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The Ellijay Courier.
HORVCE M. ELLINGTON, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XVI
GENERALJHRECTORY
Superior court meets third Monday In May
and second Monday In October.
H<rti.Oeoijp‘ K. Gober, Judge.
Hon. Goo. K. Grown, Solicitor General.
cmixrv orriCBRS.
OmI nary, A. M. Johnson.
Dork, W. A. Cox.
Sheriff, H. M. llramlett.
Tax Collector, MilosPlcmraons.
Tax Keenlver, James 11. Shart)
County Surveyor, James M. West.
Cor *ner v ado (loss.
Court of ordinary meets flrat Monday in
each mouth.
CiTY UOVKItNMKNT.
R. W. Watkins, Mayor.
R. W. Coleman, H. M. Ellington, L. L. Blsh
o|>, R. Buiniigton; Councilmen.
KKI.KllOUH SKKVICKS.
Methodist Episcopal Church South, ovory
bird Sunday and Maturday before. Boy. J. N.
Myon.
II ipltat Church; Rvorv second and third Sun
<hty, by Kev. R. B Shopc.
Methoilist Episcopal Church; Every first
Saturday a d Sunday, by Rev. J. R. Tallant.
rit ATKItNAl. IIBCOKD.
Oak II >wery l<od<e, No 81, F. & A. M.,
meets first Friday night in ch month.
W A. Cox, W. M.
J. R. Findley, 8. W.
W. C. Alien. J. W.
K. Z. Rolterta, Treasurer.
David Garrett, Secretary.
S. F. Garren, Tyler.
OttttKtl OB TilK (IOI.I1KN CHAIN.
Mountain Vew Lodge No 134, meets 4th
Tamlay night in each month.
Library Association meets every Thu- day
night
Of f.MKIt COtJNfY A 1,1.1 AN UK.
J. T Metlan, Freshlent.
W P Will sms, Vico President,
w I. Pettit, Secretary.
A M John on. Troas trer.
Win. K'linfton. County Lecturer.
R. I* Evans. Asst. Lecturer.
S. it West, Chaplain.
W H, Dupree, Doorkeeper.
W P. Key, Asst. IX>orkeoper.
»I S1>KSS, PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
.1 JliS. J M. A .1. It. BEARDEN,
PHYSICIANS and DRUGGISTS.
Kill lay, - - Gcorv in
Ai It* W COLEMAN,
Attorney at Law, - Eililay, Georgia.
Will practice In Blue ltidge Circuit and Jus
Court of titimer county. Legal business
t»<- sited. “f'rrmpfnose" is our motto.
• .C. ALLIN.
Attorney at law and Real Estate Dealer,
Ellijay, Georgia.
iuvrstigatiftn of titles a specialty.
**CFE .WALDO THORNTON, D D. 8.
~*~DKNTIPT
Cn.boim, .... Georgia
*Vili visit Eiiij ty and Morganton at both the
spring and the Fall term of the Superior
C nit, and oftener by gpceial contract, when
uKloient work is guaranteed to justify mein
making the visit. Address at above.
John p. p^rhy,
Attokrky at Law, KH'Jay, Georgia
VBn.W. OATfW,
Attorney at I.uw aiid Justice of the Peace.
Ki.i.ijay, - G KOI If) i a .
Dft J 8. TaNKRKSLBY,
Physician anti Surgeon,
FHIJay. ...... Georgia.
•lice south sldeef eourt house.
Wr J K. Johnson,
Physician and Surgeon.
*• tiJay, - Goorgla.
'•os his prof*s«ional services to the peo
p .»f Gilmer and surrounding counties and
*** ' i ue support of iiis friends as heretofore.
Alt orders promptly tilled
TEEM HOTEL.
ELLIJAY, - GEORGIA.
My hotel Is neatly furnished and is flrst-clato
n ail Ms apirtments. My rooms and beds are
clean and inviting, and table supplied witb the
best to la* tad. Keusonabls rates. .
M V TEEM, Prop.
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Et Louis, Arkansas and Texas Ey.
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ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
TWO DAILY TUVINS
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Making din- t iHin’ctioni with all trains from
the EAST.
No < Change ol Cars
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FT. - WORTH, - WACO,
OH INTERMEDIATE POINTS.
1 HR ONLY LINE receiving pastwngcrs at
Memphis without a long and disagreeable
omnibus transfer through the city.
THE ONLY LINE witb Memphis through and sleeping South- car
service between the
THE ONLY LINE with through car service
Texas. lietween Memphis and points in Central
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ALL LINKS IIAVK TICKETS ON SALE
VIA.
The Cotton Belt Houtc.
