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It coqm from • c’<«« where the ros. s wni,
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Soft on of azure, and eyes of brown,
*M enow-white foreheads are there,
A glimmering cross and s guttering crown,
A thorny bed snd a conch of down. *
Lost hosts and leaflets of prayer. , , ^
A rosy leaf and a dimpled band,
A ting and a plighted tow ;
Three golden rugs on a broken band,
A tiny track on tbe snow-white stud,
A tear «sd a stngees brow.
There’s a tincture of grief in tbe bcantifnl ecsg
That sobs on tbe summer air;
And loneliness, felt in tbe festive throng,
Sinks down In tbe soul as it treinbles along
From a clime where tbe rcBes are.
We beard it first at tbe dawn of day,
And it mingles with matin chimes;
But yeais have d stanced tbe beautiful lay,
And its melody flowtth to swittly away,
That we call it now. « Old Times.”
. BLOOD TRANSFUSION.
The Remarkable Case of Gen. Blair,
The transfusion of healthy blood into
the veins of Gen Frank P. Blair—long
lying in a critical condition, and finding
no relief from other treatment—has
undoubtedly been followed by great,
even if temporary, relief. At the first
operation an ounce and a half was
transferred, and at the second a little
less than four ounces, the patient re
maining almost insensible, and ap
parently unconscious. At the third,
and so far, the last attempt, five ounces
of fresh blood were successfully trans
ferred, and the patient was so far recov
ered as to watch the operation with
great interest, to articulate a few words
lor the first time in many days, and to
move a paralytic arm that bad been
helpless for weeks. Shortly after, he
fell into a refreshing slumber, since
•which no account of his condition has
been received,
Encouraging a<* these symptoms seem,
too much must not be hoped from them.
It unfortunately the record of the earlier
experiments of this class that the first
flattering improvement in the patient’s
health was too often followed by a
speedy and fatal relapse. Few novelties
in therapeutics have created so much
excitement in their day as this very one,
and yet it is so ancient that its origin
can not be determined. It is commonly
supposed that a passage in Ovid refers
to the operation, and certainly it was
described in fall by Libavias as early
as 1615. At one time excitement fairly
ran riot over it, and the belief was
common among tbe profession that
some changes in the modus operandi
would result in making it the fountain
of perpetual life.
Bat the fever passed away from the
fact that those operated upon wonld in
considerately insist upon dying instead
of getting well, and, finally, public
opinion passed fron one extreme to the
other. Upon the death of Baron Bond,
of Sweeden, nnder the operation, the
French Parliament came down upon the
practice with a prohibition nnder heavy
penalties; and a few years later, the
pope, rarely bebing hand with prohibi
tions where science is concerned, fulmi
nated an edict proscribing any attempts
of the kind.
Thus presented, of course the practice
lived, and lived to become something
reliable, and very nsefnl in its limited
way. Along in the early part of this
century Dr. Blundell discovered to what
uses the operation could advantageously
be put, what were prerequisite to its
success, and what incidents were dan
gerous. One of bis most important
discoveries wan that the transfusion was
most likely to be snccessfnl where the
corpuscles of the two bloods mingled
were of equal or nearly equal size; and
that it was certain to be fatal if they
were of different kinds, as, for instance,
between birds and quadrupeds. He
limited its main uses, also, to such cases
as where death was threatened through
excessive loss of blood from any cause,
surgical or otherwise, finding that the!
vitality was much less tried by the trans
fusion than by the task of making new
blood for itself.
Since these experiments of Dr. Blun
dell there have been no material ad
vances in the art except the improve
ment of instruments with a view to the
exclusion of air and the maintenance of
an equitable temperature. Of late,
however, there seems to have beep a
revival in the hospitals of the belief
that a larger domain lightly belonged
to the practice if truly pursued; and of
this later awakening the Blair case is
one of the first importance. The re
sults will be awaited with great inter
est, not only by the friends of the pa-
.tieiriL tat fytfioie dbneeraed in the
beating of the case upon the world at
Ulfeei— CincinnaUi Times. ■
i i obasbhqppbb stoby.
