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VOL. XIV.
MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENT.
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UMES TO AN OLOftftiVlE.
I hear that last Monday you passed through
tlie city,
Both you and your husban , en route for
the South ; v
They say that you still aro the same, and as
pretty
As ever yoa were in the days of your
youth.
Of course you’re surprised I should be so
romantic
As not to forgot you in two ty-fivc years,
And write iu your honor th&ib ver-\>s pe
dantic,
With lines above love, disappointment,
and tears.
I still have the note 1 have Uopt- and ad
mired,
Iu wbieh you informed meANat you were
engaged,
Discribiug the man as r “Oh lalier Bayard,
Bans pour, sans reproohe,j luid
dle a^ed,”
I answered, I thiuk, in a pagV full of feel
ing,
And wished you all joy us a brother ami
frieud.
Concealing a limit that vroul . never know
, healing,
A sorrow to grow till the 4 world without
end.”
My friends came around me find held a
great clinic,
Thev thought iu Bohemia’S might tin ! a
home ;
And th re for a year I was hermit and
cynic,
And posed for a time as a young Bt. Je
rome.
I swore then I’d work with a blind despera
tion,
And sought for a euro in tAe baubles of
fame:
But physic Like this is of sh. v e-.t uration
A tnan who is gifted u great
name.
I dipped into pleasure, became a whist
player.
Was OiiUed a gourmet and 1 lived at tin
cl üb;
I fliited tho more as my hair became gray
er, *
And drove in the park wit\: my “eats’’ iu
a '‘tub.”
Then weary of fplHea, I lenrp. and i< be quiet
And now 1 am fond
life, >“ .
But w'bwu my hair’s grayer primps l sh 11
dye it,
Aud, ilk*, old Bir Peter, n young
wife.
You’ll laugh at these lines from a foolish
old fellow.
And think mo the quaint sGTpiix die old
beau, • '
Bui Madam, believe mo, my heart is stn!
mellow
With loVoTor & maiden of ’ gos ago.
The Widow’s Lodger.
fIHAITEK 11.
Till! DODOIiK.
Tt caosfirt little M 8. Ailstiby consider-
W • (Bin; ~ u> (in I ntDiooii 1 1*1 noiirly
i ,i8 Mat lr aiW-vimi-room
t I. R -■ ,
u wmrcf prelii lo Ihm - . X-ie had lent
quite a variety of oectir'l'iti tor them,
j from ti- in :> Iy Uis-icreeable, who
, paid p ictualiy. to tip) <l-1 Thtfully
I a-.real)le woo .iel nit pay at all. The
I inteiirtioly (iis.iori'. aijli' ■ liy t-lop-
I pod aliojit Ii tnooi’o, jjnitnble'.l at their
i iiroakfant, qrumtoeil with their dinner,
| swore at tin* servant, and l it suddenly
in a rage.. Tin ir and Ii:-!itfill contraets,
ttiesiiaviloqtientnml iin])ocuiiiousniajor
i ty, stayed till Dr. Hyde sought an in
terview, and with a suavity equal to
their own, intimated that oil that day
W"k he should, on .Mrs. Arthur Allen
by’s behalf, r.-quire the apart tnents and
the key of the si root door latch. Siiould
they not find it convenient to settle up,
and retire by that time, he must trans
i D r tin mto Hie cure of Mr. Joyce, his
solicitor, of Cray’s Inn. They finally
found it convenient to retire without
settling ]) or leaving the latchkeys be
hind them. Mary had quite a collec
tion of boxes, trunks, portmanteaus,
books, old hoots and threadbare clothes.
Why they should keep the latchkeys
was a mystery to Mary at first, sin- had
j a fear that they might be used felon
' iously, but Dr. Hyde told her not to be
afraid.
“They keep the keys of their various
lodgings,” he said, “as an Indian does
tlie scalps of his enemies; we must be
more careful, Mary. What do you say
to an elderly couple, or an elderly gen
tleman with his own attendant? Your
servants will never do, no servant will
ever do. Servants are too forgetful and
too slow, and you have enough to do in
looking after the baby.”
