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BXLLTON, GA.
BY JOHN BLATS.
Tima— $1.00 per anaum ; 50 cents for six
months; 25 cents for three months.
Parties away from Bellton are requested
io send their names, with such amounts of
money as they ean spare, from Jfio. to sl.
The expense of a trip around the
world is calculated by the Railway Age,
on the basis of 180 days at 1849 for first
class and S6OB for second class accommo
dations. Under the first head are includ
ed these entries: New York to San Fran
cisco. $129; sleeping car $22; meals on
the road, $18; San Francisco to Sidney,
$200; expenses in Sidney, S4O; Sidney to
Melbourne, $25; expenses in Melbourne,
S4O; Melbourne to Adelaide, $25; ex
penses in Adelaide, S4O; Adelaide to Lon
don in sailing ship, $225; England to
New York, $75. It is admitted, however,
that a little extra money will not come
amiss. No allowance is made for ex
penses in England.
The gas men say that as electricity
can not be stored like gas, the supply
is therefore precarious and may at any
time leave the city in the lurch were
electricity depended on for light “They
say,” said a reporter to the philosopher
of Menlo
that you have no reservoir.” “ They
don't think about it,” replied Edison.
“ What is a reservoir but reserve force?
What better force can you have than a
modern steam engine? I shall always
have a reserve of electricity. Forty five
cities depend at this day upon modern
steam engines, with their reserve cylin
ders, for their water supply. Reservoirs
for water are getting out of date. What
an absurdity to talk about reservoirs of
electricity ! Your engine is your reser
voir.”
Some interesting experiments were
made in Menlo Park which have deter
mined Mr. Edison to reduce the size of,
the carbon horse-shoes in the globes.
Two lights, which have been burning
constantly for nearly two hundred and
fifty hours, were taken down in order to
ascertain whether they had depreciated
by combustion since first lighted. By
means of the galvanometer an accurate
test was made, and the result was com
pared with the original tests, No re
duction had been made—that is to say,
the amount of oxygen that had gained
admittance had been so infinitesimal that
the combustion of the carbon could not
be measured by the finest and nicest
test. It was found, too, that by reduc
ing the size of the carbon horse-shoes
one-third eleven lights could be genera
ted per horse-power instead of eight. By
increasing the resistance of the lamps
from one hundred to two hundred ohms,
Mr. Edison finds that he can still further
increase the number of lights per horse
power. This, however, is found to in
crease the. cost, and will not be at
tempted. _________
The States of Alabama, Arkansas
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Oniviiua, soutn Carolina Tennes
see and Texas are known as theTJotton
States, since the cultivation of cotton ab
sorbs the labor of the husbandman in
that region of our country. The tota
population of the ten States in 1870 was
8,272,223. The close of the war found
them impoverished. Their property was
destroyed. We of the North next over
ran them with carpet-baggers, who stole
from them, interfered with their State
governments, oppressed them in many
ways. The inhabitants of the Cotton
States waited as patiently as they had
ought courageously, and at last regained
the control of their own affairs. From
that time the onward march of the cot
ton belt toward the most unprecedented
prosperity has not faltered for an instant.
The year of 1878 was a prosperous one
for them, and they justly rejoiced over
the result. For the year ending on June
30, 1879, the domestic exports from the
United States amounted in value to a to
tai of $717,093,777. Os this vast sum
the ten cotton States, with their scanty
population, are credited with $162,304,-
250 for their cotton alone. Over twenty
two per cent, of the value of our expor
tations was received for a crop grown by
less than twenty per cent, of our popula
tion. —Pittsburg Post.
■ ■ iA i ,
An Outwitted Life Insurance Agent.
[Hackensaek Republican.]
A gloom was cast over the brightness
of our sanctum, yesterday, when the
suave life insurance agent glided in
and began to unfold his little scheme.
When we asked him to insure us
against loss from delinquent subscrib
ers, he gathered up his duds, tightened
the hold on his grip sack, and backed
out of the office.
