Cedartown advertiser. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1878-1889, December 04, 1879, Image 1

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:SJMarffcWt: PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. 11 WM. B T TUD Bditor. - TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1 Copy one year - - i 1 .®} 1 •• six months - - 11 *' one year - lu * w TERMS—Cash In Adranee. Address, ADVERTISER PUBLISHING CO., CXDAHTOWX, Gi. OLD SERIES-VOL; VI; NO. 38. . Y ' ..1 - ' CEDARTOWN, GA., DECEMBER 4, 1879. NEW SERIES—VOL. 1. NO. 51. She ADVERTISING RATES. .11 m. S m. 6 1 501 3 00 2 01 3 50 400 e oo 6 00 7 50 10 00 30 00 i y. $12 00 13 00 25-00 40 00 65 00 100 00 per Insertion. For two or more insertions, live cents per line each insertion. OBITUARY NOTICES—Charged at half rates. LOOK DP, NOT D0W.SL, - Life, to some, is fnll of sorrow— Half is real, half they borrow—* Full of rocks and full of ledges. Corners sharp and . utting edges ; Though the joy bells max be ringing. Not a song you’ll Lear them singing— S eing never makes them wise, Looking crat from downcast eves. All in va n the sun is shiniDg. Waters sparkling, blossoms twining. They but see through these same sorrows, Sad to-day. and wor*e to-morrow— Bee the clouds that must pass over j- -- Bee the weeds among the cl ver ; Everything and anything But the gold the sunb ams bring. Prink ng from the bltt-r fountain, Lo! pur mole bill se< ms a mountaiu. Drops of dew and drops of rain Swell into the mighty main. All in va n the Messing* shower, Aud the merciis fall with pow« rf dalluring Chaff y<- tread e wheat, Rich and royal, ’neath your feet Let it be so my nr ighbor, Look up as you love and labor, Not for one alone woe’s vials ; Every man has cares and trials. J y and pain are linked together, Like the fair and cloudy w.-atber. . May we have, oh let ua pray, ^. Faith and patience for fco-dav. : they came; but i'nfwe dear.offl T knows only too well, draws the little cold hand through his arm. _ Ijdjys. when she was Miss They turn the corner, a carriage is waiting, Tremam evfwomen clusters were left every the steps are down, the ^rife has entered, day at her door, one bearing Ray Renaming- Ray is about to follow, when—ah ! great ton’s card, and the other Chas. Thornton’s, heaven ! what is thbj? Her husband stands How long ago it seems and how changed there before him. 5 There is the-flash and the violets are! As fragrant as of old, and report of a pistbl, and Ray Remmington cum - nce as quaintly pretty their dear little faces all falls. She shrieks wildly, springs from the awry, but somehow.they almost make her carriage and—awakes! % cry. And she likens them to little, tearful! y eSj thank God! awakes to find it ali a blue eyes, and kisses them tenderly, pity- : dream. ingly, and then—thrusts them hurriedj&j She is in her own dear little sitting room, into the open drawer of the table, closes it, There is the dear old sleepy-hollow, and and turns to meet her husband, whose step there * ]S Lelia, t i, e fluffv Angora cat, on the had announced his coming. . ^ before the lire. Bijou there, too, with, A moment Liter she is excessively pro- his funny little goggled ryes, and funny voked at herself for thrusting the violets little pink tongue lolling out, and—what is out of sight. Why did she do it? She. this? A card*—Ray Remmington’s. She could not have told you.' Perhaps she felt remembers how he did call, and he had the instinctively that her husband would hardly impertinence to show by bis look and tone approve of her receiving even so trifling a that be still cared for her. gilt as a wee bunch of violets from his old. She ringa the bell violently, rival, Ray Remmington. [ “James, in future, when Mr. Hemming- Well, the thing was done, and there was ton calls I am not at home. Under Fre. The Wife’s Dream. no help for it. Were she now to take them from the drawer, Charier world certainly require an explanation as to how they qot there, aud surely it was a qut-er place in ’ ^ Yrtiicli to put pretty, Jresh flowers. Better For the first three days of Payne s fight not say anything about them. And should w .ith “ ie ute Indians, the situation was she speak of Kay’s visit? Yes; she would ' chiefly horrible from the constant wounds surely tell that —but not now —after and death struggles of the poor animals, dinner. Charley was always just a trifle which they could in no way protect from impatient—cross—wlien he was hungry, the Indian fire. “Every few minutes, ’ She would wait until after dinner. But says one, “you heard the dying gurgle of Before the 'dessert Was brought in, while a 1‘nrsc or a muie, and although we fasten- sho was eating her salad, her husband asked ed them as securely as possible at night, to lie excused. their pangs were such that they would often . “There was a most interesting article in brea Jt awity after being hit, threatening the the £v,nu,i',.Spouf r on the Chinese ques-’ m , e “ s Ilv f s ln ‘ hc trenches. Once a wound- tion, which he had commenced in the om- ed horse le0 P ed m bls a S on }' right into the npps on his way home, and become deeply A cozy, prettily-furnished sitting f£b$fcn, ... . . „ singing birds in gilded cages, a plump An- 1 - ?? ste< in * gora cat on the velvet rug before theffir^/ a ' And °K L e went, and when the dainty wise-looking pug stretfcheO lazily op the j cop .mustards, fragrant Mocba and ; luscious flowing shirts of a pretty wonaaiTs^dresa. • R'Qit'Vere brought jn there was q? liable- ( OIUirg so ^ umnu tut ^lco m ur - - Truly, a sweet, domestic picture. But stop! | some lump in the white throat and a suspi- and u ^ er CQVfr Qf tLis fugi ade a f Qt of 0 “’ j covered,-aud in fact suffered little or no un pit we liad dug for the wounded, where Lieutenant Paddock and seven men were lying at the time. It was a miracle almost that he did nat trample them to death. As j Snake Stories 1 Laying; a Submarine Cante. iif-fortune. A young man named Kent „ . , _ ,, „ ; was a suitor, but she rejected him. Soon! After a lull of five or six vears, there is “Curiously enough, said 3lr. Barry, a f ter ghe wa8 on ber way home one even-; at present a revival of cable laving in vari- ‘that story of the judge s reminded me ot j U g in a thunder storm, when she was seized j ous par t s 0 f the world. Everyone knows a case that happened many years ago in 5y three men? one of whom was supposed | that a ship is now engaged in laying the my district m India. 