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w. E. JUKI’, Publisher, VOLUME I. NEWS GLEANINGS, Eicbty-fiye thousand tons of fertili zer 9 were sold in North Carolina for the year 1881. Silk culture in Lruidana has of late become a thriving industry, end to-day promises an abundant production. More money is coming into the Texas State Treasury from the sale of school lands than from taxes and all other sources. In 1865 Florence, S. C., contained only ten houses. It now has a population of over 2.0(0, and last year over ICO houses were built. A Florida paper says that vast quanti ties of blind mosquitoes are caught in the swamps of that State for fertilizing purposes, Nearly every day from 100 to 150 per sons pass through Chattanooga, going West. Tliero are from Western North Carolina and Southeast Tennessee. Owing to the crowded condition of the Alabama State Asylum, Bulloch county is at the expense of caring for its insane’paupers at the County Poor-house. The poor-house of Choctaw county, Ala., has but one inmate, the first for several years past. It is an old negro woman whose age is stated at “ 122 or thereabouts.” Atlanta Constitution: The silver vein of Magruder mine grows richer with the continual digging. The ore has assayed as much as SB6 of silver to the ton, and the lead in the ore is also in sufficient quantity to be valuable. Some hunters near Douglasville, Ga., last week, while fox-chasing, ran a strange animal to its den, which proved to he a wild dog. They found a mother and four puppies, all of which got away but one of the latter. Within three months ground has been surveyed or broken for three more blast furnaces, and steel and iron rolling-mill a nail factory, and a dozen or more small er establishments have been started, and will soon be in full operation in Bir mingham. The area of land which will be re claimed in Florida by the draining of Lake Okeechobee, work on the canals for doing which has already been begun, is larger than the States of New Jersey, Connecticut, Delewarc and Rhode Is land. Mr. W. 1). Graydon, a farmer of But ler county, Ala., made last season from one acre of ground 830 gallons of molas ses, besides putting some of the cane on the market, saving 3,008 stalks for seed and reserving about one thousand stalks for consumption by his family. Charleston'News and Courier: A Mrs: Coker, -with her three children, in an ox cart, was going home from Perry. Ga. The road they traveled passed through very rank wire grass, which had been set on fire. In trying to get out of the way the cart and oxen became fastened among pine logs and the fire overtook them. The cart wa3 consumed with the two children inside, aml-the’oxen we,re burned to death. The woman attempted te escape with her infant, but her cloth ing caught fire and she and the other child were so badly burned that they have since died. Good Eating and flood Writing. In old monastic days good eating was under a ban. It was imagined that the brain could best be kept clear and’vigor ons on a low diet. Romantic young ladies in our time love to think of their favorite authors as fed on a divine ambrosia. It brings them down to a common level to associ ate them with roast beef and mutton. Poor Charlotte Bronte was once disen chanted of her hero-worship. Thackeray was her favorite author, and in he; lonely home on the moors, her imagination in vested him with all ideal graces. On a visit to London she was lifted to the summit of happiness by an invitation to a dinner where Thackeray was to be one of the guests. She was introduced to the great mau, and sat next to him. It was a red-letter day in her life, and ' memory was on the alert to retain all his bright sayings, and report them to her sisters. Thackeray, however, did little talking, but much eating. He had recently re covered from a severe attack of typhoid fever, which left him. with a ravenous ap petite, while the dinner was exception ally good. Charlotte looked on in won der at his feats, and the surprise gradu ally changed to disgust. One more idol had turned to clay. If she had known the modern law of the conservation of forces, her charity might not have failed her. Delays Are Dangerous. Mrs. Daguerreotype B. Watermelon called oh Mrs. Americas Vespucius, /a very fashionable Austin lady. The fol lowing conversation took place : “ So your son is going to get married pretty soon, I hear.” _ . “Yes, he will get married m a few months.” “Heis so young. I should think you would make him wait until he arrived at the age of discretion. ” “Oh, no,” responed the mother, who has had five or six husbands, “if he waits until he arrives at the age of dis cretion, he will never get married at all.’ —Texas Siftings. Tee Providence Press says there has been enough written about the Ameri can ship to sink that forgotten relic cf bygone glorv if the unfortunate craft Could be loaded with it. THE JACKSON NEWS. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Jay Gould owns $53,000,000 in stocks, f' - Easter cards, it iifsaid, will be the rage. Pittsburg has several colored police men on the force. ) [ Edison is recuperating in Florida and giving electricity a rest. When lunacy is no longer an excuse for crime, crime will perceptibly diminish. Tramps may now be expected in the role of “ Mississippi overflow sufferers.”. Victor Hugo is of opinion that if the Czar will not spare the people, God will not spare the Czar. " ‘ The woman who rode a bicycle COO miles in six consecutive days, at St. Louis, is a Canadian. According to Cardinal Manning, it is an indictable offense in England for a man to propagate atheism. _ The American Express Company has organized a money order system cheapei than that of the postoffice. A Russian traveler says that one third of Asia and a considerable part of Europe still remain unexplored . j A Chicago Grand Jury last week rej turned an indictment against a dead man. Live criminals are scarce up there. _ The report of the Secretary, of War shows that our Indian wars in the last ten years have cost $5,055,821 in actual money. Just what the Mormons think of their present prospects we are not prepared to say, but they evidently are not we|i pleased. Mb. Touegee, the novelist, allows himself to be called, in his own paper, Our Continent, “Hon.” Albion \V. Tourgee. _ Congress should make a law especially adapted to the punishment ot the inspired crank element. The need of such a law is daily increasing. Mason’s sentence to eight years in the Penitentiary for shooting at Guiteau was oertainly quite enough. Guiteau doubt less approves the sentence. The Mississippi House of Representa tives has passed a bill preventing tliG sale of tobacco to minors without an order from their parents or guardians, j .:! ♦ ' A bogus priest named Deßohan, ar rested in Chicago, and familiar with five languages, has borne in his brief exist ence of thirtv-oiio years, twenty-five aliases. It is reported that John Ensseil Young, the newly appointed Minister to China, will soon marry Miss Julia E. Coleman, a niece of ox Governor Jewell, of Connecticut. Lieutenant ScHwatka, of the Arctic Expedition of 1879, speaking of the Jeannette’s orew, says there is no hope for DeLong and party, and little f<>r Chip’s boat’s crew. i 1 Robert Bonner thinks the time will come when two minutes will be very ordinary time for a trotter. As Bonner is opposed to betting, there is no change here to lay a wager. The visit of General Sherman to the West will probably result in the abandon ment of several military forts in Texas, and the establishment of posts at Sdn Antonio and Fort Bliss. ' Hallif. Hutchinson, a little girl nine yeai's old, is probably the youngest tele graph operator in the world. She is stationed at a town in Texas where she lias entire charge of an office. The indications are that Mason will eventually be pardoned. Petitions ask ing for his pardon are flooding in to the President from Legislatures, societies and citizens in great numbers. This is the question which Mormons ask our Congressmen:’ “How do you know it’s bad to have..a dozen wives? You haven’t tried it. Wo have.” That may be regarded as a clincher. Archibald Forbes has discovered’ that an American audience’s estimate on a lecture is to he discovered, not from the applause, but from the number of people who sit till the leoture is ended. ■lt fs stated that Hu? Gr, having re ceived convincing proofs that the Nihilists are determined to abandon their po.icv of assassination, imperial clemency will consequently be extended to political prisoners. The Sunday saloon question, just now, is the topic of interest in Ohio-whether it is better hr go in by tlie front door or by the back door. No saloomst was ever known to keep both doors locked at ! the same time. The report that four towns were destroyed by an earthquake in Costa Rica later information says, was an “ exaggeration,” yet how great an exag- ITevoted to tlie Interest of Jaolcson .ind Butts Oount-V. JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2ft, 1882: geration is not stated. Perhaps it was all exaggeration. Four women in the vicinity of Rich mond, Ind., and a Methodist preacher and two women at North Lcwisbnrg, Champaign County, Ohio, have gone insane over religion tho past two weeks and been placed in lunatic asylums. 