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Tie Jesuit Sentinel Office in-the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors frojp Broad St. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... TANARUS, P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription. Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year $2 00 Six months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—W. 11. Whaley. Couacilmen—T. P. Littlefield, H. W. Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield, Anderson Williams, Clerk and Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield. Marshal—G. W. Williams. # COUNTY OFFCERS. - Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps. Sheriff—John N. Goodbrtad. Ulerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher. Tax Collector—W. R. Causey. County Surveyor—Noah Bennett. County Treasurer—John Massey. Coroner—D. MePitha. County Commissioners —J. F. King, G. W. Haines, James Knox, .I. G. Rich, Isham Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board 3d Wednesday in January, April, July and October. Jas. F. King, Chairman. COURTS. Superior Court, Wayne County—.Tuo. L. Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor- General. Sessions held on second Monday in March and September. Muter, Pierce Cecity tap. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—R. G. Rirgins. Councilmen—l). P. Patterson,J. M. Downs, J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly. Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom. Town Treasurer —B. TANARUS). Brantly. Marshal—E. Z. Byrd. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore. Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd. County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson. County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson. Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur dom. Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 0 Pis trict, G. M., George T. Moody ; 584 District, G. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 590 District, G. M.. D. B. McKinnon. Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace, etc.—Blackshear Precinct, 584 district,G.M., Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson; Justice of the Peace, R. R. James ; Ex-officio Con stable E. Z. Byrd. Dickson?s Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G M , Notary Public,Mathew’ Sweat; Justice of the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W. F. Dickson. Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M., Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of ihc Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11. Prescott and A. L. Griner. Schlatterville Precinct, 590 District, G. M Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; Justice o the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John W Booth, Courts—Superior court, Pierce county John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon dry in March and September. Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga., session hold second Saturday in each Month. Police court sessions every Monday Morning at 9 o’clock. JESUP HOUSE, Corner Broad and Cherrv Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. P. LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor. Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take your baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 cts CUK KENT PAP AG RAJPHS. Knntliern News, Dallas (Texas) Herald: The heavy frost that has fallen for the past two weeks has greatly benefited the wheat crop. The farmers state that the crop is looking unusually fine. Raleigh (N. C.) News: The secretary of state, during December last, issued warrants for the sale of 28,000 acres of land lying in McDowell county, to W, W. Fleming at 15 cents per acre. The report of Chief O’Connor shows that there were only 112 fires in New Orleans during 1877, with a total loss of $196,845, or about one-fifth of one per cent, of the assessed valuation of the city. No wonder the Sioux are not wanted in the Indian territory. The Star-Vin dicator (Choctaw nation) says: Sioux women are remarkable only for their ugliness It is said there is not a good looking face among them. Prattville (Ala.) Citizen : We are re liably informed that forty-two white per sons will leave Augusta this winter to settle in Texas. Many have already gone. The blacks, we learn, have given up all notion of going to Liberia, and will remain here VII seel lan eons. There were only eighty-three murder ers hanged last year among a population of 50,000,000. Lynn is said to be losing its trade in boots and shoes, whioh used to be almost a monopoly. rVestern manufacturers are getting a large share of the business. The legislature of Washington terri tory has a woman for its clerk, another for messenger, a third for