1 n^t j^the tbi>e Kent, brutally treated and thrown into j section of the Cape Cable from Dunbar ~ She was washed upon j or p or t Xatal to Zanzibar. It is expected self; but a man who did told the Delaware river. me about it, and in fact the thing was per- an island, where she regained conscious- | that she will finish this operation before feetly well known. It took place at a din- ness She was rescued by a man living on • co jd weather, and that the remaining sec- uer party or social gathering of some kind, j the opposite shore and taken to bis house. | t j on Q f that important line of telegraphic A lady sat down to the piano, aud had just, Leaving there thinking she would find her ! communication will be completed ‘and begun to play, when some one chanced to way home, she got lost in the woods, and i opened for traffic bv next New Year’s look at the leg of the music stool on it was three days before she was found— Oav. Similarly, the “large cable steamer which she was seated, and perceivec some- jugate and nearly dead from hunger. She . Faraday is now at sea laving the short end li 11 "* , there '_-A C , ? S !1 - lnSpeC l 1 ! J , n . finally recovered her reason, and is still of the new French Atlantic Cable between Brest and the Scilly Islands; after which that the moving object was a snake, one of Vvlive.' a most venomous species. It had been j closely coiled round the spiral leg of the j Fight with cats. stool; and when the poor lad}' unconscious- j * ly seated herseif in its vicinity, it had been j g 0 me time ai , 0 j, a boy about fifteen years disturbed, anil immediately began to move, -old, a nephew of Mr. Harrison’s, an in- She was quickly warned of her great dan-; ma te of his family, at Little Rock Arkans- ger, and urged to sit perfectly still, which ^ went out to the barn to feed the horses, she very heroicly did, not stirring hand or j juhvnhe entered the loft, he discovered foot, or uttering a cry. It must have been ' i wo cats lying on the straw asleep. like, he took up a bundle of fodder, j j zc d she will return to the Thames, to take on board the ocean portion, and then proceed to lay it from Scilly to the Island of St. Pierre off Nova Scotia, and from there to Cape Cod on the coast of Massachusetts. This scheme, which has been originated chiefly to gratify a pardonable desire on the part of the French people to have a cable of their own, will in all likelihood be real- the end of autumn, and the cable Besidqp- these larger undertakings, there is to be laid German Norw egian Cable across fearful trying ordeal for the poor thing, aa there was no telling what course of ac- i aa j creep i n g U p ; s t ruc k both of them at j opened for public trafflic.' lion the snake aught pursue. However, im one 1)]ow There was something of a dissa- I larger undertakings, there tins case it never touched her at all; out, po i n t Incn t in the result. The cats, instead I shortly after curling round and round the music- j of n^ing awayj sprang at the boy with a | the Baltic, which will divert a considerable stool for half a minute or sj it dropped on , fur y that startled lum. Having nothing I portion of the Scandinavian traffic now the floor, and was killed before it could ef-: with wl)ic]l t0 a efent i himself, the boy turn- : passing through Denmark. A submarine teett escape. . , o j-Wed around, while the cats stialled, clawed cable consists as is now perhaps well How extassnely unpleasant, said a , and bit him unmercifully. The boy’s cries : known, of tliree principal parts: the copper youth, one of those, like mj sell^ new to , ^ d not t)ring assistance, and, of course, rea-; wire or conductor, which conveys the eiec- Indnm life and experiences. W hy, the , lizing the fact that it Ulight prove fatal t0 . trical current forming the message from one horrid reptiles seem to meet jou at every de ] a3 , desperate efforts, the boy sprang to- | pl ace to another; the coating of guttapercha “T;: ?° p8Ce ! fe f f r H ! ward the lf *dder leaning against tlie rafters, or india rubber surrounding this wire, so as Don t be alarmed, my dear sir, replied an ,i tended to the roof of the house. The ; to keep the sea water out and the electricity the doctor, easily the snakes are not so, cats f ollovre d him, and, despite his efforts in—or, as it is called, the insulator of the frequently encountered after all the pot-, t0 kccp them away> bit an(t c law-ed him cable; and lastly, the cover of hemp ami sonous ones at least And thou 0 hTt is un- frightfully. Realizing his ladder folly, lie iron wires, or sheathing, which protects the happily the case that thousands of people, j umped down on the hay. The cats foi- “core,” composed of tlie insulator and con- chitfly natives, it^ the r liv es by riiake., | lowed liim- By thig time lie was bleeding ' ductor, from injury, and also strengthens it. i there are at the same time numberless in- y er y freely, and his coat w T as almost torn The A Mass Meeting and YFhat Came of It. ; uiu nai trample inem R> ueaui. as i aiccij, atm mo uutu who aiun/st u«u me guttapercha coating is applied to the we ail opened a terrific fire on a, e : stances m wiuch those who have been hit- ; intn threads. Seizing one of the cats by copper wire in layers bv drawin 1 . I tnn l»v thfl l«ss dnn»f»rons snecies have re- i-_j i i.. ...z . j .. t . .. t. , , .. . . ' the wire then directions to look for the six o’clock old caresses and delicate little attentions; : . r - t • . . . ,. .. ... unuu w.u ui wi,.... ... . ^ u. .w .... , ... - , , death against the wall, but the animals turn- J until a sufficient thickness is laid on; india Surely that is a frowu between those pretty ;cn»ts moisture m the blue eyes of thewife l jlm )ed ndhallledth( , Lorge t easiness lliere are plenty of harmless ed around and began tearing his arm. I rubber, on the other hand, requires to be arched eye-brows, and the full swellof.the and he custard was trifled,.with for a.mo- > of J the J tre ^ ffe had to watch out con-! sn , a . k f> b;;t >: ou ar “ not . su F e wl,,cl * aru Shaking the feline off, he ran to the ladder ■ masticated, aud wound upon the wire under lip is very like a pout. And. as I j men , and a spoonful or two of the Moeiia tinna i ly t0 give dangerously wounded horses | , wblcb for . a tlnie ’ . ‘ hc stories - v “ u <( llave , leading down. The animals followed him. j spirally in ribbons, tiien vulcanized by live, there are two great tears on the long swaUowed, for were not the watchful eyes and mulea j heir qu i etus . if t f, C y go t cav- i bee11 dealing are what we may call spec- j u9t as be .reached tlie ladder, lie discover- j steam and sulphur to cement all the turns black lashes! And now she breaks out . 01 Jeems upon nerf Ana tiien sue > nr i.5mr aftnr rpppivirnr an Indian bullet, and I ial cases > 1 ed a monkey-wrench lying on the floor. 1 0 f ribbons together and make a homoge- Seizing it, he turned, dealt the foremost cat | neous, tough and durable core. The a blow between the eyes, and before it sheathing is put on bv first enveloping the ...fully hard once I ucc . u LU a ‘‘“ iat “*“*'■“* u |* 1 ; could recover, mashed its head. The other , core in a wrapping of‘soft Indian jute, to . , . . . . . f mo while. A friend of mine got three ! ! iati not lutlieit0 taken an F active part in .animal was DOt rendered less ferocious by ; form a cushion or bed for the iron wires to dinner, and .after that the needle work—hqw , now lonesomeit was >o sit-there uight alter tl e8 h wounds in tr}'ing to save his horse’s j lL .... ..... „. . . the death of its companion, but fought with bear upon, then winding the core thus I hate it!—or calls, made or received, id. night garfnguft.fee back of lus newspaper , if( , FinaUy the ; ior b se was sIl()t through j ^ “If you will allow me, - he now observed ; flIry . With a hea vy blow the hoy stretch- ( served with hemp covered iron or steel which one is treated to a full account of mr at tlie top of lus sleek brown head >t, one 0 f b j s forelegs. Instead of writhing! 