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THE ELLIJAY COURIER.
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Terms. #1.50 Per Annum
J. C. ALLEN,
Cditor and Proprietor.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.
Richmond is preparing to build a grain
elevator.
An Alahama hunter killed eight wild
turkeys at one shot.
Virginia killed only three railroad
passengers last year.
Twenty-six negroes, exclusive of chil
dren, leit Gaston, North Carolina, last
week, for Kansas.
The lower house of the South Carolina
legislature killed the Moffitt bell-punch
bill by a vote of 54 to 23.
There are eighty Masonic lodges in Git
state of Florida, and the order is repre
sented as in fine working condition.
It is thought that General Joseph E.
Johnston will be elected to congress from
the Richmond (Va.) district without op
position. .*' L I ’ ? i 1 t• *
Wilmington (N. C.) Star: Owing to
the long continuous warm weather the
buds ou the peach trees are swelling and
almost ready to burst forth.
A great deal more grain than usual has
been sown this season in Mecklenburg
county, N. GV Wheat aud oats are al
ready viaible above the ground.
- The supreme courUof Georgia has de
cided, “ for a man, without some inno
cent reason or excuse, to put his arm
around the neck of another man’s wife,
is anassault and battery.”
i The lower house of the Mississippi leg
islature gave an UMnimonr vote of ap
proval of $250 and the railroad SSOO for
the detection of the party or parties who
wrecked the train at Lavergne.
The total assessment of Louisiana is
estimated at $176,000,000; that of the
city - of New Orleans at $111,000,000,
thus making the real and personal as
sessments of the state outside of New
Orleans only $65,000,060.
Savannah News: • The fishermen ol
the Altamaha are preparing their nets
for the capture of the toothsome shad,
which are now beginning to run in that
river. Our market has been liberally
supplied from the south for some time.
Mr. M. C. Jones, school commissioner
of Bulloch county,'Ga., and worthy citi
zen, is the father of a child recently born,
which is entirely destitute of arms.
The hands are-attached to the body at
the shoulders. The child is a large,
healthy-looking boy.
A bill before the Mississippi legisla
ture imposes a tax of 40 cents a gallon,
on whisky in the hands of wholesale
dealers, and another tax of 2^-cents on
the drink when the same whisky is re
tailed. This would make the total gov
ernment and state tax on a gallon of
whisky about $2 80.
Prattville (Ala.) Signal: Prof. Eugfena
A. Smith, state geologist, has forwarded
to J. Lawrence Smith, of Louisville, Ky.,
a specimen of tantalite, found in this
state—the first discovery of this metal in
the United States. Its specific gravity
was over 7.2, and its surface indicated
partial decomposition.
Arrangements have been made by the
Macon county, Ala., authorities with
Col. R. H. Abercombie for the hire of
the eountv convicts at the rate of $2 60
per month for able-bodied persons, the
costs in each case to be paid in advance.
Col. Abercombie works the convicts on
the old Williams plantation on Calabee
creek. . - ; j,r * i ■%
Nashville American: Wah Hing, a
Chinese laundry man on Cherry street,
applied to the court clerk yester-
day for a license to marry a colored girl
whom he employs in his laundry. The
clerk refused to issue the license, as he
said it Was prohibited by law. The
- Chinaman, after considering for awhile,
remarked . “ Whites woman no have
me, and you no lettee me have yellow
gal; me go backee to China.”
The Staunton (Va.) Vindicator, in an
article on the opium habit, says: One
physician tells us of a casq in which a
lady, a confirmed opium eater, sent two
horses to a neighboring city to sell, the
proceeds of one to be invested in mor*
phine. By some difference in price the
sale miscarried, and in two or three days
the man returned. When die saw him
coming down the road leading both
horses she fell to the floor-in- an agony of
disappointment and died in a few hours.
The Savannah grand jury recommend:
That all civil officers who, to discharge
their duties effectively, are compelled to
be armed, be required to wear a belt and
holster for weapons, that they be seen—
so that they may not violate a law them
selves whilst enforcing obedience from
others; and that all arrested persons
found with concealed weapons on their
person be prosecuted for the offense, and
the officer making the discovery be re
quired to prosecute, on pain of dismissal
from office.
