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.4 murrains and Verostc'.
These pilhy diversions have o'ten
amuse-.l tii.- leisure of great minds, .but
more often have proved the serious em
ployment of men whose mental caliber
co Id bear, no heavier metal. The
acrostic in its s mplest orm isapoe:ical
composition ;u which the first letters of
the several verses spell some word,
usually a name. The laborious wits,
ho wet er. soon came to despise any such
easy triumph, and invented acrostics in
which the same name might be found
in the first letters, in the last letters, and
half a dozen .times through the stall a.
Pope ami his friends used sometimes to
amuse themselves by proposing words
di!i cull io match in rhyme, and the
amusement was at one time ‘.tiile popu
lar in i.ondon. Anagrams-the manu
facture of other words out of the letters
of a given word—have long been in re
pute Wiat, a poet of the seventeenth
centurv. made an anagram on his own
name. “A wit.” and lelieitiUe ! It mself
on his invention. Akin to tho.-e speci
mens of false wit is punning. This is a
vice which has been well known in
every age. 'and few great nan es but
have contributed to tho com mop slock.
Cicero was a great punster, but his puns
are, of cour-e, untranslatable, the
surest means of delecting a pun being
the failure to translate it into another
language. Ca sar somet mes made a
puli and his puns had the reputa
tion o! being very good. Charles 1!..
of England, was one of the greatest
punsteisof his age. During Ids reign
this vice spread to every part of the
Kingdom. One of his courtiers once
saw a poor Oxford scholar in his gown,
an.l told lint ft was to > short. "Very
well, - ' replied the scholar, “it will be
long < nottgh before 1 get another. ’
The I yslanders laughed, and the court
ier undertook afterward to telllhe joke
to the King. “1 told him his gown
was too short, and he said: • Very well,
it will I e a long time be'ore I get an
other.’ The King studied, and aid
he saw nothing funny in that. "Neither
do J,” ieplied the courtier, "but it
sou tided funny when he told it.” Lamb
drove his friends nearly distracted with
his puns. He was once traveling, and
the stage stopped at an inn for dinner.
After the dinner the coa ha an came
with anew passenger: "All lull in
here.” "1 can’t answe for the rest,”
said I ; mb, “b t the pudding did the
business for me.” donson was noto-
Tiou-ly cmd of punning, while Shake
speare was said to be equal to any,
both in number and variety. Adams
made a | un while the ! eclaration of in
dependence was being signed. "Now,
we must ail hang together o.- we shall
a’l hang separately.” Hood was the
f reatest punste.- in onr literary history,
lis double puns are famous. "So they
went ami told the sexton, and the sexton
tolled the bell,” is perhaps one of his
best e'lorts. St. Louis (Uol>c-D.nit‘crat.
Chnrtng Reindeer.
On onr way north, we had telegraphed
to Hammerfest to send down from the
hills a given number of Lapps and rein
deer, as per order, for the benefit of such
of our jvissengers as had not yet seen
either, the money for the show being in
trusted to the Captain. Unluckily, the
steamer arrived late; the Lapps, getting
tired of waiting, wen toff into the mount
ains again, and the deer, finding nobody
to attend them, wandered away toward
the upland pastures. Tims, when we
landed, our “view of a Lapp encamp
ment" was like the Irishman’s picture of
‘‘lsrael crossing the Red Sea,” in which
nothing was viable but the sea itself, the
Egyptians being all drowned and tho Is-
raelites gone by. So, as the reindeer
would uot come to us, we had to go to
the reindeer, and ascertain, by personal
-experience, uotjmw many laps go to one
mile, but how manv miles go to one
Lapp. Away wo trudge, us best wo may,
over a country suggestive of a continent
of sponge-cake crumbled into an ocean
of molasses, after an hour of which en
livening exercise m: suddenly perceive
that the herd—which lias been grazing
lielow us in a deep hollow—is showing
signs of making for the mount
sms again. There is not a memen
to lose. While the rest of the party amt
bush behind a rock, the Captain and I
strip to onr shirts and trouser* and start
off at full speed round the elbow of tho
•ridge, to head the deer back. Down, np,
down again, splashing through black
quagmires, stumbling over moss-grown
rocks, sprawling upon beds of wet
heather, with our breath coming in gasps
and our hearts thumping like a hammer.
