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EDITORIAL. EAGLETS.
Edison is preparing to light New
York City, below Grand street, with
his electric light.
There is out-cropping all along
the line, a strong feeling in favor of
Joseph E Brown for governor.
Some say that Pendleton and Pot
ter, Ohio and New York, represent
the dark horses on the democratic
side.
The Chinese are leaving Califor
nia by the car-load, but instead of
going west, are making for Pbiladel
* phia and New York.
Cherokee Georgia is threatening
to furnish two independent candi
dates for governor in the Iversons of
W. T. Wofford and A R. Wright.
Rev. Samuel Anthony, one of the
oldest and most devoted ministers of
the Methodist church in Georgia,
died at his home in Americus on the
3rd instant,
The Denver News, the leading
democratic paper of Colorado, says
that on a sound platform that State
can be carried by the democrats with
a majority of 3.000.
All the news shows that Russia is
in a volcanic state. Apparently there
can bo but one outcome—that which
has happened to all the European
despotisms—revolution.
Trout, the most beautiful of fish,
are deceived by the flies that are
most artificially made; but there is
no reason why a girl should fall in
love with a more mustache.
The national greenback convention
which met at St. Louis on the 4th
instant, nominated Stephen B. Dil
lay, of New Hampshire, for presi
dent, and B. G. Chambers, of Texas,
for vice-president.
<+■
Macon and Brunswick both, are
supremely happy over the sale o<
their railroad, but without an exten
sion and the right connections with
other lines they will soon find they
have caught a shadow only.
If Mr. R. T. Wilson, the purchaser
of the Macon and Brunswick road,
should decide to extend direct to
Knoxville, Tenn., his road will pass
within less than one mile of the place
where he was born and reared.
The railroad commission has about
completed its schedules of fare and
freights. Passenger fare on all rail
roads in Georgia is placed at four
cents a mile. A great reduction in
freights has been made and al! dis
criminations utterly abolished.
Both houses of the Virginia legis
lature have passed a bill repealing
the Moffett bell punch liquor law,
and re establishing the license sys
tem, to go into operation on the
first of May. So this fanciful and
visionary scheme dies where it was
born.
For instance, Pendleton and Pot
ter, Palmer and Parker, Hendricks
and Hancock, Thurmond and Church,
Fields and Randall—yes, certainly
the democrats have an abundance of
the very best kind of presidential
material and some of it will be util
ized before long.
We are getting tired of this talk
about selecting a democratic candi
date for the presidency who will suit
John Kelly. If Kelly will not sup
port any ticket which the constituted !
authorities of the party, in conven
tion assembled may nominate, he is
no democrat and the sooner he is
y told so and sent adrift the better.
As an illustration of the diffusion
of Nihi’ism in high quarters in Rus
sia it is stated that in the apartments
of one of the Empress” ladies of the
Palace, Countess Panie, Nihilist pub
lications were recently found con
cealed in hei bedclothes. She has
been banished to Archangelsk, but
doubtless Nihilism has not been ex
pelled with her from the palace.
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The Sunday Gazette is in error
when it states that Mr. R. T. Wilson,
the purchaser of the Macon and
Brunswick railroad, was born in
Forsyth county. Mr. Wilson was
born and reared five miles southwest
of Gainesville, Hall county. The
Marietta Journal also has an article
on the early history of Mr. Wilson
which is almost wholly apocryphal.
Great excitement exists in the re
gion bordering on the Indian terri
tory in relation to the proclamation
of Mr. Hayes warning those who
propose to enter on the lands be
longing to the Indians to abandon
that purpose. There is loud talk of
“going in all the same,” and of a
conflict with the federal troops. It
is asserted that the people are bound
to go into the territory at all hazards,
and say they can put two thousand
men on the march on three days’ nc
tice.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
Washington Correspondence.
[Special Correspondence of the Eagle.]
Washington, D. C.. March 9,1880.
The house rules adopted on Tues
day are simple in comparison with
the old, and will greatly facilitate the
transaction of business. They go
into effect next Monday, and the
house cannot do better than to then
illustrate the excellence of its work
by showing to the country how rap
idly business can be pushed under
them.
Everybody is amused when Senator
John A. Logan discusses law ques
tions. The senate has bad two days
of it this week, and is promised
more. What is refreshing for a
while, however, may become a bore
if kept up too long.
