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Conant. in H.rrper’t. A Midnight Struggle. In the early autumn of the year 1849, about half an hour of sunset, I drew rein in front of a large double log house, on the very summit of the Blue Ridge mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The place was evidently kept as a tavern, at least so a sign proclaimed, and here 1 determined to demand ac commodation for mysell and servant Bose, a (lark-skinned body-guard. Bose and 1 had been playmates in child and boyhood, and I need hardly say that the faithful fellow was attached to me as I was to him, and on more than one occasion In! had shown his devotion. I here had been a “shooting match” at the Mountain House that day, and, as 1 dismounted, I saw through the open window of the barroom a noisy, drunken, and evidently it quarrelsome set of backwoodsmen, each of whom was swearing by all possible and im possible oaths that he was not only the best shot, but that he could out-tight, out-jump, out-wrestle, run faster, jump higher, dive deeper and come up dryer than any other man “oh the moun tains.” “I say. Mars Ralph, ’ said Bose, in a low tone, as I handed him my bridle rein, “ I don t like the looks of dem dar. S’pose we goes on to tin; next house; taint fur.” “Nonsense, Bose,” I replied; “these fellows are only on a little spree over their shooting. We have nothing to do with them nor they with us. Take the horses round to the stables and sec to them yourself. You know they’re had a hard day of it.” And throwing my saddle-hags over my Si.oulders, I walked up the narrow path to the house, I found, as J have intimated, the bar room tilled with a noisy, turbulent crowd, who one and all stared at me without speaking as I went up to the bar and inquired if 1 and my servant could have accommodation for the night. Receiving an' affirmative reply from the landlord, a little, red-headed, cadaverous-looking man, I desired to he at once shown to my room, whither I went, hut not until 1 had been compelled to decline a score of requests to “take a drink,” much to the disgust of the stal wart bacchanalians. . The room to which I was shown was at the far end of a long two story struc ture. evidently hut recently added on to the main building, which 'it intersected at right angles. A gallery extended along the front, by means of which the rooms were reached. I found my apartment to be large and comparatively well furnished, there being, besides the bed, a comfortable cot, half a dozen “ splint bottomed” chairs, a heavy clothes press, and a bureau with glass. There were two windows, one along side the door, and the other in the oppo site end of the room. The first mentioned door was heavily barred with stout oak strips, a protec tion, I presumed, against intrusion from the porch, while across the latter door was drawn a heavy woolen curtain. In the course of half an hour Bose entered and announced that the horses had been properly attended to, and a few minutes later a bright-faced mulatto girl summoned us to supper. Supper oyer, I returned to my room, first requesting to la* roused for an early breakfast, as I desired to be on the roail bv sunrise. Thoroughly wearied with my day’s ride, I at onee began preparations for re tiring, and had drawn oil'one boot, when Bose came in rather hastily, lookin'- furtively over his shoulder! and then cautiously closing and locking the door. Mars Ralph, dars gwine to be trouble in dis house afore morning,” lie said. And I saw in a moment that some thing had occurred to upset the faithful fellow's equilibrium. “ Why, Rose, what is it? What do you mean?” 1 asked, barely restraining a smile. “ tole you. Mars Ralph, we’d better trabbel furder.” was the rather mysteri ous reply. “ You see dat gal dere tole me dar would be a muss if we stayed in this old house all night.” By close questioning I elicited the fact that the girl had really warned him that four men whom I lent noticed together were a desperate set of villains, and probably had designs upon our property, if not our lives. The girl had seen two of them at the stable while l was at supper, and by cautiously creeping into a stall, next tin one in which they stood, had heard enough to convince her that they meant mischief. Subsequently to this she also saw the landlord in close confab with the entire party, and from his actions judi-ed that he was urging the men to their netarious work. ',l tell you. Mars Ralph, tlem people am t arterno good—now you heard me. persisted Bose. 1 had begun to think so myself: but what was to be done. The situation was mil of eniharassment, and I felt that nothing could be done save to wait ami watch, and, by being on the aleit, defeat their plans by a determined resistance. I found that from the barred window, in which there was a broken pane of class, a good view of the stables could he had. Then for the other window. 1 crossed the room, drew aside the heavy curtain, and, raising the sash, looked out. A single glance was sufficient to cause n a thrill of surprise, and’l gave a low exclamation that instantly brought Bose to my side Far below I could see the faint glim mer of water, the low murmur of which came indistinctly up from the depths, while on a level with wliat should have oeen the ground. I dimly saw the waving tree-tops, as they gently swayed before the fresh night breeze, and knew that the window overlooked a chasm, the soundings of which 1 could only gue*s at. In other words, the house, r that por tio i of it was built upon the very verge of the cliff, the solid rock forming a foundation more lasting than any that could be made by the hands of man. 1 leaned far out. and saw that there was not an inch of space left between the heavy *og on which the structure resttd and the edge of the precipice; and then I turned away with the full con- Mct that if escape must be made, it certain.y would not be made in that di recti on. There was nothing especially strangem this; there are many houses so constructed—l had seen one or two myself—ami vet w n I drew back into the room and sav the look in Bose’s face I felt that da ger quick and deadly was hovering m ti e air. Without speaking I went to my saddle bags and got out my pistols—a superb pair of long double rides, that I knew to be accurate anywhere under half a hun dred yards. “Dar! deni s what I like to see!” ex claimed Bose, as he dived down into his bag and fished out an old horse pistol Oglethorpe Echo. Bv T. L. GANTT. that had belonged to my grandfather, and which I knew was loaded to the muzzle with No. 1 buckshot. It was a terrible weapon at close quarters. The stables in which our horses were feeding could be watched, and by events transpiring in that locality we would 1 shape our actions. I found the door could be locked from the inside, and in addition to this, I improvised a bar by means of a chair leg wrenched off and thrust through a heavy iron staple that had been driven in the wall. Its fellow on the oppoiste side was missing. We then lifted the clothes press before the window, leaving just room enough on one side to clearly see, and, if neces sary, fire through; dragged the bureau against the door with as little noise as possible, and felt that everything that was possible had been done. A deathlike stillness reigned over the place, broken only once by the voice of the colored girl singing as she crossed the stable yard. I had fallen into a half doze, seated in a chair near the window facing the stables, where Bose was on the watch, when suddenly 1 felt a slight touch upon my arm and the voice of the faithful sentinel in my ear. “ Wake up. Mars Ralph; dey’s foolin j ’bout de stable doo’ arter de horses, shuah,” brought me wide awake to mv ! feet. Cautiously peeping out. I saw at a glance that Bose was right in his con jecture—there were two of them—one standing out in the clear moonlight, evi dently watching my window, w-hile the other—and I fancied it was the landlord —was in the shadow near the door, which at that moment slowly swung open. As the man disappeared within the building, a low, keen whistle cut the air, and at the same instant I heard the knob of my door cautiously tried. A low