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ATT. ANT A, GEORGIA. SEPTEMBER, 20. 1879.
Mrs. Lillian Clark, of Newnan, spent some
days in Atlanta recently. She was on her way
to Conyers where she has been specially invited
to give a pnblio reading at the meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Good Templars of the State of
Georgia. Mrs. Clark is a cultured reader, A
pnpil of Mies Patty Sample, the well-known
elocutionist, she has yet a style individually
hers, animated, eloquent, graceful and refined,
peculiarly adapted for those parlor readings
that are becoming more and more popular.
Mrs. Clark thinks of locating in Atlanta, where
her talents and her social worth will attract to
her many friends. *
In spite of the blue, autumnal haze on the
hills and the prophetic touches of crimson here
and there in the woods, a reminder of May
came to us yesterday in the shape of a basket
of fresh, ripe strawberries shining through
green leaves and luscious in taste as though
they had garnered the spring suns and dews.
They were brought to ns by a veritable Flora—
a girl with a face so fresh and flowerlike and
such frank, dewy eyes that she 6eemed to have
prown up in some sylvan solitude among woods
and sweet waters
“Till all tbe beauty of the place
Was in her heait and on her face.’’
To be treated to strawberries in September
by a Hebe, makes us mark yesterday as a red
letter day.
Wednesday evening last a specially invited
crmpany ascended by tbe elevator to the lofty
sky parlor of the Kimball House which is now
tbe central cffice of the City Telephone Com
pany,and there, seated in a wide circle with a
telephone pressed to each ear, listened to the
unique entertainment of a concert of instru
mental and vocal music transmitted through
telephones. The place of performance was in
tbe spacious Music Booms on Marietta Street,
where the finest pianos, OTgsns, etc., were of
fered for of the occasion by the proprietors.
Messrs Phillips & Crew, and Prof. Capwell.
Prof. Shelton’s Cornet solo was greatly enjoyed
by tbe telephone circle. The Beethoven Son
ata for piano and violin by Prof. Scbultze and
Miss Irene Farrar was magnificently executed
and tbe night minstrel never warbled more
sweetly than did Miss Mabel Haynes in “Night
ingale’s Trill.”
The rest of the programme was brilliantly car
ried out.
At first there was seme difficulty in thetrans-
misaiau of the music through the telephone
wires, but this was soon remedied by the skill,
of Messrs Jeffrey fid Moody. It is to tbe ener
gy and kindness of these gentlemen (tbe one,
the manager of the Atlanta Telephone Exchange
and the other the superintendent), that we owe
this entertainment, so choice in its musical
quality and so novel in its transmission through
thirty or forty telephones up to the breezy Cen
tral office of the Telephone Exchange. *
Hood’s orphans will be well provided for. Far
and near, from North as well as South, help has
been extended to the ten little barnies of the
gallant General. Atlanta has done nobly, $1800
having been collected here, a result due large
ly to tbe active work and zealous advocacy of
the Constitution.
Hon. A. H. Stephens reached Louisville,
Ky. on the 16th inst, and was received with im
mense enthusiasm. The largest crowd ever as
sembled at the City Exposition collected round
he platform to listen to the words of eloquence
and wisdom from his tips. It was awbole-souled
Kentucky greeting to the pure patriot and wise
counsellor. *
The Impeachment trial of Comptroller Gener
al Goldsmith, which has been going on so long
in the Senate terminated last Wednesday in Mr.
Goldsmith being found guilty. The punish
ment was dismissal from office and prohibition
from ever bo.ding office again in the conntry.
Treasurer Benfro6, whom the house had im.
peached tor grave breach of trust, confessed
himself guilty, but plead official precedent for
nsing the State’s money, and offered to return a
portion of it. He also tendered his resignation.
The house will carry the case before the bar of
the Senate.
It is pleasant to see Miss Louise Clarke go by
with her springy step and her earnest face, busy
as a bee; and to know that since her arrival a few
weeks ago, ehe has secured forty pupils in elo
cution in this city and host ol friends. That
speaks well for Atlanta’s promptness in recog
nizing high merit and true womanhood. At
lanta though should do well by Miss Clarke.—
Three of her young brothers are buried here
in Oakwood Cemetery, who were killed in
the battles around Atlanta. "I know her well,
she is a brave, strong-hearted girl, worthy of
praise, and not to be spoiled by it, for she
comes trom too good a stock, said Mrs. Gard
ener, the accomplished mother ot Mrs. Col.
