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OOLUAI * KIRBY, Editors ud Proprietors. VOL. XI. ellijay codrier. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —BY— COLEMAN It KIRBY. Office in tbe Court House GEHERAL DIRECTORY. Superior Court meet* Sd Monday in May and M Monday in October. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. 0. Allen, Ordinary, • T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court, H. M. Bramlett, Sheriff, J. H. Sharp, Tax Receiver, G. W. Gates, Tax Collector, Jas. M. West, Surveyor, G W. Rice, Coroner, W. F. Hill, School Commissioner. The County Board of E ducation meets at Ellijay the Ist Tuesday in January April, July and October. Hon. James R Brown, Judge. George F. Gober, Solicitor'General. COUNTY COUBT. Hon. Thomas F. Greer, Judge. Meets 3d Monday in each month. Court of Ordinary meets first Monday in each month. TOWN COUNCIL. E. W. Coleman, Intendant. . L. B. Greer, L. R oS? Jr. ’ Commissioners. T. J. Long, M. T. Dooly, Marshall. RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Methodist Episcopal Church, South— every 4th Sunday, and Saturday before, Rev. C. M. Ledbetter. Baptist Church—Every 2nd Saturday and Sunday, by Rev. E. B. Shope. Methodist Episcopal Church—Ever. Ist Sa-urday and Sunday, by Rev. R H. Robb. FRATERNAL RECORD, Oak Bowery Lodge, No 81, F. A. M., meets first Friday ia each month. W. A. Cox, W. M. 1/. B. Greer, 8. W. W. F. Hipp, J. W. R. Z. Roberts, Treas. T. W. Craigo, Sec. W. W. Roberts, Tyler, T. B. Kirby, S. D. H. M. Bramlett, J. D. DR. J. R. JOHNSON, Physician and Surgeon W ELLIJAY, GEORGIA. Tenders his professional services to the people of Gilmer and surrounding coun ties and asks the support of his friends as heretofore. All calls promptly filled. E, W. COLEMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLIJAY, GA. Will practice in Blue Ridgo Circnit, County Court Juiticc Conrt of Oilmer County. Legal business solicited. ‘‘Promptness” is our motto. DR. J. S. TANKERSLEY. Physician and Surgeon, Tenders his professional services to the citi sens of Ellijay, Gilmer and surrounding conn ties. Alt calls promptly attend and to. Office upstairs over the firm of Cobb <fc Son. ltl>FE WALDO THORNTON, D.D.S. DENTIST, Calhoun, Oa. Will visit Elhjav and Morganton at both the Suriug and Fall term of the Superior Court—and oftener by special contract, when sufficient work is guar anteed to justify me in making the visit. Address aa above. fmavill-li Young men Who wish a Thorough preparation foi Business, will find superior advantages al MOORE’S BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA. The largest and best Practical Business Schoo: in the South. can enter at an; time, Send for circulars. WHITE PATH SPRINGS! —THE— Favorite and Popular Retort oj NORTH GEORGIA! Is situated 6 miles north of Ellijay on the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad. Accommodations complete, facilities for ease and comfort unexcelled, and the magnificent Mineral Springs is its chief attraction. For other particulars on board, etc., address, Mbs. W. F. Robertson, Ellijay, Ga. CENTRAL HOTEL! Ellijay, Georgia. In the special popular resort for commercial men and tourists of all kind, and Is the general house for prompt attention, elegant rooms and are second to none, in this place. Reasonable rates. Mrs. H. V. Them will give her personal at tention to gneata in the dining hall. LM Mountain View Hotel! ELLIJAY, GA. This HoUl is now fitted up in excel lent order, and is open for the reception of guests, under competent management. Evsey possible effort will be made t| —.w. fee Miwntrin View the most popn> let Hotel U Mflay. Aosoamodstionsii emanectioß with h*al. Qgfgto iisnffssxl to and from all trains frassfahatfs. 6h4ly THE ELLIJAY COURIER FOR GOOD JOB PRINTING —GO TO THE— COURIER OFFICE. Pamphlets, Circulars, Bill Heads, Letter Heads, envelopes, Business Cards, Statements, SSScr***:;. Posters, And in fact everything in the Job Printing line neatly and cheaply ex ecuted at short notice. