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BY T. L. GANTT. OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. BY T. L. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION. ONE YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 50 CLUB RATES. FIVE COPIES or Ichb than 10, each... 1.75 TEN COPIES or more, each 1.50 TERMS—Cash in advance. No paper sent until money received. All papers stopped at expiration of time, unless renewed. ADVERTISING RATES. 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. 5 in. 4 in. | col t col. 1 col 1 w’k, SI.OO $2.00 $3.00 $4 00 SO.OO SIO.OO 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 8.0011.0014.00 18.00 30.00 50 4 “ 7.00 10.0014.0017.00 21.00 35.00 50 6 “ 8.5)0 12.0016.00 20.00 26.00 45.00 75 “ 10.00 15.00 20.0025.00 33.00 60.00 100 12 “ 12.00 18.0024.0030.00 40.00 73.00 120 All advertisements are due upon the first appearance of the same, and the bill will be presented whenever the money is needed. Merchants advertising by the year will be called on for settlement quarterly. Legal Advertisement#*. Sheriff Sales, per levy, 10 lines $5 00 Executors’, Admini4trators’ and Guardi an’s 3ales, 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 5 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 CARDS. We invite the especial attention of our read ers to the business houses advertised below. They are reliable in every respect. Read. nH AT LOW PRICES! S. C. DOBBS, New Planter’s Store, BROAD STREET, - - ATHENS, GA., Have now in store one of the best selected stocks of Spring and Summer Dry Goods, of all kinds, GROCERIES, PROVISION. Etc., ever brought to Athens, which he will sell as LOW FOR THE CASH as can be bought elsewhere in the city. I ask that the citizens of Oglethorpe give me a trial when they visit Athens, ana I will convince them that they can purchase of me as low as goods can be sold. I have every article needed by farmers or their families. apr2-tf ATHENS Foundry and Machine W O II K S , ATHENS, GEORGIA. General founders and machtn^ ISTS. Pattern Word, Smithing and Re pairing. Having an extensive collection of Patterns, manufacture Iron and Brass Castings, MILL AND GIN GEARING, MINING AND MILL MACHINERY, Steam Engines, SAW MILLS, SHAFTING, PULLEYS, MILL SPINDLES, HORSE POWERS, THRESHERS, FAN MILLS, SUGAR MILLS, BARK MILLS, Etc., Etc. Manufacture, and are agents for the most approved Turbine Water Wheels, Brooks’ Patent Portable Revolving and Colt’s celebrated Cotton Presses, Iron Fencing, Grave Enclosures, Balconies, etc., etc. Address R. NICKERSON. aprSO Agent and Sop’t. L. Schevenell & Cos. ATHENS, GEORGIA, DEALERS 12* Watches, Silver & Plated Ware, Fancy Articles, Etc, Having BEST workmen, are prepared to REPAIR in superior style. We make a specialty of SILVER and GOLD PLATING watches,' forks, spoons, etc* §Pljc (Dglttfymrpi (0 c l)o. LETTER FROM ALABAMA. [Special Correspondence to the Ecno.] Mr. Editor :— Your highly appre ciated paper makes me weekly visits in my Alabama home, where it is always a welcome guest. Wherever our lot may be cast in this world, struggling up the rugged hill of life, battling with its diffi culties,and breasting its dangers,the heart will always find time to linger upon the scenes where we have spent our boyhood days ; and O ! how precious are the mem ories which gather around: but now only living in the past. They once seemed hard and irksome, and when surround ed by schoolmates, diligent with book and slate, we were continually look ing for the pleasures in store for us when manhood’s days would come. Then un fettered we would roam o’er the world and feast our eyes upon the grandeur which vivid imagination had pictured. Little did we realize that we were then in the midst of our happiest days. We then possessed the substance, but thought it the shadow, and have lived only to feel that “ blessings brighten as they take their flight.” Many were the names recorded upon the roll of “Meson Academy.” Within its walls we were first pointed to the heights of knowledge, and were led, with care and tenderness, from the first rudi ments,along the weary and rugged course, until wc could enter the classic field, and read the meditation of Virgil, beneath the shade of the wide-spreading beech tree. The old Academy yet stands upon the commanding eminence, surrounded by the beautiful green, gently receding until it is lost in the forest beyond. But where are the many who were stu dents beneath its roof, and whose merry