Changes in the form of our district
government have led to some curious
results. For instance, one govern
ment assessed a tax amounting to
SIOO on John Smith’s property; a
succeeding government abates S9O of
it; then congress grants a “draw
back” amounting to S6O or S7O. John
Smith not only escapes taxation, but
receives SSO or S6O from ihe district
simply because ho owns taxable
property. Quite a number of these
cases, and others of an equally dam
aging character, are being brought
to light by an investigation now go
ing on in congress.
While it is not certain that mate
rial changes will be made at the
present session in the government of
the Indian Territory, inquiry is being
made in both houses as to the neces
sity and propriety of radical changes
There is no question except of time
in the matter. We might as well try
to keep an Ohio man out of office
under this administration as to keep
civilization out of a territory which
lies exactly in the line of westward
settlement.
Hon. Edward McPherson, of Penn
sylvania, has been made secretary of
the republican congressional execu
five committee. This is a salve for
Mr. Blaine’s wounded feelings. But
the question arises whether Mr. Me
Pherson, who, as editor of the Phil
adelphia Press, has bitterly denounced
the unit rule and the Pennsylvania
instructions for Grant, is just the
man to promote harmony in the par
ty ? Don Cameron is chairman of
ihe committee, and it has been whis
pered that he is for Grant “by a large
majority,” Rex.
Ancient Tiiebes.
The Nile seems to have run through
the midst of one vast and now im
measurable city called Thebes. The
Arabian mountains on the east and
the Lybian mountains on the west,
inclosing a great plain, were her
mighty wall , with a hundred gates,
mentioned in the Illiad.
The antithesis of Thebes is the
compaiatively modern Alexandria,
six hundred miles down the river,
founded three hundred years B. C.,
whose lighthouse was one of the
wonders of the world; whose library
of seven hundred thousand volumes
was the attraction of ail scholars, but
of which the Turkish vandal, Omar,
said: “If these writings agree with
the Koran, they are useless and need
not ba preserved; if they disagree,
they are pernicious and ought to be
destroyed,” and so had them annihi
lated; and whose lively students and
thinkers furnished the world with
the thousand and one Arabian nights’
entertainment.
The insignificant mud-built villa
ges, Luxor, Karnak, etc., which have
squatted on the site and over the
ruins of old Thebes, have nothing
under the hot sun to boast of but
the colossal ruins of the ancient city,
which had a population at one time
of upward of 5,000,000.
Os nearly a score of famous obe
lisks only four remain standing in
Egypt; seven have gone to Rome,
one to Paris, one to London, and one
is to go to New York. The obelisk of
Heliopolis, near Cairo, is 66 feet 6
inches high; that at Paris 75 feet;
St. Peter’s, Rome, 82 feet 9 inches;
St, John’s, Rome, 105 feet 6 inches,
and the one erected oy the daughter,
Hatasso, in honor of her father, in
the great temple to Thebes, is 108
feet 6 inches; each of its 4 sides is 8
feet. They are al! of granite and one
stone. This devoted daughter erected
a twin of the one towering over the
ruins of the temple, but it has fallen
and broken in several places.
The first of the hieroglyphics on
the one side and those on the other
may be put into English as follows:
The mistress of both c.-owns,
The good and the great.
The fems'e Hor,
The godhead of the di dems,
The queen and mistress of both worlds,
The beloved »f Amen Ra,
Her majesty has caused to be set
The name of her father
Ou this monument,
Which is the greater because it bears the praise
of the king, the lord of the two lands
Ra cheper-Ka.
This temple is the most magnifi
cent ruin in the world. From wall
to wall it is 1,200 feet, but with por
ticoes and adjuncts is 1,970 feet, and
with the Hall of Sphynxes over a
third of a mile in length. No pen
has ever yet conveyed a conception
of it. In the Hall of Columns alone
are 134 columns; 12 are 62 feet high
and 12 feet in diameter; the thresh
old of the door is 41 feet, and is
made of one solid stone. Some of
the chambers are lined with red
granite, some of the door jambs are
made of black granite. It is orna
mented here and there with statutes
of giant form, but the Nile now every
year overflows the foundations in six
feet of water, and the whole is drift
ing into further ruin and obliteration.
It was commenced by the conqueror
Seth I, of the 19th dvnasty, 1340 B.
C.
The two colossi, one the vocal
Memnon, stand at the entrance of a
temple which has quite disappeared.
Around them now are the level green
fields. It touches the heart to be
hold them in solemn grandeur sitting
out the strong centuries wailing for
their temple to return. They are on
the west side of the river, and many
tombs are in the limestone mountain
just back of them. Many of these
are in a fine state of preservation, but
dozens of temples have passed en
tirely away.
