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W. E. HARP, Publisher.
VOLUME I.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Canada is anxious to send a regiment
to Egypt. i w i
The Germans are mixing somewhat in
the Egyptian troubles.
There are only nine members of the
Vanderbilt family at Saratoga.
Railway mail employes are to be
classed as postal clerks licreai'ter.
Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan, of
Chicago, is to be made a Cardinal.
A number of fatal sunstrokes have
been reported from New York City.
New wheat is being shipped from
Texas directly to Italy and Liverpool.
Ho-'; cholera is creating alarm among
the farmers of MeLeaai,County, Illinois.
-s-
Tins Sultan of Turkey finally con
cluded to regard Arabi Bey as a traitor.
Jefferson Davis is spending his time
attending camp-meetings iu Mississippi.
Tub farmers of Southern lowa will
try the experiment of raising cotton
next season.
Harvest is now in progress in Central
Dakota, and tlio crops are reported in be
above the average.
Ex-Fubuo Pkinteb Defuees, who
waa for a long time ill, is now in a fair
way toward recovery.
liven ' a!' cliuroE he has
two pcMco attendants.
rnß Mormon missionaries in the
{South claim that agitation is helping
them to obtain proselytes.
The weather in Ireland is reported as
having improved, and there are now fair
prospects for a good potato crop.
Lawless Turtle Mountain Indians
have crossed the border from Canada
into Dakota, evidently to amuse the set
tlers.
EmaitATiojj for America thus far this
ysar is less than last year, Still, about
us many paupers are arriving as can
well be cared tor.
I' ft an klin Simmons, the sculptor, is at
work in his btudio in Home, Italy, on a
colossal statue of the late Oliver P.
Merton, of Indiana.
The Detroit Free Prcts says that
babies are so small in the little (State ol
Kliodj Island that they spank them
With a tack-hummer.
The President has approved tho act
appropriating $50,000 for Mrs. Lucre tin
Garfield, less any amount paid President
(larlicld on account of salary.
Cincinnati announces that she drank
140,000,000 glasses of beer last year,
saying nothing of the chaps who sent
quart pitchers to the nearest saloon.
The appointment of M. L. Joslyn, of
Illinois, Pirst Assistant Secretary of the
Interior, it stems, has not exactly' satis
fied the people of Northern Illinois.
A I'AKTr of Chippewa Indians are
in Washington endeavoring to conclude
negotiations for tho transfer of 3,200,00(1
acres of the reservation, near Ked Lake,
Minnesota, to tho Government.
Boston lias passed a law prohibiting
the sale of the toy pistol. Baltimore,
where there were so many cases of lock
jaw from the explosion of these weapons
one year ago, passed such a law, and
this year they had no lockjaw to report.
Out of twenty New York doctors who
were asked to give an opinion of ice
water, seventeen declared it all right as
a beverage. The other three havo all
the practice they can take care of.
A Miss Fox, in Now Orleans, has
sued Mr. Low for breach of promise,
placing her damages at one dollar. That
is uutUi) , enough. Low must feel
very low at U.. t„ n , wiun |/Imwu upon
him.
The London Queen has decided that
it is unpardonable for young women,
married or single, to walk out alone.
This is a hint, to young men. We pre
sume it is perfectly proper for older
ladies—if there are any such—to go it
alone. _
Tiie President bus referred a supple
mental petition heaving 49,000 signa
tures, from the Garfield Club of New
York City, asking tho pardon of Ser
geant Mason, to the Secretary of Wat,
together with several other and similar
petitions.
Mrs. Henry Labouchere, wife of the
editor of Loudon Truth, who instructed
Mrs. Langtry for her debut, will accom
pany her pupil and protege on her tour
in the United States. Mrs. Labouehere
is a charming person, known formerly on
the stage as Miss Henrietta Hodson, an
actress of great talent and vivacity.
Cadet Whittaker delivered his first
lecture on “ Color Line in the Nation s
School," in Baltimore, where he retold
the story of that ear slitting scrape. He
also told how frightfully he had been
misused throughout his entire term at
West Point, the white boys refusing to
eat or bunk with him and frequently call
ing him ‘‘that nigger.’’ Ho said also
that he was lecturing for money.
Thb Cincinnati Gazette tell* this her
THE JACKSON NEWS.
rid tale if two good little Sunday-school
boys;
Two Denver boys, bavins read about kid
napping. stole a wealthy woman’s pet dog,
and wrote a letter demanding sls for its re
turn. If she did not leave tbe money in a
specified spot, they declared they would
send her every day an inch of the precious
brute's tail. Doing easily caught, they
proved to be Sunday-school pupils of good
standing.
Eoypt isprotty well supplied with al
leged newspapers. Alexandria has three
dailies in French, two in Arabic, two in
Italian, and one in Greek and Euglish,
with circulations running up to 6,000,
besides six weeklies, two in Arabio, one
iu Italian, and one in English. Cairo,
with its population of 850,000, has bid
two dailies, both in French, Ktwl fdwr
weeklies ; Egyptians Deventx, a weekly
paper in Arabic, is the government or
gan, and has a circulation of 10,000.
