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TIIE MONROE ADVERTISER.
GISOKGK A. KING & CO.
VOL. XXJ il.
Professional Cards.
T. W. KING,
Justice of the Peace.
Office in the Court-house, up stairs.
Will attend to any collections intrusted to
his care. febl3tf
R. Jj. BERNER. C. A. TURNER.
BERNER & TURNER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
FORSYTH, GEORGIA
WILL practice in all the courts. Prompt at
tendon given to all business entrusted to
hem. The collection of claims a specialty.
Office Up stairs’in Pye’s Hail. octl7
T. C. BATTLE,
A TTORISTEY AT LAW,
lOitM Til. GEO.
V\ ill praetiee in the Superior Courts of Mon
ini ami adjoining counties Also in the Su
-I,r iiu Court. Will give close attention to all
(Hi rusted to him. Collecting doubtful
cairns a specialty- Office in Court house
m>vl3 tf.
j. A. '.HUNT. T. O, JACOB.
H iiicsville, Fors>tb.
Hunt & Jacob,
Attorneys At Law,
roitsttii, G.t
Will praetiee in all the courts. Htute and
Federal
"3y“Mr. Hunt will he in Forsyth whenever
r4ti|uiiid lebui tf
S. H. GRAY, M. D.,
J . nders lus professional services to the peoplt*
of Forsyth and Monroe county.
OFFICE at Cat micahel, Head L (Jo’s Unis Store
Win re fie can l> iound at all times of the day
when not professionally engaged.
RESIDENCE with' D- J. Pnxt. i (near
(bier’s i.ivery Stable), where he can be lound
ai night, unless absi lit attending calls.
Forsyth, .Inly 15, 1878.—tf
Dr. L. B. ALEXANDER
(tilers his professional services to the citizens of
fcGORK YTJ I
aim surrounding country, (lulls may be left
at his residence or at tile Drug Store of F. 0.
Mays and will receive prompt attention.
Dr. Alexander respectfully announces that
heietofore his plantation in Houston county
lias required bis absence from home occasion
ally for several days at a time, hut his arrange
ments are such now as to enable him to devote
liis entire time to the praetiee of medicine, and
be will always he found at home or at liis
office when not professionally engaged.
Forsyth, July IT 1878. if
DENTISTRY.”^
I have opened en office in the Adver
tiskr butlding (first room to the right, up
stairs) and am prepaired to do all kinds of
P'nTeethT’N DENTAL
to9i WORK
in a faithful and satisfactory manner. When
parties are u<>t prepared to come to my office,
it notified 1 will cheerfully call at their rcs-
T. E. CHAMBERS.
Matthew Semple & Cos.
hiiJMiW Vh'j uiiA.\iS,
t? soinli Wmer HI, IHiiluriclpliin,
Fo> the sale of all kinds of
St >LJTI 1 r.ltN IMK UHJCK.
Dried Fruits
A SPECIALTY.
Satisfactory ndvanee made v.lien desired
i,-2r~50,000 Fruit Stick* for Stle at a Bargain.
Refer to The Monroe Am t n ri-ia:.
FORSYTH
MALE INSTITUTE
THE FALL TERM BEGINS MONDAY,
Aug I'Jtli, and will continue font mouths.
|( I1 ION PAYABLE MONTHLY.
The amount paid me by the County Board
of Education will be credited pro rata ou the
tuition or the pupils.
W >. TIM'D MOVIV
julySS* tf PrUtdpirf.
Monroe Foniu'.d ‘ oIU ye.
FORSYTE. . 07 /V.
T his long established Institution of Learning
will resume exercises
August 2(3. 1878-
A full Board of Instruction, a healthful and
pleasant location, the nfining influences of
ore of the most intelligent and moral com
munities m the State excellent facilities fo*
attainment in the flue arts, all tend to com
imnd it to favorable consideration.
Board and Literary tuition have been reduc
ed till the expense of botii for the fall tern.,
of four mouths, is only $iU.
T hose desirous of procuring for their daugh
t, r- superior advantages of mental and social
culture would do well to send at once for a
catalogue of the Institution.
Thankful to the public for the lib*, ral patron
of the past, 'lie Institution looks with re
newed hope and confidence to the prospect of
the future.
R. T. ASBURY', President,
S. G. HILLYEB, D-D.
'1 lie Lillie Aloilier
[St. Louis Times.]
A Times reporter called yesterday on prob
; ably the smallest mother ever known, Mrs. W
11. Bristol, better known as Fannie Burdette,
; who has been traveling for years with Fore
; paugh’s circus, and who gave birth on Wednes
; dav night last at the Commercial hotel, Fifth
and Poplar, to a child weighing eight pounds.