For rates, maps, ti ro tables, and all Infor¬
mal on regarding call u trip to Arkansas or Texas,
write or on
8.0. WARNER,
8. E. Ptiss’r Agent,
Memphis, Term,
V. Gen’I II. DODDRIDOS, MuuuKcr. Uen'l K. W. Pass LaBRAUMB A Tat ArL,
ST. LOU 18. MO.
. H. SUTTON, Pass. Agent,
, Chattanooga, Twin.
WAYS OF BUTTERFLIES.
THE HABITS OF AN INSECT THAT
BEGAN LIFE AS A WORM.
VHflr Breakfast-Fond of WaUr-Vast
Swarms of Them-Snowing Batter*
Hies—In the Tropics—Long Flights*
Five Hundred Miles From Land.
“The habits of butterflies afford a very
interesting study, ” »aid a naturalist to a
writer for the Washington Star. “You
will find few of them abroad in the fields
before 7 or 8 o’clock in the morning, and
by 7 in the summer evening, long before
nightfall, nearly every one will be tucked
away for the night, with shut wings and
antennae packed between them, resting
beneath some leaf clinging to a grass
blade.
“The butterflies' first thought on rous¬
ing themselves for the day is breakfast.
Off they go, probino* every flower for its
sweet juice. Usually their day is mostly
spent in this employment. Some are
less greedy or more lazy than tffiers,
devoting long hours to sunning mem
selves and gently half opening and shut¬
ting their daiuty wings.
Many kinds are ae.iJcdly pugnacio .
Such a one will p^.ch on the tip of a
twig and dash fiercely at the first but¬
terfly that passes, topeeially if it be one
of its own species. Then the two, cir¬
cling about each other rapidly, will
mount skyward, until presently they part
and the pursuer goes back to the very
same twig once more and there awaits
another foe.
However, Ruch butterflies do not limit
their attacks to oilier9 of their kind.
Almost any anglewir.g, if you toss your
hat in the air, will fly at it and circle
around it with the utmost ferocity. The
little American ‘copper butterfly,’ one of
the smallest sped..*, will go for very
bulky grasshoppers that come within it3
range of vision.
“Some butterflies are particularly fond
of water, You will sometimes see them
on the brinks of road dde pools, hundreds
of them together thronging about the
puddles, with wings erect and standing
ns close as they can be packed. The
‘tiger swallow tails’ crowd around lilac
blossoms, drinking the juice until they
become intoxicated, ao that one can
catch them easily with his hand. The
‘milkweed butterfly’ mounts to lofty
heights, a,s no other butterfly does, and
plays about iu ceaseless gyrations. Oc¬
casionally a crowd of butterflies will
swarm upon a bu->h so thickly as to
change its appear, noe l»y their color.
Rome kinds of butterflies seem to be
nauseous to the taste, so that birds will
not touch them, and butterflies of other
species imitate their coloring closely in
order to obtain like immunity from being
gobbled.
“Butterflies are often seen in vast
swarms. A lighthouse keeper on Lake
Ontario was gres. / annoyed one season
uot long ago by gre»t numbers of these
insects which gathered around his light
so us to Ouscure it. Electric lights in
cities attract numerous butterflies from
the country, and entomologists have
taken advantage of this fact to secure
many desirable specimens. Butterflies
are particularly insects of warm coun¬
tries; they live inthesun. Nevertheless,
there are a few varieties which make
their homes in the frigid zone and on
the bleakest mountain peaks.
“Darwin, in his ‘Naturalist’s Voyage
Around the World,’says: ‘One evening
when we were about 10 miles from the
Bay of San Bias, north Patagonia, we
saw vast numbers of butterflies in flocks
extending as far as the eye could range.
Even with a telescope it was not possible
to see auy space that was free from but¬
terflies. The seamen cried out: “It’s
snowing butterflies!” The day was fine
and calm, as had been the day before, so
it cannot be supposed that they had been
blown off the laud. They must have
tuken voluntary flight.’
“Observers in India and elsewhere in
the — ,tropics have often noticed great
swarms of whitish yellow butterflies pro¬
ceeding in line along the seacoast. Dr.
Rhulte, an eminent scientist, relates that
in a dead calm in the Baltic Sea ha
steamed for three hours, 30 miles, through
a continuous flock of wlijje butterflies of
the sort which, as caterpillars, prey on
cabbages. Subsequently the shore was
strewn with the insects.
“Early on one October morning a few
years ago people on the north side of the
main island of Bermuda saw a big cloud
corning from the northwest, which turned
out, on approaching, to bo an immense
concourse of small yellow butterflies,
that flitted lazily about over the grassy
patches and cultivated fields, as if fa¬
tigued after a long voyage over the deep.