The Misfortunes of • Ksnut Woman
Who Pat a Panful of Dirt under the
Biots.
A gentleman who has just returned
from Chen kee county, Eaasas, Is full
with remarkable reminiscenoes of the
grasshoppers infesting that vicinity,
.e will stand around for an hour, re-
mammsmsem j =m
Politico-Economical Problems of the
Dap*
At a meeting of ¥faie American Social
Science Association in Detroit, last
week, Hon. David A. Wells was intro
duced and delivered an address on the
general subject of social soienee, and
especially on the relations of ospital
and labor, and of tbe mutual duties of
society and tbe laboring classes. He
started with the proposition that never
before to=4#y has man bees able to pro.
msSe
citing the hair breadth 'scapes of the J dnee «« mneh with a given amount of
people whom the hoppers have com- power. To illustrate this he adduced
pletely overran, and who are leaving the fact that by tbe construction of the
their horaeB and fleeing from tbe fearful
scourge. The traveler is inclined to
think that many of the crimes attrib
uted to the James boys are to be traced
to the more hardened and dissolute
grasshoppers, many of whom, he says,
are arming with shot guns and organiz
ing a sort of home guard for offensive
and defensive purposes.
One of his most credible stories is to
the effect that, a few weeks ago, a wo
man dug np a panful of dirt in which
to plant some flower seed. She put the
pan under the stove, and went ont to
see a neighbor. Upon her return, after
an hour’s absence, she found seven
thousand bnshels of grasshoppers gen
erated by the heat, literally eating her
ont of house and home. They first at
tacked tbe green shades on the windows,
and then a green-painted dust-pan. A
green Dish servant girl, asleep in one
of the rooms, was the next victim, and
not a vestige of her was left The stove
and stove-pipe followed, and then the
house was torn down so they conld get
at the chimney. Boards, joists, beams,
plastering, clothing, nails, hinges, door
knobs, plates, tin-ware, everything, in
fact, the house contained, was eaten up.
and when she arrived within a mile of
the place, she saw two of the largest
hoppers sitting'np on end and playing
mumble-peg with a carving knife, for
which should have the cellar.
The way the matter leaked out was on
a suit brought against the insurance
company, which refused to pay the poli
cy on the ground that the building sms
not destroyed by lire; bat the court
rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, as
she had proven that the grasshoppers
were generated by fire in the stove.
Ghufa, or Ground Almonds.
Ihis article, introduced into this
country by the United States agricul
tural bureau in 1857, was cultivated to
some extent in the southwestern portion
of this state, Alabama, and Mississippi
before the war, is now receiving con
siderable attention in upper Georgia,
and there is a growing demand for the
same. I have planted it in Florida,
and my experience is, that there is no
article that is planted in Georgia that
iB so valuable for hogs or poultry.
Land that will bring five bnshels of
corn to the acre, will bring fifty bushels
of chnfas, and for feeding purposes it
iB worth twice as mneb. The flavor of
poultry fattened upon it is very supe
rior. It makes a bay which horses pre
fer to the best timothy. I think it can
be ent once without detriment to the
growth of the tubers. I have inquired
at the seed stores in Atlanta, and can
find none for sale. I wonld advise
every farmer to give them a trial, and
parties having them for sale would do
well to send some lo this market.
Sandy loam is best suited to teem, and,
if jou intend to gather them, the land
should be free from pebbles. On good
land they will produce two hundred
bnshels to the acre. The best mode of
gathering them, after you, have saved
seed, is to turn your hogs m the field.
They are easier gathered than ground
nuts, as they stick to the vines.—Cbr.
Georgia Orange.
Animal and Vegetable Contrasts.
AX ANIMAL I A VEGETABLE
la an apparatus of eom-!Mn apparel ns of retluc-
bmtlnn and oxidation.I tlon or deoxidation.
