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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICRRS.
Mayor—W. H. Whaley.
Councilnien—T. P. Littlefield, H. W.
Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk and Treasurer —O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCRRS.
Ordinary—P.iehard B. Hopps.
Sheriff— John N. Goodbrtad.
Clerk Superior Court—Ben). O. Middleton
Tax Receiver —J. C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. R. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner —D. McDitha.
County Commissioners—J. F. King, Q.
W. Haines, James Knox, .1. G. Rioh, Isham
Reddish.
, COURTS.
Superior Court, Wayne County—Juo. L.
Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solioitar-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern Soim.
Negroes in Montgomery, Ala., are
making “ contracts” this early, for next
year.
Nashville American: Alltheallan
thus trees on Vanderbilt university
grounds are being “belted.”
Major Mason sends to the Tennesse
Historical society a round wooden snuff
box, which was presented to David
Crockett by Henry Clay, while the
former was a member of congress.
Raleigh (N. C.) Observer: The corn
tree on the banks of the Neuse, in New
Light tswnship, Wake county N. C., that
is eleven feet to the first silk, twenty
eight and one-half feet in length, and the
same that a two hundred and twenty-five
pound man climbed five feet without its
yielding, has been purchased by Messrs.
Williamson and Upchurch, and will be
exhibited by them at the state fair.
The Norfolk (Va.) Ledger says the
speculation of the United States in in
vesting $200,000 in the Dismal Swamp
©anal has resulted is obtaining $130,000
in cash dividends, in an increase of its
interest in an enlarged and improved
work from two-fifths of $486,000 to two
fifths of $1,500,000 ; in otner words, from
nearly $200,000 to nearly $600,000, be
sides the incidental savings for its naval
supplies.
A correspondent of the Charleston
(S. C.) News and Courier writes from
Georges: I was accosted by a colored
man, who desired me to tell him some
thing about Liberia. Said he, “ I [have
been informed that potatoes grow there
to such an enomous size that a single one
will more than supply the want of a large
family for a whole day. And all you
have t* do,” he continued, speaking
very earnestly,‘‘when you are in need
of sugar, or syrup, is simply to bore a
gimlet hole in a tree and apply your
vessel, and in a short time it will be
brimming full.” I was about to reply
but he interrupted me by adding “that
he had also been told that certain trees
produce bacon, and fires were almost un
known, the heat of the sun being suffi
cient for cooking purposes.”
Commercial Notes.
One manufactory ®f silverware in this
country has the credit of working up
more silver than all similar manufac
tories in the United Kingdom of Great
Britain.
The British trade returns, just pub
lished, shows that the total value of im
ports into the United Kingdofn during
the last year was £375,150,000, being an
increase of £1,200,000 over 1875. T*re
total exports were £250,700,000, being a
decrease of £24,800,000 compared with
the previous year.
One of the signs of the times is the
eagerness with which American boot
and shoe makers are 1 scouring all regions
of the earth to build up a foreign trade
in their goods. They are succeeding
fairly. American styles are popular,
and there is a prospect of America shoe
ing the Chinese empire and all South
America.
The carrying trade between New York
and the West Indies is at last in the
hands of Americans exclusively, as far as
steamers are concerned. This is not only
a triumph of American enterprise in
trade, but an out-and-out victory for
American art in the building of steam
ships and in the navigation of them.
The city of Paterson, N. J., is notable
only for its immense silk factories. The
capital invested is about $6,000,000, and
the number of persons employed is nearly
7,000. The manufacturing capacity of
the mills is over $12,000,000 annually.
The wages of the employes last year
amounted to more than $2,000,000.
This business is now at a standstill,
owing to a strike.
The importations of sugar this sum
mer are immense, and the exportations
small. In eleven months the importa
tions have been 1,329,544,035 pounds,
against 1,233,060,717 pounds in the cor
responding period last year, and they
have been made at five cents a pound, sv
against four cents last year. The exports
has been about 36,000,000 pounds. Last
year in the same period it was 56,000,000
pounds.
A slight advance in the stocks of the
railways the most heavily afflicted by
the strikes, and ia the midst of the worst
Cl \)c Jcmiii Sentinel.
VOL. 11.
of the strike, shows a money-confidence
in the roads which must have seriously
disappointed the financial sympathizers
with the strikers.
General Notes.
In the list of states to which patents
have been issued during the year, New
York leads. To individuals in the state
8,914 patents were issued. Pennsylvania
is next,1,895. The lowest is New Mexi
ico, 1.
