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w. *W, Publisher. VOLUME I. NEWS GLEANINGS. • Theft afe l,2ir<x>tfvieis ii* te Geor gia penitentiary. Key West, Fla., lies 12,000 inhabitants and only two chimneys. The first national bank in Mississippi will be started soon at Columbus. Tn Florida there are 17,638 white | eo ple orer ten years of age who* cannot write their own names. Mon*fi*jr&ai n has and will be sown in Soutliwestern Georgia the present •eason than at any former period. Tennessee stock traders are bringing their mules back from Atlanta rather than sacrifice them at the low price* prevailing. There are fifteen prisoners in the Vii* ginia penitentiary for life, one for fifty* four years, one for tbirty-e’ght, and two. for thirty-six. The Carthage (N. • C.) Gazette says that twenty pound* of solid pure gold have been tMce'n from the Cugle mines in the past two weeks. Citizens of Alabama pay taxes on >305,0"0 worth of farming tools and me* ciianical implements, and on guns, pis tols and dirks, valued at #354,000. The Silver Valley mine in Davidson county, N. C., employs about 80 hands, and produces about five tons of concen trated ore daily, which is valued at SSOO per ton. The Southern fourth of Alabama is covered with forests of long leaved pine, mixed in the northern part with much hard wood. A comparative narrow belt of pine runs nearly across the State be tween latitude 32 deg. and 33 deg. Chattanooga Times: The Roane Iron Company is now securing an order of steel blooms from England. They are arriving in car-load lots every day. This order will amount to about $53,000, the duty on which will be $22,000. During the year just 'passed 322,934 tons of coal were mined in the State of Alabama. A few years ago the output could have been expressed in ciphers. This industry has progressed more rap idly ffcan ally tfthfir within the borders of the State. A Rome, Ga k iium is preparing, unique directory. It will c( niain tlie name, style, whether brunette or blonde, address and approximate age of every young lady in Georgia who has inirr own name, or as heir expectant, prop erty to the amount of $5,000 or upward. Elijah f haddock, aged 102 yrars and three months, and his wife, aged 102 years and seven months, of Walker county, Ga., passed through Chattanooga Monday en route to Arkansas, where they will reside in the future with their son They are hale and hearty, and bid fair to live several years longer. They go West, it is supposed, to grow up with the country. On Friday last, about ten miles from Albany, Ga., a tattered, emaciated, half starved woman was discovered wander ing in the woods. She was taken charge of by kind persons, and it was soon found that she was a poor’French woman, who had been abandoned bv her husband on the way from Pensacola to Eulaula. The woman could not speak a word of English, and ever since Christmas had been wandering in the woods, living on mushrooms snd toadstools. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution: Mr. Al exander H. Stephens keeps microscop ically informed of the details at Liberty Hall. He knows from day to day how many chiekens. ducks, pigs, etc., he has in his yard, and takes as lively an inter est in these home matters as he does in national or state affairs. He recently lost a mule that had attained the great age of thirty-seven years, and he is now much concerned about another, named “O'd Beck.” that had become mori' und. Traveling in Florida is expensive. 'I he hotels range in price from $3.50 to $4 per day. but are HYst-class in every respect. Board may be had in private, houses from $2 to $3 a day. Steamboat fares are about s<> for a day and night's travel, including fare and berths. The boats are very much crowded now. and cots are used nightly in the cabin? for the comfort of pgssangers. It is n>t a good idea to buy retnen ‘tickets on the steamers, as the discount is small and the return tickets are good only on cer tain boats. When several years old and three or foup feat high thf palmetto tree has the precii of a huge growing pineapplg, with' its luft of g|een, hlaile like leaves at fire top. Until the tree aftais& tile freiglitlof several feet it* body is embraced with successive layers ol regularly interlaced growth of shuck, which in color and appearance closely resembles the pineapple, P fter a eer tain age they lose this, the trunk assum ing a firm, smooth surface, which first makes its appearance next the ground, gradually eaten tine to the top as the Ax English baker was known to weigh thirty-four stone, and would frequently eat a