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EASTMAN TIMES. JL Real Lire Countary Paper. rU HUSHED ITRRT THURSDAY MORNING -BY n. 8- hurt oint. THllftlS OF NUBNC'RIPTXOS t One copy, one year f2.00 One copy, six montUn 1 00 Ten copies, in clubs, one year, onch 1.60 Single oopiee * 6oto SUMMER-TIDE. There are blossotrs in the garden sweet and fair • There’* a eeuse of wondrous fragrance in the air’* And the meadow-grass is swaying ’ The fickle breeze obeying ; ’ And the daisies lift their white heads everywhere. There’s a twittering in the tree-fojn when the earth Rejoices at the noouiing’s glorious birth, And the little birds, awaking, Their leafy nest forsaking, Fly hither and fly thither in their mirth. And the bees about tho buttercups fly round. "With a lazy, humming, droning sound, And they gather all the sweotness Of tho summer-day’s completeness Where the fields with clover-blossoms most abound. There are fleecy clouds above me soaring high, Light and lazily, across the azure sky : There are shadows shifting lightly the sunbeams follow brightly ; And the day in peaceful beauty passeth by. And a silv’ry sound of soothing melody From within the grand old forests come to me : "Pis tbe tiny brooklet gliding Beneath the trees, half-hiding, The while it r.pples forth its song of glee. And when day'is done the distant evening-bell Itingelh out, while echoes soft the sweet tones swell TUI the stars, their bright watch keeping, From the shadowy skies are peeping, And gentle silence comes at last with ns to dwell. ALMOST A GHOST STORY. “ Did you ever see a ghost ?” was the appeal. “ Well, I came deuced near it, I can’ tell you,” said young Howard. “How near ?” cried the company, drawing their chairs to the fire. “ It was in that desolate, God-forsa ken part of New Jersey,” said Howard, “near Barnegat Shoals. What with the nature of the soil there, its barren ness and sterility, the jagged, repelling grimness of tho rocks, pnd the wild, desolate infinity of the waters, there’s something about Barnegat that breeds an affinity with ghosts and spectres. There had been a wreck of a coasting schooner in the vicinity, and although the news didn’t make much of a sensa tion in tbe newspapers, it brought de spair and desolation to one heart at least—that of the young mate’s mother. He was an old school-mate and warm friend of my own, and I volunteered to go down and see if the body could be found and brought home. “ When I reached there the whole as pect of the place struck me as forbid dingly wild and lonely ; and when, to ward the close of a stormy day, poor old Jack’s body was washed ashore, stark and stiff, and distorted almost be yond recognition, I wasn’t able to lend the fellows down there a helping hand. I was seized with a nervous chill, and went in-doors to the brandy flask. Pi op ped up with au artificial courage, I went out again and found them hauling their helpless burden toward a fisherman’s hut close by. They had flung it in an old tarpaulin blanket, and I couldn’t help protesting inwardly against die rude way in which they bumped it along through the breakers and over the rocks. “ I thought of that tender, womanly heart at home in the east, and the gen tle reverence that hedged about even her every thought and feeling about Jack, and I determined there and then that he should be taken home to her in some shape that WV'han’t appall or hor rify her. “They laughed at me when I spoke of a coffin, but nevertheless I resolved upon getting one, if such a thing could be had for love or money. Not that a coffin is absolutely requisite in all cases. It wouldn’t have mattered a pin to either Jack or myself if, tied up in the old tarpaulin, with a weight heavy as destiny itself, we were forced to the bottom of the S’‘a. But to a woman, an old church-ridden, conventional woman, a victim to circumstance and enstom, a coffin was the only thing that could render the affair respectable, or indeed bearable. “ I passed a sleepless night, and went off before daylight in search of an old man that bore a queer reputation about there for appropriating any thing that came inshore, and rendering it useful or ornamental with a rude knack he had in the ca-penter line. The boys told me there was a little of everything in his old rookery, and they hadn’t the least doubt I could find even a coffin there, or something that could be mod eled into one. “It was good league to his dwell ing, and I reached there with a forebod ing that my journey was for nothing ; but upon broaching the subject to him, he stated his readiness at onoe to com ply with my demands. “ ‘But what will you do for material?’ I asked. “He smiled grimlv, and opening a door that led up to a sort of loft, he beckoned me to follow him In that loft there was wood readily adapted to build a ship, a house, a theatre —auy thing and every thing that might be de sired, Not common wood, mark you, but wreckers’ material—panels of French walnut, exquisitely carved in bass-re lief, bits of precious ebony, of sandal wood, of box, and some of that delicate white pine that exhales a delicious per fume, The boys had said that he was Very clever in the carpenter line. I was inspired with a sort of trust in his ca pacity, and his willingness to undertake tho job was only eqnaled by bis deter mination to be paid well for doing it. “ ‘ Don’t you fret, young man,’ said the old skeleton. Til fix it for you in a shape that ’ll suit. I’ll have it as scrumptious as a nut—that is, ef you’re ahle to bear the, heft of the expense. It’s costly, ver know, to hev things pi ous and nice down this wav; we can’t a’lers afford it; then the sea bein’ han dy, it’s a temptation to save time and money; but ef the expense ain’t counted in— ’ “‘Nevermind the expet se, pard,’ I < xclaimed. ‘You do the thing up nicely for me, and I’ll see you through ; but it must bo done at once; the body is almost beyond saving now, and I want the coffin by to-mcrrow-night. It must be ready to be shipped before daybreak the next morning.’ “ ‘AH right,’said the old screw. ‘I don't mind losin’ a little sleep to be obligiu’, ef only the expense— ’ “‘You old vulture,’ I roared, ‘l’ll Pay you half on the spot!’ And I counted out to him enough greenbacks to make his sharp old nose come down ft ud chop over his chin with an unctuous smack of appreciation. “ ‘ I’ll hev it that scrumptious,’ said thH wretch, with greedy enthusiasm, * c * a P y° ur bauds over it. ft 11 be that peart and pious that you *>fteiln t bo ashamed of it in a church!’ Two Dollars Per Annum, VOLUME 11. I nodded approvingly, and started on the home stretch with the oomforta i e feeling of a man who has done ail ,e ameliorate an inemediable suffering. All that day there was a threatening aspect of the winds and the waves that boded more mischief on that malevolent shore. Massive heavy clouds hung black as ink over the sharp jagged rocks, and a fierce under-tone in the ele ments told of a conspiracy for a tem pestuous debauch. “ My poor old Jack bad beeu washed and shaven, his last toilet rendered with all the care that his old friend and school-fellow could bestow upon a mel ancholy labor of love; a few hot tears burst from my burning eyes, and fell upon that strange and unfamiliar faee ; and fluding it become less and less re cognizable as I gazed upon it, I covere 1 it reverently with my handkerchief, and sat silent and alone with it and the darkness, waiting for the old man with the coffin. “As the day waned and twilight gathered, a wail brokeriorth from the rocks and waves; a few belated gulls flopped their wings heavily over the water that began to lash furiously the low sandy shore. Presently a few drops fell, the precursors of one of those furi ous storms that riot on that desert ooast. “ An agony of impatience seized me. I got upon my feet, and paced to and fro the loose boards of the hut. “Was I, then, condemned to stay here, powerless to save my poor Jack from being the puppet of yonder malig nant fiends of the shore and the sea ? I knew if the coffin were delayed until the storm increased in fury, the road to the old wrecker’s home would be impass able, flooded, and without a clew. “ Was it, then, destined that he should be thrown into the greedy maw of the sea, after all, and his place in the dear little church-yard at home know him no more? There were prayers even tben offered up for him in that dear little village in the valley, not only by the thin and withered iips of his mother, but sweet and roseate ones were trem bling in his behalf that late had clung to his own in rapture, aud gentle youug fingers would gather flowers for his grave and murmur benisons there for many a year. Oh, was it, then, impos sible to give this joy to my poor old Jack ? “ I started up with a malediction upon the storm and its surroundings, aud with an impulse of desperation wrapped myself in an old tarpaulin and ventured forth. “I suppose my nerves were pretty well unstrung, for the dea 1 face of my lost comrade followed me with a grotesque and honible persistency. I strug gled against the feeling, but it seemed to me the murky air was full of shape less fiends and bodiless spirits of devil ish propinquities. “Stumbling along, the rain beating mercilessly down, making the rocky path perilously smooth, I made my way slow ly in the direction of the old wrecker’s abode. “Feeling the step by step in this wilderness and storm, it must have taken me many hours to accomplisii a mile, for I had scarcely gone half-way when I found by mv watch it was nearly midnight. The same lurid gleam of MghtniDg that showed me the face of my watch gave me also a fleet glimpse of something lying in the road before me, almost at my feet. “ I looked, and started back in hor ror ; a peculiar sensation came to my scalp; I felt my hair, so to speak, rising on end ; for there, in a defile of the road, half wedged in the shelter of a rock, was a coffin. The peculiar shape of it was only dimly discernible, and either exaggerated by this dimness or else the coffin was of gigantic size. How did it get there ? Did the fiends about me contrive this shape to deceive my half-delirious senses? I looked again, and slowly I saw tho pond; rous lid rise, a skeleton hand come forth; then an arm. At last half the form emerged from this terrible resting place, and, wrapped about with a wind ing-sheet, seemed struggling to leave the coffin altogether. “ I seized my pistol with a trembling hand. I cocked it. “‘Don’t shoot, young man!’ cried the spectre. ‘ Ye’ll spile the polish, ef yer do. This cussed rain has e’en a’- most done for it already. It was nious and peart a spell back, but it’s pretty well spiled nw, I’m afeard.’ “It was my old wrecker, carpenter, and coffin-maker. He explained to me that he’d started on time with the cof fin, and kept up till the storm had come upon him, and was forced to rest awhile under the overhanging rock. He thought, very properly, hat no bett r shelter could be found than the coffin itself ; and he was right. We might both have crept inside, and there would still have been room for more. “ ‘ Why on earth did you make it so big?’l said. ‘ I ’don’t want my poor Jack to lio around loose in this way.’ “ ‘Well, where’s the odds? ’ said the accommodating artisan. ‘Yon didn’t seem to spare the expense ; so I thought I’d leave plenty of elbow-room. We can find suthin or other for ballast, I reckon down below. ’ __ , “ Poor jjuok USB to Vms day in'the singular ooffiu thus provided for him, and over him the arbutus blooms, and tender violets, and all the dainty flow ers dear to a young girl’s fancy or an old worn in’s love.” Victor Hugoesque, A writer in Lippincott’s gives this bur lesque of Hugo’s recent style : “ What a precipice of the past! Descent lugu brious ! Dante would hesitate at it. The Ego, the Hugo, does not. The Niagara flows from a sea and falls into an abyss. The Rhine flows from an abyss and falls into a flat. Paroxysmal paradox. The Lurlei sings at St. Goar, and the bugpiper plays the bugpipe at the First of Fourth. The 14th July de livered ; the 10th August thundered ; (be 21sr. September established. 1789, 1793, 1830. In 1690 a child was abar doned on the rocks of Portland, in 1800 the rocks of Portland were broken in*o Portland cement, and in 1845 the Port land vase was cemented, after being broken by a young man named WHliam Lloyd. John Brown Montgolfier, iE-ichy lus, Bug Jargal, Job. The facts appear, as connected with the Rhine, to the au thor’s grave.” EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1874. LYING. The Social Lie aad Its Disastrous Con sequences. Although the commandment against lying is found almost at the close of the decalogue, I incline to place it, in the education of children, at the head of the list, for lying seems to be with most children the first intentional offence. It is sometim s inherited, but oftener taught by imitation. Children hear their nursery maids tell downright false hoods to shield themselves from blame for various trifling faults or omissions of duty; and they are, indeed, fortu nate in their parents if they do not also find them guilty of pr*vurication and intent to deceive. In a hundred differ ent ways mothers deceive their little children, not thinking for a moment that they are teaching them a lesson in falsehood which may bear fruit to their latest hour, and educating the children to doubt the one in whom, of all per sons, they should put implicit con£-, dence. Riding in the cars a few weeks since I heard a mother sav to an uproarious child: “ Jamie, bo still ! If you don’t stop screaming I’ll throw you out of the car window, certain sure ! Hush, now, or you’ll see what I’ll do !” The child, a boy about two years old, looked his astonishment at the threat, but his cries were not much lessened. Then the mother took him up in her arms as though she would throw him out, when he screamed in frantic terror and clung to her neck with such ap palling fear that she was forced to hush him with kisses, caresses and candy. After a while he fell asleep, worn out vvith his tumultuous passion. Poor lit tle child ! A little girl of four or five, who had watched the whole scene silently but with the deepest interest, and who, when her mother motioned to throw her little brother from the window, had caught her arm in terror, now said : “ Mamma, would you have thrown Jamie out ?” “No, indeed child,” replied the mother; “I only wished to frighten him.” “Frighten him,” forsooth! She suc ceeded in it far better than she expected, and at the same time taught her little girl a lesson in falsehood, aud also in oontempt for her mother, for the ex pression of that child’s mouth betoken ed the feelings of her heart. How I longed to cry out to her, in Othello’s words : “ You told a lie; an odious, damned lie; Upon my soul a lie ; a wicked lie!” Of course she would have thought me an escaped lunatic, so I forbore, but I could not help my lips wreathing in scorn at the woman’s perfidy, aud I did wish to tell her that if she disciplined her children in that style she was surely sowing “ the whirlwind to reap destruc tion.” Lying in a besetting vice of weak characters, and therefore the love of truth and the hatred of falsehood need to be most assiduously cultivated in sciousness of evil. Truth-telling and truth-loving are the fundamental basis of whatever is excellent and desirable in character, and if a man or a woman lacks this essential element, all their other virtues suffer and re of little value. If a person is truthful we can forgive many little faults, because this salt of character may possibly redeem other failings; besides, a person who loves truth will never rest satisfied un til he has improved his moral strength and raised it nearer to the standard of rectitude. Tact, management and pol icy are all essential elements in social and domestic life, but they are not in consistent with perfect truthfulness. Daily we come into contact with per sons who require to be properly man aged to bring out the