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jf W% f CV\ - I l I i ORTH GEORGIA 0 TT uu * 7 i S. ■; O," ttLAUrDt’f KdUors and Proprietor*. §?n ■;. THE STILE. .* in walked slowly o’er the yellow grass ath " the sunset dry; . lea he climbed the stile I did not pass, there we said Good-bye. tsed one moment; I leaned on the stile, faced the hazy lane; tet neither of us spoke until we both Just said Good-bye again. bS T went homeward to oar quaint oid farm. - And he went on his way; uA he has never crossed that field again, -From f rat time to this day. wonder if he fever gives a thought 'To what he left behind; a I start sometimes dreaming that I hear A footstep in the wind. IE he had said but one regretful word, Or I had shed a tear, He would not go alone about tho world, Nor I sit lonely here. Alas! onr hearts were full of angry pride, Aud love was choked in strife; “vAftd bo the stile, beyond the yellow grass, Stands straight across onr life. Jjj fi— —Every | other ■HUH Saturday. s .. ‘Bring . Myrtle.” A number of letters were awaiting Ool. Haldane, Commandant of Newlv, on his return from parade. He was un married, rich and rather distinguisbed . looking. It will therefore surprise no one that he was accustomed to receive a ’ great many sweetly-scented, delicately monogramed, from prettily-worded letters the various members of the fair sex with whom he was acquainted. fore Amongst him the little heap which lay be¬ careless handwriting was one conspicuous for its aud rough envel¬ he ope. selected Oddly enough, this was the one first for perusal. Scrawled on the lip of the envelope were these words : “Bring Myrtle.” Cel. Haldane put up his gentlemanly eye-glass, side; and ho held his head a little on one twisted his iron-gray 1 e into a yet, more poignant he ex r- as inspected those curious words. ‘ ring Myrtle.” Who was Myrtle? 1 :at was Myrtle ? How many times he read and re-read that message he was perhaps unaware. But it was useless. “Bring Myrtle” remained on the lip of the envelope, an unsolved enigma. Slowl iy he opened the letter. It was an invitation to afternoon tea at tho Whites—people he knew slightly, as ho knew 8Q many in the heavily-garrisoned naval and military town close to the bar¬ racks at Newly. The letter was from Miss Florence White, who wrote in her mother’s name. He called np a vision of Florence "White. Tall and stately, a girl with a mass of golden brown hair, rolled off her forehead; a girl he had greatly ad¬ mired, as one admires a serene and fed lovely landscape; a girl who made him provokingly ladies rattled “fogieish,” Other young he sub, asked away at him, as if were a him to play tennis with them, and treated him like a mere youngster. But this young lady had placed complexion, him, with due regard to his in a shadowy corner of the drawing-room when had on one or two occasions he taken “tea” there, and had introduced him to some deep toned matron, as if in that direction lay his natural bias; and now this stately yonng script bidding lady sends him a jocular post¬ him “Bring Myrtle 1” Col. Haldane sat down in the com¬ fortable red velvet chair which faced the parade-ground, and commanded a fine view of The ever-companiouable sea. The little rippling waves had an ex pression of infant smiles to-day, and the other buoyant like clouds were chasing one an¬ How innocent schoolboys and on a common. fair was the world of nature! He sat dreaming over his problem A knook “Bring Myrtle” quite happily. with the knob of a stick on the door breaks into his reflections, and Oaptaih Hilton enters with his customary off-parade familiarity. “Well, old fellow, what’s np? Sea ana sentiment, eh ? It’s fatal to sit in that altitude, looking at the sea. What is np, I ask you?” Col. Haldane roused himself from his reverie with an effort; he gently tapped his left hand with the letter which yet remained idly between his finger and thumb. “Jane 1” he said, addressing Captain Hilton by his nickname; “Jane 1 what on earth does it mean when you receive a message from a young lady to ‘Bring Myrtle ?’ ” and he handed the envelope to Capt. Hilton. Jane, who had a rolling eye and a rollicking smile, took the envelope dain¬ tily, heart, and, after and said reading with it, pressed it to his a strong brogne: “Why, man, it’s a proposal! What do the ladies wear on .L-eir festal brows and twist in the flowing satin of their bridal gowns but myrtle? ‘Bring myrtle,’ I tell yon it’s a proposal—a bona fide pro¬ ' posal. I wish you every joy! She is a sweet girl, if a bold one. ” Without a word, Col. Haldane sprang, in a melodramatic manner, at the throat of Capt. Hilton, and held him with a grip of iron, “How dare yon speak of Miss White like that? She is the most distinguished girl of my acquaintance. Apologize!” Captain Hilton rolled his eye with a ghastly appeal suddenly on Col. Haldane, when the latter as relaxed his grasr and said: “Forgive me, Hilton; but really I—I —objeot to auoh an unseemly idea.” “I beg_yonr pardon, Colonel,” said id. stiffly; Allow “I object equailv me to wish SPRING PLACE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 1885 . . confusedly; “Stop, my friend.” said Col. Haldane, “I don’t know what is the matter with me ! I’m hall asleep, I think. Sea and sentiment, as yon said just now. Como, my friend! Do tell, me what on earth Miss White means.” “Means ? something green,” said Hil¬ ton, viciously; “but whether sprouting in the tub, after the fashion of the blos¬ soming alter shrub, or done np in a glass case the artificial mode, I know not I wish you good morning, Colonel.” And with that he retreated to the messroom. “Blossoming shrub,” murmured Col. Haldane. “Bless his Hibernian wit! Eureka 1 Now I have it 1” And with that he sat down at his writing-table and penned the following letter: “An M.vosotis, 10 Avenue Victor Emmanuel, “Send a the Menton, finest Aipea Maritime*. the following flowering myrtle you possess to address: Miss Florence White, The Grange, Porter down, Sussex. The myrtle must arrive on the afternoon of September the 7th, one week from this date.” Then Colonel Haldane rang the bell hastily, and told his man to post the let¬ ter. This done, be plaeed the note from Miss Fioronce Wbito in the pocket of his read frogged the coat, his and then proceeded to rest of correspondence, * * * * * * * The afternoon of the 7th duly arrived, and with a strange palpitation at his heart (a sensation whioh ought to have aroused his suspicions as to the exact / fate of his susceptibilities), Col. Hal¬ dane drove up in his little hooded ear ringe, with the tiger jumping np and down behind, to the gates of the Grange. “Here comes the pig in the-poke,” said Felicity used White, brains a younger daughter, who her in off-hand crit¬ icisms. “If a man will drive a carriage with a. hood, what is one to eall him but a pig in a poke, you know ? Ho is fid¬ geting at the gate most awfully, Florence; do come and look.” “I like that hooded carriage,” said Florence. “Le style e'est i'homme uieme.” Aud then she turned with ready grace to meet Col. Haldane, who had just entered the room. “Felicity and I were drawn to the window by the magnetical influence of your “I charming little carriage," she said. so admire your ‘poke.’ ” “Do yon?” said Col. Haldane, grate¬ fully. “It is very kiud of yon !” and then he looked steadfastly at Florence, absolutely Fioronce, blushing as he did so. rogative, oatohing the glance inter¬ was arrested in her amiable in¬ tention of transporting him to the other md of (lie long lone drawing-room, and introducing Rector's him to Mrs. Harlington, the wife. This agitated gentle¬ man did not loqk exactly in a state to be discoursed to about winter blanket clubs and working men’s clubs aud friendly societies. It is very fine to talk about loading an tmpuzzled existence, like Jane Austen; but why on earth did Col. Haldane look at her with this unfathomable glance from'his undeniably fine gray eyes? What did it mean? She fell away from him, mosing, and turned the outward machinery of trite commonplaces on her greeting of the numerous guests, whe were The rapidly arriving. Whites had just started a page, who answered to the ubiquitous name of “Tommy;” one of those specimens much adapted by ambitious matrons as an improvement on parlor maids; a creaturo raw of the fields, with the ex¬ pression of au animated turnip and brains to match. In the midst of a buzz of voices intermingling with the frou-frou of rioh dresses, Tommysud denly darted into the room and made straight for Miss Florence White, carry¬ ing in his lobster-colored hands a book suggestive of the P. D. Company. Colonel Haldane, from his solitary seat