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VOLUME XL NUMBER 23.
(HI'.SI’MTS.
Dawn in the orchard, all the day, .r.
The apples ripened and dropped away;
Tawny, Tilling and yellow, and red they fell,
the air with a spicy smeiL
But the sturdy chestnuts over the hill
Guarded their prickly caskets still,
And laughed in scorn at the wind and rain,
Beating their burly limbs in vain.
‘ Hush said the frost; “If you’ll hold your breath
Till hill and valley are still as death,
I vvi 1 whisper a spell that shall open wide
The caskets green where the treasures hide.
Over the roofs of b the sleeping town,
n\er the hillsides ire and brown:
Field and meadow and wood were crossed
By the shining trail of the silver frost.
riose He breathed at the door of each guarded wonderful cell spell,
the words or liis
And the bristling lances turned aside
And every portal opened wide.
ITj) sprang the wind with a 1 md “ Hoi Hr*!”
And scattered treasures to and fro;
And the children shouted, “ Come away!
There id sport in the chestnut woods to-day.”
How lo Mind a Baby.
First a man must have one to fake
care of. It isn’t every one that is fori,
unate enough to have one, and when he
does his wife is always wanting to and run
over has to the neighbor’s five minutes, Sometimes
he to attend to the oftener baby. she
she caresses him, and of savs, the
sternly, child “John, take good care to
till I return.” You want re¬
monstrate, while tlio awful but cannot pluck is up courage
female eye upon you;
so you prudently refrain, and merely dear.” re¬
mark: “Don’t stay long, my
She is scarcely out of sight when the
luckless babe opens its eyes, and its
mouth also, and emits a yell which
causes the cat 10 bounce out of the door
as if something had stung it. You tim¬
idly an lift the elierub, and sing an and operatic yells
, n uudb uui -rnreciate it,
the louder. You try to bribe it with a
bit of sugar; not a bit of use, it spits it
out. You got wratliy and shake it. It
stops a second, and you venture an
other, when, good heavens! it sets up
such a roar that the passers-by look up
in astonishment. You feel desperate;
your hair stands on end and the perspira¬
tion oozes out of every pore as the ago¬
nizing thought comes over you, what if
the luckless child should have a fit 1
You try baby talk; but “litty, litty
lamby” has uo effect—for it stretches as
if a red-hot poker had been laid upon
its spine, and still it yells. You are
afraid the neighbors will be alarmed,
and give it your gold watch as a last re¬
source, j ust in time to save your whis¬
kers; though it throws down a handful
of your cherished mustaches to take ilia
watch, and you thankfully find an easy
chair to rest you r aching limbs, when down
comes that costly watch upon the floor,
and the cause of all the trouble breaks
into an teeth ear-splitting and roar, and you set
your prepare to administer
personal chastisement, when in rushes
snatches the happy woman known as your wife,
up the long-suffering child
down, from your stills willing by arms, and, sitting
it magic, while you gaze
mournfully at the remains of and, your uttering wat th
and cherished mustachfi
a malediction on nubykind in general,
and on the image of its father in partic¬
ular, vow never to take care of the baby
again—until the next time
Ingenious But Ineffectual.
In Illinois some gentlemen had a most
elaborate plan for obtaining drinks.
They formed ail association for the
avowed friendship, purpose and of promoting such-like temper¬ virtues.
ance, associates already the
One of the was
happy possessor of a dramshop; the as¬
sociation bought him out, hoek, stock,
and barrel; then—for he was a jolly good
fellow—-they elected him to the honor¬
able and onerous position of treasurer,
and left him in charge of tho old shop.
So anxious were the promoters to extend
the benign benefits of temperance and
friendship that the doors of their society
were thrown open to any and to all who
were willing to pay the nominal fee of
one dollar. lu token of payment of the
fee the member received a ticket upon
which were the numbers from one to
twenty inclusive. When moved by one
of the
“Reasons why men drink;
Good wine, a friend, because I’m dry,
Or lest I should be by and by,
Or any other reason why,”
the member called upon the treasurer,
presented his ticket, had a number
punched, aud received liis liquor or his
cigar. The treasurer took all the money,
gave no account to the others, and
bought all the drinkables and smokables.
The court was so prejudiced, the enlightening narrow¬
minded, and opposed to and friendship
influences of temperance
that it considered the whole affair a
fraud and a device to evade the law, and
that tho treasurer was guilty of unlaw¬
fully selling intoxicating liquor.
In one establishment whenever a cus¬
tomer purchased a cigarette ho was
handsomely treated to a glass of whisky.
The court (knowing perhaps from such per¬
sonal experience the cost of ar¬
ticles, or having had evidence thereof
submitted) considered that the transac¬
tion was a sale of the whisky as well as
of the cigarette, and acted accordingly.—
R. V. Rogers, j"n., in Albany Law
Journal.
Solemn Suggestions.
When a man sits down suddenly hi an
icy mass of slush, laugh heartily. estecir.l (M
course he sits down for your
edification.
If you have no influence yourself, will toll
tout superiors you have none. It
lelieve your mind, at least, if your hear
era do set you down as a foreign speci¬
men of disgruntled nothingness.
