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DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 31. 1883.
NUMBER 26.
GENERAL NEWS.
Fifty'six thousand ooeoaniits will be
planted at Rei? Weat’.'^la.
In one week, near Winuna, Miss.,
Buffalo gnats killed over 100 horses an
mules.
Lowdftes county, Miss., has over $16
009 in its treasury and docs not owe a
cent. , ■
The white Baptists of South Carolina
liavo 010 churches and 08,782 commu
nicants, and the colored baptists numhei
00,000.
It cost $70 to raise 331 bushels ol
rice at a point in South Carolina, which
sold for $310 iii Charleston. Net pro-
edda t*=270.
Nearly one hundred thousand dollar
worth of buildings have been erected in
Morristown, Tenn., ia the laat twelve
months.
The State of Virginia expended more
than a million dollars in 1882 for the
support of her common schools. Ol
these 4,002 arc white schmds, and 1,52?
colored.
in is found at the South that land
planted in cotton, alter a vegetable
crop, produces a bale to the cere, where
only one bale to three acr.s was tin
rule
Near Bate City, Fla , is a doad pine,
which is broken oll’nt a distance of sixty
feet from the ground. In the top of
this tall stumn grows a huokclberry
buali.
In 1860 theie were 540,760 sheep in
North Carolina. In 1870 the numbei
was 488,485. In 1880, by the aid of the
Legislature and the dogs, the numbei
lmd fallen to 461,038.
The great need of New Orleans it
admitted to be a comprehensive and
harmonious system of drainage, Tbt
city authorities have determined on the
appoio'.mcnt of a commission to look
int<> the matter.
New Orleans has discovered a new
thing l'-> do with its oyster shells, whicl
is to plant them for the production ol
more oysrters It is now found that bed
ding them out in oyster waters stimu
lates production.
A short time ago Mr, Thomas Peters
of Birmingham, Ala., sold 30,000 acre:
of mineral lands lying m Fayette and
Walker counties, to tho Kentucky and
Alabama Coal, Iron and Land Co., foi
i 03,600.
Tl.e Governor of Alabama has nwar-
«le 1 contracts for 400 convicts. Ol
tills number 200 were let to the Pratt
Coal and Coko Company at the rate o 1
$1!) a month for first-class hands. $1.5'
for second and $7 for third class.
Adams’cotton factory of 3,000 spin
dies, started last year at Montgomery
Ala., was closed recently for want o’
satisfactory prices realized from yarn-.
The property rill be sold by resolution
of the stockholders at an early dny.
The shipping of cattle from West
Florida to Texas has not proved suc
cessful. Maj. Hines, of Marianna, losi
one out of every six head shipped, and
that before the arrival of the shipment,
in New Orleans. The cattle do not
sfrm hardy enough to stand any rough
usage.
According to tne Atlanta Constitu
tion, Georgia will produce 6,000 ca>
loads of melons, or more than 7,500,001
separate melons. The price of melon
ranged in Chicago from ewenty-eight to
twenty cents. Averaging the crop this
jear at twenty cents, and patting 1,250
melons to the car, each oar will la-
worth $250. This will make the crop
worth $1,500,000 for this season.
The largest sale of Georgia gold lands
ever made has just been consumated in
Loudon. Negotiations between Dr.
Joaiah Curtis, of Washington, D. Cl
the representative of the Nacoochec
Mining Company, and an English com
pany, have been pending for several
months past, and have resulted in the
purchase of the latter. The purchase
includes nearly 8,000 acres of the hesi
gold lands in the coanty, includiog
lands of J. K. Dean, J. H. Nichols and
others, besides the Nacoochee Mining
Company’s canal, mill and lands.
It is not safe to judge meu hv their
looks. A rude garment of flesh may
hide from us tho beauty of the soul, un
til the lightning of the spirit breaks
through its environment.
■ Term oar mm bay.
