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CREENFStOftO. GEORGIA.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Ostrich farms are to be established in
Southwestern Texas.
The demand for Georgia pine is great
ly on the increase in the North.
There 'are 3,400,000 acres of United
Btate* lands for sale in Mississippi.
Four thousand merino bucks have been
received by a Ban Antonio, Texas, firm.
Lake City, Fla., is supplied with ebar
meat, which is sold at fifteen cents per
pound.
The Governor of Alabama is mansion
less, and his salary is only sufficient for
a bare subsistence.
The Vicksburg Herald estimates that
there are forty pistols ,to every subsoil
plow in the State of Mississippi.
Augusta, Ga., loses the $50,000 dona
tion left by Gazaway It. Lamar, througli
a decision of the United Btate* Supreme
Court.
The noted Indian mound at Tusca
] is to be excavated. It is expected
that some interesting relies will be un
scythed. ' t j '
A Northern company has purchased
the iron ore bed near Rome, Ga , paying
$10,090 for it. Another blast furnace is
to be erected.
A party of gentlemen from Kentucky
are prospecting in Florida, with a view
to start a factory to manufacture fibre
from “bear grass.” .
A party of Micl’gan capit dists have
made large purcha. ' of timber land in
Marion county, Miss., for the purpose of
going into the lumber business.
The Knoxville Chronicle thirißs that
the people of Tennessee could afford to
give away their iron ore to jieople who
would build furnaces in their neighbor
hood.
At Mobile, Ala., Mr. and Mrs. L.
Galle, Mrs. llamhauer and her daughter
Fanny were poisoned by eating hogs
head cheese that had atood in n tin ves
sel for some days.
Virginia ranks seventeenth in the list
of fish-producing States, thcoystci, men
haden and shad fisheries being the three
branches in which her citizens are most
xtensixely interested.
‘‘A reward of SSOO and no questions
asked,” offered by Judge Strong, fails to
elicit a response in the case of the records
which [were spirited away from the
County Clerk’s office in Atlanta.
Three barges and 00,000 feet of wal
nut lumber, valued at SB,GOO were lost
last week in the l'owell river, on the way
to Chattanooga ; 139,000 feet consigned
to New York reached the city in snfety.
The Atlanta Constitution tells of a
Georgia boy just a little over eight years
old, who last year cultivated with a
common goat three-quarters of an qcro
of lu'uu aid made 333 pounds of lint cot
ton.
People in Athens, Ga., are loading
their wood piles. A negro stole some
the other day from one of the loaded
piles and now her cooking stove is flying
through space, and she’s lying up for
repairs.
The freezing of fish, flowers and other
articles in blocks of ice which are used
in the windows of restaurants, making
•very attractive signs, is practiced by the
New Orleans ice manufacturing estab
lishments.
A Hernando county, Florida, farmer
wade last season from seven acres of land
planted in sugar cane, fifty-one barrels
of syrup, five barrels of molasses, ten
barrels of sugar, aud sold 30,000 stalks
vf iced cane.
Mr. Knight, the superintendent of the
Maginnis cotton factory at New Or
leans, makes the prediction that in
twenty years all the mills of the United
tttates producing plain brown cotton
goods will be located in the South.
Mrs. Lucinda llosa, of Monroe county,
Ga., is seventy-four years of age, has
•se hundred and forty five living dc
seendents and thirty-one dead, and, be
ing an accouclicure, lias officiated at the
birth of one hundred and fifty-eight of
the aforesaid posterity.
Macon Telegraph: Dogs command a
much higher price in Georgia than
sheep. Legislators have a superstitious
fear of the evil results which they im
agine would come to them if they should
try to equalize the value of these ani
mals by putting a tax on the farmer.
Although a year has elapsed since the
appropriation of the $200,000 for the re
building of the Pensacola custom-house
and post-office was made by Congress,
nothing has yet been done toward its re
establishment. The difficulty seems to
be in securing a suitable site for the
bwllding.
Mr. Hanson, President of the Cotton
Mamufacturers’ Association, insist that
the South must not continue to he de
pendent on imported labor, and that it
must establish polytechnic schools, where
the young men of mechanical inclina
tions and talent may be taught and be
come expert.
There is a law in Georgia requiting
emigrant agents to pay a license fee of
SSOO in every county in which they so
licit emigrants. It is said that theie are
a number of these 'agents who are vio
lating this law. It is said that Mormon
missionaries might be barred under a
strict construction of the act.
The Texas Meat Company has com
menced the erection of an extensive es
iblishnunt at Victoria for the slauth
ter of cattle and sheep, which it intends
to ship direct to New Orleans, St. Louis
and Chicago in refrigerator cars. The
Refrigerator Car Company is largely in
terested in the Aiterpiise, and will- of
course use every exertion to make it a
successs.
