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About The Cherokee advance. (Canton, Ga.) 1880-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1881)
CHEROKEE ADVANCE CANTON, GEORGIA N(Vt ILEMINIS. A Mormon ha^ married a Methodia lady it Falkville, Ala. Backaua, Tennessee, is to liavc a cotton factory. The total income tax assessed in Vir ginia for 1880, was 88,322,400. Over 80,000 pounds of tomatoes hare .barn shipped from Chattanooga during the season. Montgomery, Alabama, has un arte sian well that discharges 25,000 gallons af pnre drinking water every day. An oak tree on the Feyser fHrm. I’nge connty, Va., is lwenty:two feet in cir on inference. The death rate in July in Ch*t- tanooga, from a basis of 17,000 popula tion, waa only a little over 18 per cent. per thousand. llobert Thomas, a colored man of Cocke county, Tennessee, has liought the Car son farm of 305 acres, near I land ridge for f8,315. Jeffrrson’s 'old clock at Montlcello Is being repaired. It Is n remarkable time piece on a grand scale, and a splendid pleee of mechanism, A Miaslasippiun by the name of Darl ing T. Dear, has died at West Enter prise. Wonder if the "I\” stands for IVt? ' The CounawhateUJe swamp in Hamil ton, county is .drying up rapidly, and quantities .of fish are being devoured by the buzzards. •bihn (lulbert, of Etowah, hat lost t^rce wives, being married thirty-six yenrs, has buried twenty-two children, has lost one arm and thirty horses, apd is but fifty years old. In the death of Colonel Randolph L Mott, of Columbus, (la., the Macon Volunteers hist the last of the orlginrl and charter member*. The company was organised April 23, 1825. Cork tree* am being successfully raised ih Georgia. The cork on some of them is Already thick enough for uae. It Is slippered these trees can be successfully raised “In m<^t of the Southern States. Apalachicola, Florida, has a popula tion of over 2,000 souls, forty or fifty vessel* engsgrd in the sponge and fishing trades, and five large mills, with a ca parity of over 250,000 fret of lumber |ier day. Coal oil baa been discovered near May- HoUtStr, Arkansas, and two local com pan- Ma have been formed, who are leasing *8 Ih land In the neighborhood. I’roe- '|miln and speculators are flocking in hf peg numbers. John Has well, colored, formerly State tlMalnr In Florida, and n prominent candidate for Congreta from that State, to w*w -working out a sentance for dis- "i orderly eunduct in the street-gang of Galveston. A MM declaring a wife a competent ■wHnme against her husband, where he roMHlttsaa assault upouber, baepassed th*’Georgia Hemite. Likewise, one to dmke-it a miadememoor to carry intoxi i« entlnfreMitik* to any .public gathering lr 9*dfcihgis Red* ter says “the House WaU A Imnd over W0 bilks, or euough, if MAkrlshedt Were detached and pasted together, to enctrai* the city of Atlan ta, whUk is piue mile* in circumference. *• «* •uutnmut in sight, even with a fir* yd^x. te luttvpc.” Tim farmer* in (south tie- gin suffer ao much front wateruudon thieves that they poiaon fine melon* frequently to catch the thieve*. A few night* »ince a party of yuttug men of the l>e*t famllie* of Decatur county were out late at night and took a melon front a neighbor’s patch. All were desperately sick am) one has diet). One of the finest light-hoiise* In the world ia being erected at Cape Henry, In Chempeake Bay, It measures from twp te baas 156 feet; diamelur at the hnto, thirty feet; at the top, 16 feet. It baa six stories, and above tltere i* a serv ice room, wstch-rooiu and lantern-room. It ia eemtructed of east-iron, and the interior is sheet-iron. The light room is a circular steel frame, twelve feet in diameter and nine feet high. The glass used for the chimneys will be of French glass,. 11 ' A negro boy Jiving in Chatlottsvilie, Virginia, fell from a tree about six weeks ago upon a sbarpstake, which penetrated hi* liver. A portion of the organ pro truded from the wound. Dr, William G. Kapurs attended the case. Ho clipped off a piece of tiie torn and protruding Uvqr nlsmt the size of a marble and sewed up the orifice. He expected the boy would die, but be got hetier from the first and is now running nbout as usual. TOUGH OF IBB PAT. Ocithau k anxious to ba admitted to Tire Grange idea has just reached Brazil. pROHiamox waa overwhelmingly de feated in North Carolina. •Tim Kbbnb, the great speculator, ia not in good standing in. London, report •ays. - •— ...... Thkrb ate 60$ men In New Yc/k worth $3,000,000 attd over. W* hold that tliey are luekj, Tn President h now anxious to try bia legs, bnt Ma back ia a little bit too ■ore for that Tnx yield of wheat in Indiana ia esti mated at 24,000,000 bushel* agsmst 47,- 000,000 bushels for 1880. •Md be. Paged Garfield would die. Mor- «»*>n, at thn time, was flourishing a re- volver in protection of hi. right te hia news. spot wnere Ueu. McPbervon fell trilied aa a small —rlninni toU n musket harreliTeapEd with i sad covers a little glade in the It has been decided by a Pittsburg Judge that insanity ia uot suffioi. nt grounds for divorce. Mar Ideaaiugs flow profusely upon the beads of oorresitntidenU who have ceased to dilate upon the lunatic Utiitaao. A TnonpiToimnau Indian lias I icon appointed a clerk - in the Indian