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RAILROAD SCHEDULE.
Northeastern Railroad,
8imnTnn«ni Oira, I
Athens tin., Jan. 18th, 1881.1
FAST MAIL T11A1N.
On and atler Wednesday, Jannary 9tli 1881,
traiua ou the North Eastern Railroad will run
as follows:
NO. 1. NO. S,
Leave AMisus 4.80 am | -30 p m
Arrive at Lula ti.Stf am) n:fi0 p m
Arrive at Atlanta 9.46 *ui l 12:40 prr
_ ~~ NO. I. NO. 4.
Leave Alxnntr 4.00 a m | 3:00 p m
Arrive nt Lula. . 6:30 a in } ':55 pm
Arrive nt Athens 12:80 a m | o:45 p m
AH trains daily except Sunday. Uruine 1,2
and 8 connect closely with all Eaat and West
bound puNHcnger trains on Air Line Railway.
Train No. 4 with West bound passenger train
on Saturday nitfht only, when it will wait until
t‘.4.'» p. in., when by ho doing a connection can
be made.
I'aasengers leaving Athens at 4:30 a. in. con
nect close!} at Lulu with the Fast mail train for
Atlanta, time A hours and 16 minutes, making
close connection at Atlanta for »U pomta Wt *
and Southwest.
LYMAN WF.LLS. Sup’t.
Volume LXV.
Georgia Rail Road Company
t*u*uuMCNDurr , a Orncs, 1
Awm Ga m Nov. A, 188 *. >
< omincncaig Sunday, 8th inst, the lOllwWing
igcr Schedule will opperatc ou • his road:
Leave ATHENS ,
1-eu
Wi
opperatc <
2.15 am 6 00pn
.... .9.45 a 11 6 80 p nr.
....iC.20a u 7 06 pn;
.... It >.48 AM 7 80 p m
.... 11.06au 7 50 pra
....11.21am 8 16 p n
1.40am 8 80 p m
.... 5.45 pm. 5 00 in
2.10 pm
4.45 pm
. 6.45 pm
..347 pm 7 00 a
. 9.85 am 6 80 p n
. 7.00 a m
8*68 a M
Leave Lcxiugton ....
Leuve Antioch
Leave Maxeys
Leave lYcouvilla....
Arrive Union Point.
Arrive Atlanta
Arrive at Washington..
Arrive at MUledgcville.
Arrive Macon
Arrive Amrusts.
Leave A up ust a
Leave Mucoi;
Leave MUieilge villa....
Leave Washiiigton 10.46 am
Lcuvt Atlanta 7.15 am 8 45 p in
Leave Union Point 1.12 pm 6 00s m
Arrive Woodville 1.27 pm 5 15am
Arrive Maxeya.. 1.45pm 540s m
Arrive Antioch 2.05 pm 600s m
Arrive Lexington 2.27.pm 6JI0a u
Arrive Winlerville 8.02 pm 6 55am
Arrive Athens 8.80 pm 7 80 a vr
Trains run daily—so cennection to or from
Washington on Sundays or between Macon am
Ciunak in either direction on Sunday nights.
K. K. Dokhxi,lien.. Pass., Agl.
S. K. Johnson, Supt.
mm & CHARI; IT
Air*Line Railway.
Passenger Department
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Atlanta, Ga., January 15th, 1881.
On si.u alter Jan. 16th 1881, Trains will rui
on this Toad as follows:
DAT PASSENOXR TRAIN—EASTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 6.80 a
Leave Lula a
WESTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 9.88 P
Leave Lulu 9.89 p
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN—EASTWARD.
Arrive at LUla 5.55 r
utmve 6.56 P
Arrive ai Lula 9.57 a
Leave 9.58 a
LJOAL runout THAIS’—EASTWARD.
Arrive at Lula 11.88 a
..11.58 A
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OT. T. -WA.TB3K.l9tA.3Sr,
PROPRIKIUM.
cotton prospects. | a LltQe Latin.
Messrs. Smith, Edv-srds& Co..i.I tU,
their annual revie# oi the cotton Latin and use United States language.
m.,Ut,oiU«tl»t .l.ri.g lb. pra-
ent year production will reach its lobelia and other dangerous drugs in
maximum for some time to come and place of some mM and gentto purgative,
, which the system requires at tins time of
will exceed tbo large production of I year, on the Latin prescription of aphys-
last year all the world over and write ician, that a society at the East threaten
, to take the law into their own hands and
follows: I p U t a stop to it. Asa usual thing the
This feature may have an impor- physician who graduates with high hon-
., . _ . , , , I ora at some high toned morgue, does not
tant bearing on the ruture scale o ^ more about the common Eng-
pnees. It is well known that the lish branches than is good for him, and
American planter is more than satis-
Gcd with the present price of the sia- j per, Now, when yon come to pat such
pie, and another increase of planting 1 writing as that into Latin, to be read by
1 , a sleepy prescription clerk who has been
pretty sure to take place next routed out of bed at midnight in his
spring: therefore it will be Datural to shirtsleeves, therecanonly be one result
,,g» e taUf»,gel*a jasssavs—15a
year, with so bad a picking season, whenlie strikes one of those ingredients in
r , be I next year if the JCSSSS “ S3
season is good ? The prices that have I tbe word looks more like pennyroyal
uled the past two years have greatly than it does like podophyllum, and
. , , , . . more like peppermint than like either
stimulated cotton cultivation every*. oneo i them, lie is liable to trust a good
where, and we can hardly doubt that deal to luck and put in that which is the
tb. time i. rro.'f.r M. .hen ..p- £
ply will decidedly exceed ooasumpv read a stroke of lightning, and the result
tion. This is one reason why great “ he P“ ta “P -"nothing, aud the..
