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VOLUME I.
NEWS GLEANINGS,
The first tiling the English veterans
asked on getting ashore at Alexandria
“W’ere’s Cleopatra?”
No fewer than two German expedi
tions will come to this country to ob
serve the transit of Venus next Decem
ber.
A California young man, hugging his
aged grandmother, forgot that it wasn’t
his sweetheart, and broke four of the
old lady’s ribs.
John Sullivan, the Boston slugger,
who pounded Ryan and Ellsott, offered
1 Tug” Wilson, the English champion,
SSOO to stand up under his soft-glove
blows four rounds, and to Sullivan’s
disgust, Wilson went through the ordeal
and walked off with the money.
An American by the name of Living
stone, who has lived in Florence during
the past thirry years, is seen almost
averv day driving twenty horses—teu
spans attached to an ordinary wagon—
and he manages them with perfet ease.
The harness i3 quite curious in i's adap
tion to the purpose of driving so many
horses at once.
The appropriation for (he signal ser
vice has been cut down about $65/ 00.
New stations have been established,
special reports for tobacco, cotton and
augar growers have been commenced,
the telegraph bills have of course in
creased with the extention of the ser
vice.
At last a man has beat a bank cashier
at his own game. A janitor in a bank
at Elizabeth, N. J., fixed a piece of lead
with shoemakers wax, and a string, and
arranged it in a money drawer so he
could jerk out a bill every few minutes.
He got about nineteen hundred dollar
all told, and then the cashier got onto
it. The janitor should lave given
chromo, but l e will probably be given
three years.
Mrs. Lincoln was torn December 13,
1818, in Lexington. Kentucky, and was
the daughter of Hon. R. S. rnd Eliza
belli P. Todd. She come to Springfield
in 1839. and was married to Mr. Lin
coin, November 2, 1842. She died in
the same house gin which die was mar
ried. She leaves three sisters, residents
of Springfield, Illinois, Mrs. 0. M. Smith,
Mrs. N. W. Edwards and Mrs Dr. Wal
lace.
Troubulous times are upon the lottery
men. In St. Louis three of them were
sent to jail for six months; in Louis
ville Justice Matthews decided that
there was no jurisdiction to enjoin the
postmaster from refusing to deliver let
ters to a lottery, and a Washington spe
cial says Postmaster General Howe,
whenever the question is brought before
him, will decide that letters containing
money or money-orders directed to a
lottery, shall not pass through the mails.
The receipts of the post office depart
ment for the quarter ended March 31,
1882, were 119,956,235 86; payments
.$9,976,307,81 excess of receipts $979,-
927 99; probable profits on money or
ders $75,000 ; total *1,084,827 99. To
get the whole amount of expenditures
there should be added to the amount
paid the amount withheld from subsi
dized Pacific railroads, about $250,0' 0.
and the amount due railroads unascer
tained but estimated, $200‘000; total
$450,000. This makes the net receipts
for the postal service for the quarter,
above all expenditures and' liabilities,
more than $600,000.
An effort is making in Congress to have
Washington Territory admitted into the
Union, but it is probable that the ambi
tious Washingtonians will have to wait
awhile. The Territory is a very beau
tiful piece of country. In 1880 the
lumbeimen cut 250,0C0,000 feet; about
150,000 tons of coal are produced; the
manufactured products are valued at
86,129,762; (he wheat product last year
was nearly 2,000,000 ouehels; taxable
values aggregate 814,000,000, and the
population 75,000. Many immigrants
are going to Washington Territory this
year, but it will be some time before the
State can show enough people to give a
would be congressman a chance. The
required ratio is 151,000.
The New York directotv appears this
year with 1302 pages and 289,724 names,
an increase of 4,577 names over last
year. It begins as it has done for many
years with Elizabeth Aab and ends with
Jacob Zypress. Among the noted names
which disappear this year are Henry W.
Bellow’s, Lorenzo Delmonico, whose
tine first ijjcts in tl <£ii<(t< ij of
982 ; Fletcher U. Harper, ore of the
original firm, George Law, Clarkson
N. Potter, Samuel B. Buggies, J. Cotton
Smith, E. W. Stoughton, Moses Taylor
and James It. Wood. The first directc*
rv of New York made its appearance
in 1786, a paper covered pamphlet of
eighty pages. Since then there has
been one regularly with one interval
1788—when the changes are deemed too
light to need anew book. The shortest
name in the present directory is Ox, and
the longest is Pfeiffentchneider.