Possesses tbe power orjisUxed,
by statute that all men shall be bom
with an equal physical and mental ca
pacity for production.
Mr. Wells proceeded at considerable
length to apply tbe division principle
to American productions and acquisi
tions, and, to show tbe absurdity and
impracticability of it, he said it is prop
er and right for the workman of the
United States to demand sad strive, if
he will, for the largest possible share
of the joint produots of labor and cap
ital, for it is the natural right of every
one to seek to obtian the largest price
for that which he has to sell; but if, in
so doing he restricts production, and
so diminishes abundance, he does it at
his peril; for, by a law far above any
legislative control or influence, what
ever increases soarcity not only in
creases the necessity, but diminishes
the rewards of labor.
toeoittutluii.
Burns csrbon.
“ hydrogen.
« unmonlum.
Exbales or glTes off car
bonic acid.
Exhales water.
Exhales oxide or ammo-
ilium* v
Exhales axote.
Consumes oxygen.
Consumes neutral aso-
tlzed matter.
Consumes fatty matter*.
Consumes amylaceous
matters,
gum and sugar,
Produces beat.
Produces electricity.
Restore* its dements to
air and earth.
Transforms organized!
into mineral matters. 1
KeilucsR earlnm.
“ hydrogen.
“ ammonium.
Fixes carbonic acid.
Fixes water.
Fixes oxide of ammoni
um, .
Fixes azote.
Produces oxygen.
Produces neutral axotized
mitten.
Produces fatty matters.
Produce* amylaceous mat-
tC jium and sugar.
Absorbs beat.
Abstracts electricity.
Derives its elements from
air and earth,
rraaaforms mineral into
organised matters.
A St. Louts Family Extinct by the
Loss or the ScmiiLSB.—The loss of
the steamer Schiller off the Soilly Isles,
in the English channel, has brought
mourning into many families of two
continents. Among the two hundred
passengers reported drowned were
seven or eight from St. Lous. Mrs.
Ridgeway and her two little grandchil
dren and her son-in-law, Mr. 0. W.
Walter, were on board, and are believed
to be among the lost Mrs. Ridgeway
was well known in this city* where her
husband was engaged in business many
years; he died about five years ago.
Within a period of eight months Dus.
Ridgeway saw her . husband and two
daughters pass away, and now she and
Suez canal, the time of a vessel’s pas
sage from England to Oaloutta has been
reduced from 110 or 120 days to 80
days. And this preponderance of mind
over matter is becoming more notable,
every year showing new and valuable
additions to the list of inventions. Tbe
fields of science and art are still open
to the inventor, bat with the advanoe
of'science came necessarily a cheapen
ing of the productions of labor. What
was formerly a luxury oomes to be a
necessity, and former extravagance is
becoming frugality. Where this cheap
ening process will stop is an interesting
matter for speculation.
The speaker then examined the pro
gressive stage of society as regards the
possesion of property. The poorer
olasses are gradually but surely learn
ing the motto, “every man for himself
and the devil take the hindmost,”
and are determined that the devil
of civilization shall not capture
them. If it does, they may, like
the Communists of Paris, draw down
the whole fabric of society into
one common vortex of destruction.
The wealthy perceive this spirit, and,
from this perception, coupled with, the
efforts ana demands of the poorer ones,
schools, hospitals, chnrohes, sanitary
and social reforme sprang. Antagon
ism, however originated strikes, trades
anions and organizations of that class.
A vagabond repays the society whioh
compels or assists him to his vagabond
age by founding a linj of paupers, pros
titutes, lunatics and drnnkardo. Society
sees this, too, and meets the case by
all the means in her power. The idea
that the men who talk of social science
in onr day are hermits, full of book
learning bnt devoid of experience and
actual knowledge of the evils they would
set right, is a mistake. To show the
absurdity of this belief, the speaker ad
duced statistics and statements to prove
that by following out the teachings of
social science mortality can be much
reduced. The province of the social
Bcienoe reformer is to study statistics,
compare results and draw indubitable
conclusions; and for this work soeiety
owes him a neater debt than it owes
the successful financier or statesman.
