Newspaper Page Text
IV. E. HAI!P, Publisher.
VOLUME I.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
The debk-ef 01m r lest on, 8. 4b.. is $4,-
364,050,
Seven employes of the Atlanta, Ga.,
post-office are negroes.
Pensacola, FIa v is building an opera
house at a cost of $50,000.
A chair factory at Marietta, Ga., has
told 108,000 chairs in.the past year.
An immense number of manufactories
are being built in Birmingham, Ala.
One tannery at Tuka, Mis?., turns out
-SIOO,OOO worth of leather each year.
The census taken in Chattanooga,
May 1882, gives he,r 17,0q4 population.
Atlanta, Ga,, has eighty-seven licensed
saloons that take in ever $1,000,000 a
year.
An oat mill will be established at
Sumter, N, C. It will be the first in
the South.
The bronze statue for the Confeder
ate monument has been delivered at
Charleston.
Thirty bushels to the acre is a com
mon yield of wheat in East Tennessee
this season.
Alabama will have 2,830,000 acres in
cotton this season. A decrease from last
year of 10.3 per cent.
Key West, Fla., is troubled with an
epidemic of “dengue” fever. Five hun
dred case# are reported.
More reapers have been sold in Geor
gia this year than the entire cotton belt
possessed one year ago.
'ihe cotton crop of this year, so it is
estimated from present appearances, will
be about 5,000,000 bales.
The largest orchard in North Carolina
s owned by R. P. Paddison, at Moults
by’s Point. It contains over 8,000 trees.
Fortress Monroe is the largest single
fortification in the world. It has al
ready cost over $3,000,000 of money.
Sixteen thousand men are now em
ployed in railroad construction in Flor
ida. Eighty thousand people have set
tied in the State in the past ten years.
The last aporopriation of $125,000 for
constructing jetties at the mouth of the
St. John’s river, Fla., is nearly exhaust
ed, and it is probable the work will cease
about the 4th of July.
The Charleston, (S.C.) News and Cou
rier, as a proof of' the growth of home
industries, mentions the building of a
steamer and the construction of all her
machinery in that city.
Of the several Governors Alabama
has elected, four were natives of the
State. Gov. Patton was born in Lau
derdale, Gov. Winston in Madison, Gov
Watts in Butler, and Gov. Cobh in St.
Clair county.
Presley Nelms is the oldest citizen of
Monroe county, Ga., being 104 years of
age. He yet chops with an ax, uses the
hoe, and can get about with surprising
activity. He has a living son over sev
enty-five years old.
In the seven States of Georgia, Ala
bama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana
and the two Carolinas there has been an
increase of 361,000 in the number of cot
ton spindles during the year, represent
ing an addition to the manufacturing
industries of nearly $10,000,000,
A man at Magnolia, Ark., has some
thing new in the potato line. In his
garden about thirty potato bushes are
growing, and the potatoes grow up
among the limbs, like apples, and none
are attached to the roots. The Pulaski
(Tenn.) Citizen tells of similar vines in
that vicinitl*.
Geo. I. Seney said : “If any one asks
you why I gave so much money to the
Wesleyan Female College, of Georgia,
tell them it was to honor my mother, to
whom, under God. I owe more than too
all the world beside. I admire the
Southern women. There are possibili
ties in the Southern women not equaled
anywhere’else on earth.”
A novel hut profitable industry in the
mountains of North Carolina and East
Tennessee is that of collecting roots
(mostly laurel). The roots are shipped
to Philadelphia and Boston and used for
the manufacture of door knobs and pi[e
bowls. The roots frequently weigh from
75 to 150 pounds. There is a constant
demand, and the prices are paid for
them by the ton.
The will of Gen. George Washington,
on file in the clerk’s office at Fairfax,
Fairfax county, Va., has received so
much wear and tear from strangers who
desired to examine it, that the clerk
found it necessary to inclose it in a glass
case In order to preserve it. The will
is written on heavy unruled paper,
about note size, and every side is cov
ered. There are twenty-seven pages,
all of which have Gen. Washington’s
name attached except the twenty-third, j
which ended with the words “City of
Washington,” and it is supposed that in
looking over it the General mistook the
words for his signiture, and therefore
failed to sign the page. The entire will
is in his own handwriting, and was writ
ten in 1799—the year he rjitd.
THE JACKSON NEWS.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The Canadian government has begun
S issuing $4 bills.
j
President Author has decided to sum
mer at Long Branch.
The French Senate has rejected the
American pork bill.
And now it appears that Billy Patter
son was struck by lightning.