Raleigh News: Albert Johnson, Esq.,
of our city, assisted in putting together
the first locomotive engine used in Vir
ginia and North Carolina. It was built
by Edward Bury, at Liverpool, England,
and was brought to this country and de
livered at Petersburg. The engine was
named the Roanoke,” and its weight
only five and a half tons. The cylinders
were Bxl6. and the driving wheels four
THE ELLIJAY COURIER.
VOLUME 111.
and a half feet in diameter; just in front
of these were two pilot wheels, each
three feet in diameter. There was no
track as In the engines of tb e present
timet nor was a tender used
From Washington.
The committee on Education i c La
bor is unanimously in favor of taking
steps to check the evils of Chinese immi
gration to the Pacific coast. Mr. Willie,
of Kentucky, wto as the head of the
sub-comm ttee has very carefully ex
amined the subject, is authorized to re
port to the house a joint resolution
requesting the president to open cor
respondence with the governments of
China and Great Britain, with a view of
securing a change or abrogation of any
stipulations in existing treaties whfoh
permits the unlimited immigration of
the Chinese to the United States. The
entire committee, both democrats and
republicans, are agreed on this policy.
The report prepared* by Mr. Willis to
accompany the joint resolution presents
the following considerations:
1. The statistics of the customhouse
for the past twenty years, shows that,
dividing said twenty years into periods
of five years each, the average increase
of said periods is fifty per cent. Esti
mating the present number of Chinese on
the Pacific dope at 150,060, which is the
lowest estimate from any source, if the
above rate of increase should continue,
by 1880 the number of Chinese would
exceed the native voting population, to
gether with immigration from all other
sources, over 50,000. The question there
fore, it not .one of prospective but ef
present importance, and demanding leg
islation', it these immigrants are objec
tionable. L
2. The class of immigrants is from the
fourth or lowgatrelass of Chinese, a class
amopg.vfhom, vrhen in China, the mar
ital relation is ignored, polygamy and
prostitution and recognized,
it not legalized, children and wives are
soli into slavery, and sanctity of oaths
disregarded, infanticide, and especially of
females, common and unrebuked, clean
liness almost unknown, and paganism
the only religion.
8. They are mostly brought here
under contracts, by which they agree to
py to certain broken, or to the six Chi
nese companies, a large percentage upon
their passage money. When these Chi
nese attempt to return home they are
unable to do so, unless these six compa
nies give them a permit. The companies
exercise a control over them greater than
that of the civil government The wo
men who come are, without exception,
immoral, and are bought and sold like
sheep iu the shambles.
4. YieWlngJthe subject from a labor
standpoint, the report says these China
men live fifty in one room, twenty by
twenty. They have nfr-wives, no child
ren, no home in the sense ifi Which the
word is known in America. Their food
is rice. Papked like sardines, and enjoy,
ing none of the comforts of a home, they
live on ten or twenty cants per day.
Their whole life antagonizes the Ameri
can idea of labor.
6. The report argues that they are
unfit to be American citizens, that they
disregard oaths, keep up pagan customs,
and that it is impossible to execute the
laws over them, or to make them regard
sanitary regulations.
6. The chief objection to the Chinese
is their utter failure to assimilate with
our people and institutions/' In this
respect they are unlike all European im
migrants. They have.been in the coun
try for twenty-seven years, and are' the
same to-day as when they first <mnw, the
same in dress, religion, social habits and
political views. The Chinese disclaim
and refuse to assimilate in the body
politic of America.
The committee iB also considering the
form of a law to prevent further Chinese
immigration. It holds that congress has
already the power to deal with the sub
ject and apply a remedy.
Mr. Willis says that there are a num
ber of supreme court decisions affirming
that congress, in its power of legislation
over such subjects, is not restrained by
treaty stipulations, and that the present
treaty with .China must not stand in the
way of the legislation demanded by the 1
highest considerations of public safety.
Science and Industry.
In a paper on the use of lacs of cosine
and fluoresceine for preparation of decor
ative painting without poison, Mr. Tur
pin gives the following recipe: A potaesic
or sodic solution of-cosine treated with
an acid gives a precipitate of cosic acid
insoluble in water; this washed until tbe
water begins to take a rose-color is insol
uble in the hydrate of [oxide of zinc, and
so forms a very rich lac, the red color of
which varies according to the quantity
of cosic acid which had been employed.
