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OOXJUEAH * KIRBY, Editor* sad Propriotor*. VOL. XI. ellijay courier. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —BY— COLEMAN & KIRBY. 19* Office in the Court House j GEWERAL^iRECTORY. Superior Court meets Sd Monday i:i May and 2d Monday in October. county officers. J. C. Alien, Ordinary, T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court, H. M. Bramlett, Sheriff, J. H. Sharp, Tax Receiver, 6. W. Oates, Tax Collector, Jas. M. West, 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 COURT. 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, 1 L. R Jr. Commissioners. 'l'. J. bong, j ■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. Shopc. Methodist Episcopal Church—Ever. Ist Saturday 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. L. B. Greer, S. W. W. F. Hipp, J. W. R. Z. Roberts, Treas. T. \V. Craigo, Sec. W. W. Roberts, Tyler, T. B. Kirby, S. D. H. M. Bramlett, J. D. DR. J, R. JOHNSON, Physician and Surgeon 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 praotice in Blue Ridge Cironit, County Court Juitiee Court of Gilmer County. Legal business solicited. “Promptness" is oar motto. DR. j. S. TANKERSLEL Physician and Surgeon, Tenders his professional services to the citi sens of Ellijay, Gilmer and surrounding coun ties. Afl calls promptly attended to. Office upstairs over the firm of Cobb it Son. *IIFE WALDO THORNTON, D.D.B. DENTIST, Calhoun, Ga. Will visit Ellijay and Morganton at both the Spring and Fall term of the Superior Court—and oftener by special contract, when sufficient work is guar anteed to justify me in taking the visit. Address as above. ' Tmavil-lv Young men Who wish a Thobough preparation foi Business, w ill find superior advantages ai MOOBE’S BUSINESS TJNIYEBSITY ATLANTA, GA The largest and best Practical Business Sohoo in the South. can enter at any time. yeF'Bend for circnlarg, ■ ' WRITE PATH SPRINGS! —THE— Favorite and Popular Retort oj NORTH GEORGIA! Is situated 6 miles north of Ellijay on the Marietta & North Georgia Bailroad. Accommodations complete, facilities for ease and comfort unexcelled, and the magnificent Mineral Springs is its chief attraction. For other particulars on board, etc., address, Mss. W. F. Robertson, Ellijay, Ga. CENTRAL HOTEL! Ellijay, Georgia. In tbe special popular resort for commercial men and tourists of all kind, and is the general boose for prompt attention, elegant rooms and are second to none, in this place. Seasonable rates. Mrs. M. Y. Them will give her personal at tention to guests in the dining hall. 1-M Mountain View Hotel! ELLIJAY, QA. This Hotel is now fitted np in exoel lent order, end ia open for the reception of gueete, under competent management Every possible effort will be mede M make tbe Mountain View the moet popu lar Betel in XUfyty. Accommodations ti every department flrst-oleee Livery, eels and teed rtateei in connection with hotel. Guvate (metered te end from ell train* •w‘j THE ELLIJAY COURIER FOE GOOD • % JOB PRINTING —GO TO THE— COURIER OFFICE. Pamphlets, Circulars, Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Envelopes, Business Cards, Statements, Posters, And in fact everything in the Job Printing line neatly and cheaply ex ecuted at short notice. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Give us a call. Jg-stey Organ. 0-olidly Made. Unrivaled. Finish. of Popularity. illustrated catalogues sent free. Estey iDrgan i£o„ Brattiei>oro,vt. Automatic Sewing Machine Cos. 72 Wert 23d St., New York, N.Y. e| - We invite special at tantlon to our New Patent Actomatio Tes •■r ® ON machine, maklnn fl| /,SB preciaely the same stitch ** the Wilcox A Gibb., dl JBmKk and yet, if not preferred a SSSgdHBjM tbe Wilcox A Gibb* Tension Sts meME9S chine, can be retained any time within 80 day. and money refunded. But what is more remarkable .tiU, we never knew a woman willing to do her own family Mwieg on a shuttle machine after having tried our New Patent AUTOMATIC. Even Bhoe Manufacturer. And it beat .nlted tc their work—lt. eta.tic Mam. are more durable. Truly Automatic Sewing Machine, ere fail supereeding .buttle machine., and It i. no nee to deny it Troth ie mighty and doe. prevail. Shuttle Machine, have aeen th.tr beet day*. INVALID ROLLIN 6 CHAIRter O (RECLININOI.fBf A Pritelrea ■fi v .ifiaraarv, ta %t*4 l *MMAec. n r rwiituet* rwuiti; uitdin, Katy Cteslr C„ New Mum. Cent. “A MAP Of BUST LIFE -ITS fLCCTUATIOSS AND ITS VAST CONCBBKS." ELLIJAY. GA.. THURSDAY, -J ANUARY 27. 