A pint of whisky a day is Sitting
Bull’s government ration.
The crops in the Northwest promise
to be better than ever before.
The Kentucky wheat crop is supposed
to reach near 13,000,000 bushels.
•’ • 1
Rutherford B. Hates is reported a?
hoeing corn and enjoying himself.
Within one week 1,000 Jews have
left Lemberg, Austria, for America.
An unusual amount of counterfeit coin
and currency is afloat. Look ont for it.
From Hayti comes a contribution of
$225 for tho Garfield Memorial Hospital.
Thb habit of going to Enrope costs
America not less than $125,000,000 a
year.
If Congress adjourns before the mid
dle of July the country will be fortu
nate.
The young people at Concord keep
the grave of Emerson covered with fresh
flowers. _
A colony of 200 families of negroes
is about to leave Mississippi to settle in
Mexico.
Sewing thread is made from pine tim
ber in Sweden, and is ooming into de
mand for export.
Four hundred and forty-one pounds
of tea has been raised on one acre of
ground in Georgia.
The losses caused by the late cyclone
in lowa are variously estimated from
$2,576,000 to $3,000,000 in amount.
England hangs murderers every time
—when she catches them ; but they
don’t seem to catch them very fast over
there.
The British police have at times ar
rested as the real Dublin assassins six
teen different men, none of whom were
within 200 miles of the oitv that day.
A concert at public cost is given on
Boston Common every Sunday afternoon
in summer. There was opposition by
the orthodox at first, but it has died
out.
There are seventy-two // inen now in
Sing Sing prison who used to exercise
great political influence in their various
stations. Where else can a politician
expect to bring up ?
The only -way to convince a Southern
negro that a farm is not waiting for him
in Kansas, is to let him make the trip.
In two or three days he gets through
asking which road it is on.
Everybody on the continent seems to
know that Don Cameron has recently
been suffering from a jumping tooth
ache—the matter going so far as even to
effect politics in Pennsylvania.
Louisiana is considering whether it
would not be good policy to stop the lot
tery business in that State. Louisiana
and Kentucky are the only States in the
Union that tolerate lotteries within their
corporate limits.
Two Michigan men got into a boat
and pursued a bear. The bear climbed
into the boat and the men climbed out.
Had they not been rescued by a tug they
wouldn’t have got home to tell this little
bear story at the family hearth.
It is the opinion of a Philadelphia
editor that a family who don’t know
enough to go to clnzrch at the proper
hour, without hearing the clang of a bell,
wouldn’t meet a bank note unless the
cashier came and blew a horn in front of
the house.
The Helena Independent mentions
that two cowboys were arrested at
Benton, M. TANARUS., and fined S4O each for
firing a volley at the comet. If they
had killed a man it would have been
aU right. The line is drawn at killing
people out there. _
The ctcxoxe which spread death and
destruction in lowa a few days ago, is
described as at times resembling a gi
gantic arm reaching from the heavens ;
then it took the form of a vast serpent,
and again resembled a funnel and an
hour-glass. It is notable that wherever
the storm-cloud struck a belt of timber
it was arrested and took a long jump.
The Detroit Free Press pays its re-
ST A C voung Ohio woman haa been sent to the
'nnatic asvlum because she has “a. mama for
work ” We arc a little surprised that this
should be thought a aim of lunacy in a Tonn„
Ohio woman. It would be perfectly juatifiable
to shut up an Ohio man on that charge—Doles*
he was working for an office. In that respect
they are all maid there.
Ohio men still have one advantage
they can’t be insulted by any such in
uendoea.
DeA'otecl to (lie Interest ol Jackson and Uutts Countv.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5,1882.
A remarkable case of lusus natur* is
recorded in the local columns of the Cin
cinnati Commercial of June 22, as fol
lows :
A specimen of that peculiar freak of nature,
a hermaphrodite—a human being of both
sexes—was taken to tho Central Station last
night by Officers Gould and Altevers. The
person is colored, about 23 years of age, and
without the sign of a beard. He or she claims
the namo of Jack Smith, and tho occupation of
cook at a boarding-house on George street be
tween Race and Elm. He was dressed in ma l *
attire, but a genleman who happened into tlO
station says he ha* seen tho same person in
woman’s clothes. He was locked up on a gen
eral charge.
The army worm seems übiquitous.
We hear of his ravages in New England,
New Tork and Maryland, as well as in
the West. The only successful way that
has been devised to stop their march is
that of plowing a furrow, say seven
inches deep, and continuously dragging
a log, four or five feet in length, back
and forth from daylight till dark every
day until the worms have disappeared.
