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o;eofgiai), Published Every Thursday at BELLTON. GEORGIA RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. On* year (52 number*), $1.00; aix month* < 5 numbers) 50 cents; three months (13 numbers). 25 cents. Office in the Smith building, east of the depot. IX>TB AT TWO STOIUL Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, AH your wish la woman to win, 1 That la the way that boys begin— Wait till you come to forty yeara! CtiHv, gold locks corer foolish brains; Billing and cooing is all your cheer; Binning and singing of midnight strains, Under Bonn vbell’s window panes— Wait till you come to forty yean. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear— Then you see through a clearer glass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you hare come to forty yeara 1 Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are gray, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome, ere Ever a month was past awayT The sweetest Ups that ever have kissed, The bilghtest eyes that ever have shone, Mey pray nnd whisper, and wo not list, Or look Sway and never be missed, Eie yet ever a month is gone. f Cillian's dead. God rest her bier; How I fovea her twenty yean syne! Marian’s married, but I ait here, Alone and merry at forty years. Dipping my note in the Gascon wino A MYSTERIOUS PIANIST. About a yeat ago I observed in the columns of the Journal an article in ex planation of certain aural phenomena which are frequently ascribed to a super natural agency. Many similar events must frequently occur which are not re corded, and whose cases, owing to su perstition or fear, remain undiscovered. An investigation of all such seeming mysteries at the time and in the place ■where they occur, might save many a cnean infinity of discomposingthougfits, ■which not seldom end in the reception <of a most absurd belief. If the veracitv «of the following narrative be questioned, ■names and places can afford no proof. I •can therefore only assure the reader that the narrative is true to the minutest particular, and was jotted down while the .circumstances were fresh in my memory. Oh the last day of 18791 left home to p/y my annual visit to my widowed mother and deliver my New Year greet ings in person. On my arrival T found a number of old friends assembled to ex change good wishes and usher in the dawn of the new year. As the com pany was dispersing some one suggested a song; and, as I was credited with some ability in that direction, I was at once appealed to. I consented, and we ad journed to another room, where my sis ter’s piano had stood untouched since her lamented death, which had happened two years l>efore. It was an old instru ment, of six and a half octaves, of the cottage shape, with nothing remarkable about it save that solid, substantial look which is so foreign to many articles of modern furniture. 1 sat down and rat tled off a few rollicking ditties suited to the occasion, winding up with the ever new “Auld Lang Syne ’ as our guests departed. I noticed while playing that the instrument was much out of tune, and of the levers were dis ordered o^displaced. I specially noticed that one wire of the C in the fifth octave was much flatter than the other, which gave the note a peculiar and easily recognizable sound. As I was to sleep in the apartment, I mat down by the fire to smoke a pipe and muse on the changes time had wrought on the little world of my boyhood. The key-board of the instrument glistening In the firelight insensibly led my thoughts to that vanished hand that had so often nimbly and skilfully pressed it. Only two short years ago she had sat there singing jny favorite airs with the rich, mellow voice that was hers alone. As wave after wave of memory surged over my heart, I became so abstracted that I fancied I heard the cadence of her beautiful voice like the distant echo in a dream I remembered, too, that the last song I heard her sing ■was that touching me'ody wedded to the words of Bums’ weird song, “ Open the Door to Me,Oh!” With my mind’s ear I hea'd the pathetic wail with which the melody concludes, and was just on the point of awaking from my day dream, when the piano at my side slowly and distinctly repeated the last simple bar of the music, with the faulty C for the key-note. I was not startled; the mysterious accompaniment was so in unison with my reverie that it was some minutes before I realized what had oc curred. My first idea was that, by long disuse, some of the hammers had become relaxed and had fallen forward on the strings. But on trying the notes I found they responded readily to the touch. For some time I tried to solve the enigma; but st length coming to the conclusion that I had been duped by my own ears. I shut down the key-board and jumped into bed, where I was soon unconscious of mortal and spirit alike. J had slumbered for some time, when I sudden'y awoke with that stinging sensation over the whole body which, with me, always betokens nervous ex citement; and 10l the piano was sound ing. I sat bolt upright; tried to shake off the hallucination, and listened again. There was no denying the fact. Some invisible power was touching both the baas and treble notes. I