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ottl) oTgi at), PUBLISHED EVERY UII'RSDAY —AT— BELLTON, GA. Bv MYERS J3TJICE. DR. D. M. BREAKER, Editor. Office in the Smith bnildinc, east of the ■depot. TERMS—SI.OO per annum* •:§ cents for six months, in advascb, . After three months, $1.25; after six montha, 41.50 per Annum. Fifty numbers to the volume. NEWS GLEANINGS. Mississippi’s population has increased 300,000 in ten years. South Carolina’s cotton crop will be 606,209 bales of 400 pounds each. There are 3,019 prisoners in the Texas penitentiary. The public debt of Tennessee is $33, 000,000. ThCre are 70,000 head of cattle and 35,0:0 head of sheep in Mitchell county Texas. Georgia has forty*" (Attott mills, and they pay from eight to twenty-five per cent, net on the Uoney invested. An eighteen pound sweet potato is among ’.he Georgia exhibits at the At lanta ’Exposition. A fig bush in Mobile, Ala., is credited witjj producing annually 300 bushels of w teat. Birmingham, Ala., expects two rail roads to center there within the next three or four years. The city council of Knoxville, Tenp. has passed an ordinance preventing the sale of parlor or other explosive matches within the corporate limits. Ihe Atlanta Con stitution reprints an old freight bill issued for the Georgia road forty-one years ago. Ilogs and i.i'- groes were charged $3 each. forty -eight applications for divorce were fi'.ed at Chattanooga from July 3 t" vemher 1, and only 110 marriage uses were issued. The citizens of Sparta, Ga., have not paid any municipal lax for over two years. The retail liquor licenses have more than paid the expenses of the town. The cotton crop of A htlianm for the present season, notwithstanding the drouth and other disasters that beset it during the year, will not fall more than ten per cent, behind that of last year. The largest block of marble ever gotten out in Hawkins county, Tennessee, con tained 135 feet and weighed 24,00(1 pound- and required twenty-four horses to draw it. A bale of cotton n ,s sold at Waynes boro, ( >a, a few days ago, that had 200 pounds of sand c oncealed in the center, of it. Jhe negro win owned it acknowl edged the e,and. Ihre., lengthy, angular women passed through Rome, Ga., a few days since to joiu the M-ruuuis, They said the mis sionary told them tliey could get hus bands by going to Utah. Eureka springs, Ark., l-.y authority of the Governor, is now declared a city of the first-class. Within two years and three months from the building of the first cabin, it has become second in pop ulation in the State. It is occtifionally a long time between drinks in Texas. Local option is en forced on the road between Benham and Crooks, and for sixty miles tin- law doesn’t allow the tiaveler to wet fil lips. Opie Read's “Uncle Jerry” philoso phises: De ole time nigger is parsin’ away. When dese- ole bones is laid to rest in de narrow bed of eternal sleep, my sons, wid dar young buckish way will be goin’ roun’ declarin’ dat dar fodder want nebber a slabe. Chickasaw (Ark.) Messenger: On the morning of the election we ate as nice biscuits, in which the cotton seed oil was used, as we ever saw, and we here and now declare we tajre no more lard in ours. The oil is cleaner and cheaper than lard, and has a better flavor. John Greenwood, of Walker’s Station, Red River county, Texas, offers SI,OOO reward for the return of a boy child nineteen months old, white-haired, blue eyed, with fair complexion, which was taken from Shawnee Prairie, in that county. The child had a very dim scar on the back of the left hand, and a sear on the left side, a few inches below the arm pit. Jacksonville (Fla.) Union : Mr. David Dyal, of Nassau county, Fla., has gone to the Atlanta Cotton Exposition. He took along with him, just to show what there is in Florida, what he calls hi walking stick, which is ninety-five feet long, is perfectly straight, hewn to an eight square, and fifteen inches in. diam eter. He also took a cabbage palmetto stalk, sixty-one feet long to the leaves, and with the leaves is sixty-seven feet lone; also, a pine flag-pole eighty feet long, a poplar flag-pole sixty-one feet long, and a jioplar stalk forty feet loop and thirty-two inches dmmdter, eight square. ■ ' ■ I .‘Z . 1 ■ | . —— • ip ■ t ,i) , f „, y , ~a ' .a.IK!KWh - ■ ■ The North Georgian. VOL. IV. