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■(■A Had I'rnol. I-Mt Saturday s severe >1011)1, ara-om partied with rtfneinTjn Red this section. It qui'-kl” lllj|ll without doing m&tena* wrday nigiit —*, which Subscription Rates: One Tesr yftn filx month*. 1,00 Three Month* M Thrvu Cask in Admnm. PoeWrely do piper not natQ the money U peld. )or* (firen eeeb inbearlber two week* before the explmton of hie time, end If mtbserlptlon 1* cot renewed, tne piper le it ouoe dleoontinned. Any permon who will eend nj the nemee of Are new enbeerlbore, with *lO cwh, will be entitled to ene yeir’e eubucriptlon free. No dob ritee. The Cause of the Rain. Awiy by the shore of the oeei bine i In peecefaliioiHi known to the lonely few, The wife and child of a sailor true Lived and toiled together. Fall many a weird and p’eaeing tale Wae told the boy, of sea and sail. Of fl >atin r ' ->il uorll ern ptie, Of clear tnd cloudy weather. Adown the we-t the king of day Wm hastening through the gates away, In all bis golden bright array, When home retnrned the skipper. At evening, a.robing on the sand, He told the boy of m>.ny a land, And slowly traced with his brawny hand The cross and the .-terry dipper. ’Twas midnight, and, nnfit for rets, The boy stole softly from his neat To watch the moon in clouds of the west Play hide and seek with the water, To laugh at the wind in its wild, wild race, Anif again the stars of the heavens to trace ; But he thought that the dipper was out of place, And vailed Andromeda’s daoghter. The sea was mad, for the wind was high, TL j huge black clouds would soon go by, But down fell torronts of rain from the sky And woke the sleeping skipper. And suddenly long and loud laughed he. When the voice of his child broke forth in glee, " Ob, father ! the king of the northern sea Has npset his starry dipper.” Emily Blake, in Boston Transcript. How They Came Together Again. ‘•Now, Kitty, you don’t mean so?” "I do, Will.” “ Then give mo back that ring.” Quick as thought off came the ring from Kitty’s tapering finger, and in another moment it flashed in the palm of Will Graham’s hand. Then the two looked at one another aghast, as if a precipico bad suddenly yawned between them. “Time to leave the grovel Cars coming,” said a voice, nearing tLem. “Ob, Kitty, quick, if you don’t want to be left 1” And her sister, Nellie Barton, who had been searching for her, came for ward to grasp her by the hand aud hur ry her off to the picnio train waiting for th e flnshed and tired party from the city. “ Hang the train I” said Will, reflect ing afterward that it would bo rather a hard thing to do. “What am Ito do with tLis ring? I would like to crush it under those locomotive wheels. Aud Kitty 1 What have I done 1” Theseqnel was, that Will, sanntering along, win too late for the train, and bad the pleasure of walking into town, ten miles. “ Good enough for liim,” said the vexed Kitty, in a thoroughly feline way, as she missed him in the train, pretend ing not to look for him, and yet con stantly durting sly glances in every direction to see if lie could be near. “ Good enough for him,” she said, when the cars started. More tender thonghts came at last. “ Poor Will,” she finally murmured; “ w hen he comes round to night, I’ll mako him comfortable in that big arm-chair in onr parlor, and will fix everything all right. But will he come round ?” A look at her naked finger sent a shiver over her, and the precipice yawning between her and Will in the grove seemed to yawn wider. “What have I said and done to Will? I won der if he’ll come to-night.” No Will came. The big arm-chair looked empty enough, and Kitty felt like tying a piece of crape to it. Will reached homo thoroughly tired out by his walk, and thoroughly disgusted with himself for his treatment of Kitty. “Fool,” lie said to himself, as he dropped asleep'. And that was just what Kitty said to herself. They were fool ish. At iho picnio party there had been a little jealousy and then a little slighting of one another. Kitty thought Will cruel, and so the end was that Will walked ten miles that night with a plump little gold ring in his pocket. Both went to sleep, saying in self-accu sation, " Fool!” Both woke up with intentions to make reparation the next day. It is easier tliongh to make a break in thedam than tit mend it. When Will Graham went down to his late breakfast, he found a short but peremptory letter waiting for him. It was war time. Will was alien tenant in his regiment. The letter was a summons back to his post, for the enemy w< re reported to be intending a serious demonstration. Every man must be in his place. The sentences of bis letter ended sharp as pistol-shots, and Will was off by the next train. He sent a message by a lady friend to Kitty that he wanted her to write and he would as soon as possible answer it, and that she must not think anything of what had happened. Would she forgive him ? he asked. Rot the lady friend, who chanoed to be visiting in the place, was suddenly hurried home by symptoms of approaching sickness. The sickness proved fatal, and Will’s words found a grave with her. As for Kitty, she wrote i) note before leaving her room that morning saying she was sorry, and gave it to a little boy to drop in the office. The game of marbles played on the way sent into happy oblivion all thought of his errand, and when he did think of his note, he couldn’t find it. It probably dropped out of his pocket in pulling ont a bag of marbles and was finally picked up by the next enterprising cliifflonier that went round crying “ Rags, rags.” Will wondeerd wby after his mes saae, Kitty didn’t send a letter, and Kitty wondered why after her letter, Will sent no message. The result was that a certain pretty little finger went minus a gold ring. It was a weary autumn, and wearier winter Kitty thought, that followed. The dead leaves whirling in the wind never seemed so mournful, and the snow never seemed so much like a shroud. “No Will,” she said, “these long winter evenings ! Nothing bat war re ports sounding like batteries going off all the time. ” “What is the mat er with Graham?” said Will’s mess-mates, as they rumi nated after dinner on the subject of his depression, sending up their inquiries toward the tent roof through dirty rings of tobacco smnke. And Kitty’s friends wondered why she #as s o uau ; n.. averse to society. “ Oh, father* and mother are both feeble and need me,” she said. Three weary years went by; Will hav ing no heart to come home. In the meanwhile, Kitty married and left the place. “Gone to T—,” someone said; “mar ried a rich old fellow that she didn’t heartily love, all for the sake of making her father and mother comfortable. ” It was just about so, but only when Kitty had grown heart sick waiting to hear from Will. Reading at last m the evening paper that Lieut Graham had been killed, she gave up all hope. She made a grave as she thought for the old love and gave herself away to a rich old friend of the family, a Mr. Carleton. “ ’Twill be a good thing for* father and mother," said Kitty. Mr. C— took his young bride to the city of T—. In two years, Kitty, found herself a widow. M"■ Carleton had been a kind husband, and Kitty though un&bie to give any thing like a hearty love, sincerely re speci yi him. Love, however, is a Oglethorpe Echo. By T. L. GANTT. T lant that can’t live on respect alone. Kitty’s affection had been given to somebody else, and that somebody else, though Kitty did not know it, was still alive. “Almost dead,” said Surgeon Dale to Will; “they say yon were found after hat last little skirmish. The