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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
.Mayor—W. it. Whaler.
Councilmen—T. P. Littlefield, H. W.
Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk and Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCBRS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopes.
Sheriff—" John N. Goodbrtad.
Clerk 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. MeDitha.
County Commissioners— J. F. King, G.
W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, lsham
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board
3d Wednesday in January, April, July and
October. .las. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superioi Court, Wayne County—,)uo. L.
Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
Blaster, Fierce Coral? Gwjia
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor— R. G. Riggins.
Councilmen—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Gowns
J. M. Lee, B. I). Brantly.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom,
Town Treasurer—B. D. Brantly.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY' OFFICERS.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore.
Sherifl—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 Dis
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.—Blaekshear Precinct. 684 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice
of the Peace, ft. R. James: Ex-oflicio 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, TV.
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Nota-y Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
Scblatterviile 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 countv
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blaekshear, Ua., session
held 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 ets
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.
Richmond is preparing to build a grain
elevator.
An Alabama hunter killed eight wild
turkeys at one shot.
Virginia killed only three railroad
passengers last year.
Twenty-six negroes, exclusive of chil
dren, left Gaston, North Carolina, last
week, for Kansas.
The lower house of the South Carolina
legislature killed the Moffitt bell-punch
bill by a vote of 54 to '23.
There are eighty Masonic lodges in the
state of Florida, and the order is repre
sented as in fine working condition.
It is thought that General Joseph E.
Johnston will be elected to congress from
the Riehmend ( Va.) district without op
position.
Wilmington (N. C.) Star: Owing to ;
the long continuous warm weather the j
buds on the peach trees are swelling and ,
almost ready to burst forth.
A great deal more grain than usual ha*
been sown, this season in Mecklenburg
county, N. C. Wheat and oata are al
ready visible above the ground.
The supreme court of Georgia has de- !
cided, “ for a man, without some inno
cent reason or excuse, to put his arm
around the neck of another man’s wife,
is an assault and battery.”
The lower house of the Mississippi leg
islature gave an unanimous vote of ap
proval of $250 and the railroad SSOO for
the detection of the partv or parties who
wrecked the train at Lavergne.
The total assessment of Louisiana ie
estimated at $176,000,000 ; that of ths
city of New Orleans at $111,000,000,
thus making the real and persona! as
sessments of the state outside of New
Orleans only $65,000,000.
Raleigh News: Albert Johnson, Esq.,
of our city, assisted in putting together
the first locomotive engine used in Vir
ginia and North Carolina. It was built
by Edward Bury, at Liverpool, England,
and was brought to this country and de
livered at Petersburg. The engine was
named the “ Roanoke,” and its weight
anlv five and a half tons. The cylinders
were Bxl6, and the driving wheels four
VOL. 11.
and a half feet in diameter; just in front
of these were two pilot wheels, each
three feet in diameter. There was no
truck as in the engines of the present
time, nor was a tender used
From Washington.
The committee ou Education ttu La
bor is unanimously in favor of taking
steps to check ihe evils of Chinese immi
gration to the Pacific coast. Mr. Willis,
of Kentucky, who as the head of the
sub-comm ttee has very carefully ex
amined the subject, is authorized to re
port to the house a joint resolution
requesting the president to open cor
respondence with the governments of
China and Great Britain, with a view of
securing a change or abrogation of any
stipulations in existing treaties which
permits the unlimited immigration of
the Chinese to the United States. The
; entire committee, both democrats and
republicans, are agreed on this policy.
The report prepared by Mr. Willis to
accompany the joint resolution presents
the following considerations:
1. The statistics of the customhouse
lor the past twenty years, shows that,
dividing said twenty years into periods
of five years each, the average increase
of said period's is fifty per cent. Esti
mating the present number of Chinese on
the Pacific slope at 150,000, which is the
lowest estimate from any source, if the
above rate of increase should continue,
by 1880 the number of Chinese would
exceed the native voting population, to
gether with immigration from all other
sources, over 50,000. The question there
fore, is not one of prospective but of
present importance, and demanding leg
islation, it these immigrants are objec
tionable.
