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The Cedartown Advertiser. Published every Thursday by D. B. FREEMAN. Terms: $1.50 per annum, in advance. NEW SERIES-VOL. II-NO. 47. Main St. Cedartown Ga., I? YOU WANT THEM FOBS AND FRESH. C. G. JANES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CEDARfOWKr, OA. IW office In the Court House. fetidly HI. PHILLIPS & JOSEPH A. BLANCE, attorney at law. CEDARTOWN, GA iw~ First Boom up Stairs over J. S. StJJbba A Co’s store. aeeaz-w DRS. LIDDELL & SON, PHYSICIANS MID SURGEONS OFFICE EAST BIDE OF BAH ,T - CEDARTOWN, GA JanS-ly W. G. ENGLAND^ Physician and Surgeon. CEDARTOWN, GA OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where he may ho found ready to attend calls either day or nignt. | Janl6-ly DR. C. H. HARRIS, Physician and Surgeon, Cedartown, G-a. Office at Bradford & Walker’s Drugstore. Residence at the Reece House. novi^- ▼ B. FISHER, Watchmaker & Jeweler, CEDARTOWN, GA Having Just opened out a shop at the store of a. D. Hofc’K 4 co.. respectiu ly requests the public to call on him when needing worn In his j MANUFACTURER’S AGENTS FOB Machiner; of all Kinds. - >■ t Sixty-four different makes of Mean Engine* Hellos 1 iBBglBg from 8 to 40 hone-power—new and second-hand—all at very lew prleea. Alio agent* (or the ^ ^ Albany and Brown Cotton m " PACKING, SCREWS, SEPARATORS, THRESHERS, CORN MILLS and Farming Implements in general. We had a fine trade In thU line last year, and general satisfaction was given. We are alio Dealers in General Merchandise* And have in store a well selected stock of DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, CLOTHING AND GROCEMES, All of which we will seU low, either for each or to prompt paying time cus tomers. We are agents for GEORGE A CLARK’S “0. SI. X.” Thread, And will sell at retail and also will job it to merchants at regular whole sale prices. 10,000 Pounds of Wool Wanted. We will pay highest prices for all the washed wool brought to us. Persons contemplating the erection of buildings may save money by calling on ns for prices of LUMBER, LATHS and SHINGLES. Com# and I. W. M. PHILLIPS & CO., Cedartown ( Ga. One step and than another. And the longest walk Is ended; One attteh end then another. And Ike largest rent le mended One brisk open another, And the highest well ia made ; And the deepest enow ia laid. So the little eoral workers, By their alow and constant motion. Have built those pretty islands In the distant dark-blue ocean. And the aobleat undertakings Man's wisdom hath conceived, By oftwepeeted effort Have bean patiently achieved. Then do not look disheartened On the work yon have to do. And any that each e mighty teak 1 Yen never can get through; But just endeavor day by day Another point to gain. And soon the mountain which you feared Will |iwve te be a plain ! " Boms was net builded in e day, ’’ The aneient proverb tesohes, And Nature, by her trees end flowers. The asms sweet sermon preaches. Think sot of far-off duties. Bat of duties which era near. And having ones begun to work, Bseolve to persevere. Cousin Edith. W. F. TURNER, Attorney at Law. CEDARTOWN, GA. will practice In the Superior Courts of Polk, I Pauiding, Haral on. Floyd and Carroll counties, special attention given to collections and real estate business. maril-iv 1 DR. L. S. LEDBETTER, DENTIST, CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA. All Dental work performed In the most skin ful manner, office over J. S. Stubbs A Co.’s. febi9-iy F. M. SMITH, Attorney at Law and REAL ESTATE AGENT, CEDARTOWN, GA. Particular attention given to the selling or I renting or city prop Tty. Buying and selling wild lands a specialty. Parties owning wild lands in Georgia would do well to correspond with me, as 1 have app lcutlons for tlnusanaa of acres whose owners are unknown. No tax n. fa. or other b gus title need apply. I^>ok U P vour beeswax and write me. Terms: Ten per cent, c mml-slon on sales. For locattng and I ascertaining probable value, $1 per lot. For I searching records tor owners, ah cents per lot. For ascertaining If land 13 claimed or occupies by squatter, ft per lo\ Al w a * sin £• Insure at ent on cnclo-e a3-centstamp. Parties own ng wild lands should look to their interests, as manv of these wild ands are being stolen by squatters und r a bogus title. All communica tions promptly answered. Satisfaction guar anteed to alt honest men. jan20-ly liyeuy feed, SALE STABLE!