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The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Friday Morning. BY RE DWIN E & 11 AM. The Officia' O’gan ot Hall, Bankn, To'vns, Rabun, Union tud Dawson counties, and the city of Gaiuesvillo. Hes a large general circu'.atlo in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and three counties in Western North Carolina. A-civertising Rates. In accordance with the recent act of the general assembly regulating the pricea of legal advketis lmg, the charges wid hereafter be seventy-five cents per hundi «d words or fraction thereof each inser t-on for the first four insertions, and thirty-five cen s for each subsequ’nt insertion. At these rates & advertisements noiea below will cost as follows: Sheriffs’ sales (100 words or less) $3 00 Over ICO words. cent per word eaeu insertion. Execu* >rs’, administrators’ and guardians’ sales, same as above. Notice to debtors and creditors (100 words or le-s) C.tations, all kinds (100 words or less) 3 00 Notices so dismission, leave to sell, etc., same as above. 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Transient adve l risements from unknown parties must be paid form advance. 4®-- Andress all orders and remittances to BEDWINE & HAM, Gainesville, Ga. EDITORIAL EAGLETS. The Grant boom in Georgia was like that of a cannon, sudden, and then silent. Senator Gordon has introduced a resolution pledging the support of the United States totheNicarauguan canal company. Our Uncle Billy Revill, of the Meriwether Vindicator, is getting to be the most acerbitous old maid in the whole gang. He should lubri cate himself with balm. And yot, some of the men, who like John Kelly, have done all they could to disrupt and defeat the democratic party, whine around call ing themselves democrats. k _ Well yer, there is Seymour, Hen dricks, Hancock, Sam Randall, Judge Field, Joel Parker, S. E. Church, with several others, one of whom may be struck by presidential light ning. The democratic party has to-day a majority of over a quarter of a mill ion of the voting population and a majority of the electoral votes, and hence all that is necessary to success is unity and harmony of action. A Union county youth went to see his charmer the other night, but a rival had preceded him and dressing himself in the fair one’s habliments, turned the light down low and re ceived his caresses for an hour or two before be revealed himself. There will probably be war in that bailiwick. — The investigating committee in the contested election case of Spof ford against Kellogg in Louisiana have closed their labors, and re turned to Washington. It is thought they have secured evidence that will convince the honest men of all par ties of Kellogg’s perfidy, and result in giving Spofford his seat. Professor Tice’s publishers, Thomp son, Tice & Lillingston, St. Louis, say that he has been injustly criti cised about the failure of the mete oric shower. They say that he did not assert that the shower would be general, or that it would be seen over any great area of Country, and that it was seen in Missouri, Indiana, and the Indian territory. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has written a letter to the Augusta Netos, in which while repudiating numer ous things which the newspapers have reported him us saying, he says he did say that the South could further aud do worse than to take Grant, and that he prefers him to Tilden for president. What do the Tilden organs say to this? By a kind of poetic justice the Brown brothers, in Texas, who be longed to a band of lynchers, were hanged on the very gallows that was built by a mob. a dozen or more years ago, to lynch a negro. These Browns were in that crowd, and helped build the scaffold for their intended victims, but they became such lawless men themselves that they were finally hung on that gal lows. The transactions in wool at Bos ton last week were the largest in the history of that trade, the sales amoun ting to nearly 6,500,000, pounds, of which about two thirds were domes tisc and the balance foreign. It is believed that the manufacturers themselves took the largest portion of the wool sold and that it will go direct to the factories. There was a similar activity noted in the New York market. No man in the democratic party however able, eminent or worthy, has a pre-emption on the presidency. When the time comes the party will select standard-bearers for their ability, patriotism, honesty and in tegrity, and whose ti elity to demo cratic principles and traditions no one will question. Qualifications make availability and not the par ticular Slate or locality where the individual may live. The Gainesville Eagle VOL. XIII. THE NATION’S CAPITAL. [Special Correspondence of theEiGCE.] Washington, D. C , Dec. 4,1879. Two propositions of Mr. Hayes in his annual message to congress pro voke opposite emotion among the members, the one anger and the oth er amusement. The first that to retire greenbacks, has come very near exciting an insurrection in the radi cal party. Almost every western republican senator and representative has