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VOL X.
J. H. & W. B. SEALS }pmpu§tob& :
ATLANTA, GA., DECEMBER 7, 1884,
Terms in Advance} SD&uoMt
Oft.
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NO. 483
WASHINGTON CITY.
Reminiscences of Distinguished
Public Men.
lnektaiti Which llave Transpired at
the National Capital
NO. 43.
John C. Cw'lioiin
John O. Calhoun wished to be a candidate lor
the presidency at the tlnw when Crawford, Clay,
Jackson, and Adams were in the field, after Mr.
Monroe's term had expired, but being the
youngest man, and his chance less bright than
that of his competitors, he backed down for the
time being, aim ran for the Vice Presidency.
Me was subsequently elected on the Jackson
' i Vice President, and the under
ticket as the
standing was either positive or implied that lie
was to be in the line of succession; but the in
troduction of the question relative to Mrs. Gen
eral Eaton's entry Into social relations with the
families of the members of the Cabinet, caused
a dissolution of the same. Old Hickory took a
decided stand in favor of that lady, and the cun
ning Van Buren. having no females in Ills imme
diate family, backed the old hero, wiio was de
termined that she should have access to the
“good society” of the metropolis. Calhoun,
Branch, and Ingham opposed him; the two lat
ter had to take walking papers from the Cabi-
idenounced by Jackson,
aet, and the former was
who gave the whole power of the Government
to tlie furtherance of Van Buren’s nomination
for the next Presidency; by wiiicb, of course,
he succeeded.
In the early spring of 1850 Mr. Calhoun began
to fail. Age and disease had made sad impress
npon Ills naturally sharp features, and Hie wreck
•l the body contrasted pajnfully wiih the pow
erful glimmerings of intellect which yet flashed
from everything subject to his touch. Mr. Web
ster also looked worn and feeble; and that step
which, live years before, trod with tjie elaslic
firmness of a conqueror, now bears him almost
tolleringly to his seat in the chamber. Mr. Clay,
on the contrary, wore well. In Irulli, his cheeks
bloomed like the sun-mark of a peach, and all
his acts— physical and mental—betrayed the iu-
viucible Harry of twenty years past.
As the spring advanced Mr. Calhoun grew
worse. He was conscious of his approaching
end, and met death with fortitude and serenity.
Mis physician said that his was an overworked
■abut. uwellt'nr too lone and t- •» ejpdnindy on
1 «u« wop*.... ills one tnougiit was (or Ills coun
try. tlie strength of his intellect ever running in
this one narrow channel which deepened itself
■mil its banks caved in and death ensued. One
•f the last directions he gave was to a diititul
•on, who had been attending him. to put away
•ome manuscript which hud been written a short
time before under his dictation. His remains
lay in state ill tile old Congress House, opposite
tlie Capitol, where lie was boarding wlieu lie
died. The corpse was in full citizen's dress and
lay on alow couch covered with a pall, bis long
gray locks spreading over the pillow. Before
the funeral services the remains were placed in
a metallic cotll 1 similar to tint used for the in
terment of Mrs. Madison. Tlie pane of glass in
the upper part permitted tlie face of tlie deceased
to be seen, aud a wreath of flowers lay across
his breast.
while it was a week or tw® in reaching Portland,
u This made
St. Louis. New Orleans or Savannah.
it advisable for each successive administrator to
have a newspaper published at Washington,
which would reliahlv inform the subordinate
officials what was being done, and keep alive a
sympathy iretween them and the president. The
“outs” and prominent aspirants for the presi
dency also had their organs, to keep the parti
sans advised of what was going on, and to se
cure uniformity of action.
The National Intelligencer was ever devoted !
to Mr. Adams, as its proprietor had a kind re-
ir4r<I fne Ur flan Knt it waci aliranu hoctilototlio !
gard for Mr. Clay,but it wasaiwayBhostiletotbe
election of General Jackson. Mr. Joseph Gales.
Its editor, wrote ponderous leaders on the polit
ical questions of the day, and occasionally re
ported, in short hand, the speeches of congres
sional magnates. His partner. Mr. W. W. Beaton,
attended to the business of the establishment,,
and by hospitable attention to Congressmen se-
t>y
a committee of the House of Representatives,
but there was no evidence of any intention to
defraud the government.
Hal® »•.
The Representatives, following the example of !
