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W. E. HARP, PaMUher. VOLUME I. NEWS GLEANINGS. In Florida 3,000 pine apole's can be raised on an acre of ground. One thousand men are employed in the iron works in Cherokee county, Ala. The only drawback to coeoannt rais ing in Florida is ilirt it takes ten years fer the trees to bear. Fifteen huro-ed executions for delin quent poll taxes have been issued in Union county, S. C. An old man on Caney Fork, in Mid dle Tennessee, caught $(1,000 worth of saw logs during the last rise. Tennessee has a State law which im poses a fine of 1500 tor failure to report small pox cases tp the S.ntc Hoard of Health. ' * ' At Louisville, Miss., John D. M. Thrasher has been sent to the peniten tiary for life for the murder of W. D. Triplett. The Georgia Supreme cou;t has de cided that the cities of that State must stop their debts at 7 per cent of their taxable property. Six hundred partridges in boxes, shipped from Danville, Ya., arrived in Wilmington, Del., last week for the Delaware Game Association, which is trying to restock that State. Fifteen thousand dollars have been expended on the North Georgia agri culturel college at Dahlonega. It wili take $5,000 to complete it. Col. ISenj. S. Ricks, of Yazoo county, Miss,, the second largest planter in the South, employs 1,000 men, and made 2,000 bales of cotton last year. The acreage of wheat sown over East Tennessee is unusually large, and the prosncct for an excellent crop was never more encouraging for the time of year. Within the last three years over $2,- 000,000 have been invested in manufac turing enterprises in Georgia, and nearly $10,000,000 have been invested and con tracted fr in new railroads in our State. Old Aunt Bonnie Holloway died in Fanqnier county, Va., last week, in the one hundred and fifteenth year of her age, the oldest citizen probably in the Old Dominion. When Ix>rd Cornwallis passed through Eastern Virginia in the summer of 17S1 she said she “was a good smart gal, big enough to get married.” The Nashville Banner, in some race recountings, says : At another raee over the Clover Bottom track Gen. Jackson entered his famous horse Truxton, and was hacking him quite heavily. Gov. Cannon was on hand, hut had no money, so he bet a wagon load of negroes with the General. Truxton won tho race and the General took in. the negroes. Gold is being washed from alluvial lands within the limits of Gainesville, Ga., which pays 50 cents to the pari. The city covers a deposit of gold-bear ing material which should he utilized, and no doubt will he as soon as the ca nal Atlanta so much, needs passes through that section- The bed of that canal for a distance of forty miles will be cut through veins and deposits-of gold bearing ere. There are three irreat land companies now interested in Florida. The Disston company holds 2,000,000 acres of the 4,000,000 acres it bought from the State. A third company (beaded by Diss'on also) proposes to drain the Lake Okee chobee region and reclaim the swamp lands. The area of reclaimation is as. large as New Jersey, Connecticut, Dela ware and Rhode Island, and the Disston company will get half of it, the State retaining the balance of it. Two enor mous dredging boats are already' at work at this, and the work will be pushed to completion. Atlanta Constitution Florida Notes Eight years ago there was only $120,000 invested ifi steamers on the Sir Johns. Now there are twenty eight steamers plying that river, one of which cost $240,000, and to this fleet there are con stant additions. The Indian river and South Florida lakes and inlets are now dotted with sail boats, carrying freight to and fro. In a very short time th<s will be supplemented by steamers, and then the quesaion will be settled, anew region opened, the fertility, and beauty of which cannot be put in words. Home Influences Developing. My Lady—“No, no, General. Do not talk to me of school and college ! There’s nothing like home influence for boys. My precious darling has never left my side since he was bom—just twenty-one years ago this very day, General—and he has kept the heart of a child, and never given me an hour’s anxiety in all his innocent life !” The General “Ah, he’ll soon bo wanting to marry the lady’s maid, or something of that sort. See if he doesn’t!” My Lady— " Good Heavens. (To footman, who enters.) “Adams, where is Parker?” The Footman —"She just stepped out for a minute this momin’, my Lady, to git some ’air-pins, she said. But they do say down stairs, as Master George were waiting for her round the comer wjth a four-wheel cab and a small porkmaateau. Leastwise, she never comp home, nor Master George hasn’t neither. Lunch is waiting, my