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K ortl] Qeorgi ai], PI’BLK Us) V'3' v THURSDAY ; TA l BELLTON, GrA. By jo TI X BL ATS. I KRWS—SI.O , Jn , .50 ntg {or six hi -V ':> n • ■ quested m ouutt of c e-ai. . i j sl. Phk Doni Peitrb If. Railroad is the largest and, with perhaps one exception, the most important in Brazil. The total length of the main line js 365 nii'es, and extensions are made almost every year. The road was commenced under the man agement of an incorporated company interest of 7 per cent.. on the capital stock being guaranteed by the govern ment. But in building the first portion of thejoad it was necessary to cross the mountains near Rio, and by the time 100 miles were completed, the capital was entirely exhausted. In 1865 the govern ment bought the road of the stockhold ers and it has since been built and run as a branch of the imperial service. On the invested capital of rather more than $40,000,"000 the government realizes an average income of five and a half per centum yearly. A Bismarck’s plan to increase the’ strength of the German standing army is aimed primarily at France. The west ern frontier of Germany is to be greatly strengthened in view of the steady in crease of the French army during the last few years. France, out of a popu lation of 37,000,000, has 704,000 men in the active army, 510,000 in the reserve, 582.000 in the territorial-army and 625,- 000 in the territorial reserve, in all about 2,400,000 men. The German Govern ment has now 401,000 men in the active army,soo,ooo in the reserve, 580,000 in the landwehr and 1,080,000 in the land sturm, dr 2,51i,000 in all who have mil itary training, and there are 3.345,000 men who have received no military training. France has 1,330,600 men who have received no training. The Ger mans excel in cavhlry and the French in artillery. Bismarck, in increasing the active army of Germany, also, of course, has his eye on Russifc, whose old policy of Russianizing the German population of the,Czar’s Baltic provinces, has been revived. The repressive measures at Revel, Riga and elsewhere, have revived German national feeling, which may not in vain appeal to Germany, where Bis marck is bent upon carrying out his pan- Germanic theories and cot solidating all the Teutonic Jieoples of Europe. ■ 1 SOLTHERA NEWS. there is not a house for rent in Co lumbus, Ga. The Academy of Music, recently de stroyed by fire at Greenville, S. C.,’is to be rebuilt immediately. There are twice as many visitors from the North at .Jacksonville, Ha., as there were at this time last year. Only three cities in South Carolina have daily newspapers—Columbia, Charleston and Greenville. In Augusta, Ga., the lamps on all the street corners are to be ornamented with the names of the Streets. During the next thirty days thirteen iron furnaces will be put in operation in the vicinity of Rome, Ga. Confederate SSO bills, smeared with green ink, have been lately passed on greenies in McLennan county, Texas. The owners of the cotton factory at Hawkinsville, Ga.. will soon have four Clement attachments in operation. A firm at Sherman, Texas, shipped on one day 13,000 fur peltries, the largest shipment ever made from that State. The Pearl-river oil mills at Jackson, Miss., consume 200 sacks of cotton seed daily and produce fifteen barrels in oil. Thomas Fulton, of Green county, Ga., has a plantation of 1,300 acres, and has only one hand on it, all the rest having left since Christmas. Atlanta has fewer policemen now than she had ten years ago. A new torce will be elected in April, at which time there will be 500 applicants for forty places. The Air Line Railroad Company is having a row of shade trees planted out on either side of the track at the stations along the line from Atlanta Ga., to Charlotte, N. C. One hundred and twenty-five acres of strawberries have been planted in Flor ida this season for the Northern markets. The yield ranges from 4,000 to 6,000 quarts per acre. The fair at Macon, Ga., for the benefit es the Macon Volunteers, was a decided success, the net receipts being nearly $3,000. Little Rock Democrat: The cotton brought to Little Rock this season, es timated at 45,000 bales, and the average firice of $53 per bale, realized the snug ittle sum of $23,850,000. How is that for the new Chicago ? Arkansas has 3,387 miles of navigable water courses regularly traversed by steamboats. She has eight railroads, having eight hundred miles of road com pleted and in operation. Wilmington(N. C.) Star: A prominent colored man has been to the trouble of ascertaining the sentiments of the colored voters of this city as to their choice for the Presidency. The list, so far as a preference was expressed, stands as fol lows: Blaine, 723 ; Grant, 221; Sher man, 11. Little Rock Democrat: Cotton facto ries are an immense success in Arkansas The North Georgian. VOL. 111. The Qnepaw Cotton Mill, of this city, has a contract for furnishing cotton twine to the wholesale Chicago house of A. T. Stewart & Co. tha cannot be com pleted in less than two months. The mill never shuts down until 10 o’clock at night. Montgomery Advertiser: The Alaba ma Historical Society, at Tuscaloosa, de sires to collect, a complete