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VOLUME I.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Madison, Ga. f will soon hare a cotton
iced oil mill. P
Ihe wor jj S at Columbus, Ga.,
are completed.
A Usama's oat crop, just liarvseted,
w; the largest for years.
Georgia yields over a million dollars
•per annum in gold bullion.
Nashville parties will build a cotton
seed oil-mill in Atlanta, Ga.
Polk county, Georgia, has thirty saw
miiwj employing 1.050 men.
Ih ; c Buckingham gold mine, in Vir
ginia, is valued at $2,000,000.
Ihe Charlottesville, Ya., bent-wood
factory has begun operations.
Ground H'as been broken at Columbus,
Gn., for the new cotton factory.
One orange tree in Clay comity, Fla.,
has G,OOO oranges on its branches.
Over two hundred houses are in course
of erection at Chattanooga, fenn.
Mrs. Carr, aged 100 years, died in
Barbour county, Ala., a few days ago.
Baker county; Ga., has raised its liq
uor license from $27 to SI,OOO per year.
Charleston, S, C , is shipping phos
phate rock, used for fertilizing, to Eng
land. ■
West Virginia produces nearly onc
foil rib of all the nails used in the United
States.
. The dam nbw building at Columbus,
Ga., is the largest stone dam in the
South.
Judge Clayton, of Eufaula, Ala., has
decided that dealing in.cotton futures is
gambling,
Louisiana has 172,005 registered vo—
teres, of which 85,451 are white and SB,-
024 colored.
The mountains in Swain county, N.
jp H are saijl to be of solid marble —red,
pink, plaidcd and black.
A careless druggist at Starke, Fla.
gave Mrs. Jones poison instead of a dose
of calomel, and she died from its effects.
There are now in Wythe and Pulaski
counties. Va., fifteen blast furnacei en
gaged in making of cold blast charcoal
iron.
A negro in Montgomery, Ga., lost his
only mule by death, but, being bound
to make a crop, bitched himself, and,
while his wife held the handles, contin
ued with his work.
A rich strike lias just been made in
the famous old Magrudei mines, in Lin
coln county, Ga., iu the shape of a four
■ and-a-half-foot vein af silver ore, assay
ing $l5O to the, ton.
Virginia, drinks up her entire wheat
crop ahhvially, and it is stated that the
liquor, drank in Louisiana costs•s47/00,-
000 —52,000,000 more than its combined
cotton, sugar and rice crop.
Pineapple grow to an enormous size
in Key Largo. One recently exhibited
at Key West from that place measured
a foot in length and twenty-three inches
in circumference. It weighed eight
pounds.
Pensacola promises to he the future
seaporc of the South. During May eighty
nine vessels, with an aggregate tonnage
nf 68,116 tons, entered the port, and
ninety-fige vessels, with an aggregate of
55,616 tons, cleared.
Three curious fish were recently cap
tured in a lagoon near Macon, Ga. The
first one caught was about three feet
long, shaped like a watornielon, and
w'as perfectly translucent, bloodless, cold
and clammy. The others were smaller,
hut like the first in every other respect,
Anew ana important industry is be
ing built up on Lake .Jessup, Fla. The
fine beds of mat! which have been
covered along ‘ th& south shore of the
lake are being utilized, with fish from
the lake, in the manufacture of fertili
zers. A company has been organized
and buildings erected on Bird island, in
the lake, a mile and a half from the
main land.
Out of the 200,655 immigrants who
landed at New York from January 1, to
May 31, of this year, more went to Wis
consin aio e than to the whole South
Tojshow how few of them’went South,
the following detail is given: Virginia,
158: Maryland, 181 j West Virginia,
136 North Carolina. 20 ; South Carol i
i na, 64; Alabama, 68; Florida, 4!); Missis
sippi, 70; Georgia, 134; Arkansas, 1,155;
Louisiana, 600 ; Kentucky, 810; Tennes
see, 157; Missouri, 430; Texas, 1,500.
The Tennessee State library contain*
some valuable relics, among which is a
piece of the fiag surrendered by Lord
Cornwallis to Gen. Washington, at ork
towu, October 10. 1781 ; Daniel Boone’s
jpifu-kejh (yen. Jackson’s cap,, and the
sword ofjCol. Da oyster, a British, offi
cer under Col. Ferguson, captured at the
battle of King’s mountain in 1780. In
a case with many other things is to be
seen a limb in the shape of a walking
cane, said to be cut from a beech tree
sixty feet high and four feet thick, on
whick is plainly visible to thi* day the
following inscription :
D Boon eillf and a Bar.
