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7 1 MUMUMPTIOH BATES &ne year. '.....$1 gft Bli nioh'fhh, a... ..a 7(5 Three nioaitu..J 0n ., f 4o ffflnRpiprr I*i»W BMliioihr. 1. Auy person who takes a paper regular, ljr from the postoflice- whether directed to hianame or another's, or whether h* hoe mb- aenbed or not—ifltespontible loir the amount. 1. If a person orders his paper discontinued be must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to 6end it until payment ia 8. The courts haje decided that refusing to take newspapers or periodicals from the poatoffice, or, removing and having them uuoalled for Is pritua facie evidence of in- natlotnel fraud. DOT'S LOVES. " *Tna I am big I will marry Kitty;» But Klity slapped na and ran awuy, And, while I wept fpr aiyrolf, in pity I made up my mind I would murry May. For May was gantic and May was te Vat lightly aha put my offer by; ■1 «utf«gocl to GcorRio Ferhapa I'll taho you if ha should dlo." By and by I met Jennio Blatchell; Jonnle was thirteen and I waa ten; I need to enrry her books and sachet, And made up my mind to marry Jen, Bnt Jennie, her reign was quickly over. And Kale, my cousin, became my fat I Mid: “ I'll propose, like a bfave, tri: Aina I when I took out my clean diploma, The darling girl waa about to start On her weddiug trip with young Will dc Roma And no ono knew of my brokin heart! At o»e-aud-twenty again love found me, But the angel face and ths meek blue oyee, And Uie threads of tbo goldon hair that loved n Went fading back into paradise I IlnrU ! Into tho houso Lu, Kale end Harry, With a r.nd pi And a girl I n r had n irnper froi LKB AND LINCOLN, Being nt Point Lookout, Md., S. Tay- lor Suit, onco tho Ariel of the gold-room in New York, la'.er a Maryland planter, told this recollection : “There lived near me in Prince George’s county, at Upper Marlborough, a cousin and favorite of Gen. Robert E. Lee, named John F. Lee. Ho was Judge Advocate of the United States army, and, when the war broke out, wno absurd enough to resign this comfortable placo and his rank of Major to go over to tho Confederacy. My intimate rela tions with him led mo to know Col. R. E. Lee, slightly. At the close of the war, about Apvil 1^, 1,805,1 made a visit to Richmond, Vu., tfitli tho, United States Marshal at Washington, Ward IT. Laraon. On Saturday night I went to his room, nt the Spots wood Hofei, and found him lying on liis bed weeping. 1 inquired the cause, but he sobbed that ho could not tell me then. Being mysli- lied and excited, I pressed to know his grievance, and finally ho said: ‘lam going oil' in tho morning to Washington. Beforo I go I will see you.’ Ho in formed lnc at Rocketts, ns the steamer was about to depart, that President. Lin coln had beeu murdered. 1 came ashore again, and, tilled with tho weight of such information, which was known to but few in Richmond, X thought it would justify mo in tailing on Gen. Lde 1 , who had arrived a day or two before, and was at bis dwelling. There I was told that (Ten. Lee was about to attend religions service, but. would be nt homo about 12:80 o’clock. I cal fed again, and he received mo cordially, and inquired par ticularly for various friends, places and interests about Washington, Baltimore and Maryland, I finally said to him : “ ‘ Gen. Lee I have a piece of private information which I camo hero to give you, sir. The President of the Uifited States, Abraham Liucoln, waa assassi nated night before last in Washington city.' “Ho turned suddenly, his face boing but half turned toward mo before, and looked into my face with an expression I shall never forget. Ho looked me through and through. “ ‘ General, ’ paid I* ‘ there can bo no doubt of it. The President’s Marshal, Col. Lnmou, told mo of it, and it has been fully confirmed in cipher messages to tho military authorities. What dc yon think about it, Gen. Lee ?’ “ Ho raised his head and chin, assum ing a positive expression, and excloimi d: “ ‘ The South has lost her best friend!' “Beforo I came away I remarked: ‘General, I would like to have your opinion us to who is tho best of ; IX Dnerals ? ’ “He answered, still a little stunned n>yl preoccupied: “ ‘A mum I never saw. A man named /onvst ’George Alfred Townsend. W. N. BENNS, JAMES 0. RUSS. Editors IHT TUfc-UB UK I.lOHT.” Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. VOLUME V. BUTLElt, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, .JULY 12. 1881. NUMBER 41. THE TUB HEADING HABIT. Charles Dudley Warner says, in tho Christian Union, that the extent of tho rending habit is overestimated. Even in the United States, where tho habit of read ing is most prevalont, few of the popu lation read a book. In support of his opinion, Mr. Warner brings out tho fol lowing i Nearly everybody takes a daily snatch at the newspapers, at the summary of nows or at tho telegraph columns, and tho base-ball ‘record, and occasionally persons follow for days the columns de voted to somo singular accident or curi ous murder—even women have acquired the art of deftly skimming the cream oil tho morning journal; comparatively few of tho entile population, even the edu cated, rend books. Unless n book by somo good luck be comes a fashion, and is recommended in conversation, few see it; the number of people who riginally seek out tho read able book from their habit of craving is erv small. When a story becomes the fashion, verybody reads it; but who is every body ? Why, a novel is said to have a “run” if 10,000 copies of it are pub lished for 40,000,000 people. And tliero are books that “ everybody has read, and all the newspapers talk of,” which have not got beyond the third or fourth thousand. The late Samuel Bowles once told mu of his experience. He had written liis capital book ou the far West nt the time of tho Pacific-railway excitement, when millions of people were eager for the in formation his book contained. Never did a book seem to be in greater demand ; it was sold iu England as well as in America, and all tho newspapers of both countries quoted from it aud com mented ou it. Mi*. Bowles said that he never met a person who had not read it—or who did not say lie read it, I forget which. And yet, ho asked, how many copies do yon suppose satisfied this enormous demand of everybody? Fifteen thousand filled the market. I believe that the majority of business mon read a book very rarely ; the ma jority of young men in business aud in society, I fancy, read little—they do not give their evenings to rending, and are not apt to take up a book unless it be comes the talk of society. People who spend a great deal <<■? money on dress, ou dinners, on amuse ments, would think it extravagant In buy a book, aud, if one is commended to them, they will wait till they cull borrow it or get it from the library. They do not hesitate two minutes about an ordinary $2 dinner, but 'they will wait months to borrow a 50-cent book. WOODEN PIPES. Wooden pipes nro now being used Switzerland to convey the watcis of a thermal mineral spring between Pfoffer and Ragaz. They are constructed of fir-wood made into staves, aud bound to gether by means of iron hoops. After being carefully tarred bolli inside aud out, tlioy are perfectly water-tight, and possess many advantages over metal piping. They are, of course, much lighter, and are Insensible to changes of temperature, while their cobt is only about 8 shillings per meter. It is inter esting to note that tho New river wafer was first brought to London by means of wooden pipes formed by boxing out tree-trunks aud joining them length by length. Such pipes have been exten sively used in America, and they are, under the best conditions, estimated to last thirty years.—English paper. Hr drew his breath with a gasping sob, with a quavering voice he sang, but his voice leaked out and could not drown the accompanist’s clamorous [mu*. • He lost his pitch on the middle A, ho faltered on the lower D, and foundered at length like a battered wreck adrift on the wild high 0.