The mother weighs about fifty pounds, and is
but
THIRTY-TWO INCHES
in height, while the husband is full siz**, being
six feet tall and weighing 147 pounds. The
infant was healthy and well developed, but
in order to preserve the life of ttie mother it
* was necessary to sacrifice it.
Drs. Frazer, Youngblood and Shore were
in attendance.
1 The pangs of maternity lasted seven hours,
beginning at 8 a. m. and ending at 3 p. m., and
find the little woman not possessed an iron
constitution she would certainly have died
I During the whole of these long hours of death*
! !y agony she maintained almost complete si
lence, uttering but few' moans and struggling
against all extroadinary exhibition of pain.
A Times reporter hearing a few of the cir
cumstances of the case, called yesterday upon
a couple of the physicians, but for some reason
they were found to be very reticent about the
matter. The reporter afterward visited the
Commercial hotel, where an interview with
THE ODDLY-MATCHED PAIR
was obtained The Times man had been
warned not to seek information from these
two, as they were very strongly opposed to
having the matter published. It was conse
quently with some timidity (if a reporter can
feel timid) that he addressed Mr. Bristol in
regard to the matter. The latter, who seems
exceedingly fond of liis' wife, remarked that
he had no objections to full details of (lie case
appearing in print, so that the papers did not
call his wife a dwarf. lie said he was nirtic
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ularly opposed to the term, because it always
suggested to the mind the image of a badly
deformed little creature, with hoiribly dis
torted features, and he said that his wife did
u.ol belong to that class, as she was a
PRETTY LITTLE WOMAN,
perfect in every limb at.d feature. In proof
of his assertions, he invited the reporter into
a neatly furnished room upon the second floor,
where upon the edge of a large bed lay the
subject of tills article, to whom the newspaper
man was introduced i a polite, formal man
ner. The --olce which greeted the reporter
lmd much of the softness peculiar to children
of refinement about it, wlule the language
used in the conversation which followed
sliowed cultivation
The little lady has a pretty face, with pearly
white teeth, and a pleasant, hopeful counte
nance. The hands, arms and shoulders which,
owing to the pleasant weather, wore uncov
ered, were well developed and in good pro
portion, and Mr Bristol showed the reporter
a pair of tiny shoes, which belonged to a pair
of very pretty little feet.
The couple have been married two years,
and tins is
THEIR SECOND CHILD.
The other was much smaller and was still
born. Mr. Bristol was formerly a door-keeper
in the employ of Forepaugh’s circus, and in
this capacity became acquainted with his wife,
w ho was then traveling under the management
of that, show along with a tw in brother, who
is an incli shorter than herself.
Mrs. Bristol is well acquainted with Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Thumb, Miss Jennie Quigley, and
most of the small people who have appeared
before the public during the present genera
tion- She is two inches taller than Miss Quig
ley, hut she is hardly so fleshy and she is
BETTER LOOKING.
Both Mr and Mrs. Bristol seemed yery sad
over the loss of their child, whose death they
were inclined to believe was due to the want
of judgment on the part of one of the physi
cians who attended the mother.
Dr. Shore, one of the attending physicians,
said to a reporter of the Times yesterday that
he believed Mrs. Bristol the smallest mother
on record. It had been reported, he said, that
Mrs. Tom Thumb had children, hut he heard
upon good authority that it was mere news
paper talk. At one time, said he, it was re
ported that Tom Thumb’s sister in-law T was a
mother, and vet it is known that she was no*
even married-
The doctor told the reporter that he had
never seen a better formed woman, and he de
clared that her (Mrs Bristol’s) coustiution and
powers of endurance were wonderful.
Keumrknble Foal of a Diver near
New York.
The attempt of Robert Russell, the champi
on diver, to walk eight miles in five hours,
under water, took place on Long Island sound
on July 27, at South Brother and Ricker’s
Island. Russell made the attempt for a -eager
of SI,OOO. At 11 :30, a. m., he put on a diving
suit weighing 210 pounds. A boat with judges,
air-pumps and life-line accompanied him. lie
walked sixty-five feet under water over a
measured course one sixth of a mile in length,
which he had to traverse forty eight times-
Russell is five feet nine inches in height, and
weighs 150 pounds, lie recently accomplished
the same feat at Bridgeport, Conn. He made
the first mih in 35 minutes, which was 2 min
utes ahead of time, as his average time was
37 minutes to the mile. lie made the second
mile in 30 minutes Or the third, one of liis 1
stakes under water broke, and he had to come
to the top. It took him 47 minutes to make
the tLird mil-, having to stop 10 minutes by
the accident. The fourth was made in 47
minutes, the fifth mile in 30, the sixth in 29.
and on the seventh he fell against a rock and
injured his hip He made the eighth mile in
30 minutes, and finished 33 minutes ahead of
time, covering eight mi.es in 4 hours and 37
minutes. He was completely exhausted at the
finish.
