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Vf. E. HAIiP, PuliliNhey.
VOLJJME.I,
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
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“ iNCONSisxmtf with veracity" is the
new English phrase.
Jefferson Davis is $21,000 ahead on
the sale of his book.
The Pond bill will swamp many a
little saloon in Ohio.
TfrE capital stock of railroads in Texas
is estimated at $247,000,000.
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It has come Germany’s turn to object
to the importation of American pork.
John B. Gough, the temperance
lecturer, is suffering from neuralgia oi
the stomach, g , . /1 r; • > j i
■- ■"♦■•-. p-.
Sergeant Mason’s family—‘Betty anil
the Bab^—will remain in Washington
for sonae weeks yet. j
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“Will Mr. Bounds accept his ap- i
pointmeiit ?” Mr. Bound is a printer. ,
■ Of course he will accept.
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Cincinnati will hold another exposi.
tion this year. Although the last one
seemed to be a success, financially, it was
not.
S. P. Bounds, the new Public Printer,
besides being a thorough business man,
is a practical and artistic printer by
trado.
Navigation on the St. Lawrence
Kiver was opeAqtl before of
April—thatsh&Jesfc' winter on
record.
A Niagara Fades haclunan died, the,
other day, whosg : estate is valued at
83% 000 —and he was the poorest of
them all.
Statistics of idiocy may be compiled
by ascertaining the number of persons
who have paid money for Guiteau’s
autograph.
It is time for the report to start the
rounds that the peach buds have been
killed. However, it is only a question |
of a few days.
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The recent blizzard, extending from 1
Southern Dakota to Manitoba, was very
severe, and there has been much suffer
ing and many deaths.
statement is current that ice will
be* plentiful this summer, notwithstand
ing the warm winter. We are glad to
ifbow something will be abundant.
The Governments of the
United States have agreed to ndtify the
other powers interested of an indefinite
postponement of the Monetary Confer
ence.
De Lessets is charged with building
boarding houses and filling cemeteries.
Of course is Carried on in connec
tion with the building of the Panama
Canal.
A cane was voted to the greatest liar
in Warrington, Missouri, and a grocer
carried off the prize. The two editors
in the town received but three votes be
tween them. I*#* ' I'll
ScHoon boys cauffht fighting in Wash
ington are arrested and fined in the
Police Court. They are bound to have
good, morals in Washington if every
thing else goes to EpnJjtijjji.
Anthony Comstock is waiting for
someone to draw a big prize in a lottery
before he shuis down on that manner of
swindling, and under the law, confiscate
the “prize.” .That’s why Jre is still
waiting* i; a
It is hoped the coming warm weather
will prove a sooroher on the sunflower
idiocy. If there is anything at the pres
ent moment that is really saddening it
is the remembrance of Oscar Wilds’s in
vasion of America.
Mason’s popularity, attained by reason
of his attempt to kill Guitean, is en
couragement for the Sheriff who is to
perform tlvat duty. But it -is .hardly
necessary to say that there will bo fib
“Sheriff fund” started after the job is
completed.
Prop. Tice, the weather prophet, the
predicter of earthquakes and elucidatoi
of cyclones, predicts a wet summer,
which will be a consoling fact to those
w ho fear that all tins water is coming
down and being wasted at this season
when it is not needed.
The villa Queen Victoria inhabits at
Menton# is a modern sump-
f JmslilcE and filled with all the
most modern appliances for health and
comfott. 'lt wa| built by Mr. Hyfrey j
the |vli)ae| was tajcupijd by 1
list Majesty during her visit to Baveno.
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The Confederate Government never !
made but four silver dollars, one of which
w as sold in New York a short time ago
for SBOO, and another, which is held by a
man in Texas, is held at $3,000, but for
which an offer of $l,lOO has been made.
I’rakk J. Mobes, ex-Governor of
South Carolina, has been photographed
' or the Rogues’ Gallery at the New York
police headquarters, as a swindler, and
"ent to the Tombs Prison. The dis
tance from a Governor’s office to a
Rogues’ Gallery is perhaps not so great
85 we had imagined.
THE JACKSON NEWS.
[ In some parts of Manitoba, specula
tion is wild. It is snid to be quite eom
! mon f °r settler to lell bis farm at from
' s s ' ooo to $10,000—525 cash, balance in
twenty to thirty days. The calculation
of the purchaser is that within the time
specified he may dispose of the laud at
an advance; if not he only loses his $25.