Much of the history, biography,
philosophy and religious systems of
the ancient Egyptians is written and
preserved on the rock chamber walls
of these limestone mountain tombs.
After thousands of years of spolia
tion from robbers and vandals, enough
remains to make us better acquainted
with their habits and customs to the
minutest detail than we can know in
the general of our own ancestors of
two or three hundred years ago.
It is very interesting to examine
the quarries whence they took their
building material. Long wide tun
nels or avenues .lead in past the infe
rior stone into the heart of the moun
tain to the clear, hard, solid rock.
These enormous quarry caverns
would prove that they were the most
industrious and extensive of builders,
if the pyramids, temples, tombs and
statues had wholly disappeared. The
most extensive are the alabaster,
breccia, granite, gypsum, porphyry,
limestone and sandstone. The sand
stone quarry is particularly interest
ing. The mountain for an extent of
several miles is cut into yawning
chasms and high threatening preci
pices that, in their dimensions and
variety of forms, mimic the sublime
workmrnship of nature.
Far into the heart of the moun
tains many large masses remain as
they were left by the workmen, and
all the processes of quarrying are
plainly exhibited. A little further
up, just by the first cataract, are the
granite quarries, from which, among
other materials, were taken the obe
lisks, the largest stones man has ever
handled. One partially cut re
mains. Indeed, the innumerable
tombs excavated out of ihe bmestone
mountains, sometimes for miles in
extent a thousand feet high, reminds
one of an immense quarry more than
anything else. The city of the dead
seems an internal city, and on its
walls are immortal biographies, re
ligious and philosophical systems, in
ventories of national, official and
personal stock and effects, and it is
always founded where the land rock
or space was best adapted to this but
useless for any other purpose.
What Shall We Read ?
A more important topic seldom
arises in any home than that of
household reading. Here is one of
the most subtle, and yet potent, ed
ucation forces. That Christian par
ents are so often indifferent to it, is
simply amazing. We are scrupulous
respecting the company our children
keep; we want them to hear only
sound orthodox preaching; we ob
ject to their being taught in the sab
bath-school by any but conscientious
Christian persons; and yet, we allow
the devil to sow the tares of a dis
sipating and corrupting literature
among our children while we sleep.
And the children of this world, be
ing wiser in their generation than
the children of light—oftentimes—
have away of so sugar-coating, and
falsely labelling, anil speciously ad
vertising their poisonous and trashy
publications, that even good parents
must be wide-awake, or they will
unwittingly admit an infection or a
curse into their homes. None can
doubt that the daily habits of read
ing go far toward the formation of
character good or bad. None can
doubt that corrupt literature is at
once a broad and flowery road that
“leadeth to destruction.” “Many
there be that go in thereat.”
W T hen parents decide what litera
ry companionship, what books and
papers they will choose for their
children, they decide whether the
mental and moral development of
children shall be good or bad;
whether solid or sandy foundations
shall be laid for their future; wheth
er home discipline and home life
shall be a sucoss or a failure; wheth
er the forces of good or of evil shall
probably mould their future life and
destiny. For reading matter in the
home operates constantly, like an at
mospheric influence, almost inpalpj,-
ble but wholly real, interfusing the
character with good or bad quali
ties.
Can the evil of unwise and perni
cious reading be overcome? Largely
it can. Parents have in their pos
session the instrument of overcom
ing it. But too often they grasp
that instrument by the blade instead
of the handle.
Many parents underestimate the
importance of providing ample read
ing matter for the household. Oth
ers heedlessly let the children select,
or outside advisers and intruders se
lect or suggest for them, and an un
fit choice is quite apt to be made.
Others will buy the cheapest books
and papers, deeming tiffs to ba safe
economy; and still others insist
that the dryest, dullest, prosiest
reading mortal ever saw, is good
enough for their families, if so be it
is orthodox beyond disp ite, and re
ligious in the most dreadful sense in
to which that word can be tortured.
“Get the best!’’ the gifted, the
brilliant, and even fascinating books
and papers; radiant, sparkling,
forceful, stirring, engaging-—the
market abounds in such—that are
also high in moral tone, pure, stim
ulating, and instructive; and let the
falsehood, that only evil books are
charming, be thus practically refu
ted.
What heroism of patience in Mor
rison, the pioneer missionary to
China, who worked and waited seven
years before he baptized his first
convert, but never lost heart in ulti
mate success.
