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Koftl) Georgian,
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
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BELL I ON, GA.
Bv MYERS & BI T ICE.
DR. D. M. BREAKER Editor.
Office in the Santa building, east of the
depot.
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Cincinnati has au Ingersoll Literary
-Dramatic Club.
Annie Louise Cary -will sing only in
eoncerts this winter.
Indianapolis is just sixty years old,
*nd not overgrown for its ago.
Two hundred and nine patents have
been issued to Edison up to date.
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Qt kf.n A ictokii has been in Ireland
twelve days, the first time she has been
.there since 1861,
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Since his visit to Stratford-on-Avon,
Tennyson is more determined than ever
-to write lor the stage.
Nicy,’ York is threatened with a water
a case of water everywhere and
n 'ot a drop to drink,
Pre, silent Arthur knows howto keep
a secret. He has entrusted no one with
the key to his new Cabinet.
David Davis, President pro tern. of
the Senate, weighs nearly 100 pounds.
Ho is a big man, indeed.
A AS isconsin farmer robbed the grave
•of his own son and sold the body to a
medical college in Chicago.
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Accc.KniNti so reports, all was not har
mony at orktown. There seems to be
envy for honors in all things.
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Ijoi i.se Michel, the Parisian Com
munist, in her newspaper approves of
the assassination of President Garfield.
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Anna Dickinson is going to play
Hamlet in New York on the 2 I of Janu
ary. Anna is determined to overcome
het’ modesty.
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We ABE glad to statu there has been
no oyster famine. AVe shall have some
thing to cat anyhow, and church festivals
will boom as ever.
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The oldest brother of the late Presi
dent, Thomas Garfield, is an humble
farmer in Ottawa County, Michigan. He
is aged fifty-nine years.
Dr. J. G. Holland, the poet and
writer, who recently died in New York,
leaves a wife, two grown daughters, and
a son, who is in Yale College.
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Dr. Parker, of the Loudon Temple,
is to deliver a series of five discourses in
answer to Colonel Ingersoll’s question,
“ AVhat Must I Do to Be Saved ?”
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Colored women at Anderson, S. C.,
have formed a union and will not work
for less than $6 a month. Whoever vio
lates the agreement will be Hogged by
the others.
Over 100,000 Frenchmen have com
mitted suicide since the opening of the
present century. Taking in all the cen
turies, and all races, these figures would
reach up in the millions.
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The Crown Prince and J’rincess of
Denmark have come into about £3,OiX),-
000 by the death of Prince Frederick, of
the Netherlands. Is there anything
“ rotting iu Denmark ?”
The rapid advance in wheat suddenly
came to a standstill, a thing the grain
gamblers was not pr pared for, and
gambling iu that direction just now can
not be said to be flourishing.
A contemporary propounds the con
undrum “ AATiy is not Ireland as happy
a part of the British Empire as Scot
land?" In the language of a six-year
old, we would say, “ Because it ain’t.”
It is a lamentable fact that Michigan
gave $35,000 more to Chicago at the
time of the great fire iu that city, than
Chicago has contributed to the burnt
out sufferers of Michigan. Chicago
should remember a kindness.
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The situation iu Ireland is a pro
foundly serious one. Rioting and blood
shed are of daily occurrence, and unless
there is a change soon, it can but be a
question of time when the situation shall
merge itself into a civil war.
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From the autumnal exhibition of paint
ings at Liverpool the nude has been
rigorously excluded. This is a case
wherein morality for once, triumphed
over the false notion that vulgarity and
art go hand in hand.
The Afghan war cost the lives of 99
officers and 1,521 men, besides 111 offi
cers and 1,252 men wounded. The
various South African wars cost the lives
of 172 officers and 3,028 men : 162 offi
cers and 1,016 men were wounded.
Dr. AVood, of Philadelphia, holds to
the theory that diphtheria is not a spe-
The Nor th Georgian.
VOL. IV.
clfic poison, but a fungus that may be
present in the air during health, but in
certain diseased conditions take on a
distinctly poisonous action.