hisslrom Bose brought me to his side, from the door where I had been 1 listening.. “ Dey’s got de horses out in de yard,” lie whispered, as he drew aside to let me lookout through the broken pane. “Take the door,” I said, “ and fire through if they attack. I am going to shoot that fuilow holding the horses.” “ Lordy, Wars Ralph, it’s de tavern keeper. lie ain’t no count. Drop the big man!” was the sensible advice, which T determined to adopt. Noiselessly drawing aside the curtain I rested the muzzle of my pistol on the sash where the light had been broken away; and drew a bead upon the tallest of the two men who stood, holding the three horses, out in the bright moonlight. I lie sharp crack of tin- weapon was instantly followed by a yell of pain, and I saw the ruffian reel backward, and measure his length upon the earth, and then from the main building there rang out: “Murder! Murder! Oh, help!” Take lightning it flashed across my mind. There were three horses out in the open lot! There was, then, another traveler besides ourselves. “A heavy blow descended upon the door, and a voice roared: Quick! Burst the infernal thing open, and let me *gct at him. The scoundrel lias killed Dave!” “ Let them have it, Bose,” I whis pered, rapidly reloading my pistol. “The second panel.” With a steady hand the plucky fellow leveled the huge weapon and pulled the trigger. ueaiening report rouoweil, and again a shrill cry of mortal anguish told them the shot had not been wasted. “ Sabe us! how it do kick!” exclaim ed Bose, under his breath. The blow had fallen like an unexpect ed thunderbolt upon the bandits, and a moment later we heard their retreating footsteps down the corridor. “ Dar’ll be more of’em heah ’fore long. Mars Ralph,” said Bose, with an ornin ous shake of the head. “I ’spects dese b’longs to a band, and if dev comes an’ we still heah, we gone coons tor sliuar.” I’his view of the case was new to me; but I felt the force of it. I knew that such bands did exist in these mountains. Stunned for a moment, I turned round and stared hopelessly at Bose; but lie, brave fellow that he was, never lost his head for an instant. “Bound to lea!) here. Mars Ralph,”he said, quiteeonfidently. “ An’ dar ain’t no way gwine ’cept tro dat window and lie pointed to the one overlookin'- the cliff. I merely shook my head, and turned to watch again, hoping to get a shot at the rascal on guard. Bose, left to his own devices, at once went to work. I heard him fussing around the bed for some time, but never looked to see what he was after until lie spoke. “ Now den for de rope,” I heard him say, and in an instant I caught his meaning. He had stripped the bed of its cover ing, dragged off the heavy tick anti the stout hempen rope with which it was “ corded.” In five minutes he had drawn the ropi through its many turnings, and then, gathering the coil in liis hands, lie drew up the sash and prepared to take sound ings. It failed to touch the bottom; but, no wise disheartened, he seized the cotton coverlet and spliced on. This succeeded and the cord was drawn up preparatory to knotting it in place of cross-pieces. In the meanwhile the silence without had been broken onee. A shrill, keen whistle, such as we had heard before, was given by the man on the watch, and replied to by someone seemingly a link way oft'. Then I heard footsteps—soft, cat-like ones—on the veranda outside, showing that the roboers were on the alert at all,points. At length Bose announced the “ lad der ” ready. It was again lowered from the window, and the end was held and made fast to the bed we had dragged ' over for tin- purpose. “ Now, den. Mas’r Ralph, I go down fust and see if 'um strong enough to bar us.” And lie was half way out of the win dow before I could speak. “ No. Bose: you shall not,” I answered, firmly, drawing him back into the , room. “ You must—” The words were lost in the din of a furious and totally unexpected attack upon the door. The dull heavy strokes of the axe were intermingled with the sharp quick clat ter of the hatchets as they cut away a‘ the barrier, and once in a while I could hear deep oaths,as though they had been rendered doubly savage by our resis tance. “ Here, Bose, your pistol! Quick!” I whispered, and the heavy charge went crashing through, followed by shrieks and curses of pain and rage. “Now. then, out with you! I will hold the place,'' I said, rushing back to the window. Come, Bose, hurry, or all will be lost.” The fellow now wished to insist on my going first: but he saw that time was wasting and glided down the rope, grad ually disappearing in the neavysnadows. The fall of one of rneir number had caused only a momentary lull, and I heard them renew the assault with ten fold furv I dared not fire again, tor I felt that every bullet would be needed when af lairs were more pressing. It seemed an age before I felt the sig nal from below that the rope was ready for me; but it came, and I let myself down, pausing an instant, as my eves guinea a level with the sill, to take a last look into the room. As I did so the door gave way, and the bloodthirsty demons poured over the threshold. I knew that I had no time for delib erate.movement. They would instantly discover the mode of escape, and either cut the rope or else fire down on mq. I h:_d taken the precaution to draw oil my heavy riding gloves, and mv hands, thus protected, did not suffer as much as might have been expected. THE ONLY PAPER IN ONE OF THE LARGEST, MOST INTELLIGENT AND WEALTHIEST COUNTIES IN GEORGIA. M ith my eyes fixed upon the win dow, I slid rapidly down, and struck the earth with a jar that wrenched every bone in my body. ! Quick as lightning I was seized by i Bose, dragged some paces on one side, and close against the face of the cliff. Not a secord too soon, for down came a volley, tearing up the earth about the toot of the rope, where, a moment be fore. I had stood. “Thunder, they will escape! After them, down the rope!” yelled a voiceal- ' most inarticulate with rage. And I saw a dark form swing out and begin the descent. “ Now, Mars Ralph,” whispered Bose, significantly, and with a quick aim I tired at the swaying figure. M ithouta sound the man released his hold, and came down like a lump of lead, shot through the brain. Another had started in hot haste, and was more thaD half way out of the win dow, when suddenly the scene above was brilliantly lit up by the glare of a torch. Again the warning voice of the watch ful black called my attention to the figure now struggling desperately to re gain the room, and, as before, I threw up my pistol, and covering the exposed side, drew the trigger. With a convulsive effort the wretch, springing far out into the empty void, turned once over, and came down with a rushing sound upon the jagged rocks that lay at the foot of the precipice. A single look to see that the window was clear—we knew there could be no path leading down for a long distance cither way, or they would never have attempted the rope, and we plunged headlong into the dense forest that clothed the mountain side. We got clear, it is true; but with the (Oss of our animals and baggage; for the next day, when we returned, with a party of regulators, we found the place a heap of smoldering ashes, and no living scul to tell whither the robbers had tied. Little Johnny’s Philosophy, There was a dog, and there was a cat, and there was a ox. The dog it sed to the ox, the dog did : “ That’s a mighty long tail you got there, mister, with a nice tossle to the end, but you can’t waggle it when you meet your master.” Then the cat it sed to the ox : “No, indeed, and you can’t bio it up like a bloon when you git mad.” Then the lam it sed : “ Y"ou ain’t able for to twinkle it, either, wen you think of something funny.” The ox he thot a while, and bime by he spoke up and sed his ownself: “ I plade hooky wen I was a little boy so much that I dident learn them vain accomplishments, that’s a fack, but I got a tolably good bisness edecashun, and I iress rnebbe you fellers wude have to cum to me for to hellep you out if you had to til a order for ox-tail soup.” Wen Mister Gipple was in Africa he seen sum natifs, wich is called ILotten tops, and they