office, and “ things ia a workin'." Mr. (4. Himti refuses to ride ou Uie •era. He thinks they want tu got him where they con break hia nook. Ex-Mikimtkh Uhhistianut has |>sid to Mrs. Christiauoy and counsel so far, for alimony and counsel fees, over 124,000. Tim real and personal property lu the United Htatns ia valued #70,000,000,000. It don't look like very much ou Jtaper. Hour time ago Senator Ben Hill had a cancer out from his tongue, since which Mine he has been unable to talk. Tax anti-treating law in Wisconsin ia • dead letter. The people—that ia, th# drinkers—drink together junk aa they always did. Canada ia not accused of ataaling, but at the asme time tho PnetofRoe De ment thinks they like to uae our mall bags np there mighty well, A Hr. Louts Feaian has a plan for •ending up balloon* and dropping down torpedoes on the hated Bason, as a of “freeing Ireland." Tnx bullet in the President's body has Ixwm located by the aid of Boll's electric machine, bnt for tho psesent the doctors will let ik remain where it ia. 1 Some Definitions. Osoof Thackeray’s daughters has just E blished a little book aliont her friend, •a Evans, in which site prints some delightful definitions made by that lady. Home of these are ay follow: “A privileged person—Oae who it so much a savage when thwarted that civil ised persons avoid thwarting him.’’ “A liberal-minded man—One whodia- ' duins to. prefer right to wrong.” "Badiuals—Muu who maintain tho uop^oeed right of each of us to help ruin “Liberals—Men who Hatter Radi cals.” ‘ ‘Conservative#—Men who give way to Hndieata.’’ “A domeatio Woman—A woman like a d* douses tic." .“Humor—Thinking in fun while we feel in earnest. ” “A musical woman—Ope who has atetmgtta enough to make much noise, and obtuseness enough not to mind it." A man’s good breeding is the best security against other people’* ill-man- *en. Thn Paris of America is called Gin. oinhotter by the Loniaville Courier- Journal, Wattarson refers to excessive warmth. He is familiar with the topie. Lawton B. Evans, of Atlanta, eigh teen years of age, is the youngest Mo*ter of Arts in the country. He reoeived the degree from the Htste University at Athena. A man peak on one of the mountains opposite Cornwallis, Mon., fgll with a terrific crash the other day, thousands of (•ma of rocks being hurled iuto the val ley beueath. Thk Philadelphia Herald Bays if you will catch a few flies and stick them in the butter you can imagine yourself at a seaside resort. The Philadelphia Her ald is a (isendologiat. Tire Ute Indians will be removed to their uow reservation aliout the lat of Beptemlier. They oouaiat of Uuoom- poglire, Uintah and Wlute River ludiaua. mini boring iu all about 2,700. Tub Steubenville HcraU, a litUe folio paper containing only twelve columns to thepnge, ia*eveM*y-frre years old. Imre- markable vigor may he attributed to tost risiMe genius, W. Lamp toe, whore “mixed drinks’’ have been Known to intoaioate wbfla familire at one kitting. T«x spot Where (Jen. McPherson fall to described re n small to with •posra, forest, two and a half miles from Atlanta. From a granite 1mm ia Mm motor a thirty two pound oannoo rises in the air, ita square out fare rounded by a •bell held in the mouth, A woman Iwlonging to ithTacfll called Perfectionists undertook to run herself to death at Dallas, Texas, She get the idea from the Hcrtpttml pass^i about “running the race totheeafl,” that if she ran till site died she would go direct to heaven. Hhe could not kill herself by |M>deatrianlam, however, and resorted to drowning instead. MiHHisHirri County, Missouri, is the great watermelon region of the world. Over 4,000 seres ate this year devoted to watermelons ah me, and the yield is about a oar land aa sore, so that 4,000 car-loads will be shipped to Hi Louis, Cincinnati. Detroit and, Indiana. Con- tract* have been made with many farms at $110 a oar. The general pnoca run from gOO to $106 a oar during the aeawm. Tiik hotainopathic physicians of Wash ington City are endeavoring to establish a hommopathic hospital there, There 7,0(81 tinnuDOpattiio physician* in the United HLutes, and the school maintains eleven colleges, thirty-eight hospitals, twenty dispensaries, sixteen journals, 105 local societies, twenty-three Htste societies, and one national society. There are thirty homoeopathic physicians in Washington. ooi tftro Bt lAtstoM ’ifcaasiL** Rcr *rm oak saw tn all «M ah*4s _ Ot artaklsl I ad I. la*, t hair’s las Hart aak risky, onaaat k«ry l< m| l Mins MoNTAnrra, Fnrimugh'sten-thtms- and-dollar beauty, get sack, and m ahs had to bo left behind, and it wouldn't do to be without a tuu-thouaopd-dollar beauty, n Mis* Josic Hntlterland was em ployed to qnooaed her. Miss Montagu# now lues Forpsugh for tbn $10,000 which, the surrounding circumstance* would inakn it apjiear, she never got. On with the music, and let these things all comn out. Mr. Hhnby VitibAUD predict* tjiat the Nortliorti Pacific Railroad will lie com pleted within two your*. lie also states that the Oregon Transcontinental Com pany, which contra's the Northern Pa cific and Oregon Railway and Naviga tion Companies, will probably build 800 miles of tributary railway east of the Rocky Mountains and will have 2,000 miles of tributary roods completed