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THE JACKSON NEWS.
W. E HARP, Publisher.
VOLUME I.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
A museum of Confederate relics is to
be established in Raleigh, N. C.
Rome, Georgia., is shipping immense
quantities of tan bark to Cincinnati.
One acre of ground in Harris county,
Ga., produced 135 bushels of oats this
year.
Savannah, Ga., shipped $75,000 worth
o f .turpentine to foreign ports last Sat
urday;
Key West, Fla., receives about 100
immigrants each month from the West
Indies.
Key West, Fla., has sixty vessels and
over 700 men engaged in the sponge
business.
A factory Augusta, Ga , has just
shipped an order of 2,000 bales of goods
to Africa.
A large cotton seed oil mill is to be
erected at Bailey’s Mill, Jefferson coun
ty, Florida.
Eastern capitalists are buying up all
the gold mines in the vicinity of Char
lotte, N. C.
The cotton factory at Selma, Ala.,
has declared a semi-annual dividend of
eight per cent.
New Orleans, thinks of establishing a
Castle Garden for the accommodation
of immigrants.
A mammoth iron furnace is to be
erected near Covington, Va., by Euro
pean capitalists.
A company has been formed to oper
ate a silver mine recently discovered
n:sr Gavlesville, Ga.
The beautiful Confederate monument
at Columbia, S. C., was totally wrecked
by lightning a few days ago.
A little boy at Charlotte, N. C,, swal
lowed a quart and a half of cherries,
seeds and all, and died in great agony.
The first appearance of cotton as an
article of commerce was a shipment of
seven bales from Charleston, S. C., in
1757.
In North Carolina during the past
year sixty-three new post-offices have
been established and seventeen dieeon
tinued.
East Tennessee has a county in which
four of the precincts are named Upper
Hog-thief, Lower Hog-thief, Fair Prom
ise, and Never Pay.
Richard Paulk, white, of Union coun
ty, S. C., has been sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary or to pay a fine of
1500 for marrying a negro woman.
John Turner, of Savannah, Ga., after
serving out eight years of a life-service
for murder in the penitentiary, lias
proven his innocence and been released.
At Goldsboro, N. C, a man built a
fence, using live cypress for posts. The
posts took root and are growing rapidly,
bearing the fence slowly but surely sky
ward.
Jackson county, Ga., is the only place
in the South where clay fit for jug mak
ing is found. Two factories are run in
the county, and the jugs are all made
by band.
The grapes grown by the stockholders
of Ihe Georgia Wine Company, located
in Cuthbert, will this year make 20/00
gallons of wine, which is the present
capacity of the company.
It is estimated that the South has
this season paid to the North $55,000,-
000 for wheat, $50,000,000 for corn, $72,-
000,000 for meats, and about $25,000,-
1 00 for hay, butter, cheese, oats, apples,
potatoes, etc.
The people of Tavans, Fla , eat alliga
tor steaks and tenderloins in preference
to the tough beef obtainable there. The
meat when par boiled and fried presents
the fair appearance of the breast of a
fowl, and possesses a llavor almost as
delicate and appetizing.
The new cotton compress to be erect
ed in Vicksburg. Miss., soon is to be one
of the finest and most costly in the
United States, or the world for that
matter There is only one like it in ex
istence, and that is now being placed in
position st New Orleans.
Vicksburg is still agitated over her
harbor. The receding of the Mississippi
river leaving only a lake of still water
in front'of the city where the river on'cr
flowed, has a threatening aspect to the
prosperity of Vicksburg, and her citi
zens are anxiously inquiring what is to
he done to preserve the harbor.
The heirs of Micajah Martin, de
ceased, living in Troup county, Ga., will
bring suit against the city of Atlanta to
to recover 202} acres of land in the very
heart of the city. The Kimball House
stands on part of the property. Martin
bought the land when it was covered
with brughwood, and never sold or deed
ed it to anyone. The deeds are now in
possession of the heirs.
In Smith county, Virginia, a well dig
ger dug 360 feet in to the earth before
striking water, and then went through
with a plunge into a subterranean lake.
Being hauled to terra fitaia again, he
and hia assistant let down a small boat,
and, as the distance between the top of
the water and the earth was several
ftet rode over five miles before finding
an outlet, of the lake, a spring in the
side of a hill. The lake is a great won
der.