laugh and happy faces made sunshine upon the old ground ? Scattered through the world. Some sleep upon battle fields, true to their country’s call. Some, alas ! have fallen victims to intemperance, swept of courage and manhood; others are quietly filling their station in life, sowing their seed with care, laboring with patience, and gathering with full satisfaction the yellow corn and fleecy cotton, and then spending the long win ter nights around their happy hearth, surrounded with comfort. While one pleads at the Court of Justice, and anoth er follows the God of Healing, bearing the title of M. D., and from the moun tain of Virginia to the plains of Texas, do their forms move upon the stage of action. But with Heaven’s blessing we shall meet at the river. One has re cently left us—Joseph 11. Lumpkin. I met him last December, and enjoyed his kind hospitality while stopping in At lanta, where he was pursuing his medical course. Then on the verge of manhood, I hoped for him a bright future. But, alas !heis no more. He has left behind above all, truth, which was the principal of his life. Peace to thy ashes, my honor ed friend ! We remain to toil, while you are gone to rest. Our political state is better now than it has been for many years, the gov ernment being in the hands of our wor thy sons of Alabama. The State Conven tion, which meets in a few months, will doubtless be beneficial to our future suc cess. Crops are very good ; during the past week, we have had fine rains, and the ground is thoroughly saturated. Corn is planted largely, and cotton in this sec tion is secondary. The motto of our far mers is, “ We must live at home,” and the result is truly gratifying. Wheat and oats were not materially injured. Syrup, rice and potatoes are raised in abundance. While labor is belter than it has been since the war. P. H. Moss. Greenville, Ala., June 23d, 1875. The Size of Adam.—We learn from a recent book that Adam (who many of our readers will remember as the first man) was according to the Rabbinical tradition, one hundred miles high. If this is really true, every one of us ought to be thankful that the race has dwin dled since Adam’s day. It is appalling to think of the inconvenience and pense to which we should be subjected if we retained Adam’s dimensions. A man would require we should judge trowsers fifty miles long, and about four hundred furlongs of suspenders. And if we were to preserve proper propotion in our dress we should each require about sixty thou sand cubic feet of hat. When a small family of such men died they would oc cupy the entire State of Pennsylvania as a cemetery, and the way the undertaker wonld accumulate charges for coffins would be simply frightful. So it is bet ter as it is. Adam did very well while he was alone in the world ; but just at present a man of his inches, who lived in Philadelphia, could hardly sit down without mashing Lancaster out of ex istence. Chhllenging lawyer to a colored jury man in Clinton, Louisiana : “Do you know what a verdict is?” “No, sah.” “ Did you ever see one ?” “ No, sah. I nebber wa3 at a shew in my life.” CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1875. DEVILTBIES, —Slurman they call him now since he got out his book. —“ That’s the end of my tale,” as the tadpole said as he turned into a bull-frog. --Why is Grant like a power of attor ney? Because he knows all men by the presents. —There are only two hundred men in Connecticut who have not invented some sort of clothes-pin, or some kind of salve or liniment. —The following sentence will show the importance of the position of ft comma: “Woman—Without her man, is a brute.” —Madame Rothschild expressed a de sire to reach one hundred years before she died, as it wouldn’t do for a Rothchild to go off under par. —Sunday-school teacher : “ Who was the strongest man?” Boy: “Jonah, be cause the whale couldn’t hold him after he got him down.” —The word d-e-b-t is composed of the initials of “ dun every body twice.” C-r-e-d-i-t is formed of the initial letters of “ call regularly every day—l’ll trust.” —“ Lemme die now,” gasped an Ohio farmer. “ I’ve lived to see a woman git thirty-one yards of cloth into one dress, and I’m ready to pull stakes now.” —A Virginia widow rides with a leg on either side of the horse. People used to stop and gaze at her before she killed John Cass, but now her mode of riding is not commented upon. —When Shakspear wrote about pa tience on a monument, did he refer to doctor’s