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THE
BBECKENBIBGE & FREEMAN, Pnbliiterg,
“Onward, and Upward.”
VOLUME I;
DALLAS. PAULDINGHDOUNTY, GA„ FEBRUARY 1. 1883.
FRQlPtP.aai( INAL DARDS.
R
CASON,
deivtist.
Will ba in Ballaa on the fourth Tutsday
In eaoh mouth, to Ho all kind? of rtentol
work belonging to the prerefsioo. He will
remain only one irctrk i.i each month.
J^K. S. ROBERTSON,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
Tenders his professional service# In the
l>r«ctic# of medicine in all its tranche*to
the citizens r>t Dalian and surroundine
country, ^Office No* 5 Acsrorth stiest,
ntar o urt house.
w. K riKl.DRR, GKO. ir ROBERT<.
jpiELDEP. & ROBERTS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
DtlUs. Paulding C runty, GiorgU.
Prao ioe in all the eiur-s. Prempt atten
tlou given to looking af.or wild land olaime.
Collections a npecin ty. 1 ly
J M. SPINKS,
‘attorney at law,
Otllai, Paulding County, Georgia.
Prompt attention given to collcot'ons in
anr part of the State. Wild lands looked
after amt intruders ejected.
THOMPSON & SPINKS,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Dallas, Paulding Cr,, Gi.
Will practice in all the oourls of this State,
from the ju tiee touri un - Prompt affention
given to collections Looking after wild
lands, removing intruder?, etc., mode a sire"
deity.
D allas jewelry store,
N.xt door to Hotel,
Watches, Clocks and Jeweliy repaired
at short notice.
And sii <1 it with )9 (Jrarn Stamps ami
we will Rend one anini'le sat of G uiw ntyl
' ‘’Myrtlo ’ trlp'e plata*! Tca-p.ions. Co •
. J lalns uobra.i*. wkithntod genuine, *qui)
OUT tn a PP i>R,Jtn( o lo tbreo dollar up j job.
UU I Uuirantei-1 to p'eue, or money refunded,
©my one a#t Rent to lnt oduce Agents wanu>it nnd
good pav. lirnt art f r«. AfMre'a the inmufac -
nrera, Sli \WMUT SILVER PLATE CO., R8 Bro-m-
Uddkt.eet, Boa tor, Vm
YOU CAN HAVE ANY KIND OF
Sewing Machine Repaired.
All Kinds of Needles,
Attachments, Parts, Etc,, Etc,
— OF—
1*. McCORMACK,
51 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Oa.
B@r,Sond Machines by Express.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
. #37.35 FOR, #1.
/Hnnlc for the Million.—Vienna KoUun
{ Labial Organ.
' Sweetest end moat delightful music know.
Popular in Europe. Any tune can ha played
on it, from Old Hundred to Yankee Doodle.
Even those “with uo ear" while away de*
lifgtitful hours with this instrument. Any
♦one can play it. Children play it in one
evening. Coat# hut one-tenth as much ns
the O ginette, Orgauinn, etc., and is far
sweeter and needs only common music. To
introduce our new raus c we will send a sam
pie Organ, with bound book containing full
words and music of 96 new aud popular
tonga, which in sheet form sell for $36.35,
prepaid to any ad Ireis for ONLY $1.
C. O. t>.—As a guarantee that every one
xvill receive all the/pay for. we will stnd
cm mm pie book and organ by expre : s C.
O. D„ $100; two for $160; three, $2.30, or
more at the rate of *9 per dozen. We can
not prepay goods sent C. O. D. Circulars
free. Address MONADNOCK MUSIC CO ,
Look Box 780, Hinsdale, N. II.
H e. smith & oo.,
. Dallas, Georgia,
Dealers in Family Groceries, Plain and
Fancy Confectioneries a specialty. Every
thing fresh and nice; just from the factory !