Port Said has two French weeklies, and
Suez, Ismalia, and other places, have
what are called newspapers.
Port Saul.
Port Said- where the European
Powers will probably land their troops
if t hey resolve to protect the Suez Cannl
against posihle destruction by the re- j
bellious Egyptian army, twenty-three
years ago was merely it narrow strip of
sand which had been selected as tho
st arting point of the great canal bi-'ttztvn
tiro Mediterranean and lie Bed fV*. M.
Do Losseps then predicted that some
day it would rival Alexandria. His
prediction, it would seem, will be re
alized within a short time. The city
has grown and is growing with mar
anif pniiiSwlsVlook imparted to it a*
its birth by MM. Dussaud. It is
according to one chronicler, “ar‘
dolls’ houses, with a church _ad a
mosque and chalet-looking booths am*
cafes that might have issued from a
Nuremberg toy-box. Blit here the in
nocence of Port Said stops. There is
nothing prim about it; save its architec
ture; being a hot-bed of vice and crime
unstemmed and uncontrolled by the
Egyptian Zaptieh—a sort of Ratcliff
highway without the Thames Police
C ourt, where a day or night rarely
passes without some mariner or other,
black or white, being openly ‘knifed’ in
the ‘Grande Rue.’ Port Said never
sleeps. Attached to that uncomfortable,
expensive hostelry, the Hotel des Pays
Bus, are a gambling-hell and a coneert
loom, the orchestra of which is furnished
by German young ladies imported
from Trioste. The arrival of an Indian
‘trooper’ a ‘P. and 0.,’ ora ‘Messageries’
from Saigon and Galle is the signal for
a tuning up of fiddles and violincellos.
But t lie fun waxes faster and more
furious whon an Australian drops her
anohm iu tho tycaofn. Xlicn tttr
Trieste amazons rub their eyes and tako
to their fiddlesticks and receive the new
comers with a sprightly waltz at what
ever hour of the night or morning it
may be, utterly regardless of the peace
of mind or body of the unlucky wight
who may be courting sleep on one of
the hard beds of tho Hotel dcs Pays
Bas.” —London World.
Certainly He Would.
The other evening, as a muscular citi
zen was passing a house on Montcalm
street, a lady who stood at the gate
called out to him :
“Sir! I appeal to you for protec
tion!”
“What’s the trouble?” he asked, as
ho stopped short.
“There’s a man in the house, and lie
wouldn’t go outdoors when I ordered
him to!”
“He wouldn’t, eh! We’Jl see about
that!”
Thereupon the man gave tho woman
his coat to hold and sailed into the
house spitting on his hands. He found
a man down at the supper-table, and he
took him by the neck and remarked:
“Nice style of a brute you are, ehl
Come out o’ this, or I’ll break every
bone in your body!”
The man fought back, and it was not
until a chair had been broken, and the
table upset that he was hauled outdoors
bv the legs, and given ailing through
the gate. Then, as the muscular citi
zen placed his boot where it would do
the most hurt, he remarked: “Now,
then, you brass-faced old tramp, you
move on or I’ll finish you.”
“Tramp! tramp!” shouted tho vio
tim, as he got up, “I’m no tramp! I
own this property and live in this
house!”
“You do?”
“Yes. ana that’s my wife holding
your coat!”
“Thunder!” whispered the victim, as
he gazed from one to tho other, and
realized tljdt the wife had got square
through him; and then ho made a grab
for his ooat and sailed into the dark
ness with his shirt bosom torn open, a
finger badly bitten, and two front teeth
ready to drop cut .—Detroit Free Frees.
An Idea Worth Adopting.
The water supply abroad is so often
of a doubtful character that travelers
have resorted to the prudent expedient
of drinking only some well-known min
eral water. Thereupon a large trade
lias been done in the purchase from
and bottle merchants of such mineral
water bottles a- still bore the labels in a
fairlv good condition. It was then easy
to till them with- ordinary and possibly
contaminated water, adding salt to give
the taste and appearance of tiie desired
mineral spring. By this fraud the con
sumer was not merely robbed but made
to drink the very water lie was doing
his best to avoid. We are therefore
pleased to note that in France at least
the Prefect of Police has ad opted encr
getie measures to check this abuse.
irders have been given to visit all de
pots of mineral waters, to seize hap
hazard a specimen and analyze it on the
spot. 'The tradesmen will also be called
upon to exhibit their invoices to prove
whence their stock is derived. Not only
are the stores of wholesale agents or
dealers to be thus inspected, but the re
tailers, the cafe, restaurant and public
house keepers will fce subjected to an
equally vigorous supervision, and all
venders of such falsifications will be lia
ble to prosecution. —London Lancet.
Devoted to llie Interest ol Jackson and Butte CountV-
JACKSON, GEORGIA,! WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1882.
Agriculture and National Prosperity.