An old lady in Hartwell, Ga., haa
made all the necessary pieparations for
her burial except the coffin. She has a
black silk dress, all the necessary under
clothing, a cap, gloves, etc.; even has a
cake of perfumed eoap, wash rag and
towel for washing her body, and a can
dle nearly two feet long, which she has
had ever since the war, and which is to
afford light for the watchers when she
lies in state.
There are about 10,000 acres of land
in Walker county, Ala., owned by va
rious individuals. They arc coal land
bordering on the Georgia Pacific road,
and it understood that a company is
to tc organized in this city with the
object of purchasing and developing
these lands. Since the Georgia Pacific
through Walker county has been a “fix
ed fact,” a large quantity of mineral
lands have been sold ip Walker county.
A movemyit h*s recently been started
by a number, of prominent citizens of
Albany, Ga,, having for its object the
early re openiitg of the Flint river to Al
bany to for ordinary rif’er
craft, as was the "case some py ears ago,
and before the completion of Its raiiroad
system. The success of the Hcheme only
requires the removal of a few prominent
obstructions in the channel, between Al
bany and Bainbridge, which, will give
safe navigation to the Gulf.
Many of the Bruth Carolina farmers
express a determination to prepare dur
ing the 'present season for the general
introduction of immigrants in the fall,
so as to prevent the embarrassment rc
sulting'from the uncertain element which
they have had to depend upon hereto
fore for labor. They propose to build
comfortable houses and make other ar
rangements for the comfort of the immi
grant, which will go to insure his per
manent settlement in their midst.
tVilliitm Griffin has been fined $lO in
New Oileans for perpetrating a “pill
box” lottery. He would enter a house
and ask the ladies if they wished to play
lottery. Then he would take a number
of pill-boxes out of his pocket, put five,
dollar hills in some and paper in others;
shake up the hat and let his victims
draw at the rate of fifty cents a chance.
They generally won on the first round,
but nfter that luck would turn, and they
would come out losers. Ah his victims
were, ns a rule, respectable, they did not
complain, but suffered in silence. He
finally struck the wrong parties, how
ever ; hence his arrest.
Folk Place, the residence of Mrs. Jus.
K. Polk, contains among other valuable
mementies, picture of the world-re
nowned conqueror of Mexico—Hernan
do Cortez —and is a life-size three quar
ter length view of that illustrious hero.
Equipped in his beautifully ornamented
and shining coat lof mail, holding a
truncheon in the right hand, and the
left baud resting upon the hilt of his
sword, he is standing beside a table upon
which lie his iron gauntlets aud his hel
met crowned with waving plumes. The
hair and beard are dark and abundant,
and the large brown eyes are looking
upward with a contemplative express
ion not to be expected iu so restless and
daring a spirit.
Tlio Influence of Poe.
Poo, like Pope, threw himself into a
war with dunces. He hit and thrust at
them vigorously; he exposed a score of
cheap jHipuhiritieß ; ho was merciless to
the inexpensive reputations then readily
acquired by every too tier on the whistle
of Miss Eliza Cook. Since tlio timo of
Poe- American literature haa wonderfully
advnnced in tlio acquisition of force and
I>lish. American novelists, for exam
ple, almost give us lessons in careful
elaboration of style, in reticence and iu
well-calculated effects. American poets
are, perhaps, too numerous. That they
get a hearing as they do, and appeal to
a really-largo public, says much for the
interest of tlio jatoplc" in contenqiornry
verse. In form, in the mere arl of versi
fying, even the minor American poets of
to-day show wonderful versatility and
deftness. Commonplace is much less
successful than it was of old. In fiction,
analysis is almost too careful. Wo can
not but think that this rapid ripening of
the American muse (who was a raw, un
informed school-girl in the lifo-time of
I\h>) is duo in part to the influence of
that critic. His method is as unlike the
method of Mr. Matthew Arnold as pos
sible. But he exercised the same kind
of influence. Like Mr. Arnold, he in
troduced some tinge of French thought
and of French literature into tlio work
manship of his countryman. Perhaps
he was not a wide reader, and the ele
ment of affectation in. his nature may lie
detected in his quotations of obscure
Latin authors and in his Oriental allu
sions. It is hard to say how much
knowledge was implied in these allu
sions—how rich tho-minewas from which
Poo dug those sparkling fragments.
Still, he judged the writers of liis coun
try with some knowledge of other litera
tures. As he was quite ruthless in his
criticisms he did good, but at his own
cost —London Nicies.
Amusing Blunders.
Blunders on public occasions are often
as mortifying as they are amusing. For
instance:
At a military dinner in Ireland, the
following was on the toast-list : ‘-May
the man who has lost one evo iu the
glorious service of his beloved country
never see distress with the other.” But
the person whose duty it was to read
the toast accidentally omitted the word
“ distress,” which completely changed
the sentiment, and caused "no end of
merriment by tlio blunder.
Another instance may he quoted, if
only to show how careful people should
be m expressing themselves oh public
occasions :
A church in South London had been
erected, when a dinner was given, at the
conclusion of which the health of the
builder was proposed, when he rather
enigmatically replied that he was “more
fitted for the scaffold than for publio
speaking.”
