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The Jesflji Sentinel iu the Jestip House. fronting on Cnerrv two doors from Broad M. fEBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) fear $2 00 1 (R) Three months ff, Advertising Rates. Ver square, first insertion $1 00 Dei - square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—W. H. Whalev. Councilmen—T, P. Littlefield, H. \V. Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield, Anderson Williams, Clerk ami Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield. Marshal—ti. W. Williams. COUNTY OFFCfiRS. Ordinary—Richard B, Hopps. Sheriff—John N, Goodbread. Clerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher. 'fax Collector —W. R, Causey. Comity Surveyor—Noah Beimet.fi ~ County Treasurer—John Masse'*, I Coroner—D. McDitba, County Commissioners—J. F. King, G. W. Haines, Janies Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board 3d Wednesday in January, April, July and October. Jas. F. King, Chairman. COURTS. Snperiot Courl, Wayne .County—Juo. L. Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch," Solicitor- General. Sessions held on second Monday in March and September. Blaciskar, Fierce Cnimty Gtoriia. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—R. G. Riggins. Councilmen—D. P. Patterson,.). M. Downs, J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly. Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom. Toirn Treasurer—B. D. 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—.). M. Pur 'flom. Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl District, Cr. M., Lewis C. Wyllv; 12 0 Bis tried, U. M., George T. Moody ; 5.H4 District, G. M., Charles S. Yomuanns; 590 Districts G. M.. D. B. McKinnon. Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace J etc. —Blackshear Precinct. 584 district,G.M., Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice of the Peace, R. R. Janies; Ex-officio Con stable E. 7. Byrd. DicksonVs Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W. F. Dickson. Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M., Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11. Prescott and A. L. Griuer. Sehlatterville Precinct. 590 District, G. M Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; Justice o the Peace, R, T. James; Constable, .lohn W Booth. Courts—Superior court, Pierce county John L. Harris, judge; Simon \V. Hitch Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon dry in March and September. Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga., session held second Saturday in each Month. Police court sessions every Monday Morning at 9 o’clock. JESDP HOUSE. Corner Broad and Cherry Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. r. 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. SiDgle Meals, 50 cts CURUENT PARAGRAPHS. Popular Science. 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. Drawings made on the assumption that the light tails from the left hand ton corner appear solid ; but if the light is made to fall from the right-hand lower corner, the objects will appear hollow. Two hundred and twenty street lamps a!,•Providence, It 1., which extend over a distance of nine mile*, are now lighted and extinguished hv electricity, in less than fifteen seconds, by one man. The souring of milk during thunder storms is very rapidly produced. Malvern W. Ties 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. Hats are easily caught by placing a hoard spread with this lime near toeir holes. The same substance is used for medical purposes, as a cure for wounds. The freezing point of ether lies below any degree of cold yet attainable, though floculent masses have been obtained in impure elher by applying a temperature of thirty-one degrees centrigrade, or about one hundred and two degrees below the freezing point of Fahrenheit’s scale. For the destruction of hugs on fruit trees, this simply and readily adminis tered remedy is recommended : Select a quiet morning, when the leaves are laden with dew, to throw up among tl?e branches fine, dry coal ashes. By this means both sides of the leaves become coated with ashes, and the slugs are killed or driven off. Industrial. It requires from 8,000 to 10.000 artificial eyes to supply the annual demand in New York. Glass eyes for horses are also in great request. Thi beet-sugar works at Isleton, Cal., are said to be working night and day, and using about seventy tens of beets in twenty-f mr hours. The American public use in paper oellars eight tons of paper daily, and over eight million five hundred thousand yards of muslin. Foreign. Note*. All queen Victoria’s married children have issue except the Marchioness of borne. VOL. 11. Queen Victoria, during her recent visit to Disraeli, planted a tree at Hugh enden Manor to com cemorate her visit, j At Leipzig a “ General Anti-Adultera tion society ” has been formed, and brarches will be established in some 60 town*. American rifles are now in the hands of half the armies in the world. The only great powers not directly employing i American arms are France, Germany ( and England. An exhibition of skins at the recent I exposition of Morelia, Mexico, has led to the establishment of a factory in Mexico for the manufacture of gloves from moleskins. 