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TO MT DOG " BLANCO"
BT i. O. HOLLAND
Mj dear, dumb friend, low lying there,
▲ willing VMWkt at my feet,
Qlad partner of my home and fare,
My shadow In fie street.
1 look Into your great brown eyea,
Where lore and loyal homage ahlna,
And wonder where the difference Ilea
Between your soul and mine I
t'or all of good that I hare found
Within myself or human kind
Hath royally informed and crowned
Tour gentle heart and mind.
I scan the w^l* broad earth around
Poe Uia» one heart which, leal and tens,
Bear?, friendship without end or bound,
And dud the prise In yon.
I trout y<m aa 1 trnat the atari;
Nor cruel ioaa, nor acoff of pride,
Nor beggary, nor dnngeon-bara,
Can more you from my aide I
Aa patient unda.; Injury
Aa any Ohrlattan saint of old,
Aa gentle aa a lamb with me,
But with your brothers bold.
More playful than a frollo boy,
•Sore watchful than a sentinel,
By day and night yonr constant joy
To guard aud please me wall
1 clasp yonr head upon m.v breast—
The while you whino and llok my hand—
And thus our friendship la ooofe—ed,
And thur we understand.
Ah, Blanco l ,kd I worship God
As truly aa you worship me,
Or follow where my Muter trod
With your humility;
Bid I alt fondly at His feet,
Aa yon, dear Blanco, adt at mine.
And watch Him with a lore as awaet,
My Ufa would grow dlrina.
—Seribner't Jfaaoxfne.
THE
W. N. BENNS, JAMES D. RUSS. Editors.
VOLUME VI.
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LKT TMisHB UK KIG1IT.’
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1881.
Subscription. $1.50 in Advance.
NUMBER 1.
PUTTING ON STEAM.
A. Hailrorid Engineer’s Story.
i have $5,000. Understand it, Harry—
: $5,000."
I Of course, I understood it. I saw now
j the reason why the wages had beon cut
down. I understood it all, and my blood
boiled. I felt that I would gave the
road, if I lived, and told Roberta so.
| "See that you do it, Harry,” ho re
plied, m he climbed up on tho steps of
the ooaoh which was coupled to my
engine.
I sprung up on to tho footboard, got
up tho switch tender to help my fire
man, opened tho throttle, aml v just ns
wo oommenoed moving, looked at my
watch ; it waa just 11 o’clock, bo that I
had one hour to mako my seventy-five
miles in. From Y to B there
were few ourves on tho road, but there
were soveral heavy grades. I waa per
fectly acquainted with every rod of it,
so that I know exactly what I lmd to
encounter, and when I saw how tho en-
gino moved I felt very little fear for tho
result. Tho road for the first few miles
was an air lino, and so smooth that my
engine flow along with scarcely a per-
oeptible jar. I was so busy posting my
self up os to tho amount of wood and
water aboard, etc., that wo danced by
tho first station almost before I was
aware of it, having been five minutes
j out and having five miles accomplished,
j " You aro losing time I” yelled a voice
from the coach.
I looked around, and there «r0od
Roberts with his wat$b in his baud,
i ^ knew Tory well that wo would have
1 tq increase our speed by some means if
j wo carried out our plans of reachihg
1 am a railroad engineer. Away along j ^ midnight, and looked anxious-
in 1857, dating the recent panic, I was j iy around to s*»o What 1 could do to nc-
rannip.g on tho F. and O. railroad. Tile j Complish that purpose. She was blow-
raihroad companies were going under in mg off steam fiercely at 110. pounds,
all directions. Every day wo heard of
new failures, and quite often in a quar
ter where wo leaqt expected it. Our road
was generally looked upon as one of the
most substantial in tho nation ; nobody
aeemtjd to havo any fears that it would
fail to survive tho general smash-up ;
but yet I did not fully shore in the gen
eral confidence. Wages wore out down,
arrearages colleoted, and a great many
other littlo matters seemed to indicate to
me that, th* toad had got into deeper
water than was agreeable all around.
Amp’ug other things, tho master mo-
ebanio hod told mo in tho spring that
the company haul ordered four first-qual
ity Taunton enginos for the full passen
ger business. The road wns put in tho
very best condition, and other prepara
tions were made to cut down tho time
and put tbfe trains through quicker than
was ever known beforo when tho new
engines should come. Woll, there was
btet one of the engines came.
