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BRUNSWICK ADVERTISER. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, TIMELY TOPICS. ; has forwarded 2,000 the state --^ratsry of Texas for militia purposes and possible use on the Mexican uumcu. About ope hundred and thirty bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the Schiller, including the Leonhardt family of Augusta, Ga. 1 The Knoxville and Charleston Railroad has been finally disposed ef to Maj Thos. O’Connor & Co., the difficnlties in the way of the pnrchase having been satisfactorily settled. Our national debt is $2,181,000,000 the total of state debts, $890,000,000; county debts, $180,000,000; city and town debts, $570,000,000; total, $8,271, 000,000. The principal object of Vice-President Wilson’s trip to the south at this time is said to be to visit the spot at Austin, Texas, where his only Bon, an officer in the regular army, died. According to a recent report from army headquarters, over 1,700 men have deserted within the last ten months, being a proportion of one in 14. _ A. J. Alexander, of Woodbnrn Farm, Ky., has sold to Mr. Fox, of England, the 24tb Duke of Airdrie and the 20th Duchess of Airdrie at $80,000 for the two. ' Con. Robert M. and Stephen A. Douglass, sons of the late Stephen A. Douglass, receive an award for 1,457 bales of ootton, or about $259,400, seized in the state of Mississippi on the maternal plantation. The terrible fires which have been Sweeping whole districts in Pennsylva nia are attributed to the great drouth, easing from the reckless felling of tim ber, whidh diminishes the rainfall and opens an inviting field for the flames. Spain has settled damages for the slight put upon the Mecklenburg brig Gustav. She managed to scrapd np $17,000 to fork over to the German embassador at Madrid. The flag Btands well, and the Dentsoh goose hangs high pretty much everywhere nowadays. The luxury of calling a lawyer a shy ster in Sfc. Louis is so cheap that no newspaper need practice self denial or eoonomy in this regard. The Republi can has just been assessed one cent damages as cns result of a protracted libel suit. There is a noticeable falling off in the importation pf iron, according to recent commercial statistics. Seven hundred and fifty thousand tons were imported from England alone in 1871. The imports of this year will hardly exoeed one hundred thousand, and this decrease has been gradually effected. Prop. L. H. Jenkins, superintendent of the deaf and dumb asylriRi atnuthe, Kansas, and others, have tested qualities of grasshoppers as an article of food, and pronounce them, after be ing boiled in water to clean them, and fried in bntter, to be qnite palatable, and even good eating, like small fish. Tee girls of Warsaw, Ky., have unan imously resolved to purchase no dry goods costing more than twenty-five cents per yard for the space of one year. Here is a woman’s reform movement which, if carried into effect throughout the entire south, would do more to'cure, the ills of short crops and high rates than any plan we have yet seen sug gested. Tee San Francisco jockey club has a big bonanza for four-mile races, as it offers $80,000 in gold as premiums for a four-mile-and-repeat race, to be ran next November. Of this sum the first horse will receive $15,Q00, the second $6,000, the third $5,000, and the fourth $4,000. Special expenses will be allowed to all horses coming from Europe or east of the Rooky mountains. Cardinal Manning has prevailed up on the Pope to allow English historians to search the private archives of the Vatican for historical information. Hitherto none but ecclesiastics have been allowed to have atcess to these precious manuscripts, Protestants’being hardly able to see a single docnment they could name. The newly obtained privilege is expeoted to yield some highly interesting results. One of the most recent of the sick- THE PARIS MUTUELS. Why They Were Banished from the French Tart. At the recent Longobamps races, the gambleis were out in great force, but were 'were no Paris mutuel machines, as they have been abolished from the course entirely for the second time— thfr flrst by order of tbeemperor and latterly by the republican prefect of police. Cheating had been detected by the police in the working of these machines, and the public bad been nniiiulotl most cgregiously, hence their banishment not only from the course, but to the other side of the boundary lines of France. One way of cheating, it is said, was by altering the numbers in the machine on a particular horse at (he moment of his winning so as to make more tickets sold on that particu lar horse than had been indicated before the start, while another way was by getting in league with the trainers and jockeys, getting them to throw races, and by purchasing all the tickets, or nearly all, on the horse that had to win, the public were not only robbed of all the money