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THE JEFFRESON NEWS & FARMER, Vol. 1. THE Jefferson News & Parmer, B Y HARRISON & ROBERTS*. A LIVE FIRST CLASS "Weekly IST ewspaper FOR THE ‘ Farm, Garden, and Fireside 3?nblish.ecL Every Friday Morning AT LOUISVILLE, GA TERMS s2§o PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 year. 6 months. 3 months. 4 weeks. i 1 week. | SQUARES I ' , SLUU $3.26 $7.00 $12.00 $30.00 a 1.75 6.00 12.00 18.00 30.00 3 2.00 7.00 10.00 28 00 40.00 4 3.50 9.00 25.00 36.00 60.00 5 ! 4.00 12.00 28.00 40.00 60.00 Icoll 6.00 15.00 34.00 50.00 75.00 icoli 10.00 25.00 60.00 80.00 120.00 1 col | 20.00 60.00 80.00 120.00 160.00 leual advertising. Ordinary's. —Citations tor letters ot ad ninistration, guardianship, &c. $ 3 00 Homestead notice —• 2 00 Applicationtor dism’n from adin n.. 000 Applicatioufor dism’u ofguard’n '3 50 Application for leave to scllLand—.. 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors..— 300 Sales of Land, per square of ten lines 500 Salo of personal per sq., ten days.... 150 Sheriff's — Each levy often lines 2 50 Mortgage sales of ten lines or less.. 500 Tax Collector’s sales, (2 months 5 00 Clerk's-- Foreclosure of mortgage and other monthly’s, per square 1 00 Estray notices,thirty days 3 00 Sales of Land, by Administrators, Execu tors or Guardians, are required, by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court housointho county in which the property s situated. Notice of these sales must be published 40 days previous to the day of salo; Notice for the sale of personal property must Dc published 10 days previous to sale day. Notice to debtors and creditors, 40 day Notice that application will be made of the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land, 4 weeks. Oitations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, &c,, must be published. 30 lays—for dismission from Administration, nonthly six months, for dismission from guar lianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure es Mortgages must be published monthly for four months —for Sjtablishing lost papers, for the full space oj three months— for compelling titles from Ex •cutorsor Administrators, where bond has teen given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Application for Homestead to be published twice in the space of ten consecutive days. LOUISVILLE CARDS. j G. CAIN J. H. FOLHILL. CAIN a POLHILL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW LOUISVILLE, GA. May 5,1871. 1 ly- T. F. HARLOW Watcli MaKer —AND— IH. EPAIRE H., Louisville, Oa. Special ATTENTION GIVEN to reno vating and repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SEWING MACHINES &c., &c. Also Agent lor the best Sewing Machine that is made fy 5,1871. 1 lyr: DR. I. It. POWELL^ r LOUISVILLE, GA. Thankful for the patronage enjoyed heretofore, takes this method of con tinuing the offer of his professional services to patrons and friends. May 5, 1871. . 1 W. H. FAY, i LOUISVILLE, OA. S A D X> Xj E —AND— Harness Ivlaider. ALSO , BOOTS cfc SHOES ade to order All work warranted and sat isfaction guaranted both as to work and pn ce Give me a call. May 5,1871. I fim - MEEIOAIi. Dr. j. R. SMITH late of SandersvilleGa., offers his Professional services to the citizens of Louisville, and Jefferson county. An experience of nearly forty years in the profession, should entitle him to Public Con fidence. Special attention paid te Obstetrics and the diseases of women and children. <}f' geo at Mrs. Doctor Millers. Louisville June 20,1871. 8 ts. Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Friday, September 22, 1871. flfedlaraus. Women and Wine. Woman has never been associat ed with wine without disgrace and disaster. The toast and the bac chanal that, with musical allitera tion, couple these two words, spring from the hot lips of sensuality and are burdened with shame. A man who can sing of wine and women in the same breath, is one whose presence is disgrace, and whose touch is pol lution. A man who can forget moth er and sister, or wife and daughter, and wantonly engage in a revel in which the name of woman is invoked to heighten the pleasures of the in toxicating cup, is, beyond controver sy and without mitigation, a beast. “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?’' Aye, cakes and ale, if you will, but let it.be cakes and ale. Let not the name by whicli we call the pure and precious ones at home be brought in to illuminate a degrading feast. Os the worst foes that woman has ever had to encounter, wine stands at the head. The appetite for strong drink in man lias spoiled the lives ot more women—ruined more hopes for them, scattered more fortunes for them, brought to them more shame, sorrow, and hardship—llian any other evil that lives. The coun try numbers tens of thousands—nay hundreds of thousands —of women who are widows to-day, and sit in hopeless weeds because their hus bands have been slain by strong drink. There are hundreds of thou sands of homes,scattered all