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UNDER THE SEA.
How Messages are Sent by the Ocean Cable.
[Boston Herald.]
u The ocean telegraph operator taps the
key as in a land telegraph, only it is
a double kev. It has two levers and
knobs instead of one. The alphabet used
is substantially the same as the Morse al
phabet—that, the different letters are
represented by a combination of dashes
and dots. For instance, suppose you
want to write the word “ boy.” It would
read like this : “ —... 1
Bis one dash and three dots; O, three
dashes ; and Y, one dash, one dot, and
three dashes. Now, in the land telegraph
the dashes and the dots would appear on
the strip of paper at the other end of
the line, which is unwound from a cylin
der, and perforted by a pin at the end of
the bay or armature. If the operator
could read by sound, we would dispense
with the strip of paper, and read the
message by the “ click” of the armature
as it is pulled down and let go by the
electric magnet.
The cable operator, however, has nei
ther of these advantages. There is no
paper to perforate, no click of the arma
ture, and no armature to click. The
message is read by means of a moving
flash of light upon a polished scale pro
duced by the “■deflection of a very small
mirror, which is placed within a “mirror
galvanometer,” which is a small brass
cylinder two or three inches in diameter,
shaped like a spool or bobbin, composed
of several hundred turns of small w ire
wound with silk to keep the metal from
coming in contact. It is wound or coil
ed exactly like a bundle of new rope, a
small hole being left in the middle about
the size of a common wooden pencil.
In the centre of this is suspended a very
thin, delicate mirror about as large as a
kernel of corn with a correspondingly
small magnet rigidly attached to the
back of it. It weighs but a little more
than a grain, and is suspended by a sin
gle fibre of silk, much smaller than a
human hair, and almost invisible. A
narrow horizontal scale is placed within a
darkened box two or three feet in front of
the mirror, a narrow’ slit being cut in the
centre of the scale to allow a ray of light
to shine upon the mirror from a lamp
placed behind said scale, the little mirror
in turn reflecting the light back upon the
scale. This spot of light upon the scale
is the index by which all messages are
read. The aii"lc through which the ray
moves is double that traversed by the
mirror itself; and it is, therefore, really
equivalent to an index four or six feet
in length, without weight.
To the casual observer there is nothing
but a thin ray of light, darting to the
Tight and left with irregular rapidity ;
but to the trained eye of the operator
every flash is replete with intelligence.
Thus the word “ boy,” already alluded
to, would read in this w r ay: One flash to
the right and three to the left is B.
Three flashes to the right is O. One to
the right, one to the left, and two more
to the right is Y, and so on. Long and
constant practice makes the operators
wonderfully expert in their profession,
and enables them to read from the
mirror as readily and as accurately as
from a newspaper.
ARTIFICIAL ICE.
Speaking of the ice-w'orks of the man
ufacturing company at Montgomery,
Ala., the Advertiser gives the following
interesting account of the manner in
which the great frigid luxury is made:
Seventy thousand gallons of water are
used daily in the manufacture of 12,000
pounds of ice, the cost of which, when
placed in the ice-house, is about f of a
cent per pound, which is cheaper than
the freight from the Lakes if the ice was
put on the cars gratis, besides the advan
tage of getting it in small quantities
when desired, and being much cleaner
and purer than Lake ice.
The distilled water is put in tin cans
30 inches long, 91 inches wide, and 2J
inches thick, which leaves the ice in con
venient shape for handling. These cans
are then placed in rows in tanks filled
with salt water (though of course the salt
water does not come quite to the tops of
the cans so as to mix with the distilled
water which they contain), through
which iron pipes conduct the ether. The
ether is made in another room, and after
being purified is pumped into a receiver
and brought under a pressure of 70 to
110 to the square inch, which liquidizes
it. It is then forced through a small
tube to a larger tube wdiich opens into all
the pipes in the tank (about 100 pipes in
each tank) ; it then expands into a gas
and tills all the tubes (its capacity for ex
pansion being as 1 to 600).