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N\ hat this Country Needs —We clip the
following from an exchange:
Fewer men who seek office and more nun
whom office seeks
Few* r dogs and more sheep.
Fewer truckling demagogues, who are any
thing or nothing, as interest dictates, and rnoie
brave men who dare to do their own thinking,
and say w hat they think-
Fewer wire-pullers in popular contentions,
and more people.
Fewer bar-rooms and more schools-
FORSYTH, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MQRNING, AUGUST fif 1878.
Dr. Carver * Great Feat
[N. Y. stun ]
After performing bis great feat of breaking
5,500 glass balls with a rifle in five hundred
minutes on Saturday last, Dr. Carver went to
his room in the hotel at Brooklyn Driving
Park totally blind. On Sunday and Monday
his eyes were covered with tea leaves and ice.
The light was kept away from them and on
Tuesday morning he recovered his sight in a
measure and came up to the city. He is now
at tl;e Astor House. The skin is peeled from
under his eyes, and tfie lids are much inflamed.
Last night he recognized friends and acquaint
ances, but could not read newspapers n* r let
ters-
The Doctor says he does not think that the
smoke from the rifle made him blind. He lays
it to the sun. When he begun shooting, the
sky was overcast. The sun came out from
behind a cloud, and shone directly in his eyes.
He could not change liis position, because the
bullets would endanger life if he stood in any
other direction. The scorching beams blistered
his eyelids, and the pupils began to burn be
foe he htjd broken 500 balls. At intervals ice
and borax water were applied to the eyelids,
giving but momentary relief. About noon it
began to rain The shooting, however, con
tinued without interruption. Within an hour
the blazing sun came out and nearly seared
his eyeballs. He slightly changed his position,
but the sunlight struck the glass bads while
they wepe in the air. and was reflected jn lqs
eyes, intensifying the pain. The Doctor says
the last thousand balls were broken from mere
force of habit. He frequently shot w ithout
distinctly seeing them, and wonders at his
success. While practising on the previous
niglit he broke many balls throw n in the air
after dark. His right ear is entirely deaf, and
he begins to think that he will never recover
the use of it.
(Japt. Bogardus broke down physically while
cracking five thoqsaqd balls with a shotgun
in Gilmore’s Garden under cover. The we&th
er was cool, and there w'as no light. He be
came so exhausted that he was compelled to
finish his task seated in a chair, and a part of
the time leaning against a partition. His
shoulders were puffed black and blue, and his
right arm had much swollen. During the
shooting they were frequently bathed in hot
water. The Captain appears to he a more
muscular and stronger man than flip Doctor.
But the latter did not complain of fatigue
His arm and Land did not swell, and if his
eyes had not been burne l by the sun he could
have repeated the feat on the following day.
Nor is this all. What he accomplished re
quired a much greater power of. endurance;
for Capt. Bogardus used a ten-pound double
barrelled shotgun, and raised it to his shoulder
only at every alternate shot lie broke 5,000
halls making 150 misses, a total of 5,150 shots.
To do this he raised the ten pound gun 2,578
times, an aggregate of 25,780 pounds, or a lit
tle over twelve tons. Dr. Carver broke 5,500
balls and missed 712. To do this he raised
th<> ten-pound rifle to his shoulder 0,212 times,
an aggregate of 02,120 pounds, or a little over
thirty-one tons. He broke 5,500 balls in the
time it took Capt. Bogardus to break 5,000,
and in doing go lifted to his shoulder 30,340
pounds, or over eighteen tons, more than the
Captain.
But the comparison is not complete. The
Winchester rifle throws out the shell and loads
with a lever, the entire pressure coining upon
the center finger of the right hand. The Doc
tor worked this lever 0,212 times. The rifle
expand with heat, nnd, when thus heated, re
quires an average pressure of forty pounds to
each shot to work it, At this estimate the
Doctor mutt have moved 248,480 pounds with
his middle finger during the day. In point of
both skill and endurance, his feat is certainly
unparalleled by any' events in sporting annals,
and it will probably remain unparalleled as
bullets are moulded and guns discharged
Minnie Warren’s Death.
Minnie Warren, the youngest, brightest and
prettiest of Mr. Barman's dwarfs, died in Mid
dleboro, Mass, on Tuesday evening, July 28d,
in childbed. She was the youngest of a fam
ily' of eight children all of whom except her
self and her sister Lavina, now’ Mrs Tom
Thumb, were of ordinary size. She was 40
inches in height, and never attained a w T eight
to exceed 45 pounds, being considerably short
er and more slender than Mrs. Thumb. She
w’as 27 years of age at the time of her death.
To a pretty’ face she added pleasant disposition
and winning ways, and she became the fast
favorite of Mr. Barnum as well as of the pub
lic. When Tom Thumb was married to La
vinia Warren the general opinion was that
Commodore Nutt would lake Minnie for his
bride; but the little Commodore had set his
affections on Lavinia, and bis little heart was
blighted when General Thumb won her from
him.