1 ^‘1 tell you a very curious and mclan- , cd out tbe rema i ng feline aud beat out its wires of the best quality. There are three Mrs. Blank’s extravagances, of Miss Honi- peeped above the top of his paper. She arolmd4ike the others he came hobbling up i chol Y ‘“'^d™ 1 tbat ha PP CQed on one oeca-, brains Cataliing them by the tails, he 1 types of sheathing in every cable, accord- ton’s flirtations, of that horrid Colonel St. I would tell him of Ray si visit and about the t0 th „ edgc of the pIt w)iere Joc and [ were swn m a church where I was conducting | marc he d to tlie house to give an account of ing to tlie parts of the sea bottom on which Cyr, ‘so awfully fast, my dear, and so dis, ^jdil™ flowers, ami with tlus resolve m and looke( , down a( Jo( ,_ ag jf , 0 ^ . j the service. The wmdows and doors were : his battle . When he entered the house, i it is designed to He, The shore ends being tressingly good looking.’ How tired I ain her heart she opened tlie door of the sitting ‘Help me, for Gods sake !’ Joe turned to j coursc all wtde open, and through one of ra ggr d , and b le cd ing from almost every exposed to mishaps from anchors of ships, of it all! And there is Charley. Wlio ., n , • me and said, says he : ‘You'll have to finish . those open doors a cobra glided into the ; incb o( big bodyi holding two large cats bv grinding rocks, swift currents and the fury would have believed he could change so ini Charley, dear —she would not give hiub Hank ; I can’t do it'; by Cod, I can't! ’ i cllurc >‘. I did °°t notice it myself, but ; tbe tai]9) tbe astonishment of the uncle and 0 f storm waves, require a very hcavv so short a time? He no longer cares for Ijerself a moment, for fear her courage f watebed ulv chance as tlie horse turned, SCVL ’ r al of the congregation did, and were ; terror of tbe aunt were wbat you might sheathing ot iron wires, twisted inlo hall, ‘heater or opera, but dons dressing might fail— Charley, dear, will you put and put a ba)1 in rig ht behind his left ^ I not unreasonably much alarmed. rhe ■ call> bound i ess . The boy has been confined strands the deep sea or main cable, laid gown, smoking cap and slippers directly , y°“ r P a Per aside for a moment. I want to and drop p ed bim . That night we hauled , be: ‘d 1( ‘’ a , , na,lve > wa ? fortunately on the , to his bed since the encounter, and his phy- q„i e tly in serene depths of the ocean, on a after he has swaUowed his dinner, lights tell you something. him outside with the rest. There were see- “rr 1 ’ andhe managed to procure a tulwar , 8 ; c ; ans payg t h a t his recovery is doubtful. I bed of soft ooze formed by the continual * ' ’ ' — —Inch he cut off the creatures head t r t J . ,, , r j rum of minute diatomaceous shells, and far ! removed from any violence, except indeed ! a sunken ship should chance to settle down “And what do you deal in when wild upon it. needs but a sheathing strong animals are dull ?” asked a reporter of Mr. enough to enable the cable to be pulled to Rbiche. ! the surface for repairs in case a “fault” These?,” and Mr. Reiche waved his ' should break out in it at any time; while 1 from their between these two types there comes How Canaries e that horrid meerschaum, and passes the 1 “Now, Lou, don’t bother me; I never <*ral pet dogs in the camp, Among them . , , . . . , evening behind a newspaper, enveloped in was more interested in my life. By jingo! beautiful ureyhound belon<rin<r to Lieuten- ,c * ore . ll * ia( * tirae an y mischief, smoke clouds. O, dear! I wish I had not < this fellow writes well. Where’s Lelia or ant Cherry. J “1 used to let htm out of my ; Tranquility was restored, and the service been in quite such a hurry to get married. I Bijou? What is the use of your having occasionally *’ says the lieutenant, “to ' P rocee fl e( i t0 close, when many of the (). go away, Bijou!” and with her slippered pets, if you never notice them? Now sit run down to the water. One night hecamc con p r to a tion went to look at the dead foot she thrusts the teasing pug from her. } down, that s a good girl, and dress Lelia up Duclv with one of his paws shot off. It tarn- sna ^ e ,JS 11 * a y headless on the ground. A rap at tlie door, and to her sharp “Come in pink ribbon or something. You ought e( j ^at lie had been fired on by one of them was a man who, in his euri- in,” a servant appears, bringing a card. ! to be fond of that confounded cat; it cost ’ our evTn gentineia, who mistook him for a ! osity to examine the reptile put his foot on si^nifv what seemet Madam looks, flushes, says I will be down enough. crawling Indian. There was nothing to do .‘ L - lea ?. n nJ u J al j mi, w en | o a million canaries i termeuiate one, smeared with bitumen, hut directly,” and Hies to her dreesuig room, j How quickly the moisture leaves the blue but km the poor old fellow to save him be , ln . s ‘f utload ™' al " | j/iv. bird was confined separately in a lit! not so heavily armored as the shore end, brushes her flushed cheeks with a cooling eyes. What a sudden, firm tightening misery. One u t “ r, “ Ii v Payne’s . u ‘ 1 d d rua K ■ ' ‘ ^ . ft A.r nn -riw^fcker cace in the iorm oi a cilUe. ‘nw-aa#tender as the deep sea main. The powder-puff, patsi the brownwavesi of her _ there is of the pretty red «* md vM- « afettaod, wouwha in the arm and «» W i measuring about six inches in all ways. I core itself is the same throughout the hair wit h t wo profty tJT- :p!ed hi.„Wg‘mites ham, cold heart this ot hm» had stuidenly , fat he had had no apetite for two days, ; tb « ““““"T r f d ^ ^lentlv w I These lined all the walls of the large shop, ! tire cable, and on it wholly depend the at herself in the glass, smiles, and descends, become! And the tempter whispered in turned to a negro soldier close by liitn, . s ™- au B* " bi “ ™“ d^tded v,o len uy tor Using in tiers to the ceding, and birieades ’ electrical properties of the line. The num- to the drawing room. her heart, “>■ ,t so would Kay Remmington saving: “Here, parol, stop sl.ootin at them i ' v a ™ and struck hi n on tlielmt All rem- of ^ ^ ^ frQm (be flo<)r : bc r of words which can be got through the A tall, gentlemanly looking man rises and have looked or spoken.” And, remember- bluffs, and for the Lord’s sake make me a «ues were useless, in nan an hour me poor .. The ca bird is my . taple •• x t r 1 cable in a minute (a number which ranges cranes forward as she enters. ; ing the tender voice and the love in Ray’s .little coffee.” The colored hero thus ad-i a ^ Reiche continued. “From August until i from fifty in a short cable of, say, 500 Mrs. Thornton.” eyes, she feels a tenderness springing up in dressed, whose name the narrator could not. S tan ce, the aw tut vtrulauceot the coura da thp8(j crcatures come t0 o me atthe | miles, to fourteen in a long cable like that l u * *l.„ - e .l.„ l.l—1- I - ' nunnlln J n.mlnnri K.r word, but set to ca C^!