patients ? “ No.” How do you know he didn’t ? “Because you always find them under a monument.” —“ She’s a perfect Amazon,” said a pupil in one of our schools, of his teacher to his companion. “Yes,” said the other, who was better versed in geography than history, “I noticed she had a big mouth.” —On which side of the platform is my train ?” asked a stranger in a Jersey City depot the other day, “ Well, my friend,” replied a gentleman, passing, “if you take the left, you’ll be right, if you take the right, you’ll be left.” —Murray county, Kentucky, has a bright individual. He built a hogshead in his house about four times as large as the door, and instead of taking the hogshead to pieces to get it out, he knock ed out one side of his house. —When you see a man on the river’s bank holding a fishing rod ? and intently watching the cork bobbing in the river, you should not ply him with questions. Besides diverting his attention from his line, he may have to remove a handful of worms from his mouth to answer you, and that annoys him. —The Amador county (Cal.) Indepen dent says: Now we will inform the sweet scented evader of truth and hones ty who ruus the little nigger nose rag across the street, that he can not ram any of his infernal lies down our throat, for we know him too well to believe any thing he says, even under oath. —“ No, gentleman of the jury,” thun dered an eloquent advocate the other day in a Denver court, “ this matter is for his Honor to decide, who sits there sleeping so beautifully.” His Honor opened both eyes and his mouth, and said: “All owing to your narcotic speech, sir.” —A Slawson man was not so overpow ered by grief at the funeral of his wife but that he could muster sufficient strength to stop the procession and jump out of the carriage to pick up a knife which he detected in the road. It had a pearl handle and five blades, and will while away many a sad hour for him. —A Frenchman being about to remove his shop, his landlord inquired the rea son, stating at the same time that it was considered a good stand for business. The Frenchman replied, with a shrug of the shoulders, “ Oh, yes, he’s a very good stand for the business—by gar me stand all day, for nobody come to make me move.” —There were five sewing machine agents in Leighton, lowa, last week, and when the terrified inhabitants telegraph ed to Governor Carpenter for troops, he sent back he could not send any military, but would come down and talk to the agents. Then Leighton just emptied it self when it heard that, and broke for the woods. —One of the college newspaper ex changes says that a clergyman in a cer tain church, on a recent occasion, dis covered after beginninng the service that he had forgotton his notes. As it was too late to send for them, he said to his audience hv way of apology, that this moniing he should have to depend upon Lord for what he might say, but in the afternoon he would come better prepared. —“ Goethe used to rise at four o’clock and work until eleven before eating.” Very little faith is to be put in such stories. We once resolved to rise at four o’clock ourselves, but this thing of keeping a yoke of oxen merely for the purpose of dragging one out of bed at sneh an early hour of the morning was soon found to cost more than it came to, and the insane scheme was abandoned. —There is nothing which will inspire a not well dressed up woman with such terror as the appearance of a dressed up sister. However devoted she may be to the front yard flowers, she will leave them in a flash on the approach of a w ell dressed female, and taking her stand be hind the front blind, will, in a brief space of time, see everything she has got on and figure out the cost to within a few cents. It is marvelous. The Hame of God in 48 Languages. As Louis Burger, the well known au thor arfd philologist, was w'alking in the Avenue des Champs Elysees one day, he heard a familiar voice exclaiming: “Buv some nuts of a poor man, sir; twenty for a penny!” He looked up, and recogr nized his old barber. “ What 1 are you selling nuts ?’’ said he. “Ah, sir, I have been unfortunate.” “ Butthis is no business for a manlike you.” “ Oh, sir, if you could only tell me of something better to do,” returned the barber with a sigh. Burger was touched. He reflected a moment; then tearing a leaf from his memorandum-book, he wrote for a few moments and handed it to the man say ing, “ Take this to a printing office and have a hundred copies struck off; here is the money to pay for it. Get a license from the Prefecture of police, and sell them at two cents a copy, and you will have bread on the spot. The strangers that come to Paris cannot refuse this tribute to the name of God printed in so many different ways.” The barber did as he was bid, and was always seen at the entrance to the Ex position, selling the following handbill : THE NAME OF GOD IN FORTY-EIGHT LAN GUAGES. Hebrew—Elohim, Eloah. Chaldaic—Elah. Assyrian—Ellah. Syriae and Turkish—Alah. Malay—Alla. Arabic —Allah. Language of the Magi—Orsi. Old Egyptian—Teut. Armorain—Teuti. Modern Egyptian—Teun. Greek—Theos. Creton—Thios. AEolian and Doric—Hos. Latin—Deus. Low Latin—Diex. Celtic and old Gallic—Diu. French—Dieu. Spanish—Dios. Portuguese—Deos. Old German —Diet. Provencal—Diou. Low Breton—Doue. Italian—Dio. Irish—Die. Olala tongue—Deu. German and Swiss—Gott. Flemish—Goed. Dutch—Godt. English and Old Saxon—God. Teutonic—Goth. Danish and Swedish—Gut. N orwegian—Gud. Salvic—Buch. Polish—Bog. Pollacca —Bung, Lapp—Jubinal. Finnish—Jumala. Runic—As. Pannonian—lstii. Zemblain—Fetizo. Hindostanee—Rain. Cormandel—Brama. Tar ta —M agatal. Persian—Sire. Chinese—Pruesa. J apanese—Goezur. Madagasca -Zannah. Peruvian—Puchocammae. A few days after Burger met the bar ber. “ Well,” said he, „ has the holy name of God you good luck ?” “ Yes, indeed, sir. I sell on an ave rage a hundred copies a day at 2 cents each, or two dollars ; but the strangers are generous; some give me ten cents and others twenty. I have even received half a dollar for a copy, so that, all told, I am making five dollars a day.” “ Five dollars a day !” “ Yes, sir, thanks to your kindness.” “Ah 1” thought Burger, as he walked away, “ if I were not a literary man I would turn peddler or publisher; there is nothing so profitable as selling the learning and wit of others 1” Thought He Was Drunk. Not a bad story is told at the expense of one of our most distinguished and es timable citizens. It seems that a dinner party was in progress during a brilliant display of northern lights, and this gen tleman, stepping out to cool his burning brow, was startled by the display about the frosty pole. He stood perfectly amazed ; then, turning to the window, he saw within the wife of his bosom sit ting with the ladies, waiting for their liege lords to end their champagne and cigars. Pushing aside the laee curtains, he beckoned Mrs. Agnes to come out. She complied ; when he said to her solemnly : “ Wagnes, d’er see anything exstron ory now ?” “ Yes! Dolly—l see that you have been drinking too much wine.” “ No !—-nor that, Wagnes ; I mean ex tronory phornomonums in asmophere,” “ Why, where, Dolly?” “ Upper yonder, Wagnes.” “ W hy, dear me!—yes! I do indeed —the most brilliant aurora I ever saw.” “ Wagnes, are things a shootin’ ?” “ Yes I dear.” “ And a flashin’, Wagnes?” “Yes! Dolly.” “ An’ a sorter spreading’ and dancin' —eh! Wagnes?” “ All that, my dear.” “Ho! ho!” laughed the husband, much relieved. “Do you know, Wag nes—l mean Hagnes—when I came out an’ saw the c’lestial phornomonams a growin’ upper yonder damn me effer I didn’t think I was drunk !”—Free Press. If a lady wears a three-story bat to *be theater, is it etiquette for the gentle man who sits behind her to climb up and and roost on the back o-f his seat ? Or must he bob his head from side to side to catch furtive glimpses at the stage around her head ? Will some modern Chestfield answer? CONGRESSMAN COOK. He Goes a Fishing—And Guard# Against Snake Bites. There is a fishing party out near Amer icas, Georgia, widen must be having lots of fun, if an Americus grocer filled their order for provisions. The leader and responsible man of the party being very busy fixing his tackle, sent the follow ing perfectly authentic note to his gro cer : Dear Sir— Myself and a couple of friends are going a fishing, and you will send us by bearer the following articles, which please charge to account: Four pounds of salt and a small cask of whiskey. One pound of ground black pepper and a demijohn of whiskey. Ten pounds of lard and a large jug of whiskey. One canvassed ham and six quart bot tles of whiskey. Three good stout fishing lines andthreo pocket flasks of whiskey. One large paper of Limerick fish-hooks and a gallon of whiskey in an old vessel you don’t use about the store. Also one pound of white sugar and a small keg of whisky. Hurriedly yours, Phil. Cook. P. S.