1887. THE TALE OF LJFM. lfau U today what man m yesterday— Will bs to-morrow; lot him curaa or pray Drink or be dull, he learns not, nor shall learn The lesson that shall laugh the world away. The world as gray or just as golden ehines. The wine as sweet or just as bitter flows Yor you and me; and you, like me, may find Perfume or canker in the reddest rose. The tale of life is hard to understand; Bat wail# the cup wait* ready to your hand Drink, and declare the summer roses blow As red in London as in Samarcand. Lips are as sweet to kiss and eyes as bright As ever flattered Omar with delight: English or Persian, while the mouth is fair, What can it matter how it says good night! —Justin McCarthy , AN ORANGE HUMMOCK. BT HARRIET PRESCOTT BPOFFORD. Juliau could hardly remember the fine old times before the war, although it could not be said to be the fault of his mother and his elder sisters, or of old Mammy Dinah, all of whom kept the legends of those times pretty constantly before h’s eyes and ears. The splendor, the company, the feasts, the slaves, all seemed to him the veriest idle story be side the fact of unvarying corn bread and bacon now. The house was tumbling to pieces; he wondered if there was a worse ruin in all Florida; the almost boundless extent of the lands was uncultivated; the slaves were all goue. "I don’t see why we should bo poor,” said Julian, having made up his mind for a good square talk at last, “with all the land that is here.” ‘‘That’s half the reason," said his father. “But I thought that it was off the land people made their money.” “When they already have money and the hands with which to cultivate land. It takes hands and it takes means to grow cotton and sugar. I can hardly be expected to go to work myself! ” “Then,” persisted Julian, “why couldn t we hire people, and pay them from the crop when it comes? ” “You don t know what you are talking about, my son.” “I know we have hundreds of acres of! land, and if they were mine, I think that I could do something with them.” ‘‘You may do what you please with them, ’ said his father. .*‘l give you ! carte blanche,” and he went back to the. reading of the Co/ir/roeional Hecord. Or at least he would have gone back if Julian would have let him. But .Julian had not begun to talk without being very much in earnest, and now he meant to go through. •‘Well,’' he said, laughing, ‘‘carte blanehe is a good thing to have, but one, needs some help to do anything wito even that. I think if you will let hie have the hummock in Okemolkokee Everglade, and will lend old Cy to Dandridge and me”— “Old Cyrus! What would your mother do without him, and what would Rachel and Rebecca do? The only one of 611 tne hands that has stayed faithful to us! You can do nothing without capital. ” “But Northern people come here, and seem sure of doing well. And we have the land they come to buy. That’s cap ital. If you lend old Cy to Dan and me, we won’t ask you for more, for" we’ve been saving our odd pennies for this, and we’ve got enough to buy all the grafts we want, and Col. Burbeck will give us some besides.” “Grafts ?” said his father, pushing up his silver-bowed spectacles in perplexity. •‘Grafts?’ “Yes.” “What are you going to do with grafts?” “Look at them,” said Julian, with a grin. “So I tee you’ll lend me Cy. What if Rachel went along with us?” “Your mother might uot approve.” “Mother'll approve fast < nough, I reckon, when we’re getting five-thousand a year. ” “rive thousand a year!” cried his father, letting the < onyressional Record, fall. “Have you gone daft, Julian?” “Well, father, ’ said Julian, with a great laugh, throwing back the dark curl that was always dropping into his eyes, “I’ll send for you to make us a visit on the big hummock in Okemolkokee Ever glade by-and-by, and then we’ll see.” “I don’t know about it; Idon’t know,” said his father, picking up the scattered leaves of his cherished document. But Julian knew that his father would lend old Cy to Danbridge and himself, and he made his preparations for the enter prise, saying little or nothing. Rachel nad already agreed to come to them whenever they should send for her. It was a week from that day that, with a pack of simple provisions, with