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Noftli fUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY BELLtqn, g-a. BY JOHN BEATS. Tibms —ll.90 per annum ; 50 cents for six **“ntes; 26 cents for three months. Parties away from Bellton are requested to send their names, with such amounts of ■oaey as they ean spare, from 25c. to sl. The miraculous release of Charles F. Freeman, who sacrificed his child at Po caeset, is predicted by one of the princl paPAdventistsof that place. According to this authority, the early resurrection of .the girl is expected by Freeman and his religious friends. The taste for high colors is brought about by the discovery of the analine colors. M. Chevreul, the director of the Gobelin and Beauvais manufactories, has produced ten chromatic from the three primitive colors; these ten circles make thirty series; each tint has its gamut of twenty-four tones; thus over 14,000 tones are produced, all of which are said to be needed in the Gobelin and Beauvais works. Secretary Evarts has notified the government of Roumani that the United States will not recognize it until the Hewbrew population (about 600,000) are placed on equality with Roumanians agreeably to the stipulations of the Ber lin treaty of 18ff. The government of Roumania had dodged this duty for near ly three years, and has continued its un just discriminations against the Hebrews. Eighteen faculties of medicine in Ger many have declared in favor of vivisec tion as a process of study and observa tion. But Richard Wagner, the com poser, opposed it in a public letter ad dressed to E. V. Weber,; and Professor Zoellne, of Leipsic, fights it on the ground that it results from and fosters a belief in nihilism. The adversaries of vivisection have made little impression thus far. Dr. Richardson says that the body should be in its best physical condition at4o years; for thirty years after the organization should become more perfect; at 70 old age should begin and last for fifteen years, when from 85 to 100, there should be ripe old age, without disease or pain, but marked by a general subsi dence of the vital functions. This ?s his ideal limit of life where nature has its undisturbed course. When Mrs. Chipeta Ouray, the wife of Chief Ouray, of the Utes, passed Al amosa, Col., eastward bound, she saw the body of a man dangling from a tree by the roadside. Mrs. Ouray was so shocked that she cried all the way to Chicago and would not be comforted. She reasoned that if the palefaces were in the habit of hanging norse thieves the tribe of her husband could expect no mercy. The United States Minister to Bolivia has turned up at Washington without get duting leave of absence from his post o ty. He explains by saying that the Re public of Bolivia is in a state of anarchy, the President having been bounced, and that there is nothing for him to do. The report on foreign missions made to Congress, a few years ago, showed that there nev<r is anything for a United States Minister to do in Bolivia, but he gets $5,000 a year. Berlin takes occasion to crow a little in a recent report issued by the munici pality. Berlin is of the opinion that it has done some pretty good growing of late years. At the close of the seven teenth century, when London and Paris had each over 100,000 inhabitants, Ber lin had only 10,000. At the beginning of the present century Berlin had 150 000 people'within its gates; at the end of 1360 there were 500,000 inhabitants in the city. Since 1877 there has been over 1,000,000 in Berlin. The city naturally thinks it has not done so bad ly to double its population in seventeen years. It is now next to London and Paris in population. Three fa ctions are said to be contend ing for the control of Russian policy— the purely reactionary or autocratic party, the reform party aiming to secure the most.important reforms, and the so called new party, desiring only a few moderate reforms, such as the decentral ization of the Russian administration. This party does not seek to have a parli ament, but simply provincial delega tions with a purification of the civil ser vice, and the adoption of severe measures against all destructive agencies. Count Schouvaloff is the chief supporter of these views, and his return to office will, in a measure, depend on them making them palatable to the Czar. When you see a man with a gun on his shoulder and three