by the timo tho traiis-oontineutal line is open, and that tho entire system will embrace about 0,000 miles of railway, Dcrino the past ynar over taro hun dred men nttd women have emigrated from Georgia to Utah, converts to the Mormon faith. Heveral Mormon oburohos flourish in Haralaou and adjoin ing counties of the State. A bill has Iwen introduced ill the Georgia Legit laturo to auppress Mormoniain in Georgia, It providea that any person oouvicted of touching such principals or endeavoring to deooy emigrants to Utah, shall Ite fined not exceeding $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the Court. Tire Uusniau Jews are crossing the German frontier in considerable num bers, intending to form settlements in Amerioa. No obstacle ia offered to their departure by the Government. Thu white womsu in Ohio who re- eoutly married Wah Sing, a Chinese inuudryman, has eloped with a white man. Hhe got enough of the cheap laltor business in a pretty big hurry. In onb of his veries, Oscar Wilde, the ansthetio poet, alludes to “ the Itarren memory of nnkissed kisses.” Au nn- kissed kiss probably is the tmrraoest thing within the range of human experi ence. Ecnora will not want much bread- stnffa this year, and white the farmers may uot be particularly pleased with this news, the poor man may laugh in liia sleeve. Our granaries will not be overstocked from present indications. An kxohanok says " it is much safer to fight a duel in Europe than it is to call a man a liar in Kentucky," and we may add, the mau who doe* uot beiiovo it had bettor try it, but fight tho duel first to lie sure you will experieuoe l>oth. Cutun’O. A. Coox, of IlrouruHville, Ohio, made himself groat by slapping George Morrison in the mouth for hop ing the President would diq. The way the cent subscription* are pouring in upon him, he will lie aide to buy him self a farm. A French newspaper tolls a pretty tough story. A millionaire who lost all of a large fortune hut 100,000 franca, died of grief in twenty-fonr hours. Hia brother and sole heir died of joy on the ■Udden receipt of what he considered so large ■ fortune. Latent report* stato that Jay Gould vpwus 7,000 miles of railroad valued at $140,000,000. Ho acorns to bo getting the bulge on us. If King Knlskr.ua was smart now he would cultivate Gould's acquaintance. He could buy np hia do minion and not mis* the money. O. A. Cook, Brownvilto, Licking County, Ohio, is the address of the man who was linJd *10 and cost* ($32) for slapping a man uamed Jforri*ou who Tub New York Jferald publishes a letter from Leo Hartmann, the Russiau Nihilist, iu which he details at great length the story of hi* ovq attempt to assassinate the Czar by blowing up a train of cars, and in which he rehearses the story of tho other attempts Oil the Osar’s life. The lottor give* few find- not already known to the public, and is, all iu all, aliout such a diatrilie aa Gui- toau would write, should he he given an opportunity to attempt to jnatify his at tack ou President Garfield. Hartmann seem* to be a fellow of about Guiteau'* calilier, and ho boast* of nis exploit* in assassination in tho same irrelevant and idiotic way. Tiicrv ia a farmer named John Kioh- oltz, living in ftalotn Township, Clum- paign County, Ohio, who i* said to have 45,000 bushels of wheat stored away in granaries. lie is holding this wheat for $3 per bushel. Last year he predicted that tltere would be a total failure of the wheat this year, uud therefore did not row auv. so as to be able to market hi* wheat without interruption when the rise canto. He uow admits that he was wrong in Ilia prediction, but ho insist* that Ite will yut get 83 for his wheat. It ia said that when wheat Bold ut $3 a bushel Home veart ago he had on hand from 12,- 1881 to 15,000 bushels, thn accumulations of ton years, from which he realised front $35,000 to $40,000. A great many would discredit thi* story wore it not for the fact that Mr. Eiohulta is M an Ohio man." Rework far Lari Fupsrtj. One P. lost a diamond pin and pub lished in a city paper the following no tice : “Lost, $25 reward—A pin. The finder will be paid the above reward by leaving the same at this office." The pin waa found by 0., who demanded the reward, which waa re fused. P. (hen demanded the return of the pin, and, on being refused, brought action in replevin for recovery. Held that the finder, according to the com mon law, baoomea the proprietor in oaae the In* owner does not appear, and meantime his right aa finder Is a perfect right against aU others. And he is en titled to reeeupenaa fitam Ahs owner tor hia oars and eapsare in f.ta keeping and prreervation; bnt hia status aa finder onlv does not give him a lien. Tet, if such owner offers a reward to him who will rMtore thr property, a lien theroon ia thereby created to the extent of the reward so sffered.—Wood va. Pierson, Supreme Oeeui, Nelrsoka. “ In what condition was the patriarch Job ut the end of his life?” asked a Sun day school teaohor of a quiet-looking l)oy at the foot of the class. “Dead, calmly replied the boy. I. ■K Bui, ofc' aWa *»rh • eawfurtt riftffrtfl Um nW« Or Is tto (raw, pis? miD. II I ssi Mirsrrr, Ohs (ska* svti is* sals, Ask wlwa t'w (■*. A MM iWU* si) nk* sm «(»i*. I l*H b*r ctarasmi Mnim. Wh*n vWl* la h*4 M sMbtl As* I *SH > Mlsd IS* to) *» (IV It's 'm-to M (R»l ss alflt. I ksra tsaib«r Ssrllsa _ A Iwilllt-TWilli UnM*-> •awssir 1 *** Uni lA- *<*n Isn II* MU* I Nk« rss'l ,!