rifles, picks, hatchets aDd pruning knives, and some twine hammocks in addition, Julian and his party started on their excursion, as they called it, Julian carrying on his back-greatly to old Cy’s disturbance, but, then, old Cy couldn’t carry everything himself—a bundle wrapped in moss, which he gayly de clared they must save first in case of fire, for it was all their fortune. “Bres- yer heart, honey,” said oldCy, where's dis yer fire gwine to be, onlest Mars' Ltan knocks my pipe onto a cypress tree? An’ it s so damp in dese yer swamps, ' sp.eet it'll put de pipe out any how ” They made their beds that night in the hammocks that they slung high in the Loughs, and that Julian bad brought aloug against the wishes of old Cy, who thought a bed of broken bougha fit for a king -uakes or not. What a scene it was on which their eyes opened in the early morning I Ce dars -upurb as the cedars of Lebanon, dropping great circles of shade, the huge live-oaks, trembling with webs and fes tr ons of grey moss, that made sheets of diamonds as it swung in the sun, here and there a palm tree lifting ita green crown in the clear air, and viatas info the rich vendure of the swamp beyond, gay with every color, and sweet with every acetit o b my moon suckle, vauilla, hrlu>tro|*c. and great unknown flowers Ik and out the Utioketa Hashed wings like jewel*; scarlet flamingoes stood in the pool*, the greet white heron rose heavily, and little alligators, that looked as if they were living bronze*, crept up to sun themselves on the bank*. After they had finished their frugal breakfast, and rolled their hammocks in the smallest knot they could make, they pushed on after old Cyrus, who knew the paths and by-paths to everywhere, and they were only a week on their way, adding to their larder game brought down by their rifles before they came up from the swamp they had skirted, and found themselves on the hummock of Okemolkokee Everglade. What a strango place it was. and what a wilderness of wealth it looked to Julian I It was a alight elevation, but a few feet in all above the , lamp, and its rich lands had beconwrt'iTiforest of the bitter wild orauge, at*yri!&t of no good to anybody, except in its season of bloom, whin the rapturously delicious fragrance drifted for miles on the soft air. “We will explore a mile or two to day,” said Julian, “and mark the trees we" think best to keep, and thin out all the others, the first thing we do.” It was a busy day they had of it, and many a busy day that followed, while they' let sun and air into the great thicket, and, as far as possible, saved trees in the regularity they would have had if set out in an orchard. Three or four times before they finished Cyrus left them and returned for piovisions, the, second time bringing his son Darius with him. And at last the wilderness was cleared, and every tree remaining in the first section had received the bud of the sweet orange, which had been the precious freight of Julian’s moss wrapped bundle. “Now,” said Julian, “while these are accommodating themselves to the new circumstances, we will go ahead and clear out next year’s extension. I don’t know exactly how long this hummock is, but in time I mean to get all the worthless growth cleared out of so much of it as belongs to father, if its ten miles, and every tree left grafted, and we’ll have every sort of orange that grows; the blood-red Maltese, the spicy little Mandarin, and all the rest. This is better than standing behind counters or over desks, isn’t it, Dan ?” “Heap sweeter work than picking cot ton on the field honey,” said old Cy. What a day it was to the boys and the old servant when the whole orange for j est, as far as eye could see, burst out in i flower, with suoh a blossoming as would ; have wreathed all the brides of the earth with snowy sprays, and whose rich, rare odors one would think might have sailed over the seas themselves, and penetrated foreign countries with their sweetness. “Now,” said Julian, to his brother and confidante, "we want to be fit for ! what’s coming. Don’t let’s waste any time. Di>Yancey has bonks enough, tall u* what to read, and we’ll go and and begin to get an edu cation.” And so much of their plan as this th*y announced to the family. “I’m sure I don’t see what you can be thinking about,” whimpered his sister Fpunie, “when we’re all but starving." /But