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VOLUME XI. NUMBER 18.
THE PEOPHET WIGGINS.
ATTRIBUTED TO HIMSELF.
11! take up the biz of the weather to scan,
Anil Raya I to myself, says I,
lurn Says out I a deeply prophetic young man,
I’ll to myself, says 1;
Then study the meteorological charts.
bid alt tbo ships in the harbors and
marls
Tie up, for the fun there will be in these
parts— I
Says to myself, says I.
Tit fiml ii.
me a storm in the lands of the East,
That :t Say3 level 1 to myself, says 1.
the trees, lash tho waves into
yeast, Says
I to myself, says I;
t il pet up a regular howling cyclone,
Not Vennor’s, nor Hazen’s, but my bloody
Ill own,
make the whole universe tremble and
groan—
Says I to myself, says I.
ni.
For I am the Wipe-inn, a prophet forlorn.
I neb Says I to myself, says I;
r have known fame since the day 1 war
lorn.
But Says I to myself, says I:
now to my zenith I’ll rise with a swoop.
And great is the honor I’ll get for my
When * scoop,”
the 11th comes In with a rush and n
whoop- myself,
Says I to says I.
IV.
The t mid will Hoe Into holes in the ground.
And Wiggins’ Says X to myself, says I,
name ’mid the caverns will
sound,
When Says 1 to myself, says 1.
lightning- shall pierce the dread sul¬
And phurous gloom.
old Mother Shirtton sits up in her tomb.
Why, Iheu is the time that the Wiggins will
bo< >m—
Rays I to myself, says I
v.
I’ve fixed for a tide in the Bay of Beiig-dl,
days I to myself, says I.
So Gloucester sailors will look for a squall,
Rays I to myself, says I;
Wh ir every poor mortal that daily (loth dwell
Beneath the g-reat forty-and-fil'th parallel,
Will lind some storm-center to raise “ quite a
spoil,’’
Says I to myself, says l.
VI.
So, now wo shall see if those Washinsrt m
chaps, Says I myself, I,
to says
Who issue the r bulletins, (meases and maps
Can size Saj’s I to myseT, says I, forecast
up a storm such as I have
That won’t leave a sad, or a spar or a mast.
That bond to the breeze before it is passed
Rays I io myself, says 1.
VII.
You ask how it is that I yet on its track,
the Rays I to mvself, says I,
By twinge of my corn and the crick in my
back.
Rays I to myself, says I;
These are tho signs, and I ligure them out.
It’s lucid as mud, and no room for a doubt,
Excuse me, O! Vennor, excuse if I shout,
Says I to myself, says I.
BV ANOTHER.
There was a vntn prophet named Wtgyiris,
Who posed ns ihc seer of (ho “digspns;”
Raid he t > himself:
“ f wilt rest on the shelf,
M seems a cold day for poor Wlsriflns.”
THE TRUMPETER’S HORSE.
I was nearly forty years of age, and
felt myself so safely anchored in the
peaceable haven of a bachelor’s life that
nothing coni l induce me to run the
risk I had of reckoned disturbing without it by marriage. the trumpeter’s But
horse.
It was at the end of September, 18G4,
that I arrived at Paris trom Baden, in¬
tending only to remain four-an '-twenty
hours. 1 had inv ted four or live tiriends
to join me in Poitou for the hunting sea¬
son, and as they were to arrive at the
beginning of October I had only al¬
lowed myself a week at La Roche Targe
to prepare for their reception. A letter
from home awaited my arrival at Paris,
briuging me the disastrous intelligence
that out of twelve horses five had
fallen fll or lame during my stay af
Baden, so that I was under the ne es
s ty of remounting my cavalry before I
le; t Paris.
I made the round of all the deal¬
ers of the Oiiamps Ely sees, where the 1 was
shown a colie t on of screws, aver¬
age price of which was tl20, but I was
neither in a humor nor in cash to throw
away my money upon such useless
beasts, it was a Wednesday, the da
of Cheri’s autumn sale; i went to t e
Hue de l’onthieu and purchased at a
venture eight li uses which cost me al¬
together ,1200. “Out of the eight,”
said I to myself, “there will he surely
four or five which w 11 go.”
Among th se horses there was one
■which.I confess,I bought j,r ncipaliy on
account of his coat. The cataiogu • did
not assign him to any special qualifica¬
tions as a hunter. All that ii st itcd
well-broken.” was: “Brutus, It a saddle-horse, large, dapple- aged,
was a
gray horse, but never had I seen one
betier marked, its smooth, white skin
dappled over with tine black spots, so
regularl, The d stributed. left La Roche
ne t morning I for
Targe, arrived. and tiie following day for my Brutus. horses
' y first care \va
This : ray horse had been running for
the and last I forty-eight anxious hours his in my head, end
was to try J’e paces
see what he was ood for. had long
teeth, and every mark of a respectable ed
age. a powerful shoulder and he arr
h?s head well: but what I n:o-t admired
iu Brunts was the way in which lie
looked at me, f«l owing every move
ment with his attentive, intelligent, word seemed in¬
quisitive eye. l ien mv
to interest him- lie leaned his hea ! on
one side as i to hear me, and when I
had finished speak other ng rep.ied with horses a
merrv neigh. The seven
were broil" ht out to me in succe sion,
but they resembled any other horses,
and Brutus certainly was different from
them all. I was anxious to take a little
Tide in the country in or er to make his
ae Njaintance. allowed himself be sadd'ed.
