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W. E KARP, Publisher. VOLUME I. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Greyhound blue—a dog color—is haw ing a big run for traveling dresses. Nihilism and Fenianism seem to b# entirely too prevalent for perfect equa nimity. * California rejoices over the Presi dent’s approval of the ten-years anti- Chinese immigration bill. The Irish Republican Brotherhood publishes a document justifying the as sassination of Cavenish and Burke. Mbs. Wm. H. Yandbreilt pays her cook (a man, of course) $7,000 a year. It is even something to be a skilled pot slingor. We never hear of General Butler any more. The General has the facility of going to sleep when an interviewer calls upon him. A National Brewers’ Convention as sembled at the National Capital; de clared against all parties who favor prohibition. , Don Cameron seems to be having his way about political matters in Pennsyl vania. It is pretty hard to dcthrono those old fellows. Moody and Sankey didn’t like London and therefore refused to enter into a con tract with her religious people for the salvation of souls. London, however, is not entirely lost. Vennor predicted for May, cold and unusually wet. We do not mine! know ing in advance how the weather is going to he, but we would like to have a better meteorological manager. The report of “ thirty lives lost” by the burning of the steamer Rodgers was a grave telegraphic blunder. The re port was written “ no lives lost” nud the “no” was transmitted as “30.” At mast wo are glad to note that there will be some fruit this year. While peach brandy may ho scarce, the indica tions point to an abundant yield oi grape juice and plenty of hard cider. “Betty and tlio baby” have some thing like $4,000 in the bank to then credit, and the prospects are not exactly favorable to an early release of Mason. In fact he seems to be almost forgotten. The New York State Board of jioaltk reports that sugar sold in New York is not adulterated to any considerable extent, although much adnlterated sugar is there prepared for the Western mar. ket. Summer resorts are offering the Pres ident apartments for the season, free. Being a widower, it is expected great droves of marriageable women will tag after him. The President might realize a pretty respectable salary from his social position if ha were so disposed. Djixmomico’s, New York, now serves grapes to dinner parties at $3 a pound— and other unseasonable fruit at propor tionate rates. A man who will eat grapes costing $3 a pound and smack his chops over them hates the very sight of the article when they get down to five cerF. 3 . With a feeling something akin to ecstacy the announcement may he made that the aesthetic child of England, whose name has become wearisome to the eja and ear, will sail in a few days for Aus tralia. America will survive. It seems that Chinese immigration will have to cease, bnt meantime—until the law goes into effect—our shores will be flooded with coolies. It is estimated that 24,000 will arrive at Victoria alone betvpeen this and the Ist of August. General Hazen, Chief Signal Officer, Rays the escape ot Captain Howgute de prives the Signal Corps of its best means of answering the false and vicious accusations made against it, and m a letter addressed to the Secretary of War, demands that every effort ba made to effect his arrest. A3 the trig.l of the Malley boys and Blanche DougHfss progresses at New Haven, Connecticut, charged w;tli tho murder of Jennie Cramer, the testimony adduced leaves little doubt as to their guilt. Tho girl was first outraged, and then po|soced, .and when cold iu death, the body was thrown into the river. It is estimated that thus far the United States Government lias given away tb railroads 200,'000,000 acres of land, and none of it lias returned un ler a dollar an acre to the compani* s, and most of it has gone way abovo that. There is no reason why railroad man agers should not be independently rich. The Springfield Republican say i a thing that is too good not to quote : UuciiiuaU editors adopted the “f-t'-iae* ceutoniptmy” style fc-r a time in the etn.v spring, blit with the approach ef hot wenth-r they got down to business again un i cud eacii other liars and horse-thieves as usual. It is a habit Cincinnati editors have of telling the truth when they got mad and get down to business. The Scoville family still mnnago to keep themselves prominently h fore tic public. The latest sensation I?