A Servant of Dubuque, lowa, has
confessed to her mistress that there exists
in the town a “ring” of domestics, each
one of whom is pledged to bring from her
employer a certain amount of provisions
each week for the support of the girls
who may be out of employment.
Mother Nature, says the Boston
Herald has this season done her perfect
work. The soil has brought forth its
fruits in abundance, and every branch
of industry is likely soon to feel the be
gining influence of the remarkable in
crease of our production of cotton,
wheat, corn, tobacco and meat.
Women are coming to the front in
Illinois. Three counties have women
for suoerintendantsof public instruction.
Miss Raymond is superintendent of the
Bloomington public schools, and Mias
Georgiana Trotter is a member of a pros
perous lumber dealing firm and a mem
ber of the board of education, in Bloom
ington.
Now that the Russians and the Turks
are fighting each other, it may be inter
esting to know what kind of a creature
a Turkish sotdior is. Asa rule he is tall
and squarely built. Physicialiy, many
of them are very handsome ; hardly any
are brutal in lok or disposition. They
can both read and write, and there are
no better soldiers. It beaten in war it
will not be their fault. They eat no
meat and drink no whisky. In fact,
they are an army ofteetotalers and vege
tarians, and can be maintained at small,
expense.
A statement was recently published
in England giving the cost of the famous
Tichborne trial, lrom which it appears
that it took $300,374 83 to defeat the
claimant and settle him in jail. The
lawyers received $118,372 25; the wit
nesses, $71,561 52, and the jurors $16,-
900, while $51,34 1 25 was paid out fcr
printing documents, and $16,187 50 went
to the stenographers employed. It would
be interesting to know just how the es
tate stand/, and how long it will be before
the revenues from it will make good the
expenses incurred in defending the title.
A Dr. C. W. Siemens in England es
timates that the Falls of Niagara do as
much work in a year as 266,000,000 tons
of coal, at the rate of four pounds per
horse power consumption in an hour.
He considers that the Falls might drive
an electrical machine, the currency of
which might traverse a copper rod. He
asserts that a rod three inches in diameter
would transmit 1,000 horse power as far
as thirty miles, and that at the end the
electricity could be used to create motion
or light. For the latter there would be
sufficient to equal 250,000 candles.
Religious.
There are a good many pious people
who are as careful of their religion as of
their best service of china, only using it
on holiday occasions, for tear it should
get chipped or flawed in workingday
wear.
Some of the Presbyterian delegates to
the Pan-Presbyterian council are said to
have refused to meet their brethern at
the communion table in Edinburgh, on
account of differences growing out of ec
clesiastical relations.
The oldest Jewish congregation in
America is the Sherith Israel, of New
York, which was organized in 1684 ; the
next in age is in Lancaster, Pa., organ
ized in 1775; the third is in Philadelphia,
organized in 1780.
The Reformed Episcopalians have
elected Bishop Cheney chancellor of their
new University of the West, with Rev.
Messrs. William H. Cooper, J. Howard
Smith, Mason Gallagher, Joseph D. Wil
son, and W. J. Hnnter as professors.
A bronze statue of Robert Raikes,
the founder of Sunday-schaols, will soon
be placed in his native town in England
Gloucester. The money has been
raised by a general subscription under
the auspices of the English Hunday
school union.
An English Methodist preacher re
cently caused a sensation by pausing
after he announced his text and then say
ing that he had thought of it all the
week without finding any interpretation,
and that, his last resort, the inspiration
of the pulpit, having also failed him, he
could not preach.
The catalogue of the Pennsylvania
State college, near Bellefonte, gives a
faculty of twelve members, with four
superintendents of the collage, central,
eastern and western farms. There is an
infantry battalion and there are one hun
dred and fifty-seven students of whom
ninety are in the preparatory department,
and one hundred ana thirty-seven belong
to Pennsylvania.
Kentucky preachers certainly will
not find their money a bar to their en
trance into heaven. A minister at West
Liberty recently said that he had been
trying to get his wife a pair of shoes for a
month, but his salary for that time had
amounted to only nineteen cents, and he
was afraid it would be winter before he
could -buy them. She would not let him
go in debt, and when he tried to work in
the harvest-field he was offered as pay a
broken washing machine or a jug of
whisky. And yet he has been a devoted,
faithful laborer for two years with the
same people, who say simply that they
“ are too poor to pay for preaching,” and
he and his wife consider it their duty to
remain.