~ 'sh House of Commons, used to sit with j
the Bril is]
their hats on. In 1828 a motion that no member
should remain covered within Ilie bar of the I
House was discussed, and at first defeated by >
ten majority. An order by the speaker that vis- !
itors in the gallery should not wear their hats i
while the House was in session gave great of- 1
fense to some of tlie representatives, and was '
enforced with difficulty.
The ladies had been originally exclnded from !
the galleries of the House, in accordance with j
the British precedent. But when the famous j
Jay Treaty was brought home for ratification
the Housecanienearrefusingtomakefile neces
sary appropriations for carrying it into effect,
and heated debates ensued. One night at a
party, Mrs. Langdon. of New Hamiishire, whose
husb.i
fitephen A. Douglas.
8tephen A. Douglas, who had just entered
Oongress as one of the seven representatives
from Illinois, was prominent in procuring the
passage of the bill refunding the line of il.000
which had Ireen imposed on General Jackson by
Judge Hall, at New Orleans, twenty-five years
before. It was for a contempt of court, in re
fusing to produce, in obedience to a writ of ha-
boa* corpus, a citizen arrested by his orders un
der tlie martial law, which lie had proclaimed.
When he afterward visited The Hermitage he
received General Jackson's earnest thanks. "I
felt certain in my own mind.” said tlie General,
“that I was not guilty of violating the Constitu
tion. But 1 could never make out a legal justifi
cation of my course, nor has it ever been done,
sir. until you, on tlie floor of Congress, estab
lished it beyond the (Hissibility of donbt-
u, sir, for that speech.”
thank you.
This was tlie first move' made by Mr. Douglas
hi bis canvass for the Presidency, but he was
soon prominent in that class of candidates of
whim Senator William Alien, of Ohio, said;
“Blrl they are going about tlie country like dry-
goods drummers, exhibiting samples of their
ale
wares.” Always on the alert to make good
friends and to retain old ones, be was not only a
Ills
vigorous hand-shaker, nut lie would throw his
arms fondly about a man. as if he possessed tlie
first placu in his heart. No statement was too
chary of truth iu its composition, no partisan
muueuvre was loo onenly dishonest, no political
pathway was too dangerous, if an opportunity
was afforded for making a point for Douglas.
He was industrious and sagacious, clothing his
brilliant ideas in energetic aud emphatic lan
guage, aud staudiug like a liou at bay when op
posed.
William M'wton.
' Colonel William Winstead Seaton, that vete
ran journalist and esi finable citizen, was by
trade a printer, and Ills generous baud was ever
ready to aid those of his fellow-craftsmen who
were in destitute circumstances; indeed, the
•uper.uiuated compositors of the Naliouul In
telligencer always received "half pay.” Coming
here when Washington was only Just “staked
*ul.” he was honorably identified with the
growth of Washington city, and his administra
tion as mayor is favorably spoken of by tlie cit-
' all classes and parties.
jzens of all classes aud parties. He joined tlie
Masonic fraternity early iu life, and remained
faithful in his allegiance to it through the dis
graceful Morgan crusade, which failed to ad
vance a single politician engaged in it. As one
of the Washington Moiiiimeut Association, as a
regent of the Smithsonian Institution, as an offi
cer of the volunteer militia, in short.as au active
eo-0|*erutnr ill every praiseworthy work, Colonel
Benton will ever l>e gratefully remembered by
the people of Washington City.
as au editor lie enjoyed the respect and es
teem of his brother journalists. Colonel Seaton
was a high-toned. Itmiorable man, who uever
knelt to lie hampered with party harness, or for
got that truth was the first qu.il iflcatioii as a suc
cessful writer for Uie press. Such statesmen as
Madison, and Mouroe. ami Clay, aud Webster,
must to visit him at his office and at his house.
and in later d ivs Seward and Sumner always
treated ibe old Ne*
ifestorof the press with the re-
•pect which lie merited. His practical, working,
editorial connection with the National Inleill-
wliner was rather overshadowed by ihe more
bi illi uit editor! ils of liis partner and brotlier-
tnliw Mr Gales, but those acquainted wilh the
office know how largely the paper was indebted
to Colonel Seaton for ils success ;uid high repu
tation. An indorsement of liis reputation as
“the first geutlein ut tn America," is related by
a geuiieiiiaii wlm clt uiced to be preseut at the
Slate Department during an interview between
Governor Cass and a newly arrived British Miu-
lsler. to wltoin the veuer tiile secretary said,in
his well-known George-the-Third way; "Have
r oil seen Mr.. Seaton? Eli, ell? The best we
live to show—best we have to show!'
