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Down in a Coal Mine.
1 he deepest coal mine in America is the
Pottsville, Pennsylvania, The shaft is one
thousand five hundred and seventy-six
d* ep. From its bottom, almost a third of
a mile down, two hundred cars, holding
four tous each, are lifted every day. 'I hey
are run upon a platform, and the wh< Oic
weight of six tons is hoisted at a speed that
makes the head swiai, the time occupied in
filing a full car being only a little more
ihan a minute. The hoisting and lowering
of m<*n into coal mines is regulated by law
in that state, ani only ten can stand ou a
vented, and unaccustomed visitors are up-
l u!U-d by it.
A person of weak nerves, says a
pondent, should not brave the ordeal by
O'eCCc nding the Pottaville shaft. This ma¬
o’, int ry works a3 smoothly as a hotel eleva¬
tor, but the speed is so terrific that one
Meu.s falling through the air. The knees
after a few seconds become weak and trem-
ulou the ears ring as the drums of these
organs are forced inward by the air pres
ire, and the eyes ihut invoiuntariiy as the
>eum s of the shaft seem to dash upward
only a foot or two away. As one leaves the
light of the upper day the transition to
darkness is fantastic. The light does not
puss into gloom in the same fashion as our
day merges into night, but there is a kind
ot phosphorescent glow, gradually becoming
dimmer and dimmer. Half way down you
pass, with a roar and sudden crash, the as-
eending car; and at last, after what seems
several minutes, but is only a fraction of
that time, the platform begins to slow us
halts at a gate, and through it you step into
a crowd of creatures in the shape of men,
but with blackened faces, the glaring eyes
and wild physiognomies of fiends.”
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Frankly Acknowledged.
At a receut trial in the Lenawee county
court-room, a young Adrian lawyer was de¬
fending a client charged with larceny. A
female relative was on the stand, and, on
direct examination, had sworn to a state¬
ment directly opposite to one 3he had made
the young’ lawyer in his office. The youth
started iu on the cross-examination with
great, vigor and an extended forefinger. The
following was about the way the matter
eventuated:—
Lawyer.—“ I understood you to swear
and-8.) ou your direct examination ”
Witness. “Ye 3 sir.”
L.—"Did you not say to me so-and-so in
my office?”
W.—“Yes, sir.”
L.—“Well, aud now you come upon the
stand and swear directly opposite?”
W.—“Yes, sir.”
L.—“Then you must lie iu one or the
o her statement?”
W —“Yes, sir ”
L.—“And which is the truth?”
W.—“Which I have just sworn to.”
L.—“It is, eh? Now, will you tell me why
, jU j, e( j to me p>
W.—“Oh, you locked like a fellow I could
stuff.”
We leave it to some of the writers of har-
rowing fiction to describe the feelings of the
young limb ot the law. We are not equal to
tiiut sort of thing.
A Man Who is Eis Own Grandfather.
A young fellow out West with plenty of
time and genius, has figured out how a man
can become his own grandfather, and this
is the way he does it:
“I married a widow who had a grown up
daughter. My father visited our home very
often, fell in love with my daughter aud
marrird her. So my father became my son
in-law, and my step-daughter my
because she married my father. Sometime
afteiward my wife had a son. He is my
father’s brother-in-law and my uncle, for he
is the brother of my stepmother. My fath¬
er’s wife, namely my stepmother, had a son.
He is my brother, and at the same time my
grandenild, for he is the son of my daugh-
ter. My wife is my grandmother, because
she is my mother .s mother, I am my wife’s
husband and grandchild at the same time :
aud as the husband of a person's grand-
mother U his grandfather. I an my own
grandfather ”
Deafness trom Tobacco Smoking.
Chewing is much less liable to cause
these troubles than smoking, because tobac¬
co smoke comes in contact with a much
larger surface than the saliva impregnated
with tobacco. Cigarette smoking is the
most injurious because the smoke is so
often blown through the nose, and at tha
same time enters the eustachian tube The
tobacco smoke is laden with fine particles,
which gain access to ihe middle ear and
irritate its fining membrane. While this
does not adm.t of actual demonstranon tt
i. readered h.*% probaole by tbe (act that
disturbances of taste and sated are ucques,
tionably observed in habitual smokers. The
long continuance of such an irritation gives
rise to a chronic inflammation of the middle
ear
The characterastie want of sensibility in
the mucous membrane of the throat and
nose of smokers who suffer from chronic
angina is due to the benumbing influence
of tobacco.