Rachel was the only onewhotook mold of the books with them; and la bored along as near them as she cold fol low; and before the year was out it was surprising how much those lads and the young girl had put into their memories. Twice a year Julian and Dan and old Cy and Darius went off on what their mother called their wicked and idle shooting, for which she didn’t see why their father wa9 willing to spare them old Cy. But the father kept the secret. They believed it would make the mother happy enough by-and-by. Some years later, they set out early one morning for the orange hummock, the father having left a note for the mother, saying that he was going with the boys, and going to take Rachel, Nobody enjoyed the whole enterprise more than Rachel, who was a helpful little body, and knew of countless meth ods of adding to their comfort on the way. Her own comfort was secured by the little donkey that Cy had borrowed of Dr. Yancey and < n whi h she rode. “You’ll have to be lot'of use, Rachel, as soon as we get tlere,” said Julian, “and so has Mr. Kathlr.” But when she did dbt there, she found as romantic a little hit, made of orange boughs, with two rooms in it, too, that the boys had made fo her the last time they were there, as ope could have out of a fairy story; a|d long before she reached the place sh could have found the way by the odirs blowing toward her; and when, all it once, the orange- forest —not an or an; (grove or planta tion, but the orange orest—burst upon her in full gorgeous i mt she could have cried with rapture, nly she knew her father liked to have tfer staid and quiet. But she knew she la< come to help them gather their fortune, And all hands be gan at once. “We made a eft, you gee, father," said Julian, “the lAt time we were here, too, and we can fiat it; and there is a raft tied up under the bushes there, and that will let us intfjthe water ways to the St. John’s, if wepell our oranges well, we’U have a betteifequipment next year. After that, pntiece. patience, father! When we’ve raftj down one lot we’ll come back for tie next. When those first old Spanish cdonists, three hundred years ago, brougli over a few orange shoots from SeviK do you believe it ever occurred to gem that such a forest as this would find a place here?” It was all a Jlian said, and when they had finishe> their voyaging and ■old the l‘t or.inje, the boys went back with their father,and made their mother a visit, and stopped all her reproaches by tellint her thtjr story. Shortly after that, miyons and y irpenters and garden ers wcr.Jat work ljw'n the house and the ground? and then the boys had taken servant! and mules with them, and had gone bck to the Okemolkokee hum mock, ail l achel, with her mother's consent had gone along, to keep the mildew IT,-1 an snid, while they cleared out the ummock farther along, glutting nitw tre and tending old ones, and read their b tks at night, by the light of burning |).tch-pine knot-, before the lit tle hut i the centre of their orange trees, tl it acemed to bud and bloom as if they new the wo k they were doing for the fmily that had two such sons and suchl daughter as Itschel, in il. It was hslt-d sen years later, that I met at Hk- Orleans a stately old gentle rna 'rMed faultlessly; on his arm was a pals #1 graceful iad whose face, happy ad sttiilliur though it was, bore traces < old discontent and sorrow. Then m • group o t young people la the distance, busy over trunks and bas kets and wraps,—Frarnie and Rebecca, and little Rachel, grown as tall and handsome as they, and their pert and pretty quadroon waiting maid; and -lames, who had grandly tnrown up the place under Government, anxiety to keep which had once nearly worn his life out; and the two boys, who had forgotten there was such a thing as a shop counter or an oyster-scow. and Darius, grinning like a masque and old Cy, hovering round Julian and Dandrigde as if they were the chief treasures of the family, and losing them one lost orange groves and all. “Yes,” said the stately old gentleman, “yes, we are on the way to see the boys off to Europe, to give them the advan tages of the best education. Splendid bys, sir—deserve the best there is. and I am able to give it to them, and they shall have it. “Am I still in the cotton business? Oh, no; the cotton business left me with the war. lam largely interested in orange growing. My boy*—fine young men —early turned their attention to the wild bitter orange on my waste lands, and thank 9to them—l mean, thanks to Julian and Dandridge there—you will hardly believe It, but! receive more than ten thousand dollars a year clear profit from my orange groves:’’ The steamer bore away over the old Spanish main, to Gibraltar and Genoa, two promising young men, if young they might be called, when nearly thirty. Ten years had changed their fortune. The old hummock still blossom* and bears, and becomes a richer income year ly, and is likely to do so until “the boys” are old.