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J. W. ANDEKSON, Editor and Proprietor LIFE’S SUNNY SIDE. ' What—you are dull to-day? In a sad mull to-day? and be social and stirring, I pray, Why so lugubrious? Take a salubrious ilk, and we ll talk, for I’ve something to say. Verily, verily, Things will go.merrily hen you are morry and brave. But if not cheerfully Tempered, but tearfully, [e is a tyrant, and you are its slava If you go wilfully, However skilfully Irsliing your moods and your delicate whims, Life will be dumb to you, All tilings will come to you hched by a shadow that saldens and dims. Life has two sides to it, Take the best guides to it, ik at the best and the brightest, my friend. Be n philosopher, Don’t look so cross over itters you never can alter or mend. Look not so dismally Down the abysmally irk—hanging over the precipice brink. Worst of nil bias is Hypochondriasis— nsliine is healthier than shadow, I-think. If you would drive a.vay Glmm, and would biro away mey-Iike peace in your innermost coll Work—liko the humble bee, Poft let your grumble be: ‘rnyourown smoke, and the world will go ; -6. I Crunch, „ i ■ -v- 1 outli's .i, Companion. ^ • : . m TOM’S EZPESIMENT. Tom was in a dilemma. L He sat on the rocks'overlooking the in the very spot to which he had ten attracted two hours before by the glit of a scarlet jacket, and thought ?er his perplexities, and wondered how would turn out. “Plague take the girl,” he said, with ther more emphasis than politeness, i he ground a pebble into the earth ider his heel, “I’d like to know how to 't the s*art of her ” That- 1 was just it! How* to get the start Janet Stafford was what puzzled him io re than anything he had attempted in longtime, lie had tried, in more wavs bn n one, (o accomplish Ihe feat, and very attempt had been a failure. llo ras getting discouraged. The way of it all was this: Tom Win bis had met Janet Stafford a year ago, Bid had straightway fallen in love with ler. Now Miss Stafford was something if a flirt, “a rcgu'ar, born flirt” was fom’s way of putting it, and she lilted b tantalize the men, and especially Tom, I seemed to him. Time and again he lad opened his mouth to propose, but po always seemed to know what was joining, and by adroit tact would am thc conversation upon ome other topic, and talk on and on intil poor Tom would get disgusted, nd conclude that he would wait for tome other opportunity to declaro his eve. In no way could he determine rhether she cared for him or not. lie bought she did, however, and that cept him following her round as faith ully as her shadow, watching for an bportunity to put his fate to the test, nd “Win or lose it all.” He had seen her sitting on tho locks pat afternoon, reading, and of course te joined her. He wouldn’t have been aom Winters, if be hadn’t. [ Janet knew, before he had been five Biinutes by her side, that she was verg mg toward a proposal. She could tell It by his face, and thc awful silence which seemed to settle down about him, is he concentrated his courage for the [momentous crisis which he hoped was at last at hand. Suddenly she started up. “I’m getting absent-minded, I think,” •he laughed, “1 promised to go boat tiding with Jack Devere this afternoon, wd I had forgotten all about it till this minute. I’m sorry to leave yon, Mr. Winters, but a promise is a promise you know, and has to be kept;” poor’ and with that she was me, and Tom swal lowed the words that were sticking in his mouth, and sighed dolefullv, while he thought unutterable things about Jack Devere, who was his special aversion. because he was StailoTd a good deal more atten tivr to Miss than Tom though, he ouifht tn \ “I wish Devere xv as , 1 „„. - growled Torn, getting up anil brushing the dust off his clothes, preparatory to going back to (lie hotel. i . "hat did you say, Mr. Wintersi” aske i a voice at his side, and there was Miss Stafford again. “I left my book here somewhere, and came back aften it.” „ IW Don . t , boat , ... ding to-dny. , , „ pie , d- . go r kll r f n U f t 7 J something som particular to say to you. * 1 must go,” she answered, "though Id like