Although General Skobeleff has re
ceived an “honorable exile” by appoint
ment as commisaiouer in the reorgan
ization of Turkestan, there is perhaps no
better advertised foreigner in the world
to-day than he, and particularly in Amer
ica; all of which leads us to remark that
to the popular being there is money in
the lecture field. And it all came from
that little bahqifet fepeeeh, strengthened
by . ‘ f Tf 1 - d !? ra ß>f Go erathure."
The resignation recently of Keeper
Blodgett, of Sing Sing Prison, is evi
dence of tfae brutality meted out to
those who are sa unfortunate as to land
in penal institutions. Blodgett testified
last week before the Board of Inquiry,
that he resigned because he could not
stand the evidences of brutality around
him, and would not be Keeper there
again for SI,OOO per month, on account
of hearing the moanings and wailing of
the convicts being paddled.
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The following is coiisidered as Mr.
Longfellow's finest sonnet :
“Asa fond mother, when the day is o’er,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
XLdf willing, half reluct ant tjt be led,
* Awdienf'es filn brfkcff ’idiivtliings on the floor,
StUl tI#XJgH flic open door,
. Ixor wholly reassured aud comforted t j
Bv promises of others in their stead,
Which, though more splendid, may not please
So Nature deni* with* us, fepd tak s away
Out play thittgsoneSy onwyand hy the liaud ’
Leads us to rest so gently that wo go
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand’
How far the unknown transcends the what we
know.”
There* are Jews coming to the United
States from Russia, Irishmen from Mun
ster and Ulster, cordially detesting one
another; Republicans and Democrats
from France, German Socialists aud Im
perialists; Italians, some of whom be
lieve that the Pope has been cruelly
wronged, and others that he should be
driven from Italy. To MWimilSto all
these aud blend them into a liarm '. ’ous
homogeneous political society is a task
which no other country in the would
could successfully undertake.
Two weeks before his death, Longfel
low wrote with his own hand to a lady
who sent him flowers; “I have been
arranging these wonderful flowers under
the lamp in my library. I can only think
of the floral gfafnes iff Toulouso in the
times of the Troubadours, and wero Ia
good Troubadour 1 would write you a
letter to verse to-night, but I am worn
and weary so that I find it difficult to
write even prose. Thanks is a little
word, but it has much meaning when
■ there is a heart behind it' and thus I
send you mine for those Newport
flowers.”
The titles of Mr. Longfellow whose
death was chronicled a few days since,
were Master of Arts, from Bowdoin';
I Doctor bf Laiys,. Harvard, 1859; Cam
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1874; Doctor of Common Law, Oxford,
18G9. He was Professor of French,
Spanish, Italian, and German, as well as
Librarian in Bowdoin; .in Harvard be
was Professor of Spanish, French, Belles-
Lettres; he was a member of the
American Antiquarian and of the Maine
and Massachusetts Historical Societies;'
a member of the Historical and Geo
i graphical Society of Brazil; a member of
the Koyal Spanish Academy at Madrid,
and a member of the Academy of Sciences
at St. Petersburg.
It is said that a woman is at the hot
torn of the Herzegovina rebellion. Miss
Alice Hurtiey, a beautiful female of un
certain antecedents, made her appear
ance in 1879 at Serajevo, the capital of
Bosina with an English newspaper cor
respondent, who introduced her to
everybody as his wife. She is a diminu
tive creature, butof remarkable beauty,
witii tine blue eyes and light hair, cut a
la George Sand. Her personal charms
and enthusiasm in behalf of the Bosnian
cause secured her an extraordinary
popularity, and made her a conspicuous
figure in the revolt against Austrian
rule, which she urged with all the re
sources at her command. Ni kita, Prince
of Montenegro, is said to be infatuated
with her, and she is apparently destined
to play an important role.
Few people have any idea of the im
mense quantities of oleomargarine cgnj
sumeduiuler the name of butter. Tlira
are, in Cincinnati, three (fefmargaf n.t
dealers —* man,. Ids wife friJ motiijir-1
who stun 4 fc Basket and seU'ou an *arl
age fully 900 pounds a day of stuff
called butter but which is nothing 1 ut
the vilest oleomargarine. Barrels con
taining this so-called butter are branded
“ butterine,” but they are kept well
back under cover, and the “ rich golden
rolls ” are piled temptingly in tiers on
the improvised counter and sold at a
figure considerably under the rqgpbtf
market price of batten Thone (teafi rs
comply with the law insofar as labeling
oleomargarine is concerned, but lie
like old salts" to their customers if
charged with handling the vile stuff
This is only one of thousands of similar
eases in Cincinnati and other cities,
which is not only an imposition on dairy
men and farmers, but an outrage on
consumers.
to the Interest of Jackson and Butts Countv.
•JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL I” 1882.
■ *> Advancement.