a resolut'on ready depresuting any new finacc’al legislation, and the probablityis that in a short time such a resolution which will be a vir tual snub to the administration, will pass both houses bv a decided vote. The other notable feature to the mes sage is its extended ?efeieace to and commendation of “Civil Service Re form.” Weeks ago, by the way of a joke, the Sunday Capital, of this city, suggested that Mr. Hayes embody in his coming message a reference to this reform. He has done it. A Ter three years of the flagrant violation not only of his own rules of the unvaried and wholesome pactices of his predeces sors, Mr. Hayes coolly commends to congress the creation of new safe guards for the purity of the service. He will go into bisioiy for this, if for nothing else. Senator Gordon will speak to-day or as soon as be can get the floor on the subject of government protec tion—not aid—to an American Com pany organized to further the Nicara gua Canal project. There will be no objection in the house or senate if the government is not required to be come financially responsible. It is believed by many congress men and among them a not less ac complished business man than Fer nanda Wood, that the government five and six per cent bonds soon to become due, can be replaced by bonds bearing only three and a half per cent interest. Represenative Garfield, however who is supposed to speek for the administration in this matter, recomends a four per cent bond, and has introduced a bill providing for such a refunding bond. Representaive Weaver, of Ohio, wishes to have five or six millions of greenbacks issued to make up to the Union soldiers of the late war certain supposed losses. Os the inherent justice of the scheme it is useless to speak, for there is no possible chance of its becoming a law, but the occa sion is a good one for saying that existing and reasonable laws on the subject are substantially a dead let ter, because of the insufficeocy of the men Mr. Hayes keeps in charge of the Bureau before which such mat ters come for adjudication. Under Commissioner Bently, the pension office, for instance, is simply a mob of indirected or misdirected clerks. The fact is notorious. The other office by which ex-soldiers claims are adjudicated has for its head a man who was once able to attend to its duties, but who for years because of age and infirmities has been incapable of doing so. Rex. PARIS LEITER. [From our Paris Correspondent.] Paris, France, Nov. 22, 1879. Paris has now fifteen thousand metres of tubing laid down under the main thoroughfares, for the pur pose of unifying the time of all the public clocks and setting them all by observatory time. These pneumatic clocks will also be placed in private houses, and in future the time of day will be laid on just like gas and water. The eminent publicist, M. Emile de Girardin, has favored the public with his view of the now burning question of divorce. M. de Girardin, speaking “in the name of the three millions of illegitimates that exist in France, and to the number of which he does not conceal the fact that he belongs,’ argues that illegitimacy is an error of the law and not a dis grace of the person. He conceives the family of the future thus: First, the mother, a dowager, and adminis tering her own fortune in virtue of the regime of the separation of goods which is to become the legal regime in France; second, equality of the children before the mother and be fore the law. In order to approach this ideal, the institution of divorce must be introduced, but merely as a provisional means. It has been remarked that, al though cases are to be seen from time to time shut, they are almost invari ably replaced very rapidly by the ordinary wine-shop with a zinc coun ter, after the pattern of that of the “Assommoir.” This is the case even in the wealthy quarters of the town, as well as in the newly-built parts. The modern wine case is often just as luxurious as the case; the only differ ence is the'presence of a zinc counter Or bar, where you can take a stand ing drink. The increase in the num ber of these wine-shops is becoming alarming; and, although a drunken i© rarely wen in th© Btr©©t© ©f GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 12, 1879. Par’s, the hospital doctors will tell you that alcoholization threatens to become a veiy grave element in the depopulation of France. A man who .drinks three or four litres of red wine every day will become alcohol ized in time, just as effectually as the hab'tual drinker. The Petit National continues to publish its series of the revelations of returned communists about the punishments in use in New Caledo nia. Further instances are quoted of the Bastonnade, and a new kind of torture is described as being ap plied in Cayane. It is called the courbaril. The courbaril is a tree, out of the wood of which this instru ment of torture is made. The pun ishment appears to consist in expos ing the victim attached to the cour baril, under the rays of the sum This, it is stated, was the favorite punishment under the empire. A compositor named Machadier an