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THE HAMILTON JODRNAL HAMILTON, GEOBGIA g J? (.OSS 11“ FOB THE LADIES. ■>w —jpgr "l. * 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. —r ' 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^/ H V'TK,-. , ■ < $ > X .y -—a-.—- 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,. ■ r-i ; w 'g-i-Hf -ft-Dr- *? '■ 9 U 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. A - j or. />Buar anjffor beaffc-Bruin and hi ifiim nei. W- E 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.