On the 10th of December last, a Dan
ish vessel nearly stranded on an island
abeut forty miles from tbe straits of
Magellan. No land was indicated on the
chart Soon it was noticed that the
island was slowly sinking. An attempt
was made to land on it, but this aas
found impossible, as the rocky mass of
which it was compiled was so hot that
i the water touching it hissed. The island
“ Error Ceases to be Dangerous When Season is Left Free to Combat It.”—Jefferson.
continued to eink, and eight hours after
it was first observed the vessel sailed
over the place where it had appeared
above the surface of the ocean.
There is a common impression that
green wall-papers only .are poisonous.
Mr. Seebold, of Manchester, England, has
analysed not leas than sixty or seventy
kinds ef paper foe covering walls, and he
found that ten only were harmless,
although the colors were not green, but
pink, blue, red, brown, etc. The cause
of the illnesß of children, and delicate
persons, which in many cases perplexed
skilled physicians, may be the poisonous
mineral contained in the innocent-look
ing wall paper of bedrooms.
A method ef engraving op glass with
electricity has been described by M,
Plante. A concentrated solution of
nitrate of potash is poured open the sur
face of afplate of glass or crystal until the
snrfaoe is covered with it. A horizontal
plantinum wire connected with one of
the pole* of a secondary battbry Of fifty
or sixty elements is placed in the liqhid
along the edges; then holding iu the
hand the other electrode (insulated
except at the end), figures or. characters
of any kind which may be described with
the ends on the glass will be found to be
clearly engraved. , 0
In an article on tho action of anassthet
ics, Bin z says, that sleep-producing agents
possess the power or causing a -kind oh
congestion of the cerebral eortei,'while'
other agents nearly allied to them in
composition do not possess this power.
Morphia, chloral, ether, and chloroform
have a strong affinity for the substance
of the cortex of the brain in man,
and when they enter into combl
. nation with the cerebral substance they
aot in opposing or impeding the disinte
gration of-the living matter, and thus
rendering ft unfit to discharge the func
tion* required of it. Ranks, after a pro
tracted study of the ami A subject, cornea
substantially to the same conclusion.
The rude representations cut oh rocks
near the Lacs dtes Merveilles, in Switzer
land, have long been a puzzle to archie
ologists. Some have believed that they
were the work of the soldiers of Hanni
bal. (What busy people these soldiers
must have been from first to last.) The
most satisfactory explanation ol the
origin of these figures has just been
given by M. Chkfuet. He gays' that at
certain seasons of the year shepherds
could find near the rocks some herbage
for their sheep and goats. To. while
away the weary hours the shepherds
amused themselves in cutting figures
which have coat days ot owlish study to
savans, who are more inclined to look for
mysterious aud remote authors of such
-things, than to accept an obvious afid
common-sense view. -
'“At a recent meeting of the royal astro
nomical society, London, a large photo
graph of the sun, twelve inches in dia
meter, was Bhown as a specimen of the
photographs now regularly obtained by
M. Janssen at the observatory at Meudon.
Mr. _ De la Rue declared it to be the
finest example of celestial photography
he had ever seen, and he expressed
especial gratification that it was taken
with an instrument constructed like the
new heliograph, having a two-inch
object glass. On the picture of the disk
of the sun were markings which De la
Rue, Abney and Christie said represented
tornadoes. It was suggested that there
ought to be a physical observatory to
register the changes which take place on
an enormous scale every hour oh the
sun —changes compared with which the
phenomena of sun-spots are relatively
unimportant.
Foreign Gossip.
**T ■ ' (j •
In France condemned criminals never
know tbe time fixed for their execution
until the moment arrives. Indeed, as a
prisoner condemned usually appeals ae a
matter of course to the Oour de Cassation
against his sentence! he must be uncer
tain to the last whether the sentence will
be carried out. Tbe order for the exe
cution is only sent to the prison the
evening before it is to take effect, the
criminal is not informed until the next
morning, and the sentence is carried out
at a very early hour.
• Miscellaneous.
A statement has been prepared in the
office of the secretary of the treasury
showing that since 1791 to the close of
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, the
sum of $399,827,536.20 has been paid out
to the various classes ot pensioners. In
1871 the disbursements were $34,024,-
990.21. It is probable that there will be
a decrease in these large disbursements
hereafter.
The department of agriculture an
nounces that the climate and soil of
Florida, Lower California and portions
of Texas are well adapted to the growth
of the coffee plant. Great warmth of
climate is not essential toits development.