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A stor’s campaign in New York cost him $200,000. i'HK temperance tidal wave is cruising about in lowa. The Go verinnent paid $40,00.0 for the Yorktown celebration. — Smat.t.pox is so bad in Chicago that an epidemic is feared. Tkiutcttn of the next Legis latnie of Virginia "xli be colored mon. Ij-.utv newspapers published ill Ne braska f.ivor women suffrage. Tins wife of Mackay, the millionaire, rid s in n carriage in Paris which coat 830,000. '1 hi: word “ grease” is no longer in de mand. What is not butter is lard, and vice Versa. mines of Colorado yielded $23,- 00b,000 last year <4,000,000 more than the State of ciuiir. A war ht-3 been begun iu Chicago ot; retail grocery attires for selling beer by the bucket to minors. Tns Irish National Land League of t his country has sent'sl27,B3s to Ireland during the past three months. Stationary wages, with an increased cost of the necessaries of life, will have a tendency to produce strikes. “With malice aforethought ” is what riles Guiteau. He is sane enough to know that that sort of tiling won’t du. The simpler the ceremony the more lush: nabie the wedding. Dame Fashion ’miles on the poor at last. —— Berlin has a Sauer-Kraut Exchange. We thought the Germans would eventu ally corner that article. . . ■ —. Dakoia T. zrftory, anxious.to bo ad mitted into the Union as a State, claims a population of 150,609. —♦ The Prince of Wales was forty-two yeai.s old th. •'Jlh, bf November, and hu hasn’t st,we I all his wild oats yet. —I .- Seven comets h ive bobbed up severely this year, still the old world rolls along without a jar in the same old rut. Talmage says when a boy isn’t good for any thing they make a preacher of him, and that ls what ailes the ministry,. - Ir is expected Chat this Country itnd Mexico will be in direct felegrapbic omumiiuication with Peru and Brazil by June next. Including magazines and other peri odicals, there are 11,418 publications in the United Stater. Os this number 982 are daily papers. — • Wr.,.r.:•«, who attempted to blackmail Jay < iorill, is said to be respectably con nected. That always seems to lot the criminal down easy like. Senator Sherman wants a law by A'hicfi a creditor may persue a debtor from one State to another. He can do that now, if he so desires. - ♦ ■* Ihe White House so completely torn upside down by carpenters and piasters, that Arthur is beginning to de spair of getting into it. ♦ Jewish refugees from Russia and Ger many are flocking to America by the hundreds. It is expected that 5,000 will come here during the winter. Gov. John D. Long, of Massachu setts, accompanied his Thanksgiving proclamation with an original hymn of four stanzas, in common meter Blain, is worth $1,000,000, and yet his political ambition will not let him stop at that, “ 1884 ” looks just as big to him as it does to any one else. The Chicago Tariff Convention asked for the abolition of the internal revenue, and declared for “a wise protection sys tem.’’ This of itself is somewhat vague. Go--. I i. J -hn, of Kansas, charges ■lm Brewers' Congress at Chicago with th exirmditure of an un limited amount of money to defeat the prohibitory law in Kansas. ♦ ■ - Adelina Patti has condescended to appear before the Cincinnati public in the oratorio of the Messiah, December 28. Beer and music in Cincinnati will continue to go band in hand. - Strange things get into some foreign BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA., NOVEMBER 24, ISBI. , ■ ... < ■ . ... . . »;■ -s- F..l> < t .... it.... newspapers. A Russian journal relates to its reader, that President Arthur is an Irishman who was driven from his coun try by England’s misrule. The State Auditor of Indian'a has . been advised by Attorney General Bald i win to open a war on tho Graveyard In surance Companies of other States who have been operating in Indiana. So many boys in Baltimore have been fatally injured through the handling of tho "toy pistol” that a city ordinance has been passed making it unlawful to sell the article within the city limits. The fact is recalled that Judge Folger, tho new Secretary of the Treasury, was one of the nine mon in the New York Legislature in 1867 who voted in favor of giving woman the ballot. ♦ Ltcy D. Fisk, relict of Jitn Fisk, writes a card to the New York Herald in defense of the charity of Jay Gould. She says he has always responded to her actual needs since the death of her husband. Guiteau may be insane, but at the same time he is sane enough to know that his life is in jeopardy, and there is not a level-headed lawyer in the country who has a keener appreciation of tho in sanity plea than he. — —'■ Cincinnati has figured largely in tho j Atlanta Cotton Exposition. You see, tin re is a railroad from Cincinnati to At i lanta, and it is fondly hoped that as a fine of transportation it will have about ; all it can do in the future. Tint newspapers published that Jessie Baldwin, of Youngstown, Ohio, had a quantity of gold in his house. Thieves I went and blowed Baldwin’s safe open and carried oft’ his gold to the amount of j $30,000. This is additional evidence of I the value