Fishermen’s boats out on the water at
the same tipio were covered with the in¬
sects alighting. The tendency of certain
reddish brown butterflies to swarm along
thp water’s edge in preparation for long
flights is well known. Certain species
must have flown lung distances over the
Pacific to have tenanted the scattered
islands where they are found. One kind
was seen by a naturalist in the south Pa¬
cific 500 miles from any land."
The Lord’s Core for Old Age.
"It is provided that as we grow older
we shall go deeper into life, and come to
prize the deeper things of life It is no*
tices'hle that in the true order of our .Jiv¬
ing the common tilings which pleased us
as children are not cared for as we grow
older, and the great care and regard for
the details of outer life which people
strive so hard for during the pushing,
active years—these, too, seem of less im¬
portance, Those who keep themselves
sound in mind and character seem to get
underneath the things lying so nearly
u.K>n the surface, and come littto by lit¬
tle at the more real and substantial things
which lie beneath. In this way those
who live the allotted time on earth are
constantly making the foundations of
their characters firmer and sinking them
d iaper into what is true and enduring.
This is one of the greatest blessings that
cau come in the whole of life. For it
traius the faculties or powers of the soul
to enter the beginnings of what is coin¬
ing hereafter."—Rev. GeorgS 8. Wheeler,
in the Helper.
A MAP OP BUSTLIFE-1TS AND IIS VAST FLUCTUATIONS CONCERNS.
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ELLIJAY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7,189f^
hen and women.
Ex-Attorney General Ayers, of Vir¬
ginia (worth $500,000), was a page in the
Senate.
The Smiths in New York city number
2.200; the Browns 1,600; and the
Joneses 720.
John Claflin, the New York dry goods
merchant, is known in the Rocky Mount
a ; ns as a man who slays a grizzly every
time he goes out there for a month’s rest
and sport.
It is said that of 498 men who bore the
title of general in the Confederate serv¬
ice, only 184 are left. G. T. Beauregard
is the sole survivor of those who held the
highest rank, that of full general.
W. B. Bogardus, 18 years dttl,
rode an ordinary top bicycle from
Buffalo, N. Y,, to Chicago. There were
six starters with him. Bogardus alone
finished. He covered 70GJ miles in 10
days’ actual time.
The only woman, with the exception
of Mrs. Gwimwood, who has received the
Royal Red Cross is Florence Nightingale,
The cross was awarded to Mrs. Grim
wood for her bravery during the revolt
of the Mauipjuris, in India, a few months
ago.
Bismarck uecently entertained a trade
society of limebumers and brickmakers
at Friedrichsruhe, where he has exten¬
sive kilns, and he told the members that
to him his kilns are the barometer by
which he measures the prosperity of all
other German industries.
William Henry Smith, first lord of tho
treasury, will soon be elevated to the
peerage. Mr. Smith is the leading new3
agent in England, and the firm of Wil¬
liam H. Smith & Sons controls every
book and newsstand on all the principal
ruilway lines in the country.
The Empress Eugenie will in future
Tve a good deal in the south of France.
She has just bought for £7,000 five acres
of ground on Cape St. Martin, the tongue
of land which juts out into the Med
iterrauean between Monaco and Mentone.
She intends to build a villa there.
Lyman S. Low, a New York dealer in
medals, has among the collection several
hundred medals presented to soldiers in
Hie Eng’b h army from 1793 to 1880 for
deeds of valor and conspicuous bravery.
With but few exceptions they were all
pawned by their owners to meet the
necessaries of life.
Sir Arthur Haliburton, the newly ap¬
pointed assistant under secretary of state
lor the English war office, is the youngest
sou of that famous old Nova Scotian,
Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton,
whose sayings under the pseudonym of
“Sam Slick" have amused more than
one generation of readers.
Thomas Baldwin, the aeronaut, was
poor and thriftless till he took to drop¬
ping from balloons in a parrachute. Now,
after exhibiting his dating in three
quarters of the globe, he is well to do,
and his wife wears fine diamonds anil
decorations which admirers of her hus¬
band’s exploits have given her.
Captain Henry C. Hathaway, of New
Bedford, Mass., was the American ship¬
master who rescued John Boyle O’Reilly
in the Indian Ocean, after he had es¬
caped from the Australian penal colony.
The friends of the dead poet and patriot
recently presented the captain with a
testimonial in the shape of a silver baa
relief of his former craft, the Gazelle.
Mrs. Lucian Mayberry, of Little Rock,
Ark., is the happy mother of ten boys,
all bom within a married life of 39
months. There are two sets of triplets
and two pair of twins. They are all well
formed, bright and healthy in body and
mind. Mr. Mayberry is a prosperous
merchant, and says he feels like the head
of an infant asylum. Mrs. Mayberry is
a pretty blonde, plump and hearty, of
barely 24 years of age.
Princess Helen Sanguszko, who died
recently at the age of 56, received an
offer of marriage from Louis Napoleon
when she visited his court during the first
days of the empire. He did not become
tiie suitor of the empress until he had
been definitely rejected by the princess.