Lady.” London Punch. THE JACKSON NEWS. Tones OF THE DAT. Cincinnati reporta 188 cases of small pox under treatment. Denver will hold a National Mining Exposition in August. Tms is the season of the year to make predictions about spring. The persecution of Jews in Russia is exciting general attention. The New York bar will give Judge Porter a complimentary dinner. A woman in Graves County, Kentucky, is undergoing a forty days’ fast. Vanderbilt pays over two hundred thousand dollars annually in taxes. Strawberries from Florida are selling in New York at SI and $5 per quart. This is the year that the Mohammedans expect the coming of their Messiah. Of tiie 601 convicts in the Arkansas State Prison more than 100 aro murderers. Canada is considering the feasibility of abolishing the dutios on tea and Coffee. De Lono has been traced to a definite locality. The next thing now will bo to find him. A St. Louis man has started a fund for the Guiteau jury by contributing $1 towards it. We find that the moro the editors say against the Gainsborough hats the higher thoy loom up. Cincinnati will probably try tlio ex periment of propelling street oars by the cable system. The Cleveland fund for the Garfield monument is not quite SIOO,OOO and there it sticks. . Ridgeway is under the impression ho can freeze Guitoau’s body so that it won’t stink. It may bo that he can. February 27 is the day upon which Mr. Blaine will deliver his eulogy on President Garfield in Congress. The reporters of Chicago have ruled women out of their press club. Men want to got to themselves occasionally. There is ono thing Guitoah may rest assured of : He will be out up, or froze up—-exhibited in the floah or as a (skele ton. • Female teachers in Boston who havo been in servico ten yoars want SI,OOO a year. If they can't get married they ought to havo it. The Spanish pilgrims to Home are Carlist soldiers or well known friends of Don Carlos, who urges tho movement in letters to his partisans. The Russian Government claims that the persecution of tire Jews in that country was originated nnd is kept qp by revolutionary agents. The work of tunneling the St. Law rence River is to be completed in four years at a cost of $3,500,000. Mon treal has the contract. Wilde’s face is so long that it is said to havo tho appearance of being reflected from a convex mirror. Grief over lie fading lily produced it. Undf.ii the law District Attorney Cork hill will get S2O for prosecuting tho assassin. Dr. Bliss might give Corkhill a pointer on making out bills. Oscar Wilde thinks Walt Whitman is the greatest of living poets—not even excepting Longfellow. Mr. Whitman will now please tickle Mr. Wilde some. The Grant phalanx, known as the Three-Hundred-aiui-S x, are to bo pre sented with bronze medals as mementos for their unswerving fidelity in the hour of sore trial. Ip Babnum could secure the body ol Guiteau, and then engage Oscar Wilde as lecturer, ho might double his fortune of $3,000,000. The scheme is worth looking into. We beckon Oscar Wilde don’t like America excessively. Shafts of sarcasm are hurled at him from every conceiva ble quarter. He must think we Ameri cans are awful reckless. Tobacco is a foul weed, but it seems to yield an enormous revenue wherever it is raised. The tobacco monopoly ol France last year yielded a net profit to the State of about $60,000,000. Since Liszt went to Rome his health nas greatly improved. But ho still de votes hours to the fatiguing work of composition, and forgets sleep, food and everything else except the work before him. - . ■ Tiie St. Petersburg police have issued an order forbidding tho appearance of any actors or dancers on the stage of the theaters of the Capital whose dresses have not been previously rendered in combustible by means of chlorate of time. The same rule has been in force in Berlin for five years. An official report on the condition of the eyes of school children in Philadel phia says: “Hypermetropio eyes are JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1882. more numerous than both myopic and emmetropic ; that next to myopio astig matism, distinct lesions are most preva lent to tho eyes with hyp-uroetio astig matism ” This will be startling news to most people. In its continual use in the Guiteau trial many people have asked, what does ‘court in bano” moan? “Banc,’ brought into legal language from the French, means “bench,” and comes to us from English law. “Bano Regis" was the title of the King’s Beaoh, which was above all other courts, and appeal to which was final. The “ Court in banc” therefore means tho Supreme Court of tho District in fuU bonoh. Sixty Harvard students, wearing knee breeches and black silk