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1 1 The Cedartown Advertiser, "PublisUed every TLurs.-ln v hv D. H. FREEMAN. Terms: SI.50 per annum, in advance. OLD SERIES—VOL. VII-NO. 7. CEDARTOWN, GA., APRIL 29, 1880. NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 20. BETTER LUCK ANOTHER TEAR. Oh, never oink ’oe&th Fortunes frown. But brave her with & shoot of cheer. And front her fairly—face her down— She’s only starn to thosa who fear ! Here’s “Better lnck another year— Another year! Aye, better ltu k another year ! We’ll have her smile instead of sneer— A thousand smiles for every tear, With home made sled and goodly cheer. And better luck another year— Anot 1 ex year! The damsel Fortune still denies The plea that yet delights her ear ; ‘Tie bnt oar manhood that she tries— She’s copy to those who doubt and fear— She'll grant the *uit another year ! Another year ! Here’s Better lnck another year !” She nuW denies t^e golden prize s ~ Put, spite of frown and scorn and suet r. Be firm, and we wi 1 win and wear, With home made glad and goodly cheer, In better luck another year ! Another year! Another year! Scientific Suicide. ed?” •“Oh I know,” said Guy, ‘’wliat you are about to do. Don’t think that I’m going to interfere, not at all. But before you make your quietus, 1 wish to ask you a few questions. Have you provided for your niece’s future welfare?” ■‘What's that to you?” “Considerable. I am about to marry Miss Silver, so her interests are naturally mine. ” “Then she is provided for, amply.’’ Thank you for your information. Very glad to hear it. And now, excuse the ap parent impertinence of thd question, but where is your will?” “Here,” said Mr. Maddox, laying his hand on it. “Suppose you give it to me to take care of?” “Give it to y6u! Why, pray?’’ “It might become misplaced,” explained Guy. “I’ll keep it myself,” said Mr. Mad dox, roughly. “Then just leave a memorandum out he table,.’ said Guy, earnestly, “to tell where it is. It will save trouble, perhaps.” “Get out.”’ cried Mr. Maddox, angrily. “Ah, I see!” said Mr. Cheevers, coolly; Heft-Tand Neighbors. The house is a comfortable-looking brown bouse, nearly surrounded by veran dahs. It is situated in a large yard, where there are many fruit trees. As you enter the door you find yourself in a large, pleas ant room. There are easy chairs before the windows, inviting you in their quiet way to repose. Between the windows there is a pretty little table which is neither ma hogany nor rose-wood, toward which your eyes always wander, for there is always to be found on it an old-fashioned silver basket, filled with fruit vaiying with the seasons; in winter rosy apples and golden oranges, in autumn purple grapes. Behind the fire is an ottoman whereon a large, be nevolent-looking cat is generally to be found. The famiiy consists of. three persons, a man, his wife and a daughter. T he man is about middle height, ana looks to be on the shad}* side of i orty. His greatest aim in life seems to be to go a fishing. He is a person of whom we say “out of sight, out of mind. ” The lady looks younger than her husband. She wears her hair in the fashion of twenty years ago—two curls be hind her respective ears, aud the remaining two or three hairs in a small-sized A Tame Otter. nothing more, thus proving that the fibre, ~ _ j in which the strength lies, must have been A recent writer in an English paper says; j quite uninjured. The lesson to be drawn Not long ago, taking a walk down by the : from this I take to be as followsA mas- Tkrum mill, near Rothbuiy on the Coquet, j sive story-post of even the most inflamma- to exercise our dogs, on getting to the top j ble wood is absolutely and perfectly proof of the rocks one of the puppies gave tongue : against any heat which can be applied to and out came an otter with two whelps by [it, will not of itself burn at all, but requires her side,- making for the river. He got in j a continual supply of highly inflammable front when the mother gained the rocks, | substances to keep it buminf, and, when but we secured the two whelps. We took 1 this supply is withdrawn, ceases to burn ; them home ami put tbem with Bell, aa jand lastly, after being exposed for seven otter hound, who had a litter of three pup*! hours to flames of very great intensity, is “in a hurry to begin. Well, I wou’t de-1 on the back of her head ; it calls up tain you; but I have a little suggestion to the thought that possibly there may be a “I am a miserable man,” said Cyrus Maddox, gloomily, “and it is best that the world should be ri<| <3F‘sny* presence. No one cares for me. ” “Ob, don’t say that, uncle,’’ said Lizzie Silver, beseechingly. “You know I love you. You are the only friend I have in the world, and if von were to die what would become of me ?” “I suppose young Guy Cheevers would console you for my loss,” said Mr. Maddox, grimly. “At any rate I don’t care. I will end my troubles and sorrows to-morrow at twelve o’ clock. ’’ And with these fearful words he strode out of the room, leaving Lizzie sobbing, with her curly black head resting on a din ner-plate. “What’s the matter now, Bess? Has the milliner disappointed you in your love of a bonnet asked a warm, hearty voice, which was the property of “young Chov- ers, ” as Mr. Maddox called him—as that gentleman strode into the room. . “Oh, Guy!’’ soblved Lizzie; “Uncle Cyrus • ers ~ you to a certainty. ’ is going to die to-morrow at twelve ,^ r * Maddox stared at him with unteign- o’clock ” ; horror* “How do you know?" asked Guv. ’ "Then,” went ou Guy, “here’s a little “He said so ” package—a torpedo. It contains nitro-gly- “But how does lie know ?’’ i You place it in your mouth, snap “He’s going to kill himself.’ ' > nur tPe, . h on ami off ,. vollr head, “So as to make himself h true, prophet, " iu ' is 6 (:d ’ 010 oallions of atoms, eh?” a kedGuy, laughing. 