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WOMAN’S WORLD. FLBABANT LITIERATURE FOR FEMININE READER*! The Good Honseke .--er. How can I tell her' . By her cellar; f shelves mad whitened wall. ran guess her By her dresser; By the back staircase and ball. And with pleasure Take her measure By the way she keeps her tiroomi, Or the peeping At the “keeping" til her back and unseen rooms. By her kitchen's air of neatness. And its general completeness; Where in cleanliness and sweetness The rose of order blooms. tester Leigh, in flood Hontekeepiny. Hew a Woman Washes Her Face. A woman was in disguise anil was flee hap from some crime slie had committed. Bb< was traveling in a staae coach, and gtopje-d at a country inn The travelers a tig. ;ed. and the supposed man got out with rbo others. All went to the wash shell at the end of her porch. A man war string leaning against the post of the porch. He was watchingth<- woman in disguise h- she washetl her fa<-c and Bands, and when she was done he at once arrested her. He discovered her •ex t;v the manner of applying the water in washing her face. All men mb up and down ana snort. All women apply the water and stroke gently downward Chicago Tribune. "Canni Thole." H a Hindoo has a daughter who re •trains '‘an unappropriated blessing" at the age of ten years, he considers himself disgraced. From the day of her birth, he is anxious to secure her a husband. As g portionless girl is not attractive to Bten, the father saves a little every year, ao that his daughter's dowry may in crease her value in the matrimonial mar ket The young lady is not consulted. The bridegroom tuny be old and repulsive, but •he accepts him as the husband to whom her father lias sold her. Kven if he is young and comely, her interest in him is ■far less than that with which she surveys the jewels that adorn her person. The wedding ceremonies and feasts which celebrate her sale and delivery to a mas ter, arc far more attractive to her child ish nature than is her husband. When she is transferred, as if she were a heartless and soulless animal, to her lord’s house, she begins a dull, dreary life, relieved only by the cares of the kitchen, the uursery, and the idols, and broken by theseoldings of her mother-in law Scholars tell us that not a few of the customs of modern civilization originated in India. Perhaps they would assert that the cultured European marries off his daughter to-dav as the uncultured Hin doc has done for hundreds of years. Certainly, the following anecdote, if it is illustrative of a general practice,endorses his assertion. A Scotch farmer’s wife was ons day ex plaining to a neighbor how well she hud married her daughter, who had anew house, tilled with new furniture, and many acres, on whicli eows, sheep, pigs and poultry fed, to say nothing of a gig, in which to drive to market. “ jist like a leddy.” The neighbor expressed her delight at such a jjrand marriage. “ Oh, there's uae doubt it’s a grand marriage,” an swered the mother, “an’ it wasna jist for ae thing. ” “An' what might the ae thing be f” ukt'l the now curious neighbor. “ Weel, ye sec," answered the mother, wif the “ae thing” was of little conse quence, “the puir silly cratur canna thole (endure) her uiau 1" "DoutV for \V ivri. Don't mend his hosiery with coarse cotton having knots in it larger than a pea Don't trade off all his old clothes for pair of china dogs and then tell him about it. Don't have more than a dozen of places for the button-hook. Don't communicate unpleasant news or aek a favor before eating. The heart is not easily touched when the stomach is empty. Don’t gather up all his reeeipts and notes that he has put carefully away on the sitting-room table- and tuck them in the fire the moment his back is turned. Don’t leave hair iu the comb, or your neck curls where they will stick to the hair brush. Don’t put a long hair on the soap or in his tooth brush purposely. Don’t put pins iu your curl papers or let your crimping pins dangle on your forehead. They are abominations, and feminiuc implements of warfare that men despise. Dou't waste your breath in useless vi tuperation against his favorite chum. Cultivate the claim —ostensibly—when your husband is not around, and matters veil! assume a different aspect. Don't monopolize every hook in the closet. Graciously tender him one nail for his very own—and then, in mercy, hang your “Mother Hubbard,” your pal- erine, your shopping bag and your bon net in some other place. Don’t be unreasonably vexed if he is not ready for church as soon as you are. If he doesn’t start to get ready till the bell begins to ring you mustn’t expect the same results as with yourself, who had the whole morning before you. Don’t ask him where he has been the moment he enters the house, or where he ifl going if he starts out for a walk. It nettles him, and men hate to have such pointed questions sprung upon them. Beside that, we live under