I said that there waa but one engine
name; but she was, in my opinion, alto
gether the best ever turned out of the
Taunton works, and that is saying as
much aq can be said of any engiuo. She
was put in my charge immediately, with
tb*> understanding that she was mine.
It was Saturday when she came out of
the Bhop, and I was to take a special
train up to Y . The train was to
carry np the President and several offi
cers of the road to meet some officers of
another road, which crosses ours tli.
and arrange some important busmens
with them. I had no trouble at all in
making my forty miles an hour going
out. The engine handled herself most
beautifully. Wo wore just holding up
at Y when Aldrioh, the Treasurer,
who had oome out on the platform to
put the brake on, slipped anil fell. As
wo were still under good headway, he
was much injured and carried off to tho
hotel insensible. According to tho
President’s direction, I switched off my
train, turned my engine and stood ready
to start bock to 0 at a momont’s no
tice.
Aldrich’s presence wss of so much im
portance that tho business could not bo
transacted without him, so nil thoso I
hsd brought out, except tho President
and Aldrioh, went book to 0 on the
3 o’clock express train. This was the
last regular train, which was to pass over
the road until next Monday. Early in
the ovoning I left the maoliino in charge
of my fireman, and went ovor to an eat-
ing-liouse to see if I oould not spend the
timo moro pleasantly than on my en
gine. The hours dragged thomsolves
away slowly. I was playing a game of
dominoes with tho station agent when in
canto Roberta, tho President, iu a state of
great excitement.
<■ Harry,” raid ho, “Iwant yon to put
me down ill 0 at 12 o’clock.”
As it was noarly 11 o’clock tlioii, ami
tho distance waa soventy-flvn inMcs. I
thonght ho was joking at first; but when
we got outside tho door ho caught mo by
tho nnn and hurried mo nloug so fast
Mint I saw ho was in earnest.
ii Harry,” said lie, ’ • if you don t sot mo
down in <1 at 12 o’clock, I am a
ruiuod man, and this road is a ruined
road. Aldrich is dead ; but ho told me
before ho died that hp liad embezzled
from time to time $500,000 of our money,
and his clerk is to si art with it on the
12 o’clock boat from C for Canada.
If we don’t have that money on Monday
morning to muko Home payments with,
the rood goes iuto other hands ; and if
you put me down in C at. the right
Line, so that I save my mousy, you ahull
hbe might carry suoh an ewflhous head j TIIK heat or tub fvtvme.
of steam, for after passing over that ten There can be Bo reasonable doubt that
miles in eight minutes there lay ten : the fuel of the future, for use in our
~ f 1 1 dwelling-houses, will bo some kind of
I turned down tho valvo to 200, for I
know we Bhould ncod it all to muke some
of tho heavy grades which lay between
us and 0 > It waa three miles to tho
next station. With tho exception of a
few curves, the track was as good as tho
last. As we darted around what com
monly seemed a rather long curve at
the station, but which at our rato of
speed was short enough, I looked at my
watch, and wo hud done it in two min
utes and a half,
" Gaining!” I shouted back to Rob
erts, who was standing on tho platform
of the coach.
" Look out for the heavy grades," ho
replied, and went inside tho car.
Tho next six miles rose gradually from
a level to a ton-aud-o-half-fect grade,
tho last of which lay between us and
tho station. My fireman kept hor full,
and now she l>egnn to get hot. Tho
furnace door was red, and tho stoam
raised continually, so that she kept her
speed and passed the station lilco a
streak of light in five minutes. Now
came nine miles like tho last, over
which she kept paoo with hor timo, and
passed tho station in seven and a half
minutes.
Hero for ten miles wo had a twenty-
foot grade to encounter; but the’ worst
of it all was, at this place we would l>o
obliged to stop for wood. I was just
going to speak to Roberts about it, when
I looked around and saw him filling
the tender from tho coacli with wood
which had been placed there before
starting, while he hail gone after mo.