*> la Ik* din i Nor w-t, Bar ■Syiluns. hr tor Is In* eh*to* msT b* bsrt. t btt my Milk •-*« iff, But, If I Mil Ito truth, . ((•■in* rim*-, ssd kt ms vhlssfr It), I In** my (nctnin Bulk, Bm-sum to* (UN »S»ra I MS Ik** smylkts* I d*| I tor* h*r 'msm »ti»*s ntry hs Nn* tall Mr, as 'IlMs’l fliuf lIMMfif flfiMfrif. Tt was one of tMnff^srin, bright spring days when little children are frisky as young lamlra, and those 6f larger growth feel the confluamrut of the sehotg-rtKiu irksome. The Mountain# high school was nmler the bast of discipline, but on this particular day the moral atmosphere seemed surcharged with clecMehff. 1 The scholars were restless anti their Mfil iationa im|N>rfret. The profarecr biai- aelf was like a bottle of new wine, ready to explodu at the slightest disturbance The rhetoric olaas, composed of half-a- dozen young girts, waa usually tractable enough: but to-day their miuda were wandering off ia fee fields among the 10 “Young ladies,” said the profewor, "I think I never hail a rhetoric dare Iwfore repabla of doing e* well, that did so poorly. You ought to be ashamed of Jour standing UiU mouth.’’ "I don't am the gaud of rhetoric, int- wgy, and it’s an awfully dry, hard study, said otto. "Tou will remember, Mias Huphy, that your dare took up thie study this term by your own request I warned you that atndying Ulair'a Rhetoric waa uo child's play. But having undertaken it, I insist that ydu must do your best. If yon are not nmre studious I must re port you to jour parents." “Better not report are," said Clara Williams, iu a low voice, qpt meant to roach her teacher's ear, butit dfd. "Haticy girl," Raid he, angrily, “you may leave the etas* and go homo. I will ace yon father this evening. My priiotioo is unite exhausted. * Clara hastily left the olaas and walked home aa fast aa she could decorously. Hhe entered the house and readied her own room without being seen. (Are waa augrv when she left the dare, and her rapid walk bad not cooled bar tsmimr. Hhe threw heaadf upon the couch iu a flood of tears. “He bad no right to apeak to me in that way,” she aaid, “and it will lie mean in him to resort me to pa pa. Poor papqf He haa trouble enough about Rob. uflPtootRearing bad report* of me; and mamma said I must Ite a comfort to pare (another buret of tears). Oh, what shall I do? I wish I hadn't flared nn ao—I’m always doing it; and papa will lie ao angry! If I hail only thought a moment! Oh, dear, I wish mamma had lived (mow tears! What •ball I do? Poor papa! I wish I hadn't spoken, Ob, dear—that Uatefnl profes sor- what stintl I do?* and plenty more of the same kind,' which at W- culmin ated in this: “I'll go and toll grandma-” Bo down to the dear grandma's room the went, and told her all about it "Poor child,” said the 'old lady, "maybe he won’t omne, after all." “Buthe will, grandma,” aaid Clara. "He isn't a man u> aay one thing and do another; and papa u in euch trouble about Rob. Ob, I'm ao sorry I spoke.” "Poor, dear Rob,” said grandma “I don't lielicvc a word about hia doing wrong; it isn't like him; the president ia too hard upon him." “liutwIiHt can I do, grandma?" "I >car child, nmylx> you had Irettcr sec the profr.-si.r, and toll him you aro sorry." ‘‘But I slinn't have a chance. Oh, there he comas up tire walk this minute, and Ann will show him right into the li brary whore papa is—oh, dear!" "Well, deu», I'll ace what I can do. Perhaps I can manage ao you can see him. I think he is a gentleman, and will lie considers te. Is Mike at work in the « n, dear?" and grandma hurried out he ynrd where Clara saw her the next moment in oousultation with the gardener. Meanwhile Profeasor Maey was not in the mint plneid frame of mind. Esquire Williams whs the rich mau of tlie place, of high social |io*itioii, and chairman of the Ixwird of education. It was not an agree able task, certainly, that he bad imposed upon himself—the oomplaioing to such a man of his only daughter's doings. The professor nlmont rc|xmtcd Ills hasty wonla; but they had gone forth, and who should disannul them? Ho he climb ed the stone stops of the Williams' man sion and rang the bell, oonscious of sen sations simitar to those lie bad ex|ier- ienoed when going to the dentist’s with an aching tireth. 'Squire Williams received him cordi ally, and very naturally inquired after tho welfare of the school. The professor replied to his questions to the effect that all tilings wore moving on smoothly. "Rut," saiil lie, “I have como to yon, sir, uponn very uuplensant errand.” Jnst at this point Fred, the small boy of the family, rushed in like a hurricane, ex claiming, “Papa, grandma, wants you out iu th" garden this minute; it's very ; «i|x>rtant.” “Excuse me a moment, professor,” said the 'Squire, “while I set this boy an example of filial obedienoe." As he left the room by one door Clara entered by another, and with a face all bathed with blushes and tears, ex claimed: "Oh, Professor Mary, I am so sorry I sjvikc as I did this afternoon, nnd I will try never to do so again; but I wish you wouldn't taU papa. I will promise any