She had the reputation of being the most
beautiful woman in Poland, if not in
Europe. She had many suitors, but pre¬
ferred a single life in her old castle of
Gumniska.
Consul General Kelley, who is now at
home from his long sojourn in Cairo,
says that not once during his residence
in the land of the Khedive did he get a
glimpse of tho wife or grown daughter
of any Egyptian official. The Egyptian
women adhere very strictly to the Mo¬
hammedan law forbidding them to un¬
veil their faces in public, and very rarely
leave their apartments. The present
Khedive has only one wife, although al¬
lowed four by the laws of the Prophet.
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Th» Solution of It.
The “Lady or the Tiger" puzzle has
been solved, according to a fair corre¬
spondent of the Detroit Free Press. She
asserts that in conversation with Frank
Stockton, its author, she said that she
would herself much prefer to have the
lover eaten by the tiger. Stockton’s ans¬
wer cleared up the whole mystery. It was:
“So would any woman who loved the
man; that is, if I understand a woman’s
nature correctly."
“You don’t love me so much as you
did," pouted young Mrs. McBride.
“Didn.tl just now say tllat you were
worth your weight in gold?” remon¬
strated her husband. “Yes, but you said
that when we were first married, and I
weigh seven pounds less now. ”—Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
Costly Metal for Drains.—-“ Well,’* ex¬
claimed Mrs. Bunting, “I’ve heard of
such extravagances as silver bath tnlw,
but this beats all. ” “What?" asked her
htndrand. “Here’s an article in the news¬
paper about ‘The Gold Drain.”’
The man who can hang pictures under
sujiervisiou for an hour does not want to
be an angel—he is already one. —Texas
Siftings.
Mias Trill—I love to hear the birds siug.
Jack Mallet (warmly)—So do I. They
never attempt a piece beyond their ability,
—Puck.
SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL.
It is estimated that the coal strata un¬
derlying Colorado exceeds 30,000 square
miles.
A society has been formed at Berlin
for the purpose of cooperating in astro¬
nomical and meteorological researches.
A station of the maritime zoology of
the Johns Hdpkins University has just
been opened at Port Antonio, in Ja¬
maica.
Over 800 patents have been granted by
the United States Patent Office on stor¬
age batteries and their details.—Blectri
cal Review.
A chair propeiied by electricity from a
storage battery placed beneath the seat
is the latest luxury for the invalid. One
charging will last for 50 miles of travel.
Edison is now at work on an electrio
a central hofse rad and to develop at least
1.000 power.
There is said to be but one place in the
world where absolutely pure sugar is
made. This manufactory is in Germany
and supplies chemists and druggists with
the chemically pure article.
A device has been invented by which
an engine may be stopped on any floor
of a building hy simply pressing a but¬
ton, thus making an electrical connection
with tho governor of the engine.
A member of the faculty of the uni¬
versity at Turin has evolved a liquid
which instantly kills the phylloxera (the
mortal enemy of the grape) without in¬
juring the vines. th*e This important dis¬
covery advances university at Turin
to a scientific level with the University of
Kansas, whose chancellor has found a mi¬
crobe which is death to the chinch bugs.
A fall of about 80 feet between Lake
Superior and Lake Huron, at Sault Ste.
Marie, gives pr<**ji*lw*on6-p£.^h% in the world. It greatest be
water powers is to
utilized on the Canadian side by a race
and on the American side by a canal
1.000 feet wide, and giving 236,000 horse
power. Around this will inevitably
grow a great manufacturing city when¬
ever the country around is sufficiently
settled to sustain it.—English Mechanic.
The report seems to be well attested
that the new mineral just discovered in
Texas has properties that may make it
invaluable in electrical science. A dis¬
patch from Austin describes it as a sub¬
stance resembling asphalt. It iFvsaid to
be unaffected by water, heat, acid, or
alkalies, aid to be the most perfect in¬
sulator yet discovered. Should these
claims be verified, and they are said to
rest on numerous teats, the new discovery
would not only add to the enrichment of
the Lone Star State, but would prove of
great utility in the practical development
of the electrical interests of the country.
ART AND ARTISTS.
Boston means to have a statue of Theo¬
dore Parker, the great Unitarian leader,
before long, but as yet has not decided
where to erect it.
Barrett Browning* son of the two poets,
and now a resident of Venice, is a painter
as well as a sculptor* and inclines to ma¬
rines and landscapes.
The highest price for a modern print,
$125, was paid for the first abate of Mer
von’s etching, “L’Abside de Notre
Dame, ” dt the reoent auction of his works
in Paris.
