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Newspaper Page TextVOL. V. THE APPEAL. I'UBi.lsHKt) EVERT FRIDAY, BY SAWTELL & CHRISTIAN. Terms of Subscription.: One Ykar. ...$3 00 | Six Months $3 00 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. ht. No attention paid to orders for the pa per unless accompanied by’the Casb. Rates of Advertising :" One square, (ten lines or less,) $1 00 for the first and 75 cents for each subsequent inser tion. A liberal deduction made to parties who advertise by the year- Persons sending advertisements should mark the number of titnes they desire them inser ted, or they will be continued until forbid and 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 live Hues, charged at regular advertising rn'es. All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of Corporations, So ciert'S, or individuals, will be charged as ad vertisemeuts. Job Work, such as Pamphlets. Circulars, Cards, Blanks, Handbills, qtc., will lie execu ted in goon style and at reasonable rates. All letters addressed to the Proprietor will be promptly attended to, A Proclamation. GEORGIA. By 11UFUS B. B IT BLOCK, Governor of Said State. Whereas, The AL«l<*tna and Chattanooga Hail mad Company has failed to pay the semi annual interest due on the first days of Janua ry, and July ultimo, upon certain bonds of that Company : and Whereas, The Stnte of Georgia indorsed for and guaranteed the prompt payment of the interest and principal of said bonds, and has paid to the ladders thereof .he semi-an nual interest duo on the first daysol January and July aforesaid ; and Whereas, The said Alabama and Chattanoo ga Railroad Company accepted, c incurred in, mid agreed to the terms and conditions pre scribed by law at the time said, indorsement was made by this State : Now, therefore, by virtno of the untliority in me vested by the Constitution and Laws of tills State, I, Hnfns B. Bullock, Governor and Commander in Chief of (he army and Navy of this State, and of the militia thereof, do issue this my proclamation making known that the State of Georgia is in possession of the Ala bnma and Chattanooga Railroad, its track, road bed, machinery, franchises, and property of all and every description, lying or being in the State of Georgia ; and it is ORDERED, That, all oflieers of this State, civil and military, euercise dne diligence, to the end that the agent of this State be mnin tained in tho peaceful possession of the said Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad mid its property within this Stnte, and restrain all parties from any action whatsoever to dispos sess the State until the further eider of the Executive. Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at the Capitol in Atlanta, tills 12th day of August, in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-one, and of the Independence of the United Suit A of America the Ninety sixth. RUFUS B. BULLOCK. By the Governor: David G, Cottino, Secretary of State unglt-4t A Proclamation. GEORGIA. By Ii UFUS B. BITLL 0 CJv, Governor of said /State. Wukreas, It lias been represented to me that Waiter Wilson, Joseph llmio, Ruhard Lazenby, and Radford l’erkins, stsnd cliarged with the crime of asssanit, wiih intent to murder, upon Ephraim Gibbs, in the comity of McDuffie, on the ISth day of May, 1871, and that they have fled from justice, I have thought proper therefore to issue this, my proclamation, hereby offering a reward of One Thousand Dollars for all, or |3t)o each, for the apprehension and delivery of the said Wilson, Ilodo, Eaisenby, and Perkins, with evidence sufficient to convict, to the sheriff of said county and State, and also a further re watd of five hundred Dollars, upon the same conditions above recited, forany accessory, be fore the fact, to said crime. Given under niy hand and the Great Seal of the StHta at the capital, in the city of At lanta, this otlid .y of August, in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Scveuty- Qpt, and of the. Independence of the Uni ted States of Ameiica the Ninety-sixth. RUEU3 B. BULLOCK By the Governor.: David G. Cottihc, Secretary of State. amilMt A Proclamation. GEORGIA. Jiy R UFUS B. B ULL 0 GK, Governor of said State. WIIEREAS, Offieinl information lms been received at this Department that a murder wag t'Ommitted upon the body of John A Griffin, in the county of Heard, on or about the 18i.li of November, 1870, by Thomas Teal, Paschal Griffis, t.nd Susan Knowles, as is alleged, and that the said Thomas Teal, Paschal Griffis, abd SusiLn Knowles have fled from justice. Now therefore, to the end that they may be brought, to trial iol'Alte crime with which they stand charged, I have thought proper to issue his my proclamation liereby offering a re ward of one thousand dollars each for the ap prehension and delivery of the said Teal, Pas chal Giiffis, and Susan Knowl s. with evidence sufficient to convict, to the Shcrilf ot said county of Heard. Given m der my hand, and the great Seal