window in the deep recess of the bay facing the entrance to “The Grange,” felt an awful sensation come ove’- him. Was this the myrtle arriv¬ ing? and had tho Menton folk abso¬ White? lutely charged the carriage to Miss What should he do I He shrunk behind the deep amber of the curtains, then Myrtle!” as suddenly emerged. words, “Bring these were her own and he made a violent rush across the room to her side. “It’s the myrtle!” he said breath¬ lessly. have made “Allow mistake,” me! The stupid people a he continued, incoherently. the “The idea of charging sovereign carriage to Tommy’s you p And he threw a into bashful fingers. Miss White looked at Col. Haldane with ever-enlarging pupils. He I had re tamed lately from Egypt, had been in defatigable andria, at had the bombardment of Alex¬ had an illness on his return, and she remembered hearing that he had been obliged to have his head shaved. She continued to loon at him quite tenderly, as these thoughts flitted phantom-like about her. “Thank yon, Col. Haldane,” she said. “You have saved me the trouble of fetohing my purse. This is a new boy—country wants instruction manners, I” you smiling know; he antly, moved and pleas¬ she out of the room after the vanishing figure of Tommy. In the round, roomy hall stood a huge tnbe matted np and bearing the name, “Au “It’s Myosotis, flowering a Menton,” etc. Tommy; a “the biggest myrtle, Miss,” said the carrier says it ever “Feioh fell his duty to deliver.” Tommy," a said pair Miss of gardening scissors, time White; “and anoth¬ er never venture to |bring P. D. 0. books housekeeper into the with drawing that room. kind Go thing.” to the of in Tommy took hues the color natural foi to him yet deeper Miss White and ran the scis¬ sors. soon ssinned the 4a taimiig strings and natural delight as the starry blossoming myrtle was exposed to view. ad¬ dressed “Very unmistakably odd,” she thought; “it’s to me. Poor Col. Haldane ! What does it mean ?” and Thinking bombardment ogam of the shaven head the of Alexandria she sighed a little pensively and a little com¬ passionately, and returned to the draw¬ ing room just in time to escape the en try of Mrs. Danvers, whose forest cart, drawn by a lovely pair of Welsh ponies, she saw turning in at the gate. That lady now oompanion, entered, followed by her insep¬ arable a perfect Dandy Din mont, pedigreed a long-bodied, low-legged, which flap eared, creature, rejoioej in the possession of seven prizes. Florence immediately made a rush at the dog. “Ah ! you have brought Myr¬ tle ! I was afraid, when I saw yon this morning, that you would forget, though I mentioned it in my note 1” Both ladies had moved in the direction where still sat Col. Haldane, plunged in startled re¬ flections, Was in the recess of the window. this long-baoked, low-legged, flap eared dog the honored objeot of the message ? “Of course, I brought dear old Myr¬ tle. ” retorted Mrs. Danvers. “I should Buffooate at au afternoon tea if I hadn’t a Hit of natural life like that trusty Scotchman about me.” ‘ Now it’s explained!” said a deep voice from behind the amber curtains, and Col. Haldane came forward once more. The hesitation of his manner had van¬ ished; l:e was smiling serenely, and his eyes were fixed with au expression of perfect understanding Miss White. on the counte¬ nance of “Bring Myrtle 1” he Continued, laughingly. “This is Myrtle 1 Rival Myrtles can’t there may bo; but this form of Myrtle bo improved upon !” Again Miss White’s pupils enlarged sympathetically. Col. Haldane Worse and worse I Poor 1 She trembled for his reason. Not so Mrs. Danvers. Fix¬ ing him with her bright eyes, she said: ‘‘ Wlmt is explained ? Confusion of cir¬ cumstances?” 'Confusion of en*plopes. Bring Myr¬ tle was scribbled on the wrong back— that’s all,” said Col. Haldane. With a sudden illumination, Miss Wlii'e sank down beside OoL Haldane in the recess, with a deep blush of morti¬ fied confusion. “Does that account for the presence of the flowering mvrtle in the hall?” she asked, after a moment of horrified si¬ lence. “Yes. Charming mistake for me,” muttered Ool. Haldane. “Gave mean opportunity at Mrs. Danvers, that I ” and he looked who, with a finesse worthy of her, dashed away to the other end of the room to meet the extended hand of an apropos acquaintance. He went opportunity on smoothly that enough wanted. now. “An I Will you tle one day wear a sprig of that other myr¬ for me, Florence ?” Miss White didn’t say “No;” so she evidently intended to sav “Yes.”