By this process the ground in the fur
row becomes thoroughly pulverized and
the' worms can not possibly cross it be
fore the return of tho log passing to and
iro to crush them. Asa rule tho worms
travel eastward.
Daphne Mcßnirc.
“There is no more pie.’’
“God help us, tliun,” said Daphne
McGuire, looking up to her mother with
a weary, wistful, why doesn’t-somebody
buy-me-a.-scal-skin-sacque expression on
her oval face.
Mrs. McGuire did not reply. Leaning
her baßgless head on a thin, white hand
—the hand that Vivian O’Rourke had
called “a dimpled , treasure that ouo
might risk his soul to win,” that night,
so many yoars ago, that she had rejeoted
his proffered love and caused him to
wander away in wild despair and marry
Girotle Quirk—-and thought of how, had
she plighted her troth to him, life would
now havo been a garden in which pretty
flowers waved their bright faces, instead
of a wind-swept waste, barren alike of
flowers and venture. She remembered
how, for tho first few years after their
marriage, every thing went well with
Percicles McGuire, and lio.v, when
Daphne was a prattling infant, he lmd
come home full one evening and told hor
in proud tones that ho lmd reached the
summit of his ambition, and was a
policeman. All these memories of the
past—tho bitter and tho swoet—came
surging through her mind as she looked
out through her tears and saw the Blue
Island avenue cars going by like ghosts
in the twilight.
“Why do you weop, mamma?” said
Daphne, placing her soft West Side
arms about the neck of tho mother she
loved so dearly—the only mother she
had.
“I fear me, Bridget,” said Mrs.
McGuire, using Hie pet name by which
Daphne was known at homo, “ that oUr
future must indeed be a cheerless one;
that the coming days will hold for us
only sorrow and misery.”
“Do not be disheartened, mamma,”
replied the girl, kicking tho dog off the
front steps and kissing her mother with
a warm, lingering, I-havc-come-to-stay
n 11-winter-and-part -of - the - spring kiss.
‘ ‘ Tilings may not be so bad as they
seem. Wo iiave still one hope, you
know, one resource incase all else tails.”
“ What is it, child?” asked the mother
in hoarse, anxious tones, “ What is this
hope you speak of?”
“Doughnuts,” replied Daphne, speak
ing the word softly, and with infinite
tenderness. “We have a jar of them
down stairs, you know.”
“Then let us tackle them at once,"
said the grief-stricken parent, starting
for the pantry at a 2:20 clip. —Chicago
Tribune.
Rufus Hatch in the Indian Territory.
Rufus Hatch, the noted Wall street,
New York, operator, took a trip to the
Indian Territory to look after some rail
road property and liis newly established
cattle ranclie. He writes the scenery on
this trip has been beyond description,
monstrously grand and beautiful, hky,
land, prairie, grass, then more sky,
shrub, grass, small creeks, sky, dust,
sand, wind, sky ,' then more sky, clouds,
dust, grass, dust, only more so, sky
high; clouds, wind, dust, sky, prairie,
more prairie, prairie, one short tree,
sky, drove of cattle, horses, cowboy,
buffalo skeleton, sky, prairie, dust,
prairie dog, coyote, sky, grass, clouds,
more sky, antelope, prairie, sun, dust,
heat, skv, snake, prairie, prairie, prairie,
clouds, three or four trees, sun, skv
skv, sky, clouds, sun, heat, wind, dried
buffalo horns, grass, prairie, more clouds,
more sky, more prairie, sky, sky, heav
ens, dust, snakes, cowboys on leave ol
absence, wolves, sky, prairie, grass,
sand, dust, sun, heat, prairie, only more
so when we came in full view of more
prairie all the time, and sky and clouds,
kept keeping over us, and more snakes,
buffalo carcasses, and horns, with con
tinuous prairies and more beautiful
scenery, until after nearly one hundred
miles of delicious driving, in a first
class open buggy, under a broiling sun,
with more sky, clouds, prairie, wind,
dust and grass, we landed at this Eldo
rado—known on the map as “ Spencer &
Drew’s Cattle Rancbe,” and now, amid
the crack of rifles and Colt’s revolvers,
the singing of birds, the delicious
moaning and sighing of the fragrant
breeze as it creeps through the full
leaved green branches of the trees, the
piping of the mocking bird and quail,
and the thousand heads of homed cattle
gently grazing on rich meadow lands as
far as the eye can reach, the bum of in
sects, and the gentle titilation of the
unobtrusive mosquito, I bid you all
good-by, with the gentle remark that if
the Indians should overtake and kill me,
I never will forgive myself for coming
here! —New York Commercial Adver
tiser.
