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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
WILL he let, to the lowest bidder, before the
Court House door in Jefferson, on Saturday,
the Kith day of August, 1879, flic contract for
building the bridge across the Mulberry river,
near Oshields 1 , according to the following specifi
cations : Said bridge to be built just above where
the road crosses said river, on level with the hank
on Jefferson side, with 12 feet roadway, with one
fifty feet swinging span extending from abutment
dill on north bank ; one span from arch under
swinging span, extending well out on north bank,
supposed to be thirty feet long ; the arch under
swinging span to be built on mud sills thirty feet
long; upright to arch to be 12 by 12 inches, well
braced with timbers 8 by 10 inches, extending
well out on mud sill to within 12 inches of cap
sill; uprights in centre Bby S inches; cap sills
12 by I t inches, mortised half through so as to tit
on top of tenents on uprights ; live sleepers to
swinging span 10 by 12 inches; said span to be
well bolted with iron holts and Swede iron inch
thick and 3 inches wide, to hold the same ; live
sleepers to end span G by 12 inches; king post 10
by 10 inches; rafters 8 by 10 inches; flooring 14
feet long and 2 inches thick, to be well spiked
down with 5 inch stringers ; banisters fastened to
uprights, made of 3 inch scantling, 3 feet high and
8 feet apart, mortised through and keyed on under
aide of flooring plauk; planked on inside with inch
plank ; 1 inch strip over top. All sleepers to lap
well on cap sills. Timbers to be all heart but
mud sills, and sawed except sleepers to swinging
span, which may be hewn, if well and smoothly
done. All work to be done in a workmanlike
manner, as the work and all timbers will be in
spected before being placed in the water. Per
sons bidding oil'said contract will be required to
give bond for faithful compliance of the same im
mediately after the letting. Full and complete
specifications at this office.
July lGth, 1879. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sales.
"117" ILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in August
M next, before the Court House door in the
town of Jefferson. Jackson county, Ga., within
the legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
A tract or parcel of land, situate and lying in
the 257th District, G. M., of said county, on the
waters of little Curry’s creek, adjoining lands of
J. M. Wilhite, A. T. Bennett and others, the same
being the place whereon S. G. Barnett now re
sides, containing three hundred and forty-two
acres, more or less. Levied on by virtue of a li.
fa. issued from the Superior Court of said county
in favor of il. C. Guldens vs. S. G. Barnett. On
said land there is a tolerably good dwelling house
and necessary out-houses, and a good orchard ;
about forty or fifty acres of said land in a high
atate of cultivation, the remainder in old field and
forest land. Property pointed out by plaintiff.
Written notice given S. G. Barnett, party now in
possession.
july4 T. A. McELHANNON, Sli’fF.
| j I'lOltUIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, upon the report of road commission
ers. appointed reviewers to review, mark out and
report upon the public utility of making certain
changes in the Jefferson and Harmony Grove road,
that said changes will be of much public utility,
as follows :
First, a change around the hill at the creek near
Mrs. Morgan’s, on the side nearest to Jefferson.
Second, a change near the place whereon Mrs.
Hood recently died, leaving the present road just
beyond the branch from the dwelling house on
said place and running nearly a straight line to a
point on the North Oconee river, 150 or 175 yards
below the present bridge, across said river; thence
nearly a straight line to a point opposite S. W.
Jackson's mill; thence the mill road about 200
yards; thence to the right across the creek just
below Mrs. Borders’ dwelling-house; thence a
straight line to where Jackson’s mill road inter
sects with the Jefferson and Harmony Grove road.
Euless good cause to the contrary is shown, on
the Bth day of August next, an order will he pass
ed granting said changes.
July 4th, 1579. 11. W. BELL, Ord'y.
. Jackson 4'ounty.
Whereas, J. B. Pendergrass applies to me fn
proper form for Letters of Administration on the
estate of N. 11. Pendergrass, late of said county,
deceased—
This j s> therefore, to cite all persons concerned. I
kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they
can, on the first Monday in August, 1870, at the
regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said coun
ty, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my official signature, this June 23d,
1879. june27 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
j t, Jaektjon Count)'.