There is a weed in the South known
as the wild coffee plant, which ha- caused
the planter a good deal of trouble and
annoyance, and has consequently been
greatly despised. It has recently been
discovered that the plant has its use, as
rope can be made from it equal to the
best hemp, and stronger and liner than
jute. The discovery was made by a ne
gro who needed a piece of rope, but
could find none. On looking around
his attention was attracted to this plant,
and he cut the stalks and treated them
in the same manner he had been accus
tomed to see hemp treated in Kentucky,
and the result was a fibre of good length
and of surprising strength, which the
old man soon converted into rope.
A Cheap Cologne Water.
The only perfume which never seems
to offend any and which leaves no un
pleasant tang behind it is that of cologne
water, whieh stimulates while it soothes
the senses, and suggests s pleasant whole
someness, instead of any sickisk sweet
ness, as the best of extracts and essences
and bouquets are apt to do. We do not
mean, of course, the cheap and common
cologne water of the druggists, whieh is
usually very much worse than none at all;
and wout to leave, after dying, the smell
of burned sugar where it has been used
often, as it is made of the poorest spirit,
and nocessarily without subsequent dis
tillation; without regard to the fact that
it requires the strongest proof or rectified
spirit to dissolve the combined oils
properly where the process of distillation
is not used. Indeed, with no trouble at
all, any one can make in her own store
room a better article of cologne than that
which is usually bought, by thoroughly
dissolving a fluid dram of the oil of ber
gamot, orange and rosemary each, with
half a dram of neroli and a pint of rec
tified spirit. As good as can be made
out of cologne itself, however, is also
quite as comfortably prepared at home
as at the chemist’s—at so much less than
the chemist’s prices that one feels war
ranted in üßing it freely—simply by mix
ing with one quart of rectified spirit,
two fluid drams each of the oils of ber
gamont and lemon, one of the oils of
orange and halvas much of that of rose
mary, together with three-quarters of a
dram of neroli and four drops each of
the essences of ambergris and musk. If
this is subsequently distilled it makes
wbat may be called a perfect cologne,
but it becomes exceedingly fine by being
kept tightly stoppered for two or three
months to ripen and mellow before use.
— Harper's Bazaar.
Remnisccnces of Garibnldi.
Mr. Morosini, Treasurer of the Ameri
can Cable Company at New York, is an
old friend and shipmate of Garibaldi,
who, in addition to being a candle
maker, and a liberator, was also a sea
captain. His old friend says the libera
tor looked more like an Englishman
than au Italian ; was “one of Plutarch's
men, a Roman of Rome’s best days.”
After Garibaldi and liimself had made
candles on Staten Island for a year, in
1850, Garibaldi was appointed Captain
of a Peruvian ship and took Morosini
with him on his visit to China and South
America. He was very kind to all his
crew, in fact to everybody, but showed
it in liis looks aud acts, for lie was little of
a talker. His face looked like a lion’s
face, especially when angry ; there was
no indenture of his nose where, as in
most persons, it joins the forehead. The
only time that he ever knew Garibaldi
to be afraid was at Newcastle-on-tlie-
Tyne, where liis ship was loading with
coal, and where, being barefoot he was
afraid the coal carriers, with their heavy
hob nail shoes, would step on his toes.
When at Callao two Frenchmon over
heard him telling how he helped defend
Rome against tlie invasion of the French
army. One of them accused him of
lying. Next morning Garibaldi went to
liis shop and challenged him to a fair
fight; the two partners drawed their
weapons, but on Garibaldi’s pretending
to draw a revolver, they fled. The hun
dreds of Italians in port, hearing that
Garibaldi had been threatened, tore the
shop to pieces and would have done the
same with the Frenchmen could they
have been found.
A Story of Horror.
A painful sensation has beon caused at
Vienna by a story from Cracow, accord
ing to which a nun in a convent there
has been inhumanly treated. She be
longed to a good Silesian family, and
gave all her property to the convent
eighteen years ago. But for a faithful
old servant, who followed her into the
convent in order to be near her, she
would probably have died under the
treatment she received. Her brother
could only obtain an interview with her
by calling in the police. She had to be
supported by two nuns, and appeared in
a terribly emaciated condition. Having
refused to accept a young confessor in
troduced into the convent some years
ago, she was confined alone in a cell,
and the sisters were forbidden to approach
her. The story runs that she had worn
the same gown for eighteen years, and
had no change of underclothing, or shoes,
or stockings for seven years. Her cell
had not been cleaned fora twelvemonth,
and she was never allowed to leave it.
The straw of her bed was rotten and full
of vermin. The sisters with her con
tradicted her statements, but she per
sisted in imploring her brother to free
her from her terrible position. The
brother could only provide her with food
and clothes. Until the affair has been
decided in a court of justice the nun will
have to remain where she is.—Scottish
Reformer.
