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THE JACKSON NEWS.
IV. E II All P, Publisher.
VOLUME I.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The brain of the assassin was found to
be in a healthy conditipn.
Gurn'.Au’s skeleton will adorn the
Army Medical Museum at Washington.
Tin? Pope is of opinion that the po
sition of the church in Italy is wor. e
thin ever.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky,
has become a member of Christ’s Church,
Louisville.*
ThAre nfe now 4(5,000 postoHiron in
the United States, an increase of 1,700
duriuatho past year.
Turks having been a good deal of dis
sppte as to the boundary line between
Montana and Wyoming, It is to bo re
surveyed this fall.
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Six weeks ago the town of Garfield
sprung into existence in the oil regions
of Pennsylvania. To-day it has a popu
lation of 3,000 people.
Can. Gkas. H. Crane has been nom-
Sfatftn.iT'lJa Surgeon General of (he
Army, in ’dace of Surgeon General
Barnes, retired on account >f age.
PoiiiTtCATj platforms arc cm. Granted
simiiaiy to a gallows. The cai: lidatcs
are placed upon it mid a number of the
planks drawn from beneath tlieir feet.
A fine of §IOO,OOO on railroad com
panies for every death due to preventible
accidents is a New York suggestion
which meets with general and public
approval.
Chicago lias just opened an institu
tion for the reformation of inebriate and
opium eating women, called the Martha
Washington Department of the Wash
ingtonian Horn”.
If xve are to go toxvar to assert the
rights of Irishmen to resist English law,
would it not bo cheaper to buy Ireland of
the British Government and declare its
independence?
As to “ xvhat is rarer than a day in
June?” the Boston Advertiser replies,
“ taking their number into considera
tion, a diy in February. ” And so it is
in other respects, for some of them arc
positively raw.
In 1878 one man to every scvcnlv-two
engaged iu trade failed. Thus far in
1882 only one man to every one hundred
and twenty-eight has failed ; this, iu the
face of the drouth of last year, and the
bard titties now complained of.—
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It is found that the mind of Undoi
Secretary Burke’s sister, who lived with
him, has given way. She has not shed
a tear, and sits at the window, exclaim
ing at every footfall, “He is coming,”
It is impossible to divert her thoughts
from him.
Says the, Toronto Globe: “ The
Northwest is strongly opposed to mo
nopolies. The practical experience that
the people of Manitoba have already had
•of the workings of the Pacific Syndicate
monopoly lias converted Tories to op
pouents of the Government by the
thousand.”
Havisu humiliated herself by twining
her arms around her husband’s neck,
Mrs. Ohristiaucy should have held on
until the old gentleman surrendered un
conditionally. It is hard to understand
hoxv the old fellow could resist tho ap
peal of so heuutiJ.il a xroman under such
* divine ” pressure.
A Kentuckian was _ sentenced in the
court at, Frankfort to one year in the
penitentiary for stealing eighteen head
of cattle. Then a negro, who had stolen
820 worth of copper, received a three
years’ sentence, and lie told the Judge
he had nothing to say except lie was
sorry he hadn’t stole a drove of oxen.
Recent criminal trials prompt a co
temporary to remark: ‘Tt is a great
let-down in our criminal' i.aisnnnleuce
tnat after a serious charge is made, aur,
& prima facie case at least established in
the grand jury room, the indictment
should be bo drawn us not to cover tho
facts, and the prisoner has to ho ac
quitted."
The clearing of the forest lands has
probably something to do with the lu‘c
tornadoes, and it is just possible that
the telegraph wires and long paralle'.
strips of steel and iron rails on the rail
road tracks may have some hand in in
teijsifying the fury of the storm.-*, w! i ,
are, without doubt, electrical in then
every feature.
Mr. W. W. Shay, of Romo, Georgia,
lias bfecU experimenting in extracting
sugar from watermelons. He has ascot -
tained that they contain seven per cent,
of saccharine matter, or pure sugar, ant
tliat an acre of good land would product
34,500 pounds of melons, from win-li
2,415 pounds of sugar could he extracted,
worth, at ten cents. $241.50.
Just now, when every thing else is so
high and tiie complaining so general, it
id a consolation to know that there '>:11
he no lack of fruit, which has so much
to recommend it on its own .
More use of it and less use of meat;:'
this season has always been urged ,y
medical authority, and compliance wit:,
the advice stems no* likely to be mvol
n-tary.
