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oun jrurßMiLEa. Tho M mmd Urn *j*Afr. ta m aM batfrr ton, A try. MB to—, //✓? // M la ovi by lb* s9Br. Pvt 8m toill Ay old aUpptt MimnMftiknK ■ M. o*l, don't yon mu 4 Wx; With ertnrato I'll toad Mm, Aad*—d sod rovad wind kla." That ay spoke s spider, Strip’d Bke SB outrider. The owl sharply eyed ter, Aad said: "If he chest you FD not soold nor beet you; nt Just merely eat you.” The osri sot her spin Her web, frail and thin, Found tbs ball, eat end In. But, next Sunday morning, Wither: word of warning. The baft want a-etonnlng I With a shag and a clang, With a beam and a bang. The old clapper rang I The owl did not chide her, Bebuke ner deride her, But he ate up that spider 1 Here is a moral, dear children, for you: Kevei promise a thing you're net able to de —Frank JL Scan Jet, in St yicholtu. Tho Little Man Who Bad at Mann Chil dren a a a Sieve Bat Ho let. There was a little can who had as many children as there are holes in a si ere. As he was going to seek his bread he met a beggar who gare him a bean and told him to plant it in his gar den, assuring him at the same time that it would grow so quickly that in a short time it would reach the sky. The man sowed the bean, which grew so prompt ly that soon it hid its head in the clouds; thee he climbed up the bean-stalk and knocked at the door of paradise. “ Who is there ? ” asked the bon Dieu, who came to open the door. “It is a little man who has as many children as there are holes in a sieve.” “Here k a napkin,” said the bon Dieu to him; “ take it, and when you ward; to eat lay it on the table, saying : Let (hero rams to m bread, wine and rout, That liiUlhl here; Let there oome to me bread, wine and roast, To satisfy all the folk her*. She little man went down from Para dise all joyons; he gave to eat all his family; then, as he was proud of what he had done, he went to the inn, where he remained over night. Before going to bed he could not help talking: “I have a napkin; keep the thing quiet, and don't let anybody say to it; bread, wine and roast To satisfy all the folk here.” During the night the inn-keeper re placed the fairy napkin by another nap kin fast like it, and the little man took it away with him; but it was no use say ing to it as he laid it on the table: bread, wine and roast To satisfy all the folk here. He saw nothiDg come. So he climbed np his beautiful bean-stalk again and knocked at the door of paradise. “ Who is there ? ” asked the bon Dieu. “It is the la!-tie man who his as many children as there are holes in a sieve.” “Ton oome rather often, my friend. But this time I will not refuse you. Here is a donkey; you must put a cloth under his four feet and say : ‘ Donkey, make gold and silver,’ and your wish will be fulfilled ; but try and be sharper than you were the first time.” The little man, after having tried the virtues of his ass, could not refrain from going with him to the inn, and he talked again : “ Mind you do not say to my ass : ‘Donkey, make gold and silver.’ ” “ No. no.” reolied the inn-keoner : “ we won’t say that to him ; go to sleep in peace.” During the night he substituted an other ass for the one that came from heaven, and the poor little man could not have any more crowns. So he went io see if the beanstalk was still there, olimbed up it and knocked for the third time at the door of paradise. “ Who is there ?” asked the bon Dieu. “ it is a little man who has as many children as there are holes in a sieve.” “ Ah! it is you again, my friend; you oome too often ; I am sure that you have been to the inn again.” “ Give me something !” said the little man. “Here’s a stick; when yon wish to make use of it you must say: ‘Stiek, unfold, but not on me.’ This is the last thing I shall give vou.” The little man went down from paradise and returned to the inn; be fore going to bed he said: “ Mind you do not say to my stiok : ‘Stiek, unfold I’" ' * ‘ 1 Best in peaoe, ” replied the inn-keeper. But as soon as the little man was in bed the inn-keeper made haste to take up tne stick and sav to It: “Stick, unfold!” No sooner had he spoken than the stick began to beat him so that he cried for help. The little man came, and the inn-keeper said: “ Little man. pick np your stiok 1” “ Give me my napkin and my don key ?” The inn-keeper agreed, and when the little man had his nankin and his ass he delivered the inn-keeper by making mm •ay: “Stiek. nnfold. but not against me.” Bate io Boot With a ueopard. No sooner had we camped than Tom mv hurried off to find ont where the noisy flocks of iris-crows were perched. Menito, meanwhile, had watered onr mule, and reported that, farther np, the rill was as cold as ioe, so I pioked up the drinking-cup and accompanied him to the spring. We had followed the wind ings of the glen for some 500 or 600 yards, when suddenly the boy seised my arm, and by a sort of instinct at the same moment my eyes met those of an animal crouching behind a fallen tree, not more than fifteen paces from where w*stood. “Don’t stir,’’ I whispered; ELLIJAY ®H| COURIER. W. JF. COMBS) BS:t*r ud FvblKhu J “ that’s a panther! The least movement, and he will make a spring.” Menito stood as stiU as a statue, bat j felt his finger-nails piercing my skin ; he began to realise onr situation, tor even through the gloom of the ravine and the intervening branches at the fallen tree we could see that the animal was getting ready for action ; inch by inch it advanced its fore-paws and lowered its head. At that moment, as I gripped my hunting-knife, the report of a gun boomed through the glen. Two instants afterward, the panther had vanished—a single leap had landed him on the other side of the oreek, and with the second jump he was away and ont of sight among the bowlders of a branch ravine. “ That was Tommy’s shot-gun,” said I; “he fired at the rookery, I sup pose,” for once more the hills were ringing with the croaks and caws of the iris-crows. Menito made no reply, bnt still clutched my arm, and, looking into his face, I saw the tears rolling down his cheeks—the first and last time I ever caught him crying. 1 never saw a braver lad of his age, but the excitement for onoe had overstrained hk nerves.— Dr. Y. L. Oswald, in St Nicholas. A Bird that Turns Sotru'r+ault*. There’s a pretty little bird that lives in China, and is called the Fork-Tailed Paras. He is about as big as a robin, and has a red beak, yellow legs, black tail, and red-and-yellow wings. Nearly all tiie colors are in his dress, you see, and he is a gay fellow. But this bird has a trick known by no other birds that ever I heard of. He turns somersaults I Not only does he do this in his free life cm the trees, but also after he is caught and put into a cage. He just throws his head far book, and over he goes, touching the bars of his oage, and alighting upon his feet on the floor or on a peroh. He will do it over and over a number of times with out stopping, as though he thought it great fun. All his family have the same trick, and they are ' oalled Tum blers. The people of China are fond of keeping them in cages and seeing them tumble.— St. Nicholas. a journalist's influbnce forty TEARS AGO. A story told by Charles T. Congdon, of the New York Tribune, in his “Ram iniscences” of a Boston editor, Itichard Haughton of The Atlas, also illustrates the personal influence of the journalist in the old Whig days. In 1840 Daniel Webster thought the Whigs should nominate him for Presi dent. Mr. Haughton, believing that Mr. Webster could not be elected if nominated, favored the choice of Gen. Harrison. It was a bold act to come out against the great man in the city where he was idolized. But the editor was capable of doing more t.han that—he dared To beard the Hon In his den. The Douglas in his ball. Taking a proof-sheet of the article, in which he indicated the course he in tended to pursue, he called on Mr. Web ster. The great man read the article and flew into a passion. He ordered the editor out of his house, but the com mand was not heeded. Waiting for Mr. Webster to become calmer, Mr. Hough ton set forth the political situation. “You cannot be President, Mr. W' n * ster,” he said, with editorial plainness of speech; “ but you can have-sa office quite as important and honor* 0 ! 