1 “Good heavens.” exclaimed Mr. Msd- “Oh, Guy, don’t joke 1” Lix/.e, t< sr!ui!v. dl,x * tearfully. What a terrible idea! “He will—I know he will!” ' i “ Not 81 all,” said Guy, soothingly, “I doubt it!” said Guy. skeptically. ! “Beautiful invention—I quite pride myself offer. “It is this,” ;>ud Guy. “Miss Silver in forms me thaV }'OU have made several pre vious efforts to cut short your trouble and your breathy and always unsuccessfully. Now, it seems to me you don’t go the rigid way about it. This box”—aud here he opened the box before alluded to—contains several little plans that 1 think might please you. Here’s one”—and he showed a little steel instrument. “What’s that?” asked Mr. Maddox, curi ously. “This,” said. Guy, “is an article that you can placp round your neck like a collar; then, by striking your hand on the left side of your neck, a sharp spike Is driven right into your jugular vain •” “But that would kill me?” said Mr. Maddox staring. “Well, ain’t that what you want?” de manded Guy, sternly. “Now, here’s an other,” he went on. “Here’s a wheel, you observe. You place this band around your neck, pass it around the wheel, and give it two or three turns; then let go. The recoil will twist your head almost off your should- “But he tried to commit suicide several times,” persisted Lizzie, tearfully. ‘*Once he tried to smother himself with burniug charcoal; but he forgot to stop up the key hole, and I smelt the smoke and got wine neighbors to break open the door, and saved him. Then he tried to hang himself, but the cord broke, and he fired'a pistol at himself but he forgot to put any ball in it, so fbat failed, and then--— “Gracious! ” cried Guy, as Lizzie stop ped for want of breath; “what a determin ed man lie must be! f'noh perseverance de serves to be rewarded. Have v< hi any idea what plan he will try next?” “I’m sure I don’t know,” said Lizzie, mournfully. “Something dreadful, I sup pose.” “But what does he want, to make away with himself for?” asked Guv, wondering- iy. “Why, he says he Is a miserable man, a burden to every one, and that life has no joys for him, and that he is weary of this world ” -“And so would like to try the next?” said Guy, “Perhaps he won’t find it as pleasant as the one he is quitting. What an unreasonable man he must be! He is rich, talented, healthy, and lias a very pretty niece”—here, in a moment of ab straction, he allowed bis arm to wonder on it—scientific suicide, you see! Anybody can take poison, or blow their brains out; but to do it scientifically requires real talent. You have it aud I am confident you will reflect credit on ni} r inventive skill. Now,” he continued, confidentially, “if you could use all three of these inventions at once— cut your jugular, garrote yourself and blow your head off, all at once—why, I d thank you.” “What!” cried Mr. Maddox, fiercely, “do you think I’m going to use any of your infernal inventions? Get out of this room, you cold-blooded villain, before I throw you out of the window!” ‘But I have a great many more to show you,” demonstrated Guy; “and you see I want you to try as many as possible. Well, well” he added, as Mr. Maddox grasped the poker threateniugly, “I’m going. But I’ll leave this box here, and before you get rid of yourself, just make a memorandum of what you will use, and leave it on the table, because, you know, there will proba bly be nothing left of you to draw conclu sions from, and so ” Here any further speech was cut short by Mr. Maddox seizing his visitor, and hustling him out into the passage. “Well,” said Lizzie, anxiously, to Guy. “I think it’s all right.” said Guy, grin ning. “Get the lunch ready, Your uncle door somewhere there, and that is the knob. Her teeth, of which she has but few, look older than she is. One of them has a par ticularly downcast expression, as it drops •despondently over her lower lip. She dresses peculiarly, looking as if she had never come to the end of her wedding tros- seau. She is geuerous aud open-hearted. Also, she is seriously inclined to gossip,and irresis .ibly given to exaggeration. When you are m need of advice she can always supply you, on any and all subjects. She has been heard frequently to l>oast that there is no man sJie is afraid of; and her husband never argues the point with her. Some people know when they are well off. Her daughter, a girl of nineteen, is her self moderated. She hat a retrousse nose, and sandy hair, inclined to a carroty shade. She has what is called vegetable beauty. This family have a dog. It is not a vic ious dog, for, judging from the large amount of bark, there can be very little bite. The family think everything of the animal— the man because it is of such a fine breed, the ladies because it keeps off burglars. It does keep off burglars, by keeping the neighbors on the alert. Several obituaries have been written, in case this dog should die. This dog occasionally gets away. This is the signal for a commotion. The lady drops her knitting and runs after the ani mal, and all the small boys and girls follow. Jumping from curbing to roiwl and from road to gutter, heated and excited, scolding and exhorting, this left-haud neighbor gives earnest chase. The number of pursuers in creases at every block. The policeman stands on the corner, wondering whether the dog is mad or the people are. Several baby carriages have fallen into the ranks, and all the dogs for three miles around. The neiglilKWb, tbinking«of fire and other dreadful thiugs, rush to the wiudows and see one dog gambolling along, followed by a very excited woman, and the juvenile portion ol the neighborhood. They hear abov3 the din caused by drivers, bahii?s and dogs, a sharp, snrill voice, telling Jennie, the dog, to perambulate gently home and expatiating on the animal’s waywardness. Finally the dog is caught and the procession files peacefully home. A hush settles down, and the only sound that disturbs this se renity is the barking of the dog. Killed at a Tournament. pies: One of the whelps died, but the other took to the hound, and throve famously; he mixed with the puppies, but fought like % demon, and was soon master of the situa tion. Wherever they went,he went with them, fighting everything he met with. He also became a pet with all the household, who never missed a chance of feeding him. His special treat was bowls of milk and broth; to get these be would find his way into dairies, larders, etc. Thus he wen* on, until be had to enter the puppies for' otter hunting. We had him fastened in a, yard with high walls, as we felt sure, if wefi took him with us, he would join his own species. On our return he bullied and fought the entire kennel of five. About ai week after I had to go to Brink barn priory/ and took the dogs with me. “Sandy,” the tame otter, would go, and into the Coquet not injured to a greater depth than about two inches from the original outer surface, and stili shows a centre as clean and fresh as when it was first put in. There may be other materials suitable for this purpose which are capable of resisting the effects of heat; and, if so, I hope we may one day hear of them ; but in the meanwhile I ven ture to submit what I consider to be strong practical testimony in favor of massive timber for the internal supports of heavily ioaiied buildings. There are very many anecdotes told of I His name is L. A. Edmundsou. Ed- BRIEFS. An Intelligent Dog. He was a pure Newfoundland, with a .nice, broad head and beautiful light brown :>es, and such a sweet expression at the comers of his mouth you would be sure to tame uttn, v*uuiu 2U, turn imo lue oouutJi • ■ . ... " , _ . they soon got on the lair of an otter. They i be was ““ ln & A inore affectionate swam him through a deep pool, when he beat than that beneath the took to the bushes! Soon [saw Handy sidefe^ '\TL , h °? T’’ ? by side with Refus, close to the wild ..tier, . U °' d thC 1118 m0uth I said farewell to Sandy, but presently 1 be ‘ or8e8 a ' vay ,’ and ,le ve ^ heard the pleasant sound, “worry, worry;” I r ? . to allowed this honor, and would I thought Refus had him, but, on coming m J g ’ k 1 ?