thing you ask, and I will apologize be fore tho class to-morrow if you will only uot tdl paps. He ia having trouble alMHit brother Rob. The President ha* been writing to him, and we are afraid Rob will be expelled if he doesn't do better; and mamma aaid I must be a oomfort to poor papa." Here a fresh bunt of tears interrupted her. and before the astonished Profeasor could find word* to reply, her father’s step was heard in the nail, and Clare retreated. Esquire Williams bad found the errand to the garden less important than he an ticipated from tho urgency of the mat* sage. Hia mother had rent for him to iaI his advtaahbontaaMM trifling toat- tars -wnly the transplanting of soma cur- to fear what he never observed before, that bis dear old mother’s mind waa failing. He aaid to tire Professor: “Yon were about to tell me something alrent tiie school, were yon not?" The Profeasor flushed, but managed to ■ay: “Oh, nothing very Important-! am sovry to trouble Von, Imt—(Clara in the nett fount behind toe drapery asid: Tt will lw 10 tttaaii if he tells now ’) but —we real It need a fltHt JHdhrt Ktij more chr raked apparatus. And l think, sir, the health of the school would tm promoted by a Iretter method of ventilation.” Tho 'Huuire aaid he would lay these matters I ref ore the hoard at the next meeting, but doubted if they would con sent to so greet aa outlay at one time. The Professor also had doubt*, bnt did wit say an. Mtanewhat to Clara's dismay the Pro- fesaor Staid to tea by her father's Invlta- Uou. At the tattle, as site oat ibwuurely behind th* tray and poured the ten, her small brother, in a hunt whisper (meant to lie very confidential), aaid: “Grand ma, wliat makes sister ■ eyee ao awful red?” Ham* arose and made a very humble •H*!? (of her eunduct the day Irefore, aud I •egged Iter teacher’s pardon, which uo doubt was granted — The interior. The Ways af Plants. In a great many eaaaa leaves are said to sleep; that ta to say, at the approach M night they ohange their position, and sometimes fold themselves Up, thus pre senting a smaller surface for radiation, and being in consequence leas exposed to Hold. Jtr. Darwin haa proved expert- that leaves which were pro- ■ moving suffered more from eotd than those which were allowed to assume their natural position. He haa observed with reference to one plant, Maranta arundinaoea, tho arrow-root, a West Indian species allied to CVnina, that if the plant has had a severe shock it cannot ret to sleep for the next two or three nfghto. The sleep of flowers is also probably a ee of the same kind, though, re I have elsewhere attempted to ahess, it hae now, I believe, apodal reference to the visits fit tnaeets; thoss flowers which are ferti- Head by bees, butterfliee, and other dqf insects, sleep by night, if at all; while thorn whion are dependent on moths rouse themselves toward evening, as al ready mentioned, and sleep by day. These motions, indeed, have but an In- direot reference to our present subject. Ou the other hand, in the dandelion (Jreonlodon), the flower-stalk ta upright while the flower ia expanded, a period which lasts for three or four daya; it then lowers itaelf and lies akae to tha n nd for about twelve days, while the a aw ripening, and then rises again when Ussy are mature. In the CMclamen the atatk curl# itaelf up iuto a beautiful apirq filter the flower haa faded. Tire flower of tho little IAnttri* of off walla (L eymbalaria) pushes out into the light end sunshine, but an soon aa it ta fertilised it turns round and endeavors to And boom hole or cranny in whtoh it may remiln safely anaoonoed until the seed ta ripe. In some water-ptanta the flower ex pands at the surface, but after it ta faded retreat* again to the bottom. Thta is the ease for tustanoe, with the water-lilies, some specie* of the Palamoffeion ( Trapn nataiLa Valitnerim, again, the female flowers are borne on long atalka, which reach to the surface of the water, on which the flowers float. The male flowers on the qou- t»ry, have short, straight stalks, from which, when mature, the patlsn ■ffHttUffH to the surfaou, detaches lireljL rises __ and. floating freely ou it, ta wafted about,’ no that it oomea in contact with the fs- male flowers. After ftotllimti m, how ever, the long stalk coils np spirally, awl thus carries the ovary down to tho bottom, where the seeds can ripen with greet safety.—A'ir John Lubbock, in tho Popular Actono« Monthly. The Style. Though it would seem that the people of all countries are equally vehement in the pursuit of thta phantom, style, yet iu almost all of them there is a strange diversity in o|>iuion as to what consti tutes its eaaonee; and every different olnsa, like tiie pagan ustiou, adores it under a different form. In England am honest citizen packs up himself, his fam ily. aud his stylo in a buggy or ttm- wliisky, aud ruttlo away to spend (Sun day. A baronet requires a chariot and pair; a lord must needs have a barouche and four; but a duke, O! a duke, canuot possibly ltimkpr his style along uudnr a coach u.ld six, and half a score of foot men. This atvle has ruined the peace and harmony of many a household, for no sooner do they act up for style, than all the honest old comfortable nano cere- tnonit furniture is discarded, and