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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Birds killed on our prairies, packed closely with paper in barrels, and with out any freezing or other artificial pro cess of preservation, now go regularly to Leadenhall, and are eaten in the dining rooms of London and the West Knd side by side with the much more expensive partridges and fowls which are reared in England. There is an almost complete equality in the world’s sexes. In France this balance is most nearly attained, where for every 1,000 men there are 1,007 women. In Sweden, to 1,000 men there are 1,004 women, while in Greece, to the same number of males there are but 093 Greek women. In Paraguay there are only >,OOO men to every 2,080 women, a state of things mainly due to the rav ages of the Brazilian war. Beaver hunters in California live in arks or floating houses, in which they move from place to place on the streams and ponds. The one small room on such a craft contains benches for several men, cooking utensils, hunting articles and a stock of provisions. The hunters are a lazy, card playing and careless lot, but live comfortably and make the business Dr. Richardson, ot England, who is now recognized as a high authority on' matters of domestic hygiene, says that sixtv-two degrees Fahrenheit is the right degree of temperature for health, and that those engaged in literary or artistic work cannot possibly be to careful on this point. If their labor be prolonged or severe, the temperature may be al lowed to run up to sixty-five degrees, or even seventy degrees. The same rule applies to all sedentary persons and children studying. Our rooms here are apt to be at least ten degrees too hot for healthy persons. The ld hymn, “ Rock of Ages Cleft for Me,” was written by Rev. Augustus Montague Toplady about one hundred years ago. During these hundred years it has found its way into almost every land and every tongue. Some time ago an American _cle rgvin:tn attended an Armenian church in Constantinople, and heard a hymn which in a foreign tongue seemed to produce a powerful impression upon the congregation. As he left the house what was his surprise to learn that this affecting hymn ivas none other than “Rock of Ages Cleft for Me.” A French authority recommends the use of sawdust instead of hair in mortar to prevent its peeling off. His own house, exposed to prolonged storms on the sea coast, had patches of mortar to be renewed every spring, and after try ing without effect a number of substi tutes, he found sawdust perfectly satis factory. It was first thoroughly dried and sifted through an ordinary grain sieve to remove the larger particles. The mortar was made 'by mixing one part cement, two lime, two sawdust and five sharp sand, the sawdust being first well mixed dry with the cement and sand. IGNATILFF AS A RUSH-ING LI All. General Ignatieff, of whom w r e have heard a great deal lately in connection with Russian and Turkish diplomacy and ante-war movements, has gained with the sublime porte the reputation of an extraordinary economist of truth. He seems, according to report, to have such a fondness for misrepresentation that he often tells an untruth when the truth would better serve his purpose. Indeed, he is so unguarded and reckless, they say, in his statements, that his weakness is invariably discovered. He is so undiplomatically diplomatic that he wishes to make each representative of a foreign government believe that he and his country stand higher in the Ignatieflian mind than any other repre sentative and country. For example, when Boker was our resident minister in Constantinople, Ignatieff called upon him, and said that he had honored him and the United States with the first official visit, although, a little while be fore, Boker had seen the general enter the British embassy. The American knew the Russian’s peculiarity so well that, having heard one day that the latter had so bad a cold that he had lost his voice completely, remarked : “If that is so, the recording angel will enjoy a respite.”