cabinet of Confederate money. Those who have the difterent denominations of money, and have no special use for it, would be glad, no doubt, to send it to the Histori cal Society, where it will be carefully preserved. Richmond Commonwealth: In many counties of West Virginia steps are being taken to organize wool-growers’ and sheep-breeders’ associations, the object being to encourage the raisingof improv ed breeds of sheep aud to extend the raising of wool and mutton, and above all to secure a better protection against the ravages of dogs. Nashville American: The amount of money invested in steamboats running in the Nashville trade, from 1818 to 1846, was over $2,000,000. Now the invest ments in steamboats can be couned only by the thousands, instead of by millions, the railroads having to a very large ex tent, absorbed the commercial business of not only Nashville, but the entire country. A ! l The Splendor of the Mid-Winter Sky. [N«w York Bou.J The winter evening sky is now a t nearly its greatest brilliancy Os the fifteen first magnitude stars visible in this lattitude twelve can be seen be tween 7 and 10 o’clock p. m. The only ones not visible within tho*e hours are Arcturus, Antares, and Spica. This array of the chief leaders of the firma ment furnishes a fine opportunity for a study that receives little attention, and which yet possesses peculiar interest for those who delight in the picturesque as pect of the starry heavens. To learn to recognize the leading stars’ individual peculiarities by which they can be dis tinguished from one another, very much as one distinguishes faces in a crowd, is perhaps, hardly a scientific pursuit, yqt it is by no mean an idle intellectual amusement. No better time than the present could he chosen for this study of what might be called the physiog nomy of the stars. Nobody, for in stance, could mistake Vega, the bright star that can be seen in the northwest early in the evening, for any other in the sky. Its peculiar color and bril liancy have been admired by astron omers for ages. Over in the east, a little later, Betelguese and Rigel, the chief twinkiers injOrion, may be seen, with Aldebaran in the Bull shining high above them. Rigel looks very much like Vega, yet a careful eye de tects a difference of color. Betelguese and Aldebaran are at once classed to gether as red stars, yet there is the most beautiful contrast of hue between them. Aldebaran is of a pale rosy color, and Betelguese, which varies remarkably in brightness, is of a reddish orange Nearly overhead, at about 10 o’clock, is Capella, which seems to vie in bright ness with Rigel, yet the two can never be confounded; for while Rigel blazes and scintillates, like a diamond shaken in the sunlight, Capella shines with a steady, unchanging luster that makesit one of the most beautiful of all the stars. Sirius, which rises shortly after Rigel, is distinguished by his superior size, and by the ceaseless flashing of prismatic colors, surrounding him with a sort of halo well becoming the chief of all the stars. Whoever has once learned to know these stars, as he knows the faces of his friends, may wander to every corner of the world without losing the feeling that he is vet at home. The Future Center of Commerce and Culture. As Mr. Gladstone has thought that the commercial center of the world may shift from London to New York, so M. Littre, the famous French lexicog rapher, thinks that the center of cul ture will move from the Seine to the banks of the Hudson. This gentleman is of opinion that the ruling language of the future will be Anglo-Saxon, and its chief seat of learning will be in the United States. As regards population, that race comes first; its numbers in a generation or two will probably reach 400,000,000 of the human race. After then comes the Chinese, equal innum ber, but, as a static people, unworthy to rank with Western races as a factor in the world’s development. After the Anglo-Gaxon, as governing races, M. Littre puts the Russian, and then the Spanish, to whom he concedes in the fu ture the greatest part of the South American continent. The capacity for expansion of the United States and Russia may possibly menace the inde pendence of old European states; but, in this respect, M. Littre argues that the security of human life individually which has followed in the wake of civil ization, will also be accorded to the States, and that Russia and America, unlike the ancient Babylon and Egypt, will develop without injury to the na tions upon whose frontiers they may touch. The teacher of a class in natural his tory gave out this question: “Which is the meekest of all domestic animals?” A young miss, who had passed the previous summer at Long Branch, prom ptl y a nswe red: “The meekest domes tic animal is the mosquito, because if you bitit on one cheek and don’t kill it, it comes back again and gives you a chance to hit it en the ether.” BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA FEBRUARY 19. LSSQ. BURIAL OF PERSONS ALIVE. The Difficulty of Telling l the Difference Between Death and a State Trance. [Chicago Intar-Ocean.] “Ah, merciful God!” piously exclaims Camillo, “how many living men and wo men are annually