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Hard Times in America and Europe—The meat and more milk, vegetables and fruits. Let Cause and the Remedy.—Under the suggestive ' them be more careful of their stock; produce JOns H. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor. W. B. SEALS, • - Business Manager. MRS. MARY E. BRYAK (*) Associate Editor. A. L. HAMILTON, D. D., - Associate Editor And Manager of Agencies. ATLANTA. GA„ SATURDAY, MAY 19. 1877. If you have a very high opinion of any Mss yon propose sending us, it wonld be a good plan to retain a copy, as it is exceedingly troublesome to us to return it. Mr. Albert Winter, who, we ]earn, is taking subscriptions below Savannah for this paper, is not recognized as an agent at this office. If he has any author ity, it was given to him under a total misunderstanding as to his intentions, and is hereby unconditionally withdrawn. This office is not responsible for any of his acts. head of “One per cent, a month,” a writer in the Cotemporary Review takes cognizance of the almost unparalleled “hard times,” which not only America but England, Germany and the other European countries are now suffering. wool, meat, hay and grain in plenty for winter consumption. Above all, let them practice a wise but not penurious economy. It is no sav ing to half starve one's self. Nutritious food should always be eaten, if possible; but the EDITORIAL MENTION. Stagnation in trade, reduction in business, la- ' most nourishing food is not the dearest, and borers out of employment, scanty wages, re- ; the soups and savory stews of the French peas- I)r. Harrison’s Letters.—The “Notes by the Wayside,” from our able and distinguished Dr. Harrison, are attracting universal attention. They are exceedingly interesting, and every one reads them with peculiar pleasure. We give two this week on the opposite page. Sketches of Florida.—Major Sidney Herbert, the regular correspondent of the Savannah News, is preparing a series of letters or papers for that popular paper on Florida, where he spent sev eral months during the past winter. He is a fascinating writer, and these articles will be most readable and perfectly reliable. Major Herbert has also promised to make sim ilar contributions to The Sunny South. He will also write up Southwest Georgia for the Xews. Air-Ship of the Future.—Our first-page en graving is an illustration of the air-ship of the future, as described in the vision of progress contained in Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall:” <■ For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see: Saw a vision of the earth and the w onders that shall be; Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails— Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Saw the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nation’s airy navies grappling in the central blue.” duced comforts, bankruptcy, and actual suffer ing, are among the features of the times now upon us. The Review finds the cause of this not in gold or its movements, nor in a series of bad harvests, nor in political commotion and the people’s shaken confidence in their rulers. The root of the evil—the sole, primeval cause of the present low ebb of our prosperity is over spending by the Government—consuming more wealth than is produced. Says the Review : “The first offender against the law that to consume more than one makes must land man or nation in difficulties and impoverishment, was America. She constructed an enormous ant are not half so expensive as our ordinary farmer’s diet of this country. Bon Piatt’s Advlte to Government Plaee-Hnnters.— | Don Piatt gives this advice to the young men and women of the country who are eager to rush to Washington to procure a “ place ” and get a slice i of government pie: My advice to all women is to pick hops, scrub floors, do anything, rather than come here and j swell the crowd who are clamoring for admission j to the departments. Seventy-five dollars looks like a vast sum to out- | siders. Many a farmer who is considered well off does not clear half of that; but, my dears, if you length of railways, which she carried out into j come }j ere you Sn j that the seventy-five dol Only One of a Family.— Secretary Sherman says he will not have more than one of a family in Government Departments, and this has been carried out strictly when it struck women or men without influence. Let me call his atten tion to a fact—yes, a whole family of facts that have been for years, and are now fattening at the public crib. Mr. J. M. McGrew is sixth auditor, and as an act of obligation to Uncle Sam for holding that position, he draws $3,600 a year. His son Ben, in the fourth auditor’s office, draws merely, of course, as a side speculation, SI, 600. Andrew, commonly called Andy for short, draws from the Indian Bureau (which I have some facts on) $1,200. Burt, the baby of the family, obliges his country by drawing $1,200. My friend Mc Grew is unfortunate in not having more sons, because the family might have had a greater hold on the public money.—The Capital. Mrs. Hayes Excluding Wine.