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THE PAULDING NEW ERA.
Wm. A. BREOKENRIBGE, Publisher,
“OnMiird nn<l Upward.’
SUBSCRIPTION i $1.50 Per Annum*
VOLUME I.
DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY. GA./FEBRUARY 8. 1883.
NUMBER 10.
PKOFUiasIONAL CARDS?.
R.
OASO.V,
dentist.
Wi! belli Dallas on (he fomth Tuesday
mi each nion'h, lo ,l» „|l kind, of dsntsl
wo,fcb e | 0 5 to the p'o'ers’oii. He will
remain only one werk in cncli month.
s. bobTetson,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
TemDra his proftsshn il s rvhes in tic
practice of medicine in nil its tiMuofae* to
the citir..»ns of Dallas and KurroundiiK
country. No. 5 Ac vorlh street,
near c art house.
w. K ITRLDBR. GKO. II ROIIERT*
JjNI ELDER * ROBERTS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
DilUa. Paulding Cmntv, Gaorgla.
I’rao ioe in ell the o >ur a. Prompt ntten-
tmn RiVt n to looking afler wild laud claims.
Uollecttons a apecia ty. 1 ly
M SPUNKS,
‘attorney at law,
Dillai, Paulding County, G.’orgin.
Proaipt attention given to collections in
any part of Mm State. Wild lauds looked
after and Intruders ejected.
THOMPSON & SPINKS,
Attorney ami Counsellor at Law,
Da'las, Paulding C>., Ga.
Will practice in all the couris of this State,
from the ju tice c ourj up* Prompt attention
Riven to collections Looking after wild
lands, removing intruders, etc., made a spe*
•clalty.
D allas jewelry store,
N^xt dooi to Hotel,
Watches, Clock* and Jeweliy repaired
at short notice
Vt.demd it with lD tire u Stamps and
w« will semi one R.imilo s it of 6 uew st) 1
Myrtlo ’tilp e plat 11 l;a p. mu. Co -
(aius no ton Harriot I Kcntilnp, equal
iu Hpp-aiancu to th'oe dollar sp ms.
tu want m i ta p'enr, oi money r<fun I* J.
. 3t r« nt t) int. dilute * gen’s wanted and
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NEWS GLEANINGS.
Ostrich farms are to bo established in
Southwestern Texas.
The demand for Georgia pine is groat*
ly on the increase in the North.
There nro 3,100,000 acres of United
Stntcsjands for sale in Mississippi.
Four thousand merino bucks have boon
received by a San Antonio, Texas, firm.
Lake City, Fla., is supplied with bear
meat, which is sold at fifteen cents per
pound.
The Governor of Alabama is mansion-
less, and his salary is only suffcioiit for
a bnro subsistence.
The Vicksburg Herald estimates that
there are forty pistols to ovoiy subsoil
plow in the State of Mississippi.
Augusta, Gn., loses the 150,000 dona
tion leTt liy Gazawny 15. Lamar, through
a decision of the United States Supreme
Court.
The noted Indian mound nt Tusca
loosa is to lie excavated. It is expected
that some interesting relics will be un
earthed.
establishment. The difficulty scorns to
ho in securing a suitable site for the
building.
Mr. llanson, President of the Cotton
Manufacturers’ Association, insist that
(be South must not continue to be do
pendent on imported labor, and that it
must establish polytechnic schools, where
the young men of mechanical inclina
tions nnd talent may be taught mid be
come expert.
There is a law in Georgia requiring
emigrant ngents to pay a license fee of
$.100 in every county in which they sc- i‘ ton party recently.
licit emigrants. It is said that tlieie nre . , ,
, „ , , . Tittrnumber of roligious works pub-
a number of these agents who nre vio- ligllcll , n KugUml lliat ytfar Wll9 TO! ,.
lattng this law. It is said that Mormon | udvcls.
missionaries miglit he barred under a « » .
strict construction of the act. Tim police of Berlin will no longer
The Texas Meat Company hns com- I permit publio performances of tamers of
menced the erection of an extensive es- loins and other wild animals.