small shoulder of mutton weighing Bve pounds, _ _ AoooßDcra to the Kevada City (Col.) J'ranefrript only fire men in that city of T.OOO inhabitants wear silk hats. THE JACKSON NEWS. TOPICS OF THK DAT. Tn price of stoves promises to go * Thb new Garfield postage stamp will be issued in a few days. Niagara Falls is trying to get the contemplated World’s Fair. ♦ Louisville is shortly to make an ef fort to found an art gallery. General Hancock has purchased a large tract of land iu Minnesota. It seems Mr. Gladstone is still some what down on the Land League. W heat in Southern Illinois is reported in an unusually flattering condition. The organization of a Produce Ex change is being urged in Cincinnati. Dir Sullivan ever tackle the fighting editor of a first-class newspaper ? Well! Queen Victoria, by the advice of her physician, goes incognita to Mentone in March. The wilderness in which the crew of De Long’s boat are held, is eighty miles in extent. Lord Granville has taken grounds in favor of preserving the Clayton-Bul wer treaty. _ m As exchange says that Osoar Wilde is like Balaam’s ass because he was made “too utter.” The Insurgents in Yemen, Arabia, have proclaimed a descendant of the Prophet of Caliph. It seems that the widow of General Custer has no pension. She paints plaques for a living. Judges Gox and Burnet, of Cincin nati, after fifteen years’ servioe, have ve toed from the District Court. The Wisconsin Legislature has adopted resolutions calling on Congress to •radicate Mormonism by legislation. It is safe to refuse silver dollars bear ing the date of 1843. A dangerous counterfeit of that date is in circulation. The weeding out of incompetent clerks in tlie Treaaury Department lias caused another rush of oflice-Boekera to Washington. A cotmoT in tire Mississippi Peniten tiary was killed by one of the guards, and the Court has awarded his wife sl,- 400 damages. A vaccine farm, capable of turning out 3,000 points daily, has been es tablished near Chicago, and is doing a thrifty business. The fact seems to be just published that Cincinnati came out something like eleven thousand dollars behind with her Exposition of 1881. A number of State Legislatures have passed resolutions calling up Congress to do something toward the obliteration at polygamy in Utah. It ia estimated that more than sl,- 000,000 is spent annually in New York for cut flowers. As to how much is spent on the poor no estimate lias yet been given. A woman who died in Paris recently, at the advanced age of one hundred and two years, had lived a widow eighty years. She had no man to pester tlie life out of her. Recently a pack of wolves entered a church at Uvarre, Spain, and refused to quit it until they had killed three and seriously wounded five of the congregation. When a man is sentenced to hang at Bt. Louis, the man gets in a hurry about it and hangs himself with his bed blanket. This saves the Sheriff a great deal ol trouble. The retirement of Gambetta from offi cial life and assumption of the duties of an editor is looked upon by the Albany Journal ns promotion—increasing the size of his audience. Between the Ist of March and the Ist of July next the commission of over 850 postmasters will expire—many in large cities. They are appointed for periods of four and eight years. Marvin, the mail with fifteen wives, made An ineffectual attempt -jto escape f#ow the Virginia penitentiary a few days ago. He perhaps had heard of an other womau who who wanted to get married. The Dorsey combination—T. W. Dor sey L. W. Vail, John M. Miner, J. B. Sanderson R. C. Rendell and Tiros. J. Brady-ohurge with a conspiracy to de fraud the Government, have been in dicted by the Grand Jury. A letter from an Alaska missionary gives particulars of the torture of whole families for witchcraft and other particu lars. which indicate that the snper titious inhabitants of our Northwestern sessions stand in considerable need „l school teachers and a humane aooiety. Oscar Wilde has come out with a statement. It is this: “ Tho newspapers uf America are perfectly outrageous.” Correct. He further says: ' “ The meu and women of America or* splendid.” Correct again. The men and women are not to blame for the newspapers. Its the nasty little type. At one time Mr. Bradlaugh refused to take the oath of office in the English House of Commons because, he said, the oath would be meaningless to him. Now that he has signified a willingness to take the oath, iu order to retuiu his seat, the House has refused by a strong majority to permit him to do so. The assessed value of real and per sonal property