When you pass a lady on the stn.et,
turn around and watch her till si-- - hall
a block away. By doing so you will di ¬
cover whether she turns around to look
at you or not.
M Pen you are driving, never road give
more than one-fourth of the to
those you may meet driving in th ■ p
posite direction—especially if you h ve
a lumber wagon and meet nothing but
light buggies. public meeting until all
Never go to a
the business has been dispose j
of. Then, just before adjournment, you
can step in, object to everything, .did a'm d
and vilify those who came *'as-;
ail the work, and your mime will V
handed down to posterity—as a prbUe
ipr '.. aLifjn
Hamilton r- -y ■ . %J±. I -XTXJJ-JI k £ v<- i? 9
The Girl Opposite.
The editor of the Philadelphia Times
lias been flirting with “the girl opposite” his
and gives his readers the benefit of
experience in a lengthy article:
“It is a wise and merciful dispensation is
of nature that there nearly dweller always in the a
girl opposite. Possibly a might hit
proverbial vast wilderness
upon an exception to this fav-reacliing
rule; but the chances are just as he was
thinking how dismal it was that lie had
come at last to a region where no girl
opposite was to bo found he would see
the ‘savage woman’ out of Locksley Hall
peeping at him from among the bushes
«>:i the other side of the stream—and
then the usual flirtation with the look¬
ing-glass would begin. For the flirta¬
tion always does begin with a looking
glass, and so, after all, the self-alleged
inventor of lieliograpliy is only a base
copyist. Millions is but a thin shallow
sort of a word to express the number of
men who have at one time or another in
their lives been subject to. the will of the
giri opposite, and who have regulated and
their personal affairs—their comings
goings—not by the requirements of then
professions, but by the eccentric stand¬
ard of her disappearance and visibility.
Why, did governments impose burdens upon ami men
one-tenths part of the in¬
conveniences which they'willingly world would boar
for the girl opposite, the be
more or less swimming in the sea of i ev¬
olutionary blood ju'etty much all the
time! These assertions Have are not mnc| e
rashly nor careless)v. much you over
stopped to calcula* e “ 0 ''" Hme - T , ou
have fooled away ii making love to i l;, 10
girl opposite; that is to e *7> die
girls opposite to whom J’ 0 ' 1 ' fiade
A d . .
love in stopped your life to think long? hoY “ f V A >.ings >' ou
ever
there are in this world that I 011 "ould
sacrifice so much time to for st? S1 ’aall a
result? We say “fooling” aw# time
advisedly. If flirting with the girl op
posite .ever led to the inevitable marry¬
ing that in the long run every fellow
must attencf to, then it would l>e a reas¬
onable thing to do. Rut it never does,
never. You marry some other girl, and
the girl marries some other fellow, and
the whole performance is just a sheer
waste of time. And yet, after all, worse
ways than this is have been invented.
Even if you do marry and go to live in
Dan, and the girl marries and goes to
live in Beersheba and you never lay eyes
on each other again or hear a word about
each other to the very end of your sev¬
eral days, yet, somehow, you have al¬
ways a little soft spot in your heart as
you remember her standing there framed
in the window, like the pretty picture
that she was—‘reproof on her lips, but a
smile in her eye,’ and simply irresistible,
aud you cannot help believing that down
Beersheba-way all there is somebody good who
remembers about it, and feels a
deal the same way you do. Truly, the
girl opposite is a good deal of m-mc,
but the time to- legislating indeed.” her out of
0 q;„<, n.is not yet come. No
BITS 0F~INE0RMATI0N.
The national debt of Great Britain is
nearly double that of the United States.
Upon an average four gallons of milk
produce sixteen ounces of butter. The
best butter is produced from cows fed in
rich natural meadows.
The following is the production and
export of wheat for the four decennial
years mentioned:
Product 1(.». Export.
la.'iO................... .100,483,044 71)2,76S
into.................. 4,155,1.7;!
1870.................. , .200,140,000 .44,7'.) 1,215
18s-,0.................. .443,756,630 153,369,63'
“Amende honorable inflicted ” was in France a punish¬
ment formerly offender given on
great offenders. The was
over to the common hangman, his shir!
was torn off, a rope was placed around
his neck .and a wax light in the hand.
He was conducted into the e; nrt and
compelled to ask pardon for his mis¬
deeds.
The following is a list of the Treasur¬
ers of the United States, with the dates
of their appointment and their terms ol
service:
Samuel UereSith... .1789iJobu S.ohii-...... ...1850
Thomas N. Tucker.. .1801'Samuel Casey..... ...1853
M. Nonree (art. int)..1838|W. C. l’riee...... ...1881
Win. Clark..... 1828! Francis E. Spinner ...1801
Jolin Campbell. 1830 j JohnC New...... 1875
Wm. .Selden.... 184’ James Oiilillan. .. ..1877
The phrase “ dead as a herring” may
be traced to the fact that the herring is
an extremely delicate fish, and whenev¬
er it is taken out of the water, even
though it seems to have no hurt, it gives and
a squeal and immediately immediately expires, back
though it he thrown
into the water it never recovers.