FOR #1.
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Labial Organ*
Sweetest and most dcliiUtful music know.
Popular io Europe Any June can Ih played
on it, from Oitl Hundred to Yankee Doodle
Even th se ,: with no ear” while away de
lightful hours wiih this instiHuieat. An;
oue can »>l.iy it Children piny it in <>w
evening. Costs but one •tenth as much as
the O g nette, Orgarinn, et’., ainl is far
sweeter and needs oaly campion music, lo
introduce oil new iuub'c we will Rend a sam
ple Organ, with bound book containing iu 1
woids end music of 96 new and popular
songs, which iu ► hec-t foim ec!1 for
prepaid to aoy ad li e >9 f r OSL\ $ * •
C, o. I).—As a guaran.ee that eve*y one
will receive all the/ pay for, we will nend
fnaniinple b>ok and organ by expro-s C.
O. P,, $100; two for $t 60; three, *2 o0, cr
more at tnc rate ot i!> per dozen. We can.
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free! Addie«3 MONADNOUK A1USLC CO ,
I.io'c Box 7S0, II iisitale, N. II.
H e. smith &co„
, Dallas, G orgia,
Dealerr in Family Groceries, Plain nnd
Fancy Confectioneries s specialty. Eveiy-
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We desire lo say lo our friends nud the
public io general that haviag opened out u
stock of groceries nnd ciiiEeciionciies, we
p-opose lo sell them ns cheap is the cheap
cst. ‘ Sm dl Profits and Quick Sales shall
be our motto. Come and tee us and be
convinced.
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A Northern company linn purchased
the iron ore bed near Rome, Ga , paying
$10,000 for it. Another blast furnace is
to bo erected.
A party of gentlemen from Kentucky
nre prospecting in Florida, with a view
to start a factory to manufacture fibre
from ‘ hear grass.”
A party of Michigan capitalists have
inndo largo purchases of timber land in
Marion county, Miss., for the purpose of
going into the lumber business.
The Knoxville Chronicle thinks that
the people of Tennessee could afford to
give atvny their iron ore to people who
would build furnaces in their neighbor
hood.
At Mobile, Ala., Mr. nnd Mrs. T,
Oalle, Mrs, Bamhaucr and her daughter
Fanny were poisoned by eating hogs
head cheese that had stood iu a tin ves
sel for some days,
Virginia ranks seventeenth in the list
nlK.I, f.^ln.l.n 0 '- 1 • ■> - '
haden nnd shad fisheries being the thro
branches in which her citizens are most
extensixely interested.
“A reward of $500 and no questions
asked,” offered by Judge Strong, fails 1
elicit a response in the case ot the records
which were spirited away from the
County Clerk’s office in Atlanta.
'Three barges nnd 00,000 feet of wal
nut lumber, valued at $3,(500 wore lost
last week in the Powell river, on the way
to Chattanooga; 130,000 feet consigned
to New York rcnched the city in safety.
The Atlanta Constitution tells of a
Georgia boy just a little over eight years
old, who last year cultivated with a
common goat three-quarters of an acre
of land and made 233 pounds of lint cot
ton.
Teople in Athens, (ia., arc loading
their wood piles. A nogro stole some
the other day from one of the loaded
piles and now her cooking stove is flying
through space, and site’s lying up for
repai rs.
The freezing of fish, flowers and other
articles in blocks of ice. which are used
in the windows of restaurants, making
very attractive signs, is practiced by the
New Orleans ice manufacturing estab
lishments.
* A Hernando county, Florida, farmer
made last season from seven acres of land
planted in sugar cane, fifty-one barrels
of syrup, five barrels of molasses, ten
barrels of sugar, and sold 30,000 stalks
of seed cane.
TO! IO t OF THE HAY.
Jin. Edmund Yates docs not think
Hint artists should bo bio literary.