caution should bo observed in hand* ^ba* he doesn t know. There are forty-
ling cottoa at nearly 7d. per lb. It nine millions of people in this oiuntry,
, - ,, _ , e , whose lives toa greater or less extent
can be profitably grown for 6d., and rest on prescription clerks, aud the east-
within a year or two we expect that em society who have fluug their banner
I.riee will nmcnrA ns all that is needed to 016 breeze and Bounded the death of
price will procure us all that is needed dead languages will be embalmed in
or can be used. While, therefore, we the hearts of a gratef.d posterity. They
allow that the pretent price of 6*1. is, d^™u?
perhaps, not lar wrong, with the poor ^ey „„ eminently ont of place in tliis
quality of this crop, and the healthy age of animated tilings. Of course the
, , lopping off of the excrescence wul bring
appearance of trade everywhere, we dowu t<> a level with ordinary
should urjie caution, and keep in view mortals, and they will have to take their
** rvwi/sxxo I chances. It may be churned by the doc-
the proba unty of lower prices in the tor8 ^at they i K > unable to command
second half ot the year, if the next j the respect and confidence of Iho com-
crop develops well ” “ their »»ediea and things are
f . , r . , ,, . , notlocked up m Latni. We will sup-
As is the cose with all others, they 1 p,^ ft man i„ w ,. a ten a hearty meal
are quite undecided as to what mav of arsenic, and he InsgiiiB to feel amstress
" 1 at the stomach. A doctor is sent for and
HORRIBLE.
ratltac la Ikal
rtb. cnla. oi tk.
f. - _ mat is Klclrell
. Since the convenient five cent coin
i which in common talk is called “a
On the second day out from 8t hG- has come into general drcula-
ahaels we reached St Lawrence Wand, , bon, the question above is asked, mther
where it waa reported a famine had mentally oar orally, hundreds of famee
swept away nearly the whole population eTery day, and but few get an intelligent
during the previous year. The ishmd is answer. In China and India, a white
ninety miles long from east to west" We copper, called pack-tong, has long been
steamed along dose in by the shore, known and has been extensively tfsed
working our way throngh the ice. At; both there and in Europe for counterfeit-
. . ., ° * i ° « w .i j ai——a it- 1 a
COLORED FORGIVENESS.
be the ultimate out-turn of this last
he comes and prescribes. A few min-
erop, but incline to use six millions in utes later another doctor conies (when a
** '»■» ax’au
en at the same weight as last year, doctor asks the first one what he has
any increase in size being counterbal- 8* ven the man, and the first doctor an-
■' , , , ”, l swers that he has prescribed hydrated
anced by the lower qualities as com-1 teequi-oxide ferrum." The second
last the settlements were reached,
each one that waa visited presented the
same dreary scene of death and desola
tion. Not a sign of life was to be seed
anywhere. Not a solitary dog or rat
to be found about,any of the rude'
but in front ot ttar bouse»,~fh » ghastly j 1
row, lay the dead bodies of those who
had succumbed to the terrible hunger.
They had lain there for fifteen months,
and we were probably the first to look
upon them. Their clothes had rotted off
the bodies, bnt the forms were preserved
by the cold so that they looked like
mummies. The skin was drawn tightly
over their emaciated faces and forms,
and looked like ancient parchment. So
perfectly had the dry air preserved them
that we could distinguish the bodies of
the women from the men by the deep
tattoo marks on the chin, which is one of
the peculiar styles of feminine ornament.
In a few houses bodies were found in va
rious postures, just as they fell in the
last agony of solitaiy death. As long as
there were any survivors to perform the
service, the corpses were placed in the
regnlar rows in front of the hats. At
one place are found fifty bodies side by
side, some being the remains of little
children, while others were the corpses
of old people.
The usual litter and refuse which sur
round the Esquimaux huts were lacking,
and there was not a scrap left of any kind
of food. The cleanly-gnawed bonee
showed that they had eaten their dogs;
they had even devoured the rata which
infest the village; they had chewed up
the old bite of walrus-hide—-everything
whioh could satisfy the cravings of hun
ger. At last they had perished miser
ably, dying by inches, with no hoped
succor and no chance of escape. At least
500 of the poor wretches suffered this
hideous death. To explain this terrible
famine, which was as unusual as it was
fatal, it must be added that the season
was one of unparalleled severity. The
natives of this island were large, robust
men, and expert hunters and fishermen.
pared with the previous crop.
THE RICHEST H AN U THE WORLD.
studies a moment, with his finger to his
forehead, and says he approves of the
remedy, and the friends of the patients
fed that he would be a fool if he didn’t,
as the name is nearly two inches long.
Well, the hydrated genqai-oxide of fer
rum is nothing but iron rust, such as can
be scraped off of old nails, bnt if the doc
tor had told his brother professional that
Arrive at Lula 12.07 a v
Leave '*.2« r u
THNODaU nUUOBT THAIS—OA»TWA*»
Arrive at Lula 3-20 T a
Lwjve.. 5.35 ra
WXSTWABD.
Arrive at Lula 8.41 a a
Leave 853 A a
Cluee connection at Atlanta for all point.
West ana Booth went. Connecting at Cbarlcll.
«ir all point* East. Throngh Tickets no sal.
a: Gainesville, Seneca City, Greenville an.
Joartauburg toallpointa Kaetauc West.
G. J. FORKACBE, General 5 .ntger
W. J. HOUSTON Gen. Paso.*Tici • t Ac’
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
H. if. CARLTON,
ATTORNEY AT L\W,
ATHLXH, ga.