of * the State, at the Capitol, in Atlanta, litis seven It day of August, in the year of our laird Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-one, and <>f the Independence of the United States of Aiueiica the Ninety-sixth. RUFUS 11. BULLOCK. By tlie Governor: David G. CoTTINo, /Secretary of State. iyant JC FIN E Assortment of Slates, For sale by T. ft- I’OVVLLL, Trustee, CUTHBERT APPEAL, What I Saw and Heard in Dream land. Once thinking of the evermore) Where death shall triumph tteVermore. Wijle in my easy chair reclining, The threads of varied fancy twining, Some unseen power my,thoughts composing, With unfelt force my eyeling closing, My spirit soon, in dreamland wandering, Found matter for a life time’s pouderingl No worldly cares in my soul then cumbering, I saw such woußdrous scenes while slumber ing, Brighter than all my fancy weaving, And grand beyond the mind’s conceiving. Too grand to he described or painted— Angelic hosts a id spirits sainted, Adorning seraphs, cherubs glowing ; The tree of life in beauty growing ; Tbe martyrs in pure white robesshining, Victorious wreaths their brows entwining ; Rivers of living water flowing Trough streets with golden pavements glow ing ; The glorious dwelling, many-mansioned, Sapphire-wailed palace of the ransomed, Wherein, the wicked ne'er molesting, Poor toil-worn souls found long-sought rest ing. Os all that troil its floors gem-sprinkled; There was not one with brow care-wrinkled. No rich were theic the poor enslaving ; No poor for pity humbly craving; No Dives sumptuously faring. Gold, purple, and flue linen wearing : While famished Lazarus, tatter-clothed, Crouched at his gate, an object loathed. There, equal rights to all accorded, Man o’er his brother nevtr lorded. There, over all Jehovah reigning, Was neither sorrow nor complaining : Bliss, perfect bliss, all were enjoying, Pleasures eternal, never cloving. Departed loved ones there abiding, While in Almighty love confiding, Mid the great light of suns unsettiug, Their loved on earth were not facetting. Those there, the Father’s face befWding, Communion sweet with these were holding. There were no heaven were earth forgotten ; The universe is love-begotten Love's golden chain, by death unriven. Together bindetli earth and heaven. While thus in dreamland I was ranging, Bathed in a see of light unchanging, The one great Spirit’s throne surrounding, The saints their harps of gold were sounding. First came their notes of praise, soft stealing My spirit over ; then loud pealing. As though wind, water thunder, blending In paean loud, heaven’s vault were rending. That heavenly music, spirit-thrilling, With rapture my whole soul was filling. Each sweet refrain, each chorus swelling, Os God’s great love to man was telling, Os bliss for nil that broathe preparing, Which then in dreamland I was sharing. Where life's pure light, alone was shining, Beauty with holiness combining. *" Wbile all these glorious scenes surveying, Os life and love, both undecaying, entranced, I stood beholding Angels the gates of pearl unfolding : Cn every servile badge dark frowning. Earth's jaded toilers they were crowning. Bondsmen from thenceforth nevermore.; Saints, kings, and priests for evermore. The music ceased, the spell was broke, As with a joyous cry I woke. Oh ! shall l ever see ngain What things I saw in dreamland then. Or hcarfagain such sweet refrains, Such grand, such soul-nplifting strains ? Fur bliss so great lew dare to itope While With the storms of life they cope. But, oh ! when death shall vanquished be, And captive led captivity ; When from the bursting we rise, To meet the comer from the skies— We all shall hear these s'weet refrains, These grand, these sou! uplifting strains. By sin and death no more enthralled, In the great city sapphire walled We then shall dwell for evermore, Where death shall strike us nevermore. John Wills. ft-IF 0 The latest social sensation is the Buft’enbarger poisoning case, at London, Ohio. The points are about as follows : Buffenbarger,sev enty-odd years old,and worth a mill ion, like many another man has done, turned fool and married a woman of twenty. Bridal trip to Cincinnati. Met Colburn. Col bnrn thinks she’s the old man’s daughter. He makes eyes at her. She tells the old man the fnfmy mistake. Old man laughs and makes the acquaintance of Colburn and invites him to visit him. Good. Colburn makes a visil--one, two, three, many of them—-just to keep up a pleasant acquaintance. Two children are born. Old man dies at the age of seventy six. “ Sleeps with his fathers.” Wife mourns a reasonable time and then marries Colburn. Happy all. Some more time passes. Buffenbarger’s friends intimate that the old man was help ed offi They accuse the lady of feeding him on arsenic gruel. She is arrested. Corpse exhumed.