At last I came out upon the higher end
of the gullv, with my bare feet bleeding
at every .-.top; but Ixdween me and the
deer lies a broad sheet of hard snow,
and before ] can cross it the wary herd
have taken thr alarm. Right past me
they scurry, the long procession thrown
out'in bold relief against the background
-of snow, and tossing their antlered heads
-disdainfully as they dart away toward
their sanctuary hi the misty heights far
above. There is uotliiug for it but to
hobble back as fast as my frozen toes
will let me, and strive to tbrnst away
the haunting presence of a conundrum
which suddenly recurs to me as if in bit
ter mockery: “What is the difference
between a hundred head of deer and a
deer with a hundred heads?’’ . “The oue
is a herd of deer, and tho other an nn
heard-of deer. ” — Norwegian Corre
■epondence oj New York Times.
Sympathy.
One of the principal charms of worn
en lies in their quick sympathy. They
are pre-eminently gifted with that rapid
impicvsionability that puts them cn
rapport with thoir surroundings. Many
thus endowed, however, lack tho sus
tained force that gives cohesion to char
acter. The influences withdrawn that
called forth the emotion, the purpose
borne with it begins to flag. These irn
Eulsive sympathizers rejoice with th >
appv and mourn 'with the sad; they
give smile for smile and tear for tear;
hut the momeift yon leave them they for
get you, and the object of your joy or of
vour pain is as nothing to them. Tor the
thnfe being tlieyare entirely sincere; hy
pocrisy or affectation has not entered into
jßie tokens of feeling they have shown;
they have simply been Compelled by the
impression of the moment. •This kind of
sympathy answers better to the defi
nition of the modem philosopher than
that which inspired the injunction of the
wise man, “ Sorrow is better than laugh
ter, for by the sadness of the counten
ance the heart is made better.”
—wrhen a calf or a cow is found
breathing heavily without any other ir
regular symptom or any fever or redness
of the eyes or parched muzzle, the
trouble may be considered to arise from
indigestion and a disordered stomach.
Probably the chewing of the cud will be
found suspended. In such cases it is
best to give at once a dose of raw lin
seed oil—two ounces for a calf and ten
or sixteen ounces for a c w. Usually
abstinence from food will bring a cure
in the course of a few days. Where there
is any fever the medicine should be ep
som salts in the same quantity, dissolve'
in warm water.— N. Y. Times.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, but
the patent medicine man bloweth on the
treet corners.
AN EIGHTEEN-INCH BEATII.
Ww Wul 31alignn( himl Deadly fwainr*
la the World.
. {London Telegraph.]
A recent arrival at the Zoological S>
ciety's Garden at Regent's Park deserves
special notice, apart from the fact that
it is the first of its species known to have
been brought to England. It is a snake,
called the echis carinala, about a foot
and a half long, and of a dingy gray,
ret, although in appearance neither
interesting nor formidable, it is the
deadliest of created things. This d---
testable little worm, which, looking at it,
the spectator might make bold to say ha
conkl imitate very passably in cork and
putty, is, nevertheless, one of the mira
cles and masterpieces of nature, for it is
death itself, and carries in its tiny head
the secret of destroying life with the
sudden rapidity of lightning and the
concentrated agony of all poisons. The
echis comes to us from India, where it is
tolerably common, being found in nearly
every part of the peninsula and feared
wherever found ns the incarnation of
iustant and ternble detraction. For
tunately, howeve", far man, it is not,
like the cobra ani the korait, a house
frequenting snake, fer its tiny size woidd
give it a terrible advantage over human
beings who live crowded together, ns the
natives of India do, in small darkened
rooms, while its aggressive habits would
make it infinitely more fatal to life thau
its dreaded relatives. For this king of
the asps, tlii3 modern basilisk, is not
only venomous beyond conception, but
s actively offensive. It does not. turn to
escape from man, as the cobra will, or
flash into concealment, like the korait,
but conscious, perhaps, of its dendliuess,
