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j\oftl) Qeorgi ai), PUBLBHED EVERY THURSDAY —AT— IJF.LLi < >N, GA. Bv MYERS «fc BUICE. DR. D. M. BREAKER Editor. Ofti-.’e in.tl.e Smtk builuiu?, ea&t of ti.e depot. . ft O') ;?-r Aiiuu'n, TO ce ;ts fur - x months, in ud vai-ut. Fifty numbers to the volume. KEWB GUANINBS. Corti is -filing in East Tennessee :it sixty cents per Bushel. Some 400,000 feet of cress ties will be shipped from Kentucky t> .Mexico. The Ic’. ce at New Orleans i.- tube illu minar'ed uith the electric light. r r..f ssor C.ther. of Alabama, predicts U hard winter. Immigration and capital are steadily tbiwing into Tennessee. A fi:!’-vein of coal has been discovered in Jackson county, Alabama. Albany, G.-i.. isg’iug fospend for au Artesian well, IhereaiQ 113-1 cnviel- in the S.ulh • ar.flina penitentiary. ‘he average pr.ida,. of the cot ton crop ,Jt the Al tnphis district is fifty-one per j ’cent. le.-s tha i last years yield. 1 y ler James, colored, was giv< n twe::i v stripes by a Richmond, V. - . ’court lor ■'’'■Vailing an overeo.it. Ihrce ibous.iml snappers wore carried to Pensacola, Florida, in one dav list week. At the !• lurid i state fair a premium cf six dollars wasollered for the be t dahied stoekifle-. Ali over the south telegraphic in p:i?i' have been received from New York B.inkers about Confederate coupon bonds, A F oiid i fanners whohave plant ed ,‘irrc, w-rool makoai much as SI,OOO on an a ere. Accomac and Northampton counties, Virginia, have pe.te'i tie s now living and bearing which were planted in 1816. l or the year ending S. ptember 1 the citizens of Brownsville, ’linn., consumed •’2B bat rel ■ of « hisky. A Pennsylvanian has La < d 10,(00 acres of land near Woodbury, Cannon eouirty, Tennessee, and will Colonel E. W. Cole, the ‘ railn . d king,’’has purchased the old Dank of Tennessee Imildinvat Nashville for Sl2- 010. Rev. Father A. ..I. Ryan, the swei test poet in the South, has tafren charge of the C.itholi;- ehuneh at Etifausu, Ala bama. Last year J. E. Yates, of Rappahan nock county, Virginia, i-urehas d 275 ■shci p.-.for which hopaid S3Z>O apiece Hie Lnnbs aim wool this year brought -him $1,700. Otte firm in Virginia, with >B7 ac of land, has produced 3,500 gallon <>f wine ma seasefr. ••Two c< unties in that .-it> 'this season will make 60,000 -.'aliens. Messrs. Stuart A- Mi Dowell, of iln- Rudi-ill mine in N- rtb ('irolin i. bav>- wnt to the Atlanta exposition a-"lid ) ieec of geld sulpliuret ore weighing ”00 p iunds,"ntid is assayed at about SBO per till. ’ •The tnlrafco trldc of Richmond, Vir tguiiii, I’.-'; vA decided io 'appoint an in sAjh.rof v.hosl.rdi 1-avei h- r■•• -,.,£'1'1 •.iitlrb n''gtkef " This will -eparu .l<o ! c»siw»s o' Wjirehodxjn r and of m- .. c-i-tjitids .Phillips, twelve years old. was jT'fftrijlt Ji-imy. bv hi) •■'■if in It-’’, .-on t te£ h ■■■Garvlim Dhriu -t • ’ friigi ■TCrne deyili Ji “boy'’ vi it'd th . bon. ml tri'J tp run an i n-. ue I r ’.lie] rp ■ol flight'n: ng th b Tie ■ fftflr- follow W.r.- I'Car'-.l so badly tint he was thro.-n into spasms. from which he died shortly after v a rd. Rome (Gn ) utier: Two sisters, Mtor- Emma an I Susie, daughters of .widow Cornwell, of Rocky creek, Gordon county, picked out with their own hands, last week, a bale of cotton, had itgium <l, and sent it to R me. Mr. H. SI. Smith .bought it nt twelve and a half cents, and sept, it to the Atlanta Exposition as a j sainpleof of North Georgia cotton. The Jiotc, of Inowrazlaw, Pin gives the followin'.' taele of w -!■ workmen iu. that city, a place or n B,IH)D or 1I),000 popnlati n. 1 ■ are for a week's work of six da' -■ of t->w teen hours each.- A nuuk is pud t English shilling, or about tw- uty cents : Bricklayers, best Bricklayer'S common If-skarricrß .miners J ()4bmet-m"k<" ii.cimi. 1 ■ •••■ LA'ckbßiit Ha . nii’sit'i i-- . (itichiiriiig b -iki'l ■. - • 1 Ftciorj laborer* irardeueiH • - Field hand* - Is it auv woutb-r. 10 vif*w < t ‘h h. ures, and they an to a c it 'i’i • xt. ut criterion t > jot; ;i ■. ' Germany, that th.- ir- ■ a...•.■ ■ artisans of that is.ntitjv. ■ iiii:/ to the United States by thousands ? 