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Fresh Turnip Seed.
Crop 1877.
Just received from
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Early Flat Re 1 Top,
Pomeranean Globe,
Amber Globe,
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lu 1 packages, and single papers,
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CHEROKEE, GA.,
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ue, etc., takes this method of informing all
those interested, that he will attend to the
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as to quality, value and mineral indications,
if there be any. Will attend to the establish
ing of Lost Papers, paying Taxes, Ousting
Intruders, and selling said Lands when de
sired.
Mis charges for locating and furnishing
parties with a descripiive statement, Five Dol
lars per Lot. For selling and payiugof taxes,
Ten per cent. For establishing lost papers,
oustiug intruders, etc., parties will be adviced
and a fee agreed upon.
gggr Liberal reductions made with parties
owning a usraber of Lots, and desiring them
looked after,
Many of these Lands, heretofore considered
worthless, are very valuable —some are rich
in Mineral, others are valuable for Farming
pn rposes, and ALL ars worflh looking after.
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attention. Address, I. Y. SA VV TELL,
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Notice !
THE undersigned lias opened an Auction
& Commission House in the citv of Until
bert, and will hold forth in the Standley Rock
Corner.
He solicits Consignments.
augUl-tf JOHN W. BRAG AN
♦ ANDREW
Fe3iali: College,
Cuthbert, Ga.
REV. A. L HAMILTON would respect
fully announce to bis friends generally,
that this old and popular Institution will be
re opened finder bis immediate supervision on
MONDAY, October 1, 1877.
His former patrons and friends will please
take due notice, and govern themselves ac
cordingly. Tha spacious anil comfortable
Boarding House and College Buildings are
now being repaired and re furnished in ele
gant style, and two weeks in advance of the
opening will be ready for bueiness.
The Corps of Officers and Teachers
shall not be surpassed either North or South,
and will represent the principal branches of
the Clniftiao Churches. The College
will be thoionglily non-sectarian.
The Course of Study
Has been prepared with great care, ami with
an especial eye to the requirements of the
age. It embraces equally the Physical,Men
tal and Moral cultivation of the pupils.
The Discipline
i Shall be very mild, but thoroughly systemat
ic and exacting.
Tlie Terms
Have been reduced so iar as possible to meet
I the necessities of the times, at will appear
|,f rom the following exhibit:
Per Session of Bine Months.
REGULAR COURSE.
Preparatory Department, s3d 00
Academic “ 45 00,
Collegiate “ 60 00.
BOARD—Furnished room, washing,
lights and fuel, 162 00
“ Washing not included. 111 00.
EXTRA COURSE
[To be charged extra.]
| This department will otter unusual advan
; tages, and will embrace the Ancient and Mod
| ern Languages, Vr cal and Instrumental Music
! Drawing and Sketching, Painting, in Oil,
Pastel Giec-ian and Antique Painting. Oma
| tuehtal Needle-Work, Mantua Making in all
its varieties, Physical Gymnastics, &.C. *
PAYMENTS
In all the Departments will be expected
quarterly in advance There can be no devi
aiiun from this rule.
Cuthbert is the handsomest little city in
Georgia, is approachable from all directions
by Railroad ; and for good health, good mor
els, and cultivated society, is unsurpassed in
ne United States.
For additional information address—
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auglO-tf Cuthbert, Ga.
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ami at the same time contains
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ties of the eelebraled
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It is therefore ricom
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household purposes ; also printers
Painters. Engineers, and Machinist,
as it will remove spots of Ink, Tar,
Grease, Oi', Paint, etc., from the bands.
The Tlniitinftilon, l'a., Monitor of April
sth, 1877, pronounces this soap the best in
the market, as follows :
Reader, we don’t want yon to suppose this
is an advertisement, and pass it over unltced
ed. Read it We want to direct your atten
tion to the advertisement of “Crampton’s
Imperial Soap.” Having used it in our of
fice for the past year, we can recommend it.
as the best quality of soap in use. It is a
rare thing to get Soap that will thoroughly
cleanse printing ink from the hands, as also
from linen, bat Crampton's laundry soap will
eo it, and we know whereof we speak. It is
specially adapted for printers, painters, eu
Ktueers and machinists, as it will remove
grease of all descriptions from the hand as
well as clothes, with little labor. For gener
al household purposes it cannot be excelled.