" The very sir is luminous with the spirit of ad
vancement.”
When v© consider the marvelous
achievements of this teeming age, we
wonder if the end has been reached, and
if limitation has not been placed over or
iginality. But as the old and familiar
pass away, the new and wonderful Con
tinually appear. The march of progress
since the world emerged from the dark
ages, was slow for centuries. But dur
ing the nineteenth century it lias gone
forth with the rapidity of lightning aud
with the force of a giant. New applica
tion has been made of old idoao in gov
ernment and in morals. The spirit oi
progress has breathed upon all of the
elements and converted them into new
factors in life. Medicine and theology
have been largely revolutionized. Even
law. one of the most conservative of
professions, founded upon authority and
practiced by precedent, shows signs of
evohition. Chemistry, geology, arch
geology, ethnology, have all been shower
ing upon the world the riches of their
wealth. The travelers have searched
every available nook and corner of this
planet for new objects of interest. As
tronomers have diligently swept the
heavens in search of,new worlds. Yet,
in the face of all the positive advance
ment, we are asked by Tennyson to stop
and :
“ CnntoiaplWe ill Ilrid work of Time,
The giant laboring iu his youth.”
The results of the last few years have
shown, is the.development of scientific
invention, an activity wholly unparalleled
in past ages. Some new and startling
scheme is thrown up at every step tve
make. A writer says. “ Every man and
Woman seems specially endowed for some
project, and griping at the futnnMH'/if
certain that it 1 hold, some gmid'pnte;
Unit could bq sertutv# by nddWTittisf' or
combined effort. We, now only, standpii
the threshold 61 mechanical discovery)
and in our infancy in the great world of
scientific development. The wonderful
results of tho past lire only stepping
stones to the vast future that lies before
us. We certainly have been advancing
with rapid strides and with an increased
ratio during the latter part of the present
century, s What may be the grand
achievements of scientific discovery,
what wonderful developments of practi
cat resultsrrfey not be expected before
its close? We can easily surmise the
possibility of some new and inexpensive
motive power, that will displace all of
the present methods. Perhaps it may
be electricity, perhaps anew combina
tion of gases, using the atmosphere, or
water, or both combined. It is possible
that we may navigate ill*' air wikh the
same ease aud certainty that we now do
the sen, only with an accelerated speed.
Hpw anxious do we peer into the
future.” These prophetic words are
quoted from one who even proposes to
overcome friction. We have not yet
seen the great age. It is imbedded in
tho future. Or it might be better to say
that it is germinating in the present, and
will arise in its splendor to meet the
future. But in all the grandeur of this
pliysicial advancement of the world, let
no man be forgotten. He should stand
out, superior to all, the “finest finish”
of his ago. and
“The herald of a higher race.”
—lndianapolis Herald.
Why Novelists Prefer England.
The hard experience of American
authors makes the task of writing books
for the enlightenment or pleasure of the
reading ppblic on tins side of the
Atlantic so uninviting that the wonder
is, npt.that we do not have a large class
of writers, but that any one thinks it
worth Lis while to devote time and at
tention to this work. An American
novelist commonly depends for his profit
on the sum he receives for the sale of his
story to the publishers of one or another
of the widely circulated monthly period
icals. What they pay him is a matter
of trade, and the price given must vary
very greatly, though as an average it
may be said that $1,500 for a story run
ning through from eight to twelve num
bers would be a tolerably high rate of
remuneration. After the work has ap
peared in this form, it is the custom to
republish it in hook form, the author re
ceiving a commission on the sales. If
from tiiese he nets SSOO, he may consider
himself exceptionally fortunate. Assum
ing that an author writes two novels in a
year, and if the work is faithfully and
carefully performed, this is about all
that he can expect to do, bis income will
• not be over $4,000 per annum, a small
return when tho talent required for the
service is taken into account. Novel
writing is, however, a monkey-making
employment when compared with the
returns received for some other forms of
literary work. For example, it was not
until his fourth book had been published
that Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson received
a penny in return for the literary work
he had done, and the sum total he has
received during his life-tifne would
doubtless represent hut a very modest
amount. Mr. James Russel) Lowell was
compelled to publish his first bool; of
poems at his own expense, and at the
end of a year, in making tip tho pub
lishers’ aecoums, it was found that only
fsrty-fiye,copies of it had been sold. Iu
this iasttwitie it would be unnecessary to
say whether it was Mr. Lowell or the
American public that was at fault. Asa
contrast to the foregoing it may be said
that accenting to common report Mr.
William Black haa of late yeats received
from £3,500 to £4,000 for each novel
that he has written. From this one rea
son may be drawn why Henry James,
Julian Hawthorne, and other American
novelists prefer to make their home in
England.— New York Times.