to stay ever so much. But I’ll have to keep my promise." “But one doesn't keep ali the prom ises one makes.” said Tom. “Do stay here with me, please.” "If l had promised to go ' ,0: “ with .on. v and didn't keep my word, 1 Wonder what think of me?” m * r n^Ji jr \ f r I-. F Star. if > i ¥ I ' asked appoiiAea Jack would*be if I shouldn’t come.” jlf^wferetj “And as I said, I’ve something particu lar to say—” _ “It will keep till some other day,’ "un¬ swered Miss Stafford, biting tier lips to keep back the laugh that always came when Toiq iace tookem th q fc jug ubrious -look. you'Thfcwf u*p ire ta. idle i.. mire Am da* comI>’j», “I suppose so,” Tom had to admit. “But—but you never give me a chance to say what I want to.* I really you know what I want to say, won’t let me say it, just to ,nc -” “There comes Jack,” exclaimed Stafford, asa whistle was heard the paiU leading fropp| h.C be&h cliffs. “Some other time you may me the ‘something particular’ you going to to-day—if you get a chance.” That was it! If he got a chance! “It’s a downright shame for her 4o treat me so,” said Tom, watching her and Jack Devere, as they went down the bay. “Sometimes I think She does it to bother me, and sometimes I think she does it because she likes me and wants to make rue BfflSt^anHe sure to propose. K , , ? *“1‘’ , . J!'7" >P ”” S ' d Tl/T T T T 1 ' | •. Jj 1 jj j ^ Poor new|»a*r perpleje<| Ttfu sa| dotn aud' took a fmt if hi*' pociet, |nd ^ h> of murders aud accidents and other cheerful mutters of that sort. Finding them dull, ho turned to the story de¬ partment. tCAs^vSs a little! sjtqfeh there called it ‘Ashdre.®’ "’IWm read it. It was about a man who loved a woman—as he loved Miss Stafford— atld singular coincidence, he couldn’t p, 'd out whether she^loved him or not. day he was out Towing and lost hia i’At- 1 he waves washed it ashore, The Woman he loved fojitnJ it. She thought hu mus t he dtowmyl, and to the poor, inanimate tldn ff’ shu confessed the love shc llad 1)01110 fuB * iu °' vllur - TUe 8U P ^ sed dead lnan ha Pl )eued to be near at hand, and heard her tardy confession of love—and then and there alibis troubles ended—or began. “Why contdn’t I tiTYttich an experi m, ' nt on daupt!” fought Tpm. J‘Jf I could only contrive to make her think I " as drowned. 1 might jind out*whether she sffe-As - cares for me tbr nfofir I don’t Vm cver lix 9j)' ,0 111111 out in an ? oth « r way. I’ll try it.” lie went down to the beach and en¬ gaged a boat. lie saw 'Devere coming as he went down the bay, and Miss Staf¬ ford waved him a passing greeting with her sunshade. “That's lucky.’’ tboeigbt Tom, “She’s seen me goin^'bftf on alit; water. leave the boat somewhere along the shore, and Jt’ii be found, and I’ll be missing, and .she’ll be sure to think I fell in, and was drowned, or committed suicide, and when sbedhinks that, shCMl bc like1 do , , ^tiling that’ll . . ^ t0 W or give herself away, and I’ll lieAr of it after I turn up, and then I’ll know what to do.” ‘ ‘It looks squally in ,thc wost„” De vere sun g ofit after Mm. 1 “Y't>n’d better not go far, Winters.” “Thank you,” answered Tom; “but I’ll look out jfor jnyseWy” atrd be w*s soon out of lielring ofStafford’s merry laugh arid JAck Dcvcrtfs “Jokes at his expense. A peak jutted oi^t-i^to tho bay, and Tom concluded that, a boat abandoned there would be pretty sure to float back to the hotel when the tide cable in. Ac cordingly he left the boat to tlie mercy °t the waves, and started back a round about-way to Ihe hotel, over the rocky cliffs. * The sky was overclouded by this _ time. and the \vjnd bi|p:ui to b|pir loqdd to Tom s dWormbit/tne rain soonI'cgau .to pour down in j;reat tonvuts, and W was drenched to thc skin before hecould find shelter, storm The abate# sijjiPtvMgoi^g^ 4 * down btf«^|the It was quite welUiobgia tHe evemdg before he He got back thoroughly ty^tUe ^iduiti cjtflep of tljp hotel. was wet garments, he Mdt KuflfeJ hc ^ ia afiaid “'at his plan would prove a bdb - Therefore he was not in a very l doa «‘ nt fra,ue oi ™ ad wh “ B bess Mi £1 “1 ‘Ji beach. Ihe surht ol that jacket, m it «u. »:>. M tr Storn* lin'Mlp'mnm)' 1 *- *-* T fii-lit tlie : straVtial, looking in moonlight like au aureole about his rival’s head, made 7. lunWSW __________ HIUHj * _______ _______ 1 " his impertinent attentions, ,« “Deuce growled afswLlicVb! Mkm tofJeli lf!