— N. Y. Tribune. CIOOD WORDS AUOUT WOMEN. “ There are but two fine things in the world,” says Malherbe, “women and roses.” Lessing exclaims: “ Women is the masterpiece of the universe.” Bour don says: “The pearl is the image of purity, but women is purer than the pearl.” Thackery writes: “ A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven.” Bolzae says: “ Even the errors of women spring from her faith in the good.” Coltarie declares: “All the reasoning of men are not worth one sentiment of woman. Lamartine asserts that ‘women have more heart imagina ation than men.” Otway exclaims: “Oh, women! lovely women! Nature made thee to temper men. We had been brutes without you.” To which Mark Twain adds: “ But for you we should be nothing, for we should not be here.” €1 )e ikoitj! Sentinel. VOL. I. ms COM t*ASSIGNS FAIL NOT." BY JOHN W. CHADWICK. The farmer chides the tardy sprint;, The sun wit holds his wonted ray, 1 he day3 are dull and cold and No shadow doth the maple fling. From snow-Tad peak and icy main 'i lie north wind cometh wet and chill, And evermore the clouds distil The horded treasure of the rain. But still, <> miracle of good ! The crocus springs, the violets peep, i he straggling vines begin to creep, The dandelion gilds the sod. The rain may fall inconstant showers, 'Phe south wind tarry on its way ; But through the night and through the day Advance the summer’s fragrant hours. And though the north wind forces them hack, The song-bird hurries from the south With summer’s music in his mouth. And stu is with songs in his airy track. What then, my soul, if thou must know Thy days of darkness, gloom and cold, It joy its ruddy beams wit hold, And grief compels my tears to How ? And what if, when with bended form 1 praise the gods for sorrow past, There ever comes a fiercer blast, And darker ruin of the storm ? As tarry not the flowers of June For the ill the heavens cau do, And, to their inmost nature true, The birds rejoice iu sweetest tune; .So, Father, shall it be with me; And whether the winds blow foul or fair, 1 hrough want and woe, and toil and care, Still will I stiuggle up to thee ; That, though my winter days be long, A ml brighter skies refuse to come, My life no less may sweetly’bloom, And none the less be full of song. THE JEII S or EUROPE. Their Strength and Power in Times of Peace and War. The London Examiner last week an nounced that a Berlin firm of publishers intended issuing next winter a work en titled “The Political Influence of the Jewish Race in Europe.” Our cotempo rary observes that, “ leaving out of .con sideration the power of Lord Beacons field (Disraeli) in English, and of M Gambetta in French politics, and the growing Hebraic dominance in Russia, particularly in cities like Odessa. Ger many itself would hardly have been the Germany of to-day but for the exertions with pen and tongue of such liberal poli ticians as Jacoby, Sonneman. and, above all, Edward Lasker, the ‘natural leader’ of the national liberals.” This is a very poor summary of the political influence of the Jews in Europe, especially the production of M. Gambetta as an ex ample of their influence in French poli tics. There are many more Jewish poli ticians in France of much greater impor tance, prominent among them are MM. Cremieux and Jules Simon. Austria has been entirely forgotten by our cotem porary, notwithstanding that the revolu tion which necessitated the flight of Mettemich was organized and led by Jews, and that among the most popular members of the Austrian parliament are such Jewish statesmen as Hirsch and Kuranda. Then, again, the Italian as sembly contains several Jewish members, whose opinions are of great weight, and the city of Rome itself—the stronghold of that power which, throughout long ages, attempted the extermination of the Jews —numbers among its legislative rep resentatives a Jew horn and partly reared in the Roman Ghetto. While we are on thissuhject, we cannot help remembering the enormous political power wielded by the Jews throughout the medium of the continental press. In Germany and Aus tria the majority of papers belong to Jews, and the most brilliant journalists are children of Israel; and then —finis coronal opus —where in the Examiner’s short summary is any mention of the in fluence of the Rothschilds ? The politi cal power of this family can hardly be estimated. It reminds us of an anecdote told of the wife of old Meyer Anselm Rothschild, which is sufficient to illus trate it. To her dying day she lived in the Ghetto of her forefathers in Frank fort, and attained such an age that she saw her sons rise to the position of the greatest financiers in the world. She never renounced her old gossips, and one day, in 1830, one of her friends came [to her erving, and told her that her son was ordered to join the military, and might be killed in the impending war. “Be comforted,” answered Madame Rothschild in the homely patois of her district, “I will tell my sons not to give the princes money, and then they will not be able to go to war.” —London Public Lender. THE CONSUMPTION OF COTTON. The supply of cotton goods to the world is mainly furnished by Oreat Britain and the United States. The consumption of cotton goods in this country is equal to twelve pounds per head of the population, while in Europe it is only equal to five pounds per head. The cotton manufactured in Ureat Britain and retained for home consumption