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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The darkest horse is just bsfore the
convention.
Kino Theebaw’s peop’e say he is too
killing for anything.
The census fiend, note-book in hand,
will begin his peregrinations June 1.
Donn Piatt denies having severed
bis connection with the Washington
Capital.
It is reported that Secretary Carl
Bchurz is engaged to a Miss Irish, of
Washington.
A Madrid paper declares that Spain
could whip the United States in less
than two months.
A cable dispatch announces the mar
riage of Mrs. Marian Evans (George
Eliot) to Mr. Cross.
Jay Gould was once a Pennsylvania
tanner. He occasionally takes the hide
of! a capitalist even now.
(. The Hell's Hollow (Ncv.) Reporter
invites Colonel Ingersoll to visit that
place and see if there isn’t.
The cost of the Afghan war, it is re
ported, will exceed the estimates of the
Government in India £4,000,000.
An effort is being made to have the
death sentence of Ohastine Cox com
muted to imprisonment for life.
The King of Siam's full name is said
t > he Phrabat Somdetch Phra Paramen
do Maha Cbutahlongkor > K!ow.
Mr. Vennor is said to receive a
liberal salary for his services in the
Observatory at Montreal, Canada.
The Governor of Louisiana has estab
lished quarantine against the ports of
Havana, Vera Cruz and Rio Janeiro.
Tile Boston Post relates that the De
claration of Independence says ‘‘All men
are created free and equal"—but it
don’t.
*Our p ipulation Las been increased
■n and a half by emigration
from Germany during the past thirty
ye.rs.
Eugene Fairfax Williamson, the
persecutor of Dr. Dix, now at Sing Sing,
is employed in the stove-molding de
partment.
Tom Scott, who has been forced to
retire from the Presidency of the Penn
sylvania Railroad on account of ill
health, is worth. $5,000,000.
For fear of introducing the Phyl
loxera, the government of the Cape oi
Good Hope have prohibited the impor
tation of living plants and bulbs of all
kinds.
The Canada House of Commons has
passed a bill discriminating against
Ame’rlcan oil in favor of Canada. Tht
fire test on Canadian oil is 115°. and
American 120°.
General Young has presented in
Congress the petition of over 200 honor
ably discharged soldiers, asking for 166
acres of Government land to each sol
dier and sailor engaged in the lata war
Kate Field says George Eliot iookf
like a horse; that Dickens looked like s
dog, and that George H. Lewes, th<
ompanion of George Eliot, was tht
ugliest and most brilliant of men.
The U. S. revenue cutter Tom Cor
win is being fitted out to start the re
lief of Arctic-bound whalers, and t<
search for the missing Jeanette. Tht
Corwin will be ready to sail about
June 15.
There will be plenty of peaches, at-
Visual, although frosts occurred in tht
peach growing districts of Delaware
and Maryland. The peach will bear a
mpderate amount of frost, if the atmos
phere is dry.
The Cincinnati Commercial is author
ity for the statement that Ch ; cago and
Cincinnati breweries are wo’-khg day
and night to mate their supplies equal
to the anticipated demands during the
Presidential Conventions.
The Minneapolis Tribune, speaking
of the King of Slam, now on his way to
visit this conntry, says that he chews
tobacco, likes beer, and isn’t a bit stuck
up. One of his jokes is to walk home
with a laboring man to supper, and hold
the baby on his knee at the head of the
table.
Several factories have been estab
lished in the United States for extract
ing glucose or grape iugar from corn,
the product being used in confectionery,
syrups and jellies. In Germany a ton a
day of glucose is obtained from old rags,
hut such glucose does not seem to be
any more in favor there than oleomar
garine is here.
: —
Senator Burnside, himself a West
Pointer, declared in the Senate, refer
ring to the Whittaker outrage, that if
the academy cannot be made “a Na
tional institution, in which all classes
of American citizens shall receive equal
treatment, then it is the duty of Con
gress to strike it out of existence.”
Now the news comes that the Indian
“instructors,” sent up to teach the red
men of the Northwest how to farm, are
worthless for the object they were ap
pointed to achieve. The fact is, that
instead of being competent to teach,
they have to be taught themselves how
to make the best of their opportunities
for cultivation on the prairies.
A machinist in Nevada has invented
an effective improvement on a common
door-key which renders it impossible for
a burglar to use the key in openirg the
lock by t&kißg hold of it with nippeis
from the outside. All there is about it
is that the end of the key revolver in
dependently of the key itself. The
burglar may turn it around a thousand
times aud the key is not moved.