deliberately keeps the path against its
human assailant, and, putting its own
eighteen inches of length against his
bulk, challenges and provokes the con
flict. A stroke with a whip will cut it hi
two, or a clod of earth disable it; but
such is its malignity that it will invite
attack by every device at its command,
staking his own life on the mere chance
of his adversary coming within the little
circle of his power. At most, the radius
of this circle is twelve inches, but within
it, at any point, lies certain death, and
on the bare hope of hand or foot trespass
ing within its reach, tho echis throws its
body into a figure-of-eight coil, and at
tracting attention by rubbing its loops
together, which, from the roughness of
the scales (hence the epithet c urinata),
makes a rustling, hissing sound, erects
its head and awaits attack. No one hav
ing ever encountered this terrible worm
cun ever forget its truculent aspect when
thus aroused, its eagerly aggressive air,
its restless coils, which in constant mo
tion one over the otlier, and rustling
ominously all the while, stealthily but
surely bringing it nearer and nearer to
tho object of its fnry; the eye malignant
oven beyond those of other vipers, and
then the inconceivable rapidity of its
stroke. For the echis does not want to
strike until it is within striking distance,
but vents its malice in repeatedly darting
at nothing, hoping, perhaps, to aggro
ate its antagonist into coming to closei
quarters, or, more probably, as a mere
expression of its own incontrollable
viciousness.
The Rocky Mountain sheep.
The Uockv Mountain sheep inhabit
the lofty chain from wit ch they derive
their name, front its northern termina
tion in latitude 8 deg. to a out latitude
48 deg., and perhaps farther south.
They also ire pient the elo att.d an I
cragged ridges with which the country
between the great mountain range and
the i’acific coast is intersected, but they
do not seem to have advanced farther
eastwa 1 and than the declivity of the
Rocky Mountain <, nor are they found
in any of the hillv tracts near Hudson’s
Ray- 1 hey' collect in herds of from
thirty to forty y oung rams and females,
herding together during tho w liter anil
spring. Mr. Drummond informs us
that tho Rocky Mountain sheep exhib
ited the simplicity of character > re
markable in the domestic species hut
that where they had been often tired at
the.- were exceedingly wild, alarmed
their companions on the approach o'
danger by a b asing noi-.e. and sealed
the rocks with a speed anil agility that
bail'ed pursu't. Some naturalists have
suppo cd that this var cfy of the sheep*
family is substantially tho same as tho
Asiatic Argali, but of diminished stat
ure. Otliors dissent from this opinion,
n >t only on account of its size but of a
dilleruncc in the curvature of the horns.
Those who maintain it imagine that
some of the Argali originally passed
beh ring’s Stiait on the ice to the Amer
ii an continent
“The fut-rumped sheep,’’, says Dr.
Anderson, “resemble one another by
having—particularly the males—a solid
mass o’ tat formed upon the rump, di
vided, as itwee, into two hemispheres,
which take the form of hips, witli a
little kn >b of a tail in the middle Some
of them have horns, but others do not.
Its covering is. a mixture of hair an I
woo’. Some of the bree’s weigh a>
much as 200 pounds, and the mass of
fat formed < n the rump varies from a
tenth to a fifth part of the entire weight.
In the neighborhood of Caucasus, the
hindquarters are salted as ham- and
sent itt large quantities to the northern
part of Turkey. It has been supposed
by some write s that this breed may be
the same as that which was bred by ti.o
Patriarchs. In the days of Abraham and
M res. The sacred penman mentions
that Mo-es took the fat and the ru ip,
and all the fat which was u on the in
wards, and burned them upon the altar
for a burnt offering.— Yr.an J!rx '■■■ oj
HJiccy. etc'.
John Quincy Adams.
Tho personal habits of John Quincy
Adams, when Minister, were remarkably
simple, we infer from (hi.; entry in his
diary: “I rise usua’lv between 5 and
0; I begin the day witir reading five
charters iu the Bible ; I have this day
finished, in course, the Oid Testament.
I then write until 9 o’clock, when 1
breakfast alone in my chamber. I write
again after breakfast, and walk an hour.