It thrives best in regions where extremes
of heat and cold aie not experienced. In
Lower California and Florida wild coffee
with many characteristics of the culti
vated plant, is very abundant. The
importations of coffee into the United
States during 1876 were nearly 340,-
000,000 pounds, at a cost of nearly
$67,000,000.
ELLIJAY, GEORGIA, AIARCH 1, 1878.
TH£ CHILDREN
r CHARLES rnSKBSa.
*hra the lou anA taaki ira aUauded,
And tb school for th d,j iidismlnaed,
Aid the little ones aether ereend ate
To bid me (od night end be ktand.
Oh, the HtUe white trail thet ndit).
- My neck la n tender embrace I
Oh, the ainlira, tbit ere htloe ot hot ran.
Shedding nnebin* of kweoo ■>▼ tara.
And when they sre-gene, I alt dreaming
. Of my childhood, too lonly to leat;
Ol love that my heart win remember.
When U wakes to the palm at the peat.
Kre the world and lie wtekednem made me
A partner ef eorraw end eln;
w ia
Ob, my heart growe weak at e wouaert’ a,
And the feuntMaeef feeling wtl?4ew,
At I think ol the pet hi deep and atony.
Where the feet of the deer erne mutt go;
Of the mountains of etn hangtog *%<■ them,
Of the Umpeet of fate blowing wf M f
On, there la nothing on earth half he holy
At the innocent heart ef e chUdaa
The twig ie eo eatdly headed, . : t- %y
Where I that them tram brmkti* a rule,
1 thall leave the hid houmlathe autumn, 'i '
Totraveree tta threshold no mete;
'That meet me* srs'Mzit. •
X ahull tales the goad nights and the klmee, *
And the gush at their innocent glee;
The group on the green* endthedowere
That are brought every to me.
I eball mlaa them at noen and at era.
Their eong in the school and the etreet; ■
I ehali mlaa the low hum ot their voice.,
And the tramp of their delicate! eel.
When the lessens and teaks ere alt ended,
And Death rave, -“The school la dleinlmed,"
May the little ones gather around me
To bid mo good alaht “and he Mated."
New Yorlt BiOldazlug.
The New York bankers hsve held sev
eral meetings recently w l)vg for their
purpose the agreement upon a plan of
action with which the southern and
western states are to be threatened un
less they withdraw their support efthe
remonetization of silver. The plan in
cludes: 1. No more gale of goods ex
cept on condition of payment in gold; 2.
No credit or discounts to any western or
southern banks, merchants or corpora
tions. or municipal goyernments, except
on contracts payable in gold; 3. The
refusal of all dealings with persons who
will not make contracts to pay past and
future debts in gold. This threat fs to.
bo sent all over the country as the de
termination of the men who claim to
represent the “ center of capital.” -Do
these gentlemen think that the “center of
capital” ie immovable? Within the
memory of even young men and mer
chants , New York was tlieJ 1 center of
trade ” in tho United States/*and "every
man wbo dealt in dry goods or groceries
all over the land had to go to New York,
or send to New York to purchase his
stocks. Times have changed. New
York was onoe the center of the provi
sion trade, and every pound of packed
beef, pork, lard, bacon and cut meats
bad to be sent to New York to be sold—
both to the foreign and domestic mar
kets ; but the center of. the provision
trade has moved a thousand miles west
ward.
The day has long since gone by when
the west and the south depended on New
York city. That city might be buried,
and the business of the west and south
would go on just the same. If the banks
and merchants of New York shall insist
that the capital gathered there; shall not
be employed in trade with the west or
south, it is possible that that capital will
quietly find ita way to the productive
centers, and be invested directly ameng
those who produce to sell and who buy
to consume. There is no law that can
compel capital to remain in New York
onehonr after the .trade of that city
with producing sections of th** country
shall ceAse or be suspended, and if the
city of New York proposes to-suspend
or refuse further commercial or financial
dealings with :tbe exporters of ss6o,ooo r
000 surplus products of their Übor, the
latter will probably fled seme other route
to market, some other route to the open
sea, some other point from vluoh tojjb
tain what they need, and mo other
part of the world in wfaieh to obtain tbe
capital they may need fo handle what
they procjuce.
Now, it the New York banks and ntes
ehante want to get out their “Mack list,”
let them do It. If (Shy will dot sell
us dry goods, there are other place* where
we can buy them; if they will not buy
our bread and meat, let them go hungry.