By the will of Parthenia T. Norton, of
New York, the city of Boston is given
the picture “Torrent in Norway,” by
Alexander Wurat, which took the royal
gold medal at Berlin in 1866.
In Antwerp, a city smaller than Bos¬
ton, the tlwee principle public statues are
erected, not in honor of soldiers, nor
statesmen, nor discoverers, but of
painters. And good
Charles Parsons, who ie .Wears con¬
ducted the art department of Harper &
Brothers, has accepted the chair of draw¬
ing and painting at the school for girls,
“The Ingleside,” at New Milford, Conn.
Bartholdi has finished two female fig¬
ures clothed in Alsatian costumes for the
monument of Gambetta at Villed’Avray.
One is bowed down with grief and the
other tjems full of hope. They represent
Alsatia and Lorraine seeking an asylum
at the altar of their country.
The Paris models have just formed a
trade union and have begun an aggres¬
sive movement. They do not ask for in¬
creased wages, or a reduction of hours of
work, but they desire to drive out the
Italian models. The Italians are hand¬
somer titan the French, and command
the cream of the business.
A portrait of Gladstone, painted by
Millais 30 yearn ago, and now the
property of Sir Charles Tennant, is said
to be the best likeness of thc*Grand Old
Man in existence. Sir Charles bought it
of the Duke of Westminster for $15,000,
but how it would enhance iu value in
case of Mr. Gladstone's death.
The judges at the International Art
Exhibition in Berlin have awarded great
gold mfldals to the American artists,
Forbes, Stanhope, Shannon, and Mao
Ewen, Waterhou^, who are among the exhibitors.
Mr. an American architect,
lias been awarded a great gold medal.
Messrs. Stewart, Bridgman, and Story,
American painters, and Messrs. Petti and
Stone, English artists, were awarded
small gold medals.
The portrait of Christopher Columbus,
which is kept at the Arsenal in Madrid,
represents an elderly man with a smooth
face, a somewhat sad expression, ami a
configuration of brow and eyesocketa
like the Uomo picture now owned by Dr.
A. de Orchi. It is by an unknown painter,
and has been called a copy from that one
which is reserved at Como. The age of
the two sitters was %jvcr, if
in truth both represenf the sain'd ]person.
sircoBHrdr..
lie tried to swim out farther than the rest
To show his skill.
And he was quite successful In the test
lie’s out there still.
—New York Press.
There is nothing like pinning scratched faith to a
wrong idea and being by the
piu.—New Orleans Picayune.
The man that goes the pace that kill#
seldom pays as he goes.
THE VOYAGE OF LIFE.
Life is a voyage o’er a vast, deep sea;
The hither shore is birth, the farther death;
The wind that fills our sails is mortal breath;
A nd now becalmed, now tempest'tossed are we.
Law is our captain, and a stern onothe; *
The wheel sagacious Reason manageth
WLap Faith grows faint; the crew oft mu
tineth.
Fierce Passions, that would fain our mas¬
ters be.
Hope, at the prow, sings ever cheerily.
And Love bits magic art exhibiteth
To soothe the soul and from its fears to free,
Y hen blinding fog the vessel compasseth,
That still speeds on till great Eternity
We hail from shoals whereon It foundereth.
—W. L. Shoemaker.
Fish That Shoot S’Tles.
There is a curious fish of tho Indian
Ocean, to which, although it has long
been known to naturalists, attention has
recentty been called on account of some
new observations of its peculiarities. It
is flat and chubby, not unlike the ordi¬
nary sunfish. and seldom exceeds seveh or
eight inches in length.
It is furnished with a short snout or
muzzle, which, as we shall see, serves
very much the purpose of a sportsman’s
gun. It is fond of insects, and its
method of capturing them lias suggested
its name of the archer.
Swimming close beneath the surface it
watches the brilliant flies flitting above,
and, having selected one to its fancy,
suddenly thrusts its muzzle out, and
with almost unerring marksmanship dis¬
charges several drops of water at its vio
tim.
Confused by the watery projectiles,
and with its wings entangled and ren¬
dered temporarily useless, the insect falls
upon the surface of the sea, and is im¬
mediately seized by its voracious enemy.
The fish is said to be able to bring down
a fly in this manner from a height of two
or three feet.
Some of the inhabitants of Java keep
these little fish in captivity for the sake
of watching them practice their archery
upon flies and ants suspended above
them.
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“Rye Meal »nd Revolution.’*
The nations of Europe have done their
best for many ye<* is to make themselves
independent of each other. The experi¬
ment, however, has always been a failure.
Germany, for example, bread.-^The and Austria, too,
subsist largely on rye com¬
mon people have never taken kindly to
wheat flour, partly because it ia more
costly than rye and their slender purses
can’t afford the luxury, but mostly be¬
cause they have lived so long on rye that
their tastes have become fixed. Russia
produces a good deal of the rye which is
made into bread for her neighbors. She
has broad acres, cheap labor, and the crop
which finds its way to the markets east
of the Rhine is a very profitable one.
