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Tiie fail Sentinel in the Jesuj Roiue. fronting on Cnerry street, two doors from Broad .St. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY TANARUS, P, LITTLEFIELD. Subscription. Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year $2 00 Six months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 Special rates to yearly and large ad vertUers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—H. Whaley. Couucilmen—Dr. R. F. Lester, E. A. Eler bee, M. W. Surency, A. B. Purdorn,G. M. T. Ware. Clerk and Treasurer—G. M. T. Ware. Marshal—Wm. M. Austin. COUNTY OFFCERS. Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps. Sheriff—John N. Goodhrtad. Glerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher. Tax Collector—W. U. Causey. County Surveyor—Noah Bennett. County Treasurer—John Massey. Coroner—D. McDifclm. County Commissioners —J. F. King, G. W. II lines, Janies Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board 81 Wednesday in January, April, July and October. Jas. F. King, Chairman. COURTS. Stiperiot Court, Wayne County—Jno. L. Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor- General. Sessions held on secoud Monday in Mtrch and September. iMslear, Pieros County Georiia TOWH DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—lt. G. Riggins. Councilman—]). P. Patterson,J. M. Downs J. M. Lee, LI. D. Prant!y. Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdoin. 'iowfi 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—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. Youinanns; 590 District, G. M.. D. B. McKinnon. Notary Publics and Justices of the Pet^ee , etc.— Blackshear Precinct. 584 district,G.M., Notary Public, J, G. 8. Patterson ; Justice of the Pe .ce, li. R. James; Ex-oflicio Con stable E. Z. Byrd. Dickson?s Mill Precinct 1250 District, G M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of the Peaee, Geo. T. Moody: Constable, W. S'. Dickson. Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M., Not? y Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11. Prescott and A. L. Griner. Schlattervillc Precinct. 590 District, G. M Notaiy Public, I). B. McKinnon; Justice o the Peace, JL T. Jame&; Constable, John \V Booth. Courts—. Superior court, Pierce county John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon* diy 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. JESUP HOUSE, Corner Broad and Oherrv Streets, (Near the Depot,; T. P. LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor. Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis faetion guaranteed. Polite waiters will taka your baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 ets CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Southern News. The Palatka (Forida) Herald says one of the best evidences of a heavy Grange crop next season is the backward spring. The real estate prices in Atlanta have been much higher since the determina tion to make that city the Georgia capital. Montgomery, Ala., has purchased fif teen guns of the most approved pattern for the use of the police force in cases ol emergency. There is fully a car-load of North Carolina specimens intended for the Paris exhibition in the hands of the agricultu ral department at Raleigh. New Orleans Democrat: Joseph Jef ferson (Rip) is over on his beautiful plantation, shooting, fishing and painting between times. Why does Rip Van Winkle come so far to spend bis leisure time ? To get away from the managers, my good friends; mails irregular, no telegraph, distance great, can hunt ducks quietly here, without being hunted by the managers. Brunswick(Ga.) Appeal: Capt. Clay, of the whaling schooner Golden City captured in our harbor on Monday last an enormous white whale, measuring sixty-Sve feet in length, and from which he feels sure of “ trying out ” one hund red barrels of oil, and getting between seven and eight hundred pounds of whale bone. The tongue ol this monster of the deep alone produced five barrels of oil. The captain thinks this leviathan will net him about $4,000. We have at our office a small piece of the bone taken from the mouth of this whale, which we Will take pleasure in showing to any one who may call to see it. We are informed that six more of these monsters have been recently seen in our harbor. The Galveston News on mob law: The logic of the advocates of systematic jail-breaking and mob execution involves radical hostility to the whole constitu tional ground-work of our criminal juris prudence. But the logicians are not con sistent in confining their revolutionary operations to sporadic cases of raiding upon jails and hanging untried and un convicted prisoners. According to their theory, the evil is palpably embodied in VOL. 11. courts and lawyers and juries, and the logical and consistent thing for them to do, therefore, is to wage war directly upon courts and lawyers and juries. Let them pur b e these away by recognized processes in the art of lynching, and there will be no more occasion for mask ing and for midnight executions. A howiing local communism—or unre strained mobism, if yen prefer the phrase —wili rule in place of general laws and a regular administration of justice. Foreign Intelligence. The khedive of Egypt is ruining him self by extravagance. He sust tins up wards of twenty palaces, in which he supports in luxury three “ proper wives” and three hundred women of the harem. Each of the grown princes of the blood also has his separate palace and retinue of servants, and the horses in the stables of the father and sons are numbered by hundreds. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, the widow of the late President Lincoln, is living a secluded life in an interior town in France, and declines to return to America lest she may again be placed in a iuuatic asylum. It is said that in France she still indulges, to a moderate extent,'in her propensity for buying things for which she has no use, and filling closets with articles wholly unnecessary. The Cuban war seems to have come to i a close. 11 has lasted now, in a somewhat ! spasmodic manner, for ten years. During that time Spain has sent over 80,000 | soldiers, and has expended over SBO,- 1 000,000 in the attempt to quell the revolt. She has finally quelled it, less by force of arms than by increased wis dom of administration. The Spanish government itself has been revolution ized since the Cuban revolution began, and reforms have been granted to Cuba, among which is a promise of representa tion in the Spanish Cortez. How substantial these reforms will be remains to be seen, but not even a Spanish government will be ready to provoke another Cuban revolt by acts of palpable injustice and oppression. The conditions of the peace between Russia and Turkey, norv duly signed, while giving Russia all that she an nounced she would accomplish last April, and securing to her many territorial ad vantages, leave England without the shadow of a casus belli , except that Russia exists, and, according to British views, the existence of Russia is a constant menace to India. The continued military preparations of England, and her an nouncement that she would not fee! bound by the decisions of the approach ing congress, make it appear that she will provoke a conflict by keeping her fleet off Constantinople, where it has no right to be. The position of Hornby in the seao! Marmora is, in fact, England’s declara tion of war. Finding that she cannot inveigle Austria into an alliance and that RussiJ and Turkey prefer to arrange their business in private, England has chosc-n to he very sulky and has gone to cleaning her sword. Of course, it she is very anxious for a fight, she can secure one by shelling Constantinople or occu pying Buyukdere or Yeni-Koi. It will be seen, however, that her military pre parations mean that she wiil confess to having been outmaneuvered by Russia, and will take the spoils suggested long ago by Nicholas, viz., Crete and Egypt. Journal. All Sorts. There are nearly 70,000 cases before the pension bureau at Washington, awaiting action. The Gentiles of Utah still have hopes that they will secure the expulsion of Delegate Cannon from the house because of his polygamous practices. A boy of fifteen and a girl of fourteen were married with the approval of their parents in Russellville, Ky. Then they were sent off to separate schools for three years. The house postofSee committee has agreed to recommend the adoption of a double stamp return postal card. The purpose of this is to permit an answer to be returned on a postal card. King Allonsohasgiven Queen Mercedes a crown composed wholly of diamonds; also gowns costing altogether about $35,- 000 ; also mantillas at $2,000 apiece. A mantle worn by the queen at the Btate dinner on the wedding day cost $15,000. The plates for printing the notes of nearly three hundred defunct national banks, which have accumulated at the treasury department, are to be melted down in one of the furnaces in the Washington navv-yard, in the presence of a commission of prominent gentlemen. Savannah News: The meeting of citi zens of Jacksonville, Florida, which has extended an invitation to Capt. Eads, of jetty fame, to . visit the St. John’s river bar, has requested and authorized the city council to appropriate one thousand dollars to pay the expenses of Capt. Eads in the contemplaied visit of inspection. Sister St. Charles, of the L'rsuline Convent, in Brown county, Ohio, died on Saturday. She was a daughter of Gen. A. S. RosecraLz, one of the most noted Ohio generals in the late war, who is now a resident of California. She had been an inmate of the institution for a number of years. . JESl’l'. GEORGIA. V\'KBNKSI) AY, MARCH -27, 1878. WEARY. The following poem is from a reprint of a volume of Mrs. Browning's early poetry, pub ished in when she waa between bixteen ana seventeen years c t ago Mine eyes are weary of conveying The fullest things, too soon decaying ; Mine ears are weaiy of receiving The kindest words—oh, past believing ! Weiry my hope, of ebb and flow; eary my pulse, of tuneatf woe; My trusting heait is weariest! I would—l would I were at rest! For nie can earth refuse to fade ? For uie cau words b. j faithful made Will my embitter’d hope be sweet ? My pulse forego the human beat ? No ! Darkness must consume mine eye— • ilence, mine ear—hope cease - pulse die Aud o'er miue heart a stone le press and Or vuin this—“ Would 1 were at rest!’’ Thero is a land of rest dtferr’d : Nor eve hath seen, n*r ear hath tuard, Nor Hope hath trod the precinct o’er ; kor l ope t>eh- Id is hope no morel There human p.ulse forgets its tone— There heat ts may know r.s they aro known ! O, for dove’s w ings, thou dwelling blest, To 11 y to thee, and be at rett! Hunting for an Ideal. “ No girl will ever have a chance to marry me for my money. I’ll take good care of that. When I wed there ahull be nothing but the most disinterested affection thrown into the scales—no ideas of a graud home and carriages and opera boxes and fashionable parties and rich dresses and diamonds, and all that sort of thing.” And Charley Marshall tossed his half finished cigar out of the window, and added, with emphasis: “No! the girl I make my wife will have to love me for rnyeelf alone—take me without the slightest idea of future ease ; be content with the anticipation of ‘love in a cot tage/ aud the prospect of having to prove a 1 help-meet J in fact as well as in name.” “ That is, cook, sweep, wash dishes, scrub the floors, aud all other drudgery,” added Fred Tryan, with a peculiarly ex pressive whistle. “Certainly. ThaUsjustwhat 1 mean.” 1 “ And you expect to find such a girl in this beflounc.ed, bediamond age, Charley ? ” “ Why not?” “ I thought they had all died out with our grand mothers. Matrimony nowa days is a very different thing from a century ago. The homespun age has given place to one of satin-work and frivolty. It’s a mighty hazardous un dertaking to marry. Women are daily driving poor fellows to bankruptcy nnU the dogs; and the salary that a few years since would have been ample for house hold expenses wouldn’t now' pay the rent.” “ You are cynical, Fred.” “A trifle, pei4iaps; hut that doesn’t alter the facts of the case. It is different with you who [have plenty—are one of the‘bloated bondholders.’ How I wish I was I But what in the name of com mon sense would 1 do getting married with only a couple of thousand a year ? ” “Do well enough if you marry the right kind of a woman, and train her properly in the beginning.” “ As how' ?” with a dubious smile. “As I intend to do. I have told you that no one shall marry me for money. The girl shall consider me poor—look upon her future in that light—and after the ceremony I shall take her to a plain country home and test her well before revealing that her lot is to bo otherwise.” “ What if she rebels?” “No danger of that. With my fore thought I shall not be likely to be de ceived.” “But if, after your chrysalis puts on the gorgeous garments of the butterfly, what if she should spread her wings and revel in the surrounding splendor? In other words, what if the uplifting from poverty to riches should make her giddy and wild? The change from a country girl to a city belle is very great, and has turned the head of many an one.” “ Granted ; but I shall guard against such a tiling.” “Educate her up!” laughed Fred. “ Well, I wish you success. But where do you expect to find rich a paragon of loveliness (for with your ;e it he tic tastes you would never marry any but a beau tiful woman) and good sense and pro nounced character ? Certainly not in the city?” “ I can scarcely indorse such a sweep ing denunciation. Yet I intend to look about in the country.” “ Among the green valleys and ‘ forests primeval’! I wonder how ‘ Priscilla,’ the meek and loving, would have stood such an exaltation? and whether- ‘Miles’ would have believed in fyour theory ? ” And Fred laughed heartily as he thought of the stem Puritan captain and his quaint idea of courtship—Lis Steady, straightforward acd strong, with ir resistible logic: Orthodox, flashing conviction right into the hearts of the heathen. “ You can make merry as much as you please,” answered his friend ; “ but this is no idle whim of mine. I have re flect and upon it long, perfected my plan, and intend to carry it out to the very letter.” “ Bon voyage, then, and I hope you will not meet with shipwreck. But promise me one thing.” “ If it is within reason.” “ That you will train your rustic di vinity to love cigars, so that I may come and see you sometim'-e, sit with my legs under your mahogany, have a good old fashioned smoke, and gaze upon the de licious wonder of the nineteenth cen tury “ You will be welooipa at any time.” ‘ One thing more: Have it one of the marriage vows, that the di vinity shall never eat%bnionsAnd Fred Tryan departed MUghing, though not until he had promised faithfully to keep the plans of his friend a profound secret. The proposed delusiou'in his marriage (whenever it should occur) had become a pet scheme with Marshall, lie had given it much thought, and flattered himself there could be Yio miscarriage. Certainly if a girl loved him as sue ought, she would be cv>tent to dwell i with him in an humbte aLode and min ister to his comfort. In fact, bis “castle in Spain” was al ready built —everything perfect except ing the perfect woman who was to be come the satin of the inner shrine. She was yet to be found, and ho resolved to no longer delay. Had it not been for the conversation with his friend, he would have continued dreaming as before, for be was naturally dilatory. l!ut the only half hidden sneers of his friend had stung deeper than he had at first been aware and roused him to immediate action. “I will commence my search to-mor row,” he said resolutely; “ and before a year has passed will show Mr. Fred Tryan and the rest of mankind a model wife— one whose only love is her husband ; who accepted poverty with him, and when given riches and position and influence was "not unduly exalted. He quoted Miles Standish. So can I, and to the purpose; for I shall astonish his critical eyes with The skv was all blushes, the earth was all bliss, And the prayer of each heart: “Be the end ing like this.” “ Aha ! Mr. Fred ! I think 1 shall have you upon the hip then.” A few days enabled Marshall to finally arrange all his matters to his satisfaction, and he disappeared from the city, no one but his friend knowing whither fie had gone; even hi.s own family little dream ing that he had set out upon such a Quixotic mission had indeed under taken to find a perfect woman. Partially disguised, and under an as sumed name, he journeyed hither and thither, louring for the thornless rose, tbo diamond without a (fo—, the pearl without a Hpcck. But disappointment met him at every turn. Girls of all kinds, golden, auburn and raven-haired, arose before him like daisies in the meadow —agpcrfect bouquetof loveliness. But alas! there was an indescribable something lacking—the rare combination of mind and physical proportion that was to insure him happiness, make the humble and wealthy home alike happy—to stand the severe test of both poverty and riches. Any ordinary mortal would have been satisfied with the choice offered; could from out such a bevy of beauty have selected scores that would indeed have been “a jewel in the crown of her hus band.” But he was very hard to please His ideal was altogether too high for human nature to fill. At least lie found none ihat satisfied him, and, after a long search, was about to return home, rest, and take anew departure for foreign lands, when accident caused him to lie delayed in the picturesque little village of Ferndell. 'The breaking down of the stage landed him, in the midst of a violent storm, in front of a large farmhouse, the surround ings of which indicated unusual thrift. “ Who lives heie?” he asked of the driver, who had informed him that it would be some hours before they could proceed. “ //Tins Partridge, one of the richest men in the county,” was answered. “ I shall have to trespass upon his hospitality. Anything would be better than remaining in this miserable old conveyance, through the roof of which the water passes like a sieve.” “ Yes, it is a better dry-weather stage,” laughed the driver. “ But go right in. ’Squire I’artridge will lie glad to see you. He is one of the most friendly kind of men. Besides,” and the laugh grew broader, “there’s the prettiest kind of a girl in there, and I guess the time won’t hang very heavy on your hands.” “ A pretty girl!” and Marshall looked dismayed at his vet and mud-splashed wardrobe. “ That ain’t nothing,” replied the friendly Jehu, reading the expression of his face. “ She ain’t one of the stuck up kind, but just as good and clever as she is handsome.” Thinking what a fool he was to have been standing even thus long in the rairi, Mar.-.hall made bis way through the closelv-mowed and clean-kept door-yard, along the path fringed with flowers, and knocked at the door. It was opened with little delay, though his quick ear caught the rustle of feminine skirts, and he was satisfied he had already been in spected, and most probably by the “pretty girl” herself. Walk in—walk right in,” was the welcome be received, and the broad palrn of Eenas Partridge closed upon his own, and emphasized the hospitable reception. “ Thank you sir. I shall be gratefu] 'or shelter for a time— until the stage is repaired,” replied Marshall. “ And that won’t be to-night,” said his host. “ They are slower than mo- - - - lasses in a cold cellar on a January morn ing" “ But I can not think of treapasing upon your kindness for so long a time, sir." “There, there! Don’t mention it My wife and Lena will be only too hap py to have your company.” “ Lena—your daughter 7” “ No; haven’t chick or child in the world. Lena—Eleauor is the right name —is a neioe, and— Well, you’ll have a chance to see for youraelf.” Eleanor Rivington, as she appeared at was nearer the beau