A cat, carelessly shut up in a room In
Ron Seville, N. Y., while the family were
away for the summer holiday, was found,
alive after thirty days. In the agonies
of starvation it had tom down the cur
tains and mutilated the wail as high a*
it could reach.
The Origin of tho Sleeping Car.
Mr. W. Barnet Lo Van, M. E., of
Philadelphia, says:
From all accounts, no doubt, Napo
leon I. used in 1815, the first “sleeping,
lining room and parlor car ” that was
ever built. This car, Or chariot, was
presented to the Prince Regent of En
gland, by whom it was afterwards sold
to Mr. Bullock for $12,500. It event
ually found its wny to Madame Tussaud’s
Wax-work Exhibition, London, where it
may still bo seen, This very curious
and convenient chariot of tho First
Emperor was built by Symons, of Brus
sels, for the Russian campaign, and Is
adapted for tho various purposes of a
jnintry and a kitchen, for it had places
for holding and preparing refreshments,
which, by the aid of a lamp, could be
heated in the carriage. It served also
for a bedroom, a dreasing-room, an
office, eto. The seat is divided into two
by a partition about six inches high.
The exterior of this ingenious vehicle is
of the form and dimensions of our largo
coaches, except that it lias a projection
in front of about two feet, tho right
hand half of which is open to the inside
to receive the feet, thus forming a
bed, while the left hand half contained
a store of various useful tkwiga. Beyond
tho projection in front fJhd nearer to the
horses, was the seat for the coachman,
ingeniously contrived so as "to prevent
tho driver from viewing tho interior of
the carriage, and yet so placed as to
nfibrd those within a clear sight of the
horses and of the surrounding country.
Beneath this seat is a receptacle for a
box, about two and one-half feet in
length and four inches deep, containing
a bedstead of polished steel, which could
be fitted up in a couple of minutes.
Over the front windows is a roller blind
of strong painted canvas, which, when
pulled out, excluded rain, while it ad
mitted air. (This might bo an advanta
geous appendage to our present car
windows ns well as carriages.) On the
ceiling of tho carriage is a network for
carrying small traveling requisites. In
a recess there was a secretaire, ten by
eighteen inches, which contained nearly
a hundred articles presented to Napoleon
I. by hlaria Louise, undei whose care it
was fitted up with every luxury and
convenience that conld bn imagined. It
contained beside tire usual requisites for
a dressing box, most of which were of
solid gold, a magnificent breakfast ser
vice, with plates, candle-sticks, knives,
spoons, a spirit lamp for making break
fast in the carriage, gold case for Na
poleon’s gold wnsh-liand basin, a number
of essence bottles, perfumes and an
infinite variety of minute articles, down
to pins, needles, thread and silk. Each
of these articles wore fitted into recesses
most ingeniously contrived aud made in
the solid wood, in which they were
packed oloso together, aud many one
within the other, in such a narrow space
that, on soeing them arranged, it ap
peared impossible for them ever to be
put into so small a compass. At the
bottom of his toilet box, in divided re
cesses, were found 2,000 gold Napoleons
($7,700); on the top of it wero writing
materials, a looking-glass, corubs, etc.,
a liquor case, which had two bottles,
one of Malaga wine, the other of rum ; a
silver sandwich box, containing a plate,
knives, spoons, pepper and salt boxes,
mustard pot, decanter, glasses, etc.; a
wardrobe, writing desk, maps, telescopes,
arms, etc.; a largo silver chronometer,
by which the watches of the army were
regulated; two merino mattresses, a
green velvet traveling cap, also a dia
mond head dress, (tiara), hat, sword,
uniform aud an imperial mantle, etc.—
Iron Aar.
Adulterated Tobacco.
A pamphlet has been published, show
ing that in Germany thousands of tons
of beet leaves are transformed into to
bacco. In some places chiccory and
cabbage leaves make the fragrant weed.
An English chemist found a stuff sold
for tobacco was tho leaves of a diaphor
etic plant. It has been impossible to
sell the plant as a drug, and it has been
turned into tobacco to save loss.
Another writer informs everyboby, or
wants to, that chemists have an im
portant place in tobacco factories. Fif
teen factories in New York employ oliom
ists to “flavor” cigars. They can not
do much with the wrapper, but they can
“ heighten and develop, "the fillings. It
is a relief to know on the authority of
the writer quoted thatopium is not used,
although it used to be formerly, in Eng
land, but stringent laws broke the prac
tice. The substances used to flavor to
bacco are numerous. Every manu
facturer has his own formula. Vanilla
is the most common. This is employed
in the form of an alcoholic tincture to
flavor fillings. It is said that few cigars
are free from vaDilla. Its effects are
not harmful if not used in excess. The
tonka bean and balsam fir are used in
the same way and for the same purpose.