“Do you not think, George,” Mary
asked, “that an elderly couple might he
fidgety?”
“Nothing more likely, but then they
would fidget each other, whereas an
elderly gentleman might fidget you.
However here, goes. ‘Drawing-room
fioor, handsomely furnished, with extra
room. Central square, near the princi
pal theatres, the Hank, and Inns of
Court. Klderly couple, or gentleman
with own attendant preferred.’ Will
that do?”
“Nicely, I think. \ am so tired of
those charming young gentlemen who
never pay.”
“And the equally charming young
couples who would seem to give host
ages to fortune in ihe shape of children.
Providence must have invented them
on purpose for furnished apartments,
and furnished apartments on purpose
for them. Very considerate on the part
of providence, if it would only go a lit
tle further and help them to pay the ex
pense—by the way, how is down-stairs
behaving.”
Down-stairs was the young gentle
man who was going, and now had gone
into St. Bartholomew’s; he came with
indisputable references, and his parents
pa and six months’ rent in advance, with
an extra sum for liis breakfast and tea;
they also gave Mary strict injunctions
to let them know from time to time how
he went on; he was a stout, good-tem
pered fellow, simple minded and harm
less enough if left alone, but his fellow
students were not inclined to leave him
alone.
He had an unfortunate name to begin
with, Mortimer Postlethwaite Parker,
and out of that half-a-dozen sobriquets
were invented; he was Parker, M. P.,
Pestle and Mortar Parker, Whistle and
Wait Parker, for he was slow and had
an incurable habit of whistling plain
tively; and once, when be was very ill
indeed after attending the operating
room, a ready-made wit christened him
Post-Mortem-Parker, and the name
clungtohim to the end of his career. He
lived to attain a bright position, and
had Mr. Mortimer Parker on his door
plate, but be was always Post Mortem
Parker to those who knew him at St.
Bartholomew’s.
“He is very well, poor fellow.” Alarv
saia, "Dut ms menas worry mm dread- |
fully and he is so good-natured and \
hospitable. They come when he is j
studying, and stay late, singing, and !
playing flutes and violins. If he does j
not let them in, they serenade him at
the window. The gentleman next door 1
went out to them once, and there was a
tight, and one of them was locked up.”
“I must see to it,” said Hyde, quietly.
“I have always set my face against
medical students; rowdyism throwsdis
credit upon the profession at huge, and
should be put.down wi th a strong hand.
1 will watch tho house for a night or
two, and if my remonstrance is not ef
fective enough, the hospital authorities
may have a word to say.”
He watched for a night or two, but
he watched in Vain. Perhaps Mary had
mentioned what he said to Mr. Parker,
aud lie had warned ids friends, for he
was left in peace at the house. They
had their revenge, however. They kept,
him out late and took him homo so in
toxicated that they had to carry him ti
bed, when they painted his face like i
Maori’s and put a powerful, colorlea
emetic in his water-bottle. Ho toll
Mary, with tears in his eyes, that itwa
very inconsiderate of them.
Tho advertisement, written out b;
Dr. Ilvdo and inserted in the "Times’
aud oilier papers, brought several an ;
swers, none of which quite satisfied th i
young doctor.
“There are people to be bad whi
would be pin 1 of such rooms,” he said
“people who would give little or nt
trouble. Now. most of these seem ti
want the run of a mansion and half-,a
dozen servants for two guineas a week
This one has always been accustomed j
to a butler, and would like a maid se*
apart expressly for her. Another ob !
jects to other lodgers, and particularly I
wishes to know whether you have i ,
man cook and fresh ice every day. Still,
another would not object to her page
boy making himself useful in the house
If you would make a corresponding re
dilution in the rent, whatever that may
mean. Wo hail better wait, Mary, anu I
to-morrow will bring forth.’ !
The morrow did not bring a single l
letter, but it brought Mr. Joyce from !