struggled against a queer feeling that began to creep over me, and tried to reason. Judging from a former experience. I thought it might be some animal travers ing the wires; but then I reflected that that was impossible in their perpendicu lar position; neither could any animal agitate both treble and bass at the same time, as my ear informed me was be ; ng done. Mustering courage, I jumped out of bed, and approached quietly, when the performance suddenly ceased. I opened the key-board ana the top lid, peered into every nook and cranny, ex- The North Georgian. VOL. 111. amined the floor and wall; but could discover nothing. I stirred up the fire, and sat down with my face toward the •nstrument Tn this position 1 distinctly saw several of the keys move with a gentle undulating motion; but no sound followed. While I sat, this was repeated more than once, and the peculiarity was, that when the keys moved there was no sound, and when the sounds were pro duced there was no perceptible motion of the keys. I felt the eerie feeling steal over me again, but still sat and watched for a repetition of the music. My patience was all but exhausted, when all at once the mystical performer resumed his playing, at first in an unde cided hesitating manner, gradually merging into plaintive irregular kind of notes, of which the faulty C was again the key. When the sounds first struck the ear, they seemed to be weak and faint, butgradually increased in volume. The treble movement was now and then accompanied by a chromatic movement on the bass notes, which though not in accordance with the rules of harmony, was not unpleasant to the ear. At times run to the highest possible note; too, the treble made a rapid then after a pause, the irregular notes were resumed. Seizing a moment when the mysterious performer seemed much engrossed with hi* task, I darted to the instrument, when the sounds again ceased, without affording a single clew to their origin. I endeavored to opec the front; but it resisted my efforts; nnd as I did not wish to alarm the house hold, I drew the piano forward from the wall, gave it a parting shake, and once more curled myself up in the bed clothes, not without a fervent prayer that the player might transfer his enter tainment to a more appreciative au dience. All, however, was unavailing; for he shortly began again as brisk as ever; so bowing to the inevitable, I endeavored to convert the disturbing performance into a well-intentioned lullaby As I thus lay in a half-sleeping half-waking state, no longer interested in the causa of the phenomenon, 1 was conscious of a curious result. The strains seemed to adapt themselves to snatches mere snatches, of familiar airs, curiously blended and interwoven. As soon as an interval occurred that reminded me of another jingle, it was immediately taken up only to give place to another. The range of the treble seemed to be con fined to the third below the faulty note and the fourth above, which of course accounted for the plaintive character of the music. I cannot sav how long this curious phase lasted. 1 have, however., «. hazy consciousness of dropping off to sleep, lulled by these unaccountable note-rambliogs. In the morning I learned that none of the inmates had heard anything unusual during the night. Being, however, de termined to solve the puzzle, I lost no time in returning to the room armed with a screw-driver. When I had laid bare the front of the instrument, I ob served that the wires of the note adjacent to the faulty one had snapped, and its perpendicular lever had been disjointed from the hammer and fallen forward on the strings, thus forming an opening be tween the back and front, and estab lishing a communication between the wires and the lower or horizontal levers to which the ivories are attached. Still no kev to the riddle presented itself. I then proceeded to remove the leversone by o le, and had partially accomplished the task when the Gordian knot of the mystery was severed in a rather prosaic manner I pushed the instrument back to its original position, when out scamp ered—not one mouse—but two, by the slit in the back which serves for a handle. They ran along the wainscot ing, which happened to be on the same level, and disappeared in a press in the corner of the room. It was plain that my mystic performer had resolved him self into the commonplace of a couple of mice, whose performances had been prolonged by the cutting off of their re treat. Still I comforted myself with the thought that if I kept my own coun sel there was material enough te prove me a first-class Spiritualistic medium! An examination of their modal ope randi explained in a very simple manner the awe-inspiring phenomena of the previous night. Mouse No. 1, on pop ping through the opening in the per pendicular levers, climbed the broken one that lay handy, purched upon the end in contact with the wires, and, in his efforts to ascend farther, or in the mere pleasure of the sound, produced the melody before referred to. Mouse No. 2. meanwhile condemned to play second fiddle, amused himself by creep ing through between the snapped wires and scampering up and down inside, where there was barely room tor him to pass, and thus contributing the rumbling