of newspaper advertising, .. —. »■ i—— —■ — Gon had commissioned Welles to kill I Jay Gould, but Welles was willing the Divine command should miscarry, pro vided Gould would give him a pointer on stocks. This is precisely a parallel c-aso u, Gnit.wu's, »>Ui the excep tion that, Guiteau was permitted to ex ecute the command. fli Ni;i E. Abbey has engaged Patti for j thirty concerts at something over $4,000 I ,i night. These concerts will bo divided i up among the large cities of the couti i neat. The highest price of admission, Abbey asserts, will be five dollars, with | A sliding scale downard. e. Patriotism, in Ireland, takes gome j curious turns. For instance, when a i .farmer pays his rent, u lot. of patriots go i and cut the. tails off of one. hundred of j his cattle, in the name of liberty. How i they propose to free Ireland with there i tails is more<tlii»n wo know. •7*r 1f the word of a crank is of any force, j God is appointing a great many people iu this country lo go about killing their fellow men. Ts wo should get in the habit of stringing cranks up as fast as they pop to the surfiu’.e, there would Boon be a cessation of Divine murderers. Hi nry Ward Br.F.itiEß being adver tised to lecture before the Young Men’s Hebrew Association,'a correspondent of the ■/' Irish' McMcnfjer- objects, because Mr. Beecher oner- said that the “ancient Jews hadn’t much moral sense and Jacob’s twelve sous were little better ' than cutfliroate.,'' The New York Christian 77/i?onz!".aks In the highest terms of the devotion ot l Edwin Booth to his wife, whose death has just been recorded. “Evil-minded persons,” it says, “would be put. to shame if a statement of the character of Mrs. Booth’s illness and the devotion and tenderness of her husbtad, were I made publie.” Really we take compacston on those I persons who put bo much faith in Mother Shipton’s prophecy. Their con fidence in prophets is sadly shattered and thev certainly feel bad over it. Mother Shipton’s trash, like herself, is | now dead, and it should lie buried very deep. Superstition has seen its best day by all odds. Because Colombier claims to have written the Bernhardt book, Sarah i Bernhardt takes occasion to remark that “if Colombier were a man she’d smash her head.” Now then, wouldn’t it looks J just as angelical for Bernhardt to smash a -woman’s head as it would for her to smash a man’s? Let the smashing go ' on. * The Protective Tariff Convention at Chicago recommended that the Presi dent appoint a commission “to revise ’ our revenue system, including our tariff laws, in the interest of protection and for needed revenue,’' and pass, d a resi. i lution asking for the abolishment of in ternal revenues. In other words, it has asked for a revolution in the tariff sys tem. Mat. Price, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has at last shed a fiiy of light on the vexations Indian question. He says we feed the White River murderers while we compel the Uintachs to largely care forthemselves, and as a consequence of this cause of treatment the Indians are taught to believe that if they are to get favors' from the Government they must tefuse to work and commit depredations against the Government. It does look ns if theft was some truth in this state ment. Whilh boring an artesian well in tho vicinity of Richmond and Carr streets, Cincinnati, a stream or vein of gas, was struck at a depth of eighty-three feet. A “cap" was put on tho pipe which had been, driven down, and rivited to confine the gas. but the force of the gne burst th<> cap off. A pipe forty feet in length was then attached to tho driven pipe to convey the gas from tho building, and to test the quality of tile article u match was pnt to the gas as it escaped at tho end of the attached pipe, when it ignited and a blaze shot out seven feet produc ing light equal to 500 ordinary gas burners. The phenomena is producing considerable excitement. —— Commander Cheyne, of tho Royal Navy, has delivered a course of lectures iu Chickering Hall, Now York, illustrat ing how it is possible to reach the North Pole by balloon. Cheyne was an officer in throe Franklin-search expeditions. Ho desires to be accompanied by Lieu tenant Schwatka. The idea is to go in vessels in tho spring, until travel by that process becomes dangerous, and then to continue in balloons, three in number, each balloon carrying three men, n sledge, Esquimaux dogs, provisions, and instruments. Tho distance calculated at 690 miles, can bo made in eighteen to twenty-four hours, at the rate of thirty nino miles per hour. Forced Marches. Tn 1757 Frederick the Great marched about 160 miles 20days; and again, after Ttossbnrh, a little greater distance in 15 days, but lost 300 men through exhaus tion. In 