0 ; you can be Secretary of Stated Yon know how it will irritate your friends in Bos ton. Ido not ak you to say to them that you approve of it, nor that you dis approve of it. I merely ask you to say nothing.” These were brave words to speak to Daniel Webster, for he was then the dictator of Massachusetts politics. But they were effective in persuading him that silence would be the most dignified course for him to pursue. Great was the commotion in State Street the next morning, as Mr. Webster walked down it with more than usual dignity. “ Mr. Webster, have you seen the Atlas ?” “ Mr. Webster, have you read that shameful article?” cried one and another of his friends, “ I have not seen the Atlas,” he said, bearing himself magnificently; 11 nor do I care to see it. I suppose that the ed itor expresses his opinions, as ha has a right to do.” Thus the great man, heeding the edi tor’s frank suggestion, took himself out of the way. He became Secretary of State, and thereby was enabled to do his most serviceable act to the republic, the negotiation of the Ashbnrton Treaty. , _ He happened to press the foot of a young lady, who was sitting next to the door, in getting out of a street oar. The damsel, compressing her brow into an awe-inspiring frown, ejaculated : “ You clumsy wretch! ” Many men would have looked foolish and apologized, bnt Col. Fellows was equal to the occasion. “My dear young lady,” he exclaimed, “ yon should have feet large enough to be seen, and then they wouldn’t be trodden upon.” Her brow relaxed, her eyes sparkled, her lips smiled, and the injury was forgotten,—AW York litr mUL ELUJAY, GA„ THURSDAY,SEPTEMBER 29, 1881. ADULTERATION OT WOOD ABB DRUGS. The New York Legislature at its last session passed a law to prevent the ad ulteration of food and drags. The duty is committed to the State Board of Health of ascertaining what articles are adulterated, and the Sanitary Committee of the board has appointed eight chem ists to make the investigation. To each of these chemists certain kinds of foods or drags are to be assigned for purchase and analysis. The Sanitary Engineer has already directed attention to three classes of articles adulterated, which, in his opinion, require to be analysed, exposed and oheoked. The United States exported last year to France and Italy 1,668,544 gallons of cottonseed oil. It is what may be called “anopen secret” that muoh of this oil comes back to ns as “pure olive oil.” It is also known that a quantity of cottonseed oil does not go abroad, but is put up in bottles resem bling those of foreign make, and laboled “olive oil,” and sold as such. Another article adulterated is castile soap. This iseommonly regarded as the purest article of its kind, and is consequently in great demand for certain purposes. But near ly all the eastile soap, even that put to medical uses, is now said to be more or less good or bad imitations, the purity of the soap being at this time, an ex ception instead of a rule. Our wines are also largely adulterated, and some of the beer and ale that is so largely consumed in this country have been subjected in the brewing to similar fraudulent processes. The New York Sun gives a long acoount of the adul terations practiced in the laat-mentioned articles of drink, and prints the opinions of physicians as to the effeots produoed in drinkers by oocoulns and cannabis in die us, glucose, etc., effeots especially not liable in diseases of the kidneys. Gluoosr when properly made, and freed from the acids used in its manu facture, is said to be harmless, and the same harmlessness is attributed to oleomargarine when the manufacture is oonducted with, a due regard to cleanli ness and the fat n the prooess of eon version is pure. In both cases those articles are held to be 'deleterious when the acid in glucose has -(p-pletoly pletoly removed,.and the fat frorilW -Th oleomargarine is mode is of an iniSttoS quality. In Chioago it has been com monly reported that it is the al most general practice there to mix stearin” with commercial lard for the purpose °f hardening it. Spices also are wg°ly adulterated; their charaoter per mitting unscrupulous manufacture and handling. Of samples of mustard, carefu I ’/ selected in New York from rcsponsi klo dealers, Dr. Smart found that *** vrere entirely pure. It is consol' fl g> however, to be told that adulteratP nß in this country “seldom take a f~’*n that is dangerous to health.” Hov”>' or tliis may be, there are possibil ities of such a peril wherever adultera ti'-ns are resorted to. A purchaser who jays for a pure article and does not get yhat it is guaranteed to be should have jomo stringent power of redress, and this is what the English law and what the law just passed in New York unde*” take to give, besides affording inciden tal prelection to the publio by author izing a rigid system of inspection.