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a cer¬
tain method never to rise.—Goldsmith.
The worst of slaves is he whom passion
rules.—H. Biooke.
No hope so bright but is the beginning o t
ts own fulfillment.—Emerson.
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V NEWS.
By EDW. SCHAEFER.
V olume X.
6 ZTTl op e » kMca t0
The word “marriage ” suggests nearly as
rnarv varied thoughts as there are persons
who give it attention, in one, i r awakens a
sense of delicacy as if it were too tender a
theme to admit of any hut the most careful
treatment. Iu another, it causes mirth, as
if it were a matter of vast humor. In
another, tend rness. Inanoshtr contempt.
Iu ana her sadness In another, reverence;
and i?o on. according to the age, the exp°ri-
pQce observation, the knowledge and
the sentiments of she person. It has been
held up as a target for rid eule, and many
are the feathered shafts of wit and pleasan
try that hive buried their points in it. It
has been a th- me of sharp and persistent
Marriage, offering as it does, peculiarly
distinct displays of the weaknesses and vir
j ues 0 £ njpn aft d women ; affecting as it does,
( jj e or( j eJ and morality of society ; touching,
a8 j t does, the deep affections of tbe heart,
a complex and many sided theme, and
this fact will explain why some smile and
J others look grave when the topic is brought
forward, and also why, on every occasion
when the marriage ceremooy takes place,
he faces of the spectators wear to great a
variety of expressions, ranging all the way
from easy curiousity to sober apprehension ;
frem sunny smiles to streaming eyes, Says
one, reproachfully, “How can you weep at
j such ° a time as this ?” and the other answers,
How can you do anything but weep ?”
“Isn’t it jolly?” exclaims one young man,
and a friend responds, with a sigh, “jolly !
I feel as if I were at a fujneral.”
If good is to come out of marriage, it is
to come only by the utmost forbearance,
patience and fidelity; by the existence, ex-
erc ‘ se ar, d preservation of a deep and tiue
afiection. Marriage has perils as well as
pleasures, and if anyone is led to discern
cseafe.y the perils than ’be pleasures,
not g f ran g e fhat such an one should weep
instead of smile when a marriage is witness
edt ^ rstj compact ni.de between two
human beings was matrimony, and the
history of our first parents show;- how much
^at compact had to do with fixing the des
tiny of both themselves and their decend-
ants. Divine law guarded with special core
the relation of husband and wife. Mono-
w a3 ^e °rlained state. All the
inspired regulations considered marriage as
a bond between one man and one woman.
Polygamy is a perversions of man and not
aD ord.nance of
But there are some things preliminary to
t h e ma riiage and most necessary o!
tbe8e ig i 0V(}i There is attraction in love;
there is admiration in love; there is passion
in love, but neither of these, nor ail together,
make true aud abiding love. All true love
is grounded in esteem. It must be so, or it
will not last. Love cannot five on round
cheeks and bright and winsome manners.
It must be based on something that remains
unchanged when the face is wrinkled, and
the eye is dull, aud the form is bowed; and
that stable something is character. It has
been truly said,” “It is to be feared that
they who marry where they do not love, will
^ ove w ^ iere ^ey do ,lot marr y* t)
A 8econd preliminary to marriage is the
betrothal. It is one of the marks of the in-
creasing lightness with which marriage is
regarded that engagements are so easily and
hastily made, as is often the case. In pro
P or ho n as matrimony is hell in high
res P ec L betrothals are made with great
c &u tio n and are regarded as having grea
binding force. Among us marriage en-
1 * <!men(s are t0 ° often fo,raed and dis
s0,Ied WIth a Precipitancy which reduces
the whole affair of making to a matter of
uncertainty, and certainly injures the rep-
utaton of those concerned in it; unless just
cause can be showed. Parties who have
agreed to be married should regard the
agreement as sarcedly binding, should guard
its sanctity, and seek to carry it out. Mar¬
riage engagements should be made known.
Honorable young men will not inveigle
young ladies into secret promise of mar¬
riage. Discreet young ladies will suspect
the motives of men who propose such &
procedure.
With a true love, and a season of engage¬
ment in which love and discretion have
ruled ^ marri iedncea it8elf , Q a
simp|e tkinj , in<Jecd I( fo „ ows ag
& „ v „ , he fo „ ows , he blo8som H ow
.
may the wedded realize all they have hoped
tor in each other's society? Simply by
continuing to be to each other, oaly in a
fuller measure, what they have been during
courtship—faithtul lovers; loving from
esteem, and expressing love unselfishly.