is about six pounds per head, and on the con tinent of Europe not over four and a half pounds. The exports from Great Britain to countries other than Europe and the JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 23 1577. United Slates is 809,000,000 pounds, while 40,000,000 ]>ouuds are sent from the United states. The exports of cot ton fabrics to Asia, Africa, South and Central America, Mexico, and Australia is less than one pound of cetton per head to the population. It follows, then, that only one-fifth of the population ol these countries is supplied by machme made cotton. There remain, therefore, outside of the United States and Europe, 800,000,000 of people jrfjosfyclothi^g'^m sists mainly of cottommotli, who are yet. supplied by hand-spun and woven cloth. To supply these people with machine made cotton at the rate of five pounds per head will require 4,000,000 addi tional hales of cotton a year and 40,000,- 000 additional spindles. IS A PORTION OF MEXICO TO HE gohhlkd:' There is a movement on foot against Mexico. The objective point is Sonora, and the purpose, from what can be gath ered here, seems to be to annex this province to the domain of the Texas and Pacific railroad, and incidentally to Uncle Sam. The movement is said to have wide ramifications. The deposed President Lerdo, who is living here in seclusion, is a silent partner in it. The headquarters are naturally in Philadel phia. New Orleans is the basis of active operations. The interested parties here are trying to see how much toleration they can count on from the national government when they begin active oper ations next autumn. They propose, it is understood, to colonize the state of Sonora with some thousands of Ameri cans, and to set up an independent gov ernment there. Then they will play the role of Texas over again, and endeavor to secure admission to the union as a federal state. The Texas Pacific rail road at one point will run along the southerd borders of Arizona, and almost touch the territory of Mexico. The an archy that prevails in Mexico opens the way for this new colonization scheme. There is said be a great deal of money available to carry oat the enterprise. If anew government should be established in Sonora, Lerdo will undoubtedly he the nominal head of it. The means for es tablishing it will be furnished from this side of the border. The capture of Sonora would inevitably carry with it the control of Lower Cali fornia ami (lie addition of the territory to the American union, and will extend our territory two degrees south on the Pacific coast. It is a highly attractive scheme. Sonora is the state in which the Mexican national authority is naturally the weakest. The defenders of the scheme say that the Mexican authority is at an end, and that there, can be no government there unless it is sustained from this side of the line, and that the time has come to make another huge ad dition to our territory on the southwest. You will he likely t hear a good deal about this matter before the summer is out. —Chicago Tima. WHAT MAN CAN STAND. An accident recently occurred in Hun terdon county, a railroad employe being thrown from a train by a sudden jerk with great force, his right shoulder striking the iron rail, his body and limbs partly on the same, and between the wheels, one car passing over the unfor tunate man’s body, the next car resting upon his chest and stomach. Under this tremendous weight (six tons) he suffered several minutes, until his fellow-work men, with a ■ united fort*, lifted the car from his body. His face, when the car was removed, was perfectly black and his vision entirely gone. His injuries were supposed to lie fatal, consisting of a fracture of the thigh bone, a dislocation of the same at the hip-joint, making the limb, by measurement, one and a half inches longer than the other: also, a fracture of the collar-bone in two differ ent places; the ribs where the wheels rested upon the breast broken, five in numlter, and pressing upon the heart and lungs; a flesh wound several inches deep in the right thigh, and the eyes partly protruding from their sockets. The doc tor immediately set the fractured bones, and with the assistance of those present succeeded, after several persevering ef forts, in putting the bone to its place by rotation (which is said to be one of the most difficult operations in surgery, and probably one of the very few of the kind ever performed in the state bafore). The remarkable part is that the patient is improving and will probably get out again. —Cincinnati Commercial. The custom of serving dinners to th e mourners at funerals still prevails in por tions of Lebanon county, Pennsylvania. On one occasion lately nearly five hun dred persons