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BELLTON, GA..
Bv MYERS & BUICE.
DR. D. M. BREAKER Editor.
Office Smith building, east of the
depot.
Tikms -$1 Off per annum, 5* cents for six
months, in advance.
Fifty numbers le the volume.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
There isn’t a public clock in Memphis.
Texas ships $2,000,000 worth of pecans
annually.
North Carolina ranks third in the list
of cotton-producing States.
Eight hundred Russian emigrants are
thinking of settling in Georgia.
Lawrence county, Georgia, doubled
its population in the last ten years.
The total acreage of cotton last year
in Tennessee was 722,502, yielding 330,-
621 bales.
Charleston, 8. C., has decided on a
paid fire company, which will cost $35,-
000 a year.
Macon, Georgia, will have a tomato
canning factory, owned and conducted
by Northern men.
Tennessee will realize as much from
her fruit crop this year as she usually
does from her wheat crop.
Four thousand men are at work on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad from Atlanta to Rome.
Yazco county, Mississippi, produced
more cotton last year than any county
in the cotton region. It turned out
48,321 bales.
The Constitution says over $150,000
worth of real estate has been purchased
at Atlanta by the Coal railroads in the
past four months.
Gen. Peyton Wise has been elected to
fill the office of bonded tobacco inspector
at Richmond, Virginia. The salary is
only $12,000 a year.
Among the exhibits at the Talbot
county, Georgia, fair were 1,200 speci
mens of minerals. The owner was
twenty-five years collecting them.
The Florida Agriculturalist says this
is the last year eheap orange lands can
be procured. There is very little left,
except in private hands, and it will
bring big priees in the future.
Two paupers in the Aiken, S. C., poor
house have so arranged it that their
hearts will hereafter beat the State as
one. The beautiful and accomplished
groom is only seventy, while the bride
is ugly and thirty-three.
Union Springs (Ala.) Herald: A suit
for damages by a colored widow of this
county against the L. and N. railroad
for killing her husband was recently
compromised for SSOO. The lawyers
got $250, her advancing merchant got
$125 for looking after the affair anil the
“lone widow” got $125 to soothe her
grief. Nothing like an equitable divis
ion of spoils.
St. Louis Republican: There is doubt
less no child now living that will see
New Orleans a greater exporting port
than New York, but the next few years
will see it make a demoralizing advance
on New York. Within the last three
years it has advanced ahead of Philadel
phia, Boston and Baltimore, and within
the next three it will make enough
progress to cause lots of trouble for New
York, however impossible it may be to
surpass the trade of that city.
Nashville American: For snuff-dip
ping and sneezing the people of Tennes
see annually fifty’ over $1,000,000. A
dealer in snuff informs us that the Nash
ville merchants annually pay over $300,-
000 for snuff, and the merchant! of the
city of Memphis more than that amount.
The people of the Southern States con
sume annually over $8,000,1)00 of that
article, while the people of the Northern
States use comparatively none Two
firms of New York supply the South.
A Pike county, Alabama, negro first
stole a hat, a bridle from a near neigh
bor’s next stuck to his hands, going
farther a mule’s head became fastened
in the bridle, proceeding on his journey
a stable furnished harness for the ani
mal, and a few miles further on a farm
er’s spring wason had joined the cara
van, then some one else’s bale of cotton
that wouldn’t get out of his way was
transferred to the wagon, and the pro
cession arrived at Union Springs, where
the volice jailed the manager as he was
bargaining to get rid of his booty. He
resisted and cut one of the policemen’s
throat.
A Southern negro, an ex-slave, hired
a field from his old master to cultivate,
he to receive one-third and the master
two-thirds of the crop. The old negro
was honest, but not up in arithmetic.
The field yielded two loads, l»oth of
which he put in his master’s crib, and
reported to the astonished landlord:
• • Day is no third, sab ; de land am too
poor to produce the third, bah."
The North Georgian.
VOL. IV.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Thebe is every indication now that
Cincinnati will have a union depot.