( n TREK in year 1760.
Near Stellaville. Ga , a leaden medal
THE JACKSON NEWS.
was found that is quite a curiosity in its
way. On the obverse side appears the
figure of a six masted steamer, full rig
ged, over which is the inscription, “The
Great Britain,” and below the ship is the
dimensions, number of state-rooms, etc.
On the reverse side appear two medal
lion heads, Queen Victoria and Prince
Albert. This medal commemorates the
launching of the Great Britain at Bris
tol, England, on July 19, 1843, and de
notes an important era in ship building,
from the fact that she was built of iron
and fitted with the rewly invented
screw propeller.
The Owl as a Poet.
Since the arrival of the pig by express
last year, sont by a wicked man at
Watertown, no packago Ims created the
consternation at this office that a box
containing an owl did, which anived
Wednesday from Oak Center. The
name of the donor was not given, but
the name “ Old Parker ” is on the box,
and that is probably the name of the
owl. Ho is a lively bird, and would
make a good “bird poet,” such as we
wrote of a short time since. Who knows
but this is a girl poet who lias been
taken at her word, and turned into a bird.
If this is the girl poet who wrote, “I
would I were a bird,” she has got her
self into tho worst scrape of her life.
The eyes look more like a girl than any
thing, and when tho owl winks with one
eye, and looks at us as though she
meant to be so understood—presuming
that it is a she—ic makes us tremble,
and forget business, and wink back, If
this is a girl poet turned into an owl, we
wonder whether it is the girl’s or the
owl’s appetito that enables the insect tc.
eat three pounds of beef, If it is tho
girl’s appetite that lias been sawed off on
to an owl, it would boa mean trick on
the owl, if he had to get his own living.
When the bird winks, and makes its
mouth go, we think it is a girl poet trans
formed, and retaining many of the girl’s
best qualities. To see whether there
was any gill left in the owl, we put a
mouse iu the box with the bird, expect
ing if the girl symptoms predominated
the owl would take its feathers in both
claws, and climb up on something to
get away, and scream. But there is
more owl in ILe bird than girl poet, be
cause the bird snatched the mouse in its
claw, and with its bill tore the little ani
mal into fragments and eat him. So, if
there is any girl left in the composition
of that owl, the girl poet has got her
stomach full of nasty mouse. We warned
the girl poet not to become a bird, and
if she has not taken our advice she knows
by this time how it is herself. But what
a wink the owl lias got. That wink on
a girl would break up a prayer meeting.
A girl with such a wink as that could go
to church and not a man in the congre
gation could ever tell where the text was.
And what a wise look the bird lias got.
It sits and seems to be thinking of tho
hereafter, or maybe it is wondering
where the next meal is coming from. It.
is possible that some friend, knowing we
wanted mi associate editor, has sent the
owl to take a position on our staff. May
be some dear friend has been transformed
into ail owl, and caused themselves to be
shipped to us, to get into the sanctum
and see what is going on. If the eyes
were another color, and they should
wink that way, we should be sure a joke
was being played on us. Any person
that wants to hire a good owl to cat meat
on shares, can apply at this office.—
Peck's Sun.
Religion In a Turkish Bath.
There is a story around town that is
good if true. It seems that an attend
ant at a Turkish bath establishment was
converted at a revival in church, and be
came quite interested in the new faith.
He asked his minister what ho should
do, iu his daily life, to induce others to
get religion, and the minister told him
that in his business, in his recreations,
everywhere, he should impress upon
those about him that they had a never
dying soul to save, and that they were
upon the blink of a precipice, liable to
die at any moment, and to frighten them
into seeking after the truth, if he
aouldn’t do it in any other way, but to
be always alert in the Master’s cause.
The bath attendant made up his mind
that he would try it on some of the cus
tomers that visited the bath-house. The
next day six hard old nuts that take a
Turkish bath together about twice a
week, came to the place, and went into
the sweat-room, after disrobing until
there was not a rag on them as big as a
child’s handkerchief. They were men
well along in years, who had steamed it
a good deal, and became rheumatic and
gouty, and the whole party had no more
religion than could be put in a canary
bud’s eye. They were sweating away,
joking each other on being pretty near
played out for this world, when a sepul
chral voice that seemed to come from
the confines of the damned, filled the red
hot air and said, “ Prepare to meet thy
Oudl" The old pelters looked at each
other and turned pale. Then the voice
said, “ Get down on your knees, every
man, and repent before it is everlastingly
too late, for in such a mojnent as ye
think not your goose will lie cooked.”