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1877.
TAKING Til 1C ENl> OF THE SEAT.
’ Pwas a morning clear In the new-born year,
When the frost was holding revel;
The church bell’s call, from ttie belfries tall,
Pealed forth o’er ihe town so level.
Then the people dreat in their extra best
Went to church on this Sabbath morning
With thoughts fully bent on pious content,
And the spirit’s meek adorning.
The church doors coming tide,
tsiaid plainly as words could say,
“You’re welcome all, wh > hear this call,
Como worship in here to-day.”
The coming throng, as they press along,
Feel the joy of the sacrtd place,
Till down the aisle they walk orewhile
And search with wistful face—
And search again ’mid the selfish train
Who have taken the end of each seat;
“Just one in a pew, no room for you,
Unless you vault over our feet.”
Will you leave the church, be left In the lurch,
>r try the gantlet of thorns;
Tread over the feet t get in the seat
And crush their numberless corus?
If you are slim, yeur sails in trim,
Your success may be complete;
But, if you are large, ’tin a desperate charge,
The attempt to get into the seat.
’Tisa terrible plight, to be fastened tight,
Your sleeveß in some one’s bonnet;
But one more lunge, one vaulting pluugo,
At last, you’ve surely done it.
One good you get of this needless fret—
And you know revenge is sweet—
You’ve batrered the nose and crushed tho toes
Of the one in the end of the seat.
But should there come a more timid one
Who shrinks such notice te meet,
Or a stranger attend, then Iloaven defend
From the one in the end of the seat.
O what is the reason that every season
These folks with stupor replete
Will compel such search for a seat in church
While they sit in the end of the seat ?
MU. SHAH'S NOZZLE.
A Great and Hcneflcont Invention.
Without presuming to depreciate other
people’s nozzels, it is safe to say that Mr.
Shaw's nozzle is one of remarkable value.
That it satisfactorily fulfills itß chief
purpose is among the least of its merits,
and it is only when we perceive the
varied and numerous uses to which it
can be put that its true worth can be
appreciated. Among the glaring faults
of steam may be mentioned its refusal to
escape in a quiet and orderly way.
When a locomotive or a steamboat boiler
begins to liberate or “ blow off” its
steam the noise thereby produced is
deafening. Moreover, it is in the highest
degree adapted to produce a thirst for
blood, accompanied by foods of pro
fanity, among i. 086 who .e tormented
by its shriek and roar. Many a Connec
ticut deacon of previously unsullied
character has been known, while disem
barking from a Sound steamboat, and
trying to ask a policeman the way to the
Bible-llouse, to fiercely “goldarn” the
escaping steam, which rendered his
questions inaudible. Many a meek
matron who, while occupying a rear
room at the Delavan House, has been
awakened at 4 a. m. by the roar of a
brace of locomotives in the act wf
“blowing off,” has burst into maddened
tears, and boxed the children's ears as
one who wish and that mankind had but a
single ear that she might box it with a
coal-shovel. Every profound thinker
has noticed that the dicline of morality
iu this country has kept pace with the
increase of the steam-boilers. That the
strain upon the mind and body caused
by the noise of escaping steam has
weakened both the nerves and the
morals of the public no reasonable
man can doubt. Mr. Shaw has
invented what he calls a noz
zle . which, when attached to an
escape-pipe will enable steam to escape
without any noise whatever. Of the
precise nature of the nozzle we are not
informed. Mr. Shaw says that it con
tains a helix—which perhaps it doss—
and also a quantity of wires, and leaves
us to infer that the escaping steam is so
much disheartened bybecoming entangled
with the wires and the helix that it has
not strength enough left to roar with.
The details of the invention are, how
ever, of no consequence to the public.
So long as Mr. Shaw’s nozzle will put a
stop to the nuisance of noisy escape
pipes we can accept it gladly
without further investigation. It may
not hare occurred to Mr. Shaw,
but it will promptly occur to every per
son who is in the habit of traveling in
sleeping cars, that if Mr. Hhaw’s nozzle
<jin be applied to escape-pipes, it can also
be applied to the human nose. It was
undoubtedly the intention of the inven
tor of sleeping-cars to construct a car in
which a traveler could lie awake all
night with comparative comfort. This
invention has, however, been hitherto
made a failure by the infamous conduct
of shameless snorers, who deliberately go
to sleep in sleeping cars and snore as if
there was no future world. It is difficult
to disbelieve that the snorers constitute
an organized gang of miscreant. Upon
what other hypothesis than that of con
certed action can we explain that the
fac that they always travel in bands }
three or more, including a tenor, a bari
tone, and a bass snorer ? Their snoring
also bears the mark of careful rehearsal.
