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) ATE* ■OIIURIPTIOI BATE* One year..‘ 4,.. Hi* ifumih*,........ Three month* R***p*p«r Law DeefaloM. t; Any p*non.who take* a paper refwler Jx fo*Wflli*-Thelher dirroted to hi* name or mother*/or whether he ha* inb* eenbed or not—ia tespontiblefor the amount, 3. If a j enon order* hi* paper dlaoontinned he muat pay all arrearaaea, or the pnblieher »>f continue to aaid It ‘until payment i* made, and oolleet the whole amoun^whelher the paper la taken from the offlce or not. t 3. The court* have decided that refnalng to take neyapapars or periodieala from the pdatofflee, or removing and leaving them uncalled for la priuafaoie evidence of in* natiotnel fraud. NEWS GLEANINGS. W. N. BENNS, JAMES 0. RUSS. Editor.. “LET Til i.lii: fJE I .Kill'I'.’ VOLUME Y, BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. JULY 19.'1881. Subscription. $1.50 in Advance. NUMBER 42. .Nopcly all the Geoigia'editors are in fi*vpr of a local option law. Yvtiisin county, Florida, lias the larg est orange prove iu the world—1,^00 ncrca. x V Route 2,300 doge have been Hated fo taxation in Lewie county, Va. A fruit canning factory, to coat $40,-, 000, is to be 1 uiit in Nmhville, Tonnes The inmkct price* for turtle eggs iu St Augustine, Florida, is 1G cent# per doiten. Georgia, jtnvb out akopt $(>,000,000 per year to increase the cotton, .^rop and lessen tlio price. A company lias been organized with a plenty of capilal to go into the busi ness of canning fruits and oysters at Pascgouln, Mississippi. A negress, arrested at Abbeville, 8. C., for carrying a pistol, was discharged on Hie ground thnt.tho concealed weapon act docs not apply to women. The frpit growers of California have clmllnigul the fruit growers of Florida 10 exhibit fruit with tlicpi in the city of New Yoik during next spring. Loudon Hood, a. well-known negro, died in Meriv ether county, Ga., last week, aged ninety-five years. It was bis proudest beast that during bis long life asa slave he had nevei been whipped. Gen. Gordon is prospectively the richest man in Georgia, Gov. Colquitt is reported to, have recently’ made $70,- 0( 0 lv the sal* of n coal mine in which lie ni H ’Gcn. Guidon were interested. A wlifer in the Ennis (Texas) Re view proposes raising catnlpa trees for fence posts; he. says that in five yenrs frew planting the tree is large enough for \ osts and that in ten ye ra it. is large enough for a railroad tie. He es timate* that 2,000 trees can be grown on an acre. Unpopular ministers that no coinmun ity wants are called “gum-l^gpreitchehc” in 1 be Georgia M. E. Conference. T.hCy are “hard stock,” and arc generally put off on some inpnntnin community, where they'{jet a salary ranging from $00 to $200 a year. A Souty Carol : na paper says that thousands nqd tbow/mds of doves are infesting the rice fields of West Wa tiirce. In some places the riee has l»een replanted two or three times, ai d yet the stand is not good, owing to its de struction by the birds. f , Ky A party of miners in Northeast Geor J gia, at the depth of twenty*?cet liefoi the MiFfi'dfybfuiifl 'Seventeen diamond: Tlief bftVeAml jnt>m unc< d*genuine by a New^ York firm, and arc said to W equal to the African diamond. There may have .beep “salt” in the neighbor hood. Recent census .bulletins show tliat .Selma liaq.7,529. people; Greensboro, 1,833 ; DemopoHs, 1,839 ; Marion, 2,074 Jacksonville, 882; Oxford, 1,361; Annis- lot), 0-)2; LaFayette, 1,001, and Tallnde* gal,?33 v; While Rev. Mr. CollisFon, of Hous ton, 'tyxns, was taking farewell of his Methodist congregation, preparatory to going over to Episcopnlianism, and wa* giving his objections to Methodism, Brother deems F. Durable interrupted him, saying: “I have no right to ob ject to.your quitting the church if you think proper, but I have a right and do prolest ngnint your using a Methodist pulpit to Abuse the Methodist chinch i or to condemn Methodist doctrine, There wan quiet on the Potomac after that. Mr. J. M. Dar*$y, of Hinesville. Ga., was annoyed last year by the otters; Just back of his house is*a spring branch which ufiords a borne for a great many otters. Fish being scarce, when the corn was in mutton, they left the branch and. took to eating the com, and they could destroy ns much as so many coons. Mr. Darsey W( uld sometimes run ns many as five out of the field at one time, and the dogs soon became afraid of them. He succeeded in killing a number, how ever. Apple# as Food. An exchange states the benefits of apples to be os follows: “A raw, mel low applo is digested in an hour and a half, while boilSd cabbage requires five hours. The most healthy dessert that can be placed on a table is a baked apple. If eaten frequently at breakfast with coarse bread and butter, without moat or flesh of any kind, it lias an ad- miible effect upon, the general system, oltqn removing constipation, correcting acidities and coolingoff febrile conditions more effectually than the most approved medicines. If families oould pe induced to substitute them for piesi cakes and sweotmeAtft, with which their children arefroqnently stuffed, there would .be a Jimmution in the