— Post mortem. Arsenic in liver and other parts of body. Who put it there ? Late widow awaits trial. Escape op Vallandigham’s Cli ent. —The Dayton (Ohio) Journal of the 3tl inst., states that the fire bolls rang an alarm in that'city the preceding midnight, and it was found that seven prisoners had dug their way out of the county jail, among others McGehan, in whose defense Vallandigham lost his life recently. They effected their es cape by tearing up a portion of the stone floor of one of the cells in the southeast corner of the prison, ex davating a tunnel into the cellar un cer the sheriff’s residence. Tiie Atlanta Sun publishes a ru mor to the effect that H. I. Kimball has sold his entire interest in the great H. I. Kimball House, in that city. They have a new fire company in Atlanta. Ii is called the “H. I. Kimball Cos.” CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1871. Siberia and Its Convict Prisons. The system of transporting has, like most Russian institutions, un dergone a change for the better du ring the present reign. Since 1867, no foreigner could witness thosfe terrible marches of fettered prison ers, driven on like herds of cattle by mounted Cossacks, which form one of the principal horrors in many of the still current books on Russia. The convicts at present arrive in Kassan by water convey ance on the Yolga. To that river they are sent by rail. The long journey from Kassan to Tomsk, in Siberia, is again almost entirely performed by water, on the rivers Yolga,- Kama, Tnr, Tobal t Irtish, Ob, and Tofri. Only from the river Tur (from Perm to'Tyumen), across the mountainous boundary between Europe and Asia, the prisoners are carried on carts drawn by the three horse teams otVtbe Russian poet serv ice. THE FLOATING PRISONS in which the prisoners travel on the rivers are large barges towed by powerful steamers. The barges are Very conveniently constructed.— Below deck there is but one cabin, sufficiently aired and lighted—the principal prison room. The guard room, the office, and the kitchen are on deck, of which they occupy less than one-third. The rest of the deck forms a large cage; iron posts support a roofrf'f sheet-iron, and between the posts a net of thick iron wire is extended—at once the safest and the airiest of prisons.— This floating prison would be very Comfortable if it were not so terri bly crowded. Water conveyance in these high latitudes is limited to less than twenty weeks in the year, and most has therefore to be made of it. Neither the prison barges nor the temporary prisons in Kassan and other towns art near ly sufficient for the convicts; the numbers confined in them are on an average nearly double those for which the localities are constructed. The overcrowding is easily support ed by convicts who stay only a few days iu the temporary prisons, and by tbe prisoners in the cage, where the air is always fresh. In the cab ins of the floating prisons, however, and in Kassan during the winter, the air breathed by the convicts is foul beyond description. The only consolation is that sickness and mor tality in the convict gaol of Kassan are not excessive. A glance into one of THE PRISON CAGES discloses a very curious picture.— Most prisoners wear the convict garb, which is as ugly here as in other countries; a kind of cloak with sleeves, of a very dirty drab color, disfigured by the letters S. I. B. (Siberia) on the back; these letters being inlaid in yellow cloth,, A shapeless cap of the same mate rial as the cloak completes the cos tume, which seems to answer its purpose very well, for the cloak is very thick and firm. Even under that uniform garb, many national types may be distinguished; from the solid, flat-faced Finish tribes, some of them almost like Esqui maux, to the sharp features of the Jew, and the beautiful face and form of the Circassian mountaineer. The wearing of the prison garb seems, beside, not to be obligatory, even for the greatest criminal, and many of them wear entirely or partly their own clothing ; the Cir cassian the national cloak, with its rows of cases for cartridges sewn on the breast-cloth, and the shaggy fur cap; the Tartar, the pointed felt hat over the skull-cap which covers his shaven head, and the eraftan ; the Russian peasant has greasy gray-coat of sheepskin.— Most prisoners have good, well shaped boots, which guard their an kles against the friction of the chain; others wear the national foot clothing of linden-bast over the linen rags which they tie round their feet and legs. The'dnly chains worn are fetters attached to the two ankles aud lifted np in the mid dle by means of a strap fastened to the loins. These chains are not very heavy, and the prisoners walk freely enough with them, yet the clinking of the irons makes one shudder. Such chains are worn on ly by those who are sentenced to hard labor/ tfrhllc those who are sentenced merely to settle in Sibe ria wear no chains whatever.— Groups of womeu and children are mixed up with the male prisoners; the women being in the proportion of about one to six, and the chil dren one to twelve to the men.