11 AM ILTON J 01 T I IX AL.
UMAR & DENNIS. Publishers.
VOL. VIII.—NO- 23.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who will
soon lie again in collision with his
brother, said to an interviewer that “ the
world will find out after a w hile that Bill
hasn’t at.y brains.” Cornelius asserts
that lie has cleared SIOO,OOO in spooks in
six months. He has as much money as
he wan‘s, hut he doesn’t want trustees
put over him as if he were a lunatic.
Cincinnati Commercial: Joaquin
Miller, having revisited California, is
shocked by social decadence and busi
ness dry rot in San FrancLc >, and re
marks that nothing ever happened half
so disastrous to the Pacific States as the
building of the Pacific Railroad. It is
needless to add that Joaquin would
rather have an ounce ot wild-eyed
poetry than a pound of political econ
omy.
It is said that some of the Oneida Com
munists have emigrated to Canada, and
settled down near Niagara Falls, it is
also said that while popular sentiment
in Canada is decidedly adverse to such
associations, there is no law prohibiting
them. The women have discarded the
Oneida uniform, and dress as other
females, and the neighbors thus far have
found no cause to complain of the de
portment of the colony. •
A German physician claims to have
discovered a means of dying the eyes of
animals in general, and of man in par
ticular any color he phases. He is ac
companied on his travels by a dog with
a rose colored eye, a cat with an orange
red eye, a monkey with a chrome yellow
eye, a negro with one black and one
blue eye, and a negress with one eye
gold colored and the other silver white.
The doctor says that Lis process, instead
of injuring, strengthens and improves
the sigh':.
- The growing habit of judges to make
moral or semi-political stamp speeches
from the bench is attracting much un
favorable comment among intelligent
men. Eminent lawyer* and statesmen
are in favor of prescribing forms for
charges and sentences, with blanks left
for names, offenses and persons or de
grees of i enalty and places of confine
ment. To these forms, they would re
quire the judges by law to adhere and
not to go beyond them The idea has
the practice of the best judges in its
favor already.
It has been stated that Freeman, the
Pocasset religious fanatic, who sacrificed
his little child in so cruel a way, is to
be defended by Colonel Ingersoll; but
it was not known ju-d how the ca-e was
coming up again. It is now stated,
however, that a writ of habeas corpus is
to be issued to carry him from the Dan
vers Hospital, where he is now confined,
to Barnstable, where his mental condi
tion is to be once more judicially ex
amined into. If Ingersoll should take
bis case, one of the mast remarkable ex
aminations of the day will probably re
sult.
Theebaw is reported to be inconsola
ble for the death of his twelve months
old son. The child was declared heir ap
parent, Ain-Shav-Min, before he was a
week old, a most uncommon tiling in
Burmab, where the successor to the
throne is not usually named till the
King is in his last illness. Vast sums
were spent upon him. He was recked
in a cradle incrusted with diamonds,
rubies, sapphires, and emeralds of in
credible value. His outfit —he was to
be dressed en Anglais—cost 5,000 rupees.
All the people living round the palace
stockade had to buy new cooking pots,
lest the smell of rancid oil from old
dekeheese might offend the tender
nostrils. And now tire poor little thiDg
is dead. It is just awful.
•
Mr. James Redpath, in a letter from
Ireland to the New York Independent,
says: “It is quite commonly believed
that the Irish peasant is lazy and im
provident. English writers have re
peated the libel for so many generations
that most of us have accepted it as a
truth. For one, I believed it untill
visited Ireland. The Irish peasant is
one of the hardest workers on this
planet. That was the first fact I discov
ered, and it faced me everywhere. No
class of men that I have ever met work
more steadily and support their families
more frugally.” This is probably the
truth. The mass of the Irish who come
to this country are hard workers and
mast of them are thrifty. They do not
change their natures in the process of
emigration. They succeed here because
they labor under conditions which give
them a fair chance.
Two Princes In One Turkish Bath.
An amusing story is related in L'Event
merit. The Prince of Wales, it seems,
went to take a Turkish bath a day
or two ago, and while reclining on a slab
after indulging in the luxury of the
bath he perceived standing beside him
a very dark man whom he took for a
negro attendant. The dark man was in
the usual undress uniform peculiar to
the Turkish bath. The Prince tapped
him on the shoulder and commanded him
in a curt manner to rub him down. To
his astonishment the dark man drew him
self up to his full height with a lofty
and tragic air, draped himself in a towel,
as if it were a miniature toga, and, with
a parting look of scorn and defiance, he
walked away. The Prince had mistaken
Don Carlos for a darkey servant, and all
the Castilian blood of the Spanish heir
rose up against the heir of the English
throne.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
The Howard colored school, at
Columbia, 8. 0., has 700 pupils.