| Wright & Johnson Prop’rs. CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA. I Being supplied with new Horses, New Vehi cles. & we are prepared to meet the wants of { the public in our line. Jan8-1 y JAMES H. PRICE, CEDARTOWN, GA. Keeps on hand and manufactures to order MATTRESSES! My work recommends Itself wherever used. And is guaranteed to render the most pe feet satisfaction. No flimsy material used no work slighted. I ask a trial. JAMES. H. PRICE. iebl9-ly. A. J. YOUNG, DEALER IN Gins Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, and Brandies. Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ca. SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL k THOMPSON’S STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES Xxx Cedartown. I keep such Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical purposes with perfect safety, guaranteed. t3f~ Give me a call. Good treatment mr!8-ly NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS! New Goods and Slew Prices. A. D. HOGG & CO., MAIN Street, CEDARTOWN, Georgia, Have just opened a select 3tock of General Merchandise in their new (tore, and want aU their friends and the public generally to call and let them show their goods and prices. Their stock was bought before the recent rise in prices, and they feel confident of having goods at bottom figures. They have beautiful Dress Goods, Calicoes, Corsets, new styles; Bleach- lngs, Flannels, Cassimeres, Kerseys, Kentucky .Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves, Hardware, Notions, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentlemen’s Underwear Vxnr Low. Remember the place—last Brick btore on South MAIN Street, west side. novfl-ly BAKER & HALL, CALHOUN Livery and Sale Stable. FOSTER & HARLAN, Props: CALHOM, GEORGIA. Having lately purchased the above Stable and supplied It with good Horses and a splendid line of new Vehicles, we are prepared to meet 1 the wants of the traveling public In our line. Parties wishing vehicles sent to any of the trains on the Selma. Rome and Dalton Railroad or to any other point, mav telegraph us, and have their Wants promptly and properly at- | tended to. FOgTBR & HARLAN, Calhoun, Ga. Jan8-tf ISAAC T. MEB, CEDARTOWN, GA —DEALER IN— STOVES TINWARE, Hardware and Hollow-Ware, OF ALL KINDS. House-Furnishing Goods A SPECIALTY. Fverv variety of Job wort In my line neatly done I respe t ul v solicit the patronage ol the nubile, and would be pleased to haye all my friends and customers call and see me when In DEALERS IN GENERAL HARDWARE, STJO] Ready-Made Plows, Plow Stocks, Nails, Iroi ant Steel, Spades, Shovels, Hoes, Rakes, Manure Forks, Ete. BUGGY WHEELS, SHAFTS, POLES AND CIRCLES, wmmaT .fk ARROWS. SAWS, FILES, LOCKS, BINGES, CHAINS, ETC. We have just opened a Hardware House in Cedartown, and « Great chance to mate money, we|ask a trial in Goods and Prices. We are need a person In every town to take . subscriptions for the target, cheao- _ Strictly in the Hardware Business. JSSRSKSSSfifaSSr. and will be prepared to furnish goods in our line a* cheap as | they can be bought in any market. Give us a trial before el “ wh< ’ re - QjK«STINSON k CO, Portland, Maine. T.ilUan Ames stood leaning against the aement of an open window leading on to a ■loping lawn, at whose base flowed a sunny, rippling stream of water. Xt was one of England’s fairest daughters. Even at this moment, spite of the fact that her brow is gathered In a frown, and the red, full lipe are unmistakably pouting, her beauty is undeniable A few bold spirits had declared that there was little soul in the face; but the large I,.™! eyes could melt or flash at will; the dark lashes shaded a cheek as white as Pa rian marble, with rarely even a touch of color upon its velvety surface; and the lithe, graceful figure even unconsciously assumed a new grace in each unsteady poise, until one forgot the question of sonl In its perfect outward flesh and blood ta bernacle. Near her, reclining on a low easy chair, a young girl of about her own age. At first glance the exquisite soul-loveliuess of her face paled in Mias Ames’s brilliant beauty, but there were more to love its pos- ’, and fewer to envy her. Something like imagination was in her voice, as she addressed her friend. 1 cannot believe that you mean it, Lil lian,” she said. “You have been engaged to Oscar Dering for a year, and how can you say so carelessly that your engagement shall ba broken—’’ ‘Beg pardonl” interrupted the other, iD low, troBieal tones, “1 have not yet been engaged to Oscar Denng twenty-four hours. It wss to Lord Oscar Dering I gave my pledge.’’ •Oh, 'but Lillian, because he has lost title and estate must he also lose the woman of his love? Think a minute. You Burely will not give him up so easily? ‘Nonsense, Edith! lam 21—no longer a girl of an age to live upon sentimentalism, but to look upon every-day realities of life. When I engaged myself to Lord Dicing; 1 the subject of congratulation among all my friends. Now that the cousin who was supposed to be dead crops into life in some remote portion of the globe, and that Oscar insists upon renouncing the property in his behalf without events struggle) I am not oootsnt to let these same congratulations lapse into pity.” •Oh, Tallinn, do you think anyone could pity you for possessing so royal a gift as the love of such a man? Think better of it, dear, I knew you care for him. Do not so lightly renounce young life’s happiness. ‘You plead his case eloquently, my dear. Really I did not know I possessed a rival in my fair oousin. Perhaps a heart caught in the rebonnd—you know the rest, of course, and can point the moral.” “Lillian,you are cruel—cruel!—I—" But the late speaker had passed through the window out of hearing, and advanced to meet a man qnickly approaching on the ■ward, while the young girl left be hind fell back in her chair, the great tears coursing down her cheeks, on which the crimson color signal flam ed it was as though some ruthless hand bad matched the veil from her own heart, leav- ng expend its. most cherished secret—a went she had not known herself until now betrayed Dy her shame. “I must leave this place. I cannot meet him again; I must go home. But, Oh how n she give him up!” Edith Loring and Lillian Ames were oousina, but the one was the daughter of a clergyman wnose rectory wss some ten miles distant from Ames court, and one of the noblest estates of England, and of which Lillian was sole heiress. The girls, however, had been closely united, more by the tie of friendship than coasinship, since the latter was a distant bond, and Ames court was almost as much Edith s home as her own. Now, however the homelier charms of the rectory were very grateful to her. Here no one could prove the discovery so new to herself—to trace the scarlet blush which seemed so often to burn her cheek, until she wondered that it din not leave its brand. She had been home six weeks, and twice Onoar Dering had driven over to see her, but she had always demed herself to him on some household pretext, until one mern- he overtook her in the road. She had been busy with thoughts of him, wondering how he had borne his ruptured troth, and reproaching herself for the cow~ ardi-e which heretofore had forbidden her meeting him, when she heard behind her the quick step of the home’s hoofs. His rider drew rain at her side. "So I am to find you at last,” he said. His voice sounded the same as of old; the bright, cheery tone wss unchanged. “Have you seen Lillie, lately?” she at last found courage to ask. “Mo,” be answered, and then she saw the frown gather on his brow, and an ex- ei pain ernes about Ms ttpa. see as little of your cousin as possible now. You know, Miss Loring, I am no longer a subject of congratulation.” ‘Yen, I know,” she said. “1—” ‘Don’t pity me," he Interrupted; “Ican’t bear that quite yet.” ‘I did not mean to pity you," she re plied. “Oh, if Lillian had not spoken of the heart caught in the rebound,” she thought, when week after week Oscar Dering would find his way to the rectory garden or the rectory parlor, to spend long hours with its fair young mistress. She understood so well why he came, be cause now and then Lillian’s name drifted into the idle talk, and because, as he grew stronger, he dared speak of her and of the love he had borne her. It was a mingled paia Sad pleasure to listen. If only she had not learned her own heart the pain would have been less. But she was de stined to learn it more fatally, yet, as one morning strolling through the woods to gether, the sharp report of a hunter’s gun close beside them startled them both. The next instant her companion sank white and senseless on the sward beside her, while the affrighted hunter, whose misaimed charge had entered his arm, hastenen for ward. “Bring assistance quickly," exclaimed Edith, while she raised the heavy head to her lap: “Oscar, speak to me,’’shemoaned. “Oscar! Oscar!” Over and over again she repeated his name in the same accents of deeparing love, until they had forced their way into the life-pulses of his being and aroused them to activity. He opened his eves in a half-wandering look, as though delirium had overtaken him. At this instant the hunter returned with assistance, and a half hour later the wound ed mAn liad been b^rne to the rectory, the wound dressed, and the knowledge given that it was merely a flesh wound, painful, but-not dangerous. Yet his recovery was a tedious affair. He grew moody and abstracted. It gave him more time to think of Lillian and his loss, Edith thought, even while ahe won dered why his eyes followed her with such strange questioning look. Once she en tered his room