This thing was getting a little bit inter
esting, and every man would have per
spired if there had been no heat on at
all. Just then the attendant came
through a door into the room and began
to pray for the salvation of the souls of
the barefooted old fellows, when they all
got out of the door into the cool room
ami got into their clothes without being
dried, and before the poor fellow had got
through praying they had gone to a sa
loon and were taking a drink and were
wondering if it was a warning from on
high to them to get in their work for a
glorious immortality beyond the grave.
They will not know that it was all owing
to th 6 enthusiasm of a recent convert,
until they read thir.. It is amusing to
hear the old fellows tell how all-fired
scared each of the other feiiowß was.
Thev are taking their Turkish baths now
brought to them in bottles, — Peck's Sun.
A mother advised her daughter, who
was going to a party to oil her hair, and
fainted away when that candid damsel
replied: “Oh, no! ma, it is so apt to
spoil the gentlemen’* vesta."
Dovoted to tho Interest of Jackson and JJutts Countv,
JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY,JUNE 28, 18S2.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Warmer weather has given corn and
cotton a boom.
Queen Victoria is fat and lioarty—
weighing 200 pounds.
Garibaldi’s body boro scars of ten
gunshot, and one bayonet, wounds.
Delaware promises to give the coun
try the largest peach crop since 1875.
The army worm is the object upon
which the farmer may lavish his cursos
this year.
Philadelphia is taking steps toward
the construction and adoption of an
electric railway.
Stock of tho Bank or Ireland sells at
819—that is higher than stock of the
Bank of England.
In tee destruction of tho barley crop,
is it possible that the army worm, too,
is fighting the brewers ?
Between the army worm and tne
woather there is little preference. The
one seems to augment the other.
Since her marriage Sarah Bernhardt
is not popular, although she is perhaps
as good an actress as she ever was.
The census returns in Japan shows
nearly a million more men than women.
This is not a usual thing for old settled
countries.
Portions of Washington’s farewell ad
dress are published in a French news
paper as appropriate to the condition of
that countiv.
Egbert Bonner, the New York Ledger
man, lias $382,000 invested in horse flesh,
for his private U3e and to gratify a per
sonal ambition.
Let us say to our Christian friends that
Mr. Beecher has taken to playing bil
liards. He keeps a table in his house
far the purposo.
One hundred and ten thousand per
sons, over twenty thousand of them
women and girls, used tho free baths in
New York last week.
A Miss Chamberlain, of Cleveland,-
Ohio, is creating a sensation in London
as a professional beauty. Bear iu mind
that she is an Ohio girl.
We are informed that the Star Route
trials are finally in progress. The trouble
will bo to get them to end—at ’east sat
isfactorily to the people.
The New York Sun tells of a man who
sent a written note to an apothecary for
“ogsallegasset.” Ho wanted oxalic
aoid. He had a bad spell.
Surgeon Woodward, U. S. A., one of
the attending physicians on President
Garfield, is reported to be iu a hopeless
condition at Nice, from brain fever.
Trns year’s graduates at West Point
are said to bo better waltzers than those
of any former class for years. In a mil
itary point of view this is important.
Leadville exults over the fact that
there has not been a natural death in
that city for two weeks. A natural death
out there, by the way, is a death by
(hooting or stabbing.
The pondition of crops is good in
franco, Germany, and Holland. Rains
have improved prospects in Southern
Russia. Cold weather has checked veg
etation in England.
I? the Atlanta Constitution speaks
correctly, more reapers have been sold
in Georgia this year than the entire cot
ton belt possessed one year ago. If true,
this is a good thing for the State.
Sergeant Mason says he can’t com
plain of the treatment he is receiving in
the Albany Ponitentiary, only he would
like to get ont. Being imprisoned is the
meanest feature of tlie whole thing.
Mn. Weed, of Newburg, N. Y., lost
1450, 000 in one hour at a game of poker
and is now creating a fuss all over the
continent about it. Mr. Weed doesn’t
seem to know how to play the game.
The Chinese Government will return
fifty students to American colleges, hav
ing discovered their removal was a mis
take. It seems that the meaner wo treat
China tho better they will think of us.
