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by THE JACKSON COUNTY ) PUBLISHING- COMPANY. $ VOLUME I. ©fa !wsf ihfe . PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, Dy the .InckMon County Pulli*liing; Company. JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. o OFFICE, N. W. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. m a lcom Stafford, MANAGING AND BUSINESS EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months $2.00 “ “ G “ 1.00 “ “ 3 “ 50 every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One DOLLAR per square (of ten lines or less) for the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. gtxTAll Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. Bar Business or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Seven Dollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. Conlrsict Aflvcrtising. The following will be the regular rates for con tract advertising, and will be strictly adhered to in all cases : Squares, lw. 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ATHENS, C3-TA., KEEPS constantly on band an extensive stock of SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS, comprising, in part, the latest styles and fashions of liiiriieV Hals itmuids, Slilihons laces Flowers Cnloves which will be sold at reasonable prices. Orders from the coun try promptly tilled, (livelier a call. July 31st—3m. DK. W. Xi. A 'tSHCIC. SURGEON DENTIST, Ilarjnony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga. July 10th. 1875. Gm I,'' Am HILLS UISOY 4. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. At Dr. Wm. King's Drug Store, Dcupree Block. Athens, Ga. All work done in a superior manner, and warranted to give satisfaction. Terms, posi tively CASH. JulylO-Gm. JC. H ll.uns A CO., . BROAD STREET, ATHENS, GA., dealers in STOVES, TIN-WARE, Sc C (Opposite North-East Georgian Office.) July 3d, 1875. STANLEY & PINSON, JSFFERSON, GA., DEALERS ill Dry Goods and Family Groce ries. Now supplies constantly received. Cheap for Cash. Call and examine their stock. June li) ly 1) F. Ittoraov at Law, J>. HOMER, BANKS CO., GA., b ill practice in all the adjoining Counties, and give prompt attention to all business entrusted to his care. Collecting claims a specialty. June l!)th, 1875. ly I OH* U. O VkRS ° t HARNESS MAKER, JEFFERSON, GA. New and good buggy and wagon harness always on hand. Repairing same, bridles, saddles, &c., done on short notice, and cheap for cash. junel2—ly J * J. FLOYD, I J. B. STLMAX, 1 Covington, Ga.# j Jefferson, Ga. j'LOVI) & SlldlAX, ATTORN E VS-AT-L A W. ill practice together in the Superior Courts of the counties of Jackson and Walton. Junel2—ly \\ ILHV HOWARD, 1 t ATT’Y & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Jefferson, Ga. '' ill practice in all the Courts of Jackson coun ty, except the Court of Ordinary, and in the Su perior Courts of adjacent comities, as well as the Supreme Court of the State. jum*l2-ly W L Pllils Attorney sit ■ .a, • JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. * radices in all the Courts, State and Federal. I rompt and thorough attention given to all kinds of legal business in Jackson and adjoining counties. June 12, 1575 PENDERGRASS & HANCOCK, \YT<)ULI) respectfully call the attention of the " public to their elegant stock of Dry Goods of all Kinds, 11 KA ■> Y-.U A lE CLOTH INTO, fine cassimeres, hats, caps, U°t.s and Shoes; Ladies' Bonnets, Hats and riiiunings; Hardware, Hollow AVare, Earthen ' are School Books, Paper, Pens, Inks. Envel ii !°- u j l Nleal, Bacon, Lard, Sugar Coffee, iKi.aii . r n . f Atent Medicines, in fact everything +i ‘ found in a General Store. Prices to suit _^_ tnncs - Jefferson, June 12, 1875. tf DON’T (JO BAREFOOT! IV 1 ' on w ’ an t frooil Boots and Shoes, neat tits, Call tii ' l ' 1 0o stock, 4Ti*sij, for (ash V ami I IdiY c . orner °f Mrs. Venable’s residence, sure ' °. ,e Her for you than any one else, C< [jl2 2m] N. B. STARK. THE FOREST NEWS. The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. Communications. For the Forest News. Letters to a Young Lady.