O FFK'F. on Stood strect > ud stain*. Entrance
uvx\ i. oruLove Lontf’a l>rup Store. Wil!
hi end f-••n t *t!y to h)1 business entr ted to hi*
cute. <*tl
Onr readers will doubtless be inter*
ested in reading this account of
man's great wealth. Some of them
may even enjoy it, as a.ohild enjoys giviug the jrou n^t, and
broking at the moon and wishing he 1 the other physician bad approved of it,
l,j I the probability is that the patient's
I friends would have bounced both doctors
William H. Vanderbilt received a] and sent for one that knew something,
cheek on December 31 for 1476,000, Doctors have everything to contend
, against, not only the ignorance of their
being interest for the past three months I M d the patients’ friends, bnt
on his investment in United Slates I their own as well. It is estimated that
rp, 1 two-thirds of a college course is devoted
bonds. The government pays him this to learning tte names and applying
enormous sura four 1 -mes each and I them, and the other third to the study of
every year. Besides the investment I bow to cure people. The percentage is
. . - I too great, but a physician must under-
of $e7,000,000 in go* eminent bonds, Btan d all the technical terms, as he is lio-
this indicates, Mr. Vanderbilt is be-1 ble to be called as a witness in a court
.. » A.aa nAA AAA I sometime and if he should use any term
heved to own more than 8100,000,000 ^ the • understand there •
of railroad securities. He is the lar*. I is no tellmg what the consequences
gest individual owner of the stock of I might be.-i>ec*’s Milwaukee Sun.
the following name > railroads, sever-
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VillaUoml j romptl) to any buainc -. entrusted
vohiiu. ufict HuanicuU Unct 8bii<; treet.
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ATHENS, GEORGIA.
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Ti’Ttorr in oue of Ita editions.
Toon*— Pally, one year. 910; six •.i.nths, *5;
three mouths, *2.M. Weekly, one year, *1.50;
six month-, $1; to dab* of tea, ana ye -r, *l-25i to
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AddrseTHECONSTITuTION, Atlanta, O*.
tl oi which are almo. bis exclusive
property : New Yo k Central, Har
lem, New Haven, Fourth
Batter Three Thousand Tears Old.
A-sample of Irish bog butter, prob
ably 1,000 years old, ou analysis, yeilded
the following results: Volatile fatty
acids, calculated as butyric, 6 per cent.;
horse, Spuylen Dnyvil & Fort Morris, I »oluble fatty acids, not volatile, 42 per
Canada Southern, Like Shore and °e“L; insoluble fixed fatty acids, 9048
..... „ , per cent; glycerol, minute traces. The
Michigan Southern. >licn?gan Central I £jsoluble fatty acids contained 9 percent.
North western <L H ck Island. He I oleic acid and 91.0 per oeut stearic and
, . t t_; palmitic acids. An older sample of an-
wus also > laig. m the Union c j ent \, n tteT was taken some time ago
Pacific :md the Eri> railroads, the from an Egyptian tomb. It dates from
Western Union Tel. raph, V e Wn«-
K TTl W V L* 4 T I V W ner J* a, ^ or ^ ar ^■ >m u, y» l * ,e Albany and had apparently been poured in while
Ai IVivA L I A l LA U. Bridge, the Merchncta’ Di-iwueli, anl in smelting state. In appearance, obl«,
, , J . smell and taste it corresponds closely
in several other express and transpor* rancid (ratter. Analysis
tation companies. He has huge in- showed that the sample had not unuer-
vestmente in French rentes and in I «° ne notabla d600IQ P osition ’
Britah consol*. He owns a ranch
Colorado and has some very vaiuah'e
real estate in New York city. His
Bnt, like most of their race, they were
improvident and made no provision for
such a winter. The cold set in early and
continued without interruption. Tha
mercury was forty degrees below zero
for weeks at a time. The cold and vio
lent storms prevented them from going
out on the ice to catch walrus and seals—
their main dependence for food in the
winter. Their scant stock of meat was
soon exhausted; they were many miles
from Siberia, and oould not have reached
it alive in the face of the bitter winter.
At the northwest end oi the island we
found a settlement of abont 250 people.
These had suffered severely from the
famine, only about one-half the original
colony having survived. They had a
larger stock of provisions than their un
fortunate neighbors, and thus escaped
complete annihilation.
The customs of the natives are savage
and brutal. It is usual for the old peo
ple, when they feel that they can work
no longer, to announce the fact to their
children Then the poor creatures are
taken out of the hut, and either knocked
on the head or stabbed by their sons. If
they fail to give warning of their help
lessness, the children are quick to detect
the signs of age and promptly dispatch
their parents, generally by beating them
over the head. The bodies are seldom
buried; they are cast to the dogs, who
devour them. At this plaoe also we had
new evidence of some native peculiarities
—the esse with which they could see at
a great distance with the naked eye, and
the marvelous way in which news was
transmitted from the most distant points.
A native will describe the dress and ap
pearance of a man who is approaching
at a great distance. A white man, even
a sharp-eyed sailor, can just make ont
that it is a human figure. So, if any.
thing oocurs on the coast—if a piece of
wreck comes ashore—the fall particulars
will be known a thousand milea from tha
spot where it occurred. It is a wonder
ful piece of telegraphy—one native
rushing off to pass the news to another,
and thus speeding intelligence over hun
dreds of miles of territory in a single
day.
silver coin. About the year 1700 a
ore waa discovered in the copper
__ of Saxony which had the appear-
> of being very ricn, bnt in smelting,
' ” id so copper, and the miners
knpfer-nickel, or false copper.
.-Omenta lit annnmumfl the, dis-
covery of a new metal in kupfer-mckel,
to which he gave the name of nickel. II
was in combination with arsenio from
which he could relieve it only in part
The alloy of nickel and arsenic which he
obtained was white, brittle, very hard
and had a melting point nearly aa high
as cast-iron. It was not until 1823 that
pure nickel waa obtained by analysis of
German silver which had for a number
of years, been produced at Suhl in Saxony.
Ita composition was ascertained to be
copper 10 parts, zinc 5, and nickel 4. If
more nickel be used the alloy ia ns white
as silver and susceptible of a very high
polish, but becomes too brittle and hard
to be hammered or rolled, and con be
worked only by casting. Pure nickel ia
a white metal with a tarnish readily in
the air. Unlike silver, it is not acted on
by the vapor of sulphur, and even the
strong mineral acids attract it but
slighuy. Nickel has the hardness of
iron and like it, has strong magnetics
properties, bnt cannot be welded and is
soldered with difficulty. Pure nickel
has heretofore been used chiefly for
plating, for which purpose its hardness
and power to resist atmospheric influ
ences, admirably adapt it. Within the
last year, the French have succeeded in
rolling the metal into plates from which
spoons and other table furniture may be
pressed. Nickel bronze, which consists
of equal parts of copper and nickel, with
a little tin, may be cast into very delicate
forms, and is susceptible of a high polish.
