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BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1875.
NUMBER 37.
timely topics.
porros-'s swimming clothes are a suo-
^ The only difficulty is that they
, t H bf,ut as much as a trip to Earope
^tu-anifr, so tlint nobody will want to
J<11« across, after all.
jur. Brule Sioux have commenced
utilities in Nebraska. They attacked
fettlers on'the Niobrara river, and
], r pe war party » re now on their way
rtrd the Ponca Indian agenoy.
Yonps are in pursuit.
The design for the new postal card
v lioen agreed upon, aDd is now being
:(rr gved at the printing bureau of the
t«i r iry department It is very plain,
will diffir from thdoard now in nse,
that the border is left off, and it is to
made of better material.
'he qnestion of taxing the property
B& H)nic and other lodges has been
tn g in Georgia as well as Ohio.
.. -.tate comptroller is of opinion that
,,jn on the question whether such
*ee charitable institutions within
awning of the code of Georgia.
fj letter from Sir Edward Thornton,
fitish minister at Washington, to a
itleman in Indiana, is said to contain
[prophecy that the governments of
|#lind and the United States will
wrttially bo alike in their main fea-
res. that of England becoming assim-
k:oI to onra.
IKiso Kat.akaua has consented to
cd his feather coat to the Philadelphia
Dtcnnial. His eont or cloak is over
e hundred years old, and the feathers
s of a bright golden color. Don’.'tless
(ill luve a fine display of < >ld
[itlios at Philadelphia if this thing
lejw on.
The star of Don Carlos seems to be
the ascendant. Ho is accredited
|tli several recent and important vic-
There are also rumors of dis-
lisfaction with the rule of King Al-
k’iho, and the prediction is ventured
1b( another revolution will soon fol-
Ihe court of appeals of Maryland re
ally decided, in the ease of a man who
|M himself and who had hiB life in-
, that wbon the act of self-destruo-
i is done during insanity it is death
I Accident, and the insurance company
' mad to pay the amount of the pol-
, vhen insanity, temporary or other-
, is proven.
'(’E the terrible Holyoke (Mass.)
rli burning, a bill has been intro-
int<> the Connecticut legislature
Riding t liat the doors of all churches
public places of assembly shall
u outwardly. This is a wise meas-
hi case of a panic there would,
II) outward opening doors, be no
luce for the choking of the vestibules.
I reward of iffi,000 has been offered
funeral Spinner for the recovery of
stolen $47,500 package. The five-
dred-dollar bills are about one-fifth
P« whole amount of five-hundred-
«r notes in circulation, and the de-
Iment has do record of the numbers
bo stolen bills, which will give the
F a better opportunity to esoape
ctiou.
PR Prussian government is making
F efforts to secure an efficient navy,
[expects in two years to have one
P will be a fair match for the navies
r’ e lesser powers. During this
|th a large frigate is to be launched,
the whole German squadron will
able at Wilhelmshaven. Fifteen
J vessels are now in process of con-
lion.
mills a* work in the Bombay Presi-
don^Wone, employing 4.500 looms.
405,000 spindles, and 10,000 hands,
turning ont daily 100,000 pounds of
y*rn. The weekly consumption of
«otton is described as 1,500 bales, and
likely to it crease largely. There are
also maDy cotton manufactories
other parts of India.
At a convention of car builders held
in ’New York, last week, it was shown
that the proportion of fonl air in the
ordinary railroad car is greater than
in a crowded chnrch or theater. Mn c
discussion ensued, and it seemed gene
rally agreed on that none of the man
ifold devices for ventilation hitherto
se d, will meet the case. Several
spoke hopofnlly of tbe Tobin system,
■now twtng applied to public balls in
England, which introduces fresh air
by means of pipes rising through the
floor and terminating above the heads
of the auditory. The theory is that
currents thus introduced are
thrown upward like so many jets of
water, and are distributed without
draft or discomfort in a sort of at
mospheric spra
Recent experiments tend to show
that forests increase atmospheric humid
ity by the action of their roots rather
than by any attraction exsrted on rain
clouds. The moisture, in other words,
comes from below, and not from above.
The roots seem to servo as outlets
through which water drawn from tbe
earth is conducted to the leaves and
passes thence into the atmosphere. An
oak tree, experimented upon by Prof.
Pettenkofer, was estimated to have
between seven and eight hundred thou
sand leaves, and tbe total amount of
evaporation in a year was compnted to
be eight and one third times more than
that of the rainfall on an area eqnal to
that covered by the tree, the moisture
exhaled by the leaves being eqnal to
some two hundred and eleven inches,
while that from the rainfall was but
twenty-five inches.
