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NEWS QLEANINGS.
Vicksburg, Mississippi, has raised
S2OO,(MX) towards a cotton factory.
Some unknown person has been
poisoning the fish of Black Lake, LA, by
the wholesale, with India berries.
A new cotton compress is to be erected
in Norfolk. Virginia, which is intended
to be the most powerful in the world.
Bradley county, Arkansas, is de
scribed as a glorious garden, where the
jieople own their farms and the crops
hide the houses from sight.
Sixty one thousand three hundred and
seventy tons of guano were imported
into North Carolina during the past
season.
Sohn E. Peoples, of Anderson, S. C.,
is the greatest rag man in the State. He
ships annually from 150,000 to 200,000
pounds of rags.
A colored Baptist minister, John An
gel James, of Forsyth, Georgia, im
mersed fifty converts in fifty-five min
utes.
Louis Kent, a colored man of Missis
sippi, has had the honor for three years
past of sending the first bale of cotton
to market.
Parties are poisoning the streams in
Sumter county, Georgia, with green
walnuts and devil shoestring to kill the
fish. Ihis is a violation of law.
Judge Gilliam, of Oglethorpe county,
Georgia, often has applications from men
to buy marriage license on time. He
t ikes a lien on the bride and then issues
them.
A swarm of bes have made a linn: so
themselves in the tower of the Presby.
terian church at Covineton, Ga., where
they are supposed to bo 1 Utting up honey
for winter use.
Senator Lamar’s hea Ith is still so poo
that hi« physician has forbidden him to
sjxiak at public meetings at present,
saying he could only do so at great risk.
Old man Burnside, the New Orleans
mtllionrirc, didn’t know he had any
relatives. But there is a little army of
them marching right along to fight over
those five or six millions of “filthy lu
<TC.”
In the South the cry is again heard,
'liaise what you eat. ’ The people have
commenced eating cotton seed oil, and
may be they will be able to eat cotton
after awhile.
Some negroes of Oglethorpe countv.
Georgia, have organized a church
founded on a new belief. Theysav there
is no hell, and the preacher proposes to
forgive all sins upon the payment of a
fee ranging from ten cents to a dollar, as
the class of sin mav dictate.
The Dallas Times thinks that: “In
the beautiful hereafter, if towns should
become spirits, Galveston will lie found,
with hands extended, standing on the
corner of the New Jerusalem asking for
alms. It is the beggar town of the
State.’ 1
Mr. Joe Beasley, an experimental
gardener near Columbus, Georgia, has
s|ic< -oiled in raising some melons with a
delicious lemon flavor. He makes an
incision in the vine a short distance
from the root, to which he attaches a
lemon, and by means of absorption the
juice is taken into the melon.
Constitution : Whatever Georgia
may do, the two Carolinas will be well
represented at the Expositions and so
will Tennessee. Never had Georgia
■such an opportunity to show the whole
civilized wor’d her natural resources
and unequided capabilities, and if it
goes unimproved the men who are re
sponsible for the neglect will live to see
their action condemned a thousand
times.
Last woek a ludicrous occurrence
happened in Montezuma, Ga. A col
ored man was sporting around a five
dollar gold piece, and unwittingly
handed it to a notorious negro woman
named Hallie Banks, for inspection.
She, deeming herself a bank, and that
the jnoney was intended for deposit,
placed it in her mouth and swallowed it,
neglecting to give the man a cirtiticate
of deposit.
During a protracted meeting at Rock
Hill church, Georgia, in Dooly county,
a young man of eighteen years, the son
of a widow lady, professed religion and
united himself to the church (Metho
dist). On going home he told his moth
er of it, who is a Baptist. She was
highly incensed, and made an elder son
tie this seeker of religion, and together
they gave him an unmerciful beating,
and threatened a more severe punish
ment if he persisted in what they called
“downright foolishness.” The young
man ha« gone back to the ways of the
world.
The North Georgian.
VOL. IV.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Secretary Blaine is a sufferer from
malaria.
Prof. Huxley reaps salaries to the
amount of $150,000 a year.
Prohibition was defeated in North
Carolina by a majority of 100,000.
The crop prospects of this country are
just about as poor as any one. wants to
see them.
Stanley is charged with using chain
gangs of slaves in making a road in
Africa.
The Cincinnati Commercial is author
ity for the statement that opium kills
160,000 Chinamen every year.