over the land, in which women live lives of torture, through all the changes of suffering that lie between the ex tremes of .tear and despair, because those whom they love, love wine bel ter than they do the women they have sworn to love. There are wo men by thousands who dread to hear at the door, the step that once thrilled them with pleasure, because that step has learned to reel under the influence of the seductive poison. There are women groaning with pain, while we write these words, from bruises and brutalities inflicted by husbands made mad by drink. There can be no exageration in any statement made in regard to this matter, because no human imagina tion can create anything worse than the truth, and no pen is capable ot portraying the truth. The sorrows and the horrows of a wife with a drunken husband, or a mother with a drunken son, are as near the re alization of hell as can be reached in this woild, at least. The shame, the indignation, the sorrow, the sense of disgrace for herself and her children, the poverty — and not unfrequently the beggary —the fear and the fact of violence, the lingering, life-long struggle and despair of countless women with drunken husbands, are enough to make all women curse wine, anil en gage unitedly to oppose it every where as the worst enemy of their sex. Women, there are some things that you can do, and this is one : you can make drinking unpopular and disgraceful among the young. You can utterly discountenance all drinking in your own house, and you can hold in suspicion every young man who touches the cup. You know that no young man who drinks can safely be trusted with the hap piness of any woman and that he i-s as unfilas a man can be for woman’s society. Have this understood that every young man who drinks is socially proscribed. Bring up your children to regard drinking as not only dangerous, but disgraceful.— Place temptation in no man’s way. If men will make beasts of them selves,-let them do it in other socie ty than yours. If your mercenary husbands treat their customers from private stores kept in their counting rooms, shame them into decency by your regard for the honor of ymur home. Recognize the living, terri ble fact that wine has always been, and is to-day, the curse of your sex ; that it steals the hearts of men away from you, that it dries up your pros perity, that it endangers your safe ty, that it can only bring you evil. If social custom compels you to present wine at your (easts, rebel against it, and make asocial custom in the interests of virtue and purity. The matter is very much in your own hands. The women of the country, in what is called polite so ciety, can do more to make the na tion temperate than all the legisla tors and tumultuous reformers that are struggling and blundering in their efforts to this end. Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness nor the moon of her efful gence. Death as a Mirror. One of the most singular facts of our existence is the intensity and rapidity with which incidents in our past life are presented to us when death comes to us in a sudden or violent form, especially in cases of drowning. An accident occurred some time since on the Hudson riv er, by which a number of persons were precipitated and nearly drown ed. Among the number was the editor of a Philadelphia paper, who describes his situation while under water and in a drowning condition to have been pleasant, but peculiar, it seeming to him that every event in his past life crowded upon his mind at once. He was sensible of what was occurring, and expected to drown ; but seemed only to re gret that such an interesting “item” as his sensations should be lost.— This is an exceedingly apt illustra tion of the maxim that “the ruling passion is strong in death.” A still more singular story is told of a person who held a promissory note of another’s which had run for several years ; but, which on matu rity, he found he had put away so carefully that he could not find it. He therefoie called on the one who had given the note, staling that he hail lost it, and proposed to give him a receipt as an offset lo the note if it should ever be found. To his suprise, the person owing the mon ey not only declined to do this, but positively denied ever having given such a note, saying he owed him nothing. Without legal proof he was, of course, obliged not only to lose the money, but also endure the suspicion of trying to obtain money under false pretences. Several years passed away without the note being lound, when the person who owned the note, while bathing in the Thames one day was seized with cramp, and rescued by companions just as he had become unconscious, ani| sunk for the last time. The usual remedies were resorted to, to resuscitate him ; and, though there were signs of life, there was no ap pearance of consciousness. He was taken home in a slate ol complete exhaustion, and remained so for some days. On the first return of sufficient strength to walk, he went to his