TOPICS OP THE DAY.
Mb. Edmund Yates does not think
that artists should be too literary.
Tins Legislature of North Carolina has
judicially determined that dog stealing is
not larceny.'
Ant person in Pennsylvania over six
teen may be fined for using the name of
God in vain.
The gold plated thermometers were
distinguished as German favors at a Bos
ton party recently.
The number of religious works pub
lished in England last year was 789,
against 420 novels.
The police of Berlin will no longer
permit public performances of tamers of
loins and other wild animals.
Complaint is made in London that
when an astor throws a lighted cigar on
the stage he may cause a fire.
Miss Mabt Belle Baktlet, who has
just become a bride in Staunton, Vir
ginia, is thirteen years and ten months
old.
Florida orange groves are said to be
not so much in demand as they were.
The orange grove business has been
overdone.
It is claimed that the Unitefl States is
worth *50,000,000,000, or *O.OOO, 000, 000
more than England and $13,000,000,000
more than France.
It is stated that the death of Mr.
Oritchett, the eminent English oculist,
was hastened by remorse for a grave mis
take made by him in an operation.
Gov. Hamilton, of Illinois, is auother
successful man who believes with Disraeli
that ambitious women often make their
husbands successful. To a young and
lovely schoolmate lie owes, ho says, all
he has in the world. •
In order to pay tlio expenses of the
coronntion of Kalukaua, it is proposed to
pledge the King’s personal credit. Mean
while, peacocks and turkey gobblers are
being robbed of their feathers to make
the royal paraphernalia.
The King of Portugal was so pleased
with the American telephone that one
was bought for the palace, and his Min
isters, at least on one occasion, wero
called up at night to gratify his Maj
esty’s desire to talk with them at a dis
tance.
Walter Winn, one of the Nevada
pioneers, who died at Genoa, in that
State, a few days ago, was Secretary of
Btate under Governor Ham. Houston, of
Texas. Ho left valuable remiuiscences
of pioneer life in tho Southwest and on
the Pacific Coast.
Jonir G. Whittier recontly receive*
from a Chicago lady 200 engraved visit
ing cords with a request to write his
illustrious name on each of thorn, os tlio
writer was to give a reception to her
friends and desired to present them with
some memento gl the event.
( CoNQßEsslsWked to vote $20,000 for
• tlio Roohambean papers referring to the
French troops in the American war of
independence. Tho papers include 152
letters from Washington to Rochambeau.
SB,OOO is asked for ex-Senator Carpen
ter’s oolloction of Bupremo Court decis
ions and briefs. .
Commissioner of Railroads Arm
strong rocommends that the Government
bring suit for $1,500,000, duo from the
Union Pacific Railroad. This is the 25
per oent. of net earnings, less a fair prioo
for transporting troops aud supplies,
which tho Union Pacific is roquired by
law to pay the Government.
Dr. Marion Sims, who has a special
reputation for treatment of nervous dis
eases, declared in Philadelphia tho other
flay that Horace Greeley suffered from
oerebro spinal meningetis in his last ill
nese, and “should no more have been
sent to the insane asylum for treatment
tkan should a delirious typhoid fever
patient,”
Whites the Paris correspondent of
Life (London): “Miss Lilian Nordica,
the American prims donna, made her
appearance as Ophelia in ‘Hamlet’ at tho
Grand Opera the other night. French
critics com Vilnius of her strong American
accent, and slightly guttural voice; on
the other hand, they admit thntherarms
and hands are above reproach, and that
her eyes, teeth, and smile are .not un
interesting!” i
Miss Emma Wixom, otherwise Mile.
Nevada, this year receives SI,OOO per
month for singing in opera in Paris.
Next year her contract calls for $l,20l)
per month. By the expiration of her
present contract she will thushaveearned
$39,600 at the Opera Comique. Then
the will come home to America to make
some more.
A Mr. Jones, who made a fortune as
an army tailor aud then devoted thirty
years in collecting objects of art, died
recently, leaving to the Sontli Kensing
ton Museum the entire collection valued
at $1,000,000, and pronounced by ex
perts-to be the most costly ever present
ed to a national museum. Some of the
Loudon newspapers sneer at the gift be
cause of the means by which the giver
made his fortune.
Oscar F. Brown, formerly a banker
and broker iu Wall street. New York,
was, a few Sundays ago, ordained as a
minister of the Reformed Episcopal
Church. Two years ago he opened a
mission in one of the worst localities iu
New York, which he called Ziou Chapel.
It now has ninety communicants and
SOO scholars in the Sunday-school. Ho
expects to build a church, as the chapel
is net large enough for his congrega
tion.
The Prince of Wales, at the urgent
request of the Princess of Wales, is be- 1
stirring himself to put down tbs cruer
sport of “pigeon shooting.” The ladies
have formed a ring, aud intend “boy
cotting” Hurlingham until the Gun
Club discards the “pretty dove” and
adopts the “terracotta pigeon,” anew
invention which is beiDg brought out
under the patronage of the Prince of
Wales, and can be seen at work at the
Ranelagh Club grounds.
