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NtWS GLEANINGS.
North Carolina ores will be a feature
in the Atlanta Exposition.
Local option was generally defeated
in Texas at the recent elections.
The Louisiana sugar industry will
pan out handsomely this season for the
pelican State.
And now they are talking of making
■ an excellent substitute for butter out of
cotton-seed oil.
The crops of Marshall county, Ala.,
are reported in good condition, the
drouth to the contrary notwithstand
ing.
Silk culture in Alabama is being agi
tated by many of the papers. They
seem to think that it would handsomely.
Louisiana is a well timbered State.
The New Orleans papers claim that there
are millions to be made in the wooded
lands ofjthe State.
The health of Jell. Davis rince he ar
rived in Europe has been wretched. He
will probably return to America sooner
than expected.
The two ice-manufacturing establish
ments at New Orleans are making big
money this season. They charge S2O a
ton, and can’t supply the demand.
The tenant farmers in many places of
the South are asking a reduction of rent.
Owing to the drouth they have raised
littleor nothing on their places.
The Virginia Historical Society is be
ing built up. It is an ancient and
honorable institution, and its friends
everywhere will be glad to know that
its prestige will be sustained.
I ensacola old bonds are now in re
quest since the compromise of the city’s
debts. Twenty-five per cent, has been
offered for $20,000 of the old bonds, and
declined.
Colonel R. F. Maddox, the big cotton
man of Atlanta, estimates that the cot
ton crop will be short about 1,000,000
bales. But, with all this, there will be
an abundance of cotton in the land.
Marietta (Ga.) Journal : Some of
our most sensible farmers, notably the
larger and more thrifty ones, have dis
covered their mistake, and will hereafter
sow down their lands in wheat, oats,
clover and grasses, and increase their
herds of cattle, sheep, hogs and horses.
Arkansas Democrat; Cotton-seed oil
is being generally used here for cooking
purposes, and is liked about as well, if
not better, than the stuff brought here
in buckets and sold as leaf lard; besides,
t is ro much cheaper.
Georgia is not to have a prohibition
campaign, after all. The bill to submit
the question to the people was defeated
in the Senate by a vote of twenty to
nineteen, and reconsideration failed.'
The House will probably let the bill
die on the calendar, and thus avoid
committing members.
Charleston had a trade last year of
$71,211,100. It receipts of cotton were
528,287 bales ; of rice, 53,871 tierces ;
of spirits of terpentine, 51,386 cakes;
rosin, 231,417 barrels; of crude phos
phate, 108,183 tons; lumber, 18,610,-
757 feet, of commercial fertilizers, 100,-
tons—- the whole of the value of $36,216,-
000.
The New Orleans Democrat states
that not a drop of the water of the Red
river now runs into the Mississippi, but
all goes to swell the Atchafalaya,
“which, re enforced by a large percent
age ’of Mississippi water, is daily in •
creasing in size, and constitutes a direct
menace to the future of New Orleans.”
The Legislature of Georgia has killed
the bill to appropriate $1,000,000 to
build a new capitol by a large majority.
The present capitol building was origi
nally intended for an opera house, and
iff not only unsuitable for a State hou»e,
but is unsafe. The dead bill provided
for the expenditure of $200,000 per an
num until the whole amount was paid,
at the end of the five years time set
apart to construct the new edifice.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
has a correct appreciation of the news
paper. and adds his testimony to its value
as an educator. “Journalism,” he says,
“has become as much a seperate and
distinct profession as medicine, or law,
or engineering, or agriculture, or archi
tecture, or mining, and every family
should have a newspaper if they expect
or care to keep pace with the current of
events in this fast-moving age. Books
are not always accessible, but papers
are, and at a price that places them
witbin the reach of the poor as well a
th* rich.”
The North Georgian.
VOL. TV.
An Indian river correspondent writes
this to the Florida Agriculturist; “Or
anges, lemons, guavas, mangoes, pineap
pies, fish and oysters are all deing
nicely, and promising heavy yields.
There has been such a run for laborers
to clear lands and set out pineapples
that the price runs from S2O to $26 and
boaid per month. Some hands are
realizing $3 to $4 per day in doing odd
jobs of work. We want men and money
to make this the garden spot of the
State.”