The Wisconsin grangers have gone
back on the regularly-constituted life
insurance companies, as they think they
detect a swindle about them, and have
organized a company of their own. The
features of the insurance company, or
society, are in many respects similar to
those of the Odd Fellows’ Life Insurance
company, being on the co-operative
plan. Any member of a grange, in
good health and under 60 years of age,
eligible to membership in the com
pany. The fees of membership, when
admitted, are: Less than 35 years of
age, $3 ; from 35 to 45 years of age, in
clusive, $5 ; from 45 to 50 years of age,
$8; from 50 to 55 years of age, $12;
from 55 to 60 years of age, $15. Two
thousand dollars is the limit of insur
ance allowed. At the death of a mem
ber an assessment of $1 per member is
made.
A KFJfOKlAi.
m»r* hare been few more beautiful poem. than
thie written. It waa on readirg It th»’ George D.
Prentice aaid: “One might almost aisb to die, if
be knew that so beautiful a tribute as this would be
written to hla meaorj."]
On tbe bosom of a river.
Where the sun unloosed hia quiver
Ar d the atarligbt gleamed forever,
Sailed a vessel lieht and free.
Morofng Ac '-drops hung like manna
On the bright folc s of her banner,
And the zephyrs rote to fan her,
Softly to the radiant sea.
At bar prow a pilot beaming
In the flush of youth stood dreaming,
And he was in glorious se-ming
, r L ke ail angel from above.
* ur °ugh his hair the breezes sported,
A-d as on the wave Ie floa'ed
Oft that pilot, angel-tbroated,
Warbled laya of hope and love.
Through th"i<e locks so b’lthe'y flowing,
Bnds of laur *1 bloom wers blowing,
And bis hands a"oa were throwing,
Music from a lyre of gold.
Swiftly down the stream be glided.
Soft tbe purple wave divided,
And a rainbowsreb abided
On bus
Anxious hearts with fond devotion
Watohed him sailing to the ocean.
Priced that never wild commotion
'Mid the elements might r'se.
And he se»rred like some Apollo
ChWmiog summer winds to follow.
While the water flag's c sro’lv
Trembled to his mnsic sighs.
lint those purple waves enchanted.
Boiled beside a city haunted
By an awful spell that daunted
Every comer to the shore.
Night shades rank the air encumbers 1,
And the pale marb'e eta'ne nnmbered
Where the lr.tns eaters slumbered,
And awoke to life no more.
Then three rushed with lightning quickness
O’er his face a mortal sicknorB,
And the dew in fearful thickness
Gathered o’er his tempi's fair.
And there swept a dving murmur
Through the lovely 8outh< rn summer,
As the beauteous pilot comer
Perished by that city there.
8t1l’ rolls on that radiant river
And the sun unbinds his qnivpr,
And the sunlight streams forever
On its bosom as before.
But the vessel’s rainbow banner
Greets no more the gav savanna,
Ard that pilot’s lute drops manna
On the purple waves no more.
he Galveston News thinks alligator
should begin to figure among
SR exports. Florida and Louisiana
krire to catch and ekin 20,000 alliga-
| * year, and the News is satisfied
I i he Texan crop is folly as great as
' of those states. The skins are
Dted to England and France, but
r J fo the latter country, which fur-
r® Die best tanners in the world.
BE l>08tmaster general has been
V the sharp comments of the
I s and the complaints of the public.
consideration of the iniquitous
PjDon which a blundering senator
^ to be levied upon the people.
Bss expressed his purpose of calling
Mention of congress, in Deoember
*° Die law which governs the
upon transient papers, with the
°f securing a modification of the
H? 4 Ending $1,300,000 in frait-
e °ris to discover a process for
[ Z ll (t silk rags, Mr. Lister, a wealthy
* i* manufacturer, has snooeeded in
‘•ting such refuse into the finest
' *' now carries on this indns-
P" au establishment which employs
M.)>0i! workmen, and hundreds of
tltrs are also employed whose sole
,' ltSa is to boy the silk waste, and
I ey do in all parts of the globe,
oe nry j s gg 1( j to have cost nearly
0,000.
sutmal reports on India, issued
1 ’ ie India Office, states that a
H quantity of cotton is now worked
India. The report speaks of
| steam spinning and weaving
A dispatch of the 11th from Nor
folk, Va., says: Capt. Brown, of the
schooner “ J. C.” arrived here to-day
having in charge the iron safe of the
United States man of war Cumberland,
which was run into and sunk in Hamp
ton Roads by the confederate ram Vir
ginia in 1862. Divers have been at
work on the wreck ten years, haviDg in
view the recovery of the safe. The
lucky man had only been at the wreck
forty-eight hours, when he fonnd the
safe buried in three feot of mnd. The
water at the place is seventy-eight feet
deep. By the explosion of a torpedo
the safe was cracked and it was hoisted
on deck. A few pieces of gold coin
dropped out. It is generally believed
the safe contained between sixty and
a hundred thousand dollars gold.