}, is in the nature of divorce proceedings. H 0 public may congratulate itself that this THE JACKSON NEWS. remarkable family promises to oiler new and attractive features as often as may be required for the perpetuation of a money-making notoriety. The whisky business in Ohio can hardly be said to boas rosy as it has been. Saloons that were not forced to close by,the Pond tax bill are .worried beyond all measure by the Smith Sun day-closing bill. In other words, the man who conducts a saloon in Ohio now has several sumptuary measures to sub scribe to not exactly to his predilection. Gfm-hat, John McDonald, a memm of the once notorious St. Louis whisky ring, and who, on conviction, was sen tenced and served eighteen months in the penitentiary, is now earning a living selling his book “ The Secrets of the Great Whisky Bing.” How, great a de cline—from millions to the position of book agent. Indeed, the punishment of iho w icked is greater than they can bear. The glory of having explored the Arctic regions may have something of intrinsic merit about it, but wherein the glory lies in being found frozen stiff as' a poker it would bo hard to divine. Poor DeLong, who commanded the Jeannette, like Franklin and other noted explorers who preceded him, will reap liis laurels in another world. There is little con solation in this for his family and friends. Iqwa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indian Territory have all, thus far this ! year, been visited by disastrous cylonci. r n tiie latter—lndian Territory—the de struction to life and property was some thing formidable. As cyclones in former years wero of rare occurrence, it would be a source of some gratification if our scientists would succeed in solving the cause. Mexico seems disposed now to entei into an arrangement with the United States Government by which hostile In dians may be brought into subjection. This is to tho effect that when either they or tiie United States Government are pursuing hostiles, the pursuing party may be permitted to cross tbe border and continue the chase until relieved by those whoso territory is being invaded. The adoption cf this measure will de stroy tho usual source of escape and lienee will effectually check brutal out rages on the border. There is no one but that believes the Irish Land Leaguers profoundly regret the horrible assassination of Cavendish and Burke. Surely no one seems to more sincerely mourn the sad event than they. But that the crime was commit ted for the purpose of destroying a pro spective conciliation between the Enclish Government and Ireland there can bo no doubt, and that it was the work of the agents of the disturbing strata that abounds in all old nations, whose chief glory is bloody strife, is as true as that Die sun goe3 down. Peace they will not Lave so long as they can find flimsy ex cuses for an alternative. Upon the subject of reviving the obso lete Stfnclay laws in Ohio, the Cincinnati Gazelle , among other things favorable to the project, says : The need of the babies is pleaded as a reason f r Sunday milk deliveries ; but the babies got along nil the same before Snmlr.y milk wagons were invented. The well-to-do have means for saving milk over Sunday. The poor can do without this, as they have to do w ithotit many ihinge. And if the stoppage of Sunday miik shall diinish the rising generation, it will be onl.’ another of the means which nature fetches in to restrict the increasing pressure of population on the means of subsistence, and to rais e the quality of the raee by the great pro cess of the survival of the fittest. The cows ' can bo relieved on Sunday, and tho milk profit ably converted, without tho Sunday sale and delivery. So then, that which is necessary to the sustenance of the rich is not so to the poor ? It is pretty hard to subscribe to that doctrine, but still harder is it to agree to let hunger and death enter the doers of the poor and lay waste their homes “to raise the quality of the raee by tho great process of tho survival of the fittest.” Is there not something monstrous in this suggestion ? Tub Washington Republic presents the history of the Peruvian claims in the foliowing brief, intelligible style: “A long, long time ago there dwell in the Republic of Peru a poor bnt enlerpriaing Frenchman named Alexander Cochet. lie had an inquiring turn of mind, was something of a chemist, and made some scientific discoveries as tp tpe ones and qualities of the guano de- D. .sits, which are tho jmfciajpgl product of that country, lfe liki viso made iimihir discoTcne* I-H to i.itratos, which are alto found tlicre in great quantity. 2 The Peruvian Congress, on hia petitinD. awarded him as a recompense for his guano discoveries .6,000 trim of tne article, bnt on condition that he wonid feveal ail that ho know about tho nitrates. The condition was not accepted, ana JOcliet returned to la belle France, leaving behind him an unsatisfied "laim and un illegitimate son named Gekcio Goobft, The lather died iu France, and Gelacio claimed to ho the inheritor of anything of value belonging to his father in Peru, iho on’v thing was thin paternal claim against tho Government; but a- the award had been made and rejected, that did not seem to be a very valuable inheritance. However a Pennsylvania Putcbman named Ils'euer discovered -Gelacio, and for some trifle procurred from him an assignment of his claim. In course of time it made its wav into tho.pot;Bession of , ", n -f. y, , v Yorlt speculators, who were soon metamorphosed into a joint stock corporation entitled tiivPeruvian Company, with the