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®|t SiTOweftoille # alette
Don't Stay late To-Night
Ths hearth of homo is beaming
With rays so rosy light.
And lovely eyes are gleaming.
As falls ths shaJos sf night)
And while thy steps are leaving
The circle pure and bright,
4 tender voles half grieving,
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Will spurn thee in thy iall)
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Outlasts and shames them all;
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Let fete be dark or bright;
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THE TIUKK.
Generally speaking-, the tiger, nn!*FR he
is a man-eater, will not attack a human
being. When, however, he it* wound* i, he
will turn ami tight desperately. Tigers
••appear to be afraid to encounter man un
til they have once had an encounter with
him, when all fear ceases ever after. * * *
But whenever a tiger has once tasted hu
man blood, it even seeks it in preference
to all others.” Dr. Fayrer thinks it prob
able that, on account of the general dis
arming of the natives after the mut'iiv,
the number of tigers has increased rather
than diminished of late years. Their rav
ages are certainly appalling. Captain
Rogers says that in lower Bengal alone,
during the six years ending in 18G6, 13,400
human beings were killed by wild animals,
while Government reports state that dur
ing the same period and in the same locali
ty, 4,218 of the above fell victims to tigers,
while 4,287 were slain by wolves. In the
Rangpore district alone, the yearly loss of
life is between fifty-five and sixty. The ex
ploits of individual tigers are even more re
markable. We i-ead of one tiger which,
in 1867, 1868, 1569, killed respectively 27,
34, and 47 people. Once it killed a father,
mother, and three children, within a few
moments. This dangerous brute killed 27
persons in the week before it was shot.
Another tiger destroyed during 1856,
1858, an average of 80 persons annually.
A third tiger in 1809 slew 127 people, and
stopped up a public road for several weeks
till killed by an English sportsman. So
great is the awe which thia tyrant of the
jungle inspires that whole villages are
sometimes deserted, and all cultivation
in the neighborhood stopped. A Govern
ment rejort informs us that in the Central
Provinces “a single tigress caused the de
sertion of thirtecu villages, and 250 square
miles of country were thrown out of culti
vation." The inhabitants of India, espe
cially the Hindoes, believe the tiger to !t* if
abode of an evil sjsrit, and many would not
kill him if they could, for fear of subse
quent mischief. So great a dread in some
parts of tho country is felt by the peas
ants of his supernatural powers and malev
olent disposition, that they either avoid
naming him at nil or speak of him as “the
jackal," or ‘‘the beast." There is almost
universal belief that his flesh, especially
his heart, if eaten, produces courage and
strength. Hie whiskers, claws, and fangs
are also rcligidue-ly preserved as potent
charms .—A tfienas um.
OROTESyK ENGLISH.
Even the famous Portuguese and
English grammar constructed by a Por
tugese for the use of his countrymen,
and containing some of the choicest bits
of grotesque attempts at English ever
put together, would be enriched by the
addition of a letter recently contributed
to the columns of the Glasgow /Jerald by
a tourist from Metr who visited the
“land o’ cakes” and was there disabused
of certain cherished i,deals. He says:
—“A person angry says to-day that he
was from the theatre gallery spit upon.
Very fins. I also was spit upon. Not
on the dress, but into the eye strait
it came with strong force while I look up
angry to the gallery. Before I come to
your country I worship the Scotland
of my books, my Waverly Novel, you
know, but now I dwell here since sii
months, in all parts, the picture change.
I now know of the bad smell, the oath
and curse of God’s name, the whisky
drink and the rudeness. You have much
money here, but you want what money
cannot buye heart cultivating that
makes respect for gentle things. O ! to
be spit in the eye in one half million of
peopled town. Let me no longer be in
this cold country, where people push in
the street, blow the nose with naked
finger, empty the dish at the house door,
chooze the clergy' from the lower classes
and then go with them to death for an
ecclesiastical theory which none of them
can understand. Igo home three days
time.” There is more in this than gro
tesque English, however. Jt abounds
with good sense and penetration.
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 21, 1878
THE EGO DANCE IN INDIA.
A much more pleasing performance,
and one which might., perhaps, better
have been mentioned in connection
with the exploits of .he jugglers,is the
“egg dance.” This, is not, as one
might expect from the name given it,
a dance with these fragile objects. It
if executed in this wise :
The dancer, dressed in a corsage and
very short skirt, carries a willow wheel
of moderate diameter, fastened hori
zontally upon the top of her head.