The revenue of the United states from
jb mails is now greater than that o
Great Britain, and is almost coital to the
British receipts from mail and telegraph
oomli’eed. The Administration is to he
congratulated upon its great achieve
ment of keeping expenditures within it
revenue, and yet sitceo j iiucr in givip[>
the people better mail - faeilitir-s than
they every lia l h. -tore, j ' \
A Reporter on the New Fork : \Vid
interviewed several of throne' thousand
Mormon emigrants who recently arrived
in that city from Europe, eu route jto
Utah. One of tl mm gave the following
reason why lie took the Mcgftou view of
the lawfnhi&Js of polygamy)
The .Scriptures is in favo, iff tliis thipi
of havin' more wive;, as one. Revelation.•
tells of how in the last days seven women
shall lake hold o[ one man ARruliam lion
a lot of wive- and so did llavid. Now
David might a’ went, wrong, but the Scrip
tures say as how as a man’s faults is for
give. that's the reason we think we have
got the Imy of Hod on our side.
An aw Buy has stirred up the fanati
cism of his Go-rejigi .ill -.t in Egypt to
such a degree that if ho were to yield
in the present crisis ho would haw as
much to fear from tlmir resentment as
he now lias from the " Western powers.
His follow: rn ere Bai'ne.stly awaiting the
manifestation of El M hdi, the Messiah,
on th 12th (and November, and the Sultan
doubtless has an nit tors tending with
Germany. The widespread preparations
in England are snfiicie it to prove' that ‘
the opening of hostilities is nQt rugahkd
as any child s play or mere demonstra
tion against an offensive Egyptian
Cabinet.
Ex-Senator Christiancy had a lu
dicrous interview with Mr;. Christiau
oy the other day. passing her house,
he heard a tap on the window, and
looking, saw the author of his domestic
troubles waving a h Per at him. He
concluded to get the letter, and with
that purpose in view, started for th.
door; but the ddor opened before, he
reached it, find before lie was able to en
ter, a pair of white arms was clasped
around his neck. What did he do?
Well, ho was stern—loosened her lijihl
and pushed h. v aside, and in reply to
her “Please take ma hack,” lie told her
“No; not to-day, uoftahuuy other time,’
and withdrew.
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Alexandria, the port of Egypt now
threatened wlt.’.i bouibardm ut by the
English and TV on ■ 3 vi q is a city of
230,00!) ihhnhiin.iG. id. in s flat, is well
* milt in Uio Eirj|>eiH quarter, while
tile Turkish section is -qu did a ;d diA v.
Us ancient walls are broken, hut it has
two strong forties ev it inti two j efts
■ill caster.) and western, t’u.t latter . some
limes eft:l and the 0:d Port, b;i)g lie
larger and belt, r> f the two. It i;t r-'.ihtu
a mile and n halt wide, and has tliii <.
entrances. Th - for.-igy War ve-stls; iu
the neighborhood n umber and ■tf’Hy.thvi
t Week or two ago, atij th ir arr/.-ga 1
lie Vi. ice'.-' •!. Thcpe’iid is Oriii
•mo. E i;:l ttid bus (lot Vi,lined oh ■■ i
i u, a: •' Franco s cuts to have thnhv
off hor fears of : i-’ntrtvk. aid will j. i
in the bombardment ■ . the plactralln
Arabi Bey hacks i.ow.i, of whi. h tl:cr<
is no probability.
A Lively Subject.
There used to he a story current of a
perplexing incident in the life of John
Hunter, the celebrated surgeon, which
lias ft certain grim drollery about it.
One night, on receiving from Jack Ketch
a “subject” who had been hanged that
morning at Newgate—such hangings
and such subjects were very common in
those days—he perceived somehow or
other the Vital spark was not quite ex
tinct, His professional zeal was in
stantly aroused ; lie applied all Ms skill
to the task, and, in short, succeeded, to
his scientific satisfaction, in restoring
the law’s victim to his entire faculties
again. But his satisfaction was some
what short-lived, for the
felon insisted upon looking to his bene
factor for his future subsistence. He
argued that, as he had striven to bring
him, as it were, a second time into the
world, bo must be regarded in loco
parent! s. Hunter, always a nervous
man, and liy no inruns convinced that
10 had not offended grievously against
the laws in bis little experiment, laid no
alternative but to complyjio tin; demands
of lr's ungrateful pat 1. ut. who was by
no meats modest in his visits. After a
time, however, they censed ; but even
that brought no comfortto poor If un
it r, who lived in perpetual terror <lt his
tormentor unexpectedly popping upon
him. At last lie reappeared before him
again. One fine evening another New
gate importation was brought to tlnf
private door of the dissecting-room, and,
to his intense satisfaction, he om- more
recognized the well-rcnv-mbeted feat
urcsf Hunter used to-say, with*', grim
smile, that he took speedy care mot to
give him a second chance.
Marble Heads in a field Mine.
Dr Cary Cox lias a gold mine in Cher
okee County. The other day the hands
were sinking a shaft, and when six feet
belo w they came upon two pieces of mar
ble hewn 'into the bliape and size of the
human head. The work had evidently
been done with good tools and.while not
entirely finished, showed that it was a
skilled” artist who handled the chi el.