> ! ,osc he his head for my amusement . coming « HtiS'tWf. 'Now’s my time ,0 a s ,. n8:ltio n. * The sere tu^Kng m Tom tliVew his hat out ampng theln . k „owingjW theN'OulPco^ng'tofvafl'him w«ldnj ¥ b kj, aud that would be quite sure to see it on the sand. Then he hid behind a rock. “I haven't seen Winters come bark yet, " Mbs Staiford was saying, when they c me within hearing distance. ‘She's thinking about me." sa.d Tom I “ and shows she’s—she’s—well, it COVINGTON, GEORGIA, JULY 22, 1885. ^hqws f f she's | j thinking ' ) --—-— about ----- T if 'doesn’t me, arjywayf it show anything else,'” and this was some jopgolation to the poor fellow. “Perhaps tley fWop’t recognize the hat as mine, Iriit if "t teep^sliad'y fo nkjht tfink and the boat is, found, then they’d that, l inust be lost ehdfweffl sea what she’ll say." “He may have been cast away on some island alon g the shore,” laughed Jack Jifvere. MaylL arVtMbles be'flfTurn tbdifcUJL. hetmit and days “I hope not,” said Miss Stafford,” “for if that should happen I should nev cr know what ‘something particular was that he wanted to say to me.” Then she laughed, and the sound of her mer riincut made J the listaner’s ears tingle. . ipoor f Iow# » said Devere> but hia tone didn - t geem to have as much pity in ft as his words did. “You’re really too hard on him. What’s that at your feet, Janet? A hat, isn’t it?” “Sure enough,” said Miss Stafford, stooping to pick it up. “Why, jack, I do believe it’s Tom Winters’, for here’s a. bunch of blackberry leaves st icking in thejpand, and I remember Trim’ him some I had gathered yester "him ^ nh 1 Sfdo 8 I waulan t ^-A wonder at all if he v, - as, > 1 J “ k ' »■*»>« Fiic»tone.* “He ’las a jierfect muff with f a i,4, wilt t ,an|iievKfj)ughtto1i|vebecn-al- w/rods 0 film shore ili one.” he isn’t drowned,” said*Miss frtaffprd, and Tom listened delightfully to the sigh that accompanied the words. foakim. It proves MM** that she I must Cl g care I something JM 1 • “.mst \?ail till she-hears of the beat,” chuckled Tom. “I presume she’d give way to her feelings now over the hat if he wasn’t by.” Poor Tom! “Oh, Jack!” exelained Miss Stafford, a moment later, “if he is drowned I shall never listen to that ‘something particular,’ shall I,” and then she laughed. Tom could hardly credit his senses. Looking at it from their standpoint, in all probability he was dead. And yet she could laugh. “Heartless creature,” though Tom,dis gnstrd with all the WOTtd; “T wouldn’t have believed it, of her. She didn’t care tiro but tors fur me. vrn»t a. ruoi i ve .been. 1 wish somebody’d kick mo!” - “I don’t want gentlemen saying, ‘something particular’ to my promised wife,” said Jack, aud then he kissed Miss Stafford, and she kissed him back, and said she’d “’do just as he thought best, only it was-such fun to bother the silly fellow.” ilis promised wife 1 Tom didn’t want to hear anything iore. lie didn’t want to Sec Anything more, He had heard and seen euough already. “I don’t know but we’d better go ! back and get some one to turn out and took for Winters,” he heard Jack say. “They needn’t bother themselves about me,” thought Tom, making his way up the rocks as fast as he could. •■l’m afraid, Tom IVinters, youv’e made a great foo( of yourself, and that your cxpeiiiiuAiG was a failure. And yet, after all,” he added, as lie stopped to take breath on the summit of the cliff, "it wasn’t, for now you’ve found out what sh« thinks*of yoo'.'J^ It is Hardly necessary to say that Tom's “something particular” was never | said; at least, never to Idiss is Stafford.— A. itirfori, in Oi'jkgjp Herald. Be(ore PapeP> Wood was one ot the earliest sub- | s t ance3 employed on which to inscribe , pames and record events. Stone, brass, j c , ld and CO pper, were also used at an early period; after which the leaves of , fees. These were superseded by the j | )alk the qJ the inner tieei bark but this being soon j ! coarse came ■ ,-^ cr t0 ke 11sed) that of thc lime being | , >re f arred q'his bark was called by the . | Uonuuis thefJ.jpip work for book, barlf. h'oks.’