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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874. T. L. G.4XTT, Elitor aul Prop. The Family Hammer. There is one tiling no family pretends to do without. That is a hammer. And yet there is nothing that goes to makeup tiie equipment of a domestic establish ment that causes one-half as much ago ny and profanity as a hammer. It is al ways an old hammer, with a handle that is inclined to sliver, and always bound to slip. The face is as round as a moon and as smooth. When it strikes a nail full and square, which it has been known to do, the act will be found to result from a combination of pure accidents. The family hammer is one of those rare articles we never profit by. When it glides off a nail-head, and mashes down a couple of fingers, we unhesitatingly de posit it in the yard, and observe that we will never use it again. But the blood has hardly dried on the rag before we are out doors in search of that hammer, and ready to make another trial. The result rarely varies, but we never profit by it. The awful weapon goes on knock ing off our nails, and mashing whole joints, and slipping off the handle to the confusion of mantel ornaments, and breaking the commandments, and cutting up an assortment of astounding and un fortunate antics, without let or hindrance. And yet we put up with it, and put the 'handle on again, and lay it away where it won’t get lost, and do up our mutilated and smarting fingers, and yet if the out r*g*eous thing should happen to get lost, we kick up a regular hullabooloo until it is found again. Talk about the tyran nizing influence of a bad habit! It is not to be compared to the family hammer. Waked Up Through Both Hemispheres. The Troy Whig relates the following: “We have heard much of the wonders of cable telegraphy in outrunning time and annihilating space, but an anecdote related to us last evening hv Mr. W. P. Phillips, assistant agent of the State As sociated Press in New York, who is on a visit to this city, surpassess anything we have ever heard. A gentleman of the Western Union Telegraph office, at No. 145 Broadway, New York, was sitting in the cable-room when a telegram from Philadelphia, destined for Paris, came over the wires. This message, like all others for France, was to go over the cabin via Duxbury, Massachusetts. The operator called Duxbury a few times and then said : “That fellow is asleep evidently ; but the cable men are always awake—Fll have to get one of them to go in and wake him up. So he stepped to another desk, called Plaister Cove, in Newfoundland, and sent the following message: *‘To Cable Operator, Duxburv : Please go iu and wake up mv ' own true love/’ This message Plaister Cove hastened to send across the ocean to Valencie, Ire lanc}, who in turn rushed it to London ; thence it was hurried to Paris, and still onward to the European end of the French cable at St. Pierre ; the operator thpre.-ilashing it back to Duxburv. In less thau two minutes by the clock the message had accomplished its journey of some 8,000 miles, by land and sea, as ■was evidenced by the clicking of the in strument on the Duxburv desk, which ticked out in a manner a little morepetu lent: “ That is a nice way to do ;go ahead. Your own true love.” Rubber Overshoes for Horses.— This is a recent invention, which prom ises to be a boon to the equine inhabi tants- of paved cities. The shoe is made anil lined in precisely similar manner to the articles of apparel worn by the hu man race, and, in fact, presents no points of difference, save in its shape and its manufacture of the best quality of India rubber. It is designed as a substitute for the iron shoe, and as a means of pre venting the many maladies to which horses’ feet are subject. Horses suffer ing with cracked or contracied hoof, and similar painful hurts, it is said, are quick ly cured by the substitution of the rubber covering for the unyielding metal slice. The elasticity of the former allows the Hoof to remain in its natural shape, while protected from abrasion against pave ments by the heavy rubber sole beneath. The device is easily removed from or put on the hoof, and hence, while stand ing in the stall or turned out to pasture, the liorsq may be left hare-footed. In winter time the covering serves as a pro tection against illness due to the common practice of mingling salt with the ice and snow in City streets, while the roughen ed surface of the rubber beneath serves to give the animal a foothold in slip ery weather. As compared with iron shoes, the cost of the rubber one is about one-third more, and their weight is some forty per cent, less, while they are very durable. Sixteen sizes are manufactured, so that accurate fits may be obtained. T\vo lovers hugging each other in. a railroad car are accepted as an instance af a bad. case of “ opcg^cemmunion.” The Chirography ofWeH Known People. It may be