bayonet wound you received in your eye, will finally, I am afraid, cause you to lose it. At any rate, you must wear a green patch for a long time.” Will’s health recovered sufficiently to allow further service, and at the end of the war, he was sent home with a gold eagle on the shoulder and a green patch over the left eye. When Will reached home, he said to himself, “ The young woman who once wanted the little gold ring I carry in my pocket, surely won’t want it now if she must take the green patch with it.” And sure enough, she didn’t. Kitty’s old home was as empty as a robin’s nest in October. He heard heard she had gone somewhere and was a widow, Col. Graham was rich, and why shouldn’t he marry ? Many a girl would have put up with that green patch for the sake of his warm heart and manly character. Add money, and the green patch was very attractive. In one little clique where Will moved, it is a wonder it was not adopted as a badge. But those works of green were never carried, though assaulted by many a fair raider. Will was given up at last, and venom ously reckoned as a “ernsty old bach.” The soldiers’ orphans, and also the poor women that the war left penniless widows, knew the green patch, however, as the sign of a warm-hearted man who made children happy with candy, and their mothers happy with coal. Asa handsome little property in the city of T , fell to him one day, the colonel concluded to move there. The property included a big, hospitable old mansion just snited to his tastes. It lay in a largo garden. The trees were not close up to it, smothering it, but stood at respectful distance, so that the sun shine could pour around the old house depths of gold-color, bringing health and life. To outsiders in the street, so thi.'k were the intervening trees, it seemed like a nest stowed away in the green foliage. Around the honse went a broad piazza like a white ruff of the olden times about a lady’s neck. Back of the house, there were long slopes of grass leading down to a river. In June, this river went like a minstrel past the mansions bordering it, singing beauti ful songs of the summer as it purled along. At sunset, this princely trouba dour brought out of his treasures all sorts of precious stones and spread them on the water’s surface to tempt away his lady-lovea wandering on the river’s banks. Within the house, the rooms were of generous size, and yet cozy in their arrangements. The hall, furnish ed after the English style, was an ample, comfortable retreat, ever open to all soldiers whose stumps halted at the colonel’s door. “ Oh, mamma,” said little Kitty Carleton, now three years old, and Kitty Barton’s only child, “somebody’s turn, somebody’s turn, over dere. See in de garden !’* Sure enough as Mrs. Carleton looked ont of her windows, she saw that the ad joining mansion we have described was indeed occupied, Strolling under the trees she saw a finely-formed, stalwart man. The stranger turned his face to ward Mrs. Carleton’s home. “See,” said little Kitty, “something geen in his eye. ” “It is a green patch, darling, on his eye. It must be a poor soldier. Kitty must love the poor soldiers.” “ I will, mamma, aud won’t you ?” “Yes,” the widow replied, hardly conscious of any reference to the gen ileman walking uuder the trees. “As long as I live,” bhe said to herself, go ing to a drawer and taking out Will Graham’s faded picture, “There, I thought I had got over that. It was never buried, after all. No, there are uo graves for a true love. ” Mrs. Carleton soon found that Kitty and the gentleman whose eye appeared habitually in green, were great friends. She woul 1 call upon him and bring home flowers or candy or toys. One day Kitty said she had found ont his name, the name of that “ nice ” gentleman. “What is your lover% name?” said Mrs. Carleton, smiling. “ It’s a ham, mamma; some kind of a ham—Gayham.” “Graham, you must mean, child.” “And he’s been a sojer; and some body tame to see him and tailed him Will.’' “ Will Graham, and a soldier. Well, that is a coincidence, ” thought the mother. Aud Kitty suiJ she had told the strange man her name. “Kitty Barton Tarleton. ” So that the colonel thought he had got hold of a coincidence. “ Kitty Bar ton ! Well, it can’t be she 1” And Mrs. Carleton said, “ Will Gra ham ! It can’t be he I” Both wished from the inmost depths of their souls it might be so. For several days the colonel missed his little pet. “Seem’s to me the col onel’s fussy,” said his housekeeper, “ wondering why that child don’t oome over, and saying every five minutes he must jest step over and see if she’s sick. Tho\ sartin, I do remember I’ve seen old Ur. Gay’s gig there twice. I’ll tell him, or he’ll fi;iget into a fever.” “ Is it the little girl, or do you sup pose it is her mother ?” said the colonel, emphasizing the mother. “I should hate to have the little girl sick;” and he added to himself, “ I might feel worse if it were the mother. Thete, I will call over to-morrow and get light on this mystery.” “Do I s’pose it is the mother, ” said his housekeeper, vigorously. “ I don’t know nothin’ about it. There,” Mrs. Timmins said, away in the recesses of her own consciousness, “that man has been peekin’ out of the blinds at that child’s mother. He’s old enough to do better. ” That very day the colonel stei peu out on his piazza dressed np for the proposed cell. Looking opposite, he saw his lit tle acquaintance running suddenly out of the house, and as he looked, he noticed a light wreath of smoke puffing after her. “Oh, Mr. Gayham, Mr. Gayham, mamma’s sick and house’s afire. * Turn quick 1” she cried. The oolonel rushed over. He ran into the sitting-room. In a rocking-chair sat a lady in a morning-gown. “ Oh, excuse me sir 1 but the house’s on fire and I am still weak from my sickness. I can’t stir.” The colonel bent over her, took her in his arms, carried her toward the light. “Why, Kitty 1” he said. “ Why, Will I” was the answer. Not another word was spoken. “ Well,” said Col. Graham to himself, I as his fair harden rested in his arms, “this is awkward, though delightful. Where shall I take her ? Take her to I your house, of course, simpleton ” said an instinct within. Kitty had swooned, he saw, and in that unconscious state he bore her into his sitting-room, there to leave her and her child with the ener getic Timmins. The fire in Mrs. C.’s house arose from a defective furnace fine, was spreading rapidly, and the oolonel, who had gallantly returned to fight the flames, found the house could not be saved. The next morning Mrs. Carleton looked out from the gueet chamber at she Colonel’s only to see a chaired heap of ruins. THE ONLY PAPER IN ONE OF THE LARGEST, MOST INTELLIGENT AND WEALTHIEST COUNTIES IN GEORGIA. “ Why, mamma, we tan’t go home and hadn’t ns best Btay here !” asked Kitty. “Hush, child, we must go some where.” There was a knock at the door. “Shall I bring yonr breakfast in now ?’’ said Mrs. Timmins, making the following private remarks for the bene fit of one Timmins: “ I know the colonel wanted orfully to have her take her breakfast down stairs, but said she was an invalid." “Thank you,” replied Mrs. Carleton, “I am sorry to trouble you. Could you order me a carriage after breakfast? I had better go to the hotel and not im pose on your hospitality.” “Ho -telt” said the really warm hearted Timmins, “ You are better fitted to take j our bed than a carriage. No sick folks leaves this house in such a fix. If sojer-boys can stay, eating the colonel out of house and home, I guess a neighbor can.” There was another knock at the door. It was the colonel himself, and Timmins withdrew. “She won’t go,” remarked Timmins to herself. “ Peekin’ through the blinds always did mean something.” “ Why, how much the colonel looks like Will Graham of old,” silently ob served Mrs. Carleton. “Kitty,” said the colonel, blushing suddenly—“ Mrs. Carleton, I mean, why must you go ?” She had told him her intention. “She never looked so charming,” thought the colonel. “He never looked handsomer, in spite of his green patch,” thought Mrs, Carleton, “ Ob, colonel, I—I—I” “ Kitty,” said Col, Graham, stooping low and whispering, “ couldn’t you call me Will again ?” “Will,” came back in a soft, low whisper. “ Here, little Kitty,” said the colonel, blushing redder than ever, and taking Mrs. C.’s child in his arms, “wouldn’t yon like to stay here all the time ?” “Oh, yes; and wouldn’t you, mam ma ?” “ Say yes, dear Kitty,” whispered the colonel, stooping lower to Mrs. Carle ton. No microphone ever brought the faint answer to that outside public, whose greedy ear catches up every such thing eagerly; but in a few months there was a very happy wedding at St. Luke’s, and little Kitty Carleton had anew father. —Portland Transcript. Facts About the Indians. The tenth annual report of the board of Indian commissioners to the Presi dent of the United States contains a comparative statement showing the con dition of the Indians ii> 1868 and in 1878. Some of the more important items are as follows: 1868. 1878. Number of Indians in the United States, except Alaska 250,864 Number of Indians who wear citizen’s dress 127,458 Number of houses occu pied by Indians 8,646 28,060 Number of houses built last year 145 Number of Indian schools.. 148 866 Number of Indian pupils.. 5.810 12,222 Amount expended for edu cation $854,125 Number of Indians who can read 41,809 j Number of Indians who learned to read last year (five civilized tribes ex cepted) 1,532 j Number of church build ings on reservations 219 Number of church mem bers, about 80,000 Number of acres of land cul tivated by Indians 79,071 373,018 Number of bushels of wheatraised 169,365 770,615 Number of bushels of corn raised 520,079 694,001 ! Number of bushels of oats and barley raised 81,151 386,132 : Number of bushels of vege i tables raised 350,690 694,001 Number of tons of bay made 18,016 158,011 { Number of horses and mules owned 78,018 226,011 ! Number of cattle owned.. 47,704 291,278 1 Number of swine owned.. 31.284 200,952 ! Number of sheep owned.. 7,953 594,574 From this statement it appears that more than one-half of the Indians have discarded the blanket and donned a civilized garb; that about one half have moved out of their lodges and wigwams into houses, the number of which has increased nearly three-fold in ten years; that the number of pupils in Indian schools has more than doubled; that nearly one-sixth of the Indian popula tion can read; that the numbers of acres of land cultivated by the Indians is about five times as great as ten years ago; that the production of wheat has increased nearly five-fold, of corn seven fold, of oats and barley nearly fonr-fold, and of hay nearly nine-fold, and that the Indians own about three times as many horses aud mules, six times as many cattle, seven times as many swine, and about seventy-five times as many sheep as they did ten years ago. They now own more than two head of sheep for every Indian man, woman and child in the United States. Acute Rheumatism. This is sometimes called rheumatic fever. Its medical term is polyarthritis. It is mainly a disease of the temperate regions, and prevails mostly from Oc tober to May. Persons specially liable to it are those whose calling exposes them to frequent changes of tempera ture, those who are insufficiently pro tected against sudden chills, and those who reside in damp localities, and es pecially those who sleep in damp rooms. One attack greatly disposes a person to a second. The foremost exciting cause is a sud den cooling of the body when heated and exhausted by exertion—this, in the view of many medical authorities, developing lactic acid in the blood. The fever is proportionate to the number of joints attacked, and the intensty of the inflam mation. It is accompanied with a sonr sweat. Hardly any other disease pre sents so many complications. The younger the patient, the greater the liability of the heart’s being affected. The liability after twenty-five is the exception. Asa rule, it runs it course in from three to six weeks. Convalescence is slow. Even after recovery, there is for a considerable time a tendency to re newed inflammation. It seldom termi nates in death. To avoid the disease, guard against all sudden and violent changes of tem perature ; wear woolen next to the skin; to case the skin is especially suscepti ble, harden it by cold bathing, exercise in the open air, etc.; if exposed to wet or chill when heated, keep np the circu lation by active exercise till an oppor tunity offers for change of clothing. A Moment of Horror. A prominent fancy goods dealer of this city, whose neatness of attire is the envy of the less fortunate, stepped into his store Sunday to replenish the fur nace. He laid aside his glossy silk hat and put on an old straw. Having ar ranged matters satisfactorily, he saun tered up Congress street just as church goers were coming down. Meeting a lady of his acquaintance, he gracefully lifted his hat, when, to his horror, he found that he had on the straw one afor-said. He took the back streets and reached home as soon as possible.— Portland {Me.) Argus LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1879. FEEDING ON FELINES. Sausaces in New York that are said to be made of Cat Meat* The New York Mercury asserts that some of the residents of that city are ac customed to buying sausages and other food partly made np of the flesh of young kittens. The Mercury says men go about at night hunting cats* which they put into bags as soon as caught. Its article continues : When a sufficient number of victims has been obtained, the cat-liunter takes his homeward way and empties his bag of his eveniDg's spoils. The largest and fattest having been selected, they are quickly killed, either being knocked in the head or having their throats cut, while those too lean are reserved to fat ten for future use. The slaughtered cat is then skinnel, the skin being of some value, especially the white and black ones, and the meat prepared for chopping. Mixed with a little bull meat, or sometimes alone, it is then chopped and made into the desired bolognas, and is ready for sale. Most of these cat-hunters manufacture the sausages and sell them themselves, thus combining the occupations of manufac turer and tradesman on the smallest scale, while others sell the meat to small butchers. The manner in which this business in cats was discovered and in vestigated is of interest. Certain offi cials, a few months ago, in a tour through the eastern part of the city in search of alleged abuses, were surprised to find evidence of this traffic in more ways than one. A reporter of the Mercury discovered three or four men who made a business of getting, keeping, and breeding cats. Two of these men manu factured and sold bologna sausages in quantities. A woman told the reporter, not kuowing his errand, that a short time ago she had purchased one of these sau-ages, but its appearance and taste was so peculiar that she was afraid to eat it, and threw it away. It is most difficult to obtain accurate information, as these men are most reticent regard ing themselves. Many of them do not speak any English, and are evidently afraid their business