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BY T. L. GANTT. OG jETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED E\ERY FRIDAY MORNING, B\ T. L. GANTT, Editor And Proprietor. GASH RATES OF ADVERTISING. The following table shows our lowest cash rates for advertising. No deviation will be made from them in any case. Parties can readily tell what their advertisement will cost them before it is inserted. We count our space by the inch. time. 1 in. 2 in. 3~in. 4 in. I col i col. 1 col fw $3.00 $4.00 #7.00$ 10.00 sl4 2 “ 1.75 2.75 4.00 5.00 8.00 13.00 18 3 “ 2.50 3.25 5.00 6.00 10.00 16.00 22 4 “ 3.00 4.00 6.00 7.00 11.00 18.88 26 5 “ 3.50 4.50 6.00 8.00 12.00 20.00 30 6 “ 4.00 5.00 7.50 8.00 13.00 22.00 33 8 •* 5.00 6.00 9.0010.00 15.00 25.00 40 3 mos, 6.00 8.00 11.0014.00 18.00 30.00 50 4 “ 7.00 10.0014.0017.00 21.00 35.00 50 6 " 8.50 12.0016.00 20.00 26.00 45.00 75 9 “ 10.00 15.0020.0025.00 33.00 60.00 100 12 “ 12.00 18.0024.0030.00 40.00 75.00 120 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sheriff'Sales, per levy, 10 lines $5 00 Executors’, Aamini4trators’ and Guardi an’s Sales, per square 7 00 Each additional square 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 30 days, 4 00 Notice of Leave to sell, 30 days 3 00 Letters of Administration, 30 days 4 00 Letters of Dismission, 3 months 6 00 Letters of Guardianship, 30 days 4 00 Letters of Dis. Guardianship, 40 days.... 3 75 Homestead Notices, 2 insertions 2 00 Rule Nisi’s per square, each insertion... 1 00 GEORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE The following is the schedule on the Geor gia Railroad, with time of arrival at and de parture from every station on the Athens Branch: UP DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at. 8:45 a. in. Arrive at Union Point 12:27 p. m. Leave Union Point 12:52 p. m. Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. m. DOWN DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a. ni. Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. m. Leuve Union Point 11:33 a. m. Arrive at Augusta 3:30 p. m. UP NIGHT TASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta ? at 8:15 p. m. Arrive at Atlanta 6:25 a. m. Remains one minute at Union Point. ATHENS BRANCH TRAIN. DAY TRAIN. Time Stations. Arrive. Depart, bet. | sta’s. A. M. Athens 8 45 25 Wintersville 9 10 9 15 30 Crawford 9 45 9 50 25 Antioch 10 15 10 18 15 Maxey’s 10 33 10 35 15 Woodville 10 50 10 55 20 Union Point 11 15 VP TRAIN. Union Point.. .P. M. 1 00 20 Woodville 1 20 1 25 15 Maxey’s 1 40 1 45 15 Antioch 2 00 2 05 25 Crawford 2 30 2 35 30 Wintersville 3 05 3 10 25 Athens 3 35 NIGHT TRAIN—How?, Athens a. m. 10 00 25 Wintersville 10 25 10 30 30 Crawford 11 00 It 05 25 Antioch 11 30 11 32 15 Maxey’s 11 47 11 49 15 Woodville 12 04 12 10 25 Union Point 12 35 a. m. Up Night Train. Union Point 3 55 25 Woodville 4 20 4 24 15 Maxey’s 4 3!) 4 41 15 Antioch 4 56 4 58 25 Crawford 5 23 5 27 30 Wintersville 5 57 6 02 28 Athens 6 30 THE LITTLE STORE ON THE CORNER. o HERE THE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE will alway find the Cheapest and Best Stock of FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS, GROCERIES, LAMPS, OIL, Etc. Jr M. BARRY. Broad Str., Athens, Ga. p9-tf CHARLES STERN, Broad Street, ATHENS, GA. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Dry Oris, Clotting, MILLINERY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, NOTIONS, Ac. The citizens of Oglethorpe cordially invited to examine my stock and prices before buying elsewhere. The best line in Athens. ap9-lm 250,000 Cigars! NOW IN STORE, OF THE Choicest Brands! which we offer at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Also, a large stock of SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO, SNUFF, GENUINE MEERCHAUM PIPES AND ALL SMOKERS’ ARTICLES. A liberal discount allowed to Jobbers buy ing largely. Come one! Come all 1! KALVARINSKY & LIEBLER, lender Newton House, Athens, Ga. INTERESTING CONDENSATIONS. —Boston has a Chinese lawyer. —Hon. B. H. Hill is 52 years old. —.Sound travels at the rate of 12f miles a minute. —Frogs live from 12 to 15 years (if not eaten). —Mark Twain bears a striking resem blance to Frank Moulton. —There Is an elm tree in