We desire to say to our friends and the
public in general that having opened out u
•took of groceries aid confectioneries, we
propose to sell them as cheap es the cheap
eat. ‘ Snnll ProSts and Quick Sales” shad
be our motto. Come and see us and be
coavinced. •
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186ft. It is a large 8 page, 40 column illus
trated literary paper, size of the ‘ Ledger.' 1
Oram full of splendid stories, stretches, po
ems, wit humor and general fun. Rudest
■ud most popular paper published. Estab
lished 20 years, read by 60,000 persons. It
is solid, substantial, reliable. Only 50 cents
h year, 5 copies, $2; or 75 cente a yesr with
choice of set of six triple plated silver
spoons, no braes, new style, retail price $1.-
50; or Am. Dictionery, 700 pages, illustrated,
defines 30,000 words, numerous tables,
bound in cloth, gilt, better than usual $1.50
books, or wonderful “MuHuui-in Parvo”
knife, a dozen tools in one handle, sells at
one to three dollars, buck handle, name
plate, etc., or superb bell harmonica, sweet
est mnsioal instrument known, price 1.60.
Either of above premiums and Bsnne r one
year sent free, for 25 green stamps. Sub
scribe now. Satisfactiom guaranteed or
money refunded. Trial trip 3 month for only
10 cents. Specimens free. Address STAR
SPANGLEL B INNER, Hinsdale, N. 11.
The decline of Raleigh’s trnde during
the past twelve months is said to be
caused by freight discrimination?.
Bird’s eye maple, which sells for *160
per 1,000 feet in England, is med for
fire wood in Western North Carolina.
1 he sheep men of Texas are losing
heavily. Col. W. H. Martin, from a
flock of fine merino sheep numbering
2,500, lost 1,200.
About 500 negroes have left North
Carolina through fear of small-pox, pod
have gone to work on the turpentine
farms of Georgia.
There is talk of an elovated railway at
New Orleans, to run along the river
front ntalicighth of fifteen feet above
the surface of the ground.
In Texas the Slate accommodations
for the insane arc utterly inadequate.
There are more thnn 1,000 subjccta fit
for an nsylum, who are dependent on
private care.
Information from various sections of
North Carolina is to the effect that the
cotton crop of that State will ho over
50,000 bales less than last year, and
that great quantities of cotton left in
fields unpicked has been badly damaged
by snow,
A “Spinster Club" was organized at
Athens, Gn., for tho purpose of demon
stratiugjlhe social indciiendcnco of young
women, nnd no men were suffered to at
tend. Then a bachelors’ club was er-
ganized in self-dofcnso, nnd at last ac
counts they were holding joint sessions.
Inconsequence of tho recent mileage
system of pay adopted by the Richmond
and Danville railroad, all the freight
car conductors snve four have thrown
up their jobs. One conductor who tried
the new arrangement was not able to
make more thnn *19 in the Inst two
weeks with all the running he could do.
Salt Lake City lias projected five Mor
mon missionaries into Chattanooga, who
will distribute themselves through the
adjacent region. These young men were
originally residents of tho Southern
States, having emigrated about five
years ago. It is said that sixty-five
missionaries nre already at work in the
South.
A Btatemcut just prepared by the
Commissioner of.'Agriculture shows that
the're nre twenty-seven cotton mills in
South Carolina now in operation or near
ing completion. Those mills have an
aggregate capital of *-1,647,000, run 4,-
120 looms, and 180,721 spindles. They
give employment to 4,202 hands, and
pay out $728,9 0 in wages annually.
It is estimated that the cotton crop of
1882 yielded 8,259,000 tons of seed. The
oil men now pny *12 a ton for seed de
livered at a railroad station or river
landing, which would make the seed
crop worth *89,000,000. Deducting fifty
per cent, of the seed for planting pur
poses, the remainder would bring *19,-
500,000 in the market. Only ten per
cent of the entire seed crop is brought
to market nnd an immense quantity of
seed is wasted, hut what is utilized for
commercial purposes is worth from $8,-
900,000 to *10,000,000. As long ngo’as
1834 an oil mill was started at Natchez
Miss., by two Georgians and a Kentuck
ian, Mr. Anderson Miller. They lost
money in it and abandoned the business.
In 1847 another unsuccessful ventura
was made at New Orleans, but in 18;>T>
several mills were successfully operated
in that city, which were closed on nc-
ceount of the war. Binco the war closed
the business has assumed larger propor
tions, nnd it is probable that in a few
years every pound of the cotton seed
will he utilized for oil and oil cake, at a
large profit.
