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PROPRIETOR. XIio Village Hotel Veranda. iniSME" We mwc V tli e office “«> ourselves with poplar toothpicks, and then all march out mid take seats oe the hotelaiaramU „a iZS i a convention. If visa have never taken piit^an one of those sethesiiuraouMus veranda of a village hotel vein have missed » good tlung. The audience includes c 'yy phasa of human nature. Tlie diacussion usually opens lieMteei the YjRage blacksmith and a farmer, and it starts on the weather. The blacksmith asserts that we have had too much ra n. The farmer can’t The undertaker, who used to fariu it, tlieti joins in with ’the remark tJmt he Jins seen seasons when we hail more rain, and seasons when we didn’t have as ranch. This culls out the shoe- raokcr, who cuu ren.emher one year when it didn't rain from *.he joth of M tr *h to the 1st of • Octolvr. While ho is trrin^ to nim<*mlH*r whut y tilts back his ehnii can distinctly re- i rained every dav Volume LXV. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1S81. WAIFS AM) WI1IMS. A REIDIMG LEHOK the middle of ’ member it all th Ins father lielicv was eoinir : r . a:i* ing to malm a v tlie horse ham. year without f.« miles to chi c but rather tea. he would v illi No one don his , down to giv • r r-ld three-year- a fence-stu the vouii. horses, las ala nit to Cl when , an ol three IhiVs i “I don’t V-,, if T had ",. ... ,:u. stakeeleartlirou; grease U. .*•<’ before i jh !’• 1 t cant stand ei... r it was, the cooper i el assertw’that hi' * year in which u the 1st of May to liar. He fan re distinctly because a seeo id deluge two months try ■ iit Noah’s ark of .n’t tell tile exact * a distance of six 11is word liiipuled lo that trouble, ■never, and lie sits ■ the man whose i been impaled on ■ wants a cure for ■ s a discussion on minutes, and it is oid take up mules over the heads ol in’? it slightly paradoxical to call a i with full lieard a bare-faced liar? about bosses, hut mid drive a foiioc- l.i believe 1 should ■ieh off the slivers T tell - ye. hones’ ’ iT. I'fiiore’ii a ftiaii in- ’ Whtit ver create, i liv ! hy th tlie tup lo No one knot brought hm way from too so. lie is discr>., ly amount. The.' however. He kiC diaus, a dozze g t lui.idred bnlfio.'S 1 that settles the qv titled to cothmnt U t ■nssirm might lie ssertion is barred villagerwho made a overland days, v much money -he till)ate runs all the .,n to$2‘.i.0fH), hut r as to the exact ■no thing certain, pward of fifty In- •' Is ars, and over n lie was gone, and ■a of his being en- parnde on the Fourth of July. A move is about to be made to draw him out on wild Western scenes, when wimebody suddenly recol lects that old Uncle Jerry is lying at the point of death. Everybody seems to fed bad for a moment, and then it is remem bered how he made his wife go liareh sited in winter, lent money at fourteen per cent., anil whipped a' yoke of steers to deuth, and the tide slowly turns. There is one question, however, on which all are agreed. Undo Jerry, during Ids palmy days, once shouldered a barrel of ciu-rand carried it forty rods. ‘Ties, and I coed him do it," sighs the old man behind mo. “Fact of it was, it was all on my account, and I: ls>at him pretty bad. I was up to Fuller’s eider- inill nrter a -barrd of tlm sweet, when Undo Jerry come along with a bouncing tlnco-year-old stesr. We got to banter ing, and wo finally agreed that if I could lift his steer I was to have him, and he waste have tho cidorif bo could shoulder it. I don't keer to brag around now in my old ape, but I thiukl lifted that steer without even groivia'rodin the face. Un cle Jerry turned as white asashoet, and I thought he'd faint away; but ho stuck to hi - word and I took the steer hum. He got a heap o’ credit all over tlie county for liftin' that cider, and never let on that I lifted the steer, and tliat’s one thing I’ve kinder laid up agin the old man. ” r * ■* ’’Uti.TVV VXn nnyf mnn lino oTvmf fltofim 'Th'onTKo next man liesabontthe’nnm- ber of crows he saw in Kansas, and so we go until it is sharp 10 o'clock and the mosquitoes begin to hunger for evening lunch. Then they bid each other good night end separate to meet and lie again. --.If. 'fund. AN F.lGilTEEN-IXCH DEATH. The noil Mullsimnl mid OradI; Creature In liar World. » | London TrlcgTaph.l A i-ccent nrrivnl at tlie Zoological So ciety’s Garden at Regent's Park deserves special notice, apart from the fact that it is the first of Its species known to have liern brought to England. It is a snake, called the echi* carinata, about a foot and a half long, and of a dingy gray. interesting nor formidable, it is the deadliest of created things. This de testable-little worm, which, looking at it, the spectator might moke bold to say he could imitate very passably in cork and putty, is, nevertheless, one of the mira cles and masterpieces of nature, for it is death itself,- and carries in its tiny head tho secret of destroying life with the sudden rapidity of lightning and the concentrated agony of all poisons. The eehis comes to us from India, where it is tolerably common, being found in nearly every part of tlie peninsula, and feared wherever found as the incarnation of instant and terrible destruction. For tunately, however, for man, it is not, like tho cobra and tho kornit, a honse- frcqhenting snake, for its tiny size wonld give it a terrible advantage over human lieings who live crowded together, as the natives of India do, in small darkened rooms, while its aggressive habits wonld make it infinitely more fatal to life than its dreaded relatives. For this king of tlie asps, this modern basilisk, is not only venomous beyond conception, but a actively offensive. It doos m* turn to escape from man, as the cobra will, or flash into concealment, like the korait, but conscious, perhaps, of its deadlines*, deliberately keeps the path against its human assailant, and, putting its own eighteen inches of ldjgth AgtSnst his bulk, challenges and provokes the con* diet. A stroke with a whip will cut it in* two, or a clod of earth disable it; but such is its malignity that it will invite attack Ty every devieo at its command, staking his own life on tho mere chiuioe of his adversary coining within the little circle of his power. At most, the radius of tills circle is twelve inches, but within it, at any point, lies certain death, and ing 1 within its rerich, the throwsits body into a figure-of-eight noil, and at tracting attention by robbing its loops together, which, from the roughness of . the scales (lienee the epithet