Cedar oil is also introduced. The best
imitator of the tabaoco flavor is valerian.
Valerian and vanilla aro the most valu
able chemicals now in use by tobaccon
ists. By their me the poorest stems
may be converted into fair tobacco. Into
cigarettes enter not only valerian and
vanilla, but cuscarilla bark. To make
cigars burn, ammonia is used, and they
aro soaked in saltpetre. The latter is
injurious and makes young men old
with dispatch. The object of its use is
to cause the cigar to burn freely, ft has
been noticed by some smokers that an
intoxicating effect has been produced by
some cigars. This is produced by dip
ping the fillings in a solution of sulphuric
ether and bromide of potassium. When
it is known that, New England rum is
used with vanilla and valeriap, it is
nothing to wonder at that the cigars so
treated produce intoxication. Wo do
not name the brand that is treated with
New England rum. If we did, the de
mand would excel the supply. To make
tobacco, or aid in its adulteration, such
other tilings ns potato leaves, sugar,
potash, tamarinds, aniseed, gum and
various oils not heretofore mentioned are
used to a greater or lesser extent. In
Haw York alone, 826,666,<500 cigars are
made annually, besides, 229,800,000
cigarettes, and twenty-five thousand
persons rxe employed. Jour
nal.
Noethers corn contains most oil and
tt .reh, and Soutliera corn most mineral
and albuminous matter.
ONE SOFT MAX DAY.
Hr ILDKGERTE.
Kiar(*d by a rose, olio noft Mfty rtay 4
A lily in tho garden blowing—
KUnoil by ii rose, onouoft May day*
A lily in tho garden growing.
Jle ray bride, oh ! Illy fair.
Ue my bride, my palft white queen.
The lllly amiled with radiant air,
Hmiliug sweetly aud Hertue.
Kluaed by a rose, oue soft May day,
A lily crashed wa* dying—
Kiefiod by a rose, one oft May day,
A fragile fragment lying.
My bride is a tho rone had nnid,
And the air was full of Its breath;
My fair white queen ia lying dead,
And I, • * * tho cuuso of her denth.
A reel, red rose, one oft Mny day,
Waamiesod frein tho Harden flowers;
The dainy sighed for the bright- rod ray,
So beautiful in the morning bourn,
Tho flowers oamo where the rod rose lay,
Dead and purple, on tho lily’s breast,
And BHd wero tho hearts, that soft Mny day—
The red, red roeo had gone to ita rest.
Milwaukee, Win.
Weary Woman.
Nothing Is more reprehensible and
thoroughly wrong than the idea that a
woman fulfills her duty by doing an
amount of work that is far beyond her
strength. She not only docs not fulfill
tier duty, hut she most signally fails in
it, and the failure is truly deplorable.
Tliero can be no sadder sight than that
of a broken down, or ovor-worked wifo
and mother—a woman who is tired all of
her life through. If the work of tho
household cannot lie accomplished by
order, syistem, and moderate, without
the necessity of wearying, heart-break
ing toil—toil that is uever ended aud
never begun, without making life n
treadmill of labor, then for tho sake of
humanity let the work go. Better to
live in tho midst of disorder than that
order should bo purchased at so high a
prioe—the cost of health, strength,
happiness, nil that makes existence en
durable.
Tho woman that spends her life in un
necessary labor is, by this very labor,
unfitted for the highest duties. She
shouid be a haven of rest to the home to
which both husband and ohildreu turn for
pence and refreshment. She should ho
the careful, intelligent, adviser and guide
of the one, the tender, confidant and
helpmate of tho other. How is it pos
sible for a woman exhausted in body, as
n natural consequence in mind also, to
perform either of these offices? No,
it is not possible. The constant strain
is too groat. Nature gives sway to it.
She loses health and spirits and hope
fulness, and more than all, her youth,
tho last thing a woman should allow to
slip from hor; for, no matter how old
sho is in years, slio should bo young in
heart aud feeling, for tho youth of age is
sometimes more attractive than youth
itsolt.