— Mu- tiaal Journal. Givi: us the roan who cun sympathize heartily and impartially with a vast va riety of characters. *• PAPA" AND •• MAMMA. ' An early iustanco which occurs to me is in tho “ Beggar’s Opera” (1727), where Polly Peacliuni, I think it is, speaks of her “papa," The modem chaugo from “pupa” and “ mamma” to father and mother among tho upper classes, which began about thirty years ago, seems to have beeu a reaction against a custom which had gradually crept in among persons of a lower grade. As soon as common people's children began to say “papa” and' “mamma’' those of a higher class were taught to say “ffcther” and “mother." It was among my high-clmrch friends that I first noticed this adoption of “ father” and “mother.” One does not see tho connection, but such is tho fact. When I was young “papa" and “mamma’’ were universal amoug what may ho called tho middle and upper ranks of so ciety, and to this day “ladies of a cer tain age” still use tho words. King George III., about the year 1702, ad dressed lus mother as “ mauima;" so I find in the “Gronvillo Memoirs." But I do not think that Charles II., unless ho was speaking in French, ever ad dressed Henrietta Maria by that endear ing name, aud I feel tolerably sure that the Lady Elizabeth never called Henry VIII. “papa.” Ou the other baud I would observe that “ papa" and “ mam ma” are fast boing supplanted by tho oldoriginal “father”and “mother.” For fen, or perhaps for twonty, years last past, children in the upper and upper- middle classes have, so far as my obser vation goes, been taught to say “fathor” and “mother;” and “papa”and “mam ma," wliicli are words of extreme ten derness to those of my generation, sceni now to have sunk into contempt as a “note” of social inferiority.—Notes and Queries. OUlt JUVENILES, A siAin.HTiciAN with musical proclivi ties has been figuring on tho number of operas written by eooli of tho composers. Ho finds that Donizetti turned out G(i; Mercndante, 60 ; Auber, 44; Rossini, 39; Halvey, 32; tho brothers Ricci, 37; Verdi, 27; Petrelli, 27; Mozart, 1(5 ; Meyerbeer, 15 ; Wagner, 12, and Gou nod, 11. None of the others exceeded ten, except Pacini, who tops tho whole list with 115. Vines nro said to extract yearly from tho soil about throe-fourths of the quan tity of potash and phosphoric acid that the cereals take up. Mountain Praia. When tho world was comparatively young, and people were contented with legends and myths concerning the won ders of creation, just as children like fairy stories, it was tho common belief that mountains were the work of gods and genii, who hurled them down from heaven, aud allowed them to fall by chance, or else raised them as mighty pillars destined to bear the vaults of tho skies. Tho Titans, who were not gods, threw down nil the mountains of Thes saly in order to use them again forbuild- iug up tho ramparts round Olympus. Another story is that a giantess of the North lind filled her apron with littlo hills and dropped thnm at certain distances that she might recognize her way. And still another, from the other end of the earth, is that Vishnu, one day, seeing a young girl asleep beneath tho sun’s too- ardeut rays, took up a mountain, and held it poised upon his finger-tips to shelter the beautiful sleeper. This, tho legend tells us, was tho origiu of sun shades. Nrf>r was it oven always neces sary for gods and giants to lift up tho mountains in order to removo thorn; the latter obeyed a mere sign. Stones has tened to listen to tho strains of Orpheus’ lyre; mountains stood erect to hear Apollo. It was thus that Helicon, the home of the Muses, took its birth. Strange as nro these stories, they are no more wonderful than tho nctual fact that, under tho direction of the Creator, the two great giants, fire .and water, have been and still are nt work con- stnicting mountains, slowly, it is true, and not by auy sudden upheaval, as tho lovers of tho marvelous would have it to be, but uono the less suroly. While wandering over tho surface of the globe, and carefully observing its natural phenomena, wo see that mount ains are the slow growth of ages. When an insular or continental mass somo hundreds or thousands of yards high re ceives rain in abundance, its slopes gradually beconio indented with ra vines, dales, valleys; the uuiforin sur face of the plateau is out into Pj^iks, ridges, pyramids ^suOuped qufc into am phitheaters, basins, precipices; rtyster'iis oL fountains appear by degroes wher ever tho level ground has rolled down to ally ciiovmous extent. In iidd’tiou to these external causes which chaugo plateaus into mountains, slow transformations in tl/,0 interior of the earth are also being ac complished, bringing about vast exca vations. Thoso hard-working men who, hammer in hand, go for many, years luqong the mountains in order to study their form and structure, observe iu the lower beds of marine formation, which constitute tho non-crystalline portion of tlio mountains, gigantic rents or fissures extending thousands of yards in length. Mosses millions of yards thick have been completely raised up again by these shocks, or turned ns completely upside down, so that what was formerly tho sur face has now become tho bottom. And in this way hn4o been revealed tho crys talline rocks, Plication, or folding, is ids ) an important feature ill ti e history of the earth. By this process, subjected to slow pressure, tho rock, the clay, tho layers of sandstone, tho veins of metal, have all been folded up like a piece of cloth, and the folds thus formed beconio mountains and valleys. One of the most interesting features in tho study of mountains is tho discov ery of fossils, by which the naturalist .accurately determines the ago of rocks. Millions of these remains, of animal and vegetable life have been preserved* Of course the tissues of ’flesh and drops of blood or sap are gone, but in their stead nrW particles of stone which hayo kept ■file form, and sometimes even tho color, of the creature destroyed. Within the thickness of these stones ore shells of inollusks, disks, spheres, spines, cylin ders in astounding numbers; wo see tho skeletons of fish with their fins and scales, tho wing-sheaths of insects, and *ven foot-prints; upon tho hard rock, too, which was formerly tho shilting sand of tho beach, we find tho impres sion of drops of rain, and tho into* 4 seeling ripplo marks traced by wavelets or. tiie shore. These fossils which lived millions of years ago in tho mud of oceanic ubyssea are now u»et at ovory mountain height. They are to be seen 1 uow me. Lincoln was president. on most of the Pyrenees, they constitute Lincoln was one of the most amiabh* whole Alps, they are recognized upon j of men. Mr. Chose was able, distin- the Caucasus and Cordilleras. j guished. and, in my opinion, one of the The wealth contained in mountains in ■ purest men who ever held office. There tho shape of silver and gold ore and j was an Assistant Treasurer at New York precious stones lias ever been, like tho j to be appointed, aud Mr. Chase insisted tnogio thread of tho labyrinth, leading j upon the choice of Mauusel B. Field, miners and geologists into the depths of i who was then ouo of the Assistant See- their caverns. Formerly it was supposed i rotaries of the Treasury. The Presi- to bo an easy matter to reach these ! dent was not in favor of his appoint- richcH. All that a man needed was what j rnent, aud the i»*no was sharply made wus called “luck” and tho favor of the by Mr. Chase that Field should be gods* Boldly seizing some opportunity, chosen or he would resign his greut of- such ns the rolling away of a stone from flee. It was at a very critical period ot a crevice, he had bnt to mutter some j the war, ami when tho credit of tho magic words, creep into a dark passage, j Government was at its worst. It was and find himself beneath a vaulted roof | uo light matter to change Secretaries of crystals and diamonds; he needed | then, aud especially to lose tho service but to stoop and gather the rubies be- of him who liod originated and carried neatli liis*feet* Not by chauce and I out our systems of credit and banking, magic do tho minors of our day reach j But the issue was made, ami the Presi- the rich veins of minerals. Study dent would not retrout nor surrender his and hard work aro behind all the en- ! greut function of appointing power: gineering skill which ponetrafes our j The resignation was accepted, ami the mountains. | lirst knowledge the