carinata), mikes a rustling, hissing sound, erects its head and uwaits attack. No one hav ing ever encountered tills tumble worm can ever forget its truculent aspect when thus aroused, its eagerly aggressive air, its restless coils, which in constant mo tion ono over tlie other, and rustling ominously all the while, stealthily but surely bringing it neater and nearer to the object of its fury; ^he eye malignant even beyond those of other vipers, and then tho inconceivable rapidity of its stroke. For the eehis doesnot want to strike until it is within striking distance, but vents its malice in repeatedly darting at nothing, hoping, perhaps, to aggra vate its antagonist into coming to closer quarters, or, more probably, as a mere expression of its own ineontrollable viciousness. A lickek-iiealeu—the schoolmaster. Tns soda-drinker often thinks of foam. The promises of some men always re main shall owe. New way to ‘‘know all aliont thy self’—get a Presidential nomination. Isn’t it slii man Fly time—when you hear your father’s cane thumping along the hall. Commissioner Le Dec, in liis crop re ports, never mentions the hops at tho seaside. A western journal heads an article: “A Lunatic Escapes and Marries s Widow.” Escaped, eh? We should say ho got caught \ ‘ . A WniTEK^ur. man has discovered a way of instantly turning sweet mill: into fresh Imtter. ‘He feeds it to a goat Pntent applied for. A Wisconsin theorist, Says that hay will satisfy hunger. ' There may be some thing in this, for a couple of strawavwiU frequent satisfy thirst. v " It is claimed by some medical men that smoking weakens the eyesight Maybe it does, but just see liow it strengthens the breath. i Boston has a public vinegar "ttfspeotfii- at a salary of $1,000 per year. One would think he would get awfully tired looking for his “mother.” A i.ittle girl in church, after tho con tribution plate bad been passed, com placently and audibly said, “I paid for lour, mamma, was that right?” - r - . Said Jones: “Smith won’t have so soft a tiling as he had.” “I don’t know,” replied Robinson, “he’ll have a soft I thing so long os he doesn't lose his j head.” i Bridget—“And how shall I cut tho | poie, mum?" Lady of the house—“Cut it into quarters.” Bridget—“And how j many quarters wood I cut it into, j nmm?” You may have noticed that the flies never lmtlier a speaker, no matter how- dull he is, but invariably attack tlm over worked sitter who is trying to get a lit tle sleep. They're high-toned in Deadwood, and they w ouldn’t go to see tho Black Crook until it wns advertised written by Shakes peare, and then they Oouldn’t keep peo ple away. ' “An heavens!” cries Nana, sentiment ally, to her visitor, “when one is adored by a magnificent captain like yon, noth ing ever can make her love again—unless it is a major.” “My umbrella is getting decidedly sliobby,” said a yonng man nbdut town one evening last week. “I believe I will have to strike another prayer-meeting the first rainy night.” Occasionai.ly yon find a Detroit man who can stand having his whisky stolen and not complain; but when the tlies pester them during a morning nap, they idl swear.—/fewIon Post, Bui.i.ios is wealth in a crude form, and after it is coined and kept at interest a while, it becomes wealth in accrued form again.' This language of ours is worse than the gem puzzle, aheap. Dei ced queer how men differ nliout different things. When a man hooks a lot of fish he will brag of it for three days, and when he hooks a lot of apples lie’ hasn't a word to say about it. “On I thought this was a drawing room car!” ajsilogetically observed a Indy to a man in the door of the smoker as she discovered her mistake. “It is, mum,” he said, drawing on hisn with all liis might. A poet asks: “When I am dead and lowly laid, * * * * And clods fall heavy from the spade, Who’ll think of me?” Don’t worry. Tailors and shoe makers have very retentive memories, and you'll not be forgotten. A New York mnn was' challenged to flight tv; duel tho.'other day," and lie ing at libyrty. Ao choose his own-weapons pro- p*d' a trip to |3k>stjon on a Sound stoaraor. Tlio challenger backed out.' He Raid the idea that death must attend a duel was a relic of the dark ages. A visitor enters a French newspaper office and is greeted politely by the office lw»y—“If monsieur comes to light a duel he will have to 1m» kind enough to call again; all our editors are already engaged for to-day.”—Purls Charivari. An Owego man, after a little experi ence, truthfully and indignantly asserts that no woman, however nervous, has a right to wake up her husband from a sound sleep to tell him on inquiring what's the matter, “ Nothing, only I wauled to know if you were awake. ” “Nasby* takes pride in the service of his fathe r and grandfather, in one way or another. As for liimsolf, he says: “Mv own military record is clear. In the lute relxdlion I served by substitute. I furittfilu d three substitutes, all of whom to-day are in good health—in Canada.” They eat In ft dnitky corner. Turning the learea of a book, O’er each picture fair, Or legend there. Bending with eager look. Ie B bit of fiction, forsooth. And there wasn’t as pretty a picture In all the book, Ill engage, As thee By the t Wei over Qm printed peg*; Hie treeeaa with here so blending Thor turned to a brighter shadq. While the cheek of the youth Wea in eery truth As red as the cheek of the maid. The printed prge was a 1 ofet be did notdoaa A change of employment to her. TLeir hands together bad met, la the same warm clasp. More than friend’.y gra*p. They lingered and lingered yet. ‘for needed they for a moment a t-Ai-h qGvt'm face to look. Was at once confessed, And each heart was an open book. SCIENCE AND ART. OVr mv tempUw, kindly »bno'‘twhg All the act ing from my Soft hands era gentlyftooSMng • •"•J AaonJy lov.iuj otus know how. Like cooling drops of summer rain Fingers fall upon my hair, Bosthig tho active, weary brain. Freeing it from thought; of care. Bet thoir touch of swoct compassion O’er my for.