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VOL. I. FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1883. Ireland's population is increasing at the rate of 00,000 a year. the New Jersey comes to the front with a water trust. This is a brand-new -kink. Since the 1st of January twenty-eight different men in this country have mur dered girls who refused to marry them. The census of 1800, preparations foi which are already being made, promises 4o show in the United States a popula tion of more than 70,000,000. ! It is estimated that one-half of all tho drugs imported into the United States are consumed in (he manufacture of patent medicine. The tree from the milk of which tho india rubber of commerce is made grows well in Southern California, and exten sive preparations are being mado for planting it. The reports of the Hpdrographic Bureau at Washington declare that the sailing tonnage of the world is nearly double that of steam, and that this re lative proportion is likely to be main tained. The king cruiser of all will be the last ordered by tho British Admiralty, to be named the Blenheim, the will be of €000 tons, with twin screws, engines of .20,000 horse-power, and a speed ot twenty-two lino's. AFTER HARVEST, The days of harvest are past again; We have cut the corn and bound sheaves, And gathered the apples green and gold, ’Mid the brown and crimson autumn leaves. With a flowery promise the springtime came, With the building birds and blossoms sweet; But oh, the honey, and fruit and wine! And oh, the joys of the corn and wheat! What was the bloom to the apple’s gold, ©And what tho flowers to the honeycomb? What was the song that sped the plow To the joyful song of Harvest Home? When the apples are red -on the topmost bough, We do not think of their blossoming hour; When the vino hangs low with its purple fruit, We do not long for its pale green flower. Bo then, when hopes of our spring at last Are found in fruit of the busy brain, In tho heart's sweet love, in the hand's bravo toil, We shall not wish for our youth again. An, r.ol We shall say with a glad content: “After years of our hard unrest, Thank Go l for our ripened hopes and toil! Thank God, the Harvest of Life is best!” BALKED OF HIS BEET. Halifax, Nova Scotia, cln'ms to be the healthiest city on the continent, the •death rato the past year having been ilower than in any other American city. Not a single case of diphtheria has been reported within the last six months. According to the Jewish Gazette. of the 241 clothing manufacturers in the City of New York 231 are Hebrew firms. The Hebrews are also largely engaged in cigarmaking, employing over eight thou sand hands and producing over six huu- k dred million cigars yearly. The Austrian Consul at Yokohoma, a, reports great difference in com- brcial morality between the merchants China and Japan. The Japanese, ho are neither ^enterprising nor up- but the Chinamen are solid and in every respect. have just been published on ought about by avalanches f Switzerland. Last year iople were killed. The ttlo buried by avalanches •upward of $9000, while [it of property destroyed ,000. plified drill of the Ger- ttalions will in' future formations, the double eep column (.four .com- g each other in company the broad column. The ran is the basis of all movements in war. famous Hungarian violin ist, is said to have hopelessly injured one of his fingers in an endeavor to in crease his technical skill. He is not the first man who has done this, as Schu mann, tho great composer, attempted the same kind of experiment, in sever ing some of the chords of his right hand in order to shorten the time of practice. He was permanently disabled as a piano- player. ' A St. Louis doctor has removed the brains from a dozen different frogs and healod the wound and let them go. They went off as if nothing had happened out of the usual, and it was plain that they had lost nothing of value. A frog which depended on his brains in stead of his legs would stand a mighty poor show in a puddle near a school house. _______________ N. J. Colman, Commissioner of Agri culture, has charge of the arrangements for tho display of Amcricau agricultural products at the Peris Exposition next spring. A large sum of money was ap propriated by the general Government to defray the oxpenses of tho entire dis play, and of the total amount $50,000 was set apart for tho agricultural in terests. People who fancy the newspaper re porter’s life is abed of roses observes the Now York Telegram, canhavotheir ideas changed by reading accounts of the Chicago car riots. Reporters were tho ouly passengers in the cars run through howling mobs and showers of brickbats. Several of them were badly injured, faced danger and duty, beside the law, just as they Phorrors of a scourge, ' aneb blizzards and the i conflagrations. If you were certain in your own mind that a man sought your life, and that he would not desist until one or the other of you wero dead, the feeling would be ! keep me in view, a strange one. No matter how brave you were, you could not hide your anxiety and alarm. No matter how strong your nerve, you