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MULFORD MARSH,
ttorney and Counsellor at Law,
Office, 175, Bay street, Savannah, Ga.
feb. 10, 1852. 3 ~ 1 >'
J. B. HAYNE,
ATTORNEYAT LAW.
IIA LG YON DALE Ga.
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Idle or Eastern circuits,
lalcyondale feb. 2 1852 2—ty
JNO. W, RUM SILL.
attorney at law,
SANDERSVILLE, Ga.
larch 10, 1851 8 ~ lv
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Atlorsiey at Laxv,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
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hern Circuit. | - - - - Laurens.
ulgee Circuit | - - - - Wilkinson,
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i. jail. 1, 1852. 51—ly
S. B. CRAFTON,
Attorney allaxv.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
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ins, and Jefferson, should hueiiichabe em
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SAVANNAH, GA.
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dealers in
IVORS, WINES, GROCERIES, dfc
E. BOTHWELL.] [it. I" GAMBLE.
t>: 10,1852. 3—ly
UNTON, JOHNSON & CO.
GROCERS.
Savannah, Ga.
scranton, ) Savannah.
H JOHNSTON. S
i W. B. SCRANTON,
l No. 19, Old Slip, N. Yor
». 10, 1852. 3 ly
JOHN HSALKB&7.
Draper and Tailor.
aler in. Ready-Made Clothing and Gentle-
ifurnishirig Goods. 155, Bay street,
Savannah, Ga.
.i0, 1852.' . 3—ly
[from THE LOUISVILLE JOURNAL.]
THE SPRING OF LIFE IS PAST
The spring of Life is past,
With oil its budding hopes and fears,
, And the Autumn time is coming
With its weight of future years ;
Our hearts are dimmed with care,
And Youth’s free dreams of gladness
All perish darkly here,
For earth is filled with sadness.
While bliss was blooming near us,
In the heart’s first bloom of spring,
While many hopes could cheer us,
Life seemed a glorious thing;
Like a foam upon the river.
When the breeze goes rippling o’er,
These hopes have fled forever,
To come to us no more.
’Tis sad, yet sweet to listen
To the soft wind’s gentle swell,
And think we heard the music
Our childhood loved so well;
To gaze out on the even,
And the boundless fields of air,
And we feel again our boyish wish
To roam, like angels, there.
There are many dreams of gladness
That cling around the past,
And from that tomb of feeling
Old thoughts come thronging fast;
The forms we loved so dearly,
In the happy days now gone,
The beautiful and lovely,
So fair to look upon.
Those bright and gentle maidens,
Who seemed so formed for bliss.
Too glorious and too heavenly,
For such a world.as this :
Whose soft, dark eyes seem swimming
In a seat of liquid light,
And whose locks of gold were streaming
O’er brows so sunny bright.
Whose smiles were like the sunshine,
In the spring-time of the year,
Like the changeful gleams of April,
They followed every tear:
They have passed, like hope, away,
All their loveliness hats fled ;
Oh! many a heart is mourning
That they,are with the dead.
Like the brightest buds of summer,
They have fallen from the stem,
Yet, oh ! it is a lovely death
To fade from earth like them ;
And yet the thought is saddening
To muse on such as they,
And feel that all the beautiful
Are passing fast away!
That the fair ones whom we love,
Like the tendrils of a vine,
Grow closely t< each loving heart,
Then perish on its shrine.
And we can but think of these,
In whose soft and gentle .Spring,
When the trees are waving o’er us,
And flowers are blossoming :
For we know the Wiuter’s coming,
With his cold and stormy sky,
And the glorious beauty round us
_ Is budding but to die i
" M IS CE L LA NE 0. US.
P 0 E T TJ Y midwinter hangs from the nose of the town
I U Jk 1 lk 1 • pump. Cruelv—deliberately did she crush
his last hope, and with a mocking incred
ulous smile she said—
‘You dare’sn’t do it!
He sprang to his feet: despair was pain
ted on his features ; desperation glared in
his eyes. With his hands clasped in ago
nv he turned an imploring look towards
the mistress of his heart and exclaimed—
‘Once more I implore you to reflect; re
call those cruel words or’I go to fulfil my
threat;’ and with his hand upon the latch
he waited her decision. It came like a
thunderbolt to the unhappy youth;
‘You may go—if you wish—to grass!’
