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. . i _ ' ; (nsTMirisuEn rx the yem: iir,!. O. FFE-^lEcjD,'. PROPRIETOR. j VOL. XVIII. A Finnish mateorologist. PfeL Lemstrom, announces that he has made a remarkable experiment, in which he placed on the apex of a hill a galvanic battery with con ductors covering an area of about 10,000 square feet. The cone be came surrounded by a halo which faintly but perfectly yielded the spectrum of the aurora, end the experimenter regards this result, with some subsequent ones, as di rect proof of the electrical nature of the mysterious light which so often dances in northern skies. Mons. Sanson has investigated the excitant property of oats, and finds it to be due to a nitrogenized substance which he names “avon ine.” This principle exists, in varying proportion, in all oats, but, as a rule, it is contained in greater quantity by the dark-col ored than by the white varieties. Crushing or grinding tho grain weakens considerably its excitant action upon horses, probably by altering the exciting substance. No excitant action is suro to be produced by oats containing less than nine-tenths of one per cent of avenine, but with a greater propor tion of the latter tbs effect is cer -l# n. A prize of SISOO has been offer by the Prussian Society for Encour agement of Industry for the best account and estimation of the meth ods of working coal mines, includ ing modes of ventilation and pre cautions to ensure the safety ol miners. European observations seem to indicate that the condition of the foil and the atmosphere has much to do with the development of can cer, the disease being extremely prevalent in dry uplands. It is reported that the Italian explorin'® party lately returned from the South Pacific found many human bones of great size in Pat agonia, indicating the former exis tence of a race ol giants in that country. From a report given by Dr. D. E. Salmon, of the Department of Agriculture, in reply to enquiries fxm abroad, it appears that char ■ ~p. lever is not known to he verv , - tractive t<> the domestic animals oi tbo United States, its ravages being most severe in the lower Mississippi valley, where it causes heavy losses of stock nt times, es pecially after great inundations. Dr. Salmon dees not believe that the introduction of Pasteur’s meth od of protective vaccination could ho made a success as a business venture. Experience in Europe has shown that the susceptibility of animals to the virus varies great ly in different countries, and before the plan of vaccination can be adopted here expensive experiments must he made to determine the proper strength of vaccine for American animals. A govern ment laboratory forthe preparation and froe distribution of vaccines of charbon and other contagious diseases of animals would, it is suggested, he desirable. Esquimaux are said to he able to see objects at a much greater distance than Americans or Europ eans, and this remarkable keenness of vision enables them to spread intelligence by means of sign tele graphy over hundreds of miles in a single day. According to Mr. J. K. Laugh ton, of the London Meteorological, Society, measurements now made of the forco and velocity of the wind are very unsatisfactory on account ©f the lack of a standard anemometer. By welding together iron and steel Mons. Kiel has obtained a product which is stated to possess the characters of both metal*. This so-called steel-iriuu has prepared in five w.ivs, viz: steel /by the side of iron, steel between two layers of iron, iron between two layers of ateel, a core of steel sur rounded by iron, and a core of iron surrounded by ateel. Messrs. Tissandier have con structed an electro magnetic en gine, an aerial screw propeller and a bichromate battery which they propose to use for directing a large elongated balloon. By a trial of this apparatus in their work-shop at Point du Tour, France, the con structors havo shows that it will yield the work of twelve to fifteen men for a period of three hours, "hile its weight does not exceed that of three men. The Messrs. Tissandier propose to use their bal loon for rational experiments in the air, and they do not expect to pro pel it against strong winds. At a point between forty-threo and fifiy fathoms beneath the sur face of the sea, Seccbi, Pourtales and Bouguer have found that all traces of light cease, the most deli cate chemical tests remaining un affected when sunk lower in the water. Prof. T. Fuchs finds in ibis limit of light-penetration a division line which separates all oceanic life into two great classes, one of which seeks the light, while the other remains in a region of total darkness. The fauna of light inhabits tho shallow water near coasts, and is not abundant at a greater depth than thirty fathoms; while tho species of darkness live in the deep sea, and are never found much nearer the surface than forty fathems