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The Advertiser ~ S U f 1 • v • ' :t ; f ;V’i % ‘ U ; ■ ■:: , ■-— iii om SERIES”VOL. VI NO. A-IMmK&.L. CEDARTOWN, GA., FEBRUARY 12, 1880. NEW SERIES--VOL. II. NO. 9. Henry L. Clinton charges William H. Vanderbilt $250,000 for defending him ' against -Cornelius and Lord Scott in the will ease, and in order to make it more binding has furnished a bill of particulars elaborately itemized. There is a bill before the New Jersey Legislature providing that hereafter the officials now receiving fees shall have a fixed salary and no fees. That is the tendency all over the country. The fee abuse is grievous and it should be abol ished. • The gold-bearing belt in Colorado is now producing more gold than any area of similar dimensions the world over This belt extends from the northern part of Boulder county, southerly through the little county of Gilpin, and the north eastern part of Clear Creek county—a ■distance of thirty or thirty-five miles, fwith a width of several miles. HiJ ingenious manager in Burlington, the Hawkey says, has made a drop Cur tain representing an enormous bonnet, with sprays of flowers and drooping plumes. This is let down on the play early in the first scene, and is kept-down all the evening, and the audience, see ing about as much of the play as it is accustomed to seeing, goes away de lighted. Three or four bills have been intro- 'ducefl. in the California Legislature to regulate the operations of gas companies, as to the quality and price of their pro duct and requiring the greatest publici- to be given, at brief intervals, to their financial affairs. There is much feeling against the gas company in San Fran cisco, and the people are determined to have light at a reasonable rate. Among all the cities of Italy suffering from famine and misery this winter Rome bears the heaviest burden. The trade of the city has declined sinGi the overthrow of the Pope’s Government, gad the taxes are a hundred fold what they were; they were almost nominal under the Popes, as the whole world' contributed to enrich the city. Large Capitalists from Turin and Milan have.monopolized what has been left of the trade once po:- sessed by Roman merchants. A district has been selected in Cin cinnati for a test of the Holly system of supplying heat -by steam. Ordinances granting permission to a company to lay pipes have been approved by the Mayor, but it is required that heat shall be sup plied the public buildings at 80 per cent, less than the cost for heating khem dur ing 1878. The compapy also agrees to furnish steam power where wanted at reduced cost. If this system comes into general use the old-fashioned “ fireside,” about which so much poetry has been written, and which makes home in win ter look so cheerful, will be numbered among the things that were. Some interesting experiments of ploughing by electricity took place the other day at Noisiel, in France, in the park of the well-known Deputy and chocolate maker, M. Menier. The mo tive power was supplied to the plough by a Gramme machine, itself set in motion by water power, which is abundant on M. Menier’s estate. The plough did about the same work as if it were drawn by four oxen. It was a Fowler plough, with six shares. -The motive power was supplied by a wire at a distance of nearly half a mi e. To a profane looker-on it was amazing to see a plough propelled by an unseen agency without teams or steam. The Gramme machine employed was the same that supplied M. Menier’s manufactory with electric light. The attention of Edison having been called to the doubts of some Parisian ■critics concerning the stability of the carborn horseshoe, and the claim that it gradually wastes awav by decomposition, he said: “A complete enswer to that - is the actual result. I can state that the oldest lamp in my laboratory, after burning 505 hours, had its electrical re sistance measured, and there was not a difference of one-tenth of a hair from the time when it, was originally put in circuit. The surface of this carbon which burned 505 hours is as bright to-day as it was the day when first put in, where- .as oxidization makes carbon blank. -^Edison says he has not sold a share of his stock. Save the Rags.—The price ef paper has advanced from 61 to 10 cents all OTe r the country. If this price is maintained, the public will be compelled to pay mere for their newspapers. Many daily pa pers have already increased their price from SO to 30-cents per week, and weekly papers from $1 50 $2 50 per year. The advance in paper ean be stopped if the people will- save and sell their old paper and rags. Three months’ saving of rags and old paper by the entire pop ulation, and selling then! in the markets, would cheek the advance in paper. Bags are worth from 3 to 8f cents per pound. Every newspaper in the land should appeal to the people in this matter. And they should also economize in the con sumption as much as possible. A new bracelet is made of a narrow band of _gold, clasped with s small golden OsH which has emerald eyes. The engraving of the owl’s plumage is very fine and the design quite novel. A ring is made of a serpent coiled around ^fou times And with aturquiee set in his '-uplifted-head. "A Jtiy need only correct himself with the so»e rigor that ha reprehends others and excuse others with the . same Indulgence that he shows to him- . self. SOUTHERN NEWS. Louisiana’s sugar crop will amount to 185,000 hogsheads. Chattanooga is awakening to the im portance of good sewerage. Negroes are flocking in gangs to Tus caloosa Ala., to see a faith doctor. Wilmington, N. C., has one church building for every 650 inhabitants. The State Agricultural college of South Carolina w J1 Be opened next July. Seventeen car-loads of mules were sold in Atlanta, Ga„ Wednesday. The losses by fire at Charlotte, N. O., during 1879, did not exceed (2,000. Robert P. Button, Grand Master of the Odd Fellows of Virginia, is dead. Seventy thousand hales of cotton have been received at Rome, Ga., this season. Newbern, N. C., has a hat factory and