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JOHN H. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor
W. B. SEALS, - Proprietor and Cor. Editor.
MRS. MARY E. BRYAN (•) Associate Editor.
T1»p Lnva Lake of Miawaii.—Mr.
Mussey in his sketches of Round the World in
a Yatch has some fine word painting of scenes
and occurrences especially those he encountered
in the island of the Pacific, upon whose shores,
Bathing in the Sandwich Islands.—
One of the most poetical pictures we have in
memory is that of a number of lightly dressed
girls and nude children—many of them of Span
ish blood—sporting at sunset in the blue waves
embowered in eoacoa nut trees, bananas, palms | of a little bay indenting the Florida coast. The
and oranges, his yatch the Sunbeam touched ; lovely landscape, the pink and gold radiance of
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 10, 1878,
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Edison as a Boy.—The Science Monthly
for August gives us a sketch of Thomas Edison
—the world-famous inventor of the telephone,
phonograph, and a hundred and fifty other in
ventions, he having patents for that many. The
sketch is brief and sprightly and full of keen
interest. We learn from it that the great in
ventor is a young man still, with a boyish face,
an unostentatious manner and a careless dress,
liking nothing better than to show the wonders
of his talking machine to the crowd of farmer
boys that come often to his plain, unpretentious
office at Menlo Park—the little town on the
Pennsylvania Railroad made up of his own
houses and those of his workmen. In this of
fice, with its scattered about telephones, pho
nographs, microscopes, spectroscopes, etc., you
will find his girl and boy—nicknamed Dot and
Dash who come to be played with, to ‘watch the
wheels go round,’ and ask questions.
Mr. Edison is another great man who owes all
his schooling tq his mother. She taught him
spelling, reading, writing and arithmetic, which
latter he disliked, as imaginative and creative
geniuses are sure to do. But he was an omi-
nevorous reader and absorbed many valuable
books before he was twelve years old, together
with a good deal of literaiy trash. The sketch
gives some incidents of his boyhood, showing
how early the bent of his talent manifested it
self, and what an eccentric, spirited, irrepressi
ble youth he was. It tells ns that young
Edison early took to the railroad, and be
came a newsboy on the Grand Trunk line, run
ning into Detroit. Here be had access to a li
brary, which he undertook to read through; but,
after skimming over many hundred miscellane
ous books, be adopted the plan of select reading
on subjects of interest to him. Becoming in
terested in chemistry, he bought some chemi
cals, and fixed up a laboratory in one of the cars.
An unfortunate combustion of phosphorus one
day came near setting fire to the train, and the
consequence was, that the conductor kicked the
whole thing out. He had obtained the exclusive
right to seil papers on the road, and employed
four assistants; but, not satisfied with this, he
bonght a lot of second band type, aud printed
on the cars a little paper of bis own, called the
Grand Trunk Herald- Getting acquainted with
the telegrapn-operators along the road, he took
a notion to become an operator himself. In his
lack of means and opportunities, he resorted to
the expedient of making his own apparatus at
home. A piece of stove-wire, insulated by bot
tles, was made to do service as the line-wire.
The wire for his electro-magnets he wound with
rags, and in a similar way persevered until he
had the crude elements of a telegraph; but the
electricity being wanting, and as he could not
buy a battery, be tried rubbing the fur of cats’
backs, but says that electricity from this source
was a failure for telegraphic purposes.
About two months afterward, as a train was
switching on to a side-track at Mount Clemens
a * 1 v* - — — - — n - J 1
olu, crept on to the track ahead of the cars.
Edison saw the danger, sprang to the grouud,
and barely succeeded in saving the youngster.
Its father, the station-master, being a poor man,
could not show his gratitude by a money re
ward, but offered to teach young Edison tele-
graph-operating. He gladly seized the chance,
and for five months we see him going back to
Mount Clemens, at the close of his day's work,
to labor nights in learning to be an operator.
At the end ot this time be was able to go into
the telegraph-office at Port Huron. Here he
worked for six months, and then went to Strat
ford, Canada, as night-operator. He soon after
went to Adrian, Michigan, where, in addition
to his telegraph-office, he had a small shop and
tools, to which he tnrned his hand at odd mo
ments for the purpose of repairing instuments.