idea! of Marshall than any he had ever seen. She was a sparkling beauty, could not have been called either brunette or blonde, but partook of the beat charac teristics of both ; was a happy, medium type, fair, not tall in height, and of well rounded proportions/with dainty feet and hands, the latter just tinged enough with labor to show that she was not un familiar with it. Her eyes were of a peculiar soft grayish hazel; her hair a mass of golden braids; her lips delicate cleft, and red as the ripe clover-blossm ; her nose and chin exquisitely cut, and there was the charm of perfectly graceful, lady-like self-possession and culture in her movements, albeit her dress waa of the simplest in texture ami fashion. To say that Marshall was delighted with the vision was simply less than the truth. And he found, as Ihe evening passed, that her mind was well stored by reading; that she possessed a rich and trained voice, and played and sang in a manner he had seldom heard equaled. In fact she grew in luh dreams to be the paragon of loveliness and worth he had so olten pictured ; and when detained the next day he poured umt (by letter) to his friend Fred Tryan a glowing de scription, and predicted that at last the spotless pearl he had ho long been in search of had been found. If Cupid had made especial terms with Jupiter Pluvius the matter could not have been better arranged. Such a storm as raged had not been known even bv that übiquitous individual, “ the oldest inhabitant.” Streams were flooded, and bridges carried away, and all travel stop ped. The old stage still remained uu lepnwen by the wayside, and Marshall was kept within doors, feasting upon delicacies, and time reading to Rena, and bearing'her sing, or con versing with her. And naturally, as they became ac quainted, they talked to themselves, and he hinted at his peculiar ideas with regard to married life ; that when he married the beginning would be in a small way—an humble home; and that, while be was willing to toil for the woman be loved, it might be necessary for her to take up her share of the burdens. The beautiful girl met him ball way —did not seem averse to " love in a cot tage,” seemed to consider it would 1* a pleasure to contribute to the making of a home; and some dainty dishes from her own fail hands were proof positive to him that hhe was versed in the cul inary art. The storm ceased at last and they parted. No words of lovo had been spoken, but the touch of hands and the glancing of eyes and the tell-tale blood had given full promise of what would be, even as the rosy tints of morning tell of the golden glory of noonday. Of what Marshall thought, his words to Tryan told the entire story. “ She is as beautiful and good as an angel, Fred. The most perfect being both in mind and body.” “And will cook your pork and beans and do up your shirts with smiles ?” was the quizzical question. “ Without doubt. Oh, such dishes as she can prepare ! They are fo and for the gods.” “ Apples of the Hesperides, sweetened with nectar and ambro-ia! Butof course she knows ol your wealth ?” “ Hus not an inkling. In fact she does not even know my name—thinks it is Charley Marsh, and that I have to de pend upon business for a livelihood.” “ The name of the goddess, Charley 7” “ Eleanor Riverton.” * “Ah 1 A romantic name. When is she to change it ?” “ That is undecided as yet. I have not even whispered of my devotion.” “ But intend to do so very soon ?” “ At the earliest practicable moment.” j With such a commencement as had . been made the growth of love could not j I iiave been otherwise than rapid. The i visits of Marshal! to Ferodell grew Ire- I quent, became more and more lengthy; | and, one evening when the moon sailed , as a silver boat over the slightest waves j of clouds, the fond vows were whispered, i and two hearts pledged to beat as one for all time ; soft hand was clasped in ; broader palm, and burning lips were | pressed to lips in the first long, passion ate kiss of betrothal. Fred Tryan laughed a cynical laugh when lie heard of the engagement. Hornetbing in tfce matter seemed to amuse him very much. Yet hi; con gratulated his friend warmly upon his choice,and wished him all the happiness he anticipated. And for once love seemed to run a broad, deep, untroubled river, with noth- ing to mar the smoothness cf its course The wedding-day was a glorious golden will) sunshine, with only rosy clouds; without even the slightest pre monition of future storms ; a day of per feet June, when “She, the Puritan gill, in the solitude of the forest, Making the humble house aud the modest apparel of homespun Beautiful with her beauty, and rich with the wealth of her being. The wedding feast finished, Marshall took his bride in the conveyance he had provided, and carried her to what he led her to believe was her future home. The journey ended, they stopped at a small cottage in the outskirts of a manufactur ing town. It- was scarcely more than comfortably furnished, the surroundings not attaractive, and