with some freshly cut flowers in her baud. Where shall I put them, Mr. Dering?” she inquired. Mr. Dering?” he answered. “Did I not once hear you call me Oscar, or was it a sweet fancy wafted from dreamland?” Again the crimson tide dyed her face. “Don’t 1" she said, as though he had hurt her, and hastened from the room bear ing with her the flowers, and it seemed to him the light and sunshine. Had he been blind all "this time, and was he just beginning to see? A.gfand ball was to be given at Amea court. Lillian insisted thst Edith should be present, and the invalid also was sum moned to the feast. On the evening of Miss Ames’s ball she picked up the paper sent down by the after noon mail from London. She was sudden ly startled at seeing the name of the man to whom she so lately had been betrothed. It was a published decision of the court that owning to some disability, the title could not descend to Oscar Dering’s cousm. He was, then, Lord Dering still. Fool that she had been. But to-night, while he still thought her in ignorance, she must win him back.' It was late when he entered the spacious drawing-rooms. ‘Ihave been waiting for you,” she said, in her sweetest, lowest tones. •You honor me too greatly, Miss Ames,” he replied. Let us go into the conservatory.” she added, “ it ia cooler there.” He offered her his arm. From a distant comer of the room Edith saw them. “I will not begrudge him anyhappiness,” ahe said to herself. “Have you forgotten the last time we were here together, Mr. Dering?’’ Lillian was asking at this moment. “No,” he answered gravely, looking into the beautiful face beside mm. “Can one ever retrieve a mistake,” she asked, “when one finds it out?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Can ons cause the rose, blighted in mid-summer, to bloom again in the depths of winter?” She knew then what he meant. “We are dealing in similes;’’she exclaim' ed, “let us return to our gueste.” An hour later OBcar Dering led Miss I suing to the same spot. “Hove you, Edith,” he said, “I thought my hearr was dead when I met you. My darling, will you be my wife?” “Oh, Oscar, you are sure, sure of your- self?” “I have been made more sure to-night, 1 he answered. She was too happy to question his words— too happy even to let Miss Ames’s con gratulations sting her when she said:— ■A heart caught m tne rebound. Did I not tell you so.” Too happy to be made happier when she learned that on her wedding day she was to be made Lady Edith Dering. Thins* Would ho Funny to see. A patent medicine that wasn’t warranted a dead shot for anything, from corns to consumption. A rose without a thorn and without a fault. A tarpaulin stout enough to keep tne rain from soaking through the backs of our milkman’s cows. A poor plumber and a rich newspaper man. A man who can rap eternal smash out of his favorite bunion while making a tight croquet and still keep the air brake on his Scattered over certain portions of the British isles, and here and there in other parts of the world, may be found masses of detached rock, often of great slse, poised so nicely on a narrow base that they move to and fro under very Blight pressure, and known in Great Britain by the name of “logan" or “rocking” atones. In some cases the action of the wind alone is aulfi- cient to set them in motion. Formerly, these stones, from their pecu liar characteristics, were considered to be the work nf human hands, and were classed among “Druidic remains”—the common belief being that they were connected with the religious rites and ceremonies of the Druids. One of the absurd beliefs was that if a supposed culprit was brought to a rocking- stone, his guilt or innocence would be at once proclaimed—if guilty, the atone would vibrate on his approach by unseen power; while on the other hand his innocence would be proved by its remaining station ary. An opposite belief waa that the stone would “rock” at the slightest touch of those pure at heart, but would withstand even a giant’s power when exerted by the guilty. These belieia, like many others connected with so-called cromlechs and other re mains, are, however, exploded, and it is now very generally agreed that rocking- stones are not works of art, hut the result of natural causes. There can be no doubt that in most cases the “rocking” property of these masses of stone is entirely due to weathering; disin tegration having been effected through countless ages by the action of wind and rain, and sometimes by sand blown by the wind upon the masses of jutting rock of which they are composed. In some in stances, too, there is little doubt the super incumbent mass has fallen or rolled from the rocks and heights above, and become