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IV. E HiUP, Publisher. VOLUME I. NEWS GLEANINGS. Knoxville, Tenn., has raised $250,000 toward building a cotton factory. A bog owned by a man living near Petersburg, Va., weighs 1,300 pounds. Louisiana proposes to enter extensive ly in the raising and manufacture of jute. At Henrys, N. C., a vein of meer schaum of extremely fine quality has been discovered. Vicksburg’s new cotton compress, with a storage capacity of 50,000 bales, is ready for business. At a sale af public lands at Austin, Tex., GO,OOO acres were sold at fifty cents, a man named Forsyth taking it all. The State Land Office at Tallahassee has now eight clerks employed. Three did the work before the boom reached the State. A man near Newnan, Ga., has been working an alleged gold mine forty years and has never made a cent. He is still confident that “there’s millions in it.” The huge rattle snake recently killed in Sumter county, Fla., has been for warded to the Smithsonian Institute. The snake measured eight feet and two inches in length. Ealeigh News and Observer: North Carolina has 178 varieties of minerals, 25 more than any other State can show' up There are 112 varities of woods, and again we are in the lead. It is intended organizing the “Ben Hill Monumental Association” in Geor gia, the object of the association being to collect funds to erect a monument at Atlanta in memory of Hon. B. H. Hill. An old silver watch, once the prperty of Aaron Burr, and an autograph of Thomas r Jefferson, were purchased in Richmond, Va., recently, by ex-Gov ernor Randolph for the New Jersey Historical Society. The enterprising Texan who started a goose ranche near Taylor has given up his project. The geese, 400 in all, died, failing to find sustenance enough in the grass on which it was thought they would thrive. The chestnut tree recently felled at Salisburg, N. C., measures nine feet in diameter, and a lady and gentleman can walk through it without getting near so close together as they do at a lawn par ty. The rings on the tree indicate that it is 400 years old. “Fa,'what is a pessimist, ami what is an optimist?” “A pessimist, my son is one who'takes the surplus kittens, just after they are born, and chloro forms them. The optimist is one who lets the kittens grow up, to live a wretched, starving life ; to be tortured continually by boys and other thought less animals, and to be finally killed with brickbats and left to rot on the street.” Great war ships are costly even in England, where ship building is less ex pensive than in this country. The Brit ish ironclad Inflexible cost $4,000,000, but she is the most formidable war ves sel ever constructed. She has a tonnage of 11,406 tons, 8,000 horse-power en gines, and an armor ranging from six teen to twenty-four inches in thickness She carries four eighty-one ton guns, which propel 1,700 pound shot a dis tance of nine miles. At the receut Forestry Convention at Montreal it was shown that in Canada the annual production of pine lumber is 2,000,000,000 feet, requiring the trees of 1,000,000 acres, and that at this ra'e the pine forests will not hold out over fifty years, and not that long if the present waste in cutting continues and fires are allowed to ravage the pine re gion. I>r. Loring, our Commissioner of Agriculture, made an address to the convention, showing that the pine for ests in the United States would in Tex as be exhausted in 300 years; F orida, thirty years; Alabama, seventy years; Mississippi, 150 years ; Minnesota ten years ; Michigan, (even years; Wiscon sin, twenty years; North Carolina, fifty years; Louisiana, 540 years; Georgia, seventy-five years ; Pennsylvania, five years ; Arkansas, 320 years; California, 200 yeais; South Carolina, twenty-seven years; Maine,, fifteen years. Ihe bulk of the pine lumber supply is in the Southern States, and from Dr. Loring s statement it is very evident that it is a great public duty to prevent the present reckless waste of timber, and to rehabit Rate wasted areas by forest planting. —Prof. Henry A. Ward, of Roches ter, has taken a contract to purchase for the American Museum of Natural His tory, in Central Park, New sork, the specimens of two valuable collections. One is to be a complete collection of the mammals and birds of North America, including some seven or eteht hundred specimens, and its cost, to be defrayed by Morris K. Jessup, will be SW, > A>, the other will be a collection represent ing all the quadmmana of the world. About 300 mokeys will comprise the iatter collection, the expense of which, $7,000, is provided for by Robert Col gate. It will take Prof. Ward upward of two % ears to make the collection.