— Two-thirds of the ■WOMEN AKE LIKEWISE CONVICTS, the remainder and all the children are merely passengers. For the Russian Government, in order to encourage emigration, offers free passage to the families of those who are sent out to Siberia ; an ad vantage generally appreciated by the wives, though as yet very little by the husbands of convicts. In 1860, the last year for which Max imov gives the statistics, 6,00(3 male prisoners were accompanied by 326 women and 566 children ; while women were accompanied only by four men. The new system of transportation owes its origin to the energy and spirited enterprise of a Russian merchant, Mr. Kol chin, like Russian merchants, the son of a peasant. He is the owner of all the prison barges on the Vol ga and Kama, as well as on the Si berian waters; and likewise of the steamers by which the barges arc towed. These steamers carry pas sengers and merchandise; and though their freights are much low er than those of the other passen ger lines, they are, with their bar ges in tow, nearly as fast as the other steamers; and the accommo dation for passengers is as good as elsewhere. Mr. Kolchinhas an ex tensive establishment at Nijni-Nov gorod, where the Machinery for all his vessels is made, and wdicre the ships for all the European lines are constructed. They are among the best steamers on Russian rivers; though most of the steamers on the ■ Volga and Kama belonging to other owners are constructed in England and Belgium. Only a part of the prisoners go as far as Tomsk. At various stations along the rivers, especially at Tobolsk, parties of prisoners are landed in order to be distributed in the more westerly parts of Siberia, where most of those who are SENTENCED MERELY TO SETTLE in Siberia, and not hard labor, re main. Fr*m the stations to the final places of destination tbe jour ney is continued on foot. Those who go for hard labor to tbe con vict establishments in eastern Sibe ria still march in chains from Tomsk. As far as they are concerned, the old system of transportion is still kept up. This system, though very severe and cruel for the politi cal prisoner, is much less so for the Russian peasant. Its defects are certainly very great. The stations where the prisoners remain over night are wretched, and are often unbearably filthy. The officers who command the prisoners are not al ways very scrupulous, and often use their discretionary power to ob tain money by granting or withold ing favors, which ought not to be conceded—permissions to buy spir its, to take off the fetters, etc. — But all these drawbacks are much lessened by the feeling of compan ionship between officers and con victs ; a feeling which no explana tion can make intelligible to the haughty aristocratic officers of Teu tonic blood. The word “brethren” is often addressed, and in good ear nest too, by tbe officer to the con victs. Savage alterations, like those which but too frequently hap pened between the fierce Poles and the officers to whom they were en trusted, and the atrocious punish* ment inflicted, after such strife, never happened between officers and common criminals A remarkable Rnssiau institution, likewise easily intelligible to the Western public, the artel, contrib utes very much to lessen the suffer ings necessarily attached to a march of thousands of miles, performed with FETTERED LEGS. Whenever a number of Russians of the peasant class work together they speedily form an organized body with an elected chief, and with equal rights and duties for all the members. Such a body is call ed an artel, and breaches of faith of its members toword each other are so absolutely unknown that they arc considered impossible.— This same organization is adopted by the convicts, and, strange to say, the same faithfulness which belongs to all artels also characterizes those formed by the outlaws. Nay when the members pledge their “word of honor” for each other, the prom ise may be safely relied on, even by the officers who guard them. The elders (starosti) at the head of the convict artels administer the money, make all the necessary purchases, and strike those bargains with the officers to which we have above al luded. Maximov describes very prettily as an eye-witness, THE LOVE OF MALE AND FEMALE CONVICTS J how the lovers manage by money, cunning, and even by violence, to meet and to travel together; and how especially the carts on which the prisoners cross, tho Ural Moun tains are made useful for traveling ih common. These affections exer cise a good influence, and would be infinitely’ more productive of good if the Russian law promoted —in- stead of hindering—the marriages of the convicts. Flights from the prison barges aro impossible, but from the parties traveling on foot, and especially from the convict es tablishments themselves, they are extremely frequent. From some of these establishments nearly one half of the prisoners have at vari ous times made attempts at flight, and Western Siberia, as well as the eastern parts of Russia*, swarm with runaway convicts. Computing