BriTi' to
bridled and mounted as a horse who
knew his work, and we started quietly
together, the best friends possible. He
had a beautiful mouth, and answered
to everv turn of the rein —arch u / his
neck and champing his bit. Hi paces
were erfect He began by a s ow,
mea-ored canter, raising his fe-t very
high and letting them fall w,th the
regularity ot a pendulum. I tr.ed him
at'a trot and a short gallop, b t when I
sought to quicken his race he began to
am be in ; rand style. ‘ Ah said 1;
I see how it is: 1 have bought an old
hor e o t of the ca valry riding school at
Haumur.” homeward.
I was ab ut to turn -.'Uis
fied with the talent- of Brutus, when a
^;hot was heard a short distance o . It
wi.= one of my keepers bring at a rab¬
bit. for which ^hot be it s.-u l.en passant,
he a’ter, ards rece ved a hand- me
present fro n my wife 1 was then ex¬
actly in the i enter of an open space
where six long, green roads me-. On
hear ng the shot ru us stopped short
end pu. his ears iorward m au attitude
yf iia tanlng I VTM SUTprASd to sea aim
Hamilton T H n \1.N 1 L — /
so impressionable. After the brilliant
military received education I assumed lie had
in his youth, ho must he ac¬
customed to the report of a gun. I
pressed move’ my knees against him to make
him on, but Brutus would not
stir. 1 tried to back him, to make him
turn to the right or to the left, but in
vain. I made him feel my whip, but
still he was : mmo, able. Brutus was
not to be displaced: and yet—do not
smile, for mine is a true history—each
time I urged him to move the horse
turned his head round expressive and gazed of impa¬ upon
me with an eye
tience and surpriseand then relapsed
into his motionless attitude. There was
evidently so ne misunderstanding 1 a
tween mo and my horse. saw it in
his eyes. Brutus was saying as “1, plainly
as do he could without speech: d horse¬ horse,
what I ought to do a you.
man, do not perform your part.” rassed
1 was more pu zled than embai
“What a strange horse (fieri had sold
me! and why does be look upon me in
such a way?” I was about to proceed
to extremeties and administer to him a
good thrashing when another shot was
tired.
The horse t lion made one bound, i
thought 1 had gained my point and
again tried to start him. but in vain.
He stopped short and planted himse.f
more resolutely than ever. I then eu'ered got
into a rage and took my riding-whip both hand- and
struck into play: the I it right in and left. But
horse
Brutus, loo, lost patiem e. and, find ug
p ssive resistance unavailing, defended
himself by rearing, kicking and plung¬
ing, and, in tho midst of the bait’ e,
while the horse capered and kicked,
and I, exasperated, was flogging h m
with the loaded butt end of my broken
whip, Brutus, nevertheless, found t me
to look at me, not only with impatience
and surprise, but with rage and indig¬
nation. While I required of the iior-e
the obedience he refused, he, on his
part, was expecting of me something I
did not do.
How did this end? To my shaine’-e
it spoken, I was relentlessly and d s
gracefully notlvng unseated. Brutus saw there
w s to be gained by violence,
so judged it necessary to employ mal¬
ice, After a moment’s pause, evi eutiy
passed his il in and reflection, stood upright tho horse put his down
he on lore
legs with the address andequilibriu of
a clown upon his hands. 1 was, conse¬
quently. deposited upon the sand,
which, thick fortunately, place happened where I fell. to be rath¬
er n the
I t ried to raise myself, but I cried out
an 1 fell stretched w.th my face towards
the ground. 1 fell, as if a knife we e
sticking in nr, left leg. The hurt did
not, prove serious—tho snapping of oho
of llie small tendons—but not the less
painful. I succeeded, however, in turn¬
ing myself, and sat down; hut while I
was with rubbing sand, I my eyes, the which great were foot li of led
saw a
horse descend gently upon my head and
again extend disheartened, me on my back. I then
leit unite and was riim’nal
ing in my mind what this s range horse
could be, when 1 felt a quant ity of sa id
strike me in the face. J opened my
e\ e- anil saw Brutus throwing up the
dii t with both fore and hind feet, try¬
ing to bury me. This lasted terse eral
minutes, wh interred,Brutus n, apparently thinking knelt by me
sufficiently de¬ mv
grave and then galloped around I called me,
scribing a perfect circle. out
to him to stop. He appeared to be em¬
barrassed; but seeing my hat, which
had been separated from me in tho fall,
he took it between his teeth and galloped of
dp i n one of the green paths out
sight. left alone. I shook off tho sand
i was
whi h covered me and with my arm and
right log—my leit I could not move —
dragged my self to a bushy hank, where
i seated myself an i shouted with all
mv might for a sistau e. But no an¬
swer; the wood was perfectly silent and
deserted.
I remained alone in this wretched
condition above half an hour, when r
saw Brutus in the distance, returning
by the same road by which he went,
enveloped in a cloud of dust. Gradu¬
ally, as it cleared away, i saw a little
carriage approaching—a pony i-liai -<• —
and in the pony chaise a lady, who
drove it, with a small groom in the seat
behind.