9 m * The beautiful Mrs. Langtry would like to come to tins country but her agent wants so much tliat slio will prob ably lie denied the privilege. Asa rule managers endeavor to mako contracts with a view to making something for themselves. ♦ Dn. Georoe H. Lawson, of London, tried for the murder of his brother-in law, Percy Malcolm John, a mere bov. that LA might Come into possession of his property, has been found guilty and sentenced to bo hanged. The evidence was circumstantial, but conclusive. Tiie outlook on the Lower Mississippi is every thing but promising. The whole country is flooded, without any prospect of tho water receding at an early day. In the vicinity of Helena, Arkansas, the country for forty miles around, on either side of tho river, is like an ocean. An item to sausage-eaters fropi. the Louisville Courier-Journal: “ A man who directed, ft'piece Of bark i)i his' sausage* tho Imfefu'v shop to] know what had become of tho rest of the dog. The butcher was so affected that he could give him only a part of the tale.” ■ ' Police Commissioners of Balti more have dismissed a policeman f.e not arresting a woman who was assault ing another witli a horsewhip. As ska was his wife and the assaulted woman his sweet-heart, he felt that be cqnld not interfere without great embarrassment. The Commissioners relieved him ot all further embarrassment by relieving him" Hale the silver dollars eireulateiT in Montana are alleged to be counterfeit! madfe by the Chinese in Ban Francisco. They are described as of exactly tbs weight of the genuine ones, and omi thirty-second part of an iuch larger in diameter. They contain only sixteen cents’ worth of silver, which is all on the surface. Eighty-five houses in South Bothle hem, Pennsylvania, are quarantined be cause of smallpox, and the disease is re ported on the increase. Why this dis ease has become so alarming there it is difficult to say. The town is high and healthy, and is the home of the Mo ravians, than whom no ono could’ be cleaner or more particular in neatness. Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, the defaulting Boston Bank President, who has been sentenced to. the House of Correction for. a term of -three years, may well congrat ulate hesself. She promised to pay hex depositors an interest that amounted to 96 per cent., and in consequence failed to return the principal, .by,jvhiqh tjio de positors lost something like $175,000. The Milwaukee Sun suggests a plan for “ saving the country.” It says: “Let Northern people go South in the winter, and Southern people go North in the summer, and let the young of both sec tions fall in love with each other and do a little marrying, and when Northern and Southern grandmothers go traveling back and forth to visit the babies that will naturally come upon the scano, that will naturally end all sectional feeling.” The Paris Figaro says of Skobeleff: “This General has apt changed during the last four years. Ho is now Ihirty seven, or thereabouts. He is very tall —so tall that in a campaigning time he can not stand upright in his tent. His face is exceedingly intelligent, his eyes blue and keen and quick, his forehead full, and his heard brightly blonde ; at the very first glance his person reveals the energetic and loyal soldier, ready to dare all and sacrifice everything.” The Galveston News suggestively says: “ When a President is shot, every thing in the United Slates can he- turned topsey turvey, and the occupant of al most every office, from Secretary of State to tlie humblest tide waiter, changed. Had Mac Lean succeeded m his nefarious attempt on the life of the Queeil, hardly a particle of difference would have occurred in the Government of .England; nqt an bffiqe would have chnftgbd from Prime Minister down to letter carrier.” . r , -The; most dangerous element in this ctnnirf- 18 the inij|rcd, trank*. Henry KeSshaw, life **'emtf<fi-sa<lAr from heaven sent by Guiteau to, shoot Dr. Gray ” of the Vale Lunatic Asylum, at Utica, N. Y., when arrested, lmd upon his person two navy revolvers, one si ogle barrel revolver, one repeater, one dirk, cleaver, one bottle of chloroform and thirty bundles of cartridges. As an arsenal he was evidently prepared to do some killing. Dr. Gray, fortunately, received only a flesh wound. Dr. Gray was the chief medical expert of the Government in the Guiteau trial. A Boston man claims to be the in ventor of baloon shades, and a Chicago woman is said to have first suggested a tumbler with a thick bottom. Juvenile Mortality. One of tho most mysterious phenom ena of human existence is the large per centage of mortality among young chil dren. A fearful proportion of tho deaths everywhere