Paris which was planted by Henry IV in 1605, still flourishing. —The English papers are somewhat amused over a recent elopement in the Merrie Isle, of a father with his son’s sweetheart. —With the advent of spring the cru saders have broken out in New York, visiting some some forty up-town saloons last Tuesday. —A game of chess, which has been going on between a European and a New York player since 1859, has just been termimined. The American piayer won the game. —lf you write down the figure 5 and twenty-one cyphers, and call the unit tons, you have the weight of this world of our. For instance, 5,000,000,000,000,- 000,000,000 tons. —Hawks can fly at the rate of 150 miles an hour; ducks, 90 miles an hour; the crow, 25 miles an hour; the falcon, 75 miles an hour. Fair winds can make their flight three times greater. —The number of vertebrated animals is estimated at 20,000; number of birds, 6,000; number of reptiles, 2,000; num ber of fishes, 10,000. There are about 250,000 species of living animals in all. —24,000 eggs of a silk worm lay one quarter of an ounce. The worm lives from 45 to 53 days. It increases in weight in 30 days 9,500 fold, and during the last 28 days of its life it eats nothing. —The wing of a gnat flaps at the rate of 15,000 times per second. The wings of some insects arc so thin that 50,000 placed one upon another would not form a heap more than a quarter of an inch in height. —Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is the owner of some fifteen acres of valuable land near the residence of Mrs. Stowe. We merely announce the fact to remind her that the tract is advertised to be sold for taxes. —A farmer in Nelson county, Va., who had a number of sheep killed by dogs, took one of the sjieep ami put strychnine in large quantities upon it, and the next morning there were thirty dead dogs in the field. —Poor Charley Ross’ father is almost a maniac again. He is said to be grad ually weakening under the strain to which his mind has now been so long subjected, and the pursuit of his lost boy has become with him a mania. —The number of seeds in one pound of wheat is 10,500 ; in one pound of bar ley, 15,400 ; in one pound of oats, 20,- 000 ; in one pound of rye, 23,000 ; in one pound of clover (red), 249,600; in one pound of clover (white), 686,400. —3,000 stars only arc visible to the naked eye. Counties- millions are re vealed by the telescope—so remote that tlieir light, traveling at the rate of 200,- 000 miles a second, cannot arrive at our little planet in less than 14,000 years. —AVas eftrontery ever more sublime than that of the nob 11 Cheyenne, who, when compelled to go out on bis annual raid and shoot a soldier or two, first takes the precaution to house his squaw and papooses comfortably at the nearest government agency ? —All the members of a family in Phil adelphia were poisoned last Sunday by eating canned fruit. They were seized with frequent and violent purging, but were soon relieved by medical aid. It is believed that the effect was produced by copperas, which had been found in the sealed can. —IO,OOO threads of the full grown spi der are not larger than a single hair of the beard. When the young spiders first begin to spin, 400 of them are not larger than one of full growth—allowing which, 4,000,000 of a young spider’s threads are not so large as the single hair of a man’s beard. —The following is the secret of the Baldwin apples : Take slips of paper and cut children’s names on them, then place the papers around the apples when they begin to color, and in a week or two Mamie, Jamie, Johnnie or Susie appears on the apples in large letters. These picked and barreled by themselves bring fancy prices of the New York Christmas market. —Thomas Paine’s birth-day was scarcely noticed this year in the city of New York. Thirty-five years ago it was celebrated with great enthusiasm. Be fore, and even after that time, a grand dinner was eaten by his disciples, speech es were made, long columns were taken up in the daily papers with their reports, and it was considered bigotry and intol erance to say a word against the demon strations in his honor. Now, none so poor to do him reverence. —A party of women in Wilton, lowa, have carried the crusade mania to a dis graceful length. They forcibly gained entrance to a house of ill-repute, which they thereupon proceeded to turn inside out’ demolishing the furniture, driving the inmates into the street, and generally conducting themselves more like crazy demireps than Christian ladies. The shameless proceeding was crowned by an act of wanton cruelty, one of the female inmates being taken from her bed and subjected to the outrage of a coat of tar ami feathers. CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1875. DEVILTBIES. —What relation is the door„-mat to the door-step?