nd was a member, expressed her regret to
Hon. Fisher Ames, of Massachusetts, that she
could not hear tlie arguments, especially liis
8|>eecln's. Mr. Ames gallantly replied that lie
knew of no reason why ladies should not he
permitted to hear the debates. “Then,” said j
Mrs. Langdon. “if yon will let me know when
you next intend to speak. I will make np a
•arty of ladies, and we will go and hear you.” (
The notice was given, tlie ladies went, and I
since then congressional orators have always !
had fair hearers—with others perhaps not very
fair.
Duel Itclwrrn Wise and Coke.
Henry A. Wise, after his first election to Oon
gress, had a prolonged newspaper controversy
with his defeated competitor. Mr. Richard Coke,
which finally led to a duel. Bladeusburg was tbe
spot selected, and it was a matter of general
notoriety, one sa!*» x««uyy .m^ in trs
limt inr ,m. ssjv i»- w*. 'Is-W u>
honor.’' eacii accompanied by a second and a
surgeon. At twelve o'clock they appeared npon
Hie spot. It is situated in a valley not far bom l
tlie roadside, and but a few miles from Wash- '
ington. Several gentlemen of tlie “fancy” ama
teurs and boys collected about the place to wit
ness the sport.
In tlie meanwhile many anxions groups might
be seen gathered about tlie Capitol, in the lobby
and gallery of tlie House, in Hie library and the
rotunda, discussing tlie probable isssue of tbe
rencounter. At one time a rumor was circula
ted that Coke had been wounded “in the thorax
quidnuncs pressed forward to learn the particu
lars. The next moment came a report that Wise
had been “winged;” and the same spirit of in
quiry was manifested to hear the new version of
the affair. At last tlie return of the spectators
of the fight brought Ihe intelligence that Coke
had been wounded in the arm, and that the bul
let. glancing, had entered liis side. He was hit
while in the act of raising his hand to fire, and
if he had been a second quicker Hie shot would
probably have taken effect wholly upon his body
and proved mortal. Wise escaped unhurt, tlie
bullet of his antagonist entering the ground.
Coke fell upon the earth, and was pronounced
by his second hors clu oombat. Upon this, Mr.
Wise went up to his bleeding foe, inquired into
the state of his health, and intimated liis regret
at seeing hint wounded. Both parties shortly
afterward shook hands and expressed them
selves mutually satisfied; and thus tbe farce
ended. Coke's wound was severe, but not dan
gerous.
-Iiillicn’w Concert*.
Jullten gave two concerts at the National The
atre, in Washinaton, iu the Fall of 1863, with his
large orchestra and a galaxy of glorious stars.
The effect of many of their performances was
ovetyowering, and tlie enraptured multitude of
ten for a moment appeared to forget their accus
tomed restraints, and arose to wave their scarfs
or bats in triumph, or blended their shouts of ap
plause with tlie concluding strains of the
I'C ■ —
Down by the Shady Lake He Reads to Her His Tender Poem.
SHAkSPEARPS PALL BEARER.
Quadrile Nationale” and oUier entrancing
pieces. Tlie solos were all magnificent. In the
performances of them Herr Koenig, Signor,
Bottessini. Lavique, 8. Hughes, Sell reus and
Kiochert deservedly elicited rapturous applause.
Tlie "Echoes of Mont Blanc” was a wonderful
musical achievement, and the entire perfor
mance was a triumphant success.
Ami»»k»ag Veterans.
The Amoskeag Veterans came here Novem
ber, 1856. and enjoyed the hospitality of Presi
dent Pierce. They visited Mount Vemon under
escort of a detachment of volunteer officers, and , . , . . , ., . .. ,
were eseorled by tlie venerable G. W. P. Cnstis a sla,) of re<1 sandstone, on which may yet be de-
Here L es a Bearer of the Pall at Shak-
speare’s Funeral-
Correspondence of Buffalo Courier.