Whereas, N. I>. Cash makes application, in
proper form, for Letters of Administration on the
estate of Green Nance, col’d, late of said county,
deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu
lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
on the first Monday in August, 1879, why said
letters should not be granted.
Given under my official signature, this June 23d.
1579. june27 IL . BELL, Ord’y.
Whereas, it. J. Parks represents to the Court,
in his petition duly tiled, that he has fully admin
istered the estate of G. W. Shambly, late of said
county, deceased, and applies for Letters of Dis
mission from said estate —
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first
Monday in August, 1879, sit the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, why Letters
®f Dismission should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this May 7th,
1879. IL W. BLLL, Ord'y.
\ >ie 1 cople their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
The Recent Naval Battle.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGIIT FROM A CHILIAN
SOURCE —CAPT. FRAT’s BRAVERY.
V alp ar a iso, May 30.—The vessels en
gaged were :
Peruvian.
lluascar, a turreted ironclad, which two
ago beat off the English frigate Shah of
fifty heavy guns, and with an English admi
ral on board. The lluascar mounts two guns
of 300 pounds, two of forty pounds, and one
of twelve pounds, and is considered in every
way impervious and a powerful vessel. .She
carries a crew of 300 men, all told.
Independencia, an ironclad of 1,800 tons,
with 380 men on board. She mounts two
Armstrong guns of 150 pounds, twelve guns
of seventy pounds, four of thirty-two pounds,
and four of nine pounds.
Chilian.
Esmerelda, and old wooden craft, built in
England in 1851. of 850 tons only, and car
rying 180 men, with 14 guns of but 40 pounds
weight.
Covadonga, a wooden schooner taken from
the Spaniards by the Esmerelda in 1865, of
412 ton 9, with a crew of 120 men, and mount
ing two pivot guns of 70 pounds.
The fight could hardly have been more un
equal ; two small old wooden nutshells against
two ironclads, which, in reality, are or were
the only effective force of the Peruvian navy.
The two Chilian ships were left to continue
the blockade of Iqnique, the principal Peru
vian nitrate port, while the Chilian Admiral,
with all the effective part of his squadron,
went north to look for the Peruvians, who,
up to that time, had kept their fleet in safety
under the batteries of Callao, although for
two months past the Chilians had been de
stroying all their southern ports. The two
fleets passed each other without being seen,
one going north, the other south. The Peru
vians, on arriving at Pisagua, a small port
forty or fifty miles north of Iquique, learned
that the latter place had been left in charge
of two vessels, the worst in the whole Chil
ian navy. Thereupon the Peruvian Admiral
started at once with his two best ironclads to
destroy the Chilian ships, not expecting, as
he says, to meet with any resistance.
The Chilians, on seeing their adversaries,
knew they had no chance, but to the summons
to surrender answered with their guns. The
Covadonga, as an English officer who wit
nessed the fight says, " manoenvered admira
bly,” and got out of the bay, the Independen
cia following her. The little Chilian schoon
er made south for a point of land ten miles
distant, off which there is a shoal of rock,
with a passage between these and the main
land. The commander of the schooner, know
ing the ground, and in order to gain on his
adversary, put for this narrow passage and
passed through. The great ironclad foolish
ly attempted to follow him, without calcula
ting the difference in the depth of water
drawn—fourteen feet in one case and twen
ty-three in the other—and stuck fast on the
rocks, heeling over to seaward. Seeing this,
the plucky little schooner returned nearly
within pistol shot, and continued to pepper
the unlucky giant with her seventy-pounders,
until the Peruvian commander, who could not
bring a gun to bear on her, hauled down his
flag and hoisted in its place a white flag of
truce. But the Chilian Captain, knowing
that he could not manage so many prisoners,
and expecting from one minuto to another
that the other ironclad would come in sight,
continued firing into the deck of his enemy
until convinced he had destroyed her, when
he sailed away south, and arrived at Antofa
gasta in a sinking condition. The Peruvians
themselves afterward set fire to the Indepen
dcncia, and her crew landed in their boats.
llow many were killed or wounded we shall
never know, as the Peruvian Government al
low none of their mishaps to be published,
but celebrate every defeat as a victory. So
much for the little Covadonga.