The safe and treasure belong to Capt.
Brown and O. E. Moltby, of this city,
and Herbert Smith, of Detroit, Mich.
While Capt. Brown was searching the
wreck he came across a petrified human
body in perfect state. The captain
supposes the body to be that of one of
the officers, and intends to return and
get it.J
West Tennessee Crops and Business
Prospects.
There is more corn, wheat, oats aDd
potatoes and grass of different kinds
growing within two hundred miles of
Memphis than was ever known Bince the
oonntry was settled by white men. The
people will need but little of these
things from abroad. The ootton crop
will be almost a clear surplus with which
to pay off old debts and improve their
places. The lesson learned we are con
fident will be an abiding one. When a
community arrives at a conclusion after
ten years of bitter experience it is apt
to remember it. We see it stated that
one and a half millions bushels of wheat
is growing within easy reach of the
Memphis market. Some of it is ripe
and ready for harvesting. Tnis will
bring money into circulation five months
earlier than usual. ✓ A month from now
the effect will be visible upon our streets
and in tbe advertising columns of the
newspapers. Tbe monotony of the
long, dreary summer months will be
broken by the rattle of heavily laden
wagons and a bustle about the depots
and landings, and on Front street, here
tofore unknown in the middle of sum
mer. It is a new departure as one of
the slowly wrought out changes of the
times. It is the adaptation of a whole
people to a new order of things, by
which they will lift themselves up from
the slavery of old habits to walk proudly
erect on the highway to success and
wealth and all that is honorable and
ennobling.
PHILIP HUNTINGTON S CHOICE.
BY ISABEL GBANT BOCHEORD
An n*or BiihHe and sweet floated up
from tbe garden where the pinks and
roses opened their leaves to the evening
air, and Philip Huntington, smoking
his evening cigar on the balcony, saw
Rose de Peyster walking among the
flower beds, herself the sweetest flower
of all.
She was plainly dressed, for she was
no favorite of fortune, this little country
girl; but she wore her pink muslin with
a royal grace that a duchess might have
envied.
A light, swift step upon the gravel
walk, and her city cousin, Maude De
Peyster. came close beside her, her
hands fnll of fragrant crimson roses.
Her hair was full of bewitching little
kinks and twists, and her dress, of some
white gauzy material, floated like a
cloud around her as she walked.
yqiat v .q demure little Puritan it is!”
sbe said, gently caressing Rose’s shin
ing bands of bronze-brown hair. “I
can fancy that, ‘somebody’s’ eyes would
admiro more than ever if I should enact
the role of fairy godmother and change
this plain attire to silken robes. I
should like to see a tiara of pearls
among these bonny brown braids. They
would become you marvellously well,
sweet Rose.”
But Rose, who had no aspirations for
a fashionable life—the life wherein her
gay cousin won her triumphs as a belle
—only turned her brown eyes, frank
and fearless as a child’s upon Maude’s
face, and shook her head with a demure
smile.
“No pearls for me,” she said, gayly.
“ The only inheritance my father left
me was a troublesome lawsuit, which it
has impoverished the De Peysters to
prosecute, and it would be little short
of a miracle should it terminate favor
ably. I shall expect nothing, and,
therefore, no disappointment awaits
ff
*n6i
“What a contented little goose!” ex
claimed Maude. “Dd you know, if I
were in yonr place I should worry over
that affair day and night. A quarter of
a million is no small stake.”
And pnttiDg her arm caressingly
round the “litlle goose,” who was the
ODe object on earth for whom the gay,
worldly belle felt a particle of love or
faith, they strolled slowly down the
walk till a clump of shrubbery hid
them from view.
“ I will follow them,” said Philip to
himself, as he threw away a stump of
Where, indeed? In vain did he ex
plore the winding path, which seemed
more intricate than the labyrinth that
led to tbe bower of fair Rosamund.
Thiy were not to be found, so Philip
retraoed hia steps, singing in a fine
tenor voioe as he went:
“ In the dark, in the dew.
All my soul goes ont to you.”^
But no vo ce answered the love-lorn
plaint.
Down where the waters of the foam
ing river dashed and tumbled over the
rocks in a cataract of silvery spray
strolled Maude and Bose, deep in an
exchange of girlish confidences.