♦
Venice has had so severe a winter
that the wells have dried and the
canals have been full of ice.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1880.
Life.
Whence came it ? and what is its
design ? Did it come at the call or
beckon of man, far away back in
olden time ? Or was it brought
about by the science of man ? or the
scientist of the age ? Here it is, in
more forms than you can think of,
or mention. Raise your eyes and
behold that sun as it rides through
the heavens, on the power of God’s
word, whose brilliance is beyond the
capacity of your eyes to endure to
stare it in the face for any length of
time, yet it is busy diffusing life,
light and health to almost all things
on earth. There, too, floats the
murky clouds, from which often leaps
the glaring lightning, accompanied
by the loud pealing thunder, by
which the sturdy old tree which,
perhaps, has stood the storm for
hundreds of years, is suddenly shat
tered to splinters, yet the refreshing
rain descends from this gloomy mass
and satiates the burning thirst of
the fevered earth. Look out and see
that tiny blade of grass, which has
just sprung up, warmed by the sun
and nourished by the rain, it points
its slender leaf upward, as if in
praise of a higher power that gives
it these blessings in bringing it into
life, but they only assisted in burst
ing the seed pod, and letting its con
tents escape into life. That stately
old oak, that has been so long com
ing to its magnificent stature, had in
like manner its life let loose from
the acorn, that held it enclosed with
in the shell, but that acorn had hid
the life, as commanded, and carried
it over from the parent tree, which
now has gone back to mother earth.
Behold yonder orchard with its de
licious fruit banging from every
branch; every tree but a few short
months ago. when winter held its
sway, looked forsaken, barren and
dead, but when spring came, the
bright rays of the sun, together with
congenial showers of rain, revived
the apparently dead tree to action
and to life, and the branches were
covered with beautiful flowers, from
which this luscious fruit came.
The fish of the waters, the fowls
of the air, and the beasts of the
field, together with every living
thing, ail have life and action, and
bow or when did it come? Was man
or anything else consulted before it
was bestowed upon them ? Then life
is here, we have it, and so the best
possible use should be mads of it
while we can control it well, we may
suffer severe loss in the consequence.
The sun has never been known to
darken any place on earth, elsewhere
but is shedding a bright light upon
ail things within its sight, so this
life should never cause trouble to
any while we control it. There is
plenty of work to do in trying to
brighten our own and the paths of
others, and make them as pl lasant
as possible, as well as praiseworthy
and profitable to all around. As
sweet music never sends rough or
unpleasant sounds, so it should be
the study never to send out unpleas
ant ways or words or even unpleas
ant looks. While this harmony is
conducive to health and long lif°. it
swells chords of love, peace and joy,
which ascend and give praises to the
author of life, for his every good and
perfect work. And while this great
Creator has given everything, eave
man, to be under the control of man,
he certainly should be at work io do
his part as well as the maker, and
have everything done decently and
in order, and nothing done in a
rough or bungling manner. So life
cannot be thrown to the winds or
lost, eo that man is not accountable
for the manner be uses it. All
should go to work to make it a suc
cess in as good a manner as the sun,
by diffusing light and help all
around. There is a sublimity in hu
man life, beyond the power of words
to describe. The invisible connec
tions that are so interwoven with it
cannot be explained bv the philoso
pher or sage. The main thing, how
ever, is to learn to control and use it
in such a manner as will be useful to
ths holder, and honorable to the
giver Life produces action, from
which springs works, and works
show what the producer is, and
where he stands, telling his character
and disposition more plainly than
anything else can.
A Local Editor’s Dream.
Once upon a time a local editor
dreamed that he was dead and in
another world , He approached a
city before him and knocked for ad
mittance, but no one answered his
summons. The gate remained clos
ed against him. Then he cried
aloud for an entrance, but the only
response was scorse of heads appear
ing above the wall on the other side
of the gate. At sight of him the
owners of the heads set up a dismal
howl, aud one of them cried: “Why
didn’t you notice that big egg I gave
you?’’ At this horrid and most unex
pected interrogation the poor local
turned in the direction of the voice
to learn its owner, when another
voice shrieked. “Where’s that piece
you were going to write about my
soda fountain ?” and close upon this
was the awful demand: “Why did
you write a piece abeut old Tomlin
son’s hens, and never speak of my
new gate?” "Whatever answer he was
going to frame to this appeal was cut
short by the astonishing query:
“Why did you spell my name wrons
in the programme?” The miserable
man turned to flee, when he was
rooted to the ground by these terri
ble demands: “Why did you put my
marriage among the deaths?” He
was on the point of saying the fore
man did it, when a shrill voice mad
ly cried: “You spoilt the sale of my
horse by publishing that runaway 1”
and another: “If I catc you alone
I’ll lick you for what you said about
me when I was before the Police
Court.” Another:"Why didn’t you
show up the school question when I
told you to ?” And this was followed
by the voice of a female hysterically
exclaiming: “This is the brute that
botched my poetry and made me
ridiculous!” Whereupon hundreds
of voices screamed; “Where is my
article? Give me back my article!”
