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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The street* of Philadelphia are to be
swept by convict*.
Forest fire* have been rasing in ide
vicinity of Milford, Pa.
Pan Rice says true piety is not ap
preciated in this country.
The President will visit the Pacific
coast during the summer.
Firis and cyclones seem to take pre
cedence to all other disasters this year.
It is eaid that Gladstone assumes the
cares of ofiiej against the advice of his
physicians.
The owner of the finest peach orchard
in Milan County, Tcxa, pronounces the
peach cr ;> a failu e in that section.
An (lort to reduce the President’s sal
ary from 151,000 to $25,000 per annum
was defeated in the House by a vote of
25 to 73.
Asad comm nt on newspaper men is
the stab.nient that there are more edi
tors in tbe Russian prisons than there
are out.
A proposition looking to the reduc
tion of salaries of Congressmen has been
frowned down “by a large majority ”
in that body.
The German Government has decide.!
to increase the ciiculation of silver
twenty per cent.
Captain Eads is st.il trying to per
suade Congress what a glorious thing a
ship canal would be.
New JtRSEY has rot suffered for
years so great damages from forest fires
as during the present season.
Coi. John B. Brown low denies very
vigorously Gen. Bteedman’s story that
Parson lirownlow bore a “ serpentine”
mark on his body.
Mrs. Bei.va Lock wool has been re
fused admission to practice by the Gen
eral Term of the New York Supreme
Court at Poughkeepsie.
General Charles A lams, .ate
Special Agent of the Utes, fears trouble
with them again unless Congress speed
ily ratifies the new treaty.
Captain Eads is still agitating his
scheme fer a ship railway across tie
Isthmus of Darien and a few more mil
lions of Government money.
One Samuel S. Stanton sues Secretary
Schurz at St. Louis for $20,000 dam
ages for imprisoning him in Fort Rus
sell, near, Cheyenne, without cause.
The famous Tuileries of Paris, which
have been in ruins since the reign of the
Commune, a:e to be restored, a dispatch
states, and converted into a museum.
Correspondence is published in
New York showing that last March
Gen. Kilpatrick was tendered and de-
nvPrnorf '^' n nt Washington
Some of the Pittsburg glass men talk
of shutting down their works during
the months of July and August, to re
lieve the operatives from labor during
the heated term.
The steamship City of London, just
arrived at New York, reports having
seen on tin voyage an iceberg three
hundred feet in height and seven hun
dred feet in length.
♦
Barnum won a glorious victory in
Springfield. A clergyman, who had
been a missionary in South Africa,
tested tbeZulusby addressing them in
their native tongue, and found them
genuine.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: Clarence Da
vis got five years in Ihe penitentiary and
SI,OOO tine for having three wives. Can
non, M. C., has four wives, gets two
years in Congress and s<>,ooo a year.
Have wc a privileged class in this coun
try?
The Empress of Russia keeps alive
by breathing oxygeD gas mixed with
arid and turpentine, which is adminis
tered to her four times a day. The
physicians say that her death cannot be
much longer postponed by this artificial
process.
And now the Russians are complain
ing of American competition in the grain
markets of that country. Our merchants
are shipping corn to Odessa. Freights
are so high that the Russian marcbants
find it cheaper to bring grain from
America.
James Ridpaih srys that by the
present system in Ireland 7.000 land
lords get out of the land $99,000,00) a
year, and the Government extracts
$35,000,000 more. This Jeives only
$50,000,000 to feed and clothe 5,000,000
inhabitants.
Thirty families from Finland ar
rived at New York recently en route for
Minnesota, where they will engage iD
farming. That State seems to be pre
erred *b>ve a ! t others bytheScandi
navians. • Doubtless the climate has
fsomething to do with their location.
And now California is exporting wine
to Germany, the first shipment of
100,000 gallons being forwarded a week
or two since. The Germans are largely
engaged in grape-growing in the Golden
State, and claim for their wine ali of
the qualities pos-essed by that made in
Germany,
Kalloch, the Mayer of San Fran
cisco, is having a decidedly serious
time of it. In addition to the numerous
charges brought against him, imputing
his honerty, patriotism, etc., a yourg
woman now comes to the front whose
case promises to break the monotony of
the prosecution.
Much ir tercet is exp rested in the
Mil eis’ International Exposition to be
Hamilton Journal.
LSMAR & DENNIS. Publishers.
