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Newspaper Page TextBY J. P. SAWTELL. E. H. PURDY, Manufacturer of Sales, Harness aid Trunks, And Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 411 kinds of Sadlery Ware, Corner of Whitaker and Bryan Btß., SAVANNAH, GA. i Orders for Rubber Belting, Hose and packing; alio', Stretched Leather Belting, Tied promptly. eepl7-6m I, . .. t. 3. GUII.MARTIN. JOHN FLANNERY. t. J. GUILMARTIN & CO., Cotton Factors, AND General Commission Merchants, Bay St., Savannah, Gfa. Agents for Bradley's Super Phos phate of Lime, Powell's Mills Yarns and Domestics, etc. Bagging, Rope and Iron Ties, al ways on liand. Unil'll Facilities Extended to Customers. sepl7-6m A. J. MILLER & CO., FURNITURE DEALERS, 150 Broughton Street, WAVAWWAH, GEORGIA. WE HAVE OX HAND, and are con tinually receiving, every variety of Parlor and Bedroom Sets, Bureaus, Waslistands, Bedsteads, Chairs, Korkers, Wardrobes, Meat Safes, Crudlcs, Looking aiacses, Feathers, Featherbeds, Pil lows etc. llair, Moss, Shuck ajid Exceiclor Matrasses bn hand, and made to 'order. . , , t Jobbing and Repairing neatly do- e, aiid with despatch. We are fully prepared to nil drflers. Country orders promptly attended to. All letters of inquiry answered promptly. sepl7-6m-. MARIETTA MARBLE YARD. j AM PREPARED TO FURNISH Marble, Mon-aments, 'Tombs, Head and Foot Stoned, Vaces, Urns, Vaults, etc., At very reasonable terms, made op Italian, American and Georgia JMC Jk. H. B Xj t IRON RAILING Put Up to Order. , for information or designs address me at this place, or : DU. T. S. POWELL. Agent, (Juthbr rt, Ga Address, .0. A. BISAIVER, sepl7 6oi Murietta, Ga. GEORGE S. HART & CO., Commission Imhani^ And Wholesale Dealers in Fine Butter, Cheese, Lard, etc., $9 Pearl and 28 Bridge Sts., K. Y. ItSF” Butter and Lard, of all grades, put up in every variety ol package, for Shipment to " arm Climates. sepl7-fim* leedTclarke, No. 22, Old Slip, New York, DEALERS IN I’ROY! iIOXS, bnions, Potatoes, Butter, etc. septl7-6m ELY, OBERHOLSTER & CO., Importers and Jobbers in Dry Goods, Hoi. 329 ct - 331 Broadway, Corner of Worth Street. tcpis-6m New York. Waterwheel, Mill Geari n£, Shafting Pul I eys FOOJt« SEND FORA CIRCUIAR—J&r GEORGE PAGE & CO. iVo. 5 AT. Schroeder St., Baltimore. Manufacturers of pUrtAble and sf ationary Steam Engines and Boilers PATENT IMPROVED. PORTABLE Circular Saw Hill bang, Malay and Sash Sate Mills, tjrifi' Mills, Timber Wheels, Shingle Ma chines, &e. Dealers in Circular Saws, Bell ing ami Mill supplies srcnerallv, and manufac turer’s ngeuts for Leffei’6 Celebrated Turbine Water Wheel and every description of Wood Working Machinery. Agricultural Engines a Specialty. for descriptiv* Catalogues & PHce List. ?'efil7Jv CUTHBERT TIT 33 EUREKA AIDIONIATED BONE SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF L.IMEI Is for salfe at All Points of Importance IN GEORGIA. WE HAVE SOLD IT FIVE SUCCESSIVE YEARS, AND know It is the very Article Foil PLANTERS TO USE. DAVII) DICKSON, Esq:, Os Oxford, says It m superior to any COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER He has ever applied, and RECOMMENDS IT to EVERYBODY. WE SOLD OVER Two Thdiisaiid Tolls IN GEORGIA LAST YEAR. IT HAS BEEN TRIED AND ALWAYS PLANTED. Send fbr a Pamphlet. An Agent may be found at almost every De pot, but information can always be had of F. W. SIMS & CO., §aTannah, <*a. Agent at Ctithbert, Ga.s If. H. JONES. Agent at Fort Gaines, Ga.,' BUTWVB St (;iiill iu. « - ' , jan2o-3m CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRID AY, MARCH 17, 1871. ®ljt (Cutjjkrt appeal, Terms of Subscription: One Year $3 00 | Six Months....s2 00 INVARIABLY in advance. No attention paid to orders for the pa per uu'ess accompanied by the Cash. Rates c)f Advertising: One square, (ten lines or less,) $1 00 fpf tlm fi'•st and 75 cents for each subsequent inset tion. A liberal deduction made to parties who advertise by the year- Persons sending advertisements should mark the number of times they desire them inser ted, or they will be continued until lorbidaud charged accordingly. Transient advertisements must be paid for at the time of insertion. Announcing names of candidates for office, $5.00. Cash, in all cases Obituary notices over five lines, charged at regular advertising ra*es. All coinmtmifcations intended to promote the private ends or interests of Corporations, Bo cieti-s, or individuals, will be charged as ad vertisements. Job Work, such as Pamphlets, Circulars, Cards, Blanks, Handbills, etc., will he execu ted in good style and at reasonable rates. All letters addressed to the Proprietor will be promptly attended to. Church Directory. METHODIST CHURCH— R. B. Lester, Pastor. Preaching at 11, A. M. & 7 12, P. M. Sab bath School, 3, P. M BAPTIST CHURCH—F. M. Daniel, Pa ß : tor: Preaching at 11. A. M. & 7 1-2, P. M. Sab bath school, 9 1-2, A M. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCII-J. S. Coz nfr, Pastor. Preaching at 11, A. M. & 7 1-2, P. M. Sab bath School. 9 12, A. M. Written at My Mother’s Grave. BY CEOItOE ». ntENTICE. Tli 1 tfrirtibling dleW-drops fall Upon the shattered flowers like souls at rest; The stars shine gloriously, and all, Save me, is blest. Mother ; I love thy graVd t The Violet, with its blossoms blue and rrtild, Waves o’er thy head— when shall it wave Above thy child ? ’Tis a bright flower, yet rinst Its bright leaves to the tempest bow ; Dear mother, ’tis tbiue emblem—dust, Dust is On thy brow. - Ann I could love to die To leave untasted life’s dark bitter stream. By thee, as erst in childhood, lie, And share thy dreams. And must I linger here, To slain the plumage ol riy sitiless years, And mourn the hopes of cbitdhood dear, With bitter tears? Aye, must I linger here, A lonely brauch upon a blasted tree, Whose last !ru*l leaf, untimely sere. Went down with thee? Oft from life’s withered bower, lu still communion with the past, I turn And muse on thee, the only flower In Memory’s urn. And when the evening pale Bows like a mourner on the dim blue wave, I stray to hear the night winds wail Around thy grave. Where is thy spirit flown ? I gaze above—thy look is i til aged there ; 1 listen, and thy geutle toue Is on the air. Oh,come, while I press My brow upon thy grave—and iri those mild And thrilling tones of tenderness, Bless, bless thy child ! Womanly Modesty. Man loves the mysterious; A cloudless sky, a full blown rose, leave him unmoved* but the violet which hides the blushing beauties behind the bush, and the moon when she emerges from beneath a cloud, are to him sources of inspi ration and pleasure. Modesty is to merit what shade is to figures iu paintings—it gives its boldness and prominence. Nolhing adds more to female beauty than modesty; it shetls around the countenance a halo of light, which is borrowed from virtue. Botanists have given to the rosy hue the name of “maiden’s blush.” This pure aud delicate hue is the only paint a Christian virgin must use; —it is the richest orna ment. A woman without modesty is like a faded flower, diffusing an unwholesome odor, which the pru dent gardner will throw from him. Her destiny is melancholy, for it terminates in shame and repentance. Beauty passes like the flowers of the albo, which blooms and dies in a few hours; but modesty gives the female character charms which supply the place of the transitory freshness of youth. Golden Opportunities. —As Wealth is for the most part accumu lated by the constant saving of small sums, so knowledge is acquir ed by constant, though it may be almost imperceptible, acquisitions “Line upon line” is the one sure way of conquering the difficulties that lie in the student’s path. The saving of time, even its moments, is an important element. Some wait for great opportunities, suffer ing the day's; months; and even years, to pass away in mere resolves to become learned. The choice of profession, a calling, or au object of attainment in the pursuit of knowledge, and, not a resolution to work, merely, but a working right on, in season and out of season, sav ing the moments, is the surest way to reach the goal. The following notice appeared upon the west .pnd of a country meeting house: “Anybody sticking bills against this will be prosecuted according to law or any other rui sance.” Ocean Currents. BY PROF. W. G. HATHAWAY. Rivers of the ocean ale on a much grander scale than rivers on the land'. Their geographical posi tiohs are as readily established as the most noted on either continent. In their length and magnitude they vastly excel. The great Equatorial River, moving westerly through the Pacific Ocean, is more than three thousand miles broad, and its length —indeed it has no end, for it encir cles the globe. This majestic river began to flow when the earth made its first revolution on its Axis, and it continues to rush onward in the same direction—Westward forever. Tliis endless stream, would, like the Torrid Zone girdle the earth on a great circle at the Equator, were it not lor the intervention of conti nents and islands which turn it aside, and in some instances, divide its waters and turn portions back in vast whirlpools of immense areal. I he Atlantic Ocean, in its broad est extent, from Florida to Spain, is one enormous whirlpool, caused by a branch of this great ocean current above