would feel broken up. Let me send you word to-day that I seek your life and will not rest until I have seen you dead at my feet, and an hour after you receive the message you will be a changed man. You can’t help but worry, and the more you worry the sooner your nerve will go. If I was to in knowing me and my habits, and it was only fair to offset this by taking some extra precautions. I gave the writer of the anonymous letter thirty days to corao out of prison, and ten more to get himself in shape to begin the campaign. I was not far wrong. On tho thirty-eighth day after receiving the warning, as I boarded a State street car to come down town, my man was a passenger. He was a man who exactly corresponded to tho picture I had drawn, and it never occurred to mo that I could be wrong. While I was siz ng him up from the corner of my eye, I saw (hat he was taking my meas ure. I purposely turned my head to let him see a scar on my neck, and when I glanced at him again I was sure that he was satisfied of my identity. Now, the chase had begun. He had sworn to have my life, and I knew by the set of his jaw and the compression of his lips that he had still further resolved. Where had he been in prison, and what for? His face was strange to me. Had I desired to take an unfair advantage, I could have run him in as a suspect, or trumped up so ue charge to hold him and investi gate his record, but I wouldn’t do that. It was to be a fair £ ght. He would ask for no outside help, and pride would forbid me to. When I left the car he followed me to the office, I stopped at the door to speak to a messenger, and he asked, the mes senger who I was. Then he had me “dead,” as the saying is, and there was room for no further doubt. It so hap pened that at that time I was detailed on a case in the city. But for this I should have been goiDg and coming, and he would have had hard work to I was very regular in my routine. I had my meals at the same hour each day, and at the ’ same place. At a certain hour in the evening I went to a certain hotel, played three games of my - ga8h was up, but so qu etly did the sat and | ni!m work that the lightest sleeper v to my room aod pounce upon me, but I snuffed the game. He did not show up again. He may have believed that I sus pected him, and was determined to keep out of mv way until heeppeaied tostrike tho fatal blow. Next door to me, on the down-town side, was a vacant lot. One day, a week after last seeing McKnight, several dry-goods boxe3 were brought to this lot and piled up in such a way as to form a good hiding place next to ray door. 1 scented an idea as I in vestigated, and that night when within a square of the place, I met a couple ot young fellows aud offered them a quarter to go and d splncethe boxes explaining that a vagrant had taken up his quarters there. They went with a whoop, and a man rushed out of hiding and ran off. It was McKnight. The next day I was sent, out of the city and was gone two weeks. I had not been back two hours when I discovered that a boy was dogging mo about. Ife was no doubt in the pay of McKnight, who would now be ready for some other move. I had no sooner reached my room than I made the discovery that the windows had been tampered with, two having been wrenched out and all loosened so thut a little work would remove them. That night I asked a friend to stay with me. While I sent him to the room before dark I made my usual rounds and did not turn in until eleven. If McKnight was look- ing for me he saw me. We turned out the gas, placed our revolvers at hand, and sat down near the window to wait. At one o’clock Me >. u ght climbed a shed from the alley, entered the insurance office by a back window, passed through two rooms, aud appeared at the window opposite mine. When he had raised the sash he pushed a plank across the five feet of space, and rested tne end on my window ledge. It was a summer evening, and pool, drank one glass of beer. smoked a cigar, and then took the car to my door and went to bed. The dullest kind of a ploughboy could have picked up my trail. On the evening of the second day my would-be murderer appeared at the bill- fight you fair and openly, you would not j iard room of the hotel as I was playing hesitate. It is the knowledge that I am ' my first game of pool. I was expecting to strike you at an unexpected moment, ; him, and I so arranged it as to ask him that I may stab you in the street car, shoot j to play the next two games. He was you down in the park, cut your throat while you sleep, that unsettles you and makes your flesh creep. AVhile a member of Pinkerton’s de tective force 1 ! made the arrest of a high way robber at Madison, Wis. He was arre-ted for a robbery committed in Illi nois five months before, and I had been puzzled and nervous. If he was ner vous over tne idea of handling a cue alongside of a man whose life ho was plotting to take, I was excusable for feeling a bit queer to find my would-be assassin offering me a cigar and praising my skill. I entertained him better than he did me, because I knew his game aud on the case tw6 months when I finally he supposed me ignorant