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IV. E. HAki*,jphbflf>W. VOLUME I. NEWS GLEANINGS. Newton, Ala., will build a cotton fac tory. The oat crop in some parte of Geor gia averages 100 bushels to the acre. The new custom-house at Nashville is ready for occupancy. Eastern capitalists will build a large cotton-seed oil mill at Chester, £. C. Virginia contemplates nialditfrnrrang mentsto ship sweet potatoes to England. Lagrange, Georgia, is to have a large cotton factory. In some parts of South Carolina the barley yield is forty bushels to the acre. Little Rock, Atk., cannot pay her gas bills, and the gas company has shut off the light. A package of Stokes county, N. C., tobacco recently sold for $65 per hun dred pounds. Alamance county, N. C., has two cot ton factories in operation and five in course of construction. A crate of Florida peaches sold in ! New I ork at seventy-five cents apiece. The six hundred tea plants set out by I Commissioner Le Due at, Enterprise, EJa., are doing finely. Elorida will experiment in the grow ing of cinchona trees, from the bark of which quinine is made, A fruit drying establishment on a large scale is to be started at Greenshor o South Carolina. Vicksburg girls have organized a band of “sweet sweepers.” This is the latest Southern craze. Greater preparations than ever will be made this year to develop the gold and copper mines of Mccklenberg county. North Carolina. Many fine walnut trees in South Car olina sell for S4O apiece, toe mu ch ass ers reserving the right to remove them when they choose. The Richmond, Vs., alms-houre con tains seven men who a few years ago were . worth from half a million to a million dollars each. Jacksonville, Fla., has just made its first conviction under the new law pro hibiting the intermarriage ©f whites and blacks. The culprit was fined SSO. Plenty of illegal votes are cast in Clarke county, Ga. The grand jury of that county has just returned indie t ments agf inst 121 persons for that of fense. Several Alabama farmers report! sone damage to cotton by cut worms, a means of damage heretofore unknown; and they report that it has had a very se<- riouo effect on some fields. The Petersburg, Ga., Index Appeal says the best and largest fruit crop ever grown in Georgia will be ready for the market in a few weeks. In the seven counties around Griffin, Ga., 150 distilleries wilt be running this summer. The peach crop in the same section will be immense. A boy-genius of Charlotte, N. 0., has made a small (ire engine, three feet high and complete in every way. It raises steam in a minute and throws a tiny stream of water nerly twenty feet. Cocoanut growing is becoming an im portant indusiy in Florida. They grow to perfection, and promise to add great ly to the wealth of the State. A Jackson, Ga., man has discovered that his stock will feed as readily on Bermuda grass as on hay, as is preparing to harvest a big crop of the long de spised herbage. The outlook fcr a peanut crop in vari ous parts of Virginia and North Caroli na, is very discouraging. Cotton and corn have suffered severely from the cold. The Rome, Ga., Courier says the best evidence that the South presents the best field for cotton manufacture is in the fact that Southern mills run profitably on full time while Northern mills have to curtail their production. Reports from the overflowed territory in Louisiana differ widely. In some places benefits are reported and crops are jdoing well. From others the reports are ust the reverse. The cut-worms in some parts is doing extensive damage. The increase in cotton Ipuming ‘South is indicated by the statistics of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Missis sippi, 1/hiisisna*, North Carolina and South Carolina, which shows an increase of 361,600 spindles during 1881 and 1882 This represents an investment of $9,768,- 200 in machinery, and a consumption of 120,000 bales of cotton a year. The ferryman at Neal’s fen/, on the Chattahoochee river, Tenn., found a box floating in the stream which contained 3 sweet little -balse, alive and crowing. An abundant stock of fine clothing for the waif was in the box. In Troup county, Ga.. a field was planted in wheat this year which for nine proceeding years has been planted m cotton. Strange to relate a splendid stand of clover came up with the wheat though it is nine years since it was planted in clover. A rare sr and valuable relic was dug up THE JACKSON NEWS. in Beilin, La., recently. It is bronze medal two and three-fourth inches in di ameter, and weighing five and a half ounces. It was struck to commemorate the evacuation of Boston by the British on the ITtli day of