The heads were found under six feet of
clav, which, to nil appearance . had
Clav, wiii'ii, - .
never been disturbed and ley diiectly
upon a bed of slate. ' Near the mine is a
bed of marl))", such as the heads aie
hewn from. The question is, who made
the heads and how did they got nndrr
sis feet of clav ?—Atlanta (•!oru'Utution.
“ How did you like my discourse :
Sunday?” asked the parson. “T"
you the truth,” replied Fogg, “1
not altogether pleased with your premise
but I was delighted beyond measara
yonr conclusion.” The parson "'.ah
ive something to know just what Fogg
meant,
Devoted lo Ihe Interest of Jacksoq and Huffs Oouutv.
JACKSON, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY; WLY 19,1882.
Sliakspeare and the Bible.
There is a way that seaineth right to
man, but tho, end thereof are the ways
of death.-*—Wot’, wi, 25,
There is ne Vive bo’simple bat assumes
Rome mask of virtue in ita outer parts.
—Merchant of Venice, tu., '2.
How can ye, being ovil, spenlt good
things. (Seeming virtues proceeding
from an evil source are not genuine).—
Mat. xil., 34.
Where an unclean mind carries virtu
ous qualities, their commendations go
with pity—they are virtues and traitors,
too. — All’s Well That Ends Well, i, 1.
Another law in my members warring
against the law of my mind. — Horn,
vii., 23.
The fiend is at mine elbow mid tempts
me, saying: “ Use your legs ; take the
start; run away. ” My conscience says :
"No ; do not run; scorn running with
tliy heels.” “Budge,” says the fiend.
“Budge not,” says my Conscience.—
Merchant of Venice, it., 2.
He that increasetli knowledge, iu
creasetli sorrow. —Ecclesiastes i., 18.
I had rather have a fool to make me
merry, than experience to make mo sad.
—As You Like It, ft)., 1.
I, yet not I.— Gal. it., 22.
I have a kind of Rolf rofitdes v. ith you,
But an unkind self, that itself will leave
To be another's fool..
— Trail. and Crt&s., iff., 2.
But whosoever shall keep the whole
law and yet offend in one point, he is
guilty of all.— Jalncs ii., 10.
Ttuit those men
Carryibd ’ho ■ t n;s 1 -ay, of one defect,
Hindi, In tile j-ijiieiul o n-mv, lake cunlipUeu
FAun that )i*tl:cular J .mjjt. Thodniiuot ill
Dfftn all mo treble sutSdaiice often doubt.
—Hamlet t., 4,
Whosoever hatotli liis brother is a
murderer. —John Hi.., 5.
Hates any man the thing he would not
kill ?—Merchant of Venice, iv.
India Proof's.
There are Various ways in which de
ceptions tiro practised. For instance,
“unlettered India proof,” as it. is
technically called, is, from being taken
off the engraving at an earlier stage,
very much superior to what is called a
‘lettered India print,” which is obtained
after many impressions have been taken
off the engraving, and when the plate
lias, consequently, become worn, and
the picture lost its clearness and sharp
ness of line. To turn an “India print,”
therefore, into an “India proof,” the
India print is cut down all round close
to the engraving. A clean sheet of
India paper, of the same tono as the
India print, but of a larger size, so as to
show a clenn, blank margin, is then
mounted on n piece of still larger plain
paper, and the out down India print iu
turn is mounted in such a position as to
show the usual margin all round. Before
drying, the manipulated print is sub
jected to immense pressure, -which ho
forces the mounted print Into the India
paper as to entirely hide the difference
in the thickness of the material. A true
impression taken off a plate leaves the
mark of the plate all round the picture;
and to add this to the “doctored” India
proof, a plain steel or copper plate of
the proper size is laid on the face of the
print, which is again subjected to pres
sure, and the deception is then so com
plete as almost to baffle detection. A
volume belonging to a collector was sup
posed to contain India paper impressions
of engravings to the value of £3OO, hut
on examination they were found to he
“doctored” plates, not worth £3O in
all.— Chambers' Journal.
To Sleep, Eat Onions.
I venture to suggest anew but simple
remedy for want of sleep, says a man
ivho lias had experience. Opiates, in
any form, even the liquor opiisedat and
chloroform, will leave traces of their in
fluence next morning. I, therefore,
prescribe for myself —and have fre
quently done so for others —onions ;
simply common onions, raw, hut Span
ish onions stewed will do. All know the
taste of onions ; this is due to a peculiar
essential oil contained in this most valu
able an J healthy root. The oil has, I
am sure, highly soporific powers. In
my own case they never fail. If I am
much pressed wilh work and feel that I
shall not sleep, I eat two or three small
onions, and the effect is magical. Onions
are also excellent things to eat when
much exposed to intense cold. Finally,
if a person can pot sleep, it is because
the blood is in the bruin, and not in the
stomach. The remedy, then-fort, is ob
vious. Gall the blood down from the
brain to the stomach. This is to bn
done by eating a biscuit, a hard-boiled
egg, a bit of bread and cheese, or some
thing. Follow this up with a (.'hash of
milk, or even water, and you will fall
asleep, and will, I trust, bless the name
of tho writer.— Kxchantje.