“ 8 ,? tlSfil ' < ? T* y ’ in sight, to my astonishment, Sandy had “ d bo ^ b ‘ a headb, S" m order ^ him fast by the neck and held him fast un- W'^’d 88 possible, 1 suppose. His tricks til the dogs came up. From that time lie ! “d accomplishments were many. He was the leader in all our hunts, and was in ' TOaId Carr >', tw0 , e SS s m bls hu S° mouth at the death of nearly twenty otters. He|“ d h DeVer brCak oac ' be TOlMd tum a became, however, a perfect terror to all the ^ 88 w , e ri U “ au -'' one ’ 8n<1 on “taring a does In the village, and district; fighting 'f 00 ^ wo,dd al^F 8 f<> oud and put was his motto. I well remember Mr. Wea- p f* u “ ,bl ; door t0 close lL If thls them, had a big lurcher and ^evhound, ]^ aded !! e ( W0Uld l! mip V^ n the , d,x,r ’taking who took to fighting; a great, powerful 10816 UOt . to I ac,at e l1 " ,th ilJS oalK i ! u , was —The regular charge for cremating a body is $J5. —The sultan's palace costs him about $14,00'J,000 a year. —There are over 3,000 Indians living in the State of Mississippi. —Caps and hats came into general use about 1443. —The distance by railroad from Xew York to .San Francisco is 3,320 miles. —The Queen of Hanover is travelling under the name of Countess de Hoya. —Club life in London costs from animal, his long^aws^ar.d qu^Smovements ■ more ******* than many men I have beat the whole district. One day he was in Koxbury, and soon had poor Kefus dead beat. “Let out, Sandy, Geordie.” No sooner said than done. Sandy at once saw poor Refus’s condition, and flew at the lurcher—got him by the foreleg, when the lurcher turned to bite. On seeing Sandy, however, he was terror-stricken, and, giv ing a most unearthly yell, bolted up the town with Sandy after him. The dog’s master .could never-get him to passthrough the town again. But, alas! poor Sand_ soon earaMb hi* en<L- Love *f broth led seen, and if any one sat. down in the house without doffing his hat Custer would steal steakliily up behind him aud pull it off, then dropping it on the floor at the side of his chair would walk quietly away and lie down, as one who had performed a duty. We would wrap a few pennies in a paper and send him with it m hi3 mouth to a store for candy, of which he was very fond. He would never give it to any one but one clerK, with whom ne was acquainted, and would bring the candy home untouched, [ but after delivering it to us would stand ton intotue the Star inn^The f ^ ?'*'"**** cook, finding him wallowing in the broth, u m9r8e i 118 k f w s “ rt! struck him with the wooden ladle, more to i . W !‘ 8 it , f ^ < j l ° f " U k ’ J 0 ?’ b . ut frighten than to hurt him : but hi* aknll f aithtully to our pet lamb; horses, dogs and birds, but very few about i mundson stands, in his socks, over six feet cats; and as this is hardly fair to the cat 4all. He is bearded “like a pard.” and was creation, the following instances at least de- dressed in leather pants. When he entered serve a mention: There is a certain truck- a saloon on the military plaza in Austin man residing in New York, wko owns a recently, his boots sounded on the floor like cat with some very uneatable peculiarities, j the thumping of a pair of pile-drivers* She is a Malta, and about three years old. j when he shook his leonine head his long Her feature of attraction is the manner in ! hair twisted about like black snakes. “Give which she greets every person that enters | me some beer?” he roared, “I am drv! her owner a abode. No dog, on the return j Give me a three-gallon bucket, full to the of a long absent master, could appear more brim and no foam! I am dry! I was joyful or frisk and caper about with greater ;• weaned on 'herring brine and don’t eat agdity than this extraordinary cat on the' nothing now but mush made of min pow- appearance of a visitor. If her dancing | der and fish-salt!” and frisking about do not at once attract j The barkeeper filled a quart glass the 1 S 1 * 000 t0 $50,000 per year. their attention, she gives a succession of i deepest vessel in the house—and this was ■ —During 1870, forest trees were calls peculiar to her kind, that are certain ; repeated four times. Each glass the thirsty I P^ aute( l oo 28,000 acres of land in Min- to have the desired effect. These strange ! man emptied at a gulp; at the fourth he | nesota - actions and cries she generally keeps up for said, “Wait a rninnit.” Just then a small! —During the past year 16 000 per- ten or fifteen minutes and then quietly re- j man entered and Edmondson, taking the 90n3 left British India for British eolo- tires to her place under the stove. Her small man up as if he was a baby, said, ‘ niefl - owners say that she differs in no other way : 4i Give hit beer, hit’s dry.” > —The estate of the late A. E. Borle from the generality of cat3, but that she; The little man was supplied, restored to ! Philadelphia, i3 valued at $1 150- wiH leave her dinner or her kittens on the his feet and shrank away from the giant, j appearance of a stranger and never cease j glancing back from a corner like a mouse i —If we didn’t have any government until to her thinking the rather noisy wel-. looking at a Newfoundland dog. | officials in this country, we would save come is complete. And should twelve dif- j Once more the wild man opened his ! $32,000,000 a year. vSi tW ?! Ve times I mo,,til ,md il P re3ented the appearance of | —Mr. Tish Smart, one of the cham- would pussy go through her peculiar greet-, a cave opening, overgrown with sumac, in ! pion skaters of the world, has made ing. Among other “queer cats’ that have j autumn. j twelve miles in 28j^ minuses. ' C ? 1 w U | D . (ler th ? 