—No. 3. • by uncle judson. My Dear Niece :—ln arguing against un due haste in marrying, permit me further to insist that you should not be governed by this mysterious, absorbing, controlling and overpowering principle called love, which is so frequently the topic of conversation among the 3'oung. Have you not heard it said that if the first love be disappointed you never can love again, but must go dejected and hopeless, darkening to the grave? I would not have you entertain such a thought for a moment. It is destructive alike of 3’our own happiness and the highest interest of society. Nor would I have you marry without love.— True affection, founded on intrinsic worth, is, indeed, the grand indispensible cement of the union, without which, the mere forms of mar riage arc as unmeaning and senseless as the body without the soul. But I contend that real love is not that uncontrolled and uncon trollable thing which operates independent of sound judgment and common sense, which, like the vulture, seizes its prey with a mortal grasp. Attachment to any friend is the result of cultivation. But why should you cultivate an acquaintance with a friend, if your judg ment whispers in your ear he is unworthy of you ? If you, however, cultivate the acquaint ance until it ripens into permanent friendship, and the friendship into the most ardent love, yet, if he still be unworthy of 3-011, 3'our love may gradually give way until there remains no attachment whatever. This is but too often the case with married people, and is not confined to any period of the marriage state. The husband becomes unwortly of his wife by drinking to excess, and couples with this other debasing habits. lie squanders his living and brings his famity to penury and want. llis children that are large enough, seek shelter and comfort at another’s hearth stone. Finally, he brings in another to take the place of his wife. 1 ask, in all candor, whose love is strong enough to still kindly treat him as the beloved husband ? Is it not Due that in many cases, much less aggrava ted than this, a suit for divorce is instituted, saying, “1 loved him once, but I never can love him again.” Thus, the most ardent attachment may die from mistreatment and neglect. Why, then, ma3 r it not be cultivated or discouraged at your discretion ? I see no reason why it should not. Tii order that love be cultivated to purpose, several things should conspire; marriage should not be partial, but entire : Ist. There should be a union of tastes. If the taste of the one be cultivated and refined, and that of the other be low and groveling, all the pleasure usualty arising from apprecia tion in this respect is lost! 2d. There should be a union of pursuits as much as possible. If the husband be an agriculturalist, and the wife, seeking to grat ity an ambition for scientific investigation, takes no interest in the tillage of the soil, their attachment ma3 r not be endearing. 3d. There should be a union of the leading interests sought to be promoted. If one lie deeply engaged to promote the temperance reform, and the other opposing ; or if one be a zealous member of a church, and the other a member of a church of a different faith and order, and equalty interested in the promo tion of its interests, there is danger of perma nent alienation. 4th. And I may add that their ages should also be nearly the same. What old gentleman, whose head is bloom ing for the grave, can hope to make a young lady contented and happy, when the halcyon days of the honeymoon are over ? Neither wealth nor attentions will be likely to unite the old with the young in endearing bands of wedlock. Bat should the parties be united as above indicated, their attachment will strengthen with the lapse of years. The sun of their hymenial glory will know no decline through a varied life of prosperity and adversity, of hope and disappointment, of joy and sorrow. I hope you will not construe anything that has been said to mean that you ought not to marry at all. For this purpose our Maker designed us from the beginning, and implant ed within us dispositions and desires favor able to the most enduring and endearing mar riage relation. Upon this divine institution we are dependent for all order in society, and perhaps for civilization itself. When you shall have arrived at a proper age, and have a suitable opportunity, I would advise you to marry. I remark, emphatically, that the op portunity should be a suitable one. In my next, I hope to say something