named. Another branch of this great fiver rushes against the Brazillian Coast, and is deflected south and .east of the main stream which rounds the Cape of Good Hope, forming a sort of boundary be tween the Indian and Southern Ocean. \\ hen approaching Aus tralia it is turned northward, by the Antarctic current, and soon falls in to the influence of the rotary mo tion of the earth, and for want of cohesion, and lack of specific gravi ty cannot keep pace with the solid body of the earth, and uecessarily turns west again, crossing the In than Ocean about midway, and hav mg completed its circuit, joins the Equatorial stream just north of Madagascar. This compressed eclipse would have expanded and formed a grand whirlpool, similar to the one in the North Atlantic, “j™ been for the projection of bouth Afri ca . lhe Pacific Ocean contains two somewhat similar elliptical whirl pools, formed partly by the diago nal coast of the two continents, and the counter currents that flow from the Poles towards the Equator. It is not my design to trace out the numerous livers Os the sea, and show how these are modified by projecting continents, capes, and headlands all over the earth, but to call attention to one famous l.b.inch of this wonderful central stream — the Equatorial current turned aside from its westward motion by tlie coast of South America, called, THE GULF STREAM. Many theories have been suggest ed to account for the various phe nomena of this remarkable current. Some fifteen years since, I collected and examined a number of articles on this subject, all of which ap peared objectionable, and none con tained, what to my mind is mani festly the main spring of its action, and I have seen nothing since, that seems to hit upon the simple theory that occurred to me at that time. — This theory accounts for all ocean streams on the same principle. This famous current, as above stated, is a branch of the great equatorial river turned to the north west by contact with the South American Coast. This stream has made its way from near Cape St. Roque, more than three thousand miles along the diagonal coast of South America, passing through the Caribbean Sea, south of Jamaica, and enters the Gulf of Mexico through the gate formed by the peninsula of Yucatan and the west end of Cuba. We follow now its course entirely round the gulf, back to the northern gate, made still narrower by the projec tion of Florida, almost drawn in contact with the western extremity of Cuba. On viewing the situation of these two peninsulas, Yucatan and Flori da, with the position of Cuba, it is not difficult to imagine that Cuba in the early ages of the ivorld was the gate" hinged upon Yucatan, which closed in the gulf from the Atlantic, forming art inland sea, and as Hercules is fabled to have “Sep arated the joined mountains” at Gibralter, and made an outlet to the Mediterranean, so he, or some con vulsion of nature may have torn this gate from its moorings and strung it out endways into the At lantic. But to return from this digres sion, we find this! stream issuing from the giilf, sweeping round the the Reefs of Florida to the north east, off the Eastern Coast of the United States, bearing more and more easterly, till it reaches the grand banks of Newfoundland.— Here a portion curves towards Spain, forming the eastern bounda ry of the great whirlpool that en circles what is known as the Sar gossti Sea; while thd westefii part flows east, and over the grand banks, and on towards the coast of Norway, with branches circling round the Bay of Biscay, warming up the waters that surround the British Isles and the North Sea. This flow of the warm waters of the Torrid Zone against the pro jecting elbow of South America, turning the stream away to the northwest, along this coast; into, and around the gulf, flowing in its course more than five thousand miles under a tropical sun ; and fi nally poured upon the coasts of Spain, France, England, Ireland and Scotland, then sweeping away to the north, along the coast of Nor way, renders these high latitudes far milder than the climate on the coast of North America. The fame of the Green Isle of Erin would never have been sung had it not been for the warm breath and balmy air attendant upon the gulf stream. England vvould have been as sparsely settled as Norway, and the sunny land of France, as cold and inhospitable as the coast of Labrador; while Sweden and Norway being about the same lati tude as the south of Greenland, would have been as dreary and in hospitable as that dismal land. It would be interesting to trace, still further, the consequences that must have followed had there been no Gulf stream wafting the genial influences of more southern climes upon the western shores of Europe. England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, with Belgium, Holland and Denmarkj the north of France even, and the whole of Prussia lie in latitudes corresponding with Labrador and Hudson’s Bay.— Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is farther than Alaska. Lon don and Berlin are from two to three hundred miles north of the Lake of the Woods in British America. All these places, above named, would have been as bleak as the region around Hudson’s Bay, were it not for the mingling of trop ical waters with the seas, bays and channels which surround these countries in the west of Europe.— In fact, we have reason to conclude from the history of Caesar’s cam paigns in Gaul and Brittany', nearly two thousand years since, that at that time, the climate of Brittany, Gaul and Germany was much more severe than at present. These cam paigns of Catsar lasted but a few months each year, when he was ob liged, on account of the rigors of. the climate, to withdraw his troops into Northern Italy', or make early preparations for sustaining his ar my in winter quarters in Gaul, (now France). Who knows, but in that age of the world, that this branch ot the Equatorial River, now called the Gulf Stream, may have passed through the Gulf into the Pacific Ocean ; since we know that the An des and other mountain chains have, at some age of tiie world, been thrown up by volcanic action. This connecting link between Nortli and South America, may have been thrown up during the last two thou sand years. It will be readily comprehended what a change would be produced by turning back, eastward, this im mense body of heated water, pour ing it from the Gulf, (as from the spout of a tea-kettle) northward through the cold waters of the At lantic, and against the west coast of Europe. This broad and deep strata of warm water, just off the shore, has no small influence in ameliorating the climate of the eas tern coast of the United States. — To carry out the reflections a little farther, may we not find in the above suggestions the means to ex plain the recession and disappear ance of those immense glaciers and ice fields, which formerly occupied the northern parts of this Country aud Europe, that KaVe been so graphically described by Professor Agassiz ? [to be continued.] A Northern Man’s Opinion of Savannah. —A prominent New York merchant who has recently made a tour of the South, in a let ter to the New York Sun, while he speaks rather disparagingly of oth er sections, compliments Savannah in the following flattering language: Savannah especially has risen in to great prominence since the war, principally through the operations of the Georgia Central Railroad Company. This company not only conduct an extensive line of trans portation, but also are heavy bank ers ; and by making advances on agricultural products, they obtain the control of the business of car rying them to the seabord, and of their exportation. Savannah has thus become the second city of the South in regard to the amount of its exports and of its business gen erally. A great deal of Northern energy and capital has also become established there, and this contrib utes to the progress of the town.— Charleston, on the other hand, seems to have sunk into a kind of sullen stupor and inactivity. Mo bile likewise is dead, and New Or leans is declining. No new build ings are to be seen in either of the towns. In producing these results, the extravagance, oppression and corruption of the carpet-bag State Governments have had a great deal to do. In this respect South Caro lina and Louisiana are the worst sufferers of the whole South. There prevails also throughout the Soutn among agriculturalists and business men generally, a feeling that they have been hardly deiut with by .Congress since the termination of the war; and this feeling, no doubt, goes a great way ia deadening their energies, and preventing them from engaging in productive enterprises. —“Clara, I love but thee alone,” thus sighed the tender youth. “Olq hear me then, my passion own with trembling lips and earnest tone Indeed; I speak the truth !” He paused—the blush o’erspread her cheeks, she let him draw her near ; scarce for emotion could she speak, yet she asked in accents meek : I “ How much have you a year ?” APPEAL What I Have Seen, and What I Said in View of it. Editors Chronicle cfc Sentinel: I have been traveling this world up and down, backward and for ward, for fifty years, and have seen many pleasant, and many unpleas ant sights in that half century, and if you please, 1 will tell you of some of them from time to time, when I have leisure. I have seen a young man, of in tellect, health and strength, loafing about and around the paternal homestead, living at the expense of aged and fond parents, and I have said : “Young man ! you ought to be ashamed of yourself! Why do you not go tc work ? Have you no ambition ? Have you no back-bone ? Hate you no wish to be somebody,' and to do something for the benefit of the world in which you live? If not, then do pray go and live among the roaming Indians, or among the lazy wild Africans.” 