stockings and bearing lilios in their hands, went in a body to one of Oscar Wilde's lectures in Boston. Oscar, strange tt> say was not pleased. To see himself as others see him so disconcerted him that he failed even to enjoy the rapturous ap plause that occasionally greeted him Perhaps this sort of monkey business, if pursued lony enough, will teach the dis ciple of aestheticism a wholesome lesson. Editor Ramsdfll, of the Washington Republican, recently offered $5 for the best written letter accepting an offer of marriago, and here is the letter, by Ger trude Nelson, whioh won the prizo : “My Dear Donald— Fresh with the breath of the morning came your loving missive. I have turned over every leaf of my heart during the day, and on each page I find the same written, namely, gratitude for the love of a noble man, hu mility iu finding myself its object, and ambition to reudar myself worthy of that whioh you offer. I will try Yours henceforth. ” George Q. Cannon, one of the con testants for the seat of Delegate in Con gress from Utah, speaking of tho re pressive measures respecting polygamy, says: “Our people will be obliged to submit with the spirit of martyrs, aa they havo heretofore submitted when oppressive laws have been enacted against them, or when they have been expelled or mobbed from their various homes, before polygamy became ono of their tenets. They actually rejoice in persecution, as it iutensiflos their ad hesion to tho doctrines of their church, and confirms them in their beliof in its divine origin.” A ooTF.MroBARY tells the following story: A man named Harsens who keeps a saloon and a parrot in Now York went out a few minutes the other even ing and on his return missed seven silver watches ho had there. A few nights after William Cox, who was the only person in the saloon during Harsens’ absence, came in with some friends; and while he was drinking at the bar, the parrot startled him by saying gravely, “Billy Cox stole those watches.” He hurried out to sue the owner of tho par rot for defaming Ids character, when he was arrested for stealing another watch which was found in Ids possession. AcCOBDINa to tho Now YorU ITfrald. now engaged in examining the Clerk’s ac count of the disbursements of the House of Representatives, the most shameful recklessness prevails in the manner of spending the public funds. We quote from the list: “Two perfumery cases, bought for a member, S2O; three fans bought for a member, $10.63; six tooth picks, bought for member, $28.17; two fourteen carat charm magic pencils, bought for a member, $30.60; seven ktrives, bought for a member, $lO9 67; three card cases, bought for a member. $10.33; one fine opera glass, bought for a member S4O; one shaving case, bought for a member, sl3. These are only a few of the long list given. The Herald, commenting, says: “Surely Mr. Adams, the late Clerk ol the House of Representatives, who furnished these oxliaordinary articles to ‘a member’ at the public expense, on the pretense that they were needful for the discharge of his legislative duties, does great injustice in withholding tho ‘ member’s ’ name from the curious taxpayers. He must have been engaged in very dirty work to need so much perfumery. ” West Point Board of Visitors. The members of tiie Board of Visitors appointed every year to attend tho an nual examination at West Point, aro solicited in the following manner : Seven persons, the law provides, shall be appointed by the President, and two Senators and three members of tho House of Representatives, shall Redesig nated by the Vice President or President ■pro tempore, of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representa tives, respectively, of the session of Congress next preceding such examina tion. As to compensation, the law makes the following provision : No compensation shall be made to the members of the Board beyond the pay ment of their expenses ior board and lodging while at the Academy, and an allowance, not exceeding eight cents • mile, for traveling by the shortest mail route from their respective homes to the Academy and thence to their homes. A contemporary asks : “ How shall women carry their purses to frustrate the thieves ?” Why, carry them empty. Nothing frustrates a. thief more than to snatch a woman’s purse, after following her half a mile, and then find that it con tains nothing but recipe for spiced punches and a faded photograph of her grandmother Fritz lias named hr Vjg Non Sequit ur, because it does hq, JolloWi Uovoted to tho Interest of Jacknon and Hutto County^ MS HEN noI.TON. BT EVGKNK J. lIAIU. I remember big Ben Bolton, and the little I# online. lie could carry off a millstone, but she ruled him like a Qwon. He