-hoad mildly prt> ., And my clu *-k cold and Hfthtu Feel again their fond careaa. loving hands, to us they rer. d/*r . Sweetest service»in life, * * * • v * Guiding us with touebee tender. From the ways of sin and atrifd. J Number 0. Fi-.om tho speed of light, which has ■ lieen measured, it is proved that at least >re not acquainted with, four hundred and fifty-one millions o.’, .xjoor accustomed walks On the street million., of these minuto waves flow into 0*™# you faoo to face with man. vomer tho eve and dash against the retina in each and children every day, vl jeconi mfliar to you, butyoulimSr Wirrri: fish less than a week old and-- • ^ Just about so far from I looking like a pair of eyes with a tail, if C laced beneath a microscope are found to e transparent, and exhibit beautifully the action of the heart in propelling tlie blood, and its circulation through the* tail. r m '■ Th 0 dxed aui toots stick to tile paper and color it soin- Ip seeds (barley, com, etc.,) be placed between moi st pieces of litmus paper, the tensely red that even on the back of the paper their oonrae can be traced in TtC. lines on a blue ground. If tincture or litmus be repeatedly added, the intensity of the red color is increased. Street Acquaintances. Yon know a great many people you Material Progress Since 1840. Those of ns who have lived pur “three score and ten” have seen many ch morning you meet weighted with life’ ‘ “ied with the" You always feel , your hat to him and offering a sympa- young clerk, with ooshon- steps to the minute, ily and whizzes by ,’t move till he got ill every departnu- luaternd thmgs th very.decided, and ; t'» sums uj) souie o j,p# them as follows: much to Say that no g.- a sot Ite -begi; ’ in. Tlie Detection of Oleomargarine. The detection of oleomargarine in butter, when the adulterating material A Baby Carriage in the Hall. is made, as it can he, in a careful and A babv carriage in. the halL cleanly manner, is not easy, nor certain The happiest piece of furniture that except l>y methods wliich only a skilled any house nan Imast, alwavs making on i chemist can execute, JJSeveral simple, honorable exception in ‘favor of the j tests liave recently been given in the cradle. papers, but my own experience with - That baby carriage means a home. j them has shown that they can be -riilied "Without it, only a place to stay in. [upon only when the oleomorgann It wpani a “dear little dimpled darl- | poorly or carelessly made, or when the ing”—that makes sunshine all the time—- ! butter consists entirely of oleomargarine when it ha m t got the colic. ' j simply flavored by . the small propqition It means, a happy mother, . whose life cream with which it ia ohurned. Of is fifled with all tender care, all sweet i tliese tests the following has given the responsibilities, ‘all wondefflQ hope for j best results within my hands : Over a the future. i bpiece of good, butter as large as achest- ead I out, in a wine glass pour about twice its E signal' develf^iim^S I'tta-' appliasitons of chemistry to manufactured and,agriculture; an enor- ^>us expansira ti oommerce by means up"amo^ r meu”with the *gr;mdest dig- [’bulk at ether ;etfi it>p until the fat is Of railroad* and ocean^twimsuipe; the mnn may kn( f w , I all dissolved. Let it stand for a few It mean* a father who holds his head fly-gbntoel drees and don expressed hy her closed Knowledge In a Nutshell. A cubit is two feet. A puce is three feet.' A fathom is six feet. A span is ton and seven-eighths inches. A palm is three inches. A great cubit is eleven feet A league is three miles. There are 2,750 languages. Oats, thirty-three pounds per bushel. Bran, twenty pounds per bushel. Barley, forty-eight pounds per bushel A day’s journey is thirty-three and one-eight miles. Two persons die every second. Sound moves 743 miles per hour. A storm blows thirty-six miles per hour. Slow rivers flow five miles per hour. A hurricane moves eighty miles per hour. An acre contains 4,840 square yards. The average human life is thirty-one years. A square mfle contains 640 acres. A hand (horse measure) is four inches. Timothy seed, forty-five pounds per bushel. , Buckwheat, flfty-two pounds per bushel. Coarse salt, eighty-five pounds per bushel The first lucifer match was made in 1829. A tub of butter weighs eighty-four pounds. A barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds. A firkin of butter weighs fifty-six pounds. A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds. A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds. A rifle ball moves 1,000 miles per hour. A rapid river flows seven miles per hour. Electricity moves 1128,000 miles per hour. The first horse railroad was built in 1826-7. A moderate wind blows seven miles per hour. .. M The first steamboat plied the Hudson in 1807. Gold was first discovered in California in 1848. A mile is 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards in length. Corn, rye and flaxseed, fifty-six pounds per bushel Wheat, beaus and clover seed, sixty pounds per bushel ^ _ _ 7°“- , _ f moiiUi; tiresomely comes down the walk. •iF E °tt' J jAWBEN ' CE -’ urrn ' of I Her face has moved you to pity every vflle, Ky., in a paper read before the fmomin K far a year. French Academy of Science, says that I; Wha f_ i3 this little breeze coming? the meteorite which foU at EsUiernlle (With metallic heel-plate clicking, click- Iowa, on May 10, 18i9, should be placed Ling on the sidewalk like the ringing of a apart for the phenomena of ite fall es- el ^ gtep j aun ty hat to one pecially the force of penetration of its her heo a, neat listume, and a Iragments into tii* ground, and for the f piquant air? Meet her every day mode of association of its mineral con- but don’t dare to speak to her. stituents. This little toddling girl with bangs, An Italian Antarctic expedition is pro- [Zjzstectcd by an older brother, playing posed by Lieut. Bova, who was one of the sidewalk with hoop and dolly. A the officers under Notdenskjold on the yz ‘(Mim of childhood's sunshine that greets Vega. It is to sail in the spring of 1881, cheerily. anil touch at Monte Video, Terra del Fuego, Falkland, and South Shetland Islands, and, proceeding in a soutlnvesti wardly direction, commence explorations, expecting to be engaged for two winters in the Antarctic region, and return by way of Holiart Town. The expenses are estimated at 600,000 lire. An instrument called the stationo- graph, for recording the speed of railway trains, has been invented by a German mechanician at Csssel, and works so well that the Prussian Government is about you cheerily. Those two jolly fellows coming, tell ing Btories and langhing all the way to their work. Light hearted, because they were bora so. Yon feel like turning about <md having a laugh with them, but thoy are only street acquaintances. The “grabbing” sort of men whom you me« every day carrying a pipe be tween their teeth, round-shouldered, and having a hangdog sort of a gait perfectly indifferent to everything. It makes a man feel bine to see them. The gray-hairod and much-bowed vet- to test it on some of