Mines of nickel are worked at Chatham,
Conn., and Lancaster, Pa., and it is said I
to be found at Mine Le Motte, Mo., and
at several points in Colorado, and l|pw 1
Mexico, where bnt little attention is paid
to it. It is extensively mined in Saxony
and in Sweden, bat the late discovery
of a new ore (a silicate of nickel) in New
Caledonia willprobably supersede all the
other ones. The inexhaustible supply
of this ore, the ease with which it can
he smelted and the richness of the ore
will probably suspend the use of the
arsenical ores, and yet bring nickel into
common use. Switzerland, in the year
1852, made a coin oi German silver,
which is identical in composition with
our nickel coin. The United States
made nickel cents in 1856, and eight
years later, coined the five cent pieces.
Belgium adopted nickel coinage in 1860
and Germany in 1873. England hag
lately coined nickel pennies for Jamaica,
bnt at home she and. France adhere to
the clumsy copper small change.
[UttlaRock 0»**lt*.| i
The forgiving spirit of the colored peo- I
pie is a distinctive character of that race. !
The most Violent animosities may be I
cooled by the wave of the-fan of conces- |
sion, and the hottest fire of hatred can
be extinguished by a dropof the milk of
human kindness. Sandy Horn, a colored
mau known in the neighborhood as Buck
Horn, sometime ago met the wife of one-
eyed Nicholas. Mrs. One-eyed Nicholas
was a “likely ’oman,” bnt her attraction
at least for Ruck Horn consisted in a look
rather >1'«” in the abundance of the Mrs.
Caesar material Buck Horn hung
around Nicholas' house while the old
man was away. Finally he and Mrs. One-
eyed Nicholas ran away and came to Lit
tle Rook and opened a kind of boiled-
cabbage eating-house. For the first few
days after the elopement old Nicholas
surrendered himself to grief. “I’se lost
de ’oman ob my bosom, be said. “De
debil hab tuck de rib what God had gin
me.” At last the old man threw aside
his grief and meditated revenge. He
took an oath he would kill Buck Horn.
*Tse nebber gone back on a oath,” he
said to a neighbor, “an’ when I meets
Back Horn he mus’ die de death ob de
ungodly. Happy will be de time when I
seta de soles of my feet in _ dal ’onory
man’s blood.” Next day old Nicholas
came to the city. He brought a pistol
aud a briar hook with him. Ascertain
ing the locality of his mortal enemy, he
went to the house, aud, without revealing
In’s identity, was admitted by a boarder.
Seated on a liench, he awaited the appear
ance of Buck Horn. After a while the
man came. Nicholas sprang np, shut
the door and locked it
“Face ter face wid de debil,” ex
claimed Nicholas, cocking bis pistol, and
raising the briar hook. “I hat> swor ter
take yer life, an’ fore de Lord I’se agwine
ter do hit.”
“Look lieali, Nick,” said Bnok Horn,
“guv a man some sorter show.”
“Say yer prars.”
“Nick, I doan want no truck wid yer.’
“In de name of de church I stermin-
atee dis sinner.” The old man leveled
his,pistol.
“Nick, doan yon remember dat Ken
tucky whisky, we drunk dat day at de
ferry?”
“Yes,” said the old man, lowering his
pistol; “yer got any moah?”
I i 8,
‘Wliar’s ver bottle?”
'Heah hit is,” and Buck Horn took a
bottle from his pocket, handing it over
and remarked, “hep yerself.”
The old man drank and said “genny-
wvne ’possom'hollow.”
“Yer’s right, old man. Hab a seat.’
The two men sat down. “Let me put
yer pistol ober heah. Put de hook ober
’in de comder. Dar now, we’s fixed.
How's eberything down de country?
What! yer ain’t agoin’ so soon, is yer?
Wish yer stay to dinner.”
“Gimme some more ob de ’possom
hollow. Dat stuff makes me feel like
whistlin’. Come ont an’ seo me. Doan
forget de jug.”
“Yes, I am to be married, my dear
friend. The young lady is pretty, and
very clever, yet shs can not play the
, . piano-forte; that H bar only failing.”
fortune is > itliou: lusioric precedent. “Why, I should call that a blessing. It
Several Eu-’lish uolitemen own iiie in- ' i* oertainly no fault I Hear me
Hott Women Bathe.
Kind reader, didst ever see two women
bathe? They emerge from their bath
house, looking as though they had stolen
something and expected to see a hurley
policeman bob around the comer, clap
his rude hands upon them, and exult-
ingly cry, “Now I’ve got you.” Then
they trip along half a dozen Btops, not
altogether like Dundreary or a sand
piper, but somewhat resembling both.
Then one says “Oh, dear!” and reaches
down to pick a pebble out. of her shoe,
while the other takes the opportunity to
yell like a pair of panthers, and then
runs back with all her might to the bath
house. Her mate, of course, doesn’t get
the pebble out of her shoe, but gets sev
eral mare in to keep it from being lone
some. Then the screamer tiptoes down
again to the yelling place and says,
“What a fool I was!” The other comes
down, having secured a new invoice of
pebbles in transit, and screams, “Whal
is it?” As it is nothing but the devil’s
apron string and not a snake, the
screamer again says, “What a fool!”
And the other replies, “I know it!” Then
they laugh. But they keep their eyes
about them, aud eaoh mouth is ready to
emit a scream. By this time they reach
tha water’s edge. A puny roller is ad
vancing. It breaks a little wuy out, and
as the line of foam is sent up the beach
they turn aud scamper with all their
might.
