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Official Journal of Polk and Haralson Counties. Advertisements inserted at the rate of 81 per square for first insertion, and 50 cents per square for each subsequent insertion. The space of oneinch is reckoned as a square. Special rates given on advertisements to run tor a longer period than one month. D. B. FREEMAN, Publisher. LABORING FOR THE COMMON WEAL. OLD SERIES-YOL. X- NO. 22. CEDARTOWN. GA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 28. 1883. TERMS: $1 50 Per Annum, in Advance. NEW SERIES-VOL. V-N0.29. Job Printing. THE ADVERTISER JOB OFFICE • IS EQUIPPED WITH GOOD Press and \e» Material, EMBRACING Type, Border, Ornaments, &c., T *ry , Iates * designs mid all orders tor Jop 7\ ork will lie executed neatly cheaply and promptly. A NORTHERN HAT. ful hereafter, you had better let things stayed to dinner; still a latent spark of ' alone!” , resentment lingered underneath the I Turning to her mamma, she said, show of good-will. T , lor ,™ , , , “Mr. Shields always takes ray fan, if I; “Mona, dear,” said my husband when Is dormd too early for the spring-tide j c ] ianee to j ay ; t down, and now it’s we were alone, “were you resigned to Her cheek is’pale and on her" bosom warm I utterly ruined by the carelessness of that your fate, and would you have made no A wind is blowing from the chill north-. tiling!” j effort to let me know your place of resi- east. She looked daggers at me. | deuce? You did not intend to forget In fntile search for downy shelter there Aunt Hester, I thought, might have me? Her shiv’ring arms upon her breast are 1 given me some sympathy; she only turn-1 ‘'indeed I did not; and if yon had not cross’d; I ed and said, “Mona, hereafter try to be come to rescue me, 1 don’t think I could The airy veil above her golden hair careful; you have irritated Miss Ger-, have gone on living. But I am happy is all aglow with diamonds of irost. aldine considerably. Do not vex your- now so let us forget the past. ” And from her hands a wTeath of daisies self; I will get another for you, dear j —— child ” she said to her daughter. j Ti.e Piecious Metals. When they were gone, L threw mysely 7—-a , upon the sofa and gave vent to my pent- ^ The special report of Mr. Burchard, up sorrow. slips, And at her feet, in hliglited beauty, lies; The smile is frozen on her lovely lips; An icy terror dims her dewy eyes. Tjirn hack, O May! turn back and warm tby wings • In Time’s old cave, at Winter’s funeral Pyre, , u i Director of the Mint, upon the produc No reproaches, however unjust and' 5 bI i of the precious metals in theUnited harsh, no cutting reprimands, no scorn-: which was ordered to he printed. - - - - - - 7 - r . by the last Congress, shows that the yield of the mines of the United States ful looks, could cause me to cry- in tlieir, b - v , J h « l 381 Congress shows that the next Most of these fashions originate m . , pyre, ! Tirp^pnrp* T k#»nf rnntrol ovpr mv pmo- • yield of the mines ot the United States Europe. Ayeator two ago there were And come not forth till Earth, thy hndc- and wmrt only when alone 7 I lor the VP;u ' 1882 was 832,500,000 in two styles—the shepherd s crook, shared I cried and' sobbed, and longed for°! ~ most any fate that would free me from VuOM,!—a decline ot S2,200,000 of TOST AND FOU3JD. My Atmt Hester declared it to lie an insufferable nuisance living in the midst of mills and factories, having for your neighbors workmen and mill-hands. Indeed, her august indignation knew no bounds when the manufactory of Mr. Shields was erected just outside her gar den, on the ground adjoining. The village was a village no longer but a town, spreading its borders over the hills to the east and west, to the north and south. And down in the valley was the throb bing heart, teeming with its busy peo ple. Its factories and mills were being erected in wliat had once been the suburbs of a village. My aunt, Hester Stuart, and her daughters, Geraldine and Clotilde, were ladies of fashion, and all that the word implies they were. The greatest “catch” of the season the newest opera, and the styles were the sum total of their conversation. It was conceded by all the household that Miss Geraldine was the lady of the house. Even the mamma called her Miss Geraldine. It was a high misdemeanor to omit the important prefix. Miss Geraldine always had the first and best of everything; and Clotilde was obliged to submit to her, sometimes in very humiliating manner. 1, the poor dependent orphan niece, was chided by one and upbraided by another, until, between them all my “lines” were Hard ones. 1 thought if my aunt possessed such a thing as a conscience, surely it would say to her, “Sleep no more.” When .Mr. Shields was building, and my aunt was unacquainted with liis per sonal history, this sooty manufactory, with its smoky chimneys, was an eye sore to her fastidious taste. “It ought to he declared a nuisance, this grimy old factory and those greasy workmen! “What a desirable view from our sit ting-room window I' “It is outrageous I” Thus would my aunt comment upon Mr. Shields’ workshop. But very soon it began to be generally known that Mi*. Shields was a bachelor. Then she began to cultivate his ac quaintance and to court his favor. IIe r was rich. He would he such a capital husband for Miss Geraldine. Siege was laid immediately, and if cunning diplomacy was to he depended upon, surely the citadel must surrender. -Mr. Sliields was reported to lie per fectly impervious to the arts and wiles spread out for him by mammas and daughters who were on the “look-out” so to speak. It was generally supposed that lie had been through “deep waters.” The gossips said that he had, when a journeyman and poor, loved a lady whose father would not consent to the match until "lie could produce a stipulated sum. He worked hard, and began to amass a fortune. But the girl was fickle, and before he was ready had married another. This embittered iiim. Now he was wedded to his work. Business was his idol; money his wife and children. He scarcely gave a second glance to any woman. My aunt and Miss Geraldine began to lay their plans, and the distant, reserved Mr. Shields was often invited to balls and dinners- Almost any afternoon you could hear them laughing and exchanging merry sallies from the window. As the days went 15y I often noticed him looking intently at me as I perform ed my daily work. Sometimes, when I was dusting the siiting-room, I would chance to look towards the mill and catch his glance. I often wondered what he thought of me, if he thought Of me at all. Perhaps he was only meditating, lost in his speculations, and his eyes happen ed to rest on me. I tortured my brain to find a solution to this enigma, asking myself if I was vain enough to suppose that Kenneth Sliields was thinking of me. This indifferent man was only think ing of his gains and losses. lie had no possible interest in a girl who washed dishes and dusted rooms in her mint's fine establishment. Shall I tell you how liis appearance struck me, and how deeply I became in terested in him, in those days? I cannot describe him quite as he aupeared to me. 1 can tell you only of liis sunny blonde hair and his deep gray eyes, of the well- built figure, standing perhaps five feet seven. 