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. Breach of trust is not viewed leniently iu France, where people aie very careful of their money. M. Gui'hot, a very noted notary at Angouleme, has been found a defaulter to the tune of $240,000, and consequently goes to jail for ten years. On the 2J Chachapoyas, 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 weds cracking and throwing out clouds of dust, combined with the sluieks and groans of the agon ized inhabitants, made a frightful scene. Callas also experienced a severe shock ol the earthquake, but no damage was done. The Prince of Wales can hang 6-Ut his shingle as an attorney, should Tlny thiug happen. He was called to the bar a few years ago, at his own desire and with the usual formalities, and took the oath prescribed on admission. He was at ihe came time made a master ot the bench, the benchers being the governing body of the society of the middle temple. His portrait has recently been painted, in the bencher’s silken rohe, and is to he placed in the hall of the middle temple, London. Whether he knows anything about law is another question. 3li<4cellnm‘onH. There were only murder ers hanged last year among a population of 50,000,000. In New England they pour water over a tree in a skating-rink, and form a very pretty iceberg which is exhibited at night with an electric light. Lynn is said to be losing its trade in boots and shoes, whioh used to he almost a monopoly. Western manufacturers are getting a large share of the business. The Methodist ministers of Boston “ believe that all attempts to reform the theatre are uptopian and vain, and that they can hold no relation toward this school of vice hut that of stern, unrelent ing. Christian hostility. The republic of Honduras is about to introduce the American free fchooi sys tem. In its capital, Camayagua, a national college is to he established, and a commissioner has been sent to this country to obtain books and teachers. Judge Guigon suspended the licenses of six Richmond barkeepers whose registers lor 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. Standing Rock agency, on the J-yiper Missouri, takes its name form a bottle bowlder alxiut 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 j rock and in winter the upper portion is j wrapped in flannel. The .Montreal street-car conductors | laugh at the shaking ol a bell-punch, and so the directors compel them to advertise j their dishonesty by carrying cash-boxes slung around their necks. The passt-nger i places the money on the lid of the box, : the conductor presses a spring, and it falls i in. <lf the conductor touches the money j with his hand he is discharged. There are twenty-five packing houses j in Baltimore, employing each from 50 j to 450 hands, and handling 3,000,000 of | raw and 15,000,000 of canned oysters each season. Besides there are 50 steam- j ing houses, where 25,000,000 cans are J Bred each season by 7,000 men. j y 2,000 men are engaged in making | cans. Oyster shuekers make on an aver- j erage $1.25 a day, but some experts j make as much as $5. A bushel of oys ters iu the shell will make ten cans, and j one firm have shucked and canned as i many as 7,500 bushels in a day Wanted a’Lffttle Excitement. A man with more ears than brains i heard his neighbors in Atlanta, Ga., de scribe an infernal machine, and forth with took ihe hint and constructed one. Ons night last week he carried his toy to the front steps ol a merchant’s resi dence, and after setting it down, rang the bell. When the portly form of the mer chant appeared in the doorway the vis itor pointed to the box and told him that a plot had been formed to blow up his house. The cigai box was dropped into a pail of water and then opened. It had a lining of white pine, and was divided into three compartments, each of which was packed with gunpowder and shot; and in the central one was three matches, placed so as to come in contact with sand paper when the lid was raised. The merchant suspected at once tfiat the in ventor of the machine stood before him, although his visitor pretended to have overheard in an aii :y the details of the plot. The police arrested the half-witted fellow, and forced him to admit that he had made the box. Times were rather dull, he said, and he had thought that a little excitement might help business. . Amer.ca makes the best brushes i . the world, but has to go to Germany and Russia for the bristles. JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY <*>, 1878. “ SEVER,SAY FAIL.