There are probably few more persons in this
red mud Virginia town than out of it who know
that in one of tbe graveyards here is a relic,
rarely seen and utterly neglected, though hun
dreds of people pass near it daily, whose pos
session the British Museum might covet It is
around ihe old home of his illustrious relative.
At a ball given in the evening the “old man elo
quent” wore tlie apairtetlos originally fastened
on ins shoulder by him who was "first in war,
first in |>eace, and first Iu the hearts of his coun
trymen.” The sword given him by General
Washington. Mr Cnstis had presented his son-
in-law, Capt. R< >bert E. I,ee. of the engineer corps,
during the Mexican campaign.
J >!■■■ H aNhingtiinaud Mt Vernor,
John A. Washington, the proprietor of Mount
Vernon, offered It for: ■
sale to the United States
and the Slate of Virginia soon after Mr. Buch
anan was inaugurated. Meanwhile lie realized
quite au income from visitors who w ere only per
mitted to land from a steamboat which paid him
a royalty on each passenger. His negroes sold
large quantities of canes, the money for « Uirh
went into his pooset; and he sold to Mr. James
ciphered these words:
Here lies the body of
EDWARD HELDON,
Practitioner in Physics and
Chirugery. Born in Bedford
shire, England, in the year
of our Lord 1542. Was con
temporary with and one of
the pall-bearers of William
Shakspeare, of the Avon.
After a brief illness his spirit *
asoended in the year of our
Lord 1618—aged 76.
The records Show that this county, Spotsylva
nia was not established until 1720, just 102 years
He is the grandson of Basil Gordon of the family
of whom Gordi
_ord«insville is named. Colonel G«r
don cahne here before the Revolution and made
a fortune snipping tobacco. Mr. Knox remem
bers the stone walL It stood, he said, probably
in the line of Burnside's road through
tlie graveyard. It was considerably battered
from his early recollection and had settled quite
deep in the ground, tbe exposed end leaning at
an| angle of about 45 degrees. He had not
seen it 3ince the war. How it drifted
over into the Masonic ground is one of the mys-
terfesof the war. but there it is, flatnn its back,
under a tangle of weeds and creepers, with tlie
npfier corner chipped off and tlie old English
lettering dim but tracalile. There is preserved
in town a copy of tlie-Fredericksburg Gazette,
published in 1784, which bears evidence that Hie
stone was then a feature of t he place, in a trib
ute to it in verse. One verse tuns:
For in tlie churchyard at Fredericksburg
' to lot
Juliet seemed to love
Hamlet mused, aud old Lear fell,
Beatrice laughed, and Ariel
Gleamed through Hie s ies above—
As here beneath lliis stone
Lay ill his narrow hall,
He who before had borne the pan
At mighty Shakspeare's funeral.
Her Bonnet M’a« Tow “Lo»d.”
Well, hubby, how did you enjoy the service
tlis mojning?* "To te tell the truth, darling,
(didn't take much interest in it. I could hardly
hear a word oi the sermon.” “Why, 1 heard It
terf’
THE COLERIDGE LIBEL
The Lord Chief Justice of England in
an Unfavorable Position.
trees, taken from the hill on which the mansion . . . ^ .
at Mount Vemon stands, to be manufactured and been buried at the county seat. 8t. George’s
into canes and other mementoes of Mount Ver
non. Mr. Crulcbelt invested a considerable
sum in raw material and machinery, but tbe
speculation was uot a profitable one.
He Stopped His Paper.
Society—in whose graveyard the Heldon slab
stood until Burnside mowed it down, after which
where it found its way to the Masonic yard, it
now lies under a locust—was not founded until
. - . . ... ... 1730,or 112yearsafter Heldon'sdeath, ltisprob-
Onoe upon a Hme a man got mad at the editor able that'there were burials in the graveyard I
id stopped his paper. The next week he sold before tlie cliurch was built, as there must have
is com at 4 cents below the market price, beeu settlement in tlie count v iw>f„re « name
perfectly. What was the matter!’’ “Well, I
don’t know. It may have been because your
new bonnet was so loud.” And then a silence
fell on the dinner table, so intense that you could
hear the ice cream.