Meantime the Esmeralda was hard pushed
by the Iluascar in Iquique Bay, but kept up
a mailing fire, although her balis dropped
like marbles from the impervious sides of her
antagonist. However, she kept close in to
the town, causing the heavy balls of the ene
my to pass over and into the latter, and keep
ing up this unequal fight for four hours, until
at last the ironclad rammed her ; but the first
blow glanced off and did not do much harm.
The second time the Iluascar struck her near
the stern, carrying away the Emeralda’s rud
der, and thus leaving her helpless. Seeing
this, the Peruvians again summoned her to
surrender, but the summons was again re
fused. A third time the ironclad struck her
fairly amidship, going half way through her,
and causing her to sink in about three minutes.
But in these few minutes the Chilian Captain
called to his crew to follow him, and leaped
on the deck of the Iluascar, followed by two
officers and two sailors—five men in all. The
first man they met was the second officer, who
was at once killed by a pistol shot from the
Chilian Captain, who also severely wounded
another officer with a second pistol ball. We
are told that for four minutes these five men
were in possession of the Huascar’s deck,
but the crew, collecting from below, soon
killed them all. The Chilian Captain’s
head was cut open with an axe, and although
he lived for two hours, he never spoke again,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. JULY 25.1579.
and died unconscious in the cabin of the llu
ascar. Out of the crew of 180 men on board
the Esmeralda, between thirty and forty were
picked up by the Huascar’s boats and made
prisoners. The other 140 all died ; they were
either killed by the balls or drowned. No
wounded were taken.
The English Consul at Iquique ends a let
ter to a friend here by saying that it was the
most gallant naval action ever recorded in
history. A nephew of my wife was the pur
ser of the Esmeralda, and one of the saved,
after swimming, as he writes, for fifteen min
utes before being picked up. Arthur Prats,
the commander of the Esmeralda, grandson
of a Scotchman, was considered a good naval
officer, but nothing extra. In his youth he
was distinguished at college as a good math
ematician. After he went to sea, finding he
had much leisure time on board, he took to
studying law without any teacher, and in 1876
demanded and passed a very brilliant exam
ination before our Supreme Court, obtaining
his diploma as a lawyer. lie was 33 years
old, and leaves a wife and two little children.
A similar fight by two English vessels, and
the commanders would have taken prece
dence of their famous Nelson, but a poor de
vil of a Chilian will never be heard out of
Chili.— Boston Advertiser.
A Clever Thief.
Two young men, according to a Paris pa
per, were recently seated in front of a cafe on
the Boulevarde, when one of them, named
> Lucien W., informed his friend that he had
just come into possession of 5,000 francs,
adding that the 5,000 francs, in bank notes,
were safely locked up in a drawer in his room,
and he should not then trouble himself with
business, lie had a sum of fifty francs in his
pocket, with which he proposed that he and
his friend should go to Asniers, and enjoy
themselves with boating, dining, a ball, etc.,
and not return until two o’clock in the morn
ing.
At a table close to them was a well-dressed
naan, who, although apparently absorbed in
the perusal of his journal, did not lose a word
of the conversation. He was an accomplish
ed thief, named R., alias ‘The Aspic,’ .who
had but recently returned from a tour in the
provinces, which he had found it necessary
to make in order to draw himself from the
observation of the police. The bait of 5,000
francs was too tempting for him to resist, and
lie immediately resolved to obtain possession
of it.
Having noticed that Lucien W. had placed
his hat on a stool at a short distance from
him, the Aspic adroitly substituted his own
for it, and after paying for what he had taken,
walked out. lie knew that the 5,000 francs
were deposited in a draw in the young man’s
room, and the address of that room he hoped
to find by means of the name at the bottom
of the hat. Seeing the hatter’s address, he
went to his shop and told him that he had, on
leaving a restaurant, taken a hat which did
not belong to him, and which he was anxious
to return to the owner, if the hatter happened
to know the address of the customer.
The information was readily obtained, and
in a very short time after the thief had paid
his visit to the apartment of Lucien W. and
gained possession of the money. About an
hour after the young man came to the hat
ter’s also, and was informed of what had oc
curred, but, not thinking of any danger for
his money, he merely bought a hat, and with
his friend proceeded to Asniers.