—27ie Argosy. Mistakes in Telegrams. Cases companies involving the liability of tele¬ graph for errors iu messages are of frequent occurrence in the courts. The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has just given its opinion in one of 4he latest. A dealer in furs made an agreement for the sale of a lot of muskrat skins to a firm. The latter agreed to pay a named price, which was to be raised in ease London rates at an approaching sale should advance beyond ten per cent. The firm was to telegraph the dealer af¬ ter the sale. It sent this message: “Obey instructions given Sunday. Rats ten higher. Everything else lower.” The telegram instructions received by the dealer read: “Ober gjven Sunday. Rates supposed ten higher. “ober” Everything else lower.” He was a mistake for “over,” interpreted the message to mean that muskrat skins were ten cents high¬ er than anticipated and bought accord¬ ingly. He Buffered a loss of five hun¬ dred dollars, for which he sued the Western Union. The Conrt holds that the company is not liable. received Jndge Thayer says: “The message insensible by the plaintiff had was an message. He no right to guess that the insensible word ‘ober’ meant ‘over,’ and then to interpret the message had advanced as meaning that muskrat skins ten per cent, beyond the autieipated based. price It on which his contract was was his duty to telegraph back for the correct message or ask his correspondent the meaning of it. He was himself guilty of negligence. It was certainly ‘obey’ as easy to guess that ‘ober’ meant as to guess that it meant ‘over.’ He took the risk of his own false interpretation. ” Lost Its Place. Chatting with General W. T. Sher¬ man the other day, says a newspaper correspondent, he said a few pretty hard things of newspaper men, though he ad¬ mitted that there were exceptions. To il trate "how his kindness had been a raised at times, he said : “When the dispatch came called to me about the Custer massacre I the newspaper boys all in dispatch. together. I ‘Now,’I says, ‘herein the put yon all on your honor to copy and return it to me.’ Then I gave it out two pages to this one, two pages to that one, so they could all work at once. I turned my back, and whisk —Jack Robinson—the dispat oh was gpne. It never turned up, either, and ft is in consequence absent from the jffgce it ought to occupy in the official ’ LOUISE MICHEL. . a communist joan op arc dying, To b« Grnntcd r Pan!on-The Htory of tho Ixifc of the Schoolmistress of Noumea* Paris dispatches say that it is the in¬ tention of the Government soon to re¬ lease Louise Michel, the Communist, from prison and to grant her a free par¬ don. She is in a dying condition. She has been in prison inis time nearly* year. Her life has been thus admirably summed np: Louise is a sort of repre¬ sentative child of the revolution and she lias a strange history. Fifty years ago Bhe was born in an aristooratio French chateau without being an aristocrat. Her mother was a scullion who worked in the chateau and her father was master of tho house. She was brought np in the place and she received an education suited to her father’s rather than to her mother’s rank. In time, when tho father’s own son was sent adrift for disobedience, she took his place in the family circle, still acknowledging tending on her own part and the peasant mother who had brought her into the world. Then, as She came to be a woman, she caught the Victor Hugo fever of the revolution and in a most, perilous way, not as a mere outpouring series for the relief of the soul, but as a of precepts for action. She began to write—somewhat in imitation of the master, as shown in tho titles of some of the things she gave to the vprld: “Our Lady of Vroncourt,” “Oc¬ cidentals,” “Spring Leaves,” “Summer Storms,” “Winter Winds,” “Dawn Songs” and “Voices,” both from heaven and tho other place, with now and then something in the grotesquely cornio veiu, iike the “Memoirs of a Frog.” She sent some of theso things to the poet and he sent her back an edition of his works with a priceless autograph. She was evidently smitten with the disease of lit¬ erature, but events wore to determine her career