I believe we would have goue thoso
ton miles with the sumo speed as beforo
but, through the carolosauess of the
fireman, tho fountain-valvo on tho left-
hand side of the ongino got opened, and
tho water rose iu tho boiler so fast as tf
rim tho steam down to 100 pounds bo
fore I discovered whore the difficulty
wns. At first Roberta didn’t appear to
notice tho decrease of speed, and kept
at work at the wood as for dear life.
But presently ho lookod up, and, seeing
that tho speed hud decreased, lit
shouted:
“ Harry, wo aro stopping I” nnd then,
coming over to where I was, he said ;
•« Why, hero wo havo beon ten minutes
on tho last ten miles, aud I believe
will come to a dead stand if something
is not douo 1 Tho spoed is continually
slacking. What’s the matter ?"
miles of five-leet up grade and fourteen
miles of twenty foot to tho mile depress
ion botweeu m aud 0 , aud it was
now 18 minutes to 12 o'clock.
Now the engine was hot in eaxnest.
Thu furnace door, smoke-arch and chim
ney wore all red, wliilo sho seemed to
fly onward as if tho Very ovil one liim-
Bclf operated her machinery. Six min
utes carried us over that toil mileB* and
wo darted by tho last station tha^ had
lain botween us and C . Now wo
had fourteen miles to go, nnd my timo
showed fifty-tbree minutes past 11
©clock. *' £f I live,” sail I to myself.
"I will make it.” Aud we plunged
dowu that twenty-foot grade with all
steam ou, Persons who saw the train
oh that wild ran said it was so soon after
they heard tho first sound df hor ap
proach, when tho strange object, which
looked ns if it was a flame of fire, darted
by, aud then tho sound of its traveling
died away iu tho distance, that they
could hardly convince themselves they
had really soon anything. It seemed
more like tho creature of a wild dream
than a sober reality.
And how let mo tell you that no en
gine ever beat the timo wo mado on
those fourteen miles. Those great
wheels, seven foot in diameter, Bpun
around so swift that you couldn’t begin
to count tho revolutions. Tho engine
barely seemed to touch the track as bIio
flow along; and, although tho track was
as true ns it waa possible for it to be,
d fearfully, and sometimes
mado snob prodigious jolts that it re
quired considerable skill for one to keep
his feet. No engine could hold to
gether if crowded to a greater speed.
Well, just as I cume to a standstill in
tho depot at C , tho big clock boomed
out 12, aud tho steamboat was getting
her steam on. Roberts got on board in
time, and nothing to spore. But ho
saved the money. H6 found it hid away
iu some old boxes, as Aldrioh had di
rected him.
gas, distributed through tho city pre
cisely as illuminating gas is now deliv
ered. The use of coal is extravagant,
wasteful and inconveuient, and the dust
aud smoke arising from it add much to
tho impurities of tho air, whilo the re
moval of from 100 to 200 pounds of ashes
for every ton of coal burned is a great
"Are you busy?" asked the visitor,
approaching tbo editorial sanctum.
“Yes.”
“Well, I’ll drop in some other time.
I've got a constitutional question for
you to decide, but I con wait for ft day
or two.”
“No, lean attend to you now. Bo
seated,” and tho writer turned from his
desk with suddenly-awakened interest,
Several substitutes lor .olid j » constitutional question i» always in
I explained tho cause. He
parently satisfied with my explanation,
and after having tied down the safety-
valve he climbed over tho tendor,
horting mo to “put hor through, for
God’s Hake, or wo are all beggars to
gether."
Just then wo passed the noxt station,
having taken nine minutes for oij
miles. Wo wero now more than half
over the road, but wo had lost noarly
ten minutes time and had only left twen
ty-seven minutes to do thirty-so
miles in. I had shut the water off from
both my pumps a little distance back
when I discovered what was tho matter,
and she was now making steam finely
down a slight grade. From less than
100, with which we started over that
ten-mile stretch, she had 200 pounds be
foro we finished it, and, os the gauge in
dicated no higher than that aud ns tho
valvo was tied down, I could not tell
! i aOW much over 200 pounds sho curried ;
\>«t she certainly carried none less tin
remainder of tho journey. Aud
A JUDGE OF CHAU ACTED,
A fow of tho broad distinctions of
physiognomy depend on tho forms of
tho features, but all iis nicer shades
havo far more to do with expressions;
aud iu this, indeed, tho real character is
often scon whore tho conformation of
the features seems to contradict it.