The amount of silk worn each year in
Switzerland amounts to more than $40,-
000,000; and the larger part of this is
woven by women in their homes, using
looms very similar to those used by our
grandmotners. They also spin both
flax and cotton and with the threads they
knit, net, crochet, bolts of fanciful arti
cles. Their embroidery is famous for
its leljvacy.
The North Georgian.
VOL. 111.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
North Carolina has fifty-five cotton
mills.
South Carolina has 1,349 miles of
railroad.
Whitfield county, Ga. has seventy-two
churches.
The last bar-room has been closed in
Decatur, Ga.
The houses in Macon, Ga., are to be
numbered.
The guano trade in Georgia promises
to be lively.
Orange culture is increasing around
Mobile, Ala.
Seventeen newspapers are published in
Raleigh, N. C.
Two spring-bed manufactories arc in
operation at Troy, Ala.
A colony from Michigan has arrived
in Orange county, Fla.
The ministers of Greensborough, NJ
C., are preaching against dancing.
Several negro guards have been em
ployed for the Virginia State peniten
tiary.
The population of Augusta, G., is 27,-
OV> a K a ' n L 844 during the past
year.
Anderson county, (S. C.) had no sales
of property under tax executions last
year.
The canal at Columbia, 8. C., was
in 1823. They hope to complets
it soon.
The Agricultural and Mechanic 1 !
Colle.e of Alabama, at Auburn, has 230
students.
The temperance movement is spreading
ike wild fire among the negroes of Sa
vannah, Ga.,
In Powhatan county, Va., during the
last month a Mr. Watkins had 100 sheep
killed by dogs.
The Alexandria Gazette, the oldest
newspaper in Virginia, has entered upon
its eighty-first year.
A company has been organized in New
Orleans for the supply of gas for heating
and cooking purposes.
The Hood relief fund amounts to $lO,-
963, of which $10,500 haveboen invested
in United States bonds.
The cotton trade of Charleston, S. C.,
amonts to $20,000,000 a year, and the
rice trade to $2,000,000.
Twenty-five shares of South Carolina
railroad stock were sold at auction in
Charleston at $7.80 per share.
Macon, Georgia, is to have a United
States Court, and now her people want
a neat Government building.
The city treasury of Nashville will be
drawn upon for about $25,000 to aid in
the approaching centennial celebration
there.
In Savannah, Ga., an anti-profanity
pledge is being circulated, and very gen
erally signed. The signers wear white
ribbons.
Nashville American: One thousand
steel rails for the Chattanooga rail
road arrived at Johnsonville yester
day morning.
Richmond, Va., is taking precautions
to prevent the introduction in that city
of small-pox which has appeared at
Washington city.
A petition is in circulation in Elber
ton, Ga., requesting the Council to fix
the license to retail intoxicating liquors
in that town at $5,000.
There are more colored pupils than
white in the public schools in Columbia,
S. C., but the w’hite people pay three
fourths of the expenses.
Several hundred workmen were dis
charged from the navy yard at Ports
mouth, Va., Monday night, on account
of reduced allowance.
Vaccination is being practiced to a
great extent in Petersburg, Va., in view
of the fact that small-pox is infesting
some of the northern cities.
The Mobile Cotton Exchange has
proved such a financial success that the
members have decided to erect a hand
some building for its exclusive use.
Raleigh (N. C.) News: The city gas
works are nearly completed, the genera
tor is in position, and the pipes are laid
from the street to the market-house.
A wonderful saving to the farmers of
South Carolina has come from the adop
tion of the fence law. In many counties
there is now no opposition to it what
ever.
An extensive cotton factory is about
to be organized at Charlotte, N. C., the
city authorities having promised the
company exemption from local taxation
for ten years.
Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat: The
panther killed a few weeks since a short
distance from the city, and now on exhib
ition here, measures seven and one half
feet in length.
The people of Rome, Georgia, are very
proud of their public library. During
its existence of only ten months it has
218 contributing members, and contains
1,000 volumes.
The dividend on factory, bank, rail
road and gas stock, and the interest on
state, city and railroad bonds that will
be received in Augusta, Ga., this month
amount to $499,000.