We dine at 4, and sit ot a table until 0.
In the evening I atr ad the theater, re
dout or concert, ihicwrep 10 and 11 1
return to my chamber and betake my
self immediately to the night’s repose.
I have this rqonth frequented too much
the theater and other public amuse
ments, indulg 'd iu too much conviviali
ty, and taken too little exercise. Tho
consequence is, I become too corpulent,
and industry is irksome to me. May I
be cautious not to fall into any habit o',
indolence or dissipation.’-’
An Earnest Politician.
1 once started out on a campaign, and
went to a meeting and made a speech,
and the audience began to depart. They
went out one by one as I went on, until
finally, beside the committee, who iu.d
to stay, there were only two men left,
and they started to go. I went to one
of them, and sail, “My friend, are you
going?” He said he was. “Wei ’said
I, “I won’t let you go until you promise
me you will vote the Republican ticket.”
He said he would pioause me anything
if I would only let hit. go. [Laugh - . j
— JBx-Govemor of Michigan.
PASSING SMILES.
Thn man who offers yon counietMi
Kippers shows bad cents.
Musicians ere known by the "ace.'in
panimenls they keep.”
The man that bequeaths property
must necessarily be a laud-doner.
An exchange save: "To make a good
monkey wrench, feed liim on green ap
ples.”
Can anything go, and not go any
where? Where does a light go whan it
gees out?
A woman’s heart, like the moon, if
always changing, but there is always a
man in it —London Punch.
In the dictionary of the future it w £
bo: “Fast, v. i. To abstain from food,
to go hungry, toTaunerizo.”
Dore has completed a grand esv-o pic
ture called "Moses Before Pharaoh.”
What Moses played before fur., is uol
shown.
Wht should the spirit of mortal b*
proud, when a four dollar hotel clerk
can wear a bigger diamond than the mil
lionaire.
A youno physician asked permission
of a lass to kiss her; she replied. "No,
sir; I never like a doctor’s bill ctuek
into my face.”
The Hawkeye man says a high board
fonce, a locnst-tree and twenty-three
beer-tables make a grove anywhere with
in thirty miles of New York.
The Philadelphia Ledger discusses
"The Health of Reservoirs.” This is
the first intimation we have had that res
ervoirs did not enjoy good health.
A North Carolina woman stabbed
the man who attempted to lmg her. This
proves that all women are not enthusi
astically in favor of a free press.
The fcbs'C ol the spicing and picking of
fruit haa Gone, and the economical house
wife may few seen going through her hus
band’s v*fs-£. eket for doves.
They toiS craudfather Blimpkin that
old Mr. Jfraari was dead. “Ah, well,”
said he, resignedly, “I’ve noticed that
people have been dying ever since I can
remember.”
■ ‘ln choosing a wife, ” says an exchange,
“be governed by her chin.” The worst
of that is, after having chosen a wife,
one is apt to keep on being governed in
the same way.
An Irishman watching a game of base
ball, was sent to grass by a foul which
struck him under the fifth rib. “A
fowl, was nt?' Begorra, I thought it was
a mule.”
A dealer in hosiery in Chicago marked
a pair of stockings: "Only $10,000,” and
more thau one hundred ladies stopped at
the window and cried out: “Dear me!
how dieap—Fll ask my husband; to buy
them.”
Wroix, at a Chinese banquet, propriety
requires that the guests should get pleas
antly tipsy, they may, if they like, hire
substitutes to drink for them. No such
cheap Chinese labor will bo tolerated in
this free country.
The publisher of a humorous German
paper at San Francisco committed sui
cide the other day. The humorous
journalists of the English press do not
seem- to have, so dear an idea of their
duties to the public.
At a celebration back in the country a
female orator arose and began: “This is
our one hundred and fourth anniversary. ”
A wicked, vouug man away back in the
crowd yelled out: “Good Lord! you
don’t look that old.”— Quincy. Modem
Argo.
Burnt sells for twenty-five cents a glass
in Mexico. Oh, jovial Bacchus, just
think what it must cost to, elect a Presi
dent in that country! Now we under
stand why they have so many revolution*
in Mexico. A war is cheaper than a le
gitimate campaign.