—The ruby, sapphire and topaz are
simply modifications of one substance,
alumina, which, as clay, forms a great
of the earth's surface,
THE JACKSON NEWS.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Jaitcs Redpath has purchased Mc-
Gee's Weekly.
Thu Prince of Wales’ individual in
debtedness is $3,000,000.
The Fxtz John Porter ease will come
up in the Senate next Deoember.
The King of Siam has determined to
establish a legation at Washington. -
A Russian colonel was exiled to Si
beria for being too lenient to Nihilists.
Susan B. Anthony is going to Texas
to lecture, and perhaps, grow np with
the country.
Olive Logan says Bernhardt’s hus
band is “highly kissable,” and nobody
knows how she found it out.
General Newton announces that he
will be ready in a few days to blow up
another section of Hell Gate.
The completed report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture on the condition of
crops for July is encouraging.
Anarchy is spreading in Egypt, and
meantime Arabi Pasha is marshaling his
forces and getting ready to fight.
Governob Cornell is the champion
vetoer. He has refused to sign 123 hills
passed by the New York Legislature.
It is stated that visitors to the Mam
moth Gave, in Kentucky, were never so
scarce as they are at the present season.
A Canadian widow, some two weeks
ago, married her daughter’s widower
eleven weeks after her husband’s death.
Long Sing, tho Chinese survivor of
the Jeannette party, has opened a
laundry and tea store in Washington.
Friends of the River and Harbor bill
hope to get it down to $18,000,000, but
even then they fear tho President’s veto.
It is stated that the American Presby
terian missionaries stationed at Alexan
dria during the bombardment, were not
harmed.
Michael Davttt, who sailed for Eu
rope a few days ago, collected about
$20,000 for the Land League during his
stay here.
Vennor, the weatherman, is at Ferry
Beach, on the Maine coast, and still his
predictions call for cool weather and
plenty of rain. v
At Fremont, Ohio, the hopae of 34*8.’
Hayes, the great female temperance ad
vocate, the Sunday closing law is ignored
by saloon-keepers.
A Miss Alsatia Allen, of Montgom
ery, Alabama, is “the most beautiful
young lady in the United States,” so
Oscar Wildo says. Don’t forget the ad
dress.
Mb. Geo. L. Senet, the Brooklyn
philanthropist, has given another check
for $25,000 to the Wesleyan Female Col
lege of Georgia, making his total gifts to
that institution $125,000.
Mrs. Scovtlle is still indignant. It
aggravates her to think that a stranger
may realize money on the remains of her
brother while she is denied that privi
lege and is in a destitute oondition.
Detroit Free Press fashion note:
“Crushed banana” is no longer a popu
lar shado. The woman who crushed it
came down with such force that she
hasn’t been out doors since that date.
“Christian Keed,” the Southern
novelist, is Miss Frances C. Fisher. Her
father fell at the head of his regiment at
Bull Run, and is reported to have been
the first Confederate killed in Lie war.
Several ministers aro preachrag on
the Egyptian war, and advancing the
theory that the Egyptians of these days
are being punished for the hard hoarted
ness of Pharaoh to God’s chosen peo
ple.
A letter of Queen Anne at a recent
sale in London sold for 8150. One from
Queen Henrietta Maria to Cardinal
■Mazaron went for §lO5. Another of
Henry 11., Prince de Conde, sold for
S4OO.
Tiie public debt of Egypt is §590 -
000,000, and the greater part of it is
held in England. She also pays £750,-
000 tribute to Turkey annually. That is
why the natives are making a kick for
repudiation.
Just before he stepped aboard the
steamer for Europ", Michael Da.’itt sai<i
that imprisonment in England would he
better than the treatment he had receiv
ed here from some of those whom he had
formerly counted as his friends.
I'boh information received at the of
fice of the Ohio State Board of Agricul
ture, it seem3 that the apple crop is
going to Ire nearly or quite a failure, how
ever unreasonable the statement may
sound. >
The action of the Senate in placing
the tobacco tax at twelve cents is very
unsatisfactory to the tobacco men at
Washington. What they wanted was
that Congress would leave the tax alone
at sixteen cents, or reduce it to eight
cents,
Devoted to -the Interest ol Jackson and Uutts County.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2,1882.
Small snakes have been discovered
in the proboscis of flies. They aro about
one-twelfth of an inch in length, and
two-thousandths of an inch in diameter',
it is suggested that the' fly may carry
disease germs, and scientists are invest
igating the question.