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Office in Judge Clarke’s office. jas ly
A Nice Black-Walnut
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THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR
Will he held in ATLANTA, beginning
Monday, October 15th, 1877,
AND CONTINUING ONE WEEK.
LARGE and Liberal Premiums lor Stock.
Manufactures, Machinery, Agricultural
Implements, Fancy Work of Ladias, Fine
Aits and Farm Products are offered
Premium Lists and other information can
be o tallied by application to
MALCOLM JOHNSTON, Secretary.
augJl td Atlanta, Ga.
CUTHBERT, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1877.
Falling Leaves.
They are falling, slowly falling,
Thick upon the forrest side—
Severed from the noble branches
Where they waved in beauteous pride,
They are tailing in the valleys
Where the early violets spring.
And the birds in sunny springtime
First their dulcet music riug.
They are falling, sadly falling,
Close beside our cottage door—
Pale and faded, like the loved ones
That have gone forever more.
They are falling, and the sunbeams
Shine in beauty soft around ;
Yes, the faded leaves are falling—
Falling on the grassy mound.
Tlk-y are falling on the streamlet
Where the silver waters flow,
And upon its placid boßom
Onward with the waters go.
They are falling in the churchyard
Where our kindred sweetly sleep—
Where the idle winds of summer
Softly o’er the loved ones sweep.
They are falling, ever falling,
When the autumu breezes sigh—
When the stars in beauty glisten
Bright upon the midnight sky.
They are falling when the tempest
Moans like ocean’s hollow roar—
When the tuneless winds and billows
Sadly sigh forevermore.
They are falling, they are falling,
While our saddest thoughts still go
To thes.inny days of childhood,
In the dreary long ago.
And their faded hues remind us
Cf the blighted hopes and dreams
Faded like the tailing leaflets
Cast upon the icy stream.
Rafliiiitf at llot Springs
The bath-houses are of ali degrees
of comfort, front the “Big Iron Bath
house,” with its fine bath and wait
ing rooms supplied with all the m >d
ern conveniences, including speak
ing tubes and electrical annuncia
tors, down to the rude board euclo
sure around the “ Pool of Siioarn”
or. the mountain side. Ouc of the
principal occupations of the visitors,
the great majority of whom arc of
coursv invalids, is the taking ol
baths. Bathing at the Springs is a
curious operation. Shouldering his
blanket, coffee pot and cup in hand,
the patient saunters down Valley
Street to one of the bath houses,
which, with their long array of
numbered doors, lie under the shad
ow of the mountain. With the help
of the negro bath-man he is soon in
a hot bath, whose temperature,
carefully graded, is fiom 90 to 95
degrees. A diminutive sand glass,
which the bath man has placed on
the edge of the bath tub before leav
ing the room, soon warns the half
boiled bather that his three minutes
or less are up. On leaving the bath,
he, according to the course pre
scribed, either gets ii.to a box filled
with the dense vapor which rises
from the waters, or sits on the top
of the v?por box wrapped in a
blanket, allowing the vapor to play
all over the body. If in the box, he
stays there three minutes, his head
being outside, the lids closing down
around his neck. If the vapor-bath
is to be taken iu a milder form, the
bather mounts to the top ot the va
por box, placing himself on the
closed lids, over the head opening,
and allowing the steam which is
sues from this to circulate inside the
folds of the blanket. Whether in
the bath, the box, or the blanket,
the bather, from the nozzle of his
coffee pot, is also drinking the hot
water, thus having at the same time
internal as well as external applica
tion.