Never before perhaps in tho history
of the country has greater interest been
taken in the growing crops than at tho
present time. The supply of cereals in
the country is small, meat of all kinds is
scarce and high, and almost for the first
time h;ts there been a necessity for im
porting potatoes, roots, and garden
vegetables. The coming harvest will
find ample room in the now empty bins,
cribs, warehouses, elevators, and cellars.
It has been remarked that the world is
ordinarily within less than a year of
starvation, and that hunger can not wait.
Wo are nearer the realization of this
startling statement than we have been
for many years. Wo have more people
to feed than wo ever had before, and
ho number is constantly increasing.
Ordinarily some articles of food are
plentiful and cheap, but at present ov
erything is dear. Even corn meal, salt
pork, potatoes, and cured fish are high.
Persons can not live cheaply if they de
sire to. Every article that will help
support life in man or the inferior ani
mals commands a good price. At pres
ent every one tqkes an interest in tho
reports of condition of crops and is de
sirous of obtaining the latest informa
tion respecting them. There is anxiety
on every hand in respect to the weather
and the extent of the damage by storms
and by tho attacks of insects. Dealers
in other articles than grain and provi
sions are doeply interested in Ihe pro
duction of these articles. They are
careful to gain tho fullest information
possible about tho prospect for crops in
every section of the country before they
sell large bills of goods on credit. The
value of every day of sunshine is care
fully estimated in a thousand counting-
AGzuluo. Thu vlamngo Iniliotod by & B(JVfiro
and long protracted storm is calculated
in tho same way. Tho worth of sun and
heat is fully appreciated.
A larger proportion of tho inhabitants
of this country are directly engaged in
agriculture than can bo found in almost
any oouetry Jn tho world. In the
great markets where the commerce of
all nations center we exohange grain,
meat, cotton, and tobacco for manufac
tured articles. If wo do not produce
them in abundance we have nothing with
which we can carry on foreign trade.
Our tariff laws, designed to build up do
mestic manufacturers to supply local
consumption, have an injurious effect
on tho manufacture of articles for ex
port. The prosperity of nearly all our
manufactures depends on tho produc
tion of raw materials that can be work
ed up. We make cotton cloth from lint
produced from our own fields. Our cl
ears are manufactured from home-grown
tobacco. The whisky, alcoliol, glucose,
and starch we make for home con
sumption and export arc produced from
corn. A shortage in tlto corn
—Ho *j,„ j —.it ~uo amount of ar
ticles produced from it. Wo never im
port corn, and it is difficult to find a
substitute for it in the articles wo are
in the habit of manufacturing from it.
The prosperitv of our manufacturers
depends indirectly, as well as directly,
on the prosperity of our agriculture. A
large proportion of our people depend
on the crops they raise for the means to
purchase manufactured goods of every
kind. They must restrict their con
sumption to their ability to buy
and make payment with the
product of their fields. If crops
are small, only manufactured
articles of necessity can be purchased
by people living iu the country. If
they are large, they can indulge in ar
ticles that conduoe to comfort or minis
ter to luxury. People in the country
adapt themselves to their incomes bet
ter than people who live in cities. They
are more secluded, and on that account
can get along better with poor furniture
and articles of clothing.
The prosperity of all our great trans
portation companies depends on our ag
ricultural prosperity. Tho largest pro
portion of our freight cars are built for
carrying grain, five stock, and dairy
products. Many of our leading railroads
were constructed for tho transportation
of farm products. Several of them
could not pay the ordinary running
expenses if they relied on passenger
traffic and the carrying of manufactured
goods for support. When crops are
good the trains run on them are many
and long. When crops aro poor tho
reverse in both particulars is true.
What is true of railroad transportation
is also true of steamboat and vessel
transportation. The latter, no less
than the former, were built for the most
part for carrying farm products and
farm supplies. As the country becomes
older its prosperity depends more and
more on ogrioulturo. At one time a
large portion of our people were en
gaged in marketing the natural produc
tions of the country. They killed wild
animals and sent their skins to market.
They cut down forests that were not
planted by the hand of man. They
washed surface gold out of gulches, and
became rich chielly through the opera
tions of nature. Many lived on tiie
product of the chase. They ate the flesh
of wild animals and birds, and sold tho
skins of the former. In many parts of
the country civilized men produced the
articles they ate and wore in tho same
way that savages did. Tlio natural
products of the country supplied many
of the articles that in most parts of
the world are obtained only by continu
ous and persistent toil. On this account
many supported life by hunting and
fishing. At present it is necessary to
plant in order to reap, to breed and
feed cattle in order to have meat, to till
the ground in order to have crops.
Times are urosperous or the reverse
according to the production of cultivat
ed crops.— Chicago Times.
—A bad neighborhood—Translated
from‘he Black Maria: Lawyer “Do
you, witness, know whether with their
mouths about tiie.r each tin. neighbors
much talking there do? ’ Witness ‘I
to smile myself should be about to he.