in New York City is 82,- 00,000,000. This does not include 855,- 000,000 worth of church property, 850,- 000,000 worthof school and library prop erty, and 815,000,000 worth of real estate owned by the United States, nor does it include the reputed wealth of many millionaires. Further, it is only 60 per cent, of the actual value of tho property assessed. New York is no one-horse place. A San Francisco correspondent writes to the Baltimore Sun: “Coal oil is now so plenty from the wells of Los Angeles (hat the market is overstocked, and we want na more from Pennsylvania. The market price in Los Angeles has fallen from fifty cents to eighteen cents a gal lon. It is advertised in five-gallon cans at that price. The oil belts of California, from present indications alone, may be counted the richest in the world.” It seems now to be a question whether the Senate has the right to originate a funding bill. The Committee on Ways and Means have referred the proposition to a sub-committee. Should the matter be decided in the negative, it is said the Committee on Ways and Means will pro ceed to frame anew funding bill, and ig nore entirely the Sherman bill, which has already passed the Senate. Since the statement has been pub lished that Dr. Mary Walker received the appointment of clerk to the special Congressional Committee on Woman Suffrage, Senator Laphatn, of New York, the Chairman of the committee, is having the life pestered out of him by woman suffragists. He avers that ho has no reat, and to add to it his mails are burdened with all manner of effusion* from the tender sex. Ip alu that is said against the China men is true, they are indeed a filthy race. A paragraph on the rounds con tains the following information : “An habitue of an opium den iu Virginia City, Nevada, discovered that the pil low he was using was the dead body of a man covered by a quilt. The Coroner found it to be a Chinese body that had been dead for two or three days. The keeper of the place sanl he came in off the railroad, sick.” Two men now prominent candidates for the possession of several tons oi Government money are Captain Eads and Mr. Corbin. Captain Eads thinks that an appropriation of $50,000,000 would be about right with which to build the ship railroad across the Isth mus of Panama, the money to be placed at the disposition of Eads himself, and Mr. Corbin has got it into bis head that by a similar appropriation, placed at his disposal, he would be enabled to run ships across the ocean in six days. There seems to he a power in money ia large quantities about which we know little or nothing. The following from Rofcert Bonner, of (lie New York /Mger, will start anew boom iu story writing : “ A loan who looked like a perfect idiot came into my office one summer afternoon about fen years ago, end told me he had a story which he wished to sell to me fer publi cation in my paper. At first I thought it would not be worth while to spend my time to even look at the story, for it seemed to me that such an idiotio look ing fellow could not wri e anything that would be fit to print. He pleaded so hard, however, to have me just look at his story that I finally consented to take the manuscript and submit it to one of my editors. The editor read it, and it proved to bo one of the best stories ever brought into my office.” To Whiten the Hands. —Rub with viuegar or lemon juice. Glycerine aud rose water, equal parts, is also good, but pure glycerine hurts the skin and red dens it. Borax and oatmeal put in the water'Will alko whiten, the hands. In order to preserve the hand* soft and white! they should always be washed in warm water, with fine soap, and care fully dried with a moderately coarse towel, beiug well rubbed every time to insure a brisk circulation, than which nothing can be more effectual in pro moting a transparent aud soft sur face. Balloon photography, according to a paper read by Mr, W. B. Woodbury be fore the Balloon Society of Great Britain, has not yet proved of much practical value, though the hope is confidently entertained that before long it will be possible to obtain from balloons photo graphic bird’s-eye viewa of the oountry beneath. Every Increase in the rapidity with which a photograph can be taken increase the probability of success in this direction. Devoted to tJie Inter**! oi Jackson and liuttc County. JACKSON, GEORGIA,* WEDNESDAY. MARCH 1, 1882. THB HINDOO’S SKA null FOR TRUTH. All ttia world oyat I wander, la lands that I uever have trod, ▲re the people eternally seeking for the eigne end ■tens of ft God. Westward across the ocean, end