a free flag. Don't impose upon your husband just because he is good enough to assist you a little in your housework. Don’t leave the stove-handle iu the red-hot stove,aud don’t ask him to empty the ash hod. Draw a line oh the ash hod and don’t run a free horse to death. Don’t ask him to walk the floor with the baby half the night. A man who tramps industriously around a billiard table three nights in the week, or buys an admission ticket to the opera, can’t be expected to be on duty at home the other three nights. Have mercy on him, and give the man a chance to recuperate. Don’t disturb your husband while he is reading his paper by asking foolish questions. He may be only reading the latest scandal, but he is just as much in terested as though it was foreign news or market reports. Be patient, and when he comes across anything he thinks you can comprehend perhaps he may read it to you. Don’t be inexplicit in giving directions When you ask him to go upstairs for your portenionnaie, tell him it is either on the table, or In the Luther corner of the left-hand side of the upper bureau drawer, or in the |>ocket of your brown dress in the closet. lie will have no trouble in finding it- -if you can tell him just htr< it t, especially the pocket.— tjtmdim. II I GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREENESBORO. FRIDAY. APIIIL ‘2,IBB6.—EIGHT PAGES. Fashion Note#. Ecru cotton canvas is again to bo worn. Dinner gowns for married ladies are made of rich fabric. The new Parisian have widei panels than formerly. Just now straight feathers lead the os trich plumes-in popularity. Delicately shaded brocaded sateens have printed floral designs. Brocade button boots correspond to the dress with which they are worn. Short dresses for young persons are j draped from the waist in diagonal folds. Bonnet ornaments are seen in curious shapes, horses and seals being the latest fancy. The reel, gilt and copper galloons are very effective on black or brown plush skirts. Velvet draperies are used on lace dresses The bodice should be of velvet, trimmed with lace. Wool costumes liave panels, bodice and sleeve trimming of coupe plush, in grace ful uralicsque designs The foundation of many of the bon nets is of faille embroidered in gold and in various beads and colors. Quite new are the sleeves slashed in side the arm almost to the shoulder, showing lace or a contrasting material. Trains for evening dresses of plush 01 ; valvet are long and narrow, anil are , lined with satin. The edges are imtrirn ; med. Crape niching* in evening colors aro covered with silk embroidery. Black crape ruehings have loops of tinsel or colored chenille. For young ladies there are small whit* toques of lamb's wool in pure white. The wings at the side and osprey at the top are all white Silk cords are much used for lacing basques, as in a pretty house dress of mauve cashmere with cord lacing over a pansy-colored velvet vest. Ladies’cloth, tlfty-four inches wide, is covered with embroidered Turkish de signs, with cord-like effect, correspond ing to the color of the cloth. This season both slight and stout fig ures can be accommodated; for . the former, the draperies which cross the figure and show no fastening have many charms Kuchings for the neck of white crape \ have a row of scallops outlined with ! pearl beads, and outside this is a row of paints edged with beads. The effect is soft and pleasing. Scotch ginghams have bourtftte stripes, and arc in a variety of combinations,blue and olive on a pink ground, and dark blue and red on a pale-blue ground being the most frequent. Crinkled zephyr cloth is shown in every variety of dark and light colors, with stripes for the skirts, while tho bodice and drapery are plaid, corre sponding to the skirt in color. Dark blue sateens have a border imi tating Torchon lace, a tiny figure of which is strewn over the material. Others have a broad border of wheat ears, miuiature ears forming the design upon the fabric. Young girls were never so much con sidered us at the present seusou in all | sorts of garments and styles of goods for j dress wear, and some of the goods dis ; tinctively juvenile are exquisite in style. Some of the new sat eons have stripes of blue, mauve or pink alternating with white, with rosebuds strewn over them. These will be used for skirts, the over dress being of plain sateen corresponding to the colored stripe. The designs of a worn out brocade may be cut out and sewn on another material, finishing the edges with fine gold or silk cord, and thus making a most effective tablier, panel, qnilles and plastron for a low or open corsage. Very plain jerseys, well fitted and without trimming, are so neat looking, and are such au excellent substitute for half-worn dress waists, that they remain in favor, while those more showily trimmed are much less used thau for ; merly. Some pretty spotted muslius are made as full skirts, with silk bodices poiuted back