Emigration to this country amounts
to 1,800 souls a day, or 633,000 a year.
Extraordinary atmospheric disturb
ances have been predicted for November.
General Grant carries SIOO,OOO iu
policies on his life.
Experiments are to ba made of com
pressed air motors on the New York Ele
vated Railroad.
A man aged ninety-two, at Des Moines,
lowa, is suing his wife, aged eighty-five,
for divorce.
Henry J. Gully, implicated in the
murder of the Chisholm family, is a can
didate for the Legislature in Mississippi.
A Mormon elder is in prison nt Ham
burg for trying to make proselytes. The
good are always persecuted.
Chicago has canceled the order which
forbade the employment of married
women as teachers in the public schools.
It is said there are fewer office-seekers
in Washington now than there has been
for years.
♦
Miss Arthur, the daughter of the
President, is a blonde haired young lady
who is now at school in Albany.
Mrs. Cornwallis West, the beauti
ful, and Adelina Patti, the prDna donna,
two noted women, have arrived iu this
country from England.
The late Gov. Wiltz, of Louisiana, left
his widow and five children in poverty,
and the citizens of the State are appealed
to to provide for them.
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The stock of the wrecked Newark
Bank was worth 180. After the cashier
made a confession it wasn’t worth a cent.
One word from his lips killed it.
The Zulu Chief Cetawayo, is costing
the British Government about $20,000 a
year. Ho is rather an expensive pris
oner.
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Gov. Roberts, of Texas, says he
would rather walk than to ride on a rail
road pass. Yes, unless there is some
thing hitched to the pass to drag it
along.
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A cannon weighing 56,000 pounds
has been cast at Reading, Penn. It is
of rifl« pattern, neatly and strongly
molded, and will cany a ball weighing
150 pounds a distance of twelve miles.
*
It is suggested that Arthur, the wid
ower, and Queen Victoria, the widow,
pool their issues and give us a cheaper
government. The idea is a capital one.
The President ought to take it under con
sideration.
♦
The Pittslnirg Post if of the ojdnion .
that the- demand Confederate bonds is
brisk enough to start the printing presses
to going again. During the war the-
Government winked at the Northern
manufacturer of Confederate money and
bonds.
Talmage thinks there ought to be
schools of journalism. There is. There
n re over 8,000 newspapers in this country.
They are all schools of journalism. But
journalism can no more be taught in col
leges than can fishing, and some men
never can learn how to fish.
President Grevy, of the French Re
public, receives the modest salary of
$200,000 ft year. This, in connec
tion with the fact that France is no
larger than an ordinary State, is enough
to make an American President feel
pretty blue.
The estimate ! cost of the Mississippi
River improvement is $50,000,000. There
is a diversity of opinion as to whether the
Government ought to bear the expense.
The improvement will lie directly felt by
the Western States, but not by’ the East
ern, hence the East will useits endeavorto
oppose the matter in Congress.
The hat of the fashionable woman is
something smaller than a wagon wheel.
As a screen in church, where the fellow
just behind is anxious to take a nap, they
are par excellence, but in the theater or
other places of amusement, where there
is always an anxiety to know what is go
ing on, they must lie an awful bore.
*
The prefect of one of the first cities of
Italy, who is a rich landowner, has, in
I this civilized age, resorted to a feudal
i custom, obliging his field laborers to
I wear an iron muzzle during the grape
harvest, to prevent them from tasting a
f w bunches of grapes. Stingy men who
read this may be < xpwto.l to turn green
with envy.
BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA.. NOVEMBER ID. ISBI.
The opinion prevails that Baldwin
should have stolen the safe also out of
the Newark Bank. This is a reflection
on his business shrewdness. The safe
would have been missed—that is, proba
bly it Mould have been, but there is no
tolling. He could have credited it on
the bixiks and that, would have satisfied
the Directors. All they cared for was a
respectable looking balance-sheet.