enrolling clerk, while a fourth attends to the engrossing f bills. A cloth made from the down of birds is coming greatly into favor in Paris. It is waterproof, and estimated to be five times lighter and three times warmer than wool. A story comes from Coventry, Conn., giving an account of a woman who com menced marrying at fourteen, and has kept it up until she has scored seven husbands. Wal ace Williamson, a Salt Lake mur derer, chose shooting as the mode of his death, and suggested that a sufficient delay might be granted to enable his friends at a distance to attend. Camel’s hair shawls are not made of camel’s hair. They come of the wool of the Thibet goat. Thus it will be seen that women not only have the woo! pulled over their eyes but over their backs. As an illustration of the decline of New England villages, it is mentioned VOL. 11. that Westfield, Conn., which, twenty five years ago, had 200 iamilies, nearly al} American, has now only 100„ forty of which are foreign. The largest mass of gold yet discov ered in Nevada was found near Osceola. It weighed 24 pounds and 15 ounces, and as it contained very little quartz, its coin value was near $4,000. Birds killed on the western prairies, packed closely with paper in barrels, and without any freezing or other artificial process of preservation, are sent to Eng land by every steamer, where they arrive in excellent condition. The republic of Honduras is about to introduce the A merican free school sys tem. In its capital, Camayagua, a national college is to be established, and a commissioner has been sent to this country to obtain books and teachers. Glycerine may be burned in any lamp so long as the flame is kept on a level with the liquid. On account of its viscidity it will not ascend an elevated wick. The flame produced is colorless, and affords a pure, clear light. The Rev. William Gleeson, in a recent lecture in San Francisco on Ireland’s independence, said that there are from eighteen to twenty millions of Irishmen on the globe, and that an army of 250,000 could be easily raised to remove British supremacy in Ireland. Miss Josephine A. Stone, a colored girl, who graduatedfrom thehigh school, at Newport, Nermont, this last summer, took the gold prize for the highest schol arship, gave the valedictory, and did the last two years’ study in one. She is the daughter ot a cook and supported herself by her own labor. Judge Guigon suspended the licenses of six Richmond barkeepers whose registers for the month of October did not show enough sales to pay tax and license, but suspended sentence until the supreme court could settle the matter For December these same barkeepers report six times the business of October. The Montreal street-car conductors laugh at the shaking of a bell-punch, and so the directors compel them to advertise their dishonesty by carrying cash-boxes slung around their necks. The passenger places the money on the lid of the box, the conductor presses a spring, and it falls in. If the conductor touches the money with his hand he is discharged. On the first day of the Jewish new year most of the fifty or sixty thousand Hebrews living at Odessa go to the sea shore to pray and cast their last year’s sins into the waves, beginning the incom ing season with clean souls. Some turn their empty pockets inside out and shake them towards the sea ; others only make a gesture as if flinging something into it. A queer fish, caught recently in an oyster dredge near Alexandria, Virginia, is shaped like a turtle, and has a hard shell. It has eyes in the shell, and its under side is furnished with a number of arms or claw's terminating like those of the crab, while the back part of the stomach is covered with jointed scales like a common cockroach. It has a tail like a turtle’s, about a foot long. Standing Rock agency, on the Upper Missouri, takes its name form a bottle bowlder ab@ut two feet high and about eighteen inches through at its base, on the prarie two miles north of this point. Every day it is visited by members of the tribe, who paint it green, red or yellow, as fancy dictates. In summer wreathes of flowers are thrown over the rock and in winter the upper portion is wrapped in flannel. There are twenty-five packing houses in Baltimore, emptying each from 50 to 450 hands, and handling 3,000,000 of raw and 15,000,000 of canned oysters each season. Besides there are 50 steam ing houses, where 25,000,000 cans are prepared each season by 7,000 men. Nearly 2,000 men are engaged in making cans. Oyster shuckers make on an aver erage $1.25 a day, but some experts make as much as $5. A bushel of oys ters in the shell will make ten cans, and one firm have shucked and canned as many as 7,500 bushels in a day. • Popular science, While blasting eut the roadway of the southern Pacific railway, vast stores of honey were