partook. OUR YOUNG FOLKS. Ml ans *ind Frit*. Hansnml Frit/, were two l>eutehera who .lived side iALt. bv aide, Remote from the world, its deceit Hiul its pride ; With their pretzels ami beer tne spare moments A were spent, >dd the fruit of their labor were pence and content. Hans purchased a horse of a neighbor one day, A lift, lacking a part of the Geld—as they say— Mauc a call upon Frit/, to solicit a loan, To help him to pay for his beautiful roan. Fritz kindly conse .ted the money to bud, And gave the required amount to his friend. Remarking—his own simple language to quote • “ Perhaps it was bedder ye make ysuL The note was drawn up in their waitivr^Wy “ 1, Hans, gets from Frit/ feeftyToilars to-dav ” When the question arose, the note being made, “ Vich von holds dot baper until it vos haul ?’* “ You geeps dot,” says Fritz, “ und den you will know You owes me dot money.” Says Hans: “ Dot is so; Dot makes me remembers I hnf tint to bay, Und I prings you der note und der money tome day.” A month had expired when Hans, as agreed, Raid back the amount, and from debt lie was freed. Says Fritz, “ Noiv aot settles us.” i * tins replies, ” Yah ; Now who dukes dot baper accordings by law ? “Igeepsdot, now, aind’t it?” says Fritz; den you see. I always remembers you bald dot to me.” Says Hans, “ Dot is so, it vos now shust so blain Dot I know vot do no veil I porrows again.” — AJournal. The Council of the Trees. The throng was great, for jieople of all classes had crowded together to consider how the life of man might be prolonged. Old Gasper was full of years, and well known for wisdom ; lie waved his hand, to secureattention, and thus meekly,iby a fable, reproved the folly of the multitude: The trees of the forest assembled in council, for they heard that the wood man was come up against them. “ Make me your king,” said the Oedar, holding up his head, “ for 1 am the stateliest of all trees; the woodman will be humble when he regards my dignity, and obey me.” So they made the Cedar their king. The woodman came. As far as he proceeded he leveled the high and the low. No tree stood before him. Again the forest trees assembled to gether. “ You have done wrong,” said the Oak, stretching out his arms, “ in making the Cedar your king. The wood mart respects not his dignity; let me wear the crown. Who so fit to be the monarch ol the woods as tlie oak ? My strength will compel him to obedience.” The trees heard the words of the oak, and applauded them. The cedar was dethroned, and the oak appointed their sovereign ; hut still the ravages of the woodman prevailed The forest trees met again in disorder, when thus spoke the aged Yew. “It is not dignity and strength that will arrest the woodman’s arm ; let me be made you r king; he will respect and reverence my age.” The Yew was made king, but still the woodman’s axe resounded through the forest. The next king was the Cypress, who contended that, though dignitv, strength and age had been despised, his solemnity would awe the woodman and dispose him to obey. The woodman regarded not the Cypress, and the trees fell as be fore. “You arc wrong,” said the Birch, in thenextcouncil tiiat was held. “Though the woodman cannot lie opjiosed by strength, nor awed by age nor solemnity yet may be won by beauty. My silvery bark and slender boughs would gently incline him to obedience. Let me wear the crown.” With universal applause the Birch was crowned; but in vain. Tree after tree still fell beneath the sturdy stroke of the woodman. “How long will ye follow had advice and neglect wise counsel ?” said the Fig tree. “Know ye not that the woodman i guided by his interest? Ye should have made me your king. My fruit would have allured him. It would be his interest to obey me.” With one aecord the trees chose the Fig to rule over them but the forest still grew thinner and thinner. “ Hear me,” said the Aspen, in a whispering voice, “ and despise not the counsel that I give. Let me be crowned, for when the woodman sees me quiver, ing in the blast, he will pity me, and grant, for my sake, what he has hitherto refused.” The crown was placed on the Aspen, but the trees that fell were no fewer than before. Driven to despair, another council was assembled, when the prickly flramble contended that a.different course should be taken. “If ye make me your king,” said he, “ f will defy the woodman; I will resist him in every quarter. He shall find me armed for your defense, and be will retire.” The courage of the Bramble was highly applauded, and he was crowned, but the woodman’s course was not arrested. When it was fouud that the strength of the Oak, the age of the Yew, and the solemnity of the Cypress prevailed not; when the beauty of the Birch, the abundance of the Fig, and the