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VOL. 7.—NO. 35. Darien Timber Gazette, PUBLISHED EVEBY FRIDAY MORNING, .ir o.iitiß.r, eok/.i, CORNER BROAD AND NORTHWAY STREETS. RICHARD W. GRUBB, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES : For one year (in advance) $2.50 For six months “ 1.50 CLUB RATES : Five copies, each one year $2.00 Ten copies, each one year 1.50 ADVERTISING RATES: Per square, ten lines space, first insertion $1.50 Per squaro, each subsequent insertion 1.00 Special Rates to Yearly and Laboe Advertisers Advertisements from responsible parties will be published until ordered out, when the time is not specified on the copy, and payment exacted ac cordingly. Communications for individual benefit, or of a personal character, charged as advertisements. Marriages and obituary notices not exceeding four lines solicited for publication. When ex ceeding that space, charged as advertisements. Bills for advertisements due upon presentation after the.first insertion, but a spirit of commercial liberality will be practiced toward regular patrons. To avoid any misunderstanding the above rules will be adhered to without deviation. All letters and communications should be ad dressed to the undersigned, RICHARD W. GRUBB, Timber Gazette, Darien Georgia. City Directory. COUNTY OFFICERS. County Commissioners —James Walker, Chairman; Adam Strain, Isaac M. Aiken. J. A. Atwood, T. 11. Gignilliat, James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton. Clerk Hoard of County Commissioners —Spalding Kenan. Cierk Superior Court —L. B. Davis. Ordinary— C. H. Hopkins, Sr. Sheriff—V. Butler Blount. Receiver Tap Returns —W. MeW. Young. Tax Collector— O. C. Hopkins. County Treasurer —M. C. O'Neil. County Surveyor— W. R. Poppel. Coroner —Philip Maxwell. The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on the first Wednesday in each month. CITY OFFICERS. Fz-Officio Mayor —James Walker. Ex-Oj/icio Aldermen —.Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood, Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat, Isaac M. Aiken. STANDING COMMITTEES. Committee on Finance —Messrs. Strain, Atwood and Hilton. Committee on Accounts —Messrs. Holmes, Oignil liat and Aiken. Committee on Harbor —Messrs. Hilton, Aiken and Strain. Committee on Health and Cemetery —Messrs. Gignil liat, Atwood and Holmes. Committee on Vaupers —Messrs. Atwood, Holmes and Gignilliat. Committee on Jail —Mossrs. Aiken, Hilton and Atwood. Committee on Streets and Lanes —Messrs. Aiken, Strain and Holmes. Committee on County Roads —Messrs. Atwood, Gignilliat and Hilton. Committee on Ihiblic Buildings— Mossrs. Strain, Gignilliat, and Aiken. Committee on Police— Messrs. Holmos, Hilton and Strain. Committee on Ordinances —Messrs. Aiken, Strain vnd Atwood. Clerk and Treasurer— Spalding Kenan. City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. Deputy Marshal —Alonzo Guyton. Harbor Master —George Crane. Port P.iysieian—Vr. James Holmes. Inspector General of Timbei —George W. Faries. Port Wardens —lsaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell, and James O. Young. Jailer —Charles 11. Hopkins, Jr. Hoard Pilot Commissio tiers —rD. R. B. Harris, Chairman, li. K. Walker, W. C.Ciark, Arthur Bai ley, ‘W. L. Fulton, James LVchlisoh and Robert Mitchell. Lewis Livingston, Secretary. MASONIC. Live Oak Lodge, No. 137, meets first Wednesday nignt in each month at their hall near the Magno lia House; James Walker, Worshipful Master; M. C. O'Neil, Secretary UNITED STATES OFFICERS. Collector of Customs, Brunswick District —John T. Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick. Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien — Charles H. Townsend. Inspector —Edwin C. Davis. Postmaster —D. Webster Davis. Deputy Marshal —Joseph B. Bond. SUPERIOR COURT—EASTERN CIRCUIT. Hon. Win. B. Fleming, Judge. Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General. Bulloch County—Thursday before first Mondays in April and October. Etfingham County—First Mondays in April and October. Bryan County—Thursdays after first Mondays in April and October. Chatham County—Second Mondays in February, May and October. Mclntosh County—Tuesdays after last Mondays in April and October. Liberty County—Tuesday alter second Mondays n May and October. UNITED STATES MAILS. The mails arrive from Sterling, No. 1, Macon & Brunswick Railroad, every morning (Sunday ex cepted) at 10 o'clock a. m„ departing every after noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at 2 hi p. m. Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic A: Gulf Railroad, departs 8g o'clock every Tuesday morning au.l arrives at 8 p. m, every Monday, touching at Riceboro and South Newport both ways. RELIGIOUS. Religious services at the Methodist Church every Sunday morning at 11 oclock, and evening st 8 o'clock. School ai the Ridge every Sunday afternoon at 312 o’clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, pas tor. Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. m. and 3 p.m. at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev. Smith, pastor. UTO $3,000 A YEAR, or $-5 to S2O i day in your own locality. No risk. Women do as well as men. Many make more than the amount stated above. No one ' can fafl to make money fast. Any one can do the work. You can make from 50 ets. to $2 an hour by devoting your evenings anil spare time to the business. It costs nothing to try the business. Nothing like it ever offered ““tore. Business pleasant and strictly honorable. Reader, if you want to know- all about the best paying business before the public, send its your address and we will send you full particulars and f'D'.att ternjs free; samples worth $5 also lree; you can then make up voqr mind for yoursalt. Address GEORGE STINSON A 00., Portland. Me. June 20 Garden Seed. \\T E Have on hand a supply of fresh " * Garden Seed, just received, consisting m part of BEETS, CABBAGE, CARROTS, CUCUMBERS, CELERY, EGGPLANT, LETTUCE, OKRA, ENGLISH PEAS, 9EANS. TOMATOES, SQUASH, OYSTER PLANT, EARLY COEN, PEPPER. Ere. W. H COTTER & CO., Druggist* and Apothecaries Professional Cards. ’yy ALTER A. WAY, Attorney-at-L.aw and Ileal Estate Agent, DARIEN, GEORGIA. Will practice in the Superior Courts of the Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also, in the Federal Courts in cases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par ticular attention given to the collection of claims and the examination of land titles. april‘2s w. ROBERT GIGNILLIAT, Attorney-at-Eaw, DARIEN, GEORGIA. Prompt attention given to all legal business in the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia. april2s-ly I' E. B. DeLORME, J. Attorney & Counselor-at-Eaw, and Notary Public. DARIEN, GEORGIA. Office on Broad street, near Timber Exchange. Jnly‘2 SPALDING KENAN, DARIEN, GEORGIA. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Darien and vicinity. He can he found at all Lours day and night, at his office on Screven street, next door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwelling house. augS-lv TAR. It. B. HARRIS Offers his professioual services to the citizens of Darien and surrounding country. All calls prompt ly attended, both medical and surgical. Office under the Masonic Hall, in old Custom House building. J J. ABRAMS, Attorney-at-EaW, Commercial Building, june6-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. HENRY B. TOMPKINS. B. A. DENMABK. rpOMPKINS & DENMARK, * Attorney s-at-Law, No. 105 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA. Practice in the United States Courts, and in the Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. jed-tf Miscellaneous. • LOOK OUT. HOYT’S COLOGNE, CORNING’S COLOGNE, LUBIN'S EXTRACTS, POMADES, HAIR OIL, TOILET POWDER, LILLY WHITE. PUFF BOXES, ROUGE, TOILET SETS, And in fact, a full assortment of Perfumery and Fancy Toilet Articles. Soaps—toilet, laundry and medicated. Give us a call. W. H. COTTER A CO., feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries. NOTICE!. VVUeelvvriglit and Blacksmith r AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS I of Wheelwright and Blacksmith work at Short notice. BUGGIES, WAGONS AND SIGNS PAINTED. Gorham’s Patent Attachment for shafts (a great saving of time and money to all who use them) are kept on hand. , All kinds of work done in first-class style. All I ask of the people of Darien and Mclntosh County is a trial. All work warranted. J ROBERT MITCHELL, je6-tf Second street, Darien, Ga. Ihi g.! Tb” tl A LIMITED NUMBER of BH ft N I rll active, energetic canvassers to If rli? 8 L.yengage in a pleasant and profitable business. Good men will find this a rare chance TO MAKE MONEY. Snch will please answer this advertisement by letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what business they have been engaged in. None but those who mean business apply. Address je‘2o-ly. Finley, Habvey A Cos., Atlanta, Ga. Srfc f> /"| t MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a day ■ll 11 lat home made by the industrious. mill (Capital not required; we will start 3 SI || I you. Men, women, boys and girls LID Umake money faster at work