The Cincinnati Gazette suggests that
if the money sent to Ireland to help the
Iri-h to fight England were used to en
able the dissatisfied people to emigrate
to the United States, it would do much
good. There is plenty of room iu this
country. There is not room in that
country.
The French eo-.isumptlon of wheat
demands 352,000,000 bushels per annum.
The erop this year is 294,000,000 bush
els. Deficit, to be supplied from the
United States and Russia, 58,000,000
bushels, costing at present prices SBO,-
000,000. This explains the drain upon
the bullion in the Bauk of France.
As usual, Florida, this year, reports
50,000,000 oranges for market. Those
have been the figures tor several years
—or is it possible this statement, like
some of the humorous paragraphs,
springs info existence periodically and
goes the rounds of the press.
Half a dozen “associations for the
encouragement of matrimony” have
taken out articles of incorporation in
Indiana. Their object is also for the
protection of domestic felicity. It does
look a little as if there was a scarcity of
occupation when institutions of this
ridiculous character come into existence
in such numbers.
Queen Victoria doesn’t wear a crim
son robe and a gold crown upon her
head, not by any means. She takes her
daily drives with a black straw bonnet
upon her head and a large shawl of
small check shepherd’s plaid upon her
shoulders. She think’s enough of money
to boa poor man’s wife,
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This is what Talmage has to say con
cerning Guiteau : “On the principle
that all men, however bad, ought to be
prayed for, 1 have tried for eight, Sun
days to get myself up to pray for ‘hat
wretch, but I can’t do it. Perhaps be
fore the day of his hanging I may
grow iu grace enough to pray for him,
but until then I must leave it to the old
ministers who have got so good that they
can do anything. ”
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The Committee of Twenty-eight ap
pointed in Boston to consider* the feasi
bility of holding the World’s Fair at
the Hub in 1885, reported favorably
upon the matter, but to make the exhi
bition a success, the committee are of
opinion that the city of Boston will be
required to subscribe $5,000,000. If it
wasn’t for the money part of.it, Bos'on
would no doubt pul’ through all right
with the arrangements, but we are a lit
tle afraid that $5,000,000 business will
kill it.
There is a paper published in Colo
rado calh d Solid Muldoon. In a re
cent issue the editor makes the following
eomnarison : “Brick” Pomeroy camo
to Colorado two years ago with one wife
mid three hundred dollars—to-day he is
worth quarter of a million. Three years
ago the editor of this paper struck Colo
rado with one pointer dog and the dys
pepsia—to-day—well, to this day, we
never did or could find out what in
become of that dog.
The recent eruption of the great
volcano of Mauna Loa, on the Island of
Hawaii, has been watched with peculiar
interest by the inhabitants of the town
of Hilo. The lava Hood has for nine
months past been approaching the village
and threatened its destruction, and the
liHing up of the beautiful bay upon the
borders of which it is built. But half a
mile away the stream of fire ceased its
flow, and the lava cooled and hardened,
the volcano was at rest, and the village
was saved.
The hatred entertained by t’’e Bohe
mians for the Germans is shown strik
ingly by the recent experience of a
Viennese merchant who was traveling
through a part of the Bohemian terri
tory, and put up with some friends at a
tavern kept by a village official. Upon
their asking in German for dinner the
innkeeper's wife replied: “In this inn
no < iermau is served with food. Not
even a drink of water would be granted
to one of that nation.” And the hungry
travelers were compelled to seek enter
i tainment elsewhere.
Fifteen years ago James B. Orman,
i of Pueblo, went to Colorado a poor boy.
To-day he employs 3,000 men, and owns
' and works 2,000 head of mules and
i horses. While this is true of Mr. Or
i man, there are hundreds of men who
I have gone to Colorado and other portions
' of the West with a few hundred dollars
j in their pocket and subsequently beat
I their way back on frieght trains There
i are any number of cases in almost any
i State, of men. rich to-day, who, nrteen
j years ago, were poor. Men who go West
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY. GA., OCTOBER 27, 1881.
expecting to find money lying around
loose, are generally disappointed.