found in the fissures and sheltered places of the rocks. Entomological specimens may be instantly and easily killed by dropping a bit of chloroform in the insect’s head. No fluttering nor relaxation of the muscles is perceptible. Two hundred and twenty street lamps at Providence, R. 1., which extend over a distance of nine miles, are now lighted and extinguished by electricity, in less than fifteen seconds, by one man. Drawings made on the assumption that the light falls from the left hand top corner appear solid ; but if the light is made to fall from the right-hand lower corner, the objects will appear hollow. The souring of milk during thunder storms is very rapidly produced. Malvern W. lies considers this to be due to the conversion of the oxygen into ozone ; the ozone then forms acetic acid, and the acetic acid causes the precipita tion of casein. The Japanese make a bird-lime, which not only snares birds, but which catches and holds animals as large as monkeys. Rats are easily caught by placing a board spread with this lime near tneir holes. The same substance is used for medical purposes, as a cure for wounds. Tho freezing point of ether lies below any degree of cold yet attainable, though floculent masses have been obtained in impure ether by applying a temperature of thirty-one degrees centrigrade, or about one hundred and two degrees; below the freezing point of Fahrenheit’s ! scale. An important invention is announced to have been made by Joseph Albert, the Munich photographer. By combining the ordinary photographic process with j that pe taining to a peculiar printing-! press of his own invention, he is said to j have produced images of objects with the j finest shades of their natural color. For tire destruction of bugs on fruit, trees, this simply and readily adrninis-' tered remedy is recommended : Select a ; quiet morniDg, when the leaves are laden j with dew, to throw up among the branches fine, dry coal ashes. By this I means both sides ef the leaves become I JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1878. coated with ashes, and the slugs are killed or driven off. The mode in which the Germans keep up their valuable superiority in chem ical manufacturers is shown iu the fact that one of the largest chemical works in that country employs six regular chemists, with salaries varying between fifteen hundred and twenty five hundred dollars yearly, and also engages the ser vices of a celebrated chemist exclusively for theoretical work, paying him nearly ten thousand dollars a year. Such facts account for the industry and fruitfulness of the German chetnists. From Washington. The bill introduced by Senator Dorsey provides for the continuance of the Hot Springs Commission, and enlarges its powers by authorizing it to reserve from sale, and dedicate to the public, various lots of ground as sites for school houses, churches, etc. Captain Brown, of the engineers in charge at Eads’ jetties, in his late report, gives considerable space to the question whether there is a filling up in front of the jetties, and reports as a result of all his observations since last summer, when a slight Dll has bem noticed, that Here has been no appreciable increase to the depth of the fill then reported. The secretary of the treasury lias bought the right to use the Neal steam printing press. One machine now in the department goes into immediate use. and as a consequence, one thousand im pressions of a plate cost about two dol lars, as against nineteen dollars hereto fore paid to the bank note companies by the old mode of printing by hand. ForoiKii. Notes. Many dwarfs and crooked people are met in Genoa, and a correspondent as cribes it to narrow, dark streets. Ashes from the recent eruption at Cotopaxi, in Ecuador, are said to have fallen at a distance of 1,000 miles from the volcano. Iu France, the great poultry-growing uation of the world, it is said fully one half of the eggs are artificially hatched by means of incubators. At Sweden funerals a small hand-glass is put into the coffin of a woman, in or der that she may take a last look at her self when the trumpet sounds, The clocks in the Basque provinces of France are made to strike twice, first to give warning and then to denote the hour. Few of the people can read the time, and frequently no minute hand is used. A Russian official dispatch says the Turks left 300 dead in the fortification of Trajan pass. Besides these, a Turk ish battalion wasnUmost annihilated in an encounter with a Russian turning column. King Humbert I. has ordered the Italian court to go in mourning six months. It is said that Humbert, though originally in favor of Turin, is now disposed to agree to Victor Emman uel’s being interred in Rome, but will consult his brothers. Signor Marcini intends to introduce a bill in parliament appointing the