dogs at his heels making across the country, you needn’t feel bad for the rabbits. He’ll miss a crow or two, find a few frozen apples, fall info a creek, and return home, be lieving hs has had a thundering good big tine. The North Georgian. VOL. 111. SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS. Wheat and oat crops 100k 1 well in Georgia. The Georgia State Geological Depart ment is no more. Arkansas ranks next to Texas as a cot ton producing state. Eight hundred negroes left Jasper and Clark counties, Mississippi, last week for Kansas. The Atlantic and North Carolina railroad is now paying the interest on its bonded bebt. The five cotton factories in and near Petersburg, Va., used last year 9,000 bales of cotton. There are six murder cases on the docket for the February term of court at Chesterfield, S. C. The post-office at Atlanta will lie mov ed into the new Government building early in the spring. Ex-Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, has a gold mine in South Carolina which pays him SI,OOO a week. The Fair company at Darlington, S. C., has declared a divi dend of seven per cent. The Oxmoor furnace, at Birmingham, Ala., yields eighty tons of iron, and is netting SI,OOO per day. Atlanta baa twelve regular passenger trains arriving each day, and they are said to be all well filled” An orange weighing a pound and a half has been gathered by John S- Liv ingston, of Palatka, Fla. A bale of cotton was raffled off at San Antonto, Texas, for the Hood relief fund, and brought $242.50. Gov. Joseph E. Brown has purchased real estate in Atlanta in the past six months amounting to $35,000. Lots sold for taxes by the sheriff at Hampton, S. C. were bought at good prices by enterprising citizens. A bale of cotton weighing 350 pounds, shipped from Wilsen, 8. C., was found to contain 300 pounds of stone. They are talking of establishing a cot ton factory in Spartanburg county, S. C., with a capital of over SIOO,OOO. The real estate in Columbus, Ga., is assessed this year at $778,685 —an in crease over last year of $128,000. A first-class wagon and carriage shop is being established at Huntsville, Ala., by a Mr. Laptes, from Louisville. Eleven bales of cotton were destroyed at Goldsboro through the carelessness of a boy who was popping fire-crackers. The shoe trade of Macon, Ga., is gerater in proportion to the population than that of any other city in the south. In Virginia the killing of partridges and pheasants is prohibited between January 1 and October 15 in each year. Good farm laborers in Oglethorpe county, Ga., get from SSO to SBO per year and their board, while a few get SIOO. Texas has 7,000 schools, and her school fund is apportioned equally among the children of scholastic age, regardless of color. To pay a debt, the vestry of Christ’s church, Alexandria, Va., are endeavor ing to sell the Bible used by Gen. Wash ington. Contractors say that the amount of building in Atlanta next spring will be enormous. Real estate is going steadily upward. The amount of stealing in Greenville county, South Carolina, has become so great that many persons have erected man-traps. The Commissioner of Agriculture of Tennessee has prepared a large and com plete map of the state at his own per sonal expense. Montgomery Advertiser: Alabama coal is fast becoming the fuel for steamships that ply in the commerce of the Gulf ports. The ladies of Americus, Ga., are col lecting money to pay for removing the Confederate dead from Andersonville to the former place. The town council of Elberton, Ga., has fixed the license for retailing liquors at SI,OOO. Opposition will carry the mat ter into the'courts. The directors of the coming Florida State Fair, to be held in Jacksonville, have decided that no games of chance will be allowed on the grounds. The Little Rock, Gas company has reorganized, and the city will again be lighted with gas. The price of gas to private consumers is $3.75 per. 1,000 feet. One hundred and thirty-six loaded cars were sent south over the Chatta nooga railroad wi thin ten hours Thursday Eight locomotives were required to haul them. The only vow that a young lady in Marion county, Fla., made on the open ing of the new year was that before the year ended she would get married, by jingo. Prof. Jas M. Safford, of Nashville, has been appointed assistant to Prof. E. W. Hilgard, special agent in charge, to write up the production of cotton in Tennessee. W. 8. Thomas, who resides near Eliza bethtown, Tenn., has two sons, one thir teen years eld and weighing 351 pounds, and the other seven years old and weigh ing 173 pounds. The police force of New Orleans last year made 18,342 arrests, of whom 12- 781 were males and 5,561 females. The number of these who could not read or write was 6,925. BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA„ JANUARY 29. 