1 cannot tell of a beautiful Apollo, tall and beyond all men fair; but I can • say in pure truthfulness that this calm, almost grave face fascinated and drew me 011 with a powerful hold which other fairer faces had no power to do. I felt my poor heart fluttering when liis eyes rested upon me. I crept away to chide myself with re newed vigor in the privacy of my own apartment. Thus I had grown familiar with him, and his daily "appearance I began to watch for, and when he failed to come, I often went to my room, and cried, just out of sheer loneliness. His presence was a solace; although he had never spoken tome, yet I was sad and disconsolate when he was absent. One evening my aunt and cousijls were going out. I was assisting them, when I chanced to drop Miss Geraldine’s ivory fan and break the'tiny mirror. She tapped me smartly on the ear, and, in bitter anger, said, “You awkward little fool! Now my fan is in a nice condition! If you cannot lie more care- Tlie horrible habit of Americans of put ting Ibeir bands in their pockety has led to the popularity of canes id this country. The Japanese gentleman shows apprecia tion to the same feeling when his costame is incomplete—without his shutting fan, which he hangs at his belt, over his right shoulder, or in the breast folds of his silken gown. The French or English gentleman for the same reason never attends a full- dress party without his crush hat in his hand. The fashion, of carrying canes, however, an.ong the swells and lah de-dah lads of New York has each season its rules which are observed with as much exquisite punctilio as those of ladies who wear a poke bonnet one year and Sioop hat the tin's thraldom "Finally I must have fallen into an un easy slumber. . The sense that tells ns someone is near awoke me. Standing motionless looking down upon me in silent pity! was Mr. Shields. gold and’ an increase of $3,800,000 of silver compared with the preceding year. The greatest relative decline was in California, while in silver production Idaho, Montana and New Mexico showed the greatest increase. The ex cess of production over consumption of I hurriedly started up, mutteringsome I the year, added to the net imports of kindof apology, and very much ashamed resulted in a net gain to the of my tear-stained face and rumpled, "ntnm ofiess than $200,<W0 in gold, , t . . * . i but by coinage and net import of com the metallic circulation gained nearly $39,700,000 in gold and about $27,600,- 000 in silver coin. hair. I requested him to he seated, and lie sat down, not on the chair near him, hut beside me on the sofa. I was confused, and knew not wliat to do or say. I suppose lie had perception enough to notice my agitation. He was all calmness and ease. I wondered if it were possible he could hear my foolish heart beat, and see the tremor of my lips, when I tried to answer liis questions. “You are in trouble to-night, Mona?” I shall remember to my dying day the inexpressible sweetness of those sym pathizing tones. I thought, as I always have since, that it was the most musical voice 1 had heard in all my troubled, dreary life. “Y ou were sobbing in your sleep when I came in; wliat was it? Are you.lone ly? Aunt and cousins are gone, aren’t they? Well, cheer up; I will stay here until they return. Are they unkind to you I could not tell an untruth now, with the tear-stains still on my cheeks; so I replied “Miss Geraldine scolded me lie cause I dropped her fan and broke the mirror, and Aunt Hester, too. Here I completely broke down, and criedasif I was never going to stop. He sat awhile in silence, and let me sob un disturbed; then lie said, laying liis hand upon my head, “Don’t give way to your grief; come, cheer up; you are lnjrt by cross w«rds and reproaches, but there is sunshine after rain. Mona, to-night you and I are drawing very near to each other; I too, have been stung by ingrati tude. I have sounded the .depths of hitter waters and by the perfidy of one person I was sunk to the depths of des pair. But I am out of this slough of despond, and am now far happier than I would have been had affaire gone dif ferently. I am in a position which per haps 1 should not have attained if 1 had gained what I coveted above all tlifee at one time. I outgrew my hitter dis appointment, and in my work I found a panacea. “Now I am in a very tranquil state of mind; and Mona, little friend, I have observed you, and am aware you are not happy. We will sympathize with each other, and in oflr mutual friendship disjiel part of the gloom. " His kind words, so mildly spoken, the most gentle that it had been my good fortune to hear since I was an inmate of my aunt’s house, went to my lonely heart like a soothing halm. I rallied and soon we began to talk. The hours flew by rapidly. “You and I are only beginning to know each other, Mona,” said my new found friend at last. “We are going to be capital friends, and ” No more was said, for aunt and cousins came in, and our evening to gether was cut short. They were profuse in playful re proaches, and Mr. Shields was scolded in a pretty way for not attending the party. He said, “Well, you see, I was de tained by important business until I feared it was too late; then I dropped in here, thinking perhaps some of you were at home. I found Miss Mona, and as she was ■ill alone, I thought I should he doin: my duty by remaining with her. “So I stayed, and we have had quite a delightful talk. " Aunt Hester made some reply, cal culated to annihilate me. They all seemed to want to box my ears. So I just “folded