- •- a. Y. T\mu. THE JACKSON NEWS. TOPICS OP THE DAY. Italy lias raetponed Specie payment till next April. Conederate bonds are beginning to look up again. Texas cotton is promising, but twen ty-five days late. News from across the big pond says Sarah Bernhardt is seriously ill. It was James Gordon Bennett him self who interviewed the Sultan for the New York Hn-ald. The Czar is afraid of his crown. The coronation, we are now informed, will not occur until next May. It is estimated that there has been no less than 50,000 watermelons shipped north daily from Atlanta, Ga. It is a fact that while at Saratoga Oscar Wilde registered “oscar wildo, london.” Small potatoes, that. Portland, Oregon, is reputed to be the wealthiest city iu the United States in proportion to her population. Guiteau’s skeleton is now in the Na tional Army Medical Museum, Wash ington, but not on public exhibition. The progressof Dakota is indicated by the fact that she now has more daily papers than any one of the Southern States. While General Swaim is still of opin ion that the confinement of Sergeant Mason is illegal, the confinement goes on, and in time the sentence will be served out. Paul Boynton, the swimmer, figures up that he has saved seventy-two persons from drowning iu his day, and the largest reward ever offered him was a silver plated watch worth about $3. Decrease of the public debt foi August $10,000,000. During the next two months the Government will dis burse $41,500,000 in payment of called bonds, interest on the public debt and pensions. Henry Ward Beecher says that if he was a newspaper man he wouldn’t be lieve in anything or anybody that had an ax to grind. Yes, Henry, and there are lots of things that newspaper meu don’t take much stock in. It may be creditable to tne Washing ton police that more instances of insults to women are detee ted there than in any other city of equal size in the country, but at the same time it does not speak very weli for our statesmen. The Jewish Messenger rebukes the Hebrews for leaving their religion iu the city when they go to the summer resorts, andsayß: “We have-yet to learn of a single instance of public worship on the Jewish Sabbath at any country place.” Puck credits Anna Dickinson with this statement; “Well, yes, I wassomelliing of a free trader, but if that horrid creature Langtry is coming over here, I am going in for protection. Oh, I wish we women had’ the making of the tariff.” Six inches of rain fell all over North western Texas during the recent heavy storm, and it is estimated that 25,000 sheep, besides horses, cattle, mules, and sixty to seventy-five persons were swept away. About fifty houses are gone in Laredo. Rev. George C. Mien is preaching at Watkins Glen, where he will soon have an opportunity of meeting Herbert Spencer,the man whose writings,he says, first led him to disblieve in the Church and finally to renounce the Christian faith altogether. Thtr cook at the White House during the illness of President Garfield, wants to know why her name has been omitted from the list of employes who are to re ceive extra compensation. This is a re markable oversight, perhaps due to the cook’s lack of cheek. “ I often' cross tho street to avoid meeting a man,” says Mr. Beecher, “not because I have anything against him, but simply I do not feel liko speaking to him. I suppose all men are this way.” It may be, but the question is, is this the right spirit for a Christian to manifest. The wearing of jewelry is going out of fashion in England. It is regarded as vulgar to be seen with a display of jewels, unless it be on great occasions. Bare arms and throats are the rule in fashionable society, the wearing of ban gles, bracelets, and chains being left to those who do not follow the newest styles. _ A coTEMroRAP.T significantly asks: How docs it happen that the British in r.jrypt get regularly beaten in the after ,(,on papers, and come up all right and retting on in the papers of next morning? How comes it that the afternoon papers ire so destructive to the British? By what line do they got their news? Those who have access to both mom tig and evening papers may have often noticed this irregularity. I.n Merchantville, N. J., a Magistrate ir.- and a boy SI for swearing. Tnis fur niahes z basis for calculation to a brother Devoted to the Interest ol Jackson ant' IJutts County. JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,188-2. ■f Col. Sellers, who lives in Camden. He reckons that in Camden County there ire 70,000 people, half of whom swear. That would lie $85,000 for an oath apiece. Each fellow swears fifty times a day. That makes $1,759,000 daily income, $12,250,000 per week, and, counting twenty-six good working days to the mouth, $318,500,000 each month. The Khedive has prescribed a treat ment of officers who come hack to him from Arabi, which is calculated to wash out their treason, but not to encourage others to return; it is to have them keel hauled by the frigate Seanda. Keel hauling