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Tie Jesup Sentinel
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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—H. Whaley.
Conncilmen—Dr. it. F. Lester, j£. A. E!er
b#e, M. W. Sarency, 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. Goodbr^ad.
‘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. McDitha.
County Commissioners —J. F. King, G.
W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board
Wednesday in January, April, July and
October. Jas. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superioi Court, Wayne County—Juo. L.
Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
BUdtar, Pierce Caity Georp
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. G. Rirgins.
Councilraen—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs
J. M. Lee, B. D. 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.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur
dotn.
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wyllv ; 12 0 Die
ftriet, G. M., George T. Moody ; 584 District,
'O. M., Charles 8. Youmanns; 590 District,
G. M.. D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace*
etc.—Blankshear Precinct, 584 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice
of the Peace, R. R. James; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z Byrd.
Dickson?s Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G.
Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H.
Presoott and A. L. Griner.
Sclilatterville Precinct. 590 District, G. M
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; Justice o
the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John W
Booth.
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Siraau W. Iliteh
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
court sessions every Monday Morning at 9
o’oleek.
JESUP HOUSE,
Corner Broad and Cherry Streets,
(Near the Depot,)
T. P- LITTLEFIELD. Proprietor.
Newly renovated and refurnished. Satie
faotien guaranteed. Polite waiters will take
roar baggage to and from the houae.
BO AJkD $2.00 per day. Mingle Meals, 50 ute
OUKKENT PAitAGKAPHS.
Boiithern News.
Thieves broke into the Jacksonville
(Fia.) jail and stole a lot of bacon.
Over one hundred mustang ponies
were landed at WiiiningtotJ, N. C. last
week.
Tho ice factory in Knoxville is turn
ing out seven tons per day at one cent
per pound.
The cotton caterpillar is putting in an
appearance in various parts ot Alabama,
Louisiana and Texas.
Some of the Texas papers say it took
1,500 delegates five days to nominate a
man the people didn’t want.
A cotton mill with ten thousand spin
dles and employing two hundred hands
will begin operations in Vanclnse, S. C.,
in October.
The New Orleans Times advises the
Crescent Oity people to lay in a supply
or ice while it is only 160 a ton, as next
week it may be SIOO a ton.
The Raleigh Ne'-s says this year’s
fruit cro is v, y inlerior, and it is prob
able tba. North la., lina will never
again see the equal of that of 1877.
PagefVa.) Courier : There is a man
living in Shenandoah county, who last
year paid fourteen dollars dog tax and
but seventy-five cents on all his other ef
fects, the collector not being able to col
lect his capitation tax.
Miscellaneous.
ijonaon nas seven hundred exhibitors i
at Paris.
Natchez is diginfecting and cleaning
up with all her might.
A pair of twelve-year-old twin girls in
Alabama weigh 182 and 162 pounds.
One man in North Carolina has shipped
North tb? season 40,000 watermelons.
The western people Bay that lightning
has never been known to strike a slated
roof.
A few years ago Maine was the great
lumbering state of the union, but now
she is the sixth on the list
Vicksburg Herald: The Levee Board
o'Bolivar, Washington, Issaquena, and
Sharkey counties has fixed the levee tax
on cotton for this year at 1J cent per
VOL. 11.
pound, or $2 per bale. This in an im
mense tax. We believe the people of
these counties are taxed higher than any
other people on the face of the earth.
A California Mining Story.