book-case, reached down a book, opened it, and banded the long lost note to a friend who was present, staling to him, that while drowning, and sinking, as he sup posed never to rise again, there in stantly stood out before his mind, in a moment, seemingly as though a picture, every act and event of his life, from the hour of his childhood to the'hour of his sinking in the wa ter ; and among his acts, the cir cumstance of his putting the note in a book, the name of the book, and the very spot it stood in the book case. Os course he recovered the money, with interest. What the Microscope Shows Us. Lewenboeck tells of an insect seen with the microscope, of which twenty-seven millions would only equal a mite. Insects of various kinds may be seen in the cavities of a grain of sand. Mold is a lorestof beautiful trees, with the branches, leaves and fruit. Butterflies are fully feathered. Hairs are hollow tubes. The surface of our bodies is cov ered with scales like fish ; a single grain of sand would cover a hun dred and fifty of these scales, and yet a scale covers five hundred pores. Through these narrow openings the sweat forces itself like water through a seive. The mites make one hundred steps a minute. Each drop of stagnate w’ater con tains a world of animate beings, swimming with as much liberty as whales in the sea. Each leaf lias a colony or insects grazing on it, like cows on the mea dow. Moral. —Have some care as to the air you breath, the food you eat and the walcryou drink.— Home Health. What inextricable confusion, re marks Horn, must the world forev er have been in but for the variety which we find to obtain in faces, the voices and handwriting of men ! No security of person, no certainty of possession, no justice between man and man, no distinction between good and bad, friends and foes, fath er and child, husband and wife, male and female. All would have been exposed to malice, fraud, forgery, and lust. But now every man’s face can distinguish him in the light, his voice in the dark, and his hand writing can speak for him though absent, and be his witness to all gen erations. Did this happen by chance, or is it not a manifest as well as an admirable indication of a Divine superintendence ?— Noble thoughts in Noble Language. A lady once being asked what she thought a good remedy for bee stings said, that she hud never found any thing belter than to keep away from the bees ! This remedy, however, is not always attainable by those whose work calls them into garden and field, or by those whose greatest pleasure is found out-of-doors among fruit and flowers. The bees have a love for sweet things that leads them into our most charming nooks anil corners in the country. Some of them are polite and will not sting unless handled roughly ; but it is well to know plenty ot remedies, as if you are. wounded and have to spend some lime in hunting for an antidote, the afflicted part will be swollen anil less easily cured.— Hartshorn is recommended, also kerosene oil, moist earth or clay, honey, soap, vinegar, bruised onions, salt ami water, saleratus and water. Any ol these remedies which may be at hand should be immediately applied. The very latest coined words we commend to the attention of all pub lishers of new editions of dictiona ries. These words are “carhomi cidomatiie” and “splitlaferriboatas sassinsanity.” We trust we have not infringed the copy right or pat ent-light of the coiner by this men tion ot them. An exchange publishes a circular for the benefit of young men desirous lo prepare themselves for life. The substance of it all is, that “Pi oneer Hall” will be the name ol a collegiate institution for the training of young men in some branches of knowledge, which will be necessary, now that women, disinthralled from her fetters, shall take her place in the great arena of public affairs. Os course husbands, brothers, and sons must lake their places in the home circle ; and they arc sadly unfitted for this service by education and ex perience. The proposed institute will lie under the directios of a Vir ginia matron and an efficient corps of teachers. Cooking in the most ar tistic style, sweeping and scrubbing, washing and ironing of linen, as well as the washing of plates and dishes, will be taught with the utmost pre cision. Diplomas will be given to all young men who complete the pre scribed course, Students must be provided with two brown linen aprons ami six cup-towels. Admail charge will be made for other ne cessary implements. The recent fall of a twelve-pound meteoric stone at Searsport, Mass., was preceded by an explosion, like the report of a heavy gun, followed by a rushing sound, like the escape of steam from a boiler. The sound seemed to come from the south, and to move northwardly. The stone dropped with such force that it sank two feet into the ground, but was seen to fall, and was quickly dug out. It was quite hot and broken, however, and could only be removed in pieces. Its color was gray, ex cept the outside, which