1880. NO. 4. The state debt of Mississippi is $2,618,- 900 47. During the past two years the debt has been "reduced $220,000. The cash balance in the treasury Dec. 31, 1872, was $800,757 14. After defraying the current expenses of last year, the city of Americus, Ga., has remaining in its" treasury $938 36, besides a balance in bank to the credit of the city of $5,57184. The Brown House,* in Macon, Ga., was recently sold, including furniture, to P. C. Lounsberry, of New York, for $58,761. The outstanding debts of the house amount to $26,000. Hon. Henry Parsons, member from the Fourth Georgia district, will make an effort during the present session of Congress to get through a large appro priation for the Chattanooga river. In Danville, Va., a man named Wil liam Fuller was offered a quart of whisky by a saloon-keeper on condition that he was to drink it on the premises at once. He accepted the offer and was buried the next dsy. Chas. E. Roberts, well known in news paper circles, who has been engaged in theological studies at Nashville, Tenn., is lecturing on “ Negro Civilization in the South.” He has also written a book on this subject. Greenville (S. C.) News: A medium rabbit hunt came off in the lower part of the county one day last week. Eighty six of the insects were captured, as many more were treed, and it was a. poor day for rabbits, anyway. Memphis Appeal: The protection of cotton has become a matter of considera tion in cotton circles. We have shed room for some forty thousand bales; and we have nearly one hundred and twelve thousand bales on hand. In the dissection of the whale captur ed last week at Charleston, S. C., the eyes were extracted. They are about the size of an ordinary orange, three inches in diameter, and very firm to the touch The pupils are oval. A Dangerous Whim. Officer Gillespie, of San Francisco, was recently waited on by a woman named McConnell, who resides on Mis sion street, and who stated that she wanted him to take charge of her hus band, who was on the street, armed with an ax, and threatening the lives of those who passed by. The officer went to the place designated, and there saw McConnell, whose first name is James and who is a blacksmith by oc cupation, standing on the sidewalk with an uplifted ax in his right hand. The officer took charge of the wan and conveyed him to the Centra! Station, where he was examined and found to have received two wounds, in the back of the right hand and on the upper part of the left shoulder. The prisoner was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, and after his wounds, which are very slight, were dressed, he was questioned, and said: "This whole thing arises from the fact that some one had connected an electric battery, or something of that sort, With my bed last Monday night. I don’t know ex actly what it was, but it was a sort oi cross between an electric light box and a telephone, from which numerous streams of electricity darted and dis turbed me. This was going on all the time, yet my wife could not see the light, which lit up the place more bril liantly than the sun. I went out and watched and saw my neighbors throw ing electric balls and darts at my house. I came here to-day to complain to the Chief of Police, but went away, as I was satisfied I wouldn’t get much satisfac tion anyhow. To-night I got the ax and saw the fellers at the same work again, so I determined to stop every one who came along to find out if they had anything to do with the electric current, and I halted every one that came along; but every time I raised the ax to strike, a dart of electricity was thrown at me and that made my arm powerless. Some people say I had the jim-jams, but that’s false.” The “Mouse-Cure.” This name has been given, and cor rectly enough, to a new remedy for leck-jaw. The account of it sounds more like waggery than fact, but the New York Timet tells it "bona.fidely" of an ingenious French