The teachings of som j European re
formers, that property is theft, seem
absurd in America. Law cannot reg
ulate the acquisition and division of {■applied," thus mailing onr personal n>
As well attempt to provide menolature worse than meaningless.
* “A man with the name of George or
Thomas,’’Leigh Hunt observes, “might
as well, to dll understood purposes, be
called spoon or hatband ” Blanche is
now anything but the flaxen-haired
blonde which tar name indicates. Isa-
A Blunder of American Turfmen.
Tiia immm wiiiir nfliiHs mimi,
erican turfmen are paying too much
rd to time and not enongh to the
tyofthe horse to eariy weights,
thinks the weights ought to be raised.
sskft? “Are-wemjfcfcifcwmSa-i tiniii
fatuus in the matter of time? Do we
not- give too much importance to the
fact of running a mile, Jess or mere, as
the ease may be, in just so many minutes
or seconds ? Do not breeders, knowing
ill horsT^Wl^^KymcS^fterSibh'to
the breeding of horses likely to run fast
than they do to the prodnotion of hones
able to carry- weight and to go a dis
tance ? Is not a horse that is able to
from 120 to 110 pounds, say a
e in 1:50 or two miles in 8:15, la
tely better than a horse that, with
U0 pounds np, will ran a mile in 1:45 f
a any relianoe be placed on a horse
it is bred entirely for speed ?
Owners and breeders must be con
vinced that nature intended horses to
bo something else besides racing ma
chines. The country is rapidly accu
mulating a class of horses that when
unable to ran are only fit for the knack
er-yard. No one will breed from them,
by reason of bad legs, broken wind or
other diseases that even the best horses
are heir to. Were they the reverse of
this their servioes as stallions all over
the country would be invaluable.
The World adds: “What is wanted
is a convention of breeders and owneis
from all parts of the country who, in
deliberate debate, conld exchange ideas
that wonld be productive of many re
forms, and as a body frame a code of
rales suitable for the whole country,
protective to one and all alike. The
initiative step for this, if made by the
American Jockey Olnb, would at onee
insure.its success.”
Nothing in a Name.
A writer says: All names were origi
nally significant, and were always be
stowed by tbe ancients with regard to
their well understood meaning. Some
times they were commemorative of
some inoident or circumstance connected
with the birth of the individual bearing
them: as, Thomas, a twin; Maius, May
applied to one born in that month);
ieptimns, the seventh, eto. In ether
oases they were expressive of the aspi
rations, desires, or nopss of the parents;
as, Victor, one who conquers.; Felix,
happy; Benedict, blessed. Not unfre-
qnently they were descriptive of per
sonal qualities, as Macros, tall; Pyr
rhus, raddy;Rnfus, red haired. Names
are as significant now as they were in
the days of Plato, and as important, bnt
are frequently ignorantly or carelessly
bel is no longer brown, Cecilia (gray-
'lets
eyes
of
eyed) belies tar name, and
the arrows of love” from
heavenly bine.
The Georgia Gold Mines.—Gold
mining in north Georgia presents just
now a very hopeful appearanoe. The
completed mills are running with satis
factory results, and the building of
and 1 a^Eaffc will soon be sunk in the
Lawrenoe mine to a depth never before
reached in a Geoigia mine. There is
plenty of gold-bearing quartz lu the
hills about Pahlonege, and the »ee
who are delving for •*- mmw wiu net be
foiled by ordinary obstacles. They
have means and plenty of perseverance.
—The Mecklenburg declaration of in
dependence might never have immor
talized North Carolina if it hadn’t been
for the unflinching love of matrimony
shown by tbe ladies of the tar-heel
state. The royal governors allowed
the county clerks to charge $15 for m
marriage license; this extortion op
erated as s damper on the ardor of the
swains, but roused ftithe female breast
the vengeanoe which blood alone can
quell. Independence was the inevit
able result.—Chicago Tribune. _