March, 1776, and was voted to General Washington bv Con gress. The medal is much rusted, but the figure of Washington, finely execu ted on both sides, is very plain. Near Ilixburg, Va.,' three brothers n med Banton were at work in a iieid when a black snake of enormous size completely enwrapped one of them, lick ing the boy’s face until ho was uncon scious. When discovered by the other brothers the snake was foaming at the mouth, and maintained hii hold until cut to pieces. The boy was so frightened that he became speechless, and it was several days before he could regain the use of his tongue. llow to Manage a Kitchen. “A clean kitchen makesa clean house,” is a saying which has a great deal of truth m it. As all the food of the fami •y has to be prepared in the kitchen, and as most working peoplo have to take their menls and sit in tlio kitchen—in deed, as the one day-room has to be parlor, kitchen, and nil to many honest families—it ought to be clean and neat, or it will not be comfortable and healthy. First of all, the window and the fire place must bo clean and bright. No room is cheerful with a dirty fire-place. Every morning the room must be care fully swept, and any hearth-rug, mat, or piece of carpet must be taken out of doors and beat daily. The hearth must be cleaned every day, and the stove brushed, the fire-irons rubbed with a leather once a week at least, the grate must be black-lieaded, and the fender and irons thoroughly polished, and all well scoured down twice a week. Cup boards want great care to keep them free from dust, cool and neat. Supposing there arc two cupboards, one on each side of the fire-plaoe, it is well to keep one for stores, as groceries, etc., and one for crockery. Everything should be clean that is put in the cupboards, and there should be a place for every differ ent thing, so that if you wanted anything, even in the dark, you could lay your hand upon it. Be sure, whether you keep the lids bright or not, to keep the inside of every pan or pot used in cook ing so clean that it is perfectly dry and sweet. If you neglect his you may be the cause of poisoning yourself and your household. Many families have been poisoned by food being cooked in dirty pans. Besides, even if food is not made poisonous, it is spoiled by not being clean ly cooked. Be very particular about this. It is a good plan to have a jar of soda iii some bandy place, where you can, whenever you wash up, take a bit and put in the water. It is very cleans ing, and both crockery and tins washed in hot water, with a bit of soda in, will bo sure to shine and bo sweet. All tins should be polished once a week. Kitch en towels require good management. It is a very nasty habit to bo careless about towels. Tea things and glass should be wiped with a thin, coarse towel kept for that pm-pose. If you have a plate-rack over tlie sink, plates should bo washed in hot water, rinsed in cold, and put to drain in the rack; but if you have no rack you must wipo the plates; keep a good dish-cloth to wash them with, and a good coarse towel to dry them with, mul use your dish-cloth and your dish towel for nothing else. Brecding-off” Horns. The question of “ breeding-off ” the liorus of native cattle is receiving at tention, and there are many who claim that it “can be done.” Horns on neat cattle are a relie of barbarism, so to speak. They nre not only a useless ap pendage, but positively objectionable. Not only do cattle do one another injury in a yard or stable, but they have many a time, by their horns, caused the death of, or disabled, other animals. Timid people are mortally afraid of cattle with horns, but pass by tbe “mules” with out fear. In their wild state oattle had undoubted need of their horns, but domesticated, there are no ferocious ani mals to attack them. Nature appears to ho doing gradually and unaided that which a little artificial help would accel erate, as comparison between the spread ing and long horns of the Texas steer, and the short ones of the blooded cow indicates. It is suggested that horns may be bred-off by searing them when the calves are young. Everybody knows that dogs and cats have been bred with out tails, yet analogy might signify nothing, as sheep, whose tails are cut close when they arc lambs, continue, after many generations, to raise lambs whose tails, in turn, would be long, if they were not cut. But a family of Ayreshire cattle bred in Scotland, originally had their ears clipped from year to year to donate ownership. In timo the calves began to b3 born with the end of the ear wanting, and now the peculiarity is fixed. The Belle of El Faso. Almost every other house was a drink ing