—Bal timore Sun. A LUXURIOUS RATII-ROOM. Among the things we sometimes read about, but never really see, may be in cluded the bath-room of the Marquise Annonast Visconti, who has given a de scription of the interior of her bijou hotel in the Bne de Jouv. Full plans and details of the marvelous luxury of the interior fittings of the bath-room have been given. It is lit by handsome stained-glass windows, wainscoted with lava from Vesuvius and hung with rare old tapestry. The bath is made of solid silver, the water is supplied by a dol phin; a pressure on the one eye causes the water to oome ont hot and on the other cold, while the movement of the tongue allows the bath to empty itself in a moment. The whole house is fitted np in the same luxurious manner.—. Paris correspondent The great United States has 7,200 men and 1,898 offioers in its navy. Only about one-fifth of these seamen are ever at sea. One reason is that we haven’t ships enough in sailing condition to ac commodate over one-third of them, even if fully maimed, and the other is that they are away on leaves of absence and shore duty—and don’t care to ride the foamy billow. We suppose they are also in as bad a condition as Oapt. Corcoran’s crew, so far as the terpsichorean art is concerned, but Secretary Hunt might teach them a hornpipe during the dull summer days, when he 6oh nothing else to do An anti-fra ad ballot-box, adopted in Boston, registers the ballots as they drop and an automatio stamper marks them. Liettt. Conder has advocated that the site of the crucifixion is a knoll north of Jerusalem, near Jeremiah's grotto, ealled the 1 ‘ Race of fhe Stoning, ” A WOXDRRWVL STOUT. Some gentlemen were dining together and relating their traveling adventures, when one of them dealt so much in the marvelous that it induced another to give him a lesson, “ I was onoe, sir,” said he, “ engaged in a skirmishing party. I advanced too far, was separated from my friends, and saw three Indians in pursuit of me; the * horrors of the tomahawk in the hands of angry savagee took possession of my mind. I considered for a moment what was to be done; most of us love life, and mine was both preciousyund useful to my family. I was swift ' foot, and fear added to my speed. r took"* back—for the oountry war open one —I at length perceived that one of my enemies had outrun the others, and that well-known saying, ‘ Divid and con quer,’ occurring to me, I slackened my speed and allowed him to oome up. We engaged in mutual fury. I hope none here (bowing to his auditor:) will doubt the result. Id a few minuics he lay a corpse at my feet. j “In this short space of ime the two Indians had advanoed upon me, so I took again to my heels witfc the hope of reaching a neighboring stood, where I knew dwelt a tribe friendly to tho En glish. This hope, howevext J was forced to give up, for, on looking hack, I saw one of my pursuers far before the other. I waited for him, recovering my almost exhausted breath, and son", this Indian shared the fate of the first I had now only one enemy to deal with, but I felt fatigued, and, being near the wood, I was more desirous to own life than to destroy another of my fellow creatures. I plainly perceived smoke ourling np among the trees; I redoubled my speed, I prayed to Heaven, I felt as sured my prayers would be granted; but at this moment the yell of the In dian’s voioe sounded in m; ears—l even thought I felt his warm breath ; there wa no choice—l turned i tund—” Here the gentleman wh., had related fhe previous wonderful story grew im patient past all enduraiibe, and oried out: “ Well, sir, and you killed him, also?” “No, sir; he killed mol”— Newark Uegister. ** illiteracy nr tr "Si united - Arms. -y Prof. Gardner, of Albany, read a pa per in that city not long ago, on “ The .Relation of the General Government to the Eduoation of the People.” This pa per showed an alarming amonnt of illit eracy in the United States, and suggest ed methods of removing tt. It present ed statistics showing tbit in 1880 the voting population of the United States was 