now famous Jacob R. Shiphcrd as its promoter, t -e-’derit counsel. diplomatist, and chief man of business. The claim -itself had now attained enormous proportions. It was no longer a mere appeal to the generosity of (he r* ruvian Government, bnt a formal demand /or one-third of the vnlse of all the guano rdci.tiii'’ 1” Peru and of all thst jiaq beenr moved since the time of Cochet s discoveries— 1 the whole ci&im amounting to at least a tbou- Devoted, to the Interest of Jackson and Butts County. JACKSON. GEORGIA, WISfeN ESDAY, MAY 21, 1882. sand million of dollars. This was based upon & decree which offered to thelinders of oonocaled church property (at a time when it was all con fiscated) one-third of its value. Then there was another claim, also of a Frenchman, namod Landroau, in connection with the actual finding of the gun no deposits, and this claim passed practically under (ho control or manag ment of Mr. Shipherd. It was, however, only for a small amount (anywhere between seven millions and three bundled millions.) It had come into American hands by the fact of Lun drean having a brother here, who was a partner with him in his contract, who became naturalized and who is now in the service of the United States as Coueul at Santiago do Cuba. The Rhuse of Romanoff. The Romanoffs rather pride themselves on the antiquity of their family-tree, claiming that it is known to have been planted by a Lithuanian prince_ in the fourth century. It is certain, however, that the family did not make their ap pearance in Russia until the fourteenth century. In the year 1311, Andrew Ivobyla emigrated from Prussia to Mos cow, and entered the service of tho Grand Duke Simeon the Fierce. The descendants of Kobyla held high posi tions, and tho fifth in direct descent from him was Roman Jurievitcli, who died in 1513, leaving a son, Nikita Romanovitoh Jurief, who by Iris mar riage with the Princess of Susdal (a direct descendant from a brother of St. Alexander Nevskoi), who was allied to the royal race of Rurik; and a daughter who became Czarina by her marriage with Ivan the Terrible, Nikita was one of the regency during tho minority of Feodor I.; and his eldest son, Feodor, under tho name of Philarete, was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite and Metropolitan during the reign of the falso Dimitri, Tho Romanoffs sup ported the party that tendered the Rus sian crown to tho Polish prince, and Philarete had gone with that view to Poland, when the opposition became so violent a3 to change entirely the state of affairs, and tho Poles imprisoned Philarete. The national party then pro ceeded to tho election of a native sover eign, who should be as closely allied at possible by blood to the race of Rurik, and after much hesitation and many re jections, they selected Michael Feodoro vitc.h Romanoff, the son of Philarete, and the representative, through his grandmother, of tho royal house of Rurik. The following is a list of the Czars and Emperors of Russia from that time to the present. Czar Peter I. was the first ruler who adopted, in tbe year 1721, tho title of Emperor: House of Earn an off, i vnn 111 1740 male lino: Elizabeth 1711 Michael ~.1613 Houso of ltomanoff- Alexei 16-45 Holstein: Feodor 1676 rotor HI 1702 Ivan and Peter 1...16.42 Catharine II 1702 Peter 1 16SU Paul 1792 Catharine 1 1721 Alexander 1 1801 Peter 11. 1727 Nicholas 1825 16 mole lino. ; Alexander II 1855 Anue 1780! Alexander 111 1881 The Cow “ Hoisted.” A man came to the offico with a black eye, a strip of court plaster across his cheek, one arm in a tiling, and as he leaned on a cratch and wiped the per spiration away from around a lump on bis forehead, with a red ootton handker chief, he asked if tho editor was in. We noticed that there was quite a healthy smell of stock-yards about the visitor, but thinking that in his crippled condi tion we could probably whip him, if worse came to worse, we admitted that we were ih. “ Well, I want.to stop my paper,” said he, as lie snt down on one edge of a chair, as though it might hurt. “ Scratch my name right off. You are responsible for my condition ” Thinking tho man might have been taking our advice to deaf men, to always walk ou a railroad track if they could find one, we were preparing to scratch him off without any argument, believing that he was a man who knew when he had enough, when be spoke up as fol lows : “The amount of it is this. I live out in Jefferson County, and I come in on the Northwestern Road, just to get re creation. lam a farmer, and keep) cows. I recently read an article in your paper about a dairymen’s convention, where one of the mQttos over the door was, ‘Treat your cow as you would u lady,’ and the article said it was contended by our best dairymen that a cow treated in a polite, gentlemanly manner, as though she was a companion, would give twico as much milk. The plan seemed feasible to me. I had been a hard man with stock, and thought maybe that was one reason my cow always dried up when butter was forty cents a pound. I de cided to adopt vour plan, and treat acow as I would a lacly. I had a brindle cow that never had been very much mashed on me, and I decided to commence on her, and the next morning after 1 read your devilish paper, I put on my Hunday suit, andthevhiteplughat that T bought the year Greeley ran for President, mid went to the barn to milk. I noticed the old cow seemed to he bashful, and fright ened, but taking off my hat and bowing politely, I said, ‘Madame,excuse theseem mg impropriety of tire request, but will you do me the favor to hoist?’ At the same time I tapped her gently on the flank, with my plug hat, and putting tho tin piail on the floor under her I sat down on the milking-stool. ” “ Did slid hoist?” said we, rather anxious to know how the advieo hud worked. “Did she hoist? Well, look at me, , and see if you thing she hoisted. Say, I tell you in confidence, and I don’t want it repeated, but that cow raised right up and kicked me with all four feet, j switched me with her tail and hooked me ! ; with both h6rns, all at once, and when I j got up out of the bedding in the stall, and dug my hat out cj the manger, aud | the milking stool out from under me, and j began to maul that cow, J forgot all about I the proper treatment of horned cattle. I Why, she fairly galloped over me, and 1 never want to read your old paper again.” We tried to explain to him that the advice did not apply to brindle cows at all, but he bobbed out, the maddest man that-ever asked a cow to hoist in di plomatic language.— l‘wk'a Run. It is said that Sitting Bull has become a thoroughbred loafer, being too jzy to i-do any hard work except eating. It tfreiks t *ba"k of the noble t-VI nun to ket p uim in out of the weather. 1 !!VCI E JTOE S I It VMSI'OItH AT ION. by amzik n. LAUmt Old Jos, an lioui s; old darkey, fiuillug Ids days were drawing to an ebd, summoned all of hi> children about him to impart 10 i' words of advice before entering the 1 haven of rest.” Some of l.ia female admirers being present aho. The old min hrd already lost two wive-. His mind teemed mostly occu pied now with h : s children. Toning rest lessly on his his bed, he crivl i “Jake, come hyah ! now, j'-s fix die pilltr s’curely neaf my-headj For I’se sontefir. fur to tell you all jes afo’ IV dead; Come niclipr to your daddy r iisen clo er to his words. Fur p-oples allers talkin’—say dey (its it font de burd. , Jake, yen's my el’est chile; son take keer ob all de res; An’, ch Inn, min’ yer tumbler, fur he’s turt le know the be t’-e raised him up a good hoy, au larnt him ’bout do Bock, Dat says de good Ole Mah’sr knows yo’ eh’- rv turn nnd crook. I’se t acked him how to plow, hoc, pick an sin de cotton, He knows de name of tb’ry weed glowing in dat bottom. Ober v a icr, cross de creek whar ilnt’a corn am grovrin’, Groun’s sr dean it looks as cf ’twonhl neit her need a hoein’. De lta mam lull ob elober hay, de catties fa' an slfcl:; Dai’s ntiddlin in do smokehouse an r nidi down by tbc creek. I knows dal von all’ll help Jake, exceptin dat debblish Ned, But lie’s so hemal lazy, his hones wont rot when he’s dead. Now i-s you look, lie’s ketchin flies t’oin oft dtis count,arcane — D it nigger don’t keer a cent fur de sunshine or de ruin. When Cicisr kotch on fire las’ fall, when de men fokes wasn’t ’bout, Dat dabble settin’ dar jes cried kns? Sammy put him out lie knows whar eb'ry apple tree dats barin’ fruit de ties’; He’d wade froo thorns and briars, jes to rob a pror butds tier. Bat I’se seed him pow’ful ’tielar, when hoein out de corn, He’d skip (her half a acre, jes Icrpasali’.t'e thorn. * * * m s * * Cililnn, T feel dat def am cornin, draw me nigh de fire. I bii Its I hyar de mnu'c ob de holy Ileb’ly quart-; Yes, shoo,dar ant de angels wid harps nil in deir him’, An I sec de glo’ius Mansions in dat lichen ly lan’; No, dat can't be de Heteu what I sees up froo de si’. Fur Jars two black angelsa pullin onea’.-lid- dor’s liar. he r forms ’pear mighty fermilyah, but sicli quur Inolcln (hint's, Id< e’ar ef day an’t, beerfiil dcv’ll break ofl bofe deir wings. Woo’s and it. r a conrin,. Mvii gin oneu dat 11 itv’iy gate ? You h. (I blitter part dem angels afore it g'ts (00 I he. I ook’.i vender! here riey conus thin at a fearful rate, Fare's you born <lcn;s my two wives, fur lichens sake shot dat cate. * * s> * * .Take, what’s yon lioldin me for? lermne git right out dis bed, Ef Ps imlkerlated right I likes aheap f’olll la i 1 dra 1. MV I’d fated.in novels I seed no inde n’r, I’.i tui-’mylnci wit ds debble. I’sstued&y aiu’i ib.vvn dar. Look hyr, you weepia’ ’oomnns, git right cut lis doo’, An He'her put \o’ foots again upon dis punchen floo’; l’se done sred • nongli ob you nil; 1 hates yo’ burry raee. You can’t lib in peace hlbbheD, so don’t loaf ruin’ (li 1 place. Now, eliidmi, Itmm i tol* you, don’t marry s'’on or la e, At jclgment’zert yo’sefs an git a good seat by dogate, Fur when ilesc hyar M roious Come, an ere tas I in’ ob deir joys, ’Twill lieatdem shows 1111 circuses, you seed when jolt was boys, An no oneigwine to b’aaie y*on ef you open