bass and the occasional sharp runs on the higher notes. A cross-bar for strengthening the foot gave him a foot hold, and vestiges of his fur on the larger wires rendered the explanation more than a probability. The motion of the keys without the corresponding sounds must have been occasioned by their pattering on the extreme end* of the horizontal levers, the majority of which I found to be somewhat worn and loose in their sockets The contingent phenomena I believe to have been the unconscious promptings of my own mind, or of what may be termed my musical imagination. On recounting the adventure at the breakfast table 1 discovered that the mysterious sounds had been heard by another member of the family on a quiet Sabbath afternoon some weeks previous. She, however, had been de terred from mentioning the circum stance from fear of the ridicule she BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA. JUNE 10, 1880. supposed would have followed her re cital. I may mention that the presa in the room contained a goodly store of things seductive to the stomachs of mice in general. That they disregarded the tempting viands and betook them selves to the unproductive waste of the interior of a piano, must help to prove that the love of music often ascribed to this little quadruped is a fact of natural history renting on a more solid founda tion than exceptional eccentricity. Though at first sight the foregoing tale—the truth of which is vouched for by our contributor—may appear somewhat weird, we gladly ’ place it before our readers as offering additkukd testimony to the fact that “unaccount able sounds” are capable of being rele gated to natural causes. A little trouble bestowed upon their careful investigation would, as our writer says, “ save many a one an infinity of aie composing thoughts.” A Warm Corpee. I must dwell upon a very ugly stoty to-day, which has caused a great deal of excitement among the lower classes, and which would be the general topic of con versation still had not death put an end to it. Some months ago two women re turning from a visit te Benia, where their husbands are garrisoned, were mur dered in a wood in Stiab, in Hungary. The murderers were arrested and could not deny their crime, but they did not confess the motive, which is unknown to this oay. One of the ruffians died in prison before the sentence was spoker. Ihe other was sentenced to be hung. I. week ago the execution took place, and as it was carried out in punlic, grea ■ crowds, eager for something uncommon, even at the risk of it being uncommonly horrible, surrounded the scaffold. The murderer’s name was Tabaks, and he be| longed to the lowest class of the country population. When the cord, was already around his neck he expressed h s deeirt of addressing the public, and began say, ing with emphasis worthy of an orator,' “1 die willingly, but my dear ladies and ; gentlemen ’ Here the executioner ’ interposed nnd withdrew the trap-door 1 so that Tabaks died in the act of speech* without knowing it, as it were, ana with p: out a struggle. The executioner hao , been mostearnestly entreated by a docto’t of medicine, a professor, to provide him, for once, with a “warm corpse.” To com ply with this wish he shortened tbs' iogal “eight miuutcsf' for which •<n Au.f ’ nal should hang, to three, and handed the corpse over to a physician, who declared Tabaks to be entirely dead, 'lhe body was spread upon the marble table in the anatomy room and professor and students prepared for the dissection, which, had they been in anything of a hur.y, might have become vivisection. All of a sudden the body moved, first it* feet and then its hands, and at last trembled violently all over. The pro fessor did not lose his presence of mind, but calmly sent to the authorities to ask if Tabaks was to be restored to life, or executed again before he awoke) Tn the meantime,he thought ithisdntyasa human being to do all he could do to restore the life which had so unexpect edly shown itself. After an hour's hard rubbing and inhaling of salts, Tabaks was sufficiently recovered to understand that he had come to life this side of the Orcus, not the other side, as he at first believed. He swallowed a plateful of sonp and then fell prey to violent fever, while his neck swelled in a most alarm ing manner This was all we heard on the first day, besides vague information as to the authorities being uncertain whether the half slain man should not be hanged again more thoroughly. There was a universal outcrv against thia It was said that Tabaks had atoned for his crime by suffering what the officers of the law had declared to be death. More can not be exacted by the law. No man may be killed twice. While people were watching for the knights and ladies on their way to the second and third representation of the tournament described in my last letter, the general topic of conversation was Tabaks. The man’s death, which took place exactly twenty-four hours after his execution, happily put an end to the controversy, and pity for the sufferer was the universal feeling. He had raved during a whole night, and suffered the most horrible spasms, and had so often attacked hie nurses that it was found necessary to tie him to his bed. The probable consequence will be the removal of the executioner from his ugly office, which he had discharged witb so little cure.