England gave the cold shoulder to
the International Money Conference.
England ought not. to be disturbed.
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The. New Hampshire Legislature
spent several weeks trying to codify a
new railroad law, but gave the thing up
in disgust
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The President has been doing so well
so long, according to the doctors, that
there are some people who think he
ought to be up, but he is not.
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Nellie Grant we scarcely over hear
of her now. She and her husband, and
the little Sartoriscs of course, are 'liv
ing ou an income of SIO,OOO a year.
Morality in Michigan is losing its
grip on the female population. As a
last measure- the State is eumpellod to
establish a reform school for girls.
—*
Americans are said to have spent over
$8,000,000 in France last year for works
of art, engravings and books. We will
not let our needy suffer if we can help it.
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People in Cincinnati have almost
forgotten what water tastes like. They
believe that it is unfit to drink, averag
ing nearly two pounds of sewage to the
1,000,000 gallons.
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General Hancock expresses the
opinion that the President will be able
to attend to his duties in a few weeks.
He bases his belief on observations of
gunshot wounds during the war.
An effort is being made to drawn
line in Ohio between people who drink
and people who don’t drink, whisky.
There is little doubt, however, as to
which side the crowd will be found upon.
There is another widow in England
worth marrying. She is the Hon. Mrs.
Meynell-Ingram, daughter of Lord Hal
ifax, and has an income of $150,000 a
year. Don’t somebody want to love a
widow?
..
Henry Villard, the great projector
of railroad mid other enterprises, was,
not so many years ag >, a Washington
correspondent. Newspaper men will
come out and shine in spite of every
thing.
♦
More ladies and children are said to
be learning to swim this year than dur
ing any other similar period. The pos
sibility of accident on frequently
crowded excursion boats should make
this kind of tuition almost imperative.
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Boston people—an intellectual set
will scarcely hesitate to claim anything,
even one’s pocketbook. A Boston man
now claims to have been born with a
bullet in his liver. Liver in his bullet
would have been better, but bullet in his
liver, we can’t believe.
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Three boys at Lynn, Mass., whose
patriotism compelled them to break into
a church on the Fourth of July and ring
the bell, haye finally been fined $lO
each and costs. The object of the boys
was perfectly right, and so was that of
the Justice that fined them, but then
when these lioys ore wanted to go forth
and fight the Indian they will be apt to
refuse to budge an inch.
The one-cent subscription fund raised
by the Cincinnati Commercial for C. A.
Cook, of Brownsville, Ohio, to pay a fine
assessed him for slapping a man in the
mouth who wished the President would
die, has grown to unexpected propor
tions, and will place Cook, who is a poor
man, in rather comfortable circum
stances. The contributors, so far as one
I is able to judge, have been irrespective
of party.
Queen Victoria has taken occasion to
snubb the philanthropic Baroness Bur
dett-Coutts-Bartlett. The Queen ought
' to call to mind the fact that the fortune
I of the Baroness exceeds her own, that
she hasn't begged it from Parliament or
the people, and that she bn.s a habit of
occasionally giving liberally to suffering
humanity. She does not deserve to be
‘ snubbed even by a queen, although she
BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY, GA.. AUGUST IS, 1881.
has a young American for a husband,
andisnotthe mother of fourteen children.
_
The traveling expenses of the 100,000
drummers employed by the merchants
of the United States are $120,000,000 a
year, exclusive of salaries. The con
sumer pays it all without a grumble,
but that may be because he hasn’t
heard ns much about the drummer as
he has the railroad and other monopo
lies. When we get rid of the perplexi
ties that we have now, we can fly to
those that we know not of and get
mixed up just as badly as ever we were.
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Speaking of the rumor of the Pope
transferring the Holy See to America,
the Buffalo Courier says : “ There is
no reason why the Pope should not
come, certainly, if he chooses. He would
have to leave his ideas of temporal
power behind, of course, and come pre
pared to see all subjects discussed in an
unlicensed press with perfect freedom.”
Probably this is the sentiment that
caused the Pope, the other day, to say,
“ I will not leave Roma until I am com
pelled to. ”
Ex-Senator Platt’s loss is his gain.
By reason of being President of the
United States Express Company, the
Southern Central Railroad, a National
Bank, and State Quarantine Inspector,
his total annual income, in salaries,
amounts to $40,000. However, the glory,
or perhapk “honor,” attached to being
a United States Senator, and that, too,
until in 1887, is a thing that no one could
give up without feeling a little sore
about it, and who will question but that
Platt is human.
