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H. M. Bramiott, Sheriff,
J. H. Sharp, Tax Receiver,
G. W. Oates, Tax Collector,
Jas. M. Weat, Surveyor,
G. W. Rice,- Coroner,
W. F. Hill, School Commissioner.
The County Board of Education 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. Thomaß F. Greer, Judge.
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iu each month.
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ELLIJAY. GA.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20. 1887.
THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.
Not like those tom pies of tea oldau times, ■*
Built by the Heeding hand* of tolling ilavos,
The cornerstones laid over new-made
graves,
In bold commemoration of dark crimes;
Not like the mystic Sphinx, whose dull, cold
face
Left to toe world no lesion and no grace.
Is this majestic emblem of toe Free 1
No history of wrongs, her wearing mars—
But, rival and companion of the (tars.
She lifts her glorious jorch, that all may see
This symbol of a Nation’! Motherhood,
Fair Liberty, toe beautiful, toe good)
Stupendous triumph of ambitious art,
Helped bra million eager, eanest hands
Up to the lofty height whereon toe stands,
She knits two great republics heart to heart
And, smiting from our country's open door,
Welcomes.the homeless wanderer to our
shore,
—Ella Wheeler Wilccm.
OUT OF THE DEPTHS.
“I tell you, Hawkswortli, I know what
I'm talking about, and I don’t believe
in any chicken-heartedncs* when it
comes to a clear matter of justice; and
if I caught tramp, beggar<ir thief on my
premises, and could prove he’d been tak
ing anything belonging to me, I’d show
him no mercy whatever.”
And Captain Whippleton brought his
strong fist down on the railing by which
he happened to be standing with a thump
which made the metals ring again.
He was on his way home from the
Mariner’s Club rooms, and hod encoua
teredthe Chief of Hawks
worth, who had been telling how some
young thieves were destroying the peace
of some of the residents of Prince ave
nue, but how hard it was to arrest mere
boys.
Captain Wjpperton’s fine house was
a little way out of the city proper, and
now, after having chatted with several
friends on the shipping naught the club,
he was on the way home to -eat his
Thanksgiving dinner.
The Captain was rather given to blus
ter and nourish, but was strongly sus-
of being-A. ktßdnnau at heart,
though some wondered Ait, well off as
he was, ho’never seHned Very charitably
disposed. _ His housekeeper dispensed
small charities occasionally, but the Cap
tain, a hounteous provider where his own
table was concerned, thought but little
of the wants of the “Great Outsldp.”
“Rather a strange time to be talking
of justice and tramps, ” said the minis
ter, as he cheerily joined the two men at
the railing on his way home from
church. “I hope,” he added, a genial
smile overspreading his benevolent coun
tenance, “we shall nut forget the Giver
of all good gifts this bright Thanksgiv
ing Day,” and the minister passed on.
Marshal Hjtwksworth started, for the
station, and Captain-Whippleton turned
toward home, visions of a savory meal
preceding his heavy footsteps.
A short distance from his own door his
reflections received a sudden shock as he
saw a boy dart out of the side gate, a
suspicious looking bundle in a handker
chief dangling in one hand. The boy
without looking either to the right or
left darted along the road, soon turning
into a side street.
“Oh, I’ll catch you, you young ras
cal,” said the Captain to himself aa be
sprang along with surprising iigility, con
sidering' his weight.
The boy, still without turning, sped
along, the Captain following with equal
swiftness. The child led him a long
race, and many persons along the lower
part of the city where he was now
traveling gazed curiously at the large,
well-dresaed man evidently .bent on
reaching a given point within a limited
time.
The narrow streets grew still narrower
as the boy, apparently fancying himself
more secure on his own soil, slackened
his pace, so allowing his unseen fol
lower to gain upbn him rapidly. At
length he turned into a contracted Court,
ana entered a door just as Captain Whip
pletonentered the alley. The.boy also
disappeared round the top of a flight of
stairs just as the Captain entered the
outside door.
For tvro reasons the Captain went
over the stairs guardedly. He wished
to make no noise, and he half feared the
rickety stairs would give way beneath
what he styled his “uncommon heft.”