— Youth') Companion. Beecher on Gladstone. Rev. Henry Ward Beqcher heard ex- Premier Gladstone speak at Liverpool, and writes his impressions of the great English leader for the New York World as follows; Taking the address as a whole, and comparing it with the elaborate efforts of such an American as Daniel Webster, or with some of the oid Greek orators, it could scarcely be said to have the form and finish that applies to many of the masterpieces of eloquence. Judging of its effect on myself, a stranger, a for eigner, one not well versed in the details which he discussed, I found myself, nevertheless, glowing with the sympathy of the audience and in full admiration of this remarkable man. Whatever may be the issue of the {mat question upon which he' has expended his genius, which ho regards as his last great life’s work— the emancipation of Ireland —there can be no doubt that Gladstone is pre-emi nently the central figure in the politics of Great Britain, nnd that he also is or hag been a hading figure in the affairs of all Europe. Hi,* versatility is proverbial., His klluwledge of classical languages and of modern languages, which is not so pro found or so minute as that of many other men. is, nevertheless, remarkable. There are few subjects which interest thinking men to-day about which he cannot wisely and instructively discourse. His memory is something prodigious. His command of material very striking; his accuracy in statement marvelous. He impresses one as a fur-seeing and comprehensive statesman, void of the arts of politicians, in deep earnest and with strong moral convictions. • Mr. Gladstone seems to be a man, 1 should say, of about five feet ten inches in height. He is active, supple and erect; capable of enduring great fatigue, quite elastic in spirits, genial and social. His head is said to be a Websterian bead, but in my judgment it will hardly heat that comparison. The lines upon his face are btrong; his features are large, and, being nearly bald, the impression of the height of his foreheap is apt to be exaggerated. A strong nose, a mouth fine, but very firm, the chin only moder ately full. Altogether a striking head and physiognomy. I met him subsequently at his own dwelling in London at a breakfast. He was* very simple and unpretentious in his manner; grave and very dignified, yet familiar. I cannot say that he is a good conversationalist, but he is an ex cellent talker. Although there were several gentleman present, pretty much all the discourse fell from his lips. Mr. Gladstone has not escaped very bitter detraction. The hatred him on some sides is intense and even malig nant. Even his personal morality lias not escaped virulent criticism. It is probable that no statesman for the last hundred years has been subjected to greater abuse and vindictive misrepre sentations. To me he seemed like a great man seeking great ends and by very noble measures and from pure motives. Whatever may be the outcome of the present struggle, I think it beyond all controversy that when the rights of Ireland are acknowledged and estab lished all men will see tbat the redeem ing measures must be traced back to the wisdom of William E. Gladstone. A Great Sea on Fire. The shores of the Caspian abound in ntfphtha springs extending for miles under the sea, the imprisoned gases ol this volatile substance often escaping from fissures in its bed and bubbling up in large volumes to the surface. This cir cumstance has given rise to the practice of “setting the sea on fire,” which is thus described by a traveler: “Hiring a steam-barge, we put out to sea, and, after a lengthy search, found at last a suitable spot. Cur boat having moved round to windward a sailor threw a bundle of burning flax into the sea, when floods of