and front, half high aud draped with a full kerchief tucked into the bodice; from the waist there are ten long strips of ribbou or velvet, arrauged in twos aud twos as to form a point near the hem beneath a rosette. Valuc of Lightning-Conductors. It is laid down as a perfectly settled fact that a well-made lightmug con duetor, properly placed and kept in an efficient state can never, under any cir cumstances, fail in its action. Un doubtedly it has happened that buildings to which conductors were attached have in many instances beeu struck by light, ning, and even damaged; but it is main tained that these cases, so far from telling against the truth that good-light ning conductors are infallible, only prove to serve that they are so. A close inves tigation of all known instances nominally protected against lightning, shows most conclusively that the conductors were either imperfect in some particular or other or did not lead properly into moist ground—that is, the proper kind of “earth connection.” There is no ease on record in which a really well made lightning-conductor, properly placed and with its terminal in “good earth,” did not do its duty; uud without dogmat ism on the subject, it may be said that such a conductor could no more fail to give protection than an efficient rain pipe can fail to carry the water from a roof. Although the electric force is neither a “current" nor a “fluid” often as it is so described, the aualogy here given of the rain-pipe and the conductor ;is nevertheless sound. And the reason |is clear enough. The water in running I down a hollow tube, obeys simply the laws of gravity; the law is not less im mutable which governs the movement of the electric fores. As the water has no choice but to govern the chaunel made for it, under the guidance of experience and mathematical calculation, so the electric energy has no option but to pur sue the path which scientific investiga tion has shown it must always take. Men may speak of “erratic” lightning; but it is certain that the course of the electric force is as subject to law, and as immutable, as that of the stars. —Chicago Times. Wanted. Humor, so rich tliat it would cause a prisoner to brcaa out. A farm that will raise something mnro than a mortgage. A fish that can be weighed by his own scales. A river that does not have to bo dammed Indore it is worth a cuss for a mil). A few crumbs of comfort from a table of facts. Borne information as to thi best method of breaking it mule without breaking bis neck. Borne appliance fot weighing my words. A rtwutf of l*m lot a iytu.—-Ar* Jit*. FARM AND HOUSE. MjrrrEßH of interest to far mer AND HOUSEWIFE. Fred .Judiciously. If there is a time for economy in forage and grain for stock, it is when the barns are full. So many farmers think they have plenty on hand there is no necessity for saving, and therefore they feed it with lavish waste. The northern far mers coming here are frequently heard to say they could keep their stock on our waste. The charge is justified by obser vation and experience. The best way to avoid that charge is for the farmer to at tend to his stock at feeding time, and see that they have no more given to them than they can readily eat up clean. Go into the stalls of the average farmer, aud it will be seen that hay is littered knee deep on the floor, trod on, and defiled so stock will not touch it. If only enough was given, and the manger is properly guarded by straps across to pre vent pulling out, this would not happen. Again, it is a common sight to see bits of ears of corn, partially eaten and slobbered over, so it is unfit for eating .-—Xathrffle Spirit oj tbr Farm. Heavy Fowl*. Many jiersons sup|s>se they cannot breed heavy fowls unless they have heavy atock to commence with; but this is a mistake, as I have proved by experience, to my own satisfaction at least. Breed ers will always sell birds hutched late in the season cheaper than early-hatched fowls. Such fowls will, however, never attain the size of the early chicks; but as the difference in the price is an item of importance to many, we must not look SO much to tin- size of these birds as to consider what they will do as breeders. Now if these fowls are bred from heavy stock, and the only cause of their being small is that they are late-hatched, then early chicks from them will grow to as large a size as the chicks hatched the same time from larger fowls. Of course, by breeding late and consequently small fowls year after year, the stock may be degenerated, but one remove from large stock us above stated, will do no harm whatever. Large, showy prize-winners do not ulways prove the best breeders.