.
The size of France’s African engage
ments can be judged from the fact that
she now lias 1)0,000 troops along the
coast of Tunis and Algeria, and is ar
ranging to send 50,000 more Frenchmen
to take their chances in that precarious
struggle for glory. Africa is a sponge
which has absorbed a 1 deal of
French valor, but Frenchmen forget the
struggle for Algeria, which lasted from
1830 to 1860 and cost millions of francs.
Yet the French Government will hold
Algeria and Tunis, and eventually work
into little Tripoli.
The Baltimore Sun tells of Robert
Fryer, of New York, who has devised a
velocipede steamer, of which the hull is
to be out of water. The vessel floats in
three hollow spheres of sheet steel, one
forward and two astern, and ail provided
with Hauges to grip the water us they
are revolved. The upper works of the
ship are to depend upon the spheres
that do the propelling, and will bo
made as light as possible. An ocean
steamer 200 feet long by 120 feet deep,
has Ixien designed, of which the spheres
or paddles are 60 feet in diameter.
Great speed is expected to be made.
Qeeen Victoria, though one of the
greatest sovereigns in the world herself,
evidently does not believe in women’s
rights. She gave notice that her name
would be withdrawn, as a patron of the
International Medical Congress, recently
adjourned, if women were admitted to its
meetings, and they wore thereupon ex
cluded. Now it would seem that if
there is any career open to women it is
that of medicine, and of course if they
can lie doctors they should have repre
sentation in the medical councils. The
Queen’s opposition to them is a notable
instance of woman’s want of confidence
in her sex.
The Siberian plague, a disease be
lieved to be the same as that which
raged in Egypt before the Exodus of
the Israelites, and which the Book of
Exodus describes as a “grievous mur
rain,” and as “a boil breaking forth
with blains upon man, and upon beast,’'
has begun to rage furiously in some of
the provinces of the Russian Empire ;
and there, too, it affects not only horses
and cattle, but also human beings. This
plague is believed to be the same as that
which is called by our veteriuaries, “ an
thrax,” or “splenic fever,” and some
recent researches of Dr. Greenfield’s
have shown a strong probability that by
vaccinating with a mild form of the dis
ease, protection against any serious and
fatal form can be almost secured.
People who have to buy what they
eat must expect the coming winter to
pay pretty dearly for their living. We
do not say this byway of alarm, but
offer it rather as a precaution to those
who have the means to provide for such
an emergency. There has been an al
most unparelleled drouth all over the
I continent, resulting in a poor yield of
i wheat, and a corn and root crop that
j must necessarily be a failure. There is
I very little difference in sections. Where
l rains have fallen they came so late that
jno essential good could come out of
j them. Corn that burned up by the
sun during the filling process could not
be benefitted by rain afterwards; and at
this late day no amount of rain can
supply what the drouth has destroyed.
The New York Sun prints au extract
from a letter written by a gentleman
who arrived in Europe in the steamer
Circassia, and who speaks of the anxiety
of the passengers for news of the condi
tion of President Garfield. The letter
Bays : “ When we reached Moville we
had been ten days without news, and
President Garfield was very low when
we started. It was necessary to take a
■ pilot there to run up the Forth. When
•’his boat camo alongside, and before he
had time to get hold of the rope ladder,
half a dozen voices shouted, ' How is
Garfield ?’ ‘ All right,’ was answered
back, and a sort of thrill spread all over
the ship. The one hundred and twenty
one passengers were all assembled on
the upper deck, and some expressed
their feelings by shouting, some by cry
ing, and some by shaking hands. But
the crowd collectively only found vent
for their emotions by spontaneously
bursting out with the Doxology. The
grand old anthem never sounded so
good before, and the words, ‘ Praise God
from whom all blessings flow,’ had such
a peculiar significance, that the whole
thing was very affecting.”
The Mosquito In England.