An old Yorkshire woman described
her happy circumstances thus: “I’ve s
nice little cottage, a chest of drawers and
a pianny, a lovely garden and some
flowers iu my window, and (waxing
warm,) my husband’s dead, and the very
sunshine of ’Eav’a seems to fall on me.
A family going North from Ralcigb
last week took the boat at Norfolk after
dark. Next morning the little girl awoks
and scrambled up to the window, and,
looking out on the broad Atlantic, ex
claimed: “Oh, mamma, do get up hers
and see; the front yard is full of water.”
—ltalcigh News.
“What 1 want to get at is the snimus
of the transaction,” said the judge.
“But, your honor,” said the complaint
ant, “there wasn’t any at all. He oame
up quiet like, and grabbed the coat, and
was off with it before I saw what he was
at. No, sir* there wasn’t any muss.”
A German resident of Belmont avenue,
who recently espoused an Dish wife, who
proved herself to be tile better half, was
questioned as to his nationality. ’“Veil,"
he responded, scratching his head, “1
was porn iu Germany, but I vas liish by
marriage.”
How Old Is (Hass?
The oldest specimen of pure glass
bearing anything like a dato is a little
moulded lion’s head, bearing Iho name
of an Egyptian King of tho eleventh dy
nasty, in the Slade collection at the Brit
ish Museum. That is to say, at a period
which may be moderately placed as more
than two thousand years B. 0., glass was
not only made, but made with skill,
which shows that the art was nothing
new. The invention of glazing pottery
with a film of glass is so old that among
the fragments which bear inscriptions of
the early Egyptian monarchy are beads
possibly of the first dynasty. Of the
latter class there are numerous examples,
such as the bend found at Thebes, which
has tiie name of Queen Hatasoof Hasliep,
of the eighteenth- dynasty. Of the same
period are vases and goblets and many
fragments. It can not lie doubted that
the story prepared by Fiiny, which as
signs the. credit of the invention to the
Phoenicians, is so far true that these ad
venturous n .Truants brought specimens
from other countri- ■> to Egypt. Dr.
Sebliem-mn found disks of glass i ; the
excavation at Mycenae, though Homer
does not mention it as a substance known
to him. That the modern art of the
glass-blower was known long before is
certain from presentations among the
pictures on the wails of a tomb at Reuni
Hcssnr, of the i welfth Egyptian dynas
ty; but a much older picture, which
probably represented the seme manufac
ture, is among tlw half obliterated scenes
ic a chamber of the tomb of Thy, at
Hakkara, and dates from the lime of the
fbt:i dye : *y, a time so r.-m C-. that ie is
not possible, iu spite of the assiduous re
searches of many Egyptologers to giro it
a dato in years. —Saturday Review.
OBEr::< Peas. —There isn’t much prin
ciple in cooking peas, as it all depends
on the tenderness of the pea. But what
hurts pens is to drown them in too much
water. Some cook-books say it doesn’t
matter as to quantity of water, bat it
does. Boil quickly, that’s the tiling,
but with just kx little water as you can.
“Real estate is advancing rapidly, and
nojnist-.ke,” said Jones, as he dug the
dust out of his <- yes of a whicjy day.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
PLAIN
TRUTHS
The blood is the foundation of
life, it circulates through every part
i of the body, and unless it is pure
and rich, good health is impossible.
If disease has entered the system
the only sure and quick way to drive
it out is to purify r and enrich the
blood. -
These simple fazts are well
known, and the highest medical
authorities .agree that nothing but
iron will restore the blood to its
natural condition; and also that
all the iron preparations hitherto
made blacken the teeth, cause head
ache, and are otherwise injurious.
Brown’s Iron Betters will thor
oughly and quickly assimilate with
the blood, purifying and strengthen
ing it, and thus drive disease from
any part of the system, and it will
not blacken the teeth, cause head
ache or constipation, and is posi
tively not injurious.
Saved His Child.
17 N. Eutaw Sr, Baltimore, Md.
Feb.’ja, 1880.