7,623,000, the voting population of the Southern States being 2,775,000. The illiterate voters of the United States were 1,580,000, and tho'pame class of voters in tho Southern States numbered 1,123,000. Twenty per cent, of the en tire voting population of the United States, and 46 per cent, of the voters of thq Southern States, could not read their ballots. The total vote cast and counted at the last general election in the whole country was 9,297.000. Ad vanoe sheets of census reports and care ful estimates say that from 21 to 22 per cent, of them were illiterate. Ten years ago one voter in five was illiterate. The proportion is larger to-day. Sixteen Southern States contain one-third of the entire vote of tho country, and three quarters of that vote is illiterate. There are 457,000 illiterate votes in the East ern, Northern and Western States, New York has 77,120 illiterate votes; Pennsylvania, 67,108; Illinois, 4,447; and Ohio, 48,970. These 457,000 illiter ate voters of the North showed their dis tinctive power in the riots of 1877, and they can decide every contested election. The rapid growth of city population and illiteracy is an evil omen for American democracy. In 1870 ’fcteraey had grown to one-sixth of odr population, and in 1880 it was one-ffith. In New York alone nearly 65 per cent of the illiterate live in cities, t LONDON MISERY. The moment there is trouble among the thousands who live by odd jobs along tho river, the public houses are fulL The abject appearanoe of these unattractive drinking d&'ff£ filled with men women and children) cowering on the comfortless benches, with pots of beer or glasses of spirits in their hands, is indescribable. No city in America affords the spectacle of such hopeless and seemingly useless degradation as may be observed now any day, even at certain hours on Sundays, and all Sun day evening, in this largest city of the world. Old women boggiig and earn ing those who give nothing, and spend ing what alms they receive in getting drunk; young girls overcome with liquor and tumbling against tin sides of the houses, nauseatinglv otercomo with drink ; men singing ands hearing at one moment, and perhaps fighting the next —all this may be seen on public and re spectable thoroughfares a London any evening.— Boston Joum X Beautiful are the admonitions ot him whose Hfe aooorcU 4Mh his teach ings. BELLE BOVS. During her residenoe in Washington “ Belle Boyd” formed sn intimate ac quaintance with President Linooln, and a friendly correspondence was kept np between the two during a greeter por tion of the war. On one oooasion her letter paper was adorned with the Con federate motto, a snake entwined around a Confederate flag, and the inscription, “ Don’t tread on os or we will bite.” When Linooln replied to the missive ho sent bade the motto with “ bite” erased and the word “ bust” substituted. Brok en down in health and bereaved by the loss of her father, who had died in the oßn ri to effect her release from captivity, “Belie Boyd” determined to leave for foreign shores, and in May, 1864, she embarked on the Greyhound at North Carolina as the bearer of important dis patches from Jefferson Davis and Judah P. Benjamin to tho friends of the eauso in Loudon, In endeavoring to ran the blockade, however, the Greyhound was captured by a United States steamer. “ Belle Boyd” was token to Boston, kept a prisoner for some time, and finally banished to Canada. From there she went to England, where she passed the second epoeh of her life. She was mar ried at the aristoeratio church of Sh James, P.eoadilly, received with open arms in titled society, became a widow, and finally, having a natural talent for the theatrical profession, took to the stage. Probably no person in this ooun try has been afflioted with so many “ doubles” as this lady. Since her re turn to America and marriage to Col. J. S. Hammond, an English gentleman, once a member of the celebrated “ Lou isiana Tigers,” she has completely sunk her history with that of her husband, and, with the exception of a few occa sions, when she has appeared upon the platform as the talented reader and elo cutionist, “ Marie Isabelle Hammond,” her mind has been engrossed with do mestic affairs. Yet, every few months, she is vexed and annoyed by coming across an announcement