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NEWS CLEANINGS.
Minnesota has made an assignment at
fifty cents on the dollar.
Thirty drummers visited Natchez in
February, and paid $75 privilege taxes.
In the Cherokee nation there are 107
schools where the English language is
taught.
There are 220 students at the South
Georgia Agricultural College, at Thom
asville.
.The granite for the base of the Cow
pens monument is arming at Spartan
burg, S. C.
It is alleged that the oysters found off
the Texas coast are the largest and finest
in the world.
A license to sell liquor in Nebraska
costs SI,OOO, which shows that their
drinks are dear to them out there.
Lizzie Crompton, aged seven, of Pat
erson, N. J., jumped a rope 175 times,
and then stopped a few minutes to die.
Windom’s home is in Minnesota, he
was born in Ohio, married in Massachu
setts, and he lives in Washington.
A bill has been filed in Chancery con
testing the title of lands covering a large
part of the fifth ward of Cha tanooga,
Tenn.
Strawberries cultivated near Charles
ton, S. C., are expected to yield 1,000,-
000 quarts for the Northern markets
from 250 acres of land.
Thomas Smith, of New’ York, who re
cently compelled his young son to keep
the track in a walking match, was fined
SIOO and sent to prisonJfor ten days.
A bill has passed both houses of the
Florida Legislature taking Sumter county
from the First Congressional district
and transferring it to the Second.
Kansas druggists, according to the new,
absurd law, can not sell camphor, co
logne or flavoring extracts into which
alcohol enters without the prescription
of a physician.
The Prescott (Ark.) Dispatch say
that there are seventy-five saw mills on
the line of railroad between Little Rock
and Texarkana, and timber enough for
750 more.
- Miss Mary Maury, of Milton, N. 0.,
■who was engaged to be married to Th os
DeJarnette, who is now under sentence
of death for shooting his sister in a low
house, has married a Mr. Charles Gor
don.
A correspondent of the Savannah (Ga.)
News says that the largest tea plantation
in the United States is located about
fifteen miles from Fleming. Fleming is
about twenty-four miles southwest of
Savannah in Liberty county.
Karl Gerhardt, a Hartford draughts
man, modeled so fine a figure of his wife
in clay that Mark Twain and Charles
Dudley Warner have sent him to Europe
for education in sculpture.
The Money Order Superintendent at
New York says the M. O. Department is
only sixteen years old. The smallest
money order ever sent was one cent.
Last year over $100,000,000 was sent
through the department.
Two of the ’liexas Congressmen nre
Georgians. Olin Wellborn began his
legal career in Atlanta, and moved to
Texas iu 1868. D. B. Culberson went
from LaGrange to the army, and then
to Texas as Adjutant General of that
State.
Garfield kissed the Bible on the twen
ty-first chapter of Proverbs, and the
verses he kissed were these: “Every
way of a man is right in his own eyes,
but the Lord pondereth the hearts.”
“To do justice and judgment is more ac- l
ceptabl* t > the Lord than sacrifice.”
The Maine liquor law is still supposed
to be in force in that State, and the Leg
islature is still loyal to the prohibitory
statute so long upon the Maine books;
but for the refreshment of the inner man
engaged in the Maine Legislature, liquor
is made quite accessible to the capitol
building in Augusta.
The Texas Legislature is said to have
passed a resolution requiring that women
stall be employed in the State depart
ments for every position that they are
competent to fill upon the same terms
and conditions as men. The heads of
departments, it appears, have hitherto
declined to give the women any public
employment.
The Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff, Chairman
of the Bible Revision Committee, an
nounces that the Revised New Testament
will be published by the English Univer
sity presses in May, in different sizes and
styles of binding at corresponding prices.
The new Bible is protected by copyright
'n England and free in this country.
The North Georgian.
VOL. IV.
Wm. I. Johnson, caressingly called
Buckshot Bill, Chief of United States
Scouts, is authorized interpreter in four
teen Indian tongues and speaks eleven
more. Bill was once taken prisoner by
Split Nose, a Comanche, and saw eleven
of his comrades burned. He says he has
117 scalps hanging in the Smithsonian
Institute taken bv his own hands.