On his return home at night he discovered
his loss. Information was immediately lodged
with the police, and, from the description of
the man given by the hatter, he was, on the
following day, arrested while on a party of
pleasure, which he had also devised with some
friends, to the river side. In his pockets
were found the 5,000 francs, minus 400 francs,
which he had expended.
Quick Wit Wins.
Years ago, into a wholesale grocery store
in Boston walked a tall, muscular-looking
man, evidently a fresh comer from some back
woods town in Maine or New Hampshire.
Accosting the first person he met, who hap
pened to he the merchant himself, he said :
“ Yon don’t want to hire a man in your
store, do you?”
“ Well,” said the merchant, “ I don’t know ;
what can you do?”
“ Do?” said the man ; “ rather guess I can
turn my hand to almost anything—what do
you want done?”
“ Well, if I was to hire a man it would be
one that could lift well, a strong, wiry fellow ;
one, for instance, that could shoulder a sack
of coffee like that yonder, and carry it across
the floor and never lay it down.”
“ There, now, Capting.” said the coiintry’-
man, “ that's just me. I can lift anything
I hitch to ; you can't suit me better. What
will you give a man that will suit you?”
4 * I'll tell you,” said the merchant; “ ifyou
will shoulder that sack of coffee and carry it
across the store twice and never lay it down.
I will hire you a year at SIOO per month.”
“ Done,” said the stranger, and by this time
every clerk in the store had gathered around
and were waiting to join in the laugh against
the man, who, walking up to the sack, threw
it across his shoulder with perfect case, al
though extremely heavy, and, walking with
it twice across the store, went quietly to a
large hook whieh was fastened to the wall,
and, hanging it up, turned to the merchant
and said :
“ There, now, it may hang there till dooms
day ; I shall never lay it down. What shall
Igo about, mister? Just give me plenty to
do and SIOO a month and it’s all right.”
The clerks broke into a laugh, and the
merchant, discomfited, yet satisfied, kept his
agreement, and to-day the green countryman
is the senior prrtner in the firm, and is worth
a million dollars.— Utica Observer.
Bob Ingersoll on Stingy Men.
I despise a stingy man. I don’t sec how
it i3 possible for a man to die worth $50,-
000,000 or $10,000,000, in a city full of want,
when he meets almost every day the withered
hand of beggary, and the white lips of famine.
llow a man can withstand all that, and hold
in the clutch of his hand $20,000,000 or $30,-
000,000, is past my comprehension. Ido not
sec how he can do it. I should not think he
could do it any more than lie could keep a
pile of lumber when hundreds and thousands
were drowning in the sea. l)o you know j
have known men who would trust their wives
with their hearts and their honor, but not
with their pocket-books—not with a dollar.
When I see a man of that kind, I always
think he knows which is most valuable. Think
of making your wife a beggar ! Think of her
asking you every day for a dollar or two dol
lars, or to humbly beg for fifty cents. ‘‘What
did you do with that dollar I gave you?”
Think of having a wife that is afraid of you !
What kind of children do you expect to have
with a beggar and a coward for thoir mother !
Oil, I tell you, if you have but a dollar in the
world, and you have got to spend it like a
king, spend it as though it were a dry leaf
and you the owner of unbounded forests.
That’s the way to spend it. I had rather be
a beggar and spend my last dollar like a king
than to be a king and spend my money like
a beggar. If it's got to go let it go. Get
the best you can for your family and look as
well as you'can yourself. When you used
to go courting, how nice you looked ! And
your eye wn3 bright, your step was light, and
you just put on the very best you could. Do
you know tlmt it is insufferable egotism in
yon to suppose that a woman is going to love
you always, looking as bad as you can. Think
of it! Any woman on earth will be true to
you forever when you do your level best.
Good Health.