If in a band-box one tightly sealed up
was, that such too esthetic lor friend
ship was the neighbors with heads free
iv wagging would ovcr-thc-linc-feucc
between-two-back-yards tell each oth
er.”—Louisvill! Courier-Journal■
DHTFTTNO l)OWN THE STREAM.
The sinking > in, within the west,
shone with i purling gleam ;
An old boat, fi led with merry boys,
Was drifting down n stream.
Their eyes w re bright, their hearts were
light:
No earthly i ire had they,
While driftim down. with rncea brown,
And !aught< , loud and gay.
Beneath an oJuhnnglng tree,
That grew uw the shore,
An old man si\Va look of pain
His furrowed fratares wore.
“ Alas!” he si-lie "this life of ours
Is fleeting as dream;
How like these ought less boys we all
Are drifting and v n the stream!
" My form is bent my hair is gray,
My limbi are tired with pain,
Mv years have i y slipped away.
To come no lr re again.
" I might have boy* worthy man;
Another in mv/loce
Would have Uepea some useful piau
To benefit hi two:
" But I have let ose chances pas*
That make i. n good and great;
Old age comes coping on, alas I
Behold my 1< estate!
•• For he who lie ‘fits his race,
Nor drags h lomrades down,
Will hold in li yen the highest place
Ami wear tl tightest crown 1”
—Eugtue J. ill,'in Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Gi ring Celery.
The seeil-b l should be made very
fine, and well fertilized with the finest
of manure, ; and the rows marked oil
about ten inc irnpart. The seed should
be covered v< t shallow, and often pass
ing a gardof/uFir over the rows will
cause sullicilt fevering. When the
plants appeJ I l#v should be carefully
weeded out , ftl i hen they have reached
the height < A -iJf. afoot, they should
be pruned die. ■ >t>J a few inches, so that
alliick growl)m* bo insured. It is
also claimed list D> transplanting in
jures them fai’i iVcn thus shortened
of their eaves-
The clery todshould next bo thor
oughly stirredto good depth, mixing
the soil as tUni ;bly as possible to
make it free rot lumps, and so givo
the roots the llest.i lance to attain their
food. The pl/tnlf vhen set iu the rows,
need not exceed e it. itches apart, and
should have the larth firmed about
them, as anythin which contributes
towards retaining nisturo is a benefit
to the plants, “ling eight inches
apart, in rows the feet distant from
each other, gives It only ample, room
for working, but Hows all the space
necessary for tl r development, and
final broakingup After some weeks of
the fiat culture, f hinge will ho neces
sary in order I blanch tho stalks,
which is don by bringing the
soil up about t/m. Tho stalks are
closed togethesby the hand, and
the soil is ngtyupued about them, rare
being taken to VS, “vuouud the plant,
out fhonthe “heart” 1
of tho stalk, as defeat the ob
je< I sought. As tl soil is washed down,
and is otherwise Imoved from about
the stalks, the ji-ess of banking up
will have to be Leafed. Tho final
banking up may* delayed until the
close approach ofrinter, as the frosts
of the late fall sen to give the stalks
an especial crispals and tenderness.
With the dwarf ricties, tho lessened
labor of preparinjiem for blanching is
the best argumejin their favor, as a
mueli less amoutsf oailli is required,
with consequent work. As
winter approach! the soil is loosened
up between the riS, and is then thrown
up quite to their ps; but if they are to
be secured so as tic accessible for win
ter markets, the Inching process of pres
ervation will mi likely be tho best
method, but fi**r!y use, the banking
up, andcoverii dtb a coating of straw,
will answer qu ‘a; well. In covering
in tho trenelici (he precaution of heat
ing must be a\ led, which can be best
accomplished I gradual covering, in
creasing the <c]sh as the severity of
winter denial#-;,so that altogether a
foot or more of stow may be required.
— Cor. Country tMtleman.
How a Tiger fjfios Down Its Prey.
It is a dis|)M point how a tiger
strikes down *prcy, and, although I
havo lived on lid roamed jungles for
the greater r t of my life, and have
had two poni killed, I never saw an
animal struc down, though I have
come upon t quivering carcass not
yet cold. Op ins differ. Williamson
says: “The gor’s fore-paw is the
invariable enj jof destruction. Most
people iinagi that if a tiger were de
prived of its lws and teeth 1m would
be rendered rmloss, but this is a
great error, he weight of the limb is
the real causr mischief, for the claws
are rarely ext led when a tiger seizes.
Tho operatic is similar to that of a
hammer; tin , S or raises his paw, and
brings it (V>\s with such force as not
only' to skii :iimm*n-sized bullock or
a buffalo, buft-en crushing tho bones
of the skull.have seen many men
and deer thnixve been killed by tigers,
in most of wpfli no mark of a claw
could be see J and when scratches did
appear they lire obviously tho effect, of
chance, frofithe claw sliding down
ward, and iflfrom design.” Johnson
is of a con Wry opinion, for hojiays:
“During a Isidenoe of nine years in
Chittra I haft never soen a man or an
animal kill* by a tiger that had not
the mark c*slaws, yet I admit that
the force wii which a tiger generally
strikes is suftient of itself, without tho
aid of ids clrs, to kill men or large
animals, ant believe that it occasion
ally takes p 4 in the manner I li ivo
described, lit never from its weight,
like the falllf a hammer.” Of my two
ponies, thelrst was seized in the stable
by the thr * and the windpipe severed,
and I alsc iw.a bullock thus treated at
I’apieondal on the Oodavery. My
second pofi was killed by a grip of the
upper paAf the neck, by which the
jugular w-f severed, and though the
tiger was iven off, the pony bled to
death. —V tea Field.
