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JACKSON CO. PUB. COM’Y, ) Proprietors. i VOLUME V. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. ROBERT S. HOWARD, Editor and Publisher, JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. )FKICE, n. e. cor. public square, up-stairs. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months $1.50 44 4 * 6 44 1.00 “ 44 3 44 50 every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar per square (often lines or less) for the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. I *£T A. square is a space of one inch, measured up and down the column. All Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published till forbid, and charged accordingly. jUfr-llusincss or Professional Cards, of six lines or less, Seven Dollars per annum; ami where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. £cpf Jlitacrtisemcutg. 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.