taken to their graves!” Were it possible to get at the truth the victims in this country alone might be numbered by many scores— possibly by hundreds. Mr. G. Eric Mackay, in the current number of Belgravia, gives a very interesting article on the subject of “ Premature Burials,” in which he points out how difficult it is to discern the dif ference between death and a case of trance —indeed, he goes so far as to claim that the difference has never been quite clearly understood by the general ity of mankind. The article calls atten tion to several instances of premature burials on the Continent of Europe; in stances which Involve stories of trance, the semblance of death holding its sway over the human body for hours and days and net merely for minutes, as in the case of ordinary fainting fits. In his opening remarks the writer says: “In days when land is dear, and bur ial rights less sacred than the rights of builders and contractors, coffins have been opened with the pickaxe, in the act of converting cemeteries into streets and gardens. Here a grave has been discovered whose inmate has turned in its shroud; here a corpse clutching its hair in a strained and unnatural condi tion; dead men and dead women lying in their graves as the dead never lie in a Christan land at the moment of bur ial.” Mr. Mackay gives an account of a young and beautiful women who, it is supposed, died of over excitement at the prospect of being married. When the first shovelful of dirt was thrown on the coffin a strange noise was heard on the inside. The coffin was unscrewed, but too late. The girl was found in an at titude of horror and pain impossible to describe—her eyes wide open, her teeth clenched, her hands clutching her hair, but life was extinct. An instance show ing the utter depravity of the Italian undertakers and grave-diggers is given in which they actually tried to snatch the body of a lady from her friends, one of whom thought she was not dead. A s they were about to drag it from the bed the “ dead body” moaned, and soon af terward was thoroughly revived by a medical practitioner of the neighbor hood, and lived to tell the story of her escape from the tomb. A learned Car dinal incurred the displeasure of Hie King, and on being rebuked, fell to the ground, to all appearances, dead. It was decided that the unfortunate Cardinal should be embalmed, but when the sur geons began their operations the p itient awoke, but too late, for the wounds were mortal. A case is given in which a young lady arose out of her coffin and appeared be fore the family at supper, “pale and frightened, but fair to fee as before death.” The doctor, the priest, and the undertaker saw the error of their way, but the priest alone made amends by officiating at the young Indy’s wedding a year after he had preached her funeral sermon. Petrarch, when a mid He aged man, lay twenty hours in a trance, and narrowly escaped being buritd alive. We have often beard the story of the Consul’s wife, who was buried alive and released from her pain ful position by robbers, who broke open the coffin to steal the lady’s jewelry. Among the other stories of resuscitated victims of apparent death, is one of an old gentleman who was revived by one of his skeptical friends putting a burn ing taper to his nose. His life was saved but the sad story of his escape from the very jaws of death was ever afterward told by the scarred and crimson beacon on his face. A number of stories are given oi the revival of hospital patients aftei they have been carried out to the dead house. This seems a very common oc currence in Europe. Two of the moss terrible statements are of children being born in the tomb, one of whom, accord ing to Mr. Mackay, being discovered by a lucky incident lived to be a man, and occupied for several years the post of Lieutenant-General on the frontiers 'of Cherez. Several instances are given oi per.-.ons who have been cognizant of what was going on around them, yet powerless to stop their burial. On case is given of a schoolmaster who, had it not been for the arrival of a sister, would have been buried alive. The passionate grief of the sister caused the eyelids of the de ceased to quiver, and the truth was dis covered. It is impossible to prolong the list of examples, but enough has been already •aid to show the wickedness of hasty fu nerals, aud the necessity of establishing a proper system ol tests. Does it ever occur to the minds of Americans that funerals are often conducted very quickly in this country, as well as in Italy and the warm couutri?