amnestied communist, who re turned home on the Navarin, and who died in the hospital, was buried to-day. A radical journal invited the people of Paris to make his fu neral the occasion of a manifestation in favor of plenary amnesty. About fifty persons followed the corpse, and a few cries of “Vive I’amnestie I” were uttered. Tte’-e is some talk of M. Paul Meurice replacing M. Dequesnel as manager of the Odion. In the event of this appointment being made, the first piece produced would probably be “Les Burgi aves,” M. Victor Hugo himself superintending the rehear sals. The poet’s “Cromwell” and “Torquemada” have also been spoken of as possible novelties; but the former contains no less than 9,000 lines, and would require modifica tions, which the author would not be inclined to introduce, while M. Hugo has always declared that “Torque mada” should never be played during his lifetime. MARRYING FOR MONEY. Addie Arlington looked at herself in the nriror, and then turned away with a little smile of happy satisfac tion, and rippled over into a joyous laugh as she caught her cousin El lie’s eyes. “You are thinking I am vain as a peacock, aren’t you, Ellie? Well, I do look well, don’t I ? And I’m aw fully glad of it, because, cousin mind, it will be all the easier for me to come off victorious in the campaign I hav > laid out for mvself during my three months’ vis’t with you.” She spoke with a charming frank ness that made Miss Nelistoa smile back in the lovely, girlish face. “And what may your plans be, Addie? Os course it is a settled question that you are to take New York by storm. You know, of course, that your pretty face will secure that happiness to you. But further than that, what, little mischief maker?” She looked fondly, proudly at Ad die, whose dusky eyes were glowing like stars. “Ob, only my arrangement for the chief end of woman—marriage, 1 tell you, Ellie, lam goiag to make my hay while the sun shines—in other wor \s, while I’m in New York I am going to secure some rich, oh, some awfujly rich fellow, who can just smother me with diamonds aud dresses, and give me all the money I want —enough to buy everything I can think of I” Miss Neliston laughed at the girl’s honest enthusiasm. “You rapacious little cormorant! You certainly have erected a very ambitious standard, but I cannot see who or where the desirable party is. I am quite sure you deserve just what you want, dear; but the question is, can you get it ?” Addie shrugged her pretty shoul ders “Ellie, I shall get it! I know I just exact my own worth. Now don’t put me down as a vain, silly creature because I frankly admit I regard my self good looking and quite desirable for a wife generally. I am fairly good natured, am I not, Elsie ? And I ought to have a good husband, ought n’t I ?” She leaned her soft, fair cheek ca ressingly on Miss Neliston’s face. “Indeed you ought, my darling; and if I could I would conjure one to order for you. Addie, you are beautiful enough to win the highest and best in the land.” Ard she was very beautiful—and all the mors so that she was not the least vain of her charm. Standing there, beside the dressing mirror, in her evening dress of deli cate pink silk, with her fair white arms bare just below the dimpled elbow, the dainty hands cased in creamy kids, the joyous, happy face, whose features were so exquisite, whose complexion was so richly warm and satiny in its pale brunette beauty, whose eyes were so deeply dusk and lustrous and eiger, Addie Arlington was certainly sweet enough and winsome enough to fully warrant Miss Neliston’s loving assertion. “If only there was anybody rich enough in or about New York, un married, to satisfy you, Addie I ’ Addie laughed. “I’ll tell y>u a secret, Ellie. I'm going to take my fort by storm, and when you see me the betrothed bride of an English milord, Ellie—” Miss Neliston gave a gasp of posi tive horror at the girl’s audacity. “Addie Arlington, you don't mean you actually have designs on the il lustrious guest that the Van Rensel laers are expecting—the English no bleman all New York are on the qui vive about ?” The girl’s silvery laugh accompa nied a very defiantly positive shake iof her silken skirts, a© if that grace- fal little gesture added incontrovert ible emphasis. “Exactly, cousin Ellie. You need u’t look so horrified. I'm sure the prospects of having a Lady Grosvenor in the family ought to delight you.” But Miss Neliston was too taken aback to enjoy the prospective honor. “Addie, how wild you do talk! The idea! Why, you have never seen him; you don’t know whether he ii young or old, a gentleman or a—a— not a gentleman. Suppose he is old, and fat, and ugly, and short breathed like papa’s British friend, Sir William Wiggleton ?” “The charming estate everybody knows Lord Grosvenor owns, and his rent roll of a hundred thousand dol lars a year, and his wonderful mines in Wales, and his treasures of costly elegance in his town bouse in Park Lane, and his country houses in Sus sex and Cornwall, will cure all these defects, Ellie. Come, we’ll be late at Jennie Jernyngham’s, and you know Jennie always expects me the