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J. W. ANDERSON, Editor and Proprietor. Going Homo. Ki s 1110 when my spirit flies; Lot tho beiuty of your eyes Boam along tho waves of death VvTii o I draw my parting breath, And am borne to yonder shore Where the billows boat no more, And the notes of endless spring Through the groves immortal ring; I am going home to-night, Out of blindness into sight, Out of weakness, war and pain, Info power, peace and gain. Out of winter gale and gioom Into summer breath and bloom; Prom the wanderings of the past I am going home at last. Kiss my lips and let me go: Nearer swells the solemn flow Of the wondrous stream that rolls By the borderland of souls; I can catch sweet strains of songs Floating down from distant throng And can feel the touch of handsj Beaching out from angel bands. Anger’s frown an 1 Envy’s thrust, Friendship chilled by co’d distrust, Sleepless night and weary morn, Toil in fruitless land forlorn, Aching head and breaking heart, Love destroyed by Slander’s dart; Drifting ship and darkened sea, Over there will righted be. —James O. Clark. Kit Carson's Wild Ride. “Did I know Kit Carson!” repeated that veteran pioneer, Mr. W. M. Boggs of Napa, to a question concerning the famous plainsman and guide. “Well, slightly, 1 reckon. I wintered and sum¬ mered with him and Nick Gentry in the old trading days of ’46 and’47—the t mes, you know, of the overland trade ■on the Santa Fe road, between St. Louis and New Mexico. It took five or six months to make the trip by wagon and team over the Cimarron route, as it was called. Nick Gentry when I was with him in 1844, pointed out to me many places where bloody encounter* had taken place between the white traders and the sneaking and bloodthirsty Pawnees, Kiowas, Comanches, and Apaches. “But about Carson. What sort of a man was the old guide and trapper?” “Hu li .d many Indian characteristics, owing to the fact that his life had been largely spent among the savages, Hu was retiring modest to a dogree among his white fellows, resisted any attempt to bring Mm Tfifb notice, o„d -rr obasUctl and even irritable when he perceived a disposition to lionize him. He felt ill at case ampug white men, but when among the Indians had no such feeling. Carson spoke slowly and as one having authority. His judgment in all dif¬ ficulties occurringon a march or questions arising in council was never questioned. His habits wore simple, his fair plain. I have known him go for days without food, and at tho same timo feel no great inconvenience. A handful of dried buffalo meat, or a little parched corn, which he carried in a sort of pouch be¬ hind his saddle, was his ouly rations for weeks sometimes. He was temperate, t oo, and seldom, if over, indulged in strong drink. Carson was a loosly-built man, of small stature, and did not weigh over 160 pounds. S mple habits of life ; had become second nature to himself aud his associates on the plains. The luxuries of life and the confinement of towns, when they happened in tho wkite settlements, soon palied on them, and in a little while they went off to their hunting-grounds, the simple fare of the praire, and the pure wa'er of the mountain streams. Yes,” continued Mr. Boggs, “Carson was a model plainsman. IIo was cautious in all his movements ou the march, but daring in times of emergency, quick to perceive any advantage to be taken, whether over the wily savage or in combating the elements. It is unnecessary to speak of his bravery, Ftemont’s experiences boar testimony to that. Ho rendered valuable service to the United States government during the Mexican war, and after he had quit Fremont, was guide and scout for old Gun. Stephen W. Kearny. He was in the hard fight at San Paschal, where Kearny was defeated by Andres Pico.” “What were the circumstances attend¬ ing Carson’s death!” “It was caused by an accident. He broke an artery by falling from his mule, and breathed his last at my brother’* residence, on tiie Los Animas, not far from the site of old Fort Bent, where the two had passed many happy days and passed through many exciting scenes of frontier life. “Yes, yes,” said Mr. Boggs, slowly and in a lower voice, as if communing with himself, “the Rocky Mountain he¬ roes have all passed away; Carson, Sub¬ lette, Walker, Williams, Greenwood, Black Harris, Peg-Leg Smith—all gone to the happy hunting grounds. Recovering himself the gentleman con¬ tinued: “Speaking of Carson’s bravery, let me relate an incident that will illustrate his 'courage. It was most horrible and distressing one, and took place on the Santa Fe Road, near the Cimarron mountains, in 1846. A merchant trader named James White, from Independence, Mo., with his wife, servant aad chlld^ was captured, together, with his mer chai lis’ Ira n, by the Comanches, who