2. The class of immigrants is from the
fourth or lowest class of Chinese, a class
among whom, when in China, the mar
ital relation is ignored, polygamy and
prostitution and concubinage recognized,
if not legalized, children and wives are
soli into slavery, and sanctity of oaths
disregarded, infanticide, and especially of
females, common and unrebuked, clean
liness almost unknown, and paganism
the only religion.
3. They are mostly brought here'
under contracts, by which they agree to
pay to certain brokers, or to the six Chi
nese companies, a large percentage upon
their passage money. When these Chi
nese attempt to return home they are
unable to do so, unless these six compa
nies give them a permit. The companies
exercise a control over them greater than
that of the civil government The wo
men who come are, without exception,
immoral, and are bought and sold like
sheep in the shambles.
4. Viewing the subject from a labor
standpoint, the repoit says these China
men live fifty in one room, twenty by
twenty. They have no wives, no child
ren, no home in the sense in which the
word is known in America. Their food
is rice. Packed like sardines, and enjoy
ing none of the comforts of a home, they
live od ten or twenty cents per day.
Their whole life antagonizes the Ameri
can idea of labor.
5. The report argues that they are
unfit to be American citizens, that they
disregard oaths, keep up pagan customs,
and that it is impossible to execute the
laws over them, or to make them regard
sanitary regulations.
6. The chief objection to the Chinese
is their utter failure to assimilate with
our people and institutions. In this
respect they are unlike all European im
migrants. They have been iu the coun
try for twenty-seven years, and are the
same to day as when they first came, the
same in dress, religion, social habits and
political views. The Chinese disclaim
and refuse to assimilate in the body
politic of America.
The committee is also considering the
•form of a law to prevent further Chinese
immigration. It holds that congress has
1 already the power to deal with the sub
j ject and apply a remedy,
i Mr. Willis says that there are a sum
; her of supreme court decisions affirming
| that congress, in its power of legislation
! over such subjects, is not restrained by
treaty stipulations, and that the present
treaty with China must not stand in the
; way of the legislation demanded by the
' highest considerations of public safety.
Science and Industry.
In a paper on the use Of lacs of cosine
and fluoresceine (or preparation of decor
ative painting without poison, Mr. Tur
pin gives the following recipe: A potassic
or sodic solution of cosine treated with
an acid gives a precipitate of cosic acid
insoluble in water; this washed until the
water begins to take a rose-color is insol
uble in the hydrate of ‘oxide of ziDC, and
so forms a very rich lac, the red color of
which varies according to the quantity
of cosic acid which had been employed.
On the 10th ef December last, a Dan
ish vessel nearly stranded on an island
about forty miles from the straits of
Magellan. No land was indicated on the
chart Soon it was noticed that the
island was slowly sinking. An attempt
was made to land on it, but this was
1 found impossible, as the rocky mass of
which it was composed was so hot that
i the water touching it hissed. The island
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, JB7B.
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continued to sink, and eight hours after
it was first observed the vessel sailed
over the place where it had appeared
above the surface of the ocean.
There is a common impression that
green wall-papers only are poisonous.
Mr. Seebold, of Manchester, England, has
analyzed not less than sixty or seventy
kinds of paper for covering walls, and he
found that ten only were harmless,
although the colors were not green, but
pink, blue, red, brown, etc. The cause
of the illness of children, and delicate
persons, which in many cases perplexed
skilled physicians, may be the poisonous
mineral contained in the innocent-look
ing wall paper of bedrooms.
A method of engraving bn glass’ with
electricity has been described by M.
Plante. A concentrated solution of
nitrate of potash iH poured npon the sur
face of ajplate of glass or crystal until the
surface is covered with it. A horizontal
planiintim wire connected with one of
the poles of a secondary battery of fifty
or sixty elements is placed in the liquid
along the edges; then holding iu the
hand the other electrode (insulated
except at the end), figures or characters
of any kind which maybe described with
the ends on the glass will be found to be
clearly engraved.