the State lilies. A .jeran, whose life is near adjournment. The Largest Tree in the World. In Nelson’s “ Scientific and Technical Reader ” there is an account, abridged from Hutching’s “Scenes and Wonders in California,” of a grove of trees. This grove is situated on the water-shed be tween the Son Antonio branch of the Colavgra* river and the north fork of the Stanislaus rivlsr, ifi latitude 38 deg. and longitude 120 deg. 10 mill, west, at an elevation of 4,37D feet above the sea level, and at a distance of ninety-seven miles from Sncramento city and eighty- seven from Stockton. From specimens of tlie wood, cones and foliage, Prof. Lindley, England, considered it as form- • ing a new genus and named it “Wel- lingtonia gigantea,” but Mr. Lobb, who had spent several years in California, and had devoted himself to this branch of study, decided it to belong to the “ Taxodium ” family, and referred it to Ilia nil iwntia •• Runrmift flpmTwrrirfiTlx” dial iu view of the engineer enables liim to ascertain the velocity of the locomotive at any moment, and the changes of speed are graphically represented upon a roll of paper, which can be studied at the end of the journey. A few years ago Herr Kolbe suggested dringing-water used on long voyages might lie preserved from corruption by means of a little salicylic acid, and this was supported by lalxiratoiy experiments. Afterward experiments were made on a large scale on board ships without suc cess, and when the water was examined not a particle of the acid could be found. What became of the acid is an open question. Herr Kolbe considers that the action of the wood of the cask decom posed the salicylic acid. Somewhat in tliese words an English scientific journal introduces the follow ing suggestion: They propose to light the whole of London by means of a great central light-house. Suppose a circular tower, say 1,000 feet or more, with gal leries at intervals of ono hundred feet, and each gallery provided with a series of electrio lamps, with reflectors ar ranged at suitable englo*. ThcJighi could thus be directed aud diffused over tlie entire metropolis, rendering gas-light unnecessary except in the suburbs. This isifi'e ilfguntjnn -- 'Who will carry it into elfcet? ' . Thb Phfloeophical Society of Glasgow is to hold an exhibition of gas apparatus on a large scale next autumn, and it is intended, also, to make a display at the same time of the apparatus which will illnstrate the progress mode in electric lighting, in telephonic communication, in the manufacture of mineral oils, in hydraulic engines, in heating and venti- latipn, *ta There can be no doubt that this exhibition, taking up, ns it means to do, some of the most important prob- IdBlS to which man's attention is given at preacut, will prove of groat service to those who have to deal practically with sanitary appliances. According to M. Edmond About there You meet him on Saturday mornings only, leaning on his staff, his white locks streiuning in the breeze; a picture which we all look upon with reverence. These are but few types of the people we meet every day in the street and know, but are not acquainted with, that are as much a part of our every day life as are our duties that add so much to our pleasure and opportunity for study, and more than books or newspapers.—Mod em Argo. discovery of either; and the perfection and diffusion of tome of the most pre- fare of mankind. In 1835 only 984 miles of railroad had been completed in th( ‘ United States; in 1840 they had beei nearly trebled (2,818); in 1845 they had been nearly quadrupled (3,798). In 1835 Boston was connected with W..r- God appointed til muirT£ '^nono oFali cester, and Baltimore with Washuigton; heaven's host could do. from Philadelphia the traveler could go , means a word of plans and projects no farther west by rail thau-tlie Susque- w hich all center iatiiat one little life, lianna at Columbia. In 1839, Ericsson ( brought over the propeller to these hos- To mother it ia “Baby,” To father it is “My boy,".,. - rriagi) in tlwliffll all thff'w&3t& bf^roey Tionrs'- W m( sings lullaby songs—perhaps, ” Hush mr dear, lie rill ml dumber, Holy aoxels gua d thy bed.” When all the time she is the angel that are at least 2,000 pictures in the present French Salon’ which no dealer would The striped bug that infests encum bers, squashes and melons as soon os they appear above the ground is one of the* greatest obstacles in the way of a profitable cultivation of these crops. The surest prevention is to place over each hill a frame Covered with mosquito terfappliedtotheplanta whence dew is«ti, serves to malic *h» sinee less pal atable to tbepeHtti thoogbtlritiis by no xrrJiitiitm Air iAb -X /.*.a uilow/i"Oitub'l .'..it A Direful Disease. Ono of the South Lawrence census enumerators, says tlie Magic, stopped at a house the other day where, from the front door-knob, hung a fold of crape, showing tlint tlie grim messenger hail called aud summoned a soul to the for beyond. Had he not been a Govern ment employe lie might have shirked his duty in this instance, hut with due re spect for the relatives of the departed dead one, ho stepped lightly to tho rear door, rapped aud was admitted. He found there, seated in a chair, with his head bowed down in grief, on aged man. I; .stating liis bqaili(ss he asked the ify wife, siff” sorrowfully replied tlie aged man. * -•*' “ Wlmt did she die of ?” was the next qncktiofi. the old genns “ Sequoia sempervirens.' It is now generally known as Sequoia gigantea, popularly called “Welling- tonia,” and by Americans “Washing- tonia gigantea,” Within an area of fifty acres, there are 102 large trees, twenty of which exceed twenty-five feet in di ameter, and are consequently over sev enty-five feet in circumference. The *’ Father ot the Forest,” the largest of the group, lies prostrate and half buried in the soil; it measures at the root 110 feet in circumference, is 200 feet to the first branch, and from the trees which were broken l>y its fall is estimated to have been 435 feet in length ; 300 feet from the roots it is eighteen feet in diameter. The “ Big Tree ” was bored off some years siuce with pump augers and then wedged down ; the stump, which stands five and show in his shop. Within the lasttwenty years tlie number of pictures bung hns duubled, without art reaping much ad vantage. M. Paul Parfoit gives us an amusing description of some previous. Salons. That of Year IN (1801), con tained only 485 works of all descriptions, instead of, ns to-day, 7,289. M. Callet exhibited a magnificent