1 ' ■ ■"»• e ‘ ’ r _ ■ 1 . The North Georgian. £ 1 VOL. IV. TO? 1 ITS OF THE DAV. Boston women gamble in railroad ! I .stocks. Mauk Twain has written another, book. Chinese are becoming plentiful in ; Chicago. —« Tobacco in A’irgluia will be only half I a crop this year. Geokof, Bancroft, the historian, is • c.,,hty-08. ,ye..l. T.’tKim will 1- ■ a ,■ ireity of coal in the ■ West the coming winter. —• Bj’k lb' now boasts of one female: lawyer, .Miss L -!ia J, Robinson. V Mo'a sirxT Io Denn Stanley will be at ■ tv l in Wesfmiust r Abbgv I’ i : students at Harvard are com p. lied to attend, prayer meeting. ■ An iiip r ;rm an statue will bocroctod j to lien. Burnside iu Rhode Island. Fa-Gov. ShßPhebd (“Boss”)is about 1 l return to Washington from Mexico. . IrmiNors’ oldest citizen is dead—Airs, j Margaret Nonghton, aged-116 years. | — Mrs. ijAm-’ii nn’s income will l>o S2O,- i O’i-’ayear. Airs. Lincoln’s is $3,000. -—-*■».■■ * • ———- lr is thought th-- Indianapolis Journal t Ims an bye opt n to a Cabinet position. |- Mu. Windom will retire from the Cab inet and return to the United’ States . Senate, President G abi icod's picture is to be p’ae -d upop the five cent international postal letter skpiiju A kecent frost in the vicinity of Bos- | ton is said to haw done damage to the - i xtent of si .000,000. Geokge Fkancis ’Pn-viN K tys ho has. nuuli 1 his last speech and written his Inst ! IcttfU. Wt! Kiir- IV thviv. was a .olivet? , lining somewhere. Q , : The (*zar of Russia, is resigned to any i file that in ty overtake him. IL* is said [ to often declare, “I am quite ready to ! me« * death when it comes.” Tun mummy of the dauglii> r of King ; Rameses is said to bo among the diseov- | erics nt Tlu’beß —the woman who found ’ Moses in the. bulrushes. • I • Sarah Bernhardt was hissed at : Amiens and st- pping to the footlights, I remarked: “I am not accustomed to! play to geese.” Ready wit. L The Alonnons take great consolation ! nt the present political status. They feel | that their polygamous institution is ’ 1 secure, ami that the Lord is with them, j _——— The expense of Garfield’s illness is ■ e timated at $100,01)0, "of which the ' d-n i ns’ bills will bo $53,000. Dr. Bliss i is accredited with a claim of $25,000. i Tin: Z J aP Mall Gazette, acknowledges ' the United States to be the. most poxver- : fill nation on the globe. . This-confession ( is a great one, coming from-an English | source. , ■ . ’ la.:. ■: Nc.i.son,- a. Swi di.-I: woman ' committed suiMJe in Philadelphia the . other day beca'is ■ she C’>uld not get a j husband. She. must have beam Jiorrid I ugly. . • _—....... The J’resiiL nt’s brother, William Ar- | thur, who is Major and Paymaster in ; jne army, xftis marylcd a fexv days-’ago at Governor’s Island, to Mis.-. Laura Bou- - vier. —.———— ...•Tcdoing from results, the Ohio voter ; is a setatcher. That comes of getting. ' poor men on the- regular ticket—a fact- : that the late election has. forcibly pr. - j seated to party managers, Tim Cincinnati Commercial says the : ‘ situation in Ireland is quite too utter. We suppose this means that it is in a j .Liopiug posture. Nations, likeindivid- ; u.ls, ar<- nothing if not fashionable. o is held rosponF-ible for the .ti i . 't of Parnell, jurl Gladstone is of the that the arrest' is for the , vindication of law and order, and “ the • ■ tinst dements of civilization.” — _— Under the old French law, being in tor " ib-iT three times- deprived men of t’-eir right to vote. Such a law in this I <-<miitrv, it is to b - apprehended, would pievent the bolding of an election in ' some sections. — Stn' H “ information ” has been filed, we hax'e failed to le-ar that Brady, 'of Star Rout" notoriety" is still i.mli round, demanding an early tual. Hi- BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA., OCTOBER 20, FBI. ardor for justice has cooled down some i what. ♦ An agent of the Land League in Ire : land has been arrested, fa'- nnitjuu «««- j dies i-.i I'otatoes to be fed to the cattle' ; of a farmer guilty of paying his rent. 1 Tliat. is partaking of a very low kind of I fiendishuess. Gviteau seems determined