pantheon as the future burial place of the Savoy family. The Fanfulla reports that Victor Emmanual said on his death bed, “I have always felt an affection and defer ence towards the person of the pope. If I have personally displeased him I am sorry, but in all my acts I have al ways had the consciousness of having fulfilled my duties as a citizen and prince, and of never having committed anything contrary to religion.” Russia’s war expenses up to December 1 were $400,000,000. Up to that date she had lost about 75,000 men, according to the official reports. The financial fea ture of the war is a serious one for the czar, who has borrowed $335,000,000 since the war commenced, while there are over 1,000,000,000 paper roubles, or about $750,000 000, floating about, and the mill continues to grind out paper. The Russian journals commenting on the capture of the Turkish army in Shipka pass, point out that this is new evidence that the Turkish power of re sistance is utterly broken, and remark that the cabinets, at both Constantino ple and London must understand tire necessity of recognizing in the approach ing negotiations the decisive military situation created by the Russian army. On the 21 Chacbapoyas, the capital of Amazon, was visited by an earthquake which demolished several houses and damaged many more. Fortunately there was no loss of life. The walls swinging to and fro, the groaning roofs, the noise of falling tiles, the walls crackiog and throwing out clouds of dust, combined with the shrieks and groans of the agon ized inhabitants, made a frightful scene. Callas also experienced a severe shock of the earthquake, but no damage was done. The Precious Metals. Wells, Fargo & Co.’s statement of the production of the precious metals in the states and territories west of the Missouri river, including British Columbia and the west coast of Mexico, during 1877, shows an aggregate yield of ninety-eight and a half millions, being an excess of seven and a half millions over 1876, the greatest previous annual yield. Califor nia gives fifteen and a quarter millions of gold, and a million and a quarter silver. Nevada, $460,000 gold, and $44,320,000 silver bullion. This so-called silver bul lion, however, is about forty-five per cent.. gold. California, also, gives a million and three quarters base bullion, and Nevada six and three-quarters mil lions of the same, which contains about twenty-eight per cent. gold. Arizona gives for the year $2,390,000, of which $123,000 is gold and a half million in silver bullion, and the balance ores and base bullion. The exports of silver from San Francisco to India, China and the straits, are given approximately at $19,000,000. ..A Frenchman who killed a man in a duel writes: “ I will answer to the law with my heart broken, but my head erect. When we have killed a man in a duel, we are sufficiently punished by his death.” i THE CHIMNEY GOBLIN. BY MARION MANVILLE. .There's a Roblin In the chimney With an impißh shriek and cry, Who. with sounds of mocking laughter, Varitil now by moan or sigh, Holds high carnival and chorus With his kin, beneath the eaves, Or, with melancholy walliugs, Iu tht chimney sits and gilevos. Every household has this goblin, In his sooty perch on high, Who. with answering hoot or whistle, Jeers the winds as they po by; Madly tlaacing through the eave-troughs, \\ hirllng round the corners fast. Or. with scampering on the shingles, Adding tumult to the blast Ami the little chimney goblin, With his shiny, grinning f e. leaping out in dusky iWrClqi.*-, Joins the spirits in the iSv.*; And they hold a noisy frolic. All the sprites on mischief bent, Like the inches in the fable, Who with flails to Gath was sent. Lol I fancy as I listen To the wild sounds of the wind, And 1 think the goblin’s talking Some strange jargon to his kind, As thev sit among the cluders. Cross-legged like a lot of Turks, Sending soot andsnaiks and smoke-clouds, Out from where the goblin lurks. And the merry little fellow, Whistling down the chimney gay, Sits there in serene contentment Through the long hours of the day Sita there, laughing, singing rrooaiing Old strange legends to himself, For the sooty chimney goblin Is a mei ry little elf. TAMING THE TIGEI{. Wilil llcnst Trainliik iim a •* Iti'ttiilar liiiMini'MH "-Its I* rl nr I pl‘, anil ll* I'rarllor. He did not look a bit like a hero. He was a short, rather thin, rather pale, sad-eyed, middle-aged man, with light hair and rather reddish mustache, and he walked toward the cage of wild animals, containing four full-grown ti gresses (near which tho writer was standing), with the subdued, spiritless and mechanical air of an attendant to whom a full-grown tigress was an every day spectacle. Fie approached slowly, stooped to pass under the bars which di vide the cage of tigers from the mass of humanity, and