And in the midst of the horrid din
the poor wretch awoke, perspiring at
every pore and screaming for help.
She Knew All About It.
Just about midnight the other
night, four men in a Detroit saloon
sat looking at a fifth. The fifth one
was drunker than the other four.
While all men were created equal,
some men get drunk twice as fast as
others.
“It will never do to send him home
in this condition,’’ said one of the
four, after a long silence.
“No, it would break his wife’s
heart,” added a second.
“But wo can’t leave him here, and
if wo turn him out the police will
run him in,” observed the third.
“I have been thinking,” mused the’
fourth, “He has a telephone in his
house. Here is one here. I will
make it my painful duty to inform
his waiting and anxious wife that he
won’t be home to-night.’’
He went to the telephone, got her
call, and began:
“Mrs. Blank, I desire to commu
nicate with you regarding your hus
bam ’’
“Well, go ahead.”
“He is down town here.’’
“I know that much.”
“In descending the stairs leading
from the lodge-room he fell and
sprained his ankle*’'
“Are you sure it wasn’t his neck ?’’
she asked.
“It is not a serious sprain, but we
think it better to let him lie on the
sofa in the ante-room until morning
Rest assured that he will have the
best of care. We are doing ev—”
“Say!” broke in a sharp voice.
“You bundle him in'o a wagon and
drive him up here, where I can keep
him hidden until ‘that drunk goes
off! He won’t be sober before to
morrow night!”
“Mj dear mad— ’’
“Get out! If he’s sleepy drunk
put water on his head ! That’s the
way I always do.”
“Will you let me inform you that— ’’
“No, sir, I won’t! Throw water
on his head, get him into some vehi
cle and rattle him up here, for it’s
most midnight now, and it will take
me half an hour to get his boots off
and push him upstairs ! Remember
—pour water on his head and yell
‘fire’ in his ear !”
A u Expensive Household.
His majesty, the emperor of Chi
na, is just now in a serious difficulty.
Young though he is, he has already
to maintain some seventy women on
his establishment in various capaci
ties, and, like every other gentleman
who has ladies under his protection,
the duty devolves upon him of cloth
ing them. This would be a com
paratively easy task were the seventy
fair ones of a reasonable turn of
mind. But, unhappily for the peace
of the brother of the sun and moon,
their extravagance is pronounced to
be beyond all bounds. Two hun
dred and fifty thousand taels, which
is more than one-half of the land
tax of the empire, were expended
last year in silk, satin, gauze, velvet,
red and gilt paper, and pearls. It is
said that one dress which is in pos
session of an empress was covered
last year with seed pearls worked in
so peculiar a fashion as to have cost
a fabulous sum. With respect to
this robe there are great searchings
of the heart. The empress is aged,
though the dress is new. If she
dies, according to custom, it must be .
burned, supposing it to be in her
possession at the time of her demise. 1
She refuses to part with it, and the '
idea of this wastefulness, coupled '
with the prospect of increased ex
travagance in the coming year, trou- ‘
bles the vermilion pencil exceedingly. 1
Contemplating the position of this
illustrious personage, and remem- 1
bering that, as yet, he is too young ;
to be practically married, it is curi
ous to speculate as to what his
position will be when he arrives
at man’s estate, and finds himself
the lord of seventy additional wives.
An Indian Turkish Bath.