Here it must, be observed that mos
quitoes are especially hard on two sorts
of people. Young ladies and children,
and many men, they sting, till the vic
tims are all covered with blisters and in
danger of erysipelas. This is pretty
bad, but we think the nervous persons,
whom mosquitoes sting little, but, keep
awake with their buzzing, are even more
to be pitied. They find the mosquito’s
bark worse than his bite. The latter
may not mark or hurt them much ; it is
a question of constitution ; and there
are people with whom the bite does not
“ take,” as they say of vaccination. But
they suffer all night long from the shrill,
persistent noise of the mosquito's trum
pet. At the first warning they leap up,
light a candle, take it into bed, and try
t<> catch the intruder. No one can guess
how difficult this is. You soon find tho
mosquito on the curtain, where he lies
apparently asleep. Very cautiously you
stalk him, your hand is just over him,
and justice is about to be done, when
the. vicious creature flies away and
amuses himself in mid-air. Presently
he settles, and the chase begins again,
till the hunter sets fire to the flimsy cur
tains, and has quite enough work to do
in extinguishing tho fire. After that
mosquitoes come and gons they please,
without lot or hindrance, and day dawns
on a feverish and frantic man, who has
only bagged two or three of his innum
erable enemies. Late in the morning
mosquitoes sleep, overcome with triumph
and the refreshment which they have
snatched from their enemy. They may
now be killed, and it is curious to
as any one who crushes them will see—
bow much of man’s vital fluid one mos
quito can absorb. They who arc fortu
nately inexperienced in the ways of
mosquitoes will now understand that the
insect is one of the greatest players that
nature tolerates. There are more dan
gerous flies though the mosquito’s bite
is sometimes poisonous and severe—but
there is no more irritating creature in
the world than the mosquito.
Norway and Sweden sutler more even
than the South from mosquitoes. Tho
mild Bulgarian dreads them, ami there
is a ghastly story of a drunken Bulga
rian who tied up his wife in a mosquito
trap. The poor woman was bitten to
death, and her husband observed in the
morning that he had suffered almost ns
much as if he had not thought of bis
savage expedient. Greece is, perhaps,
more remarkable for the insect “whence
is derived the verb ‘to ties’” than for
mosquitoes ; and the same remark holds
good of the Baden contingent. None of
the countless snakes of America or In
dia cause more trouble, when the host
of minor miseries is added up, than
mosquitoes do.— Loudon Ncwa.
Women as Rulers.
The talents displayed by women
as rulers —a position which strangely has
been accorded them in all ages and
stages of civilization—have frequently
excited admiration. It has been re
proachfully said, too, that in this posi
tion she has been cruel, treacherous and
bigoted as man can be; but this Yinly
proves that talents, however rare, can
not supply the place of principles in
woman or man. But women as philan
thropists have accomplished most for
their race and won readiest acknowl
edgments.
Queen Esther’s one act, risking her
life for the sake of the people, won her a
place in history for all time.* The Ro
man matron pleading for the salvation
of the doomed city touches every heart.
Queen Isabella, the patron of Columbus,
through hermistaken judgment, suffered
the dread inquisition, yet is remembered
for her zealous efforts for what she be
lieved the good of her subjects. Eliza
beth, of England, because she became a
“rockof refuge” to the persecuted for
“conscience sake, ” has a mantle of
charity thrown over many weaknesses,
and is “good Queen Bess.” Glancing
at examples in humbler walks: The
very name of Dorcas has become a
synonym of benevolence. Not only
all England, but America, aud the slow
German States, were moved by the per
sonal efforts of the large-hearted Quaker
matron, Elizabeth Fry, to make lasting
reforms and render justice in the inter
est of outcast, condemned humanity.
Freaks of the Telegraph.
Names are always a great stumbling
block to the clerks, and addresses are
composed of names. Most of ns have
tricks of writing names in any but a
distinct fashion; and, although the post
office persistently reminds us, on the
forms given ns to write our telegrams
on, that the writing should be plain,
this advice, like most other advice, is
but too often neglected. Hence many
telegrams get altogether astray, some
times to the not slight discomfiture of
those into whose hands they fall, and
who, unwitting that any error has been
made, forthwith act upon them. It is
related that a woman residing in some
small street in Manchester once re
ceived what appeared to be a summons
from her husband to come up to him in
London. Very much alarmed, she at
once started. On her way she got in
conversation with another woman who
was in the same carriage, and who she
found was also going to see her husband,
who wits iu London ill. This woman
had been expecting to receive a tele
gram from her husband, and, not hear
ing, had grown anxious, ami had finally
sei oil' without the telegram. Further
parley revealed the fact that their names
wore the same; that their husbands'
names were the same ; that they both
lived in thesame quarter in Manchester;
and it finally transpired that the tele
gram which had been delivered to the
first woman was the very one which the
second had been‘waiting for —the error
in delivery having been caused by some
such mistake as “ Hamilton street ” for
"Henrietta street” -a mistake very
likely attributable to want of distinct
ness iu the writing. Another curious
case of coincidence of which we have
heard was that of a telegram addressed,
“John Stillingwise, Brookdean, nr.