— American Rural /fcws. How to liaise Carrots. A Vermont farmer has been experi mt'i t ug with an easy method of raising them, and writes to Our Country Home'. In the fall when I ean do nothing else I draw to the field intended for carrots plenty of well-rotted stable, manure and give the ground ,i liberal dressing. I then plow the soil into ridges, and leave it un- Tl spring to pulverize. Before plowing in the spring I give the ground another good dressing of manure. I then har row the surface level, plow quite deep, and harrow until the surface is left as smooth as it is possible to make it. It is then ready for the seed. After the rows are marked out two and a half feet apart I sow the seed by running the drill in the bottom of these rows. The garden roller will cover the seed sufficiently. By roll ing the whole piece over I find that soil retains the moisture better should it be dry when the planting is done. When the young plants begin to show them selves I scrape the soil away from the plants into the spaces between the rows. This gives the young plants a start and at the same time kills all weeds that may be starting. As soon as the weeds begin to grow 1 put the horseshoe and cultiva tor to work, going through them at least once a week until the tops got large enough to shade the ground. Three inches apart is about the right distance to leave the young plants in the row. If furthe apart it is waste of ground, and if closer they will be crowded and grow small. It is just as much work to top a small as a large carrot. Pull up all weeds that are left in the row. One pound of seed is sufficient for an acre. Interesting Facts About Meets. At the New Vork Experiment Station ! were tested eleven so-called varieties of 1 garden beet, one of chard, fourteen of mangel murzel and eleven of sugar beet, j The see:is were planted April. 24, in rows j ten feet long; two rows each of the gar den beets and ehards and one of the mangels and sugar beets. The soil was manured with a moderate ! application of stable manure. The rows of garden beets and ehards were twenty- j oue inches apart and those of the mangels ' and sugar beet twice that distance, or 1 three and a Half feet apart. The plants were thinned to six inehe> apart in the row. A table, noting the results given in the report of this experiment, shows that the average height of roots is de- | clde ily less in the garden beet than in the sugar beet or mangel, and that in the ; Vilmorin’s improved sugar beet, which is noted for its sugar, the root averages less 1 in weight than in the other varieties of sugar beet. In the beet, richness in flavor i and in sugar, accompany small size: hence, iu choosing for table use, one , should not necessarily select the most productive variety. It was note 1 that the more depressed the root, or in other words the flatter it is, the more rapid is its development. This ruie seemed also to apply to other garden roots as well as to onions. By planting several samples of seed grown in the station’s garden a previous season, was learned the fact that the va rieties of this vegetable cross-fertilize by natural agencies, and hence cannot be kept pure except when grown separated some distance from each other. —New York World. Management of Heavy Sod I.and. The popular idea aland an old sod is that it is necessarily rich. If the old sod is subject to overflow, or has not been so heavily pastured as to prevent it from thickening up, this estimate of fertility may prove correct. But any one who expects immediate results from it will very probably be disappointed. It is only the most enduring grasses that sur vive in an old pasture, and when the field is plowed there ensues a struggle for life that baffles the best efforts of the farmer to repress. The common blue grass is first cousin to quack, and though it be turned to, the bottom of the furrow, its thread-like roots will send up shoots to the surface, and unless vigorously culti vated the field will soon be as green as before plowing. Wherever possible, an old sod should be plowed in the fall, so that part of the decomposition of its roots may occur in winter while they arc dormant. The heavy soil turned up will bo worked by frost into fine tilth by springtime. And if it lias been done in the fall there is a further advantage ' in top'dressing with manure, which will ; thus fertilize the seed bed instead of being buried at the bottom of the fur row. Thera is uo danger that thin extra surface fertility will make grata roots more vigorously. Tho surface sown weed* 1 will indeed be stronger for it, hut they are easily kept down. The decomposing i mas are wilt furnish heat and help to rot the sod more quickly thau it otherwise would. Two years of thorough cultivation wilt be needed to subdue a tough sod so as to fit it for seeding with clover. And under most circumstances such land should not lie kept under cultivation more than two years without seeding. In killing out old grass roots in a heavy sod a great amount of plant food Ls made available, and this wilt be wasted by washing of rains and snows if clover is not sown to retain it. Near cities land may be too valuable to seed to clover every two or three years, but