They do not *snore in the rude, artless
way of the simple American boot-black,
but they execute concerted chamber
music evidently written by musicians of
the Wagerniau school. A gang of these
unspeakable villains has beeu known to
snore, without the slightest intermission,
from New York to Buffalo ; and although
the unhappy listeners have hoped and
prayed that the snorers would perish of
strangulation, they have wickedly lived
on while honest travelers have died of
rage and exhaustion.
Were Mr. Shaw’s nozze to be firmly at
tached to the nose of every man who is sus
pected of snoring, the aleeping-car would
become what its inventor designed it to
be. If steam at a pressure of one hun
dred and sixty pounds can have its roar
baffled and silenced by Mr. Shaw’s nozzel,
no snore would ever find its way past the
wires and the helix of the same instru
ment when applied to the nose. No
matter how earnestly the snorer might
strive to sound his denomiacal nose, he
could produce nothing more sonorous
than a gentle sigh. As for the pretonse
that the forcible application of the nozzle
to a suspected nose would be an invasion
of the snorer’s rights, it scarcely de
serves consideration. The man who
snores in public has no rights which hon
est men are bound to respect. We muz
zle dogs and place yokes about the necks
of too enterprising pigs. Is the snorer of
more value than the dog or is he better
than the pig ? If not it is a hollow mock
ery to pretend that we caunot, in our
defense, neutralize his nefarious nose
with Mr. .Shaw’s nozzle.
The nozzel may also be used to render
certain domestic animals endurable.
With its aid the ill-judged attempts of
the hen to rival the nightingale in sing
ing can be baffled, and the obnoxious re
marks of the mule can be silenced. At
present, when the small boy undertakes
to play base ball, he fills the neighbor
hood for miles in every direction with
yells and blasphemy. If all small boys
found playing base ball without nozzles
were to be instantly arrested and com
mitted to the pound, life during the ball
season would become bright end beauti
ful. It would, perhaps, be impractica
ble to apply the nozzle to Mr. Talmage,
and perhaps it would be scarcely worth
while, since he preaches more with his
arms and legs than his voice. Htill, if
Talmage’s vocal rant could be filtered
through Mr. Shaw’s wires, we could
more easily bear his gvmanaatic antics.
At any rata, the experiment might bo
tried, and the Brdoklin common council
ought to pass an ordinance requiring
Talmage to be nozzled, at least during
the hot weather. —Aew York limes.
HTAOK HKCUICTH.
It may not be generally known that
the real name of John T. Raymond
(Colonel Sellers) is John O’firine:
Lawrence Barrett was originally Larry
Brannigan; Barney Williams was Barney
Flaherty ; George Clark is Peter O’Niel;
Harry Montague is Henry J. Mann;
and W. J. Florence origninally possessed
an unmistakably Hiberian though hardly
musical name. 'Among actresses this
change of names is yet oommon. Hav
ing selected one that suits, it is generally
retained by the bearer until the close of
her stage career even though marriage
may give her the right to use another
and a better one.
Most of the prominent ladies upon the
stage are married. Charolotte Thomi>-
son is Mrs. Lorraine Rogers; Adelaide
Neilson is Mrs. Leigh, Marie Gordon is
Mrs. John T. Raymond ; Maria Hrabrook
is Mrs. George Rignold; Clara Morris is
Mrs. Harriott; Kate Claxton is Mrs.
Dore Lyon ; Rose Eytinge is Mr. George
H. Butler, and Effie Germon is Mrs.
Nelse Seymour. The list might be in
definitely prolonged.
There is a certain policy in j thus pre
serving the name under which success
was first achieved. Every business man
understands the worth of an old firm
name, and, besides, an actress would lose
something of .the romance which hangs
about her if it were generally known that
she was the mother of a family, for whose
support she was working. Actors and
managers both understand this, and the
latter are as averse to any change of
names as the former can be. —Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
The St Louis’Globe-Democrat says
What seems to be wanted in the game of
base ball is on improvement in the
umpire argument. Every club can win
every game on its home grounds, but
they all seem to let down as soon as they
get into the clutches of a strange umpire,
with a stem-winder and a time lock,
would be an improvement.
INDIA.
Dreadful Mortality Among tho Starving
Millions.