likes their beef raw, like | dogs, and lie see em cut it orf of the cat tles wile they was a life and bellerin. And sum of the cattles had ben cut up a good deal that way, but not ded. One nay the King of the Hottentops he see Mistet Gipple, and he sed, the King sed: “ Did you see any cattles ’long the road you cum? Cos mine have strade away, and I can’t find ’em.” Mister Gipnle he sed: “Yes, sir, jest over beyond that hill is a porter-house stake with one horn broke orf, and ’bout a mile further ’long yule find a rib roast eatin the wilers, and near by I seen two houtches of bull fitin sum soop bones! and onto the other side of the spring I gess yule see a liver and sum tripe a layin in the shade and a die win their cuds.” But Mister Brily, the butcher, he nock cm onto the lied with axes and cut their throte in a minnit, and me and Billy we say hooray. . Cows is beef, and a calf it is veal, but little pigs is mutton. One time I was in MisterJßrily’s shop and he had cut orf a pigs lictl and set it on the top of a barel, and ole Gaffer Peters'he cum in and seen it, and he sed, old Gaffer did: “ Mister Brily, your pier is a gittinsr out.” Mister Brily he luked, and then he sed: “ That’s so, Gaffer, you jest take that . stick and rap him onto the nose fore he ; can draw it in.” So Gaffer he took up the stick and : snook up real sli, and fetched the pigs lied a regular nose wipe, hard as ever he | cude with the stick, and nocked the pigs lied orf the barl, and you never seen sech . astonish old man. But Mister Brily he i pretended like he wasent lookin, ami old Gaffer lie sed: “Mister Brily, you must xeuse me, but wen I struck at that pig it dodged and cut its hed orf agin the edje of the barl.” It is Better. It is better to look up and take pleas ure in •eonte'mplating the good and great, than to find happiness in low de vices and mean acts. It is better to tell the truth than to tell a lie; to do good than to do mean; to save a reputation, than to blast one; to have charity than to be critically severe: to love your fel lows than to hate them; better to litt up the fallen than to pull down those al ready up : to speak kind words than to hiss out the gall of bitterness; to keep pure than to reek with filth: to be on the losing side of right than to be on the triumphant side of wrong; to be honest than to cheat; to have honest piety than to be a flaunting hypocrite; to he* indus trious than to be an idle vagrant; to be a fair and square human being than to be an uncertain quantity. With your virtue worship the true and you may at tain unto greatness, but you can never do it in the eyes of justice by trampling upon, or by despising what is undersoil. The poor have as bright eyes and asten der hearts as the rich. They are not be low your consideration. Nature’s wil low will bend over them with the same grace and beauty they wilt over the proudest son and daughter of earth. Con cerning being true in" life, Grace Green wood says: “ Never unsex yourself for greatness. The worship of one true heart is better than the wonder of the world. Don’t trample on the flowers while longing for the stars. Live up to the full measure of life, give way to your impulses, loves and enthusiasms: sing, smile, labor and be happy. Adore poetry forits own sake; yearn for. strive after excellence; rejoice when others attain it' feel for your contemporaries a loving envy; steal into your country’s heart: glory in its greatness, exult in its power, honor its gallant men, immortalize its matchless women.” llow much better to do these things than to go sulking and skulking through life like some dishon ored cur! It is better and easier-to do right than to do wrong. You go straight forward to the right, but you approach the wrong by devious and doubtful wavs. —Quincy Modem Argo. Where He Stored His Money. A few days ago there died in the town of \ emon. Winneshiek eoanty. an aged farmer named Carpenter, who left & will, bequeathing to his son an old chest that had been an heirloom in the family. On opening the chest the son was surprised and incensed to find that it contained nothing of value. He so reported to the remaining members of the familv. when they persuaded him to make further in vestigations. which he did in taking the chest apart. In doing so. two cleats, each half an inch thick and perforated with auger holes, were discovered. Tear ing off these cleats the young man found that they were hollow, and that the space between the lid and the bottoms of the cleats had been filled with gold coins by the thoughtful parent, flow long they had been stored in such a singular manner in that old chest is a mystery Town State Register. LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1879. A QUEER BUSINESS. The Feline Hoarders of Mew York and How they are Nerved with their Steals—ProflU of the Cat Purveyor. A Herald reporter while taking the early morning air in the region of the deserted Battery noticed two cats, sit ting like miniature caryatides, one on each side of a warehouse, eagerly peer ing around the corner and occasionally interchanging a remark, which led him to the belief that the cats had some special object in so sitting and so peering. A walk through Bridge, Stone, >V ater, Pearl, Front, and other adjacent warehouse streets, revealed more cats, all evidently with some fixed purpose. Kittens were there, too, but they dis played none of the levity commonly at tached to youth. Each wore the solemn aspect of bummers. Sedately seated at the front doors of their respective ware houses. as if they were themselves the proprietors, they looked up and down the streets as if awaiting the arrival of the postman. The solid individuality of the eat family, who looked after the welfare oi the great brick buildings intrusted to their charge, occasionally was intruded upon by a strange cat, of the tramp kind in fact, whose coat showed signs of wear, but who was of course frowned upon and driven away by the more respecta ble members of the cat fraternity, who, with hisses and other feline expletives, expelled him from the neighbor hood. All down town was alive with cats. Cats crawled from little square holes in doors; eats came out from un der iron gratings; cats assembled from neighboring housetops, where they had been making night hideous with their serenades; stray cats, who had neither a local habitation nor a name, hut who seemed intent on something, visited the precinct; black cats, gray cats, Maltese cats, and every other variety of the feline family was represented. The cause was presently apparent. A man in a blue checked shirt, with a heavy basket on his arm laden with small packages of meat, came around a corner. At once every cat came to the attitude “ attention !” ‘ a e d “ presented arms,” and in many cases tails toot From this basket the man, on meeting a regular hoarder, took a package of nrea" wrappedin brown paper and handed his portion to each cat. Those who were not regular boarders made spasmodic at tempts in some cases to assist the regu lar boarder in the consumption of his food, but as a rule were unsuccessful. The purveyor knows all his customers, or rather his boarders. Ho knows that the Maltese lives at No. 19 State street, and if she inquires for her breakfast at No. 40 he punishes her by refusing to give her her rations. So, too,'lie knows that the huge, tawny cat who looks after the interest of a pork warehouse on Bridge street has no business in Stone street. He has studied his hoarders, “ has them down line,” and no cat now dares be on any other premises but his own at breakfast hour. In an interview with the man for whose coming the cats so impatiently wait, and whom they fondle, purr about, and against whose legs they rub their superfluous fur, said: “Well, I have been in this business several years. 