you stalk cautiously about, amongst the un comfortable splendor of Grecian chairs, Egyptian tables aud Etruscan vases. The vast improvement in furniture de mand* an increase in the domeatio estab lishment, and a family that once re quired two or three servauta for conven ience. now employ* half a dozen for style. Bell Brazen wo* oue of theso pattern r of style; aud whatever freak she was seized with, however preposterous, wo* implicitly followed by all who would be considered as admitted in the stylish arcana. Hhe was once seized with a whim-wham that tickled the whole court. She could not lay down to tnke au after- noou'a loll but she must have one ser vant to ,scratch her head, two to tiekle her feet, and a fourth to fan her delecta ble person whit) aha slumbered. The thing took—it became tho rage, and not a sable belle in all Hayti bnt what in sisted upon being fanned and scratched and tickled in the true imperial style. Hneer not at this picture, my most ex cellent townawomeu, for who among you bnt are daily following fashions equally absurd.—Irving. Not to Know the tiermnn. Youug man, you may own one of the finest dress suits, cut a la swallow-tail, in the town; your Jiead may he stored with useful information, enabling you to converse intelligently upon a given sub ject; you may hare learned to Assume forms of a “swell” politeness, which is a crow between stable manners and idiocy; but if you have never mastered the German, you stand amid the glitter and glare of society, even as the guest at the Beriptural bridal, without the wedding garment Better for yon, oh young man, that you make for yourself a cravat of null-atouea aud seek a watery grave. — The Capda/. A sbrluui and three ladiea who mart hare had a great deal of epare time have found by count that a blond# hae about 140,000 bain an her aealn; a brunette, 100,000; and a rad-hatred belle only 08,000. Thta tart provtaton of nature ta undoubtedly ta prevent in- voluntary iaoeadiartav. i« the earth mute. Arastauranra fsiiiilltea at lk«> wise re a ran—I ran an ire i.m (8<w Tsi* Hon.l “Would yon tike to feel the motion of the earth whirling on its axis jmt as you feel the motion of a buggy by the air driven against your facef’ The mau who asked this singular Q uestion looked both sane and serious. )■ he spoke he touched with his finger a small globe, which, with the alight impulse thus communicated, l>egati to revolvestoortlily and swiftly within a bras* ring and a broad wooden zone, on Which were pictured the odd-looking figure# that represent tbs twelve signs of the Hodisc, The green painted oceans and the variously tinted continents on tha little gkd>c blended into a coutased jumble ofcolor with the motion Surtix- and America, the Atlautio and the Pacific lost their outlines. Greenland made r dark circle nlwnit tho poic like a streak on a l>oy‘s top. ’•You know the north is whirling liko Hint—-many time* faster than that," suid K n philosopher, "and if the atmosphere I not partake of the sfime motion there Would be e constant hnrricnne blowing at the rets of a thousand miles an liour. Most persona accept the explanation that tiie atmosphere revolve# as fast as the solid ground without inquiring any further, ai.d so they lose sight of oun of the most startling (acta in nature. Just step np here." The reporter followed tho philosopher ta the flxt Dad of the house. “Don't you feel that?" asked tho phil osopher, putting his hand to his cheek. "T feci a wind from tho north oast,” replied the ro|K>rter. “Well, that's it, then,” said tiie phil osopher. “Aa the surface of tho earth revolves eastward, it moot* a current of air flowing from the north, w hich has not yot acquired a Velocity of rotntiou eqttnl to that of thn ground it passes over, ftu objects ou the earth are driven by the earth's motion through air that ta moving more slowly to the emtward Wish they are. The result is that the wind which started to blow from tiie poles toward the equator, instead of moving straight from north to^Af nth ap pear* to come from the northeast. 'The reason of this will ht> plain the minute Vou look At a revolving glolH). Yon see that close to the polos the revolution of tho surface ia very much slower than at tile oq. is tor, just as a poiut ou tho linb fif a who, I motes more slowly than a point on tho tire, “Yotl must uot. however, aupiswo that every wind from the northeast is tho re sult of this curious law. In foci, in this latitude it is very difficult to say when the true wind of revnlutksi, if I may ao apeak of it, is folt, because there aro no many local causes that govern the direc tion of the wind. Nevertheless, when ever a current of air starts from the far north toward the equator, thi* phenome non will tm experienced in all the places it pasties ovot, although it is very oit*u obscured by the changes of direction caused by rnuges of mountaiua, gtvat valleys and local teuqieratnros. But the Jedriguk tact remahts that sm can feel in tlm Wind the wilding »l ohr glplm aliout ita axes. In the tropica tliia phenome non manifests itaelf.perfectly iu tiie fa mous trade winds, lu fact thn Went and southwest winds that pre\4il here a large part Of Die tear are'the returning trade winds, lu this choc the air, moving from th* equator, where the revolution is fuatest toward the jkiIch whero it is slowest, hua, as it advances, a westward | motion greater Uinq that of the - surface j over which it pusses. Ho marked is flic , prevalence of this wiud that sailors call I it ’down hill' from here to England on account of the easy sailing with tho I wind. Ho, you see, that, although the ' wind*'done would never enable us to '•“teat the fftul that the earth Involves, yet now that thu fact is known, wo see lu them one of its most striking re suits." 