Chinese as Printers.
A Cliinsftnan offers his services to the
publisher of a monthly paper in this
city, to set up all tho forms ol his paper,
send him proofs of each article, and
make the corrections marked in the
proofs when returnc I, and convey the
forms to and from the press-room for
seventy-five cents a column, ihire are
forty-eight columns in tho paper, each
column twenty and one-half indies long
by two ainl one-quarter indies wide.
I bo offer was.d-dined, whereupon the
Obinantan said lie v.as doing tho same
work fur two other periodical in the city.
They learned the business in Hong Kong
and CftatOn, where papers are published
in the English tongue, and where China
men are uriih and into the work on account
of the scarcity of white labor. — Ban
Francisco Bulletin.
A Wild Hoy in Texas.
Mr. Ed Good writes that he found s
“wild boy” last week at the Hulphui
Springs, Tex., about fourteen milet
north of Jaq> r. Ho describes him ai
appearing from bis size to be about ten
or twelve years old, liair rather a liglil
color and'hanging belo .v his shoulders,
and his body iii a p rfeytly node state—
rot a particle of clothing of any kind
about him. ffo was picking and eating
berries when seen. Mr. Good approached
within a ft w rod- of him, by moving
; ftealthi'.y, before the boy perceived him.
The Jatter fi. and preeipitat )y. F.d be
lieves it to be a veritable “wild boy."
If that be so lie might be captured and
t'ie myr-tery of his life unraveled.—
Detroit Fiee Drees.
Tales of Ye Olden Time In 'Washington
City.
Be pleased to take seats gentlemen.
lam going to toll sonic true stories; I
promise not to boro you.
Lomouoski came to this Country many
years ago, and succeeded iu obtaining a
clerkship in the Postoflico Department.
According to his account of himself he
had been a soldier under the great Na
poleon. Nothing pleased him better
than to meet with an opportunity of re
citing his military exploits. It is hardly
necessary to Ray "that some of them were
marvelous and always excited a smile oi
incredulity. At length a fellow-clerk
said to him:
“ Lonionoslu, I have often hoard you
tight over your old battles, now let ma
give you my sad military experience. I
was a soldier in the Black Hawk war. In
the very first engagement I saw three
stalwart Indians coming in full speed
after my scalp. I was armed with an
oh I •fashioned double-barreled shot-gun.
1 lot her loose upon the two that were in
tlio lead, and killed them as dead as .Till
ius Caviar. The third came rushing
upon me With his bloody tomahawk
raised above libs head, and what do you
suppose happened then?"
“ You killed him, of course.”
“ Not exactly’,” quietly replied the
black Hawk warrior; “he killed me.”
A roar of laughter was raised, among
the bystanders and poor Lemonoski’s
yarns 'wore knocked clear out of him.
Gen. Jackson, about the year J 832,
gave Jimmie Maher the appointment of
public gardener in Washington. Salary
{81,503 a year and trimmings. The trim
mings, perhaps, amounted to a much
larger sum. To keep the public grounds
in proper order were the duties to bo
performed. Jimmie, when 1 made his
acquaintance, knew every body from
Henry Clay down to Ephraim Frost, the
colored hack-driver. Ho was a warm
hearted, liberal Irishman. Ho never
took it drink, save when he was thirsty,
and then he invited all this bystanders
to join him. He prided himself on liis
adherence to what ho called “dimocratio"
principles. Borne hungry Whigs in 1811
wanted his place, and Jimmie, for a
while, xvas very unciasy. One morning
he met Gen. ' Harrison in the public
grounds, and taking off his hat, he thus
addressed him 1
“ I presume this is Ginernl Harrison,
Prizidcnt of the United States.”
Receiving an affirmative answer, lie
continued: “My name is Maher. lam
noohlic gardner. ”
“ Well, Mr. Maher, I like the appear
ance of these grounds; they look in much
better condition than they did when I
was a Senator.”
“ Och, its me trade; was fotched up to
it; but, may it plaze your Honor, it's
rumored about here that I’m to Go dis
missed.”
ii X'liu’mioq or! ftp wllfit?’*
“ Because I was a friend to Mi. v<wi
Boren* M
“ No, Mr. Maher, nobody is author
ized to say that you will be dismissed on
that account.”
“A thousand thanks to your Excel
lency. You see I was acquainted with
Mr. Van Bnren. He always treated me
like a gentleman, and I was for him; but
1 have no doubt after wo get a little bet
ter acquainted I shall bo for you.”
Harrison smiled, and assured him that
ho had no idea of turning him out.
Whereupon Jimmie broke down to the
place where ho had somo hands at work
and gave them a report of his interview.
He closed it with this grand exclamation:
“By Jove, hoys, Prizident Harrison
is a rale Gineral Jackson of a fellow!”