timidity lof the Aspen, had proved to be vain ; NO. 38. having tried from the towering Cedar to the lowly Bramble, it was decided that they should no more oppose the progress of the woodman, but grow in strength and beauty; I>loom and blossom, and liear fruit according, to their several natures, and so seek to lie prepared to how down without a murmur when tiie axe of the woodman approached them. Be ye high or low, rich or poor, old or young, wise or simple, learn ye a lesson from the council of the trees. It is bet ter to improve your timo by making your lives useful, than to waste it in the vain attempt to increase the number of your days; for, as the trees of the forest fall before tlie ax of the woodman,so must ye fall before the scythe of death. Dear young reader, you may bo felled next. Do you know three H’s—i Bin, so as to hate, forsake, and loatne it—the Saviour, so as to seek salvation, and, finding it, give God all praise for it— and Service under the easy yoke of .(esus. —Old Humphrey in The Little G tenner. HOUAKT PASUA AS A ItI.OCKA DE It CNN Ell. The exploit of Admiral Hobart Pasha, of the Turkish navy, in passing down the Danube under tlie very guns of the Rus sian batteries at Galatz, as described in the recent London dispatches, recalls to memory tlie career of this adventurous man as a blockade runner in America during tho tvar of the rebellion. Cap tain George Forsyth, of Charleston, formerly an officer in the confederate navy, and at present visiting this city, gave to a Tribune reporter on Wednes day evening the following particulars of the Admiral,then Commandant., Hobart’s experience in this country. At the out break of tho war a number of wealthy merchants of England formed an associ ation, tho object of which was to assist the southern cause. Commandant Ho bart and several ottier officers in the Eng lish navy were enlisted in the cause and sent to the southern states, where their services were eagerly accepted. Hobart landed at Charleston in the summer or fall of 1801, and was at once assigned to naval duties. lie soon developed a taste for daring adventure, and attracted at tention by his success in capturing sev eral small union vessels and greatly damaging others. In the following spring he was placed in charge of a blockade runner on tlie Atlantic coast, where he did valuable work for the confederates. lie was soon after recalled to the gulf and for nearly a year was oh the staff of the admiral commanding at Pensacola. The numerous successful attacks upon the union fleet and the daring blockade running in the vicinity are credited in the main to his planning and hold exe cution. In 18611 lie was again put in command of several blockade runners, and then began the series of exploits which created admiration for the skill and bravery displayed in iheir execution. It is estimated that Hobart was engaged in no less than twenty such undertakings, all of which were exceedingly annoying and in many instances disastrous to the union .cause. Hobart was about forty years of age when he arrived in this country lie was a heavy-built man, of dark complexion, and was noted for his imperious hearing and the ardor with which he prosecuted every undertaking. He went to England in the spring of 1804, on account, it is said, of a difficulty with the officers of the confederate gov ernment. — N. Y. Tribune. A ITTll.lll Gil Alt IT Y Til It SKIP Tit I‘HIVATK I‘IWITT. Many years age the government of Nova Scotia assumed the project of plac ing a number of sheep or swine on Sable island to avert the danger of starvation to which the seafarers escaping from wracks had been exposed. Hut these animals could not subsist on the only shrub which thrives on the sands of the otherwise barren island. An old French doctor suggested a trial of the tough and shaggy little horse known as Canadian ponies, and forthwith a detachment of them was forwarded in the gov ernment steamer to Sable island. The unfastidious ponies took kindly to the solitary shrub, made the island their home and became wild in time. Recent exports from the island show that the ponies are becoming almost extinct, (owing to the frequent capturing of large numbers of them for use on Anticosti island, and for sale among settlers in the interior of Newfoundland and distant hamlets of Nova Scotia.