A few instants after Brutus arrived
covered with foam. He stopped before
me, let fall mv hat at his feet, and ad¬
dressed me with a neigh, as much as to
say: “I have done my duty: I have
brought you help.” But 1 did and not bis
trouble myself about Brutus
explanations; 1 had no thought or looks
sa e for the beautiful fairy who had
tome to mv aid, an I wh". jumping
from her little carriage, tripped exclama¬ lightly
up to mo, and suddenly two
tions were littered at the same moment:
“Madame lie Noriolis!”
“Monsieur de la Roche Targe!” whom
1 have an aunt bet ween and
myself mv marrying is a source of con¬
tinual disp te. would
“ Marry. will not,” ” she saw
“ I was my answer.
“Would you have a young lady?
There is Miss A, Miss B. Miss C.
“But I won’t marrv.”
• • Then take a widow: there are Mrs.
‘‘But marey I wiii note
Mme. de Noriolis was a v a; s ihe
first rank among my aunt s widows, io
te], me she wa rich, lively ami pretty
was unnecessary, but. ; fter sm-n tort!, ;
all her attractions, my aunt would ake
from her secretar a map of the d , ct
<he lived and point out fur•. e
estate - of Noriolis and La Ko-he Tar e
joined, and she had traced a red line
'upon the man ste unit constantly ng the obliged n-.o v-rorc- to !
ties, which m
oos t. “Ei-ht hundred acres win
a .ing fence! A fine chance fora ,p- r -
man.” But I would shut mv e es . •
repeat befo e: “I will never marrv ”
as
Yet, seriously speaking, I wa, afraid of
Mme. de Noholis, and always s w mv j
h<-a encircle t with n aureole of her ,
aunt’- red line Charming, sensible, wit'-I- :
t lented ’fence” and eio-ht hundred '-re
in a rin Escape io • cur-ab ty I
if you will not marry
An I I always did e»c<pe. but this
time retreat was impossible, i lay
fenced on the turf, covered with -and,
my hair in disorder, nr clothes in t t
te s nd my leg stiff. !
What a r e we doing here?” aired
Mine <io Noiioiia. ■•Wh .t 1, .- i.ap- i
pens a.'
1 candidly confessed I had been
thro n.
“ But you are not, hurt?”
“No, but 1 have put something out
in my leg-nothing serious, 1 am
sure. ”
“And where is the horse which has
played you this trick?”
“I pointed out Brutus, vho ivas
quietly broom. grazing upon the shoots of a
“How! it is him, the good horse!
lie has amply repaired his wrongs, as
1 will relate to you later. But you must
go homo directly.”
“llo.v? I can not move a step.”
“But I am going to drive you home,
at the risk of i om remising you.”
And calling her little groom. Bob, sho
led me gently bv one arm while Bob
took tiie other, and made me get into
tho carriage. Five minutes afterwards
wo were moving she in the direction of La
Roche Targe, holding the reins and
driving the pony with a light hand. I
looking at her, . onmseil, embarrassed,
stupid, ridiculous. Bob was charged to
lead back Brutus.
said ••Extend your do Noriolis, leg quite “and straight,” I will
Mine,
drive you very gently to avoid jolting.”
When she saw mo comfortably installed,
“Toll me,” she said, “how you were
thrown, and I will explain how 1 came
to your assistance.”
I began the story, but when ! spoke
of the efforts of Bratus to unseat, m*
after the two shot S, "1 undcrst.iml it
all.” she i .claimed: “you have bought
the “The trumpeter’s trumpeter’s horse.” horse?”
“ Yes, that explains it all. You have
seen many scenes in the Cirque de
l’Imperatrice, the performance of the
trumpeter's horse. A Chasseur d’ Afriquo
enters the arena upon a gray horse;
then comes tho Arabs, who fire upon
him, and ho is wounded and falls; and,
as you did not fall, the horse, indignant
at your not performing vour part in the
piece, threw you down. What did lie
do next?”
I related the little attempt of Brutus
to bury Exactly me. like the trumpeter’s horse.
“
He sees his master wounded; but the
Arabs may return and kill him, so what
does the horse do? He buries him and
gallops off, carrying away tho co’ors
that they may not fall into the hands of
the Arabs.”
“That is myhatwliich Brutus carried
off.”
“Precisely. I Io goes to fetch tho
vivandiere—the vivamtiere to-day being
vour humble servant, the Countess do
Noriolis. Your great gray horse gal¬
loped into my court-yard, whore I was
standing on the doorsteps putting on
my gloves and ready to get into my
carriage. My grooms, with seeing a horse
saddled and brid’ed a bat in bis
mouth and wihout a rider, tried to
catch him, but bo escaped their purm t,
goes straight up t he steps and kneels
before me. Tho men aga n try to capt¬
ure him, but be gallops off stops at the
gate, turns round and looks at me; so I
jumped mto my carriage and set o
Tho horse darts through roads not al¬
ways adapted for carriages, but; I follow
him and arrive where 1 lind you.”
At the moment Mrne. de No Vis had
finished 1 heso words the carrii.e re¬
ceived a fearful jolt and \vc saw in the
air the bead of '• r t , who w S stand¬
ing e ect on his hind legs bob nd i s.