—Vienna Correspondence Hew York World. London’s Expenses. The principal officers of the corpora tion of London are paid as follows: The Recorder (as Judge at Central Criminal Court and at Lord Mayor’s Court)115,001 Registrar of Mayor’a Court, who fa also A»- aiatant Judge 13,US The Common Sergeant.... 12.750 Judge of the City of London Court, who ia also Commiaaioner 12,525 Comptroller and Prothonotary 10,500 City Solicitor.. 10,000 Chief Commiaaioner of Police 9,000 Remembrancer.. 7,500 Architect and Surveyor 7,500 Town Clerk,- 7,.500 Head Master of City of London School.. 7,500 Regiatrar of Coal Duties and Inspector of Fruit Matage 5,000 Solicitor to Commissioners of Sewera 5,000 The Lord Mayor is voted an annual sum of $50,000, free of income tax, to mam tai a his position; and in addition to this he has nis robes voted to him, and has the Mansion House, free of rent, to live in. A benevolent Detroit dentist an nounces that on a certain day he would pull teeth free for poor persons and pro vide laughing gas. He used 700 gallons of gas and extracted 271 teeth. SOUTIIERNNEWS. There are 8,000 Knights of Honor in Mississippi. A dozen iron furnaces will soon be in blast in Wythe County, Va. Thirty thousand saw-logs are being rafted down Pearl River, Mississippi. Railroad ties are being shipped from Norfolk, Va., to South America. The ice factory at Chattanooga, Tenn., after a year’s inactivity, is again in operation. A company has been formed at Rock port, Texas, for the purpose of doing a large business In canning fish. Four mills at Richmond, Va., manu factured, during the ten months just closed, 287,476 barrels of floer. William H. Harris has been ap pointed State Commissioner of Immigra tion of Louisiana by Governor Wilts. The receipts of ootton at Houston, Texas, this season are 160,446 bales, against 97,346 for the same time last year. Lynchburg, Va., is doing a heavy business in the guano trade, large quantities being shipped in all direc tions daily. There have been filed in the Eufaula branch of the probate office of Barbour County, Ala., since the Ist of January, mortgages. The Borahs zinc works of Wythe County, Va., will furnish the United States Government with zinc, for alloy with silver in coinage. The Mississippi State Board of Health has ordered a quarantine to be estab lished at the port of Pascagoula against vessels from infected ports. In Montague County, Texas, a gentle work ox went mad and attacked a man on horseback, goring the horse to death, while the rider escaped by climbing a tree. The Commissioner of the General 1 vnd Office of Texas has had prepared Mpa- te maps of fifty-seven counties in that State, to be used in attracting emi ation. The Farmville (VA.) Foundery and Saw-mill has secured a contract from the Atlantic Oil-refining Company, of Philadelphia, for 1,100,000 barrel stav. s and headings. Bartow iron furnace, in Bartow County, Oa., with a capacity of twenty five tons daily, has closed on account of the advance in freights by the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Three-fourths of all the Baptist Churches in the country are in the South. The membership of this denom ination in the Southern States is 1,600,- 000, of whom 900,000 are colered. The Lynchburg News publishes re ports from eight prominent tobacco growing counties in Virginia, in all of which there is a great scarcity of plants, caused by the cool weather and the ravages of insects. The people of Arkansas are no great office-seekers. The candidates for Chief Justice, Treasurer, Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chancellor and Chancery Clerk in that State have no opposition. Two men, without any other facilities than a tin pan, in five days obtained 1100 worth of gold in Byrd’s Creek, ten miles from Christiansburg, Va. They havb now hired a number of hands and gone to work systematically. A handsome dome is to be con structed over the new capital in Baton Rouge, La., broad enough to accommo date a dancing party at the height of over one hundred feet from the ground. Extensive improvements are going on all over Baton Rouge. A large lime-kiln has been built in Washington County, Ga., where there is a large quantity of limestone, on the Central Railroad. This is three hun dred miles further south than any other lime-kilns, and promises to meet a ready demand for its products. A man in New Orleans has for pets a host of big and little spiders. He first Became enamored of them on account of their thrift, courage, industry and skill. He has at length become so engrossed with them as pets that he spends his whole time with them and does not care to see visitors. The valuable water power of Maj. G. W. Anderson, near Williamstown, 8. 