The Middle Georgia argus. (Indian Springs, Ga.) 18??-1893, April 14, 1881, Image 1
W. F, SMITH, Publisher.
VOLUME VIII.
HEWS GLEANINGS.
• ' is said that a diamond worth *27 .
009 hM • found in Webster county
Georgia. J *
Sixteen years ago Durham, N. C., con
tained sixty people; now that town has
a population of 4,000. Manufacturing
tobacco did it.
. The appropriation of $65,000 for the
improvement of Savannah harbor will
be expended under the direction of Gen.
Q. A. Gilmore, the news .says.
I lie act ‘‘to abolish private seals and
prescribe a short form of deeds, and for
othcr Purposes,” has been repealed by
the North Carolina Legislature.
The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail
thinks, that it is not likely that the ques
tion 0 f t p e annexation of West Florida
h> Alabama will ever be raised again.
1 he congregation of the First African
Baptist church of Richmond, Va., has
paid oft every dollar of more than $20,-
KK)i) debt incurred in remodeling its ed
ifice.
Chattanooga Times: A farmer in
Houston county, Ga., as we are told,
traded a cow for snuff last week, taking
fifteen dollars’ worth of the article home
for family use.
The Fincastle Herald mentions are
port that the Arcadia iron works Com
pany has contracted with the Richmond
and Alleghany Railroad Company to
ship 80,000 tons of ore.
Negotiations are nearly or quite com
pleted for the permanent occupation of
the commodious shops of the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad at Huntsville,
Ala., for the establishment therein of a
mammoth cotton seed oil factory.
A bill agaiast “treating” has been in
troduced in the Illinois Legislature “It
not only makes treating unlawful, but
the man who is treated is in equal danger
of punishment, for it puts the person
buying liquor for another and the person
accepting on the same footing.”
1 lie Legislature of North Carolina has
granted one acre of ground, to be taken
from the southeast corner of the lot on
which the Governor’s mansion is now
located, to the trustees of Shaw Univer
sity, for the purpose of establishing a
medical college for colored students.
V heeling (W. Va.) Intelligencer:
Keene Richards, of Kentucky, one of the
noted turfmen and importers of Arabian
horses in that State, died on Saturdav
last. Many years ago he was a student
at Bethany College, and is well reinem
membered as a dashing and generous
young fellow of large fortune.
The total area of Mississippi is 47,156
square miles, of which not quite 3,172
square miles was devoted to the culture
of cotton in 1879. The total amount of
4 cotton produced was 922,940 bales, over
a hundred thousand bales more than the
crop of Georgia or Texas, according to
the Aberdeen (Miss.) Examiner.
It is his superstition which makes the
Russian soldier so good a fighter and so
faithful a defender of despotism. All
lie asks is the satisfaction of his anima
wants in this world; for the sake of
eternal bliss in another he will endure
incredible hardships with ' eomplaeencv,
and will die with a dogged resignation
unknown to other men.
The arrival of “the first batch of im
migrants at Columbia, S. C., is reported
to the Charleston News and Courier.
Nine men, a woman and child, all from
one neighborhood in the province of
Westphalia, Germany. They were re
ceived by Col. A. P. Butler, acting Com
missioner of Immigration. He will im
mediately order another batch, and
hopes to get a hundred next time.
Atlanta, Ga., special to Columbus
(Ga.) Enquirer-Sun : A prominent rail
road man of our State remarked that
•nine-teutns of the business done by
railroads in Georgia was in bringing pro*
visions and guano from the West into
the State.” He agrees with Stephens,
that “the rich are getting richer and the
poor poorer,” and that as our people
make larger crops the railroad business
is proportionately decreased.
The Southern University (for colored
people.) established at sew Orleans un
der authority of the constitution of the
State of Louisiana, is yet only tempora
rily organized, it seems. Two chairs
appear to be permanently filled, that of
mathematics by Prof. Edmunds, and
that of languages by Prof. Canonge. The
board has appointed Mr. Fayerweather
acting President, and it is not probable
that a permanent appointment will be
made before June. A man is desired
who has administrative capacity, and
also ability to fill the chair of natural
sciences.