Do not imagine that it is in any sense
becoming for a man to pay his wife tbe same
tender attentions and give her the
compliments he bestowed ujion her when
was courting her, or for a wife to
the same pleasure in the society of her
husband as in the pre-marital days.
Those who school others oft should
themselves.—Shakespeare
Devoted to News, Politics, Agriculture and General Progress.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, MAY 19, 1883.
To Tell a ’’—ve’s Age.
At three years oiu tu« horse;should have
the central permanent nippers growing, the
other two pairs wasting, six grinders in
each jaw, above and below, the first and
filth ievel, the others and the sixth protrud-
iug. The sharp edges of ’h? new incisors
will be very evident, compared with the old
teeth As the permanent nippers wear and
continue to grow a narrow portiou of the
cone-shaped tooth is exposed by the attri
tion of the teeth on each other. The mark
will be wearing out and the crowns of the
teeth will be sensibly smaller than at two
years. Between three and a halt and lour
years the next pair of nippers wilt be
changed, the central nippers will lave at¬
tained nearly their full growth, a vacuity
will be left where the second stood, and the
corner teeth will be diminished in breadth,
worn down, and the mark in the centre of
the tooth will become faint. The second
pair of grinders will be shed. At four years
the central nippers will be fully developed
the sharp edge somewhat worn off, and the
mark somewhat wider and fainter. The
next pair will be up, but they will be small,
with a mark deep and extending quite
across them. The corner nippers will be
larger than the inside ones, but smaller than
before and flat, and the mark nearly effaced.
The sixth grinder will have risen to a level
with the others, and the tushes will begin
to appear. At five years the horse's mouth
is almost perfect. The corner nippeisare
quite up, the long, deep mark irregular in
the inside and the nippers will bear evident
tokens of increased wear. The tushes are
nearly grown, the sixth molar is up aud the
third molar is wanting. This last circum¬
stance will prevent the deception of attemp
ting to pass a four year old one as five year
old. At six the mark on the central nip¬
pers is worn out. At seven years the mark
is worn out in the four central nippers and
fast wearing away in the corner teeth. The
tushes ore rounded at the points aud edges
and beginning to get round inside. At eight
years old the iushesare rounded in every
way; the mark is gone from all the bottom
nippers. There is nothing remaining in
them that can afterward clearly show the
age of a horse. After this the euly guides
ire nippers in the upper jaw. At nine years
the mark will be worn from the middle nip¬
pers, trom the next pair at ten years, and
bom all the upper nippers at eleven years
At nine years the centre nippers are round
instead of oval. At ten years the others
begin to become rounded: at eleven years
the second pair are much rounded ; at thir¬
teen years the corner ones have the same ap
p aiance; at fourteen years the lace of tbe
centre nippers become somewhat tri-angu-
lar; at seventeen they are al! so.
Retired Fire Horses.
Once a fire-horse always a fire-borss.
Other animals may have their wavs altered
bj a change of routine, but the fire-horse
has as clearly marked habits as the old war
steed. No end of amusing occurrences
have illustrated this. Ex-Aid. Morris tells
of a horse of Chief Bresnan’s, when the lat¬
ter was foreman of No. 33 engine, which,
becoming aged, was taken to an auctioneer
and disposed of. The old nag passed
hrough several hands, and at length eb
came the property of a “refuse” cartman,
who by chance went to the engine house
one day to cart off the garbage. Cart and
all had beeu backed up to the pit in the rear
of the building, when suddenly the gong
sounded an alarm. At once all the old in¬
stincts of the animal stirred in him. The
worn-out hack felt the fire of years before,
and away he dashed, carrying with him a
section of the stairway and all but smashing
to pieces the engine which was in his way.
A Williamsburg milkman bought one of
these department horses and found him a
very docile and well behaved animal. One
day he was serving some customers at the
corner of Houston street and the Bowery
when an alarm from Twenty-second street
brought the engines thundering along near
where the old horse stood. The peaceable
and sedate brute heard the rumble and could
not contain himself. The first glimpse he
caught of an engine set him wild, and away
be tore up the Bowery, with wagon and
milk cans clattering behind him. It was a
long run for the owner, but he never caught
sight of the runaway till he reached the fire
and saw the horse there, quietly standingin
full glare of the conflagration.—New York
Herald.