The ether extracts the caloric from the
water which surrounds the tubes, thus
equalizing the temperature, and bringing
the whole below the freezing point; the
distilled water freezing very readily, and
the salt water being brought down seve
ral degrees colder than ice, yet without
freezing. The gas passes on through the
pipes and into the receiver, from which
it is pumped into an ether holder and
again reduced to a liquid by pressure,
which is facilitated by passing it through
a long coil of pipe surrounded by cold
water. It is then forced through the
tubes again and performes the same work
over. Some of the other gas pipes were
covered with snow to the depth of three
quarters of an inch, collected from the
surrounding atmosphere. It is very
difficult to confine it, but if not allowed
to escape the same quantity can be used
continually. It is said to be much bet
ter than mercury, as the latter eats out
copper pipes in a short time, and iron
pipes in about two years, while the lat
ter does not affect the metals.
The cans are taken out one at a time
and dipped into a vat of hot water, thus
loosening the cake of ice, which then
slips out, and the can is again filled and
set in its place. This is done three times
a day. These slabs of ice weigh twenty
five pounds each, and four ot them are
piled on top of either and allowed to
freeze together, making 100 pounds to
the block. These blocks are kept sepa
rate bv placing small sticks Detween
them. _
An Accommodating Town. —As an
innocent-looking old was going up Wash
ington street yesterday, a drayman nod
ded at him and asked : “NV ant a dray.
Mister ?” “ No—o, I guess not,” replied
the old man, “I’m too fur from home
and can’t pay freight on it. Much
obleeged, though. Vicksburg is a power
ful nice town. A fellow back there asked
me if I didn’t want a coat, another in
quired if I wanted a hack, and now you
offer me a dray. I wish I lived here.”
Vicksburg Herald,
®l)£ (Dgldl)orpc feljo,
BY T. L. GANTT.
THINGS IN GENERAL.
—The hog crop of East Tennessee will
be small this year.
—They pay school inarms $1.25 per
week in Wisconsin.
—North America now has communi
cation with Europe through five cables.
—A man in lowa has applied for a
patent on a plow to be worked by wind
power.
—A man in Massachusetts, 73 yeats
old", had lately born unto him his twenty
first child.
—We have in the United States $166,-
000,000 in specie and $750,000,000 in pa
per currency.
John C. Calhoun’s last surviving
child, Mrs. Clemson, died a few days ago
at Pendleton, S. C.
—British Columbia will send a flag
pole 140 feet long, composed of a single
tree, to the Centennial.
—Anything written or printed on the
side of a postal card intended for the ad
dress subjects it to letter postage.
—The largest church in North Caroli
na has just been erected at the falls of
Tar river, by the Primitive Baptists.
—A Texas man has a 60,000 acre field
under one fence. He recently filled an
order by telegraph for 26,000 beeves.
—One-third of the vessels of the Ital
ian navy are offered for sale at a million
dollars. They cost seven millions.
—An alligator got into the paddle
wheel of a large steamer on the St.
John’s river, Fla., and stopped the boat.
—A young woman who found herself
at Sandwich, 111., without money, pawn
ed her glass eye for $2, to take her home.
—The House of Representatives stands
171 Democrats, 101 Republicans, 6 Inde
pendents, and 6 to be elected from Mis
sissippi.
—Dr. Livingstone, the great African
explorer, was reared a poor factory boy,
and pursued his studies while working
at the loom.
—An English publisher has just issu
ed a Bible weighing 3£ ounces. It can
be sent through the British post offices
for one penny.
—Two New Yorkers are at law over a
fifty cent knife. One says he is ready to
spend SSOO if necessary, and the other is
ready to carry it into the Supreme Court.
—lf you only lived on the sea coast of
Texas you could go out and gather a ton
of salt in half an hour, aud you could get
twenty cents for It by hauling it eighteen
miles.
—Some scoundrel entered the bed
room of a young lady in Ohio, recently,
and poured some acid in her face. She
was terribly disfigured and lost her eye
sight.
—The question warmly discussed in
the Jewish synagogues of New York
city—namely, the right of the congrega
tion t<J allow women to sit in the pews
with their families, instead of sending
them to the galleries—has been decided
affimatively.
—A leading Paris paper strongly ad
vocates the re-establishment of the Inqui
sition. It thinks that the Cath
olic Church has the right of jurisdiction
over all on whom, through baptism, have
been imposed the obligations of Chris
tians.
A large mirror in a house in Bucks
county, Pa., was struck by lightning, and
the particles of glass so imbedded in the
wood work of the room that not a piece
the size of an inch could be found. The
piano was also struck, but the tone was
uninjured.
—A Plymouth man, in visiting his
barn, the other day, found a hen “ set
ting,” as he supposed, but, upon taking
her from the nest, found four kittens
curled up under her, and investigation
showed that she was alternating with
the parent cat in taking care of the lit
ter, one always occupying the nest while
the other is absent.