When rain is coming ravens caw,
swallows chatter, cats “wash their
faces,” small birds prune themselves and
maKe a show of working, crows make a
great noise in the evening, geese cackle
more than usual. The reason is because
these creatures love wet weather and re
joit* jl it#
Devoted to the Interest of Jackson and Butts County.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 18S2.
TOPICS OF THF. DAT.
There are 10,700 men on the polio*
force of London.
In five mouths eight persons have
been killed by the cable cars in Chicago.
The Sultan is to giant Jewish refu
gees from Russia tracts of land in Syria
and Mesopotamia.
At Mobile, Alabama, female violators
of the law are required to work out their
fines in the chain gang.
A facetious contemporary suggests
that Congress investigate the Western
cyclones while they are at it.
Aram Bey is applying the Monroe
doctrine in Egypt by planting dynamite
torpedoes along the Suez Canal.
The person who has attracted consid
erable attention the past year, may now
be spoken of as the late Mr. Guiteau.
Statistics of immigration show that
very few of the foreigners who come to
this country go to the Southern States.
In the State of Mississippi there are
30,000,000 acres of land, of which less
than 5,000,000 acres are under cultiva
tion.
London publishers bribe Rchoel teach
ers with theater tickets and champagne
suppers to buy and recommend the buy
ing of their books.
James Russell Lowell and Dr.
Leonard Woolßey Bacon, according to
the Washington Post, think of running
for Congress next fall.
Mrs. Langtry lias begun to under
stand something of American advertis
ing. She took a special train from Ed
inburg to London, at a cost of SSOO.
The famous Dalrymple farm of
Dakota is to be divided, Mr. George
Howe, nu oil prince of Pennsylvania,
having bought 30,000 acresof it for SBO,
000.
The Belgium Government is soon to
adopt pulverized meat for an army
ration. One pound of the at tide i3 sad
to lie as nutritious as six pounds of
fresh beef.
Gambetta, it is said, sufferers con
stant fear of assassination, and his friend
M. Camesensse, Perfect of Police, lias
given him a bodyguard to watch his
house night and day.
Col. Ingebsoll, two years ago, was
credited with having made $200,000 out
of a silver mine, but if present rep rts
are correct, he to-day counts himself out
$50,000 on said silver mine.
Chinese immigrants are arriving into
British Columbia in large numbers, and
the Chinese merchants of Sin Francisco
predict tlie arrival of 40,000 of tlieir
countrymen before next October.
Sixteen smallpox patients in San
Francisco, while being conveyed in a
boat recently, were all upset and
drenched with cold salt water. In spite
of their exposure they all immediately
recovered.
The Jews in Russia and Roumania are
emigrating toPalestinein large numbers,
and large sums are being subscried to
aid them in this movement. It is said
that the majority arc eager to engage in
agriculture.
——
Ice frozen by machinery is now being
used largely in Southern cities, as it is
cheaper than that from tho North, ex
cept at seaboard places. The rctni
price has fallea from $3 per hundred b
fore the war to $1.50.
If the expression of the press gener
ally may be accepted as an indicavion,
Anthony Comstock is getting himself in
bad repute by ugly, spiteful work. He
suppresses or tolerates the transmission
of a publication as the fancy strike*
him. _
JJAnenttower s plan tor removing to
the United States the remains of liieu
tenant De Long and comrades involves
an expenditure of $25,000, and is not
considered feasible by the Congressional
Committee, to whom the matter was re
ferred.
JVnture calls a halt iu the work of un
derground telegraphy. It announces
that the underground wires in Germany
are turning out badly, arid that the
credit of sc veral millions of francs re
cently voted for extending the system in
France will probably not be used,
“There is not in literature,” says the
New York Times, a nobler or more pa
thetic story ” than the diary of Lieuten
an‘ DeLong. Still, it was a plain and
very brief narrative of facts. It is the
reader’s appreciation of the surround
ings that makes the story pathetic.
There are thirty three “railroad
schools” in Russia far the instruction of
employes, established because not very
long ago it was impossible to get Rus
sians with education enough to be en
trusted with the higher places, and even
at this day one-balf of all the locomo
tive engineers in Russia are Germans.
A fruit grower at Griffin, Georgia,
has 60,000 peach trees in bearing condi
tion, besides thousands of other kinds of
fruit trees. The peaches are ripening
faster than they can be sent to market,
although 300 pickers aad packers are
employed, and hundreds of bushels are
oast aside as too ripe for shipment.