Quitman of this city. Miss Clarke is stopping
in the Kenneaaw House, on Broad street, and
will receive her pupils there. Tuesday evening
she gives dramatic readings in the City Libra
ry Booms, at the entertainment to bejheld there
for the benefit of the Library Association.—
Wednesday she is invited to read in Newnan,
in College Temple HalL *
It is an interesting sight to watch a young
lady in Sunday-school endeavoring to instruct
a class of little girls, while her own mind is
centered upon a class of big bovs.
When a conntry editor, wbo is struggling
along trying to rear a larg> family and build np
a town on an income of $500 a year, discovers
that a base-ball pitcher hauls in $4,000 for the
season, it makes him sit down on the roller-
box and think.
If a man really wants to know ot bow little
importance he is, let him go with his wife to
the dressmaker's.
Free-Mannered Young; Ladies.
There is no nation in the world in which virtue
among the lower and middle classes is as much a
matter of course as in our own. Hence the free,
dom of manner and action which our girls claim,
and which leads them to be so cruelly misjudged by
foreigners. The facts are a matter of statistics,not
national pride. In the poorer classes of Sweden,
Germany, France, Scotland, and England, honora
ble marriage has been so difficult a matter for a
century past, owing to the low rates of labor and
the expenses of living, that a woman scarcely sac
rifices her good name with her honor. The frail
grisette of Paris, or the Sweedish or German girl
too long betrothed, is married by her lover as soon
as he can afford it, and becomes an honorable ma.
tron. She needs a crown or purse to incite her to
virtue. Even in tbe higher classes the line is lower
than here. Sarah Bernhardt, with four children
and no husband, would not have been received into
decent society here. For tbe American girl even
of the lowest rank.knows that if she makes one step
aside she is irretrievably ruined.
“ But if a prize were offered here for mod'
esty of manner it might be useful, and it un.
doubtedly is needed. There is a certain high-spir
ted self-reliance in our girls, which shows itself in
oudness of speech and a saucy,bo!d manner, which
would be unbecoming even to a manly boy. This
is partly due to that, sense of absolute security in
their own inate virtue and the respect which the
men about them give to every woman. But it has
grown too, out of the recent movement to make
women self-dependent, to take them out of the veils
ed seclusion, helplessness and timidity of the old-
fashioned home training, and to fit them to battle
■with the world side by side with their brothers.
There is a good deal to be said in favor of the mod
ern theory. In the old times a girl was brought up
to marry, to be a wife and mother. She could do
nothing outside of home. Marriage was her one
chance in life for position, work, a home, and worst
of all a living. Naturally she wished to be married,
as a man wished to get a place or an income, and
too often manoeuvred to bring about that consum
mation as energetically. A young woman schem
ing to bring a man to her feet, whether it is his
heart or his money that she wants, is as unpleasant
a sight as the sun shines upon. Within the last
tw-enty years there has been a marked change in
tbe education of our girls, especially in the well-to-
do classes. They are trained in art, music, in a
thousand ways, with the avowed purpose of giving
them a means of earning a living if necessary, j
With such a certain hold on the substantial
things of life as this, there is no reason why a wo
man should desire marriage for other than woman
ly and natural reasons. Nor is there any reason
why she should be pert and bold even if she earns
her own living. There is every reason, however,
why an American girl, with her firm virtue and
self-dependence, should learn also modesty and
feminine delicacy of manner.
GIFT OF CONVERSATION.
How Some People Talk aiul Others Listen.
By possessing the gift of conversation we not on
ly entertain, but challenge the entertaining powers
of others. Its subtlest art lies in the latter, for in
drawing out what wit others possess, we place them
in a flattering light; and it is the most accomplish
ed hostess, it has been well said, ‘fiio sends away
her guests bast pleased with theniselves. Mimicry
is fast becoming a social accomplishment, but the
only admissible species is that one which happily
touches off the lovable weakness, the genial absurd
ities of the individual mimicked. It should be
word-picture, calling up the original before us, in a
quaint, yet gentle aspect. At the best it must sa
vor of caricature, but it differs from it in that i
should rely on its effect not in the exaggeration of
certain defective surface peculiarities, but in the
delicate appreciation and rendering of the subtle
ties that make up men and women’s individuality.