Mirkby Lonsdale,” from Robert Stilling
wise, his brother, begging him to come
at once to him at a hotel which lie indi
cated, iu Leeds. The address “ Brook
dean ” was in some way altered, and the
telegram was delivered to another John
Stillingwise living somewhere in the
neighborhood of Kirkby Lonsdale.
This unfortunate man, who had not
board from his brother Robert for some
twenty years, nt once started off in
stormy, wintry weather, reached Leeds
iu the evening, and was told by the
landlord that he could not see his
brother that night, us he was very far
from well, aud Lad gone to bed. The
next morning he was ushered into Robert
Stillingwise’s room, expecting to see his
long-lost brother, when, to his extreme
astonishment and disgust, he found him
self confronted by an utter stranger I—
JUaekwood'n Mai/azine.
An Explanation.
The reason why snow at great eleva
tions does not melt, but remains perma
nent, is owing to the fact that the heat
received from the sun is thrown off into
the stellar space so rapidly by radiation
and reflection, that the sun fails to raise
Hie temperature of the snow to the melt
ing point. The snow evaporates, but it
Jous not melt. The summits of the
Himalayas, for instance, must receive
more than ten times the amount of heat
necessary to melt all the snow that falls
on them, notwithstanding which the
snow is not melted. And in spite of the
strength of the sun and the dryness of
the air of those altitudes, evaporation is
sufficient to remove the snow.
At low elevations, where the snow
fall is probably greater, and. the amount
of bent even less than at the summits,
fbe snow melts and disappears. This
we must attribute to the influence of
aqueous vapor. At high elevations the
air is dry, and allows the heat radiated
from the snow to pass into space ; but at
low elevations a very considerable por
tion of the heat radiated from the snow
is absorbed in passing through the at
mosphere. A considerable portion of
the heat thus absorbed by the vapor is
radiated back on the snow ; but the heat
thus radiated, being of the same quality
as that which the snow itself radiates, is
on this account absorbed by the snow.
Little or none of it is reflected, like that
received from the sun. The conse
quence is, that the heat thus absorbed
accumulates in the snow till melting
takes place. Were the aqueous vapor
possessed by the atmosphere sufficiently
diminished, perpetual snow would cover
our globe down to the seashore. It is
true that the air is warmer at the lower
level than at the higher level, and by
contact with the snow must tend to melt
it more at the former than at the latter
position. But we must remember that
the air is warmer mainly in consequence
of the influence of aqueous vapor, and
that were the quantity of vapor reduced
to the amount in question, the differ
ence of temperature at the two positions
would not be great.
A minister out in the far West, who
has been troubled a good deni over mar
riage fees, issued the, following price
list: “ One marriage, plain, $2 ; ditto,
kissing the bride, $3; ditto, trimmed
withone groomsman and bridesmaid, st.
Fifty cents for each additional grooms
man or bridesmaid. Bachelors past forty
will be charged extra. Maids of age, 10
per centum off. Mileage will be charged
in long-distance matches. Liberal dis
count to clubs. Payments in cash ; no
notes or securities accepted. No money
refunded, or rebates made for poor goods.
Come early and come often.”
In the ladies’ cabins of the Hoboken
ferryboats the following notice has re
cently been posted : “The seats in this
cabin are reserved for ladies. Gentle
men will please not occupy them until
the ladies are seated." That strikes us
as reversing the proper positions.—Bou
ton Pont.
(> All the products of mere understand
ng partake of death.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
“ Hub of the Universe," a popular des
ignation of tho city of Boston, Mass.,
originated with Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Making tooth-picks of wood is by no
means a modern ides. The Pomans
used wooden toothpicks in preference to
quills.
The name Gotham was first applied to
tiie city of New York by Washington
Irving in “Salmagundi,’’ because the
inhabitants were such wisederes.
The first circus in this country was
managed by a man named Ricketts, in
1780. Gen. Washington and his staff
patronized the performance jn Philadel
phia, and it became quite a fashionable
amusement.