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Give us a call. 3gE-3tey Organ. Made. Unrivaled. Finish. of Popularity. JLL TjGX) CATALOGUES SENT FREE. Esien Ltiruaii iDO., Brattleboro.YL Automatic Sewing Machine Cos. 72 West 23d St., New York, N.Y. at, 4 We invite special at. m M tantlon to our Nxw Patxxt Automatic Txx /WHO SION Machin*, making 4B> /,tt preoisalvthe same stitch tl as the Wilcox A Gibbs, ■M Teh if no * preferred the Wilcox & Gibbs Tensioa Ma midHSßEik chine, can be returned any time within SO day, and money refunded. But what ie more remarkable still, we never knew a woman willing to do her own family sewing on a shuttle machine after having tried our Sew Patent AUTOMATIC. Even Shoe Manufacturers find it beat suited ic their work—its elastic seams are more durable Truly Automatic Sewing Machines are fast superseding shuttle machines, and it is no use to deny it. Truth is mighty and does prevail. Shuttle Machine# have seen their best days. Sent fir Cirtultr. CVnwysadmsi seIMM. INVALID^ROLLING CHAIRfr (RECLINING) lIM sadßuJrTj sSsmxKEHSKS fan Clair C*„ Ntw NwMs Case. “A MAP or BUST Lin-ira FLUCTUATIONS AND its VAST CONCKRNS." ELLIJAY, GA.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1886. The geological survey at Washington Is in receipt of numerous letters from cranks telling how earthquakes may bo predicted and prevented. One method of prevention suggested is to bore holes through the earth’s crust order to give the destructive gasses nu outlet. The New York Commercial Advertiser sug gests that as soon as one of theso holes is bored, the next thing to be done would be to drop Wiggins into it. A Into issue of a New Zealand pap'r speaks of a peculiar lunar phenomenon —a green moon. Says our informant: “A bright-green moon is not a common phenomenon. Yet this was visible in Willington for about a quarter of an hour last evening. There was an ex ceptionally splendid manifestation of the ‘ ‘afterglow” which is so complete an en g • ma to all physicists, and just at thceuge of the vivid rosy glow, where it merged into pink and violet, the crescent moon appeared of the most brilliant yet deli cate green color, presenting a most cari ous and beautiful night.” . Tho office of Alderman in the Argen tine Republic is not a sinecure. In the Bahia Blanca municipality tho Cou cil for somo days could not get a legal quorum owing to the absence of some of the members. At last, one day when the Cou:.cil was la< king one of aquoram, two policemen sallied out among the saloons and fou and “a prominent Alder man,” a :d, says a Buenos Ayres journal, “they towed him into the hall ar.d held him down on his seat while tho silting lasted.” The public crowded to enjoy the fun, the more so as His Honor, the Mayor, was suspended from his fu: ctiors on the same oeca-ion for nogl ctir.g to preside at t: o peculiar “sifting.” The French eel-.' ”-nal I.a Nature describes and illus a Trine for making a product wliic ‘s <••• ::'••• into favor in various different c : : ts under the name of wood wool. As ..3 name implies, this material b si lr wood cut into such fine shavings that it answers many of the purposes t > which wool is commonly applied. Although it was at firlt intended merely as a pickin j material it was soon found that it had a much more extended field of usefulness. It is emp’oyed for stuffing mattresses, a3 and is beautifully clean in use. The wood used by preference i; Riga fir, and the machine will prod ice, without any necessity for skilled labor, more t an 1,500 pounds of “wool” per day of ten hours. The Scientific American says: Accord ing to statistic.il records, th? average price of wheat flower exported from the United States, for periods of eleven montlm ending with May of this year and twenty years past, has been us follows: Price per * Iri o i r Year. 1,0 ObbK Year. I.OOj hi lsßti $1,740 18.0 s!'■, ' 1 1885 4,807 1875 ti, 1884 4,588 1874 7, I 1883 5,050 1873 7, , 1883 0,149 1873 7.1 H 1881 5,000 1871 ‘, 4 1880 5,878 1870 0.113 1879 5,858 1809 . . 