Thoro aro some goneral nml well-known
rules for the determination of physiog
nomical character, as far ns it has to do
with the shapes of tho features; the
aquiline nose and eye, for instance, be
long to the heroin class; thick lips te
the sensual, and thin to tho selfish; yet
all these may bo lioblo to many
tions—the first certainly aro; for Nel
son, Wolfe, Turenne, uud : many othe
heroes had nothing of tho eagle physiog-
... natural to associate beauty
with goodness, nml ugliness with wick
edness; and children generally dp this.
But an acquaintance with the world
soon shows us tlmt bad and selfish
hearts may bo concealed under tho
handsomest features, and tho highest
virtues hidden tinder tho homeliest;
and that goodness may even exist with
conformations of fade absolutely ugly.
We then begin to look for tho chnractei
in the expression rather than in tho
foriqa of the features, and to distinguish
assumed expression s from natural ones;
and so we go on, auil, as wo grow older,
become better physiognomists, though
wo never arrive at tho certainty of judg
ment wliioh seems not to bo intended
) ever should.—Char let Robert Leslie,
A NEW STUB V ON LINCOLN.
When Lincoln Mas practicing in the
old Sangamon county Court House, in
tho days of tho old-fashioned settees, a
tall, slim lawyer, noted for wearing a
very short coat, slid along on tho seat to
ho nearer the advocate addressing the
jury. A protruding nail tore the scat of
tho lawyer’s pantaloons. Obliged to
follow his opponent immediately, thers
time to h-jw up tho rent in tho
garment. A legal wag present wrote a
subscription paper; “Wo, the under
signed, agree to pay the sums not oppo
site to our several names for tho purpose
of purchasing Brother Brown a now pair
of pantaloons." Several of tho lawyers
put down sums ranging from 50 cents to
10 cents, Tho paper was presented to
Lincoln, who sat opposite the
the advocate, -who, bending over in ges
ticulation, mado quite an exposure.
Lincoln took out his pencil and wrote
upon tho paper: “I havo nothing to
contribute to the end in view.” The
lawyers roared with laughter; the Judge
asked to see tho paper, when he, too,
in turn, had to roar. All this timo tho
unconscious victim of the fun was igno
rant of tho cause of the laughter, and at
left join-2d in the merriment.
A New Mexico woman was attacked
by a panther, but succeeded in killing
the animal. The lady’ * "* 1 ' J
anuoyauco.
fuel havo beon proposed, all of which
have strong advocates. These are steam
boat, hot water and gaseous fuel. So
s tbo warming of dwellings is con-
cerm-d, it must be admitted that Mr.
Holly has succeeded in demonstrating
that steam cun be generated at a central
station nnd economically distributed for
this purpose, lint lor cooking purposes
steam beat supplied iu this way cannot
be made available. At tho prescut time
it is the custom to use steam for heating
purposes at higher pressures than for
merly, sometimes as high ns twenty
pounds to tho square inch. Tho pros
pects for the hot-Water system do not
seem promising of great success. The
practical difficulty of maintaining a con
stant circulation through a great number
of pipes running in every direction seoms
to bo utmost insurmountable. Moreover,
granting that this difficulty is overcome
in practice, a fatal objection still re
mains, which is, that tho temporuture
of an apartment heated by' hot-water
pipes caunot be easily regulated; for, if
the room is too warm, tho water cannot
bo shut off like steam, but must remain
in tho pipes if tho circulation is inter
rupted, aud part with its bout gradually, I
or, if more he%f is required, the fires
must bo quickened, and tho water lias
to make au ontiro circuit beforo the ben
efit is felt Tho temperature of the
water in the Prall system- which is,
perhaps, the best known of all—is to be
about 400 to 425 degrees Fahrenheit
Such a high temperature involves a
pressure at tho boiler of not less then
nineteen or twenty atmospheres, and it
is doubtful if such a pressure enn be
regarded as quite safe. Tho,system of
heating that is destined to supersede all
others is by meanu of n gaseous funk.