was black, and showed plainly the effect of melting heat. The Eric Canal. —The width of the Erin Canal is seventy feet, the least depth of water seven feet, and the length of the locks one hundred feet. The average dimensions of the boats are—length, about 9G feet; breadth, 17 feet 3 inches; depth of hold, 9 feet; their custom-house measurement averages 120 tons, but they carry an average of about 230 tons; their average draught is, when light, two feet; and, when loaded to full capacity, six feet ; leaving, in the latter case, one loot of depth be low them where the water is shal lowest. Don’t fail to remember that self interest is more likely to warp your judgment than all other circumstan ces combined ; therefore look well to your duty when interest is concern ed. Children, as they grow to be men and women, should strive ever to keep their child-heart; that is, a heart cheerful, hopeful, confiding. This will keep them young in spirit while they grow old in years. A well-known English lotd is said to have given the following instruc tions to his steward : “We are com ing down, a large party, in a day or two, to eat strawberries and cream. We shall want plenty of the latter, so don’t let any of the cows be milk ed meanwhile.” A lady living in Lyndon, Vt., who lost her husband in the late war, had an offer ot marriage from a man who lost his wife by divorce. She answered: “The Lord parted me and my husband, but your own dev lish actions parted you and your wife; and if you want another one you must go to the devil for her, for I won’t have you.” Health, and Happiness. The two things which conduce most lo health anil happiness, are labor and abstinence. Spartan se verities are not recommended, for they would not. be conducive either to health or happiness ; but that de gree of labor whiclv is not oppress ive, and that quantity of food which suffices lo support nature without loading the stomach. But labor and abstinence are two things which mankind take most pains to avoid. Yet what can exercise a more heal thy influence, both upon the mind and body, than these? And not on ly should a man be temperate in food, but moderate in all things. Modera tion of disposition teaches us to re strain all the evil workings of the mind—lo repress jealousies, envy, anger, malice, hatred, revenge, and all those baneful passions which have ruined the health and peace of thousands. It directs us, too, to cul tivate all the benevolent feelings of our nature, lo moderate our desires, and, above all, to ilt> unto others as we would they should do unto us. By this means we shall ensure peace and tranquility, which are absolute ly requisite to the full enjoyment of all the faculties of the mind, and that through performance of all the animal functions of the body without any impediment, pain, or molesta tion. The mind thus disengaged from tumultuous passions, and the body free from disorders, render ex istence a happiness to us, and life an object to desire, while the loss ol these blessings implies the loss ol everything pleasant and delectable. “To enjoy good health,” says St. Evremond, a celebrated French phi losopher, “is better than to command the whole world. Health is the foun tain of every blessing; for without this, we could not telish the most exquisite pleasures, or enjoy the most desirable objects.” Without health we can neither be happy in ourselves, nor useful—alleast in any considerable degree—to pur irieuils or to society. Much, undoubtedly, depends on original vigor of consti tution; but, by a judicious attention to various particulars, health may, in many cases, be preserved, where it would otherwise be lost. OPEN WINDOWS AT NIGHT. Very much lias been written on this subject, and written unwisely ; the facts are that whosoever sleeps uncomfortably cool will get sick. Tp hoist a window sky-high when the mercury is at zero is an absurd ity- The colder a sleeping apartment is, the more unhealthy does it be come, because cold condenses the carbonic acid formed by the breath ing of the sleeper. It settles neat the floor and is rebreathed, and il in a very condensed form, he will die before the morning. Hence he must be governed by circumstances; the first thing is, you must be com fortably warm during sleep—other wise you are not refreshed, and infla malion of the lungs may be engen dered, and life destroyed within a few days. An open door and an open fire place are sufficient for ordinary pur poses in very cold weather. When outer windows are opened, il is well to have them down at the top two or three inches, and up at the bot tom lor the same space. In miasmatic localities—and these are along water-cornses, beside mill ponds, marshes, bayous, river bot toms, fiat lands, and the like—it is most impoitant, from the first of Au gust until several severe frosts have been noticed, lo sleep with all exter nal doors and windows closed, be cause the cool air of sunset causes the condensation of the poisonous emanations which were caused by the