for us than anything else. The work is light and pleasant, and such as anyone can go right at. Those who are wise who see this notice will send us their addresses at once and see for themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. .Now is the time. Those already at work are laying up large sums of money. Address TRUE A CO., Augusta, Me. june2o-ly Collat Brothers. Perform Tlieir Promise New Inducements to the Purchasing Public! Drives in Every Department ’. Drives from the Jobbers !! Special Drives from our Buyers ! ! ! Solid Fact! Soßd Fait j Savannah Prices in Darien. In Groceries, Hardware, Wood & Willow Ware- Crockery, Stoves, Glassware, Sadlery. TOE OFFER SPECIALITIES IN DRY GOODS and Blankets. Shoes of all grades,in pegged ma shine and hand sewed. We keep in stock a fine selection of Ladies and Gents hand-made Boots and Shoes. We are offering the finest line of Gents FURNISHING GOODS. Clothing, Hats, Trunks, Vaiices, which we carry in endless variety and constantly receive from Nortnem markets only. Thanking you for past favors and saUciting a continuance of the same, we arc yours. n2B-tf, COLLAT BROTHERS. DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1880. JUST OUT. Hood’s Great Book OF THE WAR. Advance ami Retreat, Personal Experiences in the United Stales and Confed erate States .Srmies. By General J. B. Hood, Late Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army, puplished for The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund. —BY— General G. T. Beauregard. New Orleans, 1880. The entire jiroceeds arising from the sale of this work are devoted to tiie Hood Orphan Me morial Fund, which is invested in United States Reglsted Bonds for the nurture, care, support and education of the ten infants deprived of their parents last summer at New Orleans, (the melan choly incidents of which sad bereavement are still fresh in the public minds. The book is an elegant octavo, containing 360 pages, with a fine photograph likeness and a line steel engraving, made expressly for this work, four large maps of battle fields, bound in handsome gray English cloth ihree dollars, or in a fine sheep binding with marble edge, three dollars and fifty cents—ln half bound Morocco, library style, four dollars, or in best levent Turkey Mo rocco, full gilt sides and edges, five dollars. On the receipt from any person remitting by mail or express, 01 the amount in a registered letter or by a postal order, bank draft or check, a copy will be immediately sent free ot postage, registered as second-class matter. The volume is published in the best style of typography, on elegant paper, with illustrations, executed at highest specimens of art. The author, the subject, the purpose, a!', alike render it worthy a place in every library,—on every desk—or upon the book shelf of every house in the country. Agents wanted in every town and county in the United States, and a preference will be given to honorably discharged veterans from the army. To tiie ladies, who feel a desire to express their sympathy with The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund the sale of this book among their circle of friends, will afford an excellent way of contributing sub stantial aid to so deserving a cause. For Term"*, Rates to Agents, Etc;, Ad dress with lull Particulars, Gfn’l G. T. Beauregard, Publisher, On behalf of the Hood Memorial Fund. j3O-tf. New Orleans, La. “MUFF if.” —THE— Savanna!] Weekly News Of February 7th will contain the opening chapters of a charming serial story, entitled !v£ UPFIT, BY MBS. OPHELIA NISBET REID, of Eatonton, Ga., Author ol “My Mother’s Daughter,” “Afterward” and -‘Mrs. Dare.” rpHOSE who have enjoyed the pleasure afforded JL by the perusal o( this gifted aud accom plished lady’s grevious productions, will need no commendation of this her last and most success ful effort, to prepare them for the rare literary treat that awaits them. MUFFIT is a story of al;sorbing interest, and its publication will run through some eight or ten issues of the Weekly News and Sunday Tele gram. Subscripiion $2 a year, $1 for six months. Money can be sent, by money order, registered tetter, or express at our risk. J. 11. ESTILL, 30-tf. Savannah, Ga. M'lntosh Sheriff Tax Sale. FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH, 1880. YI7TLL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT HOUSE VV door, iu the city of Darien, county of Mcln tosh, State of Georgia, betweeu the legal hours of sale, on the First Tuesday in March, 1880, the same being the 2d flay- of the month, the follow