To tho overworked woman this groen
old ago is out of the question; old age
comes on her, sore and yellow, before
ils time. Her disposition is ruined, her
temper is soured, her very nature is
changed by tho burden which, too heavy
to carry, is dragged about as long as
wearied feet aud tired hands cun do
their part. Even her affections are
blunted, and she becomes merely a ma
chine—a woman without the time to bo
womanly, a mother without tho time to
train and guide her children as only a
mother can, a wife without the time to
sympathize with and cheer her husband,
a woman so overworked during the day
that when night comes hor solo thought
and most intense longing is for the rest
and sleep that very probably will not
come; hut even if it should, that she is
too tired to enjoy. Better by far let every
thing go unfinished, to live us best she
can, than to entail on herself and family
the curse of overwork.
A Detective’s Story.
'There is a story told of a lady and gen
tleman traveling together on an English
railroad. They were strangers to each
other. Suddenly tho gentleman said:
“ Madam, I will trouble you to look
out of the window for a few minutes ; I
am going to make some cliangCH in my
wearing apparel. ”
“Certainly, sir,” she replied with
great politeness, rising and turning her
back upon him. In a short time he
said :
“Now, Madam, my change is com
pleted, and you may resume your seat.”
When the lady turned she beheld her
male companion transformed into a dash
ing lady with a heavy veil over her face.
‘‘Now, sir, or madam, whichever
you are,” said tie lady, “I mu t
trouble you to look out of the window,
for I also have some changes to make in
my apparel.”
“ Certainly, madam,” and the gentle
man in lady’s attire immediately com
plied.
“ Now, sir, you may resume your
seat.”
To his great surprise, on resuming his
seat, the gentleman in female attire
found his lady companion transformed
into a man. He laughed and said :
“ It appears that we are both anxious
to escape recognition. What hove you
done V I have robbed a bank ? ”
“ And I,” said the whilom lady, ns ho
dexterously fettered his companion’s
wrists with a pair of handcuffs, ‘‘l am
Detective J , of Scotland Yard, and
ill female apparel have shadowed you
for two days—now,” drawing a revolver,
“ keep still.”
A return issued by the German Post
master General shows tho number of
post-cards used in Europe in the year
1878 to have been 342,000,000. Of that
number 111,455,000 were posted in the
United Kingdom, 108,741,000 in Ger
many, and 30,522,1X10 in France.
In the United States during tho
year 1870 240,000,000 qards were
dispatched by the postofHce, and it
is estimated that during 1880 tho figure
will rise to 300,000,000. The German
pobtal authorities estimate the number
of cards in use throughout tho postal
union at about 700,000,000.
Geoboe Mitchkm,, an Ohio wife mur
derer, declared that his condemnation to
death was just, and that he would not
have it changed if lie could. He spent
the night before the day appointed for
the hanging in loud rejoicings that he
w as about to go to heaven ; but, when a
reprieve came, he shouted : ‘ 1 Blessed
be God; didn’t I always tell you that
the Lord was on the side of a Christian
man f”
flow to Select a Coir.
non. H. Lewis, of Now York, read a
paper before n convention of dairymen
in Ontario, from which wc extract:
Again, one breed of cows will do well
on some land, where some other breed
would be ulmust or quite worthless.
Hence, I advice every dairyman to select
that particular cow or breed host suited
to his lands, where she is to obtain her
food, and best adapted to that branch of
dairy farming in which ho is engaged.
If, for instance, your pasture lands
arc rough, or on stoop side hills, select a
small, active cow, and if butter-making
is your business tho Jersey or Devon and
their grades from our native cow’s will
prove satisfactory. But if cheese
making is your business, or tho pro
duction of milk for market, the Ayr
shire is tho cow. While her milk is well
adapted for cheese or for market, it is
better than the average cow’s for butter.
Again, if your pasture lands oro pro
ductive and moderately level, with but
ter-making your business, select tho
HoldcrncHS or the Princess family of
Sliort-honik, or their grades from our
native cows. But if cheese cr
be your object, the Holsteins will prove
satisfactory. .■ ’
As the selection of individual cows*
suited to our several farms anfl adapted
to our various wants, would bo too much
of an undertaking, and require so much
time and eayo, it can be done best by
selections from our herds of native cows,
and tho use on these of a thorough-bred
hull of that breed desired. In this way,
if tho selections ho carefully made, a
herd can be built up in a little while
founded on our native stock aud at small
expense, tar exceeding in value any of
our ordinary herds. It has been a
matter of surprise to me that our intelli
gent and progressive dairymen do not.
more generally adapt their cows
to their several wants by breeding
a sufficient number each year to mako
good the annual loss from old age, acci
dent and disease. A cow reared on the
farm whore she is to remain is always
more valuable to her owner than a
st range cot.