Halcyon days is the name given by
the ancients tothe seven days which pre¬
cede and the seven days which follow the
shortest days of the year. There is a
fable that, during this time, while the
kingfisher, or halcyon bird, is breeding,
there were no storms at sea. Hence Hit
term “halcyon aud tranquillity. days” means peace,
calmness
The origin of the slang expression,
“ I’ll cook your goose for you,” is this :
King Eric, of Sweden, coming with inhab¬ a
few troops to a certain town, the
itants, in contemptuous defiance, hung
out a goose for him to attack. But Erie
being in earnest, the citizens sent her¬
alds to ask what he wanted. ‘ ‘ To cook
your goose for you,” was the facetious
reply.
The greatest painters, in order, were
Raphael, Michael Angelo, Corregio,
Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Guido, Ru¬
bens, Rembrandt, Vandyke, N. Poussin Tt-uier, Mu¬
rillo, Carracci, Claude, and
Carlo Dolce. The oldest knowu paint
ing in a “Madonna and Child, done in
*86; nam-.- of author unknown. Lie
oldest known m England panel aro a portrait U'M,
of Chaucer, painted on a in
and one of Henry I\ ., m lb! ).
The leaning tower of in Pisa height is cylindii- and
cal in form, 170 feet 00
feet in diameter, and is divided into
eight stories, each having an outside
gallery projecting seven feet. It was
begun William, in 1174 Innspiuek. by Bonanus, The ot Pisa, und is
of summit
reached by $30 steps. The tower leans
about thirteen feet from the perpendieu- i
i a r. This was manifest before the tower
was completed, and was guarded against
by extra braces and an adaptation There of the
stone in the highest i>ortioii. are
seven bells on Hie • y, tl- L: ' -t ;
which weigh 1,204 i ./d.v' , and ar.
placed as to counteract by gravity the
leasing of towttf, *
HAMILTON, GEORGIA, JUNE 8, 1883.
In nn Insect’s Place.
What a horrible place must this world
ippear when regarded point according of view! to The our
deas from an insect’s
dr infested with huge flying hungry
Iragons, whose gaping and snapping
noutlis are ever intent upon swallowing
;he innocent creatures for whom, aeeord
ng to the insect, if ho were like us, a
properly constructed world ought to bo
Exclusively adapted. The solid earth
loutinually :read of hideous shaken giants—moving by the approaching mount¬
ing—that crush out precious lives at
jvery footstep, an occasional draught of
die blood of these monsters, stolen at
ife-risk, affording persecution. but poor compensa¬
tion for such fatal
Let us hope that the littlej victims are
less like ourselves than the doings of
mts and bees might lead us to suppose;
that their mental anxieties aro not pro¬
portionate to the optical vigilance indi¬
cated by the 4,000 eye-lenses i of the com¬
mon house fly, the 7,000 of the cabbage
butterfly and the wide-awake dragonfly,
>r the 25,000 possessed by certain spe
•ies of still more vigilant beetles. The
insect must see a whole world of won¬
ders -of which we know little or nothing.
True, wo have microscopes, with which
we can see one thing at a time if care¬
fully laid upon the stage; but what is
the finest instrument Ross can produce
compared to that with 25,000 achromatic, object
glasses, all of them probably instrument with its
and each one branch a living supplying orate
own nerve a sep
sensation? To creatures thus end owed
with microscopic vision, a cloud of sandy
dust must appear like an avalanche of
massive rock fragments, and everything
else proportionally probably monstrous. acquainted with
Insects are
a whole world of physical facts of auditory which
we are utterly ignorant. with Our knowledge
apparatus supplies us these a sounds?
of sounds. What are
They are vibrations of matter which are
capable of producing corresponding drums or of
sympathetic vibrations of the
our ears or the bones of our skull. When
we carefully examine the subject, and
count the number of vibrations that
produce our world of sounds of varying
pitch, we find that the human car can
only respond to a limited range of such
vibrations. If they exceed 3,000 per
second the sound becomes too shrill for
average people to hear it, though some
exceptional ears succeed can take each up other pulsations
or waves that more
rapidly than this.
Reasoning from the nnalogy of
stretched strings and membranes and of
air vibrating in tubes, etc., the we are justi¬
fied in concluding tlrnt smaller the
drum or tube the liigher will be the note
it produces when agitated, and the
smaller and the more rapid the aerial
wave to which it will respond. Tins
drums of insect ears,and the tubes, etc.,
connected with them.,are .n
ihi.ii tvoi’ld oi sounds probably liegins
where ours ceases; and what appears
to us as a continuous sound is to them a
series of separated blows just as vibra¬
tions of 10 or 12 per second appear sep¬
arated to us. We begin to hear such
vibrations as continuous sounds when
they amount continuous to 30 sound per second. probably The begins in¬
sect's
beyond 3,000. The bluebottle may thus
enjoy a whole world of exquisite music
oi which we know nothing.— lielgravia.
Idle Men In the House of Commons.
Everybody who has ever read it re¬
members Carlyle’s famous description
of the work-house of 8t. Ives, in Hunt¬
ingdonshire, and what sitting the picturesque
tourist saw: “I saw on wooden
benches, in front of their bastile, and
within their ringwall and its railings
some half hundred or more of these men.