Lawyer Hirst, of Philadelphia, left
will bequeathing SIBO,OOO for the
founding of a free law library, and $lO
a week to his sisters. Thus he loved
the public, dear man, better than he did
his sisters.
Miss Bei.ee Braden is said to be the
only female railroad officer in the
country. She has jnst been elected
Treasurer of the Waynesburg and Wash
ington Railroad, in Pennsylvania, and
is acting Paymaster.
Rev. .Torn* DeWitt, D. D., of the
Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadel
phia, resigned tho pastorate of that
ihurch, paying him $6,000 a year, to
icoept a Professorship in Lane Sem
inary, Cincinnati, at $3,000. But thin
In only one case in a million.
A London scientist predicts that the
tune is not far ahead of us whoa eleo-
trioity will be stored so successfully and
cheaply that little boxes of it will be
used to propel trioyoles, and people will
journey about the country by that
mothod rather than by rail.
Whisky is to be made independent ot
the oorn crops. A number of railroad
men are buying timber lands, and are
going to make whisky out of smoke.
This is a question which requires tho im
mediate attention of the foresters. In
a few years rain will bo unknown.
A ootemtorary whose patriotism is
bubbling over in fond anticipation of a
Fourth of July celebration, says :
There is poiriß to be more of 4th of Ju
gloriousjuly in this country this year than the
oltlost inhabitant ever saw before. "Tis well.
We whipped ’em. We can do it again, if they
don’t kick nor bite. Turn loose the whang
doodles and lot tho rockets flz.
Lamtton, of tho Louisville Courier-
Journal, has become something of a
political punster. He turns his attention
to affairs in Pennsylvania as follows:
Cameron A Son. successors to Wm.’ Penn.
Attention is called to the varied resources of
our State. Every adult male allowed to vote
for us. Our own Legislation in session every
year. Send for circular.
An edict signed by the Czar, and pub
lished in the official Gazette of St. Peters
burg, virtually bankrupts every wealthy
Jew in Itussia. It provisionally suspends
nil payment for contracts or dobts due
to Jew’s, prohibits them from settling
outside towns and villages, and other
wise provides for their speedy extirpation
throughout Czardom.
After a Borious illness of one of tho
jurors in the Malley case, the trial has
been resumed, but the interest in the
proceedings ha3 waned. There is no
probability of a conviction of any of the
parties who stand charged with Miss
Cramer’s outrage and murder, although
there is little doubt in the minds of any
who are familiar with the facta and tes
timony, as to their guilt.
Hitxley compares Darwin to Socrates,
saying there was in him tho same desire
to find someone wiser than himself, the
same belief in the sovereignty of reason,
the same ready humor, the same sympa
thetic interest in all tho ways and works
of men. Just so, Professor Huxley;
but do you suppose if they had found
men wiser than themselves, either one of
them would have admitted it?
From Franco an extraordinary tri
cycle journey is reported to have been
made by the Vice President of the Lyons
Bicycle Club, accompanied by his wife.
They traveled in one of tho two-soated
tricycles from Lyons to Nice, Genoa,
Rome, and Naples, and homo again,
through Florence and Turin. The entire
distance is about 2,300 miles, and they
averaged between fifty and sixty miles
a day.
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The quicket time on record in a di
vorce suit was mado last week at Fort
Wayne. A wealthy farmer named J.
V. Gilbert drove to town with his wife,
and she handed in an application for
freedom on the ground of cruelty. Tho
couple then agreed that the wife should
have SI,OOO in cash, new false teeth
every three years, half the furniture,
fruit, and milk, and two-thirds of the
children. Both appeared in court, and
the divorce was at once granted.
The Mohammedan populace of Egypt
is getting more excited and fanatical
every day. Europeans are leaving the
country by thousands, and more trouble
is expected. Under the circumstances
it is only a matter of life and death
with Europeans. Many who are in good
circumstances, prosecuting a lucrative
trade, voluntarily leave all for the sake of
ridding themselves of uncertainties that
must ultimately result in ruin and
death.
After all, the Keely motor is a fraud.
Says the Scientific American :
The truth is that "the secret’’ was divulged
long ago. The power exhibited by the motor
is simply that of compressed air introduced
surreptitiously by pipes wbioh connect it with a
condenser.