I'ilE sugar-cane crop of Lousiana is
sai l to ho the finrst ever known.
Anew postoflice in Sumner County
Tenn., will be known as A. B. O.
Eight tobacco factories are in opera
tion at Rredsville, N C
The lumber business in Flqridu h
constantly assuming greater proportions
The convicts at the Texas state peni
tentiary turn out 60,000 bricks daily.
Guano of the value of $146,220 ha
been sold this season at Hawkinsville,
Ga
Arkansas has more miles of navi
gable rivers.than any other State in the
Union.
Over 200,000 head of cattle will be
driven from Texas to Kansas this sum
me*
The penitentiary shoe-shop, at Rich
mond, Va., has been leased by a Boston
firm
CnATTANOOGA is to have a paint fac
tory with a capacity of”five tons per
day. .
Tom Boyd received only sls for
leaping from the bridge at Nashville
Saturday.
Virginia has anew county—Dickin
son—formed of portions of l.ee Atd *d
joining counties.
One hundred and sixty thousand
Bhad were p Reed in Deep River, North
Carolina, last week.
Richmond, Virginia, has forty-five
churches, which are attended by one in
sixteen of the population.
There are fifty colored type-setters in
the United States, nearly all of whom
find employment in the South.
The cotton mills of Columbus, Ga.,
have used during the last eight months
15,462 bales of cotton.
A partial census of the physicians
in Arkansas shows that there are 1,079
in sixty counties in that State.
The South Carolina State Library
which occupies a single r ooro in the
State Capitol, contains 28,000 volumes.
A lot of jute seed has been distributed
among the farmers ot Hanover County,
N. C., for experiments in jute culture.
Eighteen gentlemen in Bryan
County, Ga., have organized a Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani
mals.
A quarantine warehouse, to he
used for fumigating mails and freights
in case of quarantine, is beiDg erected
at Orange, Texas.
The growing of pineapples and bana
nas has been successfully tried on the
Upper St. John’s and the Indian River
country, in Florida.
At Yorkville, S. C., a dealer, while
distributing some guano, found in it
two joints of a human finger, on which
was a gutta-percha ring.
The flues and costs of a man con
victed of selling beer illegally, as as
sessed by the Criminal Court at Nash
vile, Wednesday, amounted to $l5O.
There are in one hundred counties
of Texas 5,150 registered physicians.
Grayson County has the largest number
—l5B. One county was without a
physician.
The deer which have been driven to
the high grounds of Louisiana by *bo
high water are being slaughtered in
laree numbers, regardless of the game
laws of the State.
Twelve molders at the Wason Car-
Works; at Chattanooga, have stopped
work because a negro was put on the
force and given a place in the room
with the other workmen.
The Baptist revival in Raleigh, N.
C., has assumed such proportions that
the church can not contain those who
attend, and the congregation had to se
cure Metropolitan Hall.
JThe third annual fair and races of the
Georgia Stock andjFair Association will
be held at Oglethorpe Park, Atlanta,
commencing Monday, October 18, and
continuing six days.
The capital invested in the sugar in
terest in twenty-four Louisiana parishes
amounts to $80,000,000. The product of
sugar and molasses in these counties in
1879 amounted to $22,000,000.
Some of the best signs of the return
of better times in Eastern North Caro
lina are shown from the general good
condition of the county finances. In
many counties their paper is as good as
gold.
Two large ships have been chartered
by the Virginia and Tennessee air-line
to be loaded for Liverpool with cotton
from Memphis direct. Seven thousand
bales will arrive at Norfolk iD a very
few days to be loaded by that line.
Over three hundred menareemployed
in the machine-shops of the South Caro
! lina Railroad Company at Charleston,
j They are able to turn out every kind
■ of work needed on the road, including
the building of locomotives and passen
ger coaches.
The old records of the city of Char
lotte, N. C., have been accidently dis
discovered, and now the people there
are busy studying their past history.
Among the old city ordinances is one
that provides for the purchase of a citj
bull, and that this bovine champion
shall be allowed to roam the streets un
molested.
“ DUM SPIRO, SPERO.”
HAMILTON, GA., JUNE 3, 1880.
The Arkansas Africans who parsed
through Memphis some weeks ago >n
their way to Liberia are now in New
Yoik in a destitute condiliou. Several
of the number have died, and the re
mainder will be compelled to go to the
poor-house, as the funds contributed dy
the charitable for their subsistenct have
been exhausted.
