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HOME JOUBNAX, CAEENESBORO, > GEORGIA. HEWS GLEANINGS. Crops are remarkably good all over Ixmiriana. Over 200 tone of iron are mined daily sear Attala, Ala. The Pineapple crop of South Florida looks promising. A i.Aroe quantity of iron ore exists in Chilton county, Ala. Large deposits of iron ore have been 'discovered in Warran county, Tennessee. Richmond, Va., has a population of 70,684, being an increase of 7,000 since 1880. Mr. Jefferson Davis’ estate of 500 acres at Brannon, Miss., is now mainly devoted to grapes and oranges. The Alpine iron manufacturing com pany has been organized in Taladega county, Ala., with a capital of 1200,000 Galveston, is now the second cotton port in the country. The receipts for this season were 800,000 bales. A gold vein has been discovered at Hoee Cove, N. C., about four miles eas of Highlands. Quarts containing gold dust in large quantities has also been discovered about two miles west of Highlands,: Rev. G. A. Olazerrook, of Macon, Oa., has received a check for 810,000 from the Central railroad in settlement in full for injuries received in an acci dent some time ago. Altogether Rev. Glazebrook has received over #14,000 from the road. The Florida Ship Canal Compsny has been formed, with a capital stock of #60,000,000. Ex. Gov. John C. Brown, of Tennessee, is president of the com pany, of which Ben Butler, Mahone, Windom, John P. Jones and George C. Gorham are members. Eighty- eight thousand young shad were placed iu the Neuae river last week. They were hatched at the State fish pondi at Charlotte, N. C., from egg brought from Avocn. Just 100,000 eggs were aent up by Mr. Worth, so only 12,- 000 failed to hatch. Among the notable’things in Palatka, Fla,, la the first Tangerine tree ever ’budded in that State. The bud was received by Dr. Morangue before the war, and from thia cornea all the kid glove orangaH in Florida. The tree can be teen in hia grove, which in quite cel ebrated on that aocount. A Montgomery special says: Ship ments of cattle from Georgia aud thia section still continue. The Montgom ery shippers for the New Orleans mar kot couldn’t get transportation, the Georgians being ahead ef them. It is estimated that 8,000 went through here recently from Georgia and about 0,000 from this section of Alabama. At Savannah, Ga., Subscriptions are on foot now to raise funds for the erec tion of a splendid military academy on the lota of Forsyth Park. The amount of 810,000 is already obtained. The academy Will be leased by Maj.|Burgess, Principal of the Savannah Military Academy. It is thought the work will be started in a few weeks, and the buil ding will be completed in time for the October teesion. Eleven hundred head of cattle, fill* iug twenty-one cars, were ahipped from Albany, Ga., to Texas Saturday after noon. The animals were yt*y poor gen erally and suffered interseiy. Several killed themselves in their frantic efforts 1o escape while being driven on board ♦ne train. Several ol the cam Were double-decked for the calves hbd smaller stock i Unless they itapfovc greatly on the prarie grass in Texas, the venture will hardly be a profitable one to the sonslgnees, Mur. Myra Clarke Gainer, the plaintiff in a suit just won against the city of New Orleans for nearly f2,000,- 000, is n eldeylv lady who has long been a litigant for s large part of New Orleans’ real estate, nnd is one of the most persevering women of modem times. But as she is well advanced in years now, and as her case must next go to the United States supreme court, it is to be feared that the claim will have to be collected, if.collected at all, by the next generation of heirs. Arms and Legs, There to more pity in s wooden leg hot more eloquence in an empty sleeve- I remember that in the second day's fight before Richmond, > captain by the name of Coward saw the sergeant shot down and the colors fall, and no caught up the flag end waved it high and for ward with a shoot, and a cannon bull came whirring along and took off hia arm, and the colors fell again. He caught them with his other hand and kept on nntil he fell himself. I never saw as brave a man with that sort of a name tacked onto him. He always signed his name A. Coward, and when asked why ho didn't sign Iris full name, he said his full name was Adam, and when he used to sign it that way at sohool the boys called him a blanked coward, which was worse, and he had to fight out of it. Gen. Pick Taylor didn't have muchcipinion of a man's'legs. He says his own trembled and wanted to rnn in every battle, and he knew a bravo ooldier who had to talk to keep 'em sternly : "Now, just look at you, gone to shaking again, with the enemy a mile off. What are you in such a hurry about? Can't you wait until they b> gin to 6hoot at you, you cussed cow ards and he would rap his knee* with his sword like he was ashamed of ’em,— Bull Art. A Tor\'<i politician explained the tat tered condition of his trowsers to his father by stating thut he was sitting tinder an apple tree enjoying himself, when the fanner's dog came alaug ace contested his scat. TOPICS OF THE DAT. | Thomas A. Edison and others, repre senting a capital of $2,000,000, have filed papers with the Secretary of 8 late of i New York incerporating the Electric Railway Company of the United States. An English company have purchased 90,000 aqras iron lands in East Tennes see. They supply a capital of $l,OOO, 000, and will erect furnaces at once, giving