With one bound he gained the street;
furiously he dashed along, and turning the
first, corner, ran against a gust of wind that
was rushing the other Why. The breeze
knocked offhis tile; it bad cost him a V
but the week before, yet he heeded not its
loss. Like a whirlwind he swept along the
side walk, and espying a blue bottle in a
druggist’s -window, he made tracks like a
longitudinal stripe of crude and solidified
city milk, towards it. Opening the door
with an impetuosity that made the clerk
spring over the counter and seek safety be
hind a glass case, he fixed his eyes with
the ferocity of a bereaved maternal tigress
upon the slim and trembling attendant,
hoarsely growled—
‘Poison! give me poison
‘Eh—ah—what!’ grasped the horror
stricken clerk from his place of refuge.
‘Poison ! do you hear ?’ thundered the
youth furiously.
1 With a shaking hand, Plumb’s clerk
1 filled a phial and overrun the liquid on his
| new inexpressibles, but not heeding this
i' mishap he placed the significent label
i ‘poison,’ on the bottle, and standing on tip
toe reached it over the top of the show case
to his dangerous customer. Clutching it
: fiercely, the doomed young man hurled a
! quarter at the head of the clerk, aud then
1 hurried to his lodgings-
When he reached his own room the ex-
! citement had passed away, but it was suc-
l ceeded by a cool deliberation aud dermina-
i tion that was as absolutely blood-chilling
1 as a cold night in December. Undressing
1 he prepared for bed, and then seizing the
! phial of poison he drank its contents un-
faulteringly. Getting into bed he aroused
his chum, who had slept through the whole
of this terrible scene, and bade him arise
and call his parents aud also send for his
false lady-love to come and see him die.
His request was complied with, and soon
his weeping parents arrived to bless their
; dying son. While they were lamenting
over him the door opened and Susan—the
cruel, but now repentant object of his love ;
entered the room. As she approached the
| bedside of the expiring youth, he raised
himself feebly ifp and said—
‘Susan, for thee I die !’ and sunk back
helpless on his pillow.
Who shall paint the anguish, the agony
of the lovely maiden ? With shrieks that
rent the air into shreds and drove the
'• ancient tabby from the room, she rushed to
| her doomed lover and imploring his forgive
ness. Shecalledhim by every endearing
. , ,, epithit, but alas, it was too late—too late !
The dim light of the lamp illumined the Fond i y s h e embraced him—tenderly she
apartment for a while, but at last went out, ted ^ f rom his brow and kissed
leaving the room in darkness, save when jjis.pale-forehead. They were reconciled
an occasional flash of light from the halt w ^-j g wason the brink of eternity. #
extinguished fire gleamed for a moment ]3ut the.poison was at work within; he
upon, the obscurity. felt it coursing its burning way through
In one corner, seated upon a sofa, were ; vein. He was conscious that he had
the forms of a gentle maiden and her ado- ^ ut a f ew s b 0 rt moments to live, when his
ring lover. The youth was pleading hu., who had entered to bid liim a last
passion w'itk all the burning eloquence ot p arewe n inquired what he had taken. Per-
impetuous love and imploring his charmer there ^, a3 an an aufei dote.
to name the happy day that was to unite .^las —no,’ murmured the unhappy vic-
tkem forever. But what was his grief to t - m j 3 l00 p lte to think of remedies. I
find that she did not meet his fond wishes am almost gone. The bottle of poison is
with corresponding ardor. j on the mantel; I do not know its name.’
‘Ah, Susan,, he sighed, have I then de- cdum seized fc h e phial; he looked at
ceived myself in fondly believing that your what remained 0 f the fatal draught dubious-
gentle heart reciprocated my passion . ' [ y he sighed, and extracting the cork appli-
She fixed her liquid eyes upon him, but ^ . fc ^ olfaetovy proboscis. Three long
her words were few and coldly uttered : sn iffs took he, and the phial fell with a
‘I rather think you have. crash from his almost palsied hands, while
‘Wh^ ! youcannot mean that you do m tQUes of wonder he ejaculated—
not love me ! You will not tear from the , hunder ,
sky of the future the bright sun oi hope, ; ‘VYhat!’ exSlaimed the expiring lover,
and leave me to grope forever in darkness ! . • bolt upright in bed.