this is not the location where old sod land is generally found. No matter how high the price of land, an occasional re seeding with clover and grass will restore fertility as nothing else will. hortun Cultivator. . Successful .Sheep Husbandry. The knowledge necessary for success ful sheep husbandry is of a twofold char acter. The successful manager of a flock of sheep must know what to do, and when and how to do it. As the success ful pilot must have knowledge not alone of the deep and smooth waters of the route his vessel is to traverse, but as well must know the location of the hidden rocks and shoals to be avoided, so must the shepherd know the course in his busi ness that is free from obstructions, and which will, under ordinary conditions, in sure successful results. First of all, h ive your mind thoroughly made up as to what particular phase of j industry you propose to confine your efforts. In retching this conclusion, one ■ will need to take into account the amount j of'capital invested, the kind aud number ! of sheep he will begin with, aud the lim -1 its to which capital and surroundings cir cumscribe him. If the owner of land, one can “take chances” from which the mere leaseholder is barred. A large proportion of the failures among men making sheep husbandry their leading business, have resulted from indebtedness incurred for sheep and lands, with the expectation that profits would soon wipe out Iwth principal and interest. At any t time than when a “boom” is on, more ' money will be made from a small, well ! selected flock that has been paid for,than from a larger one from which the first returns belong to the creditor. When you buy a sheep for breeding purposes be sure that it is better than the best in your own flock in blood and physical development; and when you have bought it, see that it is cared for like any valuable piece of property. Good I live stock, like good clothes, cannot be ' cxjioscd to ail kinds of hardship with \ out showing the effects of such harsh treatment. Take off the wool as soon as tin weather seems settled and warm enough to admit of it with safety to the sheep, and put the fleeces in such order that the buyer will readily give you the top price for wools of similar grade. Breed so as to have every lamb an im provement upon the average standard of the flock, and sell as soon as they can be made ready all that come below such standard. When the time comes for selling animals of any age do the select ing yourself—always keeping the best. They are worth more to you than any one else, so long as you are not overstocked. Do not be tempted into keeping more sheep than you have first-class arrange ments for keeping-—food and other neces sary accomodations. Do not keep different breeds of sheep together. The conditions best suited to some are not the best for others, and when mixed the result will be that all will come short of their highest possible re sults. Do not abandon sheep husbandry be cause prices are temporarily unsatisfac tory, or be in a hurry to expand your business when a “boom” sets in. Wool aud mutton, like everything else, will vary in price, and the changes in price Will come faster than any man can change his business without sacrifice.— Ohio Fanner' Journal. Recipes. Eo Rolls. —Two cups of sweet milk, two eggs, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, three and one-half cups sifted flour, one teaspoonful baking powder. Make in batter and bake in gem pans. Jirxnii.Es. —Very nice. two cups sugar, two-thirds cup butter, two thirds cup milk, two-thirds teaspoon soda, two eggs, nutmeg. Btir together the flour, luitter and sugar; dissolve soda and put in the milk, then add the beaten eggs. Di'xiplinos.— Scrape two ouncesoffiue beef suet very thin, mix it with four ounces of flour, a pinch of salt, and water to make a stiff paste. Flour your hands, and roll the paste into balls about the size of a florin; have ready a stewpan half filled with boiling water slightly salted; drop in the dumplings and then let boil fast for twenty minutes. Take them up with a lish-sliee, and put them on the disli with the carrots. If preferred, these dumplings may lie made of drippings of butter in the proportion of two ounces of the fat to five ounces of flour. A small pinch of sage and pep per can, if liked, be used as flavor ing for the dumplings. Chicken Pie. —Cut up two small chickens and put them in a saucepan with one-quarter of a pound of salt pork cut in thin slices, adding salt and pepper. Cover with water anil simmer until done; then set aside until cold. Make a paste of one quart of flour, with which is mixed two teaspoonsfuls of baking pow der, two large tablcspoonsful of clarified beef drippings or butter, half a teaspoon ful of salt and half a teacupful of granu lated sugar. Mix together and moisten with sweet milk until a soft dough is formed. Roll out half the dough and line a well-buttered tin pan with it. Fill