Yoc know Scollops, the diug clerk ?
Well, sir, the other night he went to a
ball, where his best girl’s father also
appeared, to see that young Scollops
didn’t waltz with his daughter, and if
that boy didn’t put on his Arctic over
shoes and lead the girl right out be
fore the old man’s face. Hostess came
to him. “Mr. Scollops," she says,
"for pity’s s)dse, why are you dancing
in your "overshoes V” And if Scollops
didn’t wink tow|r4 the hid' lias, glow
ering in the corner, and say, “ Because
a soft dancer turneth away wn th.”
Broke up the party ; hope to die J it
ditxA. 1 ,1 * *
(leaning Out the Sutler.
The army sutler was tho soldier's best
friend and worst enemy, Ito was looked
upon ns an extortioner, aud therefore an
enemy, aud yet he was regarded as a
friend who stood between the soldier and
hunger. Tliel'e were occasions when
regimental wagons cgitld not “gotthere,”
but it was only on rare occasions that
the sutler's wagons Could not plill
through. It Is true, ho asked a big
price for his cakes, cheese and canned
goods, but he had taken big risks in
following ifio regiment. All things con
sidered, tho sutler did not deserve tho
reproach bestowed Upon his calling, Ho
ran risks which only brave men take, and
his expenses sometimes devoured bis
profits, largo as thoy seemed. Very few
of them mode any great amount of
money, and scores of them were finan
cially busted by raids and robberies.
From first to last the sutler was con
sidered fair game for any one who could
beat him, and when he could not bo
tricked ho could be cleaned out. This
latter process was the darkest mystery
in army life. No one seemed to plan or
to lead, aud yet all seemed to under
stand. At a given moment from twen
ty-five to one hundred men would sud
denly appear at the sutler’s tent, or but,
and go through him like a hurricane.
The blow fell so quickly that there WaS
no dodging it, and the guards arrived
tod late to make an wrest or savo any
thing.
At the remOuut camp at Pleasant Val
ley, in 1365, thirty men fell Upon the
Butler’s cabin about, five Minutes after
roll-call, It Was a stout log hut, se
curely barred and bolted, and contained
S7OO Worth of stores. Tho clerk, a
young infcn of nineteen, slept within,
armed with two revolvers. There Was a
fraud yell, a crash, Raid all was over.
n five minutes from tho first alarm a
guard was on the spot, but too late.
The only articles left iu the hut would
not have sold for SSO. The clerk was
outside in his night clothes, robbed of
bis arms and cash, and elieoso, bags of
nuts, boxes of candy and cases of tobac
co and canned goods had disappeared as
if taken up by the wind. A strict Snatch
was at once begun, but not so much as a
nickel’s worth of the stolen property
could he disooverod. A hundred men
were suspected and questioned, but not
one could be held responsible. It was
like the swoop of a hawk, as full of
deadly vengeance.
In 1862, to Richardson's brigade of
infantry, a sutler was cleaned out, at noon
in the'midst of 4,000 men with their
eyes open, and a thousand dollars worth
of goods secreted' in camp so well that
only a dozen pen-holders could bo found
by the searchers. Twenty men did tile
business in about two minutes, and not
one of them could be identified.
The Spider ns a Balloonist.
In speaking of the intelligence dis
played by birds and leasts, Seth Green
argued strongly in favor of the reasoning
power of insects especially, au4 related
from his own experience the Manner iu
which a spider constructs a balloon. If
you anchor a polo ix. a body of water
leaving the pole above the surface, and
put a spider upon it, he will exhibit mar
velous intelligence by iris plans to escape.
At first, he will spin a web several inches
long and hang to one end while he allows
the other to float off in the wind, in tho
hope that it will strike some object. Of
course this plan proves a failure, but the
Bidder is not discouraged. Ho waits
until the wind changes, and then sends
another silken bridge floating off in an
other direction. Another failure is fol
lowed by several other similar attempts,
until all tho points of the compass have
been tried. But neither tho resources
nor the reasoning power of tho spider is
exhausted. He climbs to the top of the
pole and energetically goes to work to
construct a silken balloon. He has no
hot air with which to inflate it, but he
has tho power of making it buoyant.
When he gets his balloon finished he does
not go off upon the mere supposition
that it will carry him, as men often do,
but he fastens to it a guy rope, the other
end of which he attaches to the island
pole upon which he is a prisoner. He
then gets into his icrinl vehicle, while it
is made fast, and test it to see whether
its dimensions are capibleof the work of
bearing him away. He often finds that
he has made it too small, in which case
he hauls it down, takes it all apart, and
constructs it on a larger and better plan.