Hillsboro is to have a plow factory’ Vessels drawing seventeen feet of wa' ter pass over the bar at Wilmington n. cr r A party from New Orleans is abont to start a glass factory at Bay St. Louis, Miss. The city of New Orleans has appro priated $200,000 for police purposes this year. Very large walnut logs are being ship- red from Southern Virginia to Phila delphia. One orange tree at Bay St Louis, Miss., produced a crop of oranges which brought the owner $80. It is probable that there will be a re organization of the Memphis Water works company. The school population of Tennessee is 514,643; the value of public school prop erty in the State is $1,162,684 76. The water-works of Knoxville Tenn., are involved in legal difficulties. The contractors are financially embarrassed. The citizens of Macon, Ga., have sent $700 to the Irish suflerers. It was most ly sent to Tuam, one of the most afflicted districts. Miss Lizzie Hammond, a pretty white girl of eighteen years, has been sentenced to the Virginia Penitentiary for horse- stea'ing. In selecting a jury for a trial at Clin ton, Tenn. .last week, 491 men were ex amined before twelve suitable persons could be found. One hundred shares of the Langley Manufacturing Company’s stock, of Au gusta, G»., sola recently in Charleston at $130.50 per share. One hundred telephones have been or dered by citizens of Memphis, and the system may be considered as thoroughly organized there now. A large number of the convicts sen tenced to the Tennessee penitentiary are employed in the Sewanee coal mines on the Cumberland mountains. The net earnings of the woolen mills company at Charlottesville, Va., for the past year, shows a return of over four teen per cent, upon the capital stock. A bill before the Senate of Mississippi provides for the severe punishment of iteoad employes or officials and ldgisla- rs for giving or receiving free passes. Vicksburg Herald: We heard a far mer remark yesterday that the loss sus tained by the spoiling of meat would al most oflhet the benefit from the big pri ces of cotton. Donald McQueen, D.D., forty-three years a minister of the Presbyterian church at Sumter, S. O., is dead, after an illness of many months. He was sev enty years old. Alex. H. Stevens is a puzzle to the medical fraternity. He is stronger now than at any time these fifteen rears, and, it is saidj'will shortly discard his rolling chair and crutches. jj| The State Immigration society of Ar kansas has decided to publish, for dis tribution abroad, 100,000 copies of a pamphlet of 200 pages descriptive of the resources of the state. Charlotte (N. O.) Observer: Almost every farmer who comes to the city re ports that his wheat crop is being badly injured by the fly. Cold weather and snow are being very badly needed. The first locomotive crossed the new and magnificent iron bridge of the Louis iana Western railroad, over the Sabine river, near Orange, Tex., Tuesday. The bridge is 400 feet long, with a draw of 200 feet. Atlanta Constitution: There is a movement on foot to organize two good base ball nines the coming summer. It is the intention of those interested to take these nines and go campaigning through the South. The State Superintendent of Educa tion, of South Carolina, is endeavoring to put in operation a plan by whieh the public s hools can be kept open for a longer period each year than they have been heretofore. The city council of Richmond, Va., has deposed William L. Smith, keeper of Oakwood cemetery, as it is believed that without his knowledge and permission the recent work of the body snatchers there would have been impossible. Columbus ( Ga.) Enquirer-Sun: Sex ton Odom exhumed the body of a yonng white woman yesterday that had been buried twenty-seven years. She was buried in a metallic case. The body was well preserved and looked quite natural. Selma (Ala.) Times: We are afraid that the planting community is going wild on cotton. There is danger that food crops may be neglected and every thing devoted to cotton. If, in such an event, the cotton erops should fail, our people would be in a deplorable eondi than. Memphis Avalanche: It is a settled fact that the East Tennessee and Vir ginia road has secured the control of the Memphis and Little Rock road. It is stated that the new bosses intend to ex tend the line from Fort Smith to Texar kana, and then connect with the South ern Pacific. Shreveport (La.) Times: One ff the notaries yesterday informed us that he passed sales of five hill farms, ranging from 160 to 200 acres each, at an average of about $3 60 per acre. These same lands could have been bought six months f go at fully twenty per cent, below the figures paid yesterday. Memphis]Appeal: According to Sholes’ directory census, the population of the city is now 40,927, as against 43,497 last year, a lore of 3,000. Bat against this wp are able to pat the fact of a greatly increased trade, our receipts ^ef cotton bang 50,000 hales more than last year and 6,000 more than in 1878. prising that our insectivorous birds should have so deplorably decreased? Charleston (S. C.): Hon, A. P. But ler, Commissioner of Agriculture, gives notice that he is ready to receive the privilege tax of twenty-five cents on every ton of fertilizer sold or offered for sale in this state, and warns those con- earned that failure to comply with this law will subject them to immediate pen alties. Nashville American : The blue suit_ for all the employes in the passenger de partment of the Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern railroad arrived hers and will he donned on the 2d of February. The next thing will be the uniforming of men in the same depart ment on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis. Atlanta Constitution : Plans are now being drawn for a new court-house, to be erected at the corner of Bast Hunter and Pryor streets. The work of build ing will, we hear, be commenced the coming summer. The new courtrhouse will be arranged in the ‘most complete style, and will be one of the handsomest in the south. Little Rock is to he a distributing