my tent like an Arab, and as silently stole away.” The California gold fields show evidence of exhaustion, and Nevada gives signs of recovery from the mis management and stock speculation that have affected its production. Idaho. Montana, Utah and New Mexico fum ish evidence of the increased importance of mining industry in those Territories, while Arizona maintains her large pro duction of the precious metals. The Derby Course. A young American who has (raveled, says m correspondenee about the Derby track at Epsom, that the course is en tirely different from anything we have in America. Tnere are not fifty yards of level ground anywhere. I should say that a run oi the whole circuit must he about two miles long. On this side the ground slopes rapidly down into deep valley, so that tne horses run on ground that slants up toward the out side rail. From the bottom of the valley the way up on the other side very steep, where the track runs aionj_ the crest of a ridge beyond, it must be four or five hundred feet higher than where we sit. Up towards the be ginning of the home stretch is the place which they call Tottenham corner, and all England tells yon what terrible place it is for a horse to come around. But that is taffy. There are worse turns at Jerome Park and Skeepsliead Bay. The only difficulty about tin; one is that it occurs where the horses are coning down a slight slope. The Derby races begin part way a-iund the course, as the distance they run is about a mile and a quarter, I believe. oreiti of^h^dfotantTi^e, ^conre down and they are quite straight," with Jreedoftowi but what j possess of it a around Tottenham comer, into the The next morning I had my orders, was given my dismissal. I was soundly reprimanded for my forwardness, and my aunt and cousins took turns in taunting me. Then I was spirited away in the night-time to my aimt’s farm far out in the country, exiled; abandoned, driven away. One evening I went to a neighbor’s to get a hook. The short winter day was closing in on my return. A wagon passed me. It’s occupant, a man, was muffled up; he looked at me as he passed; the ejacu lation, “Mona!” came out in a very em phatic manner. I looked up; it was Kenneth Shields. Hurriedly he jumped out. “Mona, where are you going? Is this where you have been all this time? I made hold to inquire your whereabouts, hut your aunt gave me very unsatisfac tory answers. “You did steal away in a dreadfully mysterious manner. “From standing at my elbow you fled into the vast unknown.” I could hardly speak for joy; for the light in Kenneth’s eyes was clearly that of love.' I no longer accused myself of vanity when I confessed with delight that he really did think of me. Well, it is the old, old story. The next day I hade adieu to the dreary farm, and with my promised husband started for the city, on reaching wliick we went to his sister’s where I stayed till we were quietly married. Then we took rail to my aunt’s, and Kenneth introduced me as “Mrs. Shields” to. aunt and cousins. They were astonished and ashamed, and I confess that the sudden transfor mation from plain MonaNorton to Mrs.. Keuneth Shields quite star^tetlpie. They welcomed us in aRaierably hos pitable manner; and for form's sake \vfc - ' % - - straight stretch home, and end on down hill part of the track. The course is turfed, not turned up like those in America. Mncli of the space down in the valley, inside the track and up on-the hill beyond, is taken np with refreshment tents. Punch and Judy shows, those machines which send wooden horses around in a circle, parties of men with blackened faces, singing and d ancing without time or tune, jugglers, acrobats and a. surging mass of people. From the grand stand for half a mile in each direction, out side the track, there is the same sort of thing, added to a tremendous crash of carriages, from which the horses have been taken and housed for the day. A third of the people present want to sell yon something that is of no earthly use, and that you wouldn’t be found dead with, and the other two-1 hirds want to steal whatever you may have around in your clothes. They are the most accomplished thitves I ever struck, and they will s.teal anything they can lay hands on, no _ matter whether it is worth anything or not. I have seen some pretty big and some rather promiscuous crowds in America, but this one certainly captured the prize in all respects. There must have been six hundred thousand to one mil lion people there. Nobody can convey a notion of such a crowd with mere figures. It was at least ten times as large a gathering as I ever saw at a race before. Clouds and Sunshine. Rainy days in the country would be robbed of naif their terror to adults if a little provision were made for the chil dren. When'it is gloomy outside we must create artificial brightness within. Every country house has a large spare room, an attic or at least a good corner in the born; any of these will answer for the purpose of a playroom, whicli, if provided, will not only keep the little ones still, but happy. Those dreamy delightful days for reading are rescued from the intolerable noise and fuss that invariably follow the imprisonment of juveniles. If we are going out of town let us give up a few ruffles, if need be, and make the fittings for the little folks. To cover walls choose plain, coarse cotton cloth for a foundation. The best covering will be fonnd at the paper hanger’s, where nursery rhymes are pictured in mo9t be witching form, and the ‘"frog that would a-wooing go” becomes only one of the favorites that are followed along the spaces. The foundation can be com pletely covered, and should be one yard in depth! It can be attached to the wall by tiny steel nails. Above the dado thus formed Japanese pictures can be placed, and their bright, quaint grouping always pleases children. Wall rolls can be pur chased, or made of bright cambric, and pictures pasted on. The tops can be attached to a cane or old broom handle painjed red. The file of bright pictures will fuimap material for storiee and afford amusement to the children, who can do all the pasting necessary with a little help. A small folding table is easily transported for this room, and boxes to hold playthings can be covered with chintz. A beautiful room ot this kind is fitted with turkey red made to cover the entire wall, attached to the top of the wall by tiny hooks, the border finished