Forty graves have been robbed in Oak
nood cemetery, at Richmond, Va., since
actober. The police seem to have done
othing to put an end to the outrage,
nd many citizens are indignant.
Chattanooga Times : The rail-mill of
I the Roan Iron Company turned out for
I its last day of the year’s work 120 tons
iof steel .’ails. One of the melting furna-
I ces produced in the last six days 111 tons
I of good steel.
BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY, GA., JANUARY 22. 1880.
Charlotte, (N. C.) Observer: The
people along the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta railroad keep on rebelling
against the freight charges. Charlotte
has suffered much in this way at differ
ent times and is a sympathizer.
Nashville American: The city gov
ernment, and the people of Nashville
especially, are to be congratulated upon
the fact that the new issue of city bonds
have at last reached par and are likely
to b<*at a premium at no distant day.
All these bonds have been issued since
1870.
Street letter-boxes are something new
in Macon, Ga., and the people have a
great deal of trouble in keeping them in
their places. A countryman came in the
city the other day and wanted to feed
his horse. Not seeing a box convenient,
he tore off the top of one of the post
office boxes and fed his horse in it.
Columbus (Ga.) Times: C. Lopez, a
cigar manufacturer of this city, is
seventy-nine years of age. A day or
two since he received a letter from his
father, who is one hundred and twelve
years of age, and is hale and h arty. He
served for twelve years in the army of
Spain, and is now a retired officer, re
ceiving as a bounty $125 per month.
The Savapnah theater was built in
1803, and is the oldest in America. It
is a massive building of brick and stone.
It has never been remodeled or changed
in any way. The architect of this theater
was an Englishman brought to America
by the Blake brothers, two wealthy rice
planters of South Carolina, who at that
time had their residence in Savannah.
The Lee Memorial Association still
lacks $4,500 to complete the building.
It is proposed to have it completed by
next commencement. The stone work
is done, but the roof has not been placed
upon it, which is to be iron. A tem
porary shingle roof now protects its
walls. The doors were placed in posi
tion a few days ago, which weigh 3,000
pounds etch.
Nashville Banner: During the month
of December, 1879, twenty-nine tramps
were fed and lodged in the city work
house. During the same month in 1878,
101 were provided for. The decre .se
is mainly due to the fact that tramps
are now arrested as vagrants and re
quired to earn their food and lodging by
working on the streets, whereas in 1878
they were provided for as “ charity
prisoners.”
Charlotte (S. C.) News: Railroad
Commissioner Bonham will to-morrow
ItSbUt; notice to the railnmds tlinl in au
cordance with Judge Mackey’s decision
they must hereafter charge freight on
cotton by weight instead of measure
ment. An order has already been issued
by the president of the Charlotte, Co
lumbus and Augusta railroad to conform
to this decision in transporting cotton
on his line.
In the San Antonio (Texas) Express
of the 2d ult., Mr. P. J. Moss, livestock
commission merchant, reports: Thfc
principal feature in the cattle market is
the purchase by Mr. B. B. Groom, man
ager of the Anglo-American Cattle Com
pany, of 8,000 head of cattle. These
will be driven north in the spring, and
will require the services of about forty
four men, 275 horses ami the necessary
paraphernalia incident to such drives.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun: The
people living in the V’cinity of Clapp’s
factory have been troubled greatly for
some time by parties shooting cows.
Win. Hammock had five cows killed in
less than a year. James Norsworthy had
two shot in the last two weeks. Mrs.
Clark lost one about three weeks since,
and could not tell what became of her
until the head was found in a neighbor
ingswamp.
Thirty-six thousand bales of cot'on
were shipped to Europe from Norfolk,
Va., last month, valued at $2,000,000.
The total number of bales exported thus
far the present season foot up 137,521,
valued at $7,143,494, being an excess of
36,279 bales over the exports tor the
same period last year. The value of cot
ton exported for the past three months
exceeds that for the same period last
year by $2,499,105.