This situation he lost by violating some rale
while absorbed in his workshop, but in two
months after appeared in Indianapolis, where
he came out with his first invention, an auto
matic repeater—an arrangement for transferring
a message from one wire to another without the
aid of an operator. From this place he west in
turn to Cincinnati, Memphis. Louisville, New
Orleans, and back again to Cincinnati, where
we find him in 18(17, at the age of twenty, ab
sorbed in projects of invention. His utter neg
ligence of dress and appearance, his insatiable
thirst for reading, and his enthusiastic attempts
to solve what appeared to others impossible, to
gether with his willingness to work at all hours
of the day or night, earned him the name of
‘Looney,’ by which he was better known for many
years. Reaching his office here one night and
finding it ‘on strike,’ he took in the situation,
and went to work, keeping it up all night, work
ing to his utmost, receiving the press dispatches.
For this act he was raised from a salary of $65
to $105 per month, and given the best line in
the office. While here he conceived the idea,
afterward perfected in Boston, of Bending two
messages at the same time over the same wire.
His 'everlasting experiments’ were looked upon
with disfavor by the management, and the im
agined neglect of hiB work caused so much dis
satisfaction that he quit the office and returned
home to Fort Hnron.
Here he soon received a call from the manager
of the Boston office to be the Boston operator on
the ‘crack’ New York wire. The manager knew
him, but the appearance there of the very simil
itude of a groen country gawky raised a shout
of laughter at his expense, which almost un
nerved him, and, to make the matter worse, be
fore he had time to compose himself, he was
shown his place to make a trial. The position
was the dread of operators; the New York man
was one of the fastest senders in the country,
delighted in viotims, and in this instance sat at
his instrument with a grim satisfaction, waiting
to open on the ‘new man,’ and chuckling with
his Boston comrades over their expected fun.
They commenced, and the New York man
crowded his sending-speed to his utmost, with
never a ‘break’ by tbe new man receiving. At
the end of the message, the astonished and ex
hausted New York operator adds, ‘Who the
deuce are yon, anyhow ?’ to which the new man
at Boston promptly replies, 4 I’m Tom Edison
—shake hands.’
When the immortal gods look down and see
a tall young man at a church sociable sitting on
a low hassock, and trying to hold a plat® of
cake, a saucer of ice cream and a cup of cottee
in his Up, they knit their brows ani think there
is a mistake somewhere, and that a young man s
knee should have beon made like a beaver’s tail,
a shingle, eight inches wide and turned
; side up.
and rested long enough for him to explore some
of the wild lakes, and terrible volcanoes in
which the islands abound. In the island of
Hawaii, they explored the sublimely terrible
hike of molten iava which forms the crater of
the celebrated volcano Kilanea. It is thus
graphically pictured.
sunset, the sunny strip of sandy shore and the
dark green cedar trees, the bay with its sunset
reflection, tbe girls laughing and beating tbe
waves with'their bare, brown arms, their long,
black hair floating on the surface of the water,
the children screaming with joy, plunging and
diving and darting here and there like galls. Al^
All The World Over,
The New Orleans Christian Standard, a relig
ious journal, owned and edited by colored men
- - - - . L . , advises a dead halt on the Liberian exodns The
editor, compositor and publisher ot her spicy ' Standard thinks the negro can do tar better at
home, and that there is not one so id induce
ment to emigrate to Africa's sunny clime.
Two vonng Texans, named Warren, wormed
themselves into the penitentiary and the con
vict's a la mode striped duck. The other eve
ning their sister, a hazel-eyed little damsel of
i twenty, appeared at a ball in the same striped
be ! dry goods eager to advertise her belief in the
innocence of her brothers.