—The memorial in marble to Sir John
Franklin, in Westminster Abbey, which
has recently been uncovered, contains
this inscription by Tennyson :
“ Not here; the white North has thy bones ;
and thou, heroic sailor-soul,
Art passing on thy happier voyage now, to
ward no earthly pole.”
—Johu Thompson, of Farmington,
who lost a pair of spectacles while dig
ging potatoes four years ago, and had
plowed and harrowed the field three
times since, found them, Saturday, em
bedded in an Early Rose potato, which
had so grown around them as to hold
them in the position in which specta
cles are worn.
—A woman in Baltimore, desiring
death, but having no home iu which to
die, bought morphine at a drug store,
and drank it as she walked in the street.
She kept on as the drug began to take
effect, and a crowd of boys, supposing
that her staggering was the result of in
toxication, followed after her. At length,
after traversing several streets, she fell,
and the boys threw mud on her. Iu that
way she died.
—The Viceroy of Egypt is about to as
tonish the world again. He has resolved
to build a railroad along the valley of
the Nile in the interior ot Africa, and as
he has plenty of money and thousands
of serfs at his command, he will no doubt
accomplish his purpose. In a few years
African explorers will be able to travel
in sleeping cars, and write magnificent
descriptions of places they pass through
in the dark.
—A remarkable series of accidents oc
curred in lowa a few days since. In a
certain family there were three small
children, the oldest being five years, two
of whom went to the barn to find hens’
nests. They found one, and crawled to
it, and one of them thrust his hands for
ward to get the eggs, when he quickly
withdrew it, saying the old hen had bit
ten him. The other. said he wasn’t
afraid, and thrust his hand forward,
When he, too, was bitten. Both of them
screamed, which quickly brought the
mother to the spot, when it was discov
ered that they had been bitten by a rat
tlesnake, which was coiled in the nest.
The mother seized the little boys in her
arms and hastened to the house, when a
new horror met her gaze. In her haste
to succor the boys at the barn, she had
set down a boiler of hot water, into
which the babe bad fallen. In less than
half an hour all the children were dead.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1875.
DEVILTRIES.
—When is an egg not oval J When
you turn it round.
—lnjin probabilities : “ Mebbe snow
next week ; mebbe heap dam hot.”
—Babies are described as coupons at
tached to the bonds of matrimony.
—Railroads have now three guages—
a broad guage, a narrow gage and mort
gage.
—The editor who said his mouth nev
er uttered a lie probably spoke through
his nose.
—An lowa editor has branded his con
temporary “ a mangy dog—a disgrace to
his own fleas.”
—He was chopping wood and his axe
caught over the clothes-line* After life’s
fitful fever he sleeps well.
—“ I say,” said a fellow to a fop with
conspicuous bow legs, “ don’t you have
to have your pantaloons cut with a scroll
saw ?”
—Mrs. Day, of lowa, is the mother of
triplets, and her husband sadly remarks
that no one can tell what a day will
bring forth.
—“ Cold streaks playing tag down my
back,” is the way a little Ypsilanti
(Mich.) girl describes the approach of
an ague chill.
—Fifteen years ago a Washington
gentleman scratched his name on.a gold
dollar and sent it on its travels. He has
never seen it since.
—A. D. 2000. Scene before a crema
tion undertaker’s shop. Small boy—“ I
say,sir, is dad done yet ? If he is, please
put him in this ’ere tin kittle.
—“ Are you the mate of the ship ?”
asked an emigrant of the cook, who was
an Irishman. “No, sir,” was the reply ;
“ I am the man who cooks the mate.”
—“ There is no sunset in heaven,”
says a noted divine. We’ll go further
than that. There’s no getting up of
nights to draw the baby’s legs back un
der the cover.
“ You never saw my hands as dirty as
that,” said a mother reproach fully,yester
day, to her little eight-year-old girl.
“ Cause I never seen you when you was
a little girl,” was the prompt reply.
—According to a New York corres
pondent, an Italian boy sat in Union
Square two days, displaying a placard on
which was written : “ This poor woman
was left a widow with four small child
ren.”
—Some time-honored proverbial say
ings need revision to suit the age. For
instance, “Boys will be boys” is entirely
wrong, for everybody knows they will
endeavor to appear like men as much
and as soon as possible.
