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HOME JOURNAL, 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,"