total sum of doctors BOMB TIMM. So dm ttm* I tblnk you will b* *l«d to know That l tanvo kept you ever tu my heart. And that my love haa only deeper grown In all that Uma that wa bav* lived apart Soma day when you have slipped away from oar*, And lily fall to dreaming of the paat. And sadly think of all your life has mlaaod. You win tememhar mjr trua leva at taat. Or It may oome to pass, tone dreary night, After a day that haa baan hard to bear, When you aye waary, heart-slok anti forlorn, And there la nonoto comfort or to care, That you will cloae your tired eyea to dream Of teadey klaaea falling soft and light, Or realful touches smoothing off your hslr, ,And sweet words spoken for yonrbeart's delight 6h t then you will remember end be glad That I have kept you In my heart, And that your heart's true boms will still he there Although wa wander sliest and apart THE WATER LILY. The little village of Ohelston, in the county of Hertford, might have been termed with Goldsmith’s “Sweet Au burn" tho “loveliest of the plain," *' Where smiling spring It's earliest vlmt paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed,” And on this bright summer's morning on which onr story opens it appeared more lovely than ever, with the rich foliage swaying beneath tile clear blue sky, the broad green meadows, and tho 'Taxing cattle, while the gurgle of a rooklefc mingled its music with tho earoling of birds. Half-hidden amid a ahady clump of troos a young artist sat painting at a small, light easel, aud the faint outlines of distant hills and scattered hamlets were already standing out from tho can vas in front of him. He was apparently but little over thirty years of age, and his fnco looked grave and stern for one so young, and bore unaccountablo traces of some long- hidden sorrow. He had for some time been sitting ab sorbed in his work, almost unconscious of anything around him save the fair sketen of landscape he was so faithfully delineating. The brooklet ran by him—not twenty yards from wlitro he was seated—and the dappled oows lay chewiug their cuds upon its banks, or quenching their thirst in its crystal waters, reminding one of Sidney Cooper's most perfect pictures of oattlo. Ernest Darrell's attention was, how ever, suddenly arrested by a new object, and one which to his gaze was fairer than any he had seen that morning. A i girl • scarcely seven years of age. standing near tho brook—She had been gathering water-lilies, and in her hand she held a basket containing a number of the pure white flowers. His eyes fell upon her face, lifted wistfully to liia own, and then something like a Bmile broke over the little one’s mouth as she said, half shyly: “Do cotno and reach me this bonuty, if you please." - * Ernest ■Darrell was hardly sure at first Whether it vfA really himself sho was addreBflftift; DOT? no sooner was he aware of the fact tilth he m down Kis palette and ..brushy V a|4 ©A»te forward, toiler For a moment her little ungloved lujnd rested on his own, her lips parted iu an other smile and then she was gone, has tening away with all possible speed across tho sunny fields, bearing her sweot bur den of flowers—tyi>es of her own pure soul. Ernest Darrell stood gazing after her. Was it the tonch of her light fingers that had brought so strange a thrill to his heart ? He sat down to resume his paint ing but even that had last its wonted charm—he was restless, and his thoughts wandered back to whut might have been some years ago, whon he married a girl who loved him only for his father’s wealth, and who (when tho securities failed in which old Mr. Darrell had in vested the whole of liis money, and he was a ruined man, his son’s prospects also) left him—his Bix mouths’ bride- leaving behind her a cooly worded-note, intimating that she could share poverty with no one, and tlmt ho need not seek her, os she never intended to return. And he never had sought her; but the love he had borne her was as warm in his heart now as it had been on the day they were married. And as he sat at- his easel there, in the field where little Lilian had left him, ho wept for the memory of her who, in those days, had not been worthy one throb of his noble heart Several days elapsed l>efora he saw tho little girl again, hut during that time she was hardly once absent from his thoughts. He had lived such a lonely* life since his father died (broken down by the trouble that had come upou him in the loss of his wealth,) and, with nothing to care for in tho world but the art he wo# wedded • to. tlio ohild had come across his path like a ray of sun shine in the darkness. But one day, as was returning home, -she came anne- f toward him, aud seizing liia hand as iioir acquaintance -TimL been of yeati itead of days, site immediately begat fen animated conversation, such as only Children can begin pu tlio spur oi a mo ment. v Ernest-waa oertainly amused. if j not interested; but as thoir way along led them past the brook where they had met before, Lily broke away from him gnd ran eagerly toward it Sho looked hook once or twice to laugh at Ernest aud ili doing so tripped g'-fUml bidden iu the grass and foil forward