Buffalo has struck upon a happy and
an economical process of dealing with
mendicants. All the charitable institu
tions iu that city have been merged into
one, and thus the relief of one family
or person by several societies at the same
time is au impossibility. All applica
tions for aid are thoroughly investigated
before relief is granted and the result is
that begging is discouraged and idleness
effectually rebuked.
A new religious project is on thefapi*.
It is that of attaching a Gospel ear to
railroad trains for the delectation of all
who are religiously inclined and for the
conversion of those who are not re
ligiously inclined. It is proposed that
instead of a card table there be a piano
or organ, instead of spittoons, a carpet,
and instead of cards, a Bible and hymn
books. AU seats Mill be arranged to
face the center of the ear where some
good man may stand Io preach, exhort
or expound, as the case may be.
Rev. Talmage has preached a sermon
on the newspaper business. When he
said “ a newspaper is thegreatest tempo
ral blessing God has given this country,”
and, “if I.liad to-ehoose between a gov
ernment. without the newspaper, and a
newspaper without a government, T
would choose the latter,” his words were
golden, but his opinion that the person
ality of writers should be disclosed proves
his lack of experimental knowledge.
Many persons unknown to the world are
our ablest newspaper writers, and fur
ther than this, the newspaper render of
to-day does not stop to inquire who
wrote this nrticlo or who wrote that.
He wants a record of the events of the
day, and he wants them in n condensed
form, and he makes no more inquiries wtu.
the author is than does the epicure
prepared his dinner.
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From the London lUor/d mo get an
inkling of the reason why there is a de
mand just now for Confederate bonds.
Says the World: “ The result
ing from the Confederate cotton loan was
not advanced because the people who
took the bonds had sympathy with the
Southern States, but because we needed
tho cotton ; and before making the ad
vance pains were taken to ascertain from
the highest legal authorities that it was
a perfectly legitimate transaction, and
that there was nothing to prevent any of
our merchants agreeing to it. The cot
ton on which tho loan was secured was
taken by the United States, who there
fore remain subject to all the agreements
made in respect of it by the Confede
rates. There is not much chance of this
view being admitted by the United
States; but as it is -vouched for Dy so
high a legal authority as Lord Ilather
ley, it may be worth mentioning.”
Blums and apples have been short in
quantity this year, M’hile pears and
grapes have come to the front. splen
didly. The two former require more
moisture than they got this year, while
the latter want only plenty of heat. This
is shown by the fact that plum anil ap
ple leaves, .when the fruit is ripe, are
juicy, while pear and grape leaves are
brittle, showing that they have given up
their moisture to feed the fruit. In New
. Jersey, North Carolina aud a few D»rts
1 of Ohio, and in Arkansas, it failed ut
terly, and was only medium in Michigan
and Pennsylvania. Among vegetal'les,
potatoes will be high this winter. New
Jersey produced the most, in Arkansas
fair, although the latter ones are poor,
and the bugs ruined them in Kansas.
Tomatoes are not a full supply, sweet
potatoes are plentiful, turnips are poor,
Mid onions are not plentiful.
Cetewayo, the dethroned king, z ‘i it
Ondo Monlen, a prisoner yet to the
English Government. A recent letter
from a lady who saw the ex-Africar
potentate, says : “The great change I
noticed in his appearance made me ex
claim involuntarily, ‘ls he ill ?’ as I
stepped across the threshold, to which
the interpreter replied, without referring
the question to Cetewayo : ‘He is not
very well, but he has never been well
since he has been here.’ After shaking
hands, I said to him : *Do you like
Oude Moulen better than the castle ?’
To which he replied very sadly : ‘lt is
, all the same to me where I am without
my freedom.’ In saying good by, I
I said that I hoped he would try and che' r
up and not fret, as he would make him
' self ill, and that fretting could do no
! g iod. But ho shook his head and ex
I claimed, ' I cannot help it,’ adding, as
he shook hands with me, that he ‘hoped
God would bless me for my kindness.’ ”
W hen a cashier who has stolen $2,-
600,000 is admitted to $25,000 bail, and
the fact of the theft is almost forgotten
within a week, the ordinary man is at a
loss to collect his senses. The whole
transaction from beginning to end is
beyond belief. Baldwin’s stealings be
gan in the year 1873, by his own con
fession. That was eight years ago.