Capt. Nelms says that there are now
about 1,150 convicts at the various prison
camps of Georgia. The largest number
at any one place is at the Dade coal
mines, where there are about 350. The
decrease in the number of convicted
criminals for the years 1878-9 is said to
be about twelve and one-half per cent.,
and for the year 1880 about fifteen per
cent.
The Charleston banks refuse to take
silver certificates at par. The certificates
represent silver-coined dollars in the
United States Treasury, and are receiva
ble for customs dues; but the demand for
silver to pay duties at Charleston is
small, and the banks must charge a quar
ter per cent, discount on the certificates
to pay expressage on them to some city
where a large amount of custom house
duties is paid.
The Concho (Texas) Times says that
Judge Pruesser describes El Paso as fol
lows: “Imagine the main street of San
Angela with the houses all flat-roofed,
and about a thousand drunken men, rail
road hands, gamblers and adventurers, all
swaggering, fighting and yelling through
the streets, and you have a pretty cor
rect idea of El Paso as it is. That there
will be a good town there some day, or
probably further down the river, I have
no doubt.”
Robert Collyer, .Sunday, in the course
of a lecture on George Eliot, said: “As
to her after life, it isn’t a question
of casting stones, but it is whether
she did the best possible here with that
fine spirit. I believe that her soul is at
rest. In the boundless bliss of heaven
alone could such a soul find its place.
Old Father Taylor, of Boston, once said
to a Calvinist who was talking about
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s going to the
bad place after he should die: “Well, if
Emerson goes to hell, he will change the
climate.” And so I say of George Eliot.
The negrosin Liberty county, Ga., are
said to be well behaved and industrious.
The Rev. J. T. H. Waite, who located in
Liberty in 1874, has done much toward
their moral and intellectual advance
ment. Th academy which he establish
ed at Midway several years since is in a
prosperous condition, and numbers 250
pupils on its roll. The assistant teachers
are young colored men, one of whom re
ceived his education at this academy.
Another school has been started recently
at Dorchester by the Rev. Mr. Waite,
who is devoted to his noble mission.
Speaking of the improvements which
are to made at Athens, Ga., this sum
mer, the Atlanta Constitution says
Athens is already one of the most beau
ful, aristocratic and progressive cities of
its size in the Southrn States, with a
population largely made up of the wealth
iest of Georgians. Its long avenues,
lined with stately old Southern mansions
with beautiful yards and shade trees,
remindsone vividly of the princely times
of ante-bellum days. The colleges of
Athens are numerous and of the highest
order, and from their halls have gone
out men who have become honored and
distinguished both in private and in pub
lic life.
Wl.at is Wine Made Os!
As wine merchants are petitioning the
French Government to put a stop to the
manufacture of artificial wines, the pe
titioners asserting that not one-third of
the wine used in Paris is made of grapes,
the many Americans who turn up their
noses at the juice of our own grapes will
naturally wonder what the spurious
French wines are made of. An exchange
says that there are a number of large fac
tories near Parts in which wines are
made from rotten apples, damaged dried
fruits of all kinds, beets and spoiled
molasses. But there are not enough of
these materials to make as much wine as
is required by foreign trade. Turnip
juice has been worked over into wine,
and American cider is the basis of mil
lions of bottles of champagne, but good
apples and turnips are too costly to be
wasted on cheap wines, such as most
Americans buy. Some of the temper
ance societies might find the returns they
are after by satisfying public curiosity
about what wines are made of.—-V. K
Herald.
Kingzett is inclined to believe tha
ozone and hydrogen peroxide are pro
! duced at the same tim? when atmost
pheric air is drawn over phosphorus par
’ tially immersed in water.
The thing we cauliflower by any other
; name would smell as sweet
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA., MARCH 17, 1881.
THE NEW CABINET.
Biographical Sketches of its Members.
PcrMonnl and Political Antecedcuts of
Hmine. Windom, Kirkwood, Lincoln,
Hunt. James and MacVeayh.