In an article on the action of aniesthet
ics, Binzsays, that sleep-producing agents
possess the power of causing a kind of
congestion of the cerebral cortex, while
other agents nearly allied to them in
composition do not possess this power.
Morphia, chloral, ether, and chloroform
have a strong affinity for the substance
of the cortex of the brain in man,
and when they enter into combi
nation with the-cerebral substance they
act in opposing or. impeding the disinte
gration of the living matter, and thus
rendering it unfit to discharge the func
tions required of it. Ranks, after a pro
tracted study of the same subject, comes
substantially to the same conclusion.
The rude representations cut on rocks
near the Lacs des Merveilles, in'Switzer
land, have long been a puzzle to archse
ologists. Borne have believed that they
were the work of the soldiers of Hanni
bal. (What busy people these soldiers
must have been from first to last.) The
most satisfactory explanation o' the
origin of these figures has just been
given by M. Chiquetf! He says that at
certain seasons of the year shepherds
could find near the rocks some herbage
for their sheep and goats. To while
away the weary hours the shepherds
amused themselves in cutting figures
which have cost days ot owlish study to
savans, who are more inclined to look for
mysterious and remote authors of such
things, than to accept an obvious and
common-sense view.
At a recent meeting of the royal astro
nomical society, London, a large photo
graph of the sun, twelve inches in dia
meter, waH shown as a specimen of the
photographs now regularly obtained by
M. Janssen at the observatory at Meudon.
Mr. De la Rue declared it to be the
finest example of celestial photography
he had ever seen, and he expressed
especial gratification that it was taken
with an instrument constructed like the
uew heliograph, having a two-inch
object glass. On the picture of the disk
of the sun were markings which De la
Rue, Abney and Christie said represented
tornadoes. It was suggested that there
ought to be a physical observatory to
register the changes which take place on
an enormous scale every hour on the
sun—changes compared with which the
phenomena -of sun-spots are relatively
unimportant.
Foreign Gossip.
In France condemned criminals never
know the time fixed for their execution
until tbe moment arrives. Indeed, as a
prisoner condemned usually appeals as a
matter of course to the Cour de Cassation
against bis sentence, he must be uncer
tain to the last whether the sentence will
be carried out. The order for the exe
cution is only sent to the prison the
evening before it is to take effect, the
criminal is not informed until the next
morning, and the sentence is carried out
at a very early hour.
Miscellaneous.
A statement has been prepared in the
office of the secretary of the treasury
showing that since 1791 to the close of
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, the
sum of $399,327,536.20 baa been paid out
to the various classes of pensioners. In
1871 the disbursements were $34,024,-
990.21. It is probable that there will be
a decrease in these large disbursements
hereafter.
The department of agriculture an
nounces that the climate and soil of
Florida, Lower California and portions
of Texas are well adapted to the growth
of the coffee plant. Great warmth of
climate is not essential to its development.
It thrives best in regions where extremes
of heat and cold are not experienced. In
Lower California and Florida wild coffee
with many characteristics of the culti
vated plant, is very abundant. The
importations of coffee into the United
States during 1876 were nearly 840,-
000,000 pound*, at a cost of nearly
$57,000,000.
THE CHILDREN
HY CHAHLKS DICKENS.
W hen the lesson* and tasks are all ended,
dud the school for the dayiadlsmittNkl,
And the little one* gather around me
16 bid me good nh*ht and be kissed,
I Oh, the little white arms that encircle
My neck in a tender embrace!
Oh, the smiles, that are halos of heaven,
bhedding sunshine of Jove on my iacs*
And when they are gone, l sit dreaming
Of my childhood, too lovely to last;
Of love that my heart will remember,
Whea it wakes to the pulse of the past.
Ere the world and its wickedness made me
A partner of torrow and sin;
When the glory of God was about me,
And the glory of gladness within.