— Toronto dole. Under the modified marriage law of ! Indiana, licenses may be issued to youths lof eighteen and girls of sixteen. The tendency of this is to extend the divorce I business. GRA VE AND GA V. ..A Nashville hank roblrcr burrowed under a street for five days, and at length came up in the coal vaultof a beer saloon three doors away from the hank, and bit himself in eleven places with the most uncompromising dog he ever tried to conciliate. The next time he tries any mining operations he will take a practical engineer along. . .An honest yoeman, of very correct habits, who was told that if he smoked one less cigar a day for two years, he could save money enough, principal and interest, to buy a good farm, has made himself sick as death every day for the past two weeks trying to learn to smoke. Thus is the path of honest industry beset with difficulties. .. 1 talked with a minion from her ma jesty’s dominions. Says I, “ Where are you going ?” Says he, “To hide a hoe.” Says I, “ What are are you going to hide a hoe for?” Says he,* , ‘ didn’t say hide a hoe; I said hide a hoe?- Says I, “Spell it.” Says he, “ o.” “Oh, says 1, ‘ldado.’” “Yes,” says he, “ Hide a hoe,” ..A man out on Summer street has eight daughters, and when they cleaned house last week the women raked 9,724 quids of chewing gum down from the window casings, chair hacks, door panels and sofa backs, the accumulation of the past winter. And this does not include the wads which the man, at various times, sat down on and carried away on the tails of his coat, for which no accurate returns have been made.— Hawke ye. .. “ I once heard,” says a writer in Truth, “the following refreshing remark from a mite of four years. I had been compelled, having been injudiciously forestalled by a too zealous nurse, to ex plain to her the orthodox view of the ultimate fate ol the wicked, and was watching rather nervously for some ex pression of incredulity or alarm, when, turning to the cradle wfiere her baby brother slept, the child exclaimed, point ing to the infant, ‘That’s a had job for him!’” .. In the language of the tramps, the letter “ H ” on the jthte-post means that the residents will give the caller a hand ful of grub; “H ” that he will get a seat at the table; “S M” that he will get a square meal, and “O I!" that he will get the “grand bounce.” Now that the secret is out, let every householder hie himself to his gate-post and digin letters deep, and that cannot be misunderstood, the mystic sign “OR!” Here, at last, is the complete solution of the tramp problem.— Chicago Keening Journal. .. Kladderadatsch represents the way in which it regards the eastern question as follows: A man and woman stand be fore the curtain of a theater on which is a notice to the effect that “ To-day and till further notice the Iriental question’ will be played.” They remark that “ too much of that Hort of thing'grows tire some,and besides one dosn’t know whether it is a comedy, a tragedy or a farce,” when from behind the curtain of the Turk roars a voice saying: “ Wait til! you sec the end of the fifth act!” run tttssnns as ca valry. The irregular troops, commonly sjsiken of as Don Cossacks, form the peculiarity of the Russian army. They are wild cavalry from the vast plains traversed by the River Don; and though]there are similar troo|is from other districts, the Dons, by number and the perfection of the Cossack characteristic, have become the representatives of the race. They are not imposing or very martial in ap pearance, being generally small men, mounted on small horses, with short stir rups, bringing their knees well up. In a charge they would hardly stand against the western cavalry ; but courage in the charge is not their character. They seem to ho under nojother discipline than that of a spontaneous service; and they hover on the outskirts of a march ora battle, always as ready to run away, if over matched, as to advance. Their horses are as intelligent as dogs. Their paee is the gallop, and they will go on for many miles over a rough country, with noses lowered almost to the ground ; or they stand erect in the saddle to survey the surrounding country. They will, more over, thrive where less hardy horses would starve. The Cossacks are invaluable as scouts and light cavalry. They apjs>ar suddenly to a hostile, now in flank, now in front and now in the rear, obeying orders generally, but in their own wild way, and are especially skillful in secur ing plunder. They can “move so fast and so far, galioping over slippery, stony paths, appearing and disappearing with out. anv ul sliatD© flt retreating, that, th.-y would be as unmanageable by regular cavalry as little boys are by a policeman.” The dress of the Cossacks consists of a heavy shirt, loose, bagry trousers, cloak and sheepskin cap, and thev are armed with pikes, swords and carbines. The horse equipments consist of a blanket, wooden saddletree, two leathern wallets and a forage rope. Dur ing peace some regiments, about a third of the whole force, say 3 ',OOO to 50,000 men, are kept in garrison. The rest are at home on furlough, but ready, nd more than ready, for the excitement of actual service.— Detroit Dews.