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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. ■ ♦ -0 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.— - 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. i —. -<t>- u. * 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 ■**' ~ in getj