In Howard County, Ark, Sarah
Stokes, only eighteen years eld, stahb. and
and killed Linda Stephens, aged twain v
The cause of the murder was a quaue!
begun by the mothers of the two jirls
and continued by the young people
The murderess made no attempt to
escape, and is now on trial. The fami
lies live on adjoining farms and have
been neighbors for many years, and
both sides have many friends, between
whom there is much feeling.
Traveling on n llynin.
Soon after Circuit Court Commissioner
Randall had got seated in his office yes
terday morning, there came a steady
tramp! tramp! down the hall, and a
Yolid, hearty voice led off with:
“ Thero's a land that is falror than day,
Anti by faith wo shall sue it afar,
For our Father waits over the way,
To prepare us ”
“ Goo i morning, sir, I am going on to
Nebraska.”
“This isn’t the route,” replied the
Commissioner, as he ooked up.
“ 1 know it, sir, hut I’m doing a little
singing and collecting a little money to
Help pay my way.”
“ What do you sing? ’
“ ‘ The Sweet Bye and Bye.’ That’s
my gait, and it has taken well so far.
“ ‘We shall sing of that beautiful shore,
The melodious songs ’
“ Been traveling on that hymn c’oar
from Providence, and it has struck ’em
everv time.”
“ We don’t think much of it out West
here,” remarked the Commissioner.
“You don't! Why there's nothing
like it! If Iliad a brother, and he was
a blamed heathen, and that hymn didn’t
meit him right down and make him con
fess to every mean act of his life, i’d dis
own him! Can Michigan people be
worse tha i heathens?”
“ ‘And oux spirits shall sorrow no more,
Not usigli ’
“ 1 don’t believe they are.”
“I think you’ll find that our people
prefer something lively, instead of melt
ing. We are not much on the me'.t, ex
cept in hot weather. 1 ’ *
“ 1 will now sing the ‘ Sweet Bye and
Bye,’ ” said the man as lie put his hat on
the desk.
“Don’t.”
*■ But I will. You’ve never heard il
sung at it should lie. Why, man I cut
across a corner of Connecticut in March,
and hardened old sinners followed me foi
miles and cried like children! In one
case I went twenty miles to sing it to a
backslider on his dying bed.”
“ Did it finish him? ’
“No, sir! Begot well. Why, when
I got into Canada they turned out as ii
I had been a circus.
“ ‘We shall sing on that beautiful shore,
The irn lo '
“ Say, what do you charge not to sing
it?” interrupted the Commissioner. “A*
I told you before we|want something out
this way more On the o der of “ Old D.u-
Tucker,’ with a pice Jo accompani
ment!”
“I don’t know nothing i bout tin
Tucker family, nor nothing about pie
colos. lin square up and down on 1:1k
‘ Sweet Bye and Bye ’ 't fit me. Wt
sing right up together like twins, ,’li
sing it and collect ten ecu s. Ready
now— ’
“ Here’s a quarter not to sing it. ’
“Say,” said the man after a long
, pause, “ I won't take it! No, sir. in;
traveling on a gait of my own. My par
ticular 1i no -is ‘The Swe. t bye and Bye,
as I may have accid ntallv mentioned
before. I’ve got the air rigfit down tine,
and I can knock the socks off any i-luirc h
choir in America on the chorus, t ood
day! I might sell my vote on a pinch,
but I can’t be bribed to give my hymn
the cold shake.
“ ‘ln the ftw-c-a-t bye ar.d bye,
Bimc-by--
In the sweet—in the sweet,
We shall sing ’ ”
And he never halted nor looked
around, although the Commissioner hit
him in the back with a quarter.
Fate of the Czars.
The Russian proverb which predicts
evil for the reign of any Czar which
overpasses twenty-five years has been cu
riously sustained by the facts of history.
Ivan the Terrible enjoyed twenty-five
years of prosperity on the Imperial
throne. In the twenty-sixth year of his
reign his troubles began. His conquests
were wrested from him; he lost three
successive wives and his son and heir
was murdered. Peter had 'twenty-five
years of substantial prosperity, but the
ten closing years were shrouded in gloom.
Alexander I was among the most fortu
nate sovereigns until he had crossed the
fatal line. In the twenty-sixth year of
his reign the liver Neva overflowed
frightfully, St. Petersburg was threat
ened with destruction, and a widespread
conspiracy was formed against the ( zar
himself. He left his capital, sick at
heart, to die in thedistant Crimea. His
brother Nicholas began the Crimean
war in the twenty-sixth year of his
reign, and so lost his prestige, and soon
thereafter his life. Finally, it was as he
approached the end of a quarter century
on the throne that disasters began to
thicken around the present Czar. The
news of his violent death would not now
la: anywhere received with surprise, so
great is the internal disorder of his do
minion.