Around this wheel threads are fastened
equally distant from each other, and
at the end of each of these threads is a
slip-uoose, which is kept open by a
glass bead. Thus equipped, the young
girl conies toward the spectators with
a basket full of eggs, which she passes
around for inspection, to prove that
they are real and not imitations. The
music strikes up a jerky, monotonous
strain, and the dancer begins to whirl
around with great rapidity. Then,
seizing an egg, she puts it in one of
the slip-nooses, and, with a quick mo
tion, throws it from her in such a way
as to draw the knot tight. The swift
turning of the dancer produces a cen
trifugal force which stretches the
thread out straight, like a ray shoot
ing from the circumference of the cir
cle.
One after another the eggs are
thrown out in these elip-nooses, until
they make a horizontal aureole or halo
about the dancer’s head. Then the
dance becomes still more rapid, so
rapid, in fact, that it is difficult to dis
tinguish the features of the girl: the
moment is critical; the least false step,
the least irregularity in time, and the
eggs dash against each other. But
how can the dance be stopped? There
is but one way—that is to remove the
eggs in the way in which they have
been put in place.
This operation is by far the more
delicate of the two. It is necessary
that the dancer, by a single motion,
exact an unerring, should take hold of
the egg, and remove it from the noose.
A single false motion of the hand, tho
the least interference with one of the
threads, and the general arrangement
is suddenly broken, and the whole
performance disastrously ended.
At last all the eggs are successfully
removed; the dancer suddenly stops,
and, without seeming in the least diz
zied by this dance of twenty-live or
thirty miuutes, site advances to the
spectators with a firm step, and pre
sents them tho eggs, which are imme
diately broken in a ilat dish to prove
that there is no trick about the per
formance.
A CHIN ESK DINNER.
The small tables were furnished
with saucers, little bowls, a china
ware spoon, and a pair of chopsticks
for each person. The dinner was com
posed of everything except boef und
mutton, which are seldom eaten by
Matives In the part of China referred
to; the staple materials for their
dishes are pork, fowl, and fish, all
kinds of vegetables, sea-weed, fungi,
•tc. Everything,be it noted, is boiled,
and comes to the table in the form of
soup, stew, or haricot. The table Is
served by each person having put be
fore him a “portion” of whatever the
“course” may be; hut there 1b often a
large dish pluced in the centre, and
also dishes of condiments, into which
all dip their chopsticks. It is Impos
sible to attempt a description of the
numberless dishes composing the
feast, but the writer mentions one "to
which justice was always done. It Is
made from what in England are only
used to pelt unpopular candidates at
elections. What process they undergo
before coming to the table is unknown,
but they appear like hard-boiled, black
eggs, stewed in some very palatable
sauce, and are really excellent.” A
dinner of the kind alluded to often
extends to thirty or forty courses, and
lasts three or four hours. Rice-wine,
hot and very tasteless, is constantly
handed round In tiny cups, and the
Chinese drink a good deal of It,though
they very rarely become Intoxicated.
They merely get excited in manner
and Hushed in the face. Oddly enough,
the crowning dish of the repast Is a
huge bowl of plain boiled rice. It Is
•aid that this prevents any evil effect*
from excess either of eating or drink
ing—sobers you, In fact, and sends
rou away from the table with a oloar
Intellect.— Chamber’s Journal.
A Member of the Paris Academy of
Sciences, M. Cbampouillon asserts
that the dead bodies of victims of al
coholism decompose much more ra
pidly than do those that in life were
not so effected. He observed this in
Paris after the city was taken by the
Prussians. The bodies of drunken
Communists and of soldiers of the
government were in many places ly
ing side by side, and It was Invariably
the case that the former were In a far
more advanced state of decomposition
than the latter. M. Champouillon
concludes that alcoholism produces in
the system a sort of morbid adynamy
or weakness, resembling that of putrid
fevers, and which favors rapid punt
mar turn decay.
AGRA AND DKI.IIt.
