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ENGLISH KISSES. '
Tentlnsowlals io the NweetneM ot Anglican
Osculation.
The women of England (says Polydore
Virgil), in the Parisian, not only salute
their relations with a kiss, but all per
sons promiscuously; and, this ceremony
they repeat, gently touching them with
the lips, not only with grace, but without
the least immodesty. Such, however, as
are of the blood-royal do not hiss their
inferiors, but offer the back of the hand,
as men do byway of saluting each other.
Erasmus writes in raptures to one of his
friends on this subject. “Did you but
know, my Faustus.” says he, “the
pleasures which England affords, you
would fly here on wiuged feet, and, if
your gout would not allow you, you
w ould wish yourself a Divdalus. To men
tion to yon one among many things, here
are nymphs pf the loveliest looks, good
humored, easy of access, and whom you
would prefer even to your favorite muses.
Here also prevails a custom never enough
to be commended, that wherever you
come everyone receives you with a kiss,
and when you take your leave everyone
gives you a kiss; when you return, kisses
again meet you. If anyone leaves you
they leave you with a kiss; if you meet
anyone- the first salutation is n kiss; in
short, wherever you go kisses everywhere
about; which, my Faustus, did you once
taste how very sweet and how very
fragrant they are, you would not, like
Solon, wish for ten years’ exile in Eng
land, but would desire there to spend the
whole- of your life.” Antonio Perez,
Secretary to she Embassay from Philip
11. of Spain, writes thus to the Earl of
Essex: “I have this day, according to
the custom of your country, kissed, at an
entertainment, seven females, all of them
accomplished in mind and beautiful in
person.” Dr. Pierius Winsemius, his
toriographer to theu- Mightinesses the
States of Friezland, in his Chtonijck ran
Prieslandt, printed in 1662, informs us
that the pleasant custom was utterly un
practiced and unknown in England (just
as it is this day in New Zealand, where
sweethearts only know how to touch
noses when they wish to bo kind) until
the fair Princess Rouix, the daughter of
King Hengist of Friezland. “pressed the
beaker with her lipkins” (little lips) and
sainted the amorous Vortigern with a
husjeu (little kiss.)
The Shopping Bills of Wives.
■American shopkeepers and American
shoppers alike should bo interested in
the case of the large silk-goods firm of
Debenham A Feebody in England
against Mr. Mellon for the recovery of
the cost of dresses furnished to his wife
whom he had forbidden to incur bills.
The case went from court to court up to
tiie House of Lords, where it was finally
decided by that august tribunal in favor
of Mr. Mellon. The Lords expressly
ruled that “ Where a husband makes
his wife an allowance, and expressly for
bids her to run up accounts in his name,
he cannot be held liable for any goods
she may obtain by drawing upon his
credit; and, indeed, that, unless the
seller can show that special authority
has been conferred by the husband on
the wife, the seller cannot recover judg
ment.” In this case it was admitted
that the goods charged for were of a
kind suitable to Mrs. Mellon’s rank and
condition of life, but the presumption
usually created by such an admission in
favor of the seller was held to be over
ruled by an absolute conjugal prohibi
tion even where the seller was not ap
prised of the prohibition. It was inti
mated during the argument that shop
keepers, before giving a wife credit,
might readily protect themselves by
making inquiries of the husband, and
the court held that due care and caution
could not be considered to have been
exercised where this was not done.
No New Jokes,
There is absolutely nothing new in
jokes. They never die. The jokes that
are familar to us are those which our
ancestors enjoyed. They are found in
the most ancient literature that remains,
and in hieroglyphics of the ruined monu
ments of dead empires. Their unchanged
existence through these ages docs not al
low that these, like the earth and man.
may have been created by a process of
development; they must have been
created absolutely. At some stage of
the work of creation the jokes were
launched into being, and they have con
tinued to revolve by their own gravity,
the same as the planets. None of them
can be annihilated any more than matter,
nor can another lie added. No person who
attempts originality can get recognized
as a wit, but any man can, who has
talent for memorizing the old stock
jokes and funny stories, and for working
them over on all occasions.
How Three Debts Were Paid.