depot for coal oil. In other words, an enterprising firm has arranged to have coal oil shippod to that point in special iron tank cars and emptied into a mas sive tank with a capacity of 30,000 gal lons. Here it will tie barreled and dis tributed; the saving effected being in the transportation of the oil. Memphis AppealThere is in Elm wood Cemetery a great curiosity , a very lusus n a tune, a tree half oak and half elm. The trunk is about two and a half feet in diameter, and for the distance of five feet from the ground is, to all ap pearances, an oak; above that have sprung two large branches, one of which is oak and the other elm. An act to prevent and punish the in termarrying of races, passed at the last session of the South Carolina Legisla ture, provides that any person so offend ing shall be subject to a fine of not less than $500, or imprisonment for not less than one year, or bath, at the discretion of the court. Any clergyman or magis trate who shall unite in the bonds of matrimony persons of different races is subject to the same penalty. Cartersville (Ga.) Express: Middle Tennessee is rapidly regaining her old time prestige as a mule market. Maury county 4s in the lead of all others in this respect, arid her county seat, Columbia, is one of the largest markets in the world. Over $100,006 worth of mules alone have been shipped from that point South within the past ten days or two weeks, not counting many droves that have been driv&si South on foot. New Orleans Picayune: The monu ment to Stonewall Jackson, to be erected in Metairie Cemetery, on the grounds of the Washington Artillery, is now on its way to this city by rail. The unveiling and dedication ceremonies will take place on February 22. Hon. B. J. Semmes will be the orator of the day. T. L. Bayne, Presidentof the association, will make the presentation, and Col. Owen will respond. The ceremonies will be the occasion of A-large military turn-out. New Orleans Democrat: An estima ble and well known young lady of this city is about to lose her right arm as a result of the boisterous and rude conduct of one of her boy friends. In exhibiting his superior strength during a recent visit, he twisted her right arm in such a maimer that one of the larger blood vessels near the elbow was ruptured. Two days after, the arm began to swell, and as mortification is now rapidly set ting in, amputation has been declared New Orleans States : One of the most important measures that will come be fore the Legislature now in session will be the reorganization of our present sys tem of municipal government. The adoption of the new constitution has entailed the necessity of a complete re construction of the State Government The great reduction in the number of offices and curtailment of salaries as well as the limited rate of taxation, are the salient features of the new constitution. The poverty of the people, the burden of an oppressive debt, and an extravagant system of government entailed upon us by the constitution of 1867, forced the people, in their sovereignty, to demand a revision of the organic law. Augusta, Ga., has six cotton factories in operation, one is in course of building, and capital is being raised for still an other, the last to have 24,000 spindles and to cost $500,000. The six factories used last year 40,000 bales of cotton, products being worth $4,000,000. Cotton mill stocks there are quoted at $1.20© 1 30. Last year the mills paid ten to twelve per. cent, dividends, and put away handsome sums in their sinking funds for extensions. The new 24,000 spindle factory will add to the population of the oity at least 6,000 souls, and will pay to employes $175,000 annually. .These mills make, besides what they consume, a market for 175,000 hales of cotton, whieh requires $8,000,000 annually to handle. Learn About the Pulse. Every intelligent person should know how to ascertain the state of the pulse in health; then, by comparing it with what it is when he is ailing, he may have some idea of the urgency of his case. Parents should know the health pnlse of each child—as now and then a per son is horn with a peculiarly slow or fast pulse, and the very ease in hand may be of that peculiarity. An infant’s pulse is 140; a child of 7, about 80; and from 20 to 60 years, is 70 beats a minute, declining to Be at four-score. A health ful grown person’s pulse beats 70 times a minute; there may be good health down to 60; but if the pulse always ex ceeds seventy, there is a disease; the machine is working itself ont, there is a fever of inflammation somewhere, and the body is feeding on itself; as in con sumption, when the pulse is quick, that i; over 70, gradually increasing, with decreased chances of cure, until it reaches 110 to 120, when death comes before many days. When the pulse is over 70 for months, and there is a slight cough, the lungs are affected. There are, however, peculiar constitutions in which the muse may be over 70 ii health. “ Contmccmt I Guns it U yon ean, And tell me, John, the answer*- Wherein a clumsy printer man Is like an honest dancer!” I u I bare it. Jane!” “ You haven’t though u Td make a dozen beta— One of them sets the forms, you know, The other forms the sets!’’ “ Sharp answer, dear, but not the one Wrought by my mental caper— One of them pay the piper, John, The other pfec the paper!” old army iriusket-and fr> to kill off svsiy little bird about t he place, and he has, kept up the* practice. Is it, then, sor- IHE FATTED OF THAT SHHSLE. When the angry passion gathering in my mother’s face I see, And she leads me la the bedroom—gently lays me m her knee: Then I know that I will catch it, and my fleah in fancy itches, Aa I listen for the patter of the shingle on my breeches. Every tinkle of the shingle has an echo and a sting, And a thousand burning fancies into active being spring, And a thousand bees and hornets ’neath my coat-tails seem to swarm, As I listen to the patter of the shingle—Oh! so warm. In a splutter comes my father—whom I supposed had gone— To surrey the situation and tell her to lay it on; To see her bending o’er me as I listen to the strain Played by her and by the shingle in a wild and weird refrain. In a sudden intermission, which appears my only chance. Isay: “ Strike gently, mother, or you’ll split my Sunday pants:” ’ She stops a moment, draws her breath, the shingle holds aloft, J And says: “I had not thought of that—my son juf%\ take them off.” ^ Holy Moses! and tne angels, cart thy pltyfngglan£a|. down; ufc# And thou, family doctor, put a good soft poulticd^i| And may I with fools and dunces everlastingly c» If ever I say ’another word when my mother wieHjr the shingle. —Burlington Hawkey«. A NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS A Detroit man wa* astonishd the other day to And the telephone could talk French, He said ke tiougittt wai an English tnyention. There were two of us chatting and smoking cigarettes at the corner of Canal and St. Charles streets in that quaint and strange old city, New Or. leans—a city of never-ending charms and queer phases of iife and mysteries withoutnujnber; a miniature Paris, with its bijou theaters in the French quarter, where the play is in French and the English language is a foreign tongue, and where the men wear their hats and the ladies sip absinthe and puff dainty rings of cigarette smoke from pretty months. “ Where shall we go to-night?” Mor- Ian asked me. “Grand Opera-House,” I suggested. “Aren’t you tired of Janauschek’s diamonds yet?” “ Well, say the Varieties.” “ Nothing there hut frescoing in the lobby.” “ Academy.” “Bah!” We smoked awhile in silence, and finally decided to see Mile. Mathilde at Le Petit Theater Francaise, away down on Chartres street. “ If Golson is in the crowd,” said Morlan, “ we’ll appropri ate him. Aha! there he is now. Gol son, come hither 1” A number of the young men had crossed Canal, street, and were passing up St. Charles toward Common, others continuing their way aloug Canal to Baronne. A handsome, small, delicate student emerged from the crowd. He had hands as white and small as a woman’s, long black hair, a pale, thoughtful face, and large, calm, ex pressive eyes. I was introduced to him, and he grasped my hand warmly and firmly. “ Have you anything to do to-night; Golson?” “ Anything to do? Oh, yes, some im fernal thesis, I believe; but hang thir thesis—and by Georeei the dissecting too. Where are you going?” , To La Petit Francaise, we we$/l I thinking.” “What! the absinthe and the head ache? Come with me to the college. My little girl will do the tight-rope from the roof, and I’ll introduce you’ ’ We turn up St. Charles street to Common, down Common to Baronne and the college. Crowds were beginning to gather at this point. We threaded our way through the throng that pressed against the railing around the college yard, and entered a Bmall door at the side. We climbed four flights of dark, diamal stairs, and stumbled at the turn ings. We felt our way along a hall, pervaded by a stifling blackness and a musty smell, from the dissecting-rooms. The light from the street belowstreamed meagerly through a window, and showed us the dim outline of a perpendicular ladder near the extremity of the hall. Wa climbed the ladder and crawled through a hole in the ceiling. Here the darkness was intense. We found another close at hand, and by feeling for the rungs, gained the top and emerged upon a steep roof covered with slate. We looked around. New Orleans lay at our feet in ail the glory of a starry night. On the south we could trace the river winding in a crescent form around the city, and reflecting the colored lights from the shipping. Away to the northeast couid be seen the dark, flat surface of the lake. To the south east lay the French Quarter, with its tall, old-fashioned houses and its nar row streets. To the westward Upper Town stretched its wealth and grandeur over a large area Under our feet was the glare from Chnal, St. Charles, Camp, Common, Caiondelet, Tchoupitoulas jnd Baronne streets. A parapet about twelve inches high was all that could have preserved us from the morgue, if the treacherous slate had broken, or the foot slipped an inch. Three persons were standing in the gutter agiinst the parapet. Of these, two wen rough looking men; the third was a w»man in tights and short skirts, and covered with Bpangles and stars and goli lace. The men were en gaged with certain pulleys and cords in dravnrgto a greater tension the wire cable thatstretched from the parapet of the collete to the building opposite. The womm was standing in the shade of the pirapet, and looking down ab- stractefy upon the thousands of human beings vho packed the street, and whose upturned faces, expressive of anticipa tion, ste seemed to he studying atten tively. “ A ready here, Zoe?” asked Golson, in hi; soft, smooth voice. Ti« woman started and turned quiclly, an expression of intense happi ness. ighting up her face. “I was looking for you below,” she sail. “ I was afraid, but I am strong nrw. You don’t think I’ll fall do you ?” “ Certainly not. You are very foolish b ask such a question.” He introduced us as his friends, and he shook our hands pleasantly. She [had a rather agreeable face, though we ’could not see distinctly, the only light being that of the stars and the faint f low from the lamps and torches below, n any event she had a pleasan: voice, and that was sufficient. She also was small, and delicate and young. 