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Qeoi ( giar|, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDA' —AT BELLTON, G-Jk. by JOHN BLATS. Terms— sl.oo per anmm 60 cents for sis months; 25 cents forthree months. Parties away from Bellton aie requested to send their names with such amounts of money as they can pare, horn 2cc. to $1 THE MCSICAC BOT. BY JAMES T. FIBLDt It is a ruthle<«, toothless wigh-. Who dwells beside a wallj And spends bis time in singing songs As loud as he can bawl, And casting stones at pissongcrs Who may neglect to call. The knave deals out inflated corn And other fluffy things, Gum-balls, and miscellaneous pie. And doughnuts shaped like rings; The pea-nut branch he also plies, As all day long he sings. O urchin rude, of manners crude, Os unangelic voice, Pray tell me true, young ruffian, do, If thus you live trom choice, Or if in your unhallowed way You really don't rejoice. Your wares are insalubrious, Your carols are the same. Your bold career is fraught with fear, Your traffic one of shame— A dark, mysterious, dreadful trade, A deed without a name. Boy, cease your harmful, dreary notes, And fling your goods away ; Go get you to New Zealandj or Some cove in Baffin's Bay: Expenses put (but no return) Myself will gladly pay. The rogue looks up with knowing leer, And blds me not repine, Then aims a missile al my head, With phrase that’s not divine, And croaks a still mure dismal song— The words, alas', are aiiiu/ PASSION IN TATTERS. “She has got a face like one of her own rosebuds,” said Mr. Fitzalau. “I’ve heard of her more than once,” returned Frank Calverly. “ ‘The pretty flower girl,’ the people call her, don’t they? Old Frixham has doubled his custom since she came there.” “And the best of it all,” added Fitza lan, with a laugh, “is that she is quite unconscious of her own attractions—a little country lassie, who thinks only of her own business, and never dreams that she herself is the sweetest flower of all the assortment.” “Let’s go in and buy a Marechai Niel bud and two or three sweet verbena leaves,” said Calverly. “I should like to see tliis modern Flora of yours.” Dorothy Penfield stood behind the counter of the florist’s store, sorting over a pile of fragrant blossoms which lay on a tray of damp, green moss. 'Trails of smilax wove their green garlands np to the ceiling; heaps of gold and rose petaled buds lay in the window; tufts of purple heliotrope perfumed the air, and white carnations lay like hillocks of snow against the panes of the show-window, while spikes of perfumed hyacinths and cape-jessamine flung their subtle scents upon the air. And Dolly herself, with her round, dimpled face, pink cheeks, and soft, brown eyes, exactly the shade of the rippled hah', wliich was brushed simply back from the broad, low brow, was a fitting accessory to the scene. She looked up as the two gentlemen entered, and a soft, crimson shadow over spread her face for a second. “Have you got one of my favorite button-hole bouquets made up, Miss Penfield?” Fitzalau asked, with a careless bow and smile. “I know,” said Dolly, softly. “A rosebud and a sprig of heath, and two or three myrtle leaves; that is what you like. Ko; I have none made up, just at present; but I can tie one up in about half a minute, Mr. Fitzalau.” “One for me, too, if you please,” said Calverly, touching his hat. “Just the same?” ' Dolly lifted her long eyelashes,'which were like fringes of brown silk, and gave him a shy glance. “A little different, please. Consult your own taste, Miss Penfield. ” “ I like the double blue violets,” said Dolly, gently, “with geranium leaves.” “Then they shall be my favorite flow ers also," said Calverly, gallantly. The gentlemen had hardly taken their leave, when old Frixham, the florist, bustled in, with round, red face, shining bald head, and an air of business all over him. “ Isn’t it time you had the theater bou quets ready?” said he, looking critically around, and moving a glass of freshly cut callas out of the level sunset beams which at that moment fell, like a sheen of golden laces, athwart the deep bow window.” • “I shall have them ready directly,’ said Dolly, starting from her reverie, “ the flowers are all sorted out.” “We have too many carnations on hand,” said the florist fretfully; “and those gaudy cape bells are so much dead oss. Let the man from the greenhouses know, please, there’s a demand for half open rosebuds and forced lilies-of-tht valley.” “Yes,” said Dolly, dreamily, “Iwil tell him—when he comes. ” The closed country wagon with itt freight of fragrant leaves and deliciouslj scented flowers, came early in the morn ing, long before the fat florist was ont of bed, and while the silence almost of an enchanted land lay upon Upper Broad way. But Dolly Penfield was there freshen ing up the stock of the day before with wet moss and cool water, and clipping the stems of the rosebuds. “ No more carnations, John,” she said briskly, “ nor amaryllis flowers, and we want plenty of camellias and geraniums, and those bright flowers.” “I thought, perhaps,” said honest John Deadwood, who