Coroner Rendio, of Cincinnati, is
charged by the Cincinnati Commercial
and Gazette with hastening the death of
Mrs. Andrew Van Bibber, who was acci
dentally shot by her husband recently
under the impression she was a burglar.
Rendig held an ante-mortem examina
tion, during which time the patient’s
pulse ran up from 110 to 160 beats per
minute and her death ensued upon the
Bumeday. Her physician is of opinion ’
that her death was inevitable, but that
had it not been for the excitement con
sequent upon an ante-mortem examina
tion she might have possibly lingered
many days.
A case was recently tried in Paris
which seems to correspond very closely
with that for which Guiteau has been
arraigned. Lucien Morrisset, a young
num aged twenty-three, of considerable
education and rt finement, was charged
with the murder of M. Darmier, a rail
way official. Morrisset had no grievance
whatever against Darmeir, but he had
long cherished a deep-rooted hatred
against society. Convinced that society
was rotten and unjust, and smarting un
der disappointment and failure iu litera
ture, Morrisset determined to give free
vent to his perverted instincts. He be
gan by robbing his employer, and when
he was detected he resolved to distin
guish himself as a murderer. Ho had
previously attempted suicide. One day
last June he procured a revolver, loaded (
it, and, walking out iu the street he <
eooly shot down M. Darmier. The medi- <
sal experts, after a careful examination, ’
pronounced him sane, but “ morally '
s.'lf-uervortefl " and lie was sentenced to ,
death. “ Morally self-perverted” seems I (
to apply well to Guiteau. (
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Iler Gratitude.
Coming down Michigan avenue a lady
in a well-filled car saw a woman dashing j
across a vacant lot at the corner of .
Twelfth street, and whirling her parasol
in a vain endeavor to catch the eye of
the car driver. The lady immediately
arose and pulled the strap. The moment
this was done the woman checked down
her speed and walked slower than a boy
going home after playing truant. As .
she reached the car she deliberately ,
lowered her parasol, looked back down
Twelfth street, and slowly entered.
The lady, meantime, had been squeez- .
ing along to make room for the new
corner. That individual looked up and
down both sides of the car with a git-up
mid give-mc-ii-seat expression, looked nt
the space provided for her with a sneer,
took a step toward it, then stopped, as if (
she would say: “ Sit along further.
There isn’t room enough for me 1” and
then flopped herself into the space,
thrusting her parasol, which she carried
in the hollow of her left arm, into her |
benefactor's face, turned and slowly, de- ,
liberately and superciliously looked nt ,
the lady s hut, her ear ornaments, her j
dr s;, and then turned from her with t
You’re a nobody ” expression of conn- ,
tenanee, and commenced tukinga mental (
inventory of all the hats and dresses in
the car. Not one word of thanks to the
lady who had stopped the car, and
crowded along to give her a seat; only an
insulting stare, that, in a man, would
put them in danger of being caught by
the nape of the neck and thrown into
the street. — Detroit i're,t Press.
The Incisors of the Horse.
The incisors of the horse, once worn
down or lost, are gone, forever, but in
many species a provision exists by which
the wear and tear of mastication is com
pensated by the perpetual growth of
certain members of the dental senes.
This very convenient arrangement ex
ists iu all the rodents, or gnawers, an
order of which the beaver, the rat and
the rabbit are familiar examples, and '
also iu the elephant, the walrus, wild j
boar, etc. The incisors of the rodents i
are the seat of this perpetual growth,
and any one who will take the trouble to j
examine the skull of a rabbit will at j
once see how admirably they are adapt- |
cd to the animal wants. They are of
curved shape, and occupy sockets ex
tending to the back part of both jaws,
lhe upper pair describing a larger part
of a smaller circle, and the lower ones a
smaller part of a larger circle. Each
tooth consists of a solid column of den
tine, with a plate of enamel hi its outer
surface, and, consequently, diminshes
iu hardness from front to back. The
constant wear produced by the continual
collision of the opposing surfaces forms
an oblique chisel-like surface, sloping
from the hard enamel of the front to the
softer dentine of the back part of the
tooth. As these teeth are perpetually
growing, they require constant exer
cise to keep their growth within due
bounds, and the rat and others of this
most mischievous family might assign,
as an excuse sot their ravages, the ne
cessity of finding constant employment
for their front teeth.— All the Year
Hound.