Tallahassee (Fla.) Patriot: The oldest
citizen can not recall to mind so mild a
winter as we have been experiencing
this season. With the exception of two
or-three frosts the reign of summer has
been uninterrupted. On Christmas day
several of our citizens indulged in
vegetables, such as green peas, beets,
radishes, rutabagas, turnips, new Irish
potatoes, and last, but not least, straw
berries grown during the winter.
The celebration of the centennial of
the battle of King’s Mountain, which
will take place on the 7th of October, is
to lie an interesting affair. Forty com
panies of the North Carolina State
Guards will be present. All of the
southern railroad companies will reduce
their rates for this occasion, that old
citizens of the Carolinas who have em
migrated to Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
iana and Texas may be induced to at
tend. An American flag twenty by
thirty-six feet in size will be unfurled
from the top of the mountain.
The grand jury of the criminal court
in session at Memphis, referred to the
social evil at considerable length in their
report. They are of the opinion that
finding indictments against the disrepu
table class will not lessen the evil, while
they are persuaded that something should
be done to limit the unblushing menace
to decency and morality. As the evil
exists in every community, and is likely
to always exist, they are 'of the opinion
that the most effective mannerof keeping
it within limits is to set apart some ob
scure part of the city for this class, and
to adopt a license system for prostitutes,
with such regulations as will keep them
off the streets.
TRUTH. JUSTICE, LIBERTY.
THE MAID'S FIVE LOVERS.
My first, my very fint, bis nm« was Will—
A handsome fellow; lair, with curly hair,
And lovely eyes. I have his locket stilt
He went to Galveston and settled there;
At least I heard so. Ab, dear me—dear msl
How terribly in love he used to bel
The second. Robert Hill, he told his love
The first time that we mot. ’Twas at a ball—
A foolish boy. He carried offmy glove,
Wo sat out half the dances tn the hall,
And flirted in the most outrageous way,
Ah, me I bow mother scolded all next day.
The third woke up my heart From night till mans:
From morn till night again I dreamed of hlml
I treasured up a rosebud he had worn;
My tears and kisses made hie picture dim.
Strange that I cannot feel the old, old flame,
When I remember Paul—that was his name.
The fourth and fifth were brothers—twins at that:
, Good fellows, kind, devoted, clever, too,
’Twas rather shabby to refuse them flat—
Both in one day ; but what else could I do?
My heart was still with Paul, and he bad gone
Yacht sailing with the Misses Garretson!
He never cared for me—l found that out—
Despite the foolish clinging of my hope;
A few months proved it clear beyond a doubt
I steeled my heart; I would not plueor mope,
But masked myself in gayety and went
To grace his wedding when the cards were sentl
Bo those were all my loves. My husband? Oh,
1 met him down in Florida one fall—
Rich, middle-aged and prosy, as you know;
He asked me; I accepted: that is all.
A kind, good soul; he worships me; but then—
I never count him In with other men.
The Old-Fashioned Girl.
A writer in the Examiner and Chronicle
says that the blessing of heaven may
fall upon any “old-fashioned girl.” He
once knew such girls, and sketches a
portrait of one of tnem as follows:
She flourished thirty or forty years
ago. She was a little girl until she was
fifteen.
She used to help her mother wash the
dishes, and keep the kitchen tidy, and
she had an ambition to make pies so
nicely that papa could not tell the dif
ference between th»m and mammas.
She could fry griddle-cakes at ten
years of age, and darn her own stockings
before she was twelve, to say nothing of
knitting them herself.
She had her hours of play, and enjoyed
herself to the fullest extent.
She had no very costly toys, to be
sure, but her rag doll and little bureau
ant chair that Uncle Tom made, were
just as valuable to her as the twenty
dollar wax doll and elegant doll furni
ture the children have now-a-days.
She never said, “I can’t,” “I don’t
want to,” to her mother, when asked to
leave her play, and run up stairs or
down on an errand, because she had not
been brought up in that way.
Obedience was a cardinal virtue in
the old-fashioned little girl.
We do not suppose she had her hair
in curl-papers or crimping-pins, or had
it “ banged ” over her forehead, and her
fl.iunces were no trouble to her.