The people who produce more than they
consume of human fqpd have an
open market the world over, and can
trod elsewhere all they mod in ex
. change. Let New York get out ite
“ black list; ” it need not be ajt trouble
to select the names; let it put down the
people of the Weet by acres, townships,
counties, congressional districts, and
states; let them put the people of twenty -
i six states under a commereiai and n
i cial interdict; let them advertise to the
remotest part of the earth that Naw
I York holds not commercisl intercourse
I with the seuth ofrweot ; thtt the people
of these sections refuse to piy any more
debts or Interest than is called lor by the'
letter and terms of their contracts, and,
when the railroads to New York shall
j become bankrupt, and the Erie canal
! became stagnant from disuse, and tbe
hanking buildings in Wall street will
, have inscribed in cbalky whiteness over
i their doors the legend, “To let,” then j
1 perhaps Mr. George \V. Coe and hte as- !
sociates will discover that any attempt j
! to bulldoze or intimidate a free and in
telligent people must prove a failure.— '
! [Chicago Tribune.
WHICH 18 THE MORE HOICKBT?
If Mr. Belmont was asked what money !
he tendered in purchasing United States
bonds, ne weald of course acknowledge
in the cheapest currency then in vogue.
It is bis business as a hanker, as indeed
it ie of every other purchaser, to nuke
the best bargain be can. Previous to*
1878, when these debts were contracted,
! P*per money was in universal use. But
the value of the paper was measured by
the gold standard. Now, it happens that
the gold standard, previous to 1873, was
: lower than the silver standard. Silver
was at a premium of three per cent.
Even the gold papers will not call Mk.
Belmont a swindler and a knave if he
paid for his bonds in the cheaper metal,
or in paper that was convertible .into tt,
that is—gold. The hankers of fhrworid
did not insist upon paying for their bonds
"ffi the dearer metal. Bqt having pur
chased, as they had a right to do, In the
cbeapSr'mdtal, thby now clamor for pay
ment in the metal which has been arti
ficially enhanced in value hy the de
monetization of silver. There is certainly
no more dishonesty in the nation paying
ite debts according to contract in the
metal which was dearest When the bonda
! were bought. The government has ex
actly the same right to its option in the
payment of its debts that the bankers
had in the bhofee of metals in which to
pay the evidences of the debt. There is
no more dishonesty in the ofie case than
in the other, especially in view of the
fact that the silver dollar was secretly
and sneakingly dropped from the coinage
of tho nation, at the ibßtance of the
creditors, in order to enhance the value
of their bonds.fr{Graphic.
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HOME’BOTTOM WLOTS ABOUT SILVER.
1. Great Britain—which is? mono-me-
exported $101,800,000 in gold, whilo im
porting but *77,160,006, thus losing for
1877 the sum of $24,540,000 of her gold.
2. Franoe—which is t bi-metallic with
-gold and silver co-equal legal tenders fob
any amount—during 1877 exported but
about $17,546,000 in gold, while import
ing $06,100^)00; thatis> say,. Franc*
added $79,006,000 to hsrtfock. in gold
during that period.
3. Of tbe gold exported bv mdfio-me*
tallic England bi-metallic Fmi66 gained
or imported directly no less than $30,000,-
While *! Importing folly as much
as $16,000,000 from Gerihsny, which
that country had received from England
since the Ist of January, 1877.
4. Notwithstanding the balance of
trade as between the United States and
Great Britain has been in our favor dur
ing the last year we have,
exported to England during 1877 no less
than $10,300,006 in gold, or above a
third as much as England imported from
Australia, her present chief source of
gold.
5. On the 10th of January, JB7B, there
was in the bank of France, in coin and
bullion, the sum of $899,109,000. About
the same time the amount held in coin
and bullion by the bank o* England was
1122,640,000; Imperial bank of Oer
many, $118,046,000; National bank of
Austria, $68,725,000; National bank of
Belgium, $19,495^)00; Nethorlands
bank, $58,085,000, amounting in the ag
gregate to $876,840,000. Excess in fa Tor
of bank of France, $22,260,000. This is
not an exceptional state of affitirs. The
bank of France has thus for eighteen
months contained in its vaults much
more specie, chiefly gold, than all the
other National banks of these’chief com
mercial European states together.