Be Careful About Your I.ove Lei■
*> r»
New York, November 22.—A Sun special,
cable, referring to the Coleridge libel suit, says;
“Lord Chief Justice Coleridge is placed in a
must unfavorable position before the pub
lic by Mr. Adams’ suit. Adams seems
to be sincere aud determined in his
action, and has thus far managed to secure a
large share of the public sympathy. During tlie
proceedings he endeavored to make a strong
point morally against tlie Coleridges, both father
aud son. He showed that the lord chief justice's
daughter was perfecily aware that he was a poor
mau. She had uot beeu the victim of any de-
eepliuu iu this respect, aud eulered into tlie
agreement witii a lull appreciation of the change
iu her circumstances which the union would en
tail, and agreed to tlie marriage from motives of
tbe purest and Highest affections. Wiicu she
made her lanitly acquainted with her iuleuliou
her fattier, Adams alleges, became furious and
treated her wilh meai.hess aii<l|barbarity. When
he iound that ins cruelly served but to increase
her determination, he instigated his sou Bernard
to engage in tlie effort tupoisou her mind against
her betlirolhed. Bernard’s efforts toward
this and culminated iu his composition of the
letter to his sister which forms tlie basis of the
action. In his presentation of the case Adams
said that Miss Coleridge was not shaken iu her
effectiun by her brother's tfforts. aud lliat the
letter served only to excile her indignation.
When her father Iound nut that she had deliv
ered tlie letter to Adams lie disinherited her
from the parental to.ni. Mr. Adams further
HUMAN HAE
Its Growth After Death ' the
Wildest Vagary.
An Instructive Discussion of the Sub
ject By a Detroit Expert
There is a weird and curious Interest In the
following exposition of a subject which has en
gaged a good deal of attention since the morn
ing stars first sang together. Those that find
pleasure in either the ghastly or tbe scientific
will Uiank the writer for his dissertation:
To the Editor of the Detroit Free Press:
I am very frequently asked, and written to, by
irlies iu the city and out of tlie city, concern-
iug the growtli of the hair after death.
As I am
somewhat tired of answering the question, prob
ably you will allow tlie use of your columns (or
a more public, and, 1 hope, a more final answer.
It is only
y a few days since I received the In
closed clipping from one of our lawyers,
several similar oues having been received from
otiier parties.
“In tlie philosophical collections of Mulferus
there is au account of a woman buried at Nu-
reinburg whose grave, being opened forty-ihree
after lier death, h:iir_was found issuing
years:
through the clefts of the coffin, when the cover
was removed the whole shape of the corpse was
visible, but was covered from the crown of the
head to the sole of the foot with thick set hair,
long aud curled. T e sexton was about to han
dle the upper part of tlie head wlieu tlie whole
fell apart at once, and nothing remained but a
handful of hair. There was neither skull nor
any other bone left, yet the hair was solid and
la relates the case of a man
strong. Mr. Arnold
who was hanged on the gallows for a petty theft
ns was formerly the ease m England, whose
body was covered witii growing hair before it
was cut down from the gallows.” >
lu my work upon “Tlie Hair: Its Growth,
Care, Diseases and Treatment,” I have consid
ered tlie subject, and the conclusions (here
given were reached after much examination of
the authentic literature iijk.ii tlie subject, and
numerous experiments made upon the cadaver,
diet
As to tlie phenomena observed at the o|ien
grave of the Nuremberg woman, it is easily ex-
E lained. The substance supposed to have been
air was not hair at all, simply the fine interlac-
iugs oi trees or plant rootlets about the decaying
figure wilhiu the coffin. That plants do envelope
decaying animal substance in this manner has
beeu demonstrated so many times that it is not
necessary to go into particulars. Tlie great ma
jority of case? iff reported hair growth iu tlie
grave are lo be explained upon this hypothesis.
As to ihe criminal case ill tlie above clipping,
it is to be explained by the fact that the man
was previously quite hairy, and that the shrink
ing of the tissues from this hairy covering,
through Hie process of evaporation of Hie juices
of tlie body through exposure produced an ap-
wrft-
parent growth. T, myself, have" repeatedly \
nessed i liis apparent growtli in anatomical s|iec-
imens that 1 have had preserved for the special
consideration of this question.
Hair is tlie least destructive parts of our bodv.
In the grave it is the last of all tlie tissues to
yield to decay. From the ancient catacombs it
Is taken in a state of excellent preservation.