°‘ . , - - - 1 1 his was our last anecdote. whist. An adjournment was made there- That is all he says, but the tone aud her heart for the owner of the bold, black reca jj answered not manner are most impressive, and thrills eyes, and a glad though guilty pleasure in wor k.’ There was no coffee in the pit, but through the heart of the wife as Charley’s the thoughts of the hidden violets. And there was some in the next one. which was words and tones used to before he took to . Charles Thornton, Esq., returns to liis paper tossed over. But how to make the file with- neglecting her for dressing-gowns, sleepy- with a self-satisfied air, which, by the way, ' ou t wood, that was the question. The col- hollows and meerschaums. I is the expression generally to be found on s ore ^ m an calculated the chances, made a Well, they talk of the weather, the last the masculine countenance when the owner break, for the sutler’s wagon, snatched a new opera.'etc., etc. Commonplace sub- thereof has been making a most egregious ]oosc side ot a provision box and came hack b>r ‘‘’ b ^ n ‘ oat °. f the P art Y t0 the cabi , n ’ de jects enough. But why should bis eyes ass of himself. j with a bullet hole m tlie board, which waa Beaimsh bringing up the rear with the cause hers to waver and droop, glad to) An hour later he throws down the meant for his own body. Then lie made a chaplain. shelter themselves behind the white lids? Spuuter, and asks wliat it is she has to say , f, re j n a curne r of the pit aud prepared the'. ver y curious incident that you have Why. at parting, is the little white hand so to him. * ! coffee for liis patient. The sutler’s wagon W® 1 related, Mr. I-ane, ’ I heard him say, hastily withdrawn from the close, warm! “I really have forgotten. R was of no was a fair target, and the sutler himself was , 88 be decended the stairs; I must really pressure of his ? Why, after he lias gone, t-feonsequence." I hit in the legwhile makingan incautiousap- i “° te ‘t- . .. does she gaze so tenderly at the liahd she | Take care, Charles Thornton? Your i nroach to it; It bad a limited supply of I ^ GS ’ calm ly replied the chaplain, had so hastily withdrawn, raise it almost to ' wife's Jtet falsehood. Who is to blame for provisions, regulation hard tack and raw ; ’ <bnt nevertheless terribly true." her lips, and tiien suddenly let ilAdrop at' it ? and to wliat will it lead ? i bacon and a little liquor, which was of great i —— her side? Why? I can tell yon that. She | Three months later. Ray Remmington 1 service to tbe wounded. Another vehicle ; Death of a Noted run. tress. loves her husband with her whole warm, 1 and Mrs. Thornton have met many times -which was on view here to-day, and will ! passionate heart. And for a year or mofS , since that sad, day on which be sent her the ; doubtless" be preserved at Fort Steele as a { A female who was known in the Dela- lias been livingon husks. He considers his violets. They have lunched together, rode 1 pet rL .li c of recent history, is the ambulance ■ ware Yallev, in New York, asthe “Female whole duty done when the table is bounti-1 togetlier anti attended matinees together, taken down by .Major Thornburgh, it stood ! Hunter of Long Eddy.” died recently on a fully supplied, the wife well-dressed, and and to-night it is arranged that she will out with the wagons, near the centre of tbe farm in Damascus township. Her name he docs not-waverin his allegiance to her. , leave her husband’s protection for that of oval space occupied by the troops, and is was Lucy Ann Lobdell, and in 1851, when Possession has dimmed the bright lustre Ray. : ventilated by some thirty bullet holes, j only seventeen years of age, she was mar- of his love, and so, tlie wife’s heart is Jmn-j Is she happy at the thought of leaving Rankin. Ute scout, got under it one day for ! ried to George Slater, a raftsman. Before gry for it, and this old admirer, whom she’ her husband’s home! Happy? No! a nap and was awakened bv a ball which her marriage she had acquired wonderful gladly threw over for Charley, is welcome vvretohedly unhappy. But that which struck one hf spokes within two inches of skill with the rifle, both in hunting and to-day for tlie sake of the ripple he makes ; seemed only a slight grievance at first has tbu U)p 0 f b ; s bead . ' I target shooting. After a year of married on this dead-sea monotony, down which she become now an unhappiness too great to , m , life Slater deserted his wife and daughter, is slowly drifting. And his eyes cause hers be borne. | r lower culture-The Geranium. land was never heard of. Mrs. Slater’s to droop, and his hand pressure causes her | Of Course she confided her sorrows i to I j parents were poor, and she left her baby heart to throb, because there is love in the Ray, and his indignation was intense. j Among ladies who cultivate flowers, the 1 with them, in order to adopt the life of a eyes and tenderness in the hand pressure. j “That anyone could so neglect her! I gcra ninm has long been a deserved favorite; hunter,—She donned masculine attire, and She does not care one iota for this Ravv She, whom he would have cherished so ' be i ng f oun d in almost every collection in for eight years-roamed the woods of Remmington. Still, she has hungered so - tenderly, and so forth in tlie usual strain. tbe par ] 0 r, the garden or the greenhouse. I that section, occupying huts that she erected long, that this crust is not so unpalatable to ; Of course all this only made her lot seem j \\\, ], ave thought, therefore, that some ac- ' for the purpose. She only appeared at the j, wa8 „ et | rate of 2,000 every week. When I came , being laid to the Cape) is determined by tir ,„ late darkness was setting in and it 1 this country, in 1847, there was no trade the dimensions of the core. If tlie con- was about time when tlie iud'H' tlie doc i in canary birds, just as there was no trade , ductor should break within the insulator, tori “me of the others we in the 1 - dowers. You could not buy a canary’s ; no messages can be sen, at ali, since the habit of turning in for a nightly rubber of cag e or seed to feed him with m this city. | signal current will not travel; and, again, her as it would once have been. There, sir , the harder. And now she is going to es- ‘ coun t of this flower and the best mode of ' settlements to exchange skins and game or madam, you have the explanation. As ! cape ironi it all. But the treacherous little j managing it, would be acceptable to our ; for ammunition and needed supplies. She for you, Mr. Jones or Robinson, is there so \ heart in her bosom, that she had thought so f a j r readers. Geraniums will always be j wrote a book of thrilling adventures, and much difference between your conduct and * coftl and “dead to Charley, now begins to ' a dmired, either for the agreeable fragrance ‘ giving an account of her sufferings from this Charles Thornton of whom I write,tlqit 'jflead fordiim. j 0 f their foliage, or the splendor of their j cold, hunger and sickness, after returning you can afford to pass the lesson by, as not t How he haunted'the corridor outside her flowers; and when the great delicacy of i to Long Eddy to recover ner health, which applicable to you? If so, Mrs. Jones