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The Gainesville Eagle, f. Published Every Friday Morning. J. e. REDWINE. Rates of Subscription : One copy one year < 2 fxi One copy six months 1 00 One copy three months 50 EDITORIAL eaglets. During the year 1879 there were 3,738 miles of railroad built in the United States. It is a fact worthy \ of notice that 728 miles of the new toads were narrow gauge. " Ihe Boston Post is opposed to making states out of territories that are as yet little more than mining | camps. If more states are necessary I it calls for a division of Texas. According to statistics, Judge ' Lynch did nearly as much business last year as all other judges com bined, and all because the better men 01 4 his circuit arc too cowardly to re strain the old ruffian. As the new year came in, the com positors in the office of the Savan nah Aews did a neat thing by pre senting Col. W. T. Thompson, the veteran editor of that journal, with a fine cane with appro priate inscriptions. young Americans, George Green, of Texas, and Frank Seales, of Boston, while in a mail coach in Mexico recently, were attacked by a • band of thirty highwaymen. The two young <nen fought the ent.re band, killing five, wounding several and causing the remainder to retreat. We* are getting heartily sick of this lA'gro exodus question. If the ne /groes want to go to Kansas or Indi ana or anywhere else, let them go, say we. If the negroes and radicals can stand the change of base, tho south can. We have no fears but that the south will lead on the home stretch. There is a bill before tho Virginia legislature to appropriate 475,000 for the purpose of pensioning confeder ate invalids and the widows and or- of confederate soldiers. This ; bill is a measure of the readjusters. The debt- payers ridicule it and insist that the amount is wholly inade quate. Ab a consequence they favor a much larger appropriation. The stock of the Edison electric light- company, tho par value of which is SIOO per share, has since Mr. Ed ison’s late experiments bounced to $3,500 per share, and has since gone x as high as $5,500 per share. This is a boom without precedent in stocks, but it shows tho confidence that mon ey has in tho success of an invention which is one of the marvels of the age. The legislature of Alabama will not moot for a year, and Gov. Cobb will have tho appointment of a suc vcensor to Senator Houston, who will occupy a seat in tho senate until the general assembly convenes. Among the candidates lor the place are L. P. Walker, J. L. Pugh, W. H. Forney and ex-Congressman Bradford. It is thought the first or last named will be chosen. Since tho beginning of December tho Parisians have been experiencing something approximating to arctic k weather. Snow fell and ico formed in the streets until they became al most impassable It was a blockade such as never before had been wit nessed in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, the pack of snow and of ice hummocks being so great as to ba file all the efforts of the street bri gade to clear a passage way for ve hicles. - ■ ■ - While casting about for a new land of promise, where they maj rest for a season undisturbed by the intrusive Gentile, the Mormons are told by the Mexican minister of foreign af fairs that there is plenty of room for f them in the northern part of Mexico if they choose to occupy it, but that they must leave polygamy behind them. As that would be giving up Morincnism, it would hardly be worth while to migrate under the circumstances. ,To behold a little narrow-faced pwn-easter suffering from a severe Attack of the gripes fills one with emotions alternating between pity and contempt, with the latter largely predominating. Eugene Hale, of Maine, is now suffering agonies be cause he fears, as he says, that the late action of Gov. Garcelon is but the beginning of a conspiracy which will not end until the electoral vote of the union is secured to the de mocracy this year. The bare idea is too repulsive to contemplate. The old government buildings and garrison ’at Carlisle, Pa., have re cently been taken and employed for a school for educating the children of Indians on the plan of the gov ernment school at Hampton, Va., which has seemed'to work so well. The site is a perfectly healthy and a very beautiful one, and the govern ment, by some simple and inexpen sive alterations and rearrangeme ts of the buildings, has been enabled ’v to provide dormitories and school rc&’itSJor one hundred and fifty-eight P’U’ils, ( ,l*vnom o e hundred and hl teen "are boys and forty-three are /girls. The Gainesville Eagle VOL. XIV. THE NATIONS CAPITAL. [Special Correspondence of the Eaglb.] Washington, D. C , Jan. 5,1880. Not for many years has there been so little social gayety