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The Jesng Sentinel Office in the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors from Broad Bt. PUBLISHED EVE BY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year $2 00 Six months ' 1 00 Three m0nth5..,,..'!**.,,. 50 Advertising Rates. Ter square, first insertion $1 00 Ter square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad tertisers. 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. VPT* ; • —— - 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.