accidentally poised on its present bed; and in others again they may have been depos ited in their position by glaciers or ice bergs. In all cases, however, we shall be safe in attributing, in one way or other, their formation to natural agency. At one of the meetings of the British association, this theory waa clearly demonstrated by Mr. Grove, who stated that by artificial at trition he had himself made several minia ture rockiug-stones; -‘and thus ho showed how by the action of the atmosphere on their comers, many large masses of rock, which having a tendency to disintegrate into cubical or tabular blocks might gradually become rounded into the rude spheroidal shape generally presented by the logan. ’’ But we have not room here to dwell on the attractions offered by the invertebrate «nirn»l« on this coast. The rocky shores abound in varieties differing from the pro ducts of sandy and muddy bottoms, and lire different zones have their peculiar forma of animal and vegetable life, and one has only to sweep the water with s fine net, and drawing it through the sea- Leanied commentators on the Northern antiquities help us to conjure up the scene of one of those drinking bouts. It is a bitter evening in winter; the war galleys have been laid up in ordinary for the season and the time hangs heavy on the hands of ^ u .„ * .. the vikings. The better part of the mom- weed, to gather an infinite variety of arvgT'&g is passed in sleeping off the effects of life, so minute and delicate in form as the previous debauch; and. after breaking m&l life, only to be seen with the aid of a glass. At the laboratory of the Fish Commission, crabs not bigger than the head of a pin may be seen seen swimming in a shallow dish, tiny forms, almost transparent, but active and pugnacious when they meet each other. These minute animals at this stage are not fully formed, out have a tail, which, when not in use, is drawn up under the body. This appendge, like the caudal one of the tadpole, disappears when the creature has no further need of it. So of the young of the lobster, it has five feet, while ^the abdominal segments are flat tened out into a tail fin. But perhaps there ia no greater change in the growth of any of the Crustacea, than that which charac terizes the star-fish. Its larva seems com plete in itself,and its movements are active before it presents any of the aspects of the parent fish. Even its temporary mouth does not remain the permanent mouth of the starfish. It is the starfish that is the great destroyer of oysters, and there is nothing more tenacious of life. Tear off one of its lobes or arms another will grow in its place; tear off two, three—all of its five arms, and it is able to reproduce them ML Street Acquaintances. You know a great many people you are not acquainted with. Your accustomed walks ou the street bring you face to face with men, women and children every day, who grow famil iar to you, but you know them not. Just about so far from the same corner every morning you meet the care-worn man, weighted with life’s burdens, his face wrinkled with the history of strug gles. You always feel like taking off your hat to lnm and offering a sympathetic word. The Epruce young clerk, with one hun dred and twenty steps to the minute, glances at you sharply and whines by as if the world wouldn't move till he got there. The distressed-looking woman, with pale face, shabby-genteel dress and a bit of resolution expressed by her closed mouth, tiresomely comes down the walk. Her face has moved you to pity every morning for a year. What ia this little breeze coming? With metallic heel-plate clicking, clicking on the Bide walk like the ringing of a clog dancer's step, jaunty hat to one aide of her head, neat costume, and a fancy, piquant air ? Meet her every day, but don’t dare to speak to her. This little toddling girl with hangs, pro tected by an older brother, playing on the sidewalk with a hoop and dolly. A gleam of childhood’s sunshine that greets you cheerily. Those two jolly fellows coming, telling stories and laughing all the way to their work. Light-hearted, because they were born so. You feel like turning about and having a laugh with them, but they are only street acquaintances. The “grubbing” sort of men whom you meet every day carrying a pipe between their teeth, round-shouldered, and having hangdog sort of a gait, perfectly indiff erent to everthing. It makes a man feel blue to see them. The -gray haired and much-bowed vete ran, whose life is near adjournment. You meet him od Saturday mornings only, lean- on hia staff, his white locks streaming in the breeze; a picture which we ail look upon with reverence. These are but few types of