1 shawl was thrown over her bare shoulders and arms, hut her little hands were cold and She shivered in the sight air. “I was thinking, Goldy,” she said, “that if!should fall,” and a more de cided shivering shook her delicafe frame —“ I wonder what they would think, and how they wonld feel down tlere?” “ Nonsense, little Zoe 1” She laughed softly and put her arm through Golson’s, and looked up into his face with a touching tendermss and reliance. She again scanned theerowd, and was thinking. “ Well, but suppose I should. Do you think they would eare? Or would they say she was a little fool, and it served her right?” “ What is the matter, pet?” “ Oh, nothing—nothing whatever,” and she langhed again musically, “ I was simply thinking. I remember that a long time ago, when I was a child, and my father was letting me stand on his head while he rode two horses_ bare- back around the ring—and I was terribly frightened once when the horses became wild with fear or some thing, I don’t remember what—and he caught me strong and close in his arms as 1 was falling, and kissed my lips, my cheeks, and eyes, and forehead, and held me in his arms quite a while, and called me hi% dear, precious baby. What was I going to tell you? Oh, yes; about the man who fell from the tight-rope. That was terrible I One end of the rope was passed over the roof of a house, carried down the side, and made fast to a wooden block underneath. It had so happened that the block had rotted off next the ground, and there was no weight npon it whatever. Well, any how, they tied the rope around the block, and the professor was half-way across the street when he began to give an exhibition of jumping. Suddenly we saw that the rope was giving way. The jerking had pulled the block from under the house, and was dragging it up the side. The professor turned quite pale, and stood and waited. He came down slowly with the rope- It seemed as if it would never stop slipping over the roof like a long ugly snake. It soon became slack, and it was, of course, much harder to balance on it; but he never lost hiB presence of mind, and stood perfectly calm and straight. When the block had nearly reached the roof—it was a two-story house—the rope slipped off, and I heard the block drop to the ground. I hid my face and crouched down against a wall, and I heard him strike the ground like some thing dead. Oh, it was so horrible 1 ” She peered around into the darknes and shuddered. “Poor fellow I he fell flat on his face. It was the cruelest thing that ever happened.” She sighed, and still gazed at the crowd below. “Did it kill him?” “No, not quite, but he was delirious for several weeks. When they picked him up the blood gashed from his nose, his eyes, and his ears, and a bioodv froth came from his mouth. I was a little child then and I dreamed of him every night for two or three years. I dreamed of him again last night for the first time in a great while. I though t I went to pick hfm up, and couid feel his poor broken bones grating against each other, and his poor bloodshot eyes stared wide and cold at me.” “ You are not well to-night, Zoe,” said the man of science, examining her pulse attentively. He became thought ful. “ I don’t think you ought to risk it,” he said. “ Oh, I am not afraid now that you are here,” she replied in her charming way. “ I think you had better wait.” “ Now, don’t get naughty. I must go. I want to go. Why, there’s two hundred dollars in th,at crowd, any ir.y manager would be crazy if I didn’t walk. Beside, I contracted to do one street walk every two weeks in addition to the lofty centre- pole walk every day. Why, I’ve done tke loftv five hundred times and never lost my head, and why is there danger now?” “But it’s more difficult to see the rope at night.” “ I never look at my feet, anyhow, when I walk.” “ You are feverish and nervous.” “ It will make me all the more care ful.” “ Well, walk then,” said Golson, with a shrug or the shoulders. “ Now, Goldy, don’t look that way.” He became cheerfu land beaming in a moment. The manager appeared on the opposite roof and beckoned the girl to proceed. The attendants at both ends examined the fastenings of the rope to see that they were properly secured. They produced trays in which to burn colored fires, and heaped lumps of the combustible material upon the parapet. Zoe mounted the parapet with an elastic step, and threw kisses at the Bhonting crowd below as the red fires brought out her frail form. She looked very charm ing and pretty, standing, smiling, in the intense red glare of the light. “ Give me the pole,” she demanded, smilingly, of Golson, holding out a small hand and dimpled arm. He picked up the cumbersome balanc ing pole and placed it in her hands. She found the center, shook hands with Gnl- son, threw us a smile, rained a shower of kisses upon the crowd and stepped firmly upon the rope. She soon found a safe pose, took a few steps, and halted. She glanced back at the attendants, and regarded the pile of fire. “ Yon are burning it too fast,” she said. “ Good-by, Goldy,” and she picked her way over the narrow bridge that spanned the yawning chasm beneath. She was graceful and walked with con siderable ease apparently, stopping oc casionally to shift the pole and steady herself. “ She is walking slow and shaky to night,” said one of the men. “ She is not walkiDgas well as usual?” asked Golson, hurriedly, and looking at her steadily. His glances never left her a moment. “ No; she can beat that. I think she’s in the sulks.” Golson paid no attention to the insult, and watched her with fascinated gaze. His face was somewhat paler than usual, in spite of the red glare. He did not move a single muscle. Zoe had passed the middle of the street—the most dan gerous place—and continued her walk toward the other end. She toiled up the incline, the rope depressing under her tiny, nimble feet, and at last jumped safe and sound upon the opposite roof. A tremendous deatenlng snout arose from the mob, and the plucky girl threw a bunch of kisses at Golson. The color had returned to his face with unnatural intensity, and the look of absorbing anxiety had passed away. His chest was broader and his eyes brighter. He simply smiled at Zoe, and did not even applaud her. The shouting below continued. The men made no preparations to remove the rone, but Golson started for the ladder.’ “ She’s cemin’ back,” -said one of the men. Golson stopped as if he had been shot through the brain. The hard, anxious look returned, and the deathly pallor came hack all in an instant. “I didn’t know that,” he said, calmly and resignedly. He resumed his old pb ition, and watched the girl with intense interest—with a gaze in which were concentrated his soul and heart and mind and strength—a look in which was expressed the profoundest reelings of a strong nature. Zoe rested a moment, and again stepped upon the rope. She had pro ceeded about ten feet, when one of the men remarked: “She’s scared.” Golson noticed it; we all saw it. Hei teeth were so tightly compressed that in the dazzling light we could see ridges in her cheeks. Her nostrils were expanded, and she stared fixedly ahead at the rope. Her breathing was short, and a tremor appeared in her arms and knees. Instead of her usually erect carriage, there was a perceptible lean ing forward. When she had made but a dozen steps she stopped and appeared to be in doubt. She then apparently made an effort to walk backward, but was evidently afraid to undertake it. She stopped again, mustered her cour age, threw a quick glance at Golson, and recommenced her dangerous jour ney. The rope trembled and swayed under her feet, and in this way caught a swinging motion that tries the nerve of the most experianced balancers. When she had reached the middle it was im possible to proceed. She might have crossed safely, hut the fire on our side was exhausted. She had walked more slowly than usually, and the fire was consumed too soon. She could not see the rope distinctly enough. She stood still for several seconds. The light be hind her continued to burn, but it was of no assistance to her, and Immediately afterward it was also exhausted. We could distinctly see the poor frightened girl by the light from below, but her face was obscured. The crowd sent up hisses and groans. The rope-walker at tempted to take another step, tsne suc ceeded. She tried a second and failed. Her foot suddenly slipped, but she was active and alert, and caught upon her knee. Her fright increased, and in the terrible excitement of the moment she dropped the pole. It Btruck the rope, balanced a moment, and slipped off upon the crowd below. There was a great scattering, and the crowd realized that the young girl was falling. Every sound was hushed. The child steadied herself wildly and instinctively a mo ment with her arms as she knelt on the rope, and then fell. Golson's appearance was painful and pitiable. Great cords stood out upon his face, which was overspread by an agony of ghastly pallor. His mnscles swelled with ridges and knots, and his hands assumed the appearance of on eagle’s claws. He gazed at the rope where the girl had a moment ago stood. She had caught by the right hand, and hung suspended over the cobbles. In another moment she grasped the rope with the other hand, and hung per fectly still. Golson waited but a few seconds, when he saw that fright had taken the strength from her arms, and that 6he could not climb upon the rope. He dashed off his hat, and grasped the rope with both hand, and threw one leg across it. He crawled along carefully, that the shaking might not cause the f irl to lose hold. The crowd watched im in breathless silence. The rope swung lower under the double weight, and the fastenings creaked and groaned. “ Hold tight, my child/’ we could hear him say to the fainting girl. “ Hold on, for God’s sake, and I will for a moment, and then dropped it again between her arms. He ap proached her slowly and painfully, for he was a stranger to the situation, and was afraid of shaking her off. At length he reached her. He whispered something to her, and she looked him full in the face. He allowed his right knee to remain across the rope, threw his right arm over it at the elbow, and twisted the right hand around under neath to secure a firm hold, and passed his left arm around the girl’s waist. The strength of six men was in those supple limbs and clean-cut muscles. He drew her toward him. She released her hold, her head drooped, and she fainted. “Pay out at the college end I” he shouted. His feet were in that direction. It re quired four of us to let it out. It slip ped over the parapet slowly, and the suspended pair began to be lowered. “ Pay it out!” he shouted again. We let it go more rapidly, and he ana his swooning charge were against the building across the street. He let him self slide gradually down until he reached the sidewalk, where be was met by the manager. The latter toot the girl to her home. The crowd gathered around him with wild shouts, but he slipped away, and met us at the door of the college. “ Where is that scoundrel who said she was sulking ?” he demanded, with an angry look. We pointed him out. Golson walked up to him, explained his business and gave him a stinging Mow in the face that sent him rolling in the gutter. I met the dear old fellow on California street the other day, and his little wife was with him, charming and pretty as ever. She langhingly remarked that she liked to see the circus as much as ever, but that she always feit a horror for rope-walking. I almost believe that her dimples are as pretty as on the night she threw kisses to a great crowd in thestreet. Met with His Match. The clever Dr. Ritchie, of Edinburgh, met with his match while examining a student: He said: “ And you attended the class for mathematics?” “ Yes.” “ How many sides have a circle?” “ Two,” said the student. “ What are they?” What a laugh in the class the student’s answer produced when he said, “An in side and outside.” But this was nothing compared with what followed. The doctor having said to this student, “And you attend the moral philosophy class also ?” “ Yes.” “ Well, you would hear lectures on various subjects. Did you ever hear one on cause and effect?” “ Yes.” “ Does an effect ever go before a cause F’ “ Yes.” “ Give me an instance.” “ A man wheeling a barrow.” The doctor then sat down and pro posed no more questions. Ministers are paid to work, and originality in sermon writing is the leading part of their work. H a con gregation merely wished to listen to an old sermon there are thousands of ad mirable ones in print which could be read by any good elocutionist in the congregation, and the minister’s salary be entirely saved for distribution among the poor or other uses.