An English journal reports that a
man who cut his finger while opening a
can of preserved meat was so poisoned
that he died within twenty days.
Query—Was the meat so very bad, or
was the man’s blood in condition to be
inflamed on slight provocation? The
paper from whicc we .take this item
speaks of it as “poisoning from decayed
meat,’’ but how can we lie sure of that
when a cut inoculated with blood from
perfectly fresh meat has often produced
just as serious results? — Dr. loathe
Health Monthly.
A Ride In a Fly Wheel.
As the great tty wheel in the engine
room of P. Lortllard & Co.’s tobacco
factory in Jersey t itv whirled around,
appearing to the eye like a shining disk.
Chief Engineer Mnrriu said to the re
porter, pointing to the wheel: “There
is a remarkable story connected with
that wheel. 1 lost a little dog, not long
ago, that went through an experience
with that wheel luch as probab’y no
other living creature ever survived. My
little dog was a playful fellow, a Skye
terrier of a good strain. Jersey had an
inquiring turn of mind as to the machin
ery, and when not watched, went about
snuffing at every part within his reach.
But ho stepped very gingerly, and wo
never dreamed that he would trust him
self in harm’s way. At about 9:30
o’clock one morning, nearly three years
ago, 1 saw him dozing tinder my desk,
there. • I went out of the room for a
moment, and when I returned 1 missed
Jersey. 1 looked for him, but could not
find him. Then 1 whistled and cnl ed.
1 heard a plaintive wail coming from
among the machinery. It was so faint
that i supposed Jersey might have fallen
down the fly wheel race into the cellar.
I lit a lantern and groped among the
machinery in the cellar, but vainly.
Occasionally I heard the wail repeated,
each time less distinctly. At twelve
o’clock the machinery was stopped.
The last revolution of the fly wheel threw
a little flu fly object at the feet of one
of the firemen in the cellar. He picked
it up and, running to the light, saw that
it was poor Jersey. He did not appeal
to breathe, and bis body was cold. The
fireman called me, and 1 said that it was
all over with the dog. But the fireman
felt warmth in the tip of his right ear,
and wo set to work to resuscitate him.
In half an hour lie got up, shook himself
as though he wanted to find out whether
he was all there, and began to frisk
around me. Well, ho had been in the
fly wheel for fully two hours and a half,
revolving at the rate of about fifty revo
lutions to the minute. He was proba
bly making a little private examination
of the working of the wheel, when he
lost his balance and fell into one of the
segments of the wheel. The rapid mo
tion kept him in place until tbc machin
ery was stopped. He was snug enough
where lft was, but the breath wasaltno-t
out of bis body when the wheel stopped.
He live J, apparently in good health, un
til some time sgo. Then he died.”—
—Aew York Run.
Where Booth Is Burled.
The Washington correspondent of the
Buffalo Commercial wri es: It was only
after some patient inquiry that I could
ascertain the facts, winch are interest
ing, and so far as 1 know are yet unpub
lished. Booth died, as will be remem
bered, in a barn in Maryland, from a
wound received from the musket of
Boston Corbett. His body wns brought
1 1 Washington, and after having been
identified by tbc court martial before
whom bis fellow-conspirators were tried,
was dissected by the Surgeon General of
the army. The brain and hcartand sot: e
other parts of the body were preserved
in alcohol, and are now on exhibition i t
the Medical Museum of the Surgeon
General’s office. 'J he building in which
the assassination occurred was Ford’s
Theater. The Government confiscated
i f , hut afterward Ford was paid its full
value, and it lias since been used as the
headquarters of the medical corps of the
army. The brain and heart of Booth
are in jars, standing in a case that is
situated very near the actual scene of
the assassination.
After the surgeon had done with
Booth’s body, it was buried in a grave
in the Arsenal grounds. Only half a
a dozen persons knew the exact spot,
which was unmarked. In 1867 Edwin
Booth, the actor, sent Mr. Weaver, the
sexton of Christ s (•hurcli, Baltimore, to
Washington, with a request that the re
mains of his brother might be taken up
anti removed to the family burial place.
After some delay the request was
granted by President Johnson, who was
finally appealed to, and Mr. Weaver
took the body to the cemetery in Balti
more and buried it beside the elder
Booth and others of the family. Tho
removal was conducted with great se
crecy, and was concealed from Secretary
Stanton, who had refused to give his
consent.