is to pass a line under the ship, hitch the victim to one end, let him down on one side, haul him under the ship and up on the other side, making no haste in the hauling. It is intended to fetch the keelhauled to the next to the last gasp. It will be remembered that General Sherman, not many years since, visited the scene of the present hostilities in Egypt, is perfectly familiar with the theater of operations, and during our civil war had a great deal of experience in flank movements. He said that Wolseley showed great nerve in taking the sacred bull by the horn?,so to speak, without waiting tor the result of nego tiations at Constantinople. “Ah, he is a great soldier, that Wolseley,” said the General. “A great soldier. The English people will pay him well, aud he knows it.” The General was evidently thinking of the difference between the pay of a General in the army of the United States and a successful General in the English army, with his titles and their substantial £IOO,OOO attachments. He says Wolseley’s recent movement on Ismailia was equal to anything of a sim ilar character undertaken by the first Napoleon. Chasing a Lion in South Africa. During the night lions have been prowling about and keeping up a hideous roaring, so I hurry away in front with the prospect of meeting one stroll ing home in the gray light of the early hours. The air is raw and cold, so 1 march at the double-quick and reckless ly thrust mv hands to the bottom of my pockets in the happy consciousness of not being in Regent street. My two usual attendants in mv hunting expeditions have considerably shriveled up, and have developed an ashy complexion un pleasant to behold, and they slink around shivering- with the cold and doubtless envying me my pockets. We soon get a considerable distance ahead of the caravan, and begin to keep a sharp look out for game. Several herds are described at a distance; hut, not caring to go far out of the way, we leave these unmolested. Matters, however, do not beet me more promis ing, and we begin to conclude there is tolie no sport this morning. Just as that thought shapes itself down sinks the guide in a crouching position, while lie excitedly whispers: “A lion! a lion!” Instinctively we follow his example. After a hurried glance at my rifle I cautiously raise mv head. Looking in the direction indicated by the guide i am mortified at seeing a tine lion leisurely bounding away through the long grass. Rising erect 1 tire pre cipitately. The lion, unharmed, simply pauses for a momentary stare and then continues its course. Grinding out an expression of intense vexation, and yielding to the impulse of the moment, I rush after, the animal in hot haste. My servants, less eager anil more wise than I, remain where they were. It never occurs to me that I have only the re maining cartridge of my double-barreled rifle for a possible encounter with the enemy. The movements of the lion can only be traced by the shaking of the grass, and with eye intently fixed on that I dash on pell-mell, tripping, stumbling arid gasping for breath, while my heart palpitates with the excitement of the chase. We thus keep up the race for about 300 yards, when all at once the shaking- of the grass ceases, reminding me that I must proceed with much more caution lest I rush abruptly into the fervent embraces of his leonine high ness—a consummation most devoutly to be depreciated, seeing I have no ambi tion for the world’s reprobation and a warning epitaph. Moving on very stealthily for some time I suddenly emerge into an open space, and as sud denly halt transfixed; for there stands the lion at a distance of a little more than fifteen yards, with its side toward me, and evidently awaiting my ap proach. The momentary shock gives place instantly toa strange feeling of ex ultation. With such a splendid oppor tunity for a shot I am sure of my game! Mentally, as by a Hash, I picture my self exhibiting the trophies of the encounter to an admiring troop of friends. I level my' gun, and bang! it goes: To my infinite mortification, and, as I think, against all the laws of reason, there is neither the grand death spring nor the last tragic roar. Un wounded anil undaunted, there stands mv dangerous antagonist, “staring upon the hunter!” it takes one or two seconds to let the grim realities of the situation dawn upon my imagination. Only too evidently are tlie tables turned upon me. I have no ammunition, and I dare not flee. To “fix” him with my eye unfortunately does not occur to me as practicable. " On the contrary, I have a very distinct consciousness that he has “fixed” me, and that I should not be ungrateful for some convenient tree from which! might try the fasci nation of the human gaze. Thus for a little space, which to me seemed hours, we stand face to face. The lion seems uncertain what to do, but