’twa’nt a post? ” “ Who’s corporal of this guard ? ” “Billy McCarthy, Second Howitzcis, ■loops in second cabin at head of lino on left side,” replied tho sentry, all during the conversation keeping his ove on his frying-pan, which he continued to shake to keep his com from burning. “Young men,” said Lieut. C., “you don’t seem to know the first duty of a soldier. Hew long have you been in the army?” Three years, one month, ten days and oighteon hours, when the relief comes round. I always keep it to the notch,” replied the sentry, singing a few snatch es from the popular song of those days: “Why did you not rise, salute me and walk your beat when I come up ? I shall report you to headquarters in the morning for neglect of duty.” Baying which the Lieutenant departed and soon disappeared in the darkness. After giving him sufficient time to get off some distance, the sentinel mounted the pile of com and yelled out: “Hello there, mister 1 ” “ What’ll you have ? ” was the reply. “ Who are you, anyhow?” The Lieutenant answered: “I am Lieut. O., officer of the day.” “Ohl shucks,” replied the sentry; “blame my bido if I didn’t think you was Gen. Lee.” . Poet-Laureates of England. Tho custom of crowning a poet with laurel originated among the Greeks, and was adopted by the Romans, who bor rowed this, as many other things, from their moro cultured neighbors of the East. Tho po'>ta who received the crown wore tho ones who succeeded in the con tests. In tho twolfth century the cus tom was revived in Germany by the Em- I jeror, who invented the title of poet> aureate. Pei rarch was crowned in 1841 at tho Roman capital, which event at tached now interest to the title. The early history of the laureatesliip in Eng land is traditional. The story runs that Edward HI, in 1867, emulating the coronation of Petrarch, granted tho offloe to Clmiioor, with a yearly pension of 100 marks nnd a tioroo of Malvoisie wine. Ben, raro old Ben Jonson, mentions Homy Seognn as the laureate of Henry IV. John Knv, or Cain, was oourt-poet under Edward IV, and Andrew Bernard hold the same office under Honry VII and Henry VIII. John Hkelton received from Oxford, and subsequently from Cambridge, tbo title of poet-lnureato; and Spenser is spoken of as tbo laureate of Queen Elizabeth, because of bis hav ing rocoivod a ponsion of £10 a year when ho presented bor tbo first books of tho “Faerie Queen.” In 1619 the “order” wns formally established by James I, who granted Bon Jonson, by patent, au annuity for life of 100 marks, and thus scoured ills services. In 1630 tho lauroateship was mode a patent offico in tho gift of tbo Lord Chamborlain. Tito salary wm> increased from 100 marks to £100, aud a tierce of Canary wine was added, which was commuted in Bouthoy’s time for £27 a year. Thoro was from that period a regular succession of laureates. Tho performance of tho annual odes was suspondod after tho final derangement of George HI in 1810. The poot-luureato from tlio timo of Southey has written what be chose and and when ho chose. Wordsworth wroto nothing in return for tho distinction, and Tennyson has written vory little. The following is the list of tho laureates from Jonsou’s day to date: n. m Jonnon .1680-1687 Will. Diivi'iiport lR7flIl68B Tliomiwt Hmulwoll Niclmliii Kmro. •«••••••••• 1714—1718 "HI. ** till..*!. _ . . n{u , The Old Banking System. The banking system in vogue provioui to the act of 1864 was simply that which placed the charter of all banks of issue and deposit iu tbo hands of the several States. In 1856 and 1857 there were about 1,400 of these State institutions; in New England alono there wore 507 banks and branches, with a capital of 8114,611,752. At that time an important feature in New England baukingwns tho “Suffolk banking Bystetp,’’ through which the notes of ail New England banks were collected nnd redeemed at the Suf folk Bank at Boston, each bank making a stipulated d<q>osit for that puri>o8e, amounting in the aggregate to $300,000. Tho older banking system of the United States dates back of tlio State banks. During tho revolutionary war tbo coun try was extremely poor, with few indus tries except agriculture, and