Oh, my heart grows weak as a woman’s,
And the fountains of feeling will flow,
As I think of the paths steep aud stony,
Where the feet of the dear ones must gv>;
Of the mountains of sin hanging o’er them,
Of the tempest of fate blowing wild I
Oh, there is nothing on earth h ill so holy
Ai the ipnoseut heart or k child 1 V
The twig is so easily bended,
I have banished the lule aud the rod,
I have taught them the goodness of knowledge—
They have Uught me the goodness of God.-
Mv heart is a dungeon of darkness
Where I shut them from breaking a rule,
j\ly frown is sufficient correction.
Mv love is the law of the school..
1 shall leave the old house in the autumn,
To traverse it threshold no more;
Ah I how 1 shall sigh font he dear ones
That meet me earn morn at the door.
I shah miss the good nights and the kisses,
And thegush oi their innocent glee;
The gi oup on tho green, and the flowers
'1 hat are brought every morning to me.
I shall inisa them at neon and at eve,
Their song in the school and tho street ;
I shall miss the low hum of their voices,
And the tramp of their delicatef eet.
When the lessons and tasks are all ended,
And Death-aavs, “The school is dismissed,”
May thejittle ones gather around me
'1 o bid me good uiaht “aud lw kissed.”
New York ltiillilozing'.
The New York bankers have held sev
eral meetings recently, having for their
purpose the agreement upon a plan of
action with which the southern aud
western states are,to be threatened un
less they withdraw their support of tho
remonetization of silver. The plan in
cludes : 1. No more sale of goods ex
cept on condition of payment in gold; 2.
No credit or discounts to any western or
southern banks, merchants or corpora
tions. or municipal governments, except
on contracts payable iu gold; 3. The
refusal of all dealings with persons who
will not make contracts to pay pant anil
future debts in gold. This threat is to
be sent all over the country as the de
termination of the men who claim to
represent the ‘‘center of capital.” Do
these gentlemen think that the “center of
capital” is immovable? Within the
memory of even young men and mer
chants , New York was tho “ center of
trade ” in the United Staton, nnrl ©vory
man who dealt in dry goods or groceries
all over the land had to go to New York,
or send to New York to purchase his
stocks. Times have changed. New
York was once the center of the provi
sion ttade, and every pound c. packed
beef, pork, lard, bacon and i ' meats
had to be sent to New York to be sold—
both to the foreign and domestic mar
kets; hut the center of the provision
trade has moved a thousand miles west
ward.
The day haw long since gone by when \
the west and the south depended on New
Y,ork city. That city might be buried,
and the business of the west and south
would go on jast the same, if the banka
and merchants of New York shall insist
that the capital gathered there shall not
be employed ia trade with the west or
south, it is possible that that capital will
quietly find its way to the productive
centers, and be invested directly among
those who produce to sell and who buy
to consume. There is no law that can
compel capital to remain in New York
one hour after the trade of that city
with producing sections of the country
shall cease or be suspended, and if the
city of New York proposes to susi*nd
or refuse further commercial or financial
dealings with the exporters of $650,000,-
000 surplus products of their labor, the
latter will probably Gnd some other route
to market, some other route to the open
sea, some other point from which to ob
tain what they need, and some other
part of the world in which to obtain the
capital they may need fo handle what
they produce.
Now, if the New York banks and mer
chants want to get out their “black list,”
let them do it. If they will not sell
us dry goods, there are other places where
we can buy them ; if they will not buy
our bread and meat, let them go hungry.