heat of the noonday sun to rise far above the earth ; this condensa tion makes the air “heavy” at sun- down, made heavy by the greater solidification of the emanations by cold ; and resting on the surlace of the earlh in their more concentrated and malignant form, they are breath ed into the lungs and swallowed in to the stomach, corrupting and poi soning the blood with great rapidity. By daylight, these condensations are made so compact by the pro tracted coolness of the night, that they are too near the surface of the earth to be breathed into the system ; but, as the sun begins to ascend, these heavy condensations, miasm, begins lo rise again to the height of several feet above the ground, and are freely taken into the system by every breath and swallowed ; hence the hours of sunrise and sunset are the most unhealthful of all the hours of the twenty-four in the localities named ; and noontide, when the sun is hottest, i3 the most healthful por tion of the day, because the miasm is so much rarefied that it ascends rapidly to the upper regions. The general lessons are : Ist. Avoid exposure to the ont-door air in miasmatic localities for the hours nclucJing sunrise and sunset. 2d. Have a blazing fire on the hearth of the family room at those hours, to rarefy and send the miasm upwards. 3d. Take breakfast before going out of doors in the morning, and lake tea before sundown ; then being out after night is not injurious.— Hall's .Journal. Circulation of the Blood. It is known that our food nourish es us by being changed into blood. A healthy man has in his system a bout three gallons of blood. This is all contained in the heart, arteries, and veins, and their minute branch es. So numerous are these, so thick ly set in our flesh, that we cannot stick the point of a fine needle thro’ the skin without piercimj some of them. In all these organs—the heart, ar teries and veins—the blood is con stantly in motion. In the arteries it flows from the heart; in the veins lo the heart. And so rapid is this mo tion that all the blood in the body from the crown of (he head, and the tips of the fingers, and the ends of the toes, passes to the heart, and from the heart to the lungs, and from the lungs back to the heart again, every live minutes. This circulation is absolutely ne nessary to the support of life. In us passage through the system, the blood gives up its life-sustaining power to the different organs, and in return, receives only waste mailer, with which it goes loaded to the heart and lungs, where it exchanges this for another portion of life-giving oxygen. With this, it is again sent by the beating of the heart, on its cheering mission to all parts of the body. When we place our finger upon an artery, as at the wrist, or on the side of the neck, under the ear, or on the throbbing temples, we can feel t life flow of the blood, making a pulse at every beat of the heart.* But in the veins, as on the back of the hand, the flow is constant, and, on this ac count, imperceptible to the touch. If from any cause, as drowning, or suffocation by gas, our lungs arc deprived of a supply of pure air, the blood is not purified, does not re ceive anew supply of oxygen, and so goes into the circulation a second time, incapable of sustaining life. Insensibilily and death are the sure results, unless, by artificial means, pure air can.be forced into the lungs before life’s flickering flame is quite extinguished. The Expression of Dress. Women are more like flowers than we think. In their dress and adornment they express their nature as the flowers do in their petals and colors. Some women are like the modest daisies and violets—they never look or feel netter than when dressed in a morning wrapper.— Others are not themselves unless they can flame out in gorgeous dyes, like the tulip ot blush rose. Who has not seen women just like white lilies ? We know several double maringolds and poppies. There are women fit only for velvets, like the dahlias ; others are graceful and airy, like the azaleas. Now and then you see hollyhocks and sunflow ers. When women are free to dress as they like, uncontrolled by others, and not limited by their circumstan ces, they do not fail lo express-their true characters, and dress becomes a form of expression very genuine and useful.— Meredith. Remarkable Cave. —There seems to be m end of wonders in Califor nia. The latest is a remaikable cave near Calaveras, wherein col umns and pilasters, ornamented at their capitals with volutes and mo dillions, at regular intervals enlist the visitor’s attention; while fine representations of tapestry, cornice and fiesco work arc engraved and plainly visible on its wall. Every form imaginable droopingly hang suspended, presenting all the varie gated colors ofthe rainbow, and bril liantly sparkle from the pale light of a candle like a thousand diamonds, while a like proportion of stalagmite underneath, with their sugar-coated surlaces, are constantly presented to view. Here and there, it is add ed, are carelessly piled, bruised and broken fragments, of jhose appropri ate emblems of infinite Wisdom that have succumbed to the normal des tructive qualities of man. Grunt, a Printer. —The President, while making his lour of the pub lishing ami printing office ot the Brooklyn Union, during his recent visit to that ci.ty, took occasion to remark: “Well, I guess I have set a good many columns of type myself in Georgetown, Ohio, years ago.” “Why, General,” said Gen. Porter, “l never heard of that.” But the President replied that it was true, nevertheless. Let no respectable, honest typo, says the Savannah News, he asham- No. 21, !