% Thp.ukaual dividend of seven, per
cent for ^be unfortunate depositors in
the Freedmen’s Bank has been announ
ced. This makes sixty-two per cent ol
the funds restored to them.
Malloy, the southern man, who recov
ered $20,000 for libel from the New
York Herald, for having been charged
with being suspected of includisrism.
has had his damages cut down to $4,605
on a second trial.
Tho City of Wilmington, Delaware,
’’aving ordained a dollar tax upon everv
telegraph pole in that city, the oompany
refused to pay. The authorities order
’d the removal of every pole from the
'•roots, and $850 were promptly noid
under protest. This is a new form oi
oole tax.
The Brooklyn F.agle, commenting on
the recent cliatigtt In proprietorship of
the New York World, says: "A news
paper, to he successful, must draw its
support from the public j to deserve and
win sup,port,It must bd true to the pub
lie interest and free from even a suspic
ion of control by public enemies ” This
i< a (ruth of general application Its
force is not limited to New York.
Tkc Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
h ss decided that giving a letter to n
carrier is equivalent to depositing it in
the post-office. For it can make no dif
ference whether one hands a letter to a
carrier or puts it in a letter box a lew
fret away whence- the letter-carrier
will take it. The decision arose put of
a suit in which the Indorser’ of a note
claimed that he had not received notice
M protest.
Goldsmith Maid trotted 2112 heats in
2:50 or better, won $864,200 during her
trotting career, and captured Ipl races.
American Girl won $118,100 in forvy-
cine races. Rams won $114,060 in six-
tv-three races. Judge Fullerton Won
*102,035 in thirty-two races. Flora
IVmole won $90,000 in eighty-six races,
lopeful, $89,000 in forty-nine races.
Lady Tiiorne, $79,675 in forty-obe races
The actual gains brought to hor owner-
iy Goldsmith Maid, over expenses, were
246,750.
During the ten months ended April
30th, 1883, 417,688 immigrants arrived
in the United (Mates at the principal
3i stoins districts. During the ton
months ended April 30th, 1882, the
number of arrivals at the seme districts
was 644,601, showing a falling off dur
ing the ten months last past of 126,913.
By fiscal years immigration to the ITni-
’ed States was at its highest tide during
the year ended June 30th, 1882. The
urlvuls for tne current flscal year will
he fully 150,000 lees than they were for
that year. Still, with the exception of
the. focal years 1881 and 1882, Immi
grants are now coming into the United
tates at a greater rate than ever before
in its history.
The wise ones say there is nothing si
hard to hear as prosperity; hut most
men would like to engage in some hard
work of that description just to have a
practical illustration of the adage.
The bones of Charles J. Guiteau, the
a«snisiu of President Garfield, after hav
ing been in the Army Medical Museum
since July 3d last, have at length, it is
stated, lost their identity as his bones
Tee day following the execution, which
took place on the 80th of June, Uui-
teau’s body was entered under the floor
>f the east wing of the jail. On the
night of July 3d it wa^resurrected by
the anatomist of the museum, Dr. E. F.
Ichathcrt, and taken to the museum.
Here the hones were prepared for ar
ticulation, and being in fine order for
such purpose, it was supposed that some
day or other Guiteau’s skeleton would
he placed in a glass case in the museum,
properly labeled. It was known by a
number of clerks and other employes of
the museum that the boneB were there,
hut only a few persons have been per
mitted to sec them. It has been deemed
inadvisable, however, to place the skel
eton on exhibition as that of Guiteau
for, like the cervical vetrabrie of the
assassin of Lincoln, Wilkes Booth, it
would have attracted too large a crowd.
Recently Dr. C. II. Crane, the Surgeon
General, took the bones into his per
sonal possession, and he has made
disposal of them of which every other
peifon is ignorant. GenT Crane will
doubtless keep the secret to himself,
is thought the bones are yet in the buil
ding as an entire skeleton, or that they
with other bones, form exhibits there,
A mas who has that sympathy which
leads him to remember the. lowest and
tlic poorest, has in himself an iuflnenco
which will overrule pride, selfishness,
all passions.