int$ the water. ' A cry burst from her lips, but immo- dmtely Ernest enmo to the rescue, end ere she became totally submerged! had succeeded iu drawing her out upon tho bank. - Wot clothes and a severe fright was all the harm tho child had suata\Rtd an*d ns Ernest procoodod to diminution in the total bills in n single year sufficient to lay stock of this delicious frmt for the whole season’s use." assistance, ■ “A water-lily, ia it?" he asked, glanc ing at her basket. “Yes, such a beauty, but so far out of my reach," sho repeated, and then stood eagerly watching Ernest, who stretching himseif full length upon the bank ceeded with his long arm in grasping the coveted flower. The ohild’s delight was unbounded, the sight of which amply rewarded him for his trouble; but the unusual beauty of her face and the air of childliko graoo which accompanied her every movemont completely won Ernest’s heart, and ho was determined not to let her run away just yet. “You must give me a kiss as pavment for it,” he said, with a smile, lightly passing his hand over her golden head from which her hat had falleu. Who started back, with a vivid blush. “Oh, no, indeed; I am a great deal too old to kiss you," she exclaimed. “Why, I am aeven, and quite a young lady/’ “Are yon, really? Then I ora sure I beg your pardon," said Ernest, hardly able to repress a laugh. “But at any rate you will tell me your name?" he added. “Oh, yes; my name is Lilian, but I am nearly always called Lily," replied the little girl, with an air of consequence. “Lilian—nothing else?" asked Ernest. “No; only that," sho answered. Surnames are generally superfluous with children. “Then, I pressunio, the fact of ycrnr being a lily yourself makes you fond of tlio flowers that bear your namo,” he rejoined, smiling. Sho laughed*-a soft, silvery, happy laugh, that fell like music upon tho young artist’s ear. “Oh, I don’t know; I think I love all flowers, but especially those,” she said, glancing down at her basket “They are so large and pure and white, like the white-robed angels In the stained glass windows at church. Mamma loves them too, because she says when I am not with her they remind her of me. ” '‘Yon are mamma’s pet, then and pft- Vs, too, I suspect, for the matter of that,” replied Ernest, liia interrupted occupation totally forgotten in tho new pleasure ho felt in conversing with tho child. “I haven’t % papa." she oaid, droppipg her voice; “he died, oh, long before I can remember, bnt I never ask about him, because it always makes mamma cry. Would you tell me the time, please ?” Ernest glanoed at his watoh. “Nearly 1 o’clock, he told her. “Then I must bid you good-bye," she said, “or I shall bo late homo." And setting down her basket she bethought herself of the hat, which she proceeded to adjust on the top of her golden “Do you come here every day ?” she asked of Ernest. “I shall be here every day for a little while.’’ he answered her. '•'tfhen I hope I will see you again," 'And thank you flood that which I would have given tho best years of my life to bring baok. Re member what I had always been—a spoiled, petted ohild, with nover a wish ungratified, and it seemed so hard to face iraverty—even with you. 1 was very youtag—only seventeen, remember, Er nest—and all through the dim vista of years that lay before mo 1 saw nothing but want, penury and deprivation. I fled in a moment of madness, delirium— anything you liko to call it—leaving be hind mo that cold note, in which I hade yon nover seek me. I did not go home, for my parents would have immediately have com municated with you. I went to an ancle, who loved mo only too well—sin ful wretch that I was—and I told him a lie, that yop hud deceived me, and that I married a beggar whom I believed to have l>een rich. He was a bachelor, and lived a secluded life, away from all relatives and friends. I think I wna tho only creature he loved on earth, and wo two lived aloue. At his house my little {child was born, and it was then that ,1 began to think and long for you. .1 wrote and told my parents—ns soon as I was able—of wliat I lind done, arid ,bade them to seek you, and tiring yon •back home. They wrote, I know, but (never received any ouswer; and so I {thought you had treated me as I de served, and had resolved to forget me for ever. When Lilian was throe years old my uncle died, leaving mu his heiress, (and I took this house, in which I have lived ever siuce, aloue—quite aloue, with my child. Oli, Ernest, how I have lougeil for you, ond prayed to heaven to send you back to me? I have seen firoiir lmme in the newspajicrs sometimes, mid I know that ns an artist yon have risen to fame. And now, Ernost, for our child’s sake, forgive me—take mo •back, and try to think of me as leniently .as ]H)Hsihle. I know that you can nover Jove mo agaiu. I don’t expect you to; |iut— • “Indeed, Marian, you are wrong; I have neuter ceased to love you," inter rupted Ernest’s cold, stern voice. “I have been ns truly your husband iu heart, nil through these bitter years, ns if we had never parted. I have wept for Jyon aud have proved for you too, over pud over again.. But—" I “But you cannot take me back. No, ■to!’’ exclaimed Marian weeping. “I pros wrong to ask it; only I thought for JLily’s sake—’’ " “And, fbr Lily’s sako, I will,” said fewest. ‘fj lovo my ohild too well to aitft with her now. Riso, Marian, mv p$e.4-ih!r %ell-beloved—the past shall pe Jorqoiien; blotted out ns though it Itad neyW boon, and we will liegin our tnarriago life again. ” » “I jim not worthy. Oh, Ernest, I have nifever deserved such love as this!?’ Raid Marian, as she Was clasped in her husband’s embrace. ' “You shall make yourself dcsorviug; it is all in your hands now, remember,’’ h* said, with grave tenderness, and looking into the depths of her beautiful eyes. How Jong they remained thus, iu linppy liloneo, they might never have known had not it little hand, tho touch of whose fingers Ernest Darrell had folt buforo, bea&jm|aed within fijs w <Hvn. He looked down and mat the upturned enza of-Jiis oh'fld. In a momoftt sho . :bd to his wins,, w^ilo upon her fair young Mad. had fallen liko. a suribeau: in the beginning, bo did • tho ond; and through the long afterward lie could :, with joy and Hhankftil- unspeakable, to tho day on which he had met her by the side of the brook, carrying her basket of water-lilies. n round her a thick plaid shawl, which lie gen erally carried with him to protect hip /ect from damp grass, sho began laugh at her little adveuturo. “I have gathered ray water lily now," said tlio young artist, smiling; “and I would not exchange it for all tho others in creation.” He took her, entirely enveloped in tliri warm slmwl, np in his strong arms and continued his walk, now in tho direction of Lilian’s hoqjo “I am so sorry—mamma will he out, " she said, lifting her beautiful eves to his face. “Sho would so liked to havo thanked you herself. But do you know which way to go?" “I want you to direot me, Lily.’Vhe said. The distance was short, as lie sup posed; and as they reached tho gate of a pretty villa residence, which had ofteu attracted Ernest’s attention before by its quaint picturesquoness. Lilian informed him that, this was .“her homo." “I thank yon so very muoh,” said tho child, ns sho stood once more upon the ground and rang tho bell. “I wish mamma oould thank you herself—I don’t know how to." “Yon need not thank mo at all, dear child " Ernest Darrell assured her, with the old shade of sorrow darkening his face. “I only hope the oousequonoes of what lias hapi>e»ed may not bo serious.’’ Ho remained with her until a middle-aged woman, whom Lilian called “nurae," came forward to claim her young charge; and then, after giving a brief explanation of tho whole affair, ho hade Lily good-bye and walked on. Al>out a woek subsequent to this event, Ernest Darrell happened to lie passing the house wliero little Lilian dwelt, when ho heard her voice calling after him down the sunny road: “Oome back—Oh, please come baokl ’ she was saying, in breathless ongorness; “mamma does want to seo you so much, and thank you for saving me when I fell In tho brook. ” And Ernest felt his hand grasped in uihu uj fcuo VUIVO „ — the child’s, and almost before he was < conn j B f or tlio success of beet-sugar aware of it, Bhe had led him through the I mnlc j D g there; and it seems that it will gates and up the stens to the portico | continue to bo so, at lei^t so Then across tho wide hall .'he dragged ( j^g an tbiB discrepancy in tho price of labor exists. Should we l»o able, liow- Imligestlon Among onr vegetables aro those eon taiuing sulphur, such as onions, leeks waterei esses, radishes, mustard and cress, etc. Their use should bo Hhuuued by people of weak digestion. If they are not digested they produce sulphur etted hydrogen and bod breath and un comfortable distention from tliut gas. Celery is a salutary vegetable; so aro somo roots. Carrots and parsnips, if thoronghly cooked, will lie better digest ed than turnips, as the latter also con tain much sulphur. Steaming these vegetables is far better than boiling them, and preserves the sugar in them. All fibrous materials should be avoided, such as cabbage-stalks, green leaves with strong or coarse fibers, green beans with fibrous skins, etc. Whatever is used cd vegetables must >k> thoroughly well cooked and reduced to u pulp with out losing its nourishing properties. Steaming, wherever it can lie employed, is, therefore, better than lioiling. Salads can only he used sparingly, made of duiuty head lettuce, the leaves lmring been well picked. Gncumlier onu never be eaten raw, but, if stewed, it is di gestible. Of fruits the lierries are tho best. Rlrawlierries eaten with sugar or rosplierrics are lietter than currents; oranges are good, eaten without the skins; apples or puurs must lie eaten sparingly, and aro liest stewed with sugar ond a little spice. Oranges ought to bo avoided unless eateu without the pulp ; lemons, however, inuy do good if they arc made iuto a lemonade wiih warm water and sugar. Nuts arc en tirely to bo doue away with. Of vege table beverages we have tea, cofleo aud cocoa to consider. There is no doubt that tea bus a refreshing influence on the digestive organs, if used moderately aud not in too strong an infusion. It is