Bhe learned to sew by making patch
work, and we dare say she could do an
“ ever-and-over ” seam as well as nine
tenths of the grown-up women do now
a-daya.
The old-fashioned little girl did not
grow into a young lady and talk about
beaux before she was in her teens, and
sfe did not read dime-novels, and was
fancying a hero in every plow-boy
she met.
She learned the solid accomplish
ments as she grew up. She was taught
tie art of cooking and housekeeping.
Vhen she got a husband, she knew how
U cook him a dinner.
She was not learned in French verbs
or Latin declensions, and her near
neighbors were spared the avony of
hearing her pound out “The Maiden’s
Irayer”, and “Silver Threads Among
the Gold ’’ twenty times a day on the
piano.
But we have no doubt she made her
family quite as comfortable as the
modern young lady does hers.
It may be a vulgar assertion, but we
honestly believe that when it comes to
keeping a family happy, a good cook
ind housekeeper is to be greatly pre
ferred above an accomplished scholar.
When both sets of qualities are found
together, as they sometimes are, then is
the household over which such a woman
has control blessed.
The old-fashioned little girl was
modest in her demeanor, and she never
talked slang or used by-words.
She did not laugh at old people or
make fun of cripples, as we saw some
modern little girls doing the other day.
She had respect for elders, and was
not above listening to words of counsel
from those older than herself.
She did not think she knew as much
is her mother, and that her judgment
was as good as her grandmother’s.
She did not go to parties by the time
•he was ten, and stay till after midnight
playing euchre and dancing with any
chance young man who happened to be
present.
She went to bed in season, and slept
the sleep of innocence, and rose up in
the morning happy and capable of giving
lappiness.
A gentleman who had been dining
jut the night before went into a barber
shop to be shaved. He saw that the
baroer had been taking more than was
good for him, for his hand shook very
much; and, naturally indignant, he be
gan to give him a little moral advice by
saying: “ Bad thing, drink ?” “ Yes,”
said the barber, “it makes the skin
awful tender.”
A gentleman not extremely given
to piety was dismayed by being asked to
say grace at a strange table. To refuse
and explain would be embarrassing; to
comply would be equally so; but he
chose the latter, and started off briskly
enough with, “ Oh, Lord, bless this
table Just here, being unused to
the business, he nearly broke down, but
by a gigantic effort pulled through with,
i“ World without end. Yours, respect
fully, amen,”
NO. 3.
The Magniphone—A New Invention.
[Cape Vincent Eagle.]
For many years Mr George McPher
son of this village has been a scientific
student, and a great portion of his time,
when not engaged in his daily vocation,
has been occupied with scientific ex-
Seriments. By these experiments, Mr.
IcPherson has invented and applied
for a patent on an invention which he
has very properly called the “Magni
phone.” The instrument increases and
magnifies sound, but to what extent is
not known as yet. It is easily applied
to the telephone. It is generally known
that the cause of sound is the vibrations
of the diaphram and that these vibra
tions are caused by variations in the
tension on the diaphram, in the acoustic,
by the wire that attaches them, in the
magnetic by the variations in the
strength of the magnet. But it is not
so generally known that these vibrations
are a secondary cause. The real cause
is the working of the fiber of the metal.
8o the more you cramp or buckle the
diaphram the more sound there is:
therefore, by having a heavy tension
and then vibrating the diaphram, it
would cause more working of the metal
and so produce more sound. The mag
niphone is constructed on this plan. It
is made, first, of a circular rim with up
per surface grooved; then the diaphram
is drawn over this rim and bent down
and fastened there. Then a second
rim is placed directly over this groove
and fastened firmly with screws, which
presses the diaphram into the groove
and thus makes the tension. Trie in
strument is not round but elliptical or
egg shaped, in which it is far better as a
receiving telephone. For a transmitter
the round form is equally as good. The
wire is put through the small end and
the vibrations run off the othox tjud,
Hereby causing more movement of the
metal, the same as a hammer to a piano
is placed at one end of the wire. The
instrument can be put to a great many
uses for all kinds of telephones, for a
phonograph, telegraph sounder, sounder
for all kinds of musical instruments,
and is particularly adapted to a violin or
Eiano. It may seem improbable, but
lr. McPherson, by actual test, has
found that, when applied to a piano,
that instrument can be made to talk.