The whole operation having last
ed some eight to ten minutes, the
state of perspiration induced can be
easily imagined. The sluggish se
crctions are aroused, circulation is
accelerated, and disease is thrown
off. With the assistance of bath
man, the bather, on finishing his
day’s bath, is well rubbed down
and thoroughly dried. After dress
ing, and being well covered up with
his dry blanket to avoid taking
cold, the invalid, looking in his stri
ped blanket like a half-civilized In
dian chief, walks as briskly as his
ailments allow to his quarters. —
The pores being open and the bath
quite exhausting, a slight rest is
needed, and care must be taken to
avoid catching cold. The bather
therefore, on reaching his room, lies
down for half an hour or longer,
still keeping well covered up, until
the body has somewhat recovered
its normal temperature. Naturally
a feeling of sleepiness manifests it
self, but this must not be given way
to, as it is considered dangerous.—
A. Van Cleef, in Harper's Maga
zine for January
The newest thing in the matn
monial way is the publication of
“marriage intentions” by engaged
couples in Boston. The names
and ages only are giveu.
A Pretty Girl in a Chest
nut Tree.
To the youthful mind there is a
fascination in gathering chestnuts.
It is the opinion of Miss Susan B.
Anthony that the tyrant man has
committed one of his worst outra
ges in monopolizing the sport of
chestnut gathering. It cannot be
denied that the female sex is virtu
ally shut out from this delightful
pursuit. To gather chestnuts sue
cesstully involves climbing trees,
and the mature woman or full
grown girl rarely cares to incur the
risks which are inseparable from
climbing in the present fashion of
female dress. Of course Dr. Mat y
Walker could gather chestnuts with
impunity, but with women who
have not put on—that is to say who
still wear skirts—there is a general
feeding that stockings should not
publicly wave either from clothes
lines or branches, unless they have
been previously emptied. Never
theless there are infrequent and ex
ceptionally daring girls who engage
in the hazardous enjoyment of se
cret chestnuting, and the experience
of a Massachusetts young lady who
recently climbed a chestnut tree in
Berkshire county is worth mention-
The young lady in question—and
it is perfectly useless tor anybody
to offer twelve gratuitous teams of
wild horses to assist iu dragging
her name to light—was remarkably
beautiful, and was ihe object of the
devoted attachment of two local
young men, one <>f whom was a
model of all possible virtues, while
the other was a bold, bad youth,
who was known to be in the habit
of smoking, and was currently ,be
lieved to have more than once visit
ed a circus. Early in October this
estimable young lady suborned her
young brother, aged ter., to accent
pany her on a clandestine chestnut
ing expedition. A chestnut tree,
separated from the road by a nar
row but dense belt of trees and
bushes, was soon found, and the
pair zealously searched the ground
for fallen nuts. The young lady—
and perhaps we had better call her
Miss Y., for the purpose of identili
cation, as the lawyers say—soon
grew weary of this occupation and
determined to climb the tree. With
the aid of a fence rail and the zeal
ous “ boosting ” ol her brother, she
succeeded in reaching the lowest
branch, from which her progress
was easy. Pleased with her suc
cess she soon grew careless and
ventured out upon a limb uutil it
bent under her weight. Becoming
frightened she lost her presence ot
mind and hold, and suddenly fell. —
Fortunately she did not fall far, for
her skirts caught in the fork of a
limb, and suspended her between
heaven and earth, in an attitude of
an umbrella, which lias struggled
with a violent gust ot wind and ex
pei'ienced a reverse.