in re lation to the suitableness of the opportunity. [to be continued.] A transcendental preacher took for his text, “Feed ray lambs.” As he came out of the church a plain old farmer said to him: “That was a very good text; but you placed the hay so high in the rack that the lambs couldn't reach it, nor the old sheep, either.” JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, AUG. 14, 1875. miscellaneous medley. A Fight for Supremacy. AN AUTHENTIC INCIDENT OF TRAVEL IN TnE SOUTHWEST. A gentleman residing in this city had oc casion, a few days since, to take a joiirne3* down the river, and several miles back from it, using a saddle horse. Darkness overtook him in a sparsety-settled district, and as the roads were in a bad condition and the even ing looked threatening, he halted before a forlorn-looking hut, and asked if he could find lodging. r> o “ I reckon 3 r e mought,” replied the long haired, sorrowful-eyed squatter, after hesitat ing a moment. The Vicksburger found little to eat, and his horse found still less. The squatter and his wife were all alone, and they had but a few words for the stranger, and scarcely spoke to each other. When the evening grew old the traveler camped down on the floor on a blanket, and being vety tired he fell asleep, while host and hostess were smoking their black clay pipes at the other end of the room, lie had slept about two hours, when the squatter shook him by the shoulder, and said : “ Stranger, I’m powerful Sony to disturb ye, but I want to ax a favor.” “Y"es—3-es —what is it?” inquired the Vicks burger, as he rubbed his eyes, and sat up. “ Ye like to see fa’r pla3 r , don’t ye, stran ger ?” “Yes, of course.” “ Wall, me’n the old woman can’t agree ; somehow she’s cross and tetchy, and I guess I’m a trifle ugly. Leastwise we don’t hug up worth old boots. We’ve fit and fit; I’m old, and she’s chuck full o’ grit, audit’s about an even thing!” “ Well, I'm sorry.” put in the Vicksburger, as the squatter hesitated. “We've been a balkin’ since 3’e cum, stran ger, and we’ve made up to ask ye to hold the candle and to let us go in for an old rouser of a fight—a reg'lar old sockdologer, which shall settle our fuss ! If I lick, she’ll go ; if she licks, I’ll travel!” “ I’m sony if there’s any trouble, and I hope won’t fight.” “We’ve got to do it, stranger,” replied the woman. “ I won’t live with a man who kin lick me, and he's just as high born. Sam’s as good as the run o’ men, but lie's laz3 r and sassy, and lie wants to wear his hat on his ear!” “She’s right, stranger,” said the squatter, “and this cabin can't hold both of us any longer. It’s to be a squar’ fight—no kicking or clubbing, and wc won’t go back on yer de cision.” The Vicksburger protested, but the woman placed a lighted candle in his hand, and post ed him in the door, and man and wife step ped out on the ground. “Suke, I’m going to wallop ye right smart in just four hoots and a holler!” said the squatter, as he pushed up his sleeves. “ Sam, 3 r e don’t weigh ’nuff into three tons !” she replied in a grim voice, and the battle commenced. The Vieksburger mentally bet twenty to one on the man at the start, but in two min utes he had reduced the odds to ten, and in two minutes more he was betting even. The wife was like a wild-cat, springing, dodging, striking and clawing, and pretty soon her husband had to stand on the defensive. “ Lookout for the Bengal tiger, Suke !” he warned as he clawed the air. “ I can whip the boots off'n ye, Sam !” she replied, and the battle grew fiercer. One of the woman’s sharp nails struck the husband’s eye and blinded him for an in stant. As he threw up his arms she seized both her hands into his hair, yanked him down, and in another moment had the “gouge” on him. “ Sam, do ye cave ?” she asked, as they lay quiet. “ That’s the dead word, Suke, and I’m a licked man !” lie mournfully answered. She let him up, and he turned to the Vicks burger and inquired: “ Stranger, was it a fa’r fought ?” “ I guess it was !” “ Then I travel!” He entered the hut, put on his coat and hat, took up his rifle, and as he came out lie reached his hand to his wife, and said : “Good-bye, Suke ! We agreed far and squar, and here Igo !” Then, turning to the traveler, he added : “ Much obleeged, stranger—ye held the candle plumb fa'r, and ye didu't holler for either one of us !” And he walked down to the fence, leaped over, and was soon lost to sight. “ Good ’miff on the shoot,” mused his wife, as she gazed after him, “ but his fighting weight is clar run down to nuthin !”