If cleanliness is next to godliness, I
the foulness of the Indian is his
greatest sin. A peculiar and disa ;
greeab'e odor pervades everthing •
that belongs to them, although much
of it is due to other causes than per- (
sonal filth. The tanning, drying of i
beef or buffalo, cooking, etc., simul
taneously in progress in and about <
the lodge, produce a variety of un- <
pleasant scents, which permea'e their i
clothing and impregnate the atmos- 1
phere. The unfrequent change of I
the former is also a fruitful source ]
of physical impurity. The Turco-
Russian bath is, however, of very
common application among them. It 1
is their panacea. |
The manner of its preparation is ;
necessarily primitive. Willow* wands j
are sharpened and thrust into the ]
ground, and their smaller ends are ]
interlaced so as to form a bower lit- f
tie more than a yard in height, and |
eight or en in circumference. Over <
this is stretched and secured a piece .
of canvas or skin, under which, after j
several large stones have been ,
brought to a red heat and rolled to
its centre, a dozen or more Arrapa
hoes crowtl and crouch. Water is
slowly poured upon the stones, from ,
which arise hot air and vapor. After
profuse perspiration, the inmates
leap into an adjoining stream or wal
low naked in the snow. This bathing
establishment is called a “Wickeyup,”
and they dot the banks of water
ccurses in all Indian countries.
The emperor of Austria has lately
been the recipient of a unique pres
ent. It consists of a suit of clothes
made from the wool of an alpaca
sheep that eleven hours previous to
their delivery was still alive. The
animal, a superb specimen of its
kind, was slain at 6:11 a. m. Four
hours and thirty-three minutes were
employed in reducing the wool to
cloth. In two hours and twenty-five
minutes the latter was ready for the
tailor, who employed the remaining
four hours in making the suit.
The Gem Puzzle.
Judging from the space devoted
to the subject by our exchangee, the
people of New York, Boston, Phila
delphia and other northern cities
have been for some weeks past per
fectly infatuated with a new game
called “Fifteen Solitaire” or the
“Gem Puzzle.” As the infection is
rapidly spreading over the country
we may expect it to reach us in due
time. A brief description of the
game will be interesting to our read
ers. The “puzzle,” says the Phila
delphia Record, is simple, apparently
idiotically simple, and that is just
what agonizes the slave who gives
himself up to its solution. In its
ordinary form sixteen small blocks—
generally cubes—are made to fit
rather tightly, side by si e, into a
shadow box. These blocks are num
bered on their upper surface from 1
to 16. The 16 block is removed, the
remaining blocks disarranged, and
the “puzzle” consists in then so ma
nipulating them, without jumping,
that they shall finally be placed in
regular order from 1 to 15, coun ing
from left to right. It is the last
three numbers that cause all the
trouble. The most common arrange
ment into which they persist in fall
ing is 13,15, 14, and to most people
it is a hopeless task to attempt to
work the 14 into its proper place
without seriously disarranging the
other blocks. When, by any acci
dent, the blocks do take the correct
order, the chances are about a thou
sand to one that the mover cannot
for the life of him tell how it hap
pened. A home made set is as good
for a headache as any purchased
outfit.
In Bavaria a quaint custom ob
tains, rendering it obligatory upon
every prince of the reigning house
to perform at least one day’s active
duty as private soldier in the royal
army. On the 24th of January,
Priece Alphoneo of Bavaria, first
cousin to the musical King, comple
ted his 18th year and attained his
majority. Greatly to the entertain
meat of the Munich public, which
crowded the Marienplatz to conttm
plate his performance, he celebrated
his birthday by doing duty as sentry
in front of the principal guard house
of the capital. Being an uncommon
ly good-looking youth, he was gazed
at with admiration and epproval,
during his “spell” on guard, by
great numbers of Munich dames and
damsels, who gave utterance to their
feelings by plaudits when he was re
lieved from his post in the usual
manner, and marched off to the bar
racks, rifle on shoulder, with the re
lief party.
Once there was a man—or a myth
—named Milo. It is told of him that
be was wont daily to carry a calf in
his arms. He kept on doing this, we
are informed, until the calf grew to
be an ox. The story stops there, so
far. at least, as the bovine quadruped
is concerned—although something
verj sad is said to have afterwards
happened to Milo. It is not related
that he continu d to tote the ox. The
American people have been stagger
ing for a good many years under the
weight of several very large sized
calves in the shape of sundry “pro
tected” monopolies. Now that they
have gotten to be cows, is it not
about time to drop some of them ?
Cetewayo’s three daughters are
now on exhibition in London, Their
names are Unolala, Unoma Hoza and
Uoczandaba. The London Nezes
says these names are musical. The
dusky maids are described as de
cently attired and possessing a taste
for personal adornment. Although
passing much of their time seated on
a divan they come down from time
to time to welcome their visitors,
shaking hands with friendliness and
addressing to each a Zulu salutation.