northward ay out the mow, Do they ell stand gazing as aver, and what do the wisest know? Here In thia mystical India the deities hover and swarm Like the wild bees heard In the tree tops, or the gusta of a gathering storm; In the air men hear their voices, their feet on the rooks are Been, Yei we all say, “ Whence la the message, and what may the wonders mean T ” ▲ million shrines stand open, and ever the censer swinge ▲a they bow to mythioel eyiabole or the figures of undent beings; And tho Incense rises over, and rises the endless cry Of those who are heavy laden and of cowarda loth to dla. For tho destiny drives ns together, like deer in a pass of hills; Above ns is the sky, and around us the sound of shot that kills; Pushed by a power ws see not, and struok by a hand unknown, We pray to the trees for shelter, and press our lips to a stone. Here are the tombs of my kinfolk, the first of an an cient name, Chiefs who were slain on the war field, and women who died in flame. They are gods, these Kings of the foretime, they are spirits who guide our race Ever 1 watch and worship ; they sit with a marble face. And the my rid Idols around ms, and the legion of muttering priests, The revels and riots unholy, the dark unspeakable feasts— What have they wrung from tke silence? Hath even a whisper eome Of the ►euret—whence or whither? Alas! the gods are dumb. % fehall I list the words of the English, who eome from the uppermost sea! • “ The secret, hath it been told you, and what is your message to me ? ” It is naught but tho world-wids story, how the earth and the heavens began. How the gods are glad ana hungry, sod the Deity once was a man. 1 had thought, “Perohsuee in the cities, where the rulers of India dwell, Whose orders flash from the far land, who girdle the earth with a spell, They have fathomed the-depth we float on, or meas ured the unknown main.” Badly they turn from the venture, and say that they quest in vain. Is life then a dream and delusion, and where shall the dreamer awake? Is the world seen like shadow* on water, and what if the mirror break ? Bhall it pass as a camp that ii struck, as a tout that is gathered aud gone From the sands that worn lampiit at eve, and at morning are level and bneT Is there naught in the heavens above, whence the hall said levin are hurled. But the wind that is swept round us by Hie rush of the rolling world? The wind that shall scatter mr ashes and bear nae to silence and sleep, Witb the dirge, and tho souada of lamenting, and voices of women who wb©p? The Invisible Girl. Having decided to finish the year in Italy, I looked around ine for a dwelling to be had on reasonable terms. I found what I wanted in tlie ancient city of Lucca, one of the loveliest spots on the peninsula. The house wa quite new, and in every way desirable, while the rent asked for it was ilmurdly low. I questioned the agent in regard to this circumstance. Having my money safe, he could afford to be truthful. “ There is nothing against the house Itself, but the grounds have the repu tation of being haunted. Strange sounds are said to be heard near that ledge of rock in the park yonder, We Italians are superstitious, signor,” he added, with a bow, “but I presume to an Americana ghost is no objection.” “So little,” I replied, lsughing, “ that I am obliged to you for tie opportunity of making the acquaintance of this one." Such superstitions art common in Italy, and the agent’s story made very little impression upon ne. During a tour of inspection around the premises I came upon the rock in question. It consisted A two walls of granite, perhaps twenty feet in height, meatiug at an oblique angle, covered over their greater extent with wild vines. It struck me as an exceedingly beauti ful nook, and appropriate for my liourr of out-door lounging. On the following merniug, provided with a book and a cigar, I went thither, and disposed myself comfortably in the shade of an olive. I had become ab sorb'd in the volume,when I was startled by the sound of u voice near mu. It was evidently that of a woman, wonderfully soft and sweet, and was singing one of the ballads of tbo country. I could dis tinguish the words as perfectly as if spoken at arm’s length from me. I started up in amazement. I had no visitors, and my only servant was an old mau. Nevertheless, I made a thorough exploration of the neighborhood, and satisfied myself that there was no one in the grounds. The orily public road was half a mile distant The nearest dwell ing was directly opposite, across a level plain—in sight, but far out of ear shot. In a word I