1 manage to make about 890 a week, the actual amount varying iit different seasons of the year. I take out about one hundred and fifty pounds of meat in the morning for delivery among my cat family, and it’s pretty hard work, for to say nothing of the job of lugging grub around, all the cats in the country know me and follow me, and I sometimes leel as though I was father of the whole cat tribe.” Reporter—Whom do you supply with cat’s meat generally? Purveyor—There are lots of stores in this neighborhood whose occupants deal in pork, cheese, hams and other eatable matter of that description. Now s.ll these stores are mostly very old, and in fested with rats. Well, the people who occupy the stores have to keep plenty of eats to keep the rats down. These eats have to be fed. They ain’t a-going to cut ham to feed the cats, and cats don’t like salt meat anyhow, and on Sundays there would be no one hereto feed them. So, as,l had read one time how men in London went round with carts and fed tiie cats, I thought I would go into the business on a smaller scale. Reporter—What do you charge per day for the board of a cat? Purveyor—Five cents, and it’s too cheap at that. I buy my meat away up town, and have to buy wrapping paper to keep the separate pieces in; and, wliat’s more, I don’t board my cats on boarding-house hash. Reporter—You don’t mean to say vou teed them on tendei-loin steak? Purveyor—Of course I don’t give ’em choice cuts; but I don’t feed ’em on poor grub. I don’t give ’em no cuttings from dead animals, as they say they do in London and other places where cat’s meat men go round, but I give ’em good, fair, decent food, varying it from day to day. I always give ’em fish on Friday. There is always plenty of fish in the market then, and it’s cheaper to me than meat on that day, and cats like fish any how. A change of diet is good for eats as well as men. The cat in the daytime is rather agree able and has its uses. At night, how ever, the case is reverse. Among the down town warehouses, however,where there are few residents and the cat’s more unpleasant peculiarities do not make themselves so conspicuous as they do in up-town yards, they are very necessary. A down-town dealer in pro visions said: “We [keen six cats here. They goon duty when we lock up.about six in the evening. If we didn’t, the rats would play high carnival, and cat our stock so that it would be utterly un salable. The worst thing is the cheese. Rats gnaw right through the boxes. They seem to fancy it more than meat. But we have sometimes other goods in stock which, if it wasn't for the cats, wrtuld be speedily ruined. We used to feed them ourselves, but it was a very great trouble, as we had to send to \\ ashington market for meat, and when ie cauic round and offered to sup ply them with food for five cents a day apiece we accepted the offer gladly. It is cheaper to pay a couple of dollars a week than to have the place overrun with rats.” . The meat man said, in response to an inquiry whether he ever missed a cat from the appointed place: “Oh, yes; I sometimes rind them dead in front of the store where they age employed. 11 “Are their situations tilled at once?” asked the reporter. “ 'Tell. I'm sure I can't tell,” said the purveyor. “I leaves the rations for the eat who is vaiting for ’em, and don't feel called upon ’to sit as a ?T?T ner s * nc i ues t on the body of a cat. Aii I look for is ven I puts in the bill on -Monday is the color of the cat’s master's money.” There is probably a sort of guild among the cats, so that when one of them comes to a violent death by 4he brickbat, of a sleepless and infuriated citizen Ins situation is filled at once.— New York Herald. Cruel Device. Anew device for the worriment of lovers was operated successfully by a heartless young man on the local train yesterday. A couple sat in the seat be fore him. The lady was young and modest, and the swain wore very large cuffs. One arm was thrown carelessly along the back of the seat, and upon this e 7 l ‘- minded person rubbed some phosphorus. The affectionate perform ances of that cuff, when the train was rushing through the kindly darkness of the. tunnels, were beheld by all the un feeling and snickering occupants of the ?. ar ,’ . lose cruel enjoyment was not a little increased by the demure and un concerned appearance of the lovers ea <u time the tram bounded again into the light.— Virginia (Aw.) Chronicle. American Physique. It has been, and is with a large class of people to-day, a generally received opinion that Americans as a whole are deficient in physical development. The ideal Jonathan, a lean and withal wiry specimen of humanity, has been popu larly looked upon as the typical Ameri can citizen; but let us see if this theory is borne out bv adequate evidence. A distinguished lecturer connected with the Harvard Medical School recently stated before one of his classes that, on a careful comparison of the vital statis tics of school children in this country with those of the same class in England, he found the Americans slightly superior to their English cousins in strength and stature. This statement, coming as it does from so high an authority, must be a surprise even to many scientific men. The fact is there has been a vast change in the physical condition of American citizens during the past half century. The statistics of our army surgeons in the late war show that our native soldiers were taller and stouter than their comrades from England, Ireland or Germany. All our representative men of late years, with few exceptions, have been men of magnificent physique. The members of our present Congress are remarkable in this respect, and un doubtedly afford the finest spectacle of physical development to be found among existing legislative bodies. Mr. George M. Beard, writing in a recent number of the Atlantic concern ing the future of America from a physi cal standpoint, records very accurately the causes which have led to these changes. There are three important fac tors in the physical development or non development of any nation, viz., race, climate and surroundings. Perhaps the most important factor of all is climate. It is the difference in climate between this country and Europe Which has wrought such wonderful changes in our people in so short a time. To this cause alone may be ascribed our ten dency to nervous diseases, for such things as nervous exhaustion and ner vous fevers were comparatively unknown during the first century of this nation’s existence. Our English ancestors, com ing to these then inhospitable shores, brought with them their English tem perament which had been developed through centuries of residence in a moist and equable climate. Time was re quired to bring about a change, hut from the day the Pilgrim Fathers landed on this continent there has been a gradual evolution of anew race. The fevers in cident to residence in a moist climate have given place to the alarming train of nervous affections which are often regarded as mythical by many who still retain the Anglo-Saxon temperament. With time also, wealth has increased; people are better fed, better clothed, bet ter able to withstand tl* sudden changes so injurious to a foreigner, and in this accumulation and t ransmission of wealth Mr. Beard also finds the agents which are to alleviate nervous disorders. With increased prosperity comes leisure, and with leisure physical improvement, and the above-mentioned writer pictures to himself an ideal state of society in which the wealthy few will be occupied in ad vancing the temporal welfare of the needy many. His summing up of the result of race evolution during the past history of the nation is, however, en tirely satisfactory: he says: “During the last two decades, the well-to-do classes of America have been visibly growing stronger, fuller, healthier. We weigh mile than our fathers; the women in all our great centers of population are yearly becoming more plump and beau tiful, and in the leading brain-working occupations our men are also acquiring robustness,'amplitude, quantity of being. On all sides there, is a visible reversion to the better physical appearance of our English and German ancestors. A thou sand boys and girls, a thousand men in the prime of yeax-s, taken by accident in any of our largo cities, are heavier and more substantial than were the same number of the same age and walk of life twenty-five years ago.” Whence it appears that the American, in spite of his much-derided want of en thusiasm for athletic sports, stands even now at the head of the nations