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THE HAMILTON JODRNAL
HAMILTON, GEOBGIA
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(.OSS 11“ FOB THE LADIES.
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ITlnrry a UcullvmAß.
Marry a KrntleniMi,
Uirla, It you can,
Grntlr ami t"Tiil<'r,
Tliongli no lea" a man ]
Olft; who will treaaure
Ilia child nr hla wife,
HoorutUK to rob them
Of awcetTiraa in If a.
Onn who *lll never
'l'lie brute’* part amume,
F.lltiu< hi" liouaelc Jd
With ■nrrew and Klonro.
It on love’a alter
'ftia flu,nr you can fan.
Marry a RmUcinan,
Olrih, If you can.
Sou will tm liaimy,
And you wil Ila- glad,
Though hr only
Ur otiiuninuly cla.l;
rinarure ia tirotlnK,
And life hut a "pun —
Marry a tnirrtemiui,
Girl", if you iau.
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Mlin Knoira ft.
A woman always knows when she is
pretty. Isn’t it strange that she never
knows when she is the other tiling V We
eiin all put nj> with a good (leal of sim
pering non sense from a pretty girl, lmt
a homely damsel must deport herself
with straight - laced deoorum or she
makes herself ridiculous. Perhaps it is
unfair, but the world w ill have it so, and
it stands an inoxorablo law.
A 111 me* Novel Petition for Illvorce.
Ladies can wax wondrously grandilo
quentwhon in the mind. A Kentuckian
victim of man’s inconstancy thus sets
forth lier plaint in a petition for di
vorce :
“Dark clouds of discord began to
lower over the sky of wedded felicity,
and tlie minacious lightning of disunion
began to dart its lurid flames across
gloomy clouds of atramental blackness,
obscuring every star of hope and happi
ness, whose resplendent glory illumi
nated the dawn of the first few brief
years ot her wedded life, when she gave
her hand and an undivided heart to the
defendant, who, in the sultry month of
July, 1871), after having been warmly
and snugly wintered within the fond
embraces of her loving arms, and olosely
nestled to a heart that beat alone fur
the defendant, allowed his base, black
ingratitude by abandoning her without
cause whatever, except the insatiable
thirst for novelty, w hich is „the predom
inant character of defendant’s nature.’’
A lloaton A nil* Widow
The young ladies of Boston formed nu
Anti-Widow League, and the following
is a copy of a petition sent to tlio Gov
ernor of Mnflsjw'Uuaotto:
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF ALL THE MAIDH
WHOSE NAMES ABB UNDEKYV ItITTHN.
WheroaH we, the humble' iNtitionerH,
are at present in a very molanoholy dis
position of mind, considering how all
the bachelors aro blindly captivated by
widowH, and our owu youtliful eliunns
tlieroby uoglectod; iu uousequemo of
this, our request is that your Excellency
will for the future order that no willow
prwsiuua to many any young man till
the maids are provided for; i>r else to
to pay each of them a line for satisfac
tion tier invailing our lilierties, and like
wise a line to lx* levied on all such
bachelors as shall be married to widows.
The great disadvantage it is td us maids
is that the widows, by their forward car
riage, do snap up the young men ; and
have the vanity to flunk their merit be
yond ours, which is a great inrpositipu
on us, who ought to have the preference.
This is humbly recommended to your
Excellency's consideration, and htipe you
will permit no fnrther insults. And we
maids, in duty bound, will ever pray.
Knlorprluiiiir Women.
Given energy and perseverance, and
eveh women fina no diilieulty in gaining
a livelihood in our crowded cuties. Four
orphan girls wlio wishoil to educate an
only brother, not many months ago came
to the city in search of bread and butter.
They took a house iu the business part
of the oity ; U>ok what loanlei t hey
could aocoimnoilate, but made day*
Is tarding a specialty. They opened two
parlors which were for a dining-room.