A singular coincidence, showing how
much can b» done by the payment of
even a small debt, happened at Bangor,
Me. A gentleman was at the wharf, in
tending to purchase some lobsters, when
two gentlemen came up and engaged
with him in conversation. The first gen
tleman said to th* second: "I believe 1
owe you a dollar.” "Yes,” replied the
second, “I believe you do.” The second
man than spoke to the third: “1 believe
1 also owe yon a dollar,” which fact the
third man acknowledged, and he also
said that hs owed ths first man a dollar,
which hs desired to pay. In this trans
action the three men each paid their in
debtedness to each other, and they did so
without passing any money between
them.
Denver has a policeman who writes
poetry, and the editor who refuses to
publish it is hsbls to go to ths fouit-uu
The North Georgian.
VOL. IV.
SIGNS OF FOI L WEATHER.
BI DB. JENNER.
Tho hollow winds lierin to blow;
The clouds look blade, the glass is low;
The so it falls down, the spaniels steep,
And spiders from their cobwebs peep.
Last night tho sun went palo to bod;
The moon in halos hid her head.
The boding shepherd heaves a sigh,
For, see, a rainbow span* the sky.
The walls are damp, the ditches smell;
Closed is ths pink-eyed pimpernel.
Hark ’ how the chairs and tab’es crack.*
Old Betty’s joints are on tho rack—
Her eoms with shooting pains torment her,
And to her bed untimely sent her.
Loud quack the ducks; the sea-fowl cry;
The distant liills are looking nigh.
How restless are the snorting swine!
The busy flies disturb the kins.
Low o’er the grass the swallow wings;
The cricket, too, how sharp he sings!
Puss on the hearth, with velvet pawn,
Sits wiping o’er her whiakered jaws.
The smoke from chimneys right ascends,
Then, spreading, back to earth it bends.
The wind, unMcudy, veers around,
Or settling in the south is found.
Through the clear stream the fishes rise,
And nimbly catch the incautious flion.
The glowworms numerous, rloar and bright,
Illumed tho dewy hill last night.
At dusk the squalid toad was seen.
Like quadruped, stalk o’er tha green.
The whirling wind tho duet obeys.
And in the rapid eddy plays.
Tho frog has changed his yellow vest
And in a russet coat is dressed.
The sky is green, the air is still,
The mellow blackbird’s voice is shrill. .
The dog. so altered in his taste,
Quits mutton-bones on grana to fcaaf.
Behold the rooks—how odd their flight!-
They imitate the gliding kite,
And seem precipitate to fall.
Ar if they felt the piercing ball.
The tender colts on back do Ha,
Nor heed the traveler passing by.
In fiery red the sun doth rise,
Thon wades through clouds tn mount the skier.
’Twill surely rsin, we aoe’t with sorrow—
No working in the fields to-morrow.
’The line, “Hark! how the chairs snd tables
crak,’’ is incorrect, as th* cracking—that is, contrac
tion- -Indicates fair weather, from the diminution of
moisture.—
The Right Man after All.
Viola had found a lover ; or at least,
John Ellsworth aspired to that die
tinction.
Two years ago, the paternal Ellsworth
had given John on his twenty-third
birthday a deed of a small, good farm
near his own. John set about making a
home for himself, with one of his half
dozen sisters to manage it, and went at
his farming in earnest. And the younger
female jwrtion thought him rather a de
sirable object to maneuver for.
Perhaps that was one reason why
Viola had been so gracious to him. It
was something to soeiu’e, without an ef
fort, attentions that all the other girls
schemed for. But John EHhwiwth did
not realize her idea). Under her calm
exterior, she dreaded romances of the
most vivid rose-pink.
One Juno night, driving over to see
his lady, John found her with an unu
sual flush on her fair young face. She
rode with him—accepting his invitation
in a matter-of-course way that was dread
fully discouraging.
It came out, after a little while, that
Mrs. Mornington, a great-aunt, had sent
for her photograph a month ago, not
having seen her since she was a child.
Two days ago had come an iuvitation to
spend a couple of months with her (the
great-aunt) in New York, and she was
going to-morrow.