Perhaps the company who have in
vested so heavily in the motor, and have
boon patiently waiting for years to real
ize their dreams of a scientific revolu
tion—and fortunes —will now turn their
attention to hard facts as as they find
them. _
Woman suffrage has at least made
some progress, whatever individual
opinions or prejudices may be. The
committee in the United States Senate to
whom the matter was entrusted for con
sideration, have made a majority and
minority report, the majority report
favoring an amendment to the Constitu
tion granting the elective franchise to
women, the proposed amendment to be
submitted to the several Legislatures.
Tho minority report favored submitting
the matter to the several States upon the
basis of States rights. It is not likely
that Congress will act upon the question
at tho present session, but advocates of
woman suffrage may take courage and
hopo for a fail discussion of the theme
next winter.
An Austin teacher was instructing his
class in natural history. "To wlmt
class of birds does the hawk belong ? ”
he asked. “To the birds of prey,” was
the reply. “ And to what class do quail
belong ? ” There was a pause. The
teacher repeated the question. “ Where
does the quail belong?” “On toast,”
yelled the hungry boy at the foot of the
class.— Texas Siftings.
Taxes In Holland.
Taxes in Holland, Mr. Bird tolls tis,
aro generally very high, and, it is clear,
aro often very mischievous. Hero thoy
might learn much from us. “There is
a tax on every window, door, chimney,
servant, * * * on every article of
household furniture in use. One must
even pay for the privilege of earning
one’s daily bread, no man being permit
ted to carry on a profession, trade or oc
cupation of any sort unless lie obtains
wliat is called a “patent.” The poor
tax payer lias not even the satisfaction
of having his taxes called for. Ho must
take tho money to tho collector’s office,
and often lose nn hour or two white wait
ing till the great man oan attend to him.
Should he be behind in the payment, one
or two hungry militiamen aro quartered
iu his house at his expense until lie has
cleared off bis arrears. Two hundred
years ago boots and shoes, “ tlioso arti
cles so essential to human comfort,” as
our nnthor somewhat needlessly de
scribes them, woro not only taxed, but
were conspicuously marked on the up
per leather with tho Government stamp.
Medical men have their foes fixed by
law, and fixed at a low rate. To make
up for this, no druggist can sell the sim
plest mixtures unless the prescriptions
of a doctor bo produced. If a man is
suffering from headache or toothache,
though lie may know of somo remody
which will give him relief, ho cannot
procure it until he has consulted a med
ical man. In some parts of Holland the
houses of tho poorer Boers are but little
better than Irish cabins. “Tho family
live all together iu one large room,
dividod by wooden partitions, which
serves as parlor, kitchen and bed-room,
and is not uufrequently shared with a
cow or donkey.” The bed is a huge box,
filled with heather or seaweed, and in
districts exposed to floods is often raised
to a height of six or seven feet above the
floor. In respect of cleanliness those
poor people are far superior to the Irish.
Even if a laborerge.ts not more than 10s.
a week, yet he, his wife and children
will be soen every Sunday “respectably
dressed and scrupulously clean.” It is n
very common custom for the peasants to
leave their wooden shoes outside the
doors of their cottages, so that they may
not carry the dirt inside. By counting
the number of shoes it can bo readily
seen how many people there aro at any
onetime in the house.— The Saturday
Review.
Rest lie Could Ho.
It wan a Michigan man riding through
West Virginia on horseback, and one
afternoon as lie came along to a settlor’s
cabin on the mountain road ho asked of
a man leaning over the gate :
"Can you tell mo how far it is to tho
town ahead?”
“I reckon I kin, stranger. You’ll
have to peg along fur about nine miles
yit.”
“ But it is nearly dark. Is there no
tavern on the road V”
“Never heard of any, and I’ve backed
my corn-meal over this road risin’ of
twenty years.”
“But perhaps I could put up some
where ?”
“ P’raps yo could. There’s Stove
Taylor’s down about four miles, but he’d
beat ye blind on old sledge. There’s
Mose Smith, a mile nigher, but Mose
would feel offended if yo didn’t trade
him that boss fur a stub-tailed mule.
Might putup at Green’s, but there’s lots
of rattlesnakes around his place. Ker
nel Johnson is down about six miles, but
the Kernel would turn yo all out doors
at midnight if ho found that you didn't
vote his way.”
“But what am I to do?”
“ Waal, I’m a squar’ man stranger,
and the best I kin do is to ax yo to stop
here with mo, an’ to tell ye before hand
that if ye nr’ awakened in the night by
shingles bein’ ripped off and logs pulled
down it won’t be an avalanche or a cy
clone., but oidy moa’n the old woman a
tryin’ for the two hundroth time since
the war to see who handles the money
when I sell two coon-skins fur a dollar !”