The King of Siam.
* The King of Siam has already left his
native land on a tour around the world.
Siam is a kingdom of farther India,
just south of and adjoining that of Bur
mah. The rulers of these adjoining
kingdoms are, however, very different
men. Both are mere youths, but here
ail comparison ends. King Theebau,
who has been slaughtering his royal
relatives wholesale, is a despotic bar
barian, totally uneducated in the Eu
ropean sense of the word. The-King of
Siam has been carefully educated by a
European lady, Mrs. He
succeeded his father in 1868. having
been chosen or elected from among the
seventy children who formed the family
of which he was a member. He is t
Buddhist, but his education has had tht>
effect of making him in reality a ration
alist. He speaks in half a dozen tongues,
and prefers English to his own. He is a
great reformer having liberated all po
litical prisoners on coming to the throne,
and shortly after issued a proclamation
declaring equal religious freedom within
his kingdom to all subjects, and permit
ting all to wear the European dress and
to stand erect in his presence. In 1871
lie abolished slavery, thereby freeing
about eight millions of his people, and
remunerated the slaveholders by means
railed by a general tax-
The ant is industrious; the bee is
skillful and useful toman; the flea has
been taught amusing tricks; spiders
have been made the pets and relieved the
tedium of solitary prisoners; but the in
fernal mosquito was never know to per
form a meritorious acts < all his energies
are devoted to making an unmitigated
nuisance of himself, and he has been
eminently suecessful.
A chicken fancier says that he stuck
court-plaster over an egg found broken in
the nest, after the hen had been sitting
a week, and iD due time it gave a
chicken as sprightly as any of the
brood.
J. L. DENNIS. Editor.
SI.OO a Year.
Brain-Work and Bml Habits.
Bad habits, Impure air, unhealthful
food, neglect of exercise, the use of to
bacco and whisky, have killed thousands
T>f students, where hard study has
killed one. More people die, 1 think,
from want <f sufficient brain-work than
from too much of it. W hen school girls
die front tight corsets, heavy skirts, heat
ing chignons, and other unnatural infllt?
tions, it is very kind in gentlemen to
say, “Killed by hard atuayi’V but wom
en know better. Some years sin e I had
a hired girl who slide red almost con
stantly from headache, hut she .wore
continually u heavy chignon, supported
by wire pins in her hair. Her headache
was not caused by hard study. This
same girl often spout forty n inutes at
night putting up her hair, and us many
minutes in the morning taking it down
again. But the worst of it all was that,
alter all her care, she was sick, and con
sequently ugly. Young ladies can’t
safely study during school hours, and
then spend the hours allotted to exer
cise and recreation in the exhausting
labor of altering old dresses into the
latest fashions, or even in embroidery or
stitching ruffles. J hey can scarcely
afford an hour a day for the crimping
and frizzing of their hair. It is rather a
curious a.udy to notice how women in
all their times and countries, have been
bent on changing themselves from what
God made them. In som; countries
they blacken the teeth, and bandage tho
feet; and in others they flatten tho
heads and paint tho face; while in others
they powder the lace, friz the hair,
and variously deform tho form di
vine. Now, if all this was necessary
to make woman beautiful, it would be
labor und care well spent, for every
woman should make herself attractive,
if possible. But is it not true that tho
highest beauty, as well as art, is to bo
natural? Were not our grandmothers
in tlrear youth, though in plain attire,
admired und loved quite as sincerely as
the present generation of girls are?
Good health, a gooddi-position, and in
telligence are the best heautiflers. I
have sometimes thought a collection of
the various styles of chignons, stays,
hoop skirts, and other about nations of
woman’s apparel, would make a valuable
and instructive addition to some of our
-museums. — Ain. Hickman, in Cicveiaiul
Leader.
A Winner Who Lost.
A correspondent writing from Uot
locksville, N. C., to the C incinnati En
quirer, under recent date, says: A novel
wedding occurred here to-day. Itsoems
that Moses John Miller ana Alexander
Bibb, two well-to do young farmers, wore
in love w'th the same lady, Leonora
Lloyd, a beautiful girl of this place.
She was not able to decide as to which
she liked best. Sunday morn ng Bibb
walked homo from church with her nu,l
left under the impression that she said
she would marry him. Last night lover
No. 2—Miller—went to see her und un
derstood her to say she would marry
him.
Both men this morning went to the
Court-house to get out a marriage
license, and there met each one armed
with the necessary documents, and each
left with a license to marry Miss Lloyd.