TOPICS OF THE OAT.
The last alleged disoovery is that
there are horned mon in Africa.
Tub ico-gorgo at Niagara recently war
fifty feet in height nnd two miles long.
Forui.Ait feeling in Franoe is reported
to ho an alarmed demand for loaders ol
ability. _
A contest of fat people for a prize to
tho weightiest, is tho latest New York
sensation. *
An Iowa town of 1,300 inhabitants is
flavoring to maintain twelve ohuroli
'anizntions.
Henry <8x11011 is about to visit several
Western eitios as tho guest of aocietici
for tho prevention of oruolty to animals.
Charles H. Bell, of Exeter, N. H.,
tho President of tho Webster Booiety,
wuuts to raiso 8100,000 to found a Web
ster free library in Boston.
Italians are tho most zealous theater
goers of Europo. Tho Frouch and Gor
mans come next in tho list, while tho
people of Grout Britain nro tho sixth.
The EmproHS of Austria is so hostilo
to femalo doctors that no graduate is
allowed to practice iu that country. She
prefers a male quack to a femalo physi
cian. _
It is said that Mrs. Da Ponte, of New
Orleans, has gone to Washington for tho
purpose of gelling to tho United Btaton
the original parchment draft of the Con
federate Btatos’ Constitution for $30,000.
Miss Jennie E. Davis, who has been
chosen to the head of the female depart
ment of Liberia Collogo, Liberia, was
graduated at the Girls High Bolionl, Bos
ton, ton years ago, and has siuco been
leaching iu Missouri.
Prince Charles, of Prussia, who has
just died at the age of oighty-throu,
owes his untimely death to the oxcos-
sivo uso of tobaoci# For tho past sixty
years he lias smoked a couple dozon of
Btrong Havana cigars daily.
The Emperor of Germany’s gift of
*125,000 to his inundated people is
worthy of liis rank, nnd it may he hoped
will make an impression on Queen Vic
toria, whose benefactions are usually
quite unworthy of her purse and posi
tion. _
A plan is suggested for mechanically
removing scars loft by small-pox and ul
cerations. It is by daily rubbing the
part with fine sand. A small spongo
filled with soap lather and dipped in
marble dust, offers n convenient wny ol
doing this.
The New York Herald thinks that
theaters should be compelled to securely
inclose every burner or row of lights in
glossed frames as wall a* in wiro nettiug;
then thoro could not be breakage of tiie
glass or inflammable material come in
contact with the gas flame.
may he eiMuted on aa its really unhealthy
properties.
It appears from tho thirty-fourth
annual report of tho Astor Library thot
during the year tho sum of *18,200.85
has been expended. Tho fund for main
tenance was $431,500, aud tho endow
ment fund $1,345,810.48; 5,725 volumes
have been added during tho year. There
were 51,850 readers. Tho income was
$23,828.(1, aud tho expenses $10,101.92.
CoNOIlESSMAN KeNNA, wllO will BI10-
cocd the Hon. Henry G. Davis ns United
States Senator from West Virginia, will
he one of the youngest mon in the Sen
ate, being only thirty-ftvo. His onrly
lifo was spout on a farm, and ho won his
education in a florae struggle with diffi
culties and ohstnclos that would have
proved too muoh for most men to over
come.
At a recent Are in the Cambridge,
Moss., oar shops, ono of tho ouginoers
wanted help in raising a ladder, and see
ing a mau staudiug on tho sidowalk near
l>y, lie eallod to him, “ Here, yon, give
mb a lift. ’’ Tho man responded with alao*
rlty, and a moment later when the en
gineer took a better look at him, he dis
covered that liiH assistant was President
Eliott, of Harvard University.
A woman riding on a Pennsylvania
railroad on a free pass was badly injured
by a collision, and the company resisted
her claim for damagns on tho ground
that by one of the conditions on tho
ticket the user nssumed nil risks. Tho
jury gave her a verdict for $2,000, and,
tho enso being appoalod, tho Supremo
Court affirmed tho deoiBion in favor ol
tho plaintiff.