Not many miles frem Shasta City is
the gulch, of which the following mining
story is told: It is a pretty deep ravine,
with rocks showing all the way up the
sides. Gold in paying quantities had
been found along the stream, but it
seemed to disappear a few feet from the
channel. One day, while a gang of busy
men were toiling in the stream, a
stranger, evidently green at mining, came
along and leaned on ragged elbows to
watch with protruding eyes the results
of their toil. Tne miner nearest him
took out a $6 nugget, and anxiety over
came the greenhorn. “S.a-a-y,” he
asked, “where can I go to diggin’ to find
it like that ?” The hardy miner stopped
his work, and giving the wink to all the
boys, so that the joke should not be lost,
pointed up on the barren rocks where no
gold had ever been found. “Ye see that
rough looking place?” “Yes, yes,”
said the new hand. “ Well, thar it is
rich. Jrs ye stake out a claim an’ go ter
work, an’ when we finish here we’ll come
up, too.” Then the new hand thanked
the honest miner and the boys nil grinned
appreciation of the joke. That after
noon there was a solitary figure picking
away on the slope and every time the
miners looked up they roared with
laughter. But about the next day the
greenhorn struck a pocket and took out
something like $30,000 in a few minutes.
Then, innocent to the last, he treated all
around and thanked the miner who sent
him up there, and took his money and
went down into the valley and bought
him a farm. Then the unhappy miners
arose, leaving their old claims and dotted
the hillside for many days. But there
were no more pockets anywhere. The
whole thing reads just like a traditional
fairy story. But then I saw the gulch.
Much more unbelievable things have
happened in the mines.— [San Francisco
Bulletin.
The Salaries of Circus Men.
“ How are the salaries ol the perform
ers in the equestrian profession, Mr. llar
mira
“ Weil, I pay my best rider SIOO a
day, Sunday included ; that is S7OO a
week. The leading lady equestrian gets
s3oo—they generally receive about $l5O
to S2OO from other concerns. Pad i iders
get about—well, say from SIOO to $126
per week.”
“ How are the acrobats and gymnasts,
and that class of performers paid ?”
“ From SSO to SIOO a week, according
to ability and the danger of their per
formance. There are a great many of
them to be had, always plenty on the
mareet, hut I always have the best.”
“ Do clowns receive—?”
“ Clowns always command good sala
ries, and areally firstclassclown is worth
from $l5O to $175 per week, and some,
such as Ted Almonte —poor Ted I—who
died recently, was earning more in the
season.”
On advertising he was quite sane :
“ Ah 1” said the great showman, with
half a sigh, advertising is a heavy drain,
but then if I didn’t advertise I wouldn’t
make anything. My pictorial printing
this year has already cost me $43,000,
but my newspaper bills in a season
amount to a great deal more. My ex
penses on my trip three years age
amounted to $650,000, and in that year
in six months the profit was $60,000.”
Small Change in California.
The San Francisco Bulletin says:
“Just now there is a curious mosaic of
customs in California in respect to
change. In early times no miner or
business man expected to give or take
the exact change. Anything less than a
quarter was too insignificant for any
Californian to recognize. A New York
newspaper was sold at two bits. A
quarter of a dollar was recognized as
change. Finally a dime came to be re
cognized as small change, although it
was very hard for the Forty-niner to
come down. He was willing to sleep in
his blanket and do his own cooking, but
to recognize small change was too much
for him. In time the 5-cent piece made
its appearance. It was sn honest silver
coin, and was gaining ground rapidly.
But after a while a 5-cent nickel made
its appearance —a base, bastard coin,
well calculated to excite contempt.
There are now two usages in this State —
one of which is of pioneer times, and
the other of more modern date. One
discards any less sum than a dime, and
on all small transactions will take fifty
per cent, additional rather than make
the exact change, The other recognizes
the fact that times have changed ; that
an article sold for a dime is not fifteen
cents, and that it is not honest to take
i it.”
.. One ef these Sunday-school teachers
who are always desirous of drawing out
the ideas of children, asked her class what
they supposed Daniel said when he was
placed in the lion’s den. Ore of her
scholars, who has a practical turn of
mind, answered, “Good-by! I’m a
| goner!”—[Norwich Bulletin.
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1878.
THE GOLDEN GATE.
|. AHRLAIDK A. PROCTOR.
| Dim shadows gather thickly round, and up the
midy stair they climb.
i The cloudy ftail that upward leads to where the
closed portals shine
Round which the kneeling spirits wait the opening
of the Golden Gate.