Peeing the little b ck seat of the ar
riage ntenant d. lie had taken lie op¬
portunity of giving i s ano her speci
nic of his talents, by executing the most
brilliant of all his circus peri'or feet an es.
He. had placed the his little fore carriage, upon and the
I ack seat of was
tranquilly continuing his route trot¬
ting i poll his bind legs alone, ob
striving iu vain Noriolis to replace him frightened upon 'our.
Mme. de was so
that she let th - reins e-cape fro i li r
hands and sunk fainting in n y ar s.
Wi ii niy left hand I recovered the reins,
with my rigid aval I su ported M in-, d -
Norolis, frightful my legal the time causing tin
most tort, ire.
In this manner Mm . de Noriolis m do
her firs' entry into La Hoe' e I Targe.
When she return d six weeks ter -lie
had become in .’ wife.
“ Knell, indeed is life,” she ex
el -i ued. ' This wo -Id i ever to,v -come
to pa s if you li \d no' bought th tr imp
II r’s liors -.”
A New Commandment.
In the seventeenth century the minis
tor of a certain parish in Scotland was
the famous Samuel Rutherford, the re
ligious oracle of the Covenanters and
their adherents. It is among the tiadi
turns that on a Saturday evening, when at. ono
of tin -family gatherings, Luther
fold was catechising bis children and
a< 1 vants, a strange v knocked at the door
and begged slid or for the. night. Jin
minister isindly received him, and asked
him to take tus piace with the .family
and assist, at their religious exercises.
It so happened that the question in
tin cate'chism which came to the strnn
ger was that which asks; “How many
comiuaudim.-nt.s ,.re there ; He an
BWered, “Eleven. “Eleven ! ex
claimed Rutherford. “Iam surprised
that a man of vour age and appearance
“ ="Ift « « < A new
^ ™ SS.J ft ’ I It,to.’
tliat yn aIfao il)V , OJie another.’”
W(tK rnUi;h impressed by the an¬
a ,„l thev retired to rest. The next
through j,e threaded Ids way to
chnrf . h - the thicket, he heard
i , j( .. {tj , 0 „ t r, r
at , <«™*lons. - , - r . vrit; , .
*.« , e 1
sentiments convinced him that it whs no
common man, ami, on accosting bun,
the traveb-r rent.-ssed that lie was no
other than the great dmne, Aid,bishop Churc.i
Imht-r, the Primate oi the of
Ireland, Who wOl fulfilled that new <: m
mandment which he bore toothers. He
\* was who nad come m msgiuse to s-c
Rutnerford in the privacy of ins own
home. S <lo by side church,-nd they pursued from thcr
way to tiie little tic
rustic pulpit the Archbishop preached
to the people from the words which itad
so startled his host the evening before ;
“A new commandment I give .”—Literary unto you,
that ye love one another
Notes.
At the ball: Grace (whispering)—
« What lovely boots y. nr partner’s got,
urv.” M-uy (ditto]—“ Yea, iinforUi
nateiy he shines at the wrong end.”
HAMILTON, GEORGIA, MAY 4, 1883.
The Way to Bo If.
In 1871 a farmer bought 400 acres of
reputed poor land in Glynn county,
Ga., and poor land there is poor land
indeed, such as California farmers
know but little, if anything, about.
Upon this land ho put 100 sheep. In
1878, by natural increase, ho had 375
ewes, and hail sent to market 75 wethers.
Ue had a portable fence and penned his
sheep nightlv, and every two nights
they manured two and a half acres well.
In the first eight years he had 100 acres
of land highly manured and In a state of
cultivation, which, when he purchased
it, was almost worthless. This man has
always kept a book accouj.it of every
dime and dollar spent upon fib sheep,
and by casting up a balance sheet after
several years found that his sheep cist,
him exactly 75 cents per annum per
head. They average him about three
and a half pounds of wool each. Last
spring lie clipped the in May clip and jVfijyounled again in
September, and lo
five at.4 a half pounds pef ad. Bast
year he sold absolute 800 pounds profit of wool, mak¬
ing an net of St,Gill.
Last year he sold 03 wethers as mutton
for if 342, making a total of $g,28!>; be¬
sides this, from 84 acres of the fertilized
poor land 41 acres in com,. averaging
31 bushels; It) in sugar-evs-U that made
50 barrels of sirup; 15 moaU, that aver¬
aged 42 bushels to the acre; besides
growing other truck. Now if a man
can take a poor piece of land ami mill
good management bring it into a high
state ot productiveness at no expense,
but on the contrary, make money all
the time lie is doing it, cannot a person
tako good land and keep it up to its
present standard? Of course it can be
done, with far less trouble than
the poor land can be brought up;
but the trouble is that when tho ordi¬
nary tiller of the soil starts on good rich
virgin soil he is prone to believe that
with ordinary cultivation it will always
remain so, and he puts fort h no efforts
to keep up the fertility of the soil, and
as his land yields attributes a little less
year by year, he the cause to
tlio season or the seed, and never for
a moment thinks that it is on account
of the constant and gradual The decline in
the fertility of the soil. proper way
to farm is to keep your land in at least
its original condition of fertility, and
this can be done with anything like
good management. Then it should be
the object and effort of every landowner
to so manage as to keep up the fertil¬
ity. A bushel of wlie.it. more to tho
aero on all the land in « beat last yoar
in the Uniteil States would have made a
difference in the aggregate crop of
about 80,000,000 bushels, and this sold
at $1.25 per bushel would have given to
received. the producers A general $100,000,000^ inci etfee more la desir¬ than
able and can be obtained.— San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle.
flow to Get Around llm World in
Twenty-four Hours.