will be discovered. The cats, when caught, are sorted out, and those reserved for fattening are kept either in large boxes or in small yards adjoining their captors’ houses. The advantage of the boxes is, that they can be more easily concealed and kept in smaller compass, sometimes in a small cellar or room ; but they are not pre served in such good condition in this way as when allowed more freedom, so it is not resorted to except in cases of necessity. The boxes have slats nailed in front of them, and the occupants are fed at stated intervals with some fatten ing compound. When a yard is used, the tops of the surrounding walls are smeared .with a substance known to these cat-dealers which the animals de test and will not cross, A collection of cats thus imprisoned presented a most amusing spectacle when seen by the re porter. About a hundred cats, of all sizes and ages, were sleeping, eating, quarreling and caterwauling in various attitudes. All grades of cat society were represented, from the handsome Angora and Maltese, to the prosaic, homely backyard Tom, that makes night hideous with his yells, and murders sleep. Great care has to be used, it is said, to prevent the old Tom cats from eating their young. The “ unoles, cousins, and aunts” could indeed be “ reckoned up by dozens,” and seemed to constitute anything but a happy family. The Curiosities of Advertising. Some persons find the advertisements the most amusing part of their daily pa per. Advertising is a system barely 225 years old; the first authentic newspaper advertisements having appeared in Eng land about 1658, in the latter days of Oliver Cromwell. At first two or three small insertions in the newspaper of the day were sufficient for the wants of the community. These only related to runaway servants, the appre hension of evil-doers, quack medicines, lost dogs, horses and hawks, and occa sionally challenges. As, for instance, Edward Perry, July 1, 1658, is adver tised for as “of low stature, black hair, full of pock-holes to. his face ; he weareth anew gray suit, trimmed with green and other ribbons, a light cinna mon-colored cloak and black hat, and hath run away from his master.” Here is another, evidently by the hand of the merry monarch himself, and printed by the honored editor in type extraordi nary, June 28, 1660: “We must call on you again for a Black Dog, between a Greyhound and a Spaniel; no white about him, only a streak on his Brest, and a Tayl a little bobbed. It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless was stolen ; for the Dog was not born or bred in England and never would forsake his Master. Who soever Andes him may acquaint any at Whitehall, for the Dog was better known at Court than those who stole him. Will they never leave robbing His Majesty ? Must he not keep a Dog ? This Dog’s place (though better than some imagine) is the only place which nobody offers to beg.” Though great feats of feminine pedes trianism were reserved for onr own days, the early part of the eighteenth century was in advance of ns in female pugi lism. Here is what the gentler sex proposed to do in 1722 : “ Challenge.—l, Elizabeth Wilkin son, of Clerkenwell, having had some words with Hannah Hyfield, and re quiring satisfaction, do invite her to meet me on th 6 stage, and box me for three guineas ; each woman holding half a crown in each hand, and the first woman that drops the money to lose the battle.” “Answer.—l, Hannah Hyfield, of Newgate Market, hearing of the reso luteness of Elizabeth Wilkinson, will not fail, God willing, to give her more blows than words, desiring home blows and from her no favor ; she may expect a good thumping.” —Baltimore Ameri can. Gold and Silver in Bulk. One ton (2,000 pounds avoirdupois) of gold or silver contains 29,165 troy ounces, and therefore the value of a ton of pure gold is 8602,799.21, and a ton of silver is $37,704.84. A cubio foot of pure gold weighs 1,218.75 pounds avoirdupois; a cubic foot of pure silver weighs 656.25 pounds avoirdupois. One million dollars gold coin weighs 3,685.8 pounds avoirdupois; $1,000,000 silver coin weighs 58,929.9 pounds avoir dupois. If there is one per cent, of gold or silver in one ton of ore, it contains 291.63 ounces troy of either of these metals. The average fineness of Colorado gold is 781 in 1,000; and the natural alloy, gold, 781; silver, 209; copper, 10; total, 1,000. The calculations at the United States mint are made on the basis that forty three ounces of standard gold or 900 fine coin) is worth SBOO, and eleven ounces of silver 900 fine (coin) is worth $12.80. The Mahrattas had a simple but ef fectual method of discovering wealthy Hindoos. They potn-oj water on the leaves the people use instead of plates to eat their rice from; if it ran off the man was rich, because he could afford clarified butter, whereas the poor have only salt. TIMELY TOPICS. The bone business is a big thing in western Texas. Cattle die and buffalo are killed, and their bones are gathered from the plains. A San Antonian shipped 3,333 tons at one time, receiv ing therefor $7.50 per ton. The French armies no longer march beneath the imperial eagle. That noble bird has been deposed from his lofty perch on the standards of Napoleon, and the soldiers of the republic are to be led to victory by a laurel wreath encircling a dart of gold. The monument to Victor Emanuel which Italy desires to raise, will cost, it is estimated, not less than $2,000,000. It is to consist of a colossal equestrian statue mounted on a triumphal aroh, and the competition is to be thrown open to all the world. Only thirty or forty miles distant from the City of Mexioo are two of the best wheat-producing valleys in the world, and yet wheat costs at wholesale there from $1.60 to $2.40 a bushel, and flour retails for $1.75 per twenty-five pounds. The Mexican tariff on foreign wheat is about $1.15 a bushel, and on flour $8 a barrel. A barrel of flour, costing in New York $6, shipped to the City of Mexico, is worth $29 by the time it ar rives, on account of duty, freight and other charges. A correspondent of the Neilgherry Excelsior tells of a tiger cub which is in the habit of smoking np all his mas ter’s cigar stamps. He secures these luxurious bits as they are thrown away, and after his master has retired to bed “gets a light” from the kitchen, and enjoys a quiet smoke every night. “Mehemet Ali,”hesays, “used to have a tame animal of this irascible species to which he regularly handed over his hookah after enjoying his own after dinner sedative. The animal waited patiently for his turn, and then puffed away.” During the last year the American Bible society has circulated about one million copies of the Bible, the British aud Foreign Bible society of Scotland 36,000, and other societies more than one million. The total circulation since the formation of these Bible societies has been 82,000,000 by the British and Foreign, 35,000,000 by the American, 5,000,000 by the National Bible Society of Scotland, and by German societies 8,500,000, while the circulation of other societies has raised the total to about 160,000,000 copies of the scriptures cir culated in varions tongues by Bible societies during the last seventy-five years. Not only is the story of William Tell attacked as a myth, but the monuments which have perpetuated it are in equal danger. The government of the Swiss canton of Uri, in which Altorf and other places associated with the name of Tell are situated, proposes to perpetrate an act of vandalism which ought, says the London Times' correspondent, to be prevented. They have resolved to pull