The people who produce more than they
consume of human food have an
open market the world over, and can
find elsewhere all they need in ex
change. Let New York get out its
“blacklist;” it need not be at trouble
to select the names ; let it put down the
people of the West by acres, townships,
counties, congressional districts, and
states; let them put the peopleof twenty
six states under a commercial and finan
cial interdict; let them advertise to the
remotest part of the earth that New
York holds no commercial intercourse
with the south or west; that the people
of these sections refuse to pay any more
debts or interest than is called for by the
letter and terms of their contracts, and,
when the railroads to New York shall
become bankrupt, and the Erie canal
become stagnant from disuse, and the
hanking buildings in Wall street will
have inscribed in chalky whiteness over
their doors the legend, “To let,” then
perhaps Mr. George W. foe and his as
sociates will discover that any attempt
to bulldoze or intimidate a free and in
telligent people must prove a failure.—
j [Chicago Tribune.
WHICH IB THE MOBE HO VEST ?
If Mr. Belmont was saked what money
he tendered in purchasing United States
bonds, lie would of course acknowledge
in the cheapest currency then in vogue.
It is his business as a banker, as indeed
it is of every other purchaser, to make
I the best bargaiu lie can, Previous to
1873, when these debts were contracted,
paper money was in universal use. But
the value of the paper was measured by
the gold standard. Now, it happens that
the gold standard, previous to 1873, was
; lower than the silver standard. Silver
1 was at a premium of three per cent.
1 Even tho gold papers will not call Mr.
; Belmont a swindler and a knave if lie
i paid for hit bonds irl the cheaper metal,
; or in paper that was convertible into it,
that fa— gold. The hankers fit the world
i did not iußist upon paying for their bouds
in the dearer melal. But having pur
chased, as they had a right to do, in the
cheaper metal, they now clamor for pay
ment in the metal which has been arti
ficially enhanced iu value by the de
monetization of silver. There is certainly
no more dishonesty in the nation paying
its debts according to contract in the
metal which was dearest when the bond*
were bought. The government lias ex
actly the same right to its option in the
payment of its debts that the bankers
had in the choice of metals in which to
pay the evidences of the debt. There is
no more dishonesty in the one case than
in the other, especially in view of the
fact that the Hilver dollar was secretly
and sueakingly dropped from the coinage
of the nation, at the instance of the
creditors, iu order to enhance tho value
of their bonds. —[Graphic.
HOME BOTTOM FACTS ABOUT SUVVKIt.
1. Great Britain—which is' mono-me
tallic, with a gold valuation—during 1877
exported $101,800,000 in gold, while im
porting but $77,100,000, thus losing for
1877 the sum of $24,540,000 of her gold.
2„ France— which is with
gold and silver co-equal legal tenders for
any amount—during 1877 exported but
about $17,546,000 in gold, while import
ing $96,100,000 ; that is’to say, France
added $79,000,000 to her stock in gold
during that period.
3. Of the gold exerted by mono-me
tallic England bi-metallic Franco gained
or imported directly no less than $30,000,-
000, ttUUo ©w Wi|>oiiU)g roily as much
as $15,000 000 from Germany, which
that country had received from England
since the Jst of January, 1877.
4, Notwithstanding the balance of
trade as between the United Slates sud
Great Britain has been in our favor dur
ing the last y*\’ir we have, nevertheless,
exported to England during 1877 no less
than $10,300,000 in gold, or above a
third as much as England imported from
Australia, her present chief source of
gold.
6. On the 10th of January, 1878, there
was in the bank of France, in coin and
bullion, the sum of $399,100,000. About
the same time the amount held in coin
and bullion by tbe bank ot England was
$122,640,000; Imperial bank of Ger
many, $118,045,000 ; National bank of
Austria, $68,725,000; National bank of
Belgium, $19,495.000; Netherlands
hank, $53,036,000, amounting in the ag
gregate to $376,840,000. Excess in favor
of bank of France, $22,260,000. This is
not an exceptional state of affairs. The
hank of France has thus for eighteen
months contained in its vaults much
more specie, chiefly gold, than all the
other National hanks of these’ehief com
mercial European states together.