— As we shall be gone for several days, and as snakes are bad on the river at this season, my physician has just stepped in and suggested that we take along a little whisky. Send it, and en ter it on your books with the other items as above. P- C. The little fishing party has not been heard from since, but it is reasonable to presume they are having a jolly good time, whether the fish bite or not. The moral is that a little whisky is good to go a fishing with in case of accidents. The occasion for its use may not arise unless the snakes are very bad, but then it is nice to have. Safety is desirable, and a fisherman takes good care of him self while t;here is a drop of whiskey within his reach. Our Good Ladies. A wife when she has received suitable notice can get up an excellent dinner for her husband’s friend. She does her level best, working without stint until a repast which pleases her in every particu lar is spread. Then the following con versation takes place with the guest: “ I hope you’ll be able to make out a meal.” “ I shall do nicely, I know,” he says. “ I’m really ashamed of the table,” she rattles on. “ Why, you needn’t be,” he protests.. “ But its all his fault,” she explains, nodding tow T ard her husband. “He never gives me any warning scarcely, and it’s such w r arm w r eather now there is nothing you can keep on hand for an emergency.” “ Why, you’ve done nobly, I think ; couldn’t have done better,” asserts the guest, beginning to lose his interest in the topic, “O, I hope you don’t think this any thing of a dinner,” she says, looking with anxious pride over the spread. “You must come up again, and let me know before-hand, and I’ll promise you some thing decent to eat.” “ I am sure this can’t be beaten,” pro tests the guest with a sense of becoming depressed, “O, bless me, this is nothing but a pick-up dinner, just the same as we’d have if alone. Do try another biscuit; I don’t suppose they are fit to eat, though,” she says, with their delicate color and flaxy texture. “ They are beautiful,” he hastily ex plains, feeling very uncomfortable the while. “ You must take the will for the deed,” she resumes. “ I didn’t see we were out of bread till the last moment, and then I hastily made up these. I didn’t think they’d be half way decent, as there was no time to work them.” And so she rattles on with her disas trous comments, the dear old fraud, w r hile he continues to protest, and con tinues to feel more and more like getting up and flying madly away. The Creation of Woman. —A Prince once said to Rabbi Gamaliel : “Your God is a thief; he surprised Adam in his sleep, and stole a rib from him.” The Rabbi’s daughter overheard his speech, and whispered a word or two in her father’s ear, asking permission to answer this singular opinion herself. He gave his consent. The girl stepped forward, and feigning terror and dismay, threw her arms aloft in supplication, and cried out, “My liege, my liege,justice—revenge!” “ What has happened 7 T asked the Prince. “ A wicked theft has taken place,” she replied : “ A robber has crept secretly into our house, carried away a silver goblet, and left a golden one in its stead.” “ What an upright thief?” exclaimed the Prince. “ Would that such robber ies were of more frequent occurrence!” “ Behold, then, sire, the kind of thief that the Creator was ; he stole a rib from Adam, and gave him a beautiful wife in stead.” “ Well said 1” avowed the Prince. Recently, while a lady was looking at some baby wagons in front of a Wood ward avenue store, a boy stepped up and inquired ; M W ant to buy a buggy, mum ?” “ Why, yes, I thought of it,” she re plied. “ Better wait a day or two,” he contin ued, in a serious tone; “my little broth er’s powerful sick, and if he dies we’ll sell his babv-cart at half what it cost?” — Detroit Free Press. —What is it that a poor man has and a rich man wants ? Nothing. VOL. I—NO. .39. Bob Toombs and the Fourth of July. The committee to invite speakers to the celebration of the coming Fourth of July in Atlanta, received the following answer from Bob Toombs: Washington, Ga., June 23, 1874. Gentlemen: I have received your letter of the 11th inst., inviting me, “ in behalf of the citizens of Atlanta, to co-operate with them in person or by letter in cel* - ebrating the ninety-ninth anniversary of American independence,” for which, please receive my thanks. When the principles proclaimed by our ancestors in • 1776, and nobly maintained and re-es tablished by them, shall have been estab- - lished, I will