11 Unite! Staten Railroad*. It ta now fifty-six years since tho first railroad constructed in America was pro jected. The timo waa 1825, tho engineer Oridloy Bryant, and tiie successful pro jectors were that gcntloraau and Colonel T. H. Perkins, whose nnmo is associated with thta aud other enterprises which have ainoo grown to mammoth propor tion# The pioneer road was designed to trous|s>rt granite from tiie (juiiicy, Mass., quarries to the nearest tide-water; it was, therefore, short, being only about four miles long, including branches, anil the first cost was $50,000. The second American road was laid out in tho month of Jumiary two years aftor, and opened the following May. It was from Manoh Chunk, Pa., to the Lehigh River, and with tho branches, etc., was thirteen milos iu luugtli. Both these roads had a five-foot gauge. Iu the same year that the second rood named was laid out the Maryland Legislature granted a charter, modeled on tiie old turnpike charters, to the first railroud company authorized to carry on the general business of trans portation ; thu capital stock wss 85(8),- 000, and the company had permission to increase this. The venerable Peter Cooper built the first engine used, nnd it was run on the beginnings of the present great Baltimore and Ohio. Thiseugine weig lied about a ton, and drew an open car, with the directors of the road aud some few friends, eighteen miles, from Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills, in an hour; this was tho first locomotive for railroad purposes ever built in America, and thu first one used for carrying passengers on this continent. The era of individual enter prise in railroad construction was most active, aud it was not uutll some time after that the grqpt land grants wore made by Congress. Then lines whioh were single met nnd consolidated, aud farmed continuous routes between important points, finally taking in public carnages of various kinds, such ss steam boats-river, take, and ocean—canal craft, eto., and these multiplied them- selves into what are to ta seen at the present time. The war years greatly re tarded the rapid growth of railroads, the year# 1861-2-3 and 4 being comparatively barren of great enterprises, onlv about 3,200 miles of new road being laid during the slavery strife period. The era of the greatest activity was from 1865 to 1880, during which time five-eighths of the entire number of miles of road now in operation were constructed. Of the 98,659 miles reported in 1880 ns in opera tion in North America, the United States contained 86,497 miles. The year 1871 alone gave an increase of 7,37'j in the mileage, and 1872 a further increase of 6,070 mijes. The following table shows the number of miles in operation at in tervals of five years from 1830 1879: Miles in o;K*rati<>n 80,fi::.l .1.VW5 52,9H Year. Miles in operation. Yosr ts.to.... 23 1860. 1833... l.oes 1K65. 1810.... 2,818 1870 114S.... 4.633,1875. i8*n.. . 9,02111879. 18»..... 18.374 ....*1.497 The Centra! aud Union Pacific Railway was completed May 10, 1869. Some one has formed 1,051 English words of uot less than four letters fro in the letters of the word "regulations," am or ntoMUtioL Bra Hvmmwrt Datt invented Ms**^ tv lamp, to prevent accidents which aro liable to occur in ooal mines, ro early a# 1815. Tire signature of “Boa," used bj Dickons, waa adopted from “ Moses, pronounced through the none—a nick name of hia younger brother. Tub phrase “ piping hot ” originated from the custom of a baker blowing a pipe or horn til the village# •« England to let the people kaow.he had j«»*» drawn his broad tettari the oven. MoLAss'ts, liquorice paste, a decoc tion of figs, end glycerin* aro need in tha manfactnre of plug tobnoeo to Impart a sweet taste, give oolor and prevent rapid drying; enmsana salt and other salt* aro used for flavoring: anise and other aro matics aro added for their flavor. Baacaorr, in hia history, has the (fal lowing in regard to the introduction of slaves Into wnat ia uow United States territory: w Iu the mouth at August, M19, a Dutch mau-of-yar entered James river aud landed twenty negroes lor sale. This, indeed, was n sail intnaluotion of negro slavery in the English cokmiaa.” The moat of tiie authorities maka tha date December, 1620. Mas. Barah J. Halm, liia-tins# editor of “Oodey’a Lady's Book," White “Mary HaI a Little Lamb.” Th*or igin of the poem Is this : A daughter of Mrs. Hale’s neighbor was taken very ill, aud the doctor was asking the ml a mother wliat she had been eating. Mrs. Hale, who had just coma over to the houaa, heard the mnt lie* say : “Maty had a little lamb, and Mary loves lambs, J ou know.” Tliesesiinple words touched fra. Hale ao deeply that she went home and wrote the immortal