New Yorte Herald,
JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE, SECRETARY
OF STATE.
Few public men in America are better
known than Senator James G. Blaine,
ex-Speaker of the House of Representa
tives, and few are likely to maintain
themselves so steadily in the forefront of
the political battle field for many years
to come. As Premier of the new ad
ministration Mr. Blaine will share with
President Garfield the chief responsibil
ities of a policy which will be largely
his own, at least to a degree unusual in
the annals of recent governments. Mr.
Blaine, as is well known, is a citizen of
Maine and a native of Pennsylvania, but
it is not so well understood that he may
be considered in a geographical sense as
n “Ohio man,” having been born in the
center of the Ohio Valley, much nearer
the “Beautiful River” than either Hayes
or Sherman. He comes of Revolution
ary stock, his great-grandfather, Col.
Ephriam Blaine, a native of Scotland,
having fought with prince Charley at
Culloden in the ’45, and afterward par
ticipated in the American Revolution, as
coinmissionary general of the Middle de
partment during the Revolutionary war.
His maternal grandfather, James Gilles
pie, settled upon a large tract of land in
the Monongahela Valiev soon after the
Revolution, that region being considered
then a part of Virginia. His father,
Ephriam L. Blaine, married a Miss Gil
lespie, and James G. Blaine, one of seven
children, was born Jan. 31, 1830, on
Indian Hill farm, West Brownsville,
Union township, on the Monongahela, in
Washington county, Pa. The county
seat was the thriving village of Wash
ington—usually known as “Little Wash
ington”—a town which has become
prominent of late years by its cremation
furnace and by the visits of Gen. Grant
to the members of his family who reside
there. “Little Washington’’ is also no
ted as the seat of one of the oldest col
leges of the Ohio Valley, and there,
after preparation at a school in Lancas
ter, 0., where he resided with his uncle,
Senator Thomas Ewing, the future
Premier graduated in 1847, with the
highest honors of a class of thirty-three
members, at the early age of seventeen
years. In 1850 he went to Georgetown,
Ky., as a teacher at a military academy,
and married, about 1853, a Miss Harriet
Stanwood, a lady who taught an adjoin
ing district school. She belonged to a
prominent family of Maine, and this
marriage was the occasion of the remove
al of Mr. Blaine to that State. He had
previously taught (1852) in the iVnn
sylvania Institution for the Blind at
Philadelphia, at the same time studying
lair and writing for the Philadelphia
Inquirer. He speedily became connected
with the Kennebec Journal, published at
Augusta, the State Capital, and was for
a time editor of the Portland Advertiser,
but soon returned to his former post at
Augusta. In 18.57 he was elected to the
State Legislature, where he sat for five
years, during two of which he served as
Speaker. In 1862 he was elected to
Congress, to which he was regularly re
elected until 1876, when he was chosen
to the Senate in place of ex-Senator Lot
M. Morrill. In December, 1869, he was
elected Speaker of the Forty-first Con
gress, was re-elected in 1871 and 1873
and was defeated in 1875 by his Deino
cratic competitor, Michael C. Kerr, the
Democrats having a clear majority in
that House. As every one knows, Mr.
Blaine was brilliantly successful as a
Speaker, having complete command of
parliamentary rules, and possessing that
gift of personal magnetism which marks
the leaders of men. As an orator and
legislator he was one of the notable fig
urea of ( ’ongress long before he became
its presiding officer, and began to be
mentioned as a possible President soon
after his first election to the Speaker
ship. At Cincinnati in 1876 he narrow
ly escaped the Republican nomination,
and at Chicago in 1880 was the leading
candidate until almost the last moment,
when his followers threw their votes for
James Abram Garfield, thus securing
his nomination. He occupies a fine
house at Washington, where he dispenses
hospitality; has six children, two of his
sons already practicing law, and has a
natural taste for diplomacy, for which
his character eminently' fits him. He
has an imposing personal presence, a
phenomenal memory and a reputation
for steadfast loyalty to political friends.