Gray’s Inn. No man would have look- ’
cd less like a solicitor then Mr. Joyce 1
Nature hail clearly intended him for a!
character actor and low comedian, lie j
regarded the law as a vast joke played ■
at the expense of the community. But :
there was something terribly grim is :
his humor at times.
“And how are we?” he asked, when
he had taken a seat in Mary’s little
room, “and where is the boy—asleep?'
Very bad that; spoils bis rest for the
night. Never sleep when the sun is
sh ningl I have a tenant for you. Mrs.
Hilton saw the advertisement, wrote to
mt —asked me to send a clerk—come
myself. Elderly gentleman, own at
te adapt Drawing-room floor, hand
somely furnished, extra room. Princi
pal theatres; proper hours of course.
Jib. iho thing. Ofltninu in this even
'? ■ l *
‘Vnis evening, Mr. Joyce; Is not that
vervsudden?”
“Not for him,” said the lawyer with
a e.ioeklo. “If he wanted the rooms,
and meant to have them, he would rmy
tbe freehold and turn you out. Extra
ordinary nrmnl You will have a van
load of luggage ami a black man here
by six o’clock, and you must got him a
dinner by seven.”
“Quite impossible,” said Mary, over
powered. “I could not think of it, and
the black man—l really cannot have
them. Mr. Joyce.”
“Nonsense! Charge him what you
please!”
“But the black man would frighten
baby?”
“Put the baby out of his way, then;,
oesides, lie is not so very black; lie is a
coppery sort of brown, like a kettle, mid
nearly ns shiny. As for the dinner,
h ave it to the man; his muster lives on!
tins —mulligatawny, curried fowls,
levilled kidneys, grilled bones and
:ayenne pepper; put plenty of cayenne
n the castors. Look out for six
('clock and seven! His name is Barker
-John Barker; he lias the gout, and a
i iir of blue spectacles; you would know
Urn anywhere.”
“I think,” Mary said timidly, “I
would rather not have him, Mr. Joyce.”
“Nonsense,” the lawyer said agaiil,
‘lie is my most valuable client; he has
let his mind on number twenty-seven
ind be must come. If he wanted a
mite of rooms in Buckingham Palace
should have to get them for him. He
s a man who will not be contradicted.
■ would as soon put my bead, in a lion’s
nouth as go and tell him lie caunot
lonici.”
“But if I had let the rooms.”
“I really must have turned tlm poo
ilo out. Two of my clerks, and the one
vho serves writs on awkward people—
ie won the amateur champion fighting
mil at eleven stone ten. You will soon
get used to Mr. Barker and his black
man, my dear, and yoji will thank mo
some day for your lodger.”
“J should like to consult Mr. Hyde,”
pleaded Mary.
“Mr. Hyde, ah. tbe doctor, oh, ah,
yes. plenty of time to consult him, Mrs.
Arthur. I daresay he will want, you to
take his advice some day, and you will;
oh yes, you will; bow is the young man
in the parlors?”
“Mr. Parker’s very quiet indeed, poor
fellow, since they brought him home in
that dreadful state, and painted his
face. He never speaks to them now.”
“He had better be very quiet, for my
client, John Barker, lias a rooted ob
jection to people who are not. He
walks with two sticks, and one of them
is a supple Jack; and if Mr. Parker
makes a noise, he will most likely have
to try a surgical experiment upon him
self.”
Mary would have done very much to
oblige her friend, the solicitor; but she
did look forward witli some nervousness
and much misgiving to the advent of
the baggage-van and the black man.
Mr. Joyce, with all his oddities, had
been a true and thoughtful friend to
Arthur and herself. She tried to think
of that, as six o'clock drew near, and
was ready to open the door herself. Tiie
servant was shut away with little Ar
thur upstairs, so that be should not be
come too suddenly acquainted with the
man of unfamiliar color.
At six they came—the van, the bag
gage, and the man. It was a relief to
find that he was not black; tie was a
powerful, handsome mulatto,very little
darker than an ordinary native of south
ern Africa.