Gents:—Upon the lec-tn me Dila
tion of a friend I tri-t-i Imuwn’s
Iron Bitters as u tonic *and re
storative for my daughter, whom
I was thoroughly convinced was
wasting away with Consumption.
Having lost three daughters by the
terrible disease, under the care of
eminent physicians, I was loth to
believe that anything could arrest
the progress of the disease, but, to
my great surprise, before my daugh
ter had taken one bottle of Brown’s
Iron Bitters, she began to mend
and now is quite restored to former
health. A fifth daughter began to
show signs of Consumption, and
when the physician was consulted
he quickly said “ Tonics were re
quired;” and when informed that
tne elder sister was taking Brown’s
Iron Bitters, responded “that is
a good tonic, take it.”
Adoram Phelps.
Brown’s Iron Bitters effectual
ly cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion and
Weakness, and renders the greatest
relief and benefit to persons suffering
from such wasting diseases as Con-_
sumption, Kidney Complaints, etc.’
OR. J. OHIO'S
FEMALE REGULATOR
WOMAN’S BEST FRIEND:
It Is well known to physicianu, and alas 1 too- wtU
known to suffering women themselves, that the/
ire subject to numerous diseases peculiar to theii
Rex, such as suppression of the Menses, painful
and scanty Menstruation, Congestion, Ulceration
and Falling of tho Womb, attended with an end
less train of sympathetic and constitutional dlsor
tiers, which embitters the whole life, and which
have long been considered as almost incurable.
But at last the remedy has beeu fouudin
Dr. J. Bradflold’s Female Regulator*
It is not ft “cure all,” but a remedy for one cladfe
of diseases, all of which pertalb%> the- Womb.
Any sufferer from ilie mentioned cab
take this remedy, and thus relieve herself without
revealing her condition to any one,and without
subjecting her womanly modesty to the shock ot
an examination by a physician,
To bring health and happinosato the homes ofe
suffering women is a mission, before which royal
faVor sinks into inaignitlcunce.. What earthly be*
ofaction can compare with ,cime which protects from
“That dire disease whoa* ruthless power
Withers beauty’s trauctent flower?”
which gives ease forpniru, Jov for sorrow, smiles
for tears, the rose of health lor the pallor of dis
ease, the light, elustic staler dragging weepiness,
nights of soft repose fuc heavy hours of tossing
l esthiisnoss, bounding, *igor for languishing dull
ness, the sweet line o,lßull grown beauty for the
Rharp and withered foam of emacialion k a tong life
of mental, physical* social and domestic enjoy
ments for a/et o sad duya of pain and gloom, ending
in an early grave? fcoch Is the mission, such are
the results of 1)#. X Bbadkihxd’s Fbaalb Kebu
i.ator, which is fcence truly and MNiropriately
•tyled “Woman’s:Best Friend.”
* Whites,” aud all those Irregularities of the
womb so’destructiveto the health, happinessaed
beauty of women, disappear like, magic before a
single bottle of this wonderful compound.
All who nnffer from any of these diseases are
most earnestly 1 nrited to give this great remedy a
trial. It has cured thousands, and will cureyeu.
Don’t fall to try it.
7SC * BU ’
JT. BRADFIEBD. Atlanta, Oa.
Mr safe mxrytvhcre.
:
Attorney at Law,
Ureenesboro, Oa.
Practices in Greene, Morgan, Baldwin
Hancock, Taliaferro, Oglethorpe, Clarke
Richmond, Warren and McDuffie Counties.
Refers to Hon. A. H. Colquitt, Governor
of Georgia; Hon. A. H. Stephens, Member
of Congress.
Unskillful Among Women.
