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CjjcWccMs^arattr. J. r r. ■W-A.TBIR3S4LA.3Sr, RPOPRIETOR. RATES OF* ADVEHTIHING AdTCTti*eroei\t8 will be Inserted at the rate of One Dollar per Inch for the first Insertion, and Fifty Genu for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES: One lucta_...... Two Inchee.-.. Three inches^. Four Inches—. Quarter Column Half Column.... One Column mo.fi mo. jl year • 2 50 4 00 5 00 7 00; 8 60 6 00 8 00* 10 00 10 OOj 12 H> 15 00' 90 » ts ool ao «w 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 me atmm UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY if T'TtT ct ...x Cl 111 r v Y > < / \i. THE CHEAPEST PAPER IN GEORGIA—OI DOLLAR A YEAR—IN ADVANCE. ' '■ -• ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRU1RY 1, 1SSI. Number 12. ®feklg§airaer. 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- SYl-VA US MORI: IS, s wsiaoB 11 uw JLXX245ITS, ^SORC VillaUoml j romptl) to any buainc -. entrusted vohiiu. ufict HuanicuU Unct 8bii<; treet. tgigi if. • t ••; POPE BABRCW, ATHENS, GEORGIA. Broad Street, same stnlra with Teleyraph g<8cg MISCELLANEOUS ADV. lHftl. ’ 1881 THE CONSTITUTION Never In our hUtory he* » reliable, FIRST-CLASS NEWSPAPER been »o e*.wnti*Uy needed by the Southern ptople hd at preeeatl Nemhw THE OoNktjtut- TIon been »s THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED and eo fully jvre^red to furniab such a paper m TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE UNEQUALLED by any Southern paper, with trained currcept dent* in erery locality in which its renters i intore»ted, with m CAPABLE EDUOKt.VL SVAFK a crp. of .«cl nt rrporwm,.n<l tbit Iwrt nfamrl.i coutributon. Tu* Co.v.-TiTurios can pnunUe If It. mlm that It will ba bettor thou aver bafora, a ad will confirm it* poaiUoa aa tha Leading Southern Newspaper. WbllaTwaConmroTtoa will cony tha pnaral new* of the day. and expraap Its opinions frankly on politic*! topic.. It-witr devote apectal attention to the w Development of Southern Resources In all leclllinatn channel* or direction*. Every tieoifian and every man Interested in Southern entorfistae and growth. ahnsJdwd las Osnawi 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 duhSoftwaair. *l.t»nyonr. "SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR, one year, *1.50; tn clubs of ten, *12.50; to data of twenty, *->u. Weekly CaantttuSinn nni Cultivstor to same address, one year, *2.50 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 ** “ mm* f - ’N-SS3SRT"