—An Irish tailor, making a gentle
man’s coat and vest too small, was or
dered to take them home and let them
out. Some days since the gentleman
was told that the garments happened to
fit a countryman of his, and was let out
at a shilling a week.
—“ I lived with him nineteen years,”
says an Indiana applicant for divorce,
“sand-all the clothes he ever bought me
was a bunch of hair pins and a tooth
brush.” You can see by this what a
hard time she had to keep well dressed.
—A very pretty Sunday-school song is
the one entitled, “ Put your armor on,my
boys.” There is, however, a young lady
in our town who doesn’t like to hear it.
She says it sounds like, “ Put your arm
around me boys,” and it always makes
her feel lonesome.
—■“ Amen ! amen !” shouted a Cedar
Rapids parson at the elegant remarks of
a stranger at the camp-meeting. Sud
denly the parson turned his eyes on the
man, and jumping up, screamed, “Catch
him, brothers, catch him! He’s the
three-card monte man that got my last
month’s salary.” This is a fact, and the
monte man is now in jail at Cedar Rapid.
—A rural poet thus breaks forth :
“ Oh ! the snore, the beautiful snore, fil
ling the chamber from ceiling to floor !
Over the coverlet, under the sheet, from
her wee dimpled chin to her pretty feet!
Now rising aloft like a bee in June ; now
sunk to the wail of a cracked bassoon !
Now, flute-like, subsiding, then rising
again, is the beautiful snore of Elizabeth
Jane.”
—l’d like to be an edytur,
An’ in mv sancktum stand,
The door a standin’ open
An’ a big club in my hand ;
Then let the cuss who didn’t like
Some article I had writ.
Come softly’ o’er the threshold,
I recken he’d git hit ;
I’d hand him one right on the snoot,
Among his brains and things,
And send him flumixing up thnr
To sport a pair ov wings.
—She was an elderly lady, and as she
seated herself on one of the stools in
Witcher’s store and asked to be shown
some “ ealiker,” she remarked that when
she was a “ gal,” she thought she was
powerful lucky if she got sixteen yards
in a dress, and she thought it a “ sinful”
waste of stuff to put in more ; but she
had just “ hearn”that Mrs. X. was agoin’
to hev forty-two yards in her new cali
ker, and she hoped there might be a
cloud burst in seventeen minutes if that
air woman should stare round in church
and make remarks about her clothes.
“ You kin just cut me off forty-three
yards, and I’ll have it made pinback
fashion, with an overdress and a square
mainsail, and a flvin’jib and back-action;
then I’d just like to see that stuck-up
Mrs. X. put on airs over me.”
—A young man was at a social the
other night, and was very profuse in his
exhibitions of universal knowledge. He
knew all about music, and could play
anything. An old gentleman, becoming
disgusted with the young buck’s preten
tious, remarked that be couldn’t play
himself, but he understood the theory of
music so well that he could tell what
tone a person was fingering by seeing
the motions without hearing the sounds.
This so astonished the young man that
he proposed to test this wonderful power
of the elder, and at once drew up to the
table and commenced gently fingering
as if upon a key-board, remarking that
be was now going through one of the
most popular airs, and asked the old gen
tleman : “ What am I playing now ?”
The old gent winked at the girls, and
blandly remarked : “ I think you are
playing the darned fool, if you are ma
king fcne right motions.”
HOBBIBLE PHENOMENA.
It is generally known, says an old pa
per, that in Barbadoes there is a myste
rious vault, in which no one now dares
to deposit the dead. It is in a Church
yard near the seaside. In 1807, the first
coffin that was deposited in it was that of
a Mr. Goddard ; in 1807, a Miss A. M.
Chase was placed in it; and in 1812, Miss
D. Chase. In the end of 1812, the vault
was opened for the body of the Hon. T.
Chase; but the three first coffins were
found in a confused state, having been
apparently tossed from their places.
Again was the vault opened to receive
the body of an infant, ami the four cof
fins, all of lead, and very heavy, were
found much disturbed. In 1816,’ a Mr.
Brewster’s body was placed in the vault,
and again great disorder was apparent
among the coffins. In 1819, a Mr. Clarke
was placed in the vault, and, as before,
the coffins were in confusion.
Each time that the vault w r as opened,
the coffins were replaced in their proper
situations—that is, three on the ground,
side by side, and the others laid on them.