At the far end of the first ladding was
a room with the door ajar. The Cap
tain approached and listened, a boyish
voice was saying:
“Now then, let’s sit right up in our
little bed, and see what we’ve got for a
nice Thanksgiving dinner. Up-a-diddy;
that’s it I Now then, what’s in this bun
dle, we wonder.” V*t
The hall in which the sturdy Captain
was standing Was almost as dark aapitch,
but a window at the end of the little
room into which be peeped enabled him
to sea the boy h'b had been- pursuing.
He was, while talking in this cheerful
strain, also lifting- from a bid of rags
the emaeiatedformotayoung girl.
At first the Oaptain thought her a mere
child; but when she spoke he found him
self mistaken.
Opening the, handkerchief, the boy
held up some fresh looking biscuit, the
remains of some broiled chicken, a few
fried potatoes and a mass of potato
skins.
“Now you see, Janie,” he ran on, “I’m
a-goin’ to hyper round an’ git a smart
fire in no time'; then'l’m a-goin’to boil
these parin’s an’ have a feast. Rich
folks, they don't mind how they peel
potatoes; why, there’s mos’ half the in*
side left on these skins.”
“Where did you get these nice things,
little brother i”
The voice which put the question was
thin, weak and anxious.
“Oh, I kctched them up in a kitchen
just in time to save somebody the trouble
o’ throwin' them out. ”
“Oh, Bony!” said the troubled voice,
“don't you know (Jod will bo grieved if
you do so! I couldn’t cat things you took
without they wasgiveyou. Why didn’t
you ask some onef”
“I tell you 'twas only bavin's,” in
sisted the child, ’'things as was pitched
into an old haain to he heaved out. Hop*
you don’t c ill that nothin’ wrong, takia’
what was golu’ to the piggies. Why,
you ain't got no idea, Janie, you ain't,
what feast- rich folks throws away; but
like’s not If I'd a-asked they'd a sent me
awsy without even the leaviuV”
Csptuin Whippluton easily recognized
the terns ins of his ebundaut Thanksgiv-
ing breakfast, and not being uied at all to
aucta scenes, his eyes were gutting blurred
disagreeably, and a great lump in his
throat reemed threatening, to choke him
every moment. But the law voice be
gan again:
‘‘You know, little brother, mother,
stfhtNpew about the Bible, snd nights,
when she lay, a-dying, he used to repeat
things she knowed to me, aud I remem
ber, ma, she used to aay as ’twas better
to starve than to take what wasn’t our’n,
and Miss Limpsev, ny Sunday-school
teacher, she said what I’ve often and
often told you, Booy boy, we must obey
God first of all, and He certainly will
care for ms.”
There was a tremble in the poor voice
which made Captain AVhippleton swal
low so hard he nearly strangled in his ef
forts to suppress a cough. “Bony,”
pausing in the midst of the fire he was
making, asked in a voice so piteous its
tones lingered in the Captain’s memory
long afterwards. A.
“Why don’t your, teacher ever come
to see you, I’d like Jo know; and say,
Janie, you don’t 'speck God wants a cove
and his poor, sick Bister to starve, do
you? I worked like time’n Csesar all last
wefck an’ only got money nuff to buy
these chips ana coils, for I won’t let
you freeze, Janie, a nice ole sister that’s
took care o’ me from a baby, when I
warn’t nothin’ but a bag o’ bones an’ got
named after my owa ’pearanoe. Why!
bless you, Janiejgffi, I could- a-fleoced
these rich folks like Sixty! There warn’t
no one in the kitchen, an’ there stood a
big chicken pie Ml wady for the table—
my 1•> how she looked, and how it must
a-tastedl” ~ j
Bony. paused, a dreamy look of some
delicious imagination transfixing his far
off gaze for it moment, then ho went
on:
w And then there was vegetables, or
anges, nuts, puddin’s, pies. Gracious!
Y’ou nover saw anythin’like tho things
they had—but all I took was a pan o’ ole
leavin's. You don't call that bad for a
hungry cove, do you? Thanksgiving Day
'“o:„ to God atone was known tho |
heroism involved is the sick girl’s re
ply:
/‘l’d rather you’d take them back
again, dear little brother.”