—Step farther. —What ship carries more than the Great Eastern ? —Courtship. —Which is the most popular of the United States?—Matrimony. —When is a black dog not a black dog ?—When he’s a greyhound. —Why is love like a canal boat ?—Be cause it is an internal transport. —Where is it that all women are equally beautiful ?—ln the dark. —Why is dancing like oew milk ? Because it strengthens the calves. —Why are stars like an old barn ? Because there are r, a, t, s in both. —Why was Paul like an old white horse ?—Because he loved Timothy. —What is it gives a cold, cures a cold, and pays the doctor’s bill ?—A draft. —Why do girls like looking at the moon ?—Because there is a man in it. —What is the first thing a man does when he falls into the water ?—Gets wet. —How can you shoot one hundred and twenty hares at a shot I—Fire at a wig. —Why is a watch-dog bigger by night than by day ?—Because he is let out at night. —Who is your greatest friend?—Your nose, because it will run for you till it drops. —There is one town in Connecticut that is not afraid of the small pox. It’s Haddam. —Which one of the Presidents wore the largest hat ?—The one with the larg est head. —Why is a dog biting his tail like a good manager ?—Because he makes both ends meet. —Why are young ladies bad gram marians?—Because they can’t decline matrimony. —When does a blacksmith make a row in the alphabet?—When he make A poke R and A shove L. —One swallow don’t always make a summer, although one swallow has been known to make some-err. —Nature, impartial in her ends, When she made man the strongest, In justice, then, to make amends, Made woman’s tongue the longest. —A flirt is a fool, who delights in fooling fools, and the fool who is fooled by such a fool is the foolishest kind of a fool. —What is the longest word in the English language ?—Smiles—because there is a mile between the first and last letters. —The endurance of the public in the matter of the Beecher trial has embol dened a Detroit paper to announce the death of James K. Polk. —Why is a ship like a woman ?—Be cause she is often tender to a man of war ; often running after a smack; often attached to a great bony. —“ Bub, can you direct me to a dye shop ?” says a man to a boot black. “ I kin that,” says the boy, and directs the man to a doctor’s office. —What are those things which, though they appear twice in every day, and twice in every week, yet are only seen twice in a year?—Vowels. —Why was the whale that swallowed Jonah like a milkman who has retired on an independence?—Because he took a great profit out of the water. —Said a great Congregational preacher To a hen: “ You’re a beautiful creature!” Then the hen upon that Laid two eggs in his hat— And thus did the Hen-re-ward Beecher. —“ I don’t care much about the bugs, ’ said Warmley, to the head of a genteel boarding-house, “but the fact is, madam, I havn’t the blood to spare ; you can see that yourself.” —A small boy in Boston made a sen sation for a short time by quietly trans fering a card bearing the words, “Take one,” from a lot of handbills in front of a store to a basket of oranges. • —“ Don’t you wish you was me ?” said a six-year-old boy to one of his compan ions, on Monday, “ for I’ve got twenty five cents, and I’m goin’ to the barber shop to git my hair cut, an’ I’ll have pink water squirted on my head.” —A nice little boy who never would steal apples, grew up to be a man, went into merchandising, broke three times, paid nothing on the dollar, retired rich, and is now a shining light in one of San Francisco’s most fashionable circles. —“ The candles you sold me were very bad,” said Suett to a merchant. “ Indeed, sir, I’m sorry for that.” “ Yes, sir, do you know they burn .no longer ?” “ You surprise me ! What, sir, did tnev go out ?” “ No, sir, they burnt shorter.” —A country newspaper out West thus heads its reports of a fire : “ Feast of the. Fire Fiend—The Forked-Tongued Demon Licks with its Lurid Breath a Lumber Pile!