measured six feet in his stockings, and had the face of an amiable giant, “you might want to go back with me to-day, Dolly. Your aunt has come on from Kansas, and there is going to be a dance out in the old bam, with plenty of candles and evergreen houghs. And mother said she would be proud to welcome you to the old farm Your oleander tjee is The North Georgian. VOL, 111. kept carefully at the south window, and ” “Dear me!” carelessly interrupted Dolly; “ why don’t they put it in the greenhouse?” “Because, Dolly,” said the young man, reddening, “it reminds us of you. And the meadow-lark in the cage sings beautifully: and old red brindle has a spotted calf.” ‘ ‘ Has she?” questioned dolly indiffer ently. John Deadwood looked hard at her. “Dolly,” said he, “you don‘t care about the old home any longer!” “Yes, I do,” said Dolly, rousing her self. “ but——” She paused suddenly, the rosy color rnshed in a carmine tide to her cheek, an involuntary smile dimpling the comers of her fresh lips as she glanced through the smilax trails in the window. John Deadwood, following in the di rection of her eyes, glanced, too, just in time to see a tall gentleman lift his hat and bow as he went jauntily past. “Is that it,” said John, bitterly. “Is what?” petulantly retorted Dolly. “I’m sure I don’t know why wo are standing here waiting for and I with twenty-eight bouquets to make up by 2 o’clock. That’s all, John, I think. Don’t forget the lilies of the valley.” “But you haven’t answered me, Doi ly.” “Answered you what?” “About the dance in the old barn, and coming back with me when the wagon returns at 5 o’clock. ” “It is quite out of the question,” said Dollv, listlessly. “Dolly!” . . “Well.” “You promised me years ago—” “Nonsense,” said Dolly, flinging the azaleas and pinks around in fragrant confusion. “I was only a child then.” “But you’ve no right to go back on your word, Dolly, child or no child.” “I never promised, John.” “But you let me believe that one day yon would be my wife. And I’ve lived on the thought of it, Dolly, ever since. And if this city situation of yours should break up my life’s hope—” “Don’t hope anything about mo, John!” brusquely interrupted the girl. “Here comes a customer. Please, John, don’t stand there any longer looking Eke a ghost!” And honest, heart-broken John turned and went with heavy heart out to where the wagon stood, and old Boan was wait ing with down-drooping head and half closed eyes. “It does seem to me,” he muttered be tween his teeth, "that there is nothing left to live for any longer.” Dolly looked half remorsefully after him. “I’ve almost a mind to call him back,” said she to herself as she picked out a bunch of white violets for the newcomer. I do like John Deadwood; but I think he has no business to consider himself en gaged to me, just because of that boy aud-girl nonsense. One’s ideas change as one gets on in life.” And Dolly’s cheek was like the reflec tion of the pink azaleas as she thought of Mr. Fitzalau and the turquoise ring that he had given her as a troth plight. And Mr. Frixham came in presently. “I’ve a note from the Sedge wicks, on Fifth avenue,” said he hurriedly. They always order their flowers trom Servoss, but Servoss has disappointed them. They want the house decorated for a party to night—there’s not a minute to lose. I’ve telegraphed to Bolton’s for one hundred yards of smilax and running fern and one hundred jxiinsettas; and I think we can manage the rest ourselves. You had better go at onee, Miss Penfield, and plan the decorations—you’ve a pretty taste of your own—and I’ll send up the flowers with Hodges to help you.” And Dolly went, her mind still on the turquoise ring, with a band of virgin gold and its radiant blue stone. The Sedgewick mansion was a brown stone palace, with plate glass casements, and a vestibule paved with black and orange marble. Mrs. Sedgewick, a stately lady, in a Watteau wrapper and blonde cap, re ceived Dolly in the great drawing room. “Oh!” said she, lifting her eye-glasses, “you’re from the florist’s, are you? Well, I know nothing about these thing! —I only want the rooms to look elegant. Tell your husband to spare no expense.” “Mr. Frixham is not my husband,” said Dolly. “Your father, then.” “But he isn’t my father,” insisted Dolly, half laughing. He’s no relation at all. I ■will tell him, however.” “Exactly,” said Mrs. Sedgewick. “I particularly desire plenty of white roses, as I am told they are customary at this sort of affair. It’s an engagement party. ” “Indeed!” said Dolly, trying to look interested. “Between my daughter Clara and Mr. Alfred Fitzalan,” said Mrs. Sedgewick, with conscious complacency. Dolly said nothing, but the room, with its fluted cornices and lofty ceilings, seemed to swim around her like the waves of the sea. And as she went out, with Mrs. Sedgewick still chatting about white rose-buds and begonia-leaves, she passed the half open door of a room, all hung with blue velvet, where a yellow tressed beauty sat smiling on a low divan, with Fitzalan bending tenderly above her. “He has only been amusing himsell with me,” said Dolly to