poem. It ia aaid that the custom of present ing eggs at Easter ta the survival of an old pagan custom celebrating the anni versary of the creation or the deluge. The egg presented by tha pagans waa an allusion to the maiidsue egg, for which Onnuzd and Ahriman were to contend till the consummation of all things. The custom of Ayetng ogge at Boater ta very old and common to all countries, but may have been taken back to the East by Christian traveler*. Thb house qf John o’ Groat's was sit uated on DuueanVBar Head, tha 1 most northerly point in Great Britain, it re ceived ita name from Johu of Groat and his brothers, who came from Holland in 1489. The houaa wee octagon in shape being one room, with eight window* ana eight doors, to admit eight members of the family, tho heads of different t tranches of it, to prevent their quarrels or precedence at table, which ou one occasion nearly proved fatal. By thia contrivance each name in et jus own door, and sat at an octagon table, at ■wfiieVi, atf iobfirse, .ttpMnpfcMla ware all alike. Thb Hpaqtards visited Canada previ ous to the Freuoh‘,‘and, finding no gold or silver whtoh they were in search of, often said among Uuuusulves, •• Aca nada,” there ta nothing here. The In dians learned thta aentanoe and ita mean ing. The Fseneh arrived, and the In diana, Who did uot want their company, and supposing they were also Spaniards on the same mission, wpre anxious to inform them in the Hpanish sentence “aca nada." The French, who know aa little Himnish aa the Indiana, sup posed this incessant recurring sound waa the name of the country, audmave it the mime of '“ Canada," which it haa born* ever since. MODER* BRA very V - The rwillsw KrvairrS IsSMsi* f —H lit,Mgs t'lrlnt- [Km-tS “tlx-ei*. M," In BlsrStrunS'* Mss«tin.,t A writer in lHaohwoodt* Magazine, lielieves that thu iavention of long-range lighliuK has brought into the world a typo of fortitude which has booh hitherto totally unknown (excepting in occasional isolated cases) win, it is just aa much a product of our century a* railways or electric telegraphs, anil which is as dis tinguishable front the suiiuel courage re quired from swoffl work aa ia prophecy from fortune-tailing. Instead of dashing at the enemy in tierce excitement, in stead of tho lioyc|notion of savage strug gle, instead of furious muscular exasper ation; instead of the iutenscst develop ment of combative'fticilitieA, bur soldiers liRvo now. to oyinUif their intrepidity by remaining placid, motionless, undisturbed amidst a bail of death ami wounds. They have to stay qniet under distant fire to let themselves lie knocked to pieces, without the cham-e or even thn possibility of doing anything whatever to defend themselves in an eager! efficient, satisfactory form; the one solution open to them is to (rent tint ether people iu the same fashion, and to iielt impersonal mis sels at them from afar. Not a man on either side lias tiie pleasure of identify ing the pnrticitlar Opponent who slaugh ters hiui. There is scarcely nny of that individuality of carnage which is so con tenting iu finud-to-linnd fighting. And worse than all, there is mum of thn out put of efi'ort, of the bitter HtTnin, which necessarily accompanies the exhibition of brute hardihood. The bravery of to-day is a nervous contemplative process; there is no action, no movemout, no tug nlsmt it. It principally consists ia waiting obediently until you tiro hit by a chance shot. Troops do uot liko it. They are ulwuys wanting to got out of it. to ruth ahead, to (trike, to do some thing violent and comforting on their own Dehalf, They feel Unit it is abso lutely nnnatural to stand still to bn killnd, * that it is totally anomalous to rest unag- gressivo uudnr a tempest of ambient peril, that it is oontrary to nil tiie ten- denoios of humanity to make no vigorous attempt to ward off destruction; nnd yet that is precisely what they have learned to do. They may use shelter, if tliey can find it (it is no longer cowardly to hide), hut they may not nan Action.' In oae of Raffet’s enrienturps, a regimen* is halted in the middle of a rivor, with tho water up to the men’s nooks. TlieColonel says to them; “My children, I forbid you to smoke, but 1 permit you to sit down;" and that is vejfy much the situa tion in which European soldiart ore placed in bnttle now; it is permitted to lie killed, hut it iu forbidden to fight. In Asia, it is true, there is still a chance of getting to close quarters nnd of using the right arm, as a good many of our people who have been in Afghan istan can testify. Bnt in modern fighting on the Continent, the rule is that tho foe is so far off that no hitting can reach him. The oouseqnehoc is that our new shape of courage is based on the snppres- „ sion of direot effort; it lias become a pas* sive process, iu wliieli we endure, in stead of acting. The old sword-daring was impetuous, omotional nn ,i intuitive, tiie new gun-courage is ilelitierate, logical nnd subjective; the one was miiteri.il nnd substantial, the other i.i abstract and theoretical. They are as different from each otlipr a* credulity and faith, as astrology aud astronomy, as dreams and thought Theke are 2,200,000 people living within a radius of twenty miles of the City Hull of New York,