For this purpose a suitable gas con bo
manufactured very cheaply, aud there
need be no moro difficulty or danger at
tending its use- than is mot with now iu
the use of illuminating gas. By passing
a ourront of steam through an iuciindos-
cent muss of cool, in a suitable furnace,
tho oxygen of the steam combines with
the carbon of tho coal to form a com
bustible gas, whilo tho other constituent
of tho stoam, hydrogen gas, which is
also combustible, is sot freo. Tlie mixt
ure of carbon oxide and hydrogen thus
produced is the so-callod “ water gftH,"
and it is this gas wtiioh seems likely to
come largely iuto use for u household
fuel. A not unimportant fact in con
nection with this gas is that, although it
will explode when mixed with the prop
er proportion of air, its explosive energy
is much loss than that of ordinary illu-
initiating gun. Tho introduction of
gaseous fuol would not necessitate very
groat changes iu tho stoves aud ranges
now iu use. Tho convenience and econ
omy of tho system commend it to every
one.—iVciw York Times.
WHERE THE SILT EM GOES TO,
For half a century India has been ab
sorbing silver as a sponge does watar.
When that country waa in a prosperous
condition tho absorption amounted to
some forty millions a year for a consid
erable time. Since the end of our late
war the production of American ootton
has been equal to the wants o! English
spinners. The price of Indian cotton-
surah is tho commercial name for it—
has fallen so low as to inako the cultiva
tion unprofitable, and India has met
with losses till tho country is now on
the verge of bankruptcy. This condition
of the greatest silver-consuming nation
in the world has checked to a large de
gree the demands of moro prosperous
times. Still, hard as the condition of
India is, there is a large importation of
silver every year; anil very little ever
comes back again to "Western nations.
Once in India it is lost sight of—disap
pears at least from commerce. In 1879-
80 the net imports of silver into India
wero 830,350,000. Strange to say, the
coinage of silver by the Indian mint for
the same timo was $51,250,000; and this
excess of coinage over imports extends
over several years. Tho reason given
for this is that ornaments are parted
with constantly to supply pressing
wants. Every respectable Hindoo’s
wife and daughters aro equipped with a
quantity of silver jewelry and ornaments
according to their means. In a popula
tion of 190,000,000, with an excess of
females, this requires a vast stock of sil
ver to decorate dusky beauty. Hard
timeB force these Hindoo women to sell
vised Statutes, and the visitor continued : th e i|. silver jewelry for tho time being,
“Yes, last summer my wife anil I ft is coined up into rupees. With a
"’cut abroad, and over since Ned a birth 0 f better times all this jewelry
I’ve been bothered about it | p e replaced with new, because tho
Being assured Ned was in the lino of for the strung contrast between the
promotion for the Presidency-tho father ; whiteat of mPtuls fm . ornaments and the
being sn Ohio man—the parent depart- dftrk Bkins of Intliuu women ^ older
od, satisfied. ; than tho pyramids. A small cultivator
ii a v fever. ! j n India will borrow money at 20 per
The writer of this communication lias i oen t, sooner than his wife or daughter
been a sufferer from hay fever periodi- B i m ll have one less silver bangle. The
•ally for tho past twelve years—during present standard of England is gold;
order.
“ I’ve boon arguing with my wife and
my eldest son, William—you are not ac
quainted with William, aro you? No. >
Well, you ought to get him to write tor i
your paper. Ho writes the slashcuust
letter you ever read, and Imrs down on
his pen like a lawyer. Yes, I’m getting
to tho point. Well, the question is this:
Suppose a mall and his wife aro visiting
a foreign country, nnd whilo they are
away a son is born unto them. Oould
that son, everything else being favora
ble, bo elected President of the United
States ?"
“ Yes, for the son would bo an Ameri
can citizen.”
“But don’t tho law say that a man
must ho a nutivo of this country ?"
“Certainly; hut tho parents being
natives would in this case render tho
child a native.”
“Id rather you’d consult some au
thorities. It’s my child that I’m refer
ring to. My littlo son Ned, who was
barn last summer iu foreign parts.”
Tho boas writer took down tho Re*
Tnl
historically 7
Evkbt Costol
know how to a
This, says tho Atl
in a good time to plant holiday'
tisamento. ** .
Thi author of the "Little Brovni
Jug” waa probably in a jugular vein*
when he wrote that sometime’'popalnfep
ditty. % % ,
“Kissino your aweethoart,” aaya a
trifling young man,* 11 is like eating'-
soup with a fork; it takes a long time '
to get enough.”