Agra and Delhi give the moat vivid idea
of the nature and tenure of English rule
in India, for there more than elsewhere
you see the old sovereignty on well as the
new in iron strength. Lucknow gives the
idea of beauty, of great wealth, hardly of
sovereignly in its power. You soe the
King as magistrate, see him, as ho reposed
afler the duties of the day a ruler worthy
of the name always hail kingly duties in
the East; you almost forget that the Mag
istrate was also expected to be the warrior.
In Delhi ami Agra the impression is differ
ent; you cannot mistake that you are lu
the cities of great kings, who nut merely
administered justice, but led armies. I
shall take Agra aH an instance. There
is no possibility of forgetting here that
yon are standing or driving or walking
where some of the mo: I magnificent of
Eastern sovereigns reigned. Tho streets of
old Agra,pared with blocks of stono like
London streets now, are among the most
crooked, crowded streets in tho world, and
ao naiTow that the trafllc ia in a stale of
perpetual obstruction. You see also,-
though, that the fronts of the old houses
are elabora'ely and beautifully carved,
and that you are p teeing through a maze
of industry, of patient work, of all that
makea life endurable in these labile. At
every door-etep, or within what in Eng
land would hen window, you soetlieskilled
artisan at his work, or the salesman or
saleswoman vending wares for which
their ancestors were noted many ages ago.
In dingy shops, not unlike marine stores
in Europe, you may purchase shawls at
enormous prices, or precious stones worth
a King's ransom. You know that the
stones under your carriage wheels are tho
very same which Bio magnificent Akbar
and others drove in days when other races
rilled in this fine city, that the verandas
from whence you are being overlooked
are those from which homage was paid to
great monarchs; that the life, rich or poor,
is identically the same life in nearly all, if
not all, leading characteristics, as that
which existed here when the wolf and
wild boar held revel in Dritian. Nothing,
indeed, either in Ileuares or Cairo (I take
the most oriental cities I know) impresses
one so much with a sense of Orientalism as
do these narrow streets of Agra. You
turn from this to the fort—the Fort of
Akbar, but now, an element of European
intrusion, of daring innovation, in shorl, of
anew civilization dropped down, as it
were, to leaven qnd disturb traditions,
habits, impulses older than history. With
in the fort you see marble palaces to
whose rare beauty no pen or pencil ever
yet has done justice. From its walls you
see the Taj, standing out like a fairy
palace in a wilderness, and tombs, mosques,
temples, and palaces, which attest, and
will long attest, the grandeur of bygone
times, when only human life was value,
less, but of times, nevertheless, which the
people, with instincts akin to otfv own, call
“good,” as well as “old."— Macmillan’l &Lw.
CURIOUS FREAK OF A IKIO.
A Radnorshire lady, who was mar
ried in March, and came to reside in
Yorkshire, England, recently paid a
visit to her father, who, before she
was married, had kept two or three
sheep-dogs, of which she was very
fond. Since then he has retired from
business, and disposed of ull but one
dog. This one met tha lady with de
monstrations of great delight upon
her arrival at her father’s house, and
that night, the dog went a distance of
seven miles to a farm-house where one
of the other dogs had been sent, (the
latter was blind, but kept as being an
old favorite.) In the morning when
the lady went to the door she not only
saw the dog which had given hor such
a glad reception the day previously,
but also the old blind one, which had
evidently been brought by the other
dog to welcome her. When the
second night came the old blind ono
was taken back to Its home by the
same dog, which afterward returned,
having traveled a distance of twenty
eight miles to givo pleasure to the old
blind one.
We had always supposed that be
hind the screens one secs strung
across the back end of a dressmaking
establishment, was where they khep
the wood box und coal scuttle, and
Innocently enough we started to go
behind one the other day, to spit.
No, It wasn’t a ghost, for ghosts don’t
yell so, or jump over a cord of boxes,
and try- to hide behind a spool of
thread, but there was enough of some
thing behind them to keep us in the
front part of the shop after this.
A Sad Increase.— Now, twenty ci
gars per head are annually •manufac
tured for every man, woman and
child In the United States. Forty
years ago two was übout the avetugo.
At Eton College the study of muslo
has lately been made compulsory for
all the boys in the fourth and higher
classes. In the public schools of
England it lias been taught from the
beginning.
NAPOLEON'S TREATMENT OF BIS
GENERALS.