Richmond Dispatch: Misfortune
never comes single. The drouth is not
only ruining the crops, but the cholera
is killing the hogs in sime of the South
ern counties. In portions oi Nottoway
and Brunswick counties it is stated a
large number of hogs have recently died
of this disease, and others are dying.
One farmer in Nottoway county writes
that within the past ten days he has
lost thirty hogs, and that he has not been
able to cheek the spread of the disease.
Savannah News: Mention has several
times been made of the reported dis
covery of dead bodies floating in the
river near the shore, below and in the
vicinity of Fort Jackson. The matter
having been brought to the attention of
the mayor, he yesterday addressed a let
ter to the board of county commission
ers, referring to these reports and stat
ing that as the points where these bodies
are said to be exposed are beyond the j
jurisdictional limits of the city, it was
important that the county commission
ers, in the interest of the public health,
should take official aetiou, and asking
that their prompt attention be given to
the subject. It can not 1* denied that
it is very important these bodies be se
cured and interred as soon as possible.
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TOPICS OF THE DAT.
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Vennob predicted rain in September.
It came.
Wedding cards are out of date in En
gland.
High prices seem to bo ruling
stronger.
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Parnell’s influence is said to be on
the wane.
A new City Hall in San Francisco is
to cost $5,000,000.
The Ohio State election ocours on tho
11th of October.
Cincinnati is striving for tho estab
lishment of a Union Depot.
We do not like to see people suffer,
but, —Guiteau has neuralgia.
France is not bothering much about
Egypt- Tunis keeps her pretty busy.
Governor Wiltz, of Louisiana, is
said to be dying of consumption.
Delaware turns out 300,000 baskets
of peaches this year, against 4,000,000
last year.
King Kat.akaua is en route s>r Amer
ica. Undoubtedly he enjoyed himself
while here before.
Gov. Roberts, of Texas, is aged sixty |
years, wears a very plain suit and ;
smokes a clay pipe.
A dispatch from Now Mexioo says |
that the Indians are not all dead yet.
This is bad for the white man.
Orow Dog has been indicted at Dead
wood for the murder of Spotted Tail,
but will not be tried until January.
Thurlow Weed gave SSOO to the
Michigan sufferers. Fanny Davenport i
gave SIOO. That was kind of Fanny. ■
Mbs. Mary Clf.mmeb, the well known ;
Washington correspondent, is compelled,
by order of her physician, to rest from |
all literary labor.
The destitute in the burnt district of
Michigan should be remembered by .
those who have a surplus and are able
to give. Here’s a chance to do good. i
The Egyptian troubles are over. The
Khedive lias reconstructed his Cabinet ;
and the dissatisfied army officers have
relinquished all ideas of rebellion and ,
accepted the situation.
The Kansas City Times mentions the
birth of a “baby mule” on the public
square in that city and adds that it at
tracted a large cr- wd of spectators. A
society event, we suppose.
It is a fact that Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher recently jumped seven feet—ac
tive man, you know—but now every pa
per in the land is wanting to know from
what window he jumped. It’s a dirty
fling. _
BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA., SEPTEMBER 22, 1881.
A fostr aw nt Col an i bus has bean
discovered in the Spanish Colonial Of
floe at Madrid. » was painted when ho
was forty years of age, showing a face
.devoid of wriuldesjta brilliant eye and
dark luxuriant hair.
Pet dogs occupy reserved seats at
places of amusement in New York by
the side of their owners. They applaud
by barking, and then tho critics go into
eostaoies about the enthusiasm shown
by the “intelligent audience.”
The California Tichborne claimant,
loath to learn from others’ exnerienne is
n his way to England to claim tho Tioh
borne estate. He will possibly land in
he same receptacle occupied by Orton/
.ho English Tiohborno claimant, for tho
past several years.
Tub various lines of steamers carried
to London and Liverpool during the
months of April, May, June and July,
12,065 cabin passengers. These, for
most part, wore pleasure-seekers, and
the number is greater than for the same
period any previous year.
The result of the recent French elec
tion will constitute the new Chamber of
Deputies as follows: 459 Republicans,
47 Bouapartista, and 41 Monarchists.
Ths Republicans comprise tho Left Con
fer, 39; tho Left, 168; Republican
Union, 206, and Extreme Loft, 46.