canvas symbolical of the 18th Brumaire, of which the centre was oocupied by the vessel of the State, which was represented as having safely entered port and as moored with a chain of laurel wreaths. The British leopard, too, was displayed on it vainly lavishing guineas on expiring monsters, and Dis cord was flying before the dawning rays of a luminary doing duty for a new enx In the Wrong Room. Shortly after 12 o’clock a few nights ago a Philadelphia guest at one of the large Atlantic City hotels was awakened by a nudge from the sharpest of his wife’s sharp knuckles. As he opened liis eyes he saw by means of the ex tremely faint light that penetrated from the hall into the room the figure of a man, who stood silently by the bureau and who, as it appeared, was fumbling for whatever valuables might fall into clutches. The wife clung to her hand’s arm and trembled so violently t the latter feared lest the burglar ioula hear and escape.' Releasing his arm, the guest slipped noiselessly from the bed and bolding his pillow as a shield, he reached the burglar at a bound. In the midst of crushed chair and broken bric-a-brac the robber went down, with his assailant on top. The robber struggled hard to rise, but, being stronger, the occupant of the room soon had the thief spread out at full length with the pillow on his head. The con queror’s wife struck a light as quickly as passible and rang sharply for an at tendant When the night clerk reached the room he saw a thrilling tableaux, the chief figure of which was a powerful Othello strangling a mole Dcsdemona in the middle of the floor. But the scene was set in comedy after all, for when the pillow was removed the thief’s face showed him to be the highly respectable occupant of the adjoining aoom, a dear friend of his assailant and altogether above reproach. He simply had mis taken the wrong room for the right one and when knocked down was fumbling about for a match.—Philadelphia Times. Denmark has 1,980,675 inhabitants, an increase since the latest preceding cen sus. Light-Brained W< M. Le Bon, in rundering an aooount of the progress of his observations on the comparative mean weights of male and female skulls, has explained the precautions which he had taken to avoid errors arising from considerations of the differences, bodily stature, age, race, .. half feet above the soil, is sound to!| and social or civilized status. After tak- tlie core, and has been used as a ball- I ing all these conditions into aooount, he room. This tree was ninety-six feet in .j (finds a difference of 172 grammes in fa- circumference at the ground, and 302 i vor of the skull* of men over those of feet high. The “ Mother of the Forest” women. He asserts that while a newly- wos stripped of its bark in 1854, for ex-: j born: girl. has a heavier brain than a hibition in the New England States, newly-bam boy-L-an advantage which and naw > measures, without the hark, she rapidly loses—the women of inferior «ighty-fokr feqtjin circumference ; sey- races are relatively superior to those of enty leetfipit is thirty-nine and»h»lf high-civiUzedraces,inotherwords,wow- feet (also without the bark); its height is j an does'not advance, and consequently, 321 f«e|. The “BuratTree,” prostrate, i the differences between her and man are is estimated to have been' 300 reel Ugh '■ constantly augmenting. If M. Le Bon’a when standings and ninety-seven feet in [’ assertions lie to be accepted as facts, circumference ; it measures thirty-nine i they would undoubtedly seem to point and E half feet across the roots. • “ Her- 1 to {he necessity of bringing the oppor- Of improvements, sir,” was the re- r cole® ” i> ninety-five feet in dreumfer 1 * 1 a oflrt /..i nru— t* „ asked- the enumer- tkuqpdidnat fully ■ ence, and 820 feet high. The “ Pio- improvements, sir, ~ of improve ments,” again was tlie reply, more em- nllatte than before, : , “JI6w tlwt be?” asked the enu merator; his curiosity now thoroughly aroused. Well,” said, the man, slowly and new's Cabin,”-v broken f*t from tlie, ground, thirty-nine feev in diameter,' bnt, owing to its being hollow, and* its surface uneven, its average is not quite equal to tli*t. Fourteen other trees av- erage 291 feet high, and seventy-edgiit and a half feet in circumference. It is estimated from the number of concentric layers of wood in these trees, each layer tunitiee of intellectual culture more closely within reach of women, bnt the learned doctor predicts that the abom ination of desolation will fall on society if women be removed from the happy ignorance of their domestic hearths. Nature. thoughtfully, “the doctor came Monday I of which is supposed to be the growth night and said she was improving, he came Tuesday morning and said abe was improving. Tuesday night he came and told me she was improving, he come Wednesday morning and she was dead. Yes,” continued the old man, “ she died of improvements.” The enumerator did not press his ques tion further. An Tntlmn riyrno to OIL NMB nrrMhgw Bfolher, wno Tie said had been bitten by a rattlesnake. -“Four quarts I" repeated thb agent, with surprise; - ‘‘much a* that?” Y*s," replied the Indian, “ four quarts; aniske veiy big.” HLll/'.M .1 0 of a single year, that their age is almost 3,000 years, considerably younger than the cue an exhibition. This grave is ■Iso described in an amusingmanner by by T. W. Hinehliff, M. A., F. B. G. 8., in his “Over the Sea and Far Away,” 1876. From his account, the trees oc- enpy a belt 3,200 feet long and 700 feet wide, which contains from ninety to 160 qmsoias of the largest size; the highest se 325 feet, and the diameter of one (which I (took must be the “Big Tree”) is twenty Mverfs* -’ At six feei from the ground, he says, the survey party counted the ring* of this. Motion, and foand the 1 number to be 1,255; that tfee. be thinks, i* one of the finest in the grove. 