—The Saturday Evening Gall says : It was to have been expected that the newspapers would make sport of Mrs. Hayes’ action in reference to the exclusion of intoxicating drinks at her table. Nowadays they make sport of everything. But, seriously, most of them approve it, and accord her a high degree of praise for the noble stand she has taken. She has shown a moral courage highly commendable. If every wife and sister who believes as Mrs. Hayes does, that intemperance is a vice which is doing untold evil to our coun try, will follow her illustrious example, abolish wine from the dinner table, from parties, New Year receptions, and every other place where heretofore the influence of woman has, through her lack of that moral courage, been brought to bear to foster and cherish a habit which is so pregnant of evil results—an amount of good will be done, the value of which cannot be over estimated. He Bit off Her Nose—A Moral.—In our cor respondents’ column, we have times, without number, warned onr young female readers to beware of allowing any advances beyond proper bounds from the opposite sex, no matter how soon they are to be united or what may be the relationship existing between them. But it never occurred to ns to assign, among other reasons, the probability or possibility of their losing their smellers by it, and in failing to do so we omitted a strong point. But having a case of the kind in hand, we take the earliest opportunity of urging it upon their attention. It would certainly be very damaging to a hand some face to lose the nose, the central figure, and we beg all our young lady friends to take warning from the following case reported in the telegrams from Iowa. A young lady should smell a mouse before allowing a young man to kiss her, for she might not be able to smel him afterwards: Dubuque, May 14.—A young lady school teacher in Allamakee county had a lover whose affection turned to rage in a singular manner. Last Tuesday, declining to receive his attention any more, she gave him the mitten. This sorely perplexed the young man. He packed up his duds for leaving the country, but before going, called at the school to say farewell. After a few minutes' conversation he requested the favor of a parting kiss, and reached out to embrace her, when she struggled, under bashful modesty. Seizing the opportunity, he drew her face to his and bit her nose nearly off. The end part, a good mouthful, hung by the gristle, and was ® ¥ * (1 i n place by a neighboring surgeon. With the best possible care, she will be disfigured for the wilderness. In no country, ever before or since, has such a rush into railway-making ever been witnessed. Nor did the passion fall on railways only; docks and canals, elevators and warehouses, wharves and gigantic stores, were impelled forward by the same whirlwind. Un der these impulses she consumed a vast quantity of food and clothing for laborers. She destroy ed coal and machinery in making iron. She fed and rewarded with the contents of her shops and stores a large army of promoters, engineers, managers, book-keepers, brokers, bankers, and other functionaries of every kind. What had she at the end of the operation ? Long lines of iron carried over a vast extent of country, holes made in the ground and tunnels, embankments and buildings. What all these laborers and functionaries had eaten, drunken, worn, or used up as materials, was gone forever; the rails that replaced this consumption could bring no means of living till after they were in operation for a long period. The nation was plunged into pov erty to the extent of what the railways had de voured in constructing. In the wilderness there was no traffic; and even if the lines had been made in a populous district, many years must have elapsed before the shops, warehouses and factories could contain the same identical wealth as the rails had destroyed. Up to the extent of the savings of the nation, expenditure on railways can do no economical or financial harm; and these invaluable devel opers of wealth may, on such a basis,Jbe ration ally acquired for the public good. Any outlay made out of savings, be it what it may, is inno cent of mischief; it may do no good, but it does not impoverish. But what are savings? The surplus of wealth made over wealth consumed. If it is turned into capital and applied to in creased production, the nation becomes richer; if it is expended on any luxury or any folly, the nation is where it was. But if the outlay, how ever wise and ultimately profitable, once passes the limits of saving, harm instantly begins. There arises a loss of wealth which is taken from capital; the means of producing are di minished; fewer goods are made; there is less for merchants, with their ships and their rail way wagons, to exchange; there is less to divide among the people, poverty has actually set in, and it may he long before the natiGn is restored to prosperity. In England, the collapse is due to the enor mous expenditure of a few years back in the erec tion of more factories, work-shops and other in dustries than home need or foreign demand re quired. Germany has exhausted herself by her war with France of a few years previous. The vast scale of her war preparations; the labor taken from the fields and work-shops; the creation, the armament and maintenance of the immense numbers of troops, rapidly empoverished the country, so that commercial distress and par alyzed enterprise are the consequence. But the question that most nearly interests us, is how our own prosperity, which is