in Washington as during so much of this session as has passed. In fact, there was much more of glitter and of what is known to outsiders as Washington society during any one of the years of Grant’s second term than during what is past of the present administration. This is perhaps singular, remember ing that there is more real prosperi ty than before, and that Washington is growing in population and wealth But the society one read of in the newspapers three or four years ago was a society led by a few conspicu ously rich people, whose notable dis plays is succeeded by a quieter en joyment of social pleasures. In this respect, Mr. Hayes, in the selection of members of his cabinet and in other ways, is a vast improvement on President Grant. And speaking of the Grant times, your readers will be interested in knowing that ‘'Castle Stewart,’’ which, with its ornate furnishings, cost some half a million dollars, and whose occupants pushed themselves by the sheer force of wealth to the head of society here in 1873 and later years, was burned last night. But it is not more completely destroyed than the social condition which it symbolized. The Maine republicans who pro posed violence as a means of revers ing certain official acts of Governor Garcelon, are quieter now. There is a report of one backwoods militia company which is to march on the capital of the state with repeating rifles; but they won’t march. The enormous conservative influence of Portland, the most important city of the state, the personal regard for and confidence in Governor Garce lon, and the sober second thought of the people generally, is rapidly over coming the temporary frenzy in spired by violent speeches in Bangor and a few other cities and towns. The governor has just removed un molested the state arms from Bangor, and was not even asked to consult the supreme court as to bis right to do so. A week ago, the same arms, on a first attempt to move them, were stopped in the streets of Bangor by a mob. We cannot doubt but that we shall have an Indian war. One is sure to occur in the near future, if the uni versal opinion of army officers—the only public servants who really know anything about the Indians—is to be accepted. The people, in such an event, ought to impress upon Mr. Hayes their son eof the inefficient conduct of our Indian affairs under Secretary Schurz. If the Indian bu reau, which manages Indian affairs, is not to be put in charge of the war department, where it belongs, some competent man should be put in charge of the Indian bureau. Rex Practical Experiment with Ed isoir’s Electric Light. Edison already has his perfected electric lamps in operation at Menlo Park, New Jersey, and it is reported that he will, within a week, light up all the houses and street lamps in Menlo Park, and publicly demonstrate that he can do all he claims with his horse-shoe light. One of his charred paper burners has been glowing steadily for several days without change. Another was made to run about eighteen-candle power to such a pitch of luminosity that a person could read the advertisements in the daily papers at a distance of seventy five feet. Edison hopes in practice to feed eight lamps with each horse power he uses. It is claimed the electricity that will run one gas-jet will run a sewing machine, rock a cradle, or do other light work, and cost only four cents a day. Edison says he will sell the light all night and the power all day. “I have a little motor,” he says, “with which I have been raising five gallons of wa ter fifty feet high every minute. It was at work, and the electricity used was exactly the amount required to iun one gas jet. That is just one eighth horse-power, for I reckon eight gas-jets for every horse-power.” An Electric Executioner. The adoption of electricity as a mode of capital punishment has en thusiastic advocates in Germany, as well as in France and the United States, as witness the following de scription of a method proposed by a German writer: “In a dark room, draped with black, and which is lighted only by a single torch—the chamber of execution —there shall stand an iron image of Justice, with her scales and sword. Stern justice is supposed to have no bowels, but the German goddess will carry a powerful battery in her inside; and this battery will be connected with an armchair—the seat of death. In front of the chair shall stand the judge’s tribunal, and only the judge, jury and other officers shall be pres ent with the criminal during the cer iinony of execution. This will con .