0., ogether with 272 acres of land, was sold for SIO,OOO to a representative of a Charleston capitalist. The object of this purchase, it is understood, is the erection of a cotton factory with a cap ital of 1400,000. A boy was stamping some packages at the postoffice in Macon, Ga., when a lady came in wbo bought a three-cent stamp, and then, turning to the boy, coolly asked him to run out his tongue. The boy did so, when the lady moistened ner three-cent stamp on it, applied it to the letter, mailed it and walked off. Southern newspaper property is rap dly advancing in value. The property NO. 23. of this class is now worth more than in any other year since the war, and a South Carolina enthusiast predicts that every newspaper that is now on a sound basis and making money can reasonably expect to double in value in the next five or ten years. The Council Chamber at Charleston, 8. 0., is ornamented with full length portraits of George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson and John Caldwell Calhoun; portraits of Zach ary Taylor, Wade Hampton and Gen eral Moultrie, and marble boats of Rob ert Fulton and Senator Calhoun. The portrait of Washington is by Trumbull and is valued very highly. The buat of Calhoun is by Clark Mills. Robert Bird, a colored employe on the Charlotte, Columbia and Auguita Railway, in a fit of jealousy, killed his wife by chopping off her head with an ax. He then fled several miles, told some colored people what he had done, jumped into a mill-pond and was drowned. Bird is supposed to have committed murder in Alabama a vear and a half ago, but escaped by charging his brother with the crime. About a year ago he attempted suicide by hang ing himself with a grapevine, but was cut down in time to be resuscitated. There were no witnesses to the murder of his wife. ■ jean 1 —!'_i_ * ... ._u Rnles for Spoiling a Child. 1. Begin young by giving him what he cries for. 2. Talk freely before the child about his smartness as incomparable. 3. Tell him that he is too much for you; that you can do nothing with him. 4. Have divided counsels, as between father and mother. 5. Let him learn to regard his father as a creature of unlimited power, capri cious and tyrannical; or a mere whip ping-machine. 6. Let him learn (from his father's ex ample) to despise his mother. 7. Do not know or care who his com panions may be. 8. Let him read whatever he likes. 9. Letthe child, boy or girl, rove the streets in the evening. 10. Devote yourself to making money, remembering always that wealth is a bet ter legacy for your child than principles in the heart and habits in the life, and let him have plenty of money to spend. 11. Be not with him in the hours of recreation. 12. Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel: chastise severely for a foible and laugh at a vice. 13. Let him run about from church to church. Eclecticism in religion is the or der of the day. 14. Whatever burdens of virtuous re quirements you lay on his shoulders, touch not one with one of your fingers. Preach gold nnd practice irredeemable greenbacks. The ruses are not untried. Many parentshave proved them, with substnntial uniformity of results. If a faithful observance of them does not spoil your child, you will at least have the comforting reflection that you have done what you could. Heat on Building-Stone. Ths powers of the various kinds of building-stons to resist pressure and at mospheric influences are well known, hut there scarcely ever occurs an exten sive fire which does not emphasize the need of better information as to the effect of heat upon stone. This need Hiram A. Cutting, State Geologist of Vermont, has undertaken to supply by a series of experiments, the first result of which is to confirm and give exact ness to the general impression that gran ite is a poor heat-register, and the second to show that there is wide choice—even in granite-in this respect. He tested twenty two specimens of the best known quarries, and found that while all were unaffected by the 500° of heat, damage usually began at 600°, was serious and frequent at 800°, and at I,ooo°, all the specimens were ruined, the stone from Mount Desert standing the test perhaps better than any other. He gives it as his opinion that the effect of water on heated granite is rather apparent than real. The importance of this informa tion is very great, especially to builders and insurers. In spite of these hints, this favorite stone will probably con tinue to be used in “fire-proof” build ings, and possibly without serious dan ger, if it is only used in very solid walls, but to use it in buildings supporting columns, especially within the walls, is only to invite the gutting of the whole interior of the building if a fire should break out. Various physicists nave tried to measure the heat conductivity of liquids, but so far the results have been very discordant. Thus, some attribute to saline solutions a greater conductivity than water, and some a less. Beetz got for glycerine a conductivity almost double that found by Winkelmann. But recently the subject has been studied anew by Herr Weber. The tabulated r-suits for some fourteen liquids show that the conducting power is closely connected with the specific heat of unit volume, »nd nearly proportional to it. The author attaches great value to this resu't for the theory of the state of ag gregation of liquids, for it is known that the internal friction and other properties of liquids have here only a secondary in fluence. Water was found the most conductive of liquids examined, and aqueous saline solutions have a conduc tivity very little inferior to