the people we meet every day in the street and know, but are not acquainted with, that are aa much a part of our every-day life as are our duties that add so much to our pleasure and opportunity for study, and more than books and newspapers. Carious Son lahsHtu te willing to give an editor a few pointers in the newspaper business. A doctor who hadn’t believed all along that Tanner would come out all right. A bald headed man who never lost hia temper. A circus just to relieve the monotony. A chromo of the man who invented the dance called “the racket.” j It is easier to suppress the first desire “I than to satisfy all that follow It. Osborne adjoins the estate of Norris Cas tle, where the Queen spent some time in childhood, and her selection of the place in mature years was probably due to early impressions. The Queen and Prince seem soon to have felt a desire for—what her predecessors on the throne never had- home of their very own. as opposed to an official home, and the private home ot Os borne was soon supplemented by that of Balmoral. It is scarcely probable that radical House of Commons will be content to vote much longer the great sum annually demanded for maintaining royal palaces at which the sovereign never resides. Besides Buckingham Palace—where her residence now averages about ten days a year—the Queen has Kew, Hampton Court, Kensington. Bushy Park, St. James, the white Lodge in Richmond Park, Frogmore, all at her disposal, should she please to oc cupy them, and all maim ained at public cost, besides Holyrood in Scotland, where occasionally ahe has spent a few days, Kensington and Hampton Court are now given up in part to pensioners of position. The accumulation of these palaces has been in a considerable decree due to the indi vidual caprice or various sovereigns. William III hated the splendid palace of Whitehall, and was not sorry when tire ef faced the triumphs ot Holbein and Inigo Jones. He lived at Kensington, and occa sionally at Hampton Court. Anue lived at Kensington and Windsor, as did the Geor ges up to and inclusive of George IL George IH and Charlotte lived at at. James, Windsor and Kew until Buckingham House waa bought. George III also lived a great deal at Frogmore, in Windsor Park. For years he did not occupy WindsorCeette. George VI lived, after he came to the throne, at Buckingham Palace, Windsor, and the Pa vilion Brighton, and spent on them then, probably, at a rough calculation, $7,500,000. William 1Y, not at all a representative King lived chiefly at Windsor and Buck ingham palaces. So far as Windsor, Hampton Court, Busby and Richmond are concerned, their surroundings are entirely free to the public, who can ride and drive in nearly every part of their parks. Were, however, Kensington Palace, a plain brick building, covering several acres, razed and fine houses erected, the public would not suffer by the loes of a recreation ground, and the public treasury would gain to the extent of a sum nearly covering all allow ances paid to the royal family, except that to the Queen. their fasts with unimpaired appetites, the listless warriors have roused themselves for exercise, and have been stretching their muscles over manly sports. All the same, the short day has dragged and they have welcomed the heavy fall of the shadows. The feast has been spread in rude profusion; the huge salted joints have been picked to the bone and tossed to the hounds; the bare tables on the trestles have been cleared away, and the boisterous com pany, breathing hard after the meal has settled itself down for an earnest carouse. Though the hall is' lighted with numerous torches it is no easy matter to distinguish objects for the smoke from the fire burn ing in the middle is curling up to the raft ers of the lofty room, in vain attempts to escape by the smoke holes. But all around the revelers are grouped on the rough benches, while at the end, on a dais above their followers, sit the chiefs in the places of honor. Tables may be dispensed with. The great horns, with the cup bearers, or horn bearers, in attending to replenish them, pass swiftly from hand to hand. There are toasts and “sentiments” and long-winded speeches as well, on solemn occasions of ceremony. The scalds Bitting apart, chant the memorable deeds of gods and heroes, and especially the feats of the present company, in interminable stanzas more or less melodious; and the fierce re velers chime in with the chorus until roof and rafters ring again. Naturally the fun crows fast and furious. Thanks to the form of the drinking vessels, there is no setting them down between pulls. It waa the anticipation of the hard drinkers of a later age who guarded against heel taps