physician, who was called in to prescribe for a lady suffer ingfrom tetanus. Her family doctor tried every known remedy without effect. The patient was lying on her back with her mouth tightly closed, and the muscles of her jaws and throat rigid, so that she could not utter a sound. The new physician went out and pro cured a live mouse, and attached a strong horse-hair to its tail. Placing the mouse at the foot of the bed, he allowed it to creep over the pa tient the entire length of her body. She soon felt the creature, and notic ing what it was, sprang up and screamed, “Take it off! take it off I and scolded the doctor very glibly for a horrid, heartless wretch!” The doctor laughed,and so did his at tendants, for all saw that the mouse had completely broken the lady’s lockjaw. One nervous shock has been cured by another. She had no return of the tetanus symptoms; and the doctor was so well convinced of the value of his four-legged homoeopathy that he went on trying it for other nervous diseases, prudently, of course, and it is said that he made the “mouse-cure” a success every time. “ Some has bad luck from the shtart,” said Mr. O’Conemara, “and sorra taste av anythingelse iver comes to ’em. Wid me, now, Oi was born a twin the same as me brother, and we niver had but wan birthday betune the two av us, until he doled, long loife to him!’' fl UTS, JUSTICE, LIBER T Y. m pastok-h iussignation, *t I. rmab vena. flw <ed pastor bowed his head within the Kltar’s railing; Kte heads were tremulous with age, his sight and hearing failing; Fond faith and trust were striving hard to fight away his fears. Bat y«t hte heart was sore and sad and sought re lief tn tears. For forty yean Hs tongue proclaimed to all sal vation’s story. For forty years to all who came he offered hope of ■tory. For forty years the bell that eehoed now from out fho steeple Fiwol'dnied that here his warning voloo had tidings for his people. Bat new the leaden of the clnureh—an influential eten— Bad sailed on him to yield his place to hold a younger man; Bis < MorgiM had long been spent, «twas meet he Should rettre Tha they might call a man of mark endowed with youthful fire. With nuavering voice he gave response to friends who offered greeting, Ind listened in an absent way to members in the meeting— Ettsccursing in familiar tones of changes they were making— And asking him to make remarks, although his heart was breaking. But «et he apoke— as oft before— his votes aglow with feeling, White down his faded, furrowed face slow tears were softly stealing, A holy hush pervading all, as though an angel spell Had rested on them, as ho rose to bid his Boek fare well. Ho spoke of memories sad and swoot, of dim and distant days, Os forty years of constant toil, of pain and prayer and praise— Os ohfldren -christened by his hand who stood before him still, While some reposed beneath the flowers upon ths distant hili. And here his voice sank sad and low—tor there hi a child and wife Were laid when death had left him lone to live his laboring life— Far more were they he onoe had known, who ’neath the willows slept. Than they who sat before him now, and o’er thoir memories wepU For all he prayed as fathers pioad for children whom they love. That all might once again be joined in God’s abode above; And then, In voice replete with tones of love and fond < nleasing, He raised his trembling hands aloft and gave to all his blessing. The saddened people silent sat as he resumed his chair, While rays of sunshine softly fell and played upon his hair, And rested there with light caress, as though a w golden chain. By which an angel message sought and soothed him in his pain. The organ broke tbe silence than with sweetly so) emn roll, That wailed in waves of stiver song across the sad soul, > Vttt. * rtock es Ages,* old, yetnow-—majestic, grand, and strong- Well may the angel choirs above Ito quivering notes prolong. The people lose to bo dismissed; their pastor lin gered stfll, And smiling looked upon the graves that crowned the distant hill; But whan they sought with gentle touch to wak* the musing mind, They found that death had called him henoe: A Story for Little Boys. 