“ And yon could think of marrying
that old man ?” said Rose, in innooent
wonder. “ What a strange girl you are,
.Maude 1” - »
“Onlyas a dernier resort,jmydear,
replied Maude’s cool, rl*>rr tones.
“ Old Guv Jeffords, himself would not tnventive application. The result, how-
be much of a prize certainly, but he is practically, is four different
a veritable Midas, whose touch trans
forms everything into gold. Besides
She stopped with sudden fright at
figure which confronted them. An old,
Bent woman, whose attenuated form
was but poorly protected by her torn
and scanty raiment, held out a tremb
ling hand, and, in a whining piteous
tone, begged aims “for the love of
heaven.”
“It would be a sorry pretence of
piety,” laughed Maude, in good-humor
ed scorn, to bestow charity on such as
you. I recognize the professional
whim which proves vou to be no stran
ger to the calling. You have chosen
poor place for yonr trade, good woman.
You bad much better return to the
city. Come, Rose ;” and she drew the
trembling form of her cousin closer,
and turned away.
But Rose, trembling and afraid, yet
with all her generous sonl shining in
her eyes, broke from Maude’s detaining
grasp and went back to the spot where
the beggar stood, motionless, with out
stretched hand.
* Here,” she '■aid, hurriedly ; “ I
have n«t m icb, but such as it fs I give
ti freely. I could not sleep this night
knowing that any one was Buffering for
wants that I could relieve. Take it, it
will buy yon food and shelter for the
night.”
She took from her finger a gold ring,
set with tnrquoise, and dropped it into
the beggar’s outstretched palm.
Among the ancient walks and prim
parterres of the garden at De Peyster
Hall stood Rose, her clear fresh voioe
winding in and ont among the trills and
quavers of one of Keziah’s old-time
melodies. The dew shone like di
amonds on the flowers which she was
gathering, as she sang, for fresh bo-
qnets for the parlor vases.
A shadow fell across the path, and
she looked up suddenly to meet the
earnest look of Philip’* dark eyes.
“Rose,” he said quietly, “I have
made a discovery. I have found that
life will be nnendnrable to me unless
shared with yon. Will you be my
wife ? ”
A sudden flame dyed her cheeks scar
let, but she looked up bravely and
steadily with that frank* innooent, ex
pression which was the chief charm of
her expressive countenance.
“Yon are high-born and fastidious,
Mr. Huntington ; you will be wealthy
some day. I am only a little country
girl, without onltnre or riches, indebted
to my cousin Mande for the shelter of a
home. Seek some other bride more
fitted for yonr station, who can bring
you a bettor dower than a pretty face.
She spoke in tones cool and even, bnt
with a yearning in her eyes which be
lied her words.
Philip read their expression with
eager joy.
“ Such as yon are yon can be all the
world to me. I will never marry any
woman bnt you, Rose. As for my
wealth, he added, with a bitter smile,
“it was only a dream, never to be re
alized. Contrary to all expectations,
the lawsuit of Wales vs. Hume has been
decided in favor of the defendant, and I
am as poor as yourself. Bnt I thought—
I hoped—it wonld make no difference
with you. Can you marry a poor man,
Rose?” She turned to him with a
triumphant light in her shining brown
eyes,
“The lawsuit which has impoverished
you has made me the richest heiress in
the country. The old heritage of the
bis cigar, and snatched his hat from Peysters is mine; and to think that
the table.
“Two of tbe loveliest girls in Chris
tendom ! ” he murmured, as he de
scended the stairs. And as he pro
nounced the last word he became con
scious of the mortifying fact that he
had been overheard.
Straight before him, not two feet
distant, her black eyes shining bead
like in the dusky twilight, stood
Keziah Gray, tbe household factotum
of the De Peysters.
Mourning with them in their afflic
tions, rejoicing in their prosperity,
chief priestess at all the births and
deaths of the family for the past fifty
years, the rising or falling fortunee of
the house were her one ambition, to
which she clung with a faith as loyal as
ever was accorded to sovereignty
itself*
She pnt out her hand and stopped
Philip midway on the long flight of
oaken stairs.
‘You say righ*, young man,” she
whispered. “ Both are lovely : one by
the divine right of nature, the other
by the exercise of that taste which is a
gift from divinity. But which is the
best worth a brave heart’s winning?
Either would scorn a dishonorable act,
for are they not De Peysters ? Bnt who
has always a pleasant word for the
servants and is so gentle that the very
dogs would give their life to her service?
Ah, it is only the old woman who can
tell yon that, young man ! Any one
can see the beauty of a lovely face, but
only the needy and friendless know the
beanty of a generous and tender heart.”