employment to 800 men. Patti, the opera singer, has been en gaged to sing next season at a salary of $5,000 per night. At those figures it would seem as though she could get along and support her husband and two or three poodle dogs. The new postal notes are to be five and aeven-eight inches long, and three and one-eight inches wide. All the work on them ia to be done in the best style, and altogether they will consti tute a very handsome part of our cur rency. A great deal ia expected from the building of the three steel cruisers. It is proposed to make them the best of their class afloat—good enough to con tend on equal terms with anything that England has built In the month of March the exports of Baltimore were in amount $4,913,588; of Charleston, #2,317,562; of Galveston $3,128,431; of New Orleans, f11,031, of Norfolk, $1,662,788, and of Savannah $3,229,697. Over one-third of the en tire exports of the country in March were from southern ports. John McCullough was born In Londonderry, Ireland, in 1837 ; Law rence Barrett, at Fatterson, N. J., in 1838; Mary Anderson in Sacramento, California, in 1859; Mile. Rhea, in Brussels, 8. I).; Clara Morris, in Cleve land, 0., in 1800; James E. Murdock, in Philadelphia, in 1811; Nat. Good win in Boston, in 1857, and John A. Ellsler, in Philadelphia in 1822. Fish Commissioner Tierce, of Penn sylvania, thinks that there is a great deal of money wasted by tne Govern ment trying to stook with salmon and bass streams which, by reason of the clearing away of the forests and the cultivation of the land, have become ea tiiely unfit for such fish, their water? having become warm and muddy. He rays the rc-stocking of such streams is “misdirected labor aud expenditure which is almost a total loss.’’ Itisprob ahle that Mr. Pierce is right. Bass and salmon <lo not like muddy water. Carp do not object to it, and hence carp cul ture is the most profitable. Krao, the Missing Link. Tlie London Timet says: A strange, hairy little creature is now being exhi bited at the Royal Aquarium, Westmin ster, by Mr. Farini, as “the missing link.” Krao is not in the ordinary ac ceptation of the word a monster, but a very bright-looking, intelligent girl of about seven years of age. She was caught, according to the account given by Mr. Farini, in the forest near Laos, aud brought to England by Mr. Carl Bock, a Norwegian, who, ainoe the expe ditroh ffetcriboa by him “Til? Hunters of Borneo," has been exjuoHug Siam and the wilder Btatea to the north east Hearing in various quarters of , race of hairy-tailed men. Mbilar in ap. pearuioe to a family kept at the Court of Mandalay, he uttered a reward for the capture o' a specimen. A man was caught, and with him tliq child now ex hibited, and a womna ftf similar appear ance then allowed. hckWelf to bo taken. When the little Urns (attempted to wander, tho parents tVCaued her with a plain tive C£jr, “KrSJe,” and the call lias been adopted lekt name. The father died at Laos cholera, and the King refused to lot the mother go, but Mr. Book sue- Cfcdcd in getting the child to Bangkok, 1 slid obtained permission from the Kiug of Siam to bring her to this country, the eyes of the ehild ore large, dark, and lustrous, the nose flattened, tho nostrils scarcely showing, the cheeks fat aud poneh-like, the lower lip only thicker than is usual in Europeans; but the chief peculiarity apparent is the etroug and abundant hair. On the head, it is black, tbiek, aud straight, and grows over the forehead down to the heavy eye brows, and is continued in whisker-like looks down the cheeks. The rest of the face is covered with a fine, dark, downy hair, and the shoulders and arms have a covering of hairs from an inch to an inch and a half long. There is, it is said, a slight lengthening of the lower vertebrae, suggestive of a caudal protulierance, anil there are points in the muscular eonior mation and otherwise which will provoke discussion. Krao has already picked up a few words of FugHsh. She is of a frank, affectionate disjiositiou. and shows truly feminine delight in her clothes, jewelry, and ribbons. A history almost as sad and romantk as that of Romeo and Juliet to attached to Green Mount, the well known ceme tery at Baltimore, Md. The property was ones owned Johu Oliver, a wealthy English merchant, i Hia ouly child, a beautiful girl of twenty, was loved byk young man whose on'-i unfit ness to become lier husband i ■■ m the fact that a personal fend existed between hini and the girl’s stem father. They met elaudestiuely and planned an elojle nient. The father fmmd it out, and gave orders to his servant to patrol the grounds by night and shoot all trespassers. Dis guised in man’s clothing, the girl at tempted to escape, and was shot dead at the gate. Grief stricken, her father erected a mausoleum npc>n tho spot, and deeded tho entire property to the city tor a cemetery. In Tiunuru.