1 , wnter ’s notice, was an Isle ; “I am the man that ketched a wild inus- j —A medal is to be presented ro all ° r tai e ^ 8 , cat - Dick, as he was 1 tang by the tail and hilt him till his chine j the men engaged in the St. Gothard called, was not only afflicted with an ex- come out all the way to his ears; I can lick I tunnel. tremely sensitive disposition, but with the j a double-deck h:g-car full of panthers, I —The late Richard Froth!no-ham nf expressing his feelings in his • with nothing but a corn cutter to light with ; Boston, left$203,000, mostly in personal face. He never had been w*hat is termed . and I can dance a jig on the pint of a cop- property. * a sociable cat, no one save his master ever per lightning-rod. 1 ain’t liable to cold, ventured further than to gently stroke his; but when I sneeze the reporters telegraph back, and not even from him would Dick: a fresh earthquake in Cuby; when I give a put up with much. One morning before whoop, the dishes rattle ou the Russian breakfast his master ordered him, rather | King’s table till old Gotcliearmolikiehichi- crossly, from the centre of the hearth-rug; koph swats that a keg of Nihilist gunpow- and his own description of the look that ; der has just popped in the cellar, and the Dick gave him in return, as he slowly re-! Empress lias to hunt her new teeth from tired from the room, was that it haunted her coffee-cup. “Give me some beer!” him for days after.. Some time after this : 1 his time he struck the counter with his he again had occasion to scold the cat, and fist and jarred the machineto run backward he disappeared for more than a week and like Hezekiah’s sun-dial and the record of presented a most dejected and forlorn ap- four hundred thousand drinks disappeared pearance on his return. A month later the ! from the dials—an instantaneous hiss of same gentleman, on entering his breakfast- 1 |8f«w to the State of Texas. room perceived Dick with liis paws ou the , m table and his whiskers in the milk, for! which he gave him a box on the ear. Chancellor Haven on sea-'sickno.. Dick, unlike cats when caught steal n* „ , , ~ slowly walked from the table to the open My , the01 7 ? S aca-ackness requires that door, aud after giving liis master a lone- re- ' ou s j 10uld know the cause. Now, the proachfui look, walked out of the house ■ pa ,l9c ls ! i:l! - ml are subjected on ship- end towards the woods, and was never I , d t0 8 ohr,jmc succession of earth- again teen or heard of. Another Nl . w; quakes. V\ hatever will neutralize earth- England cat, known as Debby, formed a W1 cnTe d * ^ ou I 00 * 4 at ' dl? side life-long attachment to a canary bird, and - our „ rooin ’ d ' s S ou 'g down, down, - - ; down. Then it creaks and turns ahout and at one tune actually fought and chased away another cat that was meditating the ! bird for TLen it wriggles. Now angle, and now frighten than to hurt him; but his skull “f T P el 1 ,8ra ? ; bird for a dinner. Incredulous personsi one „ c ' ,rDer tlps H1 angle, and m •- f—i —a - - ■=-—=— - , mfi Li md th, u Sh be would glance lovingly into were allowed to place the bird-cage on the! unother corner t! P s m another angle. I r -*nae pa!’occasionally, he was never known : floor; witb n0 other coul than Debbv 1 8tart 10 pick up -' our bal and - vou run 4to betray our trust or steal one sip of the | an( l watch the proceedings from a chink in ' agumst your rooiu mate > or P lun S« against Icoveted beverage. Y\ e could send him to I liie ( i oor . she woukl Ke nerally sit down ; tbe wal1 ’ your head be S in * t0 8 ' vim , and I tjremote part of the boose for any article, j by tbe cage as if on guard but never in ! - T0U eilllcr to shrink into helplessness days, he died, to the inexpressible regre. all who knew him. Rights of an American. M properry. —Arkansas has received a larger Im migration within the last three years than it did in seven proceeding. —The Union Pacific Railroad is go ing to provide emigrant sleeping cars, without increase of rates. e —Hawkins has of late years been re vived in England, and finds a few en thusiastic votaries. —C. Bazaine, nephew of the French marshal, is keeping a liquor ship in Minneapolis, Minesota. —-The wool clip of 1879 amounted to 133,560,003 pounds, the largest ever shorn in this country. —The Chinese Government have de cided on establishing a complete system of telegraphing through China. —The total number of fires in Paris in 1879 (chimneys excepted) ras 1.0-19. The loss was a little over $1,000,000. —There were 6,147 marriages in Philadelphia in 1879. Of 3,618 both parties were natives of this country. * 1 he would be sure to understand aui j a a y way molest’heThe'inles^ little comnan-' to resist an<1 lry f ‘ trai ? t >bm tbmgs out. og it to us if he could find it, and he i on Another rat in the n«io-hWiwl,H i J“>u say “This shall not be,” or you cower bouts, stoutl^buil^and^dresSc?iiTa '** nbT * liy found whatever he 8earched for * 1 used to annoy her mistress hv Lnstsnt.lv : doWD Uke a wrttcb * for tbe fadeti black. His face was round somewhat studious in expression, to a heavy pair of glasses great!y added. In t with a dog-suule, as though he said: “Vou j of co’mpanv" piss,^"with IT DCcuhar imre ^f in 801,10 sucb words “ s tbese: '‘ R °ck either hand was a carpet bag rf anoitnt !hif^ why did you disturb my pl«H*ot sstirfsrtion,’-wotoldyber^To 'U-fore^^the' uwa " : Tbis ie S ra “ d! -Tbi* is pushing ! fircjim V’ tiiMn turn tho IrnAli nf tho i>oll . . ... J around Miss Silvers waist—“and what more j lii r ‘£kt* He’ll be down, can he want ? But some people never are! And sure enough, so he was; and though satisfied. It seems he is determined to prv j spoke not, he eat most voraciously of into futurity, and it seems a pity to disap- j eve rything. ^ point so laudable an ambition; but duty— j “Lizzie, said he, suddenly, after au duty to myself—compels me to interfere. {pause, “did yon ever se«* an infernal I dislike scandal or excitement. A • old fool and idiot?” “Never, that I know of,” said Lizzie. Why?” er’s jury would cause both, therefore we must balk his little game. “But how?” asked Lizzie, curiously. “Because, just look at me, and youfil “A prudent General,” said Guy, liaught- j see °. ne »” said Mr. Maddox, grimly, and he ily, “never confides his plans to his army, j up-stairs. particularly when that army is of the fern- \ „ ^ P ^ present time of writing, Mr. inine gender—so excuse me; mum’s the word; but rest assured, my dearest Eliza beth, that unless your worthy uncle shuffles off this mortal coil in a surreptitious man lier before twelve o’clock to-morrow, he will not do it afterward—of course 1 mean illegally. Farewell till to-morrow. ” Having concluded this address, Guy strode off in a tragic manner, leaving Liz zie greatly surprised, but still reassured, Cyrus Maddox is still alive, enjoying re markably good health, and he seems to be ou friendly terms with Mr. Cheevers and his wife Lizzie. He probably forgave that gentleman on account of a discovery that he made that the nitro-glycerine torpedo contained nothing more dangerous than salt, and the other “infernal inventions” were infernal in about the same ratio; but Guy stili maintains that when a person is for in her opinion what Guy could not do ! wea O’ ot life they should ease their troubles was not worth