“Well then, I will!” impetuously burst
out poor Bony, gulping down a great
sob. “I’ll take ’em all back and beg
’em—” b
“No, you won’t!” thundered the Cap
tain, bursting pell-mell into the little
room; “no, you won't, because I won't
have it I You just come with me, little
feller, and I’ll give you half that chicken
pie you saw, and a few slices of turkey
beside. Then you shall have some
potatoes and turnips and squash and
onions and cranberries. I’ll sling in a
pie and a taste of pudding, too, and a
few'oranges, and jim cracks, like tea
and sugar, for Janie over there. Como,
we’ll 'tart right along. You needn’t
look so frightened • I only hollered like
a luirricario because my throat hurt, and
I couldn’t master my voice somehow;
and I tore in wilder than a nor’easter
because I—l was in a hurry.”
Then he added in a voice tender as a
woman’s, turning to nanie:
“My poor child, how long have you
lain here, and what’s the trouble!’’
“It’s my hip, sir,” answered Janie,hor
eyes dilated, and still only half recov
ered from the fright the Captain’s unex
pected entrance had given her. “I fell
and broke it; but one of these days I may
walkagain when I get a doctor to It.
But please don’t blame poor Bony, sir;
he meant no wrong, I’m sure. We want
to.belhonest people, indeed we do, sir !’*
“Well, wen,’’ Baid the Captain.gruffly,
“the first thing's to get some dinner
down both your throats. Throw that
stuff away, there. Come on, my boy.”
Marshal Hawkswortb, on his way from
the station-house to his Thanksgiving
dinner, suddenly encountered Captain
Whippleton striding along by the side of
a small, ragged boy of about ten years,
as between them they carried a great
market basket, which evidently taxed
the Captain’s herculean strength, for it
was evident the boy.’s share of the burden
was only a mere pretense.
* For the first time since he peered into
Janie’s narrow room; his conversation
concerning his terrible threats as to
tramps ana thieves, recurred to his mind
upon seeing Uawksworth’s face.
“Halloo 1” shouted the Marshal,
“what’s up?”
“Gh, we’re bearing away to a shallow
port,sort o’ loading up for a fresh cruise,”
shouted back -the Captain without stop
ping. : •
Whan Janie’s astonished eyes beheld
the wondrous supply contained in the
great'basket, her nrst remark was:
‘)Oh,”how splendid! now: what, a
Thanksgiving dinner Granny ijeers shall
have!” *
' • “WJwfe-Granny Beers? inquired the
■Captain. •
. Sh e .was an old’ bed-ridden woman on
the-next -floor above, who at the time of
her mother’s death, years before, had
been very kind to’Janie.
Impelled by some sudden impulse,
Captain Whippleton told Janie to keep
what he had brought, it was all for her
and Bony. He would attend to Granny
Beers.
Slowly ascending the creaking stairs,
he' reached another miserable room,
where a very old woman was slowly .fad
ing out of life with consumption.
Before Captain Whippleton had sat by
her side fifteen minutes, he had heard
more of genuine thankfulness, and seen
more of real resignation and content
than ever in. his life before.
The housekeeper declared afterward
that “Captain Whippleton, dear soul,
did act the queerest that Thanksgiving
Day” of anything she ever heard. Run
ning about with first one basketful of
provisions, then another, until she “cer
tainly thought the man gone clean
crazy.”
When Captain Whippleton started out
the next day to consult his doctor about
Janie, and to call again on Grandma
Beers, he came upon' the minister and
Marshal llawksworth, and tbe latter be
gan sportively:
“Well, Captain, caught any thieves or
tramps yeti I thought myself something
of the kind had you pretty well in tow
yesterday.”
To tho Marshal’s surprise the tall, pow
erful Captain flushed visibly through his
swarthy skin, and Anally replied with a
huskiness which claimed tbe hearcr’q,
gravest attention:
“Yes, Hawkaworth, 1 suppose 1 did
catch a little tramp of something akin to
one, yaatarday, but it was only that Urn
Almighty, who kindly feeds us all,
might teach me a lesson. I believe, now,
that vengeance is not always’ justice ;
what looks like justice is not generally
what God calls mercy.” Then he added
with charming humility from such a
towering figure :
. “ Here I’ve been taking God’s boun
ties for years anil years withouttovrr a
truly thankful feeling in my sinful old
heart. Since I gave up the sets I’ve
often fretted over not having enough to
do. Bless your heart, man, some of-the
best, most graceful and loving of .God’s
creatures are all but starving within
sight of my own door ! I’ve found oc
cupation. From this time forth I pro
pose to recognise some of tho claims,
human and divine, which, in my ignor
ance of their existence, I’ve shirked like
a thief heretofore.”