to have Bon. Butler to'defend him. Ingersoll he | doesn't, want. His discrimination is based ' upon religious principles. - Butler, how . over, dooo not oravo the svrvioe, will wi l l i endeavor to excuse himself. “The. Mormons are held together,” i says the Mormon organ, “by' an in fluences that is beyond the power of men i or nations to prevent, destroy or con ' trol.” That “influence” is a plurality of wives, certainly not divine. | The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that the hog crop of the territory tribu : tary to St. Louis v ill be very inferior in quality and less in quantity than for* ■ many ymnrs past. Thu high price of i I corn is given as a reason for this condi : tion of things. This is a sad comment on the insur ance question: One insurance Presi dent. wdioso company loses $12,000 by the file in Morrell’s Building, in New York, himself had $20,000 worth of prop-rty stored there and only $3,0001 . insurance ou it. _— Eight members of the last Houser of Representatives are now Uiiit-al Statiw S Dators : Messrs. Frye and Hale, of Alaim- ; Aldrich, of Rhode Island; Haw ley, <f Conneeti mt; T.apham and Mil ler, of New York ; Mitchell, of Pennsyl vania, and Conger, of Michigan. John Battersbv, for twenty years the chief of living skeletons in the side shows, has of late been missed from the ranks of the human curiosities. The reason is that, from a weight of -ftfty leven pounds he has rapidly crown to 125, and ho has considerately gone tc blacksmithing. f ■ - O r —»—r—— - - Whangue Land, which Ciiuula. claims under the old boundary treaty, mid which claim the United Stales disputes, is on the north coast of Siberia and over a thousand mile# from the American eoast. There w ill be no fighting over its I possession. It ain’t worth it. Massachusetts has a Judge who evi dently enjoys his morning naps. He has rendered a decision that the ringing of a. church bell at 5 o’clock in the morn ing is a public nuisance, mid if people must worship nt that hour they should do so without distiirljing their neigii >ors. _ . Since David Davis is President of the Senate, the public gem-rally are anxious Io know - to which party heMelongs. Mr. Davis, wo believe, is not much annoyed on the subject. Ho is whero lle feels at. liberty to take a plum from either party, and plums he is very fond of. — The convicts of the Ohio Penile,ntinry sent SIOO to t-hc Michigan sufi’erers. They raised the amount by denying themselves the luxury of tobacco ami the salfi 'of trinkets which they had made. Really, this expression of sym pathy from such a source is touching. . .<. The father of Mrs. Christrai-icy testi fied in Washington the other day that |pr. vons to accepting the Senator Lis [ daughter had refused twenty-five offers of ..m itrimony. "This, we suppose, is an : instance of passing by Jll the straight j i and taking a crooked stick in the end. . \ hout the meanest thing we aro able • t>> c dl to min 1 just now is the action of : the steamboat companies whose crafts I ply Dljiwden the Naticmnl Capital and Yorktown. For the benefit of those at tending the Yorktown celebration they I put the fare up) to five times the usual j price. What noble patriots those fel- j lows are. Genebaii Garfield wrote in answer j to a friend who bad congratualated him ■ upon his election to the Senate : “As ( to the hope you express that I shall be ; ealleil higher, I can only say that my ’ id' ii of the highest ambition of a public ! man ought to be to discharge fully the ; duties of the position to which he is al- ; ready called. A man is not in position to discharge his duties fully and without, bias if he is aspiring to higher places ‘ and laboring to secure them. The post: of greatest usefulness ought to be the i place of the highest honor.” Love was at the bottom of the Arkan sas train robbery. The threejboyish fel- ; lows who committed the crime were ! moneyless and desperately in love, and rending bow easy it wn for the Jani' bovn to rob a train, resolveil to imitate . th' tn to bridge over the obstacle standing between themselves, their girls and matri mony. They obtained