that “ Belle Boyd,” tho ex-Confederate spy, has turnod np in some port of the oountry. Now the pretender is beiug entertained by some prominent Southerner; again, she is in distress and soliciting aid. Several years ago one of these bogus “ BvllW visited Atlanta, Ga., on a leot uring tour, and was denounoed by Capt. St. Clair Abrams of the News, as on impostor. Next morning she proceeded to the office and demanded satisfaction, whioh boing re fused she proceeded to draw a couple of Derringers, but was seized before the weapons could be pointed. Since that time she has not turned up in Georgia. SMOKING CIGARETTES. It -was the American who invented th patent cigarette*; not so much to save the consumer the trouble of making the article aB to get a good chance to adul terate them. There is not a cigarette made in America that any man, boy or woman would smoke if the making and mixture of them oould be seen. Every brand makes a loud boast of using rice paper; whereas any one who takes the trouble to examine the rice plant will see at a glance that there is no fibrous consistence in it to make paper of the sort used in cigarettes. Prodigious fort unes have been made and are making, and millions of people are slowly ruin ing their digestive organs by inhaling the foul stuff wrapped up in the various brands that claim to be pure. Let any smoker of cigarettes subject his tongue and throat to a medical examination after smoking a package of cigarettes. Vitriol itself leaves no more sinister im pression on tongue, throat and palate. If the cigarette were made of pure to bacco and fairly good papers it would be no more harmful than a cigar, which the world has come to agree substan tially is not harmful at all. Bnt the greed of the trade enters this like all other enterprises that spring up to sup ply sudden demand. A package of twenty cigarettes, which may represent an out lay of from 3 to 5 cents, the manufactu rer exacts 12 to 16 oents for. There is rarely in a package of twenty as much genuine tobacco as a smoker consumes in one honest pipeful. It may be safely said that, with perhaps one or two ex ceptions, every cigarette made is a source of violent physical reaction, destructive of vital tissues and the active principle of lurking and insidious diseases, and that it is better to smoke a pound of to bacco in any other farm than the pinch mingled with poison that makes up the ridiculously expensive and utterly worth less article of cigarette that holds the market. —Philadelphia Timet. Thu Boston Commonwealth reports that an intelligent young man, fitted for Harvard College, and standing deserved ly high in his classes, astounded an anti-slavery leader, reoently, by the question : “ Was there any movement against slavery before the war ?” John Mulkb, of Cleveland, Ohio, who has heroically saved from drowning ni different times nearly 100 persons, has bera presented with a gold medal worth $l6O by the Cleveland Board of Trade. SHSWSKZ VOI.. VI.-N 0.35. WHKJT YOU WTRST WJTI9PERJSD LOTM Tm la the spring-time long ago. The trod* were bursting on the tree We’d Just left winter** front end now When yon drat whispered lore te me. Do yon remember bow the birds Reng out their pensive chicked©* When yon first spoke those tender words. When yon first whispered tore to met ▲ glorious sunset slowly died. Grey shadows crept o’er lead sad see; Twee then yen drew me to your side. Twee then yon whispered lore to me. The orescent moon roe# white sad feint, A pallid light gleamed o’er the lee, The whip-pooi>will made mournful plaint, And then you whispered love to me. And now, when birds of spring I hear, The opening buds and leaflets see, I think or that sweet Urns, my deer. When you first whispered lore to me. DOMESTIC ECOITOMT. Merrors.—One pint of sour milk, piece of melted batter size of an egg, two teaspoonfuls saleratns, flour anrmgh for a stiff batter. Caulijxo wer. —This is a very pretty addition to a jar of pickled cabbage, bnt it must be pnt in salt and water for two days first before it is added to the oabbage. Tea Case.—Four cups flour, four cups sweet milk, two eggs, two spoon fuls cream of tartar, one teaspoonfnl sal eratns, small pieoe of butter, sweeten if yon like. Whip Orb am.