“They do say,” remarked the City
Marshal, a few months later, “there
ain’t a kinder or more charitable man in
the place than old Captain Whippleton.
He didn’t used to be just like that, but
I guess something kind of woke him up
about Thanksgiving time. I suppose he
knows all about it.”
Yea; the Captain kuew,— Qolden Rule.
English Rural Snpcrstltitm.
There are workingmen in secluded
hamlets who still eling to their ances
tors’ faith in astrology and in the “voices
of the stars,” as translated to mundane
comprehension through the medium of
the prophetic almanacs. Aud this not
vaguely, tentatively, but with a robust
credulity which can shape and govern
their every-day actions, their buying and
selling, their sowing and reaping, their
contracts, whether social, commercial
■or matrimonial. Wo quote a bona fide
.example.
.A skilled couutry mechanic, a man of
distinct pretensions to ability, lost his
after fifteeh years of approved
service. He sought another, but at first
unsuccessfully. Trade was depressed,
and the outlook sombre. An opening
offered in a somewhat novel quarter. The
inquiry was made if he would commence
work on the Monday succeeding his en
gagement. He hesitated, aiid lugubri
ously demurred.
“I will come on Tuesday, without
fail,” he said.
“Why not on the previous day?” curi
ously asked the employer.
“It’s a bad one, sir.”
“ A bad onel HOw? I don’t under
stand.”
"B, the almanac, air. I wouldn’t
marry on that day if I were ever so deeply
smitten by 'Cupid’s arrow,’ as they call
it on the valentines, and if it wero a
choice between then and never; and I
won’t start at anew job on Monday next
for any master iu tho country, h'orry to
disoblige, sir.”
Remonstrance and ridicule were alike
vain. “No, no; I mayn't be able to ex
plain it—there’n a heap o’tliings iu the
world that we can’t tell just the. why
aud the wherefore of—but I’ve proved,
and that’s bettertliau explaining It;” “In
fact, there’s a proof here in this little-bit
of business. My almanac told me I was
to havo changes this year. I looked (all
round, but couldn't po much as guess
where they were to come from. But
you see that after all the almanac was
right; and I've noticed it scores of
times.”
This same artisan stood sponsor on
another occasion for a statement so cu
rious as to be worth reproducing as a
specimen of the humor not simply of
rural, but of technical superstit’on also.
He was descanting on various occult in
fluences of the heavenly bodies—a fa
vorite topic with a congenial audience.
The moon’s power'is very remarkable,”
ho said; “as is well-known and admitted,
it rules the tides. And it likewise
makes a wondarul difference to timber.
You may hardly credit this, but it's a
matter of experience ngain. Timber
felled when the moon is waxing planes
or cuts up nigh as easy again as tho very
same sort, and age, and'growth of tim
ber felled when tne moon is on the wane.
It's queer, but true.”— Cattell.
Sugar Statistics.
The ordinary sugar of commerce is
made from sugar oane-and beets. There
is very little difference in the quality of
the two varieties. The bulk of the cane
sugar is grown in the'tropicat regions of
North and South America, the East and
West India Islands, British India and
Southern China. The beet sugar is pro
duced chiefly-in France, Germany, Rus
sian Poland and Austria-Hungary. The
relative amount of cane and Deet sugar
is very nearly equal; 1 the prospective crop
of cane sugar for the- current year in
wht are known as exporting .couutries,
being 2,445,000 tons, while the prospec
tive crop of. beet 'sugar will not be far
from 2, r, 25,000 tons, making a total
available.supply for the year of 4,980,000
ttwiß. ' ’ *"• ’
Statistics show, however, that sugar,
like some of her good things in the world,
is not distributed evenly. Great Bi-iteib
consumes more sugar per cipita than any
other country, and the United States
come noxt in the list.
For the year 1886 the consumption of
sugar,'so far as it-can be traced by relia=;
hie figures, was go followsi:
Tons. Tons.