It is no exaggeration to say that health is
a largo ingredient in what the world calls
talent. A man without it maj' be a giant in
intellect, but his deeds will be deeds of a
dwarf. On the contrary, let him have a quick
circulation, a good digestion, the bulk, thews
and sinews of man, and the alacrity, the un
thinking confidence inspired by these, and
though having but a thimbleful of brains, he
will either blunder upon success or set failure
at defiance. It is true, especially in this
countiy, that the number of centaurs in every
communit} r —of men in whom heroic intellects
arc allied with bodily constitution as tough
as horses—is small; that in general a man
has reason to think himself well off in the
lotter}’ of life if he draws the prize of a
healthy stomach without a mind, or the prize
of a fine intellect witli a crazy constitution.
A pound of energy with an ounce of talent
will achieve greater results than a pound of
talent with an ounce of energy. The first
requisite to success in life is to be a good
animal. In any of the learned professions a
vigorous constitution is equal to at least 50
per cent. With judgment, imagination,
eloquence, all the qualities of the mind attain
thereby a force and splendor to which they
could never approach without it. But in
tellect in a weakly body is “ like gold in a
spent swimmer's pocket.” A mechanic may
have tools of the sharpest edge, and highest
polish, but what are these without a vigorous
arm and hand? Of what use is it that your
mind has become a vast granary of knowledge
if 3’ou have not strength to turn the key?
The Zulu Assegai.
The shaft of this instrument of warfare is
above five feet long and about as thick as a
man's little finger. It is made of wood known
to botanists as the curtissa of jaginea, not
unlike the mahogan}*, brittle and clastic, the
latter quality giving the spear a vibratory
motion, on which its accuracy of flight de
pends. The head of the weapon is generally
blade shaped, with a raised edge along the
centre, concave on one side and convex on
; the other, being like the feathers of an arrow.
; The tong of the head is made red hot, and so
burns its way into the wood, around which a
band of wet rawhide is bound ; that contract
ing as it dries holds the head as firmly as an
iron ring. The Zulus fling these weapons
with great accuracy, and they carry oval raw
hide shields impervious to these darts to
cover their entire bodies. Besides three or
four missile assegais a Zulu soldier carries a
shorter and stronger stabbing assegai.
D o O
The foundation for the meanest man is laid
when a small boy turns the worm hole in an
j apple for his companion to bite from.
The Pranks of the Missouri River.
A correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer-
Pi 'ess. writing from St. Joseph, Mo., says:
The Missouri is a remarkable river, unlike
any other I ever saw. To be appreciated it
must be seen and heard during the April or
June rise, when its waters are red and thick
with the powdered soil they have brought
from the farms in the valleys. Then it pours,
and swirls, and eddies along with a treacherous
sound between a chuck and a half-suppressed
whisper that repels while it fascinates the
listener. It lias made millions of acres of
rich black deposits, on which it still holds a
mortgage, the foreclosure of which no man
can foresee. Some of these fertile acres may
sustain forests that have been growing for
hundreds of years, but not a rod of the vast
level bottom lands which lie on either side
[of the muddy monster, varying in width from
two to twenty miles, stretching all the wav
from \ nnkton to St. Louis, and covered with
| the finest woods and richest farm produce
that land can bear up under, is exempt from
the possibility of some day being devoured
by its hungry and fickle mother. " Hundreds
of farmers, after clearing away the heavy
timber and raising fine crops year after year,
on their eighty or more acres of en
exhaustible river bottom, have seen their
entire possessions swept away in a few days
by a sudden and unexpected “change of
channel” during an April or June “rise.’
These changes of channel have different
causes. Sometimes a giant cotton-wood tree
that has been uprooted where the river has
raised upon the forest above is borne down
by the current and lodged in the mud, where
it will gradually become imbedded in the
yielding bottom, and perhaps lie in wait for
months, or even years, without giving any
particular sign of existence. At last ail
unusual rise takes place, and this hidden
“ snag” creates a diversion In the strong
current, which begins to circle round the spot,
and which culminates in a boiling eddy. The
eddy increases in depth and force, gradually
diverting the water from its former course,
until anew pathway is formed in the river
bed. If the eddy is.located near the shore,
at the upper edge of a promontory, and the
water is sufficiently high to overflow the fiats,
anew channel is sometimes carved straight
across some valuable farm or timber strip, and
a river town, where steamboats took freight
and passengers last year, may be from two
to six miles distant from navigable water next
year. A few years ago Forest City, Mo.,
was kissed day and night by the dirty lips
of this V estern flirt. To-day the river sports
miles away, and is whispering soft things to
White Cloud, on the Kansas side, which has
gained a river, while the State has lost several
thousand acres of productive cotton land that
now supports cattle and hogs in Missouri.