At the Drury Lano pautomimo in Lon-
don, one of tho actors, made up us s
poodle dog, runs entirely around on tho
edge cf tho dross circle, and tho othor
night wont to tho royal box, stood up,
begged oud had liis “paw” sliakon by
the Prince nnd Princess of Wales, This
set the house wild, far beyond anything
that was cither olovcrly or powerfully
performed on tho stage,
Thf. entire supply of whito pine grow
ing in 'the United suu« and ready for
the ax does not to-day greatly, if nt nil,
exceed 80,000,000,000 feet, nnd this esti
mate includes the small nnd inferior trees,
which, a fow years ago, would not have
boon considered worth counting. ’1 lie
annual production of this lumber is not
far from 10,000,000,000 feot, end tho
demand is constantly and rapidly in
creasing. _
A French scientist, explaining why
fish oaten in Holland are superior to
those eaten iu Franco, says that tho
Dutch flshermou kill their fish as soon
as taken from the water by making a
slight longitudinal incision undor the
tail with a very sharp instrument. Tho
French fishermen, on tho contrary,
allow their fish to dio slowly, and this
slow death softens tho tissues and ren
ders them more linblo to undergo
change.
be partly vislblo in many pi ices, hut
few will sec it in its entirety, ns ils path
lies almoat entirely through tho ocean,
touching laud nowhere but nt a little is
land in the South Pacific oallod Caroline
Island, which is out of tho track of any
established oommoroo or travel. Tho
Freuoh Government has determined to
sond an oxpodition to that island, and il
is probable a grand international gather
ing of astrouomors will meet there to
tako part in this scientific quest.
Not a Bulker.
{insre Your Proptrlj Against I.oaa
bj fire.
I i ia agent far the Continental Tmurnnre Com-
j, my, watch It confined to tbe loBiirlnz of f Jim
ri optitr. dwelling', ciurcbei, nnd icbcol housea.
for cue, three and fife year.. Every prudent man
farlr tale ween be boors that 11 be thou d bo so tin-
lo lunate sa to set his property daetroyrd by fire,
be alll have the greater portion ol bla lorsea
pac d This 1. a nimble company, and lniurn
Ijralrwrnt'. Call on roc, aud
in an- tloca
r any, an
will sit
I". A. FOttTE.
A panic in roses is reported from Now
York, with n oorsospoudiug downfall iu
the prious of other llowors. Last autumn
Roman hyacinth bulbs cost $11 a hun
dred, and now tho fragraut spikes ol
whitebloom, which they have nursed
into yioldiug, soil for only $1 a hundred.
Lilics-of-tho-vnlluy nnd othor standard
blooms are sold at almost as groat n sac
rifice. Tho growors are hoping that
somo chance will bring a rally in pricos,
hut it is feared that tho trade will uot ho
prosperous agniu before Eastertide. Tho
explanation is that tho soareity of flow
ers in 118% bMauze a! the dry w oath or,
put the price. up to th* highlit flguiM
aver attained, and thia la time resulted
in an overproduction sinoo, which U
now having ita effect
Grafted Teeth.
Transplanting sound tooth from Iho
jaws of healthy porsons who could spare
thorn to those who naedctl Ilium has boon
praotlood by nilvanood dentists for some
tlmo. The modus oporamll was as fol
lows: Tho individual with tho super
fluous sound tooth and lio with tlm dn-
nyod molar were matod together and
tho freshly drawn good tooth Immedi
ately placed In tho cavity made by ex
tracting tho othor. But il often hap
pened to bn nocossary to roniovo a sound
tooth from a patient at a tlmo when no
I iersoii of whom tho dentist had any
;nowlnlgo needed just such a one. It
would thoroforobo lost, fur only “living"
teeth could ho made to grow in a strange
mouth, and tliuy dietl very soon allor
being torn from thuir parent gums.