6. Bi-metallic France, where silver is
an unrestricted legal tender for the pay
ment of all debts, having, as we have
stated, for 1877 imported $79,(3)0,000 in
gold in excess of he"r exports of that
melal—on the other hand, exported to
mono-metallic England as much as $5,-
876,000 in silver, or about 45 per cent,
more than she imported from the same
country. Further, France, while im
porting $15,250,000 in silver—chiefly
from Belgium, Italy and Mexico—ex
ported nearly $7,000,000.
7. While Germany has exported to
England in the year as much as $68,-
737,000 in silver, India absorbed it all,
and more, namely, $71,568,000; and
China nearly $10,000,000 ; or, together,
$81,896,000, derived exclusively from
the London market.—[Mining Record.
••.Dint Hjml One.”
The following story is told by Gen.
Harry Heth : One. day Gen. fnow sena
tor ) Gordon and 1 were ordered to attack
Gen. Grant’s lines near Pittsburg, and
we accordingly moved out towards the
front. Gordon, you know, is a preacher,
and a man of pious, devotional habits.
Just before the action began he said
“General, before we go into action, would
it not lie well to engage in prayer ” “Cer
tainly,” I replied, and he and his staff
retired into a little building by the road
side, and I and my Htafl prepared to fol
low. Just then I caught sight of my
brother, who was with some artillery
a little way down the road, and thinking
to have him join us, I called out to him
by name. ‘ Come,” said I pointing to
the building we were just entering. “No,
thank you," he answered, “1 have just
had one. ’
Turkey will be as poor as Job’s before
the czar has done plucking it.
THE FASCINATING DUCHESS.
Mart Twain s Adventure In tho Jardih MabillS.'
On my arrival at Paris I inquired what
was the best place to spend an evenihg',
and was told the most aristocratic place
of resort was in the Jardin Mahillo. I
too a cab and proceeded thither. I fbttnd
myself in a beautiful garden, brilliantly
lighted. There was a crowd of ladles and
gentlemen, a tine band was playing and
a quadrille lorming. While I was gazing
about a gentleman asked me if I wished
to dance. 1 said I would like to, but
that I was a stranger and not acquainted
with any of the nobility present. He
smiled and said the French nobility were
exceedingly nffbKe and obUgVrg, and that
lie would bo’ pletudS to introduce me to
a lady o( high rank and varied accom
plishments, who would dance with me if
I wished. Then ho presented me to tho
Duchess d’Assafeetidn (that’s us near ns
I could the name).
I had face to face with a
duchess helots, and therefore felt diffident
and ill at ease. The graceful creature un
derstood my case at once, and within
two or three minutes made me (eel per
fectly at home—more than at home, 1
may say. I iftver met a Indy so easy
to get acquainted' with ns she
was. ft must require a high
cultivation, only to be attained in the
upper ranks of society, to give one such
sell-possession as tiers, Tlilh duchess
smiled upon me in the most encouraging
way, and tapped me on the shoulder with
her fan, and then slur looked up into my
face and charmed away all mv emhurnss
uient with a burst of cheery laughter
that was full of happiness and garlic.
Next, she took my arm, heating time
to the music with her fan, and stiil
uttering that fragrant laughter. Next,
she put her arm around my neck. This
was somewhat unexpected, 1 must say.
It made me feel blissfully uncomfortable,
1 enjoyed it, but at the same time, I was
afraid it might attract attention. 1 inti
mated as gently as I could, that the duke,.,
her father; might be in tbe crowd some
where ; but she only laughed more
odorously than ever. I (eared the pater
nal duke might invite mo to breakfast
on pistols and coffee, i like coffee, but I
do not consider that it improves it to
mix it with hardware. This 1
the duchess, and she received it with one
of those peculiar laughs of hers that wrh
perfectly smothering.