first of any one.” “And so does Jennie’s brother ! I am ready, Addie.” The music, hid in a covert of ferns and rose trellises, was playing a love ly fantasia, in tow, soil, ueimicusi chords, and dozens of couples wertf 1 promenading the suites of rooms, Addie Arlington and Fred Jernyng ham among them, and the young gentleman evidently not delightfully interested in the tenor of the young lady’s animated conversation. “Why, he is J’e handsomest man I ever saw in my life ! Os course I’ll except you, Fred I” and the pearly teeth twinkled in a smile for a sec ond. “But I want to hear his name. I want to know about him. Fred, is he rich?” It was impossible for matter of fact young Jernynguam to understand whether or not Addie was in earnest. “His name is—Melton; and I know noth’ng whatever about him, except that he is a member of an engineer ’og corps at present in the city. I don’t B©e what there is about him so rewa’-kajily handsome.” He glared at the unconscious tar get of bis and Addie’s eyes with a scowl that delighted her. “You’re not to be supposed to see any masculine attraction beyond your own, Freddie. But if he is only an engineer—hark 1 that’s our wal z.’’ And off they glided, a faint flush on Addie’s cheeks, as Mr. Melton’s handsome blue eyes caught hers and held her glance a second, despite her self. That was the way it began; and a month later, when New York society was stirred to its soul by the deferred advent of Cuthbert Gj osvener, Miss Neliston wondered why it was that Addie’s enthusiasm had so complete ly died out. “You’re a to me, Addie,” she said, as they drove home from the crush at Mrs. Reasel ser’s on the occasion of Lord Grosvenor’s com plimentary reception. And for the first time, Addie’s re ply was a little snarp: “I don’t see where the mystery is, I’m sure. Whatever there is about a little, fat, bald-headed old man to admire, I can’t see.” “But he’s a lord, all the same, Ad die.” “No, it’s not all the same, Ellie. How insufferably hot the rooms were to-night! I had the most wretched beadache. The next afternoon a magnificent coach and pair, with the armorial t earings of the house of Silverland —Lord Grosvenor’s illustrious fami ly-—with coachman and footman, in his lordship’s livery of silver and maroon, drew up at Miss Neliston’s door, and the little, fat, puffy old gentleman descended to pay his com pliments to the prettiest girl of the night before—the only girl who had at all interested him —Addie Arling ton. After that—well, Ellie hardly knew Addie, so variable and capricious she grew; now in the wildest spirits, again dejected and petulant, until one day there came by one of the liveried servants a written proposal of marriage, on a satiny sheet of pa per, bearing a crest and a monogram in silver and maroon, and signed in a little, crabbed, spidery hand, “Gros venor”—a letter that offered her, in a very gentlemanly, unenthusiastic way, all the grand, good things that had been her sole aim in life to pos sess and enjoy. While by mail, not ten minutes later, had come another letter, that made the girl's heart thrill and all her pulse stir, as she read the pas sionate prayer for herself to be given to the man who loved her—Philip Melton, with his handsome face and his salary as an engineer. For several hours, Ellij wondered what Addie was doing so long in her room, and then, by and by, she came softly down stairs, a sweet flush on her face, a pride in her eyes, a thrill of perfect content in her voice. “Ellie, dear, I want to tell you. I have refused Lord Grosvenor’s offer of marriage, and accepted Phil p.” “If you will permit me, might I ask why you decline my offer ?” Lord Grosvenor said, an hour later, when, her gentle refusal having reached him by messenger,-he post-hasted to the house. And Addie’s lips trembled with ac ual happiness and pride as she answered, with a sweetness that was charming: “Because, sir, I—l loved Mr. Mel ton best. You won’t be angry “Mr. Melton ! A fellow on a sal ary !’’ "Pardon me, my “lord—a gentle man, rich in nobility, in goodness, and in love for me.” “Oh, that s it! But about the money ? Miss Arlington, there is not a wish in the world that shall remain a moment ungratified, that money can procure, if you will honor me.” “I shall want only what Philip can give me, sir.” “Then, Miss Arlington, I am to consider my answer absolute ? You positively decline to become Lady ( Grosvenor, to live at Silverland Park, to be a lady of London society ?” Sh© smiled sweetly, proudly. “I am sure I have decided. I thank you for the great honor you have bestowed upon me. I shall be proud of it all my life, but I cannot, because I love Philip MeKon. more than all the world and what is in it.” “Addie, my true little darling! Addie, little love!’’ Then Phil ; p Melton stepped out from behind the curtains of the bay window, and took her in his arms, his handsome face all smiling and proud as he turned to Lord Grosve nor. “I told you so, sir! See loves me and is true and sweet in her loyalty to the man she loves ! Addie, per haps you will not mind so verj much that after all you will be Ltdy Gros venor some day ! For Lord Gosve nor here is my father, and I am Ihiiip Melton Silverland, next in su jeession. Addie, you will not be angry with ns for our little ruse ? We had heard you were so desper ately determined to marry money, and the moment I saw you I knew tnere was a heart that would conquer ambition—a heait I wanted to con quer on my own merits.’’ A J die listened bewildered, and Lord GrosveaouJaughed. Sless vour bright eyes, child, you Nearly tempted me to be treacherous to Silverland there. But you will not refuse me for a father in-law, I hops J?” And in her almost royal home, Ad die is happy as the summer days are long and shining. The Child on the Door Step. “Did she leave any children ?” “Yes. this bit of a child.” “And who’ll i ake her ?” “I don’t know. We are all very poor around here, sic, but we must find her a place somewhere. God help the little girl, for she’s all alone now 1” The sexton had called at an old tenement house on LaFayette street east to tale a body to a pauper’s field —the body of one whose life had been woni out in the tread-m* l ! of hunger and despair. Nobody knew that lbe mother was dead—hardly suspected (hat she was ill, until one morning this child appeared at a neighbor’s door and quietly said: “Would you be afraid to come over to my house, for ma is dead and I’m keeping awful still, and I’m afraid to talk to her when she won’t answer ?” The mother had been dead fou hours. Long enough before day came the flame of life had burned low and died out, and that child, hardly 7 years old, had been with the corpse through the long hours, clasping the cold hand, kissing the white face and calling for life to return. When they asked if she had any friends she jshjook her head. When they told her she was alone in the great world she looked out of the old w n dow on tbe bleak November day and answered: “I can make three kinds of dresses for doll-babies, build fires and carry in wood, and I’ll work ever so hard if somebody will let me live with them! ” There was no funeral. There was no need of a sermon there. The lines of sorrow around the dead wo man’s mouth counted for more in heaven than any eulogy man could deliver. There was no crape. In place of it three or four honest-hearted women lat their tears fall upon the white face and whispered: “Poor mother—poor child !” The child’s big blue eye£ were full of tears, but there was hardly a trem or in her voice as she nestled her warm cheek against the lips stilled forever and said: “Good-bye, ma—you’ll come down from heaven every night at dark, won’t you, and you’ll take me up ther<; just as soon as you can, won’t you ?” The landlord locked up the house, and the child Went home with one of the women. When night came she stole out of the house and away from those who sought to comfort her, and going back to the old house she sat down on the door step, having no company but the darkness. An officer passed that way, and leaning over the gate he peered through the darkness at something on the step and called out: “Is anybody there?” “Nobody but a little girl!’’ came the answer. “Who is it ?” “It’s a little girl whose ma was buried to-day!” He opened the gate and went closer, and as he made out her lit tle bare head and-innocent face he said: “Why, child, aren’t you afraid ?” “I was afraid a little while ago,” she said, “but just as soon as I asked ma not to let anything hurt me I got right over it. Wou’d anybody dare hurt a little girl whose ma is dead? They could be tooken up, couldn’t they ?’’ He offered to go with her to the hou?e where she was to have a borne for a few days, and taking his big hand with the utmost confidence she walked beside him and said: “I aint’t going to cry much till I get to bed, where folks can’t see me!” “I hope every one will be good to you,” he remarked as he. put his band over her curly head. “If they don’t be, they’ll never go to heaven, will they?’’ she queried. “No.” “There was a long pause, and then she said: “But I guess they will be. I can make a doll out of a clothes-pin and a piece of calico, and I guess some body will be glad to let me live with ’em. If you see me over on the step some other night you needn't be a bit afraid, fori ain’t big enough to hurt anybody, even if I didn’t want to cry all the time.!’’ At the last census taken the popu lation of Paris was 2,037,000: during the last ten years it has increased at the rate of 12,000 a year—a very modest one compared with that of London or New York* The Human Ear. Prof. G. F. Foster, of Carbon dale, Hl., gives the following descrip tion of the human ear: The inter nal ear is a wonderland, a diminu tive one, it is true, but really great —astonishingly great in its very liitleuess—a fairy land, full of the realizations of dreams, to be found in oriental story. In a space of less than one-half of a cubic inch, excava tea ont of tbe petrous portion of the temporal bone, there are to be found curiosities which the finest museum in the world eannot afford. In the vestibule are miniature lakes; here, with pebbly otoconia or otolothes bathed in its depth, there with whole forest