-ist in the judge reading the story of the crime committed by the prisoner, who will be rigidly manacled to the aforesaid armchair, and when this is done the judge will break his rod of office and toss it into one of the scale-pans of justice, at the same time ( xtinguishing the solitary torch. The descent of the pan will complete the electric circuit and shock the wretch into the next world.” IP FROM THE BANKS OF THE RIVER. Down to the banks of the river. The river whose waters are dyed With the sins of the millions whose footsteps Have passed to the other side, I wandered, all footsore and weary— Eyes tear-dimmed, heart world-worn and cold, Brain burning, and grief like a garment Enclosed me in many a fold. There on the banks of the river, The river whose waters run wide, The world far behind, and before me The rush of the dark swelling tide, I stood, while the death angel fluttered Her dark pinions over my head, ’Till my vision grew dark and I fainted, O’ercome with a terrible dread. Then on the banks of the river, lhe river whose waters are deep, I prayed for the rest that is promised— The peace of the grave, and its sleep. Then I thought of the Mount, and the Martyr, Two wounds, and the blood shed for me— Os the pain and the anguish He suffered That I, even I, should be free. Then from the banks of the river, The river whose waters are cold, I ro»e with a new strength within me, The half of which never was told. I saw a nsw earth and new heaven, My soul had been purged of its sin— Now “the glory of God is about me,” The light of His love is within. UNCLE REMUS’ FOLK LORE. Tlie Story of the Deluge anil How it. Caine About. J. C. Harris, in the Atlanta Constitution. “One time,” said Uncle Remus, adjusting his spectacles so as to be able to see how to thread a large darning needle with which he was patching his coat—“one time, way back yander, ’fo’ you wuz borned, honey, en ’io’ Mars John er Miss Sally wuz borned —way back yander, ’fo’ enny un us wuz borned, de ane mils en de beasteses sorter ’lecshun eer ’roun’ ’mong deyselves, ’twell at las’ dey ’greed fer ter have a ’sembly. In dem days,” continued the old man, observing a look of incredulity on the little boy’s face—“in dem days creeturs had lots mo’ sense dan dey got now; let ’lone dat, dey had sense same like folks. Hit wuz teeb en go wid um, too, mon, en w’en dey made up der mines w’at had ter bo done ’twan’t mo’n menshun’d ’fo’ hit wuz done. Weil, dey ’lected dat dey had ter hole er ’sembly fcr ter sorter straighten out marters en hear de complaints, en w’en de day come dey wuz on han’. De Lion he wuz dere, kaze he wuz de king, en he had ter be dere. De Rhinossyhoss ho wuz dere, en de Elephent, he wuz dere, en de Cammils, en de Cows, en plum down ter de Crawfishes, dey wuz dere. Dey wuz all dere. En w’en de Lion shuck his mana en tuck his seat in de big cheer, den de sesshun begun fer ter commence ” “What did they do, Uncle Re mus ?” asked the little boy. “I kin scacely call ter mind zackly what they did do, but dey spoke speeches, en hollered, en cust, en flung der langwidge ’roun’ des like w’en yo’ daddy wuz gwine to run fer de legislator en got lef. Howsom ever dey arranged der ’fairs, en splain der bizness. Bimeby, w’ile dey wuz ’sputin’ ’longer wunner nud der, de elephent tromped on wunner de crawfishes. Co’se w’en dat cree tur put his fut down w’atsumever’s under dere is boun fer ter be squshed and dey wuzn’t enough of the craw fish lef fer ter tell dat he’d been dar. Dis made de udder crawfishes mighty mad, en dey swamed terged der en draw’d up a kinder peramble wid some wharfoes in it, en re’d her out in de ’sembly. But bless gra shus ! sech a racket wuz a gwine on dat nobody never dear it, ’ceptin’ may be de mud turkle en de spring lizzud en dere enfloons wuz pow’ful lack in’. “Bimeby, w’ile de Nunicorn wuz ’sputin’ wid de lion, en w’ile de Hye ner wuz a Jaffin ter hisse’f, de ele phen squshed under one ob de craw fishes, en little mo' en he’d ruint de mud turkle. Den de crawfishes, w’at dey was left on um, swamed tergedder en drawed up anudder pa ramblewid some more wharfo’es, but dey might ez well sung Ole Dan Tucker ter a harrycane. De udder creeturs wuz too bizzy wid der fus sin’ fer ter ’spon’ unto de crawfishes. So dar dey wuz, de crawfishes, en dey didn’t know w’at minnit wuz gwine ter be de nex’; en dey kep’ on gittin’ madder en madder en skearder en skearder, tel bimeby dey give de wink ter de mud turkle en de spring lizzud, en dey bo’d hole in de groun’ en went down outer sight.” “Who did, Uncle Remus ?” asked the little boy. “De Crawfishes, honey. Dey bo’d inter de groun’ en kep’ on bo’in twell dey onloosened de fountains er de ears; en de waters squirted out, en riz higher en higher twell de hills wuz kivered, on de creeturs all wuz drownded; en all bekezo dey let on ’mong deyselves dat dey wuz bigger dan de Crawfishes,” Then the old man blew the ashes from a smoking yam and proceeded to remove the peeling. “Where was the ark, Uncle Re mus ?’’ the little boy inquired pres ently. “W’ich ark’s dat ? ’ asked the old man in a tone of well-feigned curi osity. “Noah’s ark,” replied the child. “Don’t you pester wid ole man Noah, honey. I boun’ he tuck keer er dat ark, Dat’s w’at he wuz dere fer, en dat’s w’at he done. Leas’ways dat’s w’at dey tells me. But don’t you bodder longer dat ark ’ceppin’ yo’ mammy fetches it up. Dey mout er bin two deloojes and den agin dey moutent. Es dey wuz enny ark in dis w’at de Crawfishes brung on, I aint heern tell un it, en w’en dey aint no arks ’roun, I aint got time fer ter make um an’ put um in dere. Hit’s gittin’ yo bedtime, honey.” The Next Democratic Conven tion—Financial Views. A Washington dispatch says the democrats are beginning to discuss the time and place for holding their next national convention. Cincinnati and Indianapolis are mentioned, those who advocate these cities claim ing that the democracy would be strengthened in Ohio and Indiana by the selection of either. It is re ported that Mr. Tilden wants the convention held at Louisville, because of the local sympathy and support he would receive there. Senator Kellogg has asked to have GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 9, 1880. an opportunity to present more testi mony, and this the democrats on the committee can hardly refuse. Ben Hill, however, says Kellogg will surely be out before the last of Feb ruary, and he is supposed to speak for the democrats who are on the committee with him. There has been a good deal of quiet caucusing among senators, the object being to inculcate a financial proposition of some kind which will prove a compromise between the ex treme position taken by Senator Bay ard and his anti legal tender resolu tion and the Butler resolution, which recognizes all the elements of the destruction of the legal tender fea ture of the greenback, but postpones its execution until 1885. Among the plans hinted at is a resolution as follows: Resolved, That coins of gold and silver of the weight and fineness as fixed by congress are the constitu tional currency of the country. Resolved, That all paper money required for the purposes of trade and commerce should be issued by the government of the United States, and should be in the nature of treas ury notes, not a legal tender unless expressly stipulated in the contract, but receivable for all dues to the United States, and redeemable in coin at the office of the assistant treasurer in New York city; and that this paper should be of a uniform character, and in denominations to be fixed by law. Resolved, That sound policy re quires that the governm nt should always keep in reserve coin to the extent of 34|- per cent, of outstand ing certificates for its redemption. Resolved, That the changes pro posed in regard to the currency shall not go into effect prior to 1883. It will be seen at a glance that if a resolu‘ion embodying the under lying principles of the foregoing is adopted, it will be a direct blow at the national banks. The charters of the majority of these banks expires in 1883, so that their existence would end with the expiration of their charters. Those who favor a resrlu tion of this kind say that if the ultra hard-money men want only hard money, they cannot fail to support the resolutions. It forces just this fight: That the government shall alone omit notes of demit, based on a gold obligation, and shall supply the only paper money used in the demands of trade. The friends of the scheme say that it ought to re ceive the support of those who are called “soft-money” men, inasmuch as it retains a paper circulation, but recognizes that the United States and not chartered corporations shall issue it. Tlie Almanac. Whether the almanac is a descend ant of the Roman Kalends, of the Arabic Almanach, to count, or of the Saxon Almonaught, a square of wood upon which was carved the annual courses of the moon, blessed be the man who invented it! What trouble has he not saved us by his observa tions and computations. Without him would not the tides steal many a march upon us, eclipses fall on us like the “red Pawnee,” the sun swing round the circle of the zodiac without telegraphing ns of his progress, the planets pass into conjunction without notifying us, the moon spend her last quarter—borrowed silver though it be—without being interviewed ? Without his aid should we know when to hunt for the trailing arbu tus, when to kindle the Yuleog, to pay our new year’s calls, to bake the Twelfth-night cake, test All-hallow een spells, write our valentines, lei off Fourth of July rockets, eat Lea ten fare, or paint our Easter eggs ? Was he not ‘he first proprietor and publisher of a kind of court journal of tho natural heavens, which warn us when Venus will take her evening constitutional, at what hour