A few \ r ears ago Barnum found another 1 ili
putian, Major Newell, who was rechristened
General Grant, Jr, and added to the Tom
Thumb combination. The Major was bright
and intelligent, and he and Minnie became
great friends At amt a year ago they were
married, and they lived happily together with
General Thumb and wife in Middieboro. Their
last tour together was in the Western States,
from which they recently re'urned.
When Mr Barnum was in the city’ recently
he let out the secret, w inch had been closely
kept bv Minnie's family, but the memory of
the spurious Thumb baby led many to regard
■W story as a Barnum hoax. But Hie New
Haven women soon discovered the purchase
of little bits of muslin, lace and flannel by the
Warren household, and secrecy became im
possible. A lady friend who visited the War
rens describiMl the litttle garments as “ too
comical for anything." Dolls' patterns were
used and the little slips and wrappers were
made one sixth of the size of garments for
ordinary babies.
Mrs Newell is described as looking forward
to maternity with great anticipations and no
misgivings Her husband, however, had
gloomy forebodings, and expressed the great
est solicitude. Her death was a great shock
to her family. The child died at birth. It
weighed live pounds and ten ounces. Four
Lours later the mother died.
u Sweets to the sweet,” said the swell of a
boarding house, passing the syrup to the
daughter of th* '.proprietor- And “ beets to
the beat,” remarked the young lady, shoving a
dish of that vegetable toward the youth- The
observation cast a gloom over the company.
-‘•ln God we Trust 99
What an Old Man Would do il !u>
Were Young Xu,
He would marry a clever, respectable, good
looking, intellectual, healthy', well-connected
young woman, and love her and serve her
with the utmost fidelity, as long as life should
continue her to him as a wife. If any fool
does not understand the sense, duty and pleas
ure of this, upon the naked suggestion, he
would not understand the argument in support
of it, I therefore pretermit it.
He would try in an lntmble, modest way, to
do the will of God ; and in bis relations to all
men, lovingly to “ work righteousness.”
He would by some honest means -cash or
on credit—by purchase, gift or inheritance,
own a “ tract" of land—not less than two hun
dred and forty. Here he would fix his earthly
home for the whole term of his natural life,
and having plain, substantial house, and com
modious outhouses aud shelters, with one hun
dred and fifty acres open Lind, besides orch
ards. gardens, patches, lots, etc., he would be
gin to cultivate his farm.
He would plant tue thousand walnut tr*-es;
twenty or thirty years hence their yield of
nuts and timber would be y.-orth a large sum.
He would plant five acres of tig trees, and
learn how to dry, preserve and pack the figs
into boxes for market. After a few years the
proceeds would be a profit of a thousand dol
lars annually.
He would plant fiveAacres in scuppernong
grapevines. In a fexy' years thg would
be worth several thousand dollars annually.
He would plant five acres in sugar cane, and
manufacture his own syrup and molasses, and
ft little surplus.
He would cultivate five acres of cabbages,
with the plow, and use them in making slops
for milch cows and to fatten hogs. This, with
plenty of turnips, potatoes (none are equal to
the yam,) and hay. would always secure milk
and butter in abundance.
Ho would level his lands—gather all the
rppk to the low places where the sot)
would wash out of liis field, and if rocks were
at hand would make rock fences of those
places, so that no soil should escape and no
rain water either. He would cut his ditches
on a perfect level, draw the dirt on the upper
side, fill up low places, use the ditches for
guide rows, and to protect the bottom from
inundation; be would manure the hill top.
fig would qpuntfapture ten tons of compost,
at a cost of not mere than one ton of guano,
or any popular superphosphate, possessing in
value to crop and soil twice the value of the
single ton of commercial manure.
He would read the Bible, pray and play with
his children, comfort and encourage liis wife,
he jqst apd libera! to fits biboreys; avoid polit
ical prejudices and the bitterness of pari*
strife; and is to corrupting, demoralizing
diabolism of. religious sectarianism, he would
try to forget that human nature was capable
of it.— Southern Cultivator.
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Couldn't Fool Her.
A certain nice young man resolved a few
days ago to present his beloved girl with a
pair of nice shoes. He accordingly procured
her measure and went jnto a fashionable bout
store and purchased a two dollar pair of shoes
In order to make the piesent appear more
valuable he marked $5 upon the soles of the
shoes, and at his request the clerk put a re
ceipted bill for five dollars into one of the
shoes The presentation was made and the
lovers were us happy as lovers could be. But
mark the sequel. The girl examined the shoes
in the daylight and was not satisfied- She
was convinced that her lover had been cheated
in the purchase of such a pair of shoes at that
price. She decided to go aud exchange the
shoes aud obtain abetter bargain. Yesterday
she appeared in the store and selected a pair
of shoes price $3.50, and politely requested the
clerk to take back the shoes for which she
said her husband had paid $5. The receipted
bill was produced in proof, and the boot man
found it impossible to go “ behind the returns.”