First, Khe is acclimated; second, she
is acquainted with the herd with which
sho must associate; third, she is, fa
miliar with tho lands from which she
obtains her food, and can travel over it
with greater easo than a strange cow.
Out of His Year.
White talking with .Tames Milton
Sherrod, the other day, the letter-carrier
pulled out of Ills pocket a very hand
some agate, rounded and worn smooth
by constant use as nn ear ornament. It
bad a hole drilled through tlio top, and
by a doer's sinew this trinket hud for
merly boon suspended from the ear of
some Sioux brave. The work on tho
stone showed the crude and patient
efforts of tho untutored rod man. On
being asked how he secured the agate,
Mr. Sherrod, whittling off some black
tobacco with a butoluir knife, rubbed it
in tho palm of his hand a while, and
then, after putting it in his pipe and
trying ineffectually for a long time to
light it, said :
“I got it up in the Black Hills in '76.
A lot of Sioux Indians ambuscaded mo
one evening in the form of a horse-shoe,
and I had to cut my way through. I
killed several of them and the rest lit
out. When I come to assess the dead, 1
found a big fellow wearing this lu re
agate and tied on with a deer’s sinner,
and I just yanked it out of his your.
There was another one iu his other year
that I got, but 1 lost it. It was tho exact
fact similar of this horo one.” — Lara
mie lioomeranr/.
l)r, .lollnsou’s Partiality for Tea.
In his review of Hanway’s “Tea and
its Pernicious Consequences,” Dr. John
son proclaims himself as “a hardened
and shameless tea-ilrinkcr, who has for
many years diluted his meals with only
the infusion of this facinating ptynt,
whoso kettle lias scarcely time t‘> cool,
who with tea amuses tho evening, with
tea solaces the midnight and with tea
welcomes the morning.” Boswell says
that he supposes no one ever enjoyed
with more relish the fragrant leaf tlnm
Johnson. The quantities lie drank of it
it all hours wore so great.that his nerves
must have been uricpmmonly strong not
to have been extremely relaxed by r.uch
an intemperate use of it. It is related ol
him, but not by Boswell, that, while mi
bis Bcotch tour, the Dowager Lady Mac-
Leod, having repeatedly helped him un
til she hail poured out sixteen cups,
then asked him if a small basin would
not be more, ngroeul.de and save him
trouble. “ I wonder, madam,” he an-,
swereil roughly, “why all tho ladies
should ask me 'such questions ? It is to
s.ivo themselves trouble, madam, and
not. me." On another occasion ho said :
“ What a delightful beverage must that
be that pleases all palates at a time when
they can take, nothing else at breakfast I”
Broker mentions that the doctor’s teapot
held two quarts.
Pawning Human Flesh.
According to a writer in the Lagos
Times, a human pawn system exists in
tiiat colony. It appears that many
persons whoso necessities compel thorn
to borrow money are in the habit of
pawning their children or other relatives
to the money-lenders of the colony,
who, instead of being paid interest in
the usual manner, are able to use theso
unfortunate creatures as slaves until tho
loan is refunded, which may not be for
n series of years. The inhabitant of
Lagos who makes this statement says:
“ The pawn receives not a fraction of
payment, for his toil. Should he die be
foro payment of tho loan is made, or
shovl l he desert his master, a substitute
is to be provided. This wicked slavery
is practiced under the eye of British
iaw, and sometimes by persons calling
themselves Christians.” The same writer
states that there are British subjects re
siding in Lagos who serve on juries and
perform all tho duties of citizenship,
but who yet are among the largest own
ers of slaves in the neighboring terri
tories, and he says that “ incidents have
been known of these resident British
subjects converting their slaves them
selves, or through their agents, into
money to meet their liabilities."
'I i $1.50 per Annuo:.
NUMBER 43.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
TnR true bed-bug is ssiu to be found
in cliff swallows’ nests.
The number of different uses for the
bamboo is estimated at 500.
The number of earthquakes in Japan
during the past 1500 years is 149.
American beor for Germany is an im
portant addition to our export trade.
Weasels hunt in couples, and some
times more than two work together.
In the course of five years, from 1779
to 1781 Mesmer magnetized 8,000 per
sons.
In Sicily the total quantity of sulphur
auuually melted is estimated at 390,000
tons.
The Australian exchango names with
Europeans, as a proof of brotherly af
fection.
" Since 1865 the ratio of suicides has
been greater in the kingdom of Saxony
than any otiier part of Europe.
A LAHGF. whale committed suicide by
hangiug himself witli the telegraphio
cable laid across the Persian Gulf.