Oh, Susan! by the happy hours we have S E |^t 0 f catnip, sure as rain; you are
passed together—by the bright dreams ot: nQt isoned at a ll.” _
happiness we have cherished—by tne vow i oue bound the dying man gained
you have sworn to love me I conjure you ^ middle of the room. His lady love
to revoke what you have just uttered and j fle( j - n d ; smay at beholding him in his
promise to be mine !’ I scanty costume, and he picking up the
But all unmoved by his appeal, she f rao -ments of the phial, soon satisfied hira-
curls her ruby lip and scornfully answers— j gel j? tJjat it was j ndee d catnip that he had
‘I shan’t do no such thing! : swa n owed .
‘Merciful heavens ! do I hear aright ? The youn r g lady was carried home on a
must I then live on in loneliness, with all w j iee p barrow? and the adoring lover left in
my hopes withered and like a solitary sun-1 ^ ^ steamer for California,
flower stalk in the chilling winter s Nay, •
LOVE AND CATNIP-
BY EDGAR SOMERS.
I. DASHER’S
Cheap Dry Goods Store,
146, Congress street, Savannah, Ga.
(Late H. Lathrop’s)
fell .selected stock of seasonable staple
ancy Dry Goods, are kept constantly on
and will be sold cheap for cash.
“ Please call and examine.
. 10, 1852. 3—ly
by the whole universe, I swear it shall not
be! Mark me, cruel one; thou hast been
the bright polar star by which I guided my
whole existence. Thou wast the rock on
which I founded my hope of happiness ;
and if thou wilt not consent to be mine, I
swear by the blaring sun, that when he ri
ses as usual to-morrow morning, before
breakfast, his rays shall shine on me a cold
corpse beneath the angry waves of the ra
ging Merrimack—or perchance my bloody
renTains will be found upon its banks; and
if these means of death fails me, I will swal
low poisonl do you hear? and expire for
love of thee. Then you will have to re
mind you of him who loved you better
than a thanksgiving dinner, save the con
soling reflection that you are his murder-
(585 f
Bnt his agony, his threats effected her
A Valid Excuse,—A. Spanish priest, once
exhorting the soldiers to fight ike lions,
added in the ardor of enthusiasm—“Reflect
my bretheren that whosoever falls to-day
in battle sups to night in Paridise.”
Thunders of applause followed the senti
ment. The fight began, the ranks waver
ed, the priest took to hi3 heels, when a sol
dier stopping him, reproachful refered to the
promised supper in Paradise. “True, my
son, true,” said the priest, “butl never eat
suppers.”
A fellow stole a wood saw, and on trial
told the judge be only took it in a joke.
“How tar did you carry: it?” asked the
judge. .
“Two miles "answered the prisoner.
“That’s carrying the joke too far,” re
marked the judge, and the prisoner was
Coffee^-Caite and Beet Sugar.
Mr. Payen, a distinguished chemist, in a
late lecture at the CorUrvatoir de Arts et
A New Tltiug.
The New Y”ork Journal of Commerce has
the following more extended notice of Cap-
Metiers, spoke of the.composition and pro- j tain Erieson ? s project for the practical test
perries of coffee. It seems that this favorite 1 of his new moving power :
decoction contains, in one hundred parts, j Capt. Erieson has invented an ehgine, of
thirty-four of cellulose, twelve of water from j which two large working models are now
ten. to thirteen of oilly matter, fifteen and a! in operation, that differs in many impor-
half of glucole, dextrine, and vegitable acid tant respects from any thing else in use;
and is destined on the score of economy,
safety, simplicity, and convenience, to su
percede steam, provided that when applied
to practical purposes it shall befound to
work as well as the invenrior anticipates.
His reputation for skill and sound judg
ment, and his long experience in such mat
ters is a, guarantee against any utopian
scheme at variance with the established
principles of physics or chemistry; and the
method adopted to bring the invention be
fore the public, is unexceptionable.
In connection with two other gentlemen
whose names are known in Wall-street, he
is making preparations for the first public
experiment on an unusually large scale. A
vessel which cannot be called either a ship,
or a steamer, is being constructed at the
yards of Messrs. Perine, Patterson & Stack,
something over two thousand tons burden,
and expected to be ready for launching in
August: while the whole force of the estab
lishment of Messrs. Hogg & Delamate, is at
work upon the .machinery. That portion
of the work already in progress embraces
some of the largest castings, of their kind,
that have been made in this country. The
whole affair, from the kelson to the paddle
wheels, teems with novelties. Capt. Erie
son has been privately at work upon the
invention for several years, and now con
siders it as brought nearly or quite to per
fection; so that he can start it on its trial
trip to Liverpool, with nearly as much con
fidence as a new steamship made after oue
of the approved models.