Then one says, “What a fool!” And
the other replies, “I know it!” Then
they take hold of hands, determined to
do or die. Another wave makes them
flinch and tremble and scream just a lit
tle, but they keep on till the water
reaches to what would be their knees if
they were men. Now they face each
other, each holding the two hands of the
other. Anybody who has seen the fire
men at work ou a hand-engine will un
derstand the motion readily. They keep
this np for five or ten minutes, talking
like a brace of parrots all the time, till
oue of them screams with all her might
and runs half way to the bathhouse. She
stops to remark that she knows she will
die, and looking down sees the cause of
her scare—a blade of seagress wound
tightly around her ankle. Spunk
ing up courageagain, they seekthe water
onco more, and again the hand-engine
manoeuvre ia repeated. Then one of
them whispers, “There’s a man!” And
the other sayB, “I don’t care oue bit,”
and runs with all her might to the bath
house. Then the one who has seen the
man saunters slowly after, picking np a
•hell or two on the way, pretending to
think there isn’t such a thing as a man
iu creation. By and by they emerge
from the bathhouse, and ostentatiously
display the key, towels and bathing-
dresses, chattipg in a most voluble man
ner. “It was just lovely!” one re
marked. And tiie other says she feels
“so refreshed, you know.”—Boston
Transcript.
lerests in .urge estate*, but ibis gigan
lie lortune is without entail. Mr. Van 1
-derbiil is unquestionably the richest
man now livini; or that ever lived. It
is extremely probabh- that be is worth
nor- than any two men who have ever
iv , d. , A* i hi* vast .i. cumulation ia the
re*u i-l i ta-itflerVi on- he p-ib. c
rnusit an 1 traffic 'thin me ij-fivr
years pan, its vast e<s suggest' grave
doubts as to the ini lie policy of giv
ing to any individua such great and
unrestrained power
is certainly no fault I”
through. She oaa not play the piano
forte, and yet she always insists on play
ing.”
i SOW IS THE IlNB IH SUBSC iltfi TO
THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE
The January Number, which commences a
new volume, is a very brilliant Holiday one,
orieoiue with »poem, ‘Christmas,’ and tol-
lowed by‘Ohrtatms* Carols and Custom*,’
•The children’* Carol*,’ ‘St. Kieliolaa, the
Patron of Christmas,’ ‘Chrisnn:* Eve in
Madrid,’, Christmas in th® Ksr • eat,’ etc.,
oter - Anew end powerfa- aerial ia oommeneed,
oi the Woi
COXL’SimCHS.
When is a wall b - e a fidi t—When
it is scaled.
How does a stov leel when all of
coals? Grateful.
Which ot the rt i tiles is a mathe
matician ? The adder.
When is a boat like aheap of snow?
When it is adrift.
When is a docto- most annoyed ?
When Ik- is out oft tiienls.
When isaliterar work like smoke?
When it comes in volume*.
Why is the letter G like the sun?
Because it is the centre of light.
What is that wh cb shows others
what it cannot see itself? A minor.
Why is the letter N like a faithless
lever ? Because it * inconstant.
> World,’ by Mix. Hobart
128 quarto page* w e filled with hi. hhr entej*
> ning and instructive nmole*, *! J th*
elliabmecta uro numerous and bt*- ’ifaL
ii-xdxt Mxoaxisx ha. now reach*-i ttsi
KMSWKsae
■■c Place, New York. ■
Down In the End.
Sunshine at Midnight.
cl the sun shining at
_ attracts many foreigners in
Swedish Lsplsnd during the month of
June. . Far six wests there ie scarcely
any night in the North of Sweden; the
sun never sets, end the soil, constantly
heeled, produces in s month end e half
barley sad other crops. At that time ct
the veer the- Laplanders pen up their
reindeers and move their huts toward the
cultivated Adds. Being vary hospitable,
they greet with joy the arrival of tourists,
who generally meet at llount GeUewere,
about ninety miles from Luke. From'
that hill, which ie about six hand
yards high, the beautiful spectade ot the
••midnight sm” can be admired in bet-
tft ^rntjopt then from l&T oth(ST plioe.
Tbs 24 th of June is tha day selected for
the ascension; it is the longest day in the
year, the sun baing twenty-two hours
above the horizon. This year the 24th
ct June was not' favored by fine weather,
and owing to a cloudy sky the sun waa
not visible at midnight, butth* following
day travelers ware well rewarded far their
trouble, the sun shining brightly at mid
night—London OUa
Prof. Bell’s Luck.
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell has re
ceived the Volta prize of the French
Academy of $10,000 for the telephone, aa
“the best application of electricity.”
He values the prize chiefly, as he says,
as settling the question of the real in
ventor. He will cross the water to ao-
oept it in person, and soon return to lec
ture in the Johns Hopkins University at
Baltimore. The photophone he regard*
as at present only a scientific toy, V-nt so
was the telephone at first He thinks its
future use will be between ships at sea,
wrecks and the shore, and for military
communication. He announced the pos
sibility of producing sound by interrupt
ing the action of light on selenium to the
Royal Institute of Great Britain, in May,
1878, and heard just after an announce
ment by Willonghby Smith to the Soci
ety of Telegraphic Engineers that he
tied heard the action of a ray of light on
e crystal of selenium by s telephone in
connection with it. He had been experi
menting that day with the photophone,
and its action was satisfactory to the sci
entific men present. Any one familiar
with tne articulation of the telephone
could understand it Prof. Bell was born
in Scotland, educated at the University of
Edinburgh, and came to Canada in 1870,
and to e chair in Boston University in
1872.—Springfield Republican.
Populnr Ideas of the Cross.
In the West of England there is a tra
dition that the cross was formed of the
mistletoe, which before that event used
to be a fine forest tree, bnt has sinoe
been doomed to lead a parasitical exist
ence. The gypsies believe that it was
made of the ash tree. The nails used at
the crucifiction, said to have been found
by Helena, are reported to have worked
many miracles. One of them was
thrown by her into the Adriatic during a
storm, and produoed a perfect calm.