Thu San Francisco Chronirlr relate?
that while hunting for deserters from a
ship at Guaymas, a few days ago, the
searchers discovered a man covered from
head to foot with long, shaggy hair, of a
reddish color. On their approaching
him he commenced to run, and they
chased him, following him for a distance
of a mile or more to the beach, where he
jumped from rock to rook with the agil
ity of a ekaniois and was soon lost to
sight behind r jutting point. They af
terward discovered the cave which lie
inhabits, the tloor being covered w.th
skins, and the indications were that ho
subsisted entirely on raw fish. Organ
ized efforts will bo made to capture him.
Some of the lowa and other papers
are arguing that the cyclones in the
West are increasing in number and
fierceness every year. In a certain
sense this is probably true. That is,
there are years and -seasons when they
are more severe and frequent than at
others. Between 1800 and 1873 these
tornadoes were very rare, and between
1873 and 1881) there were only one o
two of a character. Bu,
duriug the last three years they have
been intense and numerous. Doubtless
a long interval of quiet will soon succeed
these tempestuous years. But in mi
other sense they will always increas > in
destructiveness. As the State bee u, s
populous, they will seem to be more fre
quent, and will actually be more calam
itous.
MAN AND HIS BUTTONS.
Ills Method of Mowing; Thom on, and fli
Dllllcultloa Khoounioroaf.
I New York Qrnphic.|
I)il you ever see a man in the solitude
and privacy of his study attempt to sew
on a button by himself? It. is, in all its
details, one ol the most interesting per
formances in the world. First bo hunts
for a button. Generally, to secure it, he
robs Peter to pay Paul, at.d cuts from
another garmouf This button may be
much larger or much smaller than the
size he is wearing. Next he hunts a
needle. Probably lie goes out and buys
a iwiper of needles. He always chooses
the largestneedlcs, having an impression
that large needles will sew stronger than
small needles. As to thread, lie nets the
coarsest he oan find, and this lie doubles.
He w ould thread his needle. 11 e takes
his big needle in one hand and his coarse
black thread in the other. He bites oil
the thread to a desired length. Then he
tries to twist it to'a fine point. Gener
ally in this he succeeds in making two,
and sometimes throe, fine points out of
one end. Of course he can’t get all
these fine points through the needle’s
eye at once. He tries bard to make that
needle and thread get on friendly terms
with each other, but they won’t. They
don’t want to get acquainted. They do
not wish to have anything to do with
each other. Sometimes it is the needle
that kicks; sometimes the thread. Some
times he imagines he lias really threaded
his needle. It is an ocular delusion.
The thread has missed the needle’s eye
by half an inch. It is harder work than
sawing wood. At last the needle is
threaded. Now he tries to sew the but
ton on without taking his trousers off.
This proves a failure. Ho twists him
self into an uncomfortable position, aud
so would sew. Hut he can’t sow so.
He runs the needle into himself, and the
contrary thread always insisting m foul
ing or in doubling around tlia next but
ton. Then one part of the doubled
thread won’t work harmoniously witli the
other part. One part draws through the
button's eye first and leaves the other
part behind. Then it gets hitched up,
and the embassador swears. Or the
needle breaks. And then he swears.
Ho may not swoar audibly. But tho re
cording angel knows what is going on
inside of him, and debits him with every
item. He sews hard. He has forgotten
all about the necessity for a thimble.
He jams his thumb down on the needle’s
head and it punctures his thumb or runs
under tho nail. By and by he sews the
button’s eye full of thread, llis big
needle won’t pass through any more.
He must stop. He ends by winding the
thread as many times as it will go under
the button. And perhaps he leaves ofl
with two or three inches of thread stick
ing outside. A woman can, through
many outward indications, tell when a
man lias been trying to sew ca a but
ton. He doesn’t know the shibboleth of
needle and thread, and it catches some
where every time. At last the button
is sewed on and he is nroud of his work.
Human Progress.
It is said thst there is a certain fixed
amount of cruely iu every society, and
that the only difference is tho form in
which it is expressed. Where people,
for example, who are kind to animals,
are frequently unkind, or at least not
sympathetic, with those of their own
kind. The venerable Henry Bergh, of |
New York, is charged with being willing ]
to sacrifice the health and comfort of his
own species to thatof the quadrupeds In: >
champions. The philanthropist that
devotes his time to alleviating the wrongs
of mankind is often accused of neglecting
his family and allowing them to suffer,
while the cold, selfish, cross, grasping,
hard moneymaking man of the world,
is at home an affectionate husband and a
tender father. Whether this be true or
not, it is in a degree confirmed by the
apparent advance in humanity already
made at Yale College. There have
been years in the history of that instiu
tion when “hazing” was practiced.