the money, but thinking they would not be pursued, they made no effort to escape. Their girls, no doubt, feel bad to think that for their sake they were led to the com mission of a crime that has culminated in ii seventy-years’ sentence in the peni tentiary. -Mr. Vennor says in the preface of his almanac for 1882: “I lay no claim to the discovery of an infallib) >. system of fosnteUiug weather. The science of piActleal .meteorology is yet in its in fancy, and is being studied by men whose abilities are. far greater than any I could endeavor to lay claim to. There w’ill be many mistakes before a right understanding or interpretation of its principles is arrived at. Based, as my system of predictions must be, on records of weather as yet incomplete and very faulty, the results can not be entirely satisfactory, more especially in respect, to new ground yet I believe the key to the solution of the problem lias been , found, and that all errors will but aid in , more correctly discovering the secrets of coming months.” ■ - > ——— IStiM-k-ltaislng in the West. The.freedom to pasture cattle on ex cellent, grazing liuid,-together with an accessible market, are the main reasons xyliy at present stock-farming is particu larly profitable.’ The first of these con ditions ’is precarious, and it is evident that in ten years there wlill not be much goixl free range left east, of the Missouri river. When immigration to that extent shall have shut him off from free pastur* age, the stock man can either sell his farm at probably four times its present, value, and move to Dakota or. Montana, or else turn bis attention to. fattening stock on grain lor other parties. For instance, as a practical case, there is a jjattle man of Council Bluffs who is said to own 100,000 head of Cattle in Idaho. He bus u range of si*ty square miles of land not worth a cent to the acre for agriculture, yet. nflbrding excel tent pasture for cattle. He lias ten men 'employed at wages v frying-- from $24 to S4O per month to look after tho stock. These men require 260 ponies to handle the cattle. An overseer is hired ut $1,200 a year. During the winter, how .'■r, four men can du rill tin- work n-- qnlii-'l, wliirti fs mainly bi'i'-iikilig the 18' iii the streams that tho cattle may have wafi'i . Streams serve as the great checks upon-the cattle straying away, for they never will go fur from water. In the spring- of the year the ciittlo men of' the plains have a grand “ round up (us it I is called), the stock is picked out. by ! menus of the brand, and those cattle I that are meant for the Eastern manset are• started .for Omaha. They travel about ten miles a day, and gen erally take the wlrole" season in tho journey from tha winter ground- to -the Missouri bottom. At Omaha the cattle are put on the train and-shipped nominally to Chicago, but really to different ppiuts along the road, f to Tie handed over to farmers for fatten ing. Air. Stewart delivered over 1,900 . liend to farmers Inst fall, and of these only eight were lost during the winlci-. who receive the eattle agrec to fat ten them at the rate 0f.5 csints for every extra pound of weight they add to the animal. This seems small at first night, but When cattle put on 250 extra pounds during a winter, and where tw - o begs are fesl from the refuse of each ox, the farmer finds that the result to him is equivalent to selling his corn nt 100 per cent, profit. 'The large cattle-raisers, of course, have their inspectors, who travel from farm to farm to look after their property, and gat her it together hi the spring for shipment to Chicago, wlrcre they are either slaughtered or shipped to Europe. The cattle men have a great advantage over mere farmers, in tbut, they are to a great extent independent of railways. If they are liudly treated by one corporation, they have a simple remedy in driving theirstocka few - miles to the next road.