Her voice, though somewhat
smothered by the peculiarities of
her situation, could be easily heard
by her astonished brother, and iu
accordance with her calm directions
that devoted small boy instantly
Bed lor help. Now, it so happened,
that eacli of the young lady’s lovers
had noticed her as she started from
home with her brother, and each
had independently determined to
.meet her as if by accident. Thus
it fell out that the first person the
small boy met as he rushed along
the road was the uiild young man,
who listened to his incoherent tale
and hastened to the rescue. No
sooner, however, did he come with
in sight of the tree titan he prompt
ly paused, turned his back upon the
object of his adoration, and in a fal
tering voice explained to the small
boy lliat lie thought his sister would
not care to have hitu help her, but
wouU' prefer the assistance ot a
vague servant girl, iu search of
whom he professed himself ready to
start. The small boy, having no
seuse of delicacy, whatever, called
the good young man names, and
said he was afraid to climb a t"ree,
but failed to shake his resolution.—
So the latter started on a run to
find his hypothetic servant girl, and
unlike Lot’s wife, refused to look
back, though the indignant smaii
boy seDt a shower of stones after
him.
Meanwhile, the bold, bad young
man was approaching the scene of
action, “cross lots at the top of his
speed. His iron nerves did not fal
ter even when be reached the tree
that temporarily bore such marvel
ous fruit. Kequesting the young lady
to calm herself and trust him to res
cue her, be armed her brother with
a knife and instructed him to climb
the tree and cut his sister loose.—
The small boy hailing with delight
the opportunity to cut* something,
did as he was bid, and in a few mo
ments, amid the noise ot rending
garments, the young lady dropped
safely into the bold, bad lover’s ex
tended arms. Half an hour after
ward eleven women, bearing five
step ladders, approached the tree,
while the good young mau waited
behind the bushes to receive his
rescued mistress. It is needless to
say he was disappointed, and his
disappointment was still greater
when lie was subsequently told that
she was to be married at an early
day to this bold and bad rival. Thus
we see that) as Solomon might have
said, there is a time for step lad
ders and a time for decided action,
and that the bold young man gath
ers his bride from a chestnut tree,
while the simple young man flees
afar off and howls for scivant girls
who are useless, and for the step
ladder which satisfieth not. —Beit
York Herald.
Reasonable Economy.
We don’t like stinginess. We
don’t like Economy when it comes
down to rags and starvation. We
have no sympathy with the notion
that the poor man should hitch him
self to a post and stand still, while
all the world moves forward. It is
no man’s duty to deny himself eve
ry amusement, every luxury, every
comfort that he may get rich. It is
no man’s duty to make an ice
berg of himself, to shut his eyes
and cars to the sufferings of his
fellows, and to deny himself the en
joyment that results from gener
ous actions, merely that he may
hoard wealth for heirs to quarrel
about. But there is an economy
which is especially commendable in
the man who struggles with pov
erty —an economy which must be
practiced if the poor man would
secure independence. It is almost
every man’s privilege aud it be
comes his duty to live within his
means; not up to, but within them.
Wealth does not make the mm,
we admit, and should never be
taken into account in our judgment
of men ; but competence should al
ways be secured when it can be, by
the practice of economy and self de
nial to only a tolerable extent. It
should be secured, not so much for
others to look upon, or to raise us
in tlie estimation of others, as to
secure us the consciousness of inde
pendence, and the constaut satis
faction which is derived from its
acquirement and possession.
“PunklN Pi.”—Punkin pi is the
sass ov Hu England. They are
vittles and drink, they are joy on
the halt shell, they are glory enough
for one day, and are g and kuld or
warmed up. I would like to be a
boy agin, just for sixty minutes,
and eat myself phull of the blessed
old mixture. Enny man who don’t
luv punkiu pi wants watching close,
for he means to do something mean
the fus chance he kan git. Give
me all the punkin pi I could eat
when I was a boy, aud I didn’t
kare whether Sunday school kept
that day or not. And now that I
have groon up to manhood and run
fur the Legislature once and only
got beat eight hundred and fifty
five votes, and thoroly married,
there ain’t nothing I hanker for
wuss and can bury quicker than
two-thirds of a good old fashion
punkin pi, an inch and a half thick,
and well smelt up with ginger and
nutmeg. Punkin pi is the oldest
American beverage I know of, and
ongiit to go down to posteiity with
the trade mark of our graudmothers
on it; but I’m afraid it won’t, for it
is tuff even m>w to find one that
tastes in the mouth at all as they
did fifty years ago.