—N. Y. Com. Adv. STAGE AND ROSTRUM. EYEBT-DA* SFTCEBIES. Mbs. Scott Siddoms is an Indian by birth. R. E. Stevens now manages Fanny Davenport. John B. Godgh makes $20,000 ■ year. Mapleson thinks of engaging Brig noli to take Aranburo’B place. “ Enchantment ” had a run of 111 nights at Niblo’s, New York. Miss Bijod Heron will probably visit this country during the coming summer. It is currently believed that a woman is a hard thing to see through. And bo is her hat at the opera. An Australian correspondent in as insane moment attributed Unde Tom') Cabin to Henry Ward Beocher. Mapleson had to piank up (10,000 with the Rothchilds to induce Mile. Mari men to come over here. “ Mv children,” says Sara Bernhardt, “ your mother can go no father in this business."—New Orleans Picayune. Miss Hattie Richardson did not join the Weathersby-Goodwin Froliques, after all, though she was offered a sea son’s engagement at a liberal salary. Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan con template, it is said, a permanent resi dence in America, as the managers of s vaudeville theater. Mr Ferdinand Dulcken, the pian ist, has severed his connection with the Carlotta Patti Company, and returned to New York. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day in the year is doomsday. Wu. Seymour, present stage man ager at the Boston" Museum, will prob ably take a similiar position under Law rence Barrett, at the California theater commencing June 1st, 1880. Mr. Maurice Stkakosch has en gaged Teresa Singer for next year, and in spring will take the Italian Opera Company to London for a season of two months. The celebrated Townley collection of sculpture, for which Parliament paid (100,000, has remained for twenty-five years in the cellars of the British Museum, and has only been viewed dur ing that time, by lantern light, by a few people who insisted on seeing it Josh Billings has engaged to read his lecture, “ The Probabilities of Life,” (perhaps rain, perhaps not), one hun dred night the present winter, between Eastpart, Maine, and Pittsburg, Pa., and has already filled forty of the nights. Miss Minnie Cummings of New York has written a play entitled Suspected. The plot, we imagine, is constructed upon the idea of a woman With two healthy boys, whe suspect the rats of being the authors of the mysterious lowering of her doughnut-jar’s contents. Emmie Young, the daughter of Brig ham Young, who forced the executors of her father’s will to hand over to the heirs about $76,000 more than they first intended to, is soon to open at the Bella Union, a minor theater in San Fran cisco, Cal. She has married the man ager, W. C. Orosbie. Mr. Carte has altogether five opera companies now playing “Pinafore”— one in London, three traveling in the provinces in England and one in New York, and he gave with these different troupes Saturday no less than ten per formances of the work, morning and evening—two in New York, two i» London and six with these three trav eling companies. Boucicault has evidently recovered for the Boston Herald tells ns that Man ager Field, of the Museum, has closed negotiations for a long engagement with that gentleman daring which an entirely new comedy from the author-actor’s pen will have its initial production, and The Shaughraun, will be performed for the first time at this bouse. Mr. Bouci- cault has just completed the comedy, and will give the rehearsals the benefit of his assistance. Underlining. The use of italics in letter writing—or, to speak more properly, the practice of underlining w&rds—to which, as every one knows, the fair sex are particularly addicted—has been treated in every variety of style by critics of a more or less hostile order. The ladies—or, at least, the English ladies, who, of all others, seem to be most devoted to that species of eccentricity—have been lec tured and langhed at, exhorted and satirized, in so many publications that now no caricaturist who ventures to imitate a lady’s letter can afford to do so without embodying in it a handsome sprinkling of italics. Equally certain is it, and equally well acknowledged, that the failing, if it be a failing, is not shared to any great extent by the sex which grammarians call more worthy. Thus much we all admit, and have for years admitted. But the rea son of such a distinction between one sex Mid the other is less obvious and in telligible; and the most acute philoso phers are not all agreed in accounting for the phenomenon. Probably the most generally accepted theory is that women, endowed as they are with so much more than their fair share of “feelings,” are constrained by a natural instinct to allow the afflatus of them to express itself in dashes, and to transmit to the reader by such means, imperfect as they are, the emphatic meanings which, if they were speaking alond to him, they would convey by the aid of looks or gestures. According to this doctrine, the underlining in letters would be a mild form of hysterical affec tion not altogether dissimilar from the nervous tendencies to which the sex is prone. Nor is this explanation very much out of harmony with the much more rude and startling theory that has just been enunciated by a French jour nalist of distinction. Aurelien Schoil advances the original proposition, founded, as it is said, on medical argu ments and observation, that the practice of underlining is a sign of incipient madness. We will assume, of course, as in gallantry hound, that the practice mentioned here is referred.to only when indulged in by men; but still the opinion will, no doubt, be interesting to letter- writers both of the one and the other sex. He glanced into her eyee snd thought, There was no fair rebutter. She rent beck a reeponai re tmile. He knev at once he’d found hv, A mutual recognition came. And forthwith anirejolnaer. They atroQ along the shady walk, TMr beluga with fond lore elate, ysjfcme, _n ucUnt wrl$ironT ;a5ruS?’ Should jta «sa7 to ent^ there, You’* beer the old nss&tnuu." —Keetatk Gate OH. Honesty is tha bestpolioe, see? A matter of course—the lecture. Cannibals don’t like to eat a coward, because the bravest are the tenderest.