1878 0,358 1808 P 1 5 877 0,479 1807 K.VB The movement has been steadily and ward since 1800, excepting in se/ ral years when extraordinary causes cheeked the decrease. The bottom is reached in 1880, and now there arc signs of an up ward move that will accomplish a par tial retrieval of the loss of the period mentioned. The following table, coni p ie l from “Poor's Manual of Railroads” for 1886, shows the number of loco- otive3 and cars owned or leased by the principal railroads of the country in IS>>. It furnishes an interestin ' indention of the rapid extension of the lead.ug Western systems: ffoxls. Locomli":-. Cars. Pennsylvania 1,1 0 49,80.) Heading 944 49,200 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 6? 4 19,900 Northwestern .41 2!,0o Baltimore and < hio Mid 41,0. > New Yo'k (.tent: a! 05? 25,9 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 518 24,0 >0 Erie. 554 iO.i'O The above list includes all roads using more than 500 lo om dives. Several other lines, including the Union Pacific and the Wabash, h ive nearly that num ber emp'o ed. At the close of tho last fiscal year ia July, 1885, 083 Pullman cars were in service in this country and in Europe. >- Mr. C'eorge B. Poring, in an address before ti.e New England Agric ltaral Society, of which he is Pre-id nt, made e .ceptions to the u-e of the term “thor ougl’.bred” in conn.; tion with any other animal than the horse. 11c said: "A thoro ighbred animal means a horse. A thoroughbred horse is ju-t as much a specific breed of horse as an Aral.,a Mor gan or a Percheron, or anything < be, and the use of ‘thoroughbred’ in this connec tion is entirely unworthy an intelligent and literary society. The term should be ‘pure bred.’ I.et us abandon the use of the terra. If you have a pure bred Shorthorn, or a pure bred Devon, or a pure bred Morgan, it is not a thorough bred Animal. They talk about thorough bred pigs now! The word never applies to anything except a race of horse bred in England for speed. So I ho|ie the trustee*, when they make up the r list another year, will put in ‘pure bred’ in deed of thoroughbred '" MY ORAVKS. This brave, sweet boy, against whose eon God pressed His hand so heavily, It shut out sound for all tbs years Twixt then and far futurity— This dark-browed laddie aska me where I keep my graves, and allAk* while Upon his (ace, so bright and. fair, . „ Dimples a strange, enchanting iwo “My graves!" I look him in toe eyes’ And wonder if his feet have strength To tread the path that made me wise— That path so rough, so great of length; While all along its side there'he, Beneath the overhanging boughs, My graves, the blessed graves that 1 Love better than my. heaven-set vows. > I love my graves I the flower That grows there inn slender wreath Seems to me like a priceless dower, Because my dear ones sleep beneath. Tears thread the grass like t*£bpe of dew, And now and then a blood-red stain Shows how a heart-throb broke in view When some transcendent hope was slain. High overhead, with rippftSg song The little birds All up the air, And their sweet music makes me strong To climb and yield confession there; To own my faults without a frown, To draw a heavy breath and pass, While green leaves catch a hint of blown, And sweet buds witheAn the grass Sing, little birds, above my graves; Blow, gentle breezes, from the sea; Come, salty fragrance of the waves, And make life something good for ma What if I bear graves in my heart! Faith, they are mine to tend and keep! And what if I from life should part! Mayhap in some heart I might sleep. So let the laurel drop a wreath Down on my graves, and let the vins Run where my dead ones lie beneath, For every grass blade there is mine. Even the hands that used to touch Lightly my curly strands of hair Still are my own; I love them much, Though hid from sight and claspod in prayer. —James Berry Bensel. A TERRIBLE ORDEAL. [FROM THE FRENCH BT HENRY JORDAN.] Toward the end of October, 1743, a traveling carriage stood before the door of the Chateau of Chenonceaux, and the beautiful Aurore, nee de Konigsmarck, exchanged tender adieus with her hus band, the great financier, General Dupin, who was about to start for Germany on import ant business. The financier carried with him his pri -yiiie sects)*ry..iHfly i J with a gay and happy disposition, always improvising charades and madrigals, and devoting himself to the amusement of the guests of the chateau. The young secretory found these adieus both long and tiresome, for he boiled with impatience to start. What a joy it would be to travel