Their manners are gentle and pre
possessing, and their demeanor is in
marked contrast with that of the ex
uberantly gay and noisy masculine
members of the troupe.
Eli Perkins thus talks about young
ladies who are trying to catch a
beau: The fact is. men fall in love
with women on account of their
neatness. No gent eman ever loved
a soiled woman. So, young ladies,
wash young greasy hair until it lo iks
as light and fleecy as God made it,
throw away the rouge and powder,
let the skin have the shine and glow
of health, throw away your old soil
ed silks, and dress yourself up in a
sweet white muslin, and then the
beaux will swarm around you as the
bees swarm around the fragrant
honeysuckle.
The Williamsport Banner says:
“Mr. George Rose, better known as
the ice cream man, about a month
ago accidentally ran a large brass
pin through the thumb of his right
hand, and ever since that time he
has suffered terrible pain, so much
so that it has been impossible for him
to sleep. It finally produced conges
tion of the brain, from which he died
yesterday forenoon. For several days
before his death he was entirely de
ranged.”
A carpenter who was always prog
nosticating evil to himself was one
day upon the roof of a five-story
building upon which rain had fallen.
The roof being slippery, he lost his
footing, and as he was descending
towards the eves he exclaimed, “Just
as I told you I” Catching, however,
in an iron spout, he kicked off his
shoes and regained a place of safety,
when he thus delivered himself: “I
know’d it; there’s a pair of shoes
gone.”
Personals a la mode—Wales chews
fine-cut. John Smith sports an eye
glass. The emperor of Russia wears
a liver pad. Princess Beatrice likes
“15.” Beaconsfield sleeps with his
head to the north. President Hayes
cannot bear the sight of cockroaches.
Dr. Mary Walker makes her owni
suspenders. David Davis snores
with his mouth open. Queen Vic
toria likes cheese.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
Wm H Vanderbilt has $31,500,000
worth of United States registered
bonds.
There are strawberry plantations
near Norfolk, Va, that cover five
hundred acres.
The University of Brussels has for
the first time admitted a lady as a
science student.
The Arabs and the Turks do not
hate each other, but they both hate
the Turkish government.
Diamonds will be a drug in the
market before a year if the Scotch
man carries out his plans.
Schuyler Colfax spent three weeks
in figuring out that the top of a wag
on wheel moves the fastest.
The bangs on a lady’s brow are
better than a barometer. In wet
weather they straighten down; in
dry weather (hey frizzle-up.
Ail the leading theatrical mana
gers of New York city have deter
mined to give matinees on St. Pat
rick's Day for the benefit of the Irish
famine fund.
A Kansas boy earned a nice Bible
by committing 300 verses to memo
ry, and then he traded his Bible for
a shot-gun and accidentally shot his
aunt in the leg
A Leadville woman who attempted
to drive a cat from under the bed
with a broom had her face frightful
ly scratched and one eye put out by
the enraged animal.
Mark Summer, a minister, has
been sentenced, in the United States
district com t, to confinement for six
years at the Albany, N Y, prison for
forging pension papers.
Clarinda Moore, a temperance
revival! it of note in lowa, has closed
a bargain with her hu-<b tn cl by w hich,
in consideration of SIO,OOO, she per
mits a formal separation.
An ingenious republican represen
tative at Washington calculates that
at least fifty of his party would be
supplanted in the bouse by democrats
in case of Grant’s nomination.
An Isle of Jersey lady was lately
sent to prison fur a month (in default
of SSO bail) for persistently coughing
and blowing her nose close to the
pulpit in order to worry the parson.
A Mr. Richards delivered a lecture
in Cleveland the other ev ning, enti
tled “Will you be my wife and ev
ery spinster in the audience put her
handkerchief up to her lips and mut
tered, “Oh, Dick I” •
The Kansas City Post and Tribune,
leadii g German organ of the west,
comes out flat-footed against the
nomination of Grant. It will sup
port any democrat in opposition to a
third term candidate.
One of the grounds on which Mr.
Say demands a divorce, at Lafayette,
Ind , is that his wife although well
knowing that the plaintiff was a
Democrat, refused him the privilege
of bringing Democratic papers to
his house.”
The recent trial of the Rev. H. H
Hyden for murder, at New Haven,
Conn., cost the State $30,000, and
even with that there was a hung jury.
It is said the third trial will be
briefer and will not embrace all
sciences and arts.
She had never visited the city,
and ice cream was a revelation to her.