after t ip Apart •», are the most cru*l of all the North Amaataan faniiaa ttihta. The Covington Star. White and all his men were immediately tomahawked and scalped, and the women and child carried off prisoners. Nows of this affair reached the New Mexican settlement, where Kit Carson happened !o be (he lived near Taos in New Mexico), and he immediately start¬ cd, joining a party of United States dragoons, in pursuit of the murderous marauders. The troopers were too slow for the active plainsman. Kit, with his knowledge of Indian tricks and manners, soon struck the Comanche trail, and, in advance of the dragoons, pursued it until nightfall, when he found the savages encamped. Returning to Col. Sumner after long and weary night ride he urged him to make a forced march and surprise the Comanches. It was the only way, Carson argued, to rescue the prisoners alive, for it is n well known fact among old Indian fighters that whdn the cruel redskins, when not taken by suaprise, will retaliate on the attacking party by killing the prisoners sought to be rescued, in order to save their scalps, as every enemy’s scalp whether of man, woman or child, counts one ‘Ca,’ as it is called. Of this fact,” added Mr. Boggs, “I am myself aware. I learned it while living with the Chey¬ ennes and Arapahoes in 1844. The Sioux and Comanches, as well as the sneaking Pawnees and Kiowas, all do likewise. Their habits are simi Ur, roaming as they do over the same region of country on the great plains of Colorado and Northwestern Texas, up to the Yellowstone and the Missouri River on tho north. But to re¬ turn to Carson and the Comanches. Be¬ fore setting out in pursuit he visited (as he told me himself) the scene of the White massacre, which had been dis¬ covered by a Mexican, From tho way in which the goods and other material lay scattered around he knew it was the work of Comanches, and this fact aided him in trailin'.. When ho returned to Col. Sumner and the dragoons, and urged him, as I said before, to make a forced march so as to reach the Indian village before daylight, the Colonel ask¬ ed him: “ ‘How many Indians are there in camp!’ <( l From 300 to 400,’ replied Carson; ‘ail fighting men, with their families.’ it t Too many for me to handle, ’ sr A t>Lv O* v/aOUL X « ■j sixty uguuug regulars and about twenty-five volun¬ teers gathered -in from surrounding ranches. I cannot risk their lives against so large a party.’ “Carson grew impatient. ‘There is not a moment to be lost, Colonel, if you would surprise the Indians and rescue the women.’ H i I positively refuse to give the order to advance,’ Sumner said, with cool de¬ termination. . > Then Carson's kind heart and daring courage asserted themselves. He turned from the cavalry Colonel with a slight gesture of contempt, and raising himself in his stirrups, while the fire of heroism flashed from his eyes, called out in n loud clear voice: “ ‘Volunteersi I want volunteers! Who will ride with me to save .white women and children from torture and death!’ “Carson knew a few of the Rocky Mountain boys in the party, who, of course, were at his side in a moment,and a number of tho soldiers also offered to go. Here Col. Sumner interposed. “ ‘Carson, said he, ‘I will hold you re¬ sponsible for the lives of my men.’ i t I Allright Colonel,’ replied the gal¬ lant Kit, waving his hand, as at the head of a part j of thirty bedashed oil into the darkness on his mission of venge¬ ance and possibly of rescue. The action of Col. Sumner was that of a trained and careful soldier, brave under all circumstances; but the art of war had taught him the folly of uselesly exposing the lives of men for whom he was responsible, ns he would have done had he pitted 60 soldiers against 400 of a warlike, desperate, and determined tribe of Indians, such as the Comanches were known to be. Carson, of course, was irresponsible, and his action was characteristic, taking all chances, and trusting to his Indian knowledge to beat the savages at their own game. We call his ride reckless, but at the same timo admire the courage that prompted it. .. They rode all next day and night, reaching the Indian village a little after daylight, but unfortunately were dis¬ covered by the Comanches, so that the Indians had time to make a break, and several of them got into the ravines and brush. Carson’s party went to work with a will, killing indiscriminately bucks, squaws, and papooses, One of the avengers, Doc Reed, singled out the Indian who was dragging off the cap¬ tive Mrs. White by the hair of the head, in a direction different from that the other redskin* were taking, thinking, doubtless, he might be able to escape unseen with his victim. The hapless woman’s body was terribly bruised as well as blistered by sunburns, Com¬ pletely *t the mercy of the brawney sav *ge, *he, on hearing the yell of the white men, as they dashed in to the at¬ tack, fall down and was being dragged .iff in the manuer described. When Reed dia#ov*red the situation, he V- heeled his horse and spurred him to¬ ward th* Indian, who shot an arrow in- GEO RGIA, WEDNESDA Y, FEBRUARY 123. 