herseff. There was a sharp ache at her heart: but after all, it was only the sting of wounded pride. Thank heaven—oh, thank heaven, it was nothing worse than that! Honest John Deadwood was driving old Roan steadily and solemnly along past the patch of woods, where the vel vet-mossed bowlders lay like dormant prey ia Us twiiMi BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA„ NOVEMBER 25, 1880. when a gray shadow glided out cf ths other shadows, and stood at his side. “John!” she whispered. ‘ * Dolly! it’s never you ?” “Yes, John,” said the girl, gently but steadily. “I’m going back home with you.” “God bless you, Dolly,” said the young man, fervently. “For good and all, John, if you’ll take me,” said Dolly, slowly. “I’ve had quite enough of city life; and I'll help you with the green houses, and I’ll try and be a good little housekeeper at home Shall I, John?” 1 John pu t his arm around her and hug ged her up to his side. “Darling!” said he, huskily, “it’s most too good news to be true’; but, if my word is worth anything, you shall never regret your decision of this day.” So the pretty flower girl vanished out of the bower of smilax and rosebuds. The Sedgewick mansion wasn’t decorated nt all, and Mr. Frixham had lost his new customer. And the turquoise ring came back to Mr. Fritzalan in a blank en velope. Household Perils. Under tliis head the Boston Journal of Chemistry names several dangerous sub stances which find their way into house holds. There are two or three volatile liquids used in families which are par ticularly dangerous, and must be em ployed, if at all, with special care. Ben zine, ether and strong ammonia consti tute this class of agents. The two first named liquids are employed in cleans ing gloves and other wearing apparel, and in removing oil stains from carpets, cur tains, &c. The liquids are highly vola tile, and flash into vapor as soon as the cork of the vial containing them is re moved. Their vapors are very combust ible and will inflame at long distances from ignited candles or gas flames, and consequently they should never be used in the evening, when the house is lighted. Explosions of a very dangerous nature will occur if the vapor of these liquids is permitted to escape into the room in con siderable quantity. In view of the great hazard of handling these liquids cautious housekeepers will not allow them to be brought into their dwellings, and this course is commendable. As regards am monia, or water of ammonia, it is a very powerful agent, especially the stronget kinds sold by druggists. An accidenr in its use has recently come under our notice in which a young lady lost her life trom taking a few drops through mis take. Breathing the gas under certain circumstances causes serious harm to the lungs and membranes of the mouth and nose. It is an agent much used at the present time for cleansing purposes, and it is unobjectionable if proper care is used in its employment. The vials holding it should be kept apart from others containing medicines, &c., and rubber stoppers to the vials should bo used. Oxalic acid is considerably em ployed in families for cleaning brass and copper utensils. This substance is highly poisonous, and must be kept and used with great caution. In crystalline struc ture it closely resembles sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salts, and, there fore, frequent mistakes are made and lives lost. Every agent which goes into families among inexperienced persons should be kept in a safe place, labeled properly and used with care. Carolina’s Sweet Sixteen. A curious petition was that addressed in J. 733 to the Governor of South Caro lina I>y sixteen maidens of Charleston. It ran thus : “The humble petition of all the maids whose names are underwritten. Where as, we, the humble petitioners, are at present in a very melancholy disposition of mind, considering how all the bache lors are blindly captivated by widows, and our own youthful charms are thereby neglected; in consequence of this, our request is that Your Excellency will for the future order that no widow presume to many any young man till the maids are provided for; or else to pay each of them a fine for satisfaction for invading our liberties and likewise a fine to be lev ied on all such bachelors as shall be mar ried to widows. The great disadvantage it is to us maids is that the widows, by their forward carriage, do snap up the young men, and have the vanity to think their merit beyond ours, which is a great imposition on us, who ought to have the preference. This is humbly recom mended to Your Excellency’s considera tion, and hope you will permit no further insults. And we poor maids in duty bound will ever pray.” The forlorn sixteen would have very much approved the edict of the Portu guese King, which forbade widows more than fifty years old from remarrying, an the ground that experience taught that widows of that age commonly wedded young men of no property, who dissi pated the fortunes such marriages brought them, to the prejudice of chil dren and other relatives. Ultimately. A gentleman who has a bill against Gil hooly has been bothering that distin guished Galvestonian for weeks for a set tlement. The other day he called on him and said: “Now, Mr. Gilhooly, I want to tell me when you will pay that “Didn’t I tell you I was going to pay it ultimately?” “Yes, but I want you to set some day, so I can make my calculations.” “I’ll pay it ultimately.” “Can’t you be more definite? When will you pay it ultimately ?” “Well, I will pay it very ultimately. Now, I hope you are satisfied.”