Tim Viennese dandy is sotttothllig
wonderful, lie is invariably slender;
very slender* and h*s A f-tOo that t.4
meaningless and has no moro expression
In It than a Dour dll tripling. Ills hair 14
invariably parted In the ntlddlw and is
cared for twndorly amt with groat
solicitude, his teeth must lie white, or if
otherwise, he keeps his mouth shut-
tightly that they may not be sanrt. lid
has a board, always IV light ono, for tho
material for heavy beards is lacking,
and be shaves that meaningless face at
least onco, if not twine *dft)\
His clothing Is something to wonder
at. If tho fashion for collars is the
standing, his is a tilde higher tllrUl any
one olss's, oxUept those of Ills own o’nss,
and if the turn-down is (lie mode it Is
always widerThan any actual gdntlartiait
would wear, and hts IroWsors are wldor
at tho bottom, or tighter, as tho case
may be, thjyji any one else wears thorn.
H. Boats aro tho rule his Is A IHI14
shorter than tllose shown on (ho fashion
plates, and M long, longor. Ono thing
invariably marks him, his onffs arc
always enormous, there Is it Vast extent
of white on his wrists; anil his hands, up
as far itt blast As that part Which tho
cuffs do not expose, aro scrupulously
dean, and always wliit ■. in short,
whatever the modo he dresses to it,
only exaggerating just enough to attr.101
attention.
As to what Is Underneath liiose sixag-
gorutod garmonts, that m iy never be
known.
There probably arc no stockings tindor
the immaculately tVeancil atlil polished
boots, and very likely the. gaudy scarf
suffices also for tho shirt, and possibly
Lho body, exucpl what is vi-iblCi hits hot
known soap ftlld Witter for wooks, but
wlms is to bo seen is purity and frosh-
ness itself. Ho alwnvs carries a light
switch of a eano, and in the day on the
streets and at nights in tho antes ho finds
pleasure in being seen, and) by waiter
girls who aro fresh from the country
and not familiar witli (ho speoies, nu-
mlred.
Ilia waltzing in the dancing-hulls is
something novfii 1 to tin forgotten, any
more than his wnlk as he promenndo’j
tho principal streets. They have the
same kind in l’arfs, and also in America,
but as in America they lire employed
during tho day, they mo not seen so fre
quently. I11 Vienna the salesmen are
generally saleswoman, and the Vioncsc
swell is cut out from the handling of
ribbons and dross-goods, and has plenty
of timo to disport himself on the bounti
ful streots. How ho lives 110 one has
over beon able to find out. Ho hasn't
brains onotigh to gamble, nor ability
enough to do business, i’robably the
most of lliom live upon lltoir mothers,
They appear to have just enough Capac
ity to fo'low that profession. It almost
reconciles ono to a monarchy to know
that, these insects urn u impelled, ilka all
Other mates, to servo three years in tho
army.—D. II. Locleo, in Total'. Wait.
About lion tdo.
Old Jelry Greening, the limiter, srt.ys
that on one occasion hfl shot It lipnf itiifl
was going to drag tlio carcass homo,
when lie discovered the hear hud just
been robbing a yellow jackets’ nest and
was still covered witli tiro fiery little in
sects. “’F Unit b ur lied only beau
wounded I'd 11 wnltaad right, in an' flxoil
’im,” said Jerry, 11 hut a t'linj)l(! o' thoffi
cussed little hot tailed critters eameartcr
me an’ I skipped, nit' l didn’t dare go
niter tlrot b'nr ’11 two days.”
Hornets build their nests high Up in
the Branches of IrcCs of fusion thorn to
tho rocks. But us cute hh these insects
ethe bear is more than their mutch.