-Eu rope ? It is doubtful if the bodies of the poor people who live in the tenement aanrM or nnr cities <>re emmin'"’ very closely before mey are interred; n. is doubtful'if the greatest care is excer cised in this matter in the rural districts, where good physicians cannot be at the death beds of sick persons, and where rich and poor alike are often intrusted to doctors who are neither famous for learning or intuition. The writer in Belgravia is inclined to think that one of the needsof the world is a simple test and not a complicated series of tests, which would be out of the reach of the poor and beyond the power of inexperi enced or badly-paid doctors. It will be reassuring to have that test as soon as possible. T RUT II JU ST r C , IIBEi: rr. Mr. Julius Jackass. [London Telegraph.] A paragraph which has recently’ ap peared in the German official papers in forms the subjects of His Majesty, the King of Prussia, that the Royal Pro vincial Government at Dusseldorf has graciously authorized one .Julius Jack ass, resident In Lohdorf, District of Solingen, as well as h’s wife and chil dren, to change the family name lie has hitherto borne, into that of Courage. Such a surname as Jackass can not but be a chronic affliction to the uufortu ■ nate persons condemned by the accident of birth to answer to it, and Mr. C mr age, formerly Jackass, may be congrat ulated upon the result of his appeal to the merciful consideration of the con stituted authorities, who have relieved him from all but intolerable patronymic. In Germany, however, such an infliction is less grievous to its victims than else where, because quaint names arc so abundant in every class of society that the edge of public apprehension is blunted as far as their comical or re proachful significance is concerned. Nobody smiles when introduced to Mr. Bloodsausage, Mrs. Grayhorsepenny, or Master Sugartart. Nobody’ is sorry for the representative of one of the oldest noble families in North Germany, doomed by destiny to hear the omi nous nomenclature, “ Gatekeeper of Hell.” When the betrothal of First Lieutenant Bourherring to Miss Two year-old-wild-boar, was published some time ago in the National Zeitiing and other leading Berlin journals, that ap parently fantastic and patonymic an nouncement excited no popular wonder ment to speak of. Mr. Jackass, how ever, evidently found his “ fronf. name’ to be more than he could bear with any degree of comfort, or even resignation ; and it is creditable to the good taste of the royal officials at Dusseldorf that they should, as it were, have paid tribute tn the vigor of the resolve inspiring him to rid liimself forever of a patronymic that remorelessly “set him down as an ass,” by bestowing upon him the highly honorable and appropriate surname oJ Courage.” American Farmers on the Ainazons. | Ffom Smith’s “Brazil and the Amazons."J Down the Santa rem street come four brown horses, dragging an immense American wagon; a tall, coatless indi vidual sits astride ono of the leaders, and guides the cavalcade with much flourish. and noise. He draws up in front of’St. Gaetano’s store and salutes the merchant; then alights and marches straight up to us, remarking, “Well! who are you?” Os course, we get ac quainted at once, and Mr. Platt is a man worth knowing, too. He is one of some fifty Americans who are established in the forest near by. Platt is himself a Tennesseean; the others are from Mis sissippi, Alabama, and so on. Farmer Piatt oresses us to “come out for a few days,” and we go. The wagon, he in forms us, was sent from his old home in Tennessee, and, in spite of a law which declares agricutural implements free of duty, the duties amounted to as much as the original cost. Presently we stop with a jerk; one of the wheels is caught in a big Iliana. The farmer’s wife wel comes us cordially, the children are shy, for they do pot often see strangers. All the Americans are cultivating sugarcane; the juice is distilled into rum. which is sold at Santarem. Prob ably coffee or cacao might pay better, but our colonists came without money and can not wait for slow-growing crops. Platt saved a little money and bought this ground of an Iridian woman, and bad to carry provisions six miles on his back. Platt had to grind his corn at a wooden mill until he could get an iron one, at double the original cost. And so with ail tools and agricultural im plements. “The children have no schooling,” complains Mrs. Platt; “they can’t even goto a Brazillian master, fur we are too far from town.” Sometimes they visit with the other Americans, but the plantations are far apart and the roads are rough, and it is not often they can make a holiday, Unless it is Sunday. Attempted Suicide of a Modern Juliet. Bellefontaine, Ohio, some time since, furnished a case of a genuine love-lorn maiden—a school-girl of 15 years, who fell desperately in love with a youth of about the same age. They quarreled over a matter, but did not kiss and make up after the customary manner of lovers. When they met the next morn ing the boy declined to meet the friendly advances of the young lady half-way, but sullenly refused to speak to her at all. A short time after she wrote him a note, saying that unless he forgave her she would kill herself. The youth, it appears, had retired from the Romeo business entirely, and replied by simply telling her to go on with her killing and he would pay the funeral expenses, whereupon she commenced by swallow ing the contents of her ink bottle, which made her very sick. She then tried red ink with no better result. The next move was to procure a rope and repair to an outbuilding for the purpose or hanging herself, but some schoolmates discovered her and thwarted her de signs. She then went home and tried to cut her throat with a pocket-knife, and actually succeeded in cutting quite a gash in her