A touno man in lovo is not necessarily
a mathematician, but is nearly always I
sigh for her. If you cau’t cipher
out we sigh for you.
“ At.t. seems to -hinge on this,” re- I
marked tho lover when he proposed to J
his sweetheart whilo swinging on 1
gate in front of her boose.
Whbn two men fight fit duel about l
woman there is almost always, some
where, a third man, who langlm heartily *
at their folly, and while risking nothing
gains, perhaps, everything.
It is now claimed that Baton pre
vailed over Eva by imp-ortunity.—NeiP
York Herald. Has it been demon
strated ?—Commercial Bulletin. Yes,
it is the latest devil-opment.^—Earl
Marble.
A Jebset City man in the act of ad
ministering a hearty kick to his wife
slipped and foil so heavily as to fracture
his leg in two places. Wifo-bestera, see
that yonr feet are well braced before,
beginning work. •
Speaking of Mr. Forbes' lecture on *
“ Kings I Have Mot," a Western paper
aays that some day he will come serosa
three kings and a pair of sevens, and
then ho will learn something about the
really great resources of this country. ^
Miss Susie M. Rcsseza, editor of tho
Duluth Weekly, says ; “ When things
6<>
half of which period she could get
satisfactory relief. The intolerable itch
ing of the eyelids and almost constant
sneezing which characterizes the com
plaint ill its worst form she had to en
dure until six years ago, when the fob
lowing remedy was brought to her no
tice iu the columns of n newspaper:
Into a four-ounce wido-iuouth bottle,
half filled with cotton, and buying a
that of India silver. Tho public debt
of India is large, and England is liable
for a considerable portion of it The
Indian interest is paid in Filver rupees
at a discount. This difference in value
of the two metals is a constant loss to
both nations, nnd is a powerful lover
toward bringing England back to the
double standard, or bi-metallism. If
England should conclude that her inter-
stopper, put the following mixt- | eg ts lie in the direction of a double
me ; 2} drachms carbolic acid, 8 ; standard again, it will increase the mar-
drachms aqua ammonia (specific gravity vft lue of silver tho world over.
U.S)fi0), 5 drachms distilled water, 71 | Whether tlmt change alono will benefit
drachms alcohol. Inhale through the distressed India much is doubtful. But,
nostrils. This mixture, being of a vola- | OVO n when forced to coll or coin the or-
ilo nature, must, he kept
ossible from exposure iu o
i»vve iis strength and pro
A LOW VOICE IN WOMAN.
Yes, wo agree with that old poet who
id tlmt a low, soft voice was an excel
lent thing iu woman, indeed, we feel
inclined to go much further than ho bus
on tho subject, and call it one of her
crowning charms. No matter what oth
er attractions sho may have ; sho may
be ns fair aa tho Trojan Helen and as
learned as tho famous Hypatia of an
cient times; she may havo all tho ac
complishments considered requisite at
tho present day, and ovory advantage
that wealth can procure, ami yet, if she
lack a low, sweet voice, she can never be
really fascinating. How often tho spell
of beauty is broken by coarso, loud
talking. How irresistibly . you are
drawn to a plain, unassuming woman,
whoso soft, silvery tones render her pos
itively attractive. Beside, we fancy we
can judge of tho character by the voice
the blond, smooth, fawning tone seems
to us to betoken deceit and hypocrisy aa
invariably as does tho musical, subdued
voice indicate a genuine refinement. In
tho social circle, how pleasant it is to
hear a woman talk in that low key
which always characterizes tho true la
dy 1 In tho sanctuary of home, how
sue\i a voice soothes the fretful temper
nnd cheers tho weary husband I How
sweetly such cadences float through the
siek-cluimbor; and, around the dying
bed, with what solemn melody do they
breathe a prayer for a departing soul
A lady tolls thi - "Washington Repub
lican something which ought to have
remained a secret with hor sox. It is
that a woman, in choosing a lover, con
siders a good deal moro how tho man
! will bo regarded by other women than
much
order to pre
vent too deep
dis -oh•ration. 11 does not purport to bo
a specific, for tlmt has not yet been dis
covered, but it has proved itself a ready j
relief in the case of the writer aud of |
many who have suffered in the sumo
way.—New York San.