1760, with 40,000 men and 1,000 wagons, he accomplished about 1-0 miles m 5 days. The same year the Au trian (reneral Lnsc.y, with 15,000 men “knocked off’’ 180 miles in 10 days. Prnice Eugene, of Wurteinberg, to re lieve Berlin, made a forced march on the 4th of October, 1760, of 3G miles 1 day. This latter does not approach the feat of the Sixth Corps—3s miles in 19 hours. It may be remembered by many of those who served with tho Armv of the Potomac that Birney’s First (Red Diamond) division of the Third Corps hud won for themselves the nickname of “ Birney’s Foot Cavalry,” and this title was subsequently applied to the Second Corps after the Third Corps was combined with it. In regard to the Third Corps, Army of tho Potomac, the writer feels that it, deserves equal pre eminence with the Third Corps of the French Army under Napoleon in the campaign of 1806. Os the latter organi zation, Marshal Davoust said to Napol eon during this, the Jena campaign, when the Emperor expressed his ad miration of its achievements and his grief at its heavy losses, “Sire, the soldiers of the Third Corps, will ever be to you what the Tenth Legion was to Cmsar.” (Alison, ii., 457, 2). The ac tivity of the Third and of the combined Second-Third Corps rivaled that of Ondiuot’s Grenadier’s, in October, 1805, when they actually outmarched cavalry, accomplishing 12 leagues a day, and contributed chiefly to the capture of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand’s col umn, which liad escaped from Ulm. In the pursuit of the Sixth Corps kept up 1 with the cavalry on the 6th —so says Col. , ■ Archabald Hopkins, Thirty-seventh 1 Massachusetts Volunteers, in his account, of (Little) Sailor’s Creek, 6th of April, 1865 —and it is claimed that the Fifth Corps had likewise equaled the speed of the horsemen, prior to the concentration at Jetersvillo, evening of tho sth. Tie infantry, both of the Army of the Poto mac and of the Army of Northern Vir j ginia, justified Lieut-Gen. Baron Al bert's magnificent enlogy on the foot soldiers, whom he styles “ the sinews of an army." Gen. Roche-Aymon says that cavalry is to infantry what poetry is to prose, and, be meant exactly what these words express. It is not a bad comparison, inasmuch as the world might go on without poetry, while it would be utterly impossible to get along without prose. Moreover, good poetry is very rare, whereas excellent prose is not. Poetry, too, while all very fine, is at best no more to real life than what dessert is to a dinner.— The United Service. Rambling. Gambling in any form is. In the end. disastrous to the one who is not “ with the bank.” No matter what its appar ent inducements may be. the loser is the investor, the gainer the person who I holds out s<> many inducements to the unwary, ft is stated by those who have made some kinds of calculations that, on an average; tho investor stands from one ’ ohimeo in five to oiu' » twenty of gain irig anythin?, ft dot* hot pay as a mon 1 etary transaction; it is ruinous morally. Give all games of chance a wide berth. Falling Stars. Astronomers divide meteors into sev eral classes—-aetial meteors, ns Winds, tornadoes, etc.; aqueous meteors, as fogg, tain, snow, hail, etc.; luminoim meteors, or those due to the action of elements in the air, ns rainbows, halon, parhelfas, mirages, etd.; electrical meteors, as lightnings, auroras, eto.; aud igneous meteors as shooting or falling stars, star-showers, bolides or tire-bulls, aerolites or meteorites, eta. In present usage, snys Professor Newton, the term meteor is generally limited to tho last group, or to the igneous meteors. The meteorites are all evidently fragments, not separate formations. They are, says the same authority, in the heavens, to some extent, at least, grouped in streams along the orbits of- known comets, aud hence have a common origin with them. The continuity of these streams, the double and multiple character of Biela s and other comets, and the steady dimin ution of comets iu brilliancy of success ive returns, seems to argue a continuous breaking up of tho comet into fragments by some cause, probably by the sun s heat. This view is strengheued by the fact that the meteoric irons mid stones bring with them carbonic acid, which is known to form so prominent a part of tho comet’s tail. It is now univer-sally admitted that, igneous meteors are cause ! by small bodies which have been travel ing about tho situ in their orbits, but now come into the earth’s atmosphere, and, in general the shape of broken fragments of stone. The outside is usually covered with a thin black crust, which is evidently due to a melting of the surface in the atmosphere. There have been found at various times and places, loose iron masses