doing. j scientific suicide. The next morning Mr. Maddox made his j - — - - appearance very saturnine and gloomy; j “The Gal’s Ynurn." and ate his breakfast with a mournful air j If • nnt • . , , that was terribly impressive. Having fin-1^ “^. ded sba!1 lshed, he then took leave of his niece in a j dh S’ ,> 8 f feeling manner i ^ )ut l ^ , ™ 8a8 - For the past six months he ‘•ram about to leave vou,” he said, Ruwl™rat’', h0:mini8 ^“ dll . oc - mournfully. “I am abr.ut to end this life I of misirv. I hope you may be happy. Henry the Second, of France, who ex celled in every exercise of chivalry, was peculiarly fond of tournaments, and gave a splendid succession of them ou the mar riage, by proxy, of Elizabeth, to Philip II., at Paris. The lists extended from the Pal ace of the Tournelles to the Bastile, across the streets of San Antoine. In the first two days the kiug broke several lances with lords of his court, in all of which he showed extraordinary vigor and address. Ou the third day of the tournament, June 30,- 1559, toward the close of the evening, and the conclusion, Henry showed a great in- c ination to try his prowess against the Count de Montgomery captain of his Life Guards, who had formerly wounded Francis I. so dangerously on the head, at Romo- rentin in Beri, and was distinguished for liis superior address in these combats above any nobleman in the kingdom. Catherine de Medici, as if by a secret presage of the event, entreated the king not tore-enter the lists; but "he resisted her solicitations, say ing he would break one lance more in her honor. Montgomeri accepted the chal lenge with great reluctance. Henry com manded him to obey, and even fought with his vizor raised; but the authors are not quite agreed whether it was raised inten tionally, or flew open by a blow from Montgomeri’s lance, in an encounter which was so violent that the coimt’s lance broke against the king’s helmet; he then fought with the stump which remained in his hand, and with it had the misfortune to strike the king so violent a blow under the eyes which threw* him to the ground, and deprived him instantly of both speech and understanding, though he lived eleven days afterward. This circumstance occasioned the suppres sion of tournaments in France. style, wnlie the high hat was of the kind i drearn?” then turn the knob of the hail which went out of date in the Spring of j door and in a moment return to me with 1859. He came through the long hall of j both rubbers in the cavernous depths of his the Central Depot with the air of a man; great red mouth. I would sav: “Bring who considers no one his superior, but * • when the man at the gate said, “ticket, sir,” he looked rather wild. “What am I, a liog?” he muttered, dropping both carpet in the doorway. The doorkeeper quietly pushed the carpet bags a3ide, and tne crowd went in and out, while the old me my thimble. It is upstairs on the win dow. *’ He would turn his grand, glossy head first on one side, then on the other, aud look at me in a puzzling way, as though trying to fix it upon liis memory, then turn slowly away to uo his errand. Sometimes on the way he would seem to forget and lady and there leave it. Another of the fe- abc<id over the waves! W hy should line tribe, with wonderful persistence, fol-! F ou rock ? 1 ^ strong as the wis- lowed beneath his owner's carriage, after 10,11 men oan n, al ie > ou - 1 urn entirely the manner of the Danish carriage-dog. I 0Ter lf >” u t0 : I “ be f? s ® ould no f This cat would never be touched by am' 1 ,! u ' 1 f 1 ' 11 - And if the3 should, nliatthen. one but his master, and by whom he was ! m ? bt “ T' da ; , oa 8e '‘ “ 00 laad . taught a number of little trirks. i and 11 w ‘ ouid a Doidfc , death - % that time your threatened sickness will begin to disappear. Some seem to do this uncon sciously; others will not do it until they are fairly driven to it by an exhaustion that Diet and Veal*. man raised both hands and delared he had | come back to me, looking very much ! Perhaps in no respect are the peculiar!- • makes them incapable of noticing anything, been twenty seven years in thi6 country j ashamed, dropping his wide, curly ears and j ties of different nationalities more marked Then, giviug up, their sickness disappears, and had “the rights of an American. ’ The - peering at me from the top of his eyes, than i ..... , .* — top of bis ey passage-way was blocked in a moment, and j Chen 1 would repeat my demand, and he then Detectives Kavanagh and Brown ' would run friskily away again, and come came, but he would go no way save to the back with the thimble hidden in his mouth, tram. He had a ticket for Buffalo, but ; often he would tantalize me playfully and would show it only to the conductor. The I refuse to give it to me, shaking his head in officers raw at once that it was a peculiar a mischievous wav, aud keeping just out case and at once seized his bags and him-' of my reach as I ran toward him. self and rushed him into the depot, he at ail times protesting about his long residence j * *** in America and his rights. Then he was • state Election?*, placed on the train, but with some diffi- j culty, his loud tone and active gesticula* j In seventeen States the Governor is elect ions affording amusement to the crowd at- j ed for four years, in two for three years, traded to him. Once inside the car he : in seventeen for two years, in two for one in their diet, and their repasts. The! If you cannot do this—why just succumb Maldivian islanders eat alone. They retire to ’ to it. No medicine can cure you. the most hidden parts of their houses, and m-m-m draw down the cloths which serve as blinds | u iD t,. r n,hm B on chants., quaint... to their windows, that they may cat uuob- j served. An absurd reason may be alleged The winter fishing on Chautauqua Lake for their miranthropical repast; they will ’ j, a business. Being an inland - never eat with one who is inferior to them lake jt freezes OTer „ u j ck er than Lake Erie, discovered that vaceinnation rnav be in birth, in riches or dignity; an I as it is a j and wben the latter bod ; g 0 chautau- dsofull y appl.ed to dogs. It apparent- difficult matter to settle this equality, they; qua Lake bas ice enough to hold up an are condemned to lead this unsociable life. | army of fishermen. There are about On the contrary, the inhabitants of the t twenty “coops," as they are called, out on Philiippines are remarkably sociable. ■ \ “coop” is a box alxmt three Whenever one of them finds himself with-1 feet gquar'e, wit h a hole in the bottom. A quietlysat down beside his airpeCbags; !year._ T’wenty-one^States elect^^Senatorsto jbe ro^STm^Hto wd howl| ; 8 ^d S Chased by a Water Spoat. “Oh, don’t go,” raid