saloon, and the whole place had an air of dissipation which was rather more suggestive than alluring. The worst class of Americans come over from the other side, preying upon the vices of the Mexicans to their own profit, and mak ing what money they can out of their propensities for gambling, drinking, and dancing. “Le vir>, le jeu, le* belle*, voila no* tcule* plai*irs" seemed fitly to describe their lives and occupation, at ail events during Christinas week. My fellow-passenger back in the hack was an American “belle,” who had been up to see the “boys,” as she called them, whom I had visited in prison, who were friends of hers; and during the inter view a Mexican soldier had taken ad vantage of a touching moment to rob her of $5 and her pocket-handkerchief, so that I was entertained by heropinions of the Mexicans as a race, couched in strong langnnge, during the half-hour I enjoyed the pleasure of her society.— Blackwood's Moyaziue. Devoted to the Interest of Jackson and Butte Countv. JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 11, 1882. TOPICS OP THE BAT. Within the year the mines of Arizona Territory have paid nearly $1,000,000 in j dividends. Dennis Kearney pops up again, but not as a politician. He has drawn SB,OOO in a lottery. A man who buys a glass of beer in lowa on Sunday renders himself liable to a fine of from $1 to $5. Livery stable men in the East say the extension of the telephone from vil lage to village is injuring their business. Wendell Phillips lms declined, and Governor Long lias accepted tlie invita tion to deliver the oration July 4 at Bos ton. A monument costing $40,000, and n fountain $15,000, are to be erected to tlie memory of Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Chicago. —o— According to a local papor a man died in Minnesota from what was “prononced to be leprosy by physicians, of the most hideous appearance. ” Charles Reade is writing a series of short stories which will appear simul taneously iu England, the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, hns issued a proclamation warning drug gists to desist from the practice of sell ing liquor “by the drink.” The Toledo Blade says that tlie troublo with Mrs. Cliristiancy arose from the fact that she wanted to be a sister to too many nice youug men. Prices at the prominent summer re sorts will be from twenty-five to fifty per cent, higher than they were last year. Second grade people will have to stay at home. The Arizona Star declares that by tlie aid of artesian we lls the desert lands of Arizona can be made the most produc tive wheat growing districts in the country. To show their respect for Darwin, a number of students belonging to the Moscow University have resolved to wear a band of rnarw around their arm for twelve months. TnE Czar of Russia thinks that by in augurating reforms that he can get things in shape for his coronation in about a year. In what abject terror such a ruler must live. ~lt is thought that cork trees can bo successfully raised in every Southern State. Of some specimens planted in Georgia many are now thick enough for use. A naptha locomotive is abont to be tested on the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad. It is an immense saving in fuel, provided it works all right. An English surgeon says the time is coming when a man’s stomach can bo repaired and replaced without difficulty. It will simply keep him homo part of the time. The Sultan has refused to permit Hebrew exiles from Russia to make set tlement in Palestine. Two hundred Jewish families are on the verge of star vation in Constantinople. Henry Villaud, the millionaire Pres ident of the Northern Pacifio Railroad, was once Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,hut later, degener ated and fell in with monied people. Guiteau starts pn his trip to the next world just four days before the Fourth of July and 362 doys after the commis sion of the crime that placed the Nation under a cloud of gloom the last Fourth of July. Nine million acres of the best farming land in Dakota have just been thrown open to settlement by a decision of the Secretary of the Interior. Here is a bet ter field for enterprise and industry than El Dorado. The hundreds of saloons that closed in Ohio in consequence of the Pond liquor tax bill, now that the bill has been declared unconstitutional by the Su preme Court, will probably resume busi ness again. The Syracuse Herald is in favor of substituting steam whistles for church hells. “They can be heard further, create more disturbance, and it is han dier to drop in and murder the man who pulls the rope.” The contest over the South Carolina contested