on the sly by knocking the bottoms of their glasses. It was the principal pride of these “jolly good fellows” of the North to take off the contents of the horn at a breath. The muddy ale and the headier mead had muddied weaker or more delicate brains. Aa it was, there was little intelligence to be confused, and not much wit to be ex pelled, though, if the Sagas are to be trusted, those case-hardaned topers are to be credited occasionally with some bit of dry humor. But the warm blood grew hotter still as the liquor went coursing through the fevered veins, and quarrels be gan that led on tc bloody teuds afterwards, if comrades prevented their being settled on the spot. More than once in such a ban queting hall some epic in action had its sanguinary denouement. Yon Can Slip. There ia a continual warfare going on in the deep, a oonstant struggle for the means of sustaining life. The carniverous devour the vegetarians, and the mud-eaters ■wallow both animal and vegetable forma; and this runs all the way down the scale, from the shark and the equally ravenous blueflsh to the least of the anneJds. These last, the sea-worms, are wary, but they cannot escape their enemies. If they were to confine themselves to the bottom, where they feed and where many of them grow to the length of a foot or two. they might in a measure escape, though they would still be a prey to the scup and other fish that know how to dig for them; but they love to swim, particularly at night and in the breeding season, and then they are snapped up in countless number*. They have almost every variety of forma and their structure is marvelous—monsters with hooked jaws at the end of a proboscis, and withal, side* of bluest green that throw off an infinite variety of irridescent hue*. Some of the sea-worms have scales, others woman have soft bodies; some are sluggish and curl themselve up into balls when dis turbed, others are restless, particularly at night; some are round, others flat; some build tubes of sand and cement, woven together till they make a colony of many hundred members; the tubes of others are soft and flexible,and some,when disturbed, withdraw within their crooked calcareous tubes and close the onflee with a plug. One variety of the aerpults haa three dark red eyes; another haa cluster* of eyes on each tentacle. The amphiflods were accoun ted of no great value till it was shown by the Fish Commission that these small Crus tacea furnish a vast amount of food for both salt and freah-water fishes. Indeed, there is not a creature that swims or crawls that does not become the food ef some otter animal A beach flea is caught up by a scup or flounder; squids make terrible havoc among young mackerel, and tfrarki nod ■tingways find something appetising *“ tha gasterepod. Curiosities ot a ■IMOurl Cave. About a year ago Mr. Strain bought a tract of land one mile east of Westport, upon which waa a wonderful spring of cool, pure water, which came bubbling from an im mense cave which haa been explored 3,000 feet from its mouth. Soon after Mr. Strein secured the property he bethought him of raising brook trout, and Mr. Annin, swell- known fish-culturist ot Rochester, came to tfanawa City to see if the plan was a feasi ble one. Mr. Annin explored the cave; and after making his way underground about six hundred feet came to a small cataract about three feet high, over which the water fell. In about four hundred yards another waterfall was reached, but at this point a person has to crawl along, as the walls of the cave are very low, the ceiling being ragged and rough. About a year ago. when an investigation of the cave was first made, a lot of old Indian arrow heads of flint were discovered near the first waterfall, and it is said in olden time* the Indians used this cave as a sepulchre for their dead before they were sent to the *happy hunting ground.” In’support of this theory it is known that within thirty yards of the mouth of the cave are the remains of an Indian stone house, where not many years since dwelt a half breed and his aged squaw. They were very reticent as to the use of the cave, but claimed that the water which came from it h«/l certain curative powers which their “meaieme men” had discovered ages ago. The people in the neighborhood have all heard the sterie8,and the place haa about it much of interest. Mr. Annin told Mr. Strein that in his opinion the water in the cave waa well adapt f d to raising fish, and on his return from Rochester he sent out three thousand eggs taken from Caledonia creek, near his own home, which have been hatched out successfully. ‘Is your Dame David Shaster ?” asked the court of a man nearly seven feet high who suddenly walked