—Are the Scenes of Boston and Chicago to be Repeated?—Loss $150.” —A Keokuk man held a neighbor’s wife in his lap while she did up his hair in curl papers. The husband attended the fun eral, and when the minister had finished speaking he stepped up to the holy man and said, in a low, sweet voice, “ I didn’t mind him so much, because there wasn’t no harm in him no how; but I thought as things war gettin’ from bad to worse, and—well, I wanted to give them preach er chaps a warnin’.” FAITHFUL DOGS. They Care for a Lost Child, and Warm and Feed Him. Yesterday morning we gave an account of a child wandering away from home on Thursday last, accompanied by two dogs. The whole neighborhood had turned out and searched night and day without success, at the time we wrote the account. The following is a copy of the hand bills struck off and circulated : LOST BOY :—TO THE PUBLIC. Yesterday afternoon, William Norman my son, left my residence, five miles from Lexington, on the Salt Pond road, and was last seen on the road to town, He is five years of age, wore a dark woaten coat, dark jeans pants, patched on the knees, and was followed by two dogs; one a black, and the other of a dark yellowish color. Any information regarding his where abouts will be thankfully received, and will relieve the anxiety of a mother and father. William A. Smith. Lexington, Mo., April 2, 1875. From Mr. M. Carroll, the popular baggage-master of the Lexington pas senger train, we learn the following par ticulars of the discovery of the child yes terday morning, which certainly shows the wonderful sagacity and faithfulness of the dogs which accompanied him. As in our account yesterday, the last seen of the child was in a fence corner with his dogs. From there it seems he wandered into the woods belonging to Judge Woods, eight miles from Lexing ton and three miles from his home. Here, probably, night overtook the little wanderer, and darkness closed in upon him, cold, tired and hungry, with none to aid him but his faithful four-footed companions. The night 9at this time of the year are too severe for a robust man to be exposed, and certainly a tender child, almdst an infant, would surely succumb to the biting temperature. But there is a watchful Providence above, and his interposition of this case seems miraculous. The faithful dogs, with an instinct that seems equal to hu man intelligence, went to work and scratched together a bed of leaves. Into this the boy crept, and then the intelli gent animals laid down, one on each side of him, and kept him warm through the night with the heat of their bodies. Morning broke with the boy safe, his shaggy guardians remaining at their post. Though rested and refreshed, he was almost famished with hunger. Again the wonderful instinct of the faith ful dogs was equal to the emergency. They set out foraging, chased and killed a rabbit, and brought it to their young charge, laying it at his feet. The boy eagerly ate of the raw meat, and when discovered was busily engaged in ap peasing bis hunger. When the party who discovered him endeavored to approach the child the dogs became exceedingly ferocious, and would not let one of them approach him. The boy’s father and the dog’s master had to be sent for before they could get the child from his noble pro tectors. The joy of the parents can be easily imagined, and we will guarantee to say that all the wealth of Lafayette county would not purchase one of these dogs. Greece is about the size of Vermont. Palestine is one-fourth the size of New York. Hindoostan is more than a hun dred times as large as Palestine. The Great Desert ef Africa has nearly the present dimensions of the United States. The Red Sea would reach from Wash ington to Colorado, aud it is three times as wide as Lake Ontario. The English Channel is nearly as large as Lake Su perior. The Mediterranean if placed across North America