“ I do believe the old creature is half
demented,” said the young man to him
self as he ran down the steps. “ What
the denoe can she mean ? Th^t Maude
is the soul of truth and innocence, no
one could doubt; and I could swear
that Bose never felt an impulse that was
net tender and womanly.
“ Ah. how blest would my lot he with either,
Were the other dear charmer away!”
“ Where can they have gone, I won
der?”
I never knew all this time who was my
opponent 1 But I rejoice only that I
can bestow it all upon you, Philip.”
“And I,” said Philip, “can give you
only this. You will forgive my mas
querading, Rose, since it has won you a
husband and me a fortune.” And he
slipped upon her slender finger a little
turquoise ring.
Maude shone no longer as the ex
clusive star in the world of fashion, bnt
divided the honors of bellehood with
society’s new favorite, the naive and
fascinating Mrs. Huntington.
And when Rose and Philip received
cards for the ceremony which trans
formed her into Mrs. Guy Jeffords, they
never dreamed that the little romance
enacted the summer before at De
Peyster Hall had destroyed the one
love dream of Maude’s life.
How Wages Have Tumbled in New
York.—Bricklayers, who last year re
ceived on the average $5 to $5.50 per
day. now earn only $3 to $4, with tbe
exception of men who lay front bricks,
who, being more akilled, get $4.50.
Carpenters earn from $2 50 to $3.25,
against an average of $3.50 last year.
Hodcarriers get $1.75, where last year
they earned $2.50 per day. Painters
get oaly $2 to $2.75, against an avetage
last year of $3. There is a difference
of 28 per oent, in the estimates of em
ployers whose men adhere to the rales
of tLe plasterers' society, and of those
whose men do not. Stonecutters take
this year all they can get, from $3.50 to
$4.50 per day, against $41 • $5 last year.
—In one place we read ‘that Julia
Ward Howe says women need rest, and
in another it is asserted that sixty-
thousand women are exhibiting their
spring bonnets on Chestnut street,
Philadelphia. Such contradictions as
this are always turning up just as the
searcher after truth has come to a eon
elusion, and he has to begin all over
again.
THE SCIENCE OF BETTING.
The VuImi IjitauM Pools—How For-
JJ’”' »»(« Woo by Spirting
From Ihe Now York Graphic.
Tbe passion for betting is so strong
and so general that hnman ingenuity
has been racked to devise new methods
to gratify it. “ A man,” said a promi
nent lottery dealer to the writer the
other dav, “who could devise a new
system ot alloting prizes, even if it
were no better than the worst of those
now iu use, would make a fortune. ”
If this is the case in a method of
risking money on chances which rests
under the ban of the law, the system of
betting upon races, which receives the
sanction °f B o large a portion of the
community, has been made the subject,
of even a greater amount of study and
terns. The tirs’—that betweeb one in
dividual and the other—is probably as
old as the human race.
POOLS BY AUCTION.
For many vears the most popular
system of betting on raoes and other
spoiting events was by the auction of
nools, or pool-selling, as it is called.
This is so generally understood that
only the most cursory explanation is
needed here. Let us suppose a horse
race in which several horses engage is
the subject of soeculation. The pool-
seller offers at auction what he terms
the “ first choice.” His patrons under
stand that tbis means that a bet is to
be made on the favorite against every
other horse in the race. “ Pll give one
hnndred dollars for first, choice,” savs a
bettor. “ One hundred dollars is offer
ed,” cries the auctioneer. No one offers
more, and the bettor nays down his
monev and seenres the right to place it
on whichever horse he pleases. “ A
is the favorite, and he bets on that
horse, “ Wbat is offered for the second
choice?” shouts the auctioneer. “Fif
ty,” “sixtv,” “seventy” are t.be crips
of the speculators. “ Done at seven’v
dollars,” cries the auctioneer, and the
second bettor selects “B”or“C” if
he pleases. Then the third choioe is
offered and sold, and last of all the
field,” or the group of horses entered
in the race, but whose merits are not
well enough known to guarantee their
individual mention. These fonr sums
of money thus risked upon the first.,
second, and third choice, and on the
“field” constitute a “pool,” to be
turned over, minus a commission for
the pool-seller, to the man who has
placed his money on the horse that wins
the race. Each person purchasing a
pool receives a ticket, duly numbered
and recorded by the auctioneer, bearing
the name of the horse he has selected.
BOOK-BETTING.
The system of book-betting has been
in use in this oountrv but a compara
tively short time. To the uninitiated
the term is only a source of mystery.