Another placed in the crown or helm of
Constantine, was found in a mutilated
state in the Church of Santa Croce. The
third is said to be in the possession of
Dnomo of Milan, while that of Treves
claims the fourth. Iu the time of Char
lemagne a new relio was discovered in
the shape of a sponge soaked ia the
blood of Christ. In Cheshire the Arum
maculatum is called “Gethsemone,”
because it is said to have been growing
at the foot of the cross, and to nave re
ceived some drops of blood on ita petals.
The dirpe of Mature died at the crudfio-
tiout “Christ’s thorn” is a very com
mon plant in Palestine. In Scotland it
was formerly believed that the dwarf
birch is stunted in growth because the
rods with which Christ was scourged
were made from it These are the popu
lar ideas of the material of the cross,
some of .which will, perhaps, never be
entirely obliterated until ’ the last great
day, when “all things shall be mads
plain.”—All the Year Round.
Last night while bis reporter was
wending bhi wey b< me he observed a
White woroaD-actMe'ly down in the
ditch, drank. He > hought at first the
woman was dead, but when be at*
tempted to raise her up the famea of
whisky revealed her feariul condition.
With the assistance of some bystands
mite- was carried home.—Rome
Tribune. . , . . . _ ..
ThePotoerqf Speech.—K man who
cannot use his eyes should use bis
tangos.. - . r -
Hull dsrkmfd, soul can eaU tat a
light when it cannot strike alight
The spiritually bUnd 1 man can utter a
loud and exoeedingly-bitier cry that
‘ shall pierce heaven and enter into th
1 -^heartofOod. '
He Wanted Something New.
A cigarette-smoking scion ' of one cl
the first families on the West Side came
into this office to request that a notice
of his coming nuptials might be inserted
in the paper.
“ Don’t say, however,” said the vonng
man earnestly, “that I am abont tolead to
the hymeneal altar the beautiful and ac
complished daughter of Mr. So-and-So,
because that kind of slush is too old;
and, besides, no one can lead a woman,
and then again, it’s leap year. Better
make it read that I have consented to be
hcr’n.” He was assured that it would
be done, and lift.—Chicago Tribune.
They Say,
That coquetry is aoontimted lie, which
renders a woman more contemptible and
more dangerous than a courtesan who
never lies.
That before promising a woman to love
only her, one should have seen them all,
or see' only her.
That real love has no age; it is always
in birth.
That it is a terrible thing to be obliged
to love by contract.
That one expresses well only to lore
which is not felt
That you can trust your dog to the
end; a woman—till the first opportunity.
That of all heavy bodiee, the heaviest
is the woman that we have ceased to
love.
That a woman who pretends to laugh
at love, is like the child who sings at
night when he is afraid.
That rivals who blow out each other’s
brains for the eyes of any woman, prove
that they have no brains.
That love pleases more than marriage,
for tiie reason that romance is more
pleasing than history.
That the highest mark of eetoem a wo
rn rn can give to a man is to ask his
friendship; and the most signal proof of
her indifference is to offer him hers.—
Indianapotis Herald. •
Driven Off by a Parrot.
A family living in Nashville hes a par
rot noted for its wonderful powers of
imitating the human voioe. The family
also has a daughter whose especial duty
is to care for the parrot The yoimg
lady haa a young man, a recent addition
to Nashville society. The young man
rall«<l at the house of his lady love one
evening and pulled the door belh The
parrot sitting in an upstairs window,
heard the jingle of the bell and called out
“Goto the window!” The young man
was startled. He looked at all the win
dows below and found them dosed. He
pulled the bell knob again. “Next doer,”
shouted the parrot in a voice not unlike
Uw young lady’s. The young man
imfcM up and down the street in a
puzzled sort of way as if it had suddenly
A Fighting Turkey.
A certain General, who had earned half
a dozen decorations in the Turkish
campaign, was walking a lew days ago
along oue of the streeta of Tamboff, m
Ceutral Russia, when he was suddenly at
tacked by a ferocious turkey. The unex
pectedness of the encounter seems to
have entirely paralyzed the facilities ot
of the son of Mars, for although he wore
his sword at his side, and might easily
have made mincemeat of his assailant,
he raised no resistance against the enemy,
but shouted for the police. These gen
try hurried from every quarter, but were
anticipated in the assistance by a decon,
who, passing by at the time, seized the
enraged bird—then fluttering on the
General’s breast—by the neck, and held
him captive till the gorodovie and
dvorniki came np and took him into
custody. An owner of the turkey cock
was soon afterward found, and he was
charged with culpable negligence in not
looking after his poultry. At the trial
the evidence adduced added nothing to
what we have already stated, and a de
fense was raised on the simple grounds
that the article of the code mentioned in
the indictment did not refer to feathered
kind, but merely applied to ferocious
bipeds and quadrupeds. The magistrates
diasussed long among themselves the va
lidity of this argument, and at length,
amid breathless silence, announced that
“State Secretary Nikiferoff, as owner of
a dangerous turkeycock allowed to roam
at large, was amenable to the article of
the code referred to in the indictment,”
and. sentenced him to pay a fine of ten
oopeoks (threepence) or undergo twenty-
four hours’ imprisonment A roar of
langhter followed the decision of the
bench, in the midst of which the aolicitoi
of Nikiferoff aroseaudgave notice thaths
should carry the case to the St. Peters
burg Court of Appeal
English Lawyers.
The London Law Times lias the fol
lowing: It is seldom that any English
judge upon the bench condemns the ex
cessive cost of litigation, anil of legal
proceedings generally, in this country.