1 1 ■' , ! Sheets should be three-quarters of yard wider than the bed, narrow aBeets being almost aa bad as none. It was dinner time in a select hoard- iug-liousb when the new bearder arrived. lie was a venerable-looking gentleman, with silvery hair, aud his face beamed with a sweet repose betokening a pure and holy life. As he-joined the table the landlady said;: ** Would you oak a bless ing?” The venerable stranger shouted, -‘Youffl hereto talk louder, nun; Fm so d—d deaf. pitable shores. Ill 1840 the CftuiirJ line of ocean-steamers was established, but for a long time only “side-wheelers” were tolerated. The first regular ship, the Britannia, reached Boston after a trip of fourteen days and eight hours Morse’s telegraph, after ■ vain offers on both sides of the Atlantic, was at last subsidized by our own government, and in 1844 communication was, opened be tween Baltimore and Washington. “Wliat hath God wrought!” signaled Morse at the capital to Alfred Vail at Baltimore. Tlie news dispatches to tlie press “by electro-telegraph" or “by mag netic telegraph” were meager, while jiublic patronage was so timid that tlie wits of tlie dav made fun of a delighted father in Baltimore who “wired” the news of the birth of a grandson to a postoffice official at the Capital—“as if the mail were too slow" at twenty miles an hour. In April, 1840, Goodyear was in the debtors’ prison (a lodging almost as familiar to him as his own home) in Boston; lie had the year before fouud the clue to the vulcanizing of rubber, but the process was not reduced to" a cer tainty till 1844. At aliout the same time (1845-47) the McCormick reaper was confirming tho independence of the New World of tlie Old as a granary. (As late as 1836-38 wheat had been im ported into tlie United States from Portu gal and the Baltic.) Tho sewing-ma chine devised by Elias Howe in 1841 wns patented in 1846, but the imjioi-tanee of tliis invention was not fully realized for more than a dozen years afterward. The daguerreotype dates from 1839, and in 1840 the enterprising Mr. Plumb began taking likenesses iu Bostou—with siiiail suceess for some months. Five years later his “galleries” wore to bo found not only in that city, but in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, aud even Dubuque, Iowa. Finally, July 24, 1847, tlie patent was issued for Hoe’s lightuiug-press, with its “un it means n father that studies his bank balauce with wonderful diligence, for “ My sou must liave a good education, and a good start iu life,” you know. Aud lie. goes home aud catches the langhing tod'llor up, aud reddens the dimples with i.is whiskers, and then put ting sturdy little twelve-month’s old on his feet, sets him at his a, b, c of walk ing, addressing him with comical dig nity, “Well; Governor, where shall we go now?” And although he only calls him “Gov ernor,” the mother’s heart says—and the father wouldu t deny it were she to pnt it hi words—licit more likely it will be President, in that dim, lieautiful and certainly very grand future. Her chi should be Betweei liis mmi.i' worth the aw That bal y « a good deal, d It means ev mother. It means more than c m lie told. If you have such apiece of furniture in use you know all about it. If you haven’t, it's a waste of raw ma terial to bother with you.— Wheeling Leader. though, would be that he ;ond man aud u happy one. iciu both they pared out for - years all that makes life ‘ . o rriage iu tlie hall means lues it not? lythiug to tho father aud minutes till the undissolved. (alt hns itttod' to the bottom, pour th* clear * ' ’ether bos.entirely evapor .. tlie same operation with a piece of mhrgarino,' and, on compBnag'ftfce two fatty residues, toe latter .will be found to have a more orless distinct tallowy odor, which may become' more 'apparent il the spoon is held for a moment in the hot steam from the boiling ’ tea-kettle; tlie residue from good butter has no’such odor; but genuine butter may be adult erated with half its weight of oleomar garine, and the adulteration cannot be detected by this test. When genuine butter is heated to a temperature several degrees above the boiling point of water it foams much more than oleomargarine does when treated in a similar manner I have found that this test enables us to distinguish genuine butter from genuine oleomargarine, but it is no more service able than the other for detection of adulteration of the one with the other. No one should place much dependence on cither of these teste, without going through with the same operation with genuine butter at toe same time, or at least not until thoroughly familiar with the different results given by the two substances under the conditions of the test.—Prof. G. C. Caldwell, in New York Tribune. ^ How Ohl is Glass! The oldest specimen of pure ghess bearing m. i< g like a date i» a little moulded Von > head, lieariug tho name of an Egypt t-' tag of the eleventh dy nasty. in tlie Slade collection at the Brit ish Museum. That is to say. at a period which may be moderately placed as more than t.vu thousand years ii. CL, glass was not only mmD, but made with skill, which shows that the art was nothing new. The Invention <5f glazing pottery with w film of glass is so old i it among tie- ! meuts which Vicar inscriptions of 1 fh arts 'V' ptian monarchy are beads lK.ssibly t tlie first dynasty. Of tlie pression cylinder” (the type revolving on < latter clas - there are numerous examples, a circular lied) and a printing capacity of ten to twenty thousand impressions per hour. Senator Hamlin’* Endurance. Ex-Senator Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, leaking of toe present venerable United States Senator from that State, said: Hamlin is the most remarkable man I ever knew. He has never known sick ness, and has been most careful aud at tentive to his public duties of whatever character, of any man in this country. He never wore a piece of flannel or un derclothing of any description, a pair of gloves, or an overcoat Even in our cold est weather, Mr. Hamlin, even at his ad vanced age, plods along, dressed in the coldest of costumes—tlie old-fashioned swallow-tailed coat—without wraps of any kind, while his fellows are almost frozen to death beneath big overcoats and the heaviest of underclothing. His power of endurance is wonderful and his capacity for work great” The Rochester Democrat tells of “Three cases in which careless peopli- lost their property. ” Now if those care less people had simply had simply had their case checked, or even plaiuly re marked, it would doubtedly have saved heap of trouble, as well as property. The Buffalo Courier has this heading over au article: “From Buffalo to Heaven; suffering and death of Jacob Terwilliger, the kick of a mule and its final results. ” That settles it. The mule that can kick a man from Buffalo to heaven, is the cliampiou long distance kicker. Newspaper Borrowers. An exchange recently published a let-_ ter from a lady subscriber iu which she" complained bitterly of the annoyance she experienced from the habit her fe male neighbors had of constantly Iwr- rowing bet paper. The exchange failed to advise her on the subject, and, as tlie matter is a serious one, we have our selves looked about for some method