otherwise. Tho aristooratio father died, tho protecting lady of the house followed him and Louise was turned out with her mother on her hands to earn bread for two ere she learned to earn it for one. That was bad, but a proposition made to her to alleviato her lot was worse. They actually wanted to marry her to some local shopman—she, the inspired feminine Isaiah of tho new time 1 That decided her; she rushed away to Paris with all speed and set np a‘ school for little boys and girls at Montmartre. Here the Commnne found her.. This is, in brief, the history of Louise. To the Communists the strange schoolmistress of Noumea is looked upon as a kind of modern Joan of Arc. A caricature represented her as a red Sis¬ ter of Mercy, armed with a musket instead of a cross, and the symbol of Masonic fraternity instead of a rosary. She was born in 1835, in the Haute-Marne. She studied history, and discovered that at eaoh evil epoch it would have sufficed to suppress one man iu order to save tho country. Charlotte Corday in assassi¬ nating Marat hoped to save France. With the same objeot in view Louisa Michel, while a schoolmistress at Mont¬ martre, wished to kill Napoleon HI. The idea was deeply fixed in her mind. She had her photograph taken, standing at a table, with one hand resting on a death’s head and the other hand raised and pointing upward Miohel in a tragic attitude. At that time Lonise wore mourn¬ ing for Liberty; she dressed entirely in black, with the exception of a red rose in her dress or in her bonnet. In 1870 Lonise Michel became an ambulanciere. During the siege of Paris by the Ver¬ sailles troops she fought picked dressed as a national guard and np the wounded with the bullets whistling around excited her by the ears. fever During of the the first Commune, siege, she offered the insurrectional govern¬ ment to go and shoot Thiers at Ver¬ sailles. The government refused at first, telling her that she could not go to Ver¬ sailles. To show that it was possible. Louise Miohel went there and returned. §he had not attempted to see Thiers, Then having given her word this time. Ferre disarmed her, saying that the Revolution must not be established on a crime. At the time of the repression of the Commnne Louise Miohel denounced herself. She was tried before a council of war and sent to New Caledonia, where she taught the children of the exiles and looked after their sick. She returned to Paris amnestied, and re¬ mained quiet until the petty bread riot of 1883. Louise Miohel demands for women the right of voting and eligibil¬ ity. She believes in the equal division of goods and in a future when tho wicked shall have disappeared. In short, she is a victim of Victor Hugo. Her head has been turned by “Lea Chatimeuts,” and for want of an opportunity she has remained a platonic Charlotte Corday. Bueeon’s Monsters.—T he unworthy wife of the celebrated Bnffon early in her married life, conceived a hatred for her husband, who loved her with fond idolatry. His danghter-in-law said to him at table one day. “M, Buffon, you have made such a study of onr nature, and of that of animals—explain why it is that the people who love us most are those for whom we care the least.” “I have not yet reached the chapter on monsters,” M. Buffon coldly replied. A gentleman was one day relating to a concluded Quaker a by tale of deep distress, and feel for him.” saying, "Verily, “I could not but the Quaker, “thou didst friend,” replied thou didst feel right in that but for thy neighbor; didst thou feel in the right place—didst thou feel in thy pocket ?>’ VOL. V. New Series. No. 3 . HANGING DESERTERS How l General Winfield Scott Treated the Skulkers From His Army. At the battle of Oherubusco, in the valley of Mexioo, those writes a correspond¬ ent, one of series of battles which took place before the capital was captured, oocurred the one of tho most I im¬ pressive acts o! entire war, mean as to its effect upon the men of the army. It was one of those events which carried instant conviction to the minds of the soldiers that discipline and alle¬ giance to the flag were of paramount im¬ portance. After a desperate struggle the works were oarried, and among the captured were found a number of de¬ serters, men who joined the Mexicans aud served the gnus against their own comrades, the and the full force of