across that poetic country brought to light by the recent war I What souvenirs he would gather to delight the habitues of the chateau on his 'return! ■ But at last the husband has given his final conjugal kiss, the carriage rolls over the bridge thrown across the waters of the Cher, and they are off for Ger many. They had decided to travel day and night, for the financier had very lit tle time to spare. Even with relays of horses and piodigal “pourboires” to the postilions, it would require fully five days to reach the Margraviateof Anspach, situated in the Duchy of Wurtemberg. Toward the evening of the fourth day, however, the joyous anticipations of monsieur, the Secretary, had departed. He was worn out with fatigue, and the General had been seized with a violent fever; a night of repose was absolutely necessary. Human weeakness conquers human will, and the travelers were com pelled to stop, in spite of themselves, nearly at the end of their journey, in tho only inn of the little City of Hothenbourg. But owing to the fact that the yearly fair began the next day, every room in the house, from garret- to cellar, was crowded with guests.' The inn-keeper, bowing to the oa th with humility, for he took the financier with his retinue of followers to be at least an Embassador of the King of France, cheerfully declared that he ‘ ‘would give up his own room to Bis Excellency, but that he hadn’t even as much as a pallet y tor the secre tary.” At thlfc Lemierre, with the usual French vivacity, dew all to pieces, but the inn-keeper was firm, and, with Ba varian phlegm, adhered to his state ment. “It is as I have told you, mein herr,” he persisted: “there isn’t even a corner in the pig’s pen. I am very sorry, but you will have to resign yourself to a chair before the kitchen tire.” But Lemierre was not in the least re signed. What a prospect for a nervous and delicate man who had already passed four nights tossing about in a carriage! He began to find the journey much less agreeable than he had anticipated. What would he not have given, this poor, tired little poet, to have found himself once more in the Chateau of the Valois in his comfortableca- opied bed! He positive ly looked with envy upon the lackeys of Mons. le General, stretched upon fie floor rolled up in their mantles and snor- ing loudly. Midnight sounded, and everybody in the house and gone to bed, at least all those who had the iu k to possess a bed. The servant on watch for the night, a robust Uavarianesc with the figure of a grenadier, slept no more than Lemierre himself, however, and from time to time threw compasaiona'e glances upon the handsome boy who seemed so worried by his misadventure. All at once she ap proached him s>ftly, and, leaning over him, whispered in a mysterious tone: “What would you say, monsieur— what would you say if, after all, one could find you a bed for t'..e night ?” “What would I sav ?” cried l emierre, astonished. “M or bleu, it is simple enough, I’d accept it with enthusiasm, snd give any one a I ouia d’or who would take pity on my martyrdom.” “In that ca e have a little patience Give me time to make some necesssry preparations. I will return for you in five minutes ” tthe donppesred. and Lemierre got up stretching hi* half-benumbed limbs. ‘'Excellent crsetuisl” be murmured to himself; “thanks to her, I shall be able to attend to-morrow the dinner given by the Margrave in honor of our arrival. But where can she be going to put me. I wonder. Ah, welj, it does not matter; the poor child has a face sufficiently in nocent to make me confide in her without nneasiness. ” At this moment the Bavarian appeared at the door of the kitchen, a lantern in her hand. “Come,” said she; and as quietly as possible, if you please. I should be sent away without mercy if they found out lam about to do to oblige you.” Leaving the house, she piloted the poet down a flight of steps ana across a damp and gloomy garden, laid out in the Frendh style, with clipped yew trees and rectangular squires. There was also be neath a clump of larch trees a tiny grass plat, where in summer were placed the tables for the accommodation of the drinkers. Blinded by the fog, and stumbling* along the slippery