light dispelled the sur rounding darkness. No fireworks, no illuminations, are to be compared to the sight that presented itself to our ga/e. It was as though the sea trembled con vulsively amid thousands of shooting, dancing tongues of llaine of prodigious size. Now they emerged from the water, now they disappeared. At one time they ■oared aloft and melted away; at another a gust of wind divided them into bright streaks of flame, the foaming, bubbling billows making music to the scene. “In compliance with the wi-hes of some of the spectators our bsrgc was steered toward the tiaraes. and passed right through the midatof them, a some what dangerous exp riment, as the barge was employed io tbs transport of naph tha, and was pretty well saturated with the fluid. However, we escaped with out accident, and gazed for an hour longer on the unwonted spectacle of e see ve lire." HOUSEHOLD MATTER* A. Christmas Plum Pudding. Three-qurters of a lb f bread crumbs; 1 lb. of beef suet; 1-4 lb. of flour; I lb of currants; 1 !b. of raisins; 1 lb. of sugar; 1 eunce of candied citron peel; 1 ounce of candied lemon peel; 1 ounce of sweet almonds, blanched; 1 saltspoonful ■alt; 1 small nutmeg, grated; 1 lemon; 8 eggs; 1 pint milk. Shred the suet finely; wash, pick aud dry the curants; atone the raisins, and blanch and slice up the almonds Mix theie thoroughly with the other dry in gredients, and then beat and add the eggs, afterward the milk (adding ouly enough of the milk to meisten the mix ture into a stiff paste, too much will make the pudding heavy). Put the mix ture into a well-buttered mold, tie a floured pudding-cloth over it, put it into boiling water aud keep it boiling for six or seven hours. As the water boil* away do not add cold water, but replenish the pot from another vessel of water which is kept boiling for the purpose. The adding of cola water makes the pudding heavy. When the pudding is done and taken out of the boiling water it should be plunged at once into a vessel of cold water. This will loosen the sides of the pudding from the mold and render it less likely to break in turning it out.— Caterer. Stale Bread. A great deal ef bread is thrown away bv those who can ill afford it, from lack ef knowledge how to utilize it. On the farm, in most instances, of course, stale bread is not wholly lost, for if wet a little it makes good food for the poultry, or may be giveu to the pigs, but this is not the best wav to make use of it even by those who have poultry and pigs. There are many ways to utilize stale bread. It makes delicious griddle-cakes when soaked in cold water. Three small •lices with water enough to cover them should be sufficient, when the milk end fleur are added, to make two quarts of hatter. Some prefer to put in one egg, while others like them fully es well with out. When the bread is soaked soft, make it tine with a spoon, add the milk and sufficient flour to stiffen enough so that the cake* can be easily turned. If aour milk is used add to the batter one even tablespoonful of soda. If you do not use sour milk use twice as much cream of tartar as soda. French toast, always a favorate dish with children, can be mudo of thin slices cut from a stale loaf and moistened in milk and eggs—two eggs to a pint of milk—and then fried on a griddle with a mixture of butter and lard or butter and beef drippings, and maybe eaten with sugar or syrup, like griddle cakes. Pieces of bread which are not too hard can be made into a resemblance of turkey dressing. Cut tne bread into dice, and if you have a quantity of gravy from which fat can be taken, left from any kind of roast—though a piece of butter will do as well—thoroughly grease the bottom of a spider, put in the bread, with some little chunks of butter and Elenty of seasoning: then pour enough oiling water on to moisten it. cover tightly, and, in a moment, it will steam through and you can stir it, and either brown a little or have It moist like dress ing. It shoffld be eaten with gravy over it, and is a good substitute for potatoes. The little dry, hard pieces and crusts which always accumulate can be put on a pie-tin in an oven that is just hot enough to dry and make them a light brown, then roll them fine and put away to use in making croquettes, frying fish, etc. Even these slightly-browned crumbs make excellent griddle cakes with tile addition