The vault was regularly closed ; the door
(a massive stone, which required six or
seven men to move.) was cemented by
masons, and though the floor was sand,
there was no marks of footsteeps or wa
ter. Again the vault was opened in 1819.
Lord Combermere W’as then present, and
the coffins were found thrown confused
ly about the vault—some with their
heads down, and others up. “ W hat
could have occasioned this phenomena?
In no other vault in the Island has this
ever occurred. Was it an earthquake
which occasioned it, or the effects of an
inundation in the vault? These were
the questions asked by a Barbadoes jour
nal at this time; and no oue could afford
a solution.
The matter gradually died away, until
the present year, when, on the i6th of
February, the vault was again opened,
all the coffins were again thrown about
as confusedly as before. A strict investi
gation took place, and no cause could be
discovered. Was it, after all, that the
sudden bursting of noxious gas from one
of the coffins could have produced this
phenomena? If so, it is against all for
mer experience. The vault has been her
metically sealed again, when to be re
opened, we cannot tell.
In England there was a parallel oc
currence to this some years ago, at Hau
ton, in Suffolk. It is stated that on
opening a vault there, several leaden cof
fins, with wooden cases, which had been
fixed on biers, were found displaced, to
the great consternation of the villagers.
The coffins were again placed as before,
and the vault was properly closed when
again, another of the family dying, they
were again found displaced ; and two
years after that, they werenotouly found
all off their biers, but one coffin, (so
heavy as to require eight men to raise it,)
was found on the step which led down
the vault; and it seemed perfectly cer
tain that no human hands done this.
A DETECTIVE'S BLUNDER.
A Nevada paper relates this incident:
About two months ago a young lawyer
of this city and his newly acquired wife
were returning from a visit to the Bay.
Wearied a triffe with constant billing
and cooing, the young husband made
some feeble excuse or other and slipped
off’ to the smoking car to burn a cigar
and think with a sigh of departed bach
elor days when he could spit out of the
window over his boot toes, with none to
say, “ Oh, please, Steve, dear, don’t.”
The bride, with rather an injured ex
pression, was sitting in her palace car,
musing on the waning ardor of her Ste
phen, when she suddenly discovered that
she was the center of attraction to the
whole car. Two rough looking men
were standing in the aisle, gazing at her
closely, and then referring to a paper
which one held in his hands. Before the
astonished and indignant lady could col
lect her thoughts, one of the men took
the vacant seat beside her, and with a
knowing wink observed:
“ A good get-up, Nancy, but it won’t
do. You’re copped dead to rights this
time, honey.”
“Sir!” grasped the frightened lady,
shrinking back into the furthest corner.
“ By the big stick,” said the man, ad
miringly, “ Nance, you’d ought to agone
on the stage. I never see anything bet
ter done. But it won’t do. You’ve got
to come back with us, Nance, an’ you
stand a mighty good chance of goin’
over the bay for five at shortest.”
“ Sir, what do you mean ?” demanded
Mrs. thoroughly alarmed, and start
ing to her feet. “ Will no gentleman
protect me from the insults of this fel
low ?”
Haifa dozen gentleman sprang forward
at this appeal.
“ Gentleman,” said the man, “ jist
’tend to your own business and I’ll ’tend
to mine. I’ve been hunting this bird
for two months and more, an’ I’ve got
her at last. She puts on a good deal of
style, but if you’ve ever heard of Nance
Brown,’one of the ’cutest thieves on the
coast, here she is. I’d have taken her
quietly, but if she wants to make a row
it’s her own business. I’m Detective
“ Oh, this is intolerable,” cried the
poor lady, bursting with indignation and
shame. “ Gentlemen, my husband, Mr.
,is on the train. Go find him, for
heaven’s sake!”
There presently appeared about the
wildest-looking lawyer outside of Stock
ton. The detectives grinned at the ve
hement explanations of the husband,and
the other officer warned him to be quiet
or he would arrest him for interfering.
Fortunately there were several Virgin
ians on the train, and they at once iden
tified the lawyer as a respectable citizen,
though, the marriage being recent, they
had not known the lady.
The detectives were profuse in their
apologies, and got out of the car in
double-quick order, looking more sheep
ish than any thief-takers have a right to
look, and swearing that it was the stran
gest resemblance that they had ever
seen.