“Sally,” said her cousin, “how do
you like the cream ?’’ “The cream it
self,” said she, “seems to be very
good, but it appears to be a little
tetched with frost/’
Christ will come and themillenium
begin in September, 1881, according
to the calculations of the Rev. Mr.
Rounds, an Adventist of ports
mounth, N. H-, who has devoted sev
en years to figuring out the matter
on a chart 260 feet long.
Quite a discussion Las risen over
the pronunciation of Arkansas. The
State was discovered and settled by
the French, and they pronounced it
Arkansaw. Mr. Calhoun, when sena
tor, pronounced it both ways, to suit
the divergent tastes of the two sena- .
tors from that commonwealth.
Some sanitary reforms are really
being effected in Memphis. All the
rotten wood pavement, which is le
lieved to hold the germs of yellow
fever, is being replaced by stone; a
new system of sewerage will be com
pleted before hot weather, and the
health board possesses greater pow
ers than heretofore,
In a work on the principles of
light and color, the author, Dr. Bab
bitt, contends that if a yellow or am
ber colored bottle of water be ex
posed to the Funlight a while, the
water within will become medicated,
so that it will act as a laxative and
animating principle generally, while
the water exposed in a blue bottle
will act as a nervine, astringent, and
narcotic. The experiment can easily
be tried.
At a spiritual seance in Chicago,
an editor was told that a departed
friend desired to speak to him. The
connection was made, and the friend
proved to be a former country editor
who desired to say a few words. He
said he desired to inform bis old de
linquent subscribers who had prom
ised to bring in wood on subscrip
tion, that they needn’t do it, as the
management where he was furnished
the fuel. He said they might send
ice, however. A olumes could not
say more.
The celebrated botanist, Nicholas
de Nasakine, in an article in the Cor
respondance Scientijique, claims that
the flavor of fruits increases in pro
portion as they recede from the
equator, while it decreases as the
equator is approached. The leaves
and flowers of nearly all northern
plants contain also a larger quantity
of oil than those of southern Europe.
He believes that the phenomenon is
explained by the longer presence of
the sun above the horizon during the
summers of the north.
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Northeastern Railroad.
Change of Sola.eclu.leb.
Superintendent's Office, I
Athens, Oa., Oct. 11,1879. J
On and after Monday, October 6, 1879, trains on
the Northeastern Railroad will run as follows. All
trains daily except Sunday:
Leave Athens 3 50 pm
Arrive at Lula.... 620 ••
Arrive at Atlanta, via Air-Line R. B 10 30 *«
Leave Atlanta, via Air-Line R. R............... 330 *•
Leave I ula 746 “
Arrive at Athens....... ..........10 00 “
Tho above trains also connect closely at Lula with
northern bound trains on A. L. R. B. On Wednes
days and Saturdays the following additional trains
will be run:
Leave Athens. 6 45 a m
Arrive at Lula 845 ••
Leave Lula 920 **
Arrive at Athens 11 3J «•
This train connects closely at Lula for Atlanta,
making the trip to Atlanta only four hours and
forty-five minutes. J. M. EDWABDS, Supt.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On and after December 20th double daily trains
will run on this road as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta.. 400 am
Arrive Charlotte 3 20 p m
“ Air-Line Junction.. 330 ••
•’ Danville 951 “
“ Lynchburg 12 37 ni’t
“ Washington 750 am
Baltimore 930 *•
•• Philadelphia 130 and 145 pm
•• New York 345 and 445 “
*• Wilmington, N. C. (nrxt day) 950 a m
•• Richmond 748 ••
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta.... .. 3 30pm
Arrive Charlotte • • 3 20am
•« Air-Line Junction 330 “
« Danville 10 22 “
•• Lynchburg 153 pm
•• Richmond. **3 ••
“ Wa hington 955 ••
Baltimore It 55 “
Philadelphia 3 35am
•• New York 6*5 ••
GOING EAST,
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville 5:50 p m
Leave " 5:51 “
Day Passenger train
Arrive ** -
Local Freight and Accommodation train.
Arrive Gainesville 11:10 am
Leave •• 11=25 "
GOING WEST.
Night Mail and Passenger train.
Arrive Gainesville m
Leave “ 9:21
Day Pass auger train.
Arrive “ —— B;lsptn
Leave “ 3=16"
Local Freight aud Accommodation uaiu.
Arrive Gainesville....... 1:45 a m
Leave •* ... 2:00 ••
Close connection at Atlanta for all points Wost,
and at Charlotte for all potnvs East.
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