The spot where Stonewall Jackson j
fell is marked by a rough block of white
flint quarried in the AVilderness. It
stands 3 feet 8 inches high and is 2 feet
10 inches iu breadth. Its surface shows
dents and scars, where dm pilgrims have
scaled bits of it as relics ; and all around
are smaller pieces of bud rock that
have been used as hammers with which
to crack it.
Trees with History.
In one grove in California are 1,880
trees none measuring less than six feet
in diameter.
A magnificent white oak stands in the
Quaker burying ground in Salem, N. J.
It is more than 200 years old, and is re
markable for its amplitude of shape. In
one direction its brunches have a spread
if Jl2 feet.
The tallest trees in the world are m
Australia. A fallen tree in Gippslancl
measured 435 L-vt I'toiu the root to the
highest point of the branches. Another
iotijiHiug in the Dunonoug district in
A ietoria is estimated to be 400 feet from
the ground to the top.
The largest chestnut tree in the coun
try is growing on the farm of Solomon
Merkie, at Berks. Ba., and is nearly forty
feet in circumference at the base. The
top of the tree is reached without danger
by steps that are fastened between the
limbs. It is estimated that this tree
contains about seventeen cords of wood.
It still yields about three bushels of
chestnuts annually.
A russet apple tree m Skowhegan Me.,
was planted iu 1762. In its branches a
playhouse for children has been built
for a half a century or more. The tree
is Seven feet from the ground to the
branches, five in number, all of which
are very large and average thirty-five
feet in length, covering a space of
ground sixty-three feet m diameter. It
is more than four and one-half feet in
diameter, audlias yielded an average of
thirty bushels of apples each year. A
sprout from this apple tree stands thirty
two feet from the parent stem, but is
forty-eight years younger.
Give the Boys a Chance.
Don’t keep the boys in bondage be
cause they are not twenty-one years old.
Give them a trial. Li t them have a
chance to struggle with the affairs of the
world, if nothing more than to send
them to town with a small load of wood
or wheat. Let them buy and sell in
various ways, then when they are
twenty-one it will come natural to them
to do business.
I have known professing Christians to
raise children and not one of the children
would cure a fig for Christianity. Why?
Because we are not all of Israel that are
iu Israel. Sometimes children grow up
without knowing the ten commandments,
neither can they repeat the Lord’s
ruyer.
I have never yet seen the gambler
who had confidence enough in his pro
fession to teach it to his children, and so
it is with some peojile, they have not
fait.li enough in their religion to tench it
to their children.
Teach them to love good associates.
Love commences at homo. I never saw
a man who would abuse his mother, but
would abuse bis wife also, if he were
lucky to get one; and so it is with a young
woman. I like to see those who respect,
and obey their parents. I believe Ibis is
one of the highest, commandments, and
one of the first to be obeyed.—Corres
pondence. Household.
Mexican Coinage.
We are indebted to an invaluable
publication upon the history of the coin
age of the mints of Mexico, in the
columns of Hl Mi.ne.ro M .r.ie.ana, for the
facts which we have tabulated below to
show the amount of gold and silver thus
coined during the five years ended 30th
June, 1879:
30 June. Gold. Silver. Total.
1X75 SSir.-.imi <lO «19 .'150,958 50 82 >.2H1.c.77 50
1856 809,401 60 19,454,064 00 20,263,455 50
|K77 695,750 00
|«"8 691.998 <H 22,<i81,2n3 50 22.776,201 50
1979 658.206 00 22,162,987 65 22,821 193 65
Tolals .83,717,974 60 8104.503,332 15 8107,221,306 65
During the same period the money
value of the total copper coinage was
$11,906,604, or more than three times
greater than the value of the gold coined
during the same half decade—the total
coinage for the period being $119,127,-
910. Os this amount it is to be noted
87J per cent, were of silver, ten per
cent, in copper, and but two and a half
per cent, in gold. It is this last fact which
we commend to the consideration of
capitalists upon the eve of embarking in
Mexican gold mining ventures with the
j expectation of finding there the greatest
i gold mines in the world, upon the speci
i <;us statements of unscrupulous specula
i tors and their venal scribblers of the
, press.— Mininn Record.