1 have seen a young woman spend her time in lounging, receiving calls, thunaming on the piano, dressing, primping, shoppings and reading novels, while her feeble mother kept the house, sewed, patched, darned, cooked, washed and swept from dawn to bed time. And in fiew of the sad Sight I have said: “Worthless young creature, silly, heartless daughter ! Where is your filial piety ? Where is your loving gratitude to your fond mother, who has done and suffered so much lor you ? Alas ! alas !! Woe will be to the man who makes you his wife ! Better would it be for that man, that a millstone were fastened to his neck and that he were cast into the depths of the sea, than that he should have such a selfish and heart less lump of human flesh for a wife, I have seen a youthful couple at the hymenial altar solemnly cove nant and promise, before God and man, that they' would love and cher ish each the other till death, and afterwards I have seen that same couple scolding, quarreling and snapping like cats and dogs ; and I have said, “If there be a future heaven for growling lions, fighting cats, snarling curs and snapping turtles, I hope and pray that such husbands and wives will be sent to keep them coirtpany.” I have seen a loving bride bid farewell to her childhood’s home, to father, mother, brother and sis ter, and go bravely forth into the world with the hiisband of her choice and alterwards labor, toil and deny herself to make that husband happy, and I have seen that same chosen husbandj by his crueltv, in temperance and infidelity, destroy that wife’s happiness, embitter her existence, break her heart and has ten her to an untimely grave; and when I saw it I said: “Cruel, per jured husband ! wretch ! ! fiend ! ! ! if there be a depth in perdition ten thousand fathoms deeper than that one which is filled with the vile, black hearted seducers from this earth, surely you will reach that deepest depth and there be scorched forever more.” I have seen a ycuilg man spend ing the money which his father had accumulated by r great industry and economy, in bar rooms, gambling hells, and houses of ill repute, and I have said, “Young man, if you were my son I would teach you better manners even as Gideon taught the men of Succoth.” See Book of Judges, chap. 8, ver. 16. I have seen a man spend from twenty to fifty cents every day' for grogj that did him much harm and no good, and I have seen that same man fly into a passion when his long suffering wife asked him for a little money to buy' sonic tea and sugar, or some clothes for the children, and I have heard him say to that wife, “You’ll break me with your ex travagance;” and I have said, “Dram-drinker, three drams a day are equal to one hundred and ten dollars a year, which sum will pur chase sugar, toffee, tea; sy'rup and rice enough to supply a small fami ly for twelve months.” More anon. Franklin. How to Make Hens Lay in the Winter.— A writer in the Western Farmer say : Being an old hand at the business, and 1 think successful, I wish to give my system of feed ing poultry, to force them. I chop up pretty fine meat of any kind baked, roasted or raw—and to about a pound of meat I put about half a teaspoonful cayenne pepper. I mix thorou hly; then feed the meat to them, alway'S being careful to have them fed about an hour before, with grain or other food. If meat is not to be had, then make mush of either corn meal, oat meal buckwheat flour, using one teaspoonful for about twenty' hens. Never soak your corn. It is a poor plan. —Poultry must have hard feed of some kind, or they will have poor digestion, and then of course other diseases. I feed the mixture as often as twice a week. In very bold weather I feed often er, and have no neighbor who can show more eggs from the same number of hens than I can, neither have they more vigorous, healthy stock. Old mortar broken up* charred bones; charcoal, etc., are very good, especially for winter. A young lady upon one occa sion asked her lover to define love. “Well, Salj” said he, “it is to me, an inward impressibility and an out ward all-overishness. Courage, the commonest of the virtues, obtains more applause than discretion, the rarest of them. An Eloquent Extract. “Generation, after generation,” says a fine writer, “have felt as we now feel, and their lives Were as ac tive as-our own. They passed like vapor, while nature wore the same aspect of beauty as when her Crea tor commanded her to be. The heavens shall be as bright over our graves as they now are around our paths. The world has the same at tractions for our offspring yet unborn as she had once for our children.