— Jlarpei’s Mar/azim... Gough. After all bis life-long work upon the platform, and with the high fees his I fame and abilities justly command, John R. G nigh is not a rich man. His private • hurit ies are as large and numerous as I hey I are unostentatious, for this great-hearted man does not. let his left hand know what bis right hand does. Ha has met with I frequi nt. and heavy losses on account Os I the tender-hearted willingness with ! wbiclrhe puts his valuable autograph on I lbe back of a friend’s album for ninety : Jays, and the almost infallible certainty ! with which he is compelled to get it back i again for himself when tho three short I months have flown. Mr.Gougli ought to be worth $500,000, but like most men ! whose hearts are wrapped up in, and j whose lives are consecrated,to some great - work of ref Tm, lie is not a good busi- I ness man, and impecunious friends and ; suffering humanity have got most of the ' money the great apostle of temperance baa earned by hard platform work. “ Have you spoken to pa about that I vet?” anxiously inquired the oldest | daughter of her indulgent mother. “No, • my child, not yet. Your father is too i busy with his creditors to think of pony ’ phaetons and russet harness to match I just now.” “Bother the creditors,” was the snappish reply. “That’s what ; your father is doing, my dear. After he has compromised you shall have your turnout.” If want of sense ‘s the worst kind of 1 poverty, we know rorn's people who light to have been ' i the poorhousu sm<’u their childhood.- t,'ini]>ton. ftO. 42 u Affidavits Arc Not Lobsters.” Gen. James Grant Wilson furnishes the Cape Ann Advertiser with the fol lowing pleasant gossip about old Admiral Collin—one of thi Coffins, by the way— and the great variety about Cape Cod of lobsters weighing exactly ninety pounds. Sir Isaac Coffin, a British Admiral and a member of the family which held a fa mous rouuion at Nantucket, August 16, was born at Boston, and when a child lived for sonic years on Cape Cod. Sir Isaac came to this country soon after the war of 1812, and during the voyage he ■stated to the officers of his tlag-sliip that, when they r rn'-hed Capo Cod he would show them Ibbsters that, weighed ninety pounds ! The rules of a quarter deck do not permit you to flatly eoiiffadiet an Admiral, but still some doubt and dis trust was_visible on the countenanced of th ■ Captain and L’entenants who stood ii'-oui,.’." “V, .11,” s u'd Sir you ('l-.iibt it, I will make yon ihat when we reach Cape Cod I will produoe'h- lobster that weighs niuotv piuinds.” The wager was made under tho gracious permission of the Admiral, and when they arrived there Sir Isaac scoured the Cape, but he could not find any lob ter that weighed ninety poujids, so h ■ said : “ Well, thl y don’t, happen to lie hore just now, tint I will obtain the affidavits of the old fishermen to prove that tltore are such lobsters.” And he produced a pile of affidavit?, showing that when there were fishermen in early times -lobsters thitt weighed niu'-l.i pounds >vire as I'onimon as liuck.'eh'-iri -s on the Cape. Then it was left to an umpire to deciile, which had lost and which had 'Von, rind by him so concise a judgment was given that if now living it would entitle him to the \ i -.-i! t Jrdgesliip in the Afassnehnsetts Supreme,Court, if all bin decisions wore equally-go:"!. His decisions was that “ affidavits are not lobsters.” The d stingnished tnembei- of the Cof fin family, writing tobis friend Commo dore Isaac Hull, iq 1816, says: “.Many thanks for yogr kind exertions; send the ninety pound lobster wlnm:you can. My rqiittidioH will he saved, although my money is gone,” and in another let ter no.v lying before me the Admiral re marks : “'1 he lobster • you committed to ('apt. Tracy arrived in good condition, and is considered a marvelous one here. Still my friend Sir Joseph Banks longs for one of ninety pounds.” Whether Hull succeeded in saving Sir Isaac’s reputation by sending him n ninety pound lobster' 1 very much regret I niu iinnlile Io state, but. a vein rable tllouces tcr fisherman whom the writer consulted 4>n tho sub ject said : “ There ain’t been no sic.h 10l stors seen on Cape Ann durin’ the last sixty years, an’ I don’t believe any 6ich were ever caught on Cape Cod.” Aunt Susan’s Suggestions to n Fretful ■■ Wife. “Hester;” exclainicd