agreeable traits of their character and repress those which are annoying and disagreeable, but it does not necessitate falsehood to accom plish this. Many persens have a fac ulty of telling you disagreeable truths in a pleasant manner ; or administering antidotes to vice ot which the recipients are barely conscious; of hinting at facts which will not bear a frank disclosure. And all candid persons must admit they are not always justi fied in telling the whole truth. Indeed, were we to do so, we should doubtless be called insane. For there are very many things that should not be spoken, yet we are never guiltless, if we utter falsehoods, and it is our duty to strive by example and precept not to lead ten der feet astray from the paths of truth. The child who imbibes with his first nutriment a reverence and love for it will become a man of honor. Holy writ assures us that it were better for us to have a millstone about our necks and be drowned in the sea than to of fend one of these little ones. And when a mother utters a deliberate falsehood to her children it seems to me that she has committed an unpardonable sin and will surely suffer for it. The lack of truth brings dishonesty, and dishonesty is tho ce?in& sin of our nation. Oh, mothers, be warned in season and counsel with your own a , . coaa P ac * ; yourselves that from - wfiS'iiine forth you will never deceive a child. The battle of Christianity is to be fought in the family rather than in the church. See to it that you are not deserters from the ranks ! Music at Milan. A Milan correspondent of the Arca dian says : “ This city is the most mu sical in Europe, and I might easily call it the great music market of the world. Here almost all the music composed in Italy is published, either by Riccordi or Lucca, and here all the artists come to make their engagements. The singing teachers of Milan are considered the best in Italy, which I am sorry to say is not saying much for them. Of those I know anything of I should decidedly recommend Prati and Lamperti as th i best, and even these aro not up to the mark of the days when Busti and M r candante were alive and doiny. erdi and his music have not only ruined the voices of most of the Italian singers, but the teachers also, who actually give the screaming cavatinas of this noisy composer to young pupils with a de icate and very ‘ forming ’ voice. The o insequence is, the voice is ruined be fore the scholar has finished his or her first series of lesions. There are quite In God Jfe Trust. a number of Americans lere learning singing, and some are saicto give prom ise of excelling in tbe art. But it I were to take to learning singinjfor the stage, I should avoid Milan and go south, to Rome or Naples, where tii old method is still taught. Said ‘oldaiethod ’ may not be very brilliant or sUwy, or easy to learn, but at any rate it preserves the voice, and after all thenew one has produced no singers to cone up to those of other days—Pasta, S >ntg, Malibran, Persian, Rubini, etc., for in stance.” Table Customs. While certain forms of able etiquette may seem altogether conventional, even fantastic, the forms usthlly observed are founded on good sense and adapted to general convenience. etiquette is not, as is often alleged, merely a matter of fashion, things that were in vogue a geaerdion or two .ago are no longer deemed poi The rea son is that manners and taUA furniture have undergone so many chauges ; have really so much improved, as to require a mutual readjustment. For example, everybody was accustomed twenty or thirty years since to use the knife to carry food to the mouth, because the fork of the day was not i dapted to the purpose. Since the intioduction of the four-tined silver fork it has so entirely supplanted the knife tint the usage of the latter, in that way, is not only superfluous, but is regarded as a vul garism. Another example is the discontin uance of the custom of timing tea or coffee from the cup into the saucer. Although small plates were frequently employed to set the oup in, they were not at all in general use; and even when they were used, the tea or coffee svas likely to be spilled upon the cloth. The habit, likewise, of putting one’s knife into the butter arose from the fact that the butter-knife proper had not been thought of. Such customs as these, onee necessitated by circum stances, are now obviously inappro priate. Certain habits, however are regulated by good taste and delic;cy of feeling, and the failure to adopt them argues a lack of fine perception or social insight. One of these is eating or dunking audi bly. No sensitive person can hear any one taking his soup, coffee, or other liquid without positive annoyance. Yet those who would be very unwilling to consider themselves ill-bred are con stantly guilty of such breach of polite ness. The defect is that they are not so sensitive as those with whom they come in contact. They would not be disturb ed by the offense; they never imagine, therefore, that any one else ca.i be. It is for them that rules of etiquette are particularly designed. Were their in stinct correct, they would not need the rule, which, from the absence of in stinct, appears to them irrational, pure ly arbitrary. To rest one’s elbow on the table is more than a transgression of courtesy; it is an absolute incosvf ry.enoo Jo one’s TiOSl tion, such as sitting too far back from or leaning over the table, are reckoned rudeness, because they put others ill at ease through fear of such accidents as are liable to happen from any uncouth ness. Biting bread or cake, instead of cut ting or breaking it into mouthfuls, is unpleasant, since it offends our sense of form or fitness. These and kindred matters are trifles; but social life is so largely composed of trifles that to disregard them wholly is a serious affront. We can hardly realize to what extent our satisfaction or dis satisfaction is made up of things in themselves insignificant until their ob servance or non-observance is brought directly to us.