Teeth are “living” so long n» the inom-
brano covering tho roots has any vi
tality. it has boon a problom of groat
Interest to dontists throughout America
to doviso somo means by which the
sound extracted tooth could lio kopt
alive indefinitely, until it should hu
needed, and to a Nun Fruoci.oo dentist,
belongs the honor of solving the prob
lem. Dr. W. J. Younger, of Ibis city,
says tho Call, has been conducting a
lories of experiments, which have re
sulted in the discovery of a means of
preserving tho lifo of tho extruded
tooth. It Is nothing’ more or loss tlinu
grafting" it as soon as it is drawn,upon
the engorged comb of a hotthhy rooster,
nnd leaving it there proporlv scoured
until it is wanted. Then it Is cut away,
tho cock being plaeod under Iho influ
ence of chloroform, washed, ami every
thing removed down to tho membnuin,
and jilaccd in tho freshly made cavity
where it Is needed. A representative of
the Call was permitted yesterday to ex-
atnino the mouth of a gentleman In
which thoro was a tooth that had been
planted there a week or so boforo, a ml
which was apparently as firm as those
which had always been thoro. It had
been kept ttlivo on a cock’s comb for
ten days, and had been taken from tho
mouth of a young lady, whose looks
wore benelltod by tho removal.
Accordino to tho Chicago Inter-
Ocean, tho appointment of women ns
school superintendents in’jlllinois litiB
been notably successful. They bring a
painstaking care and thoroughness to
thoir work not always shown by their
their masculine colleagues.
TnE invalid wife of Wendell Phillips
keeps her husband confined to the old
house, their new home, on Common
street, Boston, and his withdrawal from
the lecture field and public oocasions is
not due to any falling of his own powers
or lessening of his interests.
A bot of eight years died in Eng
land, poisoned by the action of a sub
stance used in dyeing stockings. Sit
John Humphreys testified that several
striking proofs had come under |his no
tice of the danger of wearing many of the
dyed stockings offered for sale.
T?DT?F S'Dil to MOORE’S
Jj it) Ft Vj Business University,
Atlanta, Gent gin,
For Illustrated Circular. A live actual bua
iaeca tcltscl. EaUb’.irhetl twenty .
The first dash n blnck bass makes nfl
ter feeling the steel, is toward his lair or
other hiding place ; failing in this his
next move is to tear himself loose by
constant motion nnd main strength, or
by breaking water and violently shaking
bis head to endoavor to dislodge the
hook in this manner. Ho will always,
if possible, take refuge under a rock or
snog at the bottom, or go to the weeds,
and will surely succeed should the ang
ler lock skill, or his tackle ho insufficient
to prevent it; and once wedged beneath
n rock, log, or other obstruction, or set
tled among weeds, ho will rub out the
hook or part the line without much
trouble; and this by some anglers is er
roneously eallod “sulking.” But that
tho black bass ever sulks in the manner
ascribed to the salmon, by settling snl
lenly on tbs bottom, I positively deny.
—American Angler,
—H. A. Garfield, son ol the laic Pres
ident, has been chosen to be an editor ol
the Williams College Athmmtm
Dp , Ellis, of the Canadian AsBocia
tion, has mode analyses of tho milk ol
cows fed with different kinds of food.
Ho finds there is a greater amount ol
fatty matter iu the milk of cows fed on
distillery refuse, but he saw no evidence
that tho milk was impaired by such feed
ing. m
Mns. Mauia Appleby, who died re
cently at Morristown, N. J., aged 105,
left behind her unexpected wealth.
Nearly every article of clothing belong
ing to her was found to contain rolls oi
bank hills, and a nair of shoes in her
bureau were filled with coin. Nearly
$8,000 was found.
It is commonly thought that the freez
ing of water eliminates its impurities.
Under some circumstances this is so, but
anybody can see for himself that the
grosser impnrities arc often captured or
enclosed in the ice, and so also are im
perceptible impurities of water which
A FinE balloon hns been matlo In
which tho lower part is constructed of
asbestos cloth, while tho upper part is
covered with a fire-proof solution. A
spirit lamp is used to supply the hot air
for inflating it, nnd, being flro-proof,
there is no risk, as ordinary hot sir
balloons. Tho system is said to ho
specially valuable for war balloons, us a
supply of spirit can ho oasily carried
where it would ho diflloiilt to take tho
appliances for preparing gas.