VOL. VIII.--NO- 24.
held at Cincinnati in June. It prom
ises to be an occasion of great import
ance. Every machino recorded in the
history of milling, it is c'aimed, will he
exhibited, making the largest display
in this department of industrial art the
world hss ever known.
Joseph Emmets sntee in Pittsbu t
coat him $5 00. Nearly all of thi
eats sold for a week of his per
formance at the Opera-house,and the
house had to be close I, the money being
refunded. Percussive efforts did not
avail, and he was sent to a hospital,
where Le was out into condition 4 o act
during the ensuiDg week.
The philosopher of the Cincinnati
Gazette says: Cur esteemed contem
porary, the Commercin', declares that it
is not in favor of free trade in general,
but is for free tride only in aa article
which it uses. But if every one were
in favor of free trade in the article
which he consumes, and for duties ou
those only which other people use, the
result would be free trade.
Cincinnati Gazette: Kentucky has
a right Jo boast of the champion Legis
lature. It has just adjourned after pats
ing 1,606 acts, an average of a little
more than twelve for each day of the
session. Ever so many Legislatures
have undertaken to make a score like
this, but so far as known none have
succeeded. The Kentucky body ought
to have the belt for the many-act chain
pionship. _
Henry Clay, a grandson of the
“Mill Bov of the Slashes,” will accom
pany the Howgate Arctic Expedition
as an aid to Lieut. Howgate. Mr. Clay,
who is known in Kentucky as “Young
Harry Clay,” is twenty-nine years cf
age. He was born in Lisbon. Portugal,
when his father was minister to that
country. He is now prosecuting attor
ney : n Louisville, being a man of gen
erous nature and varied accomplish
ments. _
There are benefits in being a mem
ber ot Parliament in England other
than appear on the face of that honor.
A member of Parliament cannot be ar
tested or imprisoned on any civil action.
Labouchere, the editor of Truth , is de
fendant in a couple of libel suits, and
the object in each of thete casei is to
imprison the lively Labby. Now the
ulajntifls mint content themselves with
a fine if they get a verdict, as L,aoou
chere is a member of Parliament.
Louisville has just completed its
hundredth year, an is as lively as a girl
of seventeen. The place was incorpor
ated in 1780, by the Legislature of Vir
ginia, which named it from our “great
and good friend,” Louis XVJ., King of
France and Navarre. The settlement
began in 1778, under the celebrated
General George Rogeja Clarke, one cf
the best of the many leading Virgin
ians of those long-vanished days. It is
a city of marvelous growth and alike
prosperous and beautiful.
The classes in Yale College are di
vided into four divisions, according to
scholarship, and the statistics in regard
to the use of tobacco in the junior class
were recently taken. Of twenty-sx in
the lowest division, all but four smoked ;
of twenty-seven in the second, eighteen
smoked ; of forty in the first, only ten
smoked. Whether this results from the
fact that those who smoke do not iike to
study, or that those who study do not
like to str.oke, is not entirely clear; but
the effect of smoking on German scho’ar
ship is not usually regarded as so
marked as this.
Tom Buford’s second trial for the
assassination of Judge Elliott of the
Supreme Court ot Kentucky is set for
the sth day of July next. “Shad,”
who, during the past few years, has
spent the greater portion of his time in
the mountains of Kentucky and con
tributed extensively to metropolitan
journals of the State’s crimes and crimi
nals, has made Judge Elliott the central
character in his forthcoming novel, en
titled “The Gentleman of Adair; or,
the Science of Delay.” Kentucky cele
brities comprise its dramatis persona:, and
it is understood that the undercurrent
of the story will satirise the practical
working of our judicial system.
London lafe, a so-called society
journal, has taken up Victoria Wood
hull and announces that she is about to
marry a prominent Englishman and
become one of the “ queen’s of society.”
The Woodhull manages to get herself
written up very liberally in English
papers, beginning with her egregious
sell on the eminently respectable Ex
aminer, which gravely announced h<r
probable choice by the American
people as their next President. A re
ligious paner, the Christian Union, fol
lowed with a high eulogy of her virtues
as a pietist. How the woman secures
such notices is a mystery—but she is
careful to have numerous marked
copies sent to the newspapers of this
couotry. •
Air old woman who went into the
poultry business, thinking she cotdd
make a fortune by selling eggs, gave it
up in disgust, beraase, as she said, “ the
liens ’ll never lay when eggs are dear,
but alios begins' as soon as they sra
cheap.”