— Scribner's Monthly. Profitable Politeness. The Boston Traveller, in commenting on the prevahnce of rudeness, tells the following incident that happened some years ago : There was a very plainly dressed elderly lady who was a frequent cus tomer at the then leading dry goods store in Boston. No one in the store knew even her name. All the clerks but one avoided her and gave their at tention to those who were better dressed and more pretentious. The exception was a young man who had a conscien tious regard for duty and system. He never left another customer-4© wait on the lady, but when at liberty he waited on her with as much attention as though she had been a princess. This con tinued a year or two until the young man became of age. One morning the lady approached the young man, when the following conversation took place : Lady—“ Young mau. do you wish to go into business for yourself ?” “Yes, ma’am,” he responded; “but I have neither money, credit nor friends, nor will any one trust me.” “Well,” continued the lady, “you go and select a good situation, ask what the rent is, and report to me,” handing *~ h iT fuTiTig ;?r tic~ .The young man went, found . cajraLmpatiCii, a good store, but the security, which, he give. Mind ul of the lady’s request he forth with went to her and reported. “Well,” she replied', “yon go and tell Mr. that I will be responsible.” He went, and the landlord or agent was surprised, but the bargain was closed. The next day the lady called to ascertain the result. The young man told her, but added, “What am I to do for goods ? No one will trust me.” “Yon may go and see Mr. , and Mr. , aud Mr. , and tell them to call on me.” He did, and his store was soon stocked with the best goods in the market. There are many in this city who remem ber the circumstances and the man. He died many years since and left a fortune of three hun red thousand dollars. So much for politeness, so much for civil ity, and so much for treating one’s eld ers with she deference due to age in whatever garb they are clothed. There are now sixty Chinese stu dents supported bv their government in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Thirty came two yeais ago, and thirty arrived a year since, and thirty more are ex pected in about a fortnight. So tar their deportment has been excellent and their progress’quite^remarkable. The Costumes and Manners of the Good Old Times. The tradesmen before the revolution were a different race from the present. They were none of them ashamed of their leather aprons. Faded buckskin breeches, once radiant in yellow splen dors, checked shirts, and red flannel jackets were the common wear of most working-men. All the hired women wore short gowns and linsey-woolsey petticoats. Calf-skin shoes were the exclusive property of the gentry. The servants wore cowhide. Toothbrushes were unknown. The better sort were content to rub the teeth with a chalked rag or with snuff. It was commonly thought effeminate for men to clean the teeth at all. Not only the roystering cavalier but the quiet citizens were fond of a certain bravery in dress. Men wore cocked hats aod wigs, coats with large cuffs and big skirts, lined aud stiffened with buckram. The coat of a beau had three large plaits in the skirts, wadded profusely to keep them smooth, with low collars to show off the fine lineu cambric stock, aud the largest silver buckle on the back of the neck. The shirt was ruffled to the wrists. The breeches had silver, stone, or paste buckles. Gold or silver sleeve-buttons, set with stones, were generally worn. No cMton fabrics were then known. Stockings were of thread or silk in sum mer and of worsted in winter. Surtouts were never worn, tyit they had cloth groat-coats instead, or brown camlet cloaks, with green baize lining. In the time of the revolution many of the American officers introduced the use of Dutch blankets for great-coats. In win ter gentlemen wore little woolen muffs to protect their hands. It was not un common to see old people, with large silver buttons on their coats and vests, with their initals engraved on each but ton. The ladies all wore large pockets under their gowns, and white aprons. No color but black was ever made up for si kor satin bonnets. Fancy colors were unknown and white silk bonnets ‘had never been seen. The use of lace veils did not commence until the pres ent century. Ladies’ shoes were made of silk or russet, stitched with white waxed thread and having wooden heels. Tbe sole-leather was worked with the flesh side out. Subscription balls be came very fashionable soon after the revolution. No gentlemen under twen ty-one and no lady under eighteen