gratifying to some poor pen man to know that some of the smartest people write illegibly. We would not advise any one, however, to imitate poor writing, for that alone does not indicate the possession of talent: Oliver Wendell Holmes writes a grace ful and picturesque hand. James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, was an abominable penman. Byron wrote a horrid hand, as every body knows. Lord Bacon re-wrote one of his works twelve times. Gladstone writes a neat, regular and beautiful hand. Lords Derby and Palmerston wrote beautifully. Pitt wrote a flowing hand. Earl Russell is a penman. Sir Robert Peel’s writing was too mer cantile for beauty. Queen Elizabeth’s waiting was thin, spiteful and irregular. President Grant’s penmanship is both elegant and business-like. Canning wrote an exquisite hand. Wellington’s chirography was clear and noble. Mary, Queen of Scots, wrote a fine, graceful, feminine hand, that indicated sweetness and nobility. Macaulay, the historian, wrote a sprawling hand. Lord Chesterfield’s writing was a mod el of graceful elegance. The ex-Emperor Napoleon wrote a neat, easy, running and legible hand. The poet Gray wrote with elaborate neatness and regularity. Rogers, the poet, wrote a careful, fin ished hand. Tom Moore’s hand w’as an easy run ning one. Walter Savage Landor wrote a bold and vigorous hand. Edgar A. Poe’s handwriting was strik ingly beautiful, and as clear, regular and legible as print. T. Buchanan Read wrote a pleasing and picturesque hand. N. P. Willis wrote a careless, dashing hand. Sir Walter Scott wrote a wretched hand. Tennyson’s handwriting is chaste and classic. Longfellow and Bryant are both fine penmen. Franklin’s handwriting was large and bold. Paul H.-Hayne writes a most dainty hand. Mrs. Herners w'rote a graceful, running hand. Keats’ handwriting was bold, but rath er clerky. J. Fenimore Cooper was a miserable penman. Aubrey de Yere writes a very gentle manly hand. Washington wrote a firm, dignified, manly hand. Edward Everett’s handwriting "was beautiful. Augusta J. Evans’ handwriting looks like a man’s. Reverdy Johnson’s handwriting is worse than Byron’s was. The printers, swore unrighteously at Dickens’ “copy.” * Washington Allston w r rote a legible and artistic hand. Chief Justice Chase once w r rote a re markably beautiful hand. Gen. Robert E. Lee wrote an open, frank and noble hand. Hon. Mrs. Norton and Charlie Bronte wrote beautiful hands. Father Ryan, the poet-priest, writes a charmingly graceful hand. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s handwriting is sprawling, illegible, and decidedly bad. Horace Greelev -wrote a shocking scrawl, which drove the printers nearly crazy. Questions for Debating Socie ties. —If the traveller who took the course of human events has ever been heard of since ? If brass will make a candle stick, what will make one let loose ? Where does a candle go to, when it goes out? If the hollow of a log can be heard ? If tin will make a can, what will make a can’t? If twelve inches make one foot, how many will make a leg? If five and a half yards make one pole, how many will it take to make a log? Do potatoes ever wear out, as we often hear of potato patches ? tf pig pens will do to write with ? Will the Cape of Good Hope fit a lady ? The girls of Yassar College play foot ball—and many a young man therea bouts wishes he were a foot ball,.espec ially bs the girls sometimes miss the ball and land on their heads in the grass. It must be an inspiring sight, too, to see the girls engaged in this important study ; and if they were to charge fifty cents admission, tjie gate money would be more than enough to pay for their education. fcEA Fowl Guano.—Read the notice of this excellent fertilizer in another col umn, and settle your indebtedness. SENSE AND NONSENSE. Natural slippers—Eels. Mud is the father of dust. A cutting affray—A sausage chop per. The voices of the night—Those blessed babies. The only perfect thing—A moth er’s first boy. A willing prisoner—A man lock ed in slumber. An era unknown to women—The middle ages. A clean shirt is one of woman’s best gifts to man. The devil likes to sign himself “ soul proprietor.” A depraved punster says he shall smoke if he chews too. Fall suits were first worn by Adam and his partner. A corn-extractor that has never been patented—The crow. A soldier cannot be even half a soldier if he is in quarters. What is everybody doing at the same time ?—Growing old. ’Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have had a mother-in-law. Polite—“ Please, sir, if you’ll get off my corn long enough I’ll kick you.” Why is the letter S like a sew ing machine?