could make nothing out of it. I observed that when I left my orig inal position under the olive tho voice became instantly silent. It was only within the circumierence of a circle of about two yards in diameter that it was audible at all. It appeared to proceed from tlie angle between the two walls of rook. The minutest examination failed to reveal anything but the bare rock. Yet it was out of this bore rock that the voice issued. I returned to my former station in downright bewilderment. The agent’s story occurred to me, but even now I attached no weight to it. lam a prac tical man, and was firmly convinced that there must be some rational explanation of the mystery, if I could but discover it. The voice was certainly that of a young girl. But where wa* she? Was the old fable of the wood-nymph a truth after all? Had I discovered a dryad em bosomed in the rock? I smiled scorn fully even as these fancies ran through my head. For more than half an hour the sing ing continued. Then it ceased, and, though I waited patiently for its re newal, I heard no more of it that day. When I returned to the house I made no mention of the matter, resolving to keep it to myself until I had solved the mystery. . . , T The next morning *t an early hour I returned to the spot. After a tedious interval the singing began again. It went softly aud dreamily through oue verse of ft song, then csssed, PreaeutW I heard a deep sigh aud then iu a slow, thoughtful tone the voice said : “Oh, how lonesome it is I Am Ito pass mv whole life in this most droarv place?’ 1 There wai no answer. Evidently tho person was merely soliloquizing. Could she hear mo if I spoke, as I heard her ? supposing her to be a living boiug at all. I determined to hazard the experi ment. “ Who is it that is speaking ? ” I asked. For some moments there was uo re ply, then in a low, frightened whisi>er toe voice said: “ What was it ? I heard a voice. ” "Yes,” I answered, “yon heard mine. I spoke to yon." “Who are you?” asked the voice, tremulously. “Are you a spirit ? ” “I am a living man,” _I returned, “Can yen not ee me? ” "No,” answered the voice, “I can only hear yon. Oh, where are yon? Pray do not frighten me. Come out of your place of concealment and let mo see you.” “Indeed, I don’t wish to alarm you,” I replied. “I am not hidden. I am standing directly in front of the spot whenoe your voice seems to come. ” “ Yon are invisible,” was toe trem bling answer. “ Your voioe comes to me out of the aii-. Holy Virgin ! you must boa spirit. What have I done to de serve this ?” “ Have uo fear of me, I entreat you,” I said earnestly. “It is as much of a mystery to me as it is to you. I hear you speak but you are likewise invisible. ” “ Are yon a real living being?” asked the voice doubtfully. “ Then why do I not see you ? Come to me. I will nit 'here. I will not tty.” “ Tell me where I am to como," I said. ** Here in my garden, iu the arbor.** “ There is no arbor here,” I returned, “only a solid rook out of which you seem to be Bpoaking. ” “Saiuts protect mo,” außwcred the voioe. “It is too awful. I dare not stay here longor. Spirit or man, fare well.” “ But you will come again,” I plead ed. “Let mo hear you speak once more. Will you not be here at the same hour?” “I dare not—but yet your voioe sounds ns if you would do mo no harm. Yes, I will come.” Then thero was utter silence, the mys terious speaker had gone. I returned home in a state of stupid wonder, ques tioning myself if I hud lost ny senses, and if the whole occurrence was not a delusion. I was faithful to my appoint ment with the voice oil the following morning, however. I had waited but a few moments, when the soft, trembling accents broke the silence, saying : “ I am here.” “And I, too,” I answered; “i am grateful to yon for coming.” “ I have not shmt the whole night," said tlie voice, “ I was so terrified. Am 1 doing wrong to come ?” V Are you still afraid of tne ?” “ Not exactly, but it is so straugo.” “ Will yon toll mo your uane?” “I don’t know—Lenore. Wlmt is yours ?” “George,” I answered, imitating her example, and giving iny first name only. “ Shall we be friends, Lenore ?" “Oh, yes,” answered the voice with a silvery peal of laughter. Evidently its owner was getting over her fears. “Don’t bo offended, George. It is so strange—two people who cannot see eanh other and perhaps never will, making friends.” “I will solve the mystery yet, Le nore,” I answered, “ and find out what you are. Would you be glad to see mo in my proper person ?” “ Yes,” was the reply, “ I should like to see you.” “ And I would give a great deal to see