— Half a pound of powdered sugar, juioe of two lemons, one gill of sherry.' Mix and add one pint of thiok, rioh cream. Set on ioe, whip to a strong froth, and terra in glasses. Cbaioib Toast.—Three eggs, beaten well, one green chili out fine, the inside of two tomatoes out into small pleoes, a little milk and one ounoe batter, all mixed together with a little salt, then heated and served on hot toast. Shrimp Sauce.—Take half a pint of shrimps, piok out all the meat-from the tails, pound the rest in a mortar with the jnioe of half a lemon and a piece of butter; pass the whole through a sieve. Make a pint of melted butter ; put the meat from the tails into it, add a dust of cayenne, and when the sauoe boils stir into it the shrimp butter that has como through the sieve, with or without a table-spoonful of cream. Tons Chops.— Cut some outlets from a neok of pork, trim them neatly and take off the chine bone; give them a few blows with the bat, and grill them on or in front of the fire; sprinkle them with salt and arrange them in a circle on a dish, with mashed potatoes in the oen ter and the following sauoe round them: Put a large pieco of butter, rolled in flour, in a stewpan, slightly rubbed with garlio; add mushrooms and a little chopped shalot; moisten with equal quantities of vinegar and broth ; add salt and grated nutmeg; strain, boil it up; add a little mustard, stir well and serve, Appwt Compote.—Peel, core and halve six large apples, trimming them so as to get them all of asize; drop them as they are done into cold water with the juioe of a lemon squeezed into it to prevent theirturning brown. Have ready a strong sirup (made (with one pound of sugar and quart of water) boiling hot; put the apples into this, with the thin rind of a lemon, and two or three cloves. As soon as they are cooked—great care most be taken that they do not break—take them out and dispose them, concave side up permost, on a glass dish ; place a pieoe of currant jelly or quince jelly in the hollow of each apple, then well reduce the sirup and when cold pour as much of it as is necessary under the apples. FALSE ECONOMY. Many people think it economy to buy cheap food, and save in articles which really are more necessaries than they believe. There are people who really grudge 10 cents for vegetables, because they say it is too dear; others will re strict their children in milk ; others will buy no fish, because there is uothing in it; others will deny the little ones a re freshing orange at banana, and others will never have a pudding on the table. Meat sad bread, hot cakes, chops and steaks they call cheap, because it is rwq food. These people forget that variety really nourishes fire body, and makes up for that food which can alone supply our requirements. Beside that there is no real economy in it. Meat sad bread cost more than vegetables and pudding com bined with them. The former leave yon craving for something else, which yon have to satisfy, while a good mixed diet supplies all your wants. You can often see workingmen or boys gulp down their hunches of bread and meat, and look around them for rome thing they have not got. The thirst qnenching, succulent vegetable is not there; the tasty second dish is wanting, and the craving remains nnsatisfied- Btiil, double is spent in drinks. Oaket Hall, when he was asked whether he liked newspaper work, an swered : "Yes, for it has no yester days.” This sums up very forcibly the I charm there is in newspaper work. It is always the work of the to-morrow. ! Vo retracing of steps, no delving into the past; in fact, no yesterday—always to-morrow. <W a young lady who te knitting her eyebrows be salted indus trious! Tn only prise the English oan-Ud off at the Derby was s surprise, but it was a big one. Tn aga of discretion—The age when company aiia can be put on or taken off as necessity demands. ~ Who says it is unhealthy to steep in feathess? Look at the spring chicken (nd see how tough he i s. Do bot tell s men be lies. It is rid* gar. Say that tds oonVenetian suggests to your mind s summer -resort circular. It has bean definitely settled at last that the reason why the pig’s tail eulb is because it’s styed when it is young. “ Nothin o is impossible to him whs wills. “ Nonsense; te is impossible for the man who wills to get ahead of t£e lawyers. Wns a woman attains the age ef M without