Egotism is the vice that blights conversation; it is a
vice inherent to every temperament. There is the
dull and the lively, the mannered and the simple;
the rude and the graceful egotist: all alike stop
good conversation. There is the monopolizer of the
talk, who mistakes the drswing room for the plat
form. whose unsparing eloquence is lit up by pauses
few and far between, which we remember like
flashes.
There are the ailers—a garmlous tribe, depressing
as the sound of the dripping rain, to which Solo
mon likens the clatter of a scolding wife’s tongue.
There are the inveterate jokers and banters, who
are, like a Punch-and-Judy show—stopping the
traffic. There are the unresponsive, whose opa
queness acts line a disintegrating element on the
good fellowship around. There are the effusive
who embarass by continually finding unthought-of
felicities in our expressions, and invest our poor ut
terances with a wisdom oppressive to ourselves.
There are the tactless blind-worms, without sympa
thy, who speak of wealth to the poor, health to the
sick; who trifle when the heart of the hearer is
heavy with care: who would dilate on the suffer
ings of Lady Mary's Pug dog to a mother whose
child is sick in bed.
^ . Crnel nnrt Brutal Sport.
Fox hunting is one of the fashionable brutalities
of such European snobs as have no better way of
employing their time. It is quite the thing in En
gland to let loose a fox, and chase it over hill and
dale until the dogs, and the good-for-nothing hun
ters of both sexes, bring the poor -animal at bay,
and when torn and bleeding, he is put to death by
howling packs of four-footed and two footed beasts.
This cruel sport was introduced as a fashionable ex
ercise into the colony of Virginia by old Lord Fair
fax. It became popular among the well-to-do and
wealthy colonists, but has long been abandoned as
brutal and fiendish. A few people in the Northern
States, whose hearts acbe to do something English
and nobby, took to fox-hunting, and every autumn
the papers have accounts of the cowardly running
down of a poor animal as a matter of personal sport.
Newport fashionables have just been engaged in
this so-called fashionable sport, and one reads with
a pang of disgust, of lady fox-hunters being “in at
the killing.’’ People who torture animals, or see
them tortured, without pain, are lost to the noblest
sensibilities of tbe human heart.
William Herd, of Vickery’s Creek district. For.
syth county, an old gentleman, eighty-two years of
age, was thrown by a mule last Saturday, and died
from the effects of the fall on Monday.
On Friday last, near Bullard’s station, on the Ma
con and Brunswick Road, three bear? were killed
and a fourth was captured by a party of hunters.
A colored gentleman of Liberty county informs
the Hinesville Gazette that notwithstanding the
“dry drout,” tbe “perduce”( In the lower portion of
the county, especially rice, ’possums, and persim
mons, is good.
Newman Hall.
A brother of Miss Mary Wyatt, whom it has
been reported that the Rev. Newman Hall intends
to marry, writes a letter to an English newspaper
to say that his sister is not the person whom Mr.
Hall has selected for his second wife. He says that
his family opposed his sister’s intimacy with Mr.
Hall, but only because he was a non-conformist
clergyman, and of her correspondence with him the
brother says:
“A word upon the fact of their correspondence
being carried on in cipher. Mr. Newman Hall was
a very busy man; he was master of shorthand, and
he soon found that a voluminous correspondence
(they wrote once a week to each other and at
length) upon all sorts of topics—religious, literary
and artistic—made too great a demand ui»on his
time; he therefore sent an alphabet, with directions
to my sister, who presently became nearly as pro
ficient as Mr. Hall himself in this rapid and ready
method of writing. This was perfectly well known
to all of us—there was no secresy about it. The
reason for it was given, accepted and deemed suf
ficient. When Mary visited at Mr. Hall’s she did
so at the invitation’of Mrs. Hall herself: indeed,
Mrs. Newman Hall was the last person to permit
any lady to visit her house without her invitation;
nor would my sister for a moment have taken so
great a liberty, even had Mrs. Hall been a very dif
ferent person from what she was.”
Tlie Cleveland Herald says that Blaine is the mo
ving spirit of the campaign in Maine; a man of won
derful executive ability, endurance und popularity
with the people. This is one of the several symp
toms of a Blaine boom in Ohio. If the republicans
of this State intend to keep up the pivot play, they
should concentrate. They are coqueting with too
many Presidential candidates. There are Grant,
Sherman, Garfield and Blaine, and some hurrah
for Chandler. Mr. Blaine, however, is liable to be
wrecked on the stormy shores ol the Pine Tree
State.