The smart girl took her $3 50 pair of shoes
and obtained $1.50 in money, and went home
happy and satisfied. The bootseller sent a
bill for $3 to the young man, who promptly
paid the difference, but he thiuks that girl a
little 100 smart for him.
Newspapers, says the Philadelphia Times,
is being extensively used in many of the public
schools of the west in place of books for read
ing lessons. The wisdom of this course is ap
parent. Much more is to be learned from one
good newspaper than from half a dozen ordi
nary school readers, and a well edited paper is
quite as trustworthy in the matter of good
English, it is full of contemporaneous history,
of intelligent discussion, and affords a picture
of the w'orld, a study of which is nearly as
beautiful as experience of it. A great deal
about everything can be found in an enter
prising journal, and the student who carefully
reads one day by day will find bimselt better
capable of understanding the exactions of the
world into which he is about to be thrown and
of fighting his battles than if be followed too
exclusively the pages of ancient history. The
newspaper is the educator of our day ; but tor
all that there must be a care about newspapers;
they are not all alike, and a great many of
them would not be desirable in a school room.
■
The New York Tribune says there are signs
of real improvement in many departments of
trade and finance. The greatest of all indus
tries —the agricultural-Gias bright promise of
generous crops, and it u probable that this
year’s contribution by agriculture to the na
tiou’s wealth will exceed that of any previous
year in our history. It would be idle to an
ticipate a speedy return of full prosperity for
manufacturers. Yet manufacturing establish
meats, in spite of low prices of products, are
doing a large business with gradual improve
ment. The country is in a healthier condition
financially than it has been for many years.
Prices have declined to or below the level. It
is beyond question that "the times” have im
proved and are still improving
A frail, fragile woman who can detect with
horror the honeyed fumes of the genial cock!
tail in her husband’s breath at a distance of
thirty cubic feet avoirdupois, will gloat over a
sour breathed, limber-necked,soft headed.lniw
lesrged. lop eared, yawping baby that whoops
constantly like a Comanchee Indian, and
smells like a pair of old gum boots. This is
one of the remarkable phases of the average
female nature that gigantic intellect fail to
grasp and understand.
Country Girls.
Up in the morning earl)’,
Just at the peep of dav,
Straining the milk in the dairv,
Turning the cows away;
Sweeping the floor in the kitchen,
Making the beds up stairs,
Washing the breakfast dishes,
Dusting the parlor chairs.
Brushing the crumbs from the pantry
Hunting for eggs in the barn,
C leaning the turnips for dinner,
Spinning the cotton yam;
Shreading the whitening linen,
t Down on the bushes below,
Ransacking every meadow
Where the strawberries grow,
Starching and fixing for Sunday,
Churning the snowy cream,
Rinsing the pail and strainer,
Down in the running stream,—
Feeding the geese and turkeys.
Making the pumpkin pies,
Jogging the little one’s cradl**
Driving away the flies.
Grace in every motion,
M usic in every tone,
Beauty in form and feature,
Thousands might covet *n rqvu—
Cheeks that yivul spring roses,
Teeth the whitest of pearls;
One of these country maids is worth
A score of your city girls.
I Wonder.
When a young man is clerk in a warehouse,
or bank, and dregsps like a prince, smoking
foine cigars,” drinks “ noice brandy,” attends
theatres, balls, and the like, I wonder if he
does all upon the salary of clerkship?
\V hen a young lady sits in the parlor all day
with her lily white lingers covered with rings,
I wonder if her mother don’t make the pud
dings aud do a good deal of the kitchen work ?
When a young man goes three times a day
to get a dram, I wonder if he will not by and
by go four times ?
When a young lady laces her waist a third
smaller than nature made it, I w-mder if hep
pretty figure will upt shpftep life some dozen
years or more, besides making her miserable
while she does live.
\\ hen a young man is dependent on his
daily toil for his income, and marries a fine
lady who does not know* how to make a loaf
of bread or mend a garment, I wonder if be
is not lacking somewhere, say toward the top,
for instance,
Kindling Fires With Kerosene.
Somebody ought io publish a household
tract and advise people to kindle their fires
with gunpowder, instead of kerosene. It
would be vastly safer indeed, foy the gunpow
der only explodes, and then is done with it,
ami ij it blows out the windows and doers, or
takes off a leg or an arm, or puts out an eye,
that is all there is of it, and people know what
to expect. But the kerosene not only explodes,
hut takes fire, and its burning vapor is pretty
sure death to the person who tries this sort of
kindling. It is a very easy thing to lilt what
is left in the lamp or the oil can right over the
coals to make a blaze when the lire is slow,
but the hospital ambulance or the coroner’s
inquest are pretty sure to follow. The most
sickening ot all horrors, being burned alive, is
the natural outcome of this hurrying up of
slow fires by the quick kindling of kerosene,
hut every person who tries it ought to know’
that they would be a good deal safer in the
front of a battle than behind the kerosene can
in such an experiment.