“You are the lady of the house?” he
said, with a curtesy that would have
set as gracefully on an English gentle
man as it did on him. “If you will
show me my master’s rooms, I will give
you no further trouble.”
“You cannot put all that luggage
tlirre,” said Mary—'“there’s not room;
but there is a box-room at the top of
the bouse.”
“If you will show me my master’s
rooms,” he said, with a Bmde, “I will
see to the luggage. I know exactly
where to place it in each room, and I
must obey him.”
And he went to the van, and began to
unload. Heavy cases, that the carman
and his assistant took from the van
with laboring breath, lie swung to bis
shoulders easily and carried upstairs
with a light footstep. Tbe boxes and
cases were numbered, and lie put some
in the front drawing-room, some in the
back, made a stack otsonie more against
the bed-room wall, and built a pyramid
on the landjng; one huge case like a
crate he took down stairs and placed in
the pantry.
“Soup and chickens,” he said to the
wondering couk, “curry and chutney,
guava-mangos, eliilies, preserves, and
pickles, all for master and cook.”
He took out some tins, opened them
with a knife made for that purpose, se
lected the saucepans, stewpans, and
utensils he required, stirred up Hie fire,
lighted the gas stove, then went up
stairs, and came down live minutes later
in his shirt-sleeves and a snowy linen
apron that reached from his neck to his
feet. The servant, so unceremoniously
turned out of her own domain, would
have retired full of indignation, but he
stopped her.
“ You must stay,” lie said, with an ir
resistible smile; “I shall want you.”
“And whut for, pray, Mr. Darkey?”
asked the ook, who was ready to resign
her situation. on the spot.
“You watch the dishes while I pre
pare the table for my master, 1 ’ he said,
with a roll of the negro in his eyes that
almost made her shrink. “And my
name is Cinciunatus, not Mr. Darkey.
So you help rue—l help you. aud we
shall be good friends. I have some
pretty things in my trunks, which J
show you by-and-by.”
Haif-friglitened, half-fascinated, the
cook—a young and very comely woman
of thirty or so—obeyed him, and from
that moment all resistance was at an
end. She was under tho spell, as help
less as a bird before a serpent, but he :
was a harmless kind of serpent.
“Wliat do they call you for short?” j
she inquired, watching with profound
admiration the careful dexterity with
which lie manipulated the stewpans,
keeping half-a-dozen going at once, aud ,
bringing each to perfection at the prop
er moment like a conjuror.
“Cinci. Lower; the gas flare3 just a
little.” j
“Sensy?”
“That is near enough for you to begin !
with; and now, you see, my muster will 1
lie here in ten minutes, and then, when
hear the bell, bring up tbe dishes
to the door, quick; I wait.”
“it is the housemaid's place to carry
disiW” Mr, Sensy.
“hi are ;:!i cooks and housemaids
-i V ♦ i N** A'* ryn'jvi-na
ai JJnnol.ier roll os’ bis eyes. “WpXhlp
ca ( :h other. Everybody must hwptbr
my master.”
“If the master is like the mnn.” the
coble said, under liar breath—for she
was thoroughly afraid of him—“l think
tiie sooner botli are out the house the j
better.”
The master, Fofar as she Raw him
from the kitchen, was very much worse
than tiie man. He came punctually at
s wen, and Cinci went to the door. He
had changed his dress in a few seconds,:
as it seemed, and .now appeared in the |
regulation white tio and black dress- j
coat. Mr. John Barker came in a hired 1
brougham, and Mary saw him from the
window—a heavily-built, infirm old
g utlemnii. who walked on two sticks
and wore blue spectacles—old and grey
and infirm enough to soften her woman
ly heart; and she went to tiie ball. The
mulatto helped him along tenderly, but
It ■ made a little stumble, and Mary
caught him with her tiny hands.
“Let mo help you, sir,” she said.
“Have you'hurt yourself—are you hi
pain?”
“Thank you. ves—l am always in
pain,” was tiie odd reply. “And how
can you help sixteen stone of pain and ;
gout and bud temper? What do you
- I keep a man for?”