of hair-like rods, looking like clusters of reeds, growing in tbe shallow water of some pond, while the whole is almost constantly tre mulous with wavslets of sound trans mitted from the objective world within. Here in one place are to be found peculiar winding canals, each swelling at one extiemity into strange, vase-like dilations, or am pulla), while in another hangs a chain of minute bones, curious caricatures of familar objects, all united togetb er by the smallest, ligament, and moved by muscles so tiny' that each will scarcely weigh more.than a sin gle grain. Here in a recess of the bony cave, stands a wonderful small sbeel tower, with several pairs of spiral stairs, or scallrn, leading from the base, around a modiolus of bone to the helicotremous summit. Nor does tnis tower lack for rooms, or windows, or doors. Here, within a peculiar spiral room, with a bony ledge for a floor, the basilar mem brane for a carpet, and the mem brane tectoria for the ceiling, we find the most minute, and yet one of the most exquisitely formed, musi cal instruments in all the world—a veritable harp or plane, with no less than three thousand strings, so won derfully formed, so delicately adjus ted, that it trembles in responsive action to the slightest sound—now vibrating with tremulous delight as the incoming waves of sweet and delicious music floai over its strings; then grating with tremulous disgust as the passage of hard and discor dant noise. Ever faithful and true to its trust.it imitates perfectly every sound which comes to it from the outside world. Beneath the sound ing board of this delicate little in ■ strument is a nervous arrangement, which far outrivals the powers of the celebrated telephone. Here innum erable pearl-white threads of phila ments attached io the harp strings of corslan fibers, bear onward in some mysterious manner, all the music of tbe instrument above, in all its orig inal accuracy and distinctness, with all i + s variations in pitch and quali ty, and here by a process, imitated in tbe pnoiiograph, the music is sealed up, end properly labeled, and stored away ia some one of the secret re cesses of the brain, to reappear again, it may bo, scores of yoars there at'er. A Wedding Ring. The other day, when a young man had pulled off two big mittens from his bands an I stuck one into each pocket and backed up to the coal s ove iu a Woodward avenue jewelry store, he had still sufficient strength to ask if they kept finger-rings there The jeweler might just as well have replied tvat he did not, but that finger-rings could be found at any boot and shoe store; yet, he wanted to make a sale and he answered: “We do. What sort of a ring do you want?” “It is for a wedding.’’ “Ah! Will you have a single dia mond or a cluster?” “I’spose you’d want two or three dollars for a real diamond ring?” re marked the lover, as he advanced to the tray. He was carefully and tenderly in formed that diamonds had gone up considerably since they were used in his baby rattle-box, and then he con cluded to explain: “I’m kinder down on all such non sense as weddiug-rings. When a fellow has to get a whole suit of clothes, pay the preacher, come to town and ride on the street cars and all that, ti’s-expense ’nuff. 1 s’pose, though, 111 have t > get one.’* “About what price?” “Oh, fifty cents or six shilling, or ground there. If its kinder gilded "up to last two weeks that’ll do. It hadn’t orter turn rusty under three of four days, anyhow, as she’ll want to show it off on the street cars, and all the girls will be handling it, I’ll look at the fifty-cent ones first,” The jeweler went into a decline He declined to admit that he ever had such a thing in his store. He farther said that ne could hardly be lieve that there was a young man on earth who would buy a fifty-cent ring to put on the finger of his brido. “Do you ’spose,” replied the young man as he reached for his mittens, “do you ’spose Fm a John Jacob As tor? Do you ’spose I’m going to sell a hull crop of ’taters td bay a ring for my wife to wear washin’ dishes and turnin’ the coffee-mill? She’s layin’ off now to have me buy her shoes, hat, must and purfumery after we’re married, and do you thick I can rush in here and holler out ’dia monds!’ end slam down wads of green backs to pay for ’em?” The jeweler leaned his pensive head on his hand and looked out of the window, and as the young man open ed the door he halted and continued: “Fifty-cent ring! Just as if fifty cents wasn’t nothing to’rds a bridle lower! ’ A family of emigrants were found occupying a tomb in eTcemetery near Providence, R. 1., that had been left open. When discovered they had had possession a week, and were using the coffin shelves to put their dishes on. Yes, it is time the word “boom’’ was taken by the neck and pitched in to the thicket of obscurity after “hardly ever.” It is a great deal better to say that busincs* is on the git. Wliat a Woman Cm 80. As a wife and mo her, woman makes the fo.tune and happiness of her husband and children; and, if she did nothing else, snreh tnis would be svfiie.'ent destiny. By her thrift, prudence