Interest. —Here is anew rule for computing interest. It is so simple and so true that eve ry bauker, merchant or clerk should post it for reference. By no other arithmetical process can the desir ed information be obtained by so few figures: Six per cent . —Multiply any giv en number of dollars by the num ber of days of interest desired, sep arate the right hand figures and di vide by six; the result is the true interest on such number of days at six per cent. Eight per cent. — Multiply any given a,mount by the number of days upon which it is desired to as certain the interest, and divide by 45, and the result will be the true interest for the time required. Ten per cent. —Multiply the same as above and divide by 36, and the result will show the interest at 10 per cent. He that lacks time to iUowit, lacks time to mend. How to Restore Persons Partially Drowned. The season for bathing is likely to afford the usual number of drowning accidents, and as a little knowledge of the treatment of drowning persons may at some time be of use' to all, we print below some rules given by Dr. Marshall Hall. He calls liis method “ the ready method in asphyxia,” because it requires no apparatus of any kind. The main point is to renew respiration and to improve the cir culation. Dr. Hall says: “ The means are physiological and physi cal. All obstructions of the grottis being removed by placing the pa tient in the prone position, *. e., with the face to the ground, in which position any fluids and the tonguo itself fall forward, our first effort is to excite respiration, physiologi cally ; should this fail, our second is to imitate the acts of respiration mechanically. Our next object is to endeavor to impl-ove tbe circula tion which is done by promoting the flow of the venous blood, and to restore warmth in the limbs.— Here, again, we proceed, we must revert to the physiological principle of exciting respiration ffiom time to time. Dr Hall’s rules are as fol lows : 1. Treat the patient instantly, on the spot, in the open air, freely ex posing the face, neck and chest to the breeze, except in very severe weather. 2. Send with all speed for medi cal aid, and for articles of clothing, blankets, &c. I TO CLEAU TnE THROAT. 3. Place the patient gently ou the face with oue wrist under the forehead. (All fluids, and the tongue itself then fall forward, and leave the entrance to the windpipe free.) 11. TO ENCITiS RESPIRATION. 4. Turn the patient slightly on his side ; apply snuff or other irri tant to the nostrils, and dasli cold water on the face previously rubbed briskly until it is warm. If there be no success, lo eno time, but apply the third rule. 111. TO IMITATE RESTORATION. 5. Replace the patient on his face. 6. Turn the body gently, but completely on the side, and a little beyond and then on the face, alter nately repeating these measures de liberately, efficiently, and persever ingly, fifteen times in the minute only. (This number of thoracic movements per minute agrees with the natural order of respiratory thoracic dilations and contractions, corresponding with a slow move ment of the heart, averaging some thing less than sixty pulsations per minute, and therefore merits due attention.) The rationale of the operation is this: When the patient reposes on the thorax this cavity is compressed by the weight of the body, and expiration is promoted ; when he is turned on the side this pressure is removed, and inspiration is facilitated. 6. When the prone position is resumed, make equable but efficient pressure along the spine, removing it immediately before rotation on the side. The first measure argu ments expiration ; the second com mencesjnspir^tion. IV. TO INDUCE CIRCULATION AND WARMTH. 8. Continuing these measures, rub the limbs upward, with a firm press ure and with energy, using hand kerchiefs, &c. 9. Replace the patient’s wet cloth ing by such other covering as can be instantly procured, each bystand er procuring a coat or waiscoat. Meanwhile, and from time to time, proceed to the fifth rule. V. TO EXCITE INSPIRATION. 10. Let the surface of the body be slapped briskly with the hand, or 11. Let cold water be dashed briskly on the surface, previously nibbed dry and warm. The Arctic Expedition. —Mr. Richard Frohwein, an Elizabeth druggist, is in receipt of a letter dated Port Disco, Greealand, from Mr. Joseph Marsh, formerly in his employ, who accompanied Capt. Hall as private Secretary on his ex pedition to the North Pole. The advice states that fitter the expedi tion sailed from New York on June 21, and on arriving in St. John’s harbor, Captain Hall opened the letters given him under the seal of the State Department, and impart ed their contents, which stated the nature and purport of the expedi tion to the crew. The correspon dent says that “ a better crew never left a port.” The Captain is de scribed as an old sea tar, but of re ligious sentiments. He holds pray er meetings«on each Sunday, aDd will not permit his men to work on that day, except it is absolutely nec essary. The correspondent con cludes by saying that probably noth ing will be heard from the expedi tion untill their return to this con tinent two years hence.