Work.
There it o remedy for trouble equal
to hard w< t—labor that will tire you,
physically a such an extent that you
mnst sleej If yon have met with kies
es, you dn t want to lie awake and think
about tie l. You want sleep—calm,
sound aie >—and to eat your dinner
with an a] elite, But you can’t unless
you work.
How to Wnllc.
It may seem at first ridiculous to pro
tend to teach grown people how to walk
as though they had not learned this in
infancy, llut we aid willing to venture
the assertion that not one person in
twenty' knows how to walk wed. How
few people there aro who do not feel
slightly embarrassed when obliged to
walk across a largo room in which nre
many persons seated so as to observe
well each movement! How many pub
lic speakers there aro who appear well
upon the platform se long as they re
main standing still, or nearly so, but
who become almost ridiculous as soou
as they attempt to walk about. Good
walkers aro scarce. As we step along
the street, we arc often looking out for
good walkers, and we find them very
seldom. What is good walking? Wo
answer, easy, graceful, natural walking.
Nearly nil the good walkers there are
will be found among gentlemen, since
fashion insists on so trammeling a wom
an that she can not walk well, can scarce
ly make a natural movement, in fact.
To walk naturally, requires the harmo
nious action of nearly every muscle in
the body. A good walker walks all
over; not with a universal swing and
swagger, ns though each bone was r.
pendulum with its own separate hang
ing, but easy, gracefully. Not only the
muscles of the lower limbs, but those of
the trunk, even of the neck, us well ns
those of the arms, arc nil called into ac
tion ns natural walking. A person who
keeps his trunk and upper extremities
rigid while walking, gives one Ihe im
pression of an automaton with pedal
extremities set on hinges. Nothing
couid be more ungraceful than the minc
ing, wriggling gait which tho majority
of young ladies exhibit in their walk.
Thoy are scarcely to he held responsi
ble, however, since fashion re pares
them to dross themselves in such a way
as to make it impossible to walk other
wise than awkwardly and unnaturally.
Wo cannot attempt to describe tho
numerous varieties of unnatural gaits,
and will leave the subject with a few
suggestions about correct walking.
T. Hold the head erect, with llio
shoulders drawn hack and tho chin
drawn in. Nothing looks more awkward
anil disagreeable than a person walking
with the head thrown back and the noso
and chin elevated.
2. Step lightly and with elasticity—
not with a teetering gait-sotting tho
foot down squarely upon the walk and
raising it sufficiently high to clear the
walk in swinging it forward. A shuf
fling gait denotes a shiftless character.
But dr/not, goto the other extreme,
stepping along like a horse with ‘•String
halt.” A person with a firm, light,
elastic gait, will walk much farther
without weariness tliau ono who shuf
fles along A kind of measured tread,
or rhythm tbe walk alsO/T,,_.— -.J.i
to the power of endurance, although,
for persons who have long distances to
travel, an occasional change in tho time
will be advantageous.
8. Jn walking, do not attempt to keep
any part of tho body rigid, but leave all
free to adapt themselves to the varying
circumstances which a constant change
of position occasions. The arms natur
ally swing gently, Imt not violently.
The object of this is to niaiuiain tlio
balance of tho body, as also by the gen
tle swinging motion to aid in propell
ing tho body hiring.
< orrect: walking should be cultivated.
It ought fo be taught along with arts
and sciences. In our military schools
it is taught; hut these schools can he at
tended by but few. Invalids, especial
ly, should take great pains to learn to
walk well, as by so doing they will gain
mom than double the amount of benefit
ihev will otherwise derive from the ex
ercise. Home lland-liook
An Incident in Chopin’s Travels.
On one occasion, when Chopin had
boor traveling several days in the slow
fashion of the German diligences, he
was delighted and surprised on stopping
at a small post-house to discover a grand
piano-forte in one of the rooms, and si ill
more surprisod to find it in tunc thanks
probably to the musical taste of the post
master’s family, lie sat down instantly
and began to improvise in his peculiarly
happy manner. One by one
ers were attracted by (he tin wonted
sweet sounds, one of them oven letting
his beloved pipe go out in his ecstacy.