wide yo’ eyes. Fursartin *s you ib’.ia, dar’ll be fan up ir. de skies Cutting Out. The most desperate, yet generally successful mid popular, acbicvments have been those known a “cutting out”— that is, attacks by open boat upon an enemy’s ships in an enemy’s harbor, and I may cite one as among the most brilliant and picturesque of t hese exploits. The small British frigate Seahorse was blockading another frigate of about equal size in the harbor of Fort') Cahalio, on tho Bpatiish main. The idea of “cut ting out” the frigate from under the Spanish batteries by means of liis small, open boats, manned with only one hun dred men, inspired Captain Hamilton, and, wheu commnuicuteil to tho crew, was received with three hearty cheers. The boats, commanded by the captain himself, loft the frigate at night and made for the harbor, not unobserved, however, by a Spanish launch "row ing guard” at the entrance. This did not deter the gallant assailant. Lwo boats proceeded to cut the cables, tho others attempted to board at different points, two only out of tho six succeed ing at first. Tie Spanish crew, number ing tlirce hundred aud sixty-five, retired before the headlong attack of probably not eighty assiilants, and two boats crows remained to tow the enemy out if captured. For some minutes the issue Was doubtful, but while the deadly struggle proceeded below our lithesome sailors sprang eloft like a flight of night birds ; the gaikets were cut, the sails dropped curtain-like from tho yards, the ship gained life, ofid floated out liko u summer cloud or a vision amid the roar of guns from tho battery, tho continued tire of musketry, the loud curses of the Spaniards, and the measured splash of the oars. When tho struggle ended out side of tl* harbor one hundred and nineteen of the enemy lay stiff and stark, ninety-seven were wounded, while the loss of the victors whs trifling! This brilliantly successful exploit was of the irregular and desperate kind to winch the well known saying, “ (feat magin fique main ce n’eat pot l* gueere, would apply, and it shows tliat in war not only the chances of success, hut the object to be gained, must decide. Readers of naval history know that there were spec ial reasons why at all hazards tho Her moine should have been captured, or j rather recaptured. — The Nineteenth Cen tury. “ Been There.** “ I believe you nro takiug quite an in terest in spirits just at present?" said a rather seedy-looking old p>arty, sliding intt the city editor’s room. “Yes, wo aro devoting some space to that sort of thing,” said the city editor. “Got a communication?” “Well, no,” Baal the seedy party. “But 1 can give you a good deal of in formation on tho suhjeot. You Bee, I’ve worked the medium racket myself. I used to be one of the host matoriulizors going, and I’ve seen the time I could set a whole set of parlor furniture dancing a Highland fling by simply slapping my Angers. These modern follows aro no good, and don’t you forget it. They bungle the whole business, and give everything away before they have hardly commenced a sitting. What you want is cheek, and- plenty of it. Don't cave in because a crank happens to ask you troublesome questions. Just get up an infernal rapping under his chair and scare him into silonco, or got your assist ant to—” “ Assistant ?” asked the editor. “Then you confess—” “Confess! of course I oonf ess,” said the seedy party, “that's what I came here for. Yes, you have to employ an assistant, and very often tiie whole busi ness deponds upon his judgment. Why, I have au assistant who could run the snap just as well as I could, and ho was death on stirring up tho unonsy ones after the light was turned down. One timo lie touched a piece of ice to the back of an old gal’s neck, and put her in a fit. Wo had to skip) that town in short order I tell you. That was his great trouble. Ho nover could take in the truo inwardness of a circle. My motto is, first be sure of your circle, and then stave ahead. If they aro farmers and that kind of thing why let ’em down easy. A little will go a groat way with ’em. If you strike a city bring in your heavy guns. Lead off with a dozen or so communications from the old world, work up a little rapping business, and then when you’ve got ’em nervous enough just suddonly spring the cubinet act on ’em ; but there is ono thing a well trained medium will never forget." “And what is that ?” asked the editor. “ He will always keep himself botween the gas fixtures or lamp hud his circle.” “Exactly,” said the editor. “Yes,” said the seedy party, slapping the desk with his hand, “more good, likely mediums have bust up in that way than any other. They put too much confidence in the circle. Whiff 1 Up went tho gas, and that settled the wholo businoss. You’re always sure to lip down a curtain in getting out ef sight, and there aro all your properties exposed to every body, hut l’vo got out of ouo or two scrapes of that sort in my time, and don’t you forget it.” “Now did you mauage it?” nsliod the ■editor. “Oh, I just throw the wholo