The Legislature of North Carolina has
judicially determined that dog stealing is
not larceny.
Anv person in Pennsylvania over six
teen may lie fined for using the nnmo of
God in vain.
Tub gold plated thermometovB were
distinguished ns German favors nt a Bos-
tablisliment at Victoria for the slaugh
ter of entile nnd sheep, which it intends
to ship direct to New Orleans, St. Louis
nnd Chicago in refrigerator cars. The
Refrigerator Car Company is largely Di-
Complaint is made in London Hint
when an netor'tlirows a lighted cigar on
the stage ho may cause a llro,
| Miss Mauy Bunn Bartley, who has
tercsted in tbo enlerptise, and will of j uat become a bride in Staunton, Vir-
course use every exertion to make il a ginia, is thirteen years and ton months
uccesss. | old.
An old Indy in Hartwell. On., 1ms t, ♦♦♦
, , . r FiiOUinA ornngo groves nro mud to no
made all the necessary preparations for I „ Qt 8Q mU()U Jn doumn(l , l8 they were.
her burial except the coffin. She lias a
black silk dress, all the necessary under
clothing, a cap, gloves, etc.; even hns a
like of perfumed coup, wash rag and
towel for washing her body, nml a can-
lie nearly two feet long, which she lias
bad ever since tile war, and which is io
afford light for the watchers when she
lies in slate.
There are about 1°,000 acres of land
in Walker county, Ala, owned by va
rious individuals. They nre coal land
bordering on Hie Georgia Pacific road,
and it is understood Hint a company is
to be organized in this city with flic
object of purchasing nnd developing
theses lands. Since the Georgia Pacific
through Walker county lias been a "fix
ed fact,” a large quantity ot mineral
lands have been sold in Walker county.
A movement 1ms recently been started
Albany, Gn., having for its object the
early re opening of the Flint river to Al
bany to navigation for ordinary river
craft, as was the case conic years ago,
and before the completion of its railroad
system. The success of the scheme only
requires the removal of a few prominent
obstructions in the cbnnnol, between Al
bany and llainbridge, which, will give
safe navigation to llie Gulf.
Many of the South Carolina farmers
express a determination to prepare dur
ing the present season tor the general
introduction of immigrants in the fall,
so as to prevent the embarrassment re
sulting 1 from tlieunccrtain element which
they have bad lo depend upon hereto
fore for labor They propose lo build
comfortable houses nnd make other ar-
ram.cnients for the comfort of the immi
grant, which will go to insure his per
manent settlement in their midst.
William Griffin has been fined $10 in
New Oilcans for perpetrating a "pill
box” lottery. lie would enter a house
nnd ask the ladies if they wi.died to play
lottery. Then lie would take a number
of pill-boxes out of hit pocket, put five-
dollar lulls in some and paper iu others;
shake up the hat and let his victims
draw nt the rate of fifty cents a chance.
They generally "won on the first round,
but after Hint luck would turn, and they
would come out losers. As bis victims
were, ns a rule, respectable, (bey did not
complain, but eufftred in silence. He
finally struck the wrong parlies, how
ever; hence his arrest,
The oraugo grove imsiuoss has been
overdone.
It is claimed timt the United States is
worth $50,000,000,000, or aii.Qfifl.nna.000
more than England and $13,000,000,001)
more than Franco.
It is statod Hint the death of Mr.
Critohett, the eminent English oculist,
wns hastened by romorso for a grave mis
take mode by him in an operation.
Gov. Hamilton, of Illinois, iH another
successful man who boliovos witli Disraeli
that ami titious women often make their
husbands successful. To n young and
lovely schoolmate ho owes, lio BiiyH, all
ho lias iu the world.
In ordor to pay tlio oxpenses of the
coronation of Kahtkuun, it is proposed to
pledge the King’s personal credit. Mean
while, nencocks and turkey gobblers are
tho royal parnpliornalin.