They ore carpeted, draped, picture,
hung and made generally refined, and
ficople like to go to them. The tables
are arranged with the most scrupulous
neatness. The linen is ,dainty aud al
wnvsf'fresh; flie silver is bright f the de
tails in every respeet are those of a ro
tiued home. The meals are not elabo
rate but everything is excellent of its
kind, perfectly cooked and perfectly
served. With the nid of one servant
these four young women manage their
establishment. In dainty, white-ruffled
aprons they solve the guests at their
tnlrie in a graceful, lady dike wav that
attracts people. They have placed
their ybiuiger brother in a good school ;
they are making a comfortable support,
and have their own pleasant home alto
geUiov. Now when women am attain
to this manner of common sense in their
lives, which is quite as needful as “com
mon sense in the household,” we shall
not see “ thirty highly educated yoUtig
Indies ” advertised in the morning pc*
pers. at a loss to know what going to
become of them.
Unmil Waists and Consiiuiptiou.
The mania for small waists has been
the premature death of thousands upon ,
thousandsof the fairest and must prom
ising young ladies, before they had time
to learn of the dangers they were invit- ■
ing by follow ing tire examples of those
who teach by tlmir practice that they
prefer conformity to the requirements of
peryerted Uvstje to the exemption fnoiu
the penalties of being out of slnqH' in
the sense of thqso who exorcise no jiulg- |
incut in regurd to this important matter. ,
Fa voivd, as many robust women are,
with a tint organization in other re
speohs, they can live out a long life iu
comparative health and comfort; but
they are few compared to the vast num
ber who fall short and die liofore they
have attained all they might have hud
on earth. The first or topmost rib on
either side, just mirier the collar lame,
is sliort, thin and sharp on its inner cur
vature. ft has no motion, being a brace
Imtween the dorsal column and the
breast bone. It is immovable for the
purpose of protecting large; arteries and
veins belonging to the arms on either
side of the nook. In cases where the
chest has lmen manipulated till the
lungs cannot expand downward they are
forced above that rib. Rising and fall
ing above and below that rib level, the
lolw chafes and frets against the resist
ing curvature. It is inflamed it last,
and the organ becomes diseased.
ff that chafing is not relieved, but in
each respiration the serous Covering of
the lung is irritated continually, the
inflammation is apt to extend quite into
the body of the organ, increased and in
tensified by exciting emotions, labori
ous pursuits, or unfavorable exposures.
Finally, the mucous lining of the air
cells within the lung sympathises and
becomes inflamed also. In this connec
tion we may truce the commencement
of pulmonary consumption. It would
be denominated sporadic, and widely
different from pulmonary diseases by in
heritance. Consumption is not only de
yeloped by tight lacing, but caused in
many cases, where the original con
formation of the individual was favora
ble for a comparative long life, is be
yond question. Medications cannot
stuy tlie onward march of disorganiza
tion when ulcerations eat the tissues.
Once destroyed, they can never be re
produced. Therefore, if prevention is
better than cure, less expensive, and
always more agreeable, why not profit
by these suggestions? No compression
of tlie base of the chests of men being
induced by tight dressing, a dialing of
the iqiper surface of the lung rarely oc
curs w ith them. Great men, giants in
anv department of busy life—those' who
make the world conscious of their in
fluence—those who quicken tliouhgt,
revolutionize public sentiment and leave
the impression of their genius in tlie
history of the age in which they flourish,
were not the sons of gaunt mothers
whose waists resemble tlie middle of an
hour glass.
Women.