“It’s no use denying,” the young
fellow said, his voice growing husky,
“that I’m sorry for this. I don’t know
what will come to you from thia. Ton
are not contented here ; you never will
be until you have had an experience
beyond it—perhaps not then. lam not
wise enough to tell you now, I sup
pose ; but I love you, Viola. Mind, I
do not ask you now for any return. I
shall wait for what the future may put
in your heart to say.”
“Indeed, I do care for you,
John; and you can’t blame me for
wanting to go. Aunt needs me, you
see; and no one does here, particularly.
And I’ve never seen anything of so
ciety.”
“I know, dear—”
“And I shall not forget you,” inter
rupting him. “I shall always think of
you ’’—giving him her hand.
“For two whole months,” a little
sadly. “ Good-by, then.” kissing tho
hand he held. And then Viola found
herself alone, and then went to finish
her packing.
Viola’s next two mouths were delight
ful. She was always prettily dressed,
and Frank Thorpe passed his valuable
time beside her.
John Ellsworth called on her the
night after her return.
“ You look well and happy,” he said,
scanning her face.
“ I am,” she said ; and she told him all
about her delightful visit.
“ And are you going to settle with
us now ?”
“Oh, no! I stay here only a few
days. My aunt is coming for me as she
returns from a visit she is paying.”
“Poor fellow!' Viola said, as ne
went down the moonlit road. And then
Frank Thorpe’s dreamily sad gray eyes
ranw up before her, and she forgot John
Ellsworth’s shady brown ones.
Mrs. Morniugton came and took the
young lady away, and Frank Thorpe
was once again hanging around her—a
most desirable matrimonial prize.
The Christmas holidays came and
went. Frank Thorpe lounged in on
Christmas day, aud was paler and more
listless than ever.
Mrs. Mornington gave her first bit of
advice to her young charge that night.
“ Frank Thorpe is not a man to trifle
with, my dear. I think he is in love
with yon. You eould hardly do better.”
“Do better?” raising her broad lids
for a full, steady look. "I hadn’t
thought there was to be any calculation.
No, Frank does not care for me, aunt.”
“If he is in love with you. so much
tKe" better. But come; Mrs. Grove’s
ball must be attended.”
Viola went to that ball, and froze
Frank Thorp*, who, uncousuiou* of of-
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY. GA., FEBRUARY 3, 1881.
tense, languidly assumed liis usual sta
tion near her.
* Among Mrs. Grove’s guests that night
was a rather good-looking man, who
certainly was no longer young. Having
lost one wife, he was now looking for an
other. When he was presented to Viola
she was barely civil. Mr. Nicolson
seemed to like it.
Frank Thorpe had ceased being
frozen. To tell the truth, Viola made
tiie advances. There was a shade more
of languor in his manner, and his sad
gray eyes had an added shadow ; but he
sought no explanation from her.
One frosty, sparkling Tnorning Viola
had been oiit for a walk. On the way
she met Frank Thorpe, as she was veri
apt to do. He accompanied her home
nnd entered the house with her. Then
Viola, feeling bright herself, began lect
uring him on his purposeless life.
“ If I were a mau—’’emphatically.
“Thank heaven yon are not ! How
ever, go on.”
“ You put me out, Mr. Thorp# ; why
don’t you do something ? ”
“Do something? Don’t I? lam
your devoted attendant three-fourths of’
my waking life."
“Yes, and get yourself and me talked
about by everybody. Not that 1 care,
certainly,” hurriedly to recover her
blunder. “ I shall choose my friends
where I please,” making matters worse,
of course. .
“You see,’’ he said, leaning forward
aud laying his hand confidentially on
her arm, “ I cannot bear to sea a clear
hearted, honest girl lowering herself to
the ways of thesa artificial, brainless
girls, who have bean bred up all their
lives in the business of catching a hus
band. You don’t need anv paltry ambi
tion. Wait until you find a man worth
falling in love with, and then marry him.
Wait forever, if yon dqn’t find him.”