Lizzie, tearfully, clinging to him, and looking up into his face pleadingly. “It’s useless," said Mr. Maddox, firmly. “My mind is fixed, and nothing you may ray can persuade me to relinquish my pur pose. But you, my dear child, shall not be unprovided for. 1 intend to make fore instituting a revival it would be a good idea to get married. He mentioned the subject to a young lady aud asked her to share his ministerial melancholy and hilar ity, but the young lady raid she had prom ised to marry Zeb. Monk, the professional well cleaner of the neighborhood. “Oh, well.” raid the minister, “I am pretty well acquainted with Zeb. and I don’t believe will in the few hours that are left me, aTid ! vou will not he forgotten (iooAhJ 1 8ud ‘he wedding day was fixed. Grand preparations were made. The you will not be forgotten. Good-by, my ^^adlS 15^ bad ,«‘-' bt a “ of rushed from the room fLtically and 'ZL“ d -S*? “ securely locked himself in his own room, ^ , Ju81c f, 01 and heim to nreosre himself tnr hi. i„, ^e peace arrived. The parties took their places. The justice proceeded with the and began to prepare himself for his last journey. “Nine o'clock!” he said to himself look ing at his watch. “Three hours yet. Enough to do all I have to do. First to make my will.” * The last will and testament of Mr. Cyrus ceremony, when Zeb. Monk walked in and demanded: “Let up thar, boss. Say, capn’n turn that gal loose.” “1 reckon I wont,’’ replied Bill. “Well, then,” said Zeb. drawing a re- hwa 0 fl„rsh^'F den, mF"* l0LS ,m ''' 88 i volver, “I’ll kinder resort to extremities, it wa-, finished in an hour | “See here,” remarked Bill, “arc vou in T.T n °« ^ iT 8 S d ” r -“ 8 ‘! do!t ’ ’earnest about this thing?” md I have finished. How slow the time ! t*T r om” Ok oholl 1 i t TGCK ° 11 1 am. “and 1 passes to l>e sure! Now what shall 1 do j until tv el ve o’clock, for I am determined not to die until noon A knock at the door. “Do you mean hog’s ‘head and turnip greens ? *’ “I reckon I do.” “Go away!” raid Mr. Maddox, angrily. : d ° W ” 10 COr " bread 8nd “You can’t come ini” j • *j,reckon it is ” “I am very sorry to disagree with you,” . .. Well tbe you ^ taku , b It raid a voice outside the door-but I can ! wag only 3weet ’ ^ li|k an(1 le witb ^ 1>m von rion'J O^th dFI‘Tw-n y " ’ “ i iu fuQ - 1 had 8 new pair of trousers and if you don t open the door I wilL didn't know what to do with ’em. Come Mr. Maddox rose and unlocked the door L Uttle closer . le it ribs and back . savagely, and Mr. Guy Cheeves stalked I 1 ■ Into the room, carrying a oblong box under j ..j reckon j t is ,, lb0 ^ * b -f°. an d then took a seat opposite Mr. Maddox, and star- [ Dn JL de( ] ^ ^ ed blandly at him. 1 ' . “What do you want?*-’ asked Mr Mad-j To scratch your head wiA a fork means, dox, fiercely. “Don’t you see I’m engag-' ‘I itch for aa acquaintance with you.’’ William H. Hallock, who not long ago was a passauger on a steamship of the Pa cific Mail Company, tells of an exciting ex perience while the ship was off the coa9t of Gautemala. A wa er spout of tremendous power suddenly appeared near the ship. In the midst of the consternation the cap tain ordered his course reversed and soon the steamer was driving along, with the water spout in pursuit, its crest was hid den iu a dark mass of cloud, its base seem ing to operate like an immense revolving cullender, while the entire external peri phery formed a cushion of foam, over which the sea bird screamed, occasionally seizing upon the dead fish which came within reach. The spout itself formed a sort of spiral cylinder, streaked with opaque parallel lines through its-whole length, from the surface of the sea upward. These lines were evidently ascending col umns of water, for afterward, when the upper and lower sections becarno detached, the accumulated volume of water overhead immediately began its descent within the body of the spout, as though it had been the valve of an immense syringe. The water thus released must have been equal muttering over and over, “My ticket, yes, four years, one for three years, fourteen 1 ever keen his appetite may be, he ventures ’ ZZ 1 keep my t.cket all right.” for two years, two for one year. Thirty not to satisfy it without a guest. The i Zf .... States elect a House of Representatives ■ ■ - - - - - - wa ie Woed and Iron in Fires. oni y once in two years, eight annually. In twenty-five States there are biennial sessions of the Legislature; in eighteen, an nual sessions. California, Delaware, In diana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, —A practicing lawyer of Mobile, Mr. Joi.n A. Cuthberc, was au officer in the war of 1812 and a Congressman in 1819. —The Duke of Hamilton offers all his dogs for sale, having given up coursing. —Mr. John I. Blair, of New Jersey, is President or main stockholder in fourteen railroads with a mileage of 1,750 miles. Professor Peirce, of Yale, expresses the_opinion that the comet recently dis covered is the wonderful comet of 1S43 on its return. —There are fiti.OOO iocomertVes in the United Scates, and each contains 2,830 different pieces, requiring renewal every ten or twelve years. —The average life of a paper wheel under trucks of locomotive engines ranges from 300,000 to 1,641,8S0 miles and under dining and palace cars from 794,000 to 878,336 miles. —Kansas promises a wheat yield of 30,000,000- bushels, thi3 year. The acreage is 20 per cent, larger than last year, and the condition of the crop 50 per cent, better. —Four great-grandchildren of John C. Calhoun are now living—Andrew Pickens Calhoun, of Texas, James Ed ward Calhoun, of Arkansas, Edward- Noble Calhoun, of Florida, and Isa bella Lee, of New York. —A French veterinary surgeon has Captain Shaw of the Fire Brigade of London, writes as follows in relation to the respective utility of wood and iron for in ternal supports of buildings. A few ly prevents the development of those diseases that iu many cases prove fatal to pups. —A new museum has been opened at Paris, which contains alt tbe artistic furniture oelongiug to the Kings of France from the time of Louis Xlil. up W Hie tvittnm „« nlaln m H*v if the 10 tbe P reseat day, and which was ac- eW i l ?ne^-7 cumulated iu that unique building 1 mown as the “Garde-Meuble.” can see tables of the rich Chinese shine with a ph;mt is sunk to tile bottom imdcrthe coop, beautiful varnish, and are covered with ; a nd fish passing over it are easily seen, i Some time ago Miss Hestor Parker, silk carpets very elegantly worked. The! Through this hole in the ice a wooden fish [Bingor, Me., pressed a number of master of the house absents himself while properly weighted is sunk to the proper vel T pretty autumn leaves and sent hts guests regale at his table with undis-! deptb , and with a corf attached to it, the j “ ,em “ the Queen of Spain at Madrid. Nevada. Orecou. Pennsylvania. Virginia t o rded revelry. They do not make use of! bogus fish is made to fly aroun d lively, and i M I arke r got an autograph Ntvada, Oregon, Fennsjivama, Virguua plates, knives <* forks, but their food is thereby attract other fish to its locality, i ?