This Week.-A visit to our sanctum of
Miss Lonia Chisolm, who edits the Riverside
Echo, is among the pleasantest episodes of the
week. This pretty, bright young girl is sole
compositor and publisher of her spicy
and sensible paper, and she runs a job office by
herself in the bargain - Yet she is petite in ap
pearance and seems like a canary bird, made
only to pet. Another agreeable episode was
tbe visit of our contributor, Silvia Sunshine,
whose new bcok on Florida—its history, antia
nities. scenery, and celebrities, will
ready for the press. Her pleasant, good face is
sunshine sufficient, but in her hand she held, . . — -. . „„„ „cT«hn
what seemed a crystal drinking glass, but q,, bo he preached in a gambling hell, where an
turned out to be a new patent ink stand war- enthusiastic hearer burst in with ‘Keno .mstead
ranted not to spill ink though you should tip it of ‘Amen.’ At Ward he ha a arge congrega
Bishop Whittaker, of Virginia City,
thw tnwns of Tvbo and Ward,
has been
Nev. At
Looking down from a precipice formed by an this made a striking picture which was recall-
accumulation ot cinders and heated 1®™. j ed by reading a description in ‘All Round the
imag a in e atIon conceive ar a Ve iake, 8 twT-thirds® of a j World in * Yacht ’’ Bussey, the writer, is j — ‘“ ou « u * >WU “ j a 0 n“thwnghlhe courtesy of a local committee,
milf in length, one third of a mile in width, j describing a bathing scene in Hilo Bay an inlet over in a frenzy el inspiration or even throw it , ^ icb pos tponed a Sabbath horse- race till alter
hemmed in by a semicircle of precipitous cliffs in the shore of one of tbe Sandwich Islands, i at the 'devil' (the printer’s, not Martin Luther s) tb e sermon.
of lava 250 feet high. On the side from which we j q be athletic amusements of these Pacific island- ' when too exorbitant for copy. This inkstand j nvr v t Wowan Could Do This.—A woman
approached, the cliffs were broken away, so that
we looked down on masses of lava riven asun
der, here forming sloping ravines, there rising
up into splintered pinnacles or bold and
threatening crags. On our left, a dark valley de
scended, bv a gradual slope, from tbe upper, ...... ,, , .
level on which we stood to the boiling lava be- 1 waters ot the tro ? lc W- m ™t have been a 8tu '
low. On the opposite shores the cliffs formed { dy for sculptor or painter. In the interior of
ersseem to bear some poetic resemblance to the
sports of ancient classic times, and the bronze-
colored natives with the green leaves about their
brows, leaping, diving and disporting in the
a precipice, not less than one hundred feet
in height, rising up from tbe rugged and con
fused accumulations of lava at tbe edge of the
lake. Such were the more prominent features
in the vicinity of the crater. But if its borders
presented a scene of fearful devastation, the as
pect cf the lake itself was far more terrible. In
Hiawaii island in a little pool six fathoms deep,
shut in by volcanic crags, Mr. Mussey saw mar
velous feats of leaping and swimming which he
paints in this picturesque wise.
Tbe wbole population turned out on this oc
casion and seated themselves on the grassy slopes
Only a Woman Could
of the nam ed Mary Gilligan, of Boston, en route to
* ! San Francisco, while evidently laboring under
i an attack of temporary insanity, jumped from the
Ulanta Medical Colle S e.-We direct j
was sent by Messrs. Thornton A Lynch
popular book store on Whitehall st.
i was
the centre the lava was covered with a thin grey j above tbe river, awaiting the arrival of the two
film, but numerous tortuous streaks or cracks i athletes. Meanwhile, a number of the more
upon its surface served to show the lurid glow be i jouthful inhabitants of Hilo, of both sexes, en-
neath. An awful calm generally prevailed in
the middle of the lake, though its surface was
sometimes disturbed by the sudden spouting
forth of a jet of lava, or by the bubbling upwards
of tbe volcanic gases,
The margin, on the other band, was in con
stant and violent agitation. On the further side,
over against our place of observation, three
whirlpools of lava were in a state of perpetual
agitation from the explosion of gases from below.
At each explosion the lava was tossed, with all
the vehemence of the stormy ocean, against the
overhanging cliffs, on which it broke in count
less jets of fire, and then fell back into the gulf
beneath, causing the whole surface of the lake to
undulate in heavy pulsations.