“I—l guess I’ll go on,” faltered tho
rider.
“Ke-rect, stranger! The last man
who stopped here said he wished he’d
have run the cha ices with tho snakes
down at Green’s, an’ 1 gin him my hand
when ho rorjo off. I’m squar’ up and
down, as I told yo, and Green’s is the
third cabin on this side artcr yo cross
the creek.” —M Quart.
The Irish Thirst for (lore.
An Englishman landed at Dublin a
few months ago filled with apprehen
sion that the fife of any loyal subject of
her Majesty was not worth a farthing
there and thereabout. 'Die Land Leag
uers, he imagined, were all bloodthirsty
assassins, and all that sort of thing. But
it was his duty to travel in the land—a
duty he approached with fear and trem
bling. Now, there happened to be on
his route a number of towns, the names
of which begin with tho suggestive syl
lable “ Kil.” There wore Kilmartin and
so on. In his ignorance of nomencla
ture his affrighted senses were startled
anew on hearing a fellow passenger in
the railway carriage remark to another
as follows :
“I’m just after bein’ over to Kilpat
rick.”
“And I,” replied the other, “am
after bein’ over io Kilmary.”
“ What murderers they are ! ” thought
the Englishman. “ And to think that
they talk of their assassinations so pub
licly 1 ’’
But tho conversation went on.
“And fhare are you goin’ now?”
asked assassin No. 1.
“I’m goin’ home, and then to Kil
more,” was No. 2’s reply.
The Englishman's blood curdled.
“Kilmoro, is it?” added No. 1.
“You’d bettherbe cornin’ along wud me
to Kilumaula 1 ”
It is related that the Englishman left
the train at the next station, probably
to go back to the tight little island and
report an alarming increase in tho num
ber of outrages in Ireland.
“ Major, I see two cocktails carried
to your room every morning, as if you
had someone to drink with.” “Yes,”
sir; one cocktail makes me feel like an
other man; and, of course, I’m bound to
treat the other man.”
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Fives have teeth in tho upper jaw.
The white ant lays 80,000 eggs in the
course of a day.
Soipio Afrioantts the Elder is said to
have first made tho sardonyx fashionable
in ltome.
The islands of the Pacific Ocean have
been planted with cocoanut palm by
ocean currents.
An ant, watched from six o’clock in
the morning to quarter of ten at night,
worked incesMintly.
Migratory birds, when flying by
night, are at nn elevation of from one to
four miles above tho earth’s surface.
Counting night and day, allowing no
time for rest or refreshment, it would
take over four days to count a million.
The workmen on a railroad near Deli
ver, Col,, have como upon a petrified
forest at a depth of from ten lo twenty
feet.
The Japanese, hnving no cattle, sheep
or pigs, bat few horses and fowl, depend
on the sowage of towns for the fertilizing
of tlieir farms.
Perfect quartz crystals are known as
Cornish diamonds, Irish or Bristol dia
monds, according to the locality in which
they are found.
During tho hot season in Australia
snakes are far brighter in tint, and more
active and iKiisonous than when the tem
perature is low.
Zoolouistb admire tho dissected body
of a fox, because there is never anything
unhealthy to bo found in its organs.
Hence, foxes aro long-lived.
At the zenith of her grandeur, Romo
had eleven aqueducts, whose aggregate
discharge was equivalent to a stream
twenty feet wide by bix loot deep.
The diamond is highly electric, at
tracting light substances when rubbed,
and, after long exposure to the sun’s
rays, becomes phosphorescent in the
dark.
Before the Norman Conquest most
English buildings were of wood, and to
“ timber a minister,” was the common
expression used to signify to build a
church.
It is observed that trees in tho poach
gardens of Franco, grafted on plum
stock, ripen their fruit, at least ten days
earlier than the same variety grafted on
u peach stock.
The ripe seed of the mangrove is not
scattered, but remains attached to tho
capsule, still hanging oil tho mother
plant. Tho seeds germinate, tho root
seeks the mud, and tho plant is growing
before its mother deserts it.
Young Virginians.