—Vicks burg (Miss.) Herald. Summer Contrasts. THE WIFE. As you say. Colonel, here it is charming ; (“ Sweet angel , I beg for a waltz /”) You're flattery's really alarming ; I'm sure that you know it is false. But I'll whirl with you round for a minute, Just to prove how you erred in your haste, A waltz is quite nice when you're in it— Don't hold quite so tight on my waist. (Writes.) “ Dear Husband, I'm penning this letter In loneliness here at the Springs; Every day makes me deeper your debtor For the kind words the previous mail brings; But oh ! what a void fills my bosom— You there, and I here all alone No friends, if I e'en wished to choose ’em— You chained to your desk like a drone.” THE HUSBAND. Here, Charley ! help fill up this basket; Put in the champagne and the ice; Never mind if you should overtask it— Fill it up with the brie-a-brac nice. Those Dutch girls will soon make it lighter After the dance and the swings; Throw in these cigars. Strap it tighter, While I write a line to the Springs. ( Writes.) u Slowly the shadows are falling, Alike on my desk and my life ; The plaint of a famished love, calling For you, my sweet treasure—my wife. I sit here so wearily thinking And wishing my pennance were o’er, And dream our love is a-linking My heart with your heart evermore !” The Wonders of Incubation. The hen has scarcety set on her eggs twelve hours before some lineaments of the head and body of tlie chicken appear. The heart may be seen to beat at the second da3r; it has at that time somewhat the form of a horseshoe, but no blood 3-et appears. At the end of two days two blood vessels are to be distinguish ed, the pulsation in which is visible ; one of these is the left ventricle, and the other the root of the great artery. At the fiftieth hour one auricle of the heart appears, resembling a noose folded down upon itself. The beat ing of the heart is first observed in the auricle, and afterwards in the ventricle. At the end of seventy hours the wings are dis tinguishable ; and on the head two bubbles are seen for the brain, one for the bill, and two for the fore and hind part of the head. Toward the end of the fourth day, the auricle alreacty visible draws nearer to the heart than before. The liver appears toward the fifth day. At the end of seven hours more, the lungs and the stomach become visible; and four hours afterwards, the intestines and loins and upper jaw. At the one hundred and for ty-fourth hour, two ventricles are visible, and two drops of blood, instead of the single one which was seen before. The seventh day, the brain begins to have some consistency. At the one hundred and nineteenth hoar of incubation, the bill opens, and the flesh ap pears on the breast. In four hours more the breast bone is seen. In six hours after this, the ribs appear, forming from the back, and the bill is very visible, as ivell as gall blad der. The bill becomes green at the end of two hundred and sixty-six hours, and if the chicken be taken out of its covering, it evi dently moves itself. At the two hundredth hour, the e3’es appear. At the two hundred and eighty-eighth, the ribs are perfect. At the three hundred and thirty-first, the spleen draws near the stomach, and the lungs to the chest. At the end of three hundred and fifty five hours, the bill frequently opens and shuts ; and at the end of the eighteenth day, the first cty of the chicken is heard. It afterward gets more strength, and grows continually, till at length it is enabled to set itself free from its confinement. —Poultry World. Shakespeare’s Women. Shakespeare has no heroes—lie has only heroines. There is not one entirety heroic figure in all his plays, except the slight sketch of Henry V., exaggerated for the stage, and the still slighter Valentine, in the “ Two Gentlemen of Verona.” In his labored and perfect plays, we have no hero. Othello would have been one. if his simplicity had not been so great as to leave him the pre3 T of every base practice round him ; but he is the only example even approximating the heroic