Jupiter will see fit to rise in the morning, or when red Mars will show us the light of his countenance? A journ al teat even Julius Cieesar and Au gusta worked upon ; on which a host of successors have tried their hand, adding theories of religien and tid bits of prophecy about human affairs —abuses having crept in, perhaps, in the shape of a column devoted to sublunary things and people, since we find that Henry the Third of France forbade almanac makers from using the gift of prophecy. What a gulf separator the calendar of to-day from the Clog almanac, supposed to have been introduced into England by the Danish invaders, a square of wood to be suspended in the parlor, or carried by the dandy of the time as a portion of a walking-stick, upon which St Valentine’s day was indica ted by trae-lover’s knot, St. Law rence’s by a gridiron, while the first of May betrayed itself by a bough, and St. Catherine’s wheel revealed the twenty fifth of August, Primi tive as this may seem, no doubt it proved a boon to the generation that consul! ed it ; and though the stock of information in the almanac of the present era may appear limited to dwellers in the great centers of busi ness where knowledge floats in the air, and is taken in at the pores, yet to others, in remote country places, far from circulating libraries and newspaper depots, its appearance is as anxiously expected, perhaps, as the monthly issue of the most popu lar magazine in less sequestered re gions. Though “Probabilities” has put its weather reports somewhat out of countenance, does it not give us biography and history in a nutshell ? It is, in brief, a periodical which nev er waxes prosy, which always affords scope for thought, it deals mainly with the affairs of nature, whose common places are miracles, whose often repeated events are as fresh and surprising as when God first said; “Let there be light!’ The total product of American agricultural industry in 1879 is es timateci at $1,904,400,659, nearly eight times as great as the agricul tural productions of England, and three times as great as those of France. Chambers of the French Senate. The Luxembourg Palace, where the Senate of the French republic met for the first time in November, was built in 1612 by Marie de Medi cis and made over by her son, Gas ton d’Orleans, when she was sent into exile through the influence of Cardinal Richelieu. At his death the palace became the property of his daughters, Mille. de Montpent eier and Elizabeth de Guise, by the last named of whom it was made over to Louis XIV and so became crown property. The regent, Duke of Orleans, allowed his daughter, the Duchess de Berry, to occupy it ; and from 1733 to the revolution it was the residence of several princes, the last occupant being the Count de Provence, afterwards Louis XVIII. When he fled from France, the Pal lais du Luxembourg was converted into a prison, and among the persons confined there, and afterwards guil lotined, were the Vicomte Bcauhar nais, first husband of the Empress Josephene, and General de Broglie, grandfather of the present duke; while a year or two later it was from the Luxembourg that Danton, Cam ille Desmoulins, and others were led out to execution. The directory had its official residence there in 1795, as after the ninth Thermidor the Luxembourg had ceased to be a prison ; while after the eighteenth Brumair, Napoleon had the words, “Palace of the Directory ’’ effaced and “Palace of the Consulate” engraved in their stead over the central porti co. Soon afterwards the decree of Council of Five Hundred allotted the Luxembourg as the seat of the Con servative Senate; and when, in 1814 Louis XVIII re-established the Chamber of Peers, the Luxembourg was chosen as their residence, and up to 1848 the palace was issued for the same purpose; while after the coup d’etat of 1851 the imperial Sen ate held its sittings there until after the war of 1870 and the revolution of September 4th swept away empire and Senate togi ther. A great deal of d .mage was done to the palace during the communist insurrection, since which time it has been the offi cial residence of the perfect of the Seine; and within the last eight years a sum of £50,000 has been spent up on repairs and alternations. The return of the Senate to Paris has ne cessitated the further expenditure of £20,000 most of which has been re quired for fitting up the chamber in which the Senate will sit, and for providing committee rooms and ac commodations for the press. The grand staircase, leading to what was formerly the throne room and to the Senatorial Chamber, has been redec orated, and the imperial eagles have been replaced by the letters R. F. (Republican Francaise.) An Arizona Sensation. Some excitement is being created among the Mexican population