hotter, however, liot to use it in the inoniing for a weak digestion, as it will stimulate too soon aud rather weaken than strengthen the flow of the gastric juice at that time. One cup of t n ti d iy is all that can he allowed for the & tio. Coffee, when well roasted, i strengthening in its effect, but it must not ho taken too strong, and, i than this, it must not have been boiled, but only have had the infusion taken off. I may here say that the roast- iug of coffee leaves, as yet, much to lie desired, nml that inferior coffees might iade more useful than they are if they were properly prepared. A pro- f aration has come under my notice which found most beneficial with jiereons of weak digestion. The best brands of Java or Mocha coffee, mixed with roast ed and ground dandelion root, iu propor tion of two or one of dandelion to three four of coffee. This article, if deli cately manufactured, is a most whole some mixture uiul cau be well recom mended.—Food and Health. American Sugar. The time is approaching very evident ly when the manufacture of sugar in this republic will reach a sufficient magnitude to supply the whole country. Our terri tory is so eaten si ve and tho temperature so varied that there is scarcely anything consumed by man that it will not fur nish, whon tho intricacies of the art of producing it is once sufficiently well un derstood. We do not say that tho sugar supply will come from boots, though to some oxtont, and a very large extent, it may, and we hope will. But more liko it will be the product of sorghum and the amber oune, which would seem to bo less costly iu the way of labor. Sugar from beets can undoubtedly be made of as excellent quality as uny produced from any other material, but wo foar not so cheaply. Labor is tho great draw back; this being so much more econom ically supplied in France nml Germany Qian in the United States, readily A woman may talk “ women’s rights," “independence of tlio *®xes, 'Suf frage, “her mission,” and all that sort of thing, but when her face lights up,at the sight of a baby and she calls It a “sweet .’ittle oosty toosty," insteed of su “infant,’’ you may bet fifteen cents that ^ that woman’s heart is in the light place artlessly. „ rmil (hut she w ill come out ull light in very muoh for getting me the water flui cud.—Steubenville Herald, , JUy,”. '>•;*) ; i jv'y* *» T '' ' ; Mm. lau/rhimr and chatfcfnar wilv the wnue, into a luxuriously nirnisnes rovne, where her mother sat. A beautiful woinnn, with derk hair aud Oriental eyes, rose from an ottoman at their entrance and came toward them. At least, she came half way and then tottered baok, with a deathly pallor overspreading her countenance; while lie—Ernest—dropped Lilian’s hand and stood gazing at that agonized face. “Marion—my wife!" “Emesl! Oh, is it possible that we meet at last?" . There was a dreadful silence, during which, at a sigu from her mother, Lilian fled, and those two were alone—after seven long years. The stern, grave face of Ernest Uar- roll was sterner and graver still—even Lilian might have shrunk from it then —and Marian, tho woman who had blighted his life, fell at his feet. “Oh! Earnest, my husband — Bnr much-wronged husband—forgiv* me! she cried. “I havo suffered ddeply*- evor since that day I left you." "Suffered!” repeated Ernest, in col4, rigid tones. “Have you ever thought of what I havo suffered?" “Yes, yes: ten thousand times,” re plied Lilian's mother, in a vdioe well- nigh choked writh emotion. “Rut mine has been the undying worm of an accus ing conscionoo. Oh, Erneetj 1 have lieon justly punished tor my wickedness. I uover knew how dearly I loved you until I had lost you—uuu| I bud MittV ever, to counterbalance this by increased product ol the beet per acre, or by im proved machinery, or from any other cause not now developed, the uapect of things may be changed. The factory in Delaware is experimenting jierhaps more intelligently tnan any other that has been established in this country, and the prospect is more encouraging than any other. Should it be finally successful, it will of course lend tho way to the establishment of others, and hence sup ply a want in the United Htates so great and commanding as to give employment to labor and capital to on enormous ex tent. —Germantown Telegraph. Lime-Preserved Wood. Lime has been found snccessfnl as a wood-preserver. The method, which is French, consists in piling the planks in a large tank, then covering them with quicklime and slaking them with water. The timber requires about a week to be thoroughly impregnated with the lime- water before it is taken out of pickle and slowly dried. The entrance of tho mineral particles into the groin also ren ders the wood harder and denser than before. Beech wood, for example, be comes like oak, and, without losing the elasticity that fits it for tool-handles, is far more durable than oak. Lost Ills Underpinning. Timblethorpe, who hod not attended olmrch for somo time, thought lie woifM the other Sunday, aud as Uo didrndt vo time to shave himself, he concluded that he would not make his appearance thg sacred edifico until after the ser- . .jes had begun. When