of relief, and now think we can offer the suffering lady and all others similarly situated an adequate means of succor. Here is our plan : Let toe lady imme diately upon receiving her paper care fully cut from it some item—it makes no particular difference what it is—most any item will do, only let it be neatly and carefully removed from the paper. Then toe following proceeding will be sure to eusue: In a few moments toe neighbor’s boy will come after toe pa per—he will take it home—within three minutes he will emerge from toe house— he will scoot down street and very short ly return with a folded newspaper of the same date as the one just borrowed. By the time toe clipped paper has circled round among all the female borrowers, the streets will be lively with hurrying boys, and toe revenue of toe newspaper wifi be materially increased. Not one woman among them till would be able to deep a wink without knowing just ex actly what that cut-out item was. Tie next day the lady must pursue the sam A Device to Save a Child’s Fare. Speaking of the desire of some people to rule free, reminds me of a little inci dent which occurred on a Canada Soutu- ern train, a few days since. At Detroit a fleshy German woman, with a little girl of about 6 years, boarded tlie train for Toledo. When the conductor came through, the woman was sitting on the edge of the seat with hex elbows on tie one in front of her,, aud the child, oh, where was she? That was the conun drum ; but it was too easy a ono for tlint Canada Southern conductor. After go ing through the train, he returned t- our heroine, who still maintained hei uncomfortable position, and appearc much interested with the passing scenery. Laying his hand on lu-i shoulder, tie conductor asked where tin child was, but only received for au an swer: “Too shmall, too stimuli!” Again repeating his inquiry, aud again receiving his “Too shmall” answer, lie decided to investigate tho matter. Com pelling the woman to sit back in li<-i seat, he found the little girl doubled no in a heap in the corner, where she lout lieen obliged to keep as quiet as a mi® ' for nearly half an hour, covered by tli not too-clean garments of the inhumn mother, who was trying to save her fare. All tlie time the investigation was go ing on the woman kept up her plea of “Too shmall, too slimnll!” until tin conductor, becoming disgusted, re marked: “If alio is too small to pay fare, she is certainly too small for you to sit on. Faro, please. ”—Railroader. such as the benil found at Thebes, which hastlicnan:-of Queen Hatasoof Hashep, - f I.i "ii/Htet■;.tli dynasty. Of tlie same p- riod :iv van—w slid golilete and many lragmcits. It can not be doubted that the story prepared by Fliny, which as signs tlie credit of the invention to the Fliauticians, is so for true that these ad venturous merchants lironght specimens from other countries to Egypt. Dr. Schliemnnu found diskB of glass in the excavation at Mycenae, though Homer does not mention it as a substance known to him. That the modem art of the glass-blower was known long before is certain from presentations among the pictures on the walls of a tomb at Benni Hasson, of the twelfth Egyptian dynas ty; but a much older picture, which probably represented the same manufac ture, is nmong tlie half obliterated scenes in a ehhmber of the tomb of Tliy, at Sakkara, and dates from the time of the fifth dynasty, a time so remote that it is not passible, in spite of the assiduous re searches of many Egyptologers to give it a date in years.—Saturday Review. The Horse and His Rider. In the history of Romo, says Joseph Ct ok, it is related tlint in 331, B. C., a great chasm opened in the middle of the forum, which it was found impossible to fill. The sootlisaye^said it would close wlien it contained wliat Rome possessed of most value, and tho state would lie jierpetual. A noble youth named • M. Curtius demanded if Rome hnil anything of more value than arms and valor. He mounted his horse, richly e iparisoned, and, ■ amid ’ the silence of the’ people, spurred.him. oyer the brink ft.tfif tre mendous precipice (vtije liv. I," vii.‘ 6i. I liave seen a (drilling■'picture'Of this somewhere. It represented', horse and rider after they had passi I tqe brink aud were descending to the unknown depths. There was a remarkable con trast between tho fright of the finite and tlie mirnfiled,self-possession of.the-man. The limbs of tlie horse were tightened to liis lwvly and the muscles of hi* heck drew liis head to his client; anil a shud dering terror expressed itself in the dash of his starting eyes. .The- rider ’was serene and calm, witii-a solemn «xp;es. sion of majesty on liis fafce, tut- of one who lived with hjgh thoughts.' If, I were to spiritualize this picture I should say that it wns no mean representation of a ripe Christian departing this life. The horse is tho body and tlie rider is the spirit Flesh shrinking, spirit steady and calm and solemn. Flesh dreading the terrible shock, and spirit wrapt in the glory of action, descending that it may ascend. YFfhking Photographs. Winking photographs are said to be produced in the following manner: One negative is token ’ with tine sitter’s eyes open; another without change of posi tion, witir tiie eyes shut Tlie two neg atives are ; printed on opposite sides of the paper, “registering’’exactly. Held fiefote a flickering lamp, or other vari able source of light, the ctnnhihfd .pho tographs show rapid ^alternations .of closed and open eyes, the • effect being that of rapid winking. ■■ ’ -i-.tl <" .> A Gigantic Rock Story, A gigantic rock fell into the narrow canon between Rock Creek and Cham berlain Flats, Klickitat County, W. T., recently, from a ledgo one thousand seven hundred feet high. It struck a band of seventy-live, sheep, killing nearly all of them; then bounded and struck the mountain on the opposite side, breaking in twain, one part flying into tlie swamp and imbedding itself out of sight, while the other ground itself in pieces against a ledge of rock, making an unbearable sulphurous smell and great heat.