Die “ incapable ” are a great fact, says
an Engllsl# woman’s journal, and, as
things are at present, they are a legacy
which has come down to us as the result
of the notion that women ought to be
always in a dependent position. We
think and hope that that notion is pass
ing away. Women of the poorer classes
have never had it; they have always
known that they must know how to cam
their bread. Women of the highest
classes are very often by their positions
and connections forced to develop an
administrative capacity; and their rank
in life prevents them, if “capable,”
from becoming an utter burden on
strangers. The middle-class women, to
whom “incapableness” moans ,4 ova
tion if they are poor and unmarried, or
pool- widows with children, are slowly
beginning to loam that they must t
such business faculties as they are pos
sessed of' developed properly, if they
are not utterly to fall behind in the race
for existence. It may bo that the
nature of women is such that the “iuca
pablcs” among them will never cease,
any more than the poor out of tin- land :
but it is the clear duty of every fat . r
and mother, and of every oue. who has
to do with tiie education and' mam. -
incut of girls, to do their best to eradi
cate this “ incapableness,” and to make
women fit to bear their part eamcsliy
and capably in the work of life.
When Stonewall JaeKson Brayed Most.
A quaint story of Stonewall Jackson’s
five, on is related by rx-Confederate
Chaplain J. V 7. Jones. It was on the
march to (' ' wppnr Court House that
the Oonei-a , negro servant Jim told
sorut officers who wore inquiring about
Ston wall’s habitat “Yes, the General
is a e : -at men for praying at all times.
But v. .t.en I see. him get up a great many
times in the. night to pray, then I know
there i going to be something to pay ;
and I go straight and pack, his haver
sack, because I know lie will call for it
in tiie mornm’.”
ALFRED BAKER, President. JOSEPH S. BEAN, Cashier.
Augusta Savings Bank.
81 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Cash assets - - 5225.000.
Transacts a General Deposit and Discount business.
Interest on Deposits of Five to two Thousand Dollars.
, janl2-83
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AUCUSTA. - - CA.
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—OFFICE OF
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Weather-Prophets.
The failure of Wiggins is calculated
to undermine popular confidence in
prophets of all sorts, but particularly
weather prophets. To be sure Wiggins
has risen to explain; but the explana
tion is worse than the failure itself, and
increases the popular disappointment,
is it heaps failure upon failure. Thin
as the storm was, the explanation is
thinner. After Wiggins had failed, it
was a little cruel to interview him, but
tViggins was ready with his reasons.
He said: “ The astronomical day begins
it noon on the meridian of London and
>ur day begins at twelve o’clock at
aight- I overlooked this fact, so that
the side of the earth nresented to the
planetary face was the opposite to that
which I gave. I did not notice my mis
take until this evening, so the storm fell
on the Pacific instead of the Atlantic.”
it will strike the unscientific and un
prejudiced reader that it was a very
serious mistake in the calculations of a
man who was astronomer, astrologer
and meteorologist combined to get the
wrong side of one planet turned towards
the sun when making predictions of an
earth-shaking storm. Vennor fell into
obscurity for smaller mistakes than
that, and it is safe to say we shall soon
hear no more of Wiggins. The Canadi
an prophet will sink farther out of sight
than the St Louis one, indeed, and de
lervedly, for a. man who can’t tell
whether he is on his feet or his head
when he is making predictions and gets
the whole world wrong end to is not to
be trusted with the weather.
In the Wiggins • prophecy, however,
there is a wheel within a wheel. It
now appears that Wiggins is about to
ipring an almanac upon the public,
and ins predictions for February 9 and
tbe one yet to be fulfilled in March aro
only advertisements for the almanac.
It is one of the strange phases of tho
human mind, perhaps we should say
oae of the most conspicuous weaknesses,
that it takes to almanacs, although al
manacs from time immemorial have
been gay deceivers. Not one of them
could ever be trusted from Zadkiel’s
down to Josh Billings’. The only one
that ever told the exact truth was that
immortalized by Washington Irving in
the “Sketch Book,” whiclihad “About
th's-time-cxpect-wet - weather, ’’ or some
thing of that sort, stretched clear down
the page from the first to the last day
of the month. And vet, knowing it*
absolute falsity, the human mind craves
the almanac. No house is without it.