UMife dwtrjp
The Governor of Texas has signed the
law passed by the Legislature at tlie
present session, entitled “an act granting
aland certificate of 1,280 acres to each
of the surviving soldiers of the Texas
re\olution, and the surviving sinners of
the declaration of Texas independence,
and to the widows of those that fell at
the Dawson massacre,” and to repeal an
act approved April 26, 1879, entitled
“an act granting a land certificate of
040 acres to each of the indigent veter
ans who were engaged in the struggle
for i’exas independence prior to and at
the battle of San Jacinto, enrolled under
the act approved July 28, 1876.” Ap
proved March 15, 1881.
A pamphlet on the Mississippi river
and its tributaries gives the following in
teresting statement of the mileage of the
navigable portion of each of the follow
ing named rivers above its mouth: Mis
souri, 3,120; Mississippi, 2,161; Ohio,
1,<)21; Red, 986 ; Arkansas, 884; White,
779; Tennesse, 789 ; Cumberland, 709;
Yellowstone, 474; Ouachita, 384; Wa
bash, 365; Alleghany, 325 ; Osage, 303 ;
Minnesota, 295; Sunflower. 271; Illi
nois, 270; Yazoo, 228; Black (Ark.)
112; Green, 200; St. Francis, 180; Tal
lahatchie, 175; Wisconsin, 160; Deer
Creek, 116 ; Tensas, 112 ; Monongahela,
110; Kentucky, 105; Bartholomew,
100; Kanawha, 94; Muskingum, 94;
Chippewa, 90; lowa, 80; Big Hatchie,
75; St. Croix, 65; Rock, 64; Black
(La.) 61; Macon, 60; Boeuf, 55; Big
Horn, 50; Clinon, 50 ; Little Red, 49;
Big Cypress and Lake, 44; Big Black,
35; Daucliitte, 33. Total number of
rivers 34; total number of miles of nav
igation at present 15,710.
Atlanta Constitution : The report of
Mr. George T. Jackson, president of the
Enterprise manufacturing company of
Augusta, ought to be circulated among
the capitalists of the North. During the
past year the factory turned out 4,283
bales of goods, 88,953 pieces, 1,198,864
pounds,, and 4,528,073 yards. This was
do'ne with 264 looms running. The aver
age of yards per loom per day was 56.60.
The cotton consumed amounted to 2,919
ba1e5—1,137,849 pounds, the average cost
of which was 11.13. The number of
hands employed was 252, and the aggre
gate of wages paid the hands was $61,-
399.54. During the year the mill was
run with unprecedented regularity. Not
a single loom was stopped, nor was work
suspended in any department. The in
crease of production during the year
was about 220,000 yards of goods and
35,000 pounds of yarn. The profits of
the year are such as to warrant the board
of directors in declaring a dividend of
ten per centum, which was payable on
the 10th inst. It was expected that
this dividend would be paid in stock,
though that was optional with stock
holders. The successful working of the
mill has induced the board to carry out
a plan to increase the building, machin
ery and capacity of the factory, a project
that will require the full payment of all
stock, making the paid-up capital $500,-
000. The increase of machinery will
give the mill 600 looms and 33,600 spin
dles, and place the enterprise in a most
favorable position. The net earnings of
the company during the year, over all
expenses, interest on bonds, etc., amoun
ted to $11,688.17.
Land-Owning in England.
At present land is a luxury. To its
possession certain social advantages are
attached. A vast amount of the land in
England belongs to no one in existence.
By the will of someone who is dead, it
is the property of someone who is not
born. The life tenant, whether lie cares
for country life, whether he has the
means to keep up an establishment, anc
whether he is overburdened with settle
'nienrs ana mortgages, is compelled to
own a large house, ■with a large gardes
and large pleasure grounds attached tc
it. As in many instances he is indiffer
ent to his heir, and in still more frequent
eases has to save to provide a portion
for his daughters and younger sons, lie
lays out nothing on the estate, and is
unable, by the tenure under which he
occupies it, to give such long leases as
would induce occupants to turn it to the
best use. Habit, moreover, had often
led the owner to impose numerous re
strictive clauses in the leases that he does
grant, which cripple the energies of the
tenant, and keep him under the tutelage
of exploded fallacies.