— Tet a little while all will have hap pened. The throbbing heart will be stilled, and all will be at rest. Our funeral will find its way; aud pray ers will be said, and then we shall be left alone in silence and in dark ness for the worms. And, it may be, for a short time we shall be spoken of, but the things of life will creep, in, and our names will soon be forgotten. Days will con tinue to move on, and laughter and songs will be heard in the room in which we died ; and the eyes that mourned for us will be dried, and glisten again with joy; aud even our children will cease to think of us, and will Dot remember to lisp our names.” Prospects of Confederates to nE Restored. —The Supreme Court of the United States lately ren dered a decision, in which the Court declared to be null and void, certain legal proceedings taken be fore a court in Memphis in 1863, while that city was in possession of the United States troops, against one Thomson A. Nelson, a citizen of that place, but then a resident within the lines of the Confederate army. It was pronounced by Mr. Jus tice Bradley', all the Judges concur ring except Chief Justice Chase, who was absent. It will be observed that by this decision no sale of property, mort> gaged or not mortgaged, belonging to absent Confederates, made by virtue of a decree of any court within any place held by the forces of the United Stales, conveyed any title to the purchaser thereof. All such sales and proceedings are null and void and the property must be delivered back to the owner thereof, provided he was a resident in the Confederacy and adhered to the Confederate States Government, and thus unable to appear iu court in his own defense. This, on prin ciples of international law and un der the laws of war. A person who is sick enough to need night watchers needs rest and quiet, and all the undisturbed repose he can get. If one or more persons are in the room reading, talking or Whispering, as is often the case, this is impossible. There should be no light burning in the room unless it be a very dim one, so placed as to be out of sight of the patient. Kerosene oil should never be used in the sick room. The attendant should quietly sleep or-lie in the same room, or, what is usually better, in au adjoining room, so as to be within call if any thing is wanted. In extreme cases, the attendant can frequently step quietly to the bedside to see if the patient is doing well, but all noise and light should be carefully exclu ded. It is a common practice to wake patients occasionally for fear they will sleep too soundly. This should never be done. Sleep is one of the greatest needs of the sick, and there is no danger of their get ting too much of it. The air in the room should be kept pure and sweet by thorough ventilation. —Herald of Health. What are They.— Life— A gleam of light extinguished by' the grave. Fame—A meteor dazzling with its distant glare. Wealth —A source of trouble and consuming care. Pleasure—A gleam of sunshine passing soon away. Love—A morning beam whose rnemoi'y gilds the day. Faith—An anchor dropped beyond the vale of death. Charity—A stream meandering from the fount of love. Bible—A guide to realms of end less joys above. Religion—A key which opens wide the gates of heaven. Death—A knife by which the ties of earth are riven. Earth—A desert through which the pilgrims wend their way. Grave —A home of rest where ends life’s weary way. Resurrection—A sadden waking from a quiet dream. Heavtm —A land of joy', of light and love supreme. A Cheerful Face. —There is no greater every-day virtue than cheerfulness. This quality in man among men is like sunshine to the day, or gentle, renewing moisture to parched herbs- The light of a cheerful face diffuses itself, and communicates the happy spirit that inspires it The sourest temper must sw'eeten in the atmosphere of continuous good humor. As well might fog, and cloud, and vapor, hope to cling to the sun-illumined landscape, as blues and morofieness to combat jovial speech and exhil erating laughter. Be cheerful al ways. There is no path but will be easier travelled, no load but w'ill be lighter, no shadow