case was terminated in the United States House by the adoption of the resolutian seating Mackey. The re maining contested seats will now be rapidly disposed of. Nix ßßo w"s reason for resuming her own name is that she is indignant that the property which she accumulated by her exertions should pass to her hus band’s relatives on his death. The whole thing is an outrage. TnE penitentiari es are full of murder ers who will agree to be “ good citizens” if the Governors wi'Jl pardon them on.t. This is merely suggested by the negotia tions pending bet' eeen the Governor of Missouri and Fra jk James, Captain Howcute is still in seclusion and everything seems to be all right. Whether the authorities at Washington are anxious to capture him does not ap pear, but perbaps they are not or we should hear more about it than wo do. The period of three years required by law before n statue can be erected in a public place in honor of a deceased per son is nearing its end in the case of William Cullen Bryant, so Central Park, New York, will soon have anew monu ment. Charles Hunt died in New York of I apoplexy, at a drinking saloon, a few days ago. He was well known in Bos ton, Washington, and Now York as the unacknowledged son of Daniel Webster, and has held several important Federnl l offices. The London World says: “It is an open secret in the Irish party that Par nell dare not go to Ireland, and that in London, when not in the Houso, ho is in virtual hiding.” Mr. Parnell’s crime is that he favors a peaceful Bettle ment of the troubles in Ireland. When a lady called upon Mrs. Secro tary Kirkwood the other day she found that lady ironing. Hence, wholeoolumns of praiso and flattery. Had it been some woman whose husband had a sal ary of $25 per week, slio would have received the cold cut forever after. It seems that Walt Whitman has written a book—“ Leaves of Grass ” that is too dirty to be published. We knew that Walt was old, and thought also that he was clean, but after all it don’t do to have too good an opinion of a man. Walt has erred, and that is hu man. The Texas Legislature has showered a public blessing on the morality of that State by taxing all persons selling tiro Police Gazette, Police Newt and simi lar illustrated journals SSOO per annum, in each county where such papers aro sold. That is simply equal to prohibit ing their sale. Speaking of the vast strides made in the railway world, the Railway Aye gives the following interesting statistics: Wo believe it is Bafo to snv that there are at lor.. I Ihvo.. '■cWOf'llg.at i moderate estimate, a total of twenty-tivo thoiiHund mill’s, upon which work ia now in progreHH or iv proposed to bo commenced dur ing tho present year. Missouri is in a truly pitiable condi tion. Rather than hunt Frank James down and punish him according to law for the crimes he has committed, a great deal of red tape and an uucondilional pardon seem to ho preferred. What would be tho moral of an unconditional paidon to Fruuk Janies ? The home for working girls in London, called Garfield House, at the formal opening at .Inch a fortnight ago Min ister Lowell presided, contains thirty nine bed-rooms, a dining-room, a sitting room, and a library, and each occupant will pay for her accommodation from sixty-five cents to one dollar a week. The press generally is circulating ttie report that Chicago girls would rather kiss a pretty little dog than a man, and one Chicago girl has taken the trouble to write a lettor for publication acknowl edging tho soft impeachment. Tliore certainly must be something wronj with tho Chicago man’s breath else dogs’ noses are a mighty sight cleaner there than they are here. (luiteau’s act one year ago interfered with the usual Fourth of July celebra tion. His act this year, we are pleased to say, will have a tendency to add to the hiliarity of tho occasion. Wo do not make merry over the prospective event of the assassin’s untimely death— I far from it—but it is a source of gratifl , cation to know that America is still dis posed to put vicious dogs to death. Chari.es Lochbruneb weighs about 100 pounds, his wife 300, and their rela tive strength is fairly represented by tho same figures. He ostensibly keeps a restaurant in New Orleans, but she is its real boss, as ho complains to a police justice that three days in succession she took him across her lap and spanked him terribly. Being arrested she gave nail to keep the peace, tnough at the same time she avowed her intention to j subject her husband to discipline when ever and however she pleased. The most serious labor strike of the year began June 1. Tho proprietors of the Pittsburg iron mills having refused