An occupier who wishes to buy land
has, therefore, to pay for it more than it
worth, and, beside this, he has to ex
pend a comparatively enormous sum
among lawyers for acquiring it. The
result of all this is that land has accumu
lated to a scandalous extent in the hands
of some families, that in others it is a
curse to the possessor, that the occupier
is not his own master, and that it is al
most impossible for any yeoman, wishing
to become possessor of a small farm, to
purchase one, unless lie be ready to pay
alfancv value for it. —London Truth.
looted to Industrial Interest, the Dilfn>ioH ol Troth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People's Oovernment,
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
Dissipated Dags.
Of aR tfee rakes whose principal pleas
ure is to turn night into day, none are
more inveterate noctambulist# than two
characters well-known to that portion of
Pans society which* repairs during the
small hours to Peters’, the Helder, Ac.,
for supper and gay converse. The hard
ened of extreme wooliness, and a non
descript, who is generally clothed round
like a blanket with mud, as Sancho Pan
za w r as with sleep. This pair of con
stant comrades lead an existence of the
most regular irregularity. Every night
at about twelve they may be seen, al
ways quite mas ter less, lounging about
the boulevards and earnestly seeking for
some person with the air of a noctambrt*
list, till, having made a choice with much
deliberation, they follow their victim like
liis shadow until he has reached some res
taurant with intent to sup. If the canine
confidence is misplaced, and the passer
by goes soberly home, these roystering
blades, the dogs, make they w T ay along
up the broad marble staircases of Peters ,
where, being well know r n to the frequent
ers of that establishment, they are cor*
diallv received, and plied with all the
delicacies of the festive board. At the
hour of two they disappear from Peters’,
turning up a moment afterward at the
Helder, on the other side of the boule
vard, and they top off the evening’s ex
citement at a distant all-night establish
ment near the central market, Barratte’s
by name. When the light of early
morning peeps in upon the scene of eheir
revels, they disappear with the last of
the night birds and are beheld no more
till la.m. has again come round. Those
who have made the personal acquaint
ance of this remarkable pair state that
their grave enjoyment for their nightly <
dissipation is most edifying to witness,
and that their general demeanor reminds
one strongly of that character in a novel
by Murger, we believe, whose pure and
patriarchal face was never seen but at
somo pot-house in the deepest hours of
the night, beaming complacently at the
drunken revelers around him
j.iemoiis as a System Renevator.
The way to get the better of a bilious
system without blue pill or quinine is to
take the juice of one, two or three or
more lemons, as the appetite craves, in
as much ice-water as makes it pleasant
to drink without sugar, before going to
bed. In the morning on rising or at
least half an hour before breakfast, take
the juice of one lemon in a goblet of
water. This will clear the system of hu
mors and bile, with mild efneady, with
out any of the weakening effects of calo
mel or Congress water. People should
not irritate the stomach by eating lem
ons clear; the powerful acid of the juice,
which is almost corrosive, infallibly pro
duces inflammation after a while, but
properly diluted, so that it does not draw
or burn the throat, it does its full medi
cal work without harm, and when the
stomach is clear of food, has abundant
opportunity to work on the system thor
oughly.
Curious Way to Decide a Dispute.
Two young men of Ilawkinsville set
tled the ownership of a double-barrel
gun in a novel way. The gun was won
in a raffle—the two young men being
joint owners in the chance that w r on it.
One of' the men proposed that they
should go down to the river at a -shallow
place and wade into it, and the one that
waded the furthest or held out the long
est should take the gun. The water was
freezing cold, and the margin of the
stream was lined with ice, and the icicles
were pendant from every limb, from ev
ery bush. Partly divesting themselves
of their clothing they entered the water
and waded out. One of them went until
the water reached his armpits, but his
companion went a little further, and was
allowed to come out and take the gun.—
Ilawkinsville (Ga.) Dispatch.
Family Pride.