were admitted. The supper consisted of tea, chocolate, aud rusks. Everything was oonduoted by six married managers. They distributed places by lot and ar ranged the partners for the evening. The gentlemen drank tea with the par ents of their partners the day after the ball, whieh gave the chance for a more lasting acquaintance. Darwin’s Devotion to Truth. Darwin shirks no difficulty ; and, sat urated as the subject is with his own thought, he must have known, better than his critics, the weakness as well as the strength of bis theory. This, of Uio ‘ object" a * dialectic vic tory, instead of the establishment of a truth which he means to be everlasting. But he takes no pains to disguise the weakness he has discerned ; nay, he takes every pains to bring it into the strongest light. His vast resources en able him to cope with objections started by himself and others,so as to leave the final impression upon the reader’s mind that if they be not completely answered they certainly are not fatal. Their neg ative force being thus destroyed, you are free to be influenced by the vast positive mass of evidence he is able to bring before you. This largeness of knowledge and readiness of resource render Mr. Darwin the most terrible of antagonists. Accomplished naturalists have leveled heavy and sustained criti cism against him—not always with a view of fairly weighing his theory, but with the express intention of exposing its weak points only. This does not ir ritate him. He treats every objection with a soberness and thoroughness which even Bishop Butler might be proud to imitate, surrounding each fact with its proper relations, and usually giving it a significance which, as long as it was kept isolated, failed to appear. This is done without a trace of ill temper. He moves over a subject with the passionless strength of a glacier; and the grinding of the rocks is not always without a counterpart in the logical pulverization of the objec or. But, though, in handling this mighty theme, all passion has been stilled, there is an emotion of the intellect incident to the discernment of new truth, which often colors and warms the pages of Mr. Darwin. His Success has been great; and this implies not only the solidity of his work, but the preparedness of the public mind for such a revelation.— Popular Science Monthly. Fossil Mammals of Colorado. Some remarkable and gigantic ani mals related to the rhinoceros and the -Eebs-htew 'We iSSAE .recently discov ered by Prof. Cope in t%? Sad of Colorado. Theifc are seven species, six of which are referred to the new genus Symborodon, and one to Miobasileus, also new. While related to the rhino ceros, these creatures were higher on the legs, and had comparatively short necks ; it is also not unlikely that they possessed a short proboscis. What ren dered their physiognomy most striking was the presence of horns, in pairs, on the front of the head. The cores are preserved in the specimens of all the species, and are very various in their forms. In Miobasileus they stand over * ye ** u Symborodon over the side of the or the snout. The smallest species is S. acer, whose horn oore3 are a foot long, round, and curving outward on eaah side of the snout. It was about the size of the Indian rhinoceros. The largest species was equal to the ele phant. Its horns were flattened in one plane, and its cheek-bones were enor mously expanded, so as to form a huge projection on each side of the face, and give the muzzle a wedge shape. The eves were compelled to look obliquely upward The S. altirostris was nearly as large ; its horns were round aud straight, aad the muzzle exceedingly short and high, so that the eye was very far forward. S. trigonoceras had three cornered horns, which rolled outward, Payable in Advance. NUMBER 36. and but little upward. It was little smaller than the preceding. S. pelo ceras had mere knobs in the position of horns. The muzzle was longer. These animals a o interesting as con firming tho conclusions reached by the discoverer of E 'basileus, as to the rela tionships of f his remarkable form and its affines. Tue whole structure shows that the peculiarities of Eobasileus, by which it differs from tho other probos cidians, are to bo found in the rhino ceros and these, its extinct allies, and not among the eloven-footed types. Normandy Picturesqueness. In “Through Normandy” Miss Mao quoid thus describes the market-people at Dieppe : “It is market-day, aud there is a most picturesque array of country women, who look as if they all belonged to the sea, they are so coarse and hard featured. Their dress is won derfully full of low-toned color, with perhaps bright-colored cotton handker chiefs tied over their heads, aud bine and one or two black and scarlet striped skirts. One wonders where painters have seen the gaudy hu£S in which they sometimes depict Norman peasant wo men. Black, dark, and bine, and a sort of gr enish gray are almost the univer sal colors seen in skirts all over the province; the aprons black, grav, lilac or blue. In La Haute Normandie, the short, loose jacket is worn by all, and this is always of black or dark-gray stuff. The color lies in the aprons, or where a bright-colored square of cotton is tied over the cap. In Basse Morman die, especially in Calvados and La Mauclie, where the neckerchief is still worn across