The proposed change in the manner
of issuing patents should interest inven
tors, inasmuch as the cost would be only
sl. whereas it is now from SSO to SIOO.
This fee would be for simply registering
the claims of inventors, leaving the mat
ter of the value of their works to be
afterward tried, and that of infringement
to be tested in the courts, as is practi
cally tfnd really now the case. The ma
chinery of the Patent Office would- be
greatly simplified in the new plan.
The New York Herald wants proprie
tors of ladies’ shoe stores to bounce the
yottng men clerks and replace them with
needy women, arguing that it is a great
embarrassment to customers to have
these young men try on their shoes. It is
to he assumed that practical business men
who run shoe scores know what they are
about, and wjsen they find they are
losing trade keeping young men to
try on will exchange them
for other objectionable clerks.
TflE •tatanihat Joseph Cilley of
IN<)*OlamSapthe oldest living Ex-
HMpplted States is coutra
dictedA.Tis EiCo-r. AU.,.lci
Morton, tlJlMtedflna, who was in the
Senate f*sH§W'to 1813. Gen. Daniel
R. the Senate in 1813,
and still lnßa Missouri; Henry A.
Foster succeeP l Bilas Wright in 1814,
and Simon Cameron became a Senator
in 1815. Mr. .Gilley’s term began in
1847. _
A mono tho many amazing things told
by I’rofessor Langley about the sun is
that if a bed of coal the size of the State
of Pennsylvania, and ten feet thick,were
suddenly shoved into the sun, it would
he used up in keeping up the present
energy of the sun for just one-hundredth
part of a second. Another of his illus
trations of the sun’s onergy is his esti
mate that tho rainfall on Manhattan
Island for three months, loaded as ico,
would fill a train extending from Jersey
City to San Francisco.
The bones of John Howard Payne,
which have lain in his far away grave at
Tunis for more than thirty years, were
taken up the 6th of January and sent to
this country for reburial. John Worth
ington, our Consul at Malta, who was
the only American present at the open
ing of the grave, writes an account of it
to the Chief Clerk of the State Depart
ment. A little company of twenty per
sons, among them two who attended
Payne’s funeral, gathered around the
grave at noon, aud the coffin, which was
badly decayed, was soon laid bare and
lifted out. Little was left within it,
save tho blackened skeleton, a few but
tons and some gold lace that had orna
mented the Colonel’s uniform in which
Payne was buried. These remains,
placed in a lea&v caifcet inclosed in a
hard wood box, r*lfted over night in the
little Protestant‘church, where a Bimple
service was held, and Payne’s once fa
mous song, which has lived because it
appealed to universal sentiment, was
uug.
Tiie Italian Army.
A military correspondent of the A 'oil
' ntscAt '/.'itutifj gives nn uufavorablt
account of the Italian Army. He say
it resembles a building which has be r
hurriedly run up on insufficient founda
tious in order that the expense of it;
erection should be kept down. The
whole of the able-bodied male popula
tion is divided into three categories.
The men of the first category have tr
serve three years in the regular army,
ivo in the reserve. four iu the mo. able
militia.and seven in the toritorial mill
tia ; those of the second category, live
yea's in the regimental depots, four ir
the movable muitia, and ten in the ter
ritorial militia ; and those of the thirc
category, the wliole of their time ift the
territorial militia This svlieme woidc
glv ■ Italy a very imposing military force
if it were, thoroughly earned out. But
hitherto the reserves have not been out
for training, the cadres of the movable
militia are incomplete, and the terr to
nal militia exists only on paper. Tlu
regular army is divided into ten army
corps, as is Germany ; but each com
pany consists only of fifty-four men foi
four months of the year, and of ninety
when it-is called for duty; the captains ol
the infantry are not mounted, and in the
cavalry the horses are tfiii I clow the
peace establishment. According to the
existing law. the strength of each com
pany when mobilized is to be 200 men,
making a total force for warpurpo es oi
880,000 men; but the tie ective organi
zation of the military districts and the
insufficiency of the railway communica
tions to the south of the line from Tunis
to Rimini would make the mobili a ion
of the Italian army a very difficu't and
confusing operation. The Government
has this. y ear decided to raise the
strength of the army from 830,000 tc
480,000 men, and from ten to twelve
army corps. This result, however, can
not I e attained in less than eight years;
and nothing is be'ng clone to increase
efficiency. In the artillery the propor
tion of guns to men (2.40 per thousand)
is far too small; and the strength of the
cavalry is also insufficient as compared
with that ofthe infantry. The fortifica
tions of the country, too. are in a very
incomplete state, and the Italian Poet
is, according to this critic, only capable
of preventing the landing oft.maps, and
could neither face an enemy on the high
seas nor hinder his bombarding the
Italian harbors.
y —The Fnterprtse, ot Virginia Citv,
New, predicts that ostrich farming will
result about like the business of breed
ing eameß Camels do well in Nevada,
increasing about as rapidly as any other
kind of stock, but no one appears to
know what to do with them. A lot taken
to the desert regions to the southward
for use in packing and prospecting,
proved of so little value that they were
turned loose to shift for themselves, and
are now breeding and running wild up
toward the headwaters of tho Gila Riv
er. It will probably be the same with
the ostriches. After the experiment of
herding eu • ranch has proved a failure,
some of the birds will be allowed to shift
for themselves, and will thus stock the
wilds of Arizona, New Mexico, and other
regions in that direction.