When the Missouri river begins to indulge
in its semi-annual free lunch, it frequently
devours strips of bottom land several rods in
width every twenty-four hours. Missouri
river towns are never safe except when located
on bluffs or table-lands, like Omaha, White
Cloud, St. Joseph and Kansas City.
A Cure for Gossip.
CULTURE TIIE ONLY SURE ANTIDOTE.
Everybody must talk about something.
The poor fellow who was told not to talk for
fear that the people would find out that he
was a fool, made nothing by the experiment,
lie was considered a fool because he did not
talk on some subject or other. Everybody
must have something to say, or give up
society. Of course, the topics of conversa
tion will reflate to the subjects of knowledge.
If a man is interested in science he will talk
about science. If he is an enthusiast in art
he will talk about art. If he is familiar with
literature, and is an intelligent and persistent
reader, he will naturally bring forward literary
topics in his conversation. So with social
and religious questions. “ Out of the abund
ance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” That
of which the mind is full, that with which it
is furnished, will come out in expression.
The very simple reason why the world is
full of gossip is that those who indulge in it
have nothing else in them. They must in
terest themselves in something. They know
nothing but what they learn from da} 7 to da} 7
in intercourse with, and observation of, their
neighbors. What these neighbors do, what
they say, what happens to them in their
social and business affairs, what they were,
these become the questions of supreme in
terest. The personal and social life around
them —-this is the book under constant perusal,
and out of this comes that pestiferous conver
sation which wc call gossip. The world is
full of it, and in a million houses, all over
the country, nothing is talked of but the per
sonal affairs of neighbors.
What is a cure for gossip ; Simply culture.
There is a great deal of gossip that has no
malignity in it. Good Matured people talk
about their neighbors because, and only be
cause, they have nothing else to talk about.
Gossip is always a personal confession either
of malice or imbecility, and the young should
not onty shun it, but by the most thorough
culture relieve themselves from all temptation
to indulge in it. It is low, frivolous, and too
often a dirty business. There are country
neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest.
Churches are split in pieces by it. Neigh
bors make enemies by it for life. In many
persons it degenerates into a chronic disease
which is practically incurable. Let the young
cure it while they may,
The story-book picture of whaling, in which
a man throws a harpoon from the bow of a
boat, are no longer accurate. Of late years
the weapon generally used has been a bomb
that is fired from a gun and exploded in the
whale’s body. Anew implement of this sort
is described as follows : The lance weighs
seven and one-half pounds and contains one
and one-quarter pounds of gun powder, and
is propelled by a heavy rocket. There beins
no discharge of a heavy gun. the recoil is a
' push rather than a blow, and the bomb is ig
| nited by the rocket when the latter is burned
; out. A chain toggle attached to the front
' end of the rocket is released by the explo
sion. securely holding the whale, which, if
not instantly killed, cannot long survive the
| explosion.
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM*
( SI.OO For Six Months.
The Sand Slash
Among the wonderful amt usGftd invention*}
of the times is the common sandblast. Sup
pose you desire to letter (l piece of marblo
for a gravestone ; you cover the stone with rt
sheet of wax no thicker than a wafer, tlieil
cut in the wax the name, date, etc. leaving
.the marble exposed. Now pass it tfnder the
blast, and the wax will not he injured at all,
hut the sand will cut letters deep into tiifl
stone.
Or. if you desire raised letters, a flower, of
other emblem, cUt the letters, flowers, etc.,
in wax. and stick them upon the stone; then
pass the stone under the blast, arid the sand
will cut it away. Remove the wax, and yoit
have the raised letters,
Take a piece of French plate glass. saV
two feet by six, atid cover it with fine lacc;
pass it under the blast, nild not a thread of
the lacc will be injured, but the sand Will cut
deep into the glass wherever it is not covered
by the lacc. Now remove the lace and you
have every delicate and beautiful figure raised
upon the glass.