The bank examiner makes his rounds
six times a year, houoo the affairs of the
Mechanics’ Bank was subject to his
inspection upon forty-eight different
occasions. It seems that on each of
these visits the Bank Directors, must
have, without knowing, testified to the
accuracy of the Cashier’s reports. Then
what? Tho Directors in whose hands
the bank is supposed to be, knew noth
ing of its affairs, and the President wan
a mere figure head. The Cashier’s word
could not be doubted. He stood high
in the church and came from a good
family. All his brothers stood high iu
the business world. Dishonesty there
fore was cut of the question. But dis
honesty crept iu and after everything
had been stolen that M’as available, leav
ing only tho safe and the stove, Baldwin
calls the Directors about him to say ho
has stolen $2,660,000, and if ho was not
speh a coward he would shoot himself,
aud hence is ready to go to prison. But
they do not put him in prison, oh, no
His bail is fixed at $25,000, just 1-10 lOtl
of the amount he has stolen, and for tin
time being he is a free man. Who suf
fers for all this? Certainly not the
Directors. The law does not hold them
responsible, but it ought to. If their
negligence-is not criminal, it ought to
bo. What are they there for if not to
look into the affairs of the bank? If
they were compelled to make good tho
loss perhaps their position would be
something more than ornamental. Under
the circumstances thieving is encouraged,
and if there is not more stealing done by j
cashiers in the near future than there
has been, it will be because there are no
more dishonest cashiers.
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A Ton of Truth.
Why is it that, in a majority of cases,
the newspapers, in recording anything
pertaining to continental countlies that
involves a mention of weights or
measures, employ the terms used by
the metric system ? The metric system
is undoubtedly the best one in use, but,
unfortunately, it is not thoroughly un
derstood in this country, and the general
ity of readers are all at w-a regarding
the significance of the word. If an
American take any interest in a German
flagstaff’, he wants to know how many
feet high it is; or if he desires to know
the weight of a French pig, pounds
alone will convey the desired informiitiou
to his mind. If he is obliged to read of
meters and kilogrammes, he utterly fails
to grasp the. idea. The staff may be
miles high, and the pig may weigh tons,
for all he knows to the contrary. Much'
the same may be said of the employment
of words and phrases in a foreign lan
guage. No American is bo cultured that
he cannot understand at least equally
well an idea conveyed iu plain king’s
English, with this exception, that there
are words and phrases in foreign tongues
that are practically untranslatable, aud
whose force would be lost in an attempt
to render them into English. But these
words and phrases are generally familiar,
aud iu common use in English conversa
tion. Buch words and phrases are of
course allowable. But the use of a
French phrase that can be understood
only by one versed in the French lan
guage is snobbish. The journalist who
indulges in the practice of pejqiering.'his
manuscript with foreign words run •'a
great risk. The intelligent compositor
may make sad work of his best effbl'ls,
and it is dangerous to repose unlimited
confidence.in tho proof-reader. It-is no
evidence to the mind of the reader that
the writer is possessed of any particular
erudition because he is able to handle
Latin, Greek and French freely. ” Any
body, with a dictionary of those lan
guages at his elbow, can do tiie same.
What the general reader wants is a plain
story, plainly told, iu words that ho can
understand— Boston liuaet.
A Sure Remedy.
There is no remedy for trouble equal
to hard work—labor that will tire you,
physically, to such an extent that you
must sleep. If yon have met with -losses,
you don’t want to lie awake and think
aboutthem. Youwantsleep—calm, sound
sleep, and to eat your dinner with an
appetite. But you can’t unless you
work. If you say you don’t feel like
work, and go loafing all day to tell
Tom, Dick and Harry the story of your
woes, you’ll lie awake, and keep your
wife awake by your tossing, spoil your
temper and your breakfast next morn
ing, and begin to-morrow feeling ten
times worse than you do to-day. There
are some great troubles that only time
can heal, and perhaps some that can
never be healed at all; but all can bo
bellied by the great panacea, work.