A spider has been Mien to make tliree
different balloons before he became sat
isfied with his experiment. Then lie
will get in, snap the guy-rope, and sail
away to land as gracefully and as su
premely'independent of his surroundings
as coulil well be imagined. Air. Green
stated that he had repeatedly witnessed
such actions by spiders, and that he feels
convinced that it is reason that enabled
them to free themselves from their prison.
—Rochester Democrat.
The Fireplace in Summer.
The aching void of a black and empty
fireplace in summer time has proved a
source of annoyance to many generations
of sensitive housekeepers, and various
ingenious contrivances liavebeen evolved
to render its ya%nhig blackness less mp
pressive. If maybe’that practical, un
imaginative minds can scarcely appreci
ate the possibility of a fire ready laid in
a prosaic gratebcingmade to ks>k pic
turesque or artistic. Yet an English
writer cntliusbstically describes such a
cold fire appatfcntly waiting the applica
tion of lhemaich. blightly protrmiwg
betwcbffthe lower burs was a crumpled
piece of; greenish-tinted paper; over this
lay a Small faggot, with ife binding
loosed, pf dry twigs; upon this was judi
ciously placed a lot of ( clean, knobby
coal, the wh surface mounted by-a
magnificent yule log, carefully selected
for its shape and the pictures*;’:'! •
tribntion in |}s upper surface of some
moss-coverefflbroken bark. Esthetic
housekeepers, who are puzzled to know
how to fill up their empty fireplaces in
the summer time can try the effecC of
this admirable device, worthy, accoidiflg
to this writers’:! view, of being studied
with advantage by a painter of Still life.
1 “Wiiatu pity fldwerS can utter no
sound,” savs Beecher. You Viet it is I
if the sunflower could speak some of the
fools in |hia country would hear some
thing drop.
Poe, Hie Poet, Murdered.
Dr. J. J. Moran, of Falls Church, Va.,
iu a lecture upon the death of Poo, said :
As the shades of evening daseanded
upon Baltimore, Poe had rambled on un
til he bad reached a daugorous portion
of the town, where it was unsafe for a
man to loiter alone. Here tho men who
had been following same up with him
and lie was forded into a low den, where
he was drugged, robbed, stripped of his
apparel and thon clothed in the filthy
rags of one of the brutes who lmd as
saulted him. From this place he was
thrust into the street, and as he staggered
along, his brain benumbed by the deadly
drug, lie fell over an obstacle iu Ins
pathway and lay insensible for hours
exposed to the cutting October air. A
gentleman passing recognised the fo
of Poo as he lay prone up-,* the street,
and calling a back ho directed that he bo
conveyed to the Washington Hospital,
sending his card to Dr. Moran, with tho
single word “Poo” written in the cor
ner. Poe was cared for, and received
energetic medical treatment to counter
act the effect of his depressed condition.
During this time Dr. ftforan said to him l
“ How do you feel, Mr. Foe V”
“ Miserable.”
“Do you suffer any pain?”
••Ho,*
“ How long llftvo you been sick ?’*
“I cannot say.”
As Poe’s last hofirs approached Dr.
Moran said that he bent Oter him and
asked if lie lmd any word liG wished
Communicated to his triends. Poe raised
his fading eyes and answered, “ Never
more.” Iu a few moments ho turned
uneasily and moaned : “ OGod, is there
no ransom for the deathless spirit?”
Continuing, ho said s “Ho who rodo
the heavens and Upholds tho universe
has His decrees written on the frontlet
of every human being.” Then followed
murmuring, growing fainter and fainter,
then a tt-dtior of the limbs, a faint sigh,
and the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe bad
passed tlio boundary lino that divides
time from eternity.— Washington Post.
The Chameleon.
The chameleon has been an object of
curiosity tho world Over cm account of
its power to ohange its color, but Its
power to change its form is not less re
markable. Sometimes it assumes tho
form of a disconsolate mouse sitting
mum in a corner; again, with buck
curbed and tail erect, it resembles a
eroiiching 11 n, which no doubt gave
origin to itsnamo chainal-lOon, or ground
lion. By inflating its sides it flattens
its bellyj and, viewed from below, takes
the form of an ovate leaf. The tail is
the petiole, while tho white, serrated
line, -n'hicii runo from liuse I® ~f fail
over the belly, becomes tho midrib.