Texxysox is one of the finest looking men
in the world. A great shock of rough,
dusty, dark hair, bright, laughing, hazel
eyes, massive aqueline face, most massive
yet most delicate, ot sallow brown complex
ion, almost Indian-looking, cloihes cynical¬
ly loose—tree and easy; smokes infinite
tobacco. His voice is musical, metallic, fit
for loud laughter, piercing wail, and al
that may lie between; speech and specula¬
tion free and plenteous; I do not meet, in
tkese late decades, such company over a
(pipe.—Letter of Carlyle in 1844.
Topnoody.
Mr. Topnoody came home early Wednes¬
day evening, and his wife bad not begun
supper arrangements, he sat down near her
and said:
“My dear, I had a minute for rtflection
iu my office to-day, aud thought I’d write
some poetry ou home.' 1
“Drinking again, I suppose,” she answer¬
ed significantly.
“You should not talk that way, my dear
for home is a word that touches the hardest
hearts and brings back mi rnortes as sweet
ns heavenly music, But listen, my dear:
“Cling to tliy home! If there the meanest
shed
Yield thee a hearth aud shelter for thy head,
Aud some poor plot with vegetables stored—’’
“Tobnoody,” interrupted his wife, “did
you see that man about spading up the gar
den?’’
“No, dear, I—but hear the rest of
this:
“Be all that heaven allots thee for thy board,
Unsavory bread and herbs that scattered
grow
Wild on the river bank or mountain
brow;—”
“Did you nail paling on I told you to this
morning?” again interrupted Mrs. T.
“No, my dear, I—but let me finish:
“Yet e’en this cheerless mansion shall provide
More heart repose than all the world beside.”
“Is that all?” she asked.
“Yes, my dear.”
“Well, I’m glad of it. And now go back
down town and see that man about the gar
den, and get some meat for supper, and
hurry back and nail on that paling, and get
me a bucket of water, aud carry in the
coal and kindling, and grind the coffee, and
not sit arotind and see your poor wife wear
herself out trying to make home something
like. I think when a man has nothing else
to do but write poetry, he had better hire
out to maul rails, and let somebody take
his place as the head of the family, who
k lo ws what its duties are aud will attend
to them instead of wasting his time trying
to be a poet. I don’t believe you wrote
that, anyhow, and I—” but Topnoody was
gone, and the poor woman went out into
the kitchen to make home “something
like.”
A Modern Song oi Home.
1 talk about home because I am rarely
there—and men like to talk most of what
they know least abi ut “There is no place
like home,” Even those who live in board¬
ing houses touchingly warmble that song.
Home is more to a woman than to a man.
A man who has no home is a social tramp
With a woman it is different; she wants a
home, but does not always have a chance to
get it. Woman feeds upon affection. She
is never happy till she gets her ideal man;
and then she is cast down to find another
woman’s photograph and love-letter in his
overcoat pocket.
But a man gets his home—lot, house
mortgaged, mechanic’s lieu and all. < He
has all but the mortgage, and the mortgage
has him. All of a man’s life, except what
he spends at the store, club, caucus, lodge
or prayer meeting, is spent iu his home.
Man is great in his own house; if he is not
a king, he is at least a prince consort. Many
are like the man who, on being nominate
for lieutenant-governor, said :
“You have nominated the right man for
the right p'ace. I have been a lieutenant-
governor ever since I was married.”—R, J
Burdette in Hawkeye.
Occupation.
Occupation! what a glorious thing it is
for a human heart. Those who work hard
seldom yield themselves entirely op to
fancied or real sorrow. When grief sits
down, and folds its hands, and mournfully
feeds upon its own tears, weaving the dim
shadows that a little exertion might sweep
away into a funeral pall, the strong spirit is
shorn of its might, and sorrow becomes our
master. When troubles flow upon you,
dark and heavy, toil not with the waves—
wrestle not with the torrent—rather seek by
occupation to divert the dark waters that
threaten to overwhelm you into a thousand
channels which the duties of life always
present. Before you dream of it, those
waters will fertilize the present, and give
birth to fresh flowers that they may bright¬
en the future—flowers that will become true
and holy, in the sunshine which penetrates
to the path of duty. Grief, after all, is but
a selfish feeling; and most selfish is he who
yields himself to the indulgence of any pas¬
sion that brings no joy to his fellow men.
Tbe stock inspector of New South Wales
is authority for the statement that the pest
of rabbits had already cost the colony of
Victoria between $20,000 000 and $25,000,-
000 and that is still spreading.