of it." When I ran him down. He was a machinist by was ready to leave for home I invited trade, and was then working in a shop, j him to meet me at the hotel the next I proved li.m to be an old crook and ^ evening. lie smilingly assented, but , daiigvrrmls one, and w«s aMisfijr/l that he next instant compressed bis lips. This went into the shop to bn "tie pursuit - but meant: “This detective ?s not the fel- it seemed to strike others differently, low I supposed he was. He is pleasant The reporters wrote him up as one anx- and chatty, and wants to bo friendly, ious to reform, and they wrote me down and I rather like him. But he sent my as a bloodhound hanging to his trail, and friend to prison,? and I have sworn to so considerable public sympathy was take his life He shall not escape me.” aroused for him. I then had proofs of i That night some one broke a skeleton four other crimes committed by him,any one of ,which would send him to prison, but I had to keep silent and take public criticism. My man got a sentence of five years, and he had scarcely departed for prison when I received through the mail a note reading: _ 'would have heard no sound. He waited and listened, and then came across. We moved to the right and left, and he could not see us as he put his face to the bars. He must have beeu certain that I was asleep, for he began work, and soon had an opening by which he could enter. McKnight had come to kill me, but I did not thirst for his life. As he bent to enter the window I fired over his head and uttered a shout. He straightened up, lost his balance on the plank, swung half way round, and tumbled to the ground. It was only from the second story, and had he alishted on his feet he might not have been hurt. But he turned over and struck head first, and never knew what hurt him, bis neck being broken by the collision. When he was dead he was identified as a New Or leans crook named Red Pete, aud when Joligt prison. His only weapon was a knife, but one thrust of that would have set tied me forever.—New York Sun. An Improvised Air Gnu. It is generally known that air is an elastic substance, but few persons have any idea how extremely sensitive to pressure. A New York Mail an I Ecpre s reporter had the fact impressed upon him by the humorous demonstration of a professor in physics whom he had called upon in a college laboratory. “Where shall I place this emptj bottle?" asked the professor’s young from the table a wide- key in the lock of my street door. How foolish to suppose I would trust to locks! It was no doubt my friend, making his first attempt on my life. It is a curious trait in criminal nature that two out of five men will abandon an undertaking if meeting with disappointment on the first “You have by money and perjury sent attempt. Those who persevere become an honest man to prison. You knew ho more dangeious than before. It was a was honest and hardworking. Ycu question now. of how my enemy would assistant, takin, wanted to glorify yourself. The poor act, but I was satisfied as soon as I set mout h “° , e - "huh Dad Deeu use “ lu fellow is a friend of mine, and I have eyes on him tho next evening. At sight some experiment before the cla-s. sworn to revengo him. Take notico of me he compressed his lips. The fail- “Take care, that bottle is not tmpty. that I will have your life on the first ure had fired his zeal, and I realized replied the professor, carefully taking opportunity ! fl j that from this on I must certainly be on j *De bottle from him, ‘ there is something There was no signature to the letter, my guard every hour in the twenty- j very powerful in it. lie then took a but I knew at a glance that the writer four small cork from the drawer and hold- meant business. It was a plain, bold We played three games together sat j side by side and smoked cigars, and an , & assistant . “Blow that cork into tho outsider would have supposed us the bottl wo . u see if there is room for it.” be<t of friends. The man perhaps Th ^ brougllt his momh qu ; tc near to feared that I would wonder and specu- a - - where the cork \vus loosely late about him. and lie handed me his , 5 and fe taking a long brcat h gave a card and explained that he had come on hand, and after half an hour’s study made these deductions: 1. It was wri: ten by a crook. 2. It was written in prison. 8. The writer was in dead earnest. 4. He was a large, muscular man. with light hair, blue eyes and fair complexion. 5. He would wear a silk hat and dark ish clothe?. lb He would aim to either throttle me or strike me down with a club. How did I reach these conclusions? Well, the average detective catches on to a crook’s chiography by instinct. It , ., _ ■ .. . ... auuuenpuff. To his great surprise the from the Last expecting to engage in the k in X stead of fallin J int0 the bottle lumber business. His name was printed ; tremblcd a moment whero it lay and then as -K K McKnight." Could I be mis- forcibly blown int0 h is facs. taken in him you ask? I had no doubt .. Y ou se5.” explained the professor, hat he was the writer oftlm threatening i h Iaugh , ^ bottle is n ‘ ot C!npt y. letter. If I had doubted, something It , Q fu « o{ a - r that u0 moro C J & 0 occurred as we sat smoking that would blown int0 it The only cfiect 0 f blow- nave reassured me. A man who was J ° c “H 1 * «/ '*’ • nave reassured me. *»■ imm who " inw 110*511 nst thw cork whs to omnnress the was written on a half sheet, and the pen ; known to me to be crooked entered the .