Stonehenge, in England, has been
geieially supposed to lie a relic of tho
Druids, but one eminent antiquary gives
it as his opinion that it dates still farther
back, and was a temple of the fire wor
shippers, belonging to the Bronze Period
of Northern archeologist:.
Chtldrfn have more need of models
than of criticism.
Feeling Hurried.
Probably nothing tires one so much
as feeling hurried. When in tho eariy
morning tho day’s affairs press on one’s
attention beforehand, and there conies
the wonder how iu the world everything
is to be accomplished, w hen every in
terruption is received impatiently, and
the clock is watched in distress as its
moments Hit past, then the mind tires
the body. We are wrong to drive our
selves with M’hip and spur in this way..
Each of ns is promised strength for the
day, and M-e must not wear ourselves out
by crowding two days’ tasks into one.
JI only Me can Keep cool and calm, not
allowing ourselves to be flustered, wa
shall l>e loss MCuried when we have
reached the even-tide. The children
may be fractious, tho servants trying,
tho friend M-e love may fail to visit us,
the letter we expect may not arrive, but
if we can preserve our tranquillity of
soul, and of demeanor, we shall get
through everything creditably.
Especially is this good advice for
M irm weather. Whofeelsthe heat most?
Wiio is most exhausted and prostrated
by its severity? Why, the person who
Hies from fans to ice-water, bemoaning
herself. who changes her dress a lialf
dozeii time a day, who laments that it
is so warm, and watches the thermome
ter with despairing certainty that it nev
er was so hot before ; who, in short, in
tensifies her own discomfort and adds to
that of others by constant, thinking of
it. Women who can stay iu-doors have
the advantage of men in warm weather,
it is wise to air a house thoroughly in
the early morning, and to keep it, as far
as possible, close mid darkened through
the middle of the day. Dispense with a
great fire in the kitchen range, and let
the cooking be moderate. Fruits, salads,
and simple, easily-cooked cereals are
the proper foods for summer. A gas
stove is au economy and a comfort.
Find tho coolest place to sit, go quietly
about your work and make as little fuss
as may be about its being warm. Let
the children have frequent baths, and
do not encumber them with heavy cloth
ing. Common sense and an easy mind
help one over most of life’s rough places
witli little friction,
How Barbers Learn to Shave.
“ How long docs it take a man to learn
the barber business ? ” asked a reporter
while, undergoing a tousoris operation
at tin- hands of a colored professional.
“Well, 'lat dopeude on how much
talent he has for ilo business,” was tho
quiet reply ; “ generally takes ’bout a
year. ”
“How do they begin,” asked tbe re
porter.
“ Dey geno’lly begins by blackin’
boots. Den dey stnn’ round an’watch
an i.li- barber strop his razah, an’ watch
him shave. After a while dey lets’em
■put <le lather on. Den pretty soon lie
tries his him’ at- shavin’. Somebody
comes in ilat’s very good natured, or
mebby ain't .very particular how he’s
shaved, an’ (ley put dar new man on to
try his ban’; But some ole-barber always
strops bis razah, an’ keeps an eye on
him. Mebby de new man does fust rate,
an’ mebby lie doesn’t. It all depends on
his confidence. Confidence is do main
thing in h arning de barber business.”
“ Do barbers shave themselves?” que
ried the reporter.
“ No, dey shaves oho auuder. When
a barber wants a shave, he asks a fricud
to do it, an’ den ho shaves de other man.
Barbers never pays nnthiu’ for shaves,
unless tin y’se away from home.”
“ Doesn’t a professional courtesy exist
among barbers everywhere? ”
“ I reckon it does, but I never heard
it called by dat name afo’.”