Some Notable Similes.
It is a common saying: ‘there is nothing com
mon under the sun.’ The following interesting pas
sages taken from various authors, will prove the
correctness of this saying, and at the same time
show the identity of great minds. The sage ob
serves that five defects are peculiar to the simple
only: one of them is ‘Benevolence ill bestowed.’
Esop in one of his fables, tells of a certain per
son who harbored and cherished in his bosom a be
numbed serpent, and which returned the kindness
of its benefactor and preserver by inflicting on him
its venomous sting.
Ben Sirac-hs, having no doubt read this fable,
wrote his well known adage, ‘Do no favors to the
wicked, and no evil will occur to thee.’
Our Midrashim. not wishing to be outdone by a
Pagan, says that, ‘there was a man w ho possessed
an herb whose properties could restore life. The
owner chancing to find the carcass of a dead lion,
resolved to test the effect of the charm. ‘But,’ says
the fable, ‘scarcely had the lion been reanimated,
when he darted on his reviver and devoured him.’
This begot the saying ‘Beware of the vile for he
will return thy sympathies with ingratitude.’
(Gavsion).
J Cicero, in about the same language says, ‘Favors
injudiciously conferred, I consider harmful.’
The Talmudists say: ‘He that shows a kindness
to one whom he does not know, resembles one who
throws a stone to Mercury. ’
The sage says, ‘Man ! thy happiest position in
this world is not without alloy, thou canst not en
joy honey unmixed with venom. ’ How beautifully
has Lucretius expatiated this truthful maxim in
the following lines.
“From the midst of the very fountains of delight,
Somethin." bittertarises to vex ns,
Ever er»irt flowers themselves.”
lagi^rizes as follows:
“Full EotiSf&K fount of joy’s delicious springs,
Some bitter o’er the flowers its bubb’ing venom flings.”
And Plautus: ‘Is there any good whatever that
we can enjoy wholly without evil ?’
A fool is more endurable than a, half fool,’ is a
maxim of tne Rabbis. Pope in a diffierent garb
savs. ‘A little learning is a dangerous thing:’ while
Rochefoucault says, ‘To acquire a perfect knowl
edge of things they must be examined in detail.’
But Goethe says, ‘Fools and modest persons are
alike innocuous.’JAnd in ‘Elective Affinity’we find,
‘It is only your half fools and your half wise alone,
who are really and actually dangerou-.’
The Talmudists say, ‘There are many who preach
agreeably, but do not act upon it. The learned
poet Gabirol, one of that famous Rabbinical school,
w ho succeeded the learned Gaonim. says, ‘The sage
observes, the exhortation of the wise unaccompan
ied by practice, falls on the heart as rain on stone:
and he whose words are at variance with his deeds
disgraces himself; hence, words which emanate not
from the heart can never penetrate the ear. ’ So
says St, Gregory, When a man’s life is despicable,
it “follows that his preaching must fall into con
tempt,’ to which Shakespere adds:
“It is a good divine that follows his own instruction.”
A Lady Trampled by the San Francisco Mob.
Correspondence of the Cleveland (Ohio) Leader,
from San Francisco, August ■-’('•til, says : “A very
sad thing happened to a former Cleveland lady
Saturday night, during the riot occasioned by the
shooting of the Rev. I. S. Ivalloch by C. tie Young.
The lady in question is Mrs. Kate Gordon (Vander
bilt) Litc4ifield, who lias relatives in Cleveland,
also in Warren. Ohio. She is a member of the Me-
ceanic’s Institute Library, and having finished her
book, started down town to exchange it. She ar
rived safely at the library, and in a quarter of an
hour was on her way home. Taking the Kearney
street car, she went as far as 4th street. Upon gets
ting out of the car she stooped to pick up her
dress. While doing so the excited crowd rushed
past, knocking her down, and fully fifty people
stepped and trampled on her. She was finally
picked up by a gentleman and taken to the nearest
drug store. She is very badly bruised and man
gled, and her death is expecied hourly. She was
married about a month ago to one of San Francis-
cisco’s most prominent and wealthy men. Mr. Her
bert Litchfield. Her husband was settling his busis
ness affairs preparatory to taking a trip to Europe
with his bride. It is a wonder that there were not
more trampled to death. Such a crowd was never
witnessed before. Both sidewalks and the middle
of the street was one sea of faces. It was so
crowded that the cars going up and down town
were compelled to stop, and were not able to move
for an hour. Mrs. Litchfield nee Vanrterbilt, is a
grand-niece of the late Commodore Vanderbilt,
and daughter of John H. Vanderbilt.”