WILLIAM WINDOM, SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY.
The second prize in the Garfield Cabi
net falls to Senator William Windom, of
Minnesota, who had some following in
the Chicago Convention of 1880 as a
possible "dark hirst.” Mr. Windom,
like many other meritorious politicians,
was originally an “Ohio man,” having
first seen the light May 10, 1827, in Bel
mont county, 0., almost on the banks of
the “Beautiful River,” near Wheeling,
West Va., not fifty miles, “as the crow
flies,” from the birth place of James G.
Blaine His parents were both from
Virginia, his paternal grand parents
were from North Carolina, and his ma
ternal grand parents were Pennsylvania
Quakers named Spencer. William Win
dom was brought up on a farm. In
clearing up the “claim,” splitting rails
and chopping firewood, he wielded the
ax with the same agilitv as our martyr-
President. His early schooling was de
fective, but he attended an academy at
Mount‘.Vernon, 0., for several terms
when a young’man, studying law at the
same time, and was admitted to the bar
at that place in 1850. Two years later
he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of
Knox county, but in 1855 he settled at
Winona, Minn., which has ever since
been his residence. In 1858 he was
elected to Congress as a Republican, and
was continued in his seat for ten years,
serving on the committees on Public
Lauds and Public Expenditures and the
special committee of thirty-three on the
rebellious States, and acting during his
last three terms as Chairman of the
Committee on Indian Affairs. He was
originally a Henry Clay Whig, and
map his mark in Congress by his sue
ce.-slul championship of the munificent
ho'nestead law of 1862. He was always
a Liriff man, and gave special attention
to the problems of interstate commerce,
cheap transportation and the advance
ment of agricultural interests. He was
appointed Senator in July, 1870, to fill
the unexpired term of Daniel 8. Norton;
was elected for the full term of 1871-77
and re-elected for the term expiring in
1883. As a Senator he has been promi
nent in connection with his advocacy of
Capt. Eads’ Mississippi jetties, wrote an
elaborate report as Chairman of a com
mittee on transportation, was also Chair
man of the important Committee on Ap
propriations, was the proposer of the
exodus investigation, and has quite re
cently figured as the pronounced oppo
nent of monopolies.
SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD, SECRETARY OF
THE INTERIOR.
The third in importance of the Cabi
net portfolios has been awarded to Sena
tor and ex-Governor Samuel J. Kirk
w - >d, of lowa. Governor Kirkwood was
born Dec. 20, 1813. in Hartford county.
Mary land,near the Susquehanna river and
the head of Chesapeake Bay, in a region
noted for the number of eminent men it
has produced. He is consequently sixty
eight years of age, being the oldest mem
ber of the new administration and one
of the oldest now in public life at Wash
ington. His early education was chiefly
received at the Federal capital iu the
academy taught by John Mclxmd. His
political guardian angel inspired him in
1835 with the happy thought of becom
ing an “Ohio man,” and for twenty
years thereafter he was a citizen of Rich
land county on the edge of the Western
Reserve. lie studied law, was in 1843
admitted to the bar at Mansfield, the
home of the Shermans; was elected
Prosecuting Attorney of Richland county
in 1845 and 1847, and sat in 1850-51 in
the convention which framed the present
Constitution of ()hio. Tn 1855 he settled
in Johnson county, lowa, where in the
following year he was chosen Btate Sena
tor, was elected Governor in 1859 and
again in 1861, being one of the remarka
ble group of “War Governors” to whom
was due so much of the glory of the sup
pression of the rebellion. In 1863 he
declined the offered mission to Denmark,
succeeded James Harlan as United States
Senator for lhe period 1866-7, was again
chosen Governor in 1875. and resigned
that office in January, 1877, on his sec
ond election to the United States Senate
for the period ending in 1883. Governor
Kirkwood hies the reputation of being a
“rough diamond”—a biuff, hearty, quaint
genius in homespun, strongly resembling
President Lincoln in height, general de
meanor and indifference to outward ap
pearances. He is said to be “rich in
saving Common sense,” and will need it
all if he is to make a success of his in
cumbency of that graveyard of reputa
tions, the Interior Department. He
knows all about the land question and
the Indian question, has views of his own
about agriculture, and will heartily sec
ond the intentions of President Garfield
with reference to the education of the
freedman and the honest supervision of
the Patent, Pension and other bureaus
which make up his important depart
ment.