then quietly commenced to clean the cage containing the huge beasts, disturbing occasionally, as lie did so with his broom, the occupants, who, however, seemed to pay as little at tention to him as lie paid apparently to them, although they could have “ claw ed” him at any moment. Thinking him to be an ordinary attache of the circus, the writer said to the man, half-jestingly: 11 You seem to know life beasts pretty well; but do you think you know them well enough to thrust your band inside the cage, as you do your broom ?” “Well, I should hope 1 did,” replied the man quietly, “seeing as 1 will have to trust my whole body inside the cage in a few minutes. The writer looked at the Bad-eyed man in wonder for a minute, then “the situation” broke upon him. This meek little man, whom he had been taking for a subaltern, was the king himself, the tiger tamer, the man whose regular busi ness it was to go twice a day into a cage holding four full-grown tigretses, any one of which four could kill and eat him at any moment. The meek little fellow was indeed a specialist—a specialist whose line was truly peculiar, and, therefore, truly inteiesting. No man in a million can enter a tiger's den, as a regular thing, and come out of it again. The particular tiger-tamer who gave this particular information was named Alfred .Still, and was horn in London of German parentage. He drifted, when a boy, into a situation with a man who bought and sold wild animals, and then, joining a traveling circus, wandered in attendance on a pair of lions. The num ber of lions was then increased to seven, and with these kings of the desert Mr. Still became thoroughly familiar from the outside of the cages. The first time he entered the den to make them perform wan, of course, a memorable epoch of his life. “ I expect ed to be torn or cut by the beasts,” said Mr. Still, alluding to his portion of this experience, “and f was very nervous. I expected to come out of the cage bleed ing if not dying, and I made up my mind that if anything happened to me this first time it should be my last time f would never repeat the attempt. But my employers said that if 1 got in any trouble with the lions they would see me through my hospital expenses and would continue my wages. S) although J shook all over inside, ! looked as bold as a lion, and f went in the cage before the crowd just as if I had been used to it. The lions behaved first-rate. I made my performance pretty short, was congratu lated by my employers, and have never been afraid of a beast since. •• You must have known some famous lion-kingsand tiger-tamers in your time,” remarked the writer. “Ob, yeH,” said Mr. Still, “ 1 have met Tom Batty, Lucas, Crockett and John Cooper. I worked for a while under Tom'Batty. He was a good man in his way didn’t know what fear was, but somehow he bad no luck with his lions; they were all the time fighting with him. Why. his body was all one mass of bites and scratches. He always came out of his tussels first best, though. He made a lion know that he was boss. Jack Cooper was a great lion-tamer, too, but cool and quiet. He traveled in France with Myers’ circus. He was bit ten very bad once, and was in the hos pital (or months. Crockett was a Ism doc favorite in his day, and then there was a Miss Hare who went into a lion’s den. Dare was not her real name, but she deserved it for she was daring, too daring, for once she forgot to watch her lions, and was nearly torn to pieces in | consequence. As for poor Lucas he was killed by his lions at last—torn into bits right iu the cage. He was performing I his animals, and lost his temper with them, a thing no man should ever do with a wild beast, and whipped them too ! much. They turned on him suddenly, and then there was an end to Lucas, just as there is an end to most of us fellows .'-on'" day or other, for one- half at least of i the men who make wild- beasts perform j are finished by them. 1 suppose I will enter a cage once too often myself.” No wonder ho was a sad-eyed man, with i such views of his probably ultimate des | tiny. Once a young man, who had been hangiug around the tiger cages fora long while doing chores, took it into his head that lie could “ perform” the animals, and probably he could have done so. The beasts had got used to seeing him around and knew his voice, hut the mo -1 ment lie entered the cage lie lost his courage, lie showed signs of fear, and the I tigers found it out in a twinkling—the i beasts know by instinct if you fear them j or not —and if I had not rushed in just then he would have been torn limb from limb; one of the tigers was just getting ready to bite his neck when I whipped him down. According to the best beast trainers no wild beast can ever be trusted, not even the s'o-called “noble” lion. They are all treacherous, the females generally being