Should the parries inierested complete
the vessel, as they have commenced it, on
their sole responsibility, they will have the
profit and honor if it succeeds, and if it fails,
the satisfaction of having deceived nobody
but themselves. It is due to them to state
that they have avoided publicity, and con
sented with reluctance to any mention of it
on the part of the press. It is impossible,
however, to keep such a tiling^ private, and
has for some time past been known in the
commercial circles.
not.
She i’ coW ^ the icicle that in committed for farther examination
not determined, ten of legumine and caseine,
three and a half to five ofchloroginate of pa-
tass and caseine, three of azoted organism
one of free caseine, a thousandth part df con
crete essentiaLoil insoluble in water, a thou
sandth part of aromatic essence, six and half
of mineral substances—potass, lime, chalk,
magnesia phosporic, sulphuric,' and silicic-
acid, and some traces of chlorine. After
describing the compoment parts of coffee,
Mr. Payen proceeded to describe its proper
ties as an article of nutrition. He enter
tains a high opinion of its qualities as a safe
and agreeable stimulent and states that it
has a notable effect upon the nutrition of
the body, not by furnishing nutrition of it
self, but by its benificial action on the issues
It is, he says, less by furnishing assimilating
substances than by preventing exhaustion
and denourishmeut (en empechant de se de-
nourrir) that coffee exercises upon the health
a beneficial influence.
He also discussed, iu the same lecture, the
question of the comparative qualities of su
gar made from cane and beet root. He
stated that many persons still doubted
whether there was any essential difference
between the two products, but the question
was easy of solution. Beet-root sugar in the
raw state contains ail essential oil, the taste
and smell of which are disagreeable. • Thus
•the treacle of beet root cannot be used in a
direct way, whereas the treacle of cane su
gar is of an agreeable flavor, for the essen
tial oil which it contains is aromatic, and has
some resemblance in taste to vanilla. But
beet root sugar, it is completely refined, dif
fers in no sensible degree from refined cane
sugar.—In appearance it is quite equal to
cane sugar, and the process of refining it is
more easy in the case of the latter.
Give your Child A Paper.—A child be
ginning to read becomes delighted with a
newspaper, because he reads the names of
things which are very familiar, and will
make progress accordingly. A newspaper
in ore year is worth a quarter’s schooling
to a child and every father must'eonsider
that substantial information is connected
with advancement.
The mother of a family, being one of the
heads, and having a more imradiate charge
ol children, should herself bt instructed.
And mind occupied, becomes fortified
against the ills of life.and is braced for any
emergency. Children amused by reading
or study, are of course more considerate
and more easily governed. How many pa
rents who have^ not spent twenty dollars
for books for their families, would give
hundreds to reclaim!a son or daughter who
had ignorently or thoughtlessly fallen into
temptation.
‘ Won't You Take Shingles?'-There is an
amusing anecdote related of a specimen of
the genus homo, who lives, or lived not a
thousand miles “Down East.” After having
completed his courtship, (in what precise
manner, deponent saitb not,) he went with
his intended spouse to the squire to get the
connubial knot tied. YYhen preliminary
formalities had been got through with the j the spectacles of the season
bride-groom rose prsented his certificate.
The magistrate opened it but looked blank
when he discovered the absence of the cus
tomary marriage fee. However, supposing
all would be made right afterwards he pro
ceeded to marry the impatient couple. The
ceremony being performed to the satisfac
tion of the parries concerned the happy
husband for the first time thought of “set
tling up.” He rose from his chair walked
towards the astonished'justice, bent down
his head and a whisper audible to all pres
ent asked, “Won’t yon take shingles?” The
man was a lumber dealer. Comment is un
necessary.
A Modest Cleric.—A. young lady with a
mind intent on shopping, entered a store
on a certain occasion, and addressing a
fresh looking rosy cheeked youth, desired
to know if he had any nice silk
hose.
‘Certainly, Miss,’ replied he, and immedi
ately the counter was strewn with delicate
articles. After selecting a pair she looked up
very innocently and enquired:
‘How high do they come, sir?’