We would that it were done more often,
hardly less in the interest of the profes
sion than on public, grounds. We hope
that the strong, lint becoming, language
in which Lord Justice Janies recently
condemned the enormous cost of litiga
tion will not be lost upon our profession,
and especially upon those members of it
upon whom the responsibilities of a sent
in Parliament are now resting. Is it
wise, we ask, for lawyers to try the ex
periment of leaving laymen, both in and
out of Parliament, to cut down the cost
of legal proceedings? Is it not the duty
of the legal profession Itself to take np
this question and apply the necessary
remedies, some of which are already
hand? Any sufficient, and therefore sm
stantial, alterations in the legal procedure
must necessarily affect large numbers of
the profession; in some cases adversely,
and in others to their advantage. Among
the sources which give rise to costs, the
incurring of which mightofteube avoided,
the following may be mentioned: Plead
ings, which practice the judicature acta
have to all extents and purposes pre
served; the central, instead of the local
administration of justice; the interests
and the privileges of the bar; the system
by which solicitors are remunerated; the
practice of the judges in granting new
trials; the unnecessary large fees often
received by counsel and allowed on taxa
tion; tiie scale of cost drawn with a dis
tinct view of encouraging solicitors to em
ploy counsel, instead of vice versa; the
delay of dealing with the high court of
justice; tiie uncertainty of the law as at
present administered, in the absence of a
code, and in view of the enormous ac
cumulation of case law, and bv which
litigation sometimes become little better
than a gambling speculation; and finally,
both branches of tne profession are filled
to overcrowding, and the result is a re
siduum in both branches of speculative
lawyers, who are a danger to society, and
who include the black sheep of the pro
fession.
THE BEAR STORY OF THE DAY.
Wentworth Station, Nova Scotia, noticed
his sheep running, and on looking toward
tliofopt of, the monntain saw an enorm
ous bear, crouching and slowly creeping- - ’
toward Ms Sprees, which were feeding on
thelml-sider~ He immediately sent his
son for the gun and an ax. By the time
he returned the bear was within twenty
feet of one of the horets;^ anf'firfdmu
about to spring upon 'the nudunpectiiig
animal. Mr. Embroe was now about
sixty yards from the bear, which, on per
ceiving he was observed, sat up; ana, as
soon as Mr. Embree fired, sprang for
ward, rolled over, and then ran away.
The dog followed him, 'and’ the father
and son kept on the trail by the bloody
track left, and the sound of tire dog Up
the steep and difficult mountain 'dde, it
being almost impossible to get. tlirough
windfalls and undergrowth iu some
places. They had, however, only gone
about a mile or more when they heard
the dog returning with the bear on his
own. track. On standing still for a few
momenta the bear came within forty feet,
apparently, raging mad; tor a moment
the dog checked him, and Mr. Embree
fired at what he supposed to be tiie back
of hisshonlder, but it proved to be the
brute’s enormous head, and he only
struck him on the lower jaw, breaking
off a put of the jaw and one lower tusk
on tbo other sido, and that no doubt
saved their lives. Mr. Embree loaded
again, but when the 'nfonster sprang
upon him the cap failed to explode. He
then used the gun over the brute’s head,
the second blow leaving only the barrel
in his hand, and that appeared to pro
duce no more effect than a riding whip
in the hands of a child. At this point in
the conflict the bear pushed hard upon
his foe, when a log from behind Mr. Em
bree tripped him, and ho fell backward
with the monster upon him. The bear
was abont taking Mr. Embree’s head or
face in his mouth when Mr. Embree
thrust his right hand into the brute’s
mouth and caught the root of his tongue,
but, unfortunately, his arm ooming ont
across his mouth, the monster shut it
upon the arm and crushed both bones, in
Mr. Embree’s orrn words, “as easily as
yon would break a pipe-stem. ” The son
now come to the rescue by dealing the
brute a tremendous blow on the hack of
hia head with the edge of the ax, bnt bo
thick was the monster’s skin and fur that
it only made a small cut Leaving the
father with hiB mangled and helpless
arm, the beast turned upon the sou. He
first struck tiro ax, knocking it thirty
feet out of the,strong young man’s hand,
and then, seizing him by one knee, shook
him, says the father, as a bull-terrier
would a rat throwing him with one shake
nearly ten feet Without even a knife,
the father sprang upon the back of the
bear, and thus diverted the brute from
his son. Twice this dreadfiil game a as
played, turn about, by the father and
son, each in his tnm attacking the bmte
to save the other’s life. While they were
under the. bear he held them dowfi with
his front feet and tried to tear them with
hind heel, but it was too long, and only
tore the ground under them. The final
struggle was fearful. The bear and the
young man under Uinij and in an attempt
to crush his head between lus enormous
jaws, for the want of the lower tusk, ho
was only able to tear the flesh from his
forehead down over his eyes, and holding
the skin of his forehead and eyebrow in
his front teeth, shook the” young man
violently. At this moment the old man
caught sight of the ax, and, taking it in
his left hand, began tostriko at the bear's
bead, the ax often close to his son’s fnco
in the deadly struggle, and after giving
the brute ten blows with the ax from his
one hand, the bear relaxed his hold of the
son’s face, and fell from a cut between
his eye and ear, dead upon the bleeding
body" of the young man, who, during the
last struggle, held a firm grip of the
bear’s touguo. And now the father, with
one finger bitten off, and bis right arm
broken, had to help his mangled son
son home, he having both knees fearfully
mangled, and head and face bitten ana
tom.
African Exploration.
A scheme of African exploration is said
to be under consideration in Portugal.
, which, if carried into ex«mtian, will .
is sot greatness; ••*! probably result in the achievement of Pawned upon hi* mind that he had made
yet smallness is in ifself no blessing, most important geographical work. It ! a mistake in the house. Concluding that
though it may be the occasion of ■man's . is proposed that two expeditions should . he had not, he again rang the bell,
winning one. start annul tanoomly bom tha Porta- * ' ” ’
_ ■ ' ““ gneae pnaeesiohS dn the east and west
coasts of Africa, and,' after -founding e
—*— of scientific and commercial sta-
no Digip rvtnla Innai o4‘ anm$
men the giants have
to see
“Go
i to the hoose!” cried Poll from hia perch
in the upper window. “What house?”
exclaimed the young man angrily. “The
Flattering a Monarch. *
When the Emperor of Germany
hunting in the Harts mountains, ha
fired uxteen shots at the deer, which
appeared in luge numbers wherever ha
went In the evening the Chief For
ester, who had conducted the hunt
showed him twenty-three of them dead,
which he said the Emperor had shat
“Are yon quite certain about that?”
asked bis Majesty. “Yes; positive.”