—A station master in In dia telegraphed two hundred miles to the central authorities: "Tiger jumping at .out on platform. Please telegraph in structions.” Tire fact woe that the sta t.,. ui master was unable to got to the sig nal station owing to the presence of a tiger oil the platform, and in order to avoid an apprehended collision he tele graphed to the bead office for insirue tions to t'e sent to the next signal la'x, tli.it an oppitpachiug train might bo stopped in time. ADYICE TO A BRIDEGROOM. A Bit M Atrlet that Ibr he Fellewe te Atruiw. To become a husband is as serious a matter to a man as it is for a woman to become a wife. Marriage is no child’s play; it brings added care, trial, per plexity, vexation, and it requires a great deal of happiness which legitimately springs out of it to make the balance in its favor. Very few people live hap pily iu marriage, and yet this is not be cause unhappiness is germane to this re lation, ;but because those who enter it do not know, first, how to get married, and, second, how to live married happily. You have already made your choice— wisely, I am bound to believe. These qualities of character which have at tracted yon to choose as von have, should make your love grow daily while you live together. As to the second point: If you wish to live in harmonins union with your wife, start out with that avowed recog nition of the fact that she is your com panion and co-partner. Marriage usually makes the wife neither of these. In many instances, she sees less of her hus band than hefore she married him. He comes, he goes, he reads, thinks, works, and under the stimulus of business brings all his powers and faculties to the surface, and is developed thereby—not always symmetrically, but vigorously not always harmoniously, but with in creasing power. Married men do not usually shrivel up or put on a look of premature age. but women frequently do, and it is plain to me why they do. Married women ore shut up in houses, and their chief care is for things that have no inspiring influences. Their time is taken up in meeting the physi cal necessities of their families—cooking, washing dishes, keeping the house in order, sewing, receiving company--not ne of which has in it a tendency even to culture and elevation. Married wo men are devoted to the house, and this means a life of vexation and pettiness. It gives no sort of stimulus to the spirit. So the husband, who is out of doors, active, interested in measures which affect the public good, coming into contact with men greater than him self, who inspire him to better purposes and nobler ends of labor, develops into manly beauty and grows in character, while his wife at home, who has as faith fully performed her share of the work, withers and decays prematurely. Treat your wife exactly as yourself would like to be treated if you to live under her circumstances, ffnd you will not go far wrong. ’ Do not entertain the silly notion that because she is of 'a different gender from your own that she is there fore different in her wants, feelings, qualities and powers. Do not be the victim of any social policy. Sfand up bravely for the right, give' your wife a chance to live, grow and lie somebody and become something. Try to bo thoughtful, considerate and forbearing. You will have new duties, and they will bring new trials. Take good care of your health and hers. Be simple, both, in your habits ; lie careful in your expenditures, bo industrious. If you keep good health and arc frugal, blessings will come from your united love, and you will grow happier and bet ter day by day as the years pass. Supreme Court Etiquette, “ I happened to drop iu the United States Supreme Court the other day," says a Washington letter writer, “and there I met a Philadelphia lawyer. He had in ins hand a tall hat, a small white necktie encircled the whitest of collars, and his general appearance suggested a funeral. As the gentleman (I dare uot name him) is somewhat noted for bis flashy attire, I eonld not exactly under stand what was the matter, especially as he had no crape on hia hat. lie noticed me eyeing him, and asked what was the matter. I told him he looked more like a Baptist preacher than a Philadelphia lawyer. ‘Oil,’ he answered quickly, ‘i‘- ‘.hr 22V2* ? lifttv tlieM clothes, and at home I never wear any tnWgbnt gray* or stripes or plaids, with bright neckties, lmt the last time l had a case in this court, t was not allowed to make my argument liecause I wore a short speckled coat and trousers, with a blue necktie. Iw as told that I raa not appropriately dressed to ap pear before this court, and that I must wear black clothes, I have another case here now, so von see I am dreased iu this outlandish style. But I shall charge this suit to my client, aud when I get home I’ll have my wife put these things away in camphor and mark them “Su preme Court.” Upon inquiry l found what I never know liefore, that the Supreme Court forbids lawyers to wear within its lmr, anything hut black. The weather may 1m- as hot as the re gion toward which all of us sinners are tending, hut no grateful seersucker or linen duster or white duck is iiermissi ble. The nine old duffers in easy chain- may nod and snooze and have their ease,' but you must dress in black. It is probablytgight, for certain forms nnd oercmoweM are necessary and the dignity of the vourt must be main tained." Why Horse* Are Cross. “Why? Because tht% tools are not all dead yet. "Horses hate to l>e ‘peeked' at. Some men are afraid of horses, and the animals know it; they despise ’em, and are cross only to those who have no business with them. "But horses are made cross by the way they are treated. If they have kind nsage they become gentle; if rough they respond in the same way. "I have become so well versed in horses that I can read their thoughts, and when I am in their company I know very quickly ;ut what they think of me.” "You recognise, then, the reasoning power in horses ?” "Most decidedly sir. When I select a horse for my school I pick out those that exhibit wit. Igo a good deal by tire formation of the head and the bright ness of the eye. “Horses have ambition, and show it in their make-up. When I put the horses in the school I begin by finding out the disposition. Then they go into kinder garteu and learn tho simplest thing first.” Flood*.