accumulating a husband she en joys attending one funeral more than a dozen balls. A mmm maid In Gsrttal# On the bank at her neok had a Mala; Wfeen her lover forgot, And hogged the sore rpot, Her eereama oould be heard for a mfcto. Is is now believed that the oleomar garine factories put hair in thoir goods, th*M rendering it mare difficult of da teotion than ever. Whenever young ladies learn how to stick a pin in their apron strings so that it won’t scratch a fellow’s arm there will be more marriages. “Ip you wait a broth of a boy, take me,” said the Irish sailor to the cannibal King. But flie King said be preferttd him roasted. He wasn’t fond of brritis. “What can run faster than a good horse?” was the oonundrum, and the man who had had some trouble with his creditors guessed it at onoe: “The Sheriff.” ' Tn latest sweet thing for the ladies is ivory heels on wedding slippers. When tiie first-born gets old enough to get into mischief the ivory heels should be removed. Thu Hew Orleans JHeyun states that Philadelphians kiok against the elevated railways. Jehoshaphatl That beats the best efforts of the Soldane troupe. i “Pm upon my tombstone,” said the dying man, “an epitaph stating that I was a scoundrel, thief and brute. Then people will think that I was a good man. Epitaphs always lie so.” 1 A parrot in Harlem speaks £SO words. There being lem than that number of profane expressions in the English lan guage, it is presumable that the bird is 'something of a polyglot. “Thebe goos the oelobratod Mr. 0., the lams lawyer,” remarked a lady to her companion, a he passed them in the street. “Exouse mo, madam,” said turning sharply, “yon are mistaken; f lame man, not a lame lawyer.” “ Yea, jour Anfuatna la a fraud I" field flu* to Arabella. “A fraud 1” said Belle, ”1 can’t afford To hear that of my fuller; Ho i true and tried, and good boride, And delioat* and dainty—” “ Ah, ye, but Uuni,” Mias Guo replied, “He's sort of beau Gua. ain’t be?” HATES' BARGEE WHOM A LUNATIC. Jnst before the 4th of March, 1877, a young gentleman of this city, Mr. Ha gan, went to the Rev. Father Seville, the famous Dominican pulpit orator— who died from yellow-fever about a yea* afterward, during the Memphis epi demic—and told him that he was great ly worried over a certain matter. An acquaintance of his from Illinois had ar rived and informed him that he proposed to assassinate Hayes. He did not know what to do or how to go about it, as the man was evidently insane and deter mined to carry out his project. Father Reville, who was then of St. Dominio’s Church, immediately advised Mr. Ha gan, and they went together at once to Detective McDevitt’s house andinformed him of the circumstanoe. McDevitt communicated the facts of the case to Maj. Richards, then Chief of Polioe, who directed the deteotive to look up the man and examine into the matter. McDevitt discovered that the would-be assassin was at the Imperial Hotel. On his way np the avenue to that establish ment he met two of the secret-service men, Anohisi and Maxwell, and suggest ed to them that they approach the would-be assatain. They did, and the man—he was quite a well-to-do man from Northern Illinois, Myers by name —gave Anohisi .a S2O gold piece with which to purchase a pistol on his prom ising to aid him in the plot. McDevitt then arrested Myers, and conveyed him to polioe headquarter. He found that in his room at the hotel he was well "heeled” with an arsenal of weapons. Myers did not deny his intentions, but said he had intended to shoot Hayes, then proclaim himself President, and to be sworn in amid the ringing of bells and the firing of cannon. After dne con sul tation the polioe authorities, con vinced of his insanity, remanded him to the insane asylum. He was kept then for about six months, and then sank home to his son under charge of a nurau Washington OriHo. Sons men era so stupid I (Scene: At the Vavasours’ dance). Waltzer (to host ess’ fair daughter)—"So glad to find you alone at last, Mias Vavasour.” Miss Vavasour—"You are—very kind.” Waltaer—“ Not at all. But teU me, you are not engaged ? ” Mira Vavasour —•* No-o.” Waltzei—" Then may I hope—” Miss Vavasour—“ Oh l really —Caps. Hawley—you must talk to mamma.” Waltear (blankly)—“What about f ” Moat opportunely the waits strikes up sad they plunge into H