ROBERT TODD LINCOLN, SECRETARY OF
WAR.
The personal history of the new Secre
tary of War is a brief one, except in so
far as it falls within that of his father,
the martyr President. Descended pater
nally from one of the four Thomas Lin
colns, who were at the same time pioneer
emigrants from Hingham, England, to
Hingham, Mass., and a grand nephew of
Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky,
he was born at Springfield, 111., in 1844,
being the eldest and now the only sur
viving son of Abraham Lincoln. He re
ceived a good education at the schools of
that city and at Exeter Academy, N. IL;
graduated at Harvard College and re
sided at the White House during much
of the eventful period when it was the
center of the nation’s destinies. After
the assassination of his father he settled
in Chicago, 111., where he studied and
has since practiced law, and has acquired
an enviable reputation as a good citizen
and successful lawyer. He married the
only daughter of ex-Secretary James
Harlan, of lowa, and owes his present
appointment primarily to the two Sena
tors from Illinois, General Logan and
David Davis, who, doubtless, reflect the
sentiments of a vast public which ar
dently desires that the son of such a
father may achieve the highest political
success.
WILLIAM H. HUNT, SECRETARY OF THE
NAVY.
Judge William H. Hunt, of the Court
of Claims, the new Secretary of the
Navy, is a native of South Carolina and
settled in Louisiana in early life. He
v as educated at Yale College, studdied
and practiced law in New Orleans, gaining
a brilliant position at the Louisiana Bar,
and, like his brothers, Randall and Dr.
Thomas Hunt, and all his family, was
uncompromisiug in his loyalty to the
Union cause. He gained a large prac
tice in commercial maratime and ad-
miralty law. He was a thoroughly
trained criminal lawyer, an able solicitor
in Chancery, and for some years pro
fessor of commercial and criminal law
and the law ot evidence in the New Or
leans Law School. He was a ready and
able writer, was a valued adviser to Gens.
Butler and Banks in Louisiana, was an
old Whig before the war and a moderate
Democrat for several subsequent years,
but ultimately joined the Republican
party and was elected Attorney General
in 1876 on the Packard ticket. In 1877
he settled at Washington as a lawyer.
In 1878 he was urged for the post of
Collector of New Orleans, but was given
instead a Judgship in the Court of
Claims. He was recently recom
i mended by the Bar of Louisiana, with
out distinction of party, for a seat on
the Supreme Bench ii place of Justice
Strong, but the prize was awarded to
Judge Woods. His decisions in the
Court of Claims for the past two years
show him to be a dilligent, learned and
upright magistrate.
Judge Hunt is related by marriage to
the Livingston family of Louisiana,
originally from New York, and has a sum
mer residence in this State on the banks
of the Hudson. He will have no diffi
culty in ruling all that there is of Uncle
Sam’s navee, and has a fine opportunity
to distinguish himself by supplying a
“long felt want” in that direction.
THOMAS L. JAMES, POSTMASTER GEN
ERAL.
A universal chorus of applause salutes
the elevation to the Postmaster General
ship of Thomas L. James, the most pop
ular and efficient Postmaster New York
city has ever possessed. Mr. James is a
native of Utica, Oneida county, N. Y.,
a city not wholly unknown in connec
tion with the distribution of political
honors —in short, the Ohio of the Em
pire State. He was born in 1831, and
when fifteen years old was apprenticed
to learn the printing business in office
of the Liberty Press at Utica, under the
veteran abolitionist. Wesley Bailey.