turf, Lemierre docilely followed his conductress. Once she turned and said to him quickly; “Take care,mein herr,take caret there is a well hidden under those leaves; but turn to the left, we are there.” Lifting his eyes, the Secretary saw be fore him, looming out of the fog, the outlines of a pavilion raised some five or six steps above the level of "the ground. The servant unlocked the door, and they entered a room which certainly was not often givento guests, so musty was the odor and so icy the dampness that escaped from it. “I’d have lighted a fire,” said the girl apologetically, “but you seemed in such a hurry that [hadn’t time.” “Never mind; it doesn't matter," the secretary responded; “in five minutes I shall ft el nothing, but don’t’ forget to come and waken me; we must start very early, and in my present state of fatigue I am capable of sleeping until dooms day.” “Rest easy, mein herr, rest easy; to morrow at peep of day, long before seven o’clock, 1 will come to release you.” “Release mel Well, that is a joke. I hope it isn’t your intention to lock me up?” Instead of replying the servant quickly shut the door and turned the key in the lock. “Open that door I” shouted Lemierre, wrathfully. “Open it this instant, I command you 1” But the compassionate damsel seemed neither to hear nor to heed, and the sound of her footsteps rapidly retreating to the house could be plainly heard. Ir ritated and somewhat uneasy at the girl’s extraordinary conduct, the young man took the light and examined the place to which she had consigned him. “It isn’t a very attractive iodging room,"he said to himself; “but nt all "cipf wijuhr 1 1 tMi'ufci'ffpy-nrat soon ns possible; 1 ' ' 11 ... And he began to relieve himself of his cloak, his jacket and his vest; there he stopped, and turned back his cuffs; for this fastidious youth—this future Aca demician—had a singular mania, no mat ter where he was or how fatigued he might be, he never got into a bed with out first remaking it I Beginning with the pillows, when they were arranged to suit his fancy, ho pro ceeded to beat iff. the feathers of the bed. Suddenly, between the bed and the lower mattress he felt something strangely hard and stiff. Without know ing why, he shivered with dread, and bis heart leaped into his throat. Seizing a light, he again approached the bed and drew aside the feathers. What was it that he saw? Paralyzed with fright, his arm dropped, and the light, falling upon the floor, was extingui-hed. Behold, for the rest of tbe night, he had plunged himself into Cimmerian darkness 1 But he was not alone—no, not alone—for a body, a dead body, was lying over there, stretched be tween the feathers and the mattress 1 Struggling against the terror which possessed him, Lemierre groped about the chamber searching for the tablo which he remembered to have seen a while ago when ho entered the room, and, climbing upon it, tried to reach the window, which certainly had seemed very narrow: nevertheless, he would tear every limb from his body but what he would pass it. Anything was better than this lugubrious tete-a-tete with that unknown dead! But even if he could have gotten through the window his trembling arms were unable to reach it by more than a meter of empty apace. J.eaping from the table again he rnshea to the door, attacking it with savage frenzy. With feet and hands and nails he tried to break it in, or start the fastenings; but van hope, that door of oak was capable of withstanding far ruder assaults than any he could make with his delicate muscles. Bewildered, staggering and desperate, the unfortu nate poet sought refuge as far as possible from that human wreck which filled him with such loathing and repugnance. Unhappily he had not, like women, the resource of fainting. In spite of his terror he retained the clearest perception of everything abo t him. At iart a clock in the neighborhood struck; alas, it struck but 2—the night was far from ended. At times it seemed to him that he heard a rustling in the straw of the mat tress, as if the dead had roused from its immobility and was coming toward him. This friend of Kivarol, this favorite of a skeptical and mocking society, trembled like a cowardly