the shoulders in place of the jacket—this is usually bright-color ed scarlet or orange mingled with black The ‘ indiennes’ they wear for this pur pose cost often five shillings er six shillings, and are treasured for years, and worn only on market days and festi vals ; but a scarlet petticoat is not often seen. The Normans are much too thrif ty to wear any but dark-colored gowns, unless indeed it be a lavender cotton, and this is always of a pale, subdued tint. It is the wonderful neatuess and jauntiness which pervade the whole cos tume of even the poorest, from the black wooden sabots to the snowy bon net de coton , with its tassel a little ou one side, that make the Norman peasant so admirably suited as contrast and re lief to the quiant, rickety wooden houses and mouldering gray stone won ders of past times, among which she lives, the colors of her dress always in harmony with the surroundings ; and the men with their blouses and trousers, often faded to greenish hues, with many patches of the same color, but of differ ent tint, are just as harmonious objects as the women are. Their skins, too, warm as if the sun had borne its own reflection into them, their vicacions, in telligent eyes and ready smile, and the intensely brightening effect of the pure atmosphere make them quite salient enough against the ancient, sombre back-grounds of these picturesque old of the fitness of things would repudiate. ” How He Took His Bath. The Cape May Wave relates the fol lowing incident : “Among the excur sions that came down from Wilmington by steamer was an unevenly-weighed man aud wife—she, 300 avoirdupois; he, scarcely 100 pounds would poise. Well, they must bathe, of course; what were the trips to Cape May with out an ocean dip ? A bath-house was secured. By tight squeezing our fat lady got into a bathing-robe that was ready to burst at every step. Little husband girded about his body a woolen garment that fit like a shirt on a kil deer. Down they go, bold as a couple of whales, to the water; but just at the ocean’s edge Puny suddenly ha ted, looked with awe on the furious billows, and then into the face of his determined three On her countenance were the words : ‘ Come on !’ On hie trembling lips shivered the sounds : 4 Oh, no !’ The small specimen of di minutive husbandry feared to risk his diminutive portion of flesh and bones in the dashing foam, lest some unlucky billow might swallow him down like a snipe. ‘You shall go in,’said the fat woman. ‘I won’t,’said skinny, at the same time making frantic efforts to tear away; down he goes into the sand, scratching worse than a Kilkenny cat. Down drops the 300 upon terrified bones, slick as a hawk upon a spr.ng chicken. The sand flew, legs kicked, man screamed ; yet in spite of all the mammoth wife gathered her 100 pounds of furious sweetness in her arms, walked complacently to the biggest breakers, and kersouse she landed him headforemost into the sea, and as he popped up to the surface, half stran gled, she 'pressed him to her bosom, saying : 4 Now, honey, that’s what you came all the way from Wilmington to eDjoy.’” Old Letters. Lord Cockburn writes in his memoirs: 44 1 hard'.fill ms.life had a had habit * preserving letters and keeping thsgtpifc arranged and docketed, but seeing fhe future use that is often made of papers, especially by friendly biographers, who rarely hesitate to sacrifice confidence and delicacy to the promotion of sale and excitement, I have long resolved to send them up tha chimney in the form of smoke, and yesterday the sen tence was executed. I have kept Rich ardson’s and Jeffrey’s and some corres pondence I had during important passa ges of our Scotch progress ; but the rest, amounting to several thousand, can now, thank God, enable no venality to publish sacred secrets, or to stain fair reputations by plausible mistakes. Yet old friends cannot be parted with with out a pang. The sight of even the out sides of letters of fifty years recalls a part of the interest with which each was received in its day, and then anni hilation makes one start as if one bad suddenlv reached the age of final obliv ion. Nevertheless, as packet after packet smothered the fire with its ashes, and gradually disappeared in dim va por, I reflected that mv correspondents were safe, and I was pleased.” —“ Is the candidate for sheriff here?” asked a stranger aa he looked into an Illinois bar-room. “Yes; why?” ans wered eighteen men as they rose up. EASTMAN TIMES. BATES OF advert mrso: r*oa. li. Sm.J m. Ho. Oneequtre $4 00 $7 Ao| $ 1000 $ 15 M Two squares 625 12 OOj 1800 26 to Four squares f76 1900) 28 00 N One-fourth coL 11 60 22601 84 00 46 00 OiMwlialf col 20 00 82 WH 65 00 89 M One c01umn....... J 86 00 60 OP _BP OOj 180 SS Adrertlacmsnts UMArtad a t the rate of $1.40 per eqnare for the ftrat insertion, aud 75 cents for each snbeoqnent one. Ten Uitee or lees eanatfhtfe a •qaare. Professional cards, Slt.so r r~ ; for tic muaiht. SMjM, im Umoc. FACTS AND FANCIES. —Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. —lnjnn probabilities: “ Mebbe snow next week ; mebbe heap dam hot.” —The experiment of utilising Chi nes labor en the rioe plantations of the Georgia coast is reported successful, —The girls at Vassar college are learning to swim. Fourteen of them get into a wash-tub at once so as to give each other oonrage. —A