^lkuit^.they might ; i« more conveniently cayried sbouUwere .^:^l uKliftd’eatttffl diir ! 1 W1 ,jvq yfiluoie. Tiie skins of sht*p, goats were thc next tuht^ials used, •' vud so nicely were they prepared that , narrati ves were inscribed on them wfth the greatest accuracy . Some of hose were fifteen feet long, containing I and " $ X ' V skinS ’ fa#t “ ncd ibo^ certain “.e same reptiles material. . also The j n fc<tincs of were tA- r' <r-■ Of ** tm I r ^.,.. ..l Hiierft wdltwi o»ln , p-jjj tilieS 0 f serpents in letters of gold. J "__ roll was 120 feet long, and was de pKetfiYYU _ _______ . ^ it destroyed . by fare „ ,,,^ 0 . where was m Ih9 ,ixlh centurv. The next, material iSihed pwebment^skins smoothed which and j i by pumice stone-to : 1icceeded vellum, a finer description of ,*rehment. * made -from the skins of very L, animals On’ this vellum gold ^ lettore were ^pod with bot ‘,. t s ,, Be 0 f these productions very beau'iful. requiring much time a them, and labor to prepare and complete and the more carefully they are examined the more do we admire the taste and in oenuity dhpU.ed.— Chambers' Journal. \ ..— —- -- There are but sixty-three daily papers published in the Russian Empire. POPULAR SCIENCE. Water may bo as clear as crystal and fet carry typhoid fever from a hamlet on Qne 81 do of a mountain to dwellers on v.*; other, as in the celebrated case nt ,-*.v xanne, Switzerland. The opinion is entertained now |»y aany men of science that the art of making artificial stone for structural pur. poses is prehistoric, and that the Pyra¬ mids were, in fact, built of artificial blocks manufactured from the surround. ing plain. An Atlanta man claims to have dis covered a new principle in hydraulics whicb upsets the old theory that water will not rise in a vacuum more than thirty-three feet. lie says he can pump water any disiance required, and par¬ tially proves his assertion by pumping it COO feet without a valve and on a direct Vertical rise. A curious observation has been made by Dr. Copeland, an English astrono iner. While watching one of Jupiter’s satellites he was able to see it pass owr Jt s own shadow on the pknet. For this to Iiave happened, thasun, the earth, the S1 ' tel ' ite a “ d th ® ° f Ju P iter ’ s disk must have been all in one Ji ne, and, as seen from Jupiter, the earth must have J appeared making a transit „c„„, . ta , At a recent German scientific congress, Dr. S. Hoppe, of Hamburg, endeavored to prove that the electricity of storms Is generated by the friction of vapor par tides. This view was etrengthened by experiments in which fcompressed cold air was allowed to rush into a copper vessel containing warm moist air, a large amount of electricity being thus pro duced. He concludes Shat the rise of a column of warm moist air into the colder atmosphere above will bo followed by a thunder storm if/it acquires suffi cient, velocity to prevent neutralization of the eleetrieity generated by the fric tion of the air. Henc?, he regards open districts as more liable, to thunderstorms than wooded regions, 'where the trees prevent the rapid rise of humid air cut rculs - A French writer gives a long list ol apparently well-authenticated instancoi of the finding of live toads in solid mas bcs of stone, referring in particular to such a discovery made in 1851 by three vx *. r kLifn ,.f Blois on Tjrf"> i '-zr ' ! **• «• - the evideace thu. pnthted le.d. h™ to insist that it is unwise to pronounce the phenomenon absolutely impossible, al though none of tBo reported cases are quite beyond the suspicion of fraud. T explain the occurrence, if genuine, it seems necessary to suppose that the crea- j lures have existed in their close prisons during'the unnumbered years in which the plastic material has been hardening into rock. That they may endure a somewhat prolonged confinement was shown by Seguiu, who, ir, 1822, enclosed a toad in a plaster covering, and found the reptile alive and in good condition oa breaking the