1887. to the fleshy part of the rider’s back 1 as his horse, being somewhat un manageable, passed him. But reining him up finally, and just as the Comanche wa§ about to let slip another arrow at him, Reed drew a steady bead on him with a large Colt’s revolver, and, uttering a piercing death yell, the savage fell on the ground with a bullet in his brain. Reed told me the Indian’s yell rang in his ears for months afterward. His killing the Comanche, however, prompt as it was, did not, un - fortunately, save the captive, Mrs. White. Hastily dismountin ■ t Rued ran to where she lay, only to find her gasp¬ ing in death, her bosom pierced by sev¬ eral arrow's. A more pitiable sight had never been locked on in all the horrid scenes of Indian warfare. Both the ser vant girl and the child were carried ofl by some Indians who were fortunate enough to escape and were found the year following in the hands of a friendly tribe, who had purchased them from the Comanches and brought them to a trad mgr post on the Rod River. Mrs. White was buried near the place where she died, Carson’s men erecting a cairn over the grave to prevent the wolves and coyotes from devouring the remains. that was a terrible fight. ?. When Reed drew the arrow from , his , back, ’ after finding ,. the a woman , he , had , periled . his life to rescue was past all hope, he called to his comrades to give up the chase of the fly ing Indians. Some of them returned with boody hands, full of redskins’ scalps. Many of Carson’s men were half-breeds, a cross between French and Indian, and quite as savage as the In¬ dians they warred against, taking also the same pleasure in ghastly trophies as their enemies did. Some of the Co¬ manche squaws threw their papooses into the ravines and brush, hoping to make their escape and to return and re¬ gain their offspring; but the half-breeds caught these papooses up by the • heels and dashed their brains out against the stones. They considered this a raerci- I ful act, in a wav. The children would ! | have starved to death or been eaten by the coyotes, so they concluded it was better to put them out of misery at once. Or, perhaps, they thought with the old Indian fighter, Gen. Kearny, who favored ; a policy of extenuation. Such was the ; darinir to but unsi the white captives. I he | son rescue affair is still fresh in the memory of the old men, who can vouch for the truth¬ fulness of the story of Kit Carson’s ride and the vengeance he took on the Co manches. It is only one of thousands of instances of Carson’s voluntary brave at¬ tempts to aid those whose inexperience or misfortune had brought them into the power of tho merciless savage.”— San Francisco Call. A Mexican Dinner. A Mexican dinner recently served in Now York city is described by the New York Star : The room was adorned with the na¬ tional colors of Mexico, and the table linen aud tableware, whieh were hand some in color and pa tern, came from Mexico. The courses were served in the usual Mexican order. First came “Pue chero Mejicano,” a elicious soup, and then “picadio con tortillas,” or chopped meat, with Mexican cakes; this was fol lowed by . i chileconearney frigolas,” a dish of highly-seasoned meat cut into small pieces in the Chinese fashion, with Mexican beans. Next came “chiles rellenos,” or eggs, and after these “tor tiilas,” or little Mexican cakes, t ^ en t . benchilades,” or meat rolled in “tor tiilas. The next dish was the most novel one of the dinner. It consisted of hashed meat rolled in a dough made of corn meal, and cooked and served in a corn husk, so that it had the flavor of the corn. Tho ornmeal was made in the restaurant, being ground by hand between two stones by the Mexican cook. The meal closed with coffee, chocoL.te, Mexican pudding, or * • Capirotada Meji cana, Mexican cigarettes and Mexican cordials. A brown, black-eyed, black haired Mexican girl waited on the table, and the other waiters were young Mexi cans in claw-hammer coats and high collars All the dishes were excellent, and everybody said that the chocolate, made in the Mexican way from chocolate imported from Mexico, was superior to any they had ever drank before. Effect of Imagination. Thomas Fuller relates a curious inci dent which is truly characteristic: A gentleman, he says, having led a com¬ pany of children beyond their usual journey, they began to be weary, and jointly cried to him to carry them, which, because of their multitude, he could not do; but he told them that he would provide them