of one egg and a handful of flour and milk to a batter. Male bread may be utilized in making n custard pud ding also. The fact is, that where econ omy Is the rule bread will not be thrown away. Useful Hints. To Pomsh Tins. —First rub them with a damp cloth; then take dry flour and rub it on with the hands; afterward take an old newspaper and rub the flour off. and the tins will shine as well as if half an hour had been spent in rubbing them with brick-dust or powder, which spoils the hands. Cleaning White Km Gloves. —Take a piece of white flannel, moisten with sweet milk, rub on a little white soap and wipe the gloves. Then go over them again with the flannel dipped, in miik, without the soap. Wrap them loosely in a towel and let them remain until dry; then stretch them. Scouring Kwvkh. —Place a quantity of brick-dust on a board, and having the knife perfectly dry, press it down hard and rub it back and forth, crosswise of the blade. When bright, turn and scour the other side. Then wipe off with a chamois leather. Knives thug treated will retain their brightness much longer and have anew look after years of usage. . Furniture, Polish. —One ounce of white wax, one ounce of. yellow wax, one-half- ounce of white soap and one pint of boiling water. Melt all together m a saucepan over the fire, and pour into a bottle. Apply it by rubbing a little on a small space with a cloth of any kind, rub with a second cloth and polish with a third. The economical housekeeper may have her furniture nicely polished for the holidays at trifling expense. To Prkrkr.ne Steel Goods from Rust.—After bright gratea have been thoroughly cleaned, they should be dusted over with unslacked lime, and thus left until wanted. All the coils of piano wires are thus sprinkled, and will keep from rust for many years. Table knives which are not in constant use ought to be put in a case in which quick lime is placed, eight inches deep. They should be plunged to the top of the blades, but the limo should sot touch the handles. A high class weekly, eomething after the style of the London Saturday Jteciew, will soon mako its appearance in this city. The proprietor will be Dewitt J. Beligman, e son of the wealthy banker and himself a millionaire. The new journal will contain ehort articles on poli tics, society, srt end literature, supple mented by brief debates on current topics by well known writers, ends short story in every number. Capitalists are considering the feaaibli- Ity of establishing a grain route from Mnuitebeto i.ugland by way of Hudson a lay. on DOUAR Ptr * . Ia Aflw*i Fan at the Fireside. An exchange describes a few tricks and games with which the long winter evenings may be quickly and pleasantly whiled away. Here ia a trick for the boys to try; Tile material r.ceded ore a clothes basket, a strong broom handle, a stout walking stick, two chairs, and four penny pieces. Pass the broomsticks through the handles of the basket, and let tbe pro ectingends rest firmly on the seats of two chairs, placed opposite to each other. The slightest touch will cau*e the basket to oscillate. Then place a coin on each front corner of the two chair bottoms. The player must then seat himself on the broom handle, with a leg on each side of it, and attempt to jerk off the coins with the point of the walking stick. He must neither touch chair nor basket with his bands, but may plant the stick on the floor, as a means of steadying himself. As, however, the stick is equally needed for jerking off the coins, the operator generally has many a roll out of the basket before he succeeds. When the pennies opposite to him have been dislarged, it is no easy matter to turn r,.und and .emove the re maining two. This trick always produces shouts of laughter; for the basket beingso near the floor the tumbles do no Jiarm to the player, while his grotesque' efforts are highly amusing to the lookers on. If, after a certain number of trials previously agreed on, tho operator falls in hu attempts he gives place to another. \ When the lads are tired of this game, pater familias and one of his grown-up friends may taka a turn at it, or they may answer to the question: . “Will you oblige me with a light?” Two players are needed. One take* a lighted candle in his left hand. Then each must stand on the left foot only, and extend the right leg and arm as far behind as