—Simon Bouffard, the famous iaj
pickers’ banker of Paris, is dead. He
was over eighty, and for more than forty
year had pursued his calling of lending
money to rag-pickers at fifteen per cent,
interest, taking whatever rags they
might possess as security. In this way
he had amassed a fortune of several
thousand pounds. His only companions
were a cat and a monkey, and when
found dead the cat was playing with his
head and the monkey had on his cap and
spectacles. Having no relatives, his for
une goes to the State.
MYSTERIES OF THE'TOILET.
How a Frenchwoman Hakes Herself Beau
tiful-Passing for Thirty at Fifty.
[From the Metropolitan.]
I had the pleasure yesterday of assist
ing—that is to say, looking on, not help
ing—at the toilet of a French woman, a
genuine Parisian. I was a good deal
surprised, that I admit; and she was a
good deal surprised at my surprise. She
imagines that the extremes of artificial
ity arrived at in Paris—mak
ing a sort of dual woman, as it were,
out of one —were known to us ; aud she
considered us semi-barbarians since she
discovered how much nearer the natural
state wc are.
She began, my Francaise, by submit
ting herself to her maid, who on her
part began by subjecting herself to a
face friction of elder flower water. This
accomplished, the previously sallow face
became of a dearer hue, an ivory yellow.
Every particle of impurity in the pores
had yielded to the influence of the elder
flower water, with which half a goblet of
warm water had been mixed. The
throat, neck and hands had partook of
this refreshing dew, adding a lustre to
the freshness given by a tepid bath of
twenty minutes and a shower bath of
five, gone through with a half hour be
fore the beginning of the mysteries of
dressing, or the “ getting up.”
Next came a rubbing of a scented iris
powder in the dark hair, which was
short—that is to say, not more than a
foot and a half long—and rather thick.
When the iris-powder was brushed out
and carefully removed at the temples
aud the nape of the neck, a delicate
creme , similar to cold-cream, but without
lard—the juice of lettuce being its main
ingredient—was laid over the whole skin
of neck, face and hands, and allowed to
remain ten minutes. This, I was inform
ed, was intended to do away with the
contraction of the features arising from
want of sleep, which waut of sleep had
arisen from too much cafe noir at din
ner. I had not observed any “ contrac
tion des traits ,” and thought within my
self how much fancy would do. The
Parisian informed me that camphor and
creme had a similar composing effect up
on the features, especially after the fa
tigues of a ball.
The next thing done was the removal
of every trace of the creme with an ex
tremely fine linen cloth. This was a
skilful operation, for while rubbing the
skin into satin-like smoothness the
femme-dc-chambre did not make it red or
in any way roughen its surface. She
seemed to polish and in polishing to
whiten her mistress’s complexion.
The next process was the application
of veloutine, a compound of bismuth
and rice powder, having the fixative
quality of the first and the delicacy of
the last ingredient. But ah ! the care
with which the maid applied the
preparation. It was absolutely impossi
ble, in being thus laid on, to detect the
presence of any foreign aid. The skin
had the firm, clear whiteness of alabas
ter, with a suggestion of sunny lustre and
creaminess to subdue it.
Then came the grand affair of the eye
brows. These were brushed with a mi
nute soft brush, with dark bristles and a
handle inlaid with mother of pearl, and
the least possible tracing of fard indien
from a small stone jar laid upon them.
Under the eyes—very fine eyes, and
needing no aid from art—an estampe of
leather, upon which the fard indien was
lightly rubbed, laid now a dusky shad
ow, which increased the brilliancy of
the eyes to a great, and, to my mind, un
pleasant degree. What was to become
of this appliance in case of emotion I
cannot say. Perhaps a French woman
only cries when she chooses.
The neck and hands now partook of
the bismuth powder whitening, and af
ter the hair was dressed very low on the
neck, frizzed a little over the forehead,
and with less addition of false hair than
has been customary for years. A small
natte of permanently crimped black
hair, looped with a white ivory
comb cut in cameo medallions,
made up this part of the toilet, only one
small ringlet being suffered to play
about the neck.
But it was when the large peignoir
was removed, and the under toilet began,
that astonishment claimed me for its own.
First, a corset, of course, you will
say. But, let me remark, there are corsets
and corsets. The one placed above the
delicate garment of flesh-colored raw
silk, which takes the place of linen with
the elegantes of Paris, and clings to the
form so in no way to increase the size
by bulk of folds around the waist, was a
corset of gray silk, stitched with rose
color and edged with Valenciennes on
the hips and about the shoulders. But
in tlie make of this “ article of female
wear” there entered art that amounted
to genius. For, set in at the hips and
making the bustle, were curved bones
that stood out in a swell of several inches
and formed an incorporate part of the
corset itself, impossible of detection when
the skirt of her dress was placed over it.