to sign the new scale of wages, a strike was ordared. Some thirty-five or thirty six mill*, in Pittsburg and vicinity shut down, and more than eighteen thousand work men are thrown out of employment. In Wheeling upwards of five thousand men went out, and some seven hundred or eight hundred quit work on the other sid of the river, in mills whose pro prietors refuse to adopt the new scale, at ’least until it is accepted by the Pittsburg mill-owners. The strike i likely to spread to all the iron mills west of the Alleghany Mountains, and will be long ai id obstinate. It is impossible to meas ure the loss to the productive interests ov the country which this strike will entail, or to compute the hardship and ■ suffering R wdl bring to the families of the workingmen. It can not be regard and pthcr than as a public calamity. The New York Reporter. A reporter’s lifo is not a happy one. lie is the slavo of duty nt all hours of the day and night. To-day ho is hero, to-morrow there. On Monday lie may bo among thieves and murderers, on Tuesday among politicians and states men, and on Wednesday among ladies and gentlemen. Ho may be oven among all three on tlie same day. I remember a cold, raw morning in February when I had to got up long before daylight and mako a breakfast out of Oliver Hitch cock’s coffoo and cokos and run for a train. That afternoon I found myself on board of a large European steamer, which had stranded high and dry on the New Jersoy sands. I shared tlio cap tain’s dinner while tlio waves oamo dash ing against tlie vessel’s side with a force that threatened to mako us food for sea worms at any moment. I came back wot and woary that night, but there was ne rest for mo yet. To Delmonico’s I must go, as soon as I could change my clothing, and partake of a greatbanquet. Sueli is the life of a nowspupor reporter. Ho knows not at any time where he will take his next meal. Ho often is sent from a wedding to a funeral, or from a ball in tlio Academy to a murder at tlio Five Points. Like an army on tlie march, ho must always have liis baggage pre pared, for at five minutes’ notice lie may bo sent soveral hundred miles where skirt-collars and handkerchiefs aro un known. Ho may bo sent to scour tlio bay for missing Jersey shanties, or Long Island woods for mysteriously disappear ing personages. Not only must the reporter he able to tell an interesting story, but ho must also, if ho wants to earn liis salt, have a knowledge of the world and possess that tact and discretion which conies of such knowledge. Young men fresh from some inland college, who come to Now York newspaper offices under tlie impression that reporting is something that they can do if they cannot do anything else, are quickly undeceived. One mil hif the news which is printed in tlie local col umns every morning is obtained from people who do not care to furnish it, and who have to bo “run down” very often with as much skill as tlio most cunning of foxes. And for all this tlio reporter is paid but little moro than the average mechanic. It may surprise some of you to learn tliat he gets even that much, but he does if lie is good for anyth iug. That good ones get no more is mainly duo to the fact that there aro so many bad ones competing with them. Yet with all the drawbacks of Jong and irregular hours, inadequate remun eration and “assignments” that are often uncongenial, there is a charm about a reporter’s lifo which all who liavo over 1,l ’"embers pf tho r— iUua " knowledge. There is a romance con nected with it which docs not entirely die out of oven the older members who now keep to it because they liavo been spoilt for anything elso. The new genera tion of metropolitan reporters, which differ considerably from the old, is kept to its work probably moro by this flavor of tlio adventurous than any tiling elso. The Bohemian spirit of poetry and beer has almost died out and tlio ranks are recruited from a class which hus less of the literary and more of the “bo up and doing” spirit about it. They waut. an active lifo and they find it here. As they grow older, however, they become more straight in their desires and there aro consequently constant droppings out. Either they work their way into tlio edi torial chairs or they go into Romo other profession or business and then - places *re. filled by new-comers, who, nowadays ►re generally graduates of the loading colleges. So then, hero is To tlie truthful ru|>ort(T Who nevor print# hut what heougliter; An example Hublimw Of tho men of hi# time. —Georue C. Clement- Tlio Modern Caucus. An aged citizen who was ono of tho early settlors, was seen coming out on to the sidewalk in front of a