child. Perhaps it was foolish—it certainly was human. On the other hand, fears less chimeri cal added to the excitement of his nerves and imagination. The corpse of the man concealed in this pavilion was doubtless the victim of foul play, and the Bavari an’s mission was to inveigle unsuspect ing travelers into the trap. Every instant Lemierre expected to see the murderers enter, who would first despoil him of his watch and jewels, and then toss him into the well beneath the leaves. What a cruel fate it would be to dieso young, scarcely twenty years of age, and with a long and briilian t future before him 1 Slowly the terrible hours dragged on. At last a feeble ray of light glided through the window, and, fa.thful to her promise, the servsot arrived to release her pri-oner. She recoiled in astonish ment before the spectacle which met her eyes, the bed sod the pillow* beeped upon the floor and the deed lying upon the mattress, far leas livid sod ghostly than Uu living being crouched in the corner with dilated pupils, haggard face, convulsed lips and hair as white as snow, blanched by the horror of that tragio n’ght! The wretched servant, uttering scream after scream, fled rapidly to the house, and in a few minutes the pavilion was filled with a throng of frightened people. Burning with fever and a prey to de lirium, the unfortunate Lemierre was un able to give any explanation of the scene before them. Amazed at the change which a few hours had wrought, the General called the inn-keeper and de manded an explanation of him. At first, confused and uncertain what it was best to say, the man ended by ex claiming that “just the day before the travelers had arrived one of their board ers. a landscape painter from Berlin, had died. Travelers did- not 'like to' meet with such things, and so, to rid himself of an inconvenient guest, he had com- fortably laid him out on the bed of the pavilion chamber. No one could foresee that for the pitiful sum of a Louis d’or the miserable Gretchen would invade the sanctuary of the dead.” “But you should not blame me,” said Gretchen, boldly; “I was only trying to oblige the poor young man; he was ready to drop with fatigue. Besides, it is all his own fault; if he had let the bed alone he’d have slept happily enough and known nothing about it.” Notwith standing this ingenious system of de fense, the Bavarian was sent to ten years’ imprisonment. As f>ir Lemierre, he was for two months dangerously ill at the Inn of Ilothen bourg. But even when he returned to Franco his friends scarcely recognized him, for the flower of his youth had been left in Germany. That old man, thin, pain, wrinkled, with hair as white as snow, painfully dragging himself along by the help of a cane, was but the shadow of the br.lliant Secretary of Mous. Dupiu. The first time that he showed himself at the Comodie Francais one of his friends said to a gent email near him: ‘ ‘That old man over there very strongly resembles a friend of mine, Armand Lemierre. It is doubtless his grandfather I”—Cincin nati Enquirer. A Unique Itailroad. There is a little, narrow > auge rail road in central Illinois which is rather amusing. It runs through a rich farm ing country and is owned and managed by wealthy farmers. Tho conductors, engineers and brakemen are farmers’ sons who have grown weary of raising cattle and corn and who have taken to “railroading” as a relief. The various stations along tho line of this little rail road are of no consequence whutever, except to their scoro or more of in habitants and to the farmers of the neighborhood. A train starts from each end of the road every morning after hrnakfust mm *" —8 for tea, and ties up for the night. As tlrero Is no telegraph lino -connected with the road nobody at any of the stations knows when a train is coming until it arrives in sight. As tho rails ure laid on ties placed on the flat prairie and ns no grade exists from ono end of the road to the other, the tall grass has an awkwnrd habit of getting under the wheels and stopping the train. Not infrequently also the light rails spread apart and the ears run off the track and go tumbling along on the virgin prairie. Whenever s little accident of this kind