A benr discovers u hornet's nest fur out
on a limb beyond liis reach. Ho climbs
tiro tree, breaks the longest brunch lie
cun get, and, holding it in his tore paws,
hits tlie nest until it drops to the ground.
Sometimes lie dances or stumps on the
limb till the nest is shaken off. Should
tlie nest be on a rook the Bear goes up to
tlic top of tlie ledge above it, where ho
gathers stones and sticks uuil rolls them
down tho side of the rock till one hits
tlie nest anil sends it tumbling to the
ground below. Tlie hornets upis-ur to
know what Inis caused their ruin and nil
remain in tlie fallen nest till the bear
appears, when they attack him,
“A hornet's sting,” says Jerry Green
ing, “ is'Bout's strong 's a whack from
a sledge-hummer, nn’ ono hornet 'll
knock u hull down, but their bite won't
raise u lump bigger'n 11 buckshot on a
b’nr, an’ tlie shaggy critter thinks its
fun. He'll stun’ on his liin’ legs an'
square off witli his fore paws jest us ef
he were 11 boxin’ witli somebody, only
lie's dnm koerful t' keep his eyes slier.
(JJhen lie'll lay down an’ roll over ’em
feat ez if lie didn’t keel- 11 cent for ’em.
Once't I seed a she b'nr knock a hornet's
nest bigger’n a half-bushel bosket off ’n
a rock nn’ pick it up an’ tuck it under
her arm an’ wulk oft’ witli it cz cool cz if
't were one o' her cubs.”—Correspond
ent PlAtadelphid Times.
Able to Support Themselves.
Tlie imperiul family of Germany is
quite able to support itself. Jf the Crown
Prince were deprived ot his inheritance
lie could easily win bread anil butter by
his skill as a turner; while his eldest son,
Prince Wilhelm, is an excellent amateur
artisan. On tho Emjicror’s cabinet arc
several samples of his dead grandson
Waldemur’s proficiency us a bookbinder.
This acquisition ot u trade is in accord
ance with the traditionary customs in
tlie royal fumily, which prescribe that
every Prince of the blood shall learn
some useful handicraft, so is to strength
en his spirit of indcpgndijuce and make
him wise through actn«i contact witli
i the material world.
" THE MOUSE*”
V *i Viewed fr»m me MalletW
I from Ilirpsr'a fcustlM.]
From the galleries hf tllo House Of
Representatives popUlaf goVel-iltUePt up'
pears to consist, of a confused muss of
desks mid desultory then—tlio desks ljt-
tered with lionkk afld jiabet-si ami tile
men continually walking nlsmt in eVeVjt
direction ; of 11 Vnst amount of private
eoniymohibmcr, a relay of huge l.oya
obeying ft Turkish inftgnifleoiukt rtf
clapped hands from this and that mem
ber to do liis errands, rtnd a monotonous
droning by lllu tflorht*, Utglilltet with a
minimum of oratory. AH this against a
iliguiflcd background of cigar smoko iu
the Mihittfii lilhl Mf UMnt-tonms and bar-
tier shops, whore Congressmen lounge
nml joke, or confer on coming measures.
It ia also apparent, from tlie amount of
VvutTs tltiitU witli (lie jirtilttiifei Umt tho
House is determined to have order its to
its finger-nails, whatever may ho tho
(ate of public business in this rosiiect.
Toil hciir Some Imlf'nitiilbio speaking,
lint general walking, talking auil rust
ling suggest how Demosthenes, if ho lmd
enjoyed’ tho tirivilegp of a sent in this
body, might liavo dispensed With tho
aid of tho son.
11.611 n division takes place, and mem
bers ]«mr in from tho lobbies, tlie r -s-
taurnnt, tho committee-rooms, to pass
like a drove of slioep between two tol
lers, Tlie offortH oi inexperienced or
nititntkjrliiitt tllemllers to is* attention
are plttliolid, tine is J'erjieloally swag
gering abouL but never speaks: utiuilmr
gets up and murmurs, hut, lieing ig
nored by nil parties, sits down, with a
f jlmstly iliHiippiilntlitCllt, end tries to
00k ns if ho did not feel lie was being
looked at j another, witli dlimlliniid hair.