And some with longing go, still ) ressing for
ward, hand in hai.a,
And some, with weary >tcp aud sl<w, lookback
where their Beloved stan 1:
Yet np the mity v tair they climb, led onward by
the angel Time.
As unseen hands roll back the doors, the light that
floods the very air
Is but the shadow from within of the great tlory
hidden there ;
And morn and eve. and soon and late, the shadows
pass within the gate.
As one by one they entet.dn, and the stern portals
oiose onoe more .
The halo seems to finger ro,und those kueeling
clos°st to the eft,or :
The joy that lightened from that place shines still
upon the watcher’s f ice.
The faint io* echo that we hear of lar-off music
seems to fill
The silent air with love aud iear, and the world’s
clamors all giow still.
Until the po.tals close again, and leave us toiling
en in pain.
Complain not that the way is long,-what road is
weary that leads there ?
But let the Angel take thy hand, and lead thee up
the misty stair.
And then with beating heart await the opening of
the Golden Gate.
A FLASH OF LIGHTNING.
My name is Hunt. Yes, sir ; Anthony
Hunt. I am a settler on this western
prairie. Wilds ! Yes, sir ; it’s little
else than wilds now, but yeu should
have seen it when I and my wife firs 4
moved up here. There was not a house
within sight for miles. Even now we
have not downright good ones. To ap
preciate your neighbors as you ought,
sir, you must live in these lonely places,
so far removed from the haunts of man.
What I am about to tell of happened
ten years ago. 1 was going to the dis-
tant town, or settlement, to sell some
fifty head of cattle—fine creatures, air,
as ever you saw. The journey was a
more rare event with me than it is now;
and my wife bad always plenty of com
missions to charge me with in the shape
of dry goods and groceries, and such like
things.
Our young child was a sweet little
gentle thing, who had been named after
her Aunt Dorothy. We called the
child Dolly. This time my commission
included one for her—a doll. She had
never had a real doll; that is, a bought
J. U , only lire .i;■ l-.undles tier mother
made tor her. For some dava be ore
my departure the child could talk of
nothing else—or we, either, for the mat
ter of that—for she was a great pet, the
darling of us all. It was to be a big, big
doll, with golden hair and blue eyes. I
never forget the child’s words the morn
ing I was starting, as she ran after me to
the gate, or the pretty picture she made.
There are some children sweeter and
prettier than others, sir, as you can’t
but have noticed and Dolly was one.
“Avery great big doll, please, daddy,”
she called out me; “and please bring it
very soon.”
I turned to nod a “yes” to her 88 she
stood in her clean whitey-brown pinafore
against the gate, her nut-brown hail
falling in curls about her neck and the
light breeze stirring them.
“A brave doll,” I answered, “for my
little one—almost as big as Dolly.”
Nobsdy would believe, I dare Bay, how
full my thoughts were of that promised
doll, as I rode along, or what a nice one
I meant to buy. It was not often I spent
money in what my good, thrifty wife
would cal! waste; but Dolly was Dolly,
and I meant to do it now.
The csttle sold, I went about my pur
chases, and soon had no end of parcels
to be packed in the saddle-bags.
Tea, sugar, rice, candles—but I need
not weary you, sir with telling of them,
together with the calico for shirts and
nightgowns, and the delaine for the
children’s new frocks. Last of all, I
went about the doll, and found a beauty.
It was not as big as Doi[y, or half as
big; but it had flaxen curls and sky-blue
eyes; and by dint of pulling a wire you
could open or shut the eyes at will.
“Do it up carefully,” I said to the
storekeeper. “My little daughter would
cry sadly if any harm comes to it.”