CLIMATE FOR CONSUMPTIVE!!.
Some fifteen years ago wo published j
an article on tho subject of localities of
consumption. Tho general idea for {
which wo contondoil was this, that warm i
climates hastened consumption ; that au |
inseparable attendant of consumption, j
tinder all circumstances, was debility.
Tho healthiest of us foel tho debilitat
ing effects of summer heats. Aud how
an invalid is to be strengthened by
what debilitates a healthy man, we can
not understand. Consumptive people
do not need the warm, damp, vapor
laden atmosphere of Cuba and Florida,
but tho cool, dry, still air of high lati
tudes. A man in consumption will moro
certainly get well iu Greenland than in
the West Indies.
From the details furnished from many
sources, a member of the Massachusetts
Medical Society has prepared a paper,
conclusive of tho fact that all low and
damp places originate and aggravate
consumptive diseases, and that restora
tion aud exemption must bo found in
cool and dry latitudes. And for similar
reasons sea voyages and sea coast and
lake Hboro and prairio localities have a
pernicious effect upon all persons whoso
lungs are diseased.—Hall's Journal
mt Health.
A POLITE PEOPLE.
The city of Lucknow, India, is re
nowned for tho politeness of its people,
exceeding, it would seem, tlmt of tho
French, who aro generally regarded us
tho politest people in the world. A cor
respondent, writing from tbo spot, gives
a ludicrous illustration of tho extent to
which tho natives carry their ideas of
courtesy. Two native gontlomon, on
their way to tho railway station,
naments of hor women, India still calls
for nearly forty millions of silver yearly.
CLUMSY NEWSPAPERS.
The palm for large-sheet newspapers
should bo borne off by the publishers of
tho Steubeuvillo Herald, which is by far
the largest single-sheet newspaper that
comes to our editorial table. It is a
handsomely-printed folio sheet, three
feet by four feet eight inches in size,
each of its four pages containing twelve
columns. Its iumeusity puzzles us
twice in one breath, tho tirat conundrum
being as to how long tho arms of the
man are who makes up tho forms, nnd
tho second as to how its subscribers
manage to read it. Goliali of Gath
might possibly havo performed the first
operation safely, lmt the second is as yet
without any satisfactory solution
inquiring mind. Our plan would be to
nail it up on tho eulo of a largo barn,
and read it from tho risers of a step-
ladder, or from a pair of movable stilts.
A bicycle might possibly answer tbe pur
pose.
A boom for large-sheet newspapers, or
a great number of sheets at ono issue,
may perhaps rage during tho days of our
present generation, but lot us hope that
tho time is not far diataut when we shall
havo more of our newspapers in a con
densed form, more of tlio extract and
less of tlio diluted essence of daily and
weekly journalism, and that those will
be more palatable and sot better on the
public stomachs than tho soups and
gruels of tlio present fashion. The Sum,
tho Boston Herald, nnd tho Springfield
Republican, as now conducted, cash
give a foretaste of wlmt may l»e expoot-
cil when this good timo, which, it must
ho admitted, is rather slow in coming,
nhaU havo come to us. Tho extended
plan of to day is an excellent ono for
paper manufacturers and waste-paper
gatherers ; bqt whether any one clso in
blessed or benefited by the foot-by-foot
sheets is an open question. —Holyoke
Patter World.
AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.
to D K bow O D they become.’’ Ttox
most C D thing wo know of this seasotr ,
is tho Q cumber. Beware of it, Susie, •.
or it will W up. Watch for it, wait for *
it.—Peek's Sun.
An English mngazino discourses on
“Cheap Girls.” It soys : "No young
man, not even tho worst, wants any.
thing to do with a cheap young lady.”
This is a mistake. No matter how cheap
a girl may bo, hor young man always ,
thinks she is a “ littlo door.” //
“ firr out your tongue a littlo fur-y
tiler," said a doctor toa fair invalid,
little further, if ; ,.a phi
dootea, do you think a «
basno end?” said the gentle sufferer.
“An end, perhaps, madam," replied the
physician, “hat no oeaBution.^
The bashful young man who aaked a ]
Indy on the beach it be “ oonld see her j
home," was rnaoh surprised to hwu; her •
reply “ that he oould . np and peo it if
bo wonted tc* hut she didn't think hex
IN SHE WEST INDIES.