Still again throwing out the air, it draws
in its sides, and at the samo time ex
pands itself upward and downward till
it becomes ns thin as a knife, and then,
viewed from tho side, it has tho form of
an ovate leaf without a midrib, but
with the serrated line of the holly and
the serrated back becoming the serrated
edges of a leaf. Wien thus expanded
it also has the extraordinary power to
sway itself over so us to present an edge
to an observer, thus greatly adding to
its means of concealment. I have
studied tho changes of color with much
interest. Iu its normal state of rest it
is of a light pea green, at times blend
ing with yellow'. The least excitement,
as in handling} causes a change. The
ground-worlf remaius the same, but
transverse stripes appear running across
the back and nearly encircling the body
in a full-grown animal, numbering about
thirty, and extending from head to tip
of tail. These stripes occupy about the
same amount of space us the ground
work and are most susceptible of change
of color. At first they becoriie deeply
green, and, if the excitement continues,
gradually change to black. When
placed upon a tree the ground-work be
comes a deep green and the stripes a
deeper green or biack, and so long as
they remain on tho trees tho color does
not change. The prevailing idea that
they take on the peculiar hue of the
foliage among which they happen to be,
is, I think, erroneous. Wo have placed
them on the scarlet leaves of the dracae
na and among tho red flowers of the
acacia with no change from tho prevail -
in g green. ' 1
Origin of Life Insurance.
The rise <*f life insurance may be
traced to several sources. The doctrine 1
of probabilities developed by Pascal and
Huggens, os to games of chance, was
applied to life contingencies by tho
great Dutch statesman, Jan Dewitt, in
1071, but it was not till some time after
that it was applied to life insurance. In
1098 there was a hint at modern life in
surance in a London organization, and
this was followed by another association
two years after. The operations of these
two seem to have passed atvay without
giving to their successors any clear na
ture of their plan of operations. A third,
the Amicable Society for a Perpetual As
surance Office, was founded at Loudon
in 1700. Tt was mutual; that is, each
member, without reference to age, paid
a fixed admission fee, and a fixed annual
payment per share on from one to three
shares; at the end of the year a portion
of the fond wan divided among the heirs
of the deceased members in proportion
to the shares held by each. There grew
tip with this the election of members,
in after yearn, then the limitations ah to
age, occupation, health, and other sug
gestions which were finally developed by
other wganiintlous upon scientific prin
ciples. L __s
On the Mine Danube.
A correspondent, describing a trill
down the Danube, in Austria, says ;
“ The flouting grain mills on the Dim
nboars its most curious feature. Fancy
two canal boats moored parallel to cadi
othejl- iii mid-river, about fifteen or twen
ty feet apart, and supporting between
them the crank, of a gigantic mill
wheel, turned by the current of the
stream. Fancy, moreover, tho sides of
■me of these lioats carried up- one story
I higher than the other, then roofed over
j a Ui Noah’s ark, with windows and doors
jas needed, and you will have'a fair idea
; of these Danpbe grain rnius, some four
j or five thousand of wbicli, in groups of
| ten or twelve together, are scattered <
I along tliis watery highway all the way
I from Vienna to Belgrave. Each mill is
inscribed with its owner’s name.”
k Horrible Record of Crime,
Tho New York Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children, iu its last
annual report, gives some harrowing de*
(ails of tho condition in which many
children Wefo found during the year.
The following are a few specimens taken
from the report:
A little girl but four years old was
Rescued from n saloon-keeper who was
selling to her a bottle of rum, aud the
precocious little toper was placed in a
home for children.
Thomas Smith, father of a little lioy
fifteen years old, was arrested by the
Society, fined and imprisoned for com
pelling his soil to he a contestant in a
wnlking-match at the American Insti
tute Building, where one hunched miles
were made In tWcuty-fonr hours, ana
where the little fellow fainted long be
fore the task could be,completed.
At No. Adfi Eleventh sffieutifi, offlfPTS'
of tho Society found Michael and Alice
Mclvondra both drunk and surrounded
by three children. The rooms thoy oc
cupied WCfo reeking with dirt, vermin
and horrible stenches, The only article
of furniture was a mattress spread upon
the floor. The children, aged six years,
two and a half years uud six mouths,
were wallowing in vomits and excre
ments, aud wero ail starving. The little
child of two And n half years was totally
blind. The baby shortly died, the other
two wete oared for in public institutions,
and the unnatural parents wero sent six
mouths to the Penitentiary.
Tim, Sooiety rescued a little girl only
eight veaCs old, whom a mau named
GeO. Walker was in the act of abducting.
The girl was restored to her parents, and
the kidnapper punished.
Four children, Mamie, John, William
and James, aged respectively thirteen,
ten, seven and six years, wero rescued
from their parents, Thomas and Cathe
rine Wilson, who occupied a lmt in a
New York locality known an “Hell’s
Kitchen,” and who have since been cent
to tho Penitentiary for highway robbery.