The day was pretty well ended be
ore all my work was done ; and, just for
famement or two, I hesitated whether I
hould not stay in the town and start for
home in the morning. It would have
been the more prudent course. But I
thought of poor Dolly's anxiety to sret
her treasure, and of my own happiness in
watching the rapture in her delighted
eyes. So with my parcels packed in the
best way they could be, I mounted my
horse and started. It was as good and
steady a horse as you ever rode, sir; but
night began to set in before I was well a
mile away from the town ; it seemed as
if it were going to be an ugly night, too.
Again the thought struck me—should I
turn back and wait till morning ? I had
my brace of sure pistols with me, and
decided to press onward.
The night came on as dark as pitch,
and part of the way my road would be
pitch dark beside. But on that score I
had no fear ; I knew the road well, every
inch of it, though I fculd not ride so fist
as I should have dene in the iight. I
was about six miles from home, I ;ur>-
pose, and I knew the time must be close
upon midnight, when the storm which
i had been brewing broke. The thunder
roared, the rain fell iniorrenls ; the best
I could do was to ride on ward in it.
All at once, as f rode on, a cry star
tied me ; a faint, wailin*. sound, like the
cry of a child. Reining up, I sat still
and listened. Had I been mistaken?
No, there it was again. But in what
direction I could not .ell. I couldn’t,
see a thing. It was, ss I have said, as
dark as pitch. Getting, off my horse, I
felt about, but could fisd nothing. And
while I was seeking, th cry came again
—the faint moan of A child in pain.
Then I began to woods 1 ; lam not su
perstitious, but I asked mysolf how it
was possible that a chit'. • vuld be out on
the prairie at such an I - ? -and in such
a night. No ; real cuiK it could not be.
Upon that came s'- ther thought—
one less welcome : Was it a trap to hin
der me on my way atd ensnare me?
There might he midnight robbers who
would easily hear of my almost certain
ride home that night, R*d of the money
I should have about, me.
I don’t think, sir, lam more timid
than other people
perhaps, as some; but I confess the
idea made me uneasy My best plan
was to ride on as last as I could, and
get out of the mystery into safe quar
ters. Just here was alfout the darkest
bit of road iu all the ryute. Mounting
my horse, I was about to urge him on,
when the cry came again. It did sound
like a child’s—the plaintive wail of a
child nearly exhausted.
“God guide me 1” I said, undecided
what to do. As I sat mother moment,
listening, I once more- heard the cry,
fainter and more faint." i threw myself
off my horse with an exclamation.
‘ Be it ghost or be it robber, Anthony
Hunt is not one to abandon a child to
die without trying to ssVe it.”
But how was I to safe it ? how find
it? The more I Hearchid about the less
coukl my hands light oa auything, save
the sloppy earth. The voice had quite
ceased now, so I had no ;uide from that.
While I stood trying to peer into the
darkness, all my ears alert, a flood of
sheet lightning sudden v illumined Ihe
plain. At a little and stance, just be
yond a kind of ridge i* gentle hill, I
caught a glimpse of p mething white
It was dark again in moment, but I
made my way with r rring instinct,
sum enough, there lay litelc child.
Whether boy or girl I could not tell. It
seemed to be three parts insensible now,
as I took it up, dripping with wot, from
the sloppy earth.
“My poor little thing!’’ I said, as I
bushed it to me. “We’ll go and find
mammy, You are sale now.”
Aud in answer the child just put out
its feeble hand, moaned once, and
nestled close to me.
With the child hushed to my breast I
rode on. Its perfect silence soon showed
me that it slept. And, sir, I thanked
God that he had let me save it, and I
thought how grateful some poor mother
would be! But I was full of wonder
for all that, wondering what
extraordinary fate had taken any young
child to that solitary spot.
Getting in sight of home, 1 saw all the
windows alight. Deborah had done it
for mo I thought, to guide me home in
safety through the darkness. But pres
ently I knew that something must be the
matter, "for the very few neighbors we
had were gathered there. My heart
Htood still with fear. I thought of some
calamity to one or the other of the chil
dren. I had saved a little one from per
ishing, but what might not have hap
pened to my own.