type. Coriolanus, Ciesar, Antony, stand in flawed strength, and fall by their vanities; Hamlet is indolent and drowsily speculative ; Romeo an impatient boy; the Merchant of Venice languidty submissive to adverse for tune; Kent, in King Lear,’ is entirety noble at heart, and yet is far too rough and unpo lished to be of true use at the critical time, consequently he sinks into the office of a servant only. Orlando, no less noble, is yet the despairing toy of chance, followed, com forted, saved by Rosalind. Whereas there is hardly a play that lias not a perfect woman in it, steadfast in grave hope and errorless purpose. Cordelia, Desdemona, Isabella, Hermione, Imogen, Queen Katherine, Per* dite, Silva, Viola, Rosalind, Helena, and last, and perhaps loveliest, Virgilia, are all faultless—conceived in the highest heroic type of humanity. The Poor Drunkard. O, I have sometimes looked at a bright, beautiful boy, and my flesh lias crept within me at the thought that there was a bare pos sibility he might become a drunkard. I was once playing with a beautiful boy in the city of Norwich, Connecticut; I was car rying him to and fro on my back, both of us enjoying ourselves exceedingly ; for I loved him, and I think he loved me. During our play I said to him, “ llarry, will you go down with me to the side of the stone wall?” “O, yes !” was his cheerful reply. AVe went down together, and saw a man lying listlessly there, quite drunk, his face upturned to the bright blue sky; the sun beams that warmed and illumined us lay upon his porous, greasy face ; the pure morn ing wind kissed his parched lips and passed away poisoned, the very swine looking more noble than he, for they were fulfilling the purpose of their being. As I looked upon the poor, degraded man and then look ed upon that child, with his bright brow, his beautiful blue eyes, his rosy cheeks, his pearly teeth, and ruby lips—the perfect picture of life and peace—as I looked upon the man and then upon the child, and felt his little hand convulsively twiching in mine, and saw his little lips grow white, and his eyes dim, gazing upon the poor drunkard — then did I pray to God to give me an ever lasting, increasing capacity to hate with a burning hatred any instrumentality that could make such a thing of a being once as fair as that little child. RFA boy of five years was “ playing rail road” with his sister of two and a half. Drawing her upon a footstool, he imagined himself both the engine and the conductor. After imitating the puffing noise of the steam, he stopped and called out “New York,” and in a moment after “ Patterson,” and then Philadelphia.” llis kliowledge of towns was now exhausted, and at the next place he cried “Heaven.” Ilis little sister said eagerly, “ Top, Ides I’ll det out here.” A Newark girl hastened the departure of a lingering gentleman who called, the other evening, by remarking, as she looked out of the window: “ I think we shall have a beau tiful sunrise.” A landlord, having let all his houses but one, was asked if that unlet house was his last. “ Yes, last but not leased,” was his reply. Lazy people die young. It is is the active in body and brain, who live to extreme old age, as a rule. -Domestic Diplomacy. She was watching at the window, As I hurried down the street, In the simple brown merino That I fancy looks so neat, And her smile I thought portentious, It was so exceeding sweet. Then she met me at the threshhold With a very loving kiss, That recalled the carty stages Of our matrimonial bliss— And 1 felt at once a tremor— W as there any tiling amiss ? No ! The children were all quiet, And the hearth was very bright, And my pet—our roguish Charlie— Was quite festal in his white; Yet 1 braced myself for something, Be that someting what it might, My chair was near the fire, And my slippers by its side— My pipe was very handy, And my papers open wide, And she wore the pretty breastpin That I gave her when a bride. The dinner was perfection— It was lavish without waste; The soup was vermicelli, And exactly to my taste ; V bile the desert was a triumph Of artistic skill in paste. And when the meal was over, And the inner man at rest, She drew her chair beside me, With the buly on her breast. I felt, and so 1 told her, I was one among the blest. Oh ! the