Viola sat motionless with astonish- ‘
ment. If any dumb tiling liad found
▼oica she would n.ot have - been more
amazed. And she felt so fully called to
administer advice. While she sat, his
hand still on her arm, and his eyas still
on her face, the door opened, and John
Ellsworth was ushered in.’ Viola swept
toward him with eager, ontetretclwd
hands.
Frank Thorpe, being disturbed by this
new-comer,-who was called John, and re
ceived with snch an outbreak of enthusi
asm, gathered himself up and lounged
away.
John Ellsworth was in I own for A foyfy
night. Viola always accepted lu»in’-l
tations, and when the time came for
their fulfillment there was some unavoid
able obstacle in tho way.
Then Laut came and there was a sud
den cessation of gayety. John was
called away by his father’s illness, and
Viola felt tho inevitable reaction.
It was alike everywhere. In tho nar
row circle out of which she had come
there were jealousies and heart-burnings,
and petty scheming—no better and ne
worse than she had come to know in the
past weeks, though possibly less dis
guised by smooth, conventional polish of
manner. Wait till she met a man she
loved ! She might wait until she was
gray and blind. There had never ap
peared one to whom she could give u
second thought, unless it was—well, per
haps, John Ellsworth, if the life that
would follow with him wore not too nar
row te breathe in ; or Frank Thorpe, if
he were not too lazy to speak. And
then, by contrast, there came a vision of
Mr. Nicolson and all his wealth.
If she had shown the first symptoms
t»f her moods to Mr. Nicolson he would
have desisted from his attentions at once.
Here was youth and beauty in a statu
esque state of perfection. That was
what he wanted—the statuesqueness,
and everybody considered it a settled
affair.
I think Viola began to consider it her
self. She had just one letter from John
Ellsworth after bis return, and 1m said :
“ I love you, Viola, and am waiting for
you.”
She did not even answer the letter.
But she was cross, even with Mrs. Morn
ington, for two days after it.
Then she was seized with n fit of
homesickness, and, had her friend not
been taken very suddenly ill, nothing
would have kept her there. Mr. Nic
olson came morn frequently than ever;
in his way, very kinn and considerate.
One night in early spring Frank
Thorpe came and took Viola out for a
drive.
“ Yon are looking tired. We may not
have another such night for a month,”
Frank said.
In the half hour they did not speak
half a dozen sentences, nnd yet when ho
set her down at her own door, and held
her hand for a minute as he said “Fare
well,” Viola felt that they were nearer
each other tlian ever before.
Viola was one morning summoned to
the drawing-room to meet Mr. Nicolson.
In tho occupation of the past weeks she
had had very little opportunity to think
about him or his purposes. No
girl ever went to meet the final question
with less determination as to her answer.
She knew his errand tho moment she
entered the room. Not that he was con
fused or hesitating, or in any way dis
concerted.
“My dear young lady,” he said, “I
want your permission to ask you a per
sonal question.”
“ You have it, sir," she said.
And then, in a speech which was more
like a set oration than anything else
Viola had ever heard, he offered her his
hand and fortune.
filie went up-stairs to Mrs. Morning
ton, saying: ,
“And I’ve done it! And I am so
surprised! ’’
“ At what?”
“ I refused Mr. Nicolson.”
“ Perhaps you will be sorry that you
have said no, ”
“Perhaps. I shall never be sur
prised at anything again.”
A servant announced Frank Thorpe.
“ Aunt, shall I—” and paused. Even
in her reckless, over-excited mood she
could not complete her sentence.
“ you be kinder to him than
you hax'e been to Mr. Nicolson?”
“Don’t ask me.”
So Viola went down to see her visitor,
who was at the full tide of his languid,
tired indifference.
“How very entertaining you arc to
day. Your conversational powers are
something to lie wondered at,” Viola
said at last, impatiently.
“Entertaining?” opening his eyes
with mild wonder. “ I supposed that
your share of the interview. However,
if you like, I’ll begin. You are not
looking as well as usual this morning.”
“Thank you. What a very promis
ing beginning.”
“But you have infinitely tho advan
tage of Mr. Nicolson, whom 1 met just
now. He seemed laboring under the
impression that there had been an carth
pinkc.”