in physi cal development; and this certainly is a good omen for the future. —Boston Trav eller. Hypochondria. There are mild forms of hypoenondria which never receive that specific name from the doctors who attend them, but nevertheless give their victims much trouble. The nervous man who is visited with a pimple magnifies it into a malig nant pastule, and his imagination tor tures him with the morbid picture ol the suffering qnd sudden death which he will be called to undergo. Many people are haunted all their lives in this way without anything serious ever happen ing, and when they reach old age have, for sole compensation, the opportunity of congratulating themselves that not one of the disagreeable omens they had was ever realized. But after the hypo chondriac is cured of one of his un healthy fancies he is sure, sooner or later, to acquire another. As Dr. Maudesley points out in his “Responsibility in Mental Disease,” though the patient may seem to go away entirely disabused of his sick fancies, they return to him or are supplanted by worse. In very exceptional instances, indeed, the hypochondriac may take anew de parture and with a daily supreme effort of will shake off the encumbrance that weighs upon him. But this is so sel dom the case that statistics scarce make mention of it; and it may generally be taken for granted that when hypochon dria is cured a change of surrounding conditions is more responsible for it than is the direct exercise of will on the part of the patient, his environment remain ing unchanged. Few men thus afflicted have the perseverence :qyl the strength of will necessary to lift off everyday the incubus which fastens them down and to think and act like well men merely because they choose to do so. —New York Telegram. Wrapping Food in Paper. It is a matter of daily experience on the part of every one who purchases such common necessities of life as butter, bacon, cheese, sausages, etc., that these goods are almost invariably wrapped up in printed or manuscript paper. Per haps we might also say that provisions for picnics and other hampers are stowed away in similar coverings, and it will, therefore, not be amiss if we call atten tion to the fact that danger has been dis covered to lurk in these newspaper wrappings. In the case of printed paper, the char acters have often been transferred to the cheese or butter, and either they are cut away by the observant cook, or they are unnoticed, and in due course become as similated in the process of satisfying hunger. It is supposed that the ink or the paper itself may possibly by some chance contain something deleterious. But written paper is even more likely to be hurtful, inasmuch as in writing the paper has been in close contact with the hand, which not improbably may be giving off a perspiration, that may enter the pores of the paper and may there ferment, not with advantage to health in the event of any portion of the manus cript being allowed to accompany the food down unsuspecting threats. This subject lias called forth some correspondence in German papers, and though we would not attach absurd im portance to it, it may still be said that clean unused paper is so cheap that retail dealers have small excuse for using either printed or written matter | for wrapping up their commodities.— Jjfxhange. That’s what I .call “tripping the light fantastic tow.’ 1 said the boy,as his blonde haired sister fell over the rope he had stretched across the garden walk.— Riggs. A Troublesome Princess. The New York Herald has a letter from Cairo, Egypt, giving an account of the deposed khedive’s personal extrava gances. The correspondent tells this story of the khedive’s harem: The princess mother had a young girl who had been left her by a very dear friend, to whom she had promised to take care of her child. As the girl grew up she was attached to the old lady, who finally concluded to marry her off. Applying to her son she was informed that there was a clever young major at the young lady’s disposition. Aehmet Efl’endi was informed that the old princess, wishing to honor him. would give him in mar riage one of her hand-maidens, lie was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. The princess provided a house duly furnished, and everything looked well for tiie young couple. The proper amount of feasting was gone through with and the bride entered her new home. She was a high and mighty dame, duly imbued with an exalted idea of all that was due to her rank. After tile departure o£ the guests, when the groom appeareiPshe treated him with great coldness, refusing to allow him to sit in her presence or even to touch her. Feeling aggrieved he retired to his own appartments, waiting for some sign of contrition on her part. A day or two later she called on her former mistress, and, on being questioned as to how she liked her husband, burst into tears, say ing that he was a wretch, a brute; that he never came near her, hut hid himself in a distant corner of the house, passing his time reading foreign books. The princess was justly indignant and sought her son. The wretch, Aehmet Bey, was unworthy the treasure she had bestowed upon him; he had slighted her highness’ gifts, and was unworthy such a mark of favor. So the unworthy husband was at once exiled to the Soudan. Naturally a divorce was at onee declared. Had he not deserted his w ife ? Another man was promoted and mar ried to the same girl. The same scene passed this time; the princess was high and mighty, and the husband that fate had given her was only the meanest of her slaves. Apparently he had other views. Next morning he strolled over to the palace of the queen mother. Meeting the chief eunuch he casually asked, “ What sort of a girl is t.fcit they have given me for a wife')” The eunuch wished to know why. The Bey could only say that he was under the impres sion that her highness had wished, as a mark of her favor, to give him a wife, but that he could not understand how it was possible to live with such a high and mighty princess, who wished to re verse the natural order of things and make him stand in her presence. The eunuch remembered that there had been some trouble about that young lady once before; that she had got Aehmet Bey into disgrace. He would see her highness. When the story was related to the old lady she exclaimed in disgust, “ Allah! she can’t be married to the en tire army. Go over and reason with her.” So off went the Kislar Ajha, or captain of the girls, with a couple of satellites, armed with sharp switches. They argued the matter with her lady ship—so much so that when her lord re appeared she brought him slippers and sat at his feet. Meantime his predecessor was speeding southward in doubt as to whether it was exile or death that awaited him. As he was an officer of great promise the governor to whom he was consigned felt disposed to assist him. So, being called off to a distant part of the province, he left Aehmet Bey as his deputy. To Achmet’s horror he one day received a letter from Cairo ad dressed to the governor pointing out that it was highly desirable that Aehmet Bey should disappear at once—that he had been guilty of all manner of crimes. Aehmet felt in no mood to assist in his own taking off; so he replied to his highness, pointing out that in the ab sence of the governor Aehmet Bey was doing duty as lieutenant governor, and that it would be extremely inconvenient to execute the orders concerning him. lie should therefore delay until the re turn of the governor or fresh instruc tions from Cairo. He survived, and af ter twelve years of exile returned to Cairo. He had been forgiven and pro moted to very important posts. Wheal fields of the World. In the Nineteenth Century Mr. Vernon Smith presents to the English people a sketch of the wheatfields of the United States and Canada which utterly shuts out all hope of Great Britain ever again recovering her position as a bread-rais ing country, and shows how utterly im potent will be the efforts of tenant-farm ers in that country to compete with the new fields of America, which are destined to supply the world with bread. This area of territory which he points out as the future