Saratoga belle was thrown into oonvulsions, and her health seriomsly impaired, because her bean wanted to dance with her without wearing gloves. —By this time the school-girls have told each ether where they spent their vaoation, and, taking up the burden of life again, have resumed last season’s quarrels. —To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and mel ancholy. A propensity to hope and ioy is real riches; one to fear and sonow, real poverty. —Asshe rolled up her sleeves and looked hard at a big basket of tomatoes she remarked: “There’s get up, pay up, bang up, go up, step up and climb up, but here goes for catsup.” —“When yon see a man so partickler, ” says Mrs. Marrowfat, “ as never to take a glass of water w ithont looking tbr® ugh it for insects, don’t trust him—he’s on his way to a drunkard’s grave.” —A gentleman who landed from an Erie express train attracted universal attention by the magnificence of his diamond breastpin. He was supposed to be a hackmau from Niagara Fulls. —A man who goes to Kansas to settle on a homestead must expect to eat roots, sleep on the floor, fight gnats and get away from the Indians for the whole five years befoie he can begin to enjoy life. —A backwoodsman, describing a steamboat, said : “It has a sawmill on one side, a grist mill on the other and a blacksmith shop in the mid dle, and down stairs there’s a tarnation big pot boiling all the while.” —At a recent baby-show in Wiscon sin twenty-seven women started home tearing each others hair and hoops. Nine-tenths of the women shouldn’t be permitted to have babiei. They can’t bear rivalry. If all women were ban ished from the world, we would never have any trouble at onr baby-shows. —A party of twelve crack-brains left Chicago recently to join in the estab lishment of a “community,” similar to the Oneida community in New York, on Valcour’s island, in Lake Champlain, the foundation of the society being “ ab solute social freedom,” and its only gov erning law “complete, univeral free love.” —A pouting bride, on her first sea voyage, writes home: “The motion of the screw steamer is like riding a gigantio camel that has the heart-dis ease, and you do not miss a single .. i v t —. „<r to oonipSTfi with it for boredom, unless it be your honeymoon when you have married for money.” —We are now told how we can reach the gold regions in the Black hills. Somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred dollars will carry one through. But we would advise the honest miner to take two hundred dollars along. He will need the other to get back on, and to buy a bod to commence work with— and likewise a wig. —A novel street car, built somewhat in the shape of a balloon and capable of seating fourteen persons, has been put in use in San Francisoo. It revolves on the wheels, and, in case the street is blockaded, the driver can turn back at once ou his return trip. No conductor is required, the passengers putting their fare into a box. A great advant age of the car is that it cannot be over crowded. —ln Paris the dealers in refreshments have had a congress to ag:ee on the important reform of reducing from six to five the number of pieces of sugar served with a cup of coffee. Formerly they sarved six pieces with each cup ; the customer put three pieces in his coffee, two in his pocket, aud left one on his saucer out of respect to public opinion. Now that only five are served, he puts three in the coffee, still leaves one out of sense of public deoency, and only puts one in his pocket. —ln the government of Pioskan, in Russia, a letter was circulated which re ported that the government intended to send 5,000 of the prettiest girls of the country to Africa to be married to ne groes. There was a panic, and the girls made haste to marry any one ' ho would have them, and there was any number of marriages. One brandy dealer mad© a small fortune out of it for at Russian weddings they must have brandy. Now the authorities have discovered that this merchant started the story, and they are not yet done with him. —According to Rochard, a veterinary surgeon, a simple method of preventing flies annoying horses oona’sb TrT “painting the inside of the ears, or any other part especially troubled, with a few drops of empyreumatic oil ©f juni per. It is said that the odor of this substance is unendurable to flies, and that they will keep at a distance from the part so anointed. If this treatment should accomplish the alleged result, it may, perhaps, be equally applicable in repelling mosquitoes from the face and hands of tourists and sportsmen when passing through the wood* or meadows. Opportunity to Try an Organ before Purchasing. Many a person is half persuaded that a Cabinet Organ would be a capital thing for his family ; worth much more than its cost. Yet they are not sure that it would be permanently valued, but fear that after a few months’ use the family would tire of it, and so it would prove a poor investment. The Mason Sc Hamlin Organ Cos. now offer their famous Cabinet Organs on terms which will satisfy all such. They will rent an organ with privilege of purchase. The party hiring may try it as long as he pleases, paying only the rent for it while so doing. If he concludes to pur chase within a year, all the rent he nas paid is allowed, and dednefced trest the price of the organ-,