“ And so there has been. There; talk
about something else. You needn’t be
entertaining any more.”
“ Miss llawdon,” tho servant an
nounced, aud that put an end to it all.
Viola reasoned herself into the con
viction that she was in love with Frank
Thorpe, nnd, if not actually in that con
dition, she might easily find herself
there.
The crisis was not for off. Coming in
from nn errand, that night, she found
all tho dimly-lighted house empty, and
event on from room to room till, in the
library, she opened tho door on Frank
Thorpe.
“ Since you were not at home, I camo
to find for myself a volume. Mrs. Morn
ington hud promised me,” ho explained.
But ho closed the door as he gave her a
chair, as if the tete-a-tete were a part of
his plan.
“ We might as well begin with a clean
record,” he said, with a great deal of
hard earnestness in his voice. ‘ ‘ You are
not my first love, Viola. Not quite two
years ago she jilted me. I was in an aw
ful spoony condition—there’s no denying
it—and for a few weeks thought it
would be the death of me. Ono morn
ing my letters aud trinkets came buck
to me. There was not a word of ex
planation, nnd I did not choose to ask
any.”
“ >n<l Hie young ludy’s name?”
“Emily Prescott.”
" Emily Prescott ? Why, that is tho
young lady I met this afternoon. Just
home from abroad—in Paris mourning.
Her father nnd mother both died some
where in France in the spring, and she
came home with the Mortons. ”
“Viola,” staring at her with eager
eyes, “ I can’t believe it,” dropping into
a chair. “My poor darling—”
“It seems to me, Frank, that the lit
tle arrangement we entered into ten
minutes ago might as well be quietly
annulled. Your ‘ poor darling ’ is at
present with the Mertens. Hadn’t you
better go up there at once and rear
range the programme ? ”
“ I don’t know. Viola, you will think
me a scoundrel, but I believe I love her
y«t-”
“Os course you do. Who doubts it?
There, don’t say a woman can’t be gen
erous.”
After that nothing could keep her in
New York, and three days after reaching
home, driving her old-fashioned pony
chaise over tho green country road, she
came upon John Ellsworth walking, aud
he accepted her invitation to ride.
“It is good to be here again. I was
thoronglily homesick.”
“ When are you to be married ? ”
“Never 1 ” with a burst of vehemence;
“unless you—oh, John!” with a hys
terical sob.
At home a telegram awaited her. Mrs.
Mornington was dead.
Mrs. Morniugton died poor. She had
spent all her money. So Viola was not
an heiress after all.
Old-Time Epizootics.
Thanks to tho general use of steam in
traveling, it is comforting to reflect that
in spite of the very great annoyance and
inconvenience caused by the horse dis
eases in recent years, particularly by the
epizootic which prevailed iu the year
1872, the inconveniences to which peo
ple are subjected nowadays in the lack
of horses are really much less grave than
those which our ancestors had to con
tend with, in similar cirum stances. For
our forefathers, the prevalence of a se
< vere epizootic meant the cessation of all
| traveling and transportation, whether
| for long or for short distances; except
ing, of course, such service as may bo
done by oxen aud by men on foot. Some
idea of the gravity of the situation is
suggested by the following extracts from
an old Birmingham newspaper: On
February 4, 1760, notice was published
that “the horses belonging to the Bir
mingham stage coach arc so much af
fected by the present <’ is temper that pre
vails among them, that its journies are
obliged to be discontinued until their
, recovery,” And in th# week following
another notice appears under that of
February 11, 1760, “ the horses belong
ing to the Birmingham stage coach are
still so bad that it would lie dangerous to
i attempt their going with the coach this
' week; but on Monday next, the 18th,
Mr. Peyton {’reposes that the coach shall
set out to go from hence as usual ; after
which he hopes it will meet with uo
other interruption.”
When n man asks a favor at a newspa
{>er office, and states that be has been a
: subscriber for n number of years, a de
nial becomes an impossibility. The nr
i gumeiit is clinched, and h# can hav# the
, entire establishment for the wkiug.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Al Brownville, Texas, the recent snow
storm was the first in fourteen years.