Debris of Old Buildings.
[New York Industrial World.]
The varied materials collected from
old buildings in course of demolition
form enormous accumulations iu some
of the upper wards in Now York City,
where one can purchase anything in the
building line from a piece of lead pipe
to a magnificent French plate glass.
Timber of all sort, from giant cross
beams to little joist’posts, can be had
in these yards, where there are also win
dow sashes, window weights, doors,
shutters, iron and wooden staircases,
window frames, doorposts, flooring lath
ing, tiling, wainscoting, bricks, brown
stone fronts, granite steps, granite col
umns, iron girders and iron fronts, iron
stair-frames, and, in fact, anything and
everything that has ever been used in
a house. Door knobs, bell handles,
iron railings and balconies, not to men
tion the cornices, are there in profusion
and confusion. The profits of this busi
ness are said to be great, and while it
frequently happens that large figures
are paid for some houses, the profits are
correspondingly great. Recently some
houses on Twenty-third street were
taken down, and as they were finished
in hard wood, ornamented with mirrors
and great spacious fire-places, the price
demanded was very large, but the old
brass work and glass alone paid the pur
chaser for what he had invested, and
the wood, stone and brick of the house
was all clear profit. The two firms who
do the largest traffic of the kind carry
to their yards about fifty truck-loads of
material a day. Then there are dozens
of others in the 1. who do a much
more modest bus i -
Arsenic is not freely soluble in any
organic mixtures and may generally be
found as a white sediment, which, when
thrown upon red-hot coals, gives out a
strong odor like onions and a thick
smoke. Common arsenic can not be
detected bv the taste.
Mas. Belva A. Lockwood, the woman
lawyer of Washington, is said to ride a
tricycle and to make long excursions
about the city.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
SPACE. I mo. 3 moa 5 mob I y‘r.
One inch, i 2 >u SAM S 7 SO till iM
TwoilicliM, 3 7.V 750 lojoo IS 00
Three 1 ches. so- low 12 50 20 00
Foor inches, 6no 12011 l»C0 2-5 00
Fourth Colinnu. 750 15 00 20 lift 30 00
Half column, Ills: 20 00' 40 00 6000
Ono column, 1501'1 3'lllo 61'141 luono
JBff'AU bills due alter first iu. ertiou.
Transient advertisements (strictly in ad
vance) |1 per inch for the first insertion; 4*
cents per inch for each additional insertion,
Local read in? notices 10 cents per li«e.
Announcements $5 each.
Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding
six lines will be charged for as advertise
ments.
W. 45
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
Out of every 100 inhabitants of the
United States sixteen live iu cities.
A locomotive drinks forty-five gal
lons of water every mile it travels.
The finest thread in a spider’s web is
composed of no less than 4,000 strands.
When au orang-outang dies the others
cover up the body with great branches
of trees.
M. Lb Guat saw in Java a female
chimpanzee that made her bed very
neatly every day, lay upon her side aud
cnvMr«»<l witlx tlx; ajUjQws. _
The heat on' the Colorado desert is
terrific. At Yuma the thermometer fre
quently registers 125 degrees aud tho
air is so rarefied that objects 100 miles
distant appear very near.
It is noted as a curious fact that no
President, from Washington to Garfield,
was born in a city, and that only tho
second Adams was even nominally a
resident of a city when elected.
Some beetles, when counterfeiting
death, M-ill suffer themselves to be grad
ually roasted without moving a single
joint. “1 have pierced spiders with
pins,” says Mr. Smellie, “andtorn them
to pieces without their indicating the
slightest marks of pain.”
The water-boatmen, among the most
agile of water insects, row themselves
along under-side uppermost. Their
habit of moving upside down is of
great use to them in feeding, for many
of their victims have hard backs, so the
water-boatmen dive down and come up
under their prey, thus attacking them
on their soft side.