and <act she can se cure to her partner and to he. self a compe euce n old age, no ma ter bow small their beginn’ng or bow adverse a fa.e may be tue’rs. By her cheerfulness she can lesioie her hueband’s spirit, shaken by the anxiety of business. By ner tender care sue can often restore him to health if disease has overtasked bis powers. By her counsel and Jove she can win him from bad company, if temptation in an evil hour has led him astray. By her examples, her precepts, and her sex’s insight into character she can mould her chil dren, however adverse their disposi tions, into noble men and women. And, by leading a true and beautiful life she can refine, elevate and spirit ualize all who come within reach; so that, with others of her sex emula ting and assisting her, sue can do more Co regenerate the world than all the statesmen or reformers that ever legislated. She can do m n eb, alas I perhaps more, to degrade man if she chooses to do it. Who can estimate the evils that woman has the power to do ? As a wife she can ruin herself by extravagance, folly, or want of affection. She can make a demon or an outcast of a man who might otherwise become a good mem ber of society. She can bring bick erings, strife and discord into what has been a happy home. She can change the innocent babes into vile men and women. She can lower the moral tones of society itself, and thus polute legislation at the spring head. She can, in fine, become an instrument of evil instead of good. Instead of making dowers of truth, purity, beauty and spirituality spring up in her footsteps, till the earth smiles with a loveliness that is al most celestial, she can transform it to a black and arid aesert, covered with the scorn of all evil passion and swept by the blast of everlasting death. This is what woman can do for the wrong as well as for the right. Is her mission a little one? Has she no worthy work as has be come the cry of late? Man may have a harder task to perform, a rougher road to travel, but he has noue loftier or mor j influential than woman’s. A Query Regarding the Social Code. A lady asks: “Do you think it po lite or evidence of good breeding for a gentleman to caU for only one young lady when there may be two or three others at the residence, un lass be comes as one betrothed or has that object in view ? Ought ho not to ask for the others or bring other male friends to help him enter tain ?’’ It depends on circumstances. Cour tesy is largely dependent on common sense, and that precious article hates to be bored. Social visits are prin- , cipally made for pleasure. When they are reduced to business, they become terribly wearisome. If on every occasion a man has to hunt up i friends for the purpose of entertain- I ing several ladies, or is compelled to i cal] for three or more, when he de sires to converse with only one, visit ing becomes a nuisance. The pol ished man of the world, with that tact and delicacy whic i ever seeks to j avoid wounding the feelings of oth ers, will ask for the “ladies of the house. One with less experience 1 may ask for the one he wishes and violate neither politeness nor good i breeding. Our fair correspondent must know that two is company and three is a crowd, and when there is a visiting lady, and a gentleman calls, who has not done eo previously, or for along period, the same tact would suggest a graceful leaving of the pair together. The true idea of po liteness is to surrender something of one’s own happiness over to promote that of others. Duty visiting is the most tedious of labor. Greater li cense is allowed fami’iars than stran gers.—• Columbus Enquirer. — True, Every Word —Poor ;and Proud. Young men out of business are sometimes hampered by pride. Many young men who go west take more pride than money—and bring back all the pride and no money at all. A young man that “works for his board,” no matter what honest work he does, has no reason for shame. A young man who eats the bread of idleness, no matter how much money he has, is disgraced. AU young men starting in life ought to aim, first of all, to find a place where they can earn their bread and butter, with hoe, axe, spade, wheelbarrow, curry comb, blacking-brush—no matter how. Independence first. The bread and butter question settled, let the young man perform his duty so faithfully as to attra st attention, and let him constantly keep his eyes open for a chance to do better A. out ha’f the poor proud young men, and two-thirds of the poor dis couraged young mtn, are always out of work. The young man who pock ets his pride, and carries an upper lip as stiff as a cast iron door-step scraper, need not starve," and stands a good chance to become rich. The hair of the presidents from Washington to Pierce is preserved in the- Patent Office at Washington. Washington’s is purs white and fine in texture. Jefferson’s is a mixture |of white and aubcrn and rather i course, as also is the hair of “Old Hickory.” The custom of preserving the presideeiiai locks was abs- idoned in Buchanan’s time. How it "arose, and way the. Patent Office was the repository selected, it xyould be in teresting to know. - ■ - —♦ •**> The London Echo makes the state-, ment, based on the reports of Brit ish consuls, mat American cotton goods are driving English cotton i goods out of the markets of GiiXllC smalubits Or Va-.ioMS Kind, Carelessly T.