more deceitful and dangerous than the males. The lioness is more difficult to manage than the lion, the tigress than the tiger. Kindness—that is anything but ordinary kindness or “civility”—is absolutely thrown away upon a wild beast. It lias occasionally some little effect upon a lion, but very seldom, the lioh being really a surly and treacherous brute, all lion stories and talk to the contrary notwithstanding. But with a tiger, and especially a tigress, all affec tion is literally wasted. A tigress, is as likely to eat you up after six years oi attention on her as after six days, if she only fancies she is safe in so doing. In all professional intercourse with wild animals you must depend on fear—only absolute fear. Let the beasts know that you can and will heat them when they deserve it and they will not hurt yen. Never trust them for a moment. Keep your eye on them all the time— not that your eye alone will have any effect upon them. All these stories in books about “eyeing animals” into sub mission and the power of the human eye over the brute creation are sheer fabri cations. And, as a rule, the whip is the most efficacious of instruments in train ing or subduing a wild beast. It can he* used quickly and at once, and it hurts every time. Ho the beasts learn to dread it even more than a gun—more than anything save a red-hot bar or a fire. “I depend more on my whip when I go in among my tigers,” said tho reporter’s informant, “than upon myself. If I were to drop my whip the beast would fancy I had lost all my power, and pounce first upon the whip, then upon me. I would consider the dropping of my whip while in the cage witli my animals as almost a fatal calamity. “To train a wild animal,” said Mr. Still, “you must first make his or her acquaintance from the outside, doing chores around the cage and getting the animalH acquainted witli your face, and, above all, with your voice. They re member voices more acutely than they do faces; they are governed mo:e by sound than by sight. Once I had a beast in my cage that had not seen me in my red suite that J wear when performing. When i entered with it on the brute did not recognize me and undoubtedly would have sprung on meand torn me to pieces had I not shouted to her in my ordinary tone of voice. She remembered me at once and slunk down submissive.” “ The trainer feeds his beasts and gives them water. These acts give him no hold on their gratitude, hut they serve to render his face, form and voice familiar. They serve as an introduction to tiger sagacity. But you must always watch your beasts well, whether outside or in side the cage. “Having got accustomed to your beasts and you r beasts accustomed to you, your next step is to train them to do their tricks. These tricks are very sim ple, but they require a good deal of time and a good deal of whipping to accom plish. “The lons are the smartest of the wild beasts. You can train a lion to do the ordinary tricks in trade—jumping through hoops and over gates, standing on hind legs, and so on—in about five weeks of constant woik. In this time-ta ble of wild beasts you can estimate that it will take a lioness about a week longer, and a leopard, which comes next in in telligence to a lion, about six weeks to learn the same feats. The tiger would take about seven or eight weeks, a tigress about eight or nine weeks, while you can keep on beating and teaching a hyena for about four months before you can do much with him. “ The great secret of tiger-taming and ail wild-beast taming,” continued the | tiger-tamer, “ lies in the whipping of the ‘ animals—knowing just when to whip them—and juHthow much. You must keep them well whipped, but if you whip them either too little or too much, or whip them without cause, it may be fa tal. As for positively taming a wild beast you can’t do it—especially a tiger. One or two men may have more or less influence over an animal, but no one is ( absolutely safe with them, and no wild beast was ever absolutely tamed, Food makes but little difference with any wild beast as to Its natural ferocity, anil with a tiger it makes none at all. My-- Inal*- would tear a man limb from limb after al full meat ior the fun of the On the other hand, I would just as lief enter their cage before a meal as after it; in fact I do enter it to perform just be fore feeding-time in the afternoon. Once I was obliged to keep them without food for four days crossing from England to France, and yet I performed them before f fed them on the fourth day. On Sun day we do not feed the tigresses at all,’so as to keep them from Bour stomach and indigestion; yet on Monday, before feeding, time, 1 perform them. Tho mere amount of food has very little to do witli their behavior. Thirstexcites them more than hunger. Each of my tigers drinks about a pail of water a day and consumes about