«** tbo Q° e en, ackuowledgtng all, elect j served up in dishes, out of which they eat Tho in iho »nn k«-ninn watch 1 cbe receipt ol the leaves. months since a fire occurred in one of the ; and West Virginia, eleven in ail, elect j served up in dishes, out of which they eat! fh e man in'"the co^keeninz watch, seetoc enormous warehouses for winch the docks j Governor and Senate for four years, a; in common; and for this furpose every; a fi!h^V(S>d^SrionletidroD to I -B°=don is carrying on the manu of this metropolis arc remarkable, and : l ol,s * of Representatives for tw0 years, guest has two little ebony or lvorv sticks,: anea r winching from’ fifteen P to twenty faetore of isinglass quite extensively raged wtth great fury from a little before j and have biennial sessions. Florida, ! which he handles very adroitly, fhe Ota- S. SL ^ toSttom. S ! g employment to many fisherman’. six in the morning until about eleven in the Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, four, - - - pounas, iaswmng nun to tne Dottoin. noun., —■,— -' j- -- -■ - forenoon, when it was extinguished, and a | differ from this class only in having annual very large proportion of the building and j sessions. Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, its contents saved. The warehouse was ; Iowa and Texas, five, elect State Senators __ constructed of brick walls ; it had wooden j for four years, Governor and House for i brothers! two sisters, and 7 even"'husband floors, supported on wooden beams, which < «o years, and have biennial sessions. : an d wife, parents and children, have each in their turn were carried on wooden story- j South Carolina has the same system of 1 their respective basket. They place them- posts, about twelve inches thick ; and, al- j elections, with annual sessions. These ' selves at the distance of two or three yards though senous damage was done, not one ! States, twenty--onein number, andno others j f rom eac h other; they tum their backs nnrtmn n f tho t.oow wooHwont ! oloet. state Monato™ tor torm« of f™,rwoorc an d take their meal in profound silence’ heitans, who are lovers of society, and very | h!r™ U oJ 1 ‘ 1 ar p Ul p an b !to to^h^w^ I wives, who collect the sounds or the gentle in their manners, eat septate from I Sav brfore New Wa There were l8ke ‘ Keliued Uin K Ia8s 18 used in £ho each other At the hour of reDast the .i , ! : manufacture of varnish and in the set- cm.uuuict.zu me uour oi repast tne, caught three pickerel weighing respectively . r o.,,. members of each famiiy divide; two twemv-seven. thirty, and forty-two pounds. “ ’ . Kivx*i.ra M ^ — 1 1 ** jt j v —1 he first orgaDizatloii of colored | Grangers was recently perfected at A Lively Corpse* portion of the heavy woodwork was de- elect State lienators for terms of four years, stroyed. After the fire we was allowed to j both branches of the Legislature for two remove one of the story-posts, with a sec-! years, and have biennial sessions. Maine, tion of the beams and other parts surround- ’ Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, ing it above and below. This post had j Ohio, Tennessee and Vermont, seven, elect been subjected to the full action of the fire j Governor and legislature for two years, during the whole of its duration, as already ■ and hold biennial sessions. Connecticut, mentioned, or, making full allowance for 1 Kansas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, four, everything, including the delay of the fire elect a Governor and Senate biennially, a attacking the particular spot on which it j House annually, and hold annual sessions, stood and. the time at which the cooling j Massachusetts and Rhode Island have an- process commenced certainly not less than i uufd elections, and New York and New four and one-half hours. As we had used ! Jersey, each has a system of its own. large quantities of water, and it was pro-! bable that the wood might have been some- Not so Many out of work. what saturated, I had it carefully dried for several days before a strong fire, until not j The labor census in progress in Massa- a trace of moisture remained in it. I then j chusetts furnishes instructive evidence in set it on end in an open yard, exactly as it. this connection. Massachusetts Is a State Among the greater part of American In dians, the host is continuall}* on the watch to solicit his visitors to eat, but touches nothing himself. In New France the host wearies himself with singing to divert the company while they eat. The Tartars pull a man by the ear, to press him to drink; and they continue tormenting him, till he opens his mouth; they then clap their hands before him. had stood in the warehouse, with the pe- m .which the manufacturing indutrylargely destal underneath, the cap above, and the | predominates. In its mills ana factories beam across the cap, placed more than a j the introduction of new and improved ma- ton of shaviugB, light wood, and heavy } chinery lias been general and rapid. And wood round it, and, after saturating the j within late years its manufactures have whole heap with petroleum, appliod a light 1 been seriously crowded in many markets torch. After this I kept men pumping pe-1 by the rapidly developing manufactures of troleum and turpentine on it untii my stock ; the central West. Yet in Massachusetts was exhausted. At the end of two-and-a j to-day the number of persons lacking reg- haif hours I withdrew the poet, beam and ! ular employment is surprisingly small. Al- other parts from the fire, and within a few j ready enough of the State has been can- mi nutes from the time at which they were I vassed to warrant the chief of the State — withdrawn they ceased to burn. T then j Bureau of the Statistics of Labor, Mr. Car- to several tons, as it was solid and almost sawed off .horizontally a few feet at that'roll D. Wright, in fixing the maximum black and returned to the sea with a loud part which had suffered mo6t from the I number of men without permanent employ- roar, all the other parts of the serial struc- j flames, and afterwards split the same piece j ment in the whole State at twenty thous- ture gradually dissipating. Perhaps the , longitudinally with steel wedges in order to ; and. Of this number at least a third have mo;t singular of all was the serpentine j examine its condition. The post was of i occasional employment; and