— Newark Journal. A drunken fellow, with a box of matches in his pocket lay down on the sidewalk in Muscatine, the other day, to enjoy a quiet snooze. While rolling over in his sleep the matches took fire. Awakening, he snuffed the air smelt the burning brimstone and ejacula ted, “just as I expected, in h—II (hie,) by hokev.” Kissing—How, When and Where ? The following has been furnished us by a young gentleman, undoubt edly competent to testify upon tbe subject, and We Call but admire that spirit which prompts him to give bis suffering fellow creatures the benefit of his extensive experi ence i People will kiss, yet not one in a hundred knows how to extract bliss from lovely lipsno more than .they know how to make diamonds from charcoal! And yet it is easy, at least for its. This little item is not alone for new beginners, but for the many who go at it hunting coons or shelling corn. First know who you are to kiss. Don’t make a mistake, although a mistake may be good. Don’t jump up like a trout for a fly and smack a woman on the neck, or ear, or on the cor ners of her forehead, on the end of her nose, or knock off her waterfall, or jerk her bonnet ribbons, in haste to get through. The gentleman should be a little the taller. He should have a clean face, a kind eye, a mouth full of expression, in stead of tobacco. Don’t kiss every body. Don’t sit down to it; stand up ; Need not be anxious about get ting in a crowd. Two persons are enough to corner and catch a kiss ; more persons spoil the sport Stand firm ; it won’t hurt any after you are used to it. . Take the left hand of the young lady in your right, let your hat go to , or 'any other place out of the way,throw the left hand gently over the shoul der of the young lady, and let the hand fall down upon the side to ward the belt. Don’t be in a hur ry; draw her gently, lovingly to your heart ; her head will fall light ly upon your shoulder—and a very handsome shoulderstrap it makes ! Don’t be in a hurry ; send a little life down your left arm and let it know its business. Her left hand is in your right; let there be an expression to that, not like the grip of a vice; the gentle clasp, full of electricity, thought, and respect.— Don’t be in a hurry ; her head lies carelessly on your shoulder j you are nearly heart to heart ; look down into her half-closed eyes; gently yet manfully, press her to your bosom. Stand firm, and provi dence will give you strongth for tbe ordeal ! Bo brave, but don’t be in a hurry. Her lips are almost open ! Lean lightly forward with your head, not the body. Take good aim ! The lips meet —the eyca close —the heart opens—the soul rides the storms, trouble and sorrows of life; (don’t be in a tiurry) heaven opens before you —the world shoots from under y*our feet as a meteor flashes across the evening sky; (don’t bo afraid) the nerves dance before the just erected altar of love, as zephyrs dance with dew-trimmed flowers ; the heart forgets its bit terness, and the art of kissing is learned. No noise, nofuss, no flut tering and squirming like impaled worms. Kissing don’t hurt; it don’t require a brass band to make it legal. Don’t job down on a pret ty mouth as if spearing for frogs.— Don’t grab and yank the lady as if she was a struggling colt. Don’t muss her hair, scratch down her col lar, bite her cheek, squizzle her rich ribbons and leave her mussed, rum pled and mixed. Don’t flavor your kisses with onions, tobacco, gin cock tails, lager beer, brandy, etc., for a maudlin kiss is worse than the itch to a delicate, loving, sensible woman. One Who Has Tried it. The First Saw Mill. —The old practice in making boards was to split up the logs with wedges; and inconvenient to the practice was, it was no easy matter to pursuade the world that the thing could be done in any better way. Saw-mills were fi:st used in Europe in the fif teenth century, but so lately as 1555, an English Ambassador, having seen a saw mill in France, thought it a novelty which deserved a par ticular description. It is amusing to s6e how the aversion to labor saving machinery has always agita ted EngJ.aii 1 Tiic first saw-mill was established i>y a Dutchman, in 1663; but the public outcry against the new-fangled machine was so violent, that the proprietor was forced to decamp with more expe dition than everdld a Dutchman be fore. The evil was thus kept out of England for several years, or at least generations; but in 1767, an unlucky timber merchant, hoping that after so long a time, the public would be less watchful of its inter ests, made a rash attempt to con struct another mill. The guardians of the public welfare, however, were <>n tho alert and a conscien tious mob at once collected and pulled the mill to pieces. Carpets, Dust, and Disease.