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Crazed by tiie use of Arsenic.— About a
year or so ago a young lady or sunny temper
ament and pleasant features began to use to
excess preparations for bleaching her hair to
the fashionable golden tinge, and at the same
time become a slave to that heautifier of the
complexion and the form—the deceptive poi
son, arsenic. Her features before, though not
beautiful, w’ere at least good. People soon re
marked her changed appearance for the better.
Her complexion was rosy and blooinine; her
hair soft, silky, and of a beautiful tinge; her
form plumper than it had been, and her skin
smooth and white. But her self congiatula
tiou did not last long. Headache soon fol
lowed, grow ing more and more violent every
day; but still she kept on using the abomin
able stuff which has been the ruin of so many.
Of late her sufferings have been almost intol
erable. The blessing of sleep has not been
hers. Her head was a very hell of torture day
and night. Iler wind grew feebler and feebler,
her thoughts wunden and, her intellect w’as lost,
and to-day, a girl of twenty years, she is con
fined in a cell iu that prison of the living dead,
Stockton, a maniac.— Sacramento Bee.
Two young men loved the same lass iu
Kinderbook, N. Y.-, one was accepted and the
other rejected; and the unsuccessful suitor
challenged his rival to a duel with pistols,
which was foughtla&t Sunday afternoon under
the trees on the Wild farm. There were two
seconds. The ground was duly paced off and
the rivals, with faces as pale as death, were
being placed in position, when the discarded
lover demanded a parley. The seconds looked
at the other man. A tumultuous struggle was
raging in liis breast To die was not a pleas
ant trick, and there was many a girl in the
world. While these thoughts flashed through
his brain, the courage of his opponent was
rapidly oozing out at his finger ends, and si
multaneously they cast down their weapons,
and, to the intense surprise and disgust of the
waiting seconds, rushed upon each other. A
short, sharp struggle followed, and at its close
the disappointed lover lay with a bleeding
nose at the feet of his foe, who demanded the
immediate surrender of all claim to ihe beau
tiful cause of the strife. The jealous soul
surrendered, and the victorious lover went
home to lus bread and cheese and kisses
———•*
An Infallible Sign — When a watermelon
begins to change cMor inside, and its seed
turn black, a small black speck, sghlc or blis
ter, begins to appear on the outer circle, or
rind. These ar** multiplied and enlarged as
the iruit matures. A ripe ntelou will show
them thickly sown over the surface. A partial
development only indicates half ripened fruit.
A full crop of blisters reveals its perfect ripi
ness. When hundreds of melons are strewn
along the sidewalk, you will have to look
piettv sharply to find one that exhibits a satis
factory “ escutcheon,” to borrow a term from
M. Guenon. But it is unfailing when found,
and’bv following this euide you may walk
away with your melon with the most entire
contid.-n.-e. The blister is only to be seen
upon close inspection, but is visible when that
is given.
tilnuitajes of Ftirly I'ovcrl).
It is fat fioni being always a disadvantage
to young men that they should commence life
in poverty. In explanation of this the Exam
iner and Chronicle says:
The worst thing that can happen to a young
man in college is to have a father or mother so
injudicious as to keep him amply supplied
with pocket money. It is fatal to all studious
habits, and in tire end generally fatal to good
morals 1 his is equally the case with a young
man in business who is made to feel that to
him ' salary is no object”—that a wealthy
fathers purse is always open to his most e.x
trat agant demand. Nothing develops a voting
man like fighting his own way through the
world. Some spur of necessity, some bracing
air of adverse surroundings is needful to most
met), if they are to put forth their whole pow
er. Tiie rich man’s heir, nursed and petted
from infancy, and shielded from battling with
the world, never fairly learns to stand erect
and walk alone. If by any chance he is strip
tied of his inherited wealth, and has learned
to taae and give hard knocks like others, lie
m arlv always goes under in the struggle— at
any rate, he seldom regains by his own efforts
the future he has lost.
Nearly all the wealthy and effective men of
this country are poor men’s sons. Wealth has
its advantages, it is true, but after all, the son
of a rich man begins life with the odds against
him. The poor tnau’s son has all the odds in
his favor. He must work or starve. He has
nothing to lose and everything to gain. The
rich man’s sou has already social position and
everything that money can give him, There
is much less to strive for and infinitely hss in
ducement to strive.
Lure for Ilog < lioluni.