* Tlitre is very good advice— within limits—given by Mrs. Winton in the following verses: Keep pushing; ’tis wiser Thau sitting aside, And di earning, and sighlug, And waiting the tide. In life’s sorest battlb They only prevail Who daily ’march onward An iicvt r say fail! With an eye ever open, A tongue that’s not dumb,’ And a heart that will never, \ That will never succumb— You’ll battle and conquer— Though thonsand6 a-sfiil; flow strong and how mighty * Who never Bay 'ail I The spirit of angels Is rctivc, I know, As higher and higher In glory they go. Rethinks on bright pinions From heaven they sal!, To cheer and enco rrnge Who never say fain In lile’s rosy morning, In manhood’s firm pride, i,et this be the motto You, footsteps to guide ; In storn and in sunshine, Whatever assail. We’ll onward and conquer, And never say fail! Her Heart’s Secret. “If you refuse Duncan Halcroft you are a complete idiot, Georgina Gilroy, and I wash my hands of your affairs altogether.” Mrs. Cassowin sails majestically from the rcom where Georgina, her niece, remains nervously clasping and unclasp ing her slender White fingers, and wonder ing why matrimony should he a positive duty iu the code by which ske had been educated. She is only twenty two, slender, fair, and looking about sixteen, with her waving golden hair and soft, brown eyes. She has two hundred pounds a year, all her own, and why can’t she l>e allowed to live a quiet life unmolested. Since her own parents died, about three years ago, she had been dragged from the country parsonage, in which her father lived and died, saviug the little fortune for Georgina, by close economv, to her aunt’s fashionable home, such as her mother pined lor throughout all Georg gina’s childhood. “ When you marry, I hope you will return to your proper sphere,” MrH. Gilroy would say, whenever she spoke of Georgina’s future ; but she never heeded much in those days. Sitting in Mrs Cassowin’s grand draw ing-room, waiting for Duncan Holcroft to come and propose to her, as her aunt informed her he had requested permis sion to do, Georgina, timid and gentle, felt her whole being rise in revolt. Was life to be to herwhatit was to her aunt, a round of calling, shopping, party going, party-giving, interviews with dressmakers and milliners? Could she riot escape to some locality where there were nobler aims and desires? Where ? Mrs. Cassowin had expostulated in vain. Hitherto, Georgina had been gently firm. But on this day even her courage failed before her aunt’s wrath at the proposal to dismiss Duncan Holcroft. He came across the wide drawing-room as she sat thinking, his footfall unheard upon the soft carpet. He was tall, erect, handsome, past fifty, yet not old ; his eyes clear as a his iron-gray liair curly and Fv'lthdant, his gray moustache giving a military air to his well-cut features. Faultless in attire, courteous in man ner,* he also possessed half a million attractions in solid investments. But all else seemed to him worthless comi ared to the possession of that slen der, pale child, who, half buried in a deep arm chair, realized as yet nothing of the yearnings of love in the large, da-X eyes fixed upon her. It was scarcely to he supposed that Duncan Holcroft, bachelor as he was had traveled over fifty years of life with untouched heait, hut he had lived over all other love till this one came and con quered him. It stirred his heart with a sick pain, when Georgina, looking up, paled to her lips, while her eyes were full of fear and trouble, seeing him. She had always given him a frank, cordial greeting,* and he had hoped to win sweeter tokens still from her soft eyes and sweet lips, and instead he had lost what was already given. “Did you not expect me?” he said, gently ; “ you looked startled.” “ 1 did not know yon were here, and it did startle me to see you so close be side me?” Georgina said, a flaming color shooting now over cheek and brow, as she wished herself a thousand miles away. He spoke to her gravely then, and very, very gently, wooing her most tenderly, considerate of her youth, her timidity; and heartly ashamed, she coaid only sob and shiver. “Child,” he said at last, “do I distress you ? Am Iso hateful to you—that— But she interrupted him quickly: “ You are not hateful to me,” she said, impulsively. “I line you ever—ever so much, only, why do you want to marry me?” He could not keep back a smile, though his heart throbbed heavily with pain. “ I love you, dear,” he said; “ I love you far too well to wish to grieve you. Shall we he friends still ?” “ Oh, if you will,” she said, eagerly, ignorant o f the stab in every word, “ let us forget to-day.” As if he could. But lie was a true gentleman, a sincere, unselfish lover, aud he led her on to talk of other matters till the ashy palor left her cheeks and