ing described property, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy a tax fi. fa. due (In state and couuty, for the. year 1879 vs. T. P. Pease: Upon all those certain lots in the city of Darien, county of Mclntosh, State of Georgia, aiui j know-n iu the plan of said city-, af lots number : 201, 202, and 203. and half of lots number 1; lots j number 201, 202, and 203; bounded on the north by lots number 230, 231, and 232, on the south by third street, aud west by lot number 200, balidot number 1 and bounded north by Green street, south bv Bread street, cast by lot number 2. and west by the other half of lot number 1. Levied on as the property of the estate of T P. Pease. Levy made by O. C. Hopkins, lax. Collector, and turned over to T. B. Blount, Sheriff. Terms of sale cash, purchaser piying for titles. Property pointed out by James Walker, Executor estate of T. I>. Pease. T. li. BLOUNT, jan3o. Sheriff of Mclntosh comity. Ga. Singer Sewing Machine. RS JULIA CLARKE HAYING SECURED the agency for the genuine and old reliable Sin ger Sewing Machine, is now prepared to servo all those w-ho are in need of the best machine that is made, and at very reasonable prices. Mrs. Clarke is also actirg in Darien for Messrs. Ludden k Bates music store, Savannah, and will be pleas ed to take orders for any thing in their line. Give her a call opposite Mr. Reuben V\ alkc-r s offices. Darien, Ga., December 2Ctb, 1879. " The Best Agricultural Journal Published in the South.” THE SOUTHERN KILTS MONTHLY. A LARGE QUARTO of 32 Jf 2 . pages, handsomely print er :;Tr" ed, filled with choice read e.r - ing of interest to the far liter, with an illustrated fashion department lor the j 4,'-FI.- ladies. fUyear. $Ua ‘1 year. Sample copy 15 cents. | Address: J- H. TILL, 3 Whitaker street, Savannah, Ga \'a •*• 01 "The Savannah Weekly .Yews,” <i "• - 8-;xmw news/mper, or of the ‘I/aiy Mum-ay \ eel" the leading daily of the Southe-ist sen stamp. Address as ahore SOUTH. SOUTH. PULASKI HOUSE, SAVANNAH GEORGIA, GOODSELL BROS., PROPRIETORS. riAHIK HOUSE IS NOW OPEN FOR THE RECEP- L tion ot guests. It has been thoroughly ren ovated. aud is now being extensively repaired. I iberal arrangements made with weekly header. (jittMMX) HKO* . 1 nov2l tf Proprietors. THE SUN FOR 1880. The Sun will deal with the events of the year 1880 in its ow-u fashion, now pretty well under stood by everybody. From January 1 until Decem ber 31, w ill be conducted as a newspaper, written in the English language, and printed for the people. Asa newspaper, The Sun believes in getting all the new-s of the world promptly, and presenting it iu the most inteUigable shape—the shape that will enable its readers to keep well abreast of the age with the least unproductive expenditure of time. The greatest interest to the greatest uum bor—that is, the law controlling its daily make-up. It now has a circulation much larger than any other American newspaper, and enjoys an income which is at all times prepared to spend liber ally tor the benefit ot Its readers. People of aU condi tions of life and all ways of thinking buy and read The Sun; and they all derive satisfaction of some Bort from its columns, for they keep on buy ing and reading it. In its comments on men and affairs, Tiie Sun be lieves that lb e only guide of policy should be common sense, inspired by genuine American principles and backed by honesty of purpose. For the reason it is, and will continue to be, absolute ly- Independent of party, class, clique, organiza tion, or interest. It is for all, but of mine. It will continue to praise w-liat is good and reprobate w-liat is evil, taking care that its language is to the point and plain, beyond the posibility of being misunderstood. It is uninfluenced by motives that do not appear on the surface; it lias no ojiin ions to sell, save those which may be had by any purchaser for two cents. It hates injustice and rascality even more than it hates unnecessary words. It abhors frauds, pities fools, and de plores nincompoops of every- species. It will con tinue throughout the year 1880 to chastise the first cl iss, instruct the second, and discountenance the third. All honest men with honest convic tions, w-hether sound or mistaken are its friends. And The Sun makes no bones of telling the tru th to its friends and about its friends whenover occa sion arises for plain speaking. These are the principles upon which The Sun will be conducted during the, year to come. The year 1880 wiU be one in which no patriotic American can afford to close his eyes to public af fairs. It