down William Tell’s chapel, on lake Lucerne; and, not content with the de molition of this interesting and romantic, if not precisely historic building, they have refused permission to the Lucern ese artistic society to detach the ;paint ings on the walls in order that they may be paced in the museum of Lucerne. The Vienna papers tell of the narrow escape of an aged Hebrew of that city from being buried alive. He had been bedridden for a long time, and being taken with violent convulsions, became stiff and cold, and was taken for dead. He was laid out, and two faithful be lievers were set to watch and pray over him until the close of the Sabbath. Toward dawn of Saturday, while the watchers were occupied with their de votions, Perjez Fischer returned to consciousness, and perceiving the mean ing of his surroundings arose with rage, horror, and mad imprecations, while his terror-stricken attendants took to pre cipitate flight. One of them was so frightened that he fell sick and died, but Pejrez Fischer recovered from the shock to enjoy better health than he had before his supposed death. The committee for encouraging the use of horseflesh as an article of food, have issued a return showing that the number of horses, asses and mules slaughtered in Paris for consumption in 1878 was 11,319, or 700 more than in the previous year. The continued increase in the use of horseflesh is, they say, a proof that the prejudice against it is being gradually overcome. A prize of 1,2001. was awarded by M. Decroix to the founder of the first shop for the sale of horseflesh in London, opened in May last. That venture, during the four months it was carried on, did not, how ever, meet with all the desired success, the ch ef reason for which was (the com mittee say) that the director was quite ignorant of the English language. The committee now offer a medal of honor to any English butcher who shall take np the trade and continue it for three months at least. Utilizing a Rat, Large sewer rats get into h outer, f n especially into public buildings in which suites of apartments are let to families and others. In such rooms, and in cel lars, walls and pantries, these ferocious vermin are more destructive than a wild beast of prey—and more dangerous when cornered. One person, who had suffered much and long from their ravages, and whose occasional capture of one of their number had failed to make any impression on the general horde, reeolved to try anew plan. It is known that nothing so frightens a rat as to hear the shrieks of one of its own kind in captivity. Having caught a vicious and lively specimen, the experi menter determined on the cruel expedi ent of starving him to death, and to make his squealing “ tell" on the others. Caught in a box or wire trap, the rat was there kept, unharmed, except for deprivation of food at and water—and he lived jnst two days and two nights. Dnring that time, what with the pangs of hunger and thirst, and the added oc casional incentive to vocal exercises in the shape of proddings and stirrings up with a long pole, the caged rat gave forth at sundry and divers times such piercing shrieks of rage and despair as only a rat can utter. Probablv it wouldn’t have been entirely safe, at that time, to have given him a chance to i° f your fin B er . or to get at your thumb; but one good result was certain ly accomplished by that otherwise too cruel experiment—not a rat has been in that room or in those walls from that u y r? V^ s > a P®riod, we believe, of about half a year. A similar result is said to have been attained by catching a ra *> dipping it into a pot of red paint, and lettmg it run; and also by shearing and singeing a rat, and then letting him The Begum of Bhopal is a clever and energetic lady. She has built the best hospital in India, outside of Calcutta, is making excellent roads, and arranging for a railroad to her dominions. THE ZULU WAR. England’* Trouble With the Cadre Tribe In isoulh Africa. The scene of the British military maneuver has shifted from Afghanistan to South Africa. It is in the later lo cality that the troops are now tfie most active, and the recent British reverses give renewed interest to the old story of misunderstanding with the natives of that part of England s extensive empire. Near the Tugela river, 20,000 Zulus an nihilated a British column consisting of part of the Twenty-foinch regiment, a battery of artillery and 600 natives; 102 wagons, 1,000 oxen, two cannon, 400 shot and shell, 1,000 rifles, 250,000 rounds of ammunition, 60,000 pounds of provisions and the colors were captured by the enemy. About 5,000 Zulus were killed and wounded, while 600 officers and men were lost on the British side. Subsequent attacks were repulsed, how ever, and the threatened destruction of the English forces and colony averted, although the governor, Sir Bartlet Frere, sent to England for re-enforcements, which were at odc6 ordered to Africa to the number of 7,000. England has had almost constant trou ble with the natives ever since that section became a British colony. The first Caffre war broke out in 1811. The Prophet Mokanna headed an incursion in 1819. The second Caffre war was in 1828-31. The third in 1834, attended by diplomatic difficulties between the colo nial secretary and the governor. “ The War of the Axe ” came in 1846, and an other of more than two years’ duration in 1850. In 1857 came the destruction of all their cattle and grain by the Caffres at the instigation of another “prophet,” and a desperate and futile attempt to recover their territory, end ing in death by famine. The Galekas rebelled in 1856, and nearly twenty years of comparative peace followed. An ex tensive war, with quarrels ad libitum among the English officials, came in 1877, and then succeeded the trouble with the Zulus, which had long been brewing, brought by animosities be tween the natives and the English and Dutch settlers. The English proposed conditions of peace which would have destroyed King Cetywayo’s royal prestige, so war fol lowed. He has 300,000 subjects, 10,000 miles of territory, 140,000 men of arms, of athletic and stalwart build and capa ble of great endurance ; 22,500 under thirty years of age, 10,000 between thirty and forty, 3,400 between forty and fifty and 4,500 between fifty and sixty, all well armed. Everything in the way of tactics and war supplies is very simple. To ford a swift torrent they form in a dense column and push each other across, many, of course, being drowned. They do not marry under forty, and the married men are distinguished by a monkish shaven crown. The British force at the beginning of this war consisted of abont 15,000 men, 5,000 being regulars, and the naval brigade is 300 strong, from the ships Active and Tenedos. —New York Mail. The Country. It is in the couutry that the soul ex pands and grows great. The town de velops, cultivates and amplifies all the senses, but its tendency is to contract that incomprehensible impulse of being we call soul. Out where the rugged hills point heavenward with ten thou sand sturdy evergreen figures; where stand the woods in royal majesty; where the brooks dance along and clasp hands with the rivers, and rivers sweep on with unimpeded flow to the bosom of the sea; where rocks rise like brawny giants, their nakedness covered with mosses, and drink in the sunshine and the rain proudly, disdaining to show how the elements caress them slowly into dust: where the birds sing their most jubilant songs, and the wild flowers wear their brightest hues; where the bees hum in lazy content from honey-cup to honev-cnp; where