A Mormon elder of Salt Lake has had
his thirteen wives photographed, both
in a group and separately. The pictures
have been placed in an elegant album,
ami under eaeli woman is engrossed a
quotation of sentimental poetry sugges
tive of her best quality.
Kate Claxton, tho actress, who is
summering at Patchogue, L. 1., was en
joying a sail in her boat, tho Coquette, a
lew days since, when the craft was upset
by a squall. Sire was thrown into the
water, but rescued without injury, and
having passed through both tire and
water, may consider herself safe.
The New York Sun is receiving com
munications giving remedies for snake
bites. This is the heroic for rattlesnake
bites :
Stop the circulation above the bite; suck
it if your trams are all right; put throe
drachms of gunpowder in the wound, and
set it oil' with a match. Sure cure. An
other remedy for hi ms is pounded raw
onions applied as poultice.
In dealing with the Mormon question,
the Salt Lake 'Tribune says :
Polygamy is a disgrace which is realized
in every Mormau home. In every Merman
home the plural wives and their children
are looked upon as tainted. That this is
true is made evident by the anxiety of all
such women and children to pas.-i them
selves off us the first wives or the children
of first wives. A.nd it is further made evi
dent by the quarrels which constantly
occur in such families, and by the epithets
which first wives and children bestow upon
the others.
Cannibalism in Fiji.
It was only people who had been
killed tht were considered good for
food. Those who died a natural death
were never eat on—invariably buried.
But it certainly is a wonder that the isles
were not altogether depopulated, owing
to the number who were killed. Thus,
in Namena, in the year 1851, fifty bodies
were cooked for one feast. And when
the men of Ban were at war with the
men of Verata they carried off 260 bodies,
seventeen of which were piled on a
eanoo and sent to Kowa, where they
were received with wild joy, dragged
about town and subjected to everv
species of indignity ere they finally
reached the ovens. Then, too, jnstthinkof
the number of lives sacrificed in a coun
try where infanticide was a recognized
institution, and where widows were
strangled as a matter of course! Why,
on one (vscasion, when there had beon a
borate massacre of Nameiia people at
Viwa, and upward of 100 fishermen had
been murdered, and their bodies carried
l as bokola to the ovens at Bau, no less
than eighty women were strangled to do
honor to the dead, and corpses lay in
every direction about tko mission station.
It is just thirty years sinco the Rev.
John Watsford, writing from hero,
described how twenty-eight victims had
been seized in one day while fishing.
They were brought here alive, and only
stunned when prut into the ovens. Some
of the miserable creatures attempted to
escape from the scorching bed of red-hot
stones, but only to be driven back and
buried in that living tomb, whence they
were taken a few hours later to feast
their barbarous captors. He adds that
more human beings were eaten on this
little isle of Bau than anywhere else in
Fiji. It is very hard, indeed, to realize
that the peaceful village on which I am
now looking lias really been tlio scene
of such horrors as these, and that many
of the gentle, kindly people around me
have actually taken part in them. —At
' Home in
Understanding Men’s Natures.
About mid- afternoon yesterday a citi
zen who pulls down the scales at 1 ‘JG
pounds descended the first flight of
stairs beyond the post-office in just the
same manner that a bag of oats would
have chosen, ami when he brought up
at the foot he was in no frame of mind
to chip in anything for the heathen in
Africa. The first citizen who arrived
on the spot knew what his duty required
of him on such an occasion, and he smil
ingly remarked:
“I don’t believe you can improve on
the old way!”
The second citizen passing was in a
hurry; but he knew that he must halt
and inquire:
“Like that any better than coming
down the way the rest of us do?”
The third citizen had business at the
post-office, but lie turned aside, cleared
bis throat, and remarked:
“ Evidently fell down stairs? furi
ous how it sets the blood to circulating!
Some of you bad better see if his nose is
broken- good-bye?”
There was a fourth spectator, and he
slowly entered the door-way, beni over
the victim, and remarked:
“I’d have given a dollar to see him
comedown! lie’s one of the sort who
bump every stair!”
The fifth" man was about to his
mile when the victim rose up. His
elbows were skinned, his nose barked,
his coat torn and his back sand-papered
the whole length, but he was a man
who had traveled. He knew that ev
erybody in the crowd was hoping to see
him jump up and down and shake* his
fist-, and paw the air, and to hear him
declare that he would lick all the men
who could be packed in a ten-acre lot,
and therefore he brought a sweet smile
to his face, lifted his nut like a perfect
gentleman, arid limped up stairs with
the bland remark:
“Stubbed my toe as I came in the door,
vou know, and came near falling in a
heat).” — Detroit Free Press.