—-Because it makes needles needless. A worn-out shoe is like ancient Greece, because it once it had a Solon (sole on). An unoccupied peanut stand in Hartford bears the notice, “ Closed for inventory.” What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, and once in a man’s life ? The letter M. What is it that goes up the hill, and dowm the hill, and yet never moves ? The road. —— Maud —“ Quite a nice ball at Mrs. Millefleur’s, wasn’t it ?” Claude —“ Very quite ; indeed, really most quite.” The hair of a young lady in Montpelier, Vt., turned white in a sin gle night. She fell in a flour barrel. A lady of Kenton, Ohio, was re cently admitted to the bar. It was her father’s. She got a glass of ale and left. After your wife of the period sees you safely incarcerated in the debtor’s jail, who will care for mother-in-law now ? young husband when he beheld her dark locks gradually returning to their origi nal red. A Danbury little darkey refused to go to church “kasehe didn’t want to look there like a huckleberry in a pan of milk.” A correspondent aptly questions us if Dickens didn’t mean the “ B-niglit ed States of America” when he wrote U-nited?” What is the difference between a farmer and a bottle of whisky ?—One husbands the corn, and' the other corns the husbands. what’s in him let him go to sea. The first rough weather will generally enable him to ascertain it. What is the difference between the man who flays the young ox and the helmsman of a vessel ?—One barks his steer and the other steers his hark. Mississippi is singularly blessed in some respects. A traveler there says some of the land in that State is so poor that a disturbance could not be raised on it. Young Bride. “Was she his own darling duckums? Yes, she was his ownty donty darling duckums?” Exit old married man, enraged and dis gusted. young?” said Mrs. Partington, as the organ boy performed with a monkey near the door ; “ and hoy much his little brother looks like him, to be sure.” The eclipse was not all moon shine, but that talk about the earth’s shadow was humbug. A Chicago girl raised her foot to scratch her ankle, and the foot got between the sun and the moon. When the average Texan editor wishes to obliterate a paragraph from his manuscript, he doesn’t smash a few pens in trying to cross it out. He sim ply ejects over the objectionable spot about a pint of tobacco juice, and calmly proceeds with his writing. A New York paper contains the the following : “Fifty dollars reward ! If the individual who entered my house and stole a wallet containing $l5O, will allow me to interview him five minutes, the above reward will be paid to his heirs or assignees.” The best shot ever heard of has been made in Calais, Me., where a gen tleman fired in midnight darkness at the bark of a dog, and the next morning found the animal dead, the bullet having hit him in the throat. The entire race of Englishmen, from Gordon Gumming down to any undistinguishable cockney, may be challenged to beat this. MISCELLANEOUS. LOOK! Something for All NEW STOCK, NEW STOCK! mm > m R.T.BRUMBY&CO. Athens, Gra., HAVE NOW ON HAND: PURE WHITE LEAD, at sl4 per hundred. VENETIAN RED, dry and in oil. VARNISH, of all kinds. TURPENTINE and PAINT BRUSHES. ANILINE DYE, red, black, and purple. The largest and finest selected stock of Cheap and fine PERFUMERY, SHELL BOXES, BABY BOXES, COLOGNES, Belle, Atwood’s, Caswell & Hazard’s, Ger man, Hoyt’s, Wright’s, and Brumby & Co’s, half-pints and pints, elegantly put up in cut glass bottles, etc. IVORY TEATHING RINGS. ARNICA COAT PLASTER, white, black and flesh color. Shaving and Tooth BRUSHES. The finest selection of Imported HAIR BRUSHES ever had in this city, for Christ mas Presents, some costing $5 each. LADIES’ CACHOUS, for the breath. Fine PUFFS, LILY WHITE, Nail and Infants’ BRUSHES. OTTO OF ROSE, in small vials. SHAVING COMPOUND, in mugs. CAMPHOR ICE, LIP BALM, ROSE CREAM. POWDER PUFF BOXES, 25c to $2 each. Fine TOILET SOAPS. Beautiful SHELL BOXES, containing Per fumery, Toilet Powder, Toilet Soap, tomb, Brush, Putt', etc. Just the thing for a present for a young lady from a young gentleman. Price, from 75c to $9 each. SAPOLIO, 25c per package. And a host of other articles too numerous to mention. We want the people of Oglethorpe and surrounding country to give us a call when they visit Athens, and examine our fine R. T. BRUMBY & CO. STOVES GRATES, AND TIN WARE! To be had Cheap for Cash at J. C. WILKINS & CO S, Broad St., Athens, G-a. CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, WAGONS. R. P. TUCKER & BRO., CRAWFORD, CA., HA VI N G REBUILT mSsrxßs their Shops, and thor oughlv stocked them wi t.h the best tools and a full supply of the finest seasoned LUMBER, are now prepared to manufacture, at short notice, every descrip tion of CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, ROCKA WAYS, PIUETONS, WAGONS, CARTS, etc., etc. We will also do all manner oj Blacksmithing and Repairing, and guarantee all our work to give perfect sati°- faction. We sell our gWO-HOR>F WAGONS at from S9O to $125, and eve rything else LOW in proportion. oct9-tf R. T. 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