lips, and she was her sweet shy self again. Then he left her. Left her to meet such wrath from Mrs Cassowin that she rose against her bitter speeches. “ I will go to Grandfather Gilroy since you are so tired of me,” Georgina said. “ I would ! Ga bury yourself in that wretched little farmhouse of Fry Corn ers) you, who might the fashion here, Duucan Holcroft’s wife 1” But. even Fry Corners free preferable to Georgina, to the prospect of leading the fashion. She shivered at the thought, shy little country flower, 'and accepted her aunt’s ungracious dismissal. It even seemed as if she threw off a burden when she stepped from her luxu rious carriage at the station. Mrs. Cassowin, slightly remorseful, was at the last moment willing to revoke her decree of banishment, but Georgina Would not see tha flag of truce, only half unfolded, and went to Fry Corners. It was not a fascinating abode, a small farm, managed by a miserly old man and one maid servant of seventy or thereabouts, whose life was a burden be cause old Mr. Gilroy had failed to make I her his wife, after accepting her atten- j tions for a matter of thirty or forty years. Georgina had the free, open country, perfect liberty to go as she pleased, and J the command of her own income. But she was not happy. “ I do believe I am naturally of a dis contented disposition,” she thought, as she wandered up a shady lane. “I’ve got all I want, a country home, old woman to help, and children to be kind to. I can play Lady Bountiful to half Fry Corners on a small scale. I have miles of good, useful sewing, plenty of books, my own piano, nobody to scold me, no fiiierv to worry over, and yet—l—l won der if Duncan Holcroft cares because I have gone ?” What made that question leap to her mind a hundred times a day ? She had refused him, put Him out of her life,nd yet she thought ol hiscourtly manner, his grave, gentle kindness, his real conversation, so different from the society small talk that wearied and puz zled her. Did he miss her ? She feltJierself such an atom in his circle of friends, so lowly and little, com pared to belles fluttering ever in view, so ignorant ana insignificant, that she could only wonder when she remembered the honor he had paid her. Spring flowers faded, summer blooms died, autumn fruits were gathered in, winter snows melted. Ii was May again, and Georgina had been one year at Fry Corners. The old farmer had failed in that year, and very tenderly and pitifully his grandchild nursed him. And, wearying for an interest in life, Georgina gave time, strength, and an unfailing patience to the querulous in valid, never faltering in her seif-imposed duties. He died in May, blessing her with his last breath, and after the funeral, Janet, the old servant, produced a will giving her the farm and the savings of years of grinding economy. Georgina had known of this, and had remonstrated when Mr. Gilroy would have made another will. “ I have more than I spend,” she said; “and Janet has served you faith fully.” But once more homeless, she joined a party of Mrs. Cassowin’s friends and went abroad. Here was surely interest, variety, but never ease for the old heart-hunger. What would fill her life, round it to its full perfection ? Dive was offered more than once, hut met no return, aud she sighed heavily over her own hard heart. In Rome, where the party lingered many weeks, Georgina lived anew life of delight in seeing what she had imag ined in hours of reading, what her father had often described to her, having visited the Eternal City as a tutor in his young days. But in Rome, one of the party, loung ing in lazily to the general sitting-room of the wide house where they all lodged, said, half yawning : “ Holcroft is here, down with the ma laria!” “Where?” someone asked indiffer ently. “At the hotel where we stopped the first week we were here. He’s going to die they say.” “ Die ? Duncan Holcroft ?” Georgina groped her way dizzily un perceived to the balcony. Couhi the wide world hold so much misery as pressed her down. Light a lightning flash she read the cause of all her restless ciaving since she 1 had leit London. She loved Duncan Ho’croft, king amongst men. Sue had walked away from her own paradise, closing the door and Duncan Holcroft would die, and never knew she had loved him. I At the hotel where they had stopped ! Why it was close beside them. She could be there in ten minutes. She never (mused to think of propriety. Wrapping her head and shoulders in a fleecy white shawl, she sped along the street, thankful for the gathering twi light. The waiters paused, but led her to the room. At the doar she paused. She could see a sister of charity kneel ing beside a high tied, could hear a sweet voice say: “ She is here, in Rome. When 1 am 1 dead, carry her my message. Tell her I loved her to the last, You will find her at the address l gave .you, Georgina