I have always remarked that women,
in all countries, aro civil and obliging,
tender and humane ; that they are ever
inclined to be gay and cheerful, timor
ous and modest; and that they do not
hesitate, like men, to perform a gener
ous action. Not haughty, not arrogant,
not supercilious, they aro full of courtesy
and fond of society; more liable, in gen
eral, to err than man, but, iu general,
also, more virtuous, and performing
more good actions than he. To a woman,
whether civilized or savage, I never ad
dressed myself in the language of de
ceqcy and friendship, without receiving
a decent aud friendly answer. With
men it has often been otherwise. In
wandering over the barren plains of in
hospitable Denmark, through honest
Sweden and frozen Lapland, rude and
churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia,
and the wide-spread regions of the
wandering Tartar ; if hungry, dry, cold,
wet or sick, the women have ever been
friendly to me, and uniformly so. And,
to add to tips virtue, so worthy the ap
jadistlon of benevolence, their actions
have been performed in so free and kind
a manner that if 1 was dry, I drank the
sweetest^ draught, and if hungry, I ate
the uoamoet morsel with a double relish.
— Ru-Jhmtjfti f , • ‘
The Cain el on His Native Heath.
And now heaves in sight the unchanged
quintessence of Orientalism-there is
our first camel, a camel in use, iu his
native setting and not in a menagerie.
There is a line of them, loaded with
building-stones, w earily shambling along.
'Hid long tended neek apes humility,
but the supercilious nose in the air ex
presses perfect contempt for all modern
life. The contrast of this haughty
“stuek-up-ativeness” (it is neeessa ry to
coin this word to express the camel s
ancient conceit) with the royal ugliness
tjf the brute, is both awe-inspiring aiul
amusing. No human royal family dare
be uglier than the camel. Ho is a mass
of bones, faded tufts, humps, lumps,
splay-joints and callosities. His tail is a
ridiculous wisp, and a failure as an orna
ment or a fly-brush. His feet are simply
llg sponges. For skin hoveling he has
latches of old buffalo robes, faded and
with the hair worn off. His voice is
more disagreeable than his appearance.
With a reputation for patience, he is
snappish and vindictive. His endurance
is*over-rated that is to say he dies like
a sheep on n expedition of any length,
if he is not well fed. His gait mores
every muscle like the ague. Aud yet
this ungainly creature carries his head
ill t he'air. aud regards the w orld out of
his grot*; brown eyes with disdain. The
sphinx is not. ipmv placid. He reminds
me, I don’t know why. of a pyramid.
He has a resemblance to a palm-tree.
It is impossible to make an Egyptian
pic i are without him. What a Haps burg
lip lie has! Ancient royal? The very
pel so of his head says plainly, “T have
come out of the dim past, before history
was; the deluge did not touch me; I saw
Metres come and go; 1 helped Shoofoo
build the great pyramid: l knew Egypt
when it hadn't an obelisk nor a temple;
1 watched the slow building of the pyra
mid at Sakkura. Did I not transport
the fathers of yournu-e across the desert?
There are three of ns; the date-palm, the
pviiuuid, and nivself. Everytbiim else
is modern. Go to:’ —Caries Dcd'e^/
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Fading Out.
A gouiletnun in eon versa; ion with
Jerp Black said : “ The lines between
inxnlgiou and tile formerly accepted
Christianity are fading out.” “Yes,”
answered the great jurist, “and the nice
distinctions between right and wrong
are fading out with them.”
Esquimaux Carpentry.
The builder selects snow of the proper
consistency by sounding a drift with a
cane made for the purpose, of reindeer
horn, straightened by steaming, and
worked down to alarnt half an inch in
diameter, with a ferule of walrus tusk or
the tooth of a l>ear on the bottom. By
thrusting this into the (mow he can tell
whether the layers deposited by succes
sive winds are separated by bands of
soft snow, which would cause the blocks
to break. When the snow is selected he
digs a pit to the depth of eighteen inches
or two feet, or about the length of tlie
snow block. He then steps into the pit
and proceeds to out out the blocks by
first cutting down at the ends of the pit
und then at tlie bottom afterward, cut
ting a little channel about an inch or two
deep, making the thiekneSs of the pro
jKised block.
Now comes tlie part that requires
practice to accomplish successfully.
