The Paulding new era. (Dallas, Ga.) 1882-189?, February 01, 1883, Image 1

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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. • 1 THK “ORIGINAL” STAR SPANGLED BANNER. The oldest, most popular, best and cheap. «.t Family paper, begin. it» 21st year with 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.