is impossible to exaggerate the impor tance of the political events which it haH in store, or the necessity of resolute vigilence on the part of every citizen who desires to preserve the Gov ernment that the founders gave us. The debates and acts of Congress, the utterances of the press, the exciting contest of the Republican aud Demo cratic parties, now nearly equal in strength throughout the country, directly and effectively upon the twenty-fourth Presidential election, to be held in November. Four years ago next Nov ember the will of the nation, as expressed at the polls, was thwarted by an abominable conspir acy, and promoters and beneficiaries of which still hold the officers they hold. Will the crime of 1876 be repealed in 18K0 ? The past decade of years opened will: a corrupt, extravagant, and insolent Administration intrenched at Washington. The Sun did something townrd dislodging the gang and breaking its power. The same men are now | intriguing to restore their leader and themselves to places from whence they were driven by- the indignation of the people. Will they succeed ? Xlie coming year will bring the answer to these mo mentous questions: The Sun will be on hand to chronicle the facts as they are developed, and to exhibit them clearly and fearlessly in their rela tions to expediency- and right. Thus, with a habit of philosophical good humor in looking at the minor affairs of life, and in great things a steadfast purpose to maintain the rights of the people and the principles of the Constitu tion against all aggressors. The Sitn is prepared to write a truthful, instructive, and at the same time entertaining history of 1880. Our rates of subserif ions remained unchanged. For the Daily Sun, a four-paged sheet of twenty eight. columns, the price by mail, post-paid, is 55 cents a month, or SfS 50 a year: or. including the Sunday paper, an eight-paged sheet of fifty-six columns,the price is 03 cents a month, or#? 'JCt a y-ear, postage paid. The Sunday edition of The Sun is also furnish ed seperately at 20 a year, postage paid. The price of the Weekly Sun, eight pages, fifty six columns, is til a year, postage paid. For clubs of ten sending $1 we will send an extra copy free. Address I. AY. ENGLAND, Publisher of The Sun, New York City THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. During the coming year—a year that will witness the progress and culmination of the most,interesting political contest that has ever taken place iu this country—every citizen and every thoughtful person will be compelled to rely upon the newspapers for information. Why not get the best ? Abroad The Constitution is recognized, referred to and quoted from as the leading Southern Journal—as the organ and vehi cle of the best Southern thought and opinion— and at home its columns are consulted for the latest new-s, the freshest comment, and for all matters of special and current Interest. The Con stitution contains more and later telegraphic news than any other Georgia paper, and (his par ticular feature will be largely added to during the coming year. All Its facilities for gathering the latest news from all parts of the country will be enlarged and supplemented. The Constitution is both a chronicler and commentater. Its edito rial opinions, its contributions to the drift of cur rent discussion, its humorous and satirical par agraphs, are copied from one end of the country to the other. It aims always to be the brightest and the best—newsy, original and piquant. It aims particularly to give the news impartially and fully, and to keep its readers informed on the drift of current discussion by liberal but concise quo tations from all of its contemporaries. It aims, in short, to more than ever deserve to be known as “the leading Southern newspaper.” Bill Arp will continue to contribute his unique letters, which grow in savory- humor week by week. “Old Si will add his quaint tun to the collection of good things, and “Uncle Remus" lias in preparation a series of negro myth legends, illustrating the folk lore of the old plantation. In every respect The Constitution for 1880 will be better than ever. The Weekly Constitution is a carefully edited compendium of the news of the week and con tains the best and freshest matter to be found in any other -weekly from a daily office. Its news and miscellaneous contents are the freshest and its market reports the latest. the southern cultivator. This, the best, the most reliable and most popu lar of southern agricultural journals is issued from the printing establishment of The Constitu tion. It is still edited by Mr. W. n. Jones, and is devoted to the best interests of the farmers of the South. It is sent at deduced rates with the week ly edition of The Constitution. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Constitution #l9 99 a year. .. •. 5 OO six months. .. ” 2 50 three months Weekly Constitution 1 50 a year. .< 1 00 six aienths. .. •• Clubs of 10. 12 50 a yet#. .< “ Clubs of 20, 20 00 Southern Cultivator 1 60 .. “ Clubs of 10, 12 50 “ .. ■■ Clubs of 20, 20 00 Weekly Constitution and Cul tivator to same address 2 50 for one year. Address THE CONSTITUTION : Atlanta. Ga. ANNOUNCEMENT. a . 1-r FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY I Y\ friends and customers tor their liberal pat ronage during the past year, and we have entered anew year with the determination to deserve a larger share of their trade. We do not keep cheap drugs but sell a GOOD AND DUKE ARTICLE OF MEDICINE as low as it <*an i>€ sold. Romon.bor j that wo have constantly in stock a full assortment j of PURE MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, PATENT MEDICINES of all kinds. HAIR DYES, HAIR OILS. 11A111 BRUSHES, TOOTH BRUSHES. And the best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at I ' Prescriptions carefully compounded night or I day ’ w. n. COTTER A- CO., I feb22-tf Druggists aud Apothecaries. For Rent. rjMiE DWELLING HOUSE FORMERLY OCCU : nie.l bv Mr. Joseph B. Bond is offered for rent, i Apply to the HILTON TIMBER A LUMBER CO. Darien, Ga., October 31, J 8.6. The Clean Newspaper. There is a growing feeling in every healthy community against journals that make it their special object to minister to a perverted taste by seeking out and serv ing up in seductive form disgusting and licentious revelations. There is good reason to believe that the clean newspa per is more highly prized to day than it was four or five years ago. It is also safe to predict that as people in all ranks of life, who protect their own, at least, from contamination, become more concious of the pericious influence of a certain class of journals, called enterprising because they are ambitious to serve up dirty scandals, they will be careful to sco that the journals they permit to be read in the family circle are of the class that never forget the proprieties of life. Already men and women of refinement and healthy morals have had their attention called to the pernicious influence of had literature, and have made commendable efforts to counteract the same by causing sound lit erature to be published and sold at popu lar prices. These efforts are working a silent but sure revoloution. Tlio best authors are more generally read to day than at any previous date. The sickly sentimental story paper and the wild ran ger and pirate story books are slowly but surely yielding the field to worthier claimants. To the praise of the decent newspaper it may be said that where it has a place in the family and has been read for years by youngjas well as old, such a discriminating taste that the literature of the slums 1 as no admirers. Fortunately the number of such families is increasing in the land, and as they increase, the journal that devotes itself to sickening revelations of immorality will be com pelled to find its supporters solely among those classes who practice vice and crime or are ambitious to learn to follow such ways. Make Others Talk If we notice closely, we shall find that the people who aro most popular in social life are those who understand not only to talk themselves, but how to make oth ers talk. This is a very valuable gift. To be able so to direct conversation as not to display your own knowledge, but to draw out the opinions and quicken the thoughts of those with whom you talk —this is an accomplishment indeed. It makes each a contributor to the enjoyment of all, and it leaves with each a pleasant sense of having said something which others were glad to hear. This is very different from the consciousness of having been bored or snubbed, or both which lesser folks often carry away from the presence of a fluent aud tyrannical talker. There is a good deal of this sort of conver sational missionary work to be done, and the time which we spend in chattering about the weather might be very* profita bly devoted to it. It should be borne in mind that there is scarcely any one of av erage intelligence who cannot, if he is drawn out, talk interestingly and instruct tively about at least one thing—the thing | with which he is practically familliar, or | which is connected with his regular labor. : Is your companion on the car or on the street a machinist, a manufacturer, an | artist, a builder?