now at what seems the lowest ebb, can he made to rise again. How shall we recuperate ? The condi tion of one single European country affords the best clue to a solution of this often uttered ques tion. France is prosperous. Amid the univer sal stagnation, France is buoyant and active. The war with Germany, that has proved the dearest of victories to the conquering Teuton, has bean a blessing in disguise to the conquered Gaul. Says the Review: The war had been infinitely more oppressive to France than to Germany, for it had been waged within her territory. ' She had lost two valuable provinces and their resources at its termination. A fine of unheard-of magnitude had been imposed and paid. Thirty additional millions of taxation had been added to a budget already severe. Much of the fixed capital of the nation, of its factories and machinery, had been destroyed or injured by the war. Where could ruin and depression be more naturally leoked for ? Yet what a spectacle does France offer to the observer? The piled-up load of taxation is borne with ease. Her industry is in full play. No sense of poverty weighs down the people. Her army is undergoing a thorough and successful transformation; guns and mili tary stores—what they cost in these days is known to all—are swiftly being accumulated. Great has been the astonishment at Berlin. Eighteen months ago a violent scare sprang up in that town; the conqueror fell into vehement fear of the conquered. Germany awoke from her dream of security. The great military chiefs loudly called for a second war to break up an enemy whom neither defeat nor chastisement could crush. To what was this most unlooked- for and most astounding sight due? To the practice of one of the very greatest of econom ical virtues. She had saved. Her eight millions of peasant-proprietors had lifted their country out of the depths of adversity by invigorated energy and reduced consumption. If more had to he paid to the tax-gatherer, the peasant gave up meat or other indulgences rather than di minish his means of maintaining his farm or his vineyard at its former level of efficiency. Here is a lesson and a stimulus to onr farmers. The farmers of France have saved their country from ruin and bankruptcy. By patience, cour age, industry and endurance they have tided over the terrible crisis in their national life, and now have succeeded in placing their country on a sure basis of prosperity. It required more heroism than to win a campaign, and it proves the sterling worth that underlies the surface frivolity of the French character. Will not our own farmers imitate these French peasants ? Will they not by gallantly putting their shoulder to the wheel, help their country from the slough of despond ? Let them bend all their energies to the improvement of their farms. Let them be open to suggestions; aecepUthe aid of scien tific knowledge in their agricultural operations; ’ raise abundant food supplies ; consume less j lars is Dead Sea fruit; and if you only knew how few lived on that—where and how the surplus comes is not mine. But listen to me and don’t come here. Stay at home with the old father and mother; wear that pink calico you sold eggs to buy; put a pretty bow in your brown hair, and marry that nice young man who has been casting sheep eyes at you, and commence housekeeping in one room. As for the men, I wish the text I am preaching from could fall on the ear of every young man who ha9 brains and a right arm strong enough to earn sufficient to keep him in bread and meat, to keep life in him. I would say to him, “ My friend, sell your old clothes or work until you earn five dollars, then start a peanut stand ; do anything rather than come to Washington.” The Jews Going Back to Palestine.—The announcement that Russia has given an invita tion to the Jews to return to, and re-occupy Palestine, is attracting attention. The popula tion of Palestine is double what it was ten years ago, the new comers being Jews, and chiefly from Russia. Three years ago such an influx took place to Saphed, one of the four holy cities in Galilee, that there were not houses to receive the immigrants, and many had to camp out. A plat of giound was sold to them for twenty times its former price, and building goes on now by night as well as day. Two little colonies have settled just outside of Jaffa Gate. It is evident that a large proportion of the new emigrants are animated by religious enthusiasm, though the immediate cause of the movement now is that until recently no Jew could own land in Palestine without becoming a Turkish subject. The divine plan for the Jewish race, as expounded by the Jewish missionary in Cin cinnati, Mr. Neil, is that six thousand years of prevailing evil are now to be followed by a mil- lenium of 360,000 literal years. It would in deed be a grand spectacle of the triumph of di vine justice to see these people re-established in the world as a nation^ and holding the high j(o- sition their intelligence entitles them to. Speech of Pr&Me^t Hayes—Better Times Coming.