otdy such as a bride in tho most humble circumstances would have been contented with. But the young wife took up her lot cheerfully. She went around singing all the day long, brightening up every room with tasteful womanly touches— always had meals ready upon the return of her husband—ami seemed to enjoy what well’might have been called “play, ing at housekeeping ” ; and even objected when her husband proposed to employ a girl to do the drudgery. But if it was fun for her it- was not for him. He had nothing to do, and soon grew tired of “loafing ” around the little village, killing time, so as to make his wife believe he was hard at work. The months ho had intended to bo passed in this manner dwindled into two short weeks. He could endure it no longer ; and, having made the necessary prepara tions (through his friend Fred Tryan), he determined to move to the 'city and his true sphere in iifo. Money smoothes most ways ns it did his, and a few days later he escorted li in bride into a “ brown stone front,” exquis itely furnished, told Lena it waH hers, and that he had deceived her, as he was rich. “ No, Charley,” she answered, with rippling laughter. “ No, Charley, dear, you have bccu simply deceiving your self. 1 knew you all the time. My cousin, Fred Tryan, had pointed you out to me, and told me all about you.” “ TYio Ov-u- —" “Hush!” and she kissed him into silence. “ But I won’t make you any the less a good wife, dear.” .She hasn’t, though she has cried him of many foolish notions of mortals being prefect; and ho has learned to rejoice that his Quixotic quest resulted so well and happily, when the chances were as a thousand to one against anything t> u disappointment.— | \V. 11. Bushntll. A Mountain's Tumble. Nearly every resident of Montana has either seen or heard of the famous Bear- Tooth mountain, the most prominent landmark in northern Montana. It is visiblo from different points at distances ranging from forty to sixty miles, and is in full view from Helena and the sur rounding country. The mountain is distant about thirty miles from Helena, and stands like a grim and mighty senti nel at the head of the canon known as the “ Gate of the Mountains,” through which flows the Missouri river. The Bear-Tooth was described as a wonderful landmark of the early explorers, I/owis and Claik. In all photographs of the northern country the two tusks, rising black and grim hundreds of feet above the mountain, are the prominent ole jects. The main tusk remains, looking lonely and isolated in its grandeur. We are indebted lo Judge Hilger, who met the hunters referred to be low, for the following particulars in reference to the fall of tlie smallest of the two prongs : “ Rast Monday a party of hunters who were chasing game several miles north of the Bear-Tooth, observ- i ing a rum bling sound and a quaking of the earth, and supposing it was an earth quake, and not noticing a repetition of it, they soon forgot the occurrence, and continued tlieir chase until they reached the Bear’s-Tooth. Here they were astonished by the appearance of the i eastern tusk. This was a perpendicular mass of rock and earth, fully five hund red feet high, three hundred feet in circumference at its base, and about one i hundred and fifty feet to the top. This immense maH had become dislodged, and coming down with the speed of an avalanche, bad swept through a forest of large timber for a quarter of a mile, entirely leveling it. The country around is now covered with a great mans of broken trees and tons upon tons of rocks, many of them as large as an ordinary houe.’’-[Helena (Mon.) Independent. . A minister was once engaged to preach to his Sunday-school, but after the little jieople were all plaesd before him in order, lie told them that some of them might lie weary and want to eo out before he had finished, so be would rather have any who fancied they would like to go, to do so now, and then no one would be disturbed. For a moment all sat still; then one little fellow got bis hat and went down the aisle; another and anoth'-r lollowed, until not a ebi and was left. The only safe way to keep a diary is to put it in the stove, and this is the time to do it. GRAVE ANI> GAY. The Opera Box. Well, wi ’re here In goo-l time, after all, hi* : Hoiv glad I aei p.i Uok a box I Sk*e, there a Mrs Jonea, in blue velvet— Ho handsome; 1 dote on blue lex. Don’t you think that the troupe must feel flattered? Ihe house is just crammed tueh a crowd ! Thoro’a the count in the balcony- look, Katel Just across from ua- quick, dear I—be bowoi. Throw your cape back, ma, over your aboalder, Carelewdy, so the lining will show. There’s Funny Duval with her husband— They’re newspaper people, you know. He “ does tho dramatic " or something, She told me ; th*'y go everywhere; Thet’u one of her last winter's orcaaea— Made over—quite well, I declare. How these singers do dresr ( inv! what !gc<b Those diamonds are perfectly grand ! Please lend mo jour ope ra-glapses I left mine at heme on the stand. Ma, I