with the chicken and broth, adding a tablespoonful of butter. Set an inverted cup in the centre, roll out the other half of the paste and cover over the pie with it. Make a large incision in the middle of the paste and press the sides of the upper and lower crust well together. If all the broth be not used at first, add through the opening during the baking. The pie should l>c baked iu a moderate oven. Household Hints. Make your table pretty; it makes the food taste better and refines the man ners. To keep tinware nice and bright scour it every two or three weeks with finely sifted coal ashes. Soiled white fur can be nicely cleaned by rubbing it thoroughly in white flour. It should then be hung out of doors for about thirty minutes. Repeat the pro cess several times, aad the fur will be equal to knew. Avery easy way to mold meat which is to be sliced for tea is to chop the meat very tine, season with pep|x*t and salt, and if you wish for spices add them; add butter also, or “try” some suet, and add the fat from it. Butter the inside of a plain mold, press the meat into it very firmly, tie a cloth over tha top, hav* ing first scattered flour over the cloth; stpam this for an hour; then set it away to cool This may be served hot, il you chouse, with uim gravy. A RACE Or DWARFS. PIGMY PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Rained Cities that Testily of their Existence —Dwarfs .Still to be Found A Diminutive Girl's Capture. Alice D. Le Plongron writes ts follows in the New York Tribune: Stories about diminutive people are found in many cou itries, not as real livings, but shadows that come and go, and are called by various names, such as fairy, fay, elf, pixie, etc. Nowhere are such little peo ple more talked about than in some parts of Central America, notably in British Honduras and Yucatan, where people little more than four feet high are very numerous even at the present time. Whenever the natives are questioned about the ancient temples found in their country, they say “ The pygmies built them," and although no -importanee is generally attached to that answer, it is a strange fact that on the East Coast of Yucatan, as well as on adjacent islands, there are whole cities, in ruinous condi tion. of houses that could uot possibly have served for people more than three feet high. I have measured many of those houses. which are strongly constructed of lieivn stone, and found the doorways not more than three feet high, and eighteen inches wide, while iny head nearly touched the ceil ings of the largest rooms. No one can dissuade natives from the idea that the ghosts of those diminutive people roam about at night. They say, “But we do see them; they are no higher than a child four years old, and they wear big hats. They throw stones at its, shake our hammocks, and hammer on the bench where we grind corn.” It is affirmed that very diminutive people still dwell among the hills in Houduras aud Guatemala, but no one' seems able to put liis fingers upon them, which would lead to the belief that if there are any still living, as so many assert, they must be very few, and suc cessful in hiding. Nevertheless, it is credibly related that one day, in the year 1825, some woodcutters, wandering along the banks of the Moho river in British Honduras, in search of mahogany trees, was startled upon reaching a place called Meditation Fall, by a strange little being that suddenly emerged from the bush, stared wildly at them, then turned to flee. The men pursued, over took, and brought the odd creature to their camp. It was a dark-skinned girl, not quite three feet tall, and with no other covering than her hair which fell in thick black masses to her feet,complete ly covering her. She was very wild, but not stupid, and finding that no harm was done to her, she talked to the wood-cut ters in the Maya tongue that they also spoke, that being the language of the In dians in those parts. As the weather was cool, one of the men gave her a red flannel shirt, whicli clothed her from head to foot. For a day or two die re fused to eat, but afterward seemed con tented. She said her people were all the same size as herself, and that they were then living near Meditation Fall, where they had planted a cornfield, but that they generally dwelt three or four miles away in a deep valley. After she had been in the camp about ten days, some of the men proposed to go and see her people. Slie manifested delight, and offered to guide them to the spot. Reach ing the place where they first met her, she led them into the forest, then made a sign for them to stop and be silent. A : liub-bub of voices, as of many people i talking, reached their ears, and the girl whispered to them that she would go and announce their coming, as otherwise her people would run away and hide on hearing footsteps. Away she went,and soon not a sound was heard. The men waited patiently,Jbut their di minutive guide did not