The expert will, with a few thrusts of his
knife in just the right places, split off
tlie snow-block ami lift it carefully out
to await removal to its position on the
wall. The tyro will almost inevitably
break the block into two or three pieces
utterly unfit for the use of the builder.
When two men are building an igloo,
one cuts the blocks and the other erects
the wall. When sufficient blocks have
been cut out to commence work with,
the builder marks with his eye or per
haps draws a line w ith his knife describ
ing the circumference of the building,
usually a circle about ten or twelve feet
in diameter, The first row of blocks is
then arranged, the blocks placed so as
to incline inward and resting against
each other at the ends, thus affording
mutual support. When this row is com
pleted, the builder cuts away tlio first
and second blocks, slanting in from
the ground upward, so that tlie second
tier, resting upon the first row, can be
continued on and around spirally, and
by gradually increasing the inward slant
a perfect dome is constructed of such
strength that .the builder can lie flat
upon the outside while chinking tlie
interstices between the blocks. The
chinking is, however, usually done by
women and children as the building
progresses, and additional protection
secured from tlie winds in very cold
weather by banking up, with a large
wooden snow-shovel, the snow at the base
often being piled to the depth of three
or four feet. This makes the igloo per
fectly impervious to the wind in the
most tempestuous weather. When the
house is completed the builders are
w alled iu. Then a small hole about two
feet square is cut in the wall on the
side away from where the entrance is to
lie located and is used to pass in the
lamps and bedding. It is then w alled
up and tlie regular door cut about tw o
feet liigli and niched at tlie top. It
would bring bad luok to carry the bed
ding into the igloo by the same door it
would be taken out. Before the door is
opened the bed is constructed of snow
blocks, and made from one to three or
four feet high, and occupies three
fourths of the entire space. The higher
the bed and the lower the door the
warmer the igloo will he.—Frosa an
Arctic Explorer's Reminiscences.
Arc Your Closets Ventilated]
There is nothing so handy in a house
as an abundance of large, roomy closets;
lmt because they are handy and extreme
ly useful they are apt to be abused.
There are many things which, as a mat
ter of course, are always put into a closet,
of which the of outward wearing
apparel make a large part. There aro
always things which ought not to go
into the closet, i. e.,n closet adjoining or
closely connected with a living or sleep
ing room. Of such are all soiled under
garments, the wash clothes, which
should be putinfo a Iftrge hag for the
purpose, or a roomy basket,: and then
placed in the wash-room or some other
well-airedroru at some distance from
the family. Having thus excluded one
of the fertile sources of had oders in
closets, the next point is to see that the
closets are properly ventilated. It mat
ters not how clean the clothing in the
closet may hit Aliy garment after be
ing worn for a while will absorb uigre or
less of the exhalations which arise from
the body, aud thus contain an amount of
foreign—it may be hurtful— l matter
which free circulation of pure- ah’ ouu
soon remove; but if this is excluded, ffs
iu many close closets, the elHuvia in
creases. and the clothes eloeets and ad
joining rooms in time possess an odor
that any acute sense df smellwill readily
detect. Every closet in daily Use in
which the night clothes areliungDvday
and the day clothing by night, should
have an airing as wBU as the bed. If
the closet can be large enough to admit
of. a window—and it is in some cases—
an ample provision for sunlight and the
circulation of pure air is provided in the
window, which should be left open for a
short timo each day. In the ease of
small closets a ventilator could be put
Over the door or even iu it. In many
eases sueh precautions for pure clothing
are not practicable, and the next-best
thing is. to see that the door of the
closet is loft o(K*n for a half hour or so
each day at that time when the window s
are thrown up aud the large room is
purified with fresh, air from out of doors.
In this way, first; by keeping out clothes
intended for the wash. aud second, daily
changing of the aii*j the closets may be
kept comparatively pure.