In this way beautiful figures of all kinds
are cut in glass, and at a small expense. Tho
workmen can hold their hands under the blast
without harm, even when it is rapidly cutting
away the hardest glass, iron or stone, hilt
they must look out for finger-nails, for they
will he whittled off right hastily.
If they put on steel thimbles to protect the
the nails it will do little good, for the sand
will soon whittle them away; but if they
wrap a piece of soft cotton around them they
are safe, lon will at once seethe philosophy
of it. The sand whittles away and destroys
any hard substance, even glass, but does not
affect substances that are soft and yielding,
like wax, cotton or fine lace, or even the
human hand.— Portland Arons.
Proof Spirit.
Proof spirit was so called because in tho
preseientilie age it was customary to levy
duty on spirits by rotigh-amb ready process
called the “ proof.” which was conducted as
follows : A small heap of gunpowder wad
wetted with the spirit to be tested, and the
wet spirit was then ignited. If the spirit was
strong, the gunpowder became ignited, and
flashed off very soon after the spirit was
lighted : but if the spirit was weak, the water
left behind it wetted the gunpowder, so that
it did not catch lire. A careful investigation
of tiie true constitution of the spirit showed
that tho weakest spirit capable of igniting
the powder had the following composition by
weight: Alchohol, 41).24 ; water. f>0.76 ; and
the specific gravity of 0.920. This is known
as proof spirit. Spirits either stronger or
weaker than this are spoken of as overproof
or underproof. Thus, a spirit was said to bo
25 per cent, overproof if 100 measures of it
would, on dilution, yield 125 measures of
proof spirit. It was underproof if lOOmensurea
on!}' contained seventy-five measures of proof
spirit. In these days, though the terms aro
still retained, the estimates arc made by the
hydrometer.
Tell us not in mournful numbers, that this
life is but it dream ; when the girl that weighs
100 gets outside a quart of cream—and thon
wants more,— Chr isti< m Observer.
Let us then he up and doing, with ft heart
for every fate ; but never let us go a wooing
a girl that wants a second plate. How's that ?
—Banner of Li <jht. ,
Lives of such girls all remind us, ft 9 wo
float adown the stream, that the boys who
come behind us will have to pay for lots of
cream. Next! Baptist,
In the world’s great field of battle, when
you’re struck with love’s young dream, if
you’re not like hapless cattle, ship the girl
that wants more cream. Pass !— II. 11. ./., in
Macon Telegraph.
Life is short and time is fleeting, do not
waste it in a dream ; do not tnind the girl’s
entreating, shake her if she asks for cream.
— Savannah Recorder.
True, life is short, time Is fleeting, much is
wasted in a dream ; but where’s the girl whoso
sweet entreating ever fails to bring the cream ?
—Atlanta Dispatch.
Of girls with stomachs like you speak, never
did we think or dream, and while with ns none
e’er shall wreak out vengeance on ice cream.
Conyef s Weekly.
Gentlemen. 3-011 are all wrong. Life is not
wasted in a dream. Could anything be more
pleasingly real, than for 3-our girl to take
more cream ? llow will that do
ton Star.
Ye gentlemen poets who sing, anil talk of
your loves in a dream, wc onl) r ask that you
bring— ll3 both the girl and the cream, an’—
an’ we’ll divide it with her—ah—smack !—-
Forest News,
Birthdays and Weddings.
The following old rhymes perpetuate some
superstitions once generally believed. In re*
gard to birthdays the rhyme runs :
Horn of a Monday,
Fair in face ;
Horn of a Tuesday.
Full of Hod’s grace ;
Horn of a Wednesday,
Merry ami "lad ;
Horn of a Thursday,
Sour and sad ‘
Horn of a Friday,
Godly given;
Horn of a Saturday.
Work for your living;
Horn of a Sunday.
Never shall want—
So there’s the week
And the end on't,
For wedding days the prospects arc given
as follows:
Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health,
Wednesday the best day of all;
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses.
Saturday no luck at all.
Nails grow more rapidly in children than
in adults, and faster in summer than in win
ter. Those of the right hand grow taster than
those of the left, find in proportion to tho
length of the fingers Those of the middle
linger are therefore the quickest in growth.
Number 7.