shell ten years later. Aa 01(1 Battle-Field. .Tnckamauga, like Plymouth Rock, is adapted to deceive persons at a distance who have heard General Thomas called thc “ Rock of Chickamauga.” They in¬ wardly conceive him to have been like Roderick Dim, with his back against a rock, and poetry in his mouth, 'll rock, however, was nearly level earth ie the midst.of the woods, with smoke and tire, and whistling shot and thundering cannon being both landscape and atmes pheie. At the Ivcilv Hospital, only • few rods from Thomas’s position, 000 ®f those honest, manly, crude Tennesseeans left his wood'-chopping near by to talk W us ^ gnd fii s little children gathered aro und with grape-shot to sell. The price o f grape-shot seems to be twenty-' t j ve cents apiece. At several places ii the woods I found trees recently felled and curious notches cut in them, which F supposed to be trees prepared to build i og cabins with, but Ben said that they fi ad been cut down to get the bulls out 0 f thous and that it was the proper thing to cut out the big chip with the ball ex p0 ^ d and 1*1 tho tourist g. . fir: me with i oth a shingle ami a relic..-*Ch«ew» lVUi L.^uirer. “ '_~ ’ fZZl^h I ifrnorftnce of ” 8CL ‘ n he - a^s L f pL „ in grZi cor . ‘ or ^ ff e & auce a M^e as di££ . W •“"> I'""™ l- jB — of llC!Al -- *«■ organs rciire s mine the brain, the seat of concentrate:. Ln mg, " 1 ,JC ner vousconnections meet. They have, m steatt, stead a a chain tuain of 01 ganglia g b or bundles of nerve-substance, front each of which n-r.os branch out to contiguous parts: so that the sensations arc not ad carried to one grand focus ol acute sens.hi.it, as with us, but bum in fact Separate sys terns, any one of Min-h m, ff ht be do. stroyed without .nriurluu : ihe sensation of the others duping mo,ns may be tun ed to trees without feeling pain enough to awaae.. them; and it is related that a drauon fly whose long abdomen an entomologist had accidently severed from the- res th body, suffered *0 incbnv .pi- : or It of appetite t)lat it at once ■ncedily devoured two fires. GUARDING THE VALUABLES; Wan r Preoaiill«n« Taken by (lie Safe Itcposit ('oiupnnUN. The Philadelphia Times says, that with . the s pproach of summer begins the ae. cumulation in the vaults of the safe de ' do-.it companies of great piles of family j savor-plate, jewelry and valuable prop¬ erty and papers, which the householder, about to depart on his vacation, fears to leave at home, trusting to the vigilance of the police. “We have now in our vaults," said *' a ’ c Superintendent Clark, of the Fi dt -lity Insurance, Trust and Safe De P osit company, to a Times reporter, “some four thousand packages, tire value of which I could not begin to cal¬ culate, for I don’t know what they are leally worth.: People who leave their property in our charge rarely assess them at their full value, so thoroughly do the y fecl convinced of their absolute td-f^y. Lately we have added a new precaution in the shape of a shock for the possible sneak-thief.” ‘‘ Dt > you have visits from sneak thieves?” i“ w « h avo_ had some. - For instance, I to visit property, •*«■« coming your As you. enter the gate to the vault you pass the gate keeppr, whorecognv/.esvou by the password. With you enters a wel1 dressed man vvho has J ust accosted - vou wlth some aim P lc remark about the to which you have replied in the ' arnc <md the gate keeper, 'hmking he is a' friend, of yours, allows “id to go by with you. . \\ bile you are | Gambling, say some coupon bonds, your 1 M1 i”P 0SC 'd friend brushes a document on to 'kefloor apparently accidentally. In your ,;xccss of politeness you pick it up with out lo °kiDg at it and ask him if it is Jj:s. replies that it is, thanks’'you, w alks ol1 as ]f on Gthcr business,■ aud might csua P c f 10:11 tbe building before you could S ,ve thc ala W* But the S ate IS clo8 eJ. and can only bo opened on the outsldo > and only on receipt of the pass word - This gWtcis alSti one of our pro Sections against.mobs.” ^ T es ° 8 '. in ” 11 or 8 an,/0( mo ' ’ ' C0U reak ioto the building as fur ,LS P G - n f- * >ut " " leu l k at door was ? ° Cl can direct a cuilent of cicuric * ^ 1 r0Uc> 1 ''‘ s Rtce ^ ba s 8ud * c ‘ i ut !o w rzs ' ag oro^en down '"our saie’wwmf tlU ’ e c „ 0 for w ,,. t depoa5t with us? Oh, well, it | wouid be diflicult t0 say We don - t ask i _ what are the contents of their trunks. We do not take furniture. 