ITe was born a king, if to command the
obedience of men lie the whole art of king
ship, which may perhaps be doubted. Jls
seems in general to have acted on the plan
of Frederick the Great; that is, he demand
ed nothing but success from his lieuten
ants, and was careless of tho means they
took to obtain it. Only failure he would
never forgive. It was a favorite saying of
bis that he never judged men but by re
sults. It was to no purpose that Massena
gave excellent reasons for his defeat by
Wellington; Napoleon wanted victories,
and not explanations. There is a foolish
story, to which so eminent a man as Southy
could give credence, to the effect that Ad
miral Villeneuve was assassinated by or
der of the Emperor after his disgrace at
Trafalgar. There can be no serious doubt
that the unfortunate commander com
mitted suicide in sheer terror at the idea of
an interview with the stern muster whose
plans he had caused to miscarry. It ia
fair to add that those of his captains who
were succcseful had no need to complain
that their services were insufficiently appre
ciated. Even Massena hud acquired an in
come of SIOO,OOO while his star waein the as
cendant. Moult had SOO,OOO a year; Ney
nearly $100,000; Davouet $180,000; while
Bertbier, Prince of Neuchatol, enjoyed a
princely revenue of some $270,000. “They
will no longer tight," Napoleon once ex
claimed in a moment of dejection, refer
ring !o his Generals. “I have made them
too rich." It may be euspected that it
was rather from motives of policy than of
gratitude that Napoleon thus created the
foi tunes of his Marshals in a day. Ho was
anxious to establish as a support to hie
throne a powerful aristocracy, which in
splendor and (to do him justice) in the bril
liancy of its achievements should irival the
old nobility of France. He forgot, how
ever, that though monarchy and democra
cy can exist and have existed without pre
scription, an aristocracy to be venerable
must absolutely bear the seal of antiquity.
In none of his project* had Cromwell
failed more hopelessly than in his attempt
to reconstruct the House of Lords in Eng
land. Napoleon, it is true, did not pro
pose to confer legislative functions on his
nobles as such; nevertheless he intended
them to tie a priviledged class, and -this
alone was a more courageous than
wise idea on the morrow of 1789. — ‘I'ltt
< ialaxy .
A scientific college built at a cost of
$500,000, with an endowment of $150,-
000, bus been given to the, city of Bir
mingham, England, by Sir Josia.li Ma
son. Those represent some of the
profits of tire stool pen manufactory.
In cycles of 21,000 years the earth
has alternate periods of heat and cold,
either of which is said by the scien
tists to sup-rindm-e on its smface an
entirely new and JiiLcidit. set of ani
mals. Fortunately we are not at the
close of such a cycle.
Construct!on of Maonrts. —It in thought
that M. Jamin’s researches point to an im
portant modification in the construction of
magnets. Thus, supposing that a great
number of plates, which, after being sepa
rately magnetized to saturation, are placed
together, the magnetism of the combina
tion Is seen to increase up to a limit which
cannot be passed, *nd which is reached
■when the polar surfaces are filled. Sup
posing that ten platee tie required—if the
same experiment be recommenced, apply
ing the same plates against two iron arma
tures of a largo surface, the intensities in
crease much more slowly, because the sum
of the magnetism is diffused over a more
considerable extent, the limit not being
reached till this extent is full. For this, it
may be needful to superpose twenty, thirty,
or forty plates, and generally speaking, a
number so much greater as the armatures
are larger. The total power of the meg
net increases, therefore, with its armatures.
Rtrbnotrrnino Paper.— French journals
state that pajier may be rendered exceed
ingly bard and tenacious by subjecting the
pulp to the action of chloride of zinc. After
it has been treated with the chloride, it is
submitted to a strong pressure, by which it
becomes as hard as wood and as tough as
hide, the hardness varying according to the
strength of the metalie solution. The ma
terial thus produced can be easily colored.
It may be employed advantageously in the
covering of floors, and affords a substitute
for leather in the manufacture of coarse
shoes; it likewise furnishes a substance
valuable for working into whip handlee,
buttons, combs, the mountings of saws, and
other useful articles. An important appli
cation of the material is that of a covering
| or roofs, on account of its solid texture and
great durability.
The best and most durable insulation for
! electric wires is to tin them and cover with
pure rubber.
NUMBER 8.
AN OLD INDIAN KILLER.