“Gextlemex of the jury,” sa'd an
fiisli lawyer, “it will be for you to say
whether the defendant shall he allowed
- 1 come into court with unblushing foot
-ops, with a cloak of hypocrisy ia hi
iuth, and draw three bullocks out o!
uiy client’s pocket with impunity.”
A TALE OF A SHIRT.
Tim I.cnutti of Tim* tii* Great low*
ttmtvvVtiuu ti m e Out*.
[leaver Tribune. ]
Apr< pos-of Geneva! Shin-man's visit to
P over, a storv is told of the Genorul’s
experience with llenry Clay Dean. The
two had been friends for years, and when
Sherman became General and Dean
happened to boiu \Vashington, the later,
naturally enough, felt a desire to renew
the old acquaintance. ,
lie called at Sherman’s house and was
received with open arms. They talked
over old times, and nothing would do
but Dean must stay to dinner.
“ Hut, General,’- remonstrated Mrs.
Sherman in hegthusband’s ear, “ I can’t
have such a dirty looking man at my
table; can't you spruce him up a lit
tle ? ’’
Tho General said he’d fix that, and so
ut an opportune moment ho hustled Mr.
Dean up stairs, ransacked a bureau, anil
produced a clean shirt for him to put on.
Airs. Sherman was mollified, and the
dinner was really a charming affair, for
there is no more delightful, entertaining
and instructive conversationalist than
Ilenry Clay Dean.
Oca year after this event General
Sherman was at the Liu dell Hotel, St.
Louis, with his family. A card wa3
brought up bearing Henry Clay Doan’s
name.
Mi's. Sherman was much pleased.
“Ho is such a charming talker, we
must have him to dinner. Only you
must see that he looks presentable.”
These were madam’s words to tho
warrior.
bo Sherman welcomed Dean, and,
just before going to dinner, slipped him
into a side room and gave him a clean
shirt to wear. Dean doffed his ooat and
vest, and, after several desperate efforts,
succeeded in divesting himself of the
shirt lie had on—a soiled, grimy, black
thing, that looked ns if it had seen long
and hard service. Then they all went
down to dinner, and Mr. Dean was more
charming than ever, and Mr. Sherman
w as in ecstanies.
The, next dn v, ns Mrs. Sherman was
getting her hie.bin id’s duds and clothes
together, preparatory to packing them
for the onward march, she gave a sort
of a w ild, hunted scream.
“ What is it, my dear,” called the
General from the next room.
“Just come in here for a minute,”
replied Mrs. Sherman, between faint
gasps.
The General went in. Tiicro stood
Mrs. Sherman holding in her left hand
the begrimed shirt Henry Clay Dean
had left. With- her right hand she
pointed to certain initials on the lower
rp'fi * JOS< ’ IU - Tho initials read
It was the identical shirt General
Sherman had loaned Henry Clay Dean
in Washington twelve months before I
rersonal Beauty.
The first principle of beauty, as prac
ticed in this progressive town, is, “ How
to be beautiful.”
The wife of an army officer accompa
nied her husband many years ago to bis
post in a distant frontier town. Among
the acquaintances she formed there was
a lady who, if remarkablo at all, was
noted for being exceedingly homely,
awkward, and commonplace. She had
a waist like a barrel, shoulders pitchod
forward, a rough, thick skin, coarse
black liair, large, bold eyes, great foot;
and besides all these physical defects
she was dreadfully demonstrative in
manner. Sho was tlio senior by several
years of the officer’s wife. After a tirno
tlio fortiuics of war retired the son of
Mars, who settled his family in Wash
ington. In the meantime the lover of
politics had lifted the husband of the
homely lady into Congress, and the two
friends met in society last winter. Mrs.
Mars could not believe lier eyes, so groat
was tiio transformation in tlio appear
ance of her old acquaintance. Mrs.
Congress looked ten years younger than
the junior lady. The many ripples of
soft auburn liair; a complexion smooth
and white ; a fashion of drooping the
darkly fringed eyelids, with a faint
shading on the under Jid, gave to the
eyes a marked expression of shyness
and languor. Her manner was full of
repose, and strikingly graceful; her feet
tlio perfection of symmetry, in French
boots; the bauds liad the refinement of
pink nails and taper fingers, and even
tier voice had. changed and dropped into
thoso sweetly modulated tones which
pass current for thorough breeding in
good society. Poor, mystified Mrs.