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Frogs are shipped North from Bed
ford, Tenn.
Tiie new court-house at Corsicana,
Tex., wiil coat $40,000.
The culture of peanuts is becoming
more general in Virginia.
The proceeds of Lie Frog opera in
New Orleans amounted to $1,250.
Texas 6 per cent, bonds are quoteo
at 102 and arc scarce in the market.
Only one ho'el in Jacksonville, Fla.,
will remain open during the summer.
Unmuzzled dogs on the streets of
Memphis are shot down without mercy.
Nearly 8,000 workmen are emyloyea
upon new buildings going up in At
lanta.
'The summer uniform of the police
of Richmond, Va., includes wnitc
gloves.
It is estimated that the present rice
crop in Louisiana will be double that oi
iast year.
A cotton compress, costing $40,000,
will be erected at Brenham, Texas, this
summer.
Fisk University, at Nashville, has
been presented with a hell weighing
2,000 pounds.
During this year 400,000 bushels of
corn have been shipped to Europe from
Richmond, Va.
Virginia is set down for $326,000 in
the Congressional River and Harbor Ap
propriation Bill.
A good quality of white porcelain
clay has been discovered in Forsyth
County, N. C.
A grand agricultural and mechani
cal fair is to be held at San Antonio,
Texs, next fall.
Mrs. SALLiEGray,of Meridian, Mass.,
is 117 years old and still engages in
letter-writing.
In Henry County, Ga., a whole drove
of hogs, while lying in a heap, we.e
killed by lightning.
Long staple seed cotton is so scarce in
East Florida, but one-third the usual
crop will be planted.
New Orleans has shipped v France
and Italy within a year 2,400,000 gal
lons of cotton seed oil.
An evening paper has been established
at Lynchburg, Va., making three dailies
now published there.
The Hon. John N. Hudson, State
Senator from Americus, Ga., has been
Bern, to luujuc Hsyiuin.
There is - lady postmaster at Elon,
Amberst County, Virginia. Her last
predecessor was also a lady.
The Legislative Council of Memphis
Ras passed an ordinance abolishing
all hanging signs from over the side
walks.
A colored barber at Macon, Ga., was
stabbed to death with an umbrella
while engaged in a quarrel with another
man.
A Confederate Memorial Associ
ation is to be organized at Memphis to
care for the heroic dead in Elmwood
Cemetery.
The average yield of the oats crop in
the vicinity of Austin, Texas, this year
is from e’ghtv to one hundred bushels
pet acre.
J. F. Webt, who killed a negro some
time ago at Barnesville, Ga., has been
refused bail and is now in jail at
Griffin.
A farmer in Montgomery County,
Tenn., drove the bugs from his tobacco
plant beds by treating them to a dose of
rotten eggs
The watei in Wolf River, so long de
tested by Memphians, has been officially
pronounced the “ third best water in the
United Stales.”
The planters of Alabama and North
ern Mississippi are more engrossed than
ever in the cotton crop, and are neglect
ing everything else for it.
The President of the Mississippi
Slate Agricultural College, at Stark
ville, rec eives an annual salary of $2,-TOO,
and the professors $2,000 each.
Over $400,000 has been raised in the
North for the construction of the new
Sibley miljs in Augusta, Ga., and the
remaining $200,000 is promised.
The cotton mills at Carrollton, Miss.,
have been bought by one King, a
Georgia manufacturer, who will add 200
operative to the working force.
The credit of the State of Mississippi
is at par. Her warrants are equal to
currency and are paid on demand. Her
bonds command a premium in the mar
ket.
There is not a single liquor saloon
in any town on the line of East Tennes
see and Georgia railroad, between Chat
tanooga and Knoxville, a distance of
il2 miles.
Local option has proven a success in
Jasper County, Texas. Not a case of
drunkenness b*s been seen on the
streets of the town of Jasper during Jie
present year.
The people of Charleston, 8. C., have
subscribed about *-600 for the relief of
the families o f the two negroes who died
from foul air ;n cleaning out one of the
fire wells in that city.
The sculptor Clark Mills claims to be
something of a horseman, and to be pre
pared to defend his bronze horse against
ah adverse criticism* by judges of
horses in Tennessee.
A brick the size of an ordinary cigar
box, made of the counterfeit, nickeb ■ I
lected in the street-car cash-boxes, is >ne
11 DUM SPIRO, SPERO.”
HAMILTON* GA., JUNE 10, 1880.
of the curiosities which rdorns the new
street car office in Memphis.