Just then the music struck up furi
on sly; the duchess exclaimed, “Como!’
and dashed away with me. The
crowd closed up to our set, and
walled it on every side. I had never
before seen so much curiosity displayed
in a mere quadrille by disinterested par
ties. Dukes and duchesses began to
prance to and fro iri the dance with wild
energy of purpose and extravagance of
gesture. •
I began to get interested. I glanced
across, my partner was just turning;
she miscalculated the length ofherlimhs
and lifted her dress accordingly; she
came prancing over; I sallied forth to
meet her, and when we were within n
yard of each other, I wish I may never
lie believed again if she did not kick the
hat off of my head 1 I stooped to pick it
up and a noble aristocrat fell over me;
others followed him —both ladies and
gentlemen —and I never saw such a
chaos of struggling limbs and frantic
drapery since the benches broke down at
the circus when I was a boy. It Was
l ure good fortune that nobody got hurt.
When I got out I went to my place at
the head of tho quadrille and stayed
there, i had lost confidence; this dance
was too high toned for me. It had
jieculiarities about it that were new and
unexpected. I had seen plenty of qua
drille#, but I had never Been one with
the variations before. The duchess re
sumed her mad career, aud the rest of
the nobility danced just as she did.
Each sex seemed to bavo but one object
in view —to outdo its opposite in violence
of action and eccentricity of conduct.
These French people are very Ereochy.
If it had not known that these peotde
were the flower of the French
nobility 1 should have thought that
they began their education in
a gymnasium and graduated iri a circus.
The first time the duchess stopped by
my side for a moment, I whispered toiler
to calm her gushing spirits, not to meddle
with her dress, and, for public opinion
sake, not to step so high. J said she could
get over just as much ground at n mod
erate gait; and, beside, the noble grand
Juke, her father might happen along at
any moment. I might as well have talked
to the wind. She only laughed that
characteristic laugh of her?, that silvery
laugh that 1 could recognize anywhere if
I were to the leeward, and then, bending
a little, she grabbed up the sides of her
apparel with both hands, began to jerk
it to and fro in a violent manner, threw
her magnificent head back and'skipped
furiously away on an Irinh jig step, all
excitement, wild hilarity, distracted cos
tume, frenzied motion ! A spectacle to
seal the eye-balls and to astonish the soul
of a hermit! And when she reached the
centre she snatched her cumbering dresses
iree and launched a kick at the hat of a
tall nobleman that fairly loosened the
scalp on top of bis bead. 1 fled the scene,
exclaiming, “ what can she mean by such
conduct as those ? ”
I admire Paris; but, in my opinion,
the ways of its nobility are not what
they ought to be.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
Fly, Happy Saifs.
BY TENNYSON.
Fly, liflppy sails, ami bear the nreits,
Kiy, happy with the mission of the crow;
Jin it liiimJ to is nil, and hiowiog heavnuard,
fVith silb'f>. nmi ft aits, and spices clear of toil,
Ennch the hai vests of the golden Tear.
Hat ire grow old. Alf 1 when shall all men'# good
He each man's rule, and universal peace
IJe lino a shaft ot light across the land,
Ami like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
1 hrough all the circle of tliG golden year Y
..Clothes are a luxury, ip Ujiji a
postage stamp over the eyebrow is con
sidered full diess.
...Wives of great men all remind us
We can make our wives t übliuie,
And departing, leave behind
Widows worthy of our Mtu6.
Therefore give tour wife s tfend-oft
By the life-ineurance plan ; „
Fix her so that when you end oil
the can scoop another man.
. When we think of tho villain who
stole our umbrella, and then of the bare
possibility that there is no hell, we feel
as if we could bury our head in the
waste-paper basket and smother right to
death.— [New Haven Union.
NO. 20.
A woman may change her mind. A
lady in Clevslaud obtained a divorce
from her husband on the around of cruel
and inhuman treatment, and now pe
titions to have tho divorce declared void
for the reason that she was mistaken.
. At CJonnecticut, Jonathan, in taking
a walk with his dearest, came to a toll
bridge, when lie, as honest as he was
wont to be, said, after paying Ilia own
toll (which was one cent), “ Come, Suke,
you must pay your own toll, for jist as
like as not I sha’n’t have you after all.’