finally re solves to treat me with contempt. Turning with dignity, he gives one or two powerful bounds and disappears in the iung'e. while L limp apd be draggled. return to my men . Good Words, . JESSIE IN THE LANE. The fields are olovei-laJon, The boos are on the wing, As Jessie, loveliest maiden, Goes gnyly sauntering Adown the breezy lane. The merry birdi around her sing, . Nor warble they 1n vain, For Jossie’s heart Is tuned to song. As through the lane she moves along. Bhe lovea the purple clover, Tho drone of hurrying bees, The songs that Heat above hor. The blossom-scented broo/.e That ruffs hor sunny hair; For Jessie’s maiden heart's at ease, Untouohed by love's swootcaro. And finds dear Mother Nature yields A thousand Joys In wood and fields. And now among the grasses. Along the verdurous way, Sweet Jessie slowly passos. And all the groon array Seans keenly. If perchnnoo A mystic four-leaved clover spray Reward hor eagor glnnoo. fti vain I not e'en her magic eyes Can lure to view tho fateful prize 1 But see 1 one conies to greet her, In sober homespun clad. Why grows tbo prospect sweoterf And wby, with smile so glad, Lights up her glowing faco? Wot he is buts rustic lad, And she—a queen In gmoc! Ah, that’s a seoret who oim tell? But Jessie likes her laddio well. Row side by sldo together Thoy saunter down tho lane. How lovely is the weather! How fair the bloomy plain, Swept by the summer air! And Jessie, ere they turn again, Knows why they seem so fair; For, looking for a four-loavod clovor, Her maiden hoart has found—a lover, —Harper's H'eeltls. Agricultural Economies. The profit of the future is to come in avoidance of wastes of the farm. As the country grows older, land dearer and immigration heavier, competition waxes fiercer in all agricultural production. A ruinous share of the hay is lost first in cutting when ripened to woodincss or dried to hardened stems; then in giving it out to sustain life and animal heat rather than for fat aud flesh. Corn is also thrown away bv insufficient or in judicious feeding. There is enormous loss in keeping a poor cow that yields three hiimlrid gallons of milk per an num instead of one that pr- duces six hundred at about the same cost. One may bring: theownw it: debt, while the other affords a handsome profit on ex pense of keep. A cow that gives milk only front April to No vein 1 or, and runs dry when forage is cos’ly and milk is dear, should have a few months' extra feeding, and go to (he butcher as soon as possible. That a cow is dry formore than six weeks is the fault of the owner in not procuring “the survival of the fittest," and agiui. perhaps in not sup plying ample and sucon'ent food at all seasons, while the milk hah t of tho young cow 's form ng. The loss in milk and Tneat by irregular feeding and a change from fresh pastures to a straw stackand coarse hay during an in,dem ent season, is Tin i ire parable waste which is projected into the succeeding summer without regard to the abund ance of its pasture. The losses from negligence, or want of skill in the preparation for market, the manipulation or manufacture from raw material, is enormous. Milk of tho same quality, of the same cost, makes butter at fifteen cents anti at half a dol lar per pound. Mixed fruits sell in market at half the value of assorted samples neatly put up. The pig prod ucts of a famous Massachusetts farm are disposed of in New York City at twen ty-three cents per pound, while similar (roods from the average farm command Cut thirteen cents. Skill, taste, neat ness and a well-earned reputation for reliable excellence get the highest re wards—give better dividends than tho capital and labor represented in the iroduct on which they are expended. There is solid money in these intangible valuables. But the wastes that may bo avoided are numerous in every depart ment of agricultural practice, and can not be hinted at in a paragraph. They arc illustrated in the differing costs and idling prices of liie products of ad join ing farms in every neighborhood of the and. —A’. Y. Tribune- Straw In the Manger. It is not at ail difficult to rot down a straw pile, and by so doing to germinate and kill most of the weed seeds con tained therein; by' making the stack very flat, so as to catch milch water, it rots rapidly and so soon as it gets once thoroughly wetted, by repiling, it, soon heats and decays. Rut the stack or pile of straw at best contains car-,on and silica :a quantities, and these are the most common and least valuable of all the elements of plant food. The quantity of potash, nitrogen and phos phoric acid is very small indeed, and there is no method by which this pile of straw can in any way be changed lute manure containing any more of these valuable elements than were in the stack originally. If we tread this pile down it will only be a pile of