Mars looked and wondered, pondering
on all this, asking herself and elhers,
“ How iu the world dicl she accomplish
such a motamorphosy?" How? How
does the winning boron lap and pass
others and reach the lust quarter polo?
Through training. Money and time aro
the great factors to success, and the way
to succeed is to succeed. Mrs. Congress
has both. Money purchased her beauti
ful hair, paid for Turkish baths and
cosmetics, secured the service of a maid
who could give proper shading to her
eye-lids and touch her the art of droop
ing lids. It brought her graceless
figure into shapely proportions. It paid
chiropodists to treat her feet and mani
cures to polish her finger naiis, while
time and thimbles tapered the fingers.
It employed dressmakers and milliners,
salaried a master, who instructed her
how to enter the room, bow, pose, seat
herself and manage her train, all with
the poetry of motion. The moral neces
sity to bo beautiful puts incipient wrin
kles under the embargo of emulsions,
sent her to bed with her face buried in
poultices of Irish oatmeal and milk,
bandaged feet and pinioned hands in
ointment-lined gloves, and put the
brakes ou a too expansive waist. Men
pursue ambition, wealth, and that bub
ble, reputation ; women march up to the
cannon’s mouth of physical torture and
welcome martyrdom solely to be beauti
ful.— Washington Free Press.
—The train-boy, says Progress, has
become a dandy. He is dressed iu a
neat uniform, and if you catch aglimpse
of him a few moments before the train
starts you will see him carefully arrang
ing his hair before one of the looking
glass panels of the car. lie is still ad
dicted to prize packages, but he peddlei
them now with graceful dignity.
Testimony of Experts.
Au action was brought, by an attor
ney-at-law against his client to recover
!?2,00D for legal services, and in proving
tho value of those services ho put upon
the stand us witnesses the fellow-attor
neys, who estimated their value from
$5,410 to SI,OOO. The plaintiff recov
ered a judgment of SI,BOO, the Court
having charged the jury that they
should (mil their verdict on tho testi
mony of the attorneys, and the defend
ant carried the case up to the .Supreme
Court of the United States. In this
case, Head vs. Hargrave, that court, in
April, reversed the judgment, Mr. jus
tice Field, in tho opinion, said:
“ Tho evidence of experts as to the
value of professional services does not
differ in principle from such evidence
as to the value of labor in other de
partments of business, or as to the value
of property. So far from laying asido
t heir general knowledge and ideas, tho
jury should have applied that knowl
edge ami those ideas to tho matters of
fact in evidence in determining the
weight to be given to the opinions ex
pressed, and it was only in that way
that they could arrive at a just conclu
sion. While they cannot act in any
ease upon particular facts material to
its disposition resting in their private
knowledge, but should ho governed
by the evidence adduced, they may,
and to act intelligently they must,
judge of the weight and force of
that evidence bv thoir own general
knowledge of the subject of inquiry.
If, for example, the question were as to
the damages sustained by plaintiff front
a fracture of his leg by the carelessness
of a defendant, the jury would ill per
form their duty, and probably come to
a wrong conclusion, if, cont rolled by
the testimony of the surgeons not
merely as to the injury inflicted, but a*
to the damages sustained, they should
ignore their own knowledge and ex
perience of the value of a sound limb.
Other persons beside professional men
have knowledge of tho value of pro
fessional services, and, while great
weight should always be given to the
opinions of those familiar with the sub
ject, they arc not to be blindly receivod,
but are to be intelligently examined by
the jury in tho light of their own gen
eral knowledge; they should control
only as they are found to be reason
able. ’ ’ —Bradstrect.
The Whip-Poor-Will.
As the dusk gathers I hear the first
welcome notes of tho whip-poor-will.
What close observers of tho seasons aro
the birds! I doubt if tho man who has
an acceptance in bank is better poofcod
in tho As far back as my
bird register extends I find a record of
the arrival of the nocturnal songster as
occurring between tho Bth and 10th of
May. I)r. Brower claim# never to have
heal'd these notes later than August; but
in late September, in a night’s walk
through the hidden glories of the Rama
po Valley, I have been cheered by his
song. No other American bird is so
shy and retiring as tho whip-poor-will,
arid where is the happy ornithologist
who has found his apology for a nostP
1 once spent portions of each day of the
entire month of June in searching for
such a nest, and in the end was unre
warded. The habitual walker of the
woods will, sooner or later, stumble on
their noonday retreats, but it is difficult
to get into close proximity. They fly
noiselessly and rapidly and have that
protective plumage upon which Mr.