HOW THE POPE LOOKS.
[Record.]
Pope Leo is said to look taller than he really i s
because of his extreme slenderness; his figure, how
ever, is elegant in spite of bis leanness. He has a
splendidly shaped head, fringed with silver hair,
and a kindly face, healthy in coloring. His mouth,
chin and jaw express strength and firmness. He
wears a soutane or close redingote of soft, whir*;
woolen cloth, taking the form of the figure at the
waist, and held there with a band of embroidered
silk and buttoned quite down in front, showing the
slippers of red silk, embroidered with a gold cross.
A cape of the same color and material falls from
the shoulders to the elbows, similarly buttoned to
the coat in front, with some soft substance, like
down or ermine, edging the cape around the neck,
but not closely, and down the front; a golden cord
hangs around the neck, resting on the shoulders,
and depending in front is a golden and jeweled
cross. His white hands are narrow and the fingers
long and be utifully rounded, and the nails are
perfectly alu:md-sbaped and pink-tinted. On his
head he wears a white skull-cap.
‘And then si.3 looked at me so lovingly, and
I drew her close to my bosom, and was just
kissing her for the second time when the vision
broke and I paid tbe dentist and left.’ It was
his first experience with nitrons oxide gas.
A CANINE CRACKSMAN.
The Little Shepherd Dog who Understood Burg
ary as well as His Master.
There recently came to an untimely end in
Cincinnati a dog whose career was somewhat
remarkable. His history was related to a re
porter by his former owner, now serving a term
for burglary: “That dog was a little English
shepherd dog, and was the most eagacioas, best
trained canine I ever saw. We used to take
our ‘outsiders,’ open a door, send the dog into
the house and wait for his retnrn. Ho would
let us know if everything was all right or if it
was not safe to go in. He would bring out ar
ticles, and we could always depend on bis judg
ment in selecting that whioh was valuable. If
we df sired to operate on a house where a dog
was kept, he would go ahead of us and either
entertain the honse-dog or coax them away un
til we had completed onr labors. The little fel
low would stand on bis feet, sit np, torn som
ersaults and perform other tricks for the amuse
ment and edification of the other dogs, and he
never failed to so ennage their attention that
they woulnd’t notice ns. He was trained in
England and brought over here. But I started
to tell you a particular incident. We arranged
to try onr luck on the post-office and groesry
store at Mt. Lookout, and we loitered aronnd
there several nights in hopeof procuring an op
portunity to carry out onr plans. We discov-
fed that a large, quick-eyed dog was kept in
side of the plaee, and every time either of us S9t
a foot on the porch, no matter how lightly, that
dog would growl. It was determined to give
the inside dog the ‘Darby,’ to use a technical
expression; in other worls, to kill him. We
procured a piece of meat and bad it nicely
cooked, after which we charged it with arsenic.
An opportnnity presented itself one night to in
troduce the poisoned meat into the quarters
occupied by our enemy, and after waiting for
some time, and receiving no sound from the
brute inside, we sent our dog in and followed
him. We succeeded in securing considerable
money and other valuables, and got away un
disturbed, after being warned by our little
friend. He trotted along behind us tor some
distance, but directly he called us. Looking
aronnd we couldn't see him, but could hear him
repeating his call. We retraced onr steps till
we found him squirling about on tbe ground.
Shortly after the poor little fellow died. We
were greatly affected over the death of our com
panion, as both of us loved him dearly. We
shed teius, and mourned the dog’s fate more
than either of us would have dene had it been
one of ns that was dead instead of the dog. We
picked the dead dog np, and by turns carried
him a few miles and buried him on the shore.
We afterwards found out that the man who
owned the grocery store had gone away on the
fatal night and had taken the big dog with him.
Onr little friend got the poisoned meat and ate
enough of it to cause his death. I never will
forget how badly I felt that night. I have been
sent to prison several times, bnt nothing ever
affected me so much.”
Cannibals in Italy.