The Meridian, Miss., Mercury
learns that Holden, the surveyor of
Perry county, while out surveying a
few days since, found thirty-five
thousand and six hundred dollars,
the money deposited some years
ago by Wages, McGrath & Cooper
land, as related in Dr. Pitt’s life of
James Copeland. Copeland con
fessed before he was hanged that
he had hidden a largo sum of nions
ey.
This fact is stated emphatically
by the Thornasville Times : “Every
sheep raiser should remember that
increase of lambs is increase of
wool. A sod of Bermuda grass, on
land unprofitable for cultivation,
will support five sheep to the acre
for nine mouths in the year.”
Bottom of (lie Ocean.
Gn July 7th, Prof. Sir Wyville
Thompson and other members of
the Challenger explonngparty were
entertained at a public difceer in
Edinburgh. Among the speakers
wits Prof. Huxley, Who sad t “Some
of the discoveries which have been
made by the Challenger aro undoubt
edly such as to make us all form new
ideas of the operation of natural
causes in the sea. Take, for exam
ple, the very remarkable tact that at
great depths the temperature of the
sea always siuks down pretty much
to that of freezing fresh wa’er. That
is a very strange fact in itself, a fact
which certainly could not have been
anticipated. Take again the marvel
ous discovery that over large areas
©f the sea the bottom is covered with
a kind of chalk* a substance made
up entirely of the shells of minute
creatures —a sort of geological shod"
dy made of the cast-otf clothes of
those animals. The fact had been
known for a long time* and we were
greatly puszled to know how those
things got to be there. But the
researches of the Challenger have
proved beyond question that the re
mains in question are the shells of
organism which live at the surface
and uot at the bottom, and that this
deposit, which is of the same nature
as the ancient chalk, differing iu
some minor respects, but essentially
the same, is absolutely formed by a
rain of skeletons. These creatures
all live within 100 fathoms of the sur
face ; and when they die their skel
etons are rained down in onecontin
ual shower, falling through a mile or
couple of miles of sea water. How
long they take about it imagination
fails one in supposing, but at last
get to the bottom, and there, piled
up, they form a great stratum of a
substance which, if uplieuved, would
be exactly like chalk. But this is
by no means the most wonderful
thing. When they got to the depth
of 3,000 and 4,000 fathoms, and to
1,400 fathoms, or about five miles,
which was the greatest depth at
which the Challenger fished any
thing from the bottom, they found
that while the surface of the water
might be full of those calcaroous or
ganisms, the bottom was not. There
they found red clay. This red clay
is a great puzzle— a great mystery
how it comes there, what it arises
from, whether it is the ashes ol I‘ora
miniferjie; whether it is decomposed
pumice stone vomited out by volca
noes, and scattered over the surface,
or whether) lastly, it has something
to do with that meteoric dust which
is being continually rained upon us
from the spaces of the universe.”
Prof .Sir Wyville Thompson said :
“At a depth ol about four miles we
were always able to dredge and
trawl with considerable certaiuty.
Instead of.using a small Balls dredge
about 18 inches loag, a trawl with
a beam 20 feet across Was dragged
across the bottom of the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans; and in this
way we covered a considerable
amount of ground, and obtained a
far better idea of the larger organ
isms of those regions. No doubt
we missed a great many of the
smaller things. Little hard and
heavy bodies fell through the fauna
of the bottom of the sea. A number
of the forms from these extreme
depths were comparatively large
and spiny, and these stuck in the
large dredge net. The depth of the
Atlantic apparently averages some
thing about two thousand fathoms.