An eccentric Berlin philosopher an¬
nounces that he has discovered a way to
make a trip around the world in t wenty
four hours. He says that he is informed
by the Captains of ships miles that Birds un¬
seen at sea a thousand or more
from land, and pronounces it self-evident
that they must reach shore in a very
short time, since they cannot, find a rest¬
ing-place in mid-ocean. From this lio
conceived the idea aloft, that they merely
raise themselves and, with only
enough motion to keep afloat, remain as
nearly stationary as possible, under while the
earth revolves around them. All
they then have to do is to wait until to j
desired spot on the earth’s surface comes
along, and thereupon solid comfortably ground. This to
lower themselves to
ingenious practice on the part of birds
the Berlin man proposes to imitate for
mankind with tho assistance of a balloon
and passenger-car of peculiar construc¬
tion that ho has invented, and which will
soar aloft and remain stationary, while
the restless earth rolls on below. It does
not appear that, he has successfully tried
atrip with his balloon himself, 1 ml, ho
1ms laid his theor.y before the Polytech¬
nic Society of Berlin, and given an elab¬
orate exposition of it. The levity, society re¬
ceived it apparently with but tho
inventor is in dead earnest.
Watering Horses.
There is a great diversity of opinion
ns to how often horses should be wateree
during a day, whether in summer or in
winter. We have an article now before
us of a writer of some distinction as an
agriculturist, who advocates frequent
watering of work horses, as a renew,-)'
of the vigor of the animals. Wee in¬
t with him. ' We think both
» 0 agree
man and beast are generally watered too in
much. Men and horses at hard work
warm weather perspire just in propor
tion to the quantity of fluids taken into
the stomach. Frequent drinking in hot
weather, according to our experience,
emasculates instead of refreshes. Home
years ago, being at Cape May, in driv
ing out in one of the stand-coaches of
the place on a very hot day, we asked the
driver how it was that his horse pel
spired so little, while the horses of pri¬
vate carriages, going at a slower replied speed,
were covered with foam. He
that he watered his horses three times a
day only, though he sponged their
drivers mouths frequently, while the private
watered their horses whenever
they stopped. He said, and it seemed
te> us very sensible, that, the frequent
watering of horses effected no good pur¬
pose, while it made them very uncom¬
fortable and lethargic. work Horses, no mat¬
ter what their w.ns, did not. need
watering oftener than throe times a day.
Our own experience wit h horses ail our
life is to the same effect.— Exchange.
Fop. articles of rubber which have be¬
come hard and brittle Dr. I’oi recommends
the following treatment, immerse the
articles iu a mixture of water of ammonia
one p irt and water two parts, for a time
varying from five minutes to an hour,
according to the circumstances of the
case. When the mixture lias aided
enough on the rublier it will be found to
have recovered all its elasticity, smootli
m ss, and softness.
—A large trade in new A merican eider
bas sprung up between New York and
Liverpool. The English article is in
ferior and b ings a less price than the
American.—& l'. Herald.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
—A bust of Robert Burns, the cost of
which lias been defrayed by small sub¬
scriptions, will be placed Abbey, in Poets’ Cor- the
a el¬ in Westminster near
memorials of his fellow' poets and coun¬
trymen, Campbell and Thomson.
—The wife and accomplice of Marin
Fenayrou, the murderer of the under druggist
Aubert, at Pocq, France, pecu¬
liarly atrocious circumstances, lias ob¬
tained permission to share her hus¬
band’s captivity in New Caledonia.
—The executioner’s tariff in the four¬
teenth century was lately discovered in
the archives at Darmstadt. For boiling
a criminal in oil the executioner re¬
ceived twenty-four florins; if the wretch
was burnt alive the feo was fourteen
florins, and ton for hanging. To break
a man on the wheel cost six florins; the
fee for the rack was live, and the same
sum was charged for branding cutting on the off
shoulder or forehead, or for
the nose and ears.
—The number of distinguished the female
violinists is so constantly on increase
that the gentlemen players of the future
One will have of the difficulty latest celebrities in holding their young own.
is a
Italian lady, Signora Tua, of whose ac¬
complishments the Berlin and Vienna
critics relate extraordinary things. Frauloin An¬
other young lady violinist is
Soldat, who has just won the great Men¬
delssohn prize of fifteen hundred marks
at the Berlin Acadoiuy. She is a pupil
of Herr Joachim.