Tim unicorn still exists in the interior
of Thibet. It is there called the one
horned tso-po. Its hoofs are divided ;
it is about twelve or thirteen hands
high ; it is extremely wild and fierce,
yet associating in large herds. Its tail
is shaped like that of a boar, and its
horn, which is curved, grows out of its
forehead. It is seldom caught alive,
but the Tartars frequently shoot it, ana
use its flesh for food.
The equatorial diameter of tbe earth
is greater than the polar by some thirty
tour miles. While the center of gravity
remains as now the polar and equatorial
regions will remain substantially the
same; but if from any cause the polar
shall preponderate, then a change in
polarity Mill ensue. Such, without
doubt, was the case -when the tropical
elephants were incased in the icebergs
of Nova Zemblaaud Spitzbergen.
The paintings of the ancient Egyptians
show that we cannot mix paints as well
as they. In manufacturing metals they
were our superiors. They made a sword so
exquisitely that itcould be put in asheath
coiled up like a snake without breaking.
They had the steamboat and canal 5,000
years ago, and they had the art of mov
ing immense masses of rock, weighing
1,000 tons each. The pyramid built 1,500
years B. C. employed 360,000 men for
twenty years. Twelve billions, seven
hundred aud sixty millions pounds of
granite were used in its construction,
and in dimensions it was 460 feet high.
Astronomers -say that the average
number of meteors that traverse the at
mosphere, and that are large enough to
be visible to the naked eye at one place,
if the sun, moon and stars would per
mit, is forty-two in an hour, or 1,000
daily. The apparent size of meteors is
greatly magnified by irradiation. Some
of them have been computed to have a
diameter of 100 or 200 feet, and others
1,000 up to 5,000 or 6,000; but this
must be regarded as the diameter of the
blaze of light which surrounds the
meteor. The meteor itself, before it
takes fire, may have a diameter of only
a few feet, or perhaps only a fraction of
•an inch. The mean distance of meteors
from the observer is about 105 miles.
Bhofessor Alexander Wilson, of
Dublin, has calculated the amount of
sugar contained in the calyces of differ
ent kinds of flowers, aud tho proportion
of Loney which insects can extract from
it. He calculates that about 125 clover
blossoms contain one gramme of sugar.
As each blossom consists of about sixty
calyces, at least 125,000 by 60, or 7,500,-
000 calyces, must be rifled to afford a
kilogramme of sugar, and as honey con
tains 75 per cent, of sugar, it requires
5,600,000 calyces of clover to yield a
kilogramme of the former. Hence wo
may imagine the countless numbers of
flowers that bees must visit to be able to
stock their hives with honey.
In ordbb to cure her husband of
drinking, a colored woman in South Car
olina put concentrated lye in his whisky
bottle. The last words he uttered were
to the effect that it would be a relief to
him to drop into hades to 000 l off, and
the last words the widow spoke to the
outside world, as she dodged into jail,
were: “I nevah seed sich weak stom
achs as de niggah are giftin' nowadays;
day oau’t stand nuflin J'Vee Press.
Among the Indians near the Amazon
there are no words for numbers, and a
•imilar want of arithmetical power.
.Mlrermnn'i lottery 1 «cket.
from Helena, Ark., Oc-tubor 6th, Karat
“Night before lant an attempt was made to as
nm-ni:ite Simon Silverman while on hie way to
this sity. Five HhutH were fired at him from be
hind a tree, w ith no other effect than to frighten
the hor«e ridden by Silverman, which threw its
rider without injuring him. The cause of this
attempt on Silverman’s life is owing to the dis
-1 pnte about the ownership of the lottery ticket
i which won the -Till,ooo prize in the Louisiana
; State Lottery Company, Silverman claiming it
to be his, aud a Mrs. Clark claiming that whs
had bought it of Silverman, who afterwards
purloined it from her.- The ticket was taken
( from him at the muzzle of the pistol, and he
( has instituted suit for the money. It is sup
po-red that Hie attempt on his life was made to
’ ietvp him from proseculing the suit." —A’ew
M I'ioayune, Octol>er. 19.