Visas for Information, asking, in a bland
voice, 11 question so needless lllftt Rome
one on tlie other sido answers it, to suvo
tlie Speaker's time, and Olindhiind, after
swaying flilceriftiitly Oh liis Bms for an
instant, subsides so abruptly that he
’ can't at ouce recover tlie use of liis limbs
sutllcicntiy to steal uiWy tottatd a cloak
room. Yet at almost any moment, ox-
Copt In the "morning hour” and on
“ private-hill day,” 1111 exciting and mas
terly discussion Wilt Begin, which
promptly Alls tho chairs anil anulminn
every listener, Tho general demeanor
of tho House, too, is moro lmsincsB-liko,
excepting for tile amount of proocuupn.
tiou, titan that of the House
of Commons. Tiioso who come to look
on, with imaginations tfttlneu By history
aud the press, lire grieved to go away
without seeing a single member spring
at another's throat, or oven call him 11
liar, Thu homogeneity of tlie fanes anil
persons 011 tho floor is another point for
roniark. It is clear that Americans ure
Americans, however wide asunder their
ahoilesmay be, and it occurs to olio that
if t|m representatives of different sec
tions were to gut hopelessly mixed up
nml changed about the same (lay, it
would pfodUCe ht) Incongruity *0 far as
their outward appearance is concerned.
To iiuogino these comfortable gentle-
mon arrayed, in their frock-coats of
Identical malm, on opposite sides in a
civil War, or us tlie lawgivers of separate
oonfedepiiflefli would lie grotesque if
tile fcaiity a lew years ngll find not lition
so tragic, A few distinctions of East anil
Mouth and West may iierhaps he
traced in tho physiognomies, but
individual peculiarities assort them
selves fur more strongly. The niun of
the jieople, With liis indifferent nccktio
nml “ well-met ’* manlier ; the smllg,
well-to-do lawyer ; tho “elegant speak
er the richest mornhers, witli heads
partially bold and faces seamed with flue
wrinkles, Wearing a look of long resigna
tion to the collcution of dividends ; or
the plethoric, rosy-faced moil who gains
liis point by private clmmpngno rather
than public speech ; the quiet gentle
man of refined manners j and tho gory
antagonist—all these, and other types
beside, may he sharply discriminated
without regard to State or geographical
lines. It has grown to bo the fushion to
say that Congress accomplishes nothing
except to disturb trade, hut if that is so,
it is not due to idleness. Accomplish
ing nothing was never before so labori
ous a task. Ilouso members are the
busiest pcoplo in tlie country, with tlioir
caucuses, their incessant committee
meetings, their speeches anil prepara
tion, their dense correspondence witli
constituents, and interviews with visit
ors.
Driven From n Valued Home’.
A will made in a mail-house, of which
tlie testator has been an inmate during
the greater part of liis life, is not a doc
ument very likely, one would say, to
pass muster iu a court of law, hut such
a paper has just been declared valid in
Dublin. The testator was a French gen
tleman, wlio'in liis youth became iiisano
from excessive dissipation and was con-
lined in an asylum for two years before
he recovered his mental health. Being
then at liberty to go, lie refused to do
so, but having acquired a liking for the
place, he remained there until bis death,
twenty-eight years inter. Only once
did lie go out into the wor tl, and 011
this in- asioii lie returned lo tin: asylum
so drunk that lie declared lie would nev
er run into temptation again, it resolu
tion to which 4ie always thereafter ad
hered, nut I linally lie was told he could
not remain any longer, whereupon he
went forth weeping and died in eighteen
months from the day of liis discharge.