thing on the spirits, and played tho innocent in jured act.” “ But would the people bcliovo you ?” asked tho editor. “Believe me,” saifi the seedy party, “ my dear boy, if you want to know just liow much tho people will believe, go into the spirit business. They never stand on ceremony. They just swallow everything whole, and the bigger the mouthful the easier it seems to go down with ’em. You just take a hack at the spirit business for a mouth or so, and if you dou’t agree that I’m right, I’ll stand tho drinks for tho wholo office. Talk about tho side show and dime museum business. Well, those follows know something about guys, but we can dis count ’em every time. They may stick a stray leg on a cow now and then, and call a South Carolina darky a Zulu, but for your simon pure humbug—” “Then you go so far as to call your business a humbug?” said the edit or. “Mv dear boy, I’ve been there,” said the, seedy party, as lie lit the Mump of a cigar, and sauntered out with the air of a man who had relieved his con science.—Brooklyn Ragle. Keep Those Discharge Papers. No soldier should allow any person, i however specious lus reasoning or smooth his tongue, to ob- | tain a copy of his discharge papers. , It can be lor no proper purpose that any person wants copies of such papers, un- j less such person be the authorized agent | of the ex-soldier and he engaged in sc- j curing for him a tract of land under the homestead act; and, even then, tho ex-soldier can act for himself. This case can have but one of two meanings: It must be the intention of parties buying up such copies of soldiers’ discharges ns tlu-y can obtain, thereby to locate land; if that bo tho ease and the soldier 11’ claims remain unim paired, the government is to lie defraud ed. Or else it means that theso copies of tho discharge aro to ho used in somo way so us to invalidate the claims of the soldiers who rightfully deserve recogni tion, and have the privilege of the home stead net. Soldiers should remember —and dishonest men need not bo told—■ that "in making final proof ou a home stead entry under the Soldiers’ and Sail ors’ Homestead Act the party will bo required to present to the proper district laud officers a certified copy of liis dis charge from the United States Array during the war of tho rebellion, or in the absence thereof, ‘satisfactory evi dence’ of service, which may consist of the party’s affidavit of the facts, cor roborated by tho testimony of two dis interested witnesses, will be accepted.” The intelligent soldiers of the Stab; of lowa and tho Northwest will at once see the reasons why parties want soldiers to give up their papers for a considera tion. Jict ucli persons understand that such practices will he investigated, anil 1 that they may hear further on the sub • joct, and their schemes will he dropped. A paper has been discovered in the archives of Venezuela, anted 1780, which gives an historical summary of early projects for piercing tho Isthmus of Panama. Tho first goes hack to tho reign of Philip 11. of Spain, who, at tho instigation of tho Viceroy of tho Indies, k; nt cuitain Flemish engineer* to inves tigate on the spot the feasibility of the undertaking. Their report was alto gether adverse ; and thereupon Philip Jt, threatened tho penalty of death ageist whoever should again bring up the project. Stories of Talleyrand. Talleyrand was tho only Bishop pos sessing a benefice in France who took the new oath required by the &tatq. Mirabeau early descried tho talent of this extraordinary man, “ wlio dressed like a coxcomb, thought like a deist, and prouohod like a saint.” Perceiving tho wklerango of his abilitities, he distin guished him us one of the most power ful and versatile of tho men of genius who then abounded in Europe. Through everything Talleyrand presorved a .tuny froth which was inimitable. It was seen alike in small matters as in great. One day, as ho was mounting tho steps of his carriage, ho spoke to an inividual whom lie had hitherto pretended not to recognize, but whom he knew very well. This person ho had seen for days near his defer. “And who are you, my friend?” “I am your coaohmaker, my lord.” “ Ah, you aro my coaohmaker; and what, do you want, iny coaohmaker ?” “I want to bo paid, my lord.” “ Alt, you nro my coaohmaker, and you want to he paid ; you shall bo paid, my coach maker.” “And when, my lord ?” “You are very inquisitive,” said iho bishop, its lie settled himself in the new car riage which ho had not paid for. Many were tho scenes which took plaoo between him and Napoleon. On one occasion, Napoleon having said that if ho thought liis own death likely, ho would take caro that his Vice-Grand Elector should not survive him, Talley rand quietly replied that ho did not de sire that reason for hoping that his Majesty’s life might long bo preserved. Another scone has been thus described byM. Mole: “At the end of tho Coun cil of State, which took place just be fore tho Emperor started for the cam paign of 1814, ho burst out into some violent exclamations of liis being