The Sunday liquor law is being
rigidly enforced in Columbia', 8. C. One
uan was fined $lO for delivering .ri
Sunday morning a bottle of liquoi that
he had sold the evening before.
New Orleans has a cork manniac
tory employing fifteen men and turning
out 2,500 dozen corks pc day, which
Joes not even supply the local demand.
The establishment Is soon to he en
laiged.
Two South Carolinians, who have
be. n at law four years for the pors aiion
of a hull, are still at it. The costs
exceed SI,OOO, exclusive of counsel fees,
and the bull is dead. It has been
stufi'stl, and ia to be pr;r“.?&9'7>tourt
Mrs; Rogers and one of her daugh
ters, of Buncombe, N. C., made by their
own labor, during last season, from two
and a half acres of land, SOB 4 worth >f
.tobacco. This amount was realized
after paying a rent of one-third of the
crop.
The man at Luray, Va., who has
kissed nobody during his entire man
hood has conscientious scruples in he
matter. He became convinced in hi
youth that kissing was wicked because
Christ was betrayed by a ki*j.
At a business meeting held last Sun
day in the First African Baptist Church
of Richmond, Va., attended by 2,500
people, the confusion being so great
that the Mayor sent a large detachment
of police into the building to preserve
order.
Clark Mills, the ecnlptor, is seventy
years old. Uutil his fortieth year he
was a plasterer, and never had any idea
of becoming a sculptor. At thetimehe
undertook his first equestrian statue of
Jackson, he bad never seen the General
nor an equestrian statue.
Jx is stated that a Mr. Willis, now
living in Bradford County, Oa., is 106
years old. He is able to walk to town,
some six miles, and also able to support
himself by his own labor. He has 135
descendants in Georgia and thirty-two
in Florida.
In Middle Tennessee a drunkard fled
to the woods while wild with delliiuin
tiemens, dug a grave and was found n
it dead. His wife was rende.ed franti(
by the sight, and prayed that she m’ght
die, too, when she was struck by light
ning and killed. •
Richmond has a University Club,
composed of graduate* of that institu
tion, who are trying to aid ia the ra sing
ot lands to make avatlatneThc/tlne tele
scope, said tc be the best in America,
presented to their Ahnn Mater by Mr.
McCormick, of Chicago.
The last grand j ury of Telfair County,
Ga., recommended that their next Ke|>*
resentativo and Senator use their influ
ence securing the passage <f a bill hv
the Legislature fixing the liquor license
in that county at $5,000 a year.
The Young Men’s Librar: Associa
tion of Atlanta, Ga., received Irom all
sources during the year endel, $6,312.-
77. The increase in the number ol
volumes, during the year was 1,035. Mis*
Emma Abbott is a paid-up life member
of the association.
Fannie Hunter and Mach?, Thomp
son, colored, who were convicted oi
burglary and sentenced to the penitenj
tiary for life at Anderson, 8. C . in the
fall of 1878, have been pardnsed by the
Governor upon the recommendation of
the Judge and a numerously-signed pe
tition.
Miss Sarah Martin, a Cherokee
gill, wrote a letter to the. Evangelist, E.
L. Moody The leitei wts shown to a
wealthy friend of Mr. Moody, who was
so well pleased wi*h it that lie placed
SI,OOO at the disposal of Mr. Moody for
ihe continuation of Miss Marlin’s edu
cation.
The Jolly murder is still the absorb
ing topic of interest at Decatur, la.
The general opinion in that section is
that Weaver was also con eraed in the
murder of Victaria Norris, and it is
probable that he will be indicted by
the next grand jury.
The Bt. Lawrence Presbytery, in
connection with the Southern Presby
terian Church of Texas, has passed
resolutions condemning Che use of
tobacco by ministers, and directing thr
Committee on Education not to recom
mend any candidate for help in his
education who uses it.
At Newbern, N. C., J. L. Rheen
planted a crop of peas on the Ist of Feb
ruary and finished gatherir gtbeproduct
on the 20th of April. He then cut the
vines from forty-fire acres, and cured
them for forage, and on the evening of
April 80 had the ground planted in
cotton.