'ftodueed from tbs operation* of William H. VanderM! by the Boston Transcript] Shall I tell you a sto-ry a bout Will iam? How your eyes bright-en. You know that Will-iam is a good boy. You think, “ What new* thing has this Will iam done!” I shall tell you. Will-iam’s pa-pa was ve-ry eX-pert at taw and drop, lie scooped in ev-er so ma-ny mar-bles. He a -ways played for keeps. When he died, he did not take his mar-bles with him. He was a-fraid they would be come dam-aged. If you throw a mar ble in-to your dear ma-ma’s cook-stove, you will un-der stalid. So Will-iams pa-pa gave them all to Will-iam. But William had so ma-ny nar-bles that he could bust ev-er-y boy that played with him. Af-tef a time, no boy could be found who would play with him at all. Will-iam was ver-y sad. He looked at his mar-bles and wept bii-ter-ly, because no boy would play with him. He said: “ How am I to get more mar-bles? No fel-ler will play with me.” Fi-nal-ly, Cy-rus and Kus-sell and Jay and a lot of other boys offered to go snacksf with Will-iam; and give him a chance to get a-way with lots of oth-er boys’ mar-bles Said the good Will-iam to him-self: “If I go snacks with these fel-lers, I can scoop in dead loads! of marbles. No one will play with me now. It is not right for me to keep all my mar-bles.” So he went to Cy-rus and Rus-sell and Jay and the oth-er boys. He sold them 25,000,600 mar-bles. Just think I Was he not good? And the boys were so grate-fur that they gave him ever so much old i-ron and oth-er muk. Good deeds should always be re-ward-ed, boys. I know you are glad that Will-iam was re-ward-ed. To be sure, Will-iam had ma-ny more mar-bles. He still kept e-nough to bust Cy-rus and Rus-sell and Jay and the other boys. But of course he would not think of do-ingj such a thing as that. Now, boys, try and be like the good Will-iam. '•'Not “boo,” but “nu,” (“Snacks.” To “go snacks” is to lay in with. “Dead loads.” This means a great many. Becareful to sound the “Dolna,” not “do-In, He Acknowledged the Corn. It has always been thought that ears of corn have an even number of rows, and that one with an odd number of rows would be an impossibility. In slavery times this question was dis cussed, and a negro in this country claimed that he had seen ears of that kind. His master told him that he would give him his (the negro’s) free dom for an ear with an odd number of rows. This was in the early spring; but in the fall, during corn-gatnering time the negro came with a sound ear with thirteen rows. He got his free papers. A long time afterward the negro told that in roasting time he took n sharp knife, cut out one row of grains, bound the ear together, and knew just j where to find it when gathering time 1 cauie. HAMLET WITH A NAVY PISTOL. A Little Joke ou a St. Louis Drummer. George Ninaman, a St. Louis drum mer, stopped one night last week at a small crossroads hotel in Grant County, southern Arkansas. The house contained four rooms and a kitchen. After supper Ninaman was told that he must spend part of the night alone, as the family would attend a protracted meeting in the neighborhood. The host, with his wife and daughter, left the house, and Ninaman sat in one of the rooms alone. His lonesomeness was added to by an owl in the yard, which hooted dismally, and an old red clock on the shelf which ticked solemnly. The drummer not having been assigned to a room, could not go to bed, and he tried to keep awake by reading the “ Life of St. Paul,” the only book he could find. Tne hog grease lamp was sputtering in unison with the ticking of the clock, when the door of an inner room opened and a tall, wild-eyed, bushy-haired man entered. W itliout speaking he seated himself and stared at Ninaman, who naturally showed surprise. Presently a conver sation was begun, and the man exhibited such intelligence that Ninaman’s fear was allayed, especially as the man claimed to be the landlord’s brother. The conversation turning on literary subjects, the man remarked: “ Did you ever hear Hamlet’s soliloquy recited properly?” “ I think sosaid Ninaman, “ I have heard Booth.” “ Booth does not catch the spirit,” said the strange looking man. “He fails to engraft the twig of dispair on the tree of Hamlet’s nature. Would you like to hear it recited properly?” “Yes.” “You shall hdar it. I hope nothing tragic will occur, but by Moses, you shall have it anyhow.” Arising, the wild-eyed man darted into an adjoining room, and returned with a navy pistol. Placing the pistol on the table he "began •to recite in a voice so deep and with an air so wild that Ninamau was startled. When he came