sur rounded by treachery and traitors, and then, turning to M. do Talleyrand, ho abused him for ton minutes in tho most violout and outrageous manner. Talley rand was standing by the five all this time, guarding himself from tho heat of the flames with his hat; ho never moved a limb or a ienture; any ono who had scon him would have thought he was the last man in the room to whom tho Em peror could bo speaking ; nnd finally, when Napoleon, slamming tho door violently, departed, Talleyrand quietly took tho arm of M. Mollieu, and limped with apparent unconsciousness down stairs. But on getting homo he wrote a, dignified letter to the Emperor, say ing that if he retained his present dig nity, ho should ho by right one of tho regency; and that, as ho could not think of holding such a charge after tho opinion His Majesty had expressed of Into, ho begged to resign liis post, and la: allowed to retire into tho eoiyitry. lie was informed, however, that bis resignation would not be accepted, nnd that he might stay where he was.” It is reported that Fnuqho and Talleyrand actually came to blows in the very closet of the Emperor upon the subject of tlio misapplication of tlio secret funds, of which tin y mutually ncQUsedeach other. After listening to their accusations nnd justifications on both sides, Napoleon turned thorn out of the ronm, say ing, “Go along ; you nro both of you rogues.”— London SocArfy. A Ilorriblo Beast in a Sewer. One of tho most remarkable incidents that lias yet come to light—or rather to darkness—in North St. Louis is recorded, and although the hero iu tho case escaped with his life, ho is not particu larly anxious to go on any more explor ing expeditious, even when they are iu the interest of homo comforts and re quirements. Billy Brant is a well known meat-shop keeper, doing business on Ninth street, near St. Louis avenue. He resides at Elliot and Sullivan avenues, and the Rocky Branch sower carries away tho offal and refuse of the locality. For some time Mr. Brant has had trouble with his sewerage, and the other after noon he took hia younger brother with him to investigate matters. Tho sewer is a natural one, and largo enough to allow a wugon with a double team to drive through it. From the surface the depth is something over twenty feet, and a rope and a ladder was brought into requisition. Mr. Brant descended through the main hole, which was barely largo enough to allow of his descent. He had scarcely entered the sewer when he heard a rushing through the rushing stream ef water anil offal, which sounded as one might imagine tho breaking out of a menagerie, and by the uncertain light ho saw plunging toward him a monster dog, with eyes bloodshot and emitting sparks of phosphorescent fire. The animal was about two and a half feet high, and was heavy set, of tho bloodhound species with a crossing of mongrel blood, and probably weighed as much as a ileer ora colt. He was howl ing muilly, and his white, gleaming fangs wove bared in a manner which evi dently meant business. Tho ! beast.was covered with short white and black hair, and wan endowed with other character istics which were poculeaily interesting and worthy of research. Mr. Brant, however, remembered an important end of the ladder, and, after breaking tho paralysis of fear, 110 moved up the rungs as quickly as possible, aud not a moment too soon', leaving the beast howling fiercely at tho foot, and expressing its rage in canine shrieks, which were fairly blood-curdling. The younger Brant heard the nohjo below, and felt the lad der shaking violently, and hisheart stood still until hia brother appeared in day light, looking blanched anil agitated. Mr. Brant soon got back to terra (Irma, I and postponed investigation* of that ua ’ turn. Mr. J. Kurtzelom, a gentleman ; who is particularly well posted in matters in that locality, expressed his opinion I that the dog must have been carried into Iho sewer when a pup, anil had lived there all of its life. It was too large 1 even to get in through any man-hole, and as for its getting out at any time, that is simply absurd. Tho only exit is by way of the river, anil the animal would be drowned instantly if lie ever attempted to get out that way.— St Louis Voat-Iycspodeh. A French manufacture claims the dis covery of making use of leaves of the eucalyptus tree as a substitute for tobacco leaves m cigars. Tho eucalyptus leaves emit a delicious odor in buxmug. lEliS 11 : $1.50 per Annum. NUMBER 37. POPULAR SCIENCE. Sulphur aud naphtha are used in the manufacture of rubber cloth. The delicate perfumes of melilot and woodruff are mode from ooal tar. Oolohino matter known ascaulme ha* been obtained from the red cabbage. Diluted in alcohol, in the proportion " of one to 100, nitro-glyoerine can be kept safely. A river moving with a velocity of two riiilea an hour will move pebbles as large as hens’ eggs. Tiibre is no organic reason why fishes oould not breathe air if the gills oould 1* kept moist and free. The daily movement of the great Swiss glaciiir, the Mer de