—At a wayside inn in the south of
France is a roasting-jack moved by ani¬
mal power. Two dogs turn the machine,
working alternately. One being day tho absent, dog
whoso proper turn it was
the other was caught and put on tho
wheel. He firmly refused, however, to
work, and neither coaxing, threats nor
chastisements the produced missing any dog effect. found After
some delay tho task. After was he had
and set to
leased, nearly completed and the first the tried job again, he was and tho l’O
animal so lately recusant now offered
no opposition, and made the wheel re
volvo with finished. a hearty good will till the
roast was
—During the French invasion of Mox
ico a plant was discovered which was
found to possess crushed—of the property—when stopping hem¬
chewed or
orrhages. To the native Mexicans this
plant was known by a name which may
be rendered as “fowlwort.” The dis¬
coverer carried a specimen toVorsailles,
and planted it in 1807, and it lias since
flourished, flowered, and fruited with¬
out apparent change in its plant peculiar is
qualities. The action of this
said to exceed that valuable of all styptics is
known, and this property
likely to give i*. a wider extension, es¬
pecially as it seems to bo so readily botanical ac¬
climated in foreign lands. Its
name is Tratlescantia creota (Jacq.)
—Herr Von Bismarck bad a shoe¬
maker who had often broken faith with
him, despite his most solemn promises,
and he at leugjli resolved to put a stop
to this sort of thing. One morning dispatched at
six o’clock a messenger was
to tho dilatory shoemaker with tho sim
plo question: “Are Ilorr Von Bis¬
marck’s boots ready?” Being answered
in the negative tho mossenger departed,
but in ton minutes there was another
ring at the shop door. A second mes¬
senger thrust, in his head with the in
quiry: “Are Ilorr Von Bismarck’s boots
ready?” And so it wont on every ton
minutes, tho same question all the daj
through until evening, when at last, tho
boots Were finished. Never again did
that shoemaker keep Bismarck waiting
for his boots.
A Good Card r»r the Country Where
He Lived.
A village merchant from up tho coun¬
try had concluded bis purchases, suddenly and was
ready to go, when lie remem¬
bered something, and help said :
“I want your to bring out uu
idea. I’ve got tired of advertising after
the old fashion, and i want, to strike
something new. ’
“ Did you e ver t ry the dodge of giving
away a chromo to customers?”
“Yes. Played that out two years
ago. Folks don’t take te, chromes as
they did.”
“ Have you offered a silk apron to the
lady making the heaviest purchase at
one time ? ”
“ 1 have. Ami I had to give it to an
old woman who purchased tea.” an old ^<-d
tick and half a pound of
“ How would it do to give away, say
ten half-pound packages of tea during
the day?”
“I tried that dodge, and those who
didn’t get the tea wouldn’t trade with
me again. I’ve given away oysters, Washboards. am
dines, butter, rolling-pins,
and almost every!lung els -, and now i
must have something new. I keep ail
kinds of goods and want all kinds of
customers.
Two members of the film and the
gray-headed old fiook-keepcr went into
committee of the whole with the mer¬
chant, but he resisted every suggestion.
The “convention ” was in despair, when
the customer suddenly slapped his leg,
smiled all over, and broke out with :
“I’ve got it—biggest the draw kid shoes yet! in 1
want city—about a pair of No. finest 3’s. I’ll take ’em
this
home and advertise te, give ’em to tin
first lady customer who can wear ’em.
The catch will be token]) back the size.’
“ You won’t have ’em on your hands
long.” I? Bay, I’ve lived in
“Won’t
over forty years, and I’ll is t a silk hat
against a codfish that we haven’t got a
female above 12 years old who do sn’t
have te, tie a towel arouud her head to
get her feet into No. 5’s. Yon ought to
come up there and see the track ; in tie
sand after a smart shower. When 1
throw out my dodge and they come in
after the shoes, they’ll turn whiter than
ghosts at tin- first look, and ev. ry
blessed soul of ’t m will is* glad to take
a 3-ccnl cake of soap and keep GiU
about it.”— Wall Street N‘ <vs.
Two country fellows stop before th
window of a hat store, and view wit!
admiration a hat having a little mirror:,:
the isittom. “ Why do they put a 1 H sK *
ing-glass at. the bottom of th - ii-O ■
asked one. “ Ko til" man win, bny-.it
• eaa see whether it fits niiu,” replied th
I utiiOf,
$1. 00 A YEAR.
Cold Snaps.
“ We’ro havin' some pretty wintvish
weather,” said old Daddy Wotherspoon
to Undo Sammy Honniwell, as the Hall. two
gentlemen met near the City season.’
“ Bight for'ard weather for the
“.list, so; jist so,” conceded Undo
Sammy. “ Reminds mo of the fall of
1831. it commenced 'long the fore March. part
of November, and froze stitV till
Good, smart weather, too. 1 remember
that it was so cold in Brooklyn that
November that Idlin’ water froze over a
hot fire.”
Daddy Wotherspoon looked at him
and braced himself. “Yes, yes,” said
he, “ I mind it well. That’s tile fall the
milk lrozo in the cows. But tho cold
season was in 1827. It commenced in
the middle of October and ran through
to April, All the oil froze in the lamps,
and wo didn’t have a light until spring
set in.”