Gilroy 1 You will not forget the namef’ Trembling and white, Georgina crept iu, softly laying her band u(>on the sis ter’s shoulder. “I atn Goorgina Gilroy,” she whis pered, very low. But low as it was, the whisper reached Duncan Holcroft’s ears, and a smile lighted his white, wasted face. “ Little Geergie,” he said faintly, “Darling, have you come to say fare well ? ’ “ No,” she answered, strangling the sob in her throat. “ I have come to (tray you to live—for me!” A great joy lighted his languid eyes. “For you I Georgie, do you love me at list?” “ I think I have always loved you.” she sobbed, “only I know it at last” “ 1 cannot die now,” he said. And he did not. Clasping Georgiana’s slender hand fast, he found the life-giving Hleep all nnrcrtt ics had failed to give him, waking after many hours to pee loving eyes weanedly watching him. They were married when the priest came in a few hours later, the good sister still remaining to share the nurs ing- But the life-giving joy was Georgina’s love, and all the restless discontent left her happy life forever, when once she knew the Hecret of her own heart. Mrs. Cassowin says she can’t under stand why Georgina had followed Dun can Holcroft to Rome, when she might as well have had a proper wedding and re ception at home; and Georgina has never explained. Fry Corners sees her no more, nor will her husband make her a slave to fashion or society, hut hand in hand, thoroughly one in heart and mind, they find useful work and tender charity to fill all the leisure hours when friendships calls arc answered. An Anecdote of I lie War. I have heard an old war story, aud, by the way, it is one of the best of them. I had it from u former officer under Btone wall Jackson: “On one of our marches in the early spring, when a chilling rain had hp,cn falling for (lavs and (lie slush was almost waist deep, our command, utterly wretched and broken down, was struggling along as best it could under such circumstance* Worn out myself, I crept into a fence-corner to reslawhile. Presently 1 saw a solitary atruggler com ing alowly up the road. Me seemed almost exhausted —his shoes were gone and his feet cut and bleeding. I was struck with his appearance, for through all its wretchedness shone the indomitable spirit of the southern soldier—the man who would be found at his post or else dead in the attempt to roach it. f watched him closely, and as hi’ dragged himself slowly past, I heard him mutter to himself:” ’Bless me if I ever love another country.’ ” — Cor. of Ihe Richmond DixpaMh. Salt. Salt is the medium for solution and absorption. Experiments of French cci entists showed that flssli deprived of salt, by being washed witli water, lost its nutritive power, and that animals who fed on it soon died of starvation. Animals shorn of salt, in addition to that supplied by their food, become dull and heavy in temperament, with rough, staring coats and dead eyes; while salt consuming animals soon present a skin as smooth as velvet, showing a greater relish for food, and giving a rapid increase of weight consequent upon the larger consumption of food induced. A physician of Rochester says that the girls of that town are very pretty, and they grow in grace and loveliness until they are about eighteen or twenty, when they get pale, sickly-looking ami faded, “going all to pieces” at twenty six. Among the causes of (heir deteri oration he enumerates the lack of exer cise in the open air, the wearing of veils that interfere with breathing, tight lac ing, round dances and too much study. This condemnation of the waltz corks from an un jpected <juarter, as that dame has hitherto been denounc'd by people who were anxious about tee fouls rather than the bodies of the waitzers. Dog seller—" That ’ere hanimai’s the real stock, rrum, and dog-cheap at $80.” Young widow—lt’s a sweet, pretty darling, black and white; but, in my present state of bereavement, you must procure me one entirely black. This will do very well in about si* months for ■ half-acouruiug. THE HARRIET I,AM]. A Vrmrl Willi mi lutci-osling: History. There is now tied up at the wharf, a little above Jackson htreet, a three mas ted ship, which attracts by the beauty and symmetry of its appearance. She looks like a vessel which is able to cut her way through the water with excep tional Bpeed and grnce, and the facts do not contradict the eeemingness. She is sharp and lengthened in build, and sug gests the idea of about sixteen c.r seven teen knots an hour in a favorable wind. This vessel is now called the Ritchie, and Captain T. W. Hutchinson, an able and experienced officer, is at present,-'Said lias been for yews, her com mender. She will probably leave by the end of next week,. The vessel has got a history which is entwined with that of the late struggle between the north and south. She was built in 1858, and was launched in 1859, and