It is daily consulted, and, though it may
guess wrong ninety-nine times- ina hun
dred, the hundredth gues3- is- haded
with as jubilant acclamation as the one
sinner in a hundred. No amount of,
failure undermines the popular faith
la the almanac. The old reverence
for the astrologer and the prophet still
survives when the jiftdictions-.are poi
upon record in the almanac. When
Mother Shipton’s direful vaticination
was printed it was universally believed,
and there are many people even, to-day
who believe that it all came tree in
1881. It is not so much the compiler of
the almanac as the almanac itself which
is regarded with the same curiosity and
awe that inspires the African as he ap
proaches his fetish. No per on in NeVv
England ever knew who was the real
author of the old Farmers*' Almanac,
and yet an attack upon its verity or a
doubt of the absolute correctness of it*
weather statements, even at this late
day, would raise as great a storm of in
dignation in that section as would an
outrage committed against the grass
hopper or Faneuil Hall. We may ex
pe t that Wiggins will disappear, but
Wiggins’ almanac, like Vennor’s,
though Vennor has passed out of sight,
will be widely sought for. There is no
method of getting before the world so
easy as that of the almanac. The pub
lisher who refused to pay Josh Billing*
$250 for his almanac has kicked himself
ever since he heard that another pub
lisher took it and has paid J. B. $25,009
In copyrights.
Fugitive prophecies for weather
Erophets have been irretrievably injured
y Wiggins. Though he has implored
both tne Dominion and the Americas
Governments not to allow any vessel*
to go out on the date of his March
storm they will go all the same. But
the weather-prophets may yet live in.
their almanacs. Even General Hazen
would be considered as more reliable if
he calculated his areas of low thermom
eter and barometer for a year to com*
and pi inted them in an almanac, and
he certainly would be spared from th*
searching criticisms which have been
made upon iris management of tho Sig
nal Service.— Chicaao Tribune.
A Striking Resemblance.
We once told a story of two Shakers
down East who so nearly renembled ons
another in oertain characteristics. Here
is another somewhat like unto it—a story
of two brothers, who were lawyers, ana
practicing in the same town—whioh is
certainly worth telling:
A certain gentleman requiring legal as
sistance had been recommended to one
of the two brotliers, but ha/1 forgotten
the Christian name of him ho sought; so
he called at the office of the one first
found and asked for Mr. Podger.
“That is my name, sir.”
“But thera’are twoof youof that name
here in town.”
“Yes.”
“Well, I wish to consult the Mr. Pod
ger—excuse mo for the allusion —who
wears a wig.”
“Wo both wear wigs, sir.”
“Well, tho man I seek was divorced
from his wife not long ago.”
“There you hit us both again, sir.”
“Tito man to whom I wa3 recom
mended has beeu -accused of forgery,
though, I trust, unjustly. ”
“There we are again, my dear sir. Wo
have both had that geutle insinuation
laid at our doors.”
“Well, upon'my word, you two brothers
bear a striking resemblance. But I guess
I have it now. The one lam after is in
the habit of occasionally drinking to ex
cess—sometimes to intoxication.”
“My dear man that little vice is, un
fortunately, characteristic of the pair of
us.and I doubt if onr best friends could
toll you which was the worst.”
‘ ‘ W :11, yoi i a re a matched pair, certainly.
But tell, mo,” continued• the visitor,
“which.of the twain it was that L*>k
tho poor debtor’s oath a few months
ago?”
“Ha, Im, wo wero both in that mud
dle. I was on Bob’s paper and he was
on mine. ”
“In mercy’s name!” cried the appli
cant, desp.rately, “willyottteUmowhich
of the two is the most sensible man?”
“Ah, there you touch bottom, my
fri ■ ■!. Poor Bob, I can't stretch the
U even to serve a brother. .If you
want the more sensible one of tho two I
suppose I must acknowledge the corn.
I’m the man.” —Terry (Miss.)j£nlcr~
•arize'.
In I/ondon 58,400 ■women are @ra
ployed as milliners and dressmakers*
20,875 us shirt-makers and seamstress es,
14,780 as tailoresses, 10,724 as mnc-ltin*
isfs, 5,272 as book-binders, 4,0: A , 1 oot
nuikers, 4,300 as artificial {! ' ■ : . 3,718
ns lawmakers,- 2,852 as u;r< s -s.
not to mention a largeUWfi’ur in y; >t -;:s
other imlua fries.