Hekb is the latest composition of the
society idiot: “ Do you dawneo the
lawnccrs ? ’ “ No ; I don’t duwnce the
IttwncorB, But my sister I rawnccs
duwnces the lawncers and several fawncy
dawnces.” The management of tins
sentence assures cntranco into the
highest circles.
Andanmvflifc
A Wrllef lit fin! Cincinnati Morning
Journal says: Anderson ia the name of
n station on tlic Southwosh'Cft HaHixmd,
ftlmut sixty fniles from Macon. It Is
nothing hilt H rflilroart station, aud the
only tiling that charadUfrirs’s the spot is
llio'lmiviolfss Union Cemetery tit come
twenty tiiTCSi •'♦or which flouts tho star-
spangled banner. Tlin cemetery iseon-
strifctcd on the spofc wlioyo tint prison
ers Wet'e burled, and the trenches were'
dug with such prddUtttrt and regularity
that the soldiers were not disltlrlsud, hut
allotted to remain as their comrades 111*
rod thorn, Working tinder tho watch
ful eyes nml lixed bayoUdia of the Geor
gia. Home Guards
Tim cemetery is surrounded by a
stout wall, with (id Iron gate, and is
miller llic supervision of a s'ffperintend-
«nt, who lives 011 the grounds. It is a
plain spiThere is riot much attempt
made lo ornament (Ids idly of the dead.
It would take a great deni of even such
lutlmmon us plants and flowers possess
to dispel the memories that haunt this
I,ill in tlie pine Wtfuda ef Southern
Georgia.
Th« cemetery is much visited By
Non hern traVilftffai and the register in
tlie superintendent's lodge contains
(tinny strange inscriptions beside tho
mimes of fftn visitors. One lady asks
forgiveness of God for the murderer of
her hrollioivwho sleeps In tlift cemetery.
Occasionally a mini who was In tlm
stockadn turns up nmong tho visitors.
These fttdUi whatever tlioir natural
temper, the supci'flllcliilcnt says, can
almost lie distinguished by (he effects ot
fear, dread and vivid recollection which
Cilltln hack like a shook into their faces
as they again stolid on tlie now quiet
and sunlit scene tit their war oxpe-
rlonec.
I11 lho cemetery the ground is of a
general level, liml lho graves of (lie
known liltd unknown, properly sepa
rated, range III tows, closely laid ns
far as the eye can reach.
There were actually buried nil tills
elevation 13,7*6 men. Tlie soldier
whoso identity was |)rrr«rved by liis
Comrades is marked in ills rusting place
by a while marble stone rising eighteen
indies (tltt)Vn tlie ground. A square
marble block With the word •'Un
known’’ on it is ropmlli'd about one
thousand tlmcH in the cemetery.
I’lll't of tlie stockade Is still standing.
Thorn are two rows of trees—ono Inside
flit! other. The outer row has tiillen
down, sakO it few pouts hero and there,
hut a large part of lho Inner wall still
stands. Trees have grown tip around
the old non, and a thick growth of ull-
dci'bniah now covers the slto of tlie
prison.
No truces of the famous brook that
run through Hie stockade remain, nor
of the wonderful Well dug by the pris
oners. It is all new it itiild mid puttoe-
fut section of country.
Many of tlic soldiers in the cemetery
liuvo htltlilsomo headstones lifted lo
their memory by friends in flie North,
and efforts are frequently made to have
certain graves “kept green” witli (low
ers and shower pot.
The Fecundity ef Flsli—'I’liclr Age.