Liverpool Post.
The Assize Court at Perugia, has just con
demned to death a man named Thomas Lon-
gari, who not only mnrdered bis brother, but
also ate him. The two brothers. Thomas and
Sebastian Lon gari, had been on bad terms for
a longtime, and on Good Friday last, Thomas
waited for his brother as he returned from mass
and coming np behind him in a sequestered
spot knocked him down with a blow from an ax,
and then chopped his head off. Having done
this, he belabored the body with his knife, took
out the heart and lungs and placed them upon
one side with the head, while be cut up the rest
of the body in small pieces and concealed it in
a ravine. Taking the bead and visoera home
with him, he pulled out the teeth and eyes from
the head, while the intestines he fried and gave
tc his wife and children to eat. The other
pieces of the body were fonnd soon afterwards
and the crime was traced boma to him, but
when confronted with tbe remains he was so
cynical in his attitnde that some one remarked:
“I believe that he would eat macaroni upon
them,” little thinking what had really happen
ed. When his house was searched his wife at
once guessed what a horrible meal she had
eaten, and her husband frankly told the police
that it was so, and declared that he would do
the same thing over again if he had a chanoe.
Never marry a man with a small salary.
Elmira Advertiser. Now, there is good advice
for you, girls. Always wait until you have laid
up enough money to furnish the house and
keep the dear fellow in cigars and other lolli
pops. Man is a delicate creature and needs
tender rearing.
HRS. MARGARET HAUGHERY.
The Baker Woman of New Orleans with a
Heart for Charity.
New Orleans Democrat.
That grand old lady, MaTgrret Hanghery, will
never permit any one to snjpass her in good
deeds. She hastens to send $500 of 4 per cent.
United Slates bonds as her contribution to the
land for the nurture and support of Gen. Hood’s
little ones. For thirty years past has this good
woman labored to accumulate ,the m<ans of
gratifying her inexhaustible ariVl unbounded
benevolence. Thirty years ago she bore npon
her shoulders the care and nursing of two hun
dred orphans. Her wonderful energies and in
dustry provided for this large family. Since
she has been engaged in business for herself as
proprietress of a iarge bakery, in which she hae
had a great success, she has always set aside a
large sum for benevolent uses, upen which she
nevre fails to draw, on every demand and ap
peal to her heart. And a very large heart she
has. It embraces every olass of distress, want
and affliction which may be alleviated by con
tributions of money or other means of relsef.
Her service has been a long one. There is no
more pleasant sight than that of this old lady
driving L6r little cart around, so well preserved
after her long 8nd laborious service, intent on
deeds of charity and business, greeting every
one with her benevolent smile, and receiving
kindly recognition from all who are familiar
wi’b her long career of good deeds. It was this
large-hearted lady that equipped the Tiger
R’fies: in the long struggle for the redemption
of Louisiana her pnrse was always open; when
the floods swept over onr fair country and
Mayor Wilfz callad for relief, this lady was the
first to respond. On the 24th of September,
when the people’s soldiery arose and hurled the
Radicals from power, the writer visited the
bakery and informed Margaret that onr soldiers
needed bread and her payment would depend
npon our success. “There is the store take all
if yon need it, rnd never mind the pay.” Each
Sabbath morning the prayers of 300 little or
phans and 200 weak and tottering oid men and
women ascend in gratitude for an unceasing
flow of benevolence that seems immeasurable.
These acts are performed with a gentleness and
absence ostentation that render them the more
beautiful. In fact, we know that we would re
ceive a rebuke from tbe subject of cur sketch
for permitting our heartfelt sentiments of re
spect and admiration to betray us into touching
upon the generous acts which this good lady so
carefully conceals from the world. May our
people long enjoy the blessings of her presence
and life among ns.
Answers to t^orresiMMuieuts.
Cali.ie asks: “What is meant by the ‘Rosiere?' I
always thought it was the beads the Catholics wear:
but my friend Lula insists that it is a girl. I know
she is wrong.” * * * 8he isn't wrong,
though, Callie. The beads on which Catholics ‘tell’
their prayers are sometimes called rosaries; but
the Rosiere is the young girl who is crowned (in
August, we think) in certain rural districts of
France as queen of beauty and virtue. The crown
is a wreath of roses, and is awarded by a solemn
committee, consisting of Hie priest, the beadle, the
mayor, and three of the fathers of the parish. A
considerable sum of money is bestowed upon this
fortunate Summer queen, who of course finds a hus
band before the year is out.