they bet on the other horses in the race, but, worse than all, the owners of the race horses were sold and beaten by rascally set of scamps who had thus bought up the jockeys and trainers. Villanies of this kind,. it is FACTS AND FANCIES. —America has imported $100,000' worth bf dog?, mostly pointers and set ters, during tbp.la&t two years. \ —in Oefmapf there are nearly one million more women than men. and wives do not lift the hair of husbands so readily as in countries where the* supply of the sex is more limited. —When a woman is care-laden and heavy-hearted, nothing shakes the me- grans out nrttnkr.r than for a- No woman ean wake np at 2 o’clock in the morning and listen to the oease- lesa crowing of a dozen neighboring roosters without an emotion of thank fulness to a merciful and all-wise Provi dence for denying man both the genins and the inclination to crow. Now it is Queen Victoria who is again threatened vrith assassination.' O’Oon- jK.rj wLOj nCuie time since, made an attempt to shoot her, was found stand ing in the identical spot, the other day, where the former affair took place, ob serving the queen, Of course he was packed off to the insane asylum. Merchants of NewtJTork city com plain that their expenses have been in creased by from $500 to 6,000 in con- sequenoe of the double postage on third class mail matter. The board of trade have appointed a committee to oollect the facts and take measures to obtain a repeal of the law by the next eongresa. ening St. Louis sensations is that whioh tells of the discovery of the putrefy ing body of a small-pox patient in the bottom of a well, from whioh a num ber of families had been getting water for some time. Strange to say, the people did not detect any peculiarity in the taste of the beverage. They will henceforth be proof against the small- pox. - - A toung man left Walla-Walla several weeks since for the purpose of making a general tour of Northern California. Before starting, he solemnly promised his friends to write back all the par ticulars of the oountry. But one letter has been received from him, containing two lineB, which says: “ The girls are all from Boston, and whisky is twenty- five cents a drink.” Dio Lewis declares that he refuses to lease a hotel of his " except on condi tion that wine and brandy are excluded from the cooking.” He is quito right in this. We never see a parcel of men, women and ehildren go reeling and staggering from the dining-room of a hotel where wine and brandy are used in cooking without shedding tears of blood and experiencing emotions of the soul which can be soothed and quelled j only by a Buiiiboa oooktuU or a. glass or two of beer.- Ji'xcfiangc. i The Cheyenne leader evidently lacks confidence in the veracity of Red Olond. It says: •' Prof. Marsh may or may not be as good a'fossil sharp* as he is a jndge of the veracity of an Indian, but he is making himself ridiculous in try ing to impress upon those who will con sent to be so bored by him that Bed Cloud is a truthful, reliable man. We, in Wyoming, know this distinguished Indian to be a treacherous murderer and a treaty-breaker, and a h&rborer of Indian murderers and thieves. reported here, were Dracticed by a cer tain gambler in the United States last year, who was not a worker or owner of the Paris’mutuels, but a great better on races. He bribed the jockeys to throw races, and by this fellow’s tricks many a good horse was beaten when he should have won his races. I mention this faot, as many people over here seem to know something of the manner in which gambling is conducted in America. It is said also by the police here that many of the operators of the Paris mutnel machines in France became owners of race horses themselves, or obtained control of them through bribery, and were thus enabled to defraud the baokers of horses opposed to those in the in terest of the mutuel machines. When this villainy was detected by the police here, the books of the gamblers- were seized, as well sb the cash in hand, and they scattered the villains from their haunts, to find other instruments than 1 the Paris mutuels to do their swindling with. Bnt for, these exposures the Paris mutuels would be still in opera tion, Health and Fashion.