The clerk blushed, turned in all sorts of
colors, but spoke not a word, She gave
him a look of surprise, and repeated hef
question; again the youth stammered and
said—
‘Realy, Miss— that is to say—I think—
could not be positive, but my imprssion is,
they come just above the knee.’
Origin of all Fools Day.—The Rich
mond Dispatch says:
The origin of the custom of All Fools’
Day, which prevails throughout Europe,
and of which there is some resemblance in
certain feasts in the East ^Indies, is not
clear. There are several versions given of
it, one of which is that, as in the middle
ages scenes from Bible history5 were often
represented without any feeling of impro
priety, the scene in the life of Jesus, where
he is sent from Pilate to Herod, and^.back
from Herod to Pilate, was represented-in
April, and may have given rise to the cus
tom of fruitless errands and other tricks
practiced at this season. The phrase of
“sending a man from Pilate to Herod,” is
common in Germany, to describe the send
ing on unnecessary and foolish missions.
The reason of choosing the 1st of April
was, that the feast of Easter often falls in
this month, and the events of this period of
the Saviour would be naturally selected for
HoweVer, it
may become Grecian or Roman custom, de
rived from the Eait and handed down
through successive ages. As the trick is
all the better for being played off upon the
soberest and most profound people, who
knows but what Lycurgus or Cato may
have been made in their day, April fools of
by the mischievous boys ? In France the
unlucky party fooled is called un posson d'-
Avril—m the North of Scotland gowk.
Rabelais wanted to go from Marseilles to
Paris on one occasion, and had not the
means. He played off a first of April trick
very successfully. He put a quantity of
brick dust in phials‘ labelled, poison for the
Royal family of France, and placed it where
it woul be discovered. The result was he
was conveyed, at government expense, very
sapidly to Paris, where, when the trick was
made known, it occasioned a great deal of
merriment.
Newpaper on Silk.—The Pekin, China a
newtpaper of extraordinary size is published
weekly on silk. It is said to have been
started more than a thousand years ago—
somewhat earlier than the one under the
patronage of the “good Queen Bess.” An
anecdote is related to the effect that in 1827
a public officer caused some false inteligence
to be inserted in this newspaper, for which
he was put to death—Several numbers of
the paper are preserved in the Boy,s Library
at Paris. They are each ten and a quarter
yards long.
The Burlington Sentinel, says, that ‘cra
dles are ballot-boxes for women* in which
thev should deppsite voters, and not votes.’
Hit him again.—The following ite m
from a New Orleans paper, we publish for
the benefit of those who ought to advertise
—but who don’t:
“At New Orleans, a man who recently
commenced business, found his creditors
rather two prompt in urging the payment
of their little bills. “What is the matter,”
he at length asked. “Do you fear me?”
“Yes,” was the hesitating reply of a mod
est dun. “Fear me!” he exclaimed “on
what grounds? Has any one said I am Bot
honest?” No; no,’ replied the other; ‘hut,
but what sir?’ ‘Why, to be candid with
you, we have no confidence in vour busi
ness capacity, seeing you do not * advertise!’
The man immediately made annual con
tracts with three papers, and is now in ex
cellent credit, and prospering finely.”
Some wag asks the editor of the Boston
Carpet Bag whether, under the “Maine
Law,” a man is allowed to wear his arm in
a sling, to make merry over the London
Punch, to sell soap in bars, to communi-
.cate with the rapping spirits, to administer
“a drop of comfort” to a ‘suffering friend, to
punch his neighbor’s head, to purchase
corned beef, to tap his enemy’s claret to eat
rum cherries, or to beat the spirit-sriring
drum.
The Secret of Longevity
Tue means known, so Ju* of promoting
longevity, have usually concentrated in
short, pithy sayings—-as- “keep your head
cool, and your feet warm”-—“Work much,
and eat little,” &c., just as if the whole
science of hitman life could be summed up
and brought out in a few words; while its
great principles were kept out of sight. One
of the best of these sayings is given* by an
Italian in his hundred and sixteenth year,
who being asked the reason of his living so
long, replied with that improvisation for
which his country is remarked :
When hungry, of the best I eat,
And dry and warm I keep my feet;
I screen my head from suu and rain,
And let fe\V cares perplex my brain.