United State*...l,2B4,<’oo Other European
Great Britain.. .1,203,003 countries 833,000
France....,, .. 570,000 Non - exporting
German Empire 836,000 countries*...,.l,6oo,ooo
Austria 1-11,000 1
Holland 43,000 Total M32 v 000
This statement, allowing the last year’s
crop to have been as great as the prospec
tive crop for 1886, would leave 1,149,000
tons on hand or to have gone into con
sumption unaccounted for. ‘ Tho "per
capita consumption of Great Britain was
a trifle over 60 pounds; that of the
United States, 49.3 pounds; that of
France was scarcely 80 pounds, and that
of Germany still U ss. The consumption
for the United States varies somewhat,
according to the condition if business.
While in 1885 it was 89.8 pounds per
capita, in 1864 it was 51 and m 1883 only
47.6.— Philadelphia Timet.
The Trag. 'y of Lire.
(Scene First.)
Ponsonhy—“You see the Continen
tal P’
De Twirliger—“ Ya-as.”
Ponsonhy—“Xy father was about the
i Irst man to enter :hat hotel when it was
: ipened.”
(Scene Second.)
First Old Mechanic -“See that young
dude acros- the way.”
Second Ditto—“Ay."
First Old Mochaulo—“l knew hii
I father well; he used to be a porter ip the
Uoutiuental.”— Philadelphia Call,
COLONEL BOWIE.
SLAVE TRADER, DUELIST AND
TEXAN REVOLUTIONIST.
Eventful Career of the Man Who
Invented the Celebrated Hunt
ing Knife Named After Him
—A Life of Danger.
4t -
James Bowie was born in Logan Coun
ty, Kentucky, in the year 1780. Ilis
parents were natives of Georgia, his
father being a woodsman and hunter, in
which craft James was brought up. The
family wandered from place to place,
usually seeking the remotest frontier,
and finally settled on the borders of
Louisiana and Texas. Here, in ltH4,
James Bowie made a clearing for him
self, built a log. cabin, and lived .princi
pally by fishing and hunting. Many
were his deeds of daring and reckless
ness in his forest adventures, and many
stories have been preserved of his wild
exploits. He would catch and ride not
only wild horses, but wild deer, and on
one occasion he caught, roped, and rode
an nlllgator.
He grew to be a large and powerful
man, six feet in height and extremely
muscular. His temper is said to have
been good, but he was easily aroused to
anger, which was terrible and unap
peasable, and led him into many a trag
ical encounter. He uever fought a reg
ular duel, but was engaged in many
fights, most of which had a bloody ter
mination. He was said to liavo been a
general favorite among his friends and
neighbors, which goes to disprove that
he was not of a cruel or bloodthirsty dis
position.
Texas, at that time belonging to Mex
ico, was a sort of promised land to the
adventurers of the Southwest. One of
tbe first expeditions into that country
was under General .Tamos Long, of Ten
nessee, and Bowie accompanied it. This
was in 1819. The expedition resulted
disastrously, Long being captured and
killed by the Mexicans, but Bowie re
turned safely to his home.
He now sold his land, and in compnny
with his brothers engaged in slave trad
ing with Lafitte, the notorious pirate of
the Gulf. Under the laws of tho United
States at that time slaves were not al
lowed to be imported into tho country,
but the brothers Bowie easily evaded
difgculty. Their plan of operations was
to go to Galveston anil purchase from
Lafitte a number of negroes, for which
they paid at the rate of $1 a pound, or
about |l4O for each negro. These they
would bring into the limits of the United
States, and then go to custom house offi
cers and become informers against them
selves. The law gave the informer half
tho value of tho negroes, which were put
up and sold by the United States Mar
shal. At the Marshal’s sale they would
themselves become tho purchasers,
would receive half the purchase money
back and a certificate of sale, which en
titled them to dispose of thu negroes in
the United States. Howie followed this
business until he mado some SOO,OOO,
most of which he soon spent in riotous
living in New Orleans.
It wau during these expeditions to
Galveston that liis genius evolved the
hunting knife, with which his name will
always be associated. It was made for
him by a blacksmith after a design of
his own. It was made with a heavy
back, so that it could be used in chop
ping as well as thrusting, thus fulfilling
the purpose of a hatchet, for which ho
used it in his woodsman life.