There did not seem to be any great
difference between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans—a general charac
teristic being that the bottom of
each was a tolerably level expanse,
with slight undulations. In the
temperature of these great depths
we expected that by determining
the temperature at the bottom we
would be able to trace the direction
in which the water was moving in
any particular way because water is
an extremely bad conductor and it
maintains for a great length of time,
unless there is some special reason
for its mixing with other water, the
temperature of its source. We us
ually, at most of the stations meas
ured correctly the bottom tempera
ture, and then that of the various
strata from the bottom up to the
surface, and we were inclined to
come to the conclusion that the great
mass of the water we found in the
troughs of the Atlantic and Pacific
is derived from the southern sea. —
Of course the idea was prevalent
that there were no animals at these
great depths, but the conclusion we
have arrived at now is, that there are
animals at all depths, though un
doubtedly they decrease in number
as the depth increases. In regard
to what these animals are, a large
proportion of them is yet indescrib
able. The collection we have
brought home, nevertheless, may be
reckoned by thousands. The whole
region which we have been ex
amiuiug has been hitherto totally
unknown, and consequently all the
animals we have got over this im
mouse number of squaro miles are
totally Unknown also. Tne deep
sea fauna we found to be very gen
erally diffused so that the animals
We found iu ono region are practi
cally very much the same, and
though differing certainly in some
respects in the various localities,
still there is a general resemblance
in the form of the whole.”— Southern
Home. ,
tilery.
What is glory? What is fame?
The echo of a long-lost name ;
A breath, an idle hour’s brief talk ;
The shadow of an arrant naught 5
A flower that blossoms for a day,
Dying next morrow ;
A stream that Inures on its way,
Singing of sorrow.
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Tlic Boy just out of*
School.
Did you ever pause and contem
plate that particular and peculiar
phase of human nature developed
by the anxious school boy when re
leased from the study and discip
line —when “school is out/’ and he
is on his way home ? Ordinary hu
manity, when released from the toils
of the day, is prone to seek rest and
relaxation. The boy scorns all such
effeminate ideas lie is composed of
but three parts—legs, arms and the
yell, and the yell is the biggest part
of him. His legs have been kept in
compulsory quietude all day, and
must now be exercised, llis voice
has been seething and swelling iu
him for hours, and now must have
vent. As soon as he is clear of the
school house steps he stops and de
liberately yells a yell that is ear
splitting, but which has do more ob
ject, meaning or direction than the
midnight vociferation cf a mule j and
yet it appears at a full ruuj witljhis
arms flying about like the scintilla
tions of a pin wheel. He is no respet
er of persons, and is utterly indiffer
ent as to whether lie runs down a
smaller boy, spin" an aged jatiiien
three times around, or mashes a
girl’s hat over her eyes in his head
long career. “Mercy on us! If
that boy were only mine, I’d”—but
just then her own boy flies past,
lulls over a drygoods box, bounces
up, kicks at another boy, and is
chased across the street and around
the cornet before she dan get the
‘You Hubert’ with which she intends
to annihilate him, out of her aston
ished throat. There is but one thing
that has the slightest soothing ef
fect on the boy when he is on the
way home from school. He can
see the old man farther than Prof.
Hall can see a haystack with a tele
scope, aud the moment that parent
dawns upon his vision he becomes
as proper as a model letter-writer,
and the neatly modulated voice
with which be wheedles the author
of his being out of five cents on the
spot is a lesson for future ambi
tious saviogs bank and passenger
railway presidents. The amount of
racing, jumping, pulling and haul
ing and howling that a schoolboy
can concentrate into a transit of
two squares is positively astonish
ing, and the preternatural coolness
aud the quietude with which he
takes his red face and panting
breath into the kitchen and asks if
supper ain’t most ready is a human
conundrum that calls for unqualified
admiration. —Easton Free Press.
A planter’s meeting was held in
Lowndes county, Miss., the other
day, that measures to attempt the
passage of a law that will make the
obtaining of money or goods under
false promise of labor a peual of
fense ; also a law that will preveut
the hiring of any person who has
contracted for a specified term of
service until said servico is ren
dered.
An evidence of the extreme hard
ness of the times is found in the
fact that many a poor family are
trying to pull through the winter
with only one dog.