Senate had of the \\ hen the summer is here, and you go JfOIT TO BUY A MORSE. An old horseman speaking of thi" sub ject says : If you want to buy a horse, don’t believe your own brother. Take no man’s word for it. Your eye is your market. Don’t buy a horse in harness. Unhitch him and take everything off but the halter, and lead hi has a corn, or ia stiff’ failing, you can see i himself u little wayi right into anything v» round. If hi Let him go by md if he staves stone blind, bright his more than Home hors tricks that other. But be a* get caught gets stuck, No matte: A, PAYINEf A BEAM . rupt - * When is a man iikw *.-Jbi»Mng-glftSS? When ho reflects. , r *■. A net that maqy ajb anxious to gat into—The Cabinet, , The weight of tAe world — About twelve ounces to the ponnd. Why iH tho letter “ G ” like the sun ? Because it is tho center of light. Everything lias to pay up sometimes; •en the little chickens have to shell mt. Teacher—“ What docs it mean to say that a person takes the palm ?” Boy— “It means that he takes the cake.” When a man is pitching pennies and loses one, ho reminds us of “Noah’s weary dove,” inasmuch as he is 1 cent nit. lie bat. Back him up, to show their weakness < iy when they don’t iu ai “This is the kind of a cane brake that I don’t like,” was what Pompey re marked when his master broke a walk ing-stick over his shoulders. A Texan girl, having fallen out with her lover, sent hiui the following lines, which are expressive, if not beautiful: , change waa tho appointment of David forth with merry heart, oml stout staves o[ ohj for s ,. crL . ( ,„ T ot Ule Treas . to climb some “Saddleback "or “Mount ,n.„ i eountrv Tom," just stop aud think of all tho wonderful things which happen to make The Senate and founded—frightened—for . . , , .. taking the weighty matte n mountain ; and, os you glance up its , ®. ... . . . ’ ’ J . x , . \. credit into the case, was wooded sides, and see the clouds resting upon its summit, or behold the purple lines of evening gathering about its ma- .. . al „ • > .. i . . , .... , * , waited upon tbo President, lieade lestio form, remember “tho hand that „ ’ . „ 1 ’ „» their Chairman, Fessenden, of M vas most serious. The nomination of Tod was referred to the Finance Committee, and that body id fe made it People. i divine.”—Harper’s Young NO LETTER FOR UVttVU. A man from Branch county, being in Custer City soon after n postoflice was established there, went up to the shanty day with intent to inquire for mail matter. A man from Missouri was just ahead of him, and inquired if there waa any letter for Zacharinli Burch. “Be you the feller?” queried the Postmaster. i yo V” “ Named Zachariah, “ Yes, air.” “Too infernal long for this country. You’d hotter chop it in two.” “ I axed if tliero was a letter here for Zftoharioh Burch,” said tho MiFgouriun, with a bad gleam in liis eyes. “Aud I heard ye, and there ain’t uothing of tho sort here.” “ Kinder seems to me thore is.” “ Then I’m a liar?" The pair looked at each other for n minute, and then Bureli remarked : “Mebheyou ore.” Uncle Sam’s official hopped out of his don and went for ZaehnriuU Burch. It wits a pretty oven match for fen minutes, and then the Postmaster got his favorite hold. Soon after that event Mr. Burch observed : “Strauger, I reckon it’s no use to prolong this sorrowful affair." “ I reckon not, but yo inquired for n letter for Burch." Maine, to inquire the cause of the change, and whether it was not wise to arrange for u continuance iu the Treasury Department of Mr. Chase. The President received the committee, recognizing their right I to know the cause of so grave a junct i ure. He entered upon an entile state- I ment of the relations of the head of the ! Treasury Department und himself, and 1 especially tho difference arising from the | demand made by his Cabinet Minister i that Mr. Field must bo nmdo Assistant. . Treasurer at New York, or lie would va- ; <;ato the department. There wus um | choice left to him but to appoint un ob jectionable mun to a high office or to i part company with the Secretary of the i Treasury ; and, he added to the commit- ; tee, sooner than Hiibuiit to frequent threats of resignation, he (Mr. Lincoln) would resign the Presidency and let Mr. I Hamlin (then Vice President) become President. Here was one ot the most ! amiable, kind-lieartod and accessible of men offering to surrender tho highest ! office in tho nation rather tlinn to flo- 1 grade it aud himself by illegal and dis honorable submission.