or I bedroom dodr that time when she was so ill ; their flowers, the brilliancy aud endless j had broken Jown from the hardships and Robinson is to be congratulated. She is a J and -ke was forbidden to .enter. And when i variety of their colors, the finely penciled i exposure of her life as a hunter. She re- happy woman, and God bless you, sir, say tat last she was well enough to see him,how ; Hues in some, and the clouded spots in j corded the killing of 168 deer. 77 bears, 1, and I wish there were more like you. | shocked she was at the alteration in the | others, as well as the great length of time j one panther and numberless wild eats and Now I am not going to make of this ; dear face. Why, it was worn as thin as j which they continue to display their bios- j foxes. After recovering her health she handsome Rav Remmington a fiend incar-! her own ; ahd when she first saw her own j soms, are taken into consideration, they j again donned her masculine garb, and went nate. No, he was simply what would be j face m tiie glass, tlie great Hollow m me j are surpassed oy out lew nowers. The j about the country as a music teacher. A termed a ’genuinely good fellow; which j pale cheeks he used to praise for their | plants which have opened the greatest por-;young lady at Bethany, Pennsylvania, fell means he was witty, generous, a warm j plumpness and bloom, aud saw in the place ; tion of their flower-buds, should be removed | desperately in love with her, and they were friend, nobody’s enemy, and a little, just a! of tlie luxuriant -brown tresses he was so ; from the greenhouse or parlor to the garden, engaged to be married, when her sex was little weak, and impulsive enough to follow ! proud of, the boy’s shock of curl}' b/own ! . or to some situation where they will be ex- ! accidentally discovered, and she was forced up Ills own desires and inclinations, reeking 1 , hair, and threw herself weeping on her ; posed to the sun part of the day. The j to fly, to escape a threatened coat of tar and little of the cost or consequences to himself ‘ pillow, sobbing, how could he—could he 1 scarlet geraniums form a superb show when j feathers. After this she returned to Long r others. He had been very much in love ^ith pretty Mrs. Thornton b efore she became Mrs. Thornton—when she was pretty Lou love her now ? how tenderly he took her in in bloom. Nothing, indeed, can exceed ] Eddy, put on women’s clothing, and bein' his amis, laid her head on his breast, and the beauty and brilliance of a collection of ! again sick, was admitted to the almshouse kissed the .shorn locks and sunken cheeks. ' dwarf scarlet geraniums, either in beds or of which her child was an inmate. While And, though she lived to be old and gray, ! in pots; they enliven the balcony, the Tremaine—and had asked her to change could she ever forget his words ? j window, or the parlor, all summer. If her name for that of Remmington. But i “My dear one, my wife, I am so thank- removed into a warmer conservatory in pretty Miss Tremaine was ver}' much in ful that I hold you here on this heart, where November, and a little water given to them love with some one else, and 4 few months ; at one time I feared you would never rest until the middle of December, when they thereafter made herself and that other su-; again. I love you, my darling, for your- commence growing, they will flower from premely happy by going through a certain self, your warm heart, your pure sdul, not January to April. Propagation is very ceremony at Grace Church, resplendent in~ for the bloom that can fade or the bonny easily effected by cuttings, requiring only white satin and Brussels lace. And Kay • brown tresses that are gone.” to be shifted from time to time. The Remmington, with a dull, gnawing pain at ? Ah! with a sudden sharp catching of the 1 young plants are very liable to be attacked his heart, acted as groom’s man, and there ‘ breath, could any other man ever be the by the aphidian, or green fly. The most was not a tremor in his voice, though the same to her as Charley ? O! she must ndt' effectual cure is tobacco water. brave face was colorless, when he congratu- t think of this. ; — w lated bride and groom and wished them bon j What, on this anniversary of her mar-: A curious eistoriol Fact. voyage. j riage ? No, she cannot take that. And! He had met Mrs. Thornton several times her wedding ring! A bracelet he gave her; | During the reign of Charles I, a country since her return from her tour, but never ! Yes, that must be left with the rest. Oh ! girl came to London in search of a place as the almshouse she became acquainted with another deserted wife named Wilson. They refused to be separated, and in 1869 they left together, and for two years they were not heard from. In the summer of that year a couple calling themselves the Rev. Joseph Israel Lobdell and wife ap peared in the mountain villages of Monroe county, Pa. They lived in caves and cabins in the woods, subsisting mainly on charity. They generally appeared at the settlements leading a bear, which they had tamed. The man claimed to be a prophet, and delivered harangues on religious sub jects. They were finally recognized as the Slater and Perry paupers of Delhi. Slater was finally arrested, and spent several weeks in the Wayne county jail. Her era of repose, or the “impo tence of modern causes.” An Old Pistol. two sweeps of his hand he —...— ........ , eight birds, and you only have to multiply, : The little fellows have to be as tenderly ‘ PnrP ' cared for as children. They are two weeks coming from the Hartz Mountains to New York, and they are never more than two In the Library at Montgomery, Alabama, weeks, and generally not one week in the ; j s aa 0 j(j pjgtol which was the property of ship, so their period of close confinement is j yi rs Tabitha E. Monroe, who was the wife not very long. The cannot be kept in such , 0 f N. C Monroe, who was for a long time quarters, and whenever by any accident I \ a resident of that city. It is a massive see that I am likely to he left with many I onc-barreled affair, of about fifteen inches, on hand, I send them out and at once sell j mounted with silver. The barrel bears on them by auction.” its top the following legend: “Presented to ^Irs. Tabitha E. Monroe, by Edward P. Some curious Facts. Almy, of Matanzas, Island of Cuba, in J commemoration of her successfully resist- If a musket ball be fired into the water it ing an attack of highwaymen, February will not only be rebound but be flattened; 22, 1831.” The circumstances were of if fired through a pane of glass it will make a romantic and interesting character. room, with a white, white face, and a wild, r 1 sleepy-hollow where Charlie’s aead rested short time married her. He died while I made from a split stick, the ink being the ! ahol e tbe size of the ball without cracking , The gentleman who pres^nte dt he we^on frightened look in the sweet blue eyes, then , every night while he read the Spouter. she was yet a young woman, leaving her juice of poke berries. Lucy Ann Lobdell' glass; if the glass be suspended^ y : ... . n i antftt ion in the bursting into a passionate flood of tears, I When Charley returns to bis deserted the bulk of his fortune. The business of j was released from jail. The two went to | thread d will not even vibrate. . nn ' neighborhood nf MatanMs. over a road throws herself on th* nearest- chair, drops home (lie left for .Washington- ./list morn- brewing was dropped. Mr. Hyde was re- I Damascus township, and in 1877 purchased | smdt Jaet m the ocean, will not rise, o . ° which attacks from highwayman were her face in her hands, and her hands on |J»-ing)'•wliat will he say ? Will I# cjife very commended to the young woman as a most j a farm, which they occupied and worked account of the pressure of the . ° - s table before her. Five—ten^-^ffteen np •. s.