Alexander’s Night Thoughts.
“Saltokoff Sktipschirofsky,” -ui'l the
Czar to the Captain of the guard, “have
the guards been doubled at the palace
gate?” “They have, ray liege,” re
sponded 8. 8., “and the man with the
telescope sweeps the horizon, so that not
even a solitary horseman can approach
thy imperial dw lling.’ “And the light
niug-rod man?” “He sleeps beneath
the Neva, so please your majesty."
“The man for subscriptions to the Life
of Sergeant Bates?” “He speeds to
Siberia on a special train.” “ And the
ladder and tree protector men ?” “Ask
of the vipers in the palace dungeons.”
“The man who continues at this late
day to say, ‘what, neTtr?’’’ “Thy
imperia! headsman wears his watch
i liain.” “’Tis well. Telegraph to
i Europe that another conspiracy has been
baffled, keep the gum-drop and corn-bull
! boys, who spread sedition on the rail
road trains, under thy vigilant eye, and
may St. Isaac of Knownow bless thee.”
• And the Czar, putting on his cast-iron
I night-shirt, retired to his princely couch.
I —Boston Transcript.
The passion for feasting increased so
ranch in England in the fourteenth cen
tury that when Lionel, son of Edward
! III',, was married, there were thirty
; courses, and the fragments of the table
fi d 1,000 people.
The Boston Transcript, remarks that
I a man with an impediment in his speech
never speaks well of anybody.
Letters of Introduction.
Among the innumerable bores which
afflict the monde, on I' on s'iennuie, one
of the most wearisome is the letter of
introduction. It is a species of black
mail levied on good nature, which only
persons of exceptional resolution, or
equally fortunate rudeness, can ever
successfully resist; a social letter of
credit based upon a bank account of
mutual kindliness, which may have been
long since overdrawn, or which, pus
hups, never existed save iu the inimagi
nation of the writer. Americans are
said to be especially given to this de
plorable and exasperating weakness, and
the steamers which are daily bearing the
flower of our fashion to European shores
are no doubt loaded with these importu
nate missives. A man, indeed, can
scarcely take a flying trip to a neighbor
ing town without, devilling it necessary
to fortify himself with half a dozen or
more of these passports ; or, even if his
good sense rejects the notion, he is sure
to have them thrust upon him by ofli ions
friends. And iu the latter case it is vain
for him to attempt to suppress the hate
ful documents. He is in the situation of
the mail who holds the wolf by the. ears,
neither d uring to keep him nor to let him
go. The donors will be sure to make
inquiry as to their presentation, and woe
to rile recipient if he has failed to do so.
Even those to whom letters of introduc
tion arc the greatest of bores would be
the first to ieel slighted by their non
delivery ; so he is forced into the embar
rassing position <>f thrusting himself
upon the good will of a stranger who
cures nothing about bint and who, under
his awkward smile of affected welcome,
is secretly wi-hing him nt Jericho. Os
all the painful shams that make up the
tragical comedy of social life, this is one
of the most irksome and humiliating.
It would be difficult to decide which
is the greatest sufferer by the letter of
introduction—the writer, the recipient,
or the person to whom it is addressed.
The first is put in the absurd position of
having to praise a mail to his face, for,
as the letter is delivered unsealed, its
perfunctory eulogies are of course tanta
mount to that; worse still, if, having to
praise him, the qualities which both of
them know he does not possess, are
dilated upon. And the recipient, by
presenting the letter, virtually adopts
and indorses its sentiments and thus
appears to his new acquaintance iu the
position of a man vociferously blowing
his own trumpet and calling attention to
liis good parts with the simple candor of
the noble red man who thumps his
breast at the council fire and says,
“ Wah ! me big brave!” The man who
has a stranger thus forced suddenly
upon his hospitality has perhaps the
most substantial grievance. For, unless
ho be. endowed with unusual firmness of
character which will permit him to shako
hands cordially with his unbidden visitor
and then politely show him the door, he
feels it incumbent to put himself out. in
some way' to do him honor. He must
get up a dinner or a breakfast for him,
or if she be of the more troublesome
sex, a ball; he must neglect his business
to constitute himself a guide for her*
sight-seeing; be must in one way or
another make hiniself thoroughly un
comfortable. for the sake of this undo
sired and perhaps undesirable guest.