It seemed natural to her to pat his’
shoulder soothingly, as she had done to
her fattier when mental pain and over- i
work made him irritable and impa- I
tient.
“If tlrra is anything I can do,” she
said, gently, “send for me. 1 inn a doc
tor’s wife, you know, and used to nurs
ing.”
“Ah, well, yon are very good, but I
never yet knew a doctor worth anything
to me. However, I suppose you mean
well.”
And with that certainly uncouth re
turn for her kindness, he went upstairs.
“Poor old gentleman,” said Mary to
herself, “he is tired, and wants his din
ner; and that little stumble must have
p ;ed him, suffering as he does.”
Tun “poor old gentleman” did not,
howey-c, ext his dinner when it was
served. Hu look off his spectacles, and
sat looking at a portrait of Arthur be
tween the windows.
“So, so,” he said, keeping time to his
thoughts with his grey head; “they
turned their backs on her, and lot her
come to this—lied about her, and killed
the poor hoy. So, so.”
{To be continued.)
Preparations are b ing made at the
observatory on Mount Hamilton, fifty
miles southeast of San Francisco, for
tlie reception of the great Lick refrac
ting telescope. The refractor will have
a clear aperture of three feet, the great
flint glass disc for the lens is 88.18
inches across, and eight tons of coal
were consumed in cwtingtho vast mass
of flawless crystal which cost SIO,OOO.
A letter from Ascunscien, the capital
of Paraguay, gives the surprising infor
mation that of the 800,000 population
of the Paraguayan Republic only 80,000
—one in ten are men. The 870,000
women are the farmers, producers, and
laborers. They work slavishly and nro
very poor. While the men sit at home
and drink and smoko the women inde
falignbly toil and support the families.
K: gland is at the head of the mirror
manufacturing industry of the world,
producing 750,000 square yards annual
ly. France produces 580,000 square i
yards and Germany 340,000 square
yards. In this country the principal
manufact' ry at Lenox Furnace, Mass.,
produces about 110,000 square yards a 1
year. There ere other smaller manu
factories in Kentucky, Indiana, and j
Missouri.
Idaho claims a population of 88.UUU \
and untold wealth, and she wants to
know if that isn't enough to entitle her
to Statehood.
N O. 6.
How U'o Are Made.
Some women evidently understand
human physiology, for they show skill
at tho healing art. Some others mean
well but get tilings mixed. The’ tnaehor
of a fashionable lip-town school for
young Indies formed at the beginning
of the present quarter a class in physl
ology, and was sanguine enough to
subject its members la-t week to a
written examination. Tlio following
answers were elicited:
“What is physiology?”
“Physiology is tlio act of learning
the different parts of the body and tho
way to preserve health.”
Another answer reads as follows:
“Physiology is the science pertaining
to the whole body and everything iu it.
“What is anatomyP”
“Anatomy is the fleshy part of tho
body. “Anatomy is the seieuee of
bones.
“What is hygiene?”
"Anatomy is tho air we breathe into
our bones. Hygiene shows us how to
keep our organs of eating in ordor.”
“What is assimilation r’
“Assimilation is the bony part of tho
body.”
“What is the periosteum?"
“The periosteum is tho outer part of
the bone, if tiie bone were cut in two
boDe.” "Tho periosteum is tho bony
part of tlio boue, and is used to Carry
the blood.” “The periosteum is that
which encloses tho endosteum and pro
tects tho marrow.”
“What is the effect on the bone*
when there is not enough mineral mat
ter in the food?”
“The effect of the bones when there
is a mineral effect of the food—the
bones become soft.”
It is fair to add that tho answoit
cited were the most brilliant of al
handed in. Tho remaining majority
were prosaic, correct, and correspond
ingly stupid. —New York Telegram.
Kev. W. H. H. Murray In HU Cafe.
I visited Ilov. W. H. H. Murray’s
cafe yesterday. Tho ex-parson was
cooking oysters, and the blonde-haired,
voluptuous woman who is his right
bower stood behind the bar. I calioil
her to mo and told her I was an Amori
can who would like to speak with Mr.
i Murray.