Hardly daring to lift the latch, while
my poor tired horse stood still and mute
outside, I weut slowly in, the
child in my arms covered over with
the flap of my long coat. My wife was
weeping bitterly,
“ What’s amiss?” I asked in a faint
voice. And it seemed that a whole
c horus of voices answered me:
“ Dolly’s lost 1”
“Dolly lost!” Just for a moment my
heart turned sick. Then some instinct,
like a ray of light and hope, seized upon
me. Pulling the coat off the face of the
child I held, I lifted the little sleeping
thing to the light and saw Dolly I
Yes, sir. The child I had saved was
no other than my own—my little Dolly.
And I knew that God’s good angels had
guided me to save her, and that the
first flash of the summer lightning had
shone just at the right moment to show
me where she lay. It was her white
sunbonnet that had caught my eye. My
darling it was, and none other, that I had
picked up on the drenched road.
Dolly, anxious for her doll, had wan
dered out unseen to meet me in the
afternoon. For some hours she was not
missed. It chanced that my two elder
girls had gone over to our nearest
neighbor’s, and my wife, missing the
child just afterward, took it for granted
she was with them. The little one had
gone on and on, until night and the
storm overtook her, when she fell
down frightened and utterly exhausted.
I thanked heaven aloud before them
all, sir, as I said that none but
God and Lis holy ange l - hsd
guided me to her. It's not much of a
story to listen to, sir. I am aw* re of
that. But I often think of it in the Jong
nights, lying awake; and I ask myself
how I could bear to live on now, had I
run away from the poor little cry in the
road, hardly louder than a squirrel’s
chirp, and left my child to die.
Yes, sir, you are right; that’s Dolly
out yonder with her mother, picking
fruit; the little trim light figure in pink
—with just the same sort of white sun
bonnet on her head that Bhe wore that
night ten years ago. She is a girl that
was just worth saving, sir, though I say
it; and God knows that as long as my
life lasts I shall bo tbaukful that I came
home on that night instead of staying in
the town.
ICED TEA.
The Perils that Linger in the Distance Around
the Cooling Beverage.
[From the Burlington Bawkeye.]
Singular enough, science has not yet
assailed iced tea. But it will not do to
permit people to enjoy this cool, delight
ful beverage simply because its taste is
grateful to the wearied system during
this scorching weather. We must do
our duty, though science may shrink
from it, and the people may cry out
against us. There is dauger in iced tea,
and, if you would lire long and well,shun
the cooling @up. We have not the space
to devote to an extended discussion of
the matter, and can only cite a few in
stances from a long series of carefully
made experiments, which can not fail to
carry conviction to the most incredulous
mind.
On June 10, of this year, John C.
Hempstesd, of West Hill, began to
drink iced tea at dinner and supper. He
kept up this practice for nearly three
weeks, and then one day, going down the
Division street steps, he slipped and fell,
abrading the skin on both legs, and
running a sliver into the ball of bin thumb
so far that it made his teeth ache when
he pulled it out. His clothes were also
considerably torn. When he went homo
that evening ho learned that his eldest
boy had l>een whipped at school for
slicking a pin astar through another boy
as the head would let it go. He was
warned to quit drinking iced tea, but
ho persisted in the practice, and is now
sleeping in the valley, between West
and North Hill, where he lives, and says
he never felt so well in his lile, but may
be he lies about it.
Henry Esterfeldt, of Eighth street,
drank iced-tea regularly every summer
for three years, lie noticed that, after
drinking it about two months, his boots
began to run over at the heel. He per
sisted, and one Sunday afternoon, while
he was out driving, his horse ran away
and smashed sl7 out of a borrowed bug
gy. He paid the money, but neglected
the warning. He went on drinking iced
tea, and in less than six weeks someone
poisoned his dog. These statements can
all be verified by writing to Mr. Kster
feldt, who is now living in Kansas City,
the father of eleven children, all of
whom inherit their father's vice.