wet straw, and if we rot it ever so thoroughly, it will only be a smaller pile of tlior uglily rotted straw, and, at best, little better than so much swamp muck. It is only by the use of straw as an absorbent, and as a coarser food for fattening animal'’, and by using with it much r.ch food, such as corn, bran, oil or cotton-seed meal, etc., that we can change it into manure that shall really be very valuable to use, and that wili largely increase the crops where used. We must no! expect that we can raise large crops of grain year after year, and sell the most, valuable part, and by any method turn the straw into manure that shall keep up the fertility of the soil: if we manure only witli draw, we must expect to grow only straw upon the land. It is unfortunate for B. A. R., or any other man, to be so situated that he c nnot afford to raise stock to eat up and tread down the straw, and to be fed richer foods, so as to make a full supply of rich manure. With any system of farming we now have, the land must, sooner or later, become ex hausted and cease to yield profitable crops if we fail to return to the roil the es’entit l element s of plant food removed in suc h irons.— Cor. N. Y. Tribune —Jordan Perkins was plowing with a mule near Eufaula, Ala., and, when in the act of turning the animal at the end of a furrow, made it mad by striking it, when it kicked him on the chin, shat tering it and his teeth, and cutting hi} tongue aner ly off. Migration of Seals. Of the different sorts of North-Atlnntio seals, all but two are migratory—that is to say, tho whole body of them move from north to south each autumn, nud back from south to north each spring. Upon this important fact tho great fleets of fishermen depend for their success. Tho annual southward journey of tho restless harp-seal furnishes a vivid pic ture of these great migrations which are so prominent a featuro of polar history. Keeping just ahead of the “making" of the ice, or fiual freezing up of the fords and bays, nt the approach of winter thoy leave Greenland, anil begin their passage southward along the coast of Labrador, freely entering nil the gulfs aud bays. They appear first in small detachments of half a dozen to a scoro or more of individuals ; these are soon followed by larger companies, until in a few days they form one continuous pro cession, filling tho sea os fur as the eye can reach. Floating with the Arctio current, their progress is extremely rapid, and in but one short week tho whole multitude hns passed. Arriving at tho Straits of BeUoisle, some enter the gulf, but the great body move on ward along the eastern coast of New foundland, and thenoe outward to tho Grand Banks, where they arrive about Christmas. Horo they rest for a month, and then they turn northward, slowly struggling against the strong current that aided them so much in their south ward journey, until thoy reach tho.great ice fields stretching from tho Labrador shore far eastward—a brood continent of ioe. Daring the first half of March, on these great floating fields of ioe, aro born thousands of baby seals—only one in each family, to be sure, but with plenty of play-fellows close by—all iu Boft woolly dress, white, or white with a beautiful golden luster. Tho New foundlanders coll them “whitecoats.” In a few weeks, however, they lose this soft covering, aud a gray, coarse fur takes its place. Iu this uniform they boar tho name of “ragged jacketsand it is not until two or three years later that the full colors of the adult aro gained, with tho black oresemitio or harp-like marks on tho buck which give them the name of “harps.” The squealing and barking at olio of these immense nurseries can be beard for a very long distance. When the babies are very young, tho mothers leave thorn on tho ice and go oil iu search of food, coming back frequently to look after the little ones ; and although there are thousands of the small, white, squeal ing creatures, whioli to you aud me would seem precisely alike, and all are moviug about more or loss, tho mother never makes a m'istako nor feeds any bleating baby until she has found her own. If ice happens to pack around them, so that thoy can not opon holes, nor got into the water, tho whole army will laboriously travel by floundering leaps to tho edge of the field ; and they show an astounding sagacity in discern ing the propor direction. It is suppemod that they can smell the water at a long distance. Sometimes great storms come, break ing tho ice floes in pieces and jammiug the fragments against one another, or upon the rocky headlands, with tre mendous force. Besides the full-grown seals that perish in such gales, thousands of the weak babies are crushed to death or drowned, notwithstanding tho daunt less courago of their mothers, iu trying to get their young out of danger and upon tho firm ice. Atul