In Texas I saw many young men from
Virginia, sons of the best families there,
intelligent and of excellent character
generally. In conversation with one ol
thorn, I told him that I had recently been
looking about in his native Htato, and
that it seemed to me that all energetic
young Virginians were needed at homo,
and that there was abundant opportun
ity and reward for labor there; and I
asked if lie liked tho life in Texas bettor
chan work in Virginia, 110 said ho did
not, hut that it was not yet tlie fashion
for young Virginians of good family to
ongugo in hard, rough work near their
homes in the Old Dominion. "It would
not do for me to work by tho month
there for such wages as arc paid here,
it would ho too much of an affliction for
my family, and I should lose caste with
my lady friends. If a man has no
money ho can not begin in Virginia, be
cause lie would ho classed with the poor
whites and tho negroes, with whom his
work and circumstances would bring
him into competition. But he can come
nut hero and ‘rough it,’ and if ho Ims no
money he can work by tho mouth at
herding, or driving team, till lie gets a
start." I suppose this is true, for I
heard the same thing often in various
places in Texas, and in Virginia and
Tennessee the parents of many of these
young men gave mo the same reason for
the emigration of their sons to Texas.
I’orlinps these reasons would ho equally
potent with everybody, but at any rate I
could sec that many young men in the
South west work harder, and live in far
rougher and more uncomfortable ways,
than would be necessary in the older
States, and that they do liot make so
much money as they might there. There
is apparently as much emigration from
Texas, too, as from any other Bout hern
State. Tho talk is everywhere of “bet
ter country than this,” in Mexico and
New Mexico, and one soon receives tho
impression that nobody is settled, or is
at all certain of remaining very long,
even iri Texas. I found in every part of
tho South a decided and extensive
movement of tho agricultural class, both
white and colored, toward tho South
west anil West. In many cases, the
principal reason for this movement, so
far as I could discover, is tho improve
ment which is taking placo iu the older
regions of the South. When “the now
order of things" begins to manifest itself
in a Bouthom community there aro many
persons, of the poorer classes, who fee*
repelled rather than attracted by tho in
dications of approaching change, anil in
their restlessness and discontent they
leave their old homes, hoping to find
rncro congenial conditions in newer and
moro sparsely populated regions. Many
of these persons depend only in part
upon agriculture for their subsistence.
They obtain some portion of their living
by hunting and fishing, and these occu
pations are much moro to their taste
than steady work of any kind. These
emigrants often say, “It’s agoin’ to cost
too much to live hyur;” and they are
undoubtedly correct in this conclusion.
It will certainly require more money and
more labor to live under the improved
conditions in “tho now South ” than have
hitherto been necessary, under the old
order of things; and many Southern
men, of the classes referred to, reason,
rightly enough, that for them the im
provement and progress oromised by tho
■signs of the times are not likely'to bring an
increase of happiness .-Atlantic Monthly.
Soups, according to Sir Henry Thomp
son, whether clear or thick, are far too
lightly esteemed by most classes. They
are too often regarded as a mere prelude
to a meal, to bo swallowed hastily or
disregarded altogether.
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NUMBER 42.
HUMOUS OF THE DAT.
“Do von play poker, Mrs. Schenk
wales?” “I do; I play it on Mr.
Sehcnkwoles’ head somotimes.”
“Never send a present hoping for one
in return.” Never. Get your present
first, always, and send yours when you
have timo.
“ Is the General on the retired list?”
they asked of his wife tho other evening.
“Retired 1 no. indeed !” she replied;
“he’s down to tho club playing poker.”
Jones (accompanied by his dog Snap)
meets Brown, who accosts him with,
“Good morning, Jones; how’s your dog
Snap?” Jones—“ Pretty well, I thank
you ; how aro you ?”
Imagine tho indignation of an Ameri
(<tr. boy in a French school, who in a
history class is told how Lafayette, the
great French General, triumphed in the
Revolution, assisted by Washington.
“ JrsT taste that tea,” said old Hyson
to his better half, at the supper table,
the other evening. “ Well, thore doesn’t
seem to bo anything tho matter with it.
I can’t taste anything.” “Noither can I,
and that’s what I’m growling at.”
First Swell— “l never did like
‘May ;’ not nearly so pretty as ‘Mary ;’
wonder they don’t change the name of
the month to ‘ Mary.’” Second Swell—
“Olevaw ideaw, by Jove; make awys
taws good to June, you know 1”
Modesty: "Do you protend to have
ns good a judgment as I havo ?” ex
claimed nn enraged wife to her husband.
“Well, no,” lie replied slowly, “our
olioio > of partners for life shows that my
judgment is not to be compared with
yours.”