A young woman who did plain sewing
in this city, while employed in the fam
ily of Ralph Henderson, of Maple street,
became addicted during the summer to
the use of iced tea. She soon ran a sew
ing-machine needle through her thumb,
and for many days, whenever she picked
up a cup of iced tea, a sharp pain ran
through her thumb. She refused to
obey the warning, however, and in six
weeks she was carried away. The man
who carried her away married her first,
and they are now living in Sugetown.
Last week, at the beginning of the
heated term, two eminent scientific gen
tlemen of Burlington took a strong,
healthy black-Rnd-tan dog and immersed
him in a tub of pure cistern water, into
which a weak solution of iced tea had
been poured. They held the dog’s head
under the water fifteen minutes, although
he struggled violently; thus showing the
natural and instinctive aversion to a
substance which intelligent human beings
blindly and eagerly drink, and when the
gentlemen took him out of the tub he
wasquite dead. If a teacupful of iced
tea in a tub full of water will kill a dog,
think for yourselves what must lie the
effect of a strong, undiluted cup of this
decotion upon the system of a weak
woman.
Last summer a lumber puller in the
employ of F. T. Parsons A Cos., of this
city, declared that he could live on
iced tea. Before he had time to go up
to his boarding house, however, he fell
off the raft upon which he was at work,
and drowned.
A single drop of ice tea poured upon
the tongue of a living rattlesnake will
produce the most startling effect, in
stantly causing the man who administers
it to fly for hit life, and bis life will be in
imminent danger, unless he distances the
snake before the first turn.
Eleven grains of strychnine mixed in
a teaspoonful of iced tea will kill the
oldest man in America.
These instances ana facts might 1 e
multiplied by scores. We have said
enough, however, to warn every person
of the danger that lies in the tempting
goblet of iced tea If suffering and
death ensue from its continued use, the
Hawkeve feels that it has done its duty
and washes its hands of all responsibility
1 in the matter. -[Hawkeye.
A Miraculous Corner at the Paris
M . l' > - ) i
[fails ovrtwpomler.ee o( the Boston Journal]
In a corner of the immense French
section, not far from the “ Gallery
of Labsr,” is the group devoted to a
branch of industry in which the French
are masters, and which is constantly ob
served by laughing crowds. It is the
spot of all others to which a dyspeptic
visitor to the exhibition should first go.
There the iugonieus Gaul lias shown
what he can accomplish in making toys
for children. Surely there never was no
lugenuity *p*uded before upon such
little matters. In the room stands a lit
tle theatre, on the stage of which an or
chestra of monkeys richly costumed, per
form a selection of pieces of music.
These automatons are almost astonishing
enough to make one believe in the black
art. The leader gesticulate from time
to time, then addresses himself with true
artistic earnestness to his violin, and his
musicians play with feeling and taste
which might well make the Tziganes en
vious. In a miniature pond near by a
women, dressed in a handsome bathing
costume, is swimming. Were it not
for the Lilliputian proportions of this
rival of Boynton and Webb,
it would he almost impossible to
imagine that it is not a human being.
Benoath a wide spreading oak are seated
half a dozen pretty girls, dressed in the
ravishing costume of Louis Fourteenth’s
time. Beside them is a young cavalier,
who salutes them civilly, then hands
them a basket, from which they take the
provisions necessary for a picnic. It is
magic you are inclined to say ; yet it is
really nothing but mechanism. Pass a
little further on aud you Bee a fragment
of the Jardin d’Acclimation. The ani
mals are shown engaged in eating, in
nourishing their young, in soliciting
food from visitors; the toy elephant
slowly moves his trunk through the
grating, takes a toy cake from a gill’s
hand, eats it, flaps hiS huge ears in token
of satisfaction, and passes out his trunk
for “ more.” The giraffe cranes his neck
and looks out comically ujion you. A
sorcerer could do no more. This
mechanical world is as natural as the
real one. And the doll-houses! And
the armies marching, countermarching,
storming fortification* and firing mimic
cannons I Verily, one call not help re
calling the remark which the satiric
Voltaire put into the mouth of his
prince of Babylon. “ The French are
the children ol the good God ; J love to
remain here and play with them.” By
no means forget the top corner at the
exhibition. Volumes-might be written
about it.”