Farm hands are said to be more scarce
in Thomas county, Ga., than they have
been since the war.
Three hundred German carp have been
placed at various points up the St. John
river in Florida.
A Louisiana planter says that he con
siders twenty geese in a eotten field equal
te one hoe-hand.
Negroes are said to be leaving Gadsden
county, Fla., in such numbers that it
amounts to an exodus.
Toccoa, Ga., having an existence of
eight years, has acquired a thrifty popu
lation approximating a thousand souls.
Thousands of robins roost in a cane
brake about fifteen miles from Homer,
La. They are token t# Homer bv the
sockfull.
A clipper ship, brought into Port
Royal, 8. C., loaded with guano, came
up to the dock at half-tide, drawing
twenty-one feet.
In Louisiana the census exhibits 473
Chinese, 819 Indians and halfbreeds,
eight half-Ohinese, one West Indian and
one East Indian.
N. Gar bin i has been elected President
of the New Orleans Fruit and Produce
Association, a new and Bermanent organi
zation of wholesale fruit dealers.
In the last four months of 1880 col
portuers of the American Bible Society
supplied 1,913 destitute families and 955
destitute individuals with the Bible.
Harry Stephens, tho well-known col
ored body-servant of Hon. Alex. H.
Stephens, who died last week, at Craw
fordville, was the owner of perhaps $20,-
000 worth of property.
The St. Augustine (Fla.) Press says
that the majority of the there
abouts, instead of raising their <>w.n corn,
buy it at the city stores. A cotton planter
could scarcely do worse than that.
An amendment of the constitution of
Arkansas has been proposed in the Leg
islature, providing that the general elec
tions shall occur every fourth year, State
Representatives be elected for four years
aad the Legislature meet every fourth
years.
Ihe Perry, Ga., Home Journal says
that the old plantation system, almost
universal in Houston county before the
war, has gone to its death, and small
farms now constitute the order of agri
cultural work. There are very few ten
mule farms in Houston.
There is a proposition to form a new
North Carolina county ou.
of parts of Sampson, John,
ston, Wayne, Cumberland and Har
nett counties. There are several propo
sitions to cut off portions of Wake county
tor the formation of new counties, but
ktsileigh is averse.
At Scarboro, Ga., John F. Toole is
Resident, Warren K. Wood, Treasurer,
and James A. Fulcher, Secretary, of the
“First National Non-cursing Society,
Scarb#ro Division No. 1.” The object
of the organization is to discontinue the
practice of profane swearing.
By a clerical error, in making up the
list of citi#s or census bulletin No. 45,
the population of one enumeration dis
trict of Atlanta was omitted. The true
population, Gen. Walker, Superintend
ent of tha Census, says, is 37,421, not
34,398, as previously announced.
Real estate in the business part of Or
angeburg, S. C., is as high as in Charles
ton. A cotton factory with four Clem
ent attachments is established. The crop
of upland rice raised in the county will
probably reach ab#ut 40,000 bushels.
The cotton crop is between 30,000 and
40,000 bales.
The answer of the citizens of Memphis
to the petition of bondholders or credi
tors of the old corporation of Memphis
alleges that the compromise proposed by
the taxing district, twenty-five cents on
the dollar, and in addition, the taxes
due the old city, say $1,248,982, is fair,
just and honorable.
Knoxville, Tenn., was laid out iu 1791,
and named in honor of General Knox,
of Revolutionary fame. The first Ter
ritorial Legislature assembled there in
1791, the constitution d convention in
1795, and the first State Legislature in
1796. The seat of government was re
moved to Nashville in 1810.
Richmond Dispatch : If Mr. Jeflerson
Davis does not mgke numerous changes
in his proof-sheets, he is not the man ho
was in 1850. Then he had a habit of
chflnging the reporter'll notes to »uch nn
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NO. 5.
extent that his speeches seemed almost
to be new ones, or rather not the same
which he had delivered in the Senate.
A bill is pending before the Florida
Legislature providing for four examining
medical boards—at Pensacola,Tullahassee,
Jacksonville and Key West—which shall
examine applicants and grant certificate#
to those only who are qualified to dis
charge the functions of a medical expert.