Florida is an illustration of wluit can
be done to aid the prosperity of a State
where a systematic effort is made for that
purpose. Soon after the close of the
war special effort was ‘made to advertise
the advantages of soil, climate and pro
ducts of fliut State, and the result is an
increase of GO per yent. in Mto mpulation
in ten years. Therl is no State or lo
cality in the i'umqhut w hat lias some
interest or advai flag*- fur .some purpose,
and a carefully prepared description of
such advantages will l>c sure to bring its
returns, _
Ben Mildwecd’s Idea.
A man named Ben Mildweed walked
into the office of a Justice of the Peace,
in Little Rock*. aud. ta.kiim off an pld
slouch N. add nisi-• i CTe digniftl* of
ficial : H I © B
“Are you the cfirt?T
“I aui. What w yojtt trouble?” Beni
betrayed igitatuili in fti®. nervous mour
ner with which he fingered his old hat.
“Jedge, Nancy, my gal, hez bin run
ning around with two or three men lately,
and hez caused me a heap of oneasi
ness.’’
“Come to the point, Mr. Mildweed,"
suggested tlie court,. ~
4 ‘You hear my story t Jeuga, bin sot
in my ways, and I’ll get tlnif quicker by
running mv own furrow’ down tills patch
of trouble.”
Thu Justice settled li*sf#et comfortably
on tire table, and l(PVk,ed, resignedly at
Mr. Mildweed, who continued:
“Nancy is the purtiest calich in Riche
woods, and we hez Hitched for three
ye’rs, not spliced, you know, but waitin’
for mu to buy a little home. The men
down to the settlement are jealous, be-,
cause Nancy sot up to me, and they hang
’round like blackbirds'in a corn-patch.”
lien hitched np-his pants and sceniNVre*
luctant to continue. “Now, Nancy is a
good gal, and’her Hack eyes has fotehed
me, like churnin' fotehes l miter, an’ she
ken make me a good nuui|or- a bad man
for her sake. But, Jedge, she knows it,
and laughs ahil carried on with Bill Peters
when I’m ’round. She goes to cahip*
meetin’ whth. Hez Kpilkin*, v.’hen I have,
tohl her a hundred time# that lie was a,
low-flung fellow, and she aggravates me
tqrriblp.
“Come to theypomt, Ben,” said the
Court impatiently, lifting one leg Over
the other.
“I’m gettin’ thar, your honor. Now,
old Uncle Marsh Turner iuid I have
talked this matter over, and tyo, the*
Nancy hesu’t any attachment’ for me.
Thetlike to broke my hearty Jedge, I’ll
swow it did. Hes UnclW Marsh, ‘Ben’
ses he, ‘hev you got an attachment fer,
Nancy?’ ‘Yes, Uncle Marsh,’ ses I,
‘most powerful,’ ‘Hez she fer you?’, ses
he. ‘l’m dubious, unylcj’ _ses I. ‘Ben,’
ses he, solemnly, ‘of she Gfin’t luv you
with her whole hart, (Trap Tier like a hot
cake. Ef she hesu't aiV attachthOnt fer
you tliet is strong, and true, and honest,
drap lier. You’ll be mis able, boy. I’m
an old man, Ben, ami when, I sees a
young man liev an attachment fer a gal,
and she liesn’t fer him as strong, I says,
to myself, they is foolish. They hadn’t
ought to splice.’ ”
“Your honor,” continued Mr. Mild
weed, “arter Uncle Marsh ses all this to
me, I goes oft' and thinks. I concludes
that he is right, and now I lipv come to
tlie point. I saddled the old brown mare,
and put some bacon and corn-bread in
tlie saddle-bags, and stalled fer Little
Rock. I comes straight to you, Jedge,
and I want you to make out an attach
ment fer Nancy to me. I knows that tlie
courts can make attachments, and I don't
care what it costs. Jest you make out
the papers, and I’ll make the old brown,
mare do some of the tallest traveling
gettin’ back to Nancy thet you ever saw.
Well, why don’t you begin, Jedge?”