—The closing weeks of 1882 will be lone remembered in Europe on account of the destructive hoods in some of the great rivers. The Rhine, the Seine, the Moselle, and the Main have overflowed their banks, causing consider able loss of life and great destruction of property. In Germany there is much dis trees on account of tlic inundations, and pressing appeals are made for aid. A Servant.—'The Governor of Michi gan says that the title of his office is in appropriate. He does not consider him self a "Governor,” but a "public set ! VJUIt,” Jay Gen Id at the Play. Joe Howard, in the Philadelphia Timctf on the first performance of the “Silver King,” writes as follows: Mr. Gould sat in one of the upper proscenium boxes. I hadn’t specially noticed him until in one of the affecting episodes with which the “Silver King” abounds, after I bad for the fifteenth or twentieth time taken off my glasses t wipe my eyes, I chanced to turn and in a box saw what seemed a very curious illustration of the text with winch I be gan my letter. Ordinarily, in a box Mr. Gould sits facing the stage, his counte- nance rather shaded by the curtains. He is always accompanied by his son George—a very bright fellow, by the way. On this occasion Mr. Gould leaned on his elbow far over the rail, sc that his head was absolutely bathed in the light from the big chandelier, and followed with his restless eye the move ments upon the stage. Presently taking from his pocket a handkerchief, he quickly rubbed his eyes and vigorously blowed bis nose. His son George, who had been Bitting near him, rose, resting his back against the partition, laid one hand upon his father’s ahonlder, and in a very few minntes Ids pumps began to work, as did those of an elderly gentle man occupying the box with them. Now, that these three men in the box should be crying is nothing very start ling, because I doubt if there was a de cent fellow in the entire auditorium who did not find bis alleged heart in his throat at least half a dozen times during the progress of the play, and the wo men were in a continuously melting mood ; but that Mr. Gould, who is black guarded by at least half the papers iu the country, who is supjioKcd to have a head of flint and a heart of marble, should join the weeping phalanx, I think is a little curious, and, to me, it was ex tremely interesting as indicative of a phase of the great financier’s inner na ture. I have lieen told by people who are near him and who have occasion to know, that whatever may be Mr. Gould's scope of conscience in dealing with Bulls ami Bears and other pecuniary beasts, who would tear him to pieces if he did not tear them, in his personal, domestic and affcctiounl relations he is as tender and thoughtful and considerate as a man could well lie. A Dinner I’arl) . English papers tell us an amusing story of a well-known banker of Liege, Bel gium. A yhort time ago he gave u little dinner iiayty to w hich ten guests had beenTriituou, beside himself aud wife, making twelve in all. They were just about to set down when in dropped a friend from the Antipodes and invited himself to dinner, thus making the fatal nwnlM-r thirteen. The banker, to pre vent ill luck, uwlicd down-stairs to his office, found the cashier just about to leave for the evening, draggl'd him up stairs, fitted him w ith a dress coat, and led him triumphantly into the drawing room amid the applause of liis relieved guests, three of whom declared that they would not sit down to the best din ner ever served if there were thirteen at fable. At that moment the bell rang, and a note was brought for ono of tho gttesfs whose wife had suddenly fallen ill, and who consequently was unable to remain. Thirteen again ! Gloom nnd despair ; anil the cashier finding himself the Jonah of tho evening, volunteered to depart. The banker saw him down stairs and was expressing his regrets when—joy !—the family doctor heaved in sight. Ifim tho host secured, and, happy in Wing aide to offer the hospitali ties to his kind-hearted, sorely-trica em ployee, the throe returned to the draw ing-room. Dinner was ordered to be placed upon the table, but, just as all was ready, the hostess, who was in deli cate health, and who had lieen unduly excited by all the untoward event*, fainted dead away, and had to be put to bed. Thirteen again ! This time there was nothing for the cashier but to go and dine with what appetite he might at the nearest restaurant braltt ami Meat la Europe. Iu a paper on agricultural statistics, read before the British Association, Mr. W. Botly gave some interesting fact* concerning the food supply of Great Britain and the Continent, as follows: “At present the food supply produced iu Europe is equal to about eleven month’s consumption, but in a few years the de ficit will be sixty instead of thirty days. The present production and consump tion are: G.niu consumption in the United Kitfgdom, 607,000,000 bushels; Continent, 4,794,000,000; total 5,401,- 000,000. Production of the United Kingdom, 332,000,000 bushels; Conti nent, 4,736,000,000 bushels: total, 5,068,- 000,000. Meat consumption iu the United Kingdom, 1.740,000 tons; Conti nent, 6,372.000 toils; total, 8,112,000 tons. It appears that the bulk