In the exciting political contests that
grew out of Jackson’s advout-as a candi
date Bowie took an active part. In
1820 he was residing at Alerandria, on
Red River, and during a political cam
paign he got ioto an altercation with
Norris Wright, Sheriff of Rapides l’ar
isb. Bowie was unarmed, and Wright
drew a pistol and shot him through the
body, but even then, if Wright hud not
been rescued by bis friends Bowie would
have killed him with his fists. ' This at
tack so enraged him that he determined
thereafter never to go without his knife,
and he had a scabbard made for it, and
said he would wear it as long as he lived.
A year later this feud with Sheriff
Wright culminated in a terrible encounter
at Natchez. In September, 1827, two
very respectable citizens of Louisianna,
Dr. Maddox aed Samuel Wells, having
a difference to settle, agreed to meet ou
a sand bar in the Mississippi River op-
Natchez with a few friends. They m t,
exchanged shots, and became reconciled.
When retiring from the ground Wells
Invited Maddox and his second. Colonel
A. I
Crane, to tho woods adjoining, where
some others of his friends, excluded
from the field, were, to take refresh
ments. Crano objected, on the ground
t, that there were certain men there he
could not meet. Wells then assented to
go where Maddox’s friends, who had
also been excluded from the field, were.
When on the way the party were met by
the friends of Wells, who were James
Bowie, General Curry and another per
son. Crane and General Curry were
mortal enemies, and immediately drew
their pistols. Cmne had a pistol in each
hand, and shot Bowie first and then
Curry, the latter being instantly kiUed.
At this the friends of Maddox hurried to
the , scene, and among them was the
Sheriff Wright who had the encounter
with Bowie a year before. Wright also
fired at Bowie, and he fell. A general
firing ensued and several others were
killed. Wright seeing Bowie lying ap
parently dead, approached and bent over
lihn, when 'Bowie suddenly drew his
knife and stabbed Wright to the heart.
He then arose, though severely wounded,
and stabbed another of the parly with
his knife, end the battle then termi
nated.
When Bowie recovered from his
wounds he determined to leave the
United States and take up his residence
in Texas. There he went in the year
1830 and engaged actively on the side of
the revolutionists, his valor soon gaining
him a distinguished name in thatcouii
try He married a daughter of one of the
ex-governor* of the province and was ap
pointed Colonel of one of tho Toxas regi
ments. During the next few years lie
was cng.iged in many fight* with the
Indians and with the Mexicans, in one
of which he and nine or ten men suc
ceeded in defending themselves against
150 Indians, with a loas of only one
killed and two wounded.
Ills career was finally ended at tho
bloody battle of Alamo. He had been
ordered to that place to take command,
on DOLT. A Par h A-,,,,,
but a few days after he reached there he
was taken down with pneumonia, and
during the siege was confined to his bed.
As is well known Santa Anna, command
ing 3,600 Mexicans, besieged the fort in
March, 1830. It had only about ISO de
fenders. After some days of attack the
place was stormed and c/ery Texan put
to tbe sword. No one escaped. Bowie,
sick in bed. is said to havo shot down
with pistols and killed with his knife a
number of his assilants before lie yielded
up his life. Whether this is true or not
it is safe to assume that if he had
strength and consciousness enough to do
it it was done. The celebrated Colonel
Lavid Crockett was also a victim of this
massacre.- -Chicago Herald.
Rice. ~ * i ■
The word “rice” is evidently of Este
em origin: Tamil, ariri; Arabic, Aria;
Latin, oryta; Italian, rito; French, m.
It is only second in importance among
the cereals to wheal, and forms toe grain
food of over one-third of. the human
race.
Its use by the inhabitants of China and
India extends as far back as the earliest
records of either country. A Chinese
classic describes minutely the drainage
and irrigation works constructed by tne
Emperor Yu on tho Yang-tse-kiaag
4,230 years ago. It was cultivated in
Egypt fully fifty centuries ago, though
not the principal food of the latter coun
try. Frequent Biblical references to rice
arc found. Herodotus fully describes it,
as docs Pliny in his treatise upon the
food plants of India. While Gibbon con
siders that It was cultivated in Bpoin at
the time of the Roman occupation, it
ccrta'nly, as an industry, attained no
prominence in Europe 'until compara
tively modern times, and it is generally
believed to have been introduced by the
Moors into Andalpsia during the eleventh
century, and to have crossed from Spain
into Italy alviiifrh century later.