ten pounds of meat. “ There is this difference between a tiger and a lion,” said our encyclopedia of wild beast lore. “A lion will tear you out of spite and temper occasionally, but a tiger attacks you only for sheer lovo of blood. A tiger’s claws, too, are even sharper than a lion’s. The leopard’s claws are less sharp, while a hyena’s foot is like a dog’s, clawless, the hyena’s strong point being, liko a scolding wo man, in the jaw.” Having now pretty well exhausted the subject of wild-beast taming tud training a concluding word may hero lie said as to the pay of the professional wild-heaHt tamer. This is much smaller than is generally supposed, ranging from $l5O to SIOO a month. Considering tho risks of life and limb these men daily take, and the fact that there are not fifty of them altogether in the world) this would seem scanty compensation. But tho men themselves seemed satisfied, at and there appears to be a wild bizarre fascination about this wild-beast life, which, liko the love of art in a fine artist, is its own even i( it is often its only reward.—TV. Y. Herald. Better Writers Ilian Speakers. It iH a common thing, on this side ol tho Atlantic, for journalists and liter ateurs, past and present, to fail as speak ers. Forbes, at the uinner given to him by the presn, made a miserable blunder at an attempt to acknowledge thecompli ment he had received. He said lie never was a good speaker, and he would sooner stand to lie shot at for half an hour than stand and speak for the same length of time. He only said a few words, and he said them in a tone of hesitancy and confusion. Thackeray couldn’t speak im promptu. Douglas Jerold, so witty when sitting at table, was an idiot on his legs. Once, at Sheffield, when suddenly pre sented with some memento of his visit by a deputation of working men, he couldn’t find six words in all his vocabularly to acknowledge the gift. Years ago, when a lot of the Punch men went down to Boston, in Lincolnshire, to help their friend Ingram at Ids elec tion, the whole town was covered with astonishment to find that Mark la: in on and hid humorous colleagues couldn’t make a speech among them. I once eat by the side of Dallas, of the Times, when his health was proposed, in the company ol Hhirley Brooks, Tom Taylor, Burnand, Lemon, Tenniel and othors. He could only say “ Thank you.” J have seen the moit brilliant men look like fools when called upon to speak. Among modern writers, Hala and Tom Taylor are notable exceptions. Among those of the past, Dickens was another. He liked to have the chance of thinking out a speech, but it was not necessary to him. Sala is a fluent and charming talker. He thinks and speaks on his legs as felicitously as he writes.— London Cor. New York Timee. Marrying for Money, A late author very truthfully says: “ Gold cannot buy happiness, and the parents who compel their daughters to marry for station or money commit a grievous sin against humanity and God And a woman who marries a churl for his wealth will find that she has made a ter rible bargain—that all the glitterings of heartless grandeur am phosphorescent glitterings of heart wretchedness ; that her life will be one of gilded nJsery, and her old age will Ire like a crag on the black side of a desert mountain, where cold moonoeams sometimes glitter, but no birds sing, but wild storms howl arid hoarse thunders roar, and through the sweeping storms shall lie heard the stern . voice of the great God, saying, ‘ Your | riches are corrupted, your garments are j moth-eaten, your gold an<l silver are j cankered, and the rust of them shall be ; a witness aeainst vou, and eat your flesh | as if it were fire.’ ” Women haven’t yet begun to speak well of their sex. “ Vasaar College,” says Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, “ is a college at Poughkeepsie, with 500 young lady students, principally fools.” WAIFS AND WHIMS. An Aboriginal Chnnl. What time the glittering rays of morn O'er hill and valley steal; Chief Joseph’sfquHw, with dog and corn, I’repares the Indian meal. And if, with wild rebellious shout* The pappoose shall appear : The ohieftniu leads the bad child out Clutched by the Inline ear. Tho breakfast o’er, the daughter strolls Down glen and shady dell; While gay young braves, from wooded knolls, “ Look out for the Injin belle! ” Each stricken brave she turns and leaves Her coyness to bewail; Her dragging blanket stirs the leaves— The well-known Indian trail. A Black Hills miner, scalped and dead, Upon the ground is found; „ ~ Grim speaks the chief. “ There’s been, I’m afraid An Indian summer's around.” What time he rideth forth to shoot, Hw favorite horse the dapple Is; And when he wants a little fruit Goes where theTndianapolis. When finished are his warlike tasks, ♦Vlth brazen incongruity. For overcoats and food ho asks, With charming Indianuity. At night before his bed he’ll seek, With oouotenaace forlorn, He takes his real ping knife, and eke, He trims the Indian corn. —Burlington llauktye. A Boston paper publishes an ac count of Mynheer VonKlaes, the Dutch idiot of Rotterdam who smoked four tons of tobacco an i drank 600,000 quarts of ain. TtUnr;* t?o years since the fool killer gathered in t.hi-spremou.