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THE ELLIJAY COURIER. t-x blushed itut huday. 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. .*'.4. , ■ ■ , , . 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. a_ “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.