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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,