.. Sunday-school teacher to astonished
child—” My dear, every hair of your
head is numbered.” Bcholar (hesitat
ing) to astonished teacher—“ Full out
No. 0 for me then, please!''
. It is reported that Mrs. Hicks, like
other fond wives, alr< ady>stand over the
register and monopolize# the heat, while
her dear Lord Mauds apart and kicks tho
wainfroting to-keep his toes from freez
ing.—[Derrick.
. Ooctbrs don’t believe in advertising
—it’.-i not professional, you know—but let
one ol ’em tie tip a sore‘thumb for John
Brmvu. and they’ll climb seven pairs of
stairs to have a reporter “just mention
it you know.”
..“Why, Sarah." Haiti one dark
colon and enchantress ton fashionablecom
paniou, “ who giv yer de nice, charming
bonnet ?” ” ize hot it myself. Ize gwine
to show deseer white folks ciat we niggers
can wear jist hh booful anti jist. as hpensive
hats as dey.” “ But, Sarah, dal.’s a real
(lower garden, dnt hat is.” Harah (in
dignantly)—” Go way, chile how you
talk ; tink dis nigger have no taste. Don
you sec deni colors blond I Ize in tie
fashion, I iz.”
(>f pet names among Indian lovers in
Manitoba, n letter to the New York Post
says: “In the Cree tongue he may
address her ns his mnsk ox, or, If he
desire# IO become more icnrV-r, oaU
her hi# musk rat with equal propriety.
By a I lending of two Indian tongues
she becomes a beautiful wolverine, and
a standard but common place love-name
is ‘my little pig.’ The half-breeds’ pet
names have all been taken from those of
animals that seem to be especially inno
cent or beautiful in bis eyes; and tho
fact that different person# have different
standards of bealy aud innocence has led
to tbe invention ol an almost unlimited
vocabulary of diminutives. When the
lady-love is inclined to be stout the
names of tbe larger animals are chosen,
sml rather liked by her upon whom they
ure conferred. 1 remember that one
woman was affeclinnately called the
Megatherium, a name which clumr to
her lor month# as being peculiarly tho
representation of ideal lve.”
Death of the King of the. Lepers
•Honolulu papers announce the death
in December of Wm. T. Ragsdale, gover
nor of the leper settlement on the island
of Molokai, Sandwich Islands. “ Bill
Ragsdale,” us he was js.pular known, was
h Hawaiian by birth, his mother having
been a native and his father an Ameri
can. Jle was a lawyer, speaking English
as fluently as Hawaiian, and the most
noted orator of the Hawaiian kingdom.
The manner in which Ragsdale discovered
that he had the leprosy, as told by him
self, is interesting. He resided for a
number of years on the island of Hawaii,
and had an office at Hilo, the capital of
the island. One night he was studying
up a law case in which he was deeply
interested, when the chimney from his
lamp fell on tho table. Although the
chimney was hot as fire, “ Bill, in Id
excitement, picked it up and set it in its
place without experiencing inconveni
ence, such as would natura'ly result
to a realty , sound person handling
hot lamp-chimney. He reflected for a
moment, looked at his hand, hut could
not discover the least sign that it
lin/1 been burned. He then took off and
put on the chimney repeatedly, and with
the same result This experience con
vinced him that he was among the af
flicted, and he lost no time in communi
cating with the authorities. An exami
nation was made and medical authority
declared he was afflicted with leprosy.
The police did not arrest him, however,
owing to his exalted position, as wa
common with those suspected of oeing
lepers, so he voluntarily delivered himself
upas a victim of the terrible disease.
He was then sent to Molokai and installed
as governor of the leper settlement,
which position he held up to the time of
his death. Durintr his administration of
affairs he was as successful as he was
popular. There were and are about
eight hundred lepers on the settlement,
hut by his tact and kind heartedness,
Ragsdale made the rr.o-t extraordinary
and saddest community on the face of
the earth as cheerful and happy as the
unfortunates could he. By his advice
the government made many retorms and
the lepers recognized him as a father.