Five years later he, in partnership with
Francis B. Fisher, purchased and edited
the Madison County Journal at Hamil
ton, N. Y., and he continued to publish
that periodical for nearly ten years, first
as a Whig and afterward as a Republi
can organ. Hamilton was a Democratic
stronghold, but Mr. James was largely
instrumental in 1856 in carrying the
Republican county ticket against the
powerful Know Nothing combination
lie became a general favorite in Hamil
ton society, took an active part in pro
moting all local interests, was influential
in the management of political cam
paigns in the county, and filled for sev
eral years the local office of Collector of
Canal Tolls. He was well known as a
life-long advocate of the temperance and
abolition causes, and enjoyed the warm
friendship of his neighbor, the venerable
philanthropist, Gerntt Smith. In 1861,
through the influence, as is believed, of
Mr. Thurlow Weed, he exchanged the
quietude of a country town for the post
of an inspector of customs in this city,
under the collectorship of Hiram Bar
ney. In 1864 he was promoted without
solicitation to the position of weigher,
and in 1860 to that of Deputy Collector
in charge of the third division (ware
housing department,) the most responsi
ble post in the collectorial office. Three
years later, in 1872, he was strongly
urged for the Surveyorship of this port,
then vacated by Alonzo B. Cornell, but
to his own surprise and that of his 1
friends President Grant sent in his name 1
as postmaster, upon the resignation of I
Gen.' P. H. Jones. Several of the most!
eminent citizens of New York, including
Thurlow Weed, E. D. Morgan, A. B.
Cornell, Thomas Murphy and Abram
Wakeman, volunteered to become his
sureties in the large sum of $1,200,000
required as a qualification for that re
sponsible office. Os his administration
of his great trust it is enough to say that
he has been an ideal postmaster, and
that every citizen of New York, while
rejoicing in his well-earned promotion,
will regret the necessity of his severance
from the office he has filled so well.
WAYNE MACVEAGH, ATTORNEY OEN
*RAL.
The new Attorney General, Wayne
MacVeagh, of Pennsylvania, has long
enjoyed a reputation a-s lawver, orator,
scholar, diplomatist and civil service re
former, which could only be faintly sur
mised from the record of the few public
offices he has filled. Born in Phoenix
ville, Chester county, Pa., April 19,
1833, he prepared for college at Freeland
Seminary, Montgomery county, Pa., and
was one of the prominent members of
the famous class of 18.53 at Yale College,
where he greatly distinguished himself
as an orator in the Linonian Society.
Admitted to the bar of West Chester,
Pa., in April, 1856, after studying in the
office of Mr. Joseph L. of that
town, whose daughter he married, he
was elected District Attorney a year or
two later, entered the Union army in
September, 1862, as Captain of a cavalry
company, in the emergency of the
threatened invasion of the State, and in
1863 was for a short time Major on the
staff of Gon. Darius N. Couch. He
early distinguished himself in the arid
field of Pennsylvania ixflitics, becoming
in 1863 Chairman of the Republican
Central Committee, married in 1867 as
his second wife a daughter of Senator
Simon Cameron, and attained a lucrative
and important legal practice. In 1872
he was appointor! by President Grant
Minister to Constantinople, but he re
signed that post the following year. In
October, 1873, having become a citizen
of Harrisburg, he was chosen a delegate
to the convention for revising the State
constitution, was a member of the Com
mittee on the Judiciary, and Chairman
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of that in the legislature. He was
prominently mentioned for the post of
Secretory of the Interior in 1875, and iu
the following year removed his law office
to Philadelphia and his residence to a
fine farm in Lower Merion township,
Montgomery county, Pa., near Consho
shocken. He then formed a law part
nership with Mr. Tucker Bispham, and
became counsel for the Northern Central
and Pennsylvania railroad companies.
In March, 1877, he was sent to Louisiana
as the leading member of the so-called
“MacVeagh Commission”—composed of
Gens. Hawley and Harlan, Gov. John
O. Brown and Judge C. B. Lawrence—
to investigate the state of political affairs.