A Galveston boy of about 12 had a
very poor school certificate. The old
man said, as he looked under the sofa
for the bootjack :
“1 11 have to apply coercive meas
ures.”
“Don’t do it, father. I am afraid
there w ill be a scene, and we don’t care
to have the neighbors suspect that our
relations are not harmonious. ”
The neighbors say the boy’s eloquence
was intoned by something that sounded
like hitting a tough beefsteak with the
flat side of an ax.— Galveston Neivs.
A Remarkable Memory.
A lawyer enjoys badgering a witness,
but it is not so agreeable when the wit
ness gives his answers in kind. Hunting
bears is good sport, but when the bear
hunts the hunter, it looks like carrying
the joke too far. An old witness was
asked, in an insulting tone by an attor
ney, if his memory was good. “Yes,”
was the reply; “on some points it is ex
tremely accurate, but on others I must
confess that it is defective.” “Won’t you
give the Court an illustration?” said the
lawyer. “Well,” drawled the aged wit
ness, “I clearly remember that ten
years ago you came to me and borrowed
SIOO, but, for the life of me, I can’t re
member that you ever paid me. ”
maim Technical Knowledge.
A two-foot rule was given to a laborer
in a Clyde boat-yard to measure an iron
plate. The laborer not being well up to
the use of the rale, after spending con
siderable time returned.
“ Noo, Mick,’ - asked the plater,
“ what size is the plate ? ”
“ Well,” replied Mick, with a grin of
satisfaction, “it is the length of your
mle and two thumbs over, with this
Eiece of brick and the breadth of my
and and my arm from here to there,
bar a finirer.” —London Punch.
Old Shoes.
In the eottrse of the investigation by
Mr. Hill’s deputies, some singular in
dustries were brought to light. It was
found, for instance, that some use was
made of old shoes, but exactly what use
was hard to find out. Large mimbers of
old shoes were sold by rag pickers to
certain men who disposed of them at a
good price. It is well known that bits of
old leather makes the commercial article
known as Prussian blue, but only a few
firms manufacture it, and the new call
for old shoes was evidently for some
ether purpose. In New York City and
Brooklyn about three million pairs of old
shoes are thrown away every year. For
merly old shoes were plentiful in the
gutters of certain neighboihoods; now it
appears that they are sought after as
choice prizes in the rag-picker’s line.
By dint of persevering industry, it was
discovered that the old shoes were used
for three purposes. First, all shoes, not
completely worn out, are patched,
greased, and after being otherwise re
generated, sold to men who deal in such
wares. Some persons wear one shoo
much more than the other; these deal
ers find mates for shoes whose original
mates are past licpe. Secondly, the
shoes not worth patching up are cut into
pieces, the good bits are used for patch
ing other shoes, and the worthless bits,
the soles aud cracked “uppers,” are con
verted into Jamaica rum by a process
known only to the manufacturers. It
is said that they are boiled in pure spir
its, and allowed to stand for a few weeks,
the product far surpassing the Jamaica
rum made with essence, burnt sugar,
and spirits. A gentleman who doubted
the truth of this statement stopped re
cently at a low grog shop in the neigh
borhood of the factory spoken of and
inquired if they had any rum from old
shoes. “No,” replied the barkeeper,
“we don’t keep it much now; the drug
gists, who want a pure article, all sell it,
and the price has gone up. But we have
had it, and we can get you some if
you want it.” How many old shoes goes
to a gallon of rum could not be ascer
tained.—New York Post.
The Transvaal, South Africa.
Transvaal (that is “across the Vaal,”)
lies between latitude 22 degrees 27 min
utes S, and longitude 27 degrees 31 min
utes E. Its northern boundary is the
Oori or Limpopo River, which here runs
from west to east; the eastern is formed
by the continuation of the Drachenberg
Mountains; the southern is the Vaal
River, and the western and undefined
line separating it from the country of the
Betjuanas. The total area is 114,360
square miles, and the population—ac
cording to the official returns of 1877—is
300,000, probably a rough estimate, from
which little can be known as to the fight
ing strength of the people who have de
fied the power of the British Empire.