of the deficit lie lougs to Great Britain; but as the Conti nent is unable to feed its own population, we must in the future look to some other hemisphere for the needful supply, rather than to the supposed surplus of Russia, Hungary, Holland or Denmark. Europe paid last year £35,000,000 for foreign meats, and £85,000,000 for grain, a 6um equivalent to a tax of £10,000,000 per month. In the United Kingdom, the importation of meat, including cat tle, has risen as follows: 1860, 5)1,230 tons, value, £4,390,000; per inhabitant, 7 pounds; 1870, 144,225 tons; value, £7,- 708,000; per iulmbitant, 10 pounds; 1880, 650,300 tons; value, £26,612,000, or 40 pounds tor each inhabitant.” Moeated for Sort unfa. Norwegian gills make excellent ser vants. In their own country they are thoroughly trained at schools specially instituted for the purpose, and they only receive a diploma or authority to work when they have completed their course. Many of them come to this country, and certainly those in search of competent servants—and who is not ? would do well to consider the expediency of inquiring about them. Scotch servuuts, too, have such a good name in England that many people send to Glasgow for them and en gage them without even seeing them. There is a good deal of similarity in the characters of the two nations, both are thrifty, industrious, and generally relig ious, m addition to which they are ex tremely cleanly in their habits. -Veto lor A: Mail. Taped Railroad Tracks.—Steel manufacturers are anxiously awaiting the result of n trial of paper rails to be made of a prominent Western road. Car wheels of this material have long been in ase and are reported to give satisfaction. The rails are said to be made wholly of paper pulp subjected to a pressure which rondel's it solid as metal. It is claimed that the paper rails are, not affected by atmospheric changes, that they arc more durable than steel and that they can be manufactured at one-third less cost than those of steel GIKLS IJ THE KITCHEN. I! w Iwa Brave Little One* TrM ta Help Their Mother. “ Minnie ” writes: “ I am sixteen and iny sister is fourteen. Onr mother is not strong, and we want to know just how to g.j to work to do the washing some time when she is away. She always washes and has us do the housework, and that is why we don’t know exactly how to wash. But if we did it onee nicely, she would let us do it again, and then she wouldn’t get so very tired. ” Minnie shows the right spirit, and we gladly give her minute directions how to proceed, says the New York Tribune. First gather all the clothes together and, while the water is heating, sort them over. Put all the handkerchiefs into a |>ail of water, and all blood stains into clear cold water, as soap sets them. Put the finest white clothes in a pile by themselves, the commoner clothes into a pile by themselves and the calicoes, flannels and stockings likewise. You can wash the white flannels first, if you choose, and the water in which they'are washed will do to soak the stockings in till yon get ready to wash them. Flannels should be put into veiy hot soap suds and washed, then put into scalding hot water, with a little blneiog iu it, and when wrung from that they are hung on the line to dry. The water in which thev are scalded will do for the first water to wash the fine cotton clothes in. Wash the handkerchiefs from the clear water and put them in soap suds, put in also the collars, cuffs, shirts and all the whitest of the clothes. Wash them out carefully and put them into the boiler to scald. Wliile they are scalding, wash out the next boilerful, and so on till all the clothes have lieeu rubbed out. As fast ns the clothes are scalded remove them from the boiler and put in others, adding clean water and soap as needed, til) all are scalded. They should not re main iu the boiler long, or the dirt will bo set in them and they will be dingy. Do not use water very much soiled to wash in, or your clothes will not lie clear. Keep the different sortings of clothes separate all the way through, so the white clothes will not lie mode dingy by being mixed with those less while. From the boiling suds put the clothes into clear warm water and wash out all the suds, then put them into a clear rinsing water, ami then through a bin and water. Have the clothes tbat need starching separated from the others and make yom starch, put them through it and hang them out to dry. Be careful about making a slop while you are washing. A careful woman can wash on a carpet and not soil it in the least. If you have only tnbs and a waslilioard with a wringer you can do the work well. Wash all the house cloths in your last suds and have them fresh and clean. Be sqre and turn the Blockings and wash them thoroughly on both sides, and turn such of the white clothes as need it to lie made perfectly clean. It is well to have a small bag, an old pillow-case will do, to put the collars and small things in when they are boiled, so they won’t get scattered and torn, and so that they will be sure to lip rinsed through the clearest water. When you can organize and conduct a washing campaign in a regular and suc cessful manner, you have become ac complished in one very important direc tion. In hanging out vour clothes put all the sheets together, the pillow slips, the Bliirts, night wraps, and so of tlic rest. When they are dry fold the sheets uieely as yon take them from the line, lay the pillow tlips one upon another, the towels likewise, the