—At the annual banquet of the Cham ber of Commerce of New York, on the loth, Mr. Hayes said ; “Mr. President, it is a grati fication to have the opportunity to meet such an assemblage of the business men of the city of New York. I wish to make my acknowledge ments to them for their invitation to enjoy with them their annual social meeting. I wish to assure them that this hearty greeting is very welcome to me. [Cheers.] At peace with all the nations of the world; with an honest pur pose on the part of our people and the part of the government, [Loud cheers.] to strive for the restoration of the ancient concord within our own limits, [Hurrahs and great applause.] I believe that notwithstanding the unfortunate array of figures which has been disentombed, we may confidently look for early decidedly en couraging evidences of reviving business pros perity throughout our country.” It has been ascertained beyond question that invitations to attend the Chamber of Commerce were sent to Gov. Tilden, Gov. Robinson and all the leading officials of the State, but they all declined, lest their presence should seem an in dorsement of Mr. Haves’ election. Artificial Stone—A New Era in Building.— Have you ever seen or heard of men manufac turing solid granite for building purposes? They are certainly doing it most successfully, and our grand old Stone Mountain, which has so long supplied so much of this material will ere long be voted entirely out of the ring as too slow. When a granite block, which would re quire weeks of patient toil with the hammer and pick to produce it from the rough state, can be turned from the moulds in a few hours, more polished and finished, and of any pattern which architectural taste may demand, and from one-third to three-fourths of the cost, we may safely predict a new era in building. We have seen the granite and the process. Mr. J. C. Jamison, who is selling rights under the patent, has been filling large orders for the ornamental granite in some of the finest build ings now in process of erection in this city. Four parts of sand and one of cement are mixed, and then moistened with a saponaceous solution to a proper consistency for the moulds, which are made to any size or shape, and keyed to gether. When packed full and hard, these moulds are taken off and we have a solid block of granite, which being drenched with water, becomes as hard and flinty as the granite from onr mountains and hills. The process is ex ceedingly simple, but its results are astonish ing. Mr. D. B. Ladd, of Atlanta, whom we know to be a faithful and honorable gentleman, is Mr. Jamison’s authorized agent for the sale of State, county and individual rights under Leather’s patent of June 6, 1876, and No. 178,307. Mr. Jamison can be addressed at Athens, Ga., and we advise all who contemplate building to communicate with him or Mr. Ladd. (For the Sunny South.) This Cruel War, and 0 Them Names! The Spibits Exposed.—Our people must not forget that on Thursday and Saturday nights of this week Professor S. S. and Clara Baldwin will bring those troublesome spirits from behind the scenes, and give ns an introduction to them in their proper colors. They have long perplexed the brains of many susceptible subjects, and we hope Professor Baldwin can relieve them of all such hallucinations, and make them more con tent to dwell with mortals. The Professor comes highly recommended, and his expose will doubt less he deeply interesting and altogether satis factory. Those who profess to be mediums per form some very astonishing feats, as do all skill ful jugglers, and we should like to see a com plete exposure of them. The last medium who recently came along, however, calling himself Everett, exposed himself thoroughly, and per petrated the most unblushing swindle ever known in the way of a public entertainment, and should have been incarcerated on the spot. Professor Baldwin need not expose such as he. Many who were present that night would be glad of a chance to recover their money. Let all turn out and witness the exposures promised. This Turko-Russian war is a cruel piece of business to more people than the active bellig erents. What a sad lot, for instance, is that of the poor telegraph operator who is forced to wrestle incessantly in pulling off the wires such diabolical words as Prince Gotoriundchitum- inderi; and think of the helpless Atlantic cable under the afflictions, writhing out there in the lonesome deep. Verily, if I were the signal service man I should always, in making up my weather programme, look to these cable convul sions, and their influence on the tides, etc. As a conscientious student and observer, of course I desire to keep abreast of the times, but this European war is beginning to discourage me. Daily I retire within my inner closet, and there, with daily papers and maps and diction aries ranged around me, begin operations, and lay siege to these savage Russians and Turks. But long before I have mastered the position of the Army of the Upper Tedderwitchorvatvasit- anyhow, or have understood the battle of Hoop- lachawumupchin, the afternoon paper arrives with the news that the forces of General have crossed the river , and are advancing upon , and that the Turks near — are on the rampage, under the leadership of but the tears begin to well up in The Geoegia Entespkise.