water. It is also proved that the conductivity i’4, creases notably with the )ftl) PUBLISHED EVERY THURBDA BKLLTON, GA- BY JOHN BLATS. Terms— sl.oo per annum 50 cent* for *i* month*; 25 sent* forlhree mouth*. Partiei away from Bellton are requested to lend their name* with inch amounts of money *• they can pare, from 2co. *0 $1 PASSING SMILES. A LOW story—the basement. Dead issues—old newspaper*. The home stretch putting up a clothes line. Authors are spoken of as dwelling in attics, because so few of them are able to live on their first story ‘ Life on the Plains," a book just out, won’t be much of a success Only *ix Indians killed in -.he first chapter. In reading the personals and depar tures in the newspapers one discover* that distinguished visitors, like loosa powder, go off with a puff. When a Georgina man get* too weak to split a watermelon open with an ax, his relatives begin to look around and see what’s the best they can do on a head stone. “ What," says an inquisitive young lady, "is the most popular color for a bride.” We may be'a little particulai in such matters, but we should prefer a white one. If Bismarck insists on his resignation, the Emperor William knows our address. Up two flights of stairs, and knock at the right-hand door. Don’t kick the panels.— Burdette. Very red-haired passenger—“ I *ay, guard, why on earth don’t your train goon?” Guard—“ Good gracious, sir I put your head in; how can you expec. to go on while the danger signal is out?’’ “ I know a victim to tobacco,” said a lecturer, “who hasn't tasted food fur thirty years.” “How do you know he hasn’t?” asked an auditor. “Because tobacco killed him in 1860,” was the reply Over five gallons of castor oil have been used in oiling the skates of the Hartford rink. We are thankful that a new line of industry has opened to the dreadful stuff.— Banbury News. He—“ Why, you see, the fact is, my dear, I knocked your mediseval teapot off the top shelf and broke—” bhe— “Oh, my prophetic soul 1 My teapot?’ He (bitterly)—“ No. Merely my head!’’ “See, mamma!" exclaimed a little one, as puss, with arcliing spine and ele vated rudder, strutted around the table, “ Bee, kitty’s eat so much she can’t shut her tail down.” Heavy swell—(to a customer of the house) —“I think 1 have seen you before; your face seems very familiar to me ” Customer—“ Very likely, sir, I wa«l«ng ■ sheriff's officer. (Gent collapses.) A German traveler in Africa charac terizes a people he came across as “ in tensely black, dolichocephalic and platyrhine, prognathus, dichotomatic and dolichodactylic.” We have seen a man knocked down for less than that. A young man who plunged into the water and rescued a maiden who had sunk to the river bottom, was rewarded by her hand. She couldn’t doubt his affection; she knew he was ready to dive for her. Emerson says everything good in man leans on something higher. Emer son is right. We have seen a man lean on a talegraph pole, and the only good in him was beer. At least he said it was good. •* Here, John, don’t eat those crackers up,” Baid she with a hateful snap; “ They’re some I saved on purpose To nut in the baby’s pap.’' “ Weli,” said John, edging for the dooi, And reaching for his hat, " What makes you so crow about it, then? Ain’t I the baby’s pap?” “ Fancy Farmer” asks: “How do you keep weeds out of your garden?’’ Bless your soul, we don’t! We tried having a hand-organ play “Pinafore” to them, but as they still kept on growing, we concluded that it was best to go fishing and let them grow. Whkm the Intellectual typo inn’t careful, au a. . a c »rvfui, Os the poet’s voluntary clever rhyme, tt * aa a . Cfever rhyme. He is pretty sure to set them up most fearful, For a printer’s work is occupied by time, ’Pled by time. A MAN out West obtained a divorce from his wife, and married again within three days after the decree was granted. An Irisman commenting on the man’s action, remarked: “Bedad, he couldn’t have had much respect for his first wife, to be marryin’ again so soon after lavin’ her.” Hs wm a little lawyer man, Who meekly blushed while he began Her poor dead huiband’e will to lean, He smiled while thinking of hii Ist Then said to her, so'tenderly, '■ You have a nice fat legacy." And when he lay next day in bed, With plasters on hie broken head, He wondered what on earth he'd said. Colonel Ingersoll says he doesn’t see “ how it is possible for a man to die worth 85,000,0000 r 810,000,000 in a city full of want.” Nor do we. Editors should club together and resolve not to die worth 85,000,000 or $10,000,000. We would rather not die at all than to leave this world worth that much money, —Bbrrutown Herald. *iz _ 1 .... Can Any One Tell I Can any one toll why your jg men who always belnndhantf wu A B their cred . .tors can play bi hards night and day, with loose na 4 fop undera P lu e hat > mar. -.irh i J J ts and a short coat, to a it is that s r '** ns ? C an an y one te ll why tar th. 1, x,nie mothers are ready to sew home e -eathen, when their children at .re ragged and dirty? T is said that Indian babies never cry. nis is because they are newer taken to public entertainments. We ; believe that lan Indian-rubber baby wor,ld yell fright fully if it were ttjjien to a place of amusement. They it.