—John Conners, in Boston Traveller. smart as you can, and you’ll ometimes. Eveu an expert A horse may look ever no nice, and go a mile in a minute, and y«-t have fits for instance. There isn’t a liv - man could fell it till something hap pens. Or he may have a weak back. Give him tho whip aud off ho goes for t mile or two; thou, all of a sudden lu sits down on the road. After a rest lie gets up und starts again, tint ho soon sits down for good, aud nothing but a der rick could raise him. Do you know what a dummy is? Well, I’ll toll you. H.-’a a horse that doesn’t know anything, liis brain ha- gone wrong. A dark stall and over feeding have ruined his digestion and that has affected his brain. Drive him out a ways aud pretty soou he will .jerk hii head around and pull right straight o.i one line. You can’t hold him; it’s in use to try. The first you know he bin dumped you in a ditch, or smashed you up against a lamp-post. Tie him in a stable and lie’ll back up till he breakm every halter you put on him. Stretch a rope across tho end of the stall so he can't back out and he’ll climb up the wall. ; A Kansas Judge has decided that a ! ticket to “ admit one ” is good for 1ms* { band and wife. Ou tins basis of reason ; ing u child’s ticket would suttico for thr ! average Sophomore class, i A iiirrus girl, addressing lier sister, ! a-ked, “ What was the chaos pa was i leading about to-day ?” To which tho i latter replied, “’Twoa a great pile of . nothing, and no place to put it in.” Fred was telling his mother about i liis dog Fido. “ He just laughed fit fe i kill himself,” said Fred. “My dew j boy,” interrupted his mother, “how can a (log laugh ? You meau that Fido was barking.” “No, indeed," Fred replied, ! quickly; “Fido was laughing with hi! till, for it went wigglety-Svigglety," I This comes from Ohio : ; JENNY LIND'S ACQUIREMENTS AT Iti. 1 It would not bo all easy matter liowa- : days to discover a young lady of 1(5 able. to play and siug from memory, from the i first to the bust note, Gluck’s “ Armida,” Spontini’s“Vestale," Cherubini’s “Deux ! JourneoH," DalujiuCs •'Chutanu j Mouteueru," Ivsi.lo the cifrbl'ns ol Mo- j zart and Weber, tho oratorios of Haydn, | and all tho mulodios of Beethoven, Schu- j borl and Mendelssohn. It would bo still \ more difficult lo findau artist who could j understand aud enter into the spirit of | these great masters, diviuo their intnu ) lions, preserve their local coloring and i appropriate their stylo. But it would ! bo almost impossible to name iv vocalist able to read at sight the most difficult “ How in tho world," asked a Oalvcs- | ton lady of a neighbor, “can I prevent j my boy from stealing sugar out of tbo | sugar-bowl.” “ I know how you can stop hi i stealing sugar out of tho sugar- bowl,” was tho reply. “How?” “By j simply putting tho sugar in the milk- i pitcher.”—(iaIvesian News. ! “How did you like •Europe?" ' loo splendid for auy ‘It's anything!” ply. “And were you sick“Yes, awfully sick.” “And -ivw, your hus band good to y..u?” ’’“Oh, ho was too good tor anything 1 Just as jioon as ho found out l wus sick, ho went ami drank salt water so as to bo seasick in unison Midi me, and I'm not liis second wife. compositions, to cm lu 1 has •stood LOCATING A MAN'S BIRTHPLACE. Many people of tho present day re member tho singing campaign of 1840, which elected Gen. Harrison. Ono of tho best of tho Whig speakers aud sing ers was Mr. Joseph Hoxio. He was very po2)ular at mass meetings, for his nurtv strouff speeches were short, und ho always inter- spersod them with songs and anecdote A friend onco asked Mr. Hoxio where h« was born. “There was once a man," replied Mr. Hoxie, cocking his eye in a way that | told a good story was coming, “ who lived in Kentucky. Ho