would make sea navigation from San Diego to Baltimore. The Caspian Sea would stretch from New York to St. Augustine, and as wide as from from New York to Rochester. Great Britian is two-thirds the size of Japan, one-twelfth the size of Hindoo stan, one-twelfth of the United States. The Gulf of Mexico is about ten times the size of Lake Superior, and about as large as the sea of Kamschatka, Bay of Bengali, China Sea, Okhotsh, or Japan seas; Lake Ontaria would go in either of them more than fifty times. The fol lowing named bodies of water are nearly equal in sizes: German Ocean, Black Sea ; Yellow Sea ; Hudson Bay is rather larger; the Baltic, Adriatic,Persian Gulf, Aegean Sea are half as large and some what larger than Lake Superior. “ Thankful I Settled It.”— At a meeting held in Edinburgh, by Messrs. Moody and Sankey, a miner in his work ing clothes, was sitting near the front obviously most attentive and impressed. At the close of the meeting he arose to go away; but, after walking down the passage he turned and sat down again. His friend came upon him and said, “ Come awa’ home, John.” “No,” said he “ I come here to get good, and I have na taken it a in yet.” So he waited. There was more prayer and another hymn, and special conversation with himself. His heart was touched and changed; with his hard, rough grip, and shook the minister’s hand, and said, “ I have wondered if this might be true now I believe it. It has brought peace to my soul. I know and trust my Saviour.” On the next day, while working, a mass of coal or rock fell on him. The injuries were fatal. Death was close at hand, a fellow-workman approached him. “ Bend down your ear to me,” said the dying man; and then he added, “ Oh, Andrew, I’m glad I settled it last night.” —How do young ladies show their dis like to mustaches?—By setting their faces against them. Subscribe for the Oglethorpe Echo. April First, Owing to the deep depression in busi ness, the anniversary of the Ist of April was not generally observed in Danbury. Two bricks neatly wrapped up in paper were picked up from the streets, but not carried off. One gentleman picked up a package containing an unknown arti cle, and hurried home with it, where he discovered that it was sawdust. He went out in his barn, and swore for an hour. Another party, a trifle cuter, saw a similar package and promptly gave it a kick calculated to lift it over a house, but, owing to his having on thin boots, and it being a chunk of furnace slag weighing some twelve pounds, he failed of success. He was taken home in a wagon, and is attended by Dr. Hamil ton, who thinks the foot can be saved. A Cherry street man lost a package of tea on the walk. Several people saw it.but they merely turned their tongue into their cheek and went on. An hour later the owner discovered it where it had been dropped. Mr. Hinckley, our colos sal real estate agent, strolled about town nearly an hour, unconsciously bearing on his back a placard gravely announc ing, “ This is Charles Ross.” One boy went into a store to inform the proprie tor that another boy had stolen some ap ples from the front, and was chased out of the place for his impudence. When the apples was discovered, it was too late to catch the thief. One or two otl er fol lies resulted seriously. A man on Lo cust avenue told his wife that a woman next door had anew dress with thirty yards of edging on it. She pulled down her sleeves, put on her sun-bonnet and hurried in there. She picked up a piece of lath on her way back, and struck him across the face with it, injuring one of his eyes so severely as to threaten the loss of its sight. Mrs. Cobleigh’s Hot Potato. Mr. Cobleigh had just got down to breakfast. He was standing up to the stove with his hands clasped behind him, as. is his custom, contemplating the at tractively settable. A large platter of broiled ham, with fried eggs, was the central feature, and Mr. Cobleigh is very fond of ham and eggs. The family cat was lying under the tab.le, purring softly to herself. It was a strongly marked domestic scene, and Mrs. Cobleigh was taking up the potatoes. She had the last one pierced with the fork, and was about to deposit it with the rest, when she espied the upturned palm