The postmaster, Ins wife and two daugh
ters joined the group of listeners. In
mindful of his audience, of the journey,
the lapse of lime, and everything lint
tilt; music, Chopin continued to play
ant! his companions to listen in rapt at
tention. When at last lie paused Hie
servant appeared with wine; the host's
daughter served the artist first, then tho
travelers; then tho postmaster proposed
a cheer for the musician, in which all
joined. The women in their latitude
tilled the carriage-pockets with the best
eatables and wine the house contained,
and when at last the artist rose logo
his gigantic host seized him in his arms
and bore him to the carriage.—” Life oj
Chopin.”
—At the centennial celebration held
in Siam, in honor of the founder of the
present dynasty, King l“’ra Haglit Som
det P’ra Futtha Yot FaChnlakok, the
ceremonies were inaugurated by his
Royal Highness Somdet Chowfa Illianu
rangsiSwangwongs Krom Muang I'lian
iipharitawongs Wordet in an address to
his Majesty King Somdet P’ra Para
niindr Maha Ohulalongkorn, who then
laid the corner-stone of anew memorial
temple, which he named I'ratommabor
ommaraebanusawari. Other addresses
were made by Chow Phya Phamuvongs
MahaWora Dhipati arid Chow Thi Sara
lawongs Wai Wadhc, the Samuha P’ra
Kalanome. The ceremonies took place
in the capital, Krung Then Maha Nak
hon Aruaratna Kosindr Mahindr Ayu
thaya.- ■Bouton Transcript
—Salmon “planted” in White Bear
Lake,a short distance from St. Raul four
years ago, are flourishing Finely, and
are biting at the hooks of fishermen
very liberally. They weigh from three
pounds upwards, according to the im
agination of the fisherman. — St Louis
Globe.
—They are to have anew crematory
in New York, with a capital of $50,000.
The Glories of the Starlit Heavens.
If the eye could gain gradually in
light-gathering power, until it attained
something like the range of tho great
gauging telescopes of tho Herschels,
how uttorly would what we see now seem
lost in the inconceivable glories thus
gradually unfolded. Even the revela
tions of tho telescope, save ns they ap
peal to the mind’s eye, would be as
nothing to the splendid seen? revealed,
whon within the spaces which now show
black between the familiar stars of our
constellations, thousands of brilliant
orbs would be revealed. The milky
luminosity of the Galaxy would bo seen
aglow with millions of suns, its richer
portions blazing so rosplemlently that
no eye could bear to gaze long upon tho
wondrous display. But with every in
ovnaso of \iower more ami more myr
iads of stars would break into view,
until at last the scene would be unbear
able in its splendor. Thoeyo would seek
for darkness ms for rest. The mind
would ask for a seono less oppressive in
the limgnificonoo of its inner meaning;
for even as seen, wonderful though the
display would be, the glorious scene
would soaroo express the millionth part
of Its real nature, as recognized by a
mind conscious that each point of fight
was a sun like ours, ohcli sun tho cen
ter of a scheme of worlds such as that
globo on which wo “live and move and
nave our being.”
Who shall protend to picture a senno
so gloriottsP If tho electric light, could
be applied to illumine fifty million lamps
over the surface of a black domed vault,
and those lamps wore hern gathered in
rich clustering groups, there strewn
more sparsely, after the wav in which
tlio stars aro spread over tho vault of
heaven, something like tho grandeur of
tho seono which wo have imagined would
be realized—but no human hands could
every produce such an exhibition of
celestial imagery. As for maps, it is
obviously impossible by any mails which
could be drawn, no matter what their
scale or plan, to present anything oven
approaching to a correct picture of tho
(heavenly host. There is no way even
of showing thoir numerical wealth in a
single picture.
It is not till we have learned to look
on all that, the telescope reveals as in its
turn nothing , compared with the_Eßal
universe, that wo have rightly learned
the lessons which the heavens teach, so
far, at least, as it l ! es within our feeble
powers to study tho awful teaching of
tho stars. Tho range of tho puny in
struments man can fashion is no meas
ure, we may bo well assured, of tho uni
verse as it is. Tho domain of telescop
ically visible space, compared with which
tho wholo range of the visible universe
of stars seems but a point, can lie in
turn but as a [Joint compared with those
infhtttr, _ (> f star-strewn space
which fie on ev nry s j,[y yul - universe,
c-.......t i tie riiicm— millions o/ iitoos
further than the extremes!scope —of tlio
instruments by which man has extended
the powers of visions given to him by
the Almighty. The finite—for after all,
infinite though it seems to us, tlio region
of space through which wo can extend
our survey is but finito—can never bear
any proportion to tho infinite save that
of infinite disproportion. All that wo
can see is as nothing compared with that
whish is; all we can know is as noth
ing; though our knowledge “grow from
more to more,” seemingly without limit.
In fine, we may say (as our gradually
widening vision shows us tlio nothing
ness of what wo have seen, of what wu
of what wo can ever Bee), not, as
Laplace said: “77 ic Known is Little ,”
but “The Known is Nothino ;" not
“The Unknown is Immense ,” but “Tilts
Unknown is Infinite.”
Males of Voting Ago In the United
(States.