begot there, however, he found that there wore a great many people of ovidentlv tho same mind as himself, for the rear pews were all full. The polite sexton seeing his annoyance told him there were plenty of seats* half way up the aisle, and Tim blethorpe, ashamed to turn back now that he had placed himself at tho re ligions plow, proceeded through the dim light towards the chancel. He looked right and left, hut could find no place until he reached the vicinity of the pulpit, when lie espied a pew with only a lady and a small hoy iu it. They oc- oupied the upper end ol it, and he modestly took ins position at the opposite extremity. Ho devoutly proceeded to kneel, when tho knoeling bench shot up like a rocket and struok the small boy, who was standing of oourse, under tho chin. An unearthly yell shot through tliochnreh, all the members of the congregation sprang to to their feet, and the music of the choir was completely drowned. Tho next thing Timblethorpe know was that he was being escorted down the aisle by two policemen, preparatory to being locked* up on a charge of malicious as sault. It was not till tho next day that tlio sexton discovered that some mis chievous hoy Imd t wisted ojT tho under pinning of the kneeling lieiieh at Tim- blcthorpe’soudof the pew. Tiinblethorno was discharged from custody, but he says that no saint ever endured so much mortification as he, and tliat he is sure of Heaven if ho never goes to church again.—Ronton Courier. Impressions of 1lie Blind. The very interesting lecture of Trof. Nothnagel ntthoHnmbolt Vorein treated of tho peculiur ways in which blind jh*o- ple form their ideas of things alsmt them. Contrary to people who can see, and whose first impression of a thing is its total view, tho blind learn by touch just the single parts and form the idea of the whole by composing the parts. The teacher, however, has to make a decided distinction between a patient born blind, or who lost his eyesight before his fifth or sixth year, and those who became blind in later years. While tho former has no idea—and caunot jwssibly form an idea— of light, darkness and colors, the latter has in his recollections of the time when he could see n rich fund of ideas which give his imagination color, light and life. Nevertheless, those Irani blind know whon it is day or night, when a room is lighted up brilliantly or when it is dark; “they see through thoir skin," •« Diderot expresses it. The blind are born musicians, because their car is,- or becomes the most refined organ; they are no poets, however, aud cannot pos sibly be; their imagination is too color less; they love poetry, though, and fre quently write poetry, but mostly out of A Laiy Man’s Defense. Not a thousand miles from 8t. An- bony, Minn.—and not very mauy years igo—u certain physician, from New Hampshire, went to work getting up gauizing a Luzy Man’s Club, and lie huil good success. The club was 1uiv constituted ; its by-laws adopted ; d, chief of all, its larder looked after. :ie chief law—really tho law that formed the distinctive feature of tho Jub — was this : Any member who should be proved guilty of haviug been u hurry—i. e.,'oi having allowed any thing under the sun to enuse him to hasten a movement of body or mind — should be fined an amount sufficient to pay for a supper for tho club. The first man accused, aud brought forward for trial, was the President and orgauizer of the club himself — Dr. Haskett Eastman. The court was duly organized ; tho complaint read ; and tlio witnesses summoned. It was proved— first—that a boy was seen to coll ut East- door and deliver u message; nnri it was known that said messenger reported on that occasion, a case of sick ness, and begged that the doctor would make haste. Next—it was proved by several reliable witnesses that Dr. East man was seen, very shortly after the de livery of that message, driving through the city “ like lightning!’’ which plainly signified that lie was in a tremendous hurry. Aye, clearly enough, he hud willfully violated the fuudumentul law of the society! But Eastman called witnesses iu his own behalf. He called two grooms, I rath of whom swore that the horse winch lio used on that occasion was a head strong, hnrd-bitted, high-mottled boast, tliat would “streak it off like blazes if ye’d only let her.” And Dr. Eastman claimed that he had not burned au atom. His horse hud hurried, but not he. Iu no way, manner or shape hud ho made any haste. “But," said tho Judge Advocate, “ you could havo held that horse iu— you could have prevented the beast from tearing away in such a hurry?" “Certainly. I oould have done that very easily. ’’ “ Aud why didu’t yon do it?" “Why—didu’t — 1—do—it!” The doctor rejiefttod th#words in amazement. “Doit! Hold iu my home? What are you thiuking of ? Hud I done that, you might well have mulcted mo; but I didn’t. The fact was—I was too lazy to do it! I was just that lazy, torpid, su pine and nttcrly lifeless, on that occa sion, that the headstrong beast might have killed me, ond I wouldn’t have put forth effort enough to hold her in !” We will simply udd tliat the club did not get a supper lit their President’s ex pense on that occasion.