that are as sumed to be of meteoric origin, because tin ir peculiar form, theirpeeuliar chemi cal composition, and their peculiar crystaline structure are like those of the, iron masses that have been seen in sev eral instances to come down from me teors. Shooting-stars are seen on any ch ar, moonlight night; they leave be hind, many of them, a bright cloud of phosphorescent light ; the meteors and their trains have various colors—white, green, blue, yellow, scarlet, etc.; the duration of the flight is generally less than a second of time, but tho brighter ones may Inst several seconds. The me teorites contain no elements, so far as we know, which have not been found on the earth, but these elements are com pounded differently from any terrestrial minerals ; sometimes they reach the earth, and again are consumed in their mrse. CMcaf/o Inter Ocean. An Ingenious Rascal. The, theater of Ofen (Buda-Pesth) was the scene of his debut, though this was made in a logo, not on the stage. It ap peals that a certain Hungarian countess, well known for tier riches aud beauty (the same spirited Indy who seconded her brother in n duel) graced with her presence tho performance at the Arcsa, or summer theater. On one of her hiir fingers my lady wore two splendid dia mond rings, exactly like each other. During an eidr' ante there pres nted himself in her box a big fellow in gorge ous livery six feet of the, finest flunkey Imaginable. Qnoth he, in finest Hunga rian : “My mistress, Princess I‘—, has sent to your ladyship, to ask the. loan of one of your rings for five minutes. Her highness has observed them from her box opposite and is very anxious Io have oneniii.de after the pattern.’’. Without an instant’s hesitation the countess handed a ring to “Jeames,” who bowed with respectful dignity aud retired. The p< rforniance over, the two great ladies met on the staircase, and the countess I begged her friend to keep the ring at her | convenience. “What ring, my dear?” Denducme.nt! Tableau 1 The “ pow dered menial!’’ was no flunky at all, but a thief, and the ring was gone. Tho police were informed of the impudent trick. Justice seemed to have over taken the culprit in a very few strides, for next morning the countess, while still en rcfbe-dc-ejuimbre., received a let ter informing her that the ttuef had been caught and the ring found on his p r soii. “Only," added the note, “the man stoutly denies the charge and de clares the ring to be his own. To clear up all doubt pray come nt once to the police station, or send the duplicate ring by bearer.” To draw the second ring from the finger aud intrust it joyfully to tfie messenger a fine fellow in full jiolice uniform, together with a hand some “tip,” for the glorious news, was the work of a moment. Only when my lady an hour later betook herself radiant to the police-station to recover her jew els, a slight mistake came to light. “ Well, my rings? I could not come to myself the instant I got your letter.” “ What letter, madam ?” Denouement! Tableau No. 2 ! The thief had got them both. — London Globe. The remarkable discoveries of Jenner, Pasteur, and others, showing that some of the most fatal virulent diseases may be rendered comparatively harmless by inoccnlution with a weakened virus, have led to the suggestion of the pos tibihty of combatting tuberculosis in the same manner. It is now quite gen erally believed that this disease, lint smallpox, chicken cholera and anthrax, is due to the very rapid increase of cer tain minute organisms in the body, and it seems reasonable to hope that inocu lation with its weakened germs may produce as favorable results as have been achieved in the case of the other maladies. This is an important prob lem for scienc ■ to solve. A Colorado town is called Jamfnll. Its motto is, “ Preserve ns all,” and its children are all saucy. tfiiNiiv Ward Beecher says that. God j keeps a list of rich men who cheat their poor neighbors. oYtl) Qeorgfikß RATES OP ADVERTISING, SPACE. I mo. 3moi smo‘ 1 >’r. Onk Invh, I I 7»2 ■" * Sliu tIM »IO <W Two inched, 3 7.V 750 .o'lKl 1500 Three! dies, .'OO 10 00 12 S" 20 00 Four inches, 6 00| 12 00 .15 0 25 00 Fourth Column, 7 s’ l , 15**0 20 00 30 00 Half column, . II u) 20 00 to (Hi 6>oo One column. '.'iii'j 30110 woo 10000 ®B~AU bills due alter first ineertioa. Transient advertisements (strictly in ad vance) JI per inch for the first insertion; 5$ cents per inch for each additional insertion. Local reading notices 10 cents per line. Ann mneements $5 each. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six’ lines will be charged for as advertise - meats. <u . . NO. 47. RUMORS OF THE DAY. (jXj A good port-rajt—ss a bottle. Niagara Fallst—a#id what’s to prevent It ? Eli I’bbkinb is rail mad, spelled back wards. Does it follow that a woman raise* thunder because she' puts lightning in her bread ? ‘ If you want to get rich, mount a mule, because when you are on a mule you are Iretter off. We should think that scarf pins,would get sea sick. They are so often on the bosoms of such heavy swells. . Song of the Sioux Chief as he leaves the wigwam of his Laughing Water : “ Oh, Sioux-anna, don’t you cry for me.” “Do you know who built the ark ?” asked a Sunday-school teacher of a little street Arab; and the little fellow re plied: “Naw!” Chicago has a violinist who plays with his foot. But nobody but a resident of Chicago would play with his feet.— ForA Telegram. A poet who was foud of oysters— Shi Iley. Ditto, ditto, ten pins—Bowles. Do. do. soft-shells—Crabbe. Do. do., bottles—Suckl i ng. It is said that a girl who wears No. 2 shoes and beautiful hose can be scared into believing almost every little bit of wood or stone she sees is a mouse. — Boston Post. “A. large part of our happiness,” says Mr. Beecher, “is due to our mis takes.” The printer who got bounced for sotting up “ infernal ” reception for “informal ” reception may coincide with Mr. Beecher, but we doubt it. IMd’st ever thou gaze on a lovely maid, AH glorious, radiant, fair, And think as thou saw’st those rich red lips Os tho “ unkissed kisses” there? Because if thou did’st not, this is a good time to begin’st. Steubenville Herald. Tom Hood’s most successful poem was the “Song of the Shirt.” A great many American poets don’t sing that sort of a song, because tho subject is in use seven days in the week, and it hasn’t time to be sung about. — Steubenville Herald. Shh wears finest diamonds and laci r, And in worth half a million, they say; Her set socialistic < mbraces The fashion and wealth of the day; Her face is a model of beauty Her praises are sung o’er and o’er; Hut. what are her wealth and her booty, When a foghorn can’t equal her snore? - Detroit Free Preet. A woman may offer in excuse for her red nose that she laces too tightly, but what shall a man say I—Exchange. O, he can offer tho same excuse. He also gets too “tightly” by so-lacing himself. —Norristown Herald. Although the marriage of Miss Nellie Grant to Mr. Sartoris, of England, was criticised in this country at the time, Nellie did well. Her husband has an income of about SIO,OOO and one baby a year.— Kentucky State Journal. A ballet dancer is not good for much unless she learns her business in toe toe. —Boston Courier. If her teacher knows his business heel teach her to keep in step.— Faiocofi Strauss. Must she put her whole sole into it?— Steubenville Herald. Here’s a positive fact that occurred in one of the public schools in this city re cently : A small boy was asked to name some part of his own body. Ho thought for a moment and then replid: “Bowels, which are five in number—a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y.— Philadelphia Bulletin. “Was it tho drum major brave?” i asked one soldier of another. “Os course,” said the other ; “ how can I get up the necessary excitement, if fife nothing to stir me? ” “Oh, well, a man musket courage somehow,” said the first; “I supjiose most any one cannon occa sion.” “Yes, that is the general order, and I’m a bayonet,” said the other: “ though I wish I’d never be gun.” On the Safe Side. A Michigander who was riding along the highway near Charleston, Virginia, a few days ago, came across a negro who was grubbing out a stump near the meadow fence, and, after a few questions about farm products, the Wolverine asked: “ What do you get for taking that stump out?” “ Jist fifty cents,” was the reply. “How long have you been working at it?” “Wall, nigh ’bout a week, I reckon. , “And how much longer will it take?” “Wall, I spects I could finish it to morrer, but I reckon I won’t do it afore Friday.” “ Why?” T L “ Wall, hoah am de plot. If I finish it fo-niorrer an’ git my money I’ll be bound to drap down to Hallton an’ bet on a boss-race an’ lose it all. Es I wait till Friday I kin hab de means ob gwine infer de circus at Charlestown. I knows my weakness, boss, an’ so Ize gwine to sot hi’idi an’ dig n leetle an’ sleep a leetle, an’ chop off de las’ root when I heah de circus ho’ns blowm’ on top de red skule housc hill.” The Medical Student. No, sonny. When you read about a medical student walking tho hospitals you must not infer that he takes the hospitals out walking so as to exercise them. It means that he studies the cases that are there. There are few students who walk a hospital who don’t believe that they could run one if they had a chance.— Cincinnati Saturday Niaht. Ida Lewis has saved two members of a brass baud from drowning. Ida’s popularity is rapidly decreasing since this rash act.