with a row of coarse German laCh. Arranged in pretty groups are figures from old fashioned plates, and anything that pleases from the illustrated papers, the arrangements should be studied, in erder to place the large group at the base, and when the distance of three feet from the base is finished the remainder can be done at random with good effect. If the ceiling is tinted a light blue and the floor painted chocolate color, it gives good effect like a fishhook, and a Zulu crook, a plain, curved handle. The from Fans, the shepherd from LoiimnU TheS® styles in canes were introduced in the sprin -, a id were preceded by the crutch. When our fathers were lads the whalebone cane was the proper thing. How they are so scarce that they are worth to the dealer from $3 to $3,50. Last year the fashion -was to carry a silver ball cane. Then there is a style in carrying a cane, and this varies each year. One year it was to walk with a spring gait, with bent Knees and arras akimbo as far forward as possible, and the cane was held between one finder and thumb, correctly balanced so as to swing gracefully. Then came the esthetic style. The cane was held in front of the body by the first and second lingers of both hands, A “Cnmln-*’ Hatch, This peculiarity of the barn yard cham pion became the subject of conversation at a little dinner given at" Uelmonico’s, New York, on the 8 th of last January, the occasion being the commemoration or the birthday ot Mr. Barry Jerome, who asserts that he is ot the same age as General Andrew Jackson. “I don’t see,” said Mr. Alexander Taylor, Jr., “why if tins is so, a rooster cannot be trained to crow as well as to fight. I believe that by taking one when a mere chick and cultivating its long power assidioosly, putting before it, from its earliest infancy, the best and most illustrious # crowers, a rooster could be trained to crow a dozen times consecu tively.” Mr. Jerome seeing here an opportunity for a wager—something wbi h he never neglected—said:—“ft would ail depend upon a man’s own training. 1 f brought up in fhe country,, as I was, observant eability in it, I should have made the [ Temples or the son. ag °’ r 1 Til beGnly In FersIa - >n ancient times, they had y LifT Pera i,i W h Uomm “" ^iples wh >ch they called “Temples of der Cheyne, if he would give me the the Sun,” and they worshiped the sun , « C ?rS aoe * 1 “ e by always. They felt that It was he who explanation that the thing is possible, presided over the destinies of mankind, To go into particulars, then, abont the who gave them the light of day and possibility of the enterprise, the intense also warmth, who was the founder of cola is the first great barrier. “The only their empire, and in nearly every city good scientific point about Cbeyne’s temples dedicated to the sun were raised, theory is that the temperature would he They acknowledged a Supreme Being favorable for cooling down the gas, hut. a Creator of the world in fact, but he this is only a small advantage when yon did not seem to hold the first place m come to make an oflset of the disadvan- their hearts, for only one small" temple tagea. The place where he proposes to | was erected to him. The grandest tern inflate the balloon is 700 miles from the I pie of all was in the city of Cuzco and it Foie, and the thermometer is forty de- was such a rich temple that it was called grees below zero.” ^ “Coricanchawhich meaut “The Flace “How would this cold-interfere with of R was built of hewn stone, s< the enterprise?” beautifully put together, the place of join- “In the first place, the balloonist inR could n0 * discovered, and it con- would have to use oil-silk, because the a,s i ed , of a cblef building with chapels objections to rubber are so numerous ad i oiniG g. and sevei^t otner inferior that I need not say anyfhine about it bmldings, and covered quite an area. ITT II . ® *1 r.UOrutVlill/T lnnidn th/1 n - - NEWS IN BRIEF. there is little doubt but that experiment of thu kind would foe a success. 1 think, however, that you would fail, “I'll bet you $5,000/’ said Mr. Tay lor, promptly, “that - in six months I’ll produce a cock that will outcrow any thing you can show.” ‘ I’ll take that bet," said Mr. Jerome, quietly, and the conversation diverged to other topicB, neither party again alluding to it, and each gentleman trusting that the other would forget all about it so that he might be able to claim a default when settling day arrived. • The next morning Mr. Taylor went bright and early to Washington Market, and was allowed to hang limp, while the j alld » front information there obtained, was elbows were still further forward, and the educed zo to Rosedale, N, J., where shoulders, if possible, more round. Then ^ -P^P Timpson resides. there wa9 a fashion la3t year of holding the ferule down. This year it is t*» hold it in the middle, with the ferule to the froDt, just as Mr. Spot Dandridge does after his return from the east. That's the proper “caper.*’ ^ The material is as various as can well nigh lie conceded of. Many are of im ported woods; some from the tiopics, China, and the East Indies. The cele brated Whongee canes are from China, where tney are well known and celebrated for the regularity of their joints, which are the points from which the leaves are given off, and the stems of a species of phyllosiachys, a gigantic grass, closely allied to the bamboo. The orange and lemon are highly prized, they are imported chiefly from the West Indies, and perfect specimens command enormous prices. The orange stick is known by its beautiful green bark, with fiae white longitudinal markings, and the lemon by the symmetry of its proportions and both prominence and regularity of its knots. Myrtle sticks possess also a value, since their appearance •s so peculiar that their owner would sel dom fail to recognize them. They are im ported from Algeria. The rajah stick is an importation. It is the stem of a palm, and a species of calamus. It is grown in Borneo, and takes its name from the fact that the rajah will not allow any to go out of the country unless a heavy duty is paid. These canes known as palm caDes are dis- In giving the particulars to a reporter, Mr, Taylor said:—“t learned that Phil Timpso* was a most successful hatcher of chickens by artificial process, and I went to him and told him I wanted a lot hatched, all cocks and of the best crowing breeds. He said I'd have to take ’em as they com®, cocks and hens together, and that he had no process for hatching cock3 exclusively. He said, however, that he would lay the world under contribution for eggs, and that if I would agree to take all that he would hatch there was no doubt that among the lot 1 should be able to secure the champion crower. ‘Bo, after signing a contract, I returned to my place at Mamaroneck, and had a house built 150 feet on the water-line— sho, I don’t mean that—I thought I was speaking of a yacht: but she’s 150 feet ovqj; all; that is, it is that length along the water, and I’ve bad it fitted up with porches at different elevations, so that at the earliest age.the young rooster wili have a place from which to crow, and can advance from perch to perch, raising his notes at each elevation.” “I’ve got over 500 fowl there already, and Timpson is going to have 500 more on Thursday morning. Until about a week ago 1 thought that I had a sure thing on Larry Jerome, but I then learned that he had constructed a crowing nursery at Oyster Bay, L. L, under the superin tendence of his brother, Tom Jerome. anguished by an angular and u -re « r Icjs j^ tlU * think I’ll beat him, after all, for flat ap near a nee. Tlie’r eoler i» ( brownish, JQttpp^on says that there’s not a known neither knob nor curl. They are the petioles of leaf stalks of the date palnj. Perhaps the most celebrated of the foreign canes are the Malacca, being the stems of the calamus sceptonum, a slender climbing palm, and not growing about Malacca, as the name would seem to indicate, but im ported from Stak on the opposite coast of Sumatra. Other foreign canes are of ebony, rosewood, partridge, or hair wood, and cactus, which, when the pith is* cut out, presents a most novel appearance, hollow, and full of holes. The manufacture of canes is by no means the simple process of cutting the sticks in the woods, peeling off Uie bark, whittling down the knots, sandpapering the rough surface, .and adding a touch ot varnish, a curiously carved handle or head, and tip ping the end with a ferule, in the sand flats of New Jersey whole families support themselves by gathering nanneberry sticks, which they gather in the swamps, straight en with an old vise, steam over an old kettle, and, perhaps, scrape down or whittle into size. These are packed m large bundles to New York city and sold to the cane factories. Many imported sticks, however, have to go through a process of straightening by mechanical means, which are a mystery to the uninitiated. They are buried in hoi sand until they become pliable. In front ot the heap of hot sand which the sticks are plunged is a stout board from five to six feet long, fixed at an angle inclined to the workman, and having two or more notches cut m the edge. When the stick has become per fectly pliable the workman places it on one of the notches, and, bending it in the opposite direction to which it is naturally of the habits of the fowl from boyhood, Well, everybody knows that an oiled LTer y“n"g '“ide the temple was gorgeous —“* surface in a temperature like that be- ^- v ° Dd d, ? acrl P tlua ' ° Q lhe western wall comes brittle.-and almost impossible to - ! , , D , eIt - v was represented. It con- handle. It would be easy to make the ai f s ed a i 1 ’ 1 ' na " faoc surrounded by rays gas, if they conld get a balloon to hold 13 Th ‘ S C6 and flguure was en " together until it wim filled.” U 00 an lm mense plate of gold, , , ,, . .. , massive and heavy and thickly bestrewn I i^ nd t Wb *i' d P re vent it from with diamonds, emeralds andotherpre- holding together? ’ cions stones. When the sun rose in the Why, it would become stiff-as a morning, the figure was so placed in the hoard and break all up, so that the gas temple tne light fell fuU upon it, would escape. a mosf dazzling effect, and all the gold in buppose he conld overcome tnis ol>-1 the room (and ilie walls were adorned and jection and furnish mateiial for the bid- inlaid and overlaid with gold) caught up loon that would be impervions to the] the glory and reflected it, and everywhere frobt?” | were shining plates of gold and heavy “Well, suppose he conld. The rext ornamentsof the Drecious metal and those, difficulty would be in the gas. As I too, sent back a flood of light as the sun- said, it could be easily made; but then beams fell upon them. One of the the only gas—namely, hydrogen—that smaller chapels was dedicated to the moon, would be sufficient for inflating pur- fo e next deity of importance, styled the poses would in that temperature eon-1 ‘‘Mother of the Incas.” All the decora- dense almost as fast as it could be made, I tlon s of this room, as well as the figure and consequently lose a portion of its representing the moon, and the burnished elevating power very rapidly. It would I pfotes, etc., were of silver. Then there become deteriorated in the ratio of the were otller chapels—one consecrated to increase of cold.” the stars, another to the ratnDow, and ao- “Snppose the balloon was filled in a otller ,0 thunder and lightning. All these higher temperature?” • belonged, you must remember, to the “Then all tbe.se objections would I empla ° f - Kre ^ thln g a3cd in apply with equal force as soon as it ^2““.T 11th J ihe ., WOTsh i|P u ot the sun reached the frigid regions, with the ad- n S , S “ VCr " The r re were a ditional objection that in making that ^ o„ T, T™ r , I “ mea ? e distance a portion of the gaa wonld be L^ fille d d ^ th ia^ eorn “he e^nomv foLsw? W r n0 Tra m d W * h - Cb cen6ers for lhe P erfa ”'*. ewers which £ S ‘ 1 “' I held the ““red water, the pipes which P /-ti in conducted it through • subterranean chan II f ,“ pp ?" e 5 heya ® should overcome nels into the buildings, the reservoir that all the objections thus far, inflate the received it, were all of gold or silver.” balloon, and soar heavenward at forty Then there were artificial gardens outside, degrees below zero and within 700 miles with plants in them, curiously constructed of the Pole, what would be the new dif- of silver and gold and precious stones; “.' PQ? . there were animals of gold, life size, and Ihe difficulties then, conpared with even the agricultural implements used in the launch in an ordinary voyage are all the garden were of the precious metal, seriously aggravated. So much so that The came of Inca was applied tj the without something unknown to * the Sovereigns of Fern as well as to all