possible, they must bend for ward, and try to give and take the re quired light. And I wish they may succeed—being quite sure that they will bo successful in adding to the fun of tho fireside circle by their praisewort? pfforts. Having failed or succeeded in lighting a taper under these circumstances they may next try in turn a novel mode of extinguishing a lighted candle. The player must be stationed opposite to the light, which should be placed on a sideboard or similar article of furni ture, Then, when thoroughly blind folded, he must be requested to turn round three times before ho attempts to blow out the candle. This seems to be a very imple matter to do. Well, if you think so, try it. By this time everybody is ready for a round game, and everybody must play. Suppose you begin with “How do you like jour neighbor?” All the players sit in a circle except one, who stands in tho middle and takes the duty of “odd man.” , “The "Neighbor is always the player to tho right of the one addressed. The “odd man, or girl," turning quickly round, inquires of a sitter, “How do you like your neighbor?” “If the answer is “Not ut all,” the next question- is, “Who would you like better?” The sitter addressed names,_ or points out, the more favored individual, whp must instantly rise and run across to change places with the rejected neigh bor; but the “odd man” also tries to obtain possession of one of tho vacated seats, aud, if successful, the other, who has lost hers, stands in the middle and becomes questioner in turn. Should the reply to “How do you like your neighbor?” be “Very much." instead of “not at all,” tho wiiplo of the players change seats, and whopver is left without oho becomes-“odd man." Nevada’s Salt Fields. The abundance of tijo salt formation in Nevada is illustrated by the fact that in Lincoln County there is a deposit of pure rook salt which is exposed for a length of two miles, a width of half a mite, and is of unKnown depth; in places canons are cut through it to a depth of sixty feet, and not only has the deposit been traced on the surface for a distance of nine miles, but it is so solid iu places as to require blasting like rock, and so .pure and transparent that print can be road through blocks of it some inches thick. In Chui chill County there is said to be a deposit of rock salt some fourteen feet in depth, free from pny particle of foreign substance, and wliich can be quarried at the ra*e of five tonjs a day to the man. What is know as the great Humboldt salt field is estimated to be some lifteen miles long by six wide. Ac cording to the description, when the summer heats have evaporated the sur face water, salt to the depth of several inches may be scraped up, and '..ncUr neath there is a stratum of lock salt of the purest description, and of a depth unknown. Having Fan With Nickels. In some of the St. Louis one-horse cars there are brass nickel carriers that run the whole length of the car. From any part of the car you can drop a nickel into one of these carriers and then watch it as it rolls along on its edge down the incline and finally goes rattling into the fare-box. I saw a wild Western ranch man come into a car, and, after putting his fare in the ordinary way, he noticed a Dew-comer drop a nickel down the ele vated railway. The device aroused his utmost admiration. He at once changed a couple of dollars into five-cent pieces. Then he took ids place at the door and started two nirkles simultaneously down each side of the car and offered to ac cept bets as to which would get into the fare-box first. He kept this up until his $•2 worth of coin was gone, and wound up by saying “Wall, that's the queer est contrivance I ever see. ” — Detroit Fret Prett. A Pnlnfnl Inference. In the graveyard at Norridgcwock, Me., are a couple of tombstones which much amused a modern Athenian, who, in the course of his wanderings, visited that lovely village. < ;ne re- ordx the fact that beneath ies‘i the remains of little Sarah .(ones, who died in childhood on a date which it aftecifled. The second stone, erected over the grave of a half sister of this child, who likewise died in early youth, beme merely the laconic an nouncement: "The Second little Sarah has gone to Heaven.” The inferen aln regard to the probable abode of the spirit of the rirst child is as obvloue as it is startling.- -#•#<* Umrd, NO. 46.