during daylight, although some of them rise to tho surface at nigh;. ——— A Street tar Incident. J Not long ago ao incident took place in one of the Sixth avenue cars in New York, which is worth mentioning. The car contained a dozen passen gers, all of whom were men, with the exception of one, who was a boy. Im mediately opposite the boy, who occu pied one corner, sat a man whose coun tenance was a compendium of tualigni <y He looked as though all the worm wood of existence had flowed ttirmijjli a tunnel into the crick- and crannii of his faoe Suddenly, the boy, whose Dovoieu to ine Cause of I noli and Justice, and Hie Interests of l!ie People, GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1883. face was a bright contrast to that of his opposite neighbor, began whistling ‘ Shoo, fly. 1 ’ It has been said that the first Napo leon foamed at tho mouth at the sound ,of church bells in the country. Pre 'monitory symptoms of such a crisis came over thq man I have been de scribing as the first notes of this pnpu lar classic. “Shut up !" he screamed. ‘‘Wbat do you mean? Shut up !” This was said in tone of indescri bable malignity, and loud enough to Tie heard by all the passengers. The poor boy, completely abashed, ‘6hut up.” But one of the nearest passengers, seeing how matters stood, fixed his eyes upon the man, and with a firm, even flow of the breath, com menced whistling the obnoxious air. The joke seemed to spread. One after another the passengers, fixing their eyes on the wretched ehnr!,join.ed in the melody, until, when the refrain. ‘ Shoo, fly, don't bodder me," came in, the boy who bad been rebuked ventur ed to lift up bis voice aDd whistle to his heart’s content. *■ And the car went rattling along the avenue, the atmosphere around it ring ing with whistles of nearly a dozen manly mouths, To describe the rage and bewilder ment that succeeded each other over the countenance of the victim would be a difficult task. At length, unable to bear it any longer, he jumped up, took the number of the eonductor, and, swearing he would have him discharged for allowing his car to be filled with pub lic nuisances, plunged off while the ve hicle was in full motion.—[Ex. iv onwniKK v vix s LATEST, f . Mark Twain responded to the toast on “ Woman God BlessIIer!” at the Forefathers’ day celebration of the New Eogland Society of New Ycrk, recently, as follows : The toast includes tho sex uni versally. It is to woman, compre hensively, wheresoever she may be found. Let us consider her ways. First comes the matter of dress. This is a most important consider* ation, in a subject of this nature, and must be disposed of before we can intelligently proceed to exam ine the profounder depth of the theme. For text, let ua take tho dress of two antipodal types the savage and the cultivated daughter of our high modern civilization. Among the Fans, a great negro tribe, a woman, when dressed for home, or to go to market, or to go out calling, does not wear anything stall but just her complexion.— That is all. That is her entire outfit. It is the legitimate outfit of tho world, hut it is mad 6 of the darkest material. It has ofteD been taken for mourning It is tho trimmest and neatest and graco fulest costume that was ever in fashion; it wears well; it doesn' show dirt. You don’t have to send it down town to wash, and have some of it come hack scorch ed with the flatiron, and some of it with the buttons ironed off, and some of it petrified with starch, and some of it chewed by the ca’lf. and some of it rotted with aoide, and some of it changed for other customers’ things that haven't any viituo but holiness, and ten-twelf! s of the pieces overcharged for, and the rest of the dozen mislaid. And it always fits ; it is th: perfec tion of a fit. And it is the hand iest dress in the whole realm of fashion. It is always done up. When you call on a Fan lady and send up your card, the hired girl never says, ‘'Please take a Boat; madam is dressing; she will be down in three-quarters ofan hour.” No ; mad.nne is always dressed, al ways ready to receive, and before you can get the door-mat before your eves, she is in your midst Tnen again, he Fan li lies dori I g. to church t'> sea ah i to- nth have on, and they don't go I home and describe and slander'it. such i9 tho dirk child of niv ! agery as to every-day toilet; # nnd thus, curiously, curiously enough, she finds a point of contact with tho fair daughter of civilization ami high fashion, who often has “noth ing to wear;” and thus these wide ly separated types of tho sex meet upon common ground. Yes, such is the Fan woman as she appears in her simple, unostentatious every day toilet. But on state occasion* she is more dressy. At a banquet she wears bracelets ; at a lecture sho wears ear rings and a belt; at a hall she wears stockings, and with a truo feminine fondness for display, she wears them on her ar ns. At a funeral she wears a jacket of tar and ashes ;at a ved-, ding, the bride who can afford it puts on pantaloons. There the dark child of savagery and the fair daughter of civilization meet once more upon common ground ; and these two touches of nature make the whole world kin. Now we will the dress of our other type. A largo part of the daughter of sivil'zation is her dress, as it should he. Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress, and some would lose all ef it. The daughter of modern civilization, dressed at bor utmost best, is a marvel of exquisite and beautiful art and expense. AW the lands, all the climes and all the'arts are laid under tribute to furnish her forth.- Her liben if Belfast; her robe is from Tarin; her face is from Venice or Spain or France; her feathers are from the remote regions of Southern Africa; her furs are from the remoter home of tho iceberg and the aurora; her fan from Japan; her diamonds from Brazil; her bracelets from Cali* fornia; her pearls from Ceylon; her cameos from Rome. She lias gems {[and trinkets from buried Pompeii, and others that graced comely Egyptian forms, that have been dust and ashes now for forty centuries; her watch is from Ge neva ; hqr card case is from China; her hair from, from, from I don’t \ know where her hair is from—l never could find out. That is her other hair—her public hair—her Sunday hair. I don’t mean the hair she goes to bed with. Why. you ought to know the hair I mean; it’s that thing which she calls a switch, and which resembles a switch as much as it resembles a ! brick-bat or a shot gun, or any; other thing which you correct peo ple with. It’s that thing which she twists and then coils round and round her head bee-bive fashion, and then tucks the end in under the hive, and harpoons it with a hair pin. An'l that reminds me of a trifle. Any time you want to, you glance around the carpet of a Pullman car and go and pick up a hair pin ; hut, not to save your life, can you get any woman in that car to acknowledge that hair pin. Now. isn’t that strange? But it’s true. The woman who has never swerved from cast-iron ver acity and fidelity in all her life will, when confronted with this crucial test, deny her hair-pin. She will deny that hair pin before a hundred witnesses I have stu pidly got into more trouble and more hot water trying to hunt up the owner of a hair pin in a Pull man car than by any other indis cretion of my life. Well, vou see what the daughter of civilization i9 when she is dress ed, and you havo seen what the daughter of savagery is when she isn t. Such i3 woman—as fto cos tume 1 came. now. to consider her in her higher and nobler as pects—as mother, wife, widow, grass widow, mother-iu-law, hired girl, telephone holloer, queen, book agent, wet-nurse, stepmother hoes, professional fat woman, pro fessional beauty, and so forth, and so on. We will simply discuss these few let tho rest of the sex tarry in Jericho till we come again. First on the list, and first in our gratitude, comes a woman who who—[looking at his watch ] Dear me, I am opposed to this ten min ute rule, which supposes all men have equal powers and infirmities. It takes rue as long to get out fifiy words as it does some of these glib fellows to say five hundred ; and when I’ve done I haven’t said any thing, and they haven’t either But you see, I have had time to introduce my subject. I took a large contract, and if I had had un til next Forefathers’ Day, I am satisfied that 1 could discuss it as adequately and as appreciatively as so gracious and noble a theme deserves. But as the matter stands now, let us finish as we began, and say without jesting but wifh all sincerity; “Woman God bless her.” IT WAS COM*. Some years ago, my father occupied an office in New York, while an old gentleman had on#; in the rear. I say, gentleman, for he was one, after tHe “old school’'—with a ruffled-shirt- bosom-style. He was a man of culture, but rheu matism had bent his tall figure —leftj the strung lines of distress on his taoc j i and urads him slow of step and iuor ; ment These, added to a natural bcei-j talion of speech, para him an appear-j acce of extreme old ago. We called him “old orook.” Perhaps the old man’s penuriousn<*s made us likely to extend to him that courteous, kirjd treatment which age or illness should always receive; but eve ry one who knew “old crook respected his scrupulous integrity and his brains. In the winter months (hs old gentle man had a habit of- letting hi* fire go out early io the afternoon and then coming into our office would sit by the lire till it was time to “close up.” We were pretty well satisfied that he knew we kept a better fire than lie did, and the two hours a day of coal saved that was an item! But never would he take a seat by our fire without first pr litsly asking leave to do so; to which he always received my father’s cheery