We lingered for hours on the edge of the cliff
which commanded this unique view. As night
closed in, all the awful eff. cts of flame and fire
were intensified tenfold. The boiling springs,
whence the lake was fed with molten lava in in
exhaustible streams, shone with a more appall
ing brightness. The spray, as it dashed back
wards from the rocks, illumined the darkness
of the night with corruscations of dazzling bril
liancy. The tumult seemed to grow louder as
the visible effects became more striking. It was
tertained us with a display cf the art of swim
mmg and diving. One active girl leaped repeat
edly from a height-41' twenty feet into the river.
In the intervals between their performances,
these amphibious people climbed up the rocks
that overhung the river, where they gathered
themselves into the most picturesque groups of
bronze-colored yet shapely humanity.
There were few garments to mar the symme
try of their forms, but there was not the slight
est taint of immodesty in the scene. A scalp-
tor looking on with the cultivated eye of a train
ed artist, would have revelled in the graceful
movements of the lorms displayed before him;
while a painter would have appreciated not less
the harmonious colors of the picture, in which
the olive flesh tints formed such admirable con
trast to the dark flfva-rocks on which the swim
mers reclined. Many a laborious student of the
Academy has racked his brain in the vain effort
to produce a composition on canvas or in mar
ble, with not one-half the beauty or tbe trutn to
nature of these fortuitous assemblages of grace
ful figures.
An uuut bad passed away not unpleasantly
when the heroes of the day arrived: They were
to leap into the pool beneath from the summit
of a scene like this crater of Kilauea that Milton of a precipice ninety feet in height. Thirty feet
dreamed when he described the ‘hideous rain
and combustion’ into the depths of which Satan
and his angels fell from heaven. *
Wakulla Springs.—One ofithe best sketches
of Southern scenes taken by Professor Kieroffe
in his recent tour through Florida, Alabama
and tbe Carolinas, represents the famous Wa
kulla Springs of Florida, thought to be the
Fountain of Youth sought by De Leon. Sixteen
miles from Tallahassee, in the depths of a cy
press wood, lies the sheet of diamond-bright
water, three hundred yards across and one hun
dred and eighty feet deep. The water has
prismatic effects and a magnifying quality that
causes everything in its depths, though manv
loot otnow mo sdriava;—Jtrippwar j.aciLct as ft
near. Fish are seen playing within the trans
parent depths, with tiny rainbows flashing
about them as they move, and water-mosses
qniver with prismatic radiance as they float and
sway like mermaid’s tresses in the magical wa
ter.
While Professor Kieroffe made his sketch of
the spring, which he afterwards finished and
painted, with lovely effects of light and shade
and deep-withdrawing vistas, his fair wife made
a pen picture of the spring in a letter to a
friend. An extract will show how it impressed
her imagination:
I have seen the far-famed Springs of Wakulla,
and truly, now
‘I know a lake where the wild waves break
Aud softly fall upon the silver sands.
In all my life I have never seen anything so
beautiful as this crystal spring. It is so pure,
so placid, so jewel-bright and so broad that I
can think of nothing with which to compare it,
save that River of Life which St. John tells us
proceeds from the thone of God. Surely upon
earth there is nothing so peacefnlly beautiful as
Wakulla Springs. It is so deep it seems almost
fathomless, yet there are the pebbles, grasses
and shells at the bottom—turned into so many
jewels, emeralds,diamonds,and mother-of-pearl.
Cypress trees, large and hoary looking, clus
ter thickly on its shores, laden with the long,
gray moss and clinging vines. I am told that
this is the scene of Mrs. Hentz’s novel, ‘Marcus
Warland, or the Long Moss Spring.’
No wonder it is a favorite resort of lovers. A
party of visitors from Tallahassee are here every
day, and artists and lovers of the beautiful lin
ger here in a species of worship.’