An average herring contains about
25,OUU ova, so that 1,00(1 females of that
fi-h would yield, if all the eggs were to
come to life, 26,000,000; lmt hundreds
of thousands of tho eggs altogether os-
capo lho fertilizing milt of the male fish,
and other hundreds of thousands are
devoured by enemies that sacni to think
tlie ova of lim herflng lias been created
solely to servo ns food to them All our
sen li lies are endowed with enormous
powers of reproduction. A female cod
fish Inis been known to contain 2,000,000
or 3,000,000 nvn, but, as 1ms been staled
of the herring, tho was'o of eggs from
the want of being fructified, and from
oilier causes, is realty enormous. The
flat fishes are also all of them very pro
ductive; hut ill tho ease of all sea fishes
the waste of Mfo is really and truly in
calculable, otherwise man would
be incapable of dealing with these minor
monsters of tho great deop. As lias
been shown In the ease of the herring,
there are animals preying on the shoals
the demands of which aro far more
deadly than those of mankind; the Hume
may doubtless bo said of most of our
other sea fishes. But the total stock of
fish of all ages must Indoeil Im prodi
gious. There aro, however, many diffi
culties in the way of fixing upon a figure.
It is not yet known, for instance, with
anything like certainty, at what age
herring or codfish arrive at tho maturity
of their lives; but it may be hazarded as
11 conclusion, which has not been arrived
at without the most caroful considera
tions, that the sea in all probability con
tains a supply of fish which, in theovent
of produolion ceasing, would last tho
community for a period of fivo or six
years. These fish,of courso, must bo of
all ages; but no man can toll the exact
age of any fish which he may from day
to day find on his table. Nor can we
tell tin? average age which any of our
sea fish attain. Many of the codfish we
capture “look” to have been very old
denizens of the deep—ton years old ai
least. And as some of tho fish which arc
captupnd are occasionally of an enor
mous size, that fact seems to indicate a
long period of life. We think, however,
taking the majority of our fi-hes into
account, that if creation were at once
ui stop,, and tho fish of the sea were sud
denly torceaseto multiply and replenish
the prelent stock, at the rate of capture
now going f, n, might last us for a period
of from tour lo five years.—Uerlrum,
in the British. Quarter!,/ Ue.vitu)
HUMoBoys.r
iUOO’J
—It nunoya an amatea..
that hia poetry Fa* Iiftrtti / **Friri f W' _
tlie Intelligent compositor and «vqfy . „*
other lino "quoted.”-—Y. Y. Commrciat
Jdtvrliser, , • .- /
—Youdg Indies who are nfrald tlia
lovyrs are nftflr them for their tnonoy , '
can make nn effective defense by togu-
larly Buckling down fo tho wnsh-Uib
and filling lho back-yard with whltr
linen every Monday morning.—CVutaa/'i -
Inter Ocean,
—Wo are sorely puzzled hv an asso
ciated press dispatch, which says tlnl
country seat of nn editor, near Long
Brunch, was mhb d 011 Sunday night.
Thero is something about this dlspatftli
wo cannot unaomntid.—MitUIUtown
Transcript.
—A New York man says lie keeps
chops and steaks for several dnva in tan
lull 1 ust weather by burying them in
meal. Meal is a' good tiling iu any
weather for steaks and chop*. Wo
more particularly refer just now to tho
morning meal. — thinhunl Metrs. ■ '
Out meal is really a very good
tiling to make Hie skiu fine aud soft, if
It is used iu cold water as a wash. Wo
always had a notion that oatmeal ooilld
bo piit lo Home good uso. Horutoforo
it lies been principally used by cranks
Who keep hoarding houses us a means »
of killing appetites for breakfast.—X7io.
Juthje. , .
— ••Mo you’ve weaned tlm baby,” sntd
a Indy to iler next down* giibori ‘tYos,
I did 1 lmt some time ago... Why7” Tho. .
quei'ist stepped out 011 the front fioi-ch
as she replied: •* Well, judgingfstmitiM •
slapping noise I,hoard last night, 1 knew ,
you were bringing him up hv hand!