it is touching to wutcha mother seal struggling to got her baby to a safe place, “either by trying to swim with it between her fore flippers, or by driving it before her and tossing it forward with her nose.” The destruc tion caused by such gales is far less when they happen after the youngsters have learned to swim. Does it surprise you that seals, which are constantly in the wator, have to learn to swim ? Well, it might stagger the seals to be told that men have to lie taught to walk. The fact is, a baby seal is afraid of the water; aud if some accident, or his mother’s shoulder, nushes him into the surf when ho is ten oradozen days old, he soreams with fright and scrambles out as fust us lie cun. The next day he tries it again, but finds him self very awkward aud soon tired; the third day he does better, and before Jong lie can dive and leap, turn somersaults (if he is a bearded seal), and vanish under the ice, literally “ like a blue streak,” the instant danger threatens. But ho had to learn how, to liegin with, like any other animal. —Ernest Ingersoll in St. Nicholas. —Two children, named George and Harriet Brindley, aged eight and nine years, reached Philadelphia ihe oilier day, having traveled alone from Man chester, England. Their mother is a widow, living in Philadelphia, and lets been in this country three years. When she left old England tho children were placed in the Chesterfield Industrial School, at Manchester, where they re mained until sent for by their mother. Tags were sewed to their clothing stat ing that they were to be forwarded by the National Steamship line from Man chester, and giving the destination of the little travelers. They were intrusted to the care of the steamship officers, their passage being paid for on this side. The children arrived by the steamer Spain sound and bright . —Philadelphia Hccord. How to C'litcli Frogs. The Washington Star thus tells how frogs are caught in the Potomac- The manner of catching them is to drift about at night in a skiff among (he swamps which line the Potomac and its creeks with a bull’s-eye dark lantern When the frogs begin their loud, gut terul conversation with each other, the hunter edges up as near as possible to his game and throws the intensely re flected light from the bull's-eye direct ly upon Ihe frog, which appears to have the effect of completely paralyzing him. Once the light strikes tnem they i.re immovable, and will suffer themselves to be bagged without a murmur. One expert slated to a Star reporter that he took a dozen from offone old rotten log in .Hunting Creek, but a big moccasin snake struck out tor him, and in getting away he lost nine of them. The frogs are particularly plump this year, and Mmii saddles lender as gt.uab meat. Curious Corea. A tall gentleman <>f military physique attracted tho attention of &• Leader com missioner yesterday ns ho watched the ebb and flow at- the Union 'Depot. Upon inquiry it was learned that the warlike gentleman was Commodore R. W. Schu feldt, of the United Slates Navy, who was en route to his homo in the East. Commodore Schufeldt was sent to China and Corea by the Government on an im-” portant and diplomatic mission, and reached this country hut n few days since, having ‘accomplished tho service he was detailed to perform. Corea is a mountainous kingdom of tysvff'Tn Asia, The King ir n vassal of the Chinese Em pire, yet within his own country ho is an absolute monarch. His name is so holy that no one is permitted to speak it, and it is rated high treason to touch his body with any weapon of iron. Tieng tsoug-tiii-vang permitted himself to ilia of an abscess in the year 18H0 rather than permit his doctor to use a lance on him. Every horseman that passes tho palaco of the 'King is compelled to dis mount, and those who enter his prosonce must needs prostrate themselves before tho throuo. There nro eight provinces in tho Kingdom, and each is presided over by u Governor. Tito Ooreun language is Turanian in its nature, but the educated classes have discarded it for Chinese. Buddhism is the oilieial religion, and sacrifices of pigs, goats and sheep are offered to tho go.ls for all purposes upon tlio least provocation. Plurality of wives is not tolerated, but harems are in high fashion, and one of these arrangements is attached to the palace of the King. Children fare well among the people, and strong affection for their oil spring is one of the redeeming traits of the Coreau people. Paper is (he only thing of any consequence manufactured in the country, but trade there is entire ly undeveloped. In 1807 several Ameri can vessels were burned by tbo natives, nud Commodore Schufeldt wiw sent by tho Government to remonstrate with the Corean authorities, but lie failed and returned. Admiral Rodgers in 2870 en deavored to enter Corea, and also failed, and the country