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Tie Jesup Sentinel Office in the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors from Broad St. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year $2 00 Six mouths 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion . $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. 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.