of Phoenix by the story of a Mexican who arrived last evening from Reno Mountains. He came into town un der cover of darkness, as he was nearly naked. His hands and feet were torn and bloody, and his face was gashed in a fearful manner. His story was told with the air of a man who had been terribly frightened and had not recovered. With a compan ion, he had started out prospecting about a month ago, going up Salt river. They left the river when op posite the Superstitious Mountain. Their prospecting began at this point. While climbing up the mountain, in a little gully, through black sand, and down which a large stream of water had evidently passed years ago, they were astonished so find that in this sand were large quantities of fine gold. In some places the sand was only about half an inch deep over the granite. The gold, in pieces the size of a bean and smaller, was found in the little fissures in the face ot the bed-rock. Very little washing was necessary, and they found a lit tle spring of water which furnished them with what they needed. They obtained, they think, about six hun dred dollars’ worth in half a day’s work. About 2 o’clock in the after noon they were surprised to see an Indian woman come to the top of the gulch above the spring and start to come down. Upon seeing them she ran back over the hill. In less than ten minutes they were surrounded by fifty or sixty savages. The Indians were very small, and seemed to be of a different nature than they had ever seen in Arizona. The Mexicans were not armed except with knives, and the survivor says they were al most instantly caught with lariats. The Indians took them up the moun tain and put them in a cave. They tortured and killed his companion, and his fate would have been the same but for his escape. He suc ceeded in getting away with only a few knife gashes on his face. They lost their gold, with all their outfit. The Indians seemed to be cave dwell ers, and were evidently excited over the place being found by outsiders. Our reporter’s limited knowledge of the Spanish language makes it im possible for us to obtain all the par ticulars of the affair. For the benefit of non-residents we will say that Superstitious Mountain derives its name from the fact that no white man has ever been seen again who attempted its ascension. It is a tra dition among the Mexicans that large deposits of free gold are to be found in its gulchc-s and ravines. It is not known whether there is any water there or not. — Phcenix {Ariz.} Her ald. Tlie Population of Africa. It cannot be expected for many years yet to have anything like accu rate statistics on the population of Africa. Several regions, the popula tion of which is certainly great, will probably long escape anything like a thorough examination. There are, for example, in the regions of the Great Lakes, countries quite as thick ly peopled as many of the states of Europe. Stanley tells us of coun tries of relatively small extent, and which yet possess millions of inhab- itants. When we shall have suc ceeded in making an approximate census of all the populations, we shall probably reach a figure consid • rably higher than the present esti mate. Some authorities accord to Africa nor more than 100,000.000 in habitants; others less still. German geographers suppose that Africa con tains somewhat more than 200,000,- 000 inhabitants; the latest English publications estimate the population at 186,000,000, which, for an area of 11,500,000 square miles, gives an av erage of 16 inhabitants per square mile, or a specific population 111 times less than that of France. AL rica, which has 57 times the area of France, has probably scarcely eight times the population. The suppres sion of the slave trade and the in fluence of European civilization may lead to an increase of population very rapid and very great. It should be observed that the approximate figure of the specie population, ap plied to the whole of the American continent, will not give a just idea of the compact character of the popu lation of the interior. According to Behna, the negro regions are by far the most populous parts of the con tinent. If the populations are sparse in the desert parts, they are very dense in other regions. Thus, in the Soudan, the population is estimated at 80,000,000, or about 53 per square mile; the town of Bida, on the Niga, has a population of 80,000 inhabit ants. The population of East Africa is estimated at about 30,000,000, an that of Equatorial Africa at 40.000,- 000. One of tho latest authorities divides the population of Africa as follows among the great families into which ethnologists have divided the peoples: Negroes, 130,000,000; Ham ites, 20,000,000; Bantus, 13,000,000; Fulahs, 8,000,000; Nubians, 1,500,- 000; Hottentots, 