empire of wheat pro duction is in that part of British Amer ica beginning at Lake Winnipeg: it ex tends over the valleys of the tipper and Lower Saskatcliewan, extending respec tively 1,054 and 1,092 miles westward to the Rocky mountains; both of those riv ers are navigable, and, with the Assini boine, Red river and others, empty into Lake Winnipeg. The two Saskatche wan drain what is known as the “ fer tile belt,” containing not less than 90,- 000.000 of acres of the finest wheat land. These rivers and their tributaries are 10.000 miles in length, and are navigable 4.000 miles. Lake Winnipeg empties through Nelson’s river into Hudson’s bay, and the writer looks forward to the time when vessels will leave Winnipeg bearing the wheat of that country to Europe. This immense region, lying just north of tire American line, includes 2,984,000 square miles of territory, while the area of the whole United States is put down at 2.933,000 square miles. In cluding the older portions of Quebec, Ontario and other Dominion provinces, Canada measures 3,346,000 square miles, while all Europe contains 3.900,000. This wheat region, which is yet al most unknown, it is claimed, h s a soil as adapted to wheat and as fertile as that of Minnesota, and its capacity for production is almost unlimited. Once peopled and put under cultivation, it will be able to produce wheat in such quantities and of such qualify as will render wheat cultivation in Europe as unprofitable as it has already become in England, and as it is rapidly becoming in I ranee and other western nations of Europe. This estimate of the wheat fields of British America, and of their ihagnitude and productiveness, leaves out of view altogether the wheat-grow ing districts of the United States. V heat-raising will of course cease to be profitable in all tin* States east of the Allegltanies; Western wheat will be sold there cheaper than it can be pro "duced in New \ ork or Pennsylvania. Indeed Ohio finds it more profitable to put the land to other productions. The wheat-producing field in the United States.is moving westward, and in a brief time will be confined to the States of Illinois, Michigan. Wisconsin, Kan sas, part of Missouri, Nebraska, Minne sota. Dakota, with portions of Montana and Wyoming, not including the States on the Pacific. The great area of Brit ish America, whose drainage falls into Lake Winnipeg, will, however, eventu ally become the wheat-growing region, capable of supplying the world with bread. The picture of this territory and of its fertility, and of its adaptation to wheat, is not overdrawn. — Chicago Tribune. The Charleston (111.) Plaindealer says that the farmers of that vicinity have discovered anew cure for hog cholera When the cholera appears among their animals they cook a dead one and feed it to the others, and it rarely fails to effect a cure. The man who runs up large bills is s man of some account.— Yonkers Stales, „ man. LAND TELEGRAPH LINI£. Their Haps and Mishap*. The troubles caused by the animal creation to telegraph lines in primeval countries, and especially in. the tropics, are more varied and curious than those due to man. The termites or white ants, the curse of these regions, ruin the wooden posts in a very short time, and either posts impregnated witli creasote or poles-of iron have to be adopted, al though at a greater primary expense. In Java the wires are carried on living kapas trees pruned of all their branches. Such is the vitality of the tree that the trunk continues to grow, putting out horizontal sprouts on the top, and the living pole is proof both against dry rot and termites. In India, the crows have been known to collect the odd ends of wires cut off in erecting a line, and build their nests between the posts and wires with them, thus destroying tiie insula tion of the line. Similarly, wasps’nests, offal dropped by birds of prey on the wires, monkeys playing at gymnastics, frequently cause a serious leakage of the current; and freaky elephants, rejoicing in the strength of their trunks, occasion ally feed their vanity by uprooting doz ens of poles right off. On the plains of the Far- West, the snaggy bisons find a welcome scratching-post in the poles of the overland lines; and as bisons scratch with extraordinary vigor, they soon loosen the poles, and level them with the ground. An ingenious Yankee hit upon the idea of driving sharp spikes into the poles to keep the buffaloes oft'; but what was liis surprise when he found that they ever afterward selected the spiked posts as a currycomb, and left the plain ones alone. The large number of prairie hens killed by flying blindly against the wires has often been re marked by travelers. Though the foregoing toes are at times exceedingly trying to the working power of the telegraph, they are simple com pared with the ravages committed by the action of the elements. Their influence is ever at work slowly and impercepti bly, or sudden and violent. The posts rot away in five or six years even in dry countries, unless preserved by impreg nated creosote oil or other preservative. The wires rust in open air. especially along railways and in cities, where steam and acid vapors corrode them rapidly. In some situations a wire will rust through in a few years; in others it will last for forty years. ' Lines along the sea coast preserve well; but wires in warm, humid tropics decay quickly. Gales of wind often level dozens of poles at one swoop, and the tangle of wires falling across the railways has been known to throw a train off the rails. During some of the severe sleet storms of the northern United States and Canada, the wires and lodes, burdened by the frozen sleet and strained by the b.ast, have given way over a whole track of the storm, and rendered it necessary to re-erect 200 miles of line. A mishap' which is too often brought about by high winds in the forest tracts of America, but which also results from prairie fires and natural de cay, is the falling of trees across the wire, which either breaks it or levels the poles to the around. Generally, however, there is a track fifty feet wide cleared of trees and brush for the line to run through, and the wire is loosely hung in the insulator so that it will yield to a falling tree -and not break, fn Brazil this track requires to be eighty feet wide and constantly lopped clear. The least understood source of trouble to land telegraph lines are “ lightning ” and “earth currents,” those rushes of electricity in the air above or the earth beneath us. Until recent times a single Hash of lightning would destroy hun dreds of telegraph poles in England ; but now every pole is protected by a light ning rod, which conveys the dangerous fluid to the ground. In America, how ever, where they do not uniformly pro tect their poles in this way, great num bers are still shivered in pieces by the discharge. In India, lately, on a line near Calcutta on which lightning rods are not fixed to every post, some twenty posts were destroyed, and the solid por celain insulators were shattered by the flash in passing from the wires to the posts, thus overcoming a resistance equivalent to several million miles of telegraph wire. “Earth-currents,” as they are technically termed, are always traversing telegraph wires in greater or lesser strength, but they are usually so feeble as not to interfere with working telegraph instruments. They are some times caused by thunder clouds in the atmosphere and sometimes by some cos mieal influence. They frequently pre cede or accompany earthquakes, the au rora borealis, or disturbances of the earth’s magnetism. On the evening prior to the Indian earthquake of De cember 14, 1872, the earth-currents were so powerful on some European lines as to stop all telegraphing for several hours. These earth-currents, even when they are comparatively weak, play strange freaks with the telegraph instrument. Signals made by no human hands are motioned; bells are rung, and inflamma ble substance is ignited by their myster ious agency. When very powerful, as for instance during thunder-storms anil auroras, they destroy the magnetism of the instruments, or fuse the metal-work, and sometimes set