A man who opens books on any race
rau6t be well informed on all paints
bearing on the speed, bottom, and prob
able condition of the several horse3
that are entered. He arranges a series
of odds on each one as against all the
others, which odds are offered to the
public. In looking down the list
printed on a oar! a gentleman may find
that opposite the name of Springbok
the odds are five to one. He knows,
therefore, that in th<? opinion of the
book-maker thexe are five chances that
SpringboK will be beaten by some one
of the other horses in the race to one
that he will win. If, therefore, he has
a better opinion of Springbok, he backs
that opinion by paying into the book
keeper any sum of money he chooses
above a certain prescribed minimum.
If Springbok wins he will receive five
times the amount he has ventured. If
the horse does not win he will receive
nothing. In a race in which there are
twenty horses the odds offered will ran
from two to one up to thirty or more to
one. Suppose the least likely horse to
win. then, if the minimum investment
is $1,000, the man who bets on the
winner will receive $30,000, less the
percentage of the bookmaker, and in
return, the bookmaker will have re
ceived his “ proposition,”as it is called,
on every horse, from which to pay it.
If two persons have accepted his odds
on the horse in qnestion he will have to
pay ont $60,000, and if his sales of
other horses have been complete he
may be a heavy loser.
The peculiar features of this mode
of betting are that the sums bet are
nsnally quite large, and that if a horse
changes owners or for any other reason
does not ran, the money of the investor
is not returned to him, bnt belongs to
the maker of the book. This is
favorite way of betting with wealthy
sporting men who prefer to risk large
sums.
THE PARIS HUTU ELS.
HISTORY AND POPULARITY OF THE SYSTEM.
A comparatively short time only has
elapsed since this system of mutual
pools was devised and the machine in
vented by an ingtnions Frenchman by
which a record is marked of each in
vestment made. The merits and easy
applicability of the system weie at once
perceived in Paris by an eminent
American gentleman ■who was sojourn
ing in the French oapitol, and he
brought a number of the machines
here. The system was at once received
with favor by the publio, and justly so,
for it is tbe only way in whioh the man
who orly seeks moderate risk can lay
oat his money, while the full publicity
of all the transactions and the checks
which are employed to perfect the sys
tem render tbe preparation of any fraud
nearly imnossible. Therfe is no fraud.
There can be none without an amount
of craft and combination which is
The only other system of betting
that remains is one that has attained
great popularity within the past
fonr or five years, since its intro
duction into this country from France,
namely, the Paris mntnel pools. The
seller of the pools in this instance
stands behind a counter on which there
is a series of brass knobs arranged like
the keys of a piano-board. Suppose
there are twenty horses entered. The
tickets are always $5 a piece. A person
desirous of investing will purchase a
ticket on any horse he choses. Imme
diately a key is struck, and he sees on
the face of a large machine standing
against tbe wall a figure 1 appear oppo
site the name of the hone designated.
If a second person invests on the Bame
horse the same key will be struck, and
the figure 1 will disappear and a figure
will appear in its plaoe. In looking
np and down the list of horses on the
board he sees various figures opposite
the horses’ names. From these he
knows jnst how popular each horse is in
the opinions of those who have gone be
fore him. If he thinks any horse,
although a poor one, has been rated too
low, it at once becomes his interest to
bny a ticket upon him. The sum of all
the numbers shows just how many tick
ets have been sold. Suppose it amounts
to 100, then $560 has been paid into the
pool-seller. Now, suppose again that
C ” wins, and that ten tickets have
been sold on him, the entire sum, $500,
divided between the holders of these
ten tickets, after a small percentage has
been deducted aa the profits of the pool-
seller.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—After s bsnk of England dark
serves for forty yean he gets $120 per
month.
—A husband at Cairo refused to let
his wife throw dice, and Anna Diokinaon
rose at midnight and left the town.
—Tbe gibbet is a species of flattery
to the hnman race. Three or fonr per
sons are hnng from time to time for sake
of making the rest believe they are vir
tuous.—Soniol Dubay.
—Whatever our plaoe allotted to os
by Providence, that, for us, is the pos.
of honor and duty. God estimates us,
not by the position we are in, bnt by
the way in whioh we fill it.—T. Ed
wards.