The principal plank in the platform
of the Rev. Jeflerson Washington, col
ored, independent candidate for Con
gress in the Fifth Georgia District, is
thus stated by him:, “f am opposed to
having our children gobbled up by there
medicated etudent*, and I’m bound to
stop it.”
AT Argenta, Ark.,an immense cotton
seed oil mill is to be erected immedi
ately by Memphis and Little Rock capi
talists. They will also erect a powerful
cotton compress, the presa costing $30,-
000, and having a pressure of twenty
five hundred tons to the inch—capable
of reducing a bale of cotton to six and
a haif inches.
A gentleman passing a colored
school at Toccoa, Ga., saw a number of
little chaps playing in the bushes—as if
they were hunting for aome one, using
sticks tor guns, when he casually asked
them what they were doing, and re
ceived the reply : “Weis playin’rev’-
uue men hunting for lieker.”
The ovangelis's Moody and Sankey
passed through Indian Territory last
week, and while at Muscogee in tbe
Cieek nation, Mr. Moody arranged to
receive ten Indian girls from that ns
tion, for whom ho will provide free
(location a* the Young Ladies’ Semi
nary established by him at Northficld,
Mass.
The colored Republicans of Misds
oippi demand that Blanche K. Bruce,
now a United States Senator from that
State, shall have the second place on the
Grant tieket. Bruce is a colored man
of limited education, a native of V r
ginia, and a Misiissippi planter since
the war His term of service as Senator
will expire next March.
A newspaper in Georgia says that if
the fanners of that State would devote
less ot their energies to the raising of
cotton and give more attention to the
cultivation of sugar-cane, rire, arrow
root, the tea plant, wine-growing, and
the production of early fruits, vegeta
bles and melons for the Northern mar
ket, they would be much more inde
pendent and happy.
A Force of men stationed by the
United States Bureau of Internal Rev
enue in Fanni, Union, Towns and Rabun
Counties, Ga., to break up the illicit
distilleries in those counties and to
bring the offenders to trial, is being paid
$5,600 a month. These men look upon
their occupation as a “ fat job,” and
will hardly apply for a discharge until
the appropriation runß out.
At the office of the Commissioner of
Immigration for Florida, were rec ived
ou Saturday two letters which were
somewhat unique as to the requests con
tained in them. One was from a Greek
firm in London, which wanted a cargo
of orange-wood sticks, and the other
from a gentleman in Kentucky who
wished u water monkey forwarded to
him.
The season for elopements has begun
in Virginia. In that State such events
arc much more likely to occur during
ihe cheap excursions in summer to
Washington City and the North. In
deed, Washington is regarded as a sort
of national Gretna Green, in many of
these cases no cruel parents interpose
any objections to the match, but the
hypothetical elopement was adopted
with a view of economy. It saved a
wedding outfit and entettaiwents that
usually follow marriages.
The Richmond (Va.) State attributes
the failure of foreign immigrants to
settle in the South to ths presenre of
the negro as an important element of
the population of (hit section. On the
other hand the Richmond Whig says:
“Prujudice against the negro is indige
nous only to the soil they inhabit, and
it is especially noticeable that the im
migrant clasH of foreigners when they
first come among us know little or noth
ing of such distinctions until they have
imbibed it from accociation with our
selves. ’’
It is likely that a Congressional Com
mittee will be appointed to visit North
ern Georgia and North Carolina this
summer to make a thorough investiga
tion of the charges that have recently
been made in regard to the lawless, re
bellions, cut-throat “ moonshine” popu
lation raid to exist in that section.
These charges are now believed by the
Commissioners of Internal Revenue to
he false to a great extent, and to be
slanders upon a people that are in the
main peaceable and law-abiding.
Gieeley and Long Writers.
Congdon says: When Mr, E. C.
Stedman, who was then a inijcli younger
writer than he now is, and by no means
so well known, offered his poem about
“Lager Bier, I remember that Mr.
Greeley was much pleased with it,
which was the more remarkable because
he probably did not know the taste, even
if lie knew the smell, of the mild tipple
which Mr. Stedman celebrated so melo
diously. He called out from his den
that the poem reminded him of Thack
eray's ballad of “Bouille liaise”—a re
mark worth repeating, not because Mr.
Htedman’s poem is particularly like Mr.