—lead the conversation | around to one subject, if there are no oth- j ers, in which he is sure to be interested. The result will be that you will please him I and will gain fresh knowledge yourself. Whoever talks much thus with specialist upon their chosen department of labor or thought, will get together a fund of valua ble information, not to be learned from the books. Josh Billings’ Advice to the “Quire” Singer The first thing to make a good quire singer is to giggle a little. Put up your hair in curl papers every Friday uite, soze to have it in good shape Sunday morning. If your daddy is rich you can buy some store hair; if he isvery rich,buy some more and build it high upon your head; then get a high priced bunnet that runs up ! very high at the high part of it, and git the milliner to plant some high grown artefishals onto the highest part. When the tnne is giv out don’t pay attention to it, and then giggle. Giggle a good eel. Wisper to the girl next you that Em Jones, which sets on the second seet from the front on the left-hand side, has her bunnet with the same-color exact she had bust year, and then put up your book to your face and giggle. Object to every tune unless there is a so low into it for the soplirano. Coff and hem a good eel before you begin to sing. When you sing a solow, shake the artifi shc-ls off your bunnet, and when you come to a high note brace yourself back a little, twist your bead to One side and open your mouth the widest on that side, shet the eye just trifle on the same side, and then put in for dear life. When the preacher gits under hedway with his preachin’, write a note on the blank leaf of your note book. That's what the leaf wus made for. Git some body to pass the note tosumbody else and you watch them while they read it and I then giggle. If anybody talks or laffs in the congre- j gashun"and the preacher takes ndtis of it, i that’s a good chance for you to giggle a j great cel. The preacher darsen’t say any thing to you bekaus you are in the quire. I If you had a bow before you went into the | quire give him the mitten you ought to 1 have sumbody better now. Don’t forget to giggle. A Donkey Rebuked.— At a garrison ball a newly-arrived lieutenant, wishing for a ; partner, ottered an introduction to a young lady of somewhat large proportions. He j declined, saying be would just ts soon drag a cart about the room. The lady, who chanced to be tlio colonels daughter, heard the remark, and secretly resolved to have her revenge when an opportunity offered. Later in the evening the young officer discovered the fact of her being the daughter of his “chief,” and thought it well” to retract his former refusal. On 1 being presented, and soliciting the favor ! of the next waltz, she coolly bowed, and aid, ‘-1 thank you, but am much too heavy i ;i cart for any donkey to draw.” A celebrated French beauty in the time : of Napoleon Bonaparte. Mine. Louise Lu- j eerne, baa just reached her 100th year. $2.50 A YEAR; The Innocent Old Man. The other day the police at the Union depot noticed a feeble looking old man wandering in and out to kill time until hie train should depart, and as he severaj times displayed quite a roll of bills,he wart cautioned to look out for pickpockets and confidence men. “"Wouldn’t anybody rob an old man liko me, would they?” he innocently ask ed. The warning was repeated, but he jog ged around as before, and after a time was Reen in consultation with two strangers who had walked him around to the wharf. An officer got him away from them and angrily said. “ Didn’t I warn you against strangers? Those fellows are after your money !” “ But how can they get it when I have it in my pocket and my band on it all the time ?” “ Well, you look out.” “ Yes, 1 will look out; but Idon’t want to be uncivil. When anybody talks to me, I like to talk back.” The strangers soon had him on the string again, and in about a quarter of an hour they left him in a hurried manner, and ho sauntered into the depot with his wallet in his hand. “ There! You’ve let ’em beat you!” ex claimed the officer. “ How much did you lend them ?” . “ Wall, they wanted $20,” he slowly re plied. “ And you handed it over of course?” “ 1 give ’em asso bill and gots3o back.” “Well, you’ll never see that bill-again.” “ I kinder hope not!” he chuckled, as he drew his eye. “It w'as a counterfeit which my son found in Troy, and being as 1 am very old and innocent and not up to the tricks of the wicked