Aides asks; “Who wrote the story about the
man who could never get warm after lie was cursed
by an old woman from whom lie took some sticks
she liad gathered to build her afire? What is the
story called and is it written in prose or verse?” *
* * It is written in botli prose and verse.
The original story was told by Dr. Erasmus I) ir-
wiu in his “Zoonomamia” and Wordsworth after
wards colored and reset the story, putting it into
verse. It is called “Goody Blake and Harry Gill.’’
The ol' 1 woman gathered sticks at night from a
young farmer's hedge to warm lierrheumatie limbs;
one night tbe farmer laid in wait and caught her
with the bundle of small fire wood. Heseizedand
shook her with violent threats, till she fell; the
story then goes:
* “Her bundle from her lap let fall;
And kneelingon the sticks, sheprayed
To God, who is the judge of all,
She prayed, her withered hand uprearing.
While Harry held her by the arm—
“God! thou art never out of hearing,
Oh, may he never more be warm!”
The cold moon above her head.
Thus on her knees aid Goody pray; - ■ *
Young Harry heard what she had said,
And icy cold he turned away.”
The original story as told by Dr. Darwin says
that the young farmer, after piling clothes and flan
nel wraps upon himself in vain, took to his bed-
was covered with blankets and remained there
cold to the last, for twenty years. Turkish baths
were not i n vogue then, or we fancy a room like
the radiating room in Dr. Stein back Wilson’s estab
lishment, would have warmed up the young gentle
man in spite of the witch’s malediction. The con
tinued cold was no doubt partly due to imagination
and partly todisordered health caused by that shiv
ering watch in the frosty field in order .that lie
might pounce upon poor old Goody and her paltry
bundle ol stacks.
Gertrude says: “I had a letter the other day
from a gentleman friend who is visiting the moun
tains of North Carolina. Describing the view from
one of the lofty peaks, lie said: ‘I felt as if I was in
Aliobon.’ Now I don’t know in)the least what the
word means, I never heard it before. A fun-mak
ing admirer or mine says my mountain friend
meant that he felt as if he was pickled in Alcohol,
and the professor in the college says he thinks the
word is Mahomedau and means an evil spirit. Can
you give me any information?” * * * Alieon
(this is the proper spelling) is the seventh heaven
of the Mahometans. You will find allusion to it
in the Koran. Your friend, the professor had con
fused tlie name with Alichino, which is the apella-
tion of an evil spirit in the Inferno oi Dante.
A VERY Fl'.WY THING.
During an excursion from this city to Niag
ara Falls, and while at Cleveland, an incident
occurred which will never be forgotten by those
who beard of it. The Kennard house at that
city was crowded with guests, when an eccen
tric and witty druggist of Smithfield street ap
peared late at night at the hotel office and de
manded a bed The clerk replied that there
were only two vacant beds in the bouse, one
wherein was quartered a Pittsburg morning
newspaper mau, and the other room wherein
was a Pittsburg evening newspaper man, wbo
were with the excursion.
‘To tell the trnth, they are both pretty drnnk
—so you may take your choice as to which
room you will sleep in.’
The druggest said that on general principles
he would take his chances with the evening
newspaper jonrnalist, as they excelled the
morning men in more ways than one, and he
would doubtless be so drunk that be would lie
dormantly quiet all night. He went to bed and
was soon sound asleep. Tbe journalist, how
ever, awakened at 12 o’cloek, and thinking it a
long time between drinks, dressed himself, un
consciously in tbe druggist s clothes, and sal
lied out to make a night of it. Ever and anon
be treated all present.
‘Funniest thing I ever heard of. When I
went to bed last night I only had twenty-fiv6
cents to my name, and now I've got over a hun
dred dollars, and I'm bound to spend every
oent of it before morning. He did.
The largest sum ever paid for a horse in Eng"
land was $75,000, given for Doncaster by the
Duke of Westminster.
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We paid little attention to it until it becam
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Testimony of Mr. W. J. lli«lson. Yard Con
ductor of Western and Atlantie Rail-
. road.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 13, 1879
My step-son. John R. Pair, who is now 17
years old. has been for the last five years an in
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temples, loss ot appetite and flesh, with great
debility constantly blowing & n d coughing
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