return. Con vinced that she had very cunningly eluded them, they went forward, and in two minutes found themselves in a corn field. There were embers in two or three places, and small piles of corn, as if pre pared for transportation. The ground was much trodden,but no living creature was in-sight. They searched in vain,and remained some time in the field hoping that the. owners would return for the corn, but they never saw the girl again, nor any of her people. One of those very woodmen gave me this account, and sim ilar stories have been told by others; but all such stories might be doubted were it not for the cities of diminutive houses, j which any traveler may examine for him self. Fish That Beg. • 'Through the last “defile” about half way below Sampanago, on the borders of the Upper Burmah,is a small rocky island which in the dry season is connected with the shore by u narrow spit of sand. In the bay thus formed lie enormous dog fish which are perfectly tame. Dr. Will inms. in his book called “Through Bur mah tp Western China,” relates: “As we drew near the island, I asked the boatman to call the fish. He hesitated, until assured that we had something to give them to eat, but at length slightly ruffled the water with his outspread fin gers, and called with a coaxing voice: ‘Tit-tit, tit-tit" when, to our extreme as tonishmeut, in less than half a minute large mouths from ten inches to a foot in diameter rose to the gunwale of the boat, gaping for alms. They were a kind of dog-fish, some of them at least five feet in length and very broad at the shoul ders. Twenty or thirty crowded to the side of the canoe, and. though nor clam orous, were ludicrously energetic in their begging, some of them rising so far out of the water as to .lose their hahiuce and topple back with a splash on their neigh bors. Bo tame were they that they al lowed us to stroke their backs. Some of them had patches of gilding on their heads.” Rats Will Leave. A correspondent of Chamber #’ Journal says that chloride of lime will drive rats away. lie first made this discovery on board ship, and says also: “On my re turn to England I took a house and fur nished it. After being in it a short time I found that it was infested with rats. They would get through every part ou the ground floor. On examina tion I discovered that a drain ran under the house emptying into the hirbor. I here again used the chloride of lime free ly, and in less than a week every rat had taken its departure. I have recommended this remedy to many ship-m isters and friends on ihore; and in all causes it has proved a success. I have occupied my present residence for five years, and we have neither rat nor mouse on the prem ises. I attribute this to the free use of the above mixture, which is also effective as a deodorizer and disinfectant." Dr. Susanna Rubinstein lias received at Leipsic the highest diploma in philoso phy it U in the power of the univeniity to bestow. 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Ourfc cilities for Dressing*Lumber have never been excelled and tin tact is proven by our rapidly increasing production. We tribute our success to the employment of the highest grade( workmanship and the most perfect Machinery. We guar*i tee prices against, competition. SfEAM LiMSll §E¥E!, Be our orders larger even than our anticipation, largei the consumption of Georgia, we still can guarantee in every dj tail of our work, “bone dry” and perfectly seasoned Lumber.- No longer need the Contractor and Builder await Dame Ni tine’s slow pi ogress- in drying Lumber. Progressive Sciem l.as overcome the difficulty, and we claim the honor of intro during' in this section this great modem invention. Pf’-Illustrated Catalogue and Price List sent Free. Ed mates given. PERKINS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, i"” iu> '*• AUGUSTA, GA Engines & Mill Machinery Boilers, Piping and all kinds of Fittings. ROUTING DOUBLE TUBE INJECTOR, the leading boil feeder. Operated by one handle. 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AND IMPORTER OF Granite&Marble Monuments&Tombstone -A.'X’liEaiTS, GEOE2IA. A large lot of finished work on hand ready for lettering. The ett ti.on of a monument is the last act of respect which we pay to the oiettw 1 of departed friends. It is a custom which has been followed I'rov remotest ages of antiquity. To give them Christian burial is sinipl* duty—to cherish and perpetuate their memory are marks of esteem- r 1 handsoe c Monuments and Tombstones call on ZR. ZESOBICTSrrSOISL ATHENS, GEOUGI Steam if eiag § ileaaiag Work Gentlemen’s Suits, Ladies’ and Children’s Dresses, fWoaks, Hosiery, Shawls, Blankets, Libbons, Curtains, Covers, ete^ Cleaned, Renovated and Dyed. Feathers Cleaned, Renovated and Cnrled. Satisfaction gnaraot* and prices low. Correspondence invited. 928 Broad, Street Opposite Planters’ Hotel, 4ugusta,C H.3ST. 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