world, I guess I’ll git into the cars before somebody robs me of my boots! If any one should come around looking for me, please say I’m not at home!" A Second Tell. —- The late Recorder Hackett, of New York, was an enthusiastic sportsman, one of his divertions being the shooting of grasshoppers with a revolver. A more critical and dangerous practice, was the shooting of coins hold in the fin gers of a person at a proper distance, and shooting an apple placed upon the head of another person in which the deceased Judge was an expert who never failed. The following is vouched for by an eye-wit ness of the affair; At the Mission Dolores, close to San Francisco, a western lad of twen ty years of age had often supported ap plies and held coin for Mr. Hackett to prac tice upon in this perilous fashon, and one day, on the occasion of a little dinner party, a special exhibition was to be had. The marksman was to cleave an apple on the youth’s head at ten paces. Before the time came, however, an ingenious gentle man, celebrated in the East as well as the West for his practical jokes, brided the lad to go through a carefully-rehearsed scene. He was provided with a clot of blood-color ed paint, and instruced to secret this in his hand just before the show. At the report cf the pis : ol he was to spin around, clap the paint to his foreherd as he turned his pick to Mr. Hackett, give a yell, vault high in the air and fall to the ground. All, this was actually and carefully done in ti e presence of the five or six persons who hau dined together. The expectation, of course, was Mr. Hackett would be stricken with remorse and horror, and rush for ward instantly to hie -weltering victim; but when, instead, the marksman quietly sat down where he stood, and, with his own peculiar smile, proceeded to light a cigar, a tale was told that the amused witness have forgotten. The Cigab.—ln the pleasant flavor of tne pure Havana the habitual smoker claims a soothing luxury that quiets the nerves and invites repose. Science ignor ing such a pretence, minutely examines the elements which compose this dreamy fountain of comort. This examination discloses a combination of substances, which when taken alone, are extremety re pulsive to the refined taste of the customer,' These are the general substances found in the smoke: Soot, carbonic acid and ox ide, rind vaporous matter, which forms oily nicotine. The feathery white ash, which in its cohesion and whieness, indi cates the good cigar, yields potash, soda, magnesia, lime, phosphoric acid, sulphur ic acid, silica and cholrine. The ingredi ents extracted from a cheap cigar are fear ful to contemplate. The following is a list from a parlimentary report on adulter ations in tobacco: Sugar, alum, lime, flour or meal, rhubarb leavea, saltperer, fullers’s earth, starch, malt commings, chromate of lead, went moss, molasses, burdock leaves, common salt, endive leaves, lampblack, gum, red dye, a black dye composed of vegetable red and licorice, scraps of news papers, cinnamon stick, cabbage leaves and straw paper. Hottest Spot on Earth. —One of the hottest regions on the earth is along the rersian Gulf, where little or no rain falls. At Bahrin the arid shore has no fresh we-, ter, yet a comparatively numerous populi - tion contrived to live there, thanks to the copious springs which break forth frcm the bottom of the sea. The fresh water is got by diving. The diver, sitting in his boat, winds a great goatskin bag around his left arm, the hand grasping its mouth; then takes in his right hand a heavy store to which is attached a strong line, and thus equipped he plunges in and quickly reaches the bottom. Instantly opening the bag over the strong jet of fresh water, he springs up the ascending current,at the same time closing the bag, and is helped aboard. The stone is then hauled up, and the diver, after taking breath, plunges | again. 'lhe source of the copious subinft ! rine springs as though to be in the gre n i hilts in Osman, some five or six hundred miles distant. Insulting a Neighbor “I wonder what makes it look so dark and gloomy out doors ?” saiil Mrs. Hick t nlooper to the next-door neighbor, who had j ust run in a minute to borrow a couple, of fresh-laid eggs. “I guess it’s becau ei vour windows need washing,’ gently i marked the next-door neighbor, critically running her forefinger up and down the glass. And then there was a sort of 0001, , ness fell like a wet sheet on the assembled 1 multitude, and the next-door neighbor's j c..ke wasn’t as rich by two eggs as it might | have been.