1 wish we did. I would like to make arrange ments abroad so that, out of when town, a they family should arc going j or give us notice and we would undertake the packing and transporting to our vaults or warerooais of the complete house con tents. Then when the family are com ing back they should let us know, and we would replace everything as we found it. Of course it would be a great un dertnking, but it is only a small increase of duty and responsibility after all. Perhaps it may be inter. | esting to you to know thnt the findings on thc desks, tables aud floor during nineteen years amount to nearly *0,000,000, all through the carelessness of safe-renters. With the exception of j an inconsiderable amount of bonds i coupons and money, as well as a diamond necklace and a few watches, the whole of this large amount has been restored to j its rightlul owners.” : .. “Wo receive for safe keeping,” said John J. Gilroy, secretary of the Guaran' tee Company, “ valuables of all dcscrip tions, such as coupons, registered and other bonds, deeds, mortgages, coin, plate bullion, jewelry, clothing and otiir personal effects, assuming all lia bilities. And I can assure you that our ■dM*o-its are of the most varied descrip tion. We have a most perfect system of all a guarantee delivered to the owner, aDd a password known only to the owner or such person or persons as he may choose to tell it to. Then wc have as complete a description as possible of the ITwner, and.we require him to sign his name. “Here is an example in point. A short while ago a lady came here and asked fdr certain property. She produced the guarantee and gave the password. I thoiurbt 1 recognized the face, but still I did not feel altogether satisfied in my mind about :t. I got our description book and then put this singular question to her: -“ ‘You arc not so old now as you were when you deposited this property; can you explain this?’ “‘Oh, yes,’ -he replied; ‘it was my mother, but she is sick in bed, so she gave me the pass word and asked me to do her business for her.’ “Of course, that accounted for the strong likcne-s which had struck me at llo ever. 1 had to tell her that . unless she produi dan older, con cell y and fully Idled out by ner mother, ! | could not give her admission to the L vault.” In both of these companies’ buildings watchmen patrol night and day, fully armed, and the faithful performance of their duties is insured by detectors and electric time-clocks. In a thousand and one unlooked for and unexpected places alarms, police-calls and apparatus for severely punishing those imprudent enough to lay their hands where they should not be, are hidden. Fire is com , bated on the principle that prevention is better than cure by a method of heating by steam generated by boilers under the street and isolated from the main build¬ ings __ Finding One’s Way on the Prairies, To find the way for yourself to a new ranch across the prairies, or to drive anywhere after dark, is a feat only at¬ tempted by the unwary, “Love will find out a way” through bolts and bars and parettal interdiction; but Love it¬ self would' be baffled on the prairie, where the whole universe stretches in endless invitation, and where there is absolutely “nothing to hinder” from go¬ ing in any direction that you please. “Follor a kind of a blind trail, one mile east and two miles south,” is the kind of direction usually given in the vernacular; and so closely docs one cultivate the powers of observation in a country where a bush may be a feature of the landscape and a tall sunflower a landmark, that I am tempted to copy verbatim the writ¬ ten directions sent by a friend by which we were to find our way to her hos¬ pitable home: “Cross the river at the Howards’; turn to the right, and follow a dim trail till you'eome to the plowed ground, which you follow to the