The French began their picnic in
Northern Africa with 16,000 men, but
now they want 100,000 more before they
can straighten matters out. They have
been meeting with reverses. The wild
Arab cavalry have beaten their opponents
In the field ami ent off the water supply
of the city of Tunis.
Grace Greenwood (Mrs. Lippincott)
writes from London that she is a sad
invalid, suffering severely and very fre
quently from attacks of acute bronchitis.
She says she oan bear pain, prostration,
danger, everything, bettor than inability
to write in her old way ; that grieves
her.
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MASON, who shot at Gnitenii, may
have been emotionally insane, and his
trial by court-martial will result in light
punishment ns a consequence, but if
Guiteau was permitted to oome in con
tact with tho people generally, there is
no doubt but that thousands would
prove themselves emotionally insane.
A colored preacher in Donisville,
Ky., has found in his church a daughter
from whom ho had been separated at
the aiiotion-blook twenty-odd years ago.
He was much rejoiced, but was a prey
to conflicting emotions when he learned
from her that her mother is still living,
he having been legally married to an
other woman, after becoming a freedman.
■ There is a prospect of a due] without
a collision between Buffalo Bill (tho
Hon. Mr. Cody) and Wild Harry, an In
dian scout, who is starring it with a
dramatic troupe. •Buffalo Bdl calls this
particular Wiki Harry a fraud and a liar,
(to use mild language) and Wild Harry
is keeping silent, but there is an awful
glitter in his eye. They travel in differ
ent directions.
It is stated that there are a hundred
or more men in jail at Chicago on the
charge of murder. A third of them have
been incarcerated in the last nine
months. What do the authorities of
that city propose to do with these fel
lows? the far West they hang men
for murder, and are not very long about
it. either. Five men were hanrrsil in
a bunch at Fort Smith, Ark., the other
day, and the country feels the safer for
it. Chicago seems to be trying to get a
good crop on band before they begin to
harvest.
Thebe is trouble about Pharoah of
old. Among the mummies discovered
in the cave near Thebes, in Egypt, one
of them is said to bo the identical
Pliaroah who oppressed the children of
Israel. Doctors of Divinity have
preached for centuries that Pharoah and
li is host were drowned in the Red Sea.
At the word of command Moses Rtrctohe l
forth his hand over the sea, the waters
returned and overwhelmed all the
Egyptians, so that “ there, remained not
so much an one of them." Those ara
the Scripture words. Christians and
others will wait with some anxiety for
further revelations concerning the iden
tity of the mummies discovered.
Iff there is any one thing on the face
of the globe that is despicable, it is a
thief. It is now suspected that the cof
fins of seven at least of the royal per
sonages lately discovered near Thebes
have "been robbed of their royal occu
pants, and less distin uni shod mummies
placed in tlioir stead. The alleg'd
corpse of Thotmes is said to be that oi
a child or flwarf. Such changes are not
uncommon in Egypt, but if they have
taken place in tho present instance, the
inscriptions on tho coffins, and still more
tho long rolls of papyri still remain t j
reward the investigations of scholars.
If the remaining three months of the
year are fraught with as great disasters,
comparatively, ns have the nine months
past, truly the year 1881 will long be
remembered as an epoch, of calamities
in the history ot the world. So far this
year the enumeration is as follows ; A
great earthquake in the Greek Archi
pelago; floods in various countries of
Europe ; tornadoes in tho Northwest;
fearful storms in the South ; the appear
ance of two comets; an exceptionally
cold winter and an equally exceptionally
hot summer, with its attendant drouth ;
the assassination of the Czar of Russia
and the attempted murder of the Presi
dent ; the yellow day in New England,
and tho terrible forest fires in Michigan.
His reputed birth place is Preble County,
where, as a boy, ho was known among
his associates as overbearing and brutal
in his ways. The story goes that, grow
ing older, he became unmanageable, and
possessed of a spirit of daring, he ran
away from home, boarded a ship putting
to sea, was wrecked, picked up by a
passing vessel bound for the Indies, and
finally landed in that country. The
then King having lost his only son, who
very much resembled David (that was
the boy’s name) adopted him, and in
time he fell heir to tho throne. This is
the whole story in a nut shell, and may,
during the King’s visit here, be more
fully investigated.