place where a caucus was being held, a few nights be fore election, on his ear. lie seemed to bo propelled by somo unseen power, and as ho got up and picked up his hat out of the gutter, brushed tho mud off his sleevo and wiped tho blood off his nose, a friend went up to him and asked wliat was the matter. The old man said, “ Well, I liain’t attended a caucus in thirty year, but my nephew wanted mo to go to-night, and when I proposed that the meeting ho opened with prayer, I think the stove fell over on me. A fellow said, ‘O, give us a rest ’ and I don’t know bow t got out here, but I did. Why, in ’49 they used to open political meetings with pwjvt, and close ’em the same way. This cau cus opened with a knock down and I s’poso it will close with a riot. Hello, tliore is another man riding down stairs wittiout any saddle, and I s’pose he, pro posed some old-fashioned custom. Hay, do you think my eye will lie black? I told tho ohl lady I was goin’ to mootin' and I wouldn’t like to have her think I had lost my temper and struck the flex ton. Well, that’s the lost politics for me.” Tile old man, however, got a policeman to go with him while ho voted on election Any.—Milwaukee Sun. Wood Wearing. This industry belongs strictly to the town of Ehrenberg, on the Austrian frontier. SparUrie work, or weaving of wood, was introduced more than a cen tury ago, but has been confined until within a short time to the manufacture of cheap hats, glued together, and worn by the lower classes. Lately, however, owing to the interest taken by tho Gov ernment, Ehrenberg lias been able to send out fashionable hats and various fancy articles, all made of wood and sold at very low rates. Tho aspen is the only tree whoso fibers are tough enough to admit of weaving, and all tho timber having been used in the vicinity of the town, tho material is brought from Poland. The process requires the utmost nicety in dividing the wood, and as the divider must always follow the direction of tho fiber, it is necessary that the threads should be prepared by hand. The weaving itself is done on large looms. The roost diffusive pleasure irom public speaking is that in which the speech ceases, and the audience can i turn to commenting .—Georye EdoL Furious History. When George Washington, who, though only twenty-five, had won re uouu by liis gallantry under Braddock, visited New York, ho was the guest of Beverlv Robinson, a young Virginian, who had come hither a few years pre viously and married an heiress. The latter (.Jane Phillipso) owned a manor on tho west side of tho Hudson twenty miles in extent. This, howover, was but half of the paternal estate. On tho east side of the river was a similar tract belonging to the other sister—Mary Pliillipso. The last mentioned tract continued tho Phillipso manor house, which is at present tho City Hall of Yonkers. Mary Phillipso was at tlio time above mentioned, living with her sister, and was rendered, by wealth and personal attractions, one of the leading toasts of tho day. Report says that Washington offered his hand to the heiress, but was refused, ns sho did not care to bury herself on a Virginia planta tion. Another s litor, Capt. Morris, of the British army, was moro successful, and having won an opulent bride, he immediately constructed a mansion suit able to his new position as lord of tho manor. Yonkers was too far from tho city, and hence he solected tho present site. Carpenters were brought from England and tho building wns erected in a slow and solid maimer, its date of completion being 1760. Tho lord of tho manor lived here iu grand stylo until the revolution, however, broke up their establishment. When Washington was expelled from New York lie passed several days in this vicinity, during which tho Morris House was headquar ters. His old flame had taken refuge with somo Tory families in the vicinity and her liusbunu (now a Colonel) was iu tho British army. After the war both wont to England, where Mary Morris (lied in 1820 at the ago of four score. Blie always felt a doep interest in Wash ington, nnd having lived to see her formef lover iißoumo tho chief captain of the ago, she survived him twenty yoars, but nevor mentioned his name without admiration and almost omotion. Perhaps, like Maud Muller, sho sometimes suid to herself, “It might havo been.” After tho revolution tlie entire manor was confiscated and the Morris property was sold. Boforo this took place, how ever, Washington visited the place in company with somo of his Cabinet, and a grand dinner was served by the tenant. They were deeply interested in tho as sociations of that fearful soeuo whore one disaster after another