About three weeks after the inaugura
tion of Gen. Harrison a well-dressed
young man of sonio thirty summers
walked into one of the hotels of this city
with a fiddle on his arm and said:
“Gentlemen (all eyes were at once
turned upon him). I have come here
like thousands of others to see what I
could see ar.d got what I could get; but
I have been disappointed in eyerything.
J got no office, got out of *ioney, and
got many miles to retrace; I am too hon
est to steal, Ur) pround to beg, and I
concluded to come in bore to-day and
make a little in an honest way.”
Suiting the action to tbo word, ho be
gan to play tlio fiddle. This comical
scene afforded considerable amusement
otlio persons there assembled. They
asked him how much money it would
take to carry him home. He said §4O.
In less than ten minutes that amount was
raised for him. Bitting down and count
ing over his money, ho found that they
had given him §43.
“By George!” said he, “here’s a sur
plus of $3. Como in, gentlemen, all ol
you, and take something to drink.”
I never saw nor heard of him after
ward. I have regretted that I did not
learn his name and keep the hang of him.
The chances are that lie has since filled
some-high political position. Washing
ton Letter.
A Senator’s Experience.
One day in 18C4 Henator Zach Chan
dler was a passenger on the train from
Owospo to Lansing and, strangely
enough, no one in the ear had any idea
of his identity. Two men had the, seat
behind him, and from talking of war
they drifted to politics, and naturally
enough Chandler’s name Became mixed
up. Both men were red hot against
him, and directly one of them observed:
“ It’s a wonder to me that someone
doesn’t shoot the old blood-letter ! ”
“ Oh ! he’ll get his dose yet, and don t
you forget it I ” replied the other.
The Henator turned slowly around,
took a good look at l>oth, and then
said; .. .
“Gentlemen, please speak a little
lower —I am Senator Chandler myself. ”
He thought lie had them frozen solid,
but he was mistaken. Ho had scarcely
turned his head when one of them
leaned forward and replied :
“That’s all right, pard, if you can
beat the conductor with it; but don’t
try to stuff us ! We met tho old chap
back in Owosso not an hour ago, waiting
to go East, and it cost me 822 cash and
a silver watch to call his hand I If you ve
got anew racket trot it out—we aro not
giveaways! ”
Always there is a black spot in our
sunshine—it is the ->Wlo~ of oumc.Wes
Pride that dines on vanity sup* on
contempt-
Andersonville as It Is.
A correspondent of the Buffalo Courier
describing the present condition of the
Andcrsonvillc prison pen, says : Passing
along the memorable causeway, on cither
.side of which the scrub oaks grow thick
ly, I soon come upon the red banks of
the old oarthworks that guarded the
nuiiu entrance, and to the line of de
cayed and fallen timbers of the oijter
stockade. Inside of this, mid to the
right, are the ruins of the old bakery,
now simply a mound of earth and broken
brick from its chimney. Climbing the
rail fence that occupies the place of the
former inner lino of stockndc, resting
upon its piles of fallen decayed timbers,
1 cross the “dead line” and stand within
the space where eighteen years ago,
more than 20,000 miserable, ragged,
diseased and starved human beings were
huddled, burrowing in the ground, lying
Under tents of ragged blankets, striving
to shelter themselves from the fierce
rays of the sun.
The timbers ltavo in great part rotted
off next the ground and fallen, lying
like two great windrows, marking the
confines of the grouud. But wherever
there was a timber of heart pine it is
still standing, its pitchy fibres as sound
ns ever; and there are enough of these
to enable ono to readily trace the course
of the stockade nearly around the entire
place. The traces of the old, sad days
are distinctly visible on every hand. The
mounds and cavities of the thousand
dens and burrows are everywhere. It
would be exceedingly perilous to attempt
to cross this space in the night ; and
one must have his eyes open iu the day
time, ns he is constantly coming upon
tlio yawning mouths of the old wells and
entrances of tunnels from fifteen to
thirty feet deep.
The wells toward the northern port of
the ground are the deepest, several of
them being thirty feet deep, the stiff rod
clay precluding any danger of their
caving in ; and in fact now, after the
lapse of years, there are but few of them
that are not tut perfect and their walls
as hard and smooth as the day when
they wero completed. The very niches
that wore made in the walls to ascend
and descend the walls by are still plainly,
visible. Some of them are partially
filled with brush and sticks that have
been thrown into them, but most of
them are entirely empty and open. The
stream which runs ip at tlio went side,
and out at tbo east had, at the time of
my visit, a flow of fifty gallons per
minute. It does not have a rapid cur
rent, but it is so broad that I could not
hunt) across it. and is about a foot doeo
flees, Mice, Cals, nml Flowers.