Darwin laid so much st.ross. All day
long, when undisturbed, they will rest
on tlio lower branches of some em
bowered tree,and only when the gloam
ing deepens do they come forth in search
of nocturnal insects. Nightly one used
to come and sit on a large stone near
the farmhouse. I have stolen Roftly out
to within a few feet, and watching him,
as he would dart out and catch an in
sect, returning to tho stone to enjoy his
tidbit, after the manner of the phosbe.
Bis note is preceded by a sort of cluck.
Audubon found his song, as he camped
in the solitudes of the forest, one of the
most delightful sounds of nature, sweet
er to him than that of the nightingale,
Burroughs describes a nest stumbled
upon—two elliptical, whitish, spotted
eggs lying upon dry leaves—and though
he returned to it day after day, it was
always a task to separate the bird from
her surroundings, though he stood with
in a few feet of her, and he knew just
where to look.— lndependent.
Let the Strawberries Alouo.
That a donkey, by his winter brows
ing of a vine which yields superior
grapes the next season, originated the
art of pruning, is an old story. I stum
bled by some such accident upon a very
successful,simple way of growing straw
berries. An overcrowded bed bad
yielded such poor returns of small, dry,
inferior berries that I hoed it up before
ail the fruit was off, intending to let
some current bushes have all the benefit
of the soil. Later in the season a few
plants were found to have escaped, and
they made such a handsome start with
the fall rains that where there was plen
ty of room some were spared. These
became very strong, and looked luxuri
antly green and vigorous in the spring
arid yielded splendid fruit. This cul
ture was so nearly no culture at all, but
a mere accidental permission to a few
plants to grow, that I have condensed
my practice into the mere dictum : “Let
them alone.” I find that this fills the
bill of requirements as to culture if we
have given the soil for them to grow in
food that is not charged with weed
seeds, and water enough while swelling
their fruit. Winter shelter is useful, but
is afforded by their leaves if the autumn
growth has been as strong as it should
be, and it will be strong if they aro
properly let alone. This consists in not
only letting them alone one’s self by
avoiding bruising or trampling or cut
ting of toots, but also letting the weeds
let them alone by keeping every vestige
of weed away, and making them let
each other alone, too, by preventing
the beginning of overcrowding. To
prevent the white grub from interfering
is not so easy, but something can be
dons to arrest his destoying work, too,
and 'bus “let alone” all around they aro
safe for productive prosperity.— Cor. N,
Y. Tribunt.
Sleeping Accommodations.
Cleanliness is the great essential. Our
life is passive during the hours of sleep,
but our breathing goes on constantly,
and the demand for pure air iu sleeping
rooms is very important. There should
always be communication with the out
side air, and in warm weather, tho
doors and windows may all bo wide open.
If currents of air can sweep through
the rooms in the day time (or in the
night without endangering the sleepers),
so much the better. The had air that
originates in sleeping rooms- —the waste
substance that escapes from human
bodies, by the lungs and skin—settles
and clings about the carpets, curtains,
bedding and clothing, tainting them
with decomposing, and it may be,
poisonous matter, unless a constant
cleansing process is carried on by
plentiful airing, and the action of light,
especially sunshine. The room should
contain as little drapery as possible.
Hugs are better than carpets, and no
heavy curtains should lie used. The
lied should not be made up after using,
until the bedding has been well aired,
and tho more it ran lie exposed to
bright sunshine, and out-door brc /.cs,
the better. The room should be kept
ns free as possibio from all odors.
The night clothing should he well aired
during the day, and the day clothing lie
placed at night where it will get aired
before it is again worn.
Sleeping rooms are often much
crowded. If would be well, could each,
when old enough, have a private room
and a clean bed apiece. A groat gain
in health would result from this arrange-
inent. In our present stato of poverty,
wo can only insist that no more than
two ought, to occupy the same bed. It
is an outrage on infancy to wedge a
baby in between two grown-up people.
Much injury is done to tho health and
to the morals of children, by tlio
crowded sleeping arrangements in fami
lies. The practice is now becoming
quite common among careful people,
where there are several young children,
for the parents to divide the cure of the
little ones, the mother taking the young
est in lier bed, and the father attending i
to the next to tho youngest, and to oth
ers if there is need. It. seems a pity
that the man of tho house should lie
broken of his rest, but it is quite as had
a tiling to have the children’s mother
made sick and nervous from lack of
sleep, and excess of care. With atten
tion to the laws of health, especially in
regard to food and air, there need be
little suffering from broken rest., as
healthy children sleep soundly and
quietly, and Deed little care. — American
Agriculturist
The Origin of Fencing.