-J.' • • - : '-a . •»■’••>*-z * ; : ■ skillful lawyer, to arrange her husband's ; together until a few days since, when Lucy utes pass. The sobs grow fainter 2nd Hark! (fcite—t wo —^threeCflutits affairs. Hyde, who was afterwards Earl i Ann Slater, or Joseph Israel Lobdell, as she fainter. At length silence reigns, save an the nine.' 'tbcniJie strokes-ce^e.‘\ ; , ( Y. of Clarenon, finding the widow’s fortune insisted on being known, died after a brief occasional chirp from the canaries*and the ! The hour has come, she. starts for tlie -was considerable,-nritfried her. By this illness. She was nearly fifty years of age. ticking of the pretty French 5 qteekiron the door, stops, with her tyand j^eSsed to her marriage there was no other issue than a j The daughter of Mrs. Slater was adopted mantel A rap at the door arousfcaher and heart, gaz<?9 wildly around, and dashes out daughter who afterwards became the. wife ! by a farmer in Damascus, Pa., and in 1871 James enters'with a cluster olf^'Violets. ; blindly-into the night. A talWorm is stand- of James H. and mother of Mary aud Anne j was a handsome and intelligent girl. Her There is no card—aothingtotell.from whom .ing- at the foot of the steps—it is Ray. He queens of England 1 ?o ,5 t» mAthor’a with alone, as to-day, and he found it danger- she had not dreamed it would.be so hard to a servant maid, but not succeeding she ously sweet to sit there gazing-into the part with -the old . love-tokens. Even the i hired herself to carry out beer from a ware- companion petitioned the court to release lovely eyes and at the dear v tehder .little^ despised Delia Is eaught up and v kissed and house, and was one of those called tub ! her husband. This document is preserved mouth of his early love. ’i crietfTfteh ' And—what was she a&out to women. • The brewer observing a' good ! m the court records. It was couched in But "let us return to Mrs. Thonitoh;** £>he -da?* Acs, she was act uAl Ft-.going ^to; kiss looking girl m this low occupation, took j clear anjJ earnest English, and powerful i stands there in the center of that pretfV j "lifffe white *'fidy on the back,, of the her into his family as a servant and after a ‘ its argument. It was written with a pen These things had to be sent for to Europe. ] should the insulator be punctured so as to The taste for birds and flowers had to be admit the sea water to the wire, all or a inculcated, and it has been since that time. 1 portion of- the current will escape, and the “They call them canary birds, but they j message be lost in the sea. It is therefore are German birds. The native canary does of the utmost importance that each part of not sing. It was when the canary was | the core should be perfectly sound, and ac- crossed with the linnet and the lark and cordingly it is subjected to searching elec- other song birds of Europe that the little ! trical tests during the whole time it is being musician which we know as the canary : manufactured, shipped and laid. came to exist. These birds are all bred in ! Germany. The inhabitants of the Hartz ! Const waves. Mountains supply tlie civilized world. “ 7 . There is not 1 cottage in all the region! ° the ““on of ram and rovers about Andreasburg and the Brocken that is ! “ mes the ?, naw fS eff “i " f co fi t not full of them Some of the peasants ■ rh «™yes thunder agamst the cliff, which raise as many as 300 in a year, hut the mocks its seemingly impotent rage by dash- average is perhaps twenty to a house. As In S “ in a cloud of foam and much as *300,000 goes to the inhabitants of - s f ra y> but returns again and again to the the Hartz Mountains for their canary birds ^ ar - e until persistency wins the day. every year. They have bred them forgen- ! The , ^ « oast f of , £ ?S land - , wb 'f ba f f . or „ A e ■ j , j j c centuries been fast yielding to the attacks orations, and fairs are held and prizes are - ^ f . , c . offered to stimulate the breeders. | f be ., < f e ™ an °“ an ’ f f ” msbes , bl , r . “These wicker cages,” the fancier con-’ w ‘ th tbe ma J° nt f of hls dJustraUons tinned, holding up one slenderly andsimply ; b .' s ' nte re 9tln S cba P t( -« u Pon the actions constricted of soft white wood’ “are made ! of and currents. That eminent geolo- . . . , , ,, m 1 gist tells us liow towns and villages, marked by the peasants who breed the birds. Ihe f . ,, _ i ~ ~ n ♦ * • « ^ i by names in old maps now lie fathoms deep canary that comes to America is confined i. J / x „ , .J; . , • e i beneath the waves. In one case, which to his cage for a space of about three I . 7/ , . _ i „ 7° „ a * t i ; came under his notice, xionses had within weeks. 1 send an order for several thou-' , , ’ . , j ,. , . , ii the memorv of living men stood upon a sand birds to my brother in Germany, He r - . ,. , , 1 . , e x. , J , . . it • .» j cliff fifty feet high, but m less than a half directs a number of agents to collect m the ! . f n ° A \ vtr ,, „ Harz enough birds to fill the order. The cen . tur >' b °u aes , a ud cliff were all engulfed, peasant W no general place of sale. The ; and a™ water deep enough to float a frigate agents go from cottage to cottage, buying in one 500 birds, and in another 700, and occupied their site. As many as twelve churches, each further landward than the T . ,. . . : last, have been built in 'one parish, and all soon. Instructions are given to send these h ? haye been 8wa ii 0 wed ud bv th« birds to the port of shipment, to be there i r . , , , P 7 on Friday. On Saturday the ship sails. ; f ea - , Church-yards have consequently Men go vrith the birds to feed and care for i bee . n destroyed in many places the corpses them One man can take care of 1,250 I an d skeletons having been washed out of birds, and I generally have two men going 1 tbe.rgraves and floated away by the tide. Sir , ’ • at Jlu n i • ° C. Lyell himself saw human remains pro- each^way in the North German ships every , ^ from the c]is at Recu i ve rs, a t WC tt if , . j . Kent, in 1851. And he humorously alludes Here Mr. Reiche requested one of his , ’ denicted bv - Bewick, w-hich he men to show how tlie birds fed. The man i t0 a 8ccne “epteted by HewicK, which, he vc. a • iv i c. v i „ • t . says, numerous points on that coast might lifted in his left hand six or eight little ^ g ested b the aTeyard ot , ^“cd cages that were fctenedjogether in a line, Sdmntaed and isolated by the sea, and with a kind of shovel, held m his