Tlie cranial coverings that once bedecked tlie
citizens of ancient Thebes have survived the
mouldering influences of the tomb, unaided by
embalming, some four thousand years. Hair is
as lasting as tbe Kamack pyramids and the
Sphinx itself; aye, more lasting, for these mon
uments are now crumbling through their weight
of years, whilst some of tlie wigs of human hair,
exposed to tlie mold and moisture of llieir en
tombed apartments for these thousands of years,
are even less annexed by the tooth of time than
are the monuments themselves. Flesh and
blood pass awav before the disintegration of
hair commences. Many suppose that hair de
rives its elements oi growtli from this decay all
about it, but such is not Hie case.
Its growtli after death is more a horrid Action,
than anything else. It is entirely at variance
witii all scientific ahd physiological principles.
I am well aware that many accredited instances.
• '.But.
of such post mortem growtli are quoted.
tills is only believed by those who are supersti
tious and who delight iu tlie marvelous. Hair
food, L.
when this is denied them, both cease to live.
Even tlie heart receives no life front the blood it
propels throughout the system except it first
force it into tlie small arteries that feed its mus
cular substance; it draws no nourishment from
tlie volume of'blood that surges through the ven
tricles every twenty-four hours; it would cease
to beat Instantly if left to tills alone for
life. So, too, tlie hair, concentrate all the bipod
iu the system at its roots, and it|will get no
nourishment unless the blood firsi traverses the
iniiiiile capilaries that go to feed its papilla)
to tlie cells
which furnish life and substance
ceaselessly at wor. therein, building up the hair
shaft, cell upon cell.
I admit an apparent growth of the hair after
death; but there is a vast difference between
this growHt and a genuine one. The apparent
growth Js made from just tlie opposite coudi-
u one, for Hie
j — 1 lrom 1M parental loom. nr. Auauis runner
Hi? “bowed that kflss Coleridge adhered lo tier en-
teacb young men always to burn such, let lera
before wriiingthem. It were better that a love
tions that would favor an actual
"apparent” is seen only on tlie slirin- in’g of the
skin tissues, squeezing the blood and nourish
ment out of them through contraction of
tlie skin, a more projected appearance of
tlie hair cylinder, which, to an unpractleed
eye. would strikingiy simulate real elon
gation. 1 have had anatomical specimens in
iny |>ossession for montlis, and only tills “a|>p»-
reiil'.’ growtli, through, shrinkage iff tlie tissue,
alioiit eyebrows, hair or beard, could be detected.
1 have.seen, though, what 1 took to be a slight
whitening of the locks iu an aged specimen, due,
probably, to aimosplieric influences entirely.
But as lo the absolute growtli of hair after deatn,
1 believe it to he tlie wildest vagary.
c Henri Leonard. M. D.
Early Rising.
More nonsense is talked about getting up ear
ly than probably on any other subject. The
proper lime to get up is when the sleeper 'is
rested—neither before nor after.
Their is no more virtue in the air between six
and eight, than between eight and 10 A. M. Of
course, if any oue goes to bed at half past nine
at night he does not want to rise so late as half-
and
his corn at 4 cents below the market priee. been settlement in the county before a name
Then his property was sold for taxes, because was given it. Jamestown-as founded in 1607,
. entt s sales. He was ar- and lor many years alter that the surrounding
rested and fined ?8 for going hunting on Sunday, country was too lull oi adventure and danger to
ami lie paid 8300 for a lot of forged notes that - • - • - .
had been advertis d two weeks and tlie public
Cautioned uot to negotiate them. He then paid
til a '
4rw piper Orjaus.
Newspaper “orguis" formed an important
feature of the eirly isilitic il in ichinery at Wash
ington. U ulro ids as well as me in iguetic tele-
gr.iph were men unknown, ami it look two days
or more for tne transmission of intelligence be
tween the Federal metropolis aud New York,
notes that risk slieichiiig out tlie infant colony. Dr. llel-
i» oou was 74 years old when Shakspeare died, in
1616. and 76 years old at liis own death. He had
surely readied all age when it could be no ob
ject to him lo seek a new country for gain. It is
presumable tliat whatever possibilities the fu
ture had for him were at home, aud extra-ordi-
liaiy that, though he might brave a slow ocoan
voyage to a strange and distant land, he should
at once theiealler. at that age. plunge into Hie
perilous wilderness. It is hard, however, to see
The remains of a red granite statue of Ramses what motive there could be in falsifying
II., the coiiteinporiry of Moses, which were such a mailer on a tombstone. Tlie wonder is
found by Mr. Petrie at Tauis, Egypt,have been less whether Dr. Heldon came to Federicshurg
carefully examined and - photograi hid. This alter Ids last sei vice to i is jioet friend that how
work has convinced Mr. Petrie liiat the Maine the tombstone got here or when it caine.