Something ef Millionaire Mackay.
Mr. Mackay, as most Americans are
aware, is a" Scotchman by birth, his
native town being Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
I had known his family all my life, and
last spring had many long talks with his
brother, Robert Mackay, who is a mem
lier of a large engineering firm in his
native town, and is regarded as one of
the greatest practical mechanics living.
But Air. Mackay is a very unselfish and
modest man, otherwise he might have
been as rich to-fiav as his brother.
Though lie has experimented aud
invented all his life, he has never sought
to reap the just rewards of his talents.
He is content with discovering new
methods of applying force and to let
other people reap the benefit. And the
United States are not a little indebted to
his inventive genius. He it was. bi con
junction with a Mr. Gray, who fu£c con
structed a locomotive for ascendiug steep
grades; and it was from plans furnished
by him and explanations given to Ameri
can mechanics who visited him in Scot
land, that the locomotiyes were built
which first crossed the Rocky Mountains.
But he is one of those men, as I have
> said, who set no store by such achieve
ments as these; he speaks of this new
invention as if it was a very small mat
ter. Between him and his brother,-
though remarkably like each other in
personal appearance, there is no com
munity of feeling, or even of friendship,
far less kinship. The only fident that
his brother possessed, to hear him sja-ak
of him, was stinginess and the power Jo
close his hand on every jienny which
crossed it. Of intellectual points he had
none worth mentioning, and when young
was incapable of cultivating the few he
isad been endowed with. But it is sev
eral years since millionaire Mackay broke
off COrrestxmdon-uo with Hu* fa’],.>r Buf
mother and family. Of tlio many times
he has visited England during the past
ten years, he has never visited his family
of his native town. Two years ago,
nevertheless, lie sen t his secretary down
from London to Airdrie to inquire after
his mother and relatives. This gentle
man put up at the Royal Hotel iu groat
state, and after he had abused everybody
about the hotel for the meanness of the
accommodation they could offer, he sent
for his employer’s brother, the person I
have spoken of above. His surprise
niay be readily imagined when ho was
informed by Mr. Mackay that if his
brother could not condescend to come to
Airdrie in person to see his friends, lie
would receive no information from him;
furthermore, AD. Secretary was specially
instructed to inform his master that
since ho had forgotten his family so
long, the latter bail now no better mes
sage to convey to him than this, to-wit,
that, for ail they cared, he could go to a
climate where the temperature was
always above ninety in tho shade, or
words to that effect But I think Mr.
Aluckay judges his rich brother harshly.
Though a man of plain speech, and en
tirely innocent of all usagt* of grammar
in communicating his thoughts orally,
he seems to possess plenty of good,
hard, practical sense, and, considering
how rich he is, he is certainly not proud;
but what he locks in this hitter respect
his wife makes up. No Queen that ever
lived could be premier or more imperi
ous than she.— London Correspondent
of Jluffalo Courier.
Huston at the Beginning of Her Intel
leetual Epoch.
In the quickening of thought nnd the
refinement of manners that set iu, the
smallness and compactness of Boston
wero advantages. It was a little city ; a
city of gardens and solid brick houses
and stores; cheerful, quiet, unsophisti
cated ; with a fringe of wharves along
the bay that supplied tho picturesque
•additions of a successful scnjtort, and
qurronnded by villages smaller than it
self, of which OambTTflge was an impor
tant, but rather remote, one. Two the
aters were the most thut it could sustain
in the line of public amusement, while
fashionable life eeutered upon n dancing
hall, imitatively called Alumek’a, where
strictly-limited assemblies were held.
Within a stone’s throw ot each other
were the houses of Daniel Webster, Ed
ward Everett, Robert C. Winthrop*
George Bancroft and Rufus Choate, on
ground now loaded with merchandise,
whence the occupants, by taking a few
stops, could issue forth npou tlieir na
tive or adopted heath of the Common,
under the shade of the great elm. There
still lingers on Beacon street the fine old
house of Harrison Gray Otis, smooth
faced and" mellow, deep-roomed, and
suffused with a sober ripeness of respect
ability, which, with that of George
Ticknor at the head of Park street, re
calls well tlie staid aspect of this o'/l
Boston. In such a place impressions
spread rapidly; theories were infec
tious ; phrenology, Unitarinnism, veg
etarianism, emancipation, transcend
entalism, worked their way from street
to street like an epidemic. Anew
course ofstudy or anew thought was as
exciting as news of a European war
could have been. A lady remembers
meeting another on Tremo'nt street dur
ing the full glow of the Emerson lecture
epoch, and exclaiming, “Oh, there’s a
new idea ! Have yon heard i:'? "
“ Don’t taik to me of ideas,” retorted
her friend; “I'm so full of them now
that 1 can’t make room for a single now
one. ” — Harper's Magazine.