—Washing the tranks or limbs of
fruit trees with the following prepare-
>n which ts nrao- tion exclude all kinds of borers or
ticany impo«ibU, in the f«oc of the ****** their entrance : One part Pane
hundreds of men who' Hurroua&ifc* "
stand upon which are placed 4he ma
chines, the plavoards, and *** opera
tors. The public know this, and the
outcry, raised mainly by m -n who have
tried to get ooutrol of the system them
selves and failed, is of no effeot. Those
parties may believe that fraud in the
management of trie Mutuals is prac
ticable, bnt it is a very general opinion
that the chief reason of opposition is
that they desire to control and mo
nopolize thr business for personal
profit. No man of common sense,
although dishonest at heart, wculd at
tempt fraud in the matter where the
risk of detection is so great and the
-legitimate emoluments of conducting
the system with probity so large.- It
will be the chief means o bet'ing from
th s time forth, save the regular trans
actions of the bookmakers and the
heavy psols sold by auction, in which
only large investments are generally
practicable. It may be that a smaller
percentage o - the money invested will
be considered sufficient to remunerate
the managers of the Mutuals, although it
is not generally knovn wbat their ex-
i ensen are for machines, printing, and
salaries of operators ard accountants,
Neither is it known to what losses they
may be subjected throng l counter-
fe t money or defalcations. That their
expenses are large is manifest, notwitb
standing there are people who argue
that the system works automatically,
and that after the first outlay for ma-
(hines the percentage is all profit. For
Jerome Park, Long Branch, and Sara
toga the bills of the managers of the
Mutuals are very large in necessary ex
penses aside from the salaries of the
scores of men they must employ in or
der to do the business with dispatch
and reliability.
THE BETTING THIS SEASON.
This has b9en an exceptionally lively
year for betting. It is said that more
than three-quarters of a million dollars
have been placed upon the Jerome Tark
races alone, while the sum total of bets
on tbe southern and western races and
the events of’ the Long Branch summer
meetings exceeds two millions of dol
lars. The races in the west and south
whioh opened the season this year as
nsnal, aroused an interest and enthusi
asm totally unexpected in view of the
f eneral stringency of the money market.
'here were five horses matched, and
there was an indication of almost a
national interest that these events create
in European countries. The pool-sellers
state that the amount likely to be risked
within tbe coming month on the Long
Branch races, and later on the Daily-
mount rifle contest, and the yaoht raoes,
will be more than double the sum
wagered during any previous year.
Bohemianism.
Lads with a love of literature who
fancy that it would be a fine thing to be
a Bohemian like Savage and Chatterton
and Dermody, had better think twenty
times before they rash into any suen
folly. For, in the first place, if there
were no material points to be consid
ered, beginners shonld take heed of the
waste of ability whioh the so-called
Bohemian life brings with it They
will not find it pleasant at the end of a
loose and unbrideled career to reflect
that they might have done much and
have done so little—a few verses, a tale
or so, a farce, a few jokes in the oomic
newspapers, and a miscellany of pen
and ink staff forgotten in the reading.
Of course, their light performances
have creditable elements—brilliancy,
perhaps, humor, good feeling, a suspi
cion, of high and honorable aspiration.
It is generous, doubtless, for a writer
to put his best into his publio writing,
and to reserve his worst for his own
daily life and conversation; bnt such
liberality comes to no good at last. Bad
habits take away the power of good
work. Without their constant com
panionship, a man forgets what is in the
bonks. Exigency will make him toler
ant of his own hasty faults, and un
mindful of the duty of doing bis best
for the mere sake of doing it. Sensual
pleasures will render the finest hand
coarse in time. He who drinks beer,”
said Dr. Johnson, “thinks beer and
the stronger the beer, the smaller the
thonght, may be added. Moreover, a
want of method will make results frag
mentary and quality unequal, while the
waste of precious time and the unim
proved “onoe” of opportunity, will
•own the disaster of an ill-spent life.
Then will come men’s pity, harder to
bear than their reproaohes; the sting of
conscience; the sense of failure; want,
mortification, the extreme of discomfort,
and at last death and the grave, with tbe
undertaker’s bill paid by the charitable
and a monument raised by subscription 1
Young gentlemen still in Liber Primus
this is the brilliant Bohemianism of
which yon sometimes pleasantly dream.
Our advice to you is to have nothing to
do with it. Love literature as much aa
yon please, bnt cultivate a habit of pay
ing yonr debts, of saving yonr money,
of improving yonr time, of keeping
sober, and ef wearing clean shirts!
There isn’t a writer living by hia wits in
this great city, who wfll not, in his
serious moments, tell you that this is
good counsel. He may repeat it to you
over the mug of beer which yon are to
pay for, warning yon to do as he preach
es and not as be practices. Then he
will drink the beer and wait for you to
offer him a cigar.—N. Y: Tribune.
—A broker says “ Give me the bonds
of a government, and I ears not who
j breaks its laws. ”
Jhro parts whale oil soap, six
_
—The average AmpriofliRmT wiO
make a grant toss rtLsp*^UB bittfriy
that it will spoil his clothes, ff aakfei to
bring in an armful of wood for hia
mother; but give him a (pin, and he
will crawl half a mile on his stomaoh,
through a ditch with four inches of
water in it, to get p shot at some ducks.