Potschefstroom, the seat of Government,
is by land 960 miles northeast of Cape
Town. The region is described as a vast
plateau, sloping to the north, supported
by the coast line of mountains, which,
presenting a bold mural buttress, or es
carpment, to the low country at their
feet, stretch away on their western flank
into immense -undulating plains. At
right angles to the coast range another
belt of very high lands, called the Maga
liesberg, runs east and west, forming a
water shed between the Vaal and Lim
popo rivers. The southern face of this
range also presents long and undulating
plains, generally well watered and
wooded, and abounding in large game.
To the north, approaching the Limpopo,
high parallel chains of hills appear,
through the openings in which flow
small streams. The average height of
the plateau inhabited by Europeans is
from 4,000 to 5,000 feet, bv.t many of the
mountain peaks reach an elevation of
9,000 or 10,000 feet, and a part of the year
are covered with snow. The climate is gen
erally healthy, though in the northern
sections the heat is intense, and during
the summer months hot winds and heavy
thunder storms prevail. The worst fea
ture is, perhaps, a fly called tseste, the
bite of which is fatal to horses and oxen,
thereby rendering travel very difficult, if
not impossible, at certain seasons. The
Boers, though originally pure Dutch, are
now very considerably mixed by inter
marriages with European refugees and
emigrants from Cape Colony and Natal,
as well as the natives. Still the Dutch
characteristics largely predominate, and
while the standard of education is to
be low, the people know enough to gov
ern themselves and hate the foreign yoke.
In religion they are protestants of the
strongest Calvinistic persuasion, and the
Bible and hymn book are almost their only
literature.
Fiano Ornaments.
A correspondent of a London paper
says: “It is often seen that, when a
small piano is turned in the room, a
table covered with pretty knick-knacks,
and perhaps a vase with everergreens or
flowers, is pushed against it, and a little
valance is fixed to the piano back above
the table, on which small pictures, minia
tures, etc., are arrranged. Underneath
the table is either a low jardiniere filled
with miniature evergreens, or some or
namental waste-paper basket or box. I
have seen Japanese hand screens ar
ranged in slanting positions. Little our
tains of velvet or satin looped back with
large bows to show alternate flounces of
satin and coffee-colored coarse lace
underneath the table, attached to the
piano back, have a pretty effect, and so
has a mirror fitted to the back of a piano,
with an ornamental frame, and & jar din
eire containing flowers at the base.”
A Nevaxa critic, speaking of a harp
ist, said, “ We never before knew there
was bp much music in a gridiron. ”
Thermometers.
The word thermometer means a heat
measure, hence any instrument em
ployed to measure heat should be called
a thermometer. When very high tem
peratures are to be measured, the in
struments employed are called pyrome
ters, or measures of fire. Thermome
ters do not, of course, measure the
quantity of heat in a body, but only toil
us the relative temperature. There are
several forms of thermometers, all based
upon the principle that “heat expands,
while cold contracts. ” Some substances
expand unequally for equal increments
of temperature, others expand so slightly
that they fail to indicate small changes
of temperature; both are unfitted for
thermometers. It is believed that air
expands equally for equal changes of
temperature; and, as this expansion is
quite considerable—l-2734 part for each
degree centigrade—and as it does not
become either liquid or solid under or
dinary pressure, at any temperature
which we can produce, it is the sub
stance employed for the most accurate
measurements of temperature. ADy of
the difflcultly-condensible gases, oxygen,
hydrogen, marsh-gas, might be employed
instead of air, but with no advantage
and with much inconvenience in their
manufacture.
Next to air, the best material we have
is mercury, which expands very evenly,
does not freeze readily, and boils at a
comparatively-high temperature. For
temperatures below 40 deg. alcohol is
generally employed, although it is
claimed that glycerine could be used.
For temperatures above 300 deg. C. air
thermometers alone are admissible;
and, for very high temperatures, where
glass begins to soften, they axe made of
platinum.