Guiteau, who some time ago thought
of making application for a writ of
habeas corpus, lias changed his mind
about the matter. He has been told by
District Attorney Corkhill that ho can
not be protected on his way to court by
the soldiers. Why ho is protected in
the jail and conld not be protected by
soldiers when out of it is explained ns
follows by Oorkhill: “ The jail belongs
to the Government, and is built on
Government kind, and tho troops are
ostensibly employed in guarding Govern
ment property. When it comes to
guarding Guiteau from the jail to the
court house when the time for his exami
nation arrives, that will be another
thing. The inference was that the care
of Guiteau would then be left to the
civil authorities, and that they would be
powerless to prevent the people wreak
ing summary vengeance on the assassin.”
This talk, coming as it does from an
army officer of high rank, shows the
utter detestation in which Guiteau is
hold by those who are compelled by hard
sate to be his defenders.
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The Cincinnati Commercial says that
one of the churches of that city, after
praying lor tlie recovery or the Presi
dent, offered up prayers for Guiteau
also. The advisability of praying for
Guiteau, to the Christian mind, seems to
boa difficult problem. The Bible
teaches them to pray for their enemies,
ana many or them do not see why they
should not pray for Guiteau, whoso soul
is on tho brink of perdition. On this
same point Rev. N. Summerbell, a min
ister of the Gospel, writes as follows :
“ Moses and Miriam did not turn to the
port side of the sea to hold prayer meet
ing for the souls of the pursuing host,
but a jubilee over their destruction,
(Exodus, xv.) Jesus prayed for Peter,
but not for Judas. Jesus said of some
they ‘have never forgiveness,’ and Saint
John said ‘There is a sin nnto death, I
do not say tli*t he shall pray for it.’ The
truth is that both nature and grace teach
that there are some things which should
bo destroyed; and God saw that the
destruction of such was best for them as
well as for the universe. Saint Peter
said of this class of persons : ‘These,
ns natural brute beasts, made to be
taken and destroyed, speak evil of the
things they understand* not, and shall
utterly perish in their own corruption.’”
Thus it will be seen that there seems to
be room for an argument on both aides.
A Distinction with a Difference.
A very dilapidated-looking tramp en
tered the counting room of one of Jersey
City’s wealthiest storekeepers, and, com
ing up to the desk, asked:
“ Ain’t your folks from Posey county,
Indiany ?’’
“Yes.”
“And your name is John Smith ?
“ Yes.”
“Shake! You have at last found
your long-lost brother Bill. I am in
need of money.”
“ Here is a quarter. Take it and go.”
The long-lost brother turned over the
quarter a time or so, and then said:
“ Is a quarter all you can spare your
long-lost brother?”
“ That’s all. Go now, or I’ll call a po
liceman,” said the merchant.
“ I’ll accept the quarter on account of
our relationship, 'that is a family mat
ter; but, beside being your brother, I’m
a tramp and c dead-beat. Now I apply
to you professionally. Give me another
quarter.”
I A Very Needful Invention.
The facts were these: Mr. Skid’s
neighbor kept a goat and that goat had
often got at Mr. Skid and butted him
two rods, end over end, and he hated
the goat profusely. But tho neighbor
wouldn’t keep the goat shut up, and so
Skid invented a machine to slay the goat.
It was in the form of a man bending
down to pick up his hat, but in the body
was a spring of tremendous power. From
the 1; ip pocket of the figure waved a red
handkerchief that was the target to
draw on tho goat. When he butted it
the spring would fly and throw the goat
a big distance. The machine was gotten
up in very elaborate style and looked just
like a man. It was perfect enough to de
ceive any goat. And it costßkids74. But
he didn’t begrudge the money so long
as it fetched the goat. And he took the
machine and put it out in his front yard
where the goat could see it, and then ho
retired to his house and waited to see
the fun. He waited about two hours,
and then his son came in and told him
that the goat had swallowed an old hoop
skirt the night before and it had got
tangled in his bowels and slain him.
And of course Skid was terribly mad.