From the first invention of the sword
down to tho period wlion the fifteenth
icntury was drawing to a close, this
weapon had always been used as an arm
of offense. The person wielding it. thrust
tor hewed it into the body of his an
tagonist whenever he had a chance, and
she only defense against it was stout
armor or an interposed shield. It is not
to be supposed that an ancient warrior,
ar one belonging to the earlier Middle
Ages, never thrust aside or parried wit h
Ins own blade n stroke of liis enemy’s
sword; bid this method of defense was
not depended upon in those days; the
breast-plate, the liclmcl, or the buckler
was expected to shield the soldier while
he was endeavoring to get his own
sword into some unprotected portion of
the hotly of his antagonist. But about,
the time of Ferdinand and Isabella of
Spain, the science of fencing was in
vented. This new system of fighting
gave an entirely new use to the swortl;
it now became a weapon of defense as
well as offense. Long, slender rapiers,
sharpened only at the point, were the
swords used in fencing. Armed with
Due of these, a gallant knight, or high
loned courtier, who chose the new
method of single combat, disdained tho
use of armor; the strokes of his oppon
ent were warded off by his own light
weapon, and whichever of the two con
testants was enabled to disarm the oth
er, or to deliver a thrust which could
not lie parried, coqld drive the sharp
point of his rapier into the body of his
opponent if he felt so inclined. The
rapier, which was adapted to combat
between two persons, and not for gen
eral warfare, soon became the weapon
of the duelist; and, us duels used to bo
as common as lawsuits are now, it was
I bought necessary that a gentleman
should know how to fence, and thus
protect the life and honorof himself, his
family and his friends. —John Lewt<s, in
Ht. Nicholas.
Insect Life In Brazil.
Mr. Ernest Morris, the young traveler
and naturalist, who lias just returned
from Brazil, repeats the general observa
tion of .xplorers that the exuberance of
insect life is the principal obstacle to
the enjoyment of a sojourn in that part
of the world. Cockroaches swarm in
every house despite tho inroads of an
army of spiders which sally forth from
every chink to prey upon them, scorpions
are intrusive and dangerous ; a small rod
insect called the “ moeuim ” is an intol
erable annoyance; at certain hours of
the day the air is black with flies and
mosquitoes, and ants are a universal
plague. To baffle these last-named foes
of peace Mr. Morris was obliged to
keep his entire collections on hanging
•helves, tho cords of which were soaked
in tho oil of copaiba. “The most de
structive ant in Brazil,” says Mr. Morris,
“is the sanba. It will strip trees of
thoir folage in a single night, and in
many places orange trees can not be
grown for this reason. The tocandeira
is a very smalt ant, the bite of which is
poisonous and makes a painful soro. I
was once rendered unable to work for a
• veek from a bito received from one of
these ants. Some species travel in large
bodies, marching in a straight lino, and
never turning to the right or left. If a
bouse lies in the track of one of these
marching bodies, unless they aro com-
Sletely exterminated they pass through.
Tothing will be injured, but every crack
and cranny will be explored, and not a
cockroach or spider will survive tho
visitation. They are, therefore, re
garded as friends, and their advent is
welcomed. Go where you will iu Brazil,
you will meet ants. You live, sleep,
ind eat with them—and eat them, too. ”
I ERR': $1.50 per A imam.
NUMBER 47.
I‘ITH AND POINT.
—lt costs,a man more to be misera
ble than it does to make his family
happy.
—Tho mothcr-in-faw does not remem
ber That she was once a daughtcr-ju-law.
—Spanish Proverb.
—Minnesota lias just exhumed the
skeleton of a woman who must have
stood nine foot high and had a foot as
long as a nail keg. Anybody missing
from Northern Indiana? —Detroit Free
Press.
—The Rector (to Irish plasterer on
ladder pointing u wall): “That mortar
must have been very bad.” Pat, (with a
grin) : “Faix, ye can't expict the likes o’
good Roman ciinint to slick to a Protest
ant church, sorr!” — Punch.
—A journey around the world now
takes about ninety days, and the cost
can be reduced to SBOO. And in going
round in that time and at that expense
you can hare about as much fun as you'd
get in sitting all night In a rainstorm on
a picket fence listening to a bull-dog
bark at a cat in a barrel. —Boston Post.
—They were courting: “What makes
the stars so dim to-night?” she said,
softly. “Your eyes are so much bright
er,” he whispered, pressing her baud.