Aunt Susan, ceasing her rocking and knitting, and sitting unpright. “Do you know what your liusb'uid - will do when you aro dead?" “ Whitt do you mean ?” xvas the start led reply. “ He will marry tho sweetest-tempered girl he can find. ” “ Oh, auntie 1” Hester began. “Don’t interrupt me until I’ve fin ished,” said Aunt Susan, leaning back and taking up her knitting. “She may not bo as good a honsekeeper as you are; in fact, 1 think not, lint shewill lie good natured. She may not eVen love him as well as you do, but she will be good-na tured/’ “ Why, auntie—” “ That isn’t all,” continued Aunt Su san. “ Every day you live you are mak ing your husband more and more in love with that good-natured woman, who may take, your place some day. After Mr. and Mrs.' Harrison left you the other night, the only remark he made alioiJ. them was : ‘She is a sweet wom an.’” “ Oil, auntie—” “Tbut isn’t all,” composedly contin- ' ned Aifflt Susan. “ToStay your huS bimd was half way across the kitchen floor, I ’ringing you the first ri|>e loach es, and all you (lid wag to look i>u and say : ‘There, Will, just see your tracks on my clean floor! I won’t have my floor all tracked up.’ Some men would, have thrown the peaches out of the win dow. To-day you screwed up your face when he kffiscd yon, because hjs mus tache was dtunp, and said, ‘ I never want you to kiss riieagain.’ When he empties anything you tell linn not to spill it; when he lifts.anything you tell him not to break it. From morning until night your sharp voice is heard complaining and fault-finding. And last winter, when you were sick, you scolded him about bis allowing the pump to freeze, mid took no notice when he said. ‘ I was so anxious about you that I. did not think of the pump.’ ” “But, auntie—” “ Hearken, child. The strong .-st and most intelligent of them all care more for a woman's tenderness than for any thing else in the world, and without this the cleverest and most perfect house keeper is sure to lose her husband’s af fection in time. There may be a few - more men like Will—as gentle, us lov ing, as chivalrous, as forgetful of self, and so satisfied with loving that their affections will die a long, struggling i death ; but in most eases it takes but a few years of fretfulnessami fault-finding to turn a husband’s love into irritated indifference.”. “But, auntie— ’* “ Yes, well ! you are notdegd yet, and t hat sweet-natured woman has not been found: so you have time to be come so serene and sweet that your hus band can never imagine that there is a bctter-teiiipered woman in existence.” There is red and green as well as black ebony. R£TES OF ADVERTISING. Sp.»ct. Imo [1 » ■s•• I >*r. one i> •»u » ft oil • 750 ll» M Two iiH’ije’, I 3 7’> " ft< 000 lAM Three 1 rhe*. | ft 00 in 00i 12 50 3» M Four inch-*, (H 12 ftO Ift (• JA M Kon ilk Column. 7 fc” Ift IM" 2o 00j 30 M Half coin.nn, 11-ni 20 OOL M 0* 6J M <» e roll'Dlh, lA<» -30 001 w 00| 100 00 Jtfr A; I bills due a ier fi ac in ertiou. Transient tidvertisemeuU (strictly in ad vance) H per inch forth. first insertion; 5# vents per inch for each additional insertion. Local reading notices 10 seats per line. Announcements $5 each. Marriage notic-sand obituariei exceeding six lines will be charged for as advertise men ts. HUMORS OF THE DAY. Was Eve’s first dress made of bear skin? U naturally look P Qliar if U KO D and going to D K.—BiZZ Nye. In some hats the cabbage leaf must feel perfectly at home.— (Quincy Modem A r</o. ‘ Inquire : The must horrible suicide on records is that of the man who took a drink of Chicago water.