Mois'onier's Bog nnd Nelatons’ Pay.
A pet dog of the painter Meissonfer
one day broke his leg. rendered friable
by over-feeding. Aleissonier, desolated
by such an acei lent to so beloved an
animal, resolved to have recourse to the
prince of surgical science, who at that
time was Nelalon; but not venturing to
declare the irue motive, ho telegra bed
in hot haste for him as if to visit one of
the family, then living at their charm
ing residence at Bougival. Nelaton ar
rived. and entering the drawing-room
began talking on various topics with
the master ot the h use, who, although
he had painted many battles 'and cnrrjp 1
oft' many victories, knew not how to
face the present affair. At last Net .’on.
becoming impatient at the delay, and
knowing" the value of his time, askc i. :o
the great embarrassment of the pain r,
where his patient was. Present: , the
wounded brute was brought in o:i a
magnificent cushion, howling with p ; :n
iu spite of all the care taken. At so
distressing a spectacle, Meissonier, or
getting everything else, exclaimed in
agony: “Save him':’ illustrious master,
save him'.” •
Nelaton dressed the fracture, and the
dog recovered ; and shortly afterwards
its master wrote a gTateful letter to the
great surgeon, thanking him for his
kindness, and requesting to know Its
fee. Nelaton replied that when the
painter came to Parrs he could call upon
him. This he soon did, and was pro
ducing his purse crammed with bank
rotes, when N elaton exclaimed : “ Stop,
sir ! you are a painter, are you not? lust
put a gray coating on these two panels
which the cabinet-makers have fin
ished !” This was, indeed a delicate
revenge : hut which had the last word?
Aleissonier. w ho. going at once to work,
at the end of a few days produced two
of his- chefs d'auvre on the panels.—
JUedical limes.
The Diet of Children.
Permitting children to sit at table with
their elders is the cause of a good deal
of mischief and injury to their youthful
digestions. A variety of dishes should
never be permitted, and any attempt at
wastefulness should be checked at once.
Economy and self-denial can be taught
at the'children’s table far more easily
than at school.
The diet of children can hardly be too
plain. If they need to be encouraged to
eat by the administration of dainties,
there must be something radically
wrong somewhere. It is unlikely that
that something is constitutional," more
probably insufficient exercise is taken,
or taken at wrong times, or the nursery
is stuffy, or the bedroom badly venti
lated, or the parents have forgotten that
sunshine and fre-h air are a- necessary
to the healthy life of a child ai whole
some food itself is.
The want of cleanliness, or frequent
use of the bath, is i* iny times the c luse
of indifferent appetite in children. With
out cleanliness of clothes and cleanliness
of person you can not have healthy chil
dren. Without this the young blood
seems poisoned, the child has neither
buoyancy nor heart, appetite is de
praved or absent, and he grows up* a3
pale and poor as a sickly plant.
Injudicious clothing is another cause
of dyspepsia. It is bail enough to en
case the body which has attained its
full development In a tight dress, but it
is ruinous for a child to be clothed in
tightly-fitting garments. Every organ of
a child’s body requires room to grow
and expand; if it *be in any way com
pressed, the circulation through it be
comes lessened, and it is therefore
sickbed and rendered weak.
Tightness, therefore, of any portion
ot a cmia’s ciotntng ruins not only the
organ directly underneath the constric
tion, but indirectly those at a distance
from it, for no damming up of the cir
culation can be tolerated by nature.
Tightness around the waist in children
and young people is the cause of many
cases of dyspepsia, and in a lesser de
gree so is tightness of the neckerchief,
by retaining the blood in the brain.
Have your children’s clothing loose,
then, if you would see them healthy
and happy. See, too, that at night
they sleep not on feather beds, and that
though warmly, they arc not heavily
clothed.
Children should be fed with great
regularity day by day. The parents, hav
ing chosen the hours for dinner, break
fast and tea, ought to see that the times
are strictly adhered to.
Irregularity in meal hours and times
of getting up in the morning and retir
ing to bed at night is not only preju
dicial to the present health of a child,
but it teaches him habits which are
greatly against his chances of success in
afterlife.
I need hardly speak here about the
quality of the food that is placed be
fore a child; against indigestible or toe
rich food, against sauces and spices ol
all kinds, including curries; against
heavy foods of tho pancake, dough and
dumpling kind, against unripe fruits,
against too hot soup, against strong tea
or coffee, or beer, or against over much
.butchers’ meat.