Tall, robust of figures, honest young mostly, or
middle age; countenance, many
of them thoughtful and even intelligent
looking men. They sat there, near by
one another, but in a kind of torpor, and
especially in a silence which was very
striking. In silence; for alas! what
word was to be said? Au earth all ly¬
ing round crying: ‘Come and till me,
come and reap me;’ yet we here set en¬
chanted! In the eyes and brows of
these men hung the gloomiest expres¬
sion, not of anger, inarticulate but of grief and shame
and manifold distress and
weariness; they returned my glance
with a glance that seemed to say, ‘Do
not look at us; we sit enchanted here we
know not why.'’ The sun shines and the
earth calls, aud, by the governing powers
and impotences of this England, we are
forbidden to obey. It is impossible,
they tell us! There was something that
reminded me of Dante’s hell in the look
of ail this; and I rode swiftly away.”
An exactly similar scene may lie wit¬
nessed any night by a tourist, pictur¬
esque or otherwise, who finds his way
to the House of Commons. There they
are, moody and listless on their benches,
flitting aimlessly hither and thither from
corridor to corridor, sauntering in through
the tea room, idling the smoking
room, all at their wits’ ends how to get
through the dreary hours, and hoping
against hope that the morrow may break
the horrid spell. And so “many of them
thoughtful and intelligent looking men.”
—Rail Mall Gazelle.
A Live Man.
A prominent citizen of Western Texal
was in Galveston, and was introduced to
Gilhooly. They got to talking about
the frontier great blessing telegraph. to the Gilhooly people said of the it
was a
f ron tier, but the stranger shook his
Read, and said it had caused the arrest
M d imprisonment of liis uncle.
.. what did he do ? ”
“Nothing—only robbed a stage.”
»Well you know that is an isolated
case.”
“ Yes, that’s so: he has been isolated
ever since.”
“But, you know,” observed Gilhooly,
“that the Government allows private
individuals to use the wire, and that is a
exeat convenience to people on the
frontier.”
“ That’s where you are fooling your
self. I used a few hundred yards of the
wire to make a wire fence of, and I have
teen subjected to all sorts of expense
; >ud inconvenience. You just go West,
., a ,i trv it, and you will change your
n,m<! ah jut that telegraph man.” company -Oak lie
big anv comfort to a live
y&lQH Ncwi, _ _
A STORY WITH A MORAL.
IVhat the t'arrylucr of » Bouquet to the
WroiiK tti ou»e l.ffecle-l.
[Johnny Bouquet, in Now York Tribune. |
It was not long ago that wine—“Johnny, a gentleman
said to me—he was in
I will take your best bouquet—that bridal bed big
one on n tray, fit to be the of
Eve—if you will carry it to tliis ad¬
dress.”
“All right, boss,” was mul my observed response,
as I took his SI0 bill, a
rather devilish light in ids eye, while he
wrote a name on a card. It was a beam
of the light that shone in the eye of
Cain as the discriminating flame of
heaven shot past his offering and blazed
on Abel’s altar. However, I was not
particular about what was going on in ids
mind, and he slipped the card in the
bouquet, and I started off to deliver it.
Stopping close bv to change my note
and eat a bit of lunch, n good many peo¬
ple gathered near the great prize and smell bou¬
quet and began to talk about
it, and so, whether some jealous rival
stole that card, or whether I had dropped
it on tlio street, the card was missing
when I took up the great salver of
flowers again.
I hastened back to the place where 1
had met the gentleman. Ho had gone
away in a carriage. I told my trouble
to tlio hotel clerk, the genial Gillis, and
he said, “Pslmw! take it to his wife. I Ie
is no sportiug man.”
Now, that gentleman I know, by an
accident of passing his house, and 1 had
often admired the inflexible, the solitary,
the lofty and self-reliant quality in him.
He was* kind to his inferiors, manly to
his equals, haughty to his superiors. showed
About once or twice a year ho
liquor in his eyes, as if Cain had bred on
Abel’s stock, and a little liquor brought
out the consanguinity. I said to my¬
self: “These flowers will wither for
which I liavo been paid. I believe lie
meant to send them to his wife, and I
will take them there.”
I rang the door-hell of liis house mid
asked for the lady. Shown into the par¬
lor I saw my buyer's picture over the
mantel. The house was not expensively abode of
furnished, but looked like the
perseverance in some moderately com¬
pensating profession and slow but gain¬
ing conquest on half fortune. A lady
entered the parlor aud beheld the flowers.
She turned to me and said: “Who are
those for?”
“For you, Madam.”
“For ine ?” Her face flushed. _ “Who
has dared to send flowers to mo ?
I saw I was in for it somewhere, and
that there was no safety save in con¬
sistent lying. “Your husband sent
them, Mi's. -.” J heard his name,
and felt that this was his wife.
/•Tvf. J,.'l- T lt/,»uuf.
“How- came lie to send me flowers?
Have you' not made some mistake?”