The following is about the best theory of
the matter: Every man is born with a
certain stock of vitality, which cannot be
increased, but may be husbanded. • With
this stock lie may live fast or slow—maV
live extensively or intensively—may spread
his little amount of life over a large space
or narrow it into a contracted one; but
when this stock is exhausted he has no
more. He who lives extensively, drinks
pure water, avoids all inflamatory diseases'
exercises sufficiently but not laboriously, in
dulges no exhausting passions, feeds on no
exciting material, pursues no debilitating
pleasures, avoids all laborious and pro-
trated study, preserves an easy mind, and
thus husbands bis quantum of -vitality—•
will live considerably longer than he other
wise would do, because he lives slow; while
he on the other hand; who lives intensely,
who beverages hiimelf on liquors and wines
exposes, himself w inflammatory diseases
or causes that produce them, labors beyond
his strength, visits exciting scenes and in
dulges exhausting passions, and lives on
stimulating and higly seasoned food, is al
ways debilitated by liis pleasures.
One of the Iflegiiierisers-
A few years ago the following story was
overheard in the cars on the road between
Albany and Buffalo. One of the conver-
sauts was a mesmerizer—a : regular “devel
opment—its astonishing -cure for diseases;
the extraordinary discoveries through its
agency. Finally lie got upon his superiori
ty as a “professor” ; a congenial theme ;
and here he 4 was at home. After narrating
a variety of experiments ; some of them as
tounding, of course ; he spoke of the fol
lowing with a gusto that was irresistible.-
Said he—
“Last week I was going through one of
the streets of Rochester, aud saw a person
to whom I was anxious t<5 speak. He
walked too fast for me to overtaken him
without running, so I just straightened out
my arm, concentrated mv will, made a pass
at him—thus—and he stopped quicker
than lightning.” .
“Wh-wh why, mist’r y-v-you don’t call
that m-m-m much of a tr-i-i-ick, do yon ?”
“Yes, sir, I rather flatter myself, sir that
it was a pretty strong demon rtration.”
“W-w-w-well, it don’t b-b-gin w-with
whatl once did.”
“Th en you are familiar with the science
sir, I pmurae ?’
“S-s s-some.”
“Might I inquire what was the case you
spoke of ?’
“Oh. c c c-certainly. YV-hy, you see, I
happened to be up in B-b-atavia, once in
the winter; G-g-going down the cars, I
s-saw a m-a-man shoveling oft'snow. Pret
ty soon his f-foot slipped and d-down he
caine. Wh-when he was about half way
d-down I made a p-pass at him, and it s-st-
opped him quicker than powder. I c-c-arae
off with-o-out thinking a-a-anything more
a-a-bout it. If you are go-o-ing to Batavia,
I wish y-you would jest let him down, for I
pr-pr presume he is hanging there yet !” •
The “professor” handed over his “hat.’
To Calculate Interest.—Divide the num
ber of days by 6, and multiply the dollars
by the dividend, tjje result is the interest in
decimals, cut off the right hand figure, and
you have it in dollars and cents. Thus—what
is the interest on $100 for 21 days? 21 di
vided bv 6 is 3 1-2; 100 multiplied by 3 U2
is 350, or 35 cents. Again—what is the
interest on $378 X 15 1-2—5859—or
$5,85 9-10.
“My son, would you suppose that the
Lord’s Prayer could be engraved on a space
no bigger than a half dime?”
“Well yes,-father, if a half dime is as large
in everybody’s eye as in yours, I think
t’ e e would be no difficulty in putting it
on about four times.
A Dutchman being called upon to help
to pay for a lightning rod for the village
church toward the building of which he had
liberally subscribed, exclaimed, “I have help
to build ter house for ter Lort, and if he
schoose todunder on it and knock it down
hemoosht do it at hish own risk.”
JJ. S. Mint.—During the month of March
the mint at Philadelphia coined gold to the
value" of $3,886,632; also silver to the a-
mount of $oS,106, and copper to the ex
tent of 289,875 cents.
A down east militia--captain, on receiving
a note, recently, from a lady requesting the
“pleasure of his company,” understood it as
a compliment to those under hiscommand,
and marched the whole of them to the lady s
house.
jjgr A Texas paper in speaking of one of
the. Presidential aspirants, says as he has no
morals, he had better go in for. the Vice
Presidency. This is getting personal.