—Idaho Statesman. The fellow who picked up the hot penny originated the remark: “All that glitters is not ould.” Asking for Money. Few wives enjoy asking their 1ms- hruds for money, particularly if nig gardliness is displayed. Intrusted with a regular income, her position is niu more independent and dignified. I r sh ims a genius for managing, she will tai. pride and pleasure in making 100 cent., go a great away—much farther than man could make 150 go. She will aJs make calculations about the expel 1 tures of the weekly sums ; will lay by eertain amount toward buying such a’ such supplies hi quantities; will lr . that there is no eeouomy in buying i . by tlie bar, starch or sugar bythejxuv.o She will systematize her affairs, keep o r books—a day-book and a ledger—and exliil 'it her well-kept accounts with prill aud delight. The very fact that the ex peuditure of tho money belongs to her will sweeten tier life, give new zest to her occupations and make her a Imp].' uml more-contented wife. This qu ion of domestic money supplies opei next oay ine may must pursue me sam- field for thought for the aJemg course, and surnlar raults wiU surely ilusUul(L follow. In an extremely-obstinat - neighborhood these proceedings have to be repeated three or four days, but no longer. By that time the lady will be able to read her paper in peace, and the newspaper finances wfll be the gainer through several new subscribers. This role is infallible where the borrowers art- females, but it can’t be vouched for in the case of men. There isn’t that inhe- A young man who was pleasantly gaged in dealing oat taffy to his^irl c the telephone wue,’ was much disguswm,. athaeneg ^2y»ee i .ftW»»thec«»tod™“®, rent curiosity to work upon, you know, remaA;, . Ftoaae hurry up lf you have 1 —y, u t perhaps we are getting a s^Udngto say jtoerei* abnsin— hms-J utffetobdatnL ‘ ™ « The Topophonc. ■The Scientific American describes the Mayer topophone, on instrument to de termine the exact position of any source of sound. It consists of two resonators, i or sound receivers, supported on a- shoulder-rest. From these resonators i flexible tubes proceed to the ears, but t these tubes are united in one for part of the length. “When the two resonators face the direction whence a sound comes so as to receive at the same time the same sonorous impulse and ore joined by tulies of equal length, the sound waves received from them will necessarily re inforce each other, and the sound' will be augmented. If, on the contrary, the resonators being in the same position os regards the source of sound, the resona tor tubes differ in length by half the wave length of the sound, the impulse from the one neutralizes, that from the other and the sound is obliterated. Ac cordingly, in determining the direction of the source of any sound with this instrument, the observer, guided by the varying intensity of the sound trans mitted by the resonators,, turns until their openings touch the same sound waves simultaneously, which position he recognizes cither by the great augmen tation of the Bound when the tube lengths ore equal, or by the cessation of souud when the tube lengths vary so that the interference of the sound waves is perfect.” One of tlie tubes can lie lengthened or shortened liv means of a telescopic arrangement., For navigating in fogs this instrument will uo doubt be found of great value. I - ' A Fire-Red Aurora. On t!ie morning of Nov. 13, 1837, there occurred one of tho periodic re turns of the meteorio show®, such as had been annually witnessed tor the ste preceding years. The next day* fell of snow, at the north covered the fece of tlie country with a mantle of the purest white. In tho evening, about 6 o’clock, while sky was yet thick with, the fall ing snow, all tilings suddenly, appeared os if dyed in blood. The entire atmos phere, the surface of the earth, the trees, the tops of the houses, etc., were tinged with the some scarlet hue. The alarm of fire was given, and our vigilant firemen were seen parading the streets in their uniforms, which) mumming the general tint, seemed in excellent keeping with the phenomenon. Such was the ap pearance exhibited over a large portion of the country where tho cIouob were not so dense as to obscure the auroral display. The false alarm of fire was not confined to one place, and super stitious fears, of some impending awful conflagration generally prevailed ■tnong the ignorant ’throughout the country. It is remarkable e< toss great ' heavenly exhibition that it waa observed over (he whole-eastern portion of the conntiy os far south »a>TCtilloden,-rn— Georgia, and also in Ohio and Si. Louis, Mo. At the North, as observed particularly in New York, the exhibition ceased after having been seen for an hour, again appeared at half-past 7 and lasted more than half on hour, and returned a little before 9 o’clock in in numerable bright arches, shooting tip from tho northern horizon, of* the most brilliant-colored light resting around the horizon upon on obscure bank, all the more dark - and mysterious from the vivid display above. At half-past 10 all this disappeared; but after 1 there was another return of the phenomenon, last ing for more than on hour. At Staten island, in New .York torbor, to* specta cle is described as the most magnificent over beheld , The flluminetion waa so great that the objects outside of Sandy Hook were seen as clearly as at midday. • And the City of New York appeared to be only a mile or two distant—Chris tian pt Work. X Hawk Steal* a Hat. The best feed for yonng. chickens is A few days ago, as a son of Mr. Nich- oat meal and corn' meal mixed, wheat,. olasNorrish, of Nassagaweva, was pass- cracked corn and other small grains, ing through the woods on his farm, he They must have .fresh (water before noticed a hawk hovering around near them always. Green food is good for. }iim Thinking nothing about the mat- them in small quantities. The. game ter, be walked on, when all at once, and hen is the best sitter and mother—she before he had time to make any defense, can cover thirteen to fifteen eggs. Games the lard dived down and caught liis hat ' are good forager* and vey healthy fowls, iu its claws'and carried if aloft. When' All diseased fowls'should be kept from the bird got about the height of the trees . the flock. A bran, mash mixed .with t lot the bat drop.—Montreal Witness, meal is a good morning feed. no built mi! io t <t,i *<? uuMti.m )x»q ,a;in j. .tie i »j One of. the.richest most famous monasteries in Italy is. that of Monte Casino, on the line of railway between Borne and Naples f it **» founded in 1629, and lias continuously existed ever sinoe. It* library is-wonderfnlfy rich in writteiFand printed documents, and the rente of the domain are adequate to maintain tlie institution. Its abolition and confiscation are now urged by the Italian ( r Tot small boy who can rids a time- wheeled velocipede in the hall, and beat a; drum at the sagm time, ha* qualities calculated to make home happy when ha .tliuti ] POOR COPY L is-X