still remains a sealed mystery to the civilized world. The Japs have got so far, however, as to ho allowed to station a permanent Mini dor at the Coreau capital, while three of the ports aro opon to Japanese Crude, but further they dare not go. Commodore Schufoldt's second mis sion to Corea was to open Unit country to the world, and lie was successful iu doing so through the intervention of tho Ghihese Government. The mineral ro- Bourees of Corea aro said to be great, gold, silver, copper, iron ore and coal being reported to be among its hidden treasures. The Corea women aro not con sidered of muoh importance by the males, aud among tho upper classes the mar riage of a widow is considered disgrace ful, aud the production of the union, if there he any, is looked upon as being illegitimate. Widowers ure, of course, free to wed a dozen times if they aro so inclined. There is another custom which Americans will have to remedy when thoy move over, and that is the cultiva tion of snakes. Tho average Corean dotes on reptiles, and views them witli the most profound respect anil awe.— Cleveland leader. A Concert in India, We were once misguided enough to inquire of some native officials in India what instruments of music their town possessed, and were waited upon next day, in consequence, by all the music ians of the pi two. First came a group of nine women who sang some wild and plaintive strains in unison in a minor key; one of them kept time by occasionally snapping her lingers, while another performed a rude aceoiiqmni nient on a small burrol-slmped drum, tho ends of which were covered with goatskin. The head-dress of some of those singers was peculiar, and consisted of folds of calico over tho head and round tho throat, rather like tho drap ery of some orders of nuns, and similar to that given by painters to St. Anna, and other holy women of the Bible. Tho grouping of these people, ns they sat clqso together on the ground, was ex tremely picturesque; and listening to the sad sweetness of their strains, one could easily imagine such to have been the appearance und the melody of the daughters of Jerusalem us they la mented by tho waters of Babylon. The singing ended, a man was s n on to rise in the background, lifting i.u enor mous brazen trumpet nearly as long as himself, on which lie blew two most ter rific blasts, excruciating in English ears. These sounds were prolonged, and seemed t/> sink down through a long wailing discord inexpressibly painful to listen to, but not unfrequently to bo heard in that district of tiie Punjab. The effort of blowing the trumpet is considerable, and we were glad to luako tiiis un excuse for hearing no more of it, and submitted with the best grace we could to a performance of tom-tom, while two more men exercised their lungs upon horrid little trumpets of a smaller size. When these were dis missed we had a kind of duet all on one note from two inon, one of whom leat a small drum open at ono end, like a very deep tambourine, while another played upon something like a four-stringed banjo. The lower part of this instru ment was made of u gourd, and two of the strings were passed through blue glass beads, while the other two wore raised by cowries of different sizes ; the banjo was further adorned by the green atid-gold label from some English cot ton-reel or piece of calico, stuck on the stem by way of ornament. Perhaps this concert was an unusual amount of native music for English peo ple to hear at once, but no one can bo long in India without meeting with some of it.— Temnle Bar. A newly-married lowa farmer, whose blis-fui slumbers were dispelled by Ihe lin horns and horse fiddles of a “ebirivnri” party, put to disastrous (light the disturbers of his peace by overturning among them half a dozen bee-hives. The proverbial industry of the pugnacious ln-eots proved more ef fectual than shot-guns or hiA water.-* Chicago Journal. , TERM : #1.50 per Annum. NUMBER 52. WIT AND WISH®*. —Dean Stanley said: “The bos' rent cdy for all evils is to iook forward." —lt takes a clever man to conceal from others what he doesn’t know. —Suit! a young miss the other da v as rlio examined a eat that was “ sltcdd ng its lea 1 lea's,” “ I really believe this eat has been moth eaten. —A girl who sets out to look grace ful in a hammock has as much work on hand as the man who tries to lie languid with a saw-log following him down hill. — Detroit- Free Press. 