But the machine was not wholly wasted,
for the boy took it and put it on the
outside of the circus tent so it looked
like a man just starting to crawl under,
and a policeman ran up and hit it with his
club and was surprised tosee his club fly
forty feet into the air, while his arm
ached like fury, and then a stalwart cir
cus man run up and kicked the king and
was picked up twenty feet away with
his leg broken in two places. And when
ho got over his surprise he said he’d give
that num a season ticket if he’d tell
how he did it, as he’d like to work tho
same racket on the old man of the girl
ho was courting. But the machine
couldn’t be found, the boy having, in
tho excitement, taken it home. He is
going to sell it to a country editor, to bo
pointed out as “the man who wrote the
article you object to. You oan proceed
to kick him.”— Boston Post.
Practical In formal ion.
“ What is ruck rent, dad?” inquired a
young Comstocker who had been read
ing the news from Ireland.
The patient parent laid down the stock
list and replied: “Do you know how
much I charge Mr. Boggarty for his
room up-stairs ?”
“ Yessir; sl2 a month.”
“Well, now, suppose Mr. Boggarty
should take it into his head to have, at
his own expense, new paper put on tho
wall, the eeibng whitened, and all the
furniture mended, the room would look
a heap sight prettier, wouldn’t it?"
“Lor’!’ murmured tho intelligent
boy.
“ Well, if the minute Boggarty had
got all these improvements made I should
go up, and look around, and smile, and
jingle my money in my pocket, and re
mark, ‘ This is a pretty good sort of a
layout for a single man, Boggarty, and
you have altogether too soft a thing;
your rent will be $29 a month hereafter,
what would you think of it?”
The innocent child giggled and said,
“ That would be cheek, wouldn’t it,
dad ?”
“Bet your money on it, my boy,” re
plied the father, beaming kindly upon
his offspring. “That would be rack
renting Mr. Boggarty, and if he kicked
and claimed that all the improvements
had been made by hire without costing
me a cent, and I should lire him out,
that would be eviction. I will now,”
continued the parent, warming up,
“ briefly review the history of Ireland
lor the past 700 years. When Brien
Borhu—"
But his son had fled.— Virginia City
Chronicle.
How the Government Pay* Bills.
A great part of the work in the de
partment is necessarily in the line of
keeping accounts, and presents little in
terest to people who are not exceptional
ly fond of figuring.
The general principle which governs
the whole system of auditing and set
tling accounts against tho Government
is to provide ovary safeguard against
fraud, and thia is so successfully accom
plished that a dollar could net be got
out of the treasury illegitimately with ut
the collusion of so many persons tliat it
may be sot down as a practical impos
sibility.
Suppose a man has a bill against the
Government. The head of the depart
ment or bureau to which the matter
properly belongs makes a requisition for
the amount upon tho Secretary of the
Treasury, using a prepared blank which
asks him to cause a warrant for the
amount in question to be issued in favor
of the party, the same to be charged to
the particular appropriation by Congress
out of which the sum ought to come.
But before this requisition reaches
the Secretary it must pass under the eye
of the proper Auditor and Comptroller
and receive their countersign, the Audi
tor at tho same time charging tho
amount to the account of the disbursing
officer in whose favor it is Wied. If
all goes well so far, the Secretary issues
a warrant to the Treasurer, directing
him to pay over tho money, which he
does by issuing a draft for the amount in
favor of the Government’s creditor, but
not until after the warrant has t ion
countersigned by the proper Comptroller
and registered by the Register. Indeed,
the draft itself must go the Register for
comparison and registry before it is
finally passed over. There seems to lie
a good deal of red tape in all this pro
cess, but it is a sort of red tape that
saves the country money in the long
run.—Good Company.
There is a story current, and xot
without a semblance of truth about it,
that King Kalakaua is a native of Ohio.
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NO. .38,
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
Cynicism, ia old at twenty.
A. talent is perfected in solitude ; a
character in the streams of tho world.
3 he path among the rones lieth soft,
Sun-klased and radiant under youtliful feet—
But on a wintrv way true hands more oft,
Do meet and cling iu pressure soft and Hweei.
Bad men hate eiu through fear at
punishment. Good men hate sin through
very love of virtue.
A cheerful temper, joined with in
nocence, will make beauty attractive,
knowledge delightful and wit good
natured.
The best way to apologize is to do
such u kindness to the offended one that
he will forget that you ever attempted to
injure him.
I r thou shall bo in heart a child,
Forgiving, tender, meek and mild,
Though with light stains of earth deliled,
O! soul, it shall be well.