Hut that has been abandoned of late.
Instead of that Mr. Win. M. Evarts’ son
has introduced badger hunting—he liav- I
ing procured a badger for that purpose i
—and rat-killing. He has a terrier j
which is “death on rats,” and the other
day having procured a cratoful of the ani
mals from New York, he left them loose
in the college yard. His dog killed
twenty-seven rats in six minutes, arid the
members of the sophomore class aban
doned their recitations to witness the
slaughter.
Now this is an advance on “hazing
and shows progress.
xii at i.rjrri.E coax.
Y MUS. 1. V. H. lOOSB.
There was g man, ’tin nad to tell,
LiveA in our famous city,
Whom none Unit ever know him well
Could either love or pity.
Ho was no bigger than a mouse—
I do not stretch tho story;
Cle had a tiny, old-time house,
Illumined with his glory.
IJo had a coat, this little man,
110 fit exactly in it,
Ho longer than a half a span,
Nor wider than n minute;
Tliread-bare and old and dirty blue,
Yet all who ventured near him
He'd bqueesointo that coat—’tis true—
Till folks wore taught to foar him.
It was tho coat hi* father wore,
Yea, father’s father's fattier:
And yet ho J d worry, tease and bore,
Annoy, vex and lnitbor
All that ho met about thut coat
Ami its eternal fitness
For high and low of every note
Who could its virtue witness.
Now don’t you wish ho could have seen
The folly of this passion,
And let his neighbors choose between
Ills ami some other fashion ?
Curious Scene.
A most respectable jury—every one of
thorn a £SO freeholder-—was impaneled
at Clonmel, Ireland, to try n most im
portant question. During tho course of
the trial the learned Judge had to retire
for half an hour, promising to he buck
on the expiration of that time. The
Judge then retired, and so did the jurors.
In some time after, one of tho jurors re
turned, and stated in open court, to au
astonished audience, that he had been
to a christening, dr*nk the child’s health,
a speedy uprise to its mother, and that
her son might be a much hotter man
than its papa. This caused so much
surprise that those vVlio heard it re
mained silent. Ho asked a learned coun
sel to givo him tho song called “ The
Low-hacked Gar.” At this request the
learned gentleman shook his head. Tho
juror then said, “ You won’t, won’t yon?
Then I’ll do it myself ; ” mnl so fie did,
in excellent stylo, and concluded amid
the bravos of a crowded court. 11c then
made a speech ou tho duties of a pater
nal Government, and acquitted himself
with equal credit, and was vociferously
applauded. He then demanded that the
Judge should be sent for; and, this de
mand not being acceded to by the crier,
lie stood up and called tho learned Judge
to come into court, on a fine of £SO.
This ho did throe different times, and in
tho usual way. He then declared that
as the Judge did not come ho wouldn’t
wait—ho should go back to tho christen
ing; mnl he accordingly left the jury
box, and finally tho court. In about
half an hour lie returned, and, not see
ing tlie Judge on the bench, he com
nienoed singing “Kory O’More,” after
which he stepped into the jury-box, re
sinning bis scat among 1 1 its fellows,
who appeared quite “glum” at his an
tics ; but lie, seeming not to mind the wry
faces of his brethren, began to hum usong.
He then tried what ho could do at the
Kent bugle, anil succeeded to admira
tion ; but, just ns ho had concluded a
splendid solo, the learned Judge made
Ins appearance at the corner of the
bench, where he stood listening, in mute
astonishment, to the music of the
special juror, who was equally astound
ed when ho heard tho cry of “ Hats off!
Ho pleased to keep silence!” In tho
meantime something was said to the
Judge, who good-naturedly adjourned
the court for the further hearing of tho
case until the following morning.
Good Manners.
Perhaps good manners are not good
morals, though the timo wits when the
words morals and manners amounted to
pretty much the same thing.
When the New Testament was trans
lated into English, in 1611, it taught its
readers, and still toadies us, that “evil
communications corrupt good manners.”
And the Revisers of 1880 have left the
good manners to stand, changing only
communications into company. So 1
have very high authority for saying that
what 1 am driving at in this letter has
something to do with tho basis of char
acter. A bad man may have the hand
somest manners, the manners of a gen
tleman, aud thereby the more thoroughly
fitted to work all manner of misoliief
with greediness. Ho is a hypocrite in
the world, as one who merely pretends
to lie a saint is a hypocrite in the
church.