1 —Said little Edith to her doll; “ There, don't answer me back, lon musu'l be saucy, no matter how hateful 1 am. You must remember 1 atn your mother!" Strange, what curious ideas children get,ilrio theirheads soruotigies. Our Conti noil. —A New York paper says “the ieo pitcher is more fatal than alcohol. That depends. An ice pitcher is t>. harmless thing in itself; hut if a man were to swallow one he would no doubt, wish lie lutd taken a pint of alcohol in stead. A'orrislo in Herald. *• I should like tohrvc a coin dated the year of my btW said a maiden lady of uncertain iyv to a male ac quaintance. “LV, you think you could get one for i\ “I am aft aid not,” ho replied. “ These very old coins are only to bo found in valuable collec tions.” (~ !sho was an up-town lady of culture. She Stood watching a lioat loaded with ice. “ VVliat is that boat loaded with?” “ leo,” was the reply. “Oh. my!” she exclaimed, in surprise; “if the horrid stuff should melt, the water would sink the boat!”— N. Y, Sun. —Don’t you known how hard it is for some people to get out of a room after tlie.ir visit is really over? One would think they had been built in your parlor or stiiily, and were waiting to he launched. Uohncs. Wo think there is a typo graphical error in the lost word of the above. It was probably a lunch, and not a launch, t hoy were awaiting. There are such people.— Texas Siftings. ~ A Jorsovnmn went to Maueli Chunk, Fa-, to spend his vacation, and during his first night, three old hens, which had gone tor,lost on a tree outside his bed room window, were disturbed by a cat, and flew into the apartment. The Jcrsevman awakened and slashed a pil low around until they found their way out. The next morning he told his host that ho should come there every summer, for during the whole night he bud scon hut three mosquitoes.—Pinto (lcij)h in News. —An official in tho Water Board of a Western city having departed this life, the city Government, who esteemed him ns a faithful employe, sent his sal ary for the remainder of the year with a letter of condolence to the widow. A friend of tho hitter in speaking of her loss remarked that the action of the city had been very considerate, etc. “Yes,” said the bereaved ono, “hut, seems ’if they might, have shut off the water for half a flay at least, as a mark of respect for John.”— Boston Commercial Hullo- Un. Home New Arithmetical Problems. A Wisconsin s heol teacher had nine teen scholars and she figured up at. tho end of three months that she had be stowed l-'8 lickings on the school. Al lowing that one hoy received seventeen of them, and that three of the girls escaped emireiy, how many lickings did bach of the others receive. The average fisherman gets four nib bl> s to One bite, and three biles to a fish, and half his fish arc not worth carrying home. At this rate how long will‘'it take a fisherman to exhaust the supply of sheep-heads and dog-fish? The friends of a certain man chip in four cents apiece and purchase a sponge to present him on his birth-day as em blematical of his daily life. The cer tain mini lets himself loose on the donors and damages each one’s head to tho amount of #3.47. How much is each donor out. of pocket ? A young man wagers fifty cents that he can put a billiard ball into his mouth, and ho wins the bet. A surgeon charges him 87 for four hours’ work in remov ing ,t. \\ hat was liie exact gain in be ing smart? A mail pays fifty cents extra to take laughing-gas while hating a tooth pu led. Tho? dentist could have pulled six as well as one. and without any further cost. How much did the patient lose by being so stingy of his molars? 'J lie cund cater, by a school-girl 4ost just as mu ll as her sdiool-boo-.jpg the peanut* she devours cost more than her singing lessons; her iec-cream costs more fla.u her l-Tcnch, and thp gas and fuel she consumes while spuflting foot up twice the cost of learning her to paint landscapes on old juts and pitch ers. Therefore, how niApy daughters must a man have to he rich? An Alderman payß a reporter 85 to write him a speech favoring the erec tion of anew sohool house, butaiter de livering eleven cents’ worth of the ora tion he is Informed that there is no ques tion before the mooting, and he l'nll# back and breaks a p ur of suspenders worth thirty-five cents. How much it the great man out of pocket? Arctic Coal. Tho existence of coal in the Arctic re gion, and the nature of its composition, consti'utc one of tho most remarkable discoveries in modern geolog v. This coal seam, it appears, is found in the side of a narrow mountain gorge, the prevailing rock o: the surrounding dis trict being a shingly olavstone of very irregular arrangement, but mainly dip ping to the westward, and, so far a- rs certained, devo'd of fossils, though the vegetation presents no les-; than sixty species of plants. The coal has a bright, shiny appearance, is somewhat of a pitchy character, and very brittle. On analysis, .t cannot be distinguished from bituminous coal of exceeding good qual ity, and is found to belong to the true carl oniferous period. It contains some sixty-five per c ent, of coke: and those who are acquainted with the various coal fields of England trace a strong re- between the Arctic ami tip} English.— if. Y s ltn -