Pray, mothers, do not forget that an
interval of rest should ensue between
the meals you give your children, and
do not ruin their young digestions by
cramming them with cake, or buns, oi
sweets of any kind. To do so is worse
than cruel, it is a sin, and a sin which
you are but little likely to commit il
you truly love them, and really wi-h to
see them generate into strong and
healthy men and women. Tarts and
sweets and confectionery would bo bad
enough in all conscience for children,
even if they were always pure and un
adulterated. >But they aiy too .often
positively pfingnous. Feed bn plat A - and
wholesome food regularly from day to
day, permitting no stuffing between
meals, and not forgetting the benefits
that accrue from frequent changes oi
diet, more especially as regards dinner.
I>o this, and your children will live to
bless you; do otherwise, and expect to
see them sickly, with veins and arteries
possessing no" resiliency, with mucous
membranes pale and flabby, pipes of
lungs that the accident of a slight cold
is sufficient to close, muscles of limbs
so weak that exercise is a penance in
stead of a pleasure, and flesh so un
wholesome that a pin’s prick may cause
a fester, and all this because the blood
is impoverished through errors in diet.
— Cassell's Magazine.
Capturing an Englishman,
“ Once'l was filling an engagement at
a London theater,” said J. IC. Emmet,
the actor; “ a gentleman with buttoned
kids and hair parted in the middle oc
cupied a private box. He coollv sur
veyed me through his eyeglass, t was
feeling pretty good, and was acting with
more than usual freedom. The audience
roared with laughter, but not a muscle
of his face moved. He stared at me
like a Gorgon. I was nettled, and I de
termined to capture him. I did ray
best, but there he sat partially turned
toward me in the easiest of positions with
the coldest of faces. You could fairly
read on his features ; ‘Well, upon my
■out, 1 expected something pretty bad*
you know, but this is perfectly exec
rable.’ 1 lost my guard, and made no
secret of my effort to capture him. The
audience dropped on it, and became
deeply interested. I warbled ‘ Wilhel
mina Strauss,’ and filled it to the brim
with grotesqueness, but the fellow sat
there like a stone Btatue entirely un
moved. Apparently nothing would fetch
him. And so the performance progressed,
the audience watching the man in tbe
box more than it did me. At last I made
an impression. It was iu the act where
I pranced around the stage with a little
child astraddle my shoulders. A faint
smile overspread the man’s face. He
raised his gloved hands and languidly
clapped them twice. The audience
screamed with delight, and from that
time until the close of the performance
I had every soul in the house with me.
The naivete of the child, combined with
tlie acting, had been too much for him,
and had brought him down,”
Denver Tribune primer: What a
Beautiful Piano? Ton can see your
Face on the Cover. If you Had a" Pin
you could Scratch Nice Pictures all
Over the Piano. Will you Play on the
Piano? l’our Fingers are not Long
Enough, are They ? But- you can
Pound on the Pretty Keys with your
little Fists. May be, if you Pound
Hard enough, Mamma will Come to Be#
who is Making Such Lovely Music.
—Major Gale Faxon bought a horse
from the pastor of an Austin church,'
and shortly afterwards the following
conversation was heard: “You have
swindled me with that horse you sold
me last week.” “How so ?” asked the
clergyman, very much surprised. “Well,
I only had him for three days when he
died.'’ “ That’s very strange. I owned
him twenty-three years, and worked
him hard every day, and never knew
him to do that while I owned him.”
Texas Siftings
HUMOROUS.
—“Harry, you ought not to throw
away nice bread "like that;-you may
want it some day." “Well, mother,
should I stand anv better show of get
ting it then if 1 ate it now;”
—The widows of India having been
prevented by thdtvrannons Engl shfrom
cremating themselves along with their
dead lords, ha\e taken to second marri
ages. They are determined !c> sacrifice
themselves somehow. —Prairi t'anm r.
—Two Philadelphia law ere *rot mw
n street light the ether dav. Each -wore
if he had a pistoi he'd k il the o iter. At
once a dozen were o fie re;! to each by
spectato s. When they fonnd how
anxious the popuiace was to get rid of
them, they swore friendship and vowed
to live fore-, er, to spite the town.—Phil
adelphia Press.
—Some scientist in London has been
translating the songs of our childhood
into the language of the learned. The
little piping rhyme leginning “ Twin
kle, tw nkle, little star,” has been
changed Into this rhetorical blast from
the t ombone:
Scinril.ute. scintillate, globule vivifie:
Fain won la | fathom thy nature 8 peel tic.
I.oft ly poised in ether capacious.
Strongly reseinbl ng a gem carbonaceous.
—“Ala," howled a boy running into
the house and approaeh'ng his mother,
* ma, little brother hit me with a stick.”
“We'd. I’ll whip your little brother,”
said the mother, abstractedly tucking
together a pairof stockings she had been
darting. “No, don’t whip him. Don’t
let him have anv supper. I whipped;
him before he hit me.” —Arkansaw
Tran hr.