occurs the engineer, conductor, brakemen and pas sengers jump to tho ground nnd lift the cars into place again. The passengers ride in a car reserved for them in the rear of a long line of freight cars. Ilnlf of this car is partitioned off in order that it may also serve for carrying mail bags, express matter and baggage. Not in frequently p issengers walk into a village ahead of the train and announce that tire cars will follow them in an houi jr two, firoviding they can be kept on tho track ong enough. Sometimes a locomotive gets stalled on someone of the several gentle hills along the line. Tho train men thereupon quietly wait until the other engine appears. Then tho two engines draw the train up the hill. Not withstanding the oddities which exist in the management of this little railroad it hauls large quantities of freight, and is making money for its stockholders.— Chicago Newt. Cariosities of the Human Voice. It has long been known that the in halation of various volatile substances is capable of producing certain modifica tions in the human voice; and of late years attempts,more or less legitimate in their application, have been made to give this knowledge a practical form. An interesting series of experiments bearing on this subject have been made before the Societe Mcdicale du Pantheon, Paris, by Dr. Sandras, in which, by means of different inhalations, varying from one to twelve, he produced marked variations in the intensity, tone and tim her of the voice. He could not only j confer upon the persons so treated the peculiar voice of the confirmed inebriate, but, what is more to the point, he could —temporarily, at any rate—remove it when pleasant. The notes produced by the same larynx were made of high or low pitch at will; and the range of the voice could be notably increased, while harshness or sweetness could be made to alternate. The substances employed for this purpose arc not new-, it is only their application, which may be said to be novel. Tar, water, alcohol, ether and various essential oils constitute the “bat tery” for inhalation purposes. The most curious part of the experiments is the accuracy which certain well defined ef fects are said to be obtained. Thus, a certain number of inhalations of one kind will diminish the compass by so many notes, while another will confer an additional eight or ten; some even limit the range to five or six notes. - Britiih Medical Journal. At Home In All Tongnes. The Smith family was largely repre sented in the army of the Union, and at one time there were upward of 000 in the Army of the Potomac. On one of the regimental rolls in the Teutonic division, which gave the names and birthplaces, were entered: “Giovanni Smith!, Italy; Juan Smithes, Spain; Hans Schmidt, Holland; Ivan Schmithi weski. Poland: Jean Smeeta, Franca; lon Skimmitton, Greece," and twelve John Smiths born in this country, be sides one whose native land was sweet Erin,of whom it was recorded: “Named Patrick, but says that be I* ealied Jobs for short,” — Ben: PtrUy Ptort. OHB DOLLAR Per Aasram. Xe linen THOSE BEAUTIFUL. DREAMS OP YOUTH. Where are all those shining dollars that we dreamed of by and by!— Scarce are they as modest lawyers who had never told a lie. Where are all those stately mansions with their porticos of pride!— Absent still, and non-existent as “the little boy that died." Where is all onr sceptred power that should shake the earth with fear!— Vanished in Canadian distanoe, like the modern bank-cashier. Where are those deep-fronted Islands, groves of spice and banks of flowers, Where the turtle-dove and bulbul sang amid the citron bowers!— ; Still they’re in the magic distance, far be yond the setting son I Waiting their realization when the Keely Motor’s done. Where are all those young ambitions, hopas so vast and undefinedi— Gone off with some other fellow, like “the girl we left behind." Oh I these fleets of youthful venture* freighted with their hopes sublime, Thick as Grover Cleveland’s vetoes, • “wrecked upon the shores of time.” How those young ideals have fallen that once fired our youthful blood, Like tho captured Texan horse-thief, with a “dull and sickening thud I” Where are all those fond ambitions beating 'gainst the gates of doom, Like a wild Montana cowboy shooting for “more room, more room!” Where are all those siren voices, mellow sweet as raspberry jam!