awnitod tho patriotic army. Tlie Morris estate after ward had soveral owners, and was at last purchased in 1810 by Stephen Jumel, a rotired French merchant, the price paid oemg U„ j n f„ w yeurs, leaving lus wife st,lo owner, and uus woman lias given tho place a notoriety far greater than its previous roeoru. Madamo Jumel was fuseinating nnd beautiful in early life, but in lator years she displayed many vagaries, and as her years were prolonged to ninety they were marked by many of the weakness of old age. Sho and her husband hud lived several*yuars i/. Paris, wlioro they gathered many curiosities which still adorn the ancient mansion. Visiting tho place recently, I passed through an ancient gnto and followed tho road, which leads from the turnpike, till I reached tho portioo which, as has been remarked, lias a grand prospect. On entrance one is struck'with the breadth and dignity of tho hall, which is rich in relies, both of furniture and art. Among tlio latter is a fine portrait of Madamo Jumel with lior family, and also a pieturo of Aaron Burr, who became lior socond husband. Other works of art adorn its wulls, combining the past and tho present in a very interesting manner. —New York Letter. Nluving Off a Hun. In times of severe panic people have been known to rofimo Bank of England notes and prefer local notes. In coun try districts of Scotland tho old one pound notes were greatly preferred to sovereigns. It is said that when there was a run upon the Bank of England in 1765 the device was reflortod to of pay ing tho country peoplo in shillings and sixpences. One acute Manchester firm painted all their premises profusely, and many dapper gentlemen were deterred from approaching the counter. A story is told of Cunlifl'e Brook's Bank. Wlion there was an impetuous and unreasoning rush for gold, Mr. Brook obtained a number of sacks of meal, opened them at the top, put ft good think layor of cloth upon tho contents, then placed them untied whero the glittering coins would be manfest to all observers. 010 bunk procured a number of people as confederates, to whom they paid gold, then slipped round again to a hack door and refunded it, and thus the effect of a stage army was produced. At another hank the chief cashier himself examined every note with the most searching scru tiny, holding it up to tho light, testing the signature, and making believe that, on account of alarm os to forgery, there was need of tho most scrupulous care. When he had completed his pretended examination he handed the note to one of his subordinates very deliberately, with, in slow and measured terms, “You may pay it.” Other plans were to pay the money very languidly, counting it twice over, so as to bo sure the sum was right, and to give a sovereign short, so that the customer should complain, and tho counting havo to bo done over again. At one of tho hanks peek measnres in- verted were placed in the windows facing tho street, a pile of gold upon the top, after tho manor of the fruit exposed for sale at street corners in the summer At another the coin was heated in shov els over the firo in tho parlor behind nnd hauded out as "new” at a tempornture of 300° Fahrenheit. The clerk in charge, accommodating his phraseology to the occasion, cried out loudly every half hour, “Now, Jim, do bo get tin’ on with them sovereigns ; folks is waitin' for their money.” “ Coming, sir, com ing,” was the ready reply, and the “folk” thought the supply boundless. It is always the simple-minded and the unimformed who constitute on such oc casons the chief portion of the throng, just as the people who go to extremes are tho half-educated ones. The crowd was easily persuaded ; the proof that all was right was burning their fingers.—Lon don Society. 2 EKM*: $1.60 per Annum. NUKBIR 40. HUMORS OF THE DAT. Can’t a coffin shop properly be called a bier saloon? Br contracting a disease you help U spread it. Queer, isn’t it? “ I can’t account for it I” exclaimed the defaulting bank cashier.—Philadtl phia Item. Hmokinq and chewing are two evils, and ye who select the former chews the less.— Courier-Journal. Food says he never finishes a cigar but ho thinks, “Another temptation removed from tho young men of America,” It is bad luck for thirteen persona to Bit down together at a table, especially if there is only dinner enough for ten. Thb cat is tho great Amerioac prima donna. If bootjacks wore bouquets, her nine lives would be strewn with roses. “And phat wud ye want sich a man as Patlirich for?” said Mrs. McGlone. “Ye nivor cud thrust him out yer sight, onliss yo was wid him.” What is called respectability is a great help to many men. Once they have at tained it, thoy can put in a lie where it will do tlio most good. An Indian chief in Washington went to boo tlio Ideal Opera Oompauy. When M. W. Whitney gave a particularly low note tho chief said: “Ugh! him heap dug out. ” Rest is said to be the solution of many nuzzling perplexities. If that’s so, we’d like to solute a puzzling perplexity about throe hundred and sixty-five times year.