The unique river of St. Mark’s, that has its
source in this spring and flows thence in a
broad, calm stream of silver, no doubt aided the
fair Nettie’s imagination to suggest the ‘riv
er of life,’ that in the rapt apostle’s vision seem
ed to flow from the throne of God. *
the especial attention of ail interested in medi
cal affairs to the advertisement of the above-
named college, found in this issue. We feel se
cure in stating that it is the equal to any college
in our country in point of ability of its faculty
and tbe thoroughness of its course. It certainly
has attained an enviable reputation.
In addition to the advantages stated above.
Atlanta offers many inducements to all who seek
a medical education. Its healthfulness, its cen
tral location, its accessibility from alt directions
its enterprise and prosperity, the hospitality of
its people, all unite to render it a desirable lo
cation tor such an institution.
The people of Atlanta should certainly prize
the Medical College as one of its most valuable
enterprises, for it annually brings a vast deal of
money into onr midst.
Personals,
through . . .
1 riding. The train was going at the rate ot
twenty miles an hour. It was stopped, and the
woman was picked np and lound not to nave
been injured, the only-marks received being a
| few slight bruises and scratches. The aflair
j happened thirty miles east of Council binds.
A Woman Swims Twenty Miles. —Miss Beck
with accomplished the task lately of swimming
twenty miles in the Thames, and it was stated
that the feat was not performed for a wager, but
to encourage ladies in tbe art of natation. The
start from Westminister was fixed for noon, but
it did not take place until twenty-six minutes
later, by which time several thousand spectators
had ' gathered on the bridge and the Victo
ria Embankment. As soon as tbe young lady,
attired in an orange-colored costume, appeared
on the steamer which was to accompany her she
was greeted with cheers, and the cheering was
repeated when she dived into tbe water. She
was followed on the journey by a boat contain
ing Professor Beckwith and his son Willie, the
champion of London. She swam in the middle
of the stream with a long powerful breast stroke.
Plays the Pianno With Hei; Toes.—From
Gold Hill, in the commonwealth of Nevada,
comes the tidings of the debut of the most re
markable lady pianist of any age. She plays
eqnally as well with her feet as with her hands.
As the’local editor very delicately remarks, her
pedal extremities’ are developed in the most
The dowager-queen Caroline Amalia, of Den
mark, who has j ust completed her eighty second
yeaT^-is the oldest living member of any of the
royal familes of Europe.
Every once in a while we hear of a California
woman killing a bear. This is all right. But
we challenge the world to ransack the pages of | ^velious mTnne°r, the toes~greatly ‘resembling
history and show where a woman has ever got in len th a ’ nd sty ie of action. The ad-
away with a monse. vantage gained by this lady in her pedal per-
Amlrcw Female College—Dr. Ham
ilton has just gotten ont a handsome circular in
cream and gilt, setting forth the advantages of
the young lady’s seminary—Andrew College in
Cuthbert, Ga. These advantages are pre-eminent
The health of the location—the spacious college
bnildings, with a front of nearly three hundred
feet and a corresponding depth—and with large
lecture rooms, chapels, etc., the adjacent board
ing house department, with its wide halls and
commodious, handsomely famished rooms and
beautifully laid-off grounds surrounding it are
suitable adjuncts to the intrinsic excellence of
the college, whose trained teachers and an ex
tended course of study, afford advantages for ac
quiring the best instruction in every branch of
English education and in modern and classic
languages, music, art, practical science and
physical training. Dr, Hamilton is so well
known that there seems no need to speak of the
firm yet gentle discipline that is enforced at
Andrew College, and the daily training the pu
pils receive in politeness, self-restraint, neat
ness and order.
The terms of instruction are quite moderate,
and board, with room, washing, lights and fuel,
oan bs had for fifteen dollars per month. The
fall session of this college opens on the third
Thursday in September.
below the edge a crag juts out fiiceen feet from
the face of the rock. It was necessary for the
swimmers to clear this projection. We were
seated on a ledge of rock near the edge of the
water, to witness the feat they were about to per
form. Itwas a point of view whence the swimmers
were seen with striking effect, as they first ap
peared on the crag above ns and paused for a
moment on its brink,before taking their tremen
dous leap into the gulf beneath.