Then the flesh-colored silk stockings;
the short cambric skirt with myriad tucks,
insertions, and flutings of lace ; the deli
cate bottines of black satin ; the white
muslin dress, without assistance of color
except a rose at the throat, and made so
extremely short in front as to display the
entire foot; the one long hair pin, with
its head une prosse perle fine, and the
careless drawing up of the draping at
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one side to display the underskirt of raw
silk ; this ami the toilet were an accom
plished feat and fact.
Let me not omit to say that the muslin
sleeve was so extremely tight to the arm
that it seemed like a second skiu. It ter
minated two inches above the well-roun
ded yet delicate wrist, where a quaint
bracelet of West Indian beetles, the
cadeau of a lady admirer from Cuba,
completed the ornamentation of so much
studied simplicity.
It was really very pretty, and the lady
looked charming—let us say thirty years
old. Her age ? Oh—well, fifty.
A Kentucky Mummy.—The Louis
ville Courier-Journal says : The discov
ery of a female mummy in Grand Aven
ue cave, near Glasgow Junction, Barren
county, by Eugene Proctor, is attracting
the attention of the archaeologists of the
country. It is that of a woman four feet
and five inches in length. When found
it was lying on its lelt side in a sleeping
posture. The left arm was resting on the
ground, but the left hand had disap
peared. The right arm rests on the
bosom with the hand tucked under the
chin. The flesh on the arms and lower
limbs is shrunken, but the body and head
are well preserved. The face is round
and lull, and, a correspondent says,
“ very beautiful.” It is perfectly white
and shows no Indian characteristics in
form or feature. The mouth is small,
and the lips are partly open, exhibiting
the front teeth. It shows unmistakable
evidence of having been in its present
position for an indefinite period of time.
Crowds are flocking to see it, but no one
has yet been able to tell to what race of
human beings it belongs.
A Kentucky Family.—The fortunes
or misfortunes of a certain Kentucky
family might form the plot of a French
novel. Many years since, the wife of a
wealthy and distinguished man, in a fit
of insanity, threw her two little sons out
of a lofty window of her beautiful home.
One died, the other was unharmed. The
mother was committed to a lunatic asy
lum, where she remained many vears
without recovering. By his wealth and
political influence the husband procured
an act of the Legislature by which he
became divorced from his unfortunate
wife. In the meanwhile, the son, whom
the mother had thrown from the window,
had become affianced to a lovely girl;
but she jilted him and married his fa
ther, who gave her most of his vast es
tate. Finally, the father died, the first
wife recovered and sued the second wife
for the property, assisted by her son,
whose early love for his stepmother Wats
turned to gall by her unfaithfulness, and
transferred to the mother who attempted
to deprive him of life.
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Playing at Hanging.—The little
children of a gentleman living near
Maryville concluded a few days since to
have a little fun by playing Webb. The
arrangements as made and agreed to by
all concerned were about as follows:
A Sheriff was named, who was to do the
hanging ; one of the party agreed to be
John Webb, who was to be hanged by
the Sheriff, and after he had hanged
enough he was to halloa that the Sheriff
and others might take him down. The
others were to be friends and mourners
of Mr. Webb. The arrangements all
the would-be Webb was launched
forth betwixt heaven and earth, with a
promise to halloa when he had enough,
and the friends set up a general lamen
tation for their friend Webb. Webb
continued to hang, and the mourners
continued their mourning. Then the
performance happened to be noticed by
some of the women of the family, who
arrived iu time to save the boy. He was
dying without a groan.
A Wonder of Nature in Florida.
For many years past there has been no
ticed a column of smoke or steam rising
irom the Gulf coast, in Waukalla county.
A short time since, Judge White and a
party of gentleman in Leon and Gadsden
counties formed an expedition to reach,
if’ possible, the undiscovered wonder.
They started from St. Marks in a sail
boat, and made their way eastward to the
mouth of Pinhook Creek. One of the
party says:
“ The coast here is very singular, and
suggests the presence of volcanic action
at some time in the remote past. We
look upon it as a favorable indication of
the volcano we were in search of. The
bed of the river is a mass of rock, and
two miles from its mouth its whole vol
ume is vomitted up with immense force
from the yawning jaws of a rifted rock.