—Hew York Ledger. Funny. One is very fortunate if he has wit ^Bough to got out of a funny dilemma without boing laughed at. The poor Teutonio musician of whom the follow ing story is told by a Southern doctor of divinity was not one of these fortunate ones. The doctor was pastor of a iiue city church. The organ loft aud choir gal lery were immediately in the roar of tho FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. Dr. Hp.rz, a foreign electrician, has shown that it is possible to telephone Thr tinge hunting spiders of South America and Ceylon have legs which cover a foot of ground. Nearly 6,000 different species of birds have been exhibited Rndjclassified, and probably thousands more exist. Taking that of boef at 100, the total solids or actual nutritive material in different fishes vary from sixty-two to 163. Experiment has proved that sound travels faster in water than in air—in water at the rate of 4,078 fe4t pter .sec ond. Tiie acorn-bamnclo cements its fore head to a rock and remains thus all its life with its head downward and its heels in the air, kicking its food into its month. Aoasriz once* imd an opportunity to carefully measure a large jolly-fish ok it lay at the surface of tho sea. Its disk was seven feet in diameter aud its ten tacles 112 feet long. The house-spider’s web will last fof many weeks, while tlio garden-spider must spin afresh or mend her web every twenty-four hours. The former some times lives from six to eight yenrs. J It 18 not. generally known tliat there is such a thing as false eyebrows, yet such is the ease. They arc made per fectly by tho use of “hair lane” and would never be suspected as a counter feit. Dr. Nordenskjold, the Arctic travel er, has discovered that iron is always to lie found in snow, from which it may Ira oxtracted by a magnet. It is snpposed that those particles of iron are of mete oric origin. Tun hones of tlio Aroliae plory, a rare fossil found in Germany, are very much like those of a lizard, and its hind legs are like those of a bird, and it was when alive clothed with feathers. This was really a most wonderful link betweon the birds aud the reptiles. There can he no doubt regarding the reptilian affinities of birds. Machines in a watch facto.y will cut screws with 689 threads to tho inch— the finest use<l in a watch has 260. These threads are invisible to the naked eye, and it takes 144,000 of tho screws to make u pound. A pound of them n worth six pounds of pure gold. Lay one upou a piece of white paj*er aud it looks like s tiuy steel filing. The name of the Deity is si railed with four letters in almost every known lan guage. It is in Latin, Dons; Greek, Zeus ; Hebrew, Adou ; Syrian, Adad; .Arabian, Alla; Persian, Syvn ; Taita - n»n, Idga; Egyptian, Annin or Zout : East Indian. Esgi, or Zeui; Japanese, Zain; Turkish, Addi; Scandinavian, Odin; Wallachian.Zene; Croatian, Deg.*; Dalmatian, Rogt; Tyrrhenian, Eliei ; Etuurinn.Chur; Morgariuu.Ocsc; Hw. d ish, Codd ; Irish, Dicli ; Gerinnu, Got! French, Dieu; Spanish, Dios; Peru- Trb speed at which some wings are driven is enormous. It is occasionally so great, as to cause tlio pinions to emit n drumming sound. To this source the buzz of tho fly, the drone of the bee and the boom of the beetle are to be referred. When a grouse, partridge or pheasant suddenly springs into the air. the sound produced by the whirring of its wings greatly resembles that prodnoed by the qjnt act of steel with the rapidly-revolv- ‘.one of tho knife-grinder. It has been estimated that the common fly moves its wings 330 times per second- - i., 19,800 times per minute, aud tin** the butterfly moves its wings nine tie* per second, or 540 times per minute. pulpit, and a little elevated above it. Tim organist wasa Gorman, who, though u fiuo performer, was not remarkablo for presence of mind, and was easily disconcerted. Tlio hour for afternoon service hod ur- rived, aud, though tho organist was in his place, the choir had not arrived. By some mishap, also, the key of the organ had been misplaced. Tho minister, not knowing tlieso facts, solemnly arose, and, after an nouncing n liymn and rending it, took liis seat. Tlioro was no response from tho organ or choir. Bilence reigned su preme. Tho minister and congregation beenmo uneasy. All eyes were turned to the organ-loft. At longth tho organist, witli a flilgoty manner and a very red face, cauio to tlio railing in front of tho loft, and in a tone intended as a whisper, bnt which was distinctly hoard by all, made tho following startling announcement: “Mister breceher, mister breeeher, vo von’t have no singiug dis afternoon. Do key not roomed, and do lady vat sings do sobrano bees not eoombed, and do rest of do people vat sings he not coomed, aud do orgau bees not aliened, and vo vou’t have no singing dis after noon, mister broodier, dal’s so.” The effect may be readily imagined. Self Control. Iu some people passion and emotion aro never checked, but allowed to burst out iu a blaze whenever they Others suppress them by main and prororve a callous exterior wheu there are rugiug fires within. Others are never excited over