“No, madam. He has never bought
flowers frt.ni me bt-fore. Ho is not a
customer of gallantry. There is no
mistake about it. ” widow
She seemed all fluttered like a
told that her dead husband has returned
to life. Looking now at the flowers,
again at his portrait, her eyes dilated and
her temples flushed. She walked to me
like a woman of authority, and under
some high mental excitement. Looking
into my eyes, she said:
“What did my husband say?
“Ho said, madam, ‘I have not made a
present to my deal wife for years. Busi¬
ness and care have arisen between us.
Take her these flowers, that their blos
Boms may dispel the winter from our
__ again.’”
hearts and make r.s young
She turned to the bouquet and rained
tears upon it. An orange bud she took,
all blinded so, aud hid it in her bosom.
She sank upon her knees, and laid her
head among the flowers to let the cool
ness refresh her parched, joy of neglected love and (
heart, and sobbed the
confidence again. I stole away like n
citizen of the world.
As I went up the street and stopped at
the same hotel, the husband was there,
“Johnny,” said he, “did you deliver tho
bouquet?” I took it to wifo. „
“Yes, wifo ?” your
“To my good to
“Yes, boss, you are too a man
wander as you wished to. J lie ice is
broken. Your wife is full of gratitude
Saved by ft mistake, embrace the blessed
opening made for both of you; plant
those rich blossoms on tlio grave of your
estrangement, and in the words of tho
great good Book, ‘cling to the wife of
thy youth.’” staggered moment, looked as if
He a and rushed
he ought to knock me down,
from the place. I met her his
Next day upon arm.
“Julmny,” said he, “bring her as big
a bouquet every week, and save one
scarlet rose for me.” -
Atlantic Ocean Patrol.
The New York Tones makes a gwd
suggestion and asks this question: the
“Has not the time come for gov¬
ernments of England and the United
Btates to take some action to diminish
the risks of ocean navigation? patrols its Every
municipal government why streets,
and there is no good reason tho
iLB
States each to provide two steamers, the
route between New York and Liverpool
could be thoroughly patrolled. could These
government sunken wrecks, st< amers steamers remove
warn passenger
of the locality of icebergs, and afford m
lief to shipwrecked vessels. down A steamer would
with her machinery broken
be towed free of charge by the patrol
steamer, and would not, as is too often
the case, decline assistance in order to
save $10,000 or $40,000 compelled of salvage. A
shipwrecked would crew reasonable to take de- to
their boats have a
gree of confidence that in two or three
days’time a patrol steamer would pick
them up, and the owners of a missing
steamer would have good reason to
lieve that, were she in danger or distress,
help would be not far off.
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The tenor Campanini is pronounced
‘perfectly splendid and just too awfully
too too for anything,” by the
wearing ladies of New York .—New Or
leans Picayune. Awfully woeal'st too not too
what? Campaniui But is Tools a .vi.uld a
tmi bxiti.it. as say,
“ It's of no consequence.” .’> F, (Jom
rrwoial,
THE GROWTH OF A 11111,15.
Interesting Observations In tile 1 'n>
dialogical Stiuly «l' liiinutx.
The Medical Record reproduces the
leading features of the studies of Prof.
W. Prever, of Jena, in a field as yet al¬
most. unbroken—that is, in the psycho¬
logical study of infants. This study be¬
gins, the professor says, with the obser¬
vation of the movements and sensations
of a child, and then proceeds to note the
development of the different senses, the
formation of speech, etc., and the effect
of all these things in awakening the in¬ of
telligence. The first manifestation
voluntary motion occurs about the four¬
teenth week, when the infant begins to
hold up its head. After four months the
head is usually balanced well, and at ten
months the power to sit up is acquired.
Ability to stand was usually, gained in the
cases studied by the professor,
suddenly at the end of the first year.
The first grasping motion of the hand in
the first quarter year is entirely reflex
and mechanical, the first voluntary being at¬
tempt to take hold of an object not
noticed before the seventeenth week. A
child does not show self-consciousness, a
knowledge of its independent existence, second
until the second quarter of the
year. The sensibility of the skin of a
new-born child is very low, and it will
give nosigns of discomfort iiit be pricked
on the nose, or lips, or hands. The eyes,
too, close slow 1 y when touched, and do
not close at all in the bath. Aiiincrease
of sensibility, however, appears in a day
or two after birth.
All infants are deaf at birth, because
the Differ ear is closed and there is as
yet no air in the middle ear. A response
to a strong sound is observed at the
earliest in six hours, but often not
for a. day or two. The awakening of the
sense may be detected by (lie blinking
which a loud noise occasions. No other
organ is thought to contribute to the in¬
tellectual development of tlio child so
much as the ear. The first, perceptions
are those of light. The infant shuts its
eyes a'week as soon as light glance enters them; tin window, within
it turns its to
but it is three weeks before the eyes
will follow a light moved before them.