Thackeray’s, but because it shows that
Mr. Greeley was familial with the great
novelist’s best tilings. '1 here was a wed
dingabout that time which created much
sensation in New York society of a cer
tain class, and which was very fully re
ported and magnified ami glorified and
commented upon in the New York
newspapers. It was called “The Dia
mond Wedding,” because the bride was
reported to have received most costly
gifts of diamonds. Mr. Stedman came
forward with a light satire upon fashion
able frivolities and unequal matches,
which was printed. The young bard
rm-aiit no harm, but he nearly involved
the newspaper into a libel suit for which
there was not the least possible reason,
and himself in a duel with the irate
papa of the bride, which would have
teen more unreasonable still. A las I
this was a great many years ago, but 1
remember that we had no end of fun out
of it at the time. I cordially bear testi
mony to the fact that Mr. Stedman was
much pluckier about the matter than he
would probably he in a like affair just
now, since years have brought him mul
tiplied responsibilities, a literary reputa
tion well worth nursing, and, if he w ; ll
pardon me for saying so, just a little
more of the commodity called and known
as common sense.
A benevoi.ent Detroit dentist an
nounces that on a certain day he would
pull teeth free for poor persons and pro
vide laughinz gas. He used 700 gallons
of gas and extracted 271 teeth.
J. L. DENNIS. Editor.
SI.OO II Yciir.
Terrible Scene In a Theater.
A torriblc scene took place in the
Tontru del l irco at Miulriu a fow days
ago During tlio pcifunnatice a mi’<l>
limn forced his way into (lie house,
armed with a hatchet, and contrived to
c lmb from the nuditorium upon the
stage, where, brandishing his weapon
furiously, he announced himself to tire
terrified audience as "the Avenger of
Mankind.’ 1 Upon one of the lUteiidants
approaching hi,a with the object of per
suading him to withdraw from the stago
he smote the unfortunate man to tlio
eartli with one deadly blow; and ho
managed to keep the police off, when
they attempted to arrest him, by whirl
ing his hatchet round his head with such
force and swiftness that noiio of tlio
• agent* of authority ’ dared to rush in
upon him. I resently, however, a party
of soldiers made its appearance in liu
theater, under tlio command of an of
ficer, who Bummo .cd the raging maniac
to give up his weapon and surrender
himself, but in vain; whereupon the
detachment received orders to fire at
him with hla. k cartridge, in the liopo
of frightening him in to submission. Ail
tliis while ho was yelling at the top of
his voice, flotirislii. g his hatchet, ami
threatening to kill any body who should
approach him. Recognising the impos
sibility of overpowering him without
risking tlie soldiers' lives, tlio officer ia
command gave the order to load with
lull and file upon him. A minute inter
the wretched man lay a corpse upon the
stage, three bullets having passed
through his head; and, this liighly-scn
natioiial dramatic episode having been
thus brought to a close, the audience re
returned to their places, from which
they had (led in terror when the madman
made his first and last appearance upon
the stage,und the evening's perfoi n uees
were resumed ut the point at which they
had been interiupted by ‘ Mankind s
Avenger.”— Loiulun Telegraph.
Heat on Bnlldlng-Stoiie.
The powers of the various kinds ol
building-stone to resist pressure and at
mospheric influences are well known,
hut there scarcely over occurs an exten
sive fire which (loos not emphasize the
need of better information ns to the
effect of heat upon stone. Tiffs need
Hiram A. Cutting, .State Geologist of
Vermont, lias undertaken lo supply by
n scries of experiments, tlio first result
of which is to confirm mid give exact
ness to the general impression that gran
ite is a poor hentrregistcr, and the second
to show that there is wide choice—even
in granito ■in this respect, lie tested
twenty two specimens of the host known
quarries, and found that while all were
unaffected by the 500° of heat, damage
usually began at 600°, was serious and
frequent at 800°, and nt I,ooo°, all the
specimens wero ruined, the stone from
Mount Desert standing the test, perhaps
better than any other. Ho gives it ns
his opinion that tlio effect of water on
heated granite is rather apparent than
real. The importance of this informa
tion is very great, especially to builders
and insurers. In spite of these hints,
this favorite stono will probably con
tinue to be used in “fire-proof” build
ings, and possibly without serious dan
ger, if it is only used in very solid walls,
hut to use it in buildings supporting
columns, especially within the walls, is
only to invite the gutting of the whole
interior of tho building if a fire should
break out.
.1 Learned Compositor.