smile of tender radiance That illumined all her face, As I clasped her to my bosom In a lover’s fond embrace. It was then she softly whispered, “ Won't 3 0U let me have that lace ?” “ Joggin.” They entered Vicksburg just at dark. The two mules before the covered wagon leaned against each other for support, and a man having an3 r knowledge of mules, would have said that a lunch of scrap-iron would have been a God-send to them. There was a big dog under the wagon, and he looked around iu a suspicious, frightened way, as if expecting an attack from some quarter. Peering out from the wagon was a woman and three children. Her face was as 3’ellow as ochre and as sharp as a plantation hoe, and if the children had had a bit of bacon for months past, their looks didn’t show it. “We’re a sad famity,” replied the man as he returned from the grocery with a pound of crackers and a bit of cheese. “Anything bad happened?” asked the reporter. “You see that woman in the wagon thar. Well, she weighed a hundred and sixty pounds when we struck Louisiana, a year ago. Thar she is now, gone down to a shadder, and you couldn’t hear her holler across the road!” “Yes, she does look bad.” “And thar’s the three children—fell aw.uy to bones and hide and ha’r. Thar’ used to be seven. The rest ar’ planted over tliar' across the river!” “Well, that is bad.” “And thar’s them mules,” continued the stranger, his voice growing husky. “ Thar’ was a time when they was jist ole lightning; had to tie ’em up out door for fear the3 r ’d kick the stable down. They don’t look like it now, but they was once able to run a plow into the sile so dee}) that it took a nigger a day to dig down to the handles !” “ They seem worn out now.” “And gaze on that dog—on poor Timo thy !” continued the man, brushing a tear from his left eye—“that’s what takes the pluck o’ me! When I brought that dog from old Kaintuck, the taller IVied out of him as he walked, and when he sot his teeth on to anything, it had to come or die. And what is he now? Whar’s his bounden’ step, his fat, his grit?” “You had bad luck, then?” “Yes, things sot agin us from the start. The rain drowned the crops out, the ager shook us up stairs and down, fever took the children away, and the ole woman and the mules and Timothy sot right down and pined away to shadders,” “ And you are moving !” “ We’re a joggin’, stranger, kinder joggin’ along and around, lookin’ for a place to squat. The ole woman sighs for Kaintuck, and Timothy he’d git up on his hind legs and howl if we were pinted that way, but I thought we’d jog a little further.” “And you will settle in Mississippi?” “I’ll soe. They say the sile here is good and crops sure, but I dunno. If I can git a good bit o’ land on sheers we’ll stop and make the dirt fly, but if I can’t, we’ll make for Kaintuck and keep joggin’ as long as the mules hold out.” Well, I’m sorry for you,’ said the reporter. “’Bleeged to you, stranger, I’ve tried to keep a stiff back-bone, and I guess I kin see this thing through, but when a feller remem bers what those mules was, and see ’em now, it’s miff to break his heart; to say nuthin’ about Timothy under the wagon, a dog who was brung up on the fat o’ the land, and who haint used to sorrow and grief!” And he climbed into the wagon, pushed on the lines, and the mules slowly moved on their way.— Vicksburg Herald, I ii I # —— The worst case of selfishness that ever has been presented to the public, emanated from a youth who complained because his mother put a bigger mustard plaster on his younger brother than she did on him. Speaking of the poem. “ She who Rocks the Cradle Rules the World,” the Memphis Ava lanche says: “In this section she is gen erally a colored girl, and w r e don’t believe a word of it.” “Will you please insert this obituary no tice ?” asked an old gentleman of a country editor. “ I make bold to ask it because I know the deceased had a great many friends about here who’d be glad to hear of his death.” The following conundrum gained tie first prize at a charity ball, at Toledo : Why is a lady at our ball like an arrow ? Because she can’t go off without a beau, and is in a quiver till she gets one. S TERMS, $2.00 PER ANNUM. ( SI.OO FOR SIX MONTHS. GLEANINGS. Keely’s motor has gone to meet perpetual motion. Telegrams from