— Home and Health says : An atmos phere impregnated with the dust which has been gathered in carpets and remained there for a considera ble length of time is positively un healthy. The dust after being stag nant for some time, especially in warm weather, presents myriads of animalcultc. To prevent the evil the carpets should be cleaned often The dust should be thoroughly re moved every month. The trouble of taking up, shaking and replacing will be amply repaid, first, in the matter of health, and secondly in preserving the carpet. We advise the good housewives —there arc many—to make a note of this. An lowa base ball club has buried its catcher because he stood too near the striker when the latter was pre paring for a home ruu. Contkiised History of Steam. About 280 years B. C., Hiero of Alexandria formed a toy which ex hibited some of Ahe powers of steam and was moved by its power. A. D. 450, Anthemius, an archi tect, arranged several caldrons of water, eacli covered with the wide bottom of a leather tube, which rose to a narrow top, which pipes extended to the rafters of the ad joining building. A fire was kin dled beueath the caldrons, and the house was shaken by efforts of the steam ascending the tubes. This is the first notice of the power of steam recorded. Iu 1543, June 1«, Blaseo D. Ga roy tried a steamboat of 200 tons with tolerable success at Barcelona, Spain. It consisted of a caldron of boiling water, and a moveable wheel on each side of tho ship. It was laid aside as impracticable. A present, however, was made to Ga roy. In 1050 the first railroad was con structed at Newcastle on-Tyne. The first idea of a steam engine in England was in the famous Mar quis of Worcester’s “History of Inventions,” A. D., 1663. In 1710, Newcomen made the first steam engine in England. In 1718, patents were granted to Savory for Die first application of the steam-engine. In 1674, James Watt made the first perfect pteam-engine in Eng land. In 1736, Jonathan Hulls set forth tho idea of steam navigation. In 1778, Thomas Pain first pro posed this application in America. In 1781 Marquis Jouftroy con structed one in Saone. In 1785, two Americans publish ed a work on it. In 1789, William Tyington made a voyage in one on the Forth and Clyde Canal. In 1802, this experiment was re peated. In 1782, Ramsey propelled a boat by steam to New York. In 1788, John Fitch, of Philadel phia, navigated a boat by a steam engine on the Delaware. In 1793, Robert Fulton first be gan to apply bis attention to steam. In 1793, Oliver Evans, a native of Philadelphia, constructed a loco motive steam-efigine to travel on a turn pike road. The first Steam vesel that cross ed the Atlantic was tho Savannah, in the month of June, 1819, from Charleston to Liverpool. How We Eat. There are five kinds of eaters : 1. There is your dull man, who seems to eat merely from habit, mainly because his parents did so before him, and he expects his chil dren to follow his example. 2. Your impatient, fidgety being, who is all activity, and who falls to at once on the dish that happens to be be fore him. 3. Your careless eater, without education, who considers so much time as lost that is passed at the table, puts all dishes on the same level, and hardly knows the breast from the drumstick. 4. Next comes your ravenous animal, who thinks only of quantity, takes every thing that conies in his way, as if anxious to show the capacity of his stomach. 5. Lastly come the pro fessors, men of taste, who cast a practiced eye over the table before eating, use judgment in the choice of such dishes as suit their habits, and eat sparingly of each, that the palate may r be gently excited by va riety. These are the guests who are tho best dinner table talkers and here we take tho liberty of quoting a precept given by an an cient philosopher whose name wo do not remember, neither is it of consequence, that the mouth is the vestibule of the soul, the gato of discourse, the portico of thought; of course nothing unclean (of course nothing unpalatable) should go in or come out. Fretful People. —lt is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy. You can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. Worry is rust on the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secrets acid, but love and truth are sweet juices. We know a man with a patient, good, Christian wife, and we never heard him speiik a kind, pleasant word to her, and doubt if he ever did in the half century they lived together. lie is always in a fret. Everything goes wrong. You would think that lie was made of cross-grained timber, and Itad al ways been trying to digest a cross cut saw. He is externally cross, and thinks that his wife and chil dren, hired hands, and all the do mestic animals, have entered into combination to worry him todoath. He is not only rusty but fairly crusted over with it. Friction has literally worn him out, and he will soon worry himself to death. Os course he has never worked to any advantage to himself or anybody else. lie