— Courier-Journal. An Irish gentleman, hearing of a friend having a stone coffin made for himself, exclaimed: “Be me jvwL so' that’s a good idea! Bhure, an’ a none coffin ’ud last a man his lifetime.” A Pennsylvania boy reoently swal lowed a horse-shoe nail without experi encing any ill effects. If it had lodged iu liis throat it would have made him a little horse sure.— Norristown Herald. “Is this the front of the Capitol?" asked a newly-arrived stranger of an Austin darkey. “No, sab; dis heah aide in front am do roar. Ef yer wants ter sco the front yor must go around dor behind on de udder side.”— Texas Sift ings. “My son,” asked a clerical parent of liis hungry boy who was just in the starvation period, “I wish you would mako a study of ‘Watts on the Mind.”’ “ I will, pa,” was the quiok answer, “as soon os I have studied what’s on the stomach ” Calculated to fill it: “I tell you,” continued Pingr/w “ Brown isn’t fit for tl.o piUGu. x*> fOt, X ClOll b nuun Ol A place that he is calculated to fill.” “Don’t be intemperate in your remarks, Pingrey,” said Fogg; “you forget his stomach.” “Yes,” said the injured party to the owner of tho dog, “I know tho dog was only in play when he bit about half a pound of flesh out of me. Oertainly he was only in play 1 And I waa only in play when I took an ax and made hash of him. Only in play, sir. Nothing to get mad about!” “Tell your mother I’m eoming to 8*56 her,” said a lady to Mrs. Gibson Bige lovu's little boy, who replied: “ I’m glad you are coming. Mamma will be glad, too.” “How do you know your mother will be glad to see me?” asked tlio lady. “Bccauso I heard her tell papa, yesterday, that nobody ever came to the bouse except men with bills to collect. ’’ —Austin Siftings. His exit: There had been a seeming coolness between the lovers. One day Emily’s schoolmate ventured to refer to tho subject and asked her: “ When did you see Charlie last?” “Two weeks ago to-niglit.” “ What was ho doing?” “Trying to get over tho fence.” “Did he appear to bo umch agitated?” “So greatly,” returned Emily, “that it took all the strength of papa’s now bull-dog to hold him.” llic Speed of Thought. Helmholtz showed that a wave of thought would require about a minute to traverse a mile of nerve, and Hirsoh found that a touch on the face was recog nized by the brain, and responded to by a manual signal, in tho seventh of a sec ond. He also found that the speed of sense differed for different organs, the sense of hearing being responded to in a sixth <>f a second; whilethatof sight re quired only one-fifth second fo be felt and signaled. In all these cases the dis tances traversed was about the same, so the inference is that images travel more slowly than sounds or touch. It still re mained, however, to show the portion of this interval taken up by the action of the brain. Professor Bonders by very delicate apparatus lias demonstrated this to be about soventy-five thouaanths of a second. Of the whole interval forty thousandths are occupied in tho simple act of recognition, and thirty-five thous andths for the act of willing a reponse. When two irritants were caused to oper ate on the same sense one twenty-fifth of a second was required for the person to recognize which was the first; but a slightly longer interval was required to determine the priority in tho case of the other senses. These results were ob tained from a middle-aged man, but in youths the mental operati ns are some what quicker than in the adult. The average of many experiments proved that a simple thought occupies one fortieth of a second. Gov. LiTTi.EFiExn, of Rhode Island, is a man of the people, having in his early days worked in a cotton factory at Natick, one of the villages which have grown up around the Sprague mills. While Littlefield was toiling at the spin dle William Hprague was Governor. By a turu of fortune’s wheel Sprague be came a bankrupt and Littlefield m Governor, “ How much do you oliarge for your peanuts ?” asked a lady at the fruit stand at the Central station. "Ten cents a quart,” said tho clerk. “ Too dear,” re ! plied the lady. “ But,” persisted the young man, “these are hand-picked, and ! we warrant them to cure consumption and heart disease.” The woman actu- I ally purchased two qnarts. —Rochester Chronicle.