George W Corom n Utica composi
tor, who has been making his legs his
compasses and seeing the world, writes
to the Obierver: “iam succeeding very
nicely at the Khedive's printing office,
and have been paid for my ten days'
work in March, 885 piasters or S2O. I
have frequently a chance to see the
American and European newspapers,
and find them very good company. 'I he
banking system here is done on the re
verse principle tlroy charge the deposi
tor a per ceniage for keeping his money.
The matter which I have to ‘ set up ’ in
the composing room is rnost'y in the
French and Italian languages, and I
have become pretty familiar with the
work, in the office a number of lan
guages are used promiscuously French,
Italian, and Arabic, but very little Eng
lish. 'ihe Arabic is much more gul’eral
than the others, and each of the charac
ters represent sounds as in ihort-hand.
The other day we experienced a hurri
cane, the first blow of the hot, dry wind
from the desert called the Kharriscne.
This generally occurs at the beginning
of summer. The sight of its effects hero
was very striking. Suddenly the gale,
laden with fine, yellow sand, swept
through the city. The streets, narrow,
dirty, and dotted with mild holes, were
thronged with people of every descrip
tion and nation, carriages, carts, camels,
donkevs, goats ami clogs. They pre
sented a lively appearance as they hur
ried in every direction, their movements
accompanied by the slamming of doors
and blinds, breaking of glass, etc. As I
walk about the city wearing my turban,
I am generally taken for a Turk or
Greek, and so escape many of tiie beg
gars arid their pleas for buckshcesh a
gift of money.”
A Success r oI Pioneer.
An old Elmirian writes to the Adver
tiser from Kansas as follows: 1 have
been in the West twenty-five years, and
do not know that I am any more liable
to be blown up here than the editor of
the Advertiser is in his sanctum. 1 have
been in Kansas six years, the grasshopper
year included, and have made enough
during that brief period here, so that
men who have lived ali their lives in
Chemung County, and are now the old
men there, and have delayed and slaved
all their lives among the stumps and
stones for a precious living, cannot to
day buy out my last five years’ accumu
lations. And I can point the editor to
young men, literally within a stone's
throw of Elmira, who to-day are work
ing hard on the best farms there are
there, and who are barely making a
living from hand to mouth; and who if
they were here, could put themselves on
abasis at once to grow up with the
country, and become ihrifty and inde
pendent farmers within the next five
years.
PASSING SMILES.
A LOW story--the basement.
Dead issue*-old newspapers.
The -home stretch putting up a
clothes line.
Authors are spoken of as dwelling in
attics, because so few of them are able
to live on their first story
• Like on the •Tain*,'' a book just
out won’t lie mucl of a success Only
six Indians killed in -he first chapter.
In reading tlio personals and depar
tuies in the newspapers one discovers
that distinguished visitors, like loose
powder, go off with a puff.
When a Georgina man gets too weak
to split a watermelon ope'n with an ax,
his relatives begin to look around and
see what’s tlio best they can do on a head
stono.
“ What,” says an inquisitive young
Indy, “is the most popular color for a
bride.” We may be a little particular
in such matters, but we should prefer a
white one.
Ik Bismarck insists on hi* re-ignation,
tlio Emperor William knows our address.
Up two flights of Stairs, and knock at
the right-hand door. Don't kick the
panels.- -Jiurdette.
Very red-haired passenger-" I *ay,
guard vhy on earth don’t your train
go on? ’ Guard—" Good gracious, *irl
put your bend in; how cun you expect
to go on while the danger signal is out?’
“ 1 know a victim to tobacco,” said a
lecturer, “who hasn’t tasted food for
thirty years.” “How do you know he
hasn’t,?’’ asked an auditor. “Because
tobacco killed him in 1850,” was the
repiy.
Over five gallons of castor oil have
been used in oiling tlio skates of the
Hartford rink. Wo are thankful that a
now line of industry has opened to the
dreadful stuff.— Danbujry A euis.
He—“ Why, you see, the fact is, my
dear, I knocked your medieval teapot
off the top shelf and broke—” She—
“Oh, my prophetic soul 1 My teapot?’
He (bitterly)—" No. Merely my head! ’
“Bee, mammal’ exclaimed a litt’e
one, as puss, with arching spine and ele
vated rudder, strutted around the table,
“ Bee, kitty’s cat so much she can't shut
her tail down.”
Heavy swell—(to a customer of the
house) —“I think 1 have seen you before;
your face seems very familiar to me”
Customer —"Very likely, sir, 1 was long
a sherifl’s officer. (Gent collapses.)