witli no S reciona metal to speak of. Congress, [ay 10, 1775, mndo preparation to issue Continental paper, $2,000,000 of which were pat in circulation on Juno 22 fol lowing. Those issues aggregated $300,- 000,000, and depreciated so much that eventually they became valueless, al though laws were passed making them a legal tender for the payments of debts. Then a plan was submitted to Congress, May 17, 1781, by Rolurt Morris, for a National Bank, the principal provisions of which were: Tho capital to l>o $400,- 000, in shares of $100 each, each share to have a vote; that twelve directors ho chosen from those entitled to vote, who at their first meeting shall choose a pres ident; that the directors meet quarterly; that-the board lie empowered from timo to time to open new subscriptions for tlio purpose of increasing the capital of tho bauk; statements to lie mode to the Sup- perintendent of the Finances of America; that the bank notes payable on demand shall by law be mode receivable for du ties and taxes in every State, and from ipoctive States by tho Treasury of Thomas Wnrton Henry Jan Robert Routhey Salaries *f British Mlnllten. Tho hrIiut lift of tho Britieh Govern ment show, tho relative rank aaaignoil to Washington an a diplomatic atation by the European powers. The British Minister at Paris reoeives an annual sal ary of $50,000; at Vienna, $40,000 ; at Constantinople, $40,000; at St. Peters burg, $89,000? at Berlin. $36,000; at Pekin, $30,000; at Madrid even, $27,- 000; while at Washington Bir Edward Thornton is obliged to live on $25,000 and a very considerable number of al lowances. In point of grade the Euro peans rank Washington practically with the missions to Brasil, to Japan, to th* Hague and to Lisbon. Tub Czar is the only crowned widower ami Victoria, tbo only crowned widow among tlio European potentates. Al fonso ami Christine, of Spain, arc the youngest wedded conplo; Wilburn and Augusta, of Germany, tho oldest. the United State*; that the Superintend* ent of the Finances of America shall havo the right at all times to examine into the affairs of the bauk. This bank became an important auxilary in aid of the finances of the Government, and so con tinued to the end of the war. Then fol lowed the Bank of the United States, commonly called Hamilton’s bank, which was chartered in 1791, and continued till 1811. From that time to 1816 tho fiscal scrvico of theGovornmout was performed by banks operated under the State law. In 1816 tho secoud Bank of tho United States was areated; its capital was to bo $35,000,000, in 850,000 shares of $100 each; $7,000,000 of the stock to bo sub scribed by tho United States, and the remaining $28,000,000 by individuals, companies or corporations. Tho bank went into operation Jan. 7, 1817, and continued till 1836, when it censed to act under tho charter granted by the United States, but tho same year was ro- ohartered by tho State of Pennsylvania, with the same capital. On winding up its affairs in 1840, after paying its debts there remained nothing to tho stock holders, the entire capital being suuk.— Chicago Inter-Ocean. Telegraphic Reminiscences. “I think,” said General Stager, “that I was about the first to read messages by sound. Certainly I had so read t hem be fore I knew of any ono else doing it. Erostus Brooks, just about that time, came to Fittalmrg ami bought out tbo Gazette. It was a very responsible duty to collect the telegraphic dispatches, aud the chief editor used to coute himself to my office for that pnrposo. The markets were sent in cipher. Ouo day iny regis ter broko down wbilo Brooks was watt ing for the report. A steamer had just landed in Now York, and tho nows was important. But tho register was iu bucIi a state that patching wouldn’t do. Mr. Brooks was iu despair. Now the offico call of a telegraph station is easily learned. You havo *DE,’ for instauei for Detroit; ‘BU’ for Buffalo, ami ‘11 *> Cleveland—tho ‘C’s’ being taken up somewhere else on tbo line. ^ The con stant reiteration of DE, DE, or BU. BU, or whatever tbo ofljeo call is, make it familiar, ami as easily recognized a the Sound of n man's name. Tho very boys learn in short order. < )f e< those days, just os now, our ol were recognizable to tho ear. with this in mind that I said to Brooks, ‘Wait a little and I’ll try another plan.’ I explained matters to the operator at the other end, and asked him to go slow, and between my knowledge of the eipber and the good-natured repetitions of each link of it by my dowu-East friend, I managed to get tbo whole of the report. It camo slow, but came in time. Brooks loft a delighted man.” “Now, Genoral, that's a historical fact worth noting.” “I make no claims,” continued Gen eral Stager, “but I’ll tell you my owi: experience. It was always a question among us whothor Mr. Barnes or Gov ernor Cornell was tho first to read and send by sound: Some say it was Barnes, tome dornell.” “Tho present Governor of Now York? “The very saino. Governor Cornell was an old-time telegraph operator. ” “Did the now improvement take?” “On the contrary,” said the GonertU, “the officers fought against it. Every commercial message, they said, must 1>e read from tho tapes. Tlioy insisted thot they wanted something for a record. We used to bundlo up the tapes aud keep them for reforonce, to compare for errors and find out whether tho recoivor or sender was to blame. It was a long timo befote tho officers discovered that such errors would bo detected just as well by taking a letter-press copy of the message. But readiug by sound is v— the only thing. It has immensely A-oased tho efficiency and capacity of tho telegraph.—An Interview in the Detroit Free Frees, The plug hat is virtually a sort of social guarautoo for tlio preservation of peace aud order. Ho who puts ouo on has given a hoetage to the community for his good liehavior. The wearer of a plug hat must movo with a certain so- (lateness and propriety. He cannot run, nor jump, nor romp, nor get into a fight, except at the peril of his headgear. All the hidden influences of the beavor tend toward respectability.—New Orleans Republican. Virtue has many preaohors but few martyrs. HUMORf OF THE DAT, Vy things goto D K how O J> thif Many a man who thinks himself • great gun is nothing more than a big bore. Kkbf odoI andjron command every body,” remarked 8t, Just. He stood in with anioe company. A box who won’t try is like troth, because the boy won’t endeavor and troth won’t end ever, either. MOSSY man. of a*ny mini*. Taka to “straddloa” and to 7 * bllaSa»» Many fUhoomoin toaea; Man* gulls thay prom to b* -XatoaO OsuKsr. As A bulb book-keepers are ink-lined to be pensive. Will some one kindly tell na if a blushing seamstress is nut s flushed sewer? “Thxbk is no disgrace in beingqpooT,” we are told, and we're howling glad of it, for there are enough other disadvan tages about it, without that one. TV^m of Yonkers, ere we buss, toll mo, will you moke a fuss?—New Yolk News. Man of Gotham, ero you risk your life, tell me, will yon inform your wife?— Yonkers Gazette. A Richmond physician says that if people will take a bath In hot whisky and rook salt twice » year, they will es cape the rheumatism and colds. But wouldn’t that spoil the whisky? Disgusted man says: “Why don’t hotels find some substitute for the ever lasting beefsteak for breakfast?” . Bless you, lots of ’em do. Cowhide • is tho favorite substitute.Post Her name was Eva, and wljpn .Charles Augustus called tho other evening and asked her to be hi* darling wifey, slio gently thrust him from her and sweetly said: “Not this Eva. Some other Eva. Good Eva.” . z A Biiodh Island clergyman wa* gferen - \ , S Emission to Bing “Tho Sweet Byo agd^ ye” in an insane asylum. Matty -pa-f tients were movod. So was the clergy- * man. A lonatio moved him clear down . stairs. . „' “Hi! where did yon get them tr#os- * erg?’’ asked an Irishman of a man who. 1 happened to be passing with a remarV-'*' ably short pair of trousers. “I got them where they grew,” was the indig- ' nant reply. “Tnen, by my conscience,” said Pat, “you’ve pulled them a year too soon I” In Boston: iEsthetio young lady— “By the way, Mr. Gosoftly, have you •» reatl Bascom’s ‘Science of Miuu? ” ’ “N-n-uaw. I’m not reading much now- o-days. I pass my time in origiual thought.” iEsthotio