*> , • ■, ... u «n olastic tb it and ink were poor. Tho paper was i billiard room for a drink. He started a,r bchlnd jt -’ wh,ch 13 80 claSt,C the moment the pressure was removed it addressed by himself. The chiography ; no knowledge of the other. I pretended of the letter was bold and earnest. Large to sco vacancy, and parted with my men aro bold and more sympathetic than enemy in the greatest good nature. That small ones. Largo men who betray this night an attempt was made to bore a sentiment are of sanguine temperament, 'panel out of my door, but the bit was They are also vain and dress well and in stopped by the sheet iron, taste. Large men seldom ambush a, I did not see McKnight the next oven- victim. They depend on their strength. } ing nor the next, but "lie showed up on This is about the way I figured it out, ! the third evening and explained that ho and 1 was so firmly satisfied that I was had been to Milwaukee. 1 knew better. experiment with y must see that the neck of the bottle is perfectly dry, or the cork will adhere to it and spoil the fun.” Fecundity of Fish. It lias been calculated that, as fish produce so many eggs, if vast numbers of the latter and ot the fish themselves and right that I founded my programme ac-! He had beeu trying to work out some were not continually destroyed cordingly, and permitted no change to j new plan to get at mo, and had spent a taken, they would soon fid up every creep in. I further believed that the ; portion of the time at a crook’s resort, available space iu the seas, l or instance, writer would not be out of prison for a j Ho had bit upon a plan. I knew this from 90,000,000 to 10,000,000 codfish month, and I had ample time to got j from the cordiality ot his greeting, and are annually caught on the shores of all through our games I was wondering ! Newfoundland. But even that quantity what scheme lie had hit upon. It was seems small when it is considered that revealed to mo at midnignt that very j each cod yields about -1,500,000 eggs night. I had a bell on my door, and at | every season, and that even 80,000,000 that hour it was vigorously pulled, in have been found in the roe of a single case of my being wanted at the office tho ! cod. Were tho (50,000,000 of cod taken messenger was instructed to ring in a , on the coast of Newfoundland left to certain manner. As this was not his on non non fnmaina «rnrlncim» ready for him. Had ho been out ho would not have written. If ho had sev eral months to serve he would not Lave written. I was a bachelor then, having a room on State street and taking my , meals at a restaurant. My room was j reached by private stairs, and I alone bad i the key to the streot door. From a side window in my room to a sldo window in a real estate office was a distance of only five feet. As there wero bars on the oth er window I had left mine unguarded. I now had them put on, and there was no way to reach me in my room ex- , eept to open the street door and come up stairs. I had the inside of the door cov ered with sheet iron, and arranged a Bpring gun for the stairs. Was I afraid! JTo, I had plenty of confidence in myself, and I wanted to get the drop on the stranger first. He had pitted his wit, nerve and courage against mine, and my professional pride I was aroused. He had a big advantage j- Cutting a Five-Pointed Star. '‘Do yon know how to make the stars on the star-spangled banner?” inquired a gentleman who sat at liis desk with a piece of waste note paper and a scissors in his hand. “Couldn't cut one that would look respectable to save myself,” said his companion. “Well, there's nothing easier, and I don’t think there’s anything a patriot ought to know better. It may seldom come of use, but it’s highly patriotic. In Preble's “History of the American Flag” may be found a statement to the elle:t that the committee of Congress appointed to report a design for the na tional ensign called upon a Mrs. Rose, dealer in regalia and fancy goods, in Philadelphia for suggestions in their work. This lady was possessed of ex cellent taste in all matters pertaining to her business, and was withal an ardent .patriot. The story gce3 that while talk ing with the members of the committee she so folded a sheet of paper as that by a single clip of the scissors she cut out a five-pointed star. IF is stated by othera that the committee was as greatly pleased w : ith the ingenuity displayed as with the symmetry of the design and readily adopted it. This was in 1779 and even since that time the five-pointed star has appeared in the blue field of our country’s flag. Neither Preble nor any other authority tells how Mrs. Rose folded the paper, and in the absence of information one will find it a rather difficult feat to accomplish. Once known, the process is very simple. Take