‘•‘The courts don’t make love attach
ments ” said tlie Court, taking its legs
from the tabid. 7 .
“I don’t care wlmt ft costs, Jedge.”
“You have had a long trip for nothing,
Ben; it cant be done.”
Ben pulled 14j> hat over,his eyes, wiped
a trickling drop, .from his cheek, and
walked slowly toward the door, mutter
‘ingt
“I’ll go liev the brown mare fed and
study about it. I thought as how the
court niought have done it,” and then he
stepped from the Justice’s door as if Nan
cy was lost to him forever. —Littlc. Hock
Gazette,.
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Analogies in Nature.
The ooooanut is, in many respects,
like the human skull, although it closely
resembles the skull of the monkey. A
sponge may be'so held As to remind one
of the unfleshed face Of the skeleton, atftl
the meat of an English walnnt is al
most the .-exact representation of tne
brain.
Blums and black cherries resemble the
human eyes; almonds and some other
nuts resemble tlie different Varieties
of the human nose, and an open oyster
ami its .shell are a perfect image of the
human ear.
the shape of almost auy man’s body
may be found in the various kinds ot
mammoth pumpkins. The open hand
may be discerned in the form assumed by
scrub-willows and growing celery.
The German turnip and the egg-plant
resemble the human heart. Tliere are
other striking resemblances between
human organs and certain vegetable
forms. Tne forms of many mechanical
contrivances in common use may be
traced back to the patterns furnished by
nature. Thus, the hog suggested the
plow; the butterfly, the ordinary hinge;
the toad-stool, tlie umbrella ; the duck,
the ship ; the fungous 'growth on trees,
the bracket. Any one desirous of prov
ing the oneness of the earthly system
will find the resemblances in nature an
amusing study, to say the least.
A ojiHWWJBOCS chalk, which flip natives
corves iuto grotesque figures of. men and
animals,'occurs on the Polynesian islands
of New Britain and New Ireland (about
latitude four degrees south, longitude
130 degrees east), and some specimens
have been sent to Englaud by the Rev.
G. Brown, a Wesleyan missionary to that
region. “The chalk of which the fig
ures are formed.” he writes “is, I am in
formed. found only on the beech after
an earthquake, being cast up there in
large pieces by the tidal wave; aud only,
so far as we know at present, in one dis
trict on the east side of New Ireland.”
An analysis, made at Xewcastle-on-Tyne,
shows that the substance is not as pure
a limestone aa ordinary white chalk.
PITH AND POINT.
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/>Buar anjffor beaffc-Bruin and hi ifiim
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A HonixMf cost —the cost of a penny
whistle. |
i Garni) schnapps are appreciated by
Dutchmen.
Firemen, as well as other people, like
to talk of their old flames.
“I WOW.D like to-die to-night,” pens
a poet, for onoe coming into sympathy
with the people. , . y*‘
, Actomh ha vie 'to face the music—that
,h>, m,uaic ef and soma
cf it is very bud.
fi Wehl,, wifi;, you can’t say I eve*
contracted bad habits.” “ No, sir; you
generally expanded them.’*
“What I wants ter know,” said an,
Arkansas school-board official, “is how
a river’s motif is gwine ter be bigger dan,
TTeTiea<r T '7 '
A man whip Is as true‘as steel, possess
ing an iron will, some gold and a fair
proportion of brass, should be able to
endure thelisrdw are of this world.
“Why don’t England sit down on
Ireland?” asks an exchange. For the
some reason a man with a boil don’t
care to sit down on it too carelessly.—
Galveston yen's.
A PhiTjA'DETjI'HIA quack informs the
pnblft? that lie is not exclusive : “If a
patient w ants it gentle and mild I’m a
homeopath, and when anybody wants
plunder and lightning I’m an ullopath.”
Greedy grocer (to farmer’s wife who
is supplying him with butter)— “ This
nun’ o’ better is ower liclit, gudewife.”