out on Bijah’s arm. “Hey?” replied the prisoner, as he lean ed forward. “Is your name David Shaster?” “Hey?" “Ia—your—name—David — Shaster?” repeated the court with all hia voice. “Tee, I suppose it is.” ”^0u are charged with being drunk.” “Hey?” “You are charged with being drunk.” “Hey?” “Drunk! ” yelled Bijah, with his mouth close lo man’s ear. Who’s drank? What have I got to do with anybody being drunk?” ‘You were drunk!” shouted the court. Hey?” ‘You were drunk!” yelled Bijah. ’Bet you $5.” replied the prisoner aa he went down for the money. The officer in the case said he found him lying under a shed, drunk and asleep and the court replied: Well. I can’t yell my head off to make him understand. I’ve busied my collar button and broken a suspender already, and I shall let him go. Prisoner you can go.” “Hey?” “You can skip.” “Hey?” Bijah turned him around and run him out and shut the door on him, but he put his nose against the glass and shook the door and called out: Hey? I’ll see if I haven’t any rights!" Chariemacne. Loyally sowarded. The French Government has just con ferred the military medal upon a young woman employed in tha telegraph office at Pithiviers during the war of 1870. Upon the arrival of the German forces in that town during the month of November, they at once, as waa their wont, took possession of the telegraph office and relegated Mdlle. Dodo, the young woman In charge, to a room, and Mdlle. Dodu managed to tap them and convey the information to the sub-prepect. One day a telegram arrived from the Prussian staff at Orleans address ed to Prince Frederick Charles, informing him of the march of a French corps upon Gien, and suggesting the movement* to be made in order to surround it. This tele gram she took to the sub-prefect who made three copies of it for the commander of the French corps, sending each by a different messenger. Two of the messengers were killed, but the third arrived, and the in formation enabled the French commander to make a timely retreat. The Pruaians did not as certain what had taken place un til just before the armistice, but lor which j Mdlla. Dodu might have farad badly. Above the ordinary height of a man, Charlemagne was a giant in his statue as in his mind; but the graceful and easy pro portion of ail his limbs spoke the combina tion of wonderful activity with immense strength, and pleased while it astonished. His countenance was as striking as his fig ure ; and his broad, high forehead, hia keen and flashing eye, and bland, un wrinkled brow, offered a bright picture, wherein the spirit of physiognomy, natuM in all men, might trace the expression of a powerful in tellect and a benevolent heart. Gifted with a frame, the corporeal energies of which required little or no relaxation, and which, consequently, never clogged and hampered his intellect by fatigue, Charlemagne could devote an immense portion of his tune to business, and, without taking more than a very small portion of sleep, could dedicate the clear thoughts of an untired mind to the regulation of his kingdom, even while oth er men were buried in repose. He was accustomed, we are told, to wake sponta - neously, and rise from his bed four or five times in the course of each night; and so great was his economy of moments, that the brief space he employed in putting on the simple garments with which he was usually clothed, was also occupied in hear ing the reports of his Count of the Palace, or the pleadings ot various causes, which he decided at those times with as much clear wisdom as if listening to them on tha judgment seat. Pearl Thread. A Paris firm has begun the manufacture of “pearl thread,” or “beaded thread,” which has the appearance of thread on which the beads are attached at regular in tervals. The process consists in impreg nating the thread at proper intervals with drops of a pasty substance, like wax, resin, lac, gum, eta, which on cooling becomes glassy or crystalline. The apparatus used is as follows: The liquid bead material is held in a 1 rough-like vessel, from the bot tom of which extend obliquely downward a large number of narrow tubes, which are closed at the lower ends, but have each an opening a little above the end, through which the liquid comes out in the form of a bead. The female worker brings the threads in a horizontal position simulta neously before all the holes, and the drops get attached to the threads. A surplus trough ia placed below. The prepared thread is wound on a removable reel. In order that the bead may fully solidify, and neighboring pieces of thread may not stick together, tne reel is displaced in the region of its axis after each revolution. It ta moved by means of a weight.