Many of our orchidaceous plants abso
lutely require the visits of mollis to
remove their pollen-masses and thus to
fertilize them. I have also reason to
i>olinvc that hnmblo-becß are, indispensa
ble to the fertilization oi noon
(Viola tri-color), for other bees do not
visit this (lower. From experiments
which I have lately tried, I have found
that the visits of be.es uro necessary for
the fertilization of some kinds of clover;
lmt humble-bees alone vitiit the red
clover, (Trifolium pratouaw), u other
bees cannot reach tho nectar. Hence T
have very little doubt that if tlio whole
genus of humble-bees became extinct or
very rare in England the heartsease :q)d
the rod clover would become very litre,
or wholly disappear. Tlio number of
humble-bees in any district depends in
a great degree on the number of linhl
niice, which destroy their combs and
nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who hint
long attended to the habits of bumble
bees, believes that more than two-tbiribi
of them arc thus destroyed all over
England. Now tho number of mice is
largely dependent, as every ono knows,
on the number of cats, and Mr. Ncxv
man says : “Near villages and Bmad
towns I have found the nests of humble
bees more numerous than elsOwher •,
which I attribute to tho number of cats
that destroy the mice.” Hence it is
quite credible tht tho presence of a
feline animal in large numbers in a dis
trict might determine, through the in
tervention first of mice and then of bees,
the frequency of certain flowers in that
district. — l)arw in.
Appearances of Arsenic Eaters.
“Whenever you dap your eye* on a
woman us plump a a partridge, with a
milky whiteness of complexion, puffy
eyelids and swollen skin, you’ve found a
victim of the habit,” said a physician to
a reporter, in alluding to the growing
use of arsenic among ladies. “If there
is a delicate tinge of red on tho checks,
don't be deceived. Faint, not Nature, is
responsible for the bloom, made hideous
and ghastly by contrast with the corpsey
whiteness of tho rest of the face. The
arsenic eater is seldom downcast or de
spondent, come what may, for the drug
not only affects the skin, But produces
mental exhilaration. Tins plumpness
produced By arsenic is not natural
plnmpness, But rather a dropsical condi
tion of the skin. Cessation of the habit
causes this wafer-distended skin toeol
lapso, and wrinkles and sallowness are
the inevitable rosulta. Of course, no
woman is willing tosubmit to this ordeal
when it may Be prevented, at the mere
sacrifice of health and intellect, by ft
continuation of tho use of tho drug, 'i he
inevitable results of the arsenic habit
are hideous and incurable cutaneous
eruptions, loathsome diseases of the
scalp, falling out of tho hair, dropsy,
and oftentimes insanity. But what care
the footlight favorites or the society
belle for those trifling after-inconven
iences so long as they can Borrow illu
s, ve charms and fictitious Beauty by the
use of the deadly drug ?”
—A Tenant-House League has been
organized in Mew York. its object is
to “abolish landlords.” We don’t quite
understand its modus operand!, so 10
speak, but if, when a tenant owes a
landlord three or four months’ back
rent-say •8100—this league can lie
hirer!, for five or ten dollars, to abolish
the landlord, the organization must till
a long-felt want. It should extend its
field of operations, so as to include
tailors and shoemakers. There are
times when a hold-vour-head-high Young
man would give all tho money he could
borrow to have a tailor abolished -Abr
ritlown UtraUL
Exterminating Ruts and Mice.
Mice and rats seem to increase very
vapidly in tlio haunts of civilization, es
pecially in largo cities. Seaports are
particularly infested with them, as Now
Yorkers know but too well. Thos e ver
min have grown to he a supreme nui
sance there, notably iu old houses, which
are fairly overrun. They multiply every
year, appearing in numbers where n
short time ago they tvero hardly/seen.
How to get fill of mice and rats is a sli
nens problem with householders, who
are often forced to move on their ac
count. Evan uu ontirely-uoxv house i:;
apt to be invaded alter a few months,
tmd to be seriously hurt as a place of
vesidenco by the ravages of tlio nox
ious animals. Traps, boxvevqr ingen
ious of contrivance, do little or no
good after a brief while, as the cunning
creatures detect their purpose, and
either avoid thorn or secure the bait
without danger of captivity. Cats get
lazy. A good mouser xvill in a few
mouths become indifferent to what hue
been its favorite pursuit. And any or
dinary cat is afraid of rats, as well it
may be, and xvill seldom venture to at
tack them. They are generally too
wary for a terrier, which, with all hit
vigilance and ferocity, is deceived by
them. It is thought that the introduc
tion of ferrets into houses would miti
gate the annoyance* They arc often
employed in Europe to destroy such ver
min, and were so employed by the old
ltomuns. If kept from the cold they
are readily taken enro of, and, al
though not docile or affectionate, they
uro ranked as domestic animals. They
are natives of Africa, and dependent on
man, both here and in Europe, ns with
out liis aid they would perish; They will
soon rid a lionso, it is said, of mice and
rats, which have a natural dread of them,
and have heon known to desert premises
that they occupy They urea torril do
uml unrelenting foe. They are noc
turnal, sleeping nearly all day, and very
watchful at night, when the household
pests commit most of t!(pir depredations.