Guriewife—“ Blam<* yersel’, then ; I
weighed it wi’ the,, pun’o’ sugar I gat
frae ye yestreen. '*
“ What have you been drinking or
eating ?” exclaimed liis wife, as he re
turned late at night. “ Liquor isli!” lie
responded, and then he winked at liim
* self in the dark, and breathed thin till
■ she got asleep.
“ Why don’t you put the tooth-picks
on the table ?” asKea a guest at a Gal
veston hotel, after he had finished liis
dinner. ’ “Because, after yon used one
yesterday,' you didn’t put it back in the
saucer,” responded the new waiter.—
Galveston News.
The late liev. Dr. Symington, not
feeling well one Sunday morning, said
to his beadle who was a “ character: ”
“ Man Robert, I wish you would preach
for mo to-day.” “I canna do that,”
promptly replied Robert; “but I often
pray for you. ”
A ‘Cleveland boy was asked by his
teacher if he did not “ want to be an
angel and with the angels stand.” Said
the boy; “I would rather stand here
until after Christmas, and see if Santa
Claus does not bring me a top and a
new sled.”
A brioht little girl was urging her
mother to go up stairs and hear her say
lier prayers before retiring. Her mother,,
not finding it convenient, told lier that
Jesus could hear it just as well. “ But,
mother,” replied the little doubter,
“Jesus can’t turn off the gas.”
A cute little 5-year-old, whose par
ents were comiActedv. with the Presby
terian church, said: “Mamma, was
( Christ a Jew?” “Yes, dear,” replied
the mother. “Well, that’s strange,,
how, isn’t it, mamma, when his father,
God, was a Presbyterian ? ”
“Man alive,” exclaimed the Judge, in
a heated discussion of a tangled theo
logical point with his friend, “I tell
you, you are a free agent. You do not
have to obey auy one. ” “ Yes, ” said Mr.
Goodinan, meekly, “ but I do though.”
“ Who?” shouted the Judge. “ Who?”
“My wife, her 4 two sisters, and the
hr.by, ” howled the good man, meekly
triumphant.
The Diet Fiend.
There is the man who has made up his*
mind to keep his health good by eating
the right sort of food id proper quantities
aud with the right kind of mastication.
Resolution sits upon his brow, his eyes
turn scornfully upon his fellow meu and
he deliberately and with malice
thought sits With superbly folded arms
in the restaurant, painfully working his
mouth, as if he were a type of Samp
son's celebrated jawbone .engaged in the
duty of .slaying.!! bit .of h.l'ywn bread.
He becomes a nuisance to his landlady,
or his wife; he buys fish, Which he eats
for his brains, and struggles in the morn
ing with harsh ‘Cfl.tfM.eal aud pour baked
apples', chewing, eheWing, chewing,
while casting contemptuous glances
around si pon tlie disgusted people who
axe not so good and are not going to be
so healthy as lie is to be. He even turns
his toes out, abhors butter, and walks
on the side oi the street which is the
healthiest. His children receive no
candy, and his wife only receives a scold
ing because she does not live up to the
laws of health. He beeomcs pale, fretful
and morose, and says of a healthy man,
•“He lives for his stomach,” while he is
dying for his.— New York Herald.
The Worship of the Drum.
A writer in a contemporary speaks of
the extensive prevalence at one time of
the worship of the drum or rattle. Sav
age s>eople, have a singular tendency to
veneqite vnjatevoijnakes a noise. The
great seat'of drum worship was South
America. Even at the present day it is
found in full vitality m the interior of
Brazil; but a‘hundred y£nrs ago it 6ould
be said that “the drum was the only ob
ject of worship from the Orinoco to the
La Plata. ” This is two-thirds of South
America, and, as it is more than proba
ble that Patagonia should be added too,
this would make the area of the practice
nearly co-equal with that of the conti
nent. In former times drum worship
also prevailed iu Lapland.