“Well,” said the Emperor, laughing;
“ that’s very curious, for I fired euy
sixteen shots.”
He Had a “ Scoop.”
One afternoon a reporter entered tha
crowded local room with a countenance
upon which satisfaction and self-oom-
placenoy were very conspicuously
stamped. As the new arrival swaggered
no to his desk the city editor observed
hnn and aaked, ” Well, what is it» What
have you got?” “A good item.
Exclusive, too, I think. Been up to the
pest-house and all through it I tel
you it’ll write up bully!” The enter-
prising reporter was crushed by being
given a vacation, to commence imme
diately, and he had to take it
At the gambling establishment of
Monte Carle the police have strict orders
to search the grounds every night foe
the bodiee of suicidee, and to remove
aa quickly as possible, thatyisitera
may not be shocked by discovering the
remains.
A “ uu>t author,” who is unfortunate
enough to live in England, says: “Lady
authors are not very nighly esteemed in
these days; nevertheless, they are ac
cepted as one of the neoeesuy evils of
the age.”
Cot* Lnanaoui, according to toe
Brier Correspondence.
Many people object to postal cards on
account of their effect on personal cor-
respondence. It is on© of th© natural
tendencies of human nature to avoid
trouble as far as possible; and it is so
much easier to write a cord than a letter
that it is often given the preference. So
that in fact the close intimacies that once
might exist between persons who lived
far away from each other, fed and fost
ered by long letters which were really
antobiogrophies, are no longer a part of
our social lif©, as they "were to those of
our grandmothers. Distance now sepa
rates divided friends more really than it
did fifty years ago. It is a pity to lose
toe charm of so many private lottos,
written from the heart, and giving to toe
absent, frank, simple pictures of toe
events of toe passing hour. It is diffi
cult to Bee from what material the mem
oirs of toe present and oomrng genera
tions will be made. A file of correspond
ence cards, a drawer full of “postals,
will afford but scanty substance out of
which to build up toe fabric of history.
No tender reminiscences can be gleaned
from these barren messet^ers; no
gtiinpee given of homo affection; for of
c-ourse no on© writes “Dear— or ‘'af-
fectionately yours,” for fear of exposing
this wave of emotion to toe observation
of toe postman. No one likes to write
anything either affectionate or important
on so public a medium; therefore toe
sweetness of the sentimental correspond
ence in which our ancestors delighted “
fast changing to the bitter brevity
bard tact.
Transplanting Wild Flowers.
Every one who desires to remove from
the woods and other wild localities ths
finest native flowers, should mark the
spot where the roots may be found
after the blooming season has ceased.
This should be done while plants are
made conspicuous with their blossoms.
Early spring flowers have now passed,
but many are coming out and more are
to follow. Our ornamental gardens
should not be made up exclusively of
exotics; we have many American plants
of surprising grace and beauty which,
interspersed in the wilder portions of
grounds, add greatly to their attractions.
—American Cultivator,
Max Haller to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In honor of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s
birthday, Max Muller sent toe following
letter from London;
The translator of the Upanisliods,
Moktksmnla-Ea, send* greetings and
beat wishes to his American Guru,
AmaTssonu, on his 77th birthday, and
incloses an extract ftom an Upamshad
lately discovered:
“Old age and decay lay hold of toe
body, the tenses, the memory, toe mind
—never of toe Self, toe looker-on.
“The 8elf never grows tired—the
body grows tired of supporting toe Self.
“"The Self never grows blind—the
windows of the senses become darkened
with dust and rain.
“ The Self never forgets—the inscrip
tions on toe memory fade, and it is well
that much should be forgotten.
“The Self never errs — the many
wheels of onr own small watches grow
rusty, but we look up to the eternal dial
in the heavens above, which remains
right forever.”
Shbep 8heabmo.—Washing sheep,
under toe present system of buying
wool, will, perhaps, be toe prevailing
practice. If care ia taken to keep toe
sheep so that toe wool will not be filled
with dirt, it is better not to wash.
Fleeces should be done up into care,
nioely rolled and securely tied with
light twine. When it is known that a
farmer puts up his wool ip nea t shape
without any tegs, etc., he will obtain
toe highest price. Everywhere, but
cially here, “ Honesty is the beet
Foddeb Cor* may be sown in drills,
two and a half to three feet apart, and at
intervals of ten da-fa for several weeks
to come. It is not well to sow toe seed
broadcast, aa the plants, to do the best,
need to be cultivated while young, and
fox thia purpose drills are necessary.
The smaller varieties Are . preferable on
account of superior fineness of-the fod
der. The notion that sweet corn, is bet
ter for com fodder than toe ordinary
field aorta is without foundation. That
the grain is sweeter in the former does
not indicate that the stalks are any
better. *
not dwarfs inetatun.
turns along their route, ineet at some
do see who are point in tbe interior. ; A
workhouse!” shrieked Die parrot. The \ **’
*5%- .
T think it a good <
for .Mr* Beecher that I n>-
A boy will go in swimming and fool
■round the water, for hours together;
but when told to wash his face he will
have almost a hydrophobic dread of half
epintolwater.
Itamas opera was first introduced
into England at the beginning : of the
eighteenth century.,.,,.,,•
New Jersey is still troubled with mo
squitoes. There is’ a taint suspicion that
toe residents don't know the difference
between mosquitoes and Christmas tar-
>«jk ,, /, ^i'', .
Evert child has a right to Christinas
and all the happiness -the word implies.
"Whki the weather ia mild at Christ
mas, cold weather taste tiU spring.”
Santa Chaots is a discriminating dd
tallow and seldom mskee e mistake' • By
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