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About The North Georgian. (Gainesville, Ga.) 1877-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1881)
X )ftl| Gfeofgikq, PUBLISHED EVKBY THUBSDA’ BELLTON, GA. BY JOHN BLATS. Tbbmi— sl.o# per anaum 60 cenU for six months; 25 cents forthree months. Partial away from Bellton ate requested to send their names with such amounts of money a. they can pare, from 2cc. to $1 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 Published Every Thursday at BELLTON, GEORGIA, RATES OF SUBSCRIPTIOIT. Oue year (52 numbera), $1.00; six months v 6 numbers) 50 cents; three months <l3 numbers), 25 cents. Oflice in the Smith building, east of ths depot. 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**