those scientific world they appear to be insu- males who descended from them. The perable. To begin with, 700 miles is an Sovereign was far, above his people, even enormous trip for a Balloon, under the the nobiest of the Inca nobility could not most favorable circumstances. There enter into the presence of the reigning is nothing on record, I believe, to ex- j Inca without making bare his feet and cecd that if we except • the instance of I carrying a slight burden to signify homage, the one that was caught in a gale during 3'tie Inca was cansidere J the sun’s repre- tlie siege of Paris ana was blown a dis- sentative, and he claimed to be vastly tance of 1,<500 miles to Norvfay, the two superior to all others, and lived aiid occupants having a marvelous escape. I dressed in grand style. He had a num Then, as I understand him, Cheyne pro- ber of wives, a great many children and poses to go to the Pole by ea=y stages, [ devoted attendants. When an Inca died, He ’ intends to stop, poised in mid-3ir f his weaIt!l did not descend to his heir, occasionally, awaiting favorable breezes but 811 bia tre asures remained just as he just as a captain would lay to at sea.’ had lefl them > and all his palaces ex- To my mind, however, there is no snch “ pt on ' were closed up forever. They certainty about asrial navigation as behevi;d tbe s Phlt would return some tnis. day and would require all bis personal “Bat suppose ail these difficulties pffecU ' ., Tbe funeral was an occasion were overcome and that he did reach the j ^ rand dls P»ay, and sometimes thous- Pole,” said the mronaufc, this time pnt- an ^ _amon ^ th . e “ and attead " ting his own interrogatory, “what would ““"Were sacrificed on Ins tomb The he do then if he did not find inhabitants m ‘ be was enbalmed, and there? How should he get back and ? b d “ roya1 ' attIre ’ P l8csd 0D a 8 old representative cock. Mr. Jerome.was found immersed in Weighty transactions at the Stock Ex change. lie had but a moment to snare for an Interview and said that he consid ered it a gross breach of confidence on the part of Sir. Taylor to have given the Ihing away. “Since it has gone so far, how ever,” said he, “J may say that my hen nery at Oyster Bay is 250 feet long and 50 feet in width. My fowls, of which 1 have 2,000, represent 100 distinct breeds, all of which have been produced by patent process and with especial reference to crowing. I don’t feel the least anxiety about tbe matter, as I have no doubt but that my bird will win.” “Wbre will the trial take place, Mr. Jerome?” “We have not decided upon that a3 yet. We of course never imagined that the event would be of so much public interest, and expected to have it up at Taylor’s place at Slamaroneck, or else down at Oyster Bay, with only a few of our friends present; but the Interest in it seems to have been aroused to such an extent that I told Alec the other day that 1 thought we would have to secure the GardeD, or else the American Institute building in Third avenue. The judges are Mr. Andrew Cahoon for Mr. Taylor, and 1 have a9ked Mr. Charles Minton, the Secretary of the Hew York yacht Club, to act for me; they two to choose a third if necessary. ’ * Balloouing to the Pole. —Chicago, it is said, lias 1000 opium eaters. —Missouri is sending acorns toEurope to improve the forests. —The Venezuela cow tree yields a liquid with tiie flavor of cream. —There is said to be one physician to every thirteen families in the United States. —In 1704 England had over 20,000 negro slaves, and they wore collara like dog collars. —Of the 1,433,887,500 inhabitants on earth about 850,000,000 are ldolators, 170,000,000 Mohammedans or Jews. —In 1852 the United States produced only 2,000,000 toms of coal, while last year about 70,000,000 tons were pro duced. —Arrangements for the work of Moody and Sankey in London in the autumn are already making. —A Jewish synagogue of the third "or fourth century has been discovered near Carthage and about ten miles from Tunis. —Miss Clara Barton has declined the superintendency of the Massachusetts Woman’s Prison on the plea of ill- he'alth. —The pension list will fill forty-eight volumes of 000 pages each. The public" will soon be informed who draw the pensions. —Isaac Quinn, a colored youth of- Gaston County, N. C., 17 years old, is 0 feet 7 inches in height, and is still growing. —According to an Ayrshire paper there is not a single copy of Burns’ poems in the Free Public Library at Manchline. The Australians, who wish to ex terminate the English sparrows, paid up to November last for 27,345 heads and 18i,212 eggs. —A young lady of Bamberg, Germany, has been punished by a fine and costs for the offence of playing the piano at night by an o^ien window. —An English inventor has patented a process of making straw incombustible, . and now proposes to build cheap straw cottages for the poor. The town of Grinnell, Iowa, which suffered so much by a tornado last sum mer, has just sent $700 to the sufferers by the cyclone in Mississippi. —The number of umbrella m ikers in Paris has increased from 11-7 in ISIO to 408 in 1882, and flip value of their pro duct from $00 J,000 to $2,600,000. ■The largest vessels in the English navy cost a million and a quarter to build, and nearly thousand dollars a day to keep them at sea afterward. —Of thirty-nine female students of medicine attending the lectures of the Paris Faculty last year, eleven were English, five American, and one Indian. —A pearl worth $80,000, now in the possession of the Princess Youssopoff, was brought from India in 1(500 by Gon- gibus of Calais and biuglit by Philip Two great scientific questions are now- agitating the minds of some of the bal loonists in this country and Europe, bent, straightens it. Thus, sticks appar-' One is the possibility of reaclung the enl'y crooked, bent, warped and worthless [North Pole in a balloon, and the other are by this simple process straightened; the practicability of getting into tbe but the most curious part of the work is 1 eastern current two miles above the observed in the formation of the crook or earth and crossing the Atlantic. Com- curl for the handies, which are not natur- mander Cheyne has aroused so much ally supphed with a hook or knob. Tbe workman places one end of tbe cane firmly m a vise, and pours a continuous stream of fire from a gas pipe on the part which is to be bent. When sufficient beat has been applied, the cane