young lady (with much sympathy)—“How very dreary, to bo sure.” It was their first night aboard tho ■tcamer. “At last,” ho said tenderly, “we are all one, out upon the deep waters of the dark blue sea, aud_ your heart will always beat for mo as it has beat in the past?” “My hoart’s all right,” she answered languidly, “but my «tomacli feels awful.” “Prisoner, you are accused of having stolen the complainant’s pocket book; do you plead guilty or not guilty?” “Guilty, your Honor.” “What wus tho motivo that impelled you to commit the erimo?” “I had a note coming due next day, and oould not bear the thought of having my name dishonored!'’—Figaro. When a husband becomes angry and swears before his family, he is not bo much to blame; he doesn’t know bow it sounds. His wife, really, is to blamo— idie ought to swear, too, to let him hoar how it sounds. Isn’t this sound logic?— Kentucky State Journal. Well, we’ll be—ahem—yes—that-—is—we’ll be com pelled to say that it in.—Steubenville Herald. The Two Girls of Frostburg. Two young ladies for tbo past four years have bad control of a farm of ono hundred and sixty acres near Frostlmrg. They have plowed, sowed, reaped, built fences, raised hogs aud performed tho other oountless duties incident to a pastoral life. Iu addition to their out side duties tlio care of a widowed and in valid mother has boon a tax ou their energies. One of the ladies is a shoe maker, and all work of that land used by tho family is executed by her. Tlio house in whioli they livo is largo and roomy, yet these two girls, whoso ages, by the vraj, ore twonty-two and twontv, have made nil the carpet, and made it well, too, painted a number of farm scenes and family portraits in oil, and filled up tho otherwise vacaut spots with waxwork, etc. Besides, the fact that they are good musicians, tho fuct that they uever shock your refined ear with ungrammatical remarks, is also note worthy. Go to that much-abused villago of Punxsuatewnoy, and, after inquiring for tho location of Frostburg, walk in that direction just three miles and you will reach the home-made homo of Emma and Manilla Black.—Pittsburg Dispatch. 3 calls Educating Oysters, And, although it has been doubted that an oyster iiad been so fur subjli fted us to “follow its master up and [own stairs,” a consummation which night accepted as positive progro.ss- ve steps in the rise toward ultimuto civ ilization, at least according to “Lewes Heasidc Studies," oysters aro suscepti ble of being educated to a small extent. In the grout establishments on tbo coast of Culvodos, tbo merchants touch oys ters to keep their shells closed when out of tho water, by whioli the liquor re tained keeps their gills moist, tuid. they arrive lively in fur-distunt Paris. Tho proceM may be worthy extensive pub licity ; it is this : No sooner is an oyster taken from the sea than it closes its shells, aud opons them after a certain time—from fatigue, it is said, but more probably because Uto shock it rocoivod by removal into the air, causing its mus cles to contract, has passed awuy. Tlio Calvados men take advantage of this to exercise tho oysters, aud make thorn ac customed to .be out of tho water, by leaving them daily in the atmosphere for longor and longer periods. This has tho desired effect; tho woll-educuted mollusk keeps its door closed ut least for many consecutive hours, and so long as tho sholl is closed its gills aro kept moist. '—All the Year Round. Wedding Anniversaries* The wedding anniversaries are as fol lows: First year, iron; fifth year, wooden; tenth year, tin; fifteenth year, crystal; twentieth year, ohina; twenty-fifth year, silver; tliirtieth year, cotton; thirty-fifth year, linen; fortieth year, woolen; forty- fifth year, silk; fiftieth year, gold; bot- enty-fifth year, diamond. Tna following is placarded in tho theater at Dnrango, Col.: “From and after tliis date all Demons who wish to gain admittance to tne auditorium of tho Coliseum must leave their weapons at the front bar, where checks will be given for them.” A. R. Yon Loehr, of Vienna, lias patented a device for winding a watch by moans of the motion of tlio wearer s Ixxly in walking.