The stupid expression on the child’s
face does not leave it until the second
quarter year, and t he face grows more
human and spirited seeing with intelligently. the increase The of
tlio power of
power to distinguish attention, colors anil follows light that and
of intelligent preferred, iho
bright colors are but
power to distinguish them !>y name do s
not come until the boginniiig of the. third
year. The recognition slowly. of form, the size first ami
distance comes In
month the infant pays iu> attention 1"
the swift approach of the per. u's hand
to i'ta fnco, mill in tile third year it will
show ignorance of a,ud v , p|,r • ia
,
tion of distance. 4 hoi proies-.or set
down in writing every first sound uttered by
a child during its Jtwo years, and
which could lie so represented.
At first only vowels ore houiV, but
even in the first five wee'is these sounds
arc so diversified a r . to exprcf s different
feelings. Thus, the prof s .'.or says, tic
periodically broken cry, with knit eyes,
denotes hunger ; the continuous whine,
cold, and the high, penetrating tone,
pain. The consonant m was beard in the
seventh week, and in the seventh month,
b, d, n, v, and, rarely, g, li imitations and k wire
distinguished. heard Its perfect the sixth of
sound were m month,
and at this time voices began to (, e ,ij H
tinguisbedby the child, (beat pv-ogr v
is made in the imitation of sounds after
the third half year, and the ),lowers
of articulation become well developed |, v
the fourth half .year.
The Tobacco Habit Tilth Wonieii.
«j t j 8 true that American women do
j nr ^, e jy uso tobacco. In fact, the\ „|_
wa y H j, aV e. American ladies of African
descent in the Month have a I ways smelted
their pipes, and their white sisters fin
n()t altogether disdain the pipe and ‘dip.
j;„t here at the North mapy
] a ,]j os have, in imitation of Spanish, Cuba;,,
Mexican, South American, taken
French, aud even English women, their
to the use of cigarettes, to very
gn , at detriment.” men?”
“ Why more so than to
“I don’t think men are often injured
p v q 1( , moderate use of tobaeeo in sinoh
jjg adapted jjut the the female of body tobacco is no than more t
to use o
female mind is to mathematics. It
caugeB neuralgia, headache, dysjw |i. ui,
palpitation of the heart, and, worst of
a j[ nuns the complexion and about, di.-.ordi-rs the
t e etli. f think, aa y nothing nevertheless, that
health, but I of
a u w] [i arwee that the stale odor (<,
] jacco corning from a woman’s month is
worse than the same smell exhaled by a
man. As to chewing in men and its
an: ilogue, ‘dipping,’ in women, nothing
can be filthier, and I know that both an
productive of diseases of the nervous sys¬
tem.” smokingcaune
“But, Doctor, does not
diseases of the nervous system in nfeu
as well as in women?”
“Certainly it does, if indulged in to
excesg But then men’s nervous systems
ar(1 , Jot afj impressionable as womens’,
an ,j n niafl can do many things
“i.
p At| q Besides '^’ it .na'. does not, make
to a if Ins com
j,. j a little sallow, his eye h s to
ss his hodv shriveled up and hi Jin
' ,’ r) ,'q uW.-as these Hungs arc i cry
to a wonmn.”
r s , f . V rm are an admirer of beauty
•
<< yV.. ft is the greatest gift a woman
™tovmeu’t ar | ave for it not only jLk.s means a ,th t i
3 f aU wll „ at her, h-.u
“-ms a h-althv mind and a healthy
i ,iy tiauty lMI the means necessary to
L are the very ones n ■
S rv to keen the mind and laidv in-, us 1
1 \-Dr. Hammo,ul in Xcw York
i .
The investigations, commission which were nnder
taken by a of the Freiu h
academy, in relation to tho filling of tl .
Tunisian and Algerian jiart of the Saha. t ,
i, ave been finished. The conclusions
are entirely favorable to the project and
would lead to tho establishment ojf an
interior sea, 248} miles long aud about
990 miles in circumference.
—---•— —:—
Iv all hearts were frank, just an cl lion
es t, the major part of tue vu tu'-x would
be useless to u t,—Molierc.
$1. 00 A YEAR.
Capturing Monkeys.
The monkeys arc frequently captured
in nooses and traps built in the shape of
houses. The only entrance is a trap¬
door in the roof, which communicates
with a trigger si t upon the the ground.
Food is spread about inside, around, mon¬
keys enter, and, skirmi hing
disturb the trigger, and the trap shuts
them in. The third method for catch¬
ing thorn is a most ludicrous one. An
old, hard cocoanut is taken, and a very
small hole made in the shell. Furnished
with this and a pocketful of boiled rice,
the sportsman sallies into the forest,
and stops beneath a tree tenanted by
monkeys. Within full sight of these in¬
quisitive spectators he first cats a little
rice and then puts a quantity into the
cocoanut with all the ostentation possi¬
ble. The nut is tl eu laid upon the
ground, and the hunter retires to a con¬
venient ambush. The reader may be
sure that no sooner is the man out of
sight than the monkeys race helter-skel
ter for the cocoanut. " rho first arrival
peeps into it, and, seeing the plentiful hand
store of rice inside, squeezes his
in through the tiny hole, and clutches a
handful. Now, so paramount is greed with
over every other feeling connected
monkey nature, that nothing will induce
the creature to relinquish his hold.