A German traveler in Africa charac
terizes a people ho came across as “ in
tensely black, dolichocephalic and
p atyrnine, prognathu*. dicliotomatic
aid dolichodactylic.” We have seen u
mail knocked down for less than that.
A vouno man who plunged into the
water and rescued a maiden who had
sunk to the river bottom, was rewarded
by her hand. She couldn’t doubt his
affection; she knew he wus ready to dive
for her.
Emerson says everything good in
man leans on something higher. Emer
son is right. We have seen a man lean
on a telegraph pole, and the only good
in him wus beer. At least he said it
was good.
” llvre, John, don’t eat thou#* crackers up,”
Said she with n hatilul snap; •
*• Thay’re aorne I nv#*d on purpose
To nut in the huhy’n pap.”
” Wall,” uid John, edging lor the dooi,
And rrnrliliitf for Ida lint,
” What make* you o crosa about it, then?
Ain’t I the tmhy’a pup?”
“Fancy Farmer” asks: “How do you
keep weeds out of your garden? ’ Bless
your soul, we don't! We tried havingu
band-organ play “Pinafore” to them,
hut us they still kept on growing, we
concluded that it was best to go fishing
and let <hom grow.
WIIKN tlio Intolloclual lypo Isn't direful,
lon’t careful,
Ot tho I-Md's voluntary elerer rhyme,
_ , Clorer rhyme.
Ho Id pretty aura to act them up moot fearful,
Moat feaiful,
Fora printer’ll wotk lioccilpltd hy time,
’Pied by time.
A man out West obtained a divorce
from his wife, and married again within
three days after the decree was granted.
An IriHinan commenting on the man’s
action, remarked: “ Bedad, he couldn’t
have had much rpspect for his first wife,
to he marryin’ again so soon after lavin’
her.”
Hk whs a little lawyer man,
Who meekly bhifJied while he l>egan
Her poor dead hunbuntl Twill to <aa
He nulled while thinking of hi* l*
Then Mid to her, so Umderly,
” You haro a nice fat legacy.”
And when he lay next day In bed,
With planters on hla broken head,
He wondered what on earth he’d aaid.
Colonel Ingerroll says he doesn’t
hoc “ how it is possible for a man to die
worth *5,000,000 or $10,000,000 in a city
full of want.” Nor do we. Editors
should club together and resolve not to
die worth $5,000,000 or $10,000,000.
Wc would rather not dio at all than to
leave this world worth that much maney.
—Morrittovm Herald.
A War Anecdote.
During the late war General Mcßaws,
now postmaster at Savannah, was riding
down liis picket line, and encountered a
genuine son of the Old Pine Tree State
on duty, who had taken his gun apart,
with the intentionof giving ita thorough
cleaning. The General halted in front
of him, when the following conversation
insued:
“ laxik here, man, are you not a senti
nel on duty 7”
“ Well, y-a-s, a bit of one!”
“ Don’t you know its wrong to take
your gun apart while on duty?”
“ Well, now. who the deuce are you?"
The General saw his chance, and with
a sly twinkle of the eye, replied: “I’ma
bit if a General.”
“ Well, Gineral, you must excuse me.
You see th ir is so many blamed fools
rirliu’ ’round here a feller can’t tell who’s
Gineral and who ain’t. If you’ll jist
wait till I git Petsy Jane fixed I will
give you a bit of a s'lute.”
The General smiled and rode on, firmly
convinced that that sentinel would prove
cuual to any emergency. Savannah
News.
The Darwin Jerk.
Anew method of saluting ladies on
the street lias lately been adopted by the
nobbiestswcllgentlcmen of tenderyears.
It is done in one time and four motions.
The hat, by a right hand grasp, i-> lifted
from tiie head, brought forward on a
line wi li the nose and then suddenly
lowered to the pit of the stomach, then,
as sudden y, the hat is returned to its
place, following the same angular route.
The head, at ’he same time, must be
bobbed forward about three inches, and
immediately sprung back to its natural
position. The’beauty and perfection of
this salution depends u;>on the rapidity
of the cxecu:ion of its movements. It
is known as the ‘Darwin jerk,” because
hand-organ monkeys put on and take of!
their little caps with ihe same celerity of
moti n _
Fustic is yellow dye-wood got from •
tree which grows in South America and
West Indies, and is used for dyeing
cloths and yarn which have first been
dyed blue, which the fustic changes to
green.