nature rules supreme, and man becomes a pigmy—there the true soul, uubashed and undismayed, aspires to compass all the profound mysteries of creation, and reads eloquent lessons in everything. Where villages dot the hillsides and nestle in the valleys; where the throb bing clangor of the church-bell is the loudest sound heard; where the fields teem with homely promise of the com ing harvest, and the voices of men are drowned in the prattle of nature—there are magnificent souls hidden beneath the humblest exteriors. The hand that grasps the plow and scatters the seed may be brown and hard, but there is a whole heart in its grasp; the face that has been snowed upon, and rainedupen, and blown upon, is neither marred nor scarred, but brave and gentle; it shows in every lineament how ennobling is close communion with nature. The eye that sees the first tiny bad of the trees, the first blade of pale green grass, the first frail blossom of the woods, watches the covert approaches of spring with a glow and luster that we do not often see in the dissipated town. A Tegctable Wax Tree. The most important article for illu minating purposes in Japan is the can dle made from the fruit of a tree about the size and appearance of the common sumac of this country. It is grown more or less extensively almost every where in Japan, and especially in the western provinces, from the south northwest to the thirty-fifth degree. The tree has a quick growth, and at tains the diameter of a foot and a half, and a height of twenty-five feet. The blossoms appear in June. They begin to yield berries the third or fourth year. The berries are the size of a small pea, of a white color, hanging in clus ters, and contain the wax as thick white coating of the seed. The full grown tree is said to yield about fifty pounds of seeds annually, nearly one half of which is wax. It is a hardy plant, growing on indifferent soil, and living for many years. In Japan they are planted by the roadside, on embank ments and out-of-the-way places. The wax is obtained by the berries being crashed, steamed and then placed in hemp bags and pressed in a wedge press. It is also obtained by boiling the bruised seeds and skimming the wax from the top. The wax is a pal matine or glycerine; when first extract ed it is of a yellowish-white color, and sometimes softer than beeswax. It melts at 127 degrees, and when formed into candles gives a fine, clear light. In ordinary candle-making the unbleached wax is used. When washed and bleached in the sun and air, it assumes a pure white color. It is said the tree is being introduced into California. XD LTCiUg luiavuuwvw ‘‘Rome Sentinel” Brevities. A pair of specs— : A tight fit—Delirium tremens. A little fresh heir—A new baby. The only difference between a swine disease and an important part of a har ness is, that one is the horse collar and the other is the hog choler-eh ? Men may come and men may go, the seasons may follow each other in regu lar succession, dust may return to dust, the sun may continue to shine upon the just and the unjust, but the world has yet to discover the man who has eaten a plate of *Boup and not burned his tongue. Gallows Reminiscences, We take the following from the reminiscences of a New York reporter, who has been present at thirty execu tions: “ I wonder if it hurts to be hanged ?” said he who sat at the feet of this Gam aliel of the noose. “Probably not, after the first twitch of the cord is felt, and, although I can not claim any personal knowledge of tnat part of the business, my belief can scarcely be said to be purely conjectural. I once talked with a man who had been hanged by a party of blythe but hasty gentleman in California. They mistook him for a horsethief, an error for which they amply apologized in the heartiest manner when their attention was called to the fact that he was the wrong person, which, fortunately for him, was just in time to save his life. He said that his sensations were first a consciousness of a terrific crash, as if all created things, himself among the rest, had simulta neously exploded. That was probably when the male was led out from under him. Then he seemed to be floating in a sea of red light, heaved and tossed upon glowing billows that swirled round and round, as if in a whirlpool, to the sound of a harmonious roaring. And after that he knew nothing until he found himself lying upon the grass, breathing with great difficulty and pain, bleeding from a little gash in his neck where they had cut the noose, and trying to under stand the profuse apologies of the spokesman of his entertainers.” “It must be a horrible thing for a man to know that he is going to die a shame ful death for a crime of which he is in nocent.” “ Theoretically, he ought to be sus tained try the conscionsness of his in nocence. Practically, the horror of the situation depends upon the man him self—independent of guilt or innocence. The bravest man I ever saw die was one who avowed frankly the perpetration of the murder for which he was hanged. As to how really innocent men accept the situation, I have not much ex perience upon which to base an opinion, as out of all the thirty that I have seen hanged there was but one that I deemed guiltless—the unhappy victim of a judicial murder. That was a poor wretch named Lee, if I remember aright, who was hanged at Waukegan, 111., in 1865, as the supposed murderer of an old woman by the name of Ruth Briden. I studied well the evidence in his case, examined him, aud did what no body else seemed to have thought i* worth while to do—sought out who else than he in the oommunity had stronger reasons than he could possibly have had to wish old Ruth Briden dead. I satis fied myself that there was one man there—a rich and influential man—who would have profited largely through family connection by her death, and that man, I found, had been especially and remarkably active in pressing the prosecution and conviction of Lee. There was nothing abont the condemned man’s personnel or record to encourage suspicion of him other than that he was a shiftless, poverty-stricken, friendless vagabond, who sometimes got drunk ; but he was the easiest man in the com munity to hang, somebody ought to be hanged, and so they strung him np. The deputy sheriff, to whom I expressed my conviction of the poor fellow’s inno cence, laughed at me. He was a big, good-hearted, rough man, who had been horrified by the atrocity of the butchery of Mrs. Briden, and was easily swept along with the tide of popular feeling against the prisoner, which had been artfy y set in motion by interested par 1 is. But, six months afterward, I me him in Chicago, and he said to me: ‘ What yen said about that hanging of ours disturbs my mind a greatdeal, and I have spent both time and money in in vestigating that case for my own satis faction. And I tell you now, lam con vinced that we hanged an innocent man that day.’ The tears stood in his eyes, and his voice trembled as he spoke. Unfortunate Lee; his last prayer was for his wife and little child, far away in the East; his last words calling upon God to judge his innocence. But he died courageously. ” A Cheerful Heart. A merry or eheerful countenance was one of the things which Jeremy Taylor said his enemies and persecutors could not take away from him. There are some persons who spend their lives in this world as they would spend their lives if shut up in a dungeon. Every thing is made gloomy and forbidding. They go mourning and complaining from from day to day that they have so little, and are constantly anxious lest what little they have should escape out of their hands. They look always upon the dark side, and oan never enjoy the good that is present for the evil that is to oome. This is not religion. Relig ion makes the heart cheerful; and when its large and benevolent principles are exercised, men will be happy in spite of themselves. The industrious bee does not complain that there are so many poisonous flowers and thorny branches in liis road, but buzzes on, selecting the honey where he can find it, and passing quietly by the place where it is not. There is enough in this world to com plain abont and find fault with, if men have the disposition. We often travel on a hard and uneven road ; but with a cheerful spirit, we may walk therein with comfort, and oome to the end of our journey in peace. A Heart-Rending Stery, A heart-sickening story comes all the way from Wisconsin. According to the chronicler a light-haired young wom*n and a dark-haired young woman, who were room-mates in a Milwaukee board ing house, arose one morning and, dressing in the dark, the light-haired girl twisted the dark-haired girl’s switch in with what there was of her own in sufficient hair, and the dark-haired girl made similar use of the light-haired girl’s switch. As soon as they got down to the breakfast table, where there was a light, each saw that the other’s head resembled a confuted checker-board. After it had finally dawned upon them what the difficulty was, and they had screamed as much as the occasion seemed to call for, they retired without a> 3 special premeditation. Mother. Despise not your mother when she is old. Age may wear and waste a mother’s beauty, strength, senses and estate; but her relation as mother is as the sun when it goes forth in its might, for it is always in the meridian and knoweth no evening. The person may be gray haired, but motherly relation is always in its bloom. It may be autumn, yea, winter, but with the mother it is always spring. Alas 1 how little do we appre ciate a mother’s tenderness while living 1 How heedless are we in youth of all her anxiety and kindness! But when she is dead and gone—when the cares and the ooldness of this world come withering to our heart—then it is that we think of the mother that we have lost, Mexicans subdue fractious horses by having a hood so arranged os to puil down over the eyes of the horse as soon as he manifests uneasiness. Several ap plications subdue the horse perma nently. VOL. V. NO. 25. FOR THE FUR SEX. Newa and Notes far Women. The fashion in England, set by Lord Oarington, is for afternoon marriages. Leather belts, fastened with Spanish buckles of iron, are worn in the eveniur. Headbands with pendant rows of jew els or coins are much worn in New York. Mrs. Burnette, the author oi “ That lass o’ Lowrie's,” is very girlish-looking. Perfumed gloves are now fashionable, but a more delicate perfume than ben zine is desirable. Striped satin purses are fashionable with those ladies having any money to put into them, and still more fashion able with those who haven’t. Mosaic jewelry is coming up again among fashionable ladies. Pearls are quite the rage. Filagree ornaments of gold and silver are much worn. The ladies of Japan are said to gild their teeth, and those of the East Indies to paint them red, while in Cjnzert the test of beauty is to render them black. The newest engagement ring is of gold, and consists of two hands meeting and clasping over a small gold heart, which occupies the top of the interior circlet. The Japanese ladies paint their oheeks, but the article they use for the purpose when first put on is green; ex posure to the air, however, soon turns it to a sea-shell pink. The Austrian white glove, a soft cas tor of creamy-white tint, is much worn; it is a dressy street glove, and may be cleaned very satisfactorily; it is worn a size larger than a kid glove. It is difficult to say what constitutes S"e beauty of a woman. The Sandwich Islanders estimate women by their height. The Chinese require them to have deformed feet and black teeth. A girl must be tatooed sky-blue and wear a nose-ring to satisfy a South Sea Islander’s taste. African princes require their brides to have their teeth filed like those of a saw. And thus goes the world, the criterion of beauty differing according to latitude and longitude. Miss Josie Baker, daughter of Prof. O. H. Baker, of Indianapolis, has re cently been appointed a tutor of Greek at Simpson college. She is only sixteen, but reads and writes the language flu ently. At the age of eight she had read three books of Homer, as well as other works in Greek which usually precede that author, and at fourteen she had mad a complete lexicon of a tragedy of Sophocles. She is also equally pro ficient in Latin, and more or less familiar with French and German. Chinese Bridal Costumes. The bride was attired sumptuouf ly in a parti-colored brocaded satin overgar ment, which was, of course, surmounted by the red-cotton bridal-vail covering the whole head and face and hanging some distance down, being, however, slightly open at the sides to permit of easier breathing. The fashion of this attire was that of centuries ago—the top of the head-dress bulging out in form, very similar to that seen in an cient pictures of Israelitish priests. Around this she wore a golden coronet, studded with pearls, amethysts and rubies, while pendant from it were nu merous strings of long glass beads of several colors, the whole presenting a novel, if not altogether oharming ' The bridegroom was clad in . broidered silk robes of a whi HANI Mandarin. He betrayed est anxiety to lift the vail tliaP II V 1 the bride’s face, but, remarkable in one so you the ceremony to proceed ai£ ill| tin be guided by the old wj, WIND tweens with much resign, placed the bride to the right 13 £ of the family altar and the bi* at her left hand, both kneeling. Irac The Unsistered Sisters. * This pair inhabited a single room; from the facts, it must have been double-bedded; and it may have been of some dimensions; but when all is said it was a single room. Here onr two spinsters fell out—on some point of con troversial divinity belike; but fell out so bitterly that there was never a word spoken between them, black or white, from that day forward. Yon have thought they would separate; but no; whether from lack of means or the Scot tish fear of scandal, they continued to keep house together where they were. A chalk line drawn upon the floor sepa rated their two domains; it bisected the doorway and the fireplace, so that each could go out and in and do her cooking without violating the territory of the other. So, for years, they co-existed in hateful silence; their meals, their ablu tions, their friendly visitors, exposed to an unfriendly scrutiny; and at night, in the dark watches, each could hear the breathing of her enemy. Never did four walls look down upon an uglier spectacle than these sisters rivaling in unsisterliness. Here is a canvas for Hawthorne to have turned into a cabi net picture—he had a Puritanic vein, whiol would have fitted him to treat this Puritanic horror; he coaid have shown them to us in their sicknesses and at their hideous twin devotions, thumbing a pair of great Bibles or pray ing aloud for each other’s penitence with marrowy emphasis; now each, with kilted petticoat, at her own corner of the fire on some tempestuous evening now sitting each at her window, looking out npon the summer landscape sloping far below them toward the firth, and the field p{,ths where they had wandered hand in hand; or, as age and infirmity grew upon them and prolonged then