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Vf. E. HAIiP, PuliliNhey. VOLJJME.I, TOPICS OF THE DAY. ————— „ .j “ 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. - l 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 ♦ “Will Mr. Bounds accept his ap- i pointmeiit ?” Mr. Bound is a printer. , ■ Of course he will accept. - ■ 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. jjfc * 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. I 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. _ 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 | 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 I weor __________ 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.