is pulled slowly and gradually round until the hook is complete ly formed, and then secured with a string. An additional application of heat serves to bake and permanently fix the curl. The under part of the handle is frequently charred by the action of the gas, and this is rubbei down with sandpaper until the requisite degree of smoothness is attained. Gathering and Drying Tea in Japan. Tea gathering is commenced in May Girls are- employed, at an average of five cents a day, from sunrise to sunset. The sprig of leaves is nipped off carefully with the finger nails and deposited in a basket, and other servants carry these baskets, as they are filled, to the tea planter’s house and necessary outhouses. Here other employes spread them out on large palm mats and here the first and only adulteration essayed by the tea planter is executed. Having decided the percentage of exhausted leaves to mix with his fresh leaves these are put also on the mats. The drying is m the open air and in the sunlight. That having been completed, the next operation is tbe curl ing. To effect this the dried leaves are poured into open cast-iron receptacles over a charcoal furnace beneath of accurately graded heat. Sufficient laborers are placed around these pans to constantly take in their bands the leaves as they be come heated and to roll them. When the curling is done the leaves are packed in coarse, cheap boxes, freighted to the nearest tea market and* there sold to a foreign tea dealer. Every foreigner keeps a special variety of tea-taster, who has to tell the quality of the fresh leaf and to make a guess at the amount of leaves that have already done service. In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God. interest in the first question that a com pany has been formed in London, On tario, for the purpose of organizing a balloon expedition to the North Foie. A reporter had a conversation a few days ago with Mr. Grimley, a well-known mronaut on the subject in question. “If Commander Clieyne had any ex perience in ballot uing under adverse circumstances,” said Mr. Grimley, “I think he would see the impracticability of his views. I have no doubt that he may be honest enough m his intentions. Put he is working at a thing he does not understand.” “Have you ever met him?” inquired the reporter, “No. but I know a good deal about him. I have been following the course of his lectures, and I wrote to him some time ago asking him to give me au ex planation of his proposed plan of over coming the difficulties in the way ol reaching the Foie in a balloon, and he has not yet answered me. I know he has a very persuasive manner, and is a great enthusiast in the possibilities of ballooning; but he has not been in the habit of reducing his theory to practice. If he did, I think he would talk differ ently.” “What, in your estimation, appears to be the impracticable part of Cuevne’s theory?” “He seems to disregard every essen tial connected with ballooning. I am quite familiar with the whole history ot Datioomng, besides having made over one honored assents myself, many of them being quite successful, and from all my knowledge and experience I have come to the conclusion that a Polar ex pedition in a balloon is impracticable.” Mr. Grimley then entered minutely into the arguments, showing the alleged impracticability of a Polar balloon voyage, regretting at the same time that the proofs were not all on Commander —An entire suite of bedroom fumi- Cheyne’s side. ‘*1 assure yon,” said ture made of glass is the freak of a the asronant, “if I could see any prseti- Sjianish grandee. miloo fr™ +i,„"d„i„o , There all the dead Incas sat with their to ™* leaaon Lands crossed and their heads inclined ^L ^} lude tbat l * ^? , ld bu eas . ler m the midst of all the eold and silver, tnw^fTf 8fr “ m * ePo,e ‘ ban e° m R the men on the right and the queens on toward it, if he should be able to snr- the lett 0 f the bluing effigy of the San. mount the nnknown difficulties that may The one paiace or mansion of the Inca intervene? 1 • .... . . that was not closed up was kept just as if If the Arctic expeoition is not fonnd the owner had cone for a day and was to be practicable, balloonists need not expected to return at anf moment. The despair, tor it seems tbat a few of tbe I guard was retained, the servants were all most eminent of them have an enter- at their po3ts and everything went on as prise on hand that they are convinced before. Sometimes entertainments were will be a grand success, and of equal provided in the name of a dead Inca by importance to science and humanity, the Captain of the guard stationed in the This is nothing less than a trans-Atlantic unclosed house of the Inca, Then the trip in the eastern current, and probably body of the Inca would be brought out a voyage round the world, in so short a into the public square with great pomp time that Piiineas Fogg, with all his and ceremony, and tbe display of gold and imperturability, would stand aghast at silver plate and jewels was something far tbe mere conception of it. Several of ahead of anything we can now imagine, tbe prominent seronants on both sides i he Peruvian process of enbalming bodies of the ocean have agreed to make an ex- was as successful as the Egyptian, but it periment this summer that will settle 13 supposed that it was much more simple the question as to whether the eastern an d brought abont by exposing the body current blows steadily in the same t0 l ** e action of tbe peculiar and ranfied direction without veering. mountain atmosphere; aad they were as “This experiment will be rnaae,” said perfect as hfe, “and not even the hair of Mr. Grimley, “by putting up two bal- an eye-brow lacking,” while therr counte- 100ns at the same time. One of these nances retained their natural, somewhat will rise to the attitude of the current, swarthy hue. A portion of the body, the while the other will remain in the at^ intestines, etc., were buried and with mosphere below. * By tins means we shall be able to measure the velocity of the current, and to demonstrate the in- rariability of its course eastward.” “You have no doubt abont its exis tence eastward?” “None whatever; upon that jxiint I am fully satisfied, having been experi menting upon it at intervals for several years-” “Is it independent of storms?” “Practically so. All the storms aris ing from electrical phenomena, occur in the lower