Tins King of Portugal was so ploasod
with tbo Amoricnn telephone that ono
wns bought for the palace, and his Min
isters, at least on ono occasion, were
called up nt night to gratify bis Mnj-
csty’s desire to talk witli them nt a dis
tance,
Walter Winn, oue of tho Novada
pioneers, wlio died at Genoa, in Unit
Htnto, a few days ago, was Seerotnry of
State under Governor Sam. Houston, of
Texas. IIu left valuablo reminiscences
of pioneer life in tho Southwest nnd on
the Pacific Coast.
John G. Whittier recently roccivei
from n Chicago lady 200 engraved visit
ing cards with a request to writo liis
per month. By tho expiration of her
prcHont contract sho will thus have earned
139,000 at tho Opora Comiquo. Tiron
ilio will ooiuo homo to America to make
some moro.
A Mr. Jones, who made a fortnne as
an army tailor nud thon dovotod thirty
years in collecting objects of art, died
receutly, leaving to the South Kensing
ton Museum tho ontiro collodion valued,
at $1,000,000, nud pronounoed by ex
perts to be the moat costly over present-
ed to a national museum. Somo of the
London newspapers Riioor at tho gift be
cause of tho means by xvhioh tho giver
lunde liis fortune.
Osoar F. Brown, formorly a bnukor
and broker iu Wall streot, Now York,
was, n few Sundays ago, ordained an a
minister of tho Reformed Episcopal
Church. Two years ago ho oponod n
mission’ in ono qf tho worst localities in
New York, xvhioh ho called Zion Chapel.
It now hits ninety communioants nml
850 scholars in tho Siinday-soliool. ID*
expects to build a oliuroh, as tho chapel
is net largo ouough for his congrega
tion.
The Priuoo of Wales, at tiro urgent
request of the Princess of Wnlos, is bo-
stirring himsolf to put down tlu omul
sport of “pigeon shooting." Tho ladies
have formed a ring, nnd intend "boy
cotting” Hurlinghnin until tho Gun
Club discards tho "protty dovo" and
adopts tho "terra cotta pigeon,” a now
invention which iH boiug brought out
under tho patronage of tho Priuoo of
Wutuu, ami aiiu Ins scon at work lit the
lUnclugh Club grounds.
The proposod change in the manner
of iHsuiug pntonts should interest inven
tors, iunsmuoh ns tho cost would be only
$1. wherens it is now from $50 to $100.
This too would bo for simply registering
tho olaims of invontors, leaving tlicx mat-
tor of tho valuo of their works tq lio
afterward trioil, nml that of infringement
to ire tested in tho courts, as iH practi
cally and roally now tho case. Tho ma
chinery of tho Patent Oflico would ho
greatly simplified in tho afar plan,
The Now York Jleralil wants proprie
tors of livdioB 1 shoo stores to liounoe the
young men clerks and roplaoo them with
needy women, arguing that it is a great
tneke young mftn’try on tneir suoes, - jr is
to lie assumed tliat practical business men
xvlio run hIioo stores know wliut they are
about, and when thoy find they nro
losing trailo by hooping young men to
try on shoes thoy will exchange thorn
for other and less objeotionnblo clerks.
The statement that Joseph Cilloy of
Now Hampshire, is tho oldest living Kx-
Honntor of tlio United States is contra
dicted. Tho oldoHt is Ex-Gov. Alexander
Morton, of Louisiana, who xvns in tbo
Henato from 1H37 to 1843. Gen. Daniel
R. Atkinson ontored tlio Sonnto in 1813,
and still livoH iu Missouri; Henry A.
Foster succeeded Silas Wright in 1811,
aud Simon Cameron became a Senator
in 1815. Mr. Cilloy’s term began in
1817.
A mono tlio many amazing tilings told
illustrious name on each of thorn, as tho !
Mr. Knight, the superintendent of the ^ re , idenco of Mrg . Jns .