“Ay, ay,” responded Uncle Sammy,
growing rigid. “ It’s just miles like yesterday due east
to me, 1 walked 140
from Sandy Hook, on the ice, ami slid
hack, owing to the convexity of the
earth, you know. It was down hill
coinin’ this way. But that Masnt as
cold as the winter of 1S2J. That season
commenced in September, and the mer
ciuy didn’t rise a degree till May. Don i
hard, you" remember now we used hole to breath- in it,
let if freeze, cut a
anil crawl in for shelter? You haven’t
forgotten that ?”
“Not I," said Daddy Wotherspoon,
after a short pause. “Tlnil'.. the win
tel- » used to give the horses melted
lead to drink, and keep a hot lire under
’em so it, wouldn’t harden till they got it
down. But that was nothin’ h the spell
of 1817. We begun to foci it. in the lat¬
ter part of August, and she boomed
stiddy till the 3Uth of June. I got,
through the whole spell by living in an
ice-house. It was too cold to go out
doors, and 1 jist camped in nil ice
house. Yoii remember that season of
1817. That’s tho winter we wore mi¬
derail irts of Hand-paper to keep rp a
friction.”
“ Well, l should say 1 did," retorted
Uncle Mummy. “ What ! remember
1817? ’Deed Ido. That wiih the spell
when it took a steam grindstone four
days to light a match. Ay, ay! But
do you know I was uncomfortably warm
that winter ?”
“How so ?” demanded Daddy Wotb
ei'hpoon, breathing hard.
“ Rutinin’ around your ice house to
find out where you got ill. It was an
awful spell, though. How long lid it
last? From August till the 30tli of
June? 1 guess you’re right. But you
mind the snap of 1813, don’t you? It
commenced on tho 1st of July, and went
around and lapped over a week. That,
year the smoke froze in the chimneys dyna¬
and we had to blast it out with
mite. I think that was the worst we
over bad. AIJ (lie clocks froze up so ire
didn’t know the time for a year, m i]
when men used to set fire to their build
in’s ko’k to raise the rent. Yes, indeed.
I got S’3,00() a month for tour bnrnin’
Imildin’s. There was a heap of sulli rhi’
that winter, because we lived on alco¬
hol and phosphorus, till the alcohol
froze, and then we eat the brimstone
ends of matches and jumped you—” around till
they lint caught Daddy fire. Wotherspoon Kay, had tied.
The statistics were too much for him.—
The Excellence of Marriage.
Happy unions are always voluntary,
not only at tho beginning, is- but made ils long free
us life lasts. Love cannot
by a change of statutes. It cannot lx
bound or lost under any cii-ciiiuslances.
If tho State, should listen to the petitions
of those who ask that sex relations be
exempt from control, the experience of a
quarter of a century would convince the
world that the old, long-tried, question monoga- the
mic solution of tho sex is
wise one. There are evident reasons
why such a result would come. In nil
tho past emotional experiences of tho
race, it has been found iiiqiossible te,
create an intense idealization of more
than ouo subject at «ne time; and it. lias
been found, too, that when such an ideal¬
ization has been tested by knowledge and
time, it does not diminish, but deepens;
and that the effect of this long-continued
idealization is to create the best condi¬
tions of development, both for those w
exercise it, and for those toward whom
it is directed. Now. if tho best rendi¬
tions of happiness are once secured they
should bo maintained. It is not
to bring out all tho results of this mu¬
tual sex idealization The iu any short period tin,
of association. very fact that
ansoeiution is a permanent one gives it
earnestness and dignity. It would not
lie possible to extract from a luilf dozen
associations, extending over a period
twenty-five years, the same amount of
fine eliarKcter-developinent that would
come from one fortunate association last¬
ing for tho same time. When we are
once sure of the wisdom, and integrity,
and affection of some friend through
long experience, wo spend no more brnin
activity iu learning his peculiarities of
character and in adapting of ourselves and wife to
them. The association man
is rather moral and affectionai than intel¬
lectual. It is a rest, a certainty, a point
of departure for other activities. Once
settled, and safely settled, we waste no
power in readjusting the relations, but
take the fruit as it ripens, without tin
need of uprooting tho old and planting
new trees .—North Aincrh an Eevit.u;
“In my whole life,” wrote Prince
Metternich, “I have known only ten pleas ot
twelve persons with whom it was
ant to Speak /. e., who keep to the sub
le t, do not. repeat themselves, and d,.
not talk of themselves; msuwhodo not
Iisfe tot-* -ir own voice, who are culti
il i theme.Ives
vat. coou Pi not to los- la
common places; and, lastly, whop--* ■si
tact and good taste enough not to etc
v’.t,. their „wu jsrrsons above their sub
iecte.”
The father of a family saw his plum
trees desjKii leiWf their fruit. Suspect¬
ing his children, he called them all to¬
gether, and said: “One of you has stolen
my plums, and I know leaf which the is end the
guilty one, for he has a on
of his nose. ” And the guilty one had
tie naiertr, foreseen by tiie father, to
denounce himself l,y rubbing ‘He end of
his nose.
PITH AND POINT.
—An Iowa editor has a lengthy
editorial entitled “A Month of Horrors,”
and he was married only about six weeks
ago.— Toledo Sunday American.
—The Chicago underwriters want a
law limiting the height of buildings.
They say tho line must be drawn some
where in the sky.— N. 0. Picayune.
—A potato can never engage in a
prize fight for the reason that as soon
as it begins to tako off its jacket a
‘peeler’ interferes and puts out its eyes.