Tho interior of tlio hut was a counter
part of old Fagiu’s quarters, and the
children wero being subjected to the
same training that young Oliver re
ceived. Thoy were sent to the New
York Catholic Protectory.
John, Rosa and Peter, all under seven
years of age, were taken from their
parents, Patrick and Maria Boylau, at
§53 West Fiftieth street, aud were com
fortably housed in an Asylum, They
wero nil naked and were found crouch
ing in a corner to escapo tho blows of
their father and mother, both of whom
were iu a lieastly state of intoxication.
Patrick and Maria Wero committed. Nu
merous other eases ant detailed in the
rQporti. Onn where a little girl oulv
nine nino years ot ago ...... —f ro „,
a man who had attempted to outrage
her .; another in which n little girl was
delivered from a father attempting an
uiiuatural crime, and still another in
which was saved a little motherless hoy
named Husloy, compelled by bis father
to sleep through December in an open
cellar on Twentieth street, where
his ears and hands were frozen, and
where he was frequently bitten by tho
rats. It is of little consequence in whose
uuino the Society docH this humano
work. It is of little consequence what
the motive that prompts it. So long us
tho lmngry are fed, tho naked clothed,
aud those who perpetrate tlio inhuman
ity are punished, so long ought the Hu
mane Society to bo encouraged and sus
tained. ; ;
Thu story of John Dimoan, Of Alford,
England, the “weaver-botanist,” has
been received with the warmest sym
pathy by scientists and scientific socie
ties the world over. Although only a
poor weaver, toiling nt the loom for his
daily bread, he has by lifetime of in
dustry and earnest devotion to science
added very materially to the Imtanieul
knowledge of his ooiintry; and quite re
cently prcseiited Iris largu and very val
uable herbarium b> the university of
Aberdeen. His" scientific labor, how
ever brought, him no pecuniary reward,
and extreme old ago found him depend
ent for his daily necessities upon par
ochial relief. Recently the worthy old
botanist's needs have attracted much at
tention, and a fund now raising for Iris re
lief by voluntary subscriptions lias
reached the respectable proportions of
about £125. Her majesty, tho Queen,
presented £lO. Tho money subscribed
is to lie placed in the hands of a hoard
of trustees, who will make ample provis
ion for Mr. Duncan during tho remain
der of his life, and on his death will de
vote any sum remaining to the promo
tion of science. The weaver-botanist is
now in his eighty-seventh year, and in
feeble health.
Equal to the Emergency.
A young women while going from her
home to a postoflice, was accosted by one
of the la-da-da gentry, who asked if he
might accompany her down town. Bhe
objected and commanded him to leave
her. The rowdy still followed her and
she sought .refuge in a neighboring
house. In aiew minutes, thinking the way
clear, she started out for her destination.
When in the postoflice sho recognized
her assailant, and lie ,followed her out.
When on the sidewalk lie stepped to her
side and inquired: “Are you from
Canada ?”
“No," she replied, “I’m from Ire
land; ” and with this last remark she
dealt him a stunning blow in the face,
felling him to the sidewalk.
“My God,” cried a woman who wit
nessed the act, “have you killed him
I "I don’t know," answered the young
. lady as she walked on. After reaching
her home she discovered that her hand
'and slfiCvc were covered With blood, and
the then concluded that she left a mark
on fhe impudent fellow’s phiz.—Bap
City (Mich. ) Trihoor.
Dll, McDermott, of Monticello, Ark.,
lias invented a flying machine. It does
not fly yet, but is expected to. Mr. Mc-
Dermott was led to undertake the vork
through pride. He says: “It is morti
i lying that a stupid goose or a buzzard
should go ut will above, the oarth, aud
! man, the greatest of God's creatures, be
obliged to crawl around like a worm. I
hope before I die to give a flying chariot
to every lady in the land.”
Edinburgh University has 3,237 stu
■ dents, the school of medicine taking the
larger proportion—l,G2B.
TERM*: $1.50 per Annum.
NUMBER 31.
HISTORICAL.
Tire Koran was written about 610,
A. D.
Thr whale fishery first sprang up in
the Bay of Biscay, in tho twelfth cen
tury.
The cat was first domesticated in
Egypt. The Greeks and Romans did not
possess it.
One hundred and ten monasteries were
suppressed in England by the order of
Henry V.
The original name of the city of Al
bany, when founded by the Dutch, was
Beaverwick,
Paracbtsus is said to have cured a leper
by keeping him for sixty hours to a bath
of hot mud.
An Inventor named Cools, who died
recently in Saratoga, used to boast, when
sr young man, "that Ire was master of
twenty-six trades.