response: “Certainly, Mr. Crook; you are ever welcome,’’ Hut —I had an uncle! and lie had evidently been aontemplating an attack on the old man. His sallies were al ways keen and sharp, and we scarcely knew of one failing to stay where he put it, but, alas! this lime. Well, I will tell how it happened. One very cold after noon, the old gentleman came in a* usual, and after his eustomiry request, drew a chair to the stove. Tho cold had stiffened him more than ever and it was some time before he got himself fixed, but finally seated, he remarked. “This is a bitin; cold day, and this fire feels good. Indeed, uiy hands and feel are very cold.” The lime had come! That uncle of mine turned at his desk and with a guttural voice said: “Mr. Crook, it is an alarming symp tom, when one’s extremities grow cold!’ The old man slowly bent forward and spat in the grate. Every ear was strsined to hear what he would soy In a few moments, slowly, but in gen tle tones, came the following: “Yes, John! but still more alarm ing when oua s heart grows cold Again the old man bent forward tod spat, but, oh! bow still we all were. [Ex- Oyil. A. DAVIS £ tie- have both I.nn dreth’s and Buist’s Seed; also Onion Sets white and red; and Eastern seed Potatoes as follows—Early Hose extra early Ver mont: Snowflake. Kin; of Earlies; Bur band’s Seedling, Beauty of Hebron Huv Golden Dent and Mammoth Dent Corn ot C. A. Davis & Cos. G7?“Adjustab!e Stove Backs to fit any i Stove, just received, by C. -1. Davis & Cos. jJ.'J” - Finest English Pea Seed for ! salo by G. A. Davis & Cos, Gup Railroad Coipany, Office General Manager, Augusta, Go., DECEMBER tGlli, Commencing Sunday DECEMBER 17.1.1882, Passenger Trains will run a, follow,* v FAST Ao. 7, W cat -luily. Leave Augusta, * . . 7:25 a. m. Arrive Athens, . . 11:50 a. m. Leave Greenesboro’ . 10:02 a. m. Arrive :tt Atlanta* . . 12:55 p. m. -No. I, West- Hally. Leave Augusta 10;d0 a. m. Leave Macon 7,05 a. m. Leave Milledgeville 9.-10 a. in. Leave Carnak 12:20 a m. Leave Washington 11:20 a. m. Leave Athens 9:05 a. m. Arrive at Grcenesboro’ 2;lti p. in. Arrive at Atlanta 6:55 p. m No. IS, W est -Daily Leave Augusta 9.00 p m Arrive Greenesboro’ 1:14 a in Leave Macon, 7;10 p m Leave Milledgeville 9-15 p m Lave Athens fi : 00 p m Arrive Atlauta (5:40 am B®“?uperb Sleepers to Augusta and Atlanta. Train No,. 37 will stop at and receive passengers to and from the following Sfa tions, only, Belair, Berzel.a, Harlem, Dealing, Thomson, G’amak, Crawfordville Union 1 oint, Qie*n*#boro', Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle, Covington, Conyers! JStone Mountain and Decatur. v Train No. will stop at, and receive passengers to and from tb* following Stations, only—lierzelia. Harlem, Hearing, Thomson, Cimak, Crawfordville, Unfcn l oint, Greenesboro , Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle. Covington, Conyers, Stone Mountain and Decatur. J The Fast Line has Through Sleepers from Atlanta to Charleston, and connects for all points W est and Northwest, East and Southeast. ES Ft. DOFtSBY, General Passenger Agent. J. W. Green, General Manager. CITY DRUG STORE. i -GO jjr AQW k cep if. Lm tgv mid t 6f * Chemically Pure DRUGS and . NEW GOODS . WJ M eO i ci ms. Arriving every week. PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, COLORS, BRUSHES, etc. AH Sizes WINDOW GLASS. LAMP GOODS, CHIMNEYS, etc. Buist’s Garden Seeds. ONION SETS, POTATOES, etc., Crop of 1882, warranted fresh and Genuine. 80 ri-nt* papers sold at 5 CAlilv strictly. The best Seed for this climate. Fane Cigars & Chewing Tobacco Toilet Snaps, Perfumery, Pomades, -Tooth-brushes, and Druggist’s sundries, ftfegf Physicians’ prescriptions careful compounded and dispensed. John A. Griffin. Greenesboro’, Ga., January 29,1880. MM, WELL Mi DEALERS IN Paper, Paper Sexes, Books And Stationery, Offico and Salesroom No. 29, Whitehall -Street, ATLANTA, - - - GA. PLAIN WRITING PAPER. j FANoY do do BLANK BOOKS. INKS. MUCILAGE, PENS, PENCILS, etc., etc. SCHOOL and Miscellaneous Books of every description. October 14, 1880— Central Hotel. Mrs W M THOMAS, PROPRIETRESS. Centrally located near Confederate Monument, Itr>a<l Street; AUGUSTA* (la. Comforts’ Rooms. Excellent Fare. Courteous Clerks and attentive Servants JJEIJ T. LEW 18, ( EDITOR. ~L> ITSTK- Leave Atlanta, . . 2:50 P . m. Arrive at Athens . . 8:00 p. nt. Arrive at Gieeneshoro’ . 6:37 p, m. Arrive at Augusta . . ,8:20 p. m. Vo a. IvuM - Itaify . Leave Atlanta 8 : 20 s . nr. Leave Greenesboro’ 12;03 pm Arrive Athens 5:00 p m Arrive Washington 2:65 p m Arrive Camak 1 .-57 pm Arrive Milledgeville 4:49 p m Arrive Macon 6:45 p m Arrive Augusta * 3.55 p m *V’. 4, East—llitlly. Leave Atlanta 8:45 p m Arrive Greenesboro’ l;4oam Leave “ 1:47 am Leave Union Point, 2:13 a m Leave Thomson, 4:23 a ru Arrive Augusta 6:20 am WRAPPING PAPER. PAPER BAGS of all sizes and weight at IS ofiomjif/ures Orta Silicii. NO. 10