-rown Together. Lots of cider wiii feel worked up this fall, r New cider, buckwheat cakes and - mince pie. Chickens stuffed wi'h oysters , ought to feel good. The more butter goes down the faster the price goes up. ' And. now lhe r eis a molasses “rin' ,’* . and prices are up. . The Ohio river has been so low that even ducks grounded on sand bars. No one is ever so color-blind as to mistake a copper for a twenty-shill ing piece. A railroad engineer can do what a la lor can’t—make up time in the latest and most fashionable style. One good feature about Chinese cooks is that they never waste anv grease, but put it all on their hair. Queen Victoria fakes a womanly interest in hearing who has a new dress, who made it and how much it cost. You can’t please a Detroit lady more than to say to her: “A bird on the hat is worth two in the bush.” Horseradish is now put up in such fancy style that one can hardly tell wnen he is getting hold of co logne. When you send a communication to a newspaper always tel) the editor he need not publish it if he doesn’t want to. It is seldom that a street car dri ver wants any new planks in his plat form. He makes his politics conform to the old one. “Are you registered ?’’ If not, go straight to some four dollar p, day hotel and do your duty and take the best room in the house. It is necessary to the success of any booming candidate that he keep at it and never grow weary. Early and late he must boom. Only one year more to presiden tial election I How the four sessions of the year do chase each other into the dim closets of the past! “That saws my boat in two!” re plied a prisoner when sentenced to state prison by the recorder in De troit. His honor seemed to twig. When two ships collide at sea the testimony is just as conflicting as when two women pull hair over the gate. Nobody can tell who is to blame. The old-fashioned weJI-sweep still finds favor in New Hampshire, where all the women are left-handed and all the pumps are made the other way. . A hard-working girl who was re cently married in Groton, N. Y., bought the groom s wedding clothes, paid the marriage fee and all other expenses. A Nebraska monument to a horse thief is simply a stake at the head of a grave and a sign reading: “IL would have been cheaper for him to go afoot.” The price of tin has advanced ten per cent, in two months, and the fail of a dish-pan at midnight is now warranted to wake up a whole neigh borhood. The man who told a prospective purchaser of his house that the neighborhood was healthy, didn’t know he was talking to an under taker. Between a pair of skates or a hand-sled every well-regulated boy should choose his sled. You cant get a painting of a runaway horse on a pair of skates. It is strange that some one hasn’t discovered away to petrify ths bod ies of great men, so that they can be set up on pedestals in place of bronzes. There’s money in it. In London they will put any man m wax as big as life for ten dollars. In this country they will wax any man for a nickel. Stick to America if you would be happy. It is calculated that nothing can live in Saturn with more brains than a fish. That, however, does not discourage a man who is fool ish enough to go up in a balloon. You can shorten a courtship at least a year by presenting the fe male with a big locket from the nearest dollar store and dropping a hint that it cost about twenty dol lars. “I don’t have enough religion to brag of,’’ says an old Nevada miner, “but I never get into the cage to go up or down without feeling bow puny I am and how great my maker is.’’ A Buffalo school teacher went fishing all onr holiday week and nev er had a bite One of his scholars slipped out of school for two hours and caught thirty-six pounds of black bass. Ten years time and 20,000 sepa rate pieces are" about all that one woman can crowd into one bed quilt into this cold world, and when her work is done the quilt is worth at least five dollars. Jonas Saunders, of Indiana, tied a cow’s legs to keep her from kicking over the milk pail, and when she tried to kick she fell over on him and broke his back. There is such a thing as being too smart. If boy’s boots were made of cast -ron, covered with tar and gravel and then painted four coats and var nished, mothers would still have cause to wonder how on earth “that boy” got his feet sopping wet. An Edinburgh woman, who had her husband before the magistrate for beat’ng her, showed his honor a book of dates which proved that she had been beaten 920 times in four years. The husband was sent to jail for three days. Says the Cincinnati Commercial-. “This is the season for duck hunting. Young men will take notice. The ducks that are most worn now on < the left elbow are those with dark hair and black eyes. But there are some ducks with large blue eyes and i golden hair that are quite too aw- JLES vficeut.” NO. 49