Mr. Andrew Whitley, of St. Louis, sn
route to Lexington, visited the Courier-
Journal office yesterday with a rare relio of
the earliest days of Kentucky. It was a
rifle, made by Jacob Young, of Virginia, in
1744, and owned by Mr. W.'s grandfather,
William Whitley, who was one of the first
white men that came to Kentucky and was
a companion to Daniel Boone. The gun is
as much a curiosity on account of its great
length as it is a prize on account of its great
age, its history, and recent associations. It
is of the old-time flintlock pattern, about fire
feet five inches in length, with a silver piste
mounting on the stock, bearing the inscrip
tion, “VV. and E. W.,” which stands for
William and Easter Whitley.
The gun, in the days of its usefulness, wns
a piece of the fumily property, and the wife
learned as well as the husband to coolly draw
the bead on a deer or an Indian whenever
occasion required. The weapon is of large
bore, with perfect rifle, and the stock andfer
ruled rammer are aparently in a perfectly
Bound condition.
Accompanying the gun is a large powder
born of beautiful shape, currying a large
supply of powder, and suiting the use of the
hunter as well gs the ordinary small hnnting-
Sask or horn, its shape being as well adapted
to the purpose. The horn is well known
throughout the State, and bears on one side
the foliowing verses, carved on the bony
substance. The words were composed by
Win. Whitley himself, aud will doubtless be
remembered by many readers of the Courier-
Journal familiar witli the lives of the early
vettlers;
William Whitley, I am yonrhomj
The truth I love, a lie I acorn.
Fill me with best ot powder,
He make your rifle crack the lowdflß,
See how the dread terrifleh ball
Hake Indians bleed and torreys ftIL
You with powder lie supply
For to delond your Liberty.
The belt to which the horn is attached fa
heavily ornamented with beads made of the
quills of the porcupines, which are said to
have been killed In Kentucky.
After passing through all the scenes of
tcroren noted on the dark and bloody ground,
incident to the settlement of the Common
wealth by tile whites, the faithful‘old riflo
was associated with events winch add great
interest to iis history.
Win. Whitley was a soldier in the war of
1812, and directed the bulleJß of his old-time
friend against the British and Indians at the
battle of the Thames, Canada. Here he was
killed in the thick of the fight, but the gun
was preserved and returned to his people in
Canada.
FRENCH OKDNANCK.
The superiority of our service con- ■
struotion of heavy guns is boing proved
not only by direct experiments at home,,
but also by indirect means abroad.
About the time when the first trials of
the 80-ton gun wore going on,a French
breech-loading gun corresponding to 1
our 9-inch, and weighing about XI
cwt., burst violently at Oavre, when
being fired with its service charge of
powder and projectile. The French
guns are constructed on a system
which, to say the least of it, has never
met with any approval in this country.
The body of the gun is of cast Iron,
the portion from the trunnions for
ward being entirely composed of thi*
material. At the breach end the gun
Is lined with a steel tube as far as the
trunnions; and, in order to strengthen
It, according to the advocates of this
system,a series of steel rings Is shrunk
on tho btoeoh, reaching as far as the
trunnions that is, over the powder
and shot chambers. Here therefore is
a combination of two treacherous ma
terials, oust iron and duel, so that any
failure in the soundness of any part
must lead to disastrous results. When
to untrustworthy material is added a
complicated system of brooch-loading,
the wonder is not that guns so con
structed sometimes burst, but that
they can be trusted at all. The guR
which railed lately at Oavre burst vio
lently, six men being killed and othors
being injured, though the gun was not
being subjected to any extraordinary
test, but was being fired as on servitfa.
It isoDiy fair to conclude,therefore,that
the guns in use in the French navy
boing identical with that which burst,
are liable to behave in a similar man
ner. As far as tho experience of fif
teen years can be relied on, no such
accident can possibly happen to oue of
our much-Hum ' heavy guns when .the
most ordinary prcvaavioiis ure takou,
I'all Mall Gazelle.
18 '■ ■ ——!
A Poor young man remarks that the
only advice he gets from capitalists is
to “live within his income,” whereas
the difficulty ho experiences is to livo
without an income.
( 'aMVoksia limbers ■ y bad grizzly bears,
■■ j ,a, ‘.hwegh net wounded,
Mj.m die of a irokea heart, induced by ex
cessive iage.