horses to ride on. Then cutting littio wands out of the hedge, as nags for them, and a larger one ^for hims' lf, they mounted, and those who could scarce stand'before, now full of mirth, bounded cheerfully home. — Chicago Tribune. Nowhere. **Maria,” s*id Tompkins to his wife, “can you tell mo where lovers never like to meet!” “No; where?” “How did you guess it!” and tha fi«nd Chuckled. ANIMAL TRAINING. Experiments With Horses, Dogs, Pigs, and F.lephants. Th 3 Horse the Hardest, a: the Elephant the Easiest, Anisia to Train, People who go to the circus and see horses, elephants, monkeys and the like perform wonderful tricks, must often ask themselves how the animals are taught to do them. A writer in the Matin, having interviewed several circus celebrities, undertakes to* ; satisfy their curiosity. M, Loyal, who has been ring¬ 1 master of the leading Paris circus for 32 years supplies interesting information concerning horses. “The horse,” he says, i ( contrary to general belief is the most stupid animal ou earth. Ho has only one faculty, memory. You must j^ach him h : s exerc ses with the caves j son aad the whi Havi forced | them into hjg head) you must use the 6hort whip when he regists and ive him a carrot when he obeys. Whips and carrots form the secret of the trainer. The horse must be from 5 to 7 years old: beforo that he is too irited after lt his mu9clcs are not clastic eu h . T he first thing to do , to , accustom . is your horse to i,. the ring, * to make , him , • run j round reguiarlyj ^ thea tQ at a ! givea si T accomplish o thia tho animal brou „ ht j into th# ring The trainer _ holds in his left hand a tether, which is passed into the cavesson, a kind of iron crescent armed with sharp points fixed on the nose of the horse; in his right hand he holds a long whip. Behind the animal an assistant, with a stout short whip, is posted. The trainer calls cn the horse to start, and, pulling his tether and smacking his long whip, forces him to gallop round. If he re iuses, the assistant uses his whip also; if he is obedient, he is rewarded with a carrot. To make him stop short, the trainer cracks his long whip again, while the assistant with his short whip throws hiraseff suddenly in front of the animal, and tho result is obtained. M. Loyal tells U3 that “the horse has a great objection to kneeling or lying down at any momqnt> This feat ir taught by meaw ojUw^ ed ' t ~ a tether be ; d b y the trainer, who, by sudden jerks or pulls as he is moving makes him fall or kneel. The animal remembers the lessons and, by dint of whip and carrot, ultimately performs them at the mere command of the trainer. Tho horse is taught to dance to music in the same way with the foot bracelets. >> As regards the learned horse, who opens boxes and takes articles out of them, here is how the animal is trained to do it: “I first g«t a carrot,” says M. Loyal, ‘I place it in a box. I then lead the horse to the box. He smells the carrot, lifts up tbc bd o f the box with his nose and takes out the vegetable, which he is al lowed to eat. The next day, before let¬ ting the horse free, I show him a hand - kerchief full of bran. He takes it and tries to eat it. I then let him loose. He runs to the box, but—bitter deception— jt is empty. The day after I resume the exerc i se> but this timo the horse finds the handkerchief with the bran in the box. He takes it out, and I reward him with a carrot. I decrease the amount of bran in the handkerchief every day, un¬ til in the end I put merely the handker¬ chief in the box. Th: horse brings it to me, and gets his carrot. I then re ducc the size of the carrot every day, until at last I give him nothing. The borsc continues to perform with the j handkerchief in the hope of getting the I carrot.’ With respect to dogs, M. Changeux, ’ who is now exhibiting a troupe of them at the Nouveau Argue, says their educa¬ tion is a work of time and patience. Sometimes it takes two years. “I use neither sugar or whip,” he informs us. tt I take my dog in my hands, talk to him, and try to make him understand wliat he is to do. I pc: form tho tricks myself and the dogs follow and imitate me.” At present he is show ing a carriage dog which performs on the single wire. “I will tell how I taught him ^ you become an equilibrist. I made him first of a'l walk on a plank which was bal anced to and fro. The plank gradually reduced in width every day, and the movement accelerated. At length the plank dwindled down to a narrow slip; this was replaced by a long round stick, and utimately the dog found I himself on the single wire. Strange to say, this dog is blind. M. Changeux says scent is the great quality \vhich. enables dogs to perlorm some For example, the poodles who play at ;, dominoes are taught by thc.r scent. trainer touches the dominoes which dog has to play, and the animal, in:: them, pick them out from the and plays them. Tho pig is said to be the most cult animal to tram. Tony Grice, clown, does not believe in learned J They are to be taught only by their weak point—their gluttony. “When 1 have got my youug p:g,“ he says, “i begin on the principle that I shall obtain j nothing from him without satisfying hii . nr ;etite. 