—Galves ton News. . SOUTHERN NEWS. Fourcounties in Georgia, two of which are in Alex. H. Stephen’s district, did not cast a vote for Garfielc}. The assessed value of taxable property in Georgia has increased $14,000,000 during the past year. Weaver carried Walker county, Texas, by a majority of sixteen over Hancock and Garfield combined. Tiie cupola of the court-house at Clarksville, Tenn., is surmounted by a brazen eagle measuring twelve feet from tip to tip. A building erected at Lexington, Ga., for a dancing hall when that town was in the zenith of its glory is now used as a stable. The Appeal says that the all night houses, where men can be around, drink and quarrel, are the cause of nearly all the rows that occur in Memphis. The City Council of Fort Smith, Ark., has passed an ordinance prohibiting the carrying of pistols in the city limits in nay other way except in the hand. The city board of health of Vicksburg has petitioned the National Board of Health to have a sanitary survey made of the city and its surroundings. Nearly one hundred more marring licenses have been issu ed to colored cou pies in Mecklenburg county, N. C., this year than to whites. The new Mississippi code fixes the fee of a Coroner for holding an inquest at $5 instead of $lO, the former figure, and some of the Coroners are resigning in consequence. A proposition is about to be submitted to the Little Rock City .Council for the construction of new water-works. A number of prominent citizens have a new organization in contemplation. Cotton seed was first planted in the United States, in 1621 in Virginia as an experiment. It was first planted in Georgia and the Carolinas in 1773-’74, and in Louisiana in 1742. A water-jvheel put up for a flouring mill at Augusta, Ga., weighs 6,000 pounds and is to furnish 135-horse power. It was manufactured in Chat tanooga. At a fashionable masquerade party at Vicksburg, two ladies who attracted much attention and admiration during the evening were found to be young men when the unmasking took place. The finest dress ever seen in Atlanta was worn at the inaugural ball by Miss Lelia Austell, of that city. It cost $2,000, and was trimmed with lace pur chased by her in Paris, at S2OO per yard. A boy in San Antonio, Texas, while standing in front of his father’s house eating a peice of bread, was suddenly attacked by an electric flame, which is supposed t) have come from a lightning rod near by and was badly burned. Gen. Phinney, at the Georgia Mining Company, has thoroughly tested the Robertson process for reducing ores, and the tests show a yield of $8 to sls per ton from ore that yielded only $1.50 per ton. Works will soon be erected at Gainesville. The cotton crop of Texas was closed by a killing frost. The total will amount to 1,250,000 hales and $60,000,000. The Chicago Texarkana Mexican Central cotton factory, with a capital of $200,000, was started here to-day. Forty thous and dollars was subscribed in Dallas. The new statutes of Mississippi pro vide that in cases where persons are doing business as agents, or in their own name, with the goods and capital of other people, the principal’s name must be conspicuously displayed at the place of business, or the goods shall be liable for the debts of the person conducting the business. During the last three years nearly 400 people from North Georgia have been converted to Mormonism, and emi grated to Almaso, Col. The people of the colony oppose polygamy and there is only one polygamist among them. The colony is still growing, a party of fifty being ready at present to start from Virginia to join it. , A man by the name of Albert Green, while walking with a young lady on Sunday, in Cleburne county, Texas, was approached by Ellen Powell, whom he had ruined. At night, Green and a companion blacked themselves, forced an entrance into the woman’s house and struck her brutally, then dragged her out of the house. She held a pistol in her hand that wouldn’t stand cocked and shot him dead. A cave in East Tennessee is two miles in length and has openings at both ends. The owner of the ground around each entrance charge for admission, and acted as guide for visitors. Their rivalry led to serious fights in the cave, for each held the other to be a trespasser. Then one of the contestantshit upon a novel and effective means of ruining the other’s business. He sunk a shaft so as to admit a large stream into the cave about the center, and as there was as incline ift a favorable direction, the water poured out at the enemy’s portal, while his own was unobstructed. The matter is to be made the subject of a lawsuit. A Good