The door closed with a haiig-lhatoouiil 1 i
lime been heal'd over lit the next uoou-
ty.—Norristown Herald. ■■ " '
—Hundreds of thousands of men dW
annually front strong di'htk-" J Aiow<W'
huhibitionist, We never undertake to
criticise any olheredltor, hut we do not *’
believe that any man can die ummfilly,
Annually menus qy cry year, mid no man
can die every year, for any great IcTtotV:* ■ *
of time, unless lie litis a glen* dell of v»
practice mid oxpurieu 0 ul the business. ,
--■i eras Sit'tini/s.
—Tin) seashore corres|Hindent» otr
some at our variously esteemed conteip- .
pururies appear lo lied lho ocean in a
highly devotiqnal and reverential mood
this season. . One ol this |lk speaks »|f .*
••Ilie loud hosannas of the waves,” an
other of “tlie solemn hymns of tho
surges," and a third of "l|ui deep To
Doom of the liiiiln gilt tide.” All of
which Is very beautiful ami poetic. Hilt,
Oven wlieii yon pome ilmvu to lull'd and
prosaic fact, tlie idea scums to he car
ried out and atrcuglhoned. One doos
not neod logo Very far from Boston any
day 10 si n Ociml Mpmv. A k-y to
tins joke will ho liirirvjiud icaieison
application at this office.--Boston Jour-
mil. .
Oiidis.uit apprehension, or a correct
vie-.v of human affairs, is the general
heirloom of common sense.
A Hissing Finger.
Judge Lylor ia on good a name ns any
other to call him by. He is one of tho
lu st-known lawyers iu tho State, mid
not long ago splint several days in Neva
da (% trying an iffil>qftant ouse beforo
tho Hunonor Court. OnOpfhis hands,
as most people observed, is njinUH • Mr-
ger.or rather tlm best part of one. There
is quite a history connected with tjint
unnaturally short piece of flesh. As tne
Htory goes, the Judge did not always
center all of his talents on solving knot
ty legal problems. Ever so many yean
ago ho lived in one of the northern
comities ol tlie Stale. Ho was an infant
iu tlie profession then, and tho denizens
of tlie mining camp lmd a way of settling
their little misuuderHtun lings with pis
tols and knives. Consequently grass
got pretty short with tlie young luwyer,
and the first thing I11) knew ho Becaino
ono of tlie "ti’lioys.”
One night ho got into a game of pok
er witli "Black Bob,” on eminent card
sharp. There was o mint of money on
tlie cloth, and both players beoaino ob-
livious of the crowd of interested specta
tors, who hud seldom witnessed such
stiff playing, even in tlia mines. Bob
had the first deal, and lie dealt well, kaf
lie anil tlie Juilgo continued to shpvo
coin to tlie center till their respective
treasures were exhausted. They then,
showed up.
Tlie Judge tossed two Aces and three
kings down, aud rcacliod out to rake iu ->
tlie spoils. As his hand slid across the
table it cumo in contact with a howic- 1
knife that Bob hod fished out from some- .
where, und ono of his finder joints was
wlmckcil off clean as a whistle.
The astonished lawyer looked up in
umazement to learn the cause of his op
ponent’s eccentric notion, Tho latter
luid three accs and two kings alongside
the other "full."
The Judge gazed at the two batcher
of cardB a minute, then raised his eytl
to the stained knife that the other wax
holding in readiness for any emergency.
"All, yes, I see,” he stuttered ner
vously; "queer kind of lay-out, ain’t-it,-
?' But your apology is accepted.”
Bob appropriated the spoils without
any demurrer lieing filed, and it is said
that for a long time after tho two mpn
had great respect for each other, and
hunted in pairs.—Nevada City Tran
script. _
Gahblino has been and still is very
greatly on tho increase iu London. Two
new Baccarat clubs have been formed,
where individual lossesbavo been counted
by thousands—in one osse by fifteen
thousand—and the prohibited game has
found its way into olubs where by the
rules it is prohibited. Difficulties about
the settlement of accounts have already
resulted from this, and if it continues,
lots of scandals similar to the Paget ono
may be expected* _ —.