a sheet of paper of any si e and fold it once across. Then make a fold at r ght angles to this, merely for the purpose of determining the center of the paper. Throw the sheet back upon the single fold and let the center point be the point of a triangle when all the folding is completed. It must be understood that to have a five-pointed star there must be one single and two double folds, the folds being made outward from the center point. This single fold should be made to a point about four-fifths of the d s- tarn e to the middle line made when the center of the paper was determined. The first double fold is made by folding the further side of the sheet as it is left after the single fold, back upon the outer edge of the latter. The second double- fold is then made by folding what is now double upon what is triple. To obtain the star, now make a cut with scissors og a straight line diagonally across from a point some little distance removed from the apex, to the extreme outer lower point of the fold. The cut may be made from either regular side of the triangle. The eye must be guide as to the acute ness or obtuseness of the angles of the star. A very little practice wiil soon enable you to cut one of these stars with entire accuracy. Comparison of a star so grade with a geometric star will show it to be far more symmetrical and grace ful than the stiff, mathematical product. — Chicago Herald. GOLDEN-ROD. An idle breeze strayed up and down l’he rusty fields and meadows brown, Sighing a grievous sigh, “Ah, me! Where can tho summer blossoms he?” When suddenly a glorious face Shone on him from a weedy space, And with an airy, plumy nod, “Good afternoon!” said Golden-Rod. The breeze received her courtesy And then came hurrying home to me. And eagerly this story told: “I’ve seen a lady dressed in gold, So shining that the very light That touches her to cioublv bright- Shs nodded, too, a royal nod.” “Why, that,” said I, “to Golden-Rod.” “Como out and see her where she stands, Gold on her bead and in her hands,” He cried: and I without delay Went after where he led the way; And there she stood, all light, all grace, Illumining that weedy place, And to U3 both, with airy nod, “Good afternoon I” said Go den-Ro:l. —Clara Doty B-.’es,' ring I waited for a few minutes, when tho boll jangled moro vigorously than before. I slipped on my pants and went down and opened the slido in tho door. McKnight stood there, and when I asked what was wanted he replied: “Really, old fellow, I am sorry to have troubled you, but I come to ask your advico. I was handod a very queer lotter after I left you, and I waut you to read it and tell mo how to act. I’ll go up stairs with you.” I told him that one of our men was oc cupying tho room with mo that night, ana advised him to see me at the office next morning. He had planned to get A Code of Barber’s Elhics. One of the most interesting things which the German papers hive been writ ing about lately is the establishment of a code of barbers' ethics. It appears that some time ago a call was issued for a Congress of Barbers to assc able at Berlin.'Four hundred of them responded and there was an interesting meeting which lasted three days. When they ad ourned they had formulated a code of trade ethics, wiiich is well worth the attention of their American brethren, ilore are some of the new regulations: Iu future the operation of shaving must invariably be begun on the left cheek, and the old style over there of applying the lather to the face with the hand must be stopped and brushes used for that purpose. No barer will be per mitted to remain a member of the asso ciation who persists iu holding a customer by the uosc while shaving him. To their everlasting credit be it recorded that a majority of the Congress decided that iu so far as talking to customers was concerned a great reform was tieces- rary, therefore they decreed that the barbers should confine ihetn-elves to the careful shaving or hair cutting of tltefr patrons and not allow their tongues to ramble during the operation over the d nv'in of politics, commerce ai d philosophy, literature and the arts. Still the Congress has left a loophole for es cape, since on motion of a Hamburg barber it was resolved that an observa tion on the weather by way of greet ug Dr farewell would not imperil an art.st’s standing in the association.—New York Graphic. Ft ( historic Fish in Solid Iloek. A most remarkable discovery has been made at the Salomonic quarries in Indi ana. The blasts at this quarry are set off by a battery, and are eery powerful, l ecently a blast opened up a tissue which was filled with clear water, brackish to tho taste. The hole was about twelve inches w do, ten feet long and eight feet deep, the bottom and in sides being solid rock, and completely isomted. The water in it was as in a marble basin. In the water were found mime: ous I;si: and frogs, which differed from the ordinary species in that they had no eyes. From the surroundings it would' seem that the fish and frogs had lived there thousands of years, bevernl plates in these quarries show traces of volcanic action. — Com inertia Fnguirer. PITH AND POINT. Words of cheer—Hurrah! Tiger! The rag-gatherer’s business is picking up a tittle. A black bear that has been eaten is a bruin-et. “I’m considerably worsted,” as tho stocking said. Stands to reason—the reasoner when he is tired of sitting. Instead of the French in Tunis, wouldn't it be more grammatical to say: the French in tune are?