Under the most'favorable circumstances
he cannot stifle a certain sense of being
put upon ; our friend’s friends, we ail
know, arc seldom ours, and in nine cases
out of ten he will not have even the
ordinary reward of gratitude, for on the
one side as on the other the attentions
thus paid are felt to lack spontaneity
and are, in reality, a forced levy.— The,
Hour.
J’ncking a Trunk.
Most people dislike to pack a trunk,
and to do it well is something of an art.
It should never be done in a burry. You
should first get everything together
which is to b*. packed, anil then go quiet
ly and systematically to work. Very
large trunks are an abomination over
which expressmen groan and swear, not
altogether without reason. Still, small
ones are inconvenient, except for short
journeys, and multiply.expense, as the
expressage is for each piece, be it Sara
toga trunk or a small valise, without re
gard to size. But, whatever the size of
the trunk, it should be filled, or at least
packed full enough to prevent the con
tents from tossing about. If you are
compelled to take a trunk which is too
large for what you need to pack in it,
fill it with crumpled paper, rather than
leave it half empty. Owing to the rough
usage which baggage always receives,
unless the trunk is closely packed the
contents will be literally churned up and
down, and the clothes which you have
carefully folded will be tumbled to u de
gree, even if nothing worse comes to
them. For a long journey it is well to
cord trunks. Rope is better than strap,
because it goes both ways. Nothing
heavy, like boots, etc., should ever be
put in the top of a trunk, since the more
heavily it is weighted the more likely
the hinges are to break. Dresses should
be carefully folded, with the flounces
laid smooth and drawing-strings let out,
the waist folded but once, the wrong
side out, with the sleeves laid over the
back mid the fronts over all. Then, if
absolutely necessary, the basque may
be folded again down the middle seam
ox the back, but never across.
Polish women are very beautiful.
Perhaps, as a race, they are the most
beautiful women in the world. Bayard
Taylor declares that he saw more hand
some faces in AVarsaw in an hour at the
races than he saw in all the rest of
Europe in two years.
There are 16,000 oystetmen in Vir
ginia.
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RATES OF A DVKRTIsInG.
I mo |3 niw > mas 1 »'r.
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Tw.. in-iie-, 375 ’so >0 no in*
Thre • i chon. 5 oo| 10 <Xl| 12 50 70 M
inch •«. 5 <*' 12 Mir 15 O »On
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<>>■ <>.icuiii, 15 nr I .ionol on oo|loo co
B#*A i bills due after flirt ia ertion.
Transient r.dve.rtisenient* (strictly in ad
vance) H per inch (ortho first insertion; 5#
cents per inch for each additional insertion.
Local reading notices 10 cents per line.
Arm' nncements $5 each.
Ma-tisge notices and ohitnarie« exceeding
hix lines will be eliarge I for aaadrerlise
■nt nt-.
]SO. 43.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The roes of various kinds of fish con
tain from about 30,000 to over 8,686,000
eggs.
The lion’s teeth seem formed rather
tor destruction than for the chewing of
his food.
A four-fingered monkey, in its na
tive state, has been seen to go down
to the edge of a stream, rinse its mouth
and then clean its to*;th with one of its
lingers.
In Bavaria medical men are shorter
lived than any other class. Out of eve
ry 100 individuals, 53 Protestant clergy
men, 41 professors, 39 lawyers or mag
istrates, 34 Catholic priests, but only 26
doctors reach the age of 50.
The octopus has a gland which se
cretes an inky fluid, and this he squirts
out, making ' a thick, dark cloud behind
him which baffles his pursuer at the
same time that it helps himself to dart
away. Mr. Darwin asserts that the oc
topus often takes deliberate aim at an
enemy when it squirts out this unpleas
ant fountain.