to “ take up arms against the sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them,” he seized the pistol, cocked it, and placed the muzzle against his head. “ Shall I end them with you?” - Ninaman suggested that his troubles were not greater than he could bear, and asked the man to lay aside his pistol. “Ah, I see you do not like tragedy. You no doubt like comedy. Pull off your coat and dance, or I’ll end your life.” The pistol was leveled, and Ninaman pulled off his coat and began to dance. “ Woop it up,” yelled the man, “or I’ll end them. Pull off your trousers.” The trousers came off and the dancing continued. “ Pull off your drawers.” The drawers came off. “ Off with your shirt.” The shirt flew into the air; a noise was heard outside, and the landlord,hid wife and daughter were on the porch.es “ Let me go, for God’s sake,” plead Ninaman. “No, sir; I’ll kill you if you attempt to leave. You are a comedian.” The door-knob turned. Ninaman sprang toward a door and rushed up stairs as the pistol snapped. In a few minutes the landlord came up and handed Ninaman his clothes. “I forgot to tell you,” said he, “that my brother is deranged. He has an old pistol, but couldn’t hurt anything with it. He is harmless, but likes his little jokes.” The next morning the wild man was in such good humor that he offered to beat Ninaman throwing rocks at an oyster can. Telephones and Talking fish. [London Telegraph.] That the telephone would eventually prove a source not only of great gratifi cation but of valuable instruction no body ever doubted. It has, however, re mained for some thoughtful scientific gentleman to utilize it in away which Will commend itself to all who lovingly observe nature. One of these, anxious to know how far the animal world as simulated itself to our own, lately intro duced a telephone into some water which contained a fish. To his aston ishment he found that the creature, alone and. unable to converse with any thing else, was actually talking to itself. Mr. 8. E. Pearl now comes forward and, in a letter to a scientific contemporary, confirms this assertion. He, too, has been listening, and he finds that the large “Mashir”. — Barbet Macrocephahu— converse with a peculiar “cluck” or per suasive sound, which may be heard as far as forty feet from the water. He has also discovered that a large bivalve exists in some parts of Eastern Assam which actually “sings loudly in concert.” After this it would be interesting to know what it is that the pike says to the roach before •’wallowing it. If we are ex pertenoughto read ciphers, surely we might without great dffieulty learn the language of the jack. A Polite Man. Hon. John M. Eroadhead, lately lying dangerously ill in the Broadhead man sion at South Market, N. H., seems to have retained his sense of humor in the very presence of the grim messenger of death. “One day," says the South Market Advertiser, “ when he was very low, and Dr. Varney had announced that he would not live more than forty eight hours, he apologized to his brother in-law, Mr. Pike, to whom he is on a visit, saying: ‘ Excuse me for being so impolite as to leave my corpse in your house, for I promise not to repeat the offense;’ ana softly added, ‘a grave ioka.’ ” Published Every Thurway at BELLTON, GEORGHA. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION One year (52 numbers), $1.00; six months (26 numbers), 50 cents ; three months (23 numbers), 25 cents. Ortice in the ISmith building, east of the depot. f THE FALLS OF THE SIOUX. BY L. O. WILSOB. I’ve seen the wonders of emr land In mountain, valley, stream and strand, But ne’er before a spot did find With such a wealth of oharma as thlna. A thousand waterfalls in one, A thousand rills around me ran; A thousand brooklets laugh and ieap. And make this lovely acene complete. Thy waters tell me of that day When, moons—ay, moons and moons; The Indian o’er these worn rocks trod, And held communion with his God. When, o’er these myriad waterfalls And through this tele with sylvan halls. The dusky maid and lover strolled And love’s old—nay, new—story told. Here, on thwe rooks beneath the trees, Sho sat, while he, on bended knees, Vowed that bls love ahonid novar wans While rock and waterfall remain. Again they tell of years to ooms— Os wheel, and shaft, and spindle hum Os food and fabric, all complete, Man’s universal wants to most. I love Dakota more and more— Her prairies vast, her mines of ore— I love her mountains and her glades. But most her beautiful cascades. And, though I roam in other lands— In city dense on ooean’s strands— Thy oharms shall reign tn mena’ry’s halls, And bring me back to thee, • Blonx Falls.