—Siftings. A wealthy old farmer who has seven good for-nothing sons, says he is satisfied that there is no money in raising beats. Funny that a fast young man never begins to think about settling down un til it has become utterly impossible for t<m to settle up. * Now tho woodses change their color And the folkses change their clothes— Boon the head of navigation Will peep through its robe of snows. —Duluth Paragraphic. “Oh, you have come first at last; you were always behind before,” was the queer greeting a schoolmaster gave to the first boy at school.—Detroit Free Press. McGurrigan was naturalized yesterday. He said that the process of making a fereign-born man a native of the l nited States was exceedingly pleasing.—New Yor’c Ncia. Thera was a young maid, a Miss Howard, Who was ^most pitifui coward; For a cu e little mouse S-. aijfd her out of the brass And chastii her all over the cowyard. Tn Russia they tench bears to dance bv placing them on a hot fioor. In the C hicago grain exchange they make them dance by raising the price of wheat, seventy-five cents a bushel. “Are you winking at me because you think I’m a country jake. sir:" demand ed the new clerk at the drug store, loudly and beligerently, as he paused in the act of drawing a glass of soda water for n customer. antes.,” hurriedly called out the proprietor, “come and tie up this licorice for this boy. I’ll wait on Mr. Rambo myself.’’—Chicago Tri bune. A Chance to Get Even.—Office Boy— “Please, sir, here's a man to see you.” Impecunious Doctor—“Healthy man?” Office Boy—“Very mu h healthy. Got something in his hand looks l.ke a bill.” Impecunious Doctonstruck with a brill iant idea:—“Let him come in. I’ll give him fifty cents on account; he will faint, and I’ll charge him two dollars for reviving him.”—Time. Had;i Husse in Gbooiy Khan, Most puissant Persian man, Just arrived from Teheran: “Good morning, sir. How do you do? And how is Mrs. Hadji Ghoo? And how are all the little Ghoos? Como tel! us, Hadji, all the news. We're glad to see you. minister, Oh! Zoroastriau worshiper. Take off your things, and sit right down; You are at home in Washington.” — Washington Critic. breed, the JO,000,00b females prodneiu 5,000,000 eggs every year, it would give a yearly addition of 150,000,000,- 000,000 young codfish. Other fish, i — ‘ though not equaling the cod, aro won-; \ Noiseless, Smokeless Locomotive, derfully prolific. A herring weighing 0 oz. or 7 oz. is provided with about 80,- 000 eggs. After making all reasonable allowauicos for the destruction of eggs and tho young it has been estimated that in three years a single pair of herrings would produco 154,000,000. Bulion calculated that, if a pair of herrings could be left to breed and multiply uu A novel locomotive engine has boen on exhibition at Palmyra, Wis. Except the noise of its wheels moving upon iron rails it is noiseless and smokeless. The steam after use in the engine is con densed in a new manner, aud the water at the boiling pioint is re-used. All the wheels of this locomotive aro drive disturbed for a period of twenty years, wheels, being so arranged as to give them they would yield an amount of fish equal control of tho car on curves aud on jn bulk to the globe on which we live r uneven tracks. Fishing for Fish. Sir James Crichton-Browne tells, in an English magazine, the story of an amateur augler who went to fish, iu a Scotch stream, provided with the finest rod aud reel that money could buy, the most invisible tackle, and the most im proved S^SuoksIwaswaHo . threshed the water for hours without getting a nib ble. and then had the mortification of seeing an old fisherman near him pull out the trout by dozens, with nothing but a bit of stick, a string and a hook baited with worms. The amateur angler looked on puzzled and disappointed, aud then went up to the old man aud asked him: “What is the meaning of this? llow comes it that I, with tho many perfect appliances, can catch nothing, while you, with only the clumsiest of tools, are so successful?” “The meanin’ o’t,” the old man made answer, “I take to be this, sir: that I’m Siskin’ for fish, an’ ye’re fishiu’ for fun.’ A Homeric Fragment. Tho explorer of the Fayuin, Mr. Petrie, has discovered “a splendid frag ment- of the Second Book of tho Iliad,' written on papyrus iu the finest Greek hand, before the rounded uncial or cur sive scripts cams into use. This precious document was found rolled up under the head of a mummy which was buried simply in the sand, without the protee- tiou of a tomb. It measures apparently from three and a half to four feet in length. The date of tho manuscript is about tho second or third century. It will be edited by Professor Sayco.” Kerosene oil is responsible for niue- teuths of tho fires that tako place in China.