wish you would shut your libretto; It’s shoddy to stick to it so Looks like you w*r n’t used to tho epera ; Can't you read it at homo when we go? 1 here, Charlie Van Zandt and his cousin, Young Kuyter, arc coming thin way. Kiito, shake cut your train, it’s a'l doubled. Ma, where did you put my bouquet ? That’s *' Miserere ” they are playing ; It makes me f-el awfully s.id. They played It a poor Ned May’s funeral,’ You know. What’s It, ma-Mrs. Ladd V Oh yes, 1 forgot her reception ; She’ll expect us. V hat time is it, Kate ? Half pas: ton ? Very well, there’s no hurry ? It s stylish, you know, to be late. NO. 30. ‘ .. Anew stwig in celled “ Always Keep -a Smile for Mother.” Borne young men ; will drink every drop that is in the ; bottle without giving a thought to their ! paten tn. .. A doctor's wife tried the persuasive effect of tears. “ Wife,” said he, “ tears are useless. I have analyzed them. They contain a little phosphate of lime, some chloride of sodium, and water.” ..Colorado giants should bo planted early in the spring, in rows about two postoffices apart. They should be trans planted in August, when colleee profes sors are on vacation.—[New Orleans Pic ayune. “I was not aware that you knew him,” said Tam Smith to au Irish friend, the other day. “ Know him,” said ho, in a tone which comprehended the knowl edge of more than one life. “ I knew him when ids father was a boy.” . A bashful young man applied to his village paper for information on tho im portant subject, “ How to win a woman's love.” Tho reply was, “ Kiss the babies caress the tomcat, and pay strict atten tion to the old lady.” Now tiiat the telephone makes it possible for sounds to be canned the same as beef, milk, lobsters, fruit, etc., mis sionary sermons can ba bottled and sent to the Houth sea islands ready for tho table instead of the missionary himself. Home men marry a mother in-law ; •oiiic, a father-in-law ; some, a sister-in law or sisters-in-law ; some, a brother-in law or brothers'in-law ; some, the doctor; some, the pastor. The man who really yets a wife is a rare bird, ami even he oe-n not Mwnys stny SwcetW The stre: t-car drivers .f Montreal ! are compelled to advertise their disonesty j by carrying cash boxes slung around ' their necks. The passenger places the money on the lid of the box, the con ductor presses a sprutg, and the money tails in. If the conductor touches the money, he is discharged Writing of those who scrawl the." names in Egypt, John Russell Young says: “ The greatt at donkey of thetrilio —the monumental donkey ol the age— is ‘ l’owell Tucker,’ o i New York. If Powell Dicker reads these lines he will learn that his name is the theme of re pealed execrations throughout Egypt. Powell, as the story goes, did not content himself with carving bis name on the walls—that, perhaps, would have been tort much trouble. K > lie carried a sailor with him, and this sailor had a pot of black paint and a brush. Whenever Powell came to a monument the sailor painted in large black letters, ‘ Powell Tucker, New York, 1870.' Sometimes it is only ‘ I*. T.,’ but the tracks are here and there all over Egypt. The authorities in charge of the antiquities have tried to rub out this and other marks of vandal ism, but Poweile sailor panted deep.” Tin- Search for tlic, North Pole. At a recent meeting of the American geographical society in New York, Capt Howgslc repeated bis colonization plans for the complete exploration of the polar district, and affirmed his determination to me every aid to be derived from scientific sources in his expedition. He will not only establish colonies with ample supplies of food and clothing, drugs and apparatus for preserving hu man lift in a clime in which mercury freezes, but will connect the colonics with telegraph wires ami telephones. More than this, lie will prosecute his Arctic trip with the assistance,ol balloons, having an experienced French teronaut, recommended by the l’aris geographical society engaged for these serial experi ments. To save telegraph pole j , he spoke of the new copper telegraph wire which carries a current without insulation, and can be stretched carelessly on tbe dry snow and 1 ice of the Arctics without support and • yet be successfully worked, as proved by I late tests. This subject o! Arctic exploration, so interesting to the attendants on the New York meeting, is equally ascinating to hundreds of thousands outside, and, while lew are as sanguine of advanced results from the newiy organised explor og expeditions as are the participants themselves, it is most satisfying to be remitted to know that so much of earn nestn'-ns, enterprise and common sense are associated with the plans. Jn addition to the Howgate expedi tion, which will probably receive SSO,O(Ki from the United States government, tin re will lie in the Arctic field the com ing summer government expeditions from England, Holland, Germany and Russia, besides a few private enterprises like the Barry expedition at piesent forming in the east.