A woman may not be able to
sharpen her pencil or hold an um
brella, but she can pack more arti
cles in a trunk than a man can iu a
one horse wagon.
Unless the coming woman is born
with a longer arm than those uow
used she can’t wear any more but
tons on her kid gloves than the
present fashion permits.
NO. 5‘2
Alphabetical Curiosities*
The protean nature of the vowel
sounds is familiar to all* A few
amusing examples will show that
the consonants are nearly as bad :
13 makes a road broad, turns (he
ear to a bear, and tom into a tomb.
C makes limb climb, hanged
changed) a lever clever, and trans*
ports a lover to clover*
D turns a bear to beard, a crow to
crowd) aud makes anger danger.
F turns lower regions to ttowet
regions.
II changes eight to height.
C makes now know.
L transforms a pear into a pearl*
N turns a line into linen, a croW
to a crown and makes one none*
P metamorphoses lumber into
plumber.
Q of itself hath bo significance.
S turns even to seVen, makes hoV*
shove and word a sword, a pear a
spear, makes slaughter of laughter)
and curiously Changes having ft boo
to shaving a shoe.
T makes a bough bought, turn*
here the phrase “allow his own" tO
“tailOW this toWn.'*
W does well, e. g , hose afO
Whose, arc becomes ware, on wott
omen women, so sow, vie view ) it
makes arm warm, aud turns a hat
into—what ?
Y turns fur into fury, a man into
many, to to a toy, rub to a ruby)
ours to yourS) and a lad to a lady.—
Scfap Book.
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The Southern Christian Advocate
has the following in reference to
the late serious illness of the llev.
Dr. Luvick Pierce, the father of
Bishop George F. PiercO) and the
oldest Methodist prdacher now liv*
ing in America: “iteturning to our
office, just before the paper goes to
pres?) we find a private note front
Dr. Alfricnd, his physician, contain*
ing some facts concerning his illness)
which are of such general luteroat
that we take the liberty of publish *
ing them. Our readers will join Us
in the prayer that the dear old
patriarch may bs spared to us sonle
years yet. Dr. Alfricnd, writing
on the 27th instant, says : ‘About
three weeks ago he had a severe
and obstinate attack of congestion
of the atom ache and liver; catarrali*
:d fever Supervened very early as a
complication) and he has been very
dangerously ill. Since last Thurs
day the disease has been slowly
yielding, aud his condition becomes
more and more favorable. I permit
, ted him to sit up a few miuuoes to
night, and was very much gratied
to eee him disposed toward pleasant
and general converse. At present
I am not prepared to say that he
will ever recover from his present
attack. lie by no means recuper
ates with his usual energy, but bo is
in all respects, such a remarkablo
man that I trust for the better.*'
Camel’s hair shawls are not tflade
of camel’s hair. They come of the
wool of the Thibet goat. Thus it
will be seen that women not only
have the wool pulled over their
eyes, but over their backs.
Cannibals prefer to eat women of
about sixteen to twenty four year*
of age, and invariably roasts that
delicacy, but people over fifty are
generally boiled.
The idea of teaching every girl
to thump a piano and every boy to
be a book-keeper, will make pota
toes four dollars per bushel in fif*
teen years.
A Baltimore belle, just from
Vassar College, when told by the
waiter that they had no gooseber
ries, exclaimed, “What has happen
ed to the goOie ?”
It is said that the kind mothers
down East are grown so affection
ate that they give their children
chloroform previous to whipping
them.
It is suggested that entries for
baby shows should be made at
least a year in advance. The ar
rangement would bo fair all arouud.
Young man, beauty fades as the
years go by’. Don’t fall in love
with a woman simply because she
has a pretty face. .Remember that
a wealthy father-in law is better
than Uie rosiest damsel.
When a visiting lady asked a
Boston hopeful what he kept a cat
for, and was told “to lay kittens/*
she concluded to postpone further
questions.
What is the difference between a
hill and a pill ? One is hard to get
up aud the other is bard to get
down.