6. Bi-metallic France, where silver i|
an unrestricted legal tender for the payj
ment of all debts, having, as we bfvf
stated, for 1877 imported. $79,000,000 hi
gold in excess of her exports of that
metal—on the other hand, exported to
mono-metallic England as much as $5,-
876,000 in silver, or about 45 per cent,
more than she imported from the same
country. Further, France, while im
porting $15,250,Q5S in silver—chiefly
from Belgium, Italy and Mexico—ex
ported nearlys7„ooo,ooo.
7. While Germany has exported to
England in the year as much as $68,-
787,000 in silver, India absorbed it All,
and more, namely, $71,568,000; and
China nearly $10,000,000; or, together,
$81,896,000, derived exclusively from
the London market.—[Miping Record.
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“Just Had One.”
The following story is told by Gen.
Harry Heth: One day. Gen. (now' sena
tor) Gordon and I were ordered to attack
; Gen. Grant’s lines near Pittsburg, -and
I we accordingly moved out towards the
frpnt. Gordon, you know, is a preacher,
a man of pious, devotional habile.
Jtist before the action began be said
‘‘General, before we go into action, would
it not be well to enrage in prayer ” “Cer
tainly,” I replied, and be and bis staff
retired into a little building by the road
side, and I and my staff prepared to fol
low. Just then I caught sight of my
brother, who was with seme artillery
a little way down the road, and thinking
to have him join us, I called out to him
by name. ‘ Come,” said 1 pointing to
the building we were just entering. “No,
thank you,” be answered, "I have just
had one.’’
.. Turkey will be as poor aa Job’s before
the czsr has done plucking it.
NUMBER 13.
THE rA SCINATINO DUCHESS.
Mark Twain s Adventure in n Mibnr*.
On my' arrival at Paris I inquired what
was the best place to upend Mi evening,
and waa told themes t aristocratic place
of resort was in the Jardia Mabille. I
too a cab and prooeeded thither. I found*
myself in a beautiful garden, brilliantly
lighted. Thera,was a crowd of ladies and
gentlemen, a fine hand wga.wleying and
a quadrille forming. While ! was gazhig
about a gentleman ashed me if I wished
to dance. I said I sMuld' like te, but
that I was a stranger and'twt acquainted,
-with any of the nobility present. He
•sailed and tahhtbq French nobility wane
exceedingly affable and obliging, and that
he would be pleaded to introduce me to
a |ady of high rank and varied accom
plishments, who would dance with rbe if
I wished. Th en he presented me to the
Duchess d’Assafmtida (that's as near as
I could the cdtchnsme). ••
< had never stood face to face With a
duchessbeforaj'and therefore feltdiffident
and ill at ease. The graceful creature un
derstood my case at once, .and
two or made me r teel per
fectly at home—more than at homo, 1
may say. I never met a lady to easy
to get acquainted with as she
was. ft must require, a high,
cultivation, Only to be arttairfed rin the
upper ranks of society, tb give oneeuch
self-possession as hers. This. duchess
smiled upon me in tho most encouraging
way, and tapped me on the shoulder with
her fan, and then she looked up into my
face and chktmed away all my embarasa
tnent with a burst of cheery laughter
that was fall of happiness and garlic.
Next, she took my arm, beating time
to the music with her fan, and still
Uttering that fragrant laughter. Neat,
she put her aim around my neck. This
,was somephftt unexpected, I must say.
It made me lecl blissfully uncomfortable.
I enjoyed tt, but at the same time, I waa
afraid it might attract attention. 1 inti
mated as gently as I could, that the duke,
her lather, - might bo in the crowd some
where; but she only laughed more
odor<nialthau ever. 1 1 leered pater
nal dufce might invite me to breakfast
on pistols and qoffee, I like coffee, but I
do not consider that it improves, it to
mix it with hardware. This I hinted to
the duchess, am! she received it with one
of those peculiar laughs of hers that was
perfectly smothering.