An English superstition is that if the
ear-lobe hang below the line of the
mouth, its possessor will bo hanged.
A swarm of locusts observed near
Boulder City, Colorado, traveled sixty
six miles to eastern Kansas and Mis
souri.
IjUl.coNS are tho swiftest of birds.
One scut from tho Conaries to Spain re
turned in six hours, the distance being
780 nqlex.
The fallowing sentence of only thirty
four fatten contains all the letters in the
alphabet: “John quickly extemporized
live tow bags.”
A oentlkman, having suffered a se
i oro blow on the head, found on recovery
that he had lost his knowledge of Greek,
but hud not suffered any other loss of
memory. *
Tigers are said to bccpkfmtiful'through
out Siberia, where through
the winter. They arc said to be larger
than the Himalayan specimens, and to
have hair fiVe inches in length.
At the present time in Spain the correct
place of dating a letter should be from
“ this your house ;" ono must never say
from “this my house," os politeness
requires him to pluco it at the disposi
tion of his correspondent.
In New York and Chicago, telegraph
wires aro being put under ground, aud
it is possible that the time is ooming
when the underground method of tele
graphing will bo iu vogue all over the
country, as it is in Germany.
OsTiticH farming, is, next to wool and
diamonds, tho most important industry
of Southern Africa. It was not snooess
ful until tho eggs wero hatched by a
patent incubator, the parent bird not
performing her duty well in confine
ment.
It is suggested that tho derivation of
London is from tho Celtic Luan, the
moon, and a dun, a city on a hill. That
it was “ tho city of the moon” is all tho
more probable from tho tradition that
tho site of St. Paul’s was formerly that
of a temple of Diana.
The greatest flood ever known on the
Mississippi was that of 1844, which
swept away tho levees, overflowed tho
entire country, filled up tho swamps and
remained at high-water mark for months.
It was due to the unscientific construc
tion of the levees.
Napoleon's First Abdication.
France, in tho latter part of 1813 and
the beginning of 1814, was in a very un
settled condition. Napoleon bad carried
on brilliant but weakening campaigns,
mid even the dazzling glory of the great
commander's exploits in the faro of all
Europe could not dispel the shadows
which had begun to gather about him at
the capital and throughout Franco. Nor
wan the prospect beyond the realm any
more encouraging. Bcrnadotto, Crown
I’ririeo of Sweden, and late companion
of the Emperor, was coming down from
the north with 100,000 men; and Murat,
King of Naples, Napoleon’s own brother
jii fuov, had entered into a secret treaty
withTAiiKtria for the expulsion of the
FrencOTn Italy. The gloom around Na
poleon d§cj>eiied, until the allies suc
ceeded in rediflung the exterior defenses
of Paris, and the capital, which for so
many years had dicta hid law to all ofher
capitals, was obliged to
tlio allies entered Paris amid tfie accla
mations of the people. The Senate
turned their back on Napoleon aftd de
clared that “by arbitrary acts and vio
lations of the constitution ” he had for
feited tho throne, and absolved all
Frenchmen from their allegiance. His
own generals insisted that he ought to
abdicate, and ho signed the surrender of
bis power. Ho was allowed tho sover
eignty of 'he Isle of Elba, with a reve
enue of 6,000,000 francs ($1,200,000).
Ton months later fie was invited to re
turn to Franco by ft conspiracy of old
Republicans joined by Boimpartists. Ho
escaped from Elba February 26, 1815,
and landed at Cannes March 1 with an
escort composed of about 1,000 of his
Old Guard. Ami 100 days after he had
resumed power his lust act oil the stage
of Euiopi was played out,.and the sec
ond and las* abdication was “'gned.
“For Four Brother’s .Suke.”
A good story is told by tho Providence
Journal of a gentleman’s mistake while
ou the way to the inauguration at Wash
ington, in March, 1881. Between New
York and Philadelphia he took a seat
beside a portly gentleman, and conver
sation began.
Politics were mentioned, and the
Rhode Islander said ho was a Republi
can, and thought last fall that it would
not l>o well for tho country to have a
chauge, hut that he had a brother who
wuh a Democrat,
Soon the train stopped at a station,
and the Rhode Islander stepped to the
platform and met an acquaintance, who,
alter a little space, remarked:
“Gen. Hancock is on this train, and,
as I am acquainted with him, perhaps
you would like an introduction.”
Of course he would ; so they entered
the car, and approached the portly gen
tleman just leit; the Rhode Islander was
introduced to the General. With a
twinkle of the eye, Gen. Hancock said :
“I will shake 'bauds wjth you for you;
brother’s sake.”