their aid to enemy is apparent when it is known that they were nearly all trained artillerists. On the discovery being made, intense indignation prevailed, aud nothing but the strictest discipline and prompt obe¬ dience to orders prevented the men from dealing out au instant vengeance upon the deserters. But a drum head court martial decided, with duo formality, their fate, which was to bo banged igno minionsly in tho presence of all the army then at that point assembled. It must be undersood that a portion of the forces were then engaged with the enemy, at, Cbepultepeo, that almost inaccessible fortress and stronghold of the enemy, holding farther advances upon the city, and that most desperate engagement was then nndeoided. Tho men were drawn up in due order, eaoh with a rope around his neck, thirty deluded victims about to receivo merited punishment for basely deserting the flag and turning the enemy's guns against (heir own com¬ rades. Tho officer in charge, upon whom devolved the duty, cast a quick glance in tho direction of Ohepultepec. Sud¬ denly a thought seemed to impress him, and ho said: “Let them stand till they see the American flag upon the bights of Chepnltepeo. ” With breath¬ less fought anxiety battle, they waited. It was a hai d the final result being doubtful. Many brave men went down to rise no ore and many a mnu carried the wounds there received through life to his grave. The gallant Colonel Rinsom of the Now England regiment yielded whom- his life; Captain Mayno Reid, ” knew, aud others wound¬ were ed, and \re among the first to enter the works. Suddenly a shout went up that car¬ ried relief to some of those anxious watchers, and dismay to tho hearts of tho men who stood awaiting their doom. The bights had been carried, aud the starry banner floated to tho breeze. All eyes then turned to the Bad spectacle before them. The deserters stood motionless as statues, awuiting the doom they eonld not shnn. They had taken their last look of the flag they had sworn to protect, and were sent “unanointed and unannealed” tc answer to the last great roll-oall. The Fuel of the Future, A Pittsburgh letter to the Philadelphia Press says:—That the gas for heating purposes will eventually drive all other combustibles out of the field in Pitts¬ burg is inevitable. Already the con¬ sumption of It gas, instead of coal, is enormous. is estimated that from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 cubio feet of gas is burned eaoh day in Pittsburg as fuel. Already ten iron and steel mills in the city, and six in other parts of Western Pennsylvania, are using it iu their puddling furnaces and under their boilers. Within three months a dozen more mills will have it in operation, and every other manufacturing firm is eagerly awaiting lines. the Six completion of the various pipe glass factories in the city, and seven in near towns are using it.” Every brewery in tho city uses it instead of ooal. There has not yet been enough gas to spare for domes tic purposes, and speaking, only a few dwellings, comparatively have been able to get it for their stoves and grates. Two of tho largest hotels use it entirely in their kitchens. Safety inventions have been made and much of its danger¬ ous possibilities averted. As a result, householders are anxiously awaiting more gas. Within an area of fifty miles about Pittsburgh at least a dozen small towns have discarded coal entirely, and every dwelling house has gas in its cook stove, parlor grate and bedroom fireplace. Among these places are Butler, Free¬ port, Clarion, Tarentnm, Kittanning, Oil City, Wellsbnrg, Apollo and Marys¬ ville. There are no ashes to remove, no sooty fireplaces to kindle in the morn¬ ing. A thumb valve regulates the flame, brick bats in the grate distribute it and retain the heat aud it may be kept burn¬ ing low in the all night to have the house warm morning. Too Early. The late Lady Lytton happening friend to call at the hduse of an artist the day before the funeral of the Duke of Welling¬ turned ton, the conversation naturally day, upon the event of the following and the crowds which were expecting “You to throng the London streets. wiil have to be up very early, Lady Lytton,’4- “if said the painter in question, yon mean to look on at the procession. 