Their smallness and slenderness enable
them frequently to follow rats into holes
and kill them in a trice. Thu general
belief that they’ destroy life by sucking
blood is erroneous, notwithstanding the
statements of naturalists, from Button
to Cuvier and Ueoilrey St. Hilaire.
After death they, like other members of
the weasel trihe, doubtless tiuek the
blood of their victims, hut, they lull too
quickly for so slow a process, it lias
been shown, by repeated experiments,
that they often inflict but a single
wound, w hich proves almost inutantauo
oitsly fatal, They then, ns a rule, quit
their victim at once and kill another in
the same way. The simple wound is
under or behind the car, anil may or
may not pierce tbo large blood-vessels.
The canines enter the spinal cord Ito
twoen the skull and the tirsl vertebra of
the nock, destroying tlio victim us the
inutadorc atmuiyo It*.- Pv.ll. T 1.,,,
pierce tlio medulla Oblongata, the very
center of life, and immediately extiu-
guish motion, consciousness and sensa
tion. This is one of the many instances
in which the instinct <4 animals lias an
ticipated the tardy deductions of sci
ence. Tho ferret is so masterly a rat
slayer that there Seems to bo evory rea
son for introducing him into our domestic
economy, as lie xvill accomplish xvlmt
trap, poisbli, eat and dog have noi find
MUIBOt.
Hoxv fo Say It.
Bay “Iwould rather walk,” and not
“ I had rather walk.”
Say “I doubt not but, I shall,” and not
“ I don’t doubt but I shall.”
Bay “ for you and mo,” and not, “ for
you and J.”
Bay “whether I he present or in >l,”
and not “present or no.”
Bay “ not that I know,” and not “ that
I know of.”
Bay “return ii to mo,” and not “re
turn it back to mo."
Bay “I seldom roc hint,” and not
“that I seldom or ever see him.”
Hay “fewer friends,'’and not “less
friends.”
Huy “if I mistake not,” and not “if
I am not mistaken.”
Bay “game is plentiful,” and not
“game is plenty.”
Hay “I am weak in comparison with
you,” and not “ to you.”
Hay “it rains very fast,” and not
“very hard.”
Hay "in its primitive sense," and not
“ primary sense.”
Hay “lie was noted for his violence,”
and not that “ he. was a man notorious
for violence.”
Hay “thus much is true,” and not
“ this much in true.”
Hay “ I lifted it,” and not “ I lifted it
tip.”
And last, but not least, say “1 take
my paper mid pay for it in advance.”
Pearl Fishing on an American Const,
Pearl Fishing on the coast of Lowei
California is an important industry, no
less than 1,000 divers being employed in i
bringing up tho costly Black pearl, which
is found in a groat state of perfection in
the deep waters of l’az. Tho [e arl
oysters are found from one to six miles
off shore in water from one to twenty
one fathoms deep. Merchants provide
hats, diving nppartus, etc., for the pros
ecution of tlio business, on condition
that they can purchase all the pearls
found, at prioos to be agreed upon.
These boats, which are usually of about
five tons burden, sail up and down the
coast from May to November searching
for treasures. Tho product, of a year’s
work is about #'oo,ooo, estimating ttio
pearls at their first value.— Alta Cali
fornian.
Recognizing the Cook.
The papers are making a great ado
because Queen Victoria lias the name of
the cook written beside every dish on
the bill-of-fare at her dinners, so she
knows who cooks every article on the
table, and can compliment or censure,
as she pleases. That is nothing. For
fifteen years we have adopted the same
plan, find when the liver comes on a
little burnt, or tho codfish is underdone,
we know who to blumo, and we know
that all we have got to do is to go and
pay the girl her back salary and it will
be all right. We don’t see that Queen
Victoria holds over us very much ou
•tyl*.— feok’t Sun,
TEItM k : 11.50 per Ann :ni.
NUMBER 45
.lute.
Tho extraordinary consumption of
East India jute, and its now conceded
tight to claim a permanent place among
“the raw stuff" for carpet mills, calls
periodical attention to the futuro of this
homely wood. “But what,” it may be
inquired, “has jute to do with carpets?”
With somo carpets nearly as much as
wool, and with others a great deal more.
On an average, fourteen ounces of juts
enters into tho back of each yard of
standard tapestry carpet, while each
yard of American floor-oilcloth is but a
roll of decorated jute. The bright and
taking hemp carpets, so-called, are in
reality not hemp but made of jute.
Aside, also, from those fabrics, which
boast little of their juto per centage,
there are carpets which claim it as their
solo constituent. Tho fiber being cap*
hie of a soft and singularly Ba > r
“ pile,” and the goods which for
years have invaded tho market
tho name of “Juto Velvet,” Br.
and “Tapestry” their very th. vau
being made of East India jute—are as
tonishingly like tho wood-faced article.