—A coup’e of darkeys were seated
on the steps of a store on Baldwin
'street, Elmira, where was displayed a
large quantity of watermelons, when
one said: “Bambo, what would lie the
konsequences if we should pluck one of
dem melons an' retire to de bed ob do
ole canal to test de quality ob de core?”
“I isn't very well wersed‘in de law,
but you take de melon an’ walk oft' wid
it under vour coat-tail, meantime I’ll
go roun’ de comer and study de konse
quences.”—Millcrtvn ( X. TANARUS.) Argus.
—A German paper has rather a good
story about a lady who, not feeling as
well as she liked, went to consult a
physician. “Well,” said the doctor,
after looking at her tongue, feeling her
pulse, and a-kiog her sundry questions,
“ I should advise you, yes, 1 should ad
vise you—ahem!—to get married.”
“ Are you single, doctor!*’ inquired the
fair patient, with a significant yet mod
est smile. “I am, mein Fraulein; but
it is not etiquette, you know, for physi
cians to take the physic they prescribe.”
—At a party the other evening the
subject of faith was mentioned, when
one young- lady remarked, in the lan
guage of Paul: “Now, faith is the
substance of things hoped lor, and the
evidence of things not sen.” Where,
upon a gentleman inquired: “Where is
that quotation from?” “Why, it’sfrom
Shakespeare,” jokingly replied the
young lady. “Is that so?” said the
young man; “why, I thought it was
from Byron.” llis next Christmas
present will he a copy of the New Testa
ment revised edition.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Victor Hugo will not keep a plant
or bird as prisoner in his house. |
—Major Burke, of the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, went to work in a
stone-yard as a common laborer just
after the war. He is now supposed to
be worth $500,000, nnd to be looking to
wards the United States Senate. Chi
cago Journal
—At a recent wedding in Paris, Vic
tor Hugo wa3 a witness, and the Mayor’s
clerk, when he asked his name, en
quired- whether he spelled it Hugo or
Mugot. The whole world knows of
Victor Hugo, but to the clerk of the
Mayor of Paris tie was but a stranger.
—Air. Lab mcliero says in London
Truth that “Anthony Trollope never
made anything approaching to £IOO,-
000,” and that the “most Uglily re
munerated aud successful” author of
tlio 1! tli century, taking into account
the amount of work accomplished, was
certainly George Eliot.
■—Mrs. Sarah Wood, aged 121 years,
ded at Buford, (fa., recently. She.was
a slip of a young woman when the
Dec'aration of independence was
signed, and her husband fought at the
battle of King’s Aloun ain. They had
eleven children. She lived 102 years in
Buford and was for fifty years a mem
ber of the Baptist Church.
—Rev. Dr. William M. Taylor, of New
York, in a lecture on “Books,” said:
“In reading novels I would advise one
to read it as Hebrew is read, backward.
Unravel the plot, and tlieu you can read
tho book with an appreciation of its
beauties, and not hurry it over with.-
your ears listening all the time for tho
marriage bells of the end.”
—John G. Whittier writes the follow
ing note in response to an inquiry as to
the truth of a published rumor that a
play from his pen was shortly to be pro
duced : “Thy time will be lost in going
in search of the ‘drama’ of the news
paper slip. I never knew of it before.
It is a very foolish lie. The idea of a
Quaker play-wright is unspeakably ab
surd.”
—Captain Nutt, who was recently
killed in Uniontown, Pa., only a few
months ago purchased a proprietary in
terest in the Ha’risburgfPa .) Telegraph,
and intended, at the expiration of his
term of office as Cashier of the Penn
sylvania State Treasury, to devote him
self to journalism. He was a member
of the Pennsylvania Historical Society.
—Philadelphia Press.
—John E. McDonald, of Indiana, has
been telling his reminiscences of Abra
ham Lincoln.. He reports “Old Abe”
assaying: “ The death penalty is one
of the most difficult questions with
Which I have to deal. When a sol tier
deserts to go over to the enemy and is
captured, I let the law take its course,
but when a man has been a long time
in the service and has not had a fur
lough, and who, when on picket, gtus to
thnking of his wife and children, and
breaks for tall timber, I never let them
harm a hair of Ills head .''-Chicago Her
ald. .
—An Englishman “in reduced cir
cumstances” advertises to let himself
oat to t hose people who wish to play
practical jokes. "He will allow cold,
water to be poured over him, to be
thrown into the canal, to be tripped up
in the streets, to have articles sent to
him, including ooffins and “bull pups,”
to be sent to streets and numbers that
do not exist, to have his door-bell rung,
to be the victim of mock telegrams, and
thus serve in a score of ways those hu
man beings who rejoice in giving pain
and annoyance to others. But as it takes
away all the fun of the thing if the vic
tim knows it beforehand and is willing
to submit to it, the Englishman in re
duced circumstances wifi not find many
patrons.
—There are fifty-one complete roll
ing-mills, and two in process of con
struction, at Pittsburgh,"