With his hand thus clasped he cannot
possibly extract it, but (bethought brethren that will
if he leaves go one of his
obtain the feast is overpowering. The
sportsman soon appears upon the scone;
the unincumbered monkeys tly in all di¬
rections, but the unfortunate brute, who
still will not let the rice go, is thereby
handicapped beyond hope with a cocoa
nut as largo as himself—a state of affairs
quite fatal to rapid locomotion, either
terrestrial or arboreal. The sequel is
tlmt he falls an easy capture to the limit¬
er, a victim to his own greed. the actions Even of
when caught he reads in
his captor a design to roll him of his
rice, and he clutches it all the harder;
and the very first thing he does when
the nut is cracked and the hand released
is to cram its contents into Ins mouth.
Thoughts of escape come afterward.—
London Field.
The Fellow that Looks Like Me.
Except an Irish landlord, says tho
London World, no member of tho
Peerage is more to bo pitied than Lord
Airlio. For several years past ho has
been endeavoring to stop tho career of
a clover adventurer, who has been
pleased to adopt the. name of his eldest
son Lord Ogilvy, and, under that desig¬
nation, to run up debts, forgo bills and
swindle peoplo generally in nil parts of
the world. The number of applications
which Lord Airlio has received for “pay¬
ment on my account” from tradesmen,
ivlm thought tlie,' simply ii-uv.. incredible. (i-.iuliiiH (mi Those . i Ml
and heir, is
hills conic in a perfect shower from all
parts of tho Continent and the United
States, and although public notices and
warnings of ail kindshavo been launched
at the head of the impostor, and onco or
twice no actually has been arrested, yet,
after a short time, ho is certain to bo
found at his old tricks again, and poor
Lord Airlio is obliged onco more to ex¬
plain to a phalanx of clamorous trades
men thal they have been duped trusted and
robbed. No real Lord was never
half so much as this spurious one. His
manners are said to be “distinguished,” and
his personal appearance is attractive,
with the fair sex be has always been a
great hit. Meanwhile the veal Lord
Ogilvy is always with his regiment, the
Tenth Hussars, in India, not having half
such a good time of it as his double.
The Cocktail.
Ill a vocabulary of drinking terms, the
Retailer remarks regarding the “cock¬
tail “A word of very uncertain ori¬
gin. Conjectural etymologists have
traced it to the Messo-Gothic, the Chi
nesc, tl.e Cherokee and the Gumlio;
one has si tiled it to liis own satisfaction
that, it, is of Nandwieli island origin ; an
oilier that it, in Celtic ; and still another
that Noah left the recipe to liis son
Sir m, giving the beverage the name
Ixo’kdal, written in the old Hebrew char¬
acter with the Massoretie points. Tho
probability is that the name and the
beverage were invented by the mound
builders, and the most prominent phil¬
ologists are inclining more and more also
to that opinion.” The Retailer
gives the following information : “The
cocktail is made of brandy, gin, whisky,
or cliampeagn, mixed with hitters,
sugar, and a small-very early-morn¬ small—per¬
centage of water. It is an
ing drink, aud is highly esteemed for its
medicinal properties. it A habitually large propor¬ will
tion of those who use
never eat solid food uiitd the flooring cock¬ of
tho stomach has been overlaid with
tails. There is no time in a man’s life
when he is more deserving of heartfelt
sympathy than when, in a condition of
pecuniary collapse, ho craves a morning
cocktail and craves in vuin.”
A French Farmer.
The lot of a French farmer is neither
happy nor jolly. He fares frugally red on
3-«tf. anil the thinnest of ordinary
Tl;. »<•"* - - T p»
bacon, and he eat* butcher s moat on y
‘wi-e a week-hat is on Sunday and
market-day. When lie attends mar *
he makes a succulent dyei w.
unnAs a gmid deal of li^r at t e
This i, has only cheerful ume at ordm- _
ary seasons he is morose, trou e
weather, tlie conscription which
going take his son in ie
alioi t jmhties of which . le : s
J'«*’ enough to be in constant dread of
re volutions , He is conservative .that s
j *° h l Y [ ,0 upholds the governine i
| Hay, but whatever government itu[.fort is >pul
no p finds it ’
for every adnunurtratiem neces
sat:y however, to lay on new liisiavpr. taxes. A I > harvest
is m
is not a eomnum tiling in J* ,
succession of baa naive 1
It lucky for the Irene]Ufarmerumi , ,
is
this is so, lor tuere are
" ho ' v “l l u [
to remit any part oi y. , . after a
liar ve6t ln f, “ „ th .
- nnnctuallv
farmers , rent must uep a . p j
bslgers rent. 1 v '
ejection is resorted to . > ->
body thinks m loo lug -1" ! “• 1
as an ui-used man.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Lord Derby has an income of $750,
000 a year.
Lake Erie is 344 feet liigher than
Lake Ontario. The falls of Niagara are
162 feet high. and milk
The butter, cheese, egg, estimated
business of this oouutry are
to be worth $40,000,000.
The British Government spends service, $700,- and
000 annually on its consular
the United States only $300,000.