you, Lenore. You must be very lieau tiful if your face is like your voice.” “Oh, hush 1” was the agitated answer. “ It is not right to speak thus.” “ Why not ? Do you know, Lenore, that if this goes ou I shall bo falling in love with you, though I never see you.” “You are very audacious,” was the reply. “If you were really here, before me, I should punish you for it. As it is I am going now." “But you will come again to-morrow, Lenore ? ’ “If you will promise to be more dis creet, George, yes,” Aa may be imagined, I did not fail to keep my engagement with roy invisible friend. For many couseeut.ivedays those strange meetings continued. As absurd as it may seem, the voice was beginning to make a powerful impression upon me. I felt in its soft tones the manifestation of a sweet, refined woman’s soul. True, I had made no progress toward unraveling tho mystery. Nevertheless, I was confident that through some inex plicable dispensation of Providence l had been permitted to hold communion with a real, living, lovely woman, from an unknown distance. She had not yet told me more than her first name, and I did not press her for more as yet. Her only answer to my question as to where she was was “In tlie garden. ” She did not seem capable of grasping the fact that I was not invisibly near hear. Bho seemed content with matters as they stood, ami for the present I could do no more. I made no one mv confidant as to my daily occupation; itret, because I knew that I should be regarded as a mailman upon my mere statement of the facte, and next, because I shrank from having an anditor at my mysterious conferences. Will it be believed? I was in love with the invisible girl—in love with a voice I Absurd, of course, but I am not the first man who has fallen in love with a wom an’s voice. Besides, I was confident that it was only a matter of time before I should see the girl in person. Oue day toward the end of summer, we had lieen talking as usual, and I had •aid: “My stay in Italy is nearly over, Lenore.” “ Ah,” was the quick reply, “you will leave me, George.” “No, Lenore,” I answered, “not if you wish me to stay.” “ How can I help it, George, whether you go or stay? I have never seen you —I never shall see you. What am Ito you? ’’ “All in the world, Lenore,” I aa- •wered. “Ours has been a strange ex perience. Without knowing each other os people ordinarily do, wo have yet been close friends. You are more to me than uny friend, for I love yon, Le nore. ” There was a quick, suppressed cry, no other reply. “Be truthful, Lenore. Tell me-your heart. If you love me, trust to mo to discover your whereabouts and como to you. If you do not, say it, and I will spare you the pain of meetiug me, and let us uever speak again. ” There was a pause, then she tremu lously said: “ I have uever seeu you, but my heart tells mo to trust you, I know you are good and noble, and I am willing to leave my fnte iu your hands. Yes, George, I love you." Even as sho said the words she ut tered a cry of alarm. Then a gruff man’s voioe spoke: “Go to your room, Lenore. As to this villain with whom yon have been holding these secret meetings, wo shall soon find him and punish him os ho deserves. Search for the rascul, Anto nio, and bring him to mo." There was a quick trampling of feot aud the sound of crushing shrubbery, aa if the men wore breaking through it, Thou another mail’s voice spoke : “Ho has disappeared, your F.xeel lence. ” “ Very well, wo shall find him yet. He cannot escape me. This is a fine piece of business, surely—the daughter of Count Villnni holding socret meetings with some common vagalsind. Lenore shall take the veil." “ Yes,” I cried, " tlie brutal veil, Count. I shall pay my resjHMds in per son to-day.” Then, leaving them to get over tlissr astonishment as best they might, 1 re turned to the house in Ingh spirits. The name, Count Viliam, had given me the clew to the whereabouts of Leuore. The dwelling of which I have spoken as sit uated across the plain and opposite the rook was the residence of Count Villani I had mot the old gentleman in the city and formed a tqieskiiig acquaintance with him. As neither of us had men tioned our private affairs, I had no means of connecting his daughter with my invisible girl. That afternoon I presented myself to the Count, and, after amazing him.with my story, which a few tests convinced him was true, formully proposed for his daughter’s hand. As my weulth and social position wore woll known, lie offered no objections and his daughter was sent for. Aa slio entered the room, I saw that my idea of her had been less than