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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.