anything. Some govern themselves on some subjects, but not on others. Very much can bo done by culture to give the will control over the felings. One of the very best means of culture is the persistent with drawing of the mind from the subjoct which produoes the emotion, and con centrating it elsowhere. The man or woman who persistently permits tho mind to dwell on disagreeable themes only spites him or herself. Children, of course, have less self control, and so par ents and teaohera must help them to turn their attention from that which ox- cites them to something else; hut adults, when they act like ohildreu, ought to be ashamed of theinBolvos. Tho value of self control as a hygienio agent is very great It prevents the great J waste of vitality in feeling, emotion r> and passion. It helps to give on Jfe- mastery over pain and distress, ra'-J^r than it a mastery over us. The Poison Habit. Under all circumstances, make n m stand against the poison habit. J*n best to cull things by their true nniR. The effect upon the uuirnul econompf every stimulant is strictly tlmt of n >i- son, and every poison may becoi a stimulant.. There is no bane in he South American swamps, no vinmt compound ill the North Amorionn <ng stores—chemistry knows no dcaier {raison—whose gruduul and persiicut obtrusion ou the human orgnnismrill not create an unnatural craving ofir a repetition of the lethal dose, a mrbid appetency in every way analogous * the hankering pf tho toper alter liis favrito tipple. Hwallow % tablo-spoonflil of laudnum or a few grains of arsenmus ucid iverv night; at jinit your physical eons.ieneo protests by every means iu its p>wer ; nausea, grWs, gastric spasms am' nerv ous honufunes warn you aauiu undagain; tho struggle of tho dUeativo orgaHS aguiust th> foil intruder joiivulses your whole sydem. But you continue the itese, and nature, true t» her highest law to preserve life ut anj pri*.o, finally adapts 1 ifrself to an abnormal condition —mlaptslvour system to 1 the {raison at wh ate vet cost of health, strength and huppincMb Your body L. -comes an opium machine, an arsenic mill, s physiological engiuo unved by poison, aud performing its vital fractions ouly under the spur of tho uttnataral stimulus. But byand-by the jailed system fails to responl to the spur, your strength giveaway aud, alarmed at tho symptoms of rapid leliquium, you resolve to rem edy the evil by removing tho cause. You try/to renounce stimulations, and rely one! more ou the uuaided strength of tho if# vita:. But your strength is almost aibausted. The oil that should havo fed/lie flame of life bus lieon wasted on a health-consuming tire. Before you (•Rn regiui strength and happiness, your system must readapt itself to the normal condition, and the difficulty of that re- srrangenent will be proportioned to the degree ©: tho present disarrangement; tho furtker you huve straved from nat ure, tho longer it will take you to re trace yuur steps. — Popular Science Month!n, iove for tho music which lies in the rhyme. Prof. Nothnagel made the ro- marknblo statement, ond proved it by numerous examples, that the blind are fit to learn almost any profe*sion. There are blind sculptors, blind farmers, etc. Especially farming would bo a great im provement if introduced into the educa tion of tho blind, and the learned and practical professor promised to lay before the Society, at some future day, a per- A Philadelphia man, whose wife put* feet plan of an institution for the educo- up lota of cauuod stuff, orIIs her his pre* ! tionoftho blind iu connection with a vorvor# 1 largo wodol farm. “Picture couundrum," i« • game which requires no apparatus but a ponc.il and a slip of paper. The first player druws u picture and folds the slip so as to hide it. The second writes a guess as to what the picture is; tlio third does the same, and when all havo written the list is read altjudb Thi desire lor ownership, for develop ment, for power, is a good and useful one; but, to make it • thoroughly wholesome foroo in human life, it needs to be blended with a sense of depend ence upon And truil in other*. Bob Ingersoll’s Wife. Mrs. lugcrsoll is a bright-faced and handsome matron, on whom tho cares of life haw set lightly, and whoso clear-cut aud animated countenance is a perpetual study with its quick pluy aud chauge of expression. The two daughters are pretty aud charming young girls, with a 'quiet ease and modesty of demeanor that quickly render thorn delightful en tertainers. Tho elder—Miss Eva Iuger- 8( ,ll ) 8 by many considered a most de cided beauty, l>eing of that fresh?Aewy- oved, and virginal typo that tho English painters depict, with a wealth of golden brown hair massed in groat braids at tho back of her head, and a pliant and grace ful figure. It is tho boast of their proud parents that these two daughters never went to school. —Rochester Union and Advertiser. Ladies-who wear sealskin Backs are very liable not to wear them, for in Bel gium rabbit-skins are successfully pre pared to resemble sealskin, and thou- toiuIhoI raliUtR aro annually pupa in England wlioac pclta gn to Belgium, and Utava that oountiv aa gauuin^—Jjiauia.