are those of persons who have just begun to live. Even when due allowance is made for faults of nurs ing and training, it appears lmrdly possi ble that any improvement can offset the inherited weakness from which so many children suffer, and, as yet, scienco has taught little concerning those epi demics which find the majority of their victims among the little ones. Still, in telligent care and favorable surroundings can do much. The English statistics, much more full and accurate than those of our own country, show that in the rural counties the mortality of children under five years of age does not exceed, and often falls below, forty in the thou sand. Iu the cities and towns the aver age is much greater, ranging from about fifty-nine in the thousand, hi Pnrtsmoath, to over ninety-five in Birmingham and Sheffield, and to over one hundred and three in Liverpool. In nineteen largo towns, containing an aggregate of a mil lion and nearly twenty-four thousand children, the deaths for a yearfrom their number were 82,250. This is a fearful number, and no doubt the ligmes increased through causes which might have , been avoided.. Still, had every thing been done, tho little victims must have ,L>'on counted by myriads. As things are, it. is Orol lible that, in very many cases Continued life wnifliTuffi havo .bee 4 a blessing, but the quaint- old epi taph, , . -i‘ap ; fo.OU wpjfpno %, M i- O i * .won.dtjAvhat I bgij| Jjir, will nevertheless suggest itselfT—Cincin nati Gazette. To Cure Sheep-Killing Dogs. The question of how to protect sheep from tlie caresses of destructive dogs, which lias so long agitated the agricul tural mind, seems to havo been happily settled by the farmers of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey. They tried tlie experiment of mixing in a few goats with their, sheep, and after the gouts and skjeirf liad affiliated for a few days, -they procured some dogs, regular sheep-killers, and started them for the folds. Tim dogs, regarding the affair as a sort of picnic, went for wool and came back shorn of- their conceit. They seem to run against goats in the most unexpected places, and wete struck by the singular nature of tlie thing and al most drove into tho ground by the force of the remarks made by the, goats with their heads, in tlie heat of tlie debate. Mutton, which the dogs had always re garded as a delicacy, suddenly palled upon the taste and they felt coyea. No doubt the goats, with customary polite ness, asked their guef*ts to pass their plates and liavo some of the mutton, but the dogs did not care for mutton. They came out of the field limping on tlueo legs, and no word of encourage ment from thefitrmer could induco them to go back. They had been broke of sucking eggs. *■-' Squeaking Shoes, 1 eorrospondent of th<3 fVountrg Gen- Unnan gives, the following, remedies for 111 ) above nuisance : Not long ago I went to my slioeatore and asked if the squeaking could be pre vented in my shoes. I was told it could bo very easily,-and it was done by open ing (lie soles of lily slides at the shank, pouring in powdered soapstone, taking care to have the solo well-filled to the toe, and t hen pegging or sewing them ill) again. My shoes did not squeak after" that. A Shoemaker’* receipt to prevent squeaking is to put a piece of cloth (sheeting) between every two lay ers'of leather on the sole. Last sum mer I purchased a pair of fine boots, which annoyed me very much by squeak ing. Ho on very hot days in haying I , turned them up to the direct rays of the I sun and put on grease; as fast ns it dried up I applied more, until they would take no more, and they have nev er troubled mo since. Our own plan is to stand the shoes in a hollow pan and thin pour in lukewarm water until t.iie solos are nearly immersed. Keep the ■■filter no nearly lukewarm as possible for twenty-four knurs, and put on the shoes while the soles are still damp. They should not become wet inside. Degrees of Consideration. “I believe you are connected with the church in Elm street, are you not, Mr. Dickson?” said the customer. •‘ No, sail, not nil.” ‘‘What! are you not a member of the African church?” ‘‘Not dis year, sail!" “ Why did you leave their oomrannion, Mr. Dickson,* if I may be permitted to ask ?” “Well, I’ll tell you, sah,” said Mr, Dickson, stropping a concave razor on the palm of his hand, “it was jes like dis. I jined de church in good fait’; I gave ten dollars toward tho stated gospel de fus’ yeah, and de church people call me ‘ Brudder Dickson; second yeah, my business being not ho good, and I gib Mriy five dollars-. That yeah tho people call mo ‘ Mr. Dickson.’ Dis razor hurt you, sah?” “No, the razor goes tolerably well.” Weil, sah, do third yeah I fell berry poor; bad sickness ip zqv faipil.fj I didn’t give nolliii’ for epreachm’. well, sah, nrter dat, dey call me ‘ dat old nig ger Dickson,’ and I lf* ’em!” An Actress’ Ambition. Mrs. Bjura Jewett, the"actress, was asked whether she did not tire of play ing the same roles. She said : “ Well, it depends a great deal upon how well suited they are to me. In ‘ The Bank er’s Daughter,’ for instance, having cried 300 times in as many evenings alswt nothing, I felt a little wearied of it, but oven after a play has been run ning a long time,-there is always an in terest in watching its effect upon the au dience and in tho effort to preserve oneself from sinking into mechanical acting. But I know satisfac tion than in mastering a role which I do not like, for if I do succeed I feel as if I had gained a victory over my prejudices, and if tho public approve of me in tho part it really strengthens my power of acting by doing well What is not to my tu.Ua” Force Exerted in Plano Playing. Tlie celebrated pianist,Gotlschalk, was highly amused on finding his pci formaces studied very closely by a scientist who hail published a treatise dn the num ber of muscular efforts that may lie mude in a given time, for this learned savant found that in ono brilliant piece Uottschalk cxeoedodfgreatly tlie estimate ho had made after careful consideration, Tho number of consecutive percussions given out wore found to bo quite aston ishing. Although Gottsohalk protended to be grately entertained by liis critics and their widely differing points of view, yet ho must have already known that his physical strength was great. ARhqugh to all appearance delicately constituted, he wrestled with the muscular giants who were engaged in moving his heavy concert pianos, and with a success that astonished them so greatly as to mako it a subject of conversation to the presold day. When Bulow was on Ids concert tour through (iermnny and Austria he mot llubenstein at Vienna They were both playing on tho Bozoudorfer pianofortes, but Bulow would not play on ftiiben steiu’s instrument. He would have an other one provided for liis usi;., ITqf., Schmidt, of flint city, being curious to learn the real reason of tills’ iMI-rntina tion, examined the “ touch ” of each in strument, respecting tho depth the key sank and the weight required to depress them to the lowfest point. The piano forte that Rubensteiu played remqved ail average weight of eighty-eight grams (one gram being equal to fifteen and a half grains), while Bulow’s requirad an averago of , 105 grama. Therefore the keys of the lWrbcnstein pianoforte were easier to put iu action than those of Bu low’s pianoforte ; but on the other hand tho keys sank fully twenty-five per cent, deeper than Billow’s, so that, the action of both pianos made pretty equal demands on the physical powers of tlie respective performers. But, if Bulow had played on ltubonsteiu’s instrument he would have found his hands sinking too deep, for they tire small. To play on an instrument with a deep touch one must have long fingers. Prof. Schmidt counted the number of notes' played by Rubinstein at one of bis concerts and found them to be 62,990 iu number, and therefore equal to a pres sure of 9881 pounds in woiglit. On the Bulow instrument they would be equal to a pressure of 1,190 5-8 pounds. When it is considered that something more than prossure is needl'd in a bril liant fortissimo, and on a .large instru ment in a large hall, and that a high de gree of velocity must bo given to the hummer and not the more motion duo to some. weight, some estimate of the ex penditure of force necessary to deliver such percussive accents from tho fingers, may be made.*- Home Journal. Mosaics. Tho first authentic account to he found of any mosaic work in ancient Rome is given us by Pliny, who says that Bylin caused soino “stone-laid” work to he made; and from his and other sources ol evidence wo Are justified in assuming the time of its introduction here to have been about eighty years R. C. This date cor re sponds with tlio destruction of OorilitH, when precious objects of all kinds were carried to Home, and naturally created a wish in tho minds of wealthy Romans to possess niosiiics as well as other luxurious embellishments. Avery learned Italian writer lias divided Roman mosaics into fbur classes, namely—tesselated and see tile, applied to pavements generally; tic tile and vermieulated or pictorial applied to walls and vaults. Of these, the. tesse luted is probably the most ancient, and consisted of small cubes of marble, sel dom averaging more than three-quarter* of an inch