— Silent now, and non-committal, as a glum Rhode Island clam. They have vanished in the distance, all thess hopes that once could thrill, Like a debtor when you ask him “Will you pay that little bill?’ They have gone—those dreams of morning, built of unsubstantial air, Glorious, purple, nymph-like figures with their sunlight-tangled hair; Gone where stalk the apparitions of many a dead delight, Through the shndowy dominions ruled by “Chaos and old Night;’’ Where the waves of sluggish Lethe through phantom meadows flow, To Oblivion’s misty limbo—where rejected poems go. — & W. Foss, In Tid-Bits. PITH AO POINT. Short, sharp and decisive—A tack. The lion’s share of anything is usually the mane portion of it. —Merchant Traveler. Twlxt bishop and granger the difference is— As perhaps all the wq?M ‘ —Yonkers Gazette. The world is filled with men whose chief occupation is parting their hair and arranging their neckties.— Neio Haven Nact. It adds nothing to the self respect of John L. Sullivan that he lias to get be hind a one-cent stamp in order to lick it. —Fall Fiver Advance. The festive cackle of the hen Sounds ever light and gay When e’er she lays an egg, ’tts then Sho carols forth her lay. —Merchant Traveler. A down-town druggist has a parrot that he has taught to say: “What a pretty girl 1” whenever a woman, young or old, enters his store; and they say that a poor weak man can hardly get into the store lo buy a cigar on a fine afternooa. —Philadelphia Call. “Suits Pressed, with Neatness and Dispatch,” is what the advertisement read, and a distracted young lover there and then determined to give them a job, for ho said: “I have pressed my suit night and day for three long years, and Susan is no nearer acoepting me now than when I began.” —Danseille Breeze. A SOBfcR TRUTH. When the fevered, hectic haze Of the melancholy days Sets the rustling, ruddy foliage of the wood land all ablaze— Then tbe husband, taken back, Thinks him sadly of the pock Of dollars soon his wife will take to get a sealskin sacque I -Tid-BiU The xonng Idea. A little girl calling with her mother at anew house where the walla were not yet papered, exclaimed: “What a bald headea house, mamma! ” “Mamina,” said little Mary, “ia uncle Ned Arthur’s uncle, too?” “No,” said her mother, “he ia Arthur’s father.” “Well, is he your uncle?” “No; he ia my brother. He is Fred’s uncle and yours, and cousin Lizzie's.” “Now,” said Vary, shaking her head very pos itively, “I know uncle Ned isn't such a lot as that! ” — Philadelphia Call. It is decidedly hazardous to make the youthful answer too many questions. They often answer with an unsophisti cated frankness that may be dec deadly embarrassing. A little boy was visiting at his neighbor’s. Strange as it may seem, he was eating very light. The kind hostess said: “Little man, you don’t seem to be hungry. Why don’t you eat?” Ho blurted out: “Yes, I am hungry; but there ain’t anything here fit to eat. You can’t cook like my ma.’’— Kaneat City Star. A Mind-Reading Invalid. . Mias Mollie Fancher. the paralytic Brooklyn girl who has been a credited with extraordinary miud-rcading powers, is still living with her family in Gates avenue, where she continues an object of wonder to her physicians. She has been an invalid for twenty years, and until lately she has b en deprived of the use of her limbs nnd has i-eldom been raised from her bed. Within a year there has been a gradual improvement in her con dition, und Dr. Spear and Dr. Homiston, who have never lost sight of her for more than a week at a time for ten years, are greatly surprised as well as gratified. For a long time she could not move her hands from their place behind her neck, but she can now use them freely. She knits nnd embroiders, and also writes. She has not recovered ber sight, but her mental faculties were never so bright, and her mind reading powers, which at one time induced an oiler of f 10,000 a year and a speo'al bed and palace car fur her accommodation from Itanium, (till continue unstated. —A/iw* York Sun. NO. 41.