the name Harriet Lane was con ferred upon her. This name was con ferred in honor of the niece of President Buchanan. She was then a revenue cut ter, sido wheel steamer, and performed j many offices of honor, among which may be mentioned the reception of the Prince of Wales. In 1862 she was captured at Galveston i in an extraordinary way. Approaching ! the city, protected by seven guns, alio was attacked by two small vessels, the Bayou City and Neptune. Neither craft had a heavy gun on bomd, but had bar- I ricadee ot cotton piled high, whence they sent the deadly rifle-ball to the doomed crew of the Harriet Lane. She responded with her heavy broadsides, and succeeded in sinking the Neptune (the wreck of which is yet before Galveston), hut she was finally captured, all hands being hilled hut three, who were badly wounded. At Galveston, at the lime, under the orders of General Magrudcr, was a Colonel Lee. lie was a confede rate, hut had reason to know that his son was one of the crew of the hapless federal cutter. Obtaining permission to visit the ship, he found that his son was among the ill fated three. The only consolation, however, lie had was to ser ins son a few hours alterwards die in his arms. Homo time afterward, when Cap tain Hutchinson had assumed command of the vessel, Colonel Lee visited it and cried like a child because of the memories it awakened. Alter ihft capture of the Harriet Lane the confederates used her as biockadc-runner between Galveston and Havana. In 1865, when she was in Havana, the federal government claimed her from the Spanish, and after consider able red-tapeism she war given up. Afterward she was sold and recon structed, her boiler being taken out and the wheels removed. She was then made a sailing vessel of, and lias since i been plying in the merchant service, | the old hull and much of the furniture of the Harriet Lane still being preserved. New Orlean* Ptcauune. 'lTic Denudation of (lie Sierras. It will be but a very short time before we shall be able to observe the effect that stripping the pine forests from the sides and summit of the Sierras will have on the climate of this state and California. In a few years every accessible tree, even to such as are only of value as firewood, will ha swept from the mountains. Even now this has been done in some places. It is to he Imped that anew growth of pines or timber trees of some kind may ! spring upon the ground that has been cleared; hut we do not hear that any such growth has yet started. Already one great change has occurred that is evident to the most ordinary ob- j server, which is the speedy melting j away of the snow on the mountains It now goes off at ones—in a flood—with t the first warm weather of spring, whereas formerly, being shaded and protected by the pines and other evergreen frees, it melted slowly, and all summer sent down to valleys, on both the eastern and western slopes of the Sierras, constant and copious streams of water. Instead of a good stage of water in our streams throughout summer, as in former times, there is a flood in the spring, aid when this is passed by our rivers s|ieedily run down, and being no longer fed from the mountains, evaporation leaves their beds almost dry when the hot weather of sum- mer comes on. The mountains being stripped of their trees there will ho nothing to shade the rocks and eaith, and both wili tbsorba sufficient amount of heat from the says of the sun during the fall, and even till far into the winter, ’a meet any light fall of snow that may occur. The result will he that our autumn weather will reach further and further into winter until at last we shall have no winter worthy of the name On the California side of the moun tains the effect will 1-e much the same. The hot weather of the valleys will ex tend over the foothills, and gradually reach up into the mountains.— Virginia (Nf-r.) Jfnlerj/rite. “ He took two drops of thought, and beat them into a bushel of bubbles,” was the description given of a speaker whose rhetoric ran ahead of hi* logic. Rowland Hill said of some me In his day, “ they had a river of words, with only a spoon- I ful of thought.” WAIFS ANI> WHIMS. The Gir(. Wjk ‘Ovtr the mountain and ever the moor, V Hungry and barefoot I wundei;forlorn-- My father Is dead, and my mother is poor, a nd atif! weppi for the days that will never return*- Pitv kind Kemle folks, frit ixlsof Keen blown the winds, and ihe nigfot's eoraln# on G.vp me food for my mother- for char JtJT — (rive raesoine food, and then l-wih begoa*. * fit' Call ne not hizv-baek, idle, armtbd enougfc, Fain won’d f Nvni both to kffttfltfld to _ The two little brothers at home, when enough, They shall woik hard for the giffs yon beetovr. Think, while you revel at home at four leli&re. 8 cure from tilt* wind, and well clothed and fid If fortune should fail, how har.Ht would bo To beg at