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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. “THE— Cotton Belt Route Et Louis, Arkansas and Texas Ey. —-.To— ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. TWO DAILY TUVINS —FROM— M e nri j > 1 1 i w, Making din- t iHin’ctioni with all trains from the EAST. No < Change ol Cars -TO— 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 ^ 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. - •• .... 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. _ - 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. _ “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. --- — ■ ■ ........... . ■■ V 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.