They aro married now. Ml wonder how
many telegraph poles it would lake to
roach tho stars l'rotn bore?”- she said,
musingly. “Ono, if it was long enough,”
lie growled. “Why don’t you talk com
mon sense?”
—An old peasant on the south shore
of Long Island was telling his visitor
how pleasant it was. “But,” asked the
friend, slapping his face with his hand
kerchief, “don’t you have a great many
mosquitoes and sand flies?” “Ya-as,
said tiic man, “but then we sorter like
them.” “llow can that beP” “Wa-al,
you see, wo feel so kinder good when
they go away.”— N. Y. Tribune.
—Tho King of Bavaria has announced
that ho will not read books printed in
quarto size. Wo shall remember this
when wo issue our book—provided tho
King promises to buy eight hundred
copies of a 1,000-edition. This would
leave only two hundred volumes on our
hands as dead stock, which would be
doing pretty well, considering the quali
ty of tho book. —Norristown Herald.
—Fat borrowed some money of a
friend, and was unable to pay’ it back
when he came for it; and the friend be
came very angry, and said: “Now,
Fat, if you don’t pay mo that money by
next Monday, I snail give you a thrash
ing.” The next day, as Fat was stroll
ing along the street, lie jostled a man,
who cried out, “Look out what you are
doing, or I will knock yon into ttie
miild'" of next week.” “Bejabers! an’
I Wish yo WU.I. col-r, fm tllOfl [ wmd t>B
over Mundy.”— N. X. Sun.
—lt is a very cold day when anew
agony isn’t forthcoming. it is now
quite tho idea for a young lady to send
a miniature Japanese parasol to a kind
ly disposed gentleman friend. It is a
small matter, imt fraught with this deep
significance: “Summer is coming by
and by. Will you carry my sun um
brella by the shimmering, shining scaP”
The young gentleman immediately pro
ceeds to bank his cigar and beer mon
ey, that lie may have enough on hand
for a shore dinner for two.— New Hagen
He i/Mcr.
A Sad Sfory of a Wrecked Life.
The most thrilling and sadly sugges
tive temperance lecture is the sight of a
once noble, talented man, left in ruins
by intoxicating drink. A- Washington
paper tells of a ragged beggar, well
known ill the streets of that city, who
once held an important command in the
army, having been promoted for personal
lira very, from a cavalry Lieutenant to
nearly tlio highest rank in military ser
vice. One night, not long ago, when ho
luid been too successful in begging
liquor to sate his craving, and while
lying helpl ssly drunk in the rear part
of a Thitd street saloon, some men
thought to play a joke on him by steal
ing his shirt, aud proceeded to strip
him.
Underneath his shirt, and suspended
by a string from bis neck, was a small
canvas bag, which the men opened and
found it contained iiis commission as
Brevet Major General, two congratu
latory letters—one from Gen. Grant and
one from President Lincoln—a photo
graph of a little girl, aud a curl of hair
—a “chestnut shadow” that doubtless
one day crept over tho brow of some
loved one.
When these tilings were discovered,
even the lialf-drunken men who found
them felt a respect for the man’s for
mer greatness, and pity for his fallen
ondition, and quietly returned the bag
ml its contents to where they found
tiiem, and replaced the sleeper’s clothes
upon him.
When a reporter tried to interview the
man, and endeuvored to learn something
of his life in the past few years, he de
clined to communicate anything.
He cried liko a child when told how
bis right name and former position were
ascertained, and, with tears trickling
down his cheeks, said :
“For God’s sake, sir, don’t publish
my degradation, or my name, at least, if
you are determined to say something
about it. It is enough tliut I know my
self how low I have become. Will you
promise that much? It will do no good,
but will do my friends a great deal of
harm, us, unfortunately, they think I
died in South America, where I went at
the close of tlie war.”
Intemperance and the gaming-table,
he said, iiiul wrought his ruin.
Too Smart.
Home men, and boys nlso, are so
■umirt as to think they can dispense with
honesty. Such usually overreach them
selves," as did the boy teferred to hi re :
A youngster was sent by his parent to
take a letter to the postoffice and pay
the postage on it. The boy returned
highly elated, and said, “ Father, I seed
a lot of men putting letters in a little
place ; and, when no one was looking, I!
slipped yours in for nothing.”
—The person who stands and holds thei
spring-screen-cloor half open is abroach
in the land. We trust the Hies will gotj
the Lost of him sometime. —New Hawn
lico inter.