Just then the music struck up furi
ously; the ducbsss exclaimed, “ Como!’
and dashed away with me. The
crowd closed up to our set, aud
walled it ou every side. I had never
before seen so much curiosity displayed
in a mere quadrille by disinterested par
ties. Dukes and duchesses began to
prance to and fro in the dance wllh wild
energy of purpose and extravagance of
gesture. i
I began to get interested. 1 glanced
across, my partner was just turning;
she miscalculated the length other limbs
and lifted her dress accordingly; she
came prancing over; I sallied forth to
meet her, and when we were within A.
yard ot each other,'l wish I may never
be believed again if she did not kick tbs
hat off of my head I I stooped to pick it
up and a noble aristocrat fell over. Us;
others followed Mm—both ladies am}
gentlemen—and I never saw such a
chaos of struggling limbs Hnd frantic
drapery since the benches broke down at
the circus when I was a boy. It was
pure good fortune that nobody got hurt;
When I got out I went to my place at
the head of tho quadrille and stayed
there. I had lost confidence'; this darfoa
was too high-toned for me.- dfr had
peculiarities about it> that were ne# and
unexpected. , I bad seen plenty of qua
drilles, hot (.had never seen one with
the variations before. Tho duchess ret
Burned her mad career, and the rest of
the nobility danced just as she did.
Each sex seemed to have but one object
in view—to outdo its opposite in violence
of action and eccentricity of conduct.
These French people arc" very Frenchy.
If It had not known that these people
were the flower of tbe French
llohility I should have thought that
they began their education in
a gymnasium and graduated in a circus.
The first time the duchess stopped by
my side for a moment, I whispered to her
to calm her gushjug spirits, not to meddle
with her dress, and, for public opinion
sake, not to step so high. I said she could
get over just as much grouud at a mod
erate gait; and, beside, the noble gmad
dnfce, her father might happen alone st
any moment. I mightas well have talked
to the wind. She only laughed that
characteristic laugh of hers, that silvery
laugh thst.l could recognise anywhere if
I were to tie leeward, and then, beading
a little, she grabbed up the sides of her
apparel with both hands, began to jerk
it to and fro in a violent manner, threw
her magnificent head back and skipped
furiously away on an Irish jig step, all
excitement, wild hilarity, distracted cos
tume, frenzied motion! A spectacle to
seal the eye-balls and to astonish tbe soul
ot a hermit! And when she reached the
centre she snatched her cumbering dresses
jree and launched a kick at tbe hat of a
tall nobleman that fairly loosened the
scalp on top of his head. I fled the scene,
exclaiming, “ what can she mean by such
conduct as those?”
I admire Paris; hut, in my opinion,
the ways of its nobility are not what
they ought to be.
fly. Hppy Sam
ar luiim.
Kly, Sappy aalk and turn Ik* wwas,
Kly. kappy with tM ratwloa of tha <•*. 4
Xi.lt laid to land. 111 hteolug hrtTiMirl,
With atlk*. and hall., pad ip!w rlanrW tail.
( anckika kiiiMil ika yoldra TANARUS% .
But • grew old. Afc I whaa Mi SQ wfpppd
Pj rich loaf a nip aad aai.aa.aJ ptaca, r ~
Ua lit* a -halt of Uht aeroaa tka lard,
Shd-Uka 1 lin. of baaaa atkarart fkaaia,.
Ihreuckpli tha dicta of lkgold, ayaar? ,
.. Clothes are a luxury. To ’Ujljt a
postage stamp over the eyebrow U Odu
sidered full drear. " ,
._ Wla of great map all naiad ua
Wa ran make out wi.aa i.bikaa r ' *
And departing, laa.a behind ua 4-y
si our Unit.
Therefore !. .our wife a M *
By the llfe-Intoreneaplin -, --
(fii hern that wheoywa aad ol T
Hhe lao Ihoophnotlur man. 1 .3 ,V
. . When we think of the villain who
stele aur uaatinlb, and then of th bare
therejs no hell, we feel
as If we could bury our head W the
waste-piper basket and smother right to
death.—[New Haven Union.
am . A-woman may change her numb A
iady in Cleveland obtained a divorce
Jtrom b'r husbhnd on the jround of cruel
and inhuman treatment, and now pe-
Mtions toiikVe the divorce declared vtfid
for&S retuam that she was mistaken.
.. A Connecticut Jonathan, in taking
* walk with his- dearest, cams tola toll
bridge, whM ha, ,-m Aamat eWi Ita1 ta .was
•Wont to be, said, after paying hi% own
toll (which was one cent)," Come,Buka,
you must pay your own toll, Yorjiat as
like as not / sha’n’t have you after all.’