Maginnis cotton fuctoiy Jt_ Now Or--| R . Polk( co , llain * among other valuable
mementoes, picture of the world-re-
k
I limn re Your Properly Agnliiftt I.«8H
by Fire.
I i m agent lor tbe Continental Insurance Cotl-
panv, wuich i» confined to tbe insuring cf faim
n opjity, dwelling*, ciurcbe’, and fchool houses,
lor cue, threa and tiro years. Every piudent uian
ieeljfafe wieu be knows that if he $hcu d ha bo un-
joitunate as to get hia propo. ty d:itroycd by fire,
he will have the great?r portion of hislojsevre*
pac d This ii • uliable company aid 1--surf3
fora! w rate. Call on uir, and I wm tiva vnufull
explanations •• A.
I V I) IX 18 Sand to MOORE’S
Jj Lo Business University,
Ailanla. Georgia,
Fd II' 11 atrated Circular. A live actual bus
iness school. Established twenty years.
leans, makes the prediction that in
twenty years all the mills of the b nited
States producing plain brown cotton
goods will be located in the South.
Mrs. Lucinda Ross, of Monroe county,
Ga., is seventy-four years of age, has
one hundred and forty five living de-
scendents and thirty-one dead, and. be
ing an aceoucheure, has officiated at the
birth of one hundred and fifty-eight of
the aforesaid posterity,
Macon Telegraph: Dogs command a
much higher price in Georgia than
sheep. Legislators have a superstitious
fear of the evil results which they im
agine would come to them if they should
try to equalize tho value of these ani
mals by putting a tax on Hie farmer.
Although a year lias elapsed since the
appropriation of the $200,000 for the re
building of the Pensacola custom-house
and post-office was made by Congre;
noxvnerl conqueror of Mexico—Hernan
do Cortez—and is a life-=izo three quar
ter length view of that illustrious hero.
Equipped in liis beautifully ornamented
and shining coat of mail, holding a
truncheon in Hie right hand, and the
left hand resting upon the hilt cf his
sword, lie is standing beside a table upon
which lie his iron gauntlets and his hel
met crowned with waving plumes. The
hair and board are dark and abundant,
and the large brown eyes are looking
upward with a contemplative express
ion not to be expected in so restless aud
daring a spirit.
—Jacob Van YVoort, a farmer in good
circn m - Lillees residing in Albion, X
Y., dropped dead the oilier inornhij
after drinking s me cold spring water
Death was pro’ ably duo to siiiisnn din
action of the heart caused by the robl
water. Mr. Van Wocrl was sixty-nine
xvritcr wns to givo a reception to hor
.friends and desired to present thorn with
some memento of the ovont.
Congress is asked to voto $20,000 for
tlio Rooliamboau papers referring to tho
French troopH in tho American war of
independence. Tho papers include 152
lotters from Washington to Bochamboau.
$8,000 is asked for ox-Sonator Carpen
ter’s collection of Hupremo Court decis
ions and briefs.
Commissioner of Railroads Arm.
strong recommends that the Government
bring suit for $1,500,000, duo from tho
Union Puciftc Railroad. This is tlio 2. r
per cent, of net earnings, less a fair price
for transporting troops nud supplies,
which tho Union Pacific is required by
law to pay tho Government.
Dr. Marion Sims, xvho lias a special
reputation for treatment of nervous dis
eases, declared in Philadelphia the otlior
day that Horaeo Greeley suffered from
cerebro spinal meningotis in liis last ill-
ne3G, and “should no moro have been
sent to tire insane asylum for treatment
than should a delirious typhoid fever
patient.”
Writes tho Palis correspondent of
life (London): “Miss Lilian Nordiea,
the American prims donna, made her
appearance as Ophelia in ‘Hamlet’ at tho
Grand Opera tho other night. 1 rench
critics complains of her strong American
accent, and slightly guttural voice; on
the other hand, they admit thathorarras
and hands are aliovo reproach, anil that
hor eyes, tooth, rind •mile are not un
interesting!”
| nothing has yet been done toward its rc-| y Carg 0 u and leave-; a family.