—The May number of this attractive and popular periodical, devoted to fruit-growing and the development of home interests, will appear next week. The proprie tor had hoped to have it ready in time to attend the Thomasville fair on the 23d, as his energies have been directed towards encouraging and building up such institutions, and he has prom ised many friends to meet them there. But the tardiness of correspondents and other circum stances have deprived him of this pleasure. If conscientiousness, untiring perseverance, tact, and devotion to a universally acknowledged good work, are effective elements in accomplish ing his ends, Mr. Jenkins’success will he unpar alleled. He is receiving warm commendations from the people generally, and his paper richly deserves the patronage of all those interested in Southern progress. The May number will have a new and attractive feature, in addition to general agricultural information, and letters from several distinguished writers, which will make it worth keeping. The price is only ten cents per copy, and its value is five times this amount. Newsdealers should order it. my eyes, and I sigh and sadly leave my papers and things, wondering what war was invented for anyhow, and why those bloody beings over the ocean can’t wait till a fellow can get through one or two of their names before pitching into new fights and sending more of their horrible | etymological sausage machines to grind and en- j rage him. They fight too fast for me; I am al- j ready two weeks behind. Alas ! j And then when I look solemn and wise, and I begin to explain to my friends the “situation,” I and heave out this nomenclature—well, you may have had the cramp colic, but you cant correctly appreciate my feelings, unless, sometime in your life, you have had a live porcupine turned loose in your stomach, which, after wandering around awhile, tried to force its way up your throat backwards. And think what scanty opportunities this war affords the poets. How would “Bingen on the Rhine” sound rendered: For I was born at Grnksti, Fair Gruksti on the Kurgskiviggavondish. These Russians, in their boasted martial zeal for the welfare of the Christians in Turkey, evi dently think nothing of the miseries they are inflicting on the Christians in the rest of the world. Ah, me ! “ when this cruel war is over !” Quipple Yaebow. Picnic to the Watek-Woeks.—Last Saturday, Mr. John McGuire and his Sunday-school class picnicked to the Atlanta Water-Works, four miles from the city, starting in the dewy freshness of the early morning, in an immense wagon with four strong, spirited horses, and re turning in the cool, late evening, refreshed by a day of varied enjoyments, comprising a delight ful row in a bateau upon the lake-like reservoir, an examination of the ingenious machinery of the water-works, a fine dinner, and delicious rambles in the woods and tete-a-tetes under the trees. Saturday will long be remembered as a gala day by the happy party. The Aie-Line Railboad.—The public verdict is altogether complimentary to the new manage ment of this road. Col. Foreacre seems to have the general confidence of the people, as well as of the owners of this great line. He is thor oughly conversant, from long experience, with all the details of railroad management, and his great energy will make him a most valuable man to that corporation. Mr. Wash Houston, long connected with the West Point Railroad, is the master of transpor tation, and is filling the position with distin guished ability. The Geoegia Ratleoad.—This great corpora tion has again reflected credit upon itself by re electing that great and good man, Col. John P. King, president; and that faithful and energetic man, S. K Jonston, superintendent. The in terests of stockholders could not be placed in better hands. Letter from Farmville, Va. In a journal which calls itself The Sunny South, it may not be amiss to say a word con cerning the pretty town of Farmville, now build ing np more rapidly than any other in the Old Dominion.” and gathering to itself a population distinguished for its culture and urbanity. Prince Edward county has stood Alma Mater for a full share of the valor and virtue that have made Virginia famous She gave Gen. Joseph E. Johnson and General Price to the war, and she furnished to the more private ranks of the army a host of noble hearts whose watch-word was “ ducit amor patricv.” Now it is more than ! probable that her distinguished son, Col. Berke- ly, will be the next Governor of this State. Judge Watkins is another peerless and faith ful son, tried by Ithuriel’s spear and found faultless as Aristides the Just. We have here the Prsbyterians and Independ ents of Cromwell’s time, represented by the Rev. Mr. Haws, brother of the popular and ad mired authoress, Marion Harland, and John Wesley, that seceding star from the Episcopal Church, by the Rev. Mr, Twitty, and John Bun- yanis ably represented by the Rev. Mr. Nelson; though, unlike the rough-featured “Pilgrim,” this minister has Absalomic beauty of person, a gift of nature which he cannot help, though it may smack too much of Vanity Fair for old John Bunyan. The three churches dwell together in delightful harmony. The descendants of Knox and Bunyan are more friendly than Banyan in his dream ever prefigured, and John Wesley, with a glow of exceeding beauty from the Old Church still lingering around his parting steps, smiles benignantly upon both parties, with a hand of true fellowship for each one. The Presbyter}' has been in session here now for some time. Thirty-five or forty of the Eccle siastical body were present, and