starched clothes all by themselves, and so of the rest. This will make .sprinkling the clothes for ironing on easy matter. Take in your line and put your elothespius carefully in place. If your stockings are stiff when they are dry, it is u sign they are no t washed clean. Stockings and flannels can be folded so smoothly when taken from the line as not to need ironing. A College prank. Ben Butler relates one of his college pranks in breaking gp an abolition meet ing. Wa studentiwreirt into the country and paid an old farmer fifty cents to let us catch in his barn all the swallows we wtinted. We got a dozen, or so, and on thq night of the meeting a number of us were pifesent, distributed judiciously about the room, each boy with a swallow in his pocket. The church was lighted by, old-fashioned chandeliers, holding each five or six whale oil lamps. At a given signal, when the services were under way, the swallows were let loose, and almost iu the twinkling of an eye, out wont the lights. The birds of course went for the lights, aud the rush of air caused by their wings put out the lamps. We kissed a girl or two, and they of course shrieked. All was commotion nnd con fusion for a few moments. Then the moderator of the meeting demanding silenee, said that some unaccountable, ac cident had put out the liglits, lmt that the audience must sit quiet aud preserve order, and the lamps would soon be lighted. The sexton hurried away for a torch—there was no lucifer matches in those davs—and presently lie came into church, holding it iu front of his face and shielding it with oue hand: the swal lows of course went for the light, and one of them struck the candle, knocking it out of the old man’s hand and into his face. He tumbled back, gave a yell of fright, aud gathering himself up, took to his heels, vowing there were spirits there, sure. The crowd, now frightened in earnest, the students leading, got out of the eliur<.h in n hurry, and that abolition meeting was at an unexpected and unex plainable end. v Leaving Paris, The cx-Emprcßß F.ugenie has arrived iu London from Tar is, A correspondent at Paris telegraphs os follows: "It is hard to aay whether her departure is a consequence of a direct intimation from the French Government, as to stated, or whether the step to taken at the persua sion of her friends, oil of whom are grieved by her imprudent actipn. Her coming was the result of no deeply laid scheme. After hearing of the arrest of Prince Napoleon she telegraphed to M. Rotiher that she was coming with some attendants, and she asked to have the the same rooms as those that had been occupied by her husband in 1848. This last was the only point of any political significance in the whole affair, and but for it the statement of her friends that she was called to Paris to consult an ocu list, would have been credited. During her stay here she has seen but few load ing people. A crowd assembled at the Hotel dn Rhin to witness the departure of ex-Empress Eugeisie and greeted her with marks of sympathy. A privatomes sage had been conveyed to the nressbv the Grand Duke ColfeTantiriSl from Gravy to the effect that her presence iu Paris was not desirable. SerußONiA —‘‘What is pbilosepv ?’ It I is something which enables a rich man 1 to say there to no disgrace in beffig poor. GOVERNMENT TROFIT ON COINAGE. C*ri** Fan* KriMins !• Care deened Obligation* ol tlie Uavcraaem. A considerable source of profit to the United States Government is the amount of paper money and coin which is never presented for redemption. Much of this is destroyed by fire. Some of it is buried or hid in places known to no person alive. A huge quantity of the coin is melted to make sterling silverware. Con siderable amounts of Ijoth paper money and coin are exported, never to return. Not long ago a United States bond, is sued about 1819, was presented at the Sub-Treasury in N. Y. City. The interest on it had ceased over fifty years. It had come back from Europe through Baring Brothers. The outstanding principal of the pub lic debt of the United States last year was nearly two billions of dollars, chiefly represented by bonds and Treasury notes. It would be. of course, impossible to say how much of this will never be pre sented for redemption, but some idea may be formed from the fact that $57,- 665 of it was issued so long ago that the date is not recorded. It appears in the report as “old debt” that may safely be put down as profit. There is an item of $82,525 of Treas ury notes issued prior to 1846. Some of them were issued nearly fifty years ago, aud will not, in all probability, ever be presented for redemption. One thousand one hundred and four dollars of the Mex ican indemnity of 1846 has never been claimed. The last of the fractional cur rency was issued under the act of June 6, 1864, yet, although nearly twenty years have elapsed, $7,077,247 has not lieen presented for redemption. Some of tliis is held as a curiosity. Some of it is still used by banks and merchants for transmitting small sums by mail. Sev eral New York banks Lave considerable sums of new fractional currency which they distribute for the accommodation of their customers. As to the coin the Government de rives a considerable profit from it The silver in one thousand silver dollars costs, on an average abont $803.75. The coinage of a silver dollar costs alont lj cents. The total cost of 1,000 silver dollars to the Government is therefore $*16.25. Since the organization of the