Here the river proper terminates and
then commences a series of sinks, which
extend for twenty miles back.”— Semi-
Tropical Monthly.
Making a Choice.—A gentleman
living up the bay says that a negro man,
his wife, and four children were forced
to take a tree to save themselves during
the late storm. The tree swayed to and
fro with the violence of the wind, and
threatened to fall with its heavy burdeu.
The old couple concluded that someone
must be sacrificed to save the rest. Af
ter a cousultation the old women said
she was not prepared to die, and urged
the old man to drop himself into eterni
ty. But he, too, wasn’t ready, and the
matter was compromised by launching the
two youngest children into the surging
waters. A few hours after they were
rescued, and the old negro told the story
himself to those who saved him.
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condensed time tables and general information
in regard to transportation facilities to all
points in Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Min
nesota, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, lowa, New
Mexico, Utah and California, apply to or
address Albert B. Wrens, General Rail
road Agent, Office Atlanta, Ga.
No one should go West without first getting
in communication with the General R. R.
Agent, aud become informed as to superior
advantages, cheap and quick transportation of
families, household goods, stock, and farming
implements generally. All information cheer
fully given.
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For Bargain* in Checks, Stripes, Shir
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> all on R. S. Martin. Remember the place.
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Paints, Varnishes, Brushes, Window Glass
and Putty at lowest prices at Longs & Bil
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MISCELLANEOUS,
WM. WALSMAN,
Fashionable Tailor,
Would respectfully inform the public, anti
his old friends of Oglethorpe and Elbert, that
lie is now located on Clavton street. Athens,
Ga*. and is fully prepared to do work in his
usual satisfactory manner. sep3-tf
T. R. & W. CHILDERS,
Carpanters and Builders,
ATHENS, - - - - GEORGIA,
Are prepared to do all manner of work iri
their line in the best manner. Parties iff
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Fine Boots & Shoes
HENRY LUTHI,
/UIAWFORD, GA., IS NOW PREPARED
Y > to make, at short notice, the FINEST
BOOTS and SHOES. I use only the best
material, and warrant my work to give entire
satisfaction, both as to finish am! wear,
REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also
attented to. octfi-iy
LITTLE STORE-CORNER
HERE THE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE
will alway And the Cheapest und
Best Stock of
FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS,
GROCERIES, LAMPS, OIL, ETC.
J. M. BAEBY. Broad Str., Athens, Ga#
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ROAN HOUSE]
LEXINGTON, GA.
rpilE UNDERSIGNED HAS OPENED A
Hotel iit Lexington, Ga., and is now pre
pared to entertain the traveling public in a
hospitable manner. The beds are comforta
ble, and the table furnished -.rith the bt the
market affords. piS" A No. 1 STABLE in
connection with the Hotel, where stock Will
receive good attention.
Don’t forget to stop at the Roan House, oft
the Public Square. E. I). ROAN, Prop f.
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RAILROAD TICKETS
For sale, by all routes, to all principal point#
In the United States*
Buy your Tickets in Athens, and get all
information from
Capt, WM, WILLIAMS,
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Go to Davis’ Gallery,
IN ATHENS,
IF YOU WANT
OLD PICTURES COPIED and EKURGED
With RELIABLE and Guaranteed work,
At 25 Per Cent. Less
than Foreign Companies. jan29-tf
W. A. TALMADGE. F. P. TALMADGB,
W. A. TALMADGE & CO.,
DEALERS IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS-AND JEWELBT,
SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
Nnsical Instruments, Cutlery,
CANES, GUNS AND PISTOLB.
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Pistols REPAIRED in the lest manner and
warranted. General ENGRAVING done
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SPECTACLES^
College Avenue, Opposite Post Office,
aprSO-tf ATHENS, GA.
150,000 CIGARS
NOW IN STORE, OF THE
Choicest Brands 1
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!!
KALVARINSKY & LIEBLER,
Under Newton House, Athens, Ga,
JOIT. M. 111,
Lexington, Ga. f
Dealer in all kinds of meb-
CHANDISE. Will sell CHEAP as the
CHEAPEST. lie has the Q rQT of goods
in every line. Be certain | to call
and examine before purchasing elsewhere.
Defies competition in
BOOTS AND SHOES
Or Clothing.
“Old Ladies’ ” Shoes
A SPECIALTY.
Fine Dress Goods
SI p Cent, Under Cost,
Come and See!
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