*i Dutch man. .. A few weeks ago the quartermaster general of the Turkish army issued rations of soap to all of the regiments in the army of the faithful. The aston ished warriors took it, looked at it, won: dered what it was for, and finally made soup of it.— Burlington lfawkeyc. ..“ Do you believe in the use of tho rod, my dear professor ?” asked a lady whose children were making lile a burden to all the guests in the hotel. “In some eases, madam; but there are others,” glancing at her gamboling darlings, “ where I prefer the revolver.—TV. Y. Mail. The New Orleans Picayune says of the Yale boobies: “The highest sense of humor developed by Yale students is the stealing of a poor tradesman’s sign an putting it up in the wrong place. The young men laugh heartily when they have misplaced a sign, and the action fills their intellectual wants.” ..“When a girl getH mad and rises from a follow’s knee,” says an exchange, “ but thinks better of it and goes back again, that’s what call a relapse.” And hero we have been working for dear life tokeepoff a relapse under the impression that it was in some way related to chol era morbus.— Rome Sentinel. .. “Woman graduates” says a Philadel phia piqier, “are knocking at the doors of tho Massachusetts Medical society.” Bully for the Massachusetts women. Outin this country itis the poor husband who has to get up and dust at midnight’s holy hour and pound bedlam out of the doctor’s door after he has pulled the bell knob out by the roots. — Burlington Hawk eye. TIIK DttKAM or ST. THKRKBA. llu vp you hoard of tho dream she had Therm, tho saintly 7 (Vnno Union, ye good and bad ! And hood It not faintly. A weird, awful woman sho anw, Aihl wondered what brought her ; In arm hand sho bore flaming straw, In the other hand, water. “ Wlmro hound ?” asked Theresa. ** O, tell!” The answer given : “ IheiOHii, I iff- u* quench hell, An! then to burn heaven.” " But why,” naked tho saint, ” do you make Ho wild an endeavor 7” " Ho that nion, for Ills own holy soke, May love God forever.” lApplncoU. Dr. Fulton on hell: “The man whoso love and will is Godward goes to the embrace of Ohrist. Ife whose love is earthly and selfish, devilish, gravitates hellward. As the tree falls so it lies. We love in the next world what we love in this, and are there what we are here. This being the case, the condition of the impenitent dead is hopeless. The men and women who have hated God and despised reproof must be thought ot as individuals, not as aggregations, ft was as individuals they rejected God. Gan God forget it? Will there ever a mo ment come when God’s hate toward a rebel will be less? It is impossible.” .. A Capuchin friar in Turin has con structed a large and complicated work of mechanism by which the passion and sufferings of the Savior, from Hjh con demnation before Herod to His death on the cross, are marvelously represented. On a constantly receding platform the figures appear and the scenes change. Not only are the movements of the automata life-like, but the figures and scenery are masterpieces of art. The crowd clamoring for His death is repre sented by a very numerous group of figures, which are wonderfully distinct in action and appearance. The falling beneath the weight of the cross on the way to < 'alvary is painfully graphic. To render quite audible the lashing of the soldiers is one of the functions of the machinery. Tho scenes at the place ot execution and the death of the Savior are said to be beyond praise, and a writer iu a Turin paper declares that the extra ordinary mechanism has but one imper fection—-the capacity of making the fig ures articulate intelligibly. This imper fection is chiefly evident when the words arc exchanged between the Redeemer and the penitent thief. The sounds emitted from the figures are in this in stance ludicrous; but the friar hopes to remedy this defect, and bis mechanism will, in all likelihood, be an object ol wonder at the l’aris exhibition. The manufacture ot buttons is largely earried on at Bethel and Gaysville, Vt. The material used is the vegetable ivory, which is an exceedingly hard, fine* grained nut, grown in the Isthmus of Panama. It is about the size of the average hen’s egg, and, after the burr and Bhel are split off, it is white and solid. It is split, by a circular saw, into several pieces, from each of which dif ferent-sized buttons are turned by ma chines, which pare both sides at once. The ivory nuts cost SIOO per ton. NO. 22.