1 feed him mysr f, and durins 1 a taw days I vary his food Si ordar to fine out what he likes best. As soon as I i have discovered his favorite dish, I deprive him of it completely. This dish is my great talisman The chief pig I am now performing with prefers beef fat. I put a piece in my pocket. I jump over hurdles and the pig follows me, doing likewise. In this way he learns his exercises and gets his fat. I decrease the piece of fat every day, and at last I give him nothing, Should he refuse to work I thrash him j till lie does, and, having completed his : performances, I recompense him with his favorite meal.” 10 e ephan , on the contrary, Is very intelligent, and his education would be ^ easy but for his cumbersome weight, which forces the trainer to have recourse to cruel means. For instance, to make him raise and hold out his foot, an iron ring with sharp points is placed on it, and being drawn by a rope the points enter the flesh. The elephant 1 feeling * the , pain lifts up his foot and keeps it in ‘ ., . ...... . c air l e pain ceases, or a w repetitions the sight he of remembers the the pain, his foot. and | at iron raises His instruction, thanks to his intelli¬ j gence, is soon completed. Some ele¬ I phants are taught in less than a fortnight to play on a drum, work a tricycle and beg on their hind legs .—Pall Mall Qa zette. Killing a Bull Elk. From an account of a hunting trip in j the Sierra Madre mountains, by Frank Wilkeson in tho New York Times , we quote as follows: Late in the afternoon | I reached the wooded point near which the deer had been killed in the morning. was exceedingly tired. I waked slowly the hill to its top, where the timber sufficiently open to see through for yards. There I sat down behind a boulder to rest and to smoke. smoking I heard a noise behind I looked around the boulder and a large, handsome bull elk standing with his head high in the His almost coal-black mane waved jil. • \ in e reez- , eart i y sprang my throat, and there struggled and I drew my rifle around and it at the elk, but I could not it on him. Trees, rocks, bushes the sights, and now and then the j unaccountable manner. Bit T , , down , and , waited - until A .i t I got i i of my nerves, and then again i thrust the rifle around the rock. The was still there, looking through beautiful eyes at the blue moun¬ beyond tho creek. He was not than seventy-five yards from I covered his forehead, and was going to pul! the trigger, when he dropped his muzzle almost to ground, drew in a long breath, and his head high in the air, hi* slightly his wide-spread ! open, resting on his back, and bugled for a mate to come to him. close by the note is not as sweet when it is mellowed by distance. bugling, the bull stood motionless, ! listening intently. Again he I was no longer eager to kill but we were shooting meat, on the of which mv comrade and his family depended for their winter’s provisions, so I murmured to myself, “Well, meat i* meat. I will have to gather you in;’’ and then I shot him through the head. I dressed him, and threw his liver and heart and lungs on the ground, where the parrots could get them to eat. Metallic Pens. The alleged discovery of a bronze slit pen at Aosta, would indicato that ths Romans used a sort of metal pen beyond th? stylus. The first unquestioned, defi¬ nite reference to a metal pun is in a Dutch patent book, of 1717. About the same time the pout Pope, in one of his odes, refers to a steel or gold pen. The first English pens were made in Birmingham, by Mr. liarrisou and Dr. Priestly, about a hundred years ago. Metallic pens were expensive and little used until the revolution in the manufacture about sixty years ago, caused by the invention of the hand screw press. The new ma chine pierced the pens from sheet steel, Provioustv thev had been made from | [J pHUdlRrllL His orders will also be honored «t ad ; son . Call on him for circulars. GEO. W. SCOTT & CO., per Dr. H. V. Hardwick. f Thompson’s Hestaurant. Thompson’s popular restaurant, in At Jg now opc ,, to the public j in the most excellent style. gupp ii ed every day with fresh fish, ; t er s.game., aud the best of even, thing e mar ket affords, or the most fastidious desire. Meals prepared in any style a first class French cook, furnished at hours. Every thing bright and clean, polite servants to attend your wants, and see Thompson, on Alabama next door to the Atlanta National . when you visit Atlanta. tf ^j Atlanta Weekly Constitution will j ie this I and send out 101,500 papers , This is a large circulation for a I .....nonitf . and we are glad { VOL. XIII, NO, 14. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. - A boat has been successfully propelled on tlie 8eine b y means of artificial wings acting on the air and driven by a rotat in % wheel - The museum at Boulak, in Egypt, ; contains what has been called the oldest ; picture in the world—a fresco from a tomb at Maydoom representing six j j geese. In experiments in a Russian military hospital, smokers required seven hours i to digest a meal exactly similar in kind and . quantity u J to that digested in . six . hours , | by others. F renc h horticulturist, M. Nobbe, has found that the seeds of the finest varieties of grapes germinate more quickly than those of the commoner sorts, and that seeds fresh from the fruit germi- j nate better than those which have been | , dried. A . case , lately . , reported „ , to . the New - was x lork - , Pathological c Society . . of , a negro, „ child, which lived but two months, with 1 on!y ona , th# left the other being rudimentary and never inflated, The heart had only one auricle add one ven tricle—both the left. Mr. A. H. Allen, in a paper on oils read ip the American Association, said that shark and fish oils are often uusa¬ ponifiable, and hence are not fatty ethers. He believed them to contain cholesterine, like cod-liver oiL The fixed oils can be separated into groups, but we know no process for separating a mixture of lard and cotton-seed oil. A novel museum is being established by Dr. Guilbeau, a blind professor in a Paris institution for the blind. His col lection comprises articles specially de vised for the use of the sightless, and is already quite valuable. It includes a very complete display of the various kinds of letters which have been used for reading by touch, Sugar can be made from any descrip¬ tion of vegetable fibre, such as sawdust, rags or tow. The process is to digest for several hours in sulphuric acid; then to dilute the mixture with water and boil for 50me * whan the rags or what _ not will be {ound t0 have under _ gone a magical change, and to have been converted into sugar. A curious fact is F“**~ • -- 1 being due to the elements of water ab sorbed during ths change. On the northern elope of the Alps t be zone of perpetual snow reaches down to about 8000 feet above the level of the sea, and on the south side about 8800 feet. In the Pyrenees the snow line is at a height of about 8950 feet; in the Caucasus, 10,000 to 11,000 feet; on the south side of the Himalayas, 12,980 feet, and on the north, 19,620 feet; in Bolivia 18,520 feet in the Western Cordillera and 15,920 in the Eastern; in Mexico, 14,760 feet; in Chili, near Santiago, 12,- 670; in Norway, 5000 feet in its middle portion aud 2300 feet at its northern extremity; in Kamchatka, 5200 feet,and Alaska, 5500 feet. The Shah of Persia. “The Shah, ” say* the St. James' Qa aette , “is a mighty hunter; a good shot, and an enthusiastic sportsman. Big game i* his delight. The king, like all the ^sportsmen of his country, uses a smooth-bore and a bullet. Of course royal hunts are to a certain extent bat¬ tues. A strange incident of Eastern life, but a true one, occurred some twelve years ago at one of the royal huntings. As usual, a couple of regi¬ ments accompanied the Shah on his hunt¬ ing party. The men acted as beaters. A tiger was wounded and was making off under the King’s eyes. The royal second barrel was discharged, but did not kill the wounded animal. Fearful of losing his quarry, the king was re¬ loading (muzzle-holders are still preferred by Persians), when a private soldier seized the tiger by the tail and detained him long enough for the Shah to dis¬ patch the animal. His Majesty made that soldier a captain on the spot. The Largest Gold Mine. The famous Mulatos mine, regarded by many as the largest gold mine in the world, is situated at Sonora, Mex., aad was worked hundreds of years ago by the natives, but was lost track of. la 1804 it was rediscovered and sold te French parties, who, after w'orking It for nearly fifty yc^rs, resold it to a rich Mexican, and it has been in his hand* ever since. There are 100 chambers in the mine, some 150 feet high, yet not * stick of timber is used to support the roc if, th* support consisting of pillar* left in digging out the ore. The ore is of low grade. A Society 1’nppy Paralyzed. She was a young woman who admired j dogs, and he was a young man with lit- ; era ry tastes, about to embark for u- , rope. i “And I shall go to see Ouida, he sat id, t after narrating a long long list of | anticipations. 