Three fifths of the 2,200 convicts in the
Texas penitentiary are negroes and Mexi¬
cans.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever
yet miserable.—Landor.
TERMS—$1.50 A YEAR.
Number 45.
Pauper Labor in England.
There is no more wretchedly remunerated
employment iu the kingdom than nail
making, or one that, in consequence of the
starvation prices paid, is more frequently
Interrupted by strikes. It spares nobody;
mites of children, out of their school hours,
can, in their small way, assist, and the
poverty of their pareuta makes them gald
to avail themselves of even their puny help;
delicate girls, mothers who are uursing their
babes, aged women, bent and feeble, and
who have al their lives been, in a manner
speaking, chained to the forge of drudgery
of the anvil, iu the midst of smut and smoke
sh* y still go on, hammering, aud tiling, aud
tugging at the bellows, until their strength
utterly fails them. Then they retire, for a
brief spell, to the work house, and thence
to the church yard. It is a marvel how, on
the ecauty wages they are enabled to earn,
they contrive to ex : st at all. I remember
a poor soul at Cradley, a widow woman,
who, with the assistance of Ler eldest
daughter, a girl of thirteen, maintained, by
her chain making, the entire family, seven
in number. The hovel in which her forge
was fixed adjoined the squalid little two
roomed cottage where she was supposed to
reside; but, to use her own words, she
“might, except for as
well almost be without it, since it was only
on Sundays that she did not live, with the
children, in the smithy.” And never did I
set eyes on more deplorable little objects
than the latter were. Not one of them,
including the girl who tended the tire and
bellows, wore shoes or stockings, though no
shoe leather could have been blacker than
their feet; the remainder of their bodies
being but a few shades lighter in complex¬
ion. It was a mere waste of soap, their
mother averred, even if she had money to
spare for its purchase, to attempt to keep
them clean. Being uext to naked, they
could not go into the street, and their only
play place was among the coal, slack and
ashes. Ou Sunday, however, she gave
them “a reg’lar good scrubbing,” and on
the same day of rest she washed their rags,
while they remained in bed, and dried them,
somehow, so that they might wear them
again on Monday morning. She told me
that, working at the forge from six in the
morning until ten or eleven o’clock at
night, and with her daughter’s assistance,
stie was enabled to earn about five farthings
an hour, or one and eightpence or nine-
pence a day. Ten shillings a week exceed
ed the average, and out of this she has to
pay two aud uinepence rent for the cottage
or house.
Simplify the Work.
When one pair of hands are expected to
do the work of a bousehole, it should be cut
down and simplified as much as possible ;
no extra tucks on the pillow-shams or cases
fewer ruffles to flute, tables painted to avoid
scouring, etc. Ruffles, tucks and
work may be well, but not half so well as a
happy, eentented mother, whose face is not
marked with lines of care and weariness,
Little the babies care how many tucks
were in their tiny dresses, when they be¬
come men and women. Better a thousand
fold will be the sight of a bright mothers
face than one wearied aud fretful, grown
cross and morose, or, it may be, gone forev¬
er with quiet, folded hands resting at last.
Too many women who have been bright,
merry maidens, sink into dull, stupid, fault
finding wives and mothers. Why is it?
Some may fancy because their duties are
beyond their weak bodies. And so they
are. Sometimes the husband is responsible
in driving his business and work, and pay¬
ing no heed to his wife’s help and conve¬
niences; but in a large number of cases the
wife herself is really at fault. In nearly
every household the work can be cut down
and simplified ; that is, can be, if we but
overcome some of the old housewives' no¬
tions in regard to work.
The two Virtues —A Fable and a Poem.
One day it occurred to tbe good God to
give a party in his palace of azure. All the
virtues were invited, but the virtues only,
and, in consequence, there were no gentle¬
men among the guests.
Very many virtues, both great and little,
accepted the invitation. The little virtues
proved to be more agreeable and more cour¬
teous than the great ones. However, they
all seemed thoroughly happy, and convers¬
ed pleasantly with one another, as people
who are well acquainted, and indeed some¬
what related, ought to do.
But suddenly the good God noticed two
fair ladies who appeared not to know each
other. So he took one ot the ladies by the
hand and led her towards the other.
“Benevolence,” and he indicating the
first, “Gratitude,” turning to the other.
The two virtues were unutterably aston¬
ished. For since the world began, and that
was a great while ago, they had never met
before.—Ivan Tourgineff.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Yorona Mills, trom January 1st to
April 22<J, turned out 95,000 pounds if
yam.