Miss Emma Wixom, otherwise Mile.
Nevada, this year receives $1,000 per
in on tli for singing in opera in Paris.
lNc-xt year her contract calls for $1,200
that if a tied of coal tlio sizo of the State
d Pennsylvania, and ten feet thick,wore
suddenly shoved into tho suu, it xvould
lie UBed up in keeping up the present
energy of tlio sun for just ono-hundrcdtli
part of a second. Another of liis illus
trations of the sun’s energy is liis esti
mate that tlio ruiufall on Manhattan
Island for tliroo mouths, loaded as ice,
xvould fill a train extending from Jersey
City to Ban Francisco. ^
Tub lionos of John Howard Payne,
which have Iain in liiB far uxvay grave at
Tunis for moro Ilian thirty yenrs, were
taken up the 5th of January and sent to
this country for reburial. John Worth
ington, our Consul at Malta, who was
tlio only Amorican proHeut at tho open
ing of tho grave, writes an account of it
to tho Chief Clerk of tlio State Depart
ment. A little company of twenty per
sons, among them two xvho attondod
Payne’s funeral, gathered around the
grave at noon, and tho cofllu, which xvas
Imilly decayed, xvas soon laid bare and
lifted out. Iaittlo wns left within it,
save tiro blackened skeleton, a fexv but
tons and somo gold laeo that had orna
mented tho Colonel’s uniform in whioh
l’ayno was buriod. These remains,
placed in a lend casket inclosed in a
hard xvood box, rested ovor night in the
little Protestant church, where a simple
service was held, and Payno’s once fa
mous song, which lias lived because it
appealed to universal sentiment, was
sung.
Denver Tribune primer ; Wlmt a
Beautiful Piano? You can see your
Face on tho Cover. If you Had a Pin
you could Scratch Nico Pictures all
Over the Piano. Will you Piayon the
piano9 Your Fingers are not Long
Enough, aro They? But you c.in
Pound on tho Pretty Keys witli vour
little Fists. May be, if you Pound
Ilnrd enough, Mamma xvill Come to See
xvho is Making Such Lovelv Musio.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
-Victor Hugo will not koop a plant
or bird as prisoner in his houso.
—Major Burke, of tho Nexv Orleans
Timet-ih morrn', xvent to work -in a
stone yard ns a common laborer just
utter the xvnv. Ho Is now supposed to
lie worth $500,000, and to lio looking to-
XYimls tho United States Senate.—Chi-
cugo Journal
— At a recent wedding in Paris, Vic
tor Hugo was a xv.tnoss, and the Mayor's
eleik, when lie inked liis namo, en
quired whether lie spoiled it Hugo or
1 Ingot. 'I ho xvliolo world kn ixvs of
Victor lingo, but to the -. iork of tlio
Mayor ot l'nris ho xvas but it stranger.
—Mr. l.nb molioio says In London
Truth Hint "Anthony Trollope never
made anything a ipronoliing to liltlO,-
000,” and that the "most h glily ro-
mnnonitod and sueoessful’’ author of
tlie 1! th century, taking into account
the amount, of work accomplished, xvas
certainly George Eliot.
Mrs. Sarah Wood, aged 121 years,
d oil nt llutonl, Ga., recently. Sho xvas
a slip of a young woman when tho
Doo’nrntion of Indommdenco was
signed, null hur husband fought lit tlio
Imttlu of King's Minin uin. They had
eleven children. She lived 102 years in
Buford and xvas for fifty years a mem
ber of the Baptist Church.
—ltev. Dr. William M. Taylor, of New
York, iu n lo.ttiire on "Books," said:
"In rending nmols I xvould advise ouo
to read it ns Hebrew is read, backward.
Unravel tho plot, and then you can road
the book with un appreciation of its
heniitioa, mid not hurry it ovor xvith
your ears lislonlng nil the time for tho
marriage hells of the end."