stood seven feet lu Idast* Makings ; she wax hardly three feet high; ; But ahe wound him rotuiMrr Anger, and alio ruled him wKh her eye. u The womon used to aniok|fe and tho hardy minora sudlod. To see the brawny giant with the gentle little child. And the gamblers, up from 'Frisco, when they saw them, used to swear That they looked a* fitly mated as a rabbit ands bear. He would drop bin pick and shovel when she came In working hours; They would go amojig tho gulches after gay and gaudy Aoworx; lie would climb the dizxy lodges, ho would soalo the mountain-side. Bearing her upon, his whouMqfes, which ho called her " little bride." lie could bond an iron orowbor, ho could lift a half a ton, He oould twist a wagon-tire, or the barrol of a gun. With his finger*; but It often used to make us laugh Whou wo saw .J-iOontlno lead him us a butcher loads a calf. When the hard day’s work was over, when the croscont sliver moon Arose above tho mountain pines, w met at “ Blood's saloon," When Ben Bolton used to glvo us exhibitions of hli skill In bending iron crow-bars or in twisting off a drill. One day Ezekiel Parsons sent to ’Frisco on the sly, And bought a bur of tempered ateel, for biawny }jen The l>oys who understood tho game came down to Blood’s one night, And stood serenely round tho bar and waiting for the sight. Ben Bolton grasped the bar of steel, he brought i to his knee. And like s locomotive puffed, the trick he could not sea; The sweat ran down bis honest face, upon his hands ho spit, He tugged and worked with all his might, it would not budge a bit. Ezekiol Parsons shook Ills sides, the boys all toughed aloud, Ben lost his reputation and had to treat tho crowd. It out him so completely, and It mado him fool ho mean, He quit the camp next morning with the little Leon tius. n. A storm pomes np the vnlloy, s cloud bursts on the htn-, The stream becomes s river, that sweeps away tbs mills. And downward through the hollow tbs maddened torront roars, O’er rocks, through glena and gulchos, and mining camps it pours. A cry comes from the hollow, and rushing down the ridge The minors see Ben Bolton like a giant at the bridge, The water settles about him, tho bridge rocks to and fro; He bolds It with a crow-bar—in a minute it must go. Beneath tho narrow ledge near by, with bright dla lioveled hair, They see the littlo Leontine—her hands are clasped in prayer. The structure quakes, tho strong mon shakes, no fear is in his face; "Ho! savo tho child,” ho shouts aloud, “ I’ll hold tho brldgo in place.” Ecke PareonH bonnds upon the bridge, the women wall with fear ; Ho lifts the child in bis strong arms, tho miners loudly cheer; lie leaps upon the t rembling logs, tho waters round him roar; He slips, ho falls, ho creeps, h crawls, ho springs upon the shoro. Tho child is saved, Ben Bolton, bat who will help you now? Tho crow-bor In your brawny hands breaks like a rotten bough, And down the glen goes bridge and man, with broken logs and stones That rend ami gash his stalwart form and crush and break his bones. Adown the bill tho minors run, with outcries of despair; They find him wedged between the rocks, and hang ing helpless there. They bear his mangled form away, without the glen they pass With words of pity and of love, and lay him on the grass. The crimson blood runs down his fare, ho shuddors and he sighs; His puJo lips move, he moans, ho groans, then to a comrade orie* : “I’ve saved the little Loontino, bo kind to her, door Joe, Pm bait and broke , Zekt Par ion* % for Pm ready noyo to go /” til" head droop, limp aud lifolo-a down, Ills eyi* grow dull and dim, His broad breast heaves, a shiver runs through every broken limb. Then, with a smilo upon his Up*, he sinks upon the sod, And the soul of bravo Bon Bolton is at peaco with man and Ood. “ Caved," “ It’s cavort 1 ” exclaimed Bill Beaver, bursting into the cabin where I was leis urely eating breakfast and reading the news from last year's papers that were pasted on the wall. “The ground has caved ! it came down mighty sudden ; and little Jimmy was at tho breast. I was further out in the drift, and had tho start of it; but it made such a closo call for me that I knew ho must o’ got ketched.” This technical jargon revealed to me the fact that our mine had caved, and had buried one of our companions, for “Little Jimmy ” was not an infant, but a man—a miner and a friend. Ho had been working at the “breast,”or fathr est end of tho “ drift,” but was now per haps sleeping his last sleep in the bot tom of the mother of us ail. Three years before we had come to this creek, we hail prospected the “sido gulches" and tho bars, anil found “ colors ” everywhere. Indications fa vorable, so we “ staked” a body of ground along the main creek; built cabins, organized a company, of which tho writer was elected President, and went to work to open our claim. Those three years had been years of toil and privation. We were in the heart of tho Bocky mountains. Our cam)) was pitched in a little basin of a valley, warm and sunshiny, and just at tho en trance of a deep and gloomy canon, which we named “The Devil’s Gate,” and through which our sparkling little stream foamed and tumbled down to the great river, tho Missouri Our ground was deep and very wet. Drainage was ' necessary, and we had driven a tunnel for this purpose through the earth and bowlders that filled the primeval bed of tho creek, until wo had attained a hori zontal distance of 1,000 yards; hut the slope of tho gulch was so gradual that, we had not reached tho “ bed rock” where we hoped to find tho gold laid in heaps. “Bed rock, ” being the objective point, mnst l>e reached; so we sank a shaft at tho head of our tunnel and be took ourselves to a pump. As it was a couple of thousand miles to the nearest foundry, and we oouhl not afford to await tbo completion of the North Pacific railroad, a pump under j the circumstances was a problem ; so I will tell you how we got one. We hail I blacksmith’s and carpenters’ tools, which most of us could use ; there was plenty of timber growing on the mountains, and a pair of dilapidated freight wagon* supplied our stock of iron. Great slalw or segments woro out from tho fir trees ami hewn and dressed on one side to a smooth plane. Tire other side was rounded to on arc or convex surface, so that, when four such segments were placed together lengthwise, scoured with pins at tire edges, which were first squared and then mode parallel, thoy formed a long, hollow trunk or barrel, four sipinres within, but outside cylin drical, ami tapering slightly from one end to tho other. Upon this wore driven hoops or hands of iron, whioh forced tho joints close like those of a cask, and thus wo had pumps or pipes of considerable length and solidity. It was easy to fit to them valves and pistons, and to work them with a wooden walking beam, moved by the crank of a water wired. This crank wns a master piece. It hod an arm or leverage of two feet, and was forged from the iron axle of one of onr wagons, audits dungeons or bearings were turned in a latlio of onr own contriving. This was a heavy job for our own rewourocs, but it was finished after an age (it seemed to us) of toil, puzzling and per spiration, and wo had produced machine ry that was capable of raising to a height of nearly thirty feet many bins of water per aay, and which answered all our requirements for drainago, so that we were able to reach that long souglit “ l>od rook ” at a depth of ninety feot Irelow the present bod of the creek. I will mention here that our pump v as twelve inches square inside, and had a otroko of four feet, raising the water twouty-nino feet into our drain tunnel, whence it flowed out to the surface 1,000 yards down tho canon. We had reached “ l>ed rock,” but bad not “struck it very rich,” and wore run ning a drift or tunnel on bed rook across and up tho gulch in scaroh of the “ pay streak” whioh we were hoping every day to find, when tho announcement, of a startliug accident was mail®. Hero was the ruin of our hopes and tho death of our friond ; for there was littlo room to hope for any other rosult. It must not bo supposed that much time W'as wasted in such reflections ; for. telling Bill to ronso the entire camp, 1 rushed off to the mine. Such of the men as hod hoard of the occurrence hurried from thoir work, bringing with them thoir picks and shovels as likely to be needed, and the minors from wet diggings came clad in coats, high boots audhelmot-ihaped caps of India-rubber, and looking like knights in armor. Knights thoy were, too, for that matter, for, though armed only with shovels tuid picks, they were as daring aud os gen erous as over belted Prince who rodo with lance at rest to right imaginary wrongs; and thoy wore ready now to risk every danger to save tho poor follow buried in the mine beneath. On reaching the scene I found our machinery apparently uninjured, but looking more closely I discovered that the pump was raising not a drop of water, and it would not bo long Ixifore the entiro mine would be flooded. The pump must bo relieved at ouoo or wo coulu not hojK) to save the mine, much less to rescue our friend. Calling Bob Piper, a tall, black-bearded minor, who had worked at his trade in every mining country from the English channel to tho Pacific oooan, and who in skill, courage aud experience, was tire mining oracle of onr camp—l pointed him to the