on heart or brain but will lift sooner, in presence of a determined cheerfulness. A hog is not usually much at multiplication, but is perfectly at home on the square root. YOL. Y-NO. 12 THE EDITOR’S CRY. O Sunday, Sunday ! day of rest, When squibs and puds no more Torment and rack my scanty brain, And thoughts of “ ads,” are o’er. Clever Fellows—People who spend fifteen dollars every time they' earn ten. When a man’s business is rap ? idly running down it is time for him to think of winding it up. When you hear a man say. “Life is but a dream,” tread on his corns and wake him up. Life is real. Folly'—To think you can make pork out of pig iron, or that you may become a shoemaker by drink ing sherry cobblers. The reason there are so many mutton-heads in existence is be cause such a number of children ’ are “perfect little lambs.” An old Greenland seaman said he could really believe that croco diles shed tears, for he had often seen whales blubber. A modest young woman blush ed scarlet the other day at a restau rant, w here her escort read from the bill of fare, “bear hams.” A traveling piano player un dertook to whip an Illinois editor, and when he got through ho had only one ear for music. —An old lady read about the strike of the wire drawers in Wor chester, Mass., and said that of all new-fangled things, wire drawer?! must be the queerest. A brilliant young man, who had never heard of apple-butter un til a few days ago, supposed it was made from the milk of cows fed on apples. A man stopping bis paperj wrote to the editer : “I think folks ottent to spend their mutiny fer pay per, my daddy diddent and ever boddy said he was the inteliigentes man in the country and had the smartest family of boiz that ever dugged taters.” —There is a remedy for croup going the rounds, which may per haps, prove efficacious. It is sim ply allspice tea, the tea being made of whole grains of allspice. Ac cording to all accounts, it gives al most instant relief in cases where other remedies have failed, and seems at once to cut the phlegm loose and relieve the child. A gentleman dining at a hotel where servants were few and far be tween, dispatched a lad among them for a cut of beef. After a long time, the lad returned, and placing it before the hungry gentleman. w r as asked : “Are you the lad whe took my plate for this beef ?” “Yes, sir.” “Bless me,” resumed the hungry wit, “how you have grown 1” “l’ve been thinking,” said Lit tle Frogby, absently spitting into our paste cup, “I’ve been thinking about this here woman suffrage bus iness. S’posing,” said he ,“that — a—a —now Olive Logan, fr instance should be made President of this great and glorious country, be queathed to us by noble sires and all that, she’d be President Logan, wouldn’t she ?” We bowed. “Well; now, s’posing she was to marry, say a man by the name of—of—Perkins, f’r instance, would she be President Logan or President Perkins ?” It was too many for us. “And, then, again,” continued he, after a pause, “s’posing Mrs. Grant was to die, and Olive married Ulysses, how then? Just think of Grant in the White House again, will you! No; sir! With such a prospect, Paul Frogby’s dozen on woman suffrage 1” What a head ! Views of Fighting. —Here is what the celebrated Major Jack Downing said several years ago on fighting: “In the matter of fight ing, there is one thing I always keep my eyes on, and I found Gen eral Jackson of the same way of thinking, and that is, to depend less on folks who say they are ready to shed the last drop of their blood, than on folks who are ready to shed the first drop.” “ HAin’t Had a Bite.”—A min ister was on his way to church one Sunday morning, and saw a boy on the river bank fishing. “My boy,” said he, “don’t you know that it is a sin to catch fish on Sunday?” “Guess I hain’t sinned much yet,” said the boy, without taking his eye from the cork ; “hain’t had a bite.” The minister walked on. Tub Deepest Dole in the World. —When we quit work on the artesian well, near the Insane Asylum, it was admitted that the hole was the deepest in the world. The St. Louis hole is now beaten by one in the vicinity of Potsdam, which is drilled to a depth of more than 5500 feet. Commenced with the iutention of boring an artesian well, it now serves a much more in teresting purpose. At a depth of 300 feet a mighty stratum of rock salt was discovered, which has not yet been entirely pierced at the im mense depth of 5500 feet. Other holes, distant several hundred feet; have been bored in order to ascer tain the circumference of the salt bed, and everywhere salt has been struck at a distance of about three hundred feet.— St. JOouis Rtyubii -1 can.