Mr. McPherson is very sanguine that
it is a success, and by what we have seen
by its description, we are inclined to be
lieve he is right. The only wonder to
us is that, it being so simple in its con
struction, it has not been discovered
before.
The Cost of Raising a Boy.
[Popular Science Monthly.]
The heaviest tax that can be imposed
upon a nation is one that is paid in hu
man lives. From whatever point of
view the subject may be regarded, this
conclusion is irresistible. If we look
at it according to purely economical con
siderations, we may obtain very re
markable results. It has been estimated
that an actual money cost of £3OO is in
curred in raising a boy, cradled among
the poorest classes from birth to man
hood. It does not require us to ascend
very high in the social scale before we
find that this estimate must be trebled.
If we take what we may call the the cost
price of the human unit, at any definite
time, say at £SOO on arriving at matu
rity, the producing power of the unit in
question will bear some relation to that
sum; the more costly and carefully edu
cated, producing, as a rule, the more
valuable result as to productive power.
If the laborers who earns 445. or 455. a
week adds £SO per annum to the wealth
of the country, the physician, the scien
tific, military or naval officer, the bar
rister or the engineer may look forward
to the time when his yearly labor will
be worth more than a hundred times
that amount, even if appraised only by
the price he is actually paid for his
time. Taking any producing individ
ual, whether valued at £so'or £5,000 per ,
annum, at any period of his career, no
income tax to which he can«besubjected
can approach in its pressure the extrav
agant tax of death, for the payment of
that tax at once annihilates the total
earning power of which there was, until
that moment, a fair mathematical ex
pectation.
Premature Education.
Most of our leading minds, in the
various departments of activity, origi
nate in the rural districts. The cities
and large towns furnish very few in
proportion to the population. The fact
has been explained by the purer air,
simpler habits, and hardier life, which
characterize the country. But we are
inclined ;to think that our school sys
tem is an equally important factor in
the case. In the rural districts it is
mpossible to attend at a very early
age, partly because the schools are
not adapted to them, and partly because
inconveniences of distance, bad roads
and inclement weather. Moreover,
there are generally only two terms, a
shorter in summer and a longer in
winter, the latter being largely attended
even by young men and young ladies,
many of whom become themselves
teachers. There is, take the year
through, time enough for all sorts of
rural sports and diversions. Play,
work and study are duly interchanged.
It is well-nigh impossible to push the
brain at the expense of the muscles.
The result is that nerve-force is ex
pended in laying solid foundations for
the superstructure of the mind and
body.
In our cities education begins almost
with babyhood, and is kept up, with
only brief vacations, to very manhood
ana womanhood.
Nothing is worse than this unremit
ting employment of the brain in child
hood,'and during the period of youth.
At least, it doesn’t give us the men that
rule the world.
Published Every Thursday at
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BROUENTHREADS
BY NATHAN D. URN ER.
A jolly old hand loom-weaver chanced
To ply his trade in mv native town,
Whose answer to all things advanced
Was in some quaint utterance well laid down,
▲nd one of his sayings its light still sheds
Through all the years, with their care and din:
“ There is never a woof without broken threads,
Howsoever the knots be woven in.”
It is true of nten, it is true of things.
It is true of whate’er in the world is rife;
And no halcyon joy ever spreads its wings
Over every flaw in the web of life t
Though culture and custom join their heads
To smooth in the thick and All out the thin. (
“ There is never a woof without broken threads,
Howsoever the knots be woven in.”
Though we plot, and plan, and contrive and schema,
Our cherished purposes to fulfill,
And all faultless every precaution deem,
There’s a canon of imperfection still,
Which the incomplete with the perfect weds
In all things human that yet must win.
“ There is never a woof without broken threads
Howsoever the knots be woven in.”