5 o’clock Are you prepared to get np * at man’s for the sake of ■ seeing indeed,” the great i funeral?” “Not I, answered the lady with an unpleasantly significant in smile; “there is only one man the early * that see,” get up as a • ODDS AND ENDS. Anna Dickinson is again lecturing, China has taken np with postal oards Capt. Howoatb is said to be in New Mexico. It takes five men a year to make a looom olive. The Standard Oil Company employs 93,000 men. The latest novelty is chicken batch¬ ing by electricity. The Jeannette Monument fund now amounts to $2,052. Mb. David Dudley Field will be eighty in February. The colored population of California is estimated at 7,500. The peppermint farmers of Pennsyl¬ vania are getting rich. The American nettle can be used to make seersucker cloth. State Thebe Pennsylvania. are 3,530 postoffloes in the of John Bbight was seventy-three years of age on November 16. Venison is not ’dear in Idaho, where it sells for 2 cents a pound. The dividends payable in Boston in January aggregate $9,710,478. Mme. Ristobi receives 40 per cent, of the gross receipts of her tour. Tnr. conductors on street cars in Mexico always carry revolvers. Observing travolcrs say the Japanese arc more polite than the French. Thebe are at present sixteen locomo¬ tive works in the United States. The figures grow. Washington now expects 200,000 visitors March 4. Mrs. William IT. Vanderbilt always dresses in black for church-going. TnE Redistribution bill gives the next House of Commons 670 members. Thei:e is now $13,986,134 deposited in the post office savings bauk of Canada. Liverpool has a larger fleet of mer¬ chant ships thau any port in the world. The increasing number of Jewish un¬ dergraduates is much remarked at Ox ford.. Nearly all the winter resort hotels in Florida aro conducted by Northern men. Seventy-five nev 1 papers have started and died in New York city k thirty years. TnE New Orleans Exhibition will not be in full running order before Feb^ ruary. The total number of cigars ^produced in the United Stales is 3,000, f .F , ,000 an¬ nually. Troy ice- harvesters expect to take from the Hudson this winter about 135, 000 tons. In Ohio the standard weight of a bush¬ el of ear corn is 68 instead of 70ponndsas formerly. The Maryland Bepresentatives in Congress reside at home, going in and out daily. The Maine rivers have frozen up in unusually good shape, very smooth and very clean. Seven churches were destroyed in the city of Antiquera, Spain, by the recent earthquake. It is estimated that about fifteen thou¬ sand persons are out of employment in St. Louis alone. On a trip that around the San globe Franoisco the oost liest link is from to Yokohama, $250. The Spanish treaty will be greatly modified interests. and chiefly in behalf of our tobacco Twenty years ago the Danes im¬ ported nearly all their sugar. Now they raise it from beets. Thebe are twenty-two retired rear admirals living in Washington and only two commodores. A monument made of cement, has just been buiit oa the spot in Hawaii where Captain Cook fell. A society for the eradication of pro¬ fanity is tho latest moral reform move¬ ment in New York. It is said that no town having a poo nlation of 5,000 or more is now without a rollerskating rink. Harper’s Magazine is sold for eight¬ een cents and the Century at twenty five cents in London. About 2,000 Scotch people oolony are making arrangements to form a in Los Angeles county, Cal. Among the curiosities collected by ihe Alaska Fur Company is a salmon whioh in life weighed 130 pounds. Policemen who serve on the New York force for twenty years are retired on a pension of $600 a year, A man with $100,000 in cash, if at all smart, can go into Wall street and lose the last dollar in four weeks. Too Bright finds A bright but forward boy frequently that his brightness does not save him from punishment for indulging in f oi ward ness, of whioh distressing fact to illustration: forward boys we give the following At one of Sheridan’s din¬ ner-parties, the conversation turned upon the difficulty of satisfactorily de fiaiig Forgetting “wit.” that he was expected to hear, Sheridan see, but say nothing, Master Tom informed the company— “Wit is that which sparkles aud cuts.” "Then, “Very good, Tom,” said his father. cut!’ and as yon have Tom sparkled, yon can poor had to leave his dinner unfinished, and retire to private apartments.