His report was influential in securing
the withdrawal of Federal recognition
from the “carpet-bag ’ government, and
this fact naturally made him a mark for
the bitter indignation of Gen. B. F. But
ler and other Republican “stalwarts” of
that time. In 1877 he was mentioned
for the post of Minister to England, but
the two Camerons successfully exerted
their influence against him, notwith
standing his connection by marriage
with the family. Last year he was one
of the organizers of the National Repub
lican League and exerted himself at
Chicago against the Camerons and the
nomi nation of Gen. G ran t. Subscq uen tly
lie visited Russia for the business inter
ests of Mr. Wharton Borker, of Phila
delphia. He was proposed as a candi
date for United States Senator during
the recent deadlock in Pennsylvania,
but did not seriously enter the field.
Mr. McVeagh is an eminent authority
on railway law, a brilliant, learned and
effective orator, a forcible writer and a
representative of the reform element in
American politics.
ENTERTAINING PARAGRAPHS.
Twenty years ago an iron theatre was
shipped to' Australia, from England, iu
convenient sections, so as to be put up
easily on arrival there.
A woman at West Cornwall, Conn.,
failing to induce her husband to move
out <if a house which she did not like,
deliberately destroyed it by lire.
Let us not despise homely persons.
They serve to remind us that a but
slight variation in our facial lines would
have irremediably marred our beauty.
A writer on dogs says that every one
given to sedentary pursuits ought to
keep a dog, as the necessity of giving
exercise to the dog will exercise the man.
The following is au epitaph from a
toinluieur Versailles: ’E'. ’‘ pt in 1859.
dining which for several days she took
lessons ou the piano, her life was without
a stain.”
“I wish,” says Dr. Schliemann, “that
I could have proved Homer to have lieeu
au eye-witness of the Trojan war! Alas,
I caii not do it. ” Still the doctor has not
lived hi vain.
During the reign of Niijnileou I. a
book of birds for children was suppressed
because it contained the phrase: “The
cock is rather the tyrant than chieftain
of the farm-yard.”
Every shell tired by an army during
liege operations costs, with the powder
with which the mortar is charged, the
sum of eight dollars—enough to support
n poor family for a fortnight.
( )ne of the inodes of punishment in
China is to compel a criminal to the of
sleeplessness, by keeping him awake, a
week, night and day. Ten days is sure
to prove fatal and is terrible agony for
the victim.
An official return puts the feminiue
“models” in Paris at 675. The puv for
a sitting is from 50 cents to $lO. Most
of the models are Italian; thirty are
American; 145 have been in the hands of
the police.
There is a man iu Newark. N. J., so
close that when he attends church he
occupies the pew farthest from the pulpit
to save the interest ou his money while
the collectors are passing the plate for
contributions.
The stages and theatres of the Greeks
and Romans were so immense that the
actors, to be heard, were obliged to have
recourse to metallic masks, contrived
with great mouths, to augment the
natural sound of the voice.
A gentleman in Buckingham County,
Va., has among liis domestic animals a
large rat, which was caught twelve
months ago by a cat; but, instead of
devouring it, the eat nursed and fed it,
and they now play and sleep together,
like cat and kitten.
A sad story is related by the Pittsyl
vania (Va.) Trihuur. A young man "in
that county bought a house, fitted it up
from garret to cellar and purchased hi*
wedding outfit. But the wedding didn’t
take place. On the day fixed the bride
married another fellow.
The Milwaukee Sun sfieaks of a per
son who “turned as pale as the ace of
spades. ” We always supposed the ace of
spades was red, and was hard to distin
tinguish from the jack of—diamonds, as
we believe that card is called where the
figure wears a crown.— Norristown Her
ald.
Anothrbb of the Blue Laws in ye
olden time was: "No one shall run ei;
the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden,
or elsewhere, except reverentially to and
from meeting. No one shall travel, cook
victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut
hair or shave on the Sabbath day. No
woman shall kiss her child on the Sab
bath or fasting day.”
It is a melancholy fact that crysto
palaces do not pay. That at Sydenham
has been a financial failure, and now the
Alexandria Palace, on the northern
heights of London, with its beautiful
park of four hundred and seventy acres,
is announced for sate. The expense of
keeping up these places is so large «a to
absorb all the profits.