As we looked up to the summit of the preci
pice, the powerful forms of these olive-colored
men—notable specimens of the native races of
the Pacific—stood out in magnificent relief
against the dark-blue" sky. Each wore a green
wreath fastened on his brow—a trifling touch,
which enhanced the resemblance to those admi
rable products of ancient art, the bronze figures
of tbe flying MfcM'tty in the musenm at Naples.
\sjbte first, V - Mtf rarl lui,rlcaJf to|ȣhe'k
tor the leap, tlif re Ww a ^breathless silence in
tbe crowd, a momentary glance of hesitation in
the countenance of the hero of Hilo, succeeded
by that set look which a man wears who has de
termined to do a chivalrous deed or perish in
the attempt.
Magno persentit pectorecuras:
Mens immota manet.
Then came a superb elastic bound, an agile
readjustment of the balance, and the athletic
figure dartiDg downward like an arrow through
the air, with a tremendous splash disappeared
feet downward below the glassy surface, and,
after a prolonged immersion, rose again to the
surface scathiess, amid the enthusiastic ovations
of me crowd.
The great feat was followed by a performance
which,in a less amphibious country, would have
excited wonder. It was a leap down a waterfall
having a fall of fifteen feet. Not only did the
two champions take the leap, but even the
nymphs of Hiio, in numbers, followed them.
After disappearing for a few moments in the
seethiDg water at the foot of the cascade, they re
appeared laughing and talking, evidently re
garding the feat as an ordinary bathing inci
dent. *
away
Three years ago some well-meaning friends
cf a Cleveland actress gave her eight shares of
Opera House stock. She has paid in all the
money she has for assessments, and now the
receiver threatens to seize her wardrobe and
jewelry to make up the deficiency.
A poetical girl obtained the other day in Lon
don the desire of her heart—she met Tennyson,
the Laureate, at dinner, and the sympathetic
hostess even arranged that she should be placed
next to him. One remark, and one alone, did
the poet address to the gushing maiden at his
side and it was this: ‘I like my mutton cut in
wedges.’
A lady of fashion who likes omelettes of all
descriptions guarantees the following receipe:
Put fresh eggs into a solution of gnm and water,
or paint them entirely with gum; then lay them
in a box of powdered wood charcoal. The gum
closes the pores of the shell, and keeps the eggs
from the air, and the wood charcoal is a capital
conservative; before using them in the autumn
they should be well washed and brushed.
Mrs. Mary Flack, of Hamilton, Ohio, attempt
ed recently, in the.Emory Hotel at Ciricinnatti,
♦v ‘.wav Imc -SvjLe^rtotluuirr.
She fired three shots at him, and after a hard
struggle, he succeeded in obtaining the weapon.
She accuses him of slandering the character of
her husband in order to obtain influence over
her feelings, raining her, her husband and
family.
A Little Fun.
Canon Farrair's lleply.—Canon Far-
rer, whose sermons on future punishment first
started the wave of opinion that threatened for
a time to quench the ‘eternal tires,’ has recently
published in the Contemporary Review an elab
orate ‘Reply to many Critics,’ in which, having
stated that his sermons on Hell, taken down by
short-hand reporters were first published and
widely circulated in an uncorrected and unau
thorized form, he goes on to say,
‘Once more I would ask what is it I have ad
vocated in those sermons, what have I impugned?