* EVERY DAY NI’ICERIES. The tongue of the real belle never told slander.— Whitehall Timet. Courtship, says an exchangs, is not run by the rule of three. But after courtship is run by 10; the woman 1, and the man 0. It is difficult to understand why a wife never asks het husband “if the doors are all locked” until after he is snugly covered up in bed.' “lIEAREST let me correct your morals. You address me, ‘My dearest Maria.* Am I to suppose that yon have other dear Marias?” He said, “I think I’ll utilize your suggestion.” She replied flushed with indignation, “I don’t tell lies, and you’re a mean nasty thing.” The difference between us and Van derbilt is that Vander has $16,000,000 in four per cents, and we haven’t foui per cent, in $16,000,000. “ Life is full of golden opportunities," remarks a philosopher. It is, it is; bus they arn’t worth their face when you try to cash them. The word “ Caution ” appears in many medicine advertisements, and a good deal of attention should be paid to it. Men are beginning to feel uncertain as to the policy of wedging a mapls tooth-pick between their teeth and breaking it off, for the sake of dislodg ing a bit of codfish. This is the the time of church fain, whin The lamps shine o’er fair women and brare mon W In n oyster soup with Its golluptlouß amell, For forty cents a dish is made to sell. —Toronto Graphio. “ Did you do nothing to resuscitate the body?” was recently asked of a wit ness at a coroner’s inquest. “Yes, sir; we searched the pockets,” was th« reply. The rumor is.out that Gen. Grant ii using the silk copy of the Hawkeye pre sented him, for a handkerchief. —Quincj Modem Argo. This is a sad blow fo.s Burdette. Who nose if it is true? A son who had always been sup ported by his father, cremated the ok gentleman after death, and put hit ashes in an urn, so that people couldn’t say he never urned his living. People with political communica tions are respectfully informed that we have no italic type in this office. We will not need them ourselves until after the next election, and we sincerely trust not then. Child (scarcely three years old) look ing wistfully at a diminutive pie: Mother—” Now, Meta, I want yon to save your nice pie so your papa can see it when he comes home.” Child—look ing still more wastfully—“l sink I could tell papa ezacly how it looks.” If you haven’t spunk just eat buck wheat cakes. They’ll make you come to .he scratch.—Meridi-n Recorder. Yon iust come to the scratch and acknowl edge that this is our paragraph, writ ten by us months ago.— Kwvuk Conetit*.'. ‘don. WHAT’S HOKOR? Ask not the soldier in the battle’s wan, Nor yet the statesman, uncorrupt as gold, But her beneath your own roof-tree who can And will most willingly, to you unfold The secret. Bid her mark your neighbor’s wife When she her ample wardrobe seeks, te don her Fino garments; when she reappears, my life. I’ll stake, your better half can tali what’s oa her. The advantages of literary culture are very great. A young man spent much of his time in the Public Library in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied science. He came across a minute description of a still. He thought he could make one. He also made whisky. He is now in jail. Take a dead wasp and impale him on the point of a needle set up in the bot tom of a wood chair so that the insect conceals the needle, and then all you want is to find some man who will be foolish enough to bet that he can sit down on that wasp quick and hard enough to crush it Before it can get its work in. The number of convicts in 1878 in all the State prisons of the Union was 29,197, of whom 13,188 were employed in mechanical industries. The countries in which calico print ing is chiefly practiced are, in the order of thoir importance, Great. Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Russia and the United States of late years has become also an exten sive producer of printed cottons. In the United Kingdom, which takes the first place in the point of production, as Alsace is supposed to do in the mat ters of color and design, there are 140 firms engaged in the trade.