Mint, in 1793, 127,190,618 silver dollars have been coined, on which the Government has received a profit of over twenty-three millions of dollars. In the same period $122,758,510 was coined into half dollars. At the same rate of cost for coinage the Government profited $19,395,769 on these. The total silver coinage of the Government since 1793 is $347,766,792. Estimating the profit on the halves, qnarters, and sub sidiary coins at the same rate as on the dollars, the total profit received by the Government on its silver coinage has been about sixty-four millions of dollars. In the coinage of the five-cent nickels the Government reserved to itself the 1 dicral profit of nearly 50 per cent. This gave to the Government last year the handsome revenue of over SIOO,OOO from nickels alone. The wide margin between the intrinsic value of the tive eent nickel and its face value led to ex treme counterfeiting. Several years ago an assay was made of some of the counterfeit nickels, and it was discovered that the counterfeiters had put iuto their coins more valuable metal than the Government uses in mak ing the genuine coins. Hie Diamond Country. The soil iu the diamond fields of Africa, when brought to the summit of the mine, says Lady Florence Dixie, is carted uway and strewn on the ground, where it is left for a fortnight or three weeks to pulverize in the sun. At the expiration of this time gangs of Kafirs, Hiiperin tcndcil by a white overseer, break the large dry lumps into powder, and this in turn is carted away to -be placed in the washing-machine. It is durirg the pits cess of first breaking that some of the largest diamonds are discovered, and tho overseer has to keep a sharp look-ont on the workers in consequence. In spite of the terrible penalty incurred by any one detected in the act of secreting a good find, thefts nrn very rife, nnd many a diamond finds its way into Kafir posses sion iu spite of the sharpest vigilance. During the process of washing, the grav elly substance, which is full of garnets as’well as-the diamonds, sinks to the bottom of tli£ machine, while the eavth em substance disappears in another channel. When it has been thoroughly washed through two or three linn s this gravel is collected aud strew n on tables, where searchers with steel instruments somew hat resembling very broad knives, carefully turn it over iu minute search. Then itls that the precious jewel is dis covered in al! manner of sizes and shapes, when it is placed in a small tray, on which another overseer lie* ]*, his watch ful eye. I was given several little heaps of gravel to dissect, aud in half an hour had succeeded in discovering about twen ty or thirty diamonds of very fair size anil some so perfectly shaped that they had every appearance of having just left the cutter’s hands. Early Marriages. A New York paper says: As 2,651 girls under 20 years of age were married in this city during 1882, it can hardly be complained that early marriages have declined. Nevertheless, from 20 to 25 years is the favorite age for brides, 4,662 women within those limits having en tered wedlock. As is deemed proper, the age of men at marriage is shown to be greater than that of their brides; but 204 youths under 20 having married in this city during 1882. There were 3,922 from 20 to 25 married, and 3,382 from 25 to 30. The number of men under 30 when married was 7,508, and the number of women under 30 was 9,434. There were 1,012 men married who were more than 40. but only 403 women, .-honing that the matrimonial chances of women are exhausted sooner than those of men. One benighted old Benedick of 1882 to more than 80. The whole nnm l>er of marriages, 11,085, was too small for the immense population of Manhat tan Island. The Indians at San Carlos, Arfe, re eently gave a dance in honor of Piute Bill.’ About 400 Indians participated. Bill made a speech in which he said that he and hto people at one time owned the whole Comstock lode. The Pintos were then worth millions on millions —more than Maekay and Fair a dozen times over ._yet they never put on any airs on account of their wenith—never so much as opened their mouths about it to any one. "Now see ” said Bill, "what taik there kis'abont Maekay and Fair wherever they ! go' They are everywhere ealled kings— bonanza kings! Our chief, Winnemne ica, was at one time the controller of ail the mineral wealth. He fixed his thoughts upon higher things than tne mere dross of the earth.' —3Vt ada ler rilot'iai Enterprise. A Inneraa in • Lumber Camp. One of the accidents so common in the lumber regions recently visited the camp at Kettle Creek, Penn. One of the men was watching.the slide where the logs came down to see that they kept thw track when just above him a swiftly moving log jumped the track, striking him and crushing him to death instantly. He was taken up and carried to camp on a hastily-improvised bier made of pine branches, and was laid out in one of the girl’s rooms, and the men talked over what should be done with him. “He came from Maine, and hain’t got no relatives near here, as far I know,” said the boss, “and I don’t even know what part of the State he came from. All we can do is to bury him and adver tise for his family, to send his wages away.” - So it was decided to bury the man in the woods, with a great pine tree, under which he had many a time eaten his din ner, to mark the place. A man was sent to Germania for a coffin, and clumsy but tender hands made his last bed ana