—When a fellow gets a letter for ilia
wife out of the post-office and ho for
gots to give it to her for a week or so,
the safest way of letting her have it is
to tie it on the end of a long fishing
pole and poke it through a window to
her.— Kentucky State Journal.
—The trjido in mean coal is slack.—
Glasgow limes. It’s a grate business
all tho same.— The Drummer. When
you fine in how did you know it would
soot?—Glasgow Times. Well, we just
thought if wo oouldn’t fire it, kindling
would.— Peck's Sun.
—“Those pies,” explained one
boarder to another at a table d'hote, as
he endeavored to relish one, “were
made for tho Saratoga races of 1875,
and were secured by the proprietor They of
this hotel at auction last autumn.
do not require mustard or vinegar.”—
Hotel Mail.
—A well-known journalist was taking
a walk one evening with his wife when
she, who is somewhat romantic and an
admirer of nature, said : “Oh, Georgy, think
just notice tho moon!” “Can’t
of it, my dear, for less than two shillings
per line,” was tho reply .—Chicago
Tribune.
—“What makes old Bulger stick out
so In front?” inquired one hoy of anoth¬
er concerning a rather corpulent, pro¬ the
trusive neighbor. “I know,” was
reply, “ ’cause l heard him toll father
last night. He says he’s been earryin’ hold
a secret a good while, an’ he can’t
it much longer.” “Shouldn’t think he
could,” rejoined the interrogator; “but
what an explosion there will be when it
doos go off."— Yonkers' Gazette.
—Dumpsoy wont hunting the other
day and took Johnny with him. They
saw a rabbit, and Dumpsey drew up
and shot. Tho oap exploded and and i there
was a long splutter, finally, down, the list as
Dumpsey took tho gun gun
went ofL When they got homo the folks
asked Johnny what luck they had had.
“Oh,” said Johnny, “papa sawn rabbit,
but his gun stammered so ho oouldn’t hit
it.”— Burlington Free Press.
—There is such a beverage made and
known as artillery punch. We are liv¬
ing witnesses to the fact that it is no
misnomer. Whnn it attacketh a man it
laycth him low and ho knoweth not
whence he coinoth or whither hogoeth. station
Like death, it knoweth no age or
in life, or, in other words, “it is no re¬
specter of persons.” it lacks respect.
There’s where the trouble is. Its work
is as quiet as the breathless working of
wizard oil. Being so full of tho subjoot
we might write a lecture on it, but will
forbear. Columbus (Ga.) Turns.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
RoMimriNd to be sneezed at—snuff
A eiti J UP husband calls his wife “green
fruit,” because she never agrees with
him.
Few men are so awkward with tools
that they cannot work a corkscrew quite
handily.
It is better to give than to receive.
This relates especially to advice and
medicine.
They say Chicago girls never find it
hard to elope. They make rone ladders
of their shoe-strings.
Theub are some men so talkative that
nothing but the toothache can make one
of them hold his jaw.
Minnie Banks, of St. Paul, kissed her
lover (114 times without stopping. Min¬
nesota liked it, anyhow.
“SriiivF. to make a said good impression lie
wherever you go.” .Tones, as
pulled his foot out of the mud.
When a man and a woman are made
one, the question “which one?” is a
bothersome one until it is nettled, as it
soon is.
It is about as difficult to convince a
burglar that the owner of the house is
afraid of him, as to convince tho house¬
holder tiiat the burglar is afraid of him.
The angel of midnight—the door woman
who opens Hie street for her bus
hind when ho is trying te, unlock the
1, ell-knob, and then lets him sleep on the
liull-floor.
When a Michigan minister is alwut to
elope with the w ife of a parishioner he
preaches a farewell sermon and exalts the
duty of patience and long suffering. troubled
Tliis sort of )k, urs oil on the
waters in advance.
Thebe is to be a club of circus men.
There will be no chairs in the club, noth¬
ing but trapezes. When they dine every¬
body will stand on his head. There will
be no stairways. The ineml s-rs will get
into the club by climbing the w aterspout
and coming down through the chimneys.
A REi.ioiouH tract, called “ Put Not
Your Trust in Princes,” was thrown into
the saloon of a simple old Ger¬
man. He read the title, and solilo¬
quized: “Veil, I don’d put some drust
in Brinccs. Dey must pay der cash in
dis shop clinst der same as a vite mans.”
Iron and Coni in Utah.
While everybody is aware of the vast
wealth of tiie Rocky-mountain the minerals of region in
gold and silver, indeed, greater
intrinsic value, and those, with¬
out which it would be impossible to mine
and smelt the precious metals, have at¬
tracted but little attention. We learn
through the Hullrtin of the Vrnerican
Iron and Bteel Association, Philadelphia,
which is good authority, that Utah recent will
dLscoveiies iu the south of
ultimately prove a source of immense
Wealth. It reports the discovery and
exploration of twenty-eight- mountains,
made entirely of magnetic and specular to
ir.ui ores, yielding from fifty-two
sixty-seven ]*er cent of metalie iron.
The smallest of these mountains is larger
than Iron Mountain in Missouri. Large
la ds of both anthracite and bituminous
coal were discovered in the same region.