Mr. Editor \ou will find inclosed a recipe
which I am convinced is a sovereign remedy
for cholera in hogs. I have never failed to
cure a Cftiic of cholera since I commenced
using this preparation in 1870. I don’t think
it will cure every disease a hog is incident to,
hut I do think, if used as a preventive, it will
will keep him in a healthy conflition. Hence,
I say to those who are raising hogs, try it. It
costs but little and ;t will do no injury to your
hogs:
First—Mix equal quantities of unslacked
lime and soda.
Second—Mix equal quantities of alum, salt
and saltpetre.
Third—To one part of mixture No. 2 add
two parts mixture No. 1.
Directions—As a preventive, give to each
hog over one year old, one tablespoonful twice
a week. To cure a case, one spoonful ev. ry
other day till a cure is cfficted. It is best to
give it in dry meal, but it may be given in
warm slop
1 gave it to one hog that was too sick to cat
the meal, in milk warm slop, and a me was
effected in less than six horns. I have never
had to give but one dose. llojw should he
handled very carefully when sick with chol
era. My experience and observation have
been that they are almost sure to die if wor
ried too much.—J. 11. Curry, in CarroUon Ala
ba rn ia i.
Blight in Pear Trees. —One of the most
successful cultivators of Western New York
sends the Country Gentleman the following
remedy for blight in pear trees:
To every tree he applies four ounces of cop
peras and two ounces of saltpetre, by digging
the earth away from the trunk of the tree two
or three inches deep, then putting on the cop
peras, then the saltpetre, putting both close to
the body of the tree and placing the earth
back again over them. He applies these rem
edies twice a year—in the spring as soon as
the ground is in condition to woik, also in
October or November The copperas and
saltpetre should be put on dry and wherever
limbs are found blighted ; before the applica
tion they should be cut off below the blight
and burned. The application was principally
ou dwarf trees.
Furnish the Druggist.— Few of our gar
deners, perhaps, know how many articles of
trade they can supply their home druggist
with. Go into a properly supplied drug store,
and you can find dried sage leaves, rosemary,
hops, coriande, sweet fennel, thyme, calamus,
and a host of roots, barks, gums, dried flowers,
etc-, all indigenous to our soil and climate; but
which the druggist is obliged to purchase
abroad, while w e allow them to grow- in or
übont our garden without utility. The drug
gist could ouy them at home, and be much
more certain of their freshness and purity,
while home resources and industry’ would be
encouraged. There is no proper reason why
this should not he done, if for no other pur
pose, to give employment to a class of the
population standing in need of such patronage.
A New Chicken Story —A wonderful cir
cumstance occurred in Watsonville lately, says
the Watsonville (Cal) Pajaronian. To begin
with, a gentleman well known in this section
owns a lot of hens. One of them recently
began to lay in the wood pile, her nest l>eing
situated between two sticks of wood placed
far enough apart so that as fast as the egg was
laid it would drop on the ground at least two
feet below. After laying twelve or fifteen
eggs tin lit'ii began setting on the hole between
those sticks of wood, the. eggs being en the
ground below, two feet distant. Three weeks
passed by. and eleven of these eggs hatched
successfully ! Will some scientist explain the
phenomena.
Use Your Eyes. —An Italian bishop, who
had endured much persecution with a calm
and unruffled temper, was asked by a friend
how he obtained such a mastery of himself?
"By making a right use of my eyes,” said lie.
“ I first look up to heaven, as the place I am
going to live forever; I next look down upon
the earth, and consider how small a space of
it will soon be all that I can occupy or want;
I then look around me, and think how many
are far more wretched than I am.”
The Rural World says: ”If you want to
keep hogs, horses, cattle and sheep healthy,
give them salt regularly. There is no b> tter
vermin cure than salt. Much of the so Called
hog cholera is due to intestinal w orms. Plenty
of salt would prevent the accumulation of
these worms. All animals desire salt,showing
that it is a want of their nature, and undoubt
edly for wise purposes.”
To tin- American boy there is an awful, a
majestic difference between the weight of ti.e
i butt end of a fish-pole and a hoe-handle.
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS
Warm Wvmiirr I'oeirj.
Oh. for u lodge in a garden of cucmnliers !
Oil, for an ieelx r- two at control'
Oh for a vale which at midday the sun cumbers!
Oil, for a pleasure trip up to the pole!
Oh, for a little one-story thermometer,
jth nothing hut zeros all ranged in a row !
< 1, for a hi- double harrelled hydrometer
do measure this moisture that rolls from my
brow! J
Oh, that this cold world wee twenty times
colder!
(1 hat s irony red hot, it seemeth to me;)
Oh. for a turn of its dreaded cold shoulder!
oh, what a comfort an ague would he!
Oh, for a grotto to typefy heaven.