as many of the Ruling Elders in the various churches. An august body of learned men they were, filling the highest positions in the land: Ambassadors and servitors in a cause, the first announcement of which caused silence, even in Heaven, “for the space of half an hour.” We have a large and flourishing female college here, conducted by the Rev. Dr. Whitehead, of the Methodist church. This institution is a very old one, and is now in a very prosperous condition. Six or seven miles from here we have Hamden Sydney College and the Theolog ical Seminary. Both institutions are filled with students. The farmers around here were once wealthy share-owners, andglived in a state equal to the feudal barons of old England; and they are still in more flourishing circumstances than any of the surrounding counties. One of our townsmen, it is averred, has dis covered the secret of perpetual youth, so long and vainly sought by Ponce de Leon and other dreamers. His secret is having a pure con science, and avoiding all matrimonial ties; and revelling in the society of the rosy-lip and dew- bright eye of sweet sixteen. He never speaks to a woman that is twenty-five; declares there is a care-worn look about her, that is as conta gious as the small-pox; and that the visages of care-worn people are not conducive to cheerful ness, and, par consequence, to good health and good looks. Much cannot be said for this gen tleman’s constancy; he has seen many springs, and every spring trings to him a fresh violet. More anon from the “Happy Valley,” as I have named this beautiful place. Lucy Henby Woods. For The Sunny South. Rutherford College, in North Caro lina, and Professor John Moffat, the Great Scottish Orator. Me. Editoe,—This distinguished scholar and orator of world-wide reputation has consented to lecture over the Southern States, during the summer and fall, in the interest of the Ruther ford College, in Burke county, North Carolina. This college educates, free of charge, all the minor children of ministers of all Christian denominations—also all really indigent orphans; in fact, all worthy poor who have not the means of acquiring an education. In twenty-two years it has instructed one thousand and four such persons. During the year 1875 the President borrowed money and erected a large three-story building for the accommodation of the increasing pat ronage. For want of sufficient means, the house was not completed till March, 1878, when a storm of wind passed over that section and utterly demolished the house, involving the college in a debt of hundreds of dollars. A new building has been again erected, and to pay for the work and lumber, and also to pay the debt contracted for the fallen house, Prof. Moffat has consented to make the tour of lecturing. The undersigned has given all his means and forty-two years of his life to this charitable work, and now takes the field with Prof. Moffat to complete this worthy enterprise. As Prof. Moffat is in his service, he will be pleased to make arrangements, upon the best of terms, with societies, temperance organizations, and associations of all kinds looking to the moral and intellectual interests of our people. The subjects upon which the Professor lectures are the following: “Social Influences,” “Israel’s Poetic King,” “An Evening with the Poets,” “The South,” “The Poet Burns,” “Temper ance in all its Aspects.” Prof. Moffat delivers Sabbath addresses free. All who hear him say his lectures on Sunday are the best of preaching. The undersigned would he pleased to hear from parties who may desire to have these lec tures delivered in their midst. Where a free house and a congregation of two or three hun dred people can be had, the admission fee to hear the lectures will be only twenty-five cents. This money will go to aid the college. My address is Happy Home, N. C. R. L. Abebnethy, President of Rutherford College. “The Coming Woman ” was again presented, by request, on the boards at the barracks on Saturday evening last, and was witnessed by a large and delighted audience. The Rossini Club will give another one of their splendid concerts on Friday night. A rare musical treat is expected. Chicago. — Read Rev. Dr. Harrison on this fast city—this wicked city. Handy Interest Rules. For finding the interest on any principal for any number of days. The answer in each case being in cents, separate the two right hand fig ures of the answer to express it in dollars and cents: Four per cent,—Multiply by the number of days, and divide by seventy-two. Six per cent.—Multiply by the number of days, separate the right hand figure, and divide by six. Eight per cent.—Multiply by the number of days, and divide by forty-five. Nine per cent,—Multiply by the number of days, separate the right hand figure, and divide by four. Ten per cent.—Multiply by the number of days, and divide by thirty-five. Twelve per cent.—Multiply by the number of days, separate the right hand figure, and divide by three. Fifteen per cent.—Multiply by the number of days, and divide by twenty-two. Eighteen per cent.—Multiply by the number of days, separatd the right hand figure, and divide by two. Twenty per cent.—Multiply by the number of days, and divide by eighteen. A Russian colonel gets four hundred dollars a year, about as much as a section-man on a rail road. INSTINCT PRINT