The ancient Pueblos were the only
aboriginal people within the limits of tho
United States who possessed tho art of
glazing their pottery.
Oaesau was one of the best judges of
pearls that over lived. He could at once
tell the weight and value of a pearl when
lie took it iu his hand.
There is a fairy mythology, similar to
that of Europe, among the native tribes
of America, which embraces even the
superstition of tho changelings.
In the reign of Titus 3,000 men were
compelled to fight as gladiators, and 10,-
000 during tho reign of Trajan. Both
Emperors were noted for their clemency.
According to Spanish historians eight
eonturies of warfare elapsed,-and 3,700
battles wero fought before the Moorish
kingdoms in Spain submitted to Chris
tian arms. * -**
Philip Sxßozn, when accused of tho
assassination of Alexander L of Tuscany,
killed himself through fear that torture
might extort from revelations injurious
to his friends.
In TUat u general bearing toward so
ciety and iff the nature anil minuteness
of their scruples tho early Chriatainu
bore a greater resemblance to Quakers
than to any other existing sect.
There was a questias among tlio
early Christians aS to the propriety of
wearing, in military festivals, laurel
wreaths, because laurel was called after
Pauline, the lover of Apollo, the heathen
god.
In 1590, David Black, n Protestant
minister in Scotland, delivered a sermon
in which lie snid that, as to the Queen of
Scotland, thoy might ns well pray for
her because it was the fashion to do so,
but no good would ever come of it. As
a consequence he was thrown into prison.
In as soon a death occurs,
ashes arc otrewn on the floor of the room
and tho door fastened. Next morning
the ashes are carefully examined for foot
prints and the soul of the dead is said to
have passed into tlio body of whatever
animal the imagination traces in the
ashes.
One method used by the Anglo-
Saxons for ascertaining the intentions of
fnto wub to take slips of wood from some
fruit-hearing tree, mark them, anil after
a solomn prayer, shake them together
and throw them into a whito garment
spread for the purpose. Tho number of
marks lying uppermost decided the
greater or less degree of fortune to come.
In 1386 Nicholas Lilliugton, Abbot of
Westminster, then nearly seventy years
old, prepared himself with two of his
monks to go armed to the sea coast, to
assist in repelling a threatened invasion
of the French. One of liis monks is de
scribed as so largo that when his armor
was afterward offered lor sale no one
could bo found of sufficient size to
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A Bolt From a Clear Sky.
The Hawaiian earthquake of 1837 is
described for the first time by an eye
witness, in Missionary Coah’s new book.
On tho 7th of November, 1837, at tho
eveuiug prayers, we were startled by a
heavy thud and a sudden jar of the
earth. The sound was like the fall of
some vast body upon the beach, and in a
few seconds the noise ot mingled voices
rising for a mile along the shore thrilled
us like the wail of doom. Instantly this
was followed by a like wail from all the
nutive houses around us. I immediately
ran down to the sea, where a scene of
wild ruin was spread out before me; the
sea, moved Viy an unseen hand, had, all
on a sudden, risen in a gigantic wave,
and this wave, rushing in with the speed
of a racehorse, had fallen upon the
shore, sweeping everything not more
than fifteen or twenty feet above high*
water into indiscriminate ruin. Houses,
furniture, fuel, timber, canoes, food,
clothing, everything floated wildly upon
tho flood. About two hundred people,
from the old man and woman of three
score years and ten to the new-born in
fant, stripped of their earthly all, were
struggling in the tumultuous waves.
Ho sudden and unexpected was the
catastrophe that the people along the
shore were literally “ eating and drink
ing,” and they “ knew not uutil tho flood
came and swept them all away.” The
harbor was full of stragglers calling for
help, while frantic parents and children,
wives and husbands ran to and fro along
the beach seeking for their lost ones. As
wave after wave came in and retired the
stragglers were brought near the shore,
where the more vigorous landed with
desperate efforts and the weaker and ex
hausted were carried back upon the re
treating wave, some to sink and rise no
moro till the noise of judgment wakes
them.
A Miniature of Aaron Burr.
Burr lived until 1833. I remember
that as I "’ns walking one day, in mv
early boyhood, with my father in Maid
en lane, he pointed out to me a little,
shambling old man, with rumpled white
cravat, hair whiter than his cravat, and
rusty black coat—a very forlorn and
doleful-looking creature. “ When you
are older," my father said, “tho time
will come when you will remember that
von have seen that man ; that is Aaron
Burr.”— Richard Grant White, in the
Century Magazine.
Delhi, India, used to have 2,000,000
of inhabitants. It now has only 200,-
000.