Strange as it may scorn at first sight,
everybody in tho West Indies oats very
largo meals. Tho climate is so hot that
yon tako food freely to mako up for the
losses, and tho appetite has to he utimu- \
lated by a great variely of dishes, as
well aa by tbe copious use of those very
insidious capsicums, nnd the still more
delioioas little red and yellow bird-pep
pers. A few of these tempting fruits
are placed in the salt-collars at even-
meal, and, with the bright tropical
flowers which invariably garnish tho
table in pretty specimen vases, they
give s general air of pleasant aesthetic -
refinement to the whole arrangements, i
Breakfast is a really solid aud substan- f
tial repaht, usually put off till half-past
10 or 11 o’clock, the pangs of pressing!
hunger being stilled before tbo earl;
morning canter by a cup of coffi e in
bedroom. With it sometimes romes
cassava-oakOf one of the boat J
institutions, made by the negr j villa]
era from the roughly-scraped meal of
the arrow-root plant. This meal is
rolled into a thin pooto, and then baked
hard and dry into round cakes about the
thickness of a Bcotch out-moal bannock,
but much more delicate in taste.—Bel
gravia.
HELLING OUT AFTER ELECTION.
Mr. Tomline, of Orwell Fork, new
fpswich, bo well known by lib many tin^
1.
ifal attempts to represent bor-
.sighs and counties in Parlii-nioiit, is sb
disgusted with tho result of his last ex- 4
ploit in that lino iu Harwich that he ir» ;
tends selling tho whole of his vast Bui-
folk property, including tlio house and
o«tate of Orwell Park, with its splendid
shooting. Tho preserves extend ovur
28,000 acres of land, almost m a rii
tone©. This property is now off rod in
the market for XI,200,000; ar-1, obskI-
ering that tho .partridge-shontin; it> a*
1 good as any in England ; tlmt the farm*
! nro well cultivated, and that Otw.J
Park, witli the river of that name run
ning through the grounds, is one ot the
most beautiful places in tin. catkSxy,
Mr. Torn lino considers tb.it he * not
asking to© high a price; but who is tho
millionaire who can give such a sum?*
It can only bo some ono from Aver the
sea; but then colonists and Yankees
generally do not appreciate sport c
molting properties.—j jo adon World
Tint sea-lion business has become
quite an industry. They areihstributed
1
offers to back h« mother sgninst any 'whether sb. loves him horsolb
menagerie in th« country. Ho aaya
blood will teil-
An editor in Lehigh County received
• a new subscription last week—tho first
ii ' in six months—and he announced it
.I > under the head, “The Cry Is. Still They
Cow*."—Exchange.
Women aro such inconstant creatures!
Wo heard a young lady remark—rather
inelegantly, it must lie confessed—tlmt
uhu hated “ that Biggs fellow, ho is such
a soft cake 1" Well, in less than tlireo
months she took tho cake.—Boston
Transcript,
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The potato bag mnst hide his dimin-
dentally fell into a ditch. Ono would j iahed head before the approach of the
suppose that both would havo boeu ou Crioceria Asparagi. Thia is his a* ell
their feet iu ft twinkling ; but no, tho name. When he is at home in his shirt
law ot politeness interfered, nud one ! nieces bo »llows folks to eull him s.psr- . . - .
.rid to the other : When your Honor ng us beetle. H. is warranted to with- •»•»« colIt ' u0 “ * j
rises’then I may get np." "No, ,onr i £hd the r.rsges of heat and cold, rain, \ -t the world. They ^ »ugj‘ ey tao
Honor should get up first," replied the I f r0 «t and snow, and attends to bnsinoM , whenimnumg tl.em.el .es out k*.
I„ " Never ; how could I take | with —^ I “J ^sTL^ TfZ ££/
is, makq
of your Honor ?” and thus terms to largo and small purchasers. He
the contest went ou for an hour, it is oomes dressed in black, red and yellow,
said, because neither gentleman would like a foreign prince or oirous down, aud
consent to violate the laws of good i fattens on Paris green and pizena of all
breeding. kinds.
and the fact that
transmitted to disteui dqatiSP n
risk and trouble worth tukir>