half the rest iorm assumed by the section nearest the pitch pine, about the most inflammable j belong to the unsteady and thriftless class, clouds, which moved off at first almost j wood I know, and vet, after exposure for j who never work if they can avoid it. Ac- honzontally, and then turned upon itself in j seven hours to Are the fury of which could ! cordingly the number of men in Massachu- a perfect coil, so that for a moment, when j not be exceeded except in blast furnaces, it \ setts who want work and cannot get it is the end of the aqueous rope—or whatever ^ contained and still contains within it a i estimated at not more than ten thousand— it wra—switched around squarely to the ; quantity of perfectly uninjured and appar-' a large number considered by themselves, eye of! the observer, showing a section, it. ently fresh wood, probably capable at this j bnt small compared with the whole num- resembled a ball of ink. "When the spout j moment of supporting the whole weight her of workers, or with the number so of- was inits finest condition lightning several j the original post can have been designed to ten raid to be out of work. In proportion times flew through the penumbra in zig-; earry. Immediately after the raw-cut, ami to her 'population, Massachusetts’ share of zag courses, making a spectacle not only! again after the cleaving witlrsteel wedges. Kearney’s 4,000,000 tramps should be at terrible in the manifestation of power, but I carefully examined the centre, and found least 175,000. For our part we put more sublime and beautiful. it just perceptibly warm to the touch, but confidence in Mr. Wright. A stock owner went out the other day over the divide m Nevada, to see how his bulls were standing the rigorous weather, and found a large, fine steer, in his last long sleep. The stock man had to roll him over to see the brand, and he bas regretted his curiosity ever since. He told me the brand looked like a Roman candle making about 2,000 revolutions per minute and with 187 more prismatic colors than he thought were in existence. Sometimes a steer is not dead but iu a cold sleepy stupor which precedes death, and when stirred up a little and irritated because he cannot die without ! turning over and showing his brand, he ; musters his remaining strength and kicks “1 was educated." he said, “at a military ^ t be inquisitive stock man so high that he school. Every one said to me, “I hat child. ca n see and recognize the features of his XapoleoD at school. will never be good for anything but geom etry. ’ I had chosen a little corner of the school grounds where I could sit and dream at my ease, for I have always liked reverie. When my companions tried to usurp posses sion of this corner, I defended it witb ail my might. 1 "already knew by instinct that my will was to override that of others, and that what pleased me was to belong to me. 1 was not liked at school, it takestimetomake one’s self liked; and even when I had noth- j ing to do, 1 always felt vaguely that I had ; no tqne to lose. I entered tbe service and! soon grew tired of garrison work. I began ! to read novels, and they interested me! deeply. I even tried to write some. I often let myself dream, in order that 1 might afterward measure my dreams by the compass of my reason. I threw my self into an ideal world, and I endeavored tg find out in what precise points it differed from the actual world in which I lived, have always liked analysis, and if I were to be seriously in love, I should analyze my love bit by bit. I conquered, rather than studied history. I did not care to retain, and did not retain, anything that could not give me a new idea; I disdained ail thal was useless, but took possession of certain results which pleased me.” —Senator-elect George, the Missis sippi jurist, drove an ox team in his youth. departed friends. That was the way it happened on this occasion. Tbe stock man fell in the branches of a pine tree on Jack Creek, not dead but very thoughtful. He raid he was near enough to hear the rush of wings and was just going to register and engage a room in the New Jerusalem when he returned to consciousness. Knife and Fork Flirtation. To drop your knife means, “1 am badly bored.” To cat with your knife means, I am not posted." To drop your fork means, “1 am desper ately in love. ’’ To wipe your knife ou the table cloth means, “AH right.” To stir your coffee with a fork means, “How sweet you are.” To eat soup with a fork means, “You are very beautiful.” To whet your knife on your fork means, ‘You see I am sharp.” To cut your mouth with a knife means, “I am very impatient.” To pick your teeth with a fork means, “I am the pick of the lot.” To wipe your nose on a napkin, means, “I am making a fool of myself.” To drum your pSto with your knife and fork means, “I am almost crazy.” Dallas, Texas when a large number ot negroes met and formed what they call ••The Texas Farmers’ Associotion.” None but colored families are admitted, and the object of the organization is to procure homesteads. —A house built in 1639 still stands In Dedham, Mass., and is the oldest in New England, it ls beautifully situ ated unuer heavily branching elms, with a moss-covered roof. Much of the original furniture, 24 11 years of age, still remains, and has been in the pos session of one family, named Fairbanks, during all of that time. —Half-breed Indian girls are used In Montana as domestics, because, being cast out by their tribes, they ar« will ing to work without wages. A move ment is on foot in Helena to see that they herealter shall be given proper schooling. —The following are the figures of a lew of our staple products for 1879: Cotton, 5,216,61.3 bales; wheat, 448.- 755,000 bushels; corn, 1,544,193.000 ousbels; rye, 23.646.50d bushels; bar ley, 40,184,200 bushels; oats, 364.253,- 000 bushels; potatoes, 118,389,0000 bushels; hay, 35,648,000 tons; tobacco, ■184,059,6,9 pounds, —The late Daniel Fish, of Lansing- burg, N. Y.. gave $10,COO to Boston University, $5000 each to Syracuse University, Troy Conference Academy, and the Me'hodist Church at Saratoga, and $2000 each to the Methodist Clurch in Lansiugburg and the Baptist Church m Ira, Vt. His estate was valued at $210,COO. —The length of the actual St. Goth ard tunnel is nine miles and three hun dred and seventy-five yards, while that of the Mount Cenis is rather more than a mile and a half less. The rate at which the rock was bored between Modane and Bardonecbe amazed me chanicians a dozen years since. But the daily progress made under the St. Gothard has been more than double. The contractor agreed that the work should be finished within eight years, the actual time has been seven months teas than the stl ulated term.