right, ; . J , . . , ^ „ -- a t „a e ^ „ with a broken tombstone m the foreground scooped up a quantity of seed from a . , t „ i bucket at Lis side, and vvith a single sweep ' 8er ™S “ a I^^h for the commorants m^d scattered the same through the bars and . beann S tbe fscnption: “To perpetuate into little cups arranged inside. With like the memory of —”; one whose very name .... , .. A • . .. : was obliterated, and whose monument was skill and celenty watdr was poured into the : , n . . ^ , . n . , J , ■ , . ; to fall in tne waves. And he aptly, though fvmnt 8UC ^ 1S llSC m C i sarcastically, suggests that such fili ng of larnps^ L tombstone would be a fit tribute to the “1 ou see how one man can take care of r .. .., , ,, , A 1,250 birds,” Mr. Reiche said. “With! 6 ° We P b ''-osopher who had feed and water j ‘aught“the permanency of existing conti- ... npnts 11 t.hp “pm nf rpimsip nr thfi “inino- he distance of two miles. —England has lost $125,000,000 on • history is checkered, like her mother’s with her crops this ys ir. the Arctic regions, when the thermometer frequent. They were attacked, and her is below zero, persons can converse more , companion placed in a position in which he han a mile distant. Dr. Jamison reports could offer no resistance, when she, taking hat he heard every word of a sermon at the pistols from the holsters of her saddle, succeeded in driving the highwaymen off. —Louisiana drank $42,000,000 of in toxicating liquors last year. “Now, Miss Julia,” began Dot—“Mew, mew,” sounded softly. Dot and Dolly listened. Kitty stopped chasing his tail and pricked up his ears. “Mew, mew, mew,” came again, and Master Snowball arched his back, whisked out of the door, and trotted off as fast as liis short legs could go with his round little body. “On, dear,” sighed Dot, “Snowdrop’s got another bird. I know she has. She knows better, too. I’m sure she does, for she always shows her rats and mice, and yesterday she brought a live squirrel right into the parlor. But, when she gets a bird she just comes sneaking around, and now she’s teaching that kitten her naughty tricks. Something ought to be done. Miss Julia, something must be done.” “That’s so,” twittered the Martins over the door. “Something must be dbne.” “Yes,” echoed the Blackbirds, “some thing must be don#,” and off they flew to consult their neighbors, some of them were in too deep trouble to make ai.y very wise plans. The Robins had just lost three fine littie ones. Mr. Bluebird was trying in vain to quiet his motherless brood. Poor Mrs. Thrush was sitting in her lovely nest half starved, because she had no one to bring her nice fat worms. And all this was the work of one cruel cat. It was indeed time for something to be done, and the birds agreed to hold a grand nlass meeting to de termine the best way to get rid of this ter rible destroyer. That was the one thing thought of and talked about in the bird world. Martins and Blackbirds chattered about It all the time. Phebes told all the little birds to be sure to come. Swallows talked of the coming event in every chimney. Bobolinks piped in the meadows and Jays screamed in the woods. Larks whistled all day, and Whip-poor-Wills sung all night, and all. about the great mass meeting that was to bring deliverance from their dreaded foe. At last the great day came and all the birds assembled. It was rumored that the Hawk was coming too. “Dear, dear,” said the bravest, “he’ll get all our little ones.” “Yes, and 11s too,” answered the more timid. “We’ll take care of lum,” said the Kingbird. “I say,” shouted a Cat-bird, “I’ve got ! Let’s make him chairman and organize police force. Who ever heard of a mass meeting without police ? When the spry- est and sharpest-eyed of the King-birds can keep closely His Honor.” Hurrah for the Cat-bird,” cried all the rest, and when Mr. Hawk arrived he was installed chairman of the meeting. He called the birds to order, appointed committees to consider ways and means of disposing of cats in general and Snowdrop in particular, and the meeting was open for remarks. Many sad stories were told of fathers and mothers carried away and little ones eaten up, and all pledged themselves to unite against the common enemy. Finally it was decided that the whole company should lie in wait for Snowball. Mr. Hawk was to pounce upon her back, the small birds were to peck her eyes and tear her hair, while the stronger beaked ones were to pull out her claw:’. This plan had scarcely been completed when Snowdrop appeared, and, true to his word, the Hawk seized her and held her fast, and— “Halloo, there—what’s this?” and big brother Ben threw down liis book and picked up his wee. sister. “Snowdrop,’ sobbed Dot, still half asleep, “poor Snow drop; they’re tearing her all to pieces.” “Guess not,” said Ben. “Isawlierunder the lilacs just now.” Did you?” and off darted Dot, and never stopped until she had caught Snowdrop and hugged her so tight that the poor cat was almost choked by the last morsel of Baltimore Oriole. And then, like many older people, little Dot found out that she was too fond of the cause of all her troubles to really want them removed or remedied. NEWS Ltf BRIEF. 1 Ancient England. In the reign of Edward III. iron was so scarce that the pots, spits and frying-pans of tlie royal kitchen were classed among the king’s jewels. Up to the end of the fifteenth century English iron was not only dearer but inferior to that manufactured on the continent. During the fifteenth cen* tury the manufacture of iron began to be extensive in Sussex, where the ore and the timber for smelting it abounded, and iron mills soon became numerous in the country. The landed proprietors entered into the business eagerly, and not only were many ancient houses enriched thereby, but sever al new men acquired wealth and founded families. In the forest of Dean also, where wood was plentiful, iron was largely smelt ed. The land, however, soon became de nuded of trees in consequence of the ex clusive use of charcoal for smelting; pecple became alarmed, and many edicts were fulminated restricting the manufacture of iron. Eventually the feeling became so strong that from the time of the Restoration the iron manufacture of England rapidly declined. Coal was known, but there was a prejudice against its use on account of its supposed pestilential qualities. Coal, moreover, as then used, injuriously affected the quality of the iron, and it was not un til the beginning of the eighteenth century that the first real steps for overcoming the difficulty were taken. Ingratitude to the Doctor. The doctors who are called up in the middle of the night at the risk of getting the pneumonia, are just as liable to go with out their pay when the danger is past as though thoy were called in the day-time. One of them was one night aroused by a frightful knocking at his door. Sticking his head out of the window he asked what was the matter. “O, doctor, it is my poor wife! ” I beg your pardon, but I haven’t had the honor of your acquaintance, and I am not accustomed ” “I know it doctor, but her life is at stake If you only knew how much I love her. For Heaven’s sake, I beg