Whatever may be the political relations
between these countries, if the Russian
rye fields pour their product into the
western nations they are measurably
happy and contented. Good rye bread,
at a price within reach of theneasants, is
a boon too nearly priceless ror calcula¬
tion. Dear bread, on the coutrary, makes
the peasantry mi com for table and gives
an impetus to incipient revolution.—New
York Herald.
W*l«r as a Disinfectant.
It is a fact that appears to be not gen¬
erally known, perhaps because itmay not
be generally credited, that pure, fresh,
cold water is one of the most valuablfe of
disinfectants, inasmuch as it is a power¬
ful absorbent. Every sick room should
have a large vessel of clear water, fre¬
quently renewed, placed not far from
the bed, or even beneath it. This not
only .absorbs much of the hurtful vapor,
but by its evaporation it softens and tem¬
pers the atmosphere, doing away with
the dryness which, is so trying and de
piessing to an invalid—or even to well
persons, for that matter. It has fre¬
quently been shown, by actual experi¬
ment, that troubled sleep and threatened
insomnia are corrected by so simple a
thing as the placing of an open bowl of
water near the sufferer’s couch. Of
course it hardly need be said, after these
matters have been considered for a mo¬
ment, that water which has stood for any
length of time in a close room is not
proper for drinking purposes.—Good
Housekeeping.
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The Antiquity of Gambling.
Gambling is the outgrowth of a relig¬
ious ceremony, and has always been a
fashionable dissipation. Greeks indulged
in it, and the Romans were great gam¬
blers. As early as Martial’s time gaming
had attained the dignity of a science and
books were written thereon. Justinian
forbade public gaining in the 6th cen¬
tury, but, like all prohibitionists, he
reformed nobody. In the Middle Agee
the clergy were greatly given to gam
blingand an abbess of the 15th century was
tried for having systematically gambled
in her convent. She was allowed to go
unpunished on promising to sin no more.
Cards came into vogue in Continental
Europe and iu Eugland during the
14th century by way of Arabia, and were
an Asiatic invention in ah probability.
As the Chinese are unmitigated gam¬
blers, very likely their genius inspired
them. It will take more than one cru¬
sade against baccarat to overcome a
universal passion.
It It the Lew.
Here is a little incident which may
happen in S;m Francisco almost any time
under the operation of the Chinese exclu¬
sion law:
Officer—I hear a new ChiiiAinan has
arrived at your house without account¬
ing for himself to the emigration offi¬
cers?
All Wang—There has.
“Is he a returned merchant? Has ho
ever been in the country before ?”
“ He has not. ’’
"‘“Then I suppose you know it is against
thp law for him to stay here ?"
“I did not know it.”
“ Well, it is so. Produce him."
“But he is only a baby. He was boro
this morning. ”
“That makes no difference. Unless he
can prove a previous residence in the
United States he will have to be sent
back to the country where hi came fsbm.
The law is explicit. "—-Buffalo Express,
ONE DOLLAR Per Annum in Advance.
DIRTY NAPLES.
The Italian City of Romance anti Sen¬
timent the FIliHleat In Europe.
Though fleas, gayly caparisoned cab
horses, and gorgeously adorned cart
mules are among the principal claims to
remembramje that Naples may boast,
she is conspicuously the filthiest city, that
ever of the achieve<|^^place ideals onnodera in pictorial romance. art is Ono the
Neapolitan fisher boy, and it must be ad¬
mitted that the boys and men who have
to do with water, whether as boatmen or
as fishers, are clean and do please the
eye. It is when one goes down into the
heart of the city, along the ways leading
from the Via Roma in their several direc¬
tions, into the side streets and byways,
along the vias of trade, traffic, and hum¬
ble living that the dangers and discom¬
forts of summer residence in this vener¬
able seat of kings are fully realized. A
musty, fetid odor assails the nostrils at
every crook and turn, ascending from the
sefuse of the neglected streets and escap¬
ing from gloomy hovels that hardly
seem habitable.
Few of the Lie streets, which are never
wide and sometimes mere alleys, have
wliat we call sidewalks, the paving stones
being the common level of pedestrians
and vans, donkey carts, flocks of wander¬
ing goats, vagrant children, etc. This
state of affairs is common to all tho
older European cities, the prevailing
order being narrow streets and cramped
vicos and viclarias. Dingy little shops,
the doorways of which usually swarm
with half nude or entirely naked chil¬
dren of both sexes and of all ages under
12, stands, stalls, hand carts, donkey
carls, and peripatetic peddlers distinguish
these streets and multiply their offensive
exhalations. It is a matter of no mean
skill to drive a cab along many of these
cluttered up ways of petty business, the
coaoher being at the necessity to yell his
warning^ catiodPwith or discharge revolution his curious of the impre
every car¬
riage wheels. A simple innocence of
modesty belongs to these people in com¬
mon with their goats and asses. They
are unconscious of shame in the absence of
covering, and the deep bronzed skins tell
of free exposure to the sun. One very
soon becomes accustomed to this too
liberal display, and ceases to make note
of it; but the overpowering smells that
may be styled the composite essence of
multifarious stenches never lose their
original strength and aggressiveness.—
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Ill Used Wealth.