But the beginning, middle, and end of
good manners may bo condensed into the
divinely given principle of preferring
others to ourselves; denying self for
the happiness of another ; rendering to
everyone liis due, as superior, inferior,
or equal.
If mothers form the manners of tiro
children, they should feel the burden of
responsibility. They may permit the
inborn waywardness of the child to go
unchecked, while he grows to boa pert,
saucy, forward, disagreeable, dreadful
boy, a terror to the neighborhood, anil a
nuisance to everybody but his doting
mamma. Blie gives him a stick of candy
when a stick of something not so sweet
would do him more good. Hhe coddles
him into a curso that by and by will
come upon her own head. Just as the
twig, etc. Blood is great, and blessed
are they wlio are wellborn. But more
than blood, better than pedigree, is cul
ture.
Train up a child in the way he should
go. Ho will go in it then. Teach him
to r< spent those who are older than him
self; to rise up before the aged. TKneas
was pious, because he honored Jo's
father. It is a long way toward godli
ness to obey one’s parents. And happy
is the parent and happy the child when
love is returned with love.
The (food liish Humans Make.
The cannibals have long since decided
that in the delicacy of both flavor and
texture, “long pig” is far superior to
“short pig,” and when asked how ho
liked children Charles Lamb said ho
liked thorn “boiled.” It is well known
that tigers and lions pr< for human flesh
to all other, and will leave off eating cat
tle and sheep to pull down a man. A
curious confirmation of this is the pr< f
erence which tigers hljow to monkeys,
which, according to Darwin, are but a
stage below the human race. Tigers
and leopards are very fond of them,
and for the sake of the delicacy, will lie
long hours under the trees waiting for
them to come down. The monkeys will
shake the branches and throw sticks
down at them until by worrying and
pestering them they succeed in driving
the epicures away.
life She Tope
There is a story, now generally re
garded as fabulous, that, a female named
Joan (others say Gilberts or Agnes) of
English descent, but born in Ingclheim,
or Mainz, Germany, foil in love with a
young Benedictine monk mimed Felda,
ami in order to be admitted into the
Monastery of Fulda, w here lie was clois
tered, assumed male attire, She after
ward went with him to Athens, where
he died while they were pursuing their
studies. Soon after this slio wont to
Rome, where her great, learning brought
her into distinction, and from a success
ful career as a professor she was elected
by geuerul consent of the college of
Cardinals to be the successor of Pope
Leo IV., who died A. I). 885. Others
say she was the immediate successor of
I’opo Adrian 11., who died A. I). 872.
Her title was Pope John VIII ; a title
which in flu' Roman Notizie, or official
calendar of the Roman pontiffs, is as
cribed to a different person. It is further
related of this “ female Popo ” that she
administered tho pontifical office witli
great ability until her sox was discovered,
by her giving birth to a male child dur-‘
ing tlie excitement and fatigue of a pro
cession to the Lateral) Palace, which was
quickly followed by her death, some
say puerperal fever, while other narra
tives declare that she was atoned to
death. Dr. Dollingor has written an
elaborate analysis of the various stories
in regard to this personage, going to
show quite clearly that she was a medie
val fiction, yet it cannot bo denied the
belief in the veritable existence of tho
pontificate of Joan was general through
out the Catholic Church from thirteenth
to the fifteenth century, and was not
discredited under the Reformation, when
it was made use of by the Protestants
to sertiidalizc tho papacy. Bollinger
says she was first mentioned by Chron
icler Stephen dc Bourbon, who took liis
information, he thinks, from tlie chron
icle of tho Dominican, Jean ile Mailly,
no copy of which is now known to be in
existence. He attributes the origin of
this scandal upon the infallibility of the
Poapaey to a grudge nourished against
the popes on account of the persentions
inflicted particularly by Pope Benedict
VIII. on the monks of the Domicau and
Minorite orders. Certain it is that good
Catholics at olio time lmd such faith ill
the existence of Pope Joan, or John,
that they placed in the Cathedral of
Sienna, along with those of the other
popes, a bust of the popess, with the in
si'ipl.ion, “John VIII., a woman from
England:” and this statue held its place
without serious objection oil the part of
priests or people, until the beginning of
seventeenth century. Tho “Holy Chair’’
is the chair used in the enthronement of
the popes. Tho tradition that the form
of this chair is duo, in a certain particu
lar, to the fiiutd said to have been per
petrated by Joan, is now treated by his
torians ns u vulgar fiction. C/iicayo
Inter-Ocean.