per formed the necessary services for the dead comrade. The next day was set apart for the funeral, and one of the men, who had been a Methodist ex horter, acted as chief in performing the last sod rites, which were singularly sol emn and impressive, as everything of a religious nature is away in the silent woods, where Nature adds an element of solemnity unknown in the most gorgeous cathedral The sermon was short, and the speaker, in an impressive way, com mented on the danger of the life in the woods and the special need for prepara tion for sudden death. Speaking of the deceased, he said: "He was not ready to die, and I would wish you to leave off many of his faults. But there was much in him that was noble and manly, and these qualities we will all do well to remember and emu late. You cannot forget his courage in risking his life to save a fellow on the jam last spring, when the mad stream was burling tne logs arouud him, and death seemed hidden in the timber where his crushed commie was strug gling for life. And yon all remember his brave action on the landing, only a month ago, by which another life was saved. We all have reason to admire and love him, and, rough as he was, I believe the future will deal kindlier with him than with many who profess more and do less.” When he spoke of the lives the man had saved, and painted a picture of his rude and bravely honest life, and in ten der words spoke of his future life, the strong men broke down, and one, whose life had been saved, sobbed aloud. There were no dry eyes among them, and eveiy man was a friend and a mourner. As they carried him lo his resting-place under the old pine tree and each threw a handful of earth into the grave, tears moistened the earth. A Stork Experience. Joaquin Miller relates his experience in Wall street as follows: I had seen Western Union stock go d6wn about eighteen points and so bought one hun dred. It fell five lower and I took a hun dred more. Five points lower, I took another and so on till I was getting alarmed. I thought of a prominent stock buyer who was under some obliga tions to me, or at least a true friend, and so stepped across from my hotel to see him. He was kind, quiet, and purrv as a kitten, almost playful, and soon began to point out on his maps the lino of his new Atlnntic cable. He himself opened the subject of telegraphs. The occasion was opportune. I handed him a certifi cate of purchase of Western Union and asked him what to do, as I was already on the edge of my margin. He looked at the pajier with a sweet and innocent' surprise, us if saying: “Only to think that any man would touch the worthies* Western Union!" “I’m so so ITT yon have bought this stuff. My telegraph is the other line,” he Big Led, at length. “Yes; I know. But I bonglit it be cause 1 thought it cheap.” “It’s cheaper now, Mr. Miller." “.And will lie cheaper.” “Well, we”—looking at liis son— “have not a pliare of it, it ought to be a great deal cheaper.” “Then I shall sell t wice the amount I hold and hedge. Thank yen', and good night.” And the next morning I did 6ell—sell right and left—for the whole bottom seemed to lie falling out of Western UnioD. It kept on tumbling, and by noon I was even. By one o'clock I was not only even, but almost rich. I was a richer man than I had ever been before. I remained a rich man alient thirty-five minifies. The tide began b-set against me. Western Union bounded i.p w iih a rapidity that fairly made me dizzy and by the time the hammer fell in the Stock Board 1 literally had not car fare left. Haring plenty ef leisure after that, I wrote down the foregoing conversation, and have copied i* exactly. I have not seen my dear triend. the great stock holder. since. But 1 find that at the time lie said lie had not a share of West ern Union, he had about two hundred thousand shares, and was picking it up is ia6t as he could knock it down. Honor ? The Gentleman In Overalls. The Boston says: He was a gentleman who wore overalls and car ried a tin dipper pail. His clothes were unready made and hto boots were not symmetrical. He said the long journey of five milee each way to and from hie work was trying. “"Why don't vou live in the city?” " Because, sorr’—in a rich Milesian brogue—"it I lived in the city I should have to live in a tenement bouse. You don't know the kind of peo ple who live there. They're e bad lot all through, generally. Sights go on no woman or child should see. I want to save my wife and chihlven from seeing corruption, so I moved out here. Good night. sorr !” And he kit the car at the little cot tage, whose inmates were sheltered from "corruption,” and was greeted with a chorus of "Here's father,” that showed the gentleman with the dinner pail hod not lavished care without receiving a return in love. Every day the papers tell of some: man while out deer hunting being mis-i taken for a deer and shot. The rasemj blance between a man and a deer is notf great, and it seems as though atj hunter could tell the difference, unlesre he has the ' ‘buck fever;” but as them cannot distinguish a man from a deer, m will be well for hunters to carry a bahttM or a transparency on which shall tT f tinted the words : "Do not shoot me* am not a deer.” —Peek s Sun. It is said of a well-known colored preacher of Morgan City, La., that while marrying a couple lately, he asked the man: “Wilt thou take this womato to be thy wedded wife, and vote for Btox Taylor Beattie for Congress?” The rate readily assented, • -j