The following statement shows tho
number of males of 21 years of ago and
over in the United States, classified as
native white, foreign wliito, total white,
and total colored, according to tho
United States census of 1880:
~ *Niiltve Kcirfi’ll Total 1 Total
wliito. j white. I white, colored
Alabama JWI.OSsj SAW HM ,; I lit M3
Arkansas ISi.W.i #.473. tW.ISo 4, H 27
California... 135,409: 1*7,874 WAJJ
Colorado.... #5,4151 4#,#73, **,(*)( l.jio
Connecticut, 1 i5,717 55,012 1 01.J'.l -V#l
- ... 47,447 4,M1) 81,402 <1,34#
1'1,,1-iiiw 3o::r,i ii.saij at .410 47,4
-Mergin'.'.'.;.. 17', 0il 6,423 177.1*07 14:1,471
Illinois 603,47* 277,884: 783. I# I ,s
Indiana 414,4.54 78,44 # 47.[ *# l|j,7'j®
lowa 287,630 120.103 4 114, ft M B.ol}
Kansas 201,35-41 A3.rri! 4M.44W, 10,70.1
Kentucky.... 287,,W4 34,217 j 317,574 M.Jt
Iseilstaiia... *41,777 j 27,0,3 lOS.SIfI 107,477
Maine JHI.I7S 42,431 1HH.0,11 o.t
Mai ylainid 141,58# 38,Mi 183,642 4S,V<4
Massac hurts 820,0“ h! 170,1140 41)1,1102
Michigan 25.5,4f1t 17#,483j 401 ,557 0,1.10
Minnesota... 58,(1'4-4 123,777 414, mil J.'™
Mississippi... 102,:, 50 r,,117 c ln-VJM 130,47*
Missouri 39#,324 111.H13 00s, 102, 33,012
Ncliraskn ... S3,Hit 41, 50 t 14*.W* 1 sh
Nevada 11,444 14,141 *5,#38, 6,(744
New Mump. SS,7'.HI HI,{III 104,1101 237
New Jersey.. 141),#5# 04,304; “284,345 10,0,0
New York.... 842,041 ft:g;,siiS 1,35,#42 40,039
N. Carolina.. 187,#37 3,04.', in ,7.f4f 105,(MS
Oldo #13,4X5 141,35# 501.H71. 21,70#
Oregon 3it, 13,53(1 51,(130 , 7,443
Peunsylva'la 797. KW 472,(150 1,070,3172 23,842
It. Island 47, n0t 27,10s 75,012 i.ssn
8. Carolina.. 4*4.9 1 0 3,440 si;,:ioe; ils.sso
Tennessee... 240,1*34 4,110 . 250,055 80,430
Texas 2411,018 65,719; 801.7:47; 78,039
Vermont.... 77,77 4 1 7,5:43 115,:4)7 311
Virginia 145.27 7 7,471 20,i.-24s 128,457
W. Virginia. 143,“MW 4,408 1 *2,777 0.381
Wlseonsln... 144,(Ml 184,109: 3:’,‘<,:i:i2 1,550
Territories... 140,#11: ss,(7S 42-,514 30,003
jFotal.”— 5,124,877 4.434.504 11.114.180 1,437.461
—Beer brewing has, a Japanese pa
per savH. become an important branch
of industry in that comitr . Ibe Mvo
largest establishments are the Sh mid
zuva and Hakko-.iia brewerie . ihe
beer brewed there is excellent in taste,
far more wholesome lliau imported
beer. Its sale is daily increasing, and it
is hoped that It will'successfully com
pete with the imported article. -V. T.
Keening Post. “Japanese beer ’ gives
ono a notion of incongruity as humor
ous as Yankee squash-pie in Baris, flap
jacks in Koine, or Bo;ton bake l-beuns
in .Jerusalem. Wc e ncct arum to hear
that the Dutch have taken lorliop-sticks
and Ihe Chinese eatsauor-kraut — N. V.
Ir.d< p niloil.
—This is tiie season of the year when
the farmer loves a drink of good, pure
water. Do not forget that animals, in
o’li'l ' <r tour hot chickens, thrive on
the same innocent beverage. Healthy
fo>\ M i) i u rioted on filthy water
— N. Y. Herald.
TERM": $1,5!) per Anna*.
NUMBER 48.
WIT AND WISDOM.
—Shallow men believe in luck; strong
men believe iti cause and effect.
—You can have what you like in this
world, if you wifi but like what you
have.
—Said a fond husband to his wife:
“Mv dear, I think I’ll buy you a little
dog.” “Oh, no!” she replied, “do
not! I prefer giving you all my affeo
tions!”—Progress.
—Hero lies a man wtioso rnrthly raoo Is run;
ilo raise)] the hummer of a rowling guo.
Amt blow into tho muzzle just beonnso
Me wished tu know if It was loaded—and It
was.
—Hum rtUlt Journal
—Mr. Editor: Will you pleaso answer
who was “David’s wife’s mother?” an-’
you will greatly oblige a reader. —Liz- 1
zio. Certainly, with pleasure. D-VSidl*.
wife’s mother was David’s mother-m
--l.aw. Philadelphia News.