The editor of the Madison Times, a
member of the relief committee, writes,
under date of August Ist, as follows ;
“ The population in southern India more
or less afflicted by famine number
twenty-four million. In the most favor
able circumstances at least one-sixtb will
die. Twenty-three people in all have
died ot starvation in Bengal. In Madras
one camp of three thousand rises morn--
ing after morning, leaving thirty corpses.
In the interior the distress is most fearful
Ono gentleman, in passing down the val
ley in the Wynaad district, counted
twenty-three dead bodies on the road.
A coffee planter seeking shelter from the
rain in a hut found six decomposed
corpses in it. Every day mothers may
be seen in the streets of Madras offering
their children for sale, while the found
ling portion of tli poorhouse is full of>
intauts found by the psiice in the roads
deserted by their parents. Since the
famine begun five hundred thousand
people have died of want and distress.
The first big tragedy may be expected in
Mysore, in that province ; indeed, infor
mation has reached here from Bangalorb
of two cases of cannibalism already.”
VELOCITY or rsKItVE- l M VVLHKH.
The earliest experiments were made
with reference to the rapidity of move
ment through the nerves. The first
attempt to measure the velocity of
nervous impulses proceeding from
the brain under action of the will was
made long ago by Haller. He ascer
tained, by reading aloud with great ra
pidity extracts from the “ 2Kneid,” the
average number of letters which he could
pronounce in one minute. Then ho
calculated the length of the nerve from
the brain to the muscle of the tongue
and mouth. Each letter ho regarded as
requiring a nervous impulse. He was
obliged then only to multiply the num
ber of letters spoken in each minute by
the length of the nerve. This gave as a
result that the rate of nervous transmis
sion from the brain was about one hun
dred and fißyfcet a second. Thisexper
imont was defective in failing to lake
into accouut the facts that both the act
of willing and that of musular contrac
tion require time. Had these been con
sidered, the solution would have been
farther from the truth than it really was.
Recent investigations of more precr i
have not, howevor, given r 'lts that
differ widely from that obtai by Hal
ler. The rate as given by Helmholtz,
after many experiments, is about one
hundred and eleven feot per second.
This is now generally accepted as the
most accurate statement. Hlight differ
ences in results for movements from the
brain, and for those proceeding to it,
have been obtained in the investigations,
but the rate is regarded by the best
authorities as essentially the same for
both movements, if there boa differ
ence, it arises because the rate of volun
tary impulses moving from the brain
outward is the more rapid of the two.—
T. F. lirovmtll, in Popular Scienct Monthly
TA I. WVf <IK ON LA IfUIIINO.
Brother Talmage spoke as follows in
his sermon last Sunday: God says that
the bible is true; it is all true. Bishop
Coleman laughs and Herbert Spencer
laughs, Stuart Mill laughs, all the Ger
man universities laugh, Harvard laughs
softly, a great many of the learned in
stitutions of this country, with long rows
of professors sitting on tho fence between
Christianity and infidelity, laugh softly.
Now, with this perfect bible In my hand,
let me tear out what modern scepticism
demands to be tern out. “ Well,” says a
man in the audience, “ take out all that
nonsenseabout the erection of the world.”
Away goes Genesis. “ Now take out all
that miraculous stuff about the wander
ing of the Jews in the wilderness,” says
another. Away goes Exodus. “Deute
ronomy and Kings contain thingsnotfitto
beread.” A wav Deuteronomy and Kings.
“ The hook of Job is a fable,” says one
man. Away goes the book of Job. “All
that implies the divinity of Christ ought
to go out,” says [another. Away go the
Evangelists. “ The book of Revelations
is preposterous,” says another. Away
gees the book of Revelations. Now,
there are still a few pieces left. “Oh!”
says some man, “ I don’t believe a word
of the bible.” Away goes the whole
bibl9. Now you have put out the last
light of tho nations; now it is the pitch
darkness of eternal midnight. How do
you like it ? When the bible comes to
be preserved as a curiosity in our city
libraries, the koran on one side and the
writings of Confucius on the other, let
us keep a copy of it for our own use to
console us when afflicted.
GRAVE AND GAT.
Indian Summer.
Dear Maud, I hoar across the morn
The bluejcv calling in the corn.
Oh, in in heart I tr. ad, to-rfay,
Along our old, cool, woodland war ,
And hoar within the shadows still
Tho acorns dropping on the hill.