pump, which was wearing itself out in vain, for it lifted no water. “ Bob," said I, “we must fix that pump I It is our only hope to savo Little Jimmy.” “ We’ll fix it,” replied Bob, quietly. “ Tho pump is starved—choked up at the bottom. We’ll tlx it: and as for the poor lad wo’ll git mi out.” Bob was a West of England man, nnd his dialect stuck to him. “ We’ll get nil out, Benny; I think ho bean’t dead. I’ve helped dig mon out in tho old country and this, too; an’ God will help us wo’ll got un out now; won’t us, Benny?” Benny; thus appealed to, answered with an emphatic “You bet,” and tho next moment lie and Bob, followed by two others, were clambering down tho steep and slippery flight of ladders that led into tho mine, until their candles, glimmering like stars, were ono by one swallowed up in tho black shaft. Axes had been sent down iu the bucket, and in a few moments were heard blows ringing on tho mass of wood and iron that composed tho barrel of tho pump. They were cutting holes to lot water into tho pump below. It had already risen above their waists, and the mouth of the lowest drift was nearly submerged. The machinery was creaking nnd groaning, and tho wheel dashing round, and it was idle show, and tho mine was filling up, and soon tho men would be driven out; but meantime wo could hear tho blows of tho axes. I’resontly tho clumsy walking beam quit groauiDg, stood still and began to tremble. The wheel had stopped for a momont, then began to move slowly, and went round with a surge. There was a great rush of water through the pump, and it was all right. Our old wooden pump was equal to tho occasion. Tho flood-gates were opened to the gTeat overshot wheel, and it was required to do its best. It rushed round steadily, and in an hour the mine was freed from water so tliat men could press into the drift. It was arranged that if Little Jimmy was found alive the fact should l>e tele graphed aloft by two strokes of the sig nal bell; but if dead, one tap should announce it. Men were working under ground as only such men would work. They had been told of! into gangs of four each, which spelled or relieved each other every fifteen minutes; and, as tlicv advanced into the avalanche of rock and earth that filled tho drift, every inch had to be propped with heavy timbers, for the vast mass aliove them had been shaken and had lost its cohesion, and at every moment might crash down like a mountain. Presently, to those who waited "Jxrve, there came a sharp peal of the bell— then another, no was alive ! What a shout went tip from the men assembled there. Out of tiie depths of that canon, alxive its cliffs and crags, and over the trees that waved on their summits, and above the mountains that towered lieyond—far above them all it rose like incense. It ascended into heaven, for it was a prayer—a prayer of thanksgiving and of praise. Not formed in speech, uot framed in language, but tire over flowing of the heart that con not bo ut tered in words. My story is done. Little Jimmy had been overwhelmed v kth an avalanche, his candles extinguished, and lie dashed down with his faoo to tho earth; hut tho vooks and timbers liad formed on arch over him. and, resting his elbows on the ground, ne was just ahle to snpiiort his head above it, In a little while hq would have drowned where ho lay. but he wns safe now. Strong hands hod dragged him out of this grave. They had har nessed themselves to the “horse whin,” and hod hoisted him into the glorious sunshine. Thoy bore him to his cabin, and plncod him in the tender onre of “Doc.” Here wo will leave him. The three drinking saloons in onr oamp proclaimed open doors and free whisky for the rest of that day, and, os tlie boys woro alxuit to tnko a drink, Bob Piper asked leave to offer a sentiment. “ Genelmon,” said he, “I told you we’d git un out, if so be as God would help us, Genelmon, He did help us.” “You l>et!” was the applauding and omphatic response. Spoopcndyke In the Role of a Sports man. “Say, my dear,” said Mr. Spoopen dyke, as he drew a gun from the ease and eyed it critically, “I want you to wake mo up early iu the morning. I’m going shooting.’ “Isn't that too sweot 1” ejaculated Mrs. Spoopeudyke. “I’ll wear my dress and my Saratoga waves. Where do we go?” “I'm going down to tho island, and you’ll go as far as tho front door,” grunted Mr. Spoopcndyke. “Women don’t go shooting. It’s Only men. All you’ve got to do is to wake me up anil got breakfast. When I como home wo II have some birds.” “ Won’t that bo nice !” chimed Mrs. Spoopcndyke. “Can yon catch birds with that tiling?” and Mrs. Spoopefidyke fluttered around tire improved breech loading shot gun, tlrrnly impressed with the idea that it was some kind of a trap. “I can kill ’em with this,” exclaimed Mr. Spoopcndyke. “This is a gun, my dear ; it isn’t a nest with three speckled eggs in it, nor is it a burn with a bole ip the roof. You stick tho cartridge in here nnd puli this finger-piece, and down comes your bird evefy time.” “Isn’t that, the greatest thing 1 I sup pose if you don't want a purtridgo you eon stick a duck or a turkey in that end, too, or a fish or a lobster, and bring it down just ns quick.” “ Yos, or you can stick a house or a cornfield, or a dod gnsteil female idiot in there, too, if you want to 1” snorted Mr. Spoopcndyke. “Who said anything abont a partridge ? It’s a cartridge that goes in there.” "Oh I” ejaculated Mrs. Spoopcndyke, rather orcstlallen. "Iseonow. Whore does tho bird go ?’’ “ It goos to night school, if Ire hasn’t got ony more sense than you have,” snorted Mr. Spoopeudyke. “Look bore, now, and I’ll show you how it works,” and Mr. Spoopcndyke, whose ideas of a gun were about as vague ns those of his wife, inserted the cartridge half way in the muzzle end, and cautiously cooked the weapon. “And when tho bird sees that ho comes and pocks it 1 Isn’t that tho fun niest !” amt Mrs. Hpoopendyko clapped her hands in the enjoyment of her dis covery. “Then you put out your hand and catch him !” “ You’vo struck it 1” howled Mr. Spoopendyke, who had the humrnor on tho half cock and was vuiuly pulling at tho trigger to get it down. " That’s tho i(l6ft 1 AH jwu nood iu f/>nr and a gas bill to boa martingale ! With your notions you only want anew stock and steam trip hammer to lie a needle gnu! Don’t you know tiro dial gasted thing has to go off before you got a bird! You shoot tho birds; you don’t wait for ’em to shoot you I” “At home we used always to chop thoir heads off with an ax,” faltered Mrs. Spoopendyke. “So would I if I was going after measly old hens,” retorted Mr. Spoopen dyke, who had managed to uncock tho contrivance, “ but when I go for yellow birds and sparrows I go like a sports man. While I’m waiting for a bird,” continued Mr. Hpooi>ondvke, adjusting the cartridge at tho breeoh, “I put tho load in bore for safety, and when I sec a flock I aim and firo.” Bang I wont tho gun, knocking the tall feathers out of an eight-day clock and plowing a foot furrow in the wall, perforating tho closet door and culminat ing in Mr. Bpoopendyke’s ping hut. " Goodness, gracious !” squeaked Mrs. .Spoopendyke, “ Ob, my !” Mr. Spoopendyke gathered himself up and contemplated the damage. “ Why couldn’t yo keep still !” he shrieked. " What’d ye want to disturb my aim for and make mo let it off? Think I can hold back a charge of pow der and a pound of shot while a measly woman is scaring it through a gun bar rel ?” “If it had been a bird how nicoly you would liavo shot it 1” suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke, soothingly. “If you should ever aim at a bird you’d catch him sure.” Neapolitan Babies. There are millions of babies in Naples babies enough, I judge, to supply nil the rest of the world if the crop should hapiten to grow thin anywhere. There are babies in arms, babies on balconies, babies threatening to tumble from in numerable front windows. Babies in wagons, babies under horses, babies making mud-pies in the “ stradcs,” but about lnili of them under 4 years of ago are as naked as when thoy were born. I don’t think there is a cradle in Nf-.plos, any more than there is a rock ing-chair in England; but here and there amother, comparatively well-to-do, carries her infant “bound in swnddling clothes,” like the people of Jerusalem and tiie American Indians, wiapped tightly round and round from head to foot, like a cocoon or a cigar, and some times its arms are also imprisoned. These minute specimens of thclazzaroni are generally good-natured, like their fathers and mothers, and where clothes can be afforded, thoy are always worn— more or less.— W. A. Croffut’s Corre spondence, lEUXN; $1.50 per iui*. NUMBER 24. USEFUL HINTS. Never lean the back upon anything that is cold. Never begin a journey until breakfast has been eaten. SriniTS of ammonia diluted with water, if applied with o sponge or flannel to discolored spots on tho carpet or gar ments, will often restore tho color. Skik-Mir.K aud water, with ft littlo bit of gluo in it, mode scnlding hot, will restore old rusty black crape. If slapped nnd pressed dry, like muslin, it will look up good us new, A taste piado of whiting and Irenzoin will clean marble, and ono made of whiting and chloride of soda, spread and left to dry (in tho sun if possible) on tbs inarblo will remove spots. CEi.KJir boiled in milk and eaten with the milk served as a beverage is said to boa euro for