—,ru!m r». xvitiuiur xvrnos uioiollow-
ing note iu response to an inquiry as to
the truth of a published rumor that a
play from his pen was shortly to he pro
duced : "Thy timu will bu lost in going
in search of the 'drama' of thu news
paper slip. I never knew of it before.
It Is a very foolish liu. The idea of a
(Junker plny-xvrlght Is unspeakably ab
surd."
—Captain Nutt, xvho xvas recently
killo I iii Unloiitoxvn, I’n., only a few
months ago purchased n proprietary in
terest In tlio Iln ris burg (I’ll.) Telegraph,
and Intended, ill the expiration of his
term of ollleo as Cashier of the I’otm-
sylvnnri Statu Treasury, to devote him-
silf to iournal'sm. lie was a member
of tho l’ennsylvenln Hislorioal Soe oty.
-- I'liilailclphiu I'rcxa.
—John K. McDonald, of Indiana, hns
boon telling liis reminiscences of Abra-
IrVhU’jn'llft M\m‘%nkrM M
xvhioh i have to deni. When n soldier
descr;s lo go ovor to the enemy and is
captured, 1 lot tho law take its courso,
lint when a man lias boon a long time
in the service and lias not had a fur
lough, anil who. when on picket, gets to
tli liking of liis xvito and children, an l
breaks for lull timber, 1 never let them
harm n hair of liis huud.'’-ClticuQO Her
ald.
Melssonlor’s Dog anil Neliitons’ Pay.
A pet dog of tho painter Melssonior
one dnv broke ills leg. rendered friable
by over-feeding. Moissonior, desolated
by such an accident to so bolortd an
animal, resolved to have recourse to tho
prince of surgical science, who lit Hint
time was Nolaton; but not venturing to
declare the into motive, ho telogrn lied
iu hot baste for him as if to visit one of
the family, then living at their charm
ing residence at Bougival. Nolaton ar
rived, and entering thu drawing-room
began talking on various topics with
the master of tho house, xvho, although
he had painted many battles and chit.o l
off many victories, know not limv to
face Hie present affair. At last No! it on.
becoming impatient at the delay, and
knowing tho valuo of his time, asked, o
the great embarrassment of the pain nr,
xvho.ro liis patient was. Presently tlio
wounded brute xvas brought in o:i a
mii'Uilliccnl cushion, howling with p on
iu spile of nil thu cure taken. At so
distressing a spectacle, Moissonior, for
getting everything else, cxcla met. m
agony: "8ave him! illustrious master,
savo him!”
Nolaton drossed the fracture, anil tho
(log recovered ; and shortly afterwards
its master wrote u grateful letter to the
great surgeon, thanking him for Ills
kindness, and requesting to know h s
fen. Nchiton replied that when iho
painter came to Parishe could call upon
him. This lie soon did, and xvas pro
ducing his purse crammed with bank-
Totes, when Nolaton exclaimed : "Stop,
sir 1 you are a painter, are you not? .lust
put n gray coating on these two | anols
xvliich . the cub net-irakers linvo I n-
ishod !” This was, indeed a delicate
revenge ; hut which hint the last word?
Mnissoiiier, who, going at once to work,
at the end of a fe w days produced txvo
of liis rhe.fa d'oucrc on the panels.—
Medieal 'limes.
—An Englishman “in reduced cir
cumstances" advertises to let himsolf
out to those people who xvish to play
practical jokes. Ho will allow cold
water to be poured' over him, to be
thrown into tho canal, to be tripped up
in the streets,, to havo articles sent to
him, including coffins and “bull pups,”
to bo sent to streets and numbers that
do not exist, to have his door-bell rung,
to be tho victim of mock telegrams, ana
thus servo in a score of yyays those hu
man beings who rejoice in giving pain
and annoyance to others. But as it takes
away all the fun of tho thing if the vic
tim knows it beforehand and is xvilling
to submit to it, tho Englishman in re
duced circumstances will not find many
patrons.