They met at the Court-house door, and
finally after some talk they agreed that
the first man who reached tho lady's
house should marry her. Tho residence
of Colonel l.loyd, the lady’s father, was
one mile distant, and both men started
on the race for the bride Bibb so n left
the main road and darted into the woods,
expecting to make a shorffeut and reach
the house before his rival, hut Miller
kept the road, and got in on the homo
stretch eight minutes before his rival.
Both men were in sight of each other go
ing up the lane to tiie house, and Bibb’s
efforts to overtake his rival were almost
superhuman.
When they reached the house liihb
from sheer exhaustion fainted in the
porch, falling almost at the feet of his
lady-love. When the matter was stated
to her, she said that she had come to the
conclusion that she liked Mr. llihh the
best, arid therefore she would marry him.
Her sympathies were won over by see
ing him faint. She said that she be
lieved both loved her, but that he whe
faints at the danger of losing a bride
must love her more than he wno is cool
and unconcerned in the midst of it all.
The affair causes intense excitement in
this small place. To-night Rev. Aaron
Jasper, the well known Baptist minister,
married Bibb aud Mjs* Lloyd.
Imposing Philosophy.
At this juncture the janitor announced
that Fauntleroy Wahoo, the Alambama
sage and orator, had arrived in the
ante-room and desired to make a speech
before the club. The committee on re
ception brought him in, and after he had
been introduced he mounted the plat
form and began:
‘■Ladies and gem’lcn, I is here befo
you to-night—”
Perhaps lie noticed the absence of
adies at that point, for he stopped, grew
Imbarrassed and finally started of with:
“Aw we look back inter de dim past,
we see —we—we—”
No go. He stuck right there. He
took a drink of water, moved to the
other end of the platform and tried it
again. By this time his knees were
shaking and his chin quivering und Sir
Isaac Walpole gently escorted him hack
to the ante-room, where he soon recov
ered sufficiently to slip down stairs.
When he was out of the room Brother
Gardner rose and said:
“ Gem’lem, de bizness of makin’
speeches am one fing an’ the business of
rawin’ wood am anoder. Make no m's
takein what you do. If you kin saw
wood better den make speeches (loan t
let de saw git cold. De man who bites
off more dan he kin chaw am wuss dan
de man who doan tbite at all.”— Detroit
Free Press.
At the recent meeting of the Institu
tion of Naval A rchitecta, England, Ad
miral Selwvn recommended every one to
study Professor Rankine a admirable
paper on “Combustion,” when they
would know the exact amount of oxygen
necessary to burn the different varieties
of coal with the greatest advantage.
The student would learn, he said, that
the Fritiab were far behind in what has
been dona in America with anthracite.
PABSIH& SMILES.
Air oabtlxs. we presume, are built of
sun-beams and here-raftere.
After clothes are washed they may
be spread out for a lawn dry.
Mary Walek calls the place where
she hunga her clothes, not a closet, but
a pantry.
There is one man in Albany who
never gets too drunk to tell his own
name. It is Hicks.
“ Figures won’t lie,” is a mistake
Some of the finest female figures upon
the Htreot are nothing but — l
“ Mike, did you ever catch frogs?"
“Yes, sorr.” “What did’you lisit
with?" “ Bate ’em wid a stick, sorr.”
“ It is hard ta please a man who does
not wish to be lied about, and who can
not benr to have the truth told about
him.”
Never jibe a boom without ducking
your head. This is important advice,
now that there are so many booms
coursing over tho political sea.
Baton Rouge has increased ’ er
police force to three m,-)vanda dog The
dog is depended on to riand guard over
the officers while they sleep.
A t a recent railroad festival the fol
lowing striking sentiment was given:
“Our mothers*—the only faithful tenders
who never misplaced a switch.”
The idea that gur, powder and whisky
will make a sqbjier fee J bravo is all non :
sense. Put him Jbohind .. atone wall if
you want to see hi* spine si;ff cn .
A Bloomingio * girl who ‘ • her
parasol to parVy Sol’s rays ’ *s son
struck for aftnatch one moonlight**,i„ht
not long ago. The flame ignited aha
now they are united.
My Oretchsii van pooty girl,
Dot In tier noleiuii troot—
But veu I slipok* her pap ron htr,
lie push me mtt his hoot.
We arc opposed to holding the World’s
Fair in New York. We have neither
sisters, cousins .or aunts living there,
and the hotel rates are always extremely
high at such times.
Keokuk has a man who always feels
a disposition to write* poetry when he
gets drunk, and four temperance speak
ers are kept constantly on his trail by
public subscription.