I have advocated the ancient and Scriptural
doctrine of an interval between death and doom,
during which state —whether It be regarded as
purgatorial, as disciplinary, as probational, or
as retributive—whether the a?on to which it be
longs be long or short—we see no Scriptural or
oilier reason to deny the possible continuance
of God’s gracious work of redemption and sanc
tification for the sonls of men; and I have added
that I can find nothing in Scripture, or else
where, to prove that the ways of God’s salvation
necessarily terminate with earthly life. I have
never denied—nay, I have endeavored to sup
port and illustrate—the doctrine of Retribution
both in this life and the life to come. I have
never said—as I am slanderously reported to
have said—that there is no ‘Hell,’ but only (and
surely this should have been regarded as a self-
evident proposition) that ‘Hell’ must mean what
those words mean of which it is the professed
translation; and that those words—Hades, Ge
henna, Tartarus—mean something much less in
conceivable, much less horribly hopeless, than
what ‘Hell’ originally meant, and then what it
has come to mean in current religions teach
ing. I have not maintained Universalism, in
spite of muoh apparent sanction for such a hope
in the unlimited language of St. Paul, because
I did not wish to dogmatize respecting things
uncertain, and because I wished to give full
weight to every serious consideration which
may be urged against the acceptance of such a
hope.’ *
Little Johnny ran into the house the other
day while the mercury was hugging ninety-five
degrees, with perspiration streaming from every
pore, and shouted: ‘Mamma! fix me I am leak
ing all over.’
It is all very well to talk about how the ther
mometer stands in the shade,’ remarked a gen
tleman with a boiled-lobster-colored tace.
‘What I want to know is how it stands in the
sun. That’s the way I have to take it.
A political speaker accused a rival of ‘unfath
omable meanness,’ and then rising to the occa
sion, said: ‘I warn him not to persist in his dis
graceful course, or he’ll fird that too of us can
play at that game !’
When the festive fly so airy and spry,
Concludeth no longer to flutter-
He buzzes around, with a mournful sound,
Aud burlrs himself in the butter, j
‘Women,’quoth Jones, ‘are the salad of life,’
‘At once a boon and a blessing.
In one way they’re salad, indeed,'replied Brown;
‘They take so much time in their dressing !’
In July days, when Sol'sflerce rrys
Burn like a schoolmam's ruler,
'Tis sweet to think that man can drink
More beer than when 'tis cooler-'
This weather has its advantages. For in
stance, if a fellow gets drank—it’s sunstroke.
A novel testimonial of affection was that
offered to his inamorata by an English lover.
He gave her a locket containing a lock of hair
from his whiskers. This came oat in a breach of
promise suit where she recovered £50 damages.
Said Prince Bismarck to a young English
lady, who remarked to him that the Congress
hadn’t settled the Eastern question: ‘Oh, no,
it’s only cobbled for the time, and when the
shoe pinches it will break ont again; I’m satis
fied with the patching I want peace.’ ‘And
England !’ 'Oh, she would be satisfied also,
for she’s taken her share of the spoil, without
fighting for it.’
‘ Will Father be a Goat, Mother?’ is the title
of an English tract. Master James Stirling, jr.,
set J, was listening to his ma reading the
twenty-fifth of the Gospel according to St.
Matthew, when he asked the question. His
half-drunken father was so touched by the ‘irre
pressible interest’ with which the child asked
this, that he went and took the pledge and be
came a philanthropist in humble life. Listeners
never hear any good of themselves.
formances is that the reach is greater than with
the bands—covering fully three octaves of the
key-board. In the rendition of militar y com
position the effect is terribly striking and life
like—especially where the tramp of soldiers is
imitated.
Death of Minnie Warren.
Minnie Warren, the tiny sister of Tom Thumb’s
wife.Lavinia, and still smaller than she .died last
week, three hours after the birth of a girl baby,
which weighed six pounds, just one-seventh of
Minnie’s weight. Hundreds came to see her
buried from her own home—a neat farm house
near Middleboro' Massachusetts, where she lived
with her husband, Major Newell, better known
as General Grant jr. She and her babe were
buried in the same coffin—a little black walnut
casket, the size for a child of ten. It was cover
ed with blue velvet and lined with white satin.
Inside, on her pillow of roses and passion flow
ers lay poor little Minnie, with her baby on her
arm, its face turned to her bosom. It was a
beautiful little creature, with delicately mould
ed features and a dimple -in its ehin. All who
astF the torching sight of tiny motkor and
baby in their coffin, shed tears. Tom Thumb
and his wife sobbed aloud, Major Newell wept
bitterly and constantly. The people who knew
her had all loved Minnie, who was kind and gen
erous. They had known her as little Huldah
Bump (her real name.) They covered the coffin
with beautiful flower tokens. Her father, mother
and brothers (all large people) were present and
seemed deeply distressed at losing the generous
sister and daughter who had shared her fortune
with them.