rheumatism, gout and a specific in oases of small-pox. Norvous people find comfort in celery. Never stand still in cold weather, especially after having taken a slight degree of exercise ; and always avoid standing upon the ioo or snow or where tho person is exposed to a cold wind. A flannel cloth dipped into warm soap suds and then into whiting and applied to point will instantly remove all grease and dirt. Wash with clean water and dry. Tho most delicate tint will not be injured, and will look like now. To remove grease from white goods, wash with soap or alkolino lyes. Col ored cottons, wash with Jukowarm soap yes. Colored woolens, the same, or ammonia, bilks, absorb with Frenoh chalk or fuller's earth, and dissolve away with benzine or ether. Fon salt-rising bread, stir np, quite thick in tho usual wav, using Cojil water, anil plnoo upon the sitting-room ooai stovo over night; it will beliglitenough to sponge the bread by morning, and is quite a help when the duys arc so short tor raising tho emptyings ; my family prefer this rising. When one has not a wurm-onough place to set their milk put hot water in to raise the temporaturo. To make a light wheat loaf, take tho thick buttermilk from the bottom of your buttermilk dish; stir just as you can, allowing ono heaping teosiKxmfnl of so da to a pint basin of buttermilk. Pot pie is nice made in tire same, .way, only put about one-third sour erector. Apuil diug mado in the samo way with dried cherries und steamed, iu the cake dish with a hole iu the center is nice. The advantage of tho hole in tho center is that the steam passes through the center of the pudding into the steamer. Eat this pudding with sugar and cream ; nice tart apples will answer very well tor fruit. POPULAR SCIENCE. Foil several years it has boon observed that tho European glaciers are steadily rotreating. The molecules of hydrogen, at a tem perature of 60° Fahrenheit, move at the average of 6,225 feet in a second. Flammaiuan says that the tail of a comet must sweep through space with tho velocity of 16,000 leaguos per second. Mb. Stone, hor Majesty’s astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope, has just com pleted his great outalnguo of Southern stars, the result of ton years’ labor at the capo. Tiie algno known as protococcaeoae havo one peculiarity—thoy do not live in tho water hut iu other plants, some in (lend, some in dying and others in living parts. Some, pnoplo have come to Douevo that salting or smoking will kill tricMna s, but n temperature of 212 u Fahrenheit, or at least 160° should he reaohod in every part of the meat to bring about this result. The colors which distinguish our sum mer and autumn flora-reds, pinks, blues and yellows—aro caused by the presence of substances which requiro a strong light and high temperaturo for their production. It was at one time supposed that among twining plants each had its own direction, some twining toward the sun and others against it; but, though tiie theory is true in the main, there are found exceptions to the rule. The amount of nervous action may bo measured by tho quantity of blood con sumed iu its performance. Tho pletliys mograph, measuring the volume of an organ, when the arm is brought in con tact with its records tho amount of blood drawn from the body to the brain, and thus indicates exactly the effort in men tal action.. Experiments have recently been made to show that tho presence of ozone pro duces luminosity in phosphorus. In pure oxygon, at a temperature of 15° C., and under atmospheric pressure, phos phorous is not luminous in the dark, and a bubble of ozone introduced under the bell glass produces momentary phos phorescence. The practical value of tho Faure ac cumulator for the storing of electricity is yet to ho proved. It is said that sev eral such batteries stationed in a house and charged with electricity during tho dny will be sufficient to light up the rooms at night and perform such light operations os turning a coffee-mill or sewing-machino. The Next New State. The question of annexing Northern Idaho to Washington Territory accom panies the other question of our admis sion to the Union as a State, and both will be agitated more or less vigorously from this on. Joined to our Territory, as at presont constituted, the new Terri tory or State would have an area exceed ing 80,000 squaro miles, or as great as that of New York and Ohio combined. The new State must be a grand one,— Seattle ( }V. TANARUS.) Post-Intelligencer. One old Irish dame asked another, touohing soma person recently deceased, the followin{Question : “Eh. dear Judy alannah, iv what did he die ? ” " Aveh, dear,” replied Judy, “he died it a Tuesday, I’m tould.’’