50,000. This would give a total population of 172,55*, 000. These figures are, of course, only approximate, and may be much modified by new and more precise information. The Bantus, for exam ple, who, according to F. M. Muller, form at least one-quarter of the pop ulation of Africa, might be found to number 50,000,000. * A Ten-Acre Wife. Yesterday Solomon Glass, a col ored rfian whose experience in agri cultural pursuits has enlightened his neighborhood, came to town with the view of getting a divorce from his wife. When asked upon what grounds, he replied: Sufficient is de grounds of dis oc casion. When I rented ten acres and worked one mule I married a ’oman suitable for de occasion. Now I rent sixty acres of lan’ and work five mules. My fust wife is a mighty good ten acre wife, but she dont suit de occasion ob sixty acres. I needs a ’oman what can spread more ” When told by a lawyer that the grounds were not sufficient, he re marked: “I kin produce de histry to show whar I’m carect, i’s a learned man and can read clar aroun’ de majority ob de colored gentlemen an’ a great many white fellers. De reasons be long to de French history, an’, though I doesn’t speak French I talks about it, You know Napoleon first married josephene, the Beauharis'” “Yes.” said the lawyer, “but you may become a trifle too historically opulent if you proceed much far ther.” “Dat’s all right. An’ you know dat when he got to de head ob de gubernment an’ had charge of ail de commiseries, he wanted a wife what would spread more, an’ he got a dis pensation from Josephine and hitched onto Maria Louisa, case she could spread more. Dar’s de history, an’ dar’s de precedent, an’ es a man can’t git a dispensation on dese groun’s, whar’s your court houses and whar’s your law ? ’ —Little Rock (Ark.) Ga zette. — The Relative Age of Animals. The average age of cats is 15 years; of squirrels and hares, 7 or 8 years; of rabbits, 7; a bear rarelv exceeds 20 years; a dog lives 20 years, a wolf 20, a fox 14 to 16; lions are long-lived, the one known by the name of Pompey living to the age of 70. Elephants have been known, it is asserted, to live to the great age of 400 years. When Alexander, the Great, had conquered Porus, king of India, he took a great elephant which had fought valiantly for the king, and named him Ajax, dedicated him to the sun, and let him go with this inscription: “Alexander, the sun of Jupiter, dedicated Ajax to the sun.” The elephant was found with this inscription throe hundred and fifty years after. Pigs have been known to Jive to the age of 20, and the rhi nocerus to 20; a horse has been known to live to the age of 62, but average 25 to 30; camels sometimes live to the age of 100; stagi are very long-lived; sheep seldom exceed the age of 10; cows live about 15 years. Cuv er considers it probable that whales sometimes live 1,000 years. The dolphin and porpoise to the age of 30; an eagle at Vienna to the age 104; ravens frequently reach the age of 100; swans have been known to live 300 years. Mr. Malerton has the skeleton of a swan that attained the age of 200 years. Pelicins are long-lived. A tortoise has been known to live to the age of 107 years. S cond Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Brady is reported to have cleared $700,000 in the last six months in telephone stock. He is a very large shareholder in the Bell Telephone company, and owns a controlling interest in the local branch which supplies New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City with a telephone service. 1 ♦ A person known for the past twen ty-five years as Charles Parkhurst, and who has been a stage driver and farmer in California during that time died Sunday, near Watsonville, Cal., when it became known that the de ceased was a woman. SMALL BITS Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown Together. The spirit with which men hate evil-doers is oftentimes worse, as a crime, than the evil or the evil-doer Women have been admitted to the bar in eight states, and to the bar of soap in every state and Territory in the land. A descendant of Christopher Col umbus was present at the king of Spain’s marriage—Don Diego Colom bo, gentleman of the Royal cham ber. When a lady sends a cake to a church tea party she is mad aP the evening if some one asks for another piece of her neighbor’s cake and not of hers. The population of Jerusalem is some twenty-five thousand, made up of Mohammedans, Christians, and Jews, the latter being far the most numerous. Miss Drever, a young lady belong ing to fashionable society in San Francisco, has shocked her friends by announcing her betrothal to a Chinaman. A London journalist wrote up an interview with Eugenie without hav ing been within 300 miles of her, and it read better than the accounts