Solomon said: “Wisdom is good with
an iuheritage, ” and experience shows
that an inheritage is only a damage with¬
out it. If any one doubts this let him
look at the crowd of rich young men at
Delmonico's or at Ned Stokes’s drinking
room, both of which are thronged (at
least during the season) by the gilded
youth. A darker aspect of this class is
found in our lunatic asylums, where the
best rooms are generally occupied by
rich young men whose excesses have
since wrecked their Travers reasoifl^^lt (son of is not long
young a former
millionaire) was under treatment at
Bloomingdale Asylum, and one may find
some other similar cases at the same in¬
stitution. Here, too, is the unfortunate
Elliott Roosevelt, who inherited a large
fortune. He has destroyed himself by
dissipation, and while in France became
so violent that he was locked up in an
asylum. A commission has just been
appointed to take charge of his estate,
and he may be brought home to be con¬
fined in a private mad house. Rich men
will do well to loqk to the condition of
tlieir sons before they make their wills.
The kite Rowland H. Macy, founder of
the great business house, set a goo,d ex¬
ample in this matter. He left $500,000,
but one of his sons was limited to $20 a
week for life, because it was enough for
support and was all that could safely be
given him.—New York Corr, Troy
Times.
_
Hypodermic PeiBitinn,
In a London newspaper which I re¬
ceived lately I found an advertisement
for an apparatus for injecting perfume
into the system, so that any lady, by
using it, can positively perspire and
make the air in her vicinity smell ex¬
quisitely. The practice is more or less
common in European cities, and is said
to prevail in New York, but an open ad¬
vertisement of this kind is, nevertheless,
remarkable. The patentees “guarantee
that no bad results will follow,” but it is
practically impossible to inject a fluid
composed as without perfumes are into the hu¬
man system doing serious dam¬
ages and incurring grave risks of blood
poisoning. A thing of beauty may be a
joy forever, but a who tries to con¬
vert her body into a walking advertise¬
ment for a perfume seller is not likely to
be anything very loug. The injection
idea probably arose from the fact that
patients under severe treatment for dis¬
eases do sometimes get to smell of tho
principal drug used; but a healthy body
soon shakes this off, and the very idea is
repulsive and unnatural.—Interview
witiUa Doctor.
Ilow lie “ Fattened*’ the Tune.
This scene was MHB'ted in a Park row
music store.
Enter a young man of very sweet de¬
meanor. who addressee a girl behind tho
counter:
“I heard a waltz at a picnic last night
and I want to know if you have it?"
“ What is the name of it?” asked tho
girl.
“J dont know,” said the young man,
“hut the tune went something Tike this. ”
Then he hums, “dum, dum, de, dum,
dum; de, di, di, de, dum; da, da. du.As, *
da; de dum, de dum, dum.” After
or three attempts on the part of tho
young man the girl gets out some popu¬
lar waltzes and plays them through.
Finally she tries oue not a bit like tho
“dum dum" humming, when the youug
man snya delightedly:
“That’s it. Will you please play it
again?"
Th* girl obliges and the young man
smiles sweetly and says: “Thank you.
I did so want to hear it again. I play
everything by ear. ”
Aiujie walked out the girl collapsed.—
New York Commercial Advertiser.
NUMBER 39
Historic Hot Spells.
In 1303 and 1304 the Rhine, Loire, and
Di ine ran dr}*.
It seemed as if New York was on fire
in 1853. The thermometer ranged from
92 to 97 degrees for five or six days.
During the week 214 people were killed
in that city of sunstroke.
In France, in 1718, many shops had to
close. The theaters did not open their
door-9 for three monthj. Not a drop of
water fell during six months. In 1773
the thermometer rose to 118.
The heat in several of the French prov¬
inces during the summer of 1705 was
equal to that of a glass furnace. Meat
could be prepared for the table merely by
exposing it to the sua. Not a soul dare
venture Out between noon and 4 p. m.
In 1800 Spain was visited by a swelter¬
ing temperature that is described as fear¬
ful. Madrid and other cities were de¬
serted and the streets silent. Laborer's
died in the fields, and the vines were
scorched and blasted as if by a simoon.
