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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.
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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.
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Is In* eh*to* msT b* bsrt.
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But, If I Mil Ito truth, .
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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
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“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,