The bill is not retroactive, and will not
disqualify physicians now practicing.
President Haygood, of Emory College,
Georgia, says that in 1876 tho improved
lands in Georgia amounted to 28,787,539
acres. In 1880 the aggregate had grow*
to 29,815,581 acres, the increase of four
years being sufficient to provide farms of
100 acres each for nearly 11,000 families.
Ho says the colored people are buying
farms of from twenty to fifty acres, and
getting excellent returns from them.
Evidently he does not believe in th#
decadtiuce of Georgia.
Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier :
To-day the leading men of Mississippi-
Arkansas and Texas are Georgians, and
in every county nnd neighborhood, al
mott, in those States the controlling
spirit is a Georgian. The Governor of
Texns is u Georgian, so are both the Sen
ators from Mississippi. She has given
throe Governors to Texas, two to Mis
sissippi, a Governor and Senator to Ala
bama, and her ablest and best men to
Arkansas.
The manufacture of brick is one of the
most important industries of Macon, Ga.
The material furnished by the land be
low Macon, in the Ocmulgee swamp, and
a tract extending across the Brunswick
railroad is said to be unexcelled in the
world for purity and firmness. The Ma
con Telegraph and Messenger thinks
there is no reason why the number of
manufactories should not be increased,
and the production of pottery, pipes,
drains, etc., for the whole State entered
upon. I r
An old negro near Stockton, Clinch
county, Ga., has invented for himself a
now plan for planting orange trees, and
has planted several hundred. He plants
them among the green pines, and leaves'
the pines standing to protSq tli« orange
trees. He clears up a space twelve feet
square and plants nn orange tree. Two
gentlemen in Clinch county propose to
plant a grove on au island in the Su»
wanooche, near Dupont. A gentleman
in an adjoining county cmtemplatos set
ting out several thousand trees.
A Charlottesville, Va., correspondent
of the Richmond Dispatch says that
George Rogers Clarke “lived within
sight of Charlottesville, though two
miles and a half away. I have been to
the old house-place. There is not a ves
tige of the buildings left, but the aitua
ation commands a most beautiful view
of a large extent of country, looking
westward and northward, and southward
down the Rivanna valley, and is on the
Southwest mountains, on the farm now
owned by Mr. Redfield. The Clarke
family owned thousands of acres of land
in that section, embracing even Edge
Hill, the residence of the late Thomas J.
Randolph, five miles awtiy.”
j— ii»n.'
Sedentary Habits.
The alarming increase of late years la
the projMwtion of sudden deaths is be
ginning to attract the attention of statist
icians. It is largely due, no doubt, to
more general mental activity without a
proportionate increase in bodily exercise.
The busy life of tho age demands a con
stant hurry and excitement, and taxes
the physical powers to the utmost to
keep up in the race for money-getting.
One of the disadvantages of introducing
facilities of transportation is the tempta
tion to cut short time and distance by
the habitual use of steam cars and horse
cars even in the daily transit from the
dwelling to the office. A sedentary oc
cupation begets an almost unconquera
ble aversion to regular exercise, and the
result of yielding to the indisposition is
that the mental powers, kept at a steady
tension for years, will some day suddenly
relax and leave their abuser either life
less or a helpless paralytic. To literary
and professional men ia vigorous and
regular exercise especially needful, and
the example of its effects in a hale old
age will suggest themselves to every one.
The exercise needed to keep the mind in
tone and the physical force unabated, up
to the three score years and ten, is not a
daily spin behind a fast stepping horse,
but the long swinging gait which puts
the walker over a country road at the
rate of three or five miles an hour, and
sends the blood pusling with invigorat
ing life to every portion of the system.
Two hours exercise a day, so far from
being a positive waste of time, is a posi
tive economy, supplying the nervous
force for more and better work in ten
hours than the man of street cars and
carriages can get out of twelve.—A’ein
London Telegram.
r One passenger is killed by the rail
roads for every 41,778.775 miles traveled,
and one is sitlier killed or wounded for
•very 11.87AM8 nil**