—Morris.
The first ingredient in good conversa
tion is truth, the next good sense, the
third good humor and the fourth wit.
Somk days roust needs be full of gloom,
Yet must we use them aa we may,
Talk less about thy years to come
Live, love and labor more to-day.
Alice Cary.
The plaintive wailing of the minor
mingles itself with every earthly melody:
and it is only by-and-by that the veil
shall be lifted, and the full chords of
harmony peal on our ear uumarred by
that undertone of pain.
Yet, though thou fade,
From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise,
And teach the maid
That goodness Time’s rude hand defies
That winter lives when beauty dies
—Klrh JFMIa
When one thoughtfully considers the
part which love has in the destiny and
character of women, the issues that
come ont of it for her weal or misery,
her ruin or perfection, notliing is more
pathetic and death itself is not more
solemn.
Pipping Off 11 Miner.
During one of his intermittent visits
to the Comstock Mr. Mackay accom
panied a party of Eastern tourists to the
lower levels of the California mine, one
of which carefully selected collection of
Massachusetts blue blood being a young
lady from Boston who was refined to the
top notch of culture. On arriving nt one
of the lower levels the gasping perspir
ing, wilted orew paused, and Mr. Maokay
called the young girl’s utteiitiou to a
speaking tube which connected with the
level above.
_ “Is this hollow metal cylinder a eon
duit of sound?” asked tlie well-edtioatal
Bostonienne.
“ Yes’m,” said Mackay; “ try it.”
The young lady applied her mouth to
its opening and piped out a tremulous
“ Ilillo-a-a.”
“Aye, ays,” shouted a hearty miner a
hundred feel, above.
“What shall 1 ask him?” said the girl
to Mr. Maokay.
“.Ask him how he is getting along.
“How are you getting along, sir?”
whistled the maiden.
“Aw-w—pretty well,” rumbled the
reply.
“And now what shall I say,” continued
tho girl.
“Ask him if it’s hot.”
“ Is it hot up there ?”
“Hotter’n h—-1,” was the plain answer.
The damsel gasped, but continued:
“ What else shall I say?”
“ Oh, ask him how his family are,"
replied Mr. Mackay, who began to tire
of tho "pippingolf” interview.
“ How are all your family ?” asked the
girl.
“To h—l wid ye ; what are ye givin’
us,” thundered the miner, who thought
some one was “joshing” him.
Collapse and u call for ice water.—
Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle.
A Thousand Dollars a Minute.
Mr. Eddy, the veteran patent solicitor
of Boston, is a regular encyclopedia of
incidents referring to inventors. He
tells of a man named Hurd, who be
longed in Stoneham, who realized $30,-
000, and gave to the world one of tlia
most valuable inventions ever produced
—all the result of only about half an.
hour’s thought. His invention was the
machine now everywhere used for ex
extracting molasses from sugar. When
the idea occurred to him he sketched it
down and gave it to Mr. Eddy, and au
thorized him to take out a patent. Re
turning home, he forgot all about the
matter and applied himself to other
affairs. Subsequently a gentleman en
gaged in the sugar business saw the in
vention iu Mr. Eddy’s office, and at once
appreciated its value. The solicitor was
instructed to purchase the patent, which
he supposed he could do for a moderate
sum. The first offer of SI,OOO was re
fused, and not until the figure of $30,-
000 was reached did Mr. Hurd surren
der. The machine is used in all the
sugar countries of tho world. Mr. Rob
ertson, who was the American Consul at
Hague, and the Aspinwalls, of New
York, made millions out of the inven
tion. Boston Jlerald.
Maby C is a very popular little
girl, and is invited to all of the chil
dren's birthday parties, where she never
forgets to wish, “ Many happy returns
of the day.” Recently she overheard
her father telling her mother that Mrs.
J , the mother of seven cliildren, had
just, had a birthday party, the said
“party” being nine pounds, very live
weight. Mary at once asked her hor
rified mamma : , “ Shall I trot over and
wish her many liappy returns of the
day ? ”
Hatters say that the size of tho hu
man head in England and Scotland has
been gradually diminishing in size with
in the last quarter of a century. It is
rarely that a seven-and-three eighths
inch hat is asked for now. Is that the
case in this country, also ?