ofher hus band’s hand. What possessed her she cannot tell, but she dropped the steam ing vegetable straight into his uncon eious hand. He didn’t ask her what she was doing ;he didn’t even look around ; he simply emitted an awful scream, and sprung madly into the air. On the de cent he struck the table with his knees, with such force as to completely overturn it, and with the contents he went to the floor with an awful crash. Five dollars’ worth of crockery was smashed, and a carpet, coat and a pair of pants was ruin ed by ham gravy and butter. It is prob able Mr. Cobleigh would have fainted dead away from the effect of the shock, had not the eat, across whose erected bach he fell, as she was darting away from the awful calamity, turned around and fastened both claws and teeth into his thigh with deadly ferocity. That revived him. The house is now shut up. Mrs. Cobleigh is visiting her mother in Brookfield and Mr. Cobleigh has taken a jaunt to Boston on business. We under stand she thinks Mr. Cobleigh is to blame in the matter, for, she properly reasons, had he not jumped so like an all-fired fool, there would have been no damage done. —Danbury News. Humor and Sarcasm. It is not everybody who knows where to joke, or when, or how ; and whosoev er is ignorant of these conditions had better not joke at all. A gentleman never attempts to be humorous at the expense of people with w'hom he if but slightly acquainted. In fact, it is neith er good manners nor wise policy to joke at any body’s expense, that is to say, to make any body uncomfortable merely to raise a laugh. And iEsop, who was doubtless the subject of many a jibe on account of his humped baelc, tells the whole story in his fable of “ The Boys and the Frogs.” What was fun to the youngsters was death to the croakers. A jest may cut deeper than a curse. Some men are so constituted that they cannot take a friendly joke in the same light coin, and will requite it with contumely and insult. Never banter one of this class, or he will brood over your badi nage long after your have forgotton it, and it is not prudent to incur any one’s enmity for the sake of uttering a smart double entredre or a tart repartee. Ridi cule, at best, is a perilous Weapon. Sa tire, however, when leveled at social foibles and political evils, is not only le gitimate, but commendable. It' has shamed down more abuses than ever were abolished by force of logic. Morning and Evening Stars, etc. —Venus will be Morning star until Sep tember 23; then Evening star to the end of the year. Mars will be Morning star until Feb ruary 26; then Evening star the rest of the year. Jupiter will he Morning star unil Jan uary 20, and after November 4 to close of the year. He will be Evening star from January 20 to November 4. Saturn will be Morning star from Feb ruary 5 to May 16, and Evening star until February 5 and after May 16. Mercurv will appear brightest on Feb ruary 10, June 6, October 3, the planet setting soon after the sun; also March 31, Ju|y 30, November 18, the planet rising then a short time before the sun. Jupiter will be brightest April 16; Sa tun, August 15, Mars, June 20, Venus, January 12. VOL. I—NO. 30. A Clairvoyant Dream. A recent writer narrates the following signficant dream relative to the Dr. Park man murder, and which in all its un pleasant details was dreamed twice over : Dr. \\ ebster, professor of chemistrv in Harvard College, was convicted of the murder of an acquaintance—we can hardly say his friend—Dr. Parkman. A lady well known in the literary world, and then residing in Londe . had some years previously paid a long visit to the United States, during which she became intimately acquainted with Dr. Webster, who showed her much kindness and at tend 'i. After the return to England she continued to correspond with his family, and one day in early autum of 1848, a gentleman, related to Dr. Parkman, called upon her with an introduction from Prof. Webster. On that night she went to bed as usual, but soon experi enced a horrible dream. She fancied she was being urged by Dr. Webster to as sist him in concealing a set of human bones in a wooden box, and she distinctly recollected that there was a thigh bone, which, after failing to break