Horse. “I can’t explain what a real good horse is,” said one of the best natured dealers in the street. “ They are as different as men; in buying a horse you must look first to his head and eyes for signs of intelligence, temper, courage, ana hon esty. Unless a horso has brains you can’t teach him anything any more than you can teach a half-witted child. See that tall bay there, a fine-looking animal, about fifteen hands high. You can’t, teach that horse anything. Why ? Well, I’ll show you a difference ig heads, but have a care of his heels. Look at the beast’s head—that rounding nose, that tapering forehead, that broad, full place below the eyes. You can't trust him. Kick? Well, I guess so! Put him in a ten acre lot, where he has plenty of wing, and he’ll kick the horn off the moon.” The world’s treatment of man and beast has the tendency to enlarge and intensify bad qualities, if they predomin ate. This good-natured phrenologist could not refrain from slapping in the face the horse whose character had been so cruelly delineated, while he had but the gentlest treatment for a slick-limbed sorrel that pricked her oars forward and looked intelligent enough to understand all that was being said. “That’s an awful good mare,” he added. “ She’s as true as the sun. You onn see breadth and fullness between the ears and eyes. You can’t hire that mare to act mean or hurt anybody. The eye should bo full, and hazel is a good color. I like a small, thin ear, and want a horse to throw his ears well forward. Look out for the brute that wants to listen to all the conversation going on behind him. The horse that turns back his ears till they almost meet at the points, take my word for it, is sure to do something wrong. See that straight, elegant face, A horse with a dishing face is cowardly, and a cowardly brute is always vicious. Thon I like a square muzzle, with large nostrils to let plenty of air to the lungs. For the underside of a head a good horse should be well cut under the jowl, with jaw-bones broad and wide apart under the throttle. “So much for the head,” he" contin ued. “ The next thing to consider is the build of the animal. Never buy a long legged stilty horse. Let him have a short, straight back and a straight rump and you’ve got a gentleman’s horse. The withers should be high and the shoul ders well set back and broad, but don’t eet them too deep in the chest. The fore legs should be short. Give me a pretty, straight hind-leg, with the hock low down, short pastern joints, and a round mulish foot. There are all kinds of horses, but the animal that has these points is almost sure to be slightly grace ful, good-natured and serviceable. As to color, tastes differ. Bays, browns and chesnuts are the best. Roans are very fashionable at present. A great many grays and sorrels are brought here for shipment to Mexico and Cuba. They do well in a hot climate, under a tropical sun, for the same reason that you find light-colored clothing most serviceable in summer. That circus horse behind you is what many people call a calico horse; now, I call him a genuine piebald. It’s a freak of nature and may happen anywhere. ” — Scribner’s Monthly. “First Efforts.” I long for some patent method for con vincing every man, woman and child, who is poor, unhappy, or wants pin money, that they cannot rush into litera ture pell-mell, and make money at will. Above all, I should like a legal penalty imposed upon every one who sends a “first effort” to me. It is an equal “effort” and by no means my “first” for me to read their poetry, and for them to write it. I am fast becoming a misanthrope from the amount of trash, garnished with neither sense, grammar, rhyme, nor metre, that my fellow crea tures pierpetrate with a view of fame and fortune. Will anyone ever convince this crowd of imbeciles that to write even decently demands previous cultivation, information, and common sense; or that real genius is like any other diamond, and needs careful cultivating and polish ing? I suppose not!— lanti c Magazine. Pat’s Speech. Pat—“Och, Bridget, did ye niver hear uv my great spache afore the Hi bernian Society?” Bridget—“No, Pat, how should I? for sure I was not on the ground.” Pat—“ Well, Bridget, ye see I was called upon by the Hibernian So ciety for a spache; and, be jabbers, I rose with the enthusiastic cheers of thou sands, with me heart overflowing with gratitude, and me eyes filled with tears, and divil a word did I spoke.” Tins reason why the poets always speak of October as “sober” is because sober is the only word they can find to rhyme with October. Xofth Published Eveby Thurso a y at BELLTON, GEORGIA. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year (63 numbers), $1.00; six months 126 numbers), 50 cents; three months (13 numbers), 25 cents. Office in the Smith building, east of the depot. ]SO. 47. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. It is reported that 320,000 holes were bored in the execution of St. Gothard tunnel, 980,000 pounds of dynamite con sumed, and 1,650,000 drills worn out. As Snt William Thompson has shown, the sun, if it were composed of solid cool and produced its light by combus tion, would burn out in less than 6,000 years. Ta oks. —Two hundred and fifty differ ent kinds of tacks are manufactured from brass, copper, zinc, iron and steel. The material from wliich tacks are made is first cut into long strips as wide as the required length of the taek. It is then put into a machine which cuts it into tacks or nails, as the case may be, as quickly and as easily as a boy would munch a stick of candy. The Cunard line has lost two vessels in thirty-seven years, but has never lost a life nor a letter. The Colombia, one of their first vessels, went ashore be tween Halifax and Boston. The passen gers and cargo were landed in safety, but the vessel could not be got off. The Tripoli went ashore near Tusker, off the coast of Ireland, about six years ago. The passengers and cargo were landed safely, but the vessel was broken up. “Tbain catching,” says the Hour, “is the cause of more ill health than is generally supposed. Those who ‘ bolt’ their breakfasts, in order to be in time for the morning train, know that such a coiu-se leads to dyspepsia, with its at tendant ills, and the violent exertion which is made by those who just ‘ save their distance! produces an excitement of the heart and blood vessels which, if frequently repeated, is likely to end in serious organic disease.” Eleotbioity is used in Paris to con trol vicious horses. A conducting wire runs from an electro-magnet in the seat of the wagon through the reins to the horse’s bits. By turning the crank of the magnet a current of electricity is in duced and sent to the animal’s mouth. No violent shock is given to benumb or greatly alarm the horse, but the slight prickling sensation peculiar to electrical influence surprises and subdues him. An electric whip, to prevent rearing or turning suddenly, is another ingenious invention. Fbom inquiries conducted by Prof. Hermann Cohn, of Breslau, since 1865, it appears that short-sightedness is rare ly or never born with those subject to it, and is almost always the result of strains sustained by the eye dating study in early youth. Myopia, as it is called, is seldom found among pupils of village schools, and its frequency increases in. proportion to the demand' made upon the eye in higher schools and in colleges. A better construction of school desks, an improved typography of text-books, and a sufficient lighting of class-rooms, are the remedies proposed to abate this malady. Saturn's Rings. We had a view of Saturn a few evenings since through the fine telescope in Mr. Seagrave’s private observatory, that will long be remembered for its exceeding beauty. The night is rarely favorable for star-gazing, the definition perfect and the atmosphere serene. The picture is one of surpassing loveliness, the most suberb telescopic scene in the heavens. The orb is resplendent in coloring, bluish at the poles, pale yellow elsewhere, crossed by two creamy central belts, and flecked with spots that suggest light scudding clouds. There is no appear ance of a flattened disc, but the rounded outlines of a sphere, seeming about the size of the full moon, stand out in bold relief against the azure blackness of the sky. Around this softly glowing center extend the wondrous rings, opening wide their encircling arms and cradling the planet in their protecting embrace. Eveiy detail of the complex ring system is sharply defined and vividly painted ou the celestial canvas. The outer and the inner rings, the dusky ring, the space between the outer and inner rings and even the division in the outer ring are plainly visible, while six of the eight moons dot the dark sky with points of golden glow. The six moons we see— one of them is larger than Mercury— circle around their primary within an extreme span of four million miles. The beautiful rings lie within the path of the nearest moon and span a space of about one hundred and seventy-six thousand miles. The narrow dark space between the inner and outer rings, is seventeen hun dred miles broad, and the duskv or third ring extends nine thousand miles within .the inner or second ring.— Providence Journal. A bingulab phenomenon has been commented on by the French scientific papers. At Bonneville and other places a slight shower of yellow rain fell. M. de Candolle, to whom were handed sheets of paper stained by the rain, has pro nounced the coloring matter to be of an organic nature, consisting of vegetable debris, among which could be observed the spores of cryptogams. The shower seems to have taken place simultaneously over a large extent, but the composition of the coloring matter was not every where the same—that collected at Duille being essentially of a mineral character. Contented with His Lot. A Sunday-school teacher said to little Johnny: “You must never envy those little children who are rich and wear fine clothes.” “ I don’t, not the first dog-goned bit.” “Why don’t you envy them, Johnny?” “Because they have to wear cleat clothes, and they can’t wade about in the mud, and they have to say please to everybody, whoopee!”— GalvestonNews.