Those who aro under tho impression
that the standard of comfort in Franco iB
high will lio surprised to loarn that
5,000,000, in round numbers, out of tho
9,000,000 of dwellings it contains have
only four openings and less—an open
ing being an outside door or a window.
Thoro nro 250,000 dwellings in that
country that aro . 'istored as having
only ono opening, n-d nearly 2,000,000
that have only two—a door and a win
dow. Tho number of houses that have
six openings and above are 3,000,000, or
very little more than a third of tho
whole number.
The improved hives which have taken
the place of the old cumbrous ones, that
wero so awkward’in handling, and failed
to yield an equal supply of honey, when
compared to these remodeled ones, make
the care of bee-keeping muoh easier and
pleasanter. Tho small sections of honey
mako the article much more salable thnn
formerly, though they require careful
handling. Altogether, with due enro
and proper management of this beauti
ful and interesting branch of domeslio
industry, the apiary should ho found
upon a dozen farms where it is now
found only upon one.
It is said the total eclipse of the snn
on tho Gth of May next will last six min
utes, and no longer ono will probably
occur .within tho next 100 years, It will
Thoroughly Married.
Mr. nnd Mrs. Harvey Curtis, colored
residents of Soipio, N. Y., have occa
sional misiimlerstandinjjs which result
in complete, utter and final separation,
ill a fetv weeks they begin to yearn lor
each other, and after making mutual
concessions, make up, and, in order to
observe tho proprieties, call upon Cal
vin Tracy, Esq., a friendly Justlco of
the Pence, to marry them again. In a
brief season, misunderstanding again
ar ses, complete, utter anil final separa
tion follows, yearning, reunion and
remarriage coming in at last, as usual.
Every time Esquire Tracy performs llio
solemn ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. llnr-
vc.v Curtis Blurt out tor homo us happy
and as joyous as when this oxnorioiice
was their first Its repetition does not
dampen tho happiness of the newly re
newed pair, nor does experience pro
mt Iho quurrolings and compromises
which come in natural course, .lust
how often this performance lias been re
peated is not known; but it is believed
that Mr. Tracy hits remarried tho couplo
at least twenty times in tlm twenty
years that have justgono past; and yot,
in all that time they have never Imd any
divorce except such as they had made
themselves. It would trouble a court
greatly at tliis late day to divorce n
couple tlmf has been so frequently and
thoroughly married, ns Mr. and Mrs.
Curtin have been, by Mr. Tracy.—Detroit
I’osl. .
Johnson gave as » reason for the re
serve habitual among Enlishmcn that
“wo do not as yet unuorstand tho com
mon rights of humanity;" Inferring
thereby that a time would como when,
by the butter understanding of those
rights, this characteristic would be ef
faced. This was spoken ninety-nine
yours ago, but it can not ho conceded
(lint the wished-for consummation has
heeii attained. In fact, it may bo said
that with our more frequent and inti-
mnto acquaintance with foroignors, our
suspicion of thorn lias intensified; Hilt
our insular reserve is quite as remarka
ble among ourselves as in opr Inter
course will) strangers. As a French
writor remarked, wo surround ourselves
with it seemingly hnponutrnhlo wall of
ice, but, tho walls being onco penetrated,
absolute capitulation follows; nnd even
Goldsmith’s “Citizen of tho World," in
summing up tho national character, de-
clnrod that ho would have men of any
othor nation ns acquaintances, but En
glishmen as friends.
Wo carry this love of privnoy Into
ovory walk of life, and under all efreum-
oes. ’ An Englishman entering a train
at a terminus may bo obsorvod invai ‘
bly to choose an unoooupled
mant, andl by hUJookialwi*
Intrusion tho entranM ol any
Two Englishmen may bo tho
at a foreign table d’hote,
within a few Inohee of ot
tho meal will nrogrose from coup to den*
sort without tne exchange of a word bo,
tween llimn. It has, in fact, become
almost a standard rulo of propriety
among us that strangers should not ad
dress one another without having under
gone tho formal process of Introduction,
and wo are all familiar with the story of
a Frenchman whom an Englishman had
saved from drowning, and who em-
hracod-tils bonofaotor with all the effu
sion of his race, hut was mot with the
omark, almost as chilly ns had been
Ills hath; “Sir, 1 have not tho honor of
your acquaintance.”