toilets, and their hands began to trem j ble and their heads to nod involuntarily, growing only the more steeled in enmi ty with years; until one fine day, at a word, a look, a visit, or the apf roach of death, their hearts would melt and the chalk boundary be overstepped forever. —New Annals of Edinburgh. Ten Good Friend*. “ I wish that I’d good friends to help me on in life !” cried lazy Dennis, with a yawD. “ Good friends ! why you’ve them 1” replied his master. “I’m sure I’ve not 6omany, and those that I have are too poor to help me." “Count your fingers, my boy,” said the master. Dennis looked down on bis big, strong hands. “ Count thumbs and all,” added his master. “Ihave; there are ten in all,” said the lad. “ Then never say you have not ten good friends, able to help yon on in life. Try what those true friends can do be fore you go grumbling and fretting be cause yon do not get help from others. Turkish Proverbs. Never a sigh falls to the ground. God makes the blind bird’s nest. A smile answers every tear. Where there is a soul there is a hope. An orderly house is blessed. Alms are a silent prayer. The heart is a child that wants what it sees. Every accident gives advice. Chance is the beet introducer. Man without judgment; ship without anchor, THE OGLETHORPE ECHO. 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Lawyers profit by their clients’ trials The most popular mine “Baby mine.” He who learns to read will read to learn. A book for the table—One full of plates. Split horse-leather is made up into shoes. Most families die out in two hundred years. When a man kicks he generally puts his best foot forward. In a London theater you pay twelve cents for a programme. Pay attention : Courting young men have pressing engagements. Birds are not noted for courage, hut many of them die game. The census reports show 6,000,000 farmers in the United States. A sermon is like a building—The,J longer it is the more sleepers there ate. Fernandina (Florida) ships enapping turtles in tierces to Savannah and the North. The hair of the buffalo is now lairgely employed in making overcoats, jsvhich are all wool. What we are suffering to know is, if a State prison convict takes the smallpox, can he break out with it ? An old bachelor’s proverb : Sorrows grow less and less every time they are told, just like the ages of women. It is estimated that the Colorado gold and silver yield for this year will be in the neigliDorhood of $15,675,863. “ Sing a Song of Sixpence ” dates from the sixteenth century, and “ Three Blind Mice ” is in a music book dated 1609. Whether on Iho hen-roost high, Or in the bntoher’s van, The noblest place for fowls to die Is where they die for man. On the leading avenues of Borne the guards now patrol tL 3 whole length of the way when the kii-g and queen are expected. An exchange speaks of a “wife insur ance company.” But we don’t know whether it insures* man’s wife or insure* a man a wife. f “ Is that marble ?” said a gentleman, pointing to a bust of Kentucky’s grgnt statesman. “No, sir ; that’s Clay,” re plied the dealer. South African proof-readers die young. The last one sneenmtod to the descrip tion of a fight between the CDabelinjiji and Amaswaziezizi tribes. The bridge over the river Jantra, at Biela, in Bulgaria, is a structure of un usual beauty. It has fifteen circular arches, with hollow piers. It is the work of a self-taught Bulgarian. An English gardener has brought out anew vegetable called the cabbage broccoli, which is about the size of a good cocoaDut c abbage, solid and ten der, and when cooked is of a peculiarly mild flavor. To take a needed step in the spelling reform, we have acted npon the advice of the American Philological associa tion to the extent of dropping the use less final e in the words have, give and live.— Truth Seeker. Mr. J. A, Eose, of Highland Prairie, JVis., weighs 242 pounds; so does his * their tweDty-year-old son weighs ’ACTU\) a daughter, three years younger, . supporting knee of tLe ca l A it, with funereal tread, , ea slowly home and goes to bed, . ... <U utters what is test unsaid? Till fl toe who fished since rose the sun, Jlw HFsting on a single tunn, I ‘tter all’s caught nary.one. lusps receive more ram than open .nd pines more than open leafy kfttf Pines retain more than half the pf that falls upon them, and there foTJ furnish the best shields against in undations, and the best means cf im parting humidity to the atmosphere. Much of the wood used for making so-called “brier-root” pipes comes from Corsica. It is a sort of heathwoed, the roots of which are dug up and cut into rough forms of tobacco-pipes by circular saws worked by the water power of mountain streams. The pipes are sent in sacks to France, and thence to America. Two ladies, both of them a little dull in the hearing, were in church one day, when the minister had for his text, “ Except you repent ye shall all like wise perish.” They listened patiently enough, but when they got out the one said to the other: “Jenet, wasna yon an awful text the minister had the day?—‘Except wo pay our rent, we’re a’ to be putten out o’ the parish.” Young man, devoted to and expressly manufactured for society, clasping his head in agony: “Ah, by Jove, how my head aches ! Awfully, by Jove I” Sym pathizing friend, student in Wilson’s dental room: “Ob, you’d totter have it pulled ” —then, after a thoughtful pause—“or filled.” Patient moves away with an injured air, and the young dentist smiles after him more thought fully than ever. —Burlington Hawkeye. Men may escape the law, but their own consciences they cannot flee from. Many years ago a young man in Boston was guilty of an offense against the law, an offense which brought social rain upon himself and his amily. The man and his offense are forgotten by the public, yet he lives, and lives in Boston. But from the day his offense was dis covered—although, having escaped the law, he is free to come and go as he pleases—he has never been seen outside of his own home in the daytime. Some times, under the cover of night, he walks abroad to take cn airing, and note the changes that thirty years have wiought, but an ever-active conscience makes him shun the light of day and the faces of men, and he walks apart, a stranger in the midst of those among whom he has always lived. The Walking Epidemic. The New York Observer does not take kindly to the pedestrian fever. It says: The epidemic is now fearfully preva lent in this country. Its victims are not of one sex or age only, but men • women and children are alike seized with it, and when so possessed they go spinning around in a ring, hour after hour, and day after day. One woman, over in Brooklyn, had it so badly that she walked every quarter of an hour. Physicians attend to the patients con stantly, watching their pulse, breath and heel3, administering pills, drops and plasters, as may be required. Thou sands of spectators look upon their protracted sufferings with intense de light The newspapers describe the ghastly appearance of the walkers, their exhaustion, recovery and sinking again. Bets are made upon the length of time they can stand it, and the distance they can go before they drop, and the out side public eagerly look for the result. It is the silliest' and least netful, and ; most cruel of all the sporting amuse ments of the day. No good purpose 1b ; served by it. Athletic exercise is not encouraged by it, and the health of no one is promoted. But it must have its day, like all other epidemics, and then something else will take its place to graH* spirit of curiosity th 9 aew sensation.