it they vainly attempted to innerPffa box, but it was too long. While they were trying to hide the box, as she fancied, under her bed, she awoke in a state of horror and cold per spiration. She instantly struck a light, and tried to dispel the recollection of her horrible vision by reading After a lapse of two hours, during which she deter minedly fixed her attention on the book, she put out the lights and soon fell asleep. The same literal dream recurred, after which she did not dare—although a woman of singular moral and physical courage—to attempt to sleep any more that night. Nothing more at the time was thought of these dreams, but shortly afterward the news reached England that Dr. Parkman was missing ; that the last time he was seen alive he was entering the college gates; and that the janitor was suspected of having murdered him. On the writer mentioning this to tho lady, she at once exclaimed, “Oh, my dreams'! Dr. Webster must have been the murderer!” The next mail but one brought the news that the true murderer had been detected ; and at the very time when the lady’s dream occurred, Dr. Webster must have been actually strug gling to get the bones—the flesh having been previously burned—into a wooden box such as she had seen ; and that af ter attempting in vain to break the thigh bones, he had hidden them elsewhere. Fortune Telling. By the aid of the following, persons who will study the wrinkles, furrows, lines and hollows on the hand, will be able to tell fortunes as well as any mod ern Gipsy : If the palm of the hand be long, and the fingers well-proportioned, etc., not soft, but rather hard, it denotes the per son to be ingenious, changeable, and given to thief and vice. If the hand be hollow, solid, and well knit in the joints, it predicts long life, but if overthwarted, then it denotes short life. Observe the finger Mercury—that is the little finger; if the end of it exceeds the joint of the ring finger, such a man will rule his own house; and his wife will he pleasing and obedient to him ; but if it be short and does not reach the joint he will have a shrew, and she will be boss. Broad nails show the person to be bash ful, fearful, but of gentle nature. Narrow nails denotes the person to be inclined to do mischief, and do injury to his neighbors. Long nails show a person to be good natured; but distrustful, and loving re conciliation rather than differences. Oblique nails signify deceit and want of courage. Little round nails denote obstinacy, anger and hatred. If they are crooked at the extremity, they show pride and fierceness. Fleshy nails denote the person to be mild in temper, idle and lazy. Pale black nails show the person to be very deceitful to his neighhor, and sub ject to many diseases. Red and marked nails signify choleric and martial nature, given to cruelty ; and as many little marks as there are, speaks so many evil desires. Jimmey Brown came running into Mrs. Jone’s house the other day, say ing : “Oh, dear, Mrs. Jones. Such an acci dent has happened. Your son John got under a four-horse wagon-load of pig iron down at the river, and it run right over his head. Oh ! dear !” Poor Mrs. Jones screamed and nearly fainted, when the little rascal added: “Don’t cry, Mrs. Jones, he wasn’t hurt a bit.” “ Why, what do you mean ? Run over by a four-horse wagon-load of pig-iron and not hurt?” “Well, you see, the wagon was pass ing over the bridge and he was sitting under it fishing, ” replied the little ras cal, shooting out at the open door. A Terrible Dre.ysi Realized.— Lawrenceville (Ga.,) Herald: “One night last week Mr. Thomas Allison, dreamed that his brother, John Allison, had been murdered and scalped by the Indians. He lives in California and trades to Oregon. The dream made so strong an impression upon Allison’s mind that he told it to several parties in town next morning. That day, when the mail arrived at 12 o’clock, be received a letter informing him of the death hi* brother. He crossed a mountain in Ore gon, and the party was attacked by thfj Indians and John Allison was killed and scalped. He is not acquainted with the party who wrote the letter, but from the statements made, he is afraid it is true The Echo is the best weekly paper.