Oil' flic Dcacli at Long; Branch.
The sand shark is sometimes hooked
when not wanted, and, when wanted, not
hooked. He is larger than the drum fish,
and will singly fight any number ol his
sturdy opponents. Fishermen declare
the sand shark as harmless to man, re
fusing live or dead bodies as food, while
his relative, the deep water shark, pre
fers human flesh, dead or alive, to all
other food. Ah, however, this sand shark
has teeth and mouth very much like his
more formidable kinfish, 1 prefer to keep
out of his way. I have met them several
times with centre fin erect swimming
with the power aud velocity of a small
steam tug. All sharks, when cruising,
show their upper middle fin, and some
sailors eall them “ battle” or “warning
flags.” Sailors have the highest opinions
of their fighting qualities, as they say
that frequently the ocean seems to boil
when one of these sharks, gets into a
serious tussle with his bss formidable
finny neighbors, and that invariably this
monster sails off with fin erect, apparent
ly unharmed, while numerous wounded
or dead fish float in the vicinity of the
aquatic battlefield.—[Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
Excellence of Oat-Meal.
Liebig has che.micaliy demonstrated
that oat-meal is almost as nutritious as
the very best English beef, and that it is
richer than wheaten bread in the ele
ments that go to form bone and muscle.
Professor Forbes, of Edinburgh, during
some twenty years, measured the breadth
and height, and also tested the strength
of both arms and loins, of the students
the University a very numerous
and of various nationalities, drawn to
Edinburgh by the fame of his teaching.
He found that in height, breadth of chest
and shoulders, and strength of arms and
loins, the Belgians were at the bottom of
the list; a little above them, the French ;
very much higher, the English; aud
highest of all, the Scotch and Scotch
Irish, from Ulster, who, like the natives
of Scotland, are fed in their early years
at least one meal a day of good oat-meal
porridge.
A little three year-old girl who
volunteered to say grace at the table did
so as follows : “Oh, Lord, Dress the things
we eat; brers mamma and paps and
gampa ” —and here, casting up her eyes
to her grandfather in the next seat, and
discovering tha* b was smiling, the
little one closed her prayer by saying
‘ B- have yourself, gampa—for Christ’s
sake. Amen.”
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
Kissing.
Theta's * jollv Saxon proverb
Tuat is pretty much like this:
Tout a ranu is half iu heaven
vVhen he l as a woman’s Jci&fl.
Rot theie’s and nger in delaying.
And the sweein-se may forsake it—
So I tell you. bashful lover,
Jf you want a kiss, why take if.
Nt ver let another fellow
ttteil a march on you in thig ;
Never let a laughing maiden
B*e you spoiling for a kiss.
There’s a royal w y of kissing.
And the jolly ones who make i
Have a motto that is winning:
If you want a kins why take it.
Any fool may face a cinnon
Anybody wear a crown
But a man must win a woman
If heM have m-r for his own.
Would you have a golden apple,
You must find n tree and shake It;
If a thing is worth the having,
And you want a kiss, why take it.
Who would burn upon a deaert
With a forest growing by?
Who would sire his sunny summer
For n black and w intry sky ?
Oh ! I tell you Omr is magic,
And you cannot, cannot hrrak it
For the sweetest part of lovlr.g
Is to want a kiss and—take it.
.. Many men find plenty of time to and
a mean act, who are unable to spare a
moment to perform an act of charity.
. .Gentlemen (loq.) : “I say, waiter,
I’ve just cracked this egg. Look at it.”