fire to the office. It is not uncommon for the spark caused by an earth-current to set fire to the cotton tape of the connecting wires within the office, and from this beginning the fire spreads. The saddest mishap of all which at tend these intense earth-currents are in juries to life and limb, which sometimes take place, especially in America. Thun der storms are often very violent here, and it is the custom to cut the instru ment out of the line circuit on the ap proach of a storm, at the same time keeping the lightning protectors on the line. These precautions are not always taken in time, however, and sometimes an operator gets a finger burned off by the great spark from the signaling key, or is blinded or deafened by the shock. Every now and again one‘hears of an operator being killed, outright by the in duced lightning-stroke proceeding from their apparatus; and perhaps the most melancholy of these was the case of Miss Lizzie Clapper, a young lady operator of Readville, Mass., who, during a thunder storm, was sitting at the window too near her apparatus, when the lightning leaped from the instrument to her neck, a distance of about a foot, and killed hei instantaneously—a painless yet dreadtui death. Thus we see that the subtle fluid, to whi h we give the name of electricity, is an agent which, while it has been ren dered subservient to man’s convenience and even to his safety, is, when uncon trolled, fraught with terribly disastrous consequences. The Oueen of All. Honor the dear old mother. Time has scattered the snowy flakes on her brow, plowed deep fuiTows on her cheek, but is she not sweet and beautiful now? The lips are thin and shrunken, but those are the lips which have kissed many a hot tear from the childish cheeks, and they are the sweetest lips in all the world. The eye is dim, yet it glows with the soft radiance of holy love which can never fade. Ah, yet, she is a dear old mother. The sands of life are nearly run out, but feeble as she is, will go further and'reach down lower for you than any other upon earth. You cannot walk into a midnight where she cannot see you ; you cannot enter a prison whose bars will keep her out; you can never mount a scaffold too high for her to reach that she may kiss and bless vou in evidence of her deathless love. When the world shall despise and forsake you, when it leaves you by the wayside to die un noticed, the dear old mother will gather you in her feeble arms and carry you home and tell you of all your virtues un til you almost forget that your soul is disfigured by vice. Love her tenderly, and cheer her declining years with holy i devotion.— Exchange. VOL. V. NO. 48. FOR THE FAIR SEX. Fashion Xotfs. Vegetables are now seen on bonnets. Lawns of a pale green are fashionable. Mexican filigree jewelry is the coming rage. The last novelty in fringe is made of pack-thread. Carefully-made flies are worn as ear rings and pins. Linen serge slippers are cool for home wear in hot weatlier. Dressmakers say that alpaca will be much worn this fall. Feathers prevail wherever they can be used with propriety. The yoke waists have been superseded in Paris by the fan waist. Silk nets are more popular than ever, especially for young ladies. The costumes of grenadine over silk are usually made with a polonaise. High colored stockings are the rage still, and especially for young misses. Anew sort of goods, Glace Mar guerete, of silk and wool, is much worn. Linen costumes much embroidered are worn for morning dress in the country. A profusion of knife-plaited rutiles weighs down the new cheese cloth gowns. Dresses are worn much shorter in the streets abroad than they are in this country. The flower that a lady wears at her throat should give the keynote of color in her dress. Dresses of the same material as those worn by thei<- mothers are made up fur young girls. Ribbons with spotted stripes are the latest importation, and take the fancy oi nearly all the ladies. Imitation pearl beads are coming into fashion this faL, and large importations from Italy will he made. Tidies made of pink and blue silesia and bordered with lace are considered quite the thing just now. Pointed waists, both back and front, are being revived, but are far from being a becoming style for the figure. Barege dresses for young girls are trimmed with cascades of Breton lace, with loops of ribhon in each fold. Imitation Lisle thread gloves, costing but ten cents per pair, are just as hand some as the real, which cost ten times as much. Some walking suits have long waist extending nearly to the knee in front These can be worn without any outside wrap. Sewing beads on black lace would be a profitable amusement for idle hours. Beaded lace is to be fashionable in the winter. A Paris idea is to wear flesh-colored stockings under open-worked ones. Preposterous as this is. it is fashionable on the boulevards. Velvet is more used for trimming now than at the beginning of the summer, but it is placed on cotton materials rather than on woolens. Anew hat called the Princess Louise has made its appearance in Ixmdon and New York. It is of delicate straw and turned up one side and back. To Mend Stockings, A lady, who finds in the practice of the homely art that she brings comfort to her family, gives these suggestions as to stocking-mending: Given a dozen pairs of woolen ribbed socks. Select from them the two or three pairs most worn: cut away the heels and toes, and lay by the better parts for use in mending—well, yes, for patches. From the best hose retained to be re paired, cut out the worn heel, and from the patches cut anew lied precisely like the old one. First sew the bottom of the heel, then sew it into the place made vacant. Use soft cotton, or else the fine, soft mend ing yarn, which comes, of all colors, on spools. Sew the raw edges “ over and over,” about as close as a nice overcast; so that when the new heel is worn out, vou have only to pull the thread and insert another. The thread must not be so tight but that the seam will flatten and become imperceptible to the foot. To sew in such a heel will require about one minute. If tiie toe is worn, so that the new darns seem to take from the old. and the rent is made worse, cut it off so far from the instep as it is thin. From the top of the sock put ariile, cut anew toe like the old. Sew across the end, and then around the foot, ob serving to make the seam, as before, flat and soft. When again worn out, repeat the pro cess, till the entire dozen, like the fabled ducks, have eaten one another up. Sayings of Celebrities Dean Stanley says: “ Our leisure hours are among those that have the most importance in molding our characters. Our working hours are very important, but our leisure hours are those that form our tastes and our habits.” Lieutenant - Colonel Knollys says: “That the ranks of the British army are now filled with immature boys is a fact obvious to any one who will use bis eyes. Officers deplore it, the press calls attention to it and the authorities do not attempt to deny it.” Sir Henry Thompson, the English surgeon, says: _ “ Persons who drink water when dining probably enjoy food more than those who orink wine. They have generally better appetite and diges tion, and they certainly preserve an ap preciative palate longer than the wine drinker.” Mr. Thomas Hughes says: “ The ideal American, as he has been painted for us of late, is a man who has shaken off the yoke of definite creeds, while retaining their moral essence, and finds the highest sanctions needed for the conduct of hu man life in experience tempered with common sense.” The Earl of Dunraven says: “Whether in connection with this country (Great Britain) or as independent, or as joined to tiie United States, or any portion of them, that vast region which is now called British North America will as suredly some day support the strongest, most powerful and most masterful pop ulation on the continent of America.” Mr. W. E. Forster, M. P., says: “ In dealing with the education of girls in the training colleges it has been found that they require little driving to work compared with boys, and that they are more susceptible to influences of ambi tion and a desire to succeed. The danger in the training colleges for elementary schools is from overwork. There is no fear that young women will not avail themselves of the opportunities offered.” Mr. Caird, the English agriculturist, says: “We are threatened with good things from America in a profusion be jond past experience. The cost of transport from the rich com lands of the interior has been vastly diminished and Liverpool is thus being brought as near the center of production as New York was twenty years ago. I believe there is a serious competition awaiting us from this cause, to which it would be folly to close our eyes.” Dr. B. W. Richardson, the English chemist who first made known to the world certain tacts concerning chloral, says that there arc* now chloral-drinkers just as there are dram-drinkers and opium-eaters; that the disease which he calls chloralistn has become rather widespread among merchants, lawyers, doctors, artists, literary men. clergymen, and that if chloral cannot be kept for use within its legitimate sphere as a medicine, it would be better for man kind not to have it at ali. TIE OGLETHORPE ECHO. 