—The Science of Health says : Not until we deal con scientiously with nature as we do with tradesmen' shall we, as individuals, be entitled to rewards of merit. We ask for a load of good wood, pay the market price for it, get the worth of our money, and have the satisfaction of warmth from the fire it makes. Suppose the dealer knew we would not pay for it He wonld not be likely to give ful measure of the best quality. The dainty bits of lace, jet ornaments and plumes, rose-buds and velvets, composing a hat, are very becoming to some faces. The dressy hat has a price: it takes money to pay for it.' The little lady wishes to look stylish, pays the price, and is satis fied ana happy until the fashion changes. She desires health mid elasticity of step, buoyancy of spirit. Gould they be'pur- chased at Stewart’s or of Worth mil lions of dollars would roll in to the credit of their bank accounts. Alas, poor child of fashion I Gold cannot bay for you the dewy freshness of a vigorons life. The sunshine and rain drops are gifts. Roses in cheeks, cher ries in color of lips, come from within. The price is servioe, and faithful ser vice, too, under the direction of the most generons and exacting physician, Moth er Nature. Her rewards are sure; her punishments certain. There can be no appeal to a higher court—no amend ments to her divinely-appointed “ con-, stitution.” W»l* you enter a willing j student- ? Are you willing to measure I your life by her rule end compass and ‘ square? “No?” Then there is little hope for you. couple of ladies to stop in front of the bouse loeg enough for her to examine the trimmings on their bonnets. —Lewis remarks that most any wo man can sit down gracefully in a street Car, but not one in a hundred can de scend from the back end of a buggy when the horse is running away, with out feeling that she’s going to overdo the thing. —If properly gathered and preserved beans wuf retain vitality 2 y 0; cab bage, 4; carrot 3; sweet corn, 2; cu- oumberB, 10;‘lettuce, 8; melon, 10j onion, 1; parsnip, 1; peas, 2; radish, 8; squash, 10; tomato, 7; turnips, 4. «• Then you won’t lend me that dime our chimney burns you shan’t come into- the yard and holler.” —The Louisville Courier; Journal, in reply to the pathetio question of & woman, “ How shall I keep my Lhs- band at home in the evening t says it- can be done easily enough by open ing a first class beer garden in the back yard. —The' newest seaside umbrellas are. intended to shelter an entire family, if we are to jndge from the sise. They' are about the dimensions of a “side- show tent ” belonging to a circus, and have a pole ten feet high to stick in the*, sand, and they form a canvas house. —Weston is still walking. The an nouncement calls up once more a feel ing of grateful appreciation of the Swinbumian assurance, “ That no life lives forever; that dead men rise up never; that even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.” —The cure for this sleepless condi tion is simple, although the treatment? must be radical. The first essential is- to abandon the particular class of brain exercise which has induced or attended! upon the difficulty. The next thing is, give up coffee, tea, tobacco, ana all stimulants. To use any form of alcohol in such a case may do suicide. Finally live out of doors, exercise daily till yon are tired out, aha then go to bed u &- quiet, well-aired, cool room. Ir month you will be well, and may go in the old brafo-wearing, destructive way, if you have not learned the lesson- of prudence by suffering.—Hall's Jour nal of Health* s —The people cn the coeet of Corn wall, off which the Schiller was wreck ed, have long had a bad reputation as wreckers. When a ship was seen off the rooks, on a Sunday, the minister wonld give them a holiday. One of their principal men. several years ago, was charged with having tied up the leg of an ass, hung a lantern round its neok, and driven it by night along the cliffs, so that its halting motion would) imitate the plunging of a vessel under sail, and thus fetnpt ships to ran in. where they would suppose was sea- room, and drive them to destruction.. The inhabitants areas inhospitable ae- their rocks. ■ —After reading Sherman’s book and the violent comments upon it, 'one might suppose that all military achieve ments are mere matters of accident, ana time no particular person is enti tled to any great amount of credit for winning a battle. Ton Moltke himself is Baid to have been a little surprised at the victories won by the Germans. Who knows but the good time is dose at hand when the rnmiary hero ia to be politely conducted to the back seat reserved for him by an improved civili zation? A Word in Season.—Health is a blessing, which comparatively few en* oy in au its fullness. Those endowed' >y nature with robust frames and vig orons constitutions should be careful cot to trifle with them. When we enter the seasons of period- {fevers, the increased heat ef the snn levelops a. miasma whioh pervades the air. The evil is inextinguishable; our duty to guard againBt it is imperative I Fortunately for those whose lot is cast in low marshy districts or new olear- ings, nature provides a cure and pre ventive. Dr. Walker’s California Vine gar Bitters are endowed with rare pro- phytactic or disease-preventing po were, and as “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” should be taken in the foil vigor of health, so as to fortity the system against the assault • summer disease, and thus seonre by their life-givinf atives, and ant against atmospheric poison. icnihg, restor es, a defense