prided himself on being able to fell the Htate in which a person was born, if ho heard him speak u few words. “ Seated in u tavern located on a turn pike, ho amused h “ And you give it to that sich a letter had a “ Yes, I did,” replied Burch, as he fol of his left ear to seo what portion wax loft for futuro lights, “but I’ve bii thinkiu’ powerful hard in tho last ton j minits, aud I guess tho old woman back iu Missouri lias put off writin’ till next Sunday. Let’s go out. and tako entilin' to bring tears to our eyes.” AGE OF THE EARTH, The ago of the earth is placed by somo al 600,000,000 of years, by others 100,- I locating tho birthplaces of the tr 000,000 years : and still others, of later ! w j 10 alighted, time, among them tho Duke of Argyle, j plflce it at 10,000,000 years. Nonepluco ' (l it lower than 10,000,000, knowing what processes have been gone through, j Other planets go through the same proc ess. Tho reason that other planets dif- I f for so much from the eurtli is, that they i arc in a so much earlier or later stage of * existence. The earth must become old. | Newton surmised, although ho could | t in for it, that tho •gular rhythm and perform them im- i mediately as it she had herself created i thorn. Such, however, was Jenny Lin-I ■ and iu this preparation, in thus porsever- I mice, in this early ami undivided study, may be seen tho gtrrn of her subsequent prodigious popularity. Quito different this from tho system now adopted ot i venturing on tho first European stage» ! after u few lessons from a renowned lastei drai without prinkling i •uts which alone < the :k /:.i addros: The 'til proper and improper derive o from the manner in which yM him ut night, thus—“Scut I ” •nt is a cuss that mews and pinr.-, • purr-liaps it a-inev.-ses him. li •ed with fur, is filled with dec. i' yet preeisil ; shy it is considered the nu t vicious j .king that can bo said of a man that ho ! lean's his speeches by lu nt. 1 should i have imagined that annudionea ought to i be grateful to a speaker for taking this trouble. To eoaipluiu of it is to regard speakiug like dancing on a tighl-rop_ i aud to incumber it with difficulties in ; order to derive plea*nro from seeing 1 them overcome. In niuo cases out of ten a learned speech is better than an ; unlearned one. 1 have always envied i tiie memory of those who, without ltcoi- . tut ion or pause, ciiu deliver a set oration, i One of tluf greatest adepts of this art ! was Lord Beaconstlcld, who, although a 1 fluent mid ready iUqromptu speaker,* • often adopted it. fihn'o than onco ho has handed a specc/i to tho reporters at 1 meetings,-aud lie Juts then repeated it without the mistuN of a word. J one., do this ; ./-ft One traveler, gel ting off’ his horse, I, ‘ Have you auy oats ?’ Yes,’ answered tholandlord. Give my horse two quarts.’ j That, man,’Bal’d tho observer, ‘is Connecticut.’ Landlord,’ said another traveler, i my borne four quarts of oaks.’ i That inau is from Massachusetts,’ . i ked tho observer. Have vou oats, landlord ?’ asked a : ful ii 1 obi ids cheek. 11 that purr-puss. Ho cau outside of a canary in 1 then come and sit by you up you iu the face with “childlike and bland,” pi«<™ pointer nd c Cam ouhl at ono limo lose all its water and third traveler mal do this? His fur is soft but what is this fur I cannot * so soft, however, but what it bricks. The cat is u smaller tim luuli vi.ll I bin. become perfectly dry. Sineo has been found that Newton then ‘Yes.’ ‘Give rcct. many oats ns ho at.’ ‘ Thut l from Rhode Island.’ few," said Mr. Hoxie, “I cornu the State where they give their s all tho oats they cun eat.” As the eurtli keeps cooling it will be- come porous, and great cavities will bo formed in tho interior which will tako in tho wafer. It is estimated that this process is now in progress, so far that | the water diminishes at ubout tho rate OREGON'S liquor law. of tho thickness of a sheet of writing- j Tu tako » driuk iu Oregon ’com. paper each year. At this rate in 0,000,- j mau ^ iu(lu , gillg *5. Tho mlu is no DUO years tlie water will have sunk a ] worth tUnt m0 uey, lmt tho city require mile, and in 15,000,000 years every true, j u licens0 c03ti „ g tUll t sum before a mai „f wator will linvo disappeared from the j CMl gtt „ ny bittorg , lt „ ny hot( ,| or „„ fare of the globe. The nitrogen and ! luon It is a penal offense for the pru prietors of those establishments to sell t also di- ; oxygen iu the atmosphere minishing all tho time. It is in an iu- nppreciablo degree, but the time will como when tho air will bo so thin that no creatures we know oould breathe it and live; tho timo will come when ths world cannot support life. That will bo the period of age, and then will como dcatli.—Hi chard A. Proctor. : any person whe is not armed with 1 license. Every six mouths the local pa- j pers publish tho names of all who have ; applied for such documents, and the | public thereby know who are the drink* Apple-Corn Pone.—Ouo quart or New servant answers the boll, which . finely-chopped apples ; one quart of In is been rung by an elderly gontlomnn. j <Jian meal; scald with a pint of boiling Is your mistress in?” “No, sir." water, add sweet milk to make as! iff Ah ! fell hor when slio returns that j batter, then stir iu the apples; add u her fat lie say afl w< wus passing and called i > well at home.” “ Yes, Withdnu name, si littlo salt. Bake in u close vessel th: hours or pour into a tin pail, cover the old gentleman was about to ! i i-htly and boil in a kettlu of water for , “Oil I won’t you leave your j the same time. Euteu with sweetened ?” milk or eroaaL As a general tiling the cut to than any oihorUinml except a mustard plaster. I liavi known hiui to draw two bootjacks, smttlo «f coal, two or three charges out a gun, two or tim e swears out of a lean, und two articles of bedroom furniuro out of tho third-story window. Tliir can also be said of the average string xainl. In fact they aro somewhat rclu-ed, os the discoverer of tho fiddles, list-mug to tho music of tho cat, cut him qpon t«* sec wliero tho noise comes fr. n, mnl thin laid tho foundation for lUdlo-strings, Gats and fiddles thus be-qmo viol-in line. I would say somethiig aboiu the cut o’-niue-tails, but it is •. painful sub ject; another reason is I don't know anythin;: about them. 1 by Ioeutipli phrases in- different icra of the rnmi. For live minutes ot on boantfully, but, when I had ii listed ono . >rner and turned to the lie One nights burly Englishman, who ml the fut»l ty of exciting Curly lo »•> vu/.y b talkim* dbout O’Connell, tiled on' dm, and, after a littlo talk 1 mil thi weather, at it thev wont. It , hot i id he: ml u lit iv th.>: ixdingly Lonoi eu.ow remarkee of Hu “ Ho was a sliy man, md exet refined. If any one thought ho wrote with case ho should hkve seen him as I have, seated nt a table with pen ami paper beforo him, perfectly still, not writing a word. On one. occasion he told me lio had been sitting so for hom> wait ing for an inspiration to write, mean time filled with gloom and almost apa thetic despair.” itest. Tea put a brief stop it, but i soon begun nguin. ' There were Fovcrul meets present and Mrs. Csrlylo put ho foot on tho Englishman’s, im ploring peace. He no sooner felt this provBvre than he screamed out: “Why don’t you touch your husband's toe, Mrs. Carlyle? lam sure he is far more to bltrine than I am.” The whole company burst out laughing, including Curlylo himself, and tea was finished in compar ative tranquillity. Mn. Montgomery Bt.air said in » lot tor to a Missouri friend: “Lo« told my father, lu the room iu which T. write this noto, when my father, at Lincoln’s request, offered him tho com mand of the army, that he was utterly opposed to secession—regarded it ns an ftichy—and said if he owned every slave iu the country be wouldfreely surreml l)n<iii rather than seo tho Union di» solved, and yee t«*ok up arms f"r rl "’ cause be lumsolf hod pronoun' * d illog and ruinous, because his relatives and friends were involved in it.” It j'h announced that “01 the drcM has u M-pamto do: IHUlllIv has an eve to it nw Philadelphia Bulletin, •Ii button on gn It also advantage. A VERY oxtensivo trade is n»... • tlio mauufaeture and sale of French art liciul pearls. J ~ I