true. I had never seen so lovely a woman, nor one who so perfectly embodied my high est conception of grace and beauty. Her dark eyes, still wet with tears, met mine inquiringly. “Lenore,” said I, “I have corue as I promised.” “George,” she cried, with a radiant smile, “is it you?” “Are you disappointed ? ” I aMked, “am I what you expected V ” “You could not be more,” she an swered naively, “you are no less.” “Now that we meet as solid arid ma terial beings,” I continued, “are you willing to ratify the contract we made when we wore only voices, Lenore ? Your father gives us permission. ” It may bo supposed that I received a satisfactory answer, when the good natured Count found it discreet to turn away his eyes during my reception of it. As to tho strange circumstance which was the meauH of uniting us, a series of tests revealed a remarkable acoustic property in the rock, by which persons standing in certain positions with refer ence to it were able to hear cacti other with ease, more than a quarter of a mile apart. It is a very matter-of-fact solu tion of the mystery, but Lenore and I are none the less grateful for the good offices of the rock. A Beggar Woman With a History, An old beggar woman, long known at Courbovole and the environs of Paris on that side, died recently in a stale of com plete penury. On her arms were found several tattoo marks, and among them were the names of Marie Birou aud of Petit, lovingly interwined together. These names soon suggested the recol lection of u strange episode long passed almost into oblivion, aud threw an un expected light upon the rsal name and character of the old woman. It is re corded in the auuals of the French Newgate that in 1847 a man named Birou died uudor suspicious circum stances, and the wife, together with a man named Petit, were tried for having iroisoned him, and convicted of murder. The mule convict was executed in due course, but the woman was sentenced to imprisonment for life, and was in the jail of ttt. Lazars when, iu tlie month of February, 1848, the revolution broke out. On the 24th of that month the mob broke into the prison aud let out the prisoners, aud among them the woman Birou. From then ahe has led a checkered life, being at one time em ployed as a servant in a house of busi ness at Montmatre. Here, however, tlie atmosphere of crimecontiDuod atill to sur round her, .for the man by whom she was employed had a brother who was also condemned to capital punishment, aud suffered death by the guillotine at Versailles. This incident caused the brother to break up his establishment and turn Marie Birou out upon the world again. Hire managed, however, still to elude the pursuit of the detec tives, and obtained an appointment at Gotirdevole, where, after she was too old to work, ahe continued to exist prin cipally iqron the charity of her neighbors, until denth at last revealed the secret of her identity by discovering the tattoo marks on her arms. - Parisian. Asa general thing I am opposed to banging, but whenever it shall be round to be necessary for the preservation of society, there is no more reasou why you should not do it than that you should not pluck up a weed. Society will be the better for it, and the eulorit uo wot* off by being aent on. Send him ou,— Bucher. ! SKIS: tI.M per iuu. NUMBER 25. HUMORS OF THE DAT. i A counter attraction—a pretty girl clerk. ~ Always ready to take a hand in con versation—deaf and dumb people. “ There is no rest for the wigged ” is what a bald-headed man said when he chased his false hair up the street in a gale. You can always tell the fastidious man by his sending twenty-seven cuffs and collars to the laundry, accompanied by a single shirt.— Yonkers Gazette. The truth always pays in the end” is an old saying, and that is the reason probably why there is so little of it told at the beginning of any business trans action. A young lady bearing the aristocratio cognomen of Jardine recently deserted her lover, because in an impassioned sonnet, lie made her name rhyme with “sardine.” “ Well," said a oow-boy, as he looked at Sookey, when she had come through a woody stubble-field. “Well, old gal, you ain’t got wings, exactly, but you are a burred of passage, all the same.” Poverty is the mother of rest. An editor is proverty. Therefore an editor is the mother of rest, but he never gets very well acquainted with his offspring on this terrestrial sphere.— Lampton. The gentleman who oaught a severe oold from pressing his lips to a maiden’s suowy brow, recovered quite rapidly while basking in the sunny smiles of an other fair damsel.