.. Sunday-school tC'ifchOr’tb'aXtonUUOd
child—" My derfr, “6very hair of your
head is mwsbelfcd.’** Scholar {hMNtt
ing) to astonished teacher— Pab -tait
Np. ff for me tbea,plas ! ;> -ri ,nsl
t>. It ia reposted that M&. Hicks,, like
other fond wives, alrcWtj*tandaw***the
register and luoaopyjizes who heat, while
her dear J/ird ttarnla fcpart andjcicka the
wainreoting to trip fjom -fteez
,Dg'T)S,ri;.n't fcittVd in adverting
—it’s not professional, you know—bullet
one of ’em tie np a sort thumb for John
Brown, ami they’ll climb eevtn pairs of
stain to have a reporter “just, mention
it you know.” i ..j.
.."Why, Sarah.said ona dark
coloured enchantress to a fashiouablecom
panion, “who giv yer de nice, fanning
bonnet " fze hot it myself. Ire. gwine
lb show dcHe or wlftle foils dkt wet freer*
can wear jist as booful and jistasspOnme
hats as dey.” " But; feafab, datVA real
fiowov-garden, dat bat is.” fairsb. (th
dignantly)-" Go gov; cWJe dimpiyou
talk S link.dia niggWjhMe w taatoyjftm
m m im wten
kfHWPfilUfc ill AWik*t£ edi iwh
Manitoba, $ letter to tbo
says; “In the Crce ho may
address her as iris' muMtoi, tff, : if he
desites to beconib more tonderYAmy call
her his musk rtt l WMi rxptd paonrioiy.
By a blending ef two Indiad tongues
she becomes a beautiful wolverine, aad
a standard but common-place love-name
is ‘my little pig.’ The half-breeds’ pet
names have all been taken from those of
animals ,that seem to be especially inno
cent or beautiful in his eyes; and the
fact that different perrons have different
standards of beaty and innocence bas led
to the Invention of an almost unlimited
vocabulary of diminutives. Whan the
lady-love ia inclined to be stout the
names of the larger animals are
and rather liked by her upon whocj.they
are conferied. 1 remember that one
woman was affectionately called
Megatherium, a name Which clunk to
hpr for months as being peeuMarlf the
‘rieprewtotatloTi of Ideal livei l *1
'*■■ ' > ui ox;—uaa JU.lf awllir
Heatli of the King; of the fxrpmrs
Honolulu papers announce the death
in December ofWm. P. Kagsdale, gover
nor of tbe leper settlement on tbe island
of. Molokai,; Sandwich Islands. “BUI
Ragsdale,’,’ wto was popular known, was
a Hawaii by Ip rib, bjp mother having
been a nat&e jla £ the ran Ameri
can- , He Wfcs a lawyer, speaking English
as fluently as Hawaiian, and the most
ot thfl' Hngtfom.
Tbe rtiMrtrerifr wWchfßageflalOdtacovered
that he'Wfl told by bim
-nelf, is inteeeating.wtfia resided-lor a
i number of yeatsapMm t i*lafld#f Hawaii,
and bad UP ° {
the island, °W ni s t studying
interested, when the chimney from nis
lamp fell o'n th* tab** Although the
chimney was hr*,** f* g his
excitement, piW its
place without e*|*Briencins Jqgwveni
encty such as would naturally result
to a really, sound pen*sn handling n
hot lamp-chimfiey; He reflected I ‘for a
moment, looked at his hand, but could
not discover the least sign 'that it
had Keen burned. He then- took off and
put on the chimney repeatedly, and with
tbe same result This experience oon
vinoed hint thaV he was among af
flicted, and he lost no time in compjuni
caling with the authority. ’An o.mi
nation waa made ana mealcal aoTTrority
declared he -whs afflicted Wttff htfeesy.
The
- nwtaa to hi* exalted posit mo,. * w*s
commons-with ttamfc.: —UWniterofctewug
lepera.se 1 ‘“if IT
up tlKofcrrible disease.
He was sdin|Ulled
as governor of the leper setjKM' nt,
which positron be be Id no ‘td the Affte of
his death. ’During bis adfoinisftattbn of
affairs he was as succesefnl as her was
popular. There were and are about
eight hundred lepers on the settlement,
but by his tact and kisd-aeftjfrfdnea,
Ragsdale made tbe most extraordinary
and saddest community on the facq of
the earth as cheer; ul and happy •* the
unfortunates could be. By his advice
tho government made many reforms and
tbe lepers recognized him ss a father.