The mercury thermometer being the
one usually employed in the arts, in
meteorology, in medicine, and in other
sciences, a few words in regard to the
manner of making one may be of inter
est. A glass tube with a very fine bore
has a suitable bulb, cf any desired form,
blown upon one end. At the other end
may be a bnlb of larger size, blown
merely for convenience in filling. Neith
er bulb can be blown with the mouth,
but with a bellows, containing pure, dry
air. A small capsule is filled with pure
mercury, heated to boiling to expel both
air and moisture. While still hot the
second or temporary bulb is warmed to
expel a portion of the air therein ; the
open end is placed in the mercury, which
ascends into the bulb because the air
contracts on cooling. When a sufficient
quantity of the hot mercury has been
introduced into this bull) the tube and
the other bulb are heated to expel a part
of the air, and some of the mercury,
wdiich must be always kept hot to pre
vent its chilling and thus breaking the
hot glass, enters the real bulb. By re
peating the operation the bulb and stem
are completely filled with mercury,
which is then boiled to expel every traco
of air. The tube is now drawn out close
beneath the auxiliary bulb to a fine
thread and cut off; the thermemeter is
placed in a bath heated a few degrees
higher than the highest temperature
which the thermometer is to show ; the
excess of mercury flows out, and the
point is closed with a fine blowpipe
flame. As the mercury contracts on
cooling it leaves a perfect vacuum above
it.
The graduation is effected by putting
it into ice or snow, then in the steam
from boiling water, marking each of
these points, dividing the space between
into 100 parts if it is to have a Celsius
or centigrade scale, into 80 if a Reau
mur or 180 if a Fahrenheit. This grad
uation is carried on in each direction to
the end of the stem. On the Fahren
heit scale the freezing point is marked
32, on each of the other scales it is
marked zero. —Scientific American.
The Lily.
With the Chinese, the lily is the na
tional flower, and many superstitions at
tach to it. Should it blossom upon New
Year’s day it is regarded as a most happy
omen, presaging the best of luck to the
fortunate owner of the plant. For this
reason a good deal of care is bestowed
upon the lily by the Chinamen, in the
hope that it may put forth its flower
upon the morning of the anniversary.
The Chinese lily is different from any
other variety. It is grown by placing
the bulb on bits of window glass, stone
and China, and giving it a liberal sup
ply of water. The flower is white, with
a gold-colored center, something be
tween a daisy and a narcissus. Its fra
grance is delightful.
Getting Out of a Tight Place.
Santeul, the Jesuit wit and poet, was
an inveterate card player. One day he
was summoned to the pulpit while en
gaged in a game of piquet. He got up,
taking his cards with him, and conceal
ing them under his coat. Unfortunately,
as he was preaching, he extended his
arms with a vehement gesture, and he
let fall his cards, which flew in all direc
tions about the church. The congrega
tion, of course, appeared much scandal
ized, but Santeul quietly called a child of
some ten years toward him, and said:
“What is that card which you hold in
your hand?” “The queen of spades,” re
plied the boy. “And which is the first
of the three theological virtues?’
“I don’t know.” “Ah! my breth
ren,” cried Staneul, with a burst
of indignation, “behold how you teach
your children the names of the cards,
and neglect to teach them the virtues !*
Apropos of the adoption of cork hel
mets by the regular army, it is suggested
that, in the absence of other weapons,
the soldiers will be able to charge the
enemy ala billy-goat, and in crossing a
stream can use their headgear for life
preservers. This is an age of progress.
SUBSCRIPTION-SI.SO.
NUMBER 33.
A Decidedly New Game at Card*.
A Paiis correspondent gives this ac
count of a pretty game of cards now
fashionable in that city:
“The participants were young ladies
and gentlemen who sat in equal numbers
on either side of the table. The cards
were dealt out to each, and one hand,
like as in euchre, settled each wager.