— Toledo American. John bad a " pop’ of thunder-tone, He loot young Billy Smith it, The “pop” went off, but not alone, Sinllh’l Anver w*nt nff with if A New York lady who was traveling in Ohio gave a baby her gold watch to play with, and the baby gulped it down and cried for more. What they can’t swallow in that State must be over a foot in width. — Detroit Free Frees. Youno man, look not upon the oliuroh sociable oyster stew when it is red— with pepper; because at the last it sting eth like an adder and bitoth a hole in your pocket-book to a considerable amount. Williamsport Breakfast Table. Sa id the sailor to his sweetheart: “I know that ladies care little about nauti cal matters, but if you had your clioico of u ship, what kind of a one would you prefer?” Bhe oast dowu her eyes, blushed and whispered: “ A little smack.” The latest marvel of soience is instan taneous photography. By the aid of this process it is p<<ssible to obtain a picture of yourself and girl in the act of being thrown over a stone wall by a runaway horse. Tills picture can lie placed on the mantlepiuue in a maroon velvet frame os a warning to young men to never let go the reins witli both hands.— New Haven Register. Shu wanted to test his affection, so, picking up the rovolver and putting her eye to tlie muzzle, she said, innocently, ** I wonder if it’s loaded. ” “ Oh, don’t, ” he exclaimed, with manifest agitation. It satisfied her that he loved her and she asked, indifferently! “Why not?” "Because," he answered, “I’ve got house rent to pay next month and a funeral would embarrass me. ” — Brooklyn Ragle. Anew boarder at the Occidental gazed at his plate, the other morning, and then said: “Is there a reliable physician stopping in this house?” “Yes, sir,” said the water. ' Good surgeons, too, eh?” “Believe so, sir.” “Then just see if he is in bis room before I start in on this breakfast. I had a brother choked to death on a steak like that once, and I am hound to take all the necessary pre cautions. ” —San Francisco Dost. Mercenary Wars. Capital, already red with crime, ha* added another sin to her bloody list. It is perceived, since tho battles have been fought and made their slaughter, that the French war in Tunis was caused by the French money sharks, who desired to extend their * financial operations. The “ Credit Foneier ” of Franoe, which may answer to our “Credit Mobilier,” is responsible for the Tunis war. Govern ments ought to be above these soulless corporations and able to resist their selfish aggressious. Tne industrious Italian went into North Africa, and be gan to construct railroads. The French capitalists became possessed with the idea that they would speculate in these shadow representations of wealth. They invested. They became entangled in the net, and hence the war. French capital appealed to French arms for protection. France answered the appeal affirmatively and went to war. A more mercenary campaign was never waged, under the banners of a civilized nation. Heaven knows that wars, under whatever auspices, are cruel, barbarous and brutal to the lust degree. They repress tlie mau and develop the brute. They smother the good in humanity, and j throw to the surface the evils of the \ race. Ferooity takes the place of force, ! and savagely usurps the place of bravery. As General Sherman laid, “Iu whatever light we look at It, war is hell.” One of the great work* of civilization yet to be accomplished, is to disarm the world. To go to work to gratify ambition is a terrible sin ; to take up arms to use in anger is weak, aa well as wicked ; but to go to war for plunder, for mercenary ends, is to ba unspeakably depraved. The men who sent the army against Tunis were the money sharks of Paris. Government ha* the right to follow her citizena and demand that they be pro tected, but have they not a right first to ascertain the character of the capital trader which they intend to go to war ? Nations should not be plunged into war to gratify the nocketa of men who project Panama canals, Tehuantepec ship rail way enterprise*, nor for those who speoulate in railway atooka in the north of Africa. The atateamanship of the world will be larger and wiser when it refuses to be influenced unduly by these corporations, whose rights should be settled without involving the country in war. The money and blood of the peo ple should not be put up for the benefit of the people who organize in corpora tion*. What patriot cares to lay down his life for a soulless corporation? The mercenary wars, and the others too, ; should come to an end ,—lndtanapolte Herald,