Juto is made into elegant curtains,
hosiery, colored silks, and other fine
textile fabrics. Jute bt-les our American
cotton crop, and sacks our grain crop,
and it is subtly entering nearly every
fabric invented for the comfort of man
kind.
Regarded fifty years ago ns a fibrous
weed of uncertain future, juto has Bince
found a quotation in every civilized
market, nml adapted itself to infinite
needs. No commodity save cotton
promises just now to run the sheep so
close a race; none does so much, so well,
and for so little, as does this mysterious
Indian plant. Its peculiarly wool-like
affinity for dyes gives it fitness for the
face of some fabrics, wltilo a certain ad
hesive, clinging quality renders it in
valuable for the back of others. These
familiar facts arc given noxv importance
by the present efforts to cnltivato India
jute on American soil, and tho yarns
now shown of Louisiana and Carolina
growth are claimed as equalling in soft
ness slid finish tlm best products of tho
Dundee and Scotland mills.—77ie Car
net Trader. •
Density of J’optilalion.
New York is the most populous of the
Stales, containing about one-tenth, of
I lie entire population of the Union, but
it has not the densest popubrttbhn Tle
Census Bureau reports that the number
of square mites in the Republic;'hot in
cluding the Indian Territory and somo
j unorganized tracts, is 2,000,170. The
deputation in 1 HHi) was 50,153,773, or
17.20 per square mile Blit, in Rhode
Island iho population is 251.87 per
square mile, in Massachusetts 221.78, in
New Jersey 171.73. in Connecticut
128.52, and iu New York 1 0ti.74. Our
Slate, therefore, ranks fifth in density
of population, and there is an indica^
; .. fnimv greatness of xvhich but
few have probably tlmugni tu mo
that it lias room lor so many more in*
habitants. TJie population of the l)is
ti-ict of Columbia is 52,060.40 per square
mile.
Maimiilay’s lugubrious prediction, that
when xve have a population of 200 per
square mile dtif Government will go to
pieces, is not generally regarded xvith
other interest tlitin eurfosity by Ameri
cans; but were it a demonstrable fact,
it would have no immediate terror for
this people. There were 90,011) immi
grants xvtio arrived at l'fisticGarden last
month, but were tlm ra pc of imuiigra
lioii to remain the same, it would re
quire more than 500 years to give the
country a population of 200 per sqttaire
pule. The population of Germany Ja
now 205 per square mile. It conveys ft
vivid idea of the future magnitude of
this nation to say that xvhen its density
of population is equal to that of Ger
many, the United States xvill have 594,-
534,850 inhabitants, not including the
Indian Territory and some tracts now
unoi etipied — N. Y. Mail.
Frauds in Brandies.
They are chiefly practiced with in
ferior spirits in order to make tlicm pass
for cognac. It is many yours new since
the smaller growers began to add to
their wines before distilling it certaih
quantity of inferior cognac or other
spirit, such as Montpelier brandy, or
barley, beetroot* molasses, rice, or po
tato spirit. Buck is the richness in
aroma of the pure and true coguae that
!t. has enough and to spare for these ad
ditions of insipid alcohols. This fraud
-, and many maintain that it isuo fraud
-is undiscovered except by a very ex
perienced taster indeed, gifted, with a
most sensitive palate; detection Is
easier when the foreign spirit Is add
ed after instead of before distilla
tion. Then the biting harshness-of
new brandy is taken off with two drojiSbf
liquid ammonia to the bottle; the alkali
neutralizing a portion of the essential
this winch are chiefly given out by the
grape-skins. Cream of tartar and
candied sugar are also used for this pur
pose. The color of age is got expedi
tiously without molasses, either natural
or burned; and this last is employed to
produce the brown brandy of the Eng
lish. But more elastic consciences,
helped on by flic scientific chemists,
have descended by little and little to
making cognac; out of beetroot, maize,
potato spirit, or any other alcohol that
i turns up in the market. For this a
whole laboratory is required, embracing
such matters as grape-sirup, burnt
tuAnr, infusion of bitter-almond shells,
van die. tea, the root of the Florence
iris (.which we corruptly call orris-root),
angelica seed, lemon-rind, wahtltt
i husks, liquorice, camomile, gum
I catechu, and Tolu balsam. — tit. Janie.*'
(laxelte. •
l
An argument once arose in which Sid
ney Smith observed that many of the
most eminent men of the world had been
diminutive in person, find, after naming
several among the ancients, he added :
" Why, look there at Jeffrey ; and there
is my little friend , who has not
body enough to cover bis mind decent
ly with ; his intellect is improperly ex
posed.”
“A fellow must sow his wild oats,
you know,” exclaimed the old adolescent
John. “ Yes,” replied Annie, “but ouu
shouldn’t bogin cowing so soon
cradling," 3 ■**'
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