Rico is grown in nearly every'portion
of the globe—in Javn, Brazil, Hawaii,
America, Italy, Japan, Indio, but princi
pally in China and Rurtnah. The Bur
mese crop is nearly all exported, the in
habitants subsisting on sonHf cheaper
food, as millet or dourrha ; that of China
is principally consumed at home, though
a good deal finds its way into this coun
try.—Southern liirouar.
Oddities or Noted Men.
Charles 11. of England was very fond
of hunting insects, and it is related by
certain historians that he was hunting a
moth in the supper-room at Whitehall
when the Dutch fleet sailed up the
Thames and burned Sheerness.
Frederick the Great in his youth was
noted for his stubbornness and bashful
ness, aud, we are told, showed this at
his Bister’s marriags. Instead of appear
ing at the ceremony in court attire he
came with the servants dressed as one of
their number.
Rossini,the composer of “The Barber,”
whun engaged; witk_aiiy great compo
sition, invariably shaved himself in a
most fantastic wayjto prevent his going
out of doors.
George IV., King of England, was
very feminine in his habits; he possessed
scores of embroidered shirts, which were
considered by him to be the best depart
ment of his wardrobe, and were accord
ingly displayed with great pomp to any
particular friend of his Majesty.
Napoleon habitually watched a certain
star, which he declared was his, for it
never abandoned him,, but was always in
sight commanding him to go forward,
giving os a reason for his success its own
appearance.
Augustus Hare, one of the cleverest di
vines in the English Church, when he
had ended a train of hard thinking,
would rise from the desk and spin around
on his heel a few seconds and then re
sume his stnies.
Naval Warfare Reduced to a Science.
The Sclfridge torpedo —that in general
use—is a tin can filled with about sixty
pounds of guncotton, which has the ex
plosive force of three hundred pounds of
powder. It is exploded by electricity,
and makes noise enough to frighten an
enemy’s ship into showing her heels,
though in the water the sound is of
course subdued and nearly lost. Some
of the torpedoes, however, are far more
terrible things to see and hear of than
this comparatively simple specimen.
They are made In some cases twenty-five
and even thirty feet in length, and filled
with so much powder, guncotton, dyna
mite and nitro-glycerine, not to mention
various combustibles of the jamo agree
able nature. When it is necessary they
j are set off to spin through the water at
a frantic rate of speed, generating inter
j nal heat by the action of a sort of paddle
I wheel, until, just as they reach the ill
. fated vessel which they are intended to
, annihilate the whole infernal < ontrivauce
: goes off without a symptom of warning,
and the unfortunate Eliza, Maud or
Anti-Sophia, as the case may be, flies in
a thousand million pieces up to the as
tonished skies. Dear, dear ! What a,
horrible visitation war is, to be sure !
We haven’t any navy, but we are getting
j naval warfare down to a very fine point
1 indeed - Providence Journal.
Ahead of the Egyptians,
i “Talk about Egyptian embalming,”
said a Chicago undertaker. “Why, it
don’t compare with what we do nowa
days. Those old Egyptions didn’t know
what art was in the profession of under
taking. is too much nonsense
1 afloat about the lost art of embalming as
practiced by the Egyptians, In the first
place their (female is of a kind to pre
| serve dead animal tissue whether it is
embalmed or not. It is very dry in
1 Egypt and'the temperature is even. The
boasted mummies of Egypt are simply
dried np specimens of skin and bones.
To day we can ambalm a.body so that it
will preserve the fu lness and hue of life
and it wiii never dry up :rt all. If the
modem process of embalming had been
know to the Egyptians of several thou
sand years ago, those old Kings who
wore laid away in the pyramids for us
moderns to look at,instead of presenting
tlie nppea -ance of tanned leather, would
have the kingly dignity of form and fea
ture which was thein when their bodies
wero laid away for the last long sleep.”
Moral courage is mire worth having
than physical; nut only because it is a
higher virtue, but because the domaud
fur it is more constant. Physical cour
age is a virtue which is almost always
put awsy in tho luinbir room. Montj
courage is wanted day by day,
NO. 45.