top of the hill. Follow the road on the west side of a corn field, and then a dim trail across the prairie to a wire fence. After you leave the wire fonc#) up n littlo hill alld down a lit . q c then up another tjll you reach a rQad i eUl li n g ; 0 the right, which angles ucrog8 a soct i ( , n UIld leadsinto a road go j south to Dr. Read’s frame house w ith a wa ll of sod about it. Through hi(j doo ard and then through some orn Leave the road after driving through the Com, and angle to the right t0 ,he;corner of another corn field. Take the r<id to the west of this corn, and go south! fli[ up a hill, then turn to the right and 0w a plain road west; afterward pag (. jj r Dever’s homestead, a f rame , house on the right with a stone house unroofed. South, past a corn field and plowed land on the right. ‘ z:zr<z a short distance east, and you reach the guide-post, which is near a thrifty look ing farm owned by Mr. Bryant; a frame house; corn field, wheat stacks, and melon patch. At ihe guide-post, take the road going south, with cornfield on ^ rlght) tm you come to two roads. Folloy> , , ha r *,ght-hand road (a dim trail i at first) down the hill, past some hay¬ 8tack8) to the o stt g e . 0 rauge hedge. Fol [ow ^ to thc creek cr038ing) then through thfl gr0ve o{ 8un flowers to a ° god h uso> Qo through the corn direct , y wegt) fo n ow i ng the creek to the cross ° iug near our hol c .> The distance was sixteen miles, but w« took the letter with us, and found the way without the slightest difficulty, though a little puzzled at first by find jn „ thftt *< at the Howards’” meant any wbeTe tilre0 mlles of tko Howards’.- 2 /urpeiV Tho Upper Air. Tho greatest difficulty which meets every thoughtful weather student is■ his inability to obtain any satisfactory ac count of the condition and motions of the upper portion of the atmosphere, As has been said, “we live at the bot tom of the atmospheric ocean, of which the upper layers are practically inacces Bible to us.” The air is arranged sym metrically about the globe, and it is much denser close to the earth than above it. The actual height to which air extends is not known exactly, but at the level of about forty miles it is no %mism Glaisher and Coxwcll, in a famous bal loon ascent from Wolverhampton, Sep tember 5, 1862, the air was found to be so rarified that great difficulty was ex perieneed in breathing. 8uch a height | as seven miles is quite insignificant when compared with the diameter of the i earth. In fact, if the earth were repre- ; sented by a twenty-four inch globe, the height of the atmosphere, even sup posing it to be ten miles, would be re presented by a shell four-hundredths of an inch thick, about thc thicKuess of a shilling.— Longman's Magazine. Mrs. Helen L. Capel, of Pleasantown, Kan., has abandoned the newspaper business, after some years of successful management. In her valedictory, she says: “As the editor and business mana gcr of a newspaper, my business is more with men than with women, and my work, to be done successfully, mui( be done as men do it. If I do not follow the beaten path, the business must suffer, If I do my work like a man, I am made Die subject of such a continual fusillade ^ malicious gossip that I choose to abandon a profitable business rather than bear it any longer.” A Japanese dentist never uses forceps, When he draws a tooth he has to dig it out with his fingers. —Haul Hetald. VOL. XL NO 36. - -f FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. , ■ — * * The weight of an ostrich egg is equal to twenty-eight hen’s eggs. Experiments made in Paris show that the crocodile can bring its jaws together 1 with the force of over 1500 pounds. It is said that the electric ligittfe at u(> Sacramento can be seen from the high - Puad near Jackson, Cal., a distance o sixty miles. I The ancient name of Afghanistan was : nt Bsctria. It was among the conquests, of A’lexander the Great, and it was there that he marrried Iloxana, his first ' 1 wife.