superstitiously believes it is because the devil has a spite against him, when in truth it is nothing but his own fretfulness. The following speech is attribu ted to a member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania : * I know womin, Mr. Speaker; I say it with no dis respect ; I have had a heap to do with ’utn. Tbey’r a useful class, and—and yet with the best of ’uin you may have trouble.” Hint to mothers—Treat your baby kindly, but not eordiallly. NO. 35 VARIETY. New Haven doeSffit fefel nob by ” over its lobby. TIIe inhabitants of Wyoming brew many troubles but no beeri In Oregon they ride fofty mile* on horseback to get married. Long Branch Indies plead guilty to gilt dancing boots. An Ohio itlHfdefer, being asked by the judge If he had anything to say, replied naively, “I have, air; I have a Very bad cold, your Hon or.” A CixcljfiYATi painter in falling from a building struck and broke in two an iron awning frame, and still survives. Some young gentlemen at Sarato ga are suspected of paying their board bills by paying visits to Mori rissey’s club-room. A country editor who carries concealed weapons is searching for the writer on health, who sent* the editor’s wife a circular reeoftiMend ing that carpets should be taken up and beatcu every month. An Illinois man got married, spent the first night of the honey moon in the woods, and ran away the next day. The crop of Icebergs la very large this season. Two, each half a mile long, are reported from St. Johns, and many others have beeu encountered further out at seat A LAWYER, in addressing a jury, in Speaking of his client, remarked that “ Othello’s occupation’s gone whereupon his opponent said that the only resemblance between his learned friend’s client and Othello was, that tlidy both pad villains for counsel. An Irishman having jumped into the water to save a man fromdrown ing, upon receiving a quarter from the person as a reward for the ser vice—looked first at the money and then at him, and at last exclaimed, “ I’m overpaid for the job.” Tnu attention of two drummers was attracted to a peculiar chimney on a house in Virginia, and asked a ttaxened-haired urchin if it “draw ed well.” “ Yes,” replied the boy, “it draws tho attention of all the fools that pass this road.*’ In a dissenting opinion, Chief. Justice Peck, of the Supreme Court of Alabama, said: “ There was nei ther common law nor common sense iu the decision rendered by the court in this case.” “A coat cleaned, scoured and pressed for one dollar,” is an an nouncement often to be seen. A humorous drunkard says that he has never been cleaned and scoured, but is frequently pressed for a dollar. Among tbe advertised letters at Fall River, is one for the proprietor .of the best hotel in the city, and the postmaster is boarding round a week with each to decide to whom, it belongs.- A German out Wost being re quired to give a receipt in full, pro duced the following after much mental effort: “ I ish full. I wants no more money. —John Sivackhae mer. A y thing fellow, who had been mar ried for a twelve month, said it was all fiudShine. Tne next twelve month was all moonshine, and the latter pferlod of his matrimonial ca reer writ? without Bbiue at all ex cept wh'fen his better half took it in to her head to “ kick up a shine ! " Ax Illinois man who had a watch stolen from his pocket, and adver. tised that the thief must retnrn it if he would avoid trouble, received eleven o'clock on the same day three watches and letters promising a fourth If he would send $23 and ask no questions. Small boy on tip toe to conapau r ions : “ S —lt—stop your noise, all of you.” Companions: “Halloa, Tommy, what’s up now?” Small boy*: “We’ve got anew baby— very weak and tired—walked all the way from heaven last night— tnusn’t go to kickin' up a row around here.” How to BeGln the Day.— Rise with the lark but not for one. Be veff careful to attire yourself neat ly ; ourselves, like our salads, are always the bettef for a good dressing. Sliavejtinrriistakdbly before you de scend from ydrir room; chins, like oysters, should have their beards taken off before feeing permitted to go down. Start with a determina tion to be a agreeable and good tempered, and that, lik'd M over flowing fire, nothing shall p'tfft ton out. Should the tea not be hot, take it coolly; should the ham be salt, emulate the philosophic Bacon, and having made a few pleasant ob servations about the mHk of human kindness, the sugar of domestic fe licity, the cup of happiucss being full, and the butter resembling an actor in a fresh part, because it ap pears in a ne\V role, conclude with the appropriate ballad of “ Let the toast p:tss,” cracking fresh eggs and stale jokes simultaneously. Best Thing Out. —“ Mother,” said a little girl who was engaged in making her doll an apron, “I be lieve I will be a Duchess when I grow up.” “ How do you ever ex pect to be a Duchess, my daugh ter?” her mother asked. “Why, by marrying a Dutchman, to be sure,” replied the girl.