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Wozrtl) «. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 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 Reservoirs for water are getting out of date.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 BELLTON, GEORGIA. RdTES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year (52 numbers), $1.00; six mont (26 numbers). 50 cents; three months numbers), 25 cents. Oflifte in the Smith building, east of the depot. 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. •Jqtqinpetnuij apvm B9iw|s jo ared v st 9Joqi I9aj;9 aq| no Jtaqjo qovo wed no 8!)Vq M9U IfIJM uoujom omi NHHAA 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.