Let us, then, so order our hopes and aims
That, however desire outstrip result,
We can yet show work that no labor shames,
And in fair requital of toll exult;
▲nd then we can study the subtle shades
Between what is and what might have been.
“ There is never a woof without broken threads,
Howsoever the knots be woven in ”
The old weaver himself exemplified
The pith of his words, for a sorry wight
Was he, of follies and sins allied
That no mortal weaving could gloss from sight;
But his faults were such as our fate imbeds
in the texture us all, be it thick or thin.
“There is never a woof without broken threads.
Howsoever the knots be woven in.”
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
Nothing in all this social universe is
so utterly thrown away and trodden un
der foot as a dishonored woman.
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Quilted satin petticoats in colon to
match costumes bid fair to displace felt
and cloth balmorals for mid-winter
wear.
It is often a more meritorious act for
a woman to allow something good to be
said of another woman than it would be
for her to say it herself.
The popular fur-lined wrap is the cir
cular. It is earily put off and on and
does not crush the dress. Squirrel fur
is mostly used for lining.
There is no widow so utterly widowed
in her circumstances as she who has a
drunken husband—no orphan so per
fectly destitute as he who has a drunken
father.
A ton of gold makes a fraction over
half a million of dollars, and when a
man says his wife is worth her weight
ingold, and she weighs 120 pounds, she
is worth $30,000.
A young artist has painted the pic
ture of a dog under a tree, and the work
is so artistically done that none of the
connoisseurs can tell the bark of the
tree from that of the dog.
“ What do you do when you have a
cold?” asked a man of Simpkins, yes
terday. “ Cough,” was the sententious
reply.— -Philadelphia Sunday Item
Doad’t you ever blew you dose?
Mrs. Langtry is described as having
been in her girlhood “ a lovely little
creature with floating golden hair, who
used to dash about the island of Jersey
on her little pony in must daring fash
ion ”
A great many of our modern young
ladies resemble the lilies of the field:
they toil not, neither do they spin 1 But
they spend a pile of money and lay
around the house and let their mothers
do the work.
Girls are advised by a Chicago physi
cian to sleep on their backs if they wish
to keep crow’s feet from the corners of
their eyes. “ These blemishes,” he
savs, “ are the result of sleeping on the
sides.”
The web of our life is of a mingled,
yarn, good and ill together; our virtues
would be proud if our faults whipped
them not, and our crimes would despair
if they were not cherished by our
virtues.
Several girls were recently brought
before a justice in Scranton, Pa., on a
charge of stoning a peaceable old lady.
Their defense was that she was a witch
and they believed it to be their duty to
stone her to death.
SHYLThe bent over the shining head,
And “ Won’t you—-won’t you?”
lie softly said.
Pleading to the bright-eyed miss
Just for the loan of one sweet kiss.
The maiden tossed her pretty head,
And “ No, I won’t you!” .
She saucily said.
“ How foolish he is,” thought the little miss;
“ He should not ask for, but steal the kiss.”
We’ve got another one—hold on!
keep your eeats. What is the difference
between a blind mule and a man who
never reads a newspaper ? Well, there
isn’t any difference. Entered accord
ing to act of Congress, etc.
The Lockport Union thinks 9 is next
to nothing. Why, Ives, we thought you
had been there often enough to know
that “nein” was nothing—but, come to
think, perhaps Lockport people never
do decline any thing.— Yonken Stateman.
The step-daughter of John Stuart
Mill has been a member of the London
School Board for three years, and the
radicals of the Southwark Division pro
pose to again re-elect her, and with her
Mrs. Lucas, John Bright’s sister
At the Yorktown celebration a
“ blarsted Hinglishman,” after survey
ing the situation and surroundings,
said: “ I can well understand now why
1 Cornwallis surrendered Yorktown. If
I owned such a place I would give it up
myself.”
The poetic instinct which slumbers
within the breast of everybody only
slumbers for a short time. Every man,
woman and child imagines that he or
she is a born poet. The waste-baskets
of the land prove it. — New Haven
' Register.