the door for a nittsel of bn nd. 1 ’ *■ •*#:. - Jones finds drinking like a; fish-make* his head swim. Oil has been “ struck *' near Head wood, in the Black Hills region. . You can detect a counterfeit coin by putting it in water. It it swims it’s bad. . Age makes us tolerant f I never see a fault which I did not commit. In lowa a good dancer is said to “ throw a hefty sock.” W*,:. ■ How’s your husband this evening, Mrs. Quages?” “No improvement one way or the other.” . A little boy inquired concerning the stars: “Pa, what n:e those things up f there—are they little dropv'of sun?” Wife,—The experi ence of many a life, “ What a fool I have been!” The experience of many a wife, “ What a fool I’ve got!” NO. 23. .. Tt is almost impossible to wash ink j stains out of clothing, hut if you use the Hame ink to mark a name on a boiled shirt it will disappear in two weeks. . . Cooking parties are all the rage in Paris. The guests pair, of male and fe male after their kind, and each pair must prepare a dish for the common supper. . ."See, mamma!'' exclaimed a littie one, as puss with arching spine and ele vated rudder, strutted around the table “see, Kitty’s eat so much she can’t shut her tail down.” ..The life insurance agent and lighl ning-rod man have struck hands in a partnership, and are now'going about the country inveigling the fsrmers into hav ing their cows insured against lightning. ~ An improved implement has been invented for spreading butter on bread, and now a machine which will carve a hoarding-hov.se chicken on the principle of an apple parer would not he n had idea. ..Much has been written against the accordeon, hut the first evening after a young man who practiced on one moved into the second floor of a house on Union street a smile lit up the face of the aged citizen who lay in sickness on the floor above. He said that he was now recon ciled to death. There iH lame and fame. A gentleman has just died on the northwestern fron ; tier whose claim to a niche iu history’s gallery is based on the fact that he once 1 ate the liver of an Indian. lie was a skillful scout and Sturgis’ best guide in ; the pursuitof Joseph, hut he appears to he host known, and likely to lie longest remembered, on account of his eccentri | feat of gastronomy.— St. Paul Pi. Fr, . It is wonderful what a halo truo love will throw around a dear one’s form. i Here a girl will go and come and sit with ] a great lubber of a lubber every evening ! in a year—while he flounders around on | her train, steps on her toes, knocks over ) tables and commits scores of other depre dations with his No. II hoots—and yet, c.mie Christmas, she will sweetly make him a present of a No. 5 pair of slippers, i with a pink rosebud worked on top. France Armed for the Fray. An exhaustive compilation of statistics relating to the “Armed Ktrength of France,” has recently emanated from the intelligence branch of the quarter master general’s department at the horse guards, and it is impossible to scan the results of Maj. Fast’s laborious investiga tions on the subject without being struck at the prodigious strides made by the French military authorities in the work of reorganization since the passage of the new law, “sur le recrutement,” by the National assembly five years ago. Never Isince the disastrous campaign of the First Napoleon, which dosed at Water oo, has the normal rate of expenditure upon the army of France approached the amount it has now reached. The num erical strength of the troops at present established on a |>eaep footing exceeds by 311,000 men what was deemed sufficient on the same basts immediately before the outbreak of the wsr with Germany. The French war office has spared no pains to become acquainted with the working of every military system in Europe. Ill* a portentous tact that, according to the estimate of Maj. Fast, notwithstanding her immense loss of territory, money and population, France at this moment possesses a total available land forcr. c insisting exclusively of trained men, <. 2,473,766. This vast aggregate includes the “active” and “territorial” armier with the reserves belonging to them re spectively. Consequently a mighty force, drawn from this armed host, under the new regime, could be put in the field in a comparatively short space of time. Of course, it is only the modified plan ol recruiting introduced subsequent to the Franco Uerman war that could render possible the mobilization of a force n> enormous. By the act pa.-eed in 1572, every Frenchman between twenty and forty became liable to jtersoual military service, without the chance of receiving any kind of bounty by way of compen nation for enlistment. So stringent.y are the regulations en’orced in respect to this matter that no substitution is si lowed, and even dispensations from sei vice obtainable under certain condition-, do not necessarily secure exemption.