— Boston Post. My father was Irish, • My mother was Irish, And J am Irish atew. —1 'onker't iIT was probably an Irish missionary w|i<>, when about to be masticated by Hie cannibals, originated that beautiful song : When you lose a needle, ou the floor, the quickest was - to fiml it is to takdhoff your shoes and walk ujiout. But some how people don’t do that way. “ Grsth ulation," says .an eminent actor, “is fasti iiwonnug aloe t art!” He probably never saw Talmage fencing with an imaginary lobster. Herald Ak Ar.RAS’i - paper tells of a woman in this city who woke her husband during a storm and said: “I do wish you would stop snbi-iug, for I want to hear it thun der !”' “fkiNFouND it! you’ve shot the dog ! I thought you told me you qould hold a i gun. ”. Pat." -"Shnre, and so I can, Four honor. It’s the shot, sor, I couldn’t hould !” A HAD-i-EiU’ERED man : He had lost his knife and they asked him the usual question : “Do yon know where you lost it?” “Yes, yes,” he replied, “of course I do. I’m merely hunting in these other places for it to kill time.” Not every man can tell from exper ience how it feels to be struck by light ning, but he enn get some idea of it by going suddenly aronnd a ’corner ana meeting iiis mother-in-law while he is walking witli a pretty girl.— Boston Pott. A Keokuk man succeeded in hugging his sweetheart to death. Bat he has no trouble in finding others. The girls seem rather anxious to take their chances on his hugging- 1 them to death. They don’t belive he can do it; would just like to see him try it. An Irish lady was so much on her guard against betraying her national ac cent that she is reported to have spoken of the “crewZm'e of Vesuvius,” fearing that tile crater would betray- her again. —Allmny Journal. She finds her paral lel in the Yankee who speaks of the jril lows of n portico. ■ When a corpulent citizen endeavors to jump off the dummy of one of our cable roads while on the down grade and falls on the track in the front of the wheels nothing gives him so much genuine sat isfiitfon as, just when he is about to be crushed to pulp, to wake up and find himself on the flour beside his own bed. -r-San Prancim-M Post. How pestering little things will hap pen. A stranger in a Middlesex County village was looking for a man named Ondeck, and when he went up to a fel low and asked : “Are you Ondeck?” the fellow answered. “I reckon! I am,” and the'stranger tried to talk-business to him and they got all mixed up in a misunder standing and hud to be parted by the bystanders before they got through. And it was all on account of that confounded name.— Boston Post. English social life presents many points of interests in its slang. We have all probably rend- the anecdote of a young American lady in England (not a “fair Barbarian,” either) who, while play ing brocket, exclaimed at a surprisingly fortunate shot of an opposing player: “Oh! what a horrid scratch!’ where upon a young English ludy remarked : “You shouldn’t use such language, it’s slang!” “Well, what slionld 1 say?” asked Miss America. “Oh! what a benstlv fluke !’’— Nc<v Orleans Times. M ho anil Whom. A to<» freiyient. error is the use of the objective “ whom” instead of the nomi native “ who” In such expressions as “ the men whom he says’were present.” This sentence should read : “ The men who he says were present.” “ Who ”is not governed by the verb “ says,” but. is the subject of “were,” ami should be in the nominative. “ Whom” is a stiff and clumsy word nt. the best. It it very lit tle used in conversation, even by highly cultivated people. It has n flavor of pedantry and affectation. The usual substitute of “whom” is “that,” as “the man that I saw,” or it may lie omitted altogether in many cases. No body of any taste would think of using such sentences in conversing as “ Os whom are you speaking?” “Whom do you menu?” These phrases may lie grammatically correct, but they are de cided!.' inelegant. The easiest way to deal with them is the la st. “ Who is it von are speaking of?” or “Who is it you mean ?” are equally good English, and far more graceful forms expression.— A. >’. Star. Work is the law of our being—the living principle that carries men and na tions onward. Tins greater number of men have to work with their hands as a matter of necessity, in order to live; but all must work in one way or another, if they would enjoy life as it ought to lie enjoyed. Labor may lie a burden and a cliastiscment, but it is also an honor and a glory. Without it nothing can be ac complished. All that is great in man comes through work, and civilization is its product. Were labor abolished, the race of Adam were at once atrioken by moral death.