It has been supposed among antiqua
rians that the clapper is n modern addi
tion to bells, and that it did not form a
part of those employed in Japan or
China. Mr. Henry O. Forbes, how
ever, says that when iu Java he saw in
the i>ossession of a gentleman there a
bronze bell dug up on the site of one of
the old Hindoo settlements, of which
now only tho graves remain. It had
lost the clapper, but the hook to which
doubtless 11 clapper was attached existed
still.
The source of the common saying,
“consistency thou art a jewel,” has
puzzled many a scholar, and whether
or not the following authority may be
relied upon as the starting point or as
only using a borrowed idea we cannot
assert. In a ballad entitled “Jolly
Robyn Roughhead,” published in 1764,
in a little volume of English and Scotch
ballads, the poet bewails the extrava
gance in dress which he considers the
great enormity of his day, and makes
Robyn address his wife as follows :
'J’ush, tush, my lusple! such thoughts resign,
CoinparißuDK are cruel;
Fine pictures suit to frames as tine;
(’iHjsihtency’s a jewoll!
Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher,
who was the son of 11 jeweler of Samos,
born about 580 years before Christ. At
mi early age he traveled, going to Egypt,
where it is said he resided twenty-five
years. Thon it is related he went to
Babylon, Judea, and it is even asserted
he penetrated to Gaul and India. He
established a school iu Italy, and effect
ed some reformation in the inhabitants.
He was persecuted, however, the friends
of a rejected student of powerful family
compelling him to withdraw to Mota
pontum, where he soon after died, prob
ably abjut the year 500 B. C.
Fishing in Lapland.
The water is very clear at Hammer
fest, iu Lapland; you may see every
thing that goes on among the fish. A
few feet down you may see the young cod
snapping at your hook, if you have one;
a little lower down the coalfish, aud tho
huge plaice and tiie halibut on the white
sand at the bottom ; in other places the
starfish, ns huge as a plate, and purple
and green shellfish of all sizes. The
plaice is taken in the following manner :
lu calm weather the fisherman takes a
strong, fine cord, to which he has faa
tened a heavy spearhead, like a whale
harpoon. This lie holds ready over the
how of the boat, while another person
paddles it forward slowly. AVhen the
fish is seen at the bottom the boat is
stopjied and the harpoon is suddenly
dropped upon him, and thus the fish is
caught. In two hours the fishermen will
get a boat-load. The halibut are caught
with hooks. They sometimes weigh five
hundred pounds, and if drawn up care
lessly will overturn the boat. In many
of the mountainous districts tho rivers
swarm with trout, the habit of which
is to conceal themselves beneath the
bowlder rocks in the bed of the stream,
venturing out only to feed at night..
Men, each with a heavy hammer, will
enter these waters, mid strike one or two
blows on the stones, when the fish run
from their lurking place partly stunned,
and are easily caught.— Sea IVbrld.
Health Food.
It is no economy to use inferior food.
It is a saving of money and time mid
health to give a high price for what weeat,
if it be fresh and perfect, than to obtain
it for less on account of its being wilt
ed or old or partially decayed. Some
people prefer their meat tender by
keeping, which means flint decomposi
tion is taking place; in plainer phrase,
it is rotting. Such meats require less
chewing mid may appear very tender,
hut it is a physiological fact that they
are not digested as easily or as quickly
as solid fresh meat. When a vegetable
begins to wilt it is no longer that vege
table, because a change of particles has
taken place, and in such proportion it is
unnatural—it is dead—and to eat it
tends to death. One of the most horri
ble forms of disease is caused by eating
sausages which have been kept a long
time ; more common in Germany than
elsewhere. Scarcely anything saddens
us so much in passing through some of
the by-streets and the more obscure aw
enues as the sight of the long-kept meats
and shriveled vegetables which are sold
to the unfortunate poor at the corner
Dutch groceries. But the poverty
stricken are not the only sufferers ; the
richest men come in for their share, for
themselves and for their families, in pro
portion as the mistresses of their splendid
mansions are incompetent or inattentive
to those household duties, the proper
performance or neglect of which makes
all the difference between a true wife
and a contemptibl ■ doll. With all the
high-sounding advantages of pretentious
“Young Ladies’ Boarding Schools" and
“Institutes” and all that, with all the
twaddle aboqt learning French and Ger
man, and music and aesthetics, how
many of thefm paint like girls are any
more fit to take charge of a man’s house
hold that to navigate a ship or calculate
an eclipse I