Glaoe, is from seven to thirty-six inches. It has been calculated that the gold of gold lace is not more t-hanathird of a millionth of au inch thick. In the Kaga ware the red is first baked in, .then the gold added and tho porcelain again submitted to tbe fire. The ordiunry work ef a horse is stated at 22,500 pounds raised one foot in a minute for eight hours a day. The fogs of London have a great in fluence on its death rate, whioh increases with their heaviness and frequency. A receipt for chapped hands is a pieoe of camphor the size of a walnut melted with half n cupful of mutton tallow. A bar of iron seventy feet long, at a temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit, heated to 212 degrees, expands ono foot. Four million of a young spkler’s threads, which are not so large as those of a grown spider, are not as largo as a single human hair. The alabastrilo marbles of the ancients were not marble paper, but a hard car bonate of lime, identical with stalagmite, the modern alabaster. A vegetable green, perfectly harm less, for tlio use of cooks and confection ers, lias been discovered. It is made from the grains of raw coffee. It is said that a lead tank will spoil petroleum in a week, causing it when burned to choke the wick. Stoneware or slate is suggested for tanks. Hard rubber, for ornaments, is made from the caoutchouc by mixing with it a large proportion of sulphur, and baking at a temperture of 300 degrees. Nothing is so fatal to oysters as a sand storm or covering their bods with mud. Tlio mud and sand accumulate in tho oyster’s delicate breathing organs and suffocate it. The effect of a diet of fish seems to bo sedativo, quieting, producing dull ness, rather than intellectuality. That phosphorus is a brain food is one of Agassiz’s few mistakes. Daiiwin found that of eighty-seven kinds of seeds sixty-four germinated after an immersion of twenty-eight days, anil a few survived immersion in salt water of ono hundred and thirty-seven days. Pulque is made from tbe agave or American aloes. It is a popular error that trees belonging to this genus re quire a century to arrive at maturity. Tho flower is sometimes put forth in ten yearn in a hot climate. Ir a piece of tissue of mixed wool and silk is plunged into hydrochloric acid tlio silk is soon dissolved, while tho wool remains, so that by carefully weighing before aud after the operation, the pro portion of the two fillers is easily ascer tained. A full font of Japanese type com prises 50,000 characters, of which 8,000 aro in constant use. Each Japanese word having a distinct character, the telegraph has been useless to that nation, and the telephone is likely to prove a blessing to them. Clot lies. A German writer says that “one of man’s principal defensive weapons in bis struggle for existence is his clothing. The place it takes in tho history of civ ilization and its connection with physiol ogy are not often thought of. It is spok en of from a moral anil esthetic point of view; its main purspose is a purely liygenic one." There is much truth in this. The seeds of grave disorders and chronic illness aie frequently sown through the neglect of well-known prin ciples in regard to clothing. As Carlyle says, “ within the most starched cravat there passes a windpipe, and under the thickest embroidered waistcoat there heats a heart,” and all these organs, as well as others which Carlyle does not name, need to be protected by clothing. Clothes do not make men, although some persons dress as if they did. There are those who are nothing more or less than clotlies-serec-ns. Clothes are not, us somo suppose, for the purpose of keeping tho cold from us, for, iu truth, we could not hear garments which did not allow of a continual ventilation of our surfaces. It is not the densest, thickest or heaviest material that we need in cold weather. It is of oompor itively little use in those days to oa'l out for an utter emancipation from fashion —perhaps such an emancipation might not bo altogether wise if it could bo effected; but where custom is tyrannical there the man or woman who has a care for health and comfort should be above the custom. (Jeohom was a good boy. He was always willing to take good advice. The teacher told him one day that he should avoid the apjiearanco of evil. George remembered this. When lie stole Farmer Clover’s apples that night, he saved all tho cores and dropped them in front of Dick Blatherskite’s yard. Dick was a bad boy and got punished for stealing Funner Clover’s apples, but George avoided the appearance of evil. Ho ate the apples. Tho good are always re warded in this world and the bad pun ished. —Jloston Transcript. About 6,000,000 pounds of evaporated apples are t present exported to Europe annually. Tho fruit is sliced into pieces one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness, and then exposed to the fumes of sul phur instead of drying in the sun. After drying, it is nearly as white as when first cut. Tho evaporated apples now sell for 15 cents per pound in European markets.