The wager played for in this game is that
the lady or gentleman who gets the ace
of hearts and can take a trick with it, or
beat it with another card, has the option
to kiss any lady or gentlemau he or she
may select. If a lady is the winner of
the successful trick, this option may be
used or not, as she elects and generally
she does waive her light; but if a gen
tleman holds the lucky card, of course
ho invariably exercises his right. The
result was that a gentleman when he held
the ace of hearts was sure to get it passed;
if a lady held it she almost always had it
taken. It was quite a study to watch with
what perfect sang froid the gentlemen
stood up to receive the stake lie had won,
and with what consummate grace the
lady bent her head to one side so that
her lucky opponent across the table
should receive his full pound of flesh,
not to mention the utter indifference of
both to the presence of friends or
strangers sitting around. Ido not know
how the players felt, but the watching of
a few hands played ivas sufficient to sat
isfy me that it was but a poor game after
all. How it came about I don’t know,
but I saw one gentleman win six games
in rapid succession and kiss the same
lady as many times. That destroyed all
interest I had up to that time taken in
the game. It satisfied me that it was a
game in which the cards could be so
manipulated that a poor player or a
beginner could have very little chance.
It made me feel indeed that I would yet
prefer a hand at euchre for the drinks.
A Duelist's Experience.
Baron de San Malata, a Sicillian and a
noted duelist, has fought forty duels,
but in none of them has he been the
challenger. It is told of him that during
a heated political canvass, in the course
of a discussion in a public square with a
first cousin, the latter called him by
some opprobrious epithet. The Baron
replied: “You are a coward!” The
cousin answered: “Will you repeat that
in five minutes?” “Assuredly.” The
cousin went home, and returned with a
revolver in his hand. The Baron went
up to him and said: “Guiseppe, see
here! That revolver don’t suit your
hand; the stock never was made for apu;
for the life of you, you could nofSaso
that pistol. ” As he ceased to speak he
spat in liis cousin’s face. The sudden
ness and strangeness of this speech and
attack so bewildered the cousin that he
neither said nor did anything. The
Baron spat in his face again. Friends
interfered. The cousin challenged the
Baron. On the eve of the duel the
Baron’s aunt, who knew what an expert
swordsman he was, begged him to spare
her son’s life. He replied: “Guiseppe
shall return from the field without even
a scratch.” The duel took place. The
cousin attacked furiously. The Baron
only parried. At last he turned his head
and looked at his seconds until his ad
versary became so weak that he could no
longer hold his sword, when the seconds
interfered and ended the duel. At
another time he was challenged by the
best broad-swordsman in Sicily, while
ho himself was not skilled with this
weapon. The broad-sword was selected
by the seconds. On the field the Baron
took his sword in both hands and rushed
upon his adversary, using his weapon as
if it were a club. His adversary 1 re
treated. They were put in position
again. The Baron disarmed his adver
sary. A third time they were put in
position; at the first pass the Baron’s
sword broke within eight inches of the
hilt; his adversary kept on; the seconds
did not interfere. The Baron became
furious, rushed on his adversary and
wounded him; then turned on the seo
onds and wounded every one of them,
beginning with his own.
Sea Voyages for Invalids.
Tire rapid traveling of large steam
vessels is a disadvantage for those who
go to sea for the sake of protracted nav
igation. They reach their destination
too soon, and the changes of climate are
too rapid. In the voyage to Australia,
for instance, a few days after the depart
ure from England, warm weather is
reached ; then hot weather. when the
tropic has been passed; moist, as well
as hot weather, when the equatorial
calms have been reached. As the ves
sel arrives near the southern limit of its
navigation, in the Pacific ocean, the
temperature again becomes cold—Aus
tralia being reached in about forty-five
days. Ail these extreme changes within
so short a period are very trying to those
who are really ill. ana often do them
more harm than the pure aea air can do
them good. Australia, also, is reached
in the middle of their summer; and at
Melbourne and Sydney, where most in
valids go, it is too hot. In Tasmania
and New Zealand the climate is more
like that of our own English summer,
and should, consequently, be preferred.
These long sea journeys, however, seem
more suited to those who belong to the
second category—to the tired and the
weary—than to the really ill. The usual
period for departure is October or No
vember.—British Medical Journal.
A preacher in Kock County, Kansas,
had been for weeks conducting a wonder
fully successful revival. ‘ ‘Dear brethren
and" sisters,” he said one day, “this is
the last meeting I shall hold. It is im
possible to keep up a fervor on corn
bread aud molasses for myself and an ear
of corn a day for mv horse. God bless
you.”