all parts of the country re port deaths and damage from lightning. North Carolina ships annually 15,000 bar rels of dried blackberries. Kentucky has elected the Democratic ticket in her State election, by 40.000 majority. Bogardus, of this country, shot a pigeon match in Hendon, England, with Rimmel, the champion of England, and easily beat the Englishman. Postals cards with a black Ik>w tied in the left upper comer is the way the Mississippi girls make known their loneliness and grief. For the first time, we think, since the closo of Washington’s presidential term, there is no living ex-president. Miss Louise W. King, of Augusta, has been presented with a diploma by the Royal Association of Great Britain. A company ot Cleveland gentlemen have met with great success in gold mining near Dahloncga, Georgia. A machine is in operation in a broom fac tory in Amsterdam, New York, with which one man and a boy can make 400 brooms in ten hours. It runs by steam. Nashville has been selected as the place at which the Southern Cotton Congress will hold its next meeting. Counterfeit nickel coins are said to be plenty. They are of genuine metal, but weigh a trifle less than those made by Uncle Sam. “Your dress,” said a husband to his fash ionable wife, “will never please the men,” “I don’t dress to please the men,” was the re ply, “but to worry other women.” Thomas Malone, employed in a yeast fac tory at Blissville, Long Island, while strain ing a large tank of boiling yeast, lost his balance and fell in. lie was boiled to death —the skin being completely stripped from his body. Adam Grimm, of Jefferson, Wis., is one of the largest honey raisers in the world. 11 is crop for last year was 25,910 pounds, and his apiary consists of 1,158 colonies. A young lady of Cornwall, N. Y., ran a needle into her chest. The same needle very much rusted, after remaining in her body sixteen years, came out a few days ago just above the ankle bone, A lady in Memphis says she doesn’t want any jewelry, hasn’t a looking glass in the house, and would’nt take a silk dress for a gift. Memphis has another living curiosity —a cat. The longest night in Norway last three months, and when a young man goes to see his girl, her mother, before retiring, tolls her not to ruin her health by sitting up more than two months. If a young lady, pinned back like they do now, had appeared jin our streets ten years ago, she would have been hissed off the strets. In a nest of robins found on a farm in Massachusetts, were three white birds and one cream-colored. The old birds are of the common hue. During a recent tornado in Minnesota, a couple of sheep were carried fully a mile and landed in a tree top, and were found pinned together by a board that had been driven throught tho bodies of the poor animals. The Mayor and Aldermen of Chattanooga have been arrested upon an indictment by the Grand Jury of Hamilton county, for fail ing to keep one of the principle streets of that city in repair. It is a singular fact that the equestrian statue of Washington on the Capitol Hall, in Richmond, points with extended arms and sword directly to Appomattox Court House. Three children, who were prostrated by a stroke of lightning in Georgia, that had first struck a tree, all had perfect photographs of the tree imprinted on their persons. In some of the Northern States horse thieves die the hair of the horses they steal so that the owners will not know them. What next ? Recently a drunken man at Niagara Falls fell over the river bank, a distance of eighty feet, and miraculous!}' escaped with only a few scratches. As an instance of the way cotton is being manufactured within sight of the fields, there are within five miles of Lawrenceburg, Tcnn., five cotton mills, all it is claimed in successful operation. A teacher in the Port Jervis public schools was explaining to the children that usually all words ending with “ let” meant something small, as streamlet, rivulet, hamlet, etc.— Whereupon a smart boy asked if hamlet meant a small ham. —“Let me kiss you for your mother?’’ Said a swell, too free of speech, To an unprotected maiden, Whom ho met upon the beach. “Let me thrash you for my father !’’ \Y T as the maiden's quick reply, As. with ready sun-umbrella. She chastised him, hip and thigh. NUMBER 10.