It is said the railways in Tennessee wi’l
comply with the law regulating, and if the
Commissioners do likewise there will be no
trouble.
Ihere are now 191 cotton ..factories in
operation or in course of erection in the
southern states.
There are now 600 men at work on the
Jacksonville, Tampa aud key West Kail
road and 200 on the International.
Green Woodle, one of the largest frui
growers iu Warren, Tenn , thinks he will
make 20,000 bushels of apples this year.
Strangers are pouring into Union City,
Tenn., and real estate in that place has
increased 25 per cent, in value within two
months.
A prosperous moving village of about 400
inhabitants follows the end of the track of
the Northern Pacific railroad as it crawls
westward across Montana.
There are now in operation within a
radius of five miles of Clanton, Ala., eight
lumber mills, ail of which are said to be
doing an excellent business.
The Rogersville and Manchester Railroad
has been incorporated. The road is to run
from Rogersville, Tennesse, through Cum¬
berland Gap to Manchester, Ky.
Memphis Avalanche: The steady rise
in real estate values in a sure surface indie*
tation of the substantial basis for the ealeu*
lations of a boom on these bluffs.
In Columbia, Tenn., a company has been
formed for the manufacture of hosiery and
net goods, which will employ about thirty
young girls. The machinery has been pur¬
chased and the factory will soon be in
opeation.
On Wednesday the Mayor of Jacksonville
reprimanded the minister of the A. M .E,
Church for holding night services in viola¬
tion of the rules of the Board of Health, and
notified him that in case of a repetition he
would be fined $50.
As soon as a guarante can be given that
the people will furnish them a sufficient
amount, of fruit and vegetables, a Chicago
grocery firm will pat up a canning estab¬
lishment in Milan, Tenn., capable of em¬
ploying from 100 to 500 people.
Twenty more divorces were granted by
the supreme court at Springfield, Mas-, on
Thursday, making 39 in two days. O ihem
all only one was contested, and that was a
colored couples where the husbau at
tempted to swear away the character of his
wife.
A sporting gentleman, speaking of poker
says it is a “popular notion that memoersof
tbe house and senate in Washington play a
great deal. They do, but the stakes are not
high. They haven’t the money, at least not
until they have served more than one
term, most of them ”
The Farnham type-setting machine has
been on public exhibition in the Coodwin
block on Haynes street. Hartford, Conn.,
and attracted immense crowds. It both
sets and distributes type, and it claimed, can
do the work of five compositors. A syndi-
cate of Connecticut capitalists have pur-
chased the patent, and will soon take
measures to bring the machine into p~*cti
cal use.
Some of the best English jockeys are wo-
daughter of farmers, or of country
squires, who have lost their fortunes. They
have been accustomed to ride the hounds
from their childhood, are perfectly fearless
and their right weight in the saddle makes
them desirable as jockeys. Charles King¬
sley’s poem of “Loraine Loree” has one of
these women jockeys for his heroine.
It is announced in Turkish journals that
the porte has granted to a Syrian syndicate
a concession authorizing the carrying of
line of railway trom the port of Acre to the
Jordan, jnst beioiv the sea of .Galilee, and
thence to Damascus, and that the necessary
works are to be undertaken at o.ice. The
Jewi h World of London remarks that the
line runs through the finest agricultural
district that could be selected, and when
opened up by the line of intercommunica*
tion with Damascus will offer unrivaled
advantages to settlers, as well as advantage*
ous sites for industrial undertakings and
manufacturers.
Air Babbies.
I have described, when writing of th«
anatomy of the guillemot, the wonderful
bubbles of air that invariably follow that
bird when under water, and I have explain¬
ed how the air is stored nnderneath the
feathers, and given out when the bird is
diving. In the otter a somewhat similar
phenomenon can be observed, As he
swims along under water he is followed by.
a train of the most lovely air bubbles, which
appear exactly like beads of quicksilver.
The origin of this air I cannot quite make
out. A large proportion of it comes direct-*
ly from the lungs. This is important; the
otter evidently has some difficulty in sinking
in the water—he therefore lets out tbe air
to enable him to go down, but at the same
time a good deal of air comes from under*
neath the fur. When the seal dives, no air
appear? to come from underneath his coat.
The orange crop in Manatee county Fla.
is the best for many years. From present *
indications it seems that the Orange Ridge
section will bear off the prize for orange
growing,