—Ati accordcon factory at L<mg Isl
and, N. Y., was destroyed by fire a few
days ago. The police .ire looking for
tho incendiary. It is supposed the peo
ple want to present him with a valua
ble testimonial.— Norristown Herald.
—6us De Smith called at a very fash
ionable houso on Austin avenue a few
days ago and acted so quoorly that
when t hat lady’s husband camo home,
she said: “What is tho matter with
young De Smith? Ho acted so strange -
ly. 1 think there uurit be a screw
loose about him somewhere.” “Reck
on not. I saw him this morning, and
lie was tight all over.”— Texas Sijtinga.
A store up-town has a sign wnieh
reads: “This is a tin-store.” An old
inebriate staggered in recently, and aft
er a good deal of fumbling in his pock
et, put fiveoentson the counter. “VVhat
do you want?” asked the proprietor,
indignantly. “Wa-wa-want a-a d-d-d
--drink!” “This is not a liquor saloon!”
said tho proprietor, with awful empha
sis. “Wlia-wha-what!” said the drunk
en man, astonished. “Why, Jo-Jo-
Jones said I could got a horn here!”-
N. F. Tribune.
A good adviser says: “Nexttothe
love of tier husband, nothing so orowua
a woman’s life with honor as the devo
tion of a son to her. Wo never knew a
boy to turn out; badly who began by fall
ing in love with his mother. Any man
may fall in love with a fresh-faced girl,
ana the man who is gallant to the girl
may cruelly neglect the poor and weary
wifo in after years. But the big boy
who is a lovor of his mother at middle
age is a true knight, who wifi love his
wife in the sere-loaf autumn as ho did
in tho daisied spring. There is nothing
so beautifully chivalrous as the love of a
big boy for his mother. Boys, think of
this." J
Injurious Insects. '
There are fcw jhinga more humiliatesL
lng to humanity tlinu thesenscof man’s
helplessness before very small insects
easily cnougli! , tt ß e.WP “ exterminate
to work at it; > - als, mice
wo can kelin down somehow. But be
! fore tlio Colorado beetle or tho seven
teen-year locust wo are practically al
most resourceless. And before the
phylloxera or tiie hop-lly wc can hardly
do more than look on regretfully with
folded hands. Yet it is some consola
tion to relleotthat what seems at first
: eight a useless and purely ornamental
science cart help us to some extent in
1 dealing with those infinitesimal pests.
Tho only way to conquer them, it way
there bo at all, is to learn their whole
life history; to know them in the ewg,
in tho larva, in tho pupa, in tiie nili-
Iledgcd insect; to crush them in every
stage with whatever weapon the subtle
ties' of chemistry or mere ingenious
brute force can suggest; and to ao noth
ing which can in any way give them a
single extra chance of life. Nothing, in
fact, could better show the intimate in
teraction and reaction of knowledge and
practice than this interesting study. On
the one hand, no moans can be devised
for getting rid of injurious insects ex
cept by a thorough scientific acquaint
ance with their origin and metamor
phoses; on tiie oilier hand, no such care
ful observations on particular life-his
tories have ever been undertaken, prob
ably, except with tlio stimulus of some
practical advantage to mankind in view.
Tims science and agriculture both gain
by llio conjunction Even butterfly
hiutling has its special commercial uses,
when the initloriiy turns out to be the
parent of tho gooseberry caterpillar, or
to lay tiie eggs from which a warm sun
I will hatch out the destructive cabbage
worm.
Many of these observations help to
bring out tlio minute interaction which
often obtains between different parts
of the organic balance; no that if wo
want to exterminate a particular insect,
we must sometimes begin by encourag
ing or repressing son:. ' .i"”’"" I '' ” n
connected bird or plant For oxilWjA*
j botanists have long known that
seasons arc particularly favorable
charlock, and that after two or thro;
such seasons the fields, unless diligently
weeded, arc yellow all over with its
bright blossom. But charlock is ap
parently the native food-plant of tur
nip By, front which the insect spreads
easily to tho cultivated turnip—a close
ly allied artificial form; much as the
Colorado beetle, originally parasitic on a
solatium in tlio Kooky Mountains, took
readily to the richer food of the very
similar potato vines, as soon as extend
ed tillage began to approach its natural
habitat.
It is only by such careful observation,
with practical application of the results,
that we can hope to outwit our insect
foes; for the more widely any particular
crop is grown, the more generally can
its natural enemies spread and survive.
Even in England, where hill and dale,
copse ami hedge break up the tilth, and
whore small fields of .variousstaples are
habitually much intermixed, the insects
f-:in easily migrate from patch to patch
of their special food-plant: while in
America, where tho same crop some
times covers hundreds of square miles
together on tho unfenced and
plain, locusts and army worms can
march straight across country, day
after day, in regular battalions —SL
James' Gazelle.
An exchange says : “ Streams all over
the country are naming dry. ” This is a
canard. When ai stream is dry it oan't
run.