>■ dos the fact. We can’t expect all I printers to he gentlemen. There are shabby fellows in all professions. Hother Snip*in's Life, Death and Prophecies* In a late number of the Book IVorm, an English periodical, devoted to the ex humation of old and curious publications, wo met with this curious prophecy, writ ten in the year 1188, and republished in IG4I. The litteral fulfillment of many ol its predictions invest it with so much interest that we give some extracts. The “rhyme” and rythm is more delect l * ive than the “reason.” Carriages without horses shall go, 1. And accident fill the world with woe. Around the world thoughts shall fly, In the twinkling of an eye. 2. Water shall yet more wonders do; Now strange, shall yet bo true. The world upside down shall be, And gold found at the root of tree. Through bills men shall ride. And uo horse cr ass be at his side. 3. Under water men shall walk ; Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk. 4. In the air men shall be seen In white, iu black in green. 5. Iron ill the water shall float As easy as a wooden boat. G. Gold shall be found, and found In a land that’s not now known. 7. Fire and water shall more wonders do. 8. England shall at last admit a Jew. 9. The world to an eud shall come, In eighteen hundred and eighty-one. 1. Hail road car;-. 3. The telegraph, Railroad tunnels. 4. Sub-marine apparatus. •>; Balloons. <>. Iron steamships. 7. Calilor, nia. .8. Steam. !). A Jew admitted to the English Parliament. CHIPS. A wooden wedding—marrying a blockhead. The Lake Village (N. H.) Times mentions a man who sent twenty five cents for a ‘‘splendid steel en graving ol Andrew Jackson,” and got a postage stamp. ‘‘Patrick,” said a lady to a slip of green Erin who was officiating in the kitchen, “where is Bridget ?” “In deed, ma’am, she’s fast asleep, look ing at the bread baking.” Fanny Fern, who married Parton the biographer, said, “for the most pan, the more sensible a man is the bigger fool he marries. This is es pecially true ot biographers.” A traveler, we are told, being in a wild country where he could find no provision for himself or dog, cut off the dog’s tail and boiled it for supper, and gave the dog the bone. A clergyman consoling a widow on the death of her husband, re marked that she could not find his equal. “I don’t know about that,” replied the sobbing fair one, “but PU try.” “I say Pompey,” said one freed man to another, “dis chile has tried lots ob gift fares and tings for a prize, but nebber could draw any thing at all.” “Well, Cmsar, I’d ’vise you try a hand-cart; de chan ces are a tousand to one dat you could draw dat.” At a certain church fair, held dur ing the winter, a set of Cooper’s Works was promised to the individ ual who should answer a certain set of conundrums. A dashing young fellow was pronounced the winner, and received a set of wooden pails. “Henrietta,’’said a landlady to her new girl, “when there’s bad news, particularly private afflictions, al ways let the boarders know it before dinner. It may seem strange to you, Henrietta, but such things make a great difference in the eating iu the course of a vear.” A Dutchman alter shooting a sheep-killing dog commenced beat ing him with a club. A neighbor came along and asked “What are you heating the dog for ? Don’t you see he is dead ?” “Yes,” said the Hozenweitzer, “hut I mean to let him know there’s to be a hereafter.” A cockney conducted two ladies to the observatory to see an eclipse of the moon. They were too late— the eclipse was over, and the ladies were disappointed. “Oh,” ex claimed our hero, “don’t fret. I know the astronomer well, he is a very polile man, and lam sure vvilL begin again."” The longest railroad in the world is the Pacific Railroad, over three thousand miles in length. The best specimen of Grecian ars chitecture in the world is the Girard College, Philadelphia. The greatest cave in the World is the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, where one can make a voyage on a subterranean river, and catch fish without eyes. The largest valley in the world is the valley of the Mississippi. It con tains five hundred thousand aquarft miles, and is one of the most fertiV* regions on the globe. The largest lake in the wferttl ia Lake Superior, which is truly an is land sea, being four hundred and-; thirty miles long, and one thousand feet deep.