A clergyman 'darned Hoyle was so
indiscreet as to register his name at a
hotel in Omaha. Within half an hour
no fewer than fourteen persons sent
their cards to his room to ascertain if a
flush royalcouldn't beat four aces.
Daniel Webster was a great man,
but when he found the pigs in the front
yard, he got right down to other men’s
level in a minute and a half, and he
didn’t climb back until he bad used up
every brickbat around the piece.
“ You’re a fool Frank,” a Deadtvood
maiden suid to her bashful lover; “here
I’ve been waiting two hours for you to
kiss me, and there you sit just as if dad
wouldn’t come down in ten minutes and
close the shebang.”— Andr.nct; Rater.
The cyo is tho index to the soul.
When it man asks you to<get off the
ruins of his new plug hat, you can tell
by looking in his eye whether he wants
cash down for the damages or will take
an indorsed note running six months.
Hk took her pretty hand In tile
And pi-muiMl it to hi* ll|-< end Held:
"My owuest own, have you not been
A-fooling with an omon-bed?"
Apropos of names.— First swull—“ I
never did like ‘ May,’ not nearly so pretty
ns‘Mary;” wonder they don’t change
the day of the month to Mary.’ ” Second
swell—“ Olevaw idea, bah Jove 1 make
awstas good to June, you know.”
“ What earthly use is it,” exclaimed
a 1..n B ui,l Washington <MVU tile dtl r
morning, “ our twying to be awisto
cw., tic, monarchial, aud that sort of
thing, when a Senator of the United
States gats peanuts while riding in the
street cars. We re nothing but a dim and
horrid republic, after all.”
The Jersey City Journal wants to
know what “ total abstinence ” means.
Well, it means drinking in private, for
one thing; and—and not toe much at a
time, you know. It—it is one of the
lost arts, or something of that kind. It
is a pcem. It is a song one hears oc
casionally frem away off somewhere a
long time ago. It—well, we don’t claim
to be very well posted on this subject,
anyhow.— Elmira Free Press.
Hk crawled up out of tho gutter,
Wfidling he’d never boon horn—
Tiie chum of all tho trouble was,
He’d atepped ou tho wrong rnau's corn.
It wns all the fault of the newspapers.
They said the new comet couldn’t lie
seen “ without a glass.” Mr. Starlington
wanted to see it, so he took a glass. It
still eluded his vision, and he took two
more glasses. Still he couldn’t see it;
and, after taking seven glasses altogether,
lie fell down four steps into an area,
and was rewarded with a sight of the
comet. But he is positive that just as
lie caught a glimpse of the celestial visi
tor it burst into ten million pieces, one
of which struck him right between the
eyes.
Earthquakes and Gravitation.
'I he Eureka (Nev.) Leader relates a
miner’s experiences, showing that earth
quake shocks are not felt very far below
the surface of the ground. This miner
said that on the occasion of the lust
shake at Secret Canon he was at work
in amine on Prospect Mountain, and,
althought the tremor was plainly felt by
hiß partners on the surface, he, at the
depth of eighty feet, noticed nothing
unusual. Hea'sosaid that through an
experience of fifteen years underground,
he had observed one very peculiar fact
—that between the hours of twelve and
two o'clock ut night, if there was a
loose stone or bit of earth in the mineit
was sure to fall. Said he: “About this
time it seems that everything begins to
stir, and immediately after twelve al
though the mine has been as still as the
tomb before, you will hear little par
ticles of rock and earth come tumbling
down, and if there is a caving piece of
ground in tjbe mine it is sure to give
awav.”
An English exchange says: Glass
sleepers are being tried on the tramways
at Stratford. They are made by a pro
cess patented by F. Siemens, of J tresden,
whose methods of hardening And tough
ening-glass we have frequently men
tioned Unlike the De Labastie glass,
when broken, the Siemens product does
not fly into fragments. The sleepers are
two feet long, four inelres wide by six
incites deep, and are moulded accurately
to fit the rail. Bearing plates are placed
under the joints, and the rails are at
tached to them. A sleeper resting on
supports thirty inches apart breaks with
a weight of five tons. .Glass, unlike
pine, is practically indestructible, by
moisture, and it is not so heavy as cast
iron, with which it is compared at price
per ton.
The Lawt remarks concerning the
efforts to find :.n avai’able substitute for
oil and gas lamps, that “it is an indis
i pensable qual ncation for the accepta
bility of any new lighting apparatus
that it should not unduly poison the at
j mosphere in which it burn*.”