Three firms are now engaged and their in can¬
ning Boston baked beans, nn
mini production is not less than 4,000,
000 or 5,000,000 cans. Ireland, Scotland,
In various parts of
and Wales are remains of beehive-shaped chambered
huts, underneath which are
burial places. These huts are of great
antiquity. died
Aiioijt the year 400 of our era
Simon Stylitea, a Syrian, who had lived
in self-imposed martyrdom for thirty
years on tho top of a granite column 30
or 40 feet high. is
On the Now England const, moss
collected in great quantities. The white
kinds are kept for food, forming an kinds im¬
portant industry, while the coarser
aro placed on the farms.
Near Jerusalem is a building entirely
rock cut, about 00 feet wide aud a 100
feet high, which is reported to be tlio
place to which the Apostles retired be¬
fore the siege of that city.
In Australia tho average temperature de¬
for a certain three mouths was 101
grees Fahrenhoit in the shade. In the
winter snow-storms often last three
weeks, and cover the ground to a depth
of 12 to 18 feet.
Fraomentb of celestial bodies in tho
form of meteors occasionally reach us
from tho distant regions of space. Tho
stones exemplify the same chemical and
crystallographic laws as tho rocks of tho
eoM Mia liavo afforded no now element
or principle of any kind.
The Marquis of Lome receives $50,
000 a year salary as Governor General
of Canada. The Princess Louise has an
annual grant of $20,(XX). She received
$150,(XX) on her marriage, which brings
in $0,000 more, and with an allowance of
about $15,(XX) to tho Marmiis from his
father, the Duke of Argyll, the couple
have an annual income of about $100,000.
Strict economy is the rule at Rideau
Hall, as it is at Windsor Castle.
In the tropics of tho Old World tho
annual rainfall is, according to Dana,
about 77 inches, while it is 155 inches in
Boul.li America. In tho Eastern United
States it is 40 to 50 inches, but west of
the one hundredth meridian, beyond tho
Mississippi to tho Hierra Nevada, it is
mostly 12 to 16 inches. Tho annual
(■mount in Great Britain averages on
inches; in France, 20 to 21 inches;
farther from tlio coast, in Central Ger¬
many and Russia, only 15 to 20 inches;
but about the Alps, it is mostly 35 to 50
inches.
Nome Men’s Luck.
Gen. Gordon was severely wounded
four times in one battle and within an
hour, and lived to light again singular ; aud good this
is only a specimen ol' the
luck that attended some men. In 1804
a Michigan cavalryman named Drake
was out foraging in the Blianandoah val¬
ley in company with a comrade named
(looper. Gooper was in a smoke-house
alter meat and Drake was oil guard at
the door when thirteen Confederates
suddenly appeared. They gallop, were mount¬ of
ed, aud advanced at a part
them firing as they rode up. One bullet
found a suitable opening in the stone
wull of the smoke-house, and flow in and
killed Cixiper dead in his tracks. Drake
WIIH standing beside his horse, and liis
saddle was hit by three bullets, one of
which glanced through his hat.
As soon as the trooper could realize
what had happened ho swung himself
into saddle aud dashed at the circle
around him. Tho moment ho happened
in view he was a target for carbine and
pistol. His horse made a rush at the
line, but was driven hack. Followed by
Cooper’s horse he galloped around and
across a circle not over 100 feet across,
all the time under a steady fire by thu
Confederates. This fire was soon re¬
turned by Drake, who fired away seven
cartridges and then drew his saber. His
seven bullets, as afterward vouched for,
killed two men, wounded two more, und
killed one horse. His lire broke the
circle, aud he got out of it, hut for thirty to
rods, as he made off, he was exjiosed Cooper’s
the fire of nine or ten men.
horse was killed in the circle, whfie
Drake's was hit no less Ilian nine times
and yet not awarded, As for tho rider,
his comrades, on his return to camp,
counted up a record of a truly-miracu- struck his
lous escape. Three bullets
scabbard, two his hat, four went through
his clothing, one burned his cheek, one
raked his knee, snd two hit liis left
boot. While one single bullet killed the
one trooper, the other had sixteen fired
point blank at liim and yet did not lose
a drop of blood. Cooper’s nine horse failed was to
killed by one bullet, while
disablo the larger and more-exposed ani¬
mal .—Detroit Free Press.
Poetry makes hope a formation, grief
makes it a solace, aud desolation mak. s it
the brightest flower that adorns earthly
creation, while even disappointment and
delusion whisper darkness out of the sky
of to-day into the sunshine of to-morrow.
Sobbing sorrow may crush and cripple
tho soul, but hope gives it new elasticity.
Nay, it may be humiliated in the dust,
but hope will raise it up again. H>pa is
man’s birthright, which, after ail his
blandishments, delusions and mockeries,
never maketh him ashamed to hope on,
hope ever. Airy fancies may allure him,
and smiling faces beguile him into
treachery, but hope flits eternal round
the human head and breast and hangs
tho rainbow on the blackest e.loud on all
the chaste sparkliugs of an angel from
immortal light.
The planting of elm, maple, and other
forest trees at proper distances along the
highways increases the value of adjoin¬
ing property and adds to the beauty and
comfort of the section. In Germany
fruff trees adoru the way sides.
Anything serves as a pretext for the
tricked.— Kettaere,