—“ My very d-e-a-r children,” said a
traveling Sunday-school gimlet. “I
love you so much I oould talk all day to
you, but time forbids. Bnt I h-o-p-e to
meet j ou in heaven, and then—” “ I
hope he won’t,” said a restless, red
headed bov, “ he’ll talk u to death;
won’t he, Jim ?”
—A writer discussing the compara
tive economy of horses and males, after
saying “ the only superiorly I see in
the mnle is that he will stand, rough
treatment better,” adds what, is very
true when he says, “ but there is neither
religion nor greenbacks in harsh treat
ment of stock.”
—A London journal oomplains that
“ln-wr, dirty, blear-eyed, beery news-
venders ran after us in the streets to
sell Moody and Sankey lives and hymn
books, insulting their superiors with
such questions as these ; * Haven’t yer
got a soul to save ? Don’t yer want to
find Jesns ?’ And all they want to find
is the penny profit.”
—A man bonght a horse. It was the
first one he ever owned. He saw in a
newspaper that a side window in a stable
makes a horse’s eye weak on that side;
a window in front hurts his eyes by the
glare; a window behind makes him
sqnint-eyed ; a window on a diagonal
line makes him shy when he travels;. a
stable without a window makes him
blind. He sold the horse.
- -The laws of Paris are a strong per
suasive to honesty on the part of trades
men. Jewellers are obliged to distin
guish plated from genuine ware by the
word “ imitation ” plaoed where the cus
tomer® Mnoot fail of moaimg H It a
grocer is detected selling adulterated
articles he is heavily fined; his name
and plaoe is published at his own ex
pense in the offioial journal, and be is
compelled to expose in his store for a
specified time a placard stating that he
had been fined for selling adulterated
goods.
—The sale of soda water is faffing off
all over the oonntry, and oostly foun
tains, manufactured in the eastern cities
for from $300 to $2,600, would be dead
stock in the drag stores but for the sale
of mineral waters. If lager beer were
to be had in tbe private cafes and
bonght for ladies, it would finish the
soda altogether. Thousands of men,
dow, are in the habit of sending bottled
lager home to their wives, particularly
nursing wives, whereas, a glass of beer
from the keg is equal in freshness to a
gross of bottles. Tartar: o acid is the
principal and generally the only adul
teration of beer.
—Every duty brings its peculiar de
light, every denial its appropriate com
pensation, every thonght its recom
pense, every love its elysinm, every
cross its crown ; pay goes with perform
ance as effect with cause. Meanness
overreaches itself ; vice vitiates whoever
indulges in it; the wicked wrong their
own sonls ; generosity greatens; virtue
exalts; charity transfigures, end holi
ness is the essence of angelhood.. God
does not require ns to live on credit; he
pays ns wbat we earn as we earn it, good
or evil, heaven or hell, according to our
choice.
Wild Men.
The Lbndon Academy says: “ Dur
ing last season Mr. Bona, an Indian
suiveyor, while at work in the Madras
Presidency, to the south-west of the
Palanei Hills, managed to catch a couple
of the wild folk who live in the hill
jungles of tbe western Ghats. These
people sometimes bring honey, wax
and sandalwood to exchange with the
villagers for cloth, rice, tobacco and
betel-nut, but the, are very shy. The
man was four feet six inches high ; he
had a round head, ooane, black, woolly
hair, and a dark brown skin. The fore
head was low and slightly retreating,
the lower part of the face projected
like th6 muzzle of a monkey, and the
month, which was small and oval, wi’ h
thick 1 ps, piotraded about an inch be
yond the nose; he had short bandy
legs, a comparative y long body, and
arms that extended almost to hia knees,
the back, jnst above the buttocks, was
concave, making the stern appear to
be much protruded. The hands and
fingers were dumpy and always con
tracted, so that they could not always
be made to stretch ont quite straight
and fiat; the palms and fingers were
covered with thick skin (more especially
the tips of the fingers), the nails were
small and imperfect, and the feet broad
and thiok-skiimed all over. The
woman waa the same height aa the man,
the color of the skin was of a yellow
tint, the hair black, long and straight,
and the features well formed. This
quaint folk oooasionally eat flesh, bnt
feed chiefly upon roots and honey.
They have no fixed dwelling-
places, bnt sleep on any con
venient spot, generally between two
rocks or in caves near whioh they
happen to he benighted. Worship is
paid to certain local divinities of the
forest. Although the race has been’
reduced to a few families, their exist*
ence was not unknown, bnt this is the
first time that they have been described
with any minuteness,