— Cincinnati Saturday Night. '• “ This is a high-banded outrage,” as the boy remarked- when he found that his mother had put thei cookies on the upper shelf. “My darling,” said he “ what a de licious taste your lips have.” Then she sprang np and yelled, “Goodness, John, have you been eating my iip salve?” There is a county in Texas in which there is no saloon, and in which a murder was never committed. Its only existence is on the map.—Chicago Tones. Young men, if your girl keeps look ing at your feet every time she meets yon, don’t let it embarrass you in the least; she is simply taking your measure for a pair of slippers. It has been demonstrated in Paris that when a man pounds his thumb with a hammer he is twice as mad as when be strikes his elbow on the door frame.—Detroit Free Press. The effect of jet on satin is very elegant.—Bangor Commei cial. Thiadoes not refer to a jet of water.—Boston Post. Why not? Watered silk is considered very handsome, and when made into a dress, is frequently sat in. “Bully” is not'an Americanism. Some of the streets of Paris have been called Boulevards for a long time.—Seth Spicer. And yet any New York politician can post you on the bully wards.— New York News. Some wise man remarked, “ No man is hurt but by himself.” Did that man ever visit a dentist? Did he ever play shinny with a mule? Finally, did he ever “sass” his wife?—Oil Oity Derrick. John Bright’s son is hunting out West. His aged father is hunting in England—for office.—Free Press. A good many people down this way are suffering from Bright’s disease.—Rich mond (Fix.) Baton. A woman who was called as a witness in an assault case tried in the Edinburgh police court recently, on being asked by the magistrate what was the profes sion of her husband, answered, prompt ly, “Mv husband is a bankrupt, sir.” He looked aa wise as an owl, did he, His tricks were well adjusted, He declined to advertise, you see. And in a year he busted. —N. T. Hotel MaiL Ebenezer Stone and his wife Flora, out West, were divorced not long ago, hut afterwards they came to an under standing, were remarried, and are happy together as far as we know. It was a case of Eb and Fla, it would seem; at any rate, they are tide now. One of our Boston preachers eaid Sunday afternoon: “The little good any of us can do must be done with our hearts thumping against the hearts of •ur fellow man.” And every young* woman in church looked at every other yonng woman and smiled approvingly. “Maria,” observed Mr. Holcomb, as he was putting on his clothes, “there aia’too patch on my breeches yet.'’ “1 can’t fix it sow, no way. I’m too busy." “Well, give me the patch then, an’ Til carry it around with me. I don’t want people to think 1 can’t afford the cloth.” Matron, to her boy, screaming: “Willie, how long are you going to keep nay toothbrush?” “I’m through with it. mammy; Sallie’s using it now.” “Tell Sallie to bring it here immedi ately; that girl won’t have any teeth left if she keeps on scrubbing them.”— Louisville Courier-Journal. Professor—“What does that expres sion represent?” Student—“That is the sum of the moments of the elements.” Professor—“Saj it again.” Student re peats. Professor—"‘TLat’a it. I’m going to have yon say that until I impress it on your mind as they brand U. S. on a mule.—Acta Columbian. They met, ’twas on the street— “ Ob! such a bonnet!” thought the one— ^'ne other thought; ** What feet!” Yet they did talk- Together walk— And kissed each other’s cheeks, and chalk. —Detroit Free Frets. A professor of the Iowa University is charged with placing eighty kegs of beer where they would do the most good in electing him to the State Senate. Fashionable head gear seems to be divided between the large beaver hat and the small feather or beaded bonnets. The hats are worn mostly by such young ladies as sported the Gainsborough, the bonnet by such young women as do not like the hat, and women who are no longer young. There is nothing more to be said of the bonnets than has been said already. Still another cheap lace appears as a rival for Breton, and it calls itself Languedoc, a name which will be a worse trial to the salesmen than that which they called Brettoong. The Langnedoc has its large figures darned in with cord and shaded with fine thread, and is made on imitation Valen ciennes and thread grounds in dead white and several shades of cream. A very beautiful yonng lady was hurrying through the streets of Balti more, turned, and in pathetic accents, asked a gentleman walking beside her to knock a pickpocket down who wa* following her. The gentleman oblig ingly complied. As soon as she saw the fight fairly began, she chuckled gayly and skipped away. The man knocked down was her husband. The First Banks. We are generally told in histories of banking, as, for instance, in that of GU- bart, that the first National Bank was that of Venice, founded in the year 1157, bat I agree with Mr. McLeod, that this institution was not at first in any sense a true bank. The State being deeply in volved in debt, its creditors were torened into a corporation, and the debts made transferable, like our consols. It was not until 1587 that the institution began to take money on demisit. The de positors received a credit on the hank’d books equal to the actual weight of bullion placed there, which the bank undertook to keep intact in its' vanlts, and to repay the depositor at any time, or to transfer to any (me else. The earliest real bank was that of Barcelona, founded in 1401. In this case, the city funds were made responsible for any moneys intiusted to the bank, which not only received deposits, but exchanged money and discounted bills. The Bank of Amsterdam was founded ini 1809. The so called Bank of Bt. George, at Genoa, dates back to 1407, but does not appear to have done genuine banking business until 1675. The Bank of Stockholm, which commenced in 1668, was the first bank in Europe to issue bank notes, wltRh, until that time, were totally un- known in the WesA although, as we have seen, they had long been in use in China.