* a ’{j The longest word used in Eliot’s-la- - dian. Bible is “ Weetappesiftukgussug; ^ ( nookwektunkquok.” It is found in St. Mark’s Gospel, i., 40, andnieans “Kneel'- ing down to him. ” m The climate of Iowa is reported to be changing because farming has re. moved the tall, dense prairie grass and dried up the ponds and reservoirs of water that formerly abounded. On Primrose Day, as the anniversary of Lord Beaconstield’s death is now called, several London eating-houses' ad¬ fcll vertised that every customer woqld be presented with a portrait of Lord Beaconsfield and a bunch of 'if prim *• *’ ’ ‘/cni roses. A large business is done in oid hat* between England add America and the ,!?(.) 1 Nicobars. The savages there consider it a mark of affluence to possess aa many old hats As possible', 1 and ii good tart whife • ? hat with a broad bl«ik baud will Jetqhgn from fifty-live.to sixty-five cocoayuts. ^ The blood of Innocent child 1 aij was believed to euro leprosy in old times; ! that of'Ah executed criminal the failing' 1 sickness. The hearts of animals, her.,, cause the seat of life, were held to bo potent drugs. The Rosicrueian physi¬ cians (.rented a case of wounding by ap¬ Id plying the salve to the weapon instead of to the would itself. No English peer or peeress can be ar¬ rested for debt, need serve on juries, or be called out in the militia, and they do not swoar on oath, but ou honor, except when witnesses in any court. They can sit in any court in England with their hats on, can wear a sort of uniform a peers, can carry arms, but not in their pockets, and, if they commit treason or felonv. thev must he tried hv their peers. A wealthy citizen of Rome, according to Tacitus, had pledged freedom to a slave and had broken his promise. The man> enraged and disappointed, assas ginated his master. By law, in such cases, all slaves under the same roof should be executed. The public duty, j n thus case was discussed in the senate, aud the ce i e brated stoic Cassius de f ende a the law and urged its enforce¬ ment. The slaves, all innocent, to the number of 600 persons- were finally exe¬ cute* > A New Story ol Artemus Ward. It was back in tho fifties; we were all rooming in “old 21,” our bachelor bar¬ racks, in tho upper story of a business block oh Superior street, in Cleveland. A gay party we were—Sam and George, Alf ami Harry—aud our third-story den became headquarters for lots of witty aud jovial boys, who made it alraoe* * club-room.in their nightly visits. Among the most welcome was Charley Brown, “Artemus Ward,” as he was then just easing the sobriquet from his quaint •* series of humorous articles in tho Plain dealer, on which he was local editor. Brown, or 'Artemus, as we already began caU , him, excessively fond of to was practical jokes, and the fun they made among the circle of his friends will long be remembcied. 0ne m 8 ht , among the small hours, Ar temus burst into our room—the door was always on the latch—rushed to the wm dow, threw it up and, leaning out, screamed in the shrillest feminine voice. “Help! Help! Murder I Help! Mur- 1 for the screams. Artemus sleepily assured the blue coated gentry that no woman was se¬ H creted in premises, and well * our so enacted thc sleepy astonishment” of awakened virtue that, after prowling iu vain about the room, the guardians of tho peace withdrew, and we heard them ran- - saekieg the building for quite a while seeking for the cause of the alarm. When all was quiet Artemns explained the rumpus he had made. Some three or lour printers, who worked oh the" tl Tlaiudeater, had been imbibing too freely, -. r and Charley Brown coming up, found them in the hands of the police, being * conducted to the calaboose. Anxious to ( rescue them he conceived and executed the ruse. The piercing screams of tho female in distress, and the eager hope of unearthing a tragedy, drew away the at tendon of the nighthawk3, and they let the birds in the hand loose to pursue the one in the bush. The liberated printers made their short est way home, while we denizens of room 21 enjoyed the joke as Artemus last.”— “Aexfur,” in the Ingles He. W England annually imports from Russia about $60,000,000 worth of giain and flour, which is one-fifth of all the grain u d flour that John Bull buys abroad.