A hawk sails by on silent winga ;
The far, low whirr of partridge wings
Comes a faint ripple on the air ;
’Tia restful silence everywhere;
Ho still, that fA“m the maple’s crown
I hear the red leaves eddying down.
A gleam of silver far awav
The river lies asleep to-day;
The single shallop loitering by
Beeins poised bet ween the wave and aky;
AH haste is rounded Into (Aim,
And earth and sky is swathed in balm,
NO. 2.
.. A publisher announces “ A treatise
on the nose with fifty cuts.” We should
think a nose with fifty cuts had had
about all the treating it could stand.
.. A Cincinnati widow advertised for
“every Christian in the city ” to send her
ten cents. She realized twenty cents, in
dicating an unexpectedly large number
of Christians in that city.
.. A four-year-old miss adds another to
the list of remarkable juvenile speeches.
She was asked where she expected to go
when her mamma died, and replied:
“ To the funeral, I s’posfc.”
. M Ernest lieyner, the music critic
of Leu Debate, says: “I am always
pleased when I see a young lady devote
herself to .the [study of the harp or the
violoncello. It is one less to play the
piano.”
. .Customer (to a vender of watermel
ons)—“ Isn’t a dollar rather a large price
for a waterlemon?” Vender—“You
wouldn’t think so, mister, if you’d sot
on top of a fence with a shot-gun every
night for three weeks a-watchlng the
patch.”
..“ When,” asks an exchange, “does
a boy really begin to realize the stern
realities of life?” Why, when he finds
himself up in a tree in a melon patch,
with the farmer’s faithful bulldog
mounting guard at its base, and the
farmer just heaving in sight with a shot
aim. That’s when.
. . More than sixty thousand pounds of
butter made from beef fat are weekly
consigned from Philadelphia to one Lon
don firm of provision merchants, and it
is only a short time since an order for
no less than 4,500,000 pounds was
equally divided between a New York
and Philadelphia firm.
. .Builington Hawkeye: If any cit
izen in the United States has been over
looked this year in the conferring of de.
green by the several collages, he can have
the omission made good by sending his
address to this office, and stating what
(legrse he would like.
..“ We have got to practice the most
rigid economy at such a time as this, 1 '
remarked a man the other day to a
crowed on the sidewalk. “ I have stop'
ped all the papers for which I formerly
subscribed, and don’t buy candy, toys,
and such trumpery for the children ;
times are bard. Gome in, boys, and take
a drink ! ”
. The common relation among men is
mutual indifference ; that among women,
enmity. Even on meeting on the street
they look at each other like Ouelbellines:
and on being [introduced to each other,
two women always .behave with mere
visible stiffness and insincerity than two
men, for which reason conpliments be
tween women sound much more ridicu
lous than between men. — Schopenhauer
. Recently, a Han Francisco hotel pro
prietor announced that no bills would be
presented to army officers stopping at
his house, until congress should make an
appropriation fer their pay. Before night,
some twenty “ generals,” ninety odd
“ colonels,” three hundred “ majors,”
and no end of “ captains” and “lieuten
ants” had registered and applied for
rooms for the season.
..“ If you ever think of marrying a
widow,” said £n anxious parent to his
Ireir, “select one whose first husband was
hung; for tlrat is the only way to prevent
her from throwing his memory into your
face, and making annoying comparison*.’
“Even that won’t prevent it,” exclaimed
a crusty old batchelor, “she’ll praise him
by saying that hanging would be too
good for you.”
The latest delusion and snare in Han
Francisco is a piece of glass cunningly
cut into a vdriterrtbiance of ice, which is
put into an intoxicated mans cooling
draught. This is much in vouge among
corner groceries, being drunk, of course
does not detect the cheat, but luxuriates
in fancied frigidity.
At the Philadelphia academy of
science meeting, the other day, there
was received from New Orleans a spider
that bad been killed by magnetism. One
of the lobes of the poor creature’s left
lung was affected, its entire left row of
ribs was gone, it had sustained a com
pound fracture of the ccrebal frontis
piece, and had three front teeth knocked
out. Bully for magnetitm !
Young lady, who is taking a course
of English history, anxious to air her
knowledge, imparts to the first-grade
grammar school girl by her side the his
tories of the various queens whose por
traits embellish the volumn. Coming to
Lady Jane Grey, shs Bays: “ This poor
queen only reigned twelve days, and
then they cut her head off.” Intelligent
sweet sixteen, who is a favorite with th*
gentlemen, with dreadful earnestness re
plies: “My gracious! Why didn’t
i they discharge her?”