French Soldiers.
Most peoplo who nee that 28(5,000
yeung men are brought forward annu
ally for military service in France attach
an exaggerated significance to this large
number. Asa matter of fact, not one
third of them go just now into tho ranks
for five years’ service. Out of every 100
of these youths, seventeen servo only fur
a year or for six mouths, twenty-four nro
exempted for family or educational rea
sons, five or six are set aside for auxil
iary service because of minor bodily de
fects, nine extra small and weak make
arc put back for two years, arid twelve
are declared totally unfit for service.
Thus we have tho significant fact, that
tlie large proportion of twenty-seven per
cent, of the young men of Franco are,
at tho age of twenty, more or less phys
icnlly unfitted for military service. The
standard of education may be judged
from the fact that one in every seven re
cruits can neither read nor write. Ten
years ago the proportion of the illiterate
was about one in live, and fifty years ago
it was fifty per cent. As to flight—or
rather the want of it -thirty-six per cent,
of the recruits are between five feet and
half an inch (the minimum army bight,)
mid five feet four inches ; and the gen
eral average is less than five feet fiv*
inches.
The Nose and the Fact*.
A somewhat singular fact has been
observed with reference to the shape of
the nose, or rather the setting of it in
the face, so to speak. To he strictly
correct, from the artist’s point of view,
the nose should be accurately in the
middle of tho face, aifd at rigiit angles
with a line from tin- pupil of one evo to
that of tho other. Asa matter of fact,
it. is rarely or never thus placed; it is
almost invariably a little out of the
“square,” and tho fact of its being so is
often that which lends a peculiar
expression and piquancy to tho face. A
medical waiter points out that there are
anatomical reasons why a slight devia
tion from the true central lino may bo
expected, an 1 that tho nose which is
thus accurately straight between the two
eyes may after all be considered an
abnormal one ; the only absolutely true
and correct organ being, in fact., that
which deviates a little to the right or
left. — Phreruj/ojtcial Journal.
A Cnl’s Angry Passions.
Air. H. P. Burl inroad, a merchant of
Wills Point, Texas, is the owner of an
old cat and young kittens, which he
keeps in his store on Fourth street.
Some time ago a man drove up in front
of the store and hitched his horses. The
kitten was playing in the street, when it
went near one of the horses and rubbed
against its feet. The horse kicked the
kitten, throwing it some distance on the
ground. This so angered the old cat
that she sprang upon the horse’s buck
and frightfully tore its skin with her
claws. The horse became so frightened
at tii is unexpected attach, that he tried
to break loose. She then stopped until
tho liorso beoauio quiet, then she re
newed the attack. Tin’s was repeated
several times, until the enraged feline
seemed to have wreaked her vengeance
on her large adversary, then she returned
to the kitchen and licked and otherwis-.
caressed the little sufferer.— Wills Point
Chronicle.
TfimD: $1.50 per Annum.
NUMBER 44.
HUMORS OF THE DAT.
“Yes, I’vo got n horrid cold,” said
Mrs. Jenkinson. “ I’ve dosed and dosed
:uid I don't get one bit better. ’Pon
my word I believe I’ve taken no less
than thirty-nine articles, aud begin to
feel like an Episcopalian.”
They were discussing religious ques
tions. Said Brown, “I tell you that if
the other animals do not exist after
death, neither does man. There is no
difference between man and beast.” “If
anybody could convince me of that it
would be you, Brown,” replied Deacon
Joneß, demurely.
“She’s a dear, good girl,” said a St.
Louis young man in reference to a
Chicago fair one; “ I assure you,
father, she is all soul.” “Yes,’’ replied
his stern parent, tlie old prejudnee
against the Garden City embittering
liis words ; “I saw her footprints in
tlie sand by the lakeside. You are right;
she is all sole.”
A bibulous parson was introduced to
a lady who lind been represented to him
as quite a talented artist. Ho greeted
her by saying : “I understand madam,
that you paint ?” She started, blushed
deepiy, and, recovering herself after a
few seconds, said, with as much acidity
of tono and stylo as she could command :
“ Well, if I do paint, I don’t make any
mistake and put it on my nose.”