Ostriches, when the full number of
eggs has been laid, invariably place one
of them outside the nest—the nest con
si.-ting naturally of a hollow scooped out
of the land by the action of the wings
and legs of the birds. It has been found
that these eggs are reserved as food for
the. chicks, which are often reared in a
natural stall, miles away from a blade of
grass or other food.
The periwinkle has 600 rows of teeth,
three iu a row, growing on a long strap,
like pins in a cushion. This strap, often
two inches long, closes the edges
together at the back of the mouth so as
to wrap over' the rough points, and is
then rolled up into a coil and stowed
away in a fold of the neck. As the front
teeth wear away, this strap comes grad
ually forward on the floor of the mouth,
the new teeth grow up and are sharp
ened ready for use.
Paper rots under the influence of
moisture until it is reduced to a white
decay which crumbles into powder when
handled. Dump attacks both the inside
and outside of books. The mold spots
which are so often seen upon the edges
of leaves and upon the sides of the bind
ing under a microscope are seen to be
miniature forests of lovely trees, covered
with a beautiful white foliage. “They
are iipnß trees,” says a bibliophile,
“ whose roots are imbedded in the leath
er and destroy its texture.”
The thirty-three navigable rivers of
the Mississippi system comprise 14,000
miles of navigable waters, intersecting
or bordering on eighteen States and two
Territories. The extent of territory
subject to overflow was, in 1874, esti
mated to be 41,193 square miles, an urea
as great as the combined ureas of New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and New Jersey, and much
more productive under proper condi
tions. Up to th< year 1878 Congress
had made for the improvement of the
Mississippi river and its various tribu
taries about 200 appropriations, amount
ing in all to the sum of $18,500,000.
A thousand wonders iu nature are
lost to the human eye, and only revealed
to us through the microscope. Think
of dividing a single spider’s web into a
thousand strands, or counting the arter
ies and nerves in the wing of a gossamer
moth. Yet, by the aid of the powerful
lens of a microscope, it is found there
arc more than 4,000 muscles in a cater
pillar. The eye of a drone contains 14,-
000 mirrors, and the body of every spi
der is furnished with four little lumps,
pierced with tiny holes, from each of
which issues a single thread ; and when
a thousand of these from each lump are
joined together, they make the silk line
of which the spider spins its web, and
which wc call a spider’s thread. Spi
ders have been seen as small as a grain
us sand, and these spin a thread so fine
that it takes 4,000 of them, put together,
to equal iu size a single hair.
Lessons in AV ords.
An explanation of the derivation of
words will give a pupil an insight into
11; ir history, and he will comprehend
their use and power.
“ Sierra ” means a “ saw;” hence the
use of the. terms Sierra Nevada, Sierra
Morena, for the mountains look like
great saws turned up to the heavens.
“ Frank ” comes from a nation that
possessed Gaul. They were distin
guished from the Gauls by their love of
freedom, their scorn of a lie. So
marked was this national trait that it
was applied to denote moral distinc
tions.
“Slave" was once a noble word,
meaning “ glory.” It was significant
of freedom. But the slaves (or
Si'hlaves, as once spelled) became cap
tives to the Teutonic race, and so a
“Slave” was synonymous with one
who was subject to another.
“ Turkey ”is applied to a fowl that
originated in this country, but it was
supposed by the common people to have
come from Turkey.
“Daisy,” Chancer tells us, means
“ day’s eye”—eye of day. The sun
had this title first, but those who
saw tho daisy saw a likeness to the sun
—the white flowerets resembling the
rays -hence the name.
“Knave” meant originally only
“ lad ” and it now means that in Ger
many, but so many lads were bad that
it got to have a bad significance.
“ Villain ” meant a man who worked
on a villa or farm; but so many of them
had rough, hard natures that it took a
low signification.
“Silly” in the old English means
“blessed.” Our early poets use the
word to show harmlessness. The
“ silly sheep ”is very common. But
how the word has changed I— School
Journal.