neck. The youth has not relented. The names of both parties are suppressed owing to their promi oence. No language can express the power and beauty and heroism and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where men cower, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of wordly fortune, sends the radiance of its uenchless fidelity like a star in heaven. FACTS AND FANCIES FOR THE FAIR Trains are very plain this season. There are three Japanese lady stu dents at Vassar. Two sizes of buttons are used for most costumes. Bright tints take the lead in nearly all of the mixed goods. House polonaises are made quite bouffant, and are really long basques. Ladybugs of red enamel are the last charming substitute for buttons. Os fifty members elected on the Lon don School Board, nine are women. Neckties of a narrow band of fur fastened with a bright satin bow are pretty. Young women should set good ex amples, for the young men are always following them. There’s many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip, and not a few between the first kiss and the ring. A Philadelphia woman owns the largest colored diamond ever brought to America. .It was wittily said of a beautiful French literary lady, that she had but me fault—a husband. If woman had the ballot what would ihe do with it? It isn’t long enough for a belt or big enough for a bustle. Queen Victoria’s gift to Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris was a miniature of her royal self set in precious stones. A Wetzel country girl says one hug is worth a dozen love letters. They can not be introduced as evidence in a breach of promise suit, either. According to some of the English fashion plates, we are threatened with a revival of the “ waterfall” style of ar ranging the hair. It is said that the fashion of turning down one corner of a visiting card was originated by Gen. Schenck in a fit of absent-mindedness. Give a girl long eyelashes and small hands and she will put up with No. 6 feet and marry all around a curly-headed girl wearing ones and a half. Tub daughters of General Sherman refuse to dance “ the German.”—Float ing Item. Are they equally conscientious about walking Spanish? What did the young lady mean when she said to her lover, “ You may be too late for the train, but you can take a bus?” Before marriage a girl frequently calls her intended “ her treasure,” but when he becomes her husband, she looks upon him as her “ treasurer.” You may meet with twenty men in the day who stutter, but you never heard of the woman who had an impedi ment in her speech. A poet out West, describing Heaven, says—“ It’s a world of bliss fenced in with girls.” Where is the man that won’t repent now ? A conscience void of offence is an inestimable blessing, because it gives a pleasure which no rancoringof malice cau destroy; it is proof against malig nity itself, and smiles upon its most san guinary efforts. Prejudice as a Barrier. Oleomargarine, to use a vulgar phrase, sticks in a great many people’s crops. The popular notion of oleomargarine is that the substance is necessarily com pounded of dead horses and flavored with carbolic acid. But then the pop ular notion of any chemical discovery is very apt to be itself a compound of ignorance and stupidity. Oleomargarine need not be one whit more unwholesome or unpalatable than dairy-made butter. The chemical elements are the same in rach case, and the only difference to the eye of science is in the methods of prep aration. But we need not remind the intelligent reader how suspicious the populace is of every improvement in the preparation of food which involves mystery. Some years ago a beneficent plan was put on foot to supply aerated bread by the use of carbonic acid gas generated from marble dust. The bread thus made was purer, cleaner, and altogether more wholesome than that made in the ordinary way by the use of yeast. But no amount of capital or argument could overcome the popular prejudice against it when it was known that marble dust was used. Dying Words. [Virginia (Nev.) Enlerpriee.J It is probably natural that at the last the scenes which have made thestronest impressions in life should be recalled by memory. The old mountaineer, when he comes to die, with his last whisper says his snowshoes are lost; with the stage driver be is “ on a down grade and can not reach the brake,” the miner can not get to the air pipe, the sailor says “ eight bells have sounded,” and the gambles plays his last trump. A little girl died nere a few years ago, and as her mother held her wrist and noted the fainting and flickering pulse a smile came to the wan face and the child whispered: “ There is no more desert here, mamma, but all the world is full of beautiful flowers.” A moment later the smile became transfixed. In an Eastern city, not long ago, a Sister of Charity was dying, and at last from a stupor she opened her eyes and said: “It is strange; every kind word that I have spoken in life, every tear that I have shed, has become a living flower around me, and they bring to my senses an incense ineffable.” Emerson says a man ought to carry a pencil and note down the thoughts of the moment. Yes. and one short pencil, devoted exclusively to that use, would last some men wo know about two thou sand years, and then have the original point on. — Burlington Hawkeue. Published Every Thursday at BELLTON; GEORGIA. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One .’•ear (52 number.-) M.OO- six months d r in-.lie''\ 50 cents; ihree months (23 we-') 25 cents. Office m the Smith building, eaA of the depot. . NO. 7. EVERY-DAY SPICE RIES. The best thing out is a bad cigar. Isn’t it? Washington isaD. C. tful place. — Exchange. That’s a Capital joke. In the midst of-life we are in daily receipt of the Congressional Record. A ten-cent ante is better than no re lation at all. ‘ , Leadville is called a young town because its inhabitants are mostly miners. Cleopatra’s Needle is the only needle that people show a disposition to sit down on. It’s the same with men as with eggs: You can’t tell whether they are good or bad ’till they’re broke. Let our Indian policy be: "Nothing for Tribe Utes, but millions for de fense.”— Whitehall Times Next to a handkerchief, there is nothing in the world that gets so many blows as a street lamp. A dollar is always in good quarters, summer or winter, but hang the twenty ceut pieces. A poet sings, “ The heart must beat or die.” It is precisely the same way with a tramp, you have noticed.—Rock land Courier Poet —“ Do you want any of my blank verse?” “ No, we don’t want any of your verse,” says the editor. Mr. Byron was once knocked up xt an unconscionable hour in the morning by a friend. “Ah,” he said, “a rose two hours later would have been quite as sweet!” Liberal Enough.—Rev. Stranger, pointing to the Madison Avenue Garden —“What church is that, my lad?” Newsboy—“ Go-as-you-nlease church, sir. Have a paper?”—JPuoA. Domestic economy in these days co” sists in growling about the price flour at home, and because your friend won’t take “ another one” while you are down street. A Maine editor was paralyzed while sitting in church last Sunday, and an esteemed contemporary thinks the novelty of the situation was too much for him. Granges sell on the streets of Lake City, Florida, at from fifty cents to one dollar per hundred. And alligators, snakes and such fruit can be had for the asking. The following conversation took place recently in a hotel: “Waiter?” “Yes, sir.” “ What’s this?” “ It’s bean soup, sir.” “No matter what it has been, the question is—what is it now?” Willum —“ Not quite so active as you wus twenty years ago, Tummas.” Tummas —“ No, I haint, Willum; I find •I carnt run a score lately, but if ony body asks me to ’ave a drink, I jumps at the hoffer.”— Fun. Can you hold a pretty girl on your lap and not kiss her? Then you are something more than human.— Hartford Sunday Journal. Send on your pretty girls, if you want to behold super-human efforts.— New York Newt. John Morrisbey’s widow says she taught him all he ever knew, and when we remember how many tricks he had with that ugly left hand, one can’t help but admire the woman he left behind him.— Detroit Free Preet. Wife (to her husband, who is eating a juicy roast with great relish) —“For Heaven’s sake, we have forgotten that thisisafast day.” Husband (sulkily) —“ You might have waited at least till I was through.” Elder sister (to little one who ap pears to take great interest in Mr. Skibbons) —“ Come, little pet, it is tim« your eyes were shut in sleep.” Little pet —“ I think not. Mother told me to keep my eyes open when you and Mr. Bkfbbons were together. When you see a young man in gor geous apparel walking about the street with his arms hanging in curves from his body like the wings of an overheated turkey on a summers day, it isn’t be cause he is in pain. It is because he has been “ abroad,” and that’s the only thing he learned. There is a closer connection between good sense and good nature than is com monly sur'iiosei!. Mies Jennie Burdick, the pretty eighteen-year-old lass who several years ago eloped with a Russian naval officer from San Francisco is now wearing widows’ weeds at St. Petersburg. Her husband left the navy, and died at a French port while in charge of a vessel bound to the United States, where the wife buried him and then returned to the Russian capital. How Young Gautier Wrote. [LiUrary World.] In 1833 “Mademoiselle de Maupin” was begun. It was written in his room at his parents’ home, on the Placs Royale. This work, with all its fire, wearied Gautier excessively. The poet, then a lion, and a fashionable person age, much preferred to rhyme gallant sonnets to fair young damsels, and to promenade the boulevards with his transcendent waistcoats and marvelous pantaloons, rather than shut himßelf up before a lamp to blacken sheets of paper. And, beside, being a thorough roman ticist, he detested prom, and looked upon it as the prime accomplishment of a Philistine. So when he went into the house, bls father would lock him up in his room and lay out his task. “ You are not to come out,” he would ory through the keyhole, “until you have finished ten pages of ‘ Maupin!’ ” Sometime Theophile was resigned; often he crept out through the window. At other times his mother, always fear | ful that’her son would fatigue himself With so much work, came to release him.