Hence tho almost unbroken silonoo
which prevails whanevor a party of
Englishmen strungo to oacli other are
galhored together. In tho crowded
trains which go In and out of our capital
ovory morning and ovening it is quite
unusual to hear m remark made, not so
, much liantuiM n.o .ummiants are on-
giurod with thoir newspapers ns nwaum
thoro is nothing In common botwoen
tiiom; and if by ohanoo a word should
ho spokon, it Is almost ludicrous to
notioo thu absorbing interest it creates
in tho hearts of the othor passengers.
’Flint tho oharnotoristle of reserve Is
dooply implanted in tho English nature
is sufficiently proved by the familiar
fact that, however thoroughly at homo
and free and oasy people may become
in tho courso of an evening, repentance
comes next morning, and tho meeting
In tho streets during the day is mnrkcd
by all tho old stand-offishness and for
mality. Every Englishman’s house Is
Ins oastlo, anil in nothing is tho English
lovo of privaey hotter exompliliod than
In tho change which comes ovor a man
when once ho has crossed liis own
threshold. Ho breathes frooly, and tho
outer man by which ho is known to the
world is cast off as an actor doffs his
stago costume.
And yet not evon tho privaey of homo
is n ways nblo to banish the English
man's roservo. Tho habit bogot of
constant assumption in tho outer world
too often becomes second nature, and is
carried intotlio family circle; hence tho
awe with which Paterfamilias is often
regarded by the olivo branohes. No
man is a hero to his own valet, but tlio
English father is very often a being of
another world in tho oyes of his off
spring, and although, wo may ridicule
the way In which hirsute foreign
gonllomon of mature ago ombraco and
cuddle ono another after an absence of
a few hours, it Is, porlmps, regrctablo
that wo do not soo a little more of tho
English fatlior loaning on his son’s arm,
while as to such a childish freak o.x an t
exchange of kisses, Young I lopeful,
after his first term at a public school,
fcols himself very much above that.
Much of our character abroad for
absurdly pompous prido is traceable to
our habitual reserve, and tho foreigner
can not be taught to believe that in nine
cases out of ton this is simply tho result
of shyness. Many an Englishman will,
rather than ask a stranger for a light
for liis cigar, deprive himself of a
Bmokc. Ho may lie longing to scon tho
contents of a newspaper lying idle on a
railway carriage seat, hut because it is
tho property of a stranger ho will con
tinue his journey unsatisfied. Even
Scotchmen aro more sociable and com
municative than Englishmen; Scotch
men aro brothers all the world over, as
any resident in tho East, or Australia,
or Canada, can testify. But English
men aro strangers to one another. At
a pinch they will put their shoulders as
firmly and solidly togethar as any men;
but tho pinch ovqr and tho crisis past,
thev aro onco again strangers, and
to have t lie smallest interest in
tiler’s affairs.—Towlaa flint,c
— An Austin grocer insulted Mrs.
Moso Schaumburg the other day, with
out intending it. She is an immensely
stout woman,and stopping on the scales,
playfully requestoil the grocer to weigh
her. As ho adjusted tho weights he
remarked that she weighed 100 pounds,
which proved to be the exact woight.
“How did you como to guess it P" she
asked. “I am used to guessing weights.
I weighed hogs for live years in Cin
cinnati.”— Texas Sittings.
—A New York tailor says that when
he desires to get rid of a poor paying
customer lie misfits him so badly that
he is laughed at. Then he gets mad
and patronizes some other tailor.
A jion vivant one evening told one of
liis bottle companions tliut ho intended
to leave a sum of money to he spent at
liis funeral. His companion asked,
“Whether the said money was to bo
spent in going or returning ?” and was
answered : “Going, to be sure; for when
you return you know I shan’t ho with
you.”
—A rich Brooklyn corporation em
ploys a man to light the streot lamps in
lrontof tho factory, and allows him one
match to a lamp. If lio is extravagant
enough to increase tho allowance they
charge him with the extra lucifers.
Economy is the basis of wealth and the
company are evidently laying a good
foundation. —Brooklyn Eagle.