A good old liuly, speaking in prayer
meeting and giving expression to tho joy
and confidence she felt, said : “ I feel as
if I was ready, this minute, to fall into
tho arms of Beelzebub.” “Abraham I
You mean Abraham I” hastily corrected
a brother sitting near. “ Well, Abra
ham, then,” was the response ; “it don’t
make any difference. They’re both good
men,”
“ No, my da lighter,’’said a Now Haven
matron, “I cannot consent to your longer
keeping company with young Jayking.
Ho hull the insurance to call mo a dow
agorcss, right to my face, tho other
evening.” Why, ma, that isn’t anything
bad at all.” “It is lucky for the
young nufh that it is not. Had
ho assumed to insulate me I would have
pitched him over the baningsters.” “Oh,
dear, ma, f wish you wouldn't mix met
aphors so,” and both women rushed for
the dictionary to substantiate their lan
guage.
“I’m shaving myself most of the
time now,” said the young man proudly,
us ho adjusted his head to tho back
of the cliuir. Tho barber gazed thought
fully at the gftHli in the left check, noted
tho irregular Maltose cross in the chin,
observed tho finely executed out-line
map of the Hell (late excavations on
the left side, hovered over tho piece of
car that was held in place with court
plaster, and pityingly scanned tho prize
collection of pimples and blotches which
ornamented the neck. “Yes, I notice
you are,” he said musingly, as ho softly
strapped his razor.
On Monday of last week Eogg handed
a letter to tho office boy, telling him to
drop it into tho mail. This was early in
the morning. In passing tho boy’s
desk in tho afternoon Fogg saw the
letter. “I say, Johnny,” said he, “any
time this week will do for that letter, you
know.” Next day Fogg saw the letter
still lying ou tlie boy’s desk. Fierce lie
broke forth. He wanted to know what
in the substantive that adjective letter
was doing there. Why in the substau
tivo it hadn't bq£n mailed? “I didn't
know you was in a hurry uhout it,” said
the boy, “you told mo any time this
week would do. ”
Deaf and Dumb Barbers.
A man dressed in a thin summer
woolen suit and a dilapidated straw liat
entered our sanctum.
“Bir,” ho said, “ you see before you
a remindor of tho summer’s sun, so to
speak. I am not from the tropics,
neither inn I dressed for enjoying all the
comforts of u trip in search of the North
pole. Excuse me, no North pole for
me,” and liis teeth chattered, while a
quiver of icy chilliness seemed to run
across liis whole frame.
“ Are you cold ?” we asked. “If so,
walk up by tho stove aud get warm.”
“ No, sir, no 1 warm as the sportive
African who swings his juvenile upon
fhe equatorial line. lain needy, busted,
broke, sir. You see before you a specu
lator whose cart is keeled over und
broken, with the horses on a run so far
ahead a greased streak of lightning can
not overtake ’em. Four months since I
started a barber shop. Now, thinks I,
I’ll strike anew beat. Bo I just goes
and biros four deaf o*id dumb tonsorial
artists and then put up notices that cus
tomers coming to my shop would have
a quiet shave by deaf and dumb barbers
and no questions asked. Tlie thing took
on the start, but, when the confoundod
barbers pulled tlieir slates and began
writing out tlie usual questions, blow
me if T didn’t dixoover that I was a ru
ined man. Yes, sir, barbers is barbers ;
arid, when I closed my shop, busted up
and started on a trump, I just says to
myself it’s no use. If dead men coidd
be learned to handle the razor over a
man's face, the blamed things would
have spiritual me hums asking tlieir vic
tiriis the same old line of questions—Ah,
thunk yer, sir ; ta-ta. With this dime
I’ll send a counter-irritant down my
throat that’ll knock the thinness out of
this summer suit and give my stomuch a
cleaner shave than any barber can.”
And, as the shattered vase retired, the
perfume of the roses remained in tho
sanctum until an open window restored
the natnral tone of tho atmosphere.—
White hall Time*.
It was a spring night. The fire had
gone out in the furnace, the thermometer
Btood at 30° above zero and the lovers
were the solo occupants of the parlor.
Presently her mother came to tho hoad
of the stairs and a voice like the
scream of a steam whistle cried:
"Amandy, conic up-ihto the sitting room
immejitly; I’m afraid you’ll catch your
death a cold down there. ” But Amandy
answered iu soft, lute-like toues: “Don’t
make a fool of yourself, ma. Charley’s
keeping me as warm as toast.”
Tur. jeweled garter craze is growing.
—Ronton Post. And we might hope
that the—the—the—place which—Well,
well, we hope that spindle shanks will
go out of style,— JSc-w Haven Heyitler,