Minnie fell a sacrifice to her maternal tender
ness. The physoians could have saved her life
by the sacrifice of her child, but she would not
permit it. ‘Oh no, no,’ she kept pleading, ‘I
want to hold my living child in my arms.’ She
was very brave and hopeful though all her
terrible suffering.
A Real Mebmaid.—There is a real live mer
maid in the Westminister Aquarium, Lon
don; a specimen of manatee having been re
cently received from Demarara. This is the
little animal that has given rise to the prettiest
legend of tne sea. The glass tank in which it is
placed is entirely above the level of the floor,
and the water which is fresh, as the animal,
though marine, often swims far up rivers, ia
kept very clear. The depth of water given to
the Aquarinm spooimen hardly allowed of its full
display in the mermaid position, as the tail
ought to be able to get qnite free from the bot
tom of the tank. One flipper slightly thrown
np gives the traditional looking-glass, and the
gentle paddling of the other, when seen in clear
water, gives the hand holding the comb. The
harp introduced in some drawings, however,
does not exiBk A similar specimen was receiv
ed a few years ago at the Zoological Gardens,
bat coaid not be kept alive, and only afforded a
naturalist a fine opportunity for dissection, and
the subsequent preparation of a scientific paper.
Ingomar was given by the Atlanta Dramatic
Association Thursday evening. The success of
this play depends almost wholly on the leading
roles, wnich in this instance were taken by two
amateur actors of this city who have already won
a reputation for histrionic ability and who ad
ded to it by the manner in which they tilled
the difficult parts of Farthenia and Ingomar.
Miss Milligan’s Farthenia, which was wholly
original,as she had never seen Ingomar played,
was marked by delicacy and finished grace’.
Nor was she wanting in pathos and force. Never
ranting or spasmodic,or sacrificing art to coarse
effect, she yet threw spirit into her performance,
and when the occasion demanded power, her
acting was forceful and natural; bat it is’less
difficult to exhibit ‘power’ than to conceive and
represent the more subtle and complex emotions
that go to make up a difficult part, and it is in
her study of these that Miss Milligan has shown
tne spirit of the artist. It was in this very
particular that Mr. Moyers as Ingomar ex
ceeded expectation. We knew there would be
no lack of power in his rendition, but sometimes
in his bold seizure of telling points, he is apt to
overlook subtle details, but his ‘ingomar’ was
not only boldly outlined, but filled in with a
line conception of the nicest shades and tran
sitions of feeling. At the first, he was to the
life the reckless mountain robber, both in ap
pearance and actions, and the taming process,
wrought by love, was characterized by artistic
gradations of feeling, while the occasional sud
den outbursts of the old, wild nature were force
fully given. Mr. Conway acted the part of My-
ron—Farthenia’s father—with dignity. Aotea
taken by Miss McKinnis (.teacher of typographv
in College Temple and publisher of the Tem
ple’s literary monthly—the ‘New Departure —
was represented with ease and grace. The
costumes were mostly appropriate. Mr. Moy
ers' was superb. Mr. Hill’s Alastor was a capi-
tal.make up,Mr. Lawshe.in the dress of the Tim-
arch exhibited limbs worthy of Antinous.
Mr. Kate’s Polydor was well done and rightly
made as ludicrous as possible,in order to lighten
up the more serious parts. The minor characters
—too numerous to be individually noticed—were
creditably sustained. Mr. Kates had quite a
burden on his Bhonlders in being at once stage-
manager and actor. If any one thinks it a light
position to be manager of the stage in an ama
teur performance, director of its irregular and
contentious rehearsals, with eye and ear and
forethought for everything.let him try it. The
patience and industry of Mr. Kates are only
equaled by his tact and his quiet gentlemanli-
ness. We are glad to hear that he intends star
ting out next fall with a company of his own. *
The Washington authorities, it is said, threat
en to suppress the sale of Dr. Mary Walker
new book, ‘Unmasked.*