Scooped into rock undei cataract vast !
Oli. for a Winter of discontent even !
Oh, for wet blankets judiciously cast!
Oh. for a soda fount spouting up boldly
From every hot lamp-post against the hot
sky!
Oh, for a promt maiden to look at mo ooldly
Freezing my soul with a glance of her eye !
The hen becomes a rooster when the sun
goes down. *y -*
(Jive a mos<jUit<j his way and he Will settle
his little lull.
Will you love me when I’m mould?” as
the loaf of bread said to the housekeeper.
Cut a plug from a cool watermelon and pour
into it a quart of brandy if you would enjov
something nice.
Simmons sitting beside his sweetheart wish
in S “ Sally, 1 wish I was a fish, and you was
a bait, how I’d bite.”
Snooks says the prettiest sewing machine he
ever saw was about seventeen years old with
striped stockings and slippers.
If a man cuuld see his face when he is try;
ing to sneeze, lie would become so [disgusted
that he would leave the country.
Let your watchword he dispatch," said one
darkey to another as he scooped up a big wa
termelon from a farmer’s held.
Of all the days that’s in the week
I dearly love but one day,
And that’s the day that comes between
The Saturday and .Monday.
One of the most remarkable of American
exhibits at the Paris Exhibition on the open
ing day was a Cincinnati woman in a last
year's hat
A man was bragging about how much lie
could stand, hilt when a red nosed man stand
ing by asked if he could stand treat, he weak
ened and was silent
Advice to a young lady about to gel mar
ried: Count up your cash first and see if you
can support your husband in tin- style that his
father supported him.
A married man in Newburg has invented
an India rubber rolling pin that will roll out
the dough very evenly and yet bend to the
head when it strikes.
Even a mule seems to have rights that must
he respected in Si utli Carolina. A colored
doctor was recently sentenced to the peniten
tiary for forty years for stealing one.
The only way to know the length, breadth
and thickness ova parent’s luv is tu becum a
parent yourself, and 1 advise yu tu do it the
fust honorable chance you can -it-
It is said that Edison is about to throw on
the market anew corkscrew crimper, that
will twist the hair of trusting women forty
different directions at the same time.
It is the confession of a widower, who has
been thrice married, that the first wife cures a
man’s romance, the second teaches him hu
mility, and the third makes him a philosopher.
“Yes,” said an old lady reflectively, “it is
now very common to telegraph, and they say
it’ll soon be more common to telephone, hut I
think it’ll always he more common to tell a
fib.”
The fact that George Washington’s wife
never asked him where he had been when lie
came home late at night, goes a great ways
towards accounting f..r his extreme truthful
ness.
It completely takes the conceit out of a fel
low to ask a young lady to eat ice crerm, and
when he comes to settle up to find his money
distributed in a half dozen pockets, and five
cents short.
Old Sol strikes with caire. A gentle stroke
for an editaire, a livelier one for a counsel
laire, and a good square dose for an old doc
taire. He strikes us all in the open aire, and
even in our bed chambaire.
A man is not r< ally consistently fitted for
married life until he can satisfactorily explain
to a woman why it is that when off on busi
ness he can never get to the depot and return
until the train is gone.
A scientist says angle worms do not suffer
when put on the hook. They wriggle around
out of pure jay, we suppose, the same as a
man does when a good looking woman steps
on his corns.
A young man whose knowledge is based on
actual experience says that when calling on
their sweethearts young men should carry af
fection in their hearts, perfection in their
manners and confection in their pockets.
Madame asked her husband for anew outfit.
“My darling,” he replied, that would make
the third in two months, and times are so
hard that—” “You will kill me!” exclaimed
the lady bursting into tears, *• and the funeral
expenses would cost you more Ilian anew
dr<ss.” “ Au, but I should have to bury you
only once,’ was the comfortin i, rejoinder.
A pair of veil ( hubby legs.
Incased in seal let hose;
A pair of little stubby boots,
Willi rather doubtful tors;
A little kilt, a little coat,
Cut as a mother can—
And lo ! lief ore us strides in state
The future “ (oming man ”
— Krchanye.
A pair of laughing, deep blue eves,
A wealth of ringlets brown.
With nil eoqnetish as a queen,
The belle of all the town ;
A dimpled etna and blushing cheek.
Lips red anJ tieth of pear!.
And lo! la-fore us shy and meek.
We’ve the future “aiming girl.”
The uav is not far distant when she house
wife will glance into tae w -o.lshed, and find
ing that her husband has gone off withou
splitting the daily allowance of fuel, will take
down the phonograph, howl into it a voile}- of
epithets that will register one hundred and
sixty pounds pressure to the square inch on
the safety gauge, and then call out to her boy,
“ Here, John, go down town and grind that
out to your lazy old father, and see that you
turn the crank lively, too.”
NO. 31.