] Murray camo up smiling, and at once
remarked to mo aud my companions:
“Gentlemen, I guess nobody will eat
these oysters unless you do. lam glad
to see you.” Ho served the oysters.
“I don’t know as you remembor me,
but I once hail tiie privilege of paying
I you $l5O for a lecture in Lewiston, R
I said I.
“Oh, yes, I romember speaking
there,” said ho.
| And, by the way, those oysters were
scrumptious. I hover ate anything like
them. They were cooked in eggs some
way. After a while 1 said to the fam
ous man who cooked them:
"Pardon me, Mr. Murray, but I want
to toil you how I feel seeing you here. I
know l.y.t you once hud the power of
' j ''' \ 'B tr'”cree of three or
four' thousand pei pv, aha* 'Semayy
making better mu. and women cf them.
It scums to me that when you recall
what you have been you must feel pret
ty blue. 1 would if I were in your
plaeo.”
“Oh! I’m coming out all right. You’ll
(hear of me again, “said he, without the
least symptom of remorse, or of an un
comfortable sensation. “I’m as good
as any of thorn,” he added. "There
isn’t an honest minister in the coun
try.”
II 1 keops a temperance ranch, and is
(making money, they say. —Front a
■ Montreal Letter.
A comparison made in the London
meteorological oilice of Atlantic tem
perature returns from about twenty
eight ships, containing 110 recent ob
servations, with data for previous
years, reveals llie fact that during last
summer the ocean in the Gulf. Stream's
course was abnormally warm.
Grant at Fort Donelson.
From an illustrated article on “The
Battle of Fort Donelson,” by General
i Lew Wallace, in the December Century,
, we take the following: “There were in
I attendance on the occasion some ofll
| core of great subsequent nobility. Of
these Ulysses S. Grant was first. Thu,
world knows him now; then his fame
i was all before him. A singularity of
j the volunteer service in that day was
that nobody took account of even a
first-rate record in the Mexican War.
The battle of Belmont, though indecis
ive, was a much better reference. A
story was abroad that Grant had been
the Inst man to take boat at, the end of
that allair, and the addendum that ho
had lingered in the face of the enemy
until he was hauled aboard with the
last gang-plank, did him groat good.
From the first his silence was remark
able. He knew how to keep bis tem
per. In bat tle, ns in camp, he went
about quh tly, speaking in a conversa
tional tone; yet ho appeared to see
everything that went on, and was al
ways intent on business. He had a
faithful assistant adjutant-general, and
I sppr rimed him; in?preferred however,
I liis own eyes, word, and hand. His
1 aides were little more than messengers.
11l dress ho was plain, even negligent;
I in mrtial aniemluieiit of that his horse
was always a gooirone and well kept.
At flic council calling it suchbygrace
—he t noked, but never said a word.
In all probability he fets framing the
orders of march which were issued that
night."
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Slippers made out of rat-skin are the
latest London wrinkle. It takes four
rat-skins to make an ordinary-sized
pair of slippers.
Mrs. Frclinghuyseh is described ns
“a dear old lady in black, with full
puffs of soft gray hair on cither side of
a motherly face, a beaming smile, a
pair of gold-rimmed eye-glasses and a
gentle voice.
Tlie bridge on tho Baltimore and
Ohio Road .panning tho Susquehanna
river will bo one of the largest and
most remarkable'structures of its class
in the world. It will be 6,34tj feet in
length, and built of steel.
In an address just delivered Profes
sor Tyndall says that a high German
authority told him that the cry of Ger
man soldiers in entering a battle during
1870-71 was not “We must conquer,
but "We must do our duty.”
Tho school population of the United
States is 16.000,000. Of this 10,000,000
i are enrolled in the public schools. Tho
i public school system of tho country
j spends more than $91,000,000 a year?
, and employs 290,000 teachers.
Ihe London Economist says that the
loss of the British farmers in selling
wheat at the present prices is $lO an.
I acre.