atmosphere. Atgreatheight their influence, though philosophically appreciable, are not materially so as to interfere with the navigation of a bal loon.” “Where will the experiment start?” “From the Polo Gramms in this city, I believe. The London and Paris 2£ro nautic Associations have expressed their willingness to unite with ns on this side in the experiment, and will contribute liberally in fitting out the balloons for the voyage. Lamps In Yokohama. As the hoar approaches for the lighting of lamps in the evening at Yokohama, the sound of the patrol is heard, and all night long the streets are perambulated by these warning guardians, who beat two band- sticks or clappers together with the regu larity of clockwork, giving forth a sharp, ringing sound that there is no mistaking, and they also have a regular note of warn ing, which they cry out at regular intervals ot time, so that the necessity of precaution is present to the mind of all the dwellers in the city, throughout the hours of darkness, whether they will or no. The incendiary is the most depraved of criminals in the estimation of the people, and none others were so fesrtn'.ly punished in the past. At present death is the penalty meted out to one who commits arson. them a quantity of treasure, and it was at this lime and place their wives and attend ants were sacrificed. A Grand Storm Scene. Jesse Bsrritt, County Superintendent of Schools, in Missouri, recently, while going from Hillsboro to Butler, a village four miles northwest of Hillsboro, witnessed one of the most magnificent sights be ever saw and one which, perhaps, few men have ever had the opportunity of seemg. Arriving at the top of Cross Hill, a high eminence about two miles west of Hillsboro, he says the air sud denly became entirely calm, producing au oppressive, stifling sensation, which was followed by a peculiar, sickening smell. He then saw five distinct cyclones in tbe west and southwest, wbich he describes as huge balls of cloud travel ing in a northeasterly direction at terrific rate of speed. All were dis tinctly outlined and appeared at tunes to come to the ground and bound into the air to a great height. They were in a constant state of agitation and as they rose from the earth they became illumi nated; while near the earth they ap peared to be of a greenish color. They were accompanied by a deafening roar. One of them passed immediately over him, but, fortunately, did not reach low enough to do any damage. He asserts that he saw nothmg of the funnel shape so often described, bat that they appeared most oi the time perfectly round. They were a number of miles apart apparently, but all going in the same direction. He says that while the display was grand beyond description, he never wants to witness such a sight again; bat they were evidently stragglers belonging to tbe army of cyclones that passed over our State an hour or two before, and fortunately had no time to onaheath their devastating “funnel” and strike the earth. Only those that appeared at a great distance seemed to come to the ground. They passed out of sight In lesa than three minutes and were fol lowed by a heavy wind and torrents of rain. IV. —The Baltimore Sim states that of the (500 tornadoes recorded since 1695 there were 164 in the Southern States, and or these 30 were unusually destruc tive. —An English traveller in America records as one result of his observations the general sadness on the faces of our men of affairs as they go about the streets. ; —Bargue, a painter of exquisite little pictures, the best of which are said to he in the hands of Miss Wolfe and Mr. Vanderbilt, died lately in a Paris luna tic asylum. —Sir Henry Maine has been elected Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, in the place of Ralph Waldo Emerson. —Following the Chinese plan, the • British Government/has conferred a title Tipon a dead man. Tliaf is to say, it has made the late Sir George Jessel’s sou a baronet for his father’s sake. —The Empress of Austria has been writing poetry, and has had a printing office set up in tiie palace, and is learn ing to set type and.manage a press, so ‘ t that she can print her own poems. —John W. Garrett has spent $4500 in experiments on tiie Druid Hill Park Aquarium in Baltimore. His latest gift is in the shape of sea lions, which are ou their way from San Francisco. —Mackerel are decidedly earlier this season than last. Last year on the Cape Cod coast the first date of catch in weirs was as late as June 20th. The earliest was in 1880, when they were taken April 20th. A tree standing perpendicularly has been discovered at a depth of 280 feet in boring an artesian well at San Bernardino, Cal. Great pieces of wood, which appear to be sycamore, are brought up. —The people of Mound City, near Cairo, HI., have employed an engineer to make estimates of the cost of buildin their levees one foot higher than the highest flood line. The work is to be done at once. - —More than 4000 floral crowns were heaped around Gamljqtta’s coffin in the Palais Bourbon, and a writer in Figaro estimates tlieir value at $100,000. Paris and its environs produced them all, nat ural as well as artificial. —The latest papers from South Aus tralia gives an account of wheat harvest ings and thunder storms. —England possesses a Society for the Preservation of Funeral Monuments and Epitaphs, which takes record of the de struction of memorials of the dead and repairs inscriptions that are in danger of being effaced. ' —A tramway is4l>out to be construct ed for the transportation of visitors to the summit of Pike’s Peak. The cost of tbe work is estimated at $100,000, and the ascent, which now requires about a day and a half, will then be made in three hours. —In one of the public schpols in Bos ton a room lias been fitted up for instruc tion in wood-work, and two classes have given two hours a week to manual study. The boys are delighted with the carpen try, and the experiment is said to be a great success. The marks of the scliol- - ars are ail high, averaging as well as or better than before. —Some very fine specimens of asbes tos are being found in Nevada. The fibre of the specimens shown is from four to six inches ip length, and js soft and silky. A strand of it can be tied into a knot the same as flax fibre. It is found in what, from the description given, appears to be serpentine rock, and not very far from tbe crater of an extinct volcano.