of those on the spot. Professor E. S. Morse thinks that the original inhabitants of Japan were of the same stock from which sprang the Esquimaux and the Amer ican Indians. But they have im proved upon it. There is a sudden cessation of prosperity at Virginia city, Nev. Mining stocks are down, work in the mines has stopped, and the poor are destitute in the midst of an un commonly cold winter. In the Saxon chamber a deputy has proposed the restoration of the silver standard, on the ground that the gold standard had worked preju dicially. The chamber decided on entertaining the proposal. The contributions in New York for hospital purposes last Saturday and Sunday will aggregate about one hundred thousand dollars, of which twenty thousand dollars were collected in the Jewish synagogues. A St. Alban’s wife, in reply to her husband’s advertisement that he would pay no debts of her contract ing, published a card expressing sur prise that ho had raised money enough to pay the advertising bill. Lotta, the actress, was a witness in a St. Louis lawsuit. “What is your age ?” she was asked. “People might not believe me if I told,’’ she replied, “for some say lam forty five.’’ That was the only answer she would give. A dispatch from Ooroomiah, Per sia, announces that the famine in all that region is increasing daily, and that unless strenuous efforts are made to send help from England and America a great number of people must perish. Prince Bismarck is reported to have once said in one of his familiar discourses: “In politics I act as I do out duck shooting—l put my foot on one bowlder, and do not take it off till I see my way to another. When Ido I step on to the new bowlder and leave the old one behind, and so on till I am out of the marsh.” In Italy, during the p»ast nine months of the current year, there were 2,000 murders or attempts at murder committed in the kingdom, being an average of 10| a day. In the same period of three quarters of a year there occurred 1,900 cases of highway robbery, of the perpetra tors of which as many as 800 had entirely escaped the hands of jus tice. A little boy starved to death, at Pittsburg, in consequence of a throat disease that prevented his swallow ing anything. He lived four weeks without eating or drinking. His pleadings for food were pitiful, and he frequently dreamed of enjoying sumptuous repasts, only to awake to dreadful hunger and thirst. Just before he died ho asked his mother if they would have a good dinner for him in heaven. The wisdom of the German postpl and telegraph authorities in deter mining to connect Berlin with the chief cities of the empire, by means of a system of underground telegraph wires, has been fully confirmed during the severe weather recently prevail ing. While the violent storms of wind and snow have, in many dis tricts, been the cause of constant stoppages in the telegraphic commu nication between places connected by overground wires, the traffic between towns connected by subterranean lines has gone on through the worst weather, without the least interrup tion or inconvenience. A consider able extension of the underground system is looked upon as probable both in Germany and other conti nental countries. Singing is one of the healthiest exercises in which men, women and children can engage. The Medical Woceencbrift, of St. Petersburg, has an article based exhausted made by Prof. Monassein, during the autumn of 1878, when be examined 222 singers, ranging between the ages of nine and fifty-three. He laid chief weight upon the g.owthand absolute circumference of the chest, upon the comparative relation of the latter to the tallness of the subject, and upon the pneumatometric and spirometric condition of the singer. It appears to be an ascertained fact from Dr. Monasseiu’s experiments that the relative and even the absolute, cir cumference of the chest is greater among singers than among those who do not sing, and that it in creases with the growth and age of the singer. The professor even says that singing may be placed physical ly, as the antithesis of drinking spir ituous liquors. The latter hinders, while the former promotes. A-dvortieing Rates. Legal advertisement* charged seventy-five cent* per hundred words or fraction thereof each inser tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-five cents for each subsequent inc artion. Transient advertising will be charged $1 per inch for the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. Advertisers desiring larger space for a longer time than one month will receive a liberal deduction from regnlar rates. All bills due upon the first appearance of the ad vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasnre 1 of the proprietor. 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