1 • Oh, will you!” she exclaimed, “How nice that will be. Ouida is so fond of dous.’’ lie looked at her a' if she had thrust t dagger into bis heart, but she rattled oa : without a thought of what sh* had said. — Wsahaagtm QritU. Both Sides. A man in his carriage-was riding along, A gaily-dressed wife by his side; In satin and laces she looked like a queen, And he like a king in his pride, A wood-sawyer stood on the street as they passed; And ^ M h(J worked withhissaw on a fag,, i w j s j, j wa3 ric!l and cou | (1 rida » The man in the carriage remarked to his wife, “One thing I would give if Icou'd— I’d gb 0 m 7 wealth for the strength and the health Of the man who is sawing ...f the wood.' A . pretty , young maid .. witha bundle of . work, . Whose face as the morning was fair, Went tripping along with a smile of delight While humming a love-breathing air. She looked on the carriage, the lady she saw, Arrayed in apparel so fine, “ whisper, “I wish from my Ih03e satms .. and . , lace > were mine.” . The lady looked out on the maid with her _ rt ’ So fair in her calico dress, And said, “I’d relinquish position and wealth Her beauty and youth to possess.” Thus it is in the world, whatever oar law, Our minds and our time we employ In longing and sighing for what, we have not, Ungrateful for what we enjoy. HUMOROUS. The men who marry most frequently for money are the ministers. “You’re trying to make game of me,” as the deer said to the sportsman. Judge—I will give you ten dollars oi three days—Prisoner—Jed ge I’ll take the ten dollars. The lap of luxury—The cat’s inter¬ view with the milk. A swell affair— Next morning’s head. There is a man out in Illinois whose name is Joseph Gotobed. Ho is said to be of a very retiring disposition. There is room for everybody in this big world. Friction comes from the fact that too many want the front room. A scientist says that a man who has been struck by lightning cannot swim. He might have added that he never tries to. Bride (on shipboard at 36a)—“I feel so sick, my dear, and if I sliouli die and " *- I___ rv* ■ Ml English milliners are said to have dis¬ covered a way of making bonnets of tissue paper so that the bonnet will not cost over ten cents, It this is true young men can begin to marry on ordi¬ nary salaries. A beggar, to all appearance slightly befogged, thus accosted a passcr-by: “Sir, would you please give me a little money to buy a bit of bread, for I am so dreadfully thirsty that I don’t know where I am to get a night’s lodging.’’ liow to Address the President. For ninety seven years the country has grown in dignity, wealth and power under the simple constitutional title of the Chief Executive of the American Republic, until.it epbpses all the high sounding designations of rank known to the vocabulary of raonarchial institutions. All official communications or from strangers sli > uld therefore be addressed “To the President, Washington, D. C.' A letter from a personal friend should be addressed: “Grover Cleveland,Wash¬ ington, D. C.,” without title. The President to all communications, whether offici .1 or personal, simply signs his name, without the usual com¬ plimentary closing as “yours truly, or closing of respect, as “very respectful¬ ly,” used by all officials. The discussion of the subject of titles was com menced in Congress before the arrival of Wnsh'ington in New York. In a letter of July, 1789, to a friend in Vir¬ ginia, the^first president expressed his opposition’ to an additional title. It was urged that “His High Mightiness, the title of the Stacltholders of Holland, was his choice; but there is nothing to show that he ever expressed such an opinion, —Philadelphia Times. The Word “Hurrah.” What was the origin of the exe’ama tion i i Hurrah”? There are few words s tm in use which can boast such a re¬ m ote and widely extended prevalence as this. It is one of those interjections in which sound so echoes sense that men seem to have adopted ft almost instinct— iveiy. In India and Ceylon the mahouts and attendants of baggage elephants cheer them on L*y perpetual repetitions of “ur-re-rel ’' The arabsaad camei-dri— vers in Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt encourage their animals to speed by shouting ‘ 'ar ; re, ar-rel” The Moors in in Spain drive their giulcs and horses with cries of « C arre.” In France the sportsman excites the hounds by his g jj ou t s 0 f “hare, hare!” and wagoners t h e j r horses by crying “liariiaut! >1 herdsmen of Ireland and Fcot.aud shout “hurrishl. hurriahl’’ to the cattle t ; ley are dr j v ing. It is evidently an ex c ; ama ^j on common to many nations, and is probably a corruption of “Tur aie” (Thor aid), a battle cry of the ancient Norsemen, though some authorities de¬ rive it from the Jewish “Hosannah.” The word is-very often, and was fi rm ^ r j y invariably spelt “buzzi,” and its pronunciation was “hurray.”