The year 1872 w^ a fearful one in New
York. Cue hundred and fifty-five cases
of sunstroke occui ied on July 4, of which
72 proved fatal. The principal thorough¬
fares were like fields of battle. Men fell
by the score, and ambulances were in
constant requisition.
In July, 1876, intense heat began to
make its pow-er felt throughout the Mid¬
dle and Southern States. In Washing¬
ton the heat wad frightful. General
Sherman declares t' *t the car rails be¬
came so expanded by the action of the
sun as to rise in curved lines, drawing
the bolts. In one instance the rails burst
aw T ay from the bolts and left the track
entirely.
The summer of 1879 will long be re¬
membered for its torrid atmosphere.
The situation will be better understood
from tho following record: Norwich,
Conn., July 2d, 109 degrees; Charleston,
July 11th, 101 degrees; on the same date,
St. Louis, 100 degrees; Knoxville, Tenn.,
July 13th, 103 degrees; Charleston, July
14th, 111 degrees (16 deaths); Detroit,
July 16th, 102 degrees; New York, July
17th, 101 degrees.
In 1881 it is said the heat throughout
the United States was the greatest ou
record, the thermometer in many places
registering 105 degrees in the shade. In
Englaud the mercury ranged from 90 to
101 degrees, and in Paris 93 degrees. In
London it w r as the hottest season known
in 22 years. The director of the Paris
Observatory declared there was no
record of such intense heat.
In 1778 the heat of Bologna was so
great that numbers of people were
stifled. In July, 1793, the heat again
became intolerable. Vegetables were
burned up and fruit dried on the trees.
The furniture and woodwork in dwelling
houses cracked and split, and meat went
bad iu an hour.
A disastrous hot wave swept through
Europe in June, 1851. The thermometer
in Hyde Park, London, indicated from
90 degrees to 94 degrees in the shade. In
the Champs des Mars, during a review,
soldiers by the score fell victims to sun¬
stroke, and at Aldershot, England, men
dropped dead while at drill.
Host Africans Not Negroes.
The greater part of Africans are not
negroes. Their proper home is in tho
immense Soudan—a tract of country
4,000 miles broad by about 500 deep, ex¬
tending from the basin of the Congo
River on the south to the Sahara on the
north, and from Egypt in the east to
Senegambia in the west. We regard
them as the sin degraded descendants of
originally purer, wiser, and happier races.
Degradation, like death, is the wages of
sinf; and in this world, as all experience
teaches, it attaches to nations as well as
to individuals. Sin reigDs in Africa, and
sin which in spite of their heathenism,
the people know to be sin. But they are
ashamed of their cannibalism, and try to
conceal it from the white nmn, and so
with other crimes. Religion they have
none, for the fetich worship to which
they are addicted can not be called a re¬
ligion. They are not even idol worship¬
pers, though they have certain images
which they regard as charms more than
as gods. They do not worship the sun
or deify the elements. Their ignorance
of all religious truth is utter, and their
sole point of sound philosopy is a lazy
belief in a future life. But they are
teachable, for they are of childlike nat¬
ures.—Christian at Work.
Greatest of All Volcanoes.
Manna Loa, which means “The Great
Mountain,” is by far the most impor¬
tant of modern volcanoes. Several
years ago Captain C. E. Dutton, of the
Ordnance Corps in our army, made a
careful study or the Hawaiiau volcanoes.
He says that a moderate eruption of
Maun a Loa represents more material
than Vesuvius has emitted since the de¬
struction of Pompeii. The great lava
flow of 1855, which extended 45 miles
to'ward the sea, with an average breadth
of four and a half miles, and an average
depth of 100 feet, would nearly have built
Vesuvius. The flows of 1859 and 1881
were little less.
The first eruption in 1887 lasted two
weeks, and the molten lava flowed for 20
miles down the gentle slope of tlw» mount¬
ain, its lower edge entering the sea. In
this way Hawaii is gradually growing,
the great lava floods encroaching upon
the sea aud eularging the coast line.
Although all the 13 islands that form the
Hawaiian group are of volcanic origin, it
is only in that island which gives its
name to the group, and which is larger
than all the others put together, that vol¬
canic energy is now displayed.
A Great modern Work.
The canal which is to connect Man¬
chester, Lv * I England, MU^mUVI, with IVXt the viiv owe* sea is in one of vt
the greatesUiKmdertakings of modem
times.. !8 S Its meal length will be 33J miles.
It. will be 26 feet deep, 120 feet wide at
the top. It is about three-fourths com¬
pleted, and will cost about $45,000,009.
A Long Electric Streak*
The electric lamps at the Frankfort
Exhibition are lighted by a current trans¬
mitted from the generating center at tho
Lauffin Fails, on tlie Neckur, 199 'Jiileu
distant.