A French officer said to a Swiss Col
onel : ‘ ‘ How is it that your countrymen
always light for money, while wo Fronch
always fight for honor?” The Swiss
shrugged his shoulders and replied : “I
suppose it is because people are npt to
fight for that which they need most.”
“ I understand that Brown is hi
trouble,” said Smithson. “ Yes,” replied
Fogg. “ Brown was at the auction shot,
the other day. They bad a silver pitches,
and llrown offored to take it—offered te
la ko it for nothing, you know. Well,
tho Sheriff took him up. That’s all.”
It is quite n proper idea for a young
lady to paint a hunch of pansies on a
fresh-laid egg and foward it by special
messenger to her best gentleman friend.
This signifies : “Pa is hatching another
scheme against you. Come ‘ over the
garden wall’ this evening.” The inter
est now begins.— New Haven Register.
Uncle Ned lost a dollar the other day,
and when he went homo he called up his
eldest son. “Comeheah, boy, and sot
down. Dis am a queer worl’, anyway,
boy; jis’ w’en yo’ think yo’ am layin’ on
feathers oil’ walkin’ on roses—slap 1 an’
dar yo’ is, fiat in do mud, playin’a tattoo
wld yo’ heels on nex’ to nuliln.” —Oil
City Derrick.
Terrible fate of a kind-hearted girl :
According to a truthful Indian newspa
per, a hungry lion invaded a young
ladies’ seminary on commencement day,
and, bouncing in among them, carried
off the prettiest and plumpest, with her
composition in her pocket—a school-girl
essay on kindness to animals.
“How profoundly still and beautiful
is the night,” she wliispored, resting her
finoly-vemed tcmplo against his coat
collar and fixing her dreamy eyes on the
far-off Pleiades, “how soothing, how
restful.” “Yes,” ho replied, toying
with the golden aureola of her hair,
"and what a night to shoot cats.”—
Brooklyn Ragle.
“ Look yar, Clem, don’ yo’ bo growlin’
’bout de scaoeness on dem yar trousers!
Bey’s got as much w’ur in ’em yit as
doi shanks o’ yo’n, ebon ef yo’ fader
did train ’roun’ In ’em ino’n forty year.
He didn't hub no sich a’rs! He’d be
prancin’ ’roun’ in ’om yit, and bo proud
'mil! ob do chance, ef dar wuz any ’ca
sion for geormiuts wliar he’s gone.”—
ltome Sentinel.
Tourists Who Infest Egypt.
The JiuUder, quoting a correspondent
of the Dehats, censures the conduct of
certain tourists who infest Egypt. They
“increase in man hers every year; reports
of revolution, insubordination in the
army, and cholera are powerless to hin
der them; and those easy means of com
munication, the steamers that now run
frequently up and down the Nile, bring
in larger numbers than ever the strangers
to see tho ruins. Thoir presence, how
ever, is, wo aro sorry to hear, deeply re
gretted by the genuine archaeologist.
In the thirty years thnt Egypt has been
thus v. itod, more harm has been done
to its old buildings than in the centuries
of so much abused neglect which have
I passed over the country. The destruc
tion caused by the tourists is really
serious; piece by piece the inscriptions
and tho wall paintings have been chipped
away to supply ‘ memontoes. ’ M.
Charmes desenlies how, on visiting a
few day's previously the Valley of the
Kings, lie found " most barbarously
mutilated the famous tomb of Seti 1.,
which was discovered by Belzoni; the
alabaster sarcophagus is, it will be re
i nu mbered, at present in Bir John Soane’s
Museum. When Belzoni and Champol
j lieu entered the tomb it was intact; not a
word of tho inscribed text was wanting"
j the wall paintings were in fresh in color
j as if painted the day before; now the
I tomb is nearly a ruin, and in a few years
the destruction will be complete.” We
may udd to tho remonstrances of our
contemporary the questions, How is it
possible to censure this wanton and
potty mischief when tho removal of
noble obelisks to Loudon and New York
is thought worthy of public applaus' 1
anil national honors? What is the dif
ference in stupidity between knocking
off the nose of a statue, defacing a tomb,
or ravaging an inscription and carrying
away one or more of the few obelisks
left?— Pondon Athenaeum.
Ii was a woman—Madame Darnet,
the wife of a French surgeon—who dis
covered at St. Gneix the tied of kaolin
which first gave France the material for
the manufacture of real china, hard
porcelain, instead of the tender, porous
stuff beforo made. Madame received no
recompense until far advanced in years,
and when she became the victim of
poverty a scanty pension was allowed
her,