“Don't look very nice at that end, sir, I
must say. Try the other.”
. .Mi dear friend, az strange az it may
seem to yu, mankind had rather see yu
fail than suceed, bekause they had rather
pity than admire,— [Josh Billings.
. The New York Herald figures up
tho number of American tourists who
have gone to Europe this season at
twenty thousand, and the season is not
over.
..The college youth who graduated
last, week with the expectation of start
ing out in the world and being a states
man, next month will be in vain look
ing for a job to run a soda fountain in a
second-class drug store.
. .There is a girl in Santa Barbara
with such a big mouth that the other
day, when she smiled at a fellow on the
street, a kind-hearted little boy ex
claimed with great earnestness, “Look
out, miss, your lid's coming off!”
..The argumentum ad—“ Sam, you
are not honest. Why do you put all the
good peaches on top of the measure and
the little ones below?” “Same reason,
sah, dat makes de front of your house all
marble, and de hack gate chiefly slop
bar’l, sah.”
..Unknown Prevaricator: Scono in a
restaurant somewhere:
“Waiter!”
“Sir?”
“ Your stew is horrible.”
“ How, sir?”
“This mutton tastes like gOHt ”
“ Aud you object to that? ’
“ Certainly I do.”
“ But, Htr, the cook chose mutton tasts
ing like goat, because tho customer can
thereby always he sure that ho is not
eating dog.”
.. It ha* been ascertained that a book
agent can he won by kindness. One
day recently a West Hill man tried it on
one of them. He beat him with a
bludgeon and broke his arm, poured
kerosene over his clothes, and set fire to
it, shot him through the lungs and looked
him upiu a room with a mad dog, and
the agent, deeply aff- Red, whispered
through the keyhole that as soon 4 the
dog got through with him, he’d let him
have a copy of “Moody’s Anecdotes” for
sixty five cents, which was thirty per
cent off.—[Hawkeye.
NO. 51.
Portuguese Courtship.
The young men of Portugal have one
occupation more important than wearing
tight boots, and which almost, in fact,
goes with it—that of making the very
mildest forms of love known among men.
The young gentlemen pay their address
es by simply standing in front of the
house occupied by the object of their
affections; wliil- the young person in
question looks down approvingly from
an upper window, and there the matter
ends. They are not within spea/iing
distance, and have to content themselves
with expressive glances and dumb show,
for it would be highly unbecoming for
the younjP lady to allow a billetdoux to
flutter down into the street, while the
laws ol gravitation stands in the way of
the upward flight of such a document,
unweighted, at least, with a stone, and
this of course, might risk giving the
young lady a black eye, or breaking her
father’s window-panes. Ho the lovers
there remain often for hours, leeling no
doubt, very happy, but looking unutter
ably foolish. These silent courtships
sometimes continue for very long pariods
I adore the lover can ask the fatal ques
tion, or the lady return the final answer.
How They Do It in Spain.
Twilight in dreamy Spain 1 The ex
press train was bowling along between
Tarragona and Barcelona, when sud
denly it wes brought to a standstill by
the alteration of a signal, aud in a few
minutes twenty-six armed men took
possession of it. They did not lie.ong
to the civil guard They were brands.
Home of the passengers were then
dragged out and thoroughly searched,
and all money, watches and va uables
forcibly taken possession of. Ihe brig
ands then removed the cushions from
the carriages and made a minute in
spection to seie that nothing vamable
was concealed in them. 'lbe ladies of
the party had their ear rings torn from
their ears. An E iglish victim wiites:
j “ I lost all the property I had wi h me,
consisting of at least $660 worth, which
com prised my watch aud chain, money,
pocket book, and also my portmanteau,
! which was in the luggage van, and con
! tamed many valuable papers” lhe
brigands evea took rr m tim
ticket, and left him penniless, with
merely the clotnes he wore, and those
partly torn from the rough treatment
he received.