square, worked by hand into such geometrical figures us, wheu com bined, would best compose a larger figure equally geometrical, but, of course more intricate, it is probable that the first colors used were black and wliite. Tin best samples of this tesselatod work oc cur at Pompeii and at the baths of Coracalla; but very fine specimens have been found in this country. Tho seethe or sliced work was formed, some suv, of tho different slices of marble of which figures and ornaments were made; others hold that these slices were never em ployed to imitate figures or any actual subject, but produced their eflVct solely through the shape, color and vein of the marbles which were contrasted. It is believed that no piece of fragment of ancient sectjle work imitating a subject of any kind lias yet been found; and if it laid been so employed we must lmve had examples at Pompeii, where the student may find all varieties of mosaic pavement known to either Greek or Roman. The most noble specimen of seethe work now extant is the splendid pavement of the Pantheon at Rome, where the principal marbles are arranged, each of great superficial extent, of alternate round anil square slabs. The building of the Pantheon was finished about thirty years before the Christian era. This kind ol work required the employment of costly marbles, and no remains of it have been discovered in any Other country than in Jfidy. —Pattern Gazette. Commercial Statist lch. Uncle Nace and Jim Webster got. into a (lisputo on Austin avenue. Uncle Nacb is one of tlie wealthiest colored property owners iIT Austin, and puts on style accordingly, while Jim Webster is comparatively poor. “J kin sell you out forty times befouh yer kin sell me out one time,” said Nnco pompously. “Of course yer kin. Who am gwine ter make mo an offer for sich a wulHess, knock-kneed, goggle eyed moke as you is.."—Texas Siftings. Stopping or Staying. Hypercritical folks will have it that it is not proper to say “stopping” at a hotel. “Staying” is the right expres sion. Iri the name of common senso, why? A person “stops” where he “stays,” doesn’t he? And, if there is any choice between the words, “stop” should be preferred. A majority of the patrons of hotels remain but a single night. To stay at a place rather implies a long period. But either words ana wera. — Progress. no Forgot tire Brillet. It is but seldom that tho comic ele ment enters into attempts at suicide. A diverting exception to this general rule is afforded by the suicidal enter prise: of u Hungarian engineer, resident at Temesvjir, who, being a steadfast vo tary of Bacchus, had drunk himself into so unsatisfactory a state of mind that- a few days ago ho determined to put an end to his existouco. Having provided himself with a pistol, and locked him self up in a private room of a hotel in the town, which apartment ho hud spec ially' Jlived for tho purpose, lie pressed tho muzzle of the weapon against liis left bronstiind jmill'd tlie trigger. The usual explosion followed, and the would-be sui cide fell to the ground, where he lav pa tiently for novel rd minutes, waiting for death. Dissolution, however failiug to sot iu as promptly as he had expected, lie presently arose, left tho hotel and walked Inane, wi,tli a view to dying corn-' fiil tnd >ly in liifi eWn apart nuMit. A lit Ho later on, perplexed by his unaccountable vitality, he sent for a stiqieou to examine the wound, Beyond a slight score,lung ot the skin, no injury could bo detected; and, while the qiu'gcuu was vainly search ing for a mortal hurt, liis patient anx iously lyquirpn “whero the btftWt hud lodged?' 1 “I fancy,” was the reply, : “Unit ysiu must have forgotten to put, it : into the pistol.” ..“Givq me, my jyipst , coaf/’ Ajnrfdiited tile mfunded self-mtiyftr, and. sure etnmghp safely ensconced in tygfwuUh-pofifp-t pi that garment was found Vho,missile with winch lio bail. de signed to extinguish bis vital spfiiß. Since this Jifovery Jio lias quitted- Temesvar, iu .which town lio found that Ms in Ah attrmtitto kill himself with a charge of powder and a wad hail ren dered him the object of more public notice, attended Ivy uncontrollable bi- Inrity. than was altogether agreeable to him.