nutsl have beeu 115 feet high, exceeding all ihe Tiie sexton at 8t. George's says he lias heard
monuments of the Kind hitherto known. The “heaps of people talk about ll.” Oue of Uie
statue's great toe has a circumference olaiuot posted men in regard totliis section is Mr. Sam-
and a half. ' uel Knox, who is a vestryman at 8L George's
a big Irishman, with a foot like a forge hammer,
to kick him all tlie way to tlie newspaper office,
where he paid four years’ subscription in ad
vance aud made Hie editor sign an agreement
to knock him down and rob him if lie ever or
dered his paper stopped again. Such is life
without a newspaper.—Columbia Hegister.
letter should never be written Uiau for a young
d sign
man to call liis girl a “darling poodle,” an
himself “your liUle puppy.”
Mr K|ad*t«ne •• <1 Song*.
Gladstone, who was always fond of music, is
no- quite enthusiastic about negro melodies,
singing them wilh the grea est spirit and enjoy
ment. never leaving out a verse, aud evidently
preferring such as "Camp Down Races. ’
Why kniur P.iiplr arc Poor.
They use silver spoons to scrape kettles. Cof
fee tea. pepper aud spices are left to stand
open and fuse their strength. Potatoes in the
cellar grow, amt Hie sprouts arc not removed
until tlie potatoes become woitliless. Brooms
are never Iniiig up, and are soon s|>oHed. Nice
handled knives are thrown into tlie water, t he
flour is sifted iu a wasteful manner, aud Hie
bre;nl pan is lett w ith Hie doitgli sticking to it.
Chillies are left oil Hie line to whip to pieces in
tlie wind. Tubs aud barrels are lell iu tlie sun
dry aud fall apart.
sagenienl and Hiai she warmly supported him iu i
bis present act ion against her father. Toward post nine Ihe next day. Eight hours’ sleep is,
the lord chief justice Idiuself Adams was very , as a rule, sufficient even for tlie hardest worker,
bitter. He described him as a judge who would If people went to bed shortly after sunset
move heaven aud earth to frustrate justice, they would naturally get up early; but it is a
when it adversely affected himself, or liis inter- great question wliether they would feel any bet-
ests. Bernard Coleridge shows a disposition to ler for the feat of commencing tlie toil of the
- ■ ... .b-a - J ~' ' ‘
make avigoious resistance, liis plea in Hie day liefore, as Lamb says, the world Is reaiiv
case is that the letter, being a private coiumuui- warmed.
cation from oue memlier ol tlie family to auolli- j Wise people tell us that so much sleep before
er, from a brother lo a sister, warning her of her midni lit is worth double the quantity after-
danger, it must l»e considered a "privileged ward, yet this maxim is merely due to the fact
communication, and therefore not acliouai le. that to the ordinary man sitting up till twelve
Adams contends that tlie law concerning privi- means over-fatigue, needing, consequently more
legetl communications must be confined in its rest next day.
protection to only such cuuiimuiical ions as those. 1 Tlie safest sleeping rules are to leave the bed-
lor instance, winch pass between lawyer; and room window <qien i wo inches at tlie ton in mild
their clieuis. andean not be extended recover weather, for the purpose of ventilation and to
malicious and intended material injuries. So get up as soon as tlie first gimd wake comes
far as the rulings of the judge have indicated. After from six to eight hours'rest the average
be appears inclined to sup|mrl Hie plea raised man and woman becomes restless Tlie brain
by Hie defence. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge regains ils energy sleep is broken, and for .ill
has been sulq-CEiied lo appear as a witness on praciical purposes the night's rest Is over.
Monday next, to which date tlie hearing was This is the time to rise,' and for a man to take,
adjourned. Albs Mildred Mary Coleridge, tire if he can stand it . a cold hath, commencing ilie
heroine in Hie ease, has also consented to-p- wmk ol the world again w ith tlie finest and
pear on the witness stand. I healthiest stimulant which he can enjoy.