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Guardiarehip, fortv davs Homestead Notices, three iu.- rtiui s ' Uole Nisi’s per square, each 1- -riiju.*'” '|' ’ j^.j Ballad of thn Preis, [From a poem by J A... „\ Overall read at the house-warming el eb rat ion ol the New York Press Club.] In other days with fiery hands, The troubadours ol story O’er the lyre’s wild throbbiug bo3r:m Poured heroic strains ol glory; They tell us how the knights of old Braved tempest, sea and breaket And met Ihescofting Saracen At Ascalon and Acre. We sing a song ot modern days— Ol something lar diviner, The ballad ot the giant Press Creator and refiner! Obedient to the will ot thought It moves its steel phalanges, And nations bend to catch its breath I' rom Golden Gate to Ganges. Room tor the conqueror ol the world! The steel-clad Alexander! Hoorn for the pen, the sword ol mind Which sweeps from grand to grander! Hoorn lor the teachers of their kiud. Who scorn the wrong’s defiance And proudly bear upon their crest The motto: “ Sclt-reliance!” ITEMS OF INTEREST. Whatan oarsman likes—“A real oo lime.” The total number of American patents extant and expired is more than 210,000 The mosquito almost always succeeds in getting a speech from the person it honors with a serenade. Next year will be a very prosperous one for dealers in smoked glass. No less than seven eclipses arc advertised. “Those whom the gods love die young.” That’s what be •onu sof all the honest advertising agents.— Middletown Transcrivt. A gas jet has recently been discovered in the lake near Buckhorn, Ont. If is situated about a mile from the shore, and the water around it is greatly agi ; fated Tt burns on applying a match. “ Walter, do you think the stars are inhabited?” she said glancing at him with an expression 'that showed what confidence she bad in his superior wis dom. “Clara,” he replied, “your father only allows me ten dollars a week, and you can’t expect any but a high-prici and clerk to answer that question.”—An drew's Bazar. A ghastly incident in the voyage of a Russian transport ship with 700 Nihilist prisoners for Shanghalia is related by a Paris paper. The ship was so over crowded that 300 of the prisoners died on the voyage, and 150 more were landed in a dying state. It is asserted that the prisoners were packed like cattle in the hold of the ship. Old Mrs. Cuir says she has always noticed that in the summer time when it is not needed, the sun is always as hot as an oven, while in the winter, when a warm sun would he very agreeable, it is as cold as an ice-house. We have noticed this, too. It must lie the fault of the almarac makers, - Norristown Herald. CASABIAKCA. The boy stewed on the burning deck Whence nil but him had fled; And when they shouted, “Leave the wreck? lie turned and hotly said, “ I’m goin’ down with this ’ere ship— Hulk, mast, jibboom and spanker; And, when I’ve made my briny trip, You’ll find Casa-by-anchor.” —American Punch. i Geo. P. Rowell & Cos., in the Ameri can Newspaper hire dory for July, show that the whole number of newspapers in the United States has increased since January of the current year from 8.703 to 9,153. New papers abound in-the Ter ritories. Suspensions have been fewer than in any corresponding period for several years. A London paper describes the assegais used by the Zulus, stating tiiat the name I “assegai” or “hassagaie”—which is j nearer the native word —is derived from the tree from which the wood used in ! making those wcajions is usually taken. This wood has peculiar properties, being brittle and at the same time slightly elastic, and spears made from it quivei in their flight, a movement upon which the accuracy of their aim and their great penetrating power depend. The average of mortgages upon the farming lands of France is about five per cent. In England it is fifty-eight. The United States have but 3,000,000 pro ! prietary agriculturists. France, with a 1 vastly smaller area, has 6,000.000. 5.000,- ; 000 of whom are small farmers. England j has hut 250,000 landholders, and twelve i per cent. only of the people till the soil; | the rest are engaged in manufacturing and other pursuit-. One million are ! paupers. ! “ Say, mister,” said an urchin to a pal ; ’ant protector of the peace, “there’s a fellow just been struck with abeam what I fell a fearful way!” “Where is he?” j asked the excited peeler. “Just around the corner!” And it wasn’t till he 1 rushed madly around and discovered :■ | man sitting down and wrestling with | the sunbeams with a pocket handker ! chief that lie took in the situation. Meanwhile the boy remembered that he 1 had been sent on an errand just twe hours and a quarter previously.— Yon i kers Gazette. Professor St. George Mivart says : “ It j is now known that a variety of animals habitually reproduce their kind, ns 1 plants st> largely do, by a process of ex ternal budding. This happens, for cx ample, witli the hydra and animals like it. Animals may even be propagated fiy , cuttings. Thus, if a .ivdra or tin com mon sea-anemone (fidhea) be bisected! 1 each half soon grows into the perfect form once more, and many worms (such as scyilis or eatenula), and many ani malcules. called infusoria, habitually multiply by self-made sections —that is, by spontaneous division or fission.” A MIDSCMMER IDTI.. Thou art so near and yet so tar, O filmy, pale mosquito bar ! In silent watches ol the night, When owlets moan and bats disport And cats u]xm the woodshed court, We stretch o::r hands to thee so white To plnck thee ’round us ill about. Gest flies blaspheming find us out By dawning morning light. Thou art so near and yet so tar, Coquettish, v a moeqnito bar!. Some nail liave c itched thee on the fi- or Perchance some hook upon the wall Impedes thy gracelnl, sheltering tall ; Yet when the dreary night is o’er We find thee splattered on the bed Entwined about our feet and head— O clinging, gauzy bore ! Dr. Enwaril G. Loring speaks in Har per's Magazine, of persons not taking proper care of their eyes as follows: Whatevei an ounce ot prevention may be toother members of the oodj. it cer tainly is worth many pounds of cure to the eye. Like a chronometer watch, this delicate organ will stand any amount of use, not to say abuse, hilt when once thrown oft’ its balance, it very rarely can Ik* brought back to iis original perfection of action, or, if it is, it becomes ever afterward liable lo a re turn of disability of function or the s< of actual disease. One would have sup posed from this Cu t, and from the fact tliut modern civilization has imposed upon the'eye an ever increasing amount of strain, lw>th as to the actual quantity of work done and the constantly hf-' ereasin" brilliancy and duration of the illumination undft* which it is pi r tornied, that the greatest pains would have been exercised in maintaining tin organ in a condition of health, and the greatest care and solicitude used in its treatment when diseased. And yet it is safe to say that there is no organ in tin body the welfare of which 1 so p**r>-i-. tently neglected n the eye,”