— Jsnidw f/'vbgruph. Practical ifi'.slmml Hunting. It is related of a Connecticut woman, whose husband died a short time ago, that instead of, lounging and languish ing about until soino one asked Tier to marry again, sho plainly announeod that she wanted anew husband, and ho lfamed tho price that she was ivady to pay for a satisfactory article. Of course there were plenty of applicants, and at least quo of them met tlm widow’s views, for there was a wedding that very day. There is nothing romantic about this sort of match-making, but, on the other hand, there is no nonsense about it. In-, stead of listening to a story so tender and ardent that she coubl not have the heart to quostion the suitor’s fitness for tho place to which h aspired, the widow qdopted n method that enabled her to talk sense before marriage, and learn whyt promise there would be of a souti jnent afterward. Bho did not consume a number of the best years of her life m wishing that one or another man would propose, but she ascertained, like a sen sible woman, who was really in the mar ket, and made her choice from those that wore available. Sentimentalists may sneeringly say that the limn married for money, hut will they mention any other man’who railed to do likewise when ho had a chance ? The widow and her new husband began life with a dis tinct understanding and without, having had any lovers’quarrels ; lot sentimental couples shew a better beginning if they can.— New York Herald. Chinese Printing. The blocks are all of the same size, about eight l>y twelve inches, alul about hklf an infill thick. Each block (repre sents two leaves, or four pages of the book, being engraved on both sides. Tho blocks for a Complete work can thus bo stowed away in a very small compass. Tho post of engraving a page c 1 ’ those wooden blocks is said to be but little more than the expense of setting up a page of Chinese type and preparing it for the press. An edition of one copy can bo printed if no more nrc required, and thus the expense of keeping a largo stock of printed book* on hand is en tirely avoided. Any errors or misprints that may be discovered can, as anile, bo corrected on the blocks with but very little trouble. A skillful printer can print “by hand 5,000 loaves of two pages each a day, using no press or machinery whatever, iio supplies ins own tools, and receives as wages about one shilling a day. The paper ordinarily used is white, and of the best quality, although a yellowish kind is also made use of at a reduction of twenty pef cent, on the sell i.ig price. The books are bound in the usual Chinese style, and fastened with white silk thread. They present an ap pearance which satisfies the taste of the inpst fastidious native. Tho leaves are printed only on one side. Lore Led by Lucre. ,l No Oigarot-fJhiii ley,” she said, using the name by which he was known among the wild, reckless set with which he as sociated; “lean never be your bride.” “Pansy—Miss Perkins,” snid Regin ald, in those deep, thrilling tones ot his, “ I cannot—indeed I cannot let you go 1 Btny one moment —only one moment 1” How that rich voice rang in her oars 1 Despite herself it moved her strangely. “ Very well,” she said, “ I will stay.!’ Darting hastily to tho hat-rack in tho front hall, Reginald fumbled for a mo ment in the upper left-hand pocket of his overcoat and drew therefrom a piece of white paper. Returning to tho par lor lip knolt beside tho fauteuil on which Pansy had thrown herself in an agony of grief, and kissed away the bitter tears of pain and sorrow that, were welling up into the beautiful brown eyes. “ Bee, my darling,” ho exclaimed, eagerly, placing tho paper before her. “Look at this, my precious one.” Pansy opened her eyes nnd gazed languidly at the paper. “What is it, Tootsie?” she murmured. Drawing himself Up proudly and holding in ono hand the paper and in tho other his pan cake hat, Reginald said in proud tones : “It is a notice of my promotion to tho ribbon counter. Iloarafter my salary will be sl2 per week. Pansy, my precious one, we are saved.” The girl looked at him lovingly. “ You bet wo re,” sho said, anil her arms were clasped about his thirteen-inch neck in an ecstacy of passion. TERM?: $1.50 per Annum. NUMBER 29. HUMORS OF THE DAY. Does a man break into humor when ho cracks a joke ? It is no longer a matter of pride to have a high forehead. A cow has that, ; uud she is very low-ly. In union there is strength. “Poor Toni’s a cold,” but Tom and Jerry’s hot. —Jloston Commercial Bulletin. The best description we have ever heard of a slow man was that ho was too slow to get out of liis own way. — Bowpll Courier. When the washerwoman calls for a young man’s linen, docs that make her a shirt caller? Neckst. Steubenville Herald. “Money makes my ma go,” said little Skeesicks when his mother, armed with a $26 greenback, left for a down-town shopping tour. Enquirer: Aro plants in a sleeping room unhealthy? Not necessarily. We’ve seem some very healthy plants growing in sleeping rooms. “Don’t you think that Miss Brown is a very sweet girl?” asked Heury. “Oh, yes, very sweet,” replied Jane; “that is to say, she is well preserved.'’ “Are you dead, Tim?” said an Irish father to his son, who had fallen down a well. “ Not dead,, father, but apache ices,” came up from the depths. Nil woman u'er contented la, JS< iiiaitcr wliat mlio’b got; Fur wlicii she builds a little houM She fil ways wants ft lot. —JJucKpnstick “It is poor taste to laugh at your oWn jokes,”, suid Fendcrson; “something I never do, through Ido say it.” “Does, anybody else ever laugh at them?” asked Fogg. A Brooklyn man has just found his sister from whom lie has been separated fifty years. She was the cook in his boarding house, and lie recognized the style of her haflli. j “Rave you any faith in mince pie as a cure for headache?” asked ono young, married lady of another. “ Yes,” was tlie reply, “bring out your mince pie. 1 get mince-pie headaches regularly." When Brown complained of a rush o£ blood to tlm head Fogg endeavored to, ease liis mind by reminding him that nature .abhors a vacuum, and Brown’s blood rushed to his head worse than ever. “Man and wife are all one, are they?” said she. “Yes; what of it?” said he suspiciously. “Why, in that case,” said his wife, “1 came homo awfully tipsy li-st night and feel terribly ashamed of myself tins morning.” He nover said a word. At a young ladios’ seminary reoently, during an examiuation in history, ono of tho pupils was interrogated thus: “ Mary, did Martin Luther die a natural death ?” “ No,” was the reply; “ho was oxeomunmieuted by a bull.’' —Harvard Lampoon. Little Edith was terribly sleepy the other night. Bho began her customary prayer upon retiring, but when she got us tar as "Our Father,” her eyes closed and her head tumbled on to tho pillow. “ I tau’t tuy it to-night,” she said, “I’m too s’oopy. Ho knows tho yest of it.” A lecturer was once in a dilemma which he will probably never forgot. While talking about art he ventured the assertion, “Art can never improve na ture. ’’ And at that moment someone in tho audience cried out in a gruff voice, “Can’t lie? Well, then, how do you think you would look without your wig?” “ Memory is a wonderful thing,” said Jack Miller to his friend Dan Watts. “Just think of what a fellow’s head can hold! It’s gigautic, sir gigantic!” Watts—“ 1 have often heard your friends say yon have a very lino memory, Jack.” Miller ('flattered)—“Well, that's very kind. Yes, I have a pretty good memory. ”i Watts—“Do you think yon can recall the teu dollars 1 lent you three years ago?” Manitoba. Tins, than which perhaps ttiere is not to he found a more inhospitable region below the latitude of Greenland, is pie tured as a Northern paradise, uml ren dered magnificently attractive on paper. A flat country, almost without timber, swept during the greater part of tlie year by high winds surcharged with snow and sleet, called, in tho expressive phraso of tlie denizens, “blizzards,” frozen during the winter hard ns on ice berg, and to a fearful depth, and deluged with water in the spring, it possesses many attractions for an Esquimaux. Horses and cattle fore poorly in Mani toba, sinco if they escape tho loss of their ears by frost, they are subject tc. gradual starvation (luring the long win ter. It is doubtless pleasant enough during the brief summer, and a returned explorer gives it as his opinion that the land is propuefcive, although he found it difficult to reach a correct conclusion iu regard to it in tho spring, while it was several inches under water.— Canadian Letterin Cincinnati Gazette. •% Tamerlane’s Human Pyramid. Tho great conquoror of Central Asia, in ten years from the time he struck the first blow, had risen to absolute authc rity over a numerous and warlike people. • Timur (also called Timur-Beg ot Timur- Leng, for his lameness, and known among Western writers as Tamerlane) had successfully warred ugninbt the Kalmucks and the tribos Kbaurezin, and turned his attention, between these cam paigns, to supporting Toktemesh Khan, of tho claimants to the throne of Kipec hak, ultimately, in 1376, plaoing him in undisputed possession. Then, with the view of restoring its former limits to the empire of Jagatal, he summoned the I’rince of Herat and the other chiefs of Northern Khorassan, Rnd, on their refusal, immediately attacked and re duced them to submission, levying a contr Jmtion as a penalty. But, in 1383, the people of Herat again rebelled, and murdered the envoys whom he sent to remonstrate with them. Timur avenged this by attacking and captaring the city. Ho took 2,000 of the garrison and built them up with alternate layers of brick and mortar in the form of a pyramid, as a liorribly singular and effective reminder of tho consequenoes of rebellion.