then, if this side of the • grave, rejoice with yon. I am ashamed , to sing paeans to the lion-hearted heroes of that grand epoch in the world’s histo- - ry, until we shall have regained those eternal principles of self-government - which we have both lost and betrayed. I can not shake hands with those who dug it, and filled it with the bloody corpses of the brave and the true, over the bloody chasm which engnlps, also, the principles of ’76. I want no frater nity with States or people without liber- • ty and equality. I am very truly and respectfully, Your obedient servant, R. Toombs. Messrs. H. V. M. Miller, Geo. Hillyre,, Marcus A. Bell. Lost Gow, by Shimmy. [From the Lowell Journal.] Asa rule there isn’t a better class of * people in the world to deal with than the Germans, but occasionally you will find one whose ideas concerning certain busi- - ness transactions are amusingly peculiar.. Instance: A German subscriber to the Journal recently called to advertise a lost cow, as the custom of this well regulated print shop, we immediately wrote up the notice and figured up the cost of publica- - tion. “Vat ish dat?” asked our friend, placing the butt end of his whip on our letter sum of multiplication. We informed him that it would cost him so much to advertise his lost cow,- three weeks.. “ You make me pay for dat?” “ Certainly; we always take pay for.- advertising.” “ You take pay for advertising.” “ You take pay, eli? Veil, dat ish von i tam shvindle. I shcribe mit dat shour- - nal bapers dese tree years, und now yoa i sharge me yoost for wot lettle advertise > uv mine gow.” “ But we—” “ You shtop my shournal babers.” ’ “ But you—” “ You shtop mine shournal bapers,. und I got some more in Daytraw, py shiminy ; und you gome leetle end daft horn oud.” “But, see here, my friend—” “ I go right away und dond got sheat- - ed mit you, py krashus. Tink you got some sleep mit a veasel, dond you ? ' Sharge me yoost for advertise von gow ! It was better uv you dond got me, ven I gome here, and I scribe mit dat shournal i more as tree year, but you makes me med un yon shtop mine bapers before I got it next dime. Dat ish vat man lam kind uv, py shiminy !” We tried to explain; we tried in vain ;; we lost him and a three-weeks, ad rertise- - ment of a “ lost gow, by shiminy !” Is He Rich ? —This is the question i that floats around the circle of matrimo nial ladies. Poor, giddy fools, w’ho seek happiness where there is neither brains nor morality—good sense or high honor. Yes; he is rich—he has strong arms, a pure heart, a clear head, a brave soul! “ Aye, but has he the cash and bonds, real estate and stocks ? for new bonnets fine clothing, costly houses and elegant equipage are needed.” Go to, you gene- - ration of vipers, you curses of humanity,. who cannot make an honest man’s life and fate your own, and with himtoiland live, that happiness and virtue may dwell under your roof, be it ever, that the next generation may, if they will, be better than the present, and the world lifted and moved forward heavenwards. No Show for Him. —Saturday after noon while the rope-walker was going through his performances a boy about twelve years old turned to an acquain tance of the same age and remaned : “Tom. don’t you wish you could do. that r> “ Yes I do,” sadly replied Torn," but my • folks make me go to school and are deter-- mined I shan’t never be nobody I” A Grasshopper Incident.—A Ne- - braska farmer sneaked around one night to the place w here au army of millions o€ grasshoppers were sleeping preparatory to wading into his wheat on the morrow,. and after throwing a lot of hay around he set fire to it. Well, it was death to* the grasshoppers, but by the time the farmer had run four miles over a burn ing prairie and climbed a tree with his hair and eyelashes burned off, he had oc casion to take breath and say: “ I’ll be • cussed if I thought I was goin’ to get up. a circus like that.”— Milwaukee A ties. . A Boston letter to an Eastern news paper relates that upon one of the fash ionable South End squares of that city there has lived in a swell-front, four- - story brick house, until very laU ly, a-' woman who has hired for her servant her own sister. The sister and former mistress has engaged board for the rea son at the very house at a fashionable summer resort where her sister is to fur nish the dainty pies and paddings. The gates of Heaven are lowa relied \. we must enter upon our knees. Soda Powders at Witcher L. Jarrell’s..