you;” and he went on for a considerable time in this fashion, until the doctor relented, in spite of the cold winter night. He dressed him self, went out, waded far through the snow, prescribed and saved the cherished woman. Several days passsd, and hearing nothing of any pay, he sent in his bill. Nothing. Then he sent a collector. The. devoted hus band greeted the dun with anger, exclaim ing: “Go to the ! The idea of me paying that bill for a woman who has since run off with another man!” JSotv to 3Ieet a Dog. A gentleman gives the following advice in relation to dog: “If,” says he, “you enter a lot where there is a vicious dog, be careful to remove your hat or cap as the animal - &ppraclies you, hold the same down by your side between yourself and the dog. When yqji have done this you have secured perfect immunity from attack. The dog will not bite you if this advice is followed. Such is my faith in this policy that I will pay all doctor bills for dog bites and funer al expenses for deaths from hydrophobia. ” —Canon Sparke, of Ely Cathedral, England, lately deceased, leaves $800,- 000 to hls heirs. —A digger in South Africa recently fouad a 94^-earat diamond, and sold it on the spot for $35,000. —The State ef Ohio stands fourth in manufactures, the annual product be ing valued at $270,000,000. —The first postal system was estab lished in Europe in 1479 by Louis XI of France. —The last great revolt of the natives of Poland against the authority of Rus sia was in 1863. —The first palace of Holyrood was burned by the English ln 1547, after standing over 400 years. —-The Valentine iron works at Wil liamsport, Pa., will soon start up, giv ing employment to 100 men. —It is estimated that the tobacco crop of Pennsylvania may reach 60j000 cases, of which 45,000 will come from Lancas ter county. —The semi-annual dividends payable in Boston, In October,aggregate $5,168,- 095. of which the national banks pay $1,200,000. —Sweden imports annually about 1,000,000 tons of coal. The yield of the Swedish coal pits for 1876 was about 90,000 tons. —Over 20,000 quartz mines have been recorded in Montana, and some of the mountain ranges have not yet been prospected. —Four of the principal labor unions in England have spent $1,300,000 m the last year in extending relief to their members. —Two domesticated goats which left Harper’s Ferry in 1864 and took refuge on Maryland Heights, now number over three hundred descendants. —For superior education Germany has 21 universities, with 1922 professors and 20,282 students; 4311 of the latter are in the University of Berlin. —The University of. Copeuhagen, Denmark, which will celebrate its fourth centennial June 1,1880, reports 60 professors and 1250 students, of whom 20 are female. —Less than half the officers in the staff of our army, or 231 out of 520, and about one-third ot those in the line, 597 out of 1534, are graduates of West Point. —A joiat stock company has been organized in England, with a capital of $5,000,000 in shares of $5 each, for the establishment of temperance houses all over the kingdom —In the Southern States the eolored people have 10,792 public schools, 27 normal schools, high schools 23, uni versities and colleges 12, schools of theology 17, ot law 2, of medicine 3. —The extent of land under the dif ferent crops in Great Britain is as fol lows:—Wheat, 2,890,137 acres; barley, 2,667,103; oats, 2,656,575; potatoes, 540,842; hops, 67,715 —The length of the sewers in Phila delphia aggregates 350 miles, connec ted with which are more than 1000 miles of soil and waste pipes, commun- ieatingwith more than 40,000 dwellings. —Mr. de Lesseps is going to Athens to study a project of a canal across the isthmus ot Corinth, between the gulfs of Salonica and Corinth. The cost is estimated at from $2,800,009 to $3,200,- 000. —-The whole number of Chinese who have emigrated into the United States during the last tw r enty-five years scarce ly exceeds 200,000, and it is said that fully one-half of these have returned to their native country, —The Temperance Alliance of Loui siana assert that, in that State last year spirits w orth $42,000,000 were drunk, or $2,000,000 worth more than the com bined value of the sngar, cotton aBd rice crops of the State. —The gold current still sets toward the United States. From July 1st to September 20th the gold received at New York from Europe exceeded that sent out by tho snug sum of $25,306,314. —There are said to be fully 200,000 beggars tramping about the German Empire, and they are estimated to get as alms not less than $18,000,000 annu ally in money, without considering tbe value of food and ciothing given them. —During the past year tbe American Bible Society has printed an average of 1,000 copies a day of its ten cent Testament, and still did not keep up with its orders. About 500 copies of its twenty-five cent Bible nave been prin ted daily. —Boston shipped 1,795,793 cases of boots and shoes for the year ending July 10, 1879. Of these Chicago took 173,226 cases; St. Louis, 117,668; New Y r ork, 113*871; Philadelphia, 94,492, and Cincinnati, 93,459 cases—making a total of 695,831 cases. —A farmer attempted to cut into a premium pumpkin at a fair at Council Grove, Kansas, to get a few of the seeds, but found it made of wood. It had taken many prizes at fairs for its weight, 230 pounds, and its circumfer ence, 7 feet. There being but about $6,000,000 of gold in smaller denominations than 20s now in the Treasury, the Philadelphia Mint will recoin most of the foreign gold into five and ten dollar gold pieces. The 5s and 10s now being coined by the San Francisco Mint will be sent East. —At a recent auction sale ot ostriches in Cape Land the lowest price paid for a pair was $900, and the highest $1,425. Since the development of ostuch farm- ng as an industry, the value of the birds has risen enormously, aud a bunch of choice feathers was lately sold at Port Elizabeth for $337 a pound. —In 1878,2,708 medical students were raduated from the 59 colleges of the United States. As the statistics show that in this country an average of 500 people support one physician, there must be a constant supply of over 13,000 patients, who must pay the handsome eum of $1,976,000 a year, in order to